Characters / Friday Night Funkin'

A character page for the cast of Friday Night Funkin'.

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Protagonists

Boyfriend

Our hero.

^{Boyfriend in Week 5}

^{Boyfriend in Week 6}

Voiced by: Kawai Sprite (samples only)

"Bop beep be be skdoo bep."

The spunky, spiky-haired protagonist of the game, a 19-year-old rapper on a mission to prove himself worthy to be Girlfriend's partner the only way he knows how: funky fresh beats!

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• Achievements in Ignorance: Almost every opponent is trying to kill or embarrass him somehow, and some like Monster or Spirit are genuinely terrifying and dangerous, but Boyfriend manages to crush beneath all of them simply because he doesn't realize what kind of danger he's in.
• A Dog Named "Dog": He is called Boyfriend and is Girlfriend's... well... boyfriend.
• Amicable Exes: Downplayed with Pico. Pico still hates Boyfriend and Girlfriend — but he apparently just doesn't hate them enough to go through with shooting either of them. Of course, Pico does come to save them when the Tankmen plan to kill them in Week 7's 3rd song, "Stress," but he mainly showed up because he was hired by Dearest and Mearest to confirm that Boyfriend was dead.
• Beyond the Impossible: During Week 6, he defeats Senpai, who's programmed to be an Invincible Hero, not once, but twice.
• Black Bead Eyes: Has a pair of black eyes and lacks pupils, but unlike other characters that have similar eye designs, Boyfriend is supposedly just a regular human being.
• Blue with Shock: Boyfriend goes blue if he misses a note, alongside a spaced out facial expression implying he's choked. He makes the same expression when Tankman calls him a "cunt" during Week 7.
• Bridal Carry: Does this to Girlfriend in "Stress" after Pico throws her off the speakers to save her life. After catching her, Boyfriend carries her for the remainder of the song — and with one hand, even.
• Chubby Chaser: According to Word of God, Boyfriend likes his girls nice and pudgy.
• Elective Unintelligible: Word of God has stated that, while he makes beeps and boops in conversation, he's actually fully capable of speaking clear English if he wants to (as demonstrated in the Boyfriend Remix of "Fresh", sung by his "voice actor" Kawai Sprite). He merely dislikes conversing with people most of the time, as he deliberately invokes being The Unintelligible. invoked
• Expy: Boyfriend is an edgier riff on Parappa The Rapper, being a young, up-and-coming rapper who wants to prove himself worthy for his Love Interest.
• Fearless Fool: Boyfriend usually goes up against characters that explicitly want to harm him, like that guy hired to kill him, the demon lady on a stretch limo, a lemon headed monster, a spirit trapped in a game clearly intent on taking over his body for revenge on someone, and an army of gunmen with clear intent to shoot him and his girlfriend, and he sings along without a care in the world. Word of God has described him and Girlfriend as "morons who are too dumb to realize what kind of danger they are [in]", explaining why he rarely runs away from potentially dangerous opponents (and it might also explain how he ended up dropping out of college). invoked
• Fear of Thunder: Gains a worried face and sweat drops when lightning strikes during Week 2.
• Flat Character: Doesn't have much personality other than "he loves Girlfriend, is a Fearless Fool and an Elective Unintelligible."
• Groin Attack: If he fails a song, he gets blue balled so hard that his whole skeleton fractures as he clenches up in shock. Averted in the Ludum Dare build.
• Hidden Depths: According to Word of God...
  • Despite his short stature, Boyfriend surprisingly knows how to fight.
  • He also knows what to do in case he accidentally shoots himself in the thigh and can't afford a hospital visit.
  • Additionally, he has a monetized YouTube channel he posts age-restricted Roblox “sex” videos on for some quick cash to buy cigarettes with.
• His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Zig-Zagged. The creator's Twitter has claimed "Boyfriend" is actually his legal name, but there have also been official claims of his name being Cam and Luis Also. The latter names have debunked, fully admitted to have been a troll, the developers exclusively refer to him as Boyfriend.
• Idiot Hero: According to Word of God, he's a moron who doesn't realize the kind of danger he's in, and it's suggested this might also be why he dropped out of college.
• Image Song: "Fresh (Boyfriend Remix)" could be considered one, as it describes his reasons for continuing the rap battles, his thoughts on his Girlfriend's dad, and the language of the song sounds a lot like a rap-obsessed young man. The song is also sung by Kawai Sprite, the "voice" of Boyfriend.
• Interspecies Romance: He's in a committed relationship with Girlfriend, even though he's a human and she's a demon.
• Leitmotif: "Fresh" and all variations seems to follow him wherever he goes. One variation serves as his inner thoughts (see Image Song), but there are two other versions of "Fresh" featured in the game in relation to him — once to battle Daddy Dearest, and the other in Vol. 2's soundtrack. The "Go man go" refrain heard in all variations also appears in "Getting Freaky" (the series theme) and "Give A Lil Bit Back" (a plot-relevant cutscene).
• Let's Duet: Later into the weeks, he starts to pick up on performing a duet with his opponents than just echoing the same verses from them. Namely with Pico, Mommy Mearest, Monster, and Tankman. Taken to the extreme with Week 6's "Senpai", a song mostly consisting of duets.
• Never Bareheaded: He's never seen without his red backwards ballcap.
• Older Than They Look: He's nineteen years old, despite being about toddler-sized when standing next to a couple characters.^note It's confirmed that Boyfriend, Girlfriend, and Pico are modeled in a chibi style, so they're not really supposed to be that short in real life.
• Pintsized Powerhouse: While he's very short, he can carry Girlfriend in one arm without any visible effort.
• Quest for Sex: Downplayed. He's genuinely in love with Girlfriend and is willing to risk his life for her, but if the blue balls he gets from failing a song and key lines from "Fresh (Boyfriend Remix)" are any indication, he also really wants to get in her pants.
• Short Teens, Tall Adults: Boyfriend is nineteen, but is only a third of the size of the adults. If one were to think that this might simply be because of his chibi in-game design, Word of God has implied through various posts that even if he were designed normally he'd still be short enough that Girlfriend would need to kneel down just to make proper eye-contact. invoked
• Signature Headgear: Always wears a red backwards ballcap everywhere he goes, as stated by Never Bareheaded above, and is a nod to him being a rapper.
• Stock Shōnen Hero: He fits, being a Hot-Blooded, spiky-haired Idiot Hero, although he is a more adult example.
• Stronger Than They Look: Despite his small stature, Boyfriend is actually capable of carrying Girlfriend (who is slightly taller than him) during a rap battle and even with only one hand.
  • PhantomArcade told a Redditor during an AMA that Boyfriend would curbstomp them if they ever fought (see Hidden Depths).
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: It's a bit difficult to tell from the size of their sprites, but he and Girlfriend have such a pronounced height difference that she has to kneel down in order to heal him up by Holding Hands with him if he fails a level.
• Unfazed Everyman: Boyfriend will always maintain the same cocky expression no matter the situation or who he is up against. Even if some of his opponents are actually trying to kill him or Girlfriend, he will continue to sing as if nothing was out of the ordinary.
• Vocal Dissonance: Despite being 19 by Word of God, his beeps and boops are somewhat high-pitched coming from a blue-haired dude that went through puberty. If KawaiSprite's vocals on "Fresh (Boyfriend Remix)" are BF's true voice, then the deep vocals combined with his tiny frame make it look even more dissonant.invoked
• V-Sign: Flashes a peace sign when selecting a Week and after completing a verse in "Bopeebo" and "Fresh"^note Ludum Dare build only.
• Weirdness Magnet: He just wants to spend time with his Girlfriend, but Boyfriend can't help getting into some weird situation or meet some strange character that wants to rap battle him every week.
• You Are Worth Hell: Whether it be getting humiliated by his girlfriend's parents or nearly getting killed in a goddamned war zone, he'll endure anything for his beau, which he helpfully mentions twice in "Fresh (Boyfriend Remix)":
  If I die, then it’d all be worth it
  Just to get a chance to show she’s worth it

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Girlfriend

She digs your confidence.

^{Girlfriend in Week 5}

^{Girlfriend in Week 6}

Voiced by: Kawai Sprite

"That's how you do it!"

Boyfriend's girlfriend — obviously — whom he's determined to spend the rest of his life with, even if he has to rap his heart out to do so.

She acts as the game's tutorial, teaching the player the basic mechanics and controls they'll need to get through the rest of the game. She also serves as an in-game metronome, bopping her head in time with the tempo.

