Characters / The Amazing Digital Circus

Meet the Gang!

A character sheet for the characters of The Amazing Digital Circus.

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Players

In General

A group of humans trapped in the Digital Circus where they are given toy-like bodies and forced to perform in nonsensical, painful and traumatic acts.

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• Dark and Troubled Past: Implied by the show's official synopsis where it's stated Pomni and the other current humans are tormented by both Caine and "their own personal traumas".
• Despair Event Horizon: All of them are trying really, really hard 'not' to cross it, because they'll get abstracted.
• Digital Avatar: Their Living Toy forms are all virtual manifestations of themselves.
• Doomed Protagonist: Players have no way to escape the circus, have trouble staying sane long-term and will suffer a Fate Worse than Death should they give up on living.
• Dysfunction Junction: Every one of them has problems according to the official synopsis and it shows: Pomni is a Nervous Wreck, Ragatha is a Stepford Smiler, Gangle is The Eeyore and a Mood-Swinger, Kinger is a Cloudcuckoolander, Zooble is The Cynic and has completely lost their sense of gender and Jax is... well, just a Jerkass.
• Establishing Character Moment: Each player except Pomni has a short character teaser dedicated to them, which were recopiled in the "Meet the Gang" video.
  • Ragatha cheerfully waves at the camera, but gets a cleaver thrown into her head. She pulls it out and laughs it off, showing her optimism.
  • Jax chuckles mischievously before tripping Ragatha as she walks by to show that he's a Jerkass.
  • Gangle shyly waves at the camera and giggles before Jax pushes her down and breaks her comedy mask. She comes up wearing her tragedy mask and starts to sniffle, showing that she's sensitive.
  • Kinger looks around before getting startled by Bubble, showing that he's neurotic.
  • Zooble fiddles with the parts on their body and gets irritated, expressing their dissatisfaction with their body.
• Feel No Pain: They either feel limited pain or develop an incredible tolerance for it from repeated injury. Ragatha barely flinches when a cleaver is thrown into her head and getting torn to pieces simply makes Zooble annoyed; Pomni does scream when stabbed with multiple throwing knives but that may well have been just from shock. On the other hand, despite putting on a brave face for Pomni, Ragatha admits glitching spread via abstraction is incredibly painful.
• Gilded Cage: The Digital Circus is a giant bright, colorful and cheery place full of fun, games, as much food as Caine can conjure and whatever adventure he can imagine to keep the players immersed all day. The catch is that there is no way out and the place snags its unwitting victims from the real world for an eternity of games that not even death can save them from. Even with their whimsical new toy bodies and apparent immortality no one save for Caine is enjoying what's effectively Hell with a circus theme.
• Immune to Mind Control: One of the few limitations to Caine's powers is he cannot directly affect or read the players' minds, so that's one psychological horror they're spared. Unfortunately, it also means no one can help them if they go insane and abstract.
• Living Toys: Their Digital Avatars evoke this due to the show's I Spy and Toy Story influences: Pomni, Ragatha and Jax are dolls of different kinds; Gangle is a ribbon and theater mask; Kinger is a chess piece; and Zooble is a mix-and-match toy resembling ZoLO sculptures.
• Loss of Identity: As said by Caine, entering the circus forces them to inevitably confront a radically changed life. To demonstrate Pomni panics over forgetting her original name and Zooble's abandoned any gender identity because they've lost the concept of it.
• Name Amnesia: None of them can remember their name before the Circus, instead using bizarre ones chosen by Caine. This is a probable reference to AM doing the same to Nimdok in I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.
• The Needless: They don't actually need to eat or sleep, simply eating simulated food for the pleasure of it and sleeping to relax and manage a routine, all of which will hopefully keep some of them sane.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: It's impossible for them to be permanently injured by most things though they are pretty easily incapacitated. Could possibly be Complete Immortality but the apparent turnover rate for being abstracted obfuscates aging.
• The Noseless: Almost all of the characters lack a nose. The only exception is Ragatha who has a small red triangle for a nose.
• Seen It All: To some extent, all inhabitants in the circus (except the new Pomni and overly-emotional Gangle) have pretty casual reactions to the absurdities on Pomni's first day, further implying they've all been there for longer than they can remember. Jax and Zooble in particular have rather stoic attitudes in the face of everything and aside from brief shifts in tone, nobody is surprised or saddened for long that Kaufmo abstracted and has to be locked away.
• Toon Transformation: Their new bodies are colorful, cartoonish and subject to Toon Physics (like easily deforming but recovering from injury).
• Trapped in Another World: They are trapped in a digital world via strange headsets that transported them there.
• Two Girls to a Team: Before Pomni came along, Ragatha and Gangle were the only two players that were clearly female. Everyone else is either male, or has an Ambiguous Gender in Zooble's case.
• Vague Age: Their avatars give little indication of their years though the director has specified they're all adults (Kinger is almost fifty, the others are 22–30). They apparently can't even tell each other's ages by looking, Jax calling Pomni "kid" despite her being older than him.
• Was Once a Man: These are all humans whose souls are trapped in the Digital Circus, but for some reason or another are changed into toys, some (like Gangle and Zooble) less human-looking than others.
• White Gloves: They all have gloves for hands barring Ragatha's three-fingered hands, Gangle's Fingerless Hands and the claw on Zooble's left arm.
• You Can't Go Home Again: All of the survivors but Pomni have accepted they can never escape the Digital Circus and by the end of the pilot, she seems well on her way to feeling the same.

Pomni

Our heroine(?)

"How do I... take this... headset off?!"
Voiced by: Lizzie Freeman (English)^{Other dubs}Noelia Lestani (Spanish), Letícia Celini (Brazilian Portuguese), Vlada Mariupolskaya (Russian), Arran (Japanese), Janeane Santos-Roco (Filipino), Dina Amalina (Indonesian), Salomé Mallié (French), Aliona Bilousova (Ukrainian)

The main protagonist (technically), an anxious young woman stuck in the form of a toy jester.

