Characters / Monster High Main Characters

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• Badass Adorable: They may be cute, but the world they live in can get very treacherous. But as they've proven time and time again, they can handle it.
  • Even more in G3.
• Cute Monster Girl: They're monsters who, due to their feminine features and bright, pastel colors, are still quite cute.
• Dark Is Not Evil: They're the daughters of famous monsters and many of them have a dark, somewhat frightful appearance—but they're not malicious.
• Heroes Love Dogs: In the reboot, the pets of the four main ghouls are either dogs or dog-like- Frankie has Watzie, which looks like a dog stitched up from different body parts, Clawdeen's Crescent is now a dog (unlike the original's cat-like form), Cleo has Tut, which is a jackal. The only outliers are Lagoona, who got to keep her pet fish and Count Fabulous, Draculaura's pet, who's a bat that can shapeshift to a cat with wings.
• Multinational Team: They consist of a Romanian, American, German, Australian, Arab, and Canadian (Ghoulia).

In G2 starting with Welcome To Monster High, she's 115 days old and works with Draculaura, Clawdeen, and their respective families to build the school. Plucky, fun-loving, and klutzy, she alternates between series protagonist and Deuteragonist.

In G3, Frankie is the smartest of the students and is now non-binary. They are once again 15 days old at the time of both the movie and series.

• Accidental Athlete: In "Fearleading Tryouts" she trips into the gym and with a bit of convenient pratfalls and a few of her own flying limbs, aces the audition.
• Adaptational Badass: In G2 she takes the place of Ghoulia as the smartest ghoul. Even more in G3, where they have many parts of the brains of many geniuses, and they have an over-genius level of intellect, despite being clumsy. On the side of powers, G3 is by far more powerful than their past generations' incarnations, they have ridiculously powerful electrical powers, limbs that have magnetic features, rocket-like flying, grapples, super speed, interchangeable parts, glowing lantern eyes, drill-like teeth, among many other things.
• Adaptational Gender Identity: Frankie was cisgender female for the first two generations, but G3 reimagines them as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns for them.
• Adaptational Intelligence: In the original series, Frankie is portrayed as either an average or slightly above average student. Post Welcome to Monster High, she is the resident scientific and technological Teen Genius.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Between G2 and G3, their skin tone was changed from pale green to pale blue. They also gained cyan streaks in their hair in the third generation.
• Affectionate Nickname: Holt Hyde calls her "Frankie Fine" in the web series and movies.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: She has mint green skin, which is changed to a more bluish color in G3.
• Artificial Limbs: G3 Frankie's lower left leg is made of metal rather than flesh, which fits their lab monster status while also resembling a prosthetic. They accentuate this leg with bold doodles and asymmetrical outfits that throw emphasis to the prosthetic while covering up their flesh right leg.
• Badass Adorable: With big eyes, naivete, and a nearly ineffable good attitude, this stitched-together ghoul seems strangely cute! "Freaky Fusion" confirms: try to absorb her friends and she will take you out. Also, as her 2016 SDCC doll proves, she can hold her own as a (non-lethal) Ghostbuster.
• Consistent Clothing Style: Frankie's look is most often anchored to a preppy academy theme with all three signature versions of the character having plaid patterning and outfits that are firmly school-associated. Their G3 clothing also makes consistent use of graphic text accents in their clothing and accessories and often features asymmetrical leg coverage to expose and show off the metal prosthetic on the monster's left side while covering up more of their right leg.
• Creating Life Is Unforeseen: In Electrified, Frankie creates a cute Energy being named Znap with a blast of excess electricity.
• Creepy Doll: Her pet in G2 is a haphazardly sewn-together teddy bear with bolts.
• Cute and Psycho: Her Home Ick final definitely shows her scary mad-scientist side, as does the Electrified trailer.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: Due to her tendency to fall apart in the least convenient moments.
• Damsel in Distress:
  • In "13 Wishes", she gets trapped in the lantern.
  • In "Haunted", she is trapped by Principal Revenant.
  • In Electrified, she is used by Moanica as a literal live wire.
• Deliberately Distressed Damsel: In "Freaky Fusion," she trips while luring the robot. This is actually part of the plan to get it to the lab.
• Demoted to Extra: She plays absolutely no role at all in the Haunted special and toy line.
• Disney Death: In "Freaky Fusion", she uses her own life force, or Spark, to take down a rampaging creation of her grandfather Viktor that's captured her friends and threatens to destroy them. Doing so, however, uses her up, and she's effectively dead until her friends and schoolmates pull together to recharge her.
• Exotic Eye Designs: Her Sweet Screams look gives her bolt-shaped pupils.
• Elemental Motifs: Bolts of electricity are a recurring motif in her outfits.
• Facial Markings: Her Ghouls Rule doll has blue lightning under her left eye, and her dance The Fright Away release gives her a yellow Aladdin Sane-esque lightning bolt over her left eye.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: Her outfits tend to have this to achieve a cobbled-together feel reflecting her origins.
• Frankenstein's Monster: Her father's the trope namer, and she is the descendant and an example. G1 and G2 Frankie have the requisite green skin, stitches, staples, and bolts, plus black-and-white hair taken from the Bride of Frankenstein. G3 Frankie is a little less like the Universal depiction, as their skin is blue, they only have thread stitches on their body, and they no longer have neck bolts, though bolts and staples do appear on their metal leg.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Emblematic stitches and staples (the latter being pre-G3) all over her body, which are all neat and clean.
• Helping Hands: Frankie’s hands whenever her stitches come loose.
• Hormone-Addled Teenager: In G1, Frankie had a lot of male crushes for someone who's only 15 days old. First, she fell for Deuce until she learned he was with Cleo. She later created Hoodude Voodoo to be her boyfriend. Then there was her unresolved Love Triangle with Jackson and Holt. In Escape From Skull Shores, she had Ship Tease with Andy. There was also a crush over a Scottish gargoyle she calls "7" that plays football. The Lisi Harrison series added Brett Redding (who had a ghoulfriend but chooses Frankie) and Billy Phaidin. And the new comics have her date Johnny Spirit and some Ship Tease with Manny Taur.
• Idea Bulb: Variation. Her neck bolts often spark when she gets an idea.
• Identical Stranger: To a human scientist who came to Skull Shores sometime in the 20th century, sharing the same striped hair and heterochromia. Some fans believe that due to Frankie's patchwork nature, that same scientist may have been Human Resources 👁 This example contains a YMMV entry. It should be moved to the YMMV tab.
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• Insufferable Genius: Post-reboot. It's downplayed, but it's there.
  Moanica: [relates her plans for world domination.]
  Frankie: [Claps.] Ooh, nice. Very ambitious!
• Mad Scientist: Well, she did build herself a boyfriend once.
• Mismatched Eyes of Madness: A benign example, her mismatched eyes pull double duty as showcasing her nature as a Frankenstein's Monster, as well as her eccentric tendencies, naivete and mad scientist demeanor.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Her head mold is squared to reflect her father, and her hair is a more even distribution of her mother's colors.
  • Her Sweet Screams design has a peppermint motif, due to the candy and her hair sharing a stripe pattern.
  • G3 Frankie has a budget doll wearing a dress and belt/tie chain accessory that very closely mimics their G1 counterpart's signature outfit.
• Naïve Newcomer: At first, but integrates well. She makes it her own mission to help other newcomers.
• Pronoun Trouble: Averted in not just the original English version but also in foreign dubs as well: G3 Frankie is referred to with neutral pronouns in all languages, as requested by the American licensors, even in those languages when there are no official neutral pronouns, such as Spanish or French, causing in those cases to resort to unofficial ones instead.
• Queer Colors: G3 Frankie is nonbinary and their color palette features a lot of blue, white, and pink in reference to the colors of the trans pride flag.
• Queer Establishing Moment: G3 features two to establish their nonbinary gender identity, which is uncommon in media, and a change from older incarnations of the character.
  • Their intro music video "Sparked to Life" features a brief section in the second chorus with the lyrics "It's 'they' for me, not 'he' or 'she'/'Cause labels ain't a thing for me".
  • Frankie's introduction in the series sees them introducing themselves in an assembly with their pronouns.
• Really Was Born Yesterday: Frankie in G1 and G3 was created only about two weeks before the start of the narrative, with this extremely short life story serving as a comical monster explanation for her/their naivete and excitement about the world. G1 Frankie's function as the protagonist and entry viewpoint character makes it even more integrated into her personality. G2 downplays it by having her being a few months old but to a similar effect.
• Scary Stitches: Naturally. Even her Generation 1 and 2 pets have them: first Watzit, then a nameless stitched-up teddy.
• Sense Freak: In generation 1: with all the basic intelligence of the average 15-year-old yet little experience outside, everything is new to her and she wants to experience it all. She learns more over time. Generation 2 has her as 115 days old at the start, with more time to process things between her creation and entrance into the story.
• Ship Tease: With both Jackson and Holt in Generation 1— twice! They sort of got together, took a break so the boys could sort out their issues, and were teasing toward reuniting before the nullification of the Generation 1 canon. Generation 3 now sets them up in a possible relationship with Cleo.
• Shock and Awe: Powered by electricity, and can use it in many ways—for example, in direct combat with jumper cable clamps on her bolts while standing on a metal floor.
• Shout-Out: Her Gaga look is based on the rococo-esque hairstyle Gaga sported at the Brit Awards in 2010.
• Stage Magician: Her role in the Freak Du Chic, where her independent body parts come in handy for the separation cabinet.
• Stock Shoujo Heroine: In G1, Frankie is the new ghoul in school who's kind, compassionate, sweet and loves to help others. She's also clumsy to the point where she literally falls apart, isn't as knowledgeable as her friends due to only being 15 days old and has the most Love Interests out of all her friends. For bonus parts, her sense of style is akin to a school uniform.
• Symbol Motif Clothing: Bolts, both of metal and lightning. Her Scarily Ever After doll has a heavy sewing motif, including needles, thread, and scissors.
• Tomboyish Name: Helps the pun.
• True Blue Femininity: Frankie is a Stock Shoujo Heroine and cyan blue tends to be a part of her otherwise monochromatic color palette, and even her main one in most of her outfits.
• Twofer Token Minority: G3 Frankie is nonbinary and has a prosthetic leg.
• The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: Well, her father is Frankenstein's Monster.
• Yellow Lightning, Blue Lightning: Both colors of lightning feature frequently in her outfits, sometimes both in the same ensemble.
• Younger than She Looks: Despite looking like a teenager, at the beginning of the series proper, she's 15 days old. Then, her age was listed as "How many days has it been now?". In G2, she's 115 days old, but G3 brings them back to starting out at 15 days old.

