The Order of the Stick/Characters/Others

Celia
""I just don't understand all the violence. I'll admit that I got caught up in the thrill of it all a few times, but I just can't stomach the idea of willfully deciding to end someone's life.""

"Race: Sylph

Gender: Female

Class: Sorcerer

Alignment: Lawful Good"

Roy's girlfriend, Celia is a sylph and lawyer from the Elemental Plane of Air.

"Roy: Ah, there's my damsel. In distress. As is quickly becoming standard."
 * Actual Pacifist: Much to Haley and Belkar's frustration. Though she has been known to let loose the occasional lightning bolt in anger.
 * Bare Your Midriff: Her original Sigil Guardian costume.
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer
 * Distressed Damsel: Lampshaded by Roy.


 * Fairy Sexy
 * Fish Out of Water: She's not familiar with how the Prime Material Plane or its inhabitants operate.
 * Flight
 * Genius Ditz: She is a highly competent lawyer (even though she's still in law school!).
 * Good Wings, Evil Wings: White butterfly wings, both good and fey.
 * Granola Girl: No surprise, she's a vegetarian.
 * Guest Star Party Member: Serves as the caster for the Haley/Belkar/ group in the "Don't Split the Party" arc.
 * Hello, Attorney!: From Roy's point of view.
 * I Thought Everyone Could Do That!: She finds it very strange that humans cannot shoot lightning from their fingers or sense magic fields with their teeth.
 * Pointy Ears
 * Meaningful Name: Suitably for an air elemental, her name means "heavenly" in Latin.
 * Monster Fun Facts: Averted by Celia, who does not tell the Order about her species because she thinks that all these facts would be common knowledge even for humans. Conversely, she doesn't know much about humans, either.
 * Put on Another Plane of Existence: That is where she lives, after all.
 * Sexy Backless Outfit: Her party dress in Azure City.
 * Shock and Awe: Although she doesn't like to use it offensively, lightning is a natural power of hers.
 * Stupid Good: This is probably why she's often labeled The Scrappy.
 * Thou Shalt Not Kill: Which puts her at odds with the adventurers. Although she has no problem cheering Haley on as she kills people.
 * Token Good Teammate: While she's adventuring with Haley and Belkar.


 * Too Dumb to Live: Justified Trope by her outsider status, but Your Mileage May Vary, and nearly as much of a love/hate character as Miko is


 * White-Haired Pretty Girl
 * Winged Humanoid

Eugene Greenhilt
""I'll have you know that I was named Best Illusionist of the Year three times by the Wizzie Awards by the time I was your age.""

"Race: Ghost (formerly human)

Gender: Male

Class: Wizard (illusionist)

Alignment: Lawful Good (at time of death )"

Roy's rather selfish father who swore a Blood Oath of Vengeance after Xykon killed and zombified his master. Pretty much a condescending asshole to damn near everyone. Dead before the beginning of the story, he pays ghostly visits to his son.


 * Abusive Parents: Of the psychological variety.
 * Blood Oath: "I, Eugene Greenhilt, swear on the blood that flows from my wounds this day that I shall not rest, in this life or any other, until I or my heirs have enacted horrible vengeance on those that have slighted me, named here as Xykon the sorcerer."
 * Death Is Cheap: He died and was resurrected 6 times before finally succumbing to old age.
 * Dirty Old Man: Being dead hasn't stopped him from dating. And by his own admission, he's been spying on Haley under the shower.
 * Good Is Not Nice: When his soul was getting judged, it was stated that he never did anything seriously wrong in his life, but was something of a rude Jerkass.
 * Gretzky Has the Ball: He thinks there are homeruns in soccer, and has no clue if winning a game by 3-2 is good. His wife Sara deconstructs this by pointing out that as smart as he is, he could easily learn the rules of any physical sport in a short time, but won't because he feels it's beneath him.
 * Grumpy Old Man: He still takes the form of an old man in the afterlife despite his wife looking otherwise. This is due to the fact that he was always bitter and ornery by nature, though the Blood Oath he swore didn't help.
 * Insufferable Genius: Has a natural disdain for fighters, which is the reason why he never got along with his father and son. Likewise, his master was also quite arrogant towards sorcerers, which got him killed by Xykon.
 * Jerkass
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: One scene in Start of Darkness portrays him as such,
 * Master of Illusion: Illusion is his favored school. He's good enough to fool an entire group of paladins that he's really a being of light and good.
 * Nominal Hero: He's only technically on the side of good; very, very technically. This is why he's only barely inside heaven at all; he doesn't really care about doing good, he just happens to have done good during his life.
 * Our Ghosts Are Different
 * Posthumous Character
 * Prematurely Bald
 * Prophecy Twist: "When the goat turns red strikes true." Now, Eugene, ever heard of the comma?
 * Spirit Advisor: To Roy in the beginning. He's not that tremendously helpful, though.
 * Unfinished Business: That's why he's stuck on Fluffy Cloud Heaven and can't join the true afterlife.

