Characters / Crow Cillers

A list of characters from Crow Cillers.

Junior Crow Cillers

A group of students at Puke City West School who, after narrowly escaping a kidnapping by the Order of the Crow, form a team to investigate and expose them, and also mostly just hang out and stuff.

Emma Lee

We aren't just fighting to live. We're fighting because they shouldn't kill us. And we won't let them.

Initially, the group's de facto leader, her nerdy enthusiasm for adventure has been dampened by trauma and depression, which she works out through art.

• Break the Cutie: At the start of the series she's a Snooping Little Kid eager to jump into adventure, but these experiences take a major toll on her.
• Breakout Character: Was a supporting character in Lamezine and Microwave Planet but takes center stage here.
• Broken Bird: She... goes through a lot. In Season 9, she joins the Crow.
• Enemy Mine: Of sorts in Season 9, which sees her allying with Marcus/The Crow, as they all have a vested interest in finding someone who can control Ynce Iche.
• Hikikomori: Post-time skip
• Jumped at the Call: By far the eagerest to begin uncovering information about The Crow and Ynce Iche, much to the chagrin of the adults around her.
• In Harm's Way: Unable to let go of what happened to her in her childhood, she eventually ends up seeking out Ynce Iche to destroy it once and for all.
• Other Me Annoys Me: She meets a similar version of herself from an alternate universe and quickly learns how exhausting it is to try to keep track of her. Later played for drama.
  Every version of me I've ever seen fucking sucks.
• Out of Focus: Though initially presented as the main character, she's absent outside of a few scenes throughout Season 3.
• She's Back: Though she briefly overcomes her funk to save Jamie in season 2, she doesn't become fully willing to go on adventures again until late in season 4.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: After the time skip she's always seen in a disheveled ahegao hoodie, which reflects the general state of her life at that point.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: Toyed with. Her affinity for adventure serves her well at points but much of her character arc is her being forced to reconcile her conceptions of what the story she's in should be with the reality of what it is.

That Kid

Lovable and sweet, but far too trusting for her or anyone else's good. An avid collector of "My Enormous Horses" and one of the original members of the Junior Crow Cillers.

• Ambiguously Absent Parent: She seems to get along well with her parents in the early seasons but after being taken to Ynce Iche she goes into hiding with the psychics and they're never mentioned again.
• Ascended Extra: Was a minor presence in Microwave Planet but plays a much larger role here
• Cheerful Child
• Damsel in Distress: Although she doesn't realize it she winds up trapped in Ynce Iche during Seasons 2/3 and her friends have to save her.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Characters never refer to her by name, even as an adult.
• Hidden Depths: Episode 87 explores her experiences with a stalker at work and reveals a lot of pain beneath her normally cheerful demeanor.
  Why do I have to exist for all of you!! Why can't you people exist for me for once!?!
• Innocent Means Naïve: It's VERY easy for Elaine Jr. to trick her.
• Out of Focus: Unlike the rest of the Junior Crow Cillers (who stay with Three4One) she stays with the psychics and isn't involved in most of the action post Season 3
• Self-Punishment Over Failure: She cuts herself off from her friends out of shame for how she behaved as queen of Ynce Iche
• Spoiled Sweet

Cortney Corvidae

Daughter of ex-principal and respected Crow "Miss Corvidae," Courtney is fiercely loyal and determined. A founding member of the Crow Cillers club, her family's affiliation with The Order of the Crow haunts her.

• Arc Symbol: A snowy field, which functions as a stand-in for her mother.
• Berserk Button: According to her character bio:
  do not insult Britney Spears around her.
• Character Development: Starts the comic as an angry, combative bully but learns to channel her anger and is a lot calmer/friendlier in later seasons
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: Undergoes one with a version of herself from an alternate universe, : which is never resolved. She doesn't seem to care since their bodies are "basically the same."
• Happily Adopted: Three4One (with varying degrees of reluctance) adopt her
• Matricide: While she doesn't kill her mother, she does jump at the opportunity to kill a monstrous construct of her in Ynce Iche
• Meaningful Name: "Corvidae" is the taxonomy that crows belong to.
• Mellow Fellow: Once she works through some of her issues she becomes incredibly zen.
• No One Gets Left Behind: Charges into Ynce Iche as the tunnels close because she refuses to leave That Kid there
• Reformed Bully
• Relationship Upgrade: With Paisley.

Doris E. Clark

A multi-talented girl with confidence issues who joins the Junior Crow Cillers early on. She starts off very shy but her relationship with her girlfriend Gretchen gradually opens her up.

• Abusive Parents: Her dad is a jerk.
• Energetic and Soft-Spoken Duo: The soft-spoken half of Gretchen/Doris.
• Go-Getter Girl: When she's introduced she's on the track team, in debate club, and joins yearbook, among other things.
• Non-Action Girl: Unlike many of her friends, she freezes up in a crisis.
• Out of Focus: Stops getting involved in Crow Cillers business during the Time Skip and is mostly absent after Season 7.
• The Runaway: Her and Gretchen run away from home together.
• Sequential Artist: Becomes a successful graphic novelist as an adult.
• Shrinking Violet
• The Smart Guy: According to her friends she's "the team genius."
• Traumatic Haircut: Toyed with when her father forces her to cut her locs off.

Gretchen

A girl who joins the Junior Crow Cillers after they become an anime club and becomes swept up in their drama. She can be blunt and insensitive but her heart is in the right place. Doris's girlfriend.

• Abusive Parents
• Brutal Honesty: One of her defining characteristics is her very blunt way of speaking.
• Energetic and Soft-Spoken Duo: The energetic half of Gretchen/Doris.
• Fangirl: Very interested in anime and manga, though she doesn't consider herself a weaboo.
• Genre Savvy: When the cast is trapped in an episode of a card battling anime she's able to give a climactic Rousing Speech at a moment's notice.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: Her extensive anime watching makes her adept at handling a blade, though this is only seen in one issue.
• Nerd Glasses
• Out of Focus: Stops getting involved in Crow Cillers business during the Time Skip and is mostly absent after Season 7.
• The Runaway: Her and Doris run away from home together.
• Unequal Pairing: It's revealed in Season 7 that she once questioned her relationship with Doris because she worried Doris was too passive, though she got past it.

Jamie Weathers

A girl who meets Emma in art class and introduces her to the world of experimental film.

• Eccentric Artist
• Gag Censor: In a non-comedic example, mentions of her dead name are blurred out with a "Deadname Redacted" placed over them instead.
• Hacker Collective: In Season 7 she's a member of Guillotine, a Crow Cillers splinter cell.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Her decision to print anti-Crow information in her Zine inadvertently leads to a lot of problems at the end of Season 2.
• Origins Episode: "Film Crowcialisme" opens with an extended flashback her on a cruise ship with her family that's later revisited in "Episode 59"
• Second-Act Breakup: Has a falling out with Emma as a result of her careless behavior during Seasons 4/5, and after the Time Skip she's long since moved on.
• Stylistic Suck: While her good-natured love of art lifts up those around her, her personal projects tend toward the endearingly half-baked:
  ''ok like i wanna do a file called 'isrmuttdead.wav and its just like a .mp3 of whatever the time is and its like,

Jill Vasquez

The school's janitor who moonlights as a member of the junior Crow Cillers. Originally part of the cast of Microwave Planet.

• Almighty Janitor: An ineffective example, but she does use her job at the school to keep tabs on the Crow and conspire with the other Crow Cillers.
• Breakout Character: She's the only main character from Microwave Planet to be in the main cast of Crow Cillers.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: Her head is shaved on one side and she only wears one earring.
• G-Rated Stoner: Does a lot of drugs but it's mostly played for comedy.
• Growing Up Sucks: Has a focus episode in Season 7 where, post time skip, she has to reckon with the fact that she's no longer the Hard-Drinking Party Girl she once was.
• Hidden Depths: Despite being generally well-liked by everyone she's very sensitive about what people think about her.
• Life of the Party
• Lovable Sex Maniac: As per her character bio:
  Her primary objective is to have great weird sex with as many hot people as possible.
• Plucky Comic Relief

Crow Cillers Three4One

A former pop trio employed by The Crow to tour their message until they escaped. Now they devote themselves to fighting the advancement of The Crow and caring for the Junior Crow Cillers.

Three4One (band)

I was so lost and set adrift...

When I thought it was too late...