In G2, she's lived a long time with only her father; and along with Frankie, Clawdeen, Clawdeen's family, and Dracula, she builds Monster High. She also has her vampire powers from the start. She's still sweet, slightly ditzy, and vegetarian.

In G3, she is the legitimate daughter of Count Dracula and his Taiwanese vampire wife named Wei Fang. Draculaura now has an interest in sorcery and has lost her ditzy persona from previous generations, having become more calm and level-headed. She is one of the best students (if not the best) at Monster High, and she's also an activist. In addition, while she turns 1600 in the live-action movies, the series ages her down to 1500.

• Adaptational Badass: G3 gives her all her vampire powers from the beginning, witchy magic she learned in secret, and more frequent action scenes.
• Adaptational Jerkass: She was a sweet and fun-loving Genki Ghoul in the first two generations, whereas she's more sarcastic and aloof in Monster High: The Movie. The animated series restores her fun and sweet personality, although she's still as serious.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: In the first two generations, Draculaura's hair was black with royal pink streaks. G3 makes it a half-and-half style, with one side black and one side pink. The pink in her hair is also a bit lighter. Her eyes are purplish-pink instead of greyish-lavender, and her heart-shaped beauty mark is also black instead of pink.
• Afraid of Blood: Draculaura has a tendency to faint even at the mere mention of blood.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: Her skin is light pink, with a hot pink heart birthmark on her left cheek.
• The Atoner: Her diary actually implies that she is one. When her dad tells her that he wishes she'd return to "proper" vampire ways, she writes that she is resolved to never go back to how she was before.
• Breakout Character: It's amazing how much merchandise she gets from the official company and how many fan works she gets from the fanbase.
• Cannot Keep a Secret: Frequently. This is exploited mentally by the ghouls to set up Scarah and Invisi Billy, since both are scared that Scarah's telepathic powers will make fools out of them. Clawd tells Billy that Scarah has a date in the cemetery, and Cleo tells Draculaura that Billy has a date in the cemetery, knowing that once she sees Scarah, the latter will pick up on her thoughts about the supposed date. It works, leaving Draculaura totally confused when Scarah and Billy are seen walking together the following day.
• Cheery Pink: Covered in pink from head to toe and a very cheerful, upbeat person.
• Cherry Blossom Girl: Her Monster Exchange ensemble has shades of this, with her typical pink in her hair, and her outfit inspired by various elements of traditional Japanese dress including a cherry-blossom branch with bats instead of flowers and blossom patterns on her outfit.
• Consistent Clothing Style: Draculaura's look is designed to reflect a sweet, feminine goth look with pink and black accents and often includes some masculine or formal or older-fashioned touches to reflect a modernized version of her father's attire.
• Cute Little Fangs: She never uses them to suck blood, though.
• Cute Witch: G3 Draculaura is learning magic in secret, and she is certainly adorable.
• Damsel in Distress: Many times.
• Dangerous 16th Birthday: 1600th birthday, in her case.
  • In Why Do Ghouls Fall In Love?, she is put under a spell by her ex-boyfriend Valentine to have her heart stolen by him for eternity before her Sweet 1600.
  • In Monster High 2, once her Sweet 1600 hits and she comes of age at midnight, not only is she old enough to cast "The Voice of Eternal Peace", but also "The Voice of Eternal Rest" — the mortality curse which will permanently kill off all vampires, including herself.
• Dark Horse Victory: In "Talon Show", a webisode mainly focusing on Cleo and Clawdeen going to huge measures to score a role in a play, she gets the part at the end. And does pretty well.
• A Day in the Limelight: She's the main star in "Frights, Camera, Action", and the plot centers around us learning some of Draculaura's history.
• Daywalking Vampire: Subverted in G1, where Draculaura was regularly seen out in daylight, but only through wearing a thick coat of powerful sunblock. It's played straight in G2, which is in line with the representation of vampires in Dracula.
• Deuteragonist: Ostensibly, through marketing domination, multiple specials dedicated hugely to her, her own collector's edition doll, and promotion to the face of the franchise in 2016. She and Frankie even shared a Surprise Party in the Volume 1 webisode "Party Planners".
• The Ditz: To a very large degree, but she can occasionally show insight. She doesn't have this trait in G3.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: Many of her outfits show degrees of this, with spooky touches like a bat-shaped ruffled collar or a spiderweb-patterned mermaid dress.
• Exotic Eye Designs: Her Sweet Screams design includes heart-shaped pupils.
• Facial Markings: Her Dance the Fright Away release gives her a Lizzie Hearts-esque pink heart around her right eye.
• Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: Draculaura certainly comes across as one.
• Fun with Acronyms: Her newsletter "V.A.M.P." — "Vampires Advocating Meatless Protein."
• Genki Girl: In the beginning, she was super flighty and hyper, but she's a little mellower now.
• Girlish Pigtails: A signature of Draculaura's in G1 and G2, used to highlight her sweet and excitable personality and featured in her signature designs for each generation. G3 averts this, with Draculaura's personality changing to be less peppy and pigtails staying out of her looks. Her second G3 signature design brought back the pigtails with an ensemble that adapts the G1 signature design.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Draculaura is one of the more girly characters among the main cast, as she has a sweet, bubbly and emotional personality, is predominantly pink (in both her clothes and physical appearance) and has a lot of stereotypical teen interests such as magazines, the latest trends, gossip and especially boys, but some of her outfits have masculine influences, like her signature look and her collector doll. She also willingly did roller-skating in Friday Night Frights (unlike Cleo), her only problem being that she's easily the weakest player.
• Goth Girls Know Magic: She has a gothic aesthetic and is a magic user in G3.
• Granola Girl: Vegetarianism is a big part of her character, but with a passion for legendary shopping sprees and luxury items, she's far from a dirty hippie.
• Happily Adopted: As revealed in her second edition diary, by Dracula. And later on also by his wife, Ramoanah.
• Heroic Bastard: Camilla and Gaius never wed, making her this in G1.
• Hidden Depths: Draculaura's 2nd edition diary began to go into her Dark and Troubled Past—her father, rather than the Dracula we know, is an even older master vampire (Bram Stoker's villain was a less powerful upstart who used her father's name to impress and terrorize locals till he fell prey to Laser-Guided Karma), who took in Draculaura (perhaps just Laura then) and her mother "when no one else would" over a thousand years ago. The brief diary for her collector doll provided a timeline— her father was the Roman soldier Gaius who fell in love with her mother Camilla, but he died in battle before she was born. Dracula, having known and been friends with Gaius' great grandfather moved his home to Dacia and took Camilla in. Draculaura was named in his honor at birth. In the year she turned 16, a plague swept the village they lived in and claimed Camilla's life. Fearful to lose Draculaura as well, Dracula turned her into a vampire. The collector's edition diary even describes her as a riddle.
• I Love You, Vampire Son: A platonic example. Dracula cares a lot about her, and lets her have whatever makes her happy—even if he doesn't completely approve of some of her less orthodox life choices.
• Joshikousei: In "Sayonara Draculaura", she gets a Sailor Fuku at the Shibooya exchange school—matching all the students there, natch. Sailor-type outfits also include her Skull Shores swimsuit and Shriek Wrecked dress.
• Kid-Appeal Character: Cute, cheerful, and iconically designed.
• Let Me Get This Straight...: In Boo York, Boo York after Pharaoh's big performance, she rattles off one of these as a run-on paragraph. True to form for MH's resident Motor Mouth.
  Draculaura: So let me see if I've got this right. First Deuce breaks up with Cleo. Then Cleo decides to do that comet ceremony thing with Seth Ptolemy. But Seth is all like, "Nope, never mind, and by the way, I'm that rapper Pharaoh and (makes gang signs) I want to fang out with Catty Noir." And now you're saying that this party is completely out of King Tutankrab-rolls? (crying noise)
• Mayfly–December Romance: She's 1600 and dating a mortal werewolf, who's only 18.
• Meaningful Name: Laura is from the Roman laurel, meaning peace. Draculaura is a uniquely peaceful vampire—fully vegetarian and kind to a fault, despite her sad past and fearsome forebears. Also, the Romans held laurel crowns as a prize for winners, making her name mean 'Winner' too.
• Military Brat: Her birth father and adoptive father both were in the Roman army. The former died in battle.
• Missing Mom: Camilla, who died of The Black Death. Draculaura now has a not-wicked stepmother (Ramoanah) as of "Draculaura and the New Stepmomster". In the G3 continuity, her parents are divorced and she lives with her dad, though her mom does appear in the animated series.
• Motor Mouth: While they're driving to school, she puts Clawd to sleep with a gossip tirade.
• Mythology Gag:
  • She fuses with Robecca in Freaky Fusion, as they share a Victorian fashion influence and both were actually alive during that time period.
  • G3 Draculaura's signature doll includes a bottle of SPF 500 sunscreen in a direct rerelease of a G1 accessory.
• Nice Girl: In all generations, Draculaura's not only fun-loving and cheerful, but she's deeply kind. Examples include when she's at risk of expulsion in "Witch Hitch" yet she refuses to use a spell that would hurt Toralei, and later uses a potion on Toralei to prevent her from spilling Lagoona's secret instead of hers, and in "Nightmare Nightmore" while she's jealous of Abbey stealing the attention off her first Nightmore party, she never takes it out on her or blames her, recognizing that it'd be unfair.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: In Frights, Camera, Action she uses this to distract Stoker from the ghouls, amping up her ditziness.
  Draculaura: Pink's my favorite color. What's yours?
  Stoker: (exasperated sigh)
• Official Couple: With Clawd, in Generation 1.
• Older Than They Look: She's 1599 years old at the beginning of the series proper. A big show was made of her turning 1600 as it was used for both a doll collection/line (Draculaura's Sweet 1600) and was the main event of Why Do Ghouls Fall In Love.
• Only One Name: One of the few characters who has no last name that we know of.
• Our Vampires Are Different: Not too different though, just vegetarian.
• Parasol of Prettiness: Justified in this case, as the sun protection her parasols provide is necessary for her.
• Perky Goth: Just about the happiest gothic Lolita vampire you've ever seen!
• Pink Heroine: G2 makes heavily pink Draculaura into the protagonist's character.
• Pink Means Feminine: She is one of the more girly characters among the main cast, with pink streaks in her hair, predominately pink outfits, and pale pink skin.
• Pointy Ears: Her entire facial design is a bit of a shout-out to Bela Lugosi.
• The Pollyanna: She's got an idealistic view of life that she never lets go of. Considering the Dark and Troubled Past we've gotten glimpses of, that could be her way of dealing with life—letting go of old miseries and looking towards the bright and happy things and the monsters she loves.
• Proper Tights with a Skirt: Her G1 basic outfit looks like fishnets under a miniskirt. They're actually fishnet tights that end right above the boots. Subverted with her G2 basic outfit, a dress, only having tights in its CGI adaptation.
• Race Lift: Generation 3 makes her half-Romanian, half-Taiwanese instead of fully Romanian.
• Related Differently in the Adaptation: In the original G1 series, she was Dracula’s adoptive daughter, born to human parents and turned into a vampire by Dracula to save her life. In G2 and G3, she is Dracula’s daughter by birth.
• A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma: Her collector's edition doll's box describes her as "A riddle wrapped in sweetness inside an infectious laugh".
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: Mostly pink hair, and a really sweet kid.
• Shout-Out:
  • Her Elegant Gothic Lolita style and tattoo-like birthmark on her cheek recall Emilie Autumn.
  • Her backup-dancer doll seen in the "Gaga For Ghouls" video has Gaga's bow-hair style.
• The Smart Girl: Mentioned to be one of the smartest kids in G3.
• Smitten Teenage Girl: Often in Generation 1, a main plot point including her was her various follies with dating—until she became an Official Couple with Clawd.
• Stealth Pun: Her Freak du Chic-themed collector doll sees her performing as an acrobat.
• Stocking Filler: In her "Day at the Maul" fashion pack, the skirt comes with black stockings over white fishnets.
• Super-Scream: In her bat form, she can scream loud enough to take someone out.
• Symbol Motif Clothing: Hearts, bows, and bats. Lips will occasionally show up in her outfits, too, due to the association with a vampire's bite.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly Girl (Girly Ghoul?) to Lagoona's Tomboy, in the original ghouls.
• True Blue Femininity: G2 makes light blue the accent color to her standard color scheme.
• Vampire Lolita Archetype: Draculaura fits in some of the traits, being the daughter of Dracula (in this rendition) and being one of the somewhat younger members of the group. She dresses in modern goth Lolita clothing.
• Vampire Vords: She can pronounce her Ws, at least, but she otherwise has a noticeable (and very cute) Hungarian/Romanian accent.
• Vampires Are Rich: Legendarily loaded—coupled with Cleo, it's seen in Scaris: City of Frights that their combined shopping power stacks a wheeled cart to the roof.
• Vegetarian Vampire: Played absolutely straight. She drinks no blood at all.
• Visual Pun: Her Great Scarrier Reef transformation gives her a lower body of webbed tentacles, a feature of the vampire squid.
• Unwitting Pawn: In Monster High 2, where Queen Zamara of the Salem Coven plots to use her to destroy all vampires forever.
• Was Once a Man: Used to be a human girl before being turned into a vampire.
• Weak, but Skilled: Small in normal and bat form, but thanks to evasive maneuvers and selective supersonic screaming, she's a worthy opponent against (for example) murderous acrobatic zombies with serious claws.
• Weaponized Headgear: In the G3, series she has a large hat. Not only is it big enough to protect her from the sun, it also can be used as a weapon.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: In the beginning, she couldn't even say the word blood without fainting (or nearly fainting). As of about Volume 4, this doesn't come up anymore.
• Winged Humanoid: Her Ghoul To Bat doll gives her a large pair of hot pink satin wings, patterned with fanged hearts and bats. The play factor comes from transforming the doll by pulling the top of its dress out and downward, exposing the wings.

