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Students of Scare School
Casper
- Affectionate Gesture to the Head: In "Vote for Casper" Mantha strokes Casper's head when she reveals that she did in fact vote for him. In "What Possessed You?" Stretch also strokes Casper on the head when he believes Casper gave up on being friendly.
- Anti-Hero: At first and for most of the series, he is unambiguously friendly and kind, even if he is more than a bit snarky who isn't above lying and generally being an occasional "trouble-maker" in school, even during the earlier installments. Then Casper got Darker and Edgier, doing things that become much more questionable as time goes on, even when they're being used to reach goals that are unquestionably heroic.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Pushing him around too much is not a good idea and if you threaten his friends, his anger gets epic.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: He is great at scaring people, both on purpose or in accident, and even scarred a crowd better than Kibosh himself once and he wasn't even trying to.
- Character Development: In season 2, he's gotten a lot more aggressive towards Thatch and will fight back when Thatch picks on him.
- The Chosen One: Fans believe that Kibosh wants to make Casper the next leader of the Underworld.
- Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones: Casper is usually friendly to everyone (including jerks like Thatch, Alder, and Dash). However, in the episode "Master Blister", even he agrees that the eponymous Master Blister is intolerable after he forces him to dig 10,000 holes in the athletics field for no reason.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: Blue eyes and a sweet personality, plus he's the hero of this story.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: His friendliness often causes problems for both his fellow creatures and himself.
- Older Than They Look: He appears to be somewhere around Jimmy's age, but he is really more than two hundred years old.
- Out-of-Character Moment: In "Potent Brew" Casper is trying to pull something from a toddler's grip and when Mantha scares the toddler into letting go, making her cry, Casper thanks her.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Sensitive Guy to Ra's Manly Man. Ra is more extroverted than him, while Casper is more calm and feminine.
- Teacher's Pet: Kibosh clearly favors him.
- Why Couldn't You Be Different?: The Ghostly Trio wants Casper to be scary and a prankster like them.
Ra
- Attention Whore: His obsession with getting attention does sometimes get him in trouble, though.
- A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted: In "Rich Kid Ra", Ra loses his fortune when an archaeologist raids his families tomb. Played with in that he was already rich to begin with rather than getting rich first, then losing his money again.
- Chummy Mummy: A friendly young mummy.
- Distressed Dude: One notable example would be "Dimension Demended", where he gets stuck in the Dimension Tube.
- The McCoy: He can be quite hot-blooded.
- Older Sidekick: Ra is 2500-years-old while Casper is hundreds of years old.
- Older Than They Look: He appears to be somewhere around Jimmy's age, but he is really almost three thousand years old.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Manly Man to Casper's Sensitive Guy. Ra is hot-blooded and manly, while Casper is calmer and more effeminate.
Mantha
- Action Girl: For a zombie, she knows how to kick ass.
- Berserk Button: DON'T talk trash about zombies, some actors found this out the harsh way.
- Cute Bruiser: She sure ain't slow for a zombie.
- The Determinator: Takes a lot to get her to give up.
- Friendly Zombie: This young zombie girl has a loving zombie family. She's one of Casper's best friends and is generally a Nice Girl.
- Interspecies Romance: Interspecies paranormal romance. She has a crush on Casper. She's a zombie and he's a ghost.
- Our Zombies Are Different: She is actually smart and agile. The walking slowly while chanting "Braaains..." routine is just a scare tactic zombies use. And though she does eat brains, it's not all she eats.
- Pink Means Feminine: Subverted. She wears a pink shirt and her shoes have pink shoelaces but she's rather tomboyish.
- The Smart Girl: She's clearly one of the smartest characters in school, thus subverting the stereotype that zombies are mindless.
- The Smurfette Principle: She's the only female in her group of friends.
- Tomboy: Snarky and into sports.
- Women Are Wiser: One of the smartest members of the Casper trio.
Thatch
- Big Bad: In season 2, where he goes from simply being the school bully to the main cause of many problems the protagonists face.
- Big Bad Wannabe: At the end of the pilot movie he tries to take over Alder and Dash’s world domination scheme for himself but is easily knocked out.
- Big Man on Campus: Believes himself to be this. How much this is true varies from episode to episode.
- Butt-Monkey: In season 2, he gets put through a bit of slapstick. It is often karmic.
- Classical Movie Vampire: Thatch has grey skin, black hair streaked with a single line of white, violet eyes, pale black lips. He wears a white shirt and a black cape with black jeans with a chain.
- Class Representative: In "Vote For Casper", he tries to become this.
- Daywalking Vampire: He frequently visits Deedstown in broad daylight, seemingly without any ill effects.
- Dreadful Musician: Thatch thinks he can sing, but to the others, he's horrible.
- Dragged by the Collar: Whenever he gets in trouble, someone (mainly Alder and Dash) drags him away by his cape.
- Flanderization: In season 1 he was sneaky, clever and better balanced. In season 2 he is whiny, not so scary and a lot more bratty and greedy.
- Hated by All: He certainly believes that he's popular, but nobody really seems to like him much. Even his henchman don't know why they hang out with him.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Sometimes teams up with Casper, but goes back to the way he was before.
