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Despite primarily starring one man, Jerma's content has developed a wide cast of characters, especially through the Jerma Wrestling Federation. For a more comprehensive look at the cast of the Jermaverse, the Jerma Wiki is here.

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    Jeremy "Jerma" Elbertson 
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"LIFE IS PAIN. I HATE-"

The creator and star of the channel from Boston, Massachusetts. He is also both the commentator and a contestant in the Jerma Rumble Wrestling League as two different people. He started out with Team Fortress 2 commentaries (favourite classes are the Engineer and the Spy), but made strange, hilariously bad Indie Steam games his primary channel focus before shifting to a full-time Twitch streamer with a vague plot arc and a highlights channel that serves as his main Youtube channel since 2016, 2ndJerma.

  • Affably Evil: He assumes this personality in his streams, where he cracks jokes with his audience as well as murdering Santa Claus and several memes that were shown to be sentient.
  • Ambiguously Human: It's clear that something is not quite right with Jerma physiologically. The video "Patch Notes" indicates he has wires in the back of his head that allows him to be updated, he sold his soul to Satan in 2018 for special powers, he's died and come back to life multiple times (most noticeably succumbing to a universally-enforced death on January 23rd, 2019 and then forcing his ghost to go back into his body, presumably turning him into a zombie), and he possesses the ability to create numerous clones of himself to fill in during various streams.
  • Angrish: Usually provoked by STAR_.
  • Anti-Hero: A Nominal Hero. Jerma is a lunatic, but compared to the likes of Demon Lord Zeraxos, The Green Screen, and The Pencil, he's the hero, and will at least generally act on threats to the universe, such as The green screen nearly destroying reality itself.
  • Announcer Chatter: In Jerma Rumble.
  • Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Occasionally with Live Commentaries.
  • Ax-Crazy: Both within games and within universe, Jerma is prone to random psychotic freak-outs and ramblings, and is easily drawn to murder at slights against him or his own personal amusement.
  • Bad Liar: When he's attempting to downplay or excuse his psychotic actions, it's generally incredibly inconvicing. Per example, he continually and desperately denied resorting to cannibalism and committing murder while on the Hot Air balloon while dropping numerous hints that he participated it regardless.
  • Bad People Abuse Animals: Averted. Jerma's a strong animal lover, and despite being an easily-angered murderous lunatic, refuses to harm them.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: Make no mistake, despite his humorous, fun-loving personality, Jerma can and has done absolutely horrifying things, such as murdering Santa Claus and the memes, breaking state border laws by illegally traveling in an air balloon and murdering and cannibalizing several people, and unleashing the eldritch creature known as "The Green Screen" onto the world.
  • Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: Plays this most often with STAR_ or Grandpa, although which role he fills depends on the video.
  • Brought Down to Normal: In Jerma Rumbles 1, 2 and Jermania, Wrestler Jerma was a huge and muscular caricature of his real self, and was one of the largest competitors. In Jerma Rumble 3, he is inexplicably much smaller and skinner, reflecting real human proportions and looking much more like his real life counterpart. He even fails to do more than one push up. And gets eliminated immediately by Gabe Newell.
  • Cat Boy: Temporarily became such after losing a wager against chat. He put it off for a long amount of time until doing so in the "Bugleberry Potion Stream". Also an unusual example as Jerma was 35 at the time.
  • Catchphrase:
    • A very warm and sincere "And of course, take care, everybody". Has recently been subject to being mangled by himself or STAR_ ("fake hair, everywhere").
    • "Jerma vs. STAR_, Jerma vs. STAR_, everybody wants to see this happen!"
  • Combat Commentator: Does Team Fortress 2 commentaries, explaining the action, and serves this as the announcer of Jerma Rumble.
  • Contagious Laughter: He's pretty quick to laugh at most things.
  • Cuteness Proximity: If he sees a dog in a video game, he immediately gushes and attempts to pet and/or play with it, regressing into his cutesy “Otto” voice.
  • Determinator: When he makes a video where he sets out to do a certain action (like Stipulation Team Fortress 2 videos) or to make a certain joke, he won't stop until he's fulfilled his purpose.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Especially as the announcer for the Jerma Rumbles, but in most videos he's fairly snarky.
  • The Ditz: He can be so scatterbrained playing certain games that a common inside joke amongst the fanbase is the suggestion that he must be pretending for the sake of a cheap laugh.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He's grown increasingly cruel and sadistic in-universe on his stream, but it's made clear that his love for his fans and family has not faltered.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: His reaction to the mass genocide of defenseless animals in the Duck Dynasty video game is just pure disgust. He spends most of the stream attempting to kill the cast before they kill any more animals and his reaction to them blowing up a beaver dam with dynamite is to immediately skip the cutscene in shock.
  • Evil Laugh: A heavily distinct, almost silent yeeze that he uses during both casual, silly interactions and horrific atrocities.
  • Evil Luddite: at one point during his Ultrakill stream he expressed the opinion that humans should go back to what amounts to an Amish way of life after repeatedly losing to a boss.
  • Expy: He looks and sounds very similar to the Scout from Team Fortress 2. He's even from Boston. For a subscriber milestone video, he even dresses up as him.
  • Faux Affably Evil: He's played as this instead of plain Affably Evil sometimes, most notably when he brutally murdered several memes pleading for their lives and pretended it was a funeral, taking sadistic joy in their deaths.
  • The Gambling Addict: He has a tendency to make strange bets in games, which he tends to end up on the wrong end of.
    • This is actually present in his pre-streaming persona, where he often made bets with STAR_ during 1v1 gamesnote . Lampshaded in "1v1 Ratz Instagib" where he makes a bet with STAR_, then immediately gives in to STAR_'s demandnote  noting how he always loses.
    • In early 2021, a Running Gag was for him to jokingly make increasingly ridiculous wagers of Community subscriptions if he couldn't complete an (often simple) challenge in the game he was playing. This led up to a stream of Noita where he bet 500 MILLION community subs (about $2.5 billion US) if he couldn't hit the next shot. He then misses a set-up point-blank shot.
    • Since that embarrassing flub up, Jerma's been making more bets to try and alleviate his debt. Many of them just get him into even more debt. It's got to the point that fans have made a page to record his debt. The worst of it was in a House Flipper stream where chat invoked a double or nothing on the debt hinging on Jerma's results in a round of Deal or No Deal. Jerma failed, and to date it's still the highest his debt has ever been.
  • Hartman Hips: A rare male example, as he has been noted and commented on his "enormous dump truck ass".
  • Height Angst: Played for laughs in his streams, to the point of being one of the recurring jokes, due to a picture of him crouching that made him look incredibly short. He later completely ran with the joke, with people claiming him to be a microscopic size. In reality, he's around 5'8, which is below average, but not hugely.
  • Hidden Depths: He's silly and funny, but is also a professional voice actor, and demonstrates amazing talent every once in a while.
  • I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: In his Watch_Dogs 2 stream with Etalyx, he accidentally shoots a dog attempting to shoot Etalyx, specifically a dog he just spent time bonding with. He immediately blames it on Etalyx.
  • Keet: He's very excitable and passionate about playing strange games.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: In Jerma Rumble 3, he just immediately eliminated by Gabe Newell, paying him back for his jerkish behaviour in all previous Jerma Rumbles.
  • Laughably Evil: Not initially, but he evolves into this during streaming from late 2017- early 2018 and has stayed there since.
  • Jerkass:
    • Only his Jerma Rumble contestant persona, who both trash talks other fighters, fights with underhanded tactics, and freaks out and smashes Glue Man's face through a car door in a temper tantrum he threw when he lost.
    • Even the Announcer trash-talks the fighters, who have no trouble hearing every disparaging remark he makes about them when he calls them "shitty characters".
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Jerma's In-Universe personality is a deranged, murderous greedy lunatic, make no doubt, but it becomes clear that even despite this he does truly care about Otto, Etalyx, Star and the chat, and has several lines that even he isn't willing to cross.
  • Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: In the streams. He starts off by killing Santa by accident, but later decides he has to clean house by killing several memes he had grown tired off. He decides to do this by brutally murdering all but one of them. He doesn't get any better after this.
  • Mean Character, Nice Actor: His video/stream personality becomes increasingly villainous and psychotic, but he's actually a huge sweetheart.
  • Misplaced Retribution: After being eliminated from the second Jerma Rumble, he vented his anger on Glue Man, who didn't even participate in the rumble, and smashed his face through a car door.
  • Morality Pet: His dog Otto and fellow streamer Etalyx serve as this in-universe, being the only people he prioritizes above himself and doesn't indulge into psychotic violence against or is willing to if pushed far enough.
  • Nervous Wreck: Have you seen him play PUBG?
  • Nice Guy: The videos where he isn't in character show that he's friendly and uplifting. He also volunteers at an animal shelter.
  • Nominal Hero: Jerma is pretty much only the good guy as a result of being willing to act on universal threats such as Demon Lord Xeraxos or The Green Screen, and is unlikely to act genuinely altruistic outside of the presence of those obvious threats.
  • Older Than They Look: Would you believe he's almost 37 in this image? Justified, as he has been widely speculated to possess supernatural powers.
  • Only Sane Man: Often with STAR_, or as the announcer in Jerma Rumbles.
  • Our Goblins Are Different: He has frequently been compared to a goblin by his fanbase as a result of his short height and extreme gambling addiction.
  • Pet the Dog: Literally, as he is a huge animal lover, especially towards dogs. He loves his dog, Otto, very much, and every time he sees a dog in a video game, he attempts to pet it. Dogs are also seen In-Universe as an unacceptable target for his usual sociopathy.
  • Precision F-Strike: Gives one immediately following him telling somebody else "Don't say swears!"
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: Always a Blue Oni with Grandpa, changes depending on the video when he's with STAR_.
  • Screams Like a Little Girl: Evident in his Worst Noise Compilations, Jerma often produces 'career ending' sounds which are vaguely involuntary and not just done as a bit. Most notably, the frustrated squeak he let out after losing at MultiVersus is bizarre coming from a man in his mid 30s, and his supposedly fake screams aren't much lower in pitch.
  • Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Often has this dynamic with Etalyx in tense games, whether that be horror games like Finding Bigfoot or especially Player Unknowns Battlegrounds where Jerma spends most of the stream being a Nervous Wreck while Etalyx is The Comically Serious.
  • Signature Laugh: He has a wheezy laugh that's barely audible for the beginning of it. If the video goes nearly silent for a few seconds, you know he's in a laughing fit.
  • Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: In Jerma Rumble, Captain Crunch and Glue Man.
  • Sore Loser: His elimination in the second Jerma Rumble led him to ambush Glue Man, where he smashed his face through a car door in a fit of rage.
  • That Reminds Me of a Song: Especially while playing with STAR_, Jerma can sing and beatbox in a falsetto voice while improvising lyrics.
  • There's No Kill like Overkill: He definitely didn't need to challenge semantics with threats of throwing people into meat grinders, that's for sure.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Inverted. In the Jerma Rumbles, he starts out as a musclebound hunk, becomes slim by the events of the third Jerma Rumble, and arrives at the latest one terribly overweight.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: His stream personality is generally a lot meaner acting, up to the point of killing people, although he's usually as friendly as ever.
  • Villain Protagonist: He’s intentionally fallen into this role in-universe in his streams, starting with a gradual shift into his characterization as more easily angered and unhinged, before the infamous plot arc where he decapitates Santa Claus with a 2x4, ending Christmas, and then proceeds to brutally murder 29 sentient memes because they personally annoyed them, (Although he was later forced to revive them) and unwittingly unleashes the universe-destroying green screen and barely manages to contain it with the Super JEX form.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds:
    • With STAR_.
    • And now with Etalyx.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?:
    • Appears to be afraid of them, In Resident Evil 7 he has a minor freakout followed by almost screaming before realizing it was just a dryer vent.
    • He's also deathly afraid of bees/wasps, to the point where an entire stream was derailed because a bee made its way into his room.

