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Character index for ''Radio/AdventuresInOdyssey''. As this show has been around for decades, its LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters require multiple pages.

Character index for Radio/AdventuresInOdyssey. As this show has been around for decades, its LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters require multiple pages:

* [[Characters/AdventuresInOdysseyChildCharacters Child Characters]]

* Characters/AdventuresInOdysseyMainTrio
* Characters/AdventuresInOdysseyMainSupportingCast
* Characters/AdventuresInOdysseyCitizensAroundTown
* Characters/AdventuresInOdysseySagas
* Characters/AdventuresInOdysseyChildCharacters

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!!John Avery “Whit” Whittaker
->'''First appearance:''' "Whit's Flop" (AIO), "Whit's Visitor" (Family Portraits)
->'''Voiced by:''' Hal Smith ("Whit’s Flop"-"Gone…"), Paul Herlinger ("The Search for Whit, Part 1"-"Kidsboro, Part 3"), Andre Stojka ("Welcome to Whit's End"-present), Jim Custer (young), Joseph Cammaroto ("Thank You, God"), Kyle Ellison ("Blackbeard’s Treasure"), Sage Ryan ("Great Expectations")

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Both kids and adults alike love and respect him.
* AbhorrentAdmirer: Has one in the form of Edith Sutton in “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow” and “Broken-Armed and Dangerous”.
* {{Adorkable}}: His attempts to propose to Jenny, recounted in "Prequels of Love".
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Subverted. Whit has been trained to do legitimate archaeological work; the adventure begins when he's forced to do it at gunpoint.
* AffectionateNickname: "Whit", as most folks around Odyssey call him. Tom Riley often calls him "John Avery", especially when exasperated or frustrated with him.
* AllLovingHero: He would certainly reject the trope's old label of "The Messiah", but as far as the concept of a nigh-upon universally kind, friendly character goes, he's up there.
* AllergicToEvil: He begins to feel faint in “Castles and Cauldrons”, the presence of Satanic forces making him feel weak. This also comes back in “The Ties That Bind” and is revealed to be an actual spiritual condition.
* AlliterativeFamily: John and his wife Jenny have three children: Jerry, Jana, and Jason.
* {{Badass}}: In many respects:
** BadassBookworm: It's not as prevalent as his love of inventing and the sciences, but Whit has a rather expansive repertoire of books and has even written a few.
** BadassGrandpa: He's at least in his sixties and has two grandchildren (one of whom is a young adult), but that doesn't stop him from going on archaeological expeditions, fighting an evil corporation (by occasionally less-than-clearly-legal means), sneaking into a notorious archaeologist crime lord's penthouse to retrieve vital information to arrest him (and taking a blow to the head with a heavy vase), or crafting a rather clever plan to put a B-list terrorist in jail while simultaneously faking his own son's death to keep him away from the agency and his old enemies.
** RetiredBadass: He's perfectly content behind the counter at an ice cream shop, but he's quite willing to demonstrate just why he was once on retainer at the NSA if need be.
* BatmanGambit: Makes one of these to catch the Whisperer in "Accidental Dilemma". To wit:
** Through untraceably anonymous means, he reveals to Rusty Gordon, who’s been blogging about Odyssey, that Jason was an NSA agent, knowing that Rusty would be foolish and malicious enough to expose Jason online.
** Fully aware that the Whisperer would kidnap Jason to get at Applesauce, he allows them into Whit's End, where are were explosives rigged in the tunnels beneath Whit's End (sound familiar?) where a laptop programmed with Applesauce resides.
** The laptop is (allegedly) rigged with an explosive that Jason claims is activated by him pressing a button on it; the tunnel bombs go off while Jason is in the tunnel, making it appear that Jason sacrificed himself to destroy the program and keep the Whisperer from getting at it.
** In reality, Jason is alive and well and ends the episode living it up on the French Riviera. Not only does the plan lure the Whisperer to his own recapture, but it keeps Jason's old enemies from finding him by making it appear that he was dead.
* BecauseISaidSo: Not always keen on explaining his plans...at least, not to Connie.
** In "Accidental Dilemma", this is turned on its head, as she turns out to be the only one besides himself and Jason who knows about the Batman Gambit involving the Whisperer, when in the past Eugene was predominantly the one who knew what was going on.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: While normally a kindly, warm-hearted man who simply wants to reach people for the Gospel, he is not one to be crossed. Regis Blackgaard, Dalton Kearn, the Whisperer, and just about everyone involved with Novacom found this out to their costs.
* BigGood: Unquestionably Odyssey's. One wonders why they even have mayoral elections when the town is basically run from an ice cream shop. (Arthur Dent even mentions in "Opportunity Knocks" that he was told that Whit, not then-mayor Margaret Faye, is the one who really knows what makes the town tick.)
* BlackmailBackfire: In “The One About Trust”, Bart Rathbone threatens to expose the information that Whit appears to pay Eugene more than Connie if Whit doesn’t endorse Bart for mayor, and Whit laughs it off because the only thing worse than endorsing Bart would be caving to his blackmail.
** Additionally, Whit knows [[spoiler: it isn’t even true—because he ''doesn't'' pay Eugene more than Connie; the amount that doesn’t go to her paycheck goes to a trust fund for college that Whit set up for her when she first started working at Whit’s End; turns out, she actually earns slightly ''more'' than Eugene does.]]
* BrutalHonesty: He could be very blunt in the Hal Smith era, such as when discussing why Edwin Blackgaard would want to produce a terrible play Connie has written in “A Class Act”:
-->'''Connie:''' Obviously he knows talent when he sees it!
-->'''Whit:''' I guess he does, but I’d like to know where he sees it in this idea!
* BullyingADragon: Any time someone like Bart Rathbone or Cryin' Bryan Dern tries to push him around. He maintains a clear head and patient air, but when sufficiently provoked, they regret their decision fast.
* TheBusCameBack: "The Search For Whit" centers around Whit's return to the show after two years' absence.
* CharacterOutlivesActor: Whit was infamously PutOnABus in the mid-1990s because of Hal Smith's death, with the in-universe explanation being that he went on an archaeological expedition in Jerusalem. He returns in "The Search for Whit", voiced by Paul Herlinger, who continued in the role until his 2008 retirement (he died about a year later). Andre Stojka then took over the role and has been voicing the character ever since.
* ChildhoodFriends: He and Jack Allen have been best friends since they were little.
* ChildProdigy / TeenGenius: Episodes shedding light on his past usually make this clear; “Around the Block” reveals that he was published in quite a few pages by the time he was Connie’s age.
* CoolOldGuy: He ''sky-dives'' in his spare time.
* CrazyPrepared: There are secret security measures and fail-safes in everything he’s ever created, probably.
** In “Breaking Point”, he finally relents and hands the blueprints to the Imagination Station to someone else to complete it, but he leaves out some essential parts as a precaution anyway—which turns out to have been a good idea, because the guy working on it steals the plans and inner circuitry.
** He also sets up a final fail-safe to shut down the Imagination Station in “Exit”, one that even Novacom, who used the Station to launch their brainwashing technology worldwide, wouldn’t know how to block—simply the word [[CallBack "Applesauce".]]
* DeadpanSnarker: He doesn’t mince words when dealing with people whose attitudes he finds distasteful.
-->'''Bart Rathbone''' (dressed in ‘60s attire): Great get-up, huh? Aw, they don’t make ‘em like this anymore.
-->'''Whit:''' Small wonder.
-->'''Bart:''' Imagine finding a pair of old bell-bottoms, paisley shirt, turtleneck, and a chic-a-dill-ick headband all in the same place!
-->'''Whit:''' ...The dump?
* EccentricMentor: The wisest character on the show is the owner of "an ice cream shop and discovery emporium" that contains virtual reality technology that is enviable even today.
** In “Broken Window”, he has Connie, Mitch, and the kids at Whit’s End put on a trial for who broke the window at the Whit’s End storefront, the three accused being Alex Jefferson, Rodney Rathbone, and Sarah Prachett. As it turns out, [[spoiler:Whit accidentally broke it while sweeping; he had them put on the trial because the kids were all blaming each other without knowing all the facts, and that way, the facts came out.]]
* EncyclopedicKnowledge: He "dabbles" a bit.
* FriendlyAddressPrivileges: His full name is John Avery Whittaker, but his friends call him “Whit”. (The kids very rarely do, though, and Eugene almost exclusively refers to him as “Mr. Whittaker”.)
** He recounts having introduced himself this way to his future wife, Guinevere Morrow, in “The Triangle”; as he had only a little while beforehand gleefully insulted her abilities as a writer without knowing it, she responded that while her friends called her “Jenny”, he could call her “Guinevere”.
* FriendVersusLover: In “The Triangle”, a flashback episode, he was caught between his feelings for Jenny and his friendship with Jack, who was in love with her.
* FullNameBasis: Often introduces himself as "John Avery Whittaker" (but most folks around Odyssey call him "Whit").
* TheGadfly: He has a bit of a mischievous streak himself—he fools Curt with a hand buzzer in “Pranks for the Memories”, has a good laugh at Bart Rathbone’s expense after Bart sees the consequences for his corner-cutting in “A Rathbone of Contention”, and pretends to trip and fall in order to make a fake curse come true in “The Curse”.
* GadgeteerGenius
* GenreSavvy: Whether dealing with the kids around town or fighting against an evil corporation, Whit is a very shrewd judge of character.
** He knows better than to suddenly give Barry Muntz the blueprints to the Imagination Station in “Breaking Point”, so he gives him a compromised set—one without a piece vital to the function of the machine. This was a good idea, as the plans were in fact stolen.
** He points out to Dean Rogers that either he can tell Whit what is going on with the radio wave study and Eugene’s disappearance, or Whit can call the police…and also potentially let the press get involved in something that the college wants kept closely under wraps.
** He knows better than to think that Trent will be satisfied with the Imagination Station program he’s initially shown in “Something Significant”, so he ensures that the program cannot be changed no matter what Trent does.
* GoodIsNotDumb: He is a conservative evangelical and he is no fool.
* GoodIsNotSoft: He doesn't fool around when Novacom tries messing with Odyssey, or when Blackgaard attempts to harm his loved ones.
* GuileHero / ScienceHero: Tends to fight more with his wits and technological know-how than with physical skill.
** ActionHero: In his WWII days, natch.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Tom mentions that his wife Jenny had red hair.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Not typically—he usually has a pretty shrewd idea of who is on his side and who isn't most of the time—but "What Happened to the Silver Streak" is an example of his second chances and kindness backfiring when he has been defending a girl accused of stealing a train. Not only is she revealed to be the one who took it, she also regrets nothing about lying and stringing him along.
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Becomes suspicious of Arthur Dent in "Opportunity Knocks" when Dent mentions Tom Riley's name in connection with land on which Novacom planned to build a tower after having acted as though he did not know who owned the property.
** It's also how he sees through one of Bart's lies in "No Bones About It"—Bart claims that the Bones of Bigfoot that two kids thought they found were stolen, then Whit shows him a clip from the Bigfoot film that was shot at the site, explaining that the bones were fake. Bart then says that he’s relieved that the bones turned out to be plaster…which Whit never told him.
* LawfulGood: Particularly in contrast to Connie’s ChaoticGood.
* LikeASonToMe: For Eugene; he also explicitly states that Connie is "like a daughter".
* MasterCharacterHeroes: Osiris the Male Messiah
* NonIdleRich: His successful businesses, his work with the government, his multiple publications, and his chairmanship of a well-known encyclopedia company that can afford to send people on international missions on a regular basis all combine to make him very wealthy, but he’s hardly extravagant about it and continues to put that money to better use than his own consumption.
** “Tales of Moderation” discusses this directly: Whit knows he could have the pick of almost any lifestyle he wants, but he chooses not to indulge himself if for nothing else than prudence’s sake.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Or rather, not allowed to grow ''old''. Though it is questionable as to how much time has actually passed in Odyssey, there's no doubt that Whit is perpetually somewhere around his sixties.
* OneHourWorkWeek: Averted; the show is set primarily at his workplace, and he's usually doing his job there. Not only is he working the counter, but the show also regularly throws in lines about him having to do inventory and get ordering done.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His employees and friends refer to him as "Whit". His introductory narration is the most notorious example:
-->'''Whit:''' Hi, I'm John Avery Whittaker—but most folks around here call me "Whit".
* PapaWolf: He does not take it well when the kids at Whit's End are put in danger.
** Case in point: he spends almost the entirety of "Breaking Point" staunchly refusing to let any outsider get anywhere near the blueprints of the Imagination Station at Whit's End Connellsville, sacrificing his time in Odyssey and work at the Whit's End there as a result. He finally caves not because he was working himself to exhaustion, but because a child nearly got hurt in the Imagination Station back in Odyssey.
* ParentalSubstitute: For both Connie and Eugene, the latter of which was freely acknowledged by Eugene's father Leonard; Connie's father is neglectful and selfish, while Eugene's father was thought to be dead for twenty years.
** Particularly evident in Connie's case, as Whit was the one who was going to walk her down the aisle in her [[spoiler:almost]] wedding.
** Shares the role of Grady’s father figure with Wooton.
* ThePerfectionist: In attempting to make his proposal to Jenny picturesque, he accidentally ended up getting her physically injured.
* PowerTrio: Is the ego to Eugene's Superego and Connie's Id, especially in the earlier seasons when the two of them were constantly sniping at each other.
* PutOnABus: Famously in the episode "Gone" due to Hal Smith's death.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: There's a pretty good reason why most of the kids around town (and many adults as well) are nearly constantly coming to him for advice.
* RagsToRiches: A flashback in “Silent Night” reveals that as a young family, he and Jenny went through some tight financial times for a while; nowadays he could easily retire and live an independently wealthy lifestyle with no problem if he wanted to.
* RenaissanceMan
* ScarsAreForever: Well, this one is rather obvious; he was injured in WWII and is missing a piece of his right ear.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: He very rarely takes on this attitude, usually abiding by the law because it tends to be what’s right anyway. However, in "Exit", he and Tom are trying to get access to where Andromeda is housing its signal for the Launch Date, and the door is unfortunately locked; Whit casually mentions that there is a crowbar in his trunk, at which point Tom pointedly asks him if that qualifies as breaking and entering. Whit's response:
-->'''Whit:''' I'll ask Agent Bourland for a search warrant...later.
* TheSmartGuy: Eugene usually plays this role, especially when it comes to straight fact-recall, but Whit is overall easily the brightest person in the room much of the time.
* StealthInsult: He was much more prone to this in the Hal Smith era:
-->(about Jimmy Barclay) “Y’see, a couple of days ago, he really wanted to be like you, Mr. Dern. But by being no more than yourself, you made him realize what a horrible prospect that really is. And for that, you have my undying gratitude.”
* TheStoryteller: Before Bernard became the primary yarn-spinner, Whit regularly told kids stories from the Bible and from history.
* TeenGenius: "Great Expectations" reveals him to have been one.
* TookALevelInKindness: Well, for a relative value of kindness; he was always a welcoming, grandfatherly man, but he was a lot less likely to give snippy, sharp remarks to people after Paul Herlinger took on the role from Paul Herlinger.
* UndisclosedFunds: It’s never made clear exactly how expensive he is, but he’s made enough money off of his various businesses, writing ventures, and government work that he can comfortably finance people’s mission efforts and afford the near-constant travel that his adventures require; with that in mind, his financial success level is somewhere between extremely and ''obscenely''. Not bad for a guy who was upset that he couldn’t afford to give his kids more than a couple of Christmas gifts each in “Silent Night”.
* WeirdnessMagnet: Whenever something is going on in Odyssey, expect him to be in some way involved.
* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: In "The Mortal Coil", he makes an Imagination Station program that simulates the afterlife, not figuring that he could possibly get addicted to its effects.
* WhatTheHellHero: In “The Mortal Coil”, Tom calls him out on his attempts to fool around with death and the afterlife through the Imagination Station, pointing out that death is something that will come on God’s terms and isn’t something that should be fiddled with via virtual reality technology.
** Jack called him out as recounted in “Clara” for trying to adopt the titular orphan above the two-parent home she should have, believing that Whit is too blinded by his love for Clara and his grief over his recently-deceased wife to see what Clara really needs.
* YouWakeUpInARoom: In "No Way Out" and "No Way In", he finds himself in a room with no doors or windows and alternates between slowly piecing together what happened to him and attempting to convince Lester (the mentally ill man who is trying to take care of him down there) to go get some medical help.

!!Constance Mildred “Connie” Kendall

->'''First appearance:''' “Connie Comes to Town”
->'''Voiced by:''' Katie Leigh (“Connie Comes to Town”-present), Meagan Smith (“The Champ of the Camp”

* AbsurdPhobia: Hers is the fear of using staplers, introduced in “Secrets”.
* ActingUnnatural: In "Grand Opening, Part 1", when she tries to act normal around Mitch when she finds out that he has a connection to the people who have been putting cameras in Whit’s office.
* BerserkButton: References to her weight.
* BigEater: Her ideal day involves shopping and a four-course meal at the mall food court, and she's been known to pig out on ice cream under the guise of "testing it for freezer burns".
-->'''Eugene:''' Six times a day?!
* BrainyBrunette: Has brown hair and was the valedictorian of her graduating class. Generally speaking, she’s the one with a lot of sophistication and social wisdom in addition to her academic capabilities.
** In “Broken Window”, she resolves the question of who broke the window ([[spoiler:Whit, incidentally]]) simply by looking at where the glass pieces are—on the outside, meaning that the window was broken from the inside.
** In “Sixties-Something”, she sees through Jim Reeves’s attempts to cover for Josh Guthrie’s reclusiveness:
-->'''Connie:''' Thank you for your time…Mr. Guthrie.
* CannotTellAJoke: Compared to Eugene and Katrina, her pun-making skills leave something to be desired, as shown in "A Book By Its Cover".
* CatchPhrase: "Sorry I'm late!"
** Some variation of "Nobody ever tells me anything!"
* ChaoticGood: She’s much more prepared to act on impulse.
* ConstantlyCurious: Especially in her early days; this is how she ends up accidentally running the Applesauce program in “A Bite of Applesauce” (and subsequently gets fired).
** Tries putting her curiosity to the side in “The Curse”, then admits that not snooping around and finding out for herself is killing her.
* ContemplateOurNavels: Admits herself that she's notorious for this; in "Do Or Diet" she admits to having "one of those 'I need some purpose in my purposeless life' kind of days", and Eugene snipes in "Hear Me, Hear Me" that he's repeatedly sat through her ramblings about her purpose in life and what her future holds.
* CreditCardPlot: At the center of one in "A Little Credit, Please".
* [[CuteButCacophonic Cute, but Cacophonous]]: She’s normally cheerful and upbeat, but she can be quite shrill and loud when riled.
* DamselInDistress: In "Waylaid in the Windy City" (by Regis Blackgaard), "Exit" (by Bennett Charles), and "Accidental Dilemma, Part 2" (by the Whisperer).
* DeadpanSnarker: When she isn't TheDitz.
* DefiantCaptive: She may get held hostage more than any other character on the show, but she’ll at least annoy her captors in the process.
* DependingOnTheWriter: Oscillates between being either the sanest, most levelheaded member of the cast sans Whit or the flightiest, depending on what the writers require for the episode.
** This may have been her undoing in the post-Novacom episodes; without Eugene around and no mysteries or technological thrillers to fill in the gaps, Connie was forced to carry much more of the weight of the show on her shoulders while also being Mitch’s love interest, and this trope became much more pronounced.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Plenty of her episodes revolve around this, most notoriously “What Are You Gonna Do With Your Life?”.
* TheDitz: Whenever the show calls for it, especially in episodes that require her to be flustered, like "A Christmas Conundrum" and "Secrets".
* DontExplainTheJoke: Has to explain her match pun in “A Book By Its Cover” to Eugene and Katrina.
* DramaQueen: When she gets worked up—and it's not hard to get her worked up.
* EmbarrassingMiddleName: "Mildred".
* TheEmpath: Right along with being TheHeart, she’s really good at reading people’s emotions and helping them get through tough times.
* TheFashionista: She loves shopping and at least tries to stay aware of what’s trendy; if she’s not snarking about Eugene’s personality, she’s snarking about his clothing choices.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: With Eugene, alias "Goggles", via prank war in "The Champ of the Camp".
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Sanguine—outgoing, compassionate, and scatterbrained.
* FriendToAllChildren: She may not be an inventing wiz or a science genius, but as Whit observes in "The One About Trust, Part 2", Whit's End wouldn't be the same without her willingness to reach out to everyone she meets.
* GemEncrusted: She gets a bejeweler in “You’re Two Kind”, which she uses to give Eugene an almost literal ton of bedazzled gifts.
* TheHeart: Aside from Whit's grandfatherly and welcoming persona, Connie is the emotional center of Whit's End, always welcoming to the kids and able to be one of them while still acting as an authority figure. Even Whit is of the firm belief that Whit's End would never be the same without her.
* HollywoodToneDeaf: She's notoriously horrendous at singing (and songwriting).
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With all the kids in town, but especially Lucy, Jimmy, and Mandy.
* IronicName: "Constance", as Connie herself proudly explains, means [[TheDitz "firmness of mind".]]
* LargeHam: Whenever she has a freakout (and she has a lot of freakouts).
* LethalChef: The fire department has apparently responded to the results of her attempts to cook at least nine times, and her brownies once sent her father to the hospital.
** She does, however, know how to broil a salmon in "It's All About Me".
* MasterCharacterHeroines: Persephone the Maiden.
* TheMatchmaker: She's a hopeless romantic; she spends the entirety of “Naturally, I Assumed…” helping Eugene demonstrate his feelings for Katrina, and her primary role in "The Triangled Web" centers around her attempts to set up Jimmy and Lucy.
* MyHairCameOutGreen: She tries to dye her hair “raspberry chestnut” in “Secrets” in a jealous bid to try to look like Mitch’s old redheaded girlfriend…and it turns out purple.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Connie even hangs a lampshade on it, remarking that it feels like she's been "sixteen forever".
* NotSoDifferent: From Jules, her half-sister. While Jules has a bit more of a nihilistic attitude than Connie did, it's unquestionable that Jules's personality bears an uncanny resemblance to Connie prior to the latter's conversion to Christianity, which is probably not entirely unintentional.
* ParentalSubstitute: Her parents divorced not long before she moved to Odyssey, and her father was rather neglectful and uncaring towards her; Whit became the father figure she never had, to the point where she asked him to walk her down the aisle at her (almost) wedding to Mitch (and probably would have done even if her biological father had bothered to show up).
** She functions as one for Jules; when Jules shows up without any parent accompanying her in “The Ties That Bind”, Connie takes her in and basically has to introduce her to the concept of discipline and personal responsibility.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Eugene. The evolution of their relationship from where they were in their first episodes to now is striking.
* PlotAllergy: Her allergy to walnuts kicks off the plot to “Hear Me, Hear Me”, where Eugene gives her brownies with walnuts in them, she accuses him of being a terrible listener, and Wooton sets up a game show contest between the two.
* PowerTrio: The Id to Whit's Ego and Eugene's Superego.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She’s friendly and bubbly and she’s willing to give people second chances, but she knows when to put her foot down:
** The first real example of this is in “Connie Goes to Camp”, where she has to send Lucy home because she’s been repeatedly breaking rules. This is actually a huge step forward in Connie’s character development; only a few episodes before, Whit had fired her for using the Applesauce program when he told her she wasn’t supposed to, and this episode shows Connie that being a responsible authority figure can be difficult but an important skill to learn.
*** Earlier in that episode, she calls out Donna and Robyn for their attempts to get Allison to stop obsessing over TV, pointing out that they were being competitive and mean-spirited rather than loving and friendly.
** After she catches Aubrey skipping school in “Under the Influence”, she’s willing to give her a second chance as a Whit’s End employee, but when she later finds out that Aubrey did it again and was at a party, Connie—after talking it over with Whit—tells Aubrey that she’s been fired and sharply reprimands her for using Connie’s mercy to cover her tracks.
** As a divorcees’ child, she empathizes with and gives advice to Mandy, whose parents are separating, but she still calls her out in “Out of Our Hands” on trying to manipulate her parents into getting back together and for writing off her brother David as uncaring—as Connie points out, you can’t force people to work through their issues, and just because David handles his hurt differently doesn’t mean he’s not hurting at all.
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Eugene, Whit, and almost everyone else’s Blue; Blue to Wooton and Penny’s Red.
** As an indication of her character development, Connie has more recently played the Blue Oni to Eugene's Red, such as in "Blood, Sweat, and Fears", where she contrasts Eugene's neurotic phobia of needles and of giving blood by pointing out that, as the organizer of the blood drive, he’s obligated to donate, and if people find out that he refused out of fear, they might not want to volunteer themselves.
* RomanticWingman: Plays this role for Eugene, beginning in “Naturally, I Assumed…”, in order to help him win over Katrina, frequently giving him advice about women and coming to his defense when she thinks Katrina is stringing him along.
* RunningGag: Being locked out of the loop of the mysterious goings-on around town. (Notably, in “Accidental Dilemma” from the commemorative 50th album, she’s finally privy to Whit’s plan and is the only one besides Whit who is aware that Jason actually [[spoiler:faked his death]].)
** In “Odyssey Sings”, she repeatedly tries to sing her song, only getting through “IIIIII triiiiiiiiipped” before being cut off by another character.
* SecretKeeper: In “Accidental Dilemma”, where she’s the only one besides Whit who knows that [[spoiler:Jason faked his death.]]
* SelfDeprecation: In “It Began With A Rabbit’s Foot”:
-->"You said you don’t have any particular skill, and good thing for me you don’t have to have any to work here!"
* SickeninglySweethearts: With Mitch. This did not escape the notice of any of the main cast, to whom it became prime snark fodder.
** It actually ends up coming back to bite them in “Between You and Me” when they’re together so often and so gross with each other that they both end up neglecting their respective relationships with God.
* ShipperOnDeck: Connie is a hopeless romantic; so far, [=OTPs=] include Eugene/Katrina, Wooton/Penny, Jimmy/Lucy (although she seems to have switched to Jack/Lucy upon seeing how much closer Jack is to Lucy than Jimmy), and Trent/Mandy.
* SmallNameBigEgo: PlayedForLaughs in “A Most Surprising Answer”, where she claims that she was the primary reason why Eugene and Katrina got together at all.
* SpySpeak: In “Hold Up!”, she knows to signal to a police officer that something is wrong while under threat by a line about being out of coffee.
* TheStoryteller: She’s not the one who’s best known for it, but she’s got some chops, shown off in “Three Funerals and a Wedding” and “Black Clouds”.
* SuddenlyShouting: Invoked in “Waylaid in the Windy City, Part 1”; she’s the one who flags down a hotel van—by screaming her head off.
* SweetTooth: Her favorite food is cookie dough (although Eugene’s probably not too far off the mark to guess that it’s whipped cream), and he also mentions that she “tests ice cream for freezer burn”
* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: She knows what women want and she's emotionally sensitive, but her explicitly romantic advice to men seems like it came right out of a chick flick.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Eugene, at least initially.
* WhatTheHellHero: Multiple people call her out in “A…Is For Attitude” for pressuring people into doing things they aren’t necessarily good at by having a great attitude about it rather than actually practicing at it.
** In “Thy Will Be Done”, Whit calls her out on trying to force Eugene into Christianity.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Mitch. [[spoiler: They don't. It's either the best decision AIO ever made or the worst, depending on who you ask.]]
* WritersBlock: Suffers from it in “Around the Block” as she attempts to write her book about Odyssey.

