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Note: The following page may include examples of tropes found in the main show, in Slightly Artistic, and from SleepyCabin; keep in mind that not all members of SleepyCabin have appeared in the show. Also, all of the hosts of Oneyplays are referred as "Funny Boys," regardless on whether they are male or not.

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    Chris O'Neill (Oney) 
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The Meat
An animator and musician from Ireland (who later moved to Philadelphia and finally to California). Chris, aka "Oney," got his start making Flash-animated cartoons on Newgrounds, many of which he put on YouTube, including Leo and Satan. Chris has appeared in every episode.
  • Animal Motifs: Heavily associated with monkeys and chimps, especially on the subreddit.
  • Asshole Victim: Played for Laughs. He spends a good majority of the Harry Potter Roleplay duology trolling Justin, a moderator at the server. However, Justin admittedly entirely deserves it due to showing himself to be nothing but a killjoy and a control freak while the other moderators are surprisingly accepting of Chris's antics until he winds up calling one of them a "faggot", and even then, said mod was audibly trying not to laugh as she called him out on it due to the use of such slurs being against the servers rules.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Chris has a bizarre sense of humor, and often follows his own brand of logic while making up or answering hypothetical questions.
    Random YouTube commenter: Maybe Chris draws like that because that's how he sees the world.
  • Crosses the Line Twice: He does this often. See N-Word Privileges for just one example.
  • Cuteness Proximity: Whenever he sees a cat in a game, expect him to start making cat noises out of delight.
  • Fanboy:
    • Of Channel Awesome, particularly of The Nostalgia Critic and Linkara, though he's critical of their shortcomings, and most of the subjects brought up from their content are to make light fun of them and their idiosyncrasies.
    • Of Final Fantasy VII and its remake, so much that he admits he has a bias on its favor despite acknowledging that there's plenty of aspects of both that don't make sense.
  • Heroic Self-Deprecation: Chris stated to Harry Partridge in Slightly Artistic that he doesn't think that he's a good cartoonist of real people, especially compared to Jeff. Harry is quick to dispel that notion, considering that Chris is actually excellent at it.
  • Kindhearted Cat Lover: Has two pet cats, Django and Sushi.
  • The McCoy: With Ding Dong and Julian.
  • No Indoor Voice: Chris shouts a lot, to the point where there's almost a shouting match with Ding Dong once a series and one loud moment per episode.
  • N-Word Privileges: Chris is very liberal with his use of the words "gay" and "faggot." When pressed on it, the general response is that Julian is gay and he thinks that Chris' jokes are funny so he doesn't care.
    Chris: Listen, just because you're a faggot-word—
    Matt/Ding Dong: WOAH!
    Julian: ...what? He said "word."
  • Oireland: Having been born and raised in Wexford, Ireland, many jokes about his Irish heritage have been made frequently on his channel, as well as recounting stories from his time there.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: He'll occasionally stop being funny for a moment if he wants to correct some impressions he's left on people, such as how his gay jokes against Julian are un-serious nonsense or how he respects The Nostalgia Critic despite how much they rag on him.
  • Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping:
    • Chris impersonates the announcer from Smash Brothers in the openings for the second set of Left 4 Dead videos. It trails off when he says, "This is going to be shit!"
    • Though he has a largely neutral accent, Chris' barely perceptible Irish accent sometimes slips out, especially when he pronounces words ending in "R." It also happens frequently when he's in episodes with some of his Irish friends like Niall.
    • He has one beautiful moment during the Lord of the Rings DOS game in which he realizes that, over the course of entering random directions in a desperate attempt to advance the story, the team is still in the starting area (or circled back around to it) to which he yells, "We're back in the fookin' Shire!"
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red Oney to both Ding Dong and Julian.
  • Renaissance Man: Chris himself is skilled in multiple mediums of art, such as animation, 3D-modeling, singing, and composing music.
  • Seinfeldian Conversation: Comes in the form of many hypothetical questions. His most famous one involved whether or not the other hosts would physically abuse a 6-inch clone of Adolf Hitler, provided it has the memories of the real Hitler.
  • Sir Swears-a-Lot: Even for an Irishman, he has quite the potty-mouth. Granted, anyone who is familiar with his brand of humor and history of internet video may find his current tastes tame compared to his older content.
  • Toilet Humor: A lot of the jokes he makes are often crude, and lowbrow, often referring to genitalia or sexual acts such as fingering. He's all the more hilarious because of it.
  • Verbal Tic:
    • He's notable for using the word "chap" over any other generic word for a person, such as "dude" or "guy."
    • Whenever he's recounting anecdotes from his life, he'll often end a sentence clause "[...], right, [...]."
    • Instead of saying "um," he tends to say "fuckin', uh..." which is something he brings up in their playthrough of Pikmin (2001).
    • Chris cannot help but grunt every time that he sees a funny character or a character making a funny expression, as if imitating the sound that the character would be making.
  • Word-Salad Humor/Word Salad Lyrics: Whenever he starts to sing it always ends up in this trope.
    Chris: "Tay Zonday! Thumbs your eyes and gets into your brain!"
    Chris (As Sora): "I'm a little boy, I like to run around and squish things with my feet!"
    Chris (Singing his own rendition of Under the Sea): And then he put bricks inside her. And then he fell up the gay! And then he put bricks inside her. And he killed her every-day! Under the tree!

