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Jay and Silent Bob

    Tropes about Jay and Silent Bob as a duo 

Jay and Silent Bob

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Silent Bob (left) and Jay (right).

Appearances: Clerks | Mallrats | Chasing Amy | Dogma | Clerks: The Animated Series | Scream 3 note  | Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back | Clerks II | Jay and Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie | Jay and Silent Bob Reboot | Clerks III

A long-haired, loudmouth stoner and his bearded, mostly silent hetero-life mate.


  • Anti-Hero: They're drug dealers and petty criminals, but not really bad guys, and do at least one good thing in every movie.
  • Badass Normal: In Dogma, they beat up a trio of mid-level demons. Silent Bob later takes on two Fallen Angels and wins.
  • Big Damn Heroes: In Dogma, they are introduced showing up just in time to save Bethany.
  • Breakout Character: The reason Kevin Smith brought them back in Mallrats was because he wanted to see Jason Mewes play Jay one more time. According to his blog, he had no idea they were so popular at all until the screening of Mallrats at the 1995 San Diego Comic-Con. After that, he felt confident enough to put them as bit characters again in Chasing Amy, to give them a more prominent part in Dogma, and finally to make a whole movie about them: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. The two have also become the Series Mascot for View Askew in regards to merchandising, appearing in TV spots, music videos, and comic books (including a comic book store named after them, Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash). Smith and Mewes also have a podcast called Jay and Silent Bob Get Old which chronicles the actors' real-life experiences and misadventures.
  • Chivalrous Pervert: Despite being a pair of lecherous horn-dogs, Jay and Bob will not hesitate to leap to the aid of a lone woman being attacked or donate their own drugs to help their buddies win back their girlfriends.
  • Christmas Elves: The Holiday Special comic has Santa hiring them to do this due to the actual elves' incompetence.
  • A Day in the Limelight: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back was this for the characters after their appearances in four of Smith's previous films.
  • Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: In Dogma, they make their entrance by beating up three demons, for crying out loud.
  • Fat and Skinny: Silent Bob is stockier and Jay is skinny. Averted as of Reboot, see Formerly Fat below.
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners: The Trope Namer. Though the actual line in the films is "Hetero Life-Mate".
  • High-School Rejects
  • Horror Host: The Lost Scene comic has them in a parody of this role.
  • Internet Jerk: At the end of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, they fly all over the country to kick the asses of the kids who made fun of them on the Internet.
  • Like an Old Married Couple: Lampshaded and discussed quite frequently by Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes themselves. In Reboot, a throwaway line ("we Hulu and humped") reveals that Jay and Silent Bob, while still attracted to women and using the "hetero life mate" phrase, have actually come out as a couple, which Kevin Smith confirms.
  • Manchild:
    • Clerks II finds the duo in their early 30s, still dealing outside the Quick Stop, with seemingly no intention of changing their tune anytime soon (though they, despite still selling drugs, don't take them like they used to by that point, and Jay does lament having not accomplished more in life).
    • In Reboot, now in their 40s, they have turned RST Video into a faux chicken restaurant to grow their own weed. With marijuana becoming legal, Clerks III sees them operate a legal marijuana dispensary in the same place, but even then, they spend more time smoking weed than selling it.
  • Only One Name: Their full names have never been revealed.
  • Pop-Cultured Badass: Various references dropped by Jay, not to mention the justification for their presence in Illinois by the time Dogma starts, indicate that both of them are avid cinephiles. They've also shown interest in comic books and a wide variety of musical styles.
  • Real Men Hate Sugar: Averted in Jay's case.
    • In Chasing Amy he is seen eating sugar straight out of the container.
    • Silent Bob is buying powdered sugar when he speaks with Dante in Clerks.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: Jay is the brash, hot-headed Red and Silent Bob is the calmer, reserved Blue. Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith are apparently like this in real life too, the only difference being that Kevin tends to be the more talkative one while Jason is more reserved (at least around Kevin).
  • Sitcom Archnemesis: To Randal. They're some of the few people who really get under his skin, being as they're the only ones who can consistently troll him and whom he has difficulty countering against or driving away. It takes Randal putting a restraining order on the duo in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back to get them out of his hair for a while.
  • The Slacker: Jay seems to regret being one of these in Clerks II: "Sometimes I wish I had done a little more with my life instead of hanging out in front of places selling weed and shit."
  • Status Quo Is God:
    • Despite becoming obscenely wealthy after the events of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, they're back to being drug dealers by the time of Clerks II, seemingly out of boredom. Their wealth is actually a plot point in the latter movie.
    • Come Clerks III, weed is now legal and the pair run their own legal dispensary, but they still enjoy selling weed outside, as they did back in the day.
  • The Stoner: Though we never actually see them smoke until Dogma. Their drug use becomes more explicit from Reboot onwards, likely in accordance with Kevin Smith becoming a huge stoner in real life.
  • The Teetotaler: In Clerks II, they've sobered up after being arrested and sent to court-mandated rehab and finding religion after. Dropped in Reboot.
  • Those Two Guys: They're the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of The View Askewniverse.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: Jay is constantly yelling at Silent Bob and insulting him to his face, usually about his weight when it applies. Bob's outburst in Strike Back after Jay fails to spot the "Critters of Hollywood" sign represents the fury of several years spent with Jay.

    Tropes about Jay 

Jason "Jay" Derris

Played By: Jason Mewes

The more vocal half of the duo.


  • Adam Westing: According to Kevin Smith, Jay is the personification of how Jason Mewes used to act in his teen years.
  • Ambiguously Bi: He's clearly attracted to women, but represses his attraction to dudes.
    • For while, the closest thing we got to him admitting it was this exchange from Dogma.
    Rufus: When you [masturbate], you're thinking about guys.
    Jay: ...Dude, not all the time.
    • And then he outright confirms it in Reboot (not a fan theory, Kevin Smith admits it to be the intention behind the line):
    Jay: (talking about him and Silent Bob) One time we Hulu and humped.
  • And Starring: Jason Mewes gets this treatment in the opening credits of Chasing Amy, Clerks II, and Clerks III.
  • Breaking the Cycle of Bad Parenting: As soon as he finds out that he is a father, Jay tries to assert his authority and be protective of Milly, the fact that she is 18 hinders it a bit but realizes that he needs to be more selfless for her sake. This is in contrast to his mother who he takes after, but with Skewed Priorities in her case (leaving baby Jay outside in his stroller so she can "score").
  • Butt-Monkey: He gets put through the wringer a lot in the Super Groovy Cartoon Movie.
  • Casanova Wannabe: Jay styles himself as a, "...smooth pimp who loves the pussy" and propositions pretty much every woman he comes across. However, he is more often than not seen as an Abhorrent Admirer. In Jay and Silent Bob Reboot Justice sums up his prowess by calling him, "Mr. Cum Quick, Thumb Dick."
  • Catchphrase: Jay keeps pushing "Snooch to the nooch!", "Snoochie-boochies!", and other variants. None of them catch on. He's stopped using these long enough to forget about them by the time Clerks III happens.
    • "SNOOGANS!"
  • Character Development: He matures significantly after meeting his daughter Milly, going from a Manchild slacker and Jerkass to a more even-tempered father who turns the former RST video into a THC store with Silent Bob.
  • Characterization Marches On: Jay's signature stupidity didn't actually originate in Clerks: if anything, he is more obnoxious than dumb in his debut movie. He does get silly in Mallrats, but that can be attributed to the overall cartoonishness of the movie, and even then, he actually manages to devise schemes to take down LaFours that have a chance to work. Chasing Amy reverts him to his original obnoxious personality, and finally his signature ditziness is introduced (and actually plays a part) in Dogma.
  • Cloud Cuckoo Lander: On occasion. Examples include his Planet of the Apes fantasy in Strike Back and talking about having sex with a Martian in Clerks II.
  • Cluster F-Bomb: Without this trope, Jay would be nearly as mute as Silent Bob.
    • Actually the longest Jay has NOT sworn was in the animated series due to ABC's meddling.
  • Did Not Get the Girl: At the end of Strike Back, due to Justice going to jail. And as of Reboot, he never will, now that Justice is married.
  • Disappeared Dad: To Milly. Though to be fair, he had no idea she even existed until Reboot. Jay also mentions that he never knew his own father.
  • The Ditz: He's not too bright.
  • Do I Really Sound Like That?: As seen in Chasing Amy and Clerks III, he tends to not recognize his own catchphrases when they're pointed out to him.
  • Dumbass Has a Point: In Dogma, Jay suggests simply asking Cardinal Glick to shut down the church rather than going through any unnecessary trouble, which surprises even the Metatron, who remarks, "Good Lord, the little stoner's got a point", completely ignoring the fact that it was Silent Bob's idea.
  • Dumb Blonde: Jay is blond and an example of The Ditz.
  • Early-Installment Weirdness: Jay wears a cap like Silent Bob in Clerks, instead of a beanie like he does in the rest of the franchise, and wears his hair in a ponytail, which he would never do again. This is especially jarring since Mallrats (where he first wears a beanie and has his hair loose) chronologically takes place the day before Clerks.
  • Extreme Omnisexual: Jay proudly proclaims he'll "fuck anything that moves!" in the original Clerks.
  • Generation Xerox: We meet Jay's mother in a flashback at the beginning of Strikes Back and like her son would grow up to be, she is loud-mouthed, foul-mouthed, and horny.
  • Good Parents: Ultimately, he turns out to be this to Milly.
  • Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: He likes to let everyone know he loves the ladies. He's likely overcompensating, considering later movies establish him as a closeted bisexual.
  • Hidden Depths: Surprisingly, despite his devil-may-care attitude, Reboot establishes that he's always wanted a kid and is heartbroken when Justice tells him that he isn't dad material.
  • I Take Offense to That Last One: In Reboot, Shan-Yu calls him an "old degenerate" and Milly mentions she was about to "kill the older one" when he and Silent Bob show up at Justice's doorstep. Jay's response is to complain that he is being called "old".
  • Insufferable Imbecile: Jay's as vulgar as he is dim.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Most of the time, he is abrasive, being a straight-up verbal Jerkass here and there, (especially towards Silent Bob), but he is not without his softer moments, too. For example, in Dogma: despite spending the whole movie trying to get into Bethany's pants, he and Bob immediately rush to her defense when Loki violently shoves her to the ground.
  • Kissing Cousins: In Clerks, Jay mentions he'd be willing to knock boots with a girl who just happens to be his cousin.
  • Large Ham: Almost everything he does is very over-the-top and bombastic.
  • Lovable Sex Maniac: To say Jay is an incredibly horny dude would be an understatement.
  • Love at First Sight: He falls for Justice immediately after seeing her.
  • Motor Mouth: He almost never stops talking at points. It gives Silent Bob a headache from time to time.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In Dogma, Jay shoots off Bartleby's wings, rendering him human.
  • The One That Got Away: In Strike Back, Jay's love interest, Justice, is taken to prison, albeit with a reduced sentence. By Clerks II it's clear that he's still waiting for her ("JUSTICE TLF") despite flirting with other women. Unfortunately, due to Justice being married by the time of Reboot, it'll probably never happen.
  • Papa Wolf: This side comes out in Reboot after finding out he is Milly's father, Russian agents and online predators in vans and white supremacists be damned.
  • Politically Incorrect Hero: He's extremely homophobic and somewhat sexist in the early films. Averted from Reboot onward — he has no problem with Justice marrying another woman, and is only upset because her being married means he doesn't get laid period. He later tells Milly she's lucky to have two moms who love her. In Clerks III he's wearing the "Snoochie Boochies and Equality" shirt that was being sold at Chronic-Con.
  • Self-Deprecation: Jay is pissed off at Holden for having his comic book alter-ego, Chronic, spout catchphrases such as "Snoochie boochies!", calling it "baby talk."
  • Sir Swears-a-Lot: Baby Jay's first word was "fuck", if that tells you anything about the kind of person he grows up to be.
  • Took a Level in Dumbass: He spends much of Clerks III even more spaced out than usual, to the point where he lampshades it by claiming he's getting senile and blaming it on his frequent marijuana use.
  • Took a Level in Kindness:
    • While still vulgar, he is noticeably calmer, and starts out much less abrasive than before in Clerks II, which carries over to Reboot. Come Clerks III, aside from the occasional foul-mouthed moment, he hardly even yells at Silent Bob anymore.
    • He's also not as perverted towards women.
    • Finally, since his coming out as bi, gay jokes have completely disappeared from Jay's repertoire. This is even more evident in Clerks III, when, after Randal makes up a story about Dante sucking out rattlesnake venom out of his ass, which Jay would've mocked to Hell and back 20 years ago, he instead gleefully confirms that this did happen to him and Silent Bob.
  • Translator Buddy: Subverted as Silent Bob can speak English perfectly fine, but chooses to remain laconic.
  • Transparent Closet: To the point that a deleted scene in Clerks II has Silent Bob get fed up and break his silence for the sole purpose of calling him out on it.
  • Zany Scheme: Surprisingly, for someone normally so hare-brained, Jay cooks up a couple of these to incapacitate LaFours, complete with old-school cartoon-style blueprints.