!!Eugene Meltsner

-->'''First appearance:''' “Connie, Part 1”
-->'''Voiced by:''' Will Ryan (“Connie, Part 1”-present), John Charles Morris (“The Champ of the Camp”), Shane Baumel (“A New Era, Part 1”-“A New Era, Part 2”)

* AbsenteeActor: Will Ryan infamously left the show in 2000 for undisclosed reasons, and the entire Novacom saga had to be worked around Eugene's subsequent disappearance.
* AbsentMindedProfessor: When sufficiently exhausted, such as in "The Impossible".
* TheAce: He’s absolutely brilliant in all areas of science bar none, and also holds extensive knowledge of literature, philosophy, history, and the ukulele.
* ActingUnnatural / BadBadActing: Showcased in "The Ties That Bind, Part 12", when Buck requests that he and Katrina not tell Detective Polehaus that Buck was beaten up in [=McAlister=] Park. Eugene follows through on this promise by acting as suspicious around Detective Polehaus as he possibly can, with a side helping of INeverSaidItWasPoison to round it all off.
* {{Adorkable}}: The straight-laced logical genius becomes a complete dork around Katrina. He prefaces a request for a date after they first meet thusly:
-->“I would enjoy seeing your autographed book one day!”
* AesopAmnesia: Suffers to an almost literal extent in "A Most Extraordinary Conclusion". He contracts amnesia as a result of an overload in the programming for a government-funded application of the radio wave study, then resorts to attempting an overload of all of the memories programmed into the Imagination Station by the same method.
* AfraidOfNeedles: Becomes a major plot point in "Blood, Sweat, and Fears".
* AlwaysSecondBest: Explains in "The Graduate" that he felt this way about high school classmate Larry Kent, who was selected valedictorian over him and was also the Big Man on Campus.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Shows symptoms of Asperger's—extraordinary intellectual and technical competence at the expense of social graces.
* BadassBookworm: Not nearly as action-oriented as Jason, but has been known to do some really awesome things, including keeping highly sought-after research safe from ruthless thugs for months on end and helping to stop an international crime lord.
* BadLiar
* BadlyBatteredBabysitter: During "Child's Play".
* BrainyBrunette: Has brown hair and is infamous for his genius.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Occasionally a literal example; Eugene's competence is often hindered by his neuroses and tendencies to show off, such as in "All-Star Witness".
* CatchPhrase: "To borrow the colloquialism..."
** Less frequently, "In the vernacular..."
* CharacterDevelopment: Eugene came to town an insufferable, arrogant, show-offy genius who, though respectful of faith, often acted fairly condescending when met with the idea of belief in a higher power; today, he is much more warm-hearted and friendly, and uses his intellect to help people. His character has developed to the point where his plot in "Tales of a Small Town Thug" centers around his disgust with and attempt to move away from all of the character traits he used to possess.
* ChildProdigy/TeenGenius: He was a bit of a handful as a kid, but there was no question that he was vastly intelligent all the same. He may have disintegrated a bathtub, but the fact that he was around seven years old and knew how to arrange chemicals from his garage to create a solvent still stands.
* ChocolateOfRomance / FlowersOfRomance: Tries to give both to Katrina in "Naturally, I Assumed..." but it turns out that she's allergic to the flowers and doesn't eat chocolate due to the high sugar content.
* CityMouse: He’s woefully inept at nature-based survival in “Flash Flood”—although bless him, he does want to learn.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In “For Whom the Wedding Bells Toll”:
-->'''Katrina:''' I asked you to marry me, and you responded by conducting a survey?! Why didn’t you bring in a census bureau?
-->'''Eugene:''' It’s an off-year for them in this district!
* CountryCousin: Downplayed; Bernard is his distant relative, but he's not so much "country" as he is "down-to-earth and non-erudite".
* CrazyPrepared: Brings along a compass, poison oak antidote, a snake bite kit, a tourniquet, purified water, a propane lamp, a waterproof tarp, a rope whistle, and a rappelling rope, among other things, on a camping trip in “Flash Flood”.
* DeadpanSnarker: Often in contrast to Connie's DramaQueen tendencies.
* {{Determinator}}: Where Connie is stubborn, and Whit at least knows his limits, when Eugene seriously puts himself to a task, it's fair to say that nothing short of physical debilitation or God Himself will stop him. And the first one's not a guarantee.
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: In "Broken-Armed and Dangerous", the women arriving at June Kendall's birthday party all assume that Eugene is insulting them in some way when instead he is attempting to be polite and to reconcile the situation.
* DitzyGenius: He is a tried-and-true genius, academically brilliant and logical to the core, but is incredibly socially inept.
* DramaQueen: Repeatedly descends into melodramatic fits when under emotional duress, especially about Katrina.
** This is how he attempts to help drive off a bear in "Flash Flood":
--->"Begone, O ursine creature! Begone, O forest dweller! Stay away! Get thee hence!"
* DrivesLikeCrazy: In “The Fifth House on the Left, Part 2”.
* EasyEvangelism: Averted ''hard''. His conversion to Christianity, while inevitable, was the most well-known conversion arc on the show, and it took him years following his introduction, and a significant amount of soul-searching, to accept Christ.
* EncyclopedicKnowledge
* EntitledToHaveYou: Unwittingly holds this attitude toward Katrina in "The Right Choice", and has to learn to be aware of this selfishness and let go of it.
* {{Flashback}}: Has some in "The Time Has Come" to significant events in his life that happened at certain places, such as the first time he ever walked into Whit's End in "Connie, Part 1" and when Whit had a talk with him on a park bench about dealing with difficult emotions in "Last In A Long Line".
* ForgivenButNotForgotten: He “forgives” Richard Maxwell on a conditional basis in “The Homecoming”—he accepts the apology with the condition that they will never become more than acquaintances. He seems to have let this go and is actually quite pleased at the fact that Richard has turned over a new leaf and wants to help him in “Another Chance”, although this probably has a lot to do with the fact that he had become a Christian.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: With Connie (a.k.a. "The Avenger") in the culmination of a series of prank wars in "The Champ of the Camp".
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Melancholic—perfectionistic, meticulous, and possessing high expectations of himself and others.
* FriendlessBackground: Implied; he accelerated through grade school at an almost alarming pace, and he started high school at age nine and was regularly picked on for being so young.
* FromBadToWorse: In "The Right Choice": he dramatically crashes Katrina's parents' renewal of their vows at an upscale hotel, believing that the wedding was Katrina's; RealityEnsues as she calls him out for his assumption that she would get married without telling him; he continues to demand to talk to her to the point where he hacks into the hotel's computer system to get her room number and almost gets arrested for hacking into the system; he learns that Brandon Teller has asked Katrina to marry him, then desperately travels to her university to plead with her to change her mind; finally, he tries to ask her to marry him, only to be shot down. Fortunately, he learns that he has been very selfish and he and Katrina decide to take their relationship one step at a time, but he definitely trades out the shovel for the oil rig.
* GeekPhysiques: Skinny enough that a partially-blind dog apparently once confused him for a tree sapling.
* HappilyMarried: To Katrina.
* HeroOnHiatus: During the Novacom arc; his Radio Wave Study and his attempts to keep the information from falling into the wrong hands are an integral part of the story, but Will Ryan’s absence prevented Eugene from actually making an appearance. He either appears in clips spliced together from old shows or the characters are simply talking about and being affected by the actions he takes off-air.
* HiddenDepths: The local genius is also the local ukulele aficionado.
* INeedToGoIronMyDog: Delivers a rather blunt example in “It Began With A Rabbit’s Foot”:
-->“If you’ll excuse me, I need to find a reasonable excuse with which to excuse myself.”
* IfMyCalculationsAreCorrect: Says this often.
* InnocentBigot: He doesn’t understand that his comments to Dr. Pittske in “Broken-Armed and Dangerous” could be taken as not only disrespectful, but also sexist as well.
* InnocentBlueEyes: Periwinkle blue, to be precise.
* InspectorJavert: In “Suspicious Minds”, where he believes someone has been stealing from Whit's End and accuses Bernard, Connie, and other customers; it culminates in him actually electrifying the cash register.
* InsufferableGenius: Oh, so very much. He dials it back as part of his CharacterDevelopment to grow into being a GentlemanAndAScholar.
* JustFineWithoutYou: In “Back to Abnormal”, he struggles with the fact that his absence during the Novacom saga and the brief period of time following it forced the citizens of Odyssey to move on without him and fill in the gaps he left behind.
* JustFriends: Tries to enforce this with Katrina in the early days of their relationship.
* LadyAndKnight: Wants to imitate this with Katrina before their wedding in "For Better or For Worse". He keeps failing at it, but Katrina is quick to remind him when she catches on that she loves him for who he is, not for the idealized version of himself that he wants to be.
* LargeHam: His neuroses tend to lend themselves well to this—see "Blood, Sweat, and Fears" and "Poor Loser".
** He delivers one of the most overwrought prayers ever offered, in fiction or out, in “Do, For A Change", and it lasts for almost a full minute:
--->'''Jack Allen:''' Would you like to lead us in prayer, Eugene?
--->'''Eugene:''' Delighted. Dearest Elohim: We know that you were with the army of Jehoshaphat in 2nd Chronicles 20:1 and following, and when he prepared his army to battle the Ammonites, which were of a great multitude, you told them not to fear; and though the Hebrew is slightly ambiguous in a few of the verses in this passage, we know you tell us the same. And we remember this today when we battle the Ammonites of anxiety, the Jebusites of injustice, the Perizzites of pride, and yea, the Syrians of sinfulness. Glorious Yahweh, we see in Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians how he uses eschatological references as the basis for hope that determines the nature of daily life, and in a sense, we should do the same. And we ask these things in the name of our precious Redeemer and Savior, Jesu Christe, Emmanu-el, i.e. “God with us.” Amen.
* LastNameBasis: With almost everyone. If he uses someone's first name or nickname, it means something significant.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Remarks that his father remains "surprisingly obstinate" on matters of faith. Mr. Whittaker isn't at all surprised.
-->'''Whit:''' A Meltsner, being obstinate on matters of faith?
-->'''Eugene''' (sheepishly): Oh.
* LongLostRelative: To Bernard.
* LoonyFriendsImproveYourPersonality: Becomes gradually less insufferable and arrogant the longer he is influenced by the more down-to-earth townsfolk of Odyssey.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Developed a crush on Katrina almost immediately upon meeting her.
* LoveLetter: Wrote one to Katrina that likened her to a pentium processor.
* MasterCharacterHeroes: Apollo the Businessman.
* MotorMouth: Used to do this a lot while rattling off scientific information, facts, and figures, or when nervous or excited.
-->'''Whit:''' Eugene, drop in a punctuation mark, please?
* MyOwnPrivateIDo: He and Katrina have the "elope first, plan later" variant; they elope at her father's deathbed, as recalled in "Plan B, Part I: Missing in Action", then have a ceremony for their friends and family back in Odyssey in "For Better or For Worse".
* NoSocialSkills: He may be a genius with a nigh-eidetic memory, but Eugene often finds himself slowly digging himself deeper in social situations.
* OddCouple: Whenever paired with the more sensible and down-to-earth but technologically ignorant Bernard or Tom.
* OpaqueNerdGlasses: Sports a pair in his official artwork, although they seem to have been downgraded to regular-lensed NerdGlasses in the relaunch ArtShift.
* PairTheSmartOnes: With Katrina.
* PhraseCatcher: When he indulges in SesquipedalianLoquaciousness and TechnoBabble, he is usually met with some variation of “In ''English'', Eugene!”.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Connie. Their relationship has developed considerably since their first meeting, from rivals to friends who love each other dearly and respect and admire one another.
* PowerTrio: Superego to Whit's Ego and Connie's Id.
* PutOnABus: Will Ryan, who played Eugene, left the show for undisclosed reasons, and naturally, so did his character. This was explained in-universe by Eugene and Katrina fleeing Odyssey to keep Eugene's research about the Radio Wave Study safe from Andromeda and to prevent Andromeda from capturing him. He famously returned to the show in "A Most Intriguing Question" with amnesia as a result of a National Institute of Health experiment gone wrong.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue to Connie's Red.
** Occasionally plays the Red to Connie's Blue, such as in "Blood, Sweat, and Fears", where he is scared stiff of giving blood while she provides the voice of reason.
* RenaissanceMan: Skilled in physics, computer science, inventing, programming, physics, biology, and the ukulele.
* RogueJuror: In “Blind Justice”.
* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: Eugene's intellectual abilities are off the charts, but he also has almost no social graces and little experience interacting with average peers—which is probably partially due to the fact that he skipped several grades in his childhood instead of going through the usual thirteen years of schooling.
* SanitySlippage: PlayedForLaughs; he becomes increasingly unhinged as Bernard effortlessly beats him at chess over and over again in "Poor Loser".
* SandInMyEyes: He claims he’s only crying because his allergies are acting up at the end of the Birth of Jesus program in “Back to Bethlehem”.
* SecretKeeper: Becomes one for Jason’s identity as an NSA agent in “The Search for Whit”.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: A hallmark of his character. Though he still uses complex language, he is now much more inclined to speaking so that people can understand him rather than using long words for the sake of it.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Turns out to be his downfall when he brings a chess set to pass the time during a slow day at Whit's End and is beaten several consecutive times by Bernard.
* SmartPeopleKnowLatin: He knows phrases in a variety of languages, but tends to use Latin terminology the most often. Justified, since his area of expertise is science, many branches of which tend to use a lot of Latin and Latin-based words.
* TechnoBabble: Is inclined to indulge in this whenever he discusses computers or technological breakthroughs.
* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: Has the occasional tendency to break out his ukulele at random moments.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: In Leonard’s flashbacks to Eugene’s childhood in “A New Era”, Eugene is voiced by Shane Baumel, who also voiced Eugene’s younger brother Everett in “The Top Floor”.
* VitriolicBestBuds: He had a quasi-adversarial relationship with Tom, Bernard, and Connie in the early days, but there was no denying that each respected the other.
* WaistcoatOfStyle: Drawn with these, and he has a whole collection of vests for every occasion.
* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: When at first he refuses to rat out Richard Maxwell’s grade-changing scheme in “Eugene’s Dilemma”, he suggests to Nicholas that the grades be changed back to what they were originally and does his best to help, not predicting the possibility that they could be monitored.
** He doesn’t consider the possibility that maybe it’s not a good idea to drop beef jerky around in the woods in “Flash Flood”.
* WhatTheHellHero: Katrina calls him out in “The Right Choice” for denying her agency and treating her like he deserves her, disrespecting and distrusting her multiple times, and allowing his emotions to fuel his actions.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Had an infamously long and tumultuous relationship with Katrina. To no one's surprise, TheyDo; they first elope at Armitage Shanks's deathbed in "Plan B, Part 1: Missing in Action", then have an official ceremony for their friends back home in "For Better or For Worse, Part 2".
* YouDidntAsk: He gives Katrina a thoughtful gift (with a bungled romantic speech beforehand) in “Naturally, I Assumed…” but he never actually tells her that it’s because he likes her because “she didn’t ask”.
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!!Thomas Dale “Tom” Riley

->'''First appearance:''' “Whit’s Flop”
->'''Last appearance:''' “Suspicious Finds”
->'''Voiced by:''' Walker Edmiston (“Whit’s Flop”-“Suspicious Finds”), Chad Reisser (“A Matter of Obedience”)

* AllUpToYou: In “Exit”, Whit is led away by Mr. Charles kidnapping and threatening Connie, but no one knows Tom is still in the utility shack containing the launch equipment, so he is put on the line with Jason to destroy the Imagination Station (a mission that goes down to the wire with Tom and would have taken about ten seconds with Whit).
* AmbitionIsEvil: Averted; he’s a member of the city council at the start of the series and then becomes the city mayor because he wants to serve the town. The only reason he even runs for mayor is that no one is opposing Bart Rathbone.
* BadLiar: He’s really bad at coming up with explanations on the spot—in “A Christmas Conundrum”, for example, he tells Eugene that the stereo he’s purchasing for Connie to give to Eugene for Christmas is for Tom's personal use instead, because he can use it for “all sorts of…listenin’-type things”.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He’s normally a friendly, welcoming guy, but as Richard Maxwell discovers, he can hold quite a grudge.
* BookDumb: He doesn't tend to follow technical discussions very easily, but he is very skilled and wise in the realms that serve a purpose to him.
* BrownNote: The life-after-death program in the Imagination Station in "The Mortal Coil" is so beautiful and horrifying to him that he demands that Eugene erase it.
* CallToAgriculture
* ClearMyName: In “Hard Losses”, he finds out that he is up for a recall mayoral election after false evidence was planted that he was paid off by the company that polluted his apple orchard; the episode ends with him welcoming the opportunity to clear his name and remind the townspeople why they elected him.
** Whit has to do this for him in “Exactly As Planned” when Tom is charged with blowing up the Novacom tower on his property and can’t remember enough of what happened to him for a not-guilty plea. Tom’s defense attorney, Michael Frazier, decides that the best route would be an insanity plea in which Novacom is exposed, with their criminal actions used as an explanation for why Tom would blow up the tower. Whit investigates the tower instead, and discovers the actual culprit: [[spoiler:Arthur Dent]].
* CoolOldGuy: He doesn’t try to be hip and cool; he just meets kids where they are, which means they connect with him really easily.
* DeadpanSnarker
* FatalFlaw: Holding grudges and having a short temper.
* FireForgedFriends: With Eugene, who saves his life in “Flash Flood”.
* FrameUp: Is framed by false evidence planted by Glossman for a chemical spill that poisons his apples.
* FriendToAllChildren: He’s great with the kids at Whit’s End, he coaches a Little League team, and he’s perceptive enough about children that he’s able to advise Whit in “The W.E.” that no matter what their technology looks like, kids still have the same thoughts, feelings, and emotional needs that they always have.
* GoAndSinNoMore: Lets Rodney Rathbone off with a warning for stealing his apples and breaking his fence to get them in “An Act of Mercy”; however, after he finds out that Rodney pushed around another kid for a $1.00 debt, he makes Rodney work to make recompense.
* GoodIsNotNice: While he’s normally a friendly guy, he held a grudge against Richard Maxwell for years after Maxwell burned down his barn, even when shown evidence that Maxwell had changed.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: In Darkness Before Dawn, he is falsely accused of taking campaign donations from Edgebiter, the company that polluted his farm, as a payoff, and is recalled and dragged through the dirt as a result. (Fortunately, this is resolved when the townspeople discover that he was being framed by Regis Blackgaard as a power grab.)
* HeroicWillpower: Rather than become consumed with Whit’s afterlife simulation program in “The Mortal Coil”, he immediately recognizes that it is incredibly dangerous after experiencing it for only a few seconds and orders Eugene to shut down not only the program, but the Imagination Station itself.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Whit; he affectionately refers to him as “John Avery” when exasperated.
* HiddenDepths: “Potential Possibilities” reveals that he used to be part of a vaudeville team.
* HopelessWithTech: Tends to lean toward Type 2. He knows the basics, but he'll never exactly be confused with a programmer.
* HotBlooded: Responds very fiercely when he feels threatened, even to his friends.
* IrrationalHatred: Toward Maxwell.
* ItsAllMyFault: Blames himself for allowing Novacom to plant itself in the town, as Tom was the one who leased his property for them to build their broadcasting tower.
* TheLancer: To Whit, serving as a voice of common sense and emotional support while contrasting Whit’s cooler head with a more fiery temper.
* LandslideElection: Wins the mayorship of Odyssey through one of these in “Tom for Mayor”.
* MasterCharacterHeroes: Poseidon the Artist
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When he finds out that Richard, whom he had been constantly rebuffing and deriding, was severely injured trying to help him.
* TheMcCoy: Tends to react more emotionally to situations than logically.
* NiceGuy: For the most part, he is a friendly, welcoming guy who enjoys helping people and cares about the welfare of the town.
* NoSympathyForGrudgeholders: Befitting a show where forgiveness is regularly preached as a virtue, he’s often called out on his grudge against Richard Maxwell (although even he admits on multiple occasions that he knows in his head that he should, but the anger in his heart prevents him from it).
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: One of the only times Tom is referred to as “Thomas” is in “Exactly As Planned”, when the judge declares him acquitted of the accusation of blowing up the Novacom tower.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The normally calm and collected (if slightly curmudgeonly) Tom goes into a panic over the life-after-death program in the Imagination Station and immediately orders Eugene to erase it after experiencing it for only a few seconds.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: His son Timmy died in a tragic boating accident, and it's haunted him ever since.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: As the mayor of Odyssey; he looks out primarily for the welfare of the town.
* SimpleMindedWisdom: Just because he's a farmer with a thick country accent doesn't mean he doesn't have worthwhile things to say; he just doesn’t word them the way Eugene does.
** He has very pointed, sharp words to say to Whit about the Imagination Station’s life-after-death program in “The Mortal Coil”, telling him that death is supposed to be a locked door until God and God alone opens it; in "A Most Extraordinary Conclusion", he points out to Whit that even if the Imagination Station can restore Eugene's memories, it can't quantify the true value of his relationships, and it can't restore his relationship with God.
* StubbornMule: He continually insists that the Novabox wave therapy treatment is working for his wife Agnes, in spite of the proofs that Whit has brought against it. It comes back to bite him when the very thing Whit warned him about—that the healing effects of the Novabox reverse themselves—happens and Agnes can no longer even recognize him anymore.
* TrashTalk: Tag-teams with Bernard in this about Eugene behind his back in “Flash Flood”.
* WhatTheHellHero: Whit, Jack, Jason, and Eugene all call him out on his treatment of Richard Maxwell.

!!Bernard Walton

->'''First appearance:''' “By Any Other Name”
->'''Last appearance:''' “Rights, Wrongs, and Winners” (on-air), “BTV: Live” (overall)
->'''Voiced by:''' Dave Madden, David Griffin (“The Conscientious Cross-Guard”), Josh Shada (“The Girl in the Sink”)

* {{Adorkable}}: His attempts to impress his future wife Maude in “Prequels of Love”.
* AgentScully: To Wooton in “The Other Side of the Glass”.
* TheAllegedCar: His truck has quite a few…“special features”, which become Eugene’s undoing when he borrows it to move into his new house in “Two Friends and a Truck”.
* AlmightyJanitor
* AmericanAccents: Somewhere between Appalachian and North Midland—in other words, just rustic enough for a vaguely Midwestern small town but not so backwoods that he sounds like an Oklahoma farmer on Adderall.
* AudienceSurrogate: Frequently responds to the goings-on at Whit’s End with the snarky amusement of a Greek Chorus.
* BookDumb: Isn’t the most academically or technically minded guy around, not that he minds.
* BrutalHonesty: Never sugarcoats anything; for example, he’s not a bit shy about informing Marvin that the prophet Jeremiah never caught a break after his persecution by the Jews and eventually died in the Babylonian captivity.
* BuffySpeak: Has a difficult time describing Novacom's scheme and the reason for Eugene's amnesia to Maude in "A Most Surprising Answer".
* CatchPhrase: Variations on “this place gets weirder all the time”.
** “Kids today…”
** “What are parents teaching their kids these days?” Alternatively, “When will parents teach their kids…”
* TheClan: Has a massive extended family that is both distantly related to and has a blood feud with the Meltsners.
* CountryCousin: Less “country” and more “down-to-earth in comparison to academic and erudite”, but he is this to Eugene.
* TheCynic: He certainly holds Christian values, but he has very few illusions about the world.
* DeadpanSnarker: Quite possibly the snarkiest character on the show.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His first lines on the show:
-->“Well, the job’s done, Whit. The windows are all clean—at least as clean as they’ll ever be with all these kids running around.”
* GirlsHaveCooties: While rescuing Mary Beth Pearson from a river (part of his anecdote in “The Girl in the Sink”), he tells her unconscious body that he wasn’t planning on hugging a girl until he was at least twenty-five.
* GoodFeelsGood: Gives Sam Johnson a scolding in this vein in “When Bad Isn’t So Good”. Just because he doesn’t get noticed for doing good things doesn’t mean that he should start doing bad things; doing the right thing is its own reward, and more importantly, when a person does the right thing, they have the knowledge that they’ve pleased God.
* GoshDangItToHeck: Has quite a few creative exclamations that he uses when surprised, exasperated, or pleased.
* GrumpyOldMan / GrumpyBear: Frequently complains about how kids don’t get taught properly by their parents, but he also has good relationships with almost all the kids around town.
* HamAndDeadpanDuo: Deadpan to Wooton’s Ham in “The Other Side of the Glass”.
* HappilyMarried: To his wife Maude, though he never misses an opportunity to poke fun at her.
* HopelessWithTech
* IWasJustPassingThrough: Claims to have simply stopped into a plumber’s convention in a town where Eugene is stranded in “First Hand Experience”, only to find out Eugene’s situation; a police officer comes by and reveals that as soon as Bernard found out what happened, he practically tore the town apart trying to find his friend.
* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: In “The Fifth House on the Left, Part 2”.
-->“I’m a window-washer, not a microsurgeon!”
* ImagineSpot: In "Solitary Refinement", he has one as he considers what monastic life would be like for Eugene.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With all of the kids with whom he associates; though he does not appear to have any children of his own, he gets along rather well with the kids around town (even if he'd never admit to it).
** Also with Eugene, Connie, and Wooton, all three of whom are roughly thirty years his junior.
* ItsPronouncedTroPAY: Arthur Dent insists upon pronouncing his name “BER-nard” instead of “Ber-NARD” in "Nova Rising".
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He hides his affection for his friends and the kids at Whit’s End under a thick layer of grousing and sarcasm.
* LongLostRelative: To Eugene, although it's not a traditional example since Bernard was already an established character by the time Eugene found out they were distantly related.
* LopsidedDichotomy: In “A Most Intriguing Question”:
-->'''Connie:''' Sounds like he’s having a party up there.
-->'''Bernard:''' Or you’ve got some very large mice.
* ManChild: Shades of it in “Do or Diet”; Connie, who is taking up personal training, finds it difficult to try to motivate him to get in better shape when he has absolutely no impulse control around unhealthy food, and he grumbles that Whit is a “trainer’s pet” for reporting a healthy dinner.
-->'''Bernard''' (mockingly): “With fresh fruit for dessert!”
* MentorArchetype / TricksterMentor: Whereas Whit is usually grandfatherly, straightforward, and affectionate, Bernard is world-weary and sarcastic, preferring to let the kids figure things out for themselves and not above screwing around with them a little bit.
* MiddleChildSyndrome: Averted; according to him, you couldn’t possibly miss him, even among four other siblings.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Walks into the Harlequin Theatre, taken over by Regis Blackgaard as a base of operations, as a loud, hillbilly, dopey janitor in "The Last Resort"; walks out having remotely hooked up Eugene’s computer to receive files from Blackgaard’s computer that are essential to taking him down.
* OddFriendship: With Eugene, who is a neurotic, academic, sesquipedalian, technologically fluent erudite, which Bernard is…none of those things.
** Also with Wooton, who is goofy, cheerful, and childish, and proudly hails from Cloudcuckooland.
* OnlySaneMan: Often shares this role with Whit.
* PapaWolf: In "The Fifth House on the Left", he is warm, kind, and protective of Tammi Smith-Hammer, a little girl he barely knows, in the face of her controlling father.
* PoorCommunicationKills: He never specifies to Eugene what the quirks about his truck are, which is what causes Eugene to accidentally wreck it.
* RefusalOfTheCall: In “Nova Rising”, he gets a message from AREM, who has already been playing a principle role in questioning Novacom’s presence in town, right as he’s quitting Novacom to go back to producing B-TV on his own. He ignores it, and tellingly does not appear in any of the Novacom episodes afterward.
* RunningGag: If a truck of his is ever making an appearance, it will probably break down or get damaged at some point: it needs fixing after a small crash in “Second Thoughts”, it can’t handle high altitudes well (and so Bernard has to drive so slowly that he ends up being ticketed) in “Third Degree”, Eugene accidentally wrecks it because of the faulty brakes in “Two Friends and a Truck”, and it gets dirt in the carburetor badly enough that it can’t even start in “The Other Side of the Glass, Part 2”.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Inverted; he’s not academically brilliant, but he beats Eugene in several consecutive games of chess (and watches delightedly as Eugene progressively loses his sanity).
* StraightMan
* TheStoryteller: Regularly tells kids stories, usually from the Bible; the episode titles are typically formatted “Bernard and X”.
* StubbornMule: Tellingly, he has the B-plot in “Stubborn Streaks”, wherein he refuses to admit that his window-washing service is losing customers because he’s taken on so many that he can’t do a good job on them all.
* SugarAndIcePersonality
* TalksLikeASimile / UnusualEuphemism: Has been known to state that something is "about as interesting as the side of a cereal box" and to tell people to "stuff me with spinach and call me a soufflé" when astonished.
* TrashTalk: Tag-teams with Tom about Eugene in “Flash Flood”.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Eugene in the early days.
* VocalEvolution: His voice gradually gets more deadpan over the course of the show.
* YouNeedABreathMint: Subverted; he asks Eugene if he has one in “The Final Conflict”, but then explains that he needs it, not Eugene. (It’s because [[spoiler:he siphoned all the gas out of the tank of Professor Bovril’s car to prevent a getaway]].)

