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The Sins are Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Anthropomorphic Personifications of the Seven Deadly Sins. General
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: While this is generally true in Jack, it gets weirder with the Sins, especially Jack (who's green) and Drip (who's blue).
- Embodiment of Vice: Each of them exemplified one of the Seven Deadly Sins in life, and now they represent their sins in Hell.
- Fluffy the Terrible: All of them (except one) have very unassuming and nonthreatening names.
- Ghost Memory: It would appear that the Sins can receive some of the memories of the previous holder of the title when they take on the role from their predecessor. Drip mentions having run into Farrago before, his "stink" being on her, and wanting to rip her wings off again, implying he was the one who did it. But he wasn't. It was one of the previous incarnations of the Sin of Lust, a pedophile priest from her time period, who had done it.
- Invisible to Normals
- Legacy Character: None of them are the first to personify their sins. A previous Lust is seen in Farrago’s backstory, and Lucifer threatens to make a drugged-up psychopath the new Wrath if Jack seeks redemption.
- Off with His Head!: The main way to defeat a Sin for a time. As revealed by Jack, if a Sin gets their head removed they will be immediately sent back to Hell.
- Our Demons Are Different: Of the Demon of Human Origin variety. They were all mortals that committed such heinous crimes in life, that they became the embodiment of the sins they'd committed. There have also been multiple generations of Sins and the position actually is passed between Sinners.
Jack
Species: Rabbit
"My name is Jack. I am one of seven— the Sin of Wrath. I am tasked as the Reaper. I do not choose, I do not favor, I do not judge. I merely bring you to those that do."
The title character, The Grim Reaper, and the sin of Wrath. He was the first of his species created. He's also been responsible for many things that have happened in the comic whether directly or indirectly, including wiping out all of humanity to such a degree that God was forced to his a reset button and start everything over again with the furry species. Created as the first furry, he was in love with the second named Jill. Her death, being raped and killed at the hands of a human, was his Cynicism Catalyst as he realized they weren't gods at all, but mere mortal men simply playing the part.
- A God Am I: In life, he considered himself to be close to one.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: Occasionally, he disguises himself as a normal-looking rabbit to interact with those on the mortal plane.
- Amnesiac Dissonance: Played with. Jack's well aware he was a bad person before his amnesia caused him to become a much better one but he has no idea how terrible he really was until he regains them all.
- Amnesiac Hero: He remembers his afterlife fine, but his mortal life's another story.
- The Atoner: He seeks to redeem himself for all the harm he caused when he was alive, even if he doesn't remember all of it at first.
- Clingy Costume: His robe in his Sin form can be warped to his liking, doing everything from sprouting hard spikes to stab someone to becoming a soft mass that he can leave part of in one area to make someone think he hasn't moved from the spot. Usually, he uses it grab souls trying to run away from him.
- Cool Old Guy: Being The Grim Reaper means you can kill everything in one hit, right? Wrong. Jack usually wins anyway through tenacity and skill.
- Death Equals Redemption: There's no denying it, Jack was horribly evil after Jill died. Due to his self-inflicted amnesia, he essentially "reset" his personality to where it was before Jill died.
- Don't Fear the Reaper: Not a completely straight example, but he still genuinely cares for the good souls it is his job to take. Unless they are clearly evil — he IS the Sin of Wrath, after all.
- Driven to Suicide: His manner of death in life. He caused the end of the world and then took his own life, leaving everything in such chaos God had to push the Reset Button to restore it all.
- He Who Must Not Be Named: Jack was such a monster in life that his name has become a byword in the present day for evil. Fiver tells him there's a reason mothers don't name their children Jack anymore.
- Good Is Not Nice: Get him angry and he will happily fuck you up.
- The Grim Reaper: Naturally.
- Hair-Raising Hare: Nothing raises more hairs than The Grim Reaper, after all.
- Identity Amnesia: He asked God not to remember his crimes against humanity and fur alike after his death and it was granted. This led to his personality shifting a lot more towards the side of good than evil.
- I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Subverted because Jill's death only made Jack sink deeper into despair and evil.
- Informed Kindness: While he eventually Took a Level in Kindness after he died, in life this is how he came off. Jill remembers him as being sweet and kind while Central, Grimm, Breezy, and Fiver all loved and respected him. But he never shows kindness, love, or compassion back to any of them, generally coming off as just a self-centered jackass using everyone around him for his own personal gain.
- It's All About Me: His attitude in life eventually became this, as he sought to do whatever he wanted no matter the cost to the people around him or even the entire world.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Jack's punishment is to be unable to remember his life on earth. This also counts as Disproportionate Retribution, as since Jack can't remember his misdeeds, he can't truly repent for them, so he's denied the "out" of repentance and forgiveness the other denizens of Hell have. He asked for it. But Reckonin eventually slaps the memory back into him in "Sever the Hunger."
