| 1 | !Per wiki policy, Administrivia/SpoilersOff applies here and all spoilers are unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned. |
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| 4 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 5 | |
| 6 | !The Yelnats Family |
| 7 | ->''Everyone in his family had always liked the fact that "Stanley Yelnats" was spelled the same frontward and backward. So they kept naming their sons Stanley. Stanley was an only child, as was every other Stanley Yelnats before him.'' |
| 8 | |
| 9 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 10 | * AncestralName: The name Stanley is a more recent variant of this for the male Yelnats members, as the tradition began in the late 1800s. |
| 11 | * ButtMonkey: Thanks to the family curse that leaves them all with bad luck and misfortune. |
| 12 | * HereditaryCurse: They suffer a family curse of bad luck due to Elya Yelnats forgetting to fulfill his end of a bargain. Stanley lifts it by accidentally finally fulfilling said promise. |
| 13 | * SdrawkcabName: The men's first name is their last name spelled backwards. |
| 14 | * SingleLineOfDescent: As far as the narration shows, there are only Stanley Yelnatses following Elya. |
| 15 | [[/folder]] |
| 16 | |
| 17 | [[folder:Stanley IV]] |
| 18 | !!Stanley Yelnats IV/Caveman |
| 19 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ShiaLaBeouf[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Héctor Emmanuel Gómez (Latin American Spanish dub), Yū Hayashi (Japanese dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 20 | |
| 21 | The protagonist of ''Holes''. Stanley is a teenage boy who was arrested for a crime he didn't commit and sentenced to a youth detention center. |
| 22 | ---- |
| 23 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the book, Stanley starts out being overweight and eventually slimming down from the strenuous digging. In the movie, he is portrayed by Creator/ShiaLaBeouf, a thin and fit young man. This was mostly a case of PragmaticAdaptation, as it would have been difficult to portray a protagonist rapidly losing weight over the course of a film and it wouldn't have been good for the actor's physical health. |
| 24 | * ButtMonkey: At first. |
| 25 | * CassandraTruth: When he's on trial for stealing the shoes, his defense is that they actually fell out of the sky. This is completely true, at least as far as he knows (in reality, they fell off a highway overpass), but it sounds so blatantly impossible that it completely fails to convince anybody. Stanley later wonders if saying he found them on the side of the street would've gone over better. |
| 26 | * CharacterDevelopment: Goes from an awkward doormat to a much more self-confident young man. |
| 27 | * ClassicalAntiHero: Stanley starts out awkward, with low confidence (movie), and overweight (book). A few months at Green Lake changes that. |
| 28 | * ClearMyName: Stanley didn't steal Clyde Livingston's shoes, but was simply at the wrong place at the wrong time. Hence his arrest and sentencing. |
| 29 | * FirstFriend: He's this for Zero and vice versa. |
| 30 | * FormerlyFat: In the book, he comes to Camp Green Lake chubby, but over time, the digging slims him down and builds up his muscles. |
| 31 | * KidHero: He is fourteen years old. |
| 32 | * MiscarriageOfJustice: He's the victim of one, being arrested for a crime he didn't commit and sentenced to a brutal juvenile detention camp. |
| 33 | * NiceGuy: While he does grow a bit more hardened as time goes on, he's still by far the nicest camper. |
| 34 | * NotSoAboveItAll: While he's a NiceGuy and one of the more sensible campers, he's not above blaming his "no-good dirty rotten pig-stealing great-great-grandfather" for why he's at the camp, which [[ActuallyPrettyFunny gets a laugh out of the other campers.]] |
| 35 | * ShrinkingViolet: Starts out as a rather shy boy with no friends and is easily targeted by bullies. |
| 36 | * TookALevelInBadass: His stay at Camp Green Lake has him become stronger, both physically and mentally. |
| 37 | * WideEyedIdealist: Can be a bit of one, which sometimes gets him in trouble. He mistakenly assumed Camp Green Lake would be a nice place (it wasn't), that Livingston's shoes would solve his family's poverty (they got him arrested, though at the same time that did kick off the chain of events that lead to him breaking the family curse), and that he and Zero meeting was destiny (perhaps it might be). He's still pretty optimistic at the end but is more pragmatic about it. |
| 38 | [[/folder]] |
| 39 | |
| 40 | [[folder:Stanley III]] |
| 41 | !!Stanley Yelnats III |
| 42 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/HenryWinkler[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Herman López (Latin American Spanish dub), Yutaka Nakano (Japanese dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 43 | |
| 44 | The protagonist's father. He's an unsuccessful inventor who is looking for a way to recycle old sneakers. |
| 45 | ----- |
| 46 | * BunglingInventor: He's trying to invent a way to recycle old sneakers. He has plenty of talent and persistence, but the family curse denies him luck. |
| 47 | * ButtMonkey: Like father, like son (as well as his own father and grandfather). |
| 48 | * ForgotToPayTheBill: The poverty of his family means he and the landlord often fight over the rent payment. |
| 49 | * GoodParents: Is this to Stanley. |
| 50 | * HappilyMarried: With Stanley's mother. |
| 51 | * ThrowTheDogABone: After Stanley breaks the family curse, he finally creates something amazing - a foot odor eliminator. |
| 52 | [[/folder]] |
| 53 | |
| 54 | [[folder:Tiffany]] |
| 55 | !!Tiffany Yelnats |
| 56 | |
| 57 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SiobhanFallonHogan[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Lourdes Morán (Latin American Spanish dub), Hiroko Nishi (Japanese dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 58 | |
| 59 | The mother of the protagonist, who doesn't believe in the family curse. |
| 60 | ---- |
| 61 | * CloserToEarth: The only female in this generation of the family who doesn't believe in curses and bad luck. Played with in that her disbelief in the family curse would usually be the most sensible position, but in this case, she is actually completely wrong. |
| 62 | * GoodParents: Is this to Stanley. |
| 63 | * HappilyMarried: With Stanley's father. |
| 64 | * SupernaturalProofFather: A GenderInvertedExample - she refuses to believe that there's such a thing as a family curse (at least on the men). There is. However, it's implied her denial is more rooted in a refusal to give in to despair, as she continues to support her husband's endeavors. |
| 65 | * WideEyedIdealist: While her son is on trial, she insists all he needs to do is tell the truth. That did not work out. |
| 66 | [[/folder]] |
| 67 | |
| 68 | [[folder:Stanley II]] |
| 69 | !!Stanley Yelnats II |
| 70 | |
| 71 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Nathan Davis[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Esteban Siller (Latin American Spanish dub), Takao Ishii (Japanese dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 72 | |
| 73 | The protagonist's grandfather. He's exclusive to the movie. |
| 74 | ---- |
| 75 | * CanonForeigner: Is the only member of Elya's family line not to be mentioned in the book, and might not even be alive in that continuity, considering that his grandfather met his grandmother 110 years before the present. |
| 76 | * CharacterCatchphrase: "It's all because of your no-good, dirty, rotten, pig-stealing great-great-grandfather!" |
| 77 | * CoolOldGuy: Doesn't think twice about accepting Stanley's request to split half the fortune with Zero. |
| 78 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's a bitter crank who mocks his own son, but he cares about his grandson and is more than happy enough with giving half of the family treasure to Hector. |
| 79 | * MrExposition: In the film, he explains the backstory about Elya Yelnats and the family curse. |
| 80 | [[/folder]] |
| 81 | |
| 82 | [[folder:Stanley I]] |
| 83 | !!Stanley Yelnats I |
| 84 | |
| 85 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Allan Coleman |
| 86 | |
| 87 | The protagonist's great-grandfather. He was robbed by outlaw Kissin' Kate Barlow and left stranded in the desert. |
| 88 | ---- |
| 89 | * ButtMonkey: He was a successful financier, but had his fortune robbed from him by Kissin' Kate. |
| 90 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Was assumed to be one due to saying he "found refuge on God's thumb", though he ''was'' just a bit senile from being dehydrated and hungry after being stranded in the desert for seventeen days. |
| 91 | * TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Turns out "God's thumb" is a mountain oasis several miles from Camp Green Lake shaped like a fist giving a thumbs-up. |
| 92 | * FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Fell in love with the nurse that tended to him after he was rescued. |
| 93 | * ThrowTheDogABone: For some unknown reason, Kate Barlow decided to spare his life. |
| 94 | * YouWillBeSpared: He was quite likely the only person Kate spared, though she still left him stranded out in the middle of nowhere several miles away from any civilization. |
| 95 | [[/folder]] |
| 96 | |
| 97 | [[folder:Elya]] |
| 98 | !!Elya Yelnats |
| 99 | |
| 100 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Damien Luvara[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Creator/RicardoTejedo (Latin American Spanish dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 101 | |
| 102 | The protagonist's "no good, dirty, rotten, pig stealing great-great-grandfather". He is responsible for getting his family cursed with bad luck. |
| 103 | ---- |
| 104 | * ButtMonkey: Became one after forgetting to bring Madame Zeroni up the mountain. He's also blamed by his descendants in the present day for causing the family curse, being thought of as nothing but a dirty rotten thief. |
| 105 | * HistoricalVillainUpgrade: In-universe. While his own descendants believe the family curse started with him stealing a pig, in reality, he was cursed because he forgot to fulfill a promise he made to a close friend until it was too late for him. |
| 106 | * LoveMakesYouDumb: He was too infatuated with Myra to see that she was a terrible choice for a wife until her inability to choose between him and Igor causes him to realize she isn't worth it. |
| 107 | * NiceGuy: The whole "no good, dirty, rotten, pig stealing" part about him is [[LegendFadesToMyth untrue]]. He was a nice kid who cared for Madame Zeroni, but forgot to fulfill his promise. |
| 108 | * TheOathBreaker: Elya set off the family curse by forgetting his promise to Madame Zeroni. |
| 109 | * OhCrap: Happens when he realizes he forgot to carry Madame Zeroni up the mountain, but it's too late since he already set sail for America. |
| 110 | * OnlyFriend: It's implied that he's the only friend Madame Zeroni has in the village. |
| 111 | * PhraseCatcher: His descendants sure have a habit of referring to him as a "no good, dirty, rotten, pig stealer". |
| 112 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He went to America without carrying Madame Zeroni up the mountain, leading to the curse that brought great misfortune to his family. |