Daughter of The Wolf Man. A fashionista and neophyte fashion designer, she's forthright and has a knack for looking into tough situations. Fiercely loyal to her friends, fiercely protective of her friends, and all-around fierce.

In G3, she is the main protagonist who is half-human and half-werewolf, and tries to keep her human side a secret from the other monsters while trying to fit in amongst them in the live-action movie. In the series, she is still half-werewolf and half-human, she discovers her monster self in Monster High and is trying to search for her missing mom.

• Adaptational Badass: Zigzaged in G3. While she is more nerdy than fierce in G3, she is explicitly one of the most powerful werewolves, with a constant demonstration of raw power, strength capable of crushing rocks without effort, crazy agility, and a new werewolf instinct that warns her of danger. G1 Clawdeen was only powerful during the full moon, and even by this, she’s not even close to her G3's power level, or at least enough action scenes.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: G2 added purple streaks to her brown hair, and G3 made them more prominent.
• Adaptation Personality Change: In G1 and G2, Clawdeen is a confident and fierce ghoul who is very self-assured. G3 makes Clawdeen more awkward and significantly less confident than her other counterparts, but still occasionally fierce. This is because, in her G3 background, she was surrounded by humans that made her life miserable (except her dad), in her own words.
• Adaptation Species Change: Downplayed. In G1 and G2, Clawdeen is a full werewolf, but G3 makes her a half-werewolf, half-human hybrid.
• Ascended Extra: As with Twyla, zig-zagged by her Freak du Chic doll: more detailed and different than her minor appearance in said webisodes, but only available at Target. She even became the main protagonist of the franchise, surpassing Frankie, beginning in Generation 3.
• Aww Look They Really Do Love Each Other: She has this with both Clawd and Howleen. They do have spats and fight, but at the end of the day, they all do love each other very much.
• Bespectacled Cutie: G3 gives her glasses.
• Big Sister Instinct: Djinni learns this in "13 Wishes": don't mess with Howleen. And in Welcome To Monster High, it's implied she would've mauled Frankie and Draculaura if they hadn't proved themselves to be monsters, and friendly.
• Broken Pedestal: Moanatella Ghostier was her fashion inspiration until she learned exactly how she'd been keeping her place in the industry.
• Consistent Clothing Style: G1 Clawdeen's fashion is usually on the cutting edge and designed to look bold, confident, and trendy with edgy hair colors and clothing cuts, and fur accents. Clawdeen's looks also feature frequent usage of jewelry that is conspicuously and consistently golden as a subtle nod to werewolves' aversion to silver. Even as her future incarnations lessened her edge, she retains gold accents and fur costume elements as well as experimental hair colors and makeup.
• Cute Little Fangs: Yeah. Not so much in wolf form, where they go full-on More Teeth than the Osmond Family.
• Facial Markings: Green crescents over and under her left eye in her "Dance the Fright Away" release.
• Fascinating Eyebrow: Her reboot dolls all have a slight version of this.
• The Fashionista: Notable in that she views fashion both as an art and in a business sense; she hopes to one day own her own fashion line, and plans her classes accordingly. She aspires to become a fashion designer.
• Femme Fatalons: Which she once used to puncture a casketball just by gripping it too hard.
• Gold Makes Everything Shiny: Few dolls of hers have been released without a gold accent. This is fitting, since there's no way she'd be wearing silver.
• Hairy Girl: The reboot gives Clawdeen some molded fur on her shins and forearms.
• Kaleidoscope Hair: It's explained in-universe that the one benefit of Clawdeen's constantly growing hair is that it allows her to be very experimental with it, so in each doll of hers, her hair undergoes a substantial color change.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: In G1, it's established that this is her family situation, but we only see three siblings in the MH media, all of whom are in the teen range. G2 begins to play it straighter, with Clawd and Howleen returning and several previously-unseen younger siblings being included onscreen and in the toys. If one takes both the dolls and books as canon, she has eleven siblings^note That's Clawdia, Clawd, Howleen, Howie, Howldon, Howlmilton, Clawnor, Barker, Pawla, Weredith, and Packlyn, making her the third of twelve kids. Howleen's diary mentions three unnamed older brothers who have moved out which makes fifteen kids, and Clawdeen the sixth.
• Missing Mom: In G3. The exact circumstances depend on whether you're watching the movie or the cartoon; in the movie, she's all but stated to have died, while in the cartoon, she's been missing for ten years and Clawdeen wants to find out where she went.
• My Instincts Are Showing: Clawdeen can sometimes react like a typical wolf, e.g. howling when excited or growling when angry. It's more apparent in the second generation.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: Brother. This with Draculaura and Clawd in the early stages of their relationship, but she's now come to accept it—and nobody's threatening it on her watch.
• Mythology Gag: She fuses with Venus in Freaky Fusion, as both are toothy monsters with a spiky fashion sense.
• Nightmare Fetishist: In the G3 animated series, it's established that despite being raised in the human world and shunned for being a "monster girl", Clawdeen loves all things creepy and spooky. She loves a grave full of skulls and snakes and later hides in it, her reaction to Spectra wailing in her face is pure joy that ghosts are real, and when she sees that the ice cream is made of eyeballs, she's overjoyed.
• Nobody Touches the Hair: She is adamant about being her own hair stylist, and does a very good job.
• The Nose Knows: It comes with being a werewolf. The phrase is even a family catchphrase.
• Official Couple: With Toralei in the IDW comics.
• Our Werewolves Are Different:
  • While Clawdeen's features are consistently wolflike, she usually keeps her animalistic side under control... except during the full moon (when she becomes more daring and energetic than usual). "Fur Will Fly" showed her using this transformation to beat Heath Burns (he didn't know that day was a full moon, and it gave her super-speed, beating him even with his head start).
  • Welcome To Monster High gives her a real wolf form, and shows she can switch between a wolflike girl and an actual wolf.
  • Gen 3 seems to have made her half-human/half-werewolf allowing her to shift to a fully human appearance (in the animated series, this can be done through her moonclaw talisman, but in the movies it's mostly done out of anxiety). Ironically this makes her more like traditional werewolves who are able to do so in most myths.
• Race Lift: She is Afro-Latina in G3.
• The Rival: At first with Cleo, but they got over it.
• Shout-Out: Her hairstyle on her Gaga doll is the soda-can rollers seen in Telephone.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: She has yellow eyes and is a werewolf.
• Symbol Motif Clothing: Crescent moons, bones, and/or animal print patterns feature in almost every outfit she wears.
• This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: The live-action movies' adventures are tailored so Clawdeen's ability to shift into human form comes in handy.
• Traumatic Haircut: In Clawd's first release diary it's revealed she once accidentally snipped all of her hair off. It grew back quickly, but it still left her pretty down. Draculaura even suggested she and Frankie cut all their hair off too in solidarity... until Frankie reminded her that, unlike werewolves, their hair would take a much longer time to grow back.
• Unusual Ears: Wolf ears, on top of her head.
• Zipperiffic: This is occasionally a theme in her outfits.