Primary Hosts (2014-2018)

    Ding Dong 
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The Long

A game programmer, occasionally an alien, who operates Wan Wan Games with his friend Julian. He first appeared playing Second Life with Chris. He and Julian left OneyPlays permanently at around 2017.

  • Berserk Button: He gets annoyed whenever Chris does impressions and goes out of character. Usually it's when he gives a character the Subverted Kids' Show treatment, but he also objects to the reality-warping version of Inspector Gadget listed below.
    Ding Dong: That's not a thing he would do!
  • The Bus Came Back: Temporarily anyway. Ding Dong returned for a few episodes while he was in town for the first time in two years and since then reappears from time to time.
  • The Comically Serious: While he does plenty of joking around, it's also a Running Gag for him to bluntly shoot down the silly things Chris says as untrue.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Though he might start shouting at random or make funny accents, he is definitely the most level-headed of the three.
  • Do Not Call Me "Paul": In response to some fans trying to find out his real name, he sets up a running gag with Chris and Julian where they provoke him by calling him different fake names. In the Banjo-Kazooie playthrough alone he goes from "Max" to "Ian" and then eventually to "Mason."
  • Early Installment Character-Design Difference: His design in the title cards for Chronicles of Mystara looks like a phallic shape (which might have been related to his name) coming out of a flower pot. Every video with him since depicts him in the title cards with his usual Rabbid-styled look. This is jokingly written off during the Pikmin playthrough as that being his larval state, from which he grew into the bunny-eared alien we now know.
  • Gasshole: Not anymore, but he used to belch way more frequently, due to drinking a lot of Diet Coke.
  • Mathematician's Answer: Gives one to Chris during the first episode of Illbleed.
    Chris: What's your sixth sense?
    Ding Dong: Uh, it's the sixth one.
  • "No. Just… No" Reaction: Tends to respond to Chris' impressions of characters with "He didn't/wouldn't say/do that!"
  • Nonstandard Character Design: Since he prefers to keep his identity entirely hidden, his depiction in title cards is a placeholder design Julian came up with. He's supposed to be an alien of some sorts, but Chris rendering the hosts in solid white makes him look like a Rabbid. Most any time discussing what Ding Dong looks like is brought up, he usually goes along with it and makes a Rabbid reference.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red Oni to Julian's Blue Oni, but even he doesn't compare to Chris' power.
  • Rhymes on a Dime: He's fond of jokes like this. The best example is him making up a story about a little boy named "Tommy Two", in which he keeps on rhyming and rhyming even as the plot gets ridiculous, going from standard storybook faire to it being revealed that he has an abusive father who sneezes into his open mouthinvoked.
  • Sir Swears-a-Lot: Has some elements of this, though not as many as Chris.
  • The Spock: With Chris and Julian.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: According to his Wan Wan profile, chicken katsu curry "as spicy as it comes."

    Julian Marcel 
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The Stink

An artist and designer, who operates Wan Wan Games with his friend Ding Dong. He first appeared in the playthrough of Luigi's Mansion.

  • Accentuate the Negative: Julian does this at the start of Super Monkey Ball, as he's already bothered by playing the game. (It doesn't help that Julian has a history of being scared by games with large falls and precise jumps.) He likely has a history of doing so, as during Banjo-Kazooie Julian makes a comment that Ding Dong misconstrues as negative within the first two minutes and Ding Dong actually yells and chastises him for already finding something to hate about the game.
  • Brick Joke: In earlier videos he would occasionally mention wanting to have a pompadour, and when he returned during "OneyStays", he is drawn with one in the thumbnails.
  • Eye Scream: He tells a (fake) story about injuring his eye on a stick and replacing it with a glass eye.
  • The Hyena: Out of the group, he's the one that laughs a lot to their jokes.
  • The Kirk: With Chris and Ding Dong.
  • Magnificent Moustaches of Mexico: Julian himself is of Mexican descent, and his avatar sports an impressive looking mustache.
  • Nightmare Fetishist: At times. For example, when asked if he would go on a body adventure inside Ronald McDonald, his response is essentially, "Sure, why not?"
    Julian: It's probably really goofy in there.note 
  • Queer People Are Funny: Julian is gay, and quite a few jokes are made at his expense or even because of his preferences (Julian often thinks they're funny himself). Matt (whose preference is unknown) and on fewer occasions Ding Dong (who is gay, and even Julian's boyfriend, but not vocal about it) also join in and get the receiving end of a few of these.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue Oni to both Ding Dong and Chris.
  • Running Gag: His "Bart Scream", a shockingly close imitation of Bart Simpson screaming in fear, usually done whenever the gang makes jokes about the Simpsons that involve Bart in an unpleasant situation.
  • Signature Laugh: Julian's laugh is instantly recognizable. Finn Wolfhard of Stranger Things pointed out it sounds like Mario from "Mama Luigi."
  • Straight Gay: Is gay, but doesn't show any stereotypical traits. He also rarely brings it up, so it's not obvious.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: According to his Wan Wan profile, a turkey club sandwich with steak fries.
  • Verbal Tic: Several.
    • "Wow" (often said very flatly)
    • "Happy Halloween, everybody" (also often said very flatly)
    • "Fuckin' shit!" (when frustrated or annoyed)
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: By his own admission, heights in videogames freak him out, since the possibility of falling makes him scared.
  • Word Salad Humour: Is fond of a variety of this called Rolphing, in which some words in a sentence are built off random starting sounds, and the result has to make grammatical sense, but not logical sense. Exemplified in the Kingdom Hearts and Super Mario 64 series, the former of which has a 34th episode named via this.

