Meet the Aduraices, a small portion of the game's cast who are just dying to meet you, and you'll be dying once you meet them too… From the top left: Alfred, Marie, Alice, Riba, Rosa, Mercy, Aria, Emi, Serina, Anna, Rae, and Leo (not pictured above: Isaac).
You will never understand what truly goes on in this place [...] What you need to know, is our pain and misery.
The nonplayable cast of (Mario) The Music Box. Many of them have departed from the land of the living, and it can be hard to tell among some as to who is on your side and who will do their level best to kill you.— Alfred
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General Spirits
A vast collection of deceased souls that still wander the dilapidated Aduraice mansion estate and the abandoned Evangeline districts, many of whom were either murdered in cold blood by their matriarch Alice or died through other means in Evangeline — most likely execution during the witch hunts Marchionne led. Many are hostile to the presence of intruders, assaulting the minds of the playable cast with illusions or even trying to physically take them out themselves though a myriad of means (doing the deed in person, possessing inanimate objects, using their victims themselves, you name it), though some may be neutral to them in rare instances and rarer still are those of benign nature who seek to aid them however they can. Whatever the case, the playable cast must weather the horrors of the past to survive, as Alice and many more malignant spirits will haunt them every step of the way.
- Another Man's Terror: Mario and Luigi experience a few flashbacks describing how some of them met their end.
- Ax-Crazy: A few of them are markedly insane and dangerous at the same time.
- Black Eyes of Crazy: Only one spirit to date had this characteristic. They will find Mario in a crate in the left wing if he dares to open a crack, resulting in a game over. They're never heard from or seen again if Mario stays put. This spirit was eventually removed and had their role replaced by the head maid Marie. A new painting spirit — either a spirit that possessed a portrait of Alice or a form of Alice herself — attacks Riba when he attempts to retrieve the plank, replacing an older spirit that had Black Eyes of Evil.
- Black Eyes of Evil: An unknown spirit in the original game who attacks Riba when he retrieves the plank had these kinds of eyes.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Considering that ghosts tend to terrorize/kill their victims in a manner similar to how they themselves died (like how a broken neck ghost in Evangeline will viciously snap Mario's neck upon catching him for example), that opens up a whole lot of possibilities and horrifying implications for how the ghosts met their ends.
- Demonic Possession: They are all capable of this if someone is weak-minded enough, as one of them managed to possess Luigi for a very brief moment (twice). Inanimate objects are also fair game to them.
- Empty Eyes: Quite a bit of them.
- Evil Laugh: The original hallway spirit from the left wing before being replaced by Marie sounds like they're either doing this or choking. It becomes a proper evil laugh if Mario doesn't crack the crate open until after they had left or if he does crack the crate open to see them. A maid spirit who taunts Luigi about dying with Mario also does this, and the Mario impostor chasing Luigi will do this if the player fails either of the Survival segments with him.
- Face–Monster Turn: Being trapped as spirits in the physical plane and feeling the pain of their deaths for all eternity will do that to someone, driving some to murderous rage.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: Four spirits possess this trait. The girl found in the first floor's bathroom who tries to drown Mario, and three children who show up after Mario reads a book covered in blood before drowning him in darkness from the original game.
- Good Colors, Evil Colors: Once Toadston gives Mario the special contact lens during the -ARC- Expansion, spirits who are neutral or benign to the party are seen with a blue color, while the hostile ones are most commonly depicted as red, although the more animalistic spirits in the shape of wolves or bears are pure black. In the remastered base game, Luigi can see the color of spirits naturally.
- Heel–Face Turn: Some spirits can be put to rest and pass on, becoming completely friendly toward others.
- Humans Are Bastards: Several hostile spirits express this sentiment.
- Sadist: Several spirits look forward to the party dying or being driven into the depths of despair.
- Sanity Slippage: It was said in the original game after someone had fallen to their death off the garden cliff in the past, it was said that the rest of the mansion dwellers lost their sanity before death.
- Technicolor Eyes: Various spirits you run into have a wide assortment of natural and unnatural eye colors, attributed to them being spirits.
- Undeathly Pallor: Several have this given that they're dead.
- Your Days Are Numbered: Several of them tell the gang that they're doomed to die in the cursed house no matter what they do.
Aduraice Mansion Residents
Alice Aduraice / Queen of Hearts
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- I'm not doing this for myself[...] I do it all for him...
The late heiress of the Aduraice Estate. Long ago, coming from a poor background, her life changed for the better when Riba came into it and vowed to marry him one day which she eventually managed. To ensure that the wonderful union would last for eternity, she turned to the occult and massacred the other patrons for her beloved husband. In the present day as a spirit, however, she now seeks to hijack Mario's body and once again begin a bloody crusade against the world, starting with the Mushroom Kingdom.
- A Day in the Limelight: In the Sane Route of the ARC Expansion.
- Allegorical Character: She can be seen as one to the original artist (even being voiced by her) who was going through a rough spot in life herself, being an inner demon that one needs to confront and conquer to escape their hell. While Mario is ultimately unable to conquer this inner demon himself, symbolizing how hard it is to overcome such adversity alone, having someone so unrelentingly supportive in Luigi along with the young Aduraice daughters is what saves him in the end. Much like inner demons, it is hard to be rid of Alice unless she is confronted, but merely confronting her does not fix the main issue—the best possible way to deal with one's inner demons is through understanding them and making peace with them which leaves one better off than simply denying them or further ostracizing them from oneself. Mario's understanding of Alice's past and willingness to make peace with and forgive her is what truly sets them all free in the end.
- A Mistake Is Born: Her mother clearly expresses never having wanted her in the first place and sees her as a burden to take care of. For her part, Alice is disgusted that she was born from a woman like Evie.
- Abusive Parents: She was downright horrible toward her adopted daughter, Anna, once Serina was born. In the original game, this was acknowledged by Alice herself and it would have been lessened to some unsaid degree as Serina was intended to be offered up as a sacrifice, but the jealous Anna killed Serina — as a result, Alice disowns and murders Anna in retaliation.
- The ARC Expansion reveals that Anna was the daughter of Riba's first wife, Elizabeth. Hence why she hates her so much. The remastered version also changes her relationship from being somewhat guilty of what she's done to Anna to being wholly unrepentant throughout unless certain endings or routes pacify her spirit to where she moves on to make amends. ARC also reveals that she despised her mother Evie who made her life hell, bankrupted the family, and was openly cheating on her husband.
- And Your Reward Is Infancy: In the Omitted Memory ending of the 2021 remake, she regresses into a baby after Mario removes the curse from her.
- Ax-Crazy: As noted by herself in entries left behind, she started losing control of her actions partway through in the killings and eventually devolved into the bloodthirsty lunatic she would be remembered as. However, this changes thanks to Characterization Marches On, where it's revealed that's she always been a bit unstable, having been so obsessive with Riba to the point of killing his wife and nearly burning the child he had with her alive. Of course, being betrayed/murdered by Riba, being sealed away in the Music Box, and turning into a vicious spirit definitely didn't help with her sanity, and by the time the game starts, Alice has now become a full on Omnicidal Maniac.
- Battle Aura: When she faces Mario in the flesh or Luigi as Malice, she is surrounded in a swirling mass of liquid/gaseous shadows with faces resembling skulls wafting out from the edges.
- Back from the Dead: Just like the other undead that roam around her mansion.
- Bare-Handed Blade Block: In the ARC Expansion's Insane Route's "Drown" ending route if Riba was killed before Marchionne's battle — same for an Insane Route's "No Save" ending route if Riba is killed before the boss battle, after Mario defeats Marchione, Marchionne refuses to let Mario suffer being Len's experiment and gets up to attack Mario once again. Alice promptly catches the large cleaver/sword with no visible injury to her — either that or she outright blocked it with her inhuman durability with how the sprites look.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: She just wanted to marry that nice 200-something-year-old, non-human man who treated her nicely compared to others when she was a little girl, but she didn't realize she was being used.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: A young Alice was rather easily smitten with Riba, who had shown her kindness after effectively being treated like trash.
- Big Bad: She is the main antagonist and Final Boss of the original game as the source of the curse and the one who killed everyone in the mansion, turning them into the hostile spirits in-game.
- Berserk Button: Her interactions with Marchionne seem to hint that she doesn't like being blamed for actions that she didn't do.
- Big Bad Ensemble:
- In the original game, with Riba. She was the one who killed everyone around her on Riba's orders for a chance at eternal life and love. As a sprit, she seeks to commandeer Mario's body so that she may complete her ritualistic massacre and kill Riba.
- In ARC, alongside Riba and Marchionne. She tries to gain full control of Mario and kill the latter two.
- Blade Enthusiast: Knives are her most preferred weapons, with kitchen knives specifically being a favorite of hers. Before the ARC expansion was first expanded upon, the two routes' different "bad" endings are brought about by picking the cleaver no matter what as opposed to the chainsaw.
- Black Eyes of Crazy: Whenever Alice's full face is typically shown and she happens to be very cross with someone, most prominently in "Omitted Memory"'s boss battle segment against her.
- Boomerang Bigot: She is described in her reference sheet as being misogynistic because of how her mother was, and as such she is markedly mistrustful of other women. Indeed, whenever she does interact with or talk about another female, she is nothing short of dismissive at best and murderously hostile at worst, save her interactions with her own daughter Serina. Although it would be hard to even notice, considering how she treats Mario and acts towards Luigi.
- Characterization Marches On: In the original game she was so violent and obsessive with Riba because of a combination of schizophrenia and having a terminal illness. The ARC Expansion and the 2021 remake changes her into an impulsive woman who took bad decisions, like killing Riba's wife out of jealousy (albeit it is still implied she did have a terminal illness before her death). This results in him marrying her in order to ruin her life. She also gets much more characterization explaining her motives in-depth.
- Dark and Troubled Past: To the point where you have to wonder if she's someone's cursed younger twin in this setting. First was her mother Evie, whose shameless hedonistic lifestyle that bankrupted the family and abject abuse towards her young child Alice pushed her far enough to kill Evie, only for Marchionne to evict the family when his own father died. Enter the kind stranger Riba, who promised her the prospect of his hand in marriage and revenge against Marchionne by outing him as a bad omen twin to save her family. Come years later after Marchionne's dealt with, Alice finds out Riba was already married to Elizabeth as he never intended to honor his promise to Alice in the first place, so Alice murdered Elizabeth both to pay Riba back and believing that Elizabeth stole Riba from her before burning the house down and trying to pass it off as an accident. Riba found out anyway and decided to marry her in order to infiltrate her family and ruin her life; once she's dying of an illness (which may or may not have been Riba's doing), Riba convinced her that the only way to save herself is killing their daughter Serina — and then later all the other mansion's residents once Serina was nowhere to be found — in a ritual in order to become a demon and live eternally with him after all other options to cure her disease had failed (also leaving out that his immortality would have been passed on to her which would eventually see her being alone after he died if the ritual did succeed). After it's all over, Riba rubs it in her face that she failed the ritual, failed being a mother, and failed to become his successor after he strung her along all this time before murdering her. Alice predictably lashed out and cursed everyone she knew in her mansion right before Riba killed her and having her soul bound to the music box by Anna, eventually rising up as a vengeful spirit hellbent on escaping the mansion herself to destroy the whole world.
- Daddy's Girl: The ARC Expansion reveals she was very close to her father to the point that her willingness to ruin Marchionne's life was because he was about to take their house after the Aduraice family was bankrupt due to her mother's hedonist lifestyle. Of everyone in her life who died, her father's death is the one that bothers her the most, and reading an entry left behind by Evie who mocked Alice for defending a (now deceased) man who wasn't even her birth father greatly upset her to the point of tears.
- Deadpan Snarker: First seen (and only seen if you play just the main game) if she finds Riba hiding with a lampshade on his head in plain sight as she's hunting him, complete with a look that screams "seriously?". In the ARC Expansion, Alice engages in frequent sniping at Mario, moreso in the Insane Route.
- Death Seeker: In the main game, an entry she left behind shows that she acknowledges the horrible things she's done but she couldn't stop herself and can't by the time she wrote it. She asks for someone to put her down before she goes too far over the edge — coming too late for her and not in the way she would have wanted with Riba all too happy to take her up on it in the worst way possible. She's since changed her mind as an entity — kind of.
- Deal with the Devil: Riba, after he married Alice, convinced her to kill their daughter Serina to perform a ritual that would make Alice an entity to be together forever with him, later needing the death of everyone else to do so once Serina was killed by Anna. She seems fond of making these herself as a demonic spirit, first offering Riba a chance to escape the mansion if he works with her in erasing Mario's consciousness with a ritual so she can gain full control, another one with Mario in "Omitted Memory" where she would spare Luigi if Mario willingly submitted himself to her control, and again during the last couple of endings where she makes another deal with Luigi where she would spare him if he stopped resisting her and let him live as her servant once the ritual is complete.
- Demonic Possession: She threatens Mario with this in a vision when they finally meet. Mario indeed becomes her first and only victim due to unknowingly freeing her from the music box.
