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Numpty
Numpty

- Set fire to your hair
- Curious as a Monkey: He apparently lit the matches because he was curious.
- Ignorant About Fire: His bio states that he was curious about some lit matches, and that's how he set fire to his hair.
- Invisible Anatomy: He somehow set his hair on fire, despite not being drawn with any.
- Kill It with Fire: He died by having set his hair on fire.
- Literal-Minded: According to his bio, when he lit the match, someone told him that "curiosity killed the cat". However, Numpty thought this was a good thing because he doesn't like cats.
- Nursery Rhyme: Has a brother of a similar name who sits on a wall with him, referencing the Humpty Dumpty rhyme.
Hapless
Hapless

- Poke a stick at a grizzly bear
- Bears Are Bad News: He dies as a result of a bear biting his head off.
- Bullying a Dragon: He pokes a bear without considering it's dangerous, and his head gets eaten in return.
- Off with His Head!: His head is completely eaten.
- Orphanage of Love: It's implied he was raised in one, given he's said to have been brought up by kind nuns. Unfortunately, due to the sheltered upbringing he received, he thought the entire world was as kind, a belief that ended up getting him killed.
- The Pollyanna: His bio states that he is full of happiness and thinks everyone and everything is happy too. Unfortunately, he was a Horrible Judge of Character when it came to that bear...
- Shared Family Quirks: He's apparently a distant relative of Dummkopf, according to Dummkopf's bio. Both of them died by prodding things they shouldn't have.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: Believes everything is full of love and happiness. That extended to grizzly bears.
Pillock
Pillock

- Eat medicine that's out of date
- Absent-Minded Professor: He's apparently a biomedical scientist since he developed a cure for cancer, but he's dopey enough to forget his own birthday and even write a note-to-self to check the expiration date of his medicine... on the steam on his bathroom mirror.
- Artistic License – Medicine: What happened to him is highly unlikely to happen if a real person takes expired medication, as expired medication is inert. Still not recommended, though...
- Body Horror: He becomes swollen with bumps after his death.
- Ditzy Genius: He may be a biomedical scientist, and he even has flashes of brilliance, like developing a cure for cancer. However, this is cancelled out by his forgetfulness.
- Forgetful Jones: Stated to be one in his bio, which was why he forgot to check the use-by date at the time of his death. He even forgot his own birthday!
- Way Past the Expiration Date: He dies by taking medicine past its expiration date.
Dippy
Dippy

- Use your private parts as piranha bait
- Artificial Human: In her bio, it's stated that Dippy was meant to be a super species that could live underwater, but it didn't go very well.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Apparently, due to being the result of a failed attempt to make an underwater species, she's obsessed with liquid.
- Groin Attack: Her private parts were used for piranha bait. Ouch.
- Meaningful Name: Not only is she "dippy", as in silly or foolish, she likes to dip her body parts in liquids.
- Piranha Problem: Hwr lower body is completely eaten by piranhas, leaving only the bones.
- Toilet Humour: Apparently, she used to dip her naughty bits in the toilet.
Dummkopf
Dummkopf

- Get your toast out with a fork
- Artistic License – Physics: An electric toaster would produce less electricity due to its walls being electricity-resistant, and it certainly won't generate enough electricity to fry someone's skin off.
- Bilingual Bonus: "Dummkopf" is the literal German word for "fool".
- Dem Bones: He becomes a living skeleton after he gets electrocuted.
- High-Voltage Death: His skin is completely fried off when electrocuted, leaving only his skeleton behind.
- Major Injury Underreaction: His only response to his skin burning off is to look sadly at the floor.
- Shared Family Quirks:
- He's distantly related to Hapless in some way, and they're both fools who died from prodding at things they shouldn't have.
- His great grandfather was apparently equally reckless, since he disposed of bombs as a hobby.
Dimwit
Dimwit

- Do your own electrical work
- Ash Face: He becomes completely covered in ash when his house burns down.
- Color Blind Confusion: Dimwit's colorblindness was a contributing factor in his death, since he got two wires confused.
- Doom It Yourself: He attempts to work on his house's wiring until he accidentally sets it on fire.
- House Fire: When he tries to do his own electrical work, he accidentally sets his house on fire.
- Ignorant About Fire: He just stands there while his house is on fire, which is what kills him.
- Kill It with Fire: Numpty's hair was set on fire, but Dimwit's entire house burned down, causing more damage.
- Wire Dilemma: Part of why he died was because, being colourblind, he couldn't tell the difference between two wires.
Stupe
Stupe

