The Pre-Scratch Exiles are examples of

• Ascended Fridge Horror: Fans speculated that because the Kid's scratch would reset their Universe, the Exiles we know would die as part of it rebooting. Then Jack Noir himself came and slaughtered them all, leaving just PM and a mortally wounded WV.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: Invoked by Andrew in supplemental material; The Wanderers contains many upbeat songs and art of the Exiles being happy, which came only a few months before three of them were Killed Off for Real.
• Big Good: PM
• Chess Motifs: PM and WV are both Pawns, AR is probably one too. WK and WQ are royalty though.
  • PM traveled to the other side of the board and was promoted, AR sacrificed himself early on for John, similar to a Rook, and WV is a subversion in that he rejects the rules and attacks his own king.
• Five-Man Band:
  • The Hero: WV, before becoming The Chick.
  • The Lancer: AR
  • The Big Guy: PM, before replacing WV as The Hero.
  • The Smart Guy: WQ
  • The Sixth Ranger: WK
• Gender Flip: Flip the genders of all the Exiles and their story becomes a fairly standard following of The Hero's Journey.
• Homage: WV and PM are seen by many to be one to WALL•E *
  Post-apocalyptic non-humans (one dirty but an endearing Nice Guy and one Badass white girl) meet up and develop a relationship. The white girl ends up doing drastic things to save the life of the boy and is ultimately successful. That description could apply to WV and PM or WALL-E and EVE.
• Iron Woobie
• Killed Off for Real: AR, WQ, and WK. The White Royalty may return after a fashion as the Alpha session's new royalty, but it remains to be seen.
• Leitmotif: Explore, for all of them.
• Official Couple: WK and WQ. PM and WV are hinted at throughout the comic.
• Took a Level in Badass: Oh so very much so. Although the WQ and WK actually vaguely stepped down in their badass levels, PM and WV were just normal pawns that are now respectively a Queen destined to become a space warping One-Man Army and the hero of a (failed) revolution.
• Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Subverted. Word Of God states they were going to use the teleporters in the bases to escape their universe, and then destroy the bases so no one else could follow them. Then Jack arrived. Needless to say, it failed.

Wayward Vagabond / Warweary Villein / Wastelandic Vindicator / Wizardly Vassal / The Mayor

Years in the future, but not many, a WAYWARD VAGABOND records a stuttering step in the sun-bleached dust.

Exiled to the ruined Earth during the Reckoning, he plants suggestions in John's head using a mysterious terminal he finds in a bunker in a desert where Rose's house used to be. Prior to his exile, he was a simple WARWEARY VILLEIN attempting to eke out a living as a farmer on the battlefields of Skaia. He incited a revolution against the Black King, fulfilling his role as a game concept, but his army was slaughtered by Jack Noir. The fourth playable character introduced.

• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!:
  "Perhaps one day you will find something new to bear. A burden befitting of the peasant you truly are.
  Oh my what's that shiny thing in the water."
• Audience Surrogate: He provides the all-caps directions that John hears in Act 2 after the meteor destroys John's suggestion box.
• Authority In Name Only: "The glorious founder and mayor of CAN TOWN. A number of rather civic-minded CITIZEN CANS offer adulation to their fair and magnanimous leader."
• Bad Dreams
• Berserk Button: KINGS. He's okay with WQ though.
• Bloody Murder: By proxy at least; WV's blood on Jack's hand is used as a starting point for RED MILES. Odd use in that it's entirely cosmetic. Jack can use RED MILES regardless of whether or not he has a source of blood, it just looks cool.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Fortunately for him, his grasp on reality is pretty tenuous.
• The Chosen One: Subverted. Word Of God says that WQ privately chose him to wield the ring. It doesn't happen.
• The Cuckoolander Was Right: Several times, most notably saying John was the apprentice of a thief.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Despite being a Dersite, he's one of the nicer people in the series; his earlier rudeness to John was simply because he didn't know about human etiquette. He was even able to lead an army of both Prospitians and Dersites against the Black King.
• Dangerous Deserter: Zig-zagged. WV deserted the Black Army to be a farmer, but none of his superiors seem to care — at least until he got fed up and raised an army to overthrow them. Then, the only one to act on it was an usurper who left him alone alive to see the ruination of his dreams.
• Decoy Protagonist: Zig zags around. He was built up for some time as the central Exile, seemingly destined to be the one who faced Jack even as PM took a more proactive role. Then Jack punched a hole through his stomach, and PM got the ring anyway. But he still ends up much more important to the main characters directly, while PM remains more distant.
• Extreme Omnivore: In addition to haven eaten a pumpkin, a potted plant, several pieces of chalk, a chunk of uranium, a cyborg bunny's eye, and he learned proper human etiquette by eating a book on it. It seems like he'll eat anything as long as it's green, or if it had been green at some point in time. Doesn't matter if it's edible or not.
  • The one exception to this is paradox ghost slime, which he describes as "unappetizing sludge."
• Foreshadowing: Nannasprite's exposition to John and WV's interruptions hinted WV's true role long before it was actually revealed.
• For Want of a Nail: Jack Noir was able to slaughter all the Exiles, escape into the trolls' session, and kill Bilious Slick...because WV hit the Caps Lock key at the wrong time.
• Genius Ditz: He wastes lots of time doing stupid things like playing with cans, but the Wayward Vagabond seems to be remarkably adept with computers (even bizarre alien computers he has never seen before) as well as being able to think very fast on his feet and having "an uncanny knack for tracking precise distances [he has] already traversed, in whatever units [he chooses]."
  • Which makes some sense for a chess piece who spent his life on a battlefield.
• Heroic BSOD: Seeing the armies he led into rebellion getting brutally, mercilessly slaughtered may well account for his eccentricities.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: All of the joke speculation that WV is an Imp. He's a Pawn *
  Which is virtually the same in the scheme of things, they just don't drop grist and fight on the Battlefield instead
  !
• Hilarity Ensues: Pretty much everything WV does. Including going on a road trip in the middle of a battlefield. Except his backstory, that's not hilarious at all. At least until he meets up with John. Then it was hilarious again.
• I Have Many Names: More so than the rest.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Jack really wanted that uranium.
  • Made of Iron: He survives barely, because of PM's help, and the Healing Hands of an Alternate Timeline Feferi.
• Informed Attractiveness: It's sort of hard for us to see the intricacies of chess people hotness, but apparently he had quite the gaggle of admirers at one point.
• Instant Fan Club: His planetary army is revealed to be basically this. He is apparently also attractive and has numerous fan girls.
• Iron Woobie: Poor guy saw his entire army slaughtered in front of him, AFTER his farm was burned down. It's been theorized that the previously-just-for-laughs Can Town is actually his way of coping with the guilt.
  • Not to mention seeing a friend brutally murdered in his sleep in front of his eyes by Jack AGAIN.
  • Poor guy can't get a break. While asleep, he dreams that he transforms into Jack Noir... And then is forced to watch as he slaughters his own army.
  • Not to mention everything that applies to PM pretty much applies to him.
• Jerkass: At first, but only because he didn't know how to be polite.
• Leitmotif: Vagabounce.
• Mayor of Can Town
• The Messiah: He managed to unify two armies directly opposed to one another.
• My Greatest Failure
• Not so Different: He and Jack have a lot of a similarities, although Jack is outright evil whereas WV is more foolish than anything else. And of course, they're counterparts in eliminating members of the Black Royalty.
• Number One Dime: A MAYOR DOES NOT RELINQUISH HIS MAYORAL SASH UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES EVER PERIOD
• Plucky Comic Relief: He is a Cloud Cuckoolander to the extreme, and even being on a Trauma Conga Line barely manages to faze him. Nevertheless, virtually everything he does is humorous and while he does still have plot importance, it is fairly minor.
• Psychic Dreams for Everyone: A small subversion. Somehow, WV is able to influence or outright dream in dreambubbles; something no other carapace has ever been known to do, even without being in the Furthest Ring. However, it's the norm for players.
• Red Herring: There were a number of hints that he would put on the White Queen's Ring. The ring ultimately went to PM, who was already a white queen.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Raised a planetary army in response to constant warfare burning down his farm.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: To the Black Army
• Sidequest Sidestory: In an ordinary session, WV functions as a backdoor means to eliminate the Black King, though it is seemingly extremely difficult to do so. Didn't happen in the Kid's session because of Jack.
  • Killed Off for Real: His alternate in the Troll session is implied to have been this, due to none of the Trolls reaching Skaia in time to aid him before he was destroyed by the Black King.
  • This fact is never outright stated in story, but was confirmed on Hussie's old Formspring.
• Supporting Protagonist: In terms of story, PM is the hero of the Exiles, but he is the one we focus on the most and was introduced first. This was subverted later, with WV becoming much more directly important to the protagonists.
• Sure, Why Not?: WV being an ex-soldier is technically Fanon that hasn't been outright stated in story yet, but Andrew canonized it via Formspring responses.
• Take a Third Option: Opted to attack BOTH the White King and the Black King, he and his army simply attacked the Black King first.
• Trademark Favorite Drink: Tab — purely because it's drinkable.
  • He repeats the same "drinking" binge with shaving cream later in the story (and earlier in his past).
• Trademark Favorite Food: He compulsively eats anything green, and he sometimes doesn't even seem aware that he does so. He also describes green text and buttons as "attractive" and tells John not to die in the "tasty fire" when he's surrounded by green flames.
• Transformation Sequence: Literally, in his dreams.
  • Body Horror: For him at least.
• Trauma Conga Line: His farm burns down, his army is slaughtered, his mission from John is a failure, he's exiled and wanders Earth alone for several hundred years, watches as Jack murders John, he has a horrific nightmare about Jack, and just as things are looking up for him, Jack comes in, rips uranium out of his stomach, and leaves him to bleed to death.

