Characters / Pibby

• Action Survivor: They are characters from light-hearted children's cartoons forced to survive an all-consuming horror.
• Genre Refugee: Since they're from Lighter and Softer settings, they're completely out of their depth in dealing with whatever The Darkness is.
• Original Generation: They don't come from any existing Cartoon Network, Hanna-Barbera or Warner Bros. shows, instead being from fictional cartoons.
• Power Trio: They're the series' three main protagonists.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: One scene in the trailer highlights that they're hardly the first choices for defeating an Eldritch Abomination that threatens the entire universe. While Pibby (a small little girl from a preschool cartoon) explains the situation to Alloy Boy and Melira, they protest that they're just a sidekick and a villain, respectively.
• Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: The 2022 April Fool's special is seemingly set before Pibby meets either Alloy Boy or Melira, meaning neither of them appear at all. Pibby also isn't a battle hardened warrior yet during the special, as she still has her hair up in buns and still has both of her eyes.

^{Click here to see her after her Eye Scream} :

^{Click here to see her fighting the corruption.} 

A cute little girl who stars as the title character of an Edutainment show aimed at preschoolers. When the Darkness takes her friends and destroys her world, she embarks on a journey across the cartoon multiverse, learning how to survive and, eventually, fight back.

• Action Girl: She gradually grows into this throughout the trailer, not afraid to fight back against the Darkness while protecting the multiverse.
• Badass Adorable: She's a cute preschool character who can kick ass after witnessing her home and friends getting destroyed and chased by zombie-like creatures.
• Blue Is Heroic: Her body is blue, and she's the main protagonist.
• Break the Cutie: Let's just say an innocent little kid should never be exposed to what Pibby experiences throughout the series.
• Cartoon Creature: While her friends from her home show are talking animals, it is not clear what she is beyond being some sort of blue humanoid creature.
• Character Title: Both the series itself and her show within its setting are named after her.
• Children Are Innocent: To such a degree that she didn't even know what her own blood was, thinking of it as a weird red water that she'd never seen before.
• Declaration of Protection: She promises BunBun that she'll always protect him... only for him to be consumed in the next scene. Pibby is later horrified to see a giant BunBun coming out of the ooze.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: She leads a resistance against the Darkness and ends up gathering an army of uninfected characters to fight back against it.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: At the beginning, Pibby styled her hair into two hairbuns to show how childlike she is. But at the end, she lets her hair down to show she is no longer a Cheerful Child, but a hardened and experienced warrior after the horrors she's gone through.
• Expy: Of various preschool show protagonists, such as Dora the Explorer. And by the end of the trailer, she becomes a mature one-eyed badass wielding a sword as big as herself fighting against the apocalypse, which can bring Buddy Armstrong to mind.
• Eyepatch of Power: After losing her left eye and having it covered in a bandage for a while, Pibby replaces the bandage with an eyepatch at a later point. It ties into her maturation and Character Development, as several scenes afterward in the trailer show her acting as a sword-wielding leader.
• Eye Scream: She loses her left eye at some point, signifying the trauma she's sure to endure.
• Fingerless Hands: All of her limbs end in rounded stumps due to her simplistic design. Of course, this doesn't prevent her from doing anything just as if she had fully functional hands.
• Fourth-Wall Observer: Originally in a similar vein to Dora the Explorer and similar, this has evolved into Medium Awareness and an ability to interact with elements like the credits, commercial bumpers and even sometimes the commercials themselves!
  • From Beyond the Fourth Wall: During the April Fool's Broadcast, Pibby was the only person other than Bun-Bun, who was quickly infected with the Darkness, that moved independently of whatever was occurring in the shows themselves.
• Innocence Lost: Pibby begins as an innocent character in a children's cartoon. After an Eldritch Abomination destroys her world and assimilates her friends, however, she is forced to grow up and take action against it. One scene in the trailer emphasizes this in particular: after receiving a gruesome eye injury, she wonders what the "red water" leaking out of her is, completely unfamiliar with what blood is.
• Letting Her Hair Down: She finally lets her hair down at one point to show she's becoming a badass warrior.
• Little Miss Badass: She's a little girl who becomes a hardened badass after the horrors she's been put through.
• Platonic Life-Partners: Was this with BunBun before the Darkness arrived.
• Reluctant Hero: Greenley describes Pibby as wanting nothing more than to remain child-like forever, but being forced to mature and be the hero she needed if she wants to survive.
• Rugged Scar: During the trailer, she gains a scar across her left eye following an Eye Scream incident.
• Sleep Cute: She sleeps next to Alloy Boy while riding somewhere in the trailer.
• Took a Level in Badass: At the start, she's just a happy little girl hosting an edutainment cartoon. From the looks of the trailer, a key plot point will be Pibby learning to be a hero and fight back against the Darkness.

