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The Underworld
Wendell & Wild
Wendell & Wild
Voiced by: Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele
- Anti-Villain: They are dicks, but their primary goal for entering the human realm is to run their own faire. And they were actually willing to honor their deal and bring Kat's parents back to life once they had the means until the Klaxons told them not to.
- Art Shift: Subtly. In the underworld, the brothers are far more cartoonishly stylized and flat-looking and their facial movements are animated in a more rudimentary style. Once Kat summons them, however, they take on an appearance more consistent with both the rest of the film and Selick's wider filmography.
- The Baby of the Bunch: Of Buffalo Belzer's children. All of their older siblings disappeared (actually captured by Manberg) after Belzer's less than stellar parenting skills drove them away, so long ago apparently that Wendell and Wild weren't even aware they had other siblings. Belzer's imprisonment of them ends up being revealed as a desperate bid to keep his remaining children safe.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: Subverted. The title is named after them and they start the films' events, but their actual goals aren't really that malevolent. Their antics just happened to be taken advantage of by characters more evil than they are and cause conflict for the heroes.
- Calling Parents by Their Name: When talking about their father, they typically refer to him as "Belzer" outside of when they want to make a point specifically to him. Considering he's a pretty terrible parent, it's understandable.
- Cleans Up Nicely: The two change into some snazzy suits once they depart from the underworld. They also change to a naturalistic appearance from their formerly abstract art style, allowing them to better fit in amongst the mortals.
- Even Evil Has Standards: They thought of killing their steed Spark Plug to test whether Belzer's cream would work on larger beings. And then quickly decided against it after looking into his eyes and fearing they couldn't bring him back.
- The Fashionista: Their wagon comes equipped with a lot of makeup, costumes and other accessories, and they always get excited when they get to makeover the undead.
- Fat and Skinny: Wild and Wendell respectively.
- Ink-Suit Actor: They are clearly styled after their respective voice actors.
- Laughably Evil: They're basically characters from one of their voice actors' Key & Peele comedy sketches.
- A Lighter Shade of Black: They're actually among the least evil antagonists in the film.
- Minion with an F in Evil: While Wendell and Wild try to pull off the "intimidating demon" factor, it's too transparent for anyone to actually take them seriously. Add on that the both of them are Super Gullible and you've got a pair of numbskulls making it up as they go, who get strong armed by a teenage girl and scammed by a pair of humans in exchange for worthless scraps of paper. Delroy and Wilma even call them this, getting amused by their intent to return them to death via cartoon mallets, and knocking them down easily even when tied up. They even note that Kat was scarier than them as a young child.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: They're less abhorrent than the Klaxons, but they're willing to give Father Bests a second death in a rage when they think he and Rust Bank can't pay for their faire.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Wild is the Red Oni; upbeat, fun loving, and the more assertive of the two. Their schemes are usually his idea and they usually go wrong because he didn’t think them through. Wendell is the Blue Oni; although he lacks the stoicism of the trope he is the more cautious and pessimistic of the brothers. He tries to be the more responsible one and is more willing to keep his head down to avoid trouble.
- Sibling Team: They are both Buffalo Belzer’s sons, with Wendell as the older brother and Wild as the younger brother.
Wendell
"We are the Magician Morticians-"
Voiced by: Keegan-Michael Key
- Creepy Long Fingers: Even his thumbs are abnormally long and thin.
- Kick the Morality Pet: While panicking with Wild over Raul bringing Kat's parents back to life and thus violating their agreement with the Klaxons, Wendell angrily tosses a rock at Spark Plug for making too much noise.
- Little Bit Beastly: In his original demon form, his legs have either two knees per leg or two ankles (one high, one low)—as a result, they come across as rather dog- or cat-like, except with flat feet instead of paws.
- Mr. Exposition: He has a few As You Know moments with Wild, such as when he explains why Belzer banished them.
- Noodle People: Wendell is very noodly, with long extremities and a lengthy neck.
- Screams Like a Little Girl: Comes with the territory of being voiced by Keegan Key.
- Special Person, Normal Name: He's a demon named Wendell.
Wild
"The artistes of the afterlife!"
