The character sheet for Film Fic art project Funkinverse.
Due to the non-linear nature of the story's updates, spoilers will correspond to most of those in the original Spider-Verse script, plus any plot-significant Meta Twists.
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The Funkin' Gang
A group of multiversal Boyfriends who have found their way to Salty's universe, one way or another. Despite their vast surface-level differences, they all share the same love of music and the resolve to use it to fight evil & prove themselves to the world. General tropes
- Alternate Self:
- Though unlike Spider-Verse, only three out of the six starting members are alternates of Boyfriend, and only four out of six are from vanilla FNF at all. The additional odd one out is Aloe Mano, who is her own person separate from the base FNF cast but still walking Boyfriend's path.
- Aloe herself has her own alternate on Kenji's world. There, she's a depressed cynic who's been involved in dramatic happenings since birth due to being a Mundane MacGuffin Person for a gang war.
- Finally, Salty has his alternate, who is also another Hank.
- Eccentric Artist: A few members of the Gang indulge in the same kind of eccentricities as those found in the original Boyfriend's character trivia, like Gracie owning a body pillow of both Mario and Wario, Brooke being a straight case of the trope through the way his Neocities website is written, and Aloe clearly being influenced by her patently ridiculous friends/ex-coworkers.
- Genre Refugee: Most of the gang fits into the original FNF's Homage to classic Newgrounds works that aren't based on IPs from outside the website. However, there are still a few exceptions:
- Aloe is a Virtual YouTuber character design from an Urban Fantasy counterpart of Japan circa 2021, and the only member who is outright lifted from a different IP.
- NEO, as a consequence of its out-of-universe origins, evokes the Eastern RPG.
- Toon Boyfriend is from the earliest days of animation, in the 30's and 40's.
- Mobian Boyfriend is a Sonic the Hedgehog fan character.
- Aloe is a Virtual YouTuber character design from an Urban Fantasy counterpart of Japan circa 2021, and the only member who is outright lifted from a different IP.
- Musical Assassin: They use song to battle their enemies on top of physical combat, and have musical equipment baked into their arsenal.
- Odd Friendship: Let's see, there's an ordinary human forced into the thick of it by Boyfriend's death, a washed-up older Alternate Self of Boyfriend and his son, an outgoing tomboy Girlfriend, a toon, a Mobian, a Virtual YouTuber and her Robot Buddy from another land, an Ultra Instinct Drip Goku Expy, and a radio-headed robot. And they're the closest group of friends the multiverse could ever have.
- Plot-Relevant Age-Up: While Salty and Gracie have only aged up by one year to 20 per the original Across script, the other four original members have grown up at faster rates due to now-concrete differences in timeflow. As a result, those two end up becoming the youngest of the original members when previously only Brooke and Toon Boyfriend were older than anyone else.
- Brooke and Aloe have had two years pass, making them 30 and 21 respectively. This is mostly important for explaining how Brooke Jr. came about, as well as the implication Aloe's new drinking habit has settled in for quite some time now (the legal age of drinking in Japan is 20.)
- Bunfriend has had an indeterminate amount of time pass, leaving exactly how old he is unclear.
- Toon Boyfriend has had five years pass, making him 30 as well (though since his world is physically stuck in 1928, he still looks and sounds like a 19-year-old, as he did before.)
- Starving Artist: Downplayed. While they aren't struggling, it's explicitly stated that they've all dropped out of education or income in a way that (initially) limits their economic mobility, giving the impression of an attempt to enforce the equivalent of Peter Parker's Perpetual Poverty due to this being a negative canon event.
- Super-Toughness: They're all incredibly resilient for various reasons, whether it be inheriting Boyfriend's canon tenacity, having demon physiology, or operating on Toon Physics.
- Two Girls to a Team: Like the original Spider-Gang, the only girls at the start are SNS Girlfriend and Aloe. At the end, Boom joins them, subverting this trope.
Original/Into members
Salty
Salty/Boyfriend-409
Origin: Salty's Sunday Night
Replaces: Miles Morales
"Sorry, Blueballs. I'm going home!"
A rising singer from The '80s who got stuck in an arcade machine once.In this story, Salty is a normal kid in the present-day world of the original Boyfriend, until a series of events forces him to take up Boyfriend's mantle after he dies. As more of Boyfriend's Alternate Universe counterparts show up in his path, he learns what exactly that title means... for better or worse.
- Adaptational Angst Downgrade: His guardians (the avatars of SSN developers Tsuraran and Maqua) are aware of and support at least the music half of his role as his world's Boyfriend, whereas Miles had to keep them in the dark about every part of being Spider-Man.
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Sure, his canon self was stuck in an arcade machine for over 30 years, but his memories were wiped for most of it, and any relatives outside of it in the real world were suggested to at least be okay. Here, he endures (most of) Miles's suffering as a normal kid thrust into the shoes of a former superstar.
- Adaptational Backstory Change: Implied to be living in the 21st century with no supernatural happenings in his life, unlike the original SSN. His previously-unseen family now takes the form of the Author Avatars of SSN's main developers and editors.
- Adaptational Dye-Job: His hair is not naturally white in this story, and starts out black like his older designs. Additionally, the version of his original canon outfit with black hair is omitted entirely, replaced with a Boyfriend costume.
- Adaptational Gender Identity: A trans man, which carries added stress for him in the form of his past identity continuing to haunt him in the present.
- Adaptational Nationality: Peruvian, rather than lacking a distinct race like in canon.
- Adaptation Origin Connection: In SSN, he has no relation to Boyfriend, as he was captured by Daddy Dearest in The '80s and had his memories restored in 2015. Here, he lives in the modern era, with Boyfriend's Plot-Triggering Death the event that molds him into the protagonist.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Has to deal with Tsu randomly dropping vulgar non-sequiturs because she thinks it's funny, to the point where she flat-out says the "why are you gay for that guy?" meme instead of the correct "why'd you create that guy?" line while facing The X.I di — wait, what?
- Ambiguously Related: The template used to map out the full list of characters for Funkinverse is edited to have air quotes added to the slot for Miles's parents, implying Salty's parental figures in the story may simply be his legal guardians. It's later confirmed he's adopted.
- Broken Faceplate: A piece of art depicting his fight with Agent Blueballs in the scenes analogous to Miles and Miguel on Nueva York's Space Elevator has his visor cracked, presumably from Blueballs smashing it in. The same cracks are visible on the closest thing the work has to a cover page.
- Clark Kenting: Justified; turns out a large visor with thick lenses is more effective than you'd think at fooling people who know what you look like.
- College Is "High School, Part 2": Apparently lives life like this even into his sophomore year, given Tsu and Maqua still treat him the way Rio and Jefferson did Miles, though this could just be due to Rule of Funny. It also makes for a sharp contrast with the other 19-year-old original members of the Funkin' Gang, as they've all already learned to "spread their wings" in the same span of relative time. That being said, that's not necessarily a good thing, as given the Across script, Aloe's implied situation and its consequences, and the carefree, fast-and-loose nature of Earth-623, it's more that Salty had the mercy of not having to.
- Costume Evolution: His Art Evolution from his original mod is represented in-universe by his outfit changing in the same manner as Miles's Spider-suit.
- Happily Adopted: Is adopted in this continuity, with Tsuraran and Maqua serving as his parents.
- Recursive Canon: The "Unsalted" version of "Best Girl" is a single by Salty. It's also not very good in-universe.
- The Paragon: With the exception of Bunfriend (whose absence in the Across script has kept his post-Time Skip details vague), all of the original members of the Funkin' Gang had their fates irreversibly changed for the better through their heroism by meeting Salty (in contrast to only Peter B. and Gwen having significant impacts from Miles), something that spits in the face of Cam's canon event theory considering their initial allegiance to the Society.
- Brooke gets his life back together with Grace, re-marrying and having a child with her. Cue the crisis of faith from the original Across script.
- Gracie, like Gwen, forms a deep-enough bond with Salty to question the Society's teachings once it turns its crosshairs towards him.
- Aloe would have been seriously injured or killed by Earth-16063 Tabi had she not acquired the necessary experience from battling his Earth-409 counterpart and initially losing to him.
- Toon Boyfriend gets to be truly happy for the first time in what is possibly years. The Rubik's Cube, as a focus for him to project those memories into, becomes the final lynchpin in overcoming Satan's torment and repairing his life, which he had initially cast aside for the safety of everyone else around him. Aloe's presence also serves to teach him not all demons are bad, leading him to return the favor.
- Trans Tribulations: The events of The Spider Within are recontextualized as lingering stress from Salty's transgender identity.
Brooke
Brooke/Ourple Boyfriend
Origin: VS OURPLE GUY
Replaces: Peter B. Parker
"Take those off, it's disrespectful. The Boyfriend never wore goggles."
An aged, worn-out Boyfriend who began his adventures in 2011. Now an older adult and a nervous wreck that's lost it all, circumstances force him to try and help Salty fill in the void left by the original Boyfriend's death... and maybe fix himself in the process.- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: The years have not been kind for Brooke since his throwdowns in that abandoned pizzeria and Sinnoh's Near-Villain Victory over him, drifting apart from Grace and having the same path to ruin that Peter B. endured.
- Adaptational Context Change: The equivalent of the "TGI Spidey's" incident doesn't get his venture shut down because of the food being too creative, but because Brooke was trying to mooch off of an IP that wasn't in the public domain, namely Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. You may recall the original Fazbear Entertainment as being particularly litigious when imitated, and this was no exception.
- Age Lift: Assuming Funkinverse is set in The New '20s (as HoloFunk takes place in 2021), Brooke is at least 28 years old here, up from 18.
- Book Dumb: Unlike Peter B., the implied irresponsibilities that led Brooke downhill are already in-character for him relative to his canon intelligence. After all, he had the mechanical knowledge to fix an arcade machine, but not the wisdom to question why, given the way Earth-88 works, it would have been out of order for so long.
- Cynicism Catalyst: Fulfilling Peter B.'s initial role as the Spider-Man who most definitely did not get back up from when he was knocked down mentally, it seems the lasting impression of Sinnoh has cause Brooke's life to sour considerably ever since he won against him by the skin of his teeth.
- A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted: Retains this trait from Peter B., except instead of trying to open a themed restaurant, he wanted to reopen the Freddy Fazbear's Pizza VS OURPLE GUY is set in out of spite (presumably against Sinnoh or even Fazbear Entertainment.) Predictably, it was litigated for IP theft and shut down.
- Mythology Gag: Sounds like Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker, which Peter B. took elements from.
- The Stoner: One of the things he's done to cope with his divorce, as it reminds him of Grace.
- Take That!: "Whammy" from Vs. Flaky is mentioned as a bad song Brooke composed once.
SNS Girlfriend
Gracie/SNS Girlfriend
Origin: Saturday Night Swappin'
Replaces: Gwen Stacy/Spider-Gwen
A version of Girlfriend in a Role Swap AU that had her take Boyfriend's place. Living on her own after being kicked out of the house, she's content to just rap for fun, at least until the multiverse tore itself open.- Adaptational Angst Downgrade: Gracie's Boyfriend is still alive; Lizard's death is instead occupied by Sen, meaning that while there's still some emotional weight to his demise, Gracie ultimately gets to hang on to a Love Interest unlike Gwen (where it was implied she and Peter may have had feelings for each other.)