    "Jerma Universe" characters 

This folder is for characters who have made their debut in videos outside the Jerma Wrestling Federation.

MLG Grandpa

Jerma's Grandfather who lives with him. Used to do tutorials on First Person shooters like Call of Duty: Modern Warefare, on Machinama Respawn, and now is a recurring character on the Jerma channel.

Burgah Boy

Jerma's childhood best friend, has shown up in person to a few videos but is mostly referenced.

  • Big Fun
  • Big Eater: When he's referenced, it's usually in reference to how much he can eat.
  • Fat Slob
  • Modesty Towel: Strangely, wears one and nothing else for Jerma Rumble 2. Jerma remarks how it's ANYTHING BUT modest, since he's wrestling borderline completely naked.
  • Pants-Free: In every Jerma Rumble, he is either in his underpants or wearing a towel. He doesn't care.
  • Vomit Discretion Shot: He throws up in response to jumpscares in horror games Jerma plays with him on Scare Saturday. Multiple times.

Otto the Dog

A dachshund Jerma owns. Occasionally goes on adventures.

  • Canine Companion
  • Foil: Similarly to Jerma, he's very short and compact for his species, but he is an incredibly pure and kind-hearted individual as opposed to Jerma, who is a deranged lunatic.
  • Gasshole: Jerma has uploaded a video where he blames Otto's farting for his inability to play Smite.
  • Kindhearted Simpleton: If we're to take "Otto's Big Adventure" as evidence, Otto is not smart even by dog standards, but he is a very sweet boy.
  • Out of Focus: Jerma explained that the reason Otto hasn't been in any recent videos is because of Otto's epilepsy, and the camera might trigger seizures. Otto's last appearance on the channel was in 2013, though he has reappeared after getting his medical issues sorted out.es of his personality around him.
  • Nice Guy: There is not a mean bone in Otto's body.
  • Precious Puppy
  • Simpleton Voice
  • Stylistic Suck: The Otto's Big Adventure "movies" are about a minute long of dogs doing dog things, and professional movie credits at the end.
  • Tournament Arc: There was once a video of him playing with Jerma's cat, which Jerma dubbed with fight commentary as if it was a Duel to the Death. The video has since been removed.