| 113 | [[/folder]] |
| 114 | |
| 115 | [[folder:Sarah]] |
| 116 | !!Sarah Yelnats (née Miller) |
| 117 | ->''He fell in love with a woman named Sarah Miller. She could push a plow, milk a goat, and, most important, think for herself. She and Elya often stayed up half the night talking and laughing together.'' |
| 118 | |
| 119 | Elya's wife after he moves to America. |
| 120 | ---- |
| 121 | * BettyAndVeronica: The logical, sensible Betty to Myra's ditzy Veronica. |
| 122 | * {{Foil}}: To Myra, as they both serve as love interests for Elya, but Sarah was able to do everything that Madame Zeroni said Myra couldn't. |
| 123 | * HappilyMarried: Despite the misfortune Madame Zeroni's curse brought upon her and Elya's lives, she never resented him for anything and loved him to the end. |
| 124 | * NiceGirl: She's a respectable young lady who stuck with her husband through thick and thin. |
| 125 | * TheReliableOne: She refuses to leave Elya even after he tells her he's cursed for breaking a promise. |
| 126 | * ThrowTheDogABone: She's the only stroke of good luck in Elya's life after he was cursed. |
| 127 | ** ScrewDestiny: One could interpret her decision to stay with Elya this way. |
| 128 | * {{Woolseyism}}: InUniverse, she changes some of the words of "the pig lullaby" so that the lyrics rhyme in English. |
| 129 | [[/folder]] |
| 130 | |
| 131 | !Inmates of Camp Green Lake |
| 132 | |
| 133 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 134 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Most of the boys have something wrong with their lives, from AbusiveParents (if not outright ParentalAbandonment altogether) to living in poverty. |
| 135 | * DysfunctionJunction: The inmates all have either some kind of problems going on at home or mental issues leading to their criminal activity. |
| 136 | [[/folder]] |
| 137 | |
| 138 | [[folder:Zero]] |
| 139 | !!Hector Zeroni/Zero |
| 140 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Khleo Thomas[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Claudio Velázquez (Latin American Spanish dub), Sōta Murakami (Japanese dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 141 | |
| 142 | The youngest of the D Tent boys, who keeps to himself and rarely speaks to anybody. He becomes close to Stanley, setting off a chain of events that change their lives forever. |
| 143 | ---- |
| 144 | * BarefootPoverty: While he lived on the streets, hence why he stole Clyde Livingston's shoes. |
| 145 | * BewareTheQuietOnes: Combined with TheDogBitesBack, he finally stands up for himself after Mr. Pendanski insults him constantly. In the movie, he's seen clutching a pool ball in anticipation of defending Stanley from a bully. |
| 146 | * BookDumb: He doesn't have much formal education, which leads to most of the characters deeming him stupid; at the start, he's functionally illiterate. His friendship with Stanley begins when the former begins tutoring him. That being said, he's not the idiot he's thought to be, as shown by him being able to do math in his head quickly and accurately. |
| 147 | * {{Deuteragonist}}: Zero has the most important plot and development after Stanley with many backstory links. Not only is it revealed that he was the one who stole Clyde Livingston's shoes, but he's also a descendant of Madame Zeroni. |
| 148 | * DisappearedDad: His father is never spoken of, likely having either died or abandoned him. |
| 149 | * TheDogBitesBack: After Mr. Pendanski taunts him one too many times, Zero swings his shovel into Pendanski's face, knocking him out. |
| 150 | * DeusExMachina: Stanley carrying Zero up the "God's Thumb" mountain and singing the "Pig Lullaby" song to him as he drinks from a stream is what breaks the Yelnats' family curse, because a descendant of Elya Yelnats fulfilled the promise of Madame Zeroni by carrying one of ''her'' descendants up a mountain and saving his life. |
| 151 | * FirstFriend: Is this to Stanley and vice versa. |
| 152 | * GoodWithNumbers: In the book, the first clue Stanley gets to how smart Zero really is (despite his lack of formal education) is that he can quickly and correctly do math in his head. |
| 153 | * HonorBeforeReason: After running away from Camp Green Lake, he refuses to return despite dying of thirst out in the desert. |
| 154 | * MissingMom: Downplayed. His mother was the only parent in his life, but due to their dire circumstances, she often had to leave him alone for long periods of time by ordering him to stay in one spot and not leave until she returned for him. One day, she never returned at all. At the end of the book, he hires a team of investigators to find her, and is reunited with his mother again. |
| 155 | * NeverLearnedToRead: Being poor and homeless meant he never got a formal education. Stanley takes it upon himself to teach Zero, which pays off later in a KarmicJackpot. |
| 156 | * NiceGuy: He's certainly one of the more well-meaning characters, especially to Stanley. |
| 157 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: It's revealed later in the story that it's his fault that Stanley got sent to Camp Green Lake in the first place. He stole the shoes Clyde Livingston was auctioning off for charity and while trying to evade the police, he threw the shoes off the edge of a bridge, which then fell on Stanley's head. Stanley doesn't get angry with him or rat him out, though. |
| 158 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: Everyone thinks Zero's an idiot, since he never reacts to anything they say to him, but he really does it because he knows it's smarter to keep his head down and mouth shut. |
| 159 | * PintSizedPowerhouse: He's the smallest person, but the fastest digger and capable of physically ''strangling'' the much taller Zigzag. He also batters Pendanski with a shovel hard enough to leave him concussed with one swing. |
| 160 | * TheQuietOne: Stanley's the only one he starts to talk to, much to the others' shock. |
| 161 | -->'''Zero:''' ''(regarding Clyde Livingston's shoes)'' Did they have red X's on them?\ |
| 162 | ''(the other boys suddenly stop talking and stare at him in shock)''\ |
| 163 | '''Squid:''' ''(to Stanley)'' You got Zero to talk!\ |
| 164 | '''Armpit:''' Hey yo, what else can you do, Zero? |
| 165 | * TheReveal: He's descended from Madame Zeroni, and the real thief of Clyde Livingston's shoes. |
| 166 | * ShrinkingViolet: His usual demeanor. |
| 167 | * SmarterThanYouLook: While he's dismissed as an idiot due to a lack of formal education, Stanley figures out that he has a good deal more intelligence than he's given credit for. |
| 168 | * StreetUrchin: He and his mother were homeless for a time, so he often had to resort to stealing things to survive. |
| 169 | * {{Telepathy}}: [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Possibly]]. Stanley sometimes feels like Zero can see into his head, and one of the first things he tells him is "you didn't steal those sneakers". While it's later revealed that Zero's the one who stole the shoes Stanley was accused of stealing, whether he knew those were the same sneakers at the time is unclear. |
| 170 | * TheUnfavorite: He's the least popular boy at the camp by a good margin, and the only person Mr. Pendanski openly insults. |
| 171 | * UnPerson: After he runs into the desert and is assumed to be dead, the Warden orders Mr. Sir and Pendanski to destroy all records of Zero being a prisoner and prevent an investigation into the camp's practices because they let a camper die on their watch. The investigation happens anyway for different reasons and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard the lack of Zero's file bits them in the ass hard]]. |
| 172 | [[/folder]] |
| 173 | |
| 174 | [[folder:Armpit]] |
| 175 | !!Theodore Johnson/Armpit |
| 176 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Byron Cotton[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Arturo Mercado, Jr. (Latin American Spanish dub), Creator/WataruTakagi (Japanese dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 177 | ---- |
| 178 | * AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the movie, he gets his nickname for [[ThePigPen reasons you'd expect.]] However, in the books, as revealed in ''Literature/SmallSteps'', he got his name because that's where a scorpion stung him on his first day, and he complained about it afterward. |
| 179 | * BreakoutCharacter: The sequel, ''Literature/SmallSteps'', focuses on him. |
| 180 | * TheBigGuy: Big enough that his school's coach keeps begging for him to be on the football team. |
| 181 | * TheBully: Initially is this to Stanley. |
| 182 | * TheDitz: Has some really spacey moments and ends up accidentally insulting the warden due to his foolishness. |
| 183 | * DoNotCallMePaul: Do ''not'' call him by his real name, Theodore, less you want him to put you in a headlock and throw you to the ground. He grows out of it after returning home and is actively trying to lose the nickname in the sequel, with mixed success. |
| 184 | * EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Not in the book, where his mother is never mentioned (though the sequel does show that they don't have a bad relationship), but in the film he is given book!Squid's scene where he asks Stanley to call his mom and tell her he's sorry, using his real name. |
| 185 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While he has some anger problems, it's shown (especially in the sequel) that he can be very kind to others. |
| 186 | * NonIndicativeName: Armpit is explained to have gotten his name not from being smelly, but because early in his time at Camp Green Lake a scorpion stung him in the arm and the pain from the venom settled around his armpit, which he subsequently wouldn't stop complaining about. (In the movie, it ''is'' because he's smelly.) |
| 187 | * OddFriendship: Armpit is a black teenage ex-delinquent, and one of his closest friends is a disabled white ten-year-old girl. |
| 188 | * OnceDoneNeverForgotten: In the book, it's mentioned that his nickname comes from an incident early during his stay at Camp Green Lake where he got stung by a scorpion, causing pain in his armpit that he complained about incessantly. |
| 189 | * ThePigPen: In the movie, he's this, as, from what's said, he doesn't bathe or, at least, wash under his arms. In [[ThemeTune "Dig It,"]] he sings, "I don't take showers and I don't brush my teeth; all I do is dig holes, eat and sleep." |
| 190 | [[/folder]] |
| 191 | |
| 192 | [[folder:X-Ray]] |
| 193 | !!Rex Washburn/X-Ray |
| 194 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Brendan Jefferson[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Creator/IrwinDaayan (Latin American Spanish dub), Creator/KentaroIto (Japanese dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 195 | ---- |
| 196 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: He's much nicer to everyone else in the film. In particular, even though he is the only one who doesn't greet Stanley and Zero when they return in the book, he's just as overjoyed as everyone else when they come back in the film and even parts with Stanley with some final emotional words before he leaves. |