!!Katrina Shanks Meltsner

->'''First appearance:''' "Truth, Trivia, and 'Trina"
->'''Voiced by:''' Pamela Hayden ("Truth, Trivia, and 'Trina" - "Plan B, Part I: Missing in Action"), Audrey Wasilewski ("A Most Surprising Answer" - present)

* AllLovingHero: Showed great compassion for Buck and kept trying to convince him to do the right thing even as he was complicit both in kidnapping her and in a counterfeiting scheme.
* AffectionateNickname: ‘Trina.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: In “A Book By Its Cover”, she tolerates Melissa’s self-centered, entitled antics up until Melissa threatens to have her fired for things Melissa manipulated her into doing, after which Katrina tells her off ''magnificently.''
* BreakUpToMakeUp: Invokes this in “The Turning Point”, where she leaves Odyssey in order to get Eugene away from her influence long enough for him to make a decision about his faith.
* ChildProdigy / TeenGenius: She graduated high school at fourteen, according to “The Graduate”.
* DaddysGirl: She was very close to her father Armitage, and was heartbroken by the fact that her marriage to Eugene had to be celebrated at his deathbed.
* DamselInDistress: She's taken hostage by Buck and Mr. Skint in "The Green Ring Conspiracy".
* DistaffCounterpart: For the first half of her run, her role was basically "girl set up to be Eugene's girlfriend" (not to say she wasn't good at it) to the point where all but two of her appearances were episodes dedicated to their relationship (the exceptions being “A Book By Its Cover” and “The Graduate”). This changed by the time they returned to the show, though it's hard to say if her personality became "less like Eugene" or just plain "less distinctive" — many fans felt that it was the former.
** In recent episodes, as the show focuses on them as a married couple, she's gotten better.
* DumbBlonde: Inverted; she's blonde and highly intelligent.
* FriendlyAddressPrivileges: Tells Eugene when they first meet that her friends all call her ‘Trina, although this doesn’t stick.
* GrayEyes: Befitting the character type, she’s resilient, patient, and introspective.
** They become a minor plot point in “Truth, Trivia, and ‘Trina”; as part of a game show, Bart asks Eugene to state the color of Katrina’s eyes without looking at them, and he can’t do it, while she names the exact shade of his own.
* GuileHero: In “The Top Floor”, she gets Dalton Kearn, an intelligent, cruel archaeologist who held her father-in-law captive for twenty years, to state his name so that Eugene can record it and use it to open a voice-activated door in Dalton’s apartment.
* HappilyMarried: To Eugene, as of "Plan B, Part I".
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Recently drawn with blonde hair and incredibly kind and patient.
* ICanChangeMyBeloved: Considers trying to date Eugene to evangelize to him in "The Turning Point", but Connie immediately shoots it down, knowing from experience that missionary dating doesn't work.
* LampshadeHanging: In “A Book By Its Cover”:
-->“Maybe it’s due to my recent conversion to Christianity, but it sometimes seems as if situations emerge that purposefully teach a lesson.”
* [[spoiler: LawOfInverseFertility]]: Justified and definitely not exploited for drama—it’s revealed that [[spoiler: she and Eugene cannot have children in “To Mend or Repair”, and it’s one of the most heartbreaking scenes on the show.]]
* LonelyRichKid: Implied by all the times she references having hired staff do things with her instead of her parents; she mentions to Eugene in “For Whom the Wedding Bells Toll” that she’s never had a parent pamper her while she’s sick or injured and that she appreciates the feeling of a loved one waiting on her hand and foot.
* MasterCharacterHeroines: Athena the Father's Daughter
* {{Meganekko}}: In official artwork, anyway.
* PlotAllergy: In “Naturally, I Assumed…”, Eugene can’t give her the carnations Connie suggested he give to her because she’s allergic to them.
* PutOnABus: With Eugene in "Plan B, Part I". Both made their triumphant return in "A Most Intriguing Question".
** Earlier in “The Turning Point”, she left Odyssey in order to figure things out and put space between Eugene and herself, as he was not yet a Christian and she therefore could not allow their relationship to continue. She returns in “Love is in the Air, Part 1”.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivers an ''epic'' one to Melissa, the student she has trouble with tutoring in “A Book By Its Cover”:
-->'''Katrina:''' I want to say first that you’d better never talk to me like that again. I don’t care who you are or how you dress or how old you look—that tantrum of yours was worse than a spoiled two-year-old!
-->'''Melissa:''' You can’t—
-->'''Katrina:''' Be quiet until I’m finished! Second—don’t you ever threaten me or any adult you come in contact with again, you understand? You think you can wreck my career? Well, imagine the quality of your life without a proper education! Now you’re gonna turn around, go back to that classroom, and give me a heartfelt apology. And we’re going to study until you can take that test confidently and never have to resort to childish outbursts to cover for bad grades again!
-->'''Melissa:''' ...Why should I?
-->'''Katrina:''' Because I’m telling you to! And my guess is that considering your obnoxious attitude, I’m probably the only tutor left in Odyssey who will help you get through school!
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: To rival Eugene, though, probably due to her superior social skills, mostly when talking ''to'' Eugene.
* SpoiledSweet: Her parents are highly wealthy and gave her the best of everything, but she’s humble and kind and strives to make her own way in the world independent of her parents’ money.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Eugene. To no one’s surprise, TheyDo; first they get married at her father’s bedside moments before his death, then they have a ceremony for all their loved ones in Odyssey upon their return.
* WomenAreWiser: She tends to be more practical and level-headed than Eugene.
* YouDidntAsk: She didn’t tell Eugene that Darren is a young student she’s tutoring in “Naturally, I Assumed…” because “he didn’t ask”.

!!Jason Whittaker

->'''First appearance:''' “The Mortal Coil, Part 1”
->'''Voiced by:''' Townsend Coleman, Thom Pinto ("The Mortal Coil, Part 1"), T.J. Lowther ("Memories of Jerry"), Christopher Fornof, John [=DeVito=] ("Silent Night")

* TheAce: Successful NSA agent, computer programmer, quasi-inventor, cook, and international missionary.
* AgentScully: He’s the most resistant to the idea that Malachi is really an angel in “Malachi’s Message”, believing him instead to be an enemy agent of some kind.
* AltarTheSpeed: Tries to elope with Tasha the day before their wedding in “A Question About Tasha” after Jack refuses to be his best man.
* AmicableExes: With Tasha.
* AntiHero: Particularly when faced with a dangerous or otherwise sticky situation. He is the most likely to be told that he doesn't have to ignore basic morality to successfully counter evil, and he tends to be very cocky and aggressive when he thinks he knows what he's doing.
-->'''Jack:''' We're not supposed to fight the way they fight!
-->'''Jason:''' Well, sorry, but that's the only way I know how to fight.
* {{Badass}}: Arguably the biggest one on the show.
** BadassBaritone: Not as pronounced as Regis’s, but it still shows.
** Heartbroken Badass: After he and Tasha have to break off their engagement, and then after he finds out that Monica Stone used him.
* BreakTheHaughty: His character arc in the Blackgaard Saga consisted of him learning the hard way that he isn’t as good as he thinks he is.
* CharacterDevelopment: He grows beyond his impulsivity, understanding the importance of prayer and reliance on God above himself.
* ChickMagnet: Monica Stone and Tasha Forbes both showed attraction to him, and it's entirely possible that Eugene wasn't just trying to save face when he claimed Connie had a crush on him in "Love is in the Air".
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Notably, the problem isn't that he has a passion for helping people; it's that he has a passion for helping people using his own abilities and making his own decisions instead of letting God direct him.
* CodeName: Agent 1131, for the NSA.
* DeadpanSnarker: Frequently.
* {{Determinator}}: It takes a lot to keep him down for the count.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: One of his prime character flaws; Jason has an unfortunate history of acting on impulse.
* {{Expy}}: Elements of his characterization hearken back to James Bond and Indiana Jones; the clothes he wears on the cover of Album 27: The Search for Whit are particularly Indy-esque, as is the adventure of the titular episodes, and he’s drawn in a tuxedo on the cover of Album 50.
* FatalFlaw: Pride and recklessness.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Choleric—strong-willed, confident, and prone to aggression.
* FriendToAllChildren: Gets along very easily with the kids around town.
* GeniusBruiser: One of the most physically adept characters and also very quick-thinking and gifted in the realm of computer programming (though nowhere near Eugene's extensive knowledge), generally knowledgeable about a number of subjects, and in command of a vast array of street smarts gained through experience.
* GoodIsNotNice: Upon seeing Rodney Rathbone visiting the hospital to check on Richard Maxwell in "The Last Resort", Jason forcefully yanks him into an elevator, shoves him up against the wall, fiercely assures him that he and the Bones of Wrath will be brought to justice, and intimidates him into spilling all the information he knows.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Struggles with the fact that his line of work requires this, dissonant with his deeply-held Christian beliefs, in “The Labyrinth”.
* GoodVersusGood: Constantly butts heads with Jack during the period where they ran Whit’s End together.
* GuileHero: He's not always seen fighting physically, but he usually doesn't have to.
* HandGagging: Does this to Eugene to keep him from spilling vital information in a bugged room in “The Search for Whit, Part 1”. Eugene then repays him in kind in Part 2.
* HesDeadJim: Pronounces Dr. Blackgaard dead at the end of “A Name, Not A Number, Part 1” after Blackgaard is injected with a syringe full of Ruku virus. (Justified, as Jason knew the virus to be deadly and fast-acting.) [[spoiler: Turns out Blackgaard was actually FakingTheDead.]]
* HonorBeforeReason: Has a tendency to indulge in this, including in some of his advice-giving—he’s the one who suggests that Eugene go up to Lakeshore Lodge and interrupt a wedding because they think it’s Katrina’s.
* HotBlooded: Is much more brash and impulsive than most of the characters surrounding him; Glossman notes that this is easy to use against him.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: In “A Touch of Healing”, he doesn’t understand why a disabled child would become addicted to the effects of an Imagination Station program that allows them to experience life without their disability, even going so far as to refer to the ability to walk after being crippled as a "novelty"...to the mother of a paralyzed boy.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Revels in the excitement of the idea of heading the Israelites to counter the Bones of Wrath, and enjoys throwing himself into hands-on projects in general.
* LargeHam: He can get a bit melodramatic at times. “Love Is in the Air” has him deliver a very impassioned speech about pursuing love.
* LetMeAtHim: When sufficiently pushed. He nearly loses it with Philip Glossman before Glossman reminds him that the latter has the bureaucracy on his side, while Jason has...a high school student, the local nerd, a mayor up for recall, and a ragtag group of schoolchildren led by a guy who works at a gas station.
* LikeBrotherAndSister[=/=]PlatonicLifePartners: Seems to be set up this way with Connie.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: He and Whit share the same tendencies toward stubbornness and irrationality in stressful situations; Whit just takes longer to lose his cool and it's usually related to a long-standing emotional blind spot (i.e. anything and everything to do with Jenny), whereas Jason is more susceptible to being emotionally manipulated in general.
* MasterCharacterHeroes: Ares the Protector.
* MrViceGuy: He tends to let his heart rule his head and he doesn't usually stop to plan at first, but he is a courageous person who genuinely wants to do the right thing.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Predictably, his idea to use the Imagination Station to give kids with disabilities the experience of life without them in “A Touch of Healing” spirals into chaos very quickly, with disabled kids all over town pleading with him for more time with the program and getting into fights with each other because of it.
* MyOwnPrivateIDo: Tries to have one spur-of-the-moment with Tasha in “A Question About Tasha” in a snap emotional reaction to Jack’s suggestion that she’s not a Christian. He comes to his senses when he finds out that she really isn’t one, and that she is therefore not someone he should be marrying.
* TheNameIsBondJamesBond: Introduces himself to Mustafa this way in “A Name, Not A Number, Part 1”.
* NervesOfSteel: Justified; the man was an NSA agent, a role that usually requires being calm in the face of danger.
* NobleMaleRoguishMale: The Roguish to Jack’s Noble in the appropriately dubbed “Jack-and-Jason era”.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Like Whit, he’s good at giving kids practical advice about their situations; he sends Erica Clark to the Room of Consequence to get her to understand the problems with being addicted to soap operas, and he’s upfront with Alex Jefferson about the fact that whether in Connellsville or Kenya, missions work is sometimes dirty and unpleasant.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Red to almost everyone else's Blue. His contrast with Jack in particular was part of what leads fans to fondly remember the famous "Jack-and-Jason era" that followed Whit's bus trip.
* RightWayWrongWayPair: Usually the Wrong Way half with Jack.
* SpySpeak: Uses the line “Codebreaker 2” in “A Name, Not a Number” to signal to Donovan that their phone line is tapped.
** He’s on the receiving end of it in “The Search for Whit”, where Tasha uses a date they were on at Trickle Lake (where they sat on a log that turned out to be covered with insects) to communicate to him that the room they’re in is bugged.
* TheStrategist: Is often the one to come up with a plan.
* TooCleverByHalf: During the Blackgaard Saga.
* WhatTheHellHero: Jack repeatedly calls him out on his harebrained, poorly-thought-out ideas, from noisy video games to turning the Imagination Station into an emotionally manipulative LotusEaterMachine to attempting to fight against Blackgaard rather than acknowledging the battle for its spiritual nature.
** Eileen Sellars, mother of the paraplegic Zachary Sellars, confronts Jason about the Imagination Station program in “A Touch of Healing”, pointing out that Zachary has been refusing to actually do the real-life physical therapy that might help him walk again because he’s quickly becoming addicted to the instant gratification of life without his disability and he becomes more disrespectful and ill-tempered as a result.

!!Jack Wilbur Allen

->'''First appearance:''' “Gone…”
->'''Last appearance:''' “The Journal of John Avery Whittaker”
->'''Voiced by:''' Alan Young (“Gone…”-“Home Again, Part 2”), Mark Schillinger (“Blackbeard’s Treasure”), Marshal Younger (young), Garrett [=McQuaid=] (“The Journal of John Avery Whittaker”)

* ActualPacifist: In contrast to Jason’s “fight fire with fire” methods, Jack refuses to play hardball with the Bones of Wrath because he doesn’t want the children under his care to get hurt; this attitude culminates in him confronting Blackgaard with words and attempting to get him to accept Jesus and redeem himself rather than taking him down.
* AgentMulder: He’s the only one out of the main cast to be initially receptive to the idea that Malachi is really what he claims to be (an angel) in “Malachi’s Message”.
* AllLovingHero
* TheAtoner: Saw working at Whit’s End as penance for what he did to Whit at the orphanage.
* BelatedBackstory: In “A Question About Tasha”, Jack relays to Connie that as a young Christian, he made the reckless decision to marry a non-Christian, and after a spiritual epiphany, he spent the rest of his life either trying to convince her to become a Christian or attending church with her knowing that she didn’t believe it. Eventually, a stroke robbed her of movement and speech, and he spent her last moments in one last desperate attempt to lead her to Christ, the outcome of which he will never know until he himself reaches heaven.
** He spends all of “Home Sweet Home” preparing to leave Odyssey just as Whit returns; the next episode, “Clara”, is the one where he explains why: when Jack ran an orphanage in Nebraska, Whit came and stayed with him for a while after Jenny died, befriending a little girl named Clara in the process. He wanted to adopt her, but Jack went ahead and let a young couple adopt her instead, arguing that Whit was projecting his grief onto the issue of adopting her and that she needed a two-parent home that Whit could not give. Whit lets Clara go, but is furious with Jack for going behind his back and refuses to talk to him for years. Thankfully, he and Whit make up in that episode, both apologizing to one another for their actions.
** He comments in "For Whom the Wedding Bells Toll" that Whit always got girlfriends by stealing them away from him, then adds, "How do you think Whit met Jenny?". This is finally fleshed out in "The Triangle", where Whit and Jack tell Connie the story, that Whit first met Jenny when she was dating Jack, but she fell in love with Whit instead as they spent more time together.
* BigGood: Takes Whit’s place in this role during the Blackgaard saga.
* BrutalHonesty: He can be very blunt when sufficiently pushed (although it takes a lot to actually get him there); he calls out Whit on his anger that Clara is being adopted by a young married couple rather than allowing him to adopt her, pointing out that Whit cannot give Clara both a mother and a father…because his beloved wife Jenny just died recently. Ouch.
* CoolOldGuy: He’s the kindly, grandfatherly variety; he connects well with kids by simply listening to their problems and providing sage, calming council.
* DecemberDecemberRomance: With Joanne.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: It’s a ForegoneConclusion that he doesn’t end up with Jenny—Whit’s future wife—in “The Triangle”.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: The trait first appears in “A Code of Honor” and remains as an element of his character for the rest of the series.
* ExtremeDoormat: He sometimes tends to sugar-coat things and ignore problems rather than face them directly; caught between Connie and Mitch arguing about an actor’s talent, he begins muttering about the cable availability where he lives in “Fifteen Minutes”, and he finds it very difficult to be honest about the incompetence of a new employee of his in “And That’s the Truth”.
* EverybodyHatesMathematics: Mentions having disliked geometry in school in "Poetry in Slow Motion".
* FatalFlaw: His first wife apparently referred to him as “painfully polite”; while he is very considerate of others’ feelings, he’s also prone to be conflict-avoidant and doesn’t always speak his mind or take action when he should.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: In “The Final Conflict”, he remains calm and dignified as Regis Blackgaard threatens his life and instead tries to convince Blackgaard to give up and possibly accept salvation.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Phlegmatic—peace-loving, kindly, and conflict-avoidant.
* FriendToAllChildren
* HappilyMarried: To Joanne, as of "For Whom the Wedding Bells Toll, Part 3".
* HesAFriend: Tries to reintroduce Richard Maxwell to Tom Riley this way in “Hard Losses”. It doesn’t work, but he does still reach out to them both.
* HiddenDepths: See Belated Backstory.
* HonorBeforeReason: He has a point that Butch being beaten up because of his work with the Israelites was inexcusable and that children should not be placed in that kind of position, but Jason has a point that without people around to undo the Bones’ schemes, they’ll only get worse.
** He continues to pursue the story behind the painting he and Joanne receive as a donation in “The Painting” even though the donor tells him to simply take it and not advertise where it came from, believing that there is something suspicious going on.
** Even before that, he wants to make sure that the donor really wants it to be given away and that they have full knowledge of the implications of doing so, as it is the original work rather than a print and is therefore worth thousands of dollars, even though selling it at his antique gallery could put it on the map and be a huge success for him.
* HopelessWithTech: Downplayed; he jokingly remarks in "Wrapped Around Your Finger" that he's still frightened of pocket calculators when Eugene shows him the computerized antique database for the antique shop.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Finally decided this about Jenny, as recounted in “The Triangle, Part 2”.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Connie, Eugene, and Jason, as well as the rest of the kids around town.
* LoveAtFirstSight: With Joanne in “The Decision”—he’s pretty smitten with her from the minute they first meet.
* LoveConfessor: He first professed his feelings for Jenny to his childhood friend Emily in a letter, as recounted in “The Triangle”; his subsequent declaration to Jenny herself, where he read the contents of his letter, was actually extremely awkward for her, as she was planning to tell him that night that she wanted to break up with him.
* MellowFellow
* NiceGuy
* NobleMaleRoguishMale: Noble to Jason’s Roguish.
* OddFriendship: With the self-aggrandizing, melodramatic Edwin Blackgaard, in “Welcome Home, Mr. Blackgaard” and “The Merchant of Odyssey”.
* OlderAndWiser: In contrast to Jason’s youthful energy (and impetuosity and recklessness), he usually hangs back and assesses the situation from a distance to get a better idea of what he’s dealing with.
* OnlySaneMan: Like Whit, he acts as the calm in the midst of the storm of Eugene’s neuroses, Connie’s melodrama, and Jason’s impulsiveness.
* OrphanageOfLove: Prior to coming to Odyssey, he ran one of these in Nebraska, as told in “Clara”.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Like Whit, he’s good about listening to people’s problems and treating them kindly and respectfully; when Richard Maxwell asks for help and is honest with Jack about his criminal past, Jack still listens to him and trusts that he’s there to help rather than hurt.
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Jason’s (and everyone else’s) Red.
* RightWayWrongWayPair: The Right Way half with Jason, most of the time.
* SecretKeeper: Becomes one for Jason and Whit’s NSA work in “The Final Conflict”.
* SelfDeprecation: In “Tom for Mayor, Part 2”:
-->“My name is Jack Allen, and by a sudden lapse of reason, I was the one both candidates agreed should moderate tonight’s debate.”
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Connie accuses him of trying to be this for Whit in “…But Not Forgotten”.
* YouDidntAsk: This is why he doesn’t immediately offer to help run Whit’s End in “…But Not Forgotten”—due to his polite nature, he doesn’t want to impose his assistance on anyone.

!!Joanne Judith Allen (née Woodston)

->'''First appearance:''' “The Decision”
->'''Last appearance:''' “Home Again, Part 2”
->'''Voiced by:''' Janet Waldo, Wendy Schaal and Lauren Summers ("The Pact, Part 2")

* CareerVersusMan: Two examples that balance each other out—in “Malachi’s Message”, Jack wants her to quit the Missions Board because he feels that her work there, which involves constant travel, makes her too busy for the antique shop and their relationship; Joanne ends up resigning. Conversely, in “Seeing Red”, Joanne wants to have an antique compass appraised and sold to a museum in Washington, D.C., to fund the reconstruction of a church in Sri Lanka, while Jack wants her to wait until an auction closer to home, and Jack ends up relenting and letting her go.
* DecemberDecemberRomance: With Jack.
* GrannyClassic: She's not a grandmother, but she otherwise fits the kindly old woman archetype.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Connie.
* MaidAndMaiden: Maid to Connie’s Maiden, particularly throughout their road trip in Album 41.
* OldMaid: While it’s never really brought up as part of her backstory, there is no mention of her being a widow or a divorcee, and the numerous places where she’s worked and the clout she has with the Missions Board suggest that she was MarriedToTheJob before she met Jack.
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Jack’s Blue—she’s more adventurous and risk-taking than he is (for a given value of risk-taking), and their conflicts usually arise from her wanting to go somewhere to take care of something and him wanting her to stay in Odyssey working with the antique shop.
* SecondLove: Jack's.
* SilkHidingSteel: In a non-combat sense; she’s very matronly and welcoming, but she takes on leadership on mission boards and teams; she is quite clever and resourceful, unafraid to be involved in the Andromeda crossfire in "Plan B".

!!Wooton Bassett

->'''First appearance:''' “Welcoming Wooton”
->'''Voiced by:''' Jess Harnell

* AgentMulder: In “The Other Side of the Glass”; he’s almost immediately suspicious of the See-Right company because he does not regard it as simple coincidence that he, the creator of Power Boy, just happened to be in the same place at the same time as Bernard, the local window washer, while Bernard was washing a window manufactured by See-Right that had had the Power Boy symbol for help marked on it.
* AllLovingHero: Enjoys making people happy.
* BigFun: One of the most fun-loving characters on the show, and much reference is made to his weight.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Very skilled cartoonist who writes and draws books that are hugely popular while simultaneously being a complete goofball.
* CatchPhrase: When he starts talking about something like why he never got any toys as a kid, he trails off with “Because…well, just because”. In “Wooing Wooton” when his dad shows up and he’s nervous about seeing him again after nine years, he explains why with a panicked “Because! Just because!”
* TheClan: Has a very large extended family that is also exorbitantly wealthy.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}
* EvilTwin: Wellington may not be diabolically evil, but he is an amoral reprobate as opposed to his generous, good-hearted brother.
* FriendToAllChildren
* FunPersonified
* GoodFeelsGood
* HiddenDepths: He’s a quirky mailman, he’s a talented cartoonist, and he has an absurd depth of knowledge about barnyard animals.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Grady, for whom he also sometimes plays a role as a Parental Substitute.
* KidAppealCharacter
* LikeASonToMe: With Grady, as highlighted in “Like Father, Like Wooton” and “The Highest Stakes”.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Winston, his father, is stoic, professional, and snobbish; Wooton is cheerful, friendly, and kind to everyone.
* TheMadHatter: Really enjoys his zaniness; he sees that it helps him to connect with kids if he can act like he’s one of them.
* ManChild: He’s in his thirties and does take his responsibilities seriously, but he still does his job with a fun and bouncy flair.
* NoodleIncident: He apparently pulled a prank on his cousin involving a whiffleball bat that somehow backfired and “required surgery”.
** He’s been known to have bizarre things happen to mail that get no explanation, like somehow getting oatmeal on it.
* OneOfTheKids: For good reason; as a kid, he was never really allowed to actually be a kid because of his wealthy family’s reputation, so he allows himself to indulge his sense of childish fun as an adult.
* ParentalSubstitute: To Grady.
* ThePollyanna: Has a very cheerful and optimistic outlook on life in spite of the fact that he’s an outcast among his family and his own father has disowned him.
* QuirkyCurls: According to the artwork, he has thick curly hair.
* RememberTheNewGuy: How he’s introduced in "Welcoming Wooton"—not only is he the local mailman, but all the kids already adore him.
* SadClown: He's goofy and fun-loving and he relates well with the kids, but most of his family is cold, cruel, and self-serving, and his father has actually disowned him.
* SeriousBusiness: Comic books, especially his own. His entire motivation for investigating the See-Right company requires his assurance that anyone who would use the Power Boy symbol for “Help!” must really mean that they’re in trouble.
* SherlockScan: In "The Other Side of the Glass", he figures out that Bernard is using a new cleaner from the color of the logo, and that the windows Bernard has been cleaning with it are manufactured by the See-Right Window Company because the "S" in that logo reminds him of the "S" in the Speedster comic books. For that matter, he knows that the See-Right windows were new in the first place because someone came to his door to sell him some and he recognizes the other windows as the same brand as the ones that he bought.
* SweetTooth: His signature order at Whit’s End is a banana split with licorice whips instead of bananas.
* ThisIsThePartWhere: In “The Other Side of the Glass”, Wooton explains the narrative framework of mystery stories to Connie and Bernard as they meet up to discuss further developments in their investigation into the [=PowerBoy=] “Help!” symbol appearing on the windows Bernard is cleaning.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Licorice.
* WeirdAside: Master of this; he mentions having a “sea monkey budget” in “The Coolest Dog” and remarks that he hates the sound of sandpaper scraping over fresh-baked salmon in “The Other Side of the Glass”.
* WeirdnessCoupon: Eugene puts it best in "Blood, Sweat, and Fears":
-->“The man once made a life-size fort out of Jell-O cubes. Understanding the way his mind works would be a challenge for Einstein!”
* WhiteSheep: One of a very small number of his family members who isn’t a terrible person.
* WolverinePublicity: There’s almost as much merch with him on it as there is with Whit, who’s been around for about fifteen years longer.
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[[folder:Citizens Around Town]]
!!R. Edwin Blackgaard

->'''First appearance:''' “Double Trouble”
->'''Last appearance:''' “A Class Reenactment”
->'''Voiced by:''' Earl Boen

