History Characters / CorpseBride

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChristopherLee (original), Rubén Moya (Latin-American Spanish dub), Josep María Ullod (Spanish dub)

->'''Voiced by:''' Michael Gough (original), Francisco Colmenero (Latin-American Spanish dub), Santiago Cortés (Spanish dub)

* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Has white hair, and is later established as a villainous and selfish figure.

* SkewedPriorities: Upon their daughter (last seen distraught at the ghastly fate of her husband-to-be) being returned to them by the village priest, in the middle of the night, during a major storm:

* NiceHat: He wears a snazzy bowler, the only non bone-made thing he wears along with his eye.

Victor's parents, and a pair of ''nouveau riche'' fish merchants that have become wealthy through their industry, much to the disapproval of the Everglots.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: William looks like an older version of his son. (According to the lead character designer, this was a lucky accident.)

* BeehiveHairdo: Maudeline Everglot's hair.

* {{Expy}}: He looks like the grown-up version of [[http://www.helderdarocha.com.br/blog/tim_burton_vincent.jpg Vincent]], the child protagonist of one of Burton's earliest stop-motion works. This is even {{lampshaded}} in the movie.

[[folder:The Van Dorts]]

Nell and William, Victor's parents, and a pair of ''nouveau riche'' fish merchants that have become wealthy through their industry, much to the disapproval of the Everglots.

[[folder:The Everglots]]

Maudeline and Finis Everglot, Victoria's parents.

[[folder:The Maggot and the Black Widow spider]]

The fellow shaped like a bell who works as the town's main source of news and gossip.

These are the characters that appear in {{Creator/Tim Burton}}'s stop-motion movie, ''Corpse Bride''.

* DeathByOriginStory: Her backstory appears in the third of the film -- she was killed on her wedding day by her fiancé who was after her money. Her family didn't approve of the match because they were eloping together, so there was nobody to help her.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter (original), Cynthia Alfonzo (Latin-American Spanish dub), Mar Roca (Spanish dub), Creator/OlgaGolovanov (Russian dub), Creator/LaurenceBreheret (French dub)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter (original), Cynthia Alfonzo (Latin-American Spanish dub), Mar Roca (Spanish dub), Olga Golovanov (Russian dub), Creator/LaurenceBreheret (French dub)

-->'''Barkis''': Always the bridesmaid, but never the bride! Tell me, my dear...can a heart still breaks once it's stopped ''beating''? Hm?

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After Victor goes missing, they ride around town in Mayhew's carriage looking for him. [[spoiler:Then Mayhew kicks the bucket, leaving the carriage driverless and out of control.]] [[UncertainDoom They're never seen or even mentioned after this]].

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She's blue-haired, although admittedly it likely wasn't that color in life.

* BeautyMark: Nell has a mole on her face.

* NoIndoorVoice: When Barkis asks him to repeat "tonight's headlines", he does it complete with the bell-ringing and yelling at the top of his lungs. Which [[GlassShatteringSound rattles the cups in the room]].

A charming yet murderous con-artist.

* {{Jerkass}}: He's extremely unpleasant. He's a jerk mainly to Victor during the wedding rehearsal, and later to Victoria, who comes to him for guidance only to be forcibly dragged back to her judgmental parents.

* LightIsNotGood: Downplayed; Galswells is a priest, but while he isn't evil, [[{{Jerkass}} he isn't nice]].

* AristocratsAreEvil: Downplayed. They're not actively "evil" per se, but they [[HateSink lack any redeeming qualities]]. And they did not only forcefully marry their daughter to the highest bidder, but Finis also threatened to kill Victor with a musket for disgracing his family.

* HateSink: Much like Lord Barkis, the Everglots lack any redeeming quality, other than the fact that they are not evil.

* LeanAndMean: Mrs. Everglot, a miserable woman in an unwanted marriage and towers her much smaller husband. Luckily her daughter Victoria is not that mean.

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Their financial situation is so dire that they pawn off Victoria to Barkis without running a background check on him first, simply working under the assumption that he has a lot of money. Given that he has his eyes set on the (long gone) Everglot family fortune, one can only gather that he most likely doesn't. The Everglot parents are not only upleasant but clearly rather foolish as well.

* StatuesqueStunner: She is almost as tall as Victor and much taller than Victoria.

* GoldDigger: Of a different sort to the Van Dorts; they are marrying Victoria into the Van Dort family for their money.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: William looks like an older version of his son.

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Their financial situation is so dire that they pawn off Victoria to Barkis without actually checking to see if he actually is rich. Given that he is after the (long gone) Everglot fortune, one can only gather that he most likely isn't.

[[folder:Mayhew]]
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[[caption-width-right:210:''"Time to pick up the pieces and move on, I suppose."'']]
->'''Voiced by:''' Paul Whitehouse (original), Enric Isasi-Isasmendi (Spanish dub)

An employee of the Van Dorts' fish cannery who also acts as their coach driver.

* ChekhovsGunman: Seemingly a background character and assistant to the Van Dorts, his death serves to kick Victor's decision to marry Emily now that Victoria married Lord Barkis.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Mayhew's constant smoking leaves him with a terrible cough and is something that annoys Mrs. Van Dort. This causes him to collapse from the coach and die. He re-appears in the Underworld as a much "healthier" person without the weight of constantly coughing.
* PhraseCatcher: "MAYHEW!!! Stop that blasted coughin'!" from [[BadBoss Nell]].

[[folder:Scraps]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' --

Victor's dog, who died before the events of the movie. Both reunite after Victor arrives to the Underworld.

* DemBones: A dog turned a skeleton when he arrived to the Underworld.
* FriendlySkeleton: True to a dog, Scraps is friendly, even if he's nothing more than a small pile of what he used to munch on.
* ItWasAGift: His skeleton is presented to Victor by Emily as a wedding gift, and both reunite.
* LoyalAnimalCompanion: After several years of his death, Scraps manages to be this - even as a skeleton!
* SilentSnarker: When Victor orders Scraps to do tricks, he tells Scraps to play dead. Scraps just [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne whines in discomfort]].

* HateSink: Smug and snarky towards everything for no reason? Check. Con man? Check. FauxAffablyEvil? Check. [[spoiler:Killed Emily and took her money and family jewels? CHECK.]] Redeeming qualities? ''[[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Nope.]]''