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The characters and folks who played a smaller role through the storyline, whether being in the background, only being relevant for a short duration of the long history of Atop the Fourth Wall, or simply don't fit into other categories.
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Minor Allies
Alex Munroe
Lead character from Star Trek: Elite Force, which Linkara did a Let's Play of. Originally an ensign in Starfleet, now promoted to lieutenant.
- Character Catchphrase: "I'm Ensign Munroooooooe!"
- Only Sane Man: Compared to the rest of the crew of Voyager, that is...
Boffo the Clown
- Back from the Dead: Returns with the rest of the world at the end of Pokemon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu #1.
- It's Probably Nothing: Linkara's reaction to his disappearance.
- Monster Clown: Defied.
- Amusingly, Radu(as played by Obscurus Lupa) still finds him creepy.
- Though, as Linkara's accountant, he does appear to be robbing him blind.
- Non-Ironic Clown: He’s supposed to be this as a way to combat the Monster Clown trope with varying degrees of success.
- Sacrificial Lamb: He lasts less than 30 seconds before he's abducted by the Entity off camera.
- The Unintelligible: He communicates through his bicycle horn rather than words and he doesn't tweet out any sentences, he just tweets emotions.
Bone Button
- A Day in the Limelight: He's used as Linkara's substitute to fight Heavy Wrex.
- Alliterative Name: Bone Button.
- Angry Animalistic Growl: Much like Hulk Hogan and the Ultimate Warrior, he likes to punctuate his trash-talk with drawn-out growls.
- The Champion: Linkara names him this by invoking an article in the Contest's rules, which allows a Champion a one-time substitute during a match.
- Expy: His speech patterns invoke a number of famous wrestlers such as Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage, and his appearance and name are similar to that of Bonesaw from the Spider-Man Trilogy.
- Friendly Enemy: Despite the smack talk, Bone Button is on good terms with Heavy Wrex after their bout, helping the vanquished Champion back to his feet and giving him a manly handshake.
- Heel: Wears black and constantly challenges more heroic characters to wrestling matches.
- Insult Backfire: He boasts that he'll make Heavy Wrex extinct, like the dinosaurs he's descended from. Turns out that dinosaurs are common livestock in Wrex's universe.
- Large Ham: A pro-wrestling Heel who loves challenges and promos — ham comes with the territory.
- Noodle Incident: The review of Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating the JLA reveals he fought the Just Imagine version of Batman and lost quite fast. He doesn't reveal how, but he wants a rematch.
Continuity Alarm
A device which starts beeping loudly and flashes its name on the top and bottom of the screen whenever Linkara starts rambling about continuity issues in a comic.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Disappears for about a year...
- The Bus Came Back: ...and reveals in the 200th episode that it spent the year burning off its accumulated vacation days that had been building since the show started, only to promptly disappear again until the Infinite Crisis review, in which it's revealed it has since been re-purposed.
- Continuity Snarl: Its purpose is to prevent discussions on this.
- Deadpan Snarker: Will occasionally alter the "CONTINUITY ALARM" text to make smart remarks and bicker with Linkara.
- Foreshadowing: It gets broken and is one of the first signs of Mechakara's meddling... or so we are led to believe. It was actually broken by Dr. Linksano.
Sierra
Voiced by: Lewis Lovhaug
The Gunslinger's English accented AI assistant. During the uneasy alliance between the Gunslinger and Linkara's crew he shares a mutual animosity with Pollo to an almost sitcom degree.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Sierra once went haywire, forcing Jaeris to reprogram him with Undying Loyalty. Unfortunately, whatever Jaeris did wasn't enough to keep out the King of Worms.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: He gets converted by the King of Worms, then immediately knockout-gassed Jaeris and zapped Pollo. He was thankfully freed after the King of Worms died.
- Deadpan Snarker: Especially when it comes to Pollo and to a lesser extent the rest of Linkara's group. He's very blunt and snarky to anyone who isn't Jaeris.
- The Jeeves: Downplayed. An electronic version.
- Jerkass: Unless you're his master, don't expect him to be nice to you.
- The Lancer: To the Gunslinger.
- Mr. Exposition: Acted as this briefly when analyzing the dimensional waves that the King of Worms was using. The reason it's brief though is because he was exposed to the King's influence and got himself brainwashed.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to the Gunslinger's red. And also red to NIMUE's blue, ironically.
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Pollo. Not a moment goes by when they aren't snarking or bickering with each other. Pollo was even motivated to get a new voice out of jealously for Sierra's sauve British accent, though the blue robot denies it.
