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Protagonists
Waylon
"I regret so many things!"
Voiced by: Liam Vickers
The main character. A wanna-be gunslinger who's not nearly as skilled as he likes to say he is.
- A-Team Firing: Waylon manages to miss every single shot during the intro. Jo, on the other hand...
- Blatant Lies: Waylon tries to take credit for killing the monsters during the intro... even though it was Jo who killed them.Waylon: Nice! I'm a better shot than I thought.
- Butt-Monkey: Waylon is often the target of many misfortunes that transpires in the pilot.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Waylon is often on the receiving end of these.
- During the intro he gets mauled by two monsters.
- In his standoff with Death Itself he gets beaten up rather badly before convincing it to become the town's sheriff.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Many of Waylon's made up stories consist of him shooting people for petty reasons.Waylon: I once shot a sheriff just because I was grumpy from shooting sheriffs all day.
- Establishing Character Moment: Waylon's first scene shows off his self-centeredness, and dishonesty.
- The Gunslinger: He can shoot a gun and act the part, sure, but he's very incompetent at the "hitting the target" part. The only time he's shown hitting something is during a Training Montage when he hits a stationary can of food when he was teaching Cordie how to use a gun.
- Hidden Depths: It's suggested that Waylon does have some knowledge on how to use a gun, having trained Cordie how to use hers, and is implied to have had something to do with the Sheriff's death at the end of the pilot.
- Ignored Confession: His boast to Cordie about once shooting a sheriff initially seems to be part of his Unreliable Narrator schtick, but is implied to be this at the end of the pilot episode.
- Pet the Dog: Waylon has tendencies towards selfishness and egotism, but he does perform a genuine act of kindness at one point: when Yannis threatens Cordie and calls her useless, Waylon stands up for her by throwing a rock at Yannis's head and declaring that Cordie would have eaten him just fine if Yannis herself hadn't shown up. Cordie is so touched by this gesture that not only does she no longer wish to eat him; she develops a crush on him.
- Self-Applied Nickname: Waylon often calls himself "Two-Bit Jerry".
Cordie
"I'll do it. Anything."
Voiced by: Joelle Jacoby
A spider-like monster who fell in love with Waylon almost instantly when he gave her validation, growing to become genuine friends with him and Jo.
- Artistic License – Physics: Played for Laughs. The way Cordie uses her web in midair in order to stop her and Waylon's fall after being dropped by a pterodactyl would have only succeeded in breaking their ankles. It's even acknowledged by Waylon as "questionable physics".
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: At the last bits of the pilot, it's revealed through words from Cordie herself that she has a short attention span and tends to get lost to it for hours on end.Cordie: "I once looked at something and only lost focus for THREE! HOURS!"
- Because You Were Nice to Me: The reason behind Cordie looking up to Waylon so much is because he stood up for her against Yannis.
- Blunt Metaphors Trauma: Cordie doesn't seem familiar with the expression "put a lid on it".Cordie: They were all like: "Meh, meh, meh!" And you were all like: "Take a lid, and put it on... that!".
- Cute Little Fangs: Cordie has these when her mouth is closed.
- Cute Monster Girl: Cordie is a spider girl with claws that tries to appear scary, but comes off more as adorable. Waylon does teach her how to use a gun though, and she becomes very efficient with them.
- Establishing Character Moment: Cordie first introduces herself by menacingly approaching Waylon, and about to eat a crow who found its way into her web... Before the crow hits her in four of her eyes, and she's left awkwardly trying to be scary to Waylon.
- Extra Eyes: While Cordie usually makes it look like she only has two eyes, she actually has eight — as revealed when the crow she was about to eat pecks her in the face.
- Fan of Underdog: Cordie is the only character we're introduced to that genuinely looks up to Waylon.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: When Cordie pokes Waylon in the eye before their standoff with Death, her pupils turn into skulls for a split second.
- Genki Girl: She's pretty up-bit and cheerful for a creepy spider lady.
- The Gunslinger: She wasn't at first but she eventually became one when Waylon taught her how to use a gun. She quickly surpassed him in a matter of a few days. Eventually she became so competent that she can handle four pistols at the same time with ease and catch a flying bullet midflight with her pincers like a kung fu master catches a fly with his chopsticks.
- Guns Akimbo: When she's mastered firearms, she's shown quadruple-wielding revolvers. One on each pincer. She's very proficient at it too, as the training montage shows that all of the bullets manages to hit the can midair (which she launched with her web prior).
