History Characters / TheGoodPlace

* * ObstructiveBureaucrat: Not on purpose, but they are so committed to not breaking the rules that it makes them extremely incapable of taking fast and viable measures to problems, as Michael found out.

* FatalFlaw: Naivete. Gen, like most non-Bad Place cosmic beings, has no idea how complex human life is and how impossible it is to calculate every single unintended consequence. [[spoiler:When she goes down to Earth to prove Michael is wrong about how complex things are, she comes back almost instantly having had a JerkassRealization and a lot more patient with him.]]

* GreatGazoo: A powerful eternal judge who tests the protagonists using unorthodox methods. Also a cheerful eccentric TV addict who agreed to test them in the first place mostly because she was bored out of her mind.

* LackOfEmpathy: Despite her quirky and bubbly personality she's unable to empathize with others as she passes down her harsh sentences, failing Tahani's test despite the fact that confronting her parents gave her the much needed motivation to stop trying to get their approval which is key to her CharacterDevelopment. But that's nothing to her [[spoiler: trying to send Michael and Janet back to the Bad Place for their constant meddling in the experiment. When Janet points out that Shawn will have them both executed if they come back, Gen coldly replies that they shouldn't have broken the rules.]]

* EvilIsPetty:

* {{Expy}}: In terms of [[TheSpock personality]] and [[DeadpanSnarker mannerisms]], Shawn is extremely similar to Creator/MarcEvanJackson's Kevin of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', which shares [[ProductionPosse quite a few creators]] with this show.

* TheSpock: He's completely unemotional and logical, or at least imagines himself to be. Hearing people plead for Eleanor causes him to wrap up in a cocoon.

* TookALevelInJerkass: While always a complete jerk to the humans, he is relatively polite to his fellow demons in the first two seasons, hearing out any idea they may have regardless of whether he likes it or not, and even rewards Michael with a place on the high council and a party for the other demons for the alleged success of the fake Good Place neighborhood. In the third season, when the humans have escaped to earth, he becomes an impatient and condesending jerk to the other demons, to the point where he cocoons them just for his own amusement

* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:Returns in "Chidi Sees the Time-Knife", having become more articulate and urban, thanks to Mindy rebooting him many, many, ''many'' times.]]

* EvilIsPetty: Upon realizing the extent of Michael's treachery, Shawn decides to lock him up in a room with a subscription to ''Magazine/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.

** 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.]]

->'''Portrayed by:''' Tiya Sircar

* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:She gets un-cocooned in "The Worst Possible Use of Free Will" as Shawn's test subject for an illegal portal to Earth to check if entrants will explode.]]

[[folder: The Good Place Committee]]

* HonorBeforeReason: They feel the need to take at least 1000 years to form a blue ribbon committee and suss out any possible conflicts of interest/corruption within their proposed investigative group, despite the fact that being from the Good Place, any chance the members would be unscrupulous in any way is extremely unlikely. This and the fact during that hypothetical time, [[spoiler: billions of humans would be eternally damned by which time it would be too late to help them]].

* StronglyWordedLetter: Their proposal to Michael in a nutshell: that they form an elite investigative team to [[spoiler: root out any possible tampering with the points system and resolve why no one has gotten into the Good Place for over 500 years]]. But... first they have to take 400 years to properly select the members of said group, and then it's a further 1000 years during which they form another council to sort out any conflicts that would arise in that investigative team. Michael even compares them to passengers on a sinking Titanic writing a strongly worded letter to the iceberg.

* EasilyForgiven: Even after finding out [[spoiler: the Soul Squad lied to and manipulated her,]] Gwendolyn still cheerily waves them off and says it was nice to meet them as they [[spoiler: are summoned by Judge Gen and leave the Good Place]].
* GoshDarnItToHeck: Either through the Good Place's profanity filter or her own nature as a Good Place resident, a lot of her expletives come out as G-rated curse words. [[spoiler: Even when she discovers Michael and the humans' deception the best she can muster up is a mildly annoyed "Gosh darn it" as she tries to angrily shake her fist]].

* SuperGullible: Is naive and a bit too trusting. She is fooled by Michael's [[spoiler: lie that the four humans won a contest specifically to visit the postal office in the Good Place]]. To be fair this is justified, as she is from the Good Place and presumably has never been exposed to anybody who might try to deceive or take advantage of her.

* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: When [[spoiler: she discovers that Michael, Janet and the humans have been lying to her]], she makes it very clear that she is upset and, amusingly, attempts to shake her fist at them in anger. Or an awkward flailing of her wrist, in this case.

* CloudCuckoolander: Just as you'd expect from someone's first attempt at creating life, he's even loopier than a newly rebooted Janet.
* GagPenis: He has a wind chime rather than genitalia. The audience doesn't get to see it but they do get to hear it.
* NoIndoorVoice: He shouts everything he says.

* PokemonSpeak: He's capable of the occasional semi-coherent statement, but usually just shouts variations of "Derek!", especially after being powered down.

* PunchClockVillain: When Team Cockroach rematerialize, he immediately hits the alarm, but shows no actual malice toward the four, retaining his cheerful attitude.

** She's provided with her favorite beer, but it will always be warm

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Mindy was a cocaine addict and a pretty nasty person in her earthly life. However, one day, she had a drug-fueled epiphany on how she could help people and actually tried to follow up on it by withdrawing all her money in order to form a charity. Right after that, she died in an accident. She then crossed into DeathEqualsRedemption since her sister found out what Mindy's plan was and was so inspired by it that she actually founded the charity in Mindy's name and helped millions of people. If she stayed alive, Mindy would have likely failed in her plan and backslid back into being a bad person. By dying when she did, she accidentally accomplished a lot of good (and avoided being painfully tortured in the Bad Place).

* CharacterDevelopment: His lessons in Season 2 are slowly but surely starting to sink in and he finds himself becoming hampered by ethical dilemmas when used to be able to cruel things just for laughs. He also starts admitting that he's begun to regard Janet and the four humans as friends.

* HumanityIsInfectious: [[spoiler:He becomes increasingly human in many ways through interactions with the human cast, to the point where they eventually name him an honorary human.]]