Main Hosts 2017-Present

    Zach Hadel (Psychicpebbles) 
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The Gremblo
The man himself. Another YouTube and Newsgrounds animator that is infamous for his Deranged Animation. The second half of "Hellbenders" with Chris. Currently working on the Adult Swim show Smiling Friends, which he co-created along with Michael Cusack.

    Lyle Rath (Lyle McDouchebag) 
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The Douchebag
A friend and editor of the channel, Lyle McDouchebag was one of the people that became a part of the show after Ding Dong and Julian left. He is now one of the main hosts.
  • The Ace: At playing Smash Ultimate, so much that Chris started referring to him as "The Smash Fash."
  • Ascended Extra: In-Universe example, one of the editors becoming a main host.
  • Beard of Evil: Subverted. His avatar is depicted with a supervillain looking beard but he's an ordinary fella.
  • The Catfish: Lyle was a victim of this, having an individual (who he later learned also has the name Lyle) who pretended to be him for clout and claiming authorship for Lyle's videos to his own followers. Lyle later stated that he was told that the pretender had even convinced his own parents that the videos were his, and that he had further gotten ahold of a fake Cris and a fake Zach to fool his followers. This amused Lyle, as it lent to the possibility that all the phonies were catfishing each other.
  • Horrible Housing: Lyle has told multiple stories regarding his years living in an apartment/repair shop which had a massive rat problem, and his stories from living there don't extend only to killing rats.
  • Man of a Thousand Voices: Aside from the wide vocal range that this trope comes with, he's REALLY good at doing impressions of characters and voice actors known for distinctive voices, such as Patrick Warburton, or J. K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson.
  • No Indoor Voice: Very loud, even when speaking normally, up to morning radio jock levels.
  • Non-Standard Character Design: Is usually depicted with fit human-like proportions compared to everyone else's doughboy-like avatars.
  • Only Sane by Comparison: He's saner than Chris and Zach, but certainly less sane than Tomar.
  • The Reliable One: Whenever he's featured, he's usually the one that's playing. That means that nowadays, he's basically the player in OneyPlays.
  • Running Gag:
    • Sometimes he'll tell a story about killing a rat with his belt buckle — there was a particularly nasty rat infestation in his old apartment.
    • He sometimes uses the expression "[...] most foul" to refer to subjects, like "a creature most foul" or "strumpets most foul."
    • Lyle says something rude about his girlfriend Monica (one of the editors for the channel). Cue a cut from behind him with Monica slapping him hard.
      Lyle: (post-slap) WHAT THE FUCK!?
  • Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: The Egyptian god Thoth is his, for some reason. Often comes up in association with former Newgrounds animator and current cult leader JordanD, who gives Thoth a large role in his cosmology.
  • Sure, Let's Go with That: He tends to immediately go along with whatever bizarre scenarios that Chris or Zach lay out for him.
  • Theme Naming: Invoked. Lyle has mentioned that he finds it curious that the editors for OneyPlays have the names Lyle, Niall and Kyle.
  • Walking Shirtless Scene: Every depiction of him in the thumbnails wears no shirt, so we can see his iconic sweet freaking tribal tattoos.

    Joshua Tomar (Tomamoto) 
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The Emerald Man
A friend of Chris, as well as a voice actor. He has lent his talents to One-Punch Man, Hunter × Hunter, A Hat in Time, Hazbin Hotel, and more early Newgrounds projects than he can remember. Often the only sane person when compared to the other hosts.
  • Affectionate Nickname: On occasion, Chris will refer to him as "Tomie" or "Tomyur."
  • Artifact of Doom: The eight Tomar Emeralds he created and hid across Burbank. Not much is known about them, but Tomar speaks of dire consequences should one person find them all.
    Tomar: No one should have that much power.
  • The Big Guy: His avatar is sometimes depicted as being much larger than the rest of the cast's avatars. Or at least wider and beefier. He's not actually this in reality, being 5'8" with an average build (and a few inches shorter than Jaxxy).
  • Butt-Monkey: He has a tendency to be on the end of jokes, often times, the hypotheticals involve him or his wife Jaxxy somehow facing ridiculously terrible situations, or him doing or saying disgusting or cruel things, or him being a dangerous psychopath (especially to Jaxxy). He also tends to get his particular voice inflection mocked, something he actively participated in during their GTA V playthrough.
  • The Cast Show Off: Josh Tomar is a professional voice actor, and he will frequently improvise a voice for a character as the team is playing, especially in Pokémon Legends: Arceus and Undertale, where he reads for multiple characters and makes an effort to give each one a distinct voice.
  • The Comically Serious: No matter what ridiculous hypothetical is given to him by Zach or Chris, Tomar always tries to give the most level-headed and reasonable response he can think of.
  • Drives Like Crazy: According to his co-hosts (particularly Lyle and Chris), the otherwise chill Tomar is the kind of driver/passenger who is very susceptible to road rage. Tomar for one doesn't deny it, but he does state that they somewhat exaggerate how badly he behaves while inside a car.
  • Gaslighting: The perennial victim of this, as he tends to believe what the other hosts say; however, he's amused at the point where it's revealed that they're lying.
  • Hidden Depths:
    • It's occassionally mentioned that Tomar is a professional systems engineer by trade, which is Serious Business for him.
    • Even when he's the Only Sane Man in the show, it's shown that Tomar often has pretty dark quips and has quite the morbid sense of humor himself.
  • Informed Wrongness: Chris and Zach will repeatedly insist that Tomar is a diabolical supervillain who torments others for his amusement, including his own wife.
  • Last-Name Basis: Yes, everyone just calls him "Tomar"; outside OneyPlays he's most often referred to as "Josh," especially in the voice acting community.
    Lyle: I keep forgetting that "Tomar" is not your actual first name. I don't think I've ever called you "Josh" in my life.
  • Literal-Minded: Played with. Though he's shown to be amused about the crazy stories the guys say about him, he always makes sure to deny them as if someone would take those seriously. It's pretty sweet of him.
  • Nice Guy: Probably the most pleasant out of all the main hosts.
  • Only Sane Man: Compared to everyone else, Tomar is downright normal.
  • Phrase Catcher: "Look Tomar, it's you!"
  • Sickening Sweethearts: With his wife Jaxxy, according to the other guys. When they aren't doing a bit calling him a psychotic Domestic Abuser anyway.
  • The Sociopath: Subverted. He's characterized as this by the others (and by extension the comments section), often telling stories that portray Tomar as anything from a cold blooded Machiavellian manipulator to an Ax-Crazy psychotic, but this is of course all a joke on him being the most normal member of the team.
  • Straight Man: Especially compared to Lyle, who often just goes along with whatever insanity that Chris or Zach come up with.
  • Team Dad: Chris often refers to him as "Daddy Tomar".
  • Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: A running joke, especially in fan works, is portraying him as a little dwarflike character and Jaxxy as a towering Statuesque Stunner due to the height difference between the two in real life.
  • You Don't Look Like You: Inverted; a running gag between Chris and Zach is that any random character in the game (usually bald men with bushy beards) not only looks like Tomar, but IS Tomar.