Voiced by: Jordan Peele
- Big Eater: His first scene shows him stealing gulps of hair cream when he can. Most other scenes show him eating said cream.
- Big Fun: He is short and stout and is the more fun loving of the two brothers.
- Cheated Angle: Wild's natural demon form is always seen in half-profile, his face shifting suddenly from one direction to the other rather than ever facing forward. His more human guise used in the land of the living averts it, existing fully in three dimensions.
- Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: Mimics the sound of a growing hair plug to trick his brother, with little success.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: He's missing the shirt of his prisoner uniform.
- Villainous Glutton: He's introduced eating Belzer's hair cream.
Buffalo Belzer
"I'm coming for you, boys."
Voiced by: Ving Rhames
Lord of the underworld and father of the titular demons.
- Abusive Parent: Buffalo Belzer forces Wendell and Wild to be his prisoners after they attempt to leave to start their own soul faire. Deconstructed later on, when reveals that he had several children who he also treated poorly to the point where they left. He assumed that they would crawl right back until they didn't. Though really it was due to Manberg capturing them, seeing Raul's roof painting gave him a change of heart and led to him realizing and outright admitting that he hasn’t been a good parent.
- Affably Evil: Despite being a demon lord who spends his time torturing the souls of the danged, he still genuinely cares about his children and will happily bargain with humans in order to free them.
- Alliterative Name: Buffalo Belzer.
- Ambiguous Situation: While not a good parent and he did drove his children away, it's unclear if he was like that from the beginning or if the loss of his children caused him to worsen. Him telling Wendell and Wild that the real world is too dangerous turns out to be a legitimate warning since his older children never returned, but on the other hand his getting angry at his sons for wanting to build their own fair has nothing to do with wanting to protect them.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Wendell and Wild live in his nose.
- Baldness Angst: Wendell and Wild spend all of their days growing new hair on his head because he's embarrassed by his hair loss.
- Big Red Devil: By far the biggest demon and sporting the classic devil look, even if his skin is purple instead of red.
- Didn't Think This Through: Getting up and bursting out of the ground to get Wendell and Wild has destroyed his Scream Faire in the process, giving his sons a chance to "improve" on their father's amusement park.
- Fat Bastard: He is a demonic overlord and has a massive gut that really stands out when he's out of the water he usually sits in.
- Good Parents: He actually becomes this after he is reunited with his missing children.
- Knight Templar Parent: He actually loves his sons, but after losing all his other children he becomes so overprotective of Wendell and Wild that he makes them his prisoners to keep them from running away.
- Our Giants Are Bigger: He’s so massive that an amusement park can fit on his stomach, and Wendell and Wild can fit comfortably inside his nose.
- Satanic Archetype: He's the ruler of the Underworld who loves to torture the souls of the damned with Scream Faire, and his name is Buffalo Belzer.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: He's pretty much naked, except for a harness
Bearz-a-bub
"Tee-hee!"
Voiced by: Phoebe Lamont
A teddy bear possessed by a supernatural creature that matches demons with their hell maidens.- Creepy Doll: While its actual design is perfectly innocuous, it's another story when it starts talking.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: Its eyes glow green when it causes something supernatural to happen.
The Elliots
Katherine Koniqua "Kat" Elliot
"Bad things happen to people that get close to me... They die."
Voiced by: Lyric Ross
A lonely 13-year-old orphan who yearns for a chance to talk to her deceased parents and seeks out Wendell and Wild's help in doing so.- Alliterative Name: Her first and middle name, Katherine Koniqua (leading Siobhan to try and nickname her "Kay-Kay").
- Broken Bird: Her gruff exterior hides a traumatized young girl who blames herself for her parents’ deaths and thinks she doesn’t deserve friendship.
- Chafing Against the Dress Code: Once Kat is relocated to the RBC school, she finds that she is expected to wear a uniform. Being a Goth, she decides to wear it her own way: she tears the skirt and stitches it back up with safety pins and keeps wearing her black platform boots instead of the shoes that came with the uniform.
- The Cynic: As far as she's concerned, the adults at RBC only care about money.