- Undying Loyalty: To the Gunslinger, referring to him as "master", as it turns out he was programmed with it after an incident in which Sierra went insane and nearly killed him.
Tom Servo
Yes, that Tom Servo. A puppet of the robot that Lewis' brother Graham gave him for Christmas shows up several times, including when Liz and Linkara are wishing us a Merry Christmas.
- Drop-In Character: Somewhat. He shows up in the opening in a display.
- Mirrorverse Pollo uses the puppet as his body, while the normal Pollo body sits in the display case.
- Pollo later took over the puppet to beat Lord Vyce, who had taken over his old body.
- The Voiceless: He's never spoken a single word.
Other Minor Characters
2090s Kid
The future equivilant of '90s Dude from the year 2099. Whenever Linkara reviews a Marvel 2099 comic, he ends up swapping places with '90s Dude due to temporal shenanigans. He's always happy to explain the customs of 2099 to Linkara, whether he wants to know or not.
- Character Catchphrase: 2090s Kid will often say "sewing machine!" to voice his approval of something.
- Creepy Souvenir: He likes to carry around a "cryo-bag" containing his own severed hand... that was surgically removed from a third arm he grew after being exposed to radiation. Linkara is understandably grossed-out when he sees it.
- Future Slang: Parodied, as all his slang amounts to namedropping random objects with little context given to them. For example, saying something is "kleenex" is very positive, while "Robitussin" is a horrible slur that is never to be uttered.
- Genius Ditz: Just like '90s Dude, 2090s Kid isn't entirely an idiot despite his goofy Totally Radical persona. He has a surprising amount of knowledge on the etymology of words, which he attributes to spelling bees becoming a national pastime in 2099.
Aplos the Wizard/Steven
Portrayed by: Graham Lovhaug
IT IS NOT WISE TO ARGUE WITH A WIZARD, FOR WE HAVE LITTLE PATIENCE, AND A LOT OF POWER.
A wizard who has settled down in Canada. His real name is Aplos, but he prefers to be called Steven. Linkara paid him a visit during his journey to restore power to his magic items, and Steven told him the real reason they had lost their potency: He was in danger of turning to the dark side, and the spirit in his Magic Gun took his magic away.- Ambiguously Evil: He's definitely a jerkass, but that's all he really seemed to be at first. At least until the "Extreme" gag in Linkara's review of Batman Odyssey #2, in which one of the foreshadowing phrases shown is "The Wizard Lied". Of the four phrases, this is the only one that has yet to be elaborated on,* but Aplos is the only known wizard in the show, implying he lied about something.
- Bullying a Dragon: After Linkara is told he is turning evil, he questions Aplos' credibility as a wizard. Prompting Aplos to power up deepen his voice and tell him to shut up.Linkara: This is nonsense you're probably not even the real wizard. I bet this is all an elaborate trap t—-Aplos: SILENCE!!! IT IS NOT WISE TO ARGUE WITH A WIZARD!!! FOR WE HAVE LITTLE PATIENCE AND A LOT OF POWER!!
- Jerkass: He throws a lot of insults at Linkara.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Most of the things he said were on point, particularly about Linkara turning evil.
- Mr. Exposition: His role is to deliver exposition about magic, why Linkara's magic isn't working and that he is turning evil.
- Really 700 Years Old: Is so old that he decided his real name was too old fashioned.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Aplos gives a blistering one to Linkara after the latter denies that he could be turning evil (and accusing Aplos of being a fraud). He correctly points out:
- Linkara's past awful behavior as a "hero" (being willing to conquer a nation for the sake of an ego trip is hardly "heroic" after all).
- His tendency to disregard the feelings of others for his own selfish wants.
- His willingness to use threats with his spaceship on those he knows can't fight back against him because of having it.
- His inability to fathom that his actions might have consequences beyond just how they affect him.
- It also serves as a fairly pointed and brutal deconstruction of the kind of behavior a typical Internet Reviewer was inclined to behave during that time, putting their Comedic Sociopathy in a much darker light. And it works; Linkara is so shaken by the revelation of how much worse he's become that he leaves without issue.
- Special Person, Normal Name: He decided "Aplos" sounded too weird and old-fashioned, so he renamed himself "Steven".
- Small Role, Big Impact: Aplos doesn't have much of a role (so far) outside of being the end goal of Linkara's short journey to find out what was wrong with his magic, and has yet to appear outside of the Guns and Sorcery Arc. However, he puts Linkara in his place and tears down the latter's increasingly cruelty and egotistic delusions about himself, forcing him to face the reality that he's been getting worse as a person for years and needs to change, lest he fully succumb to his worst traits and become a monster himself.
