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Wade Brill

"I think about revenge a lot. You would too – if you had my brother."

A young girl with a sadistic monster for an older brother, Wade seeks the services of a company called Revenge R Us to get some payback.

  • Be Careful What You Wish For: She says out loud at one point that she wishes Micah would disappear and never come back, but when that exact thing actually happens, she's horrified.
  • Blaming the Victim: She gets her bike run over by her brother, and all her parents do is chide her for leaving it in the driveway and not the fact Micah did it deliberately.
  • Body Horror: Her first attempts at revenge somehow backfire onto her, with Wade first getting a rash so bad she makes herself bleed to her hair growing out of control. This is because Micah paid Iris to ensure the spells wouldn't work.
  • Butt-Monkey: Micah makes her life a living hell by doing things like wearing her underwear on his head while her friends are over and reading her diary over the intercom of a public pool.
  • Can't Get Away with Nuthin': She gets turned into a frog after finally getting revenge on her brother and trying to get revenge on Iris for scamming her.
  • Distaff Counterpart: She's essentially a female version of Michael Webster.
  • Everyone Has Standards: She wants Micah to suffer but doesn't want him dead.
  • Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The responsible for Micah's foolish. Wade is a Nice Girl who is much more mature than her Big Brother Bully, Micah, who is a childish Psychopathic Manchild who even wears Wade's underwear on his head at one point.
  • Forced Transformation: She gets turned into a frog.
  • Gender-Blender Name: Wade?
  • Mature Younger Sibling: Despite being twelve years old, she's considerably much nicer and more saner than her seventeen year old brother Micah.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Wade feels guilty when she has Iris make Micah disappear and tries to bring him back. It turns out he was just hiding to screw with her some more.
  • Nice Girl: She has moments of a temper but is a nice girl for the most part.
  • Revenge Before Reason: She keeps returning to Iris for revenge on Micah despite her prior attempts all backfiring on her.
  • The Un-Favourite: Why else would her brother, who is five years older than her and almost an adult, be allowed to do the horrible things he does?
  • Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Seriously, Wade???
  • Yank the Dog's Chain: Even when she finally gets her revenge on Micah, Iris reveals that any wishes she makes after the third one will also happen to her and turns her into a frog along with her brother.

Micah Brill

Wade Brill's sadistic older brother and just about everything that is wrong with her life. His abuse is so bad it drives Wade to seek the services of a company called Revenge R Us.

  • Big Brother Bully: And how. He does whatever he can to embarrass Wade and make life difficult for her. Not helping is that he's also 5 years older than her and almost an adult himself.
  • Blackmail: He takes an embarrassing picture of Wade in her sleep and threatens to mail it to her crush unless she does all the chores before their parents come home.
  • Childish Older Sibling: A lot of his treatment on Wade can come off rather immature for his age, such as walking around with a pair of his sister's panties on his head.
  • Disappointing Older Sibling: He treats Wade more as a target rather than a little sister.
  • Distaff Counterpart: Turn Tara Webster into a male and make her ten years older. You've created Micah!
  • Does This Remind You of Anything?: A seventeen-year-old teenage boy who takes pictures of his underage, twelve-year-old sister wearing nothing but her underwear? Hmm, that sounds awfully familiar.
  • Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The foolish to Wade's responsible. Despite being five years older than Wade at age seventeen, he acts very childish and immature for his age, even wears his sister's underwear on his head at one point.
  • Forced Transformation: He gets turned into a slug and then a frog, the latter along with his sister.
  • For the Evulz: Micah is never given a reason why he loves tormenting Wade other than because he can. In fact, when he found out Wade was going to Iris to get revenge, he paid Iris $300 to not only make sure Wade's attempts failed, but that they would also backfire on her. Why? Because he felt like it.
  • Hate Sink: What makes Micah especially infuriating is that, when Wade finally does get revenge on him it still backfires on her, almost as if the book is saying she deserves this for wanting to fight back against his abuse. Which in turn means Micah's horrible behavior is being validated.
  • Jerkass: The first thing he does in the book is embarrass Wade in front of her friends and crush by wearing her underwear on his head, and he only gets worse from there.
  • Kick the Dog: He takes great joy into bullying Wade and makes sure she's as miserable as possible. The fact that he's almost an adult makes his behavior all the more disgusting.
  • Lack of Empathy: He casually shrugs off the things he does to Wade like they're no big deal, like splashing her with mud from a puddle and running over her bike and completely crushing it.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: While the book does end with Micah being turned into a frog, Wade herself is also turned into one so the karma aspect is subverted.
  • Must Have Caffeine: Claims to drink three cups of coffee a day, though this is a lie he told to impress his girlfriend.
  • Nobody Touches the Hair: He takes his hair very seriously, which is why Wade's second revenge is for it to fall out.
  • Parental Favoritism: His parents see no fault in anything he does, either viewing his disturbing treatment of Wade as funny or blaming her for it.
  • Psychopathic Manchild: He's seventeen but he acts like a childish, egotistical and immature Spoiled Brat who bullies his sister for his own amusement.
  • Sadist: He takes great pleasure in Wade's suffering. In fact, when it's revealed he was the reason all her revenge wishes backfired on her, he's downright ecstatic about how much she suffered because of him and even declares that it's the greatest day of his life.
  • The Sociopath: He's way too fixated on how much he can make his sister suffer, doing things like rummaging through her personal belongings, taking pictures of her in her sleep, and even paying Iris $300 just so she'll torture Wade some more - and actually being happy when he learns about all the horrific things she had to endure because of him.
  • Teens Are Monsters: Oddly enough for this series he doesn't turn out to be an actual monster even though he is legitimately a terrible person.
  • Villainous Crossdresser: Disguises himself as Iris' imaginary sister just to further screw with Wade.
  • You Keep Using That Word: When he reveals that he paid Iris to mess with Wade, he calls it his "revenge" on her. Repeatedly. Despite the fact that for it to be revenge, he'd have to be getting back at her for something she did to him.

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