- Dark and Troubled Past: After the death of her parents, she was sent to a group home managed by caregivers who were only interested in making money off their wards. After fighting back against a school bully who attacked her and pushing him down a flight of stairs in the process, she spent time in juvenile prison and was just paroled and admitted into the RBC Girls school.
- Goth: Her overall look and style of dressing. Black lipstick, piercings on her nose and brow, oversized black boots.
- It's All My Fault: She blames herself for her parent’s deaths, since she distracted her father from driving by screaming after she found a deformed worm in her candy apple, causing the car to go over a bridge and into the water below.
- Insistent Terminology: It's Kat. Not Kay-kay, not her full given name. Kat.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Kat's not the most polite person to be around with at first. The heart of gold becomes more apparent as the film goes on.
- Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: Kat does her best to keep people away from her and has been hardened by a harsh life, but deep down she’s still a good person who cares about others.
- Nonconformist Dyed Hair: She has bright-green hair, possibly dyed (It was the same colour back when she was a young child before her parent's accident) and is a rebellious goth.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: She prefers going by "Kat" and gets mad at others trying to call her by her full name.
- Seers: She has the involuntary ability to see moments ahead into the future, and saved Siobhan from a falling brick, though this ability never activated for her until she returned to Rust bank, presumably because she was in the vicinity of Bears-A-Bub at the time. After reconciling her inner trauma to break her binding oath to serve Wendell and Wild for eternity, she gains full control over this as part of her nature as a Hell Maiden, using it to foresee how the Klaxons plan to demolish Rust Bank.
- Survivor's Guilt: Believes she was the reason her parents died and blames herself for being the only one alive afterwards. She slowly gets over this throughout the film.
- Sympathy for the Devil: In Kat's context, it's more like her own trauma. After fighting the monster her memories became, she delivers a jump kick that sends her into a dimension mimicking how her parents died. Her memories, taking the form of a scared child chained to a car underwater looks forlornly at Kat. Realizing she can overcome her guilt, Kat offers it her hand. It slowly takes it before embracing Kat, who hugs her memories back. It disappears when the two of them are pulled through the wall by Sister Helley.
- Trauma Button: As she is being driven to the RBC school, she starts having a panic attack after recognizing the bridge and realizing she's going back to her hometown. Ms. Hunter notices this and stops the car to ask if Kat was alright.
Delroy and Wilma Elliot
Voiced by: Gary Gatewood (Delroy) and Gabrielle Dennis (Wilma)
Kat's late parents.- Cool Old Guy: Kat's favorite music tape is a mixtape of her dad's favorites.
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: They don’t seem to have any character flaws and Kat only has positive memories of them.
- Good Parents: Kat’s parents loved her very much. After they are revived and reunited with her, they don’t blame her for their deaths and still love her just the same.
- Tragic Keepsake: The necklace Kat wears belonged to her mother.
Rust Bank Catholic Girls
Father Bests
Alive
Undead
"Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."
Voiced by: James Hong
The principal of RBC Girls.- Anti-Villain: All Father Bests wanted was to keep his school running. While he is willing to do charitable things in exchange for funding, like accepting money from the "Break the Cycle" Program in exchange for letting Kat stay there, but he's also willing to do less than morally dubious things too including working with the Klaxons (before and after they murder him) and raising the dead to override an election.
- Evil Cripple: He has a severe hunchback in undeath, presumably due to Irmgard's fatal blow to him breaking his spine.
- Evil Makeover: After Wendell and Wild resurrect him, he gains an Undeathly Pallor, yellow eyes, and a hunchback from his fatal injury. Wendell and Wild also give him fancier robes with a red belt, a golden mitre, and makeup that makes him look like a member of KISS or Ghost.
- He Knows Too Much: When he brings up the fact that he was the one who vouched for the Klaxons the night the brewery burned down in exchange for them continuing to fund his school, Irmgard kills him so he wouldn't get any ideas about possibly going to the police about what they did.
- Kick the Dog: Suggesting outright you're more important than a girl's dead parents to her face is most definitely a dick move.
- Neck Snap: Irmgard's fatal blow to his head apparently caved in his spine, resulting in him gaining a hunchback when resurrected.
- Punny Name: "Level Bests", as in to do one's level best. Crosses over with Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?, as "Level" is not a word generally used as a first name.
