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The Gumm-Gumms

As a whole

Gumm-Gumms are malevolent trolls under the control of their King Gunmar. They were sealed away into the Darklands by Deya the Deliverer and yearn to wage war with Earth and conquer it.

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• Army of Thieves and Whores: It is stated that the Gumm-Gumms were originally just unorganized tribes of barbaric trolls until Gunmar killed their original king and took control, banding them together into a fearsome army.
• Decapitated Army: Once Gunmar is killed, all of the enslaved Gumm-Gumm soldiers turn into stone and disintegrate on the spot.
• Expy: The plating that makes up the masks worn by Gumm-Gumm soldiers make them bear a striking resemblance to that of Sauron from the film version The Lord of the Rings.
  • Two from the same film, to be exact, as their horns are also identical to those of the Balrog, Sauron's subterranean servant.
• Faceless Mooks: The warriors of Gunmar's army all wear identical masks and armor; this is to hide the fact that most of the are ordinary trolls who are Brainwashed and Crazy.
• The Fair Folk: They live in a parallel world, have disdain for humans, and steal human children and replace them with their own.
• Fluffy the Terrible: By human standards, their name isn't the most intimidating. However, in Trollspeak, Gumm-Gumm means "Bringer of horrible, slow, painful, and thoroughly calculated death".
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: Every Gumm-Gumm in the series possesses eyes that glow in the dark.
• To Serve Man: Blinky warns that one of the things that the Gumm-Gumms did in the past was eating humans, and it was one of their side motivations for sparking war with the surface.

Gunmar the Black

Gunmar the Black

"When I bring forth the Eternal Night, trolls will reclaim the the surface lands and take what is rightfully ours!"

Appearances: Trollhunters | Wizards (2020)

Voiced by: Clancy Brown

The leader of the Gumm-Gumms who resides in the Darklands.

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: In a sense. Gunmar in the original book was a huge, red mass with multiple arms, and generally unpleasant to look at. This version of Gunmar, while still fearsome, at least looks more well kept and a capable fighter.
• Adaptational Heroism: Maybe. In the book, Gunmar was responsible for multiple missing children throughout San Bernardino, CA in 1969, with the heavy implication that he ate them all. Gunmar in the show is never said to have caused such an event, but given how the show is generally Lighter and Softer than the book that inspired it, it makes sense that this would never come up.
• Badass Boast:
  "To wound me, one needs to be able to touch me, child!"
• Bad Boss: Gunmar operates on "Might Makes Right" to command his armies. Those who do not swear loyalty to him either die or are forced under his control against their will through the Decimaar Blade. Even if they were loyal to him beforehand, he will not hold back and give them a swift and unpleasant death if they fail him in any way, forcing one of his soldiers to commit suicide after Jim briefly escapes his manacles and killing another when it loses its arm getting run over a car. He is incredibly racist to changelings (even though most changelings are loyal to him) and kills all but one of the Janus Order when the times comes for him to invade Trollmarket, leaving Scaarbach alive to be controlled by him to act as a decoy.
• Big Bad: The leader of Gumm-Gumms that the heroes must have to deal with in order to prevent his surface invasion.
  • Big Bad Wannabe: Played with. He thinks he's part of a Big Bad Duumvirate with Morgana in Part 3. In reality, Morgana has every intention to dispose of him once he's outlived his usefulness and is clearly the more dangerous of the duo. That being said, he's still a genuine threat and the plot still focuses on defeating him.
• Broken Pedestal: In the alternative timeline, when he and Bular corner Strickler, the Changeling realizes that Gunmar was never going to accept Changelings as equals and would wipe them out once they'd served their purpose. His purge of the Janus Order at the end of Season Two presumably leads the real Strickler to the same conclusion.
• The Brute: Neatly fits into this role in addition to being the Big Bad. Much like his son, Bular, Gunmar is a hulking thug whose modus operandi is to use brute force against anyone who won't submit to his cause.
• The Corrupter: His sword has the ability to mentally enslave anyone who comes in contact with it. When he learns that Jim's friends want to rescue him, and thus the Killahead Bridge will be reopened, he resolves to break Jim's will to enslave him, since Jim's armor is blocking his sword.
• Dark Is Evil: He's a dangerous antagonist and his picture shows he's black-colored.
• Dark Lord on Life Support: Downplayed. Centuries in the Darklands have left him weaker and prone to fatigue due to a lack of heartstone energy but he is still formidable. This changes completely at the end of Season 2 when he feeds on Trollmarket's Heartstone and returns to full strength.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite being a Bad Boss who is prone to You Have Failed Me, Gunmar clearly loves his son.
• Evil Overlord: Well, evil "Underlord", as he is called. Regardless, Gunmar is a classic example of this trope, being a hulking monster with dark powers and a Bad Boss who routinely abuses his underlings.
• Eye Scream: The third Triumbric Stone - the Eye of Gunmar - was literally his right eye, removed by Orlagk the Oppressor during his fight for control of the Gumm-Gumm army, and his eye is marked as a sign that Gunmar can be vulnerable. For some reason, Strickler had it and gives it to Jim as a means to part amicably.
• Fantastic Racism:
  • He feels complete disdain for humans, believing them to be inferior to Trolls; his primary motivation is to wage war on the surface world and either enslave or devour all humans or both.
  • Even though most Trolls have at least some distrust towards Changelings, Gunmar seems to have nothing but utter hatred of them, including the Janus Order which serves him unconditionally and basically worships him as a god. to the point he personally kills everyone in the Janus Order once they're no longer useful to him.
• Faux Affably Evil: He rarely bothers acting friendly but on a few occasions, such as when he captures Barbera and Strickler, he speaks in a calm tone but is still making his intentions clear.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: He's unfamiliar with modern times, due to spending hundreds of years in the Darklands. This becomes especially clear when he mistakes a car for a "surface beast" shortly after escaping from the Darklands.
• Gold-Colored Superiority: After absorbing the power of the Heartstone at the end of Season 2, his eye and the lines across his body start glowing a golden yellow instead of blue, and by that point, he becomes even stronger than before.
• Greater-Scope Villain: He's a major figure in the show's backstory, and the threat of his return hangs over the entire show. However, since he's imprisoned in another dimension and is barely able to even communicate with his followers in the outside world, Bular and Stickler are the ones moving the plot. His wars for the surface world also ravaged Angor Rot's village, indirectly creating another menace to the Trollhunter legacy.
• Horrifying the Horror: His mere presence is enough to even make Gatto run like hell. To rephrase, he is able to utterly terrify a troll that happens to be the size of a mountain.
• Hypocrite: Gunmar claims that he fights to claim superiority for all of trollkind. In actuality, he's simply just a power-hungry megalomaniac who views every creature around him, humans and trolls alike, as inferior and weaker than himself.
• Made of Evil: Implied. He was literally born from a Heartstone that was corrupted and turned black from the war between humans and trolls.
• The Magnificent: Gunmar "the Black".
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Whenever encountered by the heroes, he shrugs off whatever they can throw at him, and it's strongly implied that the Eclipse sword is the only weapon that can kill him, and only because it's made from his own power. Indeed, it's not until Jim gets a clear hit with the before mentioned blade in the series finale that Gunmar dies a very explosive death.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Granted, he claims he just wants trolls to live on the surface without fear of the sun turning to stone, hence his goal to bring forth the Eternal Night. However, as time went on, the reality of his goal was just to assume power over humans and trolls, seeing them all as weak and pathetic compared to himself, and has no qualms eliminating any who opposes him.
• Orcus on His Throne: Not by choice, mind you. When the Janus Order makes a replica of his throne and implores him to take a seat, he blows them off, saying that he's tired of sitting down.
• Outliving One's Offspring: His son was killed by Jim.
• Papa Wolf: Even while he's sealed in another dimension, don't mess with his son. When he found out that Jim killed Bular, he compiled a list of all of Jim's friends and loved ones and then sent it to him along with the message that he'll hunt down and kill all of them in vengeance.
• Pet the Dog: Downplayed. When King Arthur and his knights once chased after the innocent trolls who escaped imprisonment Camelot, Gunmar distracts the knights and allows the good trolls to flee into the Wild Wood. However, given that Gunmar sent General AAARRRGGHH!!! to attack Dwoza to either join him and be killed, this was merely an act of possessive territory, and he didn't really care about the innocent trolls who fled from Arthur; he was likely just trying to intimidate the human king.
• Pragmatic Villainy: When he's captured the Trollhunter, Dictatious convinces him to keep Jim alive long enough for Jim's friends to come to rescue him. Gunmar agrees and plans to break Jim's will so that his armor upgrades will break, and then Gunmar can enslave him. He even says he'll consider Jim as Bular's "replacement". The only reason this fails is that Claire and Toby rescue Jim right when his will is at its lowest.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Downplayed on the villainous side of things. He is an evil overlord and a Bad Boss who punishes failure with death, but he is willing to listen to reason about accomplishing his goals. When Bular suspects that Strickler has gone soft on the Trollhunter, Gunmar gives permission for Bular to test Strickler's loyalty. He also trusts Dictatious, who helps him escape to Earth after the latter finds proof that Jim's friends are planning to rescue him.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: When Bular is killed by Jim, Gunmar (as revealed by Chompsky) compiles a list of his loved ones and decides that one of the first things he's going to do when he is released is to kill them and make Jim suffer as he had.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: By the time the story starts, he and his army are sealed in another dimension.
• Slasher Smile: Makes this when he realizes Draal's relationship with Jim and decides to brainwash him, complete with Evil Laugh.
• Sorcerous Overlord: Unlike Bular, who was all muscle, Gunmar knows a modest amount of sorcery to bolster his physical abilities.
• Strong Family Resemblance: He's basically a taller version of his son with blue eyes instead of orange and much larger horns.
• Taken for Granite: During the final battle, Jim slashes him with his sword, causing him to turn into stone, followed by Jim throwing his stone body into the ground, ultimately killing him for good.
• Ungrateful Bastard: The Changelings of the Janus Order played a major role in getting him up to date on the state of the world and infiltrating positions of power throughout the globe, and therefore potentially making his conquest of the world that much easier. How does he thank them? By exterminating them (or at least their leadership and headquarters personnel) and forcing their leader to impersonate him to distract Jim in a fight to the death.
• Villain Ball: Attempting to enslave Jim instead of killing him is what first allows the Trollhunter to escape the Darklands and ultimately gives him a chance to slay Gunmar.

