Line #141 Characters/ThePhantomTollbooth


1	[[foldercontrol]]
2
3	!!Earth
4	[[folder:Milo]]
5	The main character; is a young boy who was bored with his life before discovering the tollbooth.
6	----
7	* KidHero: Only about ten, but still manages to save the princesses.
8	* OnlySaneMan: He often reacts to the insanity around with bewilderment or an AsideGlance, with only a few characters such as Tock able to talk to him on a rational level.
9	[[/folder]]
10
11	!!Dictionopolis
12	[[folder:The Humbug]]
13	An arrogant, anthropomorphic bug.
14	----
15	* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the book, he's very irritable and pompous. In the 1970 movie, he's much more genuinely courteous to Milo and his lack of knowledge comes less from willful ignorance and being more SuperGullible and naive.
16	* EdibleThemeNaming: Humbugs are a type of candy.
17	* FunnyAnimal: Is stated to be an insect, but he walks on two legs, wears clothes, and- aside from his antenna looks more like a blue-skinned humanoid with a nose that is seemingly fused with his upper jaw.
18	* HiddenDepths: Despite being a fool, he does have some intellectual traits such as being able to count to a high number of trillions and fractions, ([[DownplayedTrope though he fails to realize that there are even higher numbers in even that]]) and through this, it's implied rather being naturally idiotic he has [[BrilliantButLazy latent potential for being much more knowledgeable but would rather not apply himself- thus setting himself for failure due to learning more and whenever he finds something outside of his limited knowledge, he's downfounded each time]].
19	* MeaningfulName: His name comes from the fact that he's boastful and that he's a bug.
20	* MrViceGuy: While his intentions are noble and he wouldn't actively hurt someone, he's very self-centered, is more foolish than he actually believes, and tends to brag.
21	* SpellMyNameWithAThe: ''The'' Humbug.
22	* SuperGullible: In the 1970 version, he tends to be this, especially in the Trivium portion of the Mountain of Ignorance journey where he accepts the menial task much easier than the others.
23	[[/folder]]
24
25	[[folder:King Azaz the Unabridged]]
26	The King of Dictionopolis, who has a rivalry with his brother the Mathemagician, due to perceiving words as superior to numbers.
27	----
28	* {{Hypocrite}}: As pointed out by Milo, he and the Mathemagician have sworn to never agree with each other... even though that in itself is technically agreeing (albeit to disagree).
29	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Has a petty rivalry with his brother, but he also invites the heroes to dinner despite them having been jailed and tells them to be optimistic.
30	* SiblingRivalry: Resents his brother due to them arguing over whether words or numbers are more important.
31	[[/folder]]
32
33	[[folder:Azaz's Cabinet]]
34	Four men who work for Azaz: the Duke of Definition, the Minister of Meaning, the Earl of Essence, and the Undersecretary of Understanding.
35	----
36	* AmbiguouslyRelated: They look very similar, which means they may be brothers or cousins, but it's unknown.
37	* CharacterTics: The Earl's favourite thing to do is to act out idioms.
38	* HurricaneOfEuphemisms: Their main shtick is that the Duke will say something, the Minister will say a synonym for it, the Earl will say another synonym, and the Undersecretary will say a fourth.
39	[[/folder]]
40
41	[[folder:The Spelling Bee]]
42	A bee who spells, and who hates the humbug.
43	----
44	* AnimalsNotToScale: About the size of a soccer ball.
45	* ArtisticLicenseBiology: In the movie, he stings the Humbug but survives, though [[JustifiedTrope to be fair]], he seems to do his stinging with his ''nose''.
46	* JerkassToOne: Is usually very friendly and understanding, but is snappy towards the Humbug and in the movie he even stings him.
47	* PunnyName: A spelling bee is usually a spelling contest, but he is an actual bee.
48	* TalkingAnimal: Can talk, but apart from his size, isn't anthropomorphic.
49	* VerbalTic: Likes to spell words.
