History Characters / LittleShopOfHorrors

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the original film he was a lazy worker and in the stage musical he was still meek and shy but was sketchy and manipulative when it suited him, especially after Audrey II starts to sweet-talk him into feeding it human blood and flesh with him deliberately getting people killed to achieve his goals; the film makes him much more passive and unwilling to take a life even if it's one such as Orin's and much more prone to questioning Audrey II's advice.

* YankTheDogsChain: Really the whole story is to Seymour. Being a geeky, down-on-his-luck shlub living in an extremely poor part of town, working for a failing shop with a boss that treats him poorly. Than it seems like things are looking up when he acquires a "strange and interesting plant" bringing some badly-needed success to his workplace and even becoming famous, with the chance at moving out of Skid Row and becoming a bigshot celebrity. If only the plant didn't have such....unusual cravings.

* TheMasochismTango: Not only is she a walking ad, she's an Olympic level master. Her CutSong "The Worse He Treats Me" is a literal example.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: More than a singular freaking drink in this cae. In the original, after witnessing Seymour feeding a human foot to the plant, he goes back to the restaurant and orders every alcoholic drink he can think of.

* AdaptationalHeroism: While Seymour is mostly the same character he was in the stage version, he is given a much more sympathetic light in the film version by having most of his [[BeyondRedemption irredeemable]] moments cut down or downplayed.

* AdaptationalWimp: The film version is much more passive than the in play version. Instead of deliberately tricking Mushnik into Audrey II's mouth like in the play, the film's Seymour somewhat backs Mushnik next to Audrey II and it is Mushnik's own fault for looking directly into the plant's open maw and even outside of that he's nowhere near as aggressive or direct in assisting Audrey II or defying him. This passiveness is likely what caused the original ending to gain negative reception from test audiences, as it showcases Audrey II humiliating a cowardly Seymour before eating him rather than Seymour growing a spine and voluntarily jumping into the plant's maw with a machete in his hand to atone for his sins.

* MultipleHeadCase: Has talking faces of the people he eats appear in flowers that advise people not to feed him.

* ScaryBlackMan: Or rather, scary green plant with a scary black voice but he notably speaks with an unmistakable black-coded accent and even employs some slang.

* CompositeCharacter: Mushnik’s death in the musical, being fooled into Audrey II’s mouth by getting told that’s where the receipts are hidden, is the same as a thief from the 1960 version. Ironically, Mushnik was the one doing the fooling in the original.
* DeathByAdaptation: Didn’t die in the original movie but dies in both the musical and its film adaptation.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: In the original, after witnessing Seymour feeding a human foot to the plant, he goes back to the restaurant and orders every alcoholic drink he can think of.

* TooDumbToLive: In the musical [[spoiler:he somehow believes it when Seymour tells him he hid the receipts in Audrey II and goes to get them.]]

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Orin's song "Dentist!" is all about making it clear what a sadistic degenerate he is.

* FakeShemp: One of the Greek Chorus Girls wasn't available to shoot the FocusGroupEnding, thus the camera abruptly panning down after the other two come into frame.

---> Vincent Gardenia (1986 film)

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the original film he was a lazy worker and in the stage musical he was still meek and shy but was sketchy and manipulative when it suited him, especially after Audrey II starts to sweet-talk him into feeding it human blood and flesh with him deliberately getting people killed to achieve his goals; the film makes him much more passive and unwilling to take a life even if it's one such as Orin's; most notably is that in the stage musical he deliberately tricks Mushnik into getting eaten unprovoked just so the latter won't risk exposing his crimes, in the movie adaptation of the musical he instead gets held at gunpoint and Mushnik gets himself eaten by his own curiosity with Seymour at most just instinctively out of fear backing his boss towards the plant.
* AdaptationalWimp: The film version is much more passive than the in play version. Instead of deliberately tricking Mushnik into Audrey II's mouth like in the play, the film's Seymour somewhat backs Mushnik next to Audrey II and it is Mushnik's own fault for looking directly into the plant's open maw. This passiveness is likely what caused the original ending to gain negative reception from test audiences, as it showcases Audrey II humiliating a cowardly Seymour before eating him rather than Seymour growing a spine and voluntarily jumping into the plant's maw with a machete in his hand to atone for his sins.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Gets this twice. In the original film, he's a MeanBoss, but in fairness Seymour was a pretty bad employee. In the play, he becomes an abusive ParentalSubstitute, but he seems to believe Seymour when he says he didn't kill Scrivello and just wants him to come to the police station to make a statement. In the movie musical, he blackmails Seymour at gunpoint so he can have the plant and the profits to himself.

* AssholeVictim: In the musical and its film adaptation, he's eaten by Audrey II, but it's hard to feel too bad when he's been verbally abusive to Seymour for the entire story and was completely willing to sweep (what he thought was) a murder under the rug so long as it benefits him.