- Loving a Shadow: He only knew Jill for a short time when they were teenagers, considering the total length of his lifespan and death combined. But his love for her never dimmed, guiding all his actions. This is eventually Lampshaded by Jill herself, who asks two questions. How much does he really know about her, since he loves her, but doesn't remember why he loved her to begin with, and with all he's been through, will he still be the same enough to love her when he gets to Heaven?
- Manly Tears: When Fnar leaves to reincarnate.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In Arc XXIV, he tries to strangle Farrago to death when he learns that she's the one who suggested that Fnar stay in Hell, which ended in him getting raped by Drip and losing his innocence. This left her traumatized to the point of asking God to erase her memory of Jack. His way of dealing with Drip( absorbing his soul and body and leaving his head alone in agony), while well deserved, also allowed Drip to control Jack's body and mind to a degree.
- No Biological Sex: In life. He was created without sexual organs so he wouldn't reproduce with Jill.
- Noble Demon: He may be a demon, but is more or less on the good side, helping God and her angels as well as trying to make things as gentle as possible for the newly deceased he's to guide to judgement in the afterlife.
- Non-Linear Character: Wound up reaping himself!
- One True Love: He considers Jill this, though Jill questions if they're meant to be soulmates after all he's been through.
- Papa Wolf: Hell hath no fury like the Reaper learning that you raped his ward. Drip learned this the VERY hard way.
- Parental Substitute: For Fnar.
- Tom the Dark Lord: He had [[spoilers: billions of deaths on his hands]] in life and yet was given the ordinary name of Jack.
- Shout-Out: He bears a striking resemblance to Jazz Jackrabbit.
- Sinister Scythe: The one Lucifer gave him, made out of bones, is a notable example. The other two he's wielded are more standard in appearance.
- Sliding Scale of Villain Threat: Universal threat, despite being the one nice guy out of the lot, he was this in life. In his life, he wiped out humanity and broke time! The damage he did to the universe was so great, God had to press the Reset Button on history to fix it (although the early history of furrykind erased most traces of humanity, negating the need for a physical reset). Even in death, it's hinted his Superpowered Evil Side could wipe the floor with the all other Sins if he embraced with rage and pose a threat to any and all nearby angels if he ever truly lost control of it.
- Spikes of Doom: Can turn his body into spikes, which is how he defeats Joen in "Those That Run" and Drip in Arc XXIV.
- Token Heroic Orc: He is one of, if not the only, heroic Sin.
- Troubled Backstory Flashback: Has a few of them throughout the comic, usually brought on by an angel (Farrago kissing him, Reckonin slapping some sense into him).
- Unstoppable Rage: He's SUPPOSED to do this, being the sin of Wrath, but he never really cut loose out of fear of losing control. Until Fnar Reborn, that is.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: He was an innocent, cute little teenager when he met Jill and this is how Jill remembers him. Her death was his Start of Darkness.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Jack's body is fluid, and he can use it to capture fleeing souls, or attack other Sins.
- What the Hell, Hero?: To Farrago, after she tells him that she left an innocent child and one of the few people Jack truly loves in Hell, knowing that the only creature actually willing and able to hurt him is a violent, sadistic rapist...because his presence was helping Jack become a better person.
- Willfully Weak: He keeps Drip as a pathetic, chewed up head at the cost of his own power purely so Drip will remain toothless and unable to hurt anyone.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Subverted. When we first see Jack in his mortal life he's a sweet, goofy, cute-looking teen who had a terrible tragic early life, and it soon gets worse. He was seriously psychologically messed around with by Dr. Kane and the other scientists, lost the love of his life in a horrific way whilst able to hear what was happening but unable to help, and has the mother of all Freudian Excuses for what he tried to do, as well as a sincere belief that it's right and necessary. Perfect setup for a classic Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds, except it's later revealed (in addition to becoming the monster we knew he would one day become to earn his place in Hell) he's an unlikable whiny, aloof, stubborn, cold, callous, borderline-Necromantic A God Am I Knight Templar and Nietzsche Wannabe who crosses the line not with the wiping out of humanity and breaking of history before committing suicide out of spite, but before that, when it's implied he betrayed his friends and loved ones in the process.
Drip Tiberius Rat
Species: Rat/ Wolf
Jack's eternal nemesis, and the sin of Lust. In life, he was a serial killer/rapist who tortured his victims.
- A God Am I: He considers himself to be one thanks to all the power he's been granted in Hell.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Oddly enough, aside from Jack, Jill, and Lita (who is his daughter and inherited her coloration from him), he's one of the few character shown to be this, having bright blue fur.
- Arch-Enemy: To Jack, being his most consistent and personal foe, along with Kane.
- Ate His Gun: This appears to be the way he died.
- Beard of Evil: Sports a little thin one in his Sin form.
