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Evelyn Wang (née Quan)

Played by: Michelle Yeoh

The protagonist, a Chinese-American woman who owns a laundromat with her husband Waymond. Evelyn is dissatisfied with her lot in life, but later learns that she is a potential keystone to defeating a being known as Jobu Tupaki and saving the multiverse.

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• Abusive Parents: The main Evelyn we see falls into Parents as People when it comes to raising Joy, but her Alphaverse counterpart pushed Alphaverse Joy beyond her mental limits to test her dimension-hopping technology, which directly led to Alphaverse Joy becoming Jobu Tupaki.
• Accidental Misnaming:
  • She constantly mistakes Jobu Tupaki's name for something else, like "Juju Chewbacca". By the end of the movie, she speaks it right, though.
  • She also mistakenly calls the movie Ratatouille "Raccacoonie", due to misremembering the movie's plot as being about a raccoon who controls a chef instead of a rat. However, due to the infinite possibilities of the multiverse, it turns out that there's a universe she lived in where what she describes about "Raccacoonie" actually happened.
• Actor Allusion:
  • An alternate version of herself is a famous actress/martial artist. Michelle Yeoh is exactly that, having been in the industry for four decades. Some of the shots of Evelyn winning awards are actually real-life footage of Michelle Yeoh at red carpet events and award ceremonies.
  • In the main universe, one of the expenses Deirdre confronts Evelyn about is a karaoke machine, and Evelyn claims to be a singer. In the movie The Stunt Woman, Yeoh played Ah Kam, who, in addition to being a stunt performer, also ran a karaoke restaurant.
• Alternate Self: Evelyn has a multitude of alternate selves. Many are shown through short scenes or blink-and-you'll-miss-it montages, but the main ones shown/utilized in the film are:
  • A brilliant scientist who discovered the secrets of the multiverse, but was killed by Jobu Tupaki.
  • An actress/martial arts superstar, a life path formed by rejecting Waymond's proposal to go to America.
  • A blind singer, a life path formed by being blinded as a child.
  • A cleaner at the IRS office who becomes a dominatrix after discovering the sex dungeon in her boss's panic room.
  • A sign twirler.
  • A teppanyaki chef whose rival is being puppeted by a talking raccoon.
  • A version of the "main" universe where she wasn't contacted by the Alpha Universe or attacked by Jobu.
• All Your Powers Combined: Like Jobu, she becomes connected to the entire multiverse and every alternate version of herself, gaining the ability to channel their abilities at will and alter her current reality to match. Unlike Jobu, however, she becomes The Anti-Nihilist and uses this knowledge to defeat both Jobu's cultists and the Alpha Verse agents nonlethally with relative ease.
• Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: A plotpoint: Protagonist Evelyn is explicitly the one who made all the wrong choices and failed at everything she tried...which is exactly why she's the only one that can hope to obtain a level of power comparable to Jobu Tupaki. Each of those failures and poor choices is potential for alternate versions of her.
• Ambiguously Bi: While Evelyn is shown to get together with Waymond in most realities, some of them (like the hot-dog finger dimension) show alternate versions of her being in a loving relationship with Deirdre. Whether or not she is actually bisexual or if she's only a lesbian/bisexual in some realities is not made clear, nor is it really touched upon.
• The Anti-Nihilist: She develops this mentality thanks to Waymond, and it is thanks to this attitude that she can save everyone, including her daughter, and ultimately restore her family. Whereas Jobu becomes a Straw Nihilist who believes that nothing matters in the end because of the sheer size of the multiverse, Evelyn counters that if nothing has any inherent meaning, then love and compassion becomes MORE precious as a result, in the face of cosmic insignificance.
• Asian Speekee Engrish: As a first-generation immigrant, she speaks English with a strong Chinese accent and the occasional omittance of articles.
• Blind Musician: She has an alternate self who was blinded as a child and went on to become a famous singer. She taps into this version's skills to be able to fight through tear gas.
• Character Development: By the end of the film, she's become The Anti-Nihilist and appears to be more willing to take things in stride, appearing less stressed and more openly loving to her family. For comparison's sake, the movie ends with her all but humbly admitting that she spaced out while Deirdre was explaining their tax situation, while during their first meeting Evelyn lies that she's paying attention when she's literally somewhere else.
• The Chosen Zero: Our Evelyn is the Evelyn living her worst life, good at nothing, which means she's just a short jump away from every successful Evelyn and has access to countless abilities from her better selves.
• Combat Pragmatist: Evelyn can access abilities from other versions of herself and use them in other contexts to gain unforeseen advantages. The most notable version is wielding a riot shield based on a dimension where she's a sign twirler.
• Create Your Own Villain: Abusing her daughter Joy in the Alpha Universe created Jobu Tupaki, who hunts Evelyns everywhere else. Evelyn talking down a suicidal Jobu Tupaki from entering the Everything Bagel that would kill her in one universe is juxtaposed with Evelyn making up with Joy in another, wrapping up their emotional arc.
• Dead Alternate Counterpart: Evelyn's counterpart in the Alpha Universe has died. Alpha Waymond also comments that several other alternate Evelyns and Waymonds have been lost in the conflict against Jobu Tupaki.
• Determinator: After learning who Jobu Tupaki is, Evelyn's first idea is not to kill her but to save her. Even before reaching her full potential, she manages to successfully utilize multiple universe abilities to protect her daughter Joy from being killed by Alphaverse jumpers trying to prevent Protagonist Joy from being a vessel for Jobu. This also is how she unlocks her anti-nihilism to successfully counter the Everything Bagel, with the help of Waymond's positivity.
• Disability Superpower: Downplayed. The singer version of Evelyn was blinded by a childhood accident, but being blind boosts her other senses, and being a singer gives her a larger lung capacity, which "our" Evelyn uses to fight blind at one point due to tear gas.
• Eye Scream: In the universe where Evelyn is a professional singer, she tripped and fell onto a board with nails sticking out of it as a child, which blinded her.
• Finger Poke of Doom: At one point, Evelyn channels the skills of a counterpart of hers who trained to make her pinkies extremely strong.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: After learning to connect with her alternate universe counterparts, Evelyn accesses seemingly useless abilities like sign-twirling and hibachi cooking, which she uses to be highly effective and adaptable in combat. Even the hot dog-finger universe, which is treated as an absurd anomaly at first, turns out to be useful for her. As it turns out, Hot Dog Finger Evelyn is excellent with her feet.