| 197 | * BrilliantButLazy: Outside Camp Green Lake. In ''The Camp Green Lake Survival Guide'', Stanley visits him at home and finds him struggling with homework and having friction with his mom. X-Ray's smart, but he's frustrated at having to work within society and is always looking for ways to do less work. |
| 198 | * BlindWithoutEm: He wears large thick glasses that frequently get dirty from the dirt and dust. |
| 199 | * ConMan: He's very good at bringing people around to his way of thinking, which is part of how he ends up D Tent's leader. But it's all too easy for this to turn into conning people, as in the case of his first conviction. |
| 200 | * {{Foil}}: Funnily enough, to Trout Walker. Both considered themselves to be above the people around them because of an irrelevant factor - Trout's money and X-Ray's status as the longest-serving camper - and treated them extremely badly. Both also use their race for their own gain - Trout by preying on people's bigotry and X-Ray by calling on the old racist stereotype of white people taking advantage of black people. And, at the end of their stories, they get nothing (Trout doesn't find the treasure and X-Ray doesn't get out of Camp Green Lake) while the people they mistreated get what they want, one way or another (Kate sees Sam again and Stanley and Zero escape Camp Green Lake). |
| 201 | * FourEyesZeroSoul: Downplayed. He's not ''evil'' necessarily, but he's one of the most openly antagonistic of the D Tent boys towards Stanley. |
| 202 | * IronicName: He admits to Stanley at one point that he has rather poor eyesight (already implied by his large glasses), and that his nickname is actually just [[PigLatin a play on his real name]]. |
| 203 | * {{Jerkass}}: He's nice if you agree with him. Don't, and have fun watching the rest of the camp abandon you with him. He's also a bit of a bully to Stanley, doing things like taking his food early on and making Stanley give up the gold lipstick tube belonging to Kate Barlow he found just so he can get a day off. When Stanley and Hector return to camp, he's the only D Tent member who doesn't greet them or wish them luck when they leave. In ''Small Steps'', after he gets out of Camp Green Lake, he clearly has learned nothing and goes back to doing the same get-rich-quick schemes. However, after one of those blows up in his face and almost gets him sent back to jail, he appears to finally wise up and accepts a legitimate job offer from Armpit's boss. |
| 204 | * TheLeader: Of the D Tent boys, and comes close to being the leader among all the boys at the camp. |
| 205 | * MagicFeather: His favorite shovel is supposedly shorter than the others, so it allows him to dig smaller holes. However, if there's any difference between his shovels and the others, it's so slight that no one except X-Ray can tell the difference. |
| 206 | * ManipulativeBastard: He uses self-pity to con Stanley out of a day off. |
| 207 | * MeaningfulName: "Rex" is Latin for "King", which his nickname (which is "Rex" in PigLatin) hints at. Fittingly, he's the self-appointed leader of the boys of D Tent, and easily convinces the more physically imposing kids to follow his orders. |
| 208 | * NotWhatItLooksLike: X-Ray was arrested for selling what everyone thought was cocaine and marijuana, but it turned out to be chopped-up aspirin and parsley. However, selling aspirin without a pharmaceutical license was still illegal. |
| 209 | * TheOldConvict: A form of it. He's been around the longest and adjusted the best to Camp Green Lake (''too'' well in Stanley's opinion) and thus, is the best at coercing the others to agree with him. |
| 210 | * PigLatin: His nickname is his real name in Pig Latin. |
| 211 | * TooCleverByHalf: He's definitely smart for his age group, but always convinced he's smarter than the adults and ''the entire legal system''. This leads to both his first conviction - which he probably thought he'd get away with since he wasn't actually selling drugs - and his plot in ''Small Steps'', where he's convinced he can pull off a ticket scalping scheme, even though he flaunts his identity at every step. |
| 212 | * ToxicFriendInfluence: Is this to Armpit in ''Small Steps'', convincing him to invest most of his hard-earned money into a ticket scalping scheme. |
| 213 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Subverted in that it's doom for the Warden and the camp staff rather than the heroes. Because Stanley gives up the lipstick tube that belonged to Kate Barlow to X-Ray, X-Ray plants the tube in the hole he was digging in. Thinking the treasure is in that area, the Warden directs the boys' attention (and a heavy amount of manpower) to the area around X-Ray's hole and not the location where Stanley had originally found it, leading to a massive wild goose chase and nothing to show for it. |
| 214 | [[/folder]] |
| 215 | |
| 216 | [[folder:Zigzag]] |
| 217 | !!Ricky/Zigzag |
| 218 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Max Kasch[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Creator/LuisDanielRamirez (Latin American Spanish dub), Creator/DaisukeNamikawa (Japanese dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 219 | ---- |
| 220 | * BerserkButton: ''Do not'' touch his TV, or he will crush your hand into the dial button so hard it will be cut open. |
| 221 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: Zigzag may seem harmlessly weird, but smart campers realize that the crazy ones are just as bad as, if not worse than the mean ones. |
| 222 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He reads an old TV guide like he's reading it for the first time every time, watches the broken TV in the Wreck Room (and gets really mad if it's fiddled around with), always somehow knows what the time and date is, and has a fascination with watching things burn. |
| 223 | * ConspiracyTheorist: Has a lot of strange ideas about surveillance. |
| 224 | ** ProperlyParanoid: The movie implies that his theory that the Warden has cameras in the showers is right on the money. |
| 225 | * HypocriticalHumor: Stanley considers it this when Zigzag calls Zero weird. |
| 226 | * NightmareFetishist: Eagerly asks Stanley what color the yellow-spotted lizard's blood was in the movie (after Mr. Sir blasted one). |
| 227 | * PetTheDog: While he's a bit "off", he's not that bad of a guy. He admits that he didn't want to hurt anybody when he started the fire that got him sent to Camp Green Lake, and before Stanley leaves camp, he apologizes for the fight they had before. |
| 228 | * PyroManiac: He was arrested for burning styrofoam on his school's lawn, only for the flames to get out of control and burn down a portable classroom. |
| 229 | -->'''Zigzag:''' I didn't want to hurt anyone. I just like watching things burn. |
| 230 | * WildHair: He got his nickname for his stand-up, frizzy hair. |
| 231 | [[/folder]] |
| 232 | |
| 233 | [[folder:Squid]] |
| 234 | !!Alan/Squid |
| 235 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Jake M. Smith[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Noé Velázquez (Latin American Spanish dub), Creator/KenichiSuzumura (Japanese dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 236 | ---- |
| 237 | * AlcoholicParent: His mother is one. However, he clearly has some regrets involving her and asks Stanley to apologize to her for him. |
| 238 | * DisappearedDad: He left many years ago. |
| 239 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Implied to have this, based on his family background and surly disposition. |
| 240 | * DontAsk: He snarls at Stanley to leave him alone when the latter overhears him crying. |
| 241 | * TheDragon: Is the second highest-ranking member of D-Tent, and often follows X-Rays' orders. |
| 242 | * TheEeyore: He bitterly thinks Stanley and Hector's chances of survival in the desert are as good as his mom's chances of giving up booze. |
| 243 | * {{Gasshole}}: He got the nickname "Squid" because he farts a lot. |
| 244 | * TheGenericGuy: He's got no standout quirks or personality traits like the other inmates. He's just a basic tough-guy type. |
| 245 | * NoodleIncident: We never find out what he got arrested for, but he eventually tells Stanley to apologize to his mother for him. |
| 246 | * SandInMyEyes: "I got allergies, okay?" |
| 247 | * SourOutsideSadInside: He acts like a nasty tool, but his home life would mess anybody up. |
| 248 | [[/folder]] |
| 249 | |
| 250 | [[folder:Magnet]] |
| 251 | !!Jose/Magnet |
| 252 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Miguel Castro[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Alan Fernando Velázquez (Latin American Spanish dub), Takayuki Yamaguchi (Japanese dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 253 | ---- |
| 254 | * FriendToAllLivingThings: Magnet insists that keeping cute animals in cages is the real crime. |
| 255 | * LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: Magnet never said what happened after he leaped on the supply truck to escape. The others never asked him either. |
| 256 | * MeaningfulName: Got his nickname for claiming his hands are like magnets. |
| 257 | * PetTheDog: He likes animals. Heck, the reason he ended up in Camp Green Lake in the first place was because he tried to steal a puppy. |
| 258 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: At one point he tried escaping Camp Green Lake by hitching a ride on the supply truck. An hour later, he showed up at dinner and asked for the ketchup, the others going along with it and not asking what happened. |
| 259 | * StickyFingers: Where his nickname comes from. He was arrested for stealing a puppy he felt was overpriced (it was apparently $1000) and at his house, the police found $12,000 worth of stolen merchandise. Magnet even claims his fingers are like little magnets. Even at Camp Green Lake, he still can't resist stealing things. |
| 260 | [[/folder]] |
| 261 | |
| 262 | [[folder:Barf Bag]] |
| 263 | !!Lewis/Barf Bag |
| 264 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ZaneHoltz |
| 265 | |
| 266 | The inmate who previously occupied Stanley's place, until he was taken to the hospital. |
| 267 | ---- |
| 268 | * AgonyOfTheFeet: He stepped on a rattlesnake and got bitten. Intentionally. |
| 269 | * DeliberateInjuryGambit: What his rattlesnake bite was. When Stanley asks how the rest of the campers are sure it was on purpose, they tell him he took his shoe and sock off first, something the movie actually shows. |
| 270 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: He deliberately got bit because he wanted to get out of Camp Green Lake. |
| 271 | ** According to the ''Camp Green Lake Survival Guide'', just after he woke up from his snakebite induced coma, he escaped from the hospital he was in thinking he would be sent back to to Camp Green Lake, not knowing it had been closed down following the events of Stanley's stay there. |
| 272 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: While he is only mentioned a few times in the book and only appears once at the beginning of the film, his absence from Camp Green Lake during his recovery opened up a vacancy, which is what allowed Stanley to go to the camp in the first place. |
| 273 | * VomitDiscretionShot: Supposedly, he often vomited. Good thing we weren't around to see it; however, Stanley did get his bed. |
| 274 | [[/folder]] |
| 275 | |
| 276 | [[folder:Twitch]] |
| 277 | !!Brian/Twitch |
