The cast of characters in Ruby Gloom.
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Main Characters
Ruby Gloom
Voiced by: Sarah Gadon; Rie Kugimiya (Japanese)
The eponymous character and leader of the group. A cheerful young girl with red hair and pale skin who sees the bright side to every situation. She also has a knitting hobby.- Ambiguously Human: Never confirmed if she's the Token Human or a living doll.
- Catchphrase: "Look on the bright side."
- Cheerful Child: She's insatiably chipper and optimistic.
- Creepy Child: In a sense, she's a 10 year old girl who has Gothic and creepy tastes and interests.
- Every Proper Lady Should Curtsey: Does this when complimented.
- The Heart: She acts as the optimist, the peacemaker, and the voice of wisdom for her friends.
- Hollywood Tone-Deaf: Outside of the musical episode, she, in her own words, can't carry a tune in a bucket.
- Ironic Name: Despite having the last name "Gloom", she's usually pretty happy.
- The Magic Touch: Not elaborated on, and may be a coincidence, but a number of objects made by Ruby have inexplicably come to life in some way. To name few there's Mr. Buns, a snowman, and we can only assume she was the one who sewed the patchwork heart Venus swallowed.
- Meaningful Name: Rubies are usually red, so her name is likely a nod to her red hair. The "Gloom" part is more ironic, given her personality, but she wears mostly black.
- Nice Girl: She's kind and willingly helpful to all of her friends.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: It's under very rare and unique circumstances that she becomes angry, scared, or upset:
- The only times she was ever really angry was in "Bad Hare Day," after she found out Bunny was stealing from them and trying to make Doom look bad, and to a lesser degree at the end of "Gloomer Rumor," where she got exasperated when Frank and Len continued to believe she was dead.
- The only prominent times she became frightened was in "Once in a Blue Luna," where she becomes scared of the fabled Luna Monster (Scaredy even lampshades how odd it is for her to be afraid), and the ending skit of "Ubergloom," which is a nightmare of a Recursive Reality.
- In "Hair(Less): The Musical", she is finally forlorn over Skull Boy leaving the mansion.
- Perky Goth: Has gothic interests but is very cheerful.
- The Pollyanna: She is regarded as "The Happiest Girl in the World" for a reason. She often finds the bright side of everything, and it takes a lot to make her angry, scared, or upset.
- Skip of Innocence: She sometimes skips about in an endearing fashion, which showcases her optimism and energy.
- Ship Tease: With Skullboy. In particular the "Fun with Paper
" or "You Are What You Eat" segments. - Team Mom: Her positive attitude allows her to act as the voice of reason and keep her friends together when things start getting out of hand around the mansion.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: She's thoughtful, kind, and acts as the voice of reason for her friends.
- Youthful Freckles: She possess a few of these under her eyes, although they can be a bit tricky to see.
Doom Kitty
Ruby's black-furred pet cat who communicates solely through the sounds of violin chords. However, she's actually quite canny and is usually the first to know when something's happening around the mansion.
- Amplified Animal Aptitude: She's not a Talking Animal like Poe and Scaredy, but she's just as smart (if not more so) than they are.
- Cute Kitten: A black and absolutely adorable cat.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Has black fur and is one of the good guys.
- Deathbringer the Adorable: Despite her malevolent-sounding name, she's actually very harmless and very cute.
- Doomy Dooms of Doom: And the fact that her name is "Doom" should clue you in.
- Hartman Hips: Yes, on a cat.
- Narrative Shapeshifting: She uses her extremely thin, flexible and strong tail to make shapes ? not strictly shapeshifting, but it does alter her appearance after a fashion. Of course, only Ruby can understand her.
- No Mouth: Her mouth is absent most of the time, only appearing when she needs to make certain expressions. This is less the case in Season 2.
- The Speechless: Every sound she makes is a violin chord.
- Silent Snarker/Cats Are Snarkers: The faces she makes suggests snarky thoughts.