Bear
He's evil. He's behind everything. He's six inches tall.
- The Dog Was the Mastermind: Played for Laughs in the Previously on… segment for Daredevil #306, and the Silent Hill: Dying Inside alternate endings even directly parody the Trope Namer.Linkara: You! You're the secret manipulator behind everything! *pulls out Bear* BEARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
- Eldritch Abomination: Albeit, one who preferred to take the form of a teddy bear.
- Joke Character
- Phrase Catcher: BEAAAAAAR!
- Shout-Out: His Real Life name is Littlefoot.
- Silent Bob:Linkara: He's a bear! What did you expect?
Clive Sinclair
The host of Late Night Double Feature, Clive Sinclair reviews horror movies, operating out of Linkara's basement: specifically, Moarte's Longbox of the Damned set-up for the pilot episode, though he gets his own set afterward.
- Character Catchphrase: "It's after midnight somewhere."
- Cool Shades: Sports a pair of glasses with hinged red and blue shades, giving them the appearance of old 3-D glasses.
- Deadpan Snarker: He's more jovial than most but still gets off some zingers, opening each episode thus far with one related to the selected clip.
- Genre Blind: For a guy who reviews horror movies, he's either utterly oblivious or oddly unconcerned about the fact that he's hijacked a terrifying ghoul's set to film his show's pilot episode; he shrugs off Moarte's maniacal laughter in his first appearance and even mistakes his creepy face for mere makeup in October 2021.
- Horror Host: His shtick, but unlike Moarte, he seems to be a normal human.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: He wears a snazzy red suit.
Future Linkara
Portrayed by: Loren Lovhaug
- Basement-Dweller: In the year 2039, Linkara still lives with his parents. Or does he?
- Cruel to Be Kind: Fitting his role as the parody of the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, he (or at least the spirit taking the image of Futurekara) shows Harvey Finevoice his son's gravestone to force him to realize that he can't keep treating present Linkara as his son's substitute, and that he can't keep living in the past forever. He has to let his son go...
which Harvey eventually does in tears. - Future Loser: Present Linkara doesn't think highly of him.
- Multiple-Choice Past: The 500th Episode sees him complaining about being a victim of it, as Present Linkara's somewhat unpredictable actions constantly changes the timeline, sometimes in very radical ways, so he never be quite sure exactly what happened in his past at any given moment.
- My Future Self and Me: Linkara ends up meeting his future self, and is less than impressed by what he's become. Vowing to change this future, he ultimately only ends up giving Futurekara his old hat back. Afterwards is...convoluted to say the least.
- Orwellian Retcon: In his appearence in the Framing Device of the 700th episode, he attempts to employ this to the beginning of his own reviewing career, insisting in an interview that his text reviews and early video reviews from 2008 never happened and doesn't exist, and that his "true" beginning as a comic reviewer first happened in January 2009. On a meta-level this is, of course, overtly meant to be one massive Take That! to the frequent retcons, reimaginings, and "streamlinings" that various super heroes' origin stories have been subject to throughout time, of which the subject of the video, Superman: Year One, is but one example of.
- Take That Me: It's been 30 years and he still hasn't published the third issue of his comic.
Ghosts Of Christmas
Ghost of Christmas Past Portrayed by: A. Lovhaug (First Appearance), Doug Walker (Second Appearance)
Ghost of Christmas Present Portrayed by: Graham Lovhaug
Ghost of Christmas Future Portrayed by: Loren Lovhaug (Second Appearance)
A trio of ghosts who, like their A Christmas Carol counterparts, attempt to go to individuals whom they perceive as needing to learn about the Christmas spirit. Unfortunately for them, Linkara loves Christmas, so their efforts don't exactly work, much to their annoyance. However, they have much more success with Harvey Finevoice...
- Absurdly Bright Light: The first Ghost of Christmas Past is surrounded in a holy aura of light...except it's so bright that Linkara can't see anything, and has to yell at her to turn it down so he isn't blinded by her.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: Strongly implied to be the reason why the Ghost of Christmas Future chooses to look like Future Linkara during his encounter with Harvey Finevoice. Harvey at this point was completely in denial of his messy relationship complications with Linkara, and his tendency to conflate Linkara and his dead son despite them both being different people. Future forces Harvey to face reality, or be stuck in his situation.
- Big Fun: Present is shown to be the most jovial member of the three, even as Linkara blows him off by pointing out that he doesn't need to learn about Christmas.