The Egg

A strange fixture of Jerma's channel since a subscriber milestone video, who hasn't appeared again until being a part of every Jerma Rumble.

  • Amazing Technicolor Population: His skin is white. Goes with being a human egg.
  • Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Even when Zeraxos is killing Jerma Rumble contestants in Jerma Rumble 3, The Egg still gets cheap shots in. Jerma calls him out for it.
  • Commuting on a Bus: His entrance in the Live-Action Jerma Rumble comes with the title card "MIA For Five Years".
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: Averted, and Jerma points out that he was expecting the egg to get killed offscreen, and is happy he didn't. He also narrowly avoids getting murdered by Lord Zaraxos in Jerma Rumble 3.
    • Actually does happen to him in Live Action Rumble, where he's killed by Carl Griffinsteed running out of the ring to fight Zeraxos.
  • Freak Lab Accident: In his debut, Jerma hints that he was once a normal person, and just "an accident" happened that turned him into The Egg.
  • Gonk
  • Happily Married: When Captain Crunch wasn't around to fight Jerma in Jermania 2014, The Egg was considered as a replacement, but was having dinner with his wife. Their dinner can be seen in The Stinger for that episode.
  • Large Ham: Does things with larger than life gestures, despite not saying much, and in Jerma Rumble 2, his entrance is ascending from a pit of Hell.
  • Meaningful Name: He looks like a giant, human egg.
  • Shower of Angst: In his debut, when Jerma kicks him out, he takes one. Jerma apparently knew it would happen.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Eggs.

The Byeahs

A species originally seen in Grand Theft Auto 4, they are giant, fat, surly, slob-like and strange. There are apparently thousands of them.

  • Adaptational Attractiveness: Jerma clearly couldn't find any actors fat enough to properly resemble a Byeah for the Live Action Rumble.
    • One of them is skinny!
  • And Show It to You: One Byeah gets this courtesy of the Magician during the Live Action Rumble.
  • The Alcoholic: Apperently it's an entire species of them.
  • Fat Bastard: Every single one of them.
  • Fat Slob
  • Gonk
  • Inexplicably Identical Individuals: They're all the same overweight, long-haired, bearded, tattooed old man. They also have all the same interests.
  • Pokémon Speak: Often repeat their name "BYEEEAH", although are capable of regular speech.
  • Real Men Wear Pink: The Byeahs enjoy manly things like burgahs, barfighting... and also bug collecting.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Mcdonalds "Happy meals".
  • The Smurfette Principle: There so far has existed one female byeah, in the Judge Dredd game. note 
  • You Are Number 6: Byeahs are associated primarily with numbers, although apparently they don't actually like it, and prefer to have individual titles reflecting who they are, like "Sexy Byeah" and "King Byeah".
  • Verbal Tic: "BYEEEAH". Which was originally just a guttural noise they would make.

Captain Humphries/ Captain Ol' Bones/ Captain Blackbeard

A pirate who exists in Battlefield 4 and Assassin's Creed Black Flag.

Pac-Man

The classic video game character, but with a different interpretation than usual.

  • Artificial Stupidity: His AI suffers the most from this in Jerma Rumble, which led to his character.
  • Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: In the first Pac-Man game Jerma plays for his channel, "Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures", you control Pac-Man by throwing things to get his attention, and he gets distracted easily. Jerma describes his attention span as "A goldfish in the first grade".
  • Big Damn Heroes: Is the one to throw the Magician out in Live Action Rumble, just because he wanted his seat.
  • Chaotic Stupid: Invites Blinky over for Halloween, and punches him in the face. For no reason.
  • Cheaters Never Prosper: He and Sonic the Hedgehog work over Gabe Newell with a chair before their match even starts, but it doesn't do them any good when Gabe Newell wins regardless. Technically not cheating, since Jerma Rumble has no rules, and they weren't disqualified.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: One of the biggest in Jerma Rumble. He picks up a chair to defend a team-mate in Jermainia, than watches in awe as Gabe Newell eliminates them both.
  • The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: He and Sonic the Hedgehog can a headstart on beating up Gabe Newell before their match even starts. It's unknown if this actually affected the fight in any way.
  • Foreshadowing: An unintentional prediction, Pac-Man asks to be in Super Smash Bros. in Jerma's Ghostly Adventures playthrough. About a year later, he is confirmed for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS, which Jerma plays on the show.
  • Heroic BSoD: When facing off against Gabe Newell in Jermainia.
  • Idiot Ball: Picks this up in Jerma Rumble, and doesn't stop Gabe Newell from eliminating both him and his teammate Sonic at the same time.
  • Manchild: In the Halloween video.
  • Silly Walk: In Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures.
  • Precision F-Strike: To Sir C: "You know what, Fuck you. I'm not keeping it PG in Pac-Man."
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivers this to Sir C in The Ghostly Adventures of Pac-Man. "Hey, don't you scold me! You're the asshole who put the minimal amount of lemons and pineapples on the arcade machines. You are a tyrant and a scumbag. Good day. No, you know what? Fuck You."
  • Simpleton Voice: Jerma gives him this voice in Pac-Man and the Ghostly High-School Reunion video.
  • Those Two Guys: He is apparently really good friends with Sonic the Hedgehog, and the two team up, unsuccessfully, against Gabe Newell.
  • The Voiceless: In most of his appearances, including his live-action Halloween video. Only in The Ghostly Adventures game video.

The "Monopoly Guy" from Spy Party

In the game Spy Party, while playing with STAR_, the meta of the game evolves around selecting the character Jerma dubs "The Monopoly Guy" every time, and the opponent instantly shooting him in the head for being the obvious, and most funny, choice.

  • Boom, Headshot!: Happens to him every game.
  • Confusion Fu: The sole purpose for selecting him over and over again is for Jerma or STAR_ to wonder if the other one really was stupid enough to choose him again and be obvious.
  • Flat Character: He is nothing but a player avatar in Spy Party, and gets no further characterization in his Jerma Rumble appearance.
  • Pretty Little Headshots: There's no blood in spy party.
  • Nonindicative Name: Jerma acknowledges, in Jerma Rumble 2, that he looks nothing like the actual Monopoly Guy, and he more closely resembles Sir Topham Hatt.
  • One-Hit Kill: Constantly suffers this in Spy Party.
  • Rule of Funny: While playing the game seriously, it would be detrimental to be predictable and to select the same spy every time. For Jerma's comedy videos, it's the most entertaining option. For the sniper of the game, it's detrimental to try and blindly shoot a certain character on instinct without observing their character traits, but instantly shooting The Monopoly Guy is what both Jerma and STAR do best.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute: After the update to the game improves the graphics, The Monopoly Guy is removed from the game. Jerma then picks "The Morgan Freeman Guy" who serves that purpose before they go back to the old graphics.
  • They Killed Kenny Again: At the start of every round, he gets headshot by a sniper again.

Demon Lord Zeraxos

"The Lord of All Hells and Demons and Hatred". Originally took over Jerma's show to play Five Nights at Freddy's, and shows up in Jerma Rumble 3.