- The Brute: Demoted to this after Kane rebuilds him.
- Bullying a Dragon: He completely underestimates how powerful Jack is once he takes revenge for Drip molesting Fnar. He's utterly ANNIHILATED by Jack until all that remains is a torn up, broken head. This continues to have echoes throughout the rest of the comic, for even after he's brought back to life he's a pathetic shell of how dangerous he once was, now being used more like a feral animal by Kane than plotting anything on his own.
- Depraved Bisexual: He was a known rapist of women in life, but one of his apprentices revealed he loved to rape heterosexual males even more because of how much their trauma sexually excited him. Kids were also on his list.
- Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: No matter how silly you think he looks, don't taunt Drip.
- Driven to Suicide: Though it's never completely spelled out, it's implied this was his method of death in life, since he was wounded and the cops were closing in fast.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Drip sincerely loves his mother and to a lesser extent his father, despite the fact they died when he was a baby. His prized possession in life was a scarf his mother used to wear.
- In a twisted sense, he still loves his grandmother despite all she did to him, and one of the quickest ways to take the wind out of his sails is to mention how she doesn't give a shit about him.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Despite being a monstrous rapist and serial killer later on in life, Drip is honestly ashamed that he accidentally molested his childhood friend Alure when a game of "House" went too far. He innocently didn't mean to, thinking since his grandmother enjoyed it when she forced him to have sex with her, that Alure would logically like the same thing too. Being reminded of this by the Devil actually brings him to tears instead of how he usually crows about how he treats women.
- Extreme Omnisexual: Drip will have sex with anyone and we do mean anyone.
- Fat Bastard: "How to Make a Monster" shows gaining his weight when mutating to a Sin. "Megan's Run 2" shows us that he's lost a lot of weight.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Lucifer himself points out that, despite having very valid reasons for turning out the way he did, at the end of the day it was Drip and only Drip who was responsible for becoming the monster he is.
- Groin Attack: Happens to him quite a lot.
- "Skinless Friday" is one of his regular punishments, since Hell continuously changes the shape and size of his genitals to punish him and sometimes removes the skin off his genitalia to ensure the winds of Hell would cause Drip immeasurable pain the entire day.
- Jack cuts off his testicles in "Saving Arloest."
- When he's regenerated....he finds out that they left out a piece. He tries to get it back...or rather, finds a replacement. Brian's, to be specific. "Fox eating rooster" indeed.
- "Skinless Friday"
- The Heavy: Drip, despite appearances, is NOT the main villain of Jack. However, he is a dangerous enemy and is personally responsible for a great deal of suffering throughout the start.
- I Gave My Word: Though he rarely does it unless it benefits himself, Drip will honor whatever he's promised to people even if he doesn't like it. A prime example is taking Sandy out of the Screaming Barrel and leaving her unharmed when she survives despite his irritation.
- Karma Houdini: Discussed by Lucifer and Jack. Lucifer explains the reason that Drip seems to get off lightly in suffering is because if Hell truly punished him like he deserved, it would make him realize what a monster he is and seek redemption. Since that would defeat the purpose of Hell, it can only instead lightly punish him, such as making him unable to enjoy his sexual conquests or touch any victims that he killed in life.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: ...But this eventually comes into effect when Jack utterly annhilates him in battle and leaves him little more than a torn-up, severed head. Even after he's restored to a full body, he's never been quite the same. This also comes into effect when he possesses Megan for a short time. Thinking that the Devil's assertion he would be reborn a woman has come true, all he can do is curl up into the fetal position, crying and begging Arloest not to rape him the way he'd done to her so many times. It gives him a small taste of what's to come if he ever fully redeems himself.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: He's also Fnar's father.
- Manipulative Bastard: Often preys upon the weaknesses of his victims, usually For the Evulz. Did so considerably well with Arloest by tricking her into agreeing to be his hellbound Sex Slave willingly in exchange for being released back to Earth and be delivered personally by Jack since he is honor-bound to return escaped souls to Hell.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: He's got a long jaw full of them.
- My Beloved Smother: With his grandmother in a very dark and disturbing way.
- Never My Fault: Surprisingly averted, as he knows perfectly well why he's in hell, but doesn't even try to change, in part because he is a sadistic rapist that enjoys making people suffer, and because he feels immense guilt over killing and raping his parents due to time travel.
- Parental Incest:
- Apparently, he and his daughter Lita had sex while he was still alive. She wasn't aware of the relationship at the time, he was however and enjoyed taunting her with his awareness of it.
- With his son Fnar. Jack has trouble believing even Drip was able to stoop that low.
- As a child, his grandmother forced him to give her oral sex.
- Drip and his mother and likely his father as well. The catch is that he didn't know either one of them were his parents until it was too late. Actually one of his more sympathetic moments.
