History Characters / Goosebumps2023

* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Kanduu's lotus-flower mind game to trick him was taking the form of his deceased father, insisting he had never really died and had to fake his suiide and go into hiding for a year as part of the "government witness protection problem" under the threat of imprisonment...even though he and his mom ''literally saw him die and had him buried''. Despite this, he almost immediately forget his suspicions and embraces his dad...only to get turned into another living puppet for Kanduu's ploy.]]

* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Kanduu's lotus-flower mind game to trick him was taking the form of his deceased father, insisting he had never really died and had to fake said death and go into hiding for a year as a "government witness" under the threat of imprisonment...even though he and his mom ''literally saw him die and had him buried''. Despite this, he almost immediately forget his suspicions and embraces his dad...only to get turned into another living puppet for Kanduu's ploy.]]

* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Kanduu's mind game to trick was taking the form of his deceased father, insisting he was never really dead and had to leave a "government witness protection program" under threat of imprisonment...even though he and his mom ''literally saw him die and had him buried''. Despite this, he almost immediately forget his suspicions and embraces his dad...only to get turned into another living puppet for Kanduu's ploy.]]

* InternetJerk: Spends most of her free time trolling her classmates, her main target being Allison.

** [[spoiler: Margotand the other kids [[ShutUpHannibal call him out for it]], telling him he’s clearly [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist not doing it to help the world but to punish it for what he’s been through.]]]]

* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: [[spoiler: Kanduu is told to his face by the kids he's terrorized that whatever suffering he endured during the war he fought in does not grant him a free pass to commit cruelties towards others and kill an entire town's population as a sacrificial offering.]]

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: [[spoiler: Kanduu's driving belief: "People need monsters or else they ''become'' monsters."]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler: For all he proclaims about wanting to put an end to war, strife, and conflict between humans that creates so much death and suffering in the world, Kanduu specializes in bringing death and suffering to others and his plan to release the horrors would simply introduce another "other" for humans to act against, leading to more years of even more carnage and devastation upon the world.]]
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Kanduu rationalizes his desire to fulfill the sacrifical ritual that would bring the horrors into the world by saying that without such horrors in the world, humans create even worse horrors of their own and become more monstrous than any otherwordly creatures. Margot and her friends believe that this is merely an excuse to inflict suffering onto countless others as a way to punish the world and humanity for how much they'd made him suffer, as using mass murder to bring in dangerous beings who could take even more lives only serves to descend the world into ''more'' carnage rather than simply put a stop to all the still ongoing conflicts.]]

* VisionaryVillain: [[spoiler:Slappy/Kanduu was nearly killed in a 19th Century war, and afterwards pledges to use his newfound powers to put an end to war and human suffering by unleashing monsters into the world. Of course, he can only achieve this by sacrificing 1,000 people in an elaborate "ritual," and either hasn't given much thought, or doesn't care about what happens once those monsters are released.]]
** [[spoiler: Margot and the other kids [[ShutUpHannibal call him out for it]], telling him he’s clearly [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist not doing it to help the world but to punish it for what he’s been through.]]]]

** [[spoiler:Margot and the other kids call him out for it, telling him he’s clearly not doing it to help the world but to punish it for what he’s been through.]]

* GrandTheftMe: He is possessed by Harold's spirit soon after moving into the house and forced to do his bidding for most of the series. The final episode [[spoiler:implies that Kaandu is about to possess him next]].

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His rather stupid decision to retrieve Slappy and bring him back from the dead. He is filled with remorse as soon as he recognizes Slappy's true intentions, though [[WhatTheHellHero the kids do not let him off the hook for it]].

* InspirationalTeacher: Subverted. A flashback to his life before Port Lawrence shows Bratt trying to play this role to his students, but given an inspirational speech about writing to a ''biology class'' isn't the way to go about it.

* FormerTeenRebel: Was described as "scary" by both Sarah and Harold when she was a teenager, while now she seems content being a DotingParent to Lucas

* SupernaturalSensitivity: She was the only person besides Isaiah able to see the fire at the football game, and quickly detected that Slappy was both sentient and evil after hearing him talk to Biddle.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: After learning that his parents still love and forgive him even after all he had done and said to them, Harold turns against Slappy and peacefully passes on.]]

* LonelyRichKid: His mother is well off, but the other parents imply that she does not care about him. [[spoiler: Turns out she knows him better than he thinks, as she easily figures out that one of his temporal clones is impersonating him. Granted, that particular clone wasn't bothering to be subtle, but she is able to tell the real James is who he says he is because she is familiar with his snarking.]]

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She is a {{Troll}} who mocks her classmates on the internet in order to cope with feeling invisible and overlooked, but she isn't actually a mean person overall. When The Haunted Mask influences her to chew out Lucas and Colin while in Colin's office, she instantly regrets having done it, apologizes, and assures Lucas that she's willing to accept his meager repayment for her broken drone. She also loves her little brother, [[spoiler: which is what ultimately enables her to throw off the Mask's influence, as harming him is farther than she's willing to go.]]

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He can be a callous jackass, not caring about the collateral damage of his stunts, but he is also a kid still struggling with the death of his father, trying to gather the courage to succeed in the stunt that killed his father, [[spoiler: not knowing that his father was actually suicidal and chose an impossible stunt for that reason]].

* PutOnABus: Not technically, but [[spoiler: he's the only member of the group who's out of commission in the final episode due to him being the only one to fall for Kanduu's trick of appearing as their loved ones about to fulfill their heart's desires, and thus is turned into another of his living puppets meant for sacrifice.]]

* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: Kanduu's mind game to trick was taking the form of his deceased father, insisting he was never really dead and had to leave a "government witness protection program" under threat of imprisonment...even though he and his mom ''literally saw him die and had him buried''. Despite this, he almost immediately forget his suspicions and embraces his dad...only to get turned into another living puppet for Kanduu's ploy.]]

* VisionaryVillain: [[spoiler:Slappy/Kanduu was nearly killed in a 19th Century war, and afterwards pledges to use his newfound powers to put an end to war and human suffering by unleashing monsters into the world. Of course, he can only achieve this by sacrificing 1,000 people in an elaborate "ritual," and he evidently hasn't given much thought about what would happen once the monsters are released.]]