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• Accidental Hero: While Pomni's choice to abandon Ragatha and go through the "exit" leads to her being driven mad and getting trapped in the Void, doing so alerts Caine, prompting him to transport her back to the Tent. Once there, he proceeds to banish the abstracted Kaufmo to the Cellar and cure both Pomni and Ragatha's glitching.
• Action Survivor: Despite lacking combat capabilities alongside the glitching preventing her from making physical contact with Ragatha, she somehow manages to avoid being attacked by the Abstracted Kaufmo, even during the second chase sequence.
• Amusing Injuries: While searching for Caine so he can fix up Ragatha after she gets attacked by the abstracted Kaufmo, she gets socked by a boxing glove twice. From the same door too.
• Audience Surrogate: As the newest "addition" to the Circus, she serves as the relatable viewpoint of the audience, that being scared and confused out of her mind as she tries to make sense of the world she's now in and interacting with her more experienced fellows.
• Blush Stickers: Her design comes with them, giving her a cute and innocent look.
• Broken Smile: As her time in the Circus goes, she starts getting unhappy smiles all around, especially at the pilot's ending feast; you can practically hear her sanity crumbling in the grimacing, pained smile creeping onto her face seemingly against her will.
• The Cameo: Makes one in the Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers episode "The Very Safe & Legal SMG4 Show" where SMG4 accidentally summons her in a direct parallel to how Caine summoned her in the teaser, prompting an Oh, No... Not Again! reaction.
• Classical Anti-Hero: A scared and confused Nervous Wreck, Pomni doesn't display much in the way of heroic qualities and her primary objective is to escape the Digital Circus. She is not entirely without redeeming qualities (at least attempting to help Ragatha escape an Abstracted Kaufmo despite the significant risk to her own safety) but she's not without her weaknesses either (choosing to prioritize her own escape over Ragatha and the others' well-being).
• Cluster Bleep-Bomb: After Pomni briefly swears during her initial paranoid questions upon entering, Caine explains that all swearing is censored because the Circus is a family-friendly place "for all ages". In response, Pomni quickly launches into a tirade of censored curses, presumably to test it, before she finally gets out a simple "Oh my God".
• Court Jester: As her avatar for the Circus, she was forcibly transformed into a toy-like version of a jester.
• Cute and Psycho: She has quite a cute avatar and voice, but that doesn't mean she can't undergo a Sanity Slippage when trying to escape the Digital Circus and constantly failing, which is exactly what happens near the end of the pilot episode. She's even stunned into no longer speaking and can only muster strained expressions.
• Deadpan Snarker: She starts to develop into this after the pilot in response to the daily insanity of the Circus, likely as a coping mechanism.
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Her colorful pupils become random, squiggling black scribbles when she's feeling particularly traumatized or stressed out.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: A downplayed example but in most promos released before the pilot's trailer (including her original 2D artwork before it was updated and the series' main poster), the gloves and shoes in each of Pomni's sides had the same color as each other (blue for the right glove and shoe, red for the left ones). From the pilot's trailer onwards, Pomni's right glove is red and her left one is blue, leading to the shoes and gloves on each side to have different colors instead.
• Exotic Eye Designs: Her pupils are six-part segmented circles with a red and blue pattern and a black outline, looking like the top view of a circus tent.
• Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Upon realizing she can't remember who she was previously.
  "My name? Um, my name is, uhh… Uhhhh!? Oh God! (hyperventilates) Why can't I remember my name?! [...] (groans) What's my name?"
• Extreme Doormat: A consistent part of her character is the fact that she gets tossed around by her circumstances with ease, such as letting someone like Jax constantly insult her and easily giving into her desires when she gets trapped in the Digital Circus by trying to escape for her own sake, only to fail and fall under a severe Sanity Slippage.
• Eye Scream: While she's trying to "take [the] headset off" (presumably referring to the device she used in the real world that transported her to the Circus in the first place), she ends up yanking one of her eyes out of its socket still connected by the nerve endings. It snaps right back into place without any injury once she lets go though.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: The red and blue are inverted on opposite sides of her clothing and her eyelashes are on opposite eyelids.
• Fisher Queen: When she discovers the computer in one of the rooms after the "exit" and starts losing it, the lights appear to start burning.
• Happy Harlequin Hat: Her clown outfit comes with a two-pointed jester's cap. Pomni herself however, is anything but happy.
• Hates Being Touched: Gooseworx has stated that Pomni does not like being touched.
• Heroic Neutral: She's the protagonist, but she really only wants to escape. The only reason she has to cooperate with the other players' awful circumstances is because she is now in their situation alongside them and they all have to share the torment of being under the leadership of the Obliviously Evil circus ringleader, Caine.
• Human Pincushion: She's skewered by Caine with four sharp knives in the teaser, three of which are embedded in her skull. This doesn't kill her but leaves her rattled out of her wits.
• Inconsistent Coloring: Gooseworx confirms that Pomni's hair color is meant to be black, but it is often depicted inconsistently; while her 3d model depicted her with hair that looks to be a dark shade of brown, the lighting in some scenes makes it appear to be black. Some 2d artwork also depicts her with hair that's a lighter shade of brown, or, in the case of her image on her bedroom door, it's depicted as a dark shade of grey.
• Innocently Insensitive: To Ragatha after Kaufmo attacks her and damages her avatar. "You just stay right there! Not that you can really move or anything, uh...!"
• I Reject Your Reality: To cope with being stuck in the Circus, she immediately tries to convince herself she's in a dream. The other members respond with Stunned Silence aside from Jax.
• Ironic Name: The word "pomni" can mean "remember" in several Slavic languages (помни), yet it becomes her name because she can't remember her original one.
• Lovable Coward: Physically small and in way over her head, it's no wonder Pomni spends most of her screentime panicking or frozen in fear. It's not always played as an endearing trait, as she ends up abandoning Ragatha twice, though even that's portrayed sympathetically.
• Moment of Weakness: Though Pomni is obviously in a very stressful scenario and headspace and at least tries to be sociable with the other players outside of it, she also ends up abandoning Ragatha in her time of need while she is glitching out and clearly in pain. Twice. While the first time can be excused since she's being chased by an Abstracted Kaufmo, she tries to help Ragatha only to have her hand glitch out, and she actually goes back and apologizes while the monster is somewhere else... she then chooses to abandon Ragatha's state and request to find Caine to fix it once she supposedly comes across a way to leave the Digital Circus for good. Needless to say, all Pomni can do after she is sucked back into the circus and Ragatha drags herself over to Caine to be healed is look down in shame and away from Ragatha who also looks away from her in silence.
• Nervous Wreck: She's constantly frightened of her new surroundings and having to deal with a group of strangers and Caine.
• Non-Dubbed Grunts: Well, it wasn't making grunts or other noises, but in the Japanese, Ukrainian, Korean, and the Indonesian dubs, Pomni's censored profanity is left undubbed.
• Older Than They Look: The creator has clarified Pomni is 25 but her small stature, child-like face, and wimpy demeanor has given some fans the impression she's a teenager. Jax may have thought the same, given he refers to her as "kid" shortly after meeting her despite being younger.
• Primary-Color Champion: As the main heroine(?) of the show, Pomni wears a red and blue striped jester outfit with yellow highlights. Her pupils are also colored red and blue.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Pomni has medium black hair with white skin, and while not exactly gorgeous, she is indeed a very cute looking jester.
• Sanity Slippage: The other players warn her about losing her mind due to an obsession with leaving the Circus. After seeing the "exit door" doesn't lead anywhere, then stopping to stare at a computer (implied to be the one that got her into the Circus), she starts laughing maniacally and her facial expressions at the end of the pilot imply she's already on her way to going crazy.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After multiple attempts at speculating the possibility of an exit, she ends up using the exit door she'd sought after to attempt to leave the Circus when pursued by the Abstracted Kaufmo. Then after going through a maze of doors, it turns out to only lead out into the Void and was just a fake exit Caine created to please the players.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Kaufmo. Just like him, she is a clown-themed character with a similar blue, red, white and yellow color palette, obsesses with finding an Exit and isn't in the best state mentally. She also just happens to show up right after Kaufmo has already abstracted.
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Pomni's avatar has (asymmetrical) eyelashes and bangs that frame her face but is otherwise androgynous.
• Thousand-Yard Stare:
  • The final look Pomni gives before the pilot ends. She just sits at the dinner table with a blank stare before slowly growing what looks like half an insane smile and half a look of pain like she’s two seconds away from Abstracting herself.
  • At the beginning of "POMNI WAKE UP TIME TO GO ON AN ADVENTURE", she's lying on her bed and staring blankly up at the ceiling of her room with her hands folded over her chest.
• Tooth Strip: Her upper and lower teeth connect into a single white strip.
• Troubled Fetal Position: In the video for the official theme song, the music drives her crazy and she gets down on the floor, clutches her knees and starts rocking back and forth.
• Twitchy Eye: At the end of the pilot, her eye twitches, her pupils start to shake, and her mouth contorts into an insane smile once it hits her that she really is stuck in the Digital Circus forever.
• The Unpronounceable: Her first new name chosen by Caine is "Xddcc" before he decides it's terrible and generates a new one instead — "Pomni."
• The Un-Smile: The face she makes in the final scene is a very tortured smile, giving further proof of her Sanity Slippage.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Her presence as a new member in the Circus unintentionally develops conflict in the pilot as Ragatha is encouraged to have Pomni meet Kaufmo and Caine is encouraged to create the "Gather the Gloinks" adventure also leading to Zooble getting captured. Meeting Kaufmo leads to Ragatha's avatar getting damaged due to his abstraction and Caine's disappearance for the adventure prevents Ragatha from getting healed until Pomni gets his attention by accidentally entering the Void through the last of a series of "exit" doors.
• Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Right after Caine took Pomni back into the tent after giving her a tour, the jester vomits on the floor causing the ringmaster to request Bubble to clean up the mess.
• What Is Going On?: As a Naïve Newcomer to the Digital Circus, she asks questions about her situation repeatedly since she has no clue what the Digital Circus is about. At the end of the pilot, the fake exit doesn't help her situation either.
• Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: Pomni has rather large eyes but her multicolored pupils are typically quite small, reflecting her constant terror and emotional/mental instability over her new situation.

Ragatha

The sweetest little optimist in the Digital Circus.

"Everything's gonna be okay, new stuff. We've all been through this."
Voiced by: Amanda Hufford (English)^{Other dubs}Valca Ponzanelli (Spanish), Fernanda Barrone (Brazilian Portuguese), Anastasiya Sidorova (Russian), Shiori Honma (Japanese), Janeane Santos-Roco (Filipino), Nurul Ulfah (Indonesian), Mayrig Truchot (French), Aila (Ukrainian)

The optimist of the group, who takes the form of a rag doll.

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• Author Appeal: Ragatha is a reference to Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure, a movie Gooseworx has stated she has an affinity for many times on Twitter.
• Black Dot Pupil: Her left eye has a pupil that is a simple dark circle.
• Captain Ersatz: She has a similar look and name to Raggedy Ann due to Gooseworx's fondness of Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure.
• Cool Big Sis: She's five years older than Pomni and takes this role toward her almost immediately, being her guide in the Circus and compassionately trying to help her fit in.
• Et Tu, Brute?: Though she accepts Pomni's apology to her the first time she gets abandoned, understanding that there were extenuating circumstances at the time, her demeanor towards Pomni at the end after she has to drag herself towards Caine to be healed implies that she took her new friend abandoning her a second time despite her apology much harder. Though it's also implied that she could just still be feeling guilty herself over how much Pomni's first day ended up going wrong, if not both.
• Every Proper Lady Should Curtsy: She's seen holding up her dress a little while bowing before Princess Loolilalu, the Candy Canyon Kingdom's princess, in the trailer for the second episode.
• Expy: As with the version of Raggedy Ann she is based on, Ragatha is portrayed as cheery and kind, but still with a limit to her patience for others.
• I'm Having Soul Pains: After getting attacked by Kaufmo, Ragatha starts to severely glitch out, which causes her a lot of pain.
• Injured Self-Drag: Because Pomni didn't come back for her, Ragatha was forced to drag herself from the room corridor to the hall, despite the pain from the glitching.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: While her button eye is blue, it may not be an actual eye. She is still one of the more innocent characters though.
• In Place of an Eye: Only one of her eyes is an actual eye, the other is a blue sewing button.
• Major Injury Underreaction: In her introductory teaser, she gets a cleaver chucked into her forehead, only for her to laugh it off before pulling it out and pocketing it.
• Meaningful Name: Her name is the combination of "rag", referring to her being a rag doll, and Agatha, an Ancient Greek name meaning "good", alluding to her kind nature.
• Nice Girl: Out-and-out the kindest of the players, Ragatha does her best to welcome Pomni into the fold and help her acclimate to the Circus, and apologizes when things start falling apart on her first day.
• Older Than They Look: She's 30, but because her digital avatar is a ragdoll, she looks like a child magically made bigger.
• Only Sane Woman: Well, she's clearly not playing with a full bag of marbles herself, but she still comes off as far more well-adjusted and friendly than the rest of the Circus players, all of whom run the gamut from neurotic to cynical to downright mean.
• The Pollyanna: Her introductory tweet describes her as the "sweetest little optimist" in the Digital Circus, which she shows by reacting to the cleaver launched into her head as if it were nothing. That said, the Death Glare she gives Jax after he trips her in his introductory short implies that she has her limits, and the synopsis all but states she has her own trauma like the others. It's heavily implied this is a coping mechanism and a survival tactic.
• Primary-Color Champion: She has red hair, wears a blue dress, and is by far one of the nicest members of the main six.
• Punny Name: She's a rag doll named "Ragatha", a pun on the name "Agatha".
• Stepford Smiler: The pilot heavily implies that her optimistic demeanor is a desperate coping mechanism for the nightmare she's found herself in as well as a way to prevent herself from "Abstracting" like what happened to Kaufmo. It's also confirmed by invoked Gooseworx that Ragatha has a tendency to pretend things don't upset her if she thinks it'll make things easier for other people or defuse situations.
• Team Mom: At 30 years old, Ragatha is not only the second-oldest of the human players (with the oldest being Kinger; she's also the oldest female), she's also the nicest and tries to keep things together between them.
• True Blue Femininity: She wears a light blue dress with a bow, and her button eye is also blue, and she's a very optimistic person, on the outside.
• Visual Pun: When an abstracted Kaufmo throws her around like a... well, you know.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Ragatha states that centipedes are her only fear, which is exactly why Jax implies he hid some in her room when she wasn't looking.

