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!!'''Don Copal'''
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->'''Voiced by:''' Michael Sorich

A foul-tempered middle manager in [=DoD=] and Manny's immediate superior

!!'''Dockmaster Velasco'''
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KayEKuter

An old crusty sea dog who works as Rubacava's dockmaster, living in a three-walled shack on the pier. Misses his old ship, the ''S.S. Lamancha''.

* CompanionCube: The ''Lamancha''.
* CommonalityConnection: Bonds with Glottis over their shared love for machines and vehicles.
* CoolOldGuy: Glottis definitely thinks so.
* EyepatchOfPower: Wears one similar to the one he had in life.
* FatherNeptune:
-->'''Velasco:''' When you’ve strolled these docks as long as I have, pilgrim, you know where you are by the smell of the sea, by the sound of the lonely fog horn, by the icy touch of the cold, salty air...
-->'''Glottis:''' Wow! Manny, could I have an eyepatch?
* FatherToHisMen: Hinted at when Membrillo breaks the news about Naranja and his reaction seems to contain a note of genuine grief.
* HelloSailor: Averted – using the "pick up" command makes Manny say this exact phrase and Velasco snaps "Quit foolin' around!"
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Manny returns and tells him where the Lamancha is, Velasco takes it as a cue to leave the rotten town of Rubacava for good.
* SkewedPriorities: "They'll serve you to the sharks like chum, and what's worse – I'll get fined!" It's hard to tell if he's messing with Manny or not.

!!'''Membrillo'''
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MiltonJames

Rubacava's coroner with an appropriate sense of humor and outlook on life and death, disillusioned by the idea of ever leaving the Eighth Underworld.
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A petty crook and forger who frequents both Manny's cafe and Maximino's cat race track in Year 2. He can forge a Maritime Union card for Manny, but only if Manny can retrieve a suitcase he lost at Maximino's. He shows up again in Year 4 at Hector's casino.

!!'''Olivia Ofrenda'''
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-> '''Voiced by:''' Paula Killen

Owner of the Blue Casket in Rubacava, who has... [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys interesting tastes in men]].

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: She sure does.
-->'''Manny:''' You really have a bad taste in men.\\
'''Olivia:''' No, I have a taste for really bad men, Manny. There's a difference.
* AlliterativeName: '''O'''livia '''O'''frenda.
* {{Beatnik}}: She wears an ArtsyBeret, smokes heavily, runs a nightclub where several patrons discuss left-wing politics, and even recites poetry.
* TheChanteuse: A variation; instead of singing, she recites her poetry.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Not only does she date two (possibly three) men at the same time, she also betrays Manny and the entire LSA for her latest sweetheart, Hector.
* ColdBloodedTorture: She literally tears Sal apart.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Salvador bites his CyanidePill as she's holding his decapitated head, causing the Sproutella inside to be shot right into her ''face''.
* GratuitousSpanish: If playing the game in Spanish, she speaks in Argentinian accent complete with voseos and slangs like "boludo"[[note]]slang of "fool" or "idiot"[[/note]] for example.
* FemmeFatale: This being a Noir, there had to be one ''somewhere''.
* KarmicDeath: Sal sprouts her along with himself as his last act.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: When Manny admits he's chasing a woman he saw once and can't forget, Olivia gives him a poem that consists of one word.
-->'''Olivia:''' ''(giggling as she says it)'' Chu-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-um-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-mp.
* MeaningfulName: An [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofrenda ofrenda]] is an altar that families put up for a deceased loved one on Dia de los Muertos.
* SympatheticAdulterer: Sort of. The game seems to want you to make up your own feelings about her affair with Nick. Maximino may be a better man than Nick, but he still doesn't seem to be all that great. Then again, when you talk to him, he does, for all his faults, seem to genuinely care about her. Manny clearly doesn't like it, but he's not convicted about it enough to pursue the problem for very long. Regardless, it's hard to deny that she's still an interesting character outside of her adulterous ways, and the game doesn't depict her as completely evil until after she betrays the LSA.
* TheMole: As it turns out she's working for Hector, not the LSA.
* TautologicalTemplar: After torturing Sal and stealing a case full of Number Nine tickets, she's seen searching the case, genuinely convinced she's a good enough person to deserve one of them.
-->'''Olivia:''' Come on... one of these must be mine...