- Cruel to Be Kind: Much like his inspiration, the Ghost of Christmas Future is as dedicated to getting people to come around to their issues, but does so in the most ruthless way compared to the other two ghosts. After Past and Present only barely manage to nudge Harvey into acknowledging his dead son and how it influences his actions around Linkara, Future pretty much forces Harvey to come to terms with his son's death by putting his son's grave marker in front of him, how he's been using Linkara as a Replacement Goldfish, and how much he was refusing to let go to his own detriment. It's painful, but it works to finally push the man to let go.
- Headlock of Dominance: Critic!Ghost of Christmas Past gets subjected to this by his intended recipient Harvey Finevoice after he appears in the latter's hotel room.
- Heroism Won't Pay the Bills: The reason why the Nostalgia Critic of all people is the Ghost of Christmas Past the second time around; apparently Godhood and becoming one with the universe doesn't exactly pay his bills, so he took on the job to pass the time.
- Logical Weakness: Because they're the Ghosts of Christmas, who primarily come before individuals who need to learn its meaning, they are basically ineffective or unable to do anything to people who genuinely love Christmas, like Linkara. This ends up not being as big of a deal in their second appearance, as they've not only expanded into targeting a person's traumas and deeply rooted insecurities, but their second target is the very emotionally compromised Harvey Finevoice, who's just suffered from a breakdown in his friendship with Linkara and his own deeply rooted traumas regarding his dead son...
- Share Phrase: In their second appearance, "Where Do You Think You Are?"
- Small Role, Big Impact: Their first appearance has minimal impact except to act as a joke about how unneeded they are to the Christmas-loving Linkara. Their second appearance however is much more serious, as they're appearing before Harvey Finevoice. Through their collective efforts, they push him to understood the root of his trauma regarding his deceased son, and how it's negatively affecting his relationship with Linkara, and that he has to let go if he wants to move on and develop a proper relationship with Linkara.
Holokara
- Achilles' Heel: Subverted. Anyone who's watched Voyager would think that his mobile emitter is this (and Harvey even suggests it at one point), but Linksano points out that, since Holokara is made up of light and force fields, he has no trouble simply protecting his mobile emitter with a force field, so shooting it is exactly as ineffective as shooting any other part of him.
- Affably Evil: He's very polite and mild-mannered, even when he threatens Harvey, and he seems fairly amicable when not confronted in a hostile way or met with defiance. He realy does just want the show to run as smoothly as possible, even if it means eliminating the others.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Subverted. There was nothing wrong with the programming of Holokara's A.I. at all; the only problem with him is that he was based on Linkara's memories and thought patterns, meaning Holokara was basically what Linkara was going to become if he didn't go to find himself and find out he was becoming evil. Holokara is basically the road that Linkara would have taken.
- Ax-Crazy: To call him psychotic would be putting it lightly. Case in point: he threatened to outright kill 90's Kid if he interrupted the show again, then threatened to crush Harvey's windpipe for calling him out on the aforementioned threat.
- Big Bad Ensemble: One of the main villains of the "Gun and Sorcery" arc, acting as the biggest threat in the long span of time between the first two confrontations with Jaeris. Although defeated halfway through, Holokara is the representation of Linkara's own slow slide into evil that removed his magic in the first place, and his defeat signifies how Linkara has rejected the toxic fan entitlement he's been descending into.
- Dead Person Impersonation: Linkara reprograms him to impersonate the Entity, in order to trick Vyce into going through a dimensional portal.
- Deconstructed Character Archetype: He ultimately serves as one for the Caustic Critic Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist. Many of his more extreme actions, like threatening to kill 90s Kid and Harvey and threatening to blow up Marvel if it didn't undo One More Day would often be Played For Black Comedy by others like The Nostalgia Critic. However, the arc is set from the point of view from the people around him, and it shows how horrifying and unhinged someone who did things like that would actually be. Indeed, Linkara calling out Holokara for how despicable those actions are is the moment where Atop The Fourth Wall slowly but surely stops being an angry reviewer show.
- Disc-One Final Boss: The main antagonist for the first half of the Gunslinger arc.
- Evil Counterpart: To Linkara in a more literal form.
- Enemy Without: He is all of Linkara's previous and current character flaws made manifest, and taken to their logical conclusion. When Linkara reads him the riot act, he's basically lecturing himself.
- Face–Heel Turn: After Linkara leaves him to host the show for a while, he starts getting some bad ideas...
- For example: he threatened to kill 90's Kid if he interrupted the show again.
- He also threatened to crush Harvey's windpipe when he confronted him for threatening 90's Kid.
- Hidden in Plain Sight: If you've ever watched Star Trek: Voyager with some regularity, you know that Linkara didn't review a single one of those Silent Hill comics.