• Hidden Depths: Evelyn appears to just be a miserable and emotionally stunted woman disappointed in her and her family's failures and incapable of handling the presence of her long-absent father, her struggling business, and her daughter's increasing distance. It turns out that many of her financial troubles are actually due to her writing off the pursuit of her many personal hobbies and interests as "business expenses" on her taxes. She is able to realize her potential through tapping into the multiverse, and becomes a hero. Additionally, she eventually reaches out to connect and repair her relationship with her daughter and the rest of her family, saving the multiverse in the process.
• Innocently Insensitive: Evelyn is well-meaning and loves her husband and daughter, but she struggles with showing affection and often makes harsh critical comments. As a result, her marriage to Waymond is failing and her relationship with her daughter Joy has become tense and distant.
• Instant Expert: Evelyn very quickly masters verse-jumping. She is given a tough jump off the bat that the Alphaverse agents worry will fry her and is threatened with brain overload at one point, but by the end of the day she's a full-on Reality Warper. Judging by Alpha Waymond's comments that "she's not most people," verse-jumping being an invention of her Alternate Self is implied to have something to do with it.
• Jack of All Trades: Alpha-Waymond thinks she's this. While her many other counterparts of the multiverse went on to do great things (beloved singers, renowned martial-arts actresses, quantum physicists, etc), Evelyn herself is a Loser Protagonist who considered doing all those things, but ultimately chose not to in the end. This essentially makes her a Blank Slate ideal for verse-jumping, being able to tap into a diverse range of skills and abilities that serve her well against more experienced multiverse travelers purely through improvisation.
• Lonely at the Top: Martial artist Evelyn is an expert fighter and a beloved movie star, but she seems to be Married to the Job and not close to anyone apart from her sifu.
• Loser Protagonist: As Alphaverse Waymond states, "our" Evelyn is literally living her worst possible life. Every other Evelyn has been more successful than her, as they chose the more successful path at every point that she chose an unsuccessful one. However, this means she's the best chance the multiverse has got, as she has the most potential to access all the universes that branched off in better directions than her.
• Mama Bear: Despite having some issues with her daughter, Evelyn defends Joy from Gong Gong, possessed by his Alphaverse counterpart (who wants to kill Joy because she's an Alternate Self of Jobu Tupaki) and fights a legion of multiversal jumpers under his command. Her love for her daughter also saves the latter from the Everything Bagel.
• Missing Mom: Evelyn's mother can be seen in flashbacks standing with Gong Gong when Evelyn leaves with Waymond, and Gong Gong specifically says, "If you abandon this family for that silly boy, then we will abandon you." A different flashback implies a doctor called Evelyn about Gong Gong, which led to Gong Gong moving in at the start of the movie, but what happened to Evelyn's mother between Evelyn leaving China and the present isn't stated.
• Never My Fault: One of her biggest flaws is that she struggles to take responsibility for issues in her life. She seems to blame Waymond for their tax situation, but is at least half to blame, and is almost relieved to learn that Jobu Tupaki is an alternate version of Joy, as it gives Evelyn someone to blame for Joy being so emotionally distant from her, even though the real reason is due to Evelyn's inability to understand her.
• Parents as People: She deeply loves her daughter Joy, but can't express it without criticism, and is disappointed that her daughter is an aimless college dropout. A big sticking point between the two is that Evelyn can't help but be uncomfortable that Joy is a lesbian despite claiming otherwise.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: Downplayed; she doesn't use any slurs, but Evelyn is clearly uncomfortable with Joy's sexuality. As much as she claims that her only problem with Joy's relationship with Becky is that the latter is white (half-Mexican, but still), she tends to use masculine pronouns to refer to Becky, putting it down to a flawed command of English, and being quick to believe that the villainous Jobu Tupaki is the reason that Joy "thinks she's gay." Thankfully, through some Character Development and experience with at least one alternate version of herself who is involved with a woman, she comes around and gets over her homophobia.
• The Poorly Chosen One: Played with. Alpha Waymond initially gives up on his hope of Evelyn being the one, but he regains that hope after she successfully defeats Deirdre. He concludes that her status as a Poorly Chosen One is actually the key to victory, as only someone who has failed at everything would have access to unlimited alternates who were successful in some way.
• Reality Warper: She eventually learns to tap into the power of the multiverse to manipulate reality around her, such as summoning objects from other universes or transforming other people into their alternate counterparts. Her skill at reality warping is implied to match or even exceed Jobu Tupaki's ability, as Jobu Tupaki is shocked to see Evelyn completely disregard the laws of physics in one universe.
• Red Is Heroic: Every universe barring the Racaccoonie and Ch. 3 verses has Evelyn wearing red.
• Silver Vixen: Evelyn isn't quite as old as most examples of this trope (Michelle Yeoh was 57 during filming), but she's clearly well into middle age and very pretty. This is especially apparent in the universe where Evelyn is an action movie star—she shows up to the premiere of her latest movie in a beautiful ballgown with a Veronica Lake-esque hairstyle.
• Taught by Experience: An unusual version; Evelyn can use the skills she learned in alternate lives. There are versions of her that have been a professional chef, sign twirler, martial arts movie star, or singer.
• Third Eye: After mastering the ability to access and gain knowledge from all possible universes, Evelyn sticks a googly eye onto her forehead as a symbolic third eye, representing her newfound state of heightened consciousness and awareness.
• Took a Level in Badass: Protagonistverse Evelyn goes from Loser Protagonist to Reality Warper with access to all the skills her multiverse counterparts have.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Following the advices from several versions of her husband, the main Evelyn warms up to her family and even Deirdre.
• Unkempt Beauty: The main Evelyn has disheveled hair and wears dull clothing, and she becomes even more unkempt as the story goes along, but Michelle Yeoh's good looks shine through no matter how Evelyn is made up.
• World's Strongest Man: After linking to the entire multiverse and overcoming the psychological shock, she ascends to the same level as Jobu, becoming a Reality Warper.
• You Are Fat: She outright tells her daughter Joy that she is getting fat a couple of times. Joy tells Becky that insults are Evelyn's way of showing she cares, though Joy is still deeply affected by her mother's critiques.