- Teach yourself how to fly
- Captain Crash: He crashes his plane and gets decapitated.
- Determinator: He believes that anything can be accomplished if you set your mind to it.
- Detrimental Determination: Both he and his father believed that anything can be accomplished with effort. Dummo was apparently killed by the sharks he tried to tame, and Stupe lost his head when he tried to teach himself how to fly an airplane.
- Disappeared Dad: His father Dummo is also dead; it's implied that one of his sharks killed him.
- Doom It Yourself: He tries to teach himself to fly... with fatal results.
- Losing Your Head: He is decapitated like Hapless, except the headless Stupe is able to sing and move his head in the chorus.
- Shared Family Quirks: His father Dummo was just as stupid and daring as him and also believed nothing was impossible — he was a shark tamer.
Lax
Lax

- Eat a two-week old unrefrigerated pie
- Big Eater: Stated to eat a lot in his description. Unfortunately, his appetite includes unrefrigerated pies.
- Camera Abuse: Lax vomits all over the camera before his death.
- Extreme Omnivore: Apparently, he eats everything.
- The Food Poisoning Incident: He dies by eating a two-week-old unrefrigerated pie.
- The Noseless: Well, none of the characters have noses, but it's really only a problem for Lax. According to his bio, he has no sense of smell, which led to his death when he ate a two-week-old unrefrigerated pie.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: After eating the pie, he vomits all over the screen. He is seen with vomit all over his mouth after his death.
Clod
Clod

- Invite a psycho killer inside
- Ax-Crazy: Is a serial killer and described as being "psycho" and having an irrational hatred for doors.
- Chainsaw Good: Clod wields one as a reference to Leatherface.
- Expy: He has traits from a total of three horror movie villains (specifically, he has Freddy Krueger's claw, Jason Voorhees's mask, and Leatherface's chainsaw).
- Hockey Mask and Chainsaw: Clod has Jason Voorhees's mask and Leatherface's chainsaw.
- Obviously Evil: He is not subtle at all about being a psycho killer, packing not one but three iconic slasher villain items. Of course, this is intentional, to establish that you'd have to be pretty dumb to invite someone like him inside.
- Serial Killer: He kills every weekend.
- Sole Survivor: He's the only bean in the series who does not die.
- Start of Darkness: Clod was originally a door-to-door door salesman until he discovered that people already had doors. He since became a door-to-door murderer
- Token Evil Teammate: The only bean who causes death rather than enacting it.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: A minigame in Dumb Ways To Die 4 shows that he's scared of bears.
Doomed
Doomed

- Scratch a drug dealer's brand-new ride
- Batter Up!: The drug dealer bats him to death.
- Bullying a Dragon: He learns the hard way that scratching the cars of drug dealers is a really bad idea.
- Die Laughing: According to his bio, he still laughed in his plastic bag as he was being beaten to death.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Why was he batted by the drug dealer? Because he scratched their new ride!
- The Faceless: Because he's always in a bag, we never see his face.
Numskull
Numskull

- Take your helmet off in outer space
- Ambiguous Gender: Was designed with no gender in mind, until she became a female.
- Artistic License – Physics: Recycles the old myth that you explode if exposed to space. Not that being exposed to space is a pleasant experience, but no, you don't explode.
- Eyes Are Unbreakable: Her eyeballs are the only remaining parts of her head after it explodes.
- Sudden Anatomy: For some reason, her eyeballs suddenly gain sclerae after her head explodes, something no other bean has.
- Upper-Class Twit: Rich enough to buy an abandoned Russian Space Station, dumb enough to take her helmet off in the vacuum of space.
- Your Head A-Splode: Her head swells up before exploding violently.
Bungle
Bungle

- Use a clothes dryer as a hiding place
- Fold-Spindle Mutilation: Hiding in a cramped clothes dryer certainly wasn't comfortable, to say the least.
- Manchild: Is supposedly an adult bean, but loves to play hide-and-seek.
Mishap
Mishap

- Keep a rattlesnake as a pet
- Eye Scream: His eye is bitten by his pet rattlesnake.
- Naïve Animal Lover: He kept a rattlesnake and didn't know how to raise it properly, leading to him being bitten to death.
- Snakes Are Sinister: He dies because a snake bit him, and the song suggests all rattlesnakes are equally dangerous.
- Unusual Pets for Unusual People: He's dumb enough to think snakes like playing fetch and eating hot dogs, and he keeps a pet snake.
Dunce
Dunce

