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Bounty Hunters and Associated Characters
Elain
- Action Girl: Played with. In the first video, which shows her to be fairly incompetent at her job, failing to catch Gob Donsterly, gets eaten by him, and later abandoned in the Hunter Pound. However this is played straight in the second video, where she shows more skill when she manages to beat the snot out of her captor Nuzzner Fubs and shoot him in the face.
- Ambiguous Situation: What impact her encounter with The Elders and Love Nugget had on both her and the world of the series is rather unclear. Though it's confirmed she can now live without a heart.
- Break the Cutie: She's a talented rookie bounty hunter whose first job goes HORRIBLY awry and gets her stuck and the hunter pound which almost gets her drugged and killed by Nuzzner Fubs and ultimately traumatized by The Elders of Lost Eyes.
- Gun Fu: She's seen with a silencer in the first video, and in the second, she uses a rehydrated gun to kill Nuzzer Fubs.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: In her appearance, she crashes through the window of an office building and fall several stories, splattering on the pavement. She recovers immediately afterwards, and takes more punishment as the series goes on.
- Platonic Life-Partners: She and Dento are stated to be close, noted as being "Partners in Slime" among other duo nicknames. When Dento texts her at the end of "Elain Gets Adopted", she immediately responds.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The impulsive Red Oni to Dento's Blue Oni. While Dento takes the elevator, Elain excitedly jumps out a window, and Dento's photos show her as more exciteable compared to Dento's lax outlook.
- The Voiceless: According to
Word of God, the reason Elain is never heard speaking is because she hates the sound of her own voice (otherwise, it'd also sound like Voice Grunting, with her dialogue displayed in text boxes).
Dento
- Alliterative Family: Dento, his father, Dennis, and his sister, Danina.
- Connected All Along: His contact list in "Elain Gets Adopted" reveals that Dennis is his father.
- Non-Standard Character Design: He has small, empty white circles for eyes, as opposed to the drastically more complex eyes of the other characters.
- Oral Fixation: Always has a cigarette in his mouth, even in the middle of fleeing or fighting. The only time he's seen without it is when he's taken it out to have a drink.
- Platonic Life-Partners: Gooseworx mentions he and Elain are very close friends. When Elain gets fired and sent to the Hunter Pound, Dento scrolls through the photos of them together in his phone and nearly tears up, immediately texting her afterwards to see if she's alright.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The calm Blue Oni to Elain's Red Oni. In some of the pictures on Dento's phone, Elain speeds ahead whild Dento is more relaxed.
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Invisible-O stalks him and knocks down his drink in both "Ghost of the Year" and "Elain Gets Adopted".
Vondu
- The Ace: The most skilled bounty hunter seen in the series. Between all his guns, his agility and his knack for detective work (aided by his memory stealing abilities) he's got both brains and brawn.
- Badass Longcoat: Always seen in one.
- Boots of Toughness: Wears dark grey boots to match his hat and coat (and copious amount of guns in it).
- Collector of the Strange: After capturing and/or killing his targets he scoops them up into small jars that he carries around.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Despite wearing all dark grey and being very intimidating he's really just another bounty hunter, albeit an ill-tempered one.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Kills Spim Dinty for spitting slime on his coat.
- Early-Bird Cameo: First seen briefly in "Ghost of the Year", in which he shoots a ghost to death after it spits on him, before his role as one of the main characters in "Elain Gets Adopted".
- Expy: His outward appearance is basically derived from the Black Spy.
- Floating Limbs: His hands come in this flavor. We usually only see the two of them, whenever he holds his trenchcoat open to point his guns at a foe or scoops his defeated targets in a jar, but if that sketch from Gooseworx depicting him without his coat is to be believed, he actually has two stubby arms supplemented by several pairs of disembodied hands (which at least explains how he's capable of holding all those guns).
- More Dakka: He has at least sixteen guns barrels hidden under his trenchcoat, all of which he can fire at the same time to devastating effect.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The calmer Blue Oni to Elain's Red Oni. Compared to her enthusiastic and exaggerated reactions, he's much more serious-minded and focused on his job.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: He used to serve in the army, which is where he first met Nuzzner Fubs and seemingly why he became a bounty hunter.