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade:
- While Gwen has a stable relationship with her father and manages to reconcile after having to reveal her superhero identity to him, Gracie was kicked out by her parents before her mod even began. In place of a real father, an aged-up Mimi takes George Stacy's role, and she starts the story already homeless.
- Her original mod explained that she has no interest in seeking professional work with her skills, which adds another layer of manipulation to Blueballs's management of the Society — particularly the implication of preying on The Knights Who Say "Squee!".
- Adaptational Context Change:
- Salty accidentally ripping out Gracie's hair has an added layer of embarrassment to it by exposing Gracie as being partially-demonic.
- The "can you adopt me?" line to Jessica/Judith is given more weight when said by Gracie, as she was already kicked out by her parents as part of her backstory.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Not as demonic as the canon Girlfriend due to differing lineages, but still has the horns which she has to hide with her hair.
- Mythology Gag: Still calls Agent Blueballs "Dark Garfield" when they first meet. The applicability still holds, as does the reactions from him and Judith despite the different contexts for all three of them.
- Named by the Adaptation: "Gracie," with "Girlfriend" merely being an alias.
- Trans Tribulations: While Gwen's gender identity is left ambiguous and could possibly be just an Allegorical Character for the trope, Gracie's backstory plays it straight by being trans herself.
Toon Boyfriend
Toon/WI Boyfriend
Origin: Wednesday's Infidelity
Replaces: Spider-Noir
"Can you close off your wife and kid so you can avoid seeing them die an unavoidable and gruesome death to suffer for all eternity?!"
A Boyfriend who risked everything to save a suicidal Mickey Mouse from ending it all in a world where it's still 1928.- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Zig-zagged; while he's able to escape Hell unlike in canon, Satan instead decides to torture him there by meddling with his life on the surface. It works, tormenting him to the point where he leaves his family anyways to keep them safe; by the time he gets dumped into Salty's world, he's a depressed fatalist hanging on to only a nominal shred of hope for a better future. However, the mechanics of Satan's powers causes them to be cancelled out while Boyfriend is there, allowing him to experience the first taste of happiness in years with the Gang's help. Projecting those memories onto a Rubik's Cube that he takes back to Earth-2819, he eventually manages to get Satan to eat his words through and through.
- Adaptational Comic Relief: Being a cartoon, he gets a couple more physical gags that the original Spider-Verse script didn't have for Spider-Noir, like swallowing the goober the Gang makes after assembling (much to Sky's consternation.)
- Adaptational Context Change:
- Is the one to save Aloe from certain doom instead of Mobian Boyfriend; the opposite is true for their roles in the original script of Into.
- The meaning of the Rubik's Cube he takes back with him is expanded to also include his memories of the Gang, being the first taste of true happiness he's had in years.
- The Ageless: Will never age due to being an old-fashioned cartoon. As a result, he's 25 by the events of the story but still appears to be 19.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Aloe's kindness towards him is a huge change of pace from what he's used to dealing with when demons are involved. It's part of the reason he decides to protect her the way Noir did Peni.
- Brooklyn Rage: Has a slight New York accent patterned off of Thom Adcox Hernandez's performance of Felix the Cat, and kicks copious amounts of ass.
- Cerebus Retcon: In the Into script, Spider-Noir kept playing with the Rubik's Cube and took it back to his world because he was comically amazed by its color (being from a colorless world.) That's still the case here, but now it's also a keepsake more directly in memory of the story's events, and also what allows Boyfriend to fix his life by having a focus to disrupt Satan's influence.
- Deliberately Monochrome: Of course.
- Face of a Thug: Explicitly described as one of the nicest Boyfriends around, despite the typical association of his face with their more abrasive personalities.
- Generation Xerox: He's the ancestor of what should be the actual Boyfriend of his world's 21st century, but has enough of an identical appearance and fate to be considered an Alternate Self for the time being, along with the fact that time doesn't flow properly in his world.
- His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Yes, Toon Boyfriend is his actual name. Well, just the "Boyfriend" part. This goes for the rest of his family, his wife named Girlfriend, and his kid named Baby.
- Moment of Lucidity: While not insane, Satan's curse has Boyfriend Hearing Voices, which is part of why he's convinced he can't have anything nice in his life (because Satan would just take them away.) The Into part of the story is one giant case of this trope, as Satan's powers don't work in other universes; coupled with Earth-409's equivalent apparently being a nicer person, it clears his mind long enough to become more optimistic.
- Nice Guy: Described as such, and shows it here through his Big Brother Instinct towards Aloe, even though she's a demon with the potential to be as powerful as his nemesis Satan.
- Inkblot Cartoon Style: Drawn to resemble a Disney cartoon from his time period, like the original mod.
- Irony:
- In contrast to Spider-Noir's comical levels of Grey-and-Grey Morality as a Superhero Packing Heat, WI Boyfriend's primary defining trait is how unambiguously selfless and heroic he is throughout the story of his original mod, risking and accepting eternal damnation just to prolong the life of a complete stranger — all because he simply felt they deserved better.
- Though Satan is his arch-nemesis, he feels obligated to protect Aloe, who is a demon often speculated to be hiding powers that give her a similar degree of literal or figurative control over others. While she doesn't seem to have said abilities in the portrayal she's lifted from, NEO still makes her a menace on the battlefield.
- Odd Friendship: He retains Spider-Noir's Big Brother Instinct towards Peni in his treatment of Aloe, even though they are from the complete opposite ends of both animation history and nationality even more so than the originals.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Claws his way out of Hell, unlike canon, and through the help of the Funkin' Gang eventually musters enough courage to defy Satan once and for all.
- Suicide Dare: Earth-2819 Satan repeatedly tries to get Boyfriend to kill himself.
- Took a Level in Idealism: Talking to the Funkin' Gang while spending time in a world without Satan finally gets him to move on from being an embittered fatalist and defy the big red devil on his own.
Aloe Mano and NEO
Aloe Mano & NEO
Origin: HoloFunk
Replaces: Peni Parker and SP//dr
A young succubus from a world where Virtual YouTubers and their lore exist in reality. In Funkinverse, she controls a Powered Armor salvaged from the annals of the Cyber World to make her new indie career a bit more unique and easier.
- #1 Dime: The Akuma Microphone — a reminder of her painful past, but also the link to her new future. While each Boyfriend's microphone represents the radioactive spider, only Aloe is known to have visibly regarded hers with sentimental value.
- A-Cup Angst: While she's actually quite shapely, Aloe is still tiny relative to her friends and apparently ordered NEO's chestplate to be padded to compensate for this.
- Adaptation Deviation: While the use of Deltarune content was a one-off joke in the original HoloFunk story, Funkinverse makes its plot take a hard left by leaning heavily into the implications of NEO's schematics existing as a consequence of said gags. By the time of the Across acts, Aloe's arc has gone so Off the Rails from two years of lugging NEO around that the story's version of her Week 6 outfit, originally just a monochromatic variant of her regular clothes, is more akin to a pilot's suit and can make her nearly unrecognizable
from a distance. - Adaptational Dye-Job: The original, original Aloe was never able to specify if the blonde streaks in her hair were natural or dyed, as several other characters from the HoloFunk cast have natural dual-tone complexions. Here, they're explicitly hair dye and later change to green through this for her 21-year-old appearance.
- Adaptation Expansion: Both Mettaton and Spamton, the NEO frame's original users, don't get to do much in the way of an active role once their sympathetic traits are revealed, with Spamton outright dying regardless of the player's choices. Here, the NEO body becomes a permanent fixture of the story for the same purpose Mettaton had in mind when he drafted the original plans.
- Adaptational Superpower Change: SP//dr's first form was a Mini-Mecha protecting a human. NEO is a suit of Powered Armor that's on more even footing with its new user Aloe, who is a demon.
- Adventurer Outfit: Aloe's Week 6 outfit (now the permanent attire of her 21-year-old self) is retooled to add a Dealmaker reinforced into piloting goggles as well as the PuppetScarf, making it look like an aviator's getup minus the collar.
- Alternate Self: Has one in Kenji's world who, while having to pick up his role of the Boyfriend from him, was never recognized as such. She's also a nervous wreck with poor impulses (and lack thereof outright) and personal dependence problems due to a traumatic criminal upbringing.
- Ambiguous Situation:
- NEO's creator. It's implied by process of elimination to be Koyori Hakuinote , although following the line of thinking that each character's designer or a stand-in for them is their parental figure like with Salty and Grimbo, Guchico (her original artist) and Codexes (HoloFunk's main writer) aren't off the table, either, since they would both satisfy the criteria to be the counterpart of Peni's father.
- Across the entire story, it's unclear how much of NEO's maintenance and post-Time Skip design is Aloe's doing or that of someone else (probably one of the above individuals), given the original's lack of mechanical knowledge.
- Anime Hair: Of course, being from a Japanese IP, Aloe's hair is a rather vibrant blend of colors in contrast to the rest of the cast, namely hot pink, magenta, and blonde. The latter turns green in the Across acts, playing this up even further.
- The Baby of the Bunch: While the same age as most Boyfriends, she's much shorter than them (at 4'11") and is technically a Naïve Newcomer as she's still trying to find her way in the music world. Of the members of the Gang who are still 19, she was also born the latest. She grows out of this in the Across acts, returning as a rugged 21-year-old pilot in an Adventurer Outfit who has fully grown into Peni's role... for better and worse.
- Break the Cutie: Her backstory unsuccessfully attempted to pull this on her, being forced to leave behind a prestigious gig in entertainment that would have promised international renown with her best friends. However, her transition into becoming Earth-16063's Boyfriend also included a year of recovery and the continued company of Nene & the others when they were available, bouncing back into an indie career. Unfortunately, the Time Skip double-subverts this, the escalating chaos and losses arising from the emerging threats on Aloe's Earth forcing her to grow up fast. By the time she reappears to Salty, she's lost much of the energy from her previous performances and has begun reaching for the bottle to cope.
- Beware the Silly Ones: In case you're wondering what a hololive talent is doing wielding Spamton NEO's abilities, it's because HoloFunk incorporates Spamton and the frame as an extended gag.
- Broken Faceplate: Tabi, in the process of dismantling the NEO suit beyond repair, starts by punching Aloe in the face and breaking the Dealmaker in half. What's left of it is bent out of shape, with the yellow lens cracked. She gets hit again sometime within the Time Skip between Into and Across (by Earth-16063 Tabi), but she had already prepared for that inevitability and reinforced the lenses into a pair of standard piloting goggles beforehand.
- Cerebus Retcon: The Deltarune gags in HoloFunk were just that, an Overly Long Gag used to prop up a shop mechanic and a hidden song. Here, they're played completely straight for the sake of giving Aloe a SP//dr counterpart (including the reason the NEO body was designed in the first place.)
- Costume Evolution: Aloe's Week 6 outfit becomes her permanent getup after the Time Skip. It's also been retooled to better represent her personal growth, gaining green tints in the black portions to match the new color of her highlights, as well as adding the PuppetScarf and a new Dealmaker reinforced into piloting goggles.
- Dark Is Not Evil: She's a succubus who isn't afraid to show it off, showing off her horns and tail unlike Gracie. But she's also an incredibly kind soul who has a normal life and a human partner that loves her dearly as a person (even if they don't recognize each others' feelings), will readily stand up in the face of evil, and helps get WI Boyfriend (a victim of Satan's torment) back on his feet.
- Dragon Knight: The version of Spamton NEO Aloe faced is patterned off her ex-coworker Coco Kiryu, who is a dragon. Consequently, once NEO is reforged into a suit, it inherits the corresponding motifs (as shown by the blue upper torso) for Aloe to use.