Frank Pizza of the Boston Celtics

A player on the Boston Celtics basketball team in 1997, and fellow player of Gabe "The Glue Man" Degrossi.

  • Flat Character: He doesn't demonstrate a lot of character, especially compared to Gabe Degrossi.
  • Improbable Aiming Skills: Subverted. His entire team, in particular Gabe Degrossi who taught them this technique, have the ability to throw the ball from one end of the court to the other and make it into the basket each and every time, never missing. When Frank Pizza tires, he misses, and breaks the streak of his team.
  • One-Steve Limit: Averted. He shares his first name with Frank, a friend of Grandpa, who appeared in a few MLG Grandpa videos.
  • Silly Walk: Jerma dubs his run the "I have a dump in my pants run".
  • We Used to Be Friends: He used to play with Gabe Degrossi on the Boston Celtics, and in the Jerma Rumble, they fight after Gabe becomes Glueman.

Dick "Dastardly" Richards

A notorious thief from Jerma's masterpiece Rat Movie: Mystery of the Mayan Treasure. For his appearances in the Rat Movie series, see here.

  • Affably Evil: He is fairly well-mannered for a thief.
  • Back from the Dead: Jerma Rumble 3 ignores him being struck down by the Giant Rat.
  • Brown Bag Mask: Demon Lord Zeraxos even nicknames him "The Guy with a Bag on his Head".
  • The Dreaded: In Jerma Rumble 3, Jerma is terrified of him.
  • Expecting Someone Taller: Inverted, Jerma was expecting him to be shorter, and he turned out to be quite tall.
  • Informed Ability: Jerma speaks highly of Richards' as a threat, but all we've seen of him is getting killed by rats and fairly easily defeated in the Jerma Rumbles.
  • In-Series Nickname: Demon Lord Zeraxos refers to Richards as "The Guy with a Bag on his Head".
  • Karma Houdini: Richards receives no comeuppance for attempting to sell the fake Noah's Ark Toothbrushes to the Cat Police in Rat Movie 2: The Movie.
  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: He shows mercy on Candyman in Jerma Rumble 3, and is repaid for his kindness by a swift elimination from Candyman.
  • Pet the Dog: His evil nature is emphasized by Jerma, but strangely, he goes easy on Candy Man and doesn't eliminate him immediately when he has the chance. Jerma notes this is a rare moment of compassion.
  • Repetitive Name: The name "Dick" is short for Richard. In other words, his full name is Richard "Dastardly" Richards.
  • Unexplained Recovery: Dick "Dastardly" Richards reappears in Jerma Rumble 3, despite being killed by the Giant Rat in the first Rat Movie.

Giant Rat

In Rat Movie: Mystery of the Mayan Treasure, the Giant Rat makes all of the rules for his rat followers. Him and his rat allies attempted to steal the Mayan Treasure, succeeding right until the Cat Police apprehend him. The Giant Rat has also appeared in Jerma Rumble 3 and the Live Action Rumble. For his appearances in the Rat Movie series, see here.

Baby Shpees

Spies from Team Fortress 2, reimagined as a species who hatch from eggs. Baby Shpees are Spies before they learn how to backstab, disguise, go invisible, or do anything useful for their team. Actually noobs given a baby-voice by Jerma.

  • Animal Motifs: Of birds.
  • Baby Talk: How they communicate, and how Jerma talks to them.
  • Boom, Headshot!: Happens to them often, due to how they stand still for long periods of time.
  • Endangered Species: Because they get killed so easily, Jerma takes it on himself to protect them. With poor results every time. Apparently, over 700 shpees are born every second, but only 2 survive to adulthood.
  • Growing Wings: Apparently, according to Jerma, they do this after getting their first kill.
  • Noob: What they actually are.
  • Oh, Crap!: Flocks of them, or "adult" spies, can be terrifying, provoking this reaction from Jerma.
  • Little Bit Beastly: They have no actual animal appearances, but they act as if they belong in a species instead of the human race.
  • Ridiculously Cute Critter: Subverted, they look identical to French backstabbing smartass assassins. But their voice is beyond adorable.

Mr. Sneakman

A Superhero character who made he debut in Grand Theft Auto 5 Online videos, he teaches the audience how to be sneaky, although what he does isn't very sneaky, and usually amounts to walking in traffic.

  • Badass Cape
  • Big Damn Heroes: He swoops in to save the day from Lord Zeraxos in Jerma Rumble 3.
  • Catchphrase: "Hey it's me, Mr. Sneakman. Today I'm going to ____"
  • Department of Redundancy Department: "It's Mr. Sneakman Part 2 the Sequel!"
  • Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: He is the only one strong enough to take out Demon Lord Zeraxos.
  • Domino Mask
  • Gonk: His Jerma Rumble appearance is very strange.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: To stop Demon Lord Zeraxos from destroying the entire Jerma Rumble, he grabs him and drags him off the arena, eliminating them both from the competition. Zeraxos had already eliminated himself, but Mr. Sneakman did manage to hurt Zeraxos' leg badly enough so he couldn't come back.
  • Made of Iron: He gets run over by cars, crashes while on a motorcycle, and crashes while driving a car while flipping people off, but he doesn't seem to die.
  • Nonindicative Name: He doesn't sneak, he's more of a dare devil who endangers his life by walking in traffic.
  • Signature Laugh: He has a gleeful chuckle.
  • Simpleton Voice
  • Taking You with Me: When his fight with Zeraxos isn't looking good, he throws both himself and Zeraxos out of the ring at once, disqualifying both of them.
  • The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: He himself admits he's not very sneaky.
  • Wholesome Crossdresser: Strangely wears very feminine high heels as part of his costume, but nothing other than that.

Frank

A friend of MLG Grandpa's, who has appeared in Grandpa's Christmas Album and an MLG Grandpa instructional video for Modern Warfare 3.

The School Principal

A character Jerma invented, who is an angry school principal. He debuted in a Team Fortress 2 Demoman Tip video in 2012, appeared in Grandpa's Christmas Album later that year, before disappearing completely.

Jex

Jerma's alter-ego who can actually properly play video games.

  • Badass Normal: Technically still Jerma, and therefore a completely normal human.
  • Messy Hair: Distinguished from Jerma by his greasy, Gary Oldman-esque haircut.
  • Shonen Hair: Being essentially a very silly anime hero, he has this.
  • Super Form: After being defeated by Green Screen, Jex was revived and became Super JEX in order to stop him.
  • Superpowered Evil Side: Inverted. JEX is considerably more moral than Jerma is from what we've seen of him.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Is this for Jerma.

Bean Bag Sonic

Jerma's most famous pet in Monster Hunter, named for resembling a bean bag form of Sonic and constantly dabbing.

  • Badass Adorable: Easily the best fighter JEREME ever gets, and fairly cute, albeit in an odd fashion.
  • Broken Pedestal: Suffers this after nearly dying due to JEREME sending him out on a mission, growing to despise him.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Starts out with rather mediocre stats, but quickly becomes an incredibly fighter.

Sheeto

An Otomatone that Jerma bought that was introduced when he streamed Celeste.

