History Characters / TheSchoolForGoodAndEvil2022

* BoardingSchool: The students live on campus.

* CloudCuckooLander: She wants to be able to transform into a cat because she likes the idea of sleeping under the stove at night.

* EasilyForgiven: Nobody seems to hold any of her actions against her as of the climax. Agatha never seems to hold her accountable for anything at any point. Granted, Sophie was just as much a pawn in Rafal's scheme as anyone else (if not more so), so not all of her misdeeds are entirely her fault, but she still made some bad choices of her own accord. Of course, the fact that she [[spoiler:gave her life to save not only Agatha but the world]] certainly helps a lot.

** When everyone is watching the romance between Sophie and Tedros disapprovingly and another Never suggests eating them, Dot looks at her with [[NoJustNo visible disgust]].

* EvilMakeover: She takes well to the School for Evil's gothic aesthetic during her SanitySlippage. [[spoiler:It comes to a head when she achieves stereotypical witch-like facial features, though these fade after she tricks the Evers into attacking her and the other Nevers. She also gets her long hair cut short by Lesso as part of a BreaktheCutie moment.]]

->'''Portrayed by:'' Holly Sturton

* BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler:While we don't see him actually transform into a stymph, we do see him appearing to disintegrate before he vanishes. You can guess by the screaming that it's not a fun experience.]]

A girl who comes from Gavaldon and becomes a Never at the School for Evil. She lost her mother at a young age and grew up in a broken home with an abusive stepmother. Her only salvation would be her best friend, Agatha, whom she met at her mother’s grave, and her dreams of taking on an adventure beyond their small town. But after being whisked away to the school, she realizes she may be in for way more than she could ever bargain for…

* AdaptationalNiceGirl: In the book, she was much more self-centered and dismissive of others. Here, she’s perfectly approachable despite having a selfish streak and quite a superficial outlook on life. As a result, the story largely takes the BreakTheCutie route, though with some BreakTheHaughty moments still. Furthermore, her CharacterDevelopment sticks, unlike in the books.
* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: In the book, she only befriends Agatha because she sees it as an act of charity and a stepping stone towards becoming a princess, only coming to truly value her later on. In the movie, she’s shown to genuinely care for their friendship from the start while still taking it for granted on some level in the present day, and even as a villain she never once tries to hurt Agatha.
** In the books, Sophie is distant from her family because she finds them too plain. Here, it’s because they’re neglectful at best and straight-up abusive at worst.
* AdaptationalSympathy: Again, her family wasn’t as dysfunctional or abusive in the books.

* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:She goads the School for Good into attacking the School for Evil, but because the latter hadn’t done anything to harm the former, this means that former is attacking first. This leads to the roles of good and evil swapping, giving the Nevers an advantage over the Evers.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: She always wanted to have a huge impact on the world growing up, which would lead her to try to get into the School for Good and evil. She gets exactly that and it’s all downhill from there.
* BeeAfraid: During a fight with Hester, she calls for animal companions to aid her. A huge swarm of bees answers her by crashing through the window and attacking Hester’s wyvern, which weakens the witch within an inch of her life, only stopping once Sophie processes everything that’s happening and vocally tells them to quit.
* BeingEvilSucks: [[spoiler:She starts to resent being the bad guy when she sees just how much damage she can cause and how her actions are getting the ones she holds dear killed. While dying, she tells Agatha that she doesn’t want to be evil anymore.]]

* BlatantLies: When Agatha asks her if [[spoiler:malicious takeover]] was what she truly wanted, Sophie bluntly says “Yup.” Given that she spent her whole life up to this point gunning for the exact opposite, it’s no wonder Agatha refuses to believe her.

* BreakTheCutie: She goes through a lifetime’s worth of trauma and she’s not even 18. She lost her mother at a young age, she grew up with an abusive family, and she gets bullied by almost everyone in Gavaldon. And it only gets worse after she gets to the School for Good and Evil. She gets attacked and pushed around by student, faculty, and staffer alike, her hair is forcibly cut short just for talking to her best friend, she almost kills someone out of self-defense, and her insistence that she’s not an evil person is rebuffed at every turn. By the time she has the chance to show that she’s good, her self-esteem is in such shambles that she freezes up.

* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:After Rafal’s defeat, she opts to return home. She offers to take care of Agatha’s mother in her stead.]]
* CassandraTruth: She constantly tries to tell everyone at the School for Evil that she’s not evil and she doesn’t belong there. The only one who does believe her is Hester, and that’s only because she hates her and doesn’t want her around at all.

* CorruptTheCutie: In spite of her lack of ill will towards anyone and her relatively harmless ambitions to do great things, everyone at the school insists that she’s a bad guy waiting to happen, and the School for Evil is determined to make it happen. [[spoiler:In addition, Rafal is bending her thoughts and feelings to his whim, grooming her to be his bride for destructive ends.]]

* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler:She’s fully reverted to her original self upon her death at the hands of Rafal.]]
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:She tells Agatha that she loves her as she dies in her arms, apologizing for all the damage she’s done just before the light flushes from her eyes.]]
-->'''Sophie:''' [[spoiler:I… I love you, Aggie. You’ll always be… my best friend.]]
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:While she’s bleeding out on the floor, she uses the last of her strength to levitate Excalibur, disabling a dagger that was just about to impale Tedros and arming Agatha so she could land the final blow on Rafal.]]
* EasilyForgiven: Nobody seems to hold any of her actions against her as of the climax. Agatha never seems to hold her accountable for anything at any point. Granted, Sophie was just as much a pawn in Rafal’s scheme as anyone else (if not more so), so not all of her misdeeds are entirely her fault, but she still made some bad choices of her own accord. Of course, the fact that she [[spoiler:gave her life to save not only Agatha but the world]] certainly helps a lot.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: We’re introduced to her via a dream where she’s an esteemed princess and has everything she wants before being woken up in a rundown hut by her vicious stepmother. We immediately know that she’s a poor and abused child with ambitions beyond her current life.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Even after a FaceHeelTurn, Agatha knows what she’s really like and refuses to give up on her.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: “Evil” is pushing it, but in spite of their friendship becoming strained, for lack of a better word, she never truly attacks Agatha. [[spoiler:During the Battle of the Never Ball, she uses her blood magic to hasten the morality swap between the Evers and Nevers, but specifically leaves Agatha out of the uglification. She speaks intent to defeat her, which apparently boils down to throwing her out of the room and locking the door, which actually saves her from the carnage of the war and provides her the chance to evacuate the school building before it collapses. Later, she starts breaking down when she thinks Agatha has died in the destruction. A few seconds later, she shields Agatha from impalement with her own body.]]

* EveryoneHasStandards: She’s speechless and horrified when she almost kills Hester, even though Hester was just trying to kill her.

* EvilMakeover: She takes well to the School for Evil’s gothic aesthetic during her SanitySlippage. [[spoiler:It comes to a head when she achieves stereotypical witch-like facial features, though these fade after she tricks the Evers into attacking her and the other Nevers. She also gets her long hair cut short by Lesso as part of a BreaktheCutie moment.]]

** HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Upon realizing that she’s causing people she cares about to die, she quickly turns back to the side of good, TakingtheBullet for Agatha and helping her defeat Rafal once and for all.]]

** Her inability to believe in herself. She feels as though she’s nothing without achieving something great and is willing to go to extremes to do so.
** Her obsession with superficiality. She’s so focused on outward appearances that she tends to miss the bigger picture. This habit of prioritizing glamour over character likely plays into why she isn’t seen as princess material.
* FightingBackIsWrong: When she defends herself against Hester, Dot and Anadil gleefully deem her evil. When Hester tries to kill her later on and Sophie turns the tables, she’s called evil by Lesso and [[spoiler:Rafal]]. This is odd, given the premise that evil attacks while good defends.

** We’re introduced to her through a scene where she’s a beloved princess who wants for nothing, which turns out to be a dream when she’s rudely awakened by her stepmother. She’d go on to learn the hard way that what she thinks she wants/needs isn’t really that.

** When Agatha and Sophie go to the master’s tower, Sophie approaches the Storian, prompting it to threaten her with impalement. It even produces an AudibleSharpness to indicate that it’s sharp enough to puncture flesh. [[spoiler:Guess what happens to her later on?]]

** Magic activation involves {{Fingore}} that hurts like hell for Nevers while Evers feel nothing. Though Sophie is mid-corruption, she shows no signs that the activation hurts her. This indicates that while she is becoming DrunkOnTheDarkSide, she’s not evil and will [[spoiler:return to her senses in due time.]]