- Heel–Face Turn: She joins Waylon after he stands up to Yannis for her sake (even if a lot of it was projection on his part), and gets along with Jo proper after all is said and done in the pilot.
- Laughing Mad: Two instances of this. The first one was at the scene where Weylon meet Cordie for the first time and the second one where she giggles in glee as she robs a bank in full monster mode and chokes an accountant with her pincer.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: Although officially recognized as a spider person within the show and on official source material, Cordie seems to be more of a mishmash of various arachnids — not just spiders, but scorpions. She sports four pincers and what seems to be a prehensile stinger inside her mouth.
- Mook Horror Show: Cordie easily and creepily dispatches several guards at a bank after learning how to be a gunslinging outlaw.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Cordie can open her mouth nighmarishly wide — usually when she's excited or hungry — to reveal she has a lot of sharp teeth.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Cordie has four pincer-tipped arms and uses them for shooting four revolvers.
- Nightmare Face: Big glowing dilated eyes that twist and morph and a large, drooling, toothy grin that reaches from ear to ear. She can be quite horrifying to look at when she needs to be.
- Non-Standard Character Design: Aside from the fact she's a mishmash of various arachnid creatures mixed with a human, her eyes are much more expressive than the other characters, often shifting into different shapes, with a yellow outline. They can also "split", as she technically has eight eyes.
- The Noseless: Something that helps better distinguish her from the human characters.
- Punny Name: "Cordie" as in "a cord of spider web".
- Slasher Smile: When she smiles, her face takes on the visage of a hungry predator eager to devour her prey, even when she's just smiling because she's happy or excited.
- Spider Limbs: Cordie has four clawed arms that are constantly visible, as well as two smaller clawed arms inside her mouth and four spider legs hidden under her dress.
- Spider People: Cordie has a lot of arachnid features such as her long spider-legs which she keeps tucked in beneath her skirt, multiple eyes that look like a singular eye and even a chelicerae-like mouthpart hidden inside her mouth. She also has other arachnid features that are not of spiders such as her two pairs of pincers.
- Super Gullible: She falls for Waylon's (often blatantly false and inconsistent) stories pretty easily.
- To Serve Man: She initially intended to eat Weylon, though her only attempt to do so amounted to her saying "Nom!" and putting the tip of his finger inside her mouth.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Despite being a literal man-eating monster, she comes off as more feminine and mild-mannered than Jo.
- Vertebrate with Extra Limbs: Cordie has two chelicerae, four pincer-tipped arms, four spider-like legs, and two "normal" human-like legs — giving her a grand total of ten different limbs. For ease of animation, most of them are hidden under her dress and inside her mouth.
- Wingding Eyes: Cordie's pupils frequently change shape, such as turning into hearts whenever she gushes about Waylon.
Jo
"Scary."
Voiced by: Tess Rimmel
A gunslinger working to protect Cliffside against he numerous monsters that threaten it. She's Waylon's partner and the more competent of the two.
- Brutal Honesty: There's a reason Waylon calls his partner "Honest Jo".Waylon: (While doing his voiceover) That's Honest Jo. My partner in crime. She's never told a lie. (Misses his shot aimed at a non moving target)
Jo: You're bad at this. - Deadpan Snarker: She's a straight example of this through and through with an emphasis on "Deadpan".
- Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes: Her eyes are usually half-lidded, giving her a bored look.
- Establishing Character Moment: Jo is very quick to mock Waylon's lack of skill, and quickly kills a bunch of monsters, without changing her stoic attitude at all.
- The Gunslinger: She quickly dispatched the wendigo clones offscreen in a matter of seconds.
- Human Shield: Waylon used her as one as he drags her away from the wendigo during the prologue sequence.
- Hyper-Competent Sidekick: She is a way more proficient gunslinger than Waylon, though she's never shown in action on-screen. All that's seen is the aftermath of her work.
- Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Jo suddenly gets a southern accent when questioning Waylon for being an accomplice in a bank robbery.Jo: What in tarnation is going on!?
Waylon: Oh, man. She's gone southern. - The Stoic: Jo always speaks in a monotone voice... until she sees Waylon with Cordie.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl; Definitely more tomboyish than Cordie, with a rough, stoic, attitude.
Antagonists
The Wendigo
The shadow creature that attacked the town during the prologue. He was eventually dispatched off-screen by Jo with Waylon taking the credit for her deed which he instantly took back and regretted as two surviving wendigo clones mauls him.