- Transferable Memory: Is able to absorb the memories of others and use it to his advantage. He uses it on multiple Crows to narrow down where Nuzzner Fubs is located.+CROW DATA
Kug
- Brick Joke: His brief and thus far only appearance is one.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: A very small bounty hunter who wields a gun almost as big as himself.
- Not So Stoic: His gruff determined looking expression doesn't change at all after Gop swallows him and spits him into a street light save for his eyes becoming notably sadder.
Plondie
A bounty hunter who was adopted and killed by Nuzzner Fubs.
- Posthumous Character: We only see their remains buried in Nuzzner's backyard.
CEO of Pointiness
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Is never referred to as anything but their title, even in the credits.
- Large and in Charge: The CEO of a seemingly large company and taller than most of Pink City's other residents.
- Mean Boss: At the end of Elain the Bounty Hunter, he doesn't recognize Elain at the Hunter Pound (or just doesn't care) and leaves her there. In the second video, it's shown he doesn't even remember her name.
- Dento's phone contact for him is even labeled "H A T E". Additionally, in "Dento Takes the Stairs", one of his imaginary alternate scenarios apparently involves him killing his boss and wearing his freshly severed head as a hat.
- "Elain Gets Adopted" reveals he may have lied about not recognizing Elain just as an excuse to fire her (though he really DID forget her name.)
- Non-Standard Character Design: His eyes are just black dots and he has realistic hands.
Dennis
- Alliterative Family: Dennis and his kids Dento and Danina.
- Collector of the Strange: Played with, he runs a pound where lost and/or defeated bounty hunters are taken and just keeps them there if no one show up to adopt them.
- Connected All Along: A Freeze-Frame Bonus in "Elain Gets Adopted" reveals that he's Dento's father.
- Non-Standard Character Design: Much like his son, Dennis' eyes a empty, white circles, though they're larger than Dento's.
Criminals
Gop Donsterly
- Bigger on the Inside: His insides are big enough to contain Elain, seen when he eats her, and apparently his own game show.
- Conspicuous Trenchcoat: Wears a brown one as his only article of clothing save for his gloves and party hat.
- Fat Bastard: A very round looking criminal.
- Floating Limbs: Has a pair of floating hands, clad in White Gloves in both of his appearances.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: While he escapes capture and gets Elain fired in "Elain the Bounty Hunter", "Elain Gets Adopted" sees him shredded by bullets and captured by Vondu.
- Laughably Evil: Most of his attempts to escape Elain are Played for Laughs.
- Monster Clown: According to Gooseworx's Twitter, he hails from Fuzner's Circus City and is 1/4 clown, which in this world means he, like all other clowns, has a game show as part of his digestive system. He is also a wanted criminal with an arsenal of bombs that he keeps on him.
- Monster of the Week: He's the focus target of "Elain the Bounty Hunter". While he does appear in "Elain Gets Adopted", he's much less of a threat.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: Surives being turned into paste when shot by Vondu.
- Swallowed Whole: His favorite method to deal with foes that are noticeably smaller than him. Both Elain and Kug fall victim to it (the former is forced to participate to the game show in his stomach — and loses — while the latter is spat out immediately and ends up disarmed and embedded in a streetlight).
- This Is Gonna Suck: Subverted. When he's confronted by Vondu, he just uses his ostensible bewilderment to briefly escape.
- "Wanted!" Poster: Specifically a "Still Wanted" poster in "Elain Gets Adopted".
Nuzzner Fubs
- Big Bad: of "Elain Gets Adopted".
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Unlike Gop, who is a laughably evil, fat bastard whose crimes are "snipping and snapping", Nuzzner is a Large and in Charge sadist and killer who is taken seriously as a threat throughout "Elain Gets Adopted".
- The Dreaded: Is this for most of his screen time, fitting as he is a very burly sadist who injects people with hallucinogens and regularly adopts bounty hunters to do the same to them before killing them. His Target Buddy profile literally describes him as an "evil man" and his bounty (57,000 yonts) is the third-highest among the criminals listed (only surpassed by Horrius Bloggie and Dinstrius LeThinns).
- Dark and Troubled Past: Unlike Vondu, who was traumatized by his time in the army, Nuzzner seems to have been just as sadistic and monstrous back then, meaning if there is a specific reason he is this way, it happened earlier in his life.
- Eyeless Face: His face consists entirely of a massive row of Scary Teeth.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: It's the very drugs he planned on injecting Elain with, that incapacitate him and ultimately lead to his death.