Daughter of the Sea Monster. A level-headed and laid-back character, Lagoona spends most of her time in the water (either in the ocean or the school's swimming pool) and is the gang's resident surfer ghoul and school swim captain. Amiable and helpful to almost everyone, she usually has to ground her friends if they get carried away. As a saltwater monster, she frequently has issues with her freshwater boyfriend Gillington "Gil" Webber, because of his parents' prejudice towards her.

• Adaptational Badass: While in G1 she was mostly a talented swimmer, G2 gives her super speed on land and water for some reason. G3 is giving her more abilities, such as aqua kinesis, super agility, keen senses, communication with sea creatures, and many shark-like teeth. In G3 she's also the fiercest monster in the school.
• Adaptation Dye-Job:
  • Generation 2 makes her eyes cyan instead of green.
  • Generation 3 makes her scales pink with some translucent blue parts, making her name a tad ironic. Her eye color is also hazel this time, and her hair is now mostly pink and blue instead of blonde with blue streaks.
• Adaptation Personality Change: In G1 and G2, Lagoona is generally a laidback, friendly and sporty ghoul. In G3, Lagoona is instead a Cute and Psycho romantic who loves fairy tales and telenovelas.
• Animal Motifs: G1/G2 Lagoona is a more generic fantasy fish person, but G3 Lagoona has tropical colors and sometimes shows fangs, which make her feel specifically like a human/piranha blend.
• Awesome Aussie: She fits this trope in G1 and G2.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Howleen makes a wish to turn her into a freshwater monster in 13 Wishes, which eventually causes her to become this.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Portrayed as a spacey ghoul who (literally) bathes in moisturizer in the anime adaption.
• Consistent Clothing Style: Lagoona's fashion trends toward sporty activewear and in collaboration with her monster type, features a lot of mesh/fishnet elements even in some of her more glammed-up looks.
• Cool Big Sis: To three younger brothers and a sister.
• Cute and Psycho: In Generation 3. She'll be a sweet, down-to-earth ghoul one minute, then squeeing about cannibalism the next.
• Day in the Limelight: The spring 2016 CG special Great Scarrier Reef has her as the main character.
• Ear Fins: Lagoona was the first, but far from the last, doll to have fishy fins in the place of her ears.
• Facial Markings: Aquamarine sea stars on her right eye in her "Dance the Fright Away" release.
• Fish People: Since fish monsters are an iconic horror trope, a fish ghoul was a must for the OG 6.
• Former Friend of Alpha Bitch: Used to be friends with Kala, and until they talked things out at the end of the Great Scarrier Reef, she was Lagoona's worst nightmare.
• Grin of Audacity: In the G3 animated series, she has a tendency to show off her teeth this way. When a (supposed) human crashes onto the stage and everyone else is fleeing in fear, she just grins as if itching for a fight.
• I'm a Humanitarian:
  • Implied in the first episode of the G3 animated series. When Clawdeen (in her human form) is shown in front of the monsters, everybody ran in terror of a human in the school, except for Lagoona, who had a... voracious look on her face. Her Slasher Smile does not help.
  • An episode from G3 has her telling Twyla her backstory, and how her family separated by an argument over what they would eat for dinner. One option was a human sunbather.
• Improbable Hairstyle: Her Dawn of the Dance hairdo includes a gigantic fish-fin mohawk.
• In Love with Love: Lagoona's defining trait in Generation 3. She loves romance, and wants herself and her peers to have epic love stories like in her favorite telenovelas. However, those telenovelas are marketed for sea monsters, and include a lot of monsters eating each other.
• Light-Haired Swimmer: Blond and associated with water. G3 is pastel pink and blue.
• My Greatest Failure: As a kid, she was passionate about dancing and won several awards. Then, thanks to Kala tying up her shoelaces in a fit of jealousy, she froze up at a crucial moment of a performance in front of almost every resident of the Great Scarrier Reef. This incident spurred her on to leave the Reef for Monster High, gave her intense stage fright, and made her refuse to dance in public for years.
• My Greatest Second Chance: Posea's the cause of this, dragging her back to the Reef with her magic to overcome her fear... which is so bad it's wilting her "sea lifeline", or the flower representing her lifeforce.
• New-Age Retro Hippie: The aesthetic of her "Beach Beasties" doll, which bears great resemblance to Viperine Gorgon, who was released later.
• The Nose Knows: As a Gill Woman and sea monster, in G3 she has a keen sense of smell. She can smell Abbey's fear, and smelled Draculaura's saliva in one of her childhood toys. Take note that Draculaura is 1500 years old.
• Official Couple: With Gil, and the second oldest one next to Cleo and Deuce.
• Only Sane Woman: Lagoona is the most down-to-earth, level-headed member of the main group. Also in the videogame New Ghoul in School, she's the only one in the Council besides the Player Character who stays un-cursed, and the de facto leader of the un-cursed students.
• Pass Fail: In Generation 1, at least, she's actually half ocean nymph, half sea monster. However, she is only called "Daughter of the Sea Monster" and she isn't treated as a Hybrid during Freaky Fusion by her classmates, but is sympathetic towards the Hybrids. Thus, unless Mattel just forgot, it can be assumed that she's passing as a one-race monster.
• Performance Anxiety: She was humiliated as a child, and now freezes up every time she goes onstage. Thank Kala for it.
• Race Lift: In G1 and G2, she was a pale blonde Australian ghoul whose dad was implicitly Māori, suggesting a half-Polynesian Australian background. In Generation 3, she is a Latina ghoul from Honduras.
• Scary Teeth: G3 gives Lagoona a mouth full of sharp shark-like teeth.
• Shout-Out: Her Zomby Gaga music video design has hair and a headband evocative of Gaga's looks in Judas and Telephone.
• Stocking Filler: In her basic outfit, she wears fishnet stockings.
• Super-Speed: Post-reboot, she has this even on land and on her skateboard.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Tomboy to Draculaura's Girly Girl (Girly Ghoul?).
• Tsundere: G3 Lagoona describes herself as the perfect mix of sweet and sour, fierce but also kind. She's got a mouthful of Scary Teeth that can filet a fish in a snap of a fin, but she also accepts all monsters regardless of stereotypes.
• Youthful Freckles: Emphasizing her spacey and amped-up nature.

Daughter of the Mummy, here Ramses De Nile by name. Resident Alpha Bitch and head of the fearleading squad, she's known mostly for her wealth and icy personality at school. In truth, she's quite sensitive and down to earth, but has been groomed to think of herself as better than everyone else.

In G2, she's a Lovable Alpha Bitch from the start, found by the ghouls in her tomb.

In G3, she's the daughter of powerful royal mummies, who is now kind-hearted, but still a bit of a drama queen and close friend to the ghouls in Monster High. She now has a crush on Frankie.

