History Characters / LittleShopOfHorrors

* {{Jerkass}}

* RightForTheWrongReasons: He figures out that Seymour is connected to Orin's death and that he was motivated by his love for Audrey. However, he assumes Seymour murdered him in cold blood to get with his girlfriend (and, to be fair, the evidence ''does'' seem to point that way). He doesn't realize Seymour was more motivated by the fact that Orin was abusive towards her... or that there's a carnivoruous plant who needed fed.

* PetTheDog: In a FairWeatherFriend way; but his immediate response to Audrey II attracting a customer is to selflessly offer to but Seymour and Audrey dinner.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Gets this twice. In the original film, he's a BadBoss, 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.

** It can be argued that Seymour finally standing up to and destroying the plant thus preventing the destruction of the human race pretty much makes up for the world being less one sadistic dentist (which WASN'T his fault, despite intentions to the contrary) and one greedy, albeit somewhat kind, shopkeep (which may not have been entirely on purpose whatever the plant said). Both deaths are made a lot more ambiguous in the film than the play, and can be interpreted as due to Seymour's actions or not.

* EveryoneHasStandards: He treats Seymour like dirt but draws the line at physical abuse, and is appaled when Audrey's boyfriend gives her a black eye.

* TheFaceless: In the final scene, the camera moves down to [[spoiler:the new Audrey plant]] before we see Chiffon's face, because they had to replace the actress when she wasn't available for the reshoot.

* OhCrap!: Has a very loud one prior to its death in the FocusGroupEnding.

* AdaptationalVillainy: While he was not exactly a pleasant person in the 1960 film, he was nowhere near as awful as he is in the musical and film.

* AlasPoorVillain: It's hard to feel too bad for him, but his death (especially in the stage version of the musical)can be played as pretty horrific, and [[spoiler: it ultimately leads to something much, much worse when Audrey II takes over the planet.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The film gradually leads Seymour to this. He's horrified that he chopped up Scrivello and he led his boss into Audrey II's jaws. Eventually, he realizes that he's gone too far and doesn't want to continue with what he's been doing.

* AdaptationNameChange: Called ''Audrey Jr. '' in the original movie and ''Audrey II'' in the musical.
** Back to Audrey Jr in the cartoon.

* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Is always a ManEatingPlant but in the original, it’s a hybrid plant created by Seymour, in this movie an alien and a prehistoric Earth plant in the cartoon series.

* AdaptationalSexuality: In the original, Audrey Jr./II being a hermaphrodite carnivorous plant (alien in Audrey II's case) is completely uninterested in the concept of romance in general, due to the fact that many plants have both male and female parts, the 1986 film shows that Audrey II can create more plants without him coming into contact with another of its species. In the cartoon, Junior being a male carnivorous plant falls madly in love with a venus flytrap which he calls "DeMila".

* AdaptationSexuality: In the original, Audrey Jr./II being a hermaphrodite carnivorous plant (alien in Audrey II's case) is completely uninterested in the concept of romance in general, due to the fact that many plants have both male and female parts, the 1986 film shows that Audrey II can create more plants without him coming into contact with another of its species. In the cartoon, Junior being a male carnivorous plant falls madly in love with a venus flytrap which he calls "DeMila".

* BigBeautifulWoman: Ronette is noticeably softer and curvier than the other two.

* SassyBlackWoman: Though some productions give them a RaceLift.
* SchoolIsForLosers: The urchins' attitude to it, they claim to have left after fifth grade.

* 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 irremediable]] moments cut down or downplayed.

* 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 MoralEventHorizon moments cut down or downplayed.

* VillainSong: Audrey II sings "Feed Me" (where it demands Seymour kill people to feed it and persuades him to make Orin his first victim), "Suppertime!" (while persuading Seymour to feed it Mushnik to save his own skin and a reprise having it attempt to make Audrey its next victim) and "Mean Green Mother from Outer Space" (a song exclusive to the 1988 film adaptation where it boasts about how futile it is for Seymour to stop it).

* ManipulativeBastard: He plays on Simon's inner desires in order to convince him to obey him. It's very effective actually.

* VillainSong: Audrey II sings "Feed Me" (where it demands Seymour kill people to feed it and persuades him to make Orin his first victim), "Suppertime!" (while attempting to make Audrey its next victim) and "Mean Green Mother from Outer Space" (a song exclusive to the 1988 film adaptation where it boasts about how futile it is for Seymour to stop it).

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Orin's song "Dentist!" is all about this.

* AssholeVictim: It's hard to feel sorry for him when Seymour feeds him to Audrey II.

* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Dr. Farb in the 1960 film was the second victim to be fed to the plant and was killed when Seymour stabbed him. The musical adaptation and its 1988 film change it so Orin is the first victim fed to Audrey II and Seymour kills him by letting him suffocate on nitrous oxide.

* VillainSong: "Feed Me", "Suppertime!" and "Mean Green Mother from Outer Space".

* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Doing this as a child caused his mother to think he’d make a perfect dentist.

* DeathByAdaptation: Of the dying earlier variety, in the 1960 film he was the second person to die and be fed to Audrey II. The musical and it’s film bump him to being the first.

* DepravedDentist: He gets an entire musical number spelling it out too.

* VillainSong: "Dentist!"

* AdaptationalVillainy: While he was not exactly a pleasant person in the 1960 film, he was nowhere near as awful as he is in the musical.

* CompositeCharacter: Like the Railroad Detective from the 1960 film, Mushnik catches Seymour cutting Orin’s body up in order to feed him to Audrey II.

* DeathByAdaptation: Of the dying earlier variety, in the 1960 film he was the second person to die and be fed to Audrey II. The musical bumps him to being the first, mostly due to the detective characters and their subplot being AdaptedOut.