Characters / The Ghost and Molly McGee

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The Main Duo

In General

Molly (left), Scratch (right)

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• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Both of them are easily distracted, as demonstrated in "Lock, Stock, And Peril" where they stop for everything they see.
• Character Title: "The Ghost (aka Scratch) and Molly McGee"
• Curse: The very first episode has Scratch try to curse Molly into leaving the house, only for the curse to backfire as Molly considers the inescapable ghost her new best friend. As a result, Scratch can't leave Molly's side as long as she and her family live there. Eventually, the curse gets broken by accident, which devastates Scratch as he'd grown to consider her his friend; even with nothing standing in his way, he decides to stay a McGee.
• Foil: To each other. Molly is an overly optimistic All-Loving Heroine and Genki Girl who wants to make friends with everybody and "enhappify" the world, while Scratch is a cynical ghost whose existence revolves around generating misery in humans by scaring them. Scratch keeps the overly optimistic Molly in line by giving her a reality check while Molly brings out the good in Scratch.
• Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing: Molly is an eternally optimistic tween, while Scratch is a ghost who's in a perpetual bad mood.
• Intergenerational Friendship: Molly's thirteen, and while Scratch's age is unclear, he's clearly at least an adult.
• Odd Friendship: A happy-go-lucky girl who can't be scared or cursed and a miserable ghost whose entire job involves making people miserable.
• Secret Relationship: Platonic example, but Molly is keeping her friendship with Scratch a secret from most people, gaining even more incentive to do so once she realizes it being discovered will result in Scratch being taken away by the Ghost Council forever.

Molly McGee

Molly McGee

I like to think of myself as energetic, positive, and full of life!

^{Click here} to see the ghost of Molly McGee

Voiced by: Ashly Burch

An optimistic 13-year-old tween girl who lives to make the world a better place and can make friends with anyone.

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• The Ace: Subverted. She becomes The Lemmings' star player, but this is only the case because Scratch is helping her cheat.
• Achievements in Ignorance: By simply being her overly optimistic self, Molly manages to turn Scratch's curse back on him. Then she manages to one-up this by jumping through Geoff's portal to follow after Scratch after he gets taken by the Ghost World Council, separating her soul from her body and allowing her to end the council's reign once and for all.
• Acquired Situational Narcissism: She allows Andrea to essentially take over the movie production in "Hooray for Mollywood" because she's received her own customized director's chair in return; as things escalate, she still tries to assert she's in control, but Libby calls her delusional. When Andrea finally removes the chair and makes Molly redundant, she realizes just how much her friends have been hurt while she stood by and did nothing, at which point she decides to strike back.
  Libby: You... have sold us out to corporate sponsors, and for what? A chair with your name on it?!
  Molly: [Defensively clutching it to her chest] LEAVE THE CHAIR OUT OF THIS!
• Affectionate Nickname: Her family (and Scratch) sometimes calls her "Moll".
• All-Loving Heroine: Molly is a kind, compassionate girl who cares about everyone. Just don't piss her off.
• Alliterative Name: Molly McGee.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Briefly shares Libby's status as a social outcast at school after getting on Andrea's bad side, until Andrea (who's actually Scratch taking over her body) declares both of them no longer outcasts.
• And Call Him "George": Molly prefers hugging Scratch by smothering him to the point of losing his limbs.
• And Then John Was a Zombie: In a desperate attempt to follow Scratch into the Ghost World, she jumps through Geoff's portal before it closes, causing her soul and body to split and for her to become a ghost known as a Wraith while her human body becomes an empty emotionless husk.
• An Astral Projection, Not a Ghost: When she tries to enter the Ghost World through a portal Geoff makes, her spirit is separated from her body while said body is still alive, just full of apathy. Libby calls it a Wraith.
• Bad "Bad Acting": When made to try feign ignorance so the Ghost Council doesn't discover Scratch has been hanging out with humans, her acting is a little... off. Which even Scratch lampshades.
• Bad Liar: Since she's so nice, she's terrible at this, but she'd rather lie than face the prospect of disappointing people.
• Befriending the Enemy: Does this to Scratch when they first meet, turning his curse of her onto him and getting the two stuck together until they slowly become friends. Downplayed or outright Averted the rest of the time, however; while Molly is always willing to try become friendly with people, she's not going to put her guard down against those she doesn't get a good first impression with, like Andrea, and some people she'll outright refuse to befriend for various reasons.
• Beware the Nice Ones:
  • As sanguine as Molly is, there is only so much mistreatment and bad behavior she is willing to put up with. She gives Scratch permission to terrorize Andrea after the latter hijacks Molly's scary movie and fires Darryl and Libby.
  • Molly not only organizes a court within minutes to find the perpetrator of the missing passionfruit cake, but manages to get all three members of her family to immediately crack under examination.
    Scratch: [Delighted] Wow! I really need to take Molly scarin' with me, I mean — she is flat-out terrifying! You just wind 'er up and watch 'er go, man. Whew!
  • Scratch later brings this trait of hers up when Molly offers to take over his scaring duties after he gets sick with positivity and starts turning into Super-Deformed cutesy versions of him that make it impossible to intimidate anybody. Scratch admits that Molly can be terrifying, but only unintentionally, and the rest of the time she's simply too much of a Nice Girl to successfully scare other people even when she goes for elaborate setups like pretending to be a zombie.
  • When she turns into a ghostly astral form in order to infiltrate the ghost world and save Scratch, she also becomes capable of the same distorted Art Shift forms he takes to intimidate others, though she reserves hers exclusively for laying the law down against the Chairman with a Finger Poke of Doom, and intimidating the Ghost council into leaving her and Scratch alone as friends in the human world.
• Break the Cutie: When her almost-eternal optimism breaks, it is a heartrending sight.
• Brutal Honesty: There are times when even she can't spin a positive angle on a person or situation. She fully acknowledges that her attic bedroom is a dump at first, or that the Brighton Lemmings are terrible at softball.
• Butt-Monkey: Her attempts at optimism and kindness tend to blow up in her face a lot of the time.
• Character Catchphrase: She has a habit of exclaiming "Sweet baby corn!" or "Oh corn!" when in emotional states.
• Cheerful Child: Molly is a very sanguine and excitable tween girl who lives on joy and eternal optimism.
• Children Are Innocent: Molly's childlike wonder defines her character. Whenever the story revolves around a fatal act of antagonism, you can count on Molly to save the day with her happy-go-luckiness. This becomes an exploit in the Season 1 finale where she is outcast for not belonging in the Ghost World due to being a Cheerful Child with no scare tactics and she uses her touch of Joy to destroy the entire Flow of Failed Phantoms and decimate the Chairman for trying to prevent Scratch from being friends with her ever again. While what she did was drastic, her irreparable sense of childlike wonder is what saved the day.
• Cool Big Sis: Tries to play this role to Darryl in "No Good Deed", giving him some advice on how to act nicer.
• Companion Cube: When her friends don't have time to spend with her during "Scare Tactics", she makes herself a companion in a plush unicorn she calls "Twinklespot".
• Creepy Child: After having her soul separated from her body, her human self devolves into an Emotionless Child who has a single reaction to everything: apathy.
• Cuddle Bug: Her first reaction to seeing an undead spirit before her? Hug him. She even notes that she has a problem with being too overly friendly to people she'd just met without realizing it.
• Curtains Match the Windows: Both her hair and her eyes are a dark shade of brown.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: She often trips, slips and loses balance in a lot of her appearances.
• Cute Ghost Girl: She retains her adorable and positive nature even as a yellow ghost.
• The Cutie: Molly has an adorable and endearing nature and wholesome friendly demeanor.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: To the Genki Girl and Nice Girl tropes. While she always tries to greet every situation with a can-do attitude, and wants to make everyone she meets happy, she doesn't always see the big picture with how her plans and actions could affect others. She also often pushes herself to physical and mental exhaustion in her efforts to "enhappify" people, and her confidence in herself isn't completely unshakeable, with Scratch sometimes having to act on her behalf.
• Determinator: Due to her dad's job having resulted in the McGees traveling around a lot in her youth, Molly's made and lost quite a few friendships in the towns they've stayed at. This is what fuels her utter determination to make Brighton her 'Forever Home', and constantly turns any negative situations she encounters into positive ones so she'll make her new life here an enjoyable one. Seeing as this specifically runs counter to Scratch's efforts to make Molly leave her house so the curse on them will be broken, it causes him no end of frustration that Molly keeps bouncing back from situations that would make a lesser person quit.
• Dissonant Serenity: Sometimes Molly's boundless optimism serves to make her or her words seem creepier than intended, like when she warned Scratch not to meddle with her future relationships if he didn't want to end up in the "After Afterlife".
• Didn't Think This Through: She uses Scratch's ghost powers to do two things: to help The Lemmings get to the finals, and to help their self-esteem. What she didn't take account was the fact, since she's the one carrying the whole team, Molly is seen as the star player of the team while the rest are still considered losers, which Libby even admits.
• Digging Yourself Deeper: Molly already got on Andrea's bad side by mispronouncing her name, which is a pretty big Berserk Button for her, but it's her going on a nervous rambling afterwards that causes Andrea to declare her a social outcast, even after she pronounced her name right the second time.
• Does Not Know Her Own Strength: Either this or Scratch is squishier than expected, since the first time she hugs him, she does so hard enough to pop off his facial features.
• Does Not Like Spam: She thinks that maple syrup, in Scratch's words, "tastes like a tree's tears".
• Emotionless Girl: Having her soul separated from her body during "Molly vs the Ghost World" causes her human body to become this, turning from her energetic, cheerful self into a girl who takes everything with pure apathy.
• Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones: Downplayed, but Molly is noticeably hostile to Andrea at the beginning of "Hooray for Mollywood!", mockingly drawing out the "proper" pronunciation of her name.
• Everyone Has Standards: Scratch can't scare her no matter how hard he tries, but whatever he does to scare Tammy is so bad that even Molly's unnerved by it.
• Expressive Hair: Whenever Molly is going through a negative experience (such as enduring the smell of durian, failing to get people to help build a bandshell, or realizing she failed to work on her living history project), her ponytail tends to droop down. On the other hand, her ponytail tends to stand up when she is in a cheerful, happy, or excitable mood.
• Failed Attempt at Drama: She tries to dramatically make a barricade while declaring how nobody will take her best friend away... but Molly can barely move the kitchen table afterwards.
• Fearless Fool: She's one of the few people, if not the only person, that Scratch can't scare or curse, and it takes her a moment to realize Scratch isn't putting a performance for her.
• Finger Poke of Doom: Molly's positive nature is complete anathema to the Chairman and the Ghost Council, and all it takes is a 'boop' on the nose by Molly for the Chairman to dissolve.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The Responsible to Darryl's Foolish. Darryl is often pulling childish pranks on Molly and making snarky remarks to her, causing Molly to snap and act as his voice of reason.
• Friendless Background: While Molly has made friends before, most of those friendships ended abruptly since her family is constantly moving. In fact, that's part of the reason why Scratch's "curse" excites her: because it means she can actually have a friend that won't leave her.
• Friendly Ghost: Even after being separated from her body, Molly's positivity and friendly nature stay the same as a ghost.
• Genki Girl: Deconstructed. Molly is very energetic and excitable, to the point Scratch can't even scare or curse her, but underneath her positive exterior is a smack of cynicism. Her attitude can't solve everything in her life; the consequence is that she actually spends as much screentime being nice as getting frustrated and stressed out from her wild adventures because of her happy-go-lucky methods often not working out well.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She owns an entire chest of plush animals that she sometimes kisses before school and roleplays with while alone.
• Gold-Colored Superiority: Yellow, actually, but Molly's ghost form is colored yellow unlike the average female ghosts' purple/pink, and her positivity is so powerful she can not only survive being thrown into the Flow of Failed Phantasms, but destroy it and The Chairman as well, freeing all the trapped ghosts inside.
• Horrible Judge of Character: She doesn't take note of Scratch's initial and constant attempts to get her and the McGees out of the house, and that his so-called "advice" isn't meant to help her (at least not initially).
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Specifically, the combination of Molly's pure heart plus her excessively strong optimism is what protects her from being cursed by Scratch, turning the curse on him instead. In the season 1 finale, when she temporarily becomes ghostly to rescue Scratch, her boundless positivity causes anything she touches in the Ghost World to become covered in joy, which ultimately results in the destruction of the Flow of Failed Phantoms when the Council banishes her and Scratch there, and a single boop on the nose is enough to cause the Chairman to disintegrate in a burst of rainbow energy.
• Innocently Insensitive: Molly can get a little carried away in her attempts to spread happiness, to the point of showing Control Freak tendencies. She more or less hijacks Libby's Bat Mitzvah to make it more like what she thinks Libby wants, rather than what she actually wants (which Libby calls her out on).
• The Insomniac:
  • In "The Greatest Concert Ever", she stays up all night devising a plot to bring Kenny Star to Brighton.
  • In "Not-So-Honest Abe", she stays up to do her history project that she'd left until the last minute.
  • In "Scratch the Surface", she stays up all night inventing a fake identity for herself as Libby's "new" best friend.
  • In "All Night Plight", she (and Scratch and Libby) stay up until 4 AM to watch a comet.
  • In "It's Always Sunny in Sunnyland", she repeatedly stays up all night fixing up the at-home attractions for the next day.
  • In "100% Molly McGee", she stays up all night for a "Thai culture cram".
  • In "Web of Lies", she can't sleep because of her guilt over Darryl's pet spider.
• Irrational Hatred: She despises magicians because she sees them as frauds.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: A platonic example. By the series' finale, Molly encourage Scratch to return to his original body and live his life once more so he could explore the world like he always wanted and reunite with Adia at last, even if it's costing the memories of his friendship with her.
• Kill the God: The Chairman is essentially the God of the Dead of the Ghost World, and after Molly destroys the Flow of Failed Phantasms, freeing all the ghosts within, she proceeds to destroy The Chairman too, leaving nothing but his cloak behind.
• Man of Kryptonite: Her inner joy levels are so high that she utterly destroys the Chairman (who feeds on misery) with a single boop on the nose.
• Messy Hair: Downplayed, but she does have a few loose strands.
• Modesty Shorts: She wears these under her skirt in her general outfit.
• Morality Pet: She is gradually becoming this for Scratch; when she starts to feel like all hope is lost in "The Greatest Concert Ever", Scratch goes out of his way to turn things around.
• My Friends... and Zoidberg: When "Andrea" declares both her and Libby no longer school pariahs, she only adds Molly as an afterthought.
• Nice Girl: There is not a mean or cruel bone in this girl's body. This doesn't mean she can't get angry or vindictive, though, but it takes a lot to get her to that point.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Season 2 reveals that destroying the Flow released the Frightmares that were trapped within it by the Chairman, who was the only one they would listen to.
• No Sense of Personal Space: Scratch is constantly getting hugged or squeezed by Molly, and it's even worse for him because the curse that binds him to her means he's drawn like a magnet into her arms every time she calls for him.
• No-Sell: She cannot be cursed (or scared) by Scratch. Scratch is shown to be able to terrify others pretty easily, but Molly can only see the good side in his scary actions, and in turns helps her family comes to view Scratch as a Silly Spook, much to his frustration (at first). She also is so optimistic and positive that as a ghost she cannot be affected by being thrown into the flow of failed phantoms and even manages to destroy it and free the other ghosts within it.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Her ghostly form is shown in the first season finale to be golden, as a reflection of the joy in her heart.
• Not So Above It All: In "Hooray for Mollywood", she allows Andrea free rein to alter the movie for longer than she should, chiefly due to the fact that Andrea gave her her own director's chair.
• Not Quite Dead: She spends most of "Molly vs the Ghost World" as a ghost, but this is because her soul separated from her body in a desperate attempt to follow Scratch. Then it looks like she might be gone when she gets absorbed by the Flow of Failed Phantasms, only to overpower and destroy it shortly after.
• Official Couple: She finally confesses her love for Ollie in "A Grand Gesture." And he returns her feelings in full.
• Older Than They Look: Molly is 13, but looks more like a 9 or 10-year-old girl based on her Cheerful Child demeanor, childlike fashion, and short stature.
• Paper-Thin Disguise:
  • In "Scratch the Surface", she disguises herself as "Milly", a Canadian exchange student, claiming to be her own cousin; her disguise consists of a different jacket and a blue wig. Libby isn't fooled for a second.
  • In the very next episode, she disguises herself as a baseball mascot to monitor her scavenger hunt for Scratch and Libby. Both of them easily see through and lampshade her disguise.
• Perfectly Cromulent Word:
  • She has a desire to "enhappify" Brighton.
  • She labels Andrea a “don't-gooder,” which Scratch lampshades.
• Pint-Sized Kid: Molly is significantly shorter than Libby who's in the same class as her and hardly reaches the shoulders of other Disney TVA female protagonists around her age.
• The Pollyanna: Her main personality trait; no matter how miserable Brighton might be or how mean someone might seem, Molly will always see the best in them so long as they don't make her mad.
• Positive Friend Influence: The longer she hangs out with Scratch, the more the ghost slowly but surely starts becoming a better person, to the point that by the time he gets kidnapped by the Ghost World Council to be judged over the rise of joy in Brighton, he goes to Molly's defense and sticks with her even as they're absorbed by the Flow of Failed Phantasms.
• Power Glows: Her ghost form begins to glow shortly after she destroys the Flow of Failed Phantasms and before she erases The Chairman for good.
• Relationship Upgrade: She and Ollie finally become girlfriend and boyfriend at the end of "The Grand Gesture".
• Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers!: Molly's a firm believer that a positive mind and attitude can help lighten people up in general, so when that notion is challenged, mostly by Scratch, don't expect her to rest until she proves the naysayer wrong.
• Secret-Keeper: Two examples.
  • She's keeping Scratch's existence a secret from most people. She doesn't hide it from her family, Libby or Ollie, but everybody else she tries her best to keep in the dark.
  • In an example that's more Played for Drama, she eventually discovers that if her friendship with Scratch is discovered, then he will be taken away for good.
• Secretly Selfish: While Molly in general is a pretty kind girl, there are several times when she lets what she wants to get in the way of her good intentions:
  • During Libby's Bar Mitzvah, Molly invites a ton of people to make it a big party because that's what she wants from the event, while Libby just wants a quiet party.
  • In “The Don't-Gooder,” Molly goes to extreme lengths to discredit Andrea, to the point of scaring Scratch with her obsession. And all because Andrea gets more credit for her good deeds than Molly.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Molly instantly develops romantic feelings for Ollie initially because of his good looks. As they spend more time together, Molly's feelings for him deepen as not only do they have a number of similarities, but he's also a kind, selfless, brave, and gentlemanly young man; at one point, Molly dreamingly mentions how she likes his "civic sense of duty".
• Spanner in the Works: Before the McGees came to Brighton, Scratch had no friends, no responsibilities beyond his monthly scare quota, and plenty of free time to haunt a sad, gloomy town where people were easy to frighten; with Molly around, he's got a very close friend that involves him in her activities, distracts him from spreading misery, and makes his haunting grounds a more joyful place to live, inevitably putting him in a situation where his scares won't be enough to keep him out of the red.
• Spiders Are Scary: She is terrified of Darryl's pet tarantula, Heidi Hairylegs.
• Stepford Smiler: Molly isn't always as confident as she looks and will sometimes put on a facade to hide her problems. When her family's house is being sold due to her parents' negligence to the mortgage payment and they're forced to live out in a trailer in a forest, Molly lies to her school friends that she's totally fine, with a song montage playing of her trying so hard to keep her optimism when it's painfully obvious she's not okay.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Resembles her mother dead-on but has slightly lighter skin and reddish hair like her father.
• Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: In the season 1 finale, when thrown into the Flow of Failed Phantoms, not only is Molly's sheer positivity enough to overwhelm and destroy it, but a single Finger Poke of Doom is enough to cause the Chairman to burst into rainbow energy and disintegrate, leaving nothing but a flower-covered cloak behind.
• Touch of Death: Somewhat inverted, in that it's more 'touch of pure joy and positivity', but for the thoroughly negative and miserable Ghost Council and the Chairman, Molly's positive nature is complete anathema to them, and all it takes is a finger poke to dissolve the Chairman's skeleton into rainbows and flowers and leaving only his cloak behind. Scratch and Geoff are able to touch her no problem, and other ghosts and supernatural entities are merely 'joyified' by contact with Molly, implying that this effect only works on ghosts that have no positive emotions at all.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The first episode hints that Molly's actions in spreading joy and positivity around Brighton and hampering Scratch's attempts to scare others is going to eventually put him at risk of being sucked into Flow of Failed Phantoms if the town becomes too positive. Unless the council has anything to do about it of course.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Despite purposely using her finger touch of Joy to make the Chairman in the Ghost Council to banish and destroy the whole Flow of Failed Phantoms, she did this to save Scratch from being sucked into the flow infinitely and persuade the Ghost Council to let them remain friends.
• What the Hell, Hero?: She rips into Darryl once his "prison" scheme is revealed in "No Good Deed".
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Is revealed to have a fear of spiders when Darryl's pet tarantula causes her to have a nervous breakdown in the episode "Scare Tactics".
• Wrong Genre Savvy: In "The (Un)natural", despite never playing baseball before, she's convinced that she can succeed if she just believes in herself. She is immediately proven wrong when her first throw is a disaster.
• The World Is Just Awesome: Despite being surrounded by several ghost mishaps and the average tween troubles, Molly honestly loves Brighton and intends to make it as cheerful a place as she believes it should be. This trait is so strong that when she astral projects herself into the ghost world, her touch 'joyifies' everything she comes into contact with, literally turning the world around her into a Sugar Bowl of pastel colours, causing flowers to bloom everywhere, and even disintegrating anything that's too negative that she comes into contact with.
• Yellow/Purple Contrast: With the other female ghosts, since while most of them range from shades of purple or pink, Molly's ghost form is colored yellow.