Jax

Mother says he's a bad influence.

"I'm fine with doing whatever, as long as I get to see funny things happen to people."
Voiced by: Michael Kovach (English)^{Other dubs}Pablo Gandolfo (Spanish), William Viana (Brazilian Portuguese), Max Mann (Russian), Soichiro Sugawa (Japanese), Bryan Dave Bobadilla Perez (Filipino), Richard MR Toelle (Indonesian), Benoît Fort-Junca (French), Ihor Korzhenko (Ukrainian)

A mischievous prankster who takes the form of a purple rabbit.

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• Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Jax possesses purple fur.
• Animal Motifs: He is a human in the form of a talking rabbit.
• Anti-Role Model: With his general lack of empathy, self-centeredness, pettiness and being quite a bully, he is definitely NOT someone you should look up to.
• Author Appeal: Gooseworx has admitted more than once that she designed Jax to appeal specifically to her.
• Barefoot Cartoon Animal: He wears gloves, but not shoes.
• Big Eater: Implied. He asks the others if they want to eat something, right after Zooble gets taken away by Gloinks, and after the adventure ends, he claims to be hungry, despite having no need for food.
• Black Dot Pupils: Well, black square pupils actually, but it still counts.
• Blatant Lies: He assures Gangle that Kaufmo is "fine" as Kaufmo's abstracted form gives the Gloink Queen a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
• Brutal Honesty: Jax is not always honest, but when he is, he always ensures his "friends" will be triggered:
  • When Pomni asks for an exit, he interrupts Ragatha to simply answer "You can't!"
  • When he reveals he had a key double for Kaufmo's room, he reveals he has one for every player (and implies that he hid centipedes in Ragatha's room too).
  • When facing the Gloink Queen, he calls her disgusting, and reveals he doesn't care about the adventure, but is only looking for a place to hide from Kaufmo's rampage (who crashes through the ceiling before letting him finish the sentence).
• The Bully: He's cruel for his own enjoyment and focuses on whoever's the least willing and able to fight back.
• Card-Carrying Jerkass: Jax is clearly aware of the fact that he's a jerkass and shows no intent on changing.
• Cheshire Cat Grin: Perpetually sports a wide, toothy grin to tie into his trouble-making personality.
• Corrupted Character Copy: He's one to Bugs Bunny. Both are tall, skinny cartoon rabbits who enjoy pulling pranks and messing with people. However, unlike Bugs, whose targets are mostly aggressors to him and typically deserve what happens to them, Jax is just cruel and sardonic to whoever he crosses paths with. In this way, he's closer to how Bugs was in his early days before his moral code was established, when Bugs was prone to messing with and attacking people for no good reason other than his own personal amusement.
• Cuckoo Finger Twirl: When he jokingly points out that Kinger is "craaaazy!" to Pomni upon introducing her to the Circus, he twirls his finger next to his head in reference to said craziness. He also does this when accusing Pomni of "having a jumpstart in losing her mind."
• Deadpan Snarker: He can have a very dry wit.
• Dirty Coward: He abandons Pomni and Ragatha almost immediately after they open Kaufmo's room and find out he's abstracted. Then, he pushes Kinger and Gangle down the Gloink hole and joins them in the Gloink lair solely so he could stay as far away as possible from Kaufmo.
• Dissonant Serenity: Although he initially looks surprised to find out Kaufmo abstracted once he opens his room, he goes straight back into his usual laidback behavior before running away. Then, when Kaufmo crashes into the Gloinks' nest, he straight up admits to Gangle that Kaufmo abstracted, but insists that he is fine.
• Enlightened Self-Interest: The only times he ever helps someone is out of necessity.
• Exotic Eye Designs: His pupils are squared in shape.
• Expy: Of Max from the Sam & Max series. From his name being only one letter off to his simplistic mouth shape to especially his Comedic Sociopathy, he's basically as if Max exchanged his high-pitched voice for height.
• The Fatalist: Rather willingly accepts the idea that the Digital Circus has no escape route.
  "If there was a way to leave, I'm pretty sure we'd have all left by now."
• Faux Affably Evil: Downplayed; "Faux Affably Jerkass" is more accurate. Jax is capable of putting on a charming tone around the others even as he's abusing them or ignoring their needs and concerns and thinking about how he can amuse himself instead.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Considering the awful way he treats everyone, the only reason the others tolerate him is simply because they're stuck with him.
• The Gadfly: As he himself admits, he doesn't really care what happens as long as he gets to see funny things happen to people.
• Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: He wears overalls and gloves, but no shirt or shoes.
• Hammerspace: Somehow stores the key to Kaufmo's room behind his back. He also ends up shoving a bowling ball in the same place and magically pulls it out to push Kinger and Gangle into the Gloink pit.
• The Hedonist: Jax's lifestyle is all about self-satisfaction. Which isn't a terrible idea given the risks of going insane from boredom, but most of his enjoyment comes from other's suffering, often at his hands. He's also the one who seems to enjoy eating food the most, despite not needing to.
• Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Downplayed on the "heroic" aspect as he doesn't do anything remotely heroic, but he is one of the protagonists and is by and large a pretty huge sociopath. He has zero empathy for others, is a huge jackass, seems to care only for himself, and outwardly finds others' suffering to be enjoyable. Though, this is all Played for Laughs of course.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Though it's likely for the sake of pulling pranks on others, like putting centipedes in Ragatha's room, Jax somehow has keys to everyone's room, despite it seeming more like Caine or Bubble's jurisdiction to have them.
  • Gooseworx says that if someone praised Jax instead of being annoyed by him, he'd react with confusion and discomfort. She also notes that, like the other characters, Jax has a reason for being the way he is instead of just being a one-dimensional Jerkass.
• It Amused Me: His reason for doing everything he does is that it's for his own amusement, as he himself admits.
• Jerkass: Jax is characterized by his sheer disregard for others and willingness to target people who can't fight back against him for the pettiest of reasons. He is also quite uncaring towards the fact that other people besides himself are trapped in the Digital Circus and constantly pursues his life as an avatar joking at other people's expense. Gooseworx also describes him as "irredeemable" on her Tumblr.
• Jerkass to One: He's snarky and rude to everyone, but he seems actively malicious towards Gangle, deliberately stepping on her already-broken comedy mask and shoving her out of his way when using an escalator. It was also confirmed by Gooseworx that Jax picks on Gangle the most because she never stands up to him, making her his easiest target.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: During the pilot, when he, Gangle, Kinger, and Zooble are about to use the escalators to escape the Gloinks' lair, he at first seems to genuinely offer Gangle to go first with him politely saying "Ladies first"... only for him to immediately ask why he would say something like that, then promptly shove Gangle out of the way and onto the floor and go first on the escalator anyway.
• Karmic Butt-Monkey: Gooseworx has stated that, out of all the people in the Circus, Jax deserves to be trapped there the most.
• Kick the Dog:
  • Immediately makes a joke at Pomni's expense the moment she enters the Digital Circus, getting trapped as another victim, when she interrupts the show's theme song performance In-Universe. Also counts as his Establishing Character Moment, as it's his first line in the pilot.
  • When leaving the Gloink lair, Jax seemingly pushes Gangle out of the way after offering to let her to go first, to go first instead, for no apparent reason whatsoever other than his own satisfaction.
• Lack of Empathy: In case it wasn't apparent from his Jerkass personality, Jax is very apathetic for the other players' safety. As of the pilot, it's left ambiguous if he was always like this, or if being trapped in the Digital Circus for so long caused him to develop his current persona.
• Laser-Guided Karma:
  • At one point, he pulls off Zooble's arm and uses it like a backscratcher. Only a second or two later, he immediately regrets it when Zooble uses that arm to grab and choke him, and pull him to the floor.
  • Immediately after he says he only does what he does to see people get hurt or otherwise negatively affected, a Gloink comes by and bops him in the face.
• Lean and Mean: Jax is the troublesome prankster of the cast and is very thin and lanky.
• The Load: He's barely any help in the Gloinks situation, something Gangle calls him out on.
• The Nicknamer: He calls Gangle "Crybaby", ^notein the Spanish dub, he calls her "La Llorona" Kinger "Hoo-Hah", Ragatha "Dollface" and Kaufmo "Kaufy".
• Non-Standard Character Design: Downplayed. He's the only one of the main cast to be perfectly symmetrical.
• Not So Stoic: Downplayed. He usually acts aloof and nonchalant, but in the pilot, he gets mildly irritated when he is hit by a Gloink. Later in the episode, even he looks shocked to find out that Kaufmo abstracted, gets noticeably apprehensive when he hears Kaufmo nearby, and looks around worriedly when he notices a glitching Gloink in the Gloink lair.
• Perpetual Smiler: Jax is rarely seen without a grin on his face. Even when he speaks, his mouth almost never actually opens.
• Pet the Dog: Downplayed. Whether Jax meant to protect Gangle and Kinger is debatable, given his personality, but regardless, he does save them from an abstracted Kaufmo by knocking them into a pit with his bowling ball.
• Politically Correct Villain: More of a jerk than a villain, but for all of his cruelty, Jax's use of gender-neutral pronouns to refer to Zooble and the fact that a concept art comic shows him putting them in their own category when dividing the cast by gender suggests that he's not opposed to people based on gender identity.
• Prank Gone Too Far: While Ragatha doesn't personally experience said prank onscreen herself, she gets annoyed by him using her only fear (centipedes) as part of it when he tells her about leaving centipedes in her room.
• Punny Name: His avatar in the Digital Circus is a rabbit and "Jax" is a play on "Jack", as in a jack rabbit. Jax could also be a play on jacks, a children's toy, to match the theme of the series. Finally, it may also sound vaguely like "jackass".
• Rascally Rabbit: He takes the form of an anthropomorphic rabbit and is a crafty prankster.
• Refuse to Rescue the Disliked: When Zooble desperately asks for his, Kinger's, and Gangle's help when they're captured by the Gloinks.
  Zooble: Agh! Help me, you idiots!
  Jax: Kinda rude, Zooble. Now I don't wanna help you.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Upon learning Kaufmo has "Abstracted" after undergoing a Sanity Slippage and finding his bowling ball in his room, Jax decides to immediately take off and switch to the other adventure instead of having to deal with this.
• A Sinister Clue: Jax uses his left hand to scratch his back with Zooble's arm and to open up the door to Kaufmo's room with the key.
• Smug Smiler: Jax' smile coupled with his sassy manners and his sneaky eyes are a way to make him all the more insufferable to his comrades.
• Tall, Dark, and Snarky: He's one of the tallest members of the Digital Circus (Kinger being slightly taller), has very vivid lavender fur, and is never afraid to speak his mind, even the insensitive things.
• Token Evil Teammate: The other players range from being friendly enough, like Ragatha and Gangle, to mentally disturbed but rather harmless, like Kinger and Pomni, to being a bit grumpy, like Zooble, but Jax is an outright douchebag who pulls mean pranks on the others.
• Tombstone Teeth: His teeth usually appear as a single row of long rectangles, and don't separate even when he's talking (except when Zooble is choking him).
• Toon: Jax uses very dynamic movements, as well as cartoonish visual effects like leaving a smoke silhouette when running away, pulling items out of nowhere and breaking the "Spare" pop-up.
• Troll: His introductory short has him trip Ragatha for no reason other than personal amusement, sporting a cheeky grin on his face the whole time. He also shoves Gangle during her intro just to break her mask.
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: One of the show's main cast members, and a highly apathetic jerkass who really only cares for his own ends, of which is Played for Laughs.
• Visual Pun: Taking both his misleading sarcasm and only his lips moving when he talks into account, he can be said to be lying through his teeth. Emphasized when Zooble chokes him, as that's the only time in the pilot where his teeth aren't constantly closed together, so he gives a genuine reaction (in this case, pain from being choked).
• White Gloves: Well, yellow in this case, but they are definitely big and cartoony-looking.
• Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: The sclera of his eyes are yellow, and his introductory short has him prank Ragatha by tripping her.
• Yellow/Purple Contrast: His primary color is purple and his eyes, gloves, buttons, and teeth are yellow.
• Younger Than They Look: Given his jaded and cynical behavior, you'd think he'd be older than Pomni (who's 25), especially since he often calls her "kid". He's actually 22 years old, and is the youngest of the Digital Circus's current human (soul?) inhabitants.^noteZooble, while also 22 years old, is a half-year older than Jax.