Joy Wang

Played by: Stephanie Hsu

Evelyn and Waymond's aimless daughter.

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• Gayngst: Joy is secure in her sexuality, but hates that her mother isn't 100% accepting.
• Ironic Name: Joy is the most angst-driven character of the cast.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Even more than her father, Joy has no idea of the multiverse or the danger her mother is facing. This is because Jobu Tupaki only takes her over twice, and the second time lasts the rest of the conflict, so by the time Joy could learn what's going on, it's already over.
• Meaningful Name: Evelyn repeatedly refers to her as "my Joy". After Evelyn finally accepts Joy for who she is, Joy begins to smile more often.
• Psycho Lesbian: Thoroughly mocked. Evelyn seems to think that Joy only "thinks she's gay" because Joy is being possessed by Jobu Tupaki. Jobu reacts with utter exasperation that the main Evelyn is still hung up about it, and Jobu's evil has absolutely nothing to do with her sexuality. She implies that, if she's not gay in every universe, she definitely is in many of them, but it wasn't being gay that made Alpha Evelyn push her so hard that her mind splintered. Ultimately, Evelyn's paranoia about Jobu is just a symptom of her internalized homophobia, and after her Character Development, she realizes that Joy is just a lesbian after accepting she can't and shouldn't control Joy's life.
• You Are Fat: Often on the receiving end of this from her mother.

Waymond Wang

Played by: Ke Huy Quan

Evelyn's affable husband who co-owns the laundromat alongside her. He loves Evelyn deeply, but wants a divorce to force her to deal with their strained relationship. His Alphaverse counterpart is on the frontlines of the fight against Jobu Tupaki, and uses his Protagonistverse body to make contact with Evelyn.