* AlliterativeFamily: [[spoiler:Ronald]] Edwin and his twin brother Regis.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Proves to be his undoing in “Double Trouble”, when no one will trust that he is who he says he is because of Regis.
* AnxietyDreams: In “Welcome Home, Mr. Blackgaard”, when he’s convinced that the town will hate him because he left when Regis came back during Darkness Before Dawn.
* [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Arrogant Actor Guy]]: But we all love him for it.
* TheAtoner: Thinks he has to do this when he comes back to town in “Welcome Home, Mr. Blackgaard”.
* AttentionWhore: He really loves being in the spotlight.
* BeamMeUpScotty: Indulges in “Welcome Home, Mr. Blackgaard” the misquotation [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} “Alas, poor Regis! I knew him…well.”]]
* BerserkButton: Critiquing his acting ability and mooching off of him are equally likely to enrage him.
* BreakTheHaughty: “Break A Leg” has Shakespeare incapacitated because of the titular injury, so Edwin has to organize a bike race as a fundraiser for the Harlequin Theatre and go about his daily tasks and tend to his assistant; by the end, Edwin has run himself ragged and admits to Shakespeare that he never realized just how much Shakespeare worked.
** He has Wooton as a co-star in his play, but only wants him around in a bit role due to Wooton’s lack of ability; when Wooton fumbles his one line and starts to play to the audience, Edwin flubs the rest of his soliloquy and the people who praise the play are more interested in Wooton than himself.
** He tries to recite Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy while cold-addled in “The Taming of the Two”. It goes…about as well as you’d expect.
* CluelessBoss: His treatment of Shakespeare comes off as well-meaning-but-insensitive rather than actively spiteful; for example, in “A Capsule Comes to Town”, he doesn’t quite understand that Shakespeare isn’t pleased to be referred to as a harlequin and instead thinks that Shakespeare’s reaction means that he is simply embarrassed not to know what it is.
* ConservationOfCompetence: It’s quite clear that in terms of everyday tasks, he is significantly stunted in comparison to Shakespeare—he can’t even recognize that a door he walks through every day opens inward because he’s so used to Shakespeare opening it for him.
* CuriousQualmsOfConscience: When he decides to give away all the Electric Palace’s merchandise in “Welcome Home, Mr. Blackgaard”, Shakespeare questions whether or not he even has a conscience, and Edwin admits that he too was unaware.
* DeadpanSnarker: When he’s not making bite marks in the scenery, he’s probably putting his other Shakespearean sensibilities to good use.
-->'''Jack Davis:''' I’d really like to play a tough detective type! I’m even growing a mustache—see?
-->'''Edwin:''' Really? How exciting! We’ll all get our magnifying glasses and have a look!
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: In “A Class Reenactment”, he crows that the play he eventually wrote and directed is enough to impress “that naval-gazing hack”, the critic he was trying to impress with the play…while Shakespeare is waiting with that critic. He tries to correct himself, to no avail, and the critic delivers a Stealth Insult to him on the way out.
* DoingItForTheArt: He puts on Shakespearean drama because he enjoys it, though he still puts on the crowd-pleasers from time to time to keep his business afloat.
* DramaQueen: Natch.
-->"Can’t you see I’m having an overdramatic ''fit?!''"
* EmbarrassingFirstName: [[spoiler:Ronald]], which he refuses to use because it reminds him of a certain clown of the same name.
* EveryoneHasStandards: The only reason why he still owns the Electric Palace (a fact that he considers to be a "painful reality") is that Regis’s will requires him to or else the trust fund to take care of their ailing mother is dissolved; he really doesn’t care for Bart’s poor customer service, get-rich-quick schemes, or general deceptiveness.
** He also may be egotistical and occasionally willing to perform desperate and slightly shady acts for money, but he also recognizes that his brother is well and truly evil.
* EvilTwin: Inverted; he’s introduced to the audience later than Regis as his good twin.
* FatAndSkinny: Skinny to Shakespeare’s Fat.
* {{Greed}}: He falls victim to it from time to time; in “A Class Act”, he casts a girl with absolutely no talent as the lead in a play and caters to her every whim because her father is funding the class.
* ItsAllAboutMe
* ItsAllMyFault: Blames himself for Regis’s takeover and what he perceives as his cowardliness in the face of his brother.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He can be self-aggrandizing, hypocritical, and insensitive, but he’s still genuinely friendly and enjoys working with people who are legitimately talented and interested.
* LargeHam: Created largely for this purpose.
* LaserGuidedKarma: When he bends over backwards to pamper Shannon Everett in “A Class Act” because her father is funding Edwin’s acting class, he also doesn’t give her any constructive criticism; as a result, her father is furious that Edwin would let her make a fool out of herself and pulls the money.
* MeaningfulName: Edwin means "rich friend", and he's known for his appreciation for the finer things.
* MrViceGuy: Arrogance and greed.
* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: Considers the protesters who are railing against his repeated insults against the Odyssey city government (during his brief tenure as a Shock Jock in “When Bad Isn’t So Good”) to be free publicity for his upcoming play.
* NoblewomansLaugh: Indulges in a bit when he thinks he’s a step ahead; he lets one loose when telling Eugene that “audiences don’t listen to the radio to hear the truth” in “A Class Reenactment”.
* NotSoAboveItAll: For all his posturing, he’s still prone to greed and some of his money-making ventures tend to blow up in his face.
* OddFriendship: With the down-to-earth and practical Whit and the quiet and composed Jack.
* OnTheMoney: He needs to pay $10,000 in inheritance tax for the Electric Palace, and borrows the money from Bart Rathbone (who, conveniently, wanted to buy the Electric Palace in the first place).
* PolarOppositeTwins / SiblingYinYang: Both Blackgaard twins are sharply-dressed, eloquent, and egotistical…and the similarities end right about there, with Edwin being otherwise genial and likeable and Regis being cruel and domineering.
* PragmaticHero: In the aforementioned “A Class Act”; while he still should have done the right thing and been honest with his students, he does have a point hardened by experience that many students in acting classes tend to be very entitled and throw fits if they’re told that they’re anything less than wonderful.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He has every reason to want Bart to clean up his act, as Bart recounts in “A Cheater Cheated”; Edwin owns the Electric Palace, and wants his name associated with a store of at least decent repute.
** Even as he’s altering almost everything about the play to suit his purposes in “A Class Reenactment”, he does rightly correct Mandy and Trent when they protest about their characters being a married couple, pointing out that professional actors work with what they’re given and that, as he is a seasoned professional and they are middle schoolers, he has every right to work with the script as he sees fit.
* TheRival: His is Shakespearean actor and expert Malcolm Lear in “The Taming of the Two”.
* SecondHandStorytelling: Of the time he apparently ''rapped'' Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy when a boom box was brought to a performance of Shakespeare in the Park.
* ShockJock: Tries his hand at it in “When Bad Isn’t So Good”; it doesn’t go very well, if the people who tried to set fire to the Harlequin Theatre are any indication.
* ShoutOut: Everything about his life is one big send-up to Shakespeare, from constantly putting on the Bard’s plays and using lines of his in everyday speech to having his antagonists named things like Malcolm Lear and Duncan Banquo.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Talented and sophisticated though he may be, his career is much less star-studded than he thinks it is.
* TarAndFeathers: Dreams that this will happen to him in “Welcome Home, Mr. Blackgaard”.
* ThemeTwinNaming: Alliterative type, and almost an AerithAndBob example; his first name is [[spoiler:Ronald]] and his twin brother is Regis. (Incidentally, both names have roots meaning “ruler”.)
* ThirdPersonPerson: When boasting of his magnificence.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Shakespeare.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Has a great fondness for lemonade, which he refers to as "heavenly nectar".
* UnusualEuphemism: Lets out a “What in the name of Hamlet is going on here?!” in “The Taming of the Two”.

!!Walter Shakespeare

->'''First appearance:''' “Double Trouble”
->'''Last appearance:''' “A Class Reenactment”
->'''Voiced by:''' Corey Burton

* BeleagueredAssistant
* ConservationOfCompetence: He’s the reason why anything gets done around the Harlequin Theatre.
* DamnedByFaintPraise / ConstructiveCriticism: Being the Paula Abdul counterpart to Bryan Dern’s Simon Cowell in “Odyssey Sings!”, he tends to oscillate between the two, depending on whether the singer is horrendous or simply needs work.
* DeadpanSnarker: When on more equal terms with Edwin:
-->'''Edwin:''' Six weeks of painful rehearsal, two weeks before our performance, and...have you ''seen'' what’s been going on in there?
-->'''Shakespeare:''' Not on purpose, sir.
* FatAndSkinny: Fat to Edwin's Skinny.
* HiddenDepths: Tamika mentions in “Odyssey Sings!” that Shakespeare used to be in a folk band.
* HypercompetentSidekick: So much so that Edwin is completely overwhelmed while trying to manage even the most basic tasks by himself.
* TheJeeves
* NiceGuy: In “Odyssey Sings”, it is noted that Shakespeare as a judge is much more fair and polite to the “America Sings!” contestants than Cryin’ Bryan Dern.
* PhraseCatcher: To Edwin's frequent cry of "SHAKESPEEEEAAAAARRREE!".
* ServileSnarker
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Edwin; "Odyssey Sings!" is the only time that Shakespeare appears without him.
* WithDueRespect: Usually prefaces his advice to Edwin with some variation of this, with added praise to butter up his ego.

!! Bart Rathbone

->'''First appearance:''' “An Act of Mercy”
->'''Last appearance:''' “Suspicious Finds”
->'''Voiced by:''' Walker Edmiston, Robert Easton (“Suspicious Finds”)

* AlwaysABiggerFish: Jellyfish is this to him and Rodney, infinitely better at plotting and vandalism.
** So is Cryin’ Bryan Dern; as Whit points out in “A Cheater Cheated”, both Dern and Bart are pretty nasty, unscrupulous, deceitful people, but Dern is the one with the widely-broadcasted radio show.
* AndNinetyNineCents: Frequently advertises products this way.
* BeautyContest: Sponsors one in “A Model Child”.
* BigEater: Eats his way through a bowl of [[ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs Honey Puffs cereal]] and multiple slices of cheesecake at the Washingtons' house in "Sunday Morning Scramble", and the reason he's there in the first place was because Doris kicked him out of the house for eating cheese doodles in the shower.
* BookDumb: Doesn’t know what lyrics are or what an acronym is.
* BumblingDad: Downplayed, if only because all of the Rathbones are like this.
* ButtMonkey: When he’s not part of the conflict, he’s caught in the middle of one; in “The Taming of the Two”, he’s forced to put up with Edwin Blackgaard’s increasingly melodramatic rivalry with Malcolm Lear just to try to get someone to act in commercials for the Electric Palace.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In his first appearance, he plays parenting straight and believes that Rodney should be disciplined for stealing Tom’s apples and breaking his fence after Rodney beats up a kid for not paying him a dollar; this is in stark contrast to a man who encourages Rodney’s bullying and plays SitcomArchNemesis to Tom and Whit.
** “The Winning Edge” establishes that he’s a very competent coach and his competitive strategies work; by the end of his run, he’s as incompetent as he is dishonest.
* CheatersNeverProsper: His corner-cutting and dishonesty almost always ends up backfiring on him.
* ComicallySmallBribe: He has no concept of what constitutes an appropriate tip, particularly for an upscale restaurant; in "My Favorite Thing", he tries to scam Ed Washington into paying for his and Doris's meals at a [[FrenchCuisineIsHaughty high-class French restaurant]] and is promptly disappointed when Ed appears to fall for it, only to agree to cover the tip:
-->'''Bart:''' Whooptee-doo, what's fifteen, twenty cents?
-->'''Doris:''' Yeah, big spender.
* ConArtist: Though not a particularly successful one, most of the time.
* CuttingCorners: In “A Rathbone of Contention”, he tries to build and promote the Electric Palace in three weeks—he sells Whit bad transformers, has Eugene wire the building rather than bring in an actual electrician, and allows Rodney to refuse to pay Lucy for fliers that Rodney claims he “wasn’t satisfied with”. Naturally, this backfires; when Eugene turns off the generator so the building will be powered on his wiring job, it catches fire because he used Bart’s faulty equipment.
* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: Plenty of episodes that feature him seem to follow the formula of “instant conflict, just add Bart”—and it works, for the most part.
* DoWrongRight: He regularly teaches Rodney how to be a dishonest, swindling bully.
-->“How many times have I told ya never admit to nothin’?
* DontCallMeSir: Hates it when Rodney calls him “Pop”, less because of the unwanted deference and more because it just annoys him.
* DoomItYourself: Has Eugene do the wiring on the Electric Palace instead of a professional electrician (and doesn’t pay him). Because Eugene used the poor equipment Bart had on hand as products, turning the building on starts an electrical fire.
* ElSpanishO: In a flashback to how he and Doris fell in love, he recounts trying to escape the cops with a hasty “No comprende English wordos!”.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Just about his only consistent redeeming quality is that he loves his wife and son.
* EvilCounterpart: To Whit (well-known business owner who has none of Whit’s scruples and good sense) and to George Barclay (father and husband of the slovenly and petty Rodney and Doris as opposed to the kind and friendly Jimmy, Donna, and Mary).
* EvilIsPetty: The reason why he wants to instigate a violent riot on private property that lands at least one person in the hospital in “Green Eyes and Yellow Tulips”? Novacom wouldn’t pick up a show he’d pitched to them.
** He also calls into question the legitimacy of a nativity scene in front of city hall because its placement near rival store King's Appliance Cave means it's taking away business from the Electric Palace.
* FakeCharity: Once started one with his future wife Doris, claiming that dogs are an endangered species as a phone scam, as recounted in “Prequels of Love”.
* GetRichQuickScheme: Uses the Electric Palace for several of these, most (if not all) of which are scams.
* GilliganCut: Subject of one in “Tom for Mayor, Part 1”:
-->'''Tom:''' It would take somethin’ even worse than Glossman to make me run for mayor!
-->-musical interlude-
-->'''Bart:''' Look, I wanna thank all a’ yas from the press for comin’ here to Rathbones Electric Palace…
* GoKartingWithBowser: Winds up in a basement swapping stories about love with Whit, Bernard, and Marvin in “Prequels of Love”.
** He and his family go on vacation to Hawaii with the Barclays in “Aloha Oy!”.
** He hangs out at the Washingtons’ house in “Sunday Morning Scramble” to escape Doris’s wrath (and apparently has done so before; Elaine asks if he’s been kicked out for putting engine parts in the dishwasher again).
** He and Doris eat dinner with the Washingtons at a fancy restaurant in "My Favorite Thing", and later join the family for Pictionary.
* HenpeckedHusband
* HiddenHeartOfGold: In “Tornado!”, he buys back Mandy’s doll from Jack Allen, to whom she sold it for money to give to the Rathbones after their house was damaged by the tornado.
* HonestJohnsDealership: The Electric Palace.
* LackOfEmpathy: With a few exceptions, he really doesn’t care about the people he screws over so long as he turns a profit.
* LazyHusband: About which Doris has voiced many complaints.
* {{Malaproper}}: In “Tom for Mayor, Part 1”, while announcing his candidacy for mayor and using an extended “shoes to fill” metaphor:
-->“I am throwin’ my hat in the ring! …Of shoes! Cuz…uh, these boots are made for walkin’, and…carryin’ a big stick! And…I’m no heel today!”
** He repeatedly screws up Whit's middle name; his substitutions include "aviary" and "honorary",
* MenCantKeepHouse: Doris grouses in “The Other Woman” that Bart’s been passing on his slovenliness onto Rodney. Apparently he’s been known to put engine parts in the dishwasher.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When he finds out that he publicly accused Tom Riley of having an affair with his mentally ill wife in “The Other Woman”.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He conspires with Philip Glossman and Jellyfish to discredit Tom Riley to help pave the way for Regis Blackgaard to take over the town, and it’s his son’s gang that takes part in the preceding wave of vandalism.
** He also instigates an anti-Novacom riot in “Green Eyes and Yellow Tulips” that results in property damage to the Novacom building and even lands Whit in the hospital.
* OhCrap: Any time he realizes how much he’s in over his head. Shining examples include finding out at the worst possible time that Rodney claimed he and Doris were a doctor and a lawyer in “Family Values”, and the time that the police catch him and Rodney for starting a riot on the Novacom premises in “Green Eyes and Yellow Tulips”.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He’s perfectly okay with making racist jokes and remarks and categorizing people into different parts of town, but refuses to consider the possibility that he is, in fact, a bigot.
* SirSwearsALot: Implied by the LongList of insults that Bart has been known to throw at his customers behind their backs, which Cryin’ Bryan Dern whips out as part of a smear campaign against Bart in “A Cheater Cheated”.
* SitcomArchNemesis: One of Whit’s first.
* SmugSnake
* SnakeOilSalesman: He's been known to sell faulty products and advertise them as good quality; according to "A Cheater Cheated", he replaces wires in his kitchen appliances so that they'll fail and customers have to come back to the store for the repairs.
* StatusQuoIsGod: No matter how many other characters develop around him, no matter what good deeds he does, no matter how many times he realizes his mistakes or that he’s in too deep, he’ll never escape being a slimy, cheating, unscrupulous con artist.
* TotallyRadical: Starts speaking this way as part of his promotion for the ‘60s throwback parade in “Sixties-Something”.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Pork rinds, a trait he shares with Rodney and Doris.
* UnholyMatrimony: With Doris, considering that they first met when they were trying to scam someone at a funeral.
* VillainExitStageLeft: Tries to pull one in “Green Eyes and Yellow Tulips” after a riot; the police rather quickly find them and give chase, and Mitch mentions that Rodney at least went to jail.
* WhatAnIdiot: In “No Bones About It”, he doesn’t bother to check and verify whether or not the bones that he claims are Bigfoot’s are actually real. Unsurprisingly, they’re actually plaster movie props that are over thirty years old.
* YouGetWhatYouPayFor: In “A Rathbone of Contention”, when he has Eugene wire the Electric Palace with faulty transformers and the building catches fire.

!!Doris Rathbone

->'''First appearance:''' “Family Values”
->'''Last appearance:''' “Prequels of Love”
->'''Voiced by:''' Pamela Hayden (“Family Values”-“Sticks and Stones”), Diane Hsu (“My Favorite Thing”-“Prequels of Love”)

* AngerBornOfWorry: In "Aloha, Oy!", after Rodney tries surfing.
* DoYouWantToHaggle: She tries to negotiate with a Hawaiian sales clerk over the price of $2.50 coin purses. The clerk responds with a deal that Doris takes almost immediately—two for $5.00.
* DumbBlonde: She's most recently been depicted with blonde hair and she's hardly the sharpest tool in the shed.
* EasilyImpressed: She gushes over the fact that La Chalet, the fancy restaurant she and Bart go to in "My Favorite Thing", has tablecloths.
* HypocriticalHumor: In "My Favorite Thing":
-->"Elaine, I have to say, your kids don't really seem to be cut out for the elegance of the fine-dining experience. ''HEY YOU! WAITER WITH THE TOUPÉE! I NEED YA!"
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: She's aghast at the fact that she and Bart attempted to create a scandal out of Tom Riley's mentally ill wife in "The Other Woman".
* SkewedPriorities: In “Aloha, Oy!”, when their captain leaves their boat behind:
-->'''George Barclay:''' This is unbelievable.
-->'''Doris:''' I’ll say. He took the pork rinds!
* SuperGullible: She gleefully takes the aforementioned two-for-$5.00 deal, squealing that she knew the clerk would see reason.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Pork Rinds, a trait she shares with her husband and son.
* UnholyMatrimony: With Bart; they met trying to scam a guy in a funeral.
* WomenAreWiser: For a given value of “wiser”…but then again, she is being stacked up against Bart and Rodney here.

!!Cryin’ Bryan Dern

->'''First appearance:''' “A Tongue of Fire”
->'''Last appearance:''' “The Forgotten Deed”
->'''Voiced by:''' Corey Burton

* BitingTheHandHumor: He’s not above sniping at Odyssey 105, like in “Tornado!” when he grouses about having to come into work as a talk show host on a Saturday morning or in “Break A Leg” when he clearly thinks as lowly as possible of the bike race he’s been tasked to cover.
* CausticCritic: He takes on the role of the Simon Cowell Expy in “Odyssey Sings!”
* ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: In “Real Time”, when he repeatedly insists that the police rescuing him hurry up and get him out of there and whines and grouses every time something goes wrong.
* DeadpanSnarker: A highly patronizing one, at that.
-->'''Connie:''' I’ll be in as soon as I can find a space!
-->'''Dern:''' Try the one between your ears, honey!
* DirtyCoward: All throughout “Real Time”, where not only does he disregard others’ safety in favor of his own, but he also repeatedly begs and thanks God for his life after insisting that he doesn’t believe in God and thinks that religion is a dangerous con.
* FullNameBasis: Always introduces himself as “Cryin’ Bryan Dern”.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Repeatedly expresses a disdain for anyone else who might get hurt by the bomb threat in “Real Time” just so that he can get out safely.
* {{Jerkass}}
** HiddenHeartOfGold: He shows real and uncharacteristic concern for the citizens of the town and his fellow news anchors in “Tornado!”; while he does make a meal out of Bart Rathbone’s typical sleaziness and price-gouging, he also takes care to interview Jack Allen about what the Red Cross shelter needs and later on broadcasts Jack’s plan to help the Rathbones.
* KentBrockmanNews: Any time he’s doing a news report, it’s bound to have a metric ton of political bias, and he makes sure his audience knows what he really thinks of some of the things he covers.
* LargeHamRadio
* LastNameBasis: He’s usually referred to as “Dern” by the other citizens around town.
* NoIndoorVoice: It’s where he gets his stage name from.
* PrayerIsALastResort: In “Real Time”, he and Whit—who are about to go on air in a Christianity vs. atheism debate—are trapped in an elevator and it looks as if a bomb will go off; as the seconds tick down, Dern finally gives in and prays for his life (on-air, incidentally, as Dern had on a secret mic that he was going to try to use to trip Whit up). Turns out the bomb was a stink bomb, and Dern has a lot of explaining to do.
* PyrrhicVictory: In “Top This!”, he stays up all day and night to take his radio station hostage in order to protest it becoming an all-polka station. Turns out it was a publicity stunt that shot the station’s ratings through the roof, but Dern is too exhausted to enjoy it.
* ShockJock
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: In “Tom for Mayor, Part 2”:
-->'''Jack Allen:''' By another lapse of reason, local radio celebrity Bryan Dern has been selected to read the questions to the candidates.
-->'''Dern:''' No tampering here!
* {{Troll}}: He loves stirring up controversy by his mere presence, even off the air; he tries goading Connie, Eugene, and Bernard into talking about the potential closure of Whit’s End in “The Forgotten Deed”, and in “A Class Reenactment”, he does as much as he possibly can to piss off Mandy about her and Trent being a couple.
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[[folder:The Blackgaard Saga]]
!!Regis Blackgaard

->'''First appearance:''' “The Nemesis, Part 1”
->'''Last appearance:''' “Blackgaard’s Revenge, Part 2” (actual appearance), “I Slap Floor” (as part of Bernard’s story)
->'''Voiced by:''' Earl Boen

* TheAce: Wealthy, politically savvy, gifted businessman; formerly an agent with European Security while covertly working with a terrorist group, and master manipulator and intimidator.
* AmbitionIsEvil
* AmericanAccents: Mid-Atlantic.
* ArchEnemy: To Whit and by extension everyone at Whit’s End.
* AristocratsAreEvil: He’s very wealthy and cultured.
* BadBoss: Has a tendency to completely lose his temper and shout furiously at his underlings when things don’t go his way.
* BerserkButton: Disobeying him and failure by incompetence.
* BigBrotherBully: The scene between him and Edwin in “The Return” shows that he delights in intimidating and terrorizing his twin.
* BrainUploading: In "Blackgaard's Revenge", he is revealed to have uploaded an imprint of his mind into the Imagination Station that then tries to implant itself in Aubrey Shepard's brain.
* BreakTheHaughty: In “Waylaid at the Windy City”, when Richard Maxwell has him at gunpoint and forces him to beg and plead for his life ([[spoiler:and then reveals that it was actually a water gun]]).
* TheChessmaster
* CrazyPrepared: Records a conversation with Jason weeks in advance of actually piecing it together to accuse Jason of death threats and sending it to the police as a distractor.
* DeadpanSnarker: And a condescending one at that.
* TheDreaded: Not so much for the people of Odyssey or the main protagonists (who mostly hate his guts for what he did during the events of "The Nemesis" and "The Battle"), but for Bart and Rodney Rathbone, who can't even say his name and are thoroughly terrified of his reaction to their failures.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Sort of; he financed her hip operation, but he did order Edwin to tell her that she owed him the hospital bill.
** Ultimately subverted; in “Welcome Home, Mr. Blackgaard!”, he’s perfectly happy to threaten Edwin—[[UpToEleven posthumously]]—with revoking the trust fund that takes care of her should Edwin refuse his inheritance of the Electric Palace.
* EvilIsHammy: Earl Boen seems to be enjoying himself.
* EvilIsPetty: Part of the reason why he wants to blow up Whit’s End in “The Final Conflict”—not only will destroying the Underground Railroad tunnel prevent anyone else from finding and using the mineral, but Blackgaard also has a personal vendetta against the mere existence of Whit’s End.
** He manages to cross over into petty {{Jerkass}} territory from ''beyond the grave''—according to his will, Edwin takes legal ownership of the Electric Palace, infamously managed by greasy SnakeOilSalesman Bart Rathbone, and he stipulates that should Edwin refuse his inheritance, the trust fund that goes to taking care of their ailing mother will be revoked.
* EvilLaugh
* EvilPlan:
** Obtain land on [=McAlister=] Park over the Underground Railroad tunnel
** Have political influence in the town such that no one suspects him
** Get the mineral in the tunnel
** Get the formula for TA-418
** ???
** Profit
* EvilOldFolks: His age is never specified, but the gray streaks drawn in his hair indicate that he’s probably around Whit’s age, and Whit is in his mid-sixties; additionally, in "A Name, Not A Number, Part 1", Tasha has no trouble believing that Regis is old enough to have a granddaughter.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Boy howdy, does it.
* FakingTheDead: In “A Name, Not A Number, Part 1”, he appears to be injected with a syringe full of Ruku virus. In actuality, the needle was filled with a vitamin compound, and he faked his death in order to make his operations more covert.
* FauxAffablyEvil
* HiddenAgendaVillain: It’s rare that the audience knows exactly what he’s after up-front.
* IDontPayYouToThink: Says this almost word for word to Glossman in "Checkmate" when frustrated at Glossman's failure to give him full access to Whit's End.
* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: Most official pictures of Blackgaard depict him in a stylish purple suit with a cane and a cape. This from a politically savvy villain with a smiling, benevolent public image.
** There is only one other known depiction of him, on the back of the original cassette box of “Daring Deeds, Sinister Schemes”; there he is depicted as a fairly ordinary-looking man in a business suit with a moustache and a dark complexion. (Of course, personal mileage may vary—this is a radio show, after all.)
* KnightOfCerebus: To quote the official website, “Where Bart Rathbone’s schemes are comical, Blackgaard’s are terrifying”. His mere presence turns the formerly comical scene of Edwin and Shakespeare frantically trying to leave town into an intense, foreboding exchange.
* MeaningfulName: “Regis” is a Latin word for “of the king”, and Blackgaard is a different spelling of “blackguard”, which refers to a person who behaves in a dishonorable way or to insult someone.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Phillip Glossman claims that he specializes in child psychology in “The Nemesis, Part 1”.
* MurderSuicide: Attempts to kill both himself and Jack Allen in an explosion in the Underground Railroad tunnel; unfortunately, he hadn’t rigged the explosives as well as he thought he did, and ends up killing himself while Jack lives.
** He also has terrorist group Red Scorpion's leader Mustafa killed this way in "A Name, Not A Number, Part 2", ordering Mustafa's lackey Abdul to "make it look like an accident".
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
* ObviouslyEvil: Not so much in the actual show, where he's remarkably talented at putting on a front of geniality and we're never told much (if anything) about his appearance, but his most recent design features him as a PerpetualFrowner with a black cape and a cane that looks more like a scepter, and a few large white [[SkunkStripe Skunk Stripes]] that are apparently supposed to indicate gray hairs. If [[http://www.odysseyscoop.com/images/archives/blackgaard_illustration.jpg this]] doesn't scream "megalomaniacal bad guy", few other things will.
* PetTheDog: Leaves Edwin property in his will, as well as a trust fund to care for his invalid mother. Subverted, as that property is the Electric Palace, and the will stipulates that the trust fund will be revoked if Edwin does not accept his inheritance.
* RightHandCat: Sasha, in “The Battle”.
* ShadowArchetype:
** To Whit—both are experienced in international security, savvy businessmen, and skilled orators.
** To Jason—both are former international security agents; ambitious, goal-oriented, headstrong leaders; and incredibly arrogant and bull-headed when things don't go their way.
** To Edwin—they’re twins who are both egotistical and ambitious, but Edwin is lovably hammy while Regis is malicious and vindictive.
* SharpDressedMan: According to official artwork.
* SkunkStripe: Doesn’t actually come up as a point of his character, but the way he’s been drawn lately gives him massive strips of white in his otherwise dark hair to connote age.
* SurroundedByIdiots: So he believes, anyway; he outright snarls in "Waylaid in the Windy City, Part 1" that he's "surrounded by bunglers".
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Played with; in “The Nemesis” and “The Battle” he is a straight example, but once the citizens of Odyssey realize the crimes he has committed, they take their grudge out on his twin brother Edwin, who moves to town after Regis has left. Once Regis returns, Edwin’s vastly improved reputation among the citizenry has helped to elevate Regis’s name back in a positive light.
* VirtualGhost: Given a pretty close examination, too.
* WickedCultured