Bular the Butcher

Bular the Butcher

"I'll drink your blood out of a goblet made of your SKULL!"

Appearances: Trollhunters | Wizards (2020)

Voiced by: Ron Perlman (Trollhunters), Darin De Paul (Wizards)

The son of Gunmar who is bent on finding a way to release his father.

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• Arc Villain: For the first half of Part 1.
• Bad Boss: He treats his changelings as completely expendable, and is fully prepared to kill Ms. Nomura and Mr. Strickler for slipping up.
• The Brute: His greatest asset is his strength and he clearly likes to use the direct approach when dealing with problems.
• Co-Dragons: He serves as Dragon-in-Chief for his father during his imprisonment, with Mr. Strickler competing with him for the position. This competition ends halfway through the first season when Jim kills Bular and Strickler tries his hand at seizing power for himself.
• Dark Is Evil: He's a black-colored troll with glowing red and yellow eyes of evil. He's also a man-eater trying to free his father so they can wage war against mankind.
• Disc-One Final Boss: It looks like he and his father are going to be the major threats throughout the season, but he's killed halfway through Season One, and his attempt to free his father fails.
• Dual Wielding: Wields two swords in battle.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Bular loves his father and is completely loyal to him.
• Evil Counterpart: To Draal. Both are experienced, prideful, "Well Done, Son" Guy warriors who take an instant like to Jim. However, while Draal managed to learn humility from being defeated and spared by Jim, Bular remained arrogant. As such, Draal became one of Jim's close friends who would be his personal protector, while Bular would die by Jim's hands.
• Evil Is Hammy: Just listen to the threats he slings to Jim in "The Becoming, Part 2".
• Fantastic Racism: He despises his changeling servants, frequently calling them "impure".
• The Heavy: While his father is the Big Bad, Bular and Strickler are the ones moving the plot along to ensure Gunmar's freedom.
• Hero Killer:
  • He's one of Jim's deadliest enemies during the first season, with a reputation for slaying Trollhunters. In fact, the first scene of the very first episode introduces him killing Jim's predecessor.
  • Wizards (2020) also reveals that he's responsible for killing Lancelot.
• Large Ham: With Ron Perlman voicing naturally.
• Monstrous Cannibalism: It's implied he'd be willing to eat Changelings (altered trolls) for betraying him as NotEnrique says they'd feed him to Bular for openly turning against them and in the alternate timeline Strickler fearfully assumes Bular ate him in the normal one.
• Rasputinian Death: His death comes only after he's impaled on Jim's sword, turns into stone from sun exposure, falls off a bridge, sinks into a river, and then emerges only for AAARRRGGHH!!! to punch him into a thousand pieces..
• The Remnant: The sole Gumm-Gumm troll that escaped captivity when his people were sealed in the Darklands. A trip to the past in Wizards (2020) reveals how this occurred: he was literally tossed to the side and never sucked into the Darklands with the rest of his tribe.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: He's completely devoted to his father and saving him from the Darklands. His entire rivalry with Strickler for his father's favor comes across as a fight between two brothers trying to get their dad to notice them. Notably, when the completed Killahead Bridge fails to work the first time, Gunmar's first instinct is to blame Bular before their connection cuts out. Partly subverted as his father clearly loves him, orders that Bular takes command in his first appearance, and even listens to Bular when he suggests that Strickler has gone soft.
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Averted; the very first time he sees Jim in armor form, he tries to murder the young hunter before the latter has even summoned his armor. Strickler convinces him to not attack Jim and his mother directly because it would break the masquerade. Afterward, when he outs Strickler as a changeling to Jim, Strickler quickly devises a scheme to steal the amulet without Jim knowing, to keep Barbara safe.
• Would Hurt a Child: Bular makes it very clear that he wishes to "drink [Jim's] blood out a goblet made of [his] skull", no matter how young he is.

Dictatious Galadrigal

Dictatious Maximus Galadrigal

Appearances: Trollhunters | Wizards (2020)

Voiced by: Mark Hamill

An intelligent troll who serves Gunmar. He is also Blinky's brother.