He gave me a lift-

• Defictionalization: The author sells a "tour shirt" from a fake Three4One tour of the US
• Garage Band: The group starts out as one when Neopolitan and Mint Chip begin practicing in the hopes of escaping their soul-crushing jobs, though they later Sell-Out.
• Girl Group
• God-Is-Love Songs: Their songs are Crow propaganda
• Happily Adopted: The other characters begin to refer to them as Courtney's "moms"
• Image Song: They get their own track on the Season 1 soundtrack, though it presumably does not reflect what their music sounds like in-universe.
• La Résistance: One of several groups fighting the Crow, they have the distinction of coining the name "Crow Cillers"
• Parental Substitute: They end up taking care of most of the junior Crow Cillers while they're still hiding from the Crow
• Polyamory
• Starting a New Life: All three members defect from the Crow and now live in hiding
• Theme Naming: Each member is named after a flavor of ice cream, and interestingly these are their real names

Pistachio

Ex-lead singer of the Crow-themed pop group "Three4One," now head of (part of) the Crow Cillers.

• Action Girl: She's especially active in fighting the Crow
• Companion Cube: Her Howdy Crittler doll, kinda
• Dark and Troubled Past: Like everyone fleeing the Crow, it's implied that she witnessed something particularly horrible that drove her away.
• The Leader: Well, lead singer of the band.
• Mythology Gag: Courtney's favorite ice cream flavor is pistachio, and guess who turns out to be her favorite mom...
• Naïve Newcomer: Neopolatin and Mint Chip are already in a band when she joins and they take a while to warm up to her
• Reluctant Hero: Her character bio notes that she'd rather stay home and eat ice cream, but still fights to protect those she loves
• "Well Done, Dad!" Guy: She really wants Courtney to like her... partially out of guilt for killing Courtney's birth mother

Neopolitan

A member of the Three4One Crow Cillers trio, she grew up in the confines of the Crow and is determined to tear it down to free others from its clutches.

• All Drummers Are Animals
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Her character bio notes that she isn't apathetic, she just saves her engagement for those she thinks to deserve it
• Jade-Colored Glasses: Presumably as a result of her deep history with the Crow
• Snark Knight
• Team Mom: While not particularly maternal she tends to act as the hand on the rudder for the group and their wards
• Voice of Reason: Tends to be the most levelheaded of the trio

Mint Chip

The final member of Three4One, Mintchip was previously employed by the Crow for unseemly ends and has great sympathy for those trapped in its machinations.

• Honor Before Reason: Insists on resigning as Mr. Nail's assistant in person despite knowing he's suspicious of her, which leads to her becoming a hostage
• The Mole: Goes undercover at Rope and Nail to gather information on The Crow
• Nice Girl
• Shrinking Violet: Tends to be shy around people she doesn't know
• Trans Tribulations: A minor example but there's a scene in a flashback episode where (while still male presenting) she is questioned about why her hair is so long
• Wrong Line of Work: She's forced into "clipboard duty," aka asking questions to assess whether children will be punished by the Crow, and she hates it.

Howdy Crittler

A doll owned by Pistachio that she converses with.

• Ambiguous Situation: The doll is present from the very first page of the comic but its exact nature (what it is, why it talks) is never explained. It directly states that it's a stuffed animal and it remembers being in the store, but in Season 7 Embry claims it's a dangerous psyforme. This is never confirmed though.
• Checkhov's Gunman: The Howdy Crittler dolls come in very handy at the end of Season 3 when they open tunnels to Ynce Iche... for some reason.
• Companion Cube: To Pistachio
• Living Toys: Maybe? It definitely talks, but just to Pistachio.
• The Mole: Downplayed but Pistachio gives it to Courtney for a time to secretly watch over her.
• Psychic Link: Seems to have one with Pistachio, who is the only one who hears it speak.

Crow Cillers Psy Squad

A group of psychics who were trained by Lord Marrow to carry out top-secret missions who defected and now fight The Crow.

Aria Preston

De facto leader of the Psy Squad after Harlyn goes off the deep end. She has a habit of trying to take on too much responsibility.

• Flechette Storm: Her go-to move is to fling her purse full of knives
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Blames herself for not saving Harlyn ( twice), and later Paris.
• The Leader: Does her best to fill this role in the Psy Squad
• Magic Librarian: Works at the school library
• Mind over Matter: Her psy power "Displace" allows her to fling objects around, usually knives

Embry Nichols

Member of the Psy Squad. Sometimes rash and impatient, but determined to fight.

• Berserk Button: Never try to tell her that she's just imagining Ambrosia.
• Cool, but Inefficient: During a flashback, she laments that her power has no practical use beyond violence.
• Girl Meets Ghost: Death is not enough to stop her relationship with her girlfriend!
• The Lancer: She's the main member of the squad who helps Aria.
• Willing Channeler: Ambrosia's spirit lives within her and the two can still communicate.
• Your Head Asplode: Her primary power, "Psy Wave"

Coby Hull

The shy and anxious member of the Psy Squad who generally hangs back and crafts tools for the others.

• An Arm and a Leg: Loses an arm in a mission gone wrong between Seasons 6/7
• The Power of Creation: Her power "Materialize"
• Retired Badass: In Season 7
• Shrinking Violet: Does not want to talk to the hot store employees.
• Parental Substitute: Of all the psychics she bonds the most with That Kid due to staying home with her the most. There's an "expanded universe" novel devoted to them hunting collectibles together and in Season 7 it's shown they still spend time together even after That Kid grows up.
• Viewer Name Confusion: A meta example: For the entire episode "Use Your Confusion" the subtitles refer to her as "Colby," which is lampshaded in the next episode.

Ambrosia Randolph

A kind and empathetic member of the Psy Squad until her untimely demise, her spirit still resides in Embry's mind.

• Big Damn Heroes: Saves the rest of the psychics from Harlyn during the final showdown in Ynce Iche
• Posthumous Character: She's eaten by Harlyn sometime before the comic begins.
• Reality Warper: She had the power of "Material Influence," which let her manipulate psychic and physical matter "like play-doh."
• Symbiotic Possession: She lives in Embry's head

Psy Elite Gaige

Former henchmen of Lord Marrow, then of Harlyn, then of Ida, then of the Crow Ciller Cociety, before ending up as part of the Psy Squad.

• Boy Meets Ghoul: Begins dating Ambrosia in the later seasons (not Embry)
• Continuity Cameo: He (and Dire Rat's Grotto) makes a small appearance in Angel Chain, another series by the author. Notably since this series is not a World of Funny Animals he's presented as an Ambiguously Brown human.
• Heel–Face Turn: Defects from the side of evil after learning he's being underpaid.
• Mellow Fellow: He's pretty firey when introduced but in later seasons he becomes very levelheaded and is sometimes even the voice of reason.
• Mercenary
• Odd Friendship: "Gaige and Silent Mary" devotes an entire episode to his surprisingly cordial friendship with Mary.
• The One Guy: The only male psychic we meet and the only male to be directly affiliated with the Crow Cillers
• Psychic Powers
• Punch-Clock Villain: As can be seen in his character description, he spends a lot of the comic bouncing around between whoever is paying him.
  Hey, is she telling the truth about these things- cuz like- if they're worth that much then I'm getting ripped off by my boss right now. Hey, oh, are you guys hiring?
• Rugged Scar: Has a small one over his eye, presumably related to his powers.

Harlyn Grier

I know something about being queen. You can't just live on cupcakes and ice cream, you gotta eat the good stuff. Even if it doesn't taste good- someone's gotta grow up big and strong.

Former leader of the Psy Squad who becomes an enemy of the remaining members.

• Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Claims to have "ascended" (with the power to back it up) and her interest in Ynce Iche implies she's looking to take ascension further.
• Bitch In Sheep's Clothing: Flashbacks reveal she was initially a very kind, supportive leader to the Psy Squad, but this was just a facade that slips as their missions grow more morally dubious.
• The Dragon: To Lord Marrow, for a time.
• Eaten Alive: Her ultimate fate at the hands of a horde of Ynce Iche monsters.
• Faux Affably Evil: She'll still banter with her old teammates even as she chokes them.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Scarring is associated with extreme psychic powers, but none of the other psychics have scars as aggressively prominent as hers.
• Hearing Voices: Courtesy of a manifestation of Ynce Iche that was trying to reach out to her. She gets rid of them.
• I'm A Humanitarian: Devours other psychics to gain their powers.
• Killing Your Alternate Self: She had a "Jr." version similar to Elaine/Elaine Jr., but killed it before it could speak to her.
• The Mentor: Acted as this role to the Psy Squad, and Season Three even begins with a mock Video Game Tutorial where she introduces the reader to how psy works.
• Moral Event Horizon: Her team abandons her after she kills and eats Ambrosia
• Origins Episode: "Oh My Harlyn, Oh My Harlyn"
• Psychic Powers
• Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: One of the first things we see her do is taunt Embry by discussing her history of sex with Aria
• Would Hurt a Child: Has no issues directly threatening the younger Crow Cillers

The Crow Ciller Cociety

A resistance group fighting The Order Of The Crow.

