A dossier of characters in Everything is Fine. Unmarked spoilers are ahead, so proceed with caution.
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Protagonists
Sam Wilkerson
- Ambiguously Brown: His skin-tone is a bit darker than Maggie's.
- Decoy Protagonist: Despite being featured on the cover together with his wife and being the first character introduced, his role in the story is smaller than Maggie's and sometimes antagonistic to her. It's Maggie who starts acting against their strict society's rules and Maggie who ultimately decides to rebel against the near-constant surveillance they're under while Sam is more willing to go along with it, if only to see his daughter again.
- Dead Person Impersonation: Impersonates Officer Tom at the end of Funny How to cover up Maggie’s murder of him (and possibly to frame Bob and Linda for it instead).
- Domestic Abuse: He's unfairly domineering his wife due to his pre-ordained status as a male breadwinner. It's made clear that the abuse is mainly because of the horrible society that forces them into roles. Later chapters show even more clearly that this is an act that he doesn't enjoy, and he and Maggie genuinely do love each other and their daughter. He even later admits he "treated her like dirt" and apologizes.
- Good Parents: His dream when he was young was to be a father, and he and Maggie seem to have been great with their daughter when they had her.
- Guilt-Induced Nightmare: Has one in Captain Feelbad where he sees Bob, Linda, Tom and Becky in gory detail.
- Heel–Face Turn: He admits that he got comfortable enough with his new situation in the dystopian society to settle into it. Once Maggie snaps him out of his conformation, points out the futility of going along with it and gives them a way to be themselves in the tinfoil room, it doesn't take same long Sam to reveal his true feelings and wholeheartedly joins Maggie in her secret rebelling against the system.
- Pet the Dog: In Mom's Spaghetti, he gives Winston's corpse away for a homeless man to eat. He is visibly struggling with this decision and can't bring himself to eat afterwards.
- Stepford Smiler: He has moments in his otherwise positive attitude where he freezes up. He loses his ability to keep it up entirely after Maggie murders Tom right in front of him.
Maggie Wilkerson
- Ambiguously Brown: Her skin is browner than Linda's or Bob's. The opener of Season 2 confirms that her mother was named Setsuko, implying she's at least partly Japanese.
- Armor-Piercing Question:
- When Sam claims that playing the game is the only way to get anywhere in his job, she asks him whether playing is really going to change the situation when the casino is run by someone else entirely. Sam can't seem to find an answer to this.
- When seeing Linda pack for her and Bob's move to Lakeview, Maggie pointedly asks whether the promotion has anything to do with Charlie.
- The Dog Bites Back: After spending 16 chapters getting pushed around by her husband and neighbors, harassed by Officer Tom, and progressively cracking under the pressure of her oppressive society, Maggie picks up a hammer and beats Tom to death when he discovers that she turned her basement into a Faraday cage just like Charlie. She gives him an Ironic Echo of the last thing he said to Charlie, as well. She gets back at Bob and Linda for turning her and Charlie in to the authorities too, by trying to frame them for Tom's murder.
- Domestic Abuse: She gets passive-aggressively abused by her husband due to the horrible society that forces them into 50s-era gender roles. Occasionally, she'll passive-aggressively fight back.
- Feminine Women Can Cook: She's a traditional house-wife and her dream was to open her own restaurant. She also has a tattoo of an onion, celery and carrot, which are the ingredients for a Mirepoix, a traditional French soup.
- Good Parents: When their daughter was present she was well taken care of and the family seemed to be very happy.
- Housewife: Sam is the breadwinner of the house, while she stays in, cooks and cleans.
- Mama Bear: Everything she does is for the sake of her daughter, who seems to be held somewhere with the other children as leverage. This eventually turns from going along with he oppressive society to murdering a cop and framing her neighbors for his disappearance.
- She is also quick to threaten Horace and the other rebels after they claim her family is "baggage".
- Pink Is Feminine: Her cat-helmet is pink, as is most of her clothing, and she's a traditional housewife.
- Sanity Slippage: Experiences a hefty one after An Iron Voice. Maggie becomes haunted by hallucinations and is heavily depressed after witnessing Charlie's status being changed to red. At one point it gets so bad she tries to kill herself, but she stops at the last second after remembering a happy moment with Sam and their daughter.
- Stepford Smiler: Is generally in denial about how miserable she is. This starts to disappear after Crocodile Teeth, when she finally decides to stop lying to herself, and fully disappears by the end of Animals Are Free after beating Officer Tom to death with a hammer in front of Sam in her now foil-isolated basement.
- Tranquil Fury: She tends to keep a calm voice even when obviously enraged. A necessity in a society that punishes you for negative emotions.
