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Ruby Gloom
"Now, what excuse--I mean, legitimate reason is there for a party today?" |
- Hollywood Tone Deaf: Outside of the musical episode, she, in her own words, can't carry a tune in a bucket.
- Living Doll: Hinted at.
- The Noseless: Ruby is this when not in profile.
- Perky Goth
- The Pollyanna
- Redheaded Hero
- Ship Tease: With Skullboy
- In particular the "Fun with Paper" or "You Are What You Eat" segments.
- Strange Girl
- Team Mom
- Youthful Freckles
Doom Kitty
* violin chord* |
- Deathbringer the Adorable
- Doomy Dooms of Doom
- Cute Kitten
- Narrative Shapeshifting: She uses her extremely thin, flexible and strong tail to make shapes ? not strictly shapeshifting, but it does alter her appearance after a fashion. Of course, only Ruby can understand her.
- The Speechless
- Silent Snarker
Iris
"Hey, Ruby, I'm bummed! I wanted to do some aerial routines with Squig, but it's kind of hard without windshield wipers...!" |
- Balloon Belly: Very briefly.
- Catch Phrase: "I'm good!"
- Cute Clumsy Girl
- Cute Monster Girl
- Cyclops
- The Flapper: Iris appears as this during Poe's version of the story in "Venus de Gloomsville."
- Fluffy Tamer: If Squig and Venus are any indication.
- Genki Girl: She loves adventure and rarely seems to hold still for very long.
- Ugly Cute: Who could say no to that puppy-dog eye?
Misery
"My cousin was struck by lightning. Twice." |
- Amusing Injuries: Misery is regularly hit by lightning, only to say "ow" and come back 10 seconds later in perfect shape.
- Butt Monkey
- The Chew Toy
- Chewing the Scenery: Emily Hampshire occasionally gets really hammy in her role as Misery:
"I'm also the Queen of Disasters, by the way. And the Princess. And the Baroness! And the Countess! And the Viscountess! THE EMPRESS!!" |
- The Eeyore: Though she does cheer up as the show goes on.
- Elegant Gothic Lolita
- Ensemble Darkhorse: •Misery is far and away the most popular character on the show. Her only conceivable rival is the title character, at which point it's kind of hard to draw a comparison.
- Iron Butt Monkey: Lightning hits Misery so often that it's become a defining character trait. Aside from the blackened clothes, it seems to be nothing more than a minor inconvenience to her.
- Lethal Chef: "It's an old family recipe. I've adjusted it to reduce the damage to the dwelling."
- My Real Daddy: While it's hard to point out one person, it's probably the good people at Nelvana who can take credit for turning Misery into a fan favorite. Ruby Gloom creator Martin Hsu only made one known illustration of her.
- Non-Singing Voice: Misery's sleep-singing voice is provided by Jeen O'Brien, who also sings the theme song.
- Our Banshees Are Louder: Many fans believe that Misery and her exclusively female relatives are banshees. And her wail sure is terrifying enough.
- Plague of Good Fortune: Every Friday the 13th everyone in Misery's family has extraordinarily good luck and their normally extraordinarily bad luck is spread to those around them.
- Ugly Cute: She's bag-eyed, pockmarked, tearstained... and adorable.
- The Woobie
Skull Boy
"I'm an artist, Ruby! It's in my bones!" |
- Dem Bones
- Desperately Looking for a Purpose In Life
- Emo Teen: Even if he doesn't have the attitude (Debatable) he definitely dresses the part.
- Gene Hunting
- Jack of All Trades
- Lamarck Was Right: Basically his entire philosophy.
- Ship Tease: With Ruby.
- Ugly Cute
- The Woobie
Frank & Len
"Say your amp's not working. What's the first thing you do?" |
- Aloof Big Brother: Frank sees himself as this, at least.
- Big Eater
- Cloudcuckoolander: Len
- Completely Missing the Point: "You're just not getting it, Len."
- Depending on the Writer: Frank is either far smarter than Len and is the one who scoffs at Len's ditzy moments, or is just as stupid as his brother.
- The Ditz
- Guyliner: Len
- Multiple Head Case
- The Power of Rock
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: While Len has green skin, he seems to have red oni tendencies... but Frank is blue oni through and through.
- Sibling Seniority Squabble: Taken farther than usual-- Frank has claimed to be older, but...
- Those Two Guys
Mr. Buns
- Companion Cube
- Living Toys: Mr. Buns is a strange example. The other characters treat him as if he's alive (except for Misery), and he seems to do things when he's not on-screen... but whenever he's on-screen, he's just a lifeless sock-bunny. In the most extreme case, he's fencing with Poe from just off-screen, only for the sword to drop the moment he's visible in the frame.
Edger, Allen, and Poe
- High-Class Glass
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Poe.
- Shout-Out: Take a wild guess!
- As well as occasional ones to Gilbert and Sullivan.
- Shout-Out Theme Naming: See the above.
- The Speechless: Edgar and Allen.
- Toothy Bird: All three.
- Ravens and Crows
Scaredy Bat
- Adorkable
- Big No: He does this every once in a while.
- Bollywood Nerd: Well, he's certainly got the right accent...
- Butt Monkey
- Cute Little Fangs
- Ensemble Darkhorse: Not as much as Misery but it's hard not to love him.
- Large Ham: At times he can be one.
- Lovable Coward
- Puppy Dog Eyes
- Ridiculously Cute Critter
- Shrinking Violet: Sort of...
- Talking Animal
- The Woobie
Misery's Family
- Alliterative Family
- All Just a Dream\Epileptic Trees: It's speculated that a few of the Misery relatives that appeared in the reunion episode might have been figments of her own imagination.
- An Ice Person: Two, actually. Malady and Malaise will cause a localized ice age if they stay close for too long.
- Ensemble Darkhorse: Morose. One episode was all it took for her to become popular.
- Hulk Speak: Mayhem
- Iron Butt Monkey: Nearly all of them. For all of the disasters they've been through, it's a wonder they're even alive at all!
- Meaningful Name: Malady (she's always sick) and Malaise (she's always sleepy)
- Older Than They Look: Several members of the family might be this. Mayhem apparently remembers the dinosaurs!
- Our Banshees Are Louder
- Plague of Good Fortune: Every Friday the 13th.
- The Scrappy: Migraine is this to the rest of the family.
- Tastes Like Diabetes: The triplets are so ridiculously cute and perky that they give Morose a nervous breakdown:
"Children...playful, cheerful children...Why?! Why?!" |
- Uncanny Family Resemblance: Consistently!