Bob
Bob
The titular troublemaker for whom the list is made. Depending on who you ask, Bob is either a bumbling buffoon, an evil genius, or both.
- Cloudcuckoolander: While Bob's actions have been portrayed as coming anywhere from mere ignorance to outright malicious intent, they consistently result from Bob being... not quite all there.
- The Dark Arts: Bob is quite skilled in black magics of all sorts, particularly necromancy and summoning.
- Digital Piracy Is Evil: Bob is known to regularly pirate media, often causing bizarre incidents in the process of doing so.
- The Dragon: To our boss. And he's a rather annoying one at that.
- Extreme Omnisexual: Bob is willing to do anything and everything. Unfortunately for him he is not very sexually active due to his unpleasant personality.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Absolutely everyone hates him, regardless of morality. People frequently question why they bother to keep him around.
- Hated by All: Part of the main conceit of the game is that absolutely nobody likes Bob, with his constant antics causing terrible things to happen to everyone involved by and getting in the way of doing actual work.
- Innocent Bigot: Bob can sometimes be racist and intolerant of those with mental condition but it usually comes more from ignorance than outright maliciousness.
- Mad Scientist: Regardless of his intelligence level, Bob is skilled in various sciences, often to the detriment of others. Despite being banned from using science equipment of any sort he somehow finds loopholes.
- Me's a Crowd: Due to timeline shenanigans Bob briefly split into four before the literal Reset Button was hit to return to the Status Quo.
- Noodle Incident: No less than three.
- Bob did something in La Quinta that made him unwelcome there ever again. It also caused someone to develop an irrational fear of omlettes.
- Bob is responsible for a peice of media called "Alice in Blunderland."
- Something known only as "The Mario Incident."
- The "Fork Incident" - presumably it was described by Rule 3274 which apparently was a response to it, but Bob stole the rule in-universe and his coworkers agreed to never speak of this incident again. Especially after it was followed by a series of other utensil-related incidents.
- Screw Yourself: During the aforementioned "Multiple Bobs" Incident, Bob broke the rule against screwing himself to, well, screw himself.
- Smart People Play Chess: Enough that he has an Elo rating of 1500.
- Walking Techbane: To the point that some unspecified changes he made to a sudoers file (without using visudo) were enough to turn the universe into an extradimensional realm of weirdness.
Author Avatars
General
Among the people working at Trope Co. there are Author Avatars of actual people, not just characters who exist for the story. These are them. Consisting of a variety of Tropers, they exist to catalog the horrible events that go on at the office. However, once the roleplay started getting popular and people started getting more involved with the world, they became characters themselves.
- Ambiguous Situation: Why do they continue to work here despite Bob ruining their lives?
- Ambiguously Human: It's heavily implied that NAPY isn't human, being either an alien or a Pokémon. Don't ask how the two can be confused.
- Author Avatar: Due to being representations of the Tropers writing them, they are this by default.
- Cat Folk: Oopity is an alien version of this.
- Eldritch Abomination: Normally Mr. C is this, but for the sake of others he takes on the form of a gray hexagon.
- Mad Scientist: Downplayed with Dr. Chloe Jessica and Played Straight with Archsage. Funnily enough, Dr. Chloe Jessica's job IS being the Mad Scientist.
- Noodle Incident: Whatever went on when Dvorak and Bob were roommates is never really elaborated on, all we know is that it was enough to give Dvorak a burning hatred of Bob. Maybe even more so than the others in the office.
- Only Sane Man: There isn't really a designated one, it often changes due to Rule of Funny.
- Out of Focus: In a manner of speaking, since not everyone can post as often as others.
- Skewed Priorities: Per Rule of Funny they often react to Bob's antics with annoyance over the fact that they have to clean up his mess and not the fact that he's harassing people or unleashing interdimensional horrors.
- Time Travel: An unwilling example. After Bob hit the Reset Button many of them got flung through time, landing in random time periods. Some of them even landed outside of time. Thankfully they all managed to return to their normal time period.
- What, Exactly, Is His Job?: A Running Gag for BackSet and Apocalemur. When it comes to BackSet, only Archsage knows what his actual job is and he likes to say a different job every time someone asks. As for Apocalemur, all we know is that his job involves lemurs.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: No matter how much they fight over petty things, everyone in the office cares for each other. Special mention goes to Archsage and BackSet since its kind of their Running Joke.
