History Characters / TheGoodPlace

* TheUnfavourite: All but outright stated to be the case. Her parents had unrealistic expectations for Tahani, unfavourably comparing her to Kamilah. When they died, they even misspelled her name in the will, calling her Tahini. Like the sauce.

[[caption-width-right:350:'''Executor''': ''"[The will] says "We bequeath the rest of our estate to Tahini." Like the sauce."'']]

* {{Jerkass}}es: Neither of them are very nice people. Even at her worst, Eleanor was ''just'' marginally nicer than these two. Madison has the Dress Bitch Incident, and Brittany mentions that she's just generally awful and unpleasant to everyone all the time. Brittany, meanwhile, laughs at her (admittedly self-inflicted) suffering, makes and sells t-shirts to further said suffering, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking uses Eleanor's credit cards to buy porn without even asking]].
* JerkassHasAPoint: Madison is an awful person, and brought the Dress Bitch fiasco on herself, but it's hard to blame her for being upset with Brittany and Eleanor for making and selling t-shirts based on the incident. Even if Madison is a bitch, it's still an awful thing to do to a friend.

* BadBoss: Sexually harasses his employees, and when the company gets investigated for fraud, he sells everyone else out to save his own skin. Played with in that his half-assed, selfish smarminess puts him exactly on Eleanor's wavelength, making her a good boss from her perspective.

* BrokenAce: Despite all her accomplishments and talents, Kamilah was a truly nasty, self-centered, and uncaring person. [[spoiler:And deep down, she's very, ''very'' sad about the state of her relationship with her sister.]]

* TheChessmaster: His cheerful bumbling persona is an act. He is actually a completely evil and cold-hearted manipulator who knew exactly what he was doing in order to screw with his neighborhood's residents' heads. In Season 2, he gets to show off his skill for this when he rigs up an plan to fool Shawn and the rest of the demons despite having literally zero time to prepare, banking on his knowledge and familiarity with the demons and humans alike. And it works perfectly despite being somewhat complicated and relying on the everyone involved to do fairly specific actions. Does a much more subtle repeat in "Somewhere Else" where with about two sentences he is able to get a pre-CharacterDevelopment Eleanor who has lapsed back heavily into her bad ways to fly to St. John's University to find Chidi.

* TheChessmaster: His cheerful bumbling persona is an act. He is actually a completely evil and cold-hearted manipulator who knew exactly what he was doing in order to screw with his neighborhood's residents' heads. In Season 2, he gets to show off his skill for this when he rigs up an plan to fool Sean and the rest of the demons despite having literally zero time to prepare, banking on his knowledge and familiarity with the demons and humans alike. And it works perfectly despite being somewhat complicated and relying on the everyone involved to do fairly specific actions. Does a much more subtle repeat in "Somewhere Else" where with about two sentences he is able to get a pre-CharacterDevelopment Eleanor who has lapsed back heavily into her bad ways to fly to St. John's University to find Chidi.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Girly Girl to Eleanor's Tomboy. Tahani is warm-hearted, has a feminine fashion sense, and a social butterfly while Eleanor is a more blunt {{Ladette}}.

* CatchPhrase: "Aw, dip", used in moments of realization.

* MushroomSamba: And one hell of a Samba it was. It actually made him describe the afterlife better than anyone else before him, plus every single religion.

** "Oh, my stomach hurts."

* Sadist: He ''is'' the devil after all. He even gets a kick from the misery of his fellow demons by the third season.

* DoesntLikeSpam: Hates it when the office antimatter coffee is flavoured with French vanilla.

** And in Season 3, when [[spoiler: a resurrected Team Cockroach accidentally find out about the afterlife and are automatically disqualified from their last shot at getting into the Good Place]], Chidi, taking it the worst out of everyone, ends up reciting everyone's favorite [[Creator/FriedrichNietzsche Nietzsche quote]]:

* ItsAllAboutMe: Downplayed. Most of her warm philanthropic appearance is a front and she greatly values surface gloss and receiving praise, but she is capable of acknowledging other peoples' feelings (even if it takes her a bit of a run-up).

-->'''Janet''': "Not a robot.(...) Not a girl."

