| 1 | Characters found in the live-action film ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' and its sequel ''Film/BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice'', the cartoon ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'', and the Broadway musical ''Theatre/{{Beetlejuice}}.'' |
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| 3 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 4 | |
| 5 | !!Film Characters |
| 6 | |
| 7 | [[AC:The Maitlands]] |
| 8 | |
| 9 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 10 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/adam_maitland_from_beetlejuice.jpg]] |
| 11 | |
| 12 | General tropes about Adam and Barbara Maitland. |
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| 14 | * AfterlifeAngst: Initially averted until the Deetz family buys their home. |
| 15 | * BedsheetGhost: While trying to scare the Deetz family. It didn't work: Charles thinks one of them was Lydia trying to play a prank, Delia is too doped out on "Prince Valium" to notice them, and Lydia thinks (at first) that it's Charles and Delia playing some kinky bedroom game. Lampshaded by Barbara. |
| 16 | * CountryMouse: Adam and Barbara's idea of a vacation is to spend it in their country house and renovate. |
| 17 | * DeadToBeginWith: The Maitlands die a few minutes into the film. Most of the plot involves them dealing with the afterlife and with the people who are now inhabiting their house. |
| 18 | * {{Foil}}: To Charles and Delia Deetz. Whereas the Maitlands are very much in love, the Deetzes, to put it mildly, have a very rocky relationship. While the Maitlands have common interests and easily cooperate as partners, the Deetzes frequently argue as Delia's bombastic eccentricity and artistic aspirations clashes with Charles's more down-to-earth personality and initial wish to have a peaceful, quiet life. Charles and Delia, although not abusive to Lydia, are shown to be so caught up in their own drama that they are somewhat neglectful of her, while Adam and Barbara quickly take a liking to her, providing her with more parental affection than her own father and stepmother, even though she's not their actual daughter. |
| 19 | * HappilyMarried: They're obviously very happy together and were planning to spend their vacation working on their house before their untimely deaths. |
| 20 | * IdiotBall: Adam and Barbara grab this at the climax when they both have enough time to get out Betelgeuse's name three times if they're quick about it, but fail. Barbara even waits for him to retaliate between sayings. |
| 21 | ** Especially bad since Barbara did this properly earlier in the film. |
| 22 | * MonsterRoommate: The Maitlands are this for the Deetzes, although they seem to feel it's the other way around. |
| 23 | * [[NiceGuy Nice Folks]]: Two of the sweetest people you'll ever meet, to the point that they're awful at actually scaring the Deetzes and their friends. |
| 24 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: The Maitlands do this a few times. |
| 25 | ** The "Day-O" haunting attempt only serves to entertain the Deetzes and their guests, not frighten them. |
| 26 | ** The Maitlands release Betelgeuse, they let Otho steal the Handbook, and their lackluster haunting attempts succeed only in making Charles think the town would make a neat tourist attraction. Juno calls them out on all of it. |
| 27 | * StupidGood: They're more naïve and out of their depth than actually stupid, but with that said, they are easy prey for conman Beetlejuice and they left the Handbook around which, in Juno's opinion, means a whole bunch of trouble. |
| 28 | * TogetherInDeath: They died in the same accident when their car fell into the Winter River. It almost happens to them again at the end of the movie when Otho nearly exorcises them. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | [[/folder]] |
| 31 | |
| 32 | [[folder:Adam Maitland]] |
| 33 | !!Adam Maitland |
| 34 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/e2d2489680389bee46788d5fab00a988.jpg]] |
| 35 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/AlecBaldwin |
| 36 | |
| 37 | A humble countryman who enjoys building miniature models. |
| 38 | ---- |
| 39 | * AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: When Adam finds the advert for Betelgeuse, he actually says the name three times, but because he pronounces it "Bay-til Guy-ce", the incantation doesn't work. |
| 40 | * BodyHorror: Having his head cut off, then stretching his nose out while shoving his hand into the back of his head and growing eyes on his fingers. |
| 41 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Adam and the spider. Instead of squashing it, he only comments on its size and lets it go free, showing him to be a {{nice guy}}. |
| 42 | |
| 43 | [[/folder]] |
| 44 | |
| 45 | [[folder:Barbara Maitland]] |
| 46 | !!Barbara Maitland |
| 47 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/barbaramaitland.jpg]] |
| 48 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/GeenaDavis |
| 49 | |
| 50 | A homemaker who was planning on starting a family before her death. |
| 51 | ---- |
| 52 | * EightiesHair: Her bushy curls aren't as extreme as some examples but the general shape is very specific to the 1980s. |
| 53 | * ActionGirl: A downplayed example, since she doesn't have too many action scenes, but the scenes where she deals with the sandworm definitely put her here. |
| 54 | * BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Just as Betelgeuse is about to marry Lydia, Barbara comes in riding on a Sandworm that eats Betelgeuse, stopping the wedding in the nick of time.]] |
| 55 | * BodyHorror: Ripping her face off, then stretching out her jaws and setting her eyes in her open mouth. |
| 56 | * DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Barbara wangs the Sand Worm right on the nose, causing it to retreat... and then later befriends it! |
| 57 | * HateAtFirstSight: Upon seeing Delia trash the house with Otho's help and hearing her call it "a hellhole" in an argument with Charles, Barbara growls, "I'm gonna get her." |
| 58 | * LawOfInverseFertility: It's possible that Barbara is infertile, especially when Jane says that their house should belong to a family; Barbara looks crushed. At the very least, they've had no luck conceiving. It's no wonder they become almost second parents to Lydia. |
| 59 | * OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Barbara tames the sandworm — and since time passes differently on Saturn, she must have tamed it almost instantly. |
| 60 | * WightInAWeddingDress: Otho uses her and Adam's wedding clothes as part of his séance-turned-exorcism. She spends the climax of the movie wearing her wedding dress. |
| 61 | [[/folder]] |
| 62 | |
| 63 | [[AC:Deetz Family]] |
| 64 | |
| 65 | [[folder:Lydia Deetz]] |
| 66 | !!Lydia Deetz |
| 67 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/flat1000x1000075fu2_3.jpg]] |
| 68 | [[caption-width-right:350: I myself am strange and unusual.]] |
| 69 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/WinonaRyder |
| 70 | |
| 71 | A goth girl who can see ghosts. |
| 72 | ---- |
| 73 | * AmbiguouslyJewish: Due to being played by Winona Ryder. |
| 74 | * CameraFiend: Lydia is an avid photographer. |
| 75 | * DarkIsNotEvil: Gloomy and goth, but a gentle soul. |
| 76 | * DeadpanSnarker: Lydia occasionally makes snarky retorts towards the other characters, mostly her parents and their friends. For example, when Otho announces his plans to summon Adam and Barbara to the group, Lydia is momentarily shocked before saying (paraphrased): "Wait, why am I worried? Otho, you can't even change a tire." |
| 77 | * DeathSeeker: The existence of the Maitlands, combined with their supposed betrayal, just makes her more convinced that suicide is the answer. The Maitlands manage to cure her of this with AnAesop that the afterlife is just as difficult and that death doesn't have any of the mystery people think it does. |
| 78 | * EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: A Tim Burton staple. |
| 79 | * EmotionlessGirl: At least, she tries to be; she actually feels things pretty intensely. |
| 80 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Lydia sees a big spiderweb and notes, "I could live here." It's a hint that she'll get on well with the Maitlands, since shortly before his death, Adam kindly put the spider outside rather than killing it. |
| 81 | * FreeTheFrogs: Lydia gets a C in Biology because she refuses to dissect frogs. But she clearly states that she did it because she thought it was gross, not for animal rights. She tries to get out of it by claiming that it's against her religion, but gets the C all the same. |
| 82 | * GoodbyeCruelWorld: Lydia considers suicide early in the film. |
| 83 | * {{Goth}}: Lydia qualifies, though she becomes a PerkyGoth at the end of the movie. |
| 84 | * IJustWantToBeSpecial: Lydia longs to be a ghost. |
| 85 | * MissingMom: She explicitly identifies Delia as her stepmother, but the film never reveals who or where her birth mother is. |
| 86 | * OnlySaneMan: As strange as she is, Lydia is basically this for the film. |
| 87 | * UnconventionalWeddingDress: Beetlejuice dresses her in a bright red dress, gloves and veil for their wedding. |
| 88 | [[/folder]] |
| 89 | |
| 90 | [[folder:Delia Deetz]] |
| 91 | !!Delia Deetz |
| 92 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/deliadeetzbio_4.png]] |
| 93 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/CatherineOHara |
| 94 | |
| 95 | An eccentric contemporary artist and Lydia's stepmother. |
| 96 | ---- |
| 97 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: Delia gets along much better with Lydia in the cartoon, even if they're very different. |
| 98 | * AdaptationPersonalityChange: A snobbish and somewhat jerkish UpperClassTwit who very clearly doesn't care about Lydia in the film, she's a friendly, upbeat if highly eccentric CloudCuckooLander who tries her best (and at first fails) to get along with Lydia in the cartoon. |
| 99 | * ArbitrarySkepticism: Subverted. She at first refuses to believe Lydia about her claims about the house being haunted, but comes to believe it immediately after the dinner scene. Her agent Bernard, on the other hand, absolutely refuses to believe it happened, despite the fact that he was there when it happened. It is also an avenue to attract Maxie Dean, an art patron she desperately wants to ingratiate, since he and his wife are huge believers in the paranormal. |
| 100 | * BerserkButton: If you do not let Delia gut out her new house and make it her own, she will go insane AND SHE WILL TAKE YOU WITH HER! |
| 101 | * CloudCuckoolander: Delia is an obnoxious yuppie in the film, but in the cartoon she's this. Whenever she's visited the Neitherworld, she's actually enjoyed it. Other living people laugh at Delia's strange art, but the ghosts of the Neitherworld love it. |
| 102 | * EveryoneHasStandards: At first, she's excited with the idea of profiting off their haunted home. But during the seance/exorcism, she's appalled to see what the ritual is doing to the spirits. |
| 103 | * ImpossiblyTackyClothes: A lot of what Delia wears could be considered this. In one scene she has a glove on her head as part of a sort of headband. Meanwhile, the red sweater Charles wears in one scene makes a reappearance later as Delia's pants, held up with suspenders. |
| 104 | * InformedFlaw: Everyone calls Delia's sculptures "garbage," but they're actually pretty good. She clearly has talent; what she lacks is [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible conventional taste]]. The workers hired to help the Deetzes move into and renovate the house, as well as Delia's own agent, show no appreciation for her work. |
| 105 | ** Living humans laugh at Delia's art in the cartoon like they do in the film, but the ghosts of the Neitherworld love her bizarre creations. |
| 106 | * SuddenlyShouting: "I'm here with you. I will live with you in this hellhole, but I must express myself! If you don't let me gut out this house and make it my own, ''I will go insane, AND I WILL TAKE YOU WITH ME!''" |
| 107 | * TakenForGranite: In the cartoon, she has a successful art show in the Neitherworld. The curator then turns her into a stone statue to become part of the exhibit. Beetlejuice manages to turn her back to normal. |
| 108 | * TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Living people in both the movie and the cartoon ridicule her strange art, but the ghosts of the Neitherworld think it's great. The Monster Across The Street buys one of her sculptures, and her art show is a big success. |
| 109 | * WickedStepmother: Largely averted. She and Lydia clearly don't ''understand'' each other much at all, and Lydia resents the fact that her father keeps referring to Delia as her mother, but they don't seem to dislike each other too much. Delia is actually fairly well-meaning in the way she interacts with Lydia, and seems genuinely frightened by the situation her stepdaughter is in during the climax. |
| 110 | [[/folder]] |
| 111 | |
| 112 | [[folder:Charles Deetz]] |
| 113 | !!Charles Deetz |
| 114 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/f339d87bb3578588fe9ef15a40ed8845.png]] |
| 115 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/JeffreyJones |
| 116 | |
| 117 | A city native that just wants to retreat to the country. |
| 118 | ---- |
| 119 | * AllJustADream: Subverted in the cartoon. The bizarre Neitherworld things Charles sometimes sees are all real, but he just assumes they're dreams or hallucinations brought on by Delia's LethalChef cooking. |
| 120 | * BumblingDad: He's not the most hands-on parent, but he's shown calling Lydia "pumpkin" and demonstrating genuine affection toward her. |
| 121 | * ButtMonkey: Betelgeuse makes a hobby out of tormenting him in the animated series. |
| 122 | * EveryoneHasStandards: He's excited about profiting off his new haunted house, and resorts to a séance/exorcism to force the Maitlands to go along with it. However he's unaware that doing so will cause them to suffer a FateWorseThanDeath, and quickly demands that Otho stop when he realizes that the ritual is harming Adam and Barbara. |
| 123 | * NervousWreck: He's often this in the cartoon. Beetlejuice takes full advantage of it. |
| 124 | * OnlySaneMan: Subverted; he ''seems'' to be this at first, because of his wife and daughter's wackier personalities. However, his obsession with money and turning the quiet town into a tourist attraction shows that he's at least as weird as either of them. |
| 125 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Lydia mentions that Charles "never backs away from equity." During the exorcism, he has a change of heart upon seeing the Maitlands' bodies deteriorate, taking pity on them even at the cost of potential profits. |
| 126 | * SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: The teaser for ''Film/BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice'' shows a funeral being held for him, confirming that he died in between films. The real-life reason for this is [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor his actor having been arrested for sex offenses in the 2000s]]. |
| 127 | [[/folder]] |
| 128 | |
| 129 | [[folder:Astrid Deetz]] |
| 130 | !!Astrid Deetz |
| 131 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/JennaOrtega |
| 132 | |
| 133 | The daughter of Lydia. |
| 134 | |
| 135 | [[/folder]] |
| 136 | |
| 137 | [[AC:Ghosts]] |
| 138 | |
| 139 | [[folder:Betelgeuse]] |
| 140 | !!Betelgeuse |
| 141 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/beetlejuice.jpg]] |
| 142 | [[caption-width-right:350:I'm the ghost with the most, babe!]] |
| 143 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/MichaelKeaton |
| 144 | |
| 145 | The Ghost with the Most. A shady "bio-exorcist", a ghost that professionally scares the living out of other ghosts' haunts, who loves his work. |
| 146 | ---- |
| 147 | * AbnormalLimbRotationRange: Betelgeuse's head spins freely, apparently not within his complete control.[[note]] In the original script, Betelguese died by suicide via hanging. Given how ghosts either reflect or maintain attributes from their death, this may be from cracked or outright destroyed neck vertebrae. [[/note]] |