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• Bat Deduction: He figures out Killahead Bridge is in a forest by some choice words used by Blinky during a supposedly failed interrogation.
• Blind Seer: Subverted. He doesn't have precognition from the Pale Lady, but he does pretend to be one to get back in Gunmar's good graces. It doesn't last very long though when Gunmar learns of his fraudulence from Morgana herself.
• Broken Pedestal: Safe to say for Blinky, seeing that Dictatious was not only still alive, but a Gumm-Gumm within Gunmar's confidence, does not do much for Blinky's admiration of him. Soon after escaping Dictatious and the Darklands, Blinky tries to burn the former's books he once served as a Tragic Keepsake.
• Butt-Monkey: Becomes this in Part 3. Dictatious is ousted as a fraud seer, nearly gets killed several times, becomes the target of constant slapstick humor, and pretty much no one on either side respects or even likes him.
• Cain and Abel: He is the Cain to Blinky's Abel and he has no qualms about killing his own brother.
• Co-Dragons: He is prone to sharing the position of Gunmar's right hand with others (not that he has to like it), first with Scaarbach and now Usurna.
• Dirty Coward: Dictatious willingly betrayed his own brother and the good trolls to join Gunmar, and later defect the Gumm-Gumms to warn the Trollhunters, simply to save his own skin.
• The Dragon: To Gunmar.
• Easily Forgiven: Sort of. Although Blinky regains some respect for his brother after learning he was telling the truth about Gunmar plotting to resurrect Angor Rot and Morgana, he still doesn't trust him completely as he did try to kill him in the Darklands, willingly at that.
• Evil Counterpart: To Blinky. Both are highly intelligent Trolls with a near resemblance to one another. But while Blinky fights for good, Dictatious is loyal to Gunmar.
• Evil Twin: He is Blinky's evil twin brother.
• Extra Eyes: Just like his brother, but thanks to the latter, they are now sightless.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: Joins the heroes' side in "Parental Guidance", but only out of self-preservation rather than any morality. He's useful enough that he goes unpunished for his actions, though he does seem sincerely touched by being saved by AAARRRGGHH!!! and later his brother.
• Irony: He has six eyes, but after a bright flash from Blinky's flare crystal, he is left permanently blind.
• Karma Houdini: Inverted. He betrayed his own kind to work for Gunmar, nearly killed several of the protagonists, and the worst thing to happen to him as retribution is being blinded. Even that doesn't stop him from serving Gunmar, as he only switches sides to save his own skin, not out of any morality changes. He even spends the final battle safely sheltered in the Domzalski's home with Toby's grandmother, all while the main characters are risking their lives. Though the tremendous amount of abuse he takes shows karma didn't entirely miss him.
• Kick the Dog:
  • He tortures his younger brother after encountering him in the Darklands, and makes it clear that he has switched sides of his own will.
  • He eats Toby's grandmother's cat while staying at his house.
• Manipulative Bastard: He shows that he is good at manipulating trolls to do what he wants. Including his brother, while torturing him.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: Well, when he and the Trollhunters' parents have knocked out Detective Scott, he's quick to offer a solution.
  Dictatious: I have an idea!
  Barbara: We are not killing him.
  Dictatious: In that case, I don't have an idea.
• Never My Fault: After (sort of) switching to the good side and is being targeted for assassination, he "forgives" Blinky for blinding him as the latter tries to fend off the goblin horde.
  Blinky: (outraged) FORGIVE?! You were trying to kill me!
  Dictatious: That was circumstantial.
• Not Brainwashed: He assures a shocked Blinky that Gunmar did not use his sword on him.
• Odd Friendship: After throwing his lot in with the trollhunters, he ends up staying at Toby's place and watches TV with his nanna.
• The Reliable One: A villainous example. As The Dragon to Gunmar, he seems to be the only one immune to his Bad Boss tendencies. He kept him around and virtually unharmed despite being permanently blind (Gunmar having killed loyal Gumm-Gumm soldiers for lesser flaws), paid no mind to Octavious's mention of it (even having him brainwashed and the rest of the Janus Order killed despite their usefulness), and considers his council even when it conflicts with his more immediate desires (like sparing Jim’s life when discovering the candy Toby has been leaving him). Subverted when Gunmar finds out he has been lying about being a Blind Seer.
• Token Evil Teammate: In “The Oath”, Barbara, Nana, and Claire's parents discuss what to do to an unconscious Detective Scott after knocking him out when he saw him. Dictatious is quick to recommend killing him, only for Barbara to shoot it down instantly.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Despite knowing what Dictatious becomes in the future, he genuinely was a good troll and was very close to his brother, Blinkous. Ironically, Dictatious seemed to be more nurturing and open to his feelings to outside travelers while Blinky was more cold and scornful towards them, fearing they'd cause trouble. Even when AAARRRGGHH!!! attacks their home, it's Dictatious who inspires Blinky to overcome their cowardice and instead bring wisdom to the good trolls. Too bad Dictatious betrays his own wisdom when he's trapped in the Darklands after the Killahead Bridge battle, but it can be argued that this is what made Blinky who he is today.
• Would Hurt a Child: Dictatious ruthlessly knocked a teenage Jim unconscious and later punched him in the stomach when he tries to fake a "stomach ache".
• Xanatos Gambit: His scheme to keep Jim alive and imprisoned. He finds out that Jim's friends are coming to rescue him, which will mean the Killahead bridge is open. Gunmar in the meantime seeks to break Jim so as to brainwash him; if he succeeds, he has a replacement for Bular, the amulet will be unable to choose a new Trollhunter and thus the trolls on the surface have no means of protection. If he fails, the Bridge will still open and Dictatious can interrogate whoever enters to find the Bridge's location. It works partway, in that Gunmar manages to escape to the surface.

Queen Usurna

Usurna

Appearances: Trollhunters

Voiced by: Anjelica Huston

Queen of the Krubera trolls. In Season 2, she is revealed to secretly be in league with Gunmar.