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• Alliterative Name: Waymond Wang.
• Alternate Self: Given that this film deals with the multiverse, Waymond also has alternate lives as well. To list his prominent counterparts:
  • Alphaverse Waymond, the one who kickstarts the plot and introduce Evelyn about the multiverse and the main conflict of the film.
  • Movieverse Waymond, a successful CEO, a life path formed by Evelyn rejecting his proposal to emigrate to the United States.
• All-Loving Hero: He loves Evelyn in every universe, no matter what, no matter who they both are. This is what finally snaps her out of her nihilist funk and shows her the path to victory: show everyone their best selves.
• The Anti-Nihilist: In contrast to his overtly nihilistic daughter, Waymond is the type 3 of this trope. Appropriately, it is embracing his philosophy of finding joy in the small things even if nothing else matters that allows Evelyn to combat Jobu Tupaki.
• Big Good: Protagonist Waymond. Alpha Waymond continues to search for an Evelyn who can stop Jobu Tupaki, and remains convinced even in death that Evelyn will find a way to save Joy, Return Home Waymond manages to get his wife out of multiple impending felony charges, Protagonist Waymond has no idea what's going on and still fights to protect Evelyn and Joy and tries his damnedest to protect his entire family, even Gong Gong who hates him so much he disowned Evelyn for marrying Waymond, and Movieverse Waymond manages to single-handedly lift Evelyn out of nihilism solely through his love and optimism.
• Bumbling Dad: Waymond initially appears to embody this, with his goofy personality, inability to keep his finances in order, and apparent lack of competence in contrast to his Alpha self. This is reconstructed, however, in that the seemingly more composed and sensible Evelyn is revealed to be at least equally responsible for their tax trouble and to the troubles her alternate lives caused (particularly her Alpha counterpart), and his capacity for kindness is critical for both keeping the family together and saving the entire multiverse.
• Herald: Alphaverse Waymond's appearance signals the beginning of the multiversal adventure when he pops into the main Waymond's body and gives Evelyn instructions for her first verse-jump.
• He Cleans Up Nicely: Regular Waymond looks like a stressed-out, disheveled dork. CEO Waymond looks suave as hell and effortlessly emulates Tony Leung Chiu-wai in a Wong Kar-wai movie.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Evelyn and Joy have the ability to experience every moment of every life in every multiverse, allowing them to break reality and access all the abilities of their alternate selves. Waymond just loves his wife. Always. And his love and wanting to "be kind" when things fall apart at the seams, not reality-warping superpowers, is what saves everyone.
• Hidden Depths: Waymond appears to be just a Bumbling Dad who's in way over his head in managing his business and keeping his family together. It turns out that his capacity for truly radical kindness and patience is more valuable to saving the universe than his Alpha counterpart's martial arts skills and technical knowledge. Even his Movieverse counterpart, with all of his fortune, uses this aformentioned traits and his life philosophy to avoid Evelyn crossing into Despair Event Horizon.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: CEO Waymond tells a verse-jumping Evelyn that if he could have it, he'd want nothing more than to "just do laundry and taxes" with her.
• It's All My Fault: While begging for everyone to stop fighting, Waymond admits to feeling some kind of responsibility for the whole mess. Alpha Gong Gong's mooks are noticeably taken aback by this. Being deprived of affection and attention from his wife certainly makes him feel this way.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Near the climax, Waymond lampshades that he has no idea what's going on and that he's scared and confused, but suggests that maybe everyone else present is too, and they should just stop fighting.
• Lonely at the Top: CEO Waymond is a wistful romantic but just as lonely as the martial artist Evelyn of that world is.
• The Lost Lenore: Alpha Evelyn died in the Alphaverse, and it's clear by Alpha Waymond taking a moment to cup "our" Evelyn's cheek and wistfully call her "my Evelyn" that he misses her.
• Meaningful Name: Everybody loves Waymond.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: Alpha Waymond, who had been teaching Evelyn how to verse-jump, is killed by Jobu Tupaki midway through the film, leaving it up to Evelyn to figure out how to stop Jobu.
• New Old Flame: In the universe where Evelyn is a famous actress (triggered by turning down Waymond's proposal), he meets her again many years later and the two rekindle their relationship.
• Nice Guy: He is exceedingly kind and affable, and this personality trait of his plays a big part in Evelyn saving the multiverse.
• Non-Action Guy: Most versions of Waymand are this. They don't show any signs of fighting, but they don't have to. Their greatest strengths are their kindness and empathy towards others, which is what is crucial for Evelyn to gain enlightenment.
• Open-Minded Parent: He's much more accepting of Joy's sexuality than Evelyn is. When Joy brings her girlfriend Becky to visit, he warmly greets Becky and tells her to call him by his first name.
• Single-Target Sexuality: He loves Evelyn and only Evelyn in every universe, which ends up being the key to saving everyone, as his unyielding love proves to be the one consistent glimmer of joy that allows Evelyn to overcome the nihilism generated by the Everything Bagel and defeat Jobu Tupaki.
• Smoking Is Glamorous: CEO Waymond lights up while talking to Martial Arts Star Evelyn, giving their conversation about romance a hazy, dream-like atmosphere.
• Spanner in the Works: Protagonist Waymond ends up being the key to saving everyone because of how he begs everyone to just "be kind".
• Static Character: Waymond doesn't actually grow or change much throughout the movie. He begins the same Nice Guy All-Loving Hero with Hidden Depths that he ends as. It's just Evelyn's (and the audience's) perception of him that changes. He doesn't grow or become a badass, it's just realized that he is a badass in his own way and he winds up helping others grow.
• Stepford Smiler: The depressed variety. He tries to find joy in anything he can and help cheer up others, but his marriage is falling apart, his business is failing, and more than once he breaks down in tears when pushed too far.
• Unrequited Love Lasts Forever: In the universe where Evelyn is a martial arts star, she turned down Waymond's proposal and later meets him for the first time in decades at a movie premiere. In all that time apart, Waymond never really got over her.

Gong Gong

Played by: James Hong

Evelyn's elderly father, who has recently arrived from China.

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• Abusive Parents: Gong Gong was notably disappointed when he learned he had a daughter, disowned Evelyn when she married Waymond against his wishes, and continues to criticize her in the present. He gets better by the end.
• Did You Think I Can't Feel?: When Evelyn calls him out for his attempts to kill her daughter, his granddaughter, his reply screams this trope, making it clear that while it is important for him to eliminate Jobu and other alternate verses of Joy, it is a decision that he didn't make so casually.
• Everyone Has Standards: Alpha Gong Gong isn't happy about killing Jobu Tupaki, as she's his granddaughter, but believes it must be done to save the multiverse. Similarly, he's distraught at the idea he has to kill (a version of) his daughter as well.
• Hero Antagonist: In the second half of the film, he and the resistance hunt down Evelyn because she wants to protect her daughter, who happens to be a mass-murdering Reality Warper in the Alphaverse.
• Hidden Depths: Even Gong Gong, a seemingly cold, old-fashioned, and judgmental figure, is accepting of Joy's sexuality, indicating that he has been processing how wrong he's been for a while now, with Evelyn calling him out only being what solidified it for him.
• I Have No Daughter!: He disowned Evelyn when she married Waymond against his wishes.
• Old Soldier: Alphaverse Gong Gong is the leader of La Résistance who takes an active role in stopping Jobu Tupaki, despite being an elderly wheelchair user.
• Pet the Dog: Gong Gong pleads with IRS security to leave his daughter alone when they come to detain her, insisting that she's a good girl.
• Stage Dad: In the universe where Evelyn is a singer, Gong Gong is her manager and is shown waiting in the wings during her performance.
• Suddenly Bilingual: His English in the first-shown universe is not very good, with Evelyn often having to act as interpreter for him. His Alpha counterpart is perfectly fluent in English, which shocks Joy and Waymond when they first hear him speak.
• Super Wheelchair: Alpha Gong Gong has a prominent wheelchair tricked out with Scavenged Punk technology that can even turn into Powered Armor.
• Took a Level in Kindness: At least one Gong Gong learned from his mistake in disowning his daughter, and accepts and loves his gay granddaughter without hesitation.
• Tragic Villain: Alpha Gong Gong wants to kill his own granddaughter, and is willing to kill a version of his daughter to do it, but he's already lost his own daughter, believes that he's acting for the good of the multiverse, and sincerely thinks that there's no other way to save it.
• Unnamed Parent: Evelyn's father is referred to only by the Chinese nickname Gong Gong (meaning 'maternal grandfather').
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Alphaverse Gong Gong wants to kill his own granddaughter, and is willing to go through Evelyn to do it, but he believes that doing so is the only way to save the multiverse, and he's far from happy about it.