- Our Vampires Are Different: He's a vampite, but isn't harmed by sunlight and doesn't have to drink blood to survive.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Believes himself to be the coolest guy in school, but is actually just a bully.
- The Informant: For Alder and Dash in the movie.
- The Prankster: as part of being a bully, he loves to prank people.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: In season two, he's notacibly more of an antagonist than in season 1.
Mickey and Monaco
- Dumb Blonde: Mickey is a not-so-bright blonde..
- Single-Minded Twins: They are twin girls and they have basically the same personality.
- Technicolor Eyes: Mickey has purple eyes.
- Alpha Bitch: At least in "Triclops, Mistress of Dark".
- Those Two Girls: It's pretty rare to see them apart and they are extremely similar.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: In "Triclops, Mistress of Dark".
- Valley Girls: They talk and act like this.
Wolfie
- Character Development: In the movie, he was nothing more than a generic background character until he became a major character in Season 1 of the series.
- Out-of-Character Moment: In "Our Boy Wolfie" completely, after he is mistaken by Graham as his son, he takes Jimmy's place and ends up not wanting to leave, and even goes so far as to say that he doesn't know Jimmy, even though he was friends with him and even helped him in Season 1.
- Nice Guy: He is one of the few non-mischievous students at the school.
- Ironic Allergy: He claims to be allergic to fur... but he's covered in fur!
- Demotedto Extra: In Season 2 in fact, he barely plays a big role for someone who was a major character in Season 1.
- Our Werewolves Are Different: He is perpetually a werewolf, at full moon he transforms into a larger werewolf and loses all control.
Mosshead
- The Pig-Pen: For a monster whose main power is shedding moss, it's to be expected that he doesn't care too much about hygiene.
- Ridiculously Average Guy: Of all the students, Mosshead is by far the most average person. As a friend of Thatch's, he's definitely not a saint, but he's not quite as bully either, as well as he's not as smart as most of the other students, but he doesn't go so far as to be referred to as a dumb guy.
- Swamp Monster: That's what he seems to be, even because he's already said that his family lives in a swamp.
- Took a Level in Kindness: He used to be very annoying in Season 1 until his behavior was slightly normalized in Season 2, so much so that there was even an episode where he helped Casper.
- Troll: He was one for Casper when he was invited to his house, though not on purpose. Ironically, he even somewhat resembles the creature itself.
- Monstrous Humanoid: In this trope he is second only to Triclops, because, honestly, he looks more like a green-haired kid than a swamp monster.
Dummy Girl
- The Bully: She's almost as troublesome and rude as Thatch, but smarter.
- Creepy Doll: She is a puppet with a very bizarre look, maybe it's because of her weird smile always present on her face.
- The Napoleon: She may be smaller than many of the other students, but she is very aggressive and tough, so be careful when messing with her.
- Token Competent Minion: She is Thatch's most loyal and helpful follower, even able to put a rocket on his skateboard so he can easily win a race.
- Symbiotic Possession: In "Davey Jones Locker", she is possessed by the freed spirit of Davey Jones and holds all creatures hostage.
Slither
- Flat Character: One of the facts in the Casper's Scare School fandom is that Slither lacks a lot of personality. He's just a friend of Thatch's with a badass-like personality... and that's all.
- Recurring Extra: He's in almost every episode but he's never really been important to the plot of any of them.
- Single Specimen Species: His type is arguably the most mysterious and strange of all the creatures in the series.
- Goth: At least from his looks, although he has already shown some traits from this trope.
- Snake People: He is apparently one of these, although he is portrayed in a slightly different way, as he has an absent, or at least not visible, tail.
- Ineffectual Loner: He fits that trope well, although he's not really a loner.
Quasi
- Expy: Even had a similar name to Quasimodo.
- Artistic License – Child Labor Laws: He is just a student, but is tasked with Chore Boy by the Principals to do the school's janitorial work, even the heaviest and riskiest.
- Butt-Monkey: He suffered a lot because of Alder and Dash's demands at the beginning of "Ring My Bell".
- Super-Strength: He seems to be the only one able to pull the bell ringing rope with ease, Casper even once said "how does he do that?" while he replaced him in that job.
- Nice Guy: He never really showed any degree of severity towards anyone.
- Take This Job and Shove It: He hates having to ring the school bell every day and keeps complaining "why do I always have to do this?".
- Almighty Janitor: He was just a janitor at first, but with Casper's help, he went on strike to earn more respect from the Principals and managed to purposely make the whole school stink so they would beg him to clean it up and finally give more respect to him. which he ended up getting in the end.
Blodge
- AM/FM Characterization: We found out almost everything about his personality in "Radio Blodge", mainly that he is a radio music lover and his biggest dream is to be a DJ.
- Characterization Marches On: In Season 1, he was just an ordinary character with a simple guy's personality, until in Season 2 he suddenly became a hyperactive, goofy music lover.
- Ascended Extra: His character was put to better use in Season 2 than in Season 1.
- Blob Monster: He is one.