* IntriguedByHumanity:
** He tells the characters he is endlessly fascinated with human culture, which is why he went against the rule that architects are not supposed to live in the neighbourhoods they design. He also kept a collection of mundane human objects (a tape dispenser, a slingshot, wax lips, a cheese grater, an eraser and a paper football.) It remains to be seen if this was part of his act.
** In season 2 Michael is declared an "honorary human", and given a box of utterly worthless junk like car keys (just so he can lose them), band-aids (he's basically invulnerable), and a stress ball with a stupid corporate logo (so he can contemplate throwing it out, but keep it anyway). He's genuinely touched by these gifts, and even admits that he's always wanted to understand what it feels like to be human.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Is slowly becoming this over the course of season two.

* BeleagueredBureaucrat: Works himself into a frenzy trying to keep control of all the chaos that Eleanor accidentally causes. The majority of his efforts outright fail to help the problem, which just makes him more panicky. At the end of the first season, this is revealed to have been an act, but the second season opens with him genuinely scrambling to prevent Eleanor and her friends from derailing his plan.

* AuthorAvatar: Is one for showrunner Michael Shur, someone who devising awkward and dramatic scenarios for the only few characters that matter (team Cockroach) while rendering everyone else (the other Good Place citizens who turned out to be other Demons) and everything else (Janet and the "Fake Good Place") to plot devices to drive the story (to cause team Cockroach to torture each other).

* BeleagueredBureaucrat: Works himself into a frenzy trying to keep control of all the chaos that Eleanor accidentally causes. The majority of his efforts outright fail to help the problem, which just makes him more panicky. This was all an act though, as he was the one who ''engineered'' the chaos in the first place.

!The Good Place (MAJOR SPOILERS!)

* EasilyForgiven: Even after finding out [[spoiler: the Soul Squad lied to and manipulated her,]] Gwendolyn still cheerily waved them off and said it was nice to meet them as they [[spoiler: were summoned by Judge Gen and left the Good Place]].
* GoshDarnItToHeck: Either through the Good Place's profanity filter or her own nature as a Good Place resident, a lot of her expletives come out as this. [[spoiler: Even when she discovers Michael and the humans' deception the best she can muster up is a mildly annoyed "Gosh darn it" as she tries to angrily shake her fist]].

* PartingWordsRegret: The last thing he ever said to Chidi was that it was literally ''impossible'' to be his friend. Chidi dies not even thirty seconds later. The look on Uzo's face says it all.

A neuroscientist professor at Chidi's college in Australia.

* ArcVillain: For Season 3. Her lack of empathy and determination to stick by the rules no matter what, combined with her powers and scope, makes Gen a major obstacle for the heroes to overcome even when she's not directly involved.

* {{God}}: She's the closest thing the series has to a portrayal of him, as the most powerful being in the universe who determines the fates of humans in the afterlife.

Michael's boss, Shawn initially poses as the immortal all-knowing judge. He believes Michael will fail in his second attempt. Shawn makes it clear that Michael's failure in this regard will result in Michael's retirement, and that only one more chance will be given. Shawn later buys Michael's report of the second experiment being a success and promotes him to oversee an entire universe of neighborhoods, but when the truth is discovered he becomes set on punishing Michael and the humans.

* LawfulGood: An extreme example of this trope. The Committee is very strict and committed to following procedure and filing the correct paperwork, to the point that it gets in the way of them making any effective change in any sort of reasonable time frame.

!Other Afterlife Characters

[[folder:Mindy]]
!!Mindy St. Claire
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Oh. Yeah. I mean, I was just, I was just kidding, it was just a joke. I mean, who would want to do cocaine right now?"'']]

->'''Portrayed by:''' Maribeth Monroe

-->''"That is the nicest and only thing anyone has said to me in thirty years."''

A cocaine-abusing lawyer who practiced during the 80s, Mindy generally lived a selfish life. However, one single good action she committed right before her death made her the only person known to have ever been genuinely judged a "medium" person, resulting in her getting her own afterlife outside both the Good and Bad Places.

* AccidentalHero: After her death, her sister found out about her plan to create a charity organization and used her withdrawal money to create the organization in Mindy's name that went on to help people all over the world.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: A highly stereotypical hard partying, cocaine-abusing '80s shark lawyer.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: One of the {{running gag}}s of her character is her frequent masturbation; in her first episode she casually tells Eleanor and Jason to get out, as it's her masturbation time. In "Dance Dance Resolution," she mentions how frequently they have caught her masturbating, including once when they walked in on her and another time she walked in on them... while ''she'' was masturbating.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After a long time spent in a horribly dull and solitary afterlife, and then having to repeatedly deal with Team Cockroach as they keep showing up with no memories of their previous visits, she finally gets Derek as a willing sexbot along with a ton of cocaine.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Zig-zagged. She dies right after she decides to turn her life around and do some good in the world. However, the one good thing she did manage to do before she died led to a whole bunch of good done in her name, just enough to get her spared from the Bad Place.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: More like a heart of ''very'' tarnished bronze, but she's not all bad. Despite being rude, selfish, and cynical, she's genuinely rooting for Chidi and Eleanor to get together, and she actually ''did'' try to make a genuine effort to change her ways and start a charity. It was just bad luck that she died before she could. And even then, her plan actually ''worked'', as her sister used Mindy's savings and plans to start a relief aid charity that's helped countless people.
* LonersAreFreaks: Quite casually admits that despite having spent years in eternal mediocrity with no-one else around, she's got no desire for company, beyond mention of trying to trick Eleanor and Chidi into a threesome with her at least once.
* MundaneAfterlife: While avoiding the actual Bad Place thanks to all the good things done in her name after her death, she was such a terrible person that she's instead sentenced to eternal ''mediocrity'' as a compromise.
** She's provided with her favorite beer, but it will always be warm
** She was allowed to list her music preferences, but she was given a jukebox stocked with selections from the ''bottom'' of her list so it only plays ''[[Music/{{Eagles}} The Eagles]]'' (live bootlegs only) and Creator/WilliamShatner spoken-word poetry
** She gets books to read, but her library has nothing but Creator/AnneRice [[Literature/TheVampireChronicles vampire novels]], which all have water stains. And which she cannibalised to make porno.
** The only movies she has are ''[[Film/TheCannonballRun Cannonball Run II]]'' and... ''The Making of Cannonball Run II''[[note]]She eventually tapes over them with secret footage of Eleanor and Chidi having sex[[/note]].
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Embraced casual nudity after being sent to the Medium Place since she wasn't going to be seeing anyone else around (or wasn't meant to, anyway). Thus she's baring it all when Eleanor, Jason and Janet first meet her which freaks everyone out including herself as she ''really'' wasn't expecting guests anytime soon.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Mindy was a cocaine addict and a pretty nasty person in her earthly life. However, one day, she had a drug-fueled epiphany on how she could help people and actually tried to follow up on it by withdrawing all her money in order to form a charity. Right after that, she died in an accident. She then crossed into DeathEqualsRedemption since her sister found out what Mindy's plan was and was so inspired by it that she actually founded the charity in Mindy's name and helped millions of people. If she stayed alive, Mindy would have likely failed in her plan and backslid back into being a bad person. By dying when she did, she accidentally accomplished a lot of good (and avoided being painfully tortured in the Bad Place).
* SeenItAll: Unlike the four mains, she retains her memories of all their visits so that when we catch back up with her, she's gotten quite annoyed at having to go through every variation of their dynamics.
* ShadowArchetype: She basically represents Eleanor before she TookALevelInKindness.