Peregrine Mendicant / Parcel Mistress / Prospitian Monarch

Minutes in the future, though perhaps not as few as implied by circumstance, a PEREGRINE MENDICANT trundles precious cargo beneath the gleam of the celestially ominous.

Like the Wayward Vagabond, a wandering soul living in the future who, while wheeling around a collection of mailboxes, stumbles across a Sburb capsule. Prior to the Reckoning, she was a simple PARCEL MISTRESS on a quest to deliver a very important package. The sixth playable character.

• Action Girl: That sword sure ain't there just to look nice.
  • What does she do when she sees that Bec Noir is attacking AR and WV? Leaps at him with her sword. When that fails? Prototypes herself with WQ's ring, giving her powers equal to him, grabs WV's wounded body, and confronts Bec Noir directly. That this is only the second time we have ever seen a genuine Oh Crap moment on his part should tell you everything you need to know.*
    Discovering his "misstep
    " in the intermission between Acts 4 and 5 was the first.]]
• The Aloner: After she sends WV and Serenity to Karkat and the others, she's essentially completely alone.
• Almighty Janitor: From postal worker to monarch in no time at all.
• Awesome Moment of Crowning
• Berserk Button: Don't mess with the mail. No, seriously. Do not mess with the mail. Even more of a berserk button? Killing her friends.
• Beware the Nice Ones: After he attacks her and steals away the White King's scepter, PM beheads the Hegemonic Brute.
  • Jack Noir killed WQ, WK, AR, and severely wounded WV. PM is PISSED.
• Break the Cutie: Averted; all of the traumatic events she's gone through have only strengthened her resolve.
• Character Development: Originally a peaceful, pacifistic and duty-bound Pawn, eventually developed into a courageous, able-bodied, and determined Queen.
• Chess Motifs: Starts as a pawn; gets promoted to Queen.
• Cool Sword: One of the main reasons for being an Ensemble Darkhorse.◊
• The Determinator: The mail. Will. Be. Delivered. She ends up pretty mad at John, but it is delivered.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Sort of. We've already met Peregrine Mendicant, but Dream Jade gives us an early look at Parcel Mistress.
• Ensemble Darkhorse
• The Everyman: More so than the rest of the Exiles, but changes a fair amount as she becomes Queen.
• Fan Nickname: Bec Blanche, post-prototyping.
• Foe Yay: With Jack after PM followed him to get revenge. Jack ♥'s PM now, but PM ♠'s Jack.
• Good Counterpart: To Jack, after putting on the White Queen's Ring.
• Informed Attractiveness: Like with WV, it's bit hard for us to tell, but both WV and AR say how cute she is.
• Meaningful Name: PM = Private Message or Postman.
• Nice Hat: The Postman's Cap. And the mailbox crown, although she doesn't especially like it.
• Physical God: Now she's inherited the White Queen's ring.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Put on the WQ's ring and followed Jack into the troll's session to enact one. He looked positively terrified about it, but it turns out that he was actually lovestruck instead. She, on the other hand, has fallen into kismesissitude for him.
• Samus Is a Girl
• Shout Out: The Postman, a movie about someone clinging to the symbolism of mail delivery as a bastion of civilization in a post-apocalyptic setting.
• Sure, Why Not?: The reason PM is female.
• Trauma Conga Line: Prospit's destruction, the deaths of the Exiles, everything really.
• Unstoppable Mail Lady: The mail is life. The mail is the very fabric of civilization.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?: MAIL!

