The characters of Nathan Barley are organized here by the groups they (loosely) belong to.
Trash Industries
An amateur start-up film studio, managed by Nathan out of a grotty flat on Textile Street. Nathan films, cuts and edits his videos here, many of which end up on his personal website trashbat.co.ck (registered in the Cook Islands). Nathan seems to scout for fellow filmmakers and potential talents to co-produce films and content with. The funding for this studio is unknown but presumed to be from Nathan's unseen parents.
Nathan Barley
Nathan (aka "The Trashbat") is the show's titular character: a hyperactive immature "media node" with a limitless cash supply. He spends his days "managing" his website (Trashbat.co.ck, full of prank videos and selfies with Z-listers) and promoting club nights via canvassing. He hero-worships Dan, has a perma-boner over Claire and savagely bullies his webmaster Pingu. As the series goes on, he grows in popularity on the back of the Sugar Ape crew and Claire's film-making efforts, rapidly becoming a well-known e-celebrity.
- Bad Influencer: A rather fascinating Unbuilt Trope example, given that the show pre-dates the concept of 'influencers' by roughly a decade. Nevertheless, Nathan manages to meet almost all of the hallmarks of the Jerkass variant, being a moronic, atttention-seeking Spoiled Brat Manchild prone to Conspicuous Consumption who performs inane publicity stunts and films a variety of dangerous and/or demeaning 'pranks' with the aim of publishing them on his website.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Claire, Dajve and Mandy, all of whom he tries it on with (but sabotages himself with all three.)
- Born Lucky / Karma Houdini: No matter how many times Dan tries to sabotage or humiliate Nathan, he always comes out on top. Even after Dan genuinely embarrasses him with the geek pie incident, he still ends up getting wild TV coverage in Japan.
- Brief Accent Imitation: Does this while mocking the posh accent of an especially condescending patron while dining at a pretentious restaurant.
- The Bully: To his beleaguered assistant, Pingu. He's also a bit of a knob towards Toby, but Toby reciprocates in kind.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Talks in incomprehensible slang, constantly plays inane pranks on those unfortunate enough to be around him, and let's not even get started on his Dada-style website "trashbat.co.ck" which is a bit like YouTube Poop before YouTube existed.
- Cool Shades: At least he thinks they are cool.
- The Fashionista Although his ideas of "fashion" are questionable, to say the least.
- Gullible Lemmings: He idolizes Dan so much that he can be easily manipulated by the latter.
- Hipster: A very accurate parody of one.
- Hero-Worshipper: Nathan's personal hero and role model is Dan Ashcroft, even though Dan hates him and they couldn't possibly be more different in personality.
- Humiliation Conga:
- In the 4th episode, when he gets a truly horrendous haircut.
- In the pilot episode, when he casts two girls (Dajve and Mandy) in the same part in his upcoming movie, but chickens out of firing Mandy and accepts a blowjob from her instead. The two girls end up meeting at the end of the episode with disastrous consequences for Nathan.
- Idle Rich: Nathan is financially sponsored by his parents and often hands out his credit card willy-nilly for stupidly expensive purchases.
- Keet: Bubbly, energetic and loud.
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: He is always claiming full or partial credit for other people's work and/or ideas.
- Loony Fan: He is a huge fan of Dan Ashcroft, to the point that he appears completely blind to Dan's hatred of him.
- Magical Accessory: He is never seen without his Wasp T12 mobile phone, which is complete with wireless headset, record deck scratch pads, a business card printer and a gigantic number '5' button.
- Manchild: He's very immature and is hinted to be living off his parents' money.
- Moment Killer: Nathan has a ready and willing Claire in his bed, and they're on the cusp of making out, but then Nathan starts rapping to some reggae beats about sex. This turns Claire off completely in 20 seconds flat.
- Motor Mouth: Once he gets going, it's hard to shut him up.
- N-Word Privileges: Has a habit of using this casually. It's really awful when he does.
- Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Generally speaks in garbled hipster Mockney, but loses his accent when he's off-guard or upset, such as when one of his pranks causes Pingu to be seriously injured in Episode 6.
