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In General
- All for Nothing: They believed they were protecting the Renbourn Workhouse's residents by carrying out child kidnappings for Kelvin. After all the first-stringers (except Snake) die because of it, Ciel and Sebastian find the workhouse in ruin. They assume Kelvin allowed the Doctor to kill the children living there for his experiments with Artificial Limbs. Joker and the rest died for nothing.
- Anti-Villain: All the first-stringers except Snake kidnapped children and killed anyone who got in their way on Baron Kelvin's orders, but certainly did not take pleasure in doing so.
- Broken Pedestal: Snake considered his fellow first-string circus members to be his saviors and family because they rescued him from a freak show and took him into their circus. He's shocked and devastated at learning from Finn that the circus members were actually child kidnappers and murderers. He's especially distraught at discovering that Doll has been revived as a Bizarre Doll and she has killed children to get the blood transfusions she needs to keep her undead body from decomposing.
- Childhood Friends: Except for Snake, all the first-string members have been together since childhood, as they were abandoned in the streets and had to struggle together to survive until Baron Kelvin took them in.
- Dark and Troubled Past: All of the first-string circus members minus Snake were originally Street Urchins, abandoned by society because of their cripplings and disfigurements. Baron Kelvin found them and took them in, giving them a better life. Everything was going well until Baron Kelvin went insane over Ciel and started forcing the circus members to kidnap children.
- Facial Markings: The first-string circus members have them as part of their makeover.
- Forced into Evil: Their "father" forced them to kidnap children and kill any witnesses. Joker and the others clearly hated to do it, but Kelvin used the children at the Renbon Workhouse as bribe to make them continue. If only had they known the Renbon Workhouse and the children there were long gone...
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Mixes with No Sympathy. The narrative makes it clear that the circus troupe's involvement in the kidnappings were not justified and that their ultimate fates were the results of the poor decisions they made. William even sums this up right before he leaves the circus and prepares to reap the souls of everyone at Baron Kelvin's manor.
- Hard Work Hardly Works: Toboso once stated that the troupe had to put in tremendous effort in order to stay in Kelvin's favor as well as to maintain the charade of being a normal traveling circus. Unfortunately that effort resulted in multiple child kidnappings (and murders/experimentation) that eventually got on the queen's radar, and when put up against those (one of them being a demon) whose skills in deception, manipulation, and battle tactics make theirs look nonexistent...
- I Owe You My Life: Baron Kelvin saved the first-string circus members from a miserable life in the streets, which is why they obey him without hesitation. Deconstructed by all the horrible things Kelvin makes them do to repay him.
- Leave No Witnesses: They kidnapped children and killed anyone who caught them in the act. They planned to do the same to Ciel's servants when they infiltrated the Phantomhive manor, but they didn't except that Ciel's servants were even more skilled killers than them and they paid for it with their lives.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: The circus crew only go by their Stage Names, even when out of a performance. Their real names are never revealed, with exception of Beast in the anime.
- Parental Abandonment: All the first-tier members either were abandoned by their parents because of their impairments or never had them to begin with.
- Powered by a Forsaken Child: Literally. Unbeknownst to all but the Doctor, their high-quality prostheses are made from the bones of children.
- Together in Death: By the end of the arc everyone has been killed by either Sebastian or the Phantomhive Servants. The final scene is Ciel and Sebastian watching or hallucinating as the souls of the circus troupe reunite with each other and pass on into Heaven.
Doll
Doll
Voiced by: Ayahi Takagaki (JP), Mikaela Krantz (EN) Foreign VAs
Live actor: Ginga Shitara (Musical)
Click here to see her dress as a performer
"There's a long life o' circus ahead o' you!"
A girl who ends up as Ciel's roommate during his time at the circus.
- The Baby of the Bunch: She's the youngest of the first-tier circus members and her friends, especially Joker, treat her as their little sister.
- Barefoot Poverty: In a flashback to before Kelvin took her in, she lived on the street and had no shoes.
- Berserker Tears: After she finds out all her adoptive family is dead, she cries out of grief and rage as she tries to attack Ciel and Sebastian.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: After being killed and brought back as a Bizarre Doll, she acts as her usual friendly and kindhearted self in front of Finny and Snake. The truth is the death of the circus members that she thought of as family has made her bitter and vengeful towards the Earl and his allies, even wanting to send them to hell.
- Boyish Short Hair: She has short hair that fits her tomboyish personality. It's one of the reasons why Ciel didn't realize she's a girl at first.