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• Benevolent Monster: Week 7 reveals that, just like her parents, Girlfriend isn't actually a human, but a demon taking on the guise of a human. However, unlike her parents, she loves Boyfriend with all her heart, and even though she doesn't do so often, she'll attempt to help him when possible.
• Big Beautiful Woman: According to Word of God, Girlfriend is rather chubby and Boyfriend finds her all the more beautiful for it.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: Even if it's slightly altered by the art style, her skeleton in Week 7 appears very different from Boyfriend's; for matters, it's red, has a contiguous, ribbon-like appearance with no individual bones aside from the skull, there's a single row of sharp fangs where both rows of teeth would normally be, and of course, there are the horns on her skull.
• Black Bead Eyes: Just like Boyfriend, her eyes are black with no pupils. However, she can assume a demonic form that resembles her parents', and in Week 7, her left eye briefly flashes red.
• Brainless Beauty: While very attractive, Girlfriend always remains indifferent and spaced out about any potential threat to her and Boyfriend. Word of God describes her and Boyfriend as "morons who are too dumb to realize what kind of danger they are in". invoked
• Character Tic: Word of God says that she has a habit of putting strange things in her mouth.
• Cute Monster Girl: Girlfriend being a demon does nothing to keep her from also being a cute and pretty young woman. This is still true for her real appearance shown in the game-over screen of Week 7 Song 3, as her blatantly demonic body does nothing to detract from her cuteness and prettiness, especially when you click "retry" and she happily smiles at you for not giving up.
• Damsel in Distress: She's held hostage by the Tankmen for the first two songs of Week 7, but she seems to take it all in stride. It's briefly hinted that she's not too concerned because she's not actually in real danger, as she was about to use demonic powers on two assailants before Pico intervenes and rescues her anyway.
• Dating What Daddy Hates: Considering that her father keeps trying to kill Boyfriend, this goes without saying.
• Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes: Her calm eyes stay half-closed while she's bopping without a care in the world, even if soldiers are holding her hostage.
• Expressive Hair: While Boyfriend is carrying her in his arms during "Stress", her hair gets messy when the player misses a note, particularly her Idiot Hair.
• Fear of Thunder: She will keep a straight face through pretty much anything... except when there's a storm; during Week 2, she'll jump a little whenever there's thunder.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: Whenever she's about to use her demonic powers, she temporarily takes on the purple-skinned red-eyed look of her parents, before going back to her regular human-like form. This strongly implies that, when ninjamuffin stated the reason she doesn't look like her parents is because of "true love", he meant that she loves Boyfriend so much that she tries to be as much of a normal human as possible when circumstances permit it. To the point of looking like one, with any direct demon power usage causing a Glamour Failure until she stops doing so.
• Gamer Chick: What ends up being the catalyst of Week 6. Girlfriend happens to be a gamer and has a specific affinity for dating sims. She ends up inviting Boyfriend over to her house one night to play video games together, but while they're distracted, Daddy Dearest uses his powers to trap Boyfriend and Girlfriend inside the dating sim they're playing, wherein they meet Senpai.
• Hidden Depths: According to Word of God, despite her ditziness, she knows how to file taxes.invoked
• Human Disguise: While she looks like an attractive but otherwise normal young human woman, it's heavily implied that her true form is more visibly demonic, since it's said that "true love" is the reason she doesn't look more like her parents and she gets purple skin and red eyes whenever she uses her demonic powers.
• Idiot Hair: She has a single strand of hair on the top of her head that always sticks up, unless you miss a note in "Stress". Word of God also states that she's unfazed by the various threats she faces because she's too dim to register them as dangerous.
• Interspecies Romance: She's a demon who's in a committed relationship with Boyfriend, who is completely human.
• Intimate Healing: According to Phantom Arcade, she cures Boyfriend's blueballs offscreen whenever the player retries a level. It's a bit downplayed compared to some examples, though, as she's just Holding Hands with him. invoked
• Jiggle Physics: Bizarrely enough, if you get a game over during "Stress", it's shown that her breasts are part of her skeleton and that they react to her movement when the player retries.
• Leg Focus: "Fresh (Boyfriend Remix)" mentions her thighs as one of the things Boyfriend finds attractive about her body.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: Under normal circumstances, she's content with just reclining on top of a boombox while watching Boyfriend rap-fight for her, carelessly watching the action even when situations arise where she's in potential life-threatening danger. But the one time some danger came very close to actually harming her, in this case Tankman ordering his men to shoot her, she temporarily drops her carefree attitude and is very clearly about to use her demon powers, with the only reason she didn't go through with it being Pico arriving to save her and Boyfriend by killing Tankman's men.
• Ms. Fanservice: She's rather busty and often wears a dress that shows off her legs. Needless to say, Boyfriend's a lucky guy.
• Nightmare Fetishist: A comic by Phantom Arcade that was made to celebrate the release of the official Nendoroid Boyfriend figure reveals that Girlfriend really loves horror games, and jumpscares make her scream with delight rather than terror.
• Ocular Gushers:
  • For a split-second, she gets a few large streaks of tears whenever the player breaks a +10 notes combo.
  • She spends most of Week 7's second cutscene bawling her eyes out due to Tankman insultingly calling her ugly, boring, and dumbly dressed.
• Older Than They Look: Just like Boyfriend, she's nineteen despite looking about as young as Skid and Pump, though comparatively to other characters her size, she looks much more mature. Tankman lampshades this when he calls her a teenager.
• One-Note Cook: According to Phantom Arcade, she's not a very good cook, and the only thing she can cook is peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. If she tries to cook anything else, she'll end up burning her house down.invoked
• Our Demons Are Different: She's a demon just like her parents, but unlike them, she looks completely human. She first shows hints of her heritage when the Tankmen threaten to shoot her before being interrupted when Pico saves her, and the game-over screen for Week 7 Song 3 when Boyfriend is holding her shows that beneath the human-like appearance is a horned Big Red Devil-like body.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her right eye glows red when the Tankmen try to shoot her, hinting she was about to unleash her demon powers had it not been for Pico intervening.
• Sexy Santa Dress: In Week 5, she wears a Christmas variant of her usual short dress with white tights.
• Short Teens, Tall Adults: She's 19 like Boyfriend, and while it's implied by Word of God that she's somewhere around One Head Taller if not more than her lover, that still makes her notably shorter than the adult characters. invoked
• Skewed Priorities: During Week 7, she is held at gunpoint with a real chance of being gunned down but the only thing that only manages to upset Girlfriend is that Tankman calls her ugly, boring and that she is wearing hand-me-downs from her mom, which drives her to tears.
• Spoken Word in Music: Unlike everyone else in the game (even including Monster, whose English is still sung), "Tutorial" has her speaking all of her verses instead of singing or rapping.
• Stocking Filler: Her Christmas outfit for Week 5 has a pair of white stockings that go up to her thighs. You could say that she's a bit of a stocking stuffer.
• Strong Family Resemblance: She has the same hair colour as her mother and even wears a similarly styled dress minus the jacket. She also shows hints of her demonic heritage on Week 7 when she is about to be executed by the Tankmen, with her left eye briefly flashing red and her skin tinting purple slightly, just like her parents.
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Phantom Arcade claims she has to get onto her hands and knees in order to properly hold hands with Boyfriend. invoked
• Undying Loyalty: Always seen at Boyfriend's side cheering him on. Even in incredibly dangerous situations, she is confident Boyfriend can get them both out no problem.
• Warm-Up Boss: She's the first "boss" in the game, and her only song is very easy with a highly predictable rhythm. This is very much justified, since she serves as the tutorial for the game, along with her not having any malice towards Boyfriend, so she has no reason to sing something that Boyfriend might potentially lose to.

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Opponents

Normal

Daddy Dearest and Mommy Mearest

He's an ex-rockstar. No pressure!

Like mother, like daughter... right?

^{The Parents in Week 5} Think you can take on this power couple?

Voiced by: Kawai Sprite (Daddy Dearest, samples only), Monica Franco (Mommy Mearest, samples only)

"HEY! You think you can just sing with my daughter like that? If you want to date her... You're going to have to go through ME first!"

Girlfriend's parents, who are a demonic ex-rock star and pop star respectively and aren't too accepting of their new son-in-law just yet. Daddy Dearest faces you in Week 1 to prove your worth inside an empty theater, Mommy Mearest takes you on in Week 4 to test your might once more atop a speeding limousine, and they both stand in your way for a Christmas-themed showdown during Week 5 at the mall.

Daddy Dearest's songs include "Bopeebo", "Fresh", and "Dad Battle".
Mommy Mearest's songs include "Satin Panties", "High", and "M.I.L.F".
Both parents together have the songs "Cocoa" and "Eggnog".

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Both

• Abusive Parents: They repeatedly make attempts to get rid of (as in kill) their daughter's boyfriend simply because they don't approve of him.
• Age-Inappropriate Dress: Both are old enough to have a 19-year-old daughter, yet have rather revealing outfits (especially Mommy Mearest) that would be more befitting of someone much younger than they seemingly are.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: Both are a light shade of purple to emphasize their sinister looks — a bit odd considering their daughter, Girlfriend, is white. When asked about this during a Reddit AMA, ninjamuffin states the reason for this is "true love". Week 7 makes this explicit, with Girlfriend briefly suffering Glamour Failure attempting to save herself from the Tankmen.
• Battle Couple: Week 5 has the two teaming up to challenge Boyfriend in a mall during Christmas time.
• Black Eyes of Crazy: Both of them have black sclera that works well for highlighting their glowing red eyes, and both of them have shown quite clearly that they are not mentally sound or sane in the slightest.
• Complexity Addiction: Instead of straight-up killing Boyfriend, the parents prefer other methods to try and get rid of him, first by rap-battling him and when that fails, they accept him into the family just to get closer and find new ways to torment him. This culminates in the lead-up to Week 7 when they arrange a vacation for both him and their daughter, but the plane is a setup to get Boyfriend killed, only for that to ultimately fail, landing Boyfriend and Girlfriend in the Tankmen's Military Zone. This would have killed him anyway had they not sent Pico to confirm Boyfriend's death, as the Tankmen were perfectly capable of killing Boyfriend for them.
• Dual Boss: They battle together during Week 5, mixing both of their musical styles and rhythms.
• Family Theme Naming: The mother was given the name "Mommy Mearest" specifically for the hilarity of being an Affectionate Nickname-sounding parental Alliterative Name that is similar to Daddy Dearest.
• Faux Affably Evil: Their relationship with Boyfriend becomes more amicable over time, but they still intend to get rid of him, and only bother to play nice just to lure him into a false sense of security in order to plot their next plan to kill him.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: Pun not intended, but both of them wear lots of it.
• Knight Templar Parent: The various descriptions about wanting to murder Boyfriend for Daddy Dearest, and Mommy Mearest's week title of "Mommy Must Murder", make it quite clear that this duo utterly despises the very idea of their daughter dating anybody, and will go to horrific extremes to keep their baby "safe".
• Love-Obstructing Parents: They are not fond of Boyfriend at all and constantly try to meddle with their daughter's relationship if possible or straight up trying to kill Boyfriend. Even after letting him be part of the family, they still torment Boyfriend because they dislike him that much.
• Recurring Boss: After their introductory weeks, with Daddy Dearest debuting in Week 1 and Mommy Mearest in Week 4, both of them are fought together in Week 5 alongside another returning character, Monster, who was originally Dummied Out but has been added to Week 2 as of the Tankman update. Ninja has also confirmed that Daddy Dearest will return for another head-on encounter.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Both of them have glowing bright red pupils, and both of them are quite obviously people not to be trifled with. Daddy Dearest is stated to want to kill Boyfriend, Mommy Mearest is quite clearly crazy based on her movements, and both of them together are fully open to physically threatening Santa just to have another go at Boyfriend.
• Our Demons Are Different: The duo are actually demons living it out on Earth, with them looking mostly human in body structure, though they quite clearly aren't with their purple skin, red eyes, and black sclera. They also have inherent supernatural powers, such as Daddy Dearest being able to literally throw Boyfriend and Girlfriend into a video game along with sealing Spirit's soul inside said game.
• Unholy Matrimony: They're purple demons that seem to be happily together and care about who their daughter dates, but they also go to a mall and sing duets in color-coded Christmas outfits, while holding a Mall Santa at gunpoint.
• Vocal Dissonance: Despite their fierce and menacing appearance, both Daddy Dearest and Mommy Mearest have pretty angelic-sounding singing voices. Boyfriend even lampshades this in the remixed version of Fresh when he mentions the dad.

