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These would be the people just visiting or being other ways just vaguely connected to the main setting of Roommates.
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Prince Lír
Living proof how good Jareth is with children, or not.
- Canon: The Last Unicorn
- Changeling Tale: Jareth "babysat" him once. Not for long though. King Haggard sent the Red Bull for him.
- Let Us Never Speak of This Again: His romance with Amalthea is a touchy subject.
Toby (Tobias Williams)
Creepy fae lord that way ->
- Canon: Labyrinth
- Curiosity Is a Crapshoot: He is a curious child... this doesn't always go well, especially when the Living Words push him.
- Fae Magnet: His Changeling Tale was subverted, because he got "saved". But is there any other child in fiction who almost got taken by The Fair Folk twice?
- Nervous Wreck: Well, Jareth did his best to avert this, but the Erlkönig's visit left its mark.
- Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome: He is inexplicably five or so years older than in his movie was (probably so he can get into trouble all on his own now).
Darcy Lewis
Her first appearance.
- Canon: Thor
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Her second sentence "...Is that a copy of the Dead Sea Scrolls?".
- Badass Bookworm: But the first was "I just want you to know that I've tased thunder gods for less than this."
Admiral Lawrence Norrington
His only appearance from a flashback.
- Canon: Pirates of the Caribbean
- Abusive Parents: He is still the bane of his son's existence and source of most of his emotional problems. He told James in Canon that he should better have drowned than be saved by a pirate.
- Posthumous Character: The guy is dead. In a comic where Nobody Can Die.
- The Scrappy: Why he is Deader than Dead in-universe. We hate his guts, and every info / flashback about him makes the fans loathe him more.
Thranduil
Elven king on a mission.
- Canon: Tolkien's Legendarium
- Fantastic Racism: He really really dislikes Dwarfs.
- Horse of a Different Color: His steed is a deer-like creature.
Organizations and such
MJN Air
No. There is no picture of them. They are from a RADIO show.
- Canon: Cabin Pressure
- The Faceless: All of them. This is a deliberate style choice to stress that these characters are from radio, so because of the limitations of their original medium were The Voice.
Arthur Shapey
- Changeling Tale: Apparently his dad tried to wish him away to Jareth.
- Wall of Blather: He flooded a whole panel with it.
Douglas Richardson
- Actor Allusion: The characters in universe have this reaction to him, and conclude "It's Roger Allam!". (The guy even played Javert at one point. Yeah. No Celebrity Paradox around there.)
Carolyn Knapp-Shapey
- Never Mess with Granny: Jareth(!) is afraid of her, she subverted the Changeling Tale mentioned earlier.
Erik's Internet Science Club
So yes. The people from Erik's Gadgeteer Genius / Mad Scientist club on the Internet. For Science! Tony Stark
- Modeled after Robert Downey Jr..Canon: Iron Man
- Advice Backfire: Don't take his! It will lead to unexpected spending or property damage.
- Eccentric Millionaire: When he renovated the main cast's apartments , after thanks to him the Readings Blew Up the Scale and the whole floor, he forgot this tiny detail... and that they have a recovering alcoholic. (Yes. He made all four main cast members Roommates opposed to the former two people in one apartment / professional Drop In Characters arrangement.)
- Mad Scientist: You need proof? He used For Science! two times in one speech bubble.
- He says it again when he and Erik blow up Erik and Jareth's apartment.
Jake Jensen
*Censored*
- Modeled after Chris Evans.Canon: The Losers
- Cluster Bleep-Bomb: He swears in almost every other sentence, but this is a Family Friendly comic.
- Cool Shades: His only visible clothing in one panel.
- Faking the Dead: He is in hiding after his movie and doesn't want to break cover.
- Sir Swears Alot: Resulting generally in Cluster Censor Box Bombs.
The Celestial Bureaucracy
Azira's and Crowley's bosses, workmates and others. Currently we only have Metatron.The Invasions and Outings
The Copies
Because this mini arc is just 2(+1) pages long and is unlikely for any of the copies to appear again no picture for them. But here are the originals a Pre-Halloween joke
, Page 1, Page 2.
, Page 1, Page 2. Of Jareth (David Bowie):
Nikola Tesla
- Canon: The Prestige
- Mad Scientist: He still has the copy machine and it runs on Actor Allusion here.
Blind Date
The misguided matchmaking attempts of 3/4 of the main cast (but mostly Jareth).
Because this part of the mini arc is just 2 pages long and is unlikely for any of these characters to appear again no picture for them. But here are the originals Page 1, Page 2.
Elphaba, Page 2. - Canon: Wicked
- Fantastic Racism: Well, she IS green.
Kira
- Canon: The Dark Crystal
- Older Than They Look: She still looks like a little girl which gets Jareth in trouble.
Captain Jack Harkness
- Canon: Torchwood
- Even the Guys Want Him: Subverted but both James and Erik counted on it.
Zombie Apocalypse
Because this is what this verse needed!
Professional zombie hunters:
ZombieBusters!