Aimless Renegade / Authority Regulator / Armaments Regent

Years in the future, which is to say, THE PRESENT MOMENT PRECISELY, an AIMLESS RENEGADE prepares for company.

The third future wanderer, who is investigating the Frog Temple and is covered in yellow police tape. Prior to his exile, he was an AUTHORITY REGULATOR tasked with the enforcement of the law in the kingdom of Derse. The eighth playable character.

• Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Backfires on AR; he hesitates destroying the final terminal because WV is still inside it, and Jack kills him.
• BFG: He's got what looks like an AK-47 with a scope and tactical polymer furniture attached for Rule Of Cool.
  • Ambidextrous Sprite: The scope mount goes on the left side of the weapon, not the right. The bolt handle is also absent from its normal position.
• Captain Ersatz: Appearance aside, his personality and actions are very similar to Judge Dredd.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Despite being a Dersite (and obsessed with law and order) he also seems to be a good guy, especially when he saves John's life. "Another public servant makes a sacrifice. A citizen's safety, secured."
• The Ditz
• Hanging Judge: So far he seems to be played up as this, fashioning a courtroom and judge outfit from weapon parts and punishing misdemeanors with judicious use of heavy artillery. At any rate, he seems as obsessed with the law as WV and PM are with mayorhood and mail.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He saves John by strapping him to a rocket board, which is, seemingly, the only means of escaping from an Earth-bound meteor. But he obviously survives, as we had already seen his future self.
  • Senseless Sacrifice: His hesitation about blowing up the terminal WV at first appears to be a moot point, as WV has the Uranium ripped out of his stomach by Jack and is left for dead. Subverted when WV just barely survives, justifying AR's earlier hesitation.
• I Am The Trope: Be the law.
• Impossibly Cool Clothes: The other "desert" characters (WV and PM) are dressed in grey or beige-colored robes. AR wears yellow caution tape fashioned into wrappings. He also has a judge's wig made out of bullets. Complete with a gavel made out of a grenade and a bayonet.
• Judge, Jury, and Executioner
• Juggling Loaded Guns: He uses an impaled grenade as a gavel at one point.
• Large Ham
• Leitmotif: Tomahawk Head, a bonus track from The Wanderers.
• Meaningful Name: AR = Assault Rifle
• More Dakka: He's lugged a full-size arsenal up to that temple.
• Nightmare Fuel: In-verse, seeing Bec as a puppy casually destroy a terminal made AR terrified of him.
• Not so Above It All: "You fail to resist the urge to ride Bro's rocket board. Shit this flagrant should be illegal."
• Off with His Head!
• Punny Name: See Ted Baxter. He's the Aimless Renegade.
• Satellite Character: Doesn't really do a whole bunch aside from shout at people about the law.
• Stealth Pun: He doesn't get his name from lack of purpose alone.
• Ted Baxter: He believes his aim is impeccable. From what we've seen, Stormtroopers would find his marksmanship lacking.

Windswept Questant / White Queen

A WINDSWEPT QUESTANT suddenly appears.