"He open his yap and you wouldn't believe but the sound of an angel when he spittin'"

Daddy Dearest

• Anime Hair: Has gray-ish purple pompadour-like hair in the shape of a crescent moon or devil horns.
• Antagonist Title: The main opponent in Week 1, titled "Daddy Dearest".
• Ax-Crazy: The various descriptions of Daddy Dearest stating he wants to kill Boyfriend for dating his daughter, along with pointing a gun at a Mall Santa simply so he could face Boyfriend again, make it quite clear that this man is violently insane. Week 6 reveals that he has given fates worse than death to many, many people for unknown reasons.
• Big Bad: The main antagonist in the story, having the overall biggest presence and influence even after his defeat in Week 1. He also shows up in Week 5 alongside Mommy Mearest, and when not present, he directly influences the events of both Week 3 and Week 6, and indirectly the events of both Week 4 by proxy of Mommy Mearest, and Week 7 through their attempt to kill Boyfriend making the plane crash in the Tankmen's Military Zone.
• Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: To ridiculous extremes.
• Carpet of Virility: Has a small tuft of hair on his bare chest.
• Devilish Hair Horns: The ends of his pompadour are pointed to resemble devil horns, fitting for his personality and his attempts to keep Boyfriend and Girlfriend apart.
• Disproportionate Retribution: According to the descriptions of the game on Newgrounds and Itch.io, Daddy Dearest is apparently trying to straight up kill Boyfriend for daring to date his daughter. Even if he's beaten during Week 1, he still sends Pico during Week 3 to kill Boyfriend.
• Greater-Scope Villain: For Week 6 and Week 7. For Week 6, Spirit claims that Daddy Dearest was the one who shoved him in the game that the main characters find themselves trapped in, while also implying he's not Daddy Dearest's only victim. For Week 7, his attempt to kill Boyfriend led the main characters to fight Tankman in the first place.
• Informed Attribute: He's apparently an ex-rockstar, but none of the songs he performs are of the rock genre. Being the first opponent fought, he's generally pretty easy to handle despite being an old pro.
• Keeping the Enemy Close: The only reason he accepts Boyfriend into his family is just to keep tabs with him and continues to interfere in the relationship of his daughter whenever he has the chance.
• Long Pants: Daddy Dearest is drawn without any lines separating his shoes from his pants.
• Mamet Speak: In Dad Battle, the song being an aggressive singing battle, he starts interrupting Boyfriend's verses to start his own early, and Boyfriend follows suit for the rest of the song to remain competitive.
• The Needless: Possibly. Word of God claims that Daddy Dearest doesn't drink anything whatsoever, but the question he was asked specifically deals with the characters' tastes in soda.
• No Shirt, Long Jacket: Wears a black jacket with no shirt, exposing both the hair on his chest and on his crotch.
• Palette Swap: While his wife dons a Sexy Santa Dress for Week 5, Daddy Dearest simply wears a green-colored version of his usual clothes.
• Retired Badass: An ex-rockstar, and he can still sing circles around you.
• Rock Me, Asmodeus!: He's a demon who is also a retired rock star.
• A Sinister Clue: Daddy Dearest holds his microphone with his left hand. Very fitting for someone who looks so damn intimidating.
• Slasher Smile: He's got a near-constant grin that shows his gums, and he may or may not be trying to kill Boyfriend depending on his mood during some weeks.
• Sore Loser: Even if he ultimately accepted Boyfriend as his daughter's partner, he is sore about losing to him on Week 1 and is still firmly against their relationship, sabotaging them whenever he can, to the point he hired a hitman to kill Boyfriend and threw Boyfriend and Girlfriend into a Dating Sim just to be a dick.
• Starter Villain Stays: The first opponent Boyfriend faces, meant to give a general introduction to the setup of the game after the tutorial. However, because he is Girlfriend's evil dad and a Sore Loser, he frequently attempts to interfere with their relationship and/or straight-up kill Boyfriend.
• The Stoic: A variant; he's got a near-constant rictus grin that would indicate some form of sadistic glee, but in the update that added "losing" animations to other characters' icons on the health bar, Daddy Dearest is the only one who has no visible change in emotion regardless of his status. Even Monster, who wears a similar grin, has his icon show signs of wearing out when Boyfriend's winning.
• Warm-Up Boss: Thanks to being the first opponent battled chronologically^note And technically, since the Ludum Dare 47 build, which came first, lacked "Tutorial". , his first two songs have somewhat slow and simple notes compared to later levels. "Dad Battle" ups the stakes considerably after Daddy Dearest and Boyfriend are done warming up but is still manageable to get by.

Mommy Mearest

• '80s Hair: Her hair seems to be similar to the poofy, teased hairstyles of The '80s.
• The Alcoholic: Implied. According to Ninjamuffin99, her favorite soda is White Claw, a brand of hard seltzer.invoked
• Bathing Beauty: A promotional sketch◊ shows her listening to music in the bathtub as she tosses a dart at a picture of Boyfriend.
• Dartboard of Hate: Apparently owns one with Boyfriend's face on it.
• Disco Dan: Mommy Mearest's entire character is heavily inspired by The '80s, from her hair and shoulder-padded fashion sense to the sound of her music.
• Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes: Like her daughter, her eyes are always half-closed. She is by no means calm, however: those eyes are smug, sinister, and lean into her evil villainess persona.
• Evil Diva: While she doesn't attempt to brainwash anyone with her music, she's still a murderous former pop star who plays '80s-inspired tunes all throughout her battle with Boyfriend.
• Evil Redhead: She has dark reddish-brown hair, and is arguably even crazier than her husband with the lengths she goes to stop Boyfriend from dating her daughter.
• Fearless Fool: Her stage of choice to challenge Boyfriend? The hood and roof of a speeding limo on a busy freeway, even standing right in front of the driver's view! And yet, no one has any concern about where they're duking it out.
• Femme Fatalons: She has long sharp fingernails painted dark crimson, fitting in with her skimpy and menacing appearance.
• Genre Throwback: Fitting Mommy Mearest's overall '80s theme, all of her songs in Week 4 sound like they were lifted from that decade, vocals notwithstanding. "Satin Panties" and "High" both feature double-tonic complexes, a type of tonal ambiguity that's popularly used in '80s pop and rock music. Her final song, "MILF", was confirmed by Kawai Sprite to have a melody inspired by Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up", which was released in 1987.
• Head-Turning Beauty: In Week 5, the Mall Santa is quite pointedly staring at her cleavage.
• Heroic Ambidexterity: Mommy Mearest holds her microphone in her right hand during her idle animation, down pose, and left pose. For her up pose and right pose, however, she switches to her left hand. She's also using her left hand to hold the mic throughout Week 5, cementing this trope.
• Hot as Hell: She's a demon, and one more dangerous than Daddy Dearest at that, but it certainly doesn't diminish her attractiveness, both In-Universe and out.
• Large Ham: Compared to the other characters, her movements while singing are much more exaggerated and full of personality. It almost looks like she's trying to make a performance out of them alone while singing against Boyfriend.
• Messy Hair: Her hair looks a lot less maintained and groomed compared to the other characters, notably her own daughter who shares the same color and length, with it having a very jagged and uneven appearance. This unkempt look works well to highlight how she's a lot more bombastically energetic and ambiguously crazier compared to everybody else. It's also part of her 80s look that goes with her shoulder-padded jacket.
• Mirror Boss: Week 4 songs are noticeable for having large portions where Boyfriend has to harmonize with her by hitting the same or vertically-swapped notes at the same time as her.
• More Deadly Than the Male: While Daddy Dearest is slated to become a Recurring Boss in future updates, Mommy Mearest is this in the current version of the game, where her week has much more complex and fast-paced charts than her husband's. It's even noticeable in the parents' Week 5 rematch; Daddy Dearest starts "Cocoa" by setting up the melody, while Mommy Mearest barrages the player with sixteenth-note rhythms right at the end. According to PhantomArcade, this is true in a non-musical context, too.
  PhantomArcade: Dads have always been the way they are, anyone I've ever dated has had a dad that jokingly(?) threatens violence, lol. It's some weird cultural thing that's always super concerning in a strange way, so there's that one.
  The mom is meant to contrast him, having a woman of even EVILER status and power seemed to be an unexpected and interesting route to go.
• Ms. Fanservice: Just like Girlfriend, she has messy, long brown hair, a form-fitting red dress complemented with an open black jacket, and overall has a very curvaceous body. She accentuates this even further by having prominent lips with red lipstick and wearing thigh-high boots linked to her dress with garter belts. Her Christmas outfit is even sexier, trading her thigh-exposing dress-and-boots combo for a Santa suit with a shirt featuring a Navel-Deep Neckline and Vapor Wear that prominently shows off her breasts. She's even one In-Universe, if the Mall Santa's reaction is any indication.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: Her Santa-themed jacket in Week 5 is open from the neck all the way to the stomach, just barely covering her breasts. Considering that there's no sign of a top underneath, she doesn't leave much to the imagination.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Her outfit features a red dress and a whole lot of black leather. She's also one of the game's main antagonists.
• Sexy Santa Dress: Her outfit during Week 5 is a Santa suit, except in this case it has a Navel-Deep Neckline and fur-lined versions of her regular thigh-high boots.
• Shared Family Quirks: Considering the dangerous venue Mommy Mearest chooses for her Week, it's not hard to guess that Girlfriend inherits her Fearless Fool tendencies from her mother.
• Shoulders of Doom: Both her default outfit and her Christmas outfit accentuate her shoulders, making her look more menacing. She's wearing shoulder pads that go with her 80s hair and music.
• Slouch of Villainy: In Week 5, she's shown reclining atop Daddy Dearest's lap.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Mommy Mearest looks like a mix between a grown up Girlfriend and Daddy Dearest, though she leans more on Daddy Dearest's side; she shares Girlfriend's red dress and big brunette hair, with the same eyes, leather jacket, and purple skin as Daddy Dearest.
• Vapor Wear: She's wearing no kind of top under that Santa coat she wears during Week 5.