- Reincarnated as the Opposite Sex: Lucifer tells him if he's ever reincarnated, he'll be born as a woman. This is one of the many reasons he refuses to seek redemption, as it's shown he's terrified he'll be raped and tortured as a woman the way he did to so many others.
- Sanity Slippage: Ever since Kane rebuilt him, something has been.....off about Drip. He's lost his cunning edge, acting more and more like some feral animal. A shot showing him from behind suggests that Kane deliberately had part of his brain cut out to achieve this.
- Self-Made Orphan: He was told by his horrific grandmother that he had killed his parents, in some roundabout way about his birth forcing them to live in a bad neighborhood where they got brutally murdered. But then in an arc showing how he became the Anthropomorphic Personification of Lust it's shown that thanks to the odd nature of time in the afterlife he actually did kill his parents, Lucifer led him to believe that they were an ex-girlfriend of his and her husband, and he didn't realize his mistake until he dropped their baby on his mother's torn open ribcage and got a good look at him.
- Sigil Spam: His facial markings tend to end up on the people he hurts. Fnar gains them after being raped and Jack has them torn into his face when Drip takes control of his body for a short while. It's averted with Lita, for while she does look like she has markings similar to his, it's eventually revealed this is because her mother was a raccoon, so she gained a mask that just coincidentally resembles Drip's markings.
- Shout-Out: His black facial markings and giant lower jaw make him resemble the Violator.
- Sliding Scale of Villain Threat: Personal Threat. Although Drip is the one of the seven you'd least like to be forced to spend ten minutes locked in a phone booth with, in life he was never more than a personal threat and in death is largely too content to sit around raping and torturing to be more than a very, very effective personal threat.
- Starter Villain: Scarily enough, he's this. Despite being a personal enemy to Jack for many chapters, it's eventually revealed Kane is the real villain of the story, with Drip being shown to be little more than a pathetic nuisance in the end once the struggle for Hell really gets underway.
- Unfortunate Names: Drip, as a background "fanfic" written by Hopkins revealed that his grandmother named him after "the sound the blood dripping made when I killed my mother" during his birth.
- Unishment: The sick, sadistic rapist and murderer in life is.....allowed to just keep on raping and murdering in Hell. Granted, since he's often brought in as a punishment for others, this is one reason why Hell has allowed him to continue on in this fashion. The other is not wanting to punish him so much he'd be willing to seek redemption.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: No, really he was. Drip is shown to be innocent and rather sweet in his early years, only starting to be corrupted after his grandmother started sexually molesting him.
- Villain Protagonist: Most of the stories about him center on him and whatever evil he's getting up to, outside of the Jack webcomic proper. In "How to Make A Monster" he's
The Woobie, but in others, most notably The Screaming Barrel, his victims are the main characters but they're basically just fodder for Drip's adventures in moral bankruptcy. - Villainous BSoD: Has the mother of this when he learns that he was the one who killed his own parents due to time travel. His reaction is pretty obvious.
- You Dirty Rat!: He's one of the few prominent rat characters in the comic and definitely the worst of them all.
- Your Mom: Jack gives him a pretty scathing insult about his grandmother which takes the wind out of his sails completely.
Bob and Lisa Vorsh
Species: Compsognathus
A cannibalistic married couple who are both the sin of Gluttony, Bob Vorsh and his wife Lisa Svalde. At first, they are involuntarily fused together, with each of them able to take over their body in turn. Eventually, Kane figures out a way to split them into two bodies, at which point they start to develop their own goals beyond simply eating whoever they want.
- Accidental Murder: Their first kill started off as just a way to cover their ass but it soon became much more deliberate when they decided to eat their victim.
- Balloon Belly: Gets one temporarily after satiating themselves on the dead, though it only lasts a short while.
- Big Eater: Both of them, but it's what (or rather who) they choose to eat that makes them evil.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Bob speaks directly to the audience in Hell Is That Noise about what's coming next for the comic.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Bob was called Robby or Rob by most everyone in life until he met Lisa but he hated it.
- Evil Is Petty: They killed over three-hundred people just to engineer a plane crash so that they could feast on the remains in the mortal world.
- Evil Red Head: Lisa is notably a red color and the far crueler of the pair.
- Fireballs: They can spit them out as a weapon.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: Bob was considering going down a better path towards the end of his life but made one too many bad decisions, locking him into the role of half of Gluttony.
- Heel–Face Turn: As of "Choosing Sides," Bob may actually be considering this.
- I'm a Humanitarian: In life, they were notorious cannibals. Dissatisfied with synthetic meat, they decided to chow down on their fellow anthros instead.
- Ironic Hell: Hell makes anyone they eat taste only like sulfur and brimstone.
- Lean and Mean: Their Sin forms are both gaunt to the point of all their bones sticking out through their skin, a visual reminder of how they're always hungry and never satisfied.
- Meaningful Name: Vorsh as in the word "vore."