| 278 | |
| 279 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Noah Poletiek[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Marco Portillo (Latin American Spanish dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 280 | |
| 281 | An inmate who arrives after Stanley. He is constantly twitching and loves fast cars. |
| 282 | ---- |
| 283 | * AdaptationalJerkass: Heavily downplayed in the Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide. Twitch is depicted as being very annoying and intrusive to the other campers and their belongings albeit unintentionally. Stanley even describes him as an example of what ''not'' to do at Camp Green Lake. |
| 284 | * AttentionDeficitOohShiny: His attention span is very short, and he's implied to have ADHD. |
| 285 | * FragileSpeedster: He's the fastest digger Camp Green Lake has ever had aside from Zero... for about 15 minutes. Then he loses his strength and grows too tired to dig. |
| 286 | * HassleFreeHotwire: He was arrested for hotwiring a sports car and stealing it for a joyride. |
| 287 | * {{Keet}}: He's really hyper, though the Camp nearly breaks his spirit. |
| 288 | * TwitchyEye: More like Twitchy Everything. According to him, he starts twitching ''even more'' when he gets near a nice car. |
| 289 | * WithFriendsLikeThese: The Survival Guide recounts Twitch as being nothing but annoying with the other campers seemingly just tolerating his presence. However, Twitch is still given a nickname by the other campers, meaning they see him as one of them. |
| 290 | [[/folder]] |
| 291 | |
| 292 | !Staff of Camp Green Lake |
| 293 | |
| 294 | [[folder:Mr. Sir]] |
| 295 | !!Mr. Sir |
| 296 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JonVoight[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Francisco Colmenero (Latin American Spanish dub), Katsunosuke Hori (Japanese dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 297 | |
| 298 | One of the head administrators of Camp Green Lake. [[TheDragon He's the primary enforcer of the Warden]]. |
| 299 | ---- |
| 300 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: Downplayed in the movie: he's still villainous, but he does have more moments of humor and mirth. |
| 301 | * AddictionDisplacement: He's constantly eating sunflower seeds in an effort to avoid smoking. He lapses back at the end of the book. |
| 302 | * BaitTheDog: He appears to be a ReasonableAuthorityFigure when he offers a thirsty Stanley a Coke. Nope - it was for the security guard and Mr. Sir appears ''offended'' that Stanley might expect kindness from him. |
| 303 | * BerserkButton: Don't ask him about the scars on his face after the Warden slashed him. |
| 304 | * TheBrute: In addition to being the Warden's dragon. |
| 305 | * DoNotCallMePaul: He does not like being called by his real name Marion. |
| 306 | * TheDragon: The primary enforcer at the camp; for a while, Stanley thought he was the Warden. |
| 307 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Cruelly denying a thirsty Stanley something to drink while joking how he'll be thirsty for the next eighteen months is a perfect introduction to what kind of person he is. |
| 308 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: He uses his gun only to defend himself from yellow-spotted lizards. He does threaten Stanley with it at one point but never fires at him. |
| 309 | * GenderBlenderName: In the film, his real name is revealed to be Marion Sevillo. This might be a reference to Creator/JohnWayne, who also had that first name and changed it to a more manly-sounding one. |
| 310 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: Midway through the book he gets three scars on the side of his face from the Warden slashing him with her rattlesnake venom-painted nails. |
| 311 | * HateSink: Among the three main members of the Camp Green Lake staff, he's the first one to be a clear target of the readers' hate, being an irritable, cold-hearted, and all-around unpleasant man. Lessened somewhat in the movie, where he gets some funny lines. |
| 312 | * IdiotBall: He occasionally has his moments of acting stupid for the sake of the plot: |
| 313 | ** He knows that the Warden doesn't really care about "building character" and is actually looking for Kate Barlow's treasure. Despite this, he chooses to report Stanley's supposed theft of his sunflower seeds by telling the Warden that Stanley "found something." Naturally, she gets excited, only to learn the real purpose of their visit. Small wonder she ends up striking Mr. Sir across the face with rattlesnake venom. |
| 314 | ** There's also a small scene in the film where Pendanski can be heard chewing out Mr. Sir over Stanley's attempt to steal the water truck. Which might not have happened if Mr. Sir hadn't left the keys in the ignition. At a camp for juvenile delinquents. And this is ''after'' they accepted a new camper who got arrested for ''stealing a car''. |
| 315 | * {{Jerkass}}: He's the most overtly mean of the Camp Green Lake staff we get to see. |
| 316 | * LargeHam: In the film, Jon Voight plays Mr. Sir much more humorously. |
| 317 | * LaughablyEvil: In the movie, Mr. Sir gets a lot of funny moments. |
| 318 | * NamedByTheAdaptation: In the film, his true name is revealed to be Marion Sevillo. |
| 319 | * NoodleIncident: He's revealed at the end to have had past dealings with the Attorney General, to the point that the AG knows him by name and that he's violating his parole by carrying a gun. |
| 320 | -->"Been a long time since El Paso, Marion." |
| 321 | * OralFixation: He's constantly chewing sunflower seeds. It's explained by him being a former smoker who [[AddictionDisplacement picked up the habit to help him quit]], and it stuck. |
| 322 | * PetTheDog: |
| 323 | ** When Zigzag asks for an extra carton of juice because it is his birthday, Mr. Sir actually gives him one, surprising everyone. |
| 324 | ** In the movie, when Stanley is first attacked by a lizard, Mr. Sir shoots it and tries to calm Stanley down. |
| 325 | * RetiredOutlaw: Implied to be one when the police arrest him at the end of the film for carrying a firearm, a violation of his parole. According to the ''Survival Guide'' spin-off, Mr. Sir was actually an outlaw who works at Camp Green Lake to hide from the authorities. |
| 326 | * RiddleForTheAges: In the book, it's never revealed why he goes by "Mr. Sir," nor why he is so insistent that the campers refer to him as such whenever they speak to him. In the movie, he uses the name because his real one is Marion. |
| 327 | [[/folder]] |
| 328 | |
| 329 | [[folder:Mr. Pendanski]] |
| 330 | !!Mr. Pendanski |
| 331 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TimBlakeNelson[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Rubén Trujillo (Latin American Spanish dub), Hiroshi Iwasaki (Japanese dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 332 | |
| 333 | The counselor of D Tent. He initially appears much nicer than Mr. Sir and claims he wants to reform the boys. |
| 334 | ---- |
| 335 | * AdaptationalIntelligence: {{Subverted}}. In the film he is shown to be a doctor, but this turns out to be a total lie. |
| 336 | * AdaptationalJerkass: {{Downplayed}}. The only difference in his actions between the book and film is that in the film, he doesn't even ''pretend'' to be a good person or not as good with the facade otherwise. |
| 337 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: He's just as rotten as the other staffers, but does a better job of hiding it. |
| 338 | * CondescendingCompassion: In the film, his EstablishingCharacterMoment is doing this to Zero. |
| 339 | -->'''Mr. Pendanski:''' (''in a disgustingly perky voice'') You know why we call him Zero? Because there's nothin' going on in his stupid little head! |
| 340 | * TheEvilGenius: Is good with computers and hacking, hence why the Warden gets him to erase everything they can on Zero. |
| 341 | * FauxAffablyEvil: He seems like a nice guy and the TokenGoodTeammate, but it's really just a mask for a sadistic and petty man. |
| 342 | * HateSink: He is clearly not intended to be likable, given how he treats Zero like dirt and tries to hide his mean-spirited personality with a façade of friendliness. |
| 343 | * {{Jerkass}}: Beneath his friendly act is a callous, passive-aggressive douchebag who is just as selfish and cruel as the other camp staffers. |
| 344 | * JerkassToOne: Even though he's a nasty, self-centered prick, he tries to disguise his true character by putting on a friendly, almost fatherly persona towards the campers. However, he doesn't bother trying to act nice to Zero, openly insulting and belittling him and not addressing him by his real name. This is because he thinks Zero's too stupid and passive for his opinions to really matter; as far as he's concerned, the boy won't even notice he's being mistreated and will dig holes regardless. |
| 345 | * KickTheDog: While he's nice to almost all the campers, he's not above giving a jab or two to Zero. It's the first hint that he's not really as nice as he seems at first. Eventually, TheDogBitesBack when Zero snaps and hits him in the face with a shovel. |
| 346 | * NiceToTheWaiter: Of the "treats people on the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder badly and thus is a bad person" variety. What makes him FauxAffablyEvil is the fact that he has absolutely no problems with degrading or insulting Zero because he thinks Zero is "too stupid" to fight back. |
| 347 | * OneBadMother: A rare male example. He takes on the nickname "Mom" and pretends to be the nice counselor to Mr. Sir's mean, but he's just as sadistic as the other staffers beneath his avuncular mask. The "Camp Green Lake Survival Guide" even points out that his nice guy act makes him ''worse'' than Mr. Sir who doesn't try to [[AtLeastIAdmitIt hide who he is behind a façade]]. |
| 348 | * PetTheDog: He gives a few genuine favors to Stanley, such as offering him a ride back in his truck or giving him extra water after Mr. Sir stops giving him any. |
| 349 | * PlayfulHacker: In ''The Guide to Surviving Camp Green Lake'', it's revealed he was expelled for hacking his college's database and changing his grades. This gets him hired by the Warden. |
| 350 | * PrefersProperNames: Pendanski insists on referring to the campers by their proper names in an attempt to [[FauxAffablyEvil maintain an illusion of respectability]] (such as Stanley, Theodore, or Lewis as opposed to "Caveman", "Armpit" or "Barf Bag"), save for Zero, whose actual name, Hector, he doesn't bother to remember. |
| 351 | * TeamDad: Subverted. While he plays the part of a concerned parental figure towards the campers (who semi-jokingly call him "Mom"), he's really a two-faced rat bastard who couldn't care less about them. |
| 352 | * TokenGoodTeammate: His kindness contrasts the sternness and occasional outright cruelty of Mr. Sir and the Warden. [[SubvertedTrope It's all an act, though]]. |
| 353 | * WideEyedIdealist: He often assures the boys that they've still got a life past Camp Green Lake, even though it feels like they've been digging forever. At one point he even holds a meeting to ask them what job they hope to get. [[SubvertedTrope This is all an act and a means of manipulation, however]]. |
| 354 | [[/folder]] |
| 355 | |
| 356 | [[folder:The Warden]] |