    Tropes about Silent Bob 

Robert "Silent Bob" Bluntowski

Played By: Kevin Smith

Jay's silent hetero life-mate.


  • Accidental Pervert: Turns into one of these as part of a Running Gag in Mallrats: each time a Zany Scheme backfires, he ends up in a women's dressing room, where he sees Gwen in the process of trying on clothes.
  • Badass Longcoat: He wears one, and is definitely more capable in a fight than Jay.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: He is usually a calm, non-hostile type along for the ride, but he can throw down in a fight if need be and can, though rare it is, lose his temper and finally yell.
  • The Big Guy: He's the muscle of the team in Dogma, and takes on Bartleby and Loki in the train fight as well as helping Serendipity and Rufus fight a crazed Bartleby during the climax.
  • Characterization Marches On: In Clerks he barely reacted to anything Jay said or did, to the point where it wasn't clear whether he and Jay were actual friends or mere associates. His trademark gestures and facial expressions debuted in Mallrats.
  • Character Tics: Almost always seen smoking a cigarette in the movies prior to Jay and Silent Bob Reboot.
  • Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Can be seen rolling his eyes at some of Jay's more sleazy and off-kilter antics.
  • Death Glare: Capable of shooting off quite a few of these to Jay.
  • Elective Mute: He can speak, but chooses not to. Jay theorizes it's so his words will have a bigger impact when he finally does talk. For what it's worth, Bob doesn't deny it.
  • Erudite Stoner: His speech excerpts are remarkably profound. Interestingly, the one movie where he and Jay aren't stoners is the one time he admits, "I've got nothing."
  • Extreme Doormat: He almost always takes Jay's verbal abuse with a "what the hell?" look at most. One notable exception is his Precision F-Strike in Strike Back.
  • Flanderization:
    • While he's always depicted as being the smarter of the two, just how silly and susceptible to Jay's antics he can be varies between films.
    • Just how silent Silent Bob is varies quite a bit - from a guy who simply isn't into idle chitchat (and who has a companion more than willing to make up for said lack) to someone who resorts to charades when conveying extremely relevant information only he knows.
  • Formerly Fat: He's lost a substantial amount of weight as of Reboot.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: Jay describes him as an "electrical genius" who won the eighth-grade science fair by turning his mom's vibrator into a CD player using "chicken wire and shit".
  • Grappling-Hook Pistol: He apparently keeps one in his overcoat.
  • Hidden Depths: Whenever he speaks, Silent Bob usually shows he's actually quite elaborate and intelligent on a wide variety of subjects (though Jay claims he intentionally stays quiet in order to deliberately invoke this trope whenever he does speak). According to Bob, he could fill the Grand Canyon with things Jay doesn't know about him.
  • Hypercompetent Sidekick: Face it, Jay would be totally lost if Bob wasn't around to keep an eye on him.
    • Jay lampshades this when giving advice to his daughter, Milly:
    Jay: Find a best friend you can have a whole lot of adventures with. But pick a good listener. Someone who has always has your back, even when he's standing right next to you.
  • Idiot Ball: As noted under Flanderization, his intelligence can vary wildly from being the sane, level-headed voice of reason to barely smarter than Jay depending on what the plot calls for.
  • In-Series Nickname: Jay calls him "Lunchbox", "Tons of Fun", and other things, due to his girth. No longer the case as of Reboot, as Jay himself admits.
  • Large Ham: Smith has gotten more over-the-top and goofy with his facial expressions as the films have progressed. Even when he speaks he is much less reserved and deadpan than before.
  • MacGyvering: According to Jay.
  • Never Bareheaded: Almost never seen without his trademark backward baseball cap.
  • Not Named in Opening Credits: Kevin Smith is never listed along with the cast in the opening titles of any of the movies. This is likely out of modesty since he already has a writer/editor/director credit.
  • The One That Got Away: He had a girlfriend named Amy who he chased away due to his insecurity over her sexual past.
  • Precision F-Strike: “The sign! On the back of the CAR! Said CRITTERS OF HOLLYWOOD!! YOU DUMB FUCK!!!
  • The Silent Bob: Silent Bob is the Trope Namer.
  • Silent Partner: To the Motor Mouth Jay, obviously.
  • Silent Snarker: Often shoots Jay a deadpan look whenever the latter is acting especially obnoxious.
  • Stout Strength: Silent Bob is stocky and perfectly capable of going toe-to-toe with hockey stick-wielding demons.
  • Straight Man: He's the mellow, sensible foil to Jay's constant bombastic idiocy.
  • Took a Level in Dumbass: He is noticeably much goofier and slower on the uptake from around Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back onwards. By Clerks III he's pretty much a Genius Ditz who goes along with most of Jay's antics without question, forgets that he and Jay run a business inside the old video store, and fails to realize that Elias has converted to Satanism despite his radically different wardrobe and demeanor over the last few weeks.
  • The Voiceless: Unless he has something good to say. He still communicates often with non-verbal gestures.
  • Voice of Reason: Ironically enough, he is this, but only half of the time. Probably a coincidence, but during the original run of The View Askewniverse he consistently was a voice of reason in odd-numbered movies and not so much in even-numbered ones. Reboot and Clerks III later inverted the trend:
    • He helps Dante figure out who to choose in Clerks, gives the Amy speech to Holden in Chasing Amy, calls out Jay on his stupidity and lectures Banky on likeness rights in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and comes up with a clever way of shooting Randal's movie and calls out Jay for his bad acting before deciding to deliver Jay's line himself in Clerks III.
    • On the other hand, he merely quotes Yoda in Mallrats, makes an Indiana Jones reference and thanks Rufus in Dogma, admits he has no advice to give and snaps back at Jay in Clerks II and makes a big speech referencing Glengarry Glen Ross in Jay and Silent Bob Reboot.
  • Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?: Apparently keeps gadgets such as a blow-up doll and a grappling hook in his oversized coat.

Characters who make their debut in Clerks

    Dante 

Dante Hicks

Played By: Brian O'Halloran

Appearances: Clerks | Clerks: The Animated Series | Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back | The Flying Car | Clerks II | Jay and Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie | Jay and Silent Bob Reboot | Clerks III

The neurotic cashier of the Quick-Stop.