| 148 | * AffablyEvil[=/=]FauxAffablyEvil: Zig-zaggs between the two. On one hand, while he's hardly anybody's friend, Betelgeuse actually seems like a fun guy to be around (unless you're a woman). He offers to make Barbara and Adam an Italian dinner, attempts to do the task that they wanted him to do (albeit in a manner they didn't like) while being earnestly offended when they interfere and is genuinely confused about Lydia's choice to be dead at first when she brings it up to him, but still offers to help her out since she seemed insistent on it. Then he demonstrates that he's a crude, perverted murderer with no restraint or self-control, and it becomes clear that as fun as he seems, he is a dangerous man to be around for more than a few minutes, even if he does have genuinely quirky traits. |
| 149 | ** On the other hand, Betelgeuse's fun side can actually be the enjoyment of a sadistic nature to torment and just about kill with his pranks. It has been shown that he's reckless if not willing to harm people, with DarkHumor continuing in the laughter and humorous effects afterward, with him nearly killing Lydia's father as a snake, killing Maxie Dean and his spouse, and using Lydia to permanently gain access to the living world. |
| 150 | * AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Betelgeuse's main goal is to marry Lydia, because marrying a living person will allow him to stay in the living world indefinitely. |
| 151 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Betelgeuse does the following in his second summoning: maims if not outright kills Maxie Dean and his wife, sexually harasses Lydia, and… changes Otho's clothes into a ''leisure suit'' (though considering what a fashion-obsessed prima donna Otho is, he acts as if the harmless prank is the same as trying to murder him). |
| 152 | * BeastWithAHumanFace: Briefly turns into a serpentine version of himself while retaining his face but exaggerated to look demonic and serpentine. |
| 153 | * BerserkButton: |
| 154 | ** He might not look it, but Betelgeuse takes great pride in his work as a bio-exorcist. When the Maitlands stop Betelgeuse from continuing to menace the Deetzes in his snake form, he gets pissed off at them for interrupting the work of a professional. |
| 155 | ** Also calling his name to summon him only to reject his services, thus getting his hopes up and wasting his time. That's the first time you really see him upset. |
| 156 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: He's a fast-talking weirdo whose antics and abilities make him come across as a LiveActionCartoon, but make no mistake that you wouldn't want him haunting your home. He's a DirtyOldMan whose first question when the Maitlands summon him is who they want him to ''kill'', he eats live bugs, he can reverse spells cast from the Handbook for the Recently Deceased on a whim, can banish ghosts to Saturn at the mercy of the Sandworms and a whole host of other horrifying things. |
| 157 | * BigBad: There's a reason why he's (sort of) the source for the AntagonistTitle. |
| 158 | * BishonenLine: Betelgeuse shapeshifts into a variety of forms throughout the film and appears in the model repeatedly, but for the final confrontation he appears full-sized at last, now wearing the iconic black and white prison-stripe-style suit. |
| 159 | * DirtyOldMan: Okay, so Keaton wasn't old when he played him (at least in the [[SequelGap first film]]), but almost every perverted aspect of Betelgeuse's personality is based around this trope. |
| 160 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: When Lydia gives Betelgeuse the implication she wants to die by telling him "I want to get in," he responds with a confused "Why?", pointing out that no matter how bad things get, death is still worse. Then he tells her that if she lets him out, they can talk, and maybe he can help her if she helps him. |
| 161 | * EatenAlive: At the end of ''Beetlejuice'', he gets eaten by the [[spoiler:Sandworm used by Barbara]]. |
| 162 | * ForcefulKiss: Immediately after introducing himself to Adam and Barbara, Betelgeuse grabs the latter and gives her this kind of kiss. As you can imagine, they're already regretting their decision to meet with him, especially since he acts like a pervert around her the rest of the time. |
| 163 | * IconicOutfit: Betelgeuse's black-and-white striped suit. Ironically, he's only wearing the outfit for about five minutes of screen time (during the climax), as he's typically in a long coat and ratty pajamas for most of the film like a ghastly Hugh Hefner. However, the look was so iconic and so heavily featured in the movie's advertising that it's basically the only thing he wears in the animated adaptation. |
| 164 | * IGaveMyWord: For all his faults, he always honors his deals even if he doesn't particularly care for his clients. In fact, one of his {{Berserk Button}}s is banishing him while he's in the middle of working, thereby breaking the contract made when summoning him. |
| 165 | * LackOfEmpathy: One of Betelgeuse's traits that's hard to miss. He'd have a hard time giving a shit about ''anyone'' but himself; the closest we ever see him get to showing real empathy is when he talks to Lydia about her suicidal impulses. |
| 166 | * LargeHam: He's lecherous, shouts at random, has no sense of personal space, and cackles a lot. |
| 167 | * LaughablyEvil: Betelgeuse is a perverted, murderous [[PsychoForHire hitman]] who takes pride in his work, and a {{con man}} who tries forcing Lydia into marrying him so he'll have permanent access to the mortal world… but he's so funny that people forget what a rotten person he is. |
| 168 | * LightIsNotGood: While usually dressed in dark attire, and mostly portrayed with dark elements, Betelgeuse is associated with a golden light that occasionally shows up, notably with a light illuminating when Juno talks about him. The second time is when he's summoned, and his final demise. It along with his serpentine form and guile to manipulate others into deals, subtly hint to his traits [[SatanicArchetype as the devil of the story]]. |
| 169 | * ManipulativeBastard: Betelgeuse tries, at least; but it is hampered by his impatience, tendency to act perverse, and inability to keep his mouth shut. These make it difficult to make him convincing unless the individual is desperate. |
| 170 | * MonsterClown: Betelgeuse invokes this a tiny bit. |
| 171 | * MotorMouth: Betelgeuse talks very quickly. It veers into TalkativeLoon when he changes the subject without pausing. |
| 172 | * MysteriousPast: Aside from the fact that he was once Juno's assistant, we really don't know anything about Betelgeuse. He makes all sorts of grand claims, but these are clearly BlatantLies. |
| 173 | * NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Betelgeuse has all sorts of strange powers, from VoluntaryShapeshifting to making illusions to magically transporting people to depriving people of their speech to perfectly imitating someone's voice to immediately changing both his and other people's clothes to bringing Delia's sculptures to life to freeing the Maitlands from their exorcism and immediately restoring them to normal. |
| 174 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: By sending [[spoiler:Adam to the model city and Barbara to the desert where the sandworm is]], Betelgeuse makes it that much easier for [[spoiler:the Maitlands to defeat him]]. |
| 175 | * NightmareFace: Betelgeuse makes one to demonstrate his talents to the Maitlands. "Can I be scary? Well, whaddya think of this?" The audience can't see it, but [[TakeOurWordForIt the Maitlands certainly seem terrified]]. |
| 176 | * NobleDemon: Despite being a disgusting con man and pervert, Betelgeuse does have some otherwise redeeming moments: |
| 177 | ** When the Maitlands first enlist his services as a bio-exorcist, he goes right to work and actively tries to live up to his end of the bargain in getting rid of Otho and the Deetzes. |
| 178 | ** When Lydia is contemplating suicide, he shows genuine concern for her. |
| 179 | ** When Lydia agrees to release him in exchange for saving the Maitlands from being exorcised by Otho, he lives up to the end of their deal and saves them. He then immediately subverts this when he attempts to banish the Maitlands; however, his chosen methods are much more temporary than exorcism, and he only does it because they're attempting to stop the wedding – and to be fair, Lydia ''did'' agree to marry him as the price for his aid. He also treats Lydia very affectionately throughout the whole wedding scene, although whether this is genuine or a continuation of his con artistry is up for debate. In any case, the Maitlands return and promptly turn the tables on him. |
| 180 | * NonIndicativeName: If the lead character's name had been spelled the same as the title of the movie, it would have made sense. However, he has nothing to do with what he's actually named after: a star in the constellation Orion, notably home of the Elder Gods in the Cthulhu Mythos and the location of Hell in the poem "Betelgeuse, a Trip Through Hell." |
| 181 | * PetTheDog: When Lydia states "I want to get in" (i.e., [[DrivenToSuicide she wants to die]]), Betelgeuse shows genuine concern for her. |
| 182 | * PrecisionFStrike: After Betelgeuse kicks over the Maitlands' model tree, he glances up at them and says, "'''[[SarcasmMode Nice fuckin' model!]]'''" |
| 183 | * APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: He was once Juno's assistant, but his unruliness and chaotic nature led him to quit and go freelance instead. The mere mention of him causes the otherwise unflappable Juno to lose her composure in fear. |
| 184 | * RealityWarper: Is capable of some pretty powerful haunting, like turning a staircase railing into his serpentine form until Barbara traps him. He can also teleport others to different locations, turn himself into a test-your-strength machine, change Lydia and Otho's clothes transform with a flick, create the illusions of a human-size beetle and a box of orange juice when doing charades with Lydia, cause alterations to the Maitlands' mouths, revert the Maitlands back to their previous condition after being subjected to the process of exorcism, make Delia's statues come to life and grow in size, and summon a priest from nowhere. His only limitation revolves around his name curse and Sandworms. |
| 185 | * Really700YearsOld: Actually 600, if his claims to have lived through the Black Death have any validity to them. [[BlatantLies Kind of a big if, though.]] |
| 186 | * RedFlagRecreationMaterial: Betelgeuse mentions that he's seen ''Film/TheExorcist'' a hundred and sixty-seven times "and it keeps getting funnier every single time I see it!" firmly establishing him as an extremely morbid character even ''before'' he starts launching ghostly attacks on the Maitlands. |
| 187 | * ResizedVocals: Having ended up stuck in the afterlife's waiting room following his defeat in the finale, Beetlejuice makes the mistake of stealing the number from a WitchDoctor, who immediately retaliates by shrinking his head to the size of a cue ball; as he does so, Beetlejuice's voice gets progressively higher until he's squeaking like a chipmunk. |
| 188 | * RuleOfThree: Saying his name three times both frees him and seals him. |
| 189 | * SatanicArchetype: He's the closest thing to a "Satan" that the film's afterlife seems to possess. It is indicated that he worked for the CelestialBureaucracy which manages the afterlife before he [[FallenAngel quit]] and went "freelance" as a "Bio-exorcist." He is invited to the house by the then-recently deceased Maitlands and [[DealWithTheDevil makes a deal with them to get rid of the Deetzes, and later makes a deal with Lydia to save the Maitlands from an exorcism.]] Much in the same way that Lydia's parents and their city friends are meant to represent the worst that modern humanity has to offer (shallow, apathetic, etc.), Betelgeuse represents this on the ghostly side, being a pervert, a con man, and a complete sociopath. Much like how {{Beelzebub}} is the "Lord of Flies", Betelgeuse both has "beetle" in his name (in pronunciation, at least) and seems to subsist on bugs. He also briefly [[ScaledUp takes on the form of a serpent with his face]] to scare the Deetzes. Even the fact of his name being a source of power for him (he can be summoned and banished by saying it three times and he cannot say it out loud himself) is a reference to some forms of demonology where it is believed that knowing a demon's true name can give you power over it. |
| 190 | * SawStarWars27Times: Betelgeuse has seen ''Film/TheExorcist'' "about a hundred and sixty-seven times" (and it keeps getting funnier every time he sees it). |
| 191 | * ScaledUp: Betelgeuse can turn into a giant snake with [[BeastWithAHumanFace an exaggerated version of his face]], complete [[HellishPupils with wide eyes with slit pupils]]. |
| 192 | * ScarpiaUltimatum: He forces this onto Lydia, after she begs him PleaseIWillDoAnything so he'll save Adam and Barbara from being exorcised. |
| 193 | * TheScottishTrope: |
| 194 | ** Saying his name while he's not currently freed is looked down upon by other ghosts, as it risks releasing him. Once released, he does his best to stop others from saying it again for fear of putting him back. |
| 195 | ** It also seems to be impossible for him to say his own name aloud, or at least say it to others in order to let ''them'' say it. He can write out his name (unless one subscribes to the theory that his name really is spelled "Beetlejuice" and he's forced to spell it the same as the star homophone) or play charades to get the point across, but he can't directly tell them verbally. |
| 196 | * SealedEvilInACan: The ghostly con artist is trapped in the afterlife. He can be temporarily brought back to the real world (and returned) by saying his name three times, but can only be truly free if he marries a human. |
| 197 | * ShrunkenHead: At the end, Betelgeuse runs into a hunter who has a shrunken head, then starts chatting with the Witch Doctor next to him, asking if that's his work, while he steals the witch doctor's line number. He gets his head shrunk himself in retaliation. He takes it pretty well, however, noting that "this could be a good look for me. |
| 198 | * VisualPun: When he sees the Maitlands rotting from their exorcism, he says they've had enough "exorcise" for the night, and does a golf swing a la Creator/JohnnyCarson as Adam and Barbara are restored to normal. |
| 199 | [[/folder]] |
| 200 | |
| 201 | [[folder:Juno]] |
| 202 | !!Juno |
| 203 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mv5bntmymzq5ngmtzdy0ny00yjnhlwjmmtetoweyyzvmotuymzq0xkeyxkfqcgdeqxvynjuxmjc1otm_v1_sx1777_cr001777999_al.jpg]] |
| 204 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/SylviaSidney |
| 205 | |
| 206 | An undead caseworker and Betelgeuse's old boss. |
| 207 | ---- |
| 208 | * BeleagueredBureaucrat: Juno has a lot of clients, and she's easily frustrated at having to deal with their demands. |
| 209 | * CoolOldLady: She's savvy and competent, and easily the most helpful person in the realm of the dead. Naturally, she has a huge waiting list. |
| 210 | * DeadpanSnarker: She has some moments. |
| 211 | * GetOut: Juno explodes at the football players when one of them asks where the men's room is. |
| 212 | -->"I'm not your coach! ''He'' survived!" |
| 213 | * GoodIsNotNice: She does her best to help the Maitlands, but she's sharp-tongued and easily agitated and mainly says they should deal with their problems on their own. |
| 214 | * JerkassHasAPoint: She's not very helpful to the Maitlands; but she does point out that while the Deetzes are annoying, they're better than a lot of absolutely horrible people [[TakeThat (like Italians)]] and that they should value their house and share it. |
| 215 | * {{Psychopomp}}: She serves as this in the Afterlife as the Maitlands' caseworker. As stated in the film, anyone whose death is attributed to suicide becomes a "Civil Servant" in the Afterlife. |
| 216 | * SmokingIsCool: In a BlackComedy sort of way. When she smokes, she exhales through her SlashedThroat (evidently how she originally killed herself). |
| 217 | [[/folder]] |
| 218 | |
| 219 | [[folder:Miss Argentina]] |
| 220 | !!Miss Argentina |
| 221 | !!!'''Played By:''' Patrice Martinez |
| 222 | |
| 223 | A former beauty queen who took her own life, and a receptionist in the Neitherworld. |
| 224 | ---- |
| 225 | * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Her skin is electric green. |
| 226 | * BeleagueredBureaucrat: Because she took her own life, she must work as a receptionist in the Neitherworld, which regularly gets millions of cases. She admits to the Maitlands that if she had known the fate that awaited her, she wouldn't have had her "little accident." |
| 227 | * DeadpanSnarker: Likely due to her circumstances, she has this attitude, especially with the Maitlands, who are still figuring out the ways of the Neitherworld. |