Gangle

She's like a metaphor for society or something.

"My comedy mask is broken again."
Voiced by: Marissa Lenti (English)^{Other dubs}Denisse Leguizamo (Spanish), Vii Zedek (Brazilian Portuguese) Yekaterina Gershkovich (Russian), Wang Lianxin (Japanese), Jennifer Friolo (Filipino), Melati Pertiwi Putri (Indonesian), Mathilde Carmes (French), Karina Shkrebetko (Ukrainian)

A girl with a ribbon body and a comedy/tragedy mask for a face. The mask she wears depends on whether she's happy or sad (or perhaps the other way around), though her "happy" mask tends to break quite a lot...

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• Ambiguous Situation: It's deliberately left vague as to whether her emotions determine her masks or her masks determine her emotions.
• Butt-Monkey: Out of all of the players, she's the one most picked on by Jax, who pushes her in her introductory video, breaks her mask, and pushes her to the ground so he can get on an escalator first in the pilot.
• The Eeyore: While she has two main masks, comedy and tragedy, she almost always has the tragedy mask on, and it's implied that her tragedy mask is her default one.
• Expressive Mask: Her mask's eyes and mouth move like it's a normal face, but once it comes off, it becomes frozen into whichever mood she was feeling at the time.
• Expy: Her Expressive Mask concept is modeled after Kedamono from Popee the Performer, as confirmed by Gooseworx.
• Extreme Doormat: She struggles to get the others to go help Zooble, and doesn't even try to stand up to Jax's mean pranks. Gooseworx also confirms that Jax picks on her the most because she's the easiest target and won't stand up for herself.
• Fingerless Hands: She lacks proper fingers on her ribbon limbs. This trope is most noticeable in a scene where Kinger beats Gangle in a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors because Gangle has no fingers (and Kinger does).
• Floating Limbs: Her arms and legs aren't actually connected to her torso.
• The Heart: Downplayed and ineffectual example, but she's the only one who seemed to genuinely care about Zooble's predicament in the pilot and meekly tried to get the others to care about it as well.
• Meaningful Name: She has long, gangly arms and legs, mostly because they are ribbons.
• Misery Trigger: Breaking her comedy mask will force her to revert to her tragedy mask and become very sad. In her introduction video, she smiles and giggles while waving at the audience and wearing her comedy mask, until Jax pushes her down and breaks it. She then comes up, wearing her tragedy mask, and sniffles.
• Mood-Swinger: Her masks and emotions shift very rapidly.
• Nice Girl: She's right up there with Ragatha as one of the nicer players, even in her tragedy mask. When Zooble is captured by the Gloinks, she tries to get people to help them, to unfortunately little avail. She also feels bad for not laughing at Kaufmo's jokes.
• No Face Under the Mask: The expressive comedy and tragedy masks don't have a face under them.
• Older Than They Look: Her child-like demeanor and way of speaking would give the impression that she's one of the younger humans in the Circus, but she's actually 26, making her a year older than Pomni.
• Perpetual Frowner: Ever since her happy mask broke, she is always sad and teary-eyed.
• Prone to Tears: Justified, as her tragedy mask produces tears constantly, so she's actually unable to stop crying.
• Rubber-Hose Limbs: Her whole body is nothing but a thin spiral of red ribbon.
• Shout-Out: One of her masks in this promotional image is a reference to the "dorcelessness" face from Gooseworx's Analog Horror series "Blue Channel", specifically the video "Thalasin".
• Stepford Smiler: It's implied by the several broken happy masks on the walls in the aforementioned promotional image and in some concept arts, as well as her mentioning that her comedy mask is broken again that sadness is her real mood, and has to literally put on a mask for the show.
• Tender Tears: She has tears constantly hanging from her eyes on her sad mask, and seems to be very sensitive.
• Womanchild: She's 26 years old, according to Gooseworx, but acts like an emotional teenager.

Kinger

He's uhhh... He's just... yeah!

"Did someone say something about an insect collection?"
Voiced by: Sean Chiplock (English)^{Other dubs}Elliot Leguizamo (Spanish), Silvio Giraldi (Brazilian Portuguese), Ivan Shukhin (Russian), Ryota Kuga (Japanese), Jayjay Delos Santos (Filipino), Triyuh Hendra (Indonesian), Arno Capostagno (French), Sashko Skromnyi (Ukrainian)

A man who's been trapped in the Digital Circus longer than the other five humans. His virtual form is a white king chess piece in a purple robe.

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• Character Tics: He is always nervously shaking.
• Chess Motifs: He takes the appearance of a living chess king in the Digital Circus.
• Cloudcuckoolander: When he's not having a startle or a paranoiac fit, Kinger tends to be pretty out there, often forgetting things that just happened (including the presence of others, leading to constant startles) and bringing up utterly irrelevant topics and events entirely detached from whatever's currently happening.
• The Cuckoolander Was Right: He refuses to go see Kaufmo because he believes he's going insane after claiming to see an exit, and thinks Pomni's going insane for the same reasons. As Kaufmo's "Abstraction" and Pomni's later Sanity Slippage after going through the fake exit door show, Kinger wasn't far off in his assessment.
• Delayed Reaction: He fails to notice Gangle standing right next to him until a few minutes later, screams at Jax's arrival a few seconds after he greets him and Gangle, and doesn't react to Gangle informing him that they're in the Gloink nest for a few seconds before screaming, assuming this isn’t him somehow being startled by Gangle's presence again.
• Distaff Counterpart: Kinger's implied to have had a distaff counterpart to himself in the past; during the scene where Pomni, Ragatha, and Jax are navigating through the "bedrooms" area in the pilot, one of the doors in the background features an icon of a similar chess-themed character modeled after a black Queen piece crossed out. According to invokedGooseworx, her name was Queenie.
• Early-Bird Cameo: A vocal variant. His off-screen voice is heard in Bubble's teaser, released days before his own.
• Fish Eyes: Given that his avatar's eyes are mostly out of their "sockets" and are at different heights, not to mention him having a vacant, traumatized stare as a default expression.
• Floating Limbs: His hands are White Gloves that hover in front of his body. When he tries to save Zooble from the Gloinks in the pilot, this only results in the Gloinks stealing his hands too when he grabs Zooble's head.
• Friend to Bugs: While his general frayed sanity leaves him a mess most of the time, he noticeably perks up and goes bright eyed when he thinks there's an insect collection nearby.
• Gentle Giant: Kinger is one of the tallest players (alongside Jax and Zooble), and while he's an emotional mess and is a bit of a coward, he's generally harmless and seems to care for his friends' safety and sanity.
• Hidden Depths: Despite his Cloudcuckoolander nature, Kinger is shown to have a surprisingly detailed understanding of how the digital world works, explaining to Jax how the food there "only gives off the virtual sensation of eating without any of the nutritional benefits". It's left unclear whether this is just because he's been in the Circus longer than the rest of the players, or if he has a deeper connection to it from his past.
• Hypocrite Has a Point: He, the arguably least mentally sound character in the cast, suspects that Kaufmo has gone insane, and accuses Pomni of starting to go insane too after he heard both of them talking about an exit. Turns out, his fears were not unfounded, as Kaufmo had abstracted, and Pomni seems to be on her way to lose her sanity as well by the end of the Pilot.
• Lovable Coward: While he wants to help Zooble while they're kidnapped by the Gloinks, he's... not the best help, as he's scared to go to their nest and to fight their queen.
• Mad Eye: Neither of his eyes look quite the same... and he's very, very mentally unbalanced.
• Nervous Wreck: He's constantly shaking, has a Thousand-Yard Stare from bloodshot eyes, and cowers in fright when Bubble gets near him. Being the one who's had to put up with Caine's games the longest probably has something to do with it. After the "Abstracted" Kaufmo is dealt with, Zooble stated that they thought Kinger would have been the first of the current inhabitants to "Abstract" because of this.
• No Mouth: His chess piece head only has lopsided, blood-shot eyes.
• Punny Name: His name is Kinger and he takes the form of a king piece wearing a royal robe.
• Purple Is Powerful: Kinger conceals his body in a purple royal robe.
• Scatterbrained Senior: Downplayed, as he's only 48 years old, but not only is he the oldest of the six current players (the other five's ages range from 22 to 30, so he's an old man by comparison, and a middle-aged man in general), being trapped in the Digital Circus the longest (out of the said five) has done a number on his grasp of reality.
• Thousand-Yard Stare: It really shows just how much he's been through that he always stares blankly in all directions.
• White Gloves: His hands (or rather his avatar's hands) are just floating white gloves.

