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* {{Foil}}: Has so far appeared in three strips, and in all of them he pretty-much serves as someone Cueball can argue with so as to get across a point Randall wants to make.
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* EvilIsStylish: This is what makes him a classhole instead of an asshole.
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Insofar as a comic like {{xkcd}} can ''have'' main characters, that is...
*TheBlank: None of them have visible faces – although they nonetheless manage to be surprisingly expressive.
*NoodlePeople
*OddFriendship: Why do the eccentric-but-decent Megan and “Cueball” still hang around with the downright-psychopathic Black Hat Guy and his girlfriend?
!!“Cueball”
Probably the most commonly-recurring character of the strip – although it's hard to tell because he's distinguished from the others by his complete ''lack'' of distinguishing features. Randall Munroe's AuthorAvatar. Used as the default character for any strips that don't specifically require someone else.
*AuthorAvatar
*BaldOfAwesome: Presumably, since his head remains completely unadorned even after we start seeing hair drawn onto random bit-characters.
*FanNickname: Given because his blank, hairless, hatless head looks like, well, a cueball.
*TheEveryman
*[[IllGirl IllBoy]]: Has some unnamed “disease” [[http://xkcd.com/828/ here]] which he has seemingly gotten over by [[http://xkcd.com/836/ eight strips later]].
*LoveableNerd
*NoNameGiven: He has never been named in the comic.
*OfficialCouple: With Megan – even though they are occasionally shown to temporarily be not together.
*StraightMan: Occasionally acts as this towards Black Hat Guy.
!!Megan
Cueball's [=girlfriend/wife/statistically-significant other=]. Distinguished by her shoulder-length dark hair. Used whenever a female or more sensible character is required, or as a sort of {{Foil}} to Cueball.
*Badass: [[http://xkcd.com/933/ THIS]].
*ADayInTheLimelight: The “Choices” story arc.
* DistaffCounterpart: Serves as one to Cueball in many ways, but she is eventually shown to have a few different personality traits.
* [[TheEveryman The Everygirl]]
*IllGirl: [[http://xkcd.com/881/ Appears]] to have [[http://xkcd.com/931/ or have had]] cancer, much like her [[RealLifeWritesThePlot real-world counterpart]].
*NerdsAreSexy: Or at least, 'Nerds Are Found Sexy By Other Nerds'.
*ManicPixieDreamGirl
*OfficialCouple: With Cueball. 'Megan' is also the name of Randall Munroe's RealLife LoveInterest.
*[[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: Easily the most well-balanced of the recurring cast. See [[http://xkcd.com/1014/ here]] for a perfect demonstration.
*[[StraightMan Straight Woman]]: Often plays this role to Cueball.
*WomenAreWiser: Despite her own nerdy eccentricities, she seems to be more down-to-Earth than Cueball, and she's ''definitely'' saner than Black Hat Guy or the Beret Existentialist.
!!“Black Hat Guy”
Cueball's friend (and possibly onetime flatmate, since several early strips seem to show them living together). Distinguished by his unique, black, boater-like hat. Turns up whenever a joke requires someone to do something evil (or very very ChaoticNeutral).
*AffablyEvil: He's quite nice to those he considers friends...
*AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Is he a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, a full-on JerkAss who just knows how to PetTheDog when he feels like it, or an insecure guy with a JerkassFacade?
*Badass: The best example in the comic. When his future girlfriend stole his hat, he [[Determinator tracked her down]] and ''hijacked a nuclear submarine'' to get it back.
*BetaCouple: With his girlfriend.
*CardCarryingVillain: Self-identifies as a “Classhole” – an asshole with class.
*ComedicSociopathy: His sense of humour ''runs'' on this.
*ADayInTheLimelight: The “Secretary” arc.
*EnsembleDarkhorse: Probably the most popular character in the strip.
*EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His relationship with his girlfriend (and possibly with Cueball and Megan).
*EvenEvilHasStandards: The 'classhole' thing. Also, he has shown hatred for people who [[http://xkcd.com/169/ communicate badly on purpose]], [[http://xkcd.com/322/ belittle women]], [[http://xkcd.com/562/ park across two spaces]] or [[http://xkcd.com/496/ expect him to quarter troops in his house]].
*EvilIsStylish: This is what makes him a classhole instead of an asshole.
*ForTheEvulz: He usually gets nothing out of his exploits except a bizarre sense of gratification at making the world a more 'interesting' place.
*JerkAss: ...probably.
*NiceHat
*NoNameGiven: His real name is never revealed. Even ''Randall'' just calls him “Hat Guy”. He even jokes about it at the end of the “Secretary” arc – no-one can take legal action against him because no-one knows his name.
*NumberOneDime: He ''likes'' his hat.
