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Nadja Doll
Nadja Doll
Portrayed By: Paul Jones (puppeteer), Natasia Demetriou (voice, ghost form)
The ghost of Nadja’s former human self, who takes possession of a doll and decides to stick around at the house after she and Nadja hit it off.
- A Day in the Limelight:
- The B-plot of “The Siren” is focused on her, seeing her run away after feeling neglected by Nadja and the other housemates.
- She gets another one in "Pride Parade" when she swaps bodies with Vampire-Nadja so she can try sex.
- Future Me Scares Me: Averted; she gets along so well with Nadja, so she decides to stay at the house for a while.
- Living Toys: Or rather, a toy that walks & talks thanks to being possessed by a dead woman, but the effect is the same.
- The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: After her legs are broken, Colin Robinson repairs them by mounting her body on the stand of a dancing novelty decoration. Pressing a button causes Doll Nadja to hike up her dress, dance and sing, which she does with a smile on her face, in between angry rants and pleas to stop.
- Mini-Me: Not only does she look and sound just like a tinier version of Nadja, the two also often wear their clothes and hair in a matching style.
- No-Sell: She seems to be immune to Colin Robinson’s energy draining, as she merely tells him to shut up when he starts droning on instead of getting tired. Since she’s a ghost, who wouldn’t have any life energy to drain, this makes sense.
- One-Steve Limit: Naturally, her name is Nadja, but to distinguish her from her vampire self, she’s variously referred to as “Nadja’s ghost”, “doll Nadja”, “Dolly”, or “Doll With The Spirit of Deceased Human Nadja Inhabiting It”. “Nadja Doll” is the name she’s consistently given behind the scenes.
- Out of Focus: After her debut episode, she doesn’t have much to do, mostly hanging around in the background and making a few quips here and there. This is lampshaded in “The Siren”, where she admits that she feels out of place, comparing herself to a puzzle piece that’s left over after the rest of the puzzle is already completed.
Nadja Doll: Which is not how a puzzle works, of course, but who gives a shit? That is how I feel.
- Surpassed the Teacher: After a short bit of swordfight training with Nandor, she’s already able to disarm him almost immediately, to his own shock.
- Unfinished Business: She remains on this mortal coil because she never got the chance to achieve something. Interestingly, she still doesn’t pass onward even after Nadja does earn a few admirable accomplishments for herself, such as becoming an important member of the Vampiric Council or opening her own nightclub.
Topher
Topher
Portrayed By: Haley Joel Osment
Nadja and Lazlo's familiar who is accidentally killed and revived as a zombie. Unlike Guillermo, Topher has no interest in becoming a vampire. He is energetic, fun-loving, and charismatic, and is well-liked by all other members of the household... except Guillermo.
- The Bus Came Back: Makes a sudden reappearance in the season 5 finale, now able to fully speak coherently and looking more like a rotted corpse.
- Came Back Wrong: After being accidentally electrocuted, the vampires take him to a necromancer to be resurrected. He does come back... as a snarling, nearly-mindless zombie that just climbs the ceilings, runs riot around the house eating small animals, and eventually attacks Guillermo. It's eventually downplayed by season 5; he's regained his sapience and speech, and while he's still a rotting corpse he doesn't seem particularly bothered about it.
- Foil: Is initially set up as this to Guillermo, who's over-worked, cautious, cares deeply for his master, and gets zero respect from the household, whereas Topher is a lazy, selfish Jerkass, with no interest in becoming a vampire, unthinkingly lets vampire assassins into the house, and is positively adored by the main vampires. It doesn't last long, though.
- Fratbro: Comes across as one of these in his interactions with Guillermo.
- Immune to Mind Control: Is shown to be possibly the only person immune to Colin Robinson's energy draining abilities. Despite everything Colin Robinson throws at him, he confesses that he just finds Colin Robinson "really interesting".
- Loved by All: The vampires all adore Topher, to the point that they take him to a necromancer to be resurrected after his accidental death, just because they miss having him around.
- Mundane Utility: After the vampires return the zombified Topher to Wallace the necromancer, he puts Topher to work in the basement under his hut, making trinkets for his gift shop. Given how many other zombies are also there, one can safely assume that Wallace isn't very good at his job...
