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The Feinberg Family
Chrissy Feinberg
Christina "Chrissy" Feinberg
Voiced by Lucy DeVito
- Ambiguously Jewish: Like her mother, her last name Feinberg is of Ashkenazi origin and her voice actress is also Jewish in real life. It doesn't take until the 8th episode "Domestic Disturbance VIII" for this to be revealed.
- The Antichrist: Her being the literal daughter of Satan is partly the point of the entire show.
- Anti Anti Christ: Despite her apocalyptic destiny and sinister power, she's an otherwise good-hearted kid who wants to do some good in the world and tries to live like a normal teenager.
- Bad Powers, Good People: Being an Anti Anti Christ makes this inevitable. She can do all sorts of satanic things, ranging from Demonic Possession to setting things on fire, controlling vermin, causing all kinds of Body Horror and messing with people's minds, and she tries internalizing the idea of using her powers for good. This is deconstructed, as being a teenage girl and The Antichrist, using her powers in an unironically good capacity almost always ends poorly, often because the solutions she uses are overkill.
- Black Eyes of Evil: Chrissy's eyes turn an inky black whenever she uses her Satanic powers or gets angry.
- Daddy's Girl: Develops into one during episodes 6-8, as tensions between her and Laura mount while Satan encourages Chrissy's teenage urge to rebel as well as show genuine love and concern for her. That relationship is soon ruined in the first season finale, when she learns of how he treated her half-siblings and, by the end, loses all respect for him.
- Disappeared Dad: Chrissy never meets her father until she's 13. Her father does claim that he isn't a deadbeat and was actually kept away from her.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Especially next to her mother, her pale skin really stands out.
- Family Eye Resemblance: She shares her green eyes with her father.
- Friendless Background: Chrissy moved around so much that she never had any friends until meeting Bennigan.
- Human-Demon Hybrid: She is the product of Laura, a human woman and the Devil himself.
- Ironic Name: "Chrissy" is short for "Christina", meaning "Follower of Christ", which is supremely unbefitting for the Antichrist. Satan's response upon learning this is a deflated "She would call you that..."
- Massive Numbered Siblings: In the first season finale, it is revealed Chrissy has many half-siblings who were born from Satan.
- Telekinesis: How she puppeteered the school skeleton. She also used hers powers to speak through it.
- Voice of the Legion: Chrissy's voice lowers to a demonic, echoing bass whenever she's in Antichrist mode.Chrissy: (to Laura) Don't touch me! I wanna hang out with people my own age, not skin deer with some ancient, dried-out HAG!!
Laura Feinberg
Laura Feinberg
Voiced by Aubrey Plaza
- Action Mom: Laura is ridiculously jacked, has trained in multiple martial-arts forms, and has an encyclopedic knowledge of the occult, all of which she has employed to protect Chrissy from both her father and anyone who might want to kill a thirteen-year-old Antichrist.
- The Aloner: In "Everybody's Dying For the Weekend", during their argument, Laura states to Darlene that the reason she doesn't have friends is because she believes she is the only one who knows what's best for her. Though, she also admits to Darlene that the other reason is because she feels she's too messed-up to deserve something better in life.
- Ambiguously Jewish: Her last name Feinberg is of Ashkenazi origin, has dark hair, and is shown to have Hebrew writing as one of her tattoos. It's revealed to be true in "Domestic Disturbance VIII."
- Badass Bookworm: She has a thorough understanding of the occult and regularly uses that knowledge to kick demon ass.
- Crazy-Prepared: She's spent the past 13 years preparing for the day Chrissy's powers would awaken and draw demonic forces into their lives, and she's used that time to relentlessly train her body and mind. She's highly skilled in numerous martial arts and combat styles, and highly well trained in a wide range of Wicca practices and magic spells. She also keeps a wide assortment of magical relics.
- Deadpan Snarker: As befitting a character played by Aubrey Plaza, Laura has plenty of deadpan wit to her, especially when dealing with Satan.
- Emotion Control: She used magical leeches that eat anger to control her anger issues, but needed more and more because she got angrier, but when she put too many leeches on her body, they formed a Hive Mind and took over her body.