| 357 | !!The Warden (Louise Walker) |
| 358 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SigourneyWeaver[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Marcela Paéz (Latin American Spanish dub), Kaori Yamagata (Japanese dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 359 | |
| 360 | The Warden runs Camp Green Lake, and owns the desert it's on. For the most part, she's rarely seen by the campers, and they and the staff know better than to mess with her. |
| 361 | ---- |
| 362 | |
| 363 | * AlasPoorVillain: Despite all the bad things she has done throughout the book, it's hard not to feel at least a little sympathy for her when Stanley takes his great-grandfather's treasure chest for good without even letting her see what's inside. |
| 364 | * BadBoss: She slashes Mr. Sir's face with her nails while they're coated in her special rattlesnake venom polish [[DisproportionateRetribution just because he annoyed her]]. |
| 365 | * BaitTheDog: When she first appears in person, she seems to be something of a ReasonableAuthorityFigure despite her severe idea of justice and fearsome reputation. Of course, she's later revealed to be even worse than initial descriptions of her implied. |
| 366 | * BerserkButton: She isn't amused by Armpit trying to pass off a piece of junk as a valuable treasure. |
| 367 | * BigBad: As the main antagonist of the book, she's the head of the camp, and everyone else answers to her. |
| 368 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: When she is shown the lipstick tube she is sweet on the boys, making sure they get plenty of water and giving them words of encouragement as she has them expand on the area where X-Ray said he found it. After several days of digging and nothing to show for it, she gradually becomes nastier and shows her true colors which she keeps for the rest of the book except when dealing with the authorities. |
| 369 | * CharacterCatchphrase: "Excuse me?" When she says this, you know that you are digging two holes: the one you're supposed to do, and ''your grave''. |
| 370 | %%* ChildHater: Her ultimate downfall. |
| 371 | * TheDreaded: ''Everyone's'' afraid of her. Even people that have never met her. It's subverted with Miss Moreno and the Attorney General. |
| 372 | * EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: She's mostly just called "The Warden". |
| 373 | * EvilIsPetty: After it's revealed Zero has been helping Stanley dig his holes in exchange for reading lessons, she demands that they go back to digging their individual holes and that Stanley will no longer teach Zero. Stanley accepts the first without complaint, but takes offense to the second, and says that there's no reason he can't keep teaching Zero to read. Her reason? "Because I said so." |
| 374 | * EvilRedhead: Both the book and film versions have red hair. She inherited it from her grandmother Linda. |
| 375 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Her politeness and casual manner don't fool anyone. As soon as she faces you, it's definitely clear who is the one in charge. |
| 376 | * FemmeFatalons: An interesting case, as her nails aren't much sharper/longer than average but her nail polish does help inflict a nasty wound on one of the counselors. Said nail polish is made with rattlesnake venom. |
| 377 | * FreudianExcuse: Her grandfather, Trout Walker, was not a pleasant person, and forced her to dig for Kate Barlow's money in the desert every single day, even on her birthday and Christmas. |
| 378 | * HereditaryCurse: Right before her death, Kissing Kate Barlow cursed Trout Walker by saying that neither he nor his descendants will ever lay eyes on her treasure. When Stanley and Zero are escorted out of the camp, Warden Walker begs Stanley to let her see what the treasure is, as a form of closure, but Stanley coldly refuses and he and Zero leave the camp, while the Warden and her cohorts are being processed before being taken away in handcuffs. |
| 379 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: She orders Zero's file to be deleted in an attempt to cover up his supposed death. When Stanley's lawyer asks to see it, it causes her entire web of lies to suddenly collapse right in front of the authorities. |
| 380 | * HumiliationConga: Goes through this at the end of the story. First, her authority breaks down, then Stanley finds the treasure and it has his family name on it, which proves she's lying to a lawyer and a state Attorney General, and she and the other camp staff are arrested. The movie takes it a step further, with Stanley snubbing her from seeing what's inside the chest and thus, denying her even the closure of knowing what she spent her whole life looking for. |
| 381 | * INeverToldYouMyName: Somehow, she knows Stanley's nickname even though he never met her before. When he asks the others about this, they tell him she has tiny security cameras hidden across the camp. |
| 382 | * IronicEcho: When she begs Stanley to at least see what's in the treasure chest, he simply says "''excuse me?''" before shutting it away. |
| 383 | * MeaningfulAppearance: |
| 384 | ** One of the first things Stanley notices about her is her black cowboy boots with turquoise stones. Kissin' Kate's final scene in the book reveals that they were ''her'' boots first -- or at least, she had a very similar pair. Given the Warden's cabin was Kate's cabin originally, it's not too unlikely that the boots originally belonged to Kate. |
| 385 | ** She's also established early on to be a freckly redhead. It's later revealed that she inherited these traits from her grandmother. |
| 386 | * NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: She uses the pretense that [[PrisonersWork her harsh form of justice]] is intended to punish juvenile delinquents for the good of both them and society. However, while most of them do legitimately deserve punishment (though not as harsh as hers), her actual motivation is to enrich herself by exploiting their labor. |
| 387 | * PragmaticVillainy: In her first appearance, she rewards X-Ray with a day off and a double shower for finding Kate Barlow's lipstick tube, then tells Mr. Pendanski to refill everyone's canteen, even though they just had their hourly refill five minutes ago. Although she acts as though it's a PetTheDog moment from her, it's really just to motivate the campers into digging harder in hopes of finding more treasure. |
| 388 | * SamusIsAGirl: She's not revealed to be a woman until a third of the way into the book. |
| 389 | * {{Sloth}}: Sits in her air-conditioned trailer watching TV all day while the boys do the back-breaking work of finding Kissin' Kate's treasure. |
| 390 | * SoftSpokenSadist: After she slashes Mr. Sir's face for wasting her time, she speaks to him in a soft and casual tone while he writhes in pain. |
| 391 | -->Mr. Sir screamed and clutched his face with both hands. He let himself fall over, rolling off the hearth and onto the rug.\ |
| 392 | The Warden spoke softly. "I don't especially care about your sunflower seeds."\ |
| 393 | Mr. Sir moaned.\ |
| 394 | "If you must know," said the Warden, "I liked it better when you smoked." |
| 395 | * TranquilFury: She never has to raise her voice to make it clear when she's displeased with someone. |
| 396 | * VillainBall: Assuming that she owns the land of Camp Green Lake, which seems to be the case, she could have avoided all of this by hiring a bunch of contractors to dig up the treasure for her, and then she would no doubt have gotten away with it. She just preferred the idea of free/inexpensive labor that she got from prisoners, and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard it turns out to be her downfall]]. |
| 397 | * VillainsWantMercy: A variation in the movie - after the camp staffers have been arrested and Stanley and Zero get ready to leave, Louise pleads with Stanley to let her see what's inside the treasure chest, most likely to at least get some closure and know just what she was digging up in the first place. |
| 398 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The way she runs Camp Green Lake and treats the campers (and lets her counselors treat them, for that matter) is inexcusable, but when you learn that her grandfather was an abusive asshole who forced her to dig ''every day'' of her childhood, not even taking a day off on Christmas or her birthday, and consider the fact that in the end, she never even gets to ''see'' the treasure she's dedicated her life to looking for, it's hard not to feel a little sorry for her. |
| 399 | [[/folder]] |
| 400 | |
| 401 | !Residents of Green Lake |
| 402 | |
| 403 | [[folder:Kissin' Kate Barlow]] |
| 404 | !!Katherine "Kissin' Kate" Barlow |
| 405 | |
| 406 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/PatriciaArquette[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Claudia Garzón (Latin American Spanish dub), Creator/RicaMatsumoto (Japanese dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 407 | |
| 408 | ->''She was a wonderful teacher, full of knowledge and full of life. The children loved her. She taught classes in the evening for adults, and many of the adults loved her as well. She was very pretty. Her classes were often full of young men, who were a lot more interested in the teacher than they were in getting an education. But all they ever got was an education.'' |
| 409 | |
| 410 | An infamous outlaw of the Wild West who robbed settlers and kissed the men she killed. This feared bandit, however, used to be a sweet schoolteacher who brewed delicious spiced peaches in the idyllic town of Green Lake. |
| 411 | ---- |
| 412 | * AgonyOfTheFeet: In the book, when Trout and Linda Walker finally found her, they tortured her by making her walk barefoot on the hot ground to try and make her give up the location of her treasure. |
| 413 | * BetterToDieThanBeKilled: In the movie, she opts to let a yellow-spotted lizard bite her rather than die of dehydration or give Charles and Linda Walker her accumulated loot. |
| 414 | * BreakTheCutie: At first, she was a perfectly nice lady who loved teaching and just wanted to be with Sam. And then she has one ''really'' bad day... |
| 415 | * BrokenBird: She was a sweet and beloved teacher until her schoolhouse was burnt down and her black lover killed, after which she went off the deep end and became a murderous outlaw. |
| 416 | * CallingCard: After becoming "Kissin' Kate," she would always leave lipstick kisses on the corpses of the men she killed. |
| 417 | * DeathSeeker: In the film at least, when Trout angrily tells her that he'll make her wish she was dead, her [[InsultBackfire response]] is calmly saying, "I've been wishin' I was dead for a long time." |
| 418 | * DefiantToTheEnd: Kate is not the least bit intimidated by Trout and Linda's threats, instead telling them both off and laughing in their faces. |
| 419 | * DiedLaughing: After being bitten by a yellow-spotted lizard, she just simply laughs at Trout and Linda Walker when they demand to know where she hid her treasures. |
| 420 | * DrivenToSuicide: In the film, she's waiting for death next to Sam's boat after her outlaw days are done and makes a yellow-spotted lizard to bite her to die from its poison. In the book, it bit her on its own and she just [[FaceDeathWithDignity took it]]. |