- Break the Cutie: When Ciel tells her that he killed the rest of the circus crew, Doll completely breaks down and loses herself in a murderous rage. She then made the mistake of trying to attack Ciel and Sebastian and pays for it.
- The Bus Came Back: She disappears after the end of the Circus arc, only to finally reappear 158 chapters later in the Blue Revenge arc. It's played darkly as Doll has been brought back as a Bizarre Doll.
- Circus Brat: She was still a small child when the orphans formed the circus and performs as an acrobat now that she's a teenager.
- Et Tu, Brute?: She really thought of "Smile" as a friend so she's devastated when he reveals his true identity as the Queen's Watchdog and informs her that he and his servants have just killed all of her adoptive family.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Even after she's brought back as a Bizarre Doll and her only purpose is taking revenge on the Phantomhive household, she still cares for her old friend Snake and is genuinely horrified when she fatally injures him by mistake.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: Her performance dress includes stockings of different color.
- Flowers of Femininity: On stage, she wears a wig made of white roses and a tutu decorated with the same kind of flowers. She acts a lot more feminine and graceful when she's dressed up for the performance.
- Genki Girl: She has a very cheerful persona as Freckles. Not so much as Doll.
- Hates Being Alone: As a member of the circus main cast, she should have a tent of her own. She still chooses to bunk with Ciel instead because she doesn't like to sleep alone.
- Hiding Behind Your Bangs: She covers the left side of her face with her hair. It's to cover the part of her face which is deformed, mainly her eye.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: Blue is her eye color, being The Cutie, of course.
- Killed Offscreen: All signs suggest that Ciel ordered Sebastian to kill her, but we never actually see it happen, either in the manga or the anime. In the Blue Revenge arc, it's confirmed that Doll was killed by Sebastian, but Undertaker retrieved her corpse and turned her into a Bizarre Doll. She was then moved to a F.O.L. orphanage where Undertaker keeps children to use as blood donors for Bizarre Dolls.
- Kill the Cutie: She's young, nice, good-hearted despite being forced into kidnapping children, and quickly befriends Ciel. Sadly, given the kind of series she's in, things don't end well for her. After she found out that Ciel and Sebastian had killed the rest of the circus crew, she tried to attack them. The attempt failed.
- Lady Looks Like a Dude: She looks so masculine that it's easy to mistake her for a boy. When Ciel saw her wearing a dress for the first time, he thought she was a cross-dressing boy instead.
- Masking the Deformity: The left side of her face, especially her eye, is horribly deformed. She usually uses her hair to hide it, but when she's a performer, her flower wig covers it.
- My God, What Have I Done?:
- When Ciel gets sick from his asthma, Doll feels guilty that she was one of the factors that caused it.
- Doll reacted in horror for accidentally fatally injuring Snake, her only circus family left.
- Nice Girl: When out of a performance, she's a very nice and friendly girl who honestly wants to befriend "Smile". Too bad "Smile" doesn't feel the same.
- Parasol of Prettiness: When performing, she carries a white, fringe-trimmed parasol that looks nice paired with her tutu.
- Revenge: When she finds out that Ciel and Sebastian killed the circus crew, she immediately tries to attack them. She's killed for her attempt, but Undertaker revives her as a Bizarre Doll. Afterwards, she still intends to make the Earl and his allies pay for killing her and her adoptive family.
- Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: During his stay at the circus, Ciel's coldness and pragmatism is counterbalanced by Doll's energy and free spirit.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: Inverted. We're first introduced to Doll when she's performing as the elegant ballet dancer in a tutu. Outside the stage, she dresses like a boy, making her completely unrecognizable to Ciel until he sees her wearing her performer dress.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: There are two distinct sides to her personality: the side of the serious, solemn and quiet performer Doll, and the side that's cheerful, friendly and playful when she's Freckles.
- Tainted Veins: After being turned into a Bizarre Doll, she suffers random black outs, with her veins becoming dark and visible through her skin whenever she needs a blood transfusion.
- Tastes Like Friendship: She shares some of her Funtom candy with "Smile" in her attempt to befriend him.
- The Tease: She forces Ciel to touch her chest to prove that she is a girl, and offers him the chance to "take a peek downstairs," as she words it.
- This Is Unforgivable!: Her reaction when she found out that it was Ciel and Sebastian who had killed the rest of the circus crew.
- Token Good Teammate: All the circus members are sympathetic, but Doll is especially so because she genuinely tried to befriend Ciel (unaware he was there to expose the circus' crimes) and even covered for him when she found him sneaking around. In the anime, we also see she's the only one of the circus members who was unwilling to kill witnesses despite aiding in the child kidnappings.
