History Characters / Soul

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JamieFoxx

* CompleteImmortality: They have this.

* NoodleIncident: Apparently, he was once a lost soul due to [[TheTetrisEffect an obsession with]] ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}''.

Lamont "Curley" Baker is a past student of Joe Gardner who now works as a drummer in the Dorothea Williams Quartet. When the band is in need of a piano player, Curly recommends his former mentor, presenting Joe with the opportunity to live out his passion.

* AdultFear: In their heart to heart, Libba finally admits to Joe that she disapproves of his musical ambitions so strongly because [[spoiler: she watched his father spend his life on his passion, but never able to support his family with it. It was her business that kept the family afloat. As he is unmarried and has no children of his own to support him, she's terrified Joe won't be able to support himself after she is gone.]]

* GenderEqualsBreed: Averted. Like Mochi in ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'', he's a male calico cat. Such a thing is technically possible but very rare.

* AnimalGenderBender: Like Mochi in ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'', he's a male calico cat. Such a thing is technically possible but very rare.

-->'''Joe''': "Is everyone here named Jerry ?"

-->'''Joe''': ""

* TookALevelInCheerfulness: He goes from obsessively chasing his dream and feeling unfulfilled with his life to fully appreciate it and wanting to live it to the fullest.

* SuperPoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler:After becoming a Lost Soul, her SoulPower, as that is what it truly is, starts to manifest as LovecraftianSuperpowers such as SuperStrength (enough to pull down Moonwind's boat and sink it with brute force and deliver a CurbStompBattle to [[CosmicEntity Terry]], who previously had no problem capturing both her and Joe), very creepy shapeshifting and creating a Pocket Dimension filled with TheHeartless to suffer uninterrupted, at the cost of becoming a WildChild in a constant self-inflicted state of MindRape.]]
* TimeAbyss: We don't know exactly how much, but she's a literal old soul who has been around in the Great Before for a long, ''long time''. To put it into perspective, the soul introduced before her was numbered in the hundred-billions. She's soul ''22''.

* PlanetOfSteves: All the Counselors have named themselves "Jerry" for convenience to mortal souls.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: They can freely change their appearance at their convenience, such as growing an extra arm or becoming a living transport or a building for an assembly.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: She only appears in two scenes and isn't a major character of the story, but her interactions with 22-in-Joe's body is one of the first things that allow 22 to appreciate being alive, and in turn, allows Joe to learn to appreciate the little things in life that he once took for granted later on as well.

** EveryoneHasStandards: As desperate as he is to get back to Earth, Joe refuses to let 22's spark for the Earth pass to be fire, therefore creating an future {{Pyromaniac}}. So he quickly changes to another option once 22 becomes a little too fascinated of the fire they were supposed to take out.

* {{Determinator}}: Once he finally gets the chance of a lifetime to play with a famous jazz musician, ''nothing'', not even death itself, will keep him from coming back and performing that night. It's [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] later on because this is what causes him to [[spoiler:push 22 away, who ends up becoming a [[TragicMonster Lost Soul]]. And his big night also fell short of his expectations]]. It adds to the central theme of the movie: having something you're passionate about is fine, but make sure it doesn't turn into a single-minded obsession that keeps you from enjoying all the other things in life.

* MagicalAsian: Moonwind and his crew are human mystics who are in touch with the spirit world. Two of them are a man meditating in the Philippines and a woman playing an instrument in Tibet. [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers The last to explain is a "shamanic healer" in California.]] In the comic adaptation of the movie, Dancerstar comes from Quebec.

* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:Spending eons in the Great Before and all of her mentors giving up on her have hurt her more than she is willing to admit.]]

* {{Hikikomori}}: She would rather stay in her room inside the Great Before for all eternity than to live a life on Earth as one of the Counselors had to drag her out of her room just for her to attend the mentoring section. [[spoiler:{{Deconstructed}} in that after many years of not finding a spark, she doesn't think she's good enough for life on Earth, and gives up on trying to live a life there. Once she *does* find her spark, Joe lashes out on her stating she only got a spark because she was in the body of someone who already has a spark in the first place. This ends up causing 22 to lower her self-esteem even further, give him her own earth pass, and become a [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Lost Soul]] due to how she believes she is better off living in the Great Before. Fortunately, Joe was able to come back, and snap her out of it.]]

[[folder: Dr. Bjorn Börgensson ]]

* CoolTeacher: He appears to be very well liked as a teacher by the students and staff. His former student even admits the only reason he showed up to school was because of him. [[spoiler: When he is recounting his memories near the end, we see him giving said student private lessons and encouraging his skills as a drummer.]]

* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Apparently when 22 is control of his body, he is wearing red underpants with tiny white hearts on them, which is revealed when 22-as-Joe tries and fails to crouch down to pick up his fallen hat, ripping his pants in the process.