Ondine

Skilled and excitable swordswoman/bodyguard for the Crow Ciller Cociety.

• Badass Normal: She has no special powers but is able to go toe to toe with Aria
• Comfort the Dying: She's the only one able to stick with Joslyn until the end.
• Dressing as the Enemy: She puts on a Crow mask and sells cupcakes to members of the Crow.
• Excessive Mourning: Season 9 begins with her still consumed with grief over Joslyn, despite a significant Time Skip after the events of Season 7
• Heroes Prefer Swords: But since the series takes place in the modern-day characters often comment on how unusual it is that she wields a blade.
• Hidden Depths: Apparently she's a better baker than Joslyn
• The Mentor: Assumes this role to Courtney post-Season 6
• The Mole: She's introduced as a bodyguard working for The Crow but is quickly revealed to be a double agent for the Cociety

Joslyn

Elder leader-grandma of the CCC, helping to house and support those who have escaped the clutches of the Crow.

• Big Good: She provides the funds that allow the other groups of Crow Cillers to survive.
• Cool Old Lady
• Don't Fear the Reaper: She embraces death peacefully and when they arrive they're even glad to meet her.
  Death: you're fun. thank god. this walk sucks when people aren't fun.
• Family of Choice: She says views the Crow Cillers as a family.
• Killed Off for Real
• Let Them Die Happy: As she's dying her tender reflections on the family she's built away from the Crow are intercut with scenes showing how this family has fallen apart, and Ondine doesn't have the heart to correct her.
• The Lost Lenore: The Shiver Star toy her mother forced her to throw out as a child.
• The Queenpin: She's the head of a very lucrative underground My Enormous Horse trading ring.
• Team Mom: Very explicitly so to Ondine, but most of the people who know her seem to view her as a maternal figure.

Brother Mary

Her debut appearance

Was temporarily paired up with Brother Marcus in investigating the disappearance of Miss Corvidae, as well as Marcus's secret investigations of Ynce Iche. She quit when she realized the extent he was willing to go for his research and wound up with the Cociety.

• Beware the Quiet Ones: She's fully willing to stab Marcus when he tries to get physical with her.
• Continuity Cameo: Makes a small appearance in Angel Chain (another Cate Wurtz comic) when one of the characters visits Dire Rat's Grotto.
• The Dog Bites Back: Delivers a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Marcus and quits the Crow, though leaving isn't exactly easy.
• Enemy Mine: She's forced to turn to the Crow Cillers for help after she defects, and though she isn't really an enemy at that point they treat her as such for a while.
• Family of Choice: Ondine begins referring to the two of them as sisters.
• Heel Faceturn: Turns on Marcus (and the Crow in general) after she realizes how ruthless he is.
• Hidden Depths: Joslyn reveals she has a very shrewd business sense.
• The Most Wanted: After defecting from the Crow.
• Never Got to Say Goodbye: She goes missing the day Joslyn passes, implied to be because she couldn't bear to watch.
• The Quiet One

Miss Lee

Emma's (somewhat distant) mom and the gym teacher at Puke City West School.

• Ascended Extra: She was featured in two of the creator's previous comics (Smokes and FFFF) but becomes a parent to one of the main characters in this series.
  • In the series itself she's a fairly unimportant character in the first few seasons but gets more focus later on.
• The Atoner: She hates her job at the school but (as of Season 8) sticks around because she feels obligated to bear witness to the Crow
• Doesn't Know Their Own Child: She struggles to connect with Emma (who frequently views her as an annoyance) and remains oblivious of the danger she's in until it's too late.
• La Résistance: Downplayed but she becomes an unofficial member of the Crow Cillers at the school.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Aria calls her "July" but the majority of the cast just refer to her as "Emma's Mom."
• Pushover Parents: In Season 7 it's revealed that Emma is still unemployed and living at home, with Mrs. Lee only making token attempts to push her into moving.
• Struggling Single Mother
• Turning Into Your Parent / Parental Hypocrisy: Explicitly discussed in the Season 2 finale:
  Emma's Mom: When I was your age my parents didn't know anything about me either... and I... said I didn't want to be like that... but... I guess I did it anyways.
  Emma: Oh... uh
  Emma: Sorry?

Heaven Vein

Mr. Vein's daughter and a student at Puke City West School, she befriends Paisley and later becomes a friend of the Crow Cillers. Loves all manner of collectibles, especially trading cards.

• Gamer Chick: Card games, but she's a regional champion
• Genre Savvy: When Fresh Fries attempts to rewrite reality to convince everyone they're in different tv shows she's the only one who sees through the illusion by herself.
  Jill: Yo, Heaven! It's me! I'm Jill, remember? This isn't real!
  Heaven: Well duh, I mean look at what I'm wearing. I'm obviously dreaming.
• Get It Over With: Her response to being captured by the Crow, though fortunately, it turns out to be the Armor-Piercing Question for the Crow footsoldier holding her.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: In Season 7, the internet decides she's public enemy #1 for no reason other than her tenuous association with the Crow Cillers
• Like Father, Unlike Son: While not a huge freedom fighter she's a far cry from her Corrupt Corporate Executive father
• Non-Action Guy: Despite winding up friends with many of the Crow Cillers and standing with them against the Crow she's a strictly passive member of the group.
• Otaku Surrogate
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Paris
• The Queenpin: She lords over a trading card ring at school.
• Too Dumb to Live: She refuses to take the online threats of violence she receives seriously and sneaks out of her house, which immediately leads to her being captured.
• Turn Out Like Her Father: Subverted, when she's first introduced she's a ruthless businessperson like her father but she ends up going down a different path.
• Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?

Paris

Heaven's muscle and close friend.

• Batter Up!: Her signature weapon is a bat stuck through with nails.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: When Fresh Fries/The Crow takes over the school she becomes noticeably more vocal and insists on fighting back against them.
• The Consigliere: She's Heaven's "muscle" and often her Voice of Reason, especially in Season 7
• Double Agent: Becomes a member of the Crusaders to spy on them... by convincing the Crusaders she's pretending to be a Crow Ciller, to spy on them.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Heaven
• Pop Punk: According to her character bio, she is a fan.
• The Quiet One: A woman of few words.
• Spoiler Title: Episode 48: Paris Is Burning
• Taking the Bullet: She attempts to warn the Crow Cillers of an impending attack, but winds up getting burned for her trouble.

Other Crow Ciller Affiliates

Vince

Reluctant Crow, born into a privileged position. Not looking to hurt anyone- he's just looking to get through this. Eventually escapes the Crow and winds up as a friend of the Cociety.

• The Anti-Nihilist: Opens his own home unconditionally to people fleeing the Crow because he believes that everyone deserves another chance.
• Breakout Mook Character: Originally just a named Crow footsoldier, he emerges from behind the mask in season three and gets his own story arc.
• Bureaucratically Arranged Marriage: In a strange example, the other Crow members trapped in Ynce Iche expect him to marry Elayne. He's gay.
• Cult Defector: A prominent aspect of his storyline; by Season 7 he's dedicated himself to helping others flee the Crow as well.
• Establishing Character Moment: In his introduction, he's supposed to be guarding the Rope and Nail offices, but walks right by the Crow Cillers so he can go to the vending machine.
• Follow in My Footsteps: His family is heavily involved in the Crow but he doesn't really buy into it.
• Greasy Spoon: As of Season 8 he's working in one
• The Slacker
• Turn the Other Cheek: He can't bring himself to be angry at the Fake Defector who burns his house down because he was "just following orders."

Elayne

A young woman who just joined the Crow to get by, but didn't really believe in it. She gets trapped in Ynce Iche with the other Crow foot soldiers and winds up escaping with Vince.