Other Characters

Deirdre Beaubeirdra

Played by: Jamie Lee Curtis

The IRS agent in charge of the laundromat audit.

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• Ambiguously Bi: Multiple alternate Deirdres are in a relationship with Evelyn. The implications of this are never elaborated upon.
• Beauty Inversion: Jamie Lee Curtis as Deirdre is given an unflattering haircut, frumpy clothing, and makeup that washes her out.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: In her first appearances, Deirdre seems to be a cold, unsympathetic hardass, but she softens and allows Evelyn a second chance to get her affairs in order after finding out Evelyn is going through a divorce.
• The Dragon: One version of Deirdre serves as Jobu Tupaki's main henchwoman, preaching her gospel and being the first sent to attack Evelyn.
• Hidden Depths: She appears to be just a deeply bitter IRS agent. It turns out that she is like this in part due to loneliness and struggles in her personal life, including the failure of her marriage, and there are multiple universes in which she became Evelyn's lover instead of Waymond. Because of that, she is able to empathize enough with Evelyn to grant numerous extensions for her family to get their financial affairs in order, and even is able to emotionally connect with her after her apparent mental/emotional breakdown.
• Intimidating Revenue Service: She is an agent of the IRS and one of the film's minor antagonists. Once Evelyn figures out how to connect with her, the "intimidating" part goes away entirely.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Her greatest fear is that she's genuinely unlovable, something that seems to stem from her divorce. Evelyn gets through to her in multiple universes by insisting she is not unlovable and giving her a hug.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Deirdre initially seems to be a rather coldhearted jerk, but she's not as bad as she initially seems. Even early on, she gives Evelyn until the end of the day to get her tax statements figured out when she doesn't have any real obligation to. Even after Evelyn stands her up and she comes with the police to arrest Evelyn and repossess her laundromat, she ultimately relents and gives Evelyn another week to get everything together after hearing from Waymond about the potential divorce, which she sympathizes with. She even shares her vape with Evelyn.
• Jerkass Has a Point: While she seems like just an Obstructive Bureaucrat, paying attention to what she actually says to Evelyn (and the family's responses) make it clear that they have, in fact, seriously screwed up their tax filings for an extended period of time, in ways that a less indulgent bureaucrat could reasonably see as fraud, and show little urgency to resolve the situation. It's also clear that Deirdre has given them extended opportunities to correct the situation (and takes very little persuasion to give them even more), and yet they keep coming back with the same problems.
• Leitmotif: "Clair de Lune." Parts of it play during the first action scene with her, with the piece being played in full during the emotional climax where Evelyn tells her she's not unlovable.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: Deirdre is the IRS agent who looks over Evelyn's taxes. According to Evelyn, she takes every opportunity to make taxes difficult for the Wangs and other Chinese businesses. Deirdre also takes a far more confrontational role later on.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Her job isn't to punish people, it's to collect taxes. While Deirdre is quite rude and stern, she still seems pretty open to helping the Wang family clear up the issues beyond where many auditors would've drawn the line. Her anger at them only comes to the surface once Evelyn punches her in the face for seemingly no reason. Even after that, she's willing to offer an extension once Waymond explains the situation. The Deirdre who works for Jobu Tupaki is less understanding.
• Rhyming Names: Deirdre Beaubeirdra, a reference to The Name Game.
• Villainy-Free Villain: Played With, on account of the alternate universe shenanigans. There is a version of Deirdre who's a dangerous villain out to kill Evelyn, but there are also other more benign versions. The one from Evelyn's universe is a major source of conflict for Evelyn, as she's in charge of her tax audit. While this Deirdre is standoffish and cold, she's also just doing her job and is even trying to help the family through their taxes. By the film's end, Evelyn and her even share a small bit of understanding, and Deirdre bends a few rules to help them with their situation.
• Wrestler in All of Us: Justified — an alternate version of her became a wrestler, and the Deirdre who serves Jobu Tupaki uses that self's skills while attacking Waymond and Evelyn in the IRS office. She utilizes a backbreaker against the former.

Becky Sregor

Played by: Tallie Medel

Joy's girlfriend, who is itching to integrate herself with the Wangs.

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• All There in the Manual: The credits confirm her surname to be "Sregor."
• But Not Too Foreign: Joy is careful to stress that she's half-Mexican. Played with in that her objection when she says it is to Evelyn calling her white.
• Butch Lesbian: Becky is somewhat of a stereotype of this trope: tattooed, sporting an undercut, and being the "tomboy" in her relationship with Joy.
• Nice Girl: Despite her punk-like tomboy look, Becky is friendly, kind, polite, and very loving to her girlfriend Joy.
• Satellite Love Interest: We don't learn much about her besides the fact that she's friendly and half-Mexican.
• Sdrawkcab Name: Her surname spelled backwards is "Rogers".