- Tomboyish Voice: She has a low, raspy voice. Combined with her masculine appearance and behaviour, this all makes her gender reveal quite a surprise for Ciel and the audience.
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Despite being a big tomboy, she wears a beautiful tutu and puts on make up for her performance. She also specializes in aerial ballet.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Even though she was forced into kidnapping children, Doll was truly a sweet and good-hearted girl who didn't deserve to die in such a tragic way. She's one of the few people whom Ciel has felt remorse and guilt over killing.
- Two-Faced: The left side of her face is deformed, which is why she keeps it covered.
- The Undead: In the Blue Revenge arc, it's revealed Doll was brought back as a Bizarre Doll by Undertaker after she was killed by Sebastian.
- Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Places Ciel's hands on her breasts to prove that "he" is actually a "she".
- Was It All a Lie?: Once Ciel reveals his true identity to her, Doll is shocked and asks if everything Ciel told her was a lie. Ciel replies that it was and he never had any intention to be her friend, since he came to put an end to the circus for their child kidnappings. Needless to say, Doll didn't take any of this well.
- Would Hurt a Child: After coming back as a Bizarre Doll, Doll has been killing children from the F.O.L. Orphanage for their blood, since her undead body can't survive without frequent blood transfusions. When she's discovered by Finn, Snake and some of the children, she doesn't hesitate to attempt killing a little girl with a knife.
- Youthful Freckles: She has freckles dotting across her nose, hence why her double-identity is nicknamed "Freckles."
Joker
Joker
Voiced by: Mamoru Miyano (JP), Matthew Mercer (EN) Foreign VAs
Live actor: Ryosuke Miura (Muscial)
"We decided to protect our most precious thing. For that, we will do anything."
The surrogate leader of the Noah's Ark Circus, tasked with managing the shows and performing as the pierrot.
- Above Good and Evil: He didn't care what he had to do, as long as he thought it would save the other children.
- Accent Adaptation: In the original Japanese, Joker uses a Kansai accent in his speech. The English dub instead has him speak with what sounds vaguely like a cross between an Irish accent and a decently posh English accent.
- An Arm and a Leg: He's missing his right arm and has to use a prosthetic.
- Artificial Limbs: His right arm is a prosthetic. Made of children's bones.
- Beneath the Mask: Has two of these - the goofball and the stoic.
- The Chains of Commanding: Is responsible for what his troupe does, and doesn't do.
- Coat Cape: Has a fancy purple-blue cape he wears for show, and a larger grey one he uses for travel.
- Cute Little Fangs: Part of his costume.
- Death by Disfigurement: Sebastian cuts off Joker's left arm, causing him to die from blood loss.
- Failed a Spot Check: For all that he emphasized on protecting his "little siblings", Joker really should have either noticed that the building that the orphans were being held at had long been destroyed, meaning they had already been killed and used for prosthetics or have found a way to keep tabs on the place while he and the others were gone.
- Friend to All Children: Seems to behave this way, for "good" reason.
- Guy Liner: As part of his costume.
- Hidden Depths: The awesome, friendly ringleader turns out to be The Dragon for a sociopathic stalker.
- Important Hair Accessory: He didn't have clips before.
- Knight Templar Big Brother: He will do anything for his foster siblings, even kidnap children because his demented "father" makes him believe he's protecting his brothers and sisters back at the Renbon Workhouse by doing so (although there are actually no children there anymore).
- Laughing Mad: Descends into this after his "father" Baron Kelvin is killed in front of him by Ciel, and his remaining arm is cut off by Sebastian. It's in his name, after all.
- The Leader: Serves as this for the circus members.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He is a pretty attractive guy with hair around his shoulders.
- More than Meets the Eye: And the whole circus arc is about figuring out just what that is.
- My God, What Have I Done?: While he and his crew knew it was wrong to kidnap children, they didn't realize the extent of the evil they were doing as they didn't know what Kelvin was using the children for. The kidnappings were in order for the children's bones to be used for prosthetic limbs by the Doctor. Joker was horrified when he found out.
- My Master, Right or Wrong: No matter how much he hates to kidnap innocent children and force them to perform in dangerous shows in which they die gruesomely; if that is what his "father" wants he will do it, since he's still the man who saved him and his "siblings", and the one supposedly protecting the other children at the Renbon Workhouse.
- Never Given a Name: It's implied his mother never bothered to name him, as he has no real name in the death record.