The costumed sidekick from a cartoon about a Flying Brick superhero. After his partner is taken by the Darkness, he's forced to step up as a full-fledged hero alongside Pibby.

• Blue Is Heroic: He's a superhero sidekick who wears blue.
• Dead Sidekick: Inverted. The superhero whom he was the sidekick of gets assimilated by the Darkness, which is implied to leave Alloy Boy with insecurities about his ability to save the world on his own.
• Domino Mask: He wears one as part of his costume, though he takes it off at points.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: His hair noticeably becomes shorter and shaved as time goes by.
• Expy: Of the archetypical Kid Hero Sidekick, most notably Robin.
• Kid Hero: Not that it helps against an Eldritch Abomination that doesn't discriminate against who it devours.
• Sidekick: Explicitly describes himself as one.

A wealthy feline villainess, who in her own cartoon menaces a group of innocent young dogs. As the corruption spreads, she finds herself having to work with - and care for - Pibby.

• Card-Carrying Villain: She bluntly refers to herself as a villain, though she may be more of the Punch-Clock Villain type.
• Cats Are Mean: An anthropomorphic cat who's the villain of her own show. However, she ultimately subverts this as she comes to care for Pibby, protecting her and giving the girl her coat to keep her warm while she cries herself to sleep.
• Evil Versus Oblivion: She's designed as a typical classic Disney villain in her own show, but her villainy is put aside as the corruption, the greater, multiversal threat begins to destroy every show.
• Expy: She's more or less a Disney villain in the vein of Cruella de Vil as a cat, or a female version of Fat Cat.
• Funny Animal: She's an anthro feline.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She presents herself as a classic villain akin to a Disney antagonist, but as seen through the trailer, she grows to care for Pibby and looks out for her well-being.
• Love to Hate: Interestingly, Melira is an In-Universe example. According to Greenley, she's meant to represent why people love bad guys.
• Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: She snarks at the idea of something idealistic like The Power of Love having any real chance of saving the multiverse.
• Token Evil Teammate: Downplayed in that Melira is the only one of the trio to be a villain, which she herself outright states, yet she appears to be more of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold at best or a Punch-Clock Villain at worst.

The glitchy blob-like horror consuming the multiverse and corrupting everything in it.