- Despair Event Horizon: Beneath the sadism and insanity, Alice has ultimately crossed this, and she has a brief conversation with Luigi (disguised as Mario) where she genuinely shows her hopelessness and regret for what she's become. It's likely that this is the reason she's an Omnicidal Maniac.
- Didn't Think This Through: Killing the wife of a demon who you worked with before and thus should know exactly how exceedingly dangerous he is? A smart move that does not become.
- The Dreaded: Even in death, the other spirits seem to fear her whenever she's gotten enough control over Mario (unless it's Anna). The two spirits that normally would have killed Mario in the ARC expansion if he took the sane route will back off in the insane route; one of which is the spirit that drowns you in both the original game and the ARC expansion who only meekly approaches Alice before disappearing for the rest of the game, and the other one is Rosa who would have killed Mario through psychokinetic slamming outright panics once she sees Alice's eye manifesting in Mario before hightailing it out of there — begging her former mistress not to kill her (this is despite the fact she's already dead).
- Earn Your Happy Ending: In the "Better Off Lost" ending of the 2021 remake, she's finally pacified after Mario forgives her and destroys the music box. Not only seeing Anna and Serina plotting to seal her made her realize how far she had gone, but she also finally realizes that Riba never loved her and that she was just an Unwitting Pawn. She lifts the curse of the mansion, deciding she's going to make amends with Anna, her family, and the servants.
- The End of the World as We Know It: What Alice intends to do once she gets a body of her own, as seen in the Tragedy ending and hinted at when confronted by Luigi as "Malice".
- Evil Is Petty: She has many moments of this, but one that really takes the cake is the Continuance Ending 3 in Arc, where she gives Mario the same deadly disease she had in life presumably to spite him and Riba.
- Evil Laugh: She gets an impressive one right after telling the just-slaughtered Alfred in a flashback her motive behind her actions.
- Evil Plan: Her plan to use a host body to escape the mansion and continue cursing the world. In the event where she extends an offer to Luigi for him to serve her, this adds on an extra layer of mystery as to what else she intends to do besides such — it's not clear if she intended for Luigi to serve her as she destroys the world or, worse, if she has further plans for it afterward.
- Face Framed in Shadow: Many of her portraits and overworld sprites post-mortem conceal her head starting from under her eyes to the top of her head, sometimes leaving one eye visible after she is finally revealed to be the possessing force behind Mario.
- Fatal Flaw: Threefold when she was alive: her vindictiveness toward those who crossed her, her obsession with Riba from her childhood days, and the sheer lengths she will go to for those she loves. Her wrath is taken to its logical conclusion when she makes to kill everyone who's wronged her which includes her own mother to end her abuse, Marchionne when he tossed her family out onto the streets, and later Riba after finding out she was used and double-crossed by him. Alice clings hard onto those she really loves, and if she believes that they are being inconvenienced or if they need her to do something, expect her to go above and beyond for them no matter how horrible it may be. Alice's mad love for Riba who treated her with kindness also leads her down a dark path when he uses her as a pawn to secure himself more power and never realized that he had no intention to marry her (already being married himself). All of these eventually get her killed when she's made enemies with Riba after having killed off just about everyone who could vouch for her or defend her, and it leads to unending issues for her in the afterlife when literally everyone is doing their damndest to make sure she stays dead both in her own mansion and in Evangeline.
- Final Boss: She serves as this in half of the base game's ending routes (the other half not having a final boss to speak of), being the last obstacle in "Omitted Memory" as herself and possessing Mario in "Sealed", "Puppet", and "Better Off Lost".
- Foreshadowing: There is one particular photo of her that's particularly damning: it's one of her, the various mansion dwellers, and her husband Riba. Not just that, but neither of the two seem to are smiling and/or looking at each other while everyone else seems to be happy looking. This hints that their marriage was not going to last. Come years later and both of them attempt to kill each other at various points, with Riba saying that he left Alice because he felt she was just using him (including his repeated attempts to off her in the ARC expansion) and Alice herself kills him in almost every ending (including the ARC expansion through Mario should he go insane).
- Earlier than that, when Mario first takes the titular music box with him, the player can see a message about an ominous presence talking about how it is going to be all theirs, tipping the player off that something very evil (Alice) just got into Mario and plans to hijack him.
- Another instance is when Luigi is given control by the player and when Luigi encounters what appeared to be Mario leaping off of the balcony after giving Luigi some words of advice. Observant players will notice that a shade of Alice had just been walking by before this happens, implying that Alice herself is not so thoroughly far-gone and that there is indeed a shred of remorse and even compassion left in her.
- Foil: To her mother, Evie. Both are women who ultimately ruined their families with selfish desires and suffered the consequences for their actions by being killed at someone who absolutely despised them, and both rose up as vile spirits. Evie, however, was an unrepentant and abusive hedonist who was not shown to have had love for anyone else but herself; she cheated on her husband without shame and drained him of his funds once he became rich and was set to abandon her family after that — at least until the daughter she had abused took matters into her own hands and disposed of Evie. Even though Alice herself tragically became a horrible person like her mother, she had shown genuine remorse over the things she had done to her family out of desperation (and later expresses guilt to tormenting Mario in "Better Off Lost") — only finding comfort in that she still had Riba who she was absolutely faithful to up until he killed her once she was of no more use to him; aside of killing her own mother, Elizabeth, and Anna, Alice never went out of her way to antagonize someone else unless there was a reason to it. As spirits, Alice herself can be redeemed in a few ending routes and leave Mario be once she is put to rest, unlike Evie, who will likely spend the rest of her afterlife as a tortured spirit holding on to her grudge of Alice.
- Freudian Excuse: Aside from Riba's corruption which came later, Alice's descent into darkness can be traced back to her horrible mother Evie. Her mother absolutely hated her for being a daughter she never wanted to have, abusing her and putting her to work with Alice herself barely having much food, money, or sleep, not to mention cheating on her husband Isaac Aduraice and only using him for his money whom Alice dearly loved. After draining Isaac of everything she could from Isaac, this left the family bankrupt and in danger of being evicted by Marchionne. All of this made Alice such an easy target to commit the horrible acts she would eventually commit once someone comes her way and treats her nicely.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Alice was originally just a poor girl suffering at the hands of her mother and about to become homeless thanks to both her mother bankrupting the family and Marchionne's orders to put the family out. While she had the potential for villainy when she killed her bitch of a mother, it wasn't really until Riba came into the picture which would slowly turn her into the biggest threat to not just Evangeline but to the Mushroom Kingdom yet.
- Glamour Failure: Players can tell if Alice is in control of Mario by simply looking at his eye color. If they're green, then it's her, though players won't initially know this because when it first happens, they won't know what her eye color is.
- Green-Eyed Monster: She doesn't take the fact that Riba was already married very well. This is part of the reason she resents Anna so much. Bonus points for having literal green eyes.
- Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Almost every single ending in the base game aside from the Golden Ending either sees Alice succeeding in her goals or screwing Mario and Luigi over should she fail against them. The original "Omitted Memory" has her spirit completely destroyed but her curse begins to spread without a host, consuming Mario to the point where he becomes her curse's new host (although in the remake she herself gets a second chance at life to do better thanks to Mario raising her and keeping the curse from her). "Missing" and "Puppet" has her take over Mario's body completely before embarking to finish what she started (after an unsuccessful attempt to seal her back into the music box for "Puppet"). "Sealed" has her successfully sealed inside of the music box, but out of spite she steps off the edge of a cliff to kill Mario before her soul is dragged back inside the music box because if she can't have Mario's body then no one can. The only base game ending where she does not seem to get one over the brothers is when Luigi fails to exorcise her soul from Mario's body in "Comatose" which leaves the both of them out of commission for what could be forever, and then there's "Tragedy"…
- Heel–Face Turn:
- In "Better Off Lost", courtesy of Luigi stopping the ritual from becoming complete along with Anna and Serina sealing her away into the music box to contain her curse, Alice is finally given a moment of clarity to desperately plead with Mario and Luigi to not abandon her. Mario ultimately forgives Alice and points out how her relationship with Riba was not healthy at all and that it only damaged her, saying she is now free from him and that she can pass on to the next life. Once Mario smashes the music box, Alice is quickly overcome with happiness for her new freedom and resolves to make amends with all those she had hurt before finally leaving Mario and Luigi alone for good.
- In ARC, if Mario gains enough affection points with Riba and gets him to turn good, Alice will also express regret for everything she has done and promise to make things better in the next life before she departs.
- Hidden Eyes: When her face isn't entirely shrouded out, then her eyes are often kept hidden from the player. This makes it a little harder to tell when she's possessing Mario, because the player won't initially know that her eyes are green. Later versions of the game usually resort to only having one of her eyes shrouded in darkness, having the other one glow ominously.
- Holy Burns Evil: In "Omitted Memory", Alice is defeated through Mario dousing her in holy water, either destroying her for good in the original game or de-aging her into an infant in the remastered version. Defeating her with it is unique in that the amount of holy water being used against her in the boss fight determines how quickly she'll go down (either a handful of hits or one shot) unlike other spirits who are always dispelled in one shot when doused with holy water or Riba who would have been killed from the inside out after drinking some, and it's implied that Marchionne is enhancing its power against her to make it effective.
- Horrifying the Horror: Alice is capable of scaring the shit out of the violent spirits roaming around the mansion. Although, not so much with the undead Evangeline ghosts.
- I Did What I Had to Do: In ARC, she's clearly sad about being forced to kill the mansion residents, but she's convinced herself that it was necessary for the sake of the ritual so she can be with Riba forever. The revamped demo includes a line from Alice speaking of "test subjects" and hoping that a cure for her terminal disease can be found lest she be forced to kill everyone, implying that she saw Riba's ritual as a last resort.
- I Just Want to Be Free: She wanted someone to put an end to her killing spree once she started to lose control of her actions in the original game, and in both the original and the remastered version this is all she really wants in the end when her anger is not clouding her mind. Mario finally grants her this freedom in the "Better Off Lost" ending, and if Riba's friendship is high enough with Mario then Alice finally makes amends with Riba which allows her to pass on to the next life.
- Immortality Seeker: She sought this along with unification of souls with her beloved.
- Informed Flaw: According to Word of God, Alice is a Boomerang Bigot towards other women, being misogynistic and untrusting towards them. However since Alice doesn't exactly treat the men in the series much better, and seems to just be a Jerkass to everyone, this comes off as an informed flaw. The closest thing we get to Alice being sexist to other women is her insulting Elizabeth as she kills her, but that could also be due to Alice being a complete Yandere towards Riba.
- Kick the Dog: Her completely unempathetic reaction towards Rosa's demise while recounting it to Alfred (who was in love with Rosa). And let us not get into what she did to Riba's original wife and what she planned to do to Anna if Riba hadn't arrived in time. Killing a fake spirit of Peach in front of Mario and never bothering to to tell him the truth of it (probably because she herself doesn't care either way) just to break him is another one of her many bitch moves.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: If the Drowned Ending Route is pursued whether the player saved or not, Alice will leave Mario's body as Marchionne continues to try and kill him and prevent Len from using him as a tool, blocking his blade. Alice then tells Mario that continuing to remain in his body at this rate is putting too much strain on her and would cause her to fade. She thus leaves Mario's body and does not pursue him further, letting him be and deciding to wait on another host to come by one day.
- Lady of Black Magic: The ARC Expansion reveals that she laid two curses in her final moments before being struck down—one on the mansion's estate to keep the spirits and Riba trapped there out of spite after Riba confesses that he never loved her and was just using her for his own gains, and another one that if it were to spread then it would engulf the world in destruction unless contained in a host such as herself or someone else should she be destroyed or bested. When fought as a boss, she displays the power to conjure shadowy apparitions or masses of pure shadow to do her bidding or attack and kill with as she pleases. Her interest in the occult and turning to black magic is hinted to be Alice turning to desperation to become immortal once she becomes terminally ill.
- Loving a Shadow: Her obsession with Riba falls into this category. She idealizes Riba and is enamored with the idea of being in love. However, she fails to understand how he thinks, what motivates him, or how his time as an immortal demon has affected him. For this reason, she's completely blindsided when he betrays and murders her. In the "Better Off Lost" ending, Mario makes Alice realize she never really loved Riba, she is in love with the idea of being love with Riba.
- Mad Love: Her being treated nicely by Riba in the face of her mother's mistreatment made her an easy pawn for him to use.
- Make It Look Like an Accident: After killing Elizabeth, Alice set fire to the house in an attempt to make it appear that Elizabeth (and Anna had Riba not arrive sooner) had died in an accidental house blaze. Riba saw right through it, but played along so he could plan his revenge against her in the future.
- Mama Bear: Very protective and nurturing of Serina when they were still alive. Towards Anna…not so much.
- May–December Romance: Riba was about 200 years old when he first met a young Alice (who happened to look about as old as the daughters she eventually had).
- Misanthrope Supreme: What she had turned into towards the end of her life after having been set up by Riba and murdered by him. Her hatred for everything which she felt screwed her over caused her to rise up as a vengeful ghost and seek nothing short of destroying the world in response. Given the rather poor direction her life was going from start to finish, it is not hard to understand why.