- Revenant Zombie: He's resurrected as one by Buffalo Belzer's hair cream, and retains his original personality after death. It doesn't last long for him, though.
- Sinister Minister: A rather morally dubious man of the cloth. He vouched for the Klaxons when the brewery fire happened seemingly just so he could retain their support rather than any belief in their innocence. He also has little issue with working with literal demons and allowing them to raise the old guard council members despite being a catholic father who should have more objections to such unholy acts. However, he's not one for breaking promises he made, trying to correct Delroy and Wilma's resurrections when Raul brings them back to life in violation of his agreement with the Klaxons, even if neither he nor the brothers actually did the deed, and is very upset when it's revealed the Klaxons scammed them all.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: The first thing he does after getting reanimated is vomit a geyser of water, fish, and golf balls.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: RBC is shown to be suffering financially, with his primary motivation being to get money to keep the school open.
Sister Helley
"It's time to face your demons."
Voiced by: Angela Bassett
A nun at RBC Girls, and a hell maiden.- Big Good: She's the most benevolent authority Kat can directly rely on and knows the ropes around dealing with underworld forces.
- Bad Powers, Good People: She has the ability to sink into the ground and move in a shadowy, serpentine form. It looks sinister, but she isn't.
- Cool Teacher: She teaches science at RBC and seems to genuinely enjoy her job.
- Dark and Troubled Past: When she was a student Manberg entrapped her into using her hell maiden powers to help him in both his research of and battle with demons. While the knowledge they gained has put her in a position to help Kat, another young hell maiden, she makes it clear that she has not forgiven him for this.
- Dark Is Not Evil: She's a hell maiden but also a sincere nun who cares about Kat.
- Mama Bear: Sister Helley does what she can to protect Kat, including doing a life-threatening blood bind to free Kat from her servitude to the demons.
- Nice Girl: A kind, helpful figure.
- Retired Badass: She's been capturing demons with Manberg since she was twelve. And she makes it clear to his face that she wasn't proud of it.
- Super-Speed: Among her other Hell Maiden abilities, she has the special power to assume a shadow form which moves faster than a human can run.
- Training from Hell: From how she alludes to it, this is what Manberg subjected her to, pushing her to develop her powers to help him battle demons. She still hasn't forgiven him for it.
Raul Cocoloti
"Siobhan's okay… considering her parents…"
Voiced by: Sam Zelaya
A gentle, sensitive trans boy with a love for art who attends RBC Girls and becomes Kat's partner in crime in bringing her parents back from the dead.- The Defroster: He isn’t the first to offer friendship to Kat, but he makes the most progress. He isn’t discouraged by her harsh exterior and continually helps her in her goals, even when it would be safer not to. Kat officially thaws towards him when she learns he was the one who brought her parents back to life, and goes to his rescue when he’s captured.
- Distressed Dude: He is captured when Wendell and Wild find out he stole the magic hair cream and used it to bring Kat’s parents back to life. After Kat finds out what he did for her, she rescues him.
- Hidden Depths: Seems to be quite proud of his Nahua heritage (Cocoloti is a Nahuatl word meaning "to become thin or weak"), since his art piece prominently involves a Jaguar warrior wielding a macuahuitl.
- Momma's Boy: Raul is shown to have a close and loving relationship with his mother. In fact, his art mural is dedicated to her.
- Nice Guy: He is a very kind soul who becomes Kat's first real friend at the school. He's even the reason Kat's parents are brought back, as he steals the hair cream from Wendell and Wild while they were tripping and uses it to revive Delory and William.
- Sensitive Artist: He is a very gentle type and loves doing art, drawing in his notepad in class and working on a big mural made up of the roofs of the houses in Rust Bank, planning for the whole mural to appear when the snow thaws.
- Trans Tribulations: Raul's transition cost him his friendship with Siobhan's group along the way. It's also implied that while his mother accepts him for who he is, some of her coworkers (some of which are elderly women) still haven't wrapped their heads around him being a boy.
- Twofer Token Minority: Latino-American and trans boy.
- We Used to Be Friends: Raul says this verbatim—he was part of Siobhan's girl group before he transitioned, but they're still on mildly friendly terms. Siobhan even immediately apologizes after accidentally deadnaming Raul.