- Mutual Kill: They end up killing each other in the end.
- No Social Skills: Bob didn't have a lot of these when he was alive, partially due to the cannibalistic fantasy that overtook his life and became an obsession.
- Nothing but Skin and Bones: Even in life, Bob was skinny to the point of being unhealthy due to his distaste for eating synth meat, which meant he wasn't eating enough at all until he met Lisa.
- Reptiles Are Abhorrent: They're both raptors and they eat other sentient beings.
- Shout-Out: They resemble Ridley.
- Sliding Scale of Villain Threat: Personal Threat, as they're mostly concerned with finding people to eat. The most amount of damage they cause is when they leave Hell and cause minor disasters (like plane crashes) to satiate their hunger.
- Taking You with Me: At the end of their lives, they ended up killing and eating one another.
- Unholy Matrimony: However, they clearly have come to hate each other's guts.
- Unreliable Narrator: While it's clear some of what Bob said about their past is true, it's not clear if that was the whole truth, especially since his goal was to make himself look better.
- Winged Humanoid: Lisa's Sin form has wings while Bob's doesn't.
- Wolverine Claws: They can extend the clawed fingers of their body to become longer so they can stab people with them.
Emily
Species: Unknown
The sin of Vanity. It's unknown what she did in life to end up in her role as a Sin.
- Bed Trick: Convinces Todd she's Molly by wearing her skin and having sex with him in the shadows. He only realizes what's going on when the lights get turned on.
- Face Framed in Shadow: She always wears a hood and cloak, never revealing her true face.
- Flaying Alive: What it appears her punishment in Hell was, given the few instances we see of her body are rather....squishy.
- Genuine Human Hide: She rips the skin off pretty women and wears them in order to feel beautiful again. It's about as disgusting as you'd think to see.
- Intimate Healing: She's able to heal the wounds of those in Hell by sleeping with them.
- Pet the Dog: She didn't have to heal Todd's wounds and her only request in exchange for doing so was sleeping with her, a much smaller price to pay than any other Sin would have asked for.
- Powerful, but Incompetent: Emily has thousands if not millions of souls powering her tower, a commodity Kane or Vince would kill for. She also possessed a mirror that could warp reality itself. If she wanted to, she could be a threat as serious as any of the other sins vying for control of Hell. What does she do with all that power? Remain laser-focused on regaining her physical beauty.
- Vain Sorceress: And HOW! All Emily cares about is looking beautiful again the way she did in life and she will do anything to achieve this goal.
- You Do Not Want To Know: ...what her face looks like.
- Sliding Scale of Villain Threat: Personal threat. She has her demonic servant trick living creatures into selling their soul - and their skin - to her with a Magically-Binding Contract for an apartment that gives the signer anything they want. Because they're encouraged not to Read the Fine Print, it's a big success.
- Unstable Powered Woman: She has enough power in The Once Was Swan to warp reality but all she wants to use it for is to make herself beautiful again.
- Villainous Breakdown: The reason for the constant Art Shift in The Once Was Swan. "THAT'S NOT ME! No, no, no, no... I'll never be pretty again..." Emily looks downright heartbroken.
Sloth
Species: N/A
The sin of Sloth, and the floor of Hell itself. He is condemned to eternal unrest, because he can feel the damned moving around on top of him. Not much else is known about him. It is revealed in some of his narration that he was a slave owner during the Civil War who refused to free his slaves when the Union soldiers arrived. For that, they hanged him, and the tree he becomes in Hell resembles the one he was hung from.
- Genius Loci: Sloth is the very ground of Hell itself. He feels every footstep and can never rest.
- Innocent Bigot: What he claims he is when thinking about his past. Of course, the fact he still refers to his slaves as his "property" shows he's anything but.
- Ironic Hell: Being the ground of Hell, he never has to actually do anything, but can also never truly rest.
- No Name Given: "Sloth" is just his title as a Sin.
- When Trees Attack: Subverted, the tree is just his mouthpiece.
Vince van Morrison
Species: Fox
The sin of Greed. In life, he was a Sinister Minister in medieval times who started a Religion of Evil, and through it, gained enough power to start taking over the surrounding countries. In death, he runs a new Religion of Evil based on "slaughter and sacrifice," and runs the coliseum.
- And I Must Scream: Kane makes sure that the spot where he finally regenerates in has a concrete tube built in that exact spot, meaning it's going to a very long time before he getse out.
- Body Horror: His genitals were cut off, as was his nose, his eyes were gouged out, and his mouth was stitched shut. He was also set on fire for good measure. Eventually, he loses both his hands too, cutting off one voluntarily to inspire his followers and losing the other to Cliff.
- Church Militant: In life, his congregation's armies took over much of the known world at the time.
- Evil Overlord
- Fat Bastard: His Sin form is rather rotund.