Chad

Played by: Harry Shum Jr.

A guy who, in another universe, is a chef puppeted by a raccoon.

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• Broken Ace: He's a charismatic, confident chef... until the hat comes off. He breaks down upon losing Raccacoonie, openly admitting he is nothing without the animal.
• Expy: He's explicitly Linguini from Ratatouille, but as an Asian teppanyaki chef being controlled by a raccoon (rather than a French chef controlled by a rat). It's first introduced as a joke (Evelyn initially thinks the title of the film is "Raccacoonie"), but then it turns out that the randomness of the universe resulted in one world where there is a chef being controlled by a raccoon.
• Fake Nationality: In-Universe. A deleted version of his talk with Evelyn has him wondering why he even works at a teppanyaki restaurant since he isn't Japanese. Harry Shum Jr. is Chinese-American, but it's unclear if Chad is too.
• Hidden Depths: Initially a one-off gag, he is revealed to be a deeply lonely young man, which is why he takes such comfort in his raccoon sidekick. Evelyn tells him You Are Not Alone in the climax, and he aids her against some mooks while she helps him to recover his raccoon sidekick.

Raccacoonie

Played by: Randy Newman^note uncredited in the theatrical release

The raccoon who puppets Chad.

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• Actor Allusion: Racacconie, a character based off of a Pixar character, is played by Randy Newman, a composer who provided music for Pixar in the past.
• Brick Joke: Midway through the film, Evelyn is unable to remember the plot of Ratatouille, and refers to it as a film where a human is piloted by a raccoon. Raccacoonie is, of course, from an alternate universe where this actually takes place.
• Corrupted Character Copy: Downplayed. He is just like Rémy in that he genuinely loves cooking and is best friends with his human partner, but when he is discovered by someone he believes Murder Is the Best Solution.
• Expy: A raccoon version of Rémy from Ratatouille.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: As soon as Evelyn discovers his secret, he tries to have Chad murder her.
• Rascally Raccoon: He's a raccoon who managed to somehow befriend a human, discover he can puppeteer him, and use that to the advantage of both of them.
• Talking Animal: Unlike Rémy, Raccacoonie can speak (and sing) in perfectly understandable English around humans.

Debbie the Dog Mom / "Big Nose"

Played by: Jenny Slate

A customer at the laundromat, identified by her large nose and her companion Pomeranian.

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• Equippable Ally: When posessed by her alternate self, she uses her Pomeranian as a wrecking ball in combat.
• Hypocritical Humor: The version of her that fights Evelyn attacks her by swinging her Pomeranian around like a flail… and freaks out about Evelyn hurting it whenever she deflects it.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She seems very demanding when introduced picking up her dry cleaning, and is exasperated when Evelyn keeps talking to her when she's trying to leave. Despite initially being annoyed by her, Evelyn wants to give her an invitation to the party that night. In at least one universe, Debbie does show up, and seems to be having a good time talking to the other guests before everything goes off the rails.
• Jewish American Princess: She's referred to as "Big Nose" by Evelyn, is never explicitly said to be Jewish, but she exhibits all the stereotypes of a Jewish-American Princess, not the least of which is her big nose. She's played by the Jewish Jenny Slate.
• Mister Muffykins: Johnny, Debbie's Pomeranian, which she pushes around in a baby stroller in one universe and uses as a weapon in another.
• No Name Given: She was only credited in the theatrical version as Big Nose, an identifying characteristic Evelyn uses when taking her laundry. Her name is given in the credits of the home media release of the film.
• Sizable Semitic Nose: It isn't that big, but it's the only physical characteristic which Evelyn uses to describe her.

Jobu Tupaki (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

Played by: Stephanie Hsu

A being who has been traversing various universes in search of one specific version of Evelyn for seemingly nefarious purposes. She turns out to be Joy from the Alphaverse, whose mind was overloaded from too much verse jumping. This gave her the ability to seamlessly access her alternate selves, but she is broken mentally and emotionally as a result.