[[folder:Derek]]
!!Derek Hofstetler
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Hey, there! Who the fork is that? Derek Hoffstetler, P.I."'']]

->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JasonMantzoukas

--> ''"[[PokemonSpeak Derek!]]"''

The result of Janet making a new person of her own to help her get over Jason.

* ActorAllusion: Derek introduces himself as a private investigator at one point. This wound up being the job of his character on Michael Schur sister show ''Series/BrooklynNineNine''.
* AIIsACrapshoot: Played for laughs. As he's Janet's first attempt at making a sentient being, Derek has many glitches.
* CloudCuckoolander: Just as you'd expect from someone's first attempt at creating life, he's even loopier than a newly rebooted Janet.
* GagPenis: He has a wind chime rather than genitalia. The audience doesn't get to see it but they do get to hear it.
* NoIndoorVoice: He shouts everything he says.
* OnTheRebound: Invoked. He was specifically created to be a rebound boyfriend for Janet.
* PokemonSpeak: He's capable of the occasional semi-coherent statement, but usually just shouts variations of "Derek!", especially after being powered down.
* SexBot: Is given to Mindy at the end of "Leap to Faith" as a sex companion.

[[folder:Gen]]
!!Hydrogen "Gen", the Judge
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/MayaRudolph
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Hi, I'm the judge. That's a burrito. What's up guys?"'']]

->''"I love that! And I love your passion! I mean, it takes a lot of guts to just show here unannounced. Plus I haven't had a case in like 30 years and I'm super-bored. So it's either this or start 'Bloodline'. And I don't know I just don't feel like I can see Kyle Chandler as anyone else but Coach Taylor."''

The ''actual'' immortal, all-knowing Judge who presides on disputes between the Good and Bad Places. Gen is generally quirky and approachable, but takes the laws of the universe very seriously.

* {{Adorkable}}: A flighty, ditzy, TV-obsessed woman who coos over the protagonists. Even lampshaded by herself.
* AlwaysABiggerFish: [[spoiler:Michael describes Trevor as the most evil being in the universe, but when Gen gets fed up with him, she sends him flying off into the darkness with a simple flick of her fingers.]]
* ArcVillain: For Season 3. Her lack of empathy and determination to stick by the rules no matter what, combined with her powers and scope, makes Gen a major obstacle for the heroes to overcome even when she's not directly involved.
* AudienceSurrogate: Her reactions to the main 4 mirrors the audience: thinking of them as adorable, that Tahani's accent is lovely, etc.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Despite her quirks, you ''really'' don't want to make her angry. [[spoiler: She flings Trevor into an abyss for being annoying.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Eccentric, ditzy and upbeat, she is the celestial being who presides over disputes between the Good and Bad Places, but manages to be an actually very good judge. She shows a great sense of fairness and approachability when Team Cockroach get to her. She is also completely impartial, meaning that even though she likes them, she still needs to send them to the Bad Place when they fail.
* CreatureOfHabit: Gen doesn't like the effects Michael's tampering has on Earth not because the results are bad, but because they're weird and different.
* ExactWords:
** Eleanor believes that the medallion given to her and Chidi by Gen (which is supposedly a ticket to the Good Place) is a test and that Jason and Tahani are being offered the same thing, with the first pair to accept failing. Gen quickly tells her that Tahani and Jason have not been offered that and shows her their tests. However, Gen never said it wasn't a test.
** Played with in regards to Jason. He quickly tells her to shut up and let him play the video-game, however, she intended to say that his test was not to lose by playing ''VideoGame/{{Madden NFL}}'' while playing against the Jaguars using the Titans. What she meant for him to do is to not even play it, since if he didn't play, he wouldn't lose.
* GenkiGirl: She's enthusiastic, energetic and a bit mercurial.
* {{God}}: She's the closest thing the series has to a portrayal of him, as the most powerful being in the universe who determines the fates of humans in the afterlife.
* GreatGazoo: A powerful eternal judge who tests the protagonists using unorthodox methods. Also a cheerful eccentric TV addict who agreed to test them in the first place mostly because she was bored out of her mind.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: After sentencing the humans to the real Bad Place, she happily burbles about how great it was to meet them and shows them the pictures she's taken of their time together. The fact that none of them are in the mood to appreciate the sentiment seems to be lost on her.
* TheJudge: Played with. She wears the attire Tahani describes, with the black robes, but her personality is the opposite of expected, being an {{Adorkable}} and sweet woman devoid of the stoicism that usually comes with this trope. In season 3, though, her serious, rule-abiding side comes to the forefront, making her fit the trope more.
* LackOfEmpathy: Despite her quirky and bubbly personality she's unable to empathize with others as she passes down her harsh sentences, failing Tahani's test despite the fact that confronting her parents gave her the much needed motivation to stop trying to get their approval which is key to her CharacterDevelopment. But that's nothing to her [[spoiler: trying to send Michael and Janet back to the Bad Place for their constant meddling in the experiment. When Janet points out that Shawn will have them both executed if they come back, Gen coldly replies that they shouldn't have broken the rules.]]
* TheOmniscient: Played with. She can know anything she wants with ease but she finds actually being omniscient to be boring. Instead, she prefers to skip over things so she can be surprised and also keeps her distance from human's files just in case they ever become a case and so she can remain impartial.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She listens to the Main 4's requests without much problem (though she almost throws them out for lacking the proper paperwork) and allows them to take a test to define their fates, even complying to what she considers a bad idea by grading them as a group. However, she is a professional, and rules to send them to the Bad Place when all of them except Eleanor fail their tests, but is willing to give them another chance when Michael pleads their case.
** 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.]]
* SugarAndIcePersonality: She is very kind and approachable most of the time, but defying her orders or making her angry will ''not'' end well.
* TimeAbyss: The reason her name is Hydrogen? It was the only thing in the universe when she came into existence. Whether this technically makes her older or younger than Michael and the other non-humans remains an open question as Michael is 'as old as time itself'.
* TopGod: Implied to be one of the highest beings on the celestial hierarchy shown yet, possibly the highest, since even Shawn (the boss of The Bad Place) is implied to '''have''' to abide to her decisions.