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Skid and Pump

"IT IS THE SPOOKY MONTH!" "Let's start a rap battle!"

Voiced by: Sr. Pelo (samples only)

"Heyo, I'm Skid!"
"Nice to meetcha, I'm Pump!"
"Prepare for our SPOOKY DANCE!!"

Week 2's opponents: two rambunctious, Halloween obsessed children that hail from Sr. Pelo's Spooky Month series. They're fought in Girlfriend's house, befitting their horror-themed obsessions and terrifying flow on the mic.

Their songs include "Spookeez" and "South".

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• Ambiguous Situation: They are completely absent in "Monster", replaced by the titular character and with no explanation as to what happened to the duo.
• Bash Brothers: The duo are rarely seen separated from each other, so naturally they rap battle as a team.
• Cheerful Child: Both are hyperactive, rambunctious children who appear to be having a lot of fun during their battle. Their first song, "Spookeez", even has plenty of Yay!'s and Haha!'s peppered in and their moves have nothing but joy on their faces to be singing together, compared to just about everyone else who tries to put on their fiercest face for the rap battle.
• Dissonant Serenity: On the health bar at the bottom, Pump will frown with X's in his eyes when Boyfriend is winning. Skid will also have X's in his eyes, but his icon still shows him smiling.
• The Dividual: Skid and Pump face Boyfriend together as a unit, with Skid singing the up and left notes while Pump sings the right and down notes.
• Everybody Do the Endless Loop: Their idle animation is the Spooky Dance, a Running Gag in their home series where they squat and rapidly shift from left to right with their hands outstretched.^NoteIn their home series, it's only a mere 3 frames, and is 6 frames in Friday Night Funkin'.
• Expressive Mask: Skid's wearing a skull mask, and Pump's wearing a pumpkin, whose mouthpieces and eyes move as they do.
• Guest Fighter: The stars of Sr. Pelo's Spooky Month series. Their idle animation is even their little Spooky Dance!
• Halloween Songs: Fittingly for their love of the holiday, Spookeez has an upbeat Halloween horror vibe to it, complete with someone going crazy on an Ominous Pipe Organ, plenty of "Psycho" Strings, booming thunder and a chunk of the verses containing plenty of Boo!'s in them. It even has someone saying "trick or treat... smell my feet!" towards the end of the song.
• Happy Dance: Their signature Spooky Dance is their idle animation.
• Holiday Personification: As they originate from a series with new entries annually released around Halloween, they are personifications of the duo's own holiday, Spooky Month.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Skid and Pump are no strangers to getting tricked by obviously dangerous people into doing something for them, and it happens again in Week 2, where they are told that Girlfriend is "candy" by the Monster, explaining why they are after her.
• Human Ladder: Skid stands on Pump's shoulders and they share a single microphone.
• Plot-Irrelevant Villain: Or "antagonist" in this case, since "villain" is pushing it; they're Unwitting Pawns at worst, but while other rivals, like Daddy Dearest, Mommy Mearest, Pico, and the Spirit have connections to the two main characters, these two are pretty disconnected from the plot, aside from providing some more difficult songs.
• Pumpkin Person: Pump wears a pumpkin on his head as part of his costume; it's his usual attire all year round.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: Failing to rap their way past Boyfriend and snatch Girlfriend, the boys turn tail and get out the way so the Monster can have his turn instead.
• Super Gullible: Skid and Pump are somehow tricked into thinking Girlfriend is candy and a treat for Monster, which is why they are after her.
• Unwitting Pawn: They were tricked by Monster into going after Girlfriend so that he may devour her.
• Vocal Dissonance: A minor case, the two boys do a really good job hitting their low notes when they’ve been nothing but high pitched the rest of the time.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: The duo marks the point where the game stops trying to play nice and tries to overwhelm the player with an intense amount of notes to fit the fast-paced nature of their songs, "Spookeez" and "South".

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Pico

He's in a more hospitable mood than usual. Be thankful for that.

Voiced by: Kawai Sprite (samples only)

"It looks like you've stumbled onto my turf... If I beat you, then you're never getting out of here!"

Week 3's opponent: a hotheaded redhead who serves as one of Newgrounds' iconic mascot characters, known best as the star of Tom Fulp's Pico's School, fought on top of a building besides the railroad. His sequel may have been cancelled, but he's still packing heat with his UZI and on the mic.

His songs include "Pico", "Philly"/"Philly Nice", and "Blammed".

For tropes pertaining to Pico in Pico see this page.

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• Age Lift: He's a high school student (among other ages) along with his fellow classmates within his home series; here, he's a young adult implied to be around the same age as Boyfriend and Girlfriend. Justified as the game takes place years after the original Pico series.
• Amicable Exes: At least in this version. As stated in Boyfriend's folder, downplayed; he at least has enough remaining amicable-ness to not shoot his ex-boyfriend, but that's about it.^note In the FNF QNA, it was first jokingly answered that they are exes. By the second time it was asked, Ninjamuffin99 replied "It's canon". It's also confirmed by the creators in other platforms like Twitch. Tom Fulp says it'll be a thing for Pico's School 2, which is known to have been "in development" for over 20 years. It's even teased in an April Fools update to Pico's School by saying to Cassandra that his boyfriend is... well, Boyfriend. Sergeant John Captain, A.K.A. Tankman, in Week 7's update lampshades this by describing him as BF's "sexually ambiguous angry little friend". It's possible this is simply one of Pico's many interpretive traits. The creators are known for being trolls. PhantomArcade stated on his Twitter that he welcomes headcanons, including LGBT ones. Could be straighter than Pico leads on as he comes to save them in Week 7, but he had other reasons for showing up and may have just gotten carried away.
• Antagonist Title: The main opponent in Week 3, titled "Pico". Notably, he is the only character that has both a week and a song named after him.
• Artistic License – Gun Safety: Has rather poor trigger discipline to say the least; his finger is always on the trigger, and makes wild movements while singing. It's a wonder why his Uzi hasn't gone off despite his reckless usage of it.
• BFG: Relative to his small stature, he’s brandishing a comically large UZI almost half his size.
• Big Damn Heroes: In Week 7, he dives in to save Girlfriend from the Tankmen, and spends the rest of the last song, "Stress", gunning down Tankmen to the beat to protect both Boyfriend and Girlfriend. And he wasn't supposed to save them in the first place!
• Blood Knight: His expression makes it clear that Pico is having the time of his life gunning down the Tankman army in Week 7.
• Boastful Rap: His first song, "Pico", opens with Pico distinctly cheering himself on.
• Bottomless Magazines: Pico seemingly never runs out of ammo when he is gunning down the Tankmen that approach the stage during "Stress".
• Canon Immigrant: Pico's story began in his own series on Newgrounds in the late 90's, but as Friday Night Funkin' grew in popularity, he became ingrained in the lore as Boyfriend's ex... well, boyfriend. Assuming the creators aren't trolling, that is. It's even teased in an April Fools update to Pico's School.
• Cruel Mercy: He might not be willing to gun down an old ex-boyfriend of his, but he sure as hell intends on making a fool out of him in front of his girlfriend in a rap battle. Of course, he pulls off a more genuine — albeit bloodshedding — act of mercy by saving Boyfriend and Girlfriend from being shot by the Tankmen in Week 7, even when he wasn't supposed to since Girlfriend's parents actually contracted him again to track down Boyfriend and Girlfriend after her parents organize a setup to get Boyfriend killed in a plane and confirm he died in the attempt.
• The Dragon: To Daddy Dearest, with the man sending him to kill Boyfriend twice, with Word of God also confirming both of them will return in future weeks.
• Dynamic Entry: In Week 7, he makes his spectacular entrance by taking out the Tankmen holding Girlfriend at gunpoint and pushing her out of harm's way.
• Fiery Redhead: Newgrounds' finest, and on top of being a Professional Killer these days, he's also got a deep and aggressive style of rapping.
• Gangsta Style: Holds his gun sideways during his down and left poses for extra style.
• Guest Fighter: One of Newgrounds' most iconic mascots and Tom Fulp's poster boy. For a game that celebrates Newgrounds and Flash content in general, it's practically obligatory to include him.
• Guns Akimbo: Wields two UZIs while gunning down Tankmen troops during Week 7's "Stress".
• Gun Twirling: Spins one of his UZIs whenever he is in his idle animation during "Stress".
• Hitman with a Heart: Upon finding out his mark is Boyfriend, someone he has a personal history with, he refuses to gun him down on the spot like the job entailed and instead opts for a rap battle to humiliate him with instead. Not only that, but Pico is contracted again to confirm Boyfriend's death after Girlfriend's parents set up a plan to get him killed, but instead decides to save Boyfriend and Girlfriend when the Tankmen attempt to kill them in Week 7's third song, "Stress".
• Hold the Line: Pico takes Girlfriend's place on the speakers during "Stress" while gunning down any Tankmen that attempt to interfere in the battle between Boyfriend and Captain.
• Lighter and Softer: Downplayed. Pico in his home series, even when his opponents were all much worse people, was more crass, violent, and downright sociopathic at times. In Friday Night Funkin', while he's still hot-headed, a lot of that is toned down and he's more of a Hitman with a Heart, refusing to kill Boyfriend despite being hired to do so twice. Week 7 lets him off this leash, gunning down several Tankmen with sadistic glee.
• Meaningful Name: Pico's second song, "Philly/Philly Nice", refers to the fact that Pico is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the name itself is a term used to describe the bluntness of Philadelphians, such as Pico himself.
• Mickey Mousing: In "Stress", he shoots the Tankmen around him to the beat of the music.
• Monochromatic Eyes: In contrast to Boyfriend and Girlfriend's Black Bead Eyes, Pico's eyes are completely white just like in his home series.
• More Dakka: Pico continuously shoots at the Tankmen that try to approach him during "Stress" and even matching the rhythm of the song.
• Mr. Fanservice: In the teaser trailer for the game's Pico Day 2022 update, one of the animated scenes briefly reveals that his abs are surprisingly toned for his short stature under his shirt. Considering his profession as a hired gun and the feats he's performed in the past, it's only natural that he'd have such a physique.
• One-Man Army: He blams GF's captors and the rest of the Tankman army (except for the Captain, who's still having a rap battle with BF).
• Ornamental Weapon: He waves around his trademark UZI while rapping, gun safety be damned. Justified, as he intended to use it before he found out just who his mark was. Averted in Week 7 where not only does he dual wield UZIs, but uses them too.
• Professional Killer: This version of Pico is the same age as Boyfriend and Girlfriend (since the game takes place years after the original "Pico" series) who works as a mercenary and is hired by Daddy Dearest to kill Boyfriend in Week 3. However, Pico is only ever given a location and not a name, and when he finds out his target is someone he has a personal history with, he decides to challenge him to a rap battle instead. Pico is contracted a second time to track down Boyfriend and Girlfriend after her parents organize a setup to get Boyfriend killed in a plane and confirm he died in the attempt. But instead, Pico decides to save the couple after the Tankmen are about to execute Girlfriend, essentially botching the whole plan Girlfriend's parents prepared.
• Radio Voice: His "voice" sounds like it's filtered through a radio, though it's more robotic-sounding than it is human.
• Redhead In Green: His green shirt and khakis are about as iconic as the UZI he carries around.
• Slasher Smile: He's really having fun shooting up the Tankmen in Week 7, sporting a really pleased grin the whole time.
• Speaking Simlish: Downplayed. His rap style includes him mumbling a few literal words on top of the usual Simlish the characters sing with, namely, 'Go Pico!' 'C'mon' and 'That's right!'
• Vocal Dissonance: He's almost as short as Boyfriend and can't be much older than a young adult, but he's also got the deepest singing voice of the cast.