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• All for Nothing:
  • She murdered Vendel, framed Jim, and helped Gunmar take over Trollmarket just so she could take over the entire troll community. In the end, her Evil Gloating led her to her well-deserved demise, and everything she's worked so hard for was sunk down to the bog with her.
  • When Dictatious proves to Usurna that Morgana is communicating through a phonograph, she casts it away to prevent Gunmar from knowing, seeing the witch as a threat to her position of power. Regardless, Gunmar still receives Morgana's calling.
• Ambition Is Evil: Everything Usurna has done, from becoming Gunmar's top advisor to framing Jim, was all because she wants absolute control over the entire troll community. She's willing to use any means necessary to keep her position of power, using Blatant Lies and murdering witnesses in cold blood.
• Back Stab: She kills Vendel by stabbing him with a knife laced with Creeper's Sun.
• Bad Boss: She gloats to AAARRRGGHH!!! that she purposefully arranged his abduction by the Gumm-Gumms to give Gunmar a champion. This predictably leads to her soldiers immediately turning on her, because why would they serve someone who reveals they'd sell them out for their own self-interest?
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Usurna first comes off as a well-meaning if obstructive leader. Then, it's revealed she's working for Gunmar.
• Blinded by the Light: As queen to a race of trolls that live in the deepest of mines, she is especially sensitive to light.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • After adding her Krubera soldiers into Gunmar's army, it never occurred to Usurna that AAARRRGGHH!!! – who's a Krubera himself and formerly a Gumm-Gumm general – could easily blend in and spy on Gunmar with nothing but a Gumm-Gumm helmet and spear.
  • She should've known better than admitting that the lives of the Krubera mean nothing to her. Then again, she totally had it coming.
• Dirty Coward: Murders Vendel, who was unarmed, to prevent him from clearing Jim's name, and later orders the Krubera to brutalize AAARRRGGHH!!! and weaken him so she could toss him around unfairly and push him into a bog to give him a slow death.
• Disney Villain Death: How she dies at the beginning of "Jimhunters". It's only a brief drop into a swampy mire, but it's lethal enough.
• Double Agent: She pretends to be in league with the rest of the Tribunal when really she is secretly in league with Gunmar.
• Dropped a Bridge on Her: She's a major villain throughout seasons two and three, but dies with very little build-up at the beginning of the third to last episode.
• Evil All Along: See Bitch in Sheep's Clothing.
• Evil Counterpart:
  • To AAARRRGGHH!!!. They're both of the same breed of troll and share the role of Number Two, AAARRRGGHH!!! sharing this role with Blinky for Jim while she takes the role of The Dragon alongside Dictatious to Gunmar. But whereas AAARRRGGHH!!! is a simple yet pure-hearted troll that was turned to stone with creeper's sun, sacrificing himself to save his friends, while Usurna is cunningly evil that uses Creeper's Sun to kill Vendel.
  • She also serves as a Foil to Vendel. Both are highly respected leaders and members of the Tribunal. However, Vendel is a Benevolent Mage Ruler who legitimately cares for the well-being of trollkind whilst Usurna is revealed to be Evil All Along, a Bad Boss toward the Krubera, and was willing to endanger the entire troll community just for more power.
• Fantastic Racism:
  • When NotEnrique was a witness in Jim's trial, she continually referred to him as "it".
  • She states that the reason Jim was a bad choice for a Trollhunter was that he's a human. She says this right before throwing him down a pit to his presumed death.
• For the Evulz: Basically, the whole reason why she gave AAARRRGGHH!!! and other Krubera younglings away to the Gumm-Gumms was just because she wanted to, and more to fuel her fanaticism more than anything.
• Hate Sink: Throughout Part Two, she acts like a petty, contrarian Obstructive Bureaucrat who only makes the lives of the heroes more difficult. Even when it's revealed she was Gunmar's agent all along, she still lacks the redeeming, cool or grandiose qualities of other antagonists in the series, remaining a selfish Smug Snake until the end. Usurna's even dubbed by the fandom itself as one of the most despised characters in the entire franchise.
• Hypocrite:
  • She blames Jim for failing to protect trollkind after accidentally releasing Gunmar… the very same trolls she endangers herself by allowing Gunmar to enslave them red-handed.
  • She believes Morgana and the Eternal Night to be nothing but superstition and, even after she hears the witch's voice from the phonograph, saw her as a threat to her own position of power. Once Gunmar receives Morgana's calling (the one she tried to hide from him in the first place), she follows his quest to free her and bring forth the Night Eternal.
  • She brands the Trollhunters, the refugee trolls of Trollmarket, and even Dictatious – once he was outed as a false Blind Seer – as traitors to trollkind. And she's proudly aware that she's the real traitor.
• It's All About Me: Eventually revealed to not give a single care about trollkind, nor even her own tribe; she's only motivated by her own ambition.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: She constantly calls NotEnrique an "it" during the trial, despite his protests.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Usurna was worried about Nomura threatening to kill herself... because she just needed the changeling alive in order to activate the Staff of Avalon and begin the Eternal Night.
• Karmic Death: She tries to execute AAARRRGGHH!!! by drowning him in a swampy mire, but her evil gloating ends up costing her when she reveals she purposefully gave AAARRRGGHH!!! over to Gunmar as a bargaining chip, proving that she doesn't care about the lives of her people. They immediately turn on her and knock her into the mire instead, where she drowns.
• Kick the Dog: She gloats in front of AAARRRGGHH!!! that she willingly gave him up to Gunmar when he first believed that he was stolen… the other Krubera don't take this revelation as well as she expected.
• Manipulative Bitch: Usurna uses the trolls' arrogance and fear over Gunmar to convince them to accuse/blame Jim instead of plotting against Gunmar.
• Meaningful Name: Usurna's name alternates from "usurp", which means to selfishly/illegally steal a position of power by force. Given that she murdered Vendel in cold blood to steal his authority over Heartstone Trollmarket, then leave it at the mercy of Gunmar… enough said.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
  • As arrogant and somewhat tactful as she is, Usurna never considered that her questionable antics within the Tribunal, let alone getting information about the Blood Goblins, Gruesome, and even Draal leaving his post, would raise Vendel's suspicions. This allowed him to record her murdering him to warn Team Trollhunters of her true allegiance with Gunmar, merely just in case the real spy of Gunmar was actually a member of the Tribunal.
  • Also, gloating that the lives of the Krubera mean absolutely nothing to her causes her soldiers to see the error of their ways and leave her for dead.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: She claims everything she does is for the good of the Krubera, but AAARRRGGHH!!! accurately points out that what she's done was only for her own self-interest. Her only rebuttal is that "I am the Krubera!", completely solidifying the former's point.
• Politically Incorrect Villain:
  Usurna: [to Jim] If it’s any consolation, I believe your actions to be in violation of Troll Law because you’re human.
  [Later]
  Usurna: [to Nomura] Impures were made to serve.
• Pragmatic Villainy: While she could care less of Dictatious' entire existence, Usurna finds it more practical if they work together, and also saving him from Gunmar's wrath when he loses his temper. Usurna scoffs at the very idea of her "saving" Dictatious and makes it clear that she merely wants to use the blind troll to achieve more power through Gunmar.
• Sadist: Takes a huge amount of pleasure at watching others suffer in her iron grip. She even watches with cold pride when Gunmar prepares to execute Dictatious for his fraudulence.
• Slimeball: When she and the Tribunal learn Gunmar is free, rather than work together to hunt down and destroy Gunmar, they decide to blame Jim and put him on trial. Eventually, it is revealed that Usurna was a spy/advisor for Gunmar and was trying to get rid of Jim the whole time. It's even possible she was the one behind Gunmar's escape in the first place.
• The Sociopath: Is revealed to be an expert manipulator who cares for no one but herself. She remorselessly killed Vendel and was perfectly fine with delivering Krubera babies, including AAARRRGGHH!!!, to Gunmar.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Averted. As AAARRRGGHH!!! watches Usurna drown, he expresses not sympathy for her, but disappointment after learning that she was entirely responsible for causing him and other younglings great pain, and she had no real reason for it, other than to satisfy her fanaticism and to save her own skin.
• Villain Ball: Bragging about willingly giving AAARRRGGHH!!! to Gunmar as a champion in front of her soldiers reveals just how little their lives mean to her. Immediately afterward, they decide on a change in leadership via throwing her into the swampy mire. Rather than beg for mercy, she keeps insulting her men and demanding their help right up until the moment she's pulled under the surface and drowns.
• Walking Spoiler: It's basically impossible to talk about Usurna without giving away that she's Gunmar's follower.
• Would Hurt a Child: She tried to kill the teenage Trollhunter Jim by throwing him into the Deep, directly to his death. She also delivered Krubera younglings to Gunmar without a care that they could be killed.