Scratch

Scratch^{Click here to see his last name (spoiler warning)}McGee

Voiced by: Dana Snyder

A grouchy ghost whose joy comes from spreading misery.

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• Animals Hate Him: "Mama's Gotta Hustle" reveals that animals can not only see Scratch (even when he's invisible), but absolutely despise him, chasing after him immediately.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: In "All Shark No Bite", he mockingly calls for a ghost shark to appear, which actually happens due to his authority as the new Chairman. Though it ultimately turns out that he unknowingly created the ghost shark.
• Benevolent Boss: Downplayed. He's too lazy to take his job as chairman seriously and dumps most of the work on the council while he goofs off with Molly. However, the ghost council enjoys paperwork, and he treats them decently enough and tries to get them to lighten up, to the point that in "Jinx vs. the Human World", they (minus Bartholomew) call him a friend.
• Big Eater: He may be a ghost, but Scratch still loves to eat, and though he has a stated preference for tacos and strawberry soda, anything and everything will do. His fondness for Grandma Nin is predicated mainly on what a wonderful cook she is.
• Blob Monster: Scratch is effectively a big sentient lump of ectoplasm, meaning that he can be stretched, splattered, squeezed and sculpted by Molly, and the sound effects he makes tend to be rather wet and squishy.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Molly and her family aside, Scratch has a natural talent for frightening people, takes satisfaction in his work, and always meets his monthly quotas exactly... which is to say, not a single scare more, giving him plenty of spare time to devote to his other passions: sleeping and eating. Motz and Roth have confirmed that, until Molly came to town, it was Brighton's naturally gloomy and miserable state that made Scratch's job easier, not vice versa.
• But Now I Must Go: In the series finale, Scratch made his decision to return to his original body, Todd Mortenson with the help of Molly's encouragement so he could fulfill his promise to Adia and living his life once more as he leaves Brighton behind, possibly costing him most of his memories as a ghost in the process.
• The Chew Toy: Because he's already dead he suffers a lot of physical trauma because it really doesn't carry long term consequences to him. He does note a lot how despite being dead he still feels pain.
• Conflicting Loyalties: As of "Turnip Twist", Scratch has begun to face a hard decision — sabotage Molly's well-meaning efforts to improve Brighton, keeping the town miserable at the cost of hurting his Only Friend, or help Molly with those same efforts at the risk of being sentenced to The Flow of Failed Phantoms. Even when he finally tells Molly about the Ghost Council and the Flow, he doesn't mention that her "enhappifying" is putting him in danger.
• Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: Like other ghosts, Scratch has little yellow eyeballs set into deep, wide black sockets that give the appearance of dark circles or shadows; they just tend to be more noticeable on him because he's usually glowering, or because those eyes have unceremoniously fallen out.
• Curse Escape Clause:
  • Thanks to him forwarding the curse with "If you won't leave... (Me alone)", Scratch's curse is in effect as long as Molly lives in the house. He tries to get around this in "First Day Frights" by ruining Molly's prospective social life but can't bring himself to go through with it; afterwards, he and Molly live under an unspoken truce.
  • When the McGees are actually evicted from the house because their mortgage defaults, he's heartbroken, and spends most of "Home is Where The Haunt Is" scaring away potential buyers so Molly and the family can come back. Once they return, Molly realizes that the curse has been broken, and he can finally leave... to which Scratch, unconvincingly, claims otherwise, while making it clear that he's not going anywhere.
• Defrosting Ice King: He starts off the series as a grumpy ghost that tries not to care that his superiors snub him and show no respect for his efforts. When Molly comes into town and offers him her dollhouse, as well as all the tacos he wants, Scratch despite himself finds his heart melting. It gets to the point where he declares that only he can make Molly miserable, and anyone that messes with her has to get through him first. And he proves that constantly. By the time of "Friend Off", he outright reciprocates Molly's designation of "best friend" and forms a rivalry with Libby for the title, though the two come to an understanding.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • His attempt at cursing Molly. It never occurred to him that ensuring he would go everywhere she goes for the rest of eternity would turn out to be a problem. When the Ghost Council learn of the curse, one of them points out that such a thing would be more of a curse on the ghost than the person.
  • In "Getting the (Band)shell Back Together", he tries to stop the McGees from volunteering at the old folk's home (and dragging him along) by turning into a wall and blocking the entrance. The family simply walk right through him.
  • In "Mazel Tov, Libby!", he releases a bunch of bats to try and "liven up" Libby's bat mitzvah, completely forgetting that all animals dislike him. And sure enough, the bats go after him in short order.
  • Cursing himself and Molly to only say no and yes respectively in "All Systems No". This ends up backfiring on him, when the Ghost Council asks him if he will join the Elite Ghost Society, and he is forced to say no.
• Does Not Like Spam: His dislike of carob. It's revealed in "Innocent Until Proven Ghostly" that he actually has an allergy to it which he doesn't enjoy bringing up.
• The Drag-Along: Molly deliberately invokes the Inconvenient Summons part of the curse to force him to participate in her plans, or bring him along on McGee family outings he doesn't want to attend.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: You can't blame him for getting annoyed at the Council constantly snubbing him and barely passing him when he puts a lot of effort into his haunts. Scratch has to point out that he always makes his scare quota, and Brighton is pretty miserable.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • He thinks that Andrea is too uptight and full of herself, even before she started bullying Molly. When Andrea takes over Molly's fun horror film, he looks genuinely concerned when Andrea makes Molly cry, asking permission to liven up the production for Molly's benefit.
  • Similarly, though he agrees that Andrea buying her own nougat in "The Don't-Gooder" was unfair to the other contestants and somewhat dishonest, the money still went towards the new marquee, so he feels that it's not worth exposing what was essentially anonymous charity (especially if it'll humiliate her in front of the whole town and make Molly a bad person for it).
  • We see another in "Twin Trouble". Scratch's job is to scare people and make Brighton a miserable place to live. But when Pete's sadness attracts sobgoblins, little ghosts that feed on feelings of sadness, amplify those feelings, and then multiply to spread the sadness to people around them, Scratch immediately warns Molly to get rid of them before they spread to the rest of her family.
• Extreme Omnivore: Due to being a ghost — normally inedible, gross, and downright dangerous things like poisonous berries and stale dumpster pizza are just snacks to him. However, he is a little fussy about protein bars, disliking the taste of carob, and finds the free samples Molly and Sharon are trying to give out in their GigPig job so disgusting that he has to cleanse his palate with some literal garbage. He's also repulsed by Brighton's beloved staple food, turnips. He also regards durian as "offensive."
• Failure Is the Only Option: His attempts to drive the McGees out of the house will always fail on him. Fortunately, he wises up to this pretty quickly and elects to become a member of the family instead.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Calling him a 'friend' is stretching it, but hardly anyone in the spirit world likes him apart from Geoff.
• Ghastly Ghost: He can be quite horrifying at times when he grows and distorts his features into twisted and grotesque forms; in his first encounter with the McGee family, he manages to scare the daylights out of them all with little effort, and Andrea faints when she accidentally sees him lose his temper. His excellent track record of terror and misery before Molly came to Brighton was pretty much the only reason why his fellow ghosts didn't banish him.
• Ghost Amnesia: Unique among the ghosts in the series in that he has no memory whatsoever of his mortal life, and doesn't care to revisit it. The finale shows that he drifted out of his body due to sheer hopelessness, and what happened afterward is a side-effect of becoming a wraith — a living soul spending too much time outside their body will lose their past identity.
• Gone Horribly Right: Scratch's curse on Molly was that he'd endlessly follow her around, haunting her for the rest of her days, which he hoped would intimidate her enough to scare her and the McGees away. What he wasn't counting on was that Molly would love this, and now he's stuck with her for an eternity.
• Hated by All: Virtually everyone in the ghost world dislikes Scratch; the Ghost Council only puts up with him because he gets results. There's a single exception in Geoff, but it's only due to him being on the dumber side.
• Hates Being Touched: He doesn't care too much for Molly and Geoff's Cuddle Bug tendencies.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: To Molly, the rest of the McGees, and everyone else both living and dead, he proudly presents himself as a merciless, self-centered jerk with no redeeming qualities, who would never do something kind or generous... and will keep on insisting it, no matter how many times Molly calls him out for his soft center.
  • When in the presence of Lincoln's ghost, he quietly admits that Molly really is his best friend, and apologizes and confesses that he tried to seem important by knowing Abe because "you're important to me". Afterwards, he claims the lesson he learned was "never do anything nice for anybody ever again" — and then makes the exact same mistake.
  • When submitting personal miracles that have happened to them over the year in "Festival of Lights", Scratch's is "I used to haunt a house... now I haunt a home". Not familiar with Hanukkah tradition, he's mortified to learn that they're then shared and read aloud, and desperately tries to steal his back.
    Molly: Scraaaaatch! I knew you were a gooey marshmallow! C'mere, buddy!
    Scratch: [Squished inside a family hug] ...See, this is why I don't say nice things.
• Hypocritical Heartwarming: He doesn't like seeing other people picking on Molly, and insists that it's because it's his job to torment her and scare her away.
  Scratch: Nobody crushes Molly's spirit! That's my job!
• I Choose to Stay: When the curse binding him to Molly is finally lifted in "Home is Where The Haunt Is", they both realize there's nothing stopping him from leaving. Scratch puts up a very unconvincing display of being summoned by her again, then gives her a hug as Molly tears up.
  "See? There you go. I'm not goin' anywhere."
• Inconvenient Summons:
  • Molly can call him whenever she wants, including when he's in the tub, which gives him absolutely no privacy or solitude. Even more humiliating, rather than just appearing, he's dragged bodily to the destination.
    Scratch: [Upon being summoned straight to Molly for the first time] Wh — wha' the... huh? Ohhh, no! This curse just got WORSE!
    Molly: [In giddy realization] No way! You come to me.. whenever I say your name?! ON-DEMAND BESTIE?!
    [She gets uncomfortably close to Scratch]
    Molly: [Whispering] ...It's the future of friendship.
  • On the flip side, the one place Molly can't summon Scratch from is the Ghost World (meaning that his only avenue of true escape is a realm where everyone hates him, or, in the case of Geoff, is annoyingly friendly). If the Ghost Council suddenly calls him before them, it's almost certainly at an inopportune time for either Molly, Scratch, or the both of them, and he can't escape until they're placated.
• Invisible to Normals: Scratch can render himself this way, shown by his form taking on a pure white/transparent outline, allowing him to keep following Molly around without freaking out the citizens of Brighton; it is something he has to focus to do, however, as he can reveal himself by accident, and anyone who's already been let in on the "secret" of him existing, like the McGee family, can see him regardless. He later finds out that dogs (and bison) can not only naturally sense him, but detest him on sight, and attack him seemingly on principle.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Scratch is cynical and can be unpleasant at times. But he's always quick to point out the flaws and holes in Molly's logic and grand plans. And he's always proven right. Such examples include:
  • In "The (Un)natural", when Molly joined the schools baseball team, the Brighton Lemmings, thinking they just need to "believe in themselves" to finally break their losing streak, Scratch is quick to asks if she's ever played baseball? The answer: no. She hasn't. And she ends up being just as bad as her team.
  • In "Monumental Disaster", when Molly meets the ghost of the (fraud) hero of Brighton, Ezekiel Tugbottom, Scratch tells Molly that in the ghost world he's nothing but annoying blowhard and that he's nothing but a phony. Molly of course doesn't listen, so Scratch just pulls out a stopwatch to time how long it takes for her to see her "hero" for the fake he is. The time it took for her to be proven wrong: 38 minutes and 9 seconds.
  • In "Goat Your Own Way", Molly has difficulty training her goat Totes for the up coming fair, so instead of doing the method of "Command, Click, Reward" she instead gives him a treat first to make him heel. Scratch doesn't miss a beat to call her out of this kind of training.
    Molly: Ha! Command, Reward, Click! I've trained him! Whoo-hoo!
    Scratch: Yes, you've trained him... to be bribed.
    Molly: Excuse me, that's a very cynical spin.
    Scratch: But shockingly accurate.
  • In "Lock, Stock, and Peril", when Molly goes to see a "real live unicorn" downtown, Scratch points out the obvious that it's just a horse wearing a party hat for a horn.
  • In "Scaring is Caring", when Scratch is infected with Joy and becomes to adorable to complete his scare report, Molly offers to scare people for him... Scratch just laughs at this. When he see's she's serious, he tells her she's only "unintentionally scary", while the rest of the time she's "all sugar, no spice". Molly tries scare some people to prove that she can be scary... only for each attempt failing miserably.
  • This is later revealed to be Foreshadowing of his true nature as a wraith. As it was his cynicism and anxiety about things going wrong in life that caused his depression, eventually causing his soul to detach and slip away from his physical form, leaving his body to become an Empty Shell
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Downplayed on the "Heart of Gold" part. Scratch isn't exactly the nicest guy around, and his gregarious and crude nature ostracizes him from the Ghost Council (who are jerks in a very different way); nonetheless, while gold might not be the best term for it, he does have a conscience buried deep down, and more of an ability to empathize with people than he lets on, both of which his friendship with Molly has helped bring out.
  • When he learns that Molly is very self-conscious about starting out at a new school, he realizes with glee that if she's humiliated, she'll leave Brighton forever and the curse will be broken; after trying to play on her anxiety when she appears to be gaining confidence, Scratch loses patience and ominously declares that he'll ruin her first day himself. Just as he's on the verge of getting what he wants, hearing Molly be called out as 'the worst' reminds him of his own treatment at the hands of his fellow ghosts, and he suffers a pang of guilt that forces him to revert all his mischief.
  • To help finance Molly's reconstruction efforts, he gives her a huge sack of cash... that he robbed from a credit union.
  • After Molly fails to even get a chance to speak to Kenny Star, Scratch tries kicking her while she's down — and sees that she's so heartbroken over letting everyone down that she's lost her optimism. Literally wracked with guilt, he rockets into the sky, tries to catch up with Kenny's jet, and eventually kidnaps Atomic Pink in a swath of endangerment and property damage just to help his friend.
  • Even though he's very offended that his role has been butchered by Andrea's "new direction", he still calls Molly's original vision "our movie", and is saddened to see what's become of it by the end. When Molly lets him off the leash, though, he relishes the chance to scare the wits out of Andrea, Greta Gerwig, and the entire crew.
  • Scratch has little interest in saving Brighton's Snowflake Festival at first — the only thing he was looking forward to was the Christmas cookie baking contest, and it's not like he can't eat cookies at home, so the feelings of the rest of the town don't really matter to him. When he sees that Mr. Davenport's selfishness has shaken Molly's holiday spirit, he goes into a righteous fury (yelling "this injustice will NOT stand!", the exact same phrase he made fun of Molly for) and flies back to the Davenport house to scare, physically imperil, and batter the guy into getting some holiday generosity.
• Klingon Promotion: After aiding Molly in killing the Chairman, the Ghost Council dubs him the next Chairman in Season 2. Much to his dismay.
• Large Ham: Whenever he's casting a curse or trying to scare someone, he goes full-tilt every time. It's even lampshaded by Molly and Libby in "The Lucky Penny".
  Libby: He's so dramatic when he curses.
  Molly: I know, isn't it cute?
• Laser-Guided Karma:
  • In "Talent Show", he revels in the misery of those competing in the school talent show. But when Libby's act is cheered, he succumbs to misery himself.
  • In "The Internship", he gets an intern named Reggie, solely so he can boss him around, and yells at him over the slightest mistake. By the end of the episode, Reggie is made Scratch's supervisor, and treats Scratch as badly as he treated him.
• Literal Split Personality: What "Scratch" effectively is, due to developing his own consciousness outside of his body and forgetting who he once was. While both were lonely individuals who closed themselves off from other people and took solace in junk food, Todd was an earnest, kind man overwhelmed by his depression and anxiety, whereas Scratch became an outwardly malicious jerk who only found pleasure in the suffering of others. It's only through Molly's help and influence that Scratch grows enough to finally take charge of his life again.
• Meaningful Name: He is named for one of the many names given to the Devil, "Old Scratch".
  • In “The End,” it’s revealed Scratch was his childhood nickname, from his tendency to scratch his arms when he’s anxious.
• Missing Reflection: "Friend Off" reveals that Scratch can be photographed in his invisible state, but he winds up looking like a lot of purported spirit pictures — a dim blue haze with a white light at the center.
• Mysterious Past: Everything about him — from his behavior to his very inhuman name — suggests that he's always been a ghost, rather than a person who became a ghost, and has barely interacted with humans save to scare them and make them miserable. "A Soda to Remember" shows that Scratch doesn't remember anything from his former life and chooses to remain so because he's uncomfortable with the idea of his past. His flashback at the end reveals that he may have once had another living girl as a friend when he was a kid, a fact that shocks even himself. The final episode finally reveals everything: his name isn't Scratch, it's Todd Mortenson, with "Scratch" just being a nickname he had. Even more shocking, he isn't even a ghost, but a wraith who became so miserable and depressed in life, his soul just left his body.
• Nightmare Face: Usually invokes this when he's scaring people.
• Obsessed with Food: A running gag is that Scratch is a Big Eater and several scenes show him eating junk food, often to fatal and bloating extents, and he steals other people's food. This becomes the plot of "A Very Hungry Ghost" where all the Ghost Council is invited for a dinner in the McGee's backyard and everyone hogs the table leaving nothing for Scratch (luckily Grandma Nin ordered him pizza at the end).
• Only Sane Man: While Scratch generally functions as a misanthrope and an anti-conscience, there are also moments where his cynicism and apathy make him the voice of reason when everyone else is being especially irrational over something. In "The Don't-Gooder", he attempts to goad Molly into ruining Andrea for the fun of it, but he also doesn't think the way Andrea sold the most nougat (by buying it all herself) is as heinous as she's making it out to be, and eventually tries to dissuade her from "exposing" the crime as revenge because he doesn't like how Molly is behaving.
  Scratch: Moll... it's not too late to step back from the brink of madness.
• Our Ghosts Are Different:
  • Can eat food — and even suffer from food allergies — despite pointing out that he's already dead, which lets him snack on normally inedible or poisonous things without any issues.
  • Although he can hide himself by turning invisible, anyone that he's let in on the "secret" and has known him as more than just a terrifying specter can perceive him regardless; he's incapable of hiding from Molly, her family, and Libby, and accompanies them in public as a see-through spirit that they can perceive but others can't.
  • Becomes physically ill and incapable of spreading fear and misery if he becomes too happy (known as being "infected with joy"), turning increasingly cute as a result, and has to center himself by remembering his own greatest fear.
• Pet the Dog: Despite his attempts at making Molly's first day miserable, he decides to help her out by possessing Andrea and turning the crowds' attitude to favoring Molly instead. He even removes the black mark from Libby, a notorious social pariah.
• Repressed Memories: Scratch's initial apprehensiveness towards friendship stems back to the sadness he felt when his former best friend Adia moved away, a memory he's suppressed ever since.
• Secret Identity: Scratch tries to keep himself hidden from most townsfolk, for the more people who know him, the less scary he becomes.
• Silly Spook: Of the "incompetent" variety. He's very small in his default state (being about half the height of Molly), has a giant, comical blue nose, and proves completely hopeless in trying to scare off his newfound "best friend", to the point that he whips out a pad and prepares to take notes when she confesses that she's afraid of something. Ironically, he's normally very talented at scaring and has an exemplary record as a misery-spreader around Brighton — one good enough that even the Ghost Council, who make no pretense about their dislike for Scratch, are forced to acknowledge it — but it's never something he's had to work at before, as Brighton was already such a miserable place to live; Molly's fearless nature and relentless positivity not only frustrate him personally, but make his job much harder because of the happiness she inspires in others.
• Sizeshifter: He can change his size to be tiny, to occupy his san phra phum, or huge, to better intimidate the living.
• Technician vs. Performer: He's the technician to Geoff's performer. Scratch believes that scares and haunts need a few things: precision, a target, and flair for the dramatic. If someone gets scared by accident on seeing a haunt meant for someone else, he has the decency to apologize to them. While Geoff just kinda wings it and tries to see if it works, Scratch takes pride in the fact that he can spread misery and terror because he has a lot of practice at it.
• Token Evil Teammate: He's this at his best. In "The Unnatural", he helps Molly and the Lemmings make it all the way to the softball State Championship by cheating on their behalf.
• Tomato in the Mirror: The reason Recurring Extra Todd Mortenson looks suspiciously like Scratch? Todd is Scratch. Specifically, Scratch is Todd's soul, which separated from Todd's body after Todd hit the Despair Event Horizon. This makes Scratch not a traditional ghost, but a wraith. He forgot his life as Todd because he was away from his body for too long, which is apparently a common occurrence.
• Took a Level in Kindness: While he remains a grouchy ghost, he's much more open and accepting to Molly's friendship as the series goes on.
• Toxic Friend Influence: To a lesser extent, he does encourage Molly to bend the rules sometimes or do things his way. It's played straight with Darryl; he helps the kid cheat at cards with older people, and undermines Molly's attempt to teach Darryl to be nice.
• Trademark Favorite Food:
  • Favors tacos and strawberry soda. The former goes far enough to be applied in the show's opening.
  • Also adores anything deep fried, as shown by his song in “Festival of Lights” and his subplot in “Goat Your Own Way.”
• Troll:
  • When possessing Andrea to undo his (successful) attempt to turn Molly into a social pariah in "First Day Frights", he also tells everyone in the auditorium that they can call Andrea whatever they like, which ensures that she's going to be dealing with people mispronouncing her name for a while.
  • In "All Night Plight" He relates a story to Molly and Libby that one time he made a grown man cry, by moving his keys around to different places so he'd think he was losing his mind.
• True Companions: In "The Greatest Concert Ever", he denies being a part of the family when Molly refers to him as a McGee. Even after saving the concert, he claims he's only "McGee-adjacent".
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Scratch's purpose is to invoke misery onto others and scare them. He can also be a selfish and cynical jerk sometimes, which is meant to be funny, but can make it hard to root for him. He usually suffers for his bad deeds by suffering slapstick that still causes him pain despite being dead, or being affectionately smothered with love by Molly.
• Vetinari Job Security: While not popular among the bosses who happen to control which ghosts are punished, before the arrival of Molly he did his job well enough they couldn't get rid of him. When Scratch's friendship with Molly gives the Ghost Council a legitimate reason to banish him, the gleefully pounce on the opportunity.
• Visible Invisibility: When becoming Invisible to Normals, his body becomes a transparent white outline and does not glow, and only his facial elements are opaque.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: As time goes on, he clearly starts warming up to Molly, but heavily denies it and eventually embraces her friendship altogether to the point of dropping the vitriolic part entirely.
• Voice of the Legion: He speaks with a reverberating undertone when bestowing curses or if he gets seriously pissed off.
• Walking the Earth: Once he returns to his human body at the end of the series, he goes off to explore the world like he and Adia wanted to as children, eventually meeting up with her.
• Weaksauce Weakness: As shown in "No Good Deed", electricity has an adverse affect on him; being shocked by an electric fence leaves him delirious and barely able to stay conscious.
• What Is This Feeling?: Played for laughs. Scratch recognizes what pangs of conscience are, and he hates them with a passion, desperately and painfully trying to resist doing the right thing when they come to him.
• You Kill It, You Bought It: In "The New (Para)Normal", since he was technically the ghost who defeated the Chairman he ends up becoming the new Chairman.