* GreenEyedMonster: As Agatha starts living the life at the School for Good that Sophie wanted, it’s only natural that Sophie would feel a growing sense of jealousy, even if the former never wanted it.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:She’s speared through the heart when Rafal throws the Storian. This not only protects Agatha, but also undoes the evil magic that was amplified by evil’s kiss, restoring the School for Good and Evil and all the lives lost within.]]
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Likely stemming from poor self-esteem, the core of her character is that she seeks to leave her life of mediocrity and go on to accomplish spectacular feats in life. This unfortunately leads her to make questionable decisions and even snub people, like Agatha, who genuinely care about her, and she tends to become extremely disappointed when events don’t go the way she thinks they should, which leaves her wide open for corruptive influences.
* IgnoredEpiphany: During her run as a {{Heel}}, there are a few moments when she starts second guessing the path she’s on. A notable example is during the war between the Evers and Nevers when Agatha presses her to stop and think about what coming to the school has done to herself and their relationship, which prompts a look of uncertainty and regret. [[spoiler:But the corruption by Rafal, blood magic, or both quickly snaps her back to villainy, making it clear that words alone won’t be enough to sway her.]]

-->'''Sophie:''' Because I’m tired of being pathetic little Sophie.
* IronicName: Sophie means “wise”, but she’s constantly blinded to the bigger picture and thus easily led.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Sophie has quite a self-absorbed streak.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:She absolutely freaks out when she learns that Rafal tricked her into dooming the school to collapse and all of its personnel to die. It finally starts to hit her just how horribly she’s been acting and how poor of a friend she’s been to Agatha]].
* NeverMyFault: She has a habit of dodging accountability. After Tedros chides her for failing to save him from a reaper, she passes the blame onto Agatha, who did save him. She manages to overcome this by the end, apologizing to Agatha for everything she’s done.
* NoOntologicalInertia: [[spoiler:After she’s stabbed through the heart, Never After is undone in its entirety. It remains undone even after her resurrection.]]

* NonIndicativeName: “Sophie” is the type of name you’d expect from a girl who’s unambiguously good and innocent. While Sophie aspired to be this, she’s taken far in the other direction.

* RedOniBlueOni: The impulsive and reckless red to Agatha’s mature and more concentrated blue.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:It’s when she selflessly intercepts a deadly attack that she proves herself to not be evil, undoing Never After. To make things better, her death doesn’t stick.]]

* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: Subverted and Played for Laughs. When Agatha steps over the side of the bridge between the schools, Sophie frantically screams that “it’s not worth it”, only for the school master’s quarters and the staircase leading there to appear.
* TermsOfEndangerment: Once she’s embraced evil, she begins referring to Tedros with the condescending “Teddy”.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: As the school continues to treat her like a villain, in conjunction with [[spoiler:Rafal’s manipulation]], she comes to the conclusion that she has no control over her own fate and decides to ride the wave of darkness, much to Agatha’s dismay.

* TraumaCongaLine: Let’s see, dead mother, abusive stepmother, mean townsfolk, neglectful school staff, vicious classmates, almost AccidentalMurder, nonstop insistence of malevolence, TraumaticHaircut, DidNotGetTheGuy… yeah, it’s no wonder she snapped.
* TraumaticHaircut: Lesso considers Sophie’s beauty to be a distraction and hacks off most of her hair with an axe. The poor girl takes it as a serious violation and it serves as her StartOfDarkness.
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:She starts seeing Rafal’s “spirit” and he starts feeding her lies and manipulation in order to push her more towards evil. By the time she realizes that she’s being used, she can hardly even bother to care until the it’s shown to her just how far down the rabbit hole was going.]]

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:She goes through a lot in her short time. From losing her mother to growing up with an abusive stepmother, to being bullied by school staffers and students, to being told at every turn that she’s destined for villainy, to being groomed by the embodiment of evil itself. With her consistently being cut off from Agatha’s influence, she’d come to the conclusion that she really is destined for evil and it’s best to embrace it.]]
* YouCantFightFate: She spends her time at the school trying to fight the notion that she was ever meant to be a villain, but everything shifts specifically to push her down a dark path until she decides that this notion is right. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out Rafal has been pulling everyone’s strings for over a thousand years and she manages to change her fate by the end.]]
* YourMom: She finds herself insulting Hester’s mother multiple times, which quickly earns the witch’s scorn.