Neighbors
Bob and Linda Miller
- Alas, Poor Villain: While they don't die, they may as well. And as awful as they are, being Forced to Watch your children fall to their deaths is beyond messed-up.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Linda acts friendly most of the time, but in Had to be There she not so subtly slut-shames Maggie for the sultry dress she's wearing. Bob isn't much better as his "friendly" invitation to Charlie becomes very threatening when Charlie tries to decline. In Friends for Dinner he and Linda also propose selling out another neighbor named Barbara who they claim has been going through their trash, in order to get a cushy Lakeview promotion. Linda in particular is very vulgar and domineering over Bob when the pair aren’t being supervised, calling him an idiot for thinking Sam and Maggie killed Officer Tom.
- Cassandra Truth: Linda refuses to believe Bob’s theory that Sam and Maggie murdered Officer Tom, and when he tries to call the police about it his surveillance kicks in and he meekly drops the subject.
- Everyone Has Standards: Bob and Linda appear to be equally complicit in most likely being the ones who reported Charlie to the police, but Bob is taken aback when Linda decides to report Maggie and Sam as well and even tells her that it's unnecessary.
- Foil: To Sam and Maggie. While Sam and Maggie seem to have trouble adjusting to their new life and Maggie even begins acting out after Winston is eaten, Bob and Linda have an iron grip on their feelings and play by the rules to get ahead. Bob and Linda even subtly shame Maggie for going against their society's rules in Had to be There. One More Time confirms that like Sam and Maggie, Bob and Linda have children that they desperately want to see again, but instead of using this to find strength to rebel, they are fanatically devoted to upholding the façade of society and willing to turn on others for it. The same chapter shows that while Sam and Maggie are initially passive aggressive with each other to deal with their situation, they do still love and care for each other enough to work together in private, while Bob and Linda act nearly in sync in public, but in private Linda is extremely domineering to Bob and dismissive of any of his complaints, while he is too timid to question her.
- When Maggie finally sheds her demure housewife-persona, she does so in a controlled environment and carefully plans an exit strategy together with her partner right after. Linda just full on loses it in front of two police officers, attempts to kill Maggie, seemingly without any follow-up plans, and tells Bob to shut up when he tries to calm her down.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Linda fiercely believes that Sam and Maggie are “the most spineless people in the neighborhood” when in reality Maggie is now anything but.
- Hypocrite:
- They turned in Charlie and attempted to turn in Maggie and Sam for using tinfoil to make part of their homes shielded from the government bugs, but One More Time shows that they too have a tinfoiled room in their house where they hide to speak with each other freely.
- After they get their status set to red due to Sam and Maggie having framed them for Officer Tom's murder, Linda calls Maggie and Sam out on it and for not just letting her and Bob go. Apparently forgetting that she herself could have just left Charlie and Maggie alone, but instead chose to sic the police on them only days prior. In Maggie's case it's even more egregious, since by then Linda selling out Charlie had already gotten her and Bob the promotion they wanted and there was little to no reason to ruin Maggie and Sam's lives as well.
- Laser-Guided Karma: They ruined an innocent man's life and got him unpersoned by reporting him to the police, so they could profit from his sentence. Their own demise comes about from being framed by a woman they intended to do the same to. Maggie and Sam frame them for the death of a police officer and they get their status set to red the very night before they got to Lakeview.
- The Stool Pigeon: It's heavily implied Linda and Bob sold out Charlie and Maggie in order to get to Lakeview. Whether or not they did, it's clear they're not at all hesitant of throwing neighbors under the bus for their own gain. When Linda sees Maggie buying tin foil much like Charlie used to, she immediately calls the police on her. Even Bob seems taken aback by her willingness to potentially doom their neighbors.
- Uncertain Doom: Their fate after being set to Red Status is never directly shown, but given the reveal that their neighborhood is being burned down, it's unlikely they survived much longer afterwards.
- Somewhat confirmed in Captain Feelbad, where they are shown in Sam’s hallucination.
- Unperson: Their fate at the end of "No Going Back" Having been set to Red Status after being framed for the death of Officer Tom
Charlie Harris
- Driven to Suicide: In Pleasure to Burn he attempts to kill himself at his old workplace to be reunited with his daughter again, but is stopped by Judy.
- Crazy Survivalist: He purchased heaps of tin foil for... something. Science 101 reveals he was using it to make his basement into a Faraday Cage.
- Creepy Basement: His basement is played up as a major mystery, with no one in the neighborhood having ever been in it. Charlie claims it just contains his model trains, but it's obvious that that is not the case. In Science 101 it’s revealed that the basement is actually a Faraday Cage, blocking the government's surveillance.