Sims Murder House Residents

The numerous residents of the modded Sims 4 streams, where Jerma specifically modded the game to let it kill people in a wide variety of ways.

  • Bloody Hilarious: The entire point of the streams.
  • Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Garret, the closest to a normal person, serves as this for the entire group.
  • Jerkass: They're all sociopathic mass murderers who are almost exclusively rude to each other. Some are worse then others, though.
  • Laughably Evil: The entire point of the stream is to have them murder each other and others in the most insane way possible.
  • Not So Above It All: Garret is basically a normal person, but still occasionally engages in mass murder.

B.F. Bugleberry

Easily Jerma's shittiest character yet, Bugleberry is an old man (in fact a rubber mask with a voice changer) who likes to read TERRIFYING stories to Jerma's audience.

  • Evil Old Folks: He really wants to be this, but he's not really evil in any fashion.

Mr. Green(z)

A horrifying, obese Goblin-like creature who constantly makes ridiculous gambling bets, representing Jerma's internal dark side and severe addiction to gambling

  • Asshole Victim: Downplayed in that he never actually dies, but it is clear that Mr. Greenz' lifetime of smoking and obesity has not left him in a healthy state, several times vomiting all over himself and the Blackjack table, and suffering near-constant heart attacks that he barely survives each time.
    Mr. Greenz: Deaugh! I think my heart just-ugh, I think I might have...my s-...something just exploded in there, I felt it, I could feel it!
  • Determinator: You have to hand it to him, he will not give up gambling, even as he has his third heart attack in three days and vomits the entire contents of his stomach onto the blackjack table.
  • Fat Bastard: He grows increasingly obese and blob-like as he continues gambling.
  • Inconsistent Spelling: The original stream that Mr. Green originated from used both "Green" and "Greenz" as spellings for his name, although "Green" is used more often when referring to him.
    • It's implied that he changes his name frequently to cheat taxes
  • Jerkass: He's incredibly rude and obnoxious towards everyone and spends all night hogging the blackjack table.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: When begged by a woman who had helped him previously to give a small amount of money to save her child's life, he considers it for a second before screaming at her to leave.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: Fat Bastard that he is, his life of selfishness, smoking, and gluttony has caught up to him in his years, leaving him an obese wreck who has at least one heart attack per day and vomiting the entire contents of his stomach the moment something goes wrong.
  • Money for Nothing: Alongside the income (and losses) from his gambling, a surprising amount of people come up and give him money simply so long as he recognizes them from earlier encounters.
  • Narcissist: He constantly brags about how he's the greatest person at gambling that has ever lived even as he constantly loses.
  • Pet the Dog: He demonstrates a kinder side around his assistant Steve, even giving him extra money, complementing him and letting him gamble for him.
  • Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: Is able to acquire an ungodly amount of money with minimal effort... and then immediately gamble it all away.
  • Our Goblins Are Different: He's green, greedy and has a long nose like most goblins, but instead of stealing the money, he just constantly gambles and is morbidly obese.

Jigsaw

The mastermind of traps himself, sort of.

  • Adaptational Nice Guy: Even more so of a nice guy than the film versions of Jigsaw. Here, his traps are relatively easy to escape and aren't even that life-or-limb (most of them just involve gases of some kind).
  • Affably Evil: Just like his movie counterpart, Jigsaw is charming and friendly, but still puts people in death traps.
  • …But He Sounds Handsome: When showing off his house, he remarks on a picture of Tobin Bell, saying that it's a photo of him, before backpedaling and saying that it's just a photo of some guy he finds incredibly handsome, smart and talented, but he doesn't know who it is.
  • Didn't Think This Through: He gives Jerma a challenge to help with his debt, that being solving a rubix cube within five minutes, with the caveat being the longer he takes to solve the cube the less is taken off his debt, and if he doesn't complete it in five minutes then more money will be added to the debt. He forgot the most vital part, though, as Jerma didn't have a rubix cube to solve. He later called off the trap and made a new version of it with a digital rubix cube to be fair.
  • Dumbass Has a Point: He constantly argues the common value of gas in his home series, to the point of rewriting the script of the original to mention gas constantly, but he is right in that the movies use "nerve agent" as opposed to calling it any sort of gas, as the second film takes place in a house rigged to release deathly airborne nerve agents that would definitely count by his definition of gas.
  • Minion with an F in Evil: Most of his traps are easily escapable, with the punishment always being gas of some sort.

    Other Commentators and Collaborators 

Star

Booman61

MLC St3alth

Incredible Orb

Etalyx

  • Expy: His dynamic with Jerma is very reminiscent of Star.
    • He's been likened to a nicer, more attractive version of DarksydePhil.
    • It's pretty hilariously convenient how much he looked like Vincent enough for Jerma to suggest he play as him for their stream of A Way Out.
  • For the Evulz: In Watch_Dogs 2, Etalyx stunned a husky and ran over a dog on the beach just to mess with Jerma.
  • Mad Libs Dialogue: Jerma's infamous(ly hilarious) Army of Two stream involved him playing with "Etalyx".. clips being played from a soundboard.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Tazing a husky Jerma attempted to pet in Watch_Dogs 2.
  • Not So Above It All: He has a tendency of playing along with Jerma's nonsense, or intentionally pushing his buttons.
  • Straight Man: Usually to Jerma's buffoonery.
  • Troll: Occasionally messes with Jerma for giggles.

Sp00nerism

Ma3la

    Jerma Wrestling Federation contestants 
These characters may appear in other videos, but these are the characters who made their debut on the Youtube channel in the Jerma Rumbles.

Gabe Newell (from Valve Software)

The creator of Team Fortress 2 and CEO of Valve, and is the only character other than Jerma to compete in every single Jerma Rumble fighting event.

  • Beard of Sorrow: Grows one for Jerma Rumble 3, where he looks a lot more mentally unhinged as a result of previous failures.
  • The Berserker: Becomes this in Jerma Rumble 3, giving a loud scream and quickly annihilating contestants left and right.
  • Berserk Button: Apparently, getting Half Life 3 announced. And hearing people trash-talk the End of the Line update for Team Fortress 2.
  • The Bus Came Back: After not making an appearance at Jermania since Jerma Rumble 3 in 2014, he, along with his archnemesis, The Pencil, returned in Jermania 2020.
  • Crack Defeat: In Jerma Rumble 3, despite easily defeating the previous wrestlers, he's ultimately defeated by The Pencil, who's weaker and less experienced than Gabe. Though he would've defeated The Pencil had he not fell for The Pencil's Wounded Gazelle Gambit.
  • Determinator: He lasts a very, VERY long time in every Jerma Rumble he enters. He gets eliminated ultimately each time, but his fighting spirit has not gone unnoticed.
  • Dudley Do-Right Stops to Help: In the third Jerma Rumble, he falls for The Pencil's Wounded Gazelle Gambit and tries to help him get back on his feet, leading to The Pencil blindsiding and eliminating him. On the other hand, his actions caused The Pencil to reveal his true nature to the public.
  • Failure Is the Only Option: The poor guy can't seem to catch a break, except in his 1v2 match against Sonic and Pac-Man. He would've won Jerma Rumble 3, if The Pencil hadn't tricked him and cheated his way to victory.
  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: In the third Jerma Rumble, he attempts to help The Pencil get back on his feet after seemingly injuring him, and The Pencil rewards him with his sportsmanship by blindsiding him.
  • One-Steve Limit: Averted. He shares his first name with Gabe "The Glue Man" Degrossi.
  • Show Stopper: Every time he appears, the audience goes nuts.
  • Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Becomes this with Sonic the Hedgehog.
  • Signature Move: The Power-bomb, which he uses on Sonic the Hedgehog multiple times.

