Anna Rourke

• Class Representative
• Ice Queen: Actually her nickname in school, Anna has more of a Sugar and Ice Personality.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen
• La Résistance: Is the founder of the group.
• Rousing Speech: A master at these.
• Sugar and Ice Personality
• To Absent Friends: Her funeral.

Carter James

• Beware the Nice Ones
• Cultural Rebel: Openly hates Battle Royale.
• Driven to Suicide: Subverted since, he and Ashley, refusing to kill one another, participate in Russian Roulette to see who lives and who dies.
• The Hero
• Red-Headed Hero
• Together in Death: With Katherine.

Ashley Vasquez

• Anti-Hero
• Battle Couple: With Paul. Made even more so after they made out.
• Becoming the Mask: Ashley started of as a Jerk Ass but after finding Carter and joining the group she had a Heel Face Turn despite killing two people already, becoming an Anti-Hero.
• Cold-Blooded Torture What she did to JJ Squalls was brutal.
• Eye Scream: Loses an eye to Damien. Replaces it with a glass eye.
• The Lad-ette
• The Lancer: To Carter, shared with Katherine.
• Vasquez Always Dies: Averted, as Ashley is the overall winner.

Katherine Farraday

• Beauty Is Never Tarnished
• The Heart
• Off with His Head!.
• Rape as Drama: Katherine was raped a year before the game, prompting her to change her personality and become popular.
• Together in Death: With Carter.

Doug Rodgers

• Catch Phrase: I am invincible!
• The Cracker: In a good example.
• He Who Fights Monsters
• I Did What I Had to Do: After executing Gus.
• Nerd Glasses
• The Smart Guy
• Teen Genius
• Techno Wizard

Paul Holt

• Badass
• Big Damn Heroes: Paul is a master at this, saving Lexie from Brian by chainsawing him in two, and again helps take down Joel.
• Chainsaw Good
• Dying Moment of Awesome
• Genre Savvy
• Lovable Nerd

Jenny Reese

• Break the Cutie: Suffers one after Anna's death, and asks Michael to save her.
• Genki Girl
• Single-Target Sexuality: Towards Anna.

Michael Baxter

• Camp Gay
• Jerkass
• Sour Supporter
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Michael's hair is dyed pink and purple.

Lexie Hawk

• Kill The Ones You Love
• Mercy Kill: Forced to do this to her twin sister Sky.
• Theme Twin Naming: Subverted. Sky is likely named due to her last name of Hawk, but Lexie is not.
• Took a Level in Badass

Francisco Marquez

• Bad Ass: The only guy in school to stand up to Joel and win in a fight - and this was before the game.
• Church Militant
• Dying Moment of Awesome / Heroic Sacrifice
• Knight In Shining Armour
• Raised Catholic

Gus O'Ryan

• Genre Savvy
  • Dangerously Genre Savvy
• Face Heel Turn
• Vigilante Execution.

Matt Hunter

• All Love Is Unrequited: Dora grew to love Matt, but he gently rejected her feelings although she promised to be there if his love for Lexie did not work out.
  • In turn, his love for Lexie would have been unrequited as she already had a boyfriend before Battle Royale.
• The Chew Toy: Suffers quite a lot in the game, attacked by numerous others and even knocked out by Lexie whom he loves in their brief five seconds together. Take a stand by the time he joins the remaining SABRE members.
• Expy: Pretty much the Sugimura of the fanfic.
• Heroic Sacrifice
• Jumping on a Grenade
• Never Got To Say Goodbye

Bo Adrian

• Gentle Giant
• Good All Along / Heel Face Turn
• New Transfer Student: Averted since he's been there for a while.
• With Friends Like These: Realises this in a flashback, where the wrestlers hooked him up with a prostitue who's suffering from AIDS.

Damien Myers / Charlie Voorhees

• Bullet Proof Vest
• Charles Atlas Superpower
• Evil Versus Evil: Between him and Katie near the end. He kills her.
• Freudian Excuse: Having to live with surviving the 1st Battle Royale while being taunted in high school
• Handicapped Badass
• Kick the Son of a Bitch: To Katie.
• Loners Are Freaks
• Pet the Dog: Realising that Grad Night would lead to one bus being selected for the next Battle Royale, he hurriedly tells Lenore, an ex-girlfriend who has at this point every right to be suspicious and scared of him, to make other plans.
• Plot Armor: See Bullet Proof Vest above.
• Shout Out: Damien's name is most likely a reference to The Omen and Halloween. His actual surname is a nod to Friday the 13th.
• Split Personality Takeover
• Who's Laughing Now?