- Nothing Up My Sleeve: He has a knife hidden within his Artificial Limb at all times.
- "Not So Different" Remark: When Joker begs Ciel to not kill Kelvin, he states that the man is the one who saved them and is helping all their friends at the orphanage. Even if Joker and the others had to do commit horrible actions to further their cause, he still feels it's right if it gives all the abandoned children a better future. Ciel's response shows that he understands their need to better themselves, even if it's at the expense of other people, and replies:"To save your own skins, you obeyed him and sacrificed others... You fought to protect your world. What's wrong with that? In the end, "justice" is just an official line taken by those in power to serve their own ends. No one's looking out for others. If you're careless, you'll be robbed. There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who steal, and those who are stolen from. And today, I steal your futures. That's all this is."
- Oblivious to Love: He either isn't aware of Beast's feelings for him or just doesn't feel the same way.
- Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: His original accent in the dub almost entirely vanishes near the end of the season. Given that he grew up on the streets of London's East End, it's possible that he was simply putting it on to liven up his ringmaster act.
- Perma-Shave: Doesn't seem to have stubble in the morning.
- Red Right Hand: Although technically he isn't evil.
- Son of a Whore: His mother was a prostitute named Karen Taylor.
- Stepford Smiler: He doesn't want to be The Dragon, and to keep the first-tiers together and the rest of the circus happy he pretends everything's okay.
- Undying Loyalty: All he does is for the sake of protecting the other children at Baron Kelvin's workhouse, not knowing they're all dead already.
- Utopia Justifies the Means: Knows full well he's a monster, but would do anything to see his brothers and sisters in the workhouse happy.
- Villains Want Mercy: After Ciel and Sebastian fatally wound him and Baron Kelvin, Joker begs Ciel for their lives, as he believes there won't be anyone to look after the orphanage if they die. What Joker didn't know was that there wasn't an orphanage anymore, not that Ciel and Sebastian would have spared them anyway.
Beast
Beast
Voiced by: Yuko Kaida (JP), Tia Ballard (EN) Foreign VAs
Live actor: Asami Tano (Musical)
"Yes, we are all father's possessions."
An animal tamer who regularly performs with her tiger Betty. She is renowned as the star of the Circus.
- An Arm and a Leg: She doesn't have her left leg.
- Artificial Limbs: Her left leg is a prosthetic. Made of children's bones.
- Barefoot Poverty: In a flashback, she lived on the street and had no footwear.
- The Beastmaster: She tames tigers, though unlike the usual example she doesn't use them for combat.
- Break the Haughty: While it doesn't go away completely, Beast is noticeably less fierce and wracked with pain, guilt, and self-loathing after her encounter with Sebastian.
- Butt-Monkey: Sebastian humiliates her on two back-to-back occasions (one point including blatant sexual harassment) and completely gets away with it, Joker welcomes Sebastian to the circus with open arms despite seeing how Sebastian treated her, she breaks one of her corset strings which unbeknownst to her gives Sebastian (and Ciel) a good look at her baps, Joker both refuses her feelings and her offer to run away and leaves her to break down, Sebastian uses her broken state to take advantage of her sexually and get information that leads directly to Joker and Doll's deaths, she's denied an opportunity to even try warning Joker when Sebastian and Ciel disappear, Dagger gets killed trying to protect her, and when she's killed shortly after via flour explosion she's reaped by Grell of all reapers who obsesses over her "night" with Sebastian and repeatedly insults her. And as a final send off, Sebastian winds up finding Beast's singed muffler among the rubble and nonchalantly tosses it in with the rest of the trash. It's safe to say Beast is one of the biggest butt-monkeys of the series.
- Cleavage Window: She wears a bodice with a large cutout that exposes her cleavage.
- Cool Big Sis: She's seen as an older sister by Dagger and her other "siblings."
- Dark and Troubled Past: She, along all of the circus members, was originally a Street Urchin, abandoned by society because of her missing leg. Baron Kelvin found them and took them in, giving them a better life. Everything was going well until Baron Kelvin went insane over Ciel and started forcing the circus members to kidnap children.
- Dressed Like a Dominatrix: She wears a black leather bodice that exposes most of her cleavage, and a short, black leather skirt with a red sash. She also wears high-heeled boots and thigh-high fishnets with matching fishnet Opera Gloves. To top it off, she wields a whip.
- Final Girl: The last one of the circus members who invaded Phantomhive mansion to die.