• Breakout Mook Character
• Call to Agriculture: In Season 7 she's seen tending a garden to grow produce for her community home.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Survives almost being killed by the Crow, escapes Ynce Iche, and struggles to reintegrate back into normal society after all that, but eventually she describes herself as happy.
• Hidden Depths: Continues to wear her Crow mask even after the others have discarded theirs, eventually revealing that although she doesn't believe in the Crow, she still feels like she is "owed" the mask.
• Not Used to Freedom: She talks to a Crow runaway about experiencing this when she first escaped the Crow:
  I know when the Crow has been your world... it's hard to believe that we could be doing this without wanting something. Or, I guess that's what we get out of this. What I get out of doing the gardening here or whatever... I don't want to live in that world again.
• Out of Focus: Has a fairly prominent subplot in seasons three and four but fades into the background once she's free from Ynce Iche.

Brecken

A kindly friend who hangs out with some of the cast.

• Connected All Along: He independently knows Sour Gummy, Jill, the Dire Rat's Grotto staff, and the Lamezine cast. Later he winds up working in a Crow Cillers safe house.
• Establishing Character Moment: He's introduced giving a long creed about how to operate a claw machine, which is his primary passion. When Sour Gummy point out this has nothing to do with the question they asked him, he answers in an even more esoteric way.
• Informed Attribute: Sour Gummy seek him out because he used to know a lot about magic, but beyond this mention it never comes into play.
• Nice Guy: Everyone seems to like him and he never responds with anything less than a smile.
• Non-Action Guy: He's tangential to a lot of plot points but never really gets involved.
• Satellite Character: Hangs on the edges of other character's stories but never gets much focus himself.

Bitmap

A member of GUILLOTINE introduced in Season 7 who uses her hacking skills to fight the Crow. Jamie's girlfriend.

• Bald Head of Toughness
• The Con: She easily steals sensitive information from The Crow by pretending to be tech support.
• The Cracker: She's described as a "hacker wiz who can program kung fu into your brain," though she uses her powers for good.
• Satellite Character: She's introduced as Jamie's girlfriend and is never seen on a page without her.

Order of the Crow

A shady cult-like organization that antagonizes the main cast with the goal of controlling Ynce Iche.

Brother Marcus

One day we all look into the eyes of the Crow and see there's nothing there. And I too was lost. And I too followed the only guiding light I had.

One of the main antagonists of the comic, Marcus is an agent of the Crow obsessed with finding the secrets of Ynce Iche by any means necessary.

• Action Survivor: He possesses no special powers but outlasts most of the other antagonists in the series.
• Career-Building Blunder: He murders Brother Andrews in a blind rage and lies about it, which results in him being made head of the investigation to find the killer, which he co-opts to begin researching Ynce Iche
• Determinator: He's willing to do anything to uncover the secrets of Ynce Iche
• Everybody Knew Already: It turns out Lord Marrow knew of his deception all along but let him carry on because he was more able to get his hands dirty
• Geek: Has a nerdy interest in cartoons and at one point attempts to give Joslyn a lecture about a song that's playing
• Manipulative Bastard: He's very good at using others to achieve his own ends.
• Would Hurt a Child: A subtle part of his character arc is his relationship to this trope: during one of his first encounters with Ynce Iche he refuses to let it harm a child, but as his obsession grows he becomes willing to turn a blind eye to the Crow kidnapping children, ultimately culminating in him killing Jarod.

Lord Marrow

Old fashioned Crow Elder. He's very certain of the superiority of the Crow, and the evil of those who would challenge it.

• Cool Mask: All of the Crow wear masks, but his is particularly large.
• Eaten Alive: By Lisa
• Even Evil Has Standards: When assigned to clipboard duty he has no trouble belittling and bullying the people he's evaluating, but is furious at the thought of accepting a bribe because it would "dishonor the Crow."
• The Fundamentalist: Unlike some of the other characters who use the Order for their own benefit, he genuinely believes in the Crow.
• Mysterious Employer: Forms the original Psy Squad but keeps them in the dark about his true intentions.

Mr. Nail

Head of massively successful "Rope & Nail Inc.," he developed ties with the Crow to further his business and becomes very entangled with them as the series goes on.

• Affably Evil: He generally acts as comic relief amongst the Crow characters
• Casanova Wannabe
• Corrupt Corporate Executive
• Early-Installment Weirdness: A character very similar to him appears in Lamezine 001 but but the events don't seem to be canon and the version that appears in Crow Cillers is very different.
• Entitled to Have You: He finds it impossible to set boundaries with his assistant Miss Desmond, and later Mint Chip
• Evil Mentor: In Season 9 he becomes a very, very downplayed example of one to Emma and Greta
• Informed Ability: He's employed by the Crow/several antagonists as a business expert, but he's never seen working
• Lazy Bum: Most commonly found relaxing in his pool
• Mood-Swinger
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: Three4One assume he's just a harmless patsy with vague ties to the Crow until he holds Mint Chip hostage during Season 2
• Pet the Dog: Actually makes a decent attempt to comfort Emma in Season 9 when she becomes despondent.
• Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense

Master Vein

Heaven Vein's father, a rich asshole who works with The Crow to corporatize Ynce Iche.

• Affably Evil: In a "slimy businessman" kind of way
• Corrupt Corporate Executive
• Deal with the Devil: Makes one with Fresh Fries that ends poorly.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Toyed with. He's left purposefully unaware of Marcus's plot to kidnap his daughter and is even marginally concerned when she goes missing, but mainly because he considers it an inconvenience.
• Killed Offscreen: Cortex announces that he was eaten by the Bloodwolfe
• Loophole Abuse: His main interest in Ynce Iche? It's out of the jurisdiction of all countries, so there are no labor laws.
• Non-Idle Rich: In spite of his large company he prefers to do a lot of his deals in person.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: His scientists successfully contain the Ynce Iche monster and are able to harness its power with machines, but because this is The Reveal we see none of it.
• Slimeball

Warden Cortex

A Crow elder who shows up in the latter part of the series.

• Kick the Dog: Denies Joslyn life-saving surgery after she's already paid for it.
• Meet the New Boss: Shows up at the end of Season 6 to fill the role Lord Marrow filled
• Visionary Villain:
  Cortex: We aren't... devoted to the Bloodwolfe. The Crow is here so that we can stand atop it. The Order of the Crow is a ladder... We stand on the ladder and we enjoy the sun. That is what the Order of the Crow worships. You feed the Bloodwolfe and you get to stand on the ladder. Everyone else is dog food.
• Suicidal Overconfidence: Thinks so little of the Crow Cillers that he ignores the very large sword Ondine is holding.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Gets comparatively little development than the other antagonists, to the point where he doesn't even appear in the Crow Ciller guides.

Mildred Weeks

The school's evil algebra teacher, and later the school's evil principal.

• Ascended Extra: She's introduced as a minor character early in Season 4 but doesn't do much until Season 8, where she's (literally) promoted to a major antagonist.
• Characterization Marches On: There's a throwaway line early in Season 8 which implies she's weirded out by Miss Murder, but the two are later revealed to be an Official Couple who are quite close.
• Darker and Edgier: In her first appearance she behaves very cartoonishly but by Season 8 she's become much more jaded.
• Establishing Character Moment: The first thing we see her do in Season 8 is to burn a box of lost & found stuff, making it pretty clear what kind of principal she is.
• Evil Teacher / Evil Principal
• Interface Screw: The pages where she's introduced are presented as an interactable RPG battle
• Would Hurt a Child: The first thing she does in the comic is attack several students with a large knife, and come Season 8 she's selling them out to the Crow.

Miss Murder

A teacher at Puke City West and Principal Weeks' loyal henchwoman. Absolutely adores agony and torment- mostly inflicting it, but hey, she's not picky. Unsettlingly cheerful about it too.

• Ax-Crazy: Oh boy
• Cloudcuckoolander
• The Creon: She's VERY close to Ms. Weeks
• Die Laughing: As she's bleeding out she reacts with delight and actively twists to try to see what the wound looks like, though she ends up surviving.
• Drinking on Duty: She's introduced bursting into Ms. Weeks's office with drinks and seems to be always somewhat inebriated
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast
• Sadist Teacher
• Slasher Smile: An unusual-looking example

Miss Corvidae

Former principal of Puke City West, now deceased. Despite dying in the pilot, her presence has hung over the rest of the series. She was very rude.