- Expy: Effectively carries on Mettaton's legacy by using the NEO body the same way both versions of him wanted to use it, to be strong and to entertain others on their own terms.
- Heart Beat-Down: Her Spider-Sense evokes this trope, since she's a succubus with the glowing organ in HoloFunk's Game Over screen being her pink heart-shaped heart.
- Height Angst: Implied to be using NEO as some kind of compensation for being shorter than most Boyfriends, at least by the time she learns The Multiverse exists. Notably, she isn't even the shortest member of the Funkin' Gang or the people she knows in her universe — Toon Boyfriend and Mobian Boyfriend are noticeably lower in height than she is, and one of her home universe's opponents dwarfs Aloe by about ten centimeters despite having nearly ten thousand years ahead of her.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: Once Aloe was old enough, she took up drinking to cope with the rapidly-escalating conflict in her home universe during the Time Skip, which lasted two years for Earth-16063. Unlike her friend Lamynote , though, she still drinks responsibly and never boards or operates heavy machinery (i.e. NE-2.0) drunk, making her habits less Drowning My Sorrows and more this trope chronically.
- In Spite of a Nail:
- Her home universe was originally created with the out-of-universe intent of cutting out everyone related to FNF; while this includes some enemies like the Dearests, many more were her actual friends that gave her a reason to fight. Funkinverse, at the very least, gives her another shot at making friends with Boyfriend again through the Funkin' Gang.
- Despite never meeting Boyfriend, Girlfriend, or Tabi until being dumped into Salty's world (unlike her counterpart in Kenji's world, who is all but stated to be his successor), Salty's Tabi is still reminded of the duo just looking at her. This has near-fatal consequences (at least for NEO) when they are left alone with each other.
- Evidently, Aloe and Cyan have now met each other at some point, re-establishing some shred of the connection she and Kenji had in Earth-13166. It's also still marred with tragedy — while Kenji spent his original script unaware that his new friend was in fact Earth-13166 Aloe despite being a huge fan of her and drifted apart before it could be confirmed if she ever told him the truth and why she had to hide it, Cyan is killed outright at Aloe's expense.
- Irony:
- NEO is based on an angel. Funkinverse has a variant of it given to Aloe, a demon.
- Aloe may be a succubus, but all signs point to her being a Glass Cannon when it comes to romance and sexuality — and that's if she doesn't just get flustered from being stuck in the Transparent Closet first. Her counterpart in Kenji's world is also more openly a prude, being disgusted rather than impressed by Kenji's own inability to control his lust.
- This iteration of Aloe apparently suffers from A-Cup Angst. The only joke at the expense of her measurements in HoloFunk involves her Week 5 outfit, which is too small in those areas.
- The Corruption was one of HoloFunk's first rejects, back when Kenji's world was the only story the game had. Here, Aloe is the only person who has actually encountered it.
- Mythology Gag:
- NEO being scaled down into Powered Armor mirrors SP//dr's first form being smaller than the original comic's portrayal.
- The Dealmaker's solid, brightly-colored lenses bring to mind her down pose and winning icon in Week 6 of HoloFunk.
- O.C. Stand-in: Aloe is the only Boyfriend counterpart that is lifted wholesale from a different IP, being the Virtual YouTuber avatar of a former hololive member. However, between the original account barely existing before being deleted and circumstances rendering it unethical to pattern Aloe's life after her real actress beyond what is absolutely necessary (i.e. dropping out or vanishing), she lacks much of a personality for fan works beyond being The Tease & maybe a Glass Cannon of some sort and often has to exist solely in relation to Generation 5/NePoLaBo or her other ex-coworkers. Funkinverse thus winds up giving her a new character identity based on HoloFunk's interpretation of her personalitynote , Peni's original character arc, and what few crossover elements remain in 6.0.0 that makes Aloe and her friends more like characters the FNF community adopted a la Hank, Tricky, and Green.
- Odd Name Out: The only member of the Gang (sans Toon Boyfriend and possibly Goldie) that never uses an alias, instead opting to use her real name at all times. This is in contrast to her counterpart in Kenji's world, who had both a fake identity forced onto her and an implication "Mano" was not her real last name.
- Older Than They Look: While the same age as most Boyfriends (19), her appearance was originally made for a 15-year-old, making Aloe carry over Peni's younger appearance regardless.
- Powered Armor: NEO has been rebuilt as a suit of armor with its own AI. It comes with the frame's signature Arm Cannon and Spamton's Dealmaker.
- Precious Photo: Has a printed photo of her best friend and crush Nene "Nenechi" Momosuzu, which she's embedded in NEO's chestplate.
- Role Swap AU: Very loosely fits this description, as a Boyfriend exists in her world that isn't a protagonist. She drops out of a job, gets a unique microphone, and starts a new singing career, but the similarities end there and are purely coincidental. Fittingly, Kenji's world is altered from the original such that the situation is reversed: he's the one selected for Society membership, while for reasons unknown Aloe's counterpart is passed over despite her efforts.
- Scarf of Asskicking: Her Across appearance incorporates the PuppetScarf, which now has a defined appearance that complements Aloe's outfit from "D.O.O.G."
- Shout-Out: The NEO armor is finally destroyed when Tabi punches it hard enough to shatter it in one blow. This also wipes out the blonde streaks in Aloe's hair, referencing a similar visual gag with Knives Chau from Scott Pilgrim (whose English performance also happens to be the reference point for Aloe's English voice.)
- Sweet Tooth: Puts honey on everything and can down as many sweets as she wants without any side effects.
- Token Minority: Shares this role with the now-Peruvian Salty, as a Japanese girl from the mainland.
- Transparent Closet: She and her best friend Nenechi are lesbians with huge crushes on each other. Neither of them realize either fact even though their current relationship hits a double right out of the inning. Everyone Can See It.
- Xenafication: Though far from a pushover personality-wise, both this version of Aloe and the one in Kenji's world pale in physical combat (though this is more an issue of durability than skill.) After NEO is reclaimed, she becomes much more capable and is able to hold her own when push comes to shove.
Mobian Boyfriend
Mobian BF/Boyfriend The Rabbit
Origin: Sonic the Hedgehog universenote
Replaces: Spider-Ham
An anthropomorphic rabbit Boyfriend from the original Sonic's world.
- Adaptational Backstory Change: Now a normal Sonic fan character who lives in the actual fictional universe of the franchise, rather than the cursed program Xenophanes rules over.
- Adaptation Origin Connection:
- Inverted; Grimbo and Mobian Boyfriend do not share a universe despite this being the case in the original mod. This is likely because Grimbo's basis Xenophanes is a demon from the real world, while Mobian Boyfriend, essentially being treated as a game character, would be the one that's actually inhabiting Sonic's world.
- Porker Lewis has some sort of connection to Bunfriend, suggesting he's at least crossed paths with the Freedom Fighters long enough to consider them integral parts of his story. This mainly comes up due to the fact that Lewis was targeted by a canon event, killing him off at Bunfriend's expense.
- Canon Welding: His universe appears to be a hodge-podge of different Sonic comic continuities, as he's mentioned having a huge crush on Honey the Cat and, more distressingly, lost Porker Lewis to a canon event. He's also ran into the Metal Virus.
- Funny Animal: An anthropomorphic rabbit.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Despite originally being the same height as the original Boyfriend, he now appears to be the shortest member of the gang, dwarfing even Toon Boyfriend (whose Inkblot Cartoon Style at least gives him the excuse of his short height being enforced by the way his universe is portrayed.)
- Timey-Wimey Ball: Stuck inside one of these due to Earth-623's passage of time flowing at inconsistent rates, meaning it doesn't have a fixed Narnia Time and so makes it difficult to log what exactly is going on in there when no one's looking.
- Vague Age: His post-Time Skip age is a number above 19. While everyone else in the original Gang has the time progression in their world defined, Bunfriend's is expunged because of the various retcons to the original Sonic's age messing with Earth-623's timeflow.
Across additions
D-Sides Boyfriend
D-Sides Boyfriend/.XML
Origin: Friday Night Funkin' D-Sides
Replaces: Hobie Brown/Spider-Punk
A Boyfriend from a universe that's changed the pasts of every single character who has a counterpart there, often with no rhyme or reason as to who gets what.
- Accidental Murder: Accidentally killed his world's Skarlet with a gunshot; this is labeled as a canon event by Cam.
- Adaptational Backstory Change: His home universe invokes this trope to mirror Hobie's characteristic inconsistency, with every character's past changed to completely-random degrees.
- Coat Cape: Wears his black jacket from certain pieces of D-Sides art as a cape.
- Foil: To Kenji. While Kenji is a Wrong Genre Savvy Idiot Savant who is dressed in bright white-and-primary-colored clothing, got where he was by sticking to the Stations of the Canon, and stays on the side of the Society after The Reveal about canon events, .XML inherits Hobie's use of similar flaws as Obfuscating Stupidity, dresses in dark-and-secondary-colored clothing, is from a universe that has absolutely zero regard for canon and so should undermine the canon event theory, and defects in the end. Additionally, .XML's Coat Cape contributes nothing to his story or that of anyone else's in his universe despite being an explicit Shout-Out to Tails Gets Trolled, whereas every single major conflict in Kenji's world is partially the result of deconstructing a similar reference to the Like a Dragon franchise in one of HoloFunk's opponents. And finally (albeit coincidentally), both Boyfriends are the only ones in the cast whose aliases incorporate the same ".XML" epithet.
- Irony: Hobie was an anarchist who was defined by his lack of consistency. D-Sides Boyfriend obviously lacks a political alignment and is consistent on all fronts; it's how his homeworld rewrites everyone's stories that's inconsistent.
- Paradox Person: In a sense, which Blueballs seems to have neglected. D-Sides Boyfriend's world sometimes subverts the canon of its counterparts — notably, the plot-critical deaths of Evan Afton and Maria Robotnik are fully averted without equivalent events happening elsewhere, to the point where William Afton never becomes a murderer. Because of this, the mere existence of the universe is a firm contradiction to Blueballs and everything he thinks he knows about the multiverse.
- Rule of Symbolism: Aligning with the canon-defiant nature of his home universe and how Hobie's setup as The Rival is a Bait-and-Switch, .XML's Coat Cape is a direct reference to the Defenders' uniforms from Tails Gets Trolled, except because he has always been on the heroes' side, it does not carry the same connotations of a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing that the Defenders had — rather, it represents the opposite, that even if you look evil or if someone says you'll become a villain Because Destiny Says So, that alone does not mean you are or you will be.
Golden Boyfriend
Golden Boyfriend
Origin: Minus Love Letter
Replaces: Pavitr Prabhakr/Spider-Man India
A gold-colored Boyfriend who's only just now getting into the flow of things. Unfortunately, his world's Girlfriend already has fierce competition from not one, but three other counterparts all in the same universe.
- Adaptational Context Change: While still a very fresh Boyfriend (only having the title for about a month), his Naïve Newcomer status is centered more around the fact that he's yet to establish an amicable relationship with Minus Girlfriend. In fact, if Minus Love Letter is any indication, she hates his guts.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Despite replacing Pavitr Prabhakr, Goldie's relationship with Minus Girlfriend is much more rocky than what Pav had with Gayatri Singh.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Solid yellow.
- Big Eater: Stated to have a large appetite, just like his Expy.