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!!'''Celso Flores'''
-> '''Voiced By''': Peter Lurie

Manny's client in the game's introduction, Celso Flores is a recent arrival in the Land Of the Dead and learns of the workings of the afterlife alongside the player.

!!'''Eva'''
->'''Voiced by:''' Rachel Reenstra

The first benevolent character you meet in the game, Eva works as Don Copal's secretary. Secretly, she's the right-hand woman (and, initially, the only other member) of the Lost Souls Alliance.

* AllThereInTheManual: According to the game's original script, her full name is '''Evaluna'''.
* AmicableExes: While Manny and Eva were never married, they used to be an item. They are still close, but not enough to start a relationship again.
* AsYouKnow: {{Lampshaded}} humorously. If you want more information on how the death system in this universe works after the opening cutscene, you can pester Eva until she gives it to you. Eva then calls Manny out for being deliberately obtuse as a ruse to hit on her.
* JoinOrDie: This exchange between Manny and Eva.
-->'''Manny:''' Any messages for me?\\
'''Eva:''' One: join, or die!\\
'''Manny:''' [[DeadToBeginWith But I'm already...]]\\
'''Eva:''' ''Again!''
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten[[invoked]]:
-->'''Manny:''' It's my ex-boss' ex-secretary Eva!
-->'''Eva:''' You're never going to let me forget that secretary thing, are you?
* SassySecretary: Ohh so much. For example:
-->'''Manny:''' Any messages for me?
-->'''Eva:''' No, calls stopped coming for you the day you left. They're ''still'' sending you that lingerie catalog, though.

!!'''Bruno Martinez'''
->'''Voiced By''': Creator/JackAngel

A short, irritable man who becomes Manny's final client before meeting Meche, Bruno was the victim of a bad batch of gazpacho soup and apparently lived such a poor life that he didn't even qualify for the Excelsior walking sticks. Rather than walking the whole way to the Ninth Underworld, he agrees to instead be shipped in one of the DOD coffins.
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* {{Beatnik}}: Complete with poetry!

* FriendToAllChildren: Read stories to sick children in life, and forms an instant rapport with two ''angelitos'' in Year 3 - child souls with angel wings. This is in contrast with Manny, whom the ''angelitos'' hate on sight.
** The reason is that Meche cries whenever she mentions Manny, and the ''angelitos'' think Manny did something bad to her.

* NiceGal: It's a plot point.

* GratuitousSpanish: If playing the game in Spanish, she speaks in Argentinian accent complete with voseos and slangs like "boludo"[[note]]slang of "fool" or "idiot"[[]/note] for example.

* GratuitousSpanish: If playing the game in Spanish, he speaks in Argentinian accent, but however unlike Olivia, he speaks in [[ArtisticLicenseGeography tuteos]] even through Argentina almost never uses tuteos at all and instead uses voseos.

->'''Voiced by:''' Tony Plana

->'''Voiced by:''' Milton James

* ArcVillain: Of the Year 3 segmdent.

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The hero of the game, a salesman in the Department of Death. He'd point out that he's technically a travel agent, selling travel packages to the dead depending on how good they were in life, but the job is functionally identical to being TheGrimReaper. Manny has to work off his moral debt to advance further into the afterlife, but he can only do that by selling good packages to good souls, and for some reason all his latest customers don't qualify. Suspecting that he'll be stuck in his crappy job forever, Manny grows increasingly miserable and desperate, finally stealing one of Domino Hurley's files and clients. This is Mercedes "Meche" Colomar, a genuinely good soul who, according to her bio and further questioning, is qualified for a straight ride to Number Nine. When Manny finds out she apparently has to go the long way despite this, he decides to straighten everything out, beginning a journey that changes the entirety of the underworld.

