History Characters / WelcomeToHell

* SkirtOverSlacks: Sock wears a purple skirt over his jeans.

* BadassBeard: Meph has an impressive beard, and can be quite imposing.

* CuteButPsycho: Sock is cute, friendly, and murderous.

* ShoutOut: Sock's EmbarassingMiddleName, Maxwell, is a ShoutOut to Maxwell's Silver Hammer by ''Music/TheBeatles''.

* BenevolentBoss: Meph is very genial to his employees, has great benefits and gives weekends off. [[God She]] only gives Sundays off.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Meph runs Hell like a giant company, and is [[Satan the devil]].

* EyesOfGold: Meph is a demon with golden eyes.
* InsistentTerminology: Meph does not like to use certain unflattering [[Satan nicknames]], and prefers to use his given name.

* EmoTeen: Let's see, caustic, dour, snarky? Check, check, and check.

* PurpleIsPowerful / PurpleIsTheNewBlack / SupernaturalIsPurple: Meph has a really neat purple suit, and is the (CEO?) of hell.
* SatanicArchetype: Let's see, FallenAngel? Check. Ruler of Demons? Check. Pretty standard, although Meph is much more AffablyEvil than most examples.

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* AmbiguouslyGay: He's not explicitly stated to be gay, but his rather effeminate features, his [[WholesomeCrossdresser wearing a skirt]], his suspicious chumminess with [[EmotionlessBoy Jonathan]], his numerous ShipTease moments with Jonathan, it's not hard to get suspicoius, and is a common {{Fanon}} interpretation.

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%% !!Zach Phineas Melto
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%% A jock who goes to school with Jonathan.
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%% * OurAngelsAreDifferent
%% * OurGhostsAreDifferent

%% * LemonyNarrator: Acts as the UnreliableNarrator of the short.

%% * EightiesHair: Jonathan's [[http://johnkstuff.blogspot.ca/2010/06/attack-of-animation-hair.html "animation hair"]].

%% * EmoTeen

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%% * GogglesDoNothing

%% * MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: It's unknown if Sock's the only nice demon.

%% * OurDemonsAreDifferent
%% * OurGhostsAreDifferent

* RummageSaleReject: Sock has an amazing outfit. What with the crazy hat and the scarf and the skirt, it's a very mismatched outfit that somehow works.
%% * ScarfOfAsskicking

%% * {{Foil}}: To Sock

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%% * {{Foil}}: To Jonathan

%% * {{Intangibility}}
%% * {{Invisibility}}

%% * NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: [[http://welcometohellfilm.tumblr.com/post/39442415494/wth-kickstarter Sock towards Jonathan.]]

%% * PsychopathicManchild
%% * RedOniBlueOni: Sock is the Red Oni to Jonathan's Blue Oni.
* RidiculousProcrastinator: Sock constantly puts off seriously driving Jonathan to suicide, and is by WordOfGod in a "Shenanigan-based rut."
%% * RummageSaleReject: Sock is definitely [[http://welcometohellfilm.tumblr.com/Characters this]].

%% * SerialKiller: Sock, though this only seems to apply to his comic incarnation.
* SicklyGreenGlow: Sock starts glowing a green color when he's phasing through objects. It really applies to hell in general in the short.

%% * RedOniBlueOni: Sock is the Red Oni to Jonathan's Blue Oni.

%% * BewareTheNiceOnes
%% * CheshireCatGrin

%% * FlamingDevil: [[AmbiguouslyGay Maybe]].

%% * {{Keet}}

%% * PowerFloats

%% * StalkerWithoutACrush: Sock following Jonathan in the first montage.

%% * DeadpanSnarker: He is a teenager.

%% * EmotionlessBoy

%% * OnlySaneMan

%% * MysteriousEmployer
%% * OurDemonsAreDifferent: doesn't like to be called that though.

* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: Let's see, he wears headphones, and is antisocial and doesn't talk to anyone? Check.

* EyesOfGold: Meph has golden eyes.

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%%!!Magill Nancy / Lil
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%%A girl that goes to Jonathan's high school.

%%!!Providence
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%%The creator deity of Welcome To Hell.

%%Sock's former dog.
%%* EvilDetectingDog: Not quite evil, but Silver felt uneasy around Sock.

%% * NightmareFuelStationAttendant

%% * HeadphonesEqualIsolation

%% * OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent:

%% * {{Suburbia}}: Possibly where Jon lives.
%% * TheStoic

%% * DeadpanSnarker: You bet.

%% * EyesOfGold
%% * InsistentTerminology: Does not like to use certain unflattering [[Satan nicknames]].

%% * PowerFloats
%% * PungeonMaster: Mephistopheles has a really bad case of this.
%% * PurpleIsPowerful / PurpleIsTheNewBlack / SupernaturalIsPurple: the suit.
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%% * SharpDressedMan

%% * StealthHiBye: Mephistopheles.

%% * SicklyGreenGlow: Sock when he's phasing through objects.

%%* TorsoWithAView

%% * AnimeHair: Hair described as "animation".