The McGee Family

Pete McGee

Voiced by: Jordan Klepper

Molly's father. Due to his job as a city planner, his family moves around a lot, but Brighton is intended to be their Forever Home.

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• Bumbling Dad: Usually Downplayed, he is more just super eccentric than downright bumbling and works at his job really well. He still has his moments though like building a makeshift drill to get into a safe in the basement and biting into durian without peeling it or stuffing a giant turnip pinata with turnips and turnip soup, which backfired when Geoff cut the thing loose.
• Embarrassing Nickname: His siblings nicknamed him "Silly" to make him fit the family name scheme.
• Gag Nose: He has a long, bulbous nose.
• Good Parents: He might be goofy and eccentric, but he is a caring and loving father to Molly and Darryl.
• Hidden Depths: "Ice Princess" reveals that, while city planning and management was always his dream career, ice skating was his teenage passion, and he made Tri-State Junior Skate Champ before the age of 15. He could've even won regionals if he hadn't lost his nerve and blown the routine when his brother taunted him.
• Ink-Suit Actor: Looks almost exactly like Jordan Klepper in cartoon form.
• In Touch with His Feminine Side: He was passionate about professional figure skating as a teen, and in his home life likes to bake his wife a fancy cake.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: In "Twin Trouble", we learn that he's from a family of 10 kids, with him being the youngest.
• Nice Guy: Like Molly, he genuinely wants to make the town a better place for everyone in it, including giving his all to the Turnip Festival.
• Odd Name Out: Out of all his siblings, he's the only one whose name doesn't end in "-illy".
• Papa Wolf: Pete suffers through his older brother and sister bullying and berating him for an entire day, but seeing Molly and Sharon's depression (and Darryl nearly becoming like his siblings) snaps him out of his malaise as he chews out his siblings for not respecting him.
• Southies: If his siblings Billy and Jilly (and the rest of the McGee Clan) are any indication, Pete was once as "wicked" as the rest of them, even if his interests didn't quite align.
• The Runt at the End: His siblings are big and broad, with the boys having bushy beards, while he's scrawny and only has Perma-Stubble.
• Unmoving Plaid: His scratchy beard has the same pattern regardless of his position.

Sharon McGee (née Suksai)

Voiced by: Sumalee Montano

Molly's mother.

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• Alliterative Name: Her maiden name, Sharon Suksai.
• Berserk Button: After Scratch tells Sharon to go cook in "Mama's Gotta Hustle", the latter gets really angry and scares him straight.
• Does Not Like Spam: Hates Carob with a passion.
• Good Parents: She's a caring mother towards Molly and Darryl. This is emphasized in "The Don't-Gooder," when Molly, after seeing how neglectful Andrea's parents are towards her, hugs Sharon and Pete because she's so thankful that she has such good parents.
• Noodle Incident: In "The Greatest Concert Ever", Sharon bitterly refers to a failed audition and shattered dreams:
  Sharon: Never trust a musician! They'll listen to your self-produced demo tapes, promise to make you a star, then leave you standing in the rain with an acoustic guitar and a suitcase full of broken dreams!
• Not So Above It All: While she often tries to bring her family back to earth whenever their antics go too far, Sharon herself can also be prone to having ridiculous plans.
• Only Sane Woman: Sharon tends to be the one to keep the entire McGee household in place, as Pete is a Bumbling Dad, Darryl is a scheming troublemaker, Scratch is a lazy Jerk with a Heart of Gold, and Molly is a Genki Girl whose optimism and determination sometimes blind her to realizing the consequences
• Skewed Priorities: After learning of Scratch's existence, she decides to call the realtor to get some of her money back for never mentioning a ghost in the house.
• Voice of the Legion: When she gets really angry, her voice takes on a reverberating undertone similar to Scratch. This has the effect of scaring Scratch.
• Willfully Weak: The end of "Game Night" reveals that she's an expert at the board game "Mega City", and has been pretending to be no good at it so she doesn't show up the rest of the family.
• Women Are Wiser: Downplayed. Compared to her husband she is more level-headed and logical, but is just as inclined to foolish actions as the rest of her family.

Darryl McGee

Voiced by: Michaela Dietz

Molly's younger brother. A proud and self-proclaimed troublemaker always on the lookout to start some mischief.

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• Annoying Younger Sibling: Some of his antics can get on Molly's nerves at times, with him misinterpreting her advice in "No Good Deed" taking the cake.
• Big Brother Bully: Inverted. He's Molly's younger brother and he bullies her in the episode "Twin Trouble" after being inspired by his aunt and uncle do the same to Pete. Thankfully, Pete sets him straight.
• Boys Like Creepy Critters: He seems to like bugs, as he imagines that the door in the basement leads to a world full of centipedes, and he also has a pet tarantula.
• Bratty Half-Pint: A troublemaker who likes gross stuff.
• Cloudcuckoolander: In "Mama's Gotta Hustle", he's convinced the door in the basement leads to a "centipede world". It's actually the latch door to the water heater.
• The Cracker: He balances between being this and being a Playful Hacker. For instance, in "I Wanna Dance With Some-Ollie", he hacked an online contest in order to win a free concert, but he did it for the benefit of the school prom, and in the end, it only meant more work for him.
• Good Feels Good: Parodied in "No Good Deed"; when Darryl takes the janitor's cart for a joyride, he gets 6 years detention (even though middle school is 3 years). Later, Molly gives Darryl a 3-step seminar on how to be good: thinking about others, taking responsibility, and how nice people pay attention, which appears to work as he enjoys people being happy with him. Then, he forges his principal's name to a "team-building exercise" at the prison, because he felt the teachers were the problem at school that he could solve by getting rid of them and can only point to the kids being happy at no school as justification for his actions.
• Honest John's Dealership: Especially in season 2. When he's not involved in regular playground shenanigans, he's usually trying to sell something to someone, whether it's fakes, junk, or legitimate goods that he's just hyping up, varies. This was also the subject of his Theme Song Takeover.
• Ignored Aesop: In "No Good Deed", after getting in trouble, thus getting 6 years detention, taking advantage of Molly teaching him to change his behavior, twisting his lessons from her by tricking his teachers into going to prison, which he tricked them into thinking it's a team building day, he didn't learn so much as one lesson by the end of the episode, but instead, pulls another stunt getting him into trouble again.
• Kiddie Kid: Darryl is 11 but acts more like a 6 or 7-year-old since he exaggerates the Bratty Half-Pint and Annoying Younger Sibling archetypes, enjoys crude humor, and is often spoiled rotten by the McGee parents, who bought him a humorous sound effect device to keep him preoccupied and he is often the least involved in important events during family outings.
• Noodle Incident: In "Festival of Lights", his miracle was that he "didn't get caught". He smugly tells his parents that it's safer for them if they don't know what that was about.
• Older Than They Look: He's 11 and already in middle school but is short enough to look barely in grade school.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Darryl is usually impressed with people whenever they cause trouble, be mischievous, or playing pranks, but in "Dance Dad Revolution", after learning Pete was going too far with the "Dance Dad" trend, he was not happy at all.
• Pint-Sized Kid: The art style draws him short enough to look 6 or 7.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Just like his sister, he has a high resemblance to his mother.

Grandma Nin Suksai

Voiced by: Sumalee Montano

Sharon's mother, who talks to the family via video calls.