| 421 | * DueToTheDead: Implied in the movie, seeing as Kate's corpse isn't anywhere near Sam's boat in the present day. |
| 422 | * DyingCurse: She didn't expect to die right after, but before she gets bitten by a yellow-spotted lizard, she tells Trout Walker that he and his descendants could spend the next century digging up the dried lake bed and never find the treasure she buried. Exactly 100 years later, the treasure is found by Stanley, and he deliberately snubs Trout Walker's granddaughter (the Warden) from seeing it. |
| 423 | -->'''Kate:''' You, your children, and your children's children will dig for the next one hundred years and you will ''never'' find it. |
| 424 | * EqualOpportunityEvil: In the movie, her gang of outlaws included Native Americans, another oppressed group in the 1800s. As her descent into crime was caused by the murder of her black lover, it's clear that even as an outlaw she still retained her tolerant and open-minded views. |
| 425 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: In the book, she's bitten by a yellow-spotted lizard and calmly succumbs to its poison. In the film, she commits suicide by ''making'' it bite her. |
| 426 | * FreudianExcuse: She snapped after having one ''really'' bad day where the whole community turned against her, torched her schoolhouse, and killed the man she loved. |
| 427 | * FriendToAllChildren: As a kind and caring teacher, she was beloved by all her students. |
| 428 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: She started off as just a simple schoolteacher in a small town. Then she had one ''really'' bad day and became one of the most feared outlaws in the Wild West. |
| 429 | * HotTeacher: Lampshaded. She taught two courses - one for children and one for adults. The men were more interested in her than in getting an education. But all they ever got from her was an education. |
| 430 | * ImColdSoCold: She says this verbatim at one point. She wasn't physically dying, but she was dead inside. |
| 431 | -->'''Kate:''' It's so hot, Sam, but I feel so cold... |
| 432 | * KissOfDeath: Her trademark, which she adopted after a drunken sheriff pressured her for one in exchange for Sam's life. The next day, Kate gave the sheriff the kiss after she killed him, and subsequently kept up the practice for every person she killed. Tellingly, she never gave a kiss to Stanley Yelnats I when she robbed him, opting instead to spare him (albeit still leaving him out in the middle of the desert with few, if any supplies). |
| 433 | * MalignedMixedMarriage: Relationship rather, but her romance with Sam, a black man, turned the entire town against her. |
| 434 | * TheMourningAfter: Sam was the only man she ever loved. She grieves for him up to the day she dies. |
| 435 | * OddFriendship: With Sam, before it turned into more than that. She was a beautiful, privileged, and very white schoolteacher, while Sam was a poor black farmer. |
| 436 | * PayEvilUntoEvil: Her first act as Kissin' Kate was assassinating [[PoliceAreUseless the sheriff who refused to act]] on the night of Sam's murder and demanded a kiss from her as a trade-off to just run Sam out of town rather than lynch him. After shooting him, she then gave him that kiss he asked for. |
| 437 | * PetTheDog: While it's debatable just ''how'' much this counts, she spared Stanley Yelnats I's life for some unknown reason. Good thing too, as this leads to better things later on. |
| 438 | * SanitySlippage: Seeing your lover be murdered out of racist hatred and your schoolhouse be burnt to the ground right before your eyes would do that to you... |
| 439 | * {{Schoolmarm}}: Back in her days as a teacher. She taught children of all ages, as well as adults. |
| 440 | * StarCrossedLovers: With Sam. She's a white woman, he's a black man... [[DeliberateValuesDissonance in the 1880s]]. |
| 441 | * SupremeChef: Her spiced peaches were loved by all the residents of Green Lake. And they still taste good after being stored in a jar for ''a hundred and ten years.'' |
| 442 | * SympathyForTheDevil: She briefly expresses sympathy for Linda when she finds out her former student has married Trout Walker, even though the two of them are pointing a gun in her face and demanding the location of her treasure. |
| 443 | -->'''Kate''': Oh, Linda, I'm so sorry. |
| 444 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: If she hadn't lost everything she cared about, she'd have never gone mad and become a serial killer and bank robber. |
| 445 | [[/folder]] |
| 446 | |
| 447 | [[folder:Trout Walker]] |
| 448 | !!Charles "Trout" Walker |
| 449 | |
| 450 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Scott Plank[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Raúl Anaya (Latin American Spanish dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 451 | |
| 452 | ->''His real name was Charles Walker, but everyone called him Trout because his two feet smelled like a couple of dead fish. This wasn't entirely Trout's fault. He had an incurable foot fungus. […] He was the son of the richest man in the county. His family owned most of the peach trees and all the land on the east side of the lake. Trout often showed up at night school but never paid attention. He talked in class and was disrespectful of the students around him. He was loud and stupid. […] But Trout didn't want to learn. He seemed to be proud of his stupidity.'' |
| 453 | |
| 454 | The richest man in the town of Green Lake, Trout had a little crush on Kate Barlow. When she rejects him, he doesn't take it very well. |
| 455 | ---- |
| 456 | * AbusiveParents: Was this towards his children and his grandchildren. His granddaughter, the Warden mentions he forced them to dig for Kate's stash every day and never allowed them to take a single break, even for their birthdays or Christmas. |
| 457 | * AllForNothing: He led a lynch mob against Sam and [[MurderTheHypotenuse killed him for being the one to win Kate's affections]]. This in turn caused Green Lake to face divine punishment in the form of a drought and his wealth evaporated with the lake. He then went on to spend the rest of his life looking for Kate's loot and died never even coming close to finding it, leaving the task to his descendants to carry on. Ultimately, his efforts were rendered meaningless as Kate's loot was found by the descendant of its rightful owner while his granddaughter got arrested and left with nothing, not even being allowed to see what she spent her whole life looking for. |
| 458 | * AndYourLittleDogToo: Aside from killing Sam, he also shot Sam's donkey, Mary Lou, just because. |
| 459 | * BreakTheHaughty: First he gets rejected by the woman he was infatuated with. When he takes revenge by killing her lover, a major drought hits Green Lake. His fortune dried up with the lake and he went on to spend the rest of his life trying to look for Kate's stash to no avail. [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in that, despite making him less smug and arrogant, it has the unfortunate side effect of making him unhinged and extremely bitter. |
| 460 | * ColdBloodedTorture: In the novel, he forces Kate to walk barefoot through the desert until she tells him where she buried her loot. |
| 461 | * EmbarrassingNickname: He was nicknamed "Trout" because his feet smelled like dead fish thanks to suffering from a foot fungus problem. Downplayed in that he doesn't seem to be too bothered by it. |
| 462 | * EntitledBastard: He's basically a spoiled rich kid who never grew up. He's so used to owning everything in town that the one time he was denied something he wanted he went on a rampage. |
| 463 | * EntitledToHaveYou: Towards Kate after she rejects an offer to go out with him. |
| 464 | -->'''Trout:''' No one ever says 'no' to Charles Walker!\ |
| 465 | '''Kate:''' I believe I just did. |
| 466 | * {{Expy}}: His characterization (in the film) is similar to [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]]--a handsome but morally repulsive man who is [[VillainWithGoodPublicity beloved by his hometown]] and gets everything he wants except the girl he's in love with, and when he's rejected for another man, he tries to MurderTheHypotenuse. |
| 467 | * FatalFlaw: His urge to get anything he wanted cost him big time: when he couldn't get Kate, he murdered Sam, which brought the drought that ruined him. His need to find buried treasure damned him and his family to a life of hardship and obsession, fruitlessly searching for treasure. |
| 468 | * GruesomeGrandparent: Was this towards his granddaughter Louise, which is why she is such a bitter and cynical woman. |
| 469 | * HateSink: As a greedy, racist, and abusive sociopath, it's easy to tell that Trout is not meant to be liked. This serves to make Kissin' Kate and the Warden much more sympathetic by comparison, as well as give you a reason to root for Kate despite the fact that she's a robber and a SerialKiller (it helps that Trout's the reason she became those things in the first place). |
| 470 | * HowTheMightyHaveFallen: He went from being the scion of a wealthy family in his youth to a destitute old man wasting his life digging for treasure. |
| 471 | * ImpoverishedPatrician: When the drought killed the town, he lost his fortune. |
| 472 | * {{Jerkass}}: A smug, entitled, and very unpleasant person all around. |
| 473 | * KnightOfCerebus: Takes the story to its darkest points whenever he appears. |
| 474 | * LaserGuidedKarma: It stopped raining after he killed Sam, costing him his fortune. When he tried to rob the woman whom he drove to become an outlaw, she cursed him and his family to spend the rest of his days digging for the money she stole and hid away. The narration even implies that [[{{God}} The Almighty Himself]] punished the entire town of Green Lake for murdering Sam. |
| 475 | * MayDecemberRomance: One of Kate's former child students ends up marrying him (as an adult, fortunately), though as Kate correctly assesses, [[GoldDigger she only did it for his money]]. |
| 476 | * NeverMyFault: He probably was aware on some deep level that murdering Sam led to him losing his wealth. He didn't want to admit to it and move on. |
| 477 | * NotGoodWithRejection: After Kate rejects him, he responds by [[DisproportionateRetribution burning her school building down and killing her lover Sam in cold blood]]. |
| 478 | * NotWorthKilling: Maybe. When he confronts Kate for the first time, she threatens him for a moment, only to change her mind and decide not to. It's not clear if it's this trope or if she simply doesn't care anymore (though her tone in the film indicates how [[DeathSeeker done with living she is]]), but given that her M.O. as an outlaw was also kissing the men she killed, she absolutely was not going to do that to him. |
| 479 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: And how! He acts like he's [[EntitledToHaveYou entitled to Kate's affections]], and lynches Sam out of racist hatred because he can't ''conceive'' why a white woman would ''ever'' choose a black man over him. |
| 480 | * PredecessorVillain: Even though he's long dead by the time the main plot rolls around, his actions caused everything at Camp Green Lake. |
| 481 | * RichJerk: He believed his wealth made him inherently better than others, especially Sam who was a poor black farmer. |