Changelings

As a whole

Changelings were once trolls who were stolen at a very young age by the Gumm-Gumms and experimented on, turning them into "impure" breed of trolls that can walk in daylight and disguise themselves as humans.

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• Always Chaotic Evil: Deconstructed. Changelings were created by the Greater-Scope Villain Morgana to serve the Big Bad Gunmar on his genocidal mission to conquer both the troll and human worlds, so trolls aligned against them possess a knee-jerk reaction towards them, "impure" being a common slur for changelings. Because the closest thing they have to gain acceptance is from the Gumm-Gumms (and even then they don't have much respect for them either), they don't really have much choice but to serve them. Their code of ethics promotes Pragmatic Villainy and various members of the Janus Order seem to possess a certain distaste towards humans, but everything they do is done not out of a drive to do evil or reverence towards the Underlord and their creator, but rather a need to survive. Because of this, various changelings like Strickler, Nomura, and NotEnrique end up switching sides either because develop alternative loyalties through emotional attachment (Strickler to Barbara, NotEnrique to Claire) or abuse from their masters (Gunmar taking out his rage over Bular's death on Nomura).
• Becoming the Mask: Per Word of God, one of the main reasons they typically aren't trusted by any group they side with is their tendency to get a little too comfortable in their undercover lives.
• Blessed with Suck: From their perspective given they are subject to scorn from every troll besides (maybe) Gunmar.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: The death or rescue of their familiars (i.e. the people they were swapped with) would rob them of their human forms.
• Changeling Tale: Basically their entire thing.
• Daywalking Vampire: Or Troll, as the case may be. As mutant trolls bonded to human infants, they can walk around in daylight no problem. However, this protection only works so long as that bond is intact.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: The Janus Order is brutally murdered at the end of Season Two once Gunmar is done with them.
• Cursed with Awesome: Arguably as they have all the strengths of a Troll with the added ability to be able to walk in the daylight.
• Fantastic Racism: Be they in Heartstone Trollmarket or among their fellow Gumm-Gumms, Changelings aren't exactly "welcome." Some trolls and Gumm-Gumms even refer to them as "impures" due to how "unnatural" their very existence is as they were technically experimented on.
• Invasion of the Baby Snatchers: They kidnap humans (especially babies) and keep them as "familiars" in the Darklands, using their appearance to blend in with the human world. The Season 2 premiere reveals the humans are ALL still babies, even going back to the nineteenth century and quite possibly beyond; among the babies is the real Walter Strickler, who hasn’t aged a day after his birth.
• Klingon Scientists Get No Respect: Changelings are able to blend in with both troll and human society effortlessly, can use both troll magic and human technology and lack most trolls' weakness to sunlight. You'd think there would be some faction aside from their own that would find having changelings on their side to be a good thing. Even Gunmar thinks little of them, and the Janus Order was built to serve him.
• Meaningful Name: The Janus Order. Janus is the Greek god of duality and transitions. Changelings have a habit of making Heel Face Turns.
• Nebulous Evil Organisation: The Janus Order.
• Rule of Three: According to Strickler, Changelings everywhere abide by a code similar to the Trollhunter (though it prefers to promote Pragmatic Villainy over Pragmatic Heroism).
  • Rule #1: There's honor among assassins.
  • Rule #2: Rule #1 is a lie. There's no such thing as honor.
  • Rule #3: Everything and everyone is a tool to get what you want.
• Voluntary Shapeshifters: Common changelings can swap between a human form based on their familiar and their true form. A polymorph like Otto, however, can take any form they please, whether human or troll (especially Gunmar himself), and are implied to be rarest amongst changelings.
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: In order for the Changelings' disguises to hold, the children they have replaced must be properly cared for. As such, the heroes don't have to hurry to rescue them since they are in no danger.

The Janus Order

Walter Strickler

Waltolomew Stricklander "Walter Strickler"

"It's a great honor that you've been chosen to wield this mantle. I've no doubt that you'll prove equal to the task."

^{Click here to see his true form.}

Appearances: Trollhunters | 3Below | Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans

Voiced by: Jonathan Hyde

Jim's changeling history teacher and the leader of the Janus Order.