* ChickMagnet: Three separate ladies express current or past romantic feelings for him in Chapter 2, but [[LadykillerInLove he only has eyes for Meche]]. [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend Uh, because she'll get him his job back]]. [[SarcasmMode Suuuuure.]] The only reason Olivia has no interest is because she's a GoldDigger and [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys Manny isn't criminal enough for her taste]].

* EarnYourHappyEnding: As a reward for foiling Hector, recovering the stolen golden tickets and returning them to their rightful owners, Management awards Manny with his own ticket, wiping away his karmic debt, and allowing him to "retire" to the Ninth Underworld with Meche.

** In the Brazilian dub, he also has a thick spanish accent.
* GuileHero: While he can deliver an excellent right hook (just ask [[AmoralAttorney Nick Virago]]), he's often equalled or outmatched in fights, requiring unorthodox solutions. He is shown to be witty and savvy throughout the journey. At the end of Arc 1, he started out as a janitor for a failing diner, in Arc 2 a galley cook for a shoddy ship. When the next arc starts, (a year afterwards), he is on top, owning a high-class night club which is the second most successful business in town, and in Arc 2 he's become a successful captain with a crew. Also notable that before the story, he was the hotshot Reaper.

* LovableRogue: Manny's one smooth-talking, deadpan-snarking, morally-flexible dead guy - particularly during Chapter 1 and 2. Like any good [=LucasArts=] adventure protagonist, he cons, steals from and screws over various people in various ways, and it's worth noting that we never ''do'' find out what exactly landed him in the Department of Death, which is for people who don't even deserve walking sticks on their way to the true afterlife.

* SelfMadeMan: In less then a year he elevates from a janitor in a run-down club to the owner of said club, which he turns into the second most successful joint in the town, and then from a galley worker on a shaggy old tub to a captain of a sterling liner. Definitely part of him being a GuileHero.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: He spends the two first chapters of the game in this mindset.

!!'''Mercedes "Meche" Colomar'''
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MariaCanalsBarrera

Manny's LoveInterest and the catalyst of the game's events; her file was the one Manny stole. Meche is obviously a good, gentle person deserving a first-class travel package...which is why Manny is baffled when she seemingly qualifies for nothing better than a long walk.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Chapter 3 and 4.
* BreakTheCutie: She starts out as a kind, sweet soul who gracefully accepts what she assumes to be a just punishment...except that it's ''not'', and things get worse for her from there. By Chapter 3, she's suffered horribly and become profoundly bitter, especially towards Manny. Fortunately, Manny saving her manages to help fix her up.
* DeadpanSnarker: She has her moments.
-->'''Meche''': Would you like to see my birthmark?
-->'''Manny''': Sure. Where is it?
-->'''Meche''': It's wherever you guys put my skin!
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Compared to Bruno Martinez and Celso Flores, Mercedes accepts her death with quiet grace.
* FriendToAllChildren: Read stories to sick children in life, and forms an instant rapport with two ''angelitos'' in Chapter 3 - child souls with angel wings. This is in contrast with Manny, whom the ''angelitos'' hate on sight.
** The reason is that Meche cries whenever she mentions Manny, and the ''angelitos'' think Manny did something bad to her.
* {{Irony}}: Meche is a selfless and sinless soul who was instantly qualified for the number 9. But Meche putting herself in Manny’s shoes and storming out his office for not being “good enough” for his sale, was the trigger point that flipped what could have been a 4-minute train ride into 4 years of suffering. This eerily suggests that Meche’s kind-hearted nature was also her [[FatalFlaw undoing]].
* NiceGal: It's a plot point.
* OfficialCouple: Never explicitly stated, but heavily implied at the end they become one.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Her backstory as a living person.

!!'''Glottis'''
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AlanBlumenfeld

Manny's friend and main ally. A demon (or as he says, "spirit of the land") with one purpose, desire and reason for living: driving, preferably really ''really'' fast. Also maintaining vehicles (when no driving jobs are available). He lives and works alone in the [=DoD=]'s basement, unable to fully exercise his gifts, leaving him open to persuasion in matters of technically-prohibited upgrades...
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* HiddenDepths: A good piano-player. He's also a big fan of the kitty races, which can cause problems.