| 228 | * DrivenToSuicide: She took her own life by slitting her wrists, which she refers to as her "little accident." |
| 229 | * FreezeFrameBonus: When she brings the Maitlands to Juno's office, her sash reveals she won her title in 1939. |
| 230 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Her name is never stated, so fans have taken to calling her "Miss Argentina" after her sash. |
| 231 | * ServileSnarker: Continuing with [[BeleagueredBureaucrat the movie's opinion of bureaucrats]], Miss Argentina is depicted as being incredibly rude to the confused Maitlands when they try to ask for help, even rolling her eyes at them when they fail to understand the rules of the Neitherworld. |
| 232 | [[/folder]] |
| 233 | |
| 234 | [[AC:Other Humans]] |
| 235 | |
| 236 | [[folder:Otho]] |
| 237 | !!Otho |
| 238 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mv5bnwrlmjezztqtodniny00mdg1lweyyjqtzjm3ymiwmwvlowmyxkeyxkfqcgdeqxvynjuxmjc1otm_v1_sx1777_cr001777999_al.jpg]] |
| 239 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/GlennShadix |
| 240 | |
| 241 | Delia's friend. An interior designer and amateur occultist. |
| 242 | ---- |
| 243 | * AmbiguouslyGay: He's obsessed with fashion and interior design and overall behaves in a very effeminate manner. It helped that Shadix himself was gay, and that Otho makes a ''The Wizard of Oz'' reference. |
| 244 | * EveryoneHasStandards: Otho is portrayed as a pompous and hubristic thief at worst; he actually seems to be a pretty good friend to Delia and, to a lesser extent, Charles, and is always polite to Lydia. Even he's horrified at what his bumbling nearly does to the Maitlands. |
| 245 | * HiddenDepths: He does seem to have some genuine knowledge of the supernatural and the occult, which may account for why he was able to see the Maitlands partially the moment he arrived in the house, as well as sense Adam running past him when rushing to close the attic door. |
| 246 | * ImpossiblyTackyClothes: Betelgeuse inflicts Otho with this in the climax. |
| 247 | * IronicHell: While it's an extremely light example, what little punishment Otho gets is catered directly to his critical attitude toward fashion. |
| 248 | * KarmaHoudini: Otho seemingly gets off with nothing more than a torn suit and a bad replacement. |
| 249 | * KnowNothingKnowItAll: Otho claims to be schooled in chemistry (among other things) while sharing many of Delia's off-beat fashion and artistic interests; but according to Lydia, he can't even change a tire. Otho's lack of know-how comes back to bite him in the ass when he snags the ''Recently Deceased'' handbook and summons the Maitlands without realizing he's actually exorcising them; this leads to Betelgeuse humiliating him with a ShamefulStrip. He does get one thing right, though he doesn't know it: he jokes during his dinner with the Deetzes that people who commit suicide become civil servants in the afterlife. |
| 250 | * NakedFreakOut: He's not left naked or in his underwear, but Otho has this kind of reaction after Betelgeuse changes his outfit into a leisure suit. |
| 251 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Otho is all too happy to ditch the Deetzes when his séance gets out of control. He doesn't get far, though... |
| 252 | * ShamefulStrip: This happens to Otho when Betelgeuse goes on his climactic rampage. When Otho tries to make a run for it, Betelgeuse uses his powers to shoot Otho's black and red clothes off — but rather than leave Otho naked or in his underwear, Betelgeuse leaves the poor bastard dressed in a light blue leisure suit, which causes Otho to scream in horror before running away. |
| 253 | * TooCleverByHalf: He understands enough of the supernatural to be able to make sense of the ''Handbook for the Recently Deceased'', but he doesn't realize he's following the instructions to perform an exorcism until it's too late to stop it. |
| 254 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Otho's fate is left in the air, as he runs away after Beetlejuice enacts a ShamefulStrip on him. |
| 255 | [[/folder]] |
| 256 | |
| 257 | [[folder:Maxie and Sarah Dean]] |
| 258 | !!Maxie and Sarah Dean |
| 259 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/RobertGoulet (Maxie) and Maree Cheatham (Sarah) |
| 260 | |
| 261 | A wealthy real estate couple and the heads of Botco Industries, who the Deetzes turn to. |
| 262 | ---- |
| 263 | * AssholeVictim: Both of them are possibly killed by Betelgeuse, but it's hard to feel sorry for them after they spend the entire dinner acting like aloof, callous jerks. |
| 264 | * TheBore: The movie implies both of them are dead inside. The only time they display any actual emotion is when Lydia unleashes Betelgeuse and he begins to wreak havoc. |
| 265 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Averted. They are present at the seance and are the only ones who don't seem to care the Maitlands are outright rotting in front of them, even after Lydia protests that they're clearly in pain. |
| 266 | * {{Foil}}: To Charles and Delia. The Deetzes, while at first function as antagonists to the Maitlands, have sympathetic qualities and regret the impact of their actions. It's because of this that the Maitlands allow them to remain in the house. Meanwhile, the Deans lack any redeeming traits and seem to care about nobody but themselves. |
| 267 | * HateSink: While the Deetzes and their associates are established as simply being well-meaning idiots, the Deans lack any of their sympathetic qualities. Maxie even goes as far as to shush Lydia when Barbara starts to literally rot in front of them. |
| 268 | * {{Jerkass}}: They are jerks who are hard to move, and generally care about money over others. |
| 269 | * LackOfEmpathy: They show outright glee when Betelgeuse begins to wreak havoc, acting like a pair of giggling children. They also don't care what happens to the Maitlands, with Maxie thinking that because they're dead, they can't feel a thing. |
| 270 | * TestYourStrengthGame: Betelgeuse kicks them out of the house through the use of such, and they don't realize until it's too late they're the targets |
| 271 | * UncertainDoom: They are last seen when Betelgeuse launches them from the house by use of a TestYourStrengthGame, although it is never clarified if they were killed or simply injured. |
| 272 | * YiddishAsASecondLanguage: Maxie calls Charles a putz after their phone call. |
| 273 | [[/folder]] |
| 274 | |
| 275 | [[folder:Jane Butterfield]] |
| 276 | !!Jane Butterfield |
| 277 | !!!'''Played By:''' Annie [=McEnroe=] |
| 278 | |
| 279 | A realtor and Barbara's cousin, who tries to persuade the Maitlands to sell their house. |
| 280 | ---- |
| 281 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: When trying to talk Barbara into selling their house, she offhandedly mentions that the house is meant for a family. Barbara, who's implied to want a child but seems to be infertile, is visibly hurt by the statement. |
| 282 | * ObnoxiousInLaws: Adam seems to think so. |
| 283 | * ShadyRealEstateAgent: Selling her relatives' house just after they ''died'' definitely cements her as this. |
| 284 | [[/folder]] |
| 285 | |
| 286 | !! Animated Series Characters |
| 287 | |
| 288 | [[folder:Beetlejuice]] |
| 289 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1b883b93_2271_4a7a_a750_1ad75cb295a5.jpeg]] |
| 290 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/StephenOuimette |
| 291 | |
| 292 | The Ghost With the Most again, although this incarnation is much more weird and gross rather than cruel and lecherous. |
| 293 | ---- |
| 294 | * AdaptationalDyeJob: His film and theatre counterparts have green hair while this incarnation has blond hair. |
| 295 | * AdaptationalHeroism: Big time. He may be as much as a scammer as before, but here he has transitioned from the main antagonist to the main protagonist. |
| 296 | * AdaptationalNameChange: Subverted. His named is pronounced the same, but is spelled as it sounds and as written in the title. |
| 297 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: |
| 298 | ** He's a much more benevolent (though still crooked) figure in the animated series than he was in the movie. Rather than wanting to actually cause physical harm to people, he's content with merely driving them crazy - he even has a license to do so. |
| 299 | ** Also, since this series had to be toned down from the original film for children's television, his perverted tendencies had to be excised from his character. He does nothing worse than the occasional approving gaze at attractive adult female ghosts. |
| 300 | * AffectionateNickname: Lydia calls him "Beej" or "BJ", and increases the frequency of the nicknames as the series progresses. |
| 301 | * AloofBigBrother: He's something like this to his brother Donny, who loves him anyway. |
| 302 | * AntiHero: Type 1. He's rude, obnoxious, and slovenly, but he is loyal to those he considers friends and as previously stated, is considerably nicer than his movie counterpart. |
| 303 | * BadassInANiceSuit: He can be incredibly powerful, and unless he's shapeshifted or disguised he almost always wears his black and white striped suit. |
| 304 | * BerserkButton: |
| 305 | ** Do not get him wet and clean. Poopsie nearly learned this the hard way. |
| 306 | ** He also really hates a wild goose chase. |
| 307 | ** If you know what's good for you… '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Never. Hurt. Lydia.]]''''' He will juice you something fierce if you even so much as insult her. |
| 308 | * BrilliantButLazy: Beetlejuice is amazingly powerful and could probably do almost anything with his magic. One episode implies he could take over the whole Neitherworld if he wanted to. He's really only interested in hanging out with Lydia and pranking and conning other people. He dreads the idea of having to get an honest job unless it really appeals to him, like becoming a scarecrow on a beetle farm. |
| 309 | * CharacterCatchphrase: "It's showtime!" |
| 310 | * CrazyJealousGuy: He occasionally behaves like this about Lydia. The biggest example is in "The Prince of the Neitherworld", where he witnesses Prince Vince proposing marriage to her; Beetlejuice very nearly explodes, literally. |
| 311 | * DemonicPossession: He's capable of possessing both living people like Claire Brewster and inanimate objects like construction equipment. |
| 312 | * DoNotAdjustYourSet: Beetlejuice can partially manifest in the Outerworld to speak to Lydia. A few episodes have him appearing on her TV set. |
| 313 | * EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Beetlejuice is terrified of his mother's cleanliness and would probably rather be fed to the sandworms than get a full-time job like his father. He still loves them very much, as he rescued his father from a sandworm despite usually being terrified of them. |
| 314 | * EveryoneHasStandards: |
| 315 | ** He loves pranking Lydia's parents, but he draws the line at anything that would actually hurt them. He actually ''saves'' them multiple times from more malevolent ghosts. |
| 316 | ** Even he can't stand the obnoxious nuisance that is Lipscum. |
| 317 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: He's this to his own neighbors in the Neitherworld, and his human disguise of Betty Juice is this to Lydia's other friends in the living world. |
| 318 | * HandBlast: He occasionally fires his magic from his hands when he wants to target something. |
| 319 | * HeCleansUpNicely: He'd actually be pretty handsome if he groomed himself, which he obviously never does. When he accidentally sprays himself with his "New U" cologne that turns the user into a complete opposite of their personality, he becomes a SharpDressedMan and NeatFreak. Lydia ogles the "new" Beetlejuice and is clearly attracted to him. |
| 320 | * HeroicBSOD: Lydia's father Charles is one of his favorite targets. When Beetlejuice completely fails to scare Charles in one episode (due to Charles being half-asleep and thinking Beetlejuice was AllJustADream) he becomes depressed. |
| 321 | * HiddenDepths: He presents as a DumbBlonde, but he really isn't. He's well versed in the works of his old friend Shakespeare, knows enough about auto mechanics to repair Doomie on his own, and is something of a chemistry whiz. He's also shown to be a rather impressive violinist. |
| 322 | * IconicOutfit: He wore the black and white striped suit for all of about five minutes in the film. In the show, he's rarely seen wearing anything else. |
| 323 | * InexplicablyAwesome: While the film implies that a lot of his weird powers are something most ghosts are capable of if they practiced their abilities, here Beetlejuice's abilities seem unique to him, having started a literal war in the Neitherworld as a baby. While he isn't the only being there with magic, having had encountered witches, warlocks and some judicial authority-figures that can perform similar feats of reality warping, [[BrilliantButLazy Beetlejuice's "juicing" is implied to be powerful enough to conquer the entire Neitherworld if he wasn't satisfied using it for petty pranks]]. |
| 324 | * InsultBackfire: Many living people who see Beetlejuice, whether they think he's one of Lydia's sketches or he's turned into a dog, think he's utterly revolting. Beetlejuice, of course, always appreciates the compliments. |
| 325 | * InvoluntaryDance: He can do this to both people and inanimate objects, such as when he livened up the Deetzes' boring dinner party by forcing Lydia's parents, aunts and uncles to all sing and dance. |
| 326 | * InvoluntaryShapeshifting: An occasional side effect of his LiteralGenie powers is that he is not immune to being affected by using figures of speech that can directly affect him. |
| 327 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He is far more likable in this version than he was in the film. He's still a selfish scammer, and probably even more obnoxious here, but there's no doubt he cares about Lydia and has a HiddenHeartOfGold. |
| 328 | * LetsGetDangerous: When Lydia is threatened, Beetlejuice reminds everyone why he's called the Ghost With The Most. He can even curbstomp ''sandworms'' with minimal effort when he's sufficiently motivated, whether by Lydia encouraging him or his father being in danger. |
| 329 | * LiteralGenie: The main demonstration of his powers in this iteration. He can alter reality just by using the right (or wrong) phrase. Whenever he uses a metaphor, simile, or other non-literal phrase, he involuntarily shapeshifts or otherwise morphs reality into a literal representation of what he said. |
| 330 | * LiteralMinded: On occasion, such as when he thinks "babysitting" means "sitting on babies." |
| 331 | * MadLibsCatchphrase: He often says "[X], you know I hate/love them", with X being whatever inconvenience or interest of his has come up. Often doubles as a LamePunReaction. |
| 332 | * MultipleChoicePast: Functions as a RunningGag. Some episodes go with Beetlejuice was born a ghost and always lived in the Neitherworld, while others go with he was born a human, but died at some point and ended up there. |
| 333 | * NauseaFuel: |
| 334 | ** He takes great pride in his ability to disgust people and his generally being filthy. |
| 335 | ** Almost all of his diet consists of bugs of some kind. His favorites are beetles, but he's also enjoyed locusts and fleas. |
| 336 | * NotMeThisTime: Beetlejuice has pulled so many pranks in the Neitherworld that it's easy for his enemies to frame him for things that get him imprisoned. When Lydia was turned into a delinquent by his "New U" cologne, Beetlejuice laughed at her sliming Mayor Maynot. He stopped laughing when the Mayor blamed Beetlejuice and resolved to feed him to the sandworms. |
| 337 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: |
| 338 | ** In "Snugglejuice", when Lydia first sees him after he's been [[{{Brainwashed}} "rehabilitated"]] in Neither-Neither-Land, one of the worst punishments imaginable in the Neitherworld, she initially thinks that it's just another one of his scams or pranks... but when he ''refuses to eat [[TrademarkFavoriteFood a beetle]]'', that's when she knows that something is seriously wrong. |
| 339 | --->'''Lydia:''' ''You'' turned down ''a beetle''? ''YOU!?'' |
| 340 | ** "Moby Richard" has Lydia observe how crazy he's gotten when while playing the role of Captain Ahab in a Neitherworld television adaptation of ''Literature/MobyDick'' and has become a bit ''too'' into character, to the point that the normally greedy ghost is ''offering a bounty'' to whoever helps him find the whale. |
| 341 | --->'''Beetlejuice:''' I'd give anything to get me hands on Moby Richard. Money isn't important!\ |