- Battle Boomerang / Stock Ninja Weaponry: He has a sharp blade on the tip of his tail which detaches and launched as a throwing weapon similar to a shuriken. Jo was nearly hit by one and cut off a small portion of her hair.
- Glowing Eyes: His large eyes glow a yellow tinted white.
- Living Shadow: His body is made out of writhing and wavering mass of shadow that forms the silhouette of a stereotypical depiction of a wendigo with a glowing face.
- Leitmotif: "Wendigos Attack"
- Self-Duplication: He has the power to split himself up into several wendigos.
- Throat Light: Similar to his eyes, the insides of his mouth also glow.
- Wendigo: Yes, he is.
Yannis
Voiced by: Carolyn DiLoreto
Cordie's long-time tormentor and Death Itself's buddy/mount. She was presumably killed during her recent encounter with Cordie and Waylon.
- The Bully: She insult and threatens Cordie after she falls near her nest and even tries to force her to give her Waylon even though he was Cordie's catch.
- Disney Villain Death: When she drops Cordie and Waylon, Cordie sticks a web to her and unintentionally causes her to crash into the ground hard enough to leave a crater.
- Enemy Eats Your Lunch: The monsters get to eat the humans they capture. However, Yannis decides that Cordie is too useless for that and demands her to hand over Waylon. Even he thinks that's too much.
- Faux Affably Evil: She speaks in a polite way and calm way, but everytime she talks is to demean Cordie or threaten someone (like when she tells Cordie that she will rip off her head if she comes to scavenge food at her nest again).
- Leitmotif: The aptly named "Yannis's Theme".
- Laser-Guided Karma: Yannis tries to splatter Waylon and Cordie after already attempting to bully Cordie out of her catch but when she drops them Cordie attaches a web her to her which slams her to the ground, killing her.
- Pals with Jesus: She’s pals with Death Itself.
- Vocal Dissonance: Despite being an imposing giant pterosaur-like creature, she has the high, cutesy voice of a Valley Girl.
Death Itself
Death Itself is... well, Death Itself.
- Black Speech: Speaks through the horrid buzzing of flies.
- Complete Immortality: He's stated in the pilot to be unkillable, and even when smashed into the ground, evidently wasn't worse for wear sometime after.
- Death Takes a Holiday: Or rather Death Itself takes a job that making sure less people die so it doesn't have to do so much work.
- Eldritch Abomination: He appears to be a worm-like creature with many sharp teeth, can have multiple arms (which are often rendered in CGI, which makes it look more alien), seems to distort reality when it's annoyed, and, being Death, is completely unkillable.
- The Grim Reaper: Death Itself. You can't kill death, so he comes to cause trouble for the heroes until Waylon makes him the sheriff of the town.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Death is a subversion, since he can grow multiple arms, but only uses one for attacking.
- Nightmare Face: He has a pretty horrifying face. If you can even call it that. his toothy mouth resembles that of a cloak's hood. At the center of his face, there is nothing there but a deep dark hole devoid of any facial features with buzzing flies flying in and out of it. Dialogue implies that he uses those buzzing flies to communicate with other people.
- Jerkass: Implied through his "dialogue" with Yannis, and the only reason he takes the job as Sheriff in the first place was because Waylon pointed out it would make his job easier.
- Spell My Name with a "The": Death Itself. Not 'just' Death. Its always reffered to as 'Death Itself'.
- The Sheriff: He became the sheriff of Cliffside by the end of the pilot through Waylon. He accepted the position as it would ease up on his grim reaping job.
- The Unintelligible: Death Itself only speaks in horrific buzzes. Yannis, however, understands it just fine and Cordie also knows that "language" (although she's quite rusty at it).
Extras
Background Street Crosser
Voiced by: Gavin Laing
A background character recognizable by his distinctive walk and habit of getting in the middle of bad situations.
- Butt-Monkey: He often finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Waylon called him "Background Street Crosser" in the pilot. Even in the credits he's called "Background Street Crosser". His real name is never revealed.
- The Gunslinger: He's part of Jo's posse during the bank robbery scene. Unfortunately, he's taken out by Cordie (along with the rest of Jo's posses) before he can be shown in action.
- Silly Walk: Background Street Crosser is always seen doing the cowboy walk whenever he appears on screen.
- Unlucky Extra: His whole shtick. Whenever something dangerous happens in town, he's there in the background (usually trying to cross the street), only to be manhandled in some way.
