History Characters / Blaseball

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* SupernaturalIsPurple: The Reader is a mysterious godlike entity who communicates through tarot readings and possesses strange, poorly understood abilities.

* ItIsPronouncedTropay: Their name is pronounced like "Socrates".

!!Commissioner Parker Macmillan IIIII

* CloningBlues: Went into a meltdown on Twitter after unredacting parts of the Library revealed that he's a facsimile of the player Parker Macmillan. He got better.

* TookALevelInBadass: After picking up the Microphone, Parker the Fifth gets over his CloningBlues and gains confidence, though still quite shaky. He even somehow survived BLACK HOLE (BLACK HOLE)'s nullification of Blaseball, [[SequelHook and reports a big bang]]...
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: The original commissioner was Parker Macmillan III; he gets periodically killed and replaced with an identical, higher-number version. All of which are clones of famed prehistoric player Parker Macmillan, mind you.

* KilledOffForReal: Was eaten by the Monitor. He was a little bland, according to him.

* BigEater: Defeated the Shelled One by eating it, and keeps taking snack breaks. He's also the chef behind the Concessions stand.

* DeathTakesAHoliday: Abruptly quit working with Boss after being overworked for multiple seasons, which caused every incinerated team to leave the Hall of Flame. He actively encouraged this.

* {{Psychopomp}}: The closest thing the League has to a Grim Reaper, seeing as he is the Monitor of the Hall of Flame. He is explicitly seen consoling the Kansas City Breath Mints and the Hawaii Fridays after their incinerations in Season 24, and is very friendly towards Pudge Nakamoto, a player who repeatedly wanders out of the Hall due to a mod.

* AffablyEvil: Compared to the Shelled One, who acted like an angry Old Testament God, the Boss couches everything she says in gentle PR speak and doesn't get mad at the playerbase's usual antics.

* [[AscendedFanboy Ascended Fangirl]]: Unlikely as it sounds, Library records revealed that the Coin really ''did'' used to be a fan, of the Alaskan Immortals specifically.
* BadBoss: But of course. She constantly deflects work she is definitely meant to be doing onto the Monitor, refuses to take any blame for any problems she causes, and even to the bitter end insists she's a fan just like everyone else.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Many of her less benevolent actions have a very corporate bent to them, most notably removing the most Idoled players from the league and transforming them into commodities that teams can gift to each other. Her larger plan appears to be to sink the League into Immateria by weighing them down with items so they can be fed to "Consumers". She is willing to expand the league as much as possible, no matter the cost--even if the cost are the lives of players, and even entire teams.
* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist by Her Own Petard]]: The Coin's excess and destructive methods of expansion ultimately prove to be her undoing--her own Sun(Sun) going Supernova and promptly splitting into a Pulsar(Pulsar) and a Black Hole(Black Hole) results in the chain of events that causes her to become Scattered by Immateria herself, before finally being incinerated by Rouge Teams, with everything she has done being nullified by the Black hole(Black Hole).
* KilledOffForReal: After The Monitor quits her staff, he willingly turns a blind eye to the members of the Hall, which promptly go Rogue. Combined with the Reader letting teams Scatter her, she is ultimately forced to beg as she is melted down, incinerating her--something only possible thanks to her own hubris.

* NeverMyFault: Refers to the periodic flooding initially caused by construction of the Crabitat as a "Fan-Made Crisis", despite her open encouragement of behavior that exacerbates the flooding's worst effects, and in her final words, begging that she too is a fan.

* OppositeDay: All of the Reader's special Election items involve inverting things like runs, wins, and in the case of the "Underbracket" decree, the entire postseason. Additionally, they use a lot of American football terms in their speech as compared to the baseball terms used elsewhere throughout the game.

!!Lootcrates

* AudienceParticipation: Lootcrates will post any game action that receives 1000 "upshells" onto its official Twitter account.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Right after enough of the Rising Stars were artificially forged in the ILB Semi-centennial, just before Sun(Sun) reached Critical Mass and went Supernova, Lootcrates left to the vault, leaving the rest of the game un-narrated, and hid until the tail end of Season 24.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Slushies, apparently. How exactly it drinks them is unknown.

* SdrawkcabName: It's "The Fireman" backwards.

* SdrawckabName: It's "The Fireman" backwards.

An enormous, godlike peanut being who descended upon Blaseball in season 3 to punish them for their peanut-related blasphemy. The BigBad throughout the "Discipline Era".