* TheLeader: His role as Grand Demon. Since he's never around other speed demons, and being Manny's sidekick, it's never discovered until the end of the story.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: There aren't any visual cues, but based on his personality you might guess that Glottis is a few years old at most. But if you tell Nick you want to adopt Glottis, he'll object that the demon is "over two thousand years older than you". Presumably demons can live indefinitely as long as they're able to fulfil their purpose (This also means that the afterlife has been employing demon drivers for a lot longer than there have been cars). (To be fair, the same can be be said of any denizen of the Land of the Dead, though only those who have given up on seeking the Ninth Underworld are probably this trope.)

* StepfordSmiler: It's not revealed until Manny bids Glottis goodbye that the latter reveals how unhappy he was being stuck in the garage of the D.O.D..

-->'''Manny:''' Repeat after me -- "I am not fat. I am thin. Woman find me attractive."\\

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!!'''Salvador Limones'''
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->'''Voiced by:''' Sal Lopez

Leader of a rebel movement against the villains, one of Manny's main allies. Salvador was once a Reaper and a salesman like Manny, and like Manny, discovered that even his most deserving clients rarely qualified for anything. Unlike Manny, Salvador quit his job in order to create an underground movement and overthrow the Department of Death's corrupt leadership. In the end, Salvador is revealed to have qualified for a Number Nine ticket rather than Reaperdom - like Meche, he was a saintly soul given an unjust punishment.

* HeroicSacrifice: He uses his Sproutella CyanidePill to kill Olivia and save Manuel; activating it naturally requires he be exposed to it to.
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Salvador is heavily inspired by Marxist revolutionary UsefulNotes/CheGuevara which fits the Latin American setting of the game. Salvador dresses like him and uses the catchphrase, ''¡Viva la Revolución!'' which is synonymous with Che. The communist beatniks at the Blue Casket all look up to him.

* LosingYourHead: Happens when his resistance movement gets sabotaged in Year 4.

* NiceGuy: He might seem like a SmallNameBigEgo guy when you see his resistance is merely a group of two in Year 1, but he is genuinely commited to what he's up to. As a Number Nine ticket holder, it's no surprise.

* DodgyToupee: Wears one on his forehead. An especially ridiculous example of this trope, since everyone in the underworld is a ''skeleton'' without hair!

* NoIndoorVoice: Practically every single line of his is delivered as a shout, mostly of the angry kind.
* SeriouslyScruffy: With his rolled up sleeves and loosely fitting tie, Copal is obviously a busy man.

One of the two main villains. Manny's rival in the [=DoD=], the boss's pet on the fast-track to promotion, the hottest salesman with the best clients and all-round smug shade-wearing jackass. He uses Manny's old, much larger and more luxurious office, and seems to find all the good souls that Manny doesn't - in the first chapter landing a nun with a golden ticket when Manny gets a "mean midget [he] had to send 'parcel post'" (i.e. stuff into a coffin full of packing foam). This is because he's in on the [=DoD=] conspiracy.

* CallingCard: Dominos, used as a long detonation fuse. He even has domino marking on the back of his hands.

* EvilMentor: He tries to become this for Manny. It's why he doesn't just have Manny sprouted; he genuinely, if in a twisted way and for his own benefit, wants to take Manny under his wing and teach him the path to "success".

* FauxAffablyEvil: His behavior towards Manny is like that of a bullying but loving older brother who's constantly trying to take Manny under his wing and groom him for success. However, he uses slave labor and is also more than willing to have Manny sprouted, but hey, that's business.

* KickTheDog: Dropping Glottis over the edge of the world just because he didn't think he'd be useful. Glottis survived, but any player sympathy for Domino sure didn't.
* KlingonPromotion: After Don Copal gets sprouted in Chapter 1, Domino has a new position when he's encountered again in Chapter 3.
* PostMortemComeback: Domino has been dead for over a year, but the good guys still have to contend with a deadly booby-trap he's laid for them when they finally get back to Rubacava to find the hiding place of their car. Dom's laid out an elaborate set of... well, dominoes all around the car that will trigger a bomb if disturbed.