| 482 | * SanitySlippage: Drove himself insane trying to look for the money Kate Barlow stole during her days as an outlaw. |
| 483 | * SmellyFeetGag: His nickname is a reference to how his feet smell like rotten fish. It's due to him suffering from the same odor-causing foot fungus affecting Clyde Livingston. |
| 484 | * SmugSnake: "The duck may swim on the lake, but my daddy owns the lake." |
| 485 | * ThreatBackfire: Declares to Kate in their final confrontation that he's going to "make her ''wish'' she was dead" in order to get her to tell him where her loot is buried. Her response is a cool and calm [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds "I've been wishin' I was dead for a long time..."]] |
| 486 | * TyrannicalTownTycoon: Played with--he's the son of the man who owned the town next to the lake where the story is set. He invoked this trope to try to get Kate to go out with him. |
| 487 | * UpperClassTwit: A much darker example but he's rich and not a clever man. |
| 488 | * VileVillainSaccharineShow: He's disturbingly despicable for a children's story, and unlike the other antagonists, he has no sympathetic aspects and there's nothing entertaining about him. |
| 489 | [[/folder]] |
| 490 | |
| 491 | [[folder:Sam]] |
| 492 | !!Sam the Onion Man |
| 493 | |
| 494 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DuleHill[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Creator/CarlosHernandez (Latin American Spanish dub), Creator/DaikiNakamura (Japanese dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 495 | |
| 496 | ->''Sam's onion field was somewhere on the other side of the lake. Once or twice a week he would tow across the lake and pick a new batch to fill the cart. Sam had big strong arms, but it would still take all day for him to row across the lake and another day for him to return. […] Sam claimed that Mary Lou was almost fifty years old, which was, and still is, extraordinarily old for a donkey. […] Sam was not much older than twenty, so nobody was quite sure that Mary Lou was really as old as he said she was. How would he know?'' |
| 497 | |
| 498 | A black onion farmer who lived at Green Lake and was well-liked by the citizens for his delicious onions and the remedies he came up with them. However, after kissing Kate Barlow, the whole town turns against him. |
| 499 | ---- |
| 500 | * CharacterCatchphrase: "I can fix that." |
| 501 | * TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Plenty of his customers aren't really sure if his onion remedies really work, but buy them anyway because they don't like to take chances (plus many of [[WorstAid the actual medical practices of the time]], such as putting leeches on a sick person's body to "suck out the bad blood", left a lot to be desired). A century later, though, they're proven to actually work when the onions from his now-deserted garden save Zero from death and discourage yellow-spotted lizards from biting Zero and Stanley. |
| 502 | * HiddenDepths: Was also a well-read man despite his station, being able to quote famous literature to Kate. |
| 503 | * TheLostLenore: Male example. His death turns Kate into a fearsome outlaw, and 20 years later she was still mourning him. It also marks the day the drought on Green Lake began. Lampshaded and foreshadowed when he recites a verse from ''Annabel Lee'', a poem about another dead love from the poet who wrote about the original Lenore, Creator/EdgarAllanPoe. |
| 504 | * MagicalNegro: Of a sort. While he doesn't have any mystical powers, Sam is gentle and kind, continually helps Kate fix her schoolhouse before beginning a relationship with her, and his death is what begins the drought that ruins the economy of Green Lake and Trout Walker's fortunes. Even after his death, his boat named after Mary Lou shelters Zero from the sun, with the peaches stored inside from Kate feeding him for a time. Stanley and Zero find more food left by him after they find his onion crop atop God's Thumb mountain. The crop ends up saving them twice over, not just from starvation, but also by repelling the yellow-spotted lizards, which keeps the boys from being bitten when they find the treasure in a hole full of the animals and despite being practically covered in them. |
| 505 | * MalignedMixedMarriage: Relationship rather than marriage. His romance with Kate, a white woman, turned the entire town against him. Justified, considering the time period they lived in. |
| 506 | * MeaningfulEcho: "I can fix that." First the roof, then the windows, the desk, the door, and eventually Kate's broken heart. |
| 507 | * MrFixit: Kate starts asking him to fix things in the schoolhouse so she can have an excuse to see him, until it's so pristine there's nothing left to be fixed except her breaking heart. |
| 508 | * NiceGuy: He's friendly and considerate, and has no problem fixing everything in Kate's schoolhouse -- though that may just be so he can be around her. [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan Either way, it's not hard to see why she fell for him.]] |
| 509 | * PlotTriggeringDeath: If the townspeople hadn't killed him, not only would there be no drought, but Kate never would've become an outlaw, stolen Stanley's great-grandfather's money, and buried it somewhere in the desert. That means that without Sam's death, Camp Green Lake wouldn't even ''exist''. |
| 510 | * SnakeOilSalesman: Sam is a rare sympathetic example. He definitely exaggerates what his onions can do, such as claiming his donkey is over a hundred years old in the film (fifty in the books, which isn't unheard of), but he's at least telling the truth about their health benefits (which they have many in RealLife) and their effectiveness against yellow-spotted lizards. The townsfolk buy both his onion cures and regular medicine from the doctor so nobody gets hurt if his medicine doesn't work. |
| 511 | * StarCrossedLovers: With Kate. In the 1880s, a relationship between a black man and a white woman, no matter how loving, spelled "disaster" by default for both parties. And ''hoo boy'' does it spell disaster for Kate and Sam. |
| 512 | * TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Sam was a good, kind, hard-working person who never hurt anyone. His only "crime" was kissing the white woman he was in love with, for which he was senselessly murdered. |
| 513 | * WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: He and Kate both loved each other dearly. Deconstructed due to [[DeliberateValuesDissonance the time period they lived in]] - the sheriff says that his relationship with Kate ''must'' have been predatory and exploitative, [[InsaneTrollLogic regardless of her own consent in the matter]]. |
| 514 | [[/folder]] |
| 515 | |
| 516 | [[folder:Linda Walker]] |
| 517 | !!Linda Walker |
| 518 | |
| 519 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Allison Smith |
| 520 | |
| 521 | Linda Walker (née Miller) was one of Kate's students. She ended up marrying Trout for his money, only to end up in the poor house once the lake dried up. |
| 522 | ---- |
| 523 | * EvilMakesYouUgly: Kate remembers Linda was a "cute freckle-faced girl" in her youth, but as an adult who married the openly racist {{Jerkass}} Trout Walker for his money, she's much worse for the wear. |
| 524 | * EvilRedhead: She had red hair, which was also passed down to her granddaughter, Louise "The Warden" Walker. |
| 525 | * GoldDigger: Kate accuses her of marrying Trout for his money, something she doesn't deny. |
| 526 | * IWasQuiteALooker: She used to be cute and pretty as a young girl, but poverty left her with dirty, scraggly hair and a blotchy face. |
| 527 | * MayDecemberRomance: She was in the fourth grade when Trout was an adult and ended up marrying him when she grew up for his fortune. |
| 528 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: Linda was once a beloved student of Kate's. As an adult, she's become a desperate GoldDigger who would go so far as holding her own former teacher at gunpoint for money. |
| 529 | [[/folder]] |
| 530 | |
| 531 | [[folder:Yellow Spotted Lizards]] |
| 532 | !!Yellow Spotted Lizards |
| 533 | |
| 534 | Small but deadly lizards that are indigenous to Green Lake. Their venom causes a swift but painful demise. |
| 535 | ---- |
| 536 | * BrightIsNotGood: Like [[TruthInTelevision many venomous animals in real life]], they have bright eye-catching colors (in this case, the yellow spots) to advertise the fact that they're dangerous. |
| 537 | * TheDreaded: Everyone is scared of them, ''especially'' Mr. Sir. Kate was the only person to show complete calm in their presence... and that's only because she had nothing left to live for. |
| 538 | * ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The only thing their name doesn't indicate is how highly venomous they are. |
| 539 | * HairTriggerTemper: There's really no telling what could make one mad enough to get it to bite you. |
| 540 | * KillerRabbit: A tiny lizard characterized by the fact that it's covered in yellow spots... and its venom causes instant death. |
| 541 | * MixAndMatchCritters: The book versions are based on various real-life venomous lizards, most notably Gila monsters (which is where they get their black and yellow coloration). The film mixes them with bearded dragons (overall shape and appearance) and frilled lizards (neck frills, ability to run on their hindlimbs). |
| 542 | * NonIndicativeName: Downplayed - while they do have yellow spots (exactly eleven), the book notes that they're very hard to see on their yellow-green bodies; more immediately-noticeable features that one might have expected them to be named after are their red skin around the eyes, black teeth, and milky-white tongues. If you get close enough to a live one to be able to see and count the spots, you'll likely soon be dead. |
| 543 | * NonMaliciousMonster: As scary and dangerous as they are, at the end of the day, they're just animals trying to survive out in the harsh desert. |
| 544 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Aside from their spots, they also have red eyes that pop out sharply against their bodies (technically only the skin around them is red, while the eyes themselves are yellow, but the red is what most people remember). |
| 545 | * RuleOfCool: The film makes them played by bearded dragons, with special effects frills around their necks. An illustration in the "Camp Greenlake Survival Guide" shows them looking more like generic varanids. |
| 546 | * WeaksauceWeakness: Downplayed in that it doesn't hurt or kill them, but these deadly animals are repulsed by the smell of onions, which ends up saving Stanley and Hector. |
| 547 | [[/folder]] |
| 548 | |
| 549 | !In Latvia |
| 550 | [[folder:Madame Zeroni]] |
| 551 | !!Madame Zeroni |
| 552 | |
| 553 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Music/EarthaKitt[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Mayra Rojas (Latin American Spanish dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 554 | |
| 555 | ->''Desperate, Elya went to see Madame Zeroni, an old Egyptian woman who lived on the edge of town. He had become friends with her, though she was quite a bit older than him. She was even older than Igor Barkov.'' |
| 556 | |
| 557 | An Egyptian fortuneteller and mentor to Elya Yelnats, responsible for the curse on the Yelnats family. She disapproves of his romantic longing for Myra Menke, but helped him anyway in making him a more attractive suitor. |