- Ms. Fanservice: She is this by default as the most prominent female in (Mario) The Music Box, but she herself is very naturally attractive with little to no makeup even then, and she retains this to a degree centuries later thanks to dying young and beautiful from a headwound that did not disfigure her outward features. She even has a piece of artwork which shows off her shapely figure
, making her the only character in (Mario) The Music Box with such artwork to her name. The only other character to have a fanservicey shot of them—Mario himself believe it or not—has some creepy undertones in these scenes. - Murder the Hypotenuse: In the ARC Expansion, when she finds out Riba was just manipulating her and has married Elizabeth, she takes it badly. She swore to get back at him for "cheating" on her and goes after Elizabeth—murdering her in cold blood.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Almost says this word for word when she was alive as she's visiting a grave. She's crestfallen that she had killed everyone she knew and love and that everything her family worked for would die with her—even expressing sadness at having killed Anna and acknowledging that killing her terrible mother had made her father miserable. It is telling how bad she felt about killing Anna after the fact as when Riba confronts her about it and even with her rather weak and deluded justifications for it she can't bring herself to look him in the eye. In the 2021 version's "Better Off Lost" ending, Alice acknowledged how far she had fallen and sincerely wishes to make it up to everyone she had hurt.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Alice really should not have killed Elizabeth out of her jealousy fit thinking the other woman stole Riba from her, leading to the long list of events that would continue to ruin her life. Also murdering Peach in the Insane Route ends up actually benefiting Mario, since she was actually an imposter.
- Not Me This Time: She does freely admit to killing Peach in the ARC expansion (or rather a spirit in her guise with the confirmation that Peach never set foot in the mansion) but squarely pins some of Mario's further actions on him and makes it clear she had no part in them (such as killing Riba and Luigi).
- Offing the Offspring: She attempted to kill her own daughter to be granted eternal life and love. Anna wasn't suitable for the ritual, which is why Serina was going to be sacrificed instead, but Anna apparently didn't know that at first, killing Serina and getting herself killed anyways. This gets her killed when Riba finds out she killed Anna, he murders her in retaliation for Anna and Elizabeth's deaths.
- Oh, Crap!: Alice sees very little reason to fear anything save for being sealed in the music box once again (often for understandable reason seeing as there is little that can stop her aside of making her play the waiting game a bit longer), but during the Trial of Wrath in the -ARC- Expansion's Insane Route, Alice fearfully backed away on reflex upon reuniting with her mother as a spirit. Even though it was brief, and Alice quickly regained her composure afterward, it is a testament to how horrible Evie was that just seeing her again inspired enough dread that Alice almost suffered a breakdown.
- Omnicidal Maniac: As a Vengeful Ghost, Alice has grown to completely hate the world and she desires to complete destroy it and wipe out everyone. She succeeds in one of the endings after unleashing her curse.
- Pet the Dog: In one of the hidden after credit scenes, Alice will be shown at the cemetery, regretting her actions and killing everyone she's ever known, including Anna.
- The Power of Hate: Alice is just so ungodly enraged that she was used and lost everything that she basically curses the world for her poor lot in life. This level of hatred is so much so that if she were to be freed after rising up as a ghost then the world would be left a smoldering ruin in her wake as seen in the Tragedy ending.
- Please, Don't Leave Me: After having her keister handed to her and losing all control over Mario upon being sealed away once again by Anna and Serina, her hatred and bloodlust vanish and give way to her desperation to never be left alone again, saying this word-for-word in the original version of the game as the two plumbers were finally escaping through the last stretch of her house of horrors.
- Psychopathic Womanchild: She can be highly immature—motivated by jealousy, spite, and payback against her enemies, all of which are very childish aspirations.
- Power Floats: As a powerful spirit, she can levitate in the air.
- Pragmatic Villainy: She was about to kill baby Anna after she murdered Elizabeth but spared her since Riba would have found both deaths suspicious.
- Sadist: She very clearly relishes in the pain she causes to the Mario Bros. in the various game over sequences, especially as the final boss of the different ending routes where killing Mario in "Omitted Memory" takes the cake.
- Sanity Slippage: Her accelerating schizophrenia and hysteria in life contributed to her wanton killing. This aspect of her—insanity by mental disorder—was retconned in ARC and the 2021 remake which changes her into being motivated by her Mad Love for Riba instead and then later motivated by her sheer hatred for everything after being betrayed by him one last time.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: The music box that Mario touches in the beginning of the game was her prison.
- Self-Made Orphan: The ARC Expansion reveals she imprisoned and tortured her mother to death after her father's demise. Considering Evie was a woman who bankrupted the family for her hedonistic lifestyle and openly cheated on her husband, she definitely had it coming.
- Seven Deadly Sins: Represents the sin of Wrath; she is bitterly angry at everyone who's wronged her, swearing revenge upon them in the worst of ways. Her eventual death culminates in her developing a hatred against the world and vowing to destroy it.
- Shut Up, Kirk!: In response to Luigi calling her a cold-blooded murderer and vowing to stop her, she agrees with him, adding that as such she wouldn't mind killing him too.
- Single-Target Sexuality: Shows no interest in anyone else but Riba. Disturbingly enough, this is to the point where she suggests that she—still in Mario's body—start over with Riba in the -ARC- Expansion if Riba's affection with Mario is high enough, showing she at that point does not care if she is in a female or male body as long as she has Riba.
- Slasher Smile: Much more prominent in the original game where she is almost never seen without one on her face, though nowadays she is more seen with a psychotic smirk. Expect to see this a lot on her face whenever she possesses Mario.
- Sour Outside, Sad Inside: Underneath all the hatred and bloodthirst, Alice is ultimately a woman who is just plain miserable. When Luigi comes across Mario standing at the edge of a balcony, the player can see a brief glimpse of her shade walking past before she disappears, and what "Mario" says is really Alice's thoughts (perhaps fragments of her consciousness). Take away all of her hatred and bloodthirst as seen in the "Better Off Lost" ending and up until Mario himself frees her, Alice is all but regretful of everything that she had done and wishes that she could make up for it all.
- Taking You with Me: Whenever it seems like Alice is on the verge of defeat and about to be forced out of Mario's body, she almost never fails to kill Mario's body before anyone could get the chance to do so just to spite them.
- Tears of Fear: When Luigi starts getting the upper hand on her in their final battle and when she's about to be sealed away, she's shown shedding tears, likely in fear of being sealed away and ending up alone again.
- Tears of Joy: Upon Mario smashing the music box imprisoning her in the "Better Off Lost" ending, Alice is beside herself with happiness for the first time in a long time and can't help crying now that she is finally free to make amends with her family and start over in a new life.
- Tears of Remorse: In the original game, Alice is never shown outright crying throughout her appearances as herself, but after Mario reads an unfinished page concerning Serina's death over the garden cliff, he starts crying himself. He denies it, making Alice the only likely culprit behind it. She does shed these in ARC if Mario gets Riba to do a Heel–Face Turn, with her following shortly after.
- Terms of Endangerment: She uses quite a few of these when she's trying to kill Riba while in Mario's body. It becomes less surprising once it's found out that he was her husband.
- That Man Is Dead: In some Game Overs and endings, she asserts that Mario is as good as gone once she's gotten complete control over his body.
- Token Evil Teammate: In the ARC expansion, of the allies who help Mario throughout in the different routes, she is markedly the one who continues to push Mario down a darker path in both routes whereas both Marchionne and Luigi aid Mario in the Sane route to help him escape while Riba takes this role for Mario in the Insane Route (he himself can function as a token evil teammate if his affection levels are not high enough). She becomes a bit more active in the events going on, scaring off certain spirits who would have killed Mario in the Mansion should he succumb and often giving him a harsh word or two to get him to keep moving if only so that they can both leave alive—sometimes outright taking over his body herself to get some things done to progress.
- Too Dumb to Live: See Didn't Think This Through up above.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: She wasn't nice in the original series, but she's much bitchier in the -ARC- Expansion, especially when she snarks at Mario's naivety or lambasts him for getting emotional.
- Took a Level in Kindness: In the Omitted Memory ending of the 2021 remake, after she regresses into a baby and having the kind and heroic Mario raising her instead of an irresponsible mother like Evie who hated her guts, she becomes a sweet girl.
- Undeathly Pallor: She sports this whenever she assumes her true spirit form along with the other changes of gaining Black Eyes of Crazy and floating hair.
- Unholy Matrimony: Alice knew that Riba was an immortal demon and hoped to spend an eternity with him (not realizing that Riba was only using her and never intended on it from the start).
- Unwitting Pawn: As a miserable young girl whom Riba treated nicely as shown in her backstory during the ARC Expansion, Alice never so much as realized that the man she barely knew did so with the express purpose of manipulating her to help him ruin Marchionne's life.
- Villain Has a Point: Marchionne's repeated blaming her for his misfortunes, particularly regarding Luciano's demise, gets her started, and she promptly tears Marchionne apart while squarely placing Luciano's death on Marchionne's shoulders for his craven decision to condemn Luciano as a witch to save himself. She also makes it very clear that Marchionne had his execution coming not just for what he's done to her and her family but for what he's done to other people in the past too such as the witch hunts. Riba's attempts to lay the deaths of everyone in the mansion, their daughters included, solely at her feet and decrying her as a monster are similarly thrown back into his face when she points out that he is the literal reason any of it happened in the first place.
- Vocal Dissonance: Inflicts this on Mario whenever she possesses him.
- We Can Rule Together: She notably does not extend this offer to Riba in exchange for helping her escape the mansion once the ritual is complete, but she makes such an offer towards Luigi when he confronts her once she has nearly taken control of Mario, telling him he can become her servant to make good on Mario's sacrifice.
- When She Smiles: Alice has a positively radiant smile when she is truly happy as shown in her wedding photo, her appearance as Mario's daughter in the "Omitted Memory" ending, and in the "Better Off Lost" when Mario grants her salvation and pacifies her spirit.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Just look up at her Dark and Troubled Past. It's no wonder why Alice wants to destroy the entire world.
- Yandere: Was one to Riba before her death, to the point of being completely obsessed and possessive of him, and to the point of being willing to kill his wife and child just to be with him.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Immediately offs Riba in some older Game Overs where his death still counted as such when playable and in at least two ending routes once she has no more use of him, either as herself in the Omitted Memory route or as Mario in all other cases. She also tries to do this to Luigi in "Missing" after the latter unknowingly helped her escape the mansion in Mario's body, and whether Luigi died from it or not can have varying interpretations based on either the original game (Luigi dies) or in the ARC Expansion ending routes (Luigi survives, assuming that the ARC Expansion is pursued).
- You Killed My Father: The ARC Expansion reveals Riba killed Alice's father after he found out about Riba's true colors and that he was only using Alice for the sake of his revenge.
- You Remind Me of X: Alice notes the similarities Mario has with Marchionne in her "Omitted Memory" route boss fight, proclaiming that she even hates Mario just for looking like him. In the ARC Expansion's revamped demo, she says to the Peach in front of her that she is reminded of her mother who "caked herself in makeup"; given how much Alice hated her mother it was no surprise that Alice viciously killed her as well. In "Better Off Lost", though, upon being freed from the music box she remarks that perhaps she was wrong to hate Marchionne in the end.
- Your Days Are Numbered: One of the reasons why she's seeking her immortality.
Mercy
- I hate you Alice! I can't even call you "sister" after what you've done to my kids!
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Has black hair in the remake, possibly to show how she's not Alice's blood sister.
- Alas, Poor Villain: Mario feels sorry for her once she finds out about her and her children's deaths, but after she attempted to kill him twice, he firmly believes that she is too far gone to save.
- Ax-Crazy: She's a violent spirit that's determined to end Mario's life, just to get back at Alice.
- Came Back Wrong: As a spirit, she's very resentful and obsessed with getting revenge on Alice.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Alice murdered by burning her and then hiding her corpse in the fireplace for several days. Likewise, she herself can subject Mario to a cruel and painful demise if she gets the chance, from poisoning him, to burning him alive in a furnace, and melting him alive.
- Death by Irony: Possibly. If it's true that Mercy is the fake Peach that shows up in the Arc expansion, she can potentially end up getting brutally killed once again by Alice (unknowingly) if the player chooses to do the Insane Route.
- Eyes Out of Sight: Her hair bangs normally reach down enough to almost obscure her eyes from view.
- Humans Are Bastards: She tells Mario that she resents the living because they're "selfish creatures".
- Ironic Name: Her name is Mercy which is ironic in light of her resentful and vindictive personality as a ghost.
- Locked Out of the Loop: The 2021 remake shows that she was sent to study abroad as a child so she's unaware of her mother slandering the Aduraices' fortune, Marchionne evicting the family temporally, Alice's role in Marchionne's death, and Alice's obsession with Riba.
- Mama Bear: Mercy deeply resents Alice for murdering her children and wants nothing more than making her pay.
- Not Blood Siblings: It's stated in The Music Box that she and Alice aren't related. The ARC Expansion reveals Mr. Aduraice wasn't really her father, and she was a product of one of her mother's affairs.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: She tries to make herself out to be this, believing that Mario must die because he's possessed by Alice, and she'll cause havoc once she's free from the mansion. However, she also pointedly makes remarks about how she despises the living and believes them to be selfish creatures.