50	* VirtuousBees: While he is crabby towards the Humbug, he's mainly very nice and tells Milo not to be afraid of him.
51	[[/folder]]
52
53	[[folder:Faintly Macabre]]
54	An old woman who calls herself the "Not-so-Wicked Which", because her former job was to determine ''which'' words to use. However, she was fired and imprisoned after becoming "miserly" and allowing fewer and fewer words to be used.
55	----
56	* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the book, she was imprisoned because she started hoarding words for herself. In the movie, it was because without Rhyme or Reason people stopped caring which words they used.
57	* DarkIsNotEvil: Has a gloomy name and wears black, but she's nice to the protagonists and even has "Not-So-Wicked" in her title.
58	* DarknessVonGothickName: Her surname is ''Macabre''.
59	* GrannyClassic: Downplayed. She has some stereotypical "old lady" traits like offering sweets and telling a long story of her youth, but her backstory is quite different from that of a stereotypical grandma.
60	* NonIndicativeName: While her name means "vaguely suggestive of death", she herself isn't actually like that.
61	* TookALevelInKindness: In her youth, she was greedy and eventually didn't allow anyone to speak. Now, she's a kind old lady who offers food to a lost child and his friend.
62	[[/folder]]
63
64	[[folder:Officer Short Shrift]]
65	A cop, judge, and juror who accuses people of being guilty at the drop of the hat.
66	----
67	* {{Catchphrase}}: Tells everyone, "You're guilty!" in the book or "I've never seen anyone so guilty!" in the movie.
68	* InsaneTrollLogic: Accuses people of forgetting his birthday when they don't know him, of being guilty because they were holding the word "guilty", etc.
69	* MeaningfulName: The "short" in his name makes sense because he isn't very tall. 'Short shrift' is also slang for rapid and unsympathetic dismissal.
70	* TheNapoleon: Very short and quick to assume someone is guilty.
71	[[/folder]]
72
73	!!Digitopolis
74	[[folder:The Mathemagician]]
75	The King of Digitopolis and King Azaz's estranged brother; a wizard who specialises in numbers.
76	----
77	* BenevolentMageRuler: As his name implies, the Mathemagician is a figurative and literal math wizard, and while he does need his brother and the moderating influence of the princesses to be at his best, he is at least a decent and well-intentioned master over Digitopolis.
78	* GoodWithNumbers: His whole shtick is that he loves numbers and math, being the ruler of a math-related city and sharing knowledge about numbers.
79	* {{Hypocrite}}: As pointed out by Milo, he and Azaz have sworn to never agree with each other... even though that in itself is technically agreeing (albeit to disagree).
80	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Much like Azaz, he has a bitter, petty rivalry with his brother but is hospitable to the heroes.
81	* PunnyName: His name is a portmanteau of "mathematician" and "magician".
82	* SiblingRivalry: Is at odds with his brother due to them arguing over whether words or numbers are better.
83	* SpellMyNameWithAThe: ''The'' Mathemagician.
84	[[/folder]]
85
86	[[folder:The Dodechahedron]]
87	A creature with 12 faces (one for smiling, one for eating, etc).
88	----
89	* ADogNamedDog: Is named the Dodechahedron because that's what his shape is. In fact, he doesn't even understand names, believing that everyone should just be called by their species because if numbers had names, arithmetic wouldn't work.
90	* GoodWithNumbers: Likes calculating numbers and believes the world should work in terms of math.
91	* SpellMyNameWithAThe: ''The'' Dodechahedron.
92	[[/folder]]
93
94	[[folder:The Half Child]]
95	A boy who Milo meets on a stairwell, who is 0.58 of a whole boy, because his family is the "average" family-- a mother, a father, and 2.58 children.
96	----
97	* GoodWithNumbers: Likes to calculate statistics.
98	* NoNameGiven: While most sources refer to him as "the half child" because that's the title of the chapter he appears in, he doesn't have a name, or even a title.