- Humans Are the Real Monsters: Believes this.Holokara: They'll never change unless we make them change.
- Immune to Bullets: Being a hologram, he's impossible to kill unless you damage his holo-emitter, unfortunately for Pyramid Head and Harvey.
- Knight of Cerebus: When he's revealed to be a villain, and isn't reviewing comics.
- Knight Templar: Thinks that murder is justified when avenging the injustices done to comic book superheroes.
- Light Is Not Good: He is a hologram, after all.
- Psychopathic Manchild: He is willing to kill many people just so that his favorite comic book characters are treated with respect.
- Redemption Equals Death: He is reactivated again to impersonate the Linkara-possessed Entity to trick Vyce to taking both out. With the complete destruction of Comicron-2, it's not likely that the mobile emitter survived, meaning Holokara is dead for good.
- Sarcasm Mode: When 'slain' by Whatley's Pyramid Head.Holokara: Oh, ow, I have been slain. Blargh.
- Shout-Out: Holokara's first scene plays out very similarly to a scene in the Doctor Who episode "The Pirate Planet".
- Walking Spoiler: Suffice to say, he's more than just a stand-in when Linkara's not around.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He is ultimately revealed to be this. He wanted to use Comicron 1 to force Marvel and DC to fix all of the terrible things they'd done to superheroes in their comics, which was what was slowly driving both Linkara and Holokara insane. Linkara points out that doing that makes him no better than the comics editors who are ruining the characters in the first place.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Acts the same way Linkara would have and thinks that's acceptable. Unfortunately for him, he's in a story that deconstructs that kind of behavior, and as such his actions are outright horrifying.
Moarte
- Affably Evil: He's a creepy undead ghoul...who just wants to encourage people to read more horror comics. He loves his "children." He even gives a gleeful "thanks" to Linkara for wishing him a happy 10th anniversary.
- All-Powerful Bystander: Despite how powerful he really is, he only cares about hosting Longbox of the Damned and has no interest in partaking in any of Linkara's "petty squabbles" and "serialized nonsense", so stays out of most of his conflicts. Averted when He kills Mirrorkara after he enters his supply room and later when he nearly kills Mirror Margaret after Linkara gets her to attack his longbox, though he warns Linkara against involving him again after this instance.
- Always a Bigger Fish: Despite how indifferent he is to Linkara's situation, it is plainly clear that he is much more powerful than some of them, and that it is an utterly foolish idea to get him involved. Mirrorkara and Mirror Margaret found out about this the hard way.
- Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: He's ultimately the one to kill off Mirrorkara when he makes the mistake of going into the supply room. He ultimately also (partially) does this again to Mirrokara's cohort, Mirror Margaret, when she makes the massive error of provoking his wrath. However, Moarte is not amused at being exploited by Linkara into attacking Mirror Margaret, only letting him off with a thinly veiled warning not to let this happen again, or Linkara will face the consequences.
- The Bad Guy Wins: Expresses a preference towards this, even spitting at the notion of good being victorious.
- Berserk Button: Do not harm his longbox, and do not get him involved in your "petty squabbles". He will destroy you if you fail to uphold your end of the ultimatum with him.
- Bilingual Bonus: His name is Romanian for 'death'. Transylvania of course being part of Romania.
- Bond One-Liner: This guy could give Crypty and Freddy a run for their puns.
- Character Catchphrase: "My children!" He often begins in saying, "Hello, my children!" but other times, it's usually something else entirely but will always end with "My children".
- Cursed with Awesome: In the first episode he says he's cursed to forever "watch over" horror comics, but doesn't seem to mind very much.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Played with. On the one hand he claims to be evil, but is pretty harmless and even a Friend to All Children. On the other hand, he does eat flesh and some of his backstories imply a nastier streak. He also makes it very clear that he and Linkara are not allies and that Linkara must never involve him in his "serialized nonsense". At the same time, he is legitimate friends with Mark, the spirit of the Magic Gun.
- Deal with the Devil: More like an ultimatum; while Linkara was searching for why his magic no longer worked, he came across Moarte's Longbox and was immediately held captive. Moarte spared Linkara, on the condition he be allowed to share with the world the wonders of Horror comics every Halloween, hence Longbox of the Damned existing at all. He also makes it extremely clear that he does not want to be involved with Linkara's "petty squabbles" and "serialized nonsense", and that if he fails to uphold this, then Moarte can revoke the deal at any time.