- The Pollyanna: As irritating as he is, he is so cheerful and optimistic that it's hard to hate him.
- Protagonist Title: If you consider him, and not Dan, to be the protagonist of the show.
- Small Name, Big Ego: To listen to him, you'd think he's the biggest name in the media.
- Undying Loyalty: To Dan, who hates Nathan's guts.
- Upper-Class Twit: He has access to his parents' massive sums of money and barely a brain cell to spare.
- Verbal Tic: Often ends sentences with "yeah?"Nathan Barley: Fuckin' with your head, yeah?
Claire Ashcroft
A belligerent struggling filmmaker trying to break into the mainstream television industry, Claire lives with her brother Dan and housemate Jones in a dingy flat. She joins Trash Industries on Nathan's invitation, but her socially conscious ideas end up clashing with Nathan's drug-fueled hipster stupidity. For her own part, Claire is perfectly willing to drop Nathan like a hot potato every time she gets an offer from an actual TV studio.
- Brainy Brunette: She's dark-haired and one of the smarter characters on the show.
- Cluster F-Bomb: She's the only character who uses the F word aggressively, and she uses it frequently and with a certain level of agitation and frustration in every episode.
- Corrupt the Cutie: Claire's wide-eyed, socially conscious ambitions are thwarted and she's forced earn her living producing semi-pornographic wank fodder.
- Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon
- Death Glare: This expression is permanently glued to her face.
- Dude Magnet: Nathan, Toby and Pingu are all shown to be attracted to Claire and all three of them try it on with her at various points in the series. She rebuffs all of them.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: She is more industrious and put-together than her older brother Dan, who mooches off her money.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Spends the entire series in a consistently pissed off state, and does not take anyone's bullshit, least of all Nathan's. Even Claire's useless brother Dan doesn't get a free pass from her.
- Ice Queen: Many men fancy her, but she is only interested in furthering her career and reputation.
- Perpetual Frowner: Much like her brother Dan, she's almost never seen without a scowl on her face.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Seriously sweary, bitchy and aggressive.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: Claire has a passion for sociological content, such as showcases of drug rehab and homelessness; almost totally at odds with Nathan's ideas.
- Workaholic: Is shown regularly putting in the hours and the effort behind the editing desk with Pingu, while Nathan is out bumming his mates.
Pingu
Pingu is Nathan's sole permanent employee at Trash Industries: a painfully shy and nerdy technology geek, who does all of the behind the scenes work on the Trashbat.co.ck website that Nathan gleefully takes credit for. He rarely ever speaks, and seems deathly afraid to stand up to Nathan, who bullies and harasses him on video for easy content.
- Accidental Pervert: Nathan startles him as he's delivering Claire a cup of tea, causing him to spill it all over her. He then begins frantically wiping it off her breasts.
- Beleaguered Assistant: Takes whatever Nathan throws at him, literally in the case of coffee cups...
- Butt-Monkey: He is the butt of all of Nathan's jokes and pranks while doing all the actual webmaster work at Trash. Nathan treats him so poorly in fact that it almost comes across as domestic violence.
- The Chew Toy: Nathan uses him primarily as prank-fodder for the Trashbat website, as Pingu is such an easy target.
- Extreme Doormat: Apologizes and takes blame readily, even when he knows he's in the right.
- Geek Physiques: He is a computer geek and very, very skinny.
- Only One Name: Pingu. Just Pingu.
- The Quiet One: A gentle, fragile soul who never speaks more than an anxious mumble.
- Shout-Out: His nickname, to Pingu, obviously.
Sugar Ape Magazine
Stylized as "sugaRAPE", and then just "RAPE", Sugar Ape is a local, popular magazine on the forefront of fashion, arts and counter-culture. Nathan treats the mag as his personal bible, as do the rest of the local Idiot community. The employees are basically all Cloudcuckoolanders and likely on some form of recreational drugs at all hours of the day.
- Bland-Name Product: It shares quite a few similarities with VICE Media, although the latter is a Canadian-American magazine.
- Intentionally Awkward Title: It's stylized as (and shortened to) RAPE, much to Dan's chagrin.