- Scary Teeth: His whole face is a mouth full of nutcracker-esque teeth that he never even so much as separates.
- Serial Killer: He has killed AT LEAST one bounty hunter before and served in the army in his youth. Given how long he's been at large and the fact he drugged people at random there's a good chance he's killed more.
- "Wanted!" Poster: A mostly covered up one is what tips Elain off that he's the man responsible for the surprise injections around Pink City.
Criminals on the Target Buddy
listed on the Target Buddy app- Acrofatic: Ponchknees used to be a wrestler.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Most of their rap sheets.
- Chest Monster: Doorthew is one of a door and is responsible for 23 missing people.
- Connected All Along: Gooseworx has stated that Squoozan is connected to the business Shurley works for.
- Evil Is Petty: The Hot Dog Brothers.
- Expy: The Hot Dog Brothers are likely based on the twin chefs from Little Nightmares.
- Horn Attack: Squoozan killed her coworkers by impaling them with her horn.
- I'm a Humanitarian: The Hot Dog Brothers are listed as cannibals.
- Just a Gangster: Hooks Mc Girth and Ponchknees.
- Meaningful Name: Hooks Mc Girth looks like a hook, uses them as weapons and runs the fishook gang, Doorthew is a living door, The Hot Dog Brothers resemble sausages, Dinstrius Le Thinns is an eye with 4 thin legs.
- Show Within a Show: The Hot Dog Brothers have a webseries named after themselves where they make unethical sausages to spite vegans.
- Signature Move: Horius Bloggie's right hook.
Celebrities
Hoonis Boogie
Voiced by: Dave Capdevielle
A well known TV personality who was chosen to host the Ghost of the Year awards in 2025. He has three sisters: Denise, Remney, and Puudle.
- Butt-Monkey: He gets knocked out by the second judge in "Ghost of the Year" and attacked offscreen by Bep Nemeni, while still recovering from the former injury.
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: "Elain Gets Adopted" reveals that not only is his mother dead, but that he has been seeing visions of her (though they have been fading since the second judge's outburst during "Ghost of the Year").
- Large Ham: As should be expected of an award show host, not to mention the first character in the series to actually speak.
- The Man in the Moon: His design invokes this, as do the designs of his sisters.
- Meaningful Name: His last name is Boogie, a word which has multiple connections to the Halloween season and he was introduced in a Halloween special.
- Fanboy: His idolizing of Darles Nemeni, or to be exact his hosting character, Darly Boxman, probably inspired him to become a successful show host himself and he actually did as he got to host Ghost of the Year. He even hides away in the studio to watch old tapes of the show.
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Bep Nemeni, who apparently attacked him when he came onto her talk show as a guest. It's also ironic given that she's the daughter of his idol, Darles Nemeni.
Mr. Squeeze
- Born Lucky: The only person present at the Ghost of the Year show who wasn't injured by the other judge's rampage.
The Second Judge
- Mood-Swinger: Attacks everyone present and successfully injures them all save for Mr. Squeeze, all for no specific reason.
- Non-Standard Character Design: He's a mass of glitchy black pixels in a humanoid shape with a single eye.
- The Unpronounceable: When Hoonis says his name, all that's heard is electronic garbling.
Bep Nemeni
- Connected All Along: It's not until "The Darly Boxman Show" that it's revealed that Darly's in-universe creator, Darles Nemeni, is her father.
- Disappeared Dad: Her father, Darles, has been missing for 20 years as of "Ghost of the Year".
- Hates Their Parent: Background information states she hated Darles, and she is currently unaffected by his missing status.
- Mood-Swinger: According to Gooseworx, she goes from friendly on-camera to grouchy everywhere else, accompanied by her face flipping upside-down.
- Nice Character, Mean Actor: According to Gooseworx Bep is far less approachable when she's off set.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: She is said to be Pink City's equivalent to Ellen DeGeneres.
- Show Within a Show: The Bep Nemeni Show.
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: To Hoonis Boogie, who, ironically, idolizes her presumed-dead father, Darles.
Darles Nemeni
Voiced by: Michael Kovach
An actor who plays Darly Boxman on The Darly Boxman Show. According to "The Darly Boxman Show", he went missing in 2005 and his fate is unknown. Father to Bep Nemeni.
- Floating Limbs: His head floats above his torso with no visible neck, and his hands float at the ends of his arms with no visible wrists.
