List of characters

This is a list of all musical characters created by and shown in media throughout Melanie Martinez's career.

Introduced in Dollhouse/Cry Baby

Cry Baby's family

Cry Baby's family
Cry Baby	Brother	Dad	Mom

Medical workers

Medical workers
Nurse	Bunny Doctors

Other characters

Other characters
Little Girl	Alphabet Boy	Johnny	Big Bad Wolf	Cashier
Basic Bitch	Blue Boy	Mr. Potato Head	Mrs. Potato Head	Rushton Dolls

Minor Characters

	Name	Introduced	Actor	Commentary	Status
	Beth Anne	“Pity Party”	None	Her name is mentioned on a card that Cry Baby is making. Not much is know about her.	Unknown
	Mistress	'Dollhouse" (mentioned) 'Sippy Cup"(first appearance)	Uncredited	Mistress is first mentioned in "Dollhouse," where Cry Baby realizes that her father is secretly having an affair with another woman despite being married. In "Sippy Cup," Dad comes home with Mistress in the middle of the night. Cry Baby's Mom discovers the pair and, in a fit of drunken rage, murders her husband and his mistress.	Deceased
	Mr. Potato Head's mistress	“Mrs. Potato Head”	Brittany Williams	She is seen by Mrs. Potato Head through the window talking to and being romantic with Mr. Potato Head, Mrs. Potato Head's husband, after he saw that that Mrs. Potato Head's surgery was botched.	Presumably alive
	Teddy Bear	“Teddy Bear”	None	The Teddy Bear was a stuffed bear that was previously owned by a child (most likely Cry Baby). The bear begins to become dangerous and insane, as he begins to hide knives under his bedsheets and crumbled photographs of the child that owns him. Eventually, the bear attempts to murder the child, making the child retaliate and murder the bear.	Deceased

Scrapped Characters

	Name	Introduced	Actor	Commentary	Status
	Luna	“Zzzz” and “Ring Pop”	None	She's briefly mentioned by name during the songs "Zzzz" and "Ring Pop" as the girl who's on the roof of likely Cry Baby's house. It's presumed that she is suicidal or is a ghost who died of suicide due to the line from "Zzzz", "[...]While girls are committing suicide".	Presumably deceased
	Molly McDolly	“Unhappy Meal”	Melanie Martinez (voice actor)	During the song "Unhappy Meal" she acts as the narrator talking about how she doesn't care about the people who order at her burger shack mocking how celebrities give there fans poor quality work and only see them as a way to get money.	Unknown

Introduced in K-12

School staff

School staff
Former principal The Principal	Principal Leo	Counselor	Detention Teacher	Biology Teacher
Drama teacher Mr. Cornwell	Homeroom teacher Ms. Daphne	Ms. Harper (former)	Ms. Penelope	Substitute teacher Miss Victoria
Bus Driver	Nurses	Bunnies

Other Staff

	Name	Introduced	Actor	Commentary	Status
	Detention Guards	K-12	Unknown	They are the guards who are seen forcing Cry Baby to perform in a glass box along with other detention students as a form of punishment. They guard and watch as other students watch and throw bugs at the performers. They are seen wearing a black suit and tie.	Unknown
	Guards	K-12	Unknown	They serve as one of K-12's many punishment and security systems, detaining any student who misbehaves and acts or speaks out against the school's strict laws and take them into a holding cell for further punishment. They are first seen taking Henry away from class after he refused to stand up for the "Pledge of Allegiance". They are again seen taking Cry Baby away from drama class after she acts out against Mr. Cornwell and Dean. They are last seen trying to take Cry Baby away from the auditorium after she breaks character and tries to wake up the brainwashed crowd. They are unsuccessful as Cry Baby's scream knocks them out unconscious on the ground.	Unknown
	Lunchladies	K-12	Unknown	They are the lunchladies for the school's cafeteria. They are seen in the background handing out food to the students' lunchtrays. They are then pressumed to have escaped the cafeteria after the food fight that was started by Cry Baby broke out. They are depicted as 4 women dressed in sky blue uniforms and light pink hair ties.	Unknown
	Judges	K-12	Unknown	They are depicted as a group of 6 old men wearing pastel blue judicial robes and Victorian era-styled wigs. They are seen judging from a court bench with a a clipboard and a gavel, watching Cry Baby and her dancers' perform and protest against the school's unfair laws. After seemingly being unimpressed, they strike the gavel, making Cry Baby and her dancers to stop and collapse on the floor. After failing to reason with them, Cry Baby decides to disintegrate all of the judges into puffs of pink smoke. The judges, like The Principal, are most likely representatives of the US Government and Judicial system, with their unfair and harsh treatment of minorities and citizens.	Unknown
	Janitor	K-12	Unknown	He is shown sweeping up The Principal's body parts after being killed by the students and does not make another appearance after this.	Unknown
	Theater Beauticians	K-12	Unknown	They are the makeup artists for the actors who play in the school's drama club. They are seen applying makeup to Cry Baby's face and her wig. They are dressed in Victorian era-styled clothing, makeup, and wigs.