* GreedyJew: His main concern is making money out of the plant.

* CatchPhrase: "I didn’t mean it" whenever he makes a mistake in the original film.

* UsedToBeASweetKid: His mother says something along these lines about him at the end of the first movie, prompting [[spoiler:his face in one of Audrey Jr's buds]] to say his CatchPhrase.

---> Ellen Greene (1986 film)

* AdaptationNameChange: He has two different names between the 1960 movie and the musical.
** Called Paine Driller in the cartoon.

* AdaptationDyeJob: Her hair is brunette in the 1960 movie, blonde in the musical version, and black in the cartoon series. In the recent off-Broadway revival, she's a redhead.

* AdaptationDyeJob: Brunette in the 1960 movie, blonde in the musical version.
** Black hair in the cartoon series.

* DisneyCreaturesOfTheFarce: In the "Somewhere That's Green" ImagineSpot.

* ImagineSpot: "Somewhere That's Green".

* AdaptationalKarma: In the stage musical, the original 1986 ending and most adaptations it gets away with all its crimes and successfully takes ove the world and even in the original 1960 film it only withered away after eating Seymour and everyone else prior as part of its lifecycle. In the [[FocusGroupEnding theatrical ending]] of the 1986 film, however, he gets [[HighVoltageDeath fried]] and [[DefeatEqualsExplosion blown up]] by Seymour at the last second [[spoiler:(though at least one of his buds manages to survive)]].

* HighVoltageDeath: [[spoiler:Audrey II in the FocusGroupEnding gets fried by a wire that Seymour pulls from the wreckage while the planet is too distracted laughing and gloating about his apparent victory to notice, the attack completely obliterates Audrey II, though one of his buds survive.]]
* IAmSong: "Mean Green Mother From Outer Space".
* TheJuggernaut: The Audrey II's are so powerful, not even the military can stop them. [[spoiler:Subverted in the FocusGroupEnding where Seymour fries Audrey II at the end of the film with a wire, albeit before he can eat more and grow to kaiju size.]]

* ScaryBlackMan: Or rather, scary green plant with a scary black voice.

--> '''Audrey II:''' Now I don't come from no [[Film/TheCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon Black Lagoon]]. I'm from past the stars and beyond the Moon!

* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Doesn’t seem to be able to hypnotize Seymour in the musical. Has to offer him success or threaten Audrey in order to get fed.

* HighVoltageDeath: [[spoiler:Audrey II in the FocusGroupEnding.]]

* TheJuggernaut: The Audrey II's are so powerful, not even the military can stop them. [[spoiler:Subverted in the FocusGroupEnding.]]
* {{Kaiju}}: In the original, unreleased ending, swarms of 50-foot plant-monsters rampage throughout New York in what may have been a ShoutOut to ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}''. (And ''Film/KingKong''.)
* KarmaHoudini: He doesn't get punished for the murders in the Director's Cut, but that is treated as a DownerEnding rather than a HappilyEverAfter, so that would be a case of IntendedAudienceReaction.
* KarmicDeath: In the FocusGroupEnding.
* KilledMidSentence: In the FocusGroupEnding.

* NearVillainVictory: The theatrical version turns Audrey II's plan into this.
* [[OhCrap Oh Shit]]: Has a very loud one prior to its death in the FocusGroupEnding.

* {{Plant Alien|s}}: In the musical and second film.

** A minor version between the musical, where he hits Audrey for forgetting her sweater at the flower shop, and the movie, where he hits her for ''falling off his motorcycle''.

* NervousWreck: The main source of his sour attitude and outbursts is stress over his unsuccessful business and fear of poverty.

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: In the original ending, Audrey II and one of his clones are huge and rampage throughout the city.

* YankTheDogsChain: Really the whole story is to Seymour. Being a geeky, down-on-his-luck shlub living in an extremely poor part of town, working for a failing shop with a boss that treats him poorly. Than it seems like things are looking up when he aquires a "strange and interesting plant"bringing some badly-needed success to his workplace and even becoming famous, with the chance at moving out of Skid Row and becoming a bigshot celeberty. If only the plant didn't have such....unusual cravings

* DeathByAdaptation / SparedByTheAdaptation: Didn’t die in the original film but was supposed to die in the remake before the FocusGroupEnding.

* VikingFuneral: In the original ending, Audrey II gives her a dignified death similar to one.

---> Jackie Joseph (1960 film)

* EvilIsHammy: [[{{Irony}} The one character who isn't made of actual meat is the hammiest character in the film/musical.]]

* GenderBlenderName: Audrey Jr./II, named after Seymour's girlfriend and voiced by male actors Charles Griffith (1960 film), and Four tops singer Levi Stubbs (1986 film).