The BLU Spy (from Team Fortress 2)

One of Jerma's favourite Team Fortress 2 classes, on the offensive team. Now a recurring character in Jerma Rumble.

  • Big Damn Heroes: Saves Gabe Newell from being triple-teamed by Sonic, Pac-Man and Gordon Freeman in Jermania 2014.
  • Carry a Big Stick: He wields a sledgehammer in Jermania.
  • Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Against Gabe Newell. Sometimes it looks like they'll team up, with Gabe Newell as Spy's creator and boss. Spy will turn on Gabe pretty quickly, since in Jerma Rumble, there are no teams.

Batboy

A bat who is also a boy, and the first "shitty character" to enter The Jerma Rumbles.

Sonic The Hedgehog

The eponymous main character of the Sonic series.

  • Darker and Edgier: In Jerma Rumble Live Action he shows up with a cigarette in his mouth, throws an empty bottle into the audience, and flips everyone off.
  • Jerkass: As a result of continued series failures, he's become increasingly cruel and bitter.

Benjamin Franklin

One of the Founding Fathers and the 6th President of the United States.

Barack Obama

The 44th President of the United States.

Danny Devito

The celebrated actor.

The Chicken

A disturbing chicken-like wrestler.

Gabe "The Glue Man" Degrossi / Glueman

Formerly the greatest basketball player of all time, Gabe Degrossi was able to not only hurl the ball from the other side of the court and land it in the net, but train the rest of his team to do so perfectly.

However, Gabe suffered a horrific lab accident, which granted him "glue powers" at the cost of his basketball prowess. He later joined the Jerma Wrestling Foundation, where he earned the moniker of "Shittiest Character."

  • Body Horror: His glue powers(?) give him a bright white skin color, as well as a grossly misshapen head.
  • Breakout Character: He was initially a Joke Character in the first Jerma Rumble that Jerma said had won a Twitter poll on the shittiest character in the event. However, after almost winning Jerma Rumble 1 and becoming The Rival to JWF!Jerma in Jermania 2014, he has since become a consistent recurring character in the JWF universe and even made an appearance alongside Jerma in Vinewrestle 2019.
  • Freak Lab Accident: Turned him into glue and cost him his sporting career.
  • How the Mighty Have Fallen: He was the greatest basketball player to ever live.
  • The Rival: After Jerma defeats him for the Jerma Rumble 1 title and later assaults him after being eliminated in Jerma Rumble 2, he returns in Jermania 2014 announcing he will be his opponent during the event until Jerma Rumble 2 winner Cap'n Crunch interrupts the main event and proceeds to win instead.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Glue Man actually manages to eliminate some people in Live Action Rumble and stays in for an impressive amount of time.
  • What the Hell Is That Accent?: His voice is weird, even by Jerma standards.

Gordon Freeman (from Half-Life)

The main character of the Half-Life series.

The 30s Milkman

A character who resembles a milkman from the 1930s.

Earthworm Jim

The eponymous main character of Earthworm Jim.

  • Anti-Climax: Enters the ring in Jerma Rumble 3 and is almost immediately eliminated by Count Chocula about 30 seconds later.

Super Mario (Byeah?)

The real Super Mario, through and through. Probably not a Byeah in a costume.

The Easter Bunny

The folklore figure and symbol of Easter.

Martin Van Buren

The 8th President of the United States.

The RED Heavy from (from Team Fortress 2)

A wild Russian man who is a powerful defense class in TF2.

The Coathanger

A boxer who puts extra care into improving his upper body's physique.

  • Top-Heavy Guy: His body is structured as though he had a coat hanger in his jacket.

Captain Crunch

The mascot of the classic Cap'n Crunch breakfast cereal.

Santa Claus

Jolly ol' Saint Nick... or maybe he's not so jolly after all.

Elvis Presley

The King of Rock and Roll himself.

The Turkey

A mysterious avian wrestler who resembles The Chicken.

Bill the Co-Announcer

Jerma's co-announcer.

ClownDog Rumble

Turtimos the Adolescent Warrior

A character who is not affiliated with or related to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in any way.

Count Chocula

The mascot of a previously popular cereal brand which has since been discontinued and restricted to being seen on Halloween. Included after Captain Crunch's stunning win in Jerma Rumble 2.

  • Determinator: Despite primarily being included to advertise cereal characters after Captain Crunch's win, he currently holds the record of the all-time best performance in Jerma Rumble 3, and one of the best in the entire Jerma Rumble series, tallying in at 5 eliminations and clocking in at just under 10 minutes of ring time, even despite being interrupted by Demon Lord Zeraxos.

Candyman (from Lethal League)

A strange mutated man that has a big smiley face for a head from the abstract fighting game Lethal League.

The Mime

A classic mime.

The Slim-Jim Guy

That one weird guy who appeared in commercials for Slim Jims (and not Randy Savage).

Miserable Mikey / Mickey Mouse

An odd Mickey Mouse lookalike who's much more cranky.

The Pencil

A pencil-shaped wrestler that originated from "Your neighborhood classroom". He participated in the third Jerma Rumble as the fifteenth competitor, where he survived the rumble long enough until only him and Gabe Newell were left. When Gabe Newell overpowered him and gave what appeared to be a devastating blow to The Pencil, he fakes a leg injury so he could blindside Gabe and eliminate him, which he succeeded in doing so. While his actions were controversial, his fake injury was still technically legal, and he was crowned the winner of the third Jerma Rumble. For reasons unknown, he has yet to make a reappearance in the future Jerma Rumble events.