*MagnificentBastard: During the “Journal” and “Secretary” arcs.
*MasochismTango: His relationship with his girlfriend.
*PersonWithTheClothing
*PetTheDog: He was once caught speaking all lovey-dovey to his girlfriend – although he did immediately murder the guy who caught him. His version of WhiteKnighting in [[http://xkcd.com/322/ this strip]] is also strangely cute. And he has a journal filled with things he'd say to girls “if he was nice like [Cueball]”.
*RefugeInAudacity: Among others, he once turned a senate chamber into a ball pool. While the senators were in it.
*SlapSlapKiss: He met his girlfriend when he tried to destroy her self-confidenceand she retaliated by stealing his hat. He got his hat back by [[DisproportionateRetribution almost-hitting her with a nuclear submarine]]. She placed mines on her driveway before he arrived at her house. [[OutGambitted He moved them to her garage before she blew them up]]. ''Then'' they got together.
*TokenEvilTeammate
*UnholyMatrimony: With his girlfriend.
!!Beret Existentialist
A possibly-insane philosopher whose connection to the others is unclear. Distinguished by his white beret. Turns up whenever a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} is required.
*TheAntiNihilist
*BewareTheNiceOnes[=/=]BewareTheSillyOnes: [[http://xkcd.com/677/ Holy crap.]]
*BlitheSpirit
*ContemplateOurNavels: He likes philosophy, although he's actually unusually energetic about it.
*Cloudcuckoolander
*CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Insult him once, he'll take your criticism on board and change his habits. Insult him a second time, he'll ''hit you in the face with a digger''.
* {{Keet}}
* MissingMom: “[[TearJerker Pull harder, Mom.]] [[http://xkcd.com/502/ I miss you.]]”
*NiceHat
*NoNameGiven
*PersonWithTheClothing
*ThePhilosopher
*ThePollyanna: He is the only main character whom we have ''never seen'' acting depressed.
*TrademarkFavouriteFood: Pastries.
!!Black Hat Guy's Girlfriend
The newest addition to the recurring cast, since she entered a relationship with Black Hat Guy. Distinguished by her long, wavey, dark hair. Essentially a female Black Hat Guy.
*BadassLonghair: Has longer hair than any other character, and is one of the more badass.
* BullyingADragon: She tends to be the dragon. It's possible that she intentionally tries to make herself look vulnerable so as to attract assholes whom she can beat at their own game.
*DarkMistress
*DistaffCounterpart
*ForTheEvulz
*MasochismTango: Her relationship with Black Hat Guy.
*SlapSlapKiss: How she met Black Hat Guy.
*TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: She ''excels'' at this.
*UnholyMatrimony: With Black Hat Guy.
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[[Other Recurring Characters]]
!!The Boy in the Barrel
The very first character xkcd featured. A young boy inexplicably floating around in a barrel.
*ArtShift: It was only after the Boy in the Barrel's debut that the art shifted from 'semi-realistic' to 'stick-figures', making him the only non-stick-figure recurring human.
*EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Seriously, what is his personal arc even ''about''?
*MissingMom: “None of the places I floated had mommies”.
*{{Robinsonade}}: He somehow survives drifting through the sea in a barrel on his own.
*TheWoobie
!!The Flying Ferret
A ferret with tailor-made wings.
*BigDamnHeroes: Turns up just in time to save the Boy in the Barrel.
*EarlyInstallmentWeirdness
*StationaryWings: But he can somehow fly anyway.
*WeaselMascot: Presumably was one to the guy who built his wings.
!!White Hat Guy
A figure occasionally seen talking with Cueball. Distinguished by his hat, which resembles that of Black Hat Guy but is white instead of black. Seems well-meaning but pretentious.
*{{Foil}}: Has so far appeared in three strips, and in all of them he pretty-much serves as someone Cueball can argue with so as to get across a point Randall wants to make.
*NiceHat
*PersonWithTheClothing
*TheSocialite
*WineIsClassy: Doesn't understand how Cueball can drink cheap wine.
!!Armchair Nihilist
An occasionally-recurring character who turns up when the joke calls for some straw existential nihilism. Resembles Megan, but is distinguishable from her by both her personality and the fact she never leaves her chair.
*ContemplateOurNavels
*CoolChair: She presumably thinks it's cool, since she spends so much time in it.
*{{Foil}}: While they have yet to appear alongside each other, she's basically a perfect inversion of the Beret Existentialist.
*TheEeyore
*Nietzsche Wannabe
*StrawCharacter
!!CoryDoctorow
A fictionalised version of the real person, who lives in a hot air balloon in the blogosphere. Distinguished by his red cape and black goggles.
*BadassCape
*BigDamnHeroes: Rescued Black Hat Guy at the end of the “Secretary” arc.