* NiceHat: He has a very snazzy looking fedora.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:He lashes out at 22 when the latter refuses to give his body back, telling her she’ll never find a purpose in life. This hurts 22 so much that she becomes a Lost Soul obsessed at the idea of never finding a purpose.]]

* AmbiguousInnocence: She’s a soul that has spent her [[TimeAbyss long existence]] without being born and thus has a lot of PingPongNaivete. There's also her combination between her cynicism and her mischievousness, which makes it hard to gauge her maturity and mental age.

* {{Hikikomori}}: She would rather stay in her room inside the Great Before for all eternity than to live a life on Earth as one of the Counselors had to drag her out of her room just for her to attend the mentoring section. [[spoiler:{{Deconstructed}} in that after many years of not finding a spark, she doesn't think she's good enough for life on Earth, and gives up on trying to live a life there. Once she *does* find her spark, Joe lashes out on her stating she only got a spark because she was in a body of someone who already has a spark in the first place. This ends up causing 22 to lower her self-esteem even further, give him her own earth pass, and become a [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Lost Soul]] due to how she believes she is better off living in the Great Before. Fortunately, Joe was able to come back, and snap her out of it.]]

* JerkassHasAPoint: One of the many reasons why she doesn’t want to have a life on Earth is because, as a newborn soul with no body, she can't feel anything (no taste, no smell, no touch, etc.) even when her hypothetical life is simulated, something that even Joe complained about. It’s only [[spoiler: after accidentally entering in Joe's body, that she starts to enjoy every simple things of life on Earth]].

* AmbiguousGender: While Jerry is a common male English name, The Counselors all have gender neutral appearances with no TertiarySexualCharacteristics, they are voiced by a blend of male and female voice actors, and never refer to each other by gendered pronouns. Given that they are beings beyond human comprehension and find human behavior and traits a bit superfluous, they probably don't have ''any'' gender that humans could comprehend, and that's if they even associate themselves with any gender ''at all.''
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Downplayed. The Counselors are genuinely benevolent beings who make it so every soul is their own unique individual and are adamant about giving each one a chance at life. One of the Counselors even suggests they stop giving so many souls a self-absorbed personality, implying that they want these souls to be good people. However, at least one of them didn’t seem to mind when one of the souls gained personality traits that would make them TheSociopath on Earth, laughing it off as being the planet's problem to deal with.

* AmbiguousGender: Like the Jerrys, Terry isn't referred to by any gendered pronouns, although other source material use female pronouns for Terry since they are played by Rachel House. It's also not clear if the concept even applies here considering that Terry is an astral being.

* NominalHero: She spends most of the movie pursuing Joe and trying to prevent him from cheating death, but it’s mainly out of desire to prove to the rest of the counsel that she’s right rather than out of moral obligation.

* PetTheDog: They immediately apologize to Paul for mistaking him for Joe, and they even give him advices about how he can live longer (i.e. No eating too much processed food).

A regular at the local barber shop.

* AnimalGenderBender: Like Mochi in ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'', he's a male calico cat. Such a thing is technically possible, but very rare.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In-universe, when Joe inadvertently bodyjacks it, he and 22 wonder what that means for the cat. Cue a CutawayGag to the cat's soul meowing confusedly on the conveyor to the Great Beyond. Apparently, it never went through or was recovered, because it seems just fine when everyone is set right later. WordOfGod stated in an interview that the soul ended up going to the Great Beyond, but that [[CatsHaveNineLives cats have nine of them]] so it wasn’t a huge loss. This was originally going to be clarified in the movie but was cut for time.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: Is the very first soul in 22’s friend group to go to Earth before the Apocalypse was even formed.

* MagicalAsian: Moonwind and his crew are human mystics who are in touch with the spirit world. Two of them are a man meditating in the Philippines and a woman playing an instrument in Tibet. [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers The last to explain is a "shamanic healer" in California.]]
** In the comic adaptation of the movie, Dancerstar comes from Quebec.

* StickyFingers: [[spoiler: As Joe, she has a habit of swiping mundane things that interest her, such as a bunch of suckers or a spool of thread. This is TakenUpToEleven in a deleted scene, where her home is shown to have colossal card houses and a row of arcade machines inside of it in addition to what's shown in the actual movie, leading Joe to ask whether she's stolen all of it. Her reply is [[VerbalBackspace "no...maybe"]], adding that other than forcing her to attend the weekly You Seminars so that she could eventually get her Earth Badge, the Jerrys don't really care what she does in the meantime.]]

Newly formed souls that have yet to start forming their personalities and finding their "spark." Doing so awards an Earth Pass, needed to leave the Great Before and be born on Earth.

* LittleBrotherIsWatching: When Joe asks if he's in "H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks", all the new souls around him start innocently repeating, "Hell? Hell? Hell? Hell? Hell?"