- Legacy Seeker: He has a child so that he'll have someone to "continue [his] legacy".
Marmalo Luzz
Voiced by: Jobby the Hong
Host of Pink City's number one radio show, Marmalo Luzz in the Morning.
- All There in the Script: Even more than the other characters, his name and design were only revealed on Gooseworx's twitter.
- Canon Character All Along: The in-universe credits of The Darly Boxman Show reveal he played the character Hob.
- Celebrity Resemblance: In-universe and with an object, the radio in the hunter pound over which Elain hears his show just so happens to have the same color scheme as Marmalo himself.
- Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist: Averted, though his role in the series has nothing to do with tourism, his design heavily invokes this trope.
- Show Within a Show: Marmalo Luzz in the Morining.
Ghosts
Skug
- Evil Is Petty: Has spent ages doing nothing but scaring people by screaming.
- Expy: Has several similarities to Slimer.
- Eyes Do Not Belong There: Has two eyes on the same side of his head
- Fat Bastard: An almost totally round ghost who spends all his time sneaking up on people and scaring them.
- Inconsistent Spelling: When he's first introduced and when all the ghosts are listed at the end, his name is spelled "Skug", but when his stats are shown, it's spelled "Scug".
- Sensory Abuse: As described, he sneaks up on his victims and bellows into their ears.
Invisible-O
- Art Shift: The photo of her taken with the Mark 5 Visibismo.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Parodied. She was apparently in every single frame of Elain the Bounty Hunter, you just didn't see her.
- Evil Is Petty: She known to get grudges easily, to the point where she stalks people just to knock over their drinks or bump into them at random, as she does to poor Dento.
- Invisibility: DUH.
- Nightmare Face: Her photo taken with the Mark 5 Visibismo in "Ghost of the Year".
- See the Invisible: Using the Mark 5 Visibismo, Invisible-O's true form is revealed and... holy crap, she's terrifying.
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: To Dento, she stalks him around, regularly knocks away his bobba tea (even in the middle of an emotional moment), all for no real reason.
- Word-O Name: Her name is "Invisible" with an "-O" on the end, and her primary trait is that she's invisible.
Hoolius Ghoulius
- Evil Is Petty: Ambushes random people and spins them until they vomit.
- Eyeless Face: His eye sockets are empty.
- Flying Face: He is one.
- Informed Attribute: Hoolius being and an "ambush ghost" places him among the most dangerous ghosts according to Hoonis Boogie, however his method of haunting is not nearly as damaging as that of Vun Horustus.
- Nightmare Face: That's all he is, just a giant, horrifying floating face.
- Non-Standard Character Design: A very realistic floating face, more in line with Gooseworx's deviantart monster paintings than any other character in the series.
- Rhyming Names: Phonetically, at least, as his first names has two "o"-s, while his last name has an "ou".
Vun Horustus
- Eyeless Face: His face is just three empty eye sockets.
- Knight of Cerebus: His ability to fundamentally destroy relationships is far more disturbing than the haunting patterns of the other candidates for Ghost of the Year.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: He has the startlingly chilling power to make anyone who passes through him permanently forget the name of the person they love most, to the point that they'll instantly forget if told it again. Host Hoonis Boogie mentions how fortunate it is that the ghost only appears in places that people don't pass through often...and then completely fails to remember the name of the final ghost contestant.
Spim Dinty
- Butt-Monkey: The host can't remember his name (probably because of Vun Horustus), he gets killed immediately by Vondu when he spits goo on him, and is taken out of the running and replace with a crusty brown ghost called Old Dusty Dug. The only respect he gets is the two second memoriam after his death.
- In Memoriam: One appears for him as soon as Hoonis confirms that Vondu did indeed kill him.
- Really 700 Years Old: According to his memoriam, Spim was around for 326 years before being killed.
Old Dusty Doug
- Replacement Goldfish: Suddenly becomes a contender for title of Ghost of the Year after Vondu kills Spim Dinty.
The Darly Boxman Show
Darly Boxman
Voiced by: Michael Kovach
The protagonist and title character of The Darly Boxman Show.
Played by Darles Nemeni.
- Ax-Crazy: When Milkpooch is being rude to him in the beginning of the show, Darly throws him into the sky, and when Darly finds out that there's another lake where the treasure is hidden, he kind of loses it.