Daniel "Dan" Ashcroft
Dan is Claire's older brother, a reporter for Sugar Ape and the show's protagonist: a depressed, lethargic thirtysomething who only does his job out of sheer hatred for the people he reports on. His acerbic, anti-hipster article "The Rise of the Idiots" unexpectedly earns him praise and worship from hipsters and rival newspaper editors, which only makes him more miserable and alienated. He also suffers from the pestering adulation of his fan Nathan Barley, as well as his own failure to grow as a person.
- Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Gets white-girl wasted on several occasions with little regard for plans the next day. Is also portrayed casually chugging straight vodka while betting on Russian tramp racing.
- Ambiguously Bi: He seems to fancy Sasha at Sugar Ape, but never ends up dating her. He does however wank off a "straight on straight" man in a pub toilet (albeit after being forced to do so by Jonatton Yeah?).
- Anxiety Dreams: In the show's final episode, Dan has a nightmare about the hipsters "winning", which causes him to have a prolonged nervous breakdown.
- Author Avatar: He is a stand-in for Charlie Brooker, sharing his occupation, disheveled appearance and general misanthropy.
- Berserk Button: The normally morose Dan is frightening when he flies off the handle (e.g. when he's pestered about his nickname, Preacherman).
- Brief Accent Imitation: Dan does this to Claire, insinuating that she's in love with Nathan, but is quickly silenced by a reminder that he owes her money.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: He is a massive loser with a terrible work ethic, but every now and then he does manage to write a brilliant article.
- Cringe Comedy: Often, since he's less smart and put-together than he thinks he is. The most prominent example is his disastrous job interview in the show's first episode.
- Cult of Personality: The hipsters all love him, which irritates him to no end.
- Deal with the Devil: Jonatton Yeah? forces a cash-strapped Dan to give a handjob to a builder in a men's toilets and write about it before he'll pay him. Dan helplessly agrees to it.
- Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: He presumably has lofty goals, but is stuck in a job he hates with people he hates.
- Digging Yourself Deeper: While he's pretty unlucky in life, he always manages to make any given bad situation even worse for himself.
- Downer Ending: His mental health deteriorates throughout the series, and in the final episode he falls out of a window, sustaining serious injuries. He ends the series drugged out of his mind at a hospital, signing a waiver so that Nathan can use the footage of his jump for his show and learning that Claire has accepted a job offer on said show instead of following her own dreams.
- Driven to Suicide: His fall out of the window in the last episode appears obviously intentional and suicidal as he just lets himself drop.
- Embarrassing Nickname: "Preacherman". It lends him an aura of prestige with the masses, but Dan himself hates it.
- The Eeyore: He is chronically depressed and as a result very apathetic.
- Failure Is the Only Option: Dan fails at pretty much everything he attempts throughout the show, and comes across as the ultimate loser.
- In episode 2, it's revealed he has a video club debt owing over £2000. Dan ends the episode with the debt still outstanding, Claire's camera repossessed, and Nathan's laptop smashed to bits.
- Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job: Jonatton Yeah? forces him to give a handjob to a man for money.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: While Claire is proactive in advancing her career and earning money, Dan squanders most opportunities awarded to him, abuses alcohol with little regard for consequences, fails to pay off his rent and debts, and is in general a really sad mess of a human being.
- His Own Worst Enemy: Nearly all of Dan's (numerous) misfortunes can be traced back to his own bad decisions and moral failings.
- Hypocrite:
- He scorns the hipsters despite being equally pretentious and superficial. He also believes that his colleagues' hobbies of comic books and fashion are immature despite himself knowing jack about "adult" things like cars and wine.
- While his criticism of the "idiots" is often valid, he himself is immature, needlessly spiteful, and very, very lazy.
- Incredibly Lame Pun: Very fond of those.Sasha: Max Herbert doesn't have a punctuated surname.Dan: No, but he is a bit of a colon...ha-HA!
- Jaded Washout: He's undergoing an early mid-life crisis and has the mentality of a jaded washout despite only being in his thirties.