-->'''Manny:''' (''examining the monogram in Hector's casino'') I'll bet Hector pauses here every day, and thinks to himself... "Boy I wish I could see past my gut and enjoy my expensive monogrammed floor!"

* OffscreenVillainy: Whatever Hector did in life, it was apparently so horrible that he felt to need to hoard an entire suitcase full of No. 9 tickets in an attempt to balance it out. Though if it was anything like his behavior in the Land of the Dead, no wonder he needs the suitcase.

* FightingIrish: Except Nick prefers to do his fighting with a gun full of sproutella.

!!'''Eva'''
->'''Voiced by:''' Rachel Reenstra

The first benevolent character you meet in the game, Eva works as Don Copal's secretary. Secretly, she's the right-hand woman (and, initially, only other member) of the Lost Souls Alliance.

!!'''The Gate Keeper'''
->'''Voiced By''': Creator/TomKane

The guardian of the entrance to the Ninth Underworld, and the conductor of the Number Nine, who ruthlessly makes sure that only those who have earned a golden ticket are the ones allowed to use them.

* GodsHandsAreTied: He's not actually God, but he's the closest thing the game ever shows of an actual agent of the Powers That Be, and unfortunately, he's either unwilling or unable to do anything to help stop Hector, other than denying entrance to people without their tickets indefinitely. When a train full of people who got on with counterfeit tickets comes, he merely shrugs and basically says, "Let's see what happens", leaving it to the train to judge.
* GoodIsNotNice: Firmly on the side of Good, but takes his job very seriously. Even good souls who have lost their tickets gain no sympathy from him, and they're still in paradise compared to what happens to the souls who try buying their way past him with fake tickets.
* TrueNeutral: "The Gate opens. The Gate closes. It does not ''help''."[[invoked]]
* YouCantFightFate: After the train is DraggedOffToHell, he comments to a shocked Manny "Your destiny cannot be purchased."

!!'''Bruno Martinez'''
->'''Voiced By''': Creator/JackAngel

A short, irritable man who becomes Manny's final client before meeting Meche, Bruno was the victim of a bad batch of gazpacho soup, and apparently lived such a poor life that he didn't even qualify for the Excelsior walking sticks. Rather than walking the whole way to the Ninth Underworld, he agrees to instead be shipped in one of the DOD coffins.
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!!'''Celso Flores'''
-> '''Voiced By''': Peter Lurie

Manny's client in the game introduction, Celso Flores is a recent arrival in the Land Of the Dead, and learns of the workings of the afterlife alongside the player.

* ButtMonkey: One of the few inhabitants of the afterlife who's even worse off than Manny. Upon dying, he's told he wasn't good enough to qualify for anything more than a walking stick to reach the Ninth Underworld, leaving him to walk the whole way. Upon making it to Rubacava, he finds out that his wife died shortly after him, and he decides to take a job as a lowly mop boy in a diner in the hopes of waiting for her, only for Manny to discover she already left on a cruise, with another man and all of their money. That said...
* {{Determinator}}: He doesn't give up, simply handing his mop to Manny and sets out to find his wife. When Manny meets him again in Year 4, he's reunited with her, and the two are waiting to meet Hector in the hopes of buying golden tickets together.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Everyone but Celso knows his wife is unfaithful. Then he trusts Hector [=LeMans=].
* IronicEcho: Giving Manny his walking stick-turned-mop, he throws Manny's "That compass in the handle will come in handy!" line back in his face.

!!'''Dockmaster Velasco'''
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KayEKuter

An old crusty sea dog who works as Rubacava's dockmaster, living in a three-walled shack on the pier. Misses his old ship, the ''S.S. Lamancha''.
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-->'''Velasco:''' When you’ve strolled these docks as long as I have, pilgrim, you know where you are by smell of the sea, by the sound of the lonely fog horn, by the icy touch of the cold, salty air...