• Arc Symbol: She becomes synonymous with a snowy field that haunts the comic.
• Ascended Fanon: A strange meta example involving the recursive Show Within a Show nature of the comic- there are a few references to Miss Corvidae/Miss Weeks peppered throughout the comic including actual fanart.
• Evil Matriarch: She used Courtney to bully the children of adults who annoyed her, and from what we see of her other children she wasn't exactly raising them to be kind either.
• Evil Principal
• Honor-Related Abuse: She states that the reason she puts Courtney on the truck with the other children is that Courtney embarrassed her to The Crow.
• Meaningful Name: Corvidae is the taxonomy crows belong to.
• Small Role, Big Impact: As her character description states, despite physically dying almost immediately (and staying dead) her actions leave a huge impact on the cast and she's a frequent figure in dream sequences.
• Would Hurt a Child: She used her role as principal to send truckloads of children to The Crow, even her own daughter eventually.

Fresh Emma

A clone of Emma created by Beloved who gets hijacked by Fresh Fries, but slowly develops her own personality.

• Doppelgänger: Of Emma, though she's not exactly thrilled about it.
• Double Agent: Pretends to be on the side of the Crow Crusaders but secretly conspires with the Crow, but her actual allegiance is to Fresh Fries.
• Evil Knockoff
• Killing Your Alternate Self: She decides to kill the real Emma, resulting in her own death.
• To Know Him, I Must Become Him: Inverted, Fresh Emma despises that she is an imperfect clone of Emma and intentionally tries to do the opposite of her to feel like she has her own identity.

Psyformes

Beings made of Psy who are involved in Ynce Iche.

Ynce Iche Monster

Doris: Why can't they just tell us what it is? Like, what's "you just have to see it" supposed to mean

An alternate dimension containing a mysterious power that many seek to control, it also manifests as large red creature. Technically described as "not really a "character" but more of a FORCE or PSYCHIC INSTANCE."

• Another Dimension
• Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Implied to be related to this for psyformes, but it's never made clear how
• Birdcaged: Vein captures it in some sort of glass pyramid that allows him to exploit its powers
• Brown Note: People looking at it become transfixed and begin to bleed out of their nose in addition to, um, other side effects.
• Characterization Marches On: It appears in Microwave Planet as an aggressive, predatory force that goes after a few characters physically, but it's portrayed far more passive in Crow Cillers.
• Genius Loci: The creature itself IS Ynce Iche, but it's also inside Ynce Iche. The characters are just as confused.
• Horror Hunger: Ynce Iche itself seems to attract and "prey on" emotionally troubled individuals for unknown reasons relating to psy.
• Living MacGuffin / MacGuffin Location: Much of the comic's plot is driven by antagonists seeking Ynce Iche to control its powers.
• Mind Screw: One of the most enigmatic parts of an infamously unusual comic
• Our Cryptids Are More Mysterious: Microwave Planet reveals that it's treated as an Urban Legend in-universe, referred to as "Something"
• Powered by a Forsaken Child: The Crow manipulates reality by twisting the knife in its head.
• Reality Warper: Psyformes are able to tap into its power to manipulate what its world looks like, and later Vein discovers a way to use this power to manipulate the outside world as well.
• Thousand-Yard Stare: One of its most notable characteristics is its huge eyes that constantly stare.
• Wound That Will Not Heal: There is a knife buried in its head.

Elaine Jr./Elaine Jr. X

^{Click here to see her "X" form} 

A second manifestation of Elaine that appeared after she let her physical body die, she seems to exhibit some kind of control over Ynce Iche. As of the end of season six she's one with Elaine again.

• Always a Bigger Fish: She's gutted by the Bloodwolfe and would have been devoured by him had Elaine Sr. not rescued her
• Ambiguous Situation: It's implied that she wants to control Ynce Iche so she can Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence, but how this is supposed to happen or why it involves her working with children is never made clear.
• Dead Guy Puppet: Learns to do this from the Bloodwolfe
• Dimensional Cutter / Extra-Dimensional Shortcut: She's able to rip holes between reality and Ynce Iche
• Domain Holder: She's the first character in the comic to seize control of Ynce Iche
• I'm A Humanitarian
• Our Spirits Are Different
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: Undergoes two:
  • She takes That Kid's old clothes after trapping her in Ynce Iche
  • She dons a dark hoodie when she begins working for Paisley
• Starter Villain: She's a major antagonist in the first few seasons but falls Out of Focus in later seasons in favor of newer villains
• Surrounded by Idiots: She spends much of Season 3 in Ynce Iche with brainless monsters, Crow footsoldiers, and Jarod/his friends.
• Treacherous Adviser: Plays this role after convincing That Kid that she's the queen of Ynce Iche

The Bloodwolfe/ Scissor Thing

^{Click here to see its alternate form} 

A particularly ancient psyforme who hovers around the comic for mysterious reasons. As of Season 6 it works with The Crow to control Ynce Iche.

• Ancient Evil: Unlike the other psyformes in the comic, it implies that it was not born from a human psy, and Cortex speculates that it predates humans entirely.
• Dead Guy Puppet: How it communicates.
• Greater-Scope Villain: It devours many of the other psyforms in the comic and The Crow ends up serving it
• Gory Discretion Shot: In an audio example, its kills are described as sounding like "scissors cutting through construction paper."
• Hidden Agenda Villain: It wants to control Ynce Iche, but it's unclear what its true intentions are.
• Homnivore: The Crow provide it with "juice" that they get from killing people.
• Mysterious Watcher: Hangs around Ynce Iche for several seasons before getting involved in anything.
• Shear Menace: In its form as the Scissor Thing.
• Spoiler Opening: Appears in the title sequence before appearing in the comic proper.

Beloved

Boring!

A psyform resembling a puppet that begins antagonizing the cast in Season 4

• Despair Event Horizon: Upon learning that she used to be a human, she collapses into a depression.
• Drama Queen
• Fusion Dance: With Evil Hand, then later with Paisley
• Genius Loci: Belovedland, Beloved's personal amusement park, responds to her mood
• It's All About Me
• Marionette Master: Subverted- though Beloved spawns puppets this is just a side effect of her calls and she has no interest in them.
• Morality Pet: Paisley
• Perverse Puppet
• Quest for Identity: When she awakens in the lab she doesn't know what she is or where she comes from, only that she has to contact the one number in her phone.
• Was Once a Man: Joslyn's friend Ida, specifically.

Evil Hand

An evil hand that possesses one of the members of Sour Gummy's hands after they listen to a mysterious cassette tape.

• Demonic Possession: Only comes into the physical world by possessing Sour Silver's hand
• Dream Weaver: Their primary power
• Evil Hand
• Killed Off for Real: Gets eaten by the Blood Wolfe
• No Name Given: Its bio lists its true name as "???"
• Paper-Thin Disguise: When it appears in Sour Gummy's dreams it attempts to make itself appear more human... only to have every single limb resemble the exact same arm.
• Surrounded by Idiots: Despises being trapped with Sour Gummy who don't really take it seriously as a threat

Fresh Fries

Advanced psyform with an intense hatred of humans. Primarily physical in the form of an animated toy horse but comes to manifest in many other forms as well.

• Always a Bigger Fish: Does a decent job of taking over reality but gets eaten by the Blood Wolfe
• The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: At one point Fresh Fries begins directly interacting with the narration and threatens both the author and the reader.
• Grand Theft Me: It takes over several characters, who are referred to as "Fresh ____"
• Hive Mind
• Omnicidal Maniac
• Origins Episode: "Oh My Harlyn, Oh My Harlyn" reveals it was originally a manifestation of Ynce Iche that reached out to Harlyn, but when she destroyed it the residual psy mixed with random matter.
• Put Them All Out of My Misery: Fresh Fries despises all existence, even its own, and wants to absorb everything so it can destroy itself
• Red Eyes, Take Warning

Red Velvet

A mysterious red entity who follows the Crow Cillers out of Ynce Iche and now hangs around with Emma.

• Big Damn Heroes: It arrives out of nowhere to eviscerate Vince's uncle and save the cast... then it offers them a Poptart.
• Detect Evil: It snarls at Beloved when it senses the puppet is up to no good.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: A character that looks like Red Velvet called "HELLGIRL" appears in Microwave Planet but behaves completely differently, making it unclear if this appearance is canon.
• Establishing Character Moment: In its first appearance in the comic it leisurely strolls past the Blood Wolfe and snacks on a Poptart.
• Mysterious Past: None of the characters know what it is, where it came from, what it can do, or why it hangs around Emma... but it sure does love Poptarts.
• Prophet Eyes
• Reality Warper: At the very least it's immune to being manipulated by others.
• Red Is Heroic: The few times it acts without being prompted it's to either protect someone or offer them a Poptart.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Look at how many times Poptarts are mentioned in this section.
  Courtney: I've seen it... eat Pop Tarts... buy Pop Tarts... aaaand one time it threw up Pop Tarts on my slippers.
  Doris: I guess it looks at Pop Tarts too.
  Gretchen: Maybe it's a hungry ghost and it has to eat Pop Tarts.