[[folder:The Doorman]]
!!Jeff, The Doorman
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MikeOMalley

[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Doorman]] between the afterlife and Earth.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: For the most that we see him, he doesn't seem to care what happens to anyone around him; however, when Michael brings him a thermos with a frog on it, his face lights up like a child at Christmas, hinting that Michael was the first person to ever do anything for him. In return, when Michael gets into trouble with Gen, he gives him the key to Earth to escape.
* CutenessProximity: ''Loves'' frogs. Classic, green frogs.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Seemingly known as The Doorman; he's even got a name plate for his desk. In "The Brain-y Bunch" however, Gen refers to him as "Jeff."
* NotSoAboveItAll: Seems at first to be a stereotypical, humorless bureaucrat; but over time, it's revealed that he loves frogs, finds something like a sink tap interesting, and, at the end of "The Brain-y Bunch", he helps Janet and Michael escape from Gen back down to Earth.
* PerpetualFrowner: He normally has a stony scowl on his face. However, every now and then, he genuinely grins, like when messing around with a sink on Earth, or getting a thermos with a frog on it.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: [[spoiler:He directly defies Gen to help Michael and Janet escape to Earth, because Michael was nice to him.]]
* TheStoic: He beats out ''Shawn'' in terms of a stiff, expressionless demeanor. [[NotSoStoic Except with frogs.]]

[[folder:Neutral Janet]]
!!Neutral Janet

->'''Portrayed by:''' D'Arcy Carden
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The Accounting Office's Janet who works at the reception. As the place is meant to be impartial, unlike the Good Place and Bad Place, this Janet is devoid of any emotion and personality.

* BlackSheep: Is apparently considered the black sheep out of all the Janets, presumably due to how mundane she is compared to the NiceGirl Good Janet and the JerkAss Bad Janet.
* EmotionlessGirl: Well, not a girl. But Neutral Janet looks like a human woman and has no emotions or personality, making her come off as this.
* MachineMonotone: She's one of the series' numerous Janets, the afterlife's user interface. Unlike Good and Bad Janet, Neutral Janet speaks in a complete monotone, making her more robotic and rather creepy.
* TheStoic: She shows no emotion whatsoever.
-->'''Good Janet:''' She's sort of the black sheep of the Janet world. Or blank sheep, I guess.
* VerbalTic: Ends her sentences with "end of conversation".

[[folder:Neil]]
!!Neil

->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/StephenMerchant
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The cheerful Head Accountant in the afterlife, responsible for people getting into the Good and Bad Places. Neil is oblivious to the thought of any error or subterfuge in the system.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Praises the "cold logic" of the system while dismissing Michael's points that [[spoiler:no one getting into the Good Place for over five hundred years]] is a ''major logical failing''.
* LargeAndInCharge: He's the Head Accountant, and he's played by 6'7" Stephen Merchant. Even Michael looks short in comparison.
* LawfulStupid: Whoa, the system ''can't'' be corrupt, it's entirely randomized and neutral. So what if [[spoiler: no one has gotten into the Good Place for five hundred and twenty one years]]?
* MrExposition: He's the one to finally provide the background for how the entire points system operates.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Naturally, as one of the firmest believers in the afterlife system, he refuses to do absolutely anything to interrupt the process.
* ObliviouslyEvil: Neil's a very chipper guy for someone who's been [[spoiler:sending millions of people to damnation for five hundred years.]]
* PunchClockVillain: When Team Cockroach rematerialize, he immediately hits the alarm, but shows no actual malice toward the four, retaining his cheerful attitude.
* SkewedPriorities: Shows more emotion about his corner cake piece getting toppled than ''anything else.''

!Earth

!!!Eleanor's circle

[[folder:Doug & Donna]]
!!Doug & Donna Shellstrop
->'''Portrayed By:''' Tom Beyer (Doug) and Leslie Grossman (Donna)
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-->'''Eleanor''': All my life I've been taking care of myself and you guys. I worked two after-school jobs because you blew half my college fund bailing your boyfriend out of jail.
-->'''Doug''': So irresponsible.
-->'''Eleanor''': And you blew the other half trying to frame her boyfriend.
-->'''Donna''': It was so stupid! He was already guilty, dumbass!

Eleanor's parents. Not exactly the most caring people.

