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Supporting Characters

Your supporting characters must be interesting enough to advance the plot without stealing the limelight. The following list of 100 supporting characters is intended as a prompt.

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Elvis Impersonator
Tone-deaf overweight and not very talented
Stuttering traffic cop
Sends people on the wrong route because his stuttering misleads them about the road they are supposed to take. They take the A 333 instead of the A3.
Baker
"Picks his nose. Has disgusting unhygienic habits. Uses his false teeth to put the edge pattern on a pie."
News reporter Has an amazing ability to be in the right place at the right time but misses the story through being distracted by a minor event.
Ruffian A child who can't say the letter k which he substitutes with a p
Slovenly waitress She has no self-pride hates her job and dislikes people.
Smelly professor He is so engrossed in the classics that he scarcely notices the here and now. He never has time to shower. His students makes jokes about him.
Hobo Black-bearded down-and-out who sleeps rough in shop doorways.
Bus driver He wanted to be an airline pilot but failed to make the grade. Now he tries to compensate with the way he drives his bus.
Seer An old woman who sits in her wheelchair looking into the future.
Autistic child Able to read by ""feeling the words"" written on the printed page.
Village butcher To the alarm of his regular customers he is obsessed with cannibalism. When not serving customers he reads books about cannibals in the jungles of Asia as well as more recent serial killers who ate their prey.
Spotty teenage violinist who droves everyone around him crazy by non-stop whistling of themes from classical music.
A 7' 2"" gangly youth. A beanpole with a squeaky voice.
Logorrhoeac Just can't stop talking - commentating on every aspect of daily life as if covering it for a sports channel.
Serially unemployed
layabout
This non-worker is convinced that his life is really just a part in a movie and that people around him are all paid actors. He thus has no qualms about parasiting on them for food drink shelter and transport.
Queen of Hearts She dresses like the eponymous playing card.
Ugly old spinster The children mock her for her looks and pretend to be afraid of her so she plays the part with a cat and a broomstick as props.
Chain-smoker Through constant hawking he has learnt the art of accurate long-distance spitting.
Street Poet He sprays long lines of verse on urban walls as intellectual graffiti.
Foil head He is terrified the aliens are trying to control him with beams and so he wears kitchen foil inside his hat.

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