99	[[/folder]]
100
101	!!Forest of Sight
102	[[folder:Alec Bings]]
103	A boy belonging to a family where the kids float in the air and grow down instead of up. All members of his family have sight-related superpowers; his is to see through objects.
104	----
105	* {{Flight}}: Being a Bings child, he's always floating above the ground at the height he will be when he's grown up.
106	* PowerIncontinence: Has X-ray vision but can't turn it off, causing him to bump into things.
107	[[/folder]]
108
109	[[folder:Chroma the Great]]
110	A man whose job is to bring colour into the world by conducting an "orchestra" that plays colour instead of music.
111	----
112	* MeaningfulName: His name comes from "chrome", which means "colour".
113	[[/folder]]
114
115	[[folder:The Giant/Midget/Fat Man/Thin Man]]
116	A man of average height and girth, who claims to be the "shortest giant", "tallest midget", "thinnest fat man" and "fattest thin man" in the world.
117	----
118	* FatAndProud: While he isn't fat, he enjoys pretending to be the "thinnest fat man" and "fattest thin man".
119	* NoNameGiven: His actual name is never revealed.
120	* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Has four titles, that all have "The" in them.
121	[[/folder]]
122
123	!!Mountains of Ignorance
124	[[folder:The Terrible Trivium]]
125	A demon resembling a man with no face, who makes people do trivial things.
126	----
127	* AlliterativeName: The ''T''errible ''T''rivium.
128	* BadassBoast: Gives a rather unusual one [[MundaneMadeAwesome about embodying triviality]] in both the book and the 1970 film, but with different emphasis at the end.
129	--> '''Film''': Quite correct. The Terrible Trivium. Demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs. Ogre of wasted effort. And friend to lazy and foolish people everywhere.
130	--> '''Book''': I am the Terrible Trivium. Demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs. Ogre of wasted effort. And monster of habit.
131	* TheBlank: Has no face. The 1970 adaptation has this trait, but also gives him indications of eyebrows to show off his true malicious intent and allow for some emotion.
132	* TheBore: Makes people do boring things like moving a pile of sand one grain at a time. But unlike the Senses Taker, he [[CardCarryingVillain he takes malicious glee in his nature]].
133	* BoringButPractical: The Terrible Trivium is one of the most effective demons to waylay the heroes simply by virtue of not immediately revealing himself to be a demon and asking the heroes to start engaging in some pointless, mind-numbing tasks for him until they're hooked.
134	* FauxAffablyEvil: He initially greets and treats the heroes with politeness, but it gradually becomes clear that he's forcing them to do menial tasks to distract them from their goal and he's truly evil beneath his suave demeanor.
135	* ManipulativeBastard: While the other Demons use physical or verbal threats, the Trivium convinces the heroes into doing menial tasks as two are [[SuperGullible very susceptible to the suggestions]]. He nearly succeeds before Tock exposes his true nature and frightens him away.
136	* MeaningfulName: Gets his name from his enjoyment of having people do trivial things.
137	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Has "terrible" in his name.
138	* SpellMyNameWithAThe: ''The'' Terrible Trivium.
139	[[/folder]]
140
141	[[folder:The Senses Taker]]
142	A male, humanlike demon who makes people fill out forms, aiming to take their senses, but he can't take a person's sense of humor.
143	----
144	* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: In the 1970 adaptation, he has green skin to compliment his yellow eyes, which gives a visual indication that he's not actually a human.
145	* TheBore: Makes people fill out long, boring forms about needlessly complicated yet pointless information for the sake of delaying them from their tasks.
146	* CharacterTics: Blows his nose, polishes his glasses, and straightens his tie a lot.
147	* IntangibleTheft: Takes people's senses.
148	* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Him forcing people to fill out long, overcomplicated paperwork definitely evokes this trope.
149	* OurDemonsAreDifferent: A human-like demon dressed like a bookkeeper who steals senses to distract them from their goals.
150	* PunnyName: His title plays on the similarities between "census" and "senses".