- The Danza: In-universe, his first name is clearly based on that of his actor's, Darles.
- No-Neck Chump: He lacks a neck, with his head kind of just floating above his body.
- Non-Human Head: The character's whole schtick is that he has a box for a head, hence his name. The box is a costume; the actor does not have a box head. Word of God is that the character is meant to have an actual box for a head, as opposed to wearing one.
- Noodle People: Even compared to the other residents of Pink City, Darly stands out as being almost cartoonishly skinny.
- Sanity Slippage: As the video goes on, Darly gets more and more unhinged, though that may not be saying much, considering he throws Milkpooch at the beginning of said video...
Mimlimim
Darly's main sidekick, as well as the only female in the group.
Played by Thlouretta Gudds.
- Ms. Exposition: She explains most of the things associated with the Zendamina, which is the central plot of The Darly Boxman Show.
- Expy: Of Vibri from Vib-Ribbon, a character similarly made from simple shapes with a cutout for a mouth. Even her speech sound is made by scrambling samples of Vibri's voice.
- The Smurfette Principle: She's the only member of the main trio who's female. Bonus points for also being the only female in the entire Darly Boxman Show.
- Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: The only thing that says she's a girl is her feminine Voice Grunting and her eyelashes.
Milkpooch
A bipedal dog that is the Team Pet.
- As Himself: Listed as playing itself in the in-universe credits.
- Black Bead Eyes: It has a version of these tiny eyes, probably to enforce its nature as a cartoonish Team Pet by looking like an oversimplified puppy.
- Intelligible Unintelligible: Speaks in beeps and boops, yet Darly can understand it perfectly.
- Jerkass: If Darly's reaction is any indication, then Milkpooch is quite rude, even if we don't quite know what it's saying. Although if Darly's statement Statement in question regarding Milkpooch's behavior is any indication, the only time Milkpooch acts this way is when the Zendamina is around.
- Me's a Crowd: Several Milkpooches appear in the shot where everyone peers over the hill.
Hob
Voiced by: Jason Marnocha
A hooded figure who tells Darly and his friends that the lake they were looking for is fake.
Played by Marmalo Luzz.
- Canon Character All Along: The credits reveal his in-universe actor was the radio show host from "Elain Gets Adopted", Marmalo Luzz, which is odd, given that the two have different real world voice actors.
- Creepy Crows: He has an unnaturally big-eyed crow on his staff.
- Dark Is Not Evil: He looks pretty scary but just wants to help Darly and friends.
- Don't Fear the Reaper: While it doesn't say if he is a reaper, he certainly looks the part, but he's the one who tells Darly and his friends where the real lake is.
- In the Hood: He wears a hood that covers his face... assuming he even has a face.
Ethereal Entities
Thought Fairies
- All There in the Script: Given that Dento takes the stairs has no credits, the creatures name was only stated in a tweet by Gooseworx shortly before the video released.
- Our Fairies Are Different: Cloud-like creatures with scary teeth that manage a given individuals imagination
- Scary Teeth: Despite not having a lower jaw they have a row of crooked upper teeth.
The Elders of Lost Eyes
Voiced by: Peercrane
Shadowy entities that "download data" from deceased individuals and use it to reshape the world.
- Big Bad: Gooseworx has implied on twitter that they will be this to the series as a whole.
- Connected All Along: Dinstrius Le Thinns' file on the target buddy reveals he's a member of the "Creed of Lost Eyes" and Nuzzner Fubs has a framed image of them in his house.
- Gop Donsterly also has knowledge of the "Mines of Lost Eyes", though that locations connection to The Elders is unknown.
- Five-Second Foreshadowing: Briefly appear during Elain's drug trip.
- Eldritch Abomination: They certainly are this.
- Eyes Do Not Belong There: They are essentially shadowy tendrils with eyes all over them
- Voice of the Legion: Played with, they all same the same things the same way but at slightly different times.
Love Nugget the Heart Eater
- Brick Joke: His presence is this.
- Celestial Bureaucracy: He's essentially a TSA guard for The Elders of Lost Eyes who only interacts with people who set off the heart detector.
- Don't Fear the Reaper: He eats the hearts of living people who find themselves in the domain of The Elders, but does so in a way that's painless and causes no long-term harm to the individual in question.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: His designated title is "heart eater" and he eats hearts.