• Adaptational Badass: In G3. She does not depend on amulets now, and she gets some great scale powers, such as flying, levitating, and casually unleashing a cursed giant plague of scarabs, weather manipulation, and magic storms. Her musical video has her making a curse spell, in the form of purple magic energy from her hand.
• Adaptational Nice Girl: G2 gives comparatively off her Rich Bitch tendencies, although she is still a bit egocentric.
  • She is, even more, this in G3. Despite still being a drama queen and egocentric, she is no longer classist, elitist, and temperamental, as she becomes one of the kindest ghouls in the school. She constantly searches for followers, but she serves as an important emotional support to characters such as Clawdeen and Frankie, her treatment of the other ghouls is generally affectionate, is described as a mummy with a big (removable) heart, and she can give away her heart and feelings to help rescue Clawdeen's lost mom to get one of the necessary amulets, although Frankie made an improved replacement to both with a heart-form rock made by them.
• Adaptational Sexuality: Presumably heterosexual in G1 and G2, while G3 gives her Ship Tease with the non-binary Frankie.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: G3 changed her eyes from blue to gold, and added turquoise and royal blue streaks to her hair.
• Arranged Marriage: In Boo York, Boo York Ramses and Nefera attempt to manipulate her into one with Seth Ptolemy, named a promise ceremony.
• Big Bad: Of the first TV Special and the first half of the Volume 1-webisodes.
  • Totally evited in G3, where she is one of the kindest monsters around.
• Characterization Marches On: Has what might be the strongest and most consistent development of any character in the series.
• Consistent Clothing Style: Cleo's fashion sense draws heavily from Ancient Egypt and almost always has a very high-fashion spin on it to emphasize her class, wealth, age, and position as a queen bee among her peers.
• Cool Crown: She'll occasionally wear Egyptian tiaras, such as in her Boo York and Music Class dolls.
• Coordinated Clothes: Done subtly with her Boo York, Boo York two-pack release, where she reflects Deuce's outfit with the snakes on her shoes.
• Cruel Cheerleader: Head fearleader of the squad.
• Empty Eyes: G3 Cleo's dolls have blue pupils to make her eyes look faded and undead.
• Establishing Character Moment: Her G2 "Meet The Ghouls" video has her hosting a talk show, with herself as the guest. Naturally, there's a bit of ego-fanning back-and-forth between host Cleo and guest Cleo, but she does take a moment to give a genuinely heartwarming shout-out to her friends, which perfectly illustrates her character.
• Facial Markings: Besides her regular crystal-shaped left birthmark under her left eye, she gets five more diamond-shaped ones under her right in her "Dance the Fright Away" release.
• Family Honor: Most of the more ambitious things Cleo does is because she feels obliged to as a De Nile.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: "Freaky Fridate" has this happen with Ghoulia when she accidentally touches one of Daddy's idols that Ghoulia's also holding.
• Gold Makes Everything Shiny: Not a doll release of hers without a gold accent, and her favorite color (shared with Clawdeen) is gold. Her reboot wrappings are also slightly gold, to tell from her skin.
• Grapes of Luxury: Her favorite food is grapes, and this is how she prefers to eat them.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: To go with her Jerk with a Heart of Gold, Cleo takes this to the highest level by having actual streaks of gold in her basic look's otherwise brown hair. All of her doll releases flaunt a splash of gold hair.
• Harp of Femininity: Her Music Class release gives her a copper-toned one that resembles a row of teeth. The upper row can be removed to reveal an oversized comb for the owner to use.
• Heel–Face Turn: Cleo started out as a bit of a snob/bully and the series' Big Bad, but has progressed into a supportive friend, especially in the Breather Episode about Ghoulia and Dead Fast. She is now a part of the Original Ghouls, and has gone from Alpha Bitch to Lovable Alpha Bitch for good.
• Hidden Depths:
  • At first a Straw Character antagonist, her vulnerabilities and insecurities have now come to light. She's proud and domineering, but she's truly a princess of the people. In Boo York, Boo York, it's shown in her heart that she knows as a queen-to-be, she must give the people what they want.
  • As of Season 3, she treats all of her friends as she does Ghoulia - caring and compassionate but still dominant.
  • The diary included in her 'Gloom and Bloom' release is a richly detailed account of her backstory and how her family came to be in their current form.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Her growth in becoming a nicer person comes to a head when she sends all ten-thousand of her royal servants to the comic auction that Ghoulia couldn't attend in order to win said comic for her. But, of course, the comic is slipped to Ghoulia discreetly, and Cleo tells the other ghouls not to let this info get around and ruin her rep.
• Icy Blue Eyes / Innocent Blue Eyes: Her sky-blue eyes accentuate her ice queen personality, but also play up her kindness of heart and anxiety about her role. The latter is shown extensively in Boo York, Boo York.
• Instant Knots: Post-reboot, she can use her wraps in this way—full body wrap style.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Cleo can be quite stuck-up and mean to the ghouls, but is also happy to help them when there is a problem. She "secretly" thanks Ghoulia for all her help by getting her the rare Dead Fast comic.
• The Lancer: She has connections.
• Large Ham: She is extremely dramatic and overacts all of her tribulations. There's a reason she's the "undead diva".
• Lovable Alpha Bitch: Cleo acts egocentric and temperamental, but when push comes to shove, she's a kind and loyal friend.
• Meaningful Name: "De Nile" sounds like "denial", fitting for her original Never My Fault attitude and superiority.
• Missing Mom: Crosses with Chekhov M.I.A.: Robecca finds her in her SDCC diary! For this, Cleo's indebted to Robecca.
• Mummy: Cleo is the brand's primary representation of this classic horror monster, and her depiction as a mummy has become gradually more "undead" across the reboots.
  • In G1, she could be taken as a living human without the context of her clothing's bandage motifs. Despite this, she is still the most "human-like" of the ghouls, lacking powers and using amulets, that is closest with the first gothic representation in novels of mummies.
  • G2 added bandages sculpted onto her dolls' limbs and showed Cleo being able to control bandages to ensnare people and move around.
  • G3 retained these while also giving her dolls' eyes deadened blue pupils and showing in the fiction that Cleo's organs have been removed in embalming, as she keeps her still-beating heart in a canopic jar. G3 Cleo is closest to the traditional "monstrous undead" mummy, giving her powers as curses, magic storms, and plagues.
• Official Couple: With Deuce pre-G3. Also with Clawd offscreen, prior to the start of G1's story.
• Oh, Crap!: She's given some of the series' more notable examples.
  • In "A Scare of a Dare" Frankie texts some boys "Party at my house, spread the word." Cleo laughs, disbelieving, and says that Frankie's parents will freak out when all those people show up at their house. "My house?" says a puzzled Frankie. "Cleo, it was your phone." Cleo grabs the phone, realizes Frankie was right—and Cleo's eyes go wide with dread as she goes, "Oh no."
  • "Freakout Friday" showed a bigger one when Ghoulia, who Cleo gave the Amulet of Knuck'n'nothin' to, is gone. Since the amulet protected the wearer and those with her, Cleo thought Ghoulia would stay close to her, thus keeping Cleo safe. Realizing she's gone, Cleo realizes she's just as much a target as the others.
• Oh, My Gods!: Due to being of Egyptian heritage, she often replaces "God" with "Ra".
• Older Than They Look: Pre-reboot, she's listed as 5843 years old, "give or take a couple". Post-reboot, she's 3357 (according to the website) or 6000 (according to her intro webisode) years old. Give or take a couple, indeed.
• Pest Controller: G3 Cleo has a small army of scarabs hidden in her wrappings for whatever she needs, whether it's threatening people with a curse or picking up her dropped eye scream.
• Rich Bitch: An afterlife's worth of royal reserve cash, and royal haughtiness.
• Royal Brat: Egyptian heritage, folks! This behavior was drilled into her by her father whom she was entombed with for several thousand years. She's gotten much better, though.
• Seductive Mummy: When not royally pissed, she can be sultry, glamorous and romantic.
• Shout-Out: Her Gaga doll is based on the Poker Face era, with the long hair and bangs seen in Gaga's earlier videos.
• Spare to the Throne: She's next in line to Nefera. G3 Cleo even makes a joke about "accidents" at one point.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: Cleo's eyes are golden in G3 to emphasize her non-human nature.
• This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: While she normally relies on Ghoulia for their school projects, her Egyptian background makes her a perfect fit for the mad science project she and Ghoulia do about perfumes. Unfortunately, Ghoulia feels unneeded and sidelined for the first time, and Cleo needs to go and build her confidence.
• Took a Level in Kindness: From a narcissistic, self-serving Alpha Bitch antagonist to a generous, loyal true leader.
• True Blue Femininity: She exudes it more than the others.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: Exemplified in Ghouls Rule! and Boo York, Boo York, where she demonstrates that she really doesn't want to let her father Ramses down.

Son of Medusa, and co-captain of the casketball team with Clawd Wolf. In a sometimes tumultuous but still strong relationship with Cleo De Nile, and they occupy the spot of the school's premier power couple.

• Adaptation Dye-Job: G3 changed his skin from a natural peach color to a more monstrous lime green. His eyebrows have also changed from brown to green to match his snake hair.
• Blessed with Suck: Take a guess. Nowadays, he is able to control it so it wears off after 24 hours. When he was a kid he accidentally stoned his pet dragon, Smokey. The effects are supposed to wear off on the event's anniversary, 👁 This example contains a YMMV entry. It should be moved to the YMMV tab.
  but Deuce doesn't know which one.
• Break-Up Song: "It Can't Be Over" in Boo York, Boo York, after Nefera goads him into breaking up with Cleo.
• Cool Shades: He wears them at all times so he doesn't accidentally turn anyone into stone. For his dance outfit in Welcome to Monster High, his masquerade mask takes the form of these.
• Coordinated Clothes: Not overt, but his Boo York, Boo York release reflects Cleo's outfit with an Egyptian collar print on his shirt.
• Curtains Match the Window: He has green, serpentine pupils.
• Cute Little Fangs: Welcome to Monster High gives him these.
• Disappeared Dad: Deuce's dad is not involved in his life, and his mom Medusa apparently doesn't like talking about him.
• Exotic Eye Designs: Serpentine pupils, and G2 adds diamond-shaped eye reflections.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: At the end of "Freaky Fridate" after a kiss from Ghoulia-as-Cleo swaps him with Slo Mo.
• Gorgeous Gorgon: A male example. He's very humanoid, but he has the snake hair, serpentine eyes, and, as the Dawn of the Dance artwork shows, a forked tongue. G3 gives him green skin, but he is still depicted as attractive.
• Half-Human Hybrid: According to 👁 This example contains a TRIVIA entry. It should be moved to the TRIVIA tab.
  Word of God, In G1 Deuce's father was a normie, thus making Deuce a gorgon-human hybrid.
• Hidden Depths: He's more sensitive than he initially seems.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: In Boo York, Boo York, he's coaxed into breaking up with Cleo by Nefera to ensure the creation of the De Nile-Ptolemy Dynasty, wrongly thinking this will make Cleo happy. They're back together by the end of the movie.
• Mistaken for Cheating: Cleo thinks he's cheating with Operetta when she sees both of them leaving the catacombs. When it's proven this is not the case, Cleo insults Operetta anyway, causing Operetta to invoke this a second time.
• Morality Pet: He is one to Cleo. She loves him and treats him with respect. This was prevalent even before she Took a Level in Kindness.
• Multiple Head Case: In Generation 3, each one of his seven snake heads can talk, with personalities based on the seven deadly sins.
• Official Couple: With Cleo.
  Deuce: We're Cleo and Deuce, and nothing will ever change that.
• The One Guy: Not for the franchise as a whole, and in the story, not really one of the main characters, but across the three generations of the franchise, Deuce has always been the top-billed male character marketed like the only male member of the core cast. He was the first male doll released in the second and third generations.
• Punny Name: A hip name derived from "Medusa". The name might also be derived from the Greek name Deucalion.
• Taken for Granite: He's able to do this with a glance, but those petrified are only in that state for 24 hours, they're indestructible and perfectly safe during that time, and they remain fully aware so they don't miss anything while petrified.
• Theme Naming: In G3, his snakes are named after The Seven Deadly Sins, each with the appropriate personality quirks.
• Took a Level in Dumbass: Deuce's characterization progressively became less a balance of jock & scholarly qualities and more of a surfer stereotype, seemingly out of nowhere.
• Totally Radical: Played straight starting in Season 3.
  Nefera: Daddy says he's a slacker, his hair's too long, and he says dude like every other word!
• Understanding Boyfriend: It definitely takes a saint-like patience to handle an Egyptian princess for a ghoulfriend, especially during said princess' less-than-mellow days.
• Unmanly Secret: Secretly loves to cook, and pretends to hate Culinary Arts class. He even made his own Greek vegan recipe.