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• Affably Evil: Legitimately cares for Jim: calling him by the flattering nickname, Young Atlas? Check. Maintains a friendly and good-natured disposition while in human disguise? Check. One of the Changelings, the most dangerous and evil trolls known to both mankind and trollkind? Check. He definitely fills the bill.
• All of the Other Reindeer: As a changeling, he faces persecution from other trolls as an "impure." Bular in particular makes his prejudice known in their interactions.
• Anti-Hero: Ends up becoming one after he joins Jim and his team in their fight against Gunmar, filling in as an Evil Mentor for Jim and is willing to do things that no other character is willing to do (like killing Claire when she is possessed by Morgana) all out of his love for Barbara.
• Badass Cape: In his Troll form at least.
• Beast and Beauty: As is becoming customary with Guillermo del Toro, Strickler (who does admittedly spend most of his time in his human disguise) falls deeply in love with Barbara.
• Becoming the Mask:
  • While Strickler cites Pragmatic Villainy as his reason for stopping Bular from just killing Jim, Bular and Gunmar worry that Strickler may have some genuine affection for Jim from his time as his teacher. Any affection he may have for Jim goes away fast after Bular engineers a confrontation between the two. At least until the first season finale where surviving a harrowing ordeal together seems to make him fond of Jim again.
  • While dating Jim's mother may have simply been a way to get closer to Jim (and later torment him), he discovers that he's actually quite fond of her, even confessing that he may be in love with her.
• Big Bad Wannabe: After Bular's death and the destruction of Gunmar's gate, Strickler makes an attempt to grab power for himself. He plans on using changelings to replace influential world leaders to control the world from the shadows, and resurrects Angor Rot to assassinate Jim. Unfortunately for him, the rest of his Order are still loyal to Gunmar and his ambitions for world domination never get off the ground before Angor Rot comes after him in revenge.
• Break the Haughty: After he loses the Inferno Copula and Angor Rot's soul is destroyed, he loses everything, including the support of his fellow changelings, his only defense against Jim, and his relationship with Barbara. Needless to say, his confidence takes a nosedive and becomes a lot more pathetic.
• But Now I Must Go: Since the heroes don't want him around for the final battle with Angor Rot and he's been cut loose by his associates, Strickler decides it would be better for everyone if he left Arcadia on his own terms.
• Character Tics: Is frequently fiddling with his fountain pen. It's the key to a secret hidden room in his office.
• Co-Dragons: He competes with Bular for the position of Gunmar's right-hand man throughout Season One. Then Jim kills Bular and Strickler decides to abandon Gunmar in pursuit of his own ambitions.
• Cool Teacher: This is his cover in the human world, where he's good at pretending to be concerned with his students' safety and future.
• Easily Forgiven: Zigzagged. In spite of everything he's done, attempting to kill Jim, binding Barbara's life to his own, attempting to unleash Gunmar and being the cause for Angor Rot plaguing Arcadia, he and Jim part of civil terms in the finale. Jim even expresses hope that Strickler can someday change for the better. However, Blinky points out that he's clearly not redeemed in the team's eyes and Jim admits he isn't comfortable fighting alongside him.
• Embarrassing First Name: Well it's unclear how he views his real name, but it's evident that he prefers to be called Walter, as opposed to Waltolomew.
• Enemy Mine: He and Jim are forced to work together when Angor Rot comes to kill Strickler while Strickler's still under a spell that causes Jim's mom to experience any injury Strickler does. He offers Jim his help again at the end of Season 2 along with Nomura.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Even if he did try to surrender Nomura to Bular when she failed only once, Strickler's not too pleased that Bular is perfectly fine with throwing away the lives of his fellow changelings. In fact, securing the future of his fellow changelings is one of his stated goals.
  • In the alternate timeline where Jim didn't become the Trollhunter, he eventually believes a powerless Jim, and sacrifices his life to buy Jim time to run from Gunmar and Bular.
  • By the end of Season Two, he decides that allying with Gunmar is not worth it, especially after he massacred the entire Janus Order, and returns with Nomura to help Jim.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His most consistent redeeming quality is that he really does have feelings for Jim's mom, Barbara. He even goes so far as to admit he loves her. These feelings didn't stop him from binding their lives together with magic to ensure his own safety, but he did feel guilty about it, and he eventually undoes the spell after it nearly kills them both. Then he refuses to resume their relationship since she broke up with him before her memories were wiped.
• Evil Is Petty: Takes busy time out of plotting world domination to rub Jim's nose in the fact that he's dating his mom.
• Evil Mentor: When he returns in Season 3, he fills in as a second mentor to Jim. He teaches Jim to fight dirty and recognize when his opponent does the same, exposes him to grave-sand in order for him to embrace his anger and various other anti-heroic methods that contradict the traditional ethos of chivalry and valor Trollhunters usually fight with, rightfully pointing out that such things won't work on someone like Gunmar.
  Strickler: Jim is a good kid, but a good kid can't kill Gunmar.
• For Want Of A Nail: Given his expression when he sees the amulet in Jim's backpack, he likely would have gone down a different path with Jim if the latter hadn't become the new Trollhunter. Jim exploits this after resetting the timeline by allowing Strickler to meet his mother in hopes he'll have a chance to reform quicker than he originally did.
• Going Native: Out of all of the changelings present in the series, Strickler appears to be the most comfortable in his human guise. He prefers negotiation over battle, he spends more time in his human form even when he doesn't need to be (like with Bular and Angor Rot), he seems to genuinely like his teaching job, he has legitimate feelings for the human woman Barbara, he lacks the same taste for socks and cats like NotEnrique and most other trolls have and he seems to prefer the idea of the Janus Order keeping things running business as usual in secret instead of Gunmar's all-out invasion.
• The Heavy: Serves as this throughout the first season. He assists Bular in his attempt to free Gunmar and is the reason why Angor Rot comes to Arcadia in the second half of the season.
• Heel–Face Door-Slam: Averted. Barbara literally slams her door on Strickler's face when he returns to apologize for his "absence". Eventually, she realizes that Strickler really has seen the error of his ways and makes amends with him.
• Heel–Face Turn: He helps Jim against Angor Rot in the Season One finale, if only to make amends for his own actions, and the turn seems to have cemented as of the Season Two finale since he returns with Nomura to offer Jim his help against Gunmar.
• Heroic Sacrifice: During the first battle with the Ice Titan, Strickler saves Jim, who was attempting to take explosives to destroy the Titan, only for Strickler to take those explosives to destroy the Titan, and himself in the process. It doesn't work, as the Titan reforms almost immediately.
• Humiliation Conga: Things quickly go downhill for him once he loses the Inferna Copula. He becomes number one on Angor Rot's hitlist, the Janus Order fires him (leaving him with no allies nor anyplace to hide), and he's forced to beg Jim for help.
• Hypocrite: Says he wants to secure the future of all changelings and tells Bular that he should care more before throwing away their lives, but earlier he was smirking when Bular nearly killed another changeling, Ms. Nomura, for one failure.
• In Spite of a Nail: Despite the fact that Jim avoids him in the alternate timeline, he still helps the latter when Jim convinces Strickler that he was supposed to be the Trollhunter.
• Interspecies Romance: He (a changeling) with Barbara (a human). Although, she's unaware of his real species.
• Karma Houdini: He gets away with a lot of nasty stuff during the first season, including murdering at least two people. Jim, who doesn't know about the murders, even seems to hope he can reform. That said, his Humiliation Conga makes up for this, and to his credit he does make a sincere Heel–Face Turn.
• Louis Cypher: After a fashion. His human identity of Walter Strickler is similar to his real name, "Stricklander".
• Parental Substitute: Jim briefly mentions in "Just Add Water", that he considered Strickler a father figure.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Walter is shown to be more interested in his own self-interest when it comes to the dodgy, cut-throat world that he lives in, often leading to contradictory motivations at face value. The primary reason why he is a follower of Gunmar is so that he and his fellow changelings can live in a world where he and his fellow changelings could live in a world free of persecution due to their half-breed status (unaware that Gunmar does not care about them, massacring the entire Janus Order as soon as he is done with them). When Bular (the only Gumm-Gumm in Arcadia that strong-arm him into staying loyal to Gunmar) is killed, he immediately changes gears so that the Janus Order drops all plans at releasing Gunmar from the Darklands, preferring the status quo of Changelings ruling the human world from the shadows, only going after Jim because he poses a threat to him. The only part of him that contradicts this self-interest is his love for Barbara, and even then he has his moments of this, not agreeing to lift the spell that is slowly killing both of them until Jim swears his safety out of Trollmarket.
• Psychologist Teacher: Rather than thinking Jim is lazy like your by-the-books teacher, Strickler could tell that Jim is simply distracted by his busy life and offers his counsel should he ever need it, and could even tell that Jim likes Claire and advises him to simply tell her instead of staring all day. Safe to say, he legitimately cares about Jim, even after finding out that he was the new Trollhunter.
• Put on a Bus: He doesn't appear in the second season at all (save for an orientation video seen in the Janus Order and an alternate reality where Jim didn't become the Trollhunter) right up until literally the last few minutes of Episode 13 when he comes back to help Jim deal with whatever's coming in Season 3.
• Senseless Sacrifice: He succeeds in saving Jim's life after he falls from the cable attached to the Ice Titan, only for his wings to freeze, then takes the grenades that Jim had and dies tragically by blowing himself up to stop the Ice Titan. Skrael recreates the Ice Titan moments later, smirks at Jim's distraught at Strickler's demise, and continues his way to the Heartstone for his omnicidal goals.
• Shipper on Deck: Strickler's first talk with Jim has him advise the young man to actually talk to Claire if he likes her.
• Smug Snake: He's not really as clever as he thinks he is, with his plans for world domination never getting off the ground, the Janus Order abandoning him, and his former dragon, Angor Rot, is a far bigger threat than he can handle. In the end, he's reduced to groveling to Jim to save his own life.
• The Starscream: After Bular's death, he attempts to take control of the Janus Order using Angor Rot instead of free Gunmar.
• Teacher/Parent Romance: He has a cover as a teacher and is attracted to Jim's mother.
• Token Evil Teammate: Along with Nomura after Season 2. He's fighting against Gunmar but is willing to perform some pretty evil acts, most notably when he tries to kill Claire to stop Morgana.
• Troll: Towards Jim. Especially after his priority became to kill him.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Not in his human form, but as a troll all he's constantly bare-chested with his only clothing being a cape and a kilt.
• Wolverine Claws: His cape comes with sharp stone daggers he can either throw or use as claws.