A girl who comes from Gavaldon and becomes an Ever at the School for Good. She grew up with her mother and they're accused of witchcraft. She became best friends with Sophie at a young age shortly after Sophie’s mother passed and has mutually looked out for her ever since. But after the School for Good and Evil comes into the equation, she gets a tough lesson in what it means to look out for the ones you love.

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: In the book, she’s a total NightmareFetishist, dressing in gothic clothing and even carrying the headless bodies of the birds her cat has killed. She’s also something of a {{Pyromaniac}}. In the movie, the most macabre thing about her is that she loves ghost stories and she lives near a graveyard. Oddly, her SweetTooth has been removed as well.
* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: In the books, she’s abrasive towards Sophie’s vanity. Here, she hardly seems to mind unless it’s actively endangering someone.

* AdaptedOut: She doesn’t freak anyone out by farting in the film.

* BlatantLies: [[spoiler:She tells Sophie that she’s safe and that they’ll always have each other… while she’s dying from a stab wound. Justified in that she’s trying to comfort her in her final moments. Neither of them is aware that Sophie won’t be dead long.]]

* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:After Rafal’s defeat, she opts to return home with Sophie, even though this means leaving Tedros behind.]]
* CurseCutShort: She sees the Groom Room and almost says “Holy shit” when Lady Dovey interrupts her.
* DarkIsNotEvil: She wears darker colors (when not being forced to wear the bright gowns at the school for good) and is ambiguously linked to a family line of witches, but she’s the first true princess to ever grace the halls of the School for Good and Evil and her greatest weapon against the forces of evil is empathy.

* {{Determinator}}: She gets bullied and threatened by her whole town for “being a witch”, she gets pushed around at the School for Good, [[spoiler:she watches a boy get agonizingly transformed and then murdered, she helplessly watches a full-on war break out among her fellow students]], and her best friend takes her for granted multiple times before [[spoiler:dying for her]]. And yet, she manages to stay true to herself through all the insanity and ultimately comes out on top.

* DudeNotFunny: When Sophie makes a jab about Agatha’s childhood hobby of making phlegm sculptures, Agatha gives her an offended look, which quickly stops her and the Nevers’ laughter.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: She’s introduced having a staring contest with her cat. She’s evidently a bit of an oddball, but one who knows how to stay focused and tends to prefer the simple life. It also shows that she likes animals, a famous trait of fairy tale princesses.
* {{Foil}}: She and Sophie are both kind-hearted girls who are treated as undesirables by their hometown. However, while Sophie has her head in the clouds and is susceptible to being led astray, Agatha is more down-to-earth and focused on the bigger picture. While they both wind up placed in the wrong houses and are pulled in various directions with little say in the matter and a ton of questions that go unanswered, Agatha remains steadfast in her good nature while Sophie gets so wrapped up in the fantastical nature of it all that she’s [[spoiler:corrupted by the darkness]].
* FreakyFashionMildMind: She looks close to something of a classical witch by her hair and her clothes, but she’s easily the most down-to-earth character in the movie.

* InSeriesNickname: Sophie calls her “Aggie” all the time, almost never speaking her full name.

* {{Irony}}: While she’s not wrong that nobody is purely evil or purely good, she’s the closest thing to a purely good person the story has.

* MeaningfulName: Agatha means “good”, alluding to her good nature.
* MoralityChain: Sophie views Agatha as this, fearing submission to her darker nature if she were to ever lose her. When she says she’ll always be human so long as she has her, Agatha promises her that they’ll always have each other.
* NonIndicativeName: Most would expect a girl with the name “Agatha” to be a WickedWitch (in spite of what the name actually means), but what we have here is anything but.
* NotSoAboveItAll: She’s definitely the more mature one between her Sophie, but she’s happy to use her magic to make birds poop on people who are heckling them.

* PersonaNonGrata: Gavaldon hates her because they think she’s a witch. It doesn’t help that she and her mother live near a graveyard.

* PoorCommunicationKills: She really should’ve told Sophie that the School for Good wasn’t even all that good and was just as bad an influence as the School for Evil. Had she done this, Sophie likely would’ve ceased her ambitions at the school and they could’ve searched for another way back to Gavaldon. Instead, she waited until after [[spoiler:a war had broken out between the Evers and the Nevers and Sophie had fallen too far]].