Iris
Voiced by: Stacey DePass; Sayaka Narita (Japanese)
A cyclops girl who is Ruby's closest friend of the mansion's inhabitants. She's a thrill-seeker who always finds a way to make something fun and exciting. She likes athletics and exotic creatures.- Catchphrase: "I'm good!"
- Challenge Seeker: Always performing stunts.
- Cute Clumsy Girl: Gets injured a lot while adventuring.
- Cute Monster Girl: A cyclops who is quite adorable.
- Cyclops: Only drawn with one eye.
- The Flapper: Iris appears as this during Poe's version of the story in "Venus de Gloomsville."
- Fluffy Tamer: If Squig and Venus are any indication.
- Genki Girl: She loves adventure and rarely seems to hold still for very long.
- Hollywood Tone-Deaf: Like Ruby, Iris is a terrible singer outside of the musical episode.
- Human Cannonball: Owns a large cannon she sometimes fires herself or others (usually without their permission) out of.
- Innocently Insensitive: While she isn't mean, her hyperactivity and playful nature can sometimes annoy the other housemates.
- Meaningful Name: In the anatomy of eyes, an iris can refer to the colored part surrounding the pupil. Being a cyclops, Iris's most distinctive feature is her solitary eye.
- Plucky Girl: In Ruby's own words, she has an adventurous spirit.
Misery
Voiced by: Emily Hampshire; Saori Goto (Japanese)
A banshee-like creature with tears constantly streaming down her face. As her name suggests, Misery is always feeling down and anticipates the worst. Well, you would too if you had her luck. In her free time, she plays with her dolls and puppets.- Adaptational Attractiveness: She was a lot uglier in the original merchandise.
- Ambiguously Human: What exactly she is is never made clear. She may be a banshee, some form of undead, a personification of misfortune, or simply an incredibly unlucky human. See Our Banshees Are Louder.
- Amusing Injuries: Misery is regularly hit by lightning, only to say "ow" and come back 10 seconds later in perfect shape (although sometimes she ends up badly singed and almost hairless).
- Beautiful Singing Voice: When she's asleep. When she sleepwalks around the house singing in Unsung Hero, Frank, Len and Ruby all note her sleep-singing as being lovely, and decide she'd be perfect for the upcoming Gloomapalooza performance.
- Big, Screwed-Up Family: Has a large family who all have the same knack for bad luck. They usually avoid each other but when they have their family reunion in one episode, Ruby does too good of a job helping them get along that they decide to stay. They only leave again when their combined bad luck almost destroys the town with a volcano.
- Born Unlucky: Both figuratively and literally. The world always had it out for her family, and she's no different.
- Breakout Character: A popular character among fans of the show.
- Butt-Monkey: Misery frequently gets struck with various disasters wherever she goes.
- Cannot Convey Sarcasm: Never comes up on the show, but with her deadpan voice it's sometimes hard to tell whether she's being sarcastic or sincere.
- Catchphrase: "Ow." and "Oops."
- The Chew Toy: All the stuff that happens to her is played for comedy, and she rarely seems to mind.
- Chewing the Scenery: Emily Hampshire occasionally gets really hammy in her role as Misery:"I'm also the Queen of Disasters, by the way. And the Princess. And the Baroness! And the Countess! And the Viscountess! THE EMPRESS!!"
- Composite Character: She appears to be a mix of Jealousy and the original Misery from the books.
- Cute Clumsy Girl: Usually her misfortune is just bad luck, but sometimes it's due to her own clumsiness, or a combination of both.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Despite her bleak looking appearance, she's actually a decent and sensible person.
- The Eeyore: A polar opposite of Ruby and Iris, she is a frequent frowner and downer. Luckily, she powers through her misfortunes and hardly drags her friends down with her.
- Elegant Gothic Lolita: Dresses in this manner.
- Happy Rain: By "Sunny Daze", she seems to like rain. Oddly, the first episode depicts her as hating rain, since she's genetically prone to being struck by lightning. Ruby points out that bad things happen to her even when it doesn't rain, and advises her to use the rain to wash out hair tangles, which Misery agrees to. Perhaps it was Early-Installment Weirdness, or maybe she was Conditioned to Accept Horror (she is regularly thunderstruck even when it's not raining).