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• Alternate Self: She is Joy's Alphaverse counterpart.
• All Your Powers Combined: Jobu is connected to all her alternate selves at once, all of the time. This means that unlike others who have to do specific, random things to channel specific versions of themselves one at a time, Jobu can just use them on a whim and even summon weapons or overwrite the current reality she's in with things from another one.
• Ambiguous Syntax: Her dry "You're still hung up on the fact that I like girls in this world?" when Evelyn accuses her of making "her" Joy think she's gay could be interpreted a few ways.
  • "You just found out the multiverse is real and I just killed a guy, and you still are hung up on the gay thing?", chiding Evelyn for Skewed Priorities.
  • "Oh, great, I got a homophobic Evelyn," suggesting that depending on the verse, sometimes Evelyn is upset Joy is a lesbian, and sometimes she's perfectly fine with it (which, given that Evelyn is married to a woman in at least one universe, is plausible), and Jobu's irritated that she got one who's upset about something so minor.
  • "Why are so many Evelyns I come across homophobic?", suggesting Evelyn's issue with Joy's sexuality is a consistent thread in their relationship.
  • "You haven't gotten over that yet in this universe?", suggesting that in other (or even most) verses, Evelyn has her issues at first but eventually accepts her daughter. This turns out to be true for Protagonist Evelyn, as by the end she's cool with it.
  • Or possibly all of them all at once.
• Ambiguously Gay: It's unclear whether Jobu/Alphaverse Joy is gay like her main universe counterpart or, given her nihilistic outlook and insane power level, simply someone who is above discrimination and is just confused as to why Evelyn is still hung up on such a petty fact.
• And I Must Scream: A barrage showing her existence confirms she lives like this. One notable element is her as an axe murderer engaging in a slaughter in some kind of prison riot, at the same time she's a mother shopping in a grocery store from her perspective. The horror, the mundanity, every facet of life at its very worst is happening to her all at once, forever.
• Antagonistic Offspring: Zigzagged. Alphaverse Waymond and Gong Gong (Joy's father and grandfather) are actively trying to stop Alphaverse Joy/Jobu Tupaki from destroying other universes, and Waymond recruits a version of Evelyn (his wife and Joy's mother) to this end. Then, Jobu Tupaki shows Evelyn that she doesn't want to destroy the multiverse but kill herself instead, and was searching for a version of Evelyn who was so disillusioned with her life that she would understand Jobu's suffering. The climax is about Evelyn emotionally reconnecting and reconciling with Joy in multiple universes, and doing so saves the day in the end.
• Beware the Silly Ones: She's prone to dressing in silly costumes she alters on a whim and sometimes acts like a child or moody teenager, but she's still an immensely powerful, insane Reality Warper with enough power to slaughter anyone she comes across with very little effort.
• Big Bad: Her seeking Evelyn and forming the Everything Bagel that supposedly threatens to destroy everything drives Evelyn's discovery of her own powers as well as the emotional arc of the film.
• Body Surf: Jobu can possess any alternate version of herself at will. Alpha Gong Gong even suggests Evelyn kill her Joy to deny Jobu another body to use.
• Character Tics: She frequently reacts with a Quizzical Tilt, to the point of sometimes just lolling her head to the side. When Joy flops her head to the side in the middle of a conversation with her mom, it indicates that Jobu has taken over.
• Costume Porn: Jobu Tupaki wears a variety of intricate costumes that draw from pop music, high fashion, fantasy, and even video games.
• Create Your Own Villain: Jobu is the end result of Alpha Evelyn being an Abusive Parent who pushed Alpha Joy too far into universe jumping. In a broader scope, she's the end result of Evelyn's general treatment of Joy in many universes, something Evelyn has to overcome to talk Jobu down.
• Cult of Personality: She's the leader of a cult that worships the Everything Bagel she created.
• Dark Action Girl: Yep. This plus Reality Warper and The Juggernaut equals a serious threat to all life.
• Death Seeker: She wants to destroy herself because, having been exposed to the sheer size of the multiverse and how small humanity is in comparison, she no longer believes anything matters. However, this turns her into a threat to the multiverse, as she's Nigh-Invulnerable and the reality threatening Everything Bagel is seemingly the only thing capable of actually killing her.
• Despair Event Horizon: What turned Alpha Joy into Jobu was Alpha Evelyn going full Mad Scientist, pushing her daughter deeper and deeper into verse jumping until she "broke", becoming a Reality Warper capable of instantly accessing all potential alternate universes to modify reality at will — and discovering how coldly Evelyn treats her in every alternate universe. That didn't turn her evil, however — what did was creating the Everything Bagel and discovering that the nexus point of all realities is not an orderly system, but a dangerous black hole, due to there being no inherent structure to the multiverse. After that, Jobu became outright suicidal, seeking a version of Evelyn who understood her and would willingly die with her (and subconsciously, pull her back from the edge).
• Driven to Suicide: This is her main goal throughout the events of the movie, not what Alpha!Waymond originally assumed in regards to the true purpose of the Everything Bagel. Fortunately, Evelyn manages to talk her down, after she ascends to her level and convinces her to let go of her Straw Nihilist mentality.
• Evil Counterpart:
  • To main universe's Joy, if the latter is eventually consumed by her grief and despair of not be able to gain her mother's acceptance (and on greater extent, if Evelyn's unaddressed flaws outweigh her good intentions for her daughter).
  • To Evelyn, especially when she embraces her omnipotence and gains access to her various lives across the multiverse. The only difference is how they react when they realize how insignificant their existence are.
• Even Evil Has Standards: While she is the primary antagonist, she reacts with "did you actually say that?" incredulity to a comment made by Evelyn implying that she was the one who made Joy gay.
• Fashion-Victim Villain: invoked Deliberately invoked in-universe. Evelyn's first words to Jobu are "Joy? Why do you look so stupid?" upon seeing Jobu make her entrance wearing pink hair and an Elvis suit. Throughout the film, Jobu's fashion sense continues to be outrageous, impractical, stylized, and chaotic as a reflection of her nihilistic pursuit of novelty and stimulation and of her composition of Joys from many far-flung universes of absurdity.
• First-Name Basis: Insistently refers to Evelyn by her first name. Evelyn finally yelling at her for it is part of what snaps her out of her depression spiral.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Jobu began her life as Joy, a normal girl. Her mother's experiments turned her into the most powerful being in the multiverse.
• Generic Doomsday Villain: Alpha Waymond describes her as such, although we later find out he's wrong about it.