Julia Greenhilt
""I can feel my Coolness Factor dropping just by being in the same room as these dorks.""

"Race: Human

Gender: Female

Class: Wizard

Alignment: True Neutral"

Roy's younger sister. A mage student at Warthog's School of Wizardry and Sorcery.


 * Alpha Bitch
 * Attention Whore
 * Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other: While she and Roy argue, they do love each other as brother and sister, something that Nale finds absolutely alien.
 * Bare Your Midriff
 * Bratty Teenage Daughter
 * Character Alignment: True Neutral ("I go both ways.")
 * I Have Boobs - You Must Obey!: Her favorite way of getting attention -- but to her dismay it doesn't work on Durkon.
 * Multicolored Hair
 * Spoiled Brat
 * Stripperiffic: Roy even thought it was a case of Go-Go Enslavement.

Sara Greenhilt
""This is the afterlife, Roy, honey. We all appear as our ideal version of ourselves, and I guess I never stopped thinking of myself as the 19-year-old looker who had never even heard the name 'Eugene Greenhilt'.""

"Race: Ghost (formerly human)

Gender: Female

Class: Unknown

Alignment: Lawful Good"

Eugene's wife, mother of Roy, Julia and Eric. Dead years before the start of the story, she meets with Roy during his visit in the afterlife.


 * Absurdly Youthful Mother
 * Ethical Slut: Sara becomes a total slut after her own death, when she finds out that the Lawful Good paradise is a Free-Love Future.
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Hot Mom
 * I Want Grandkids
 * Older than She Looks
 * Posthumous Character

Eric Greenhilt
""hi roy! wanna play blocks with me?""

"Race: Ghost (formerly human)

Gender: Male

Class: None (Roy suspects he might have become a bard had he lived long enough)

Alignment: Lawful Good"

Roy's baby brother, killed by Eugene's negligence.


 * All Lowercase Letters
 * Cheerful Child
 * Chekhov's Gunman: He can be spotted in an early strip's flashback: "Memories, Like the Edges of My Sword"
 * Children Are Innocent
 * Dead Little Brother
 * Infant Immortality: Averted.
 * Posthumous Character

Horace Greenhilt
""I was long in my grave before either of you were more than a gleam in my boy Eugene's eye.""

"Race: Ghost (formerly human)

Gender: Male

Class: Fighter

Alignment: Lawful Good"

Eugene's father, dead before his grandchildren were born. Roy's childhood hero from the stories told by his mother.


 * Badass Beard
 * Badass Grandpa
 * Cool Old Guy
 * Cool Sword: A spiritual copy of the Greenhilt family sword.
 * Give Me a Sword: "ROY! Heads up!"
 * Old Master: Teaches Roy a sword feat in the afterlife.
 * Posthumous Character

The Oracle
""Geez, I can peer into the murky depths of the future, and yet I always seem to get interrupted during bath time.""

"Race: Kobold

Gender: Male

Class: Expert

Alignment: Lawful Neutral"

Tiamat's Oracle of the Sunken Valley is a snarky kobold with a dislike for Belkar specifically and pretty much everyone in general.

"Oracle: I think the halfling dulls his blades just to make it hurt more."
 * Back From the Dead: It takes him all of maybe three minutes. Being an oracle, he sets up his resurrections in advance, down to the minute of death.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Death Is Cheap: But painful.

"Oracle: Hey, "in his throne room," was a perfectly legitimate answer to the question "Where is Xykon?""
 * Everyone Calls Him Oracle
 * Fantastic Racism: "You mammals are disgusting..."
 * Foreshadowing: That's his whole job.
 * Fourth Wall Observer
 * Half Truth
 * High Altitude Interrogation: He did get dangled out a window by Roy and Durkon, as seen in a flashback, before conceding them a third question.
 * I See Dead People: Though at first he pretended not to, in order to snub.
 * Laser-Guided Amnesia: Visitors to the Sunken Valley remember his prophecies, but nothing else about their visit due to a charm, including the Oracle's true identity. This spell nearly keeps the Order from returning to Azure City to defend it from Xykon's attack, but it also keeps Belkar from getting kicked out of the Order and left to die from his curse after he kills the Oracle.
 * Lizard Folk
 * Mathematician's Answer: The Oracle's answers can be extremely literal, apparently deliberately. He gives one to Belkar, to the halfing's disgust. Roy is Genre Savvy enough to have a specifically-worded question prepared, to prevent the Oracle from doing this.