- Head Desk: Does this with a wall at least twice. Both involving her relatives visiting and bringing disaster with them. Says this:
- Her Codename Was Mary Sue: In her shadow puppet shows where she makes herself a queen.
- Hereditary Curse: Apparently the cause of her bad luck, particularly being a lightning rod:"It's genetic. The electrical current is drawn to the high lead content in our blood, and then BOOM! ...people use you to charge their batteries."
- Hidden Depths: Is an excellent singer whenever she's asleep.
- Iron Butt Monkey: Lightning hits Misery so often that it's become a defining character trait. Aside from the blackened clothes, it seems to be nothing more than a minor inconvenience to her.
- Lethal Chef: "It's an old family recipe. I've adjusted it to reduce the damage to the dwelling."
- Meaningful Name: Her entire life is filled with bad luck and hardship, hence the name "Misery".
- Ocular Gushers: Played with. She always has tears running from her eyes whether she's sad or not.
- One-Woman Wail: "Unsung Hero" shows that her singing is a very noisy wail, but she sings very beautifully in her sleep, and "Hair(Less) The Musical" shows that she's capable of singing while awake, too.
- Our Banshees Are Louder: Misery and her exclusively female relatives appear to be banshees. And her wail sure is terrifying enough.
- The Pig-Pen: Though she doesn't look it. In "Forget Me Not" she has a bath and apparently her last one was so long ago she forgot what it was like.
- Plague of Good Fortune: Every Friday the 13th everyone in Misery's family has extraordinarily good luck and their normally extraordinarily bad luck is spread to those around them.
- Scary Teeth: Her teeth are crooked with a yellowish tint.
- Shock and Awe: If there is a list of all the mishaps she endured, and how often each one happens to her, lightning strikes are likely on top of that list. She seems to avert this every Friday the 13th.
- Signature Laugh: A soft giggle, on the rare occasion that she's happy.
- Sleepwalking: "Unsung Hero" reveals that not only does Misery walk in her sleep, but her singing changes from a noisy One-Woman Wail to rather beautiful.
- Sneeze of Doom: She is prone to these. She can sneeze hard enough to de-rail a train.
- 13 Is Unlucky: Interestingly inverted, as she becomes a Plague of Good Fortune on Friday the 13th to the point that lightning avoids her. She's so annoyed by this that, when the day ends, she is relived to get her bad luck again.
- Vague Age: Looks, sounds, and generally acts like a teenager, and for all we known she might be her species' equivalent to one, but she's occasionally implied to have been around for considerably longer.
- Walking Disaster Area/Walking Wasteland: Mirrors crack when she looks into them, walls crack as she walks by, etc. Almost everywhere she goes ends up damaged."I like to think of everyday as the third day of the rest of my life. I always like to leave the first and second open for damage and repair."
- When She Smiles: It's rare, but hearts will melt at the elusive sight of Misery happy for a change, wherein she tends to make her characteristic giggle.
Skull Boy
"I'm an artist, Ruby! It's in my bones!"
Voiced by: Scott McCord; Hiroki Takahashi (Japanese)
A skeleton with numerous talents. He is determined to find out what he is best in, usually by tracing his ancestry to find past family members with similar talents to his. Ruby has a crush on him.- Adaptation Species Change: In the books he was a shy human boy who wore a skull to hide his face.
- Bungling Inventor: He builds a lot of devices for many purposes, although their level of success tends to vary.
- Child Prodigy: He shows great aptitude for most of the fields he pursues, and often builds complex contraptions. In one episode, he even builds a working Time Machine!
- Dem Bones: A skeleton.
- Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: All he wants is to find what he's important for. A musical episode focused on him leaving Gloomsville to find his origin.