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• Big Sister Bully: Not her but a sister she has. While it's unclear if she's the younger or older sister, in "100% Molly Mcgee", she mentions having a judgmental sister who teased her for being "too American".
• Cool Old Lady: Like Molly, she is not afraid of Scratch and she even gives Molly advice on how to properly honor him.
• Education Mama: Subverted. She keeps bringing up Sharon's art degree in "The Best of Nin-tensions", but it turns out that instead of wanting her daughter to go into law, it's because she's so proud of her, and wants her to do something creative rather than let her passion go to waste.
• Loved by All: After the misunderstanding between her and her daughter was cleared up, she became entirely beloved by the entire McGee family. So much so, that the thought of her in even the slightest danger sends the family in paranoid frenzy.
• Miniature Senior Citizen: Despite her age, she's smaller than Molly, a 13-year-old.
• Morality Pet: Grandma Nin is the only McGee that Scratch treats with the utmost respect. That's because she makes his favorite snacks.
• Obnoxious In-Laws: She can be this to Pete at times. In the first episode alone, she tries to tell him how to drive. And in "The Best of Nin-tentions", she brings him a durian fruit that he struggles to open, let alone eat.
• Safety Worst: This happens to her in "Nin-dependence". She eventually grew tired of her family smothering her about and ran away from them.
• Secret-Keeper: The first extended McGee relative who knows of Scratch and the existence of ghosts.
• Serious Business: She considers cooking as this, which explains Sharon's Berserk Button. Well, at least she has the awareness to apologize in advance before going serious mode.
• Supreme Chef: Everybody always looks forward to her cooking when she visits, not just Scratch.

Billy and Jilly McGee

Voiced by: John DiMaggio (Billy), Marieve Herington (Jilly)

Pete's older siblings who bullied him as a child.

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• Actress Allusion: Not the first time Marieve Herington has played an older sister whose name ends in "illy".
• Green-Eyed Monster: The reason they bully Pete so much is because they envy his success.
• Hollywood New England: Profoundly "Bahston Irish", Sawx fandom and all. Pete even starts drifting back into the accent he lost when he's becoming "Silly McGee" again under their influence.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: As much as they bully him, they truly love Pete and are horrified when they realize how badly they’ve made him feel.
• My God, What Have I Done?: When they realize how much their bullying has truly hurt Pete, Billy and Jilly burst into tears.

David Suksai

Voiced by: Quincy Surasmith

Sharon's brother who lives in New York.

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• Nice Guy: While visiting Molly's house, he offered some seaweed chips, had a nice chat with the family, and comforted Molly by explaining how he and the other family members are different.
• Unaffected by Spice: He, along his daughter, Emmie, has no problems eating spicy seaweed snacks.

Emmie Suksai

Voiced by: Sura Siu

Uncle David's daughter and Molly's cousin who makes her question if she's Thai enough.

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• Cheerful Child: Just as energetic and hyperactive as Molly, if not more.
• Genki Girl: Enthusiastically greets Molly by running up to her with a hug and shows the same habit of smothering Scratch tightly with a hug upon meeting him.
• Strong Family Resemblance: She looks almost exactly like Molly but without the ponytail, and is fairly shorter.
• Unaffected by Spice: She, along with her dad, David, has no problems eating spicy seaweed snacks.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Since Molly only knows a few words in Thai and can't properly return Emmie's greeting, this leads Molly into a series of self-doubt over how truly Thai she is.
• Vague Age: It's never made clear how old she is. She could be anywhere from 8 to Molly's age but shorter and younger looking.

The Chen Family

In General

The new family that moved into Brighton, who are a ghost-hunting team out to expose the abnormal.

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• Anti-Villain: They're kind and personable people that the McGees instantly befriend when they moved in. They're also ghost hunters, meaning having them around is bad news for Scratch.
• Heel–Face Turn: Over the course of Season 2, Ollie becomes accepting of Scratch and ghosts in general, and June soon follows suit. Their parents, however, continue to dislike ghosts, and it takes helping Scratch take down Jinx and hearing Geoff out for them to come around. In a Freeze-Frame Bonus in the series finale, their MeTube channel's latest upload is about them retiring as ghost hunters.
• Obliviously Evil: What they are at worst. While some ghosts are truly dangerous (such as the Frightmares), the majority are decent enough people to not warrant hunting them down let alone their kind as a whole, yet the Chens don't seem to be aware of this, partly due to Ruben's childhood trauma shaping his views on them and those of his family when he passed this fear down.
• Parents Are Wrong: Ollie and June each have a Heel–Face Turn when they learn that ghosts can be good, while their parents still remain convinced that they aren't. They get better once they finally meet Scratch and Geoff, and help them defeat Jinx.
• Van Helsing Hate Crimes: They're dedicated to trapping and, if needed, destroying ghosts. Given that this is primarily from the perspective of ghosts, this makes them a significant threat throughout the second season.
• The Worf Effect: While seen as a threat to ghosts regularly, their lack of formal training, experience and sufficient equipment renders them helpless against the Frightmares.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: In a different show with more malevolent ghosts, they would likely be the main protagonists. But here, where a majority of ghosts are mischievous at worst and the Chairman is already destroyed, well...

Ruben Chen

Voiced by: Leonard Wu

The family's patriarch who believes all ghosts are malevolent after being scared by one in his childhood. He is the leader of the team.

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• Absurd Phobia: He's implied to have a fear of sneezing, of all things, as Geoff sneezing on him was enough to turn him into a lifelong phasmophobe.
• Butt-Monkey: His attempts of trying to prove ghosts are real causes people to tease him about it.
• Freudian Excuse: Being scared by a ghost as a child drove his dislike of them and subsequently him passing this fear and hatred of them to the rest of his family. The fact that his business is unsuccessful and the public at large doesn't believes in ghosts further drives his continued need to catch ghosts.
• Odd Name Out: Is the only one in the family whose name doesn't end with an "-er" sound (Esther, Oliver, Juniper).
• Trademark Favorite Food: Makes root beer as a hobby.
• Unreliable Narrator: Downplayed. In "Jinx vs. the Human World", Ruben claims that Geoff traumatized him as a child as if it was a deliberate act of scaring like those done under the Chairman's rule. But then Geoff reveals that he accidentally sneezed into Ruben's face, which created a Gale-Force Sound, unintentionally scaring him; showing Ruben had greatly misunderstood what actually happened.

Esther Chen

Voiced by: Stephanie Sheh

The family's matriarch, who is in charge of video and editing.

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• Berserk Button: After Ernie mocks her for not having a line at her stand, she gets absolutely ticked off and tries to attack him. Ruben does calm her down though.
• Boyish Short Hair: Has short hair and is a ghost hunter.
• Butt-Monkey: Like her husband, her attempts of trying to prove ghosts are real causes people to tease her about it.

Oliver "Ollie" Chen

Voiced by: Alan Lee

The oldest child of the Chen family whom Molly gains a crush on. He is the family's research specialist.

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• Accidental Athlete: In "Let's Play Turnipball!", despite not knowing the sport so well, Ollie somehow excels at it, to the point where everyone on the team dubs him as the star player.
• Anti-Hero: In the early Season 2 episodes, he was a ghost hunter and posed a massive threat to Scratch, but he is overall a Nice Guy who, like Molly, just wants to make the world a better place. Also, during that time, he genuinely thought that the world would be better if all ghosts were gone because of the fact that his father was traumatized by one, he feels that no one should go through that, unaware that the ghosts here are relatively tame and only some are jerks or villains and that they only scared people so that the original Chairman can feed on the misery. He does get better though as of "Frightmares on Main Street", now that he knows that not all ghosts are bad.
• Arc Villain: The primary antagonist for the first third of Season 2, culminating in "Frightmares on Main Street". Downplayed as he was never an actual villain, just misguided.
• The Atoner: He feels guilty for hunting innocent ghosts and almost hurting Scratch and by extension Molly and wants to contribute to the Ghostfriends and help ghosts to make up for it.
• Blue Is Heroic: Zig-zagged. He wears a dark blue jacket, but started out as Season 2's semi-antagonist up until "Frightmares on Main Street" and onward.
• Blue/Orange Contrast: While all the other male ghosts are either blue or green, Ollie's ghost form is orange, as seen in "Jinx vs. the Human World". This would also apply to his appearance overall since he wears a blue jacket compared to his astral form.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: He has a strong sense of civic duty, which is one of the traits Molly admires about him. However, his hatred of ghosts mixed with this makes him a danger to Scratch, which Molly tries to remedy. After seeing not all ghosts are bad, he still feels the need to be the hero and undermines himself in trying, such as his awkward attempts to fit in with the Ghostfriends and switching sides to defend Blair when the others wouldn't stop pestering her about her past.
• Cool Big Bro: Though his relationship with June is not shown so much due to the series coming to an end in the second season, Brandon Hoang, one of the writers of the show, confirmed that Ollie and June, like Molly and Darryl, had a good sibling relationship.
• Foil:
  • Despite having an extremely similar name^note  "Ollie" is actually a shortened nickname for his full first name, "Oliver". to Molly, his design being an almost exact gender-bent replica of hers, and both being positive-natured optimists with the same goals and a Perfectly Cromulent Word, Ollie is more laid-back and mellow than Molly and is nowhere near as cheerful, energetic or exuberant as her.
  • He and June have different responses after being told that not all ghosts are bad. Both have been told their whole lives that ghosts are evil creatures who do nothing but scare people, but both Chen siblings have different aspects of taking the role of ghost hunters. Ollie liked being seen as a hero when it came to hunting down ghosts and thought that no one should go through what his father went through as a child while June was mainly in it for science. After being chewed out for his actions by Molly, he feels bad for his past actions as seen in "The Unhaunting of Brighton Video". June on the other hand decides that she doesn't want her tech and gadgets to hurt good ghosts and decides to do some experiments on Scratch (mainly because of his squishy body) as a way to find out what ghosts are actually like.
• Gut Feeling: In "Welcome to Necro-Comic Con", the reason why he doesn't want to tell his parents about how some ghosts are harmless (Ollie's initial plan is to take the Phantom Cannister, since it contained the Frightmares inside and showing the cannister to a bunch of ghost-haters would lead to disastrous results), mainly because they spent their lives hating ghosts and telling them that would make them think that he's joking and not only that, their beliefs on ghosts would remain static. He ultimately turns out to be right when he tells them about how some ghosts can be good (but not about the part where he befriended one).
• Hair Flip: Has a habit of flipping his bangs back. Molly swoons every time.
• Heel Realization: After Molly calls him out on his hatred of ghosts, Ollie listens to her and changes his mind, even freeing Scratch so he can take care of the Frightmares.
• I Hate Past Me: Ever since his Heel–Face Turn in "Frightmares on Main Street", Ollie joins Molly's friend group, "Ghost Friends", to make up for his past actions in ghost-hunting. When the others talk about past actions and "emotional toes" when dealing with Blair, they're unaware that those topics make him very uncomfortable, which is why he sided with Blair. When Molly asks him if he's hiding anything about his past, he denies it at first, before breaking down in tears over how much he hated how he hurt innocent ghosts and almost hurting Scratch, someone Molly cared for deeply.
• Logical Latecomer: In "Let's Play Turnipball!", he is confused and perplexed by Brighton's odd traditions and Turnipball's incoherent rules, especially since he’s thrust upon as the star player so suddenly.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Downplayed. He has shoulder-length hair and does the occasional Hair Flip, to which Molly squeals over.
• Meaningful Name: "Oliver/Ollie" means "kind one" in Old Norse or "peace" in Old French. In general, he wants to "engoodify" places, but as of "Frightmares on Main Street" he finally sees that all ghosts aren't evil and becomes the Token Good Teammate of his ghost-hunting family.
• My God, What Have I Done?: In "The Unhaunting of Brighton Video", he is not proud of his past actions as a ghost hunter.
  Ollie: I don't feel bad that I was wrong about everything, I don't feel bad that attacked innocent ghosts and I don't feel bad that I almost hurt someone you really care about! Or maybe I do feel bad. Really, really bad.
• Odd Name Out: Is the only person in the "Ghost Friends" group to have his name start with a vowel.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: His name is Oliver, but is mostly referred to by his nickname, Ollie, by his peers, especially Molly.
• Perfectly Cromulent Word: He wants to "engoodify" places.
• Psychological Projection: In "The Unhaunting of Brighton Video", while the gang tries to find what was Blair's unfinished business, Scratch proposes that they just leave Blair alone, and after a little argument about whether they should let her stay in the video store or try to figure out what's causing the pain of her past, Ollie decides to side with her, unintentionally projecting his inability to confront his painful past onto Blair, which causes her to give the rest of the Ghost Friends the boot.
  Molly: Ollie! Let us in! We're trying to help!
  Ollie: Blair shouldn't have to confront her past if it makes her feel bad! Go away!
• Relationship Upgrade: He and Molly finally become boyfriend and girlfriend at the end of "The Grand Gesture".
• Screams Like a Little Girl: In "Frightmares on Main Street", Ollie lets out two shrill-sounding shrieks; the first one is when he sees Scratch's ghost friends in the haunted house and the second one is when Geoff and Howling Harriet scare him for the sake of a scaring contest.
• Secret-Keeper: Though he starts out as the below example by the end of "Frightmares on Main Street" he keeps Molly's secret safe from his family with hers and Scratch's full knowledge of his own discoveries, despite their drive to hunt all ghosts getting stronger.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: At the end of "I Wanna Dance With Some-Ollie", he spots Scratch talking to Molly. He not only keeps this from Molly, but chooses not to tell his family about Scratch. By "Frightmares on Main Street" he changes to a straight-up Secret-Keeper.
• Sixth Ranger: Becomes this as a part of Molly's friend circle with Libby and Scratch, now known as the "Ghostfriends," after he forsakes his ghost-hunting ways.
• Spear Counterpart: To Molly, being the elder sibling in an Asian-American family who has a similar positive personality.
• Uncertified Expert: At Turnipball, a game he excels at despite not even understanding how to play.
• Van Helsing Hate Crimes: He's convinced that all ghosts are wicked creatures who do nothing but scare people due to his father's experiences. Though he starts having doubts when he sees Molly's friendship with Scratch, enough to not immediately tell his family about his discovery. By the end of "Frightmares on Main Street" he fully abandons this after being called out by Molly and even shows signs of befriending Geoff.
• Virtuous Vegetarianism: In "The New (Para)Normal", Ollie is the only one in his family who doesn't eat meat, as he wants to save his carbon footprint.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Just like Molly, he's shown to be scared of spiders, such as Darryl's pet tarantula Heidi Hairylegs.
• Younger Than They Look: Despite seemingly being in the same grade as Molly, Ollie is a lot taller than her and has a deeper voice that one couldn't be blamed for mistaking him to be around 15.

Juniper "June" Chen

Voiced by: Sue Ann Pien

The youngest member of the Chen family whom Darryl befriends. She's autistic. She is the family's technology expert.

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• Brutal Honesty: While the other Chens feign gratitude over being given turnips, June bluntly remarks how it smells like boiled toenails.
  June: I'm autistic, and I guess not everyone can handle my unbridled truth.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": She gets annoyed if you call her "Juniper" instead of "June".
• Heel–Face Turn: When she learns from Ollie that her Phantom Cannister only worked because Scratch made it hold the Frightmares, she realizes that ghosts can be good, and helps Ollie stop their parents from exposing the captured Frightmares to the world. She also becomes friends with Scratch.
• No Sense of Personal Space: After meeting Scratch she starts curiously squashing and stretching him and attempts to touch his eye goop without his consent.
• Pint-Sized Kid: Is seemingly around Darryl's age yet isn't any taller.
• Shorter Means Smarter: Is the smallest in the family, "tech-wizard" and even after her Heel–Face Turn, she decides to do some experiments with Scratch to learn what ghosts are actually like.
• Shout-Out: She's a Chinese-American, prepubescent, paranormal investigator whose full first name is Juniper.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: Is apparently the primary designer of the Chen's ghost-hunting gadgets, and she wears glasses.

Brighton Middle School

Libby Stein-Torres

Voiced by: Lara Jill Miller

Molly's shy and nerdy Jewish best friend.