* RaceLift: She’s pale white in the books, but is played in the movies by Sofia Wylie, who’s African-American and Korean as well as white.
* RefusingParadise: [[spoiler:Sophie offers to look after Agatha’s mother so the girl can remain at the school with Tedros, but Agatha turns this down in order to return to a life with her family and her best friend]].

* ScrewDestiny: She refuses the notion that one can’t control their own fate many times throughout the film. [[spoiler:Even when the Storian wrote that she was among the casualties of the schools crumbling, she dropped into the master’s quarters a few seconds later.]]

* SympathyForTheDevil: “Devil” might be pushing it, but she’s seen what all Sophie has been through and knows what she’s truly like.
* TearsOfJoy: [[spoiler:Upon Sophie’s resurrection.]]
* TrueLovesKiss: [[spoiler:She plants one on the dead Sophie’s lips after tearfully telling her that she loves her as well. This returns Sophie to life.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: Sophie is the only one in all of Gavaldon who never treated her poorly in spite of any uncertainties about the whole “being a witch” thing, and even protects her from other townsfolk who threaten her. As a result, Agatha point-blank refuses to give up on her. [[spoiler:Even after her FaceHeelTurn, even after Tedros tells her multiple times that she’s not a good person and that their friendship is one-sided (which isn’t exactly inaccurate), even after Sophie verbally denounces their friendship, Agatha sees the good in her and is determined to restore the girl she once knew. When she succeeds, she opts to leave the school and Tedros to return home with Sophie.]]
-->'''Agatha (in her letter):''' You must know that no matter what, I’m on your side.

* WiseBeyondTheirYears: She understands that people are BlackAndWhiteMorality is unrealistic and she’s capable of staying focused on the bigger picture. This is especially clear when you place her alongside everyone else at the school.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: This is how she sees Sophie and she desperately tries to get her to understand. [[spoiler:When a dying Sophie tells her she doesn’t want to be evil, Agatha reassures her that she’s not evil, just human.]] She also tries to do this with Gregor, but she’s far less successful.

* AndIMustScream: Students who fails their classes are turned into something else. It’s made clear numerous times, most notably by a girl who was turned into a school of wish fish, that they’re completely awake and aware of their fate.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: It’s basically a rule of the school; they even have classes for “beautification” and “uglification”. This becomes subverted when we learn that a bunch of the Evers are self-aggrandizing jerks and the “ugliness” of the Nevers is mostly self-inflicted.
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: The school separates children by those it deems to be destined for villainy and those it deems destined for heroism. It sticks by these categorizations fervently, regardless of the student’s history or desires or the fact that this reduces them down to arbitrary traits they may or may not actually exhibit and creates a breeding ground for elitism and meaningless animosity. Agatha fights this system tooth and nail [[spoiler:and succeeds upon killing Rafal, allowing the schools to merge into one and finally achieve unity]].

* ChekhovsClassroom: The Blue Forest and its hazards are shown and described. [[spoiler:It becomes the field for Sophie and Tedros’s Trial by Tale]].
** Uglification is introduced as Sophie’s first class. She quickly starts taking on less savory facial features as she goes down the rabbit hole of evil. Not only this, but the professor mentions that caring less about one’s looks allows for more use of brainpower. [[spoiler:As Sophie’s looks deteriorate, she manages to pull a rather impressive BatmanGambit on the Evers.]]
** During beautification, Kiko mentions that if a student fails thrice, they’ll be transformed into something else. [[spoiler:Then we meet Gregor, who’s already failed once and would go on to fail twice more before disappearing and reappearing as a stymph.]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: These schools’ definition of expulsion is drastic, to say less than the least. If a student gets three failures at any time, they’ll be transformed into something else, often as a slave to their respective school (like wish fish for the School for Good or wolf guards for the School for Evil). It’s so horrid that Agatha becomes pissed when she watches it happen to [[spoiler:Gregor]].
* DontGoInTheWoods: The Blue Forest is fraught with dangers. They’re meant to prepare students for any dangers they may face in the real world, but they can still spell the end for students within their trees. A Trial by Tale is done in this forest and death is a very real possibility for the participants, especially under the shroud of night when the reapers come to life to hack you to bits for sale.
* EverybodyDiesEnding: [[spoiler:Evil’s kiss spawns Never After, the schools collapse, crushing everyone within. Sophie’s sacrifice undoes this, however.]]

* ForcedTransformation: You really don’t want to fail your classes around here.
* HeroicLineage / VillainousLegacy: Most of the students are descendants of famous heroes or villains. Those who aren’t are called “Readers”.