- Recurring Boss: Not just once, not just twice, but three times she actively tries to kill Mario over the course of the game. She first appears impersonating Princess Peach as she tries to kill Mario with a poison syringe. Then she possesses Luigi and tries to kill Mario again. She fails both times. The remastered version has her replace a death sequence where a gang of spirits surrounds Mario after he reads a diary entry he shouldn't have, and she uses fell magic to make Mario melt to death to spite Alice and to take out her anger against the living. The jury is still out on whether the next Princess Peach imposter seen in the ARC expansion is also her, but if so then it makes her the next most dogged in trying to kill Mario after Anna.
- Traumatic Haircut: She's shown in portraits with long hair, but her charred corpse has very short hair. It's implied she lost it during the struggle before Alice killed her.
Rae
- Why do you struggle to hold on to life?
- Came Back Wrong: She became very brooding and pessimistic as a spirit.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Alice murdered her by locking her into the freezer.
- Jerkass: If Mario becomes trapped in the freezer, Rae begins taunting him, saying that nothing will save him now and accept his imminent death. She makes a more pointed jab at Mario in the 2021 remake, telling him that the pathetic thing he calls a life will soon be over.
- Nice Girl: Was this when she was alive.
- Non-Malicious Monster: Implied. Paying attention on the scene will make you realize she doesn't actually do any harm to Mario beyond not helping him escape and combined with the fact that she Used to Be a Sweet Kid, and it appears she's more interested in brooding endlessly rather than hurt anyone who comes near her.
- Nothing but Skin and Bones: In the 2021 remake she has an emaciated look when Mario finds her in the freezer. Justified, as she was locked there for days until she died of starvation and cold.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: According to Alice in the 2021 remake she was a sweet and innocent girl before becoming a ghost.
Leo
- Please, auntie stay away from me!
- Adaptation Dye-Job: He originally blonde hair, but his hair became black in the remake.
- Alas, Poor Villain: He does inflict a little bit of the pain he felt onto Luigi when Luigi experiences a vision of his last moments, and his influence in the area inflicts two game overs on Luigi if the man keeps trying to advance up the stairs barring his progress or if Luigi does not hide in the room where Leo's corpse was found. Luigi is forced to use the completed dispel charm to remove his hostile soul from the staircase keeping Luigi from advancing. Whether the dispel charm destroyed him or simply removed him from the physical plane, it was a rather poor way for him to go, and Luigi laments not being able to save him.
- And I Must Scream: The 2021 remake reveals Alice put a piece of a spell charm in the chest containing his mutilated corpse to prevent his spirit from escaping the area, leaving the poor boy to be trapped for centuries. He can inflict this on Luigi himself.
- Another Man's Terror: Leo's spirit shows Luigi a vision of the boy's last moments before he was murdered by Alice.
- Children Are Innocent: Downplayed. While he was a happy and loving kid, he was aware something was wrong with Alice, after she offered no condolences to Mercy after Rae's "disappearance".
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Alice murdered him by mutilating his body and then locking his remains in the toy box.
- Spoiled Brat: According to Alice in the 2021 remake, to the point she doesn't regret murdering him. However, this is debatable, as his diary portrays him as a carefree child who loved his mother and sister, and this is coming from Alice of all people.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Very much downplayed given that we don't see much of him save for removing his spirit from the staircase. In the original game, he merely inflicted onto Luigi some of the pain he felt as he died but he never hurt him. In the 2021 remake, on the other hand, there are now two death scenarios that can be attributed to him: failing to hide in the closet which results in Luigi being trapped in the same room Leo's corpse was kept in, and trying to ascend the stairs without the spirit charm piece meant to dispel Leo's spirit which results in Luigi getting thrown down the flight and killing him once he lands.
Marie
- Delicious!~ Delicious!~ Your flesh was tastier than I thought!~
- Ax-Crazy: Marie is essentially a deranged zombie that will attempt to eat just about anyone that enters her sight.
- Blade Below the Shoulder: Looking at some CG images featuring her as a spirit shows that she can change one of her hands into a blade which she uses to gore Mario and Riba in two different game-over sequences. It seems she mainly uses this ability when her prey looks like they'll struggle a fair bit before she eats them.
- Came Back Wrong: As a spirit, she largely acts like a deranged zombie, acting nothing resembling how she was in life (but to be fair to her we do not get to see much of her in life). The only time she does not shout or speak in a(n entirely) gleefully deranged manner is when she catches Riba by himself, speaking calmly to him as she kills him.Missed me? It was nice to see you again, Riba. You will make a fine meal.
- Evil Laugh: Cackles maniacally in the death scene where she gores Mario through his mouth with her arm blade.
- I Am a Humanitarian: She craves for human flesh and eats Mario and Riba alive in a few Non-Standard Game Over scenarios. She's found haunting the left wing at various points of the game and vanishing after Alice is subdued by Riba when retrieving the plank.
- Monstrous Cannibalism: It seems like it's not just human flesh she craves as she's all too happy to eat Riba, a demon.
- Slasher Smile: As a spirit, she is never seen without a wide grin on her face.
- The Un-Reveal: The scary thing about this is that we are never treated to how exactly Marie died, and most spirits tend to kill their victims in a manner reminiscent to how they themselves died, how they killed someone else in life (such as Anna using the shovel as her weapon, or how someone close to them died (such as in Alfred's case often strangling someone to death reminiscent of how Rosa hung herself and suffocated), so the implications of how she died are quite horrifying to think of.
- Third-Person Person: As a spirit, she can talk like this in one instance where she devours Mario's entrails.
- Uncertain Doom: Marie is last seen roaming the left wing when Riba sneaks by to get the wooden plank. After he gets the plank, Mario (now possessed by Alice) ends up passing through the left wing and greeting Riba. It's not known if Alice scared off Marie or killed her.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: She was the one who told Alice about Anna having killed Serina, resulting in Alice going after her surviving daughter in a rage and eventually leading to Alice going after the servants next, Marie included.
Alfred
- I'll show you Rosa's pain.
A butler who worked in the Aduraice Mansion. He had a crush on Rosa, but she didn't feel the same way, leading to him assaulting her in a desperate attempt to make her notice him. He then used all his savings to apologize and propose to her, but he was murdered by Alice, who had started to kill all the mansion residents on Riba's orders. Afterwards he became one of the spirits of the house.
- Abhorrent Admirer: To Rosa, who does not reciprocate his feelings.
- All Love Is Unrequited: Alfred clearly loved Rosa, but when she continually ignored him, he took things a tad too far with her, culminating in sexually assaulting her after she rejected him. In a Non-Standard Game Over, Rosa is very disappointed when she remembers that he was in love with her, as she considers him to be nothing but a peasant and a horrible man. Subverted, however, if Rosa is pacified which shows she's willing to give him another chance.
- Another Man's Terror: Mario experiences a flashback of his murder.
- Ax-Crazy: He's extremely violent and hostile as an undead ghost. His Establishing Character Moment sees him brutally choke out Luigi and snap his neck if he dares approach him without getting the picture of Rosa, and when Luigi ends up pushing his Berserk Button, Alfred buries him and his brother alive.
- Berserk Button: He's perpetually mad in all honesty, however stealing the ring that he had gotten for Rosa, regardless of the reason, will really piss him off.
- Came Back Wrong: As a spirit he's very aggressive and obsessed with "avenging Rosa".
- Dogged Nice Guy: Alfred writes in his diary that Rosa just pushes him away when he tries to ask her out, but he resolved to keep trying to get her affection.
- Empty Eyes: As a ghost.
- Establishing Character Moment: If you approach him without first getting the picture of Rosa, Alfred will snap and immediately strangle and choke Luigi to death.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: He's very volatile and easy to anger as a ghost. In a Non-Standard Game Over he strangles Luigi out of mere annoyance and if Luigi takes the wedding ring from his corpse, Alfred goes apeshit and tries to kill him.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Alfred, after "assaulting" Rosa, feels horrible for what he did. He, as a way to make up for it, wrote a letter of apology and used up all the money he ever had to get a ring for her. Rosa forgives him if Luigi gives her both of those things.
- Only Known By His Nickname: "Alfred" is not his actual name as he reveals, but he does not know his own name anymore and could care less.
- Pet the Dog: Despite his volatile personality as a ghost, if Luigi shows him the photo of the Aduraice family, he remembers his love for Rosa and decides to leave Luigi be. He even tells Luigi that Mario still can be saved from the curse, but he does warn him to abandon Mario if he has fallen too far.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: He has a younger sister named "Emi" (the short black-haired girl in the family photo), and unlike him she is depicted as a blue spirit which makes her benevolent unlike her older brother who is only ever seen as a hostile red spirit. Emi helps Luigi realize that the malevolent spirits are playing tricks on him and that Mario is still alive, but Alfred tells Luigi to give up if the darkness has claimed Mario and is capable of killing Luigi in all interactions with him.
Rosa
- I admire your dedication but you're putting your life at risk.
A maid who worked in the Aduraice Mansion. She was the love interest of Alfred, but she didn't feel the same way, leading to him assaulting her in a desperate attempt to make her notice him. After Alice started murdering the mansion residents on Riba's orders, Rosa committed suicide by hanging herself. Afterwards she became one of the spirits of the house.
- Another Man's Terror: Luigi experiences a flashback of her suicide. In a Non-Standard Game Over she also inflicts the pain she felt as she died on Mario.
- Ax-Crazy: For unknown reasons, Rosa becomes utterly unhinged and crazy in the Arc expansion, haunting Mario and brutally murdering him by slamming him all over the walls if he stays in the treasure room too long.
- Better to Die than Be Killed: She hung herself before Alice could murder her like the other servants and become a sacrifice as well. She clearly regrets this, as she became a spirit anyway which gave Alice power.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Rosa was one of the kindest residents when she was alive, but now that she has died, unless she has been pacified she won't hesitate to brutally kill anyone who crosses her.
- Broken Bird: Rosa was so devastated and scarred over the horrible things going on around her that the only way out for her was death.
- Came Back Wrong: In the base game, she's very brooding, lamenting her cruel demise. She can become violent if she is made to remember Alfred and how he sexually assaulted her. In the ARC Expansion's revamped demo, she replaces the anonymous spirit who psychokinetically slams Mario over and over—in the process, she gains empty eye sockets, a creepy toothless smile, and some meaner things to say.
- Empty Eyes: As a ghost. Taken a step further in the ARC Expansion's revamped demo where her eye sockets are just empty holes.
- Expecting Someone Taller: If Luigi doesn't give her Alfred's apology letter along with the proposal ring, she's infuriated when she remembers that it was Alfred who loved her, being the man who assaulted her before, and she considers him to be nothing but a peasant. She is, however, willing to give him another chance if she is pacified by giving her both of the required items.
- Heel–Face Turn: Rosa's lingering spirit can be put to rest if Luigi gives her Alfred's apology letter and the engagement ring he had for her.
- Kick the Dog: Rejected Alfred's affections because his advances annoyed her and she thinks he's too poor for her.
- Nice Girl: When she was alive, she was very kind towards Alice's daughters, even pitying Anna for all the abuse Alice put on her.
- Nightmare Face: When encountered in the ARC Expansion's revamped demo, she lacks eyes completely and is always seen with a toothless slasher smile on her face.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Upon seeing Alice manifesting in Mario, Rosa hightails it out of there begging her former master not to kill her.
- Secret-Keeper: She immediately realized the reason for Serina's disappearance, and that Anna had killed her sister in misguided jealousy. But choose not to say anything, knowing Alice will horribly punish Anna for it. Alice found out anyway and Rosa's fears came true, as she murdered Anna in retaliation for Serina's death. As of the base game's remastered version, however, this is no longer her role.
- Slasher Smile: Although she does it without teeth showing in the ARC Expansion's revamped demo right before she kills Mario.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: In the ARC Expansion's remade demo, she replaces an anonymous spirit who psychokinetically slams Mario over and over before killing him, and with this comes a nastier change in dialogue both compared to her usual self and the spirit she replaced.Anonymous Spirit: "You're a bold one."
Beatrice
- Snip. Snip. Snip.~
- Ambiguously Evil: It's unknown if Beatrice has always been an evil little sociopath or if becoming a spirit made her become that way.
- Asshole Victim: Possibly, if we assume Beatrice has always been an Enfant Terrible in life.
- Ax-Crazy: Just listen to her dialogue after killing Mario and Luigi. She enjoys watching humans struggle and flail around as they're dying.
- Creepy Child: Her empty eye sockets, pale complexion, and innocent childlike laughter paint her a ghastly figure.
- Enfant Terrible: Even not regarding her being a killer, the fact that she pushed Anna into murdering her own sister (and then not at all helping Anna when she gets in hot water with Alice) secures her as this.
- False Friend: She is the one who convinces Anna to kill Serina to "protect her from Alice" acting as her "imaginary friend", playing with Anna's jealousy and hatred to goad her into committing to it. Naturally, when Anna is on the run from Alice, Beatrice is nowhere to be found to help her.