* AbusiveParents: At best, they were negligent. At worst, they were this. Donna blew half of Eleanor's college fund to bail her boyfriend out of jail and Doug was a drug-addicted felon who tried to frame said boyfriend (who was already guilty) with the other half of the college fund. Donna also once berated Eleanor for crying over her dog dying, because it would ruin Donna's day.
* AlcoholicParent: Especially apparent in [[LadyDrunk Donna]]. Doug has the added bonus of also being into drugs.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Apparently, their marriage was pretty miserable, leading them to split up when Eleanor was young. Early on, Eleanor snarks that they could be used to torture one another in the Bad Place, and it would be ''extremely'' effective.
* TheDitz: On top of being morally repugnant, they're also not very smart.
* EskimosArentReal: Donna apparently isn't aware that Guam is a real place.
* FakingTheDead: Eleanor thinks both her parents are dead. [[spoiler:Her dad is, as seen in the flashback of his funeral, but Janet and Michael inform her in Season 3 that her mother actually faked her death. Eleanor is understandably pissed.]]
* ForgivenButNotForgotten: [[spoiler:Eleanor forgives Donna and wishes her well in season 3, not even asking for an apology. Downplayed in that they both know Donna was a horrible parent to Eleanor because Donna behaves so much better towards her stepdaughter Patricia. Eleanor also makes it clear that Donna has to make Patricia her priority and not repeat her past mistakes.]].
* TheFunInFuneral: In a flashback, we see Eleanor's garbage mother showing up drunk to her ex-husband's funeral and hitting on her own daughter's boyfriend.
* HateSink: Unlike their JerkWithAHeartOfGold daughter, they have no redeeming qualities at all [[spoiler:until season 3]].
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:In season 3, Donna has become a better person, with a husband and daughter she genuinely cares for. Eleanor is able to forgive her and wishes her well, but still wishes she was a better parent when she was a child]].
* ImplausibleDeniability: Donna tries claiming she's Eleanor's sister at Doug's funeral, despite having just identified herself as her mother, 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.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Neither of them care for anyone besides themselves, not even their own daughter. This is how Eleanor developed her cynical belief that everyone's only out for themselves, whether they admit it or not.
* {{Jerkass}}es: Eleanor constantly describes them as awful excuses for human beings, and we're shown in various flashbacks that they did indeed live up to that description. [[FreudianExcuse This left Eleanor]] with the cynical and self-serving outlook she had up until her death, though she later realizes it isn't a valid excuse.
* LackOfEmpathy: Neither of them seem to care very much about their daughter, but Donna's disregard for Eleanor's feelings is ''astounding''. For one thing, there's insulting the girl's father to her face... at his ''funeral''. Then there's what she said after Eleanor's dog died when she was a kid.
-->'''Donna:''' Your dog, Max, is dead in a duffel bag under the deck.\\
'''Eleanor:''' How did he die?\\
'''Donna:''' The short answer is: I don't know. And the slightly longer answer is: I didn't know how hot it gets in cars sometimes. The point is: ''don't be sad''. Honestly, I'll get kind of annoyed if you ''do'' get sad because it's been a very long day and that bitch Carol from work was really on my ass about some stupid thing that I don't even know what it was. And at the end of that long day, I had to use one of my favorite duffel bags to do something very gross that I ''did not'' like. Now, let's celebrate that dead dog's life by bringing Mommy another bottle of white.
* LadyDrunk: Literally every scene with Donna has her with a drink in her hand.
* LowerClassLout: They're trashy, stupid and have absolutely no class.
* {{Manchild}}: They're both incredibly immature. Deconstructed as their immaturity and selfishness caused Eleanor to develop her dim view of humanity.
* MrsRobinson: Donna unsubtly hits on Eleanor's boyfriend ''at Doug's funeral''.
* ParentalNeglect: Constantly forgot their own daughter's birthday, and in general, they treated Eleanor as more like a casual acquaintance than their own child. They also didn't even so much as protest when Eleanor decided to emancipate herself and move out, at the age of ''fourteen''.
* WackyParentSeriousChild: The absurdly stupid, irresponsible, and wacky parents to Eleanor's exasperated, self-sufficient serious child in every flashback they appear in. Eleanor also flatly states she's had to take care of herself ''and'' the two of them her whole life, which is why she's so determined to emancipate herself. ''Extremely'' deconstructed, as this did a lot of damage to Eleanor's mentality and emotional well-being.

[[folder:Wallace]]
!!Wallace
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Seth Morris

-->''"Now, you can't legally call it medicine, because it doesn't technically 'work' and it'' is ''technically 'chalk.'"''

Eleanor's boss in the flashbacks to her life on Earth.

* 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 him a good boss from her perspective.
* SnakeOilSalesman: He heads up a team which sells phony pharmaceuticals to the sick and elderly.
-->'''Wallace:''' So we sell two products here, [=NasaPRO=] and [=NasaPRO=] Silver. We aim this at seniors. Now, you can't legally call it medicine because it doesn't technically "work" and it is technically "chalk", so what you're gonna want to do -
-->'''Eleanor:''' You need me to lie to old people and scare them into buying fake medicine. I get it, man.
* SpearCounterpart: To Eleanor. He has no scruples either about selling AllNaturalSnakeOil, or about hitting on co-workers of the opposite sex. The flaws that sent Eleanor to the Bad Place are his flaws as well.

[[folder:Brittany & Madison]]
!!Brittany & Madison
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[[caption-width-right:350:Left: Madison, Right: Brittany]]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Meryl Hathaway (Brittany) and Angela Trimbur (Madison)

Eleanor's roommates.

* EverybodyHasStandards: Brittany is rather shallow, yet even she thinks Madison seriously overreacted to the ripped dress fiasco.
* FrivolousLawsuit: Madison sued a dry-cleaner business because she thinks they broke the back zipper on an expensive dress of hers (which was actually Eleanor's fault) first for the price of the dress... and then $80 ''million'' in mental anguish. The legal fees shut the dry-cleaners down.
* {{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.
* {{Manchild}}: Of the two, Madison is far more immature, prone to throwing tantrums and acting like a spoiled teenager.
* NeverMyFault: Madison never gets how the fallout of the Dress Bitch incident is her fault, instead accusing all those people taunting or humiliating her afterward of being "jealous".
* RichBitch: Madison has lots of money, and abuses it regularly.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: They're this to Eleanor. She's not exactly ''nice'' when left to her own devices, but she is ''infinitely'' worse when she hangs around them. Brittany especially has a habit of turning up when Eleanor's doing something and talking her into abandoning it.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: They and Eleanor mostly treat each other like crap despite being roommates that hang out with each other.

[[folder:Sam]]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Drew Brooks

One of Eleanor's boyfriends while she was alive.

* SatelliteLoveInterest: Not much is known about him besides being an ex of Eleanor's, and that he made an effort to be a better person than she was.

[[folder:Dave]]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Andy Daly

An architect who Donna has hooked up with.

* LoveAtFirstSight: 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.
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:He actually knows that "Diana Tremaine" is Donna Shellstrop. The two plan to break it to their daughter when she's old enough to handle it.]]

!!!Tahani's circle

[[folder:Manisha & Waqas]]
!!Manisha & Waqas Al-Jamil
->'''Portrayed By:''' Anna Khaja (Manisha) & Ajay Mehta (Waqas)
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[[caption-width-right:350:'''Executor''': ''"[The will] says "We bequeath the rest of our estate to Tahini." "Like the sauce."'']]

-->''"Hello, Tahani! We were just talking about how you're a huge disappointment compared to your sister."''
--->-- '''Manisha'''

Tahani and Kamilah's parents, who fawn over Kamilah and completely ignore Tahani unless it's to criticize her.