- Do Not Spoil This Ending: Early on most reviews don't reveal certain details about the comic, most commonly the ending. Moarte does this to encourage the viewer to read the comic themselves. He ends up revealing the whole story as his series go on.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Despite enjoying slaughter and fear and preferring the dead over the living, Moarte considers the Black Lantern's desire to kill emotion abhorrent.
- As much as Moarte loves the macabre, in the Children of the Grave review, he says that he takes no pleasure in witnessing the horrors of war.
- In his Hell Girl review, Moarte takes time to mention that, speaking as one who has traveled to Hell, there is a guaranteed special place there for child molesters.
- In his Iron Siege review, he makes it clear he harbors nothing but contempt for the Nazis, deeming them a "real world" evil that everyone wishes they could have destroyed.
- He opens his "Ibitsu" review by saying, "Would you have a little sister, my children?" but regretted saying it when he realized it sound more creepy coming from him.
- He calls out the warrior in Creature Features for being a Jerkass when he dismisses every woman in the village for not being beautiful enough.
- He feels very uncomfortable about the implication of Harry attacking a school in Maniac of New York: The Bronx is Burning, needing to assure the audience ahead of time that fortunately no children die in the book.
- In The Monster of Frankenstein #7, he notes that the book uses the G-slur, whereas he himself uses the proper term Romani, because he cares about language. And also he isn't racist.
- More in retrospect, but despite his disdain for the, as he puts it, "petty squabbles" and "serialized nonsense" of Linkara, when Mirrorkara does intrude on his space, Moarte is at least willing to deal with him without any threats to Linkara for violating the deal at the time.
- Evil Is Bigger: When confronting Mirrorkara, the evil bearded version of Linkara has to look up to see a ghoulish figure whose head almost touches the ceiling.
- Evil Laugh: Closes every episode with one.
- Horror Host: Moarte owes a lot to the likes of Cain from House of Mystery, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, and of course, the Crypt Keeper from Tales from the Crypt.
- The Hyena: His laughter is long, cackling, and utterly chaotic/gleeful.
- I Love the Dead: Prefers "the bones to the boobs".
- I'm a Humanitarian: Appears to be one according to his The Walking Dead vol. 1 review. Though, considering that he's a ghoul it's kind of in the description, but he notes that fake rubber hands don't have much meat on them.
- Incoming Ham: "HELLO, MY CHEEELDREN!"
- Invisibility: The Batman: Unseen episode reveals that he can somehow turn himself invisible, possibly another effect of him being undead.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: Fully agrees with Ripley's decision to go back and rescue Jones the cat in 'Alien: The Illustrated Story'... while holding and petting a cat himself.Moarte: Yeah, I'd go back for one of these too.
- Large Ham: The cast of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann would think he's a bit over the top.
- Multiple-Choice Past: For Longbox of the Damned's 10th anniversary, Linkara presents ten different origins for Moarte as campfire stories. In the very last episode of the year, Moarte says that every one of them has some truth to it. His background with Linkara himself averts this however, being how they specifically met.
- Mundane Made Awesome: He's able to add dramatic flare to rifling through a longbox of comics, something most comic collectors do in the store.
- After talking about Edgar Allan Poe wanting to bring his wife back to life, he points out that being undead seems OK to him: "I am neither living nor dead, and I'm doing pretty well, I have a table and everything!" (taps it)
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: While his actual status as a "villain" is somewhat ambiguous at present, he's always generally come off as a darkly humorous host of horror comics every Halloween, his hamminess and dark demeanor being part of his charm. The only indication of his darker qualities is alluded to in his history until the 2022 Halloween storyline revealed more of why exactly he's there. However, it's also increasingly evident that despite otherwise not caring about anyone else in Linkara's ragtag team, he is not someone you want to cross paths with:
- In the Clone Saga, he kills off Mirrorkara with very little difficulty, the villain screaming in sheer terror of the ghoul even when other things have barely phased him before.
- In the 2022 Halloween Storyline, after getting his Longbox damaged by Mirror Margaret, he utterly ignores all of her attempts to harm him, casually defeating her and nearly delivering the same fate to her as he did to her former wielder Mirrorkara... before calmly threatening Linkara with his own demise if he ever allows his "petty squabbles" to interfere with Moarte's personal space again.
- Nightmare Fetishist: Comes with the territory.
- One example from The Day of Judgment review, is that he considers heaven overrated because there's not enough blood and guts to suit his tastes.
- He also considers dark humor the best kind of humor
- Odd Friendship: Moarte pretty much doesn't care about the majority of Linkara's allies and only tolerates Linkara at best, but he does have a friendship with Mark despite their generally opposing moralities.
- Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Usually the accent is much stronger when the camera is on Moarte than when he is narrating over the comic. Sometimes it will deliberately fade for a bathos-type punchline.