- Mysterious Past: She appears to have already been dead before Alice started killing the children and servants in the Aduraice Estate, and no solid information has been given on her. Thus, it is unknown when or how exactly she died since Serina seems to be the first confirmed death of the Aduraice family.
- Shear Menace: She sure loves to play with scissors, menacing the Mario Bros. with them and owning an entire trunk full of them in the room where she is encountered.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Originally, she was just another random spirit who attacked Mario and Luigi in the Aduraice Estate, but the remastered version expands upon her and has her be the one who convinced Anna to kill Serina, kicking off the massacre of everyone else in the mansion with Serina no longer fit to serve as the vessel for Alice's and Riba's sacrifice.
- The Sociopath: Can't get much more sociopathic than finding amusement in watching people twitch and struggle as they're bleeding to death.
Aria and Emi
Aria
Emi
Two young girls who appear briefly in the game to aid the Mario Bros.- Ambiguous Innocence: Aria appears to be nonhostile towards Mario and claims that she does not remember how she died, but this early into the game it is impossible to tell if she is truly benevolent or if she is actually hostile. She makes no visible attempt to kill Mario, but the piano she used to play will kill Mario by crushing him to death if he tries to play it without getting all of the music sheets, and Aria herself had her skull smashed into the piano by Alice which is reminiscent of what the piano does to Mario. It could be likely that playing her piano horribly is a huge Berserk Button for Aria.
- Happily Adopted: Aria was an orphan taken in to be a part of the family. This happy adoption unfortunately did not last, ending with her being brutally killed.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: Emi is the younger sister of Alfred, and unlike him she is depicted as a blue spirit which makes her benevolent unlike her older brother who is only ever seen as a hostile red spirit. Alfred tells Luigi to give up if the darkness has claimed Mario and is capable of killing Luigi in all interactions with him, but Emi helps Luigi realize that the malevolent spirits are playing tricks on him and that Mario is still alive.
- Token Good Teammate: Along with Serina of all the spirits depicted in the family photo, neither of the two girls visibly antagonize the Mario Bros. in any fasion, though Aria is a bit more ambiguous in that regard as of the remastered version since while she doesn't visibly kill Mario her piano can do so if he plays it without all music sheets. Emi is the one who snaps Luigi out of his funk in the remastered version, telling him that he will be tricked by illusions of hostile spirits and that he can still save Mario; adding to this, she is in fact one of the few spirits that warns either of the Bros. of Riba in the remastered version.
Serina Aduraice
The daughter of Alice and Riba. After she was born, her adopted sister Anna started being abused and she started blaming Serina for her misery. She was murdered by Anna, who hit her with a shovel and buried her alive. Afterwards she became one of the spirits of the house, but she's a benevolent one.
- All for Nothing: She and Anna do their best to seal Alice away back into the music box in "Better Off Lost"...only for Mario to end up smashing it and setting Alice free. Subverted, however, in that their act of sealing her away apparently had an effect on Alice's psyche to where she was no longer consumed by her rage, thus prompting Mario to free Alice in the first place.
- Big Damn Heroes: In the "Better Off Lost" ending (the 2021 remake), she and Anna save Mario and Luigi by retaining Alice so they can seal her again in the music box.
- Buried Alive: How she died.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Serina is the only blonde spirit seen, and even after death, she is still a pleasant girl.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Serina is the child of the human Alice Aduraice and the human-turned-demon Riba, thus making her a Cambion. Despite this, she herself shows no demonic traits pre or post-mortem unlike Anna (though it is possible that Anna's different appearance is because of her being a hostile spirit).
- The Heart: She's stated to be a Nice Girl who treated everyone with kindness and they all loved her in return. When Anna murdered her, things started going downhill for the mansion residents.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: In the "Better Off Lost" ending from the remake, she's reunited with Anna and the two go to the afterlife together.
- My Species Doth Protest Too Much: She's the only spirit who never does anything to harm or mess with the playable cast at any point in the story.
- Red Herring: The opening of The Music Box hints she's an important character. Actually not so much.
- Averted in the 2021 remake. Not only she's able to pacify Anna so they can go to the afterlife together, she plays a role in saving Mario and Luigi in the true ending.
- Youngest Child Wins: She was more pampered by her parents than Anna, causing her to start resenting Serina. Turns out she was treated better because they intended to make her into a Human Sacrifice when she grew up.
Annabelle "Anna" Aduraice
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- All because of you... You ruined my life.
A young girl who was the adopted child of Alice and Riba. Not too long afterward, her sister Serina was born, and she started being abused by Alice. Blaming all her misery on Serina, she murdered her sister by shoving her from a cliff and burying her alive. When a horrified Alice found out what happened, she murdered Anna. Because of her murdering Serina, she rose back up as an "entity"—a very powerful spirit born of ritualistic murder—who became the one to control the Aduraice Estate.
The ARC Expansion reveals more about her. She's actually the daughter of Riba and his first wife, Elizabeth. Alice (who was deluded into thinking Riba will marry her someday) murdered Elizabeth in a fit of jealousy and burned the house. She was about to kill baby Anna too, until she realized Riba would suspect his family's abrupt deaths. She lied to Riba that she was just passing by when she found the house burning and Elizabeth dead, so she "saved" Anna. Seemingly believing her, Riba started a relationship with Alice and later married her. But Alice always mistreated Anna, as she was the daughter of the woman Riba truly loved. After becoming an entity, Anna used her powers to seal Alice in the Aduraice Mansion (on Riba's orders).
The 2021 remake retcons some parts about her past. Instead of being motivated by jealousy, Anna tried to kill Serina in order to spare her from the fate of becoming a sacrifice for Alice's immortality ritual.
- All for Nothing: She and Serina do their best to seal Alice away back into the music box in "Better Off Lost"…only for Mario to end up smashing it and setting Alice free. Subverted, however, in that their act of sealing her away apparently had an effect on Alice's psyche to where she was no longer consumed by her rage, thus prompting Mario to free Alice in the first place.
- Always Second Best: To her sister Serina, who is completely unaware of her resentment.
- Anti-Hero: Entity Anna becomes a variation of this after death. As an entity, she was able to seal her adopted mother Alice into the music box to keep her from doing any more harm, yet to survive, she must feed on the souls of the living that come into the cursed house, and she's far from remotely heroic in character (just read what she did to her sister Serina). She also spared Mario's life when he first came into the house hoping that he would be able to save her and the other spirits, but immediately set out to kill him every chance she got once he became Alice's vessel.
- Ax-Crazy: In the original game, she brutally bashed her sister's head in with a shovel and killed her with a Slasher Smile, in the hopes that Alice will love her more if Serina is gone. Not to mention how quick she is to attack Mario for pushing her Berserk Button. However this changes in the remastered game, where she instead kills Serina as a Mercy Kill, due to knowing that their parents were gonna sacrifice her, and she seems to be completely sane in the new game (at worse, being a Well-Intentioned Extremist who will kill Mario just to ensure Alice doesn't escape).
- Berserk Button: Her half sister and her Wicked Stepmother became living (and later unliving) ones for her. In the original version, Mario calling her out on her Misplaced Retribution has her retaliate with a swift murder attempt, and while she's tried to kill him before she snaps and attacks him immediately when he does this.
- Big Damn Heroes: In the "Better Off Lost" ending (the 2021 remake), she and Serina save Mario and Luigi by retaining Alice so they can seal her again in the music box.
- Continuity Nod: She killed Serina by burying her alive. In the 2021 remake, she has the option to kill Mario this way.
- Demoted to Extra: In the ARC Expansion.
- Didn't Think This Through: Killing your only other sibling (who was a very sweet child) so that her mommy Alice would start to actually love you for once only resulted in Alice killing her. Similarly, not keeping a very close eye on where Mario was headed next allowed him to be possessed by Alice herself.
- Do with Him as You Will: Her reason for helping Mario leave the Aduraice Estate during the Insane Route in the ARC Expansion's revamped demo is because she is handing him off to someone else who wants a piece of him once he leaves (most likely Marchionne who opposes him in said route).
- Earn Your Happy Ending: In the "Better Off Lost" ending from the remake, she's pacified after reconciling with Serina and the two go to the afterlife together.
- Flashback Echo: Provides a few of them to Mario to help him escape the mansion safely during the ARC expansion, a stark contrast to how she constantly tried to kill him after Alice took him as a host. However, in the Insane Route's revamped demo, she will not allow Mario to rewatch the visions, only giving him one shot to memorize them instead of being able to be asked for repeat viewings.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: As an entity.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Anna is the child of the human Elizabeth Addington and the human-turned-demon Riba, thus making her a Cambion. Perhaps because of this, she manifests as a spirit entirely different in appearance from all the others when she assumes full control of her entity powers (that or her appearance is caused by her being a hostile entity).
- Heroic Bastard: ARC reveals she's the daughter of Riba's first wife, Elizabeth. When a young Alice found out that Riba was already married, she murdered Elizabeth in a fit of rage and was about to kill Anna too, if not for Riba's intervention. No wonder Alice despised Anna so much, as she was the daughter of another woman.
- Internal Reveal: In the remake, Alice reveals to Anna the truth about her and Elizabeth, and and her murder of the latter, and she presumably tells her father when she meets Riba as a ghost.
- Little Miss Badass: As a proper entity, Anna is able to control the entire mansion as she reveals to Mario in the ARC Expansion's revamped demo. In the main game's ending "Better Off Lost", she combines her entity powers with that of Serina's powers to successfully seal Alice back into the music box.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Anna is completely unaware that Alice is abusive towards her because she's not her blood child up until Alice reveals this to her. She also doesn't know that Serina was treated better than her because she was intended to become a sacrifice for Alice's immortality ritual. This causes a lot of grief when she kills Serina out of jealousy and at Beatrice's behest, setting up the events of the game.
- Subverted in the remake. Here, Anna is completely aware that Serina will become a sacrifice and kills her in order to spare her from such fate at the behest of Beatrice (her "imaginary friend" who was actually the scissors-wielding spirit).
- Misplaced Retribution: Anna was a young child who faced awful abuse and neglect that anyone would snap at, but in her case she happened to snap (brutally so) at Serina, the one person who loved her, and not the one who abused her in the first place. This is due to jealousy over the love and attention Serina got that she was denied.
- Necessarily Evil: According to Alice, this was Anna's justification for devouring travelers' souls to keep them from breaking the seal on her mother.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: She should have handled Mario's presence in the mansion a little better than simply letting him roam around freely where he would inevitably end up setting her adopted mother free by touching the music box, eventually becoming a host for her in the process. Ironically in the 2021 remake, once Mario is possessed by Alice, Anna will become more proactive and try to kill Mario in many ways.
- Nigh-Invulnerable: As an entity in ARC, she took a knife to her head from an Alice-controlled Mario with no visible damage, also shattering the weapon in the process.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: In the remake, she kills Serina on the misguided believe she's sparing her from the fate of becoming a sacrifice for Alice's plans, but she is being played by Beatrice who is manipulating her envy towards Serina and hatred for Alice into doing the deed.
- Power Floats: As an entity, she can levitate in the air.
- The Power of Hate: Alice says that this is how Anna ascended as an entity rather than doing so through ritualistic means like she did. This was later retconned as being the opposite case, with Anna becoming a proper entity because of her being the one to kill Serina, the necessary sacrifice for the ritual, while Alice rose up through her sheer hatred of the world.
- Shadow Archetype: To Luigi. Both were the lesser loved siblings of their respective pairs, becoming shadows of their other sibling who loved them very much (Luigi lampshades this).
- Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: She has red hair and green eyes, just like her real mother, Elizabeth.
- Spanner in the Works: Killing Serina derailed Alice and Riba's plans. Alice made sure Anna didn't last long afterward, but Anna made sure that Alice would not complete her ritual or spread her curse any further by sealing her inside of the music box.
- The Unfavorite: Alice abused her due to being not her blood-related child. Being the daughter of the woman Riba actually loved doesn't help either.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Twice over, and both times played for serious horror. Firstly, she murdered Serina in a fit of jealousy. With Serina dead, Alice couldn't do the ritual that would make her immortal, until Riba convinced her that there was another way to do so: by murdering all the mansion's residents. Later, because she chose to spare Mario when he entered the mansion, he was immediately possessed by Alice. This was downplayed in the remastered version where she tries to kill Mario many times after he becomes possessed.
- Walking Spoiler: Her overall involvement in the story is fairly significant, but it isn't revealed until near the very end of the game. Also, specific details concerning her fate, Serina's fate, and her relationship with both her mother and sister are also spoilers.
- Your Soul Is Mine!: As an entity, she has no option of survival except for consuming the souls of the living who enter the mansion.
Isaac Aduraice
- Riba, I did not allow my daughter to marry you just so you can use her as somekind of pawn! The deal is off! Leave this place at once!
- Deal with the Devil: He had struck some unspecified one with Riba sometime before the events of the game, but the moment he catches wind of what Riba intended to do with Alice he calls it off immediately.
- Good Parents: Deconstructed. While Isaac was a good enough father, he was apparently too good of a father compared to the horrible Evie to where a young Alice was very willing to commit very violent acts partly for his sake. He for his part does clearly love his daughter very much as well, becoming extremely indignant when he discovers that Riba was only ever using her as his own pawn. He also adopted both Mercy along with her kids and took in the orphan Aria into his family.