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• …And That Little Girl Was Me: When introduced she tells a story about a girl named Libby who was a social outcast due to mispronouncing Andrea's name. When Molly asks who it was, Libby responds by saying that she herself was the one.
• Animal Motifs: Turtles, which she seems to have a thing for. She put turtle stickers on her flashlight, her writing credit for the movie in "Hooray for Mollywood" is placed on a picture of a turtle, and she uses turtles to decorate her Bat Mitzvah in "Mazel Tov, Libby!". Turtles can hide when they feel vulnerable, much like Libby.
• Beware the Nice Ones: In "Scratch the Surface", Libby subjected Molly to a long humiliation line for trying to lie to her by forcing Molly to eat a maple syrup-dipped burger, watching Irving the Illusionist fake magic tricks, and so on.
• Born Unlucky: "The Lucky Penny" reveals she's this which would explain her Butt-Monkey status, and the episode (which takes place on Friday 13th) takes her luck to the extreme that multiple plastic bags will constantly fly into her face.
• Butt-Monkey: Tends to get injured a lot whenever she appears.
• The Chew Toy: She tends to get injured quite a bit, all played for comedy.
• Conspiracy Theorist: Libby was obsessed with the supernatural even before being introduced to Scratch, as well as potential secrets and conspiracies in Brighton. Though sometimes she was off in one way or another, she turns out to be right more times than wrong.
• Disappeared Dad: Her father never showed up the entirety of Season 1, although it appears her paternal extended family attended her Bat Mitsvah. He does show up in Season 2, and it's explained that he travels a lot while writing. It also doesn't seem like he cares much for his daughter's needs to begin with.
• Facial Profiling: She has the typical large, long nose associated with Jewish people in the media.
• First Period Panic: Libby freaks out upon having her first period in the bathroom at Molly's sleepover in "A Period Piece", as one would expect, not helping that she's a Nervous Wreck of a Butt-Monkey.
• Hardboiled Detective: Parodied. She sometimes pretends to be one, but she's a bit too much of a goofball to really nail the noir aesthetic. Despite that, she is a surprisingly relentless detective - if prone to wild, paranoid theories - and Molly has more than once had issues keeping secrets from her due to her being a Living Lie Detector.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Refers to herself as "not really for everyone" and "more of an acquired taste" when asking Molly to be best friends. She couldn't even look Molly in the eyes and had a moment of shock before reciprocating Molly's hug.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Libby makes a friendship bracelet for Molly in "Howlin' Harriet" with the intention of asking if she wants to be her best friend. Molly gleefully accepts and the two have been besties ever since.
• Hidden Depths: "Talent Show" reveals that she has a great passion (and talent) for poetry slams.
• Hollywood Tone-Deaf: "Talent Show" depicts her as being a terrible singer (and completely unaware of it).
• Huge School Girl: Downplayed. She's slightly taller than many of her classmates. Molly lampshades this when she lists Libby being "Tall" as a good friendship quality.
• Iconic Item: She wears a green turtleneck sweater.
• Jewish and Nerdy: One episode in season 1 is about her Bat Mitzvah and she is in general a quirky nerdy girl who is one of the few people able to vibe on Molly's level.
• Living Lie Detector: While granted Molly is not an especially good liar, it's still very hard to lie to Libby - a girl who calls herself "the Bloodhound of Truth." Not only does she always suss it out whenever Molly tries to lie to her, but in her free time she enjoys unraveling historical lies and conspiracies on her own.
• Messy Hair: Downplayed, but she does have several loose strands.
• Nice Girl: For all of her anxieties and trust issues, she is second only to Molly in terms of kindness.
• Nightmare Fetishist:
  • She's shown to have a fondness for traditional ghost stories in "Howling Harriet".
  • In "Hooray for Mollywood", she's written her own horror movie script, the quality of which manages to even impress Scratch.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: The "incident" at Andrea's 3rd grade sleepover party.
• Only Friend: Molly is originally this to Libby. In "Mazel Tov, Libby", she's the only person who Libby invites that's not family.
  • In "Friend Off", Molly introduces Libby to Scratch; they later go on a scavenger hunt planned by Molly with clues meant to help them become best friends. Near the end, when Molly is trapped in a vegetable harvester, Libby helps rescue Molly by programming the town's founding date as the password. Afterwards, Libby and Scratch start to develop a friendship.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Possibly, considering Libby is generally a nickname for Elizabeth, Liberty, or Leeba.
• Promotion to Opening Titles: She, along with Geoff, joins in on the McGee's Group Hug with Scratch in the season 2 intro.
• Scarily Competent Tracker: When Libby is on the hunt, it doesn't matter how good you hide or how far you run. She will find you anywhere.
• Second Episode Introduction: First appears in the second segment of the first episode, "First Day Frights". Though it wouldn't be until the next episode that we learn more about her beyond her name.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Libby looks a lot like her mother, but she inherited her dad’s skintone.
• Shrinking Violet: She's rather bashful and not good with crowds, as seen in "Mazel Tov, Libby!".
• Secret-Keeper: She has the honor of being the first non-McGee to learn about Scratch's existence in "Scratch the Surface".
• Speech Impediment: Downplayed, but she speaks with a slight lateral lisp.
• Tareme Eyes: She has droopy eyes that constantly make her look a bit sad. "Mazel Tov, Libby" shows she gets this trait from her mother.
• Tempting Fate: When Scratch sings a scary Christmas song, Libby says she's safe because her family celebrates Hannukah. Scratch proves her wrong by singing a scary Hannukah song.
• Took a Level in Kindness: While never a bad person, in her debut Libby was notably more selfish, perfectly willing to go along with Andrea's social shunning of Molly to improve her own standing. After she becomes Molly's friend, her behavior is more consistently noble.
• Town Girls: The Butch to Andrea's Femme and Molly's Neither.
• Twofer Token Minority: Jewish and Argentine.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Libby is usually the one to call Molly out when she's doing something inconsiderate.

Andrea Davenport

It's pronounced "Ahn-dree-uh". You said "Ann-dree-ah".

Voiced by: Jules Medcraft

The most popular girl in Brighton Middle School. Her family owns the local department store, Davenport's.

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• Abusive Parents: Downplayed. While her parents certainly aren't good, they aren't deliberately emotionally abusive towards her. Their own vanity and childish attention spans simply leads to them frequently ignoring her, which fuels her attention-seeking behavior.
• All Girls Like Ponies: She is overjoyed when she gets a pony as a gift from her parents.
• Ambiguously Bi: Says "love you" to Molly in "Hooray for Mollywood", has slow danced with a blonde boy at Libby's Bat Mitzvah and a wide and tall boy at the middle school prom, and called Molly "cutie" in "The Don't Gooder". The text "L8R" in her theme song takeover is even in bi colors. Furthermore, in the Chibi Tiny Tales "Scratch, Molly's Third Wheel," Andrea goes out with a vaguely female-looking character. Another chibi short put out for Pride Month features Andrea alongside Geoff and Jeff, as well as other Disney Channel characters, several of whom are LGBTQ, but with Molly and Scratch conspicuously absent. She later has a plan to marry Alina Webster (the girl from the chibi short) and merge their businesses. Word of God subsequently referred to her as queer.
• Ascended Extra: Downplayed as Andrea was certainly never a background character from the very beginning, but she was never more than a supporting character and only played a major role in 4 episodes. By season 2, she's taken up a larger capacity as the Sixth Ranger of Molly and Libby's friend circle in "A Period Piece" where her invitation to the sleepover builds some chemistry between her and Libby. She even gets two whole episodes dedicated to herself with "Davenport's on Demand" and "Davenport's in Demise".
• Because You Were Nice to Me: A basis as to why Andrea became so nice to Molly. In "The Don't-Gooder", Andrea manipulates the Nougat Selling competition by purchasing the Nougat bars that she was supposed to be selling to others much to Molly's righteous anger. That said it eventually becomes clear that for Andrea this wasn't about the competition itself but getting attention from her neglectful parents. When this becomes public knowledge and Andrea is revealed, Molly intervenes and twists the truth into a white lie about "Andrea buying the bars to save everyone from cavities". The town buys it, Andrea's parents express approval for their daughter's public image being upheld, and Andrea softly thanks Molly. From hereon, she would no longer be antagonistic to Molly, even using her clout to save the McGee's home in "Home is Where the Haunt is" and considering herself to be Molly's best friend.
• Berserk Button: Do not mispronounce her name unless you wish to suffer her wrath, as it's the only time she'll actively try to ruin you. To her credit, she's willing to let it slide once and only once when meeting someone new.
• Born Lucky: "The Lucky Penny" reveals she's this, albeit mainly because she was born rich. This becomes a problem in "The Lucky Penny", which sees Scratch transfer Molly's good luck into a penny that will give that luck to whoever holds it. The penny ends up falling into Andrea's purse, causing her to become so lucky that she ends up draining everybody else's luck, turning her a Walking Disaster Area (which she's completely oblivious to).
• The Bully: Downplayed example, as she doesn't actively look for people to torment and is actually pretty pleasant most of the time (egotism nonwithstanding). Press her Berserk Button too many times though, and she's perfectly willing to turn your life into a living hell.
• Characterization Marches On: Andrea is noticeably actively malicious in her first appearance, trying to ruin Molly's first day of school over her name being mispronounced. Later episodes largely drop this, with most of her character flaws being related to her selfishness with little-to-no ill intent, and put her better qualities on display.
• Crush Blush: In "Davenport's in Demise" she blushes when talking about the girl she wants to marry in the future.
• Daddy's Girl: She is the person her father cares the most about, and whom she likewise desires approval the most from.
• Demonic Possession: She is possessed by Scratch in "First Day Frights", who uses her to reverse making Libby and Molly outcasts.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Mispronounce her name and she WILL make you the social outcast. Ironically, she's usually on the receiving end of this by Molly and Scratch.
• Death Glare: In her debut episode, she gave this to anyone who tried to befriend Molly after she mispronounced her name.
• The Dreaded: She is feared by everyone, including the teachers.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • She hates it when someone mispronounces her name and is always ready to unleash her wrath upon those who do so, but she's willing to cut you some slack if it's the first time you're meeting her and didn't know any better. Do it again (repeatedly) after she's explained to you how it's pronounced, however, and you're outta luck.
  • In "Davenport's On Demand", she's genuinely horrified after learning her eponymous app was shutting down local businesses and doesn't hesitate to delete the app without her father knowing.
• Evil Is Petty: She gets mad at anyone who mispronounces her name. Granted, she does let it slide once if the target is new but if someone continues to do so, unintentionally or not, all bets are off.
• Faint in Shock: She passes out in terror when Scratch accidentally scares her.
• Former Friend of Alpha Bitch: Inverted. Andrea considers Molly her best friend at the end of "Home is Where the Haunt is", due to seeing many moments of Molly's antagonism throughout prior episodes as signs of a growing friendship after a rough start.
• Friendship Moment: Not only does she gather the Brighton citizens to help the McGees stay there, but she also hugs Molly and even calls her her best friend!
• Freudian Excuse: "The Don't-Gooder" reveals that her need for attention is based on how little attention her parents give to her, with their attention usually pre-occupied by the same tools she's given herself over to: social media and cell phones.
• Generation Xerox: She resembles her mother when she was younger, right down to the obsession with phones. "The Don't-Gooder" reveals it's a case of cause and effect, as her mother's obsession is what gave rise to Andrea's.
• Has a Type: From the looks of her date in "I Wanna Dance with Some-Ollie" and from her crush on Alina Webster, it would appear that Andrea has a thing for people with a heavier-build.
• Hidden Depths:
  • "Home is Where the Haunt is" reveals that she's the president of the school's geode club.
  • "Davenport's on Demand" reveals that she has a hidden, natural talent for coding and computer programming, understanding enough about a visual programming language within seconds to fix a bug in Molly's app despite no prior experience and only a brief glance at the code. She then goes on to create a fully-functioning shopping app for her family's store from scratch after only a day or two of studying text-based programming languages.
  Andrea: Looks like someone hijacked the complier to inject a cross-site script attack. (beat) Uh, but I don't really know, Daddy. I'm just a beginner.
• Hidden Disdain Reveal: Inverted, believe it or not. When she gathers up the citizens of Brighton to help the McGees stay there towards the end of the first season, Andrea reveals that she actually views Molly as her best friend, after which they start hanging out more frequently and in earnest.
• Irony: She's Brighton Middle School's goodwill ambassador.
• It's All About Me: Once she gets involved with Molly's film, she quickly takes over, making herself the star and rewriting the script.
• Jerk Jock: Defied. Andrea may catch for the Brighton Lemmings, but she is completely apathetic about the sport, her fellow players, and even any attention it might bring her.
  Andrea: I'm here just 'cause I like the uniforms.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Andrea starts the series pretty cruel, going out of her way to ruin Molly's first day of school for accidentally mispronouncing her name, and having already done the same to Libby. Subsequent episodes would quickly tone her down into being Innocently Insensitive and self-absorbed, having her participate in charitable things (even if for selfish motives), spearhead a crowdfunding campaign to get the McGee family back their house, and taking down the phone app for her family's delivery service when she learns it's hurting the smaller businesses in town.
• Karmic Butt-Monkey: Many of her appearances in the first season see her suffering for her actions.
• Lovable Alpha Bitch: She is an extremely popular Alpha Bitch in her debut in "First Day Frights" who easily turns the whole student body against Molly. However, she doesn't antagonize her after that and is nicer in each subsequent appearence, to the point that her and Molly become friends by the start of season two.
• My God, What Have I Done?: In "Davenport's On Demand", Andrea is horrified to learn that her app has put all the local stores out of business.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: In "Hooray for Mollywood!", Molly was willing to tolerate Andrea hijacking the movie, and even her firing Darryl and Libby. But Andrea firing Molly and throwing her director's chair away was the final straw.
• Obliviously Evil: Outside of her initial episode (where she's more of an outright bully), Andrea is just egotistical and vain, and is never actively trying to ruin anyone's day, being remorseful and repentant on the rare occasion she does realize what she's done. Episodes past her debut that have her in the antagonist role are the result of Molly deliberately involving herself with her and regretting it (e.g. "Hooray For Mollywood"), Molly going out of her way to pursue an imagined rivalry (e.g. "The Don't-Gooder"), or Andrea accidentally causing a problem and being none-the-wiser... with Molly usually causing the inciting incident (e.g. "The Lucky Penny"). Speaking of, she doesn't even dislike Molly, with it being revealed at the end of the first season that she actually interpreted their relationship as Vitriolic Best Friends.
• Parental Neglect: While Andrea's parents are physically present, Andrea is ignored and treated more as a part of their public image and social media influence than an actual child (in "The Don't-Gooder", they outright withhold giving her a hug because it'll look better in a social media post than as an off-camera gesture). This is presented as the reason she's such a bully at the start of the series.
• Pet the Dog:
  • She gives Molly a sincere, heartfelt "thank you" at the end of "The Don't-Gooder" when Molly helps Andrea become noticed by her parents.
  • In "Home Is Where The Haunt Is", Andrea mobilizes all of Brighton to donate enough money to help Molly and her family regain their house. She even calls Molly her best friend.
  • In "A Period Piece", she offered Libby a new set of pajamas and the both of them had a great time during the sleepover.
• Phoneaholic Teenager: Is more interested in her phone than the softball game she's in the middle of in "The Unnatural". During the final, her taking a selfie leads to her teammates accidentally colliding into her. "Saving Christmas" reveals that her mother was the same way.
• Pretentious Pronunciation: Her name is pronounced as "Ahn-dree-uh", and she takes anything other than that very personally to the point that saying it wrong more than once is a Berserk Button.
• Queer Establishing Moment: In "Davenport's Demise", Andrea tells Molly she plans to marry a girl named Alina Webster.
• Renaissance Man: She has shown herself to be capable in many areas, including being head of the geode club, an actress, a singer, a programmer, a social media influencer, and excelling in a few sports (notably basketball and tennis).
• School Idol: Andrea is very popular among both students and teachers.
• Shipper on Deck: Andrea becomes an avid shipper of Molly and Ollie.
• Sitcom Archnemesis: Andrea is the only person that can really get under Molly's skin or put dents into her Incorruptible Pure Pureness.
• Skewed Priorities: She's such a Phoneaholic Teenager that she starts taking selfies in the middle of a game.
• Small Name, Big Ego: She behaves like an entitled brat under the assumption that she's some kind of universally beloved and critically lauded child actress in "Hooray for Mollywood!", at one point telling famed director Greta Gerwig that her life is more important then Greta's is. For what it's worth, she is a locally popular social media figure who's done at least one commercial for her family's local department store and has lots of Fandreas and followers.
• Spoiled Brat: Her family is rich and her parents indeed spare no expense on her - save for their attention, anyway.
• Strong Family Resemblance: She bears a dead ringer for her mother, but judging by her eyebrows, it's possible she's a natural brunette like her father.
• Spoiled Sweet: As she Takes A Level In Kindness over the course of the show she starts to become this, a privaliged and entitled young woman who still cares about others, goes out of her way to use her wealth to help others, and shows geniune remorse when she realises she's hurt anyone.
• Take a Third Option: How she managed to achieve the charity drive goal: she bought her own entire supply of candy.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Andrea started off pretty bad, antagonizing Molly just for merely mispronouncing her name. By her later appearances, she dropped the bullying aspect of her character and became more of an Innocently Insensitive Lovable Alpha Bitch, reaching the epitome of her kindness in "Home is Where The Haunt is" where she gathers all of Brighton to raise enough money for the McGees to stay in Brighton, then hugs Molly and declares her her best friend. This remains in Season 2, where Molly does treat her as a close friend, and Andrea is soon to be remorseful and saddened whenever she does realize she's causing issues for others.
• Town Girls: The Femme to Libby's Butch and Molly's Neither.
• Unknown Rival: Molly begins seeing her as a rival and archnemesis during the first season. Andrea, for her part, barely seems to acknowledge her existence unless the situation at hand catches her interest.7
• Vitriolic Best Buds: In the season one finale it's revealled that she considered her and Molly's Sitcom Archnemesis relationship to be this, much to Molly's great suprise. The two become much closer and less virtolic after this.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: Andrea is quite attention starved, and while she is fond of the constant gifts and presents, she receives from her parents, it's clear she wishes that it wasn't in place of their proper attention and approval.
• Youthful Freckles: She has 3 brownish freckles under her eyes.

Kat

Voiced by: Eden Riegel

One of the Wilder scouts and Sheela's friend.

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• Fat and Skinny: Fat to Sheela's skinny.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: She has pink hair and is an overall friendly girl.
• Stout Strength: Is shown to possess great physical strength for a middle-schooler.

Sheela

Voiced by: Aparna Nancherla

One of the Wilder scouts and Kat's friend.

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• Bollywood Nerd: She's of Indian descent and is on the nerdy side.
• Captain Ersatz: Her physical appearance is similar to Connie Maheswaran from the first 2 seasons of Steven Universe.
• Fat and Skinny: Skinny to Kat's fat.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Somewhat implied. While just about everyone at school wanted to buy Darryl's carnivorous plants in "Out of House and Home", her immediate reaction to seeing a locker full of them was to grab a particularly scary-looking one, calling it a cutie and happily paying Darryl for it before wandering off.