Rubacava's coroner with an appropriate sense of humor and outlook on life and death, disillusioned in the idea of ever leaving the Eighth Underworld.

* CrazyPrepared: Wears a belt buckle with his name on it, to make the next coroner's job easier, and recommends Manny wear an ID bracelet. Recent rise of crime in Rubacava makes this a reasonable decision.

Rubacava's cranky tattoo/scrimshaw artist, living and working in the rusty remnants of a factory building on a breakwater. He is completely covered in his own work and occasionally lapses into speaking Hungarian. His tattoo catalogue is part of the trail of clues [[spoiler:Lola left for Manny]].

* BackAlleyDoctor: Not a doctor, but otherwise his methods and, ahem, state-of-the-art parlor qualify to a tee.

* BilingualBonus: When annoyed, Toto speaks accurate Hungarian (courtesy of the VA) with some nuance that the subtitles won't tell you about – for example, he calls Naranja a "drunken hobo" instead of just an "idiot".
* EmptyFridgeEmptyLife: All his fridge contains is mold, and drunken sailor clients comprise most of his social life.

* PunnyName: Todos Santos means All Saints in Spanish. Manny invokes this after using Toto's liquid nitrogen bottle [[spoiler:to save himself from sprouting]].

!!'''Bibi and Pugsy Peligiano'''
-> '''Voiced By''': Creator/KatieLeigh and Creator/PamelaAdlon

A pair of "angelitos", the souls of dead children, the Peligiano siblings are kept prisoner by Domino at the coral mine at the End Of the World, and unlike the other prisoners, he keeps them in a cage because of their wings, forcing them to carve lightbulbs from the glowing coral.

* ChildrenAreInnocent: They're the only children to appear in the entire game, because under normal circumstances, dead children are given automatic tickets to the Number Nine. Because they were cheated out of their rightful reward, Domino has to keep them locked up to preserve the secret.
* EntertaininglyWrong: They're initially hostile to Manny because they think he's a bad guy. Why? Because whenever Meche talked about him, she seemed so sad that the kids assumed he'd done something awful to her, and because Domino told them about Manny stealing Meche's file.
* ManBitesMan: One reason Domino decided to lock them up: when Domino made Meche unhappy, the ''angelitos'' exacted toothy revenge.
* OrphansOrdeal: While it's unknown if their parents are still alive, stuck somewhere else in the Underworld, or have simply passed on without them, the result is the same; they're separated from their parents by death, robbed, imprisoned and exploited with no one to help them.
* WingedHumanoid: Both of them have angelic wings, giving Domino another reason to imprison them to keep them from flying off.

!!'''Chepito'''
-> '''Voiced By''': Creator/JackAngel

A wandering soul encountered by Manny and Glottis on the bottom of the Sea of Lament, Chepito is a former sailor who's death led to him preferring to walk across the ocean floor to the Ninth Underworld rather than setting foot on another boat.
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* BodyHorror: After god knows how many years lost at the bottom of the sea, his skeletal body has become discolored and moldy, and there are barnacles growing on him.

* DreadfulMusician: Constantly sings his theme song ''This Little Light of Mine'', badly and atonaly, as he marches across the ocean floor.

* TheAlcoholic: One taste of alcohol and he ''leaps'' back off the wagon... and into the casino with all of Manny's money.

* TheDriver: For some reason, the inscrutable forces that govern the Land of the Dead figured the best creature to fulfil this role is a gigantic bright orange demon with tiny wiggly ears obsessed with engines and SPEEEEEED. He's also an excellent pianist! Looks very sharp in a tux, as well. Just don't let him near the VIP area in the casino. Or coffin shooters. They tend to distract him.

* IChooseToStay: "Choose" isn't quite the right word (as a demon he can't leave the Eighth Underworld), but he's fine with staying behind when Manny has to leave him for good in the ending. His journey with Manny got him out of basement he always despised, and he was able to settled down in a better place with new found friends. He's still sad about his partner moving on, likely never to meet each other again.