  • Accidental Misnaming: Jay and Silent Bob have apparently spent the last 30 years thinking his name was Sergio. Despite Jay saying his name in Clerks and reading Randal's film script which clearly states Dante's name in Clerks III. Then again, this is Jay and Silent Bob we're talking about.
  • Betty and Veronica: The Archie in two of these situations.
  • Borrowed Catchphrase: Randal does a variation of his famous "I'm not even supposed to be here today!" when eulogizing Dante at his funeral in Clerks III.
  • Brilliant, but Lazy: Veronica thinks he's got a lot of potential that's going to waste in the Quick Stop and makes an attempt to push him into considering re-enrolling in higher education. Randal likewise calls him out on his inability to see through on his commitments and Dante overall never exhibits any real ambition.
  • Burger Fool: He and Randal have been reduced to this in Clerks II. They improve their situation somewhat in the end when Jay and Silent Bob help them reopen the Quick-Stop.
  • Butt-Monkey: Unlike Randal, he suffers humiliation and abuse daily, and his selfish actions usually do catch up with him. His cousins aren't much better; Gil gets humiliated by Brodie in Mallrats, while Grant is nearly murdered by Bartleby on live TV in Dogma.
  • Catchphrase: "I'm not even supposed to be here today!" These end up being his final words.
  • Character Development: In Clerks II, Dante is less inclined to blame other people for his own passiveness and less inclined to bitch about whatever life hands him. The problem is that he's embraced his passiveness, resulting in him having convinced himself that the things life hands him will make him happier than they in all likeliness actually will.
  • Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: To Randal, especially in the cartoon.
  • Died Happily Ever After: In Clerks III, he dies having made amends with Randal and being Together in Death with his true love, Becky.
  • Dismotivation: Likes to think he'll be out of the Quick Stop eventually and views his own life as a wreck, berating Randal for having any fun in what he does.
  • Foil: To Randal.
  • The Hero Dies: The main character of the Clerks trilogy dies of a heart attack at the end of III.
  • High-School Rejects: With Randal, although, unlike Randal, Dante's quite embarrassed by it.
  • Horrible Judge of Character:
    • Insists on giving Caitlin Bree a second chance in their relationship, despite the fact that she previously cheated him on eight (and a half) times, and is currently cheating on her own fiancée by going on a date with him, which is to say that their second try will very likely end the same way. It doesn't end up lasting more than an hour, however, as Caitlin winds up having sex with a dead body in the Quick Stop bathroom (thinking it was Dante) and is left scarred for life.
    • It also takes advice from Jay and Silent Bob, of all people, to realize that Veronica was a much better girlfriend to him. Unfortunately, Randall inadvertently caused them to break up for good.
  • Hypocrite: Dante is horrified when he hears that Veronica sucked 36 dicks before they started going out. He then almost cheats on Veronica with Caitlin later that night.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's not the best judge of character and can be a whiner who blames other people for his own problems. He's not really a bad guy though - he is well-meaning, and never actively seeks to antagonize anyone, unlike Randal.
  • Kavorka Man: He's an average-looking dude and a bit of a pushover who's managed to sleep with twelve women by the age of twenty-two. In Clerks 2 he's put on weight with age yet manages to impregnate and woo the otherwise love-shy Becky. In Clerks III he has sex with Veronica for old time's sake.
  • Killed Off for Real: After being the protagonist of a series spanning nearly thirty years (and only surviving his first appearance thanks to being Spared by the Cut), he passes away of a heart attack at the end of Clerks III.
  • Love Martyr: In Clerks, he still carries a torch for Caitlin Bree, a girl who was frequently unfaithful to him and dumped him in high school.
  • Meaningful Name: As in "Dante's Inferno". Becomes even more meaningful in Clerks II when the Quick Stop burns down.
  • The Mourning After: He still hasn't moved on fifteen years after Becky's death.
  • Never My Fault: Dante frequently blame shifts, and is somewhat self-righteous. He's also cheated on all of his onscreen girlfriends, even having a backseat quickie with Veronica despite not being over Becky. Randal eventually gets fed up and tells Dante to take responsibility for his own decisions.
  • No-Respect Guy: A major theme of the original Clerks is that Dante feels utterly downtrodden by his snarky customers and apathetic manager, but won't do anything to change his situation.
  • Only Friend: Though Randal seldom admits it (that is, until the end of Clerks II), Dante is this to him, which is why Randal is so rattled at the prospect of Dante leaving New Jersey for good:
    Randal: You think I wanna start making friends at my age? Christ, who would want me as their friend? I hate everyone, and everything seems stupid to me, but you were always the counterbalance to that. The guy who was the yin to my yang. Now what the fuck am I gonna do for the rest of my life?
  • Pulled from Your Day Off: Clerks opens with him being called into work on his day off, and the rest of the film is a chronicle of his misadventures during the day.
  • Really Gets Around: Despite believing himself to be a good boyfriend, Dante is pretty bad at keeping his pants on. He cheated on Veronica with Caitlin, then cheated on Emma with Becky. While still pining for Becky years after her death, Dante has sex with Veronica again.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He lays a whopper on Randal near the end of Clerks III, blaming him for forcing Dante to relive the worst day of his life (Becky's death) while also never appreciating his friendship and treating him like a joke. This leads to Dante's heart attack that ultimately kills him.
  • Straight Man: The more serious one compared to his Insufferable Imbecile buddy, Randal. Kevin Smith even calls Brian O'Halloran "the world's greatest straight man" in the credits of Clerks II.
  • Uncanny Family Resemblance: An identical cousin of Dante's appears in every film where Brian O'Halloran is not playing Dante.
  • Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: He makes a lot of questionable decisions throughout the movie and Randal's repeated "The Reason You Suck" Speeches indicate that we're supposed to feel Dante is responsible in some way for all the bad things that happen to him.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With Randal. In every movie, the two have one massive fight that might even question their friendship. Despite this, there is no doubt that the two are best friends. They have great chemistry with one another, support each other, and have protected one another on more than one occasion.

    Randal 

Randal Graves

Played By: Jeff Anderson

Appearances: Clerks | Clerks: The Animated Series | Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back | The Flying Car | Clerks II | Clerks III

"This job would be great if it wasn't for the fucking customers."

Dante's best (and probably only) friend. A lazy slacker who hates his job and the people who frequent it.