| 342 | '''Lydia:''' He ''is'' sick! |
| 343 | * OrganAutonomy: On occasion, his body parts have demonstrated having minds of their own and have separated from him to act indepdendently of him. One example is his funny bone demonstrating independent sapience and resisting efforts to get him back into Beetlejuice's body in "Them Bones, Them Bones, Them Funny Bones". |
| 344 | * PersonAsVerb: Other characters occasionally refer to his tendency to use his reality-warping abilities to cause trouble as "Beetlejuicing". |
| 345 | * PetTheDog: As much as he enjoys pranking them, Beetlejuice is genuinely fond of Lydia's parents and will do things to help them, as well as protect them from real danger. |
| 346 | * PhraseCatcher: Saying his name three times allows him, the speaker and anyone else in contact with them to go between the Neitherworld and Outerworld. Lydia's usually the one to say it, but Claire unwittingly summoned him this way once in one episode, as did the residents of the Neitherworld when they cheered him for being a "sandworm hero". |
| 347 | * ThePigPen: Beetlejuice takes great pride in being a filthy pig. Cleanliness is almost like Kryptonite to him. |
| 348 | * PositiveFriendInfluence: The episode "It's a Wonderful Afterlife" reveals that he became this to Lydia when they met. She was a shy, lonely, and depressed outcast who was constantly teased for her interests in things considered creepy or gross. He actually helped her become more outgoing and confident in herself, which led her to be able to expand her social circle, not only in the Living World, but the Neitherworld as well. |
| 349 | * RealityWarper: Much like the movie, Beetlejuice has all kinds of strange powers. While he mostly does [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Voluntary]] and InvoluntaryShapeshifting, he can also transport himself and others between the Outerworld and Neitherworld, control living people and inanimate objects through DemonicPossession, compel people to do an InvoluntaryDance, and almost anything else the plot requires. |
| 350 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Looks like he's in his mid-to-late 30s, but according to a comment he makes in "Scare and Scare Alike", he's in his late 620s. |
| 351 | * ScaryScarecrows: PlayedForLaughs in the episode "Scarecrow" when Beetlejuice gets a job as a scarecrow on a beetle farm. He pranks the birds who are trying to eat Farmer Bailey's glow worms before they hatch into beetles. |
| 352 | * SmellyFeet: Beetlejuice's feet smell so bad, he briefly saved Charles and Delia from being executed by a mob of ghosts re-enacting UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution by taking off his shoes. The VisibleOdor and [[StockSoundEffects foghorn sound for the stench]] from Beetlejuice's bare feet were so bad that the crowd went from yelling "Off with their heads!" to "On with your shoes!" |
| 353 | * SmugSuper: Beetlejuice doesn't just love to prank people, he loves to perform his pranks. Whether it's the worms cheering him for protecting them from birds when he's a scarecrow, the other factory workers applauding as he saves his father Gnat from a sandworm, the patrons of Lydia's school carnival funhouse loving his spooky creations or even just Lydia enjoying his pranking the hunters after a baby sandworm, Beetlejuice always appreciates an audience. |
| 354 | * StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: Depending on the episode, he can have StoryBreakerPower said to be powerful enough for him to conquer the Neitherworld and is enough to sufficiently handle any threat, or he'll just [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl scream profusely like a girl]] while being beaten up by or forced to run away from what should be minor nuisances to him, with Lydia sometimes having to bail him out. |
| 355 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Beetles, of course. But he can't stomach ''killer'' beetles, since they bite back. |
| 356 | * TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Double Subverted in "Highs-Ghoul Confidential"; he already had his powers and could be plenty chaotic with them, but he didn't gain full control of his "juice" until getting publicly humiliated at his high school prom finally sent him over the edge, making him say his CharacterCatchphrase for the first time. |
| 357 | * TheUnFavorite: In "Oh, Brother!", we meet his younger brother, Donny, a who is the complete opposite of him and is shown to be vastly loved more than him by their extended family. In the ''Crimebusters on the Haunt'' miniseries that was among the comic book tie-ins by Harvey Comics, he even believes his own parents to prefer Donny over him. They deny this is the case, but he doesn't believe them, particularly since it is apparently common for his mother and father to ask him why he can't be more like Donny. |
| 358 | * VillainProtagonist: Downplayed, but still a rare kids' show example. Beetlejuice loves to mess with everyone, even people who've done nothing to him (like his neighbors), and usually suffers no consequences in the end. |
| 359 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Or rather, sandworms. Beetlejuice is so terrified by sandworms that he's all but helpless against them. Occasionally subverted when he overcomes this fear, such as in saving his father from being eaten by a sandworm, or when Lydia's encouragement rallies him. |
| 360 | [[/folder]] |
| 361 | |
| 362 | [[folder:Lydia Deetz]] |
| 363 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/028f67af_c4d6_439f_b7a8_38c06236e276.jpeg]] |
| 364 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AlysonCourt |
| 365 | |
| 366 | A living girl in her early teens who is Beetlejuice's best (and arguably only) friend. |
| 367 | ---- |
| 368 | * AdaptationalNiceGirl: While her film version was a good person and not a jerk by any means, the animated version is sweeter and less creepy. She also gets more opportunities to be a real hero in the show. |
| 369 | * AffectionateNickname: She's "Pumpkin" to her father, and Beetlejuice has a few of these for her, mostly "Lyds" and "Babes." |
| 370 | * CameraFiend: As was the case for her film counterpart, her main hobby is photography. |
| 371 | * TheFashionista: In her own macabre way; it's shown in a few episodes that clothing design and manufacture is one of her hobbies. |
| 372 | * FriendToAllLivingThings: Several episodes show her interacting with assorted wildlife, all of which seem to love her. She's also a friend to all ''unliving'' things, as she's widely beloved by many of the Neitherworld ghosts. |
| 373 | * HairReboot: When she takes a collect call from Beetlejuice, the Neitherworld phone exchange's "charge" is an ''electrical'' one that gives her a hairdo resembling The Bride of Frankenstein. She quickly returns it to normal with one brush. |
| 374 | * MoralityChain: For Beetlejuice. Any time you see him doing something good, it's due to her influence in one way or another. Overlaps with TheKidWithTheLeash. |
| 375 | * NiceGirl: She's friendly and sweet to everyone, and as a result, the large majority of the cast is dearly fond of her. There are a number of episodes which show residents of the Neitherworld agreeing to tolerate Beetlejuice's latest scam only because doing so will benefit her in some way. |
| 376 | * NightmareFetishist: In a downplayed, kid-friendly way. She's been shown consistently to be very fond of all that is scary and grotesque. |
| 377 | * OverlyNarrowSuperlative: The Neitherworld denizens present her, in one episode, with an award for being the "Cutest Mortal to Visit the Afterlife." There is not a large pool of contenders for the title. |
| 378 | * PerkyGoth: Like her movie counterpart, she enjoys dark, spooky, and bizarre things; however, this is offset by her being cheerful, friendly, and kindhearted. |
| 379 | * TheRival: Claire sees her this way, for reasons that are never made entirely clear. Lydia would just as soon be left alone, but Claire has a gift for pushing her buttons. It's implied that Claire detests Lydia for being "weird," but also because Lydia could be a genuine contender for the most popular girl in school due to how sweet and likable she is. |
| 380 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: In one episode, we find out she's afraid of hospitals. She gets over it by the end, though. |
| 381 | [[/folder]] |
| 382 | |
| 383 | [[folder:Jacques [=LaLean=]]] |
| 384 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fd2472bd_1df7_4ce5_857a_e8515132cd19.png]] |
| 385 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Charles Kerr |
| 386 | One of Beetlejuice's housemates. A French skeleton who is also a fitness enthusiast, and Beetlejuice's old high school classmate. |
| 387 | ---- |
| 388 | * FrenchJerk: Inverted. Jacques is a perfect gentleman, particularly to Mademoiselle Lydia. |
| 389 | * GratuitousFrench: He has a French accent and occasionally says French words in his lines. Possibly justified if he was a Frenchman in life. |
| 390 | * {{Irony}}: He's a bodybuilder who is somewhat obsessed with building muscles. He's also a ''skeleton''. |
| 391 | * MeaningfulName[=/=]PunnyName: In addition to being named after Jack [=LaLanne=], "[=LaLean=]" refers to him, a skeleton, being lean. In "It's a Wonderful Afterlife," he becomes an overweight restauranteur whose name is changed accordingly to "[=LaLarge=]." |
| 392 | ** BeyondTheImpossible: How can a ''skeleton'' be overweight? |
| 393 | * NotSoAboveItAll: He willingly participates in the scheme to humiliate Claire in "Foreign Exchange" as well as the haunted house in "Bizarre Bazaar." |
| 394 | * PullingThemselvesTogether: He frequently falls apart, usually due to Beetlejuice's pranks. He's never hurt, just annoyed when he has to put himself back together. |
| 395 | * ShoutOut: To fitness guru Jack [=LaLanne=]. He briefly becomes a tribute to Canadian goalie Jacques Plante when he dresses as a French ''Canadian'' skeleton at BJ's Halloween party. |
| 396 | [[/folder]] |
| 397 | |
| 398 | [[folder:Ginger]] |
| 399 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5b681900_b37d_46b1_89d5_dcaed4f21e87.png]] |
| 400 | ->'''Voiced by:''' [[Creator/TabithaStGermain Paulina Gillis]] |
| 401 | Beetlejuice's other neighbor and high school classmate who is a tap-dancing spider. |
| 402 | ---- |
| 403 | * TheDeadCanDance: Tap dancing is her biggest passion in (un)life, especially since she has eight legs. |
| 404 | * FriendlyNeighborhoodSpider: Literally. She's one of Beetlejuice's neighbors and is an absolute sweetheart. Too bad for her both qualities make her a frequent target for BJ's pranks. |
| 405 | * NotSoAboveItAll: She willingly participates in the scheme to humiliate Claire in "Foreign Exchange" as well as the haunted house in "Bizarre Bazaar". |
| 406 | * OcularGushers: She cries easily and always in this manner. |
| 407 | * ShoutOut: To Ginger Rogers. |
| 408 | [[/folder]] |
| 409 | |
| 410 | [[folder:The Monster Across the Street]] |
| 411 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aa25c671_006d_4d8a_aae5_585d042731a1.png]] |
| 412 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/LenCarlson |
| 413 | Beetlejuice's neighbor, a big fluffy brown monster who wears a cowboy hat, gloves, and boots and speaks with a western dialect. He has a pink monster dog named Poopsie who hates Beetlejuice, and whom BJ hates in turn. |
| 414 | ---- |
| 415 | * CharacterCatchphrase: Frequently bellows "What in tarhooties" whenever he's annoyed by Beetlejuice's shenanigans. |
| 416 | * DreadfulMusician: Beetlejuice thinks so, anyway -- he really hates the Monster's country-style music. |
| 417 | * EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: He's only ever referred to as "The Monster Across the Street". |
| 418 | * ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: He's a monster who lives across the street from Beetlejuice. In the episode "It's a Wonderful Afterlife," he instead lives down the block, and his name is changed accordingly. |
| 419 | * EyelessFace: Zigzagged. The Monster actually ''has'' eyes, but they're usually hidden under his hair. They only pop out when he's really embarrassed or scared. |
| 420 | * LongLostRelative: "It's a Big, Big, Big, Big Ape" has him reunite with his gigantic father, who he was separated from when he was very young. |
| 421 | * MisterMuffykins: Poopsie is small, and can be vicious if he doesn't like you. Not that Beetlejuice doesn't deserve it. |
| 422 | * NoNameGiven: It would seem his given name is simply based on his proximity to his neighbors. |
| 423 | * NotSoAboveItAll: He willingly participates in the scheme to humiliate Claire in "Foreign Exchange." |
| 424 | * SouthernGentleman: Acts this way towards Lydia, addressing her as "Miss Lydia" and generally being quite pleasant so long as Beetlejuice isn't annoying him. |
| 425 | [[/folder]] |
| 426 | |
| 427 | [[folder:Doomie]] |
| 428 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6e82ea2d_99b5_4a47_a4be_13e94def9d0b.png]] |
| 429 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RonRubin (as Doomie), Creator/ColinFox (as Dragster of Doom) |
| 430 | Beetlejuice and Lydia's car and other best friend. While he has the personality of a lovable dog-like figure, his "abnormal brain" causes him to occasionally turn into a literal speed demon. |
| 431 | ---- |
| 432 | * BerserkButton: His "Hyde" side comes out whenever he sees a dog. |
| 433 | * CoolCar: It's hard to get much cooler than a car which 'talks', drives itself, and flies. |
| 434 | * HappilyAdopted: In a way. Some episodes have Beetlejuice and Lydia treating him like he's their son rather than their car. |
| 435 | * HopelessSuitor: He falls into this in "Doomie's Romance," when he falls in love with an adorable but non-sentient pink convertible. [[spoiler:By the end of the episode, his love for "Pinky" brings her to life.]] |
| 436 | * JekyllAndHyde: Doomie is ordinarily very friendly and docile, but as the Dragster of Doom beomes a manic, werewolf-like terror who isn't above racing through the streets of the Neitherworld at high speeds. |
| 437 | * MoralityChain: Not nearly to the extent that Lydia is, but he has shades of this with Beetlejuice. |
| 438 | * NiceGuy: Most of the time. Even his "Hyde" side is still pretty lovable. |
| 439 | * SentientVehicle: Thanks to an abnormal brain and some judicious application of lightning. |
| 440 | * SuperpoweredEvilSide: Normally Doomie is quite restrained. But in his "feral" form, he moves at a truly staggering speed, unmatched by any other vehicle. |
| 441 | [[/folder]] |
| 442 | |
| 443 | [[folder:Bea and Nat Juice]] |
| 444 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dc24fef7_56cb_4144_8c9e_b8910427b6f2.jpeg]] |
| 445 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SusanRoman and Creator/LenCarlson |
| 446 | Beetlejuice's mother and father who love him dearly, despite the fact that he refuses to bathe or get a job. |
| 447 | ---- |
| 448 | * AffectionateNickname: Bea has a tendency to call everyone "Dear", regardless of whether or not they're a member of her family. |
| 449 | * [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents Amazingly Boring Parents]]: As the main page indicates, their picture is in the dictionary under the word "boring." ''Literally.'' |
| 450 | * TheDreaded: Beetlejuice is terrified by the idea of Bea visiting him and trying to clean up both him and the Roadhouse. An April Fool's episode had him repeatedly pranking Lydia with his magic. The only time she got him back was when she faked a phone call from Bea saying that she was coming to visit him for a month. |
| 451 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: In their debut episode, Bea has dark grey hair and pale greenish skin, but in all following appearances her hair is blonde, her skin is a pale lavender, and she now more closely resembles her two sons. |
| 452 | * HugeGuyTinyGirl: Nat has a large, Frankenstein-like figure, while Bea is [[MiniatureSeniorCitizens a tiny old woman]] who's barely Lydia's height. |
| 453 | * NeatFreak: Bea. She always chastises Beetlejuice for not bathing or cleaning his room, and has several broom closets in her and her husband's home, as Lydia points out. |
| 454 | -->'''Bea:''' Can't have too many brooms, Lydia, dear. |
| 455 | * NotSoAboveItAll: At the end of their introductory episode, they show Beetlejuice that they've learned to spin their heads just like him. He's absolutely delighted. |
| 456 | * {{Workaholic}}: Nat loves working at the neck bolt factory, and explains to Beetlejuice that it fills him with a sense of pride knowing that he's doing something important for others. |