""Go ahead, give them a good once-over!""
 * Medium Awareness: Higher than any other characters in the comic, which is saying something.
 * Omniglot: A special case. He could tell what Haley was saying despite the Cypher Language because he can look into the future when the translations are included.
 * Power Floats: During the oracular trance.
 * Revenge: The town of LickMyOrangeBallsHalfling. Founded: Last week. Population: Just Enough.


 * Seers
 * Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
 * Speech Bubbles: His normal (white) speech bubbles turn green when entering the trance and doing a prediction; incidentally this answer is all the petitioner will remember.
 * Your Mom: The type of insults he trades with Roy's ghost.

Qarr
""See, the first lesson of being 18-inches tall is: Find someone more powerful than you are, and glue your lips to their ass.""

"Race: Imp

Gender: None

Class: Sorcerer

Alignment: Lawful Evil"

An imp, the IFCC's latest employee and former minion of Kubota (and an unknown devil).


 * Affably Evil: A given, considering his line of work.
 * Ambition Is Evil: Being a go-getter is the reason the IFCC hired him.
 * Charm Monsters
 * Deal with the Devil: Tries to make a simple one with V -- he would give him/her tips on evil spell components in exchange for helping him find an evil artifact.
 * Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: If he was a decent advisor to Kubota, Qarr has much less success in tempting the heroic types. He nearly gets disintegrated by Vaarsuvius for his effort, and later, attempting to bargain with Blackwing, all he manages is leaking out vital information to the smarter bird.
 * Flight
 * Horned Humanoid
 * The Imp: Though, since imps are embodiments of Lawful Evil, the trope does not really apply.
 * Not So Harmless
 * Professional Butt-Kisser: He's small, kinda weak, around the right size to punt into a wall, and as a fiend lives in a world where the strong have all the power. He states that this is pretty much how his kind gets around.
 * Sarcasm Blind
 * Telepathy
 * Villain Teleportation
 * The Watson: Similar to Jirix, the author's commentary implies he was kept on the cast so the archfiends could have someone they could explain their plans to.
 * Winged Humanoid
 * The Watson: Similar to Jirix, the author's commentary implies he was kept on the cast so the archfiends could have someone they could explain their plans to.
 * Winged Humanoid

Julio Scoundrél
""So, now's probably a good time to mention that I'm a wanted criminal in Azure City. I admit to nothing, but I have it on good authority that there are several attractive young heiresses in this town that are quite shamefully lax in securing their most valuable jewelry.""

"Race: Human

Gender: Male

Class: Dashing Swordsman

Alignment: Chaotic Good"

A swashbuckling adventurer who takes Elan briefly under his wing.

"Julio: Well, as an older mentor figure, the most likely scenario is that I'd return only to be randomly killed by an enemy of yours so that you can cradle my dying body while swearing revenge -- so don't take it personally if I say that I sincerely hope we never cross paths again."
 * Casanova: He has a son and/or daughter in every port of the continent.
 * Cool Airship: His ship, the Mechane -- which looks exactly like the Blackjack from Final Fantasy VI.
 * Famed in Story
 * Genre Savvy
 * Improvised Training: He set up a fake training montage for Elan. Complete with backgrounds to indicate a time lapse.
 * Informed Attractiveness: He held the title of "Sexiest Man Alive" for a time, yet like Elan he's a stick figure.
 * Loveable Rogue
 * Mentors
 * Mentor Occupational Hazard: He's Genre Savvy enough to try to avoid this.


 * The Obi-Wan: His role in the story, though as a character he's basically Han.
 * Prestige Class: Dashing Swordman
 * Put on an Airship: Deliberately, see above.
 * Royal Rapier
 * Sky Pirate

Inkyrius
""I am sure it will be well-received when your Other Parent finishes mastering the way of magic and comes home. Now go wash up, both of you. Lunch is ready.""

"Race: Elf

Gender: Unknown

Class: Unknown (probably Commoner or Expert)

Alignment: Unknown"

Vaarsuvius's mate.