Students

Students
Angelita	Celeste	Magnolia	Fleur	Ben
Kelly	Chloe	Holly	Lucy	Rachel
Brandon

Other Students

	Name	Introduced	Actor	Commentary	Status
	Daniel	K-12	Deniel Kazarján	Daniel is seen on the school bus with Maya, sitting across the aisle from Cry Baby and Angelita. He puts his hands up Maya's skirt, while hers are down his pants, before the two start making out passionately. Later in the film, Daniel is seen in "Drama Club", where he acts in the school play along with Cry Baby. He demands for Cry Baby to hurry and iron her clothes faster, which prompts her to melt his left cheek with the iron.	Unknown
	Dean	K-12	Balázs Csémy	Dean is portrayed as a boy who looks down on women. In the film, he talks down to Cry Baby, saying that she's "unfit" to play the role of a president in the school play, simply due to her gender. After being scolded by Cry Baby, he looks away in shame and embarrassment, showing his fragile ego.	Unknown
	Glue Boys	K-12	Tamas Gog Gaspar David	They are a pair of twins who appears to have an obsession with sniffing and consuming glue. They are first seen on Wheels on The Bus sitting next to each other, smoking weed and having glue drip down their mouths. One of them is again seen in the timeout waiting area eating glue out of a mini jar. He is scolded by Kelly telling him "That's fucking disgusting" and he is shown turning away in shame.	Unknown
	Henry	K-12	Joel Francis-Williams	When the students are required to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance in the classroom, Henry refuses to do so. Ms. Daphne notices this and orders him to stand up. However, he continues to disobey. Henry states, "You hear that? Liberty and justice for all? That's bullshit." in response to the pledge before guards drag him away. It's presumed that he was killed by the guards or sent to detention after the events.	Unknown
	Jason	K-12	Bence Balogh	Jason appears on the bus ride to K-12 Sleepaway School, where he fools around with the other students and makes fun of Cry Baby. Later, he is seen pressing his bare buttocks to one of the bus windows. When Cry Baby causes the bus driver to hit a bump in the road by using her powers, Jason is knocked off his feet and falls over, and the students laugh at him. Jason briefly appears in "Class Fight" and does not make another appearance after this.	Unknown
	Male students from "Strawberry Shortcake"	K-12	Unknown	They are seen going towards Cry Baby while she in on top of the cake taking a slice out of of the cake she is in and eating it representing sexual harassment towards people.	Unknown
	Maya	K-12	Oyunbat Batsaikhan	Maya is seen on the school bus with Daniel, sitting across the aisle from Cry Baby and Angelita. She allows him to put his hands up her skirt, while her hands are in his pants, before the two start making out passionately. This portrays the line "And Maya's letting Dan put his hands up her skirt and she's got her hands down his pants" in "Wheels On the Bus". Later in the film, she is hit with spaghetti when Cry Baby starts a food fight. She is not seen in the film again, but it is presumed that she escaped the school along with the other students.	Unknown
	Swimmers	K-12	Lili Baraksó Adél Fodor Réka László Zsófia László Kinga Mészáros Natália Szappanos-Nagy Sára Tringer	They are first seen going up to Cry Baby pointing their fingers at her and dancing around her likely representing toxic beauty standards and the pressure forced upon people. They are later doing synchronized swimming in multiple poses like in a heart and star.	Unknown
	Thomas	K-12	Zacky Agama	When Cry Baby and Kelly are in the principal's office, Cry Baby notices Thomas pouring several pills into his hand. She asks him what they are, and he explains that The Principal forces the students to take pills that control them and make them unable to leave the school. He also states that each color signifies how heavy the effects/doses are and that pink is the lightest dose. Thomas does not make any notable appearances after this scene.	Unknown