- Expy: She's kind of like Sarah Connor circa Terminator 2, who had spent the past decade since the first film preparing for the coming robot apocalypse by relentlessly training both physically and with weapons. Laura had 13 years since her daughter's birth to relentlessly train to fight demonic threats, so she has a large array of mystical weapons and even magic runes tattooed onto her body.
- Full-Frontal Assault: Turns out that certain spells that let your soul travel to the Astral Plane also make you arrive naked (by literally growing out of one of the demons there). Laura anticipated this but hid magical charms inside her body (plus her magic tattoos) then goes on a rampage to find her daughter.
- Good Girls Avoid Abortion: The opening scene of the pilot sees a heavily-pregnant Laura trying to end her pregnancy with a hammer to the stomach, but at that exact moment, she gives birth to Chrissy, so one could argue that it was not conscious avoidance, but a failure to go through with it.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: It's incredibly easy for Laura to blow a gasket over something; in "Night of the Leeches", it takes but a few minutes at the parent-student gathering for Laura to get violently angry at the mothers and curse them off.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Laura is a pretty unpleasant woman to be around (she's snarky, has a Hair-Trigger Temper, somewhat smothering towards Chrissy and very quick to use violence) but she does love her daughter and will do anything to protect her. She's also willing to curb her more negative aspects and improve herself if she's called on it and even has a surprisingly amicable friendship with Darlene.
- Mama Bear: Whenever Chrissy is in danger, Laura will stop at nothing to save her and brutally end whatever hurts her daughter.
- Ms. Fanservice: Laura is incredibly shredded and arrives naked in the Metaphysical Realm for a Full Frontal Assault against her ex, the Devil. Apart from that, though, Laura doesn't have much of a personal life and usually just wears hoodies and tank tops.
- My Beloved Smother: Deconstructed. While her instinct to protect Chrissy is justified, it overrides Laura's ability to empathize with her daughter. The result is Chrissy harboring a great deal of resentment toward her mother that is only compounded once she knows why they've really been constantly on the move.
- Odd Friendship: She remarkably gets along with her neighbor Darlene, who's otherwise a normal (if a tad ditzy) middle-aged-to-elderly woman. She even practically considers Darlene her only friend, as she calls her the one neighbor she hasn't threatened physical violence towards at some point. As explained in The Aloner above, Darlene is also basically the first long-term friend that Laura has had in the past 13 years, since beginning her life on the run with Chrissy.
- Our Witches Are Different: In the second episode, a member of the angry mob calls Laura a witch. She matter-of-factly responds that "technically" she is a witch, but not the kind he means. She was apparently referring to her mastery of occult magic after years of training - though before she had Chrissy she's remarked that she used to be a wanabee-Wiccan poser. Later in episode 5, when Chrissy remarks that Amanda is so cool "she's like literally a witch", Laura angrily retorts, "No, I'm literally a witch!"
- Properly Paranoid: Laura has spent the past thirteen years moving herself and Chrissy around in an attempt to prevent Satan from finding them.
- Resentful Guardian: During an argument with Satan in the pilot, Laura accidentally lets slip that she feels that having Chrissy ruined her life... within earshot of Chrissy. She later insists that she was talking about her old life, and that she doesn't miss it that much. Laura admits that before she had Chrissy she was a complete wreck drifting through life as a drunken, wannabee-Wiccan who ran with the wrong crowd, which is basically how she ended up at such a low point that she'd have sex with a guy like Laura's father in the first place (though she didn't know he was Satan at the time).
- Stomach of Holding: The spell she uses to travel to the Metaphysical Realm prevents her from bringing along anything she has on her (such as clothes)... but not in her. Thus, this becomes her go-to tactic to smuggle in whatever she needs.
Satan
Satan, AKA The Devil
Voiced by Danny DeVito
- Affably Evil: From what we've seen of him, the Devil comes off as a pretty fun guy to be around, and seems to legitimately care about his daughter in his own way.
- Faux Affably Evil: However, he ultimately reveals himself to be that, as he views Chrissy purely as a tool. For now, anyway—in episode 2 he was surprised at himself for actually showing concern for her safety.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: When the Devil first meets Chrissy, he appears as a buff, motorcycle riding, Vin Diesel-esque man, expecting her to be a boy. When he realizes she is a girl, he switches to the appearance of a more conservative suburban father.