| 457 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: They are overbearing and can put a lot of pressure on Beetlejuice. However, they do love him dearly and at the very least, their hearts are in the right place. |
| 458 | [[/folder]] |
| 459 | |
| 460 | [[folder:Donny Juice]] |
| 461 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/e3ec4866_7782_49ad_b355_c8e093f3653b.jpeg]] |
| 462 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RichardBinsley |
| 463 | Beetlejuice's younger brother who couldn't be more different than him if he tried, to the point that their extended family prefer him. |
| 464 | ---- |
| 465 | * AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Beetlejuice can't stand how kind, giving and overly friendly Donny is, to the point that he dreads whenever Donny stops by for a visit. |
| 466 | * BigBrotherWorship: Donny absolutely adores BJ, to the point that he's near oblivious to how much BJ can't stand him. |
| 467 | * FallGuy: One of the comic book tie-ins by Harvey Comics, the ''Crimebusters on the Haunt'' miniseries, has him get in trouble for claiming to be the leader behind the gang of sentient cleaning appliances cleaning up the Neitherworld. It subsequently turns out that he was tricked into taking the fall by the real mastermind. |
| 468 | * FluffyTamer: The ''Crimebusters on the Haunt'' miniseries establishes that he kept a sandworm named Cuddles as a pet. |
| 469 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Donny is definitely the Responsible Sibling to BJ's Foolish Sibling. In "Midnight Scum", when there's a price on Donny's head for vandalism (he was planting trees all over the Neitherworld, but he was doing it for a benevolent reason), BJ wants to turn him in for the large bounty. Once Donny becomes aware of this, he does the honorable thing and turns ''himself'' in, and then donates the reward money to charity. |
| 470 | * GreenThumb: Downplayed in "Midnight Scum". The acorns he plants become full size trees in a matter of minutes, but he doesn't seem to have control over them. |
| 471 | * ThePollyanna: Donny sees the bright side in everything. In his debut episode, he and Lydia are searching for Beetlejuice by plane, but when that plane crashes, they have to climb a cliff to get to BJ. Donny's response to this? An excited "I like climbing!" He even starts to wear on Lydia's nerves after a while. |
| 472 | * SiblingYinYang: Donny is everything Beetlejuice is not; clean, kind, giving and friendly. |
| 473 | * StepfordSmiler: Is implied to be this in his debut episode when he reveals that he's not as "most loved" as Beetlejuice claimed he was. |
| 474 | -->''"Everybody hates me because I'm so cheerful. Oh sure, they like me at first, but after a while they all say I drive 'em crazy. […] That's why I came to see Beetlejuice. I thought at least my own brother wouldn't turn on me…"'' |
| 475 | [[/folder]] |
| 476 | |
| 477 | [[folder:Bertha and Prudence]] |
| 478 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TaraStrong (Bertha) and [[Creator/TabithaStGermain Paulina Gillis]] (Prudence) |
| 479 | Lydia's other best friends from the human world. |
| 480 | ---- |
| 481 | * BespectacledCutie: Prudence wears round glasses that emphasize her eyes. |
| 482 | * TheDividual: They're the Syndividual variety, as they aren't remotely identical and have some differing personalities, but don't usually show much indication of individuality. |
| 483 | * GoofyBuckteeth: Bertha has those, emphasizing her status as an outcast. |
| 484 | * HiddenDepths: As revealed in "The Brides of Funkenstein", Prudence has a wild side underneath her mousy exterior, and she admits that she's always wanted to become a rockstar. |
| 485 | * HugeSchoolgirl: Bertha towers over most of the other students. |
| 486 | * MeaningfulName: '''Prudence''' is the shy one between them. |
| 487 | * OnlyOneName: Unlike Lydia and Claire, neither of their last names were ever mentioned. |
| 488 | * SimpletonVoice: Bertha, though downplayed due to her being less stupid and more weird. |
| 489 | * SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Prudence is bespectacled and is consistently shown to be very intelligent. |
| 490 | [[/folder]] |
| 491 | |
| 492 | [[folder:Claire Brewster]] |
| 493 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TaraStrong |
| 494 | Lydia's arch-rival and the snobby girl in Miss Shannon's School for Girls. |
| 495 | ---- |
| 496 | * AlphaBitch: She's the standard popular girl at school who's mean as heck. |
| 497 | * EgocentricTeamNaming: Her band is Claire and the Claire-inettes... naturally. |
| 498 | * {{Foil}}: Surprisingly, she counts as one to Beetlejuice. |
| 499 | ** Both can be utterly obnoxious and unpleasant people who mostly think of themselves, but Beetlejuice is more willing to do the right thing while Claire has no consideration for anyone. |
| 500 | ** Both can be disgusting. In Beetlejuice's case it's because he's slovenly and loves all things gross, while Claire is disgusting because her personality is foul to the core despite how cute she is. |
| 501 | ** Beetlejuice is loathed by the majority of the Neitherworld while Claire is adored by most of her classmates in school. |
| 502 | ** Lydia is Beetlejuice's best friend but Claire's arch enemy. |
| 503 | * HateSink: There's nothing even remotely likable about her. |
| 504 | * ItsAllAboutMe: She acts like she's the center of the universe. |
| 505 | * JerkAss: She spends most of her screentime bullying Lydia and her friends. |
| 506 | * LaserGuidedKarma: She almost always gets her comeuppance whenever she bullies Lydia considering that Beetlejuice gives her a very big comeuppance to her whenever she goes too far with her JerkAss behavior. |
| 507 | * LikeIsLikeAComma: ''Like'', constantly talks in this manner. |
| 508 | * RichBitch: She lives with her parents in a big mansion. |
| 509 | * TooDumbToLive: Claire is always put through the wringer whenever she harasses Lydia and her friends, but she never picks up on the idea that maybe she'd be fine if she just stopped being an absolute bitch. |
| 510 | [[/folder]] |
| 511 | |
| 512 | [[folder:Scuzzo the Clown]] |
| 513 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Joseph Sherman |
| 514 | Beetlejuice's arch-rival and the monster clown. |
| 515 | ---- |
| 516 | * ArchEnemy: He's the most recurring foe Beetlejuice faces in the series and their rivalry gets pretty personal. |
| 517 | * GagNose: He has a huge nose. |
| 518 | * VillainousHarlequin: He's a clown and a constant thorn in Beetlejuice's side, though his plans don't usually get any more severe than pranks. |
| 519 | [[/folder]] |
| 520 | |
| 521 | [[folder:Mayor Maynot]] |
| 522 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Len Carlson |
| 523 | The Mayor of the Neitherworld, who despises Beetlejuice and wishes to punish him. |
| 524 | ---- |
| 525 | * BerserkButton: He always gets mad at Beetlejuice's pranks, but he gets ''really angry'' at anything that risks his chances at re-election. When he gets publicly slimed and embarrassed in front of the voters, he goes all-out to find Beetlejuice and feed him to the sandworms. |
| 526 | * CoveredInGunge: Under the influence of Beetlejuice's "New U" cologne, Lydia drenches Mayor Maynot in slime. He mistakenly thinks Beetlejuice did it, and is so angry at the public humiliation that he becomes determined to feed Beetlejuice to the sandworms. |
| 527 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Earlier episodes depicted him as a blue-skinned monster in a top hat and a maroon coat, when the remainder of his appearances made him more of a bandaged invisible man/mummy clad in a blue suit with a red necktie as well as sunglasses. |
| 528 | * {{Invisibility}}: He looks like a mummy, but he's actually an invisible man who covers himself in bandages to be visible to the voters. |
| 529 | * {{Mummy}}: Subverted. He seems like a mummy, but he's actually an invisible man who covers himself in bandages to be visible to the voters. Close-up shots of the Mayor show a gap between the bandages covering his hands and the sleeves of his suit. |
| 530 | * SayMyName: He yells Beetlejuice's name angrily when he mistakenly thinks Beetlejuice is the one who slimed him. |
| 531 | * SleazyPolitician: He's a conniving sleazebag who's really no better than Beetlejuice. He even wears a campaign button that says "Vote 4 Me" on his breast pocket. |
| 532 | [[/folder]] |
| 533 | |
| 534 | [[folder:Lipscum]] |
| 535 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HarveyAtkin |
| 536 | A giant pair of lips with arms, legs and a pair of eyes who is a nuisance to both Beetlejuice and the rest of the Neitherworld. |
| 537 | ---- |
| 538 | * {{Cephalothorax}}: He's a giant pair of lips with limbs. |
| 539 | * TheDitz: He doesn't have much in the "brains" department, even being convinced rather easily by Mr. Monitor that getting a damaged TV set is a better deal than getting his own TV show like the other members of S.N.O.T.R.A.G. |
| 540 | * DumbassHasAPoint: In spite of being the least intelligent of the assembled villains in "Neitherworld's Least Wanted", he's the first one to correctly deduce Mr. Big's plan for defeating Beetlejuice. |
| 541 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: He's so obnoxious that even ''Beetlejuice'' can't stand him and he gets on the nerves of BJ's other enemies in "Neitherworld's Least Wanted" to the degree that they all give him a BigShutUp. |
| 542 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: While generally regarded as a joke, he's the only member of S.N.O.T.R.A.G. in "Neitherworld's Least Wanted" to succeed in tricking Beetlejuice into saying "I'm coming apart at the seams". |
| 543 | * PerpetualSmiler: He always has this doofy grin on his face. |
| 544 | [[/folder]] |
| 545 | |
| 546 | [[folder:Jesse Germs]] |
| 547 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Dan Hennessy |
| 548 | A smooth-talking {{Cowboy}} who happens to be a ScarySkeleton. His name is a ShoutOut to UsefulNotes/JesseJames. |
| 549 | ---- |
| 550 | * NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: His character is based on the real-life {{Outlaw}} UsefulNotes/JesseJames, with his name even being a [[PunnyName a pun on it]]. |
| 551 | * {{Outlaw}}: He's a skeleton cowboy-outlaw based on real-life outlaw UsefulNotes/JesseJames. |
| 552 | * ProfessionalKiller: Hires himself out to those needing someone to "eliminate" their adversaries. |
| 553 | * WeaponSpecialization: His weapon of choice is a whip. |
| 554 | [[/folder]] |
| 555 | |
| 556 | [[folder:Bartholomew Batt]] |
| 557 | ->'''Voiced by:''' John Stocker |
| 558 | A black-and-white cartoon character who prides himself in being "a typical cartoon bad guy" and is jealous of being overshadowed by color cartoons. |
| 559 | ---- |
| 560 | * AlliterativeName: Both his first and last name start with the letter B. |
| 561 | * CardCarryingVillain: By his own admission, he does what he does because he's a typical cartoon bad guy. |
| 562 | * CorruptedCharacterCopy: He's a parody of Mickey Mouse, as one can tell by his being an anthropomorphic cartoon character based on a small mammal with AlliterativeName, even running a theme park called "Grislyland". However, while Mickey is generally mischievous at worst, Bartholomew is a [[CardCarryingVillain self-proclaimed]] "typical cartoon bad guy". |
| 563 | * DiminishingVillainThreat: His power was easily on par with Beetlejuice's in his first appearance, with their battle leaving Beetlejuice battered and injured while Bartholomew was able to heal up easily once he got the news he wanted and walk it off like nothing happened to him. By his second appearance, however, Bartholomew is much more easily taken out by Beetlejuice, with or without backup from other villains. |
| 564 | * MockyMouse: He has several overt similarities to Mickey Mouse, with the most notable Mickey-influenced attributes being that his name is an alliteration, he's an anthropomorphic cartoon character based on a small mammal and he runs a theme park called Grislyland (an obvious play on Disneyland). |
| 565 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He talks like Creator/EdwardGRobinson. |
| 566 | [[/folder]] |
| 567 | |
| 568 | [[folder:Little Miss Warden]] |
| 569 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TaraStrong |
| 570 | The warden of Neither-Neither-Land, the Neitherworld's jail system: a [[CrapsaccharineWorld Candyland-like environment]] where prisoners are [[{{Brainwashed}} "rehabilitated"]] into cute, sweet, playful creatures. |
| 571 | ---- |
| 572 | * AdorableEvilMinions: Several teddy bears work for her, complete with police uniforms and [[LawmanBaton Lawman Batons]]. |
| 573 | * EnfanteTerrible: A little girl who's in charge of a jail system that brainwashes prisoners into being cute and cuddly. |
| 574 | * HatOfAuthority: Her pointed blue hat, which has a badge with a WickedHeartSymbol. |
| 575 | * NothingNiceAboutSugarAndSpice: She likes frilly dresses, has long blonde ringlets, and brainwashes prisoners into cute, cuddly versions of their former selves. |
| 576 | * PunishmentBox: She sometimes forces prisoners to spend the night inside a ScaryJackInTheBox, where Jack plays videos for brainwashing. |
| 577 | * SinisterShades: Never seen without her dark glasses. |
| 578 | * WardensAreEvil: Her prisoners are forced to [[WorkingOnTheChainGang work on the "daisy chain gang."]] Those who try to escape are sent to the ScaryJackInTheBox. |
| 579 | [[/folder]] |
| 580 | |
| 581 | [[folder:Mr. Big]] |
| 582 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Len Carlson |
| 583 | A miniature gangster who has occasinally caused trouble for Beetlejuice. |
| 584 | ---- |
| 585 | * BigBadWannabe: In "The Neitherworld's Least Wanted", he appears to be the BigBad who gathered all of BJ's foes together in a LegionOfDoom but towards the end, he runs away without a fight once Beetlejuice shines a light on him and Mr. Monitor is revealed to be TheManBehindTheCurtain and the true BigBad of the episode. |
| 586 | * MisterBig: It's right in his name. He's a powerful mobster who's very short in stature. |
| 587 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Like a lot of cartoon gangsters, his voice is an Edward G. Robinson impression. |
| 588 | [[/folder]] |
| 589 | |
| 590 | [[folder:Mr. Monitor]] |
| 591 | ->'''Voiced by:''' John Stocker |
| 592 | A Neitherworld television executive who is willing to do anything for desirable TV ratings, and screwing Beetlejuice over or endangering his afterlife are no exceptions. |
| 593 | ---- |
| 594 | * BigBad: While Scuzzo is the closest thing Beetlejuice has to an ArchEnemy, Mr. Monitor is the closest thing there is to being the main villain of the series. In any interaction between Mr. Monitor and Beetlejuice, the threat of cancellation always hangs over BJ's head and Beetlejuice getting to zap or juice Mr. Monitor is never even presented as a remote possibility. |
| 595 | * FatBastard: He has tremendous girth and is as unscrupulous as they come. |
| 596 | * KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Most of the time he's able to casually make demands of Beetlejuice or screw around with his life for higher TV ratings. In "The Neitherworld's Least Wanted", all the villains he helped gather together turn on him at the end and beat him up for trying to order them around. |
| 597 | * NonHumanHead: His head is four television monitors, each of which have their own face. |
| 598 | [[/folder]] |
| 599 | |
| 600 | [[folder:Prince Vince]] |
| 601 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/princevince.jpg]] |
| 602 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Hadley Kay |
| 603 | The perpetually depressed young ruler of the Neitherworld. |
| 604 | ---- |
| 605 | * DreadfulMusician: In his second appearance he becomes a rock star, but the song he writes depresses everyone who hears it and his singing is terrible. Even so, no one in the Neitherworld can bring themselves to tell him the truth. |
| 606 | * TheEeyore: Vince is constantly gloomy and, much like the TropeNamer, is often accompanied by literal rain clouds. |
| 607 | * {{Expy}}: Of the titular character from Creator/TimBurton's 1982 stop-motion short ''WesternAnimation/{{Vincent}}'' - in name, looks, and even their overdramatic personalities. |
| 608 | * FisherKing: If Vince is in a particularly sad mood, rain will fall in the area surrounding him, much to the general annoyance of members of his court. |
| 609 | * HopelessSuitor: He falls in love with Lydia and asks her to be his princess but she [[JustFriends only wants to be friends]]. |