* {{Psychopomp}}: The closest thing the League has to a Grim Reaper, seeing as he is the Monitor of the Hall of Flame. He is explicitly seen consoling the Kansas City Breath Mints and the Hawaii Fridays after their incinerations in Season 24, and is very friendly towards Pudge Nakamoto.
* TentacledTerror: Inverted – despite being a huge squid, the Monitor is the most openly benevolent of all the higher beings encountered so far, with the only entity he's shown outright distaste for is [[BadBoss the Boss]].

A Roman coin who has taken over management of the Internet League after The Shelled One was defeated. Shaping up to be the BigBad of the "Expansion Era".

* BadBoss: But of course. She constantly deflects work she is definitely meant to be doing onto the Monitor, refusing to take any blame for any problems she causes, and even to the bitter end insists she is a just fan just like everyone else if it means covering herself.

* OppositeDay: All of the Reader's special Election items involve inverting things like runs, wins, and in the case of the "Underbracket" decree, the entire postseason.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Slushies, apparently. How exactly it drinks them is unknown.

* CloningBlues: Went into a meltdown on Twitter after unredacting parts of the Library revealed that he's a facsimile of the player Parker Macmillan.

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: The original commissioner was Parker Macmillan III; he gets periodically killed and replaced with an identical, higher-number version.

* BigEater: Defeated the Shelled One by eating it, and keeps taking snack breaks.
* DeathTakesAHoliday: Abruptly quit after being overworked for multiple seasons, which caused every incinerated team to leave the Hall of Flame.

* TentacledTerror: Inverted – despite being a huge squid, the Monitor is the most openly benevolent of all the higher beings encountered so far.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Many of her less benevolent actions have a very corporate bent to them, most notably removing the most Idoled players from the league and transforming them into commodities that teams can gift to each other. Her larger plan appears to be to sink the League into Immateria by weighing them down with items so they can be fed to "Consumers".
* LightIsNotGood: Most of the Boss' Election items involve creating additional suns, with effects that mostly increase the league's [=eDensity=] and cause players to be eaten by Consumers.
* NeverMyFault: Refers to the periodic flooding initially caused by construction of the Crabitat as a "Fan-Made Crisis", despite her open encouragement of behavior that exacerbates the flooding's worst effects.

* MagicLibrarian: Oversees the League's library of history, most of which is currently redacted. They'll un-redact history from time to time.

* ArcVillain: Ostensibly, of the Expansion Era.

* NeverMyFault: Always refers to the periodic flooding initially caused by construction of the Crabitat as a "Fan-Made Crisis", despite her open encouragement of behavior that exacerbates the flooding's worst effects.

* NewJobsAsThePlotDemands: The Boss keeps appointing them to new positions, including Food & Beverage Director (so they have to constantly invent new Snacks) and Gift Shop Director (so they have to manage gifts for every team). They are notably overworked at this point.

* CrypticConversation: Always speaks in unintelligible riddles.

* OppositeDay: All of the Reader's special Election items involve inverting things like runs, wins, and in the case of the "Underbracket" decree, the entire postseason.

* BeefGate: After the Ascension mechanic was voted in, the Peanut would challenge any Internet League champion to a final game in "Day X". This was in part a way to check if team was good enough to ascend and play in the "Big Leagues" – given that the very strong Baltimore Crabs were annihilated 2-97 in their only season there, they probably weren't.

A giant squid-like entity originally in charge of managing the Hall of Flame, which commemorated incinerated players. Was later promoted to various other positions by Ownership during the Expansion Era.

* NewJobsAsThePlotDemands: Ownership keeps appointing them to new positions, including Food & Beverage Director (so they have to constantly invent new Snacks) and Gift Shop Director (so they have to manage gifts for every team). They are notably overworked at this point.

!!Ownership/The Coin

* AffablyEvil: Compared to The Shelled One, who acted like an angry Old Testament God, Ownership couches everything she says in gentle PR speak and doesn't get mad at the playerbase's usual antics.

* LightIsNotGood: Most of Ownership's Election items involve creating additional suns, with effects that mostly increase the league's [=eDensity=] and cause players to be eaten by Consumers.

* BeefGate: Suddenly appeared in front of the Charleston Shoe Thieves after they won their third Internet Series and were due for Ascension and challenged them to a duel for their right to go to the Big Leagues, annihilating them and keeping them in the Internet League.

* AffablyEvil: Compared to The Shelled One, who acted like an angry Old Testament God, Ownership couches everything she says in gentle PR speak and isn't
* LightIsNotGood: Most of Ownership's Election items involve creating additional suns, with effects that mostly increase the league's [=eDensity=] and cause players to be eaten by Consumers.