Daughter of the Zombies. Despite only being able to speak zombie, she's widely known as the smartest ghoul in school. She is also Cleo's best friend (and all-around personal assistant).

• Adaptation Dye-Job: Her skin is gray in G1, but in G3, it’s pale green instead.
• Adventurer Outfit: In her SDCC 2017 two-pack with Cleo, she wears one to excavate the tomb.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: She's a very light grey in Generation 1, and a pale green in Generation 3.
• Attractive Zombie: Is very cute for a zombie, with minimal undead traits. If it weren’t for a few clue-ins like her skin tone, she could pass for an ordinary human.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: In "Dodgeskull", she calculates in "Charlie-Vision" how best to take out a group of heckling classmates with a dodgeball. She gets them all and nails the lead heckler a few times for good measure—despite the fact she should have lost the game the moment she dropped the ball.
• Badass Adorable:
  • In the webisode "Unlife to Live", she single-handedly solves ALL the problems in the school, but nobody knows...and she just appears to be sitting around.
  • And in Boo York, Boo York (along with Abbey Bominable), is able to stop Astranova's ship from crashing into Boo York City, averting an Earth-Shattering Kaboom.
• Badass Bookworm: Solves big problems through intelligence, and converted a significant part of the school underbelly into her own personal lab.
• Basement Dweller: Averted for the most part (she's much more intelligent and put-together), though she flirts with the idea, due to her preference for fast food and her Scaris hoodie-dress.
• Beehive Hairdo: Her Love's Not Dead doll has this.
• Consistent Clothing Style: Ghoulia's outfits in both G1 and G3 trend toward the informal to emphasize her geeky qualities. G1 Ghoulia had a fifties/sixties theme with red and blue colors, all reflecting retro cinema and the era of the defining zombie movie. G3 Ghoulia has more of a street-skater theme with bright popping colors that have a different modern-retro feeling.
• Creator Cameo: Named after Julia Phelps, who worked on the original Monster High pitch.
• Curtains Match the Window: Light blue in G1 and a darker blue in G3, both matching her eyes.
• Cute Mute: Only speaks in moans (the Zombie language) but she sure is cute.
• The Dragon: To Cleo. She is this mostly in the first movie and the first season of the webisodes, but with Cleo having a Heel–Face Turn, Ghoulia gradually grows into her own character.
• Eloquent in My Native Tongue: The Zombie language sounds like simple moans and groans, but her written word proves that Ghoulia is downright fluent in Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness.
• Exotic Eye Designs: Her Sweet Screams doll has gummy-worm-textured irises, and her Love's Not Dead doll gives her red reflections in her eyes.
• Fantastic Racism: In her diary, she implies that zombies are not well-liked for being hard to understand and their sluggish behavior. Ghoulia even buys a "Zombies Are Monsters Too" shirt to make a statement, 👁 This example contains a YMMV entry. It should be moved to the YMMV tab.
  but can't bear to wear it openly.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: "Freaky Fridate" has this happen with Cleo when Cleo accidentally touches one of her dad's idols that Ghoulia's holding.
• Frozen Face: Though she can occasionally force a rather pained-looking Un-Smile, a groan, or even, in the case of the webisode "Mad Science Fair," a truly epic Slasher Smile that only manages to dodge as being terrifying as she finally gets back at Cleo for using her.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Not only is she the smartest ghoul in the school, but she once invented a two-story tall trash-to-fuel recycling machine as a Mad Science Fair project. Also, note the comet-stopping.
• Gamer Chick: Not as pronounced as with Kjersti Trollson, but Ghoulia's fond of gaming and regularly gets high scores in a Dead Fast licensed game. She beats Kjersti twice: in an online MMORPG PvP battle, and in the leaderboard for Dead Fast. When Kjersti comes to Monster High to meet her greatest rival, they end up becoming friends over their mutual love of video games. The trait persists in G3—her signature doll is released with a handheld gaming console patterned after the Nintendo Switch.
• Good with Numbers: As one of the series' ghoul geniuses, you bet.
• Hollywood Hacking: Ghoulia can hack anything in a few seconds with her laptop, including satellites. Well, almost anything...she couldn't hack the gossip column to find out who was running it.
• Insistent Terminology: When she has a dream about attending a comic book convention her father wouldn't allow her to, she frowns at the narrator for calling her and the other monsters attending the convention "nerds" and is appeased when the narrator calls them "comic book enthusiasts" instead.
• Intelligible Unintelligible: The zombie language is nothing more than groans, but the other monsters mostly understand her.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Her San Diego Comic-Con exclusive doll is her cosplaying as Dead Fast with a haul of Dead Fast convention merchandise.
• Meaningful Name: It's not just a generic spooky pun on "Julia"—in Night of the Living Dead (1968), the film that made zombies what they are today and which Ghoulia's retro elements also reference, the only designation actually provided to refer to the undead monsters is "ghouls".
• Morality Pet: To Cleo as her best friend: in Fright On! her unconditional friendship makes Cleo tear up. In fact, a moment of kindness toward Ghoulia is the first indication we see of Cleo's character development.
• Mythology Gag: Her Sweet Screams doll is themed after gummy candy, mainly, gummy worms. This ties into her existing worm motif that is associated with decay.
• Nerds Are Sexy: Downplayed. The franchise is non-sexual, but Ghoulia's nerdy element is never portrayed as falling at odds with glamor and beauty, and Ghoulia very consistently keeps her glasses rather than discarding them for more glamorous looks.
• Odd Friendship: Despite Cleo's rather forceful personality, the pair genuinely consider each other best friends. Even before her character development, Cleo's friendship with Ghoulia was a sign of her softer side.
• Official Couple: With Slo Mo.
• Our Zombies Are Different: Ghoulia can't speak anything other than Zombie, but she happens to be the smartest student in school and prefers fast food over brains. Sometimes she might only do one major action, but it makes or saves the day in each episode... and movie.
• Out of Focus: Ghoulia's prominence in G1 was reduced in multiple ways afterward.
  • Mattel attempted to play Ghoulia this way during G2 due to backlash from her character's notable total absence and made promises of her making a big return, but this return was in the form of a single SDCC collector-doll two-pack release that fell in the G1 continuity, and Ghoulia within the context of G2 was Put on a Bus with no evidence she existed in its continuity.
  • None of the 2022 collector-oriented doll lines rereleasing and iterating upon the G1 Original Ghouls (Haunt Couture, Reel Drama, and Boo-riginal Creeproduction) include the full squad of six, but Ghoulia is the only character left out of all three. Ghoulia did get a Creeproduction doll in the second wave alongside Cleo and Deuce, whose original dolls were released simultaneous to Frankie, Draculaura, Clawdeen, and Lagoona's.
  • In G3, Ghoulia is pointedly given a signature release alongside the other Original Ghouls, but she was exclusive to Target and is no longer a core character, with the G3 core cast being just Clawdeen, Draculaura, Frankie, Lagoona, and Cleo. Ghoulia also has few doll releases even for a non-core character, with some other supporting G3 characters like Toralei, Venus, Abbey, and Twyla having more toyline focus and more of a "staple cast" status.
• The Owl-Knowing One: One of the smartest MH characters, and her pet is an owl, Sir Hoots-a-Lot.
• Perverse Sexual Lust: Has a longstanding crush on Dead Fast, a fictional superhero.
• Phrase Catcher: "Ghoulia's right!" Pretty much every one of the main characters has said this at least once.
• Retraux: Her theme is decidedly retro, with cat-eye glasses and bold, simple patterns in her outfits, with dashes of modern and nerd playing into her overall look.
• Shrinking Violet: The shyest among the ghouls.
• The Smart Girl: She's very intelligent, and the others turn to her when something technical needs attention.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: She's defined strongly by her intelligence, and wears glasses as a signature. Even her pet owl wears them in G3!
• Suddenly Voiced: She speaks in full sentences instead of zombie moans in G3.
• Symbol Motif Clothing: Cherries, brains, glasses, bones, worms, and graves.
• Techno Wizard: She's great with that laptop of hers, and made a video game just to decide who she'd date in less than a day.
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  Tuckerization: Named after Mattel employee Julia Phelps, who was on the original team working on Monster High.
• Undeathly Pallor: Ghoulia is a zombie and thus has grey skin.
• Voice for the Voiceless: In the anime adaption, Ghoulia's pet owl, Sir Hoots-a-lot, speaks for her in lieu of zombie moans.