- Sell both your kidneys on the internet
- Beat Still, My Heart: He rips out his own heart and presents it to Ninny... and then dies.
- Greed Makes You Dumb: Dunce sells off not one, but both of his kidneys for a quick buck.
- I'm a Humanitarian: Possibly. In the "Melbourne International Film Festival
" video, he's the last person to turn his head after Hapless' head got eaten... again. - Only a Flesh Wound: He can stand up and dance even without his kidneys. Averted when he rips out his heart, and predictably doesn't survive.
- Shaking the Rump: His signature dance move is shaking his butt while waving his money in the air.
- Worth It: He seems to feel this way about selling his kidneys, happily waving around the stack of cash he got from them.
Calamity
Calamity

- Eat a tube of superglue
- Ambiguous Gender: Was designed with no gender in mind, until she became a female.
- Artistic License – Biology: Consuming the contents of a tube of superglue is not good for your health, but paralysis and death are unlikely symptoms. Poisoning, vomiting, and dizziness are more likely to occur.
- Black Comedy Pet Death: She apparently had a goldfish, who died of the plague. Zigzagged for her cat, who was "kidnapped" by a tornado, but it's unknown if this killed it.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Apparently, she loves all things tube-like.
- Died Standing Up: She's still standing after dying.
- Dies Wide Open: Her eyes are still open after her death. The only thing that signifies her death is her dropping the tube of superglue.
- Paste Eater: She eats a tube of superglue and gets completely paralyzed.
- Wink "Ding!": If the player successfully prevents her from falling over, she winks to the camera with an audible ding noise.
Ninny
Ninny

- "I wonder, what's this red button do?"
- Big Red Button: I wonder, what's this red button do? BOOM!
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Apparently, she really loves red things.
- Curious as a Monkey: She pressed the button because she wanted to know what it did (and also because it was red, which is her favourite colour).
- Earth-Shattering Kaboom: After pressing the button. Strangely, the huge explosion doesn't seem to do anything, as neither Ninny nor anyone else has been blown up.
- Vocal Dissonance: Ninny has a female voice in the original video and looks like a girl in the Valentine's special. However,
Word of God confirmed that Ninny was male, until the official website changed her gender to female. - What Does This Button Do?: Ninny wonders what the button does before pressing it and causing an Earth-Shattering Kaboom.
Botch
Botch

- Dress up as a moose during hunting season
- Eyes Always Shut: He even dies with his eyes closed.
- Great White Hunter: Who kills him, mainly because they're just as stupid as he is since they fell for his Paper-Thin Disguise.
- Multiple Gunshot Death: His wounds, still dripping with blood, say it all.
- Nature Lover: He enjoys running through the forest.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Somehow, just wearing a pair of moose horns is enough to make the hunters think he is an actual moose.
Doofus
Doofus

- Disturb a nest of wasps for no good reason
- Artistic License – Biology: Averted with the Stock Beehive he throws. It closely resembles the intended wasp hive.
- Big Sleep: Like Botch, he dies with his eyes closed.
- Bullying a Dragon: He throws a wasp hive, causing the wasps within to sting him to death.
- Childhood Brain Damage: Was prone to head injuries as a kid, and now he's dumb enough to use a wasp nest as a ball.
- Scary Stinging Swarm: Wasps cause his death.
- Stock Beehive: He throws a generic-looking wasp nest before awakening the wasps.
Stumble
Stumble

- Stand on the edge of a train station platform
- Dumb Blonde: He has blond hair and he stands too close to the train station platform.
- Eyes Out of Sight: His hair always covers his eyes.
- Headphones Equal Isolation: Because of his headphones, he couldn't hear the train that killed him until it was too late.
- Racing the Train: In "Happy Train Friends", Stumble is forced to do this while inside the train (the floor of the compartment he was trapped in gave way). This eventually destroys his feet and he trips, causing him to be mangled by the train axle.
Bonehead
Bonehead

- Drive around the boomgates at a level crossing
- Cool Car: He loves his car.
- A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: He dies because he loses his patience and gets run over by the next train.
Putz
Putz

- Run across the tracks between the platforms
- Eat the Camera: When he is hit by the train, Putz's screaming mouth fills the camera.
- Gonk: Putz has a unibrow, overbite and two up-facing teeth that make him look uglier than the other beans.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: He is split in half by the train.
- I'm a Humanitarian: Putz gets on the receiving end of this by Nutty when they hug each other, with the latter mistaking him for a giant jelly bean and biting a chunk out of his body.
- Lazy Bum: He ran across the tracks because he was too lazy to go around them.
- Primal Stance: Has a stance like a gorilla.
- A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: Like Bonehead, his impatience to wait gets him run over by a train.
