The Neverhood - Characters

Characters

• Klaymen: The main protagonist and player character. He resembles a humanoid clay man with a short brown tube on his head. He has a red shirt with 3 buttons. When he pushes the middle one, a small door in his belly opens revealing a compartment which he uses to store items. He has brown fingers on his right hand and wears brown short shorts and white bare legs. He walks slowly and does not speak at all during the game until he introduces himself to Hoborg in the good ending. However, he does make various grunting noises when performing certain actions, and he screams loudly if you jump down the large drain that drops straight out of the bottom of the Neverhood. The drain is one of the only areas where Klaymen can die.
• Willie Trombone: Klaymen's friend. He has a yellow head with a ring on top, a green shirt, green shoes, big teeth and yellow spikes on his back. He is not very bright and has a tendency to eat what drops in front of him. Despite this, he proves to be a very useful ally.
• Hoborg: The ruler and creator of the Neverhood. He has a red cubic head with a small black mouth which does not move when he speaks, a red rectangular body, brown fingers, white legs and a gold toe on each foot. He has a crown on his head which supports his life force, as demonstrated when Klogg takes it off and puts it on himself. When the crown is put back on his head, he wakes up from his deep sleep.
• Big Robot Bil: A Robot friend of Willie. He is a huge yellow robot with a red tie and 2 left arms and has a good/bad switch inside. His only spoken phrase in-game is "Meeee Bil". Hoborg gave him a large blue Teddy bear which was destroyed in a fight with Klogg's guardian, The Clockwork Beast. Klaymen blows his head off with a cannon to avoid him damaging the Neverhood. Klaymen moves Bil's switch from bad to good and together Klaymen and Bil rescue Willie from a weasel and the three of them go to Hoborg's castle. Bil is destroyed when Klogg uses the cannon to shoot a huge hole in Bil's chest and he falls off the Neverhood, with Willie inside. Bil and Willie are resurrected by Hoborg in the good ending.
• Teddy Bear: The teddy bear, a gift given to Big Robot Bil by Hoborg, is large and blue. Its destruction by The Clockwork Beast was Bil's main motivation to destroy the Beast.
• Klogg: The main antagonist. He was created by Hoborg, who told Klogg he could have everything in the Neverhood except his crown. Klogg took the crown and turned evil when he put it on. Before he turns evil he resembles Klaymen but with one button on his shirt and possibly different colors. When he puts the crown on, he is transformed - his eyes turn different colours, he gets big teeth and claws on his hands, his skin turns red and he was white socks with his toes sticking out. His shirt turns brown and his pants turn brown as well. He has two possible fates. If the player chooses the Bad Ending, Klogg is punched out by a transformed Klaymen. If the Player chooses the Good Ending, Klogg tries to kill the awakened Hoborg but steps on the remote for his cannon and is blasted clean off the Neverhood.
• Weasel: Large crab-like monsters and minor antagonists of the game. Two of these monsters are encountered. The first one is green and is encountered when Klaymen plays with Willie's music box. This awakens the Weasel who bursts out of the wall and chases Klaymen. It is destroyed when Klaymen makes a dynamite dummy of himself and feeds it to the Weasel. The second one is purple and is encountered after Klaymen flips Bil's switch from bad to good. It is attacking Willie, but Klaymen commands Bil to punch the Weasel, saving Willie.