151	* SpellMyNameWithAThe: ''The'' Senses Taker.
152	* YellowEyesOfSneakiness: In the 1970 adaptation. A visual indicator of his inhuman nature and how he hides his intent of delaying the heroes by giving them needlessly complicated documents of convoluted information as a distraction.
153	[[/folder]]
154
155	[[folder:The Demon of Insincerity]]
156	A small demon who tells lies about his appearance.
157	----
158	* ColourCodedEmotions: In the 1970 movie. He starts as a fiery orange but as he loses confidence, he gradually turns into a melancholy blue as his insecurities are revealed.
159	* EvilSoundsDeep: He initially sounds normal as part of his deception but reveals his true nature through his raspier, deeper voice. However, when Milo and his companions aren't intimidated after learning about his true nature, his tone becomes meeker and mellow.
160	* ManipulativeBastard: Not to the extent of the Trivium, but he manages to convince the heroes into his trap by adopting a normal voice before revealing his truly raspier voice. However, [[SmallNameBigEgo his small size and lack of physical power mean he can't capitalize on his intentions]].
161	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: This demon is just as insincere as his name suggests, with his lies meant to dissuade those who are easily persuaded by his lies, but he can't back it up physically.
162	* SmallNameBigEgo: The essential aspect of his character, he talks himself to be a bigger threat than he is, but is, in truth, small and harmless. Unlike most examples, he's willing to admit this, but [[EvilIsPetty but that doesn't stop him from attempting to harass the heroes with his fellow demons anyway]].
163	* SmugSnake: He acts confident when he has others trapped and unaware of his true nature, but has nothing to fall back on when he's exposed for the helpless creature he is. He only acts confident again when he has the entire Demon legion to back him up.
164	* SpellMyNameWithAThe: ''The'' Demon of Insincerity.
165	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the movie, he disappears the moment the Terrible Trivium is defeated, presumably he fuses with the other demons into the final one.
166	[[/folder]]
167
168	[[folder:The Gelatinous Giant]]
169	A... well... gelatinous giant who eats humans but who is easily put off his food by ideas.
170	----
171	* AbsurdPhobia: In the movie, his aversion to ideas is an outright fear of them.
172	* AlliterativeName: The ''G''elatinous ''G''iant.
173	* DeathByAdaptation: In the book, he's merely frightened off. In the movie, the possibility of an idea frightens him enough that he melts to death.
174	* DrivenToSuicide: In the film, he's so frightened by the concept of ideas that he causes himself to slowly melt away.
175	* DyingVocalChange: His already deep voice distorts even deeper as he melts himself to death.
176	* EvilSoundsDeep: Has an appropriately deep voice, which somehow gets even deeper as he dies.
177	* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: In the film, he [[DrivenToSuicide kills himself via melting alive rather than admit to an idea]] and [[DyingVocalChange his voice gets gradually distorted into an deeper tone as he dies]].
178	* ImMelting: In the movie, he dies by melting.
179	* OurGiantsAreBigger: Is a giant who eats humans and can melt in the movie adaptation due to the implications he's made of gelatin.
180	* SapientEatSapient: Eats humans, but it's not [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]] since he himself isn't a human, but a demon.
181	* SpellMyNameWithAThe: ''The'' Gelatinous Giant.
182	* TooUnhappyToBeHungry: Refuses to eat if he's scared.
183	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Afraid of ideas.
184	[[/folder]]
185
186	[[folder:The Everpresent Wordsnatcher]]
187	A bird who wants to be a demon, but can only be a nuisance. His main shtick is to deliberately misinterpret what people say.
188	----
189	* AdaptedOut: He doesn't appear in the 1970 film adaptation of the story.
190	* CardCarryingVillain: Outright admits to wanting to be a demon.
191	* FunWithHomophones: Will interpret "sense" as "cents" and do other such misinterpretations.
192	* TheGadfly: Likes to annoy everyone by misinterpreting what they say.
193	* SpellMyNameWithAThe: ''The'' Everpresent Wordsnatcher.