- Kick Them While They Are Down: Dan delights in kicking Nathan after the latter realizes just how badly he screwed up with his new haircut.
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: He likes to think himself above the facile pop culture that Sugar Ape writes about, but in reality he's not the urbane sophisticated adult he thinks he is, and his level of intelligence only looks high in comparison to the idiots around him.
- Laughing Mad: In the final episode, when his Sanity Slippage finally gets the better of him.
- Lazy Bum: He has a terrible work ethic, at least partially due to his morbid depression.
- A Lighter Shade of Grey: While he is an Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist, he is portrayed with ever-so-slightly more empathy than the more idiotic Nathan.
- Loser Protagonist: He's a depressed, dateless, near-friendless man who lives in poverty, fails at every single thing he undertakes, and still works for a youth magazine despite being in his thirties (and hating the job).
- Messy Hair: He initially sports an unruly mane of hair; while he does later have it cut, it continues to stick every which way.
- My Sister Is Off-Limits: Dan cannot stand the thought of Nathan going anywhere near Claire. It appears to be one of the primary contributors to his Sanity Slippage.
- Misaimed Fandom: In-Universe. His vitriolic piece on "idiots" earns him the admiration of the very people he was chewing out.
- Only Sane Man: An interesting Deconstruction/Subversion. While he's at least reasonably intelligent and grates against the antics of Nathan and the other 'idiots', he's also a depressed, lazy, burnt-out loser who is always desperate for money and will do all sorts of degrading things to try and get it. He is quickly revealed to be just as much of an idiot as the Idiots; just a different type of idiot.
- Out-Gambitted: An unusual example of someone out-gambitting themselves. Dan spends all of episode 6 trying to humiliate and embarrass Nathan in rapidly escalating ways, from some salmon and egg in a coffee to literally holding him up with a (prop) gun. He fails every time due to Nathan's unbreakable confidence and happiness, making himself even angrier and by the end, more insane.
- Perpetual Frowner: He spends 90% of his screentime looking absolutely miserable.
- Perpetual Poverty: He owes massive amounts of debt to a number of people, including his own sister, and is at one point so strapped for cash that he has to engage in what is essentially prostitution.
- Phrase Catcher: "Preacherman!"
- Pursue the Dream Job: Dan wants to work for more respectable, grown-up publications, but he is a manchild who knows nothing of typically adult pursuits like wines, restaurants or cars. His job interview with The Weekend on Sunday is an awkward trainwreck.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: His "Rise of the Idiots" cover feature for Sugar Ape is this, in written form, to the entire hipster subculture.
- He also successfully writes a vitriolic, scathing hit-piece against 15Peter20, taking great delight in doing so - only to be told 15Peter20 is actually going to be the next Sugar Ape cover feature, forcing him to scrap the whole thing and start again. His hatred of 15Peter20 is so utterly complete by this point that he is totally unable to even write a single sentence in support of him, forcing Jonatton to intervene.
- Sanity Slippage: Dan's mental health, which is already in a precarious state at the beginning of the show, rapidly deteriorates for the following reasons, culminating in a Heroic BSoD in episode 6:
- His idiot coworkers and the general subculture around him causing his IQ to drop
- His exponentially mounting debts
- Seeing his sister Claire get ever so slightly more attracted to Nathan
- His evil boss Jonatton Yeah? mocking him and giving him terrible assignments
- Shoot the Television: After accidentally tripping the network cable and losing thousands of pounds in an online gambling session, Dan smashes the laptop to bits in a rage.
- The Slacker: Doesn't pay his bills, loses his house keys, doesn't watch any of Claire's videos upon her request, unable to even start his cover feature on 15Peter20. The only time he is ever productive is when he is spewing hatred about something.
- Tall, Dark, and Snarky: He's acerbic, dark-haired, and 6'2''.
- Thousand-Yard Stare: Very common when he sees or experiences things he doesn't like. In particular, after his straight-on-straight experience in the pub toilet, he is shown to be almost completely catatonic.
- True Art Is Angsty: In-Universe. He is a truly negative nancy who is extremely talented at writing scathing critiques and vitriolic opinion pieces against others. When tasked with writing a favourable promo fluff piece for 15Peter20, he is unable to even complete a single sentence.
- Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Dan is not a noble or respectable person; his misfortunes are often played for laughs.
Rufus Onslatt and Ned Smanks
Two inseparable friends who both work as graphic designers at Sugar Ape. Between the two of them, they share one personality and one brain cell; one of the few differences between them is Rufus's obnoxiously stupid, goat-like laugh. Both are permanently spaced out, fully ingrained within the idiot subculture, and on very good terms with Nathan.
- Annoying Laugh: Rufus's laugh is so galling that it almost directly correlates with Dan placing his head into his hands.
- Cloudcuckoolander: The two are easily the ditziest characters on the show, which is saying a lot. Ned in particular can't even name a single book he's read.
- Cool Shades: Ned is always seen with a rather glitzy pair of white glasses.
- Department of Redundancy Department: Ned and Rufus often have to repeat basic sentences and statements to each other, multiple times over, before either of their brains will register anything.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: They are never seen apart.
- Manchild: Both have very juvenile hobbies, like comics, and a sense of humor more befitting of a teenager.
- Never Bareheaded: Like Ned and his glasses, Rufus has his silly flat cap glued permanently to his head.
- Pædo Hunt: No, really. When they hear that Nathan got a blowjob off a 13-year-old girl (she was 18, really, though it wasn’t clear for a while), they
both admire him for it. - Perma-Stubble: Both of them sport this look.
- Quirky Curls: Ned has a head full of curls.
- The Stoner: In the vein of a typical RAPE employee, they always look baked.
- Those Two Guys: They spend all their time together, both on and off the job.
Jonatton Yeah?
Sugar Ape's chief editor: a smart, dry, and highly sarcastic mastermind. He appears to share Dan's views on the shallow, unintelligent hipster bullshit around them; but unlike Dan, Jonatton cynically participates in and exploits it all for profit and status.
Like Nathan, Jonatton is primarily an antagonist against Dan and a major contributor to his Sanity Slippage.
- Acronym and Abbreviation Overload: He regularly uses the abbreviation "etcetera", as well as phonetic abbreviations like "bleurgh" and "meow" to express himself.
- Bad Boss: To Dan, in spades. He forces Dan to wear a preacherman costume in public against his will, agrees to farm Dan out to nightclub events without his consent, publishes rubbish under Dan's name without his consent, ignores or outright dismisses Dan's advice and pleas in staff meetings, and generally mocks and laughs in his face. His meanest action of all is forcing Dan to prostitute himself with men in a pub toilet, just so that a viral article can be written about the experience...for a measly £1500.
- Having said this, Dan in turn is a terrible employee and pretty much deserves all of the above.
- Even Evil Has Standards: When Dan fails to come up with a puff piece for 15Peter20's cover feature, Jonatton steps in and writes it instead. The next day, Dan is shocked to find Jonatton's work published as a Dan Ashcroft article on shop shelves. It turns out Jonatton doesn't actually think 15Peter20 is a genius and sacrificed Dan in order to avoid associating his own good name with it.
- Foil: To Dan. While both seem exasperated with their Surrounded by Idiots status, Jonatton manages to profit off it while Dan sulks miserably in the background. He is also very industrious and energetic, unlike Dan.
- Lucky Charms Title: His name ends in a question mark and yes, he had it added by deedpoll.
- My Nayme Is: It's Jonatton, not Jonathan.
- Smug Snake: Smug and Affably Evil, and much more capable than the stereotypical version of the trope.
Sasha
The receptionist at Sugar Ape. She is remarkably sane and level-headed, and has a low-key role as a voice of reason to Dan, often sympathizing with the despair and angst he feels at his job. She meets Nathan once while he's canvassing, and immediately thinks he's a bit of a cunt.
- Office Lady: Appears to be the only female at the Sugar Ape office, and the only one who does any sort of administration or organisation whatsoever.
- Only Sane Employee: Along with Dan (who suffers his own brand of quiet insanity), Sasha is really far too normal to be working at such a place.