Marie Cooper

• Abusive Parents: Her mother essentially forced her into becoming who she is.
• Arrogant Ballet Girl: She thinks very poorly of all the students around her.
• Boring Yet Practical: Her strategy in the game is stay in the control tower with a sniper rifle and pick out people whenever they come.
• Cold Sniper
• Determinator
• Dance Battler: As a ballerina, she falls onto this the few times she is pulled into close combat.
• Emotionless Girl
• Freudian Excuse: The brief flashback of her childhood is not very pleasant to say the least. It's been remarked that she lost her "innocence" at a fairly early age as well.
• Kill It with Fire: How she finally dies.
• Minor Injury Overreaction: She reacts to a graze against her arm very very poorly.

Katie Snyder

• Badass Book Worm
• Beware the Quiet Ones
• Big Bad Duumvirate: With Joel.
• Church Militant
• Cute and Psycho
• Evil Feels Good
• Evil Red Head
• Evil Versus Evil: Between her and Damien near the end. She loses.
• Fingore
• Karmic Death: Damien cuts off her fingers, slices into her skin multiple times and sprays mace into the wounds. He then crucifies her to a wall by her hands and finally stabs her with a scythe, her original weapon.
• Strawman Political: Katie's a Strawman Fundamentalist.

Joel Giovanello

• Arrogant Wrestling Guy
• Boisterous Bruiser
• Jerk Jock
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He's not exactly known for his feminist thinking...
• Smug Snake: He believes that he'll be able to destroy his way through the game. In the end, not only does he have the lowest kill count of the main antagonists but he is also forced to ally with Katie to survive.

Mike Vriess

• Human Shield: Katie uses him as one when she attacks the remaining wrestlers. Joel just shoots at Katie through him.
• Jerk Jock
• Shoot the Hostage
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness

Karen Peterson

• Butch Lesbian
• Too Dumb to Live: Squall said it best – getting shitfaced and hitting golf balls off a roof really is isn’t the best way to survive!

Brynn Sanchez

• Alpha Bitch
• Boom, Headshot: Was able to shoot Maxine through the head from the infirmary roof. She herself is shot in the head by Dora when she breaks into the infirmary.
• Heteronormative Crusader
• Politically Incorrect Villain: She throws a barrage of insults at and then later on kills Maxine simply because she's a lesbian.
• The Starscream: Brynn seeks to replace Anna as the leader of SABRE.

Ayane Fujikawa

• Lipstick Lesbian
• Secret Relationship
• Star-Crossed Lovers
• Together in Death: With Maxine.

Dora Janovec

• Guilt By Association Gag: Damien does not care one bit that Dora wasn't mean to him, the fact that she associated with the Brat Pack is enough for him to brutally stab her to death.
  • To be fair, she did nothing to stop them from bullying other students.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth

Cheryl Palmer

• Alpha Bitch: Becomes one with Brynn in high school.
• Ate His Gun
• The Load: Becomes this early on after she's shot by Brian. Subverted later when she kills AJ and wounds Damien after they've killed her friends.

Serenity Powers

• Accidental Murder
• Brainless Beauty

AJ Takagaki

• Asian and Nerdy
• Even Evil Has Standards: While the rest of the Brat Pack were fair game, he does however have qualms about Damien killing Dora.
• Fat Bastard
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Pretty much Damien's reaction to his death, which he regards as a good thing.

Blake Morrow

• A Death in the Limelight
• Dead Man Writing
• Driven to Suicide
• Slashed Throat

Brian Pavell

• Abusive Parents
• Asshole Victim
• Diagonal Cut
• Disc One Final Boss: Brian was the biggest threat during the first few hours, having attacked Tammy, knocked Elena unconscious, and mortally wounded both Cheryl and Sky. He's then killed by Paul with a chainsaw before the first six hours are up.
• Half the Man He Used to Be
• He-Man Woman Hater
• Jerk Ass
• Self-Made Orphan: It's implied he killed his mother.