!!Richard Maxwell

->'''First appearance:''' “An Encounter With Mrs. Hooper”
->'''Last appearance:''' “The Last Resort” (officially); “I Slap Floor” (in Bernard’s story)
->'''Voiced by:''' Nathan Carlson

* AntiHero: He works against Blackgaard in the Darkness Before Dawn saga, but he’s not above attacking people with an electrical stunner or threatening someone at (false) gunpoint.
* TheAtoner: After “The Battle”.
* {{Badass}}: One of the toughest characters on the show, right alongside Jason.
** BadassBoast: To Blackgaard’s henchman Jellyfish in “Another Chance”:
-->'''Maxwell:''' Looks like you’ll have to take me by hand…if you think you can.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: He knows he can go to Whit because Whit has never been anything but kind, fair, and forgiving to him, even saving his life in “The Battle”. He knows to approach Jack Allen for help in “Hard Losses” because he knows Whit and Jack are like-minded.
* BerserkButton: Hurting Lucy.
* BigDamnHeroes: Saves Lucy from the Bones of Wrath in “Checkmate”.
* BreakTheHaughty: When Blackgaard reminds him of the fact that Maxwell’s criminal record means that he has nowhere else to go besides jail if he betrays him.
* DeadpanSnarker
* {{Deuteragonist}}: During the Blackgaard saga.
* TheDogBitesBack: To Regis in “The Battle” and “Waylaid in the Windy City”.
* TheDragon: To Regis in “The Nemesis” and “The Battle”.
* DrawAggro: While he and Rodney Rathbone are infiltrating Whit’s End, which has been taken over by Blackgaard in “Another Chance”, he shatters some glass (probably the kitchen window) to draw Blackgaard’s attention away from a laptop computer full of incriminating information about him.
* TheDreaded: To Jellyfish, who is consistently reluctant to challenge him and falls into a stuttering wreck every time they meet.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In “The Battle”, his choice to betray Blackgaard is facilitated by the fact that Blackgaard was willing to send a power surge through the Imagination Station while Lucy was still in it.
** Even before that, in “The Nemesis, Part 2”, he questions the morality of possibly harming Tom Riley.
* FrameUp: Indicates having been the victim of many of these while back in the Campbell County Detention Center with Jellyfish.
* GoodIsNotNice: He’s not above threats, intimidation, or physical violence.
* HeadsIWinTailsYouLose: Puts Eugene through this in “Eugene’s Dilemma”—either Eugene can reveal Maxwell’s use of Nicholas in his grade-changing scheme and Maxwell can take revenge on Nicholas by giving the college a bad report of him and send him back to an orphanage, or he can keep his mouth shut and allow Maxwell to continue profiting off of other students’ desperation and dishonesty.
* HeelFaceTurn: In “The Battle”.
* LaughingMad: When watching Blackgaard panic as Blackgaard’s Castle catches fire in “The Battle, Part 2”.
* ManipulativeBastard: Toward Lucy in “The Nemesis” and “The Battle”, trying to convince her to give him and Blackgaard information on Applesauce.
** Also to Nicholas Adamsworth in “Eugene’s Dilemma”, using his access to the computers at Campbell County Community College and his role as Nicky’s counselor to facilitate a grade-changing scheme—students pay Maxwell to have Nicky change their grades. Nicky is forced to do it because the program he’s in allowing kids to go to college could be dissolved if they get a bad report, which Maxwell threatens to give if Nicky doesn’t help him along in the scheme.
* MoralityPet: Lucy is his.
* MustMakeAmends: The reason for his return in “The Homecoming”—apologizing to all the people he’s wronged.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: He sets Blackgaard’s Castle on fire in “The Battle” in order to get revenge on Blackgaard for harming Lucy, but an enraged Blackgaard turns an arcade game over on top of him, trapping him with the intention of letting him burn to death.
* OutsideContextProblem: Appears to be this at first in “Waylaid in the Windy City” when he basically kidnaps Whit, but it turns out he's actually working against Blackgaard rather than for him and he's out of prison for good behavior.
* RedemptionQuest: Is determined to win back Tom Riley’s trust in Darkness Before Dawn while at the same time fighting against Blackgaard; he ends up trying to steal Jellyfish’s computer because of a tip-off that it had information on it about Blackgaard’s activities and the true story behind an election intended to recall Tom as mayor.
* ReformedButRejected: Tom refuses to forgive him—up until Richard’s last appearance—for burning down his barn and almost killing both him and his horses.
* RejectedApology: He’s rejected by both Lucy and Tom during “The Homecoming”, although Lucy comes around by the end.
* TallDarkAndHandsome
* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: Discussed and defied in “Waylaid in the Windy City, Part 2”, where he has Blackgaard at gunpoint begging for his life on his knees and reveals that [[spoiler:he was actually using a water gun—he had no intention of wasting his second chance at freedom on Blackgaard and just wanted to feed him a slice of humble pie.]]
* VocalEvolution: His voice gets gradually less nasally over the course of the show as he reforms.

!!Phillip Glossman

->'''First appearance:''' “Recollections” (flashback), “The Nemesis, Part 1”
->'''Last appearance:''' “A Capsule Comes to Town”
->'''Voiced by:''' Paul [=McCusker=]

* ArchEnemy: To Tom Riley, with whom Glossman had a rivalry ever since the two were members of the city council together.
* BreakTheHaughty: Every time he loses, but especially in “The Final Conflict” (see VillainousBreakdown).
* TheBusCameBack: Appears in a radio interview in “A Capsule Comes to Town”, twenty-five albums after his last appearance.
* CheatersNeverProsper: The multiple times he’s tried to screw over the town, particularly Tom Riley, have all ended up backfiring.
* DragonAscendant: Subverted; as Dr. Blackgaard’s plans draw to a close, he publicly contemplates running for mayor himself right before he is exposed as a criminal.
* EvilIsPetty: He can never resist taking shots at the protagonists—especially Tom Riley.
* FauxAffablyEvil: His polite manner is always a cover for his haughtiness.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Glossman is an oily, corrupt, manipulative, smug politician; Paul McCusker is friendly, moral, and caring.
* MeaningfulName: “Gloss” is a prefix referring to “tongue” or “speech”, and Glossman is a master of manipulative rhetoric.
** “Gloss” also indicates a kind of shininess, and Glossman’s manner is nothing if not oily.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat
* ObviouslyEvil: A recent picture from one of the albums depicts him as a greasy, underhanded weasel—which isn't inaccurate, but in the show, he's almost always outwardly polite and respectable.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The kickstarter to the plot of “Not One of Us” is his resignation in disgrace from the city council after making racist statements against the Japanese.
* PragmaticVillainy: With the territory of being an Obstructive Bureaucrat comes the ability to use the system as a means of accomplishing his own personal ends.
* PutOnABus: The aforementioned resignation was a result of his voice actor, Paul McCusker, taking a job in London; Glossman would later return in the Darkness Before Dawn saga. It’s also explained in-universe that he’s going to work for the Webster Development Firm, which is owned by Regis Blackgaard.
* SmugSnake
* SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX: In “Not One of Us”, he tries to downplay his racist remarks about the Japanese by claiming that he has close friends who are Japanese.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity
* VillainousBreakdown: In "The Final Conflict", when he realizes he has been publicly implicated by Jellyfish and has no way out, what follows is a good fifteen seconds of stammering and dead air before he dumps everything on his lawyer and ducks out.

!!Jellyfish

->'''First appearance:''' “Gathering Thunder”
->'''Last appearance:''' “The Final Conflict”
->'''Voiced by:''' Jerry Houser

* AlwaysABiggerFish: He is this to Rodney Rathbone, being tougher, smarter, and more competent; Dr. Blackgaard is this to him, as without Blackgaard’s bigger picture, Jellyfish would be little more than a glorified street thug.
* ArchEnemy: To Richard Maxwell.
* BecauseISaidSo: Responds this way when Butch questions why the Bones switch targets from Whit’s End to the Harlequin Theatre in “Gathering Thunder”.
* BigNo / LittleNo: He lets out a few of the former and then one of the latter when overwhelmed by the Israelites in “The Final Conflict”.
* TheBrute
* EmbarrassingFirstName: Myron.
* FrameUp: Richard remarks that coincidentally enough, he got blamed for any kind of trouble at Campbell County Detention Center, but when Jellyfish left, trouble mysteriously stopped.
* GenreSavvy: He knows enough about his line of work to have all the information about Blackgaard’s plans on his computer as an “insurance policy” in case things go south.
** When he takes over the Bones of Wrath, he goes out of his way to make sure that at least prominent members of the Bones are sighted doing other, usually innocuous things while their criminal activities take place to throw off suspicion. He’s also shrewd enough to have the Bones of Wrath vandalize the Electric Palace, knowing that since it’s owned by the father of the Bones’ known leader, hitting it will throw suspicion off of the Bones, and Bart’s interview will help to implicate and frame the Israelites and discredit them.
* HeyCatch: When cornered by Rodney, Billy, and Sam in “The Final Conflict”, all of them demanding his laptop computer (with all the incriminating information about Blackgaard on it), he throws it to them and runs. It doesn’t work, as Billy has Israelites stationed all around Whit’s End and simply calls them in to swarm Jellyfish.
* HiddenDepths: He’s actually very shrewd and knows what he’s doing, even if what he’s doing is vandalism, assault and battery, and attempted murder.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivers two in succession to Rodney Rathbone in “Gathering Thunder”:
** In the first, he explains to Rodney that he’s got a spy within the Bones of Wrath and berates him for the possibility never occurring to him when the thread is remarkably easy to spot (why would the Israelites know exactly when and where the Bones were going to hit every time?).
** In the second, he finds out that Rodney bought spray paint from a hardware store with which to vandalize Whit’s End and snaps that the clerk would probably get a bit suspicious to see recently-bought spray paint involved in an act of vandalism that would be sure to be reported in the media.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: His laptop invokes this; it's a “little insurance policy” in case Blackgaard’s plan goes south—he’s been keeping records of all of Blackgaard’s schemes and who all is involved on his laptop, which he’s willing to hand over to the authorities if he gets caught in order to bargain the consequences.
* VillainousBreakdown: He tries to fight back against the Israelites swarming him in “The Final Conflict” before finally succumbing and unable to do anything but cry out pitifully.
* WouldHurtAChild: Butch’s age isn’t specified, but he is at least a minor, and Jellyfish, clearly an adult, willingly partakes in beating him up for spying on the Bones for the Israelites.
** He doesn’t enact physical violence on Lucy, but he does threaten to have her lost in unfamiliar woods in the middle of the night.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Novacom Saga]]

!!Arthur Dent

->'''First appearance:''' "Opportunity Knocks"
->'''Last appearance:''' "Exactly as Planned"
->'''Voiced by:''' Christopher Snell

* AffablyEvil
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* EvilBrit
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: After being depicted as a creepy villain for his first few appearances, he still finds the time to calmly, sympathetically explain one of the more frustrating aspects of show business to Connie in "Fifteen Minutes".
* SanitySlippage: It’s never specified what exactly Bennett Charles did to him for his defection (though Joanne mentions in “Plan B, Part III” that he looks like someone who’s been through shock therapy), but whatever it was took a serious toll on Dent’s mind—Agent Bourland remarks that he has become “a slightly less reliable source than Mr. Potato Head”.
* SuddenlyShouting: In "Box of Miracles", [[spoiler:when Whit tries to leave without taking his warnings seriously -- "NOOOOO, ''YOU CAN'T!!!''"]]

!!Bennett Charles

->'''First appearance:''' “Breaking Point”
->'''Last appearance:''' “Here, Today, Gone Tomorrow?, Part 3”
->'''Voiced by:''' Jess Harnell

* BaldOfEvil
* TheBrute: He’s known unofficially as “the enforcer” for Andromeda.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Enacts some on Arthur Dent to get information out of him in “Plan B”. It’s never made clear what exactly he did, but Joanne later remarks that Dent looks like someone who’s been through shock therapy.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* TheDragon
* EarlyBirdCameo: First mentioned in “Chains, Part 2” as the man who put Tony up to planting a dictionary with a hidden camera in it in Whit’s office.
* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: Whit only ever directly faces Mr. Charles, not the actual Chairman for whom Charles works.
* LackOfEmpathy: He’s perfectly aware that the reverse effects of the Novabox—converting brain waves into radio waves and then converting radio waves to brain waves—has an effect on the user, who will have likely bought it for its health benefits, such that the user is worse off than they were before. He just doesn’t care.
* MysteriousStranger: All we know about him in his first full appearance is that he works with people trying to steal the plans to the Imagination Station and he has an intimidating presence.
* RageAgainstTheLegalSystem: His main motivation for his prison break-out in “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?”.
* RedHerring: His smug attitude as he asks Agent Bourland whether or not they’ve found anything in their investigation into Mitch’s death and the tone of his voice as he expresses that he’d hate that someone would get away with it hints to the green listener that Charles was behind it. [[spoiler:It was really the FBI, and Mitch wasn’t actually dead.]]
* TheUnfettered: His ruthlessness is part of what allowed him to rise so quickly through the ranks at Novacom, and in "Exit", he declares to Whit that if the FBI doesn't lock him up, his boss will do something worse, and therefore he has nothing to lose by kidnapping or harming [[DamselInDistress Connie]].
* VillainousBreakdown: Upon his arrest in “Exit”, his cool, condescending demeanor is replaced by desperate attempts to bargain for a lesser sentence.

!!The Chairman

->'''First appearance:''' “Exit”
->'''Last appearance:''' “Exit”
->'''Voiced by:''' Brian Cummings

* BigBad
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: He’s known only as “The Chairman”.
* TheGhost: His first and only appearance is in “Exit”, the last episode of the Novacom saga.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He declares ominously that “it’s over…for now” at the end of “Exit”…and is promptly never heard from again, even in the follow-up three-parter “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?”.

!!Monica Stone

->'''First appearance:''' “Plan B, Part III: Crossfire”
->'''Last appearance:''' “Exit”
->'''Voiced by:''' Melissa Disney

* TheAtoner: After she finds out that she was used by Novacom, she testifies against them at trial, cementing her HeelFaceTurn by refusing to plea bargain to minimize the consequences.
* BecomingTheMask: Freely admits to Jason that she did less and less acting as she went along in her efforts to manipulate him into obtaining Eugene’s research.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Plays this role in the aptly titled “Sheep’s Clothing”, getting close to Jason in disguise in order to obtain Eugene’s radio wave research, although she was revealed to have taken this role earlier in “The Black Veil, Part 2”.
* BluffTheImposter: Walter, the pastor working with Jason in Alaska, talks about Kirtland, Ohio having an annual Blueberry Festival, with which Monica-as-Paula-Jarvis nervously concurs; as he tells her later when he catches her cracking the safe with Eugene’s research in it, Kirtland doesn’t have a blueberry festival—it’s a strawberry festival.
* BrokenBird: “Exceptional Circumstances” reveals that she feels responsible for the “stupid diving accident” that caused her brother to become a quadriplegic.
* CharacterDevelopment: Goes from insisting that she isn’t a criminal and she’s doing what she does for a greater good to testifying against herself without qualifications and then accepting that she’s going to go to prison for what she’s done.
* CoverIdentityAnomaly: She doesn’t seem to have followed through on trying to impersonate Paula Jarvis, the intern who was supposed to be working with Jason. She doesn’t familiarize herself with missions circumstances in Suriname, even though Jarvis did some work there, and she also doesn’t learn things that she should have known about the hometown she claimed to have been born in.
* DarkActionGirl
* DarkChick
* DontYouDarePityMe: Growls at Jason that she doesn’t want his pity after she reveals that she feels responsible for her brother’s diving accident.
* DramaticGunCock: Twice—once in “Plan B” when threatening Whit and Jack to hand over Arthur Dent’s package in the post office parking lot, then in “Sheep’s Clothing” when telling Walter to open up the station’s safe so she can get the disk Eugene sent to Jason. She admits to Jason that she really doesn’t like doing this, though.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Technically speaking (as this is a radio show), she first “appears” as a woman ostensibly sent by the phone company to fix the Whit’s End phone lines who actually plants a self-destructing modem in Whit’s office.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes
* EvilRedhead: Much is made of the fact that she has red hair.
* FreudianExcuse: Her brother became a quadriplegic in a diving accident, and she feels responsible enough that she’ll do whatever she has to in order to help him get proper care.
* HighHeelFaceTurn: She’s one of only two people to outright turn against Novacom (the other being Arthur Dent).
* HonorBeforeReason: She testifies to incriminate herself in “Exactly as Planned” during Tom Riley’s trial as a witness against Novacom, and she refuses to plea bargain to minimize the consequences.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Tells Jason in no uncertain terms that she will do what she must to help her brother.
* ItsAllMyFault: Blames herself for the diving accident that cost her brother his mobility—blame that is her primary motivator for everything she does for Andromeda.
* KnightTemplarBigSister
* ManipulativeBitch: Plays around with Jason’s affections—at least in the beginning—in order to find the disk with Eugene’s radio wave research on it.
* MoralityPet: Her brother Duncan is hers.
* PleaBargain: Notably averted; in Tom Riley’s trial, during which all the evidence against Novacom is brought to light, Monica testifies to all of the crimes she committed without plea bargaining to minimize the damages.
* TheVamp: Uses Jason's clear attraction to her in order to get access to the safe where he's placed the package from Eugene.

!!Erica Colburn

->'''First appearance:''' "Under the Influence, Part 1"
->'''Last appearance:''' "Twisting Pathway"
->'''Voiced by:''' Lawren Donahue

* EtTuBrute: She convinces Aubrey to run away from home, then gets her to drive a car owned by a guy who's with them; when Aubrey's pulled over by the police and doesn't have a license to show, Erica promptly throws her under the bus and accuses her of recklessly endangering her and the friend who owns the car.
* ManipulativeBitch: Aside from TheVamp example below, she convinces Aubrey to go up to the Whit's End library with her under the guise of needing prayer for "deep trouble" that she's in but won't elaborate on; Aubrey agrees, but they're locked into the library to give thieves from Novacom time to get in through the Underground Railroad tunnel and steal the Imagination Station.
* PerkyGoth: They aren't all nice.
* PutOnABus: By Mr. Charles, thereby skirting the issue of just how Aubrey would deal with her after her actions. (See XanatosSucker.)
* SkippingSchool: Gets Aubrey to do this twice (and has done this herself several times more) in "Under the Influence"; the first time, they just go to the mall, but the second time, they end up caught in the middle of a WildTeenParty.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: To Aubrey in "Under the Influence".
* UndisclosedFunds: It's never mentioned exactly how wealthy she is, but it is clear that Novacom pays its employees very well.
* TheVamp: Uses the fact that Nick Mulligan is into her to get a "tour" of Whit's End that shows her where the Imagination Station is and also gives her insight as to how someone might break in covertly and steal it (through the Underground Railroad tunnel), all so she can get the information to Novacom so that they can get the Imagination Station and her father won't get fired.
* XanatosSucker: She learns where the Imagination Station is and how to get it and makes a deal with Mr. Charles such that she will tell him the information if her father's job is ensured and her name isn't dragged into it, and Charles agrees. When her father meets with Mr. Charles after the successful theft, Charles casually informs him that Erica told him where it was and how to get it, and has him fired and relocated for their family's safety.

!!Robert “Mitch” Mitchell

->'''First appearance:''' “Green Eyes and Yellow Tulips”
->'''Last appearance''': “Something Old, Something New, Part 2”
->'''Voiced by:''' Steve Burns

* [[spoiler:AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder]]: [[spoiler:He moves on to a woman named Maureen after he and Connie break up.]]
* ChaoticGood: Shows signs of this; he’d rather take immediate action against Novacom rather than wait for the subpoenas and search warrants that the FBI requires. He grows into LawfulGood once he joins the FBI.
-->“Well, you’ll excuse me for saying so, but while we’re in here filling out paperwork, I sure hope somebody’s in Odyssey trying to stop Novacom.”
* [[spoiler:DeathFakedForYou]]: [[spoiler:He didn’t volunteer to be in the Witness Protection Program; a group of FBI agents under Peter Bourland essentially kidnap him to protect him from the potential consequences of covertly blowing the whistle on Novacom, and they claim that he was murdered to cover it up.]]
* GreenEyes: As Connie notes multiple times.
* TheLostLenore: Downplayed; his close friend Justine, whom he also dated, was murdered by someone from Andromeda, but while Mitch's investigation into her death was part of what led him to Odyssey, he was also concerned about the reason for her death—asking too many questions of the wrong people about the company's unethical activity, her suspicions of which she had disclosed to Mitch.
* LoveConfession: A rather abrupt one on live radio in “Secrets”.
* {{MacGyvering}}: He’s almost absurdly resourceful; in a call-in radio advice show, he begins to suggest to a kid that there are certain locks that can be made with only a bobby pin and a cheese grater.
* [[spoiler:MarriedToTheJob]]: [[spoiler:Ends up this way in “Something Blue”.]] Justified, as he works for the FBI, and it’s an incredibly demanding job that Connie knows she'll find difficult to keep up with. His desires for his life and Connie’s are completely at odds with one another, [[spoiler:which is why they break up. He gets together with another FBI agent, though, and they’re very happy due to their shared ambitions.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He's usually only called "Mitch", even by his boss Peter Bourland.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: With Connie.
* [[spoiler:SecondLove]]: [[spoiler:Maureen McFadden, a fellow FBI agent to whom he is engaged in "Something Old, Something New".]]
* SickeninglySweethearts: With Connie.
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:He wasn't actually dead when everyone thought he was, he and Connie break up, and he moves on to a woman named Maureen.]]
* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Connie. [[spoiler:They don’t.]]

!!Special Agent Peter Bourland

->'''First appearance:''' “Plan B, Part 2: Collision Course”
->'''Last appearance:''' “Something Blue, Part 2”
->'''Voiced by:''' Keith Silverstein

* ActionDad: Has a daughter named Michaela (nicknamed [[GenderBlenderName Mike]]).
* {{Badass}}: Comes with the territory, as he’s an FBI agent.
* DaddyDidntShow: He's supposed to go to Mike's basketball game, but he has to suddenly work late and can't show up. Conversely, when he isn't there and then shows up unexpectedly, Mike, who'd been slumping, began to play one of her best games.
* DeadpanSnarker:
-->'''Mitch:''' [Dent] sure went through a lot of trouble to get that disk to Jack, but the man isn't exactly lucid these days.
-->'''Bourland:''' Making him a slightly less reliable source than Mr. Potato Head.
* FamilyVersusCareer: His wife Janelle archly reminds him that she and their daughter Michaela do in fact exist, and that he hasn’t really seen them in months with how busy he’s been on the Andromeda case.
* AFatherToHisMen: Yes, he can be a bit brusque and surly, but he clearly cares about the agents under him and wants what’s best for him, and it’s he who takes Mitch under his wing and suggests that he take up a job with the FBI.
* GoodIsNotNice: Subverted; he was introduced as brusque, insensitive, and cold, but in the fallout from the events of “Plan B”, he and Mr. Whittaker begin working together and develop a genuine respect for one another, and he's cordial and welcoming to Connie and supports her relationship with Mitch in "Something Blue".
* LawfulGood: In contrast to Mitch’s Chaotic Good:
-->'''Mitch:''' Subpoenas? Search warrants? You must be kidding me!
-->'''Bourland:''' What do you think we’re going to do, storm the castle? Bring in the cavalry? This is a democracy. We follow the ''law.''
* NervesOfSteel: Dangerous situations are all in a day’s work for him. "Something Blue" mentions his being held hostage for two days at one point as if it's nothing.
* ParentsAsPeople: He's not intentionally neglectful; he just has a demanding job.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Aloof though he may be, he is working for the government to do some good in the world, and he genuinely does care about the people with whom he has come into contact.
* [[WellDoneSonGuy "Well Done, Daughter" Girl]]: Mike misunderstands him at one point, thinking that he wanted a boy instead of a girl, and so she tries to act more like a tomboy and plays basketball to get his approval when she really likes doing girly things and being in ballet. In truth, he was saying that he would like a boy ''as well as'' a girl, not ''instead of''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Bones of Wrath]]
!!Rodney Rathbone

->'''First appearance:''' “Isaac the Courageous”
->'''Last appearance:''' “Buddy Guard”
->'''Voiced by:''' Steve Burns, Matt Hurwitz (“Like Father, Like Son”)

* AbhorrentAdmirer: To Donna in “Aloha Oy!” and Connie in “Green Eyes and Yellow Tulips”.
* AlliterativeName
* AmusingInjuries: Suffers a number of self-inflicted ones in “Aloha Oy!” as he tries to make Donna Barclay fall for him.
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Claims in “Broken Window” that while he may do some “slightly illegal” things, he always admits it…when he gets caught, anyway.
* BookDumb: He doesn’t know that “electric” only has one “l” and that “week” is spelled “weck”.
* TheBully
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Much more likely to have humanizing moments in his earlier appearances; later on he became more two-dimensional and cruel.
* CryingWolf: In “No, Honestly!”, he desperately tries to expose a con artist, but no one will believe him because of his pranking, scheming, bullying reputation. Even Whit has to be talked into giving him a chance.
* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: Has a repertoire of creative threats in his arsenal; he threatens to make Trent “suck pudding through a straw for the rest of his life” and to “separate Grady from his tonsils”
* DisproportionateRetribution: In “An Act of Mercy”, he pushes a kid around and shoves a trash can at him for…a debt of $1.00.
* DreadfulMusician: The end of “You Gotta Be Wise” shows that he can’t play the accordion to save his life.
* DumbassTeenageSon
* EverybodyHatesMathematics: Highlighted in “Changing Rodney”, where his poor performance in a high school math course that middle schooler Mandy Straussberg is acing sets up part of the conflict of the episode.
* ExactWords: In "A Rathbone of Contention", he tells Lucy that he’ll pay her for fliers for the newly-opening Electric Palace if he’s satisfied with the fliers; he claims that he’s not satisfied with them, and therefore he doesn’t have to pay her.
* EvilRedhead: His official art gives him red hair.
* GangOfBullies: Leads one, the Bones of Wrath.
* GlorySeeker: In “No, Honestly!” when he demands to be given praise and adulation for helping catch conman Mark Reed.
* GoKartingWithBowser: Has been known to participate in some of the Whit’s End shenanigans; his family went on vacation with the Barclays in “Aloha Oy!”, and he was one of the parties in the Whit’s End-tried court case of who broke the window in “Broken Window”. (He didn’t, incidentally.)
* HollywoodToneDeaf: It’s clear in “You Gotta Be Wise” that Rodney and good music are on two different sides of the planet on a good day, even without taking the poorly-written lyrics into account.
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: When Donna explains why she could never get together with Rodney in “Aloha, Oy!, Part 1”:
-->'''Donna:''' Because you’re a rude, obnoxious, unromantic, unappealing bully!
-->'''Rodney:''' Who’s unromantic?
* IWantMyMommy: Shouts this in “Aloha, Oy!, Part 2” while parasailing.
* IWasHavingSuchANiceDream: In “Hard Losses”, Bart wakes him up from a dream where he’s about to get a kiss.
* IncrediblyLamePun: When Bart asks Whit if he’s there to shop or to gloat in “The Living Nativity” and Whit replies that he’s there to shop, Rodney quips that “all the gloats are in the nativity scene with the sheep”.
* {{Jerkass}}: By the end of his run on the show, he was little more than a two-dimensional bully. He especially crosses the line in "The Other Woman", when he crows that Tom Riley isn't seeking reelection while his parents [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone feel horrible]] for feeding false info to the press that Tom was having an affair with a woman who turned out to be his mentally ill wife.
* LackOfEmpathy: Well, you sort of have to have one to be an effective bully and gang leader, but in "The Other Woman", he can't wrap his head around why his parents are so upset that they made Tom reveal to the public that his wife is debilitatingly mentally ill; all Rodney cares about is that Tom isn't running for re-election, while Bart and Doris are very shaken.
* LastNameBasis: Refers to almost everyone except those in his gang by their surname.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Like his father, he’s sneaky, conniving, and perfectly okay with doing illegal things to get his way.
-->'''Rodney:''' How d’you know I’m cheatin’, Pop? You taught me how to play!
-->'''Bart:''' That’s how I know!
* ManipulativeBastard: Surprisingly, he pulls this off on Mandy in "Changing Rodney". She keeps on attempting to change him from a bully to a nice person; it seems like it's working, to the point where he claims to need her to vouch for him when he returns test answers to their math teacher, only for him to blame her for the theft. The teacher believes him and is furious with Mandy, who gets into a lot of trouble.
* MyGrandmaCanDoBetterThanYou: Shouts this at the main character of a Rocky spoof while at the movies in “Gathering Thunder”.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Come on—Rathbone? “Wrath-bone”?
* NoodleIncident: Mentions having put a hamster in a hitherto unidentified location for undisclosed reasons in “A Cheater Cheated”.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Tormented kids from Jimmy Barclay down to Grady [=McKay=] and fluctuated between middle and high school the whole time.
* NotMeThisTime: Even though he had the motive, the means, and the criminal record, he's really telling the truth—he isn’t the person who broke the window at Whit’s End in “Broken Window”.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Usually, the worst he ever does is pick on a kid and maybe push them around a little bit, but in the Darkness Before Dawn saga, he helps lead the Bones of Wrath in efforts to vandalize the town and manufacture a crime wave to help discredit Tom Riley.
* PhraseCatcher: To Bart’s “Don’t call me Pop!”.
* PutOnABus: Sent away to juvenile detention after his actions in Darkness Before Dawn; he returns in “The Other Woman”.
* TheRockStar: Has an overinflated rock tape (that largely becomes popular [[StreisandEffect due to its controversy]]) in “You Gotta Be Wise”.
* SirSwearsALot: Implied by the raunchy lyrics on the Bones of Wrath tape in “You Gotta Be Wise”.
* SitcomArchNemesis: Is this to most of the kids in town, but especially Jimmy Barclay, Sam Johnson, and Isaac Morton.
* SkewedPriorities: Reacts to a tree falling through his room in “Tornado!” with worry over whether or not his stereo survived.
* SpringtimeForHitler: In “Family Values”, when he writes an essay for a family-of-the-year contest that’s full of saccharine nonsense about the Rathbones and they end up as finalists.
* UnreliableNarrator: In “No, Honestly!”, naturally.
* VerbalTic: Constantly calls his dad “Pop”.
* VocalEvolution: His voice gets much more nasally and whiny after his first few appearances.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Feels this way about his dad in “Missing Person”; Rodney hates baseball, but his dad makes him play. It’s resolved by the end of the episode, where Bart realizes that his son is more important than sports.
* WhatAnIdiot: He's repeatedly called out on his rookie mistakes in "Gathering Thunder"—not bothering to scout out the area around the war memorial the Bones were vandalizing (a civilian was nearby and reported the whole story), not cluing in to the possibility that the Bones have a spy and that it might be the one person who has a connection with a goody-two-shoes kid and has wavered in his loyalty before (Butch was the spy who helped the Israelites undo the Bones' vandalism), and going out and showing his face to a hardware store clerk to buy spray paint for a hit that would surely be reported in the paper the next day (Jellyfish irritably points out that the clerk [[{{Understatement}} might get a little suspicious]] and be able to identify the culprit).
* WhatAreYouInFor: Asks Trent why he’s in detention this way in “A Glass Darkly”.