  • Cheaters Never Prosper: Averted. The Pencil isn't disqualified for blindsiding Gabe Newell, and wins the rumble without even a slap on the wrist.
  • Combat Pragmatist: When it becomes clear that Gabe Newell is too much for the pencil to handle, he resorts to pulling a Wounded Gazelle Gambit in order to blindside Gabe.
  • Dark Horse Victory: Absolutely no one expected The Pencil to win the third Jerma Rumble. Though the only reason he wins is because he uses a Wounded Gazelle Gambit, and would've lost had Gabe Newell saw through it.
  • Dirty Coward: Cheats Gabe Newell instead of fighting him properly.
  • A Dog Named "Dog": He's a humanoid pencil that goes by the name of The Pencil.
  • Gonk: He has a very long and deformed face.
  • Hated by All: Absolutely no one was cheering for him when his Wounded Gazelle Gambit causes him to win the third Jerma Rumble.
  • Hate Sink: Disgracefully steals the competition from fan favorite Gabe Newell via manipulation.
  • Informed Ability: According to Jerma, The Pencil had sharpened his head prior to the third Jerma Rumble to the point where he could stab someone in the heart and instantly kill them. However, his head looks circular and dull, and he never attempts to stab anyone during the rumble.
  • Jerkass: Widely regarded as the meanest character in the Jermaverse, surpassing Demon Lord Xeraxos and Jerma himself. He knocks out fan-favorite Gabe Newell by feigning injury, causing universal hatred from Jerma and everyone else.
  • Joke Character: The announcer makes it clear that The Pencil was created purely as a cheap gag. He becomes a Lethal Joke Character when he wins the rumble, abet via trickery rather than strength or skill.
  • Jobber: Like many characters, The Pencil was created as just another gag character for the other wrestlers to beat. Unlike many characters, he subverts this trope and wins the rumble via trickery.
  • Karma Houdini: Despite how repulsive his moves were, it was still technically legal in the game, and he won as a result.
  • Karma Houdini Warranty: He makes his comeback in the 2020 Rumble, after several years of absence... only to be thrown out of the ring by a 13-year-old Fortnite gamer.
  • Noodle People: His body is very skinny, to the point where he's deformed due to how stretched out he is. This ends up working against him, as he's effortlessly overpowered by the more well-build Gabe Newell, and only a Wounded Gazelle Gambit stops him from losing.
  • One-Hit Kill: According to Jerma, The Pencil is capable of instantly killing an average person by using his head to stab them in the heart. Despite this, The Pencil never tries to stab anyone during the rumble.
  • Perpetual Frowner: He's always has a frown on his face, even when he's smugly celebrating his victory in the third Jerma Rumble.
  • Sequel Non-Entity: For reasons unknown, he had yet to make a reappearance in the future Jerma Rumble events, despite winning the third rumble. This is noticeable since Jerma and Captain Crunch won the first and second Jerma Rumble, and they both made at least one reappearance afterwards. This was speculated to be because of Jerma's disgust with him, although he latter reappeared in the 2020 rumble and was promptly defeated in a few minutes by a 13-year old.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: He celebrates his victory at the third Jerma Rumble as if he won by a landslide, while in reality all he did was blindside a wrestler that would've effortlessly defeated him in a fair fight.
  • Smug Snake: After winning via a cheap trick to Gabe Newell due to being unable to win as a result of his own skill, he smugly gallivants around the stage, and demonstrates himself to be supremely overconfident when he returns in the 2020 rumble and is quickly knocked out by a unskilled small child.
  • Ungrateful Bastard: At the end of the third Jerma Rumble, Gabe Newell attempts to help The Pencil get back on his feet after seemingly injuring him, and The Pencil shows his gratitude by blindsiding him.
  • Unsportsmanlike Gloating: In a non-verbal example, he smugly celebrates after winning the third Jerma Rumble, a victory that he didn't earn.
  • Use Your Head: Subverted. Jerma states that The Pencil is capable of instantly killing an average person by using his head to stab them in the heart, with the obvious implication that The Pencil would do so during the rumble. At no point in the rumble does The Pencil attempts this.
  • Walking Spoiler: A lot of the tropes involving him spoil his victory in the third Jerma Rumble, as well as the fact that he resorted to using a Wounded Gazelle Gambit in order to do steal victory from Gabe Newell.
  • Weak, but Skilled: Due to being a Noodle People, he stands no chance against wrestlers that are more well-build, and he uses dirty tatics to make up for this. This is demonstrated when, after Gabe Newell overpowered him, he uses a Wounded Gazelle Gambit to blindside him.
  • Wounded Gazelle Gambit: At the end of the third Jerma Rumble, he fakes a leg injury so he could lure Gabe Newell into helping him up, then blindsides him.

Sonny the Cocoa Puffs Bird

The mascot of Cocoa Puffs cereal for a while.

Tony the Tiger

The mascot of Frosted Flakes cereal.

The Disco Diaper

A disco-goer dressed in little but a diaper.

Jay Buffet

Jerma's GTA Online character. Debuted in the Live-Action Jerma Rumble.

Carl Griffinsteed

The hero of the game Castle Griffinsteed. Debuted in the arena in Live-Action Jerma Rumble, but has his own short film.

  • Anti-Hero: He has no actual interest in stopping the castle's evil for moral reasons and kills his Great X17-grandfather for a month's supply of chips he eats in 6 seconds.

Audience Member

A member of the audience who was *ahem* lucky enough to join the Rumble.

The Apple

An apple-themed wrestler.

  • Big Damn Heroes: Shows up to save the Live Action Rumble from Zeraxos, dragging him backstage and disappearing.

The EMT

A medic who joined the Rumble when they were short wrestlers.

Winston (from Overwatch)

The hyper-intelligent gorilla who's part of Overwatch.

The Two-Person Horse

A pair of men in a horse costume.

  • Two Men, One Dress: Their gimmick, allowing two people to enter the ring as one contestant.
  • Negated Moment of Awesome: The bottom half came within inches of winning the Live-Action Rumble, only to trip over the Disco Diaper's corpse.

The Magician

A seemingly harmless show magician.

  • Knight of Cerebus: The minute he shows up, he starts pulling various competitors' organs out of his hat.

The Christmas Tree

A wrestler who is dressed like a spruce tree and adorned with ornaments.

Demon Grandpa

The resurrected MLG Grandpa, back from hell to wreak havoc with his new demonic powers.

  • Anti-Climax: Dies of a heart attack after tricking Winston by faking one.

Flanker (from Sorcery!)

A shadowy assassin and thief from Sorcery!

The Analander (from Sorcery!)

The hero of the Sorcery! series.

  • Big Good: The enemy of the serpents in the source material, and he and the Fire Serpent are the final contestants in the rumble. Due to his prior battle with Frogmin, however, he loses swiftly.

Orson Welles

A famous American actor, known best for his work in Citizen Kane by most, but many Jerma fans can recognize him from his exceptional work advertising Paul Masson champagne.

Paul Bearer

A real-world wrestler who Jerma fans recognize as his donation sound effect on Twitch.

Jerma Moon

A moon with arms and legs and Jerma's face printed on it.

  • Token Heroic Orc: Suggested by Jerma to be a serpent due to both being huge figures and having a moon theme.

The Serpents (Fire, Water, Air, Earth, Moon, Sun, and Time) (from Sorcery!)

The seven elemental Serpent enemies from Sorcery!