- Our Zombies Are Different: He's a corpse resurrected by Black Magic, making him a Voodoo Zombie. However, when he's not under the direct control of a necromancer, he acts like a feral human more than anything else However, after some time in thrall to Wallace he regains his memories and faculties, and doesn't seem to mind being a zombie very much.
- Pokémon Speak: After his resurrection, he can only say his name, "High-Five!", or "Doze Apples!"
- No longer the case as of his return in season 5, by which point he's regained his intelligence and can speak normally again.
- Rasputinian Death: When Nandor saves Guillermo from being killed by Topher he overcomes The Worf Effect for once and brutally snaps his neck, only for Topher to revive and attack again while he's in the middle of eulogizing him. This keeps on happening as Nandor keeps trying different methods of killing him — strangling, drowning, electrocution (the way he originally died as a human) — until he gives up and the vampires just bring Topher back to Wallace.
Lilith
Lilith
Portrayed By: Lucy Punch
A witch and rival of Nadja.
- All Witches Have Cats: Averted; her familiar is a goat.
- Bed Trick: Admits she used her impersonation of Nadja below to sleep with Laszlo
- Easy Impersonation: Her impersonation of Nadja is played by Helena Garcia, not Natasia Demetriou, making it quite apparent that she is not Nadja.
- Glamour: Her true appearance is considerably older, more wrinkled, and generally more grotesque than the face she wears for most of her appearances.
- Hot Witch: She's a very traditional spell-casting goat-having witch, and she's as beautiful as Lucy Punch.
- Shapeshifting Seducer: She turned into Nadja (kinda) to seduce Laszlo.
- We Used to Be Friends: With Nadja, until Lilith slept with Laszlo.
"Norman Hule"
"Norman Hule"
Voiced By: Jemaine Clement
"Norman Hule" is the Internet alias of an Internet troll... and actual troll who Colin Robinson gets into a feud with.
- All Trolls Are Different: He's a more-or-less accurate portrayal of trolls in Norse Mythology, being a severely overweight humanoid with dark grey skin and a huge Gag Nose who is a trickster that can be petrified by exposure to sunlight.
- Continuity Nod: He is briefly referenced during a Wellington Paranormal opening Couch Gag in the episode "Fear Factory" - a newspaper headline is shown reading "INTERNET TROLL TURNS OUT TO BE ACTUAL TROLL".
- Everything Is Racist: He angrily complains to Colin Robinson about how "trolling" is a racial slur against trolls, and that he doesn't want Colin Robinson to repeat it. He ends up using it himself at one point.
- Homage: His physical design is clearly inspired by the trolls shown in the works of Swedish painter John Bauer. Here
◊ is an example of Bauer's work, for sake of reference. - Kick The Son Of A Bitch: His petrified arm moves and imprisons Colin Robinson after the latter "defeats" him through boring him to the point that he lets himself get petrified.
- Naked People Are Funny: He spends his entire scene naked and has a Gag Penis with a comically large censor blur.
- Painting the Medium: A particularly clever and hilarious example; as he turns from a sentient lifeform into a statue, his Gag Penis has its censor blur disappear reflecting the different standards on television regarding portrayals of nudity.
- Taken for Granite: Colin Robinson defeats him by distracting him for long enough that he's turned to stone by the sunrise.
- Troll: In the metaphorical and literal senses. Ironically, he thinks of himself as a guy that just so happens to be a troll, but also likes winding people up online under a fake name, and doesn't like the stigma that the slang represents (even though it has to do with line fishing)."Norman": Excuse me, I'm a troll — I do not like the word "trolling".
Colin Robinson: ...Well, it's not really up for you to decide, I mean, that's current s-slang —
"Norman": Well, I think it is, because I am a troll. It's an offensive term.
Colin Robinson: Well, that's what it means, so —
"Norman": That's not what it means!
Colin Robinson: It does mean that!
["Norman" begins growling]
Colin Robinson: If you need me to look it up in Webster's and show you, I will. You're basically just a —
"Norman": Don't say it! My being a troll is not related to my online trolling!
Colin Robinson: I'm sorry, that people use the term "trolling" —
"Norman": Don't use the word.
Colin Robinson: But when you're a troll, and you "troll"...
"Norman": If you say it, I'll hit you.
Colin Robinson: ...Then you're trolling! - Uncertain Doom: He's turned to stone by sunlight, but it's unknown if he de-petrifies himself when the sun goes down. He's still at least somewhat mobile after being petrified, able to reach out and grab Colin Robinson's arm.