  • Ambiguously Bi: Randal considers the young Luke Skywalker to be fuckable.
  • Anti-Hero: Lazy, smug, and sometimes a real prick, but he still does care for his buddy Dante.
  • At Least I Admit It: For all his faults, at least he doesn't deny who he is.
  • Author Avatar: Kevin Smith specifically wrote the part of Randal for himself ("Which is why he has all the best lines!") but found himself unable to handle such a big part in addition to directorial duties — which is why Jeff Anderson was brought in.
  • Brilliant, but Lazy: He's actually a fairly smart guy, but would rather spend the rest of his life working in the Quick Stop than actually make something of his life and get a real job. Until Clerks III, that is.
  • The Bully: He picks on Elias all the time. He becomes nicer towards him after Dante's death, honoring his promise that Elias would become his new best friend if Dante left.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Inverted. As Randal points out to Dante, they overcompensate for having what is basically "a monkey's job."
  • Burger Fool: He and Dante have been reduced to this in Clerks II.
  • Cannot Keep a Secret: This is no doubt one of Randal's biggest flaws. In Clerks, he tells Veronica that Dante tried to cheat on her with Caitlin, causing Veronica to break up with Dante after he realizes he's in love with her. In Clerks II, literally seconds after Dante makes him swear not to tell anyone he got his manager, Becky, pregnant, she comes outside looking for them, and Randal nervously blurts out a congratulation to her, which of course pisses her off and causes her zoom off in her car and wind up in front of an abortion clinic.
  • Caustic Critic: Makes fun of roughly anybody and everybody. Even handicapped people aren't off his radar.
  • Character Development: Clerks III has Randal realizing he's been taking his life for granted and decides to get into filmmaking, turning his experiences working at the Quick-Stop into an indie film. After driving Dante to an early grave and getting chewed out by Elias for it, Randal puts his selfishness aside and begins treating his friends with real kindness.
  • Character Exaggeration: Of all the characters, the animated version of Randal got hit the hardest with this. The Randal of the movies is a self-centered and obnoxious Jerk with a Heart of Gold (with a heavy emphasis on the "jerk") with a tendency not to think things through before he says or does them, but he also demonstrates in all the movies that he does in fact have both a brain and a heart. In the animated series he's an oblivious Insufferable Imbecile who is constantly Comically Missing the Point, and whose softer moments are few and far between.
  • Character Tics: He's always seen chewing gum throughout the first two Clerks movies. In real life, this is because Jeff Anderson was nervous acting for the first time and the gum helped him relax.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Becomes this in the animated series by going off on weird tangents, such as nearly getting Leonardo nuked based solely on a belief that a monkey is responsible for a deadly virus.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Every other line that comes out of his mouth is a sarcastic remark, usually at someone else's expense.
  • Disability as an Excuse for Jerkassery: Randal milks his heart attack whenever he faces any kind of deserved criticism. It reaches peak jerkassery when he shrugs off Dante's own heart attack by suddenly deciding heart attacks aren't that bad since he survived one.
  • Dumbass Has a Point: In Clerks II, eternal slacker Randal puts forth the notion that for all the crap they went through working there, both he and Dante were happiest while they were operating the Quick Stop.
  • Fanboy: He's a huge fan of Star Wars and Ranger Danger. Though very pointedly not of The Lord of the Rings. He's also not too fond of the Disney-produced Star Wars trilogy, as he compared them unfavourably to The Mandalorian.
  • Foil: Randal enjoys working at the video store and has no desire to move to a different station in life (until his near-death experience, anyway). That is, the complete opposite of Dante.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: In Clerks II. The only reason anyone puts up with him is that he's Dante's best friend, though it's completely justified given Randal's often unpleasant behavior.
  • Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: Averted. He's comfortable enough with his sexuality that he has no problem watching hermaphroditic porn.
    Randal: Beautiful chicks with dicks that put mine to shame.
  • Heroic BSoD:
    • For all his bluster, seeing former classmate Lance Dowds as a millionaire combined with Dante about to move to Florida clearly shakes Randal up some. Enough that he immediately has to leave work to blow off steam.
    • Suriving a heart attack causes Randal to have a brief existential crisis until Dante gives him the idea to make a movie.
  • High-School Rejects: Nearly thirty years later, he still works in the same town he grew up in, and mans the local convenience store alongside Dante.
  • Historical Character Confusion: In Clerks II, he confuses Anne Frank with Helen Keller.
  • Honest Advisor: If Dante starts talking to him about anything going on in his life, Randal will tell him the bitter truth, whether Dante wants to hear it or not.
  • Innocent Bigot: Didn't realize what the textbook definition of a "porch monkey" was up until he accidentally said it in front of a couple of black folks...
  • Insufferable Imbecile: He gets flanderized into this in the animated series, being more willing to sell Dante out at the first opportunity he gets, while being a massive Cloudcuckoolander at the same time. However, Kevin Smith and the writers of that show felt this characterization worked from a comedic standpoint.
  • It Amused Me: Although he sometimes does it to prove a point, Randal's motives for screwing with customers are typically for his own shits and giggles.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: For all his douchebaggery, he can read Dante very well and makes a lot of good arguments.
  • Jerkass Realization: In Clerks III, he finally realizes what an asshole he's been to Dante when Elias reveals that Dante put up his share of the Quick Stop to his ex-fiancee Emma in order to finance Randal's movie.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: There are no two ways about it - Randal makes an asshole of himself pretty often. That said, he genuinely cares about the people he is close to, especially Dante. His heart of gold (while it was always there) is much more apparent in the sequels.
  • The Lancer: The snarky, self-centered, complete opposite of Dante.
  • Manchild: In Clerks II, he still lives with his mom despite being in his early thirties. By the time of Clerks III he's moved into the small room between the Quick Stop and Jay and Silent Bob's THC store.
  • Manipulative Bastard: Decided a long time ago that his reason for working at the Quick Stop was to screw with customers for his own ruthless ends.
  • The Movie Buff: He works at a video store and is well-versed in cinema culture. In Clerks III, he cites this as a reason for why he's qualified to make his own movie, outright comparing himself to Tarantino.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: After Elias chews him out for being a terrible friend who doesn't appreciate Dante giving up his half of Quick Stop to fund Randal's movie, it finally dawns on Randal that he's a massive jerk who needs to treat his friends better before it's too late.
  • Never Bareheaded: The only time he is ever seen without a backward baseball cap is when he is taken to the hospital in Clerks III.
  • Please, Don't Leave Me: To Dante near the end of the second movie. And again at the end of the third, but, sadly, to no avail.
  • Pop-Cultured Badass: Anytime he makes a spiel over anything pop culture related, is able to hold his own in the argument. The prime example is his infamous Star Wars vs. Lord of the Rings debate from Clerks II. He's also skilled enough at filmmaking to edit an entire feature film within what's implied to be a single night while retooling exisiting footage to tell a rewritten story. Eat your heart out, Joss Whedon.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives a couple of pretty epic ones to Dante at the end of the first two Clerks movies. Then inverted in the third when Randal is on the receiving end of one from Dante.
  • The Slacker: Randal comes to work over a half hour late and even then doesn't man the video store unless he feels like it.
  • The Stoner: In Clerks III, a couple of shots reveal a tray of weed paraphernalia from Jay and Bob's store on his kitchen countertop. Which makes sense given Randal is basically Kevin Smith's Author Avatar in that movie.
  • Took a Level in Dumbass: In the animated series. In Clerks II as well; for instance, mixing up Anne Frank and Helen Keller.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: Also in the animated series. Unlike in the movies, he is actively malicious towards Dante and a lot more willing to throw him under the bus at any given opportunity.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: He does come off as less of a Jerkass in Clerks II and Clerks III and treats the people around him not as nasty as previously.
  • Toxic Friend Influence: Subverted. Dante thinks Randal is this and blames him for holding him back, until Randal points out that Dante dropped out of college and still works at the Quick Stop on his accord, not because of him.
  • Troll: Caitlin even calls him, "Randal Graves, Scourge of the Video Renter."
    • This deleted scene on the DVD of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, starts off familiar, but includes an added twist:
    Jay: "Any movie based on Jay and Silent Bob is gonna lick balls, because they both, in fact, lick balls. Namely each other's." (reading further) "Yes, they are real people. Real stupid people. Signed, Darth Randal."
  • Übermensch: An unconventional example. Randal is morally and ethically self-possessed, surprisingly philosophical, completely uninterested in pursuing anything society tells him he should achieve, worked out exactly what he wants out of life (in his own words, "watch movies, fuck with assholes, and hang out with [his] best friend all day"), and constantly tries to offer guidance to his best friend, Dante.
  • Ultimate Job Security: Randal is lazy, irresponsible, rude to customers, bullies Elias, burned down the Quick Stop, utters racial slurs in front of black people and organized a donkey show at Moobys. He ends up being co-owner of the revived Quick Stop.
  • Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: He's a lazy Jerkass who can't even be bothered to do his job most of the time and takes borderline-sadistic glee in antagonizing people just because he, more automatically than not, finds them annoying. If not for his friendship with Dante, he'd be a full-on Villain Protagonist.
  • Undying Loyalty: As vitriolic as they are, Randall is a caring and loyal friend to Dante.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With Dante. He's got no problems busting his balls and making him look bad in front of other people. However, he truly does value their time together and is completely terrified at the thought of Dante leaving him one day. Which makes his reaction to Dante's death at the end of Clerks III all the more heartbreaking.

    Veronica 

Veronica Loughran

Played By: Marilyn Ghigliotti

Appearances: Clerks | Clerks III

Dante's girlfriend. A nice girl who tries in vain to motivate him.


  • Betty and Veronica: The Betty to Caitlin's Veronica and Dante's Archie.
  • The Bus Came Back: After 28 years, she returns in a supporting role in Clerks III.
  • Good Bad Girl: A perfectly nice woman who has performed oral sex on 37 different guys.
  • Humiliation Conga: In Clerks III Veronica's marriage has fallen apart, her daughter has turned on her, she's having a rough time at work and she'd just found out that Randal was going to make a movie where she reveals all the dicks she'd sucked before dating Dante.
  • My Girl Is Not a Slut: Dante freaks out when he finds out Veronica sucked 36 dicks before she went steady with him. In Veronica's defence she's been faithful to Dante, who doesn't return the favour when he discovers Caitlin's back in town.
  • Nice Girl: A way better girlfriend than Dante deserves, which gets lampshaded constantly throughout the first movie.
  • Only Sane Woman: She leaves Dante in the end, which is quite understandable, seeing how he was ready to cheat on her without a second thought.

    Caitlin 

Caitlin Bree

Played By: Lisa Spoonauer

Appearances: Clerks

Dante's high school ex, whom he still pines over.


  • Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Veronica's Betty (confusing, right?) and Dante's Archie.
  • I Love the Dead: By accident. She didn't know it was a corpse, she thought it was Dante.
  • Irony: The one time she actually intends to have sex with Dante, it's still not him.
  • Jerkass: Caitlin is not a good person. In addition to running around on Dante, she dumps her fiancee to return to him.
  • The One That Got Away: Dante thinks so. He's very wrong.
  • Really Gets Around: Cheated on Dante eight and a half times during their relationship. The half was when she thought the guy she was banging wasn't Dante.
  • Thousand-Yard Stare: She sports this look after realizing she'd had sex with a corpse. Having to share an ambulance with the body can't have helped much.

    Willam 

Willam Black

Played By: Scott Mosier

Appearances: Clerks | Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back | Clerks III

An oddball man who frequents the Quick Stop.


  • Catchphrase: "That's beautiful, man..."
  • The Ditz: Willam is a little odd.
  • In-Series Nickname: Snowball, due to his proclivity for a certain sexual act.
  • Manchild: Actually billed in the Clerks credits as "Willam the Idiot Manchild."
  • One-Steve Limit: No relation to the Mallrats Willam.
  • The Stoner: His easy-going attitude puts Jay and Silent Bob to shame.

Characters who make their debut in Mallrats

    Brodie 

Brodie Bruce

Played By: Jason Lee

Appearances: Mallrats | Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back | Jay and Silent Bob Reboot

Best buddy of T.S. A comic book addict who has no plans to change his situation.


    T.S. 

T.S. Quint

Played By: Jeremy London

Appearances: Mallrats

A typical 90's every-dude having a really hectic day.


  • Dating What Daddy Hates: Mr. Svenning would rather auction off his daughter on a dating show than see her with him.
  • Official Couple: With Brandi, when Jaws pops out of the water.
  • Straight Man: Probably the least wacky main character in the film universe. Yet he doesn't seem to notice the fortune teller's third nipple (which turned out to be a piece of gum).
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He told Julie Dwyer to lose weight for the dating show, causing her to tire and drown... which led to Dante and Randal attending her funeral and getting kicked out because they knocked over her coffin.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With Brodie.

    Tricia 

Tricia Jones

Played By: Renee Humphrey

Appearances: Mallrats | Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

A friend of Brodie and T.S. who is writing a book about male sexuality.