*TheCameo
*CoolAirship: His hot-air balloon has a ''retractable gun turret''.
*InformationWantsToBeFree: His motivation, presumably.
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Insofar as a comic like {{xkcd}} can ''have'' main characters, that is...
*TheBlank: None of them have visible faces – although they nonetheless manage to be surprisingly expressive.
*NoodlePeople
*OddFriendship: Why do the eccentric-but-decent Megan and “Cueball” still hang around with the downright-psychopathic Black Hat Guy and his girlfriend?
!!“Cueball”
Probably the most commonly-recurring character of the strip – although it's hard to tell because he's distinguished from the others by his complete ''lack'' of distinguishing features. Randall Munroe's AuthorAvatar. Used as the default character for any strips that don't specifically require someone else.
*AuthorAvatar
*BaldOfAwesome: Presumably, since his head remains completely unadorned even after we start seeing hair drawn onto random bit-characters.
*FanNickname: Given because his blank, hairless, hatless head looks like, well, a cueball.
*TheEveryman
*[[IllGirl IllBoy]]: Has some unnamed “disease” [[http://xkcd.com/828/ here]] which he has seemingly gotten over by [[http://xkcd.com/836/ eight strips later]].
*LoveableNerd
*NoNameGiven: He has never been named in the comic.
*OfficialCouple: With Megan – even though they are occasionally shown to temporarily be not together.
*StraightMan: Occasionally acts as this towards Black Hat Guy.
!!Megan
Cueball's [=girlfriend/wife/statistically-significant other=]. Distinguished by her shoulder-length dark hair. Used whenever a female or more sensible character is required, or as a sort of {{Foil}} to Cueball.
*Badass: [[http://xkcd.com/933/ THIS]].
*ADayInTheLimelight: The “Choices” story arc.
* DistaffCounterpart: Serves as one to Cueball in many ways, but she is eventually shown to have a few different personality traits.
* [[TheEveryman The Everygirl]]
*IllGirl: [[http://xkcd.com/881/ Appears]] to have [[http://xkcd.com/931/ or have had]] cancer, much like her [[RealLifeWritesThePlot real-world counterpart]].
*NerdsAreSexy: Or at least, 'Nerds Are Found Sexy By Other Nerds'.
*ManicPixieDreamGirl
*OfficialCouple: With Cueball. 'Megan' is also the name of Randall Munroe's RealLife LoveInterest.
*[[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: Easily the most well-balanced of the recurring cast. See [[http://xkcd.com/1014/ here]] for a perfect demonstration.
*[[StraightMan Straight Woman]]: Often plays this role to Cueball.
*WomenAreWiser: Despite her own nerdy eccentricities, she seems to be more down-to-Earth than Cueball, and she's ''definitely'' saner than Black Hat Guy or the Beret Existentialist.
!!“Black Hat Guy”
Cueball's friend (and possibly onetime flatmate, since several early strips seem to show them living together). Distinguished by his unique, black, boater-like hat. Turns up whenever a joke requires someone to do something evil (or very very ChaoticNeutral).
*AffablyEvil: He's quite nice to those he considers friends...
*AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Is he a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, a full-on JerkAss who just knows how to PetTheDog when he feels like it, or an insecure guy with a JerkassFacade?
*Badass: The best example in the comic. When his future girlfriend stole his hat, he [[Determinator tracked her down]] and ''hijacked a nuclear submarine'' to get it back.
*BetaCouple: With his girlfriend.
*CardCarryingVillain: Self-identifies as a “Classhole” – an asshole with class.
*ComedicSociopathy: His sense of humour ''runs'' on this.
*ADayInTheLimelight: The “Secretary” arc.
*EnsembleDarkhorse: Probably the most popular character in the strip.
*EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His relationship with his girlfriend (and possibly with Cueball and Megan).
*EvenEvilHasStandards: The 'classhole' thing. Also, he has shown hatred for people who [[http://xkcd.com/169/ communicate badly on purpose]], [[http://xkcd.com/322/ belittle women]], [[http://xkcd.com/562/ park across two spaces]] or [[http://xkcd.com/496/ expect him to quarter troops in his house]].
*EvilIsStylish: This is what makes him a classhole instead of an asshole.
*ForTheEvulz: He usually gets nothing out of his exploits except a bizarre sense of gratification at making the world a more 'interesting' place.
*JerkAss: ...probably.
*NiceHat
*NoNameGiven: His real name is never revealed. Even ''Randall'' just calls him “Hat Guy”. He even jokes about it at the end of the “Secretary” arc – no-one can take legal action against him because no-one knows his name.
*NumberOneDime: He ''likes'' his hat.
*MagnificentBastard: During the “Journal” and “Secretary” arcs.
*MasochismTango: His relationship with his girlfriend.