    Cory Beck (Spazkid) 
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The Expert

A porn addicted animator from Missouri (or "Misery," as he nicknamed it), a friend of Chris, and one of the most notable animators to come out of Newgrounds, particularly for his animations of other Newgrounds users in very compromising positions. Known for his penchant to draw nekked purty ladies, his absentmindedness, his weird childhood and his trombone.

Cory is the most featured guest in Slightly Artistic, frequently alongside Dave.

  • Accidental Misnaming: He often has trouble remembering names properly and comes up with bizarre substitutes. Sometimes these can be somewhat understandable, like Frodo becoming Frollo, but sometimes they can be downright bizarre, like Jared Fogle becoming Fred Figglehorn.
  • Achievements in Ignorance: Through persistence, trial and error, and a lot of bottled fairies, Cory found a way to beat The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time without even finding the Goron and Zora Tunics as a child.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He's the biggest space-case to ever grace the channel, but he's a competent artist and animator, as well as being a great trombonist who plays for a ska band.
  • The Bus Came Back: After almost two years without being featured (since The Legend of Zelda's Slightly Artistic in June 2020), Cory wouldn't be featured on the channel until April 2022 for the Civilization VI playthrough.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: The biggest one. Some of his bizarre statements or misconceptions of reality cause the others to stop and ask what the hell he just said. He even astonishes fellow Cloud Cuckoolander Zach with the nonsensical things he says, such as his identification of a motion Leon is doing as "the Wingle Dance" leaving Zach asking if Cory was even speaking English.
    Lyle: Cory, I would love to live in your fuckin' head for like, a day. And then, it would be totally worth the, like, following eighteen years of therapy to get it, y'know, out of my palate.
  • The Comically Serious: Downplayed. He isn't above making jokes, but he'll casually make the most bizarre statements in complete and utter sincerity as if they were completely normal things to say.
    Cory: I'm lying, by the way.note 
  • Determinator: He once managed to beat Ocarina of Time without even being aware of the Zora and Goron Tunics through sheer persistence and having a lot of bottled fairies alone.
  • The Dreaded: According to Jeff, he was afraid of meeting Cory at first because Cory would animate anyone who would look at him funny in compromising situations.
    Jeff: I was nervous of meeting YOU! Because you, you, you were intimidating, because th- you were like a psycho that animated... if you didn't like someone, you'd made [sic] like, an hour-long cartoon about them for millions of people! And I'm like, I'm like "I don't want to piss this dude off, he's crazy!"
    Cory: Yeah, but I made a video of you blowing Tom (Fulp), so we're good!
  • Everyone Has Standards: He's a fucking nutbar, but even he recognizes JordanD's cult Spirit Science is psychotic.
  • Extreme Omnisexual: Cory has multiple disgusting fetishes, readily offers up his thoughts about things that make him horny the moment they occur to him, and any female or feminine character can and has gotten his interest, regardless of what they are.
    Chris: You'd fuck an ice cream that fell on the floor, Cory.
  • Fanboy: Of Sonic the Hedgehog, to the point where whenever there's periods of him featuring in the channel, a point is made for him to play a Sonic game.
  • Forgetful Jones: He forgets the name of things, characters, and people so often and with such consistency that it's practically a Running Gag with him.
  • Hidden Depths:
    • Cory is a surprisingly competent trombonist, even playing for a ska band.
    • On Slightly Artistic, he's generally the only one who attempts to draw characters reasonably on-model instead of as demented caricatures. In particular, when he's prompted to draw a female character he'll draw a Dean Yeagle-esque stunner. Say anything about the guy, but his pretty girls are pretty.
    • One of the subjects he studied in college was psychology, which is how he learned about Pavlovian Conditioning.
  • Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Cory (probably) had a psychotic upbringing in a Valkenvania-esque suburb of St. Louis, raised by his divorced parents, a lothario former bodybuilder father who treated him more like a little brother than a son and an overprotective conspiracy theorist mother, in a community marked by widespread substance abuse, the positively Lovecraftian "Water People," and a school that changed its out-of-school suspension policies when the faculty realized that the student body saw community service at the "retard sponge factory"note  as entertainment.
  • Hot-Blooded: There is no playthrough featuring Cory that doesn't have an irate yelling rant from him about mundane and sometimes senseless stuff.
  • The Hyena: He laughs harder and louder than anyone else. Even if everyone is laughing, expect his to drown everyone else's out.
  • Insistent Terminology: Consistently refers to childbearing hips as "motherbearing hips" to the point that it's a Running Gag, even though it doesn't make any sense.
  • Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Throughout both SleepyCabin and OneyPlays, Cory has been known for being the most confidently wrong individual you'll ever meet. Dude's a master of saying stupid shit without even batting an eye.
  • Refuge in Audacity:
    • In his early days at Newgrounds, if told to tone it down with his animations, he'd double-down and post deranged animations of the ones who warned him. They were so audacious and risqué that Tom Fulp and Stamper would just give the okay to post them in the front page whenever Jeff asked.
    • His dad once found that Cory had looked up gay porn online and confronted him about it. Cory unabashedly admitted to looking it up, which left his dad at a loss for words.
  • Unusual Euphemism: Aside from calling childbearing hips as "motherbearing hips" he tends to casually use a lot of strange phrases that he presumably came up with himself.
  • Verbal Tic:
    • Starts thoughts, usually stories or explanations, with "First of all, [...]" often enough for Chris and Zach to pick up on it.
    • Almost always pronounces 'escape' as 'excape'.