- Unresolved Sexual Tension: Sasha is disdainful of her moron co-workers at Sugar Ape, but makes an exception for Dan - she takes a regular interest in Dan's welfare and appears very close and friendly to him. He hints briefly at taking her out to dinner, but it sadly doesn't go anywhere due to Dan's inertia.
- Women Are Wiser: She is the only female RAPE employee and arguably the sanest.
Mudd
A young-looking office hand at Sugar Ape. Has an affinity for riding toy tractors and mobility scooters in inappropriate places.
Place.
A foundation and central hub for aspiring artists, Place. was founded by legendary record producer Doug Rocket and advertises itself as "Fruition Central". Nathan likes to show off his extensive connections at Place. (i.e. Toby, the receptionist) and often bluffs that he can get unknown talent through its doors.
Toby
Toby is Nathan's housemate and a part-time receptionist at Place. He bears a passing resemblance to Nathan, but is portrayed as slow and dim-witted, as well as obsessed with sex. He makes several clumsy, unsuccessful attempts to hit on Claire, but is almost always upstaged by Nathan. Dajve Bikinus is his cousin (who he also hits on).
- All Men Are Perverts: He easily gives Nathan the run for his money in that regard.
- Casanova Wannabe: He is probably the most sex-obsessed character on the show, but his success rate with women is virtually nil.
- Do You Want to Copulate?: When Claire stays over, he tells her that he will be wearing his pajamas and expecting her in his bed.
- Kissing Cousins: Has absolutely no qualms about getting a 'mouthful of tits' from his cousin Dajve!
- No Social Skills: He is even more dimwitted than Nathan, and with zero of the latter's affability and confidence.
- Only One Name: Just Toby.
Doug Rocket
Doug Rocket is a world-famous musician, producer and visionary artist, and quite the narcissistic Large Ham and Cloudcuckoolander. Much older than the rest of the twenty-somethings in Hosegate, Doug started off as a member of pop group The Veryphonics in the 1980s, and went on to pioneer many more groundbreaking genres of music before founding artsphere Place., "a farm for idea". Doug wields immense reputation and influence on the local arts scene, but is ultimately a bit of a crackpot, spending most of his time reeling off infinite LSD-fuelled anecdotes about fellow celebrities.
- Cloudcuckoolander: When Claire first meets him, he's in the midst of one of his 'ape hours', and she has to sit and wait for him to come out of his zone.
- Eccentric Artist: Even when he's not out of his mind on LSD, he's completely hatstand, much to the chagrin of his perpetually-stressed business manager Robin.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: He's a thinly veiled stand-in for Dave Stewart of Eurythmics.
- The Wonka: Eccentric is far too light an adjective to describe Doug, with his makeup, colourful suits, gross misappropriation of Place. funds, "ape hours" and his nostalgic anecdote about John Lennon's head bursting through his floorboards. Nevertheless, his accountant Robin makes sure to please him and do whatever he dictates as director of Place
Robin
Robin is the Business Manager at Place., in charge of accounts and finance. He is portrayed in a constant state of stress and anxiety, due to the uncontrollable losses and reckless spending that Doug Rocket indulges in.
- Oh, Crap!: Any times Doug's expenditures are revealed to him.
- Only One Name: We never learn his last name.
- Overly-Nervous Flop Sweat: He has a very stressful job and as a result looks perennially nervous and fidgety.
Other Characters
Other hipsters, wannabes, tryhards, douchebags and mental-cases that Nathan bumps into throughout the series.
Jones
Dan and Claire's housemate, and a part-time DJ at the trendy barber's shop Stanley Knives. Jones is a musician and early dubstep pioneer, whose hallmarks are his late night, caffeine-fueled, 160dB+ mixing sessions, which constantly keep Claire awake at all hours. Whilst very much a hipster/Idiot at first glance, he actually shares Dan's dislike of Nathan Barley, despite possessing a similarly hyperactive, happy-go-lucky personality.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Jones is absolutely on another planet when he has his headphones and shoulder-mounted mixing station strapped on, often no earlier than 3am.
- Death Glare: Shoots one at Nathan after he messes with Jones' record deck.