* AbusiveParents: They are staggeringly cold-hearted to Tahani, withholding affection for the simple reason that they don't think she deserves it in comparison to her sister. This is [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood occasionally played for comedy]], such as when they misspell her name in the will.
* DamnedByFaintPraise: The ''most'' praise either of them is ever seen giving Tahani is calling a picture she drew "competent".
* {{Foil}}: To Eleanor's parents. They're wealthy, snobby and refined in sharp contrast to the poor, loutish and immature Doug and Donna. While Doug and Donna were immature people who were completely unfit to be parents, they don't go out of their way to make Eleanor miserable, they're just horribly irresponsible. Contrast Manisha and Waqas, who openly prefer Kamilah to Tahani and think nothing of degrading her to prop up Kamilah.
* HateSink: Between the horrible way they played favorites with their kids, general snobbery, and the fact they never even once considered how their actions hurt Tahani, it's safe to say they would deserve any tortures the Bad Place could inflict on them.
* HumanPopsicle: Tahani mentions that they're in cryogenic chambers.
* {{Jerkass}}: They're snobby, elitist, and absurdly cruel to Tahani. Not even trying to hide the fact that they love Kamilah more than her.
* KickTheDog: Every scene they share with Tahani, they will say something immensely cruel and shatter her fragile sense of self-worth.
* LackOfEmpathy: They don't seem even slightly concerned with how their behavior affects Tahani.
* ParentalFavoritism: '''''Very''''' blatantly played favorites with their daughters, with Kamilah getting the lion's share of attention. While they'd give, at best, token acknowledgment of Tahani's work, they would heap praise upon everything Kamilah did.
* RichBitch: Both of them are wealthy, snobbish, and emotionally hard on their daughters.
* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: A flashback of Tahani's has them scolding her for not doing well enough at an auction, ignoring Tahani's attempt to point out that it's already managed to get to five million pounds, which they still regard as an embarrassing failure.
* YouAreFat: When simulations of them meet Tahani in the afterlife Manisha makes a couple of pointed remarks about Tahani's weight.
-->'''Manisha''': Apparently, wherever you've been, they've been keeping you... well-fed.

[[folder:Kamilah]]
!!Kamilah Al-Jamil
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Tahani! You're a cocktail waitress now. Honestly, I think this is the right move for you."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Rebecca Hazlewood

-->''"I am auctioning off a lunch date with me. The bidding shall commence at £3 million."''

Tahani's improbably successful sister.

* TheAce: Youngest person to ever graduate from Oxford University, world-class painter, sculptor, social activist, iconoclast, Olympic archer (for which she won the gold, of course), Grammy award-winning musician, youngest person ever inducted into the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame (her album was so good the Hall of Fame waived the mandatory 25 year waiting period and inducted her just six months after her album was released), BAFTA award-winning documentarian (for a documentary she did on her own previously mentioned Grammy award-winning album), and person voted "Most Likely to Be Creator/{{Banksy}}". Indeed when Tahani is told that Kamilah's music was capable of ''curing malaria'' she doesn't even question it, though that was likely made up just to taunt her.
* AloofBigSister: Inverted. Not only was she [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter infinitely more accomplished and beloved]] than her older sister Tahani, they didn't have a good relationship because Kamilah would either ignore her or rub in her achievements.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Was this to Tahani, who would never measure up to her achievements.
* BigSisterBully: Inverted, as she's Tahani's younger sister yet is incredibly emotionally abusive to her, mocking her by saying that the latter becoming a cocktail waitress is the right move for her in spite of all her achievements, and outright saying that she doesn't think of her.
* BrokenAce: Despite all her accomplishments and talents, Kamilah was a truly nasty, self-centered, and uncaring person. [[spoiler:This is at least partially due to the emotionally abusive way her parents pitted her against Tahani.]]
* ChildProdigy: She was already creating complex modern art sculptures as a child (while Tahani was merely making photorealistic "representational" art), and was the youngest person to graduate from Oxford.[[note]]For reference, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Lawrence Ruth Lawrence]], the youngest person to graduate in modern times, finished at thirteen.[[/note]]
* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: In flashbacks, she's shown easily accepting the horrific emotional abuse her parents heaped on Tahani (and, to a lesser extent, her as well), even calmly saying, "Thank you for this opportunity" when her parents decide to have her and Tahani paint portraits -- and whichever one is worse gets ''used as kindling''. One gets the distinct impression it's simply because this is all she's ever known, and they ''are'' her parents. [[spoiler:When she and Tahani reconcile, she admits her parents were "wankers," and is almost in tears when Tahani embraces her.]]
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Flashbacks show that everyone wants a piece of her, gender notwithstanding.
* FreudianExcuse: Being forced to compete with Tahani by their parents had just as much an effect on her as with Tahani; she just channeled it into her work.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:In season 3, Kamilah is able to reconcile with Tahani, sharing credit with her on her latest art project and revealing that all of her paintings were of pairs of things, like sisters]].
* InsufferableGenius: She's absurdly pretentious and extremely arrogant about her (admittedly very impressive) achievements, to the point where you sort of wonder how anyone else can stand to be around her.
* JerkAss: From what little we've seen of her interactions with Tahani, she doesn't seem to have been a very good sister. When questioned on whether she thinks poorly of Tahani, she admitted that she doesn't think of Tahani at all.
* JerkassFacade: [[spoiler:At least some of her aloofness and disconnect is due to her parents making her compete with Tahani]].
* KickTheDog: In almost every scene she shares with Tahani, she is either standing by and gloating at how much people favor her or making cruel comments about her.
* MeaningfulName: Perhaps unsurprisingly, Kamilah is Arabic for ''perfect''.
* ObliviouslyEvil: She genuinely doesn't seem to realize when she causes Tahani harm through her dismissiveness.
* ParodySue: Subverted. Her numerous achievements certainly come off as such, considering the entire world considers her work in art, music, and activism absolutely ground-breaking. However, while the world sings her praises, she is very unkind to her sister.
* RenaissanceMan: She excels in a ridiculous number of fields, be it from the arts, athletics and academics.
* SmugSnake: It's clear that Kamilah is a very firm believer in her own hype.
* SpoiledBrat: A lifetime of lavish wealth and praise for every accomplishment has left Kamilah with a very unpleasant demeanor.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Not a villain per se but she's adored by everyone who speaks of her and it's likely that they don't know about how cruel she can be to her sister. "Everything is Bonzer" establishes that Kamilah is even willing to take credit for something she knows full well she didn't do, i.e. saving Tahani's life.

[[folder:Larry]]
!!Larry Hemsworth
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Ben Lawson

->''"It's like mother said; I'll always be the pudgy one."''