  • All There in the Manual: In case the surnames didn't tip you off, the comic series Chasing Dogma reveals that she's the younger sister of Alyssa from Chasing Amy.
  • Brainy Brunette
  • It's for a Book: She has sex with multiple older men for a book she's writing on the male sex drive, being the youngest author in history to tackle the subject.
  • Really Gets Around
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: She doesn't seem to have a problem with Brodie and T.S. showing the video of her being raped by Shannon, but she rather not be around when they do.
  • Younger Than They Look: She's actually 15. Invoked when Shannon (who has sex with her) claims to have thought she was 36.

    Svenning 

Jared Svenning

Played By: Michael Rooker

Appearances: Mallrats

The guy who runs a local public access station, K-REL, and the father of TS' ex-girlfriend Brandi; he hates TS and will stop at nothing to make sure he doesn't get back together with his daughter.


  • Bald of Evil: He's bald and the biggest obstacle for T.S. and Brodie.
  • Big Bad: The main antagonistic force in the film, who tries to sabotage T.S.'s attempts to win Brandi back at every opportunity.
  • Big Bad Ensemble: With Shannon Hamilton.
  • Frame-Up: Tries to frame T.S. and Brodie for marijuana possession so T.S. won't have a chance to win Brandi back.
  • Jerkass: He does seem to care for his daughter, and Brodie and TS are trying to destroy his game show, after all, but definitely crosses the line when he tries to frame the duo for a crime they did not actually commit.
    • Also he doesn't seem so upset when the original contestant for his game show Julie Dwyer died, he's in fact ecstatic because it means his daughter gets to be her replacement.

    Steve-Dave and Walter 

Steve-Dave Pulatsi and Walter the Fanboy

Played By: Bryan Johnson and Walter Flanagan

Appearances: Mallrats | Chasing Amy (cut scene) | Dogma | Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back | Clerks: The Animated Series

Two friends who have a tenuous connection to a lot of the other characters in the Viewaskewniverse.


  • Catchphrase: "Tell 'em, Steve-Dave!"
  • A Day in the Limelight: The two are major characters in the first Clerks comic, where they compete with Dante and Randall to try and get in on the toy market.
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners: Seeing as how they're always together. Although the sixth episode of the animated series suggests otherwise...
  • Hypocrite: Steve-Dave gives a huge "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Dante in the Clerks holiday special claiming he charges outrageous prices and rips his customers off, only to be shown personally jacking up the prices on new books at his comic store.
  • Jerkasses: Every time they appear. Steve-Dave insults somebody, and Walter follows it up with his trademark catchphrase.
  • Those Two Guys: They apparently run the comic book store in Mallrats (and run a different one in a cut scene from Chasing Amy), are seen protesting outside of an abortion clinic in Dogma and attend the Bluntman and Chronic movie premiere in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, where Steve-Dave expresses disappointment that a decent comic book movie has yet to be made.
  • Too Dumb to Live: In the animated series the two respectively attempted to win a costume contest by going as a bounty hunter disguised as Steve-Dave and the Human Torch. Walt's Human Torch costume involved wrapping himself up head to toe in toilet paper and dousing himself in kerosene. Guess what happened.

    Shannon 

Shannon Hamilton

Played By: Ben Affleck

Appearances: Mallrats

Rene's new boyfriend, who is a men's store manager at the mall.


  • Arch-Enemy: To Brodie.
  • Berserk Button: Mallrats like Brodie and T.S.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: Hates "mallrats" like Brodie who simply hang out at the mall all day without shopping or working. How does he handle it regarding Brodie? He beats him up.
  • Evil Is Bigger: Affleck is 6'4", towering over everyone who isn't Mr. LaFours.
  • No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Delivers an absolutely brutal one to Brodie. And he plans to do so again when Brodie wins back his girlfriend, in public.

    LaFours 

Mr. LaFours

Played By: Sven-Ole Thorsen

Appearances: Mallrats

The main security guard at the mall.


  • The Dragon: The main enforcer of Mr. Svenning's will and willfully compliant in his attempt to frame Brodie and T.S. for bringing marijuana to the mall.
  • Evil Counterpart: To Silent Bob. Both are bearded men who are physically tough, don't speak a whole lot (in fact LaFours doesn't speak at all), and are prone to giving aside glances, who are on different sides of T.S.'s scheme to get Brandi.
  • Made of Iron: Gets hit very hard in the back of the head with a metal baseball bat by Jay and gets up almost immediately afterward.
  • Signature Headgear: His straw boater, which clashes with his security guard's uniform.
  • The Voiceless: Also an example of Silent Antagonist.

    Willam 

Willam

Played By: Ethan Suplee

Appearances: Mallrats | Clerks III

Another friend of T.S. and Brodie. Currently stuck trying to see a Magic Eye painting.


  • Berserk Button: "Oh look! A sailboat!"
  • The Bus Came Back: Returns in Clerks III as one of the people who auditions to be in Randal and Dante's movie. He's clearly still traumatized by not seeing the sailboat.
  • Fat Idiot
  • Formerly Fat: He's lost an immense amount of weight by the time he returns for a brief cameo in Clerks III.
  • One-Steve Limit: No relation to the Clerks Willam Black.
  • The Slacker
  • Small Role, Big Impact: Late in the film, having reached his Rage Breaking Point, he repeatedly bangs his head against a scaffolding, enabling Silent Bob enough movement to reach a VHS tape stuck in the framework, and insert the tape of Shannon having sex with Trish so Shannon can be arrested.

Characters who make their debut in Chasing Amy

    Holden 

Holden McNeil

Played By: Ben Affleck

Appearances: Chasing Amy | Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back | Jay and Silent Bob Reboot

A comic book writer and artist who falls for the lesbian Alyssa.


  • Actor Allusion: Seems to be a fan of Ben Affleck, or at least thought "he was the bomb in Phantoms."
  • Author Avatar: Kevin Smith has said that Holden is the character he most identifies with.
  • Belated Happy Ending: Reboot shows that he and Alyssa were eventually able to work through their problems and co-parent a daughter named Amy.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Not so much in Chasing Amy, but his scenes in Strike Back and Reboot show he is absolutely this.
  • Did Not Get the Girl: Not only does he lose Alyssa, he also loses his best friend, though he manages to reconcile with both of them by the end and they part on good terms.
  • Dogged Nice Guy: A deconstruction of the archetype, showing how in real life such a person would be unbelievably unpleasant to deal with.
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Banky; the two have known each other since childhood, and live and work together as adults. Ends up subverted in that Banky at least isn't so heterosexual
  • Last Het Romance: Downplayed as Alyssa was already into women before meeting Holden, but in Reboot she is now married to her girlfriend from the end of Chasing Amy, implying that Holden was the last man she ever dated.
  • Named After Somebody Famous: After Holden Caulfield, the protagonist of The Catcher in the Rye.
  • Protagonist-Centered Morality: Heavily averted. Holden is easily the most selfish character in the movie and everybody treats him as such.
  • Sequential Artist: His profession.
  • Slut-Shaming: Holden passive-aggressively prods Alyssa to admit to her past relationships with several other men, up to and including groups at a time, in public, then rejects her apology because it means they can never be a "normal" couple.
  • Straight Man: To Banky. Since he gets annoyed whenever Banky opens his big mouth and gets tired of having to apologize for him.

    Alyssa 

Alyssa Jones

Played By: Joey Lauren Adams

Appearances: Chasing Amy | Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back | Jay and Silent Bob Reboot

A comic writer and artist who Holden meets at a comic book convention. They eventually start dating.


  • Forced Out of the Closet: She identifies as a lesbian, but Holden forces her to admit she's actually bi.
  • N-Word Privileges: For words like "dyke" and "fag".
  • Once Done, Never Forgotten: Alyssa's nickname "Finger Cuffs" stems from her experimental participation in a threesome with two guys back in high school.
  • Pronoun Trouble: Alyssa's friends catch on to her heterosexual relationship because when mentioning the person she fell for she doesn't specify the gender other than "them" or "they".
  • Really Gets Around: She has a very checkered sexual history, which is why Holden feels insecure about dating her.
  • Screw This, I'm Out of Here!!: Alyssa gets out of Holden's car and attempts to hitchhike after Holden's love confession to her.
  • Screw Yourself: While she and Holden are bickering over her sexual history, Alyssa reveals that she once had a threesome with Gwen Turner, who was also played by Joey Lauren Adams.
  • Sequential Artist: Like all the other characters in Chasing Amy.
  • The One That Got Away: For Holden.

    Banky 

Banky Edwards

Played By: Jason Lee

Appearances: Chasing Amy | Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

Holden's abrasive and jealous friend and business partner.


  • All Love Is Unrequited: He is heavily implied to be in love with his heterosexual best friend Holden.
  • Ambiguously Gay: It's unclear whether he's bi or gay; he's had several successful relationships with women, but is together with Hooper by the time Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back rolls around.
  • Armored Closet Gay: He is a vocal homophobe, but he is implied to be in love with Holden and agrees to have sex when Holden propositions him.
  • Berserk Button: He is NOT a tracer.
  • Brooklyn Rage: He is very hot-tempered.
  • Deadpan Snarker: The "Man-Hating Dyke" speech he gives to Holden in particular.
  • Gayngst: He's a self-hating, closeted homosexual.
  • Guys are Slobs: Boorish, poorly mannered, and with a very unclean apartment.
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners: With his lifelong best friend Holden. Deconstructed, since Banky has been in love with Holden for years.
  • Insistent Terminology: He's an inker, not a tracer. ("YOUR MOM'S A TRACER!")
  • Jerkass: For the majority of the movie.
  • Pet the Dog: While no fan of Alyssa, he does look a bit sorry when he finds Holden on the couch devastated over his and Alyssa's breakup.
  • Relationship Upgrade: With Hooper as of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, although it's unclear whether they are merely sleeping together or full-on dating.
  • Sequential Artist: His profession.
  • Straight Gay: Despite his sexuality, he acts and looks like a typical churlish frat bro. Even his (weird and extensive) porn collection is pretty hetero.
  • Unlucky Childhood Friend: To Holden, who is very much straight.