    Adam 
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The Frogger Pro
Chris' roommate and "brother," who joined OneyPlays in late 2021. Formerly streamed with Niall on the Twitch channel SlamHamStream.

Note: Not to be confused with Adam Paloian, an industry director of animation and writer, friend of the channel and sporadic guest.
  • Animate Inanimate Object: There's debate of whether Adam's avatar is meant to be a chess rook or a castle tower. Either way, he falls under the category of an anthropomorphic object.
  • Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: He is very easily distracted, as shown during the LEGO City Undercover playthrough, where he repeatedly misses the checkpoint to start a new mission because he's too busy collecting studs, then forgets again after Chris reminds him.
  • Bad "Bad Acting": In contrast to Tomar's voice acting, whenever Adam reads for a character, he uses his natural voice and reads in a slow monotone that gives the impression of this.
  • The Ditz: Adam is extremely slow on the uptake, frequently misnames characters and misreads text, reads at very slow speeds, and has difficulty paying attention. His childhood anecdotes show that he's been like this for a very long time.
    Adam: (seeing a LEGO representation of Alcatraz Island) Is this Alcatraz... What is Alcatraz?
  • Eyes Always Shut: Maybe because he seems quite tired in every video he's in.
  • Foreshadowing: In the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate series, around a year before Adam was introduced, Chris told the story of his friend, who at the time was anonymous, and how he was catfished by a presumably homeless woman. In the MapleStory series, it was revealed that that friend was none other than Adam.
    Adam: DUDE! I wanted to save her! But there was no saving her!
  • Kavorka Man: For how much of a childish dullard he is, Adam gets an astonishing amount of tail. Admittedly, from his stories a lot of the women interested in sleeping with him seem to be strange and undesirable people (bisexual women who call themselves lesbians to titillate men into a threesome, a friend's ex-"nightmare girlfriend" who keeps calling Adam to harass him, etc.).
  • Lovable Sex Maniac: Despite his strange behavior Adam has plenty of stories of past sexual encounters. When he starts telling a story about a threesome during a gameplay session, he has to stop to remember which one he's trying to tell.
  • Manchild: The infectious child-like glee he gets when he's genuinely having fun with a game can not be denied. He'll start giggling and making random noises while absentmindedly playing the game. He also has a tendency to shout "DIE!" when attacking enemies, NPCs, or other players.
    Adam: (getting Lyle to play tag with him in the game) WAHAY! WEEHEE! You're so slow, you're so slow!
  • Nostalgia Filter: He admits that he fell victim to this during the Frogger: The Great Quest playthrough. As a kid he loved the game and found it magical, and started the video warning Chris and Tomar that they better not bad-mouth it. But by the end he acknowledges that the game's nowhere near as good as he remembers it being after seeing how flawed it really is.
  • One-Steve Limit: He's one of two Adams alongside Adam Paloian, fellow animator and friend of the gang.
  • Simpleton Voice: Adam's iconic slurring, lethargic voice, combined with the content of what he says, makes him sound like a brain-fried heavy stoner.
  • Super Gullible: Overlapping with Literal-Minded. Adam has shown that he has trouble understanding metaphors and tends to fall for Chris and Cory's tall tales with relative ease.
  • Vocal Dissonance: Turns out, Adam doesn't quite look as dopey◊ as he sounds.note 

SleepyCabin Hosts

    Mick Lauer (RicePirate) 
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The Whitest Asian
A Taiwanese-American voice actor and friend of Chris from Newgrounds. Known for his parody voicework, he has collaborated with multiple creators in both Newgrounds and YouTube, both as a VA and as an actor. He has also lent his English voicework to videogames like A Hat in Time, Edge of Eternity and Apotheon, and anime like Kuroko's Basketball, The Misfit of Demon King Academy and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind. His YouTube channel.