- Dual Wielding: Carries two microphones to try and prove how tough he is. Like everything else about him, though, Minus Girlfriend isn't buying it.
- Expy: Patterned after Goku and the "Ultra Instinct drip" meme. He even sounds like Sean Schemmel's performance of the Saiyan.
- Magikarp Power: Cam thinks Goldie is this trope, seeing the most potential in him compared to the other Minus Boyfriends despite only having his role for a month. Only time will tell if he made the right call.
Twinsomnia Boyfriend
Brooke Jr./Twinsomnia Boyfriend
Origin: Twinsomnia
Replaces: Mayday Parker (Earth-616B)
Brooke's son, born after the events analogous to Into the Spiderverse.- Adaptational Backstory Change: While Twinsomnia portrays this Boyfriend as a younger version of the original, Funkinverse makes him the son of another.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Reflecting his new origin, his hair is now dark blue with black splotches, just like Brooke.
- Crossover Relatives: Now Brooke's son.
- Generation Xerox: Bound to happen when you transplant one of Boyfriend's younger counterparts into being the son of another. This is lampshaded with a cover of "2BEEP2MEOW" imposed over the scene where Mayday and Peter B. are needling Miguel.
- Named by the Adaptation: As he's now Brooke's son, he's given the name of "Brooke Jr." to match.
Boom
Boom/Electro Funkin' GF
Origin: Electro Funkin'
Replaces: Margo Kess/Spider-Byte
A Girlfriend from a universe where everyone is a sentient sound system.
- Do-Anything Robot: Has an aux cord that she can plug in to any device to interface with it using her own hardware.
- Irony: Margo is themed around cyberspace and software; Boom is themed around hardware and meatspace.
- Ridiculously Human Robots: Minus the radio head, that is.
The Funkin' Society
A multiversal agency of Boyfriends tasked with protecting its very fabric. General tropes
- Adaptational Villainy: The more heroic Boyfriends are willing to at least tolerate counterparts who are Boxed Crooks or Nominal Heroes at best, and then there's the whole deal with enforcing "canon." Which, to remind you, involves abandoning people to die, their members to suffer unbearable amounts of trauma, and even justifying the abandonment of professional development that doesn't have to do with being the Boyfriend.
- Became Their Own Antithesis: It was forged from the groundwork of the Trollge Containment Foundation, an honest task force where humans fought to keep the Trollges from taking lives because it was clearly the right thing. Blueballs's resurgent infection and the way he rules over it means he's turned it into the exact opposite: a Cult-like society led by a Trollge that willingly enables the death and suffering of others in the name of a flimsy theory and control.
- Dysfunction Junction: While their jobs are perfectly in order, the membership has a bit more chafe than their appearance suggests. Their leader is an emotionally-unstable and possibly-abusive Shell-Shocked Veteran, one of his lieutenants is trapped in a toxic work relationship with him, the other comes off as seriously annoying and immature, their members have the same disjunction the Spider-Society ends up getting exposed for, and the angst of canon events is still a thing, even if Ben is a better therapist than Sims.
- False Utopia: The same as the Spider-Society, a cool-looking congregation of Boyfriend's counterparts that also willingly allows and abates an endless amount of suffering in the name of the canon.
- Human Sacrifice: Like in Spider-Verse, this is what enforcing a canon event amounts to if it involves someone's death. Most of the confirmed body count also consists of innocent extras and background characters from each source work, showing the full extent of the collateral damage the Society is willing to cause.
- In Spite of a Nail: Like the Spider Society, the Funkin' Society makes the claim that all of their members have a "canon" to follow regardless of their differences. Not all events have to occur, but all events that do occur must be followed through to their completion. The full list of known events is as such:
- A Boyfriend must be placed into the role by dropping out of education or income, and then finding a unique microphone. The reason for the former is irrelevant (only that it's a "choice," even if it really isn't), and the latter can occur at any point in their lives prior to the rest of the canon following.
- Finding a companion that supports them comes next, though as Salty, Aloe, and Goldie demonstrate, this does not have to be an actual committed relationship.
- A bad song must be composed at some point (as Brooke demonstrates, the song in question does not necessarily have to be related to the mod the universe is themed on.)
- If the Corruption or Darkness awakens from dormancy in a universe, its Boyfriend must take a stand against it, even if it compromises them or otherwise enables further harm by them doing so.
- Generally, it appears deaths Spider-Man typically runs into apply here as well, creating the same sort of friction once Salty is informed of the matter.
- Kidnapped by the Call: Benjamin's presence indicates the Society can recruit people by force if they follow enough criteria. Fever is also a more direct example of this, being nabbed by Blueballs without any explanation as to why. Veronica Sawyer is also mentioned as another case, but Judith sent her back to protect her world's unusual degree of normalcy relative to our world.
- The Masquerade: Downplayed; aside from the typical gamut of hiding their presence from those not already in the loop, the Society (or at least Judith) doesn't give more "grounded" universes the time of day for the sake of protecting their normalcy.
- Refused by the Call: The Society also has the power to ignore Boyfriend equivalents that don't fit into their molds, which is implied to be what's going on in their observation of Kenji's world (picking someone who's already finished with their role instead of the person who picked it up in their stead.) This also prevents Transplanted Character Fic situations from arising, as while there are quite a handful of modded protagonists that come from other works or follow wildly-different arcs, only a fraction of those end up obeying Boyfriend's canon.
Agent Blueballs
Agent Cam "Blueballs" Malicious
Origin: The Blue Balls Incident
Replaces: Miguel O'Hara/Spider-Man 2099
"Go home, Gracie."
A Boyfriend who has a professional job hunting down and terminating the reality-altering monsters known as Trollges. He later used the assets of the TCF to create the multiversal watches and found the Funkin' Society.- Adaptational Jerkass: The original Blueballs never showed anger or animosity for the Trollges that kept their sanity; in fact, Exhalted admired Cam for his tenacity and genuinely worried about his well-being despite effectively being a Revenant Zombie compelled to murder others. This version of him is more emotionally unstable and has at least considered the idea of using force to keep his subordinates in line, a far cry from the man the artist once known as Jhenkins came to respect.
- Adaptational Villainy: Succumbs to his hatred and insecurity again and stays that way to become an enemy of Salty and his friends, unlike the original mod. If other facets of Miguel's role are to be taken at face value, he's also much more manipulative than the original Blueballs ever was.
- All for Nothing: One thing that shows his mental decline even more prominently than Miguel is his physical and psychological regression into the state he was in during "Athazagoraphobia," as the archive data of his time in the destroyed universe shows his appearance in "Daisuki" is still canon.
- Always a Bigger Fish: Though Cam has been able to defeat a god, he still doesn't hold a candle to Talia's programming-based pataphysical abilities, obviously.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's implied he recruited Kenji instead of his world's Aloe due to adhering to canon events better than her, despite the fact that the latter inherited his mantle (albeit unwillingly, like Salty.) It's unclear, however, whether or not he consciously made this decision or if he even knows this version of Aloe exists at all (given she's an orphan in hiding.)
- And Then John Was a Zombie: It's implied that his wrathful, manipulative, and insecure personality he uses to manage the Society has caused his TP Cell infection to resurface as the analogue to Miguel's unique physiology.
- Bad Boss: Has no problem getting physical to punish dissension, which becomes a major pain point in explaining why Judith is complacent to him the way Jess was to Miguel.
- Beleaguered Boss: For all of his own insecurities, he still shares the implicit frustration Miguel has with the odd quirks of his subordinates. Even his own recruiting efforts are somewhat stressful, as while Kenji gave him enough information to investigate Cadence and her world, it's very obvious he would have rather been anywhere else while doing so.
- Birds of a Feather: His trust in Kenji, besides him being selective evidence for the benefits of negative canon events, also has an air of familiarity to it regardless, as both Boyfriends are from mods serving as Darker and Edgier spins on other forms of media (Trollface for Cam, hololive for Kenji), and use anime-adjacent art styles.
- Crossover Relatives: Alice (from MaliciousBunny's other mod, Alice: Mad and Hopeless) is Cam's adopted sister. They do not get along.
- Creepy Monotone: His voice is modeled after Jerry Jewell's performance of Kusuo Saiki, who is known for his comedic, emotionless inner monologues. The primary difference is that a lot of Cam's ramblings are played for horror, rather than comedy.
- Decomposite Character: While a major part of Miguel's hypocrisy was that his Spider-Man powers are an artificial mimicry in every aspect rather than naturally induced by a spider, Cam's failings put less focus on this aspect in his origins, and he still has some form of a natural talent and abilities. Kenji takes up this part of him instead, who constructed his identity and career from a Recursive Canon with the additional implication Hana's role was taken from the one it was intended for (albeit unknowingly.)
- Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Never seen in the present day without a permanent scowl.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: Has grown out his hair again by the events of the story. The fact that this makes him resemble his sprites in "Athazagoraphobia" is not a coincidence.
- Foil: To Salty, in their original stories — particularly the part where a Greater-Scope Villain captures them for a long period of time. When Salty was trapped in the arcade machine, he was kept in stasis for 30 years and emerged a hero with a galvanized spirit ready to challenge the Dearests, and this version of him keeps his heroism despite not having this backstory. When Blueballs was trapped by Arthur, however, he remained conscious the whole time and used his blind rage to triumph over him, something that would cost him his sanity in this fic's continuation of his story.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: Much like the Trollges themselves, Cam's eyes flare up once he is well and truly pissed, often with destructive or murderous intent.
- He Who Fights Monsters: Like JJ, he tries to convince others and himself that he's doing the right thing, but has been warped into a monster by the ever-present threat of the TP Cells and the gravitas of what enforcing the canon amounts to.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Considering what he actually preaches, both Aloe and D-Sides Boyfriend should have never been admitted to the Society. Both of their universes have heavy themes of not being beholden to a canon (with D-Sides Boyfriend's world even hinging on the prevention of several canon deaths like Evan Afton or Maria Robotnik) or even societal standards, meaning it's very little of a surprise that they defect at the end. Of course, the latter gives Blueballs the excuse of him replacing Hobie, but there's no such defense for Aloe.
- Hypocrite: Much like Miguel, Cam is obsessed with canon even though he himself doesn't fit into the mold of "the Boyfriend" in several aspects:
- Cam is the only Society member who is a trained professional and assumed his role while in said position, rather than after leaving it.
- Cam has no natural source of tenacity, instead using TP Cells and his specialized microphone to keep up.
- He hasn't had a partner beside him since the death of Earth-1249's Girlfriend. Derpina is suggested to not count, since she's a manufactured AI, nor does the Trollge Sky from his universe, who he considers just as much as annoyance as his colleagues and sister.
- Cam's universe is the only one whose number does not reference a significant date from his source media; in his case, it instead references the version number of the update to The Blueballs Incident that added Stairway. The sole other exception to this rule is Ghost Peppered Salty's universe, one without a Boyfriend.
- Outside of the concept of canon, Cam is apparently willing to hire children (as Lexi Robin is still a Society member), but his encounter with the first Boyfriend replacement, a child named Cadence, led to this exchange that is quite clearly full of shitnote :
Cadence: All I'm saying is that I could contribute a ton to the Funkin' Society -Cam: ...oh my fucking god, YOU ARE A MINOR!- More generally, it's stated that because of this trope, the recruitment standards Cam has set for the Society border on incomprehensible when viewed through any rational lens. Part of it, as seen with Cadence, appears to be that he does have an actual set of standards that are more consistent, but is for whatever reason in denial about it.