    Hooper 

Hooper "Hooper X" LaMante

Played By: Dwight Ewell

Appearances: Chasing Amy | Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

Holden and Banky's friend, also a comic book artist.


  • Armored Closet Gay: Played with; Hooper doesn't mind the fact that he's gay, but he doesn't let his consumers know that because this image would contradict his comics.
  • Camp Gay: More effeminate than Banky.
  • Malcolm Xerox: Subverted. Hooper's stage persona as the author of White-Hatin' Coon is that of a militant black supremacist. In his private life, his attitude is friendlier and more rational.
  • N-Word Privileges: For words like "faggot" and "dyke" (discussed In-Universe).
  • Relationship Upgrade: With Banky, some time before Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
  • Sequential Artist: Like every other main character in the movie.

Characters who make their debut in Dogma

    God 

God

Played By: Bud Cort and Alanis Morissette

Appearances: Dogma | Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

God.


    Bartleby 

Bartleby

Played By: Ben Affleck

Appearances: Dogma

A fallen angel banished to Wisconsin with his partner Loki after a night of drinking. Now planning to scheme his way back into Heaven.


    Loki 

Loki

Played By: Matt Damon

Appearances: Dogma | Jay and Silent Bob Reboot

The former angel of death.


  • Affably Evil: When he's not doing his job as the angel of death, he is a pretty decent person. He naturally has fun getting stoned with Jay and Bob, offering gum to the "innocent" woman whose life he and Bartleby spared during the Mooby's boardroom massacre, and when he meets Serendipity again (albeit while drunk), he greets her like a long lost relative.
  • Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Flipped off old testament era Godnote  because he was shitfaced.
  • Ax-Crazy: The Mooby's boardroom members found this out the hard way.
  • Asexual Life Partners: With Bartleby, since neither have genitals.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Comes off as this a lot, especially when compared to the more serious and down-to-earth Bartleby.
  • Dumbass Has a Point: He's a total goof-off, but he's more perceptive than he leads on. When someone anonymously sends them an article about plenary indulgence, his first question is asking who sent it (it was Azrael). He also tries to call off the plan when he realizes Bartleby is going through Sanity Slippage, saying his rants make him sound like Lucifer.
  • Flipping the Bird: Gives one to God, after quitting his job as the angel of death. Granted he was drunk.
  • Grim Reaper: Insofar as he actually appears grim.
  • Hand Cannon: For the first half of the film, he wields a Desert Eagle handgun. Notably, he complains most firearms he finds are kind of puny compared to his old weapon of choice.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Eventually, after he becomes human.
  • Heel Realization: When, after Silent Bob lobs him off the train, he gets just who Bartleby is starting to sound like.
  • I Need a Freaking Drink: As soon as we find out he turned human we see him with a large bottle of champagne in his hand.
  • Insistent Terminology: He did not "light a few fires" in Sodom and Gomorrah, he rained down sulfur, the distinction is rather important to him.
  • Meaningful Name: While he is not a god in this version, Loki does live up to the name in the opening scene. He uses Through the Looking Glass as a means to get a nun to question her faith, simply because he likes "Fucking with the clergy."
  • Never Hurt an Innocent: This seems to be his major restriction as Angel Of Death. When Bartleby demands he kills Bethany he explains he can't unless she's done something to deserve it. Although he did nearly kill a secretary for not saying "God Bless You" when he sneezed, so he appears to be able to choose what constitutes a punishment-deserving sin and what doesn't. Although given his Meaningful Name above, the tone in which Bartleby calls him back, and the fact that his gun is most likely empty He was probably just screwing with her.
  • One-Hit Polykill: Kills an adulterous couple on a bus with a single bullet.
  • Psychopathic Manchild: He's the former angel of death who likes to kill people, but will happily get stoned with two random guys and chat in a perfectly friendly manner. Would be Affably Evil if he was brighter.

    Bethany 

Bethany Sloane

Played By: Linda Fiorentino

Appearances: Dogma

An abortion clinic counselor who is told by the Voice of God himself that she needs to save the universe.


  • Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: The Metatron doesn't let her forget that she assumed he would rape her just because he's a man.
  • Babies Ever After: It's suggested that she is able to bear children again at the end of the film.
  • Hollywood Atheist: She gets better, though.
  • Refusal of the Call: Attempts to refuse it, but the events of the film require her to.
  • Superpowerful Genetics: Her divine powers were because, after Jesus was conceived, Mary had a chromosome or two with leftover divinity. Joseph and Mary consummated later, and, centuries later, Bethany is born, the Grand Niece of Jesus Christ himself.
  • Support Party Member: She's no fighter, though her ability to bless stuff can turn anything into Kryptonite for demons like Azrael, like turning water into Holy Water.

    Rufus 

Rufus

Played By: Chris Rock

Appearances: Dogma

The thirteenth Apostle. Left out of the Bible because he was black.


    Azrael 

Azrael

Played By: Jason Lee

Appearances: Dogma

A demon who plots to use Bartleby and Loki to destroy the universe.


  • Archangel Azrael: Azrael is portrayed as a Fallen Angel (or Fallen Muse, to be specific) who refused to take a side during the War in Heaven and was banished to Hell alongside Lucifer. He serves as The Man Behind the Man who encourages two other fallen angels, Bartleby and Loki, to take a course of action that will destroy the universe through a Reality-Breaking Paradox, because he's so sick of life in Hell that he thinks non-existence is preferable and he doesn't care what he has to do to achieve it.
  • Ax-Crazy: He's an Omnicidal Maniac whose plan is a Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum, and gleefully mows down a bartender with a MAC-10 machine pistol just to make a pun.
  • Badass Longcoat: A white one, befitting his status as a Fallen Angel that wears a coat.
  • Big Bad: It's his schemes that Bethany has to stop.
  • Demonic Possession: Feigns that he's doing one of these to Satan as an excuse to be on Earth.
  • Didn't See That Coming: He notices Serendipity motioning toward a golf club to Silent Bob and picks up she wants him to hit Azrael with it. So he decides to humor him by letting Bob get a free hit, even exposing his stomach just to rub it in. However, Azrael doesn't realize that the club has been "blessed" by Cardinal Glick (to help him with his game) and has essentially been made a holy weapon. So when the impact comes, it ends up killing him, much to his disbelief. Serendipity lampshades and mocks his cockiness.
  • Dirty Coward: Serendipity accuses him of being this when he refused to participate in the war between God and Lucifer.
  • Disc-One Final Boss: He's killed off right before the the climax of the movie, but there's still Bartleby and Loki to deal with before they wipe out all of creation.
  • Despair Event Horizon: While it's not obvious due to his snarky Psychopathic Man Child It's All About Me attitude, Azrael in a deleted scene hints that he's an extremely tormented soul full of despair and wants to end it all because of his pain. While a mortal being might simply mock him as selfish, keep in mind, he was once an angel constantly in the light of God living in heaven. Then he was cast down and eternally separated from the paradise he enjoyed, simply because he didn't want to fight. If that wasn't enough, the souls damned to hell turned the dark void into a nightmare world of agony and torment, fueled by the evil in their souls and the prideful belief that they either won't ask God for forgiveness or that they are beyond forgiveness. While Azrael is being a dick, he genuinely has suffered terribly.
  • Driven to Suicide: He would rather "not exist" than spend eternity in Hell.
  • Genre Savvy: "Oh no. I've seen way too many Bond movies to know that you never reveal all the details of your plan, no matter how close you may think you are to winning."
  • Horned Humanoid: Befitting his status as a demon, Azrael has a small pair of horns that he conceals with a hat.
  • Ironic Name: He's named after the Angel of Death. "Loki" would be a more appropriate name for him, since like the mythical god Azrael tries to bring about the end of the world (à la Ragnorak).
  • Jerkass: Wants to escape hell by committing the ultimate suicide...and taking everyone else and all of creation with him. Also cruelly taunts the heroes' attempts to stop him and, of course, he's a "fucking demon".
  • Large Ham: Jason Lee is clearly enjoying himself in the role.
  • The Man Behind the Man: He manipulates Bartleby and Loki into doing his bidding, which amounts to the death of the universe. For instance, he sent the flyer that got them headed to New Jersey in the first place and gives them advice for staying off the radar until they reach New Jersey.
  • Omnicidal Maniac: He's this indirectly. His true goal is to never go back to Hell, and the only way seems to cease to exist, as it's implied that he can't stay out of the pit permanently and if he dies on Earth in the conventional fashion, he'll just return to Hell (given the fact that Silent Bob "killed" him with a blessed gold club, it doesn't seem hard to kill a demon but if that was enough, Azrael would have had someone off him years ago). Unfortunately, it seems the only way he can cease to exist is in a fashion that also makes everything else cease to exist. He's perfectly fine with that.
  • Open Shirt Taunt: Does this to Silent Bob so that the latter will take a swing at him with Cardinal Glick's golf club. It turns out being a "fucking demon" doesn't work to your advantage.
  • Pragmatic Villainy: Tells Loki to stop killing people because it attracts too much attention.
  • Psychopathic Manchild: Type C. Quite powerful, intelligent, and prestigious, but is also very whiny and petulant to an amazing degree.
  • Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum: He is willing to condemn the entire universe to non-existence in order to escape Hell. Serendipity lampshades that this is incredibly selfish and childish of him.
  • Tragic Villain: To a degree he is. He was sent down to Hell because he didn't choose a side when Lucifer rebelled. So he didn't actively perpetrate any active crime or break any rules beyond disobeying the creator. However, Bartleby and Loki did this and they were only sent to Wisconsin, and even when time ends, they'll just be stuck outside the gates of heaven. The deleted scenes about how mortal damned souls turned hell into a suffering pit instead of just a place of cold isolation made it even worse, to the point where it clearly pushed Azrael over the Despair Event Horizon into Omnicidal Maniac territory seeking any means of escape even if the universe must be destroyed.
  • Villain in a White Suit: Azrael dresses in a white suit with a matching Badass Longcoat and fedora, and serves as the Big Bad of the film.