!!Rusty Gordon

->'''First appearance: “Our Father”
->'''Last appearance:''' “Another Chance”
->'''Voiced by:''' Shawn Svoboda

* TheCorrupter: To Lawrence Hodges in “Our Father” and Sam Johnson in “When Bad Isn’t So Good”.
* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: Threatens to make Isaac Morton “breathe out of his eyelids” in “The Power”.
* DisappearedDad: According to “Our Father”, his dad doesn’t have a lot of time for him because he works a lot (he states in “When Bad Isn’t So Good” that his father is a city worker).
* TheGhost: His name is mentioned constantly in albums 45-50, as he is the one who wrote the defamatory book about Odyssey, but he never actually makes an appearance.
* HiddenDepths: Shows a surprising degree of poetic insight in “Poetry in Slow Motion”.
* HighSchoolHustler: Can be found selling schoolwork to people in episodes like “Poetry in Slow Motion” (though he might have done better not to sell a poem off a greeting card).
* {{Irony}}: Remarks in “Angels Unaware” that he doesn’t like to badmouth people, yet the book he becomes infamous for, Tales of a Small-Town Thug, is built entirely around making nasty remarks about the people of Odyssey.
* JerkJock: He’s a talented basketball player, per “The Fundamentals”.
* TooDumbToLive: Enough that Whit banks on it in “Accidental Dilemma”; he takes the bait of the revelation that Jason used to work as an agent for the NSA and immediately blabs it on his website, apparently not taking into account the inherent sensitivity of the information or that the government would have a vested interest in protecting secrets like that.

!!Brian “Butch” Evans

->'''First appearance:''' “The Good, the Bad, and the Butch”
->'''Last appearance:''' “Easy Money”
->'''Voiced by:''' John Burdick

* TheAtoner: Part of the reason why he decides to spy on the Bones of Wrath for the Israelites is to make up for the fact that he hasn’t been doing good deeds very often.
* BecomingTheMask: In “The Good, the Bad, and the Butch”, when he tries to get tickets from Sam Johnson to a banquet so the Bones can pull a prank and ends up actually enjoying himself being friends with Sam again.
* DeadpanSnarker:
-->'''Sam:''' The Bones beat you up?
-->'''Butch:''' No, the Vienna Boys’ Choir.
* EvilFormerFriend: He used to be best friends with Sam Johnson, but Butch’s choice to become a troublemaker and join the Bones ended it. They reconcile in Darkness Before Dawn.
* TheGamblingAddict: In “Easy Money”.
* GamblersFallacy: Believes he’s got a streak that can’t be beat in “Easy Money”.
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: Rodney tells him in “The Good, the Bad, and the Butch” that if he wants to prove himself as a Bone, he has to bring Sam Johnson to the next meeting of the Bones of Wrath.
* IdiotBall: Holds it in “Gathering Thunder” after Jellyfish takes over the Bones, making himself increasingly conspicuous in front of what he knows is a more competent leader than Rodney. He repeatedly questions Jellyfish about his plans, then tries to call Whit’s End to inform them about a change of plans while the Bones are all at a movie theatre, and then goes out to find the Israelites—doing so by walking alone in the middle of the woods.
* TheMole: For the Israelites within the Bones of Wrath.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Tells the Israelites that after stealing Sam and Lucy’s bikes in “Small Fires, Little Pools”, he just sat down and asked himself what in the world he thought he was doing as a gang member.
* ThatManIsDead: Informs Sam that “Brian’s gone” at the end of “The Good, the Bad, and the Butch”.
* TrappedByGamblingDebts: In “Easy Money”.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Sam Johnson.
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!!Lucille “Lucy” Cunningham-Schultz

->'''First appearance:''' “Rumor Has It”
->'''Last appearance:''' “The Triangled Web, Part 2” (on-air), “B-TV: Live” (overall)
->'''Voiced by:''' Genni Long

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Implicitly some of the allure of Richard Maxwell to her.
* AllLovingHero: She’s friends with everyone she meets and she’s widely reputed for her good nature.
* BigNo: Lets out a few when she thinks Regis Blackgaard has come back to town in “Double Trouble”.
* BondingOverMissingParents: With Zachary Sellars in “The Truth About Zachary”—both of their fathers died in car accidents, and they bond over sharing memories.
* BreakTheCutie: In “The Battle”, when she finds out that Richard Maxwell was using her and then gets hurt in the Imagination Station when the power surges.
* CuteBookworm: Curt recalls that the first time he met her was in the Odyssey Elementary School cafeteria, where she was reading a copy of Little House on the Prairie (that had very few pictures in it).
* DeadpanSnarker: Often in response to Curt:
-->'''Curt:''' Hi, Lucy! Glad you could make it!
-->'''Lucy:''' Why not? I cover all the accidents around school.

-->'''Curt:''' Somebody needs to hold the office, and I’m just as good as the next person.
-->'''Lucy:''' As long as the next person is Jack the Ripper.
* DoIReallySoundLikeThat: Comments in “The Curse” that she hates listening to her voice on tape.
* DudeMagnet: In “The Triangled Web”, when she’s the object of Jack’s, Curt’s, and Jimmy’s affections.
* FirstGirlWins: She’s the first girl Jack interacts with on the show.
* GoodGirlGoneBad: She lets herself be drawn into rebellious behavior in “Connie Goes to Camp” and holds a grudge against Connie for sending her home as punishment when she breaks the rules one time too many; in “The Battle”, Lucy finally breaks down and admits that she was tired of being known as a “sweet little girl” and just wanted to break out of the pigeonhole for a change.
* HonorBeforeReason: Even though it makes perfect sense to attack Curt for the numerous schemes he’s pulled in order to discredit him as a candidate for student council president in “It Takes Integrity”, she doesn’t because she thinks it’s self-defeating to run a campaign on integrity and then try to boost her own credibility by tearing down someone else’s.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Connie and Richard.
* IntrepidReporter: Deconstructed in “Muckraker”; she thinks she’s written a great story about a company that’s been using illegal ingredients in its hair products, but it turns out her informant was a former employee who was fired for cheating on her time cards and just wanted to smear the company. As a result, Lucy has to redact the article and learns an important lesson about the power of the printed word.
** It actually comes back to bite her in “It Takes Integrity”, when she runs for student council president on a campaign of integrity (as opposed to Curt’s dishonesty and overwrought campaign promises) and he promptly digs up the events of “Muckraker” to discredit her.
* LiteralMinded: Not usually, but in “Thy Will Be Done”, she responds to a remark that she’s been writing bubblegum articles with a defense of her choice to write about the dangers of gum-chewing.
* MaliciousSlander: Averted; she even says in “An Encounter with Mrs. Hooper” that she doesn’t like to say mean things about people (even if in that case she would have been right).
* NerdGlasses: Sports a pair of round ones, per her official artwork.
* NiceGirl
* PatrickStewartSpeech: Delivers one in “Not One of Us” to officials of Sloughburgh, a city that discriminates against city people. It doesn’t work; she and Connie end up scrubbing floors to pay for a parking ticket they didn’t deserve.
* PrecociousCrush: On Richard Maxwell.
* RelativeError: Mistaken for her cousin’s date at the beginning of “Cousin Albert”.
* RightWayWrongWayPair: Right Way half with pretty much everyone.
* RightlySelfRighteous: Subverted in “Have You No Selpurcs?”, where she’s called on the fact that while she usually does have pretty solid morals, her pride about it is where she falls short.
* SchoolNewspaperNewsHound: As a reporter for the Odyssey Owl; many of her appearances revolve around her needing to find a story that ties into the theme of the episode.
* SnoopingLittleKid: In “The Battle”, where she eavesdrops on Richard Maxwell and Dr. Blackgaard.
* StudentCouncilPresident: Runs for the position and wins in “It Takes Integrity”.
* UptightLovesWild: She actually dated Curt in high school, although they broke up and she eventually marries Jack.
* WhatTheHellHero: A spokesperson for the Calvin Bloom company calls her to account in "Muckraker" for publishing an article in the Odyssey Owl that accused them of including a rash-inducing ingredient in one of their products, admonishing her for not bothering to check whether or not the source was legitimate and explaining to her that even if she publishes a retraction, the company's reputation is still going to be damaged.

!!Jimmy Barclay

->'''First appearance:''' “Family Vacation, Part 1”
->'''Last appearance:''' “B-TV: Live”
->'''Voiced by:''' David Griffin

* ActingUnnatural: When trying to help cover up kidnapping his dad in “George Under Pressure”.
* AdventuresInComaland: In “Someone to Watch Over Me”, he goes through a series of adventures where he keeps being protected from harm by someone named Nagle, who is fighting against a villain named Grim. This is actually a coma dream, and it’s revealed that this was actually a representation of an angel fighting for Jimmy’s life after he fell from the Wonderworld treehouse and slipped into a coma.
* TheAllAmericanBoy: More of a mischievous variant than the golden-boy prototype, but he’s pretty clearly intended to be a representative of young boys everywhere.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Asks one of Connie, who [[spoiler:recently broke up with Mitch]] and has been trying to help him get his life back in order while they're both in D.C., in "Living in the Gray, Part 2":
-->'''Jimmy:''' What are you doing here, Connie? Why are you still here and not back to Odyssey?
-->'''Connie:''' I wanted to see the sights.
-->'''Jimmy:''' Yeah, sure. You just want to avoid the questions about Mitch.
* AsleepInClass: Recounts doing this at least once in “A Prayer for George Barclay”:
-->'''Whit:''' That’s not good!
-->'''Jimmy:''' Yeah, you’re telling me. My mouth was open and I drooled on my math homework.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Tries to play this role for Lawrence, until he decides that he likes being a zany, imaginative kid just like Lawrence does.
* CoolBigBro: Tries to be this for Stewart, as well as a surrogate one for Lawrence.
* DeadpanSnarker
* EverybodyHatesMathematics
* {{Fanboy}}: Of Zapazoids, to the point where even Whit has called him on it.
* GirlsHaveCooties: In his younger years, naturally; he’s either in this phase or rolling his eyes at the idea that a girl can be good at anything.
* GrowingUpSucks: Believes it in “Coming of Age”, where he finds himself more intensely irritated at his sister, embarrassed by his parents, his face broken out, and his voice cracking all over the place.
* GlorySeeker: In “And the Glory”, when he keeps trying to get attention as the announcer for the Odyssey Coyotes baseball games.
* InsufferableGenius: He keeps rattling off little-known information about Biblical passages (like the meaning of certain words in the original Greek and Hebrew) during Bible study sessions in “The Fundamentals”, even when they have nothing to do with the passage. Eventually, he wises up and understands that a person can have all the knowledge in the world, but it’s useless if they can’t apply it.
* InopportuneVoiceCracking: Throughout “Coming of Age”, which his friends make fun of him for—it gets really bad when he’s trying to recite a Shakespearean monologue for a play rehearsal.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Lawrence (who is young enough for him to babysit) and Connie (who tries to set him up with Lucy in “The Triangled Web”).
* ItsQuietTooQuiet: How he knows there can’t have been a real alien invasion in “Terror From the Skies”—there’s not enough commotion.
* JustOneMoreLevel: Has an addiction to Zapazoids.
* LameComeback: To a trash-talking Rusty Gordon in “The Fundamentals”.
-->'''Phil McFarland:''' I could beat you if I was sitting in a chair!
-->'''Rusty:''' I could beat you if I was sittin’ in a chair and playing the cello!
-->'''Jimmy:''' Oh, yeah? Well, he could beat you if you were laying on a—on a refrigerator, and—a-and juggling, and…
* MenCantKeepHouse: Has been known to leave old pizza in his closet.
* PreachersKid: In a subconscious response to his father’s call to ministry, he decides that he too is called to the pastorate in “A Call for Reverend Jimmy”.
* PrecociousCrush: Is horrified to find that he has one on Connie in “Coming of Age”.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: In "Terror From the Skies".
* SiblingRivalry: With Donna.
* SkewedPriorities: In “A Prayer for George Barclay”.
-->“What if God wants you to go to deepest, darkest Africa? Or—oh, man—somewhere in Connellsville?”
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Straight Man to Lawrence's Wise Guy.
* VitriolicBestBuds: His relationship with Lawrence can sometimes segue into this.
* VocalEvolution: His is probably the most famous example on the show. His voice actor David Griffin’s voice broke while in the middle of recording, to which all of the writers and directors in the room were stunned into silence. Not wanting to lose Griffin as Jimmy, they kept him on and wrote the episode "Coming of Age", centering around Jimmy going through puberty.

!!Donna Barclay

->'''First appearance:''' “Family Vacation, Part 1”
->'''Last appearance:''' “It's a Pokenberry Christmas, Part 2”
->'''Voiced by:''' Azure Janosky

* ActingUnnatural: When trying to cover up kidnapping her dad in “George Under Pressure”.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter
* BrutalHonesty: Goes on a tirade about why she’d never date Rodney in “Aloha, Oy!, Part 1”.
* DaddysGirl
* {{Fangirl}}: Of the soap opera Young Hearts Turning.
* TheFashionista: She’s obsessed with clothes, makeup, and her hair; she has a hard time letting go of them in “Connie Goes to Camp”.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Grows into being the Responsible to Jimmy’s Foolish.
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Official art of her depicts her in purple.
* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: Immediately corrects the flight attendant who assumes that she and Rodney are together in “Aloha, Oy!, Part 1”.
* HeroesLoveDogs: She immediately falls in love with a rascally dog who digs through the Whit’s End trash in “Pet Peeves”, and she takes him in and names him “Normal”.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Mrs. Hooper in “An Encounter with Mrs. Hooper”.
* KindheartedCatLover: She loves her cat Ferguson, a cat given to her by her friend Karen before she died, although she also gets excited about getting a dog in “Pet Peeves”.
* TheLeader: Headstrong variant, according to “Peacemaker”.
* LethalChef: Downplayed; it’s mentioned in “A Call for Reverend Jimmy” that she once made brownies that resulted in her family having to get their stomachs pumped, but she was also eight years old at the time.
* PhoneaholicTeenager: So much so that she once asked her parents for her own phone line.
* PreachersKid: Deals with the increased scrutiny of her behavior that comes with being a pastor’s daughter in “Preacher’s Kid”.
** She also has to put up with being used as an illustration in her father’s sermons in “A Call for Reverend Jimmy”.
* ShipTease: With Jack Davis. It never ends up anywhere; he ends up married to Lucy.
* SiblingRivalry: With Jimmy.

!!Curt Stevens

->'''First appearance:''' “Front Page News”
->'''Last appearance:''' “The Triangled Web, Part 2”
->'''Voiced by:''' Fabio Stephens

* ClassRepresentative: Runs for it in "By Any Other Name".
* CommitmentIssues: He stood up Lucy for the senior dinner, according to “The Triangled Web”, because he was scared that she’d start talking about their future together.
* ImagineSpot: Almost all of “Mayor For A Day” is one, where he imagines that he’s been chosen to be mayor of Odyssey for one day as part of a contest and chaos ensues.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He’s pretty well-known for pulling underhanded, selfish schemes, but in the end, he’ll do the right thing and he’s not truly malicious.
* MissingMom: His mother walked out on the family when he was very young.
* NestedStoryReveal: “Mayor For A Day”, where he imagines himself as mayor for one day and dreams up all manner of chaos.
* OppositesAttract: He and Lucy were often at odds, but ended up dating in high school.
* ParentalNeglect: His father is an alcoholic, which has taken a serious toll on their relationship.
* ThePrankster: Pulls a series of practical jokes in “Pranks for the Memories”.
* ProperlyParanoid: Subverted in “Pranks for the Memories”, where he’s convinced that he’s going to be pranked out at Tom Riley’s barn, but it’s actually a plan for a surprise party and he ends up having worn himself out trying to pull a counter-prank.
* RightWayWrongWayPair: Wrong Way half with Lucy, especially in episodes like “It Takes Integrity” and “Have You No Selpurcs?”.
* StudentCouncilPresident: Runs for the position in “It Takes Integrity”, naturally built on him making increasingly ridiculous campaign promises. He ends up trying to run a smear campaign against Lucy, then, when called out by Whit, cedes the race to her when he realizes how wrong he was.
* TarAndFeathers: It’s actually molasses and feathers, but he ends up doing this to himself when trying to prank someone else in “Pranks for the Memories”.
* TotallyRadical: Actually uses the word “radical” a lot in "By Dawn’s Early Light", and a couple of times in other episodes.
* WhatTheHellHero: In “It Takes Integrity”, Whit has had enough with Curt using a mistake Lucy made in her reporting to smear her student council president campaign, and informs Curt that he’ll reveal to the Odyssey Owl that Curt’s father is an alcoholic. When Curt panics and begs him not to, citing Whit’s own promise that he wouldn’t tell, Whit agrees that it would be wrong…which is why Lucy, the only other person who knows, has never even considered using it or dragging Curt through the mud for the other stunts he’s pulled. Curt is ashamed enough to drop out of the race and concede it to Lucy.
* ZanyScheme: Has tried to pull several to get out of mundane tasks, many of which are more complicated and require more effort than actually doing what he was originally supposed to be doing.

!!Jack Davis

->'''First appearance:''' “Rumor Has It”
->'''Last appearance:''' “The Triangled Web, Part 2” (on-air) “B-TV: Live” (overall)
->'''Voiced by:''' Donald Long

* CommitmentIssues: The reason why he and Lucy are on-again/off-again as of the beginning of “The Triangled Web” is that he’s having trouble coming to terms with either moving their relationship forward or breaking it off.
* FirstGuyWins: He’s the first boy Lucy ever interacts with on the show.
* HiddenDepths: He’s very interested in acting.
* MaliciousSlander: Helps to spread some in “Rumor Has It”.
* PrivateEyeMonologue: In “Heatwave”.
* ShipTease: With Donna Barclay. Naturally, it doesn’t go anywhere, as he ends up married to Lucy.
* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: Lucy’s.

!!Robyn Jacobs

->'''First appearance: “A Worker Approved”
->'''Last appearance:''' “Pen Pal” (on-air), “B-TV: Live!” (overall)
->'''Voiced by:''' Sage Bolte

* AffectionateNickname: Always calls her sister “Mel”.
* AgentScully: Refuses to believe that she’ll be afflicted by bad luck if she throws away a chain letter in “Bad Luck”; even though she gives in and starts believing in it, her initial inclinations were correct, as her father explains to her that all of the things that she thought were bad luck were just normal things that happen to people and she only thinks that it’s because of the letter because that’s when she became aware of it.
* AnxietyDreams: She dreams that Jessie and her father try to convince her of the truthfulness of superstitions in “Bad Luck”.
* ChainLetter: Thinks she has bad luck after she throws one away in “Bad Luck”.
* TheChewToy: In “Better Late Than Never”, she does her level best to get to her volleyball game, even though her parents have overslept, their car won’t start, her bike gets a flat, she’s chased through the woods by a neighbor’s yard, she falls into a creek, and Whit’s car dies when she gets into it.
* CripplingTheCompetition: Has this happen to her in “The Winning Edge”, where a member of the opposing softball team slides into her and injures her.
* DaddysGirl: So much so that she’s actually in tears after she and her dad have a fight in “You Gotta Be Wise”.
* {{Determinator}}: In spite of the above Chew Toy incident, she still gets to her volleyball game on time.
* EnragedByIdiocy: She doesn’t put up with much; she gets increasingly irritated with Jessie’s superstitions in “Bad Luck”, and frequently puts boys around town in their place.
-->'''Jack:''' Hiya, dollface; what’s the latest news?
-->'''Robyn:''' The report of your damaged body if you don’t call me by my real name.
* EurekaMoment: Has one in “The Treasure of [=LeMonde=]!”; while going over the notes of her piano recital piece in her head, she realizes that the clue about “A deaf cabbage” is referring to musical notes.
* TheFashionista: She pays pretty close attention to her hair and clothes, per "Connie Goes to Camp".
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Foolish to Melanie’s Responsible in “A Test For Robyn”, where Melanie has started studying for a test several days in advance and Robyn decides to cram the night before.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: In “Melanie’s Diary”, when Robyn reads excerpts from Melanie’s diary and Melanie pulls a series of pranks on Robyn in return.
* GoldFever: Finds herself swept up in it in “The Treasure of [=LeMonde=]!”; the trait is quickly defied when she immediately recognizes that greed is wrong and prays that God will help her replace those thoughts with good things. She retains her excitement about the treasure hunt, but it’s more for curiosity’s sake than for money.
* GoodLawyersGoodClients: It’s revealed in a deleted scene from “The Triangled Web” that she’s a lawyer working pro bono out in California.
* HiddenDepths: According to “The Treasure of [=LeMonde=]!”, she plays piano, and it’s established in “The Winning Edge” that she’s a powerhouse softball player.
* LuckyRabbitsFoot: Given one by Jessie in “Bad Luck” to stave off what they think is bad luck from her throwing away a chain letter.
* NoIndoorVoice: She’s not exactly the quiet one in “The Treasure of [=LeMonde=]!”.
* NeatFreak: She freaks out at the possibility of mud on her clothes in “Connie Goes to Camp, Part 2”.
* ScheduleFanatic: Inverted in “Better Late Than Never”, when she’s trying to kick a habit of being habitually late.
* TearsOfRemorse: She breaks into tears after she cheats on a history test in “A Test for Robyn”.

!!Isaac Morton

->'''First appearance:''' “Isaac the Insecure”
->'''Last appearance:''' “A Look Back, Part 1”
->'''Voiced by:''' Justin Morgan

* CassandraTruth: In “The Power”, when he tries to convince the principal that Nicky Adamsworth is changing around student records…after Nicky has already accessed Isaac’s files and changed them to show that Isaac has apparently gotten into fights and has a history of lying. The principal, being new, cannot vouch for him.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode in which he learns how to live out a certain virtue is formatted “Isaac the [theme of the episode]”.
* InspectorJavert: He’s determined to catch Nicky Adamsworth and Rusty Gordon’s computer-file-altering scheme in “The Power”.
* NotSoDifferent: Draws parallels between Rodney and himself in “Missing Person”, as both of them felt the need to run away under pressure from unwitting fathers.
* PrecociousCrush: On Connie in “The Scales of Justice”.
* RidiculousProcrastinator: In “Isaac the Procrastinator”.

!!Sam Johnson

->'''First appearance:''' “Isaac the True Friend”
->'''Last appearance:''' “It’s A Wrap!”
->'''Voiced by:''' Kyle Ellison

* CowardlyLion: He tends to get very nervous in the face of danger, but he can always be counted on to do the right thing in the end.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: It's lampshaded in "Family Values" when Bart Rathbone is incredulous that apparently, the ''entire Johnson family'' is like this.
** Downplayed, actually, in “Isaac the Pure”, where Isaac Morton goes overboard on being “pure” by getting rid of anything and everything that might be potentially problematic and Sam face-palms his way through most of the episode.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Butch.
* TheWorkaholic: In “Easy Money”.