- Our Liches Are Different: He claims to be a ghoul, but in "Prometheus: Fire and Stone Omega" he also mentions keeping his soul in a jar of eternal flame, not unlike a phylactery.
- Papa Wolf: He might have unusual enthusiasm for horror but he is pretty protective of children.
- In his review of ×××HOLiC chapter 14 he takes time to explain that, despite the name of the manga, he would never show his "children" anything sexual. Additionally when one of the ghost stories in the chapter involves a child being trapped in a room by their father he notes that even with all of the stories about the undead and Lovecraftian horrors this is the one that frightens him a little.
- During his review of Hell Girl he takes a moment to guarantee that there is a special place in hell for child molesters.
- Superman Stays Out of Gotham: Moarte is clearly the strongest of Linkara’s acquaintances, but he refuses to get involved in his “petty squabbles” and “serialized nonsense”, thus he only shows up when his stuff is invaded.
- Tears of Blood: In Eerie #1, he says that the final story brings bloody tears to [his] dried up eye sockets.
- The Undead: He is "neither living nor dead". Even he isn't clear on the details though.At least I'm not in hell! (Beat) What is the theology around me, anyway?
- Tranquil Fury: He is very displeased when Linkara's most recent confrontation with Mirror Margaret forces him to intervene, and makes it plainly clear (while choking Linkara) that if he fails to uphold his end of the ultimatum he made with him years ago, Moarte can revoke it at any time. Linkara gets the message.
- Vampire Vords: Speaks like this despite being a ghoul note .
- Verbal Tic: His ending sentences with "my cheeldren" sometimes falls into this.
- What the Hell Is That Accent?: He has a bizarre, vaguely Central/Eastern European accent that's somewhere between Peter Lorre and a Hollywood Roma. In the Invaders #31 review, he claims it's an American accent.
Snowflame
- Addiction-Powered: Snowflame is powered by COCAINE! So much so that he's the page picture.Snowflame: COFFEE IS LIQUID COCAINE!
- Broken Aesop: Played for Laughs in his Public Service Announcements. Especially his peer pressure PSA.
- Calling Your Attacks: If "doing random stuff" can be classed as attacks.Snowflame: SNOWFLAME IS WATCHING YOU READ!
Snowflame: SNOWFLAME IS STEALING YOUR SHOOOOES!
Snowflame: SNOWFLAME MADE COCAINE POPSICLES! - Cloud Cuckoo LanderSnowflame: SNOWFLAME HAS NO CONCEPT OF TIME! *ghostly moaning*
- Fanboy: He is a Brony or at least would be if he could remember the show and character's names.
- Hidden Depths: If one of the skits in the ASBAR reviews are to be believed, he's good at Parcheesi.
- Incoming Ham: "And now, a Public Service Announcement from... SNOOOOWFLAME!!!"
- Large Ham: Much like in his comic book appearance, Snowflame likes to yell and exclaim things.
- He also makes a sandwich in the most bombastic way possible...and then carefully measure the amount of cocaine to put on top.
- Mad Libs Catch Phrase: His advice on peer pressure is thus: If someone challenges to do <insert challenge here> no matter what it is? Do fifty <Insert challenge here>, At the same time! no matter what the challenge is.Snowflame: Somebody challenges you to smoke a cigarette? Smoke 50! AT THE SAME TIME!Snowflame: Somebody challenges you to jump a bench? Jump 50! AT THE SAME TIME!Snowflame: Somebody challenges you to eat the last cupcake? Eat 50! AT THE SAME TIME!
- Manchild: He thinks the snow outside is cocaine, butts into conversations and scenes, and is rather inquisitive natured for an adult.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Upon learning snorting cocaine can damage one's sinuses, it prompts this response:Snowflame: What has Snowflame dooone?
- No Indoor Voice
- Third-Person Person: Never uses a person pronoun.
Fat Grandma
- Canon Foreigner: She's appeared in the reviews of the Cinema Snob, Phelous, the Nostalgia Critic and Welshy's last episode, but has yet to appear on Atop the Fourth Wall (outside of the commercial bumpers).
- Linkara has gone on record, saying that she shall not appear in any A T 4 W Episodes, but shall appear in the Videos of his fellow Critics.
- Fat Grandma is heard offscreen during Part One of the 500th Epsiode, having married the Cinema Snob in the gap between the episode's air date and the five-years-into-the-future messages he receives. Linkara states he has no idea who Fat Grandma is.
- Cloudcuckoolander
- Cool Old Guy: Female version to everyone except Linkara, apparently.