194	[[/folder]]
195
196	[[folder:The Threadbare Excuse]]
197	A raggedy demon who likes to tell lies.
198	----
199	* HumanoidAbomination: In the film adaptation, he is presented as a yellow, skeletally gaunt demon with a long lower jaw and a head crest with his torso/limbs being disproportionately thinner than his arms.
200	* JerkassWoobie: InUniverse, he's a demon but he's so beat-up looking that Milo feels sorry for him.
201	* PlayingSick: One of his lies is "I was sick".
202	* PunnyName: A pun on [[BlatantLies threadbare excuses]], and he himself wears threadbare clothes.
203	* SpellMyNameWithAThe: ''The'' Threadbare Excuse.
204	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the movie, it disappears the moment the Terrible Trivium is defeated, presumably it fused with the other demons into the final one.
205	[[/folder]]
206
207	[[folder:The Overbearing Know-it-All]]
208	A demon who is mostly mouth.
209	----
210	* InsufferableGenius: He looks down on everyone who knows less than he does.
211	* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Like most demons, he has a "the" in his name.
212	* SmugSnake: His entire being is about being snide about others being wrong about everything while holding himself to a higher degree.
213	[[/folder]]
214
215	[[folder:The Gross Exaggeration]]
216	A demon with exaggerated features.
217	----
218	* MeaningfulName: Gets his name from looking grotesque and having exaggerated features.
219	* SpellMyNameWithAThe: ''The'' Gross Exaggeration.
220	[[/folder]]
221
222	[[folder:The Demons of Compromise]]
223	A trio of demons. Two of them always argue, while the third compromises.
224	----
225	* GoldenMeanFallacy: They're physical embodiments of the logical fallacy whereby one assumes that the middle position between two views is correct simply because it's in the middle.
226	* NoNameGiven: The individuals aren't named.
227	* OxymoronicBeing: One of them is tall and thin, while the second is short and fat; the third, in an embodiment of the logical fallacy they embody, is somehow exactly like the other two.
228	[[/folder]]
229
230	[[folder:The Horrible Hopping Hindsight]]
231	A demon with eyes on its butt that is only seen in the movie.
232	----
233	* AlliterativeName: The ''H''orrible ''H''opping ''H''indsight.
234	* AmbiguousGender: Is only briefly seen, so we don't know its gender.
235	* BreathWeapon: Breathes fire whenever it makes a sound, which hints at its demonic nature.
236	* CanonForeigner: Never appeared in the book.
237	* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Has eyes on its rear end due to its face also being on its rear.
238	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Has "horrible" in its name.
239	* NightmareFace: His bloodshot pink eyes are perpetually bulged and elongated out of the sockets, which give the demon an unnerving appearance.
240	* PlayingWithFire: He can breathe fire.
241	* PunnyName: Has eyes on its butt, which is a pun on the word "hindsight".
242	* SpellMyNameWithAThe: ''The'' Horrible Hopping Hindsight.
243	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It disappeared the moment the Terrible Trivium is defeated, presumably it fused with the other demons into the final one.
244	[[/folder]]
245
246	[[folder:The Hideous Two-Faced Hypocrite]]
247	Another demon only seen in the movie.
248	----
249	* AmbiguousGender: Like the Horrible Hopping Hindsight, its gender is unclear.
250	* CanonForeigner: Never appears in the books.
251	* InformedFlaw: Is said to be a {{hypocrite}} but is never seen doing anything hypocritical.
252	* NightmareFace: Has a constant snarling face with wide eyes with tiny pupils.
253	* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Resembles a two headed, wingless dragon.
254	* PunnyName: Literally has two faces.
255	* SpellMyNameWithAThe: ''The'' Two-Faced Hypocrite.
256	[[/folder]]
257
258	[[folder:The Gorgons of Hate And Malice]]
259	A pair of demons that embody malice and hate.
260	----
261	* InformedFlaw: Other than looking malicious and hateful, they never do anything particularly malicious or hateful.
