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Ladybug
Ladybug
Voiced By: Nick Kroll
"Oh shit! What these motherfuckers gonna do?!
A talking ladybug that occasionally provides running commentary.
- Ambiguous Gender: Three seasons in and it's still not clear if the ladybug is meant to be male or female.
- Hidden Depths: Has a dead partner and raising two stepchildren.
- Long-Lived: Lampshaded. The ladybug has appeared in every season so far, which have spanned almost a year, well beyond a beetle's natural lifespan.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Pretty much every line the ladybug says has "fuck" in it.
Cantor Dina Resnick
Cantor Dina Reznick
Voiced By: Michaela Watkins
Shannon's ex-lover.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She's fairly personable and nice, but acts selfishly. She entered a relationship with a married woman, showed zero guilt over it and then acted like she could be friends with Jessi despite everything. To top it off, she implies she's broken up families before, making her a Serial Homewrecker. She then dumps Shannon when she decides that she wants to be single again when she goes to an Ani DiFranco concert.
- Informed Judaism: Despite being a cantor in a synagogue, some of her remarks imply she is into New Age stuff. Plus, committing adultery with a married member of the synagogue is a pretty good indicator that she is not especially concerned with Jewish doctrine.
- Lipstick Lesbian: She's very attractive with a bangin' body.
- Serial Homewrecker: After running into Jessi at a Korean spa, Dina makes an offhand remark about how none of her girlfriends' daughters ever like her. Thus strongly implying that married women, such as Shannon, are a common target for her seductions.
Dr. Wendy Ingle
Dr. Wendy Ingle
Voiced By: Andrew Daly
The medical doctor, who complains about his marital problems to his patients.
- Awful Wedded Life: Dr. Ingle seems to have many heated arguments with his unseen wife, so much so that they need couples therapy.
- Back-Alley Doctor: Dr. Ingle is very sarcastic and rude to his patients, many of which are children, yelling in their faces and insulting them whenever they make the slightest mistake. He also complains about his wife and lets his personal life crossover with his career, which is indecent for a person of any profession.
- Gender-Blender Name: His first name is "Wendy".
- Self-Demonstrating Article: Invoked a clever version of this trope in "The ASSes", when he mocked his wife, complaining about how he mocks her.Dr. Ingle: Therapy is when my wife wants me to waste one of my four days off because I "always mock everything she says".
Detectives Florez & Dumont
Detectives Florez & Dumont
Voiced By: John Mulaney and Neil Casey
Two detectives who regularly cross paths with the kids and Coach Steve.
- Expy: Florez is one of Hal Linden's most famous role, detective Barney Miller.
- Innocently Insensitive: When Jessie ran away from home, both detectives showed an astounding lack of tact when they told her parents there's a good chance that she may show up on a porn site or worse.
- Skewed Priorities: While on the case of the Ponytail Killer, they spend more time trying to come up with a catchy name than actually doing their job.
- Those Two Guys: Never seen apart. Except in "Nick Starr", where only Florez is seen.
- Verbal Tic: Florez has a very odd speech pattern where he constantly uses clarifications like "over there", "over here" and similar variations.
The Ponytail Killer
The Ponytail Killer
Voiced By: ???
A serial killer who targets women and men with long hair.
- Monster Misogyny: Mostly kills women and chops off their hair. Subverted in that at least one of his victims was a man.
- Outside-Genre Foe: Despite being a legitimate threat, he has yet to make any real impact on the plot. Subverted in Season 4 where his previous killing of three sorority girls from Kappa Kappa Kill becomes the backdrop for the haunted house in "Horrority House".
- Serial Killer: He kills people. Duh.
- Serial Killings, Specific Target: For some messed-up reason, he only kills people with ponytails.
- The Unseen: He has yet to show his face.
- The Un-Reveal: In the penultimate episode of Season 5, Jay causes a car crash that lets one of the Ponytail Killers intended victims escape from the trunk of a car, and proclaim he knows the killers identity... only for the victim to get run over by a truck before he can reveal it.
- Visible Victimology: The Ponytail Killer targets men and women for their hairstyle. No points for guessing which one.
- Would Hit a Girl: He murders women as well as men.
- Would Hurt a Child: He was about to kill Jessi, and possibly Jay, when the former was wearing a ponytail.
Aiden
Aiden
Voiced By: Zachary Quinto
Matthew's ex-boyfriend.
- Malicious Slander: Whether he was the originator or just one link in a chain of Gossip Evolution, Aiden informs Matthew that Ali, who used to attend the same Catholic School as Aiden, got expelled for making out with a nun.
- Satellite Love Interest: Not much is known about Aiden other than "Matthew's boyfriend".
- Straight Gay: In contrast to Matthew, Aiden's more muted in his sexuality while still being clearly out of the closet.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: With a stylish spit curl.
Vicki
Vicki
Voiced By: Jenny Slate
Cherry's trashy, somewhat off-kilter best friend.
- Ax-Crazy: Possibly, given that she was very enthusiastic to sink a boat, carries a pocket knife, showed Nick one of her stepfather's corpses and Nick couldn't even tell if she wanted to kill him or not.
- Girlish Pigtails: AVERTED. Despite her hairstyle she's probably the most masculine female character shown yet.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Somewhat. She's off her rocker and has a penchant for blowing things up, but casually hangs out with Nick and treats him decently despite her odd way of flirting with him.
- The Lad-ette: By far the most masculine female character thus far given her trashy mannerisms, lack of shame and fondness for vandalism.
- Pyromaniac: She really wanted to sink a boat and carries a pipe bomb that she had been saving for Easter, but ultimately uses it to sink the boat with Nick.