| 610 | * LargeHam: A major part of Vince's character is his tendency to be melodramatic. |
| 611 | -->'''Vince:''' FRIENDS?! You just want to be FRIENDS?! ''(collapses on his throne)'' Love's labour lost! I am CRUSHED—utterly DEFEATED! |
| 612 | * LooksLikeCesare: Vince has the gaunt face, dark shaggy hair and sunken eyes typical of Tim Burton's young male characters. He fits right in with [[WesternAnimation/{{Vincent}} his namesake]] and the [[WesternAnimation/CorpseBride two]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Frankenweenie}} Victors]]. |
| 613 | * MilkingTheGiantCow: Vince commonly makes over-the-top gestures of anguish. |
| 614 | [[/folder]] |
| 615 | |
| 616 | [[folder:Sandworms]] |
| 617 | A species of massive, bloodthirsty beasts that frequently endangers Beetlejuice and his friends. |
| 618 | ---- |
| 619 | * DeaderThanDead: Given that being fed to the sandworms is one of the worst punishments you can suffer in the Neitherworld, it's implied that any ghost eaten by a sandworm is permanently destroyed as if they'd been exorcised. No wonder Beetlejuice is so scared of them. |
| 620 | * TheDreaded: The Apex predator of the Neitherworld, and one of the few beings Beetlejuice truly fears. Being eaten by one is implied to permanently destroy you whether you're a living human or a ghost like Beetlejuice. |
| 621 | * MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Their mouths are filled with fangs. |
| 622 | * PurpleIsPowerful: In the cartoon, their stripes are purple and blue rather than black and white. They're also some of the most powerful creatures in the Neitherworld. |
| 623 | * RoarBeforeBeating: Sandworms scream in rage as they attack their prey. |
| 624 | * SealedEvilInACan: These monsters are apparently from "Sandworm Land" and are rarely seen in Neitherworld cities. Sometimes though, one can slip in if a certain prankster opens a door. |
| 625 | * TheUnintelligible: Sandworms can't talk, but their roars and yelps say everything they need them to. |
| 626 | [[/folder]] |
| 627 | !! Musical Characters |
| 628 | |
| 629 | [[folder:Beetlejuice]] |
| 630 | [[caption-width-right:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/108454_14.jpg]] |
| 631 | ->'''Originated by:''' Alex Brightman (OBC) |
| 632 | |
| 633 | The titular character and the Ghost with the Most. |
| 634 | ---- |
| 635 | * AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: He's a lot more openly upset about [[AfterlifeAngst the restrictions he faces in death]] than any other official version of the character. |
| 636 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: The musical tones down Beetlejuice's rot, removes his greasy hair and gives him a younger, healthier appearance. Notably he's at his grungiest at the very start of the show, in the graveyard, and his cleanest during the wedding scene (where even his wild hair is tamed, intentionally by the other characters), while in his final scene it's hidden by a hat. |
| 637 | * AdaptationalNameChange: Apparently, his real name is "Lawrence" and "Beetlejuice" is only his middle name. If one were to take the DC tryout into account, his full name in this version would be "Lawrence Beetlejuice Shoggoth." |
| 638 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the movie, Betelgeuse very clearly had the hots for an underage Lydia and was openly perverted in his behavior towards her. This take on him, however, shows absolutely no indication of lusting after her and she's notably one of the few characters he ''doesn't'' hit on; he still plans to marry her, but he also makes it very clear that it's just something akin to a CitizenshipMarriage and he has absolutely no intentions of actually consummating it. |
| 639 | * AdaptationalVillainy: |
| 640 | ** While not wholly or irredeemably evil, he's still depicted in a much darker light than his original counterpart from the movie (though most of it is PlayedForLaughs), and definitely ''much'' darker than the cartoon: |
| 641 | *** This version of Betelgeuse manipulates the Maitlands from the start instead of merely being hired by them and then going into his schemes. He plans pretty much everything that happens to them. |
| 642 | *** He's way, way more into killing people, much to the horror of whoever is listening to him at the time. |
| 643 | *** In the movie, Beetlejuice has a moment of empathy when Lydia confesses she's suicidal, and goes as far as to offer to talk to her if she frees him. In this version, he doesn't try to save Lydia from her suicide out of the kindness of his heart, but rather to manipulate her into saying his name three times. |
| 644 | *** Subverted with the wedding and his relationship with Lydia. Beetlejuice is overall much more lecherous towards Lydia in the movie to the point that he has to relieve himself at a demonic brothel after seeing her for the first time. In the musical, Lydia is one of the few major characters he never hits on or makes any sexual remarks towards and he goes out of his way to clarify their marriage as "a green card thing" with no sexual or romantic implications whatsoever. [[DoubleSubversion However]], the actual ''setup'' of the wedding has Beetlejuice come off as much more villainous and manipulative in the musical, where he tricks Lydia into [[DeaderThanDead exorcising Barbara]] and only agrees to spare her if Lydia accepts his proposal, as opposed to the movie where he had nothing to do with the Maitlands' exorcism. |
| 645 | ** Between the tryout and the Broadway version, BJ goes from being so thrilled to be alive again that he's too stunned to do much before Lydia stabs him, to getting a whole scene where he gets angry at the fleeting natures of his newfound feelings (having already cycled through happy and sad). He decides to take his anger out by killing someone, and Lydia stops him by killing him ''then''. |
| 646 | * AfterlifeAngst: He's much more openly upset about [[InvisibleToNormals his restrictions]] [[ClosedCircle in death]] than any other adaptation of the character. This reaches its breaking point after [[spoiler:Lydia seemingly ditches him to try to bring back her mother, which he interprets as betrayal and causes him to trap her in a green-card marriage that will bring him back to life]]. |
| 647 | * AmbiguouslyJewish: There are some hints that he's Jewish, even though he's a literal demon from the Neitherworld. During the previews and DC tryout, he wears a yarmulke to his wedding to Lydia, and even says "l'chaim" to life during "Creepy Old Guy." |
| 648 | * AxCrazy: As noted under AdaptationalVillainy, this version of Beetlejuice's first instinct is usually murder. He mentions to the Maitlands that he wants nothing more than to kill the Deetzes after he's hired, and only restrains himself because they keep insisting. After Lydia escapes into the Neitherworld, he decides to kill Otho, Delia, and the Maitlands, starting with Otho. |
| 649 | * BadassLongcoat: He wears a dirty, gray trench coat over his outfit during the opening of Act 1, although he ditches it after introducing the audience to the Maitlands. |
| 650 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: He is the Ghost with the Most, after all, so this is to be expected. In-universe this is because he was "born dead" and has never experienced life, and therefore doesn't get why the living care about it (until experiencing being alive for himself). |
| 651 | * CallAHumanAMeatbag: He often refers to the living as "breathers." |
| 652 | * CardCarryingVillain: He becomes this from "That Beautiful Sound (Reprise)" all the way to the end of "Creepy Old Guy," [[spoiler:where he finally becomes alive and has a HeelFaceTurn]]. He even proudly announces during "Good Old Fashioned Wedding" that he's "holding all the aces." |
| 653 | -->'''Beetlejuice:''' Well, if you wanna treat me like a demon...then I'll ''be'' a demon. |
| 654 | * CruelToBeKind: "The Whole 'Being Dead' Thing" is essentially this as a song. Beetlejuice is trying to get the audience prepared to deal with the existentialism of the story by beating them over the head with the fact that death ''is'' inevitable, the world ''will'' move on afterwards, and the only thing you can really do is talk through the ramifications of it with loved ones while you have the chance and try to relax when the time comes. |
| 655 | * DepravedBisexual: Beetlejuice freely makes passes at men and women alike, and spends a good chunk of the play sexually harassing Adam, whom he calls "sexy." WordOfGod states that Beetlejuice, at least in this iteration, is pansexual. |
| 656 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: After his clones are squicked out when he decides to propose to Lydia, he makes it clear that he doesn't want a real marriage, he wants a "green card thing" and an excuse to be in the mortal world. Of course, this does nothing to reassure Lydia, the Deetzes, or Adam when he springs this on her. |
| 657 | * {{Foil}}: To Otho, weirdly enough. Both are [[ConMan Con Men]] who prey off of others' insecurities, [[spoiler:have EmbarassingFirstNames]], and are the only characters in the cast to show interest in characters of the same sex. While Beetlejuice's cons tend to fail and he mainly relies on opportunism to get what he wants, Otho is so successful in his guise as a life coach that Delia never suspects that she's been duped. This is especially ironic because while Otho is a total fraud, Beetlejuice actually can do everything that he promises to, it's just that nobody in their right mind would trust him. Beetlejuice's main goal in Act 1 is to get a living person to say his name three times, while Delia constantly quotes and name drops Otho throughout the show. [[spoiler:Beetlejuice goes by his middle name and openly admits to the Maitlands that his first name is Lawrence, while Otho only reveals that his name is actually Kevin in the moments before his death with nothing to suggest that "Otho" was ever part of his full name.]] Beetlejuice is a DepravedBisexual who sexually harasses Adam constantly while Otho is a harmless CampGay who never makes a move on anyone. Finally, [[spoiler:Beetlejuice starts off the play dead and later comes alive (briefly) and Otho ends up being killed near the end of Act 2 by none other than Beetlejuice himself.]] |
| 658 | * ForcefulKiss: He gives one of these to Adam when he and Barbara agree to hire him, and later tries to do the same to Barbara. Adam pays him back when conning him into thinking Lydia (and Adam) really wants to marry him. |
| 659 | * FreudianExcuse: According to Beetlejuice, his mother was a verbally abusive alcoholic and his father left, which is the reason he is the way he is. His reasoning for wanting to marry a human or have somebody say his name three times is he's tired of being alone. |
| 660 | * HatesBeingAlone: Beetlejuice wants friends, and it's a reason why he does what he does. Lydia even considers him the loneliest person she's ever met, and they are able to bond by taking the anger of their circumstances out on others. After he believes Lydia left him in order to find her mother, he decides to come up with a plan to marry her so he can have an excuse to remain in the living world and leave the house. |
| 661 | * HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:He gains a newfound appreciation for life after he's briefly resurrected, which prompts him to defend Lydia when Juno tries to drag her back to the Neitherworld. Keep in mind this happens directly after Lydia stabbed him in the back, [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice literally]].]] |
| 662 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: How [[spoiler:he's taken care of in this version, as Lydia stabs him "with bad art."]] |
| 663 | * JerkassRealization: He has one of these after he [[spoiler:briefly comes to life, realizing it's wrong to deprive Lydia of that same chance. After Lydia kills him, he willingly goes to the Neitherworld, permanently.]] |
| 664 | * LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: It even gets a song in the form of "That Beautiful Sound" which is about Beetlejuice and Lydia (and later his clones) scaring whoever comes near the house. It's even shown during the end of Act 1 that ''he gets aroused'' by hearing people scream in fear. |
| 665 | -->'''Beetlejuice:''' Oh, god! I missed that sound! |
| 666 | * MeaningfulEcho: At the beginning of the play, he burns the Maitlands' copy of the ''Handbook for the Recently Deceased'', using it as a puppet that screams "tell my story!" when it burns to ashes. When he leaves Earth for the Neitherworld for good, he tells the Deetzes and the Maitlands this exact line. |
| 667 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: As he lampshades to Lydia, they both view themselves as "invisible" to others and have problems with their aloof parents. |
| 668 | * OddFriendship: He develops this with Lydia to an extent. However, it doesn't stop him from trying to hurt her or her family when he thinks she'll leave him. |
| 669 | * RunningGag: He has several. |
| 670 | ** At the beginning of the play, he makes a sad quip and then point to a random man in the audience, saying "This guy knows what I'm talking about." He does this several times throughout the play, even thanking the man for coming. |
| 671 | ** Sexually harassing Adam. The game show segment even has Adam's name tag read "Sexy" whereas everybody else has their normal names. During his goodbye to Adam, he tells his looks are an asset and to "own it". |
| 672 | ** His hatred for his [[AbusiveParents abusive mother]] is known, and he will go on rants about her and the sad childhood he endured. |
| 673 | --->'''Beetlejuice:''' We're not so different. You don't like your dad, I don't like my mom. She's a demon and she just doesn't get me. She's always like "get a job!" "Why is your hair purple?!" "I should've left, like your father!" ({{beat}}) The point is... |
| 674 | * UnconventionalWeddingDress: Just as Lydia wears a red dress and veil, Beetlejuice wears a red suit. In the previews and DC tryout, he even wears a matching yarmulke. |
| 675 | [[/folder]] |
| 676 | |
| 677 | [[folder:The Maitlands]] |
| 678 | [[caption-width-right:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rob_mcclure_in_beetlejuice_pto_by_matthew_murphy.jpg]] |
| 679 | [[caption-width-right:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_386926f6e23c8a7e86a74c6b22ce5036_29a5d4a3_1280.jpg]] |
| 680 | ->'''Originated by:''' '''Barbara:''' Kerry Buter (OBC), '''Adam:''' Rob [=McClure=] (OBC) |
| 681 | ->Other Productions: '''Adam:''' David Josefberg (CBC) |
| 682 | |
| 683 | A loving couple, Barbara and Adam Maitland perish in a gruesome accident and return to their home as ghosts. |
| 684 | ---- |
| 685 | * AdaptationalWimp: The Maitlands are depicted as a squeaky clean and overly-polite suburban couple here, and are much worse at scaring people than their movie counterparts (they were able to pull off some genuinely terrifying scares in the film, they just couldn't be seen). |
| 686 | * AdaptationalDyeJob: Barbara is a brunette in the film, but is played by the blonde Kerry Butler in the original cast. |
| 687 | * AdaptationPersonalityChange: Adam and Barbara in the original film were essentially sweet, normal people intended as audience surrogates, and while Adam was a little bit of a CloudCuckoolander they were both very grounded, as well as pretty good at coming up with scares, just not at being seen performing them. Here they're essentially Brad and Janet if they never made it to Frank's castle, and too set in their milquetoast ways to have basically any idea of how to scare anyone until Lydia collaborates with them. |
| 688 | * AdaptationalSexuality: This version of Adam is either bisexual or very good at faking it. |
| 689 | * DemotedToExtra: Due to the play focusing more on Lydia grieving for her dead mother. They still play a very important role, but it is diminished from their film selves. |
| 690 | * DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Unlike their movie counterparts, they don't die in a car accident. Instead they get a particularly UndignifiedDeath of the final jump of their musical number causing them to crack through the weakened floorboards of their house and fatally fall into the basement. In touring productions, they are instead electrocuted by faulty wiring. |