- Faux Affably Evil
- Good Thing You Can Heal: Averted. For whatever reason, Hell has made it part of his punishment that he can't regenerate his body parts the way his other brother and sister Sins can. Anything he loses is permanent. It's unknown if all his losses were retained now that he's finally regenerated.
- Has a Type: While he normally puts any souls into the coliseum games, especially pretty vixens become part of his harem instead.
- I Was Quite a Looker: Vince was a good-looking fox in life. But as a Sin he's a warped, disgusting looking shell of his former self.
- Out-Gambitted: Though the war for who will control Hell goes back and forth between him and Envy, eventually his forces are overwhelmed and Kane wins. Kane has him executed after he's done.
- Sinister Minister: In life, he was one of these, taking over entire countries with his armies.
- Sliding Scale of Villain Threat: Country/Global Threat. A false Messiah and tyrant whose religiously-motivated armies conquered most of the known world in life, and a false Messiah whose religiously-motivated mob of followers rules the necropolis of Hell in death. At least he's persistent.
- Taking You with Me: When his armies in life were defeated and he knew he'd soon be dead, he sought to sow as much chaos and death before the end.
Kane (Spoiler Character)
Dr. Kane
Species: Human
- Brian: I c-can't tell what species you are...
Kane: That's not surprising. I'm before your time, Brian.
The sin of Envy. This character is a Walking Spoiler, so unless you've read the comic, avoid this section. His goal is to take over Hell and Heaven. Scarily, he is getting close to achieving that goal.
- Beard of Evil: Which doubles as Godiva Hair.
- Big Bad: Kane is the true mastermind behind the events of Jack. He aspires to take the place of the Devil himself, and is slowly but surely taking over Hell.
- Devil Complex: His ultimate goal is to replace the Devil.
- Evil Redhead: Not in life, for he had brown hair. But his fur in his sin form is notably a dark red color and he's the worst of the worst.
- For Science!: Exactly why he created the furries is never adequately explained. Presumably there were Potential Applications.
- Foreshadowing: The hand that stops Jack's scythe in Hell Is That Noise is devoid of any fur or claws, the first hint that he's human.
- Hero Killer: Kane alludes to the fact he was part of the anti-furry group who was responsible for Central's death when she was still alive.
- Humanoid Abomination: Primarily because he IS human.
- Mad Scientist: It's implied that he's one of the scientists who created Jack.
- Man Behind the Man: In several story arcs, such as "Wednesday's Child" and "Sever the Hunger".
- Major Injury Underreaction: He just ignores the sword stabbed straight through his neck and continues to fight Reckonin in one arc.
- Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: He helped created the furry race and was implied to have created Jack, but has zero ethics or morals, and is the one responsible for most, if not all, of Jack's hardships.
- Name of Cain: His name is Kane, an alternative spelling of Cain.
- Sliding Scale of Villain Threat: Global/Galactic/Universal threat: In life, he created the race that would wipe out humanity and a machine to resurrect the dead. Although known to be part-way between Dr. Herbert West, Dr. Frankenstein and Dr. Joseph Mengele in death, his one appearance in life makes him out to be no more than very arrogant and overbearing. After he dies, he decides that playing Xanatos Speed Chess with Vince, helping souls escape the Reaper, and building up an army of mindless, spent, burnt-out souls in preparation for a reality destroying cosmic civil war/prison break that he may or not be secretly planning the whole time is a good way to spend his afterlife.
- Walking Spoiler: His first appearance, at the end of "Frightened Virgil," is the single largest reveal in the comic.
- Wham Line: "You see... I'm human."
Heaven
Angels
Farrago
Species: Ferret
In life, she was a British soldier during the Crusades. She went to Hell to rescue her queen, who had her soul involuntarily damned, and died during the process, losing her wings to the pedophile priest who was acting as the Sin of Lust at the time. In death, she became an angel, and one of Jack's staunchest allies.
- Angel Unaware: Has done this at least once on Earth, disguising herself as a normal ferret to help people.
- Break the Cutie: After Jack lashes out at her in Arc XXIV, she gets broken enough so that she asks God to erase her memories so that she could re-meet Jack, ignorant of his past evils.
- Broken Angel: Spends a lot of time as one. She eventually gets better at the end of "Megan's Run part 2."
- Good Wings, Evil Wings: She's first show with just the remnants of broken, tattered, bloody wing stumps, having lost them during her quest in life to rescue her queen from Hell. The Sin of Lust at the time cruelly took them from her, ripping them out before killing her. Later on, Jack kisses her, and restores her wings, albeit mostly black with some white feathers in contrast to the other pure white wings of the other angels to show they were restored by a Sin. Eventually, those wings fall out due to Farrago's depression and being unable to forgive Jack, and her pure white wings are restored when her memory is erased.
- Heroic Sacrifice: She died by holding off the Sin of Lust so Sir Eric could rescue their missing queen's soul.