 * Ambiguous Gender
 * Elfeminate
 * In-Series Nickname: V calls him/her Kyrie.
 * Mama Bear or Papa Wolf: Is prepared to defend his/her children against  with a stick.
 * Non-Action Person: Is a baker by trade.
 * Pointy Ears
 * You Gotta Have Green Hair

Team Peregrine
""Team Peregrine to Elven Command: covert insertion succesful. Will penetrate Cloistered territory on foot and rendezvous with designee 'Thanh' to coordinate further insertions. Liberation: commencing.""

"Race: Elves

Gender: Varies

Class: Varies

Alignment: Unknown"

A team of elves sent to help liberate Azure City from the hobgoblins.


 * Anti-Hero
 * Badass: They actually show a team of highly trained, skilled adventurers.
 * Cowboy Cop: The commander definitely has elements of this.
 * Fantastic Racism: As far as the commander is concerned, the only good goblins are dead goblins.
 * Kick the Dog: The commander gives a hobgoblin prisoner false hope before throwing him off the ramparts of the prison. And later Redcloak is told that besides the prison guards casualties include a pair of innocent hobgoblin bystanders who were shot in the back, presumably because they saw them escaping.
 * Meaningful Name: The Peregrine falcon is the fastest hunting bird on Earth, swooping on its preys before they're even aware it's here. The first time we see Team Peregrine, they teleport in the midst of a hobgoblin patrol and kill them all in one round. Very fitting.
 * Moral Myopia: Commander "The Only Good Goblin Is a Dead Goblin" screams that he'll avenge every elf slain by Redcloak. Redcloak, for his part, doesn't comment on the irony of all the hobgoblins he avenges
 * No Name Given
 * Our Elves Are Better: They are all elves. They are all awesome (when not being jerks, but again, Elves).
 * Pointy Ears
 * Shoot the Dog: The Azurites are unwilling to kill hapless civilians in their fights. Team Peregrine is not.
 * What the Hell, Hero?: One of the Azure City Resistance members is quite disturbed by the commander's ruthlessness. Another finds it awesome.
 * Pointy Ears
 * Shoot the Dog: The Azurites are unwilling to kill hapless civilians in their fights. Team Peregrine is not.
 * What the Hell, Hero?: One of the Azure City Resistance members is quite disturbed by the commander's ruthlessness. Another finds it awesome.
 * What the Hell, Hero?: One of the Azure City Resistance members is quite disturbed by the commander's ruthlessness. Another finds it awesome.
 * What the Hell, Hero?: One of the Azure City Resistance members is quite disturbed by the commander's ruthlessness. Another finds it awesome.


 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Or white hair, or pink hair...

The Lawyers
""Get back! I have a restraining order and I'm not afraid to use it!""

"Race: Humans

Gender: Male

Class: n/a

Alignment: Lawful Neutral"

Mssrs. Jones and Rodriguez -- attorneys at law. Two lawyers who enforce copyright for Wizards of the Coast, they also sometimes take court cases.

"Rodriguez: Ohmygod!!! You have a kitty!!!"
 * Amoral Attorney: It's implied that the only reason Jones keeps Rodriguez around is so that the latter's record can absorb all losses in court, keeping the former's record flawless. 5-0 for Jones, 0-180-ish for Rodriguez.
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Phil Rodriguez
 * The Comically Serious: Jones
 * Cuteness Proximity:


 * Hilarity Sues: It's their main role.
 * I've Got an X and I'm Not Afraid to Use It: The above quote by Mr. Jones.
 * No Fourth Wall: All of the characters are aware of the fourth wall, but the lawyers are explicitly from outside the comic strip. They were originally introduced for the purpose of carrying off anything that might be a violation of copyright (including a Mind Flayer and a Drizzt clone).
 * Out of Focus

The Flumphs
""...and ever since then, I've felt like... I don't know, like just I'm a... a minor character in, you know, someone else's story.""

"Race: Flumphs

Gender: Unknown

Class: n/a

Alignment: Lawful Good"

A pair of bizarre aberrations left over from D&D 1st edition. Originally kept as part of Dorukan's menagerie of discontinued monsters, the flumphs escaped the dungeon's destruction after Xykon's defeat. Ever since, they keep running into the oblivious main characters... who keep landing on them from great heights.


 * The Chew Toy: They seem to exist solely as landing cushions for the main characters.
 * Living Crashpad: Their lot in life.
 * Recurring Extra
 * Running Gag
 * Shoo Out the Clowns: Played with and lampshaded all to hell.