- The Fundamentalist: In her cameo in The Cinema Snob's review of God's Not Dead 2 she apparently enjoyed said film and that "Dr. Jones" should use his mouth for prayer in schools...yet again a later cutaway shows she also enjoyed Fifty Shades Darker.
- Happily Married: In the 500th Episode, in a possible future, she is happily married to the Cinema Snob! According to Lupa, their wedding was actually beautiful.
- I Am Legion: According to the Commentary of the Atop The Fourth Wall Film; She is possessed by some kind of being, that is only able to become vocal, any time she falls asleep.
- Informed Ability: She is apparently a Supreme Chef, her delicious cooking being the only reason why Linkara tolerates to keep her around.
- Insane Troll Logic: Everything she says.Fat Grandma You must avenge me!Hyperfangirl: You're not even dead!Fat Grandma: Mind your own business!
- Large Ham: Probably Lewis' character who is enjoying itself the most.
- Lemony Narrator: The Stinger of Welshy's Farawell shows that the episode was Fat Grandma telling the story of how the show ended, much to Linkara's chagrin. Then she makes him listen to the tale of Demo ReelFat Grandma: This one is the story of Demo Reel. It's not very long.Linkara: God Damned, Fat Grandma! You're going to get me fired!!Fat Grandma: You hush your mouth and listen! Anyway, the story of Demo Reel begins when some ego-maniacal prick got pulled into a Plot Hole...
- Metaphorgotten:Fat Grandma: Now let me impart some words of wisdom to you from Fat Grandma: A penny saved, is a penny in your pocket!
- The Nicknamer: She insists on referring to The Cinema Snob as the Cinema Scrooge.
- No Name Given: Everyone only refers to her as "Fat Grandma".
- Parental Substitute: In Nostalgia Critic's Disney Afternoon episode, since both Critic and Malcom's moms were there, Tamara's mom was replaced by Fat Grandma. She also seems to be Hyper's Split Personality grandma.
- Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: Fat Grandma is sass personified.
- Shipper on Deck: With plenty of toxic influence, she's probably the only person in or out of universe to want Hyper with Critic.
- Totally Radical: Talks like a Sassy Black Woman for no clear reason.
- Toxic Friend Influence: She's the one who convinces (very easily it should be noted) Hyper that she should keep stalking Critic.
Mirror Universe
Doctor Insano
An alternate version of Dr. Insano (though still played by Lewis Lovhaug) who is just and heroic, calling himself "the Champion of Science". Iron Liz convinces him and mirror-Pollo to take control of Mirror Comicron-1 from Captain Linkara in order to prevent him from taking over the world.
- Baritone of Strength: His voice is deeper than either the regular Dr. Insano's or Dr. Linksano's, and he's competent enough to take down Mirrorkara in a firefight.
- Big Good: In the Mirror Universe, at least.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: When Liz suggests he take over Comicron-1 from Mirrorkara/Captain Linkara, he briefly quips that sometimes it's easier just to stun him.
- For Science!: Just like the Insano of our universe, his methods can best be described as "science".
- Good Costume Switch: He wears an all-white version of Dr. Insano's outfit and even has a lighter goatee than Mirrorkara's.
- Large Ham: He wouldn't be an Insano without it.
- Science Hero: Duh.
Liz
An alternate version of Iron Liz. Not much is known about her except for the fact that she thinks 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons is the best version of the game ever made.
- Out-of-Character Alert: Her above statement about the 4th Edition.Linkara: Clearly, some kind of transposition has taken place!
Pollo
An alternate version of Pollo. Shares identical personalities with the Pollo of our universe, except has the body of Tom Servo.
- Foreshadowing: A neat hint that the primary universe's Pollo would also end up inhabiting Tom Servo's body. Also, at first glance, it looks like Pollo's normal body is in the glass case where Tom Servo is in the primary universe, as a simple inversion gag, but a closer look shows this is the 'Pollo v1.1' model that will soon appear in the primary universe and be hijacked by Mechakara and Lord Vyce.
Magic Gun/Mirror Margaret
The counterpart to the normal Linkara's Magic Gun and the soul contained within. She has pretty much the same backstory, with the caveat she was willingly placed in the gun and possesses a far more bloodthirsty personality.
See Atop The Fourth Wall - Villains for more about her.
Mirrorkara
An alternate version of Linkara, who began reviewing comic books in hopes that they could help him take over the world. He also controls a spaceship, and without the interferance of his world's Doctor Insano, he would have taken over the Mirror Universe in a matter of days.
See Atop The Fourth Wall - Villains for more about him.