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* FridgeHorror[[invoked]]: InvokedTrope by Manny, who wonders just how ''many'' people Hector killed to have an ''endless field of flowers'', much less a greenhouse full of them.

* NoPronunciationGuide: Manny pronounces his surname "Co-PAL". Eva, who speaks in a New York accent instead of Manny's Mexican accent, pronounces it "CO-pal".

* RiddleForTheAges: What exactly was the sin Manny committed back when he was alive that landed him in the Department of Death in the first place? Even Manny himself admits that he is not entirely sure.

* IconicItem: His SinisterScythe, to which he's very, very attached; he keeps it even after losing his job. It comes in handy for solving a lot of puzzles. Not really a WeaponOfChoice, however, since he's not very good at fighting with it.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: There aren't any visual cues, but based on his personality you might guess that Glottis is a few years old at most. But if you tell Nick you want to adopt Glottis, he'll object that the demon is "over two thousand years older than you". Presumably demons can live indefinitely as long as they're able to fulfill their purpose (This also means that the afterlife has been employing demon drivers for a lot longer than there have been cars). (To be fair, the same can be be said of any denizen of the Land of the Dead, though only those who have given up on seeking the Seventh Underworld are probably this Trope.)

* DodgyToupee: Wears one on his forehead. An especially ridiculous example of this trope, since everyone in the underworld are ''skeletons'' and don't have hair anymore!

* JerkJock: He fits the attitude and Manny even outright calls a "Jock" because of his liking of boxing.

* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: He has a twisted sense of humor, seeing as how he laughs at his own joke regarding Manny getting sprouted.

-->'''Manny:''' (examining the monogram in Hector's casino) I'll bet Hector pauses here every day, and thinks to himself... "Boy I wish I could see past my gut and enjoy my expensive monogrammed floor!"

* NoNonsenseNemesis: He has no intention to waste his time with acts of BondVillainStupidity or having a JustBetweenYouAndMe moment.

* YouCantFightFate: After the train is DraggedOffToHell, he comments to a shocked Manny "You can not purchase your destiny."

* DepravedDwarf: It's not confirmed wether or not he was a criminal in life, but he's unpleasant, abrasive, and must've done ''something'' to be judged so lowly he didn't even qualify for a walking stick.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Everyone but Celso knows his wife is unfaithful, then trusts Hector [=LeMans=].

* EntertaininglyWrong: They're initially hostile to Manny because they think he's a bad guy. Why? Because whenever Meche talked about him, she seemed so sad that the kids assumed he'd done something awful to her.

A wandering soul encountered by Manny and Glottis on the bottom of the Sea of Lament, Chepito is a former sailor who's death led to him prefering to walk across the ocean floor to the Ninth Underworld rather than setting foot on another boat.

* {{Irony}}: Meche is a selfless and sinless soul who was instantly qualified for the number 9. But Meche putting herself in Manny’s shoes and storming out his office for not being “good enough” for his sale was the trigger point that flipped what could have been a 4-minute train ride to 4 years of suffering. This eerily suggests that Meche’s kind-hearted nature was also her [[FatalFlaw undoing]].

* {{Irony}}: Meche is a selfless and sinless soul who was instantly qualified for the number 9. Due to Meche putting herself in Manny’s shoes and storming out his office for not being “good enough” for his sale was the trigger point that flipped what could have been a 4-minute train ride to 4 years of suffering. This eerily suggests that Meche’s kind-hearted nature was also her [[FatalFlaw undoing]].

* Irony: Meche is a selfless and sinless souls who was instantly qualified for the number 9. Due to Meche putting herself in Manny’s shoes and storming out his office for not being “good enough” for his sale was the trigger point that flipped what could have been a 4-minute train ride to 4 years of suffering. This eerily suggests that Meche’s kind-hearted nature was also her [[FatalFlaw undoing]].

* NiceHat: It's even commented on by Manny, the Gate Keeper wears a large, Aztec-style head dress.

* NiceHat: A fez. It's hardly visible most of the time, but he has one. For a while, he's only known as a man in a fez before learning his identity.