• The Assimilator: Of nightmarish proportions! So much as one touch and you are consumed. Of course, that is only part of what it does as anyone consumed will evidently turn into a glitchy zombie carrying the most unsettling smiling face you could ever see.
• Big Bad: It's the main villain that seemingly seeks to consume everything it can gets it mitts on.
• Blank White Eyes: Played for Horror. Anyone that the Darkness has corrupted tends to develop these with a few exceptions.
• Body Horror: Characters that have been claimed by the Darkness are depicted as being stretched and warped in unnatural ways, most prominently involving their jaws elongating widely.
• The Corruption: So far, anything the Darkness touches gets horribly twisted and deformed while being turned into a minion.
• Dark Is Evil: It's a black blob that the description for the short calls "DArkn∊∬" and it serves as the main antagonist, consuming any world it enters.
• Diabolus ex Nihilo: There's absolutely no context for where the Darkness comes from or why it's corrupting multiple universes, which just serves to make it creepier and more unknowable.
• Facial Horror: Naturally, to go with the Body Horror it inflicts. Finn is a notable example, as his eyes are all distorted while he seemingly drools glitchy material from his mouth.
• Eldritch Abomination: All we can tell so far about the Darkness is that it is this ever-expanding...thing that can only be described as an immense blob made of glitches.
• Even More Omnipotent: It manages to consume otherwise massively overpowered and meta characters such as Rick Sanchez and Bugs Bunny, the latter having such extreme fourth-wall abilities that he's canonically above God in the Looney Tunes-verse.
• From Beyond the Fourth Wall: A horrific example, since it has the ability to move within the boundaries of the fourth wall, hidden from the view of anyone in the shows it's interacting with.
• Hell Is That Noise: Like its appearance, the noises associated with the Darkness tend to be very grating and distorted, bordering on Sensory Abuse at times.
• Hero Killer: No hero is safe from this thing, not even ones who regularly fight monsters and powerful villains, and not even the wackier ones who operate on Rule of Funny that can normally withstand all sorts of injuries. It can and does assimilate all sorts of main characters, having consumed the likes of Bugs Bunny, Finn and Jake, Mystery Inc., Amethyst, Ben Tennyson and the Powerpuff Girls, amongst others. In fact, it would appear that most of the only ones left to face it are the secondary characters of their respective shows. Whether or not its victims are truly dead or just assimilated is unknown.
• It Can Think: There's some evidence that the assimilated toons can at least think on some level. Finn, Jake, and BunBun being the most obvious examples. Finn still carries around his sword and emotes a lot like he usually would in his own show, while Jake still uses his elastic body. BunBun also mentions Pibby's name.
  • As the April Fool's Day broadcast shows, BunBun can still talk and has pieces of his original personality after being turned. Whether or not he's still alive or if he's an empty shell is unclear.
• "Instant Death" Radius: Those who get too close to The Darkness will end up assimilated into it, and turned into one of it's corrupted minions.
• Lovecraft Lite: While it's an interdimensional horror that can assimilate the likes of superheroes and protagonists normally protected by cartoon logic, the trailer indicates that it's possible to fight back against it. It is unknown if it's possible to permanently defeat it.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: In some cases, characters assimilated by the Darkness transform into multi-legged blob creatures. The corrupted George Jetson seen in the trailer is an example of this.
• Nightmare Face: Those it turns into its minions tend to sport these.
• No Name Given: "The Darkness" is just what the characters call it. What's its real name is, assuming it even has one, is currently unknown.
• Nothing Is Scarier: Next to nothing is known about this... whatever the hell it is, beyond its ability to invade worlds and corrupt everything and everyone it comes across.
• Ominous Obsidian Ooze: With the twist that it's actually glitchy static.
• Ominous Visual Glitch: Exaggerated; it's an abomination made entirely of visual glitchiness.
• Outside-Context Problem: A particularly severe one in a setting with a multiverse. Just about no one expects their world to be invaded and consumed by what's basically amorphous glitch ooze that turns anyone it catches into horrible monsters.
• Sickening "Crunch!": The Darkness' victims give off nasty cracking sounds before being changed. It's as if the Darkness is rearranging their bodies into the corrupted monsters we see in the trailers, which might explain why their mouths are so long. A fine example is Morty during the April Fool's Day 2022 broadcast, as his arms crack and bend as his conversion finishes.
• Slasher Smile: Those assimilated by the Darkness sport unnatural smiles so big that they almost extend to the ground; the corrupted members of the Mystery Gang seen in the trailer are a particular example of this.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: As an all-consuming multiverse threatening Gray Goo Eldritch Abomination, the Darkness does fit in the series' maturity, but it easily contrasts most of the shows it invades, which tend to be aimed at younger audiences and are much lighter overall.
• The Worf Effect: This thing was already capable of assimilating everyone, but the April Fools 2022 special went the extra mile by showing that even Rick Sanchez, a constant fourth wall breaker and an inventor of obscenely powerful and destructive weapons who has toppled gods, is powerless before it while it infects his show.

^{Click here to see his head being manifested by the Darkness.} 

Pibby's best friend, who ends up getting taken by the Darkness.

• A Lizard Named "Liz": A rabbit named BunBun.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: It's stated in supplementary material that the Darkness will use him as its face in the battles with Pibby and her allies, making him this for it.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: At the end of the teaser trailer, the Darkness transformed BunBun into an enlarged version of himself, still smiling, with his body dipped in corruption.
• Best Friend: To Pibby. Supplementary info states BunBun and Pibby were best friends for 200 episodes and did everything together before the Darkness invaded their world.
• Blank White Eyes: BunBun's eyes are blank as the rest of the Darkness' victims. However, in the April Fool's Day broadcast, his eyes are fully black like the Darkness.
• Cheerful Child: Originally. BunBun was a kind kid and Pibby's best friend before the Darkness took him.
• Creepy Child: Only when he becomes infected. His normal self is a Cheerful Child not too out of the ordinary in the preschool show world he lives in.
• Children Are Innocent: Supplementary information states BunBun was entirely innocent and sincere with no sense of irony.
• Declaration of Protection: On the receiving end of one from Pibby. She fails.
• The Dragon: Supplementary info claims that, after taking him, the Darkness uses BunBun as a mouthpiece.
• Enfant Terrible: Appears to be leading the army of infected cartoons at the end of the trailer.
• Forced into Evil: The darkness chooses him as its avatar upon absorbing him.
• Hair-Raising Hare: Not by choice, but the darkness chooses him as its Dragon.
• It Can Think: After his conversion in the April Fool's Day broadcast, BunBun can still think on some level, like the turned Finn and Jake. Unlike Finn and Jake, BunBun can still talk. However, it's unknown if he's conscious or an empty shell used by the Darkness.
  BunBun: Maybe we should let the Darkness consume us...
• Platonic Life-Partners: Was this with Pibby before the Darkness arrived.
• Sacrificial Lamb: The Darkness taking BunBun after Pibby promised to protect him is only the start of her Trauma Conga Line.
• Say My Name: He yells Pibby's name as the Darkness consumes him.