The fourth exile, who suddenly appeared out of an egg-shaped Sburbcraft. Communicated with Rose through her Sburb device. Prior to her exile, she was the WHITE QUEEN, adored sovereign of Prospit, who abdicated her throne in order to help PM on her quest. After PM becomes the Prospitian Monarch, she is appointed as her royal adviser.

• The Chessmaster: One of the few people who seems to actually understand everything that's going on aside from being unaware of the Trolls.
  • Out Gambitted: WQ's plan fell apart at the last second.
• Flat Character: She does little other than advance the plot, and her character beyond that is virtually unknown.
• Gambit Roulette: Her abdication.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
• Leitmotif: Riches to Ruins Movements I & II, shared with WK.
• Meaningful Name: A "Questant" is one who undertakes a quest.
• Noble Fugitive
• Official Couple: With WK of course.
• Oh Crap: Her reaction on seeing Jack.
• Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Thanks to Jack, everything she did and sacrificed was literally All for Nothing.
• The Stoic: She's proven to be completely unflappable even during the destruction of Prospit.

White King / Writ Keeper

The former King of Prospit, who hid inside the time capsule in the Frog Temple to survive and become the Writ Keeper on the future Earth.

• Badass Bookworm: He's been shown to be completely engrossed in Rose's novel and on Skaia he led armies.
• Chekhov's Gun: When he appears as the Writ Keeper, he is seen reading "Complacency of the Learned", a story written by Rose. The story is nominally about wizards, but Word Of God has said that it represents Rose's subconscious mind about the creation of the universe — specifically the Troll's game of SGRUB. What knowledge the Writ Keeper will gain from it remains to be seen.
  • Unfortunately, we never know what he learns because he's immediately killed. He'll probably be reset with the Scratch, but he'll know nothing of his past life.
• Flat Character: Has appeared very few times, so his personality as of yet is still more or less an unknown.
• Leitmotif: Riches to Ruins Movements I & II, shared with WQ.
• Official Couple: With WQ
• Off with His Head!
• Red Herring: As the Writ Keeper, he seemed to be built up as having an important role in the lives of the exiles... then Jack kills him within 20 seconds of his actually appearing.
• Sixth Ranger
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Almost immediately after emerging from the seed, Jack kills him before he can do anything at all.

Carapacians

A bunch of "Exiles" taken from the Post-Scratch Session by the Condesce, to form the backbone of her new empire. They mostly live on floating cities that resemble chessboards, and according to Dirk they're essentially slums. Roxy lives in one of these cities, and was raised by them. On occasion some of the Carapacians sneak into her lab to hunt her cats. None of them have names or distinct appearances, with exception to one who led a hunting party into Roxy's lab, who is still nameless.

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• Call Back: A lot of them almost look like known exiles like the Midnight Crew, but none of them are exactly identical to them. Most notably, the apparent leader of the hunting party looks sort of like a cross between Jack Noir and WV, and uses a crowbar.
  • The ones that most closely resemble PM have one of their eyes covered by their robes. Their apparent leader does as well.
• Expy: In terms of appearance at least. Their apparent leader looks exactly like a cross between WV and Jack Noir, having slanted pupils but having rings under them and claws for fingers. Others are more indistinct though.
  • In sprite form, two of them resemble AR and default pawns (like WV) with different robes.
• Faceless Masses: Mostly.
• Fan Nickname: The Skaia imageboard tags them as the 'Famished Ruffians'.
• Reduced to Ratburgers: Roxy tries to avoid thinking about how they're probably breaking into her lab to eat her mutant cats.
• You All Look Familiar: Aside from their apparent leader, all of them share their appearance with another exile in their group, including robes, though this might be Andrew simply copying sprites, as it didn't seem to be the case with their drawn crowd shot.
  • Of course, there's only so many ways to draw random, nameless Dersites without them looking somewhat like a named character.

The Midnight Crew were originally non-canonical characters from Problem Sleuth, wherein they were Team Sleuth's Psycho Ranger counterparts, waging grand warfare against the protagonists through donation-funded commands. In the Homestuck universe, they were apparently so popular that the MS Paint Adventures site that the characters visit features a Midnight Crew adventure as the followup to Problem Sleuth, something which Andrew Hussie apparently considered in real life after abandoning the all-Flash version of Homestuck.