- Good Taming, Evil Taming: A few scenes and promotional material do show that Beast and Betty get along well enough. However, while Sebastian did provoke the biting incident, he still had a valid point in criticizing Beast for immediately choosing to whip Betty near the face and stating how using violence alone won't gain an animal's loyalty as he gently gets Betty off himself.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: She's got a pretty irritable personality in general, but when she feels wronged her first choice of action is violence as Sebastian can attest to. This...actually leads to more trouble for her as nearly whipping Betty and making a mess of Doctor's tent placed her more in a negative light to those around her than what Sebastian did to cause said reactions.
- Head-Turning Beauty: Played to her detriment, as Sebastian justifies his inappropriate behavior towards her in Doctor's tent because of her revealing outfit. Even Joker agrees that Beast can't expect men to not want to touch her for looking how she does and allows Sebastian to join the troupe.
- Hired for Their Looks: Implied that Beast has her role more so for her Ms. Fanservice dominatrix vibe as opposed to her skills as a beast tamer.
- Hopeless Suitor: Beast feels a different kind of love for Joker than he does for her.
- Love Makes You Evil: Implied she kidnaps children because she loves Joker, more than she loves Kelvin or even the kids at the workhouse as she was willing to run away with Joker and leave them behind.
- Meaningful Name: Her real name in the anime is revealed to be Mally. Mal usually translates into something along the lines of "bad" or "unpleasant", which is a fine way to describe the entire circus situation. It could also be a name based from Mallory, translating to "unhappy", "unlucky", and even "ill-omened" which all fit Mally quite perfectly. Mally is also a rare Scots language and archaic Manx version of Molly, a diminutive of the name Mary, which is hypothesized to mean "rebellious" or "rebellion". Of all the circus members who are aware of his existence, Beast is by far the most eager to betray Kelvin. It may also mean "bitter", which fits her rather irritable personality, or "beloved", bringing to mind Dagger's feelings for her and her feelings for Joker. In addition, "Mal" is also connected to the word "malus" which is the scientific name for apples. Apples tend to be symbolic for forbidden knowledge (or information) as well as for temptation...
- Moment of Weakness:
- Sebastian uses Beast's broken state when Joker abandoned her to manipulate her into having sex with him as well as giving him the name of the circus' benefactor. For the rest of her appearances, she's shown to deeply regret this but the damage is already done.
- She's also unwilling to go against orders to try contacting Joker about the threat Sebastian's disappearance poses. And, no doubt partly due to Dagger being killed moments before as well as feeling she had failed Joker and the rest of the troupe, she freezes instead of attempting to run away when Bard ignites the flour.
- Ms. Fanservice: With the possible exception of Ran Mao, she is easily the most Stripperific woman introduced in the series and has one of the biggest busts to boot. Probably invoked, considering her profession as an entertainer as well her main "role" in the series.
- Named by the Adaptation: Beast's real name is never revealed in the manga, same as the rest of the circus crew. In the anime, her real name is Mally, as revealed when Grell checks her record after her death.
- Not Blood Siblings: She has feelings for her adoptive brother Joker.
- Of Corsets Sexy: She wears a corset as part of her costume.
- Pink Is Erotic: Her tent has a pink neon light with a boudoir aesthetic going on during her sex scene with Sebastian.
- Questionable Consent: Beast does eventually submit to Sebastian peacefully and does show hints of physical pleasure when in bed, but this only happens after Sebastian pressures and breaks her down while she was already at her lowest point (and most likely not in the right state of mind to give proper consent...especially to someone whom she's rightfully weary of) and had previously ignored her attempts to get him to leave her alone. Even worse is that Beast is miserable and unreciprocating during the bit of sex seen, further hinting she never wanted to have sex with Sebastian in the first place.
- Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: She's a Ms. Fanservice with black hair and pale skin.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: She's red-eyed, and a child-stealer.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: She attempts to persuade Joker into running away with her and starting their own circus, abandoning the whole mess as well as the children they swore to protect behind. Joker rejects this offer and leaves her behind as she breaks down into tears. Then Sebastian shows up...
- Sex for Solace: After some heavy emotional manipulation, she tearfully gives in to Sebastian's proposition after Joker ignores her request to run away from their "father" and rejects her feelings for him. Sebastian uses this to get answers out of her and promptly leaves her in the dust afterwards.
- Sexy Backless Outfit: Her costume leaves some of her back bare.
- Stocking Filler: Her fishnets are held up by a garter belt.
