Clue (Cluedo outside of the United States and Canada) is a popular board game in which the players adopt the guise of one of six suspects moving around the board to find out who killed Dr Black (Mr Boddy in some versions), where and with which weapon. The six main characters are iconic and have been further characterised in various television series, computer games, novels, and films.
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Game version
Miss Scarlet
Characterised as a Femme Fatale, Miss Scarlet is often considered the leading lady of Cluedo lore. Sometimes has an extra "t" in her name.
Large and in Charge: His mini-figure towers over the other players in the latest version of the game.
Mrs. White
Dr. Black's cook/maid/housekeeper/nanny. Mrs. White is the one character who is a domestic, not a guest, thus providing the chance for a The Butler Did It ending.
Cross Dresser - The Simpsons version of the game has Smithers in the role of Mrs. White, dressing him in a maid's outfit.
In The Musical that nobody admits to seeing, Mrs. White is a drag role.
Lethal Chef - In Season 4 of the Game show. "Well I thought if I put a lot of cheese on the rat poison nobody would notice."
Supreme Chef in the books, though. She was actually Dr. Black's chef in the earliest versions of the game.
The Snark Knight - Most versions depict her as extremely bitter at serving a rotten master like Black/Boddy, and even more angry that she has to serve the murderous scum he invites to house parties.
Averted in the book series, where she's irate that her boss has a firm grasp on the Idiot Ball. Dr. Black constantly manages to magically not die, despite repeated attempts on his life by the same six people he KNOWS are out to kill him, and she wants to kill him for his fortunes. Also averted in the puzzle mysteries, where he's either naive or a jerk, depending on the writer.
Rev. Green/Mr. Green
A Stock type Snake Oil salesman Vicar. He was changed to Mr. Green for the US version and made into a corrupt businessman of dubious legality; players of recent editions can spot the Rev. Green label on the game-piece though.
Originally characterised as the stock type Grande Dame. Mrs Peacock has also been shown as the Lady of the Manor in the game show, serving as the central link between all the characters.
Berserk Button: Anything she perceives as rudeness in the book series.
Black Widow - "Mrs. Peacock, twice widowed" ("dating a French count", but definitely not for long) in the Game Show and 13 mysteriously deceased husbands in the VCR games.
No Name Given- No first name given for her in the books, notable as she's the only one (Mr. Boddy being 'Reginald' and Miss Scarlet being 'Charlotte').
He shows signs of this in the stories as well. One in particular has him invent a poison that evaporates as soon as it's drunk, leaving no traces behind (this backfires spectacularly, as he has to sip it himself to remember what it is). Another story has him put a truth serum in the breakfast orange juice for pretty much no reason.
Asshole Victim - In some incarnations, Dr. Black/Mr. Boddy arguably had it coming. In The Movie, he was blackmailing the other characters and sexually harassing his maid, while in the SNES video game it's implied that he had some rather dirty dealings with whomever killed him.
Averted in the book series and some of the puzzle mysteries, where he's either a horrible judge of character (see below), or out for revenge when his wife, Rose, is killed at Christmas exactly one year prior, where he's The Chessmaster. But he still gets murdered.
Buried Alive - In at least one of his not-deaths in the books, he was shut in a tomb/pyramid he bought because it would look nice in the garden.
Designated Victim - Black / Boddy is the official victim in the board game.
He's Just Hiding - In the book series. The books always end with Mr. Boddy's murder, and then the next one always begins with Mr. Boddy explaining how he survived. invoked
Meanwhile, in The Movie, the third ending reveals that he had switched places with his butler before the movie started, and since none of his blackmail victims had met him in person before...
Horrible Judge of Character - The book series characters are (usually) not too malicious, but they've still (nearly) killed Mr. Boddy about a dozen times, and - as Boddy himself lampshades - he still hangs out with these people.
One of the few Expanded Universe characters with any staying power, Miss Peach is a Southern Belle who was introduced in the Clue VCR Game as an uninvited guest to the Boddy Manor, and subsequently made it into the main series with Super Cluedo Challenge (UK, 1986) and Clue Master Detective (US, 1988). She's appeared more times than any other character who isn't one of the main six, most of whom rarely last more than two games before...disappearing.
Blatant Lies - A pathological liar, she's claimed to be everything from Mr. Boddy's long-lost daughter, to his long-lost great-step-niece, to an innocent motorist who just "happened" to arrive on Boddy's doorstep.
Drop-In Character - In the Clue VCR game she was a motorist whose car broke down (intentionally or not) just outside Mr. Boddy's manor.
Fille Fatale - Usually the youngest of the cast; rarely portrayed as older than her mid-twenties.
Heel Face Revolving Door - Turned good long enough to act as a detective character in 2003's Clue FX, trying to solve the mystery of Mr. Meadow-Brook's murder. By the time Clue Mysteries came out two years later, she was back to being a villain.
Faking the Dead: Initially. Someone (varies with the ending) catches this and subsequently kills him off for real.
Killed Off for Real: After an attempt of Faking the Dead. In the hall, with the candlestick, by either Yvette (on Miss Scarlet's behest), Mrs. Peacock, or Professor Plum depending on the ending.
The Mistress: Used to have an affair with Mrs. White's husband. In the first two endings, Mrs. White doesn't seem to mind her very much. In the third ending, however, she hates Yvette so much that it flames on the side of her face, and therefore Mrs. White murders her.