- Amazon Chaser: When Laura breaks into the Metaphysical Realm to rescue Chrissy, he is impressed (and aroused) at how she had "bulked up... in a good way."
- The Corruptor: He intends to use his custody weekends with Chrissy to slowly lure her to his side and get her to aid him in inciting Maximus Dawnus.
- The Dreaded: Formerly this. His being evicted from Hell diminished his once feared reputation in the spiritual world.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: As he and Chrissy bond over the course of several episodes it becomes clear she isn't simply a pawn to him.
- He kept a hidden photo of Laura and the dog they raised together for 13 years.
- Giver of Lame Names: The names he gives for the spells he developed in his journal leave a lot to be desired
- Hypocrite: He always portrays himself as a rebel that uses his powers to defy Divine authority, yet he is also a tyrant who terrorizes realms and enacts all sorts of cruelty for conquest and because of the obscene pleasure he gets causing misery. Of course this is the Devil we're talking about, so you have to take his better qualities with a grain of salt.
- I Love the Dead: He usually accesses the mortal plane by possessing a body, usually a dead onenote . When he tells Laura this, she immediately asks if he was using a corpse when they made love. He does not deny this.
- Love Redeems: In episode five, we see how his paternal feelings for his daughter prevent him to e.g. kill random teenagers for shits and giggles.
- Never My Fault: He constantly shifts blame for the consequences of his screw-ups onto the nearest person, to both comedic and dramatic effect.
- Papa Wolf: In "Satan's Lot," the Devil transforms into a nightmarish mass of darkness when his daughter was being threatened.
- Pet the Dog: He claims that he would disembowel a child, several partygoers, and a nun to his "friends" during his bachelor party, but he merely just hides her in the car's trunk.
- The Devil Is a Loser: While Satan isn't exactly a slouch, he had lost a lot of his swagger over the years when compared to other godlike entities in the Metaphysical Realm. His anarchistic antics apparently kicked out of Biggleheim, had his afterlife license revoked, evicted from Hell and now has to scrounge by making deals for souls for his "soul hole." He has also lost a chunk of his Satanic power when Chrissy was born, this being one of the reasons why he needs her to enact the Maximus Dawnus.
Erwin
Voiced by Seth Kirschner
- Ambiguous Situation: It's not, as of yet, apparent who or even what Erwin is exactly. Is he an enslaved demon? A homunculus Laura threw together? Unknown.
- Butt-Monkey: Rarely gets any respect from Laura, who always insults him whenever he shows up.
- Only Sane Man: Much like Snake with Arms with Satan, he serves as a more sensible foil for Laura, willing to call her out for her more insane actions (like kidnapping a mother and her baby to activate an age-regression spell) and trying to get her to look more on the brighter side of things.
Humans
Bennigan Aquino
Voiced by Eugene Cordero
- Intergenerational Friendship: He is surprisingly friendly with Darlene, possibly as a result of the time that their souls ended up in each other's bodies.
- Muggle Best Friend: He becomes Chrissy's first friend at her new school and is totally cool with the fact that she's the Antichrist.
- The Renfield: Minor example. When Chrissy uses her soul to possess the bodies of others, it leaves her own body comatose. Chrissy relies on Bennigan to guard or carry around her body until she returns to it (sort of like a vampire familiar watching over a vampire's coffin during daylight hours).
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: In "Popularity: Origin of Evil", even when Satan threatens to kill his parents, even though Chrissy has treated him horribly in this episode, he refuses to ruin her reputation in his speech to the school. Fortunately Satan realizes that Chrissy will cut him off if he hurts her friend.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In "Domestic Disturbance VIII", he and Darlene try to intervene in Laura and Chrissy's fight, but after realizing that neither Chrissy nor Laura seem to care about the damage they're doing, they decide to go off and find a karaoke bar instead.
- Weight Woe: He has issues with his self image as a result of his weight and engages in purging behavior.
