History Characters / TheNeverendingStory

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:In both the book and the movie. In the book, he starves to death, laughing, after being chained by Gaya, and despite his jaws closing on Atreyu when he approaches because even a dead werewolf is full of lingering malice, he does not come back to life. In the film, he is killed by Atreyu and while Bastian wishes back most of Fantasia at the end, this presumably doesn't include him]].

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: In the book, he starves to death, laughing, after being chained by Gaya, and despite his jaws closing on Atreyu when he approaches because even a dead werewolf is full of lingering malice, he does not come back to life. In the film he is killed by Atreyu and while Bastian wishes back most of Fantasia at the end, this presumably doesn't include him]].

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: In the book, he starves to death, laughing, after being chained by Gaya and despite his jaws closing on Atreyu when he approaches because even a dead werewolf is full of lingering malice, he does not come back to life. In the film he is killed by Atreyu and while Bastian wishes back most of Fantasia at the end, this presumably doesn't include him]].

* AdaptationalBadass: While a deadly servant in the book, the movie makes him even scarier and more of a StrawNihilist which is indeed more terrifying. When he meets Atreyu in Spook City in the movie, he is not bound and still in good health, able to pounce on him in a final struggle, whereas in the book, when they meet Gmork has been chained up by the Dark Princess Gaya for days if not weeks and is on his last legs, with no direct physical confrontation between them.

* AdaptationalBadass: While a deadly servant in the book, the movie makes him even scarier and more of a StrawNihilist which is indeed more terrifying. When he meets Atreyu in Spook City in the movie, he is not bound and still in good health, able to pounce on him in a final struggle, whereas in the book, when they meet Gmork has been chained up by the Dark Princess Gaya for days and is on his last legs, with no direct physical confrontation between them.

* AdaptationalBadass: While a deadly servant in the book, the movie makes him even scarier and more of a StrawNihilist which is indeed more terrifying.

* TheSociopath: He's definitely this in the film as he tries to ensure Fantasia's destruction simply because he enjoys the despair it causes its victims, his intent to rule the unimaginative masses left in the wake of the Nothing's destruction, and is willing to murder a child to ensure this happens.

* AlliterativeName: Carl Conrad Coreander (or Karl Konrad Koreander in German). The alliterative name foreshadows that he and Bastian have more in common than his abrasive behavior suggests.[[spoiler:Mr. Coreander has also been to Fantastica.]]
* AncientKeeper: Subverted; when Bastian tries to apologize to him at the end for losing his book, he claims that he has never seen or heard of it --- which confuses Bastian, as Mr Coreander was described as holding the book and had "clearly been reading it" when Bastian entered the store. Even when he admits that he has been to Fantastica, Mr Coriander keeps insisting that he has never seen nor heard of that book, but that there are many different routes to get to Fantastica.

* {{Retgone}}: In the second film, Bastian's father Barney visits Coreander's bookshop in his search for his son. Upon having a EurekaMoment a few hours later, Barney goes back -- only to find Coreander and his books are totally gone. A cop who is helping with the search for Bastian remarks that it looks like whatever store was there has been closed for a long time. Considering that the Emptiness explicitly eats away at Fantastica and erases the words of the Neverending Story book, it's implied that it also removed Coreander and his books from reality. With Xayide's defeat, though, everything is back to normal for the third movie.

* LoonyLibrarian: He is a loony... bookstore owner, but still fits the trope, ''especially'' in the movie and the stage play, where he more explicitly comes across as a grouchy TricksterMentor. In all versions he's a bit of a ChildHater who neverheless warms up to Bastian when he discovers Bastian's passion for books, but in the movie he quite [[LargeHam ham-fistedly]], warns off Bastian from reading ''The Neverending Story'' because it's "not safe". However, when Bastian takes the book, Mr. Coreander doesn't minds however, hinting that his speech was a ReversePsychology gambit. The book confirms that at least some of his quirks are the result of having had his own adventures in Fantasia when he was younger.

* LadyOfBlackMagic: A beautiful, lavishly (if gaudily) dressed, EvilSorceress and the extremely powerful main villainess who has PowerOfTheVoid.

* InformedAbility: In the book, Gmork mentions to Atreyu that he can go to the human world and appear in the form of a human being there, but he is only encountered in Fantastica during the events of the story so we never see him do this, nor do we learn about any aliases used or actions taken by him there in the past. In the live-action TV adaptation ''Tales from the Neverending Story'', however, he actually gets to use this power onscreen and his human ''alter ego'' Mr. Blank is a SadistTeacher who menaces Bastian at school.

* DemotedToExtra: Minor example in the book and the first two movies; in the first half of the book, and for most of the movie, he's arguably the main character and it's mainly his story we follow (through AudienceSurrogate Bastian). In the second half of the book, and the second movie, Bastian becomes the main character and Atreyu, while still a major and vital character, is no longer the main focus and spends large parts of the story off-screen. A more major example in the animated series, where he's a recurring character but not really a major one.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Artax somewhat does this in the Swamps of Sadness.]]

->'''Played by:''' Creator/TamiStronach (first film); Alexandra Jones (second film); Julie Cox (third film), Lisa Jai (animated series), Audrey Gardiner (live-action series)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/AlanOppenheimer (first film); Donald Arthur (second film); William Hootkins (third film), Howard Jerome (animated series)

->'''Played by:''' Alan Oppenheimer (first film); Dan Fincher (second film); Gary Martin (third film), Harvey Atkin (animated series)

->'''Played by:''' Alan Oppenheimer (first film), Creator/DonFrancks (animated series), Edward Yankie (live-action series)

->'''Played by:''' Robert Easton (first film, uncredited), Pam Hyatt (animated series), Robert Jadah (live-action series)

->'''Played by:''' Marilyn Lightstone (animated series)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/GaryKrawford (animated series)

->'''Played by:''' Andrew Sabiston (animated series)

->'''Played by:''' William Colgate (animated series)