- Idiot Ball: Practically dribbles hers when Fnar is raped by Drip, and we find out that he could have gone on to be born some time ago, but she left him in Hell anyway because cared more about helping Jack emotionally than she was about protecting the soul of an innocent kid. Best angel ever.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia:: Asks God to give her this so she can get to know Jack again and fully forgive him on her own terms. It's eventually healed when she receives affection from Megan.
- Madonna-Whore Complex: A Madonna who puts Jack's needs ahead of everything else; the one time she doesn't, Jack guilt-trips her for "not letting him apologize" for trying to kill her.
- Morality Chain: To Jack, along with Fnar.
- Most Common Superpower: Her breasts are big enough to let a kitten comfortably nap on them.
- Ms. Fanservice: For the first half of the comic, she walks around in nothing but a leather bikini that shows off her body. This changes when she returns, for now she wears mostly jeans and turtlenecks.
- Mysterious Past: What happened between her death and her first appearance in Jack is unknown. The only hint is that she and Drip knew each other before she first ran into Jack and he alludes to the fact he may have raped her. Kane also appears to be obsessed with her beyond his feeble justification of wanting to make an angel suffer, as if at some point they'd run into one another before.
- Naïve Newcomer: She's a new angel and only just getting to understand how Sins work at the start of the story. Much of Hell is viewed through her eyes to give the readers a chance to understand it the same way she's learning.
- Never My Fault: Seems to take this stance when she has her memory erased so that won't have to deal with the broken trust and trauma of Jack attacking her, but never comments on her responsibility for leaving a child alone with a sexual predator.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: She convinces Heaven to let Fnar stay longer in Hell than he needed to because he was helping Jack make progress. This allowed Drip to rape his own son to hurt Jack. The echoes of this set Jack far back from where he'd originally been in his Character Development, far more than he would have been had Fnar just been allowed to leave.
- Relationship Upgrade: She and Jack get one as she helps him recover some of his missing memories. But it doesn't last.
- Suddenly Blonde: In the comic proper, it's shown she's white and white-colored in appearance. In colored pictures showing her in life, she was brown. Some notes not published on the comic site revealed she voluntarily changed her coloration when she got to Heaven in emulation of Central since she looks up to her.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Jack gives her the mother of all dress downs when her actions cause Fnar to be molested by Drip.
Central
Species: Hybrid
One of the first furs that was alive during Jack's time on Earth and now the head angel.
- By-the-Book Cop: And how!
- Can't Have Sex, Ever: Due to how she and Jack were born without any genitalia, while they engaged in a physical relationship when they were alive, they couldn't fully consummate it. They still appear to have been happy for a time as it was.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: In life, she was raped and tortured to death by an anti-fur group on the internet, who dragged her body through the streets afterwards. Even Jack, who at that point had become a cold, psychopathic dictator, reveals later on he cried in private at seeing this happen to her.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: Part of her Job is doing this to ensure furries who have reached Sin Levels of evil rather than risk them missing their place and time to die and becoming a Undying
- Inspector Javert: Her reasoning for letting souls stay in Hell comes off as particularly cruel and cold-hearted to many, with her seeming more obsessed with blindly following the arbitrary rules set down than helping lost souls.
- Law of Inverse Fertility: Invoked during her test to become an angel. Since she was unable to conceive children in life, she was given the ability to become pregnant, but would have been forced to raise her baby in Hell. To pass, she had to be willing to let go of that baby and let them be raised in Heaven, despite the fact she'd never see them again. She passed.
- Lawful Stupid: She has an unfortunate habit of dipping into this.
- No Biological Sex: She was born without the ability to conceive children at the very least and possibly without genitals at all.
- Our Angels Are Different: For one, she's a former mortal soul instead of being created by God. She's also allowed to have sex with her own personal manservant Plato.
- Relationship Reveal: She reveals to Jack that they had a relationship in life by showing him some of her own personal memories.
- Second Love: Was one of these in life for Jack. He asks why they didn't last and she tells him it's because he was still too hung up on his first love Jill to ever truly commit himself to another person.
- Visual Pun: While Hopkins has declined to give a straight answer, most fans assume Central is a hybrid cross between a lion and a lamb, thus invoking the Bible phrase of the lion lying down with the lamb, a image of Heaven on Earth.
Reckonin
Species: Ferret
- Ambiguously Bi: Reckonin was in a relationship with Farrago for a time and loses his wings to the Gluttonys. As shown before, if an angel's wings are torn off by a Sin, one of the only ways to replace them is for a Sin to show them deep physical affection. In the ending arc of Jack, he's shown to have them again with no explanation, thus implying either Jack or Bob, who has defected to the side of good for their own reasons, must have kissed him long and hard.
- Cowboy Cop: Often leaves Heaven without permission to attack demons in Hell.