262	* OurDemonsAreDifferent: They resemble snails, but have reptilian heads- the green one having a serpentine head and the purple one having a vaguely beaked turtle head.
263	* SpeedySnail: In spite of their size and snail appearances, the two are able to move at fast speeds.
264	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the movie, they disappear the moment the Terrible Trivium is defeated, presumably they fused with the other demons into the final one.
265	[[/folder]]
266
267	[[folder:The Final Demon]]
268	The fusion of the remaining demons. Only seen in the movie.
269	----
270	* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Heavily implied to be the personification of all the evils in the world.
271	* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Much larger than any of the individual demons, being the size of a dragon.
272	* CanonForeigner: Never appears in the books.
273	* FusionDance: An amalgamation of the remaining demons, creating a large purplish-blue draconic beast.
274	* KnightOfCerebus: Its appearance marks the darkest point in the already threatening Mountains of Ignorance, temporally killing Tock, and its entire appearance doesn't have any comedy to balance it out.
275	* MadeOfEvil: Made from all of the remaining Demons of Ignorance, who already [[AnthropomorphicPersonification personify negative aspects of humanity]], making it comprised of every evil imaginable.
276	* NoNameGiven: Unlike the other demons, it doesn't have a name.
277	[[/folder]]
278
279	!!Other Places
280	[[folder:Tock]]
281	A literal watchdog; i.e. a dog with a watch built into his body. He likes being productive and hates it when people waste time.
282	----
283	* BerserkButton: He hardly ever gets angry, but he will loudly tell off anyone who wastes time, and the phrase "killing time" also makes him angry.
284	* HeroicDog: Is a dog who helps save the princesses.
285	* NonIndicativeName: When he was born, his parents expected him to make a "tock" noise like his older brother, but he ticked, thus his name doesn't match his sound.
286	* OnlySaneMan: While Milo is pretty sensible, he's just a kid, and everyone else is very zany, so he's often the only one to be using logic.
287	* TalkingAnimal: Is mainly a normal dog but can speak.
288	* VisualPun: He's a literal watchdog.
289	[[/folder]]
290
291	[[folder:Rhyme and Reason]]
292	Two princesses, more formally known as the Princess of Sweet Rhyme and the Princess of Pure Reason, who are twins and the adoptive sisters of King Azaz and the Mathemagician. The main conflict of the story involves ending their banishment so that the logic can be returned to the area.
293	----
294	* AnthropomorphicPersonification: How the movie depicts them. Rather than being two women who have traits of reason and rhyme, they are heavily implied to be the concepts of Rhyme and Reason in the form of colored silhouettes that happen to look like princesses.
295	* CloserToEarth: They're two of the few female characters in the book, and are the embodiment of reason.
296	* DamselInDistress: Downplayed; they're princesses who need rescuing, but rather than being in immediate danger, they were banished and imprisoned.
297	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Around the time of their banishment, numerous illogical things happened around the area (such as the city of Reality turning invisible when ignored and the Soundkeeper locking up all sounds), but it's unclear if they happened ''because'' of the princesses' absence.
298	* MeaningfulName: Their names come from the expression "rhyme and reason", and Reason is just as logical as her name suggests.
299	* NonIndicativeName: Aside from the allusion to the saying "rhyme and reason" as in logic, Rhyme doesn't have much to do with rhyming.
300	* PrefersGoingBarefoot: The illustrations of the book depict them barefoot. However, this is somehow subverted, as one of the illustrations depicts them wearing shoes.
301	* TheFaceless: Their faces are not shown in the movie. Though it’s implying their natures as personifications of rhyme and reason rather than a deliberate obscurity of their faces.
302	* ThemeTwinNaming: Their names are both abstract concepts beginning with "R".