Nothing

A painting that is also Greta's eyeball, but is also neither.

• Appearance Is in the Eye of the Beholder: It appears as a painting of a bowl of fruit to most of the cast, but Greta states that it looks like something else to her.
• Master of Illusion: Appears to be one of its powers as demonstrated when it tricks everyone into thinking that they see a killer walking down the halls, but really there was "nothing" there.
• The Power of Apathy: It haunts characters who are being swallowed up by despair, though whether it feeds off of their pain or causes it is ambiguous.
• Spooky Painting: Subverted, it only manifests as a painting so people have somewhere to look. Emma is able to shred the painting and it has no impact.
• The Treacheryof Images: Its existence is a twisted form of this, which is even lampshaded in its introduction.
  Greta: Haha, no, it just looks like a bowl of fruit. But it isn't a bowl of fruit!
  Kaitlyn: Is this like that fucking meme painting of the pipe that is like this is not a pipe in French or whatever?
• You Cannot Grasp the True Form: Or rather, nothing is the true form.
• Walking Spoiler: Its appearance is The Reveal of Season 8.

Miscellaneous

Other characters featured in the comic not directly affiliated with the previous groups.

Elaine

^{Click here to see her appearance S 6 onwards} 

A woman who joins Marcus in his search for Ynce Iche, ultimately sacrificing her body to become part of it. She immediately regrets this decision and escapes.

• Abhorrent Admirer: To Jill
• Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Becoming one with Ynce Iche is the first step in this, but she ultimately rejects it
• Blessed with Suck: Being able to open a tunnel to Ynce Iche is a power sought after by several of the other characters but Elaine isn't happy about how impacts her life
• Chekhov's Gun: The knife she picks up during the crossover episode, which she uses to kill Dustin
• Facial Horror: After accepting Elaine Jr. back into herself
• Fusion Dance: Is very explicit that this is NOT what she did with Elaine Jr.
• Grand Theft Me: Escapes Ynce Iche by killing a Crow member and stealing his body
• Odd Friendship: Winds up hanging around with the happy-go-lucky Sour Gummy
• Refusal of the Call: Flees Ynce Iche rather than go along with Elaine Jr.'s plans.

Paisley Wynn

A troubled young girl introduced in Season 4

• Abusive Parents: It's never explicitly stated but the one time we see one of her parents they're depicted as a monster
• Allofthe Other Reindeer
• Dark and Troubled Past: At a young age she was taken advantage of by strangers on the internet in very bad ways
• Determinator: She becomes obsessed with tracking down Emma and unraveling the secrets of the Crow Cillers
• Defrosting the Ice Queen: Courtney unintentionally does this
• Evil Me Scares Me: In a painful inversion, the alternate version of herself is scared of her after learning that the original Paisley has such a horrific past.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Describes forcing herself to grow accustomed to the feeling of her cat breathing (despite finding it horrifying) because that's what normal people do, and she demonstrates a clear desire for friends despite not really knowing how to connect with others. However...
• I Just Want to Be Special:
  Beloved: You... want to be a weapon?
  Paisley: Yeah, isn't that the whole point?
• Lack of Empathy: Somewhat
• Odd Friendship: With Beloved
• Psychic Powers
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: In her first appearance at the end of Season 3 she's dressed like a normal schoolgirl but her wardrobe gradually grows grungier as she goes further down her path.

Chel Weathers

Jamie's older sister and a friend/mentor to the younger Crow Cillers.

• Cool Big Sis
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Despite not having much screen time she was voted one of the most popular characters in an official fan poll.
• Goth: Though Jamie considers her "prep"
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Her full name is "Michelle" but no one calls her that.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: While not exactly enthusiastic about her role as a caregiver she's always patient with the kids, gives them solid advice, and even helps Gretchen and Doris escape abusive households.
• Starving Artist: She makes a meager living selling her art online... and drugs on the side.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Goth Crunch Cereal

Sour Gummy

Oh, hey, I just thought of something- do we suck?

Huh? Oh, nah, we're fucking awesome.

Ok, yeah, I thought so, just checking.

Slap-bass IDM punk grrrl duo. Currently cruising around in their van, trying to put some albums together, playing some video games. Smelly, hungry, horny, and cool.

• A Day in the Limelight: "Sour Gummy says Relax" is a full episode devoted to their individual backstories.
• Character Development: They calm down a lot during the time skip between seasons 6/7
• Defictionalization: The author has released multiple albums under the Sour Gummy moniker.
• Fantastically Indifferent: Nothing phases them.
• Freaky Electronic Music
• Lovable Sex Maniac: Deconstructed somewhat during their focus episode which delves into the experiences that shaped their unconventional view of sexuality.
• No Name Given: Their names are never stated in the comic or supplemental materials, though fans will sometimes refer to them by their colors.
• Odd Friendship: Become very close with Elaine after their paths cross.
• Sampling: A cornerstone of their music.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Despite their constant presence throughout the comic they never directly involve themselves in the main plot, but their concert is an important part of the climax of Season 5.
  • Gatomon in a Dress and Meowth in a Dress were born from their psy.
• Starving Artist: They live in a van, though they don't seem to mind.
• Those Two Girls: Always seen together.

Jarod

An annoying boy who forces his way into the Crow Cillers when they become the Anime Club, he spends several seasons annoying the cast.

• Ambition Is Evil: He's obsessed with getting recognition for his "kill count" and doesn't care who it's from, ultimately leading him to the Crow.
• Bullying a Dragon: Has a tendency to act very rudely towards people who could easily kill him. Which is what happens when he pushes Marcus too far.
• Et Tu, Brute?: Sells out the other Crow Cillers to the Crow
• Kids Are Cruel
• Pet the Dog: He and his friends are surprisingly kind to That Kid
• The Scrappy: Both in and out of universe. None of the other characters seem to like him and he was voted as one of the least popular characters by the fans.
  Gretchen: Okay I'm just gonna say it, man, Jarod sucks.
• The Thing That Would Not Leave: Nobody wants him in the Anime Club, then later in Ynce Iche
• Unwanted Assistance: Continually brags about killing monsters in Ynce Iche despite there being no benefit to this

Ida Klein

An mysterious My Enormous Horse trader with a connection to Joslyn. Her psy birthed Beloved.

• Dead All Along / Death by Origin Story: She dies prior to the events of the comics and is replaced by a Doppleganger, while her psy becomes part of Beloved.
• Eh Tu, Brute?: Joslyn begs the Crow to go easy on Ida, only to be told that Ida is the one who sold her out.
• The Faceless: Her face is blurred out in flashbacks.
• Freak Lab Accident: Insists on testing an unsafe psy experiment, which results in her death.
• The Queenpin: She runs a My Enormous Horse trading ring that rivals the size of Joslyn's.
• Mysterious Employer: It's revealed that she was the one providing the money for the original Psy Squad to get started.
• Walking Spoiler
• We Used to Be Friends: Her and Joslyn got their start selling horses together while they were both in the Crow, but had a falling out at some point.

Liliana

Jarod's sister.

• The Atoner: After being freed from Fresh Fries, she sets out to take revenge on the Crow for killing her brother.
• Chekhov's Gunman: She's introduced as a minor character in Season 5 who reads school announcements, but returns for a small (but pivotal) role in Season 7.
• Grand Theft Me: She's mind controlled by Fresh Fries and used to read propoganda.
• Sacrificial Lamb: She's briefly reintroduced to the comic in episode 65, then killed off in 68.
• The Scrappy: She was voted one of the least popular characters in an official fan poll. So when the Crow Cillers "executives" decide to kill off a character for drama, she gets the knife.

Dress Gang

A collection of inhabitants of a meta realm outside the canon of the main cast, they often get up to wacky hijinks.

Gatomon In A Dress/Meowth In A Dress

Gatomon and Meowth, but they're wearing dresses.