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Senpai

Good news: He noticed you!
Bad news: He noticed your girlfriend...

^{Senpai in "Roses"} He's not as nice as he looks!

Voiced by: Kawai Sprite (samples only)

"Ah, a new fair maiden has come in search of true love!"

Week 6's opponent: the most popular and handsome student to ever attend a Japanese high school... in a 32-bit video game. Boyfriend and Girlfriend meet him after getting sucked up into his video game world (don't ask) surrounded and adored by every girl in his school. He's only got his eyes on one of them, though: yours.

Oh well, back to the grind. Who knows? Maybe he can help our couple get back to their world...

His songs include "Senpai" and "Roses".

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• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: His complete 180 from a nice gentleman to a rude foulmouth during "Roses" is the result of his programming being unable to handle losing to Boyfriend and not being the center of attention.
  Phantom Arcade: As a character who's just made to be in a game where you just get loved[...] all of a sudden just not being loved and losing and not being perfect... it doesn't jive with him.
• Art Shift: Uniquely, he and his Week are stylized by fellow Newgrounds user and pixel artist moawling (A.K.A. Moawko) as a 32-bit video game rather than the usual cartoonish style of the game, done so in celebration of Newgrounds' very own long-running annual holiday, Pixel Day.
• Bishie Sparkle: His idle animation during "Senpai" features small sparkles flashing around his face.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He acts charming and affable when you first start your fight. After you beat his first song during Story Mode, he instantly gets mad at Boyfriend and rudely insults him.
  Senpai: Not bad for an ugly worm. But this time I'll rip your nuts off after your girlfriend finishes gargling mine.
• Blush Sticker: Has large pink ovals on his cheeks for blush, fitting his Pretty Boy appearance. They disappear when he loses his cool.
• Broken Pedestal: He suffers this the moment he lashes out at Boyfriend upon losing. The girls who were fawning over him look at him in shock and disgust.
• Chick Magnet: The background of his stage is absolutely packed with several girls gawking at him with heart eyes.
• Derailing Love Interests: He's introduced as a kind, normal student, offering "a serenade between gentlemen" for Girlfriend's love. Once he loses the first song, he drops any semblance of cheer, insulting and threatening Boyfriend. (Justified in that the game's developers did not program him to lose, eventually resulting in the Spirit being able to break out of his coding.)
• Desperation Attack: The final verse of Roses has him sing out a big mess of notes in a last-ditch effort to throw Boyfriend off his game.
• Flower Motif: Has an association with roses, which fittingly represent love and beauty: two red roses are wrapped around his game's text boxes, and "Roses" is the title of his second song. "Thorns", while not sung by him, references the phrase "every rose has its thorns", referring to Spirit being trapped behind his code.
• Freudian Threat: After losing in "Senpai", he threatens to tear Boyfriend's nuts off after having Girlfriend “gargling his”.
• Game Face: Unable to cope with being denied romance, his face instantly sulks into teeth-gritting and sincerely furious scowl.
• Hypocrite: PhantomArcade describes him as "the kind of person who would use anti-gay slurs despite putting his pronouns in the bio".
• Invincible Hero: According to the developers, he was never programmed with anything to say or do if he lost. Boyfriend defying this leads to Senpai's breakdown and Spirit breaking free. invoked
• Killed Off for Real: He is the first antagonist to die. Spirit breaks out of Senpai's face, killing him through a Gory Discretion Shot in the process.
• Lantern Jaw of Justice: Senpai is portrayed as a dashing prince type initially and sports a large, square chin. Subverted when he’s shown to not be all that he seems.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: He's looking directly at the player throughout his first song, winking and smiling at them in most moves unlike everyone else who's facing Boyfriend, likely owing to his hard-coded role as a dating sim NPC. He shifts from this to putting on his Game Face when he starts to lose, with his eyes locked squarely on Boyfriend throughout his second song.
• Loving a Shadow: Phantom Arcade equates Senpai's love for Girlfriend to how a Love Interest of a protagonist loves the player: by proxy, simply because they are playing as the character they actually love.
• Non-Standard Character Design: He's stylized like a 32-bit Animesque video game character rather than the normal cartoonish art style. Justified in that he is a 32-bit video game character.
• Painful Transformation: He lets the Spirit loose from his body with pained gasps and a harsh crack out of his face when he loses in the second song, "Roses". After that, he's never seen again as the Spirit takes the stage.
• Parody Sue: A parody of a stereotypical flawless Dating Sim protagonist who effortlessly accomplishes everything to win a (or more) girl's heart. Since Boyfriend doesn't play by the rules of the game's world, he's able to beat Senpai in a singing contest easily; at which point Senpai begins to throw a tantrum over the fact that he didn't effortlessly win.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: According to PhantomArcade, Senpai is prejudiced and uses anti-gay slurs.
• Pretty Boy: No good senpai is without their good looks and petite appearance, and he's certainly no exception, given all the school girls fawning after him.
• A Sinister Clue: Like with Daddy Dearest, he holds his microphone in his left hand, foreshadowing him being a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing and the otherworldly spirit-thing hidden behind his code.
• Something about a Rose: His second song is called "Roses", which fits his Bishōnen looks and prickly personality quite well. It also doubles as Foreshadowing for Spirit's song, "Thorns".
• Sophisticated as Hell: Before his first battle, he challenges Boyfriend to a "serenade between gentlemen" for Girlfriend's affections in order to "decide where her beautiful heart shall reside". Before his second battle, he threatens to rip Boyfriend's nuts off after making sure Girlfriend finishes gargling his.
• Sore Loser: He doesn't take his defeat at the hands of Boyfriend well. Justified because he was programmed to be an Invincible Hero who is perfect and always loved.
• Turns Red: Becomes visibly angry during his second song, "Roses", coupled with a much faster and more note-dense chart than his previous song.
• Villainous Breakdown: The moment he lost the first song battle, he snaps, revealing his true colors.

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Sergeant John "Tankman" Captain

Most folks know him for constantly making jokes about a certain unmentionable, but as it turns out, he's also a surprisingly good singer.

Voiced By: JohnnyUtah

"Well, well, well. What have we got here? We should just KILL you, buuuut what the hell, it's been a boring day. Let's see what you got!"

Week 7's opponent...wait a second. Is that the guy in the tank from the Newgrounds logo?! Who'd thunk he'd get in?

