History Characters / BadDayOnTheMidway

** She references Music/HankWilliams's Hey Good Lookin' if you cross paths with her. In truth, she slips a whole bunch of lyrics from country songs into her dialogue.

* TheDitz

The missing owner of the park and Dixie's husband. [[spoiler: He can be found in Dixie's room, scarred and comatose from a mysterious incident in the Three-Headed Abominable Snowman exhibit]]

* ChildHater: Downplayed, He's more than happy to cater to children as customers at the Midway and builds his attractions specifically to spread his worldview to the youth of of America [[spoiler: but he is VERY much against having any children of his own, to the point of faking paralysis to avoid fathering any with Dixie.]]

A shifty-looking handyman who has come to the Midway looking for work. [[spoiler: Secretly, he is the Midway's former handyman, coming back in disguise to find a rumored golden treasure hidden somewhere in the park]]

The Midway's resident painted lady and an inveterate dog lover. Dagmar works at a sideshow tent on the midway where she shows off her tattoos and and the ribald stories of their origins. She can usually be seen wandering the main street with her Dobermans, advertising her show.

* InLoveWithLove: Despite her history with romance, once she meets [[spoiler: The IRS Man]] she's head over heels and ready to leave the sideshow life behind for marriage and a "vine-covered cottage."

* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: His attempts at a criminal career have gone ''very'' poorly. Although he hasn't had much trouble with the law, his schemes always seem to fail outright or come back to bite him all on their own. He considers the blackmail letter he found to be the biggest break of his life, after finding Oscar, that is. [[spoiler: Too bad Dixie's broke and Ike was just lying about the gold he hid.]]

* PlotTriggeringDeath: Otto is always the first to die of the Red Rat Plague [[spoiler: As such, he and Lottie are the only ones who have no unique ending sequence.]]

* DoomedByCanon: She is that only character that the player can't control [[spoiler: which unfortunately means that she can't be saved from the Red Rat Plague]]

* ButterflyOfDeathandRebirth: Ted has a butterfly collection [[spoiler: of a sort. He's made them out of the bones, flesh, and personal possessions of his victims. A fitting memento of his "ugly liberations," since he considers death to be a kind of rebirth for the "ugly."]]
* CaughtMonologuing: Maybe if he spent a little less time talking about his philosophies [[spoiler: he might have survived the wrath of Oscar during his fight with Jocko]]

* SerialKiller: [[spoiler:Ted will immobilize and kill adult characters if he catches them in isolated areas. He is implied to have been doing this during his mother's freak show circuits for quite some time, making [[CreepySouvenir some lovely butterflies to commemorate his trips]] ]]
* WouldntHurtAChild: [[spoiler: If he and Timmy are the only characters left behind by the end of the game, there isn't anyone left for him to kill. He can't bring himself to kill an innocent child like Timmy, and he hangs himself after realizing how ugly and hypocritical he is.]]

* AbhorrentAdmirer: He considers Oscar his best friend, but Otto really doesn't like him - he doesn't like humans much at all, after what he lived through before the Midway.

%%* ObstructiveBureaucrat

%%* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent

* AbhorrentAdmirer: He considers Oscar his best friend, but Oscar really doesn't like him - he doesn't like humans much at all, after what he lived through before the Midway.

%%* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep

%%* RavenHairIvorySkin

A performer in the Midway's freak show, and Ted's mother. She has a disease that makes her skin look and feel like tree bark, and her amputated legs are replaced by fake stumps.
She lost her legs in an car accident when she was 10, and lived with her grandmother in the woods after being left orphan. When her grandmother died, she married a lumberjack called Tommy and together they had Ted. That's when she developed her signature tree bark skin, and later still, Tommy died from a tree that fell on him. Lottie had to leave the woods with Ted and sustain herself and him by working as a freak in the freak show at the Midway.

Lottie's son. [[spoiler:He is a serial killer that can potentially be behind many a character death should you run into him. He takes the dismembered parts of his victims and rearranges them to resemble butterflies]].

%%* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas

%%* SerialKiller
* WouldntHurtAChild: [[spoiler:If he and Timmy are the only characters left behind by the end of the game, there isn't anyone left for him to kill. He can't bring himself to kill an innocent child like Timmy, and he hangs himself after realizing how ugly and hypocritical he is.]]

* CheerfulChild

--> '''Timmy''': I don't remember when my next violin lesson is. My mom will kill me if I do it again!

--> '''Otto:''' D-Dixie! It's Oscar, he's, he's run away! Have you seen my rat anywhere?!
--> '''Dixie:''': I ain't seen no rats, Otto.

--> '''Timmy:''' Are you from Texas? I always wanted to go to Texas.
--> '''Dixie:''' I ain't from Texas. I just love country an' western music, that's all!

--> '''Dixie:''': Hey there good lookin'! Whatcha got cookin'?

--> '''Dixie:''' One Chris'mus, Daddy an' me put a red hat an' a cotton beard on li'l ol' Moochy, an' we called him SANTA DOG!

--> '''Ike''': I can see it all now, Dixie. [[spoiler:Kiddy Klan Kountry! We'll build it in Idaho! All the kids can put on white hoods and robes as soon as they enter the park, while the first thing they'll see is a huge wheel, with a burning cross in the center! And we'll sell grand dragon dogs and huge imperial wizard burgers at the concession booth, ''maybe even'' have cotton glandy stands! It's gonna be great, Dixie!]]

* ClarkKenting: [[spoiler: As noted below, he wears a cowboy hat as a disguise, so nobody at the midway will recognize him; Dixie does as soon as he takes it off.]]

* {{Jerkass}}

* RavenHairIvorySkin

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep

* ObstructiveBureaucrat

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent

--> '''Lottie:''' I was an orphan with no place to stay / 'til my granny came along and took me away / to live with her way back in the woods / where they weren't any kids or neighborhoods!

--> '''Ted:''' But I abhorr ugliness, and [[PunctuatedForEmphasis You. Are. Ugly.]] Ugly in the feelings found in your soul. Ugly in the thoughts that make up your mind. Ugly in the aches found in your heart.

* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas
* FreudianExcuse
* SerialKiller
* WouldntHurtAChild: [[spoiler:If he and Timmy are the only characters left behind by the end of the game, there isn't anyone left for him to kill. He can't bring himself to kill an innocent child like Timmy, and he hangs himself after realizing how ugly and hypocritical he is.]]

* ButNotTooBlack: Though this could be due to the game's graphical limitations. Despite being described as black by other characters and drawn as such in the cutscenes, his in-game model doesn't have much darker skin than the other characters.

* ShesGotLegs: As the above link states.
* TheVamp

* NiceHat: A cowboy hat. [[spoiler:He's only wearing it to disguise himself from the others, as they actually knew him before he left from working on the Midway.]]

** AdaptationDyeJob: ...or at least, that is what the 3d character models show. In the [[ArtShift comic sequences]] that go along with her life story song she is blonde, and even explicitly stated that she dyed herself blonde when she was 14. Some of the comic sequences even show her with [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair pink hair]], though maybe [[HairColorDissonance it's meant to be very bright red]].

** AdaptationDyeJob: ...or at least, that is what the 3d character models show. In the [[ArtShift comic sequences]] that go along with her life story song she is blonde, and even explicitly stated that she dyed herself blonde when she was 14. Some of the sequences even show her with [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair pink hair]], though maybe it's meant to be very bright red.