| 691 | * TheDitherer: Their first song, ''Ready Set, Not Yet'' sets them both up as this. The whole song is basically Barbara and Adam making every excuse they can to avoid the decision on their minds of if they want to have a kid or not. They wind up dithering on the decision so long that [[SurprisinglySuddenDeath they run out of time without even realizing their clocks were ticking.]] They shed this for the most part in ''Barbara 2.0'' where they resolve to better themselves to help Lydia. |
| 692 | * FamilyOfChoice: They ''very'' quickly bond with Lydia as if she was their own daughter, becoming incredibly protective of her. [[spoiler: By the end of the story, they decide to continue haunting their old house as essentially Lydia's godparents.]] |
| 693 | * HesBack: Subverted with the song "Barbara 2.0" where the Maitlands rally themselves—they realize they were never really living before and decide to really bring it in order to help Lydia. |
| 694 | * MinionWithAnFInEvil: The Maitlands, making BJ give up on getting them to be scary and move on to manipulating Lydia directly. The creepiest they manage is the "Day-O" haunting, and even that goes wrong. |
| 695 | * PapaWolf: Adam and Charles reach this at the same point, angrily refusing to let Lydia marry Beetlejuice nearly in perfect unison. |
| 696 | * ParentalSubstitute: Barbara and Adam become this to Lydia almost immediately (with Lydia even delightedly laughing at one of Adam's corny jokes and declaring it "the perfect dad joke" only minutes after they've met). By the end of the show, though, she gets to have both them and her biological father Charles, as well as her future stepmom Delia, as parental figures, all working together to take care of her. |
| 697 | * StepfordSmiler: Adam and Barbara, a little, though in their case it's less trying to pretend they're happy when they're not so much as (initially) not wanting to venture into thinking of anything complicated or grim enough to mess with their happiness. |
| 698 | [[/folder]] |
| 699 | |
| 700 | [[folder:Lydia Deetz]] |
| 701 | [[caption-width-right:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_739.jpg]] |
| 702 | ->'''Originated by:''' Creator/SophiaAnneCaruso (OBC) |
| 703 | ->Other Productions: Presley Ryan, Elizabeth Teeter (CBC) |
| 704 | |
| 705 | A teenager dealing with the loss of her mother. |
| 706 | ---- |
| 707 | * AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: The musical explains Lydia's obsession with dying comes from the death of her mother, Emily, which combined with her father's insistence she move on and forget, hits her like a truck of bricks. She spends most of the musical trying to find ways to get her back or die herself. |
| 708 | * AmbiguouslyJewish: Since the original film actress to play the part was Creator/WinonaRyder . |
| 709 | * DespairEventHorizon: She reaches her during "Home" when she tries to find her mother. But as she quickly learns, the Neitherworld is a big, empty abyss (she even goes as far as to compare it to the "emptiness of space") and she can't find her and likely won't see her again. What snaps her out of it is finding Charles and finally getting him to notice her. |
| 710 | * {{Determinator}}: She's ''dead set'' on either getting her mother back, or dying to be with her. [[spoiler: This [[DeconstructedTrope winds up deconstructed]] as determination for such an impossible task chips away at her stability until ''Home'', where she breaks down completely upon realizing that the Neitherworld is so vast that there's next to no chance of actually ''finding'' her mother no matter how long she looks. It takes an open conversation with her father combined with her DespairEventHorizon to realize exactly what her determination almost caused her to throw away.]] |
| 711 | * DrivenToSuicide: Lydia was prepared to throw herself off the roof after discovering Charles and Delia are having an affair. She's stopped by Betelgeuse, who tells her it's better to ScareEmStraight and take revenge on Charles personally. |
| 712 | * FiveStagesOfGrief: She goes through each of the stages: |
| 713 | ** Depression: Lydia is in a state of this during the first act, even being willing to throw herself off the roof, as she's still dealing with the death of her mother. |
| 714 | ** Anger: She reaches a RageBreakingPoint when Charles and Delia are excited by the monetary opportunities presented by the Maitlands' existence instead of getting scared. |
| 715 | ** Denial/Bargaining: BJ tells her there's a spell in the Handbook for contacting ghosts, but much to her horror, it exorcises ghosts, and it was done as payback for abandoning him to get her mother back. |
| 716 | *** She also experiences this in the Neitherworld. Juno informs her that everybody who has ever died is in the Neitherworld, but [[BrutalHonesty makes it clear that because the Neitherworld is such a big and empty place, she's very unlikely she'll find who she's looking for.]] She searches as far as she can, even while she's being chased by Juno's goons, but she can't find her mother. It leads to... |
| 717 | ** Sadness: When she has her DespairEventHorizon in the Neitherworld. |
| 718 | ** Acceptance: After her and Charles are able to talk, she's able to accept that while she misses her mother, she'll never forget her and she has a new family in the form of Delia, Charles, and the Maitlands. |
| 719 | * {{Goth}}: Lydia is a mopey version until she and Beetlejuice develop a friendship, disliking a yellow dress Delia buys her for the business dinner and preferring dark things. |
| 720 | * OddFriendship: She forms one with Beetlejuice after he scares her family away. She even confesses to Charles she feels bad for him, because he's the loneliest person she's ever met. That said, she has no problem killing him after he lies to her and was going to torture/kill her family if she didn't marry him. Still, the pair say goodbye and end their friendship on good terms with the implication that they could be friends again if they ever meet again. |
| 721 | * PerkyGoth: She becomes one after her and Beetlejuice become friends, and is cemented as this after she and Charles have a heart to heart. |
| 722 | * RageBreakingPoint: Lydia gets one at the end of Act One, after Charles and Maxie view the Maitlands as a gold mine rather than scary. Thinking things will get much worse, Lydia finally summons Betelgeuse and lets him wreck havoc. |
| 723 | * ScareEmStraight: With Beetlejuice's advice (and the Maitlands' aid), Lydia attempts this on Charles during his business dinner with Maxie, hoping it'll make him listen to her. She even goes as far as to wear the yellow dress Delia bought her and act like a happy daughter to help sell the ruse. But instead of them being scared, Charles and Maxie see it as an opportunity to turn the house into a haunted tourist trap. So she uses her last resort and calls Beetlejuice. |
| 724 | -->'''Lydia:''' You didn't listen, Dad. Now this is what you get!\ |
| 725 | '''Beetlejuice:''' Yeah, Dad! This is what you get! |
| 726 | * SlasherSmile: She and Beetlejuice give one to the audience at the end of Act 1, after kicking out the Deetzes and their associates. |
| 727 | * TeensAreMonsters: After unleashing Beetlejuice, Lydia spends the next few days scaring and possessing whoever comes by the house for shits and giggles. This includes a girl scout named Sky, a Census taker, two delivery men, and an elderly neighbor. This is lampshaded in the scrapped song "Ain't It Strange", where Lydia is cut off before she can call herself an asshole and the rest of the cast interject "No, you're a teenager". |
| 728 | * [[YoureNotMyFather You're Not My Mother]]: The crux of Lydia's conflict with Delia comes from a place of anger that she's becoming Charles' SecondLove, furious that he would "replace" her mother. [[spoiler: By the end of the play however, she makes peace with Delia by repeating a piece of her own advice back to her as a way of accepting her into the Deetz's family.]] |
| 729 | [[/folder]] |
| 730 | |
| 731 | [[folder:Charles Deetz]] |
| 732 | [[caption-width-right:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/maxresdefault_1_30.jpg]] |
| 733 | ->'''Originated by:''' Adam Dannheisser (OBC) |
| 734 | Lydia's distant father, who buys the Maitlands' house in order to use it as a flagship for a gated community. |
| 735 | ---- |
| 736 | * AdaptationalJerkass: He gets a slight case of this, trying to get Lydia to move past her mother's death.Their disconnect is a reason for Lydia's suicidal ideation, and it's only when they are finally able to talk in the Neitherworld that they move past this. |
| 737 | * FatalFlaw: His need to "fix" how Lydia can't get over Emily's death. It lands them both in the afterlife for a bit. |
| 738 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Despite being explicitly warned by his late wife to "not try to fix this", trying to "fix" things for Lydia is in fact what Charles spends the majority of his time doing, assured that if they can just get past Emily's death, things will be fine again and they'll feel better. He doesn't realize his fix-it attitude makes his daughter think he doesn't care, nor that his unwillingness to talk about his wife because it still hurt too much is taken by Lydia as his rejecting Emily's memory. |
| 739 | * LastWords: Relates Lydia's mother's to her, realizing that Emily wasn't talking about herself and Charles, but about Charles and Lydia, and how his tendency to need to "fix" things might cause a rift. |
| 740 | * OnlySaneMan: While this is noticeably toned down, this aspect of the character is still present to a degree, especially after Delia hires Otho to exorcise Beetlejuice. |
| 741 | * ParentsAsPeople: To Lydia, he comes off as distant and trying desperately to get Lydia to forget about her mother. However, he himself is still grieving and wants to move past it. |
| 742 | ** While it's inappropriate for him to have an affair with his daughter's life coach, he ''does'' seem to genuinely think Delia would be a good maternal figure for Lydia, and says so when announcing the proposal. He also seems genuinely taken with her. |
| 743 | ** SecondLove: With Delia. To Lydia's horror. |
| 744 | * UptightLovesWild: The stiff and controlling real estate developer Charles genuinely falls for the kooky new age life coach Delia. |
| 745 | [[/folder]] |
| 746 | |
| 747 | [[folder:Delia]] |
| 748 | [[caption-width-right:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pasted_image_0_0.png]] |
| 749 | ->'''Originated by:''' Leslie Kritzer (OBC) |
| 750 | |
| 751 | Lydia's life coach, who is secretly having an affair with Charles. |
| 752 | ---- |
| 753 | * AdaptationalDumbass: While slightly ditzy and off-beat in the original movie, she is depicted in this version as an airhead who adheres to pseudoscientific New Age woo. |
| 754 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: Movie!Delia was apathetic to her stepdaughter for most of the movie, not showing any sign of care for her until Betelgeuse arrives. It's implied this sour relationship is one reason for Lydia's depression. In this version, Delia is nice to Lydia from the start and generally wants to help her, but she can't get on Lydia's wavelength. |
| 755 | * AdaptationalNameChange: This version mentions her maiden name is "Schlimmer," as she doesn't become a Deetz until after the events of the musical. |
| 756 | * TheDogBitesBack: She allows Betelgeuse to torture Otho after he confesses he's a fraud who took advantage of her depression. |
| 757 | * {{Foil}}: |
| 758 | ** The play makes her one to Miss Argentina. Both individuals are depicted as [[StepfordSmiler Stepford Smilers]] with sad backstories, who try to help Lydia and give their advice in the form of songs. However, whereas Delia is aloof to Lydia and her advice hurts her more than help her, Miss Argentina emphasizes with Lydia's suicidal tendencies and is able to get through to the girl. But while there is no way for Miss Argentina to change her position, Delia is able to move on and live a happy life. [[SignificantDoubleCasting To hammer this point home, both are played by the same actress.]] |
| 759 | ** She also serves as one to Lydia, as it's revealed in the song "No Reason" she got into all her new age woo after a personal tragedy (her husband running out on her) and copes by looking for reason and positivity in the world. Unfortunately, this makes her vulnerable to con artists like [[spoiler:Otho]] and she admits that when crystals speak to her, it's to say "buy more crystals". Lydia takes this as her simply being well off enough to afford new age products and being "bored" with how dull life is. |
| 760 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: Despite making the point she's technically paid to care about Lydia, she tries to help and befriend her as best she can, but most of her actions end up driving a wedge between the pair, as either it does nothing to help the situation or Lydia finds it too annoying and condescending to take seriously. |
| 761 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: After Lydia learns Delia and her father are engaged, Delia tries to console Lydia, assuring her it might've happened for a reason. This does nothing but lead [[spoiler:Lydia to try and throw herself off the roof of the house. And if Beetlejuice hadn't been on the roof, she would've succeeded.]] |
| 762 | * PepTalkSong: She attempts this with Lydia in "No Reason" telling her everything happens for a reason and she needs to go with her feelings. Her advice hurts Lydia and does nothing to help her out of her depression, and in reveals Delia herself is also coping (in this case, being left by a previous husband) with her new ageisms being how ''she's'' dealing. |
| 763 | * PetTheDog: Despite being a bother to Lydia, she does get several moments: |
| 764 | ** After moving in, Delia suggests they clear out the attic and turn it into a dark room after hearing Lydia might be into photography. She still turns her down, but some shows have Lydia pause before declining. |
| 765 | ** Although it's a case of InnocentlyInsensitive, after Lydia discovers Delia's been sleeping with Charles, her only concern is trying to help the poor girl, telling her maybe it's for the best. |
| 766 | ** She genuinely tries to give Lydia a PepTalkSong in "No Reason" but fails due to Lydia misunderstanding her due to their lack of connection. |
| 767 | * PowerCrystal: She mentions in "No Reason" that she uses healing crystals which "speak" to her. |
| 768 | -->'''Lydia:''' What are they saying?\ |
| 769 | '''Delia:''' Buy more crystals. |
| 770 | * SatelliteCharacter: Mainly interacts with Charles, Lydia, and Otho. Lampshaded during Betelgeuse's farewell, where he not only gets her name wrong ("Danika"), but also flatly admits they didn't hang out much before walking over to speak with Charles instead. |
| 771 | * SecondLove: With Charles. |
| 772 | * SecretRelationship: She has a primarily sexual one with Charles, although the pair try to keep it a secret from Lydia, as Charles doesn't think she's strong enough to handle the truth about their relationship yet. When Lydia finds out, [[{{Understatement}} she is less than happy about it]]. |
| 773 | * SleepingWithTheBoss: Lampshaded by Charles. |
| 774 | --->'''Charles:''' You're my employee, but also my lover! It's---\ |
| 775 | '''Delia:''' Prostitution? |
| 776 | * StepfordSmiler: The subject of her duet with Lydia, "No Reason." She mentions her husband abandoned her to sail to Rome with his lover, and she ended up in a depression due to her fear of not having a family, freezing her eggs, buying a cat as a substitute, and "talking to the walls 'cause there's no one there." She almost has a mental breakdown over this during her coaching session to Lydia. |
| 777 | [[/folder]] |
| 778 | |
| 779 | [[folder:Juno]] |
| 780 | |
| 781 | ->'''Originated by:''' Jill Abramovitz (OBC) |
| 782 | ->Other Productions: Zonya Love (CBC) |
| 783 | |
| 784 | The demonic Director of the Neitherworld Bureau of Customs and Processing. |
| 785 | ---- |
| 786 | * AdaptationalNameChange: In the DC tryout, her name was changed to Mrs. Eileen Shoggoth, or simply Mrs. Shoggoth. After Miss Argentina was added on Broadway, her name was changed back to Juno. |
| 787 | * AdaptationalVillainy: In the stage musical, [[spoiler:Juno is changed into Beetlejuice's alcoholic and overbearing, abusive mother. It's suggested that [[FreudianExcuse her bad parenting might be a reason Beetlejuice turned out the way he did]]. While the movie-version of Juno disliked the living, [[PetTheDog she was content with letting the Deetzes and the Maitlands coexist]]; musical-Juno, on the other hand, tries to keep Lydia in the Neitherworld after she enters in an attempt to escape Beetlejuice and locate her mother.]] |