Sloane and Sweetie
Voiced by: Seema Virdi (Sloane), Ramona Young (Sweetie)
Siobhan's two closest friends at the school.- Beta Bitch: To Siobhan's Lovable Alpha Bitch; similarly, they aren't so much mean as just clueless.
- Granola Girl: They "meditate for the environment" in the evenings.
- Satellite Character: They don't get much characterization outside of being part of Siobhan's Girl Posse.
Manberg
"An enemy to demons, but not to families"
Voiced by: Igal Naor
The janitor at RBC Girls.- Almighty Janitor: Besides being a literal janitor, he used to trap demons for a private collection and is still very knowledgeable about them and other supernatural forces.
- Anti-Hero: In the past, at least, he was willing to exploit the teenaged Helley's powers for his research.
- Blackmail: Helly says when arguing with him that he entrapped her into helping with his demon-fighting and related studies when she was a youth, implying this. Speculatively, he might have threatened to reveal that she was a hell maiden if she didn't help him out.
- Collector of the Strange: He has a collection of demons in jars.
- The Extremist Was Right: While manipulating teen Helley to use her powers in his past research is something she's clearly upset about to this day, things in this movie alone would have gone a lot worse if she and Manberg hadn't learned as much as they did. Not to mention what the demons in those jars might have gotten up to.
- Hunter of Monsters: He hunted demons to collect and study them, when he was younger (and more mobile).
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: As shown by his genuine care and concern for Sister Helley when she injures her head despite all of his earlier antagonism toward her, and returning all of Buffalo Belzer's children that he'd captured over the years - as he puts it, he's "an enemy to demons, but not to families".
- Handicapped Badass: He lost his feet and now, rides in a wheelchair, but still participates in the fight against the undead demolition crew.
- Mad Scientist: He's a mad demonologist, technically.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: He bears more than a passing resemblance to Marlon Brando.
- Norse by Norsewest: Judging by his accent and name, Manberg is from somewhere Scandinavian; befitting his boldness when combatting demons.
Sisters Daley and Chinstrap
"No laughing. Back to work."
Voiced by: Michele Mariana
Two cranky nuns who work at RBC Girls.- Animal Motifs: Raul and even Father Bests refer to them as “the penguins” in reference to their habits and cranky demeanor.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: The two have only a few seconds of dialogue between them.
- The Dividual: The two are practically one character and are never seen apart.
- Punny Name: Befitting their Animal Motif, they are named after Adélie and Chinstrap penguins.
Klax Korp
Lane and Irmgard Klaxon
"Drowning is so peaceful..."
"Indeed, sweet Irmgard."
"Indeed, sweet Irmgard."
Voiced by: David Harewood and Maxine Peake
The owners and directors of Klax Korp, the company that owns most of the land Rust Bank sits on.- Abusive Parents: Their love for Siobhan is conditional, only provided when she seems to fall in line with their way of thinking. Once Siobhan joins Kat and partakes in a mass protest against the private prison plan, Lane and Irmgard orders the demolition team to kill her.
- Animal Motif: Kat's vision of their successful plans portrays them as fire-breathing dragons, befitting their desire to hoard as much profit as possible from their exploitation of their private prison.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: They become the true villains of the film, being the ones responsible for Rust Bank's economic downturn and the ones who hire Wendell, Wild and Father Bests to tamper with the town council's voting on their permits to build their prison.
- Card-Carrying Villain: They are incredibly corrupt and greedy money-makers and damn proud of the underhanded methods they use. When Siobhan identifies how they turn their private prisons into revolving doors for criminals in order to keep profiting off of them, they initially express pride in their daughter identifying their tactics until their daughter decides to oppose them over it.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: They are a pair of rich private prison owners that want to demolish the town of Rust Bank to build another facility. They scheme to work in tandem with the nearby RBC Girls School and have a school-to-prison pipeline to line their pockets. To this end they burned down the Elliot Brewery, which killed ten workers and spiraled the town into poverty. They also only pay their employees in company scrip instead of real money.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Zigzagged, and eventually subverted. They're doting towards their daughter, but only because they believe she's following their footsteps. When Irmgard sees Siobhan amongst those protestors against building Klaxon prison, she goes berserk and immediately orders the demolition crew to tear the old brewery down even with Siobhan in the way. When Lane and Irmgard get arrested, Lane quickly puts the blame on Irmgard to save his own hide and Irmgard strangles him for turning on her.