Daughter of The Yeti. A foreign exchange student from the mountains who tends to unintentionally insult other monsters with her awkward grasp of the English language, along with other culture clashes. She often talks about yaks.

• Action Girl: Abbey is one of the most athletic and physically strong ghouls in school.
• Actually Pretty Funny: Part of the reason she likes Heath. While most other monsters get annoyed with his various antics, she genuinely finds him amusing.
• Adaptational Curves: Gets notably curvier in G3, thanks to the more variable models.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: G1 Abbey has pale blue skin, purple eyebrows, and white hair with pink and blue streaks. In G3, her skin is a darker shade of blue, her eyebrows are now dark blue, and her hair is an equal mix of pink, light blue, purple, and cream.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: Her skin is light blue. And sparkly.
• Asian Speekee Engrish: Subverted; people worried she'd end up like this when her diary was released because she's from the Himalayas and speaks broken English, but Erin Fitzgerald gave her a Russian accent instead. When she became South Asian coded in G3, her broken English was dropped.
• As Long as It Sounds Foreign: She often says words that sound Russian but don't even exist in the language and are clearly fake.
• Big Beautiful Woman: She has a notably more curvy body in G3.
• Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: Her monster type. She even is the cousin of Marisol Coxi, the daughter of the South American Bigfoot.
• Bishie Sparkle: If you're wondering, it's ice.
• Big Sister Instinct: She's protective of her friends and won't leave them alone if they're troubled, such as when she goes to comfort Iris after Manny's faux-pas in the creepateria.
• Blue Means Cold: Her skin and hair are blue, matching her ice theming as a yeti.
• Brutal Honesty: She's never afraid to speak her mind.
• Cute Bruiser: Abbey is a white-haired ghoul with fluffy arm and leg warmers, a very slim build... and she can tie a metal horseshoe in a knot with her bare hands.
• Cute Little Fangs: Tusks!
• Deadpan Snarker: Usually less due to actual sarcasm rather than to her personality. See Dull Surprise and Malaproper.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: With Marisol in Monster Picchu. Abbey urges Mari to get to the train for Monster High, but as they become increasingly derailed by their adventures, Abbey starts to have more fun and ends up staying behind for an extra week and taking over Mari's vlog in the meantime.
• Demoted to Extra: Though she was never one of the main characters, she had comparatively larger roles in some movies (like running for school president in 13 Wishes), whereas in other ones, she is only present in the background of certain crowd shots and doesn't even have any lines. She is absent from the Gen 2 fiction altogether.
• Dull Surprise: "Of course I am excited. Can't you tell?"
• Elemental Hair Colors: White and blue, to match her ice powers.
• Exotic Eye Designs:
  • Her Sweet Screams doll has starburst designs on her irises.
  • Her reboot design includes eye reflections shaped like seven-pointed stars.
• Fish Out of Water: Or rather out of ice.
• Hairy Girl: G2 and G3 give Abbey some molded fur on her wrists and ankles, befitting a yeti monster.
• Huge Schoolgirl: Easily towers over most of the rest of the female cast. This is not the case with her G1 and G2 dolls, which are the standard height, but her G3 doll is the tallest in the G3 line so far.
• An Ice Person: She can freeze things with a touch, and she constantly has snowflakes trailing after her.
• Ice Queen: Naturally enough, yet subverted; she just unintentionally gives this impression with her words often being short, sharp, and hurtfully direct. She explains in her profile that this is because talking is "an oxygen waste" in the freezing climate of her native home, causing a lot of them to conserve oxygen and words by being more direct.
• Literal-Minded: Was this when first arriving at Monster High, but has been growing out of it over time.
• Malaproper/Dull Surprise: Due to "Yetish" being her first language and English being her second.
• Misplaced Accent: She's from the Himalayas but has a Russian accent. G3 Abbey no longer sounds Russian, in keeping with a more accurate South Asian Himalayan portrayal.
• Mother Russia Makes You Strong: Her voice and personality fit the trope even though she's supposed to be from the Himalayas.
• My Nayme Is: It's spelled like the monastery, not like "Abby", which might be to make a Stealth Pun on her Himalayan origins.^note Tibet is known for its monastic orders.
• Mystical White Hair: Her dominant color, and she's the daughter of a mysterious snow-beast.
• Mythology Gag: Her Sweet Screams design is ice-cream themed, since she's a cold-weather monster.
• New-Age Retro Hippie: Her Music Festival doll looks like this, with a scarf headband and a flowy top.
• New Transfer Student: For a while.
• Pointy Ears: For an added hint of beastliness.
• Poor Communication Kills: Pretty much her shtick in G1.
• Pretty in Mink: Her basic dress is trimmed with white fur, paired with a white fur headband. Many of her outfits flaunt fur in some way, most likely a holdover from living 24/7 in a mountain range.
• Proud Warrior Race Girl: Subverted: yetis aren't really warrior people, just really tough.
• Race Lift: She goes from vaguely Russian in Generations 1 and 2 to South Asian-coded in G3, likely to more accurately represent Abbey's Himalayan origins.
• Ship Tease: With Heath, bordering on being an Official Couple.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: In spades.
• Values Dissonance: In-Universe. Part of the reason why she's so prone to Poor Communication Kills is that, in the Himalayas, the air is thin and there's not much oxygen, so sentences are as short and to the point as possible to conserve oxygen.
• Worthy Opponent: During the frequent sleepover game of "Gargoyles to Gargoyles," to which she is new, Abbey ignores the ghouls' suggestions to let Cleo win. When Abbey finally wins, Cleo stands up in shock...only to reveal that she's glad she's finally found someone worth playing against, and challenges Abbey to another game.
• You No Take Candle: Her English is slightly broken in G1. The trope is averted in G3 when she’s given a region-appropriate South Asian Race Lift in place of her original Russian accent and appearance.

• Amazing Technicolor Population: White with limbs that become transparent at the extremities.
• Arc Villainess: She's the primary antagonist of the Ghostly Gossip arc in the second season of the webisodes, causing many problems for the heroes/protagonist. However, she's more Obliviously Evil, as she doesn't understand the repercussions of her gossip.
• The Atoner: Implied with the ball-and-chain motif (see Shout-Out). While it isn't clear what her "crimes" may have been, Spectra says in her profile that she "find[s] that it's unhealthy to focus on what one does wrong, especially when contrasted with all the good one does in the unlife."
• Damsel in Distress: She's kidnapped and spends much of the movie as Revenant's hostage in "Haunted."
• A Day in the Limelight: In the special Haunted.
• Exotic Eye Designs: She has purple sclerae to make her especially eerie.
• Ghostly Chains: Every doll of hers heavily features chains and shackles. Her Ghouls' Getaway release gives her chains made out of bamboo links.
• Goth: Likes black, purple, and chains.
• Heel–Face Turn: From a malicious gossip to a dedicated, kind, and heroic trustworthy news source.
• Hidden Depths: In Clawd's first diary, she features as a nuisance twisting rumors to attack him. It's shown in her own first diary with Ghoulia that she actually had a pretty rough familial past, left unclear for now. In the short story that comes with her figure, it's revealed that the reason she became a gossip was to deal with the stress she got from moving schools from Haunted High to MH.
• Invisibility: Well, she is a ghost. It comes in handy when you're the school's resident gossip.
• Malicious Slander: Subverted, and Played With. In the webisode and CG special storyline, Spectra never intended for her gossip column to harm anyone; she was just fascinated by the lives of the other ghouls and wanted to share their exploits with others, but was too shy to ask them for permission... or to ask them for the whole story, leading to a lot of misunderstandings from her only getting pieces of the story and then using her imagination to fill in the rest. In the diary storylines, she's a borderline-pathological liar who doesn't care if what she writes harms others— and gets ticked if people confront her about writing incorrect stories.
• Mysterious Purple: She has a purple color theming to match her mysterious ghostly nature.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: In Haunted, she gives one to Revenant.
• Same Character, But Different: Her doll persona/diary narrative is a stark contrast to her webisode identity - Diary Spectra is malicious, rude, and a pathological liar, while her webisode/TV special identity is actually as soft-spoken and sweet as her profile claims.
• School Newspaper News Hound: Was this as the gossip columnist, and still this now.
• Ship Tease: With Porter Geiss in Haunted.
• Shout-Out: Her ball-and-chain motif is similar to the chains that Jacob Marley's ghost wore as a representation of his earthly sins.
• Shrinking Violet: While her gossip column is famous, Spectra herself is painfully shy. This is further alluded to with her character's mostly-purple color scheme. Following heavy Character Development, she's a lot more outspoken now.
• Technicolor Eyes: Blue with purple sclerae.
• Techno Wizard: Not even Ghoulia can hack into her blog!
• Unreliable Narrator: Being the school gossip hound, she has this in spades. For example, while she claims in her first diary that she was once a royal, there's no way to tell if that's fact or fiction.
• Villainous Cheekbones: Played straight for her diary personality, averted for all other forms of media.
• Vocal Dissonance: You'd expect her to have a snooty voice since she goes around spreading tall tales. Instead, she has a soft, whispery, childlike voice, which highly contrasts with her angular features and chained-up punk style.
• The Von Trope Family: Her surname, with their components separated, would be "Von der Geist." This may or not be credence to her "descendant from nobility" story. Also, she is most likely from Germany.