    Niall Murray 
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The Stench
An editor to the channel and a fellow Irish friend of Chris from back at Wexford.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: A minor example. He has stated that he once bullied a schoolmate called Darren who was known as the biggest laughing stock in school by locking him in a room with one of the most attractive girls in school, who Niall had pretend to be attracted to him, and admits that he felt terrible about this and apologized to him some time a go.

    Amin Elgarch (Amin McButt) 
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The Brown Boy
A friend of the boys. He first appeared in their playthrough of Ape Escape, but was given a proper introduction during Super Mario Sunshine.

    Jeff Bandelin (JohnnyUtah) 
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The Paedophile
An American Flash animator and video game developer known for his longtime work at Newgrounds. Commonly depicted always wearing a Philadelphia Phillies cap.
  • Berserk Button:
  • Butt-Monkey: Whenever he is featured with Chris, Cory and/or Dave who like to pester him with topics he doesn't want to talk about, or them just plain pestering him. They also enjoy making fun of him by insisting that he constantly goes "Eugh!", jokingly accusing him of being a pedophile, and being so addicted to watching The Angry Joe Show that it's constantly distracting him from animating, making art, working in general, and even getting out of bed.
  • Character Catchphrase: "Eugh!" according to Chris, Niall, and Dave.
  • Intergenerational Friendship: Jeff is 10+ years older than the other guys featured in OneyPlays.
  • Lantern Jaw of Justice: His avatar's depicted with this.
  • "No. Just… No" Reaction: Most of his interactions with Chris/Cory/Dave consist of this, always with bemused indignation.
  • Only Sane Man: He's consistently the most down-to-earth and serious of the hosts.
  • Straight Man: His role. He tends to act incredulous and annoyed at the antics of his fellow hosts.
  • You Keep Telling Yourself That: Played for laughs. No, his parents didn't put blackface on him when he was little. He has assured everyone that he was dressed as a Smurf, but the picture has messed up contrast and originally had more blue.
    Jeff: Fuck you guys! I'm a SMURF! Fuck you!

Additional Hosts

    Matt Watson 
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The Screecher
One of the hosts of the Let's Play show SuperMega, with his friend Ryan Magee. From summer 2016 to early 2019, he was the co-editor of Game Grumps alongside Ryan.

    Ryan Magee 
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The Giggler
The other half of the channel SuperMega. Alongside of Matt, he was the co-editor of Game Grumps from the summer of 2016 to early 2019. Unlike Matt however, he has shown up less times than Matt.

    Amy (Superprowaffles) 
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The Waffle
A fellow animator and musician friend of Chris' who has made multiple fan-animations of OneyPlays that were featured on the main channel itself, who also starred in several series, most notably the Harry Potter Roleplay duolology.
  • Non-Standard Character Design: Her avatar is the only one to not be a blank white, and is sometimes instead a hot pink.
  • Splash of Color: Her avatar is sometimes colored pink instead of the blank white that all the other hosts have.
  • Springtime for Hitler: She once tried to harass and annoy Justin, an overly strict and humorless mod in the server that she and the other hosts were playing on in the Harry Potter Roleplay series by playing the Harry Potter theme song on her harmonica really loudly, but failed because it wasn't bad enough. Subverted once Steve pointed this out which caused her to immediately shift gears into playing an off-key obnoxious version of it.

    Dave Brown (PhantomArcade) 
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The Prince of Egypt

Another Newgrounds alum, mainly tasked there with organizing many animation collabs. Dave is most frequently featured with Cory and/or Jeff both in Oney Plays and Slightly Artistic.

  • Refuge in Audacity: Gets away with many jokes calling Jeff a pedophile.
  • Those Two Guys: Shares many idiocies with Cory.
  • Toilet Humor: In Slightly Artistic, he makes many drawn contributions of scatological nature.
  • Troll: An active participant in the pursuit of pestering Jeff.

    Harry Partridge (HappyHarry) 
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Harry Partridge is an English flash animator from Newgrounds who occasionally does collaborative works with Chris, who is mostly known for Saturday Morning Watchmen and The American Akira. Harry is featured in Slightly Artistic drawing pop-culture and internet culture collages with Chris. Harry also used to be part of Channel Awesome. Harry's work can be found at YouTube and Newgrounds.

  • Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Chris has an anecdote where he got pants-shittingly drunk in Las Vegas and Harry and his wife had to nurse Chris sober. Chris states that this is one of the occassions where he recognized Harry as a true friend, as Harry was willing to remain his friend regardless of Chris putting him through the literally shittiest situation possible. It was so bad that when Chris woke up after the binge-drinking night, he thought that he had been sexually assaulted; that is, until Harry and company made him swear to never get drunk like that ever again.
  • Fanboy: He's as big a geek about Channel Awesome as Chris is, especially due to the fact that he made many friends and acquaintances while he was part of the site.