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Slaps some sense into Jack in "Sever the Hunger." It causes him to remember more of his past.
- The Stoic: While on mission, Reckonin typically keeps a very reserved, taciturn demeanor. When working with others he'll usually let them do most of the talking.
- The Worf Effect: He's shown to be highly skilled at butchering the damned souls of Hell in his first appearance. But against the Sins in later ones? He usually fares quite poorly, often needing help from his allies to survive the encounter.
Kyle
Species: Kangaroo
- Battle Couple: With his wife Cecilia, also an angel.
- Break the Haughty: A major theme concerning Kyle in "Whenever a Bell Rings".
- Eager Rookie: Wet behind his ears and a little too cocky for his own good at times. Has a desire to prove himself, but more to assuage his own ego then be a team player, at least at first.
- Leeroy Jenkins: Averted in "Subterranean Homesick Blues" by Central assigning Farrago to supervise him specifically to keep him out of trouble.
- New Meat: A rookie angel, still wet behind the ears and little cocky. Still, he's ultimately a team player and listens to his superiors even if he has some reservations.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Cecilia's blue. He takes the job way less seriously than Cecilia (except when situations place him in Serious Business moments) and is more chatty and personable.
- Well-Trained, but Inexperienced: Had Reckonin as his teacher so he's definitely proficient with a sword, but his cavalier attitude means he's nowhere near trusted to lead missions or go alone into Hell.
Cecilia
Species: Squirrel
- Battle Couple: With her husband Kyle.
- Damsel in Distress: During "Subterranean Homesick Blues," but once rescued immediately helps with the counterattack.
- Otaku: Anime fan and prefers a Japanese katana blade as her weapon.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Kyle's red. She takes her position as an angel seriously as she's held it longer than Kyle has, and tends to be more end-goal focused than her husband which can make her come across as aloof to others at times.
- Skilled, but Naive: A more than just competent sword fighter, but her limited experience in Hell makes her Well-Trained, but Inexperienced when dealing with damned souls who will take advantage of people for their own purposes.
Candice
Species: Stegosaur
- Beware My Stinger Tail: Being a stegosaur, Candice can use the thagomizer on the end of her tail as club to bludgeon and skewer her opponents.
- Blade Enthusiast: Unlike most angels that prefer longer reaching weapons, Candice prefers throwing knives. Her main weapons are KA-BAR combat knives, which aren't designed as throwing weapons but presumable her angelic skills assist her in her attacks.
- New Meat: More trusted than Kyle to be off on her own, but she still lacks experience to be given major assignments and still reports directly to Farrago.
- The Snark Knight: Frequently needles her fellow angels' skills or joins in on the dogpile of others, but will hush up if Farrago instructs her to.
- Tomboy: Has a "one of the boys" demeanor and generally doesn't act very girly.
The Big Ones
God
Species: Sheep
- Big Good: An incredibly self-absorbed one to boot.
- Black Eyes of Evil: Averted. They also resemble very large Black Bead Eyes.
- The Ghost: For the first half of the series, S/He was never seen, and only occasionally heard. God did start appearing in later arcs, in the form of a sheep.
- So Proud of You: Please refer to the end of Megan's Run.
- Stealthy Visual Pun: She's the Lamb of God.
Lucifer
Species: Skunk
- Author Avatar: He looks nearly identical to the skunk used as Dave's avatar.
- Author Powers:
- Uses this and Medium Awareness to really screw with Todd in "Hell Is that Noise."
- He also describes Dalton's murderous rampage as a play he wrote.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Possibly more than any other character. He's well-aware he's a character in a webcomic and will often talk about Dave as his creator.
- Black Eyes of Evil: The standard ones with no pupils.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Has admitted that he'd never mess with the timeline and cause somebody to miss their death date.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul
- Mad Artist: Since he takes the form of Dave Hopkins, he falls into this by virtue of defining Todd's afterlife via comic book.
- Manipulative Bastard: Well, he IS the Devil. He tricks Drip into never trying life again (by telling him he'll be a woman in his next life), and halts Jack's "redemption" because if he does leave, an even worse psycho (Dalton) will take his place as Wrath. Plus he plays with Todd in "The Seventh Wall" and "Hell Is That Noise" (although each one is in Hell for a reason).
- Never My Fault: Likes to rub it in the damned souls' faces that their stay on Hell is their own fault. But he himself has directly manipulated a good number of souls (such as Todd and Drip) into making the decisions that damned them to Hell through his powers, essentially meaning that he's really the one responsible for the sins that the damned souls committed in life. The ONE exception is his accidentally convincing God to come up with the Undying.
- Reality Warper: He literally illustrates reality as he sees fit and can create scenarios where people suffer for his own amusement.
- Torture Technician: Sometimes personally tortures souls himself, such as Todd, Nathan, and Drip.