Actually, Tankman of the Tankmen series is just one of an entire army of Tankmen, a ragtag group of nearly identical, just ever-so-slightly deranged soldiers who drive around a ruined world in tanks while occasionally warring with other guys with pointy hats. They tend to solve their problems with tanks, either by running the problem over, shooting it with a tank cannon or two, or running it over and then shooting it. This particular Tankman seems to be their commanding officer, Sergeant John Captain, who's decided to challenge Boyfriend while having his troops hold Girlfriend at gunpoint. Lucky you!

His songs include "Ugh", "Guns", and "Stress".

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• Actor Allusion: "Ugh" is a reference to JohnnyUtah's Verbal Tic, a recurring meme among the Newgrounds community and Tankman groans in disgust at various points of the song similar to his creator.
• Adaptational Jerkass: John in his home series was never a saint by any means, but he was more likely to treat anyone he came across indifferently, even feeling bad when an insult came across as too harsh, and he quickly agreed on a truce to watch both halves of Titanic once the offer was given. Here, he frequently insults both Boyfriend and Girlfriend and holds them at gunpoint, in addition to trying to kill them for petty reasons.
• Antagonist Title: The main opponent in Week 7, titled "Tankman".
• *Bleep*-dammit!: In gameplay, he'll say "effing" in place of "fucking", yet has no problem using other swear words, including the c-word. What's odder is that he's more than happy to say the F-word in all its glory in some of his game over quotes.
  "Why am I wasting my time against some baggy-pantsed fuck?!"
  "Open your fucking eyes! Jeez!"
• Bond One-Liner: If you lose to Tankman, he has quite an array of insults to throw at you.
  "My dead grandmother has more nimble fingers! Come on!"
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Some of said insults seem to imply awareness that he's in a game.
  "Hey, here's some Friday Night Funkin' lore for ya: I don't like you!"
  "Maybe you should go play Week 1 again."
  "I hope you're not some internet streamer screaming like a sociopath right now!"
  "You know, I'm running out of shit to say here, so you better beat this sometime today, asshole."
  "You gotta press the arrows, kid, not slap your keyboard like your blind uncle! What?"
• Bullying a Dragon: Possibly, as we don't know the entire extent of Girlfriend's powers. She certainly doesn't seem to be fazed by being held at gunpoint.
• Common Knowledge: Captain deliberately references a piece of this when insulting Pico, calling him a school shooter^*Pico's School was actually about stopping school shooters. While you can shoot innocent people, later games show that it's not the canon choice. PhantomArcade also confirmed that he knew of Pico actually stopping the Goths' rampage; he simply called him a school shooter to slander him. invoked
• Country Matters: Before "Stress" starts, he outright calls Boyfriend the c-word, THEN calls both him and Girlfriend the c-word for good measure.
  "Let's rock, you little cunt! (laughs) You little cunts!"
• Demoted to Extra: His loyal companion, Steve, who appeared alongside him in all the animated shorts, doesn't make any meaningful appearance in this week, and instead occasionally passes by in the background in his tank, watching the action from a safe distance.
• Eye Glasses: His visor moves whenever he is talking or making an expression like when groaning in "Ugh".
• Game-Over Man: Tankman's the first opponent who talks after the player loses a song, often to make fun of Boyfriend.
  "The only thing you're "funkin'" tonight is your sock!"
• Guest Fighter: The number one most prominent guest to represent Newgrounds right after Pico, considering he's quite literally the face of the website. After putting in Pico, adding the Tankmen into the game would also be quite obligatory.
• Have a Nice Death: Getting blue-balled in Week 7 has John throw out an array of Trash Talk and insults in the Retry screen.
• Irony: It's completely possible for him to compliment Boyfriend's abilities while he's messing up the notes in "Stress", making the comment seem sarcastic rather than genuine.
• I Have Your Wife: Captain has his men hold Girlfriend hostage while he himself decides to challenge Boyfriend to a rap battle purely for his own amusement. After losing twice, he decides to execute her anyway before Pico steps in and saves her.
• It Amused Me: Appears to be the reason he doesn't shoot Boyfriend's brains out for showing up (since Girlfriend's parents' latest plan to kill Boyfriend in a plane fails, landing them both in the Tankmen's Military Zone), being bored enough to challenge Boyfriend out of pure entertainment.
• Jerkass: John is a vulgar, crude, condescending jerk who rarely has something to say that's not an insult towards somebody. He even orders his men to shoot Girlfriend after "Guns" until Pico shows up to save the day.
  "Pretty tight bars for a little dude who's simpin' over an ugly, boring little teenager that wears her mom's clothes! Heh!"
• Laughing at Your Own Jokes: Does this after insulting Girlfriend, after calling Boyfriend the c-word, and in several of the game over screens in Week 7.
• Malicious Slander: Word of God has confirmed that he knew of Pico actually attempting to save his school from Cassandra and her cohorts. Him calling Pico a school shooter was deliberately done just to invoke this.
• Mascot Mook: Tankmen are all nearly identical and serve as the face of Newgrounds, with John standing out from the crowd to challenge Boyfriend.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: Unlike previous opponents, John does not let you go just because you beat him in a rap battle, and tries to have Girlfriend killed anyway. Becomes subverted when Pico comes in and starts gunning down his men, prompting him to settle it with one last battle anyway.
• Outside-Context Problem: The Tankmen certainly weren't hired by Girlfriend's parents, given that they try to kill Girlfriend too. As it turns out, the reason Boyfriend and Girlfriend end up in the Tankmen's Military Zone in the first place is because of Girlfriend's parents' failed attempt to kill Boyfriend in a plane.
• Radio Voice: Like Pico before, his singing voice is so autotuned he sounds outright robotic.
• Ruder and Cruder: During Weeks 1-6, there aren't many swear words, with the only one being "Shit!" appearing when you just barely hit a note. Here, during Week 7, your opponent is a Sir Swears-a-Lot who outright calls Boyfriend and Girlfriend the c-word in the opening cutscene of Week 7's 3rd song, "Stress". Justified, as Week 7 is the first to have actual dialogue other than Week 6, which still has some crass dialogue in "Roses."
• Sarcasm Mode: After his order for Girlfriend to get murdered gets interrupted, courtesy of Pico.
  "Ahh, look who it is, your sexually ambiguous, angry little friend. Don't you have a school to shoot up?"
• A Sinister Clue: Just like Daddy Dearest and Senpai, John holds his microphone in his left hand, which is fitting for someone who's so crude, vulgar, condescending, and downright unpleasant.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Just look at the quotes in this profile.
• Skewed Priorities: Apparently thinks that beating Boyfriend in a rap battle is more important than dealing with Pico gunning down his men like no tomorrow. Though Pico probably would have shot him down as well, so it's hard to blame him.
• Sore Loser: After losing twice, he orders his men to shoot Girlfriend. Granted, it's possible he intended to do that anyway.
  "God effing dammit! Well played, you little shit! But this is war! And in war, people DIE! Men, get ready to fire! Sorry, no prom for you this year! HAHAHA!"
• Suddenly Voiced: He actually talks in Week 7's cutscenes and during his last song, and is voiced by none other than JohnnyUtah himself, though unlike Girlfriend and Monster, he sings with beeps and boops just like other characters.
• Trash Talk: Seems like John can't go 3 lines without dissing someone, especially when Boyfriend gets a game over.
  "You feel that? That's called "failure", and you better get used to it!"
• Villain Respect: As much of a crude Jerkass and Sore Loser he is, Tankman starts to begrudgingly respect Boyfriend, and during "Stress", said respect becomes more affable.
  "Huh! Pretty good!"
• Vocal Evolution: His original series had him speak in a more cool and collected fashion, as well as being a bit slower and more dramatic. Here, he speaks in a slightly higher voice, a bit faster, and a lot more emotional.
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: He outright says that he and his men should kill Boyfriend and Girlfriend right away, but challenges the former to a singing battle out of boredom.
• Worthy Opponent: Tankman slowly (keyword: slowly) starts to warm up to Boyfriend and see him as one, outright complementing him in the middle of "Stress".

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Spoiler Opponents (Spoilers Unmarked!)

Monster

He exists, and now he's letting everybody know. Run.

^{Monster in Week 5} Even the vilest of villains dress for the occasion.

Voiced by: Bassetfilms

"Hey man, I'm gonna eat your girlfriend!"

A strange, horrifying creature whose origin is a mystery. While he does wish to battle, he doesn't intend to date your girlfriend, instead very much wanting to eat her (and you) alive!

He acts as the final opponent for both Week 2, tricking Skid and Pump into luring Girlfriend to him, and Week 5, hijacking the mall it takes place in during Christmas.

His two songs are "Monster" for Week 2 and "Winter Horrorland" for Week 5.