* VillainsActHeroesReact: As Dovey says, “Evil attacks and good defends”. [[spoiler:When the Evers attack the Nevers, the roles swap. It even shows in how both sides fight afterwards; the Nevers typically use defensive tactics (walls of fire, disarming attacks, etc.) and even fight fair while the Evers are actively trying to kill them.]]

* CurbStompCushion: [[spoiler:During the Battle of the Never Ball, the Nevers have become the good guys and the Evers have become the bad guys, granting the Nevers a huge advantage. While the Evers do score some good hits, it’s clear that the Nevers are winning.]]

* NominalHero: Most of the personnel are completely arrogant jerks who are even more superficial than Sophie. It’s so bad that Dovey praises Agatha when she shows true empathy.
* StepfordSmiler: We learn that the faculty hate how shallow the material has become. Dovey and Anemone are the only ones who actually voice it, and even then it’s only under stressful circumstances.

* AdaptedOut: In a deleted scene, she revealed herself to be the fairy godmother from Cinderella and pretends to make Agatha beautiful, only to change nothing and teach her that she’s always been beautiful.

* LackOfEmpathy: She treats the empathy Agatha has for others as a nuisance. If you can’t succeed in your own story, the best-case scenario in her eyes is to be a part of someone else’s happy ending. Zig-zagged when she says that her empathy makes her a true princess, but then continues to enforce the detrimental rules of the school.

An Ever at the School for Good. He’s the son of King Arthur and the wielder of Excalibur.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: I don’t see him kicking any rabbits in the film.

* BadassInDistress: Twice. Once when he’s [[spoiler:at the mercy of a reaper during his Trial by Tale]], and again when he’s [[spoiler:about to be run through by Rafal]]. He ends up saved by Agatha both times.
* BlueBlood: He’s a prince, being the son of King Arthur.

* ChickMagnet: He’s had his share of princesses come up to him even before Sophie and Agatha showed up.
* GoodIsNotSoft: He’s proven himself willing to dismember and even kill in the heat of battle. During a fight with a cyclops student, he hacks off his arm. [[spoiler:During the Never Ball he racks up quite the body count before being downed by Mort.]]

* MaliciousMisnaming: Hester and Sophie both call him Teddy”.
* OddNameOut: He’s one of the few characters to get a surname.

* AlphaBitch: She is quick to become a thorn in Agatha’s side.
* BitchAlert: When Agatha first gets to the School for Good, she says that she’s lost. Beatrix immediately agrees in a snide tone, calling her a witch. You immediately know you’re not going to like her.

* GoodIsNotNice: As mentioned above, all the Evers have some degree of this, but Beatrix is such a selfish bitch that you’d be forgiven for expecting her to become a legitimate bad guy by the end.

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:As a stymph.]]

* BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler:While we don’t see him actually transform into a stymph, we do see him appearing to disintegrate before he vanishes. You can guess by the screaming that it’s not a fun experience.]]
* CanonForeigner: Downplayed. He’s nowhere to be seen in the book, but he’s given the role of [[spoiler:the gargoyle that Tedros kills]].
* DiesDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: Downplayed. In the book, he’s a gargoyle who gets decapitated. In the movie, he’s a stymph who gets stabbed through the chest.
* FailureHero: By the time we meet him, he’s already failed sword fighting. Then he fails steed riding. Finally, he fails a trek through the Blue Forest.

* HumbleHero: He doesn’t want to be a fighter or a prince, he wants to run a grocery store.

* NiceGuy: He’s as sweet as a peach.
* OddNameOut: He’s one of the few characters to get a surname.
* RedheadsAreUncool: He’s definitely the unlucky nerd type.

* SayMyName: He screams for Agatha as he’s [[spoiler:polymorphed and taken away]].

* AsianAirhead: She’s played by Emma Lau and she’s quite a ditz.

* PrecisionFStrike: She shuts Lesso up after it’s discovered that the dean was aware that Rafal had returned.

* BornUnlucky: They ultimately have no say in whether or not they get to be good. And given that evil never wins, they’re basically lambs being raised for slaughter.

* DoubleStandard: Lesso says that Nevers aren’t to kill anyone until after graduation. She says this when Sophie is about to kill Hester, but not when Hester was about to kill her. It’s unknown if this rule applies to all Nevers or just the Readers.