- Emo Teen: Even if he doesn't have the attitude (
Debatable) he definitely dresses the part. - Friendly Skeleton: Much like the rest of the main cast he is very kind.
- Gene Hunting: He tries to find out who his family was, and where we came from.
- Jack of All Trades: Justified in a way. He is so curious about where he came from, he's devoted himself in trying out different talents and careers whenever the plot of the episode demands it. We could list them all if we wanted to.
- Lamarck Was Right: Basically his entire philosophy.
- Mad Libs Catchphrase: "I must be related to a long line of [insert profession here]!"
- Nice Guy: Second only to Ruby as the show's nicest character.
- Ship Tease: With Ruby. He is not even remotely subtle about this. Ruby is even less so.
Frank & Len
"Frank, you go, I'll stay."
"Len, that doesn't make any sense. I'm older."
"Len, that doesn't make any sense. I'm older."
Voiced by: David Berni (Frank) and Jeremy Harris (Len)
A two-headed creature resembling Frankenstein's Monster. Neither of them are especially bright but both are fantastic rock musicians. Frank is the blue one on the left, Len is the green one on the right.- Aloof Big Brother: Frank sees himself as this, at least.
- Band of Relatives: They perform together in a band called RIP as the only permanent members.
- Big Eater: Their appetites are limitless.
- Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: Len is the Boke and Frank tends to be the Tsukkomi, although Frank is only smart relative to Len and can sometimes be pretty dim himself, thereby subverting this.
- Catchphrase: Frank has "You're just not getting it, Len."
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Len
- Conjoined Twins: Well, conjoined brothers, at any rate. Since they're visibly not identical, they were probably put together at a later time.
- Coordinated Clothes: They have to wear the same main articles of clothing, and Ruby makes them a half-and-half suit at one point.
- Depending on the Writer: Frank is either far smarter than Len and is the one who scoffs at Len's ditzy moments, or is just as stupid as his brother.
- Frankenstein Monster: They are visibly sewn together down the center.
- Genius Ditz: They are incredible singers, guitar players, and songwriters. They also once tried to use their guitar as a surfboard. It ended about as well as you'd expect.
- Guyliner: Len.
- Impractical Musical Instrument Skills: They have to work together to play their guitar, with Len manning the neck of the guitar and Frank strumming. They also like to play it behind their heads.
- Mix-and-Match Man: Implied since they have stitching running down their chest and both halves have different skin colors.
- Multiple Head Case: A two-headed monster.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: While Len has green skin, he seems to have red oni tendencies... but Frank is blue oni through and through.
- Secret-Keeper: In "Quadrogloomia", they learn that Ruby has a crush on Skull Boy.
- Shipper on Deck: The episode "Quadrogloomia" suggests they might be this for Skull Boy and Ruby.
- Sibling Seniority Squabble: Taken farther than usual— Frank has claimed to be older, but...
- Sibling Team: They are both members of a band called RIP, working together to write songs and play their guitar.
- Theme Twin Naming: Combined, their names are eerily similar to "Franklin"
- The Power of Rock: They can cook beans with it.
- This Is My Side: In "Frank and Len Unplugged". This didn't work, for obvious reasons.
- Those Two Guys: There's literally no way to see them apart, since they are a two-headed monster.
Mr. Buns
A stuffed rabbit Ruby knitted together herself. While he seems to be not much more than a plush toy, most of the other characters treat him as if he were alive, and there are a few hints that they might be right.
- Big Eater: He's often seen next to empty trays of food or stuffed to bursting.
- Bunnies for Cuteness: A rabbit plush toy.
- Companion Cube: A rabbit toy and friend of the main characters.
- Living Toys: Mr. Buns is a strange example. The other characters treat him as if he's alive (except for Misery), and he seems to do things when he's not on-screen... but whenever he's on-screen, he's just a lifeless sock-bunny. In the most extreme case, he's fencing with Poe from just off-screen, only for the sword to drop the moment he's visible in the frame.
- Offscreen Teleportation: See above.