- Mood Whiplash: Goes from quiet, nuanced concentration in his mixing, to an explosion of ecstatic screeching, at the snap of a finger.
- Last-Name Basis: Everyone just calls him Jones.
- Nice Guy: Only time he ever stops being nice is when he meets Nathan, who is a Jerkass and would inspire malice in a saint.
- Sleeves Are for Wimps: He is only ever seen wearing sleeveless tops.
- Talkative Loon: As is befitting of a Noel Fielding character.
Dajve Bikinus
Toby's cousin, and "The VJ off the telly" according to Nathan. A highly fashionable and very attractive girl with a totally awesome male name, who seems to be very popular among the local club scene. Nathan feels almost honored to be acquainted with her, and she goes on to develop a level of sexual attraction towards him.
- Alpha Bitch: She is pretty and a reasonably successful e-celebrity, and she never lets the people around her forget it. She is shown angrily yelling at her fashion advisor on her phone.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: She is sexually attracted to Nathan and follows him around for most of episode 4. She flirts so aggressively with Nathan that he is often left speechless and dumbstruck.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Although an alpha bitch from the off, she gets on super well with Nathan and they almost seem like they could become a couple. But after Nathan's geek pie haircut is revealed at the theatre, she totally rejects him and cruelly laughs him out of the room.
- Gender-Blender Name: Her name is pronounced as "Dave", and Claire expects her to be a man.
- My Nayme Is: It's pronounced Dave but it's spelled Dajve.
15Peter20
A young artist who photographs people pissing. His entire credos is based on the act of urinating; taking photos and creating artworks that depict the sensation of joy, relaxation and vulnerability when taking a piss. 15Peter has an open exhibition of his work at Place. where the entire community recognizes his genius, so much so that he scores a cover feature in Sugar Ape. Like Dan, Jones and Sasha, he takes an instant disliking to Nathan when they briefly meet in episode 4.
- Insufferable Genius: Is generally hailed as a revolutionary genius and mastermind artist by the press, almost to the point of toppling Doug Rocket. The Sugar Ape staff all repeat this narrative ad nauseum even though they only seem to half-believe it themselves.
- Large Ham
- The Prima Donna: He ramps up the melodrama whenever he's not the center of attention. He is shown flirting with Dajve in episode 4, but when Nathan butts in and mogs him with some flirty dancing, he throws a massive strop and storms off in a huff.
Mandy
An 18 year old model and cocaine addict, who Nathan meets at Sugar Ape's Vice party. Nathan fancies her and not only invites her into his next film, but also gullibly hands her hundreds of pounds for drugs at the drop of a hat. Claire is less impressed, seeing Mandy as nothing more than a spoilt, trust fund junkie brat.
- Good Bad Girl: Has no issue with trading sexual favours for coke money.
- Only One Name
- The Ophelia: Is very forthcoming about her Bonobo Syndrome diagnosis.
Max Herbert
The slick, smooth-talking Features Editor at the mature, family-focused Weekend on Sunday magazine. Max appears to be an old friend of Dan's from university. He tries to leave his mark on the publication by poaching Dan from Sugar Ape, in an effort to make his magazine 'cool'.
Ivan Plapp
An executive at TV station Channel Seven who ends up interviewing Claire and Nathan. Not only is Ivan happy to accept the Idiot subculture, he actively embraces it in an effort to be 'down with the kids'.
- Ice-Cream Koan: Has the gift of the gab and is able to say the most meaningless rubbish with the suavest corporate confidence.
Paul Chipes
A married builder who solicits Dan for a 'straight-on-straight' experience in the men's toilets of a family pub.
- Stalker with a Crush: He steals Dan's key and follows him home, probably because he wants to continue their affair.
Nikolai
A middle-aged Eastern European barber with his own shop in Hosegate, and an unhealthy obsession with cats. Dan asks Nikolai to get rid of his Geek Pie, but it doesn't go well.
Troll
A sullen, tattooed, intimidating-looking barber at Stanley Knives, who gives Nathan an excellent Geek Pie despite having almost nothing to work with.