- The Hermit: Downplayed, but he doesn't seem to like socializing much. When Bob invites him to dinner, he tries to decline at first, but is eventually pressured into saying yes. Might be related to him being heavily hinted to be the Only Sane Man in a community of creepy Stepford Smilers.
- I Have a Family: Attempts to win Tom's sympathy by telling Tom his daughter's name, but it fails.
- Only Sane Man: He's the only one in the neighborhood who doesn't seem to have the patience for being overly polite all the time. He's not rude by any means, but he mostly keeps to himself.
- Plot-Triggering Deathnote : His unpersoning is the catalyst behind Maggie’s Sanity Slippage, subsequent Character Development and her murder of Officer Tom.
- Put on a Bus: He essentially disappears from the story after being set to red in An Iron Voice with it being left ambiguous whether or not he survived being unpersoned.
- The Bus Came Back: After being absent for nine episodes, he reappears in Pleasure to Burn and is recruited into the rebellion by Judy.
- Rail Enthusiast: He spends most of his time in his basement playing with his toy trains, according to Bob and Linda.
- When he appears again What Will Be, he's shown inside an actual train.
- Unperson: Is made this as punishment for going against the rules in An Iron Voice. His status is set to red, he's kicked out of his house and the neighbors are forced to pretend he never existed at all.
Judy
- Ambiguously Evil: Season Three implies that she may actually be on her way to becoming as bad as the totalitarian government she fights. She displays a strong ruthless streak by planning to get someone "Redded" and thus condemning their child to death and ordering Gina killed after a seemingly successful Patrick Stewart Speech. Not only this, but she says exactly to an understandably-shocked Maggie affirming that they "can't have someone that volatile"... which is exactly what Julian said about Chris's impending turn to Red status.
- Deadpan Snarker: When she sees Charlie trying to commit suicide by burning himself in the box factory's incinerator, she snarks that he could've just waited a bit, since the neighborhood was going to be torched that day anyway.
- Foreshadowing: Judy tells Maggie that she should be prepared to "carve that bird up" if she really intends to go through with rebelling against the government. Maggie kills Officer Tom two episodes later to keep him from ratting her out.
- Spy Speak: Instructs Maggie on how to properly isolate her basement with tin foil under the guise of giving her cooking advice for turkey. Justified, since she’s actually a member of the rebellion and knows full well that a slip of the tongue could get her killed.
Julian
- Real Men Wear Pink: Bordering on Ambiguously Gay. The tallest and most muscular male character introduced so far, his helmet is pink with a butterfly sticker on it, he compliments Maggie on her 'divine' dress and recommends she buys scarves from his friend in town.
- Official Couple: With Greg, as revealed in Use A Drink.
Sophie and Kate
- Masculine–Feminine Gay Couple: Sophie wears a tuxedo to the trial, while her wife Kate wears a dress.
- Punch-Clock Villain: A sympathetic example. They hunt down people with Red-Status, but only because for every smiley they earn, the closer they get to see their children.
Gina and Chris
- The Beard: In Fall, Chris is revealed to be this for Gina. Both of them are gay, and Gina never had any kids. This would have gotten her killed, so they pretended to be a couple and claimed Chris's son as both of their's.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: They act very friendly and welcoming to Sam and Maggie on their first few days in Lakeview, but then use a Frame-Up engineered to trick Sam and Maggie to make themselves look good at the trial, even though they had the evidence to clear Sam and Maggie's names right away. They also show little to no hesitation or remorse about hunting down people with Red-status, even joking about it before and after.
- I Did What I Had to Do: How they see taking part in Lakeview's messed up system.
- Foil: To Bob and Linda from season 1.
- While Bob and Linda used every opportunity to trip Sam and Maggie up, Gina and Chris save Sam and Maggie from getting their first Demerit. Bob and Linda reported a guy who did absolutely nothing wrong, Chris and Gina report someone who was trying to get a Merit at someone else's expense.
- Gina and Chris are far more honest with their intentions and willingness to play the system. Directly telling Sam and Maggie they want to form an alliance and stick with their plan as opposed to Bob and Linda's vague allusion to forming an alliance and then trying to sell out their neighborhoods right afterward.
- The two appear to have a far more equal and affectionate relationship compared to Linda's control over Bob
- No Sense of Personal Space: During the trial in The Rules, Gina gets really up in Maggie's face, to the point their masks get pressed together.
- Stepford Smiler: In I Made You This, when Sam shows anger over Chris and Gina being so nonchalant about killing Becky, Gina retorts that it isn't fun for them and all the joking about it is their way of coping with the horrible things their society makes them do.
Dave
Another one of Sam and Maggie’s neighbors in Lakeview.