The Midnight Crew featured in an intermission between Acts 3 and 4 of Homestuck, wherein they invaded the mansion home of their rival gang The Felt with the aim of ending their gang war once and for all. They later out to be part of the Homestuck canon after all, existing in the distant post-apocalyptic future of Alternia (612 Alternian years in the future, to be exact) in much the same capacity as Earth's exiles, taking Mutually Fictional to Up to Eleven levels.

All Midnight Crew members provide examples of:

• Anti-Hero: Type V. They're only considered heroes during "Operation Regisurp" in the Troll's Session, due to their alliance with the protagonists. In the kid's session, they are definitely evil, and their leader is the primary antagonist.
  • Later in story, they're only considered heroic at all because Lord English and the Felt are worse. They still casually murder people and given half the chance would become just as dangerous as Jack Noir and the agents under him in the Kid's session.
• Evil Counterpart\Psycho Rangers: of the characters of Problem Sleuth
  • Spades Slick: Problem Sleuth
  • Clubs Deuce: Ace Dick
  • Diamond Droog: Pickle Inspector
  • Hearts Boxcars: Fiesta Ace Dick
• Face Framed In Shadow: Justified as they're former citizens-slash-Agents of Derse, and therefore have shiny black carapaces.
• Killed Off for Real: The Intermission ends with only Spades Slick alive, after traveling to a timeline where the other three are dead. Later on he kills Snowman, ending the universe and himself.
  • Or so it seemed, until Andrew listed Slick as "?" instead of dead in this panel. Slick is later confirmed to be alive behind the fourth wall.
• Meaningful Rename: Like other Prospitians and Dersites.
• Nice Hat
• Porn Stash

♠ Spades Slick ♠ / Scurrilous Straggler

The leader of the Midnight Crew. Armed, dangerous, and extremely violent. He and Diamonds Droog are probably the smartest members of the crew. Notably, Spades "made this town what it is." "Wasn't nothing but a bunch of dust and rocks before [he] got here." Long before the Midnight Crew, he was the Jack Noir present in the trolls' session, who allied with the trolls to overthrow and exile the Black Queen but was exiled himself in revenge. He wandered the post-apocalyptic Alternian desert for years as the Scurrilous Straggler before founding the Midnight Crew and returning civilization to the planet.

Though it seemed he died in the destruction of the Troll Universe, Andrew Hussie (in comic that is) swooped in and saved him. He was badly hurt and had to be turned into a cyborg