- Unwitting Pawn: To Sebastian, who after finding out who her "father" is immediately abandons her and tracks him down, leading to not only his death but the deaths of Joker, Doll, and all the children at the baron's manor. Sebastian probably would have personally killed Beast and the rest of the circus troupe too had they not been ordered to raid the Phantomhive Manor and killed by the servants.
- Whip of Dominance: She is a whip-wielding Beastmaster who's Dressed Like a Dominatrix and has a domineering and aggressive personality.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: She seems to have had a touch of this when she tries to convince Joker to run away from the whole mess with her, saying that they could simply build their own circus to sustain themselves. This is in spite of all their resources coming from Baron Kelvin, not to mention that'd be a pretty easy way for either Kelvin or one of his associates to locate them, but either way Joker says no and leaves her behind.
Dagger
Dagger
Voiced by: Nobuhiko Okamoto (JP), Michael Sinterniklaas (EN) Foreign VAs
Live actor: Ryō Mitsuya (Musical)
"More important than the tent is sis's purity!"
The juggler of the Noah's Ark Circus. He is regarded as a talented knife thrower who never misses his target.
- An Arm and a Leg: He's missing his right leg.
- Artificial Limbs: His right leg is a prosthetic. Made of children's bones.
- Barefoot Poverty: In a flashback, he lived on the street and had no footwear.
- Blush Stickers: Whenever Beast does something he finds attractive.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: He starts throwing knives at Sebastian when he goes overboard with his examination of Beast's prosthetic leg, particularly because he wants to feel up Beast too.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: He dies in Beast's arms.
- Dogged Nice Guy: He's very open about his crush on Beast who mostly ignores his advances because she likes Joker better.
- Dying Declaration of Love: His final words are to Beast, telling her he wanted to take her "over the hill."
- Guy Liner: As part of his costume.
- Hopeless Suitor: He has a big crush on Beast who in return is in unrequited love with Joker.
- Keet: Unlike Joker, it seems to be his actual personality rather than a facade.
- Knife-Throwing Act: He is the knife thrower. Makes sense daggers would be his weapon.
- Not Blood Siblings: He has a crush on his foster sister Beast.
- Senseless Sacrifice: He dies protecting Beast from Baldroy, only for her to die in an explosion less than a minute afterwards.
- Skilled, but Naive: Very good at what he does, but he never questions Joker or the Baron.
- Taking the Bullet: From a Maxim gun for Beast, which leads to his death.
Jumbo
Jumbo
Voiced by: Ryōkan Koyanagi (JP), Christopher Sabat (EN) Foreign VAs
Live actor: Takenori Gotō (Musical)
The fire breather of the Noah's Ark Circus.
- Apologetic Attacker: After he seemingly kills Finny he apologized, not wanting to devolve even more into such brutality.
- Bald of Evil: Further accentuated with his head tattoos.
- Blood from the Mouth: From his fight with Finny.
- Bruiser with a Soft Center: He's gentle and kind to the children and he also caved in the skull of a police officer who was trying to protect a child Jumbo and the others were trying to kidnap.
- The Brute: He's the biggest and most muscular of the Circus Crew.
- Hidden Depths: Despite looking like a typical Dumb Muscle, Jumbo is actually pretty well-read. After all, he's the one who gave Snake's snakes their names.
- Pet the Dog: Repeatedly, from giving Dagger a piggie back ride so he could play with the other children to warning the members of his family of how dangerous the Phantomhive servants are a moment before he's killed.
- The Stoic: When performing or out committing crimes his demeanor is rigid and unfazed. Outside of that he's a pleasant kind fellow.
- Token Adult: When the first stringers were all left out on the street as children, he was the only homeless adult with them.
- Underestimating Badassery: He underestimates Finny, and it gets him killed.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: His circus costume only features a medallion covering his chest.
- The Worf Effect: He's the biggest and most imposing of the First Stringers and the first to die when they assault the mansion.
Peter and Wendy
Peter and Wendy
Peter voiced by: Yuuki Tai (JP), Vic Mignogna (EN) Foreign VAs
Wendy voiced by: Mayumi Shintani (JP), Rachel Robinson (EN) Foreign VAs
Peter's live actor: Ayuka Kurachi (Musical)
Wendy's live actor: Saya Chinen (Musical)
A pair of trapeze artists for Noah's Ark Circus.
- Anachronism Stew: Their stage names as a duo are actually set over a decade before Peter Pan would be written.
- Meaningful Name: A Shout-Out for Peter Pan that matches their physical appearance, children who Never Grew Up.