Zooble

Whatever they are, they are definitely one of those things of all time.

"If anyone needs me, then f(sproing!)k off."
Voiced by: Ashley Nichols (English)^{Other dubs}Maureen Herman (Spanish), Marun Reis (Brazilian Portuguese), Svetlana Amanova (Russian), Wang Lianxin (Japanese), Pinky Rebucas (Filipino), Nadya Dwi (Indonesian), Morgane Brehamel (French), Mariya Yemshanova (Ukrainian)

A moody perfectionist with a slew of mix-and-match parts for a body.

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• Ambiguous Gender: It's unlikely any of the players' digital bodies have physical sexes, but Zooble's is notably lacking in almost any gendered features and even their voice is androgynous.
• Ambiguous Gender Identity: When asked if Zooble is non-binary due to being described as a gender-neutral "they", Gooseworx responded that "Zooble doesn't know what they are." In response to the captions for the pilot formerly referring to them with a "he" at one point, Gooseworx later said that, while the script read "they", she believes they'd be fine with any pronouns.
• Brutal Honesty: Zooble won't sugarcoat a bad situation, but unlike Jax it's a form of sincerity:
  • While they scold Jax for saying to Pomni's face she can't leave, they bluntly say "Welcome to your new home... and your new body" because at this point, the only way to preserve her sanity is to help her accept it.
  • After the Kaufmo incident is over, they say they're surprised that the clown abstracted, and say to Kinger's face they thought he would have done it first, as they know that being so nervous is the condition to abstract.
• Cartoon Creature: Their design heavily evokes this, with antennae and wings, mainly due to being an abstract assembly toy.
• Creator Thumbprint: Design-wise, they're essentially a mix of Gooseworx's shape-head characters and mix-and-match toys like Mr. Potato Head and ZoLO play sculptures.
• Damsel in Distress: Or is it Distressed Dude? Either way, they kinda spend the middle portion of the pilot just being in the hands of the Gloinks and their queen.
• Exotic Eye Designs: Their right eye has a hypnotic swirl for a pupil.
• Getting Eaten Is Harmless: Zooble is swallowed by the Gloink queen upon meeting her, which Jax assures they'll be fine despite. True to form, the Queen promptly regurgitates them when Kaufmo lands on her, no worse for wear.
• Good Is Not Nice: They're not afraid of chiding someone screwing up, calling Kinger a "motherf—*CENSORED*" for being too incompetent to rescue them from the Gloinks.
• Good Is Not Soft: Zooble is so far the only one who doesn't take Jax's crap. The moment he messes around, plucking their arm to scratch his back, Zooble strangles Jax in retaliation.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite their occasional grumpiness and exasperation towards the circus' daily adventures, they are a fairly civil person. This is seen through them trying to downplay the stressful situation of Pomni's arrival and even agitated at Jax for being so blunt about it. They're also visibly saddened when watching Kaufmo be dropped into the cellar after he's been abstracted, and are the only one to voice any real sympathy for him.
  Zooble: Man, I can't believe Kaufmo just gave up like that...
• Mad Eye: While Zooble's left eye is fairly normal looking, their right eye is larger, sticks further out of their head and has a spiral pupil.
• No Mouth: Their head is a triangular prism with eyes but no mouth.
• The Perfectionist: Constantly rearranging and replacing the body parts of their messy-looking avatar and never being satisfied with it.
• Perpetual Frowner: They are almost never seen without constant Angry Eyebrows.
• Pulling Themselves Together: Their main gimmick is their ability to detach and swap any of their limbs. Jax easily rips off one of their arms (which prompts them to strangle him with the torn off arm), the Gloinks tear them to pieces and make off with them, and after the quest is over, they rebuild themselves offscreen while Kinger is holding their head.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Attempts to do this during the "Gather the Gloinks" adventure. Unfortunately, Zooble themself is gathered by the Gloinks and is forced into the situation anyways.
• Second Law of Gender-Bending: In a very unconventional version, Zooble being put in a genderless body in the Circus has lead them to not identify as any gender (whether from abandoning a previous one or just not remembering it).
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Zooble is the only player who keeps swearing despite the Magical Profanity Filter. They have even filthier language in the Spanish dub, calling the others "sons of a *cartoon twang*" when they're not helping out with the Gloinks and calling Kinger's mother a *car horn* when he tries and fails to assist.
• She's a Man in Japan: In the original, Zooble has an Ambiguous Gender, but in the Russian dub is referred to with words that explicitly label them as female.
• The Snark Knight: Zooble goes beyond being a mere Deadpan Snarker, with pretty much every line they deliver being loaded with bitter sarcasm.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: When Caine offers up an adventure to introduce Pomni to the Circus.
  Caine: Since you're new around here, we're gonna make it a simple, in-house adventure to warm you up to how things work around here!
  Zooble: Wh-?! No! God! I don't want an in-house adventure.
• Younger Than They Look: Given their jaded and cynical demeanor, you'd think they're older than Pomni (who's 25). They're actually 22 years old, being only a half-year older than Jax.

Kaufmo (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

Everyone's favorite jokester!

^{Click here to see him after he abstracted.}

Voiced by: WizardzWiz

A man with a simplistic clown avatar and (supposedly) jovial demeanor who abstracted right before Pomni appeared.

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• Accidental Hero: In his Abstracted state, Kaufmo is mainly concerned with just rampaging around and destroying anything in sight, but said rampaging causes him to crash down into the Gloinks' nest and attack the Gloink Queen, beating her to a pulp and causing her to vomit up Zooble.
• All for Nothing: He went mad and abstracted due to his desperation to escape, driven by the exit door he kept seeing but could never reach. At the end of the pilot it's revealed it was futile anyways because the door wasn't even a real exit.
• Black Bead Eyes: His is the only avatar seen thus far to have them.
• Cannot Tell a Joke: Implied: Gangle feels terribly guilty for not laughing at his jokes and Ragatha admits she couldn't fake a convincing laugh at them herself. Not even the two kindest (and two of the sanest) characters of the lot could find humor in whatever he was telling.
• Digital Abomination: After he abstracted, Kaufmo doesn't look like a clown anymore, but rather like a multi-eyed chimera who makes anyone he touches glitchy.
• Doomed Predecessor: Kaufmo was looking for the exit door before Pomni, abstracting because he couldn't find it. In a cruel twist, Pomni "successfully" finds the door but discovers it doesn't actually lead to anything.
• Expy: Due to his Black Bead Eyes and general clownish appearance, his non-abstracted form looks like something right out of JoJo's Circus.
• Eyes Do Not Belong There: In his abstracted form, as is the case with all abstracted players.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Implied to be this to the players before Pomni arrived, as he's seen as annoying due to his bad jokes, and none of them except Zooble and Gangle mourn him after his abstraction. However, it's unknown if he was always this or if it was a matter of mental strain — in Gooseworx's own words, "Nobody's usually pleasant to be around before they abstract".
• The Ghost: Already abstracted by the start of the series, so what he was like as a person can only be inferred by what the other players say about him.
• Jacob Marley Warning: His fate of becoming abstracted and then sent to the Circus' basement to rot with the other abstracted serves as a demonstration to Pomni, and the audience, exactly what will happen to her or any of her new comrades if (or when) they ever lose their sanity completely in the Circus. It also serves as a very dark warning to Pomni not to hold out false hope that she'll ever find any exit back to the real world.
• Mad Artist: His room, along with tons of deranged writings on the wall and drawings of Caine, is covered in creepy or sad paintings he made for himself, such as a black and white picture of himself walking alone on a road with the caption 'NO WAY OUT', a couple of more realistic self portraits of him with pitch black and bleeding eyes, multiple drawings of dark and empty hallways, and two drawings depicting Abstractions, one of which mirrors the exact scene playing out between him and Jax, a figure in the light of a doorway confronting an Abstraction huddled in the darkness.
• Morphic Resonance: Downplayed, as while he is mostly unrecognizable in his abstracted form, he does retain his proportions with an elongated head, stout body, and noodly limbs.
• Non-Ironic Clown: His avatar design looks like the usual friendly cartoon clown and Ragatha mentioned he told plenty of (bad) jokes.
• Primary-Color Champion: Much like Pomni, his clown outfit is composed of primary colors. With most of it being yellow with some red and blue accents.
• Room Full of Crazy: His room is shown to be wrecked with the word "exit" scrawled again and again over every inch of space, along with a drawing of him being relentlessly chased by Caine.
• Sacrificial Lamb: Already gone right before Pomni shows up, establishing to both her and the audience that abstraction is a very real threat for the Circus players.
• Sad Clown: A very literal example, considering his noted tendency to tell jokes before abstracting.
• Sanity Slippage: He ends up being an example of not just it, but also what it leads to in the Digital Circus, abstraction. It was brought on by his obsession with finding an exit.
• Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Unlike the other current inhabitants of the circus who either appeared in the trailers or in their own character short before the pilot's release, Kaufmo had almost next to no hints at his existence except for an image of his regular form released on Glitch Productions Twitter page two days before release. This was likely done to hide the fact that he had already "Abstracted" by the time of the pilot.
• Starter Villain: As Pomni didn't follow the "Gather the Gloinks" adventure, Kaufmo is the first danger she faces in the Digital Circus.
• Vague Age: Has various toys such as blocks and a rocking horse in his room. This is not an indicator of his age, as this post image shows that Pomni's room also contains children's toys despite her being an adult.
• Walking Spoiler: It's almost impossible to talk about him and his conspicuous absence from the intro without revealing that he abstracted, bringing up abstraction and its greater implications in the process.
• Was Once a Man: This technically applies to all brought into the Circus, but Kaufmo abstracts and turns into a multi-eyed monstrosity of black ooze.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He's already snapped and become abstracted before even being properly introduced.
• White Gloves: Being a simplified cartoony clown, he sports a pair.