    Metatron 

Metatron

Played By: Alan Rickman

Appearances: Dogma

The Voice of God. Turns up in Bethany's bedroom to inform her of the impending end of the universe.


  • Answers to the Name of God: According to Metatron, whoever's spoken to God has spoken to him. Or they're talking to themselves.
  • Barbie Doll Anatomy: Like all angels, he has no genitals.
  • Big Good: More like acting Big Good since God is incapacitated.
  • The Chessmaster: For the good guys.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Well, he is played by Alan Rickman, what can you expect?
  • Good Is Not Nice: By the time Bethany meets him, he's pretty jaded both with humanity and his inability to drink alcohol. He still urges Bethany to help save the world from Armageddon.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Seems rather rude and snarky when he first meets Bethany, but later it's revealed he has nothing but outright sympathy for her.
  • Translator Buddy: He's called the Voice of God for a reason.
  • Wardrobe Wound: His outfits get ruined so many times it becomes a Running Gag.
    Metatron: It never ends!

    Serendipity 

Serendipity

Played By: Salma Hayek

Appearances: Dogma

Former muse of creative inspiration. Now working as a stripper.


  • Irony: As a muse, she's the source of inspiration for many, many people, including various writers, singers, and filmmakers. She left the job after getting tired of inspiring other people instead of working on her own stuff. Unfortunately, when she sat down to create something, she ended up with writer's block.
  • Ms. Fanservice: Due to moonlighting as a stripper, she's wearing nothing but a bra and panties when we're first introduced to her.
  • The Muse: One of the actual ones actually, she mostly spends her days working as a stripper before the heroes come looking for her.
  • The Smart Girl: Oh yeah, she pretty much ends up guiding the final leg of the journey and has a hand in Azrael's death.
  • Take That!: As a muse, she was responsible for 19 of the top 20 grossing films of all time. She doesn't think highly of the one she wasn't responsible for.
  • We Have Ways of Making You Talk: While the rest of the group goes on to New Jersey, Serendipity stays behind to interrogate the Golgothan. He eventually spills the beans on everything Azrael intends to do.
  • You Can Leave Your Hat On: Her introductory scene.

    The Golgothan 

The Golgothan

Played By: Ethan Suplee

Appearances: Dogma

Hell's top assassin. A demon formed by the combined excrement of those who were crucified on Golgotha, he is sent to kill Bethany.


  • Arm Cannon: Briefly uses one that splatters the drinks section of the bar in poop.
  • The Dreaded: The Stygian Triplets, powerful demons themselves, react with trepidation when Azrael suggests summoning him.
  • Evil Smells Bad: It goes with being a demon composed entirely of poop.
  • Fat Bastard: He's quite paunchy.
  • Horned Humanoid: He walks on two legs and the top of his head has a pair of horns.
  • I Have Many Names: He has a number of nicknames, such as the "Excremental", "shit demon", and "Poop Demon".
  • No Dead Body Poops: The aversion of this trope is the cause of his existence.
  • Overt Operative: He's a massive Professional Killer made of poop, leaving a horrible smell wherever he goes. He's not exactly inconspicuous.
  • Professional Killer: His main task is to kill people on a demon's command.
  • Pun: One of his nicknames, the "Excremental", is a play on the term "elemental".
  • Visual Pun: Since he is formed by the excrement of all who died on Golgotha including Jesus Christ, he's probably the closest thing to "Holy shit".
  • Weaksauce Weakness: A strong deodorant is enough to knock him out cold.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: He's last seen unconscious on the floor of a strip club. (A later appearance was cut when a test audience said there was too much of him. Can't blame them for thinking that.)

    Lucifer 

Lucifer/The Morningstar

The first angel to rebel against God and the first to fall. While making no direct appearance, is often alluded to in the movie and while in the background, was acknowledged to be a potential threat or at least a source of worry due to the events surrounding God's disappearance.


  • Big Damn Heroes: Implied to be the case in Clerks III after Elias swears allegiance to Satan. Whenever he prays to the Desolate One, something good happens.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Although not by much, so far as the movie shows. At the least, he doesn't want to unmake existence for selfish reasons. He wants to rule everything, not destroy everything, and he certainly doesn't want to perish. It's even stated that Lucifer would definitely have his people out after Bartleby and Loki with orders to kill on sight if he learned the full consequences of their actions.
  • Evil Versus Oblivion: Metatron mentions that it is unlikely that Lucifer is behind God's disappearance, as he would have already made a play at taking over Heaven, and he certainly isn't behind Bartleby or Loki's plans, because he's got just as much to lose with everything ceasing to be. Whatever else, Lucifer wants to rule the universe, not destroy it.
  • The Ghost: He never actually makes an appearance throughout the film, though he is alluded to several times.
  • Hidden Depths: Azrael mentions that Lucifer is after Bartleby and Loki because those "two assholes may succeed where he has failed so many times before". Given that fallen angels are trying to get back into heaven, this could mean that Lucifer is either still trying to take over creation, or desperately trying to get back into the paradise he was exiled from. (Then again, this was Azrael talking, so we should probably take this with a grain of salt.)
  • Pragmatic Villainy: Is dismissed as a candidate for being the brains behind Bartleby and Loki's quest, simply because (as Metatron points out) he'd be screwed by the end of existence too.
  • Red Baron: Randal refers to him as "The Desolate One" and "The Master of Abortions".
  • Satan: He's the devil. First of the fallen, the rebel star and tempter of man.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: Hinted at by Loki when he claimed that Bartelby was starting to talk just like the Morningstar, when he was showing disdain for humans and the fact that they were given so much, but commit evil on each other and some of them don't even believe God exists.

Characters who make their debut in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

    Justice 

Justice

Played By: Shannon Elizabeth

Appearances: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back | Jay and Silent Bob Reboot

A jewel thief posing as an animal rights activist.


  • Action Girl: Like the rest of her team she is extremely capable in a fight and takes on the ringleader Sissy during the finale.
  • All of the Other Reindeer: Her teammates show nothing but contempt for her for being a goody-two-shoes, though dialogue suggests she used to be more like them.
  • Graceful Ladies Like Purple: On her reappearance in the series, she is seen in different shades of purple and is a sweet and desirable woman.
  • Heel–Face Turn: She switches sides after falling for Jay.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Turns herself and the other girls in so Jay and Silent Bob can go free.
  • Nice Girl: Nothing but friendly to Jay and Silent Bob.
  • Odd Name Out: Missy, Sissy, Chrissy, and Justice.
  • Reformed Criminal: After getting out of prison, she turns her life around and becomes a news anchor.
  • Second Love: Gets this with her wife Reggie Faulken in Reboot, her first being Jay.
  • Stealth Pun: Shannon Elizabeth insisted on wearing glasses to play the character because "Justice is blind."
  • Token Good Teammate: The only one in her group to show any remorse for her crimes.

    Sissy, Missy, and Chrissy 

Sissy, Missy, and Chrissy

Played By: Eliza Dushku (Sissy), Ali Larter (Chrissy), Jennifer Schwalbach (Missy)

Appearances: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

A group of international jewel thieves posing as animal rights activists and Justice's friends.


  • Big Bad: Sissy is the leader of the gang and becomes the biggest threat in the movie following Justice's betrayal.
  • Ms. Fanservice: They're very attractive women who are ogled by the camera while wearing fetching skin-tight catsuits.
  • Rhyme Theme Naming: Sissy, Missy, and Chrissy's names rhyme with each other, with Justice being the Odd Name Out.

    Willenholly 

Federal Wildlife Marshal Willenholly

Played By: Will Ferrell

Appearances: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

An incompetent federal wildlife marshal.


  • Ambiguously Gay: He seems to be coming on to Banky after witnessing Jay and Justice kiss near the end of the movie. Also, when Missy says they're shooting at him because "[he's] a man", Willenholly silently mutters, "only on the outside." This would also make him Armored Closet Gay, since he's quite vocally homophobic towards Jay and Bob when they pretend to be a gay couple.
  • Butt-Monkey: He gets no respect from his fellow law enforcement.
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: An incompetent fool most of the time, but he does manage to hold his own in a shootout against Missy and Chrissy.
  • Disney Death: Appears to have one when Jay and Silent Bob (with a little help from Suzanne) trick him into jumping off a dam, only for Willenholly to turn up unharmed (but soaking wet) moments later.
  • Large Ham: No surprise given who plays him.
  • Made of Iron: He jumps off a dam and goes over a waterfall, but still emerges completely unscathed.
  • Politically Incorrect Villain: He's more of a Hero Antagonist, but when Jay and Silent Bob pose as a gay couple, he refers to them as "a butt-fucking Brady Bunch".

    Chaka 

Chaka Luther King

Played By: Chris Rock

Appearances: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

The director of the Bluntman & Chronic movie.


Characters who make their debut in Clerks II

    Becky 

Rebecca "Becky" Scott

Played By: Rosario Dawson

Appearances: Clerks II | Clerks III

Dante and Randal's new boss at Mooby's.