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• Anthropomorphic Food: Subverted. While his head may be shaped like one, Monster's head is not actually a lemon.
• Ax-Crazy: Unlike Daddy Dearest, whose want of killing Boyfriend is only in-game descriptions, this thing makes it very clear through song that he really wants to eat Girlfriend and Boyfriend, and has plenty of means to do so.
• Blood from the Mouth: His score meter icon when Boyfriend has a significant lead has blood dripping down the sides of his mouth, making his unwavering grin even more unsettling.
• Confusion Fu: "Monster" has quite a few... odd things about it. Most notably, it has an extremely erratic tempo, SEVERAL Uncommon Times, and is one of the few songs in the original game to have multiple notes that need to be pressed at the same time. Monster himself also does this with his poses for the left and right notes going in the opposite direction in an attempt to confuse the player. ^note  In said poses, he's shown leaning towards HIS left/right, rather than the player's left/right, likely done intentionally to show just how much he stands out from the rest of the cast.
• Creepy Souvenir: He wears a Santa hat during his battle in Week 5, but if you notice him in the background during the first two songs, he isn't wearing a hat, with there being heavy implications that he killed Mall Santa and took his hat, especially considering how Mall Santa is confirmed deceased.
• Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: While some of his claims of what he's going to do to Boyfriend and Girlfriend are very morbid, a lot of them are downright too silly to take seriously. Not to mention how they're enthusiastically delivered makes even his more serious threats seem like a joke.
  Separate you from your eyes,
  Turn your girlfriend inside out,
  and burn her fingernails
  La la la la!
• The Darkness Gazes Back: Referenced in the 2nd and 3rd verses of "Monster":
  What's out there past your darkened door? (...) Just the eyes floating up out of the shore...
• Deranged Animation: Downplayed thanks to the limited amount of animation in the game, though Monster's gets some of the more grotesque sprites compared to everyone else's simplified styles. Namely, his huge eyes are constantly bulging out of their sockets a bit while leaking a little blood and you can see the creases and stretch marks on his lemon head as it moves, presumably from his actual face/skull pressing against it hard enough.
• Diabolus ex Nihilo: He comes out of thin air, is an Ax-Crazy monster who wants to eat you and your girlfriend, and completely disappears after you win. Developers have hinted that he has some form of relation towards Girlfriend's family.
• The Dreaded: When he takes over Week 5, the once packed mall that it takes place in is completely empty save for him, Boyfriend and Girlfriend, implying either everyone fled from him or he created a whole new illusion for our heroes.
• Facial Horror: While his almost bloody-looking eyes and mouthful of ruby-reds qualify well enough on their own, his revamped "up" and "down" animations are of particular note; the "up" animation shows his skull, or whatever he has inside that lemon head, pressing against his face from within, straining the skin grotesquely and making his already huge eyes bulge out even more. Meanwhile, the "down" animation has those charming bloody eyes visibly bulge outwards during the motion, looking ready to drop out of their sockets or burst outright, if not both.
• Flaying Alive: One of his favorite things to sing about is ripping Boyfriend's skin off.
• Foreshadowing: Week 5's first track, "Cocoa", has glitchy sounds and ends with a sinister laugh. In a less subtle way, he's also noticeable in the background.
• Four Is Death: There are multiple things that link him to the number 4, though whether they are just coincidences or are actually intentional on the devs' part is unknown. For example:
  • He has a collective total of four fingers and four toes.
  • "Monster" starts off like a typical spooky song perfect for Halloween. It's in the fourth verse, however, that things take a turn for the absolute worst as he makes his intentions for Boyfriend and Girlfriend absolutely clear.
    Guess it's time, you better plug in all your nightlights...
    What's out there past your darkened door?
    Just the eyes floating up out of the shore...
    Hey man, I'm gonna eat your Girlfriend!
  • He made its official debut four in-game Weeks after Week 1, and by extension after the game launched.
  • For both times that his Verbal Tic kicks in during "Winter Horrorland" it goes "La~!" four times each.
  • Closer inspection of the Christmas tree during Week 5 shows that both the red decor and entrails are wrapped around it four times.
• Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: He shows up completely unprompted in both the Weeks he appears in, with no build up or even a proper explanation as to his existence or how he even got there. Closest to Foreshadowing you’ll get is in Week 5 with the creep enjoying the music in the crowd, standing next to Hatsune Miku.
• Humanoid Abomination: He looks vaguely like a human... if humans were slightly potbellied, wore shadowy onesies, had two fingers and toes on both hands and feet, and had lemon-shaped heads with creepy eyes and forever-toothy-grinning expressions.
• Hidden Depths: The Monster does not watch the news or vote.
• Laughably Evil: He sings in a goofy manner and even wears a Santa hat during Week 5, but the lyrics to both songs are about severing and cooking two teenagers. Make no mistake, this thing can and will skin you alive if given the chance.
• Lyrical Dissonance: Both of his songs have to do with him wanting to gruesomely murder and eat Boyfriend and Girlfriend. Both of said songs are also incredibly chipper and up-beat, with said songs getting bouncier and cheerier whenever he gets to the lines about what he wants to do with you.
• Master of Illusion: According to a tweet from ninjamuffin99, Monster is "able to twist perception", implying that the background of "Winter Horrorland" is nothing but an illusion.
• Meaningful Background Event: You can actually see him in the background during Girlfriend's parents' fight, watching Boyfriend with delight.
• Monstrous Cannibalism: One of his main goals is to devour Girlfriend, who turns out to be a demon herself.
• Non-Human Head: His head is lemon-shaped, though the rest of his body only vaguely looks human.
• Non-Standard Character Design: He has a much zanier and more unsettling design than the rest of the main cast, with a purely black body that looks like it's made out of shadow, prominent Scary Teeth, eyes with gigantic, quivering pupils, and thinner lines on his face and neck than the game's usual Thick-Line Animation style. His music is out there, too, being inspired by the Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra rather than the electronic music associated with the rest of the game.
• Our Monsters Are Weird: Doesn't get weirder than a creature with a lemon-shaped head with a shadowy body who sings in a smooth voice about how he'll kill a couple and cook them.
• Radio Voice: On top of the unsettling overlap effect applied to his voice, the Monster's vocals are ever-so-slightly bitcrushed and given a bit of reverb.
• Reality Warper: Once he hijacks the mall in Week 5, the background turns sinister and everyone besides Boyfriend and Girlfriend is nowhere to be seen. It's implied that Monster is able to twist reality in however way he sees fit and that's how he managed to take over from Girlfriend's parents just to have another go at Boyfriend.
• Recurring Boss: Acts as the final opponent for both Week 2 and 5.
• Secret Character: Played with in the game and its trailers. The trailer for the Full-Ass Game Kickstarter project showcases every then-available opponent but only offers brief and close up glimpses of Monster on stage, and his score meter icon suspiciously lingers longer than the rest of the cast. In actual gameplay proper, he appears twice with no warning to enhance the surprise-factor of encountering a grotesque monster singing clear English.
• Scary Teeth: In comparison to the rest of the cast's simplistic mouths, each of his teeth are drawn separately. They're also all blood red.
• Slasher Smile: He has a wide, open smile with each of the teeth rendered in loving detail, to the point that it makes Daddy Dearest's smile look like a mere smirk. His mouth also contorts grotesquely when he sings. This even extends to his icon on the health bar, which still wears the grin when he's losing soundly.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Despite how horrifying this thing looks, he actually has a rather low, calm, and overall pretty soothing singing voice. All that does is make him creepier and more disturbing since there's some implication that he's acting completely normally and casually in his efforts to kill and eat the main couple as if this was just a regular daily thing for him to do.
• Suddenly Voiced: While other characters do in fact speak in cutscenes and such, he's the only opponent who sings in clear English.
• To Serve Man: He wants to eat Boyfriend and Girlfriend so much that he sings about doing so. In "Winter Horrorland", a significant portion of the lyrics are outright dedicated to him gleefully detailing a recipe for preparing Boyfriend as a Christmas meal, even pairing him with brandy and plums.
• To the Pain: The Monster's lyrics in both Week 5 and Week 2 have him sing in a joyful manner towards Boyfriend and Girlfriend, but the lyrics explains his plans on torturing the both of them.
• Verbal Tic: He has a tendency to go "La la la la~!" like a happy little kid, doing so twice in both of his songs, usually right after describing some horrible method of murder or flaying.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: In a happy, goofy little rhythm game, this is a being who wants to mutilate a teenager, leave his mangled corpse in a dungeon, and devour both him and his lover. His design is also a lot more abstract and out there in comparison to the rest of the cast.
• Villain Song: Both of his songs are all about the monstrous intentions he has for the characters, with the majority of their lyrics having something to do with either murdering the main characters or eating them, and the rest of the lyrics being about how he will enjoy doing so.
• Voice of the Legion: His voice has a low reverberating overlap to it, best heard when the vocals of his songs are isolated.

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Spirit

You call this a "Kawai Sprite"?

Voiced by: Kawai Sprite (samples only)

"Direct contact with real humans, after being trapped in here for so long..."

Week 6's second opponent, a wisp-like entity trapped within Senpai's game by Daddy Dearest. Breaking free of his binds thanks to Boyfriend winning causing the game's code to go screwy, he challenges Boyfriend himself for his and Girlfriend's bodies in a bid to finally escape the game.

His sole song is "Thorns".

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• Actor Allusion: Spirit's hyper-realistic face, according to Word of God, was based on Tom Fulp, the founder of Newgrounds.
• Ambiguously Human: While he's quite obviously not human now, it's not clear what he was like before getting trapped in the game. Whether he's a former human, a former demon, or has always been a horrifying ghost is not hinted about in his dialogue.
• Ambiguous Situation: It's clear he knows Girlfriend by association with her father, but it's unclear if he knew her personally or only learned of her off-hand before his imprisonment (or during it). After his defeat at the end of "Thorns", it's left unanswered whether he was vanquished or left behind in the game as the protagonists escaped.
• And I Must Scream: Daddy Dearest trapped him in Senpai's dating sim, stuck behind the code for who knows how long until Boyfriend and Girlfriend came along. He in turn plans to give the two the same fate by taking their bodies, allowing him to escape while they remain trapped.
• Evil Is Visceral: Downplayed; his silhouette resembles an anatomical human heart and his form even pulses with the rhythm of the music. While he does explode out of Senpai's face, it's only shown via a Shadow Discretion Shot.
• Ghastly Ghost: He's called Spirit and looks the part. He's also malevolent, with a nasty vendetta against Daddy Dearest and a willingness to subject Boyfriend and Girlfriend to Demonic Possession in order to carry out said vendetta.
• Haunted Technology: A Ghastly Ghost sealed within "Hating Simulator" by Daddy Dearest.
• He Who Fights Monsters: Before his song, he states that he wants to make Daddy Dearest pay for what he did to him and the others, implying that he wants to get revenge for everyone Daddy Dearest has disposed of. However, his plan would involve trapping Boyfriend in the same Fate Worse than Death he's been going through by taking over his body, despite Boyfriend being completely innocent.
• Knight of Cerebus: While Monster is a horrifying abomination that shows how the game isn't going to be all lighthearted rapping fun, he was still mostly just as random a battle as the other opponents. Spirit here, on the other hand, fully recontextualizes everything about the game by bringing in the actual plot, and while his overall character is softer than Monster and only fought in Week 6, his existence and reasons for battling Boyfriend show that there's more to the story going on than just a man wandering around having rap battles with people.
• No Name Given: Goes unnamed within Week 6 itself; his files refer to him as "Spirit", but considering how he got trapped, it most likely isn't his actual name.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Spirit has a realistic-looking face, clashing jarringly with both the game's normal cartoony art style and the Animesque video game Week 6 takes place in. The file for his sprites is a .txt, unlike the other characters' .xml formats. This non-standardness even extends to "Thorns", which takes a departure from the game's usual musical style by sticking pretty solidly in Phrygian mode.
• Orifice Evacuation: He manifests himself by exploding out of Senpai's eyes and mouth.
• Revenge: His motive for singing against Boyfriend: he wants to take his body and take vengeance upon Daddy Dearest for himself and other victims of his.
• Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: While his prison is the game itself, he was chained to Senpai specifically, and him breaking free involved Senpai in turn painfully dying.
• Two Aliases, One Character: Averted. Although he's shown painfully bursting out of Senpai's face, he was never possessing Senpai. He was just Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can.
• Uncanny Valley: Compared to the other characters in this cartoonish game, his realistic human face with a ghastly figure makes him fall right into this.
• Vocal Dissonance: Spirit has the same vocals as Senpai, despite being a realistically-faced pink spirit creature.
• Walking Spoiler: It's hard to talk about him without spoiling Week 6 or mentioning his vendetta against Girlfriend and her family.
• Was Once a Man: Spirit is a human-faced wisp of red smoke, who rather violently rips himself out of Senpai. Whatever he is, he definitely isn't human — or at least, not anymore.