- I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Comes from an Alternate Continuity where Girlfriend did not survive the events of The Blueballs Incident. This in turn is what leads him to the inciting incident that forms his theory of canon events, as he tried to replace himself in a third universe where he died in her place.
- Irony: Contrary to his codename, we don't even get to SEE Cam's balls in his game over screens. Funkinverse takes advantage of this by not only making him a trans male but also have this also play into him not being a true conventional Boyfriend himself.
- Manipulative Bastard: Mostly inherits Miguel's use of the trope, what with the Society still having the trappings of a Cult that believes Misery Builds Character and abandons others to cruel fates for the sake of that, but SNS Girlfriend's recruitment demonstrates an added layer of that conniving that Miguel lacks — namely, she has zero interest in professional work whatsoever, and yet is made to follow Gwen's path in Across regardless. There's also the issue of Benjamin Fairest, who is in a similar position as Girlfriend but was physically and emotionally abused for it, making his role as Ezekiel Sims/the Spider-Therapist even more questionable for Blueballs.
- Named In The Adaptation: With the indication that "Blueballs" was just a codename in canon, Funkinverse gives him the real name of "Cam Malicious." The "Malicious" surname was derived from MaliciousBunny's username.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: His last name is literally "Malicious," of course he's a Control Freak running his little club on little more than an unproven theory and blind rage.
- Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: He's a known godslayer, but took a Herculean amount of effort and an Unstoppable Rage to pull it off in his mod. This makes his role as Miguel all the more disturbing, as he now has zero qualms branding mere humans like Salty as enemies on the level of Arthur and Stairway and thus giving him an excuse to maim or even kill them.
- Sanity Slippage: Relapses into his vengeful persona from "Athazagoraphobia" and extends his true hatred to Salty, a mere human, after having previously claimed only the reality-warping mutant Arthur would ever make him stoop to that level.
- Telepathy: Because of the way his dialogue is delivered in The Blue Balls Incident, it's reflected by on screen subtitles with a voiceover. Everyone can hear his inner monologue, and he only speaks out loud when he's really angry.
- Undeathly Pallor: Cheated death once against Arthur, which in conjunction with his Sanity Slippage has whitened his skin to the same eerie tone as the immortal and/or truly undead Trollges.
Judith
Judith/DJX Girlfriend
Origin: Friday Night Funkin': DJX
Replaces: Jessica Drew/Spider-Woman
A werewolf Girlfriend with a sadistic streak that inhabits a world themed around DJ music. In Funkinverse, she's gotten a relationship upgrade with her world's Boyfriend, X, and is now pregnant with their first child.
- Adaptation Expansion: While Judith's lycanthropy is an Informed Attribute in the original DJX, Funkinverse gives a concrete portrayal of her transformed state, which turns her into a roaming, frothing madwoman several times her normal height.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Now several steps ahead of most other Boyfriend and Girlfriend couples by actually managing to start a family with X.
- Adaptational Sympathy: Her disagreement with Cam's ideology is made more apparent than Jess by revealing Cam practices corporal punishment for dissension regardless of standing.
- Age Lift: As X is possibly a minor in the original DJX, the couple's been aged up to avoid raising any eyebrows from them having children.
- Beast of Battle: Cam sometimes rides a transformed Judith when they're working together.
- The Chain of Harm: With the reveal that Cam is physically abusive, Judith's alienation of Gracie following the Across acts becomes this in comparison to Jess's relationship with Gwen.
- Everyone Has Standards: While presumably in line with the Society's recruiting standards, she once sent back a version of Veronica Sawyer (derived from the bbpanzu mod) they had kidnapped because — murderous as Heathers is — its universe is still too "normal" to be perverted by the typical song and dance of most of the universes under the Society's thumb.
- Irony: While Jessica was one of the few levelheaded Spider-people, Judith is a version of Girlfriend adapted from a mod that gives her a touch of sadism, laughing at the player every time they miss.
- Little Bit Beastly: A werewolf who wears mechanical ears in her human form, giving the appearance of this while not transformed.
- Nerds Are Sexy: In love with X, someone explicitly described as a nerd. The sketch of her Funkinverse appearance has Judith commenting on how she finds X ravishing despite a terrible sense of humor.
- Our Werewolves Are Different: The transformation process puts her on the scale of Boyfriend's taller foes — that is to say, several times higher and equally bulky.
Kenji Tensei
Kenji Tensei/Boyfriend.XML
Origin: HoloFunk - Pre-6.0
Replaces: Ben Reilly/Scarlet Spider
An angelic Boyfriend from a version of Aloe's world where everyone important is also sandwiched between the glitzy entertainment industry and a dark criminal underbelly. Obsessed with invoking anime tropes.
- Affectionate Parody: Though his new portrayal may be an insult towards his home universe, he's also a more lighthearted riff on the Genre Savvy, Ascended Fanboy Otaku protagonist found in many escapist anime and manga series.
- Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: He exists in the main Aloe's world as a boy named Kanji (or Cyan), but that version of him is just a normal angel who also happens to be dumb as a brick and was Killed Off for Real in this continuity.
- Character Exaggeration: He was only seen obsessing over anime tropes for one scene in the original script of his home universe. Here, he does this much more often to parallel Across's version of Ben being a Self-Parody of the Clone Saga and the '90s Anti-Hero.
- Chuunibyou: If Cam sounds like Kusuo Saiki, Kenji is his Shun Kaidou, a kid who's too old for the trope but acts like a self-aware anime protagonist despite now being in the wrong type of story anyways. It's downplayed in that his backstory and universe both do a lot of things for real that most chuuni characters could only imaginenote , but being Ben Reilly's replacement, Kenji does not do himself any favors away from home.
- Dead Alternate Counterpart: His direct replacement, Cyan, died at some point in the story.
- Decomposite Character: While Miguel created his Spider-Man identity by taking after in-universe media of the web-slinger, Blueballs does not have an equivalent detail in his backstory. This role is passed to Kenji, who built his identity from a PS1 game containing a simplified version of the vanilla story.
- Handicapped Badass: His autism and ADHD are taken seriously in his origin, rendering him easily distracted and prone to inelegant outbursts when things don't go his way. Blueballs still seems to appreciate him enough to put him on important tasks, though.
- Irony:
- His world's Aloe is his favorite celebrity and one of his closest friends. Unfortunately, working in the Society means he spends more time near a counterpart that not only does not know him, but is turned against him in the end.
- Kenji's original story was Cut Short, with the world containing Cyan taking its place. Now, Kenji lives on while Cyan has perished in a canon event.
- Believe it or not, Kenji, Hana, and Kanata once went as Hank, Sanford, and Jebus respectively for Halloween, and were no slouch at it, either. However, "Hank" is the Prowler's counterpart, so this would be like Peter Parker assuming that identity when this is typically reserved for versions of Miles in worlds without the spider(s).
- Jerk Jock: He's Cam's loyal attack dog, has had his heroism and blunt personality corrupted by the Society's teachings, and speaks with a haughty tone modeled after Greg Cipes's performance of Kevin Levin, who himself had the initial impression of an empowered jerkish bruiser. It is, however, downplayed in that the people beneath him consider him an absolute tool and only value him for such because of his behavior.
- Light Is Not Good: He may be an angel with the appropriate strength and powers, but he's also a Manchild working for the Jerk with a Heart of Jerk Agent Blueballs.
- Manchild: His original appearances had him babied by his cousin and made use of rather obtuse ways of dealing with people he doesn't like; it's only through Gura that he has any semblance of a normal life. Combine that with his exaggerated anime trope wonk, and he's not exactly the most mature person in the Society.
- Nepotism: Downplayed; while the job that all of his success stems from was a nepotism hire from his cousin Kanata Amane, it was a seemingly-dead end job in food service. That being said, it's implied this information has to be kept secret anyways, lest he get hit with a flood of industry plant allegations.
- Original Position Fallacy:
- Has no problem with the "killing people through inaction" part of the canon event theory, even though according to his original backstory, he and Earth-13166 Aloe would have been killed or worse themselves through that mindset. Even worse is that it's his own cousin who saved him after Pico's downfall left him out on the streetsnote , and it's all but stated Hana's sister and Kanata's friend Towa also needs this sort of treatment constantly to prevent her father Daddy Dearest from capturing her.
- Additionally, while Kenji has some very clear benefits from the underlying principles of the canon event theory, the rest of Earth-13166 does not. Much of its cast carries dirty laundry related to how they got to their present positions, with the mental strain and occasional threats of harm that entails; however, their Earth-16063 counterparts do not have to deal with any of that, and they get to retain their public success and have a happier personal life.
- Our Angels Are Different: As Kanata's cousin, he's a distinct species of angel with tiny wings floating off his back and a sharpened metal halo that can be detached and thrown. He also has inhuman strength concentrated to his grip and forearms, enough to take out multiple drunken men at once and shatter the bone & tissue of even another angel like it's nothing. However, Kenji is also physically sworn to Technical Pacifism, as he is at risk of turning into a Fallen Angel otherwise.note
- The Rival: While Kenji is noted in his original script to have a rather odd liking for demons (having an idol worship of Earth-13166 Aloe and dating Hana, while also giving his Pico and Darnell a chance), he and Fever can't stand each other specifically because of the classic dichotomy.
- Smarter Than You Look: Downplayed; he and Hana were originally portrayed as having only slightly-below-average intelligence which puts them ahead of most -friends, but not by much. At the very least, despite his stunted social skills, he's able to convince Cam Earth-1124 only has one Sky to keep what little remains of his sanity intact and genuinely understands what it would really mean to take a life. Unfortunately, this makes it easier for him to be molded into obeying the canon event theory.
- Take That!: His rewritten personality is a mockery of his home universe's overcomplicated lore and constant melodrama, much like Ben's portrayal in Across. That being said, it's also downplayed somewhat, as it invites a riff on his character archetype that's more of an Affectionate Parody. At the same time, the reason Kenji's script was canned at all was because the world's adhesion to canon (and not just of the fictional variety) led to the incoherence and Peter Parker-esque suffering mentioned previously — an ill omen for what reality is compared to what Cam thinks The Multiverse operates on.
Drone Boyfriend
Serial Designation B/Drone Boyfriend
Origin: Friday Night Funkin': VS Uzi
Replaces: Cyborg Spider-Woman
- Ambiguously Evil: While his complacency in the Society now is a problem, it's unclear, given the events of Murder Drones, how devout he was to his job as a Disassembly Drone beforehand. Not helping matters is the confirmation that his absolute worst was the Absolute Solver's doing.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Was controlled by the Absolute Solver for some time, presumably left to enact its will until the Society ordered a welfare check (he had been missing for seven months prior them discovering him in this state.)
- Morton's Fork: The nature of his Adaptational Villainy in relation to enforcement of the canon. If he had turned to the side of good beforehand, he's an enemy of Uzi and N regardless for having a defined purpose in allowing countless deaths to happen (unlike the Dirty Coward greater populace of Copper 9.) If he did not, the above still applies, plus the fact that the blood on his hands is essentially complacency to the will of Murder Drones's own Big Bad, the Absolute Solver — something further exacerbated by the fact that it already tried to possess him once.
- Mundane Solution: The Absolute Solver's control over him is erased by a simple Dope Slap courtesy of Galfriend, in stark comedic contrast to the iron fist it usually has in Murder Drones.