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• Ambidextrous Sprite: Invoked hilariously.
• Antihero: Firmly a Type 5 on the Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes. Sburb gave him an ambitious, ruthless personality so that he'd help the players take out his boss, the Black Queen, before the Reckoning. In the Trolls' session he performs his task as he's meant to and assists them in banishing the Queen. In the kids' session, this backfires spectacularly.
• Artificial Limbs: By the time we get back to him at Doc Scratch's apartment, he has picked up a robo-arm to replace the one Snowman took off.
  • Cyborg: As of the 2nd intermission of chapter 6 he's starting to resemble the Bunny: he's got one Electronic Eye and an Eyepatch of Power, both arms are robotic, and metal plates cover the top of his face.
• Badass: Throughout the course of the Intermission, it becomes increasingly clear that you do not fuck with the Midnight Crew under any circumstance.
  • Badass Normal: He fights the Felt and does pretty well.
    • Badass Abnormal: Now he's just a straight up Cyborg.
• Blood Brothers: With Karkat, back when he was Jack Noir.
• Bond One-Liner: "Time travel sure can be a... DOUBLE EDGED SWORD."
  • Incredibly Lame Pun: "Wait, that was awful. Really really bad. You're sure you can do better than that."
• Carry a Big Stick: Welcomed into a home, Slick wields a Simple Staff while attacking Doc Scratch, Dragon to Lord English of the Felt, the Midnight Crew's Arch-Enemy.
• Complexity Addiction: On review, his heists seem a bit convoluted.
• Death Dealer: All the members of the Midnight Crew can turn their weapons or other belongings into playing cards.
• Did You Just Beat Cthulhu Over The Head With A Club?: Yes, yes you did. For several minutes, in fact.
  • Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Lord English is coming to finish off Slick himself.
• Disney Death: A page showing all the dead characters has a question mark next to him, making his fate ambiguous. Hussie's tumblr also stated that he's taking care of Slick. This seemed like a joke, until it was remarkably confirmed at the beginning of Act 6 Intermission 2.
  • However, unlike other characters who had undergone similar circumstances, Slick had to undergo an Emergency Transformation and is heavily mechanical now.
• Driven to Suicide: Word Of God is that Slick was trying to do this by killing Snowman. It failed.
• Evil Counterpart: Word Of God says he is one to Problem Sleuth.
• Eyepatch of Power: After his other eye is injured. He keeps even after the robotics because he thought it looked cool.
• Eye Scream: When Snowman stabs him in the eye with her cigarette holder.
• Foe Yay: With Snowman.
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: When Karkat doesn't calm down after Sollux dies, Jack eventually starts slapping the crap out of him.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Gets one across his eye.
• Knife Nut
  GC: K4RK4T, H3S 4 J3RK!
  GC: H3 H4S ST4BB3D YOU ON MOR3 TH4N ON3 OCC4S1ON!
  CG: SOME OF THOSE STABBINGS WERE ACCIDENTAL!
• More Dakka: Averted, we have never seen and probably will never see what Spade Slick's gun is, if he even has one.
• Named Weapons: He's got OCCAM'S RAZOR, a DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD, a BUTTERFLY EFFECT KNIFE, and his very own RAPIER WIT. There's something of a theme to these names...
  • Don't forget the BAIT AND SWITCHBLADE.
• Never Found the Body: Although he's caught in an exploding universe in Cascade, we never see him die. Eventually we find that Hussie saved him somehow.
• Not so Above It All: Here and here, as a Mythology Gag. Characters in Problem Sleuth did stuff like this all the time.
• Only The Author Can Save Them Now: Literally. The author himself personally rescues him from the Scratch.
• Percussive Therapy: Nothing rankles him like Lord English's "stupid" obsession with clocks. Spades will smash any clock — even a laptop readout.
• Perpetual Frowner
• Pet the Dog: Showing Karkat his blood is "candy-red" too during the Hivebent intermission to calm him down.
  • And again, he tries to console Karkat after Sollux died.
    There, there, you blubbering goddamn pansy.
• Porn Stash: All the Midnight Crew members carry one. Spades's is Terrier Fancy.
  • Which becomes pretty funny once you consider his counterpart's final prototyping.
• Rule Of Cool: Spades Slick doesn't let Andrew repair his other eye because the eyepatch looks cooler.
• Ship Tease: With Ms. Paint.
• The Starscream: to the Black Queen's Megatron. She gets him back, though.
• Suicide By Cop: In an incredibly roundabout way. However, he still survives.
• Surrounded by Idiots: During the troll arc. Although it was Spades Slick from the intermission that remarked on this, as he was communicating from the future.
• Sweet Tooth: When offered sweets from a candy bowl, pockets a few handfuls, then dumps the whole bowl into his hat.
• Tempting Fate: "She'll have to pry this thing from your rigid severed arm if she wants it back."
• Trademark Favorite Food: Licorice Scottie Dogs
• Ungrateful Bastard: After getting fixed up by Andrew, he starts stabbing him. Might be more attributed to the Ax Crazy Knife Nut mentality of the Jack Noirs.