• Art Evolution: Lampshaded
  Lisa: Did you have a nose last season?
  Meowth: I'm trying it out. I think it ties my look together.
• Catchphrase: "Nice"
• Cloudcuckoolander
• Drugs Are Good: Discussed when they roll on molly:
  Gatomon: Every time we do this it's just like... it's always healing. I never regret this even if there's like y'know a hangover, which like usually isn't a big deal for me anyways.
  Meowth: Same and it's like... it's always so worth it when there is one. It's just- after I feel like I retain so much of this positivity and this in tuneness with myself... every time I do it again I think back on how much that I didn't have before. How much I've unlocked of myself.
• Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: Hilariously averted when they and the other members of their gang are sued for copyright infringement and told to abandon their trademarked forms, forcing them to flee to an alternate dimension for much of Season 4.

• Those Two Guys: They're never seen without each other.
• Unusual Euphemism: Their sexual exploits are often depicted as them eating each others' guts, though given the bizarre nature of the comic this could actually be happening.

Lisa Simpson

Emma: You know to be honest, you really do sound EXACTLY like Lisa. Like, if she was dead inside.

Lisa: Thanks.

A version of Lisa Simpson who was kicked off of her show for being unpopular and was left to her own devices in an exact copy of Springfield. After leaving she meets up with the In A Dress gang and becomes a fixture in their hijinks.

• Art Evolution: Makes a brief appearance in a Season 1 comic but gets a visual update in Season 2 when she becomes a more prominent character.
• A Day in the Limelight: "Fanfic Of Horrors I"
• "Groundhog Day" Loop: Her time alone in alternate Springfield has shades of this, with stores magically restocking themselves in the blink of an eye.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: There's a media frenzy around her when she finally departs alternate Springfield and arrives back in... wherever she winds up, that turns negative once she devours several people who made her nervous.
  • A meta example, references to the actual Lisa Simpson being labeled "unpopular" for her behavior are peppered throughout the comic often in the form of actual articles/message board posts.
• I'm A Humanitarian: Not regularly, but when stressed she has a tendency to eat people.
• Odd Friendship: With the rest of the In A Dress Gang.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: She rarely emotes except in the most extreme situations.
• The Scrappy: In an in-universe (meta?) example, she was kicked off of The Simpsons for her low merch sales.
• The Stoic

Cream-the-Rabbit-with-a-Gun

Cream The Rabbit with a gun.

• Addiction-Powered: Becomes immobile if she's sober
• Cute Mute: Never speaks and prefers to communicate through gunshots
• Cyborg: Subverted, it's explicitly stated that she's not a robot... but she is a printer.
• Eaten Alive: Played for comedy.
  Meowth: Remember when that cop pursued us for our crimes? I thought she was, you know, gonna shoot him. But then she just vored him, that was great.
  Gatomon: Yeah I remember, she's still eating him.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: She's Cream The Rabbit, and she has a gun.
• Not-So-Imaginary Friend: Meowth in a Dress and Gatomon in a Dress come up with the idea for her, and then she's present in their next appearance with no explanation.
• Reckless Gun Usage: Reacts to most situations by firing a gun
• Sphere Eyes

Mallgoth-Blaze-the-Cat

A mall goth version of Blaze the Cat who is a close friend (and drug dealer) to the In A Dress gang

• Ensemble Dark Horse: Despite her very limited screen time she was voted one of the most popular characters in an official fan poll
• Getting High on Their Own Supply: Loves indulging with her clients
• Out of Focus: Gets less focus compared to the other members of the In A Dress gang
• Performance Anxiety: When her friends put her in a sitcom she's visibly nervous and stumbles over her lines.
• Perky Goth
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: She's introduced as standard Blaze The Cat but shifts to her titular mall goth clothes after a drug trip helps her become more comfortable with herself

Final Bloodmaster Alpha

A celebrity in... wherever the In A Dress Gang live.

• A Death in the Limelight
• Alternate Dimension: Introduces the In A Dress Gang to a "mystical dimension just for famous people" called "The Alterzone"
• Celebrity Is Overrated: Toyed with, especially in "Fanfic Of Horrors II"
• Cloudcuckoolander
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Very popular with fans despite her short tenure in the comic
• Go Out with a Smile
• Gods Need Prayer Badly: Despite her wealth and success, being "canceled" from her show is a death sentence
• Hidden Depths: Initially presented as a comic relief Take That! to celebrity culture, she gets painfully vulnerable with Lisa in her final hours.
• Historical Villain Upgrade: In a sad in-universe example, a decade after her death her image is appropriated to become the face of The Crow, and a "meme" of her looking smug becomes an Arc Symbol throughout Season 7.
  Lisa: Her face is an icon of hatred now. Perhaps forever. I just thought I should tell you.
• No Fourth Wall: In-universe she does have some kind of talk show but she interacts directly with the actual audience at times
• Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: Fabulously wealthy but also a destructive asshole
• Sacrificial Lamb: Introduced at the start of Season 3, is "canceled" six episodes later

Dixie-Kong-in-a-Dress

Dixie Kong in a dress.

• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Disappears from the comic after a few appearances.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: Her introduction is a parody of one: Meowth-In-A-Dress assumes that she will be ashamed of him for being a drug addict, but when she arrives, she's already smoking.

Other Subcomics

Characters from the Show Within a Show comics that sometimes connect to the main series.

As Told By Crittler

The star of one of Crow Ciller's subcomics, As Told By Crittler is a young girl who is always seen seated in her room, writing in her diary about her crazy misadventures. Office Crittler is her father.

• Cut and Paste Comic: An extreme example, every single panel of all her strips is exactly the same except for the text.
• Expy: Of As Told by Ginger
• Fangirl: She's mostly obsessed with Crow Cillers, but is very into Digimon and Pokemon as well.
• Hidden Depths: While her interludes are generally comedic in tone, during an episode of Season 7 she reveals a deep disillusionment with life:
  Before sleep I always turn on Youtube and cue up 8 hours of commercials from the years 1998 through 2005.
  I always hope I'll see one that will remind me of what I lost and I will see that I was only missing Bionicles this whole time and then I'll be happy again.
• Ignored Aesop: She's astute enough to figure out the "lessons" of her day-to-day experiences, but she simply does not care.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: For the comic itself- since every page follows the same format, her disappearing from her room during "Fanfic Of Horror III" signals that things are about to get very, very weird.
• The Reveal: She is darkelaine227
• Whole-Plot Reference: Many of the scenarios she describes in her journal are references to common cartoon plotlines such as Prince and Pauper or a "Groundhog Day" Loop, often ending with her Comically Missing the Point.

Y 2 Crittler

Star of the beloved comic "Office Crittlers," he's an angry office worker who's always seen berating his boss and anyone else he can get his hands on. The father of As Told By Crittler.

• Cut and Paste Comic
• Expy: Of Dilbert
• It's All About Me: One of his main character traits is his intense narcissism and the comedic(?) ways he takes it out on others.
• Jerkass: The majority of his strips involve him being unpleasant about something.
• Hopeless with Tech: The way he describes using technology is... interesting.
• Mean Boss: Inverted, he's absolutely terrible to his boss who always laughs it off.
• Salaryman
• Sports Dad: Has very strong opinions about how his daughter should be gaming

Lil King, Aide Erin, Guard Colleen

Pilot: After waiting patiently to inherit the throne, the king's loyal aide is stunned when the king passes his crown (and his aide) on to his young daughter.

The cast of ''Lil King'', which follows the adventures of a child ruler, her long-suffering aide, and her dim-witted guard (who is a dragon). Hilarity ensues.

• Affectionate Parody: Of the Saturday-Morning Cartoon genre, with many of their comics being parodies of stock plots common to these.
• Beleaguered Assistant: Aide Erin, full stop.
• Big Eater: Colleen
• The Caligula / Comedic Sociopath: Lil King is a terrible ruler, and it's hilarious!
• Cloudcuckooland: Their show takes place in one.
• Deadpan Snarker: Lil King
• Delightful Dragon: As the king's bodyguard Colleen should technically be threatening, but unfortunately she's none too bright and would rather goof off.
• Halloween Cosplay: That Kid dresses up as Lil King for Halloween.
• Lighter and Softer / Denser and Wackier: Even amongst the generally silly Show Within a Show comics Lil King stands out as particularly absurd comic relief, never making a crossover into serious fare.
• Noodle Incident: The show's bread and butter, with most appearances from these characters being brief vignettes of them caught up in the middle of some crazy misadventure.
• Only Sane Man: Aide Erin always has a very reasonable solution to every problem... which no one listens to, of course. Though given the setting the sensible answer isn't always correct.
• Out of Focus: They appear infrequently in later seasons.
• Recycled with a Gimmick: Lampshaded when Season 8 brings about Lil King 2000 Extreme
  Have you ever wondered what if the Lil King gang were in an exciting new location? According to our survey some of you said "sure, I guess" so get ready for that to happen. That's right they are moving to the future.
• Royal Brat: Guess who?
• Sweet Tooth: One of Colleen's main traits.