Miss Lightfoot

Voiced by: Julie Jones

The teacher in Molly's class.

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• Adults Are Useless: Whenever there is a problem she just turns around quickly and leaves the room.

Mrs. Roop

Voiced by: Jane Lynch

The history teacher in Brighton Middle School.

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• Actress Allusion: Jane Lynch is a lesbian actress playing a lesbian teacher.
• Butch Lesbian: In "No Good Deed", she has a wife, Pam, whom she attempts to call to let her know she'll be late for dinner; the call is stopped when the guard smashes her cellphone.
• Token Good Teammate: She was the teacher most willing to go easy on Darryl when he was sent to the principal's office, pointing out that "He's a kid."

Mr. Bates

Voiced by: Diedrich Bader

One of the teachers in Brighton Middle School.

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• Berserk Button: Don't ever tell him that you aren't gonna attend his wood shop classes or you're gonna see his angry face. However, he does calm down and appreciates honesty.
• Only Sane Man: He was the only one who believed Ruben when he said that ghosts exists.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Just as the Chens appear to get disconcerted and possibly on the way to giving up ghost hunting after none believed them during the events of "Frightmares on Main Street" Mr. Bates comes in to tell them that he did believe them, reigniting their goal just as Ollie had his change of heart.

Principal O'Connor

Voiced by: Eugene Byrd

The Principal of Brighton Middle School.

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• Dramatic Pause: He does this before announcing Darryl's 6 years detention as punishment.
• Hypocritical Humor:
  • In "A Soda to Remember", he confiscated a strawberry soda bottle because he barred sugary drinks on campus, but really, he just wants to have some because he thinks turnip juice tasted like liquid earwax.
  • In "The Don't-Gooder", he tells Molly that charity isn't a competition... right before announcing a charity competition.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: He vetoes expelling Darryl and settles for 6 years of detention. While it may seem a bit excessive, since Darryl says middle school is only 3 years, he does point out that Darryl skips enough classes to ensure he's going to repeat grades for a while.
• Surrounded by Idiots: Seems to feel this way around the teachers whenever they start arguing.
• Trademark Favorite Food: In "A Soda to Remember", Darryl reveals that part of O'Connor's safe combination is the grams of sugar in an 8-ounce soda can. He also waxes lyrical about the eponymous soda when confiscating it, almost taking a sip himself after lecturing Molly, Darryl, and Libby about the school's newly implemented sugary drinks ban.

The Town of Brighton and the Human World

Mayor Stu Brunson

Voiced by: Patton Oswalt

The honorable mayor of Brighton.

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• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He is a big dork that can't tell a joke, holds grudges over civic pride and bad 8th-birthday gifts, and dotes endlessly on his goldfish, "Assistant Mayor Goldie". Yet he is still a remarkably competent mayor who tends to make smart decisions and even single-handedly saved the town from a swarm of horseflies.
• The Chains of Commanding: In "Citizen McGee", he has grown tired of the responsibilities of being mayor, and happily leaves the position to Molly for the day.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He's Brighton's mayor and is referred to simply as "The Mayor"; according to "Citizen Mcgee", his full name is Stu Brunson.
• Hereditary Republic: As shown in "Citizen McGee", the position of mayor is one that has been held by multiple previous members of his family.
• Ink-Suit Actor: Basically a wider version of Patton Oswalt.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: Averted. Some official decisions he makes may seem tough, but they're pragmatic ones done for Brighton's sake.
  • He rolls his eyes at Molly's initial ludicrous stadium "proposal" and turns down her more humble bait-and-switch, but it's all for very practical reasons — the town could hardly justify building a gigantic multi-purpose arena, and even rebuilding a small bandshell would incur construction costs that the current budget won't allow. When Molly and the townsfolk manage to get it done as a community effort, he shows up to congratulate her in person.
  • He officially bans Bizmart from building a franchise within town limits on the grounds that Brighton is a small community slowly recovering from an economic downturn, and a huge chain store would ruin local businesses. When they choose to build eight inches outside the town, he's crestfallen, but doesn't abuse his power by trying to act outside his jurisdiction.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: For all his immaturity and eccentricities, he is a benign mayor and is literally one of the only reasonable residents of Brighton.
• Universally Beloved Leader: To wit, the one year he decided not to run for reelection, he still got voted in by the sign-in ballot.

Maxwell Davenport

Voiced by: Thomas Lennon

Andrea's father, and the owner of Davenport's.

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• Bad Influencer: Just like his daughter, he is self-absorbed and obsessed with his social media standing.
• Comically Missing the Point: While Scratch was pretending to be the ghost of Christmas present, Scratch was trying to show Davenport how his refusal to help was affecting others, but instead makes Davenport criticize every bit of furniture in the McGee house, infuriating Sharon.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Downplayed. He refuses to fund the Snowflake Celebration at first because Christmas "is a time to make money, not Merry". He eventually changes his mind after seeing how much this affects Andrea.
• Freudian Excuse: His dad put profit above everything else, which was instilled into him.
• Good Parents: He does clearly love his daughter, and both he and his wife's frequent Parental Neglect of her is shown to be due to foolishness rather than malice.
• Heel–Face Turn: After seeing how he almost ruined Christmas for his own daughter, he has a change of heart and decides to fund the Snowflake Celebration.
• Mean Boss: He intends to keep Davenport's open for Christmas Day, and fire anyone who asks for the day off. In "Hooray for Mollywood", Andrea nonchalantly states that he's fired members of his own family in the past.
• The Scrooge: Mr. Davenport refuses to fund the Snowflake Celebration, as it does not help his business interests. Invoked, as Scratch, a ghost, shows him the error of his ways.

Tammy Myers

Voiced by: Chandler Kinney

An unpleasant rival softball player.

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• The Ace: She is the star player of the Skylarks.
• Alpha Bitch: Partially. Even though she doesn't match the "rich, pretty girl" part of the trope, she is one of the most athletic players in her team and would taunt Molly for not being as good as her.
• Ambiguously Brown: She has a tannish skin color and her ethnicity is unknown.
• Flat Character: Seems to exist just to insult Molly and be a rival player.
• Jerkass Has a Point: She is right about Molly being an incredibly awful player.
• Jerk Jock: Downplayed, all she did were several taunts against Molly.
• Passionate Sports Girl: She takes the game very seriously and scored 17 points within a few minutes.
• Villainy-Free Villain: Tammy doesn't cheat or get violent at any point, she is just taunting Molly a few times.

Patty

Voiced by: Jenifer Lewis

A kindly old woman who Molly befriends.

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• Cool Old Lady: A friendly woman who has lived an interesting life.
• Lethal Chef: In "All Systems No", she tries making gumbo. The end result is a grayish sludge that makes Molly visibly sick when she eats it.

Ms. Leah Stein-Torres

Voiced by: Pamela Adlon

Libby's mother and the owner of the Book Marks The Spot bookstore.

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• Affectionate Nickname: Season two reveals that she calls Libby "turtledove."
• Doting Parent: In every appearance she's made, she's been outright shown to adore Libby with her entire being. When playing the miracles game for Hanukkah, it's revealed she puts Libby down as her miracle and has done so every year since Libby was born.
• Good Parents: She's shown to be a pretty decent mother to Libby, providing for her needs when necessary and generally being supportive of her whenever she can.
• Jewish Mother: A kinder, more gentle example than most, being more doting than overbearing.
• Sizable Semitic Nose: Her very large nose is even bigger than her daughters.
• Struggling Single Mother: She and Libby's father split up sometime before the show took place due to his job (which got to the point he doesn't even show at important events like Libby's Bat Mitzvah, despite paternal extended family attending) and the bookstore is stated to be struggling due to the advent of eBooks. She doesn't seem to have any problem providing for Libby however.

Abby

Voiced by: Eden Riegel

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• Heritage Disconnect: After moving to Brighton, she says that she has become less observant with her Jewish faith until she sees Mrs. Stein's menorah lighting up the shop window, reminding her of home.

Irving the Illusionist

Voiced by: Trevor Devall

A street magician who performs incredibly basic magic tricks.

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• Alliterative Name: Irving the Illusionist.
• Captain Ersatz: Per this tweet by the character designer, he is a pastiche of Professor Hinkle from the Rankin/Bass special Frosty the Snowman, both being crummy magicians with mustaches and even a prominent overbite.
• A Day in the Limelight: "Alaka-Sham" marks Irving's most prominent appearance, where he challenges Darryl to a magic competition when the latter's scheme threatens his livelihood.
• Early-Bird Cameo: He's first seen as one of the enthusiastic spectators of the girl's softball game in "The (Un)Natural" before properly debuting in "All Systems No" where we see what he does for a living and learn his name.
• Friend to All Children: In "Alaka-Sham!", it's revealed that in addition to being a street magician, he's also an entertainer for children's birthday parties and he performs magic to make the kids of Brighton happy.
• Irrational Hatred: Molly comes to loathe him for the simple fact that he's a magician with the supposed intent of tricking her specifically.
• Messy Hair: His medium-length brown hair has a lot of loose strands and cowlicks, giving it a disheveled look. This applies to his handlebar mustache as well.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Wears a purple suit jacket with a yellow polka-dot tie. Subverted that his eccentric attitude and the colors make the get-up look somewhat tacky.
• Shell Game: His second encounter with Molly, or rather, "Milly," has him playing with the ball and cup version revealing that the ball is not under any of the cups, apparently having disappeared by magic... until it falls right out of his sleeve, forcing "Milly" to express her utter amazement through gritted teeth.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Molly utterly despises him and his "fake magic". He keeps bothering her without even realizing it.
• Stage Magician: Albeit his less than impressive sleight of hand won't land him on an actual stage anytime soon.
• Stylistic Suck: His performances are made to look purposefully shoddy to invoke Molly's scorn at how fake magicians are, even though some of them look legitimately impressive.
• Unknown Rival: To Molly, since he has no idea that Molly has a vendetta against magicians and close-up magic in general.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His brief appearance at the start of "Out of House and Home" is what results in Pete getting injured, the McGees hustling to pay his medical bills, and them forgetting to pay their mortgage which results in them temporarily losing their house.
• What Have We Ear?: Pulls this one on Molly when Irving first meets her, much to the girl's indignation.

Weird Larry

Voiced by: Trevor Devall

An eccentric man who owns a pawn shop.

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• Cloudcuckoolander: He's really enthusiastic to a fault and keeps skunks as pets. Make of that what you will.
• A Day in the Limelight: "The Internship" reveals a lot more about his character, like explaining his passion for junk when Molly expresses her initial confusion. "Lock, Stock, and Peril" is a minor case where it's revealed he's also a locksmith.
• Collector of the Strange: Larry's shop appears at first to just be a dumping ground for the rest of Brighton to take their unwanted items; Molly thinks he might be onto something when he shows her an interesting-looking toy robot, but he then cannibalizes it for his unique voice box, leaving her more confused than ever. He eventually reveals that he's used all of the junk they've collected, including the voice box, to create a moving, "slayable" dragon sculpture, leading Molly to realize that he makes joy, too.
• Meaningful Name: Weird Larry definitely lives up to that moniker.
• Trash of the Titans: Both the compulsive-collector type and the "has it all mentally catalogued" type. When Molly cleans his messy store without asking, leaving him unable to easily find things, he's very uncomfortable and nervous, and tells her to put it back the way it was.
• Unusual Pets for Unusual People: Skunks. One of the several reasons for his weird reputation.
• The Wonka: Complete with top hat and oddball behavior. Then it's revealed he's really good at inventing, which is why he collects junk.

Candace Greene

Voiced by: Natasha Rothwell

A real estate agent who tries to sell the McGees' house.

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• Affably Evil: Downplayed. While she is just antagonistic instead of evil, she is nothing but pleasant and agreeable when telling the McGees that they forgot to pay the mortgage and the bank has claimed their house.
• The Determinator: Despite Scratch's best efforts to scare every buyer away she refuses to give up and is eventually able to find a family because of Scratch.
• Pet the Dog: When Scratch is pleading with her desperately, she relents, shows sympathy and allows the McGees to see their house one last time.
• Villainy-Free Villain: She is just a determined realtor who is trying to sell a house. Unfortunately it is the house where the McGees lived.

Kenny Star

Voiced by: Tom Kenny

A country star that has come to comfortable of living the star lifestyle.

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• A Day in the Limelight: While "The Greatest Concert Ever" only shows the surface side of him, "Kenny's Falling Star" expands on his character by having him reconnect with his roots with Molly.
• Blatant Lies: He claims to be just a hardworking regular guy, when he carelessly flaunts his wealth and luxiourious lifestyle. The crowd eventualy calls him out on it.
• Friend to All Living Things: He naturally befriends any animal he comes in contact with. He also has a pet giant eagle named Stripes.
• Uncle Pennybags: Despite being a luxurious sell-out with his spoiled nature, Kenny isn't mean to anyone and although he shows it off, he doesn't rub his wealth on people's faces (He's more oblivious than arrogant if anything). He even treats Molly, a child, with respect and goes along with her plan to reconnect him with his roots and win back the crowd.
• "Rediscovering Roots" Trip: A variant. His limelight episode focuses on him relearning his roots and reexperiencing the ordinary country life in Brighton after being so used to living in luxury.
• Sell-Out: He sold out to Biz-Mart to make his concerts more luxurious, all while blatantly lying to his audience about being an ordinary guy, needless to say, the crowd wasn't impressed.

Gertrude, Hidalgo and Octavius

Voiced by: Jessica DiCicco (Gertrude), Fred Tatasciore (Hidalgo)

A macabre family who recently moved to Brighton.

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• Expy: Gertrude and Hidalgo resemble Morticia and Gomez Addams.
• Nightmare Fetishist: They love anything spooky. Even the baby, Octavius, loves playing with a doll possessed by Lord Doom.

Adia Williams (Unmarked Spoilers)

Voiced by: Kimberly Brooks

Scratch's childhood best friend who eventually had to move away, leaving him alone. When Scratch begins to remember his past in the living world he rediscovers Adia and their friendship too.

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• Best Friend: Scratch's best friend when he was a child. Moving away caused him a lot of grief and it's implied that he subconsciously became best friends with Molly due to the latter's resemblance to Adia personality-wise. Despite their fallout, the two reunite once more after Scratch becomes a human again.
• Only Friend: To Todd/Scratch. Her deciding to cut Todd out of her life after he declines her offer to join him one too many times is what makes Todd hit the Despair Event Horizon.
• The Promise: She made one with Todd/Scratch about travelling the world together, unfortunately she had to move away long before they could ever achieve that dream and then Scratch spent his life playing it safe until she cut off ties with him due to her sadness over him not apparently caring to accompany her. Fortunately in the end she reunites with her friend after Scratch returns to his human body and leaves Brighton.
• Walking Spoiler: Her entire existence speaks a lot about Scratch's past as a living human, despite her scarce appearances.

Matias Torres

Voiced by: Carlos Alazraqui

Libby's father, and a deadbeat.

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• Disappeared Dad: Was absent for most of Libby's life.
• Ink-Suit Actor: He looks like a young Carlos Alazraqui.
• Knight of Cerebus: While not an exactly villain, he is quite jarring as he has no comedic traits whatsoever. Compared to Andrea’s parents, his neglect is not played for exaggeration in anyway and is played straight throughout his whole solo scene. Even his blatant neglect foreshadowed earlier when he gifts Libby a one dollar frog plushy isn’t presented in the show’s usual comedy.

Todd Mortenson (Unmarked Spoilers)

Voiced by: Dana Snyder

A constantly dull human who heavily resembles Scratch.

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• Connected All Along: He doesn't just look like Scratch, he's Scratch's real identity. Todd became so depressed over playing it safe all the time instead of spending time with Adia, his soul slipped away and gave birth to Scratch.
• Despair Event Horizon: While Todd always struggled with being held back by his anxiety and depression, he did still have his friendship with Adia as one bright spot in his life. Then one day, after once again responding to Adia "Maybe next time," Todd sees Adia about to text him back...and then she doesn't. Todd literally "gives up the ghost" with tears in his eyes.
• The Ditherer: As explained in Scratch's song "Maybe Next Time," Todd could never commit to joining Adia on her adventures, constantly second-guessing himself and dropping out at the last moment. Unfortunately, this resulted in Todd being (in Scratch's words) "so afraid of dying, that [he] never lived a day."
• Exhausted Eye Bags: His eyes always have a tiresome look, as a result of his soul separating from his mortal body.
• The Eeyore: He looks completely miserable everytime he's onscreen due to his depression of always playing it safe and not living to the fullest.
• Given Name Reveal: In the episode "The End", his surname is revealed to be Mortenson.
• Irony: Despite having spent time among the supernatural as Scratch, he doesn't believe in ghosts. Justified since he doesn't remember being Scratch.
• I Never Told You My Name: Downplayed. Todd very unambiguously does not remember his time as Scratch, referring to the McGee's as "stranger". However, his time as Scratch definitely has affected how he acts, from being more confident, to saying "enhappifying", even to calling Molly "Mol" despite not even knowing her name.
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: His resemblance to Scratch, and emotionless way of living hints that Scratch is his missing soul. But he could just as easily be a rather dull person, who just looks like Scratch. It's confirmed in "The End", that Scratch is a wraith, and is in fact, Todd's lost soul.
• Meaningful Name: A man who became so dead inside that his soul passed on without him ever having actually died has the name Todd Mortenson. Both 'Tod' and 'Mort' mean 'death' (in German and French respectively).
• Only Known by Their Nickname: According to Adia, he always went by "Scratch" because of his nervous tic of scratching his arm.
• Soulless Shell: Literally. He was so scared of living and taking risk that his soul slipped out from his body and became Scratch. Todd is still alive, but he barely expresses any emotions beyond tired misery and he walks around like a mindless zombie.