Nick Starr
Nick Starr
Voiced By: Nick Kroll
Nick Birch from a possible future. Rich and famous, but also a sociopathic douche.
- Celebrity Endorsement: Has a lot of endorsement deals with various products, which he markets both to the characters and to the audience.
- Hates Being Touched: Will turn down hugs and physical affection in exchange for fist bumps.
- I Hate Past Me: Starr has no reservation about taking his past self's body so he can relive his youth, even though it's implied he'll make even more mistakes than his 13-year-old counterpart would have.
- It's All About Me: Every action he takes is for his own satisfaction. When the world comes to an end he takes only Jessi with him onto the space station for Earth's wealthiest survivors, not because he cared about her but because he wanted to screw her.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: He is Nick's selfish tendencies amped up to the 10th power.
- Pet the Dog: It's a very small moment, and the only one he has, but he is genuinely upset to hear about future Missy's death.
- Sadistic Game Show: Is the host of one; "Countdown to Money with Nick Starr".
- Shadow Archetype: He possesses all of Nick's flaws turned up to their highest setting.
- Upper-Class Twit: His success and privilege means he can afford to ignore the collapse of civilisation and the impending destruction of Earth until the last minute.
Michael Angelo
Michael Angelo
Voiced By: Sterling K. Brown
An attractive artist and Jessi's new boyfriend in New York.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Jessi first fell in love with him, while he was skipping school.
- Beauty Is Bad: He's hot as fuck but he's also an abusive asshole.
- Brainless Beauty: As hot as he is, he still lacks quite a bit of knowledge in world history and politics, believing that the artist Michelangelo painted the Mona Lisa and also making a satirical piece of street art, which included messages promoting both voting and anarchy.
- Charm Person: Was able to use his charm to keep Jessi coming back to him, even after he abused her. Even after he dumped her, Jessi still felt heartbroken about losing her toxic, abusive boyfriend.
- Evil Brit: He has a British accent and ends up being a toxic and emotionally abusive boyfriend to Jessi.
- Full-Name Basis: Because he shares a name with the celebrated artist, he is always called by his first and last names.
- Gag Penis: Has a hilarious talking penis with a Long Island accent.
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: He doesn't seem to know much about the very person that he, himself, was named after, believing that Michelangelo was the artist who painted the Mona Lisa. That's not even mentioning his vapid and shallow ideas about art.
- Manipulative Bastard: Coerces Jessi that she needs to give him a handjob with the lie that he'll suffer from blue balls otherwise.
- Meaningful Name: His name is Michael Angelo and he's a street artist. Becomes Ironic Name when it's apparent he's very ignorant of his namesake and shallow about art in general.
- Minor Injury Over Reaction: While blue balls aren't exactly pleasant, his drama queen behavior about them leads Jessie to imagine a literal hospital just for blue balls.
- Mr. Fanservice: Michael Angelo is probably one of the most conventionally attractive characters in the entire show. Jessi, Connie, Maury, and Andrew are all over him.
- Shirtless Scene: Posts a lot of shirtless pics on Instagram.Nick: Ugh, jeez. Why does he post all these gross shirtless pics?Maury: I know, right? Either lose the pants or just stop teasing us.
- Smoking Is Cool: Micheal Angelo vapes, which makes him even more badass and attractive to Jessi.Michael Angelo: You know how to vape right? You just put your lips together and suck.
- Twofer Token Minority: An African-American man with an English accent.
- Technically a triple threat, since his penis has a Long Island accent.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Dumped Jessi during his third episode appearance and makes no further appearances, though he does get a cameo in Season 5's "Hate" song.
Bernadette "Bernie" Sanders
Bernadette Sanders
Voiced By: Kristen Schaal
Andrew's new love interest who lives in Vermont.
- Ink-Suit Actor: Bernie looks just like Kristen Schaal.
- Lovable Sex Maniac: She's just as horny as Andrew and a Nice Girl.
- Love Cannot Overcome: When Andrew finds out that Bernie is friends with a pretty boy named Allison, he gets extra paranoid and ultimately torpedoes their relationship. While Bernie was under the impression her friend Allison was just that, when pressed about it he does admit he has feelings for her and articultes them in a way that immediately leaves Bernie smitten.
- My Girl Is Not a Slut: Andrew isn't happy to find out that Bernie has had just as many sexual escapapdes as he has.
- Named After Someone Famous: Her name sounds exactly like Bernie Sanders, the senator from Vermont who ran for the presidency in 2016 and 2020.
Bros 4 Life
Bros 4 Life
Three washed-up singers from an early 2000s boy band, one of which might be Lola’s biological father…or so they say.- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: These men claim to be the biological father of Lola since her mother was a groupie in her band. It later turns out to be a scam to get her money
- Beauty Is Bad: These men despite being very attractive are actually greedy, manipulative assholes.
- Hate Sink: Probably the worst villains the show has to offer
- Ink-Suit Actor: They all look and sound just like their actors
- Jerkass: Lying about being a girl's long-lost father just to get her money is pretty despicable.
- Karma Houdini: None of them face any comeuppance for manipulating Lola.
- Manipulative Bastard: In need of cash for their comeback tour, The three men enter Lola's life after hearing about Lola's money, claiming her mother was a groupie in their band and that one of them could potentially be her father. However, their true colors are shown once Lola tells them about her settlement, revealing that none of them slept with her mom and needed the money for their comeback tour.
- Using You All Along: Once Lola explains to them about using up all her money for a lifetime supply of Hot Pockets, The three men insult her, telling her that none of them is the father and were just using her to get her money.