  • Arch-Enemy: Tooth Goblin for Air Serpent, Jerma Moon for Time Serpent in the second rumble, and the Analander for Fire Serpent in the second rumble. The serpents all defeat their enemies. In addition, Dr. Oetker seems to be this to them as a group, as he viciously attacks them, but they do not seem to share this view.
  • Berserk Button: The Goblin seems to be the Air Serpent's, as in the first rumble the Air Serpent never stops attacking him, and in the second, the mere sight of the goblin flings him into a rage.
  • Big Bad: Collectively, they seem to take this role for the first ever Stream Rumble.
    • The Bad Guy Wins: Fire Serpent secures their victory in the second rumble, while the first one crashed before he could even show up.
  • The Brute: Time Serpent, who takes on an incredible amount of damage and takes out multiple contenders in the second stream.
  • Evil Versus Evil / Enemy Civil War: In the second rumble, Sun Serpent and Moon Serpent go to war with each other, and Time Serpent later steps in and deals with the winner. In addition, the serpents all first appeared fighting each other, but this may have been some form of training.
  • Evil Genius / Manipulative Bastard: Possibly the Fire Serpent, if you believe that he manipulated Frogmin and the Mystery Fighter into ensuring his victory.
  • The Heavy: Air Serpent in the first rumble, Time Serpent in the second. Ultimately, Fire Serpent was the one to win.
  • Sealed Evil in a Can: Sun Serpent seems to have been this as he was in the source material, not appearing in the first Serpent Fight. Evidently, he was unsealed in time for the rumble.
  • Willfully Weak: What many streamgoers seemed to believe was the case for the Time Serpent, possibly due to rumble rules. It matters little, anyway, as the Fire Serpent won.

Dr. Oetker

The inventor of baking powder and founder of an eponymous line of baking goods.

  • Arch-Enemy: Seems to really hate the Serpents.
  • Determinator: Lasts a long time in both Rumbles, rivaling Gabe Newell.
  • The Hero: Seems to take this role, defeating many villainous enemies, especially the Serpents, fighting even when badly hurt and tired, and beloved by stream and Jerma both, notably being the first contestant in Jerma Wrestling Federation history to ever eliminate two people at the same time. Unfortunately, he is defeated, letting the Serpents claim victory, possibly through subtle manipulations of Frogmin and the Mystery Fighter.

Easy Pete (from Fallout: New Vegas)

A friendly old man from Fallout: New Vegas.

Frogmin

Jerma's character from Dark Souls III.

  • Face–Heel Turn: Several streamgoers screamed that he was a betrayer when he seemingly decided to help the Serpents in the second rumble, and Jerma even believes that it was his fault that the Fire Serpent won.

Archmage of Mampang (from Sorcery!)

The creator of the Seven Serpents from Sorcery!

  • Arch-Enemy: After their failed pre-rumble match, Lorag.

Lorag (from Sorcery!)

A character from Sorcery!
  • Arch-Enemy: After their failed pre-rumble match, the Archmage.

Andrew Jackerry Jacked

Jerma's character from Fallout 4

VR Guy

A guy wearing a VR headset.

  • Captain Oblivious: Wears a VR headset, and thus is completely unaware that what's happening is real. Also appears to be wearing no pants.

Agent 47 (from Hitman)

The main character of the Hitman series.

Sluggo

A man of diminutive stature coated in slick slime. Described by Jerma as "A melted action figure."

  • Killed Off for Real: Dies before the main event in Jerma Rumble 2017 and has not been seen since.
  • The Grotesque: He's absolutely malformed, yet bizarrely endearing

Snattacat (from Sorcery!)

A feline enemy from Sorcery!

Tooth Goblin

A summoned goblin companion from Sorcery!

James Madison

A Founding Father and the 4th President of the United States.

Mystery Character

A random, evidently very powerful character created by one of Jerma's friends, his true identity, purpose, and name being a complete mystery.

  • Kick The Son Of A Bitch: Fire Serpent shortly deals with him after arriving in the arena, making it clear he is the true final villain.

Widowmaker (from Overwatch)

The dangerous sniper assassin of Talon.

Green Screen/BSOD

A seemingly unstoppable contestant that appeared halfway into the 2018 Rumble. He quickly proved himself to be nigh-unstoppable and the single most dangerous villain in the Jermaverse.

  • Big Bad: Takes this role for the 2018 Jerma Rumble, defeating the rest of the cast in the first rumble, and revealing universe-destroying capabilities in the second. It took the creation of Super JEX to finally stop him, but who knows how long until he returns...
  • Breakout Character: Originally just a filler and representative of the Green Screen Stream Jerma had done, he got to stay around and got several matches starring him because of how much ass he kicked and how he refused to stay down.
  • Chroma Key: The basis of the character, and apparently also what made it so powerful. Anything can be in that green space, and thus he can copy anyone's power at his leisure.
  • Darkest Hour: He flings the Jermaverse into one, where he conquers one timeline and destroys another, and threatens to do the same to a third unless the heroes can find some way to stop him.
  • Godzilla Threshold: His arrival and destruction of the second timeline make him this. It takes the resurrection of JEX as a superhuman being to finally defeat him, but even that may be temporary.
  • The End of the World as We Know It: His mere arrival in the second rumble of 2018 destroys the universe he's inMeta note.
  • Hero Killer: Slaughters many skilled contestants in his first arrival, ultimately winning the match atop a pile of the others' corpses. In the second rumble, he goes a step beyond and erases the timeline he's in from existence, effectively killing everyone in the Jermaverse, from Burgah Boy to Demon Lord Zeraxos. In the third timeline, he kills Jerma, Adam Sandler, and even JEX, though the last was revived as Super JEX.
  • Inexplicably Awesome/The Spook: Demon Lord Zeraxos is a lord of hell. JEX is a genetically engineered super cop. The Serpents are the creations of an archmage. The Green Screen dwarfs them all in sheer power, yet nobody knows who he is or where he came from, only that he is here to kill and destroy. He is speculated to be an embodiment of the end of worlds, but even that is a mere theory.
  • Kick Them While They're Down: One of his trademark moves, as he likes stomping on his lessers as he destroys them. He is also prone to taunting his enemies while they are helpless.
  • The Omnipotent: Speculated to be so powerful because hey can use Chroma Key to gain the abilities of anything that exists. When taking his BSOD form, he seems to embody the destruction of all reality via the power of a blue screen of death.
  • Omnicidal Maniac: He desires nothing more than the end of everything.
  • Outside-Context Problem: Many contestants in the Jerma rumble were created to be powerful, like the Serpents, JEX and Zeraxos, among others. Green Screen was created as a joke, born from recent green-screening Jerma had actually done, and yet this joke proceeded to evolve into an unstoppable monster.
  • Power Copying: The power of Chroma Key is speculated to let him simply copy anything and anyone in power and skill, and he doesn't stop at simply one copied fighter at a time, letting him run roughshod over everyone.
  • Sorting Algorithm of Evil: The earliest rumbles had no villains at all, and if they did, the villain was usually dealt with rather quickly. The first ever stream rumble had the Serpents, but they only won through trickery and deceit, with their Big Bad, Fire Serpent only reigning victorious because he appeared last. Green Screen however ripped his way through a small dozen valiant warriors elected for the most prestigious tournament in the Jermaverse, and then later revealed he had the power of universal destruction. It took a godly, perfect being to defeat him, and even then, he came back for another round...
  • Super Mode: Has one in the form of BSOD, a blue version of him that embodies his sheer reality-destroying force. It was only activated once Super JEX defeated his original green form.
  • Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Of a sort. He was once a normal green screen, but being morphed into a humanoid form gave him limitless power that he soon abused.
  • Villainous BSoD: Well, in a literal manner of speaking...

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