!!Lawrence Hodges

->'''First appearance:''' “Wonderworld”
->'''Last appearance:''' “The Triangled Web, Part 1”
->'''Voiced by:''' Gabriel Encarnacion

* BeingEvilSucks: Finds out in “Our Father” that the only thing that comes of him being in the Bones of Wrath is hurting people who actually care about him.
* BookDumb: He’s not very academically adept, and he continuously has trouble pronouncing some of the
* BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill: Gets some in “Subject Yourself”. They’re actually not quite as drastic as the trope usually implies, but he does have to wear headgear to bed.
* CheerfulChild
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}
* CryingWolf: In “The Boy Who Cried Destructo!”, he has trouble getting people to believe that Harlow Doyle and then Whit have been kidnapped because of his wild imagination.
* DisappearedDad: Justified; his father is in the military.
* EpicFail[=/=]BeyondTheImpossible: He was kicked out of NASA for ''crashing a flight simulator.''
* FantasticVoyagePlot: Has in Imagine Spot where he’s journeying through the President’s body in order to stop an “atom-sized protein-blaster” from detonating on his lung.
* ImagineSpot: All throughout episodes like “Wonderworld” and “Our Father”.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Not quite as much as a generation, but he’s young enough for Jimmy to be babysitting him.
* MilitaryBrat
* MrImagination: His main schtick.
* ParentalSubstitute: George Barclay is his.
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Wise Guy to Jimmy’s Straight Man.
* TooDumbToLive: An impatient Lawrence once ''painted his own braces'' with acrylic paints from model vehicles. The normally mellow Jack is quick to call this an incredibly stupid move.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Adopts a bizarre mangling of what’s apparently supposed to be a Brooklyn/Bronx in “Our Father”.
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!!Jared [=DeWhite=]

->'''First appearance:''' “The Pushover”
->'''Last appearance:''' “The Triangled Web, Part 1”
->'''Voiced by:''' Brandon Gilberstadt

* AesopAmnesia: He learns in “A Case of Revenge” not to make wild accusations about people without having all the facts...which is exactly what he continues to do (largely PlayedForLaughs) in later appearances due to his role as the resident conspiracy theorist.
* AnotherStoryForAnotherTime: He states that he believes that the moon landing was faked in “Best Face Forward”, then sheepishly says the trope name.
* BookDumb: He’s not known for his stellar academic performance. Mandy once got irritated with him because he claimed that whether or not JFK shot Lincoln was “a matter of opinion”.
* BreakTheHaughty: In "The Pushover", he stubbornly plows on with what he thinks is the right way to go toward Tom Riley's farm for a delivery and ends up twisting his ankle, while Cody Carper—who followed the map, something Jared admits he's not good at—wound up fine.
* BrutalHonesty: Apparently once told a teacher that she resembled an ostrich. One-shot character Cassidy sums up in "Something Cliqued Between Us" that he says whatever’s on his mind at all hours of the day no matter how offensive or annoying.
* ButHeSoundsHandsome: While Liz exults in the glory of a prank she doesn't know Jared pulled on Rodney, Jared remarks that "Prank Man" must have been pretty smart.
* CassandraTruth: Given all his conspiracy theories and paranoia, Sarah and Mandy have a difficult time believing his claims in “Strange Boy in a Strange Land” that his family is in the Witness Protection Program because his dad uncovered a secret about a company called Andromeda.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}
* ConspiracyTheorist
* ControlFreak: Has a tendency to try to micromanage people, once getting irrationally upset because his almost-two-year-old brother wasn’t coloring inside the lines properly.
* CryingWolf: Jared has made so many proclamations that have turned out to be wildly incorrect that it’s small wonder that Mandy and Sarah don’t initially believe his story about [[spoiler:being in the Witness Protection Program]] in “Strange Boy in a Strange Land”.
* DramaQueen: Has a tendency to freak out over every little thing.
* [[spoiler:DitchTheBodyguards]]: [[spoiler:As part of the Witness Protection Program, his family has been relocated to a new house in the middle of the woods and given new identities; he sneaks out to go running around in the woods in "Strange Boy in a Strange Land", which is where he finds Mandy and Sarah and gives them information about Andromeda. He's found out by, presumably, one of the U.S. Marshals who guards his family, and the [=DeWhites=] are forced to move again.]]
* ElSpanishO: Tries to tell Mandy that “Jared’s run away to Mehico!” in “Something Cliqued Between Us” before she nearly beats down his door for being Miss Friendship.
* FireForgedFriends: He and Cody strike up a friendship after their adventure through the woods in "The Pushover".
* FiveStagesOfGrief[=/=]InkblotTest: Tries to push Connie through these in "Eggshells" in the fallout of [[spoiler:her breakup with Mitch]]; in the case of the inkblots, he actually drew them himself in order to enforce her "need" for therapy.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Foolish to Trent’s Responsible.
* GlorySeeker: In “It’s All About Me”, when Trent gets the credit for a prank Jared pulled and Jared deliberately exposes himself.
* {{Hypocrite}}[=/=]HypocriticalHumor: Snidely refers to his brother as weird and a geek for being interested in biology when he himself walks around narrating his life into walkie-talkies and accusing elderly women of being kidnappers in disguise.
* ItsAllAboutMe: In the episode of the same title, he does his level best to make sure he gets credit for a prank without making it look like he wants the attention, so not only can he be admired for the prank, but he can also pass himself off as a HumbleHero.
* LaserGuidedKarma: He goes off the path set by Whit’s map in “The Pushover”, assuming he knows the way to Tom’s farm, and ends up getting injured; Cody Carper, whom Jared has been pushing around a bit, insists on following the map and comes through unscathed.
* TheLeader: Headstrong variant.
* MrImagination: When he’s not being paranoid over every little thing and theorizing ways that everyone’s out to get him, he’s running around playing and conjuring up imaginary scenarios like any boy his age.
* NoSocialSkills: Whit points out in "Something Cliqued Between Us" that it’s rather hypocritical for Jared to be giving people anonymous friendship advice because Jared himself has difficulties in getting along with other people.
* TheParanoiac
* ProperlyParanoid: Zig-zagged; most of the time he blows mundane things completely out of proportion, but he’s completely right about Andromeda in “Strange Boy in a Strange Land”; he comes back to Odyssey and is up to his usual zaniness, but the last we hear of him, he’s working for the CIA, which means he’s also seen some secret plots legitimized.
* PutOnABus: Brandon Gilberstadt had to leave to film ''Series/OneHundredDeedsForEddieMcdowd'', and his absence was explained by Jared and his family moving away very suddenly; when Gilberstadt was available to take on the role again, Jared was brought back and the sudden move was explained by [[spoiler:his father discovering incriminating information about Andromeda and the family being placed in the Federal Witness Protection Program]].
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Dwayne’s and Cody's Blue.
* RunForTheBorder: Desperately tries to claim that he did in the face of Mandy’s wrath in “Something Cliqued Between Us”.
* SiblingYinYang: With Trent; while Jared doesn’t care about academics and his thought processes are very rarely rooted in rationality, Trent is a star student and gets very impatient with Jared’s brand of zaniness.
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Wise Guy to Dwayne’s Straight Man.
* TakeOverTheWorld: A goal of his.
* TalkingToThemself: He can often be found doing this, and as of “It’s All About Me” can be found speaking into a handheld recorder.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Sarah.
* VocalEvolution: Brandon Gilberstadt is one of the few child actors who was kept on after his voice changed.
* WhatTheHellHero: In “Something Cliqued Between Us”, Mandy calls him out on his willingness to anonymously give people friendship advice by learning things about them that they’d never reveal if they knew it was him; Whit observes that Jared, who has a history of difficulty socializing, has no business advising people about their personal relationships.
** Liz brings him up short in “It’s All About Me” for claiming that he didn’t really want the credit for pranking Rodney Rathbone when in fact he was the person who planted the evidence in Liz’s locker for her to report in the first place.

!!Sarah Pratchett

->'''First appearance:''' “The Pushover”
->'''Last appearance:''' “Grand Opening, Part 2”
->'''Voiced by:''' Scarlet Pomers

* AgentScully: Her past experiences with Jared and mundane events being blown out of proportion have made her understandably wary of Jared’s claims about Andromeda in “Strange Boy in a Strange Land”.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She first comes across as irritable and haughty to the boys in town, but she warms up to them.
* HiddenDepths: She's really into juggling.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She may hold people like Jared in disdain for their immaturity, but she does care for them and consider them friends.
** While outwardly she may seem selfish and world-weary, she leads a local girls’ club in an effort to raise money for the Connellsville Orphans’ Home in “The Spy Who Bugged Me”, she supports Alex’s efforts to become a missionary in “Missionary: Impossible”, and she comforts Mandy in "The Worst Day Ever".
* LittleMissSnarker[=/=]TheSnarkKnight
* NotSoAboveItAll: For all her world-weariness, she also gets pulled into Nathaniel Graham’s conspiracy theory in “The Y.A.K. Problem”, and she teases Connie about her relationship with Mitch in "Broken Window".
* OddFriendship: With Mandy, who is sweet, gentle, and friendly.
* PrecociousCrush: On Jason in “Missionary: Impossible”.
* TheRival: To Jared, initially.
* ScareDare: Gives one to Liz in “Slumber Party”: she has to walk all the way down Mandy’s creepy driveway, place a pizza crust in the mailbox, then walk back.
* SchoolNewspaperNewsHound: In “Natural Born Leader”.
* SugarAndIcePersonality
* VitriolicBestBuds: With both Jared and Liz.
* WomenAreWiser: Downplayed, but she's a bit more levelheaded than Alex and Cal during their investigation into AREM's identity in the "Grand Opening" two-parter; while they come up with increasingly complicated EpilepticTrees about what the name could mean, Sarah suggests that it might be Jared because it actually sounds like the sort of thing he would do. [[spoiler:She's wrong, but it's not a bad guess.]]

!!Dwayne Oswald
->'''First appearance:''' “Chores No More”
->'''Last appearance:''' “Gloobers!”
->'''Voiced by:''' Kris Kachurak

* ButtMonkey: If there’s a mishap to befall someone or a degrading task to be done, odds are Dwayne’s the hapless victim.
* CannotTellAJoke: He actually has a pretty dry sense of humor, but he’s terrible at actual comic routines, as demonstrated in “The Joke’s on You”.
* DisguisedInDrag: Jared convinces him to dress up like a girl in order to infiltrate Sarah Prachett’s Super-Secret Sisters Club in “The Spy Who Bugged Me”. [[HilarityEnsues It...goes about as well as you’d expect]].
* EncyclopaedicKnowledge: He has a pretty good head for trivia, according to "Not-So-Trivial Pursuits".
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Jared's Red; while Jared is impulsive, reckless, and take-charge, Dwayne is thoughtful, timid, and reserved.

!!Mandy Straussberg

->'''First appearance:''' “When in Doubt…Pray!”
->'''Last appearance:''' “A Class Reenactment” (on-air), “B-TV: Live” (overall)
->'''Voiced by:''' Aria Curzon, Jean Gillespie (elderly woman, “The Present Long Ago”)

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: She develops a crush on Seth Young in “Seeing Red”, who is Married to the Job and barely knows who she is.
* AllLovingHero: She’s friends with almost everyone, hates when her friends fight, and gives generously to people whenever she can.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Unintentionally this to Tamika, who feels outshone by Mandy’s accomplishments and the Washingtons’ celebration of them in “The Family Next Door”.
* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: Reveals her identity to her grandson this way in “The Present Long Ago”, as she explains that she was the one given a special valentine.
-->'''Brandon:''' You were Mandy?
-->'''Old!Mandy:''' I am Mandy, sweetheart. That’s my name.
* TheBGrade: In “Teacher’s Pest”, Max sneers that she’s probably one of those kids who freaks out when she gets a B. Mandy admits that she wouldn’t know—she’s never gotten one.
* BirdsOfAFeather: With Trent. Both are top students, kind and friendly people, and the more rational foils to their obstinate best friends.
* BreakTheCutie: Her parents’ separation did this to her; thankfully, they got back together.
* CharacterDevelopment: While her parents are separated, she tries to pretend like nothing’s wrong, then to force them back together, then to bargain with God to make them reconcile, then to ignore her grief and try to get away; she finally breaks down and lets everything out before she comes to a place where she accepts what God intends to do.
* CheerfulChild: In her younger years.
* TheChewToy / HumiliationConga: She really gets put through the mill in “Worst Day Ever”: she crashes into Sarah in the hallway and is late for class, during which she also mixes up a book report that’s due in that same class; she gets a fat lip, causes chaos when the ice machine gives her too much ice, and gets yelled at by a cafeteria worker; she flubs her band audition due to the lip injury; she gets ice cream all over her favorite sweater and an ice show she was looking forward to is canceled; she gets attacked by a dog whose owner blames her, and some unexplained thing happens to her cat.
* ChildProdigy / TeenGenius: Downplayed; while she’s able to take a high school math course while still in middle school and performs quite well, and she’s written a number of plays that have been performed at Whit’s End and on KYDS Radio, she otherwise hasn’t been portrayed as intellectually off the charts.
* TheCutie: Her primary role in earlier episodes was to be sweet, kind, and polite.
* DeadpanSnarker: She gets in her fair share.
-->'''Liz:''' How’s this for my opening line: “March 1st, 10:32 AM. A teeming mass of humanity waits for a glimmer of hope—a hope that will soon be dashed to smithereens upon the rocks of deception!”
-->'''Mandy:''' Sounds like the sinking of the ''Titanic''.
* {{Determinator}}: She does everything she can to get David to stop his rebellious attitude in “Out of Our Hands”, even as he resists her every effort.
* TheDragAlong: Sometimes with Liz.
* DramaQueen: She’s gifted in theatre and prone to highly emotional reactions to fairly insignificant things (“A Class Reenactment” being a prime example).
* DudeMagnet: Both Max Hampton and Trent [=DeWhite=] develop feelings for her.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Responsible to David's Foolish, in episodes like "Chain Reaction" and "A Matter of Manners".
* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: She and Marvin live next door to each other and get along well, but they never actually hold a one-on-one conversation; “The Family Next Door” has her and Marvin interact, but revolves instead around the conflict she unintentionally creates between herself and Tamika.
* GoGetterGirl: She’s highly competent at academics and the arts, she’s won writing competitions and written a few plays, and she even has a “map of the future” charting out her entire high school career and what college she’s going to.
* GoodFeelsGood: Only once—when she’s under a considerable amount of stress to begin with—does she do a good deed for any reason other than simply wanting to be kind and do the right thing.
* GreaterNeedThanMine: As a little girl, she sold her beloved doll to J and J Antiques for money to give to the Rathbones after their house was destroyed by a tornado.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She’s usually drawn with blonde hair and is incredibly kind and generous.
* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: She’s prepared to completely ditch Trent as a friend in “A Class Reenactment” because people are teasing her over them being a couple before Connie snaps her out of it.
* HeroicBSOD: Has one in “Life, in the Third Person”.
* [[ICanChangeMyBeloved I Can Change My Bully]]: It’s completely non-romantic (in contrast to the actual trope name), but “Changing Rodney” is devoted to her attempts to make Rodney Rathbone a better person. She thinks it’s working, up until he gets ahold of test answers, asks her to help return them, and then blames her for stealing them. Her lesson was summed up nicely by Rodney himself:
-->“Next time you wanna change somebody, maybe you should ask them first!”
* InformedFlaw: Liz repeatedly indicates that she and Mandy are unattractive in “Lost By A Nose”, but Nick remarks that he finds Liz to be good-looking, implying that Mandy’s also probably at least fairly pretty as well.
* KindheartedCatLover: Had a cat named Fluffyface.
* TheKlutz: Not the best at poise, as her tryout for a hair commercial in “Split Ends” demonstrates.
* MarriedInTheFuture / OfficialCouple: She eventually marries Trent, citing him as someone “very dear” to her as an old woman.
* NeatFreak: She’s very good at organization, even helping the Washingtons reorganize their garage in “The Family Next Door”. (She mentions with a certain amount of glee in the same episode that she has a label-maker.)
* NerdsLoveToughSchoolwork: She’s taking a high school math course in “Changing Rodney”, and Liz remarks in “Tales of a Small-Town Thug” that she’s very keen on extra credit projects.
* NiceGirl
* NotHerself: Liz starts spotting threads in her behavior almost immediately—she’s tired, grumpy, and increasingly distant—and soon discovers that all of these are results of her parents’ rising tensions and her brother’s rebellious attitude.
** Connie is almost appalled that Mandy put off writing a paper until the day before it’s due, which Mandy guiltily attributes to the stress she’s been feeling at home.
* ObliviousToLove: In “Mum’s the Word”, Trent invites her to sit with him at lunch, offers to pull out a chair for her that’s actually a bench stuck to a wall, goes to the trouble of pressing and drying flowers for her for their biology project, and attempts to give her an onion ring as a sign of regard; she also believes he sent her a valentine at one point. Despite all of this, she’s surprised to learn at the end that he has a crush on her.
** To be fair, by this point she has been very stressed lately over her home situation, but these are hardly subtle hints he’s been dropping.
* OddFriendship: With the snarky, world-weary Sarah, the completely off-the-wall conspiracy theorist Jared, the ambitious and fiery Liz, and the nigh-suicidally reckless Cal.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The only time her full first name, “Amanda”, is used is when she’s introducing herself to Jack Allen in “Tornado!”, and she was very young at the time; even more formal characters like Eugene and Edwin refer to her as “Mandy”.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Liz is quick to get to the bottom of the matter that Mandy has become withdrawn and gloomy in “Tales of a Small-Town Thug” and “Now More Than Ever”.
* PairTheSmartOnes: With Trent.
* PinkMeansFeminine: Summed up best in “The Unraveling”, when Mandy takes note of the birdhouse Rodney’s stealing:
-->'''Cal:''' How can you tell?
-->'''Alex''' (deadpan): It’s pink.
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Finally succumbs to it in “Life, in the Third Person”.
* SiblingYinYang: With her world-weary, rebellious, emotionally insensitive brother David.
* SilkHidingSteel: She’s naturally very sweet to people, but she’s not a bit afraid to fight her own battles; she has very clear boundaries that she makes sure Liz knows she’s crossed in “Seeing Red”, and she goes to stop David from killing his teacher’s rose plants in “Out of Our Hands” despite the fact that he’s with a delinquent kid at 9:00 at night.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: The basis of her crush on Seth Young in “Seeing Red” (he’s a Super Christian and she and Liz both agree that he’s good-looking). She also eventually falls in love with Trent, who is just as kind and compassionate as she is.
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender
* SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome: Mandy's age is frequently whatever suits the writers' purposes; hers is the [[VagueAge vaguest]] of all of the ages in the child cast. (Oddly enough, she's one of the few to have her age specified, and it's still contradictory; she goes from being fourteen in "True Calling" to being eight months removed from her twelfth birthday in "Out of Our Hands".)
* StepfordSmiler: While at the beginning of her parents’ marital strife she was noticeably out of sorts, she also tried to put on a happy face for the people around town to keep them—even her closest friends—from seeing that something was wrong.
* StraightMan: If she’s a secondary character, she’s probably reacting to what other people are doing and saying.
* StubbornMule: She’s the one who is more stubborn and resentful toward Liz during their feud over Seth Young.
* SweetTooth: Liz remarks in “Now More Than Ever” that Mandy’s never refused ice cream in her life, she and Liz have been known to engage in milkshake-drinking contests, and her favorite dessert is chocolate fudge ice cream cake.
* TechnicianVsPerformer: Technician to Max’s Performer in “Teacher’s Pest”; he likes to goof off and play to the crowd, while she prefers traditional, informative presentation.
* WhatTheHellHero: Connie is sympathetic to her plight as her parents look like they might divorce, but she still calls her on trying to force them back together and on shutting out David’s different-but-no-less-real hurt; Connie also brings her up short on plagiarizing Connie’s story for an English assignment that Mandy didn’t have time to complete in “Mum’s the Word”.
* WhenSheSmiles: Trent comments in “Mum’s the Word” that she has a nice smile.
* WomenAreWiser

!!David Straussberg

->'''First appearance:''' “Tornado!”
->'''Last appearance:''' “Life, in the Third Person, Part 2”
->'''Voiced by:''' Jeff Ellison (“Tornado!”-“Slumber Party”), Robbie Rist (“Now More Than Ever”-“Life, in the Third Person, Part 2”)

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: With Mandy. He may find her optimism grating and unrealistic, but he clearly still cares about her and respects her.
* AloofBigBrother: Becomes this when his parents separate; while Mandy internalizes and broods, David distances himself from his family, stops attending church and hanging out with his old friends, and becomes more rebellious and apathetic.
* BigBrotherInstinct: As soon as Cameron threatens to drag Mandy down with them for killing Dr. Hawthorne’s prize roses in “Out of Our Hands”, David immediately jumps to her defense and refuses to go through with it.
-->'''Cameron:''' So what? She shouldn’t have been here in the first place!
-->'''David:''' She’s my little sister! I’m supposed to look after her!
* CallingTheOldManOut: Does so on invitation in “Life, in the Third Person, Part 2”; his father asks him if he thinks that separation between two parents is wrong, and David replies bluntly that he believes it is—not only because it goes against the biblical sacrament of marriage and principles of sacrifice, but also because of the way it has affected him and his sister.
** He does so more subtly in the beginning of the two-parter, giving his dad the side-eye when the real estate agent helping them find a new home in Chicago casually remarks that Christians getting divorced makes them just like everybody else.
* DeadpanSnarker: Much more prone to it than the usually straightforward and cheerful Mandy.
* EtiquetteNazi: He and Alex become this in “A Matter of Manners”.
* GrumpyBear
* NauseaFuel: At Alex’s command, he stuffs three scoops of ice cream into his mouth at once for an audience at Whit’s End. (Whit appropriately kicks them out, as it’s the third time he’s had to reprimand them for disgusting behavior.)
* SiblingYinYang: He’s surly, pessimistic and world-weary; Mandy is hopeful, optimistic, and friendly.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Alex, until David was temporarily dropped and Cal took over the role.

!!Liz Horton

->'''First appearance''': “Not-So-Trivial Pursuits”
->'''Last appearance''': “Hear Me, Hear Me”
->'''Voiced by''': Lauren Schaffel

* AffectionateNickname: She calls her brother Mark “Red”, and he in turn calls her “Carrot”.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: She has crushes on both Alex Jefferson and (at one point) Seth Young, neither of whom return her affections.
* AmbitionIsEvil: Averted; her desires for political achievement and talent for leadership come to prominence after she becomes nicer, and her take-charge tendencies are considered to be a God-given talent that she can (and often does) use for good.
* BatmanGambit: In "It's All About Me", she tells Jared that she's going to have Mitch fingerprint a note and a tape found in her locker telling her that Jared was the one who really pulled a prank on Rodney Rathbone, knowing that Jared will go to her locker and open it to try to get the tape so that she can expose him for intentionally revealing himself and then trying to play it off like a HumbleHero.
* BigBrotherWorship: She’s really close to her brother Mark and looks up to him a lot, which is why it’s hard for her when he comes back with a fiancée she didn’t even know about.
* BigEater: Eats her way through about half a pizza and claims another slice for later in “Slumber Party”.
* BrutalHonesty: She’s not afraid to tell people hard truths when they need to hear them; she tells Mandy directly to her face that she’s being selfish for going back on her word that she’d help with an extra credit project, and she reads Trent the riot act for not only not listening to what she has to say, but for disrespecting their friendship.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Her initial appearances portrayed her as insensitive but ultimately well-meaning; "You Win Some, You Lose Some" shows her as a full-on bratty and obnoxious AlphaBitch. All episodes after this show her being much more sympathetic and likable.
* TheConfidant: For Mandy during her parents’ separation.
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: In “Lost By A Nose”, she basically calls Gwen Kablonski ugly to her face and tries unsuccessfully to hem and haw her way out of it.
* EtTuBrute: Downplayed, but she calls Trent out in “Hear Me, Hear Me” for not listening to her instructions—not just because their science project is at stake, but also because she’s hurt that her friend doesn’t seem to care about what she has to say.
* EvilRedhead: In some of her earliest episodes, where she’s a catty, snobby prankster.
* FieryRedhead: Much is made of the fact that she has red hair.
* GoGetterGirl: Takes part in student government and has political ambitions.
* GoldDigger: A G-rated, PlayedForLaughs version in "Life Trials of the Rich and Famous", when she finds out that Nathaniel Graham's dad has made a lot of money on a website and decides to try to be his girlfriend.
* GreenEyedMonster: She feels that her brother Mark’s fiancée Natalie is trying to steal his attention from her in “Room Enough for Two”.
* GroundhogDayLoop: She goes on a Room of Consequence adventure in “The Eternal Birthday” that allowed her to experience her birthday over and over again in order to show her that one should be careful what one wishes for.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: In "Lost By A Nose", she doesn't realize until Mandy points it out to her that in her efforts to try to expose the Young Miss Odyssey modeling contest for judging solely based on looks, she ended up getting swept up in the hype and narrowly-focused on outer beauty herself.
* HollywoodToneDeaf: Shown during her auditions for the school choir in “For Trying Out Loud”, although it probably doesn’t help that the song she chose was “I’m a Little Teapot”.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Her opinions about American culture's obsession with outward beauty are her entire motivation in "Lost By A Nose", yet she also constantly refers to the "beautiful people" like Brenda Frazier versus "non-gorgeous girls" like her and Mandy versus "extremely unstunning" girls like Gwen Kablonski. It's an indicator that her perceptions about beauty are more ingrained than she thinks they are, but only her fixation on her own appearance is addressed by the end.
* IAmBigBoned: Says this verbatim in “Slumber Party” when Sarah makes fun of her for how much pizza she ate.
* InadvertentEntranceCue: In "The W.E.", Nathaniel tries to claim that he's on his way out of the Novacom Kids' Center (a competitor to Whit's End) while Whit and Nick are checking out the place...and Liz promptly walks in and asks him how many game tokens he wanted.
* InformedFlaw: She repeatedly emphasizes that she’s not one of “the beautiful people” in “Lost By A Nose” and Brenda Frazier scoffs at the idea of her being a contestant in the Young Miss Odyssey contest, but she still makes it to the finals and Nick Mulligan mentions that she’s actually fairly good-looking.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Throughout “Lost By A Nose”, she constantly refers to the looks of the people around her, calling Gwen Kablonski ugly almost directly to her face and casually remarking that she and Mandy (her best friend) are unattractive.
* IntrepidReporter: First becomes a reporter for the Odyssey Owl in “For Trying Out Loud”, where she investigates whether or not the judging for pep squad tryouts was rigged and discovers that Brenda Frazier, who had a really bad tryout, had the ballot box stuffed. She continues to do a lot of investigative reporting during the rest of her run on the show, including trying to enter the Young Miss Odyssey contest to expose it for only really judging based on physical beauty.
* IntrepidReporter: She’s prone to trying to expose the truth, sometimes at the expense of gentleness and compassion. In “Lost By A Nose”, she enters the Young Miss Odyssey Modeling Contest with intent to expose its discriminatory practices against homely girls, and in “It’s All About Me”, she tells Jared that “our readers have a right to know” that he deliberately planted evidence that he pulled a hilarious prank on Rodney in spite of his statements that he didn’t want anyone to know about it.
* KidsAreCruel: She used to be quite the bully.
* TheKlutz: Apparently during a cheerleading tryout, she managed to crash into the coach.
* TheLeader: One of her defining personality traits is her boldness and leadership skills; she seems to be of the Headstrong type, as she is usually seen volunteering for leadership roles and is shown motivating people to do their jobs to the fullest.
* [[MrViceGuy Ms. Vice Gal]]: She tends to get wrapped up in popularity and the opinions of others, per episodes like "Something Cliqued Between Us", "What Do You Think?", and "Tales of a Small-Town Thug".
* NightmareFetishist: Shows some signs of it in “Slumber Party”, where she’s excited to watch a zombie movie and gleefully recounts a scene where a zombie gets its leg stuck in a dishwasher.
* NotSoDifferent: Mandy draws a pointed comparison between Brenda Frazier, whom Liz held in disdain because she pitched a fit over a tiny stain on her dress during the Young Miss Odyssey Contest, and Liz, who outright quit the competition because of a zit on her nose.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Her full name, "Elizabeth", is rarely used, even by Eugene.
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: She marches over to Gwen Kablonski, curious as to why the latter is entering a beauty contest when she is considered by many to be "unstunning", and promptly bungles the entire exchange and tries to hem and haw her way out when Gwen catches on to what she’s implying.
* ThePrankster: She can be very mischievous when she wants to be; she pulls a number of practical jokes in “You Win Some, You Lose Some”, and she and her brother’s fiancée bond by tricking Whit into thinking that they bitterly loathe one another in “Room Enough for Two”.
* {{Pride}}: Has a stubborn streak a mile wide and gets easily swept up in the pomp and circumstance of things she does.
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Mandy’s Blue.
* RiseOfZitboy: In “Lost By A Nose”, she gets her first zit square in the middle of her nose right before she has to appear as a finalist in a beauty contest.
* SchoolNewspaperNewsHound: When she's not doing investigative reports, she's simply writing articles for the Owl.
* SpottingTheThread: She’s good at taking note of suspicious behavior, which is why she makes such a good investigative reporter.
* StudentCouncilPresident: Is running for the position in “Hindsight”; it’s never stated whether she wins or not.
* SweetTooth: It’s firmly established in “The Eternal Birthday” that her favorite dessert is choca-mocha chocolate fudge cake with chocolate-chocolate chunk ice cream.
* TookALevelInKindness: Earlier episodes portray her as catty, self-absorbed, and obnoxious; later on she becomes much more sympathetic—she’s got some hard edges and isn’t always as nice as she could be, but she is still more empathetic to people. She turns her bossiness and ability to work a crowd into being a good leader, and she turns her nosiness into journalistic investigative skills.
* WhatTheHellHero: Mandy calls her out in “Lost By A Nose” for quitting a beauty contest because of a zit on her nose, pointing out that Liz had entered the contest in the first place to do an exposé on people’s obsession with physical beauty, and at least Brenda, whom Liz looked down on for freaking out over a nail polish stain, wanted to win the contest from the beginning.

