Noah "Bean" Bienstock
Debut: Goosebumps Most Wanted #3: How I Met My Monster
A bullied kid with recurring nightmares who befriends a boy named Munroe who he starts suspecting might be a monster.
- Butt-Monkey: He's constantly picked on by Harlan.
- Enemy Eats Your Lunch: His bully Harlan regularly forces him to give up his lunch money, forcing him to go hungry.
- In-Series Nickname: Everyone except his teacher calls him the first part of his last name, "Bean", even his parents.
- Shrinking Violet: His timidity and inability to stand up for himself makes him an easy target for bullies.
- Significant Anagram: The first word of the apartment he lives in, Sternom House, is an anagram for Monster. It turns out everyone in the apartment is a monster, including him.
- Tomato in the Mirror: He suspects for most of the book that Harlan is a monster, then discovers that his friend Lissa is a monster, and by the end learns that everyone in his apartment is a monster, including him and his parents, and the book ends with him and his friends going to scare his bully in their monster forms.