- Older Than They Look: Flashbacks imply they have stunted growth. The other members of the circus call them "big brother/sister" so they're probably the oldest of the group despite looking like children.
- Out of Focus: Wendy gets by far the least dialogue and development of any of the circus troupe, with Peter doing most of the talking.
- Those Two Guys: Played straight for performances and combat. Subverted in that they spend a good amount of time in separate scenes from each other.
- Wire Fu: Fitting for trapeze artists, as they use the wires to swing about.
Snake
Baron Kelvin
Baron Kelvin
Voiced by: Chafurin (JP), Mike McFarland (EN) Foreign VAs
Live actor: Shinya Kote (Musical)
"Special people can only be touched by other special people."
A philanthropist, and the creator and financial supporter of the Noah's Ark Circus. He is referred to as "Father" by the first-string members, except Snake.
- Abhorrent Admirer: To Ciel. He sees the boy as the ultimate epitome of beauty and did everything to get his attention, even reenact the day Ciel (or rather, Ciel's brother) was sacrificed. Ciel's response is to shoot him point-blank.
- Abusive Dad: He forces his devoted children to kidnap other children and is shown to treat them like crap after becoming obsessed with Ciel and "beauty".
- Arc Villain: Of the "Circus Arc/Book of Circus" where he's responsible for the kidnapping case that Ciel was investigating.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: Gradually became this once he met Ciel.
- An Arm and a Leg: He had both of his legs cut off during surgery.
- Bandaged Face: His head is covered in bandages except for his lips, ears, and left eye.
- Death Seeker: He wished to die in the very same way that Sebastian had massacred the occultists during Ciel's attempted sacrifice three years prior.
- Evil Cripple: He's a creepy villain in a wheelchair. Though unlike most examples he's a self-inflicted version as he lost his legs from all the procedures he subjected himself in order to become "beautiful".
- Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: He seems to think watching children be killed and eaten by lions is fun.
- Fat Bastard: He's an overweight old man with a sickeningly obsession with a beautiful young boy and he's directly responsible for the death of many children.
- Faux Affably Evil: He has a jovial attitude, but he's a pedophile that has no problem hurting innocent lives.
- Flaw Exploitation: He takes advantage of the circus crew's life debt to him as well as their attachment to the Renbon Workhouse to carry out crimes for him.
- Hate Sink: He's one of the most disgusting and detestable villains in the series, particularly because of his creepy obsession with Ciel and being behind the kidnapping and deaths of many innocent children.
- I Have Your Wife: Kelvin uses his access to the first-tier members' "brothers and sisters" in the Renbon Workhouse and his ability to aid or hinder them, to control the first-tier members and get them to do want he wants, no matter how much they hate it. Later, Ciel and Sebastian discover that Kelvin had lied about keeping the other children at the Renbon Workhouse alive. They assume Kelvin most likely allowed Doctor to kill them for his experiments with artificial limbs. Meaning that all Joker and the rest did was for nothing.
- I Just Want to Be Beautiful: After his second meeting with the Phantomhive household, he becomes obsessed with becoming beautiful so he can be with Ciel. He even underwent extensive surgery to make himself more attractive, leaving him crippled in the process.Kelvin: Oh... I get it now. Special people can only be touched by other special people. I'm too ugly to even think about touching them.
- Karmic Death: After everything this creep did, you don't feel sorry for him when he gets killed by the boy he was obsessed with.
- Love at First Sight: The moment he laid his eyes on Ciel, the Baron became obsessed.
- Love Makes You Crazy: Before he met Ciel, the old man appeared to be a well-adjusted fellow. Then he decided the only way to get Ciel was to be as beautiful as him and to say he's got a few screws loose now would be an understatement.
- Love Makes You Evil: He used to be a kindly philanthropist who took in Street Urchins, but then he met Ciel, became obsessed with beauty and is now a crazy sadist who kidnaps children to have their bones to be used for prosthetic limbs and forces the rest of them to do sick "performances".
- Mad Love: He met Ciel only once and after that, the old creep cared for nothing more than getting the boy's attention. To the point where what he really wants is to die by Ciel's hands. He doesn't appear to get a hint that the boy only finds him repulsive until Ciel literally shoots him.
- Malevolent Mutilation: Has the children that Joker and the others kidnap on his orders subjected to this, so that Doctor can use their bones to make his new prosthetics limbs.