Sheila
Sheila
Portrayed By: Catherine Cohen
Sheila is a siren who tries to ensnare Laszlo and Colin Robinson when they're at sea.
- Fan Disservice: She's a remarkably faithful version of sirens from Classical Mythology... as in, she has the head and face of a beautiful woman, but the body of a bird (in this case, a chicken/ostrich). Even Laszlo isn't interested.
- I Am a Humanitarian: despite eating fish she also elects to devour the cameramen stranded on her island after Colin and Laszlo leave.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: A serial predator of human lives (like just about every main character on the show) but she abandons her plans of eating Colin Robinson when she realizes he doesn't want to resist her, enchanted voice or no.
- Mix-and-Match Critter: she has the upper body of a human and her lower half is made up of what the show calls a "chicken" but what appears to be the rib cage and legs of an ostrich.
- Our Sirens Are Different: Sheila the siren appears human on the top half of her body, but has a chicken-like bottom half. This is actually lampshaded by Colin Robinson when he tells the documentary crew that Sirens come in many different forms, not just the mermaids that most people know. Like typical portrayals of sirens, she's able to lure Laszlo and Colin Robinson off-course with her singing.
The Djinn
Djinn
Portrayed By: Anoop Desai
A genie released from a lamp that Nandor had brought back from his travels to Al-Quolanudar.
- Bigger Is Better in Bed: He says that 90% of his services revolve around penile enlargement, hence why he isn't surprised when Nandor and Guillermo have so many stipulations to make sure the wish doesn't get screwed up.
- The Cameo: Makes a brief appearance in the season 5 finale when Nandor considers using a wish to make Guillermo human again, only for the Djinn to inform him that he had already used up all of his wishes.
- Character Tics: He punctuates granting wishes with a click of his pen.
- Deadpan Snarker: Definitely dry, definitely an understated sense of wit. When he's playing along with Guillermo and Nandor figuring he's a Jackass Genie, he "admits" he was seconds away from making Nandor's penis the largest by giving every other person in the world a micro one.
- Jackass Genie: Subverted. The characters certainly believe he is and Guillermo invokes the trope in the fourth season's third episode when Nandor is wishing for penile enlargement. In actuality this Djinn is a helpful and cordial fellow who is upfront about his tendency to warp wishes so as to teach his masters a lesson about greed and desire. He doesn't do it out of malice but rather treats it like a job that simply must be performed. That being said he invokes Exact Words a few times, like when Nandor obliviously wishes for the world's biggest penis...while forced to think about Guillermo whenever he uses it."What they're doing is correct, but...it's annoying."
- Our Genies Are Different: For instance, his service includes fifty-two wishes instead of the classic three.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: Adapts to the modern day by appearing in a spiffy suit and tie instead of the stereotypical Middle-Eastern garb that most genies are associated with.
- Stoic Spectacles: Wears a large, distinct pair of glasses that he is always looking over the top of, usually giving a tired or apathetic stare.
The Wraiths
A pack of phantoms that serve the Vampiric Council.
- And I Must Scream: The wraiths are implied to exist in a state of perpetual pain, and most can neither speak nor write. A rare drug is able to soothe this pain, and some wraiths are so determined to get it that they'll throw the rest of their union under the bus to get some.
- Black Speech: Their speech sounds like bats screeching. In order to communicate with the vampires, they hold up written notes.
- The Blank: They're made of a shadowy substance and don't have faces (or any features at all).
- Expy: Of the Nazgul from The Lord of the Rings.
- Faceless Goons: Between the hooded robes, actual lack of faces, and creepy ceremonial masks, this trope is in full force.
- Fantastic Drug: A rare substance called Water Lily of the Nile is "the only drug that helps with the pain of being a wraith".
- Malevolent Masked Men: Part of their uniform includes elaborate, menacing masks donned during Ceremonies of Judgement.
- Psychic Link: They have one with The Guide and sometimes follow what she feels should be done despite verbal orders otherwise.
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: The wraiths' representative sells out their union's demands in exchange for Water Lily of the Nile. When he breaks the news to the others, the other wraiths mob their rep, leaving little more than a smear of blood on the floor.
- Undead Laborers: They're the handymen of the Vampiric Council.
- Weird Trade Union: The wraiths successfully unionize in protest of Nadja's treatment and negotiate days off with pay, plus five new storage closets to sleep in.