- He Knows Too Much: Is poisoned by Riba once he finds out his true plans for Alice.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Despite his reservations, he allowed Riba to marry Alice, but he comes to regret it later when Riba's true colors were revealed.
- No Accounting for Taste: Similarly, it is a mystery what Isaac saw in Evie when he married her given how she was a shameless gold digger and openly cheated on him. Alice, unfortunately, seems to have inherited this trait from him given her own marriage with Riba.
- Rags to Riches: This is said to be how be struck it big, unfortunately becoming subverted when Evie decided to drain him dry and send him back to the rags part. This does end up being double-subverted after Marchionne's death kept his family from being thrown out into the streets and being allowed to keep their home.
- The Ghost: He makes no physical appearance in either the main game or in the ARC expansion whatsoever before or after his demise.
Evangeline Town Residents
Marchionne Evangelisti / King Sündige Nacht
The Witch of Resurrection
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- Today, I will prove that these witches have no control over us. We shall seize the world!
- Alas, Poor Villain: It's hard not to feel sorry for Marchionne after defeating him in the Insane Route.
- Ambiguously Bi: It can be inferred that Marchionne's relationship with Riba can be considered something other than mutual tolerance of one another before Marchionne met Aurora/Misery. And considering how his reincarnation Mario is confirmed to be bisexual in this universe...
- Ax-Crazy: In life, his extreme paranoia of witches (due to being attacked and nearly assassinated by Dorothy) led him to commit witch hunts, slaughtering anyone who he believed was a witch. As a spirit however, he seemed to have lost this trait.
- BFS: His preferred weapon outside of Wonderland in which he brandishes a giant hook-tipped sword/cleaver as long as he is tall in some depictions.
- Big Bad: He is the main antagonist and Final Boss of the Insane route in ARC, in which he controls the spirits in the town of Evangeline and seeks to kill his reincarnation.
- Big Bad Ensemble: With Alice and Riba, and Len in Wonderland. He seeks to kill them and Mario in revenge for all they did to him.
- Big Good: In the Sane route, he is an ally, aiding Mario against Riba in spirit. The Revamped ARC version also has one additional path in the Sane Route shortly after the mirror puzzle where Marchionne is more directly involved in the events as he helps him: shortly before going in Evangeline, if Mario decides do dig from a hole (being in proximity of it causes him to feel pain in his neck, a reference to Marchionne's death), he will find a golden cross, the same one that Marchionne wears on his shirt in his updated design. After Mario finds the reflection that doesn't show his face, Marchionne will briefly bring him to a mysterious world inside the mirror and ask him to let him take control of his body, reassuring him that he will keep Alice at bay and make sure that she won't get control, as he has a stronger mind, and promising him that he will give him back control once they finish. By taking control of his reincarnation's body, he would also be able to settle unfinished business, including getting revenge on Riba for killing his parents behind his back and betraying him, and correcting his past mistakes. If he accepts his offer, Mario will allow Marchionne him to take control of his body, directly allying himself with him.
- Boss Subtitles: The Witch of Resurrection.
- Cain and Abel: He eventually accused his own brother, Luciano, of being a witch and had him executed so that he wouldn't fall from grace when everything starts going wrong.
- "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Alice wouldn't have plotted against him if he had just given the Aduraices their home back. He did this because the house originally belonged to his father, and he kept it because of sentimentality. Even Riba says it was a bonehead decision, saying Marchionne wasn't planning to use the house anyway and said father was abusive to him.
- Deadpan Snarker: He gets a moment in Continuance 4.Riba: "Marchionne?"
Marchionne: "Yes, it's me. Do you want a prize or something?" - Dirty Coward: The reason he accused Luciano, his own brother, of witchcraft was to hide the fact that they are same-gendered twins, which is considered a bad omen and would lead to the Evangelisti family being disgraced and losing everything they have.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He may be a fundamentalist Knight Templar, but he genuinely loves his brother Luciano and his maid Aurora. When the two of them die as a result of his actions (he sentenced Luciano to death to save his skin and Aurora poisoned herself to death after Marchionne met the same fate as his brother), he becomes wracked with guilt, and in the Sane Route, this leads him to try and correct the mistakes he did in life.
- Fatal Flaw: His overprioritizing of his town and his religious beliefs over his loved ones during his lifetime. While he genuinally cares about Luciano and Aurora, he put his religious views above everything, partly because he was raised to be the leader of all Evangeline and the town was founded by his family, and his inability to balance his priorities not only led him to execute innocents during which hunts, but also prevented him to have a happy life with them. With Luciano's case, everything went downhill due to their religious differences when Luciano's girlfriend Paisley gave birth to their son before they could marry and died in childbirth, and since having a bastard child was considered a sin, Marchionne yelled at him for it instead of comforting him. Later, when Marchionne got betrayed by Riba and Luciano tried to warn him, he refused to listen to him, still upset at him for the bastard child, and when Luciano tried to forcefully carry him away in an attempt to save him, he sentenced him to death at the stake for witchcraft to hide the fact that they are twins and avoid falling in disgrace, then lost his head to the guillotine. While he spared Aurora after finding out that she was a witch, he never reciprocated her feelings, which may be because she's a witch, and when he was sentenced to death, she committed suicide via poisoning. Because of this, all three of them were unable to pass on to the afterlife, Luciano developed a grudge against his brother and tried to get revenge on him, trying to assassinate Mario because of their physical resemblance and even going as far as using Luigi. In the Sane Route, thanks to Mario, Marchionne reconciles with his brother and they can finally rest in peace.
- Final Boss: Of the Insane route and the Wonderland DLC.
- Freudian Excuse: His abuse at the hands of his parents, who kept him and his brother separated while forcing him to stay inside and study all day instead of letting him play, contributed to his spiral into villainy. It is also hinted that his parents raised him to be a religious nutcase.
- The Fundamentalist: He carries out his executions of witches under the belief that it is what God desires. He gets mad at Luciano when the latter tells him that he had a child out of wedlock, which was considered a sin back then, and when Luciano reveals that he no longer believes in God because of how bad his life was, Marchionne determines that Luciano is beyond saving and sentences him to burn at the stake.
- Giant Hands of Doom: He has these in the second phase of his first fight, which serve as his main attack.
- Gratuitous Italian: Throughout the ARC expansion, he could be heard saying Italian phrases in addition to English. One of the most blatant instances of this is before his boss fight, where he tells Mario “Uccidimi”.Translation
- Hoist by His Own Petard: In a sense. After spending his life at the forefront of the Evangeline witch hunts, he himself gets accused of witchcraft and executed by guillotine when it is revealed by Riba that his targets are innocent, and that he himself hid a same-gendered twin (considered a bad omen) and a witch.
- Kick the Dog:
- Not giving the Aduraices their house back because it belonged to his father. Even Riba says it was a stupid decision, as Marchionne wasn't planning on using the house anyway and was just keeping it out of sentimentality. So Alice decides to out the truth about Luciano in a desperate attempt to get her house back.
- Sentencing Luciano to burn at the stake so that nobody would find out they are same-gendered twins. Downplayed since he regretted this act later on.
- Knight Templar: He led the witch hunts in his town, getting innocent people killed, because he thought that it was the will of God and the right thing to do to protect the village.Execute them! It’s for the good of the village, right?!
- Limited Wardrobe: His closet is filled with the same identical suit. Lampshaded by Mario, who notes that he himself does this.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: His Wonderland design is said to partially be based on the wolpertinger—having the ears of a hare, the wings of a crow, the antlers of a deer, and the tail of a squirrel (which is often unable to be seen).
- Oblivious to Love: He was unaware of Aurora's affections, much to her chagrin. However, it's implied he was aware of it all along, he just believed he didn't deserve to be loved.
- Off with His Head!: How he died; execution by guillotine.
- One-Winged Angel: In his Insane route battle, he first transforms into a monochrome Mario head with Giant Hands of Doom, then into a humanoid raven.
- Properly Paranoid: While he was a religious nutcase executing innocent people, he was right that Alice, despite being a child at the time, was plotting against him. He was also technically correct in that a witch was threatening the safety of the village; he simply did not realize that he was doing exactly what said witch, Len, wanted.
- Sequential Boss: The fight with him in the insane route consists of three phases. First is a sword fight, then he transforms into a giant Mario head, and finally a phase in which Mario must dodge his attacks while hitting the four switches around.
- Sinister Scythe: When in Wonderland, his weapon is instead a large reaper's scythe.
- Story-Breaker Power: Marchionne's ability to warp reality, stop time as shown in the Drowned ending, and remove the consciousness of someone are all very powerful abilities that would've undoubtedly made him impossible to beat if he did use them. So naturally, he holds his power back when confronted by Luigi and in his boss fight with Mario.
- Tragic Villain: He really did not want to execute Luciano, and would rather not oppose Mario, but circumstances and Len are forcing him to. This is especially made clear in Wonderland, where he pleads with Mario to stop fighting him and continuing the cycle in the process.
- Unwitting Pawn: Of Riba, who manipulated him into doing everything he did.
- Walking Spoiler: Him being the past self of Mario reveals that Mario has a connection to the backstory.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: While he was alive, he led the witch hunts in his town, executing innocent people because he truly believed that he needed to protect his town from witches. As a spirit, he seeks to kill Mario during the Insane Route in order to stop both Alice from using his body to harm others and Len to keep her from repeating the cycle, and he also aims to kill Riba as well even if he is in the process of doing a Heel–Face Turn knowing how dangerous Riba is. In Wonderland, he seeks to kill Mario because, if Mario kills him, Len will transform Mario into a soulless puppet.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: His parents mistreated him and separated him from his brother Luciano (since twins were considered a bad omen in the village). Though he genuinely loved Luciano and Aurora, the manipulations of Alice, Riba, and Len eventually had him execute Luciano as a witch (with Aurora being Driven to Suicide shorty after) before being executed himself and blamed for all ills in the village. As a spirit, he is basically Len's plaything.
Luciano Evangelisti / Mad Hatter
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- I finally caught you, Marchionne. After what you did to me, I think it's about time for me to have my sweet revenge. Oh and… Welcome home.
- Ax-Crazy: After his death, he becomes determined to make Marchionne pay for killing him on the stake, and his vengeful rage is so intense that he doesn't recognize Mario as a separate person from him, possessing Luigi and trying to brutally murder him. As the Mad Hatter, he keeps the corpse of the March Hare stuffed in a freezer and tries to kill Mario when he makes the discovery.
- Broken Pedestal: He used to look up to Marchionne as a great older brother who would always look out for him. Then Marchionne betrays him by accusing him of witchcraft to save himself and sentencing him to burn at the stake. Afterwards, Luciano proceeds to hate his brother.
- Born Unlucky: Thanks for being a second-born twin, his life was filled with nothing but misery. His parents despised him and gave him to adoption, his girlfriend Paisley died when giving birth to Luciano's son, meaning that he had a bastard child, which was a sin, forcing him to abandon his own son on a farm. He was then finally betrayed by his own brother and burned at the stake, not allowing him to pass on and being consumed by revenge against his twin brother.
- Burn the Witch!: His fate, at the hands of his own brother, was to be burned at the stake for witchcraft.
- Cain and Abel: The Abel in the relationship between him and Marchionne, who had him executed as a witch. He tries to return the favor as a spirit.
- Demonic Possession: It's implied that he does this to Luigi in the Sane route, making him want to kill Mario to make his revenge complete.
- Evil Stole My Faith: He tells Marchionne that he does not believe in God, and the reason is because he cannot believe that a just God would allow him to live such a miserable life and be condemned by his own brother to burn to death. It's clear that even though he was cheerful in public, this was just a facade to mask how miserable he was feeling, and the unlucky circumstances that happened were so bad that he became disillusioned by the world around him, questioning his faith in religion altogether. This would not be approved by Marchionne, and as a punishment, he didn't get a final meal before his death sentence.
- Kill It with Fire: His he was killed in the past, courtesy of Marchionne trying him as a witch. In the present day during the Insane Route, he attempts to return the favor on Mario who he believes is Marchionne.
- Manly Facial Hair: The revamped demo's intro shows Luciano as having had a short beard unlike his father (who has yet to be seen in the revamped ARC Expansion), Marchionne (and Mario by extension), or Luigi.
- Tragic Villain: He was driven insane by Marchionne's betrayal.
- The Unfavorite: Due to being a second-born twin, his parents absolutely loathed and despised him, with his mother not even bothering to give him a name and his father threatening to kill him after he met him with Marchionne. He was happy with his adoptive family however.
- Vengeful Ghost: He goes after Mario, the reincarnation of Marchionne, to kill him in revenge for having him executed as a witch. However, in the Sane Route, Mario can find out about their past, which allows him to calm his spirit nd forgive Marchionne
- In the "Better Off Lost" ending of the 2021 remake, he (together with Marchionne and Aurora) goes after Riba instead, seemingly aware now that his death was a result of Riba's manipulations.
- Wreathed in Flames: In the Insane Route, when he first shows up to attack Mario, he shows up covered in fire. In the secret scene of "Better Off Lost", he is similarly depicted as having about half of his body wrapped in flames when he and other vengeful spirits corner Riba.