!!Alex Jefferson

->'''First appearance:''' “The Eternal Birthday”
->'''Last appearance:''' “B-TV: Behind the Scenes”
->'''Voiced by:''' Travis Tedford

* {{Adorkable}}: Him dancing around his room in celebration of a snow day.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Has a little brother, according to his blog in the Clubhouse Magazine.
* CannotTellAJoke: His very first appearance, “The Eternal Birthday”, has him telling Liz a really bad joke for her birthday, and he recounts in one of his Clubhouse blogs that a friend of his laughs at his jokes to make him feel better.
* ConstantlyCurious: His parents observe this in “Red Herring”, that he loves to constantly learn new things and investigate the facts, but that he has to learn to curb this when appropriate. By the end of the episode, he’s learned his lesson.
-->'''Cal:''' Aw, c’mon! Aren’t you even curious?
-->'''Alex:''' Sure I am! But this time, I’m making a choice.
* DeadpanSnarker
* {{Determinator}}: Refuses to let Rodney Rathbone, Gumper’s Hill, or the fact that only three cookies remain in the tin stop him from delivering what he can of his mother’s chocolate-chip-macadamia-nut cookies to his grandmother’s house in “Snow Day”.
* DontTryThisAtHome: Tries to convince Cal not to climb up the Novacom tower to yank out the wires by calling it "one of those 'kids, don't try this at home' moments".
* TheDragAlong: With Cal’s schemes.
* EtiquetteNazi: Becomes one in “A Matter of Manners”.
* {{Fanboy}}: Of the [=PowerBoy=] comics, per “Welcoming Wooton”.
* FreakOut: Goes absolutely ballistic on Nick in “The Black Veil, Part 1”…for putting nuts on his sundae when he’s repeatedly requested for him not to. Being that this is so out-of-character, it’s one of the first things that tips Whit off to the fact that something’s wrong around town.
* GadgeteerGenius: Really good with computers.
* TheGhost: After Travis Tedford moved to Texas, Alex’s character was removed from the show, but he was still referred to by other characters and ran a “blog” that was recorded in Clubhouse, the tie-in magazine.
* GrammarNazi: Connie recalls in “The Black Veil, Part 1” that he yelled at Sarah for using the word “literally” incorrectly.
* GreenEyedMonster: Gets jealous of Mandy when she breaks a mini-golf record that he broke only that morning in “Fifteen Minutes”.
* HiddenDepths: He’s really good at mini-golf, and he tells Whit at the end of “Exit” that he wants to try out for the swim team.
* LemonyNarrator: In “Snow Day”.
* MattressTagGag: Asks Mandy if her bad day in “Worst Day Ever” might be the result of one of these.
* NotHimself: His temper tantrum about the presence of nuts on his sundae in “The Black Veil, Part 1” is an indicator to Whit that something’s going wrong around town; it turns out Alex is a victim of the “Odenton Bug”, a behavior alteration among a nearby town’s citizens as a result of a failed test by Novacom of its technology. (Alex had stayed over at a friend’s house in Odenton the previous week.)
* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere: Lampshaded in “Worst Day Ever”; he says that an ice show is the most exciting thing that’s happened around Odyssey Middle School since the basketball playoffs, which Mandy points out had happened the day before.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted ''hard'' in his case; he shares his full name with a basketball player who helps coach at a camp in “The Fundamentals”.
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Cal’s Red.
* SnoopingLittleKid: Gets into various hijinks while investigating Novacom, though he consistently puts on a more reluctant front about the whole thing.
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Straight Man to Cal’s Wise Guy.
* TechnoWizard: Downplayed, but he knows his way around a computer.

!!Cal Jordan

->'''First appearance:''' “Red Herring”
->'''Last appearance:''' “Exactly as Planned”
->'''Voiced by:''' Adam Pavlokovich

* BookDumb: Suggests that George Washington crossed “the British” in “Red Herring”, and fails to realize in “Grand Opening, Part 1” that M-A-R-E is not the spelling for the political office.
* {{Determinator}}: Once he sets his mind to something, he makes it happen. Whether that involves at least flirting with flagrant lawbreaking sort of depends on what exactly “something” entails.
* FearlessFool: He climbs up a radio tower in order to yank out its wires in “Expect the Worst”. Tom sums it up nicely:
-->'''Tom:''' He is a brave boy, y’know? Foolish—but brave!
* {{Fanboy}}: Of the [=PowerBoy=] comics, per “Welcoming Wooton”.
* GadgeteerGenius: Impatiently tells Alex in "The Black Veil, Part 2" that he’s an electronics whiz who has fixed his VCR dozens of times.
* JustAKid: When Alex tries to give this as a rationale for why Cal shouldn’t climb up the Novacom Tower and yank out the wires, Cal replies with a simple “Big deal”.
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Alex’s Blue.
* SnoopingLittleKid: More of a go-getter about investigating Novacom than Alex.
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Wise Guy to Alex's Straight Man.

!!Marvin Washington

->'''First appearance:''' “The Toy Man”
->'''Last appearance:''' “A Class Reenactment”
->'''Voiced by:''' Kyle Massey (“The Toy Man”), Jordan Calloway (“The American Revelation, Part 1”-“Think on These Things”), Kendre Berry (“Sunday Morning Scramble”-“A Class Reenactment”)

* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: In “The Coolest Dog”.
* AllDrummersAreAnimals: Inverted; he’s less “wild” and more “wannabe soulful”.
* TheAllegedCar: Marvin tries to give away his old bike (which he calls a “classic” and Trent calls a “junker”) to Grady to avoid giving away his brand-new one in “The Nudge”; when he leaves it at the curb in front of Grady’s apartment, the trash collectors assume that it’s garbage and toss it.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: In “The Poor Rich Guy”, he intends to listen in on Tamika’s conversation with a secretary at the encyclopedia company Whit chairs so that they can find out his salary, but gets side-tracked by trying to test the secretary on her knowledge of the facts within the encyclopediae.
* BigBrotherWorship: He idolizes his cousin Xavier, especially in episodes like “The Defining Moment”.
* BookDumb: Hinted at in "Think on These Things", when he decides that his time would be better spent looking ahead at the answers than actually learning the material, and is subsequently completely unprepared when quizzed on the subject.
** When Brenda tells him and Trent that her mother was the lead in ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}'', he thinks that this means that she was the governor of Oklahoma.
* BrotherSisterTeam: With Tamika, when he isn’t butting heads with her.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: He used to be more timid and level-headed; after the switch from Jordan Calloway to Kendre Berry, he became more of a reckless, thrill-seeking athlete and his reserved nature evolved into simply being more laid-back.
* ClassClown
* CheatersNeverProsper: Finds this out the hard way in “Think On These Things”, when he keeps looking ahead at the answers in his math book rather than actually doing the work and learning the material and subsequently gets in trouble for trying to convince Trent to let him cheat in real life.
* DeadpanSnarker: On occasion.
* DreadfulMusician: Played with; he sounds just fine on his own and is a competent drummer in his own right, but he clearly doesn't understand that simply plunking himself and Trent down next to each other and just having them play at the same time doesn’t make for legitimate songwriting.
* DumbAndDrummer: Complains a bit about drummers being taken for granted in “The Coolest Dog”, where he points out that as the drummer, he’s the backbone of the band.
* {{Fanboy}}: Of Zapazoids; he wants to buy a $40.00 DVD of the TV series in “Switch”.
** He’s also apparently a [=PowerBoy=] fan too, if Grady’s offhand comment that he traded something to Marvin at a fan club is any indication).
* FlatCharacter: Prior to "Sunday Morning Scramble" and the switch in voice actors, Marvin was mostly a character for things to happen ''to'' instead of someone who existed on his own. He was usually just a counterpoint for already defined characters like Trent, Tamika, or Xavier, and took on whatever personality traits the writers needed for him to have at the time (usually to align with the actual star of the episode). He soon developed a more outgoing and LovableJock-like personality, which helped him to develop on his own.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Foolish to Tamika’s Responsible.
* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: He never gets a one-on-one conversation with Mandy, even though he lives next door to her and "A Class Reenactment" shows that they are friends. "The Family Next Door" is mostly about the tension Mandy unwittingly creates between herself and Tamika.
* GiveMeASign: Asks God for a sign that he should give his bike away to Grady [=McKay=] in “The Nudge”; thunder roars loudly overhead as Marvin pauses, and he decides to “take that as a ‘no’”.
** He asks for one again at the end of the episode, to show him that he did the right thing in giving his bike away after all, and Grady immediately rides up and thanks him for the gift. Marvin then asks again for a sign…only to subvert it with a “just kidding!”.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Became very absorbed in his own ego in "The Coolest Dog"; however, he reveals at the end that his behavior stemmed from just wanting something of his own to be good at without his younger sister Tamika butting in and proving how much better she is than he at something.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: In "The Poor Rich Guy", Marvin tries to argue that he can be sensitive, to which Tamika responds that earlier that morning, he told their mother that the wrinkles on her face reminded him of their trip to the Grand Canyon. He protests that "The Grand Canyon's beautiful!"
* {{Irony}}: In "Nothing But the Half-Truth", he wants to go to Trent's house, but can't go unless he's doing schoolwork. He tells Mr. Whittaker that he will be, only to ask Trent to give him one word to spell before they go play paintball. The word he asks Trent to give him? "Character".
* ItsAllAboutMe: His selfishness and ego crop up on multiple occasions, "The Nudge" and "The Coolest Dog" being prime examples.
* KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms: He and Tamika go see a scary movie in "The Mailman Cometh" to try to prove to their mom that they can handle it just as much as their older cousin Xavier can; naturally, they end up scared stiff.
* LovableCoward: In his early episodes.
* LovableJock: Takes on this characterization as he becomes more outgoing and interested in sports.
* ThePreciousPreciousCar: Well, it’s a bike, but either way, Marvin has a difficult time parting with the one he won in a fundraising contest in "The Nudge".
* PrivateEyeMonologue: As detective “Marvelous Marvin” in “No Way Out/No Way In”.
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Tamika’s and Trent’s Blue.
* TheRockStar: Tries to fit the archetype in “The Coolest Dog”.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Manly Man to Trent's Sensitive Guy; when Tamika plays her cutesy song for them in "The Coolest Dog", Marvin is revolted, while Trent eagerly suggests that it sounds like it could have a nice cello part.
* SiblingTeam: With Tamika.
* SiblingYinYang: Again, with Tamika.
* ShipperOnDeck: For Trent/Mandy, as of “A Class Reenactment”.
* SmallNameBigEgo: In “The Coolest Dog”.
* TechnicianVsPerformer: Performer to Trent’s Technician in “The Coolest Dog”; while Marvin is constantly playing up their garage band for a documentary they’ve started without ever even playing a concert, Trent worries about the fact that “we have no rhythm and we’re playing two completely different beats!”.
* TrashOfTheTitans: Has some under his bed, where Ed finds him hiding in "The Defining Moment".
* TraumaticHaircut: PlayedForLaughs in “Sunday Morning Scramble”; he gets gum in his hair and his scissors-challenged father cuts it and then tries to even it out. Much is made of the fact that he apparently has a dent in his head.
-->'''Marvin:''' I have a big hole in my head ''and I’m wearing dirty clothes!''
* VagueAge: A specific example because no one is really sure whether he or Tamika is the older sibling.
* VerbalTic: Used to shout “Oink!” when scared; this was quickly (and thankfully) dropped.
* VocalEvolution: He’s been voiced so far by three different actors—in other words, as many as present-day Whit—two of whose voices changed over the course of their run on the character.
* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: He doesn't think that fast-forwarding to the answers in his math textbook instead of actually learning how to do the work himself will go wrong at all...that is, of course, until they have a pop quiz.
* WhatTheHellHero: Trent repeatedly snarks fairly good-naturedly about Marvin’s stinginess with his bike in “The Nudge”, but finally gets fed up when, after Marvin tries to give Grady his old bike and it gets taken by a trash collector because it’s so run-down, Marvin suggests that they give him Trent’s bike instead:
-->'''Marvin:''' But I can’t give him mine! It’s a brand-new Stingray 21-Speed bike!
-->'''Trent:''' Yes—''that you won’t let anyone else ride,'' Marvin!

!!Tamika Washington

->'''First appearance:''' “The Toy Man”
->'''Last appearance:''' “A License to Deprive”
->'''Voiced by:''' Courtney Brown

* AcademicAthlete: Marvin mentions that she’s good at sports, and she’s “about a month ahead of the world”.
* TheAce: She’s a great singer, she excels at almost everything she does, she’s popular…the show deconstructs this from time to time, showing that she’s also high-strung and perfectionistic.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: To Marvin, who complains that she’s better than him at everything in “The Coolest Dog”.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Marvin sometimes considers her to be this, as in “It’s All About Me” when he complains that she’s stealing his comic books.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Starts showing signs of this in "Bringing Up Dads", but she steers clear of fully falling into it.
* BrotherSisterTeam: With Marvin, with whom she hangs out about as often (if not more so) than she does with her actual friends.
* BrutalHonesty: She’s not afraid to tell people exactly what she thinks; in “And That’s the Truth”, she goes too far and starts being actively hurtful.
* BystanderSyndrome: Her heart’s in the right place when she expresses a desire for an angel to help her neighbor, but the [[AnAesop Aesop]] she learns in “The Girl in the Sink” is that whether God still sends angels or not doesn’t matter—humans are just as capable of being used by Him and helping others in need.
* ConstantlyCurious: Bernard grouses about her never-ending questions in “The Girl in the Sink”.
* DaddysGirl: Deconstructed in “Bringing Up Dads”, which spotlights her and her father and the fact that her growing up means that she realistically won’t be into the same things she used to be and his goofy sense of humor isn't as funny or relatable to her anymore.
** This is the reason she states she's a "cappuccino purist" in "The Mailman Cometh"; she's never had a cappuccino before and she doesn't know what she's talking about, but according to her, that's what her dad is and everyone says she takes after her dad.
* DidYouDie: Asks this of Bernard in “The Girl in the Sink”.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Responsible to Marvin’s Foolish.
** In “The Mailman Cometh”, she has some traces of being the Foolish to Marvin’s Responsible, as she’s the one who convinces him to try making coffee and go to a scary movie behind their mother’s back.
* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: She’s into fashion and romance and the TV show Powder Puff Pamela, but she also jumps at the chance to investigate a murder mystery in “The Mystery at Tin Flat”, and Marvin mentions at one point that she’s good at sports.
* GoGetterGirl
* IdolSinger: Aspires to be one in “Odyssey Sings!”.
* KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms: She and Marvin go see a scary movie in "The Mailman Cometh" to try to prove to their mom that they can handle it without getting nightmares; they both end up scared witless, and she begs her mom to let her keep her light on while going to bed.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Masculine Girl to Marvin’s Feminine Boy, prior to Marvin’s character retool.
* NotSoAboveItAll: She’s efficient, organized, and smart, but she also believes in the out-of-context reading of the “camel through the eye of a needle” verse such that she thinks the wealthy cannot get into heaven in “The Poor Rich Guy”, she dissolves into a water balloon fight with Kelly in her bedroom in “Best of Enemies”, and she's just as irresponsible about the money she and Marvin get when they swap roles with their parents in "Switch".
* PlayingPictionary: Occurs during an actual game of Pictionary, where she attempts to draw a tank and Marvin keeps guessing that it's something to do with a fish.
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Marvin’s and Kelly’s Red.
* SiblingTeam: With Marvin.
* SiblingYinYang: Marvin in the beginning is more cowardly in contrast to her energy and fascination with scary or disgusting things; later on, she’s gung-ho and responsible in contrast to his relaxed and snarky personality.
* TastesLikeDiabetes: The song she starts to play in “The Coolest Dog” is entitled “The Rose Petal of Love”.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Girly Girl to Kelly’s Tomboy (exemplified by the simple fact that Tamika’s air freshener is “Butter Cream Frosting”, while Kelly’s is “New Leather”).
* WomenAreWiser
* ZombieAdvocate: Comes up only once in “My Favorite Thing”, when she is appalled to learn that lobsters at an upscale restaurant are boiled alive before being cooked and eventually releases a lobster from the tank.
-->“I was saving its life! Think of its family!”

!!Trent [=DeWhite=]

->'''First appearance:''' “It’s All About Me”
->'''Last appearance:''' “A Class Reenactment”
->'''Voiced by:''' Corey Padnos

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Has a crush on Mandy in “Mum’s the Word”, while she only sees them as friends and is apparently oblivious to his affections.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: He’s a Christian who has himself not only dreamed up, but interacted with his own imaginary creations, yet he questions the importance and reality of Lester’s invisible dog and continually presses Lester to stop believing in it in “The Invisible Dog”.
* TheBGrade: In “Potential Possibilities”, Marvin suggests he pretend that he’s unintelligent to get out of the gifted class, and Trent starts hyperventilating at the prospect of getting answers…wrong.
* BrownBagMask: Declares that he’ll have to wear one after the band’s performance in “The Coolest Dog”.
* BrutalHonesty: He’s pretty upfront with Marvin about his behavior in “The Coolest Dog” and “The Nudge”, and he has no problem with attempting to convince Lester that his invisible dog isn’t real.
* CassandraTruth: He finds it quite difficult to get people to believe that he didn’t pull the prank on Rodney in “It’s All About Me”, and Dr. Hawthorne refuses to hear him out when he says he didn’t start a cafeteria food fight in “A Glass Darkly”.
* CharacterDevelopment: “Called On in Class” introduces a crippling fear of public speaking; “Tales of a Small-Town Thug” references that he’s still not as comfortable with it as he’d like; “Blood, Sweat, and Fears” has him finally confront that fear and give a live radio broadcast for the entire town. He ends up auditioning for and being a part of plays in his last two episodes.
* TheChewToy / HumiliationConga
* ChildProdigy / TeenGenius: Downplayed; he’s adept enough at school to understand complex mathematical equations and concepts when taught them properly, but he’s never been portrayed as absurdly smart the way Eugene has.
* TheConfidant: For Mandy, who tells him in “Mum’s the Word” that she appreciates that he’s candid with her and trusts him enough to (at least attempt to) tell him about her parents’ separation.
* DeadpanSnarker: Usually in response to Marvin.
-->'''Marvin:''' Trent, you may very well be walking in the presence of the future fundraising champ of Odyssey Middle School!
-->'''Trent:''' Wow. Y’know, I think I’m getting goosebumps.
* {{Determinator}}: Even with Rodney threatening to beat him to a pulp (and making good on it later) and him already being in hot water with Dr. Hawthorne, he doesn’t hesitate to remove the bees Rodney planted in Dr. Hawthorne’s car.
* EverybodyHatesMathematics / GoodWithNumbers: He’s actually really good at math, as “Think on These Things”, “Potential Possibilities”, and “The Invisible Dog” demonstrate, but he finds it hard to enjoy it when Dr. Hawthorne is breathing down his neck.
* FreakOut: PlayedForLaughs; he has an absolutely glorious stress-based meltdown after trying to keep it together for Marvin’s documentary in “The Coolest Dog”.
-->"This means we’re going to be humiliated beyond repair! This means I’m going to have to wear a paper bag over my head at school for the next seven years! And my children will have to change their names! And my children’s children! And my children’s children’s pets!"
* HiddenDepths: He’s quite skilled at the cello, and he’s developed an interest in acting.
* HypocriticalHumor: Rolls his eyes at Jared for using a middle-school psychology education to try to help Connie through her grief over losing Mitch while simultaneously regarding her as a “ticking time bomb” of emotions that could go off at any time.
* INeedToGoIronMyDog: He can’t tell Mandy at the beginning of “Mum’s the Word” that he needs to go ask Max Hampton for permission to disclose to her who really gave her a special valentine, so instead he gets the brilliant brainwave to tell her that he has to go do “something…with someone”.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: He repeatedly attempts to convince the mentally ill Lester that his invisible dog Ralph isn’t real in “The Invisible Dog”, but he really does mean well and he just genuinely doesn’t see how Ralph isn’t a roadblock to Lester’s needs.
* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation / IJustWantToBeNormal: He really wants to avoid the gifted class in “Potential Possibilities” because he doesn’t want to be separated from normal people.
* MarriedInTheFuture / OfficialCouple: With Mandy.
* NeatFreak: Max mentions in “The Present Long Ago” that Trent alphabetizes the books in his locker, and in “Mum’s the Word” remarks that he charged him by the hour for the use of his graphing calculator.
* NerdGlasses: “A Glass Darkly” reveals that he wears them, although what type they are is never specified.
* NerdsLoveToughSchoolwork: He’s not only the one person in his geometry class to understand Eugene’s lectures on the history of the Pythagorean theorem, he’s also completely enthralled.
* NiceGuy: Overall, he’s a very friendly and cheerful person.
* NotWearingPantsDream: In his Imagine Spot in “Called on in Class”, one of the things he pictures happening while reading his oral report is that somehow he forgets to wear his pants.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Invoked in “Potential Possibilities”, where he fakes being unintelligent to get out of the gifted class. Highlights include pretending Afghanistan is a type of sweater and doing an oral report on mustard.
* OverlyNervousFlopSweat: He needs quite a few towels to deal with the stress of his Performance Anxiety in “Blood, Sweat, and Fears”.
* PairTheSmartOnes: With Mandy.
* PerformanceAnxiety: He has a pretty deep-seated fear of public speaking.
-->"That’s the nerve-wracking part—other people listening. Critiquing every question I ask…every word I stumble over…laughing every time my voice squeaks!"
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Indulges in a bit in “A Glass Darkly”.
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Marvin’s and Jared’s Red.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: He guesses immediately and correctly in “Something Significant” that Whit sent him on the Imagination Station adventure to show him that the little things in God’s service are important, but the adventure is actually meant to show him that the smallest actions can have the largest impacts if we let God work through them.
* RunForTheBorder: Starts making plans to do so when the valentine secret gets out in “Mum’s the Word”.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Sensitive Guy to Marvin's Manly Man.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Comes up only once in “Potential Possibilities”, where it is immediately Lampshaded, and rarely if ever comes up again.
* SiblingYinYang: He’s studious and responsible; Jared is paranoid and rarely looks before he leaps.
* TechnicianVsPerformer: Technician to Marvin’s Performer in “The Coolest Dog”; Marvin spends most of his time on the window dressing of being in a band, while Trent is primarily concerned with working with music.
* TurnTheOtherCheek: Mandy’s behavior toward him in “A Class Reenactment” is completely uncalled for, but there’s no indication that he’s even the slightest bit resentful about it, and he’s actually on her side on the matter of denying that they’re anything more than friends.
* VocalEvolution: His voice finally dropped in his last few episodes.
* WhatTheHellHero: Whit sharply reprimands him for using the Imagination Station to rip apart a virtual version of Dr. Hawthorne, pointing out that what we put into our minds is what eventually comes out in our actions and that his behavior was incredibly disrespectful.
** Liz doesn’t mince words with him in “Hear Me, Hear Me” when he’s so distracted by imaginative delusions of grandeur that he blows off what she has to say.

!!Grady [=McKay=]

->'''First appearance:''' “A Lamb’s Tale”
->'''Last appearance:''' “Accidental Dilemma, Part 2”
->'''Voiced by:''' Jordan Orr

* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Has traces of this, such as when he hands Whit a resumé listing the chores he's done around the house to try to get hired so he can buy an expensive clock radio for his mom.
* BigBrotherInstinct: He's very protective of his little sister Samantha.
* {{Determinator}}: He absolutely refuses to give up on getting his sister Samantha's lamb back in "A Lamb's Tale", even if he has to climb a death trap of a tree in order to retrieve it.
* DisappearedDad: His father is a gambling addict who walked out on them to try to pay off his debts.
* ExplodingCloset: Inverted; in "The Highest Stakes, Part 1", his mom tries to clean out the TrashOfTheTitans that he's stuffed in there.
-->'''Kristi McKay:''' Grady! There are dirty dishes in the closet!
-->'''Grady:''' Closets aren't for dirty dishes, either? What good are they?
* {{Fanboy}}: Of the [=PowerBoy=] comic books, which helps him easily connect with Wooton.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: In "Buddy Guard", he enlists local strongman Big Phil to protect him from Rodney Rathbone, but then gets caught up in his newfound power and starts targeting Rodney for bullying without provocation. Whit sums up the trope nicely by explaining that it's not very effective to become so focused on victory or self-protection that you become the very thing you were trying to defeat.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: In "Wooing Wooton", he questions why Wooton can't just marry a non-Christian woman he likes, since if it doesn't work out, they can just break up because "everyone does it" and it doesn't matter...in front of Connie, whose parents' divorce tore her up emotionally and who is (at the time of that episode) the confidant for Mandy, whose own parents are going through a separation that's turned her into a shell of her former self.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: His relationship with Wooton oscillates between this and ParentalSubstitute.
* MommasBoy: Fittingly, he deeply cares about and loves his mother, and even questions whether or not he should become a Christian if it might mean straining their relationship.

!!Kelly

->'''First appearance:''' “The Chosen One, Part 1”
->'''Last appearance:''' “The Imagination Station, Part 2”
->'''Voiced by:''' Rachel Fox

* AbusiveParents: Her mother beats her and then throws her out of the house by the time she’s ten and has no place to go, and she ends up traveling an untold distance to get to Odyssey with a tangle of trust issues and heartbreak.
* BizarreTasteInFood: Tamika is disgusted to find her eating a tuna fish sandwich with pickle relish, onions, and sauerkraut in "Best of Enemies".
* BrokenBird: Her dad left when she was seven; she always grew attached to her mother's many boyfriends, who all eventually left; her mother physically abused her; she was thrown out of multiple schools; even a church told her they didn't want to see her again.
* ChildProdigy: Implied by her talent at playing piano by ear; she's playing a song on an organ at ten years old without any sheet music.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her mother abused her and her mother’s boyfriends weren’t much better.
* DisappearedDad
* FreakyIsCool: She’s into dark music and edgy rock groups.
* FreeRangeChildren: Deconstructed. From the time she was seven, she wandered all over the place and her mom never knew where she was (she protests that she never got into any "real" trouble), so she has no problem with simply leaving notes reading "I've gone out —Kelly" on the Washingtons' fridge; Elaine is naturally worried and looks all over the place trying to find her, scolding her for not telling anyone where she was specifically going and explaining that she could get hurt wandering off on her own.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: In "The Chosen One, Part 1", Tamika catches her smoking in the Whit's End bathroom and is suitably appalled...particularly when Kelly threatens her into silence.
* InadvertentEntranceCue: In “Chip Off the Shoulder”, set when she and Connie are still feuding:
-->'''Connie:''' In fact, I’ll interview the next person who walks through that door!
-->'''Kelly:''' Hi, Mr. Whittaker!
-->'''Whit:''' Oh, hi, Kelly!
-->'''Connie:''' …I’ll interview the second person to walk through that door.
* PowerOfTrust: She has major trust issues, which Mrs. Washington observes in “Chip Off the Shoulder” stem from constantly being betrayed by her mother and her mother’s boyfriends. The conflict between Kelly and Connie ends when they both decide that they’re going to put their differences aside and learn to trust each other.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Tomboy to Tamika’s Girly Girl.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Fudge marble ice cream. Ed figures out that she's the one who took the ice cream out of the freezer when he notices the flavor.