Poe
Voiced by: Adrian Truss; Atsushi Ono (Japanese)
A sophisticated raven who lives in an attached addition to the mansion. As a true gentleman, Poe believes himself to be a model to the rest of the mansion, although he can sometimes cross over into being a Small Name, Big Ego.- Clever Crows: He and his brothers are ravens and himself is a wise raven, good guy and a loyal friend, although he is usually somewhat selfish and Jerkass (sometimes) due to his big ego.
- Creepy Crows: He and his brothers fit in with the show's dark setting, but they're not really all that bad.
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: He wears only a dark purple cape with a white dickey with a red bow, he wears a top hat with a navy blue ribbon, he also wears white gloves and he wears spats on his bare feet, but he no wears pants.
- High-Class Glass: He wears a monocle in attempts to seem sophisticated.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He can be arrogant and pretentious, but he's a good guy and a loyal friend.
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: He doesn't know as much as he says he does.
- The Münchausen: He is always yammering about how he's been in bands and had amazing adventures.
- Old Windbag: A good way to put someone to sleep is to get him talking.
- Shout-Out:
- Take a wild guess!
- As well as occasional ones to Gilbert and Sullivan.
- Shout-Out Theme Naming: See the above.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Poe is quite egotistical.
- Talking Animal: A talking raven.
- Token Adult: The only member of the main cast who's unambiguously an adult.
- Toothy Bird: Sometimes drawn with teeth.
Scaredy Bat
Voiced by: Peter Keleghan; Yuki Kaji (Japanese)
An Indian-accented bat who is afraid of virtually everything, including flying and the dark. Unfortunately for him, he's also a favourite target for pranks by some of the mansion's inhabitants.- Acrophobic Bird: He's a bat, but he is afraid of flying nonetheless.
- Big "NO!": He does this every once in a while.
- Bollywood Nerd: Well, he's certainly got the right accent...
- Butt-Monkey: Lots of bad things happen to him.
- Cute Little Fangs: Scaredy has noticeable fangs, but they are small and cute.
- Hidden Depths: Is gifted at playing drums and the accordion.
- Ironic Fear: He's a bat that's afraid of heights and the dark.
- Large Ham: At times he can be one.
- Lovable Coward: Why do you think he's called "Scaredy Bat"?
- Puppy-Dog Eyes: His eyes are constantly drawn this way.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter
- Shrinking Violet: Sort of...
- Talking Animal: A talking bat.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Very often seen eating mosquitoes out of a bag.
Boo Boo
Voiced by: Barbara Mamabolo; Kazuko Kojima (Japanese)
A young ghost who is trying to prove himself to a ghost gang that he can haunt and scare just as well as they can. He loves to make mischief, with his favourite target being Scaredy Bat.- Berserk Button: He hates being called "cute."
- Invisible to Normals: At first, only cats, psychics and crazy street preachers could see him. He had to successfully scare someone in order to be visible.
- Our Ghosts Are Different: He had to earn his intangibility and visibility to living people.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While he loves to scare people, he's generally a decent guy.
- The Prankster: He loves pranking everyone. Especially Scaredy.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: Much to his chagrin.
- Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: He aspires to be one...
- Nightmare Retardant: ...with little success.
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Minor Characters
Edgar and Allan
A pair of large crows who are Poe’s brothers, they hang out with him on occasion.
- The Big Guy: They both share this.
- Big Guy, Little Guy: Both have this dynamic with Poe.
- Dumb Muscle: They both seem to be this since they took Skull Boy seriously when he told them to lock him up. They also didn't slow down when flying towards the glass house.
- Fat and Skinny: And this dynamic with each other
- Flat Character: They rarely do anything and mostly just exist to complete the "Edgar Allen Poe" name pun.
- High-Class Glass: They both wear monocles to uphold a sophicated look.
- Satellite Character: They are practically never seen outside of Poe's presence.
- Silent Snarker: Will often exchange looks or roll their eyes in reaction to something Poe says.
- The Speechless: They never say a word.
- Shout-Out Theme Naming: See the above.