- Evil Brit: Lane and Irmgard have British accents and are very evil. Subverted with their daughter Siobhan.
- Fat Bastard: Lane has a very noticeable gut and is just as wicked as his wife.
- Hate Sink: There is absolutely nothing redeemable about either of them- they’re cold-blooded killers who burned the Elliot’s brewery down (killing ten innocent workers in the process) to get their hands on the land, and their business model for their private prisons? To make it so hard for their juvenile convicts to be able to move on when they get older that they’ll keep getting imprisoned as adults, allowing them to extract as much profit out of them as possible.
- Humans Are the Real Monsters: They are only humans yet come across as more evil and depraved than the actual demons, including Buffalo Belzer. It says something when Buffalo Belzer's Amusement Park of Doom sounds more pleasant and fun than the Klaxons' private prison.
- I Gave My Word: Averted. In contrast to Wendell & Wild, and Father Bests, both of whom do shady and immoral things throughout the film, but are otherwise willing to uphold any deals or promises they made, the Klaxons prove themselves to be worse than them by scamming them, paying them for their aid with worthless 'Klax Kash', after reaping the rewards of Best's plan to resurrect the Old Guard.
- Large Ham: These two devour scenery like Hors D'oeuvres. Particularly at the end during their Villainous Breakdown.
- Let No Crisis Go to Waste: They weren't responsible for the deaths of Kat's parents, but they were willing to use the resulting memorial service as an opening to burn down their brewery in order to drive Rust Bank to financial ruin.
- Meaningful Name: Klax sounds similar to Klux and Klax Korp is just one K-word away from forming the acronym KKK. Moreover, klaxon alarms are typically used for emergency situations, like a prison signalling an escape attempt. The Klaxons seek to pave over Rust Bank (which is an multi-ethnic community) to make way for their private prison, and are willing to commit horrendous crimes to do so including burning down an entire factory with people inside and manipulating the votes.
- Murder Is the Best Solution: Their first go-to strategy whenever they can't buy someone out or think their corrupt dealings could be exposed by said person is to just murder them and hide the evidence. Tellingly, the only reason they schemed to get the Town Council out-voted in order to pass their private prison initiative through is because they deemed the Council members too sharp to be successfully assassinated. It winds up royally biting them as Belzer's magic hair cream allows Raul to resurrect some of their previous victims to identify them as the culprits.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: They want to pave over an impoverished town of lower class citizens (most of whom are people of color) and build a private prison over it with the intent of filling it with "Break The Cycle" program wards by making rehabilitation impossible. This is especially ironic considering and hypocritical considering Lane is black (it is, however, Truth in Television that some members of marginalized categories will take part in discrimination against people like them, as long as their wealth or political status allows them to be an exception).
- Pragmatic Villainy: They only support the RBC Girls school and the "Break The Cycle" program as part of their larger business plan to create a pipeline between the school and their private prison, planning to make it impossible for the program's wards to move on in life and eventually end up in their prison as adults.
- The Sociopath: They are greedy, selfish individuals willing to stoop low to get what they want including arson, murder, bribery, and cheating. They even have zero love for family, willing to blame each other when things go south and kill their daughter for opposing them.
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Although anyone would seem tall compared to Lane...
- Trumplica: Lane looks suspiciously like a dark-skinned blonde version of the man, even having a large interest in golf like Trump owns several ranges.
- Villain Ball: Why they decided to give the Old Guard the duty of bulldozing Rust Bank rather than just hire an actual workforce to do the job can't really be explained for reasons other than cheapness and sadism. Naturally, the decision leaves them completely defenseless and without the means to carry out their plans once the Old Guard are re-killed.
- Villainous Breakdown: When they see the main cast, including their own daughter, joining together to thwart their plans to demolish Rust Bank, Irmgard completely loses it, and orders the Old Guard to kill them all while continuing.