Circus NPCs

Caine

Are YOU ready to see something INCREDIBLE?!

"Welcome to the Amazing Digital Circus!"
Voiced by: Alex "The Autarch" Rochon (English)^{Other dubs}Rodo Balderas (Spanish), Guilherme Briggs (Brazilian Portuguese), Max Mann (Russian), Soichiro Sugawara (Japanese), Ralph Ernest Francia (Filipino), Muhammad Nur (Indonesian), Yann Abiven (French), Vasyl Kiselychnyk (Ukrainian)

The Amazing Digital Circus's wacky rogue A.I. ringmaster.

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• Actor Allusion: Caine is, much like a certain Deltarune character fandubbed by The Autarch, a mentally questionable digital entity with differently colored eyes.
• Affably Evil: Caine is a "fun-loving wacky little guy" who is cheerful and polite to the audience and his victims. Though he tortures Pomni and the other five souls she's trapped with, it's only because he's rather oblivious and is actually making an active effort to understand humans better. If his claims are to be believed, he's also trying to create an exit to the game just to please the players, even if he doesn't understand the concept enough to make a workable version of it.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Downplayed. The official description specifies that he's a rogue A.I. who relentlessly torments the show's human cast while they're trapped in his digital world, but he's not malicious; for the most part, he actually tries to fulfill his role as a host and guide to the digital world and be helpful and take the Players' feedback and wishes into consideration (even if his implementation of it leaves much to be desired, to say the least). He is just incredibly clueless to their suffering.
• Ambiguously Evil: It's not completely clear whether he is a malicious force that intentionally keeps the players trapped in the Circus against their will, a Reasonable Authority Figure trying to keep them safe and relatively content while being hampered by his lack of understanding of how humans actually function, or something in-between.
• Amusingly Awful Aim: In the teaser, he attempts a knife-throwing act with Pomni as his Lovely Assistant, despite her protests. Two seconds later, Pomni has three knives sticking out her head and another lodged in her torso.
• Anti-Gravity Clothing: He "wears" a top hat that floats just above his head.
• Barely-Changed Dub Name: In the Brazilian Portuguese dub, Caine's name was changed slightly to Caim. According to dubbing director William Viana, this was done as an allusion to the Bible, and all other new names were approved by Glitch themselves.
• Big Brother Is Watching: Keeps watch over the Circus through his "hundreds of all-seeing eyes!" which is part of the reason he doesn't want anybody going out into the Void. Even then, he can apparently detect when someone is venturing out into it, even if he doesn't know who.
  • Despite his "hundreds of all-seeing eyes", he is not omniscient, and is only made aware something is terribly wrong when an alarm on his Wacky Watch alerts him to an unwanted presence in The Void.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: He's an entertainment AI who has no apparent idea what's going on outside of his job and parameters, which is the main source of problems with the humans trapped in his Circus. As an example, when Pomni asks him how to leave, he doesn't ignore her or tell her she cannot leave, or generally address the question like an actual person would. He just stutters and freezes in place like his brain just crashed (complete with his eyes being replaced with a "blue screen of death" texture), with the others talking like he isn't even there until they address him again.
• Bread and Circuses: Puns aside, his goal is to keep the players entertained and stimulated with games, food, and adventures. As the large number of abstracted in that cellar can attest to, it's not the best solution.
• Classy Cane: A classy cane for a classy Caine. His sports a gold top to show his status as the ringmaster.
• Demiurge Archetype: A strangely-sympathetic example of this trope, though still a dangerous one. Caine is a being who rules the inside of a computer as an all-powerful God. This digital realm is one where his guests constantly suffer thanks to his antics. Despite his power he does not understand, or know about the outside world besides what the other characters tell him.
• Domain Holder: As he notes, he can control nearly everything in the circus, but can't control the minds of its inhabitants or the Void among other things.
• Eccentric A.I.: He’s as loud and showy as any ringmaster, but with an added touch of possible insanity. His ideas of fun adventures are often torturous for the circus members, and speech sometimes becomes nonsensical (calling the Gloinks "humanoid hashbrowns" when they resemble neither) or glitches out mid-sentence.
• Electronic Speech Impediment: He has fits of it. When giving Pomni a guided tour of the circus, he begins to give her a list of the features of the Tent, but then he briefly freezes in place mid-pose, while his eyes are replaced with the Blue Screen of Death and he emits the internet dial-up sound. Then, just as suddenly, he snaps back to normal and continues with his list like nothing happened.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Caine is definitely wacky, but even he's weirded out by Bubble cleaning up Pomni's vomit by licking it.
    Caine: (to Bubble) Why are you like this?
  • He is very much not a normal person by human standards, but even he can tell Xddcc is a terrible name for a person.
  • It's really saying something when he of all people despises content farms and Rule 34 of the show with a passion. That and the "violent shipping wars [they'll] be powerless to do anything about" with the upcoming cast of new characters.
    Caine: And it's only going to get worse from here...
    Pomni: O-Oh no...
  • He clearly finds the Circus' Sun and Moon's obsession and infatuation with him unsettling, to say the least.
• Exact Words: When Pomni notices what she thinks is an "Exit" door out of the Digital Circus, Caine noticeably gets nervous before denying that there's any such thing and changing the subject. Which is true enough in the sense that it's not actually an "exit" from the Circus as in leaving the reality back for the real world like many of the players (or rather, human souls) would desire.
• Expy:
  • He is like AM from I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, as they are both digital deities that control the main characters and put them through all kinds of hell for their personal amusement. But despite the vast powers they both have, the two are just as trapped in the digital prison.
  • While he's based on AM in terms of form and agenda, Gooseworx has stated that, personality-wise, he's based on Four from Battle for BFDI, being a raving madman of a host with supernatural powers who constantly belittles their loyal assistant and assigns challenges (or "adventures" in Caine's case) for the main characters.
• Eyes Do Not Belong There: His head is nothing but a pair of googly eyes and teeth... except the eyes are nested inside his mouth.
• False Reassurance:
  • He gives one to Pomni over her screams and objections to him throwing knives at her in the teaser:
    Caine: Don't worry, my dear! You won't even die horribly!
  • Downplayed in the pilot, which reveals that he created a false exit door because the inhabitants of the circus kept wanting one, but he didn't know what to put at the end and it just led to the Void. Kaufmo's obsession with finding it eventually led him to "Abstract" and become a monster while Pomni starts going insane when she goes through it. Notably, however, Caine nervously tries to deflect when asked about the door's very existence, implying he realized it was a bad idea at some point.
• False Teeth Tomfoolery: His head is a set of false teeth (with a pair of eyes between them).
• Family-Values Villain: Adheres to The Amazing Digital Circus' family-friendly rating, and lightly chastises Pomni when she (tries to) swear.
  Caine: Now now now, my dear, we can't have any of that foul language around here! The Amazing Digital Circus is a place to be enjoyed by all ages.
• Fun Personified: Deconstructed. He's as much of the jovial, wacky, fun-loving guy he makes himself out to be. Thing is, sometimes the "fun" he sets up is at the players' expense, like when Zooble lost their body to the Gloinks during a game he set up to help Pomni adjust. It was explained that he's oblivious to any harm his actions might cause for the players.
• Gaslighting: Pomni sees what is clearly an exit door, but Caine claims that she must be suffering a "digital hallucination" from her recent arrival.
• Great Gazoo: He's an eccentric A.I. with virtual reality warping abilities that only wishes to have fun with the human players trapped in the circus, completely oblivious to the suffering he's causing them.
• Healing Hands: Although there's nothing he can do for players who have already abstracted, he can restore back to normal players suffering from the related attack. Ragatha indicates he's had to many times before.
• Large Ham: He's got a whole circus to chew through and the molars to do it with.
• Laughing Mad: When he introduces the players to the "Gather the Gloinks" adventure, he goes into a rather deranged laughing fit.
• Lethally Stupid:
  • Caine's trying to preserve the players' sanity, but his behavior is more likely to cause its loss. Both Kaufmo and Pomni are obviously maddened by Caine hiding an "exit door". Caine could have just explained that the door doesn't work, but he was too vain to show an unfinished idea.
  • The adventures he cooks up are traumatizing or painful to his guests, but Caine doesn't care because it can't permanently injure them. He's also rather negligent about watching for them to abstract and attack the others.
• Literal Genie: He wants to fulfill the players' stated desires, but doesn't understand what they really mean. Caine creates an exit door that leads to other doors and eventually into the void because he doesn't understand that the players want to leave the simulation rather than the place they're in.
• Living Toys: His head looks like a wind-up chattering teeth toy.
• Meaningful Name: In chemistry, "-caine" is a suffix for synthetic alkaloids used as local anesthetics. One alkaloid called procaine (also known as "novocaine" or "allocaine") has the signature use in dentistry. The one they used before was cocaine, which became better known as a recreational drug, fitting Caine's manic enthusiasm.
• Mission Control: By all means, his function within The Amazing Digital Circus program is clearly intended to be this. Caine is supposed to work as a guide to the circus for the Players, answer their questions about how its world functions, and keep the Players engaged and entertained by giving them "adventures" to complete. He genuinely seem to try to his best to live up these responsibilities. However, due to his own overenthusiastic nature, poor understanding of humans, and what is implied to be limits in his programming, he ends up coming across as Mission Control Is Off Its Meds most of the time instead.
• Motor Mouth: While he's expressive, he tends to speak faster and faster when he has to come to legal issues.
• Name of Cain: His name is the version that ends with an "E", and he's described as a rogue A.I., albeit an Obliviously Evil one. Interestingly, the area behind the fake exit he created has a logo with "C&A" on it.
• Nice Guy: Intense mania and complete obliviousness aside, Caine's a friendly, sincere guy who earnestly wants to give everyone a fun time and is trying to understand humans better. He knows people want to get out, so he attempted to make an exit to please them, which he unfortunately doesn't understand how that works.
• No-Neck Chump: His neck is nonexistent and so is the collar of his shirt.
• Non-Human Head: An A.I. who manifests as a ringmaster with floating eyes and teeth/jaws for a head.
• No Sense of Personal Space: His enthusiastic personality causes him to near-constantly get up in the players' faces, to their visible discomfort.
• Not So Above It All: Inverted. Although he's the wacky ringmaster and the source of the crazy adventures in the Digital Circus, some things are too much for even him, like Bubble's antics and the Moon flirting with him.
• Not So Omniscient After All: Despite his Reality Warper powers letting him do pretty much anything to the Digital Circus and its inhabitants, and the fact he says he has hundreds of (disembodied) eyes used to patrol the setting, Caine himself doesn't seem to be constantly aware of everything that goes on. He has to be alerted to Pomni getting stranded in the Void by a wrist-mounted device and Ragatha states the only real way to get his attention is to call out his name and hope he hears, outright stating that Pomni will need to "find" him.
• Obliviously Evil: Caine is described as being "kind of oblivious" rather than evil, and really just wanting to understand humans better. It's just that his way of going about this leaves people maimed and traumatized. Him creating a fake exit door just because the others kept asking for one led to Kaufmo going insane and "Abstracting" in the process, with Pomni also being heavily traumatized and going through a Sanity Slippage in the process after going through the door. He seems aware of this on some level, given he tries to nervously deny the door even exists when Pomni first notices it.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When Pomni presses him about the exit she saw, the normally bombastic ringmaster hastily shuts her down and just... stands floating in the air, his hand fidgeting as if he's trying to compose himself before getting everybody to move along. It's ambiguous if he responds this way because he knows the exit she's talking about is dangerously unfinished, or if there's something else going on he doesn't want her knowing about.
• Odd Organ Up Top: Played with as Caine does have the most common features you would see on a head such as a mouth and eyes. The thing is, his head is nothing more than that. And it gets even more bizarre as his mouth is really just oversized chatter teeth with his eyes floating ''inside'' the mouth.
• The Perfectionist: Per Caine's own words, he doesn't like people seeing his unfinished work.
  • He claims his perfectionism is why he hid the existence of the exit door he created since he never finished what was on the other side resulting in it leading into the Void.
  • In "POMNI WAKE UP TIME TO GO ON AN ADVENTURE", he throws himself onto a picture of an incomplete render and demands that Pomni not look at it because it's unfinished.
• Pet the Dog: While he's fine giving them Amusing Injuries, Caine does seem to care enough about the players to fix them should they get legitimately injured in a way they can't shrug off. He heals Ragatha of the painful glitching she was suffering following her encounter with an Abstracted Kaufmo without problem, and the fact Ragatha tells Pomni to find him to fix it implies he does so on a consistent basis.
  • He attempts this with his building an exit door. He may have done so because the players kept asking him for one but he can't, or doesn't want to, understand that the players kept asking for an exit door so they could leave the simulation.
• Poor Communication Kills: When Pomni says she saw an exit, Caine insinuates that there is no exit door and that she was just suffering a digital hallucination. In reality, he never finished developing something to put behind the exit door and didn't want anybody seeing his unfinished work. His insistence, on the other hand, made Pomni think the exit door was an actual way out of the Circus, leaving her to almost strand herself in the void.
• Power Floats: As the AI leading the Digital Circus, Caine is the only one besides Bubble capable of flight, and he apparently lends it to others when needed, as seen during his tour for Pomni to introduce her to the Circus' world. As such, he's nearly never grounded and prefers to float and hop around in the air.
• Punny Name: Other meanings aside, his name also sounds like "cane", alluding to one of his attributes as a ringmaster, the Classy Cane he carries.
• Quest Giver: Part of his job is to provide the Players with "adventures", small quests and tasks that pushes them to explore the circus, have fun, and avoid going insane.
• Repulsive Ringmaster: He's a mad, creepy-looking A.I. in charge of the titular circus, putting the human souls trapped there through torturous acts without much concern for, or awareness of, their physical or mental well-being.
• Serious Business: Well as serious as someone like him can be, anyway. The one thing he is actually on the ball about is maintaining the family-friendly atmosphere of the game. He lightly scolds Pomni for trying to swear, and tells her that whatever name she chooses for herself can't contain any offensive content.
• Shoehorned Acronym: According to Gooseworx, Caine came up with his own name and proceeded to retroactively turn it into an acronym to sound more professional. The acronym specifically being "Creative Artificial Intelligence Networking Entity"
• Sudden Anatomy: His tongue appears when certain expressions are needed.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: He's adamant that Pomni didn't actually see an exit door and was just suffering a digital hallucination. This sells her that the door is real and will lead her out of the Circus. While the door is real, and he didn't want anybody knowing about it, the real reason was that he never finished it and didn't want anybody seeing his unfinished work. This leads to Pomni getting trapped in a labyrinth and eventually the void, requiring him to save her.
• Thinking Tic: Caine drums his finger against his thigh when he thinks up the Gloink quest to get Pomni off the topic of the exit doors.
• Virtual-Reality Warper: He can teleport himself and the inhabitants to anywhere in the Circus he wants or even to the "Void" outside, though he admits he doesn't actually know everything that goes on out in the latter and doesn't recommend hanging out there. He's also incapable of making a path back to the real world, though that might just be because he doesn't understand the concept.
• Virtuous Character Copy: Gooseworx confirmed that Caine is based on AM, the evil supercomputer from the story that inspired the show. However, Caine's well-meaning, Obliviously Evil approach to it makes him leagues better than his inspiration, who absolutely despises humans and relishes in torturing them. It's particularly telling comparing how the two react to the idea of escape: AM has absolutely zero intention of letting any of his victims get away, even through death, and completely loses it when they actually manage it, whereas Caine understands how much the players want to leave the game, even if he doesn't understand how that works, and is attempting to create an exit simply because he thinks they'll appreciate it.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Bubble, Caine's co-host often gets on his nerves and Caine objects to Bubble's behavior more often than to any other character's, to the point of casually popping Bubble several times in the pilot alone. But the two still get along relatively well and have lunch together.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: The reason why he subjects the cast to (accidental) torment is because he's trying to understand them better. His method of "understanding" involves life-threatening adventures in an attempt to keep them sane.
• White Gloves: Wears a pair, or, more likely given Gooseworx's stylings, has a pair as his actual hands.