Tallahassee- Canon: Zombieland
- Friend to All Children: See Heartwarming subpage.
- Heartbroken Badass: The series' biggest Tear Jerker when we find this out (or you could just watch Zombieland).
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Ash
- Canon: Evil Dead
- Artificial Limbs: Still has the Chainsaw.
- Deadpan Snarker: (Not that you will notice that much, this is a World of Snark)
Middle-Earth
- Canon: Tolkien's Legendarium
Not here: Legolas because he lives in the Building #42 and Thranduil because he is under Friends and Family on this page.
The Nazgûl aka The Ringwraiths
So this isn't Middle Earth?
(The invaders) Frodo Baggins
Oz
- Canon: Land of Oz
Going on a vacation can be hazardous... they ended up in Oz. Also Kings War had some interaction with this realm. Glinda is under Magical Community because she is a Conclave member.
The Gatekeeper of the Emerald city
<- Creepy Goblin King that way.
(Who wants a new job)- Threshold Guardians: Not an effective one but still. Poor guy. He wasn't prepared for such visitors.
The Wizard
He is Oz the great and terrible... at first.
(Who really wishes they would be somewhere else)- Chekhov's Gunman: Originally side character, returns in Kings War as a villain.
- It Was with You All Along: He is the one, who tells the cast that the way home is: Asking Jareth! To make matters clearer, someone needs to wish them back using the Right Words... that Jareth can't tell, but the Wizard knows.
- Magic Feather: Subverted. He tries to give the cast the customary "gifts" but they are quite unimpressed.
- The Man Behind the Curtain: Still the humbug hopelessly outclassed by the whole main cast.
- Phony Psychic: Oh boy. Not only because the guy was a phony wizard, but also he is the cold reader and manipulator of the Ozian army later. He is no match for Erik.
- You Don't Look Like You: He got a significant redesign in Kings War. This was even lampshaded by Erik.
Princess Ozma
Because Everything's Better With Princesses!
(The true ruler of Oz)- Calling the Old Man Out: She doesn't take shit from Glinda.
- Pop-Cultural OZmosis Failure: Canonically she was always (since book two) part of the Oz stories... but ask anybody if they know about her. In-universe this even gets a nice lampshade by James pointing out that he misses some important subtext, and Ariel telling him not to worry about it. Out of universe just count all the "Who is Ozma?" comments on that page.
- Princesses Rule: She is the true ruler of Oz.
- Spear Carrier: Her part is the calling out at the end of Kings War.
Others
Ashe Rhyder
God in person.
- Canon: Real Life
(Yeah. The creator is a character too.)
- Ambiguous Gender: His/her Author Avatar.
The Artist goes so far to ignore the guesses... the fans stand mostly on the "who cares?" side. - Author Avatar: (S)he got magic sneezed into the comic once... she didn't stay long. See also Genre Savvy.
- Cryptic Conversation: (S)he tends to answer reader questions this way. Maybe because (s)he doesn't want to spoil or influence the
Epileptic Tree planting. (S)he also posted some rather cryptic polls (Q: "When?" A: "Sooner" / "Later") with no further explanation. - The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: At least (s)he isn't perfectly protected as Crowley occasionally steals his/her beer.
- Genre Savvy: Averted Rage Against the Author by running before the characters realized who (s)he is.
- Third-Person Person: Occasionally switches to this in The Artist comments.
15 Imaginary Rabbit 15
The luckiest unlucky girl in existence.
- Canon: Real Life
- Contest Winner Cameo: She won her appearance on the +5 Food of Eating kickstarter lottery.
- No Sense of Direction / Wrong Turn at Albuquerque: She happened on the building by accident.
Mystery (sidestory)
A Halloween costume party which gets derailed by a Murder Mystery. Death
He is glad to see most of the boys.
- Canon: Discworld
- For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: Well, he went to their halloween party as The Grim Reaper.
Avenue Q performer + Kate Monster
They aren't living here...
- Canon: Avenue Q
- Big Bad: Of the arc.
- Motive Rant: She attacked Jareth and Sir Didymus because she was jealous of Labyrinth's Cult Classic status.
Der Erlkönig (sidestory)
- Canon: The Erl-King. Real Life?
The Boy and his Father
Neither of them are ready.
The Father
- Supernatural-Proof Father: Either this or the fae are Invisible to Adults.
The old guy writing
??? I don't remember him from the poem.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- nAuthorPowers: Did it happen because he wrote it or did he wrote it because it happened?
Devious Gingers (Show Within a Show)
The Cast
Benny
- Modeled after (in universe played by?): Benedict Cumberbatch
- The Knights Who Say "Squee!": His squeeing over meeting Judi Dench went memetic.
Tommy
- Modeled after (in universe played by?): Tom Hiddleston
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With/To Benny... guess who has all the links (and video) to the memetic squeeing.
Dave
- Modeled after (in universe played by?): David Tennant
- Token Minority: He "is still not a ginger, but we love him anyway."