Nomura

Zelda Nomura

"I know contemporary media might lead you to believe European history is full of swords, sorcery, and scandal. I assure you, the truth is far more interesting."

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"All that fancy armor, and you're just a scared, little boy!"

Appearances: Trollhunters | 3Below | Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans

Voiced by: Lauren Tom

A changeling curator who dated Draal at one point in the past.

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• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: "Fear keeps you alive, arrogance gets you killed". This is especially prevalent when Nomura is tricked into killing a goblin and getting attacked with goblin vengeance mid-fight twice.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: With Draal. All of their interactions in Season 1 has them as bitter enemies, but Season 2 shows that they do have lingering feelings for one another as when Draal goes back to rescue her from imprisonment and Nomura being just as happy to be with him.
• The Bus Came Back: At the end of Season 2 after spending half of it out of town.
• Dark Action Girl: An agent of Gunmar and a terrifying expert in Dual Wielding.
• Dating Catwoman: Used to date Draal, though they both seem to just hate one another now. As of Season 2 it looks like they're going to rekindle their relationship.
• Dual Wielding: Her scimitars.
• Fire-Forged Friends: While imprisoned in the Darklands, she assists the also imprisoned Jim and he, in turn, helps her. As such, they become allies after their escape with Nomura leaving and coming back to Arcadia to bring help after Gunmar escapes.
• Heel–Face Turn: She befriends Jim while they are imprisoned in the Darklands and she even comes back to help after Gunmar escapes.
• Hot Blade: The blades of her scimitars glow a bright red/orange, implying that they are super-heated to the touch.
• Leitmotif:
  • Edvard Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King. Her first battle with Jim has the original orchestral score playing, and she whistles the tune whenever she stalks him as a scare tactic.
  • Season 2, she reveals that when she was little she was at the premiere of Peer Gynt.
• Literally Shattered Lives: Gets petrified by Nari (while under Bellroc's control), who then proceeds to shatter her stone body into pieces.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Gunmar torturing her for Bular's death is enough to make her feel sympathy for a captured Jim, who she beat up in the previous season. She sneaks him a fruit that helps him survive a battle, and he promises to take her back to Earth once his friends are home. When she realizes he isn't full of empty hope and sees Toby and Claire, she immediately fights Gunmar and tries to draw his forces away from Jim.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: When she was tasked to capture Jim in Season One, she makes her entrance by whistling In the Hall of the Mountain King. She then beats Jim to a pulp, kicks away the amulet, and knocks him out. When they fight again in Season Two, though Jim is holding back, she still has the upper hand in their battle.
• No Hugging, No Kissing: Whatever ways she and Draal used to express affection for another, it didn't involve what is usual by human standards. They both even express disgust at human displays of affection.
• Nonchalant Dodge: During Strickler and Jim's training in season 3 in preparation for Gunmar she easily dodges all of Strickler's feather knives with her eyes closed whilst sipping tea.
• Purple Is Powerful: As a human, she wears purple clothing and as a troll her skin is purple. She's also a scarily competent combatant.
• Redemption Earns Life: Jim and Draal save her from pulling a Heroic Sacrifice in the Darklands.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Gets sucked into the same dimension where Gunmar's being held halfway through the first season.
• Sinister Whistling: Nomura whistles "Hall of the Mountain King" to unnerve Jim. It turns out she saw the opera and really enjoys the tune.
• You Have Failed Me:
  • Narrowly avoids this fate at Bular's hands after Jim finds out her identity.
  • She is imprisoned while in the Darklands because Gunmar wanted to punish somebody after his son was killed.

Otto Scaarbach

Otto Scaarbach

Appearances: Trollhunters

Voiced by: Tom Kenny

A changeling and a member of the Janus Order. He briefly took control of the Janus Order in season 2.

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• All Germans Are Nazis: He speaks in a deep German accent and is a high-ranking member of an organization that works for the mass genocide of the populace through the whims of his "Führer" Gunmar. Given that Changelings live long lives like most trolls, what would the odds of Scaarback being involved in World War II be?
  • Although he does shake things up a little by addressing Gunmar as "Kaiser" instead.
• Co-Dragons: Throughout Season 2, he's competing for the position of Gunmar's right-hand man with Dictatious. This ends when Gunmar decides that the Janus Order has outlived its purpose.
• Dragon Ascendant: After expelling Strickler from the Janus Order, he takes the latter's place as their new leader.
• Fat Bastard: A portly, sadistic fellow.
• Hidden Depths: He initially seems to be Strickler's easily-frightened lackey. Near the end of Season One, he shows a cruel streak. Come Season 2, he's acting like a Card-Carrying Villain.
• Hypocrite: He berates and leaves Strickler for being selfish and putting his needs above the rest of the changelings, yet in Season 2 he acts like a Card-Carrying Villain sadist who doesn't seem to care at all about other people, not even his own.
• Kick the Dog:
  • Even if Dictatious isn't a good fellow, it was still a dickish move for Otto to trip him, especially since he's well aware that Dictatious is blind.
  • Also, his decision to abandon Strickler definitely counts. Though considering all Strickler's done…
• I Gave My Word: He honors the agreement to give the antidote for Creeper Sun poison in exchange for Vendel's staff.
• Mistaken for Murderer: When he has Blinky, Claire, Toby, and NotEnrique bound up and at his mercy with various tools and a record player playing classical music, Toby thinks that he was going to have them tortured and killed like a Wicked Cultured serial killer. Instead, he uses the record player as a medium to stay in contact with Morgana and uses the tools to remove Toby's Braces of Orthodontic Overkill so that it won't pick up any of their signals. Subverted, since being a member of the Janus Order, it would be no surprise if he had killed at some point in his life.
• Only Sane Man: During the second half of Season 1, he seems to be the only one that understands just how dangerous Angor Rot really is.
• The Rival: Becomes one to Dictatious, as they're both competing for Gunmar's favor.
• Shapeshifter: Being a changeling polymorph, he is not confined to just shapeshifting into his familiar.
• The Starscream: Downplayed. He delivers the news to Strickler that the Janus Order has fired him. That being said, he didn't hesitate to leave Strickler to die at Angor Rot's hands. Season 2 shows us that he became the Janus Order's new leader shortly afterward.
  • He also tries to steal Dictatious's spot as Gunmar's right-hand man, not so subtly hinting that Dictatious's newfound blindness makes him useless. Unlike most examples of this trope, Scaarbach is quite loyal to his boss and only wants to usurp his Dragon, not the man himself.
• Too Dumb to Live: He really should have taken Gunmar's obvious disdain for "impures" as a warning sign for what awaited his continued loyalty.
• Would Hit a Girl: Knock out Claire along with her friends.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Gets subjected to this by Gunmar near the end of Season 2, when he's used as bait and ultimately killed by the Sword of Daylight.

Gladys/Gladysgro

Gladysgro "Gladys"

"Oh, my! We have to get you back in your seat! We have a lot of work to do."

^{Click here to see her true form.}

Appearances: Trollhunters

Voiced by: Melanie Paxson

A changeling dental assistant/hygienist.