Aurora / Misery
The Witch of Misfortune
- Would be a shame if misfortune were to come your way. Right?
- Berserk Button: No one, and we mean no one, must know of her feelings for Marchionne except for Marchionne himself, and she kills Mario over him discovering it himself.
- Boss Subtitles: The Witch of Misfortune.
- Cute Monster Girl: Her boss form has the lower body of a spider but the upper body of a human woman. Subverted in that this form is played for horror as the form she takes during her boss battle.
- Driven to Suicide: When Marchionne was executed, she poisoned herself out of grief.
- Love at First Sight: Falls for Marchionne when she first sees him strolling through the forest one day.
- My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Unlike her cousin, Misery was nonhostile towards Marchionne and tells him that she only ever wanted to live a normal life rather than that of a witch.
- Shout-Out: The way how her legs sprout from her body as she transforms is the same way how Mimi transforms in Super Paper Mario.
- Skippable Boss: In the Sane route, she is never fought at all. In the Insane route, if Riba is alive when you get to her, he kills her for you.
- Spider People: She takes on this form in her boss fight.
- Spiders Are Scary: Her spider form is played for scares, and she can summon a swarm of spiders to attack Mario.
- Undying Loyalty: Completely loyal to Marchionne to where she aids Mario under the belief that he is Marchionne. Subverted towards Mario himself, however, in which she can become hostile realizing that the man before her is not Marchionne and may attack him depending on what he does.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Her nearly being spotted by Marchionne when watching him from behind the trees and openly developing an attraction towards him prompts her cousin to go after the man to protect Misery and the rest of witch kind. What follows is the infamous witch hunts when Dorothy fails to kill him.
- Warmup Boss: In the insane route of ARC, she is the first boss faced.
Dorothy
- You're a witch, Misery. You can't love a man who devotes himself to God. He sees us as Devil worshippers.
- Ambiguously Brown: Her skin is noticeably more tanned than Princess Daisy's current depiction of slightly more tanned skin.
- Didn't Think This Through: She ditches Riba after he took a blow meant for Marchionne before going after Marchionne himself, revealing herself to be a witch before attacking him. This leads to Riba eventually catching up to her and paying her in kind, and her reveal of being a witch instills a fear of witches in Marchionne that led to the witch hunts.
- For Your Own Good: She imprisons Misery to keep her from going anywhere near Marchionne and opting to kill the man herself.
- Small Role, Big Impact: From what we can see of her in her brief appearance, her attack is what led to Marchionne becoming paranoid of witches and that people were out to get him, leading to his witch hunts that also nearly got her cousin killed.
- Talking Is a Free Action: Deconstructed. Her interrogating Marchionne instead of going straight for the kill gave Riba enough time to catch up to her and strike her down when her guard was down.
- Uncertain Doom: It is not made entirely clear if Riba merely knocked her unconscious or killed her outright or if she was one of the victims of Marchionne's witch hunts, but she makes no further appearances after Riba protects Marchionne from her, so it is likely that she was killed in either incident.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Fearing the safety of her people and for her cousin Misery, she goes after Marchionne to preemptively rid her fellow witches of a potential threat.
Toadston
- I was a foolish man just like you. I came here in search of answers, all I got was death.
- Good Colors, Evil Colors: As the first spirit Mario runs into in Evangeline, he gives Mario special contact lenses which enables him to see which spirit would do him no harm (colored blue) and which spirit would kill him if they were given the chance (red). He himself will always be blue even on the insane route.
- He Knows Too Much: Given that his desiccated corpse was found cocooned in spider webs, he most likely ran into Aurora/Misery who killed him for snooping. Also, Mario later finds his research about the origin of the Bad Omen centering around same-sex twins including the original two cursed twins that caused the Ice Age and the subsequent Bad Omen (Len's one of them), so he also could have been killed to keep the secrets of Evangeline and/or the Bad Omen Len had a hand in from leaving Evangeline.
- Original Character: The only one distinctly based on Mario universe elements who is not a previous incarnation of one of the Mario characters or a relative of them.
- Prophet Eyes: Distinguishing him from his living brethren is that the white parts of his eyes are enlarged to give this ghastly look.
Elizabeth
- You always make me happy. I am glad to have met you.
- Happily Married: Mutually with Riba unlike with Riba's second wife Alice.
- Locked Out of the Loop: She, unlike Alice, is unaware of Riba's true demonic nature such as asking how it is that he keeps himself looking so young for so long. She was also unaware of the dirty things Riba had done to net them a happy and comfortable life nor was she aware of Riba's broken promise to Alice (which she was painfully made aware of in her dying moments when Alice confronts her). It is not clear if, in death, she learned of what had transpired or not thanks to only making one brief and explicit appearance in the present that did not touch upon it.
- Murder the Hypotenuse: Was on the unfortunate receiving end of this by an Alice who couldn't fathom that Riba had lied to her and that Elizabeth truly was his loving wife.
- Morality Pet / Morality Chain: It is not entirely clear how much of an influence she had on him regarding his actions in Evangeline, but it was clear that her demise totally devastated Riba and set him back to his old vile ways. Concept art showed that Riba first truly fell in love with her when she was the one to teach him that that was the newfound feeling he began to have after meeting and spending time with her, and it is thought that this was the time Riba started to actually care about other people. Her voice alone stopped Riba from strangling Mario to death, so it is clear that she still holds a great deal of influence over Riba's actions centuries later.
- Tragic Keepsake: The green headband that Mario finds and returns to Riba in the Insane Route. Handing it to Riba will cause him to snap in a grief-stricken fit and attempt to kill Mario believing that Alice was tormenting him.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Not even as a spirit does she make an appearance in the Sane Route for whatever the reason may be.
- Token Good Teammate: In the Insane Route, she briefly speaks to Riba to stop him from strangling Mario to death when he snaps and believes that Alice is messing with him again. However, should Riba be dead in the route (which can be caused by Mario) and should Mario sleep in his bed, a spirit (presumably her) appears to strangle Mario if he were to do so more than once.
Birino and Eva Evangelisti
Eva and Birino with a young Marchionne
The late leading heads of Evangeline and the parents of Marchionne and Luciano.- Abusive Parents: They kept Marchionne locked in the house, forcing him to study instead of playing outside, and whenever he got close to his estranged brother Luciano, they berated him while driving Luciano away. One time, when Marchionne begged to play outside, Eva locked him outside during a storm.
- Asshole Victim: They are a pair of Abusive Parents who are eventually murdered by Riba in his plot to take their property.
- Education Mama: Both of them were this, keeping Marchionne inside the house and making him study all day, every day.
- Even Evil Can Be Loved: Not evil, per se, but it is clear that the loss of Birino Evangelisti devastated Marchionne and Eva especially, and this seemingly gets Eva to reconsider the way she and her husband had been raising their son Marchionne. Losing Eva too sent Marchionne into a bigger depressive spiral.
- The Fundamentalist: It is indicated that the material they forced Marchionne to study without ever letting him play was religious material.
- Parental Abandonment: They abandoned Luciano as he was a same-gendered twin to Marchionne, which is considered a bad omen in Evangeline; as such, they drove him away to preserve their reputation.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Birino himself looks almost exactly as his son (and son's reincarnation) but as a much elderly man.
- Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Downplayed when relatively speaking as Eva Evangelisti is past her prime at this point, and Mario himself isn't exactly ugly (just not conventionally handsome), but looking at the much more aged Birino Evangelisti and then looking at his wife, it's clear that he's not the attractive one of the two.
Helena
The Witch of Illusion
- I went by many names in the past… But I have always liked the name "Helena". So call me that.
- Ax-Crazy: She very quickly reveals herself as this when Mario refuses to hand over Misery's necklace, chasing him down with a chainsaw and gleefully cutting him apart should she catch him.
- In the insane route, should Riba be alive and should Mario decide to hand him over to her, Helena will let him go and eagerly cut Riba apart.
- Boss-Arena Idiocy: The switches in the hallways, when activated, will activate different traps that hurt her (flamethrowers in one room, spikes in the next, and an unseen variety in the last hallway); this is the only way to damage her as she is invincible otherwise. This, however, is subverted if Mario does not leave said booby-trapped room in time before they go off save for the last one which kills them both if he does not escape, and even in the last room if Helena catches Mario before the trap goes off she escapes after killing him.
- Boss Subtitles: The Witch of Illusion.
- Cute and Psycho: She looks like a cute young maiden in a fancy dress who also happens to be a sadistic witch with a chainsaw as her main weapon, either stealing Mario's in her boss fight if Riba is the enemy in the Sane Route or dead in the Insane Route or just carrying her own around if Riba's alive in the Insane Route. Worse, Word of God stated that the ending where an amnesiac Mario joined the Riba-worshipping had him eaten alive by tricked cult members as payback for not handing Riba over to her when encountered in the Insane Route.
- Faking the Dead: Word of God indicates that Helena does not die in her boss fight since being an illusion witch means she can mess with someone's senses and give them the false belief that she died.
- Gory Discretion Shot: Her faked death by the final trap is not shown. Instead, we only hear her agonizing scream. Should Mario fail to escape the final room, he dies with her, but the death is still not shown.
- Hoist by Her Own Petard: Ends up killed by her own traps when pursuing Mario if Mario manages to escape them all. Or so she makes it out to be.
- I Have Many Names: Goes by the name "Helena" when Mario asks since it is the name that she likes most out of all the names she's gone by.
- Mighty Glacier: She moves slower than Mario even when he is not running during her boss fight, but she can two-shot Mario with the chainsaw if she catches him in a game where most everything else that does not instantly kill Mario often does so in three hits minimum.
- Psycho for Hire: She was sent by the Riba-worshipping cult she works for to retrieve Misery's necklace from Mario, but she does not particularly care for them or Riba himself. What makes her psycho, however, is that she is disturbingly gleeful when attempting to kill Mario in her boss fight—successful or otherwise—or Riba if Mario gives him up to her, and then she implies she wants to continue cutting Riba to pieces afterward.
- The Starscream: In the Insane route, if Riba is still alive, she captures him and decides she wants to kill him to usurp his position as leader of her cult. Word of God also indicates that Helena indeed took over the cult in one of the endings where Mario forgets who he is and is indicted into the cult Riba was formerly worshipped in.
- Skippable Boss: In the Insane Route, if Riba is still alive and Mario agrees to hand him over, Helena will let Mario go and give him her ring without a fight. Otherwise, she is the only boss who must be fought in both routes.
- Troll: Introduces herself to Mario by warping around the room, messing with him and not letting him through preceding her boss fight with him.
- Your Mind Makes It Real: Warns Mario that if he dies in his sleep while she's there, he dies in real life as well.
Vittoria
- Speechless, are you? Once I give you a beautiful death, you can be as speechless as you like. Hahaha! Get it?
- Ax-Crazy: She considers death and bloodshed to be a beautiful sight, and attempts to kill Mario. She also killed her own creator.
- Demonic Possession: What she did with the girl who wore her who may or may not be dead.
- Evil Mask: She possesses the girl who wears her and tries to kill Mario.
- Optional Boss: She is in a hidden area, and you do not actually have to face her to beat the game; only if you are going for the dispel charm do you have to confront her.
Envy
- I can't wait to cut into your flesh! I will turn you into a work of art!
- Ambiguous Situation: Considering the nature of the trials Mario goes through, it's unknown if Envy is a real, deceased person or if he was just specifically created by Marchionne just to torment Mario.
- Ax-Crazy: Could very easily give the other characters, even Riba, a run for their money in this category. His Establishing Character Moment alone has him brutally cut off Mario's tongue before slicing him up into pieces in order to make him "a work of art". Every other subsequent death at his hands has him brutally killing Mario with an insane Slasher Smile and a psychotic laugh.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Should Mario fail to break free from his restraints and hide, he will make Mario into what he considers a work of art by slowly and painfully cutting off his tongue, and then slicing his body into pieces.
- The Empath: Envy is capable of taking on the mannerisms of whoever he shapeshifts into and feeling the emotions that they would be feeling if they were, as demonstrated by him shedding tears when Mario apologizes to him.
- Establishing Character Moment: His certainly shows just how off his rocker he truly is. If you fail to break free from your restraints in time, Envy will enter the room, introduce himself, and declare his intent to make you into a work of art. He then proceeds to painfully cut Mario's tongue with a pair of scissors, except he fails to cleanly cut it off at once and it's instead left hanging and bleeding profusely. As Mario is screaming in pain, Envy finally manages to fully snip it off after a while and he then proceeds to slice up Mario's body as he's losing consciousness.
- Evil Laugh: Uses Luigi's laughter as he cuts Mario to pieces in a game over sequence, proudly boasting about how Mario is finally the one looking scared while it (in Luigi's guise) is the one looking confident.
- No Name Given: It is a spirit that has no true name, although it is officially referred to as "Envy" outside of the game itself.
- Shape Shifter Guilt Trip: It takes the form of Luigi as the one who envies Mario the most and takes on some of Luigi's supposed mannerisms as it antagonizes Mario. It even disappears when Mario admits his own envy towards the real Luigi and seems to react in a similar way to how the real Luigi would have if he were alive to hear it.