- Those Two Guys: Hardly seen not together.
- Toothy Birds: In certain scenes they will be depicted with teeth.
Mr. White and Mr. White
Voiced by: Harvey Atkin and Ron Rubin
Two large ghosts with who act as Boo Boo's teachers in the art of scaring.- Ambiguously Related: They are apparently a part of Boo Boo’s family, but how specifically is never clarified.
- Evil Mentors: To Boo Boo in regards to scaring.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: They are gruff and quite menacing ghosts who specialize in scaring others, but they aren't actually intentionally mean at all and can be quite friendly.
- The Mafia: They act like mafiosos.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted.
- Pocket Dimension: They seem to reside in one that only Boo Boo can get to. Though they also let Skull Boy in once to give him some encouragement.
- Sinister Shades: Both of them wear pairs of glasses that give off this vibe.
- Those Two Guys: Pretty much unheard of to see them not together.
- Took a Level in Kindness: Initially they were dismissive of Boo Boo’s friends, even thinking them a bad influence on Boo Boo. Later on however they seem to have considerably warmed up to everyone, doing things like making Scaredy pasta and giving Skullboy important advice.
Squig
A giant bug who Iris made into her pet while on a fishing trip.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Squig is a gigantic bug.
- Gentle Giant: A big bug with a big heart.
- Giant Flyer: Iris uses him as transport.
Venus
Voiced by: Stephanie Anne Mills
A venus flytrap Iris brought to life as her project for the Gloomsville Fair. She later became another pet for Iris, even gaining a voice as time went on.- Just a Stupid Accent: She speaks with a French accent due to the record Iris used to teach her to speak was dictated by a French man.
- Man-Eating Plant: Although she doesn't eat people.
- Meaningful Name: Partly overlaps with A Dog Named "Dog" given the kind of plant she is, Venus is also the name of the Roman goddess of love, and she's shown to be a hopeless romantic in the episode "Venus de Gloomsville"
- Pastimes Prove Personality: She's a writer.
- Took a Level in Kindness: After eating a heart that Skull Boy made for his robot dad, she went from an amoral eating machine to a sweet and friendly plant.
Mr. Mummbles
Voiced by: Derek McGrath
An old man with a penchant for the dramatic who debuted in the episode "Poe-ranoia".- Circus of Fear: He has a G-rated one which he builds and designs rides for which, of course, Ruby and friends love.
- Cool Old Guy: An eccentric and friendly old man who likes making others happy.
- Head Pet: His pet frog, Socrates.
- Mad Scientist: He has the mannerisms of one, but he's a nice guy.
- Mistaken for Murderer: By Poe in his debut episode.
- Scotireland: He has this type of accent.
Misery's Family
Misery's family. Their names are Morose, Migraine, Mildew, Malady, Mayhem, Malaise, Motley, Mopey, and the triplets Myopia, Malice, and Misbegotten
- Alliterative Family: All their names start with "M".
- All Just a Dream: It's speculated that a few of the Misery relatives that appeared in the reunion episode might have been figments of her own imagination.
- An Ice Person: Two, actually. Malady and Malaise will cause a localized ice age if they stay close for too long. It's a reason why Misery always tries to keep them as far apart as possible, to the point that she refuses to invite them both at the same time.
- Asian Speekee Engrish: Mildew.
- Big "WHY?!": Morose is prone to doing this.
- Catchphrase:
- Morose has "Why? WHY?!"
- Migraine has "I'm queen of the world!"
- Mildew has "Confusion say..."
- Malady has "It's a scrape. I'll be fine."
- Cheerful Child: The triplets, ironic considering the rest of the family.
- Crushing Handshake: Mayhem.
- Doom Magnet: All of them seem to be connected to some sort of disaster throughout history.
- Malady and Malaise, are, in Misery's words, "cold". She was shocked when she learned that Ruby invited both cousins to visit at the same time ("Together. As a Duo"), but the latter learned of the reason the hard way: they can cause an equivalent to an ice age in moments when in close proximity for an extended period of time. She and her friends were prepared to keep them separated when they visited a second time for a larger family reunion.
