Drew Brockman
Portrayed By: Erica Luttrell
The main protagonist. She and her friend, Walker, want revenge on their rivals: Tabitha and Lee.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: While in the book, she was secretly in on the prank to get back at Tabitha and Lee, but in the TV episode, she really cared about them and wasn't in on faking her performance to fool the two.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Because she is short, her father calls her "elf." Because he's her father, he can get away with doing that. When Walker overheard him and decided to give it a try himself, she stomped hard on his foot.
- Gender-Blender Name: There are very few girls with the name "Drew".
- Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Is the Masculine Girl to Walker's Feminine Boy. She is a Pint-Sized Powerhouse who dresses up as a superhero, while Walker tends to be sensitive and shy.
- Miss Imagination: She has quite a fantasy going on in her head. For instance, she has a daydream involving her, Walker, and her two enemies in a haunted house with two senile elderly caretakers. It lasts for a few chapters and is never mentioned again in the book.
- The Napoleon: She even mentions she needs to be tough while small.
- Oh, Crap!: At the end of the book, Drew asks Shana and Shana what they eat if they're aliens. They reply that they like the taste of fat, human flesh. Drew, in shock, asks if they are joking. Considering the fact that four missing fat adults in their area had disappeared recently, they probably were NOT joking.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She is the shortest person in her class, and is also the fastest runner in the class. And when Walker mocked her height, she stomps on his foot so hard that he never did it again.
- Platonic Life-Partners: Her and Walker. They have been friends for at least two years, and nothing seems to suggest romance between them.
- Race Lift: Is implied to be Caucasian in the book, but is African-American in the episode.
- Sassy Black Girl: In the TV series, where she goes from Caucasian to African-American. Downplayed in that episode as while she can get a bit temperamental at times, she's not as big as other examples of this trope.
- The Smart Guy: She mentions how she is the practical one in her group of friends, and indeed the others have crazy ideas, but she is the one to make sure they don't get out of control.
- Strict Parents Make Sneaky Kids: Her mother is shown to be worried for her daughter, not wanting her at first to go at Halloween night because of a mass disappearance with victims who don't fit her criteria at all. This just makes her want to go out even more.
- Troll: She is shown to be a masterful actress. She pretends to not know anything of Shane and Shana's book long prank against Tabitha and Lee involving the pumpkin heads. This is to further fool them as part of her revenge scheme.
- Unreliable Narrator: She mentions how scared and worried she was when under danger of the Jack O'Lanterns. But in the end, it's revealed that she was FAKING her horror by going along with this as a prank to get back at her enemies.
Jack-O'-Lanterns
Pumpkin Head Forms
Alien Forms
Spoiler
As Shana and Shane
Two mysterious ghouls with pumpkins for heads. They basically kidnap Drew Brockman and her friends, forcing them to trick-or-treat for what might be forever before trying to convert them into pumpkinheads like them. They're also implied to be responsible for the deaths of four missing adults. They're really Drew's friends Shane and Shanna, who were helping Drew prank her enemies Tabby and Lee for all the pranks they've pulled on her. The two are alien shapeshifters... and as they reveal to Drew before they leave, they did kill those four adults. Why? It was dinnertime.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: Of Attack Of The Jack-O'-Lanterns.
- Cool and Unusual Punishment: They make Drew, Walker, Tabby, and Lee trick-or-treat in a neighborhood that gives out huge amounts of candy, and then force them to continue against their will. It's also possible that their allies handing out so much candy is also an attempt to subtly fatten up the four kids for a future meal, especially when the two ghouls force the kids to eat their candy so they have room to collect more.
- Fattening the Victim: With the reveal that they eat plump humans, all the candy they force the kids to get comes across as one method of ensuring this.
- Faux Affably Evil: Friendship to humans does not exempt said humans from the possibility of becoming their dinner, and they have absolutely no issue with threatening Drew despite the fact that she has never done anything to them except be their friend.
- Force Feeding: In order for the kids to have room for more candy, they make them eat what the already have, to the point of vomiting.
- Foreshadowing: When Drew and friends first hear about the missing people, she notices that Shane and Shana growing silent. Drew assumes they are just frightened. In reality, they were likely worried about their secret getting out.
- Karma Houdini: They leave Earth unimpeded after the reveal that they mercilessly killed four innocent people, ate them, and then implied they would do the same to their supposed friend in cold blood if she ever got chubby.
- Losing Your Head: They can actually detach their pumpkin heads at will and make others wear them.
- Plant Person: They appear to be thus but are actually just shapeshifters.
- Playing with Fire: The two main creatures show an ability to breathe fire.
- Sssssnake Talk: Frequently delve into this to accentuate their fiery appearance.
- Theme Twin Naming: Shane and Shana.
- To Serve Man: Their preferred diet consists of well-fed humans. And they warn Drew they don't make exceptions for friends if she doesn't watch what she eats.
Tabitha "Tabby" Weiss and Lee Winston
Portrayed By: Maria Paikin and Gino Giacomini
A pair of troublemakers whom are the subject of revenge for Drew and Walker.- Adaptation Dye-Job: Tabby in the book has straight blonde hair and green eyes. In the tv episode, she has wavy chestnut-brown hair and brown eyes.
- Adaptational Ugliness: Lee in the book is mentioned to be tall and have a warm smile. The actor for him in the episode is very short, average-looking, and sort of chubby.
- Asshole Victim: The two are rather smug bullies who are constantly making rude comments about Drew's appearance and pulled a sadistic prank on their classmates. Which makes it rather satisfying when they're scared out of their minds by Shane and Shana. And considering the twins are implied to be cannibals, Tabitha and Lee got off easy.
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted with Tabby throughout the end. She is very proud of her looks and her Halloween outfits. But throughout the book, her costume gets ruined, she gets very out of breath, and candy ends up sticking in her hair.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Subverted. They played a nasty prank that caused Drew and Walker to hold a grudge against them and desire to prank them back. The only reason Drew and Walker still invite them over to their parties and go trick or treating with them is for the sake of getting revenge.
- Lack of Empathy: They make it rather clear that they don't care about how legitimately traumatizing their "prank" was two years prior. Drew mentions kids were still having nightmares about it months after it happened.
- Not So Above It All: When the Pumpkin Heads first appear, Tabby and Lee aren't frightened at all and think it's rather pathetic, even though the costumes they're wearing are rather impressive and shoot fire out of their heads. However, they really start to lose it as the hijinks ensue, and they eventually run off screaming.
- Properly Paranoid: When the Pumpkin Heads first appear, Tabby and Lee instantly think that they're just Shane and Shana with very impressive costumes. They were never far from wrong there.
- Race Lift: Lee is specifically stated to be African-American in the book. In the episode, he appears to be Caucasian, and possibly Italian considering his actor's name.
- Rich Bitch: Tabby is implied to be one. She likes to dress up in fancy rich costumes, and comments how some people are cheap.
- Troll: Definitely. They act as if they're victims of a break-in and robbery at their own party.
- The Unintelligible: Drew can hardly understand Lee, since he's usually chewing a wad of gum when he talks. This is averted in the episode, in which he can speak just fine.