- When they're arrested, Lane desperately tries to pin the blame on his own wife for their crimes.
Siobhan Klaxon
Voiced by: Tamara Smart
Lane and Irmgard Klaxon's daughter and the queen bee of RBC Girls.- Daddy's Little Villain: Siobhan subverts this trope. Her parents are villains who seem to expect her to be just like them, and her early interactions with Kat hints that she could potentially be as bad, but it's made clear that she is just uninformed about the reality of their private prison business and joins Kat's team when she learns the full extent of how bad her parents are.
- Entertainingly Wrong: Siobhan seems to think that Private Prisons are like Private Resorts full of umbrella drinks and top-notch therapy. To her credit, it doesn't take her long for her to discover how insidious private prisons actually are.
- Heel–Face Turn: After it becomes clear to her how immoral her parents' business plans are, she joins forces with Kat and the others. Played with in that she isn't so much evil as she is ignorant and a bit insensitive, which are both things she actively works on fixing.
- Innocently Insensitive: Siobhan's worst failing is how she says hurtful things because she's too sheltered to know why it's hurtful. To her credit, she'll admit when she's been proven wrong and take steps to improve.
- Like Parent, Unlike Child: The only thing Siobhan inherited from her parents was their looks. Her Pet the Dog moment below acts as the first sign that she's nothing like them.
- Lovable Alpha Bitch: At first, she is rather pushy and insensitive towards Kat and Raul, but less of an outright Jerkass than a typical Alpha Bitch would be. Cemented when she joins forces with Kat and the others.
- Spoiled Sweet: Siobhan Klaxon is a Lovable Alpha Bitch at RBC and the daughter of the greedy Klaxons, but she’s nothing like her parents. Although her attempts to be friends with Kat annoy the latter and her friendship with Raul ended badly, she is a genuinely kind-hearted person, even apologising outright once she refers to Raul by his dead name, with it being implied that their friendship ended in part because she had big trouble wrapping her head around his transition, and she regrets it. And in the finale she helps defeat her parents after she finds out what their plans really are.
- Pet the Dog: In one scene, she accidentally deadnames Raul, but quickly corrects herself. It's implied this was something she had trouble with whilst they were still friends, which eventually soured it.
- We Used to Be Friends: Raul used to be in Siobhan's friend circle before he transitioned. It's implied Siobhan still wanted to be friends with Ramona, but she had too much trouble wrapping her head around Raul.
Rust Bank Council
Town Council
Fawzi
Cassandra and Susie Jordan
Voiced by: Nick E Tarabay (Fawzi), Joe Tran (Dr. Ngo), Caroline Crawford (Cassandra and Susie Jordan).
The current town council of Rust Bank. Along with Marianne Cocoloti, their members include Fawzi, who is the owner of a local falafel truck which is one of the few remaining businesses in Rust Bank, Dr. Ngo who is a local foot doctor, and a pair of elderly sisters Casandra and Susie Jordan. They have been blocking the proposals of Klax Korp to build a prison over the town for years.
- Corrupt Politician: Inverted Trope. In contrast to the Old Guard, they are shown be completely against the Klaxons and are explicitly stated to not accept bribes.
- Hidden Depths: They may not seem overly impressive in background yet according the Klaxons they are not only non-corrupt but also too intelligent to be assassinated. Given that the Klaxons got away with the brewery fire for years and had no issue in murdering Father Bests, it says something that they consider the council too smart.
- Mayor of a Ghost Town: Well, council of a ghost town, but the trope still applies as most of Rust Bank has been abandoned by the time of the movie. Apart from the staff and students of RBC Girls and the Klaxons themselves, the council are the only living residents of Rust Bank shown in the movie outside of the prologue and flashbacks.
Marianne Cocoloti
Voiced by: Natalie Martinez
Raul's mother. Also a member of the town council.- Crusading Lawyer: She is a very successful paralegal who has been trying to build a case against the Klaxons for years, but without success.
- Good Parents: She is shown to be very supportive of Raul being trans, correcting someone who misgenders him. She also is very supportive of his interest in art.