The Ghost World

In General

• Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: All the ghosts' eyes are shrunken, having a dark shadow around them resembling their eye design from when they were alive.
• Good Is Bad And Bad Is Good: Thanks to the need for the ghosts to cause misery in order to feed the Chairman, joy is basically considered poison and misery encouraged.
• Historical Domain Character: Several historical figures are seen as background ghosts, such as Julius Caesar (who still has the dagger in his back) and Cleopatra. Abraham Lincoln also has a major role in an episode.
• Invisible to Normals: Like with Scratch, ghosts can't be seen by humans unless they reveal themselves.
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Male ghosts are usually blue or green, while female ghosts are pink or purple (with a few exceptions like Howling Harriet).
• Punch-Clock Villain: All ghosts are given the duty of spreading fear and misery by the Ghost World's laws, with them needing to fill out monthly scare quotas.
• Retro Universe: In-Universe, as Geoff explains to Molly when she becomes a Wraith, since the Ghost World doesn't get anything new until it 'dies' or becomes obsolete in the living world. For example, they apparently only just got flip phones, and there's a Boo!Buster VHS store that emphasizes the older releases.
• Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: All ghosts have yellow scleras for eyes.

The Ghost Council

From left to right: Lucretia, Sir Alister, Grimbella, and Bartholomew

Voiced by: Grey Griffin (Lucretia); John DiMaggio (Sir Alister); Greg Baldwin (Bartholomew); Kari Wahlgren (Grimbella)

A group of powerful ghosts that review the performances of ghosts assigned to inciting misery in certain towns. Those that fail are cast to the Flow of Failed Phantoms.

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• All There in the Script: They finally receive names as of "The Very Hungry Ghost" — previously they were referred to with titles like "Barrister #1" — though these names don't get used outside of the credits, making it difficult to tell who's who unless you're familiar with their voice actors. (To wit: Lucretia is the small bluish-purple one, Sir Alister is the large green one, Bartholomew is the small blue one, and Grimbella is the large purplish-pink one.) Their names are finally revealed In-Universe in "The New (Para)Normal", with a Lampshade Hanging when they call out Scratch for only referring to them as the Ghost Council.
• And Then What?: Since serving the Chairman is the only thing they apparently agreed to do with their afterlives, the Chairman's defeat leaves them utterly baffled at what to do now that he's gone. Scratch gives them a crash course in having fun, which they use to pester him into becoming the new Chairman.
• Arc Villain: Of Season 1 alongside the Chairman. The conflicts of multiple episodes involved Scratch either being pressured by them to keep up his scaring quota or having to hide his friendship with Molly from them, and the season culminates in the Council putting Scratch on trial with the intention of banishing him to the Flow of Failed Phantoms.
• Brotherhood of Funny Hats: Besides the Council they sit on, they talk about how they're members of the "Elite Ghost Society" in "All Systems No", which seems to have little purpose other than to show what a successful and respected ghost you are.
• Create Your Own Villain: Enforcing their misery quota, by having ghosts scare humans, led to the Chen Family becoming ghost hunters, due to one of their ghosts scaring Ruben Chen badly as a boy, thus convincing him that all ghosts are evil and should be captured.
• Didn't Think This Through: Along with the Chairman, throwing Molly, who they know turns everything positive and happy with her touch, into the misery-based Flow of Failed Phantoms was not a good idea. She even points this out.
• Establishing Character Moment: The very first scene of the entire series has them sentencing an unfortunate ghost to the Flow for failure to meet her misery quota, ignoring her pleas for mercy; they then call Scratch to the bench, citing his character flaws in his review and marking him as "adequate" despite his perfect record, as if they'd rather he fail so they could just banish him and be done with it. In a single moment, they reveal themselves as ruthless, haughty, petty, by-the-book, and not to be messed with.
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: They seem to take satisfaction only in the discomfort of others, no matter how minor it may be. When Scratch files his monthly "Scar Report", they summon him to the Ghost World just so they can lightly rib him over the typo, acting like it's the funniest thing in the world.
• Evil Is Petty:
  • They attempt to banish Molly to the Flow of Failed Phantoms for all eternity on a whim simply out of annoyance at her coming to Scratch's defense and Scratch declaring her to be his friend.
  • They pull this again in "The New (Para)Normal", which is after Molly defeats the Chairman and appoint Scratch as the new one. Since Scratch wants nothing to do with them, they instead become annoying houseguests that constantly pester him until he heeds their demands. Scratch points out that Alister is his least favorite of the bunch for enjoying it too much.
• Greater-Scope Villain: They're the ones tasking ghosts with scaring people and spreading misery in the human world.
• Heel–Face Turn: In the season 2 finale, they agree to help protect the human realm, having grown fond of Scratch over his time as Chairman.
• Hidden Depths: In the Season 2 Sneak Peek shown at San Diego Comic Con, "Enjoy Your Afterlife", it's shown that the council as a whole is suffering from a Loss of Identity, and have been focused on spreading misery for so long that they no idea what to do with themselves after the Chairman is gone. When Scratch encourages them to focus on their own interests and desires, Sir Alister admits that back when he was alive, he had a love for music and wanted to play the lute, but his father forbade it. Scratch encourages him to pursue his passion and "stick it to his old man".
• Hoist by Their Own Petard: Sending Molly into the Flow of Failed Phantoms alongside Scratch allows her to break it apart due to her optimism and positivity, freeing every ghost within. She also destroys the Chairman soon after, essentially taking away the only real power the council have over their fellow ghosts.
• Incredibly Lame Fun: Lucretia, Bartholomew, and Grimbella's ideas of fun are color-coding the Scare Reports, alphebetizing the ancient scrolls, and buying a standing desk respectively.
• Jerkass: They can't even be bothered to compliment Scratch despite him being one of their best ghosts, and their first scene has them mercilessly send a ghost who can't make their town unhappy to the Flow despite the valid reasoning for why it's so difficult (that the town opened a puppy orphanage; seriously, who wouldn't be happy with that?).
• Last-Name Basis: When properly introducing herself, Grimbella mentions that it's her family name.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: By ghost standards at least. They are very haughty and unpleasant but they do their jobs in accordance with the guidelines laid out and will not allow personal sentiment to color their decisions. They loath Scratch but also acknowledge how good he is at his job so they do nothing more than make verbal snipes at him.
  • When Scratch comes to them outside of work hours for help in "The Curse", they're clearly agitated with him but give him the help he needs nonetheless.
  • In "The Unnatural" when it's discovered that Scratch accidentally reported scaring the same person twice as two different people they merely force him to scare someone by the end of the day to balance the books.
  • In "Turnip Twist" they offer constructive criticism to Scratch about his (unknown to them) improvised plan to rely on the turnip festival to stir up some misery in Brighton, noting the risks and making sure that he understands how dire things will be for him if it backfires.
• Stupid Evil:
  • Their habit of banishing ghosts to the Flow of Failed Phantoms for even minor failures undermines their goal of spreading as much misery in the human world as possible.
  • Similarly throwing Molly into that same Flow of Failed Phantoms end up ruining them because they forgot that everything she touches is brimming with positivity. She frees all the ghosts they threw there and killed the Chairman with a boop.
• Would Hurt a Child: They have no issue with sentencing children to an eternity of misery in the Flow of Failed Phantoms, as shown when they do so to Molly.
• You Have Failed Me: They won't hesitate to banish any ghost who fails to keep up their quota to the Flow of Failed Phantoms.

The Chairman

The mysterious leader of the Ghost Council and supreme ruler of the Ghost World. He controls the Flow of Failed Phantoms and banishes ghosts that fail to generate sufficient misery to it for all eternity. Never speaks, communicating solely by giving thumbs up or thumbs down.

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• Barrier Maiden: A Gender-Inverted variant; he not only sent ghosts to the Flow of Failed Phantoms but also Frightmares, feral ghosts that wreak havoc and can rip portals between worlds. The Frightmares also fear him enough to obey him without question. With him gone, there's nothing and no one (except Scratch) stopping the Frightmares from running amok.
• Big Bad: Of Season 1. As he is head of the Ghost Council and the one behind the all the misery in Brighton.
• Black Cloak: Always wears one, and it's the only thing that remains from him after his death. When used by Scratch, it gives him The Chairman's appearance.
• Didn't Think This Through: Along with the Ghost Council, throwing Molly, who they know turns everything positive and happy with her touch, into the misery-based Flow of Failed Phantoms was not a good idea. She even points this out.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: He's disintegrated upon getting finger poked by Molly's ghost form, which is overflowing with positive emotions.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Despite seemingly being built up as the overarching villain of the show and ultimate evil of the setting, Molly kills him at the end of Season 1 simply by touching him.
• The Dreaded: Huge, impassive, and very threatening. Nothing about him is Played for Laughs, except for how terrified Scratch is of him. Even Geoff is afraid of him. The works against him on two fronts. Firstly, the fact that he has no personality or characterisation beyond being a faceless menacing force means Molly has no guilt about obliterating him with her joyful touch. Second, the fact that he is powered by and actively feeds upon the negativity of humanity means he has no defences against any positive emotions at all. Unlike other ghosts who get 'joyified' upon contact with Molly's astral form, he's disintegrated.
• Emotion Eater: He feeds on the misery that Scratch and other ghosts cause.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Ruthless and cruel as he might've been even he wasn't keen on the likes of ghosts like the Frightmares (who are chaotically evil aggressive spirits) and rogue ghosts like Lord Doom (a hyper-violent intimidating ghost who enjoys tormenting other ghosts for his amusement at first) run around unchallenged and kept them on the flow to avoid them wreaking havoc on both the Human and Ghost World. His death leaves them and more to run free and Scratch has to step up to the plate as the new Chairman to deal with said threats.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He's just called The Chairman and he's the head of the Ghost Council.
• Flat Character: He gets very little characterization outside of being depicted as an intimidating figure who never speaks.
• Foreshadowing: In "A Very Hungry Ghost", when the Ghost Council visit the McGee residence during Sart Duan Sib, whilst the rest of the council samples the food, Scratch notes that he himself isn't actually eating anything and is just sitting at the table 'glowering creepily' at him. "The Jig is Up" reveals that, unlike any other ghost seen in the series, the Chairman apparently can't eat human food, and only subsists upon human misery, which is why the Ghost Council keeps enforcing misery on the human world.
• God of the Dead: The authority that presides over the sole legislative body in the Ghost World, and the one that actually controls the Flow and banishes unlucky ghosts.
• Greater-Scope Villain: A rare example of being one to another one, since he's in charge of the Ghost Council.
• The Grim Reaper: Resembles them due to their skeletal-looking face and cloak-like appearance, and guides the departed, albeit to the Flow of Failed Phantoms.
• Holy Burns Evil: Unlike any other ghost that Molly comes into contact with, being a ghost that feeds only upon the misery and negativity of humanity means that her joyful energy is pure anathema to him. All it takes is a finger poke to violently explode him into rainbow energy and dissolve his skeleton, leaving only his tattered cloak behind covered in flowers.
• It's All About Me: He sends ghosts to spread misery in the human world solely so he can feed on that misery.
• Just the First Citizen: "Chairman" is a rather unassuming title for what is essentially a God of the Dead.
• Killed Off for Real: Molly destroys him in the Season 1 finale, in a way that makes it clear he won’t be back.
• Not So Stoic: Molly and Scratch "corrupting" the Flow — the only way he has of punishing ghosts — with their shared joy is shown to genuinely unnerve and frighten him, and when Molly destroys him with a touch, he writhes and lets out an anguished wail before exploding.
• Rank Scales With Asskickin: A huge and immensely threatening ghost to whom nobody dares talk back, and, as revealed in "The New (Para)Normal", earned his title by destroying the previous Chairman. He remained uncontested for so long that Scratch, who's clearly been a ghost for ages, wasn't even aware there were once other Chairmen.
• Revive Kills Zombie: Molly's positivity touch, which heals other ghosts, destroys this undead abomination, presumably because there is nothing positive left.
• The Speechless: The Chairman never speaks, which only adds to his alien and intimidating presence. Other ghosts can be reasoned with and personalized somewhat when they communicate with the characters, but the Chairman never communicates, only judges. When Molly disintegrates him, he lets out a harsh, dying scream.
• The Stoic: Mostly watches in stony silence while the Council engages with clients and deliberates on his behalf. The only sound he's ever made is a harsh hiss of disapproval when angered, and even those moments are rare.
• Technicolor Death: After Wraith Molly gives him a literal positive touch, his chest cracks open with light, then his entire body is covered in positivity, and rainbows and flowers explode from his face before he finally disintegrates, leaving behind his cloak covered in flowers.
• Villainous Breakdown: Goes down kicking and screaming when Molly kills him.

Geoff

Voiced by: Eric Edelstein

A fat, dim-witted, but amiable ghost who is convinced he's friends with Scratch.

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• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: While Geoff is not the most intelligent ghost, he is extremely competent at scaring and causing mischief when he puts his mind to it. He singlehandedly ruins the turnip festival in "The Turnip Twist" to prevent Scratch from being sent to the Flow of Failed Phantoms. He also saves Molly from Sobgoblins in "Molly Vs. the Ghost World".
• Cuddle Bug: Like with Molly, Geoff is very physically affectionate towards Scratch and other people in general.
• Fan of the Underdog: Of all the ghosts seen in the show thus far, Geoff is the only one that is friendly or even nice to Scratch.
• Fat Idiot: Geoff is an overweight Kindhearted Simpleton.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Not hated, certainly, but his cheerful dopiness can get on even Molly's nerves at times.
• Genius Ditz: Geoff has proven himself to be rather smart at times, like knowing what a "double-negative" is (though in the context of that situation, he did make a naive move) and in the penultimate episode of the series, he is able to remember certain details about the night he scared Reuben.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: He's much nicer than Scratch, but also a lot dumber and more gullible.
• My God, What Have I Done?: He scares Ollie in "Frightmares on Main Street" as part of a tie-breaker in a scaring competition with Harriet but feels remorse when the event legitimately traumatizes Ollie and apologizes at the end of the episode.
• My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Is the only ghost in the show without any malicious intentions whatsoever, and anything nasty he's shown to do is either by accident or at another's urging.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Geoff really seems to enjoy dressing up and acting for his scares (and in general), believing that "detail work" and getting into character are instrumental to getting the part down, whether it be Howling Harriet or the 16th President. He is also a truly unfortunate actor and costumer, with Molly only buying his Abraham Lincoln act because she's extremly desperate and severely sleep-deprived.
• Promotion to Opening Titles: He, along with Libby joins in on the McGee's Group Hug with Scratch in the season 2 intro.
• Punch-Clock Villain: He initially fulfills his job well enough to avoid the Flow of Failed Phantoms, but is one of the few good-natured ghosts known to exist. Once the Chairman is defeated, though, he drops this aspect entirely.
• Queer Establishing Moment: Is revealed to be gay in "(After)life of the Party," when Jeff (with a J) is revealed to be his partner.
• Spell My Name With An S: Turned into a running gag. Any time Geoff mentions his name to somebody, he will rattle off how it's spelled, regardless of how many times he's told them. In "Molly vs. the Ghost World", Molly even uses this as a way to summon him.
• Straight Gay: He is partners with another male ghost, Jeff (who is a Manly Gay), but he doesn't display any stereotypes.
• Strange Minds Think Alike: In "Frightmares on Main Street" when Ollie mistakes Geoff's offer of candy as being given poisoned ones, Geoff himself thinks they are poisoned and he's dying... Until Scratch reminds him that he's already dead.
• Technician vs. Performer: He's the performer to Scratch's technician. Scratch believes that scares and haunts need a few things: precision, a target, and flair for the dramatic. If someone gets scared by accident on seeing a haunt meant for someone else, he has the decency to apologize to them. While Geoff just kinda wings it and tries to see if it works, Scratch takes pride in the fact that he can spread misery and terror because he has a lot of practice at it.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: "Jinx vs. the Human World" reveals that he was the ghost that scared Ruben as a child, which would lead to him becoming a ghost hunter. This turned out to be a complete accident, as he just happened to be passing by at the exact moment that Ruben blew dust out of his game cartridge, causing him to sneeze right into Ruben's face.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Much like Molly, he's convinced he and Scratch are best buddies. Scratch thinks of him as a nuisance, or an overly-friendly co-worker at best.

Jeff

Voiced by: Vincent Rodriguez III

A muscular and friendly ghost, who is also Geoff's afterlife partner.

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• Beware the Nice Ones: Jeff is a pretty nice ghost, but never do anything to harm his Geoff or you will regret it.
• If You Ever Do Anything To Hurt Him: Jeff often warns a victim not to hurt his Geoff again, because if they do, the victim will pay the price.
• Manly Gay: He is Geoff's significant other, and is quite buff.
• Mood Whiplash: After threatening the victim not to harm Geoff and the victim understands him, Jeff immediately goes back to being nice again.
• Nice Guy: Jeff is a humble, and chill guy, being very welcoming and hospitable to others. Just make sure you don't hurt his boyfriend Geoff in anyway, and you'll stay on his good side.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Homosexual example. Geoff looks like a fat balding man while Jeff is shaped more like a conventional hunk.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Or boyfriend in this case. He is so devoted to Geoff, that he won't hesitate to threaten someone with violence should they hurt Geoff emotionally or physically. Something he makes clear to both Scratch and Ollie.
• Would Hurt a Child: Threatens Ollie if he hurts Geoff.

Howling Harriet

Voiced by: Eden Riegel

The ghost of a woman who was run over by a train, with the only identifiable remains being found her toes. Her spirit roams the forests around Brighton, looking to find replacements for her missing toes.