  "She's an omniversal being with unimaginable power, an agent of pure chaos, with no real motives or desires."
• Go Mad from the Revelation: Being exposed to the entire multiverse at the same time and realizing there was no real structure or reason to it caused Jobu to become a Straw Nihilist.
• Humanoid Abomination: Used to be an ordinary person, and still looks like one, despite having Reality Warper powers.
• Instant Costume Change: Thanks to having an extreme version of verse-jumping that allows her to access alternate universes much more easily than other characters, she can change her clothes instantaneously.
• Karma Houdini: Although she is stopped from destroying the multiverse with the Everything Bagel, she gets what she always wanted in the end: for some version of her mother to connect with and understand her. No mention is made of her in the denouement, which, combined with Alpha Gong Gong's change of heart, implies she received no comeuppance for her crimes across the multiverse. Justified, as other than the Everything Bagel, nothing seems capable of meaningfully harming her.
• Kick the Dog: An extended version of her first onscreen appearance has her drive Deirdre to suicide by saying no one likes her.
• Love Redeems: A platonic version. Hearing Evelyn say that she would always choose to be Joy's mother, no matter what, brings her back from the brink of suicide and gets her to stop being an Omnicidal Maniac.
• Matricide: She's been killing alternate Evelyns for some time now, and wants to finish her off by dragging "our" Evelyn into death alongside her. She also kills the Alphaverse version of Waymond, her father.
• Meaningful Name: An odd one in that it's her name lacking meaning that makes it meaningful: Jobu's name was simply a nonsensical name Kwan thought up while brainstorming baby names, and thought it was fun to say. Given Jobu Tupaki is driven entirely by a nihilistic belief nothing in the multiverse actually matters, having a nonsensical name without meaning fits perfectly.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: Actually harming Jobu seems nigh impossible. Lethal damage like bullets turn to ketchup on impact and all killing the Joy she's possessing does is lock her out of that universe. This seems to be an innate ability she has rather than something she has to knowingly do. The only thing that is capable of killing her is the Everything Bagel, which is a problem, as she wants to die.
• Omnicidal Maniac: The Alphaverse assumes that Jobu Tupaki wants to destroy the multiverse for shits and giggles. She doesn't — she's become overly nihilistic and wants to destroy herself, not realizing nor caring her Everything Bagel is an Artifact of Doom.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Jobu Tupaki acts like a child or moody teenager at times, but is also a nihilistic Reality Warper willing to kill and slaughter anyone who gets in her way.
• Put Them All Out of My Misery: Not intentionally, but the Everything Bagel she created to commit suicide is threatening other universes by its mere existence. Jobu is well beyond caring.
• Reality Warper: Jobu Tupaki can not only access alternate memories, but change herself and the world around her to match other realities as well.
• Rule of Symbolism: Most of her ensembles have Jobu wearing matching eye makeup that resembles teardrops (the pearls around her eyes at the site of the Everything Bagel) or under-eye streaks like she has been crying.
• Rummage Sale Reject: She uses the Mundane Utility of her Reality Warper powers to dress in ever more gleefully extreme costumes. Her jumbled dress in the climax is a chaotic mixup of all the dresses she wore before. reportedly, this was to embody the confusion the character is going through.
• Sad Clown: Jobu deals with her fractured existence by treating the multiverse like a playground for her to make sick and deadly jokes with cartoonish slapstick-like verse-jumping powers. Inside, she's desperate for peace and a version of the multiverse and her mother that will support her without causing her pain. This is visually referenced with most of Jobu's makeup including allusions to teardrops, and her K-Pop look has also been called a "sad clown" look by the crew due to makeup both resembling a clown nose and the redness of someone who's been crying.
• Seen It All: Given that she exists in every universe at the same time, nothing impresses her. At best, she'll state something is a "statistical inevitability" (i.e., unlikely but bound to happen eventually).
• Self-Made Orphan: Alphaverse Evelyn died fighting her, and one of Jobu's first onscreen acts is to kill Evelyn in the "burner" universe, then later murders Alpha Waymond. Ultimately, however, Jobu confesses to Evelyn that she didn't hunt down Evelyn just to kill her - she wanted to find one version that understood her.
• Straw Nihilist: Having access to all her alternate realities simultaneously, Joy has come to believe that nothing matters and is creating a black hole that will kill her. The movie actively disproves her mentality, with her mother Evelyn showing her that love and happiness are all that people have in the face of cosmic insignificance.
• Terms of Endangerment: A platonic example. She occasionally calls Evelyn "buddy" in a rather condescending way. Which is more insulting since she is addressing to her mother from another universe.
• Tragic Villain: Jobu Tupaki was pushed so far by her universe's Evelyn as a verse jumper that her mind started experiencing every reality simultaneously, turning her into a broken, nihilistic Death Seeker. She only attacks various universes to try and find a version of Evelyn who can share in her realization and, if possible, provide an alternate viewpoint. Failing that, Jobu Tupaki simply wants someone to understand her and join her in death by Everything Bagel. With all of her coldness towards her mother's alternate selves, there is still part of her that seeks her mother's comfort.
• Unusual Pets for Unusual People: In the scene where she fights the police officer, she shows up with a pet piglet.
• Whole Costume Reference: One of Jobu's many eccentric costumes is a white jumpsuit that looks exactly like Elvis Presley's most famous outfit.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Before she was a Reality Warper par none on a quest to destroy herself, not particularly caring if she takes the multiverse with her, she was a kid who was pushed to the brink of her sanity by her own mother, and just wanted her mom to unconditionally love and understand her. And deep down, she still is.
• World's Strongest Man: Jobu is able to channel the powers of any (or even multiple at once, something only she can do) of her alternate counterparts at will, swap things out with or outright summoning things of another reality, such as turning bullets into ketchup, and can casually kill people with a touch. Jobu has the power of the entire multiverse at her fingertips, making her a Reality Warper and by far the most powerful being in the multiverse. It's not until Evelyn reaches the same level that Jobu has any competition.
• Wrong Context Magic: Jobu isn't bound by the rules all other Jumpers are. She doesn't require doing anything odd to channel alternate versions of her, being able to do so at will, can channel multiple ones at the same time where most can only do one, and can bring things over from other realities, making her a Reality Warper.

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