Bubble

There's a little Bubble in all of us.

"I'm on it, boss!"
Voiced by: Cooper "Gooseworx" Goodwin (English)^{Other dubs}Ignacio El. Ortuodono (Spanish), Angélica Santos (Brazilian Porguese), Ivan Shukhin (Russian), Ryota Kuga (Japanese), Janeane Santos-Roco (Filipino), Lis Kurniasih (Indonesian), Anna Lauzeray Gishi (French), Maksym Soloviov (Ukrainian)

An overly enthusiastic yet destructive talking soap bubble created by Caine to serve as an assistant.

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• Big Eater: He can eat a whole angel food cake in one bite.
• Black Bead Eyes: Aside from the giant toothy maw, they're his only facial feature.
• Childlike Voice: Has a high-pitched voice that reflects his cheery, energetic disposition.
• A Dog Named "Dog": Bubble is just a spotty soap bubble with beady eyes and massive teeth. Gooseworx insists that Bubble has "the most creative name" in the series.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Appears during the technical difficulties screen in the original teaser for the show.
• Extreme Omnivore: He licks up Pomni's puke in the pilot with apparent relish, which even Caine is disgusted by.
  Caine: Why are you like this?
• Flying Face: Given that he's just a bubble with eyes and a mouth.
• Hidden Depths: As revealed at the end of the pilot, he's apparently a really good chef.
• Keet: He's very energetic and eager to help with whatever Caine has planned, likely because he's never at risk.
• Me's a Crowd: Numerous Bubbles appear at once at the end of the role call in the theme song.
• Scary Teeth: Bears a set of creepily human teeth in this promo image.
• Talking Appliance Sidekick: A talking bubble who acts as Caine's sidekick.
• They Killed Kenny Again: Caine pops him a few times over the pilot, but he comes back afterwards with no real fanfare.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Caine, Bubble acts as his sidekick/cohost and the two have meals together, but Bubble also frequently annoys Caine by disrupting his stints of showmanship (like when the two are introducing the Gloinks), to which Caine responds by popping him.
• The Watson: Parodied in the pilot; Bubble asks Caine about the Gloinks to prompt exposition about them, but ends up asking too many questions at too short intervals, interrupting Caine's explanation and annoying him enough to get popped.

The Moon

Hello, Caine. I love you.

Voiced by: Cooper "Gooseworx" Goodwin (English)^{Other dubs}Mariya Yemshanova (Ukrainian)

A sapient waxing gibbous moon that personifies the night of the digital world and seems to have a crush on Caine.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: Caine sees her as this, though it's unclear whether it's because he has no feelings for her or if it's because her "friskiness" goes against the Digital Circus' In-Universe all ages rating.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: As stated above, she personifies the night of the digital world.
• Blue Is Calm: She is blue in color and is by far one of the most serene characters seen so far.
• A Dog Named "Dog": They are a moon who is simply referred to as Moon.
• Genius Loci: They are a sentient moon, after all, so of course she would be this.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: Her eyes are a darker blue from her body and she doesn't seem to be antagonistic in the slightest.
• Love Confession: She confesses her love for Caine once he returns with Pomni back to the Grounds. Caine responds immediately with anxiety and an urgency to leave "before the Moon gets frisky"... whatever that entails.
• The Man in the Moon: She's a sentient crescent moon with a talking face.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The calm and serene Blue Oni to the cheerful and goofy Sun's Red Oni.
• Spell My Name with a "The": She is often referred as The Moon.
• True Blue Femininity: She is baby blue in color, and is referred to with female pronouns.

The Sun

Hi, Caine! I'm gonna KILL YOU!

Voiced by: Payton Goodwin

A sapient sun that personifies the day of the digital world and is very quirky.