Special Guests

    Shaddai Prejean (Shadman) 
Yes, THAT SHADMAN. He only appeared once playing PUBG online with Chris.

    Veronica Gallardo (veronicaandjelly) 
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The Muppets' Biggest Bitch
Veronica Gallardo is Chris' cuter gamer (former) girlfriend. An artist and storyboard revisionist for the web animated series Helluva Boss, she has only been prominently featured in one series on the channel, The Lion King, although she appeared briefly in their first Donkey Kong Country 2 video, assisting the boys with the 75 Krem Coin cheat, and joined Chris in his Final Fantasy VII Remake stream.

    Jon Jafari (JonTron) 
Yes, that Jon Jafari. For more info, check his page.

Fictional Characters

    Crash Bandicoot 
The titular character of Crash Bandicoot. He's mostly similar to his canon video-game interpretation, except for being more insane and far less intelligent.
  • Axe-Crazy: Has no qualms about spin attacking an entire police force in order to escape.
  • Character Exaggeration: Crash Bandicoot was already an unintelligent, eccentric guy, but he's an outright lunatic here.
  • Everyone Has Standards: He's horrified at the very idea of someone putting gems up his urethra.
  • Hostage Situation: Was once held hostage and was threatened to be killed if the name "Beefaroni" didn't get enough votes. Luckily for Crash, it did.
  • Pædo Hunt: He ends up spin attacking several police men and Chris Hansen after being accused of this.
  • Pokémon Speak: Downplayed. He can speak in full sentences but most of his dialogue consists of him saying "Whoa!"

    N. Gin 
One of the bosses of Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back. Chris and Julian interpret him as being Julian's dad.
  • Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: For God's sake, N. Gin, don't talk about wanting to circumcise your adult son in front of his friends.
  • Bumbling Dad: His parental skills are questionable at best. For one thing, he thinks Julian (a grown man) is still in school.
  • Character Exaggeration: Downplayed. N. Gin himself has canonically displayed Cloud Cuckoolander tendencies multiple times, but his portrayal here is a slight exaggeration of him at his zaniest, like in Crash of the Titans and Mind Over Mutant, as he's portrayed as having an even looser grip of reality and boundaries, as he thinks Julian is still in school despite being an adult, and wants to circumcise him and attach a rocket to his penis.
  • Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Or at least, your regard for your son's boundaries.
  • Unwilling Roboticisation: N. Gin wants to do this to Julian, asking to "burn [him] into a robot" and, when that's turned down, to attach a rocket to Julian's penis again ("We can't do that every day").

    Motifa 
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It was the dawn of a new day, when Motifa came to our planet.
An obese black woman created during the second playthrough of Grand Theft Auto V. Through the heavy use of mods in that series, she displays superhuman abilities. The boys wasted no time using her to wreak as much havoc as possible.
  • Abnormal Ammo: Has a pistol that shoots cars. Not small toy cars, but actual vehicles.
  • All Just a Dream: According to Chris, this is one of the reasons she does basically whatever she wants. She just thinks she's dreaming.
  • Ambiguously Bi: Has made many sexual advances with multiple people, but also has a "white wife" that she attached to her car.
  • Anti-Air: Has a tendency to doom any aircraft around her, from smashing through blimps to shooting whole cars at helicopters to causing planes to crash into skyscrapers.
  • Badass Boast: She has a very good one associated with her, "You asked for a miracle but you got MOTIFA, baby!"
  • Blue-and-Orange Morality: Slaughtered at least 3 people on her way to a Madea movie.
  • Corrupted Character Copy: She's one towards Superman, as her powerset is exactly like his, but she is a complete and utter lunatic who attacks people and destroys random things at the drop of a hat.
  • Comically Invincible Hero: Well, "hero" is a strong word.
  • Flying Brick: She has flight, super strength, super durability, and even laser eyes, among other powers.
  • Eye Beams: Obtained these with a Bed Bath & Beyond coupon. Combined with her Flight powers, she becomes a force to be reckoned with.
    Motifa: Motifa Rains Her Fury!!
  • Grappling-Hook Pistol: utilized one of these earlier to get around the city, and also to attach vehicles and people together.
  • Hypocritical Humor: After using her eye beams to wreak havoc and kill many innocent people, Chris tries to explain that she was "wiping away the filthy whites from the face of the earth." When Ding Dong rebuts that claim by saying most of the victims were black, Chris explains that she can't tell the difference because she's not racist.
  • Lady Swears-a-Lot: At least one incarnation of Motifa has a, as Chris puts it, "potty-mouth."
  • Mind over Matter: Has incredible telekinetic powers, which she bought from Bed, Bath, and Beyond.
  • Megaton Punch: She can throw punches that immediately explode when they come into contact with something.
  • Memetic Badass: The most powerful person on the face of the Earth, with copious superpowers and a lust for blood.
  • Multiple-Choice Past: Her backstory changes several times throughout her various appearances. There are several contradictory bits of info which are revealed.
    • She bought a pair of moon shoes, which are what allow her to jump really high.
    • She had a husband at some point.
    • She thinks she's dreaming.
    • She was born in a peach.
    • She was grown in a "science tube" in an experimental army base, being fed the genes of the world's strongest Silverback Gorilla
  • Nominal Hero: For all of her destructive tendencies, she is still considered a hero.
  • Not Quite Flight: Zigzagged. She can fly fast enough to catch up to planes and destroy blimps, but whether flailing around senselessly in the air can be considered flying is anyone's guess.
  • Sealed Evil in a Can: As quoted by Julian, "A terrible power has been re-released into the world."
  • Shout-Out: As mentioned before, one of her many backstories is quite literally the backstory of the eponymous character of Momotarō, of all things, as she was apparently born in a peach.
  • Sassy Black Woman: Except for the few times where she inexplicably transformed into an old white guy. Ding Dong claims it's due to "white-washing."