A werecat who was introduced in the first episode of Volume 2, she's 16 years old and on the first of her nine lives. Her initial story was that when she got tired of Cleo's perfectionist attitude, she and the Werecat Twins left the fearleading squad, and later after seeing how well the squad was doing with Frankie, Draculaura, and Clawdeen, she tried to rejoin only to be rejected by Cleo. In the Monster Mashionals storyline, Toralei leaked the Monster High routine to their rivals Smogsnort's Vampiric Academy as revenge but failed to make them lose. She's later re-inducted to the squad but gets suspended for cheating on a test. She and the ghouls butt heads once more in Why Do Ghouls Fall In Love and Boo York, Boo York...but it doesn't end well either time, thanks to Villain Decay. Now Toralei's just more of an occasional nuisance than an actual threat. Her online bio describes her as the personification of the mean ghoul with a posse.

• Adaptational Nationality: Toralei has an English accent in G3.
• Adaptational Villainy: In G3. In G1, Toralei at least has boundaries, such as not bullying depressed people, making alliances with the ghouls when necessary, and never discriminating against other monsters. G3 does away with these qualities, leaving her an elitist, blackmailer, human hater, and manipulator who thinks everyone should bow down to and praise. Despite seeing herself as an upstanding monster, she undermines anyone she considers lower than her. She is antagonistic to Draculaura, both for being more popular and a closet witch, and she doesn't have a problem with mauling Cleo, despite Cleo being immortal and far more powerful than her.
• Alpha Bitch: Bitchiness scale rating: under Nefera but above Cleo.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: With Valentine in 'Why Do Ghouls Fall In Love?'.
• Bilingual Bonus/Meaningful Name: "Tora" means "tiger" in Japanese.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Based on her artwork, you'd never guess just how malicious she can get.
• British Rockstar: In G3, Toralei is lead singer of her band The Hissfits, and speaks with a London accent.
• Cat Girl: Comes with being a werecat.
• Cats Are Mean: Her crowning moment is stealing Cleo's routine at fearleading camp.
• Cats Hate Water: Being a werecat, she really doesn't like water. Great Scarrier Reef reveals that she can't swim, and she's not at all happy when she gets turned into a mermaid since it means she's surrounded by water.
• Cats Have Nine Lives: Upon seeing the Werecat Twins chasing mice, she describes it as "so three lives ago".
• Cute, but Cacophonic: In G1, she's a cute Cat Girl who really cannot sing. In G3, Toralei is a talented singer, and she's in a band called The Hissfits.
• Damsel in Distress: In "Freaky Fusion," she is trapped in the robot and almost fades into oblivion.
• Dartboard of Hate: In a Freeze-Frame Bonus from Great Scarrier Reef, Toralei is shown to have one of Cleo in her locker, along with two photos with the mummy ghoul's face Removed from the Picture.
• Demoted to Extra: While she still appears in G2, her role as Monster High's main Alpha Bitch has largely been taken by Moanica. The role is returned to her in G3.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Toralei has a habit of taking her revenge schemes too far.
• The Dragon: To Nefera in Boo York, Boo York.
• Dreadful Musician: Her singing voice literally stops traffic. Toralei has a mix of awareness and not-caring on the matter, since she knows in order to win the Fierce Rocker's vote, is by being nice to everyone, but deliberately unplugs the rigged mic that was supposed to auto-tune her voice.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Stopped Nefera from cheating—also partially out of revenge for Nefera's lack of trust in the werecats' fearleading skills. Also, one diary reveals she doesn't find it funny to kick someone while they're down, and is actually a little hurt when accused of being this.
• Fantastic Racism: In G3, she really hates humans and witches, strongly believing they don't belong in the monster world, and she's hellbent on getting Clawdeen (who's half-human) and Draculaura (who's secretly a witch) out of Monster High.
• Fiery Redhead: Very quick to anger when her schemes fail, or she doesn't get what she wants.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Her left ear is notched, probably as a result of a fight.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: Toralei's signature look in both G1 and G3 includes a leather jacket to give her a tough, rebellious edge suiting her role as a bully.
• Hidden Depths: Her diary reveals why she has animosity towards Cleo and showcases her softer side. Not a complete sweetheart, but nicer than one would expect.
• Hypocritical Heartwarming: This is why she participates in the supportive speech about Lagoona in Great Scarrier Reef. She doesn't like Kala picking on Lagoona, but she can.
• Ironic Name: "Lorelei" refers to a siren-like being with a beautiful singing voice. Toralei's singing voice is a horrendous yowl.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Often.
• Official Couple: With Clawdeen in the IDW comics.
• Oh, Crap!: In Boo York, Boo York, she has this when she realizes the ghouls have followed her to Bloodway to retrieve the voice-holding comet crystal.
• Only in It for the Money: Before thinking of taking the voices out of the crystal, the main reason she stole it was for a cash reward.
  Toralei: (singing horribly on the bridge) TORALEEEEEEEEEEEI! GONNA THROW THE CRYSTAAAL IN THE RIVEEER! GONNA GET A LOTTA MONAAAY FROM NE-FE-RAAA!
  [honked at loudly to stop]
• Orange/Blue Contrast: Her Freaky Field Trip and Fierce Rockers dolls play on this, with blue accents contrasting her very orange colors.
• Our Werebeasts Are Different: Toralei is specifically a weretiger, with a catty attitude to match.
• Out-of-Character Moment: In the time period leading up to Catty Noir's charity performance (where a lucky monster is nominated to sing alongside her), she notices that Toralei is being extra nice to everyone. She fails to realize that this is a ploy on Toralei's part to win the popular vote and get a chance to sing with Catty. Another occasion is more serious when she thanks the ghouls for not just ditching her in Scaris, while it is half-heartedly said, she still seems to mean it, and the topic of being left behind makes her sad.
• Passionate Sports Girl: In "Field of Screams," the Ghoul Sports tie-in, she's shown to be an ace at every sport. She's no team player by her own admission and mocks the ghouls initially, but when an opponent tries to say she can't play the claws are out.
• Pet the Dog: During the Mashionals, as mentioned above. Also, her diary relates how she secretly helps a troll ghoul at Math Camp.
• Pungeon Master: She makes at least one cat pun in every webisode she appears in.
• Royal Brat: In Generation 3, Toralei's mother is the current queen of were-monsters. This status goes a long way to explain her selfishness and belief that she's entitled to popularity.
• Small Name, Big Ego: A key trait of hers is that she's afflicted by overconfidence. When it comes to singing, she won't take any substitutions but her own voice, despite its awful sound.
• Tightrope Walking: Her role in the Freak du Chic. Since she has innate feline balance, she's a natural, which she is quick to rub in her struggling fellow performer's faces.
• Unusual Ears: Pointed cat ears on top of her head.
• Verbal Tic: Frequently prefaces things with "mrowww".
• Voice Changeling: One of her special monster talents is perfectly mimicking anyone's voice and inflections. (i.e. she's a copy-cat.)

Heath Burns is a fire elemental, and thus has the ability to use flame. He was at first an extra in the webisode "Substitute Creature" and was shortly introduced as Draculaura's short-lived crush. Heath is a show-off and gets on the ghouls' nerves by being self-centered and insensitive. He's friends with most of the boys. In "Fear Pressure", we learn he is Jackson's cousin.

• Adaptational Species Change: In G1, he's a fire elemental, but a throwaway line in the G3 animated series suggests he's the son of The Devil, and thus likely a demon himself.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: His skin was changed from pale yellow in G1 to orange in G3. His eye color also changed from red to yellow.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: Light yellow skin.
• Amazon Chaser: Has shades of this from his crush on Abbey, who he pursues despite her freezing him solid.
• Ambiguously Brown: His eye shape suggests that he may be of Asian decent.
• Ascended Extra: Initially, he was a bit comic relief character. Although, since he was featured in the Lisi Harrison book series, he was probably never meant to stay an extra.
• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: A fire elemental, with yellow skin, slicked-up red and yellow hair, who mainly wears red, orange, and black or ash-grey.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Anything written from his perspective implies that he has this and it's the source of a lot of his behavior problems. Might have something to do with him being a fire elemental.
• Casanova Wannabe: There's not a ghoul he doesn't think he has a chance with, and he frequently annoys them with his obvious flirtation.
• Class Clown: No stranger to horseplay, or humor. Part of why Abbey likes him.
• Dogged Nice Guy: To Abbey.
  • Also to Frankie in the "Boo Year's Eve" short.
• Elemental Hair Colors: Red and flamed shaped, with fire powers that actually set it aflame.
• Flaming Hair: Literally sometimes, regardless of whether or not he wants it to be. In G3 this is made permanent, which causes some trouble.
• The Fool: Generally has his heart in the right place.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Shades of this; his friends don't actively dislike him, but they've got a low tolerance for his antics.
• Handsome Lech: He's a shameless flirt. Ghouls, while admitting that he is good-looking, will usually not give him the time of day after the first meeting.
• Hidden Depths: In G3, he uses news of the Great Scarrier Reef being endangered to cook creme brulee, not only showing a talent for baking but suggesting he's got some environmentalist tendencies.
• Iron Butt-Monkey: Can't do much to somebody made of fire.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's rude, insensitive, chauvinistic, and can be down right childish at times, but he genuinely cares about his friends.
• Ladykiller in Love: Less "ladykiller", more "shameless flirt". Has this with Abbey. The other ghouls thought he was just messing around when trying to ask her to the dance, but he was actually serious about it.
• Orange/Blue Contrast: His G3 design plays his orange flames against a blue tracksuit.
• Playing with Fire: He can burst into flame.
• Sad Clown: His diary seems to hint at this.
• Ship Tease: With Abbey, bordering on being an Official Couple. His first of two G1 dolls came in a 2-pack with her.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Heath started out as this for Holt, until both characters ended up in all continuities (neither replacing the other) and Heath underwent Cast Speciation to become more of a Butt-Monkey.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: Scaris: City of Frights has him end up in a dress twice as Bookends. He doesn't mind all that much, even enjoying it the second time, but can't get the hang of the heels.