- Honor Before Reason: Allows the undead Old Guard members of the council to vote on the prison project solely due to one of them pointing out that the council rulebook states all living council members are able to vote. The fact that that the Old Guard have been confirmed dead for presumably many years and look like freshly dug up corpses apparently does not override these rules.
- Mama Bear: Gets immediately heated during a phone call when the speaker on the other end doesn't refer to Raul with his proper pronouns.Marianne: I have a son to feed. (listens to her boss) No! A son, remember?!
The Old Guard
- Allegorical Character: They are literal corpses who, thanks to their political power, get to decide what happens to the town; drowning out the voices of people who actually have to live there. This is representative of (often older) politicians who make decisions for entire groups of people without considering their best interests.
- Came Back Wrong: While recently deceased undead are largely the same as in life if a bit pale, the Old Guard are so ancient and rotted that they’re little more than animate skeletons. Some even have maggots still crawling in their corpses and have trouble keeping their pieces together.
- Corrupt Politician: Implied Trope. Their exact motivations are never elaborated on however according to Father Bests they would have supported the Klaxons had they still been alive. After becoming undead it is shown they at least remain intelligent enough to find their old homes and the council meeting room, as well as to point out council regulations for voting, and they still vote in favour of the prison project and were ready to destroy their own town themselves without question.
- Dem Bones: Unlike Father Bests and Kat's parents, They died several years back, and have decayed into skeletons by the time they're reanimated.
- Frozen Fashion Sense: They’re all dressed in styles that were the fashion while they were alive but are now a century or more out of date.
- Laughably Evil: They're incredibly silly looking after Wendell and Wild make them look more "alive," and the first thing they do after they leave the cemetery is dance around in their old homes and get drunk. Them losing their limbs from decomposition also provides some laughs, too.
- Of Corpse He's Alive: Wendell and Wild do their jobs as "The Magician Morticians" and give them new clothes, glass eyes, and makeup to make them appear as perfectly normal living people. This fails, however, as they're prone to falling apart, and one of the Town Council members immediately calls them zombies.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: While the modern Rust Bank council that opposes the prison is diverse in race and gender, the Old Guard are all white men (expect for one who seems to be Indian) who may be from the generation that colonized Rust Bank in the first place. Thus their support for the prison that will prey on Rust Bank’s population of mostly people of color is a continuation of their bigoted legacy into modern times.
- Revenant Zombie: Although they're a lot less coordinated than the other undead characters in the film, they are still competent enough to vote for the Klaxons and attempt to destroy Rust Bank.
- The Speechless: On account of them being so decayed that they don't have vocal cords, they only ever hiss and groan.
State Government
Ms. Hunter
"I bet my grandma's frybread recipe on you."
Voiced by: Tantoo Cardinal
A Native American Juvenile Justice worker who sends Kat to RBC Girls.- Braids, Beads and Buckskins: She sports braids and Cree earrings.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Appears to have Kat's best wishes in mind, making sure to stop and check on her when she has a panic attack and also making sure to give Kat her boombox.
- Small Role, Big Impact: While only appearing in the beginning and end of the film, she is the one who tried to find Kat a new home after her parents died and send her to RBC Girls for their "Break The Cycle" Program as well as helping Raul with taking the revived brewery workers to the conference to expose the Klaxons.
Governor Bribes
The governor of the state which Rust Bank is located in, she is the one who is paying Klax Korp for their prison project.
- Antagonistic Governor: Downplayed Trope. While she never opposes or faces the heroes directly, she is the public official responsible for the prison project receiving funding in the first place.
- Corrupt Politician: Implied by her name, it is unclear if that is her actual name or a Freudian Slip from Lane, and through her connection with the very morally unscrupulous and corrupt Klaxons. She also displays a lack of concern with the protest against Klax Korp.
- Everyone Has Standards: She at least appears appropriately alarmed when she spots a group of protestors in the path of the machines intended to bulldoze Rust Bank. She also resisted Lane's attempt to take her megaphone.
- Meaningful Name: If her name is actually Bribes then that is certainly a fitting one for a politician on the side of Klaxons.
- Minor Major Character: Technically the most politically important human in the movie and the one who provided the funding for the prison project, but only shows up in a single scene.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: After she is knocked down while having her megaphone wrestled from her grip, she is never shown getting back up.