* GoodOldWays: Come Reboot no. 802, Glenn starts complaining about the Good Place.
-->'''Glenn:''' If the flying bears ain't broke, don't fix them.

** She gets books to read, but her library has nothing but Creator/AnneRice [[Literature/TheVampireChronicles vampire novels]]

** In Season 3, [[spoiler: after she finds out about Michael's meddling she ends the experiment, but decides to let the four live out their lives in the new timeline and give them the chance earn a place in the Good Place for real. But she also decides to send Michael and Janet back to the Bad Place despite knowing what Shawn and the others will do to them.]]

* ImplausibleDeniability: Donna tries claiming she's Eleanor's sister at Doug's funeral, and when Eleanor tracks her down in season 3, immediately tries to claim they're sorority sisters. According to Michael's list of Eleanor's insecurities in "The Worst Possible Use of Free Will", she's been doing this since Eleanor was born.

* ExtremeDoormat: [[spoiler: His vision about the points system, and the fear of ending up in the Bad Place, has turned him into one of these. He'll do literally anything to please others no matter how much he suffers as a result.]]

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Befitting a SmugSnake he indulges in some EvilGloating telling Michael he's confident that the main four's friends and family will all end up in the Bad Place, even though he shouldn't know that in advance, which spurns Michael into visiting the accountants' office. [[spoiler: Michael discovers that nobody has gotten into the Good Place for the last 521 years, but the accounts don't care because they believe their system is infallible, which inspires Michael to fix it himself.]]

* TookALevelInKindness: In Season 2, he only sides with the four main characters out of convinience, due to being blackmailed by Vicky, but after a while he starts to care about them and do some genuinely good actions in order to help out, despite still mocking their human limitations sometimes.

* NiceFixingItVillain: Befitting a SmugSnake he indulges in some EvilGloating telling Michael he's confident that the main four's friends and family will all end up in the Bad Place, even though he shouldn't know that in advance, which spurns Michael into visiting the accountants' office. [[spoiler: Michael discovers that nobody has gotten into the Good Place for the last 521 years, but the accounts don't care because they belief their system is infallible, which inspires Michael to fix it himself.]]

* NiceFixingItVillain: Befitting a SmugSnake he indulges in some EvilGloating telling Michael he's confident that the main four's friends and family will all end up in the Bad Place, even though he shouldn't know that in advance, which spurns Michael into visiting the accountants' office. [[spoiler: Michael discovers that the Bad Place has hacked the system so nobody has gotten into the Good Place for the last 521 years, but the accounts don't care because they belief their system is infallible.]]

* EvilIsPetty: Upon realizing the extent of Michael's treachery, Shawn decides to lock him up in a room with a subscription to ''Magazeine/TheNewYorker''. The magazines will never be read, but they'll just keep coming and pile up as a niggle at the back of Michael's mind as an unmet obligation.

!!Gen the Judge

[[folder: Neutral Janet]]

* BerserkButton: He's pretty affable right up until Michael implies the Bad Place hacked his system, wrecks his cake, and [[spoiler:steals the Book of Dougs.]]
-->'''Neil:''' Frankly, I'm beginning to resent your tone, sir!

* LoveAtFirstSight: [[spoiler:In spite of Donna holding ''a knife to his throat'' when he first met her at the decommissioned bar, the two hit it off and ended up marrying.]]

[[folder: Neil]]

* BerserkButton: He's pretty affable right up until Michael implies the Bad Place hacked his system, wrecks his cake, and [[spoiler: steals the Book of Dougs.]]

* ObliviouslyEvil: Neil's a very chipper guy for someone who's been [[spoiler: sending millions of people to damnation for five hundred years.]]

* BigGood: He's the designer and in charge of maintaining the neighborhood, so he initially comes across as this. Subverted, since he's actually a demon. Double Subverted after he TookALevelInKindness in Season 2.

* BadBoss: Sexually harasses his employees, and when the company gets investigated for fraud, he sells everyone else out to save his own skin.

* NonActionBigBad: He's one of the top demons shown in The Bad Place with countless minions at his command. He has to rely upon them pretty heavily, as despite his cocooning skills he's not that good a fighter.

The cheerful Head Accountant in the afterlife.