| 558 | ---- |
| 559 | * AntiVillain: She was rather fond of Elya and initially wished him no malice, but put a curse on his line because he failed to repay his end of the bargain and likely cut short her life. |
| 560 | * AnArmAndALeg: She's missing her left foot, though it's never explained why. |
| 561 | -->''She was sitting in a homemade wheelchair. She had no left foot. Her leg stopped at her ankle.'' |
| 562 | * ChekhovsGunman: She mentions she has a son in America, who Elya constantly searches for in faint hope that he can break the curse. But Zeroni's descendants don't show up again until Zero. |
| 563 | * CoolOldLady: She was very helpful to Elya, giving him advice and telling stories. Until he forgot about his promise. |
| 564 | -->''The other boys of his village liked to mud wrestle. Elya preferred visiting Madame Zeroni and listening to her many stories.'' |
| 565 | * CreepyGood: She is a sinister appearance, but she's actually a very helpful woman...unless you break a promise to her. |
| 566 | * {{Curse}}: "If you forget to come back for Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for ''always and eternity.''" |
| 567 | * DisproportionateRetribution: She curses Elya’s entire family line because he, and only he, forgot to fulfill his end of a bargain they made. [[PetTheDog Her spirit lifts the curse after Stanley, a descendant of Elya, inadvertently fulfills said promise.]] |
| 568 | * EthnicMagician: She was Egyptian ([[MagicalRomani Romani]] in the movie), and seemingly put a curse upon Elya and his descendants. |
| 569 | * GoodIsNotNice: She's ultimately a good person, but she's not afraid to tell Elya off for obsessing over a BrainlessBeauty. And when Elya doesn't keep her end of the bargain, she unleashes a curse on him. |
| 570 | * GreaterScopeVillain: She's not a villain ''per se'', and she had a good reason to be mad, but she is the one who set the curse of bad luck on the Yelnats lineage. |
| 571 | * LargeHam: In the film version, to an extent, even topping her announcement of Elya's curse with an out of nowhere EvilLaugh. Comes with the territory of being played by Eartha Kitt. |
| 572 | * NoodleIncident: How and why an Egyptian woman made her way to Latvia is never explained. |
| 573 | * PetTheDog: Despite the DisproportionateRetribution involved with cursing Elya’s entire family for his mistake she lifts the curse after Stanley, a descendent of him, accidentally fulfills Elya’s end of the bargain more than a century later by carrying Hector, a descendant of Zeroni, up a mountain so he can drink from a pond, which saves his life. |
| 574 | * RaceLift: In the novel, she's Egyptian. In the film, she's made a Romani but is played by the black Eartha Kitt. |
| 575 | * {{Telepathy}}: {{Maybe|MagicMaybeMundane}}. She has large piercing eyes that some of the locals believe can see into people's hearts and minds, and she asks Elya what's wrong before he tells her he's upset, but the former could be mere superstition and the latter might just be her reading his body language. |
| 576 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: Elya and Zeroni initially were friends, until he forgot to fulfill a promise he made to her and she put a curse on him. |
| 577 | [[/folder]] |
| 578 | |
| 579 | [[folder:Myra Menke]] |
| 580 | !!Myra Menke |
| 581 | |
| 582 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Sanya Mateyas |
| 583 | |
| 584 | ->'''Madame Zeroni:''' Myra's head is as empty as a flowerpot.\ |
| 585 | '''Elya:''' But she's beautiful.\ |
| 586 | '''Madame Zeroni:''' So is a flowerpot. Can she push a plow? Can she milk a goat? No, she is too delicate. Can she have an intelligent conversation? No, she is silly and foolish. Will she take care of you when you are sick? No, she is spoiled and will only want you to take care of her. So, she is beautiful. So what? Ptuui! |
| 587 | |
| 588 | The beautiful daughter of Morris Menke, and Elya's object of affection. |
| 589 | ---- |
| 590 | * BrainlessBeauty: Madame Zeroni describes her as having a head as empty as a flowerpot. |
| 591 | * TheDitherer: What convinced Elya she wasn't worth it is that she's unable to decide between Elya (a young, muscular, good-looking, and genuinely loving man) and Igor (an ugly pig farmer who is forty-two years her senior). |
| 592 | * DumbBlonde: At least in the movie, she appears to be one of the only blonde people in the cast for the flashbacks set in Latvia, and she's dense as anything. |
| 593 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In the film, it is implied that she regrets driving Elya away as she looks very uncomfortable when Igor embraces her afterward. |
| 594 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Her stupidity and inability to properly choose a suitor would drive Elya to unintentionally break his promise to Zeroni, starting the curse. |
| 595 | [[/folder]] |
| 596 | |
| 597 | [[folder:Morris Menke]] |
| 598 | !!Morris Menke |
| 599 | |
| 600 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Ravil Isyanov[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Ernesto Casillas (Latin American Spanish dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 601 | ---- |
| 602 | * AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: His name would fit far better on an American of Eastern European descent than an actual Eastern European. |
| 603 | * BadBoss: A downplayed version in the film, where Elya first sees Myra when working for him. He refuses Elya his daughter when he has nothing to offer, and appears to have a dislike of him when saying his name as a choice for Myra to marry. |
| 604 | * {{Greed}}: When he asks what Elya can offer him in exchange for Myra's hand, Elya says his love. Igor offers him a pig. In his words, "I'd rather have a fat pig." |
| 605 | * {{Jerkass}}: He laughs at Elya's request to marry Myra, and has no qualms about marrying her to someone forty years older than her. He also states, when Elya brings his now fat pig to him for his daughter's hand in marriage, that he used to think Elya was a "good for nothing book reader." |
| 606 | -->'''Madame Zeroni:''' Morris Menke is a ''schmuck''. |
| 607 | * MightMakesRight: Believes in a version of this. In the book, Elya is much stronger after carrying his pig up the mountain many times to make it bigger, and it shows. Morris is impressed by this, saying he thinks Elya would make a fine mud wrestler. |
| 608 | * NamedByTheAdaptation: The book only calls him "Myra's father". In the film, his name is stated to be Morris. |
| 609 | [[/folder]] |
| 610 | |
| 611 | [[folder:Igor Barkov]] |
| 612 | !!Igor Barkov |
| 613 | |
| 614 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KenDavitian[[labelnote:Foreign voice actors]]Jesse Conde (Latin American Spanish dub)[[/labelnote]] |
| 615 | |
| 616 | ->''Elya went to her father to ask for her hand, but so did Igor Barkov, the pig farmer. Igor was fifty-seven years old. He had a red nose and fat puffy cheeks.'' |
| 617 | |
| 618 | The other suitor for Myra's hand. |
| 619 | ---- |
| 620 | * DumbMuscle: The town loves its mud wrestlers, and Igor is one of the biggest of them. But he can't even count to ten. |
| 621 | * MeaninglessVillainVictory: While not a villain, he serves as the biggest opponent for Elya attempting to marry Myra. He succeeds, but only because Elya realized that Myra is a terrible choice for a bride. |
| 622 | * OldManMarryingAChild: Myra is 15. Igor is 57. |
| 623 | [[/folder]] |
| 624 | |
| 625 | !Other Characters |
| 626 | [[folder:Clyde Livingston]] |
| 627 | !!Clyde Livingston |
| 628 | |
| 629 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/RickFox |
| 630 | |
| 631 | An all-star baseball player for the Texas Rangers, whom Stanley is a major fan of. At the end of the film, he stars in a commercial for Stanley Yelnats III's foot odor product. |
| 632 | ---- |
| 633 | * TheAce: Magnet mentioned him being the fastest player in baseball, once scoring four triples in a single game. |
| 634 | * IronicNickname: Played with - his nickname, "Sweet Feet", is a reference to how fast he can run, but due to having a severe foot fungus problem that makes his feet smell bad, everyone tends to point out the irony in that. |
| 635 | * ParentalAbandonment: He was an orphan who grew up in the orphanage that he donated his shoes to. What happened to his parents was never mentioned. |
| 636 | * SmellyFeetGag: Due to suffering from the same foot fungus that made Trout Walker's feet smell like rotten fish. |
| 637 | * WhatTheHellHero: During his testimony, he gives this to Stanley about him supposedly stealing the pair of shoes that would go to the orphanage, even telling Stanley that he wasn't a real fan of his. Though he drops his grudge when he later finds out that Stanley was innocent and makes it up to the Yelnats when their foot odor cure helps cure his foot fungus problem. |
| 638 | [[/folder]] |
| 639 | |
| 640 | [[folder:Derrick Dunne]] |
| 641 | !!Derrick Dunne |
| 642 | |
| 643 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Robert Armour (deleted scenes) |
| 644 | |
| 645 | A bully at Stanley's school who would get away with bullying Stanley as a result of being [[BrattyHalfPint smaller than him]]. |
| 646 | ---- |
| 647 | * AdaptedOut: He is not seen or mentioned in the movie, save for two deleted scenes. |
| 648 | * TheBully: Although he's small, he is still able to be this to Stanley since the latter isn't able to stand up for himself. |
| 649 | * SpannerInTheWorks: Taking Stanley's notebook is essentially the root of how Stanley got into the shoes situation that landed him at Camp Green Lake. This leads to Stanley breaking his family's curse and recovering his great grandfather's fortune. It even leads to Camp Green Lake getting shut down and The Warden, Mr. Sir, and Mr. Pendanski getting arrested. |
| 650 | * VillainousRescue: Does this for Stanley at the end. Stanley's lawyer Miss Morengo explains that he's being freed because it turned out he has an alibi, which he corroborated — Stanley couldn't have stolen Clyde Livingston's shoes because he was with Stanley (specifically, picking on him by taking his notebook and throwing it in a toilet) when the shoes disappeared. |
| 651 | [[/folder]] |
| 652 | |
| 653 | [[folder:Carla Morengo]] |
| 654 | !!Carla Morengo |
| 655 | |
| 656 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/RomaMaffia |
| 657 | |
| 658 | A lawyer who works for the Yelnats family after Stanley Yelnats III's foot odor cure makes enough money to hire her. |
| 659 | ---- |
| 660 | * AccidentalHero: She got more than she bargained for by bringing the Attorney General of Texas to help get Stanley out of Camp Green Lake. Doing so not only met her own goal but also brought down Camp Green Lake altogether. |
| 661 | * BigGood: Although she doesn't get a lot of time in the story, she takes up this role after the Yelnats family hired her. |
| 662 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: While initially reluctant to also get Zero out of Camp Green Lake, she wastes no time getting him out as well when Zero not having a file (thanks to Pendanski deleting it) means that he doesn't belong there either. |
| 663 | [[/folder]] |
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