* EvilVersusOblivion: [[spoiler:They’re no safer from the rise of Never After than the Evers.]]

* NominalVillain: Mean pranks and death threats? Big whoop. It’s noteworthy that most Nevers treat Sophie far more nicely than a lot of the Evers treat Agatha. [[spoiler:During the Never Ball fight, the Nevers are cackling with insanity while mostly using defensive spells.]]
* SavageWolves: The guards at this school are anthropomorphic wolves. [[spoiler:They’re actually students under ForcedTransformation.]]

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: [[spoiler:She sought to win Rafal’s heart, but was never evil enough.]] Sophie taunts her about this.

* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:She’s first seen in a flashback as a little Gavaldon girl who was whisked off to the School for Good and evil.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: She knew Sophie’s name ahead of introductions and refused to tell her how she knew. She was clearly in on some conspiracy that involved her.
** She could also tell at a glance that Sophie was a Reader from Gavaldon. [[spoiler:It’s because she could relate.]]
* MadLove: She wants [[spoiler:Rafal’s]] favor even after he turned his back on her.
* QuitYourWhining: She treats Sophie’s insistence that she’s not a bad guy as immaturity. When Sophie tries to tell her that she doesn’t want anything to do with Rafal, she straight-up yells at the poor hapless girl.

A Never at the School for Evil. She’s the daughter of Robert de Rainault.

* AffablyEvil: She’s pretty nice and welcoming to Sophie, even offering her to bunk next to her. She also chides Anadil and Hester for rudely laughing at Sophie’s name.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: While she finds it odd that a villain would have a name like Sophie, she doesn’t laugh about it and gets on her friends for being so impolite.

* {{Hypocrite}}: She finds it odd that a villain could be saddled with the name Sophie because it implies innocence and harmlessness. This is coming from a girl whose name is Dot.
* OddNameOut: She’s one of the few characters who gets a surname.

A Never at the School for Evil. She’s the daughter of the hag from Hansel & Gretel.

* AxCrazy: She seems to be the only Never who’s not averse to homicide, given how she tries to kill Sophie twice.
* BerserkButton: Don’t insult her mother. Just don’t.

* {{Foil}}: To Sophie. Both girls lost their mothers at a young age and were devastated by it. They’re also both arbitrarily stuck in the School for Evil. However, Hester embraces her darker nature and insanity far sooner.
* KryptoniteFactor: If her wyvern is harmed, she’s similarly affected. When it’s attacked by a swarm of bees, she’s left a writhing mess on the floor crying and gasping for breath.

* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: She’s both weak enough to be held down by Sophie and strong enough to throw two guys at the same time.
* TemptingFate: When Sophie fails to summon any squirrels to aid her during their fight, Hester taunts her by suggesting that the squirrels don’t like her either. She finds herself eating her words seconds later.
* WreathedInFlames: Her wyvern when it’s active.

* AffablyEvil: Aside from laughing about Sophie’s name, she never really treats her poorly despite not seeing her as belonging at the School for Evil. She also graciously delivers her a letter from Agatha and hopes Sophie feels better after her [[spoiler:failed Trial by Tale]].
* AxCrazy: She’s rather excited about the idea of watching somebody go splat.

A Never at the School for Evil. He’s the son of Captain Hook.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: He sets his sights on Sophie the very day they meet. She’s not interested, but manages to get along with him.

-->'''Hort:''' I’m Hort, by the way.

-->'''Hort:''' That’s the nicest thing anyone’s ever said to me.
* TheResenter: He really doesn’t like Tedros. When he manages to [[spoiler:knock him out during the Battle of the Never Ball]], he remarks that he’s been wanting to do that all semester.
* ShirtlessScene: He’s introduced without his shirt.

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:He’s fine with murdering two schools full of people, most of whom being kids, in order to prevent them from becoming potential threats to him. He also tries to kill Agatha even when she’s hardly a threat to him by then.]]

* BeenThereShapedHistory: [[spoiler:Y’know how human morality is shown to be absolutely corrupt throughout the film, in part thanks to the fairy tales? Guess who’s responsible for that?]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:He’s been pulling everyone’s strings for over a thousand years in an attempt to unlock Never After and is the cause of all the problems in the story.]] It also makes sense that he be the ultimate villain, given that he’s the soul of malevolence itself.

* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:He’s been conducting famous fairy tales for hundreds of years to mess up humanity’s sense of morality.]]
* DiesDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:He originally dies in a fight with the ghost of Rhian. Here, he’s slashed through the heart by Agatha.]]
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler:The way he manipulates everything around Sophie to fall apart and turns people against her and pushes her to drive away everyone she loves just so he can have her all to himself and leave her with nowhere to go should she ever want out is hauntingly similar to an abusive lover. To make things even more screwed up, he’s an ancient moral concept given flesh (in other words, he's old as hell) while she’s a 14-year-old girl.]]
* TheDreaded: He’s spoken about by good and evil alike as the most fearsome force in all of creation. The schools even feel they have to band together to even have a chance against him.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: He dismisses Agatha’s speech about how evil can never have true love because it only loves itself as beautiful but meaningless. [[spoiler:Sophie shows him just how fragile evil’s kiss was when she gives her life to save Agatha and the world, also showing him just how much she loves Agatha.]]

* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler:"You think this tale is about ''your'' true love? No! It's about ''mine."]]

* KnightOfCerebus: He may come off as a GenericDoomsdayVillain, but he puts all the other villains in the story to shame. Notice how he’s never once played for laughs and he manages to manipulate everyone and everything from the shadows for over a thousand years. The only levity that doesn’t run for the hills when he takes the stage is his hammy demeanor. He succeeds in [[spoiler:creating a playground for evil, causing the destruction of both schools and the deaths of many people, most of whom being children. Even when it’s undone, he’s still more than powerful enough to easily mop the floor with anyone who comes at him.]] It says a lot that someone had to [[spoiler:give up their life]] in order to clean up the damage.

* PrideBeforeAFall: [[spoiler:He's so certain of his victory that he fails to consider that his narcissism would render evil's kiss too fragile to last if something were to happen to his pawn, hence why Sophie committing a HeroicSacrifice for Agatha was enough to immediately undo Never After. He's also so high on his own power that he fails to consider the potential children have against him, hence why he focuses more on torturing Tedros than killing him, Agatha, and Sophie or getting rid of Excalibur.]]

* TheSociopath: He manipulates everyone around him and then tosses them away when they’re no longer useful, the most notable example being [[spoiler:Lesso]]. The only time we see him in relation to empathy is when he’s using others’ misfortunes to his own advantage. [[spoiler:After he accidentally impales Sophie, his only concern is that Never After would be undone.]]

* ThisCannotBe: He says this as he’s forced to watch [[spoiler:Never After dissolve]].

* VillainHasAPoint: He tells Sophie that she’s been kind and honest and patient, but the schools refuse to see the good in her no matter how hard she tries. While he’s saying this to [[spoiler:manipulate her at arguably her lowest point in the story so far]], he’s not wrong about how she never meant any harm and yet all of them treat her like trash and ignore her pleas (except for Agatha).
** He tells her during the climax that he was never meant for good. While he is in charge of his own choices, he is ultimately the embodiment of malevolence, a circumstance of birth he had absolutely no say in, so he’s right that he was never going to get to be a good guy.

* WouldHurtAChild: Given he’s the embodiment of ill will, this should come as no surprise. [[spoiler:He happily causes the deaths of countless Evers and Nevers and tries to kill both Agatha and Tedros.]]

->'''Portrayed by:''' Kit Young (youth)

->'''Portrayed by:''' Kit Young (youth) / Creator/LaurenceFishburne (old age)

!!Sophie of Woods Beyond

!!Agatha of Woods Beyond

!!Lady [[spoiler:Leonora]] Lesso

->'''Portrayed by:''' Kit Young (youth) / Creator/LaurenceFishburne (old age)

** When everyone is watching the romance between Sophie and Tedros disapprovingly and another Never suggests eating them, Dot looks at her with visible disgust.

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: In the book, she’s a total NightmareFetishist, dressing in gothic clothing and even carrying the headless bodies of the birds her cat has killed. She’s also something of a pyromaniac. In the movie, the most macabre thing about her is that she loves ghost stories and she lives near a graveyard. Oddly, her SweetTooth has been removed as well.

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler:The way he manipulates everything around Sophie to fall apart and turns people against her and push her to drive away everyone she loves just so he can have her all to himself and leave her with nowhere to go should she ever want out is hauntingly similar to an abusive lover. To make things even more screwed up, he’s an ancient moral concept given flesh while she’s a 14-year-old girl.]]