| 788 | * AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Throughout the play, Beetlejuice mentions his terrible mother, who is later revealed to be her, and she goes as far as to say she wishes he had never been born and she had left like his father. She is the reason for his crazy powers and is strong enough to throw BJ around like a ragdoll.]] |
| 789 | * TheAlcoholic: According to Beetlejuice, Juno [[spoiler:loved booze more than him, and spent most of his childhood drunk.]] |
| 790 | * AssholeVictim: Is [[spoiler:eaten by a sand worm.]] |
| 791 | * BeehiveHairdo: She possesses one of these. |
| 792 | * BrutalHonesty: Crosses over with JerkassHasAPoint. She tells Lydia everybody who's ever died is in the Neitherworld, but because it's an "infinite abyss of nothingness", she's certain to never find who she's looking for, her mother included. [[spoiler:Lydia doesn't listen, but sure enough, when she's chased down by Juno's goons, she comes to the realization that her mother is gone for good.]] |
| 793 | * TheDreaded: To Miss Argentina, who wishes to avoid upsetting her demonic superior, and encourages Lydia and Charles to escape before Juno sees them. |
| 794 | * GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: She has a tracheostomy and like her movie counterpart, is regularly shown smoking, with the smoke being exhaled through this. She is also a mean, evil demon and a terrible employer and mother. |
| 795 | * HateSink: Unlike Beetlejuice, she possesses no redeeming qualities. She is shrill and rude to the new Neitherworld residents, she tries to keep [[spoiler:Lydia and Charles]] in the Neitherworld permanently after they wander in, and she is an abusive mother who mentions she wishes her son was never born. |
| 796 | * JerkassRealization: Subverted. [[spoiler:Beetlejuice tells her that because he got to live (briefly) he realizes it's wrong to deprive Lydia of that same chance. It seems like Juno has been overcome by his speech, even removing her glasses and taking her son aside. But it was just a trick to throw him into Saturn and get him out of her way.]] |
| 797 | --->'''Juno:''' [[spoiler:Oh, Lawrence, that was beautiful. Maybe I've been all wrong about you. And I'll admit, I haven't always been such a good mother. But that's only... ''because I wish you were never born!'']]\ |
| 798 | '''Beetlejuice:''' [[spoiler:You fooled me with love!]] |
| 799 | * LadyInRed: Wears a red suit and matching skirt and pearls. |
| 800 | * ObstructiveBureaucrat: Downplayed, but she tries to keep [[spoiler:Lydia]] in the Neitherworld after finding out [[spoiler:she's still alive]], as the rules state that once you go to the Neitherworld, you don't come back, and has no problem maiming the Deetzes and the Maitlands to make it happen. She also does nothing to make the transition to the Neitherworld any easier for the new arrivals. |
| 801 | * RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the musical, [[spoiler:Juno goes from merely being Beetlejuice's former boss to being his overbearing mother, and a demon who can rival even him in terms of prowess.]] |
| 802 | * VoiceOfTheLegion: It happens when she uses her demonic powers. |
| 803 | * WalkingSpoiler: Though she was in the original movie as well, it's very difficult to talk about her musical counterpart and her impact on the plot without spoiling two things: [[spoiler:1) that Lydia escapes to the Neitherworld, and 2) that she's Beetlejuice's mother.]] |
| 804 | [[/folder]] |
| 805 | |
| 806 | [[folder:Otho]] |
| 807 | |
| 808 | ->'''Originated by:''' Kelvin Moon Loh (CBO) |
| 809 | |
| 810 | Delia's frequently mentioned Guru. |
| 811 | ---- |
| 812 | * AdaptationalNameChange: He confesses [[spoiler:before Beetlejuice tortures him that his real name is Kevin.]] |
| 813 | * AdaptationalSexuality: While his film counterpart was implied to be gay, a scrapped song from the musical, "I am Very Good at Running Cults," had him brag about having slept with a lot of women. |
| 814 | * AdaptationalVillainy: While the film had Otho be an arrogant KnowNothingKnowItAll who was a genuinely polite family friend to the Deetzes and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone regretted what his actions did to the Maitlands]], the stage musical changes him [[spoiler:into a charlatan who took advantage of Delia's depression. He confesses after Beetlejuice decides to kill him that his real name is Kevin and he's from Nutley, New Jersey.]] |
| 815 | * BrokenPedestal: To his "disciple" Delia, after he spells it out he's a fraud, so she wastes no time in letting Beetlejuice torture him. |
| 816 | * ConMan: Many of his contraptions, such as the Soul Box, don't work, and he scams Delia and Charles when they try to enlist his help exorcising Beetlejuice by charging exorbitant prices. It's revealed [[spoiler:he is a fraud and his name isn't even Otho, it's Kevin.]] |
| 817 | * {{Foil}}: To Beetlejuice, weirdly enough. Both are [[ConMan Con Men]] who prey off of others insecurities, [[spoiler:have EmbarassingFirstNames]], and are the only characters in the cast to show interest in characters of the same sex. While Beetlejuice's cons tend to fail and he mainly relies on opportunism to get what he wants, Otho is so successful in his guise as a life coach that Delia never suspects that she's been duped. This is especially ironic because while Otho is a total fraud, Beetlejuice actually can do everything that he promises to, it's just that nobody in their right mind would trust him. Beetlejuice's main goal in Act 1 is to get a living person to say his name, while Delia constantly quotes and name drops Otho throughout the show. [[spoiler:Beetlejuice goes by his middle name and openly admits to the Maitlands that his first name is Lawrence, while Otho only reveals that his name is actually Kevin in the moments before his death with nothing to suggest that "Otho" was ever part of his full name.]] Beetlejuice is a DepravedBisexual who sexually harasses Adam constantly while Otho is a harmless CampGay who never makes a move on anyone. Finally, [[spoiler:Beetlejuice starts off the play dead and later comes alive (briefly) and Otho ends up being killed near the end of Act 2 by none other than Beetlejuice himself.]] |
| 818 | * TheGhost: He is frequently mentioned but never shown, at least until the second act, although his actor appears in ensemble roles until then. |
| 819 | * HurricaneOfAphorisms: He has many of these, most of which are insensitive or do little to help the situation. It becomes a RunningGag for Delia to spout these off, especially to Lydia. |
| 820 | -->'''Delia:''' I believe I quoted my guru, Otho, who said, "depression is like kale salad: no one likes it, throw it out." |
| 821 | * OutOfFocus: He barely appears in the play, even during the second act. He had several songs that were cut for time, such as "I'm Very Good At Running Cults" and "The Box." |
| 822 | * SnakeOilSalesman: In this version, Otho is an obvious NewAge ConMan who spends most of his screen-time trying scams the Deetzes, especially Delia. |
| 823 | * UncertainDoom: When Charles and Lydia navigate the Neitherworld, Beetlejuice decides to have a game show style segment where he tortures the "contestants" to death by strapping them to a giant torture wheel, and decides to start with Otho. After he confesses he's a fraud, Delia allows BJ to torture him, although his fate is unclear. |
| 824 | * TheUnHug: He and Delia greet each other with a "spirit hug" which involves them crossing their arms and circling each other, and saying this phrase. |
| 825 | ---> '''Delia/Otho:''' Life is life. Love is love. Live a life of love. |
| 826 | [[/folder]] |
| 827 | |
| 828 | [[folder:Maxie and Maxine Dean]] |
| 829 | ->'''Originated by:''' Danny Rutigliano (Maxie) and Jill Abramovitz (Maxine) |
| 830 | ->Other Productions: Zonya Love (CBC) |
| 831 | |
| 832 | Associates of Charles Deetz and a wealthy real estate couple. |
| 833 | ---- |
| 834 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: While they still aren't saints, the Deans in this version are slightly better than their movie counterparts. They are friendly old chums to the Deetzes, and although they are somewhat loud and obnoxious, they are still polite to Lydia, Maxie complimenting her when she arrives. It's a step-up from movie-Maxie shushing Lydia during the séance and [[CassandraTruth disregarding what she says]], and calling Charles a putz after a call. |
| 835 | * AdaptationNameChange: Sarah Dean is renamed Maxine in this version. |
| 836 | * AdaptationPersonalityChange: In the movie, the Deans are cold, unfeeling jerks. In this version, they are a boorish, hedonistic couple, with Maxie being BigFun and Maxine being a BrainlessBeauty. |
| 837 | * BigFun: Maxie is an overweight, middle-aged man, but he seems like a joy to be around. |
| 838 | * BrainlessBeauty: Maxie describes his new wife as having "a body that doesn't quit and a brain that doesn't work." If Maxine is to be believed, she was kicked in the head by a horse. |
| 839 | * IKissYourHand: Maxie does this to Lydia during the dinner scene when she comes down wearing the dress Delia bought her. She's repulsed. |
| 840 | * MythologyGag: Like the movie, they arrive to the Deetz residence via a helicopter. While the movie did it to establish their wealth, the musical portrays them as an insanely wealthy, out of touch rich couple. |
| 841 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Both only appear in one scene, but are responsible for the events of Act Two, as instead of being scared when they're possessed, Maxie suggests Charles turn the house into a tourist trap instead of the flagship for his gated community. Lydia, who feels like she has no other options, summons Beetlejuice as a trump card to get her father to finally listen to her. |
| 842 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: Averted in the DC tryouts, as Beetlejuice kills the pair after Lydia unleashes him. On Broadway, he simply chases them out, along with their associates. |
| 843 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Charles adds shrimp to the dinner menu because Maxie loves shrimp. |
| 844 | * TrophyWife: Maxine is much younger and attractive than her husband, and is outright stated to be his fourth wife (or fifth wife according to her). |
| 845 | [[/folder]] |
| 846 | |
| 847 | [[folder:Miss Argentina]] |
| 848 | |
| 849 | ->'''Originated by:''' Leslie Kritzer (OBC) |
| 850 | ->Other Productions: Michelle Aravena(CBC) |
| 851 | |
| 852 | A former troubled Beauty Queen and an assistant to Juno. |
| 853 | ---- |
| 854 | * ActingForTwo: In the musical, she's played by the same actress who portrays Delia. During the curtain call, Delia's actress even comes out wearing Miss Argentina's sash. |
| 855 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: While the movie had her be snarky around the Maitlands, the musical has her [[BigSisterInstinct take pity on Lydia and try to convince her to return to Earth and live her life while she still can.]] Her song manages to get through to her and it's one of the reasons Lydia stops her suicidal ideation. |
| 856 | * AfterlifeAngst: Her music number, "What I Know Now," is all about how miserable the afterlife is and how she regrets not living life to the fullest while she still could. |
| 857 | * AscendedExtra: She has little impact on the movie, beyond being a receptionist with little patience towards the Maitlands, explaining they must remain in their house until their paperwork is finished being processed in 125 years. In the musical, while she only appears in one scene, she gets her own song which builds upon her backstory as a depressed beauty queen who was DrivenToSuicide, using it to encourage Lydia that death doesn't solve her problems and to live her life while she still can. |
| 858 | * DrivenToSuicide: While she still had her little accident, the musical goes on to explain she was a beauty queen and a party girl who had low self-esteem and depression and took her own life in order to end her suffering, something she regrets. |
| 859 | * {{Foil}}: She is one to Delia. Both are attractive [[StepfordSmiler Stepford Smilers]] with depressing backstories who Lydia encounters. Each try to give advice in the form of a song, Miss Argentina with "What I Know Now" and Delia with "No Reason." Delia's advice is well-meaning, yet patronizing and ends up making Lydia's depression worse. Miss Argentina is better able to empathize with Lydia and get through to her. In essence, Miss Argentina is a version of Delia that gave in to her depression because she didn't have people to help her through it. [[SignificantDoubleCasting To hammer this point home, both are played by the same actress.]] |
| 860 | * GratuitousSpanish: She has several lines of Spanish when talking to Lydia and Charles, such as calling Lydia "mami" when Lydia shows up without a handbook. |
| 861 | * MinorCharacterMajorSong: Miss Argentina appears for one single scene, but sings "What I Know Now", which helps to convince Lydia to give up her suicide ideation and return with Charles. |
| 862 | [[/folder]] |
| 863 | |
| 864 | [[folder:Emily Deetz]] |
| 865 | Lydia's deceased mother and Charles's first wife. Her death serves as a motivation to Lydia. |
| 866 | ---- |
| 867 | * AdaptationalExpansion: Emily is never mentioned in the movie, and it's never explained how Delia became Lydia's stepmother. In this version, she got very sick and died, although she accepted her fate by the time it happened. |
| 868 | * TheGhost: Pun not intended. As Emily is dead, she is reminisced about by the characters, especially Lydia and Charles. Even when Lydia goes to the Neitherworld in an attempt to find her, she still can't, as the Neitherworld is too big and empty. |
| 869 | * TheLostLenore: She functions as a non-romantic one to her daughter, who misses her dearly and will do whatever to have her back. Downplayed with her husband, as while he misses her, too, he accepts she's not coming back and is trying to make himself and Lydia happy by being with Delia. |
| 870 | * MissingMom: And how. Lydia's solo, "Dead Mom," is about the grief she feels from losing her. |
| 871 | * NightmareFetishist: Downplayed, but Lydia mentions her mother loved ghosts and anything scary, and would love the Maitlands. |
| 872 | * ShoutOut: Emily's name could be a reference to the Tim Burton character, Emily, from "{{WesternAnimation/Corpse Bride}}", a deceased heroine living in the Land of the Dead. |
| 873 | [[/folder]] |
| 874 | |
| 875 | [[folder:Beetlejuice Clones]] |
| 876 | Clones of Beetlejuice he brings to life to serve him as minions. |
| 877 | ---- |
| 878 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: They share their creator's kooky, perverted nature. Strangely, however, they do have [[EverybodyHasStandards slightly higher standards]] than him (see below). |
| 879 | * EverybodyHasStandards: After Beetlejuice decides to get the teenage Lydia to marry him so he can become human, the clones are noticeably disgusted, at least until Beetlejuice explains he means a [[CitizenshipMarriage "green card thing"]] and "strictly business." |
| 880 | * EvilMinions: They serve as this to Beetlejuice and follow him into the Neitherworld [[spoiler:after he's killed by Lydia.]] |
| 881 | * MesACrowd: They are all clones of Beetlejuice and share his BlueAndOrangeMorality. |
| 882 | * SummonBackupDancers: Beetlejuice brings them to life during "That Beautiful Sound" to help him and Lydia scare people who wander by the house. |
| 883 | [[/folder]] |
| 884 | |
| 885 | [[folder:Sky]] |
| 886 | |
| 887 | ->'''Originated by:''' Dana Steingold (OBC) |
| 888 | A teenage Girl Scout who is scared by Beetlejuice and Lydia, and has a congenital heart defect. |
| 889 | ---- |
| 890 | * BringMyBrownPants: She soils herself after Beetlejuice and Lydia scare her. |
| 891 | * CanonForeigner: She is a new character created specifically for the musical. |
| 892 | * DelicateAndSickly: As Sky mentions in her song, she was born with heart arrhythmia and "could be killed by a random sneeze," but the Girl Scouts helped her deal with this. Still, she wasn't allowed to sell cookies until she's a teen around Lydia's age. Her heart condition almost kills her when Lydia and Beetlejuice scare her, but she manages to run away in fright. |
| 893 | ** In the DC tryout, she survives Beetlejuice scaring her, but is chased away by his clones and has her cookies stolen. |
| 894 | * TooDumbToLive: Is very naïve and sheltered, ringing the bell to the Deetz house that has been enchanted by Beetlejuice's magic and agrees to enter Lydia's house because "nobody gets molested by a Goth-y teen." |
| 895 | [[/folder]] |
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