- Faux Affably Evil: Though seemingly friendly, he enjoys getting people redded and killing them later.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: A literal example as Sam kills him using the same harpoon gun.
- Serial Killer: Implied to be one in the “old world”.
- Would Hurt a Child: He had no qualms killing children and has gotten many people redded.
Horace
One of the leading figures in the Rebellion.
- Mad Scientist: He’s shown doing rather questionable things such as taking trackers out of the helmets and implanting them into squirrels. However he has also figured out how to re-activate the mouth mechanisms in the helmets by using electromagnets and creating signal jamming technology.
Authorities
Officer Tom
- Asshole Victim: He unpersoned Charlie, and tormented Maggie to the point of near-suicide just for being friends with him, and eventually ends up killed by a claw hammer-wielding, Maggie.
- Bludgeoned to Death: Maggie bludgeons him to death with the business end of a claw hammer at the end of Animals Are Free.
- Even Evil Can Be Loved: Downplayed, but Tom's coworkers and wife are shown mourning his death after finding his body.
- Faux Affably Evil: Acts nice and forthcoming, but reinforces the neighborhood's rules mercilessly and cannot be swayed by begging or reasoning.
- For the Evulz: Seems to be tormenting Maggie for no real reason other than his own sick amusement. It bites him in the ass hard by the end of Animals are Free.
- I Have a Family: He tells Maggie about his family, to try to deter her from killing him. Given that she saw him coldly ignore the same ploy from Charlie, it doesn't stop her.
- Karmic Death: Is murdered by the same woman he repeatedly antagonized and intimidated for his personal amusement.
- The way he begs for her to spare him is almost word-for-word identical to how Charlie begged to be spared.
- Kick the Dog: After setting Charlie to red, he starts terrorizing Maggie and even baiting her into acknowledging Charlie's existence. When she doesn't fall for it, he tells her he'll be "seeing" her.
Officer Greg
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To Officer Tom from season 1. While Tom was really gung-ho about busting rule-breakers and setting them to Red-status, Greg seems a lit more hesitant about handing out Demerits and participating in obvious frame-ups and demands actual evidence before he hands out Frownies to somebody.
- When it comes to Sam's obvious frame-up of Gina and Chris, he's shown to be rather apathetic about the whole "justice" system. That said, he has the decency to talk the couple through all of their options before acting, and even gives them a choice to leave on their own so they won't have to be hunted down.
- Official Couple: With Julian, as revealed in Use a Drink.
Laura
- Driven to Suicide: Takes her own life in Warm Again due to not being able to ever see her children again (as authority figures like mayors and police are not allowed to), allowing Maggie to mark her as Red-Status in order for the rebellion to track the signals/
- Early-Bird Cameo: She's first seen at the beginning of One Body One Problem when she calls Tom's partner to ask about his whereabouts, although partially obscured by the comic framing. Sam and Maggie get a glimpse of a picture of her with Tom in Heat Death as they are being driven out of their suburb. She is officially introduced in All Good Things, where they learn that she is the mayor of their new hometown.
- Foreshadowing: Laura's office (first seen in Episode 46) has a painting reminiscent of Caravaggio's Judith Beheading Holofernes
◊...except that all of the figures have cat helmets. A few episodes later, Laura explains her backstory: she was a pastor before the "New Government" took over, and she became mayor after killing the cruel, corrupt mayor before her. The Biblical (or apocryphal, depending on denomination) Judith was a devout woman who killed the tyrannical Holofernes to save her people from suffering under his rule. - Reasonable Authority Figure: As reasonable as one can be, given the circumstances. After killing Lakeview's extremely corrupt first leader, she created the sticker and voting system in order to make things somewhat fair for everyone. She also tried to get rid of the hunts, but the higher ups in the government wouldn't allow it, so she gave the Reds a head-start so they'd have a fighting chance.
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Children
Bob and Linda's children
- Shout-Out: On the boy's t-shirt are clear silouhettes of The Powerpuff Girls.
Sarah
Maggie and Sam’s daughter.
- Ambiguous Situation: Maggie and Sam are only able to call her, so they don’t know about her wellbeing. From what it sounds like, she seems to be acting different.
- Brainwashed: From what we hear of her in the Season 3 opener, Sarah’s "new friends" convinced her to accept the new world, urging her parents to not come for her.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: She was a sweet and playful little girl before everything happened.
Pleasehold
A child who is part of the rebellion.
- Ambiguously Brown: They have a darker skintone, around the same shade as Maggie’s.
- Enfant Terrible: They apparently were found covered in blood and normally charge at people with their axes. They later kill Gina with little hesitation.
- Verbal Tic Name: All they can say is "please hold", so everyone just calls them Pleasehold.
