History Characters / ShowdownBandit

* BadassBaritone: He speaks in a deep voice.

* BadassBaritone: His voice is very deep with a noticeable [[PowerEchoes Power Echo]].

* BadassBaritone: He speaks in a very deep voice.

* NiceHat: A wide brimmed cowboy hat that has seen better days.

* [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep Her Name Really Is "Undertaker"]]: Appears to be her last name as opposed/in addition to her job title.
* NiceHat: Wears a big, fancy top hat.

* BigBad: Being the most recurring and dangerous enemy, he's the closest thing the game has.

* BigBad: Being the most recurring and dangerous enemy, he's the closest thing to the game.

* BigBad: Being the most recurring and dangerous enemy, he's the closest thing to the game.

* {{Bifauxnen}}: Dresses in a rather masculine, Wild West undertaker's outfit, complete with necktie.

* TookALevelInBadAss: A short clip from the show has her begging someone (presumably Bandit) to leave her alone. In the games' present she is shown effortlessly beating down a {{mook}} with a shovel.

* [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep Her Name Really Is "Undertaker"]]: Undertaker appears to be her last name as opposed to her job title.

* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: Undertaker appears to be her last name as opposed to her job title.

!Main Characters

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Apparently there are multiple Bandits lying around the theatre, and you are just the latest. You even pick up your first weapon from a strung up copy of yourself.

[[folder: Miss Lorelei Undertaker]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:"The show must go on."]]
->'''Voiced By:''' Melissa Moran
A mysterious female puppet.

* ActionGirl: She has a shovel and she's not afraid to use it.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: In the reveal trailer, she is seemingly the one to wake Bandit up, which he doesn't seem to want, telling him in a rather ominous tone that "it's a big, scary world out there" and that "the show must go on". Seems to be less maliciousness and more just accepting that this is how the world works.
* BlushSticker: Has a permanent blush painted onto her face.
* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: Undertaker appears to be her last name as opposed to her job title.
* NiceHat: Wears a big, fancy top hat.
* TookALevelInBadAss: A short clip from the show has her begging someone (presumably Bandit) to leave her alone. In the games' present she is shown effortlessly beating down a {{mook}} with a shovel.

!Enemies

[[folder: The Stringless]]
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The most basic of enemies, naked puppets that take swipes at Bandit to cut his strings.

* TheGoomba: Very basic, don't move fast and only take one string away from you if they reach you.
* NotUsingTheZWord: Just assumed to be hostile puppets at first, but the further into the first episode you get, the more obvious that the naked puppets littering the place are representing dead bodies, and the shambling ones are Undead. Undertakers' job in particular is keeping them in the graveyard, and she's done so long enough that she gets complaints from the townsfolk whenever they manage to wander elsewhere.

[[folder: The Beast]]
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A ''huge'' naked puppet consisting of only the upper body, locked away in the Happy Mines. It hounds Bandit as he explores the location.

* KingMook: Of the Stringless.
* ImAHumanitarian: If it catches up to Bandit, it eats him alive, as shown by its kill screen.
* LightningBruiser: Holy ''hell'', this thing can move.

[[folder: Grieves]]
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An unnerving puppet with a scissor blade for an arm.

* BadassCape: Wears a dark blue torn piece of cloth around their shoulders.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Have a scissor blade instead of a right hand.
* DirtyCoward: Will viciously attack you if you step into their line of sight, but run away the second you activate your cork gun.
* EnemyMime: The paint on their face seems to emulate one and they're definitely not friendly.
* PerversePuppet: Even more so than Bandit and Miss Undertaker. While these two at least ''look'' like friendly characters from a kids' TV show, they are a cut up, jankily moving nightmare, with strings holding their limbs together and their right hand replaced by half of a scissor blade.
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[[folder: Faceless Bandit]]
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An enigma of a puppet that occasionally appears to stalk Bandit, carrying a large scythe that will kill anything in one hit.
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!Others

[[folder: Banker]]
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[[caption-width-right:344:"Ah, Bandit! S-so glad you made it."]]
->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/GrantGeorge
A humble businessman who saves Bandit's progress.

* ExtraEyes: He has two pairs of eye-holes.
* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: In this case, his name really is Banker.
* LovableCoward: Downplayed, as his fears are pretty warranted what with the Stringless running around and the people of Showdown Valley going missing.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: He doesn't have eyes or hair and apart from his clothing, he looks quite a bit like a Stringless with an [[ExtraEyes extra pair of eyes]].

[[folder: Doc Carver]]
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[[caption-width-right:306:"You must take care to guard your strings. I can mend them, of course."]]
->'''Voiced By:''' Mark Dodson
The local doctor. For a small price, he'll fix up Bandit's strings.

* {{Autodoc}}: He's a puppet and the only available medic.
* BadassBaritone: He speaks in a deep voice.
* DrJerk: Some of the remarks he makes come across as kind of insensitive.
--> '''Doc Carver:''' Another day, another Bandit.
* FrontierDoctor: His role in the show and in the game.

[[folder: Penny Hemsworth]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:"I found the way. You can't look up...if you don't have eyes." ]]
->'''Voiced By:''' Lauren Synger
The (former) owner of a small store in Showdown Valley. She has found her own way to not look up...

* BrokenBird: The once friendly little Penny is only a shell of her former self now.
* EyeScream: She prevented herself from looking up - by gouging her own eyes out.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Whatever she saw up there, it caused her to go completely off the deep end.
* MadnessMantra: She sings the shows theme song constantly.

[[folder: Carl Handler]]
One of the creators of Showdown Bandit.

* MeaningfulName: A "Handler" is a person in immediate charge of something or someone. Fitting for the man who probably pulled the puppet's strings way back when.
* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: No mention of him or Buddy is made by the puppets.

[[folder: Buddy Bublik]]

* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: Just like Carl, he appears to be absent by the time Bandit wakes up and none of the puppets mention either of them.

[[folder: Basker Hill]]
The former main sponsor of the Showdown Bandit-show.

* AcmeProducts: It seems Basker Hill had a variety of products to sell, from toothpaste to cereal to Twinkie expies.

* InTheHood: Wear a brown scarf wrapped around their head and shoulders.

* SpidersAreScary: Played straight, just look at the picture.

* TheBlank

* ImplacableMan: He is not affected by the cork gun and kills you in one hit, the only way to deal with him when he appears is to stay out of his sight as he zeroes in on you.

* TheGoomba: very basic, they don't move fast and they only take one string away from you if they reach you.

* KingMook: Of the zombies.

* PerversePuppet: Even more so than Bandit and Miss Undertaker. While these two at least ''look'' like friendly characters from a kids' tv show, they are a cut up, jankily moving nightmare, with strings holding their limbs together and their right hand replaced by half of a scissor blade.

An Enigma of a puppet that occasionally appears to stalk Bandit, carrying a large scythe that will kill anything in one hit.

* {{Expy}}: Of Howdy Doody from the show of the same name.

->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/MelissaMoran

->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/MarkDodson

->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/LaurenSynger

* EasterEgg: If you succeed in giving him his head back he'll [[spoiler: open up a secret passage for you. In it you'll find a disembodied Bendy-hand and a Bendy-outfit.]]