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• Brawn Hilda: Like most female trolls.
• Depraved Dentist: Well, depraved dental hygienist.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Pops up briefly in Episode 2 when Jim is rushing to tell Toby about the amulet's powers.
• Identical Stranger: Zig-Zagged. Gladysgro's troll form looks a lot like Bagdwella. It's left ambiguous why Trollmarket residents & changelings look so similar, so for all we know they could be long-lost kin.
• Killed Off for Real: Jim's first real kill of the series, albeit in self-defense.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Downplayed. It is the death of Gladys that allowed Gunmar to choose another changeling to take her place. In this case, it was NotEnrique who takes Enrique Nunez's place and sets the heroes on a quest to save him from the Darklands.
• Torture First, Ask Questions Later: Since she hit Toby with a tranquilizer strong enough to keep him from escaping, it also keeps him from being able to talk properly. Since she did this with intention of interrogating him, it becomes obvious that she had every intention of torturing him with her dental equipment first.
• Would Hurt a Child: She makes her intentions of torturing Toby very clear, and is quick to attack Jim when he intervenes.

Others

NotEnrique

NotEnrique

Appearances: Trollhunters | 3Below

Voiced by: Jimmie Wood

A changeling pretending to be Claire's baby brother.

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• Annoying Younger Sibling: He's not actually Claire's little brother, just impersonating him, and he's actually a couple of centuries older than her. But that doesn't stop him from acting like a brat most of the time.
• Appropriated Appellation: His real name is never given, so everyone just calls him "NotEnrique". He never corrects anybody or takes offense, so we'll just assume he's cool with it.
• Awesome Aussie: He speaks with a stereotypical Australian accent.
• Becoming the Mask: Much like Strickler, NotEnrique starts to care about Claire and her family.
• Brought Down to Normal: In the Season 2 premiere, after Enrique is returned from the Darklands, NotEnrique loses the ability to transform into him, thus making him essentially a normal troll, though one still subject to the scorn of other trolls due to still being an "impure".
• Bratty Half-Pint: He's technically an adult but qualifies regardless. He's a pint-sized jerk who enjoys annoying either the Trollhunters or Gumm-Gumms.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: He spends his time constantly double-crossing both the heroes and villains, at least until the mid-season 1 finale when he tries to remove the amulet from the bridge, ultimately proving his allegiance to the heroes.
• Companion Cube: He grows attached to Susie Snooze, the real Enrique's bunny doll (which was also Claire's), to the point of having one-sided conversations with it.
• Defecting for Love: Non-romantic love in this case. NotEnrique comes to truly care about Claire as his adopted sister, and switches sides when he realizes that allying with the Gumm-Gumms nearly got her killed by goblins. Not to mention that she's close to tears all the time because her baby brother is trapped in the Darklands.
• Even Evil Has Standards: For some reason, possibly having to do with his sisterly love for Claire, NotEnrique refuses to be part of the plot to open Killahead Bridge after it's established that Strickler managed to get the amulet. He then establishes he's on the heroes' side by trying to remove the Trollhunter amulet from the Bridge and getting blasted for his efforts.
• Fragile Speedster: He's quick and agile, but when someone larger and bulkier manages to pin him down, he's done for.
• The Gadfly: Adores annoying players on both sides of the conflict.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: For much of the first half of Season 1, it's difficult to say whose side he's on apart from his own. Luckily, in the end, he eventually transitions from minor evil minion to mild jerk who's willing to help the heroes out.
• I Choose to Stay: On Earth. He was preparing to leave after the real Enrique was rescued, but Claire said she still wanted him around.
• The Imp: He's a pint-sized Jerkass who tends to make life difficult for the heroes, even after they become ostensible allies.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While initially self-serving and has a big mouth, NotEnrique has a good heart deep down as he has genuinely come to care for Claire despite their occasional clashes, just like real siblings. He even proves that he wants to join the heroes when he tries to remove the amulet from Killahead and even saves Jim when Morgana possesses Claire.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The one time he refuses socks is when Toby implores him to enter the Darklands and rescue Enrique.
  • Of course, this was before his Character Development, so if he was merely afraid for his life, knew that if he rescued Enrique, he'd lose his shapeshifting ability, or if he had a bad history down in the Darklands is up for debate. By the end of the series, however, he had no problem entering the Darklands with Chompsky to rescue the baby familiars.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: His true name is never stated.
• Spanner in the Works: For hero and villain alike.
• Super Drowning Skills: He can't swim or hold his breath well.
• Trademark Favorite Food: He likes to eat stinky and sweaty socks. In fact, it's initially the only way to get him to help the Trollhunters.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Eventually, he and Claire develop this relationship.
• What You Are in the Dark: NotEnrique is actually the first troll that tries to remove the amulet from Killahead Bridge. He gets blasted for his efforts, but it says something that the smallest changeling so openly switches teams.

Krax

Krax

^{Click here to see his true form.}

Appearances: Trollhunters

Voiced by: Fred Tatasciore

A Changeling who was working for Usurna to spy on the Trollhunters. He was idiotically exploded into dust by Blinky.

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• Didn't Think This Through: He never planned what he should do if the Trollhunters ever discover him.
• Stupid Evil: Krax buys the whole bag of Gaggletacks to keep his changeling nature a secret, yet all this ever did was help lead Blinky and Claire right into his hideout (especially since RotGut had his address).
• Walking Spoiler: Downplayed. Krax is seen in his human form at the Nunez barbecue party. Given that Usurna has met Claire, she presumably sent Krax to spy on Claire (who is a member of the Trollhunters).

Others

Goblins

Goblins

Voiced by: Frank Welker

A race of magical creatures from the Darklands loyal to Gunmar.

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• Always Chaotic Evil: All goblins are hedonistic and violent brutes who delight in causing trouble and pain, o their only redeeming quality is their fervent desire to avenge one of their fallen.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: There's your run-of-the-mill blue and green Goblins, and there are the much more intelligent and bloodthirsty white Blood Goblins.
• Disproportionate Retribution: When one of their own is slain, they won't rest until whoever is responsible (or whoever they THINK is responsible) is dead.
• Expy: The various goblins present in the show are very Gremlin-esque.
• Facial Markings: Their leader is often seen drawing a mustache on their faces with a marker. Should the leader die, the next in line will draw an identical one on themselves.
• Non-Indicative Name: The blood goblins are stark white and not red as their name would suggest, this is lampshaded by Blinky. Presumably, they are named for their bloodthirsty nature.
• Pet the Dog: The goblins in charge of caring for the infant familiars do seem to have some genuine affection for them.
• Pirate: There actually seems to be one goblin dressed in pirate garb who lives in Trollmarket. He speaks English and is taller than other goblins. Sadly, little is revealed about him before he is killed by Angor Rot.
• Revenge Before Reason: Even if it was a complete accident, even if they have other things they need to do of higher priority, even if you didn't actually do it, if they see a dead one of their own, your best option is to run. Very fast.
• Smarter Than You Look: One of the green, garden-variety goblins figured out how to spell out Jim's name in English, then told Eli and Steve to "Kill Jim" with a Speak and Spell. Most of the green goblins only speak the Goblin tongue and have never shown any sign of literacy.
• Underground Monkey: The blood goblins taking care of the infants held captive in the Darklands are smarter and more aggressive than the average goblin.

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