Yellow Rose

The star of the hit series Goblin's Crusade: Yellow Rose, she's a goblin with a magic yellow rose on a crusade.

• Affectionate Parody: Of long-running adventure anime.
  • "Fanfic Of Horror II" contains Mockumentary segments that seem to poke fun at the differing reactions people have to anime, as well as the roles it can play in people's lives.
• Bloodless Carnage: Averted by one notorious episode where Yellow Rose is cut by a knife.
• Crack Pairing: As-Told-By-Crittler is seen writing Yellow Rose/Final Bloodmaster Alpha fanfiction.
• Crisis Crossover: Makes an appearance in an episode of Lil King.
• Cyclops
• Executive Meddling: Lord Marrow replaced the original staff of the show for being difficult to work with, which he is proud of because it resulted in financial success.
• Last Of Her Kind: Dialogue from one of her scenes implies that the other goblins are extinct.
• Morph Weapon: The titular yellow rose, which can be used to summon all manner of objects.
• Never Say "Die": Characters on her show don't "die," they're merely "turned into statues."
• Periphery Demographic: Adult characters such as Mint Chip and Marcus openly admit to being fans.
• Religious Programmes: Surprisingly, the show is produced by the Crow.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Makes probably the fewest appearances out of all the Show Within a Show comics but gets a decent amount of lip service from the cast and inspired Ondine to take up sword fighting.
  • A specific episode ends up being hugely important to Paisley's backstory.
• Word of Gay: In an in-universe example, she has copious amounts of Ho Yay with an unnamed villain to the point where the In-A-Dress Gang declare that "in pop culture, they're generally accepted to be gay."
• Valley Girl: How she talks.

The New Breed/The Next Generation

The new cast of characters introduced in Season 8

Fereshteh Farrokhzad

De facto leader of the new generation of Crow Cillers- the main character and she knows it. Lacks the obsessive tv trivia of her predecessor Emma, but finds herself driven to investigate the mystery of Ynce Iche all the same.

• Berserk Button: She's willing to endure some cheap shots about herself, but don't come for Zak
• The Leader
• Meaningful Name: Fereshteh is a Persian name that means "Angel"
• Mistaken for Terrorist: There's a scene where another student says not to trust her because of "9/11"
• Mythology Gag: The first episode of Season 8 features her sitting in a classroom thinking "someone should overthrow the government," a Call-Back to Emma.
• Never Bareheaded: She wears a hijab
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Her investigation of Ynce Iche ends with her friends becoming targets for the Crow and being forced into hiding.
• Puppy Love: Has a crush on Zak... and on his older sister
• Snooping Little Kid
• We Used to Be Friends: With Margot. It's heavily implied that she stopped talking to her after being threatened by her father.

Kaitlyn Gordon

For the record, don't take anything I ever say seriously. I have. Never. Been serious. And I will never. Ever. Be Serious. EVER.

Fereshteh's best friend loves sarcasm and eating. Knows how to play a fool for a good joke. There's a genuine person inside there, but she'll be damned if she's gonna let you know that.

• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Her mother attempts to make her put on fancy perfume before going over to Fereshteh's house to convince her family the Gordons are fancy, but the two seem to otherwise have a good relationship.
• Ascended Extra: Not her but her mother, Mavis, who was a minor character in Season 7.
• Big Eater
• Deadpan Snarker
• Dumb Jock: Expanded universe material shows she's on the basketball team
• Dissonant Serenity: Is completely unsurprised when she's trapped in Greta's murder lair.
• Hopeless with Tech: She breaks Breakfast's iPad and apparently cannot use Google.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Will often intentionally play dumb to land a joke
• Obsessed with Food:
  Uh, "more important than food?" Do you have a fever dude? You're speaking in tongues, Fereshteh I don't even know what you're talking about right now.

Margot Reed

Fereshteh: God, you're such a tool Margot.

Margot: Tool of justice, Farrokhzad. Tool of justice.

Proud hall monitor at Puke City West. Trying way too hard and getting nothing for her effort.

• Butt-Monkey: The victim of a lot of slapstick.
• Defective Detective: Well, hall monitor.
• Drowning My Sorrows / Drunk on Milk: Turns to Vile Lemon after she reports Jill to the Crow.
• Heroic Vow: Despite being a suck-up to the school's staff she takes her job as hall monitor very seriously and insists on standing by people she feels have helped her
  • The Oathbreaker: She ends up violating this code and selling the other kids out to Weeks.
• The Lost Lenore: Fereshteh after she "goes missing"
• Mad Eye: One of her eyes is always squinting.
• Post-Support Regret: Suffers from this hard in Season 9 when she realizes that the school faculty don't care about finding the missing students at all.
• The Rival: Considers herself one to Fereshteh, who is rather annoyed with the situation.
• Running Gag: Getting smacked in the face with doors.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Wields no real power as a hall monitor, but don't tell her that.
• We Used to Be Friends: With Fereshteh.
• Yellow Sash of Power

Zak Cross

I speak directly and succinctly.

A loner from Puke City West School who is enlisted by Kaitlyn and Fereshteh to help investigate the "ghost" haunting the school. Has a reputation as a dangerous delinquent, but he's literally just chilling out.

• Hero with Bad Publicity: As stated in his character bio there are a lot of nasty rumors floating around the school that paint him as a violent bully when he's generally very chill.
• Justified Criminal: When Margot exposes him for having a "history of violence" but given the circumstances (see below) no one blames him.
• The Stoic: Rarely emotes.
• Trans Tribulations: He has to deal with a lot of annoying students at his school:
  Zack: When I first started dressing as a dude this girl in gym gave me shit so I punched her in the nose
  Fereshteh: Oh well that's normal
  Kaitlyn: No jury would convict you, dude
• Unusual Pets for Unusual People: Has a pet snake.

Greta Abernathy

Are you okay? You almost look like you're nervously backing away from me with a look of utter terror, haha!

An unsettling child from Puke City West School who follows Fereshteh and her friends around. Behind her unconvincing smokescreen of normalcy lies an unhinged killer. Her eyeball is alive or something..? Don't worry about it. As of Season 9 she's training with the Crow to control Ynce Iche.

• Abhorrent Admirer: She desperately wants to be friends with Fereshteh and is completely oblivious to the other girl's disgust
• Affably Evil: Maintains her aggressively cheerful and friendly nature even when surrounded by the bodies of her victims.
• Beneath the Mask: Her facade cracks briefly and she responds with sadness when questioned about what Nothing looks like.
• Chekhov's Gun: She really wants Fereshteh and her friends to come see her house...
• Creepy Child
• Cute Is Evil
• Enfant Terrible: Has quite a hefty body count if her house is anything to go on.
• Motor Mouth
• No Social Skills
• Never the Obvious Suspect: Fereshteh immediately assumes she's the killer in the school, but the answer isn't that simple.
  • Red Herring Twist: The evidence that seemed to prove she wasn't the killer was fabricated by an Eldritch Abomination she's been killing people for
• Red Eyes, Take Warning
  • Magical Eye: Her eye is actually a piece of "Nothing"
• Stepford Smiler: Remains relentlessly cheerful no matter what.

Breakfast Lunch

A mysterious student from Puke City West School who is befriended by Kaitlyn and friends. Their unexpressiveness and strange hyperfixations make their sarcastic detachment play a little less clear than Kaitlyn's. But don't worry, they're acutely aware of how weird they are.

• Fanvid: Has a channel where they post clips of All Grown Up!
• Loner-Turned-Friend
• Mysterious Past: It's strange enough that they live in the school, but even stranger that they live in the Ynce Iche room.
• Odd Friendship: With Kaitlyn
• Parental Abandonment: According to Miss Weeks their parents were taken by the Crow Cillers
  • This turns out to be a Red Herring when Miss Murder later reveals she killed Breakfast's parents herself.
• Relationship Upgrade: With Kaitlyn
• Straight Man: Comically Serious in the face of Kaitlyn's hijinks
• Through the Eyes of Madness: When the cast visits the mall they view it as being made entirely of LEGO
• Unwitting Test Subject: The only reason they weren't killed with their parents was that Marcus wanted to see what would happen to someone forced to live in the Ynce Iche room.
• Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?