%% * AmbiguouslyGay
%% * AwesomeAnachronisticApparel: Sock's outfit.

%% * HappyDance: Sock does this the second montage, much to Jonathan’s [[FacePalm chagrin]].
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* JacobMarleyApparel: Sock sports the same [[RummageSaleReject bizarre outfit]] as a demon that he wore when he [[DrivenToSuicide killed himself]]

%% * RidiculousProcrastinator: Sock is this with driving Jonathan to suicide.
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%% * ShoutOut: To Maxwell's Silver Hammer by ''Music/TheBeatles''.

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* AccidentalMurder: “This is Sock. He just [[SelfMadeOrphan killed his parents]]. In his sleep.”

* HappyDance: Sock does this the second montage, much to Jonathan’s [[FacePalm chagrin]].

* KnifeNut: Sock kills himself with his knife, and refers to it as his "old friend"

* RidiculousProcrastinator: Sock is this with driving Jonathan to suicide.

* LemonyNarrator: Acts as the UnreliableNarrator of the short.

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%% * AccidentalMurder: “This is Sock. He just [[SelfMadeOrphan killed his parents]]. In his sleep.”

%% * HappyDance: Sock in the second montage, much to Jonathan’s [[FacePalm chagrin]].

%% * HitmanWithAHeart: Sock is the cutest little murderer you ever saw.

%% * JacobMarleyApparel

%% * KnifeNut

%% * NoSocialSkills
%% * OlderThanTheyLook: According to WordOfGod, Sock is somewhere between 15 and 20.
%% * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname

%% * PleaseKeepYourHatOn: Sock has a serious case of hat hair.

%% * RidiculousProcrastinator: Sock is this with driving Jonathan to suicide.

%% * VitriolicBestBuds: The "Type one" variation in which Jonathan is vitriolic, while Sock is much, much friendlier, but wants Jon to kill himself.

%% * VitriolicBestBuds: The "Type one" variation in which Jonathan is vitriolic, while Sock is much, much friendlier, but wants Jon to kill himself.

%% * BadassBeard
%% * BenevolentBoss: Is very genial to his employees, and gives weekends off. [[God She]] only gives Sundays off.
%% * CoolOldGuy: Being immortal, Mephistopheles is quite old, and just see the rest of his tropes for the cool part.
%% * CorruptCorporateExecutive: Meph runs Hell like a giant company, and is [[Satan the devil]].

%% * EvilRedhead
%% * FieryRedhead

%% * LemonyNarrator: Is the UnreliableNarrator.

%% * Really700YearsOld
%% * {{Satan}}: Really does not like to be called that, however.

%% * {{Jock}}

* AccidentalMurder: “This is Sock. He just [[SelfMadeOrphan killed his parents]]. In his sleep.”
* AdaptationalHeroism: Sort of. The original comic states that Sock was a serial killer, but the short film implies that despite his homicidal tendencies, Sock killed animals but never people until [[SelfMadeOrphan he killed his parents in his sleep.]]

* AmbiguouslyGay
* AwesomeAnachronisticApparel: Sock's outfit.
* BewareTheNiceOnes
* CheshireCatGrin

* CrossDressingVoices: Sock is voiced by a female voice actress.
* DatelessGrave: PlayedForLaughs: Sock's tombstones don't even have proper ''names'' on them, to the point where he marked his own tombstone as just "ME".
** [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] [[http://welcometohellfilm.tumblr.com/post/53073922083/artistfingers-the-moment-i-saw-socks-full in this fancomic]]
* DrivenToSuicide: Erica [[http://welcometohellfilm.tumblr.com/post/173307255251/something-ive-been-wondering-since-seeing-w2h states that]] Sock went through several options in his head before settling on this, not wanting to inconvenience anyone with a trial he knew he'd be guilty of.

* {{Foil}}: To Jonathan
* FlamingDevil: [[AmbiguouslyGay Maybe]].

* GogglesDoNothing
* GreenEyes
* HappyDance: Sock in the second montage, much to Jonathan’s [[FacePalm chagrin]].
* HarmlessVillain: Sock wants to drive a teenager to suicide...by annoying him to death. [[SarcasmMode Yeah, that'll do it.]]
* HitmanWithAHeart: Sock is the cutest little murderer you ever saw.
* {{Intangibility}}
* {{Invisibility}}
* JacobMarleyApparel
* {{Keet}}
* KnifeNut

* MrViceGuy: Sock. He may enjoy murdering people, but he's still [[CuteAndPsycho lovable as heck.]]
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: It's unknown if Sock's the only nice demon.