- Emo Teen: Morose. "Why? WHY?!"
- Geisha: Mildew.
- Hulk Speak: Mayhem.
- Iron Butt Monkey: Nearly all of them. For all of the disasters they've been through, it's a wonder they're even alive at all!
- Large Ham: Migraine. "I'M QUEEN OF THE WORLD!!!"
- Mad Libs Catchphrase: Mildew's "Confusion say..."
- "...Girl who think she too good for bed of nails, not too good for bed of nails."
- "...Guests who overstay welcome, cause too much bodily harm. And get lawsuits."
- Meaningful Name: Malady (she's always sick) and Malaise (she's always sleepy due to her narcolepsy). Mayhem also counts since she causes mayhem wherever she goes, and Migraine due to her frequent shouting (which're bound to cause what she's named for) .
- Motor Mouth: Malady will talk for hours if asked about her cast.
- Older Than They Look: Several members of the family might be this. Mayhem apparently remembers the dinosaurs!
- Plague of Good Fortune: Every Friday the 13th.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Subverted in that Malaise is the only member of the family with red eyes instead of white, though she's not at all dangerous.
- The Scrappy: In-Universe, Migraine is this to the rest of the family.
- Signature Laugh: Mayhem's "Hah, hah, hah!".
- Sleepy Head: Malaise
- Uncanny Family Resemblance: All of them resemble Misery.
- Vine Swing: Mayhem does this, complete her doing the Tarzan yell.
- Walking Disaster Area: When they are all together for a prolonged period of time, they summon a volcano.Mildew: Last time we extended the reunion was at Vesuvius. Did not work out so well.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: The male members of the family, her father's side, are mentioned at least once, but never shown. Misery attempted to show pictures of her father's side of the family during the sideshow, but the projector short-circuited. Given the circumstances, it can be implied they may not have survived.
- Your Makeup Is Running: Morose, instead of tears running down her face like everyone else, has heavy black streaks of makeup running from her eyes.
Skele-T and the Skele-Tunes
Voiced by: Michael Dunston (Skele-T)
A band of skeletons that Skull Boy (and later, the rest of the gang) meets and befriends in the episode "Skull Boys Don't Cry".- Dem Bones: All of them are skeletons.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Skele-T is rather vain and loves to mess with people, yet he is still a jovial and good hearted guy.
- Jive Turkey: Skele-T, to the point where people don't understand what he's saying.
- Large Ham: Skele-T.
- Left the Background Music On: A Running Gag in "Last Train To Gloomsville" Part 1 and 2 is them being responsible for this, to the annoyance of everyone else.[Ominous Pipe Organ plays during a dramatic moment]Ruby: I don't think that's helping.Skele-T: Sorry. Just can't resist.
- The Pranksters: They prank Skull Boy by hiding when he tries to introduce them to his friends.
- Satellite Character: The other bandmates are never seen away from Skele-T.
- No Name Given: Only Skele-T is named.
Bunny
A thieving bunny
- A Dog Named "Dog": A bunny named "Bunny".
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He acts sweet and innocent around Ruby and co. but is a thief and is cruel to Doom.
- Bunnies for Cuteness: Subverted. Bunny is a complete jerk.
- Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: He talks like this as part of his act.
- The Fake Cutie: Bunny is adorable but he uses it to his advantage to get away with causing trouble.
- Foil: He is somewhat this to the main cast in general. While all of the main cast are monsters or animals associated with bad luck or evil that are genuinely kind and nice, Bunny is a conventionally cute white bunny whose secretly very cruel.
- Hair-Raising Hare: What he turns out to be. Bunny is a rabbit who is a bully and a thief.
- Jerkass: A selfish and sadistic con man, noticeably he is the only character in the show who doesn’t have any redeeming qualities.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: He has red eyes and steals things.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: Subverted. He's cute, but he's mean and a criminal.