- My Greatest Failure: In a very twisted way; he regards his absence from the fateful ceremony during which Ciel was intended to be sacrificed, and which summoned Sebastian three years ago, to be this. (Even though that he had gone through such extensive surgery to the point of being bedridden, due to his obsession with Ciel, was why). Therefore, he decided to end up kidnapping and mutilating countless children, under the masquerade of Joker and the others' circus troupe; and over the next three years, meticulously constructed an exact replica of the ritual ceremony to undertake with Ciel, for Ciel and Sebastian.
- Pædo Hunt: He lusts over a young boy. So much, he burnt his family's mansion and killed everybody in the house.
- Pre-Insanity Reveal: Flashbacks show Kelvin was a fairly normal man who picked up orphans from the streets. He completely changed after he met Vincent Phantomhive and his son Ciel at a party, causing him to become obsessed with their beauty. Years of pursuing what he calls perfection has twisted him beyond any and all repair.
- Psychopathic Manchild: He pretty much acts like a child who treats the children he keeps like they were his toys, doesn't care what he breaks to get what he wants, and is only trying to get the attention of his object of obsession, Ciel.
- Sanity Slippage: He seemed to be a good guy until he met Ciel and his obsession with "beauty" started to manifest. He gradually went insane and mutilated himself in his demented pursuit of becoming beautiful.
- The Sociopath: Becomes this after his "fall". He orders children to perform deadly tricks and laughs when they inevitably die.
- Stalker with a Crush: He's creepily obsessed with Ciel. He even keeps wine bottles from the year he was born.
- Trademark Favorite Food: He seems overly fond of lobster.
- Villainous Crush: He has been obsessing over Ciel ever since he met the little boy at a party.
- Would Hurt a Child: The children he kidnapped were forced to perform to their death, or intended as sacrificial lambs.
Doctor
Doctor
Voiced by: Satoshi Mikami (JP), Alex Organ (EN) Foreign VAs
Live actor: Nobuo Kyō (Musical)
A doctor who works at the Noah's Ark Circus to tend to the members' injuries and their prosthetic limbs, which he himself constructed.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He gives the impression of a harmless and affable doctor. At the end of the arc, he reveals himself as a Mad Doctor who has no problem sacrificing the lives of innocent children for his own benefit.
- Butt-Monkey: He can only ask for the first-stringers to stop destroying his hospital with their fighting, and he tends to be ignored.
- The Dog Was the Mastermind: Averted. He has many of the traits, being the non-suspicious man behind the man, supplying the evil plan exposition and also being the last man standing after the supposed mastermind, Kelvin. However, Kelvin remains the true mastermind; he ordered the kidnappings, had the children murdered, and kicked off the plot with his mad desire for Ciel, while the doctor only decided to Let No Crisis Go to Waste and create his prosthetics.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He's only ever referred to as Doctor.
- Evil All Along: He was Kelvin's accomplice all along and the children kidnappings were in order for the doctor to use their bones for his prosthetics.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Post-reveal. His lack of expression combined with his glasses newfound reflective traits serves to give him a detached sociopathic look.
- Hate Sink: At first, he doesn't seem to be this at all. But after Kelvin's death, he reveals his true colours as a sadistic sociopath who is just as detestable as the former, being a Mad Doctor who happily kills children and uses their bones for prosthetic limbs.
- Lack of Empathy: He doesn't understand why killing children for his experiments is wrong, comparing their worth to the lives of cows whose bones would normally be used for the prosthetics.
- Mad Doctor: He's been making the artificial limbs out of bones, specifically children's.
- Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: He firmly believes the end justifies the means in terms of medicine, but only the equally insane Baron Kelvin agrees with his work ethic as no morally correct person would condone killing children and using their bones to make prosthetics.
- Obfuscating Disability: He actually can work perfectly fine and doesn't need his wheelchair, but it apparently makes him easier to trust.
- Obliviously Evil: He just doesn't understand why everyone thinks butchering children and using their bones to make his prosthetics is wrong. Much like Shou Tucker from Fullmetal Alchemist this is done to highlight his insanity.
- The Sociopath: He is completely indifferent to the pain and suffering he inflicts on others.
- Villainous Friendship: With Baron Kelvin. He was willing to perform operations to make Kelvin "Beautiful" and supported his evil doings. He valued Kelvin and admired him because of their shared principles and disregard for life. When Kelvin dies, all the Doctor says basically amounts to "it's a shame", and he promptly gets over it, asking Ciel if he could get a job from him.
- Walking Spoiler: He doesn't have many appearances, but in his last he drops quite a few reveals. This is also in a literal sense as he's revealed to be able to walk.
- Would Hurt a Child: He uses children's bones to create his prosthetics. And that's just the start.