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• Agony of the Feet: Lost the toes on her right foot when she was run over, and is seeking a new set.
• Felony Misdemeanor: What got her run out of town to begin with? According to Libby, selling uncured salami on a Wednesday.
• Ghostly Goals: She's only able to pass on after Libby and Molly craft some replacement toes for her.
• No Body Left Behind: Sort of. Once the train hit her, the only body part the townspeople could find afterwards was her severed toes, which is why her spectre is looking for her missing pieces or a suitable replacement.
• Non-Standard Character Design: She's one of the only ghosts to consistently be depicted with visible legs, and she's also one of very few female ghosts who isn't pink or purple, instead going for green like the male ghosts.
• Real After All: Scratch assumed that she was just a myth, but she turns out to be very real.
• Starter Villain: The first antagonistic ghost that the characters come across.

Abraham Lincoln

Voiced by: Kelsey Grammer

The long-deceased 16th President of the United States of America, now a major celebrity and VIP in the Ghost World.

See his useful notes page for more information about the real deal.

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• Actor Allusion: It's rather appropriate that an actual Republican actor like Kelsey Grammer would play the first Republican president.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Is completely fine in helping Molly on her school project because Scratch was honest to him on what happened.
• Face Palm: Does this after Molly asks Scratch about knowing another historical figure and Scratch affirms that he does "...'cause I learnt nothing!".
• Living Lie Detector: Twice when he senses Scratch lying, he glowers at him accusingly until he cracks under the pressure. Scratch even refers to it as a "truth stare".
• Nice to the Waiter: Before he leaves with Scratch to help out Molly, he tells him to not forget to tip the waiter.
  We may be dead, but we all got to make a livin'.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: He's a spirit, just like the rest of the Ghost World, but where he haunts isn't specified, and, aside from a stern look or two, he doesn't seem that fearsome.^note Real-life sightings of Lincoln's alleged ghost have ranged from (most commonly) the White House to various places around Springfield, Illinois, and are usually described as startling, not frightening.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: The 16th American president himself, who is willing in helping an unpopular ghost and a little girl on her school project just because Scratch asked him and owned up to his mistakes.
• Serious Business: He is not pleased when he learns Scratch lied to Molly about knowing him.
  "I never encouraged deceit and falsehoods, young man."

Ezekiel ("Tug") and Sally Tugbottom

Voiced by: Chris Diamantopoulos (Tug); Kerri Kenney-Silver (Sally)

The celebrated pioneer hero of Brighton... and his genuinely heroic sister.

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• Action Girl: Sally is a tough-as-nails, take-no-guff frontier woman, who still rides her bear friend long into the afterlife.
• Animal Lover: Sally made friends with her bear by taking care of its leg when it was hurt. This is in stark contrast to Ezekiel, his purported best friend, who poked the bear with a stick and almost got mauled for it.
• Big Little Brother: During the reprise of the "Ezekiel Tugbottom" song, a young Sally is seen pulling turnips alongside a baby Ezekiel. As adults, though, Ezekiel is noticably taller than his older sister.
• Big Sister Instinct: In the flashbacks of what actually happened, Sally saves Ezekiel from the tornado when he froze in fear.
• Broken Pedestal: Once the truth is out about Ezekiel, he becomes one to the entire town of Brighton, with Sally becoming the Replacement Pedestal.
• Does Not Like Spam: Ezekiel, contrary to the legend, hated turnip greens, likely fibbing about it later to pander to turnip-loving Brightonians and their signature crop. The only way he developed any strength with turnips is by throwing them at other people.
• Embarrassing Middle Name: According to Sally, Tug's full name is "Ezekiel Jeremiah Whipplethorn Tugbottom".
• Entitled Bastard: Even after the truth is revealed, Ezekiel tries to talk Molly (whom he'd tried to kill) into arranging for him to get a new statue.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Ezekiel is the foolish sibling, being an egotistical slacker while Sally is the responsible sibling, doing good around Brighton during its early days and helping the folks around town.
• Formerly Fit: Downplayed. Ezekiel's got quite a paunch in his ghostly form as opposed to the muscles he had when he was alive (being voted "Brighton's Burliest Man" five years running), but he was always a sullen layabout and, unlike Sally, didn't do much with his strength except chuck turnips at her head.
• Historical Hero Upgrade: In-Universe, Ezekiel, far from the dashing and noble figure of song and story, is a self-obsessed, vindictive loser that demands he be constantly worshipped for things he didn't even do. Sally, on the other hand, has a significant downgrade, being almost totally forgotten until the facts came to light.
• Humble Heroine: Unlike her brother, Sally isn't interested in fame or glory.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Ezekiel’s reason for doing everything he did? He wanted the praise and adulation that came with being known as a hero (which Sally dismisses as "stuff an' nonsense"), without the tough choices, work, and selflessness that actual heroism requires.
• Ironic Name: Ezekiel is known as "Tug the Tornado" among other ghosts, playing off the legend of him roping and wrestling a wild twister... because he's a huge blowhard and can't stop bragging about what he supposedly did in life. It also doubles as a Meaningful Name, as he later shows his ghostly power to command storms and wind, then turns into a tornado to "live up to" the insult.
• It's All About Me: Ezekiel believes that the best way to make Brighton a better place to live is to plaster his face and name on every street sign and public service. When he sees that the Historical Society building's on fire and the historians are trapped inside, he leaps into action — to rescue his old portrait, and huffs that the woman should be fired for trying to call for help over saving his painting. The only thing that temporarily halts his rampage is when he accidentally destroys his own statue in the park.
• Karma Houdini: Downplayed. Ezekiel's statue is destroyed, and Brighton knows that he's a fraud. But other than being reprimanded by his sister, he doesn't face any punishment for his actions.
• Manchild: Ezekiel is definitely one of these, and Sally acts more like a mother than a sister when chiding him. Doubles as a Psychopathic Manchild, as he comes dangerously close to killing Molly at one point.
  Sally: That ain't what bein' a hero's about an' you know it!
  Tug: [Petulantly, with his arms crossed] I 'on't know anything...!
• Miles Gloriosus: Ezekiel's book of heroic exploits is a plagiarized version of his sister's heroic deeds which he claims as his own. When the Historical Society catches on fire, Ezekiel is quick to rescue... his portrait, leaving the fire department to extinguish the fires. As it turns out, Ezekiel was pretty much exactly the opposite of his brave, crusading image, nearly getting killed by the tornado because he was petrified with fear, then refusing to help with the rebuilding efforts (which the other townsfolk visibly resent him for).
• Moral Myopia: Ezekiel is outraged when Molly attempts to tell the people of Brighton about how he took credit for his sister's deeds and falsely made himself a hero, treating it like the most heinous thing ever.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: Despite having a fairly average build in life, Sally was easily able to pull her burly brother out of the path of a tornado with her lasso.
• Narcissist: Ezekiel will fawn over anything that bears his likeness.
• Never My Fault: After Ezekiel's attempt to throw a tree at Molly results in the destruction of his statue, he blames her for it.
• One of the Kids: Subverted. Ezekiel's version of events has his adult sister alongside the other children of Brighton as a bystander admiring him, complete with the patronizing caption "TUG'S SISTER SALLY". It's later revealed that he's the kid brother, and she's at least four or five years older than him.
• Tall Tale: Ezekiel's legend states that he was best friends with a bear, could instantly chop a whole grove of trees into log cabins, and wrangled a tornado that was headed for town. When Sally's story is told, it's revealed that she tamed the bear by bandaging and caring for his injured leg, and when the tornado came, she used her lasso to snag Zeke and pull him to safety in the cellar. (Interestingly, she could still make a perfectly stacked roaring bonfire out of a tree with just an ax and a single match, which isn't quite as impressive, but still pretty incredible.)
• Ungrateful Bastard: Despite saving his life from the tornado, Ezekiel stole Sally's legacy for his own.
• Would Hurt a Child: When Molly tries to tell the people of Brighton the truth about Ezekiel, Ezekiel turns himself into a tornado and attacks her.
• Written by the Winners: Quite literally in Ezekiel's case — Bottoms Up, the book of tall tales that stole Sally's legacy and overshadowed her, was written by Ezekiel (its subtitle is Memoirs of a Hero, and its Dewey Decimal label says "TUGBOTTOM"), then published by his own company, Tugbottom Press.
  Scratch: I'm surprised he knew how to spell.

Sonia Davis

Voiced by: Alanna Ubach

A former ice skater who creates a massive blizzard over Brighton every 4 years.

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• An Ice Person: Creates massive snowstorms while she ice skates.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Puns aside. Through her haughty demeanor, she shows respect for "Blades" and his skill, and comes out of her shell during their routine, laughing and enjoying herself. Even after Pete's plantar fasciitis lands them smack against the ice and ruins her "perfect" run, she doesn't mind, because having fun helped remind her why she became a skater in the first place — her love of the sport, not pursuit of perfection. Before she leaves Brighton forever, she sincerely thanks Pete for all he's done.
• The Napoleon: Already a petite woman in life, her ghost form is now shorter than Molly, and she possesses a rather bad temper.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Like Howlin' Harriet, she consistently has visible legs and is blue like male ghosts instead of pink or purple.
• The Perfectionist: Oy vey.
  Sonia: You’ve got yourself a deal. Just one small caveat. If I put myself out there and fail again, if we are anything less than perfect, I will cover Brighton in ice FOREVER!!!
  Pete: Forever?

Reggie

Voiced by: Sean Giambrone

Scratch's new intern.

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• Comically Missing the Point: He's convinced Scratch treated him terribly because he was "teaching" him. Once he becomes Scratch's superior, he takes what Scratch "taught" him and pays it forward.
• Disposable Intern: He suffers a lot from Scratch's abuse and gets bossed around without mercy.
• Identical Stranger: Looks a lot like Scratch despite no apparent relation between the two.
• A Taste Of His Own Medicine: He becomes Scratch's new boss in the end and returns the favor.

Jinx (Unmarked Spoilers)

Jinx

Voiced by: Liza Koshy

An agent of the Ghost Council whose mission is to find and destroy joy. After the Chairman's death, she plots revenge on Molly and Scratch by becoming the new Chairman and bringing an age of terror to humanity.

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• Avenging the Villain: Her main motivation throughout season two is to punish Scratch and Molly for killing the Chairman, who she greatly respected. Although, when she becomes the Chairman, she starts to lose sight of this in favour of pursuing power over both worlds.
• The Dragon: Her involvement with the Ghost Council seems to be this, being their ruthless agent in enforcing their will and willing to physically tangle with the protagonists to do so, trying to outright kill Molly with a Sinister Scythe and throwing Geoff into the Flow of Failed Phantoms when he intervenes in protecting Molly's astral form long enough for her to reach Scratch's trial, something only the Chairman himself has demonstrates the power to do previously.
• Dragon Their Feet: Downplayed; she is still loyal to the previous Chairman, and actively antagonizes Scratch as revenge for his fall.
• Easily Forgiven: Gets invited to Geoff and Jeff's party despite having personally sent Geoff into the Flow of Failed Phantoms just a few episodes ago.
• Evil Is Petty: She messes with Scratch while at Jeff and Geoff's party after Scratch told Geoff he was sick as payback for contributing to the original Chairman's downfall. She also jinxes Scratch in "Jinx!"
• Evil Overlooker: In the season 2 poster.
• Faux Affably Evil: Jinx is civil and even friendly with Scratch, not showering him with the disrespect the Ghost Council regularly does. But this is only a façade so she can complete her mission of finding and eliminating the source of joy in Brighton. When Scratch's friendship with Molly is exposed, she relishes the idea of Scratch being punished and sent to the Flow of Failed Phantoms.
• Final Boss: She becomes the final ghost threat in the series once she begins her attack on the Human World, so Molly and Scratch must take her on.
• Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Her assignment to Brighton is basically this for the Ghost Council, who were suspicious of Scratch's low scare numbers and the rising joy in Brighton. Either Jinx 'uncovers' the source of Joy and destroys it, (Read: behead Molly) thus ensuring that misery will return to Brighton again, or Scratch will be forced to reveal his friendship with Molly in protecting her from Jinx, giving the council the excuse they've been looking for to banish him to the Flow of Failed Phantoms and assign another scarer to the town.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Jinx seems to have several Pet the Dog moments when she tells Scratch that she will cover for him and his failures at the Ghost Council. At the end, she reveals that she and the Ghost Council have set Scratch up, captures him, and drags him into the Ghost World to face the Council.
• The Killjoy: Jinx has the mission to find and destroy the source of joy in Brighton and all attempts to distract her fail quickly. Her Villain Song is even named Killjoy.
• Knight of Cerebus: Her appearance comes with the uncovering of Scratch and Molly's friendship to the ghost council and Scratch nearly getting banished forever, alongside her personally throwing Geoff into it when he intervenes in her manhunt for Molly's astral form. She even tries to outright behead Molly with a scythe to ensure that misery returns to Brighton, showing how far she's willing to go in enforcing the council's will.
• Laser-Guided Karma: In "Jinx!". After jinxing Scratch to suffer terrible bad luck, she gets jinxed herself.
• Last Episode, New Character: Her debut is in the Season 1 finale.
• Sadist: The Reveal at the end that Jinx, and by extension, the Ghost Council, suspected Molly and Scratch's friendship the whole time and were intentionally trying to pressure him into confessing this so they would have an excuse to banish him to the Flow of Failed Phantoms turns them into this. Jinx even intentionally plays dumb and gives Scratch several Hope Spots that she'll leave without trying to eliminate Molly just to make him squirm more before he reaches his breaking point.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Her final fate in the series is getting trapped in the Chens' Phantom Canister, vowing Revenge on team Molly.
• Small Name, Big Ego: "Jinx!" shows that she believes she would be a better Chairman than Scratch but doesn't show much of the qualities that would make her worthy of the position.
• Would Hurt a Child: When Jinx realizes that Molly is behind the joy in Brighton, she immediately decides to end the "problem" permanently.

Sobgoblins

Adorable-looking baby ghosts who are known to feed on people's sadness.

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• Always Chaotic Evil: There's not much to them besides their desire to spread misery.
• Captain Ersatz: Initially cute creatures that turn into hideous and destructive monsters. They're basically the ghost equivalent of Mogwais.
• Deadly Gaze: Downplayed. While looking a Sobgoblin in the eye can't kill you, it can leave you in a severely depressed state. Molly almost learned that the hard way the first time she encountered one.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Don't let these creatures' cute appearances fool you one bit. They are nasty.
• Going to Give It More Energy: "Jinx vs. The Human World" reveals that they explode if fed too much joy.
• Mooks: They serve as this to Jinx in "Molly vs. the Ghost World".
• Uncertain Doom: It's unclear if there are any Sobgoblins left after Molly and company "enhappify" them in "Jinx vs. The Human World".

Frightmares

Dangerous and ferocious ghosts that were trapped inside the Flow of Failed Phantoms until Molly destroyed it.

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• Always a Bigger Fish: They may be harbingers of chaos for both worlds, but they always listen to the Chairman.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Were formerly sealed inside the Flow of Failed Phantoms before it was destroyed for being dangerous threats.

Story Sprite

Voiced by: Lara Jill Miller

A ghost that consumes the words from books and becomes what it eats.

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• Abstract Eater: The story sprite feeds off knowledge by eating the words out of books.
• Heel–Face Turn: Upon eating the words from Libby's journal, the story sprite turns into her and becomes regretful to where it puts all of the words back in their proper places.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: The story sprite can change shape based on the words it eats, like turning into a minotaur after eating from a book on Greek mythology.

Lord Doom

Voiced by: W. Earl Brown

A ghost who was originally trapped in the Flow of Failed Phantoms for being too aggressive and dangerous to other ghosts. When Scratch accidentally traps him in the body of a baby doll, Molly sets out to teach him how to be a good guy.

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• Card-Carrying Villain: Doom starts out as one, bragging about how terrifying and evil he is and spouting over-the-top threats.
• Captain Ersatz: As a hammy, skull-faced, hooded villain with a deep voice who the optimistic protagonist tries to see the good in, he borrows a lot from Lord Hater from Wander over Yonder.
• Good All Along: Despite Molly's growing concern, he turns out to be completely sincere in wanting to be a better person. It's just his macabre interests and lack of social skills that make him suspicious.
• Heel–Face Turn: Despite a rough start, Molly successfully convinces him to be a good guy.
• Trapped in the Host: Thanks to a misfired curse, he's stuck posessing the body of an old baby doll.
• Virtuous Character Copy: His name, voice, and appearance as a ghost make him a clear reference to Lord Hater from Wander over Yonder, but while Wander's attempts to befriend Hater were largely ineffectual even by the show's end, Doom is quickly won over to the side of good by Molly, to the point that even Molly has trouble believing it at first.

Blair

Voiced by: Kimberly J. Brown

The ghost of a girl who haunts an old video rental store.

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• Dark and Troubled Past: A lite version. In life, Blair rented her favorite movie, Blood Mansion, selfishly kept it over its return date, and died before she could return it. Now her spirit haunts the video store she rented it from.
• Genre Savvy: Downplayed; she likes to talk about horror movie tropes a lot.
• Ironic Hell: Blair spends her afterlife re-watching all the horror movies left behind in the abandoned video store. But Blood Mansion, her favorite movie, the one she never returned is the one and only movie she's unable to watch.
• Unfinished Business: She can't pass on until she finally returns the movie she rented.
• Verbal Tic: She tends to describe things going on with movie jargon.
• Vibrant Orange: Her ghost aura and her scarier form are a bright orange.

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