Carrie "CC" Collins

• Brainless Beauty
• Extreme Doormat

Elena Norris

• Fat Girl
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
• Red Shirt: She pretty much existed to be Damien's first kill.

Eliza Mann

• Driven to Suicide
• Self Immolation
• The Stoner: To an extent
• Together in Death: With Jackson

Geiger Anton

• Eye Scream: Katie slashes right through it with a scythe.
• Nice Guy
• Posthumous Character

Gervase Rockwell

• Fingore Has both his thumbs hacked off by Marie at the very start.
• Rasputinian Death
• Tongue Trauma: Bites his own tongue in half and swallows it during Marie's assault on him.

Homer Brannick

• Asshole Victim
• Half the Man He Used to Be
• Jerk Ass

Jackson Brent

• The Stoner
• Together in Death: With Eliza

Jacob Escobar

• Boom, Headshot: Thanks for that, Marie.
• A Death in the Limelight
• Sacrificial Lion

Josh Peters

• Face Heel Turn: Somehow went from joking around on the bus, to trying to kill Francisco with an ice pick.

Lara Drake

• Eye Scream: Both her eyes are destroyed by Marie with a hunting knife.
• Woman Scorned

Lindsay Hill

• Star-Crossed Lovers: Her relationship with Rudy is looked down upon by both their parents and Naomi.
• Together in Death: With Rudy
• Where Da White Women At?

Lisa Pickford

• Expy: To the original's Kyoichi Motobuchi
• Laser-Guided Karma: Her racism against Hispanics is responded to with a shotgun blast to the head from Ashley Vasquez.
• Rich Bitch
• Your Head Asplode: With a shotgun blast.

Lori Nicotero

• The Vamp
• Woman Scorned

Luke Wesson

• Cruel and Unusual Death
• Groin Attack: With a flare gun, of all things.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Let’s face it, was Luke ever fated for anything other than brutal slaughter at the hands of Lori and Lara?
• Your Cheating Heart: Lara discovers that he's been cheating on her with Lori.

Maxine Summers

• Boom, Headshot: Is shot through the head by Brynn
• Bullet Proof Vest: Her assigned weapon. It serves her no purpose, as she's shot in the head.
• Lipstick Lesbian
• Secret Relationship
• Star-Crossed Lovers
• Together in Death: With Ayane.

Naomi Jefferson

• Green-Eyed Monster
• Childhood Friend Romance: Wanted this to happen with her and Rudy, but Lindsay just had to show up...
• Murder the Hypotenuse

Nick Savini

• A Death in the Limelight: He and Tamyra get all the attention in the first chapter of the story. He's then killed off early in the next.
• Decoy Protagonist
• Half the Man He Used to Be
• Sacrificial Lamb: He's the very first death.

Peter Larkin

• All Girls Want Bad Boys: At least Ashley does. Shame she had to kill him.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: With a tire iron.
• Neck Snap: Ashley finishes him off this way.

Rudy Daniels

• Star-Crossed Lovers: His relationship with Lindsay is looked down upon by both their parents and Naomi.
• Together in Death: With Lindsay
• Where Da White Women At?

Shane Raynor

• The Ditz
• Dumb Muscle
• Gentle Giant: He’s very loyal and follows orders, not possessing the mental capacity to question them which leads to his involvement with Joel. Give him a choice in the matter, though, and he’s not a bad guy.
• Man on Fire
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: He screams out for Joel to help with after Jackson sets him on fire. Joel responds by shooting him in the face.

Sky Hawk

• Mercy Kill
• Suicide Pact: Subverted. Brian attacks her and Lexie before they can kill themselves, and Sky is mortally wounded as a result.

Tammy Farrell

• A Death in the Limelight
• Angst Coma: Spends about 99% of the game's duration in one.
• Famous Last Words: "WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!" are her last and only words in the game.
• Half the Man He Used to Be
• The Load

Tamyra Carpenter

• A Death in the Limelight: She and Nick get all the attention in the first chapter of the story. She's then killed off midway through the next.
• Decoy Protagonist
• Sacrificial Lamb: She's killed before she even leaves the classroom.