Darlene
Voiced by Lennon Parham
- Badass Normal: Whenever she gets herself into Laura's paranormal adventures, she proves somewhat capable when it comes to helping out with spells or even fighting some demons herself; in "Everybody's Dying for the Weekend", she manages to defeat the Snorkel Monster just by insulting it (being a Nice Girl, her first try wasn't too impressive, but she gained some venom almost immediately after.)
- Cloudcuckoolander: Darlene can be quite spacey, often rambling on about anecdotes about her life even when something dangerous is happening in front of her.
- Cool Old Lady: She's a woman in her late middle ages, and yet is able to handle the supernatural with absolute ease.
- Intergenerational Friendship: She is fond of Bennigan, possibly as a result of the time that their souls ended up in each other's bodies.
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl: A platonic example; Darlene is a bubbly, sweet, sociable woman who wants to bring the gruff, anti-social and hot-tempered Laura out of her shell and find joy in her life once in a while.
- Nice Girl: She's perky, friendly and supportive towards everyone, even Laura despite the weirdness that surrounds her. Indeed, aside from Chrissy, Darlene is the only person Laura isn't insanely abrasive towards because of this.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In "Village of the Found", Darlene misremembered Laura’s spell of transferring the soul to the astral plane sent Bennigan’s soul to heaven where the angels live.
- Odd Friendship: Friends with Laura, an extremely knowledgeable action mom who had sex with the Devil and gave birth to the Anti-Christ. Darlene, to the contrary, is just a middle-aged-to-elderly suburban badass normal and cloudcuckoolander. Surprisingly they get along great.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In "Domestic Disturbance VIII", she and Bennigan try to intervene in Laura and Chrissy's fight, but after realizing that neither Chrissy nor Laura seem to care about the damage they're doing, they decide to go off and find a karaoke bar instead.
- Unfazed Everyman: She's a regular, middle-aged human woman completely unbothered by the various demonic and gory shenanigans the Feinbergs deal with whenever she gets roped in. The fact that she's secretly been living with her ex-husband's ghost for several months might have something to do with it, assuming it began before the show started.
Unshaven Man
Voiced by Michael Shannon
- Anti-Villain: His goal is to kill the Antichrist and prevent Maximus Dawnus from happening, thus saving his realm from Satan's rule. However, he doesn't really care if said Antichrist is a 13 year old girl and is still eager to kill her just the same. After having his penis shot off, then being excommunicated by the Pope and his girlfriend dumping him, he gets rid of the "anti" part as he wants to kill Chrissy purely for revenge.
- Groin Attack: Gets his penis shot off by Satan, along with his other compatriots (some of whom are female, who presumably got their clits shot off).
- Knight Templar: Perfectly ready-and-willing to murder a pre-teen girl if she just happened to be the Antichrist.
- No Name Given: He goes the entire first season without ever saying his name, and no one else ever calls him by his name either.
- Would Hurt a Child: Is excited and eager to murder an adolescent girl if she was the Antichrist. After the events of the first episode, he now wants to murder said adolescent girl for revenge.
Everett
Voiced by Patrick Wilson
Demons
Snake with Arms
- Beware the Nice Ones: Being the only one who actively doesn't partake in Satan's antics most of the time. When he does it comes as a surprise to everyone. When Baka and the rest of Satan's old buddies insult Satan, Baka ends up Eaten Alive by Snake before Satan takes out the other two.
- Only Sane Man: Acts as a foil to Satan, sarcastically pointing out the obvious flaws in his plans. The fact that he's the only one that finds Satan's actions awful or wrong also paints him as a Token Good Teammate. Satan usually brushes these off, although he will occasionally take his words to heart, and the two surprisingly consider themselves genuine friends.
- True Companions: Even with all the crap he has to put up with regarding Satan's attitude towards him; he's willing to defend Satan when the call arises, and the two consider each other best friends.
Asmodeus
Voiced by Sam Richardson
- Sissy Villain: He has a high voice with a British accent and effeminate mannerisms, and wears a thong-and-cape combo. It's...pretty noticeable.
Queen Inichoochiama
Voiced by Shangela
Jimmy
Voiced by William Jackson Harper
Baka
Voiced by Dave Bautista