- The Unfought: As of the base version of the -ARC- Expansion, Envy is not fought, and confronting him will lead to death. The future planned "Delirium" update plans to include him as a boss for the boss rush mode.
Evie Aduraice
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- "You cut my pretty face, you gouged my eyes out, you cut open my mouth, and then you shoved my eyes down my throat. And yet you call me "vile"."
- A Mistake Is Born: She never wanted Alice in the first place, resenting her with the belief that she was a strain on the kind of life she wanted to live.
- Abusive Parents: She treated her daughter like shit, forcing her to work for her and not letting her have enough money, food, or sleep for anything. She is directly responsible for Alice growing up the way she did.
- Ambiguous Situation: Much like Envy, it's hard to tell if the Evie that appears in the trial of Wrath is actually real or just a creation of Marchionne. Although then again, considering her conversation with Alice, it seems like she's still exactly the same person Alice knew.
- Asshole Victim: She was murdered by her own daughter because of how horrible she was. Since she had no regrets for anything that she did and was bitter enough over being killed by Alice to rise up as a spirit, Evie will most likely remain as a tortured spirit for the rest of her afterlife.
- Ax-Crazy: Far less than her daughter, but it's quite clear that being a spirit has made her just a little bit crazy. Especially since she's eager to kill her daughter, despite Alice already being dead, and has no problem murdering Mario in the process.
- Didn't Think This Through: Unless she's able to destroy Alice's soul, it's anyone's guess on how she was gonna kill someone that's already dead.
- Eyes Do Not Belong There: Her undead, spirit form has eyes all along her body.
- Gold Digger: She never loved Isaac Aduraice, only marrying him to live her own selfish life and eventually drain him of all his money. She was constantly—and openly—seeing other men behind his back. She eventually bankrupted the family and stored all of said money she drained into a place where Alice would never find it before her death.
- Hate Sink: Evie holds the distinction of being a character with absolutely no sympathetic qualities to her short of Len.
- The Hedonist: Did whatever she wanted to do and had literally no regrets about it.
- Horrifying the Horror: For a brief moment, she managed to terrify Alice.
- Humanoid Abomination: Compared to other human spirits, Evie's monstrous form suffers from additional deformities such as an enlarged hand with sharp talons, multiple eyeballs, a gaping maw, and looking to have been skinned—a sharp contrast to the very beautiful woman that she used to be.
- I'm a Humanitarian: It's not visibly shown, but she kills Mario by chomping down on his skull.
- In the Blood: Tries to claim this about her and Alice, saying that Alice is just as vile a person as she is as it runs in their blood. As the player can see in a few instances throughout the games—especially in the remastered "Omitted Memory" ending where Mario takes the role of being a reborn Alice's father—this is very clearly not the case. It is really just Evie trying to make Alice out to be as horrible as she herself had chose to be in life.
- It's All About Me: Rants at Alice for mutilating her before killing her, trying to call her a hypocrite for calling her own mother "vile" and not recognizing that she's the reason Alice is so twisted, and Evie is wholly unrepentant for the horrible things she did not just to Alice but to the family as well.
- Offing the Offspring: When she returns as a spirit, she makes it clear that she will rid herself of Alice once and for all.
Len Alwenia Foska / Cheshire Cat (Massive Spoilers)
Goddess Len, The Witch of Fate
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Click here to see Wonderland!Len
- Hope's for fools.
A small talking cat that follows Mario around and occasionally speaks to him. She is actually one of the two original cursed twins and the true mastermind behind the events of the game. Her Wonderland persona is the Cheshire Cat.
- Adaptational Villainy: In Wonderland, she takes the role of the Cheshire Cat. While the original character was a prime example of Dark Is Not Evil and a Jerkass at worst, this version is a sadistic, mass-murdering Mad Scientist who is the Woman Behind the Woman to the Red Queen.
- Allegorical Character: Given that Music box is a game created to help the creator deal with mental issues, she appears to represent the creator's vision of Fate as an all encompassing, all controlling, invincible Goddess Of Evil.
- Ax-Crazy: While it's relatively well hidden, the horrifyingly brutal deaths she gives Mario are not the moves of a sane person, no matter how cold they are. Her battle theme is even called "Disturbed Runaway".
- Big Bad: Essentially this for the series as a whole, as the one who manipulated Alice, Riba, and Marchionne into becoming evil, but most directly in Countenance 4 and the Wonderland DLC, where she directly antagonizes Mario.
- Big Bad Ensemble: With Alice, Riba, and Marchionne in ARC, though all three are her pawns.
- Boss Subtitles: The Witch of Fate.
- Catchphrase: "Hope is for fools". She says to both Mario and Sundige Natch, it may imply that she crossed the Despair Event Horizon at some point in her past.
- Cat Girl: In her human form, specifically her Cheshire Cat form where her cat ears are visible.
- Cats Are Mean: She takes the form of a cat (the Cheshire Cat in the Wonderland DLC) and is a sadistic mass-murderer and Mad Scientist.
- Chekhov's Gunman: She initially appears as a cat a few times, then talks to Mario one time to help him, and sends a letter to Alice and Riba, before her true role as the mastermind is revealed.
- The Dog Was the Mastermind: The cat who only appeared a few times, did not seem to be sapient until later, and only appeared by name through a letter she sent Alice and Riba to congratulate them on their marriage is the true mastermind behind the curse of the mansion and the corruption of Alice, Riba, Marchionne, and the other spirits.
- Dummied Out: Concept art showed that Len was the dragon to another being—some giant hand of darkness, sometimes four, with an eye in its palm emerging out of a magic circle that spoke in Greek. Knowing what kind of person Len is, the thought that she served an even higher power is horrifying.
- Emotionless Girl: When she appears in the Countenance 4 ending, she speaks in a stoic voice and is shown with a stoic face. Subverted in Wonderland, where she starts wearing a Slasher Smile and being more openly sadistic.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Downplayed Trope. The reason she freezes time in CONTINUEANCE 4 is because she believes Riba would eventually stab Mario in the back despite the fact that he has genuinely grown to love Mario. However, this is exactly what happens in most of the world's timelines, making it come across less as this and more like she just didn't imagine Riba could do a Heel–Face Turn.
- Expy:
- She is heavily based on the Black Cat Demon from The Witch's House, as a seemingly harmless talking cat who serves as a Justified Save Point by reviving the protagonist and turning out to be the real mastermind.
- Her Cheshire Cat persona is basically a Gender Flip of the Cheshire Cat from Alice Mare, as both are sadistic and demonic versions of the original Cheshire Cat character who toy with the protagonist, trap him and everyone else in a dream world, and manipulate an Anti-Villain into opposing him.
- Gender Flip: She takes the role of the Cheshire Cat in Wonderland, despite the original character being male.
- Greater-Scope Villain: For the original game; she is the reason that Alice and Riba, the villains, became evil, but she never appears.
- Historical Rap Sheet: She and her twin caused the Ice Age.
- Hopeless Boss Fight: In the Countenance 4 ending, Mario cannot hurt her at all. The goal of the 'fight' is to survive her attacks for 30 seconds.
- Invincible Boogeymen: Probably as a Rule of Symbolism extension of the recurring You Can't Fight Fate theme in the game, she is the only villain that the player can't even come close to defeat. The only semblance of victory you can get is convincing her to willingly let you go.
- Light Is Not Good: She refers to herself as a goddess, has white hair, and wears a light blue dress in the Wonderland DLC. She is also a psychopathic Wicked Witch and Mad Scientist.
- Mad Scientist: She set up the death and destruction comprising the events of the games as an 'experiment' to test humanity.
- Mask of Sanity: That stoic persona hides a sociopathic monster that's twelve kinds of fucked up in the head.
- Mysterious Past: We know almost nothing about her backstory, but she appears to be a Time Abyss.
- The Man Behind the Man: To Alice, Riba, and Marchionne. She turned Marchionne into a witch and used Riba to corrupt Alice. She and her twin also cursed any second-born twins of the same gender to be born with the power of mass destruction, leading to Marchionne being separated from Luciano, an event which contributed to his villainy.
- Really 700 Years Old: Concept art of her places her at 1,578 years old, and given her godly powers she may be even older than that.
- Physical God: She calls herself a goddess for a reason: she is one of the most powerful beings shown in the game if not the most powerful being. The only one who is implied to come close is Layla.
- Sadist: As the Cheshire Cat, she expresses glee in tormenting Mario.
- The Sociopath: Throughout all her appearances, she casually manipulates everyone she comes into contact with, displaying a lack of emotion as she does so, and causes tons of deaths and curses spirits to eternal torment while psychologically torturing the heroes, all as part of an experiment.
- Slasher Smile: She wears one as the Cheshire Cat.
- Story-Breaker Power: As expected of the witch fate, she's absolutely powerful and unbeatable.
- White Hair, Black Heart: She has white hair and is the cruelest character in the entire series.
- Wicked Witch: As the Witch of Fate, she uses her magic to manipulate others and orchestrate the events of the game.
- You Can't Fight Fate: Her character theme as the witch of Fate, and she even says that hope is for fools.
Layla
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Introduced in the Remastered version of the original game, Layla is a cat who heavily resembles Len, but is white instead of black.
- Big Good: At least the closest thing to one in the game. Compared to everyone else who helps the Mario Bros., Layla most directly offers a way out for the bros. to leave the mansion when she encounters them or at least points them in the right direction to do so, although she does give Mario an ominous warning to take care of his problem first before leaving when downstairs. She also encourages Luigi to go after Mario and save him from Riba and Alice both in the remastered Missing ending and when going towards the last few endings in the base game. Once the bros. are out and safe at home in "Better Off Lost", she goes to tie up some loose ends and gives Riba an overdue kick in the pants for his screwing around with everyone.
- Foil: To Len in several ways. Unlike Len, who is very much a callous monster behind everyone else's misery (especially those who really didn't deserve it), Layla is only seen assisting the heroes in benign ways or taking care of one such callous monster herself. Layla always has a smile on her face when in human form whereas Len is completely stoic outside of Wonderland—and in Wonderland itself Len is an open sadist whose smiles are anything but friendly. Len at best is more than willing to brutally murder someone with her own hands for sometimes no real reason while Layla at worst will viciously mock someone for failing to save others and causing the apocalypse as a result of not doing so when she told them to. Len has a more prominent role in the ARC expansion where she is revealed to be the biggest of bads for the whole game while Layla is confined to the main story and acts as the closest thing to a big good in the story (insofar as whenever she does make an appearance).
- Good Is Not Nice: Will not hesitate to chastise Luigi for running off and crying while Alice is still in Mario's body and Riba plans to complete the ritual, daring him to save Mario.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Similarly, she wastes no time tearing Luigi apart in the Tragedy ending considering that his Dirty Coward tendencies caused The End of the World as We Know It—especially since she told him to rescue Mario, and in disgust she ends up ditching him to see what is left of the ruined world, leaving him be by his wallowing lonesome.
- Do with Him as You Will: Combined with You Have Outlived Your Usefulness, this is how she disposes of Riba once Mario and Luigi are out of the mansion and the curse has been lifted, leading the demon to chase her all the way to Evangeline Town and loosing the angry spirits on him.
- Fairy Companion: Serves as this to Riba, speaking to him as a voice in his head and telling him what to do via telepathy prior to Better Off Lost's secret ending.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: A rare heroic example of this trope. Despite calling herself Riba's "Guardian Angel", she seemed to have planned on eventually getting rid of him once he did enough to get Mario and Luigi out of the Aduraice Estate. She first warned him of his impending death earlier in the game, later greets him with the aother cryptic warning of not celebrating his newfound victory so soon once he's finally out, and then finally spelling it out for him what will happen next once she had him right where she wanted him in Evangeline.
- The Gadfly: Briefly teases Luigi in the "Omitted Memory/Comatose" ending routes, meowing like a cat just before speaking just to give Luigi a start and delighting in his spooked reaction.
- Mysterious Past: Nothing concrete about her is given with the short screentime she has. Outside of helping the Mario Bros., no one really knows what her angle is about. For one, she is Ambiguously Related to Len (who unambiguously, definitely is a villain) but she has yet to be seen doing anything remotely evil; at most, we see her assist Mario and Luigi at different points while she gives Riba his just desserts after he played his part getting Mario and Luigi out, but she's still rumored to be one of the original cursed twins who caused the Ice Age and who cursed all same-sex twins to bring disaster.
- Perpetual Smiler: Is never seen without a smile on her face in human form.
- Tranquil Fury: She always seems to have a polite and sometimes merry tone to her voice without shouting no matter who she speaks to unless she's berating Luigi for his wallowing, but she warns Riba that he would die that day after going through a round of him mouthing off to her because she wants him to help the Bros. and telling her to piss off—still using a cheery tone as she does so. Come the secret scene of "Better Off Lost" after he hounded her and explained in graphic detail how he'd kill her and leave her for the wolves afterwards just for shits and giggles, she is seen cracking a grin with her brows furrowed in cat form as the spirits surround Riba and keeps a level tone with him the whole time while she imparts her last words with him.