Other characters

Other characters
Lilith	Ghost Girl	Phillipe

Introduced in After School EP

Characters
Abuelita	Bakery workers

Introduced in PORTALS

Characters
Masked Dancers	Faeries

Minor Characters

	Name	Introduced	Actor	Commentary	Status
	Fan Girl	PORTALS	Oceana Heartsong	Towards the end of the "TUNNEL VISION" music video, she is shown playing a video game in which Cry Baby is the main character. She then reveals that she lost the game as to "GAME OVER" is on her screen. She smashes the keyboard out of frustration, and the heart-shaped electronic device then caught on fire and smoke began to be released by the computer. She slides back her chair and leaves the scene. She is most likely depicted as Melanie's fans or media showing possessiveness to the character, Cry Baby, which symbolizes Melanie herself.	Unknown
	Businessmen	PORTALS	Uncredited	In the beginning of the "SPIDER WEB" music video, a "Steve Jobs"-like businessman wearing a blue turtleneck is seen pitching and introducing a brand new mobile phone model called, the "Fl!fone"; A device secretly used for subliminally controlling people's minds and preference, all innocently disguised as a cute mobile device. He is seen pitching this idea to 8 middle-aged men wearing pastel blue and dark green suits and coats; people who are most likely investors or other higher-ups. With all of them having taken a liking to this idea, all of them decided to greenlight the plan into full swing. These men most likely symbolize the leaders and higher-ups in the tech industry, as well as the government who use social media as a platform to drive off any unwanted truths and incidents, as well as using the public's attachment to the internet to be a platform to spread consumerism and drama	Unknown
	Child Workers	PORTALS	Uncredited	They are the factory workers seen working in the factory producing, packaging, and sorting all the "Fl!fones" being sold to the public. They are seen wearing white maid dresses, coats, and white bonnets. These workers represent the illegal child laboring workforce imposed on many factories and sweatshops across the world.	Unknown
	Civilians	PORTALS	Uncredited	The civilians are people who are representative of the general public. They are a social critique of people who are constantly stuck on their devices every single day, obsessed with social media, and blindly follow trends. They are depicted as the consumers for the "Fl!fone". They are shown lining up to the store early and with some of them even throwing their old devices in exchange for the latest phone model. At night, they are all shown to be walking around in the forest, their eyes glued to their phones and bumping into each other. Later, most of them are captured by the spider with its sticky web and are then presumably devoured.	Mostly Deceased
	Teen Girl	PORTALS	Mia Rose Castaneda (Young) Valeria Aragón Vega	She is an adolescent woman of Latin descent. She was first seen as a child crying in her room when she discovers a leech. She adopts the leech and gives it a little bow. She is seen feeding it her blood and taking care of it for the rest of her childhood. She is seen playing, eating, painting, and reading with the leech. Until one night, the leech turns on against her and together with other leeches destroy her house and strangle her to her untimely demise.	Deceased
	Leech	PORTALS	None Judson Emery (Implied)	They are a small pink leech that gradually loses its color over time, fading to a lifeless gray skin. When they were first found on the girl's window, they were soft and delicate, and the Little Girl decorated them with a small pink ribbon tied around its body. As the leech grew, they remained by her side, feeding on her blood and sharing her daily life. One night, after being served blood cookies, they rejected her completely, breaking what was left of the bond. What once seemed affectionate slowly became distant. They returned later, leading a swarm of faded leeches. Together, the leeches broke everything the girl had, suffocating her until there was nothing left but silence.	Pressumably alive

Miscellaneous characters

	Name	Introduced	Actor	Commentary	Status
	Cupid	The Trilogy Tour (K-12, "High School Sweetheartsextended outro")	None	Cupid is seen at the end of "High School Sweethearts" firing an arrow, killing Cry Baby on place. After that, he flies away, leaving her friends devastated, and is not seen again.	Presumably alive
	Joselito	Melanie's Vines	None	He is mentioned in Melanie's vines while she was playing as Sandra. Presumably, he was a infant relative of Sandra.	Unknown
	Maggie	2013 EP ("A Million Men")	None	Maggie was a girl sold into the sex trafficking by her mother for drugs. The song "A Million Men" shows how she was treated during that time. At the end of the song she is shown escaping from her captors.	Presumably alive
	Sandra	Melanie's Vines	Melanie Martinez	Within several Vine posts, Melanie portrayed a joke character named Sandra. The character was likely invented to make fun of stereotypes placed upon Latina women.	Unknown