- Mythology Gag: Like the original Cyborg Spider-Woman mentions in a deleted scene, his homeworld is also caught up in a battle between different types of robots. Of course, she didn't have to deal with a Greater-Scope Villain that sees both sides as disposable in a quest to devour all sentient life, nor does her enforcement of canon play into their hands.
Bartholomew
Bartholomew Bartholomew Bartholomew/B3
Origin: Friday Night Funkin': B3 Remixed
Replaces: The Spectacular Spider-Man
A green-haired Korean Boyfriend from a world where the original's "beep-boops" are an actual dying language, and the Dearests are Long-Lived vampires instead of demons.
- Evil Costume Switch: Was apparently touched by the Corruption at some point, blackening all of the green parts of his outfit.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Like the original Spectacular Spider-Man, he appears to convince Salty that canon events which kill people are necessary with the weight of the knowledge that he is normally one of the more lighthearted Boyfriends. The only visual depiction of him also gives Bartholomew the appropriate look of angst and sorrow, something that in the canon B3 only happened after the death of his Garcello.
- Phallic Weapon: The frame showing Bartholomew under the Corruption's effects has him shooting out a tendril to grapple to a boat (a scene lifted from "Persona.") The point of origin, while merely on his clothing given the Corruption's nature, is, uh, directly below the belt.
- Token Minority: The Society's counterpart of Aloe in this regard, as the only known full Asian in the group (Kenji is half-American.)
Fever
Fever
Origin: Friday Night Fever
Replaces: Max Borne/Spider-Man 2211
The drunkard mayor of the isolated Wretched Hive Fever Town.
- Irony:
- Max Borne is a bioaugmented member of the Timespinners Time Police agency. Fever is pretty much the opposite, a regular demon (who can't even maintain that for long periods of time and is stuck as a human for many of his appearances) wanted by the Space Police.
- In Friday Night Fever, his final act in the mod's story is an attempt to stop a lookalike of Boyfriend from entering his world, claiming he does not belong in Fever's universe. Funkinverse has him work with hundreds of actual Boyfriends from worlds beyond his own.
- The Rival: He and Kenji hate each other because of the obvious angel-vs.-demon dichotomy. Notably, however, this would make Fever the first real demon Kenji has any animosity towards.
- Sure, Let's Go with That: He has absolutely no clue why Cam wants him in the Society to the point of kidnapping him for it, and simply rolls with it out of curiosity.
Benjamin Fairest
Benjamin "BF" Fairest/Soft Boyfriend
Origin: Friday Night Funkin' Soft
Replaces: Ezekiel Sims/Spider-Therapist
"Uh, let me guess, Keith: she died some gruesome death?"
An abused wreck of a Boyfriend on the run from his controlling parents to live life as a regular artist with a wrongly-disgraced Pico. After Blueballs found him, he was given a spot in the Society as a therapist.- Adaptational Angst Downgrade: Compared to Sims, Benjamin normally isn't nearly as apathetic and frustrated as him, since his clients' experiences aren't as repetitive as Spider-people. Usually.
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: On the contrary, going back to the career he tried to outrun to the point of being abused for doing so probably isn't good for him. It's downplayed in that he doesn't have to sing and loves being a therapist whenever he doesn't have to talk to Earth-666 Keith, but that does little to change the fact that he was dragged into the whole thing by force.
- Adaptational Context Change: Sims's apathy in the original Across script was a Never Heard That One Before gag about how every Spider-person has the same distressing backstory with Uncle Ben. Here, Benjamin only shares the same attitude because the one person he doesn't like is back in the chair again to talk about yet another horrible sight from his world.
- Decomposite Character: While Sims was the only known therapist in the Spider Society, Benjamin hired Romantic Boyfriend as a temp worker at some point, effectively splitting Sims's role between them.
- Jerkass to One: Earth-666's Keith is such a frequent flyer to his office (coming from a world where all of his opponents die horrible deaths after losing) that even the compassionate Benjamin has grown tired of him. Romantic Boyfriend is sometimes asked to deal with Keith instead, but he's caught on as well.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Played for laughs; the fact that Benjamin is clearly frustrated and distant towards someone in actual suffering should tell you how difficult it is to talk to them.
- The Shrink: Of the awesome variety, unlike Sims; Ben loves his job and really does help the people he talks to. Unless you come from Earth-666, of course.
Player
Player/GameToons Boyfriend
Origin: Friday Night Funkin' Logic
Replaces: 1967 Spider-Man
A beanie-wearing Boyfriend from a world where everyone's been oversimplified and everything's really stiff.
- Adaptational Dye-Job: Went back to his natural brown hair at some point before the story.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Albeit through no fault of his own, and in a way that serves as the opposite of Kenji's lack of respect. While Kenji is judged for his attitude rather than his origins (despite technically being an industry plant), Player gets judged for his world of origin despite being a fairly-respectable person to be around.
- No-Respect Guy: Despite being by far one of the Society's most accomplished members, he tends to be mocked for the World of Weirdness he inhabits thanks to its heavy Adaptation Deviation more than he is praised for his accolades.
- Take That!: The placement of Player's world as Earth-67 and his source media's negative reputation makes it a derisive comparison to Spider-Man (1967) as a whole. It's also deconstructed somewhat, since this means that Player winds up as the resident No-Respect Guy despite his impressive rap sheet.
Kaiju Boyfriend
Kaiju Boyfriend
Origin: Friday Night Monster Of Monsters
Replaces: Spider-Rex
A dinosaur-like Boyfriend resembling Godzilla: Monster of Monsters!'s portrayal of the titular monster.
- Evil Counterpart: Of Mobian Boyfriend, originally being designed as an animalistic portrayal of Boyfriend sent to fight a video game Creepypasta. Unlike Mobian, however, Kaiju has the same lesser degree of sapience as Spider-Rex and works with Blueballs, only showing his face once the truth about canon events spills and everything goes to hell. Mobian was also designed to fight the original Xenophanes, while Kaiju battled Godzilla.exe, who is from a Scratch game knocking off Sonic.exe.
- Kaiju: It's in the name.
RecD Boyfriend
The Boyfriend
Origin: Friday Night Funkin' WITH LYRICS
Replaces: Metro Spider-Man
A nasally-sounding Boyfriend that is otherwise quite similar to the original.
- Painting the Medium: The sketch for his appearance has him talk using the subtitles from the original WITH LYRICS.
Galfriend
Galfriend
Origin: Girlfriend Mode Boyfriend Mod
Replaces: Spider-UK
"SHUTCHO STUPID A—"
A transgender version of Boyfriend, who also happens to be British.- Adaptational Nationality: Is stated to be from the UK, just like the character she replaces.
- Dope Slap: Does this towards Drone Boyfriend while they were affected by the Absolute Solver
- Smarter Than You Look: Is the one to fix Drone Boyfriend after their injuries. Most -Friends tend to be below average in intelligence, but it seems Galfriend is one of the exceptions.
Lexi
Alexis "Lexi" Robin
Origin: Friendly Night Funkin'
Replaces: N/A
Mr. Cam is a HYPOCRITE!
A young girl admitted to the Funkin' Society. How this happened is left a mystery.- All-Loving Hero: Has been stated to have made friends with even the most dangerous people.
- The Baby of the Bunch: The youngest Funkin' Society member at only 8 years old.
- Child Soldiers: Following up on the last trope, Lexi has been admitted to the society at a young age.
- One-Shot Character: Was initially going to replace Peni, even having a screencap made for her, but was ultimately replaced with Aloe. She makes her grand return to canon through Bluepocrisy.
Allies
Earth-409
Boyfriend
Keith Ethans/Boyfriend
Origin: Friday Night Funkin'
Replaces: Peter Parker
There's only one Boyfriend. And you're looking at him.
The original blue-haired singer himself. He ends up dying for good in the beginning, kickstarting the rest of the story.- Adaptation Name Change: Given a full name of "Keith Ethans," referencing both major fanon names for the canon Boyfriend in the early days of FNF.
- The Hero Dies: A given, unfortunately.
- Plot-Triggering Death: His untimely death causes the rest of the story, like Peter's. And of course, Cam discusses this trope in relation to Keith's death, since he knows just how dire of a chain reaction this is on a cosmic scale.
- Take That!: His "bully Maguire" equivalent was battling Brightside.
Tsuraran and Maqua
Tsuraran and Maqua
Origin: Distant Memories universe
Replaces: Rio and Jefferson Morales
"Say it."
"You're grounded!" "Kill yourse—"
Salty's legal guardian and her roommate, the Author Avatars of composers Tsuraran and Maqua."You're grounded!" "Kill yourse—"
- Computer Voice: Tsu talks with a text-to-speech vocoder, with any downsides that entails. Nobody questions this, supposedly because she's being doing this for a while.
- Crossover Relatives: To Salty by technicality, as the first in-game usage of their appearances was in a separate mod by the original Tsuraran.
- Synthetic Voice Actor: The American voice for Siri is the basis for Tsu's vocoder voice.
- Troll: Tsu will sometimes blurt out vulgar non-sequiturs in place of more appropriate responses, just because she can and it's funny. Salty naturally finds this weird.
Itsumi
Itsumi
Origin: Salty's Sunday Night
Replaces: Ganke Lee
"I can't help it if we're the same size shoe, Saltboy."
Salty's best friend and roommate.- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: As she now lives together with Salty in college, it's unclear whether or not their feelings for each other stick like in canon.
- Gamer Chick: Her new personality is described as this, specifically citing Chiaki Nanami as an inspiration.
Lila
Lila
Origin: Spooky Month
Replaces: Aunt May
"You think you were the only ones who thought to come here?"
Skid's mother and one of Boyfriend's allies before his passing.- Action Mom: One of the images of Lila sees her holding a baseball bat. If one were to guess, it's the same bat used in the house fight, given the screenshot it was based on.
- Messy Hair: It's said that Lila never brushes her hair, explaining why it always looks so messy.
Earth-88
Grace
Grace
Origin: VS OURPLE GUY
Replaces: Mary Jane Watson (Earth-616B)
Brooke's girlfriend, who in this continuity married him, only to divorce sometime after.
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Her best friend Parker (Earth-88's Pico) is dead in this continuity; being a canon event, it implicitly weighs heavily on her.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Now has the same tumultuous attempt at a Relationship Upgrade Peter B. had with MJ, as well as the successful second attempt.
- Age Lift: Like Brooke, she's now at least 28, up from 18.
- Differing Priorities Breakup: Like with Peter B., it's suggested Brooke's increasingly-shifty priorities (including an equivalent to the TGI Spidey's disaster) was at least a partial factor in Grace divorcing him.
- The Stoner: A heavy weed smoker, and apparently enough of a defining trait that the otherwise-sober Brooke lapsed into doing it himself to cope after they split up.
Earth-1249
Derpina
Derpina
Origin: Rage Comics (character), The Blueballs Incident (portrayal in Funkinverse), peargor (design in Funkinverse)
Replaces: Lyla
The leader of the TCF who sent Agent Blueballs and Girlfriend on their mission to contain Trollge anomalies. Here, she's an AI created by the TCF to aid Cam in his job, and to keep him and the rest of the Funkin' Society in check with their mission.
- Adaptational Backstory Change: Not the boss of Blueballs, but the other way around. On top of that, she's been reduced to a mere AI.
- Adaptational Curves: Derpina has very noticable curves compared to how she was drawn in her comics of origin, where she was but a stick figure, and how she appeared in The Trollge Files, despite how little she appeared.