    Inspector Gadget 
Normally a bumbling cyborg inspector, here he's a crazy Reality Warper obsessed with brown bricks in Minecraft.
  • Adaptational Badass: In canon, Gadget's a lovable but dimwitted detective equipped with a wide variety of gizmos and tools in his body. Here, he's an all-out Reality Warper who ditches the on-board tools for being able to do anything as long as he says "Go Go Gadget."
  • Adaptational Villainy: He's a bumbling yet well-meaning and lovable fool on the side of good in his cartoon, but the Funny Boy's interpretation of him has him repeatedly torment Penny, and he's also a pedophile as well, if the bit during the Slender: The Arrival playthrough is any indication.
  • Character Catchphrase: "Brown bricks." Also, "Go Go Gadget," just like in the original series, but instead of being followed up with any actual gadgets (like "Go Go Gadget Copter"), it's followed by complete sentences, which proceed to warp reality.
    Inspector Gadget: Go Go Gadget gravity is now inverted.
    Inspector Gadget: Go Go Gadget your memories are all fake.
    Inspector Gadget: Go Go Gadget the color black everywhere is now white.
    Inspector Gadget: Go Go Gadget never lose at poker.
    Inspector Gadget: Go Go Gadget change the law so 12 is the age of consent!
  • Jerkass: Usually uses his reality warping powers to torture Penny.
  • Physical God: He's capable of doing literally ANYTHING as long as he says "Go Go Gadget" before it, and usually uses it to change reality itself in the most specific and absurd things.
  • Reality Warper: He can make anything happen just by stating "Go Go Gadget" followed by whatever he wants.

    Big Penny 
A rapper thought up during a playthrough of Kingdom Hearts, whose gimmick revolves entirely around pennies.
  • Extreme Omnivore: Eats pennies, to the point that one of his songs is an outright cry for help regarding this issue.
  • Gender-Blender Name: "Penny" is usually short for the very much feminine "Penelope," but in his case, it's part of a garden-variety rapper name

    The Nostalgia Critic 
Yes, it's the Nostalgia Critic. He remembers it so you don't have to! A frequent subject of Chris' hypotheticals, bizarre scenarios, and overall weird mind, he's the butt of many a joke and is one of the stars of the Boys' Sims videos.

  • Affectionate Parody: None of the Boys genuinely hate the real Nostalgia Critic, and Zach and Chris (semi-ironically) like him. But his over-the-top attitude and tendency to miss the point with his reviews make him ripe for parody, and Chris will never let an opportunity to lovingly poke fun at him go to waste. The real Doug Walker has stated that he considers their impressions of him funny and bears no ill will towards them.
  • Character Exaggeration: The Critic's tendency to ham out and yell in his distinctive high-pitched voice is exaggerated into his default tone of voice whenever any of the boys imitate him.
  • Comically Missing the Point: The boys like to poke fun at him for missing the point of a lot of things he reviews, such as this one bit by Chris making fun of one of his Disneycember reviews:
    Nostalgia Critic: "It looks like Vegas! WHY DOES IT LOOK LIKE VEGAS?!"
    Chris: Because Vegas looks like Greece, you fucking idiot!
  • Facial Horror: When Chris describes his teeth as being like eggnog (presumably in color) during an AI dungeon session, the program interprets this as his teeth being literally eggnog and describes him as walking away at the end with "his eggnog filled toothless mouth."
  • Hero Killer: Kills Cory at the end of an AI Dungeon session, shooting him multiple times in the head.
  • Hot-Blooded: Exaggerated and Played for Laughs. He's always worked up about something and his default tone of voice is screaming in the most emotional fashion possible, so much that his voice is notably cracking.
  • Hypocrite: He hates Phil Collins for having a "whiny voice" and announces his hatred in the shrillest, whiniest voice imaginable. Overlaps with Hypocritical Humor.
  • Made of Iron: Cory stabs him with a silver spear in an AI Dungeon session, but the Critic guns him down and walks it off like a champ.
  • Nightmare Face: During a Mario Artist session, the boys doodle a Creepypasta version of the Critic complete with black eyes leaking tears of blood. It's very goofy and non-threatening... until they go overboard with the blur tool and turn him into a nightmarish abomination, much to their horror and amusement.
    Chris: HE'S GETTING ANGRIER! HE'S GETTING ANGRY EYES!
    Chris: WHY'S IT LOOK SO SCARY?!
  • No Indoor Voice: He is always screaming or shrieking about something, whether it's him expressing disdain for a movie or demanding for Spoony to let him vibrate in his special bed during their Sims videos.
  • Politically Incorrect Hero: He accused The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas of being manipulative and one-sided during an AI Playground session, much to the boys' amusement and horror.
  • Troll: He loves messing with Spoony in The Sims, often playfully teasing him, tickling him without his consent, or even yelling at him. Sometimes, this all happens back to back.

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