A handsome pediatric surgeon, and perhaps more well-known to the public as the non-famous non-actor Hemsworth brother (just don't remind him of that or even talk about [[Creator/LukeHemsworth Luke]], [[Creator/ChrisHemsworth Chris]], or [[Creator/LiamHemsworth Liam]] in front of him, like, ever). Dated Tahani at point in the past.

* ButtMonkey: He sees himself as constantly unlucky compared to his more famous brothers. While most of this is just SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome, he does get the short end of the stick when [[spoiler:Tahani completely forgets about their impending marriage and gets married to Jason so they can share her money, and she is forced to break things off with him as a result]].
* ChekhovsGunman: Initially mentioned as a one-off gag in Season 2 when Tahani remarks how high-status even he is compared to Jason, and then makes an appearance on the cover of the magazine Eleanor's reading in the second episode of Season 3. The next episode he makes his onscreen debut where he [[spoiler:rekindles his relationship with Tahani, leading to them getting engaged and making plans to move back to England which sours Michael's plans to keep Team Cockroach together]].
* HollywoodPudgy: InUniverse, being the chubby son of the family is amongst his many complaints about himself. This is the same man who "barely" has an 8-pack, and Eleanor snarks if he's ashamed to have 0% body fat.
* InformedDeformity: Parodied. Larry, who clearly feels overwhelmed by his brothers' fame, constantly complains about how dull and ugly he apparently is. He claims to have a forgettable face, is considered the "chubby" one at least according to his mother, and he rants about "only" being 6'4'' and barely having an 8-pack. As he is almost a ParodySue with how good-looking and successful he is, the characters are dumbfounded by his exaggerating self-deprecation.
-->'''Chidi:''' [[LampshadeHanging Do you]] ''[[LampshadeHanging know]]'' [[LampshadeHanging what you look like]]?
* ItsAllAboutMe: While normally genial and good natured, he's easily absorbed into his own self-pity.
* NewOldFlame: An ex-boyfriend of Tahani's, and the two start dating again after [[spoiler:reuniting in Australia, which is actually a part of Michael and Janet's scheme to stop her from getting with Jason]].
* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: Parodied as Larry, despite being a classically handsome pediatric surgeon with "almost an 8-pack", is hilariously insecure about not being as famous as his actor brothers. This is apparently something he and Tahani have in common.

!!!Chidi's circle

[[folder:Henry]]
!!Henry
->'''Portrayed By:''' Dominic Burgess

One of Chidi's fellow lecturers.

* ButtMonkey: This guy's life seems to be an unending parade of unfortunate circumstances.
* NiceShoes: He owns a pair of extremely conspicuous and tacky red boots and is convinced they're the height of fashion. Chidi can't bring himself to tell him otherwise.

[[folder:Uzo]]
!!Uzo
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Keston John, Dallas Young (young)

-->''"Great job, Chidi. You filibustered recess."''

Chidi's best friend since childhood.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's ''absurdly'' patient with Chidi's indecisiveness, but even he has his limits.
* ChildhoodFriends: He and Chidi were friends as children and remained close into adulthood.
* DeadpanSnarker: Even as a kid, this was his response to Chidi.
* NiceGuy: He'd have to be to put up with Chidi's neuroses.
* PartingWordsRegret: The last thing he ever said to Chidi was that it was literally ''impossible'' to be his friend. Chidi dies not even thirty seconds later. The look on Uzo's face says it all.
* SatelliteCharacter: Chidi's exasperated childhood friend. That's about it.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After Michael saves Chidi from being crushed by the air conditioning vent, and Chidi's takeaway from the near death experience is [[ComicallyMissingThePoint not to buy one himself]], Uzo finally loses patience with Chidi and breaks off ties with him. This is what prompts Chidi to want to change his ways.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: He lets Chidi be his best man... but tells him that the wedding is a month earlier than it really is, to see, when the "big day" came, if Chidi was ''actually'' ready. Just as Uzo predicted, Chidi fails. Miserably.

[[folder:Simone]]
!!Dr. Simone Garnett
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Kirby Howell-Baptiste

A neuroscientist professor at Chidi's college in Australia.

* {{Adorkable}}: Much like Chidi, she's a sweet intellectual eager to help out those who ask.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Simone's an unusual case, since everything we see of her, proper, indicates she's into men only. However, Janet [[ItMakesSenseInContext creates a hyper-realistic simulation that includes Simone, exactly as she would react and behave in real life]]. In one run of this simulation, Eleanor talks to Simone, which quickly develops into flirty banter and an AlmostKiss -- and Simone seems just as into it as Eleanor. So, if the simulation is as accurate as Janet claims, Simone may well be bisexual.
* BrainyBrunette: She has dark hair, and is just as intelligent as Chidi, if not more.
* BriefAccentImitation: In a simulation created by Janet, she briefly imitates Eleanor's American accent (to tease Eleanor about her claim that she doesn't have an accent).
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Like Gen, she's rather quirky and eccentric, but is still very competent at her job and is one of the more helpful characters the gang has encountered thus far.
* {{Foil}}: To both Eleanor and Chidi. Like the former, she puts Chidi out of his comfort zone and helps him take decisive actions, but lacks Eleanor's negative personality traits. While she studies human nature like Chidi, she also lacks his faults and is more interested in concrete facts than ethical questions. She's also interested in science, while the other characters have a supernatural perspective of events.
* TheGadfly: Although quite nice, she does mess with Chidi's head by telling him the way she'd analyse his brain involves peeling his scalp open and jabbing his brain with an electrified needle while he's still conscious.
* NiceGirl: Simone's no pushover, but she's a sweet, easygoing lady who takes Team Cockroach's weirdness in stride.
* OnlySaneMan: So far, she's one of the only characters we've met who isn't evil, stupid, or dysfunctional to the point of self-destruction. Of The Brainy Bunch, she is ''easily'' the most together.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Simone's Aussie accent is a bit rough, with the actress being British.

!!!Jason's circle

[[folder:Pillboi]]
!!Pillboi
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Eugene Cordero

-->''"At least he died doing what he loved: a bunch of whip-its."''

Jason's best friend and partner-in-crime from Jacksonville.

