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=== '''Shadow'''/ {{spoiler|Baldur Moon}} ===

* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: It's not entirely clear what race he is, although his mother is implied to have been black.

** Gaiman has said that Dwayne Johnson/The Rock, who has black and Samoan heritage, would be the perfect actor to play him.

* [[The Hero]]

* [[Kindhearted Cat Lover]]: And the cat goddess loves him too.

* [[Smarter Than You Look|Smarter than he looks]]: Everyone asumes he's just a big dumb guy until he starts talking.

* [[The Stoic]]

* [[Unfazed Everyman]]: He takes it rather calmly that there are tons of deities all all around him. {{spoiler|Makes sense since he is one himself, so he ''isn't'' a pure example of the trope.}}

 

=== '''Mr. Wednesday'''/[[Norse Mythology|Odin]] ===

* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]]}}

* [[Casanova]]

 

=== '''Mr. Nancy'''/Anansi ===

* [[Cool Old Guy]]

* [[Dirty Old Man]]

* [[Nice Hat]]

 

=== '''Mr. Ibis'''/Thoth ===

* [[Don't Fear the Reaper]]: Like all Ancient Egyptian gods connected to death, he's a nice guy.

* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]

 

=== '''Mr Jacquel'''/Anubis ===

* [[Don't Fear the Reaper]]: Like Mr. Ibis, he's not such a bad guy.

 

=== '''Bast''' ===

* [[Catgirl]]

* [[Intimate Healing]]: She provides some for Shadow.

 

=== '''Czernobog''' (Czernobog) ===

* [[Cain and Abel]]: He's known as the "evil" brother; his brother, Bielebog, is the "good" one.

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]

* [[God of Evil]]

* {{spoiler|[[Jekyll and Hyde]]: He and Bielebog are the same person.}}

 

=== '''Mad Sweeney''' ===

* [[Leprechaun]]

* [[Fighting Irish]]

 

=== Samantha Black Crow ===

* [[Agent Mulder]]: Delivers an amazing and lengthy monologue to Shadow about all the things she believes in to get him to open up to her.

* [[Badass Normal]]: Faces Mr. Town and Mr. World, and not only does she refuse to tell them anything about Shadow, she makes fun of their names. She also hitchhikes with Shadow, who's kind of scary before you get to know him.

* [[Bi the Way]]

* [[Genki Girl]]

* [[Granola Girl]]

* [[Little Miss Snarker]]

* [[Tomboy]]

 

=== Laura ===

* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Even when she was alive Laura was not as nice as she seemed. But she really does love Shadow which keeps her on the sympathetic side of the trope.

* [[Came Back Wrong]]

* [[More Deadly Than the Male]]: She is far more likely to kill you than her husband is.

* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]

* [[Poisonous Friend]]: Very big on protecting Shadow and quite violent about it.

** She actually took it much earlier in the book. When she kills a bunch of guards in order to save Shadow with her bare hands.

* [[Violently Protective Girlfriend|Violently Protective Wife]]

 

 

=== '''The Technical Boy''' ===

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Subverted. He dresses like the characters in [[The Matrix]] but is a physically weak nerd.

* [[GIFT]]: Since he is the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of the Internet, it's only natural he acts like this.

 

=== '''Media''' ===

* [[Stepford Smiler]]

 

=== '''The Spookshow''' ===

* {{spoiler|[[Avenging the Villain]]: Mr. Town is not happy about his buddies getting killed, but leaves Shadow alone because Mr. World says so.}}

* [[The Men in Black]]: What they seem to be the archetype of.

* [[Mooks]]: They work for Mr. World and the New Gods.

* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: Mr. Wood and Mr. Stone.

 

* [[Chekhov's Gunman]] and [[Chekhov's Boomerang]]

* [[Distinguishing Mark]]: {{spoiler|His scarred lip; it's a reference to a story in [[Norse Mythology]] where Loki's mouth was sewn shut and he had to tear it open.}}

* [[Evil Redhead]]