- Adaptational Intelligence: Carries this over from The Trollge Files, and then some. She's much more intelligent than how she was initially depicted in the Rage Comics.
- The Gadfly: Given her role as Lyla, she was going to be this towards Blueballs regardless. Due to her origin, it's very fitting that she gets under Cam's skin.
Earth-16063
Cyan (unmarked Spider-Verse comic spoilers)
Cyan
Origin: HoloFunk
Replaces: Addy Brock(?)
A dimwitted, non-protagonist Alternate Self of Kenji Tensei who is hopelessly and financially addicted to watching his favorite stars in Aloe's old company.- Alternative-Self Name-Change: Out-of-universe, Cyan either goes by that or "Kanji" per his artist RadioactShark/Jaxx. The latter makes it rather difficult to verbally and textually distinguish between him and Kenji in spite of how vastly different they are, so Funkinverse just sticks to "Cyan."
- Ascended Extra: Unlike Kenji, his original portrayal has no lore besides liking Virtual YouTubers and being unbelievably stupid. Now, he has a proper story role for Aloe... albeit one that ends in his demise.
- Ascended Fanboy: In the darkest way possible. As a stereotypical Virtual YouTuber fan, he's finally able to achieve the dream of meaning something to the Hololive girls... but it turns out his death is part of that.
- Composite Character: Takes on aspects of Gwen's Peter Parker (being a dead "swapped" Boyfriend) and Addy Brock (dying in the counterpart of Peni's universe.)
- The Fool: He's a complete idiot that was once described as not even thinking and is enough of a Loony Fan to send Too Much Information superchats to his world's Kanata Amane, but he still had an okay life and apparently rebuilt some semblance of the connection Kenji had to his Aloe. Unfortunately, that also got him targeted by a canon event.
- Foregone Conclusion: Replacing Addy Brock means that one way or another, he's going to die.
- In Spite of a Nail: Was originally written to get the FNF cast as far away as possible from the HoloFunk cast lore-wise compared to what Kenji and co. had going on. Funkinverse sets him back on that path, but this turns out to have fatal consequences.
- Our Angels Are Different: Unlike Kenji, he's a different species of angel with blue normal-shaped wings, plus two extra on his head. He also has no halo (the one in his hair is a hairclip), and lacks the strength of his Earth-13166 counterpart.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: It's quite telling that between the two HoloFunk worlds, the Boyfriend counterpart who's isn't carrying dirty laundry or actively degrading the reputation of their home universe is the one that's also dead.
Earth-2920
Cadence
Cadence
Origin: Family Night Funkin'
Replaces: N/A
"Dad, tell her it's my turn on the [PS5!]"
The very first Boyfriend replacement from a mod long forgotten. She's a young limbless girl who faces against her father to prevent him from banning music in her dimension.- Age-Appropriate Angst: Cam yells at her for being underaged, as if she shouldn't be admitted due to this (it's actually because he doesn't know who she is).
- Armless Biped: Lacks arms for some reason. She can still hold things despite this.
- Deliberately Monochrome: Cadence is never seen in color in official media, she and the other inhabitants of her mod are black and white.
- Teens Are Monsters: Cadence doesn't have this trope, but her sister Jenny does. When Cadence breaks a combo, Jenny sadistically smiles. An official piece of art shows Jenny trying to kill her younger sister while she's off guard with a hatchet.
Villains
Tricky
Dr. Hoffnar/Tricky
Origin: Madness Combat, MADNESS: Project Nexus 2 (Earth-409 appearance)
Replaces: Norman Osborne/Green Goblin
A Nevadan Mad Scientist granted superhuman strength after activating a device known as the Improbability Drive. In Salty's world, Solazar has since hired him as part of the muscle reinforcing the collider.- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Because "Hank" is just a persona used by an actual criminal, Hoffnar has no troubles working beside what would have been his archnemesis.
- Ambiguously Human: Since Hank is a human in Earth-409 and Nevada is its own universe (replacing Earth-9997, the world of Earth X), it's entirely possible but unconfirmed that Tricky may have once been human as well.
- In Spite of a Nail: While the existence of the Improbability Drive is heavily downplayed due to him filling in for one of the more disposable roles in the Spider-Verse script, Tricky still manages to cause chaos through a catastrophic distortion in reality due to the collider explosion that tore The Multiverse open still happening.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Unlike Gobby, his wounds from the collider explosion aren't fatal and merely serve as a Deus Exit Machina that keeps him out of the rest of the story anyways.
Hank (unmarked Into spoilers)
YaBoiSpeedz/Hank J. Wimbleton
Origin: N/A (Speedz), Madness Combat (Hank)
Replaces: Aaron Davis/The Prowler
The Author Avatar of the editor for SSN, who in this story serves the same role as Aaron Davis to Salty. Consequently, he's secretly the true identity of the Prowler's counterpart, the Nevadan mercenary Hank J. Wimbleton.- Adaptational Villainy: Hank would never cooperate with Tricky, considering he's the main villain of Madness Combat until the Auditor and Higher Powers are introduced and is still a major problem even after. However, Speedz using his identity to participate in the Sinister Six means he gets along with Dr. Hoffnar just fine.
- Adaptational Wimp: "Hank" is just a human persona, meaning he doesn't have the unusual resilience afforded to Nevadans. The absence of Nevada's technology also means once he dies, that's it. And per the Into script, that's exactly what happens.
- Adaptation Species Change: Because Hank is merely a persona used by Speedz, he's human instead of a Nevadan, which is a different species of humanoid with floating hands and tough clay-like skin.
- Alternate Self: The real Hank (specifically, the one from Friday Night Funkin': Antipathy used for this Hank's voice) is out there in The Multiverse, where the counterpart of Earth-9997 is.
- Barbaric Battleaxe: Retains the Prowler's animalistic way of fighting once he gives chase, and wields the giant axe from Antipathy.
- Composite Character: Hank is his own character in his home series. Here, he's a manufactured persona used by Speedz.
- Just Toying with Them: Likes to idle around while chasing targets. Unlike most cases of the trope, he does this as a legitimate combat strategy, since it often gets his marks to lower their guard or panic.
O!Sky
Skyler Curls/Sky
Origin: VS Sky (Concept in FNF), Sky Remanifested (O!Sky/Earth-409 Sky)
Replaces: Otto Octavious/Doctor Octopus, Earth-199999 Prowlernote
"Do you know how painful that would be, Boyfriend? You have no idea."
A Yandere Loony Fan of Boyfriend (or Girlfriend, depending on who you ask.) Her other main constant is the use of dark magic in her advances.
- Celebrity Cameo: The Sky replacing the live-action Aaron Davis is a caricature of TikTok cosplayer alltherightbrothers.
- Composite Character: Of a few variations of the Sky character, but more specifically of Skyblack from Hoodrats!, having some of her abilities, both combat wise and purely cosmetic, such as Skyblack's Nightmare Face.
- Named by the Adaptation: While the "Curls" surname is actually true, the name "Skyler" was created for the AU. Not to be confused with Skylar/Nusky.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Sky is always referred to as such, rather than her full name Skyler. She also claims her friends call her "Ms. Blue Hair and Pronouns".
- Power Floats: Does this in place of Doc Ock's appendgaes.
- Secret Identity: As a civilian working for Solazar under the name Skyler Curls. Her hair is even dyed blonde near the top, which sells the appearance. Brooke in universe couldn't recognize her, and readers sure weren't able to either.
Tabi
Tabi
Origin: V.S. TABI Ex Boyfriend (Original Appearance and VIP/Earth-409 Appearance)
Replaces: Scorpion
Girlfriend's scorned ex-boyfriend, still wanting revenge for what Daddy Dearest did to him. Given another chance by Solazar, he's let loose on the multiversal Boyfriends.
- Adaptational Curves: Due to how his VIP design looks, he's been given a significant amount of muscle to make him much more of a threat than he initially was. According to Tenzalt, the large build of Tabi is simply due to the coat he's wearing.
- Alternate Self:
- Has one recorded counterpart in Kenji's world, who is a Fallen Angel that is either a pyrokinetic or was casted out for pyromania. He was meant to encounter his world's Aloe eventually, something that the main Tabi finds himself doing.
- Another Tabi of unclear nature exists on Earth-16063. He stands out in this regard since the original HoloFunk 6.0.0 script dictates he and Boyfriend's other rivals should not be allowed to exist there, as Cyan, Crystal, and Daddy Dearest are all normal people. Regardless, Aloe subdued him without breaking NEO during the Time Skip, having learned from her encounter with the original.
- Berserk Button: The idea that there are other people like Boyfriend and Girlfriend out in the world. Seeing Aloe and realizing she reminds him of the duo sets him off enough to beat her to an inch of her life.
- In Spite of a Nail: The Earth-409 Tabi runs into the Aloe of Earth-16063 and flies off the handle at the sight of her. Had Kenji and Earth-13166 Aloe's story not been canceled, a version of this fight without any multiversal shenanigans was a very real possibility.
- Revenge by Proxy: Has it out for Aloe specifically because of how much she reminds him of both Boyfriend and Girlfriend, almost as if she's their protege and/or actually related to them. This isn't the case, but in Kenji's world however...
Solazar
Solazar
Origin: Friday Night Funkin': ENTITY
Replaces: Wilson Fisk/Kingpin
A sentient star-turned-media mogul who has an unexplained interest in Boyfriend and the anomalous, apparently willing to resort to assault and now criminal enterprising & exploitation of reality to get his way.- Adaptational Sympathy: Compared to Fisk's view of Spider-Man, Solazar ultimately winds up right about one thing when it comes to Boyfriend: he is a direct source of cosmic instability and interference. Something Agent Blueballs recognizes all too well, as the events following Solazar's defeat show.
- Adaptational Villainy: Solazar was a jerk willing to assault Boyfriend in his original mod, but he never stooped to organized crime and cooperating with the likes of the Sinister Six's counterparts to reach his goals.
- Alternate Self: A variant of Solazar is implied to exist in Kenji's world, as a counterpart of AGOTI also exists there who appeared to have the least amount of Adaptation Deviation compared to Tabi and Whitty. However, he was never brought up, as Kenji's AGOTI was never freed from the void and therefore prevented the rest of the ENTITY cast from acting.
- Hero Killer: Takes out Keith Ethans with a punch while he's downed, triggering the rest of the plot.
- History Repeats: The final setting of the collider fight (atop the floating debris of a highrise building) may seem familiar to anyone who's seen the developer footage for "Stratostellar."
- Karmic Shunning: Solazar's wife Amora ditches him after he gets caught ragging on Keith. Then she gets herself killed in a car accident per the Into script, and the rest is history. AGOTI and/or Aldryx, despite both seemingly filling the role of Richard Fisk, are stated to be completely ok, and are "off doing something".
- Villain with Good Publicity: Comes with the territory of his day job being a media manager.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Like in canon, as "Stratostellar" and The Stinger of AGOTI's original week implied. It's just that now, the blood on his hands as a Hero Killer truly outweighs the good in his goals.
Green
Green Impostor
Origin: Vs. Impostor (Green), Vs Sketchy (world of origin)
Replaces: Adriano Tumino/"Renaissance" Vulture
A professionalist-yet-irritable green Impostor from Sketchy's universe with the ability to transform into a winged creature.
- Adaptational Skill: Flies with wings instead of using Combat Tentacles.