* AffablyEvil: Same deal as Jason. For a petty, destructive crook, he seems pretty nice.
* AsianAirhead: He's played by a Filipino-American actor, and like Jason, he doesn't seem to have much in the way of brains.
* BadLiar: His attempts to lie during his crook schemes are very easy to look through due to their absurd nature or poor execution.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Jason in life. Small-time StupidCrooks they may be, but the two of them obviously have a strong friendship, and aren't averse to marrying each other to get out of being convicted (that's not how it works, of course, but the sentiment is there).
* HiddenDepths: Despite his love for petty crime, Season 3 reveals he works at a nursing home and genuinely enjoys it, and he does appear to do a decent job from the little viewers see of him at work.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Only known by the name ''Pillboi'' which is almost certainly not his real name (given he's from Florida, though, you never know). It even says 'Pillboi' on his ''employee badge'' at the retirement home.
* SatelliteCharacter: His only role in the story is to act as a supporting partner-in-crime to Jason.
* StupidCrooks: He and Jason do petty crimes, but their plans are not very well thought-out.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: In life, he always carred out idiotic criminal schemes with his partner-in-crime Jason.
* VillainousFriendship: Despite their life of crime together, he genuinely cared about Jason and was saddened by his death.

[[folder:Donkey Doug]]
!!Donkey Doug
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Mitch Narito

Jason's dad (yes, really). Like his son, Donkey Doug also dabbles in crime.

* AsianAirhead: Similar to his son, the Filipino-American Donkey Doug isn't very bright.
* ChekhovsGunman: First mentioned in season 1, he appears briefly in the first episode of Season 3 when he backs out of Jason's dance crew, against the idea of avoiding crime. He becomes the focus of a later episode when [[spoiler:Jason, Tahani and Michael attempt to redeem him as part of their new plan to help others]], and Jason officially reveals he's his father.
* KavorkaMan: Apparently, up until he met Tahani, his technique for seducing women was nothing more than saying "let's go put stuff in each other." And yet it worked up until then.
* InsistentTerminology: Refers to Jason as "my boy", but they find referring to one another as father and son to be too weird.
* LazyBum: Quits Dance Dance Resolution when Jason states the crew should devote themselves to being better dancers via an astoundingly small amount of working out, which is too much for him.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: It becomes clear Jason's lack of brightness and crook ways were very much the influence of his father.
* LoserSonOfLoserDad: Mentions that his father and grandfather were both petty criminals who eventually gave themselves up to the police so their kids could get away.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Parodied. He was mentioned in earlier seasons, but in Season 3 Jason explains to Tahani that Donkey Doug is his father. Tahani is weirded out by this.
* {{Manchild}}: Even more childish and stupid than his own son.
* NoodleIncident: He once tried inventing his own sport. Lots of people got killed because of it.
* ParentsAsPeople: By his own admission, he's not the best father in the world, and his criminal activity and stupidity almost certainly set Jason on the path to becoming who he is. But he does care about Jason, and willingly gives himself up to the cops so Jason can run away.
* TheStoner: He answers his door holding a bong, despite knowing that a visit from the police is a very real possibility.
* StupidCrooks: He believes that cops cannot arrest people for anything they heard before they reveal they're cops, and he devotes his life to get-rich-quick schemes which wind up involving large amounts of theft, just to sell idiotic products.
* TomatoSurprise: Jason talks about Donkey Doug in season one, but he doesn't reveal Donkey Doug is his father until Season 3 - though he knew about it when almost everyone else didn't (including the audience).

!!!Other Earth Characters

[[folder:Doug Forcett]]
!!Doug Forcett
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[[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see him in the present day]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dougforcett.png[[/labelnote]]]]

->'''Portrayed By:''' Noah Garfinkel (photograph, young) & Creator/MichaelMcKean

A random stoner kid from 1970s Calgary who, during a magic mushroom trip, somehow explained what happens in the afterlife with 92% accuracy. His portrait is proudly displayed in Michael's office.

* AchievementsInIgnorance: Got high one night and unwittingly achieved what all of humanity had failed to do for millennia: explain what happens to you when you die.
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Doug has devoted every day of his life into making others happy, even animals, at his own expense, simply to try and get into the Good Place. As Michael and Janet learn, he has earned a tremendous amount of points... but it's nowhere near enough to get him in.]]
* CanadaEh: He's from Calgary. Downplayed example as he doesn't exhibit any extreme Canadian stereotypes, other than being an overly nice guy in the present [[spoiler:as a result of his epiphany about the afterlife]] and being a stoner in the past.
* ChekhovsGunman: Is briefly talked about in the pilot episode and isn't brought up again for a long time, seemingly acting as nothing more than a small gag. [[spoiler:In Season 3, Michael and Janet seek him out in hopes of using him as a "blueprint for humanity" that others can follow to earn their spot in the Good Place. Unfortunately, Doug's so worried about going to the Bad Place that he goes to uncomfortable extremes to be good and earn enough afterlife points. This really drives the point home to Michael and Janet that the afterlife points system is flawed and that finding ''the'' perfect model to get into the Good Place is a lot more complicated than they thought.]]
* EruditeStoner: This is also what makes him famous in the afterlife. Apparently, he dropped magic mushrooms once and proceeded to guess most of what happens to people after they die. Reportedly, while all world religions got around 5% right each, he accurately described ''92% of what actually happens''.
* 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.]]
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: In a benign way, but [[spoiler:coming to understand how biased and strict the points system is caused him to become a miserable wreck of a person so dedicated to altruism who makes ''Chidi'' look downright relaxed and laid-back.]]
* HeavenSeeker: [[spoiler:He devotes his life exclusively to maximizing his afterlife points in order to make sure he gets into the Good Place.]]
* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: Was the one person in existence to most closely accurately guess the true nature of how the afterlife functions while tripping on shrooms.
* 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. It also made him spend the day after stroking a blanket.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Eleanor and Jason's dads are both also named Doug.

* GoodIsDumb: Played with. While super-friendly, Jason is a very childish petty criminal ruled by his impulses and inability to think through the consequences of his actions; he can also be incredibly selfish. All things considered though, Jason is the nicest of the four, if only because his dumbness gives him a sort of innocence, as Eleanor notes, calling him the nice one of the gang.

* HateSink: Possibly even bigger ones than Kamilah. Between the horrible way they played favorites with their kids, general snobbery, and the fact they never even once considered how their actions hurt Tahani, it's safe to say they would deserve any tortures the Bad Place could inflict on them.

* HateSink: Possibly even bigger ones than Kamilah. Between the horrible way they played favorites with their kids, general snobbery, and the fact they never even once considered how their actions hurt Tahani, it's safe to say they would deserve any tortures the Bad Place could inflict on them (if they were indeed placed there).