303	[[/folder]]
304
305	[[folder:Lethargarians]]
306	Lazy, blob-like creatures who live in the Doldrums.
307	----
308	* AdaptationalVillainy: In the book, they were just a bunch of boring {{Lazy Bum}}s whose offer Milo happens to initially agree with with no apparent hidden motive on the part of the Lethargarians. In the movie, they actively want to make Milo stop doing anything including breathing and make a deliberate attempt to prevent from escaping.
309	* ChameleonCamouflage: They're initially hard for Milo to spot, as each one exactly matches the color of whatever surface it happens to be lying around on. It's not clear if they change color or just pick matching backgrounds to be lazy against, although the latter would probably seem too much like work for them to bother doing.
310	* DirtyCoward: In the movie, the minute Tock is heard, the Lethargians immediately scurry away in panic and only attack in a literal wave of their numbers to get outnumber the watchdog.
311	* FauxAffablyEvil: As the above indicates, in the movie, their lazy demeanors to seemingly help Milo from worrying too much about everything are shown to be a facade as they're shown to be sinister and very intent on keeping Milo from doing anything.
312	* HiveMind: The movie heavily implies this, with members able to separate and blend back together with the same general personality.
313	* {{Hypocrite}}: In the movie, they outlaw laughing and smiling [[LoopholeAbuse except on alternate Thursdays]], yet the moment Milo stops paying attention, the Lethargarians start to snicker and smile on an implied not alternate Thursday.
314	** Overall, for beings that advocate laziness and not thinking, they can be very animated when they desire to be and try their hardest to make others lazy.
315	* LazyBum: Spend most of their time procrastinating and sleeping.
316	* {{Sleepyhead}}: They spend most of their time napping.
317	* StarterVillain: While not directly connected to the Demons of Ignorance, they're the first obstacle that Milo must face in the world he faces. The film makes it more apparent by making them far more malicious in intent at hindering the boy.
318	[[/folder]]
319
320	[[folder:Canby]]
321	A man whose "thing" is being "as X as can be".
322	----
323	* DitzyGenius: Is simultaneously as smart and as stupid as can be, so he can speak several languages, but can't tie his shoes.
324	* PunnyName: His name is a pun on the phrase "can be".
325	* SizeShifter: He is sometimes as tall as can be and sometimes as short.
326	[[/folder]]
327
328	[[folder:Cacophonous A. Dischord]]
329	A doctor who enjoys being loud.
330	----
331	* MeaningfulName: The A in his name stands for As-Loud-As-Possible and his first name is Cacophonous, which fit with his love of loud noises.
332	* NoIndoorVoice: He likes to talk really loudly.
333	[[/folder]]
334
335	[[folder:The Awful Dynne]]
336	Dr. Dischord's sidekick, a cross between a jinn and a din.
337	----
338	* DarkIsNotEvil: Despite being made of smoke and having "awful" in his name, he's harmless.
339	* MadLibsCatchphrase: He likes to say, "No [noun-beginning-with-N] is good [noun-beginning-with-N]".
340	* NoIndoorVoice: Like Dr. Dischord, he enjoys talking loudly.
341	* NonstandardCharacterDesign: in the movie, the Dynne is animated in the style of a paint scribble with a face plastered on, which contrasts with the usual smooth style of characters of the story.
342	* ThePollyanna: He is an orphan, his grandfather is dead, and he grew up on the streets, but he doesn't seem to mind.
343	* SpellMyNameWithAThe: ''The'' Awful Dynne.
344	[[/folder]]
345
346	[[folder:The Sound Keeper]]
347	A woman who sorts the pleasant from the unpleasant sounds, but who has lately begun labelling all sounds as unpleasant.
348	----
349	* EveryoneCallsHerBarkeep: Is only known by her job.
350	* IncrediblyLameFun: Likes to "listen" to silence.
351	[[/folder]]
352
353	[[folder:The Whether Man]]
354	A man who likes to predict ''whether'' there will be weather.
355	----
356	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Loves saying things three times.
357	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: "Whether man" is his job, not his name, which is unknown.
358	[[/folder]]

Context Characters / ThePhantomTollbooth