- Deliberately Monochrome: Like Tumino, he appears as a colorless sketch, this time on notebook paper instead of parchment.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Based on an idle sketch of a Crewmate in the background of Vs Sketchy. Notably, he's the only Vulture counterpart like this, as the other ones mentioned are versions of Black and their crew from after they had already become professional killers.
- Irony: The person who usually mistreats Toomes to the point of becoming the Vulture is Norman Osborne, the Green Goblin. Toomes's role in Funkinverse is taken by Green's parasite form, whose appearance is Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
Grimbo
Grimbo/The X
Origin: Vs Sonic.exe (Grimbo identity), Sonic the Comic (civilian identity)
Replaces: Johnathan Ohnn/The Spot
"The World Shall Perish, By All Odds; Don't You Know That I Am GOD?"
A mild-mannered, Laughably Evil demon who looks a lot like Xenophanes. However, he soon becomes something Xeno could only dream of achieving in his quest for validation.
- Adaptational Abomination: The original Grimbo is basically another lighthearted take on Xenophanes. Here, he's merged with a pre-existing character concept that was already an Expy of the Spot, taking on his abilities and demented appearance.
- Adaptation Origin Connection: Inverted; reflecting his basis's actual lore, he's not from the same universe as Mobian Boyfriend.
- Allegorical Character: Of the history behind the real Xenophanes. While he was considered a joke of a horror character as time passed since his inception, FNF gave him a new lease on being able to be taken seriously — much like what happens to Spot in Across and thus Grimbo as The X.
- Alternate Self: Of Fleetway Sonic. Considering what happened to the original once he gained superpowers, it's no surprise Grimbo is just as unhinged as The X.
- Black Sheep: Like Ohnn, it's mentioned that he's been rejected by his family and friends since developing his powers.
- Composite Character: The X is actually a pre-existing character concept for another Spider-Verse story, one that crossed over with Sonic.exe. However, he was scrapped and replaced with a version of Eggman. He is also later revealed to be an Alternate Self of Fleetway (Super) Sonic on top of this, meaning he draws upon the insanity of that version of Sonic as well.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Sunday saying that bagels are the best breakfast food to Grimbo in a market (based on test footage for Across) is enough of a trigger for the demon to attack her, according to one comment made on the post for the Paranoia / Trypophobia cover.
- Expy: Notably, The X is the only character in the story who was already based on a Spider-Verse character to begin with. It also just so happens that the character in question is Spot.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: His primary Color Motifs after he gets an upgrade to his villainy.
- Vocal Dissonance: In a similar vein as Spot's Danger Deadpan, his voice is described as being similar to Alex Hirsch's portrayal of Bill Cipher, high-pitched and half-snarky in contrast to his demonic appearance.
- Weaksauce Weakness: It's stated that The X's weakness is Dr. Pepper. The soda burns his red spots like exposed flesh. However, no one actually knows this, which keeps his intimidation factor.
White Hank (unmarked Across spoilers)
Ghost Peppered Salty/White Hank
Origin: Salty's Sunday Night: Ghost Peppered (Salty), Madness WhiteHank (White Hank)
Replaces: Miles G. Morales
A 23-year-old Alternate Self of Peppered Salty who took up the identity of one of Hank J. Wimbleton's counterparts from his world's Speedz.
- Adaptational Villainy: The original Ghost Peppered Salty wasn't evil or even a Punch-Clock Villain, just someone more grounded in reality as a grown-up version of his original self. Here, he's a violent criminal at the bare minimum.
- Alternate Self: Exaggerated compared to Miles G.; he's an alternate of Salty's canon alternate.
- Composite Character: Like his appearance in the original Ghost Peppered, he uses the aesthetic of Peppered Salty, but has his personality derived from the prime Salty (since Peppered Salty is too weak and cowardly to be a villain.) Additionally, since White Hank is separate from Hank, that makes Salty's use of the identity a slightly different case of this trope from the original Speedz being Hank.
- Evil Twin: The villainous Alternate Universe counterpart of Salty, just like Miles G. is to Miles. They even share the same distinction of somehow having a different voice (while the prime Salty's is patterned after Jack Quaid's Hughie Campbell, Ghost Peppered Salty's is patterned after Troy Baker's Arkham Knight.)
- Gender Flip: White Hank is usually coded as female, but here, he's an identity used by the male Salty.
- Grew a Spine: Like the original, he's an older derivative of Peppered Salty who grew beyond his meek persona and the canon Salty's naivete from his first rodeo. Unfortunately, this isn't a good thing.
- Older and Wiser: A dark take on the trope, with him now knowing that he can't shy away from bloodshed if it's to keep his loved ones safe.
- Shout-Out: His voice is based on the Arkham Knight, voiced by Troy Baker. Both characters are masked villains whose true identities are former heroes turned to the dark side by a spiral of negativity in their home universe.
Spamco
Spamco
Origin: HoloFunk
Replaces: N/A
A strange saleswoman resembling a halfway between Spamton G. Spamton and one of Aloe's ex-coworkers. She was defeated in the past after stealing the data for a certain robot suit, with the resulting scraps used to create a new NEO suit on the surface.- Ambiguous Situation: As her existence (and by extension that of NEO's) is derived from a Cerebus Retcon, Spamco's exact nature remains unclear, as is the case with that of the Cyber World and its adherence to the source media. All that's known is that she isn't Coco Kiryu, NEO's plans exist on the surface like in Deltarune canon through unspecified means & causality, and since Aloe uses the Dealmaker, Generation 5 probably cut the wires instead of using raw violence.
- Identical Stranger: Played for Black Comedy; as Spamco is patterned after Coco, Fubuki (having apparently caught wind of the "BIG SHOT" incident) mistook the real deal for her shortly before the events of the story. This ends in Coco spending the story itself being treated for a gunshot wound to the leg.
- Mechanical Abomination: Whatever she is, she's not Coco Kiryu, and is more machine than dragon/Darkner/whatever after donning the NEO suit.
- Posthumous Character: Decommissioned before the Into acts. The body she stole was recycled through ambiguous means into Aloe's suit.
- Small Role, Big Impact: This Lethal Joke Character in HoloFunk is pretty much the entire reason Aloe is so different from how the original game writes her story.
The Corruption (unmarked Spider-Verse comic spoilers)
The Corruption
Origin: Friday Night Funkin': Corruption
Replaces: Venom (in general), VEN#M (first mention)
The infamous black-and-pink sludge that transforms whatever it engulfs into mindless beasts. It exists in every universe that isn't already touched by the Darkness, but only a few incarnations of it have shown themselves thus far. The catch? One has manifested in the one universe that should have never had it...- Adaptational Superpower Change: It now appears to be closer in line with the original Venom Symbiote (meaning hosts can stay human, but develop serious attitude problems), as Bartholomew is seen using it in an identical manner to the Spectacular Spider-Man's use of the Black Suit.
- Ambiguous Situation: There are two possibilities on what's going on with the first documented manifestation:
- It's played straight, like in the earliest sketches of HoloFunk Week 6 where it was meant to be Spirit's replacement.
- It's an adaptation of the Records Corruption, a similar force in both appearance and abilities spawned by Flayon's interference in Elysium. This would also give it a Harvester counterpart through one of Flayon's lore characters.
- Noodle Incident: The exact details of its manifestation as VEN#M's counterpart are never described, and considering the full extent of its actions in the original Spider-Verse comics, that's probably for the better.
- Offscreen Villainy: As it fills in for a villain that is only implied by cross-referencing the original Across script with the original Spider-Verse, its actions in Aloe's world, if any, are never shown. This is averted with Bartholomew's encounter, however, as it's shown he seemingly began acting similarly to Peter's use of the Symbiote.
- Outside-Context Problem: Zig-zagged; the Society is aware of its existence and has planned accordingly, but the Funkin' Gang has no experience dealing with it except for Aloe. Even for her, there's a non-zero chance a straight case of the trope from her friends' perspectives is involved.
Iodine/Lemon Squeezy (Unmarked The Spider Within spoilers)
Iodine
Origin: N/A
Replaces: Miles's Anxiety Manifestation
The manifestation of not only Salty's fears and anxiety, but also his previous life as a girl.
- Adaptational Gender Identity: Even though the shadow Miles doesn't seem to have a concrete gender, Iodine has a confirmed set of pronouns, she/it.
- Allegorical Character: As stated, Iodine is a manifestation of Salty's anxiety and past identity.
- Anxiety Dreams: The reason it appears to Salty to begin with. She's a manifestation of his anxiety and past.
- Dark Is Evil: Iodine is completely shrouded in shadow, with only the outline of her head and hair being seen.
- Evil Counterpart: Sort of. Given it's supposed to be a pre-transition Salty, the trope is warranted.
- Meaningful Name: Iodine is used for the consumption of table salt, which Salty's entire motif is based on.
Legacy content
Characters shown in older iterations of the story before being retconned. B-Sides Boyfriend
B-Sides Boyfriend
Origin: Friday Night Funkin': B-Sides
Replaced: Peter B. Parker
"Look, I'm not looking for a side gig to be a Boyfriend FNF coach."
A pink-haired version of Boyfriend, dumped into Salty's universe after the death of the original. Circumstances force him to lecture the latter on how to become his counterpart's successor... and maybe save the world and clean up his own loose ends in the process.On December 19th, 2023, LemonDew replaced him with Brooke due to the latter's better coding for Peter B.
- Adaptational Ugliness: His outfit from B-Sides Redux is recontextualized as being disheveled for various reasons (first Peter B.'s situation in Into, then to resemble the sleepwear he wears in Across) instead of the slick look the original mod made it out to be.
- Age Lift: Old enough to have children, at least.
- Deconstructed Character Archetype: An Alternate Self defined solely by how their adventures are made out to be tougher than the original despite feeling exactly the same will inevitably have any suffering the original faces multiplied by that same degree — and while this is obvious in and of itself, it's also severely isolating since only they will endure this fate.
- Real Men Wear Pink: His primary Color Motifs are hot pink and light purple, but he's faced tougher battles than his blue-haired counterpart.
Friend.FLA
Friend.FLA
Origin: Vs Whitty Psych Port
Replaced: Spider-Rex
A cruel abomination taking Boyfriend's shape and terrorising its victims akin to the likes of Lord X or MX. For some reason, Friend had become a member of the Funkin' Society.Friend has since been swapped out for Kaiju Boyfriend, who better fits along the criteria for Spider-Rex.
- Eldritch Abomination: Friend to a T, although this isn't obvious at first glance. It only reveals its true form after it's ready to kill its targets.
Updike
Gabriel Updike
Origin: Vs Whitty
Replaced: Wilson Fisk/Kingpin
An anomaly researcher who will go to any length to attain what he considers the "greater good," seemingly to the point of tearing open The Multiverse and hiring the Sinister Six's counterparts to do so.Updike was replaced with Solazar on March 6th, 2024 due to Sockclip forbidding his use in derivative material.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: His relationship with Whitty is in a neutral state compared to every iteration of his original lore, meaning there's no friction in them working together.
- Hero Killer: Takes out Keith Ethans with a punch while he's downed, triggering the rest of the plot.
- Karmic Shunning: While single unlike Fisk, Gabe still loses an important set of relationships when his friends ditch him after getting caught ragging on Keith. Then they get themselves killed in a car accident per the Into script, and the rest is history.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Like in canon. It's just that now, the blood on his hands as a Hero Killer truly outweighs the good in his goals.