Archsage
Head of HR and kind of a prick, Archsage can sometimes be almost as bad as Bob. In the end, though, he always makes the right choice.
- Berserk Button: If you want to stay in your current form, you better not insult Sprite around him.
- Happily Married: To Dorothea from Fire Emblem: Three Houses.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: For as evil and uncaring he appears to be, ultimately he cares about his friends... not that that's going to stop him from experimenting on them, of course.
- Mad Scientist: Frequently engages in mad science experiments, often to people’s detriment.
- Obviously Evil: Aside from his Mad Scientist tendencies he also has a murderous witch as a secretary, is raising an army of Super-Soldiers for unknown reasons, blackmails people on the regular, and decided to punish Bob by cutting him into still living pieces.
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: He has an animosity towards Sothis for reasons unknown. The feeling is mutual.
- Token Evil Teammate: Archsage has willingly admitted that he is this.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With BackSet, who he frequently fights with but is still friends with.
BackSet
Trope Co's resident Asexual Aromantic, BackSet tried his hardest to be the company's Only Sane Man but ultimately ends up getting involved in as much antics as the rest.
- Absurd Phobia: Has an odd fear of the video game Changed for unexplained reasons that are implied to be have been deeply traumatizing for him.
- Divine Parentage: Inverted. He's a completely mortal man who is also the adopted father of Sothis, the Goddess of Fodlan.
- Flat-Earth Atheist: BackSet is an Atheist... whose adopted daughter is a Goddess. To his credit he is aware of this.
- Forced Transformation: Has spent much of the later posts unwillingly transformed into a full Braixen as opposed to being a Little Bit Beastly.
- Immune to Mind Control: Any time mind control or brainwashing is involved in one of Bob's schemes he is immune to it. It is implied this is due to his Autism and/or ADHD.
- Little Bit Beastly: Normally he has Braixen ears and a tail.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Archsage, who he frequently fights with but is still friends with.
- What, Exactly, Is His Job?: Nobody knows what BackSet does aside from Archsage.
Dvorak
Bob's old room-mate, and takes a narrow view of most of Bob's shennanegans.
- A Taste of the Lash: Bob is incorrigible to the point that this is ineffectual on him, which Dvorak found out the hard way.
- Everyone Has Standards: Didn't have the heart to enforce a ban on Bob playing Factorio, as he'd also recently gotten into a factory builder sim.
- Running Gag: He's admittedly Not So Above It All, and often allows Bob to continue certain illegal activities if given a kickback.
Nonalienpersonyep (NAPY)
A non-alien who works at Trope Co. They're best known for reciting the Eggman's Announcement copypasta after Bob pissed on their tropes.
- Ambiguously Human: It's often implied that NAPY is either an alien or a pokemon.
- Berserk Button: Lets just say for your safety you don't want to misgender them.
- Butt-Monkey: Downplayed, but if a plot involves Bob transporting someone to another dimension, you can bet NAPY will be his target.
Cardboard Bot
The (Unofficial) Head of the Bread Teleporting Department, he is a mysterious robot who seems to have his hand in some of the tragedies that happened before Bob hit the Reset Button.
- Ambiguously Evil: It's heavily implied that he was responsible for the mass outbreak of alternate Bobs, resulting in mass chaos and suffering. Whether he did it on purpose or not remains to be seen.
- Robotic Psychopath: Not directly, but he does commit many morally dubious acts. Case in point, his first idea in dealing with Sothis was to beat her in battle.
- Token Robot: Obviously not the only robot in the series, but he was for a long time the only recurring one.
The Dripster (ZeTropeGuy999)
An employee not previously known for much besides having a distinctive name. That was until Bob turned him into a robot to try and fight the durian monster. It didn't work, of course, but he remains a robot.
- Computer Virus: Bob trying to pirate movies using the Dripster's systems ended with him catching the "Congratulations! You won!" virus with the expected results.
- Death Is Cheap: By nature of being a robot, he can be rebuilt if he gets killed by something, such as the Shoggoth’s Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce burrito. Though one does have to make sure that Bob doesn’t mess with the process.
- Fountain of Youth: Per Rule of Funny, The Dripster being exposed to a strong enough thing with this effect apparently devolves him into a graphics card.
- Metal Muncher: Apparently only objects to eating computer parts if they've been acquired through a Dumpster Dive. Justified, as he's a robot.