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Miscellaneous

Henchmen

Dumb.

Goofy-looking demons that work under Daddy Dearest and Mommy Mearest. A bit lacking in smarts, they seem to just do what they're told no matter what. They appear in Week 4, dancing to the beat in the background without a care in the world.

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• Affably Evil: They work for a murderous psycho demon couple, yet they have the time of their lives just dancing the day away.
• Artificial Human: Moreso Artifical Demons. Apparently, somehow they're grown in jars. invoked
• Badass Driver: In Week 4, one of the Henchmen drives the car where Boyfriend and Mommy Mearest are battling it out. He never crashes the vehicle or even makes a mistake, even though Mommy Mearest is standing directly over the windshield.
• Big Red Devil: Well, more of a pink, but they fit the bill.
• Cool Shades: They've got big and reflective black sunglasses.
• Dumb Muscle: They’ve got huge numbers, complete obedience, and groovy dance moves, but not much in the way of wit. Girlfriend's parents would want them no other way.
• Everybody Do the Endless Loop: They're constantly jiving to the beat of the music.
• Friendly Enemy: A sketch by Phantom Arcade depicts one casually buying alcohol for Boyfriend and Girlfriend, though the canonicity is debatable.
• Mickey Mousing: As the beat of the music quickens, they cross their arms and shuffle even faster. By the time M.I.L.F is up, they’ve stopped trying to cross their arms and opt to as shuffle as fast they physically can.
• Mook: Seem to be this, considering their disposable nature and the fact they're upfront only called Henchmen.
• Perpetual Smiler: They always wear the same stupid smile.
• What Measure Is a Mook?: Outright described as "disposable", and Girlfriend's parents apparently own droves of them.
• Younger Than They Look: Most of the Henchmen are only a few days old, but they look just like adults.

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Santa Claus

He's filled with Christmas Spirit! ...When he's not being held hostage, that is.

A Mall Santa who is being held hostage by Daddy Dearest. He appears in Week 5.

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• Eating the Eye Candy: According to ninjamuffin99, the reason he's sweating is because he's looking at Mommy Mearest's breasts.
• Killed Off for Real: While it was already implied by Monster wearing his hat, Word of God confirmed that he did indeed bite it by the end of Week 5, though whether it was by Daddy Dearest shooting him or Monster butchering him is currently unknown.invoked
• Mall Santa: He's a guy working at the mall during Christmas-time wearing a Santa costume. Unfortunately for him, this particular Christmas job resulted in him running into major danger through Girlfriend's parents along with Monster. Especially unlucky for him is that he dies due to them showing up.
• An Offer You Can't Refuse: Played for Laughs. He's held at gunpoint by Daddy Dearest all because he wants to borrow his chair for a rematch against Boyfriend, and even then, he's not concerned about the gun.

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Background Freaks

Notice me, Senpai!

^{Their appearance in "Roses"} He sure had a way with words...

A group of female students in Hating Simulator. They appear in Week 6, spectating the duet between Senpai and Boyfriend.

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• Broken Pedestal: For Senpai when they see him lose his temper upon losing to Boyfriend.
• Fangirl: For Senpai, obviously.
• Sailor Fuku: All of them wear blue sailor-caped school uniforms.
• Satellite Character: Outside of being Senpai's fangirls, there's not much to say about these freaks.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: They disappear right before "Thorns" with no explanation as to why.
• Wingding Eyes: They have hearts for eyes during "Senpai".
• You All Look Familiar: They are a group of girls that consist of multiples of the same two girls.

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Upcoming Characters

Hank J. Wimbleton

He's well-known as a killing machine, but bet you didn't know he can sing well too!

The protagonist of the infamous Madness Combat series, Hank is a ruthless assassin who kills people because he loves to do it. He was originally teased in the trailer along with Cassette Girl, Tankman and Pico and is set to appear in a future week of Friday Night Funkin' as an opponent, as well as a playable character.

For tropes pertaining to Hank in Madness Combat, see this page.

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• Guest Fighter: Hails from the Madness Combat series by Krinkels.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Taken straight from his home series, he anatomically has floating hands with no arms, and doesn't possess visible facial features, with his head bearing a "facial cross" instead. Justified, as he's from a different species.
• Red Is Violent: In his home series he's killed many people who dared to oppose him, and here, his mic is red.

Ritz the Rat

An anthropomorphic cheese-loving rat who hails from his own game created by ninjamuffin99.

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• Canon Welding: The star of a previous game by ninjamuffin99.
• Guest Fighter: Hails from his own game with the same name.

Darnell

He's got a job to do and he'll make sure it gets done. One way or the other.

Voiced by: IvanAlmighty (samples only)

A dark-skinned young man with a penchant for fire and one of Pico's old buddies. He was initially revealed in a teaser trailer for the upcoming "Pico Day" update and was later officially confirmed to be an upcoming opponent by PhantomArcade following a Content Leak.

His songs include "Darnell", "Lit Up", and "2Hot".

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: In his original appearances, his hair is black. Here, his hair is purple.
• Early-Bird Cameo: He appears amongst the crowd in Week 5 using a design much closer to his original look from Pico's School.
• Evil Genius: Word of God has confirmed Darnell to have an IQ of 241.
• Evil Sounds Deep: He has the deepest Voice Grunting of anybody in the cast by far, and is implied to be an assassin backed by Daddy Dearest.
• Mad Bomber: One of his preferred methods of pyromania is destroying entire buildings and planes with explosives.
• Playing with Fire: He's a notorious Pyromaniac to the point he keeps a lighter on hand because of his own Trigger-Happy impulses.
• Professional Killer: Implied. He's seen accepting cash from Daddy Dearest in the "Pico Day" teaser but whether he's after Boyfriend or Pico himself is unclear.

Nene

She's in a better mood then usual. Be very afraid.

A young Asian woman with a... rather unhealthy tendency to attempt to take her own life. She's one of Pico's old buddies who was initially revealed in a teaser trailer for the upcoming "Pico Day" update but was later officially confirmed to be replacing Girlfriend in Darnell's Week by PhantomArcade following a Content Leak.

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: She's much easier on the eyes compared to her original appearance in Pico's School but it just makes the bloody knife she carries about and the psychotic grins she flashes all the more unsettling.
• Combat Sadomasochist: She derives just as much pleasure from bringing pain to others as she does receiving it herself.
• Driven to Suicide: She has attempted to take her own life. A lot. One of said attempts was even thwarted by Pico.
• Professional Killer: Implied. She's seen accepting cash from Daddy Dearest in the "Pico Day" teaser but whether she's after Boyfriend or Pico himself is unclear.
• Psycho Knife Nut: She always carries a knife on hand just in case she needs to use it on anyone.. or herself.
• Slasher Smile: She flashes a toothy grin both in the teaser trailer and in artwork made by PhantomArcade.

Cassandra

Pico's old nemesis; the leader of the goth punks who kickstarted the school shooting that Pico had to stop, and a shapeshifting alien known as a Penilian. Cassandra is set to appear as a future opponent, but as of now, not much information has been given on her role in the story.

For tropes pertaining to Cassandra in the Pico series, see this page.

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• Evil Redhead: Her hair is red, and she was the main antagonist who led the Goth Punks in the school shooting in Pico's School.
• Guest Fighter: Hails from Pico's School.

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Scrapped Characters

Cassette Girl

She was built for playing music, and now she's gonna do just that.

A robot girl whose face can open up to insert cassette tapes for playing music. Cassette Girl was created by SoftDon to serve as a music-related mascot. While SoftDon didn't make music, Cassette Girl still became popular on Newgrounds, and she was set to appear as a future opponent and playable character, until some controversy stirred up from her creator and she was scrapped from the game entirely.

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• Guest Fighter: A unique case in that unlike the other characters, Cassette Girl never starred in any animations or games made or approved by her creator prior to her planned inclusion in Friday Night Funkin'. This was changed when Rushdown Rivals was released and had her as a playable character (keep in mind that this was prior to the controversy).
• Meaningful Name: Her face can open up to reveal a cassette player, hence her name.
• The Smurfette Principle: In terms of confirmed playable characters, Cassette Girl was the only female so far.

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