- Vocal Dissonance: His voice can only be referred to as weird in both Seasons, especially considering he's a child character.
Triclops
- All of the Other Reindeer: Well, at least once she complained that "everyone" likes to mess with her, although we've only seen Thatch, Mickey and Monaco as her bullies.
- Cute Bruiser: She was harmless until she managed to do the ritual that made her acquire powers that she used to attack the entire school, so much so that she ended up being feared by the entire school after that event.
- The Cutie: She is more or less one in Season 2, mostly in "Triclops Mistress of Dark" because of her innocent and friendly personality.
- Friendless Background: In fact the only friends she has are the main trio.
- Shrinking Violet: In Season 2, the writers cast her as a shy girl in her own episode. It is worth mentioning that her own voice actress describes her this way.
- Third Eye: Basically the eye on her forehead is the only thing that makes us identify her as a non-human thing.
Harpy
Is, as her name says, a mythological creature half-bird half-woman.
- Adaptation Personality Change: She is sometimes seen hanging out with Thatch and helping him, even though she is almost the complete opposite of a bully.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: She looked a lot like that in "My Fair Harpy", so much so that she didn't even realize she was hurting poor Ra while dancing with him.
- Harping on About Harpies: She is indeed a harpy, I mean, it's in her name, right?
- The Voiceless: She only had two actual lines during the entire show, while the rest just consist of bird clucking.
Scare School Staff
Alder and Dash
- 0% Approval Rating: Not many people like them much, but they do have their loved ones who love them back.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: Of the pilot movie.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Alder can be a bit spacey.
- Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Dash, to Alder. Dash tries to keep Alder in line whenever the latter messes around.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: They love their aunt/uncle (Ankle) and their pet bunny.
- Even Evil Has Standards: They wouldn't punish kids if they did nothing to deserve it.
- Genius Ditz: Alder is rather incompetent, though he has his moments where he is the smart one, but not normally.
- Jerkass: Manipulative and impolite.
- Too Dumb to Live: Alder has his moments of pure idiocy at times.
- You Have Failed Me: In "What Possessed You?", Kibosh sent them to the Chamber of Unspeakable Horrors for failing at turning Casper into a terryfing creature.
Frankengymteacher
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's stern and cranky, but nice when he isn't acting like that.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes??: He's scared of villagers with torches.
Hedy Hopper
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: She has a crush on Frankengymteacher.
- Expy: Of Madame Leota.
- Nice Girl: The nicest teacher in Scare School
Other Creatures
Ghostly Trio
- Adaptational Nice Guys: Unlike most adaptations, they don't bully or look down on Casper for being kind, and when they're not pulling pranks on people, are actually pretty nice fellows themselves.
- The Caretaker: To Casper.
- Cool Uncles: To Casper. They actually support him here, unlike other incarnations of the characters.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Stinky makes all sorts of inventions.
- Meaningful Name: Fatso is a Big Eater and the biggest of the ghosts and Stinky smells awful.
- Papa Wolf: Won't be happy about it if Casper is threatened.
- The Pig-Pen: Stinky is extremely messy. In one episode his stench becomes sentient.
- Parental Substitute: With caspers parents nowhere to be seen, they are the closest he has to parental figures.
- The Smart Guy: Stinky is good at inventing.
- Team Dad: Or rather, team uncles.
- Terrible Trio: But they aren't evil, just rather mischevious.
Kibosh
- The Dreaded: To all humans and creatures (except Casper).
- Good Is Not Soft: Very, VERY deep down Kibosh is actually pretty nice.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's only a jerk because he was forced to be that way.
- Large and in Charge: By far the largest of the ghosts.
- Meaningful Name: He is determined to put the kibosh on Casper's friendliness.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: The ruler of the underworld who frequently comes to Scare School to personally test the students or solve a problem.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: He used to be a friendly ghost like Casper when he was his age.
- Would Hurt a Child: Played with. He was never seen hurting a student. However, he has made things that would have hurt or even killed the students in season 1, plus Alder and Dash implied that Kibosh gives the students the same hideous punishments he gives to adult creatures, although Kibosh believes he is doing what's best for his people.
Humans
Jimmy Bradley
- Friendless Background: Has no friends other than Casper (and later Mantha and Ra).
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: He has blonde hair and Casper's best friend, and definately a sweet kid.
- Secret-Keeper: Keeps a secret that Casper is friends with him.
- Wacky Parent, Serious Child: The Serious Child to Graham's Wacky Parent. While his father usually acts silly, he is usually laid-back most of the time.
Graham Bradley
- Bumbling Dad: Jimmy's father, who is an airheaded and is very clumsy.
- Follow in My Footsteps: He wants his son to be a join him in the Creature Catcher business.
- Happily Married: To Rebecca. The two never argue and clearly love each other.
- Manchild: He can be seen hugging a teddy bear while Jimmy tells his scout trope a scary story in "Scare Scouts".
- Papa Wolf: Protective of Jimmy, which is what inspired him to become a creature catcher.
The Normans
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Blonde-haired Norman to his sister, who clearly hates him.
- The Bully: They make other children suffer. They especially target Jimmy.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Both are bullies, through and through.