♣ Clubs Deuce ♣

• Ambiguously Gay: His porn stash is called Black Inches and his race is literally black.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, pretty clocks!
• Beware the Nice Ones: He sticks a time bomb under Doze's hat. While this was ordered by Diamonds Droog, he didn't seem too sorry about it, considering how he was 'interrogating' Doze previously.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: This video, which was authenticated into canon by Word Of God.
• Death Dealer
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
• More Dakka: Averted, his gun is a dinky little pistol, which looks downright pathetic in the shootout scene where on his team HB and DD are using a freaking minigun and dual assault rifles respectively while on the felt side Stitch, Crowbar, and Sawbuck are using an Fullsize Uzi, an overlarge tommy gun, and a Spas-12 shotgun respectively.
• No Mouth: Like how people from Derse and Prospit are typically portrayed, but he stands out from the other members of the Midnight Crew, who do have mouths.
• Porn Stash: Black Inches, which originally appeared in previous adventures.
• Psychopathic Manchild
• Spider Tank: The place where he communicates with Dream Sollux.
• What Do You Mean, It\'s Not Heinous?: He interrogates Doze by lightly tapping him on the knee and swapping hats with him.

♦ Diamonds Droog ♦

• Awesomeness by Analysis
• Badass in a Nice Suit: Although all the members of the Midnight Crew are well-dressed, Droog takes particular pride in his classy outfit.
• The Chessmaster: He was able to, using the forensics evidence of some destroyed clocks and a single lost tooth, figure out exactly when Fin was going to try and bite him from the past, and fill him full of lead instead. Meanwhile, he used knowledge of The Felt's temporal abilities, Clubs Deuce, and a time bomb to redirect Trace, who was attacking from the future, and kill off both him and Doze at the same time. Pretty safe to say that Droog is the smartest and the best planner.
• Crazy-Prepared: His BRAWLSOLEUM has multiple BACKUP HATS, several tasteful suits, and a shitload of guns and cards. He eventually subdued and captured Stitch as well, just in case.
• Death Dealer
• Guns Akimbo: His weapons of choice are an AK-47 and a second assault rifle of a different type. Note that instead of two SMGs or pistols he's wielding full sized assault rifles.
• More Dakka: The inevitable result of dual weilding assault rifles.
• Porn Stash: Grey Ladies, which he keeps inside a newspaper.
• Shout Out: His name refers to the Nadsat term for "friend" from A Clockwork Orange, and his theme is called Carbon Nadsat.
• So Proud of You: His treatment of Aradia, to whom he is an exile guide, is peppered with this. In his one shown conversation he used phrases like "Atta girl" and "That's what I like to hear". Aradia however seems to resent it.
  • Though it's implied that is not all there is to it, considering Droog has a fetish for grey women, and Trolls and Aradia specifically are grey. His Porn Stash was in his hands at the same time as his comments above.

• The Stoic: Even when he's angry, he doesn't show it.

♥ Hearts Boxcars ♥

• An Axe to Grind: Boxcars has quite the impressive collection of battleaxes (along with a mace or two). Ironically, while he goes on to decapitate another character (Eggs), it's... not by using an axe.
• Big Eater: Literally.
• Born Lucky: The thing about Hearts Boxcars is that he ALWAYS ROLLS BOXCARS.
• Butt Monkey: His encounters with Eggs, Biscuits and Cans make him this.
  • "YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL..."
• Death Dealer
• Evil Counterpart: While at first it may seem he has no clear analogue in Team Sleuth's three man band, Hearts Boxcars is pretty similar to the Hired Muscle that was payed to work with Team Sleuth until his eventual death.
  • Possibly also an analogue to AD as well, in that he is freakishly strong and angry often.
• Gatling Good: his gun of choice is a minigun. It's probably the weapon counterpart of the wax lips.
• I'm a Humanitarian: Poor Eggs.
  • Possibly foreshadowed by this page. His favorite candy is wax lips, and he would eat the eyeballs of anyone who tried to steal them.
• Meaningful Name: The thing about Hearts Boxcars is HE ALWAYS ROLLS BOXCARS (double sixes on dice).
• More Dakka: He has a damned minigun; that's an awful lot of lead for a gangster.
• Porn Stash: Red Cheeks.
• Perpetual Frowner
• Shipper on Deck: Vriska/Tavros, very aggressively so.
  • Or maybe he just hates wimps.
• Super Strength: His preferred method of safecracking is to yank the safe out of the wall that's holding it.

Snowman

Although not a member of the Midnight Crew, she is the fifth Exile of the Troll Session. See her own section for more details.