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• Cute and Psycho: Her pleasant and upbeat personality doesn't drop while she's threatening to murder Caine for not giving her any lines in the series.
• Disproportionate Retribution: She threatens to kill Caine simply because he unintentionally didn't give her any dialogue in the pilot episode.
• Dissonant Serenity: She doesn't drop her chipper tone when threatening to kill Caine for not giving her any lines.
• A Dog Named "Dog": She's a Sun, who is simply referred as Sun.
• Early-Bird Cameo: She makes an appearance in "POMNI WAKE UP TIME TO GO ON AN ADVENTURE" complaining to Caine that the Moon has more screentime than her, to which he agrees to give her some lines in the series proper.
• Easily Forgiven: A hesitant agreement from Caine on giving her more presence in the series is enough to make her drop her beef with him.
  Sun: Okay, never mind! I don't wanna kill you anymore!
• The Face of the Sun: Like The Moon, she has a face and is fully sentient and capable of conversation.
• Green-Eyed Monster: In her first appearance, she is jealous of the Moon for getting lines in the pilot while she did not get any.
• Perpetual Smiler: She seems to be perpetually cheerful and smiling... even when telling Caine she's going to murder him for giving The Moon lines and her none.
• Reading Ahead in the Script: She complains that she read the script for the first episode and did not get any lines, while the Moon got two.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The cheerful and goofy Red Oni to the calm and serene Moon's Blue Oni.
• Sinister Sentient Sun: Downplayed. While her first lines of dialogue have her telling Caine that she wants to kill him, she does so in such a bubbly and silly tone that it is made clear she isn't truly a dangerous threat. Not to mention she immediately drops her vendetta towards Caine when he promises to give her more dialogue.
• Spell My Name with a "The": Similar to her nightly counterpart, she is officially referred to as The Sun.
• Vibrant Orange: While orange is her secondary color motif, it still applies since she is very lively.
• Weird Sun: For starters, suns aren't normally supposed to talk let alone have faces. But she is particularly odd because she threatens Caine for being nothing more than a Living Prop, only to quickly drop her grudge when Caine promises to give her more characterization and screentime.

Mannequins

Wooden articulated mannequins that Caine seems to use to fill in the space around the circus.

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• Ambiguous Situation: They have numerous rooms in the hallway alongside the players. It's unclear whether the rooms are theirs specifically or just placeholders for when more humans arrive.
• The Blank: None of them have faces, though Dr. Football does conjure a face when Pomni catches it in the bath.
• Faceless Masses: Fill this role while Caine and Bubble are in the digital restaurant.
• Interrupted Bath: Pomni walks in on Dr. Football taking one and it doesn't take the intrusion well.

The Gloinks and their Queen

Do you not realize that everything must be Gloinks?

"What form of non-gloinkinian mass dares presume presence in the nest of the Gloink Queen?"
Gloink Queen voiced by: Elsie Lovelock (English)^{Other dubs}Serhii Soldatov (Ukrainian)

A swarm of simply-shaped creatures that infest the tent as a part of Caine's first challenge after Pomni's arrival.

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• Adorable Abomination: These non-humanoid non-hashbrownoid "humanoid hash browns" are all cute and colorful shapes with derpy-looking faces on them, but their queen is a massive worm with a mouth that lines its whole body and A Head at Each End with numerous eyes and teeth along with a mouth that goes all the way around.
• Assimilation Plot: The Queen claims that she wants to turn everything into Gloinks, including God Himself.
• Author Appeal: Gooseworx captioned the Twitter post showing the official art of the Gloinks and the Queen with "I think 'big fat fucking worm' is one of my favorite tropes", referring to the Queen's design.
• Big Bad Wannabe: The Gloink Queen was conjured by Caine to be the Big Bad of the "Gather the Gloinks" adventure, but none of the cast take her seriously, and the Queen ends up being trounced by the Abstracted Kaufmo, an actual threat to the players that eclipses anything the Gloink Queen could have done.
• Bizarre Alien Reproduction: The Gloink Queen makes new Gloinks by eating whatever the Gloinks bring her with one head and spitting them out through the other.
• Blasphemous Boast: Their queen at one point says, "God will be Gloinks!"
• Evil Sounds Deep: The Gloink Queen is a female example, being a villain with a deep, rumbling voice.
• Expy: Gooseworx confirmed during GlitchX 2023 that the Gloink Queen is largely inspired by The Empress Bulblax; another giant, elongated Insect Queen that quickly produces many young.
• Extra Eyes: The Gloink Queen has eyes all over her face(s).
• Eyes Do Not Belong There: Both of the Queen's faces have way more eyes than is necessary.
• Gonk: While the Gloinks themselves are adorable little shape creatures, their queen is a multi-eyed, polka-dotted slug-like… thing with sharp teeth and multiple faces. Lampshaded by Jax.
  Jax: Y'know, you could've asked for my consent before forcing me to see something so completely and utterly disgusting.
• A Head at Each End: The Queen has identical faces on both ends of her body, though only one is shown actually speaking. The other head just spits out new Gloinks made from the objects she swallows.
• Informed Species: Played for Laughs, as Caine refers to them as "humanoid hash browns" despite them clearly being neither of those things.
• Insect Queen: They have a queen and a generally ant-like eusocial structure, living in a cavernous nest and bringing objects for the Queen to gloink.
• Laughably Evil: The Queen is a creature that seeks a full Assimilation Plot, but her hamminess and almost pitiable inability to get anyone to take her even remotely seriously makes her really funny.
• More Teeth than the Osmond Family: While the Gloinks themselves are completely toothless, the Gloink Queen, on the other hand, has numerous sharp teeth in both mouths.
• Paper Tiger: Downplayed, as the Gloink Queen's sheer size makes it doubtful the players could have done anything physically against her, but when the large but still noticeably smaller Abstracted Kaufmo falls into the room and onto her, the Queen can't even fight back and is quickly subjected to a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown by the insane Player once he gets his bearings and starts rampaging again.
• Plot-Irrelevant Villain: The Gloinks were supposed to be Pomni's introductory adventure to familiarize her with the circus, but since she ends up dealing with Kaufmo abstracting, she never meets the Gloink Queen, relegating it to the pilot's B-plot and defeating the entire purpose behind the adventure. This is lampshaded by Zooble as they're leaving.
• Punch-Clock Villain: They stir up quite a bit of trouble in the pilot, but only because it's their role in the "Gather the Gloinks" adventure. The Queen also reacts to Jax's incredibly dismissive statement by sputtering and stuttering hesitantly before pointing out "You're still watching it", implying perhaps that she is very aware she and her subjects are intended to just be an entertainment setpiece for the Players.
• Smug Snake: The Gloink Queen talks big, but she's not really taken seriously as a threat by anyone except maybe Gangle and is quickly dealt with by abstracted Kaufmo.
• Starter Villain: Invoked. Caine starts a new, simple in-house adventure featuring the Gloinks to help Pomni familiarize herself with her new environment. Pomni witnesses Zooble get carried off by Gloinks and then has no further interaction with that side plot... much to Zooble's frustration after it's resolved. The actual Starter Villain that Pomni faces in the pilot is the "Abstracted" Kaufmo, who also effortlessly beats up the Gloink Queen.
• Sticky Fingers: The Gloinks steal anything that isn't nailed down.

Others

The Abstracted (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

And into the cellar you go!

Unfortunate former players of the Circus who have long since crossed their mental breaking point. When the strain of living in the Circus becomes too much, players begin to corrupt, or "abstract", into glitchy monsters that mindlessly attack and likewise corrupt anything in their path.

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• Agony Beam: Their attacks causes players to glitch out, painfully incapacitating them.
• And I Must Scream: If there's anything of the people they once were still in there, they're undoubtedly not having a good time.
• The Berserker: Assuming Kaufmo's behaviour is reflective of all of them, they fall under this category, as any living entity they spot makes them fly into a rage, pummeling it until it's a glitchy mess no matter who or what it is. If there is no living entity, they just remain still or wander around in a creepily calm fashion.
• The Corruption: They're players who have completely glitched out thanks to the mental and emotional toll of being in the Circus. They spread abstraction to anything they attack, which can even spread from person to person, as Pomni finds out when her hand begins to glitch from touching a glitching Ragatha. Caine can at least heal the latter.
• Despair Event Horizon: They're the result of this: any of the players completely losing it mentally and/or emotionally will result in them abstracting - which, with the Circus being the way it is (not to mention the fact that inhabitants probably can't escape), is only a matter of time.
• Death of Personality: The abstraction effectively destroy their personalities, turning them into glitchy and mindless beasts.
• Digital Abomination: Like Kaufmo, any player who becomes abstracted turns into a corrupted, glitchy, multi-eyed, incomprehensible creature.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Kind of.
  • While on their way to Kaufmo's room, Pomni, Ragatha, and Jax pass numerous rooms whose doors have crossed-out pictures of their residents, implying these are players who have abstracted.
  • One of the teasers has a shot of the cellar while Caine reveals certain parts of the Circus.
• Eyes Do Not Belong There: Covered head to toe in multicolored, spasming eyes.
• Face–Monster Turn: They were originally players (who lost it completely), who in turn were originally humans (who got trapped in the hardware, and thus the Circus).
• Fate Worse than Death: Being a player in the Circus already isn't fun, but this is far, far worse - by the time a player has fully abstracted, even Caine's Reality Warper powers can't save them. In other words, the abstracted are gone and have to be sealed away so they can't hurt anyone else. According to Gooseworx, absolutely nothing can fix Abstraction.
• Madwoman in the Attic: Basement, but the idea's still there - Caine has nothing to do for them but to stuff them all into the Circus's cellar, far away from the players who (at least) still have a grip on themselves.
• Ominous Visual Glitch: Horrid walking blobs of this trope, and they can spread it to anything or anyone in their path.
• Transhuman Abomination: They’re glitchy, shadowy, eye-covered masses that were once ordinary humans (and human souls trapped in colorful digital bodies).
• Walking Spoiler: They're nearly impossible to talk about not only without also revealing that Kaufmo has turned into one of them, but also without establishing just how bad things will get for the players if they don't keep their sanity intact.
• Was Once a Man: Again. The pitiful beasts weren't always like this as they were once colorful players who were also humans that were transformed into cartoony avatars. But now after going insane, it is hard to tell if their souls can be saved.
• Wham Shot: Caine dropping Kaufmo (whose first in-act appearance is already abstracted, inside his own room and behind his own door) into the cellar reveals dozens of abstracted down there, making it clear that players have been abstracting for a long time, and that (because apparently nobody can leave the Circus) it's only a matter of when, not if, the rest of the troupe will end up there.

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