*PersonWithTheClothing
*PetTheDog: He was once caught speaking all lovey-dovey to his girlfriend – although he did immediately murder the guy who caught him. His version of WhiteKnighting in [[http://xkcd.com/322/ this strip]] is also strangely cute. And he has a journal filled with things he'd say to girls “if he was nice like [Cueball]”.
*RefugeInAudacity: Among others, he once turned a senate chamber into a ball pool. While the senators were in it.
*SlapSlapKiss: He met his girlfriend when he tried to destroy her self-confidenceand she retaliated by stealing his hat. He got his hat back by [[DisproportionateRetribution almost-hitting her with a nuclear submarine]]. She placed mines on her driveway before he arrived at her house. [[OutGambitted He moved them to her garage before she blew them up]]. ''Then'' they got together.
*TokenEvilTeammate
*UnholyMatrimony: With his girlfriend.
!!Beret Existentialist
A possibly-insane philosopher whose connection to the others is unclear. Distinguished by his white beret. Turns up whenever a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} is required.
*TheAntiNihilist
*BewareTheNiceOnes[=/=]BewareTheSillyOnes: [[http://xkcd.com/677/ Holy crap.]]
*BlitheSpirit
*ContemplateOurNavels: He likes philosophy, although he's actually unusually energetic about it.
*Cloudcuckoolander
*CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Insult him once, he'll take your criticism on board and change his habits. Insult him a second time, he'll ''hit you in the face with a digger''.
* {{Keet}}
* MissingMom: “[[TearJerker Pull harder, Mom.]] [[http://xkcd.com/502/ I miss you.]]”
*NiceHat
*NoNameGiven
*PersonWithTheClothing
*ThePhilosopher
*ThePollyanna: He is the only main character whom we have ''never seen'' acting depressed.
*TrademarkFavouriteFood: Pastries.
!!Black Hat Guy's Girlfriend
The newest addition to the recurring cast, since she entered a relationship with Black Hat Guy. Distinguished by her long, wavey, dark hair. Essentially a female Black Hat Guy.
*BadassLonghair: Has longer hair than any other character, and is one of the more badass.
* BullyingADragon: She tends to be the dragon. It's possible that she intentionally tries to make herself look vulnerable so as to attract assholes whom she can beat at their own game.
*DarkMistress
*DistaffCounterpart
*ForTheEvulz
*MasochismTango: Her relationship with Black Hat Guy.
*SlapSlapKiss: How she met Black Hat Guy.
*TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: She ''excels'' at this.
*UnholyMatrimony: With Black Hat Guy.
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[[Other Recurring Characters]]
!!The Boy in the Barrel
The very first character xkcd featured. A young boy inexplicably floating around in a barrel.
*ArtShift: It was only after the Boy in the Barrel's debut that the art shifted from 'semi-realistic' to 'stick-figures', making him the only non-stick-figure recurring human.
*EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Seriously, what is his personal arc even ''about''?
*MissingMom: “None of the places I floated had mommies”.
*{{Robinsonade}}: He somehow survives drifting through the sea in a barrel on his own.
*TheWoobie
!!The Flying Ferret
A ferret with tailor-made wings.
*BigDamnHeroes: Turns up just in time to save the Boy in the Barrel.
*EarlyInstallmentWeirdness
*StationaryWings: But he can somehow fly anyway.
*WeaselMascot: Presumably was one to the guy who built his wings.
!!White Hat Guy
A figure occasionally seen talking with Cueball. Distinguished by his hat, which resembles that of Black Hat Guy but is white instead of black. Seems well-meaning but pretentious.
*{{Foil}}: Has so far appeared in three strips, and in all of them he pretty-much serves as someone Cueball can argue with so as to get across a point Randall wants to make.
*NiceHat
*PersonWithTheClothing
*TheSocialite
*WineIsClassy: Doesn't understand how Cueball can drink cheap wine.
!!Armchair Nihilist
An occasionally-recurring character who turns up when the joke calls for some straw existential nihilism. Resembles Megan, but is distinguishable from her by both her personality and the fact she never leaves her chair.
*ContemplateOurNavels
*CoolChair: She presumably thinks it's cool, since she spends so much time in it.
*{{Foil}}: While they have yet to appear alongside each other, she's basically a perfect inversion of the Beret Existentialist.
*TheEeyore
*Nietzsche Wannabe
*StrawCharacter
!!CoryDoctorow
A fictionalised version of the real person, who lives in a hot air balloon in the blogosphere. Distinguished by his red cape and black goggles.
*BadassCape
*BigDamnHeroes: Rescued Black Hat Guy at the end of the “Secretary” arc.
*TheCameo
*CoolAirship: His hot-air balloon has a ''retractable gun turret''.
*InformationWantsToBeFree: His motivation, presumably.
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