- Mind Rape: Played for Laughs when Bob backed up the contents of his hard drive onto The Dripster's memory. It's not specified what exactly was on it, only that The Dripster needed therapy afterwards.
- Morality Dial: Has a switch in his back to flip him from good to evil. Apparently him being in “evil” mode makes him want to Take Over the World.
- Not So Above It All: As revealed with one of Bob's antics, he apparently has a list of thing's he's not allowed to do too.
- Persona Non Grata: According to Bob, who uses it as an Ad Hominem, The Dripster is banned from the entire borough of Staten Island for unspecified reasons.
- Ridiculously Human Robots: As expected from a roboticised human not subject to a Mind Wipe.
- Robot Soldier: What Bob intended him to become, although the Dripster went back to whatever his actual job is immediately afterwards.
- Unwilling Roboticisation: At Bob's hand.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Deathly afraid of ants for whatever reason.
- What, Exactly, Is His Job?: Averted - he’s the head of Human Resources.
Original Characters
The Incubus
Summoned by Bob for unknown reasons, the Incubus started as a willing accomplice to Bob's crimes before transitioning to the side of good.
- Butt-Monkey: Is often the target of Bob's pranks.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: He's both a "femboy" and a "twink."
- Heel–Face Turn: Started off as a willing accomplice to Bob's crimes, but he eventually learned the error in his ways, making him one of the few characters to legitimately undergo character development.
- Succubi and Incubi: It's right there in his name.
The Succubus
Summoned by Bob as a replacement for Alice after she broke up with him, the Succubus started off assisting in Bob's crimes before slowly transitioning to the side of good.
- A Dog Named "Dog": She's a Succubus who, as far as we know, is named "the Succubus."
- Head-Turning Beauty: Once ordered by Bob to "stop traffic" as part of one of his pranks. It was not difficult.
- Heel–Face Turn: Started off as a willing accomplice to Bob's crimes, but she realized her error, making her one of the few characters along with Incubus to legitimately undergo character development.
- Hot as Hell: Well, she is a Succubus...
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: Comes with the territory, really. Had to be specifically ordered to wear something when told to "take off that mouse costume at once!".
- Succubi and Incubi: It's right there in the name.
- Woman Scorned: Immediately begins a feud with Bob's new girlfriend, a Disassembly Drone, upon being introduced to her. However, upon being ordered to "work something out," it takes approximately five minutes for "stop trying to kill each other" to become "Get a Room!."
Licensed Characters
Sothis
Hailing Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Sothis is the creator deity of Fodlan. That or an alien. She's not really sure. Through a complex set of legal snafus she somehow wound up as the adopted daughter of BackSet. Neither of them are happy about it.
- The Gadfly: She enjoys provoking other characters to see how they'll react.
- Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls: Is said to write fanfiction and at one point is identified as the "Goddess of Fanfiction."
- Really 700 Years Old: She looks like a child but is actually a centuries old goddess.
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Has beef with Archsage for... no particular reason. Also has a vendetta against Viridi, Goddess of Nature.
Shoggoth
Hailing from the Cthulhu Mythos, it's a blob of demonic protoplasm and ichor with eyes floating in it, and was used by the Elder Things as a living construction machine. Accidentally summoned by Bob, and is largely the reason Bob isn't allowed to do magic.
- Big Fun: Doesn't really do much but lay around unless Bob compells it to do something ridiculous. Or someone annoys it.
- Eldritch Abomination: Well, it is a Shoggoth...
- Verbal Tic: The only time it says anything, all it says is "Tekili-Li!"
Ember
Was a Flareon known for burning people's face's off until she was put in the humaniser machine by Bob, which made her even more Ax-Crazy.
- Ax-Crazy: Being humanised apparently didn't do wonders to her sanity, so Bob has to persistently be reminded to keep her from causing harm to the Trope Co. Staff. Not that this has really helped matters.
- Facial Horror: Was prone to invoking this using her Fire-type abilities on unlucky employees of Trope Co. before being humanised.
- Humanity Ensues: Bob was asked to improve her behaviour. Of course, Bob decided to turn her into an Ax-Crazy human instead.
- Theme Naming: A (former) Fire-type Pokemon named Ember.
- Troublesome Pet: Was a nuisance to Trope Co. even before becoming an Ax-Crazy human, what with all the face-burning and all.
- Your Tomcat Is Pregnant: Was assumed to be male until she was humanised, at which point her actual gender became clear.