* NightmareFuelStationAttendant
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: [[http://welcometohellfilm.tumblr.com/post/39442415494/wth-kickstarter Sock towards Jonathan.]]
* NoSocialSkills
* OlderThanTheyLook: According to WordOfGod, Sock is somewhere between 15 and 20.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname
* OurDemonsAreDifferent
* OurGhostsAreDifferent
* PleaseKeepYourHatOn: Sock has a serious case of hat hair.
* PowerFloats

** Not to mention all the fandom in-jokes regarding [[RefugeInAudacity alternate uses]] for the "spooky hole".
* PsychopathicManchild
* RedOniBlueOni: Sock is the Red Oni to Jonathan's Blue Oni.
* RidiculousProcrastinator: Sock is this with driving Jonathan to suicide.
* RummageSaleReject: Sock is definitely [[http://welcometohellfilm.tumblr.com/Characters this]].
* ScarfOfAsskicking
* SerialKiller: Sock, though this only seems to apply to his comic incarnation.
* SicklyGreenGlow: Sock when he's phasing through objects.
* ShoutOut: To Maxwell's Silver Hammer by ''Music/TheBeatles''.

* StalkerWithoutACrush: Sock following Jonathan in the first montage. [[ShipTease Probably]].
* TheWoobie: Sock, especially regarding the AllThereInTheManual WordOfGod about him. He grew up with a FriendlessBackground save for [[CompanionCube his knife]], he struggled with homicidal tendencies his whole life with his parents largely oblivious, he [[SelfMadeOrphan killed his parents]] [[AccidentalMurder in his sleep]], and ended up DrivenToSuicide as a result of not wanting to inconvenience everyone with a trial that he knew he'd be guilty of. And in the comic he dies a slow and painful death because he doesn't die right away when he stabs himself, and feels his "only friend" betrayed him.
-->'''Comic!Sock:''' Is this your idea of a joke?! Watching me die?! Cuz... it's not funny. Jokes... jokes shouldn't last this long...
* TorsoWithAView
* VagueAge: [[WordOfGod Word of Erica]] is that she wants Sock's age to be a RunningGag, and states his age to be 15-20.
* VitriolicBestBuds: The "Type one" variation in which Jonathan is vitriolic, while Sock is much, much friendlier, but wants Jon to kill himself.

* AnimeHair: Hair described as "animation".
* DeadpanSnarker: He is a teenager.
* EightiesHair: Jonathan's [[http://johnkstuff.blogspot.ca/2010/06/attack-of-animation-hair.html "animation hair"]].
* EmotionlessBoy
* EmoTeen
* {{Foil}}: To Sock
* HeadphonesEqualIsolation
* ISeeDeadPeople: Jonathan is the only living person who can see Sock.
* OnlySaneMan
* RedOniBlueOni: Sock is the Red Oni to Jonathan's Blue Oni.

* {{Suburbia}}: Possibly where Jon lives.
* TheStoic
* VitriolicBestBuds: The "Type one" variation in which Jonathan is vitriolic, while Sock is much, much friendlier, but wants Jon to kill himself.

* AffablyEvil: Despite, you know, running Hell, Mephistopheles seems like a [[BenevolentBoss nice enough guy]], offering Sock a job minutes after just meeting him.
* BadassBeard
* BenevolentBoss: Is very genial to his employees, and gives weekends off. [[God She]] only gives Sundays off.
* CoolOldGuy: Being immortal, [[FanNickname Meph]] is quite old, and just see the rest of his tropes for the cool part.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: [[FanNickname Meph]] runs Hell like a giant company, and is [[Satan the devil]].
* DeadpanSnarker: You bet.
* EvilRedhead / FieryRedhead
* EyesOfGold
* InsistentTerminology: [[FanNickname Meph]] does not like to use certain unflattering [[Satan nicknames]].
* LemonyNarrator: Is the UnreliableNarrator.
* MysteriousEmployer
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: [[FanNickname Meph]] doesn't like to be called that though.
* PowerFloats
* PungeonMaster: Mephistopheles has a really bad case of this.
* PurpleIsPowerful / PurpleIsTheNewBlack / SupernaturalIsPurple: [[FanNickname Meph's]] suit.
* Really700YearsOld
* {{Satan}}: Really does not like to be called that, however.
* SharpDressedMan
* ShipperOnDeck: It's possible that Mephistopheles ships [[PortmanteauCoupleName Sockathan]]. He's rather quick to assume that Sock only sucks at his job because he likes Jonathan.

* StealthHiBye: Mephistopheles does this a lot.

!!Tom
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Hell's Employee of the month.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent
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!!Zach Phineas Melto
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A jock who goes to school with Jonathan.
* {{Jock}}
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!!Magill Nancy / Lil
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A girl that goes to Jonathan's high school.
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!!Joane / Jojo
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[[caption-width-right:298:A selfish angel]]
Lil's guardian angel. Has a grudge towards Sock.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent
* OurGhostsAreDifferent
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!!Providence
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The creator deity of Welcome To Hell.
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!!Silver
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Sock's former dog.
* EvilDetectingDog: Not quite evil, but Silver felt uneasy around Sock.
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* DrivenToSuicide: WordOfGod [[http://welcometohellfilm.tumblr.com/post/173307255251/something-ive-been-wondering-since-seeing-w2h states that]] Sock went through several options in his head before settling on thism not wanting to inconvenience anyone with a trial he knew he'd be guilty of.