  • Benevolent Boss: Becky doesn't suffer fools, but she's otherwise a very nice, down-to-earth person who treats her employees with fairness.
  • Berserk Button: For obvious reasonsnote , she completely loses her shit and almost fires Randal for innocently using the phrase "porch monkey".
  • Betty and Veronica: The Betty to Emma's Veronica for Dante's Archie. She wins.
  • Bus Crash: The start of Clerks III reveals she was killed by a drunk driver shortly after getting married to Dante.
  • Deadpan Snarker: She can hold her own against Randal.
  • Demoted to Extra: In Clerks III, what with being dead and all.
  • Establishing Character Moment: Upon arriving at work, Randal asks her point blank if she's ever given a blowjob. She exasperatedly says she hasn't even set her purse down, then makes Randal restock the napkin holders for annoying her. She doesn't exactly condone the madness around her, but she's unfazed by it.
  • Good Bad Girl: She has a very liberal attitude towards sex, believing it's human nature to want to "fuck as much as possible." When Dante talks to her spirit in Clerks III, she reveals she's had sex with multiple historical figures in Heaven, including but not limited to Cleopatra, Miles Davis, Frederick Douglass, George Washington Carver, and Malcolm X.
  • The Lost Lenore: For Dante in Clerks III. He still grieves for her fifteen years after her death, and the movie hammers in that despite Dante's brief reconciliation with Veronica, it was Becky who was his one true love.
  • Not So Above It All: She's slightly more mature than Dante and Randal, but not by much.
  • Really Gets Around: She apparenlty has loads of sex in the afterlife, having made it onto the celebrity circuit shortly before Dante's own passing.
  • Spirit Advisor: She appears in Clerks III urging Dante to move on from her death and make something of his life.
  • Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: She is revealed to have died along with her unborn child prior to the events of Clerks III.
  • Together in Death: With Dante at the end of Clerks III.
  • Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: She's definitely out of Dante's league; lampshaded by Randal, who is baffled at how Dante has managed to attract someone as beautiful as her, in addition to always having a pair of hot girls fighting over him.

    Elias 

Elias Grover

Played By: Trevor Fehrman

Appearances: Clerks II | Clerks III

Dante and Randal's new co-worker at Mooby's.


  • Broken Pedestal: Elias renounces God after Randal's heart attack, calling out the Almighty for answering his prayer to give Randal some comeuppance but going quiet when Elias prayed to spare Randal's life. Funnily enough, Randal recovers at the same time Elias prays to Satan for help.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: The "Pillow Pants" story comes off as this, which horrifies even the usually wisecracking Randal.
  • Extreme Doormat: Randal treats Elias terribly because he gets little to no resistance. It peaks with him telling Elias to handle a cat despite Elias having an allergy.
  • Fanboy: Of The Lord of the Rings and Transformers.
  • Girlfriend in Canada: It's implied that his girlfriend is made-up, as even Randal lampshades that her name (Myra) sounds incredibly fake. He also claims that he "turns down chicks left and right" with no evidence to back it up.
  • Grew a Spine: After years of bullying, Elias finally decides to tear into Randal when he's about to abandon Dante in his hour of need.
  • Hollywood Satanism: After losing his faith, Elias announces himself as a Satanist and begins dressing in the most outlandish outfits while putting on an air of nihilism. It's clear his knowledge of Satanism is firmly rooted in whatever propaganda was going around during the Satanic Panic.
  • Lethal Chef: When Randal has him man the fryer while he and Dante take a personal errand, he comes back to a basket of blackened crisps.
  • Momma's Boy: In his first scene, he's shown kissing his mom goodbye after she gives him a ride to work.
  • Nerds Are Virgins: A nerdy, awkward young man who admits to being a virgin. Though he at least has a reason for it.
  • Precision F-Strike: Randal's insensitive reaction to Dante's heart attack prompts Elias to give him a well-deserved "fuck you".
  • Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny: He masturbates during Dante's bachelor party. Ashamed of himself, he begs Jesus for forgiveness just as he experiences his first orgasm, which felt good to him.
  • Skewed Priorities: He'd rather Randal tell gay jokes about Jesus than about The Lord of the Rings.
  • Those Two Guys: With his new friend, Blockchain, in Clerks III.
  • Vagina Dentata: Pillow Pants the Pussy Troll. End of story.

    Emma 

Emma Bunting

Played By: Jennifer Schwalbach Smith

Appearances: Clerks II | Clerks III

Dante's ex-fiancee.


  • Jerkass to One: Emma was only openly rude to Randal, who clearly deserves it. Eventually her jerkish attitude extends towards Dante and Becky.
  • Kick the Dog: After Dante's funeral, she outright tells Randal he should have died instead of Dante.
  • Pet the Dog: Very downplayed considering she has to be talked into it, but she did agree to finance Randal's movie after Dante offered to put up his share of the Quick Stop. She also attends Dante's funeral and laments that he could have lived to a ripe old age if it wasn't for Randal's influence.
  • Rich Bitch: Is the heiress of a carwash chain and is extremely bitchy and controlling.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: She was initially only snide to Randal, but witnessing Dante cheating on her left Emma openly bitter for years.

Characters who make their debut in Jay and Silent Bob Reboot

    The Teen Girl Gang 

  • Disappeared Dad: They all met in an online support group for girls who never knew their fathers.
  • Tomboy with a Girly Streak: They are all pocketknife-wielding, sarcastic teen girls who aren't particularly feminine, yet they are big into shopping, celebrity crushes, and mastered beyond a basic application of makeup.

    Milly 

Millennium "Milly" Faulken

Played By: Harley Quinn Smith

Appearances: Jay and Silent Bob Reboot | Clerks III

The love child of Jay and Justice.


  • All Women Are Lustful: She has a rabid crush on Chris Hemsworth, even talking about what she dreams of doing with him in the bedroom and uses the first part of her later cameo to flirt at a funeral.
  • Awesome Mc Cool Name: Her name is a reference to Star Wars which both her parents adore.
  • The Cameo: She has a pair of brief scenes in Clerks III, attending Dante's funeral and working at the Quick-Stop at the end.
  • Girlish Pigtails: On the more tomboyish end but while she starts the film in a simple bob, she starts wearing her hair in pigtails.
  • Honey Trap: Plays this as part of "Operation Predator Editor", where she works a whole plan to attract a predatory man so she and her gang can steal his van.
  • Hormone-Addled Teenager: She is introduced when she is 18 years old and is shown to have a rabid Celeb Crush and going on about everything she'd like to do with said crush Chris Hemsworth.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Like her father, she is abrasive, but she is supportive and protective of her friends with their dreams or dealing with microaggressions.
  • Like Father, Unlike Son: Milly is incredibly different from her parents (while holding some similar traits). As while she can be abrasive as her father, she generally is sweeter and friendlier with other people who aren't pissing her off, that said she tends to be snarkier and blunt compared to her mother.
  • Like Parent, Like Child: Like her dad, Milly is tall, blond, loud, abrasive, and a pothead.
  • Ship Tease: In Clerks III, she gives a flirty smile and wave to Blockchain at Dante's funeral.
  • Waif-Fu: She is a slim young woman who manages to put at least four grown men, two of whom are stockier, in a sleeper hold.

    Sopapilla "Soapy" 

Sopapilla "Soapy"

Played By: Treshelle Edmond

Appearances: Jay and Silent Bob Reboot

Milly's close friend, a girl who grew up on a deaf commune that grows weed.


  • Cute Bruiser: She is a young, pretty girl with a sweet smile and disability...and she won't hesitate to pull out a pocketknife, whack you with a hockey stick, or fight you with her bare hands.
  • Deaf Composer: Of a sort, despite her disability, Milly says Soapy has the best taste in music and gets to play car DJ.
  • Disabled Snarker: Despite being near-mute and deaf, Soapy manages to sign her own sardonic commentary.
  • Disability Immunity: In Reboot, while everyone else is getting their hearing affected by a sonic disrupter by Shan Yu, the deaf Soapy knocks her out with a hockey stick and invokes the trope.
    Hearing is so fucking overrated.
  • Face Palm: Despite the fact that none of this information was signed to her, she makes this expression when Jay starts to use the details of Milly's conception to stall the mooks at Chronic Con.
  • Handicapped Badass: She is a deaf teenager who can whip out a pocket knife and weaponize a hockey stick like nothing.
  • Odango Hair: Generally wears her hair loose, except with two little buns on the top of her head.
  • The Silent Bob: She is the quietest one of her friends and communicates in sign language.
  • Twofer Token Minority: She is Black and deaf.

    Jihad 

Jihad

Played By: Aparna Brielle

Appearances: Jay and Silent Bob Reboot

Milly's friend from an online group, a Syrian girl with a tragic past and the most level-headed member of the new girl gang.


  • Blue Oni: There is a glimpse of it in the scenes shown during the credits, where Jihad calms Milly down by pointing out Jay and Silent Bob did save her life. Earlier, she also explains the operation "Predator editor" to Jay, acting like the brains of the operation.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Her mother took her to America after a boy touched her breasts and told everyone and her brother then tried to kill her for shaming her family.
  • Hormone-Addled Teenager: Shares her Celeb Crush on Chris Hemsworth with Milly.
  • Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Mostly averted. Her carrying a scimitar aside, she appears to be down-to-earth, friendly, and outgoing.

    Shan Yu 

Shan Yu

Played By: Alice Wen

Appearances: Jay and Silent Bob Reboot

Milly's friend from an online group, a Chinese girl on her way to attend the Chronic Con before her visa expires. Or so she says...


  • Big Bad: Her role during the last 20 minutes of the movie.
  • The Silent Bob: Due to her poor knowledge of the English language, she doesn't talk much. She can actually speak English quite well, but has a heavy Russian accent.
  • Walking Spoiler: It's hard to talk about her without mentioning the end of the movie.

Characters who make their debut in Clerks III

    Blockchain 

Blockchain Coltrane

Played By: Austin Zajur

Appearances: Clerks III

The non-verbal sidekick to Elias.



Alternative Title(s): Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back, Clerks II, Jay And Silent Bob Reboot, Clerks III

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