Ruby Gloom (Netflix Original Series)

Ruby Gloom is an American Netflix Original Series created and developed by Robin Budd and Rob Boutilier and is a reboot of the 2006 TV series based on the Mighty Fine apparel line of the same name created by illustrator Martin Hsu. The show is produced by Nelvana in association with Netfix and Wildbrain.

Story
Whether it is a monster in your closet, a creature under your bed, a ghost lurking within the walls, or a mysterious figure seen from your 2nd floor bedroom window, there are many things in the world that everyone has to fear. An 18-year-old gothic and rebellious teenager named Tina Burton is not one of those people. When she was sent by her mother on a 5-year retreat to finishing school, she accidentally got on the wrong plane and was taken to Gloomsville. Upon arriving, she was greeted by a mysterious young girl named Ruby Gloom and was welcomed into her Victorian-styled Mansion, where, much to her fright, Tina discovers that Ruby lives in the Mansion with a banshee, a cyclops, a two-headed boy, a living skeleton, a ghost, a cowardly bat and a Doom Kitty, and all of them are supernatural creatures that happen to be Ruby's friends and aren't really that bad, but Tina isn't really too sure, since she's always convinced that monsters like them aren't all that friendly. However, her mind and perspective on things will change, as Ruby takes her on a series of misadventures throughout Gloomsville, and teaches Tina that, no matter how scary things are, She just needs to do what she and her friends always do: look on the bright side...of the dark side. But Tina and her new friends will soon find out there's something bigger going on, as they unearth a dark secret revolving around Tina's family life and the history of Gloomsville.

Cast and Characters
Ruby Gloom (Sarah Gadon) - a 15-year-old girl and the titular protagonist of the series. Optimistic and positive, Ruby still believes that there could be a bright side to every negative thing that comes her way. She brings confidence to her friends whenever they are always feeling down or doubtful or when they get distracted. She still has a crush on Skull Boy, but continues to hide it from him. She's very skilled at knitting, cooking and likes writing in her diary. Her new friend is Tina Burton, whom Ruby tries to help cope with her weird, but fun lifestyle.

Doom Kitty (Mela Lee) - Ruby's pet cat and the deuteragonist of the series. Though Doom is now able to talk in the reboot and speaks in a classy accent, her friends still can't understand what she is saying, except for Tina, who is very skilled in linguistics and animal translations. As with her in the original show, Doom has full free run of the Mansion and will have all the facts of whatever strange thing goes on in The Mansion while her friends are trying to figure it out, keeping her one step ahead of them. She serves as Tina's advisor, meaning that Whenever Tina feels unsure of what to do, Doom can always give her advice on what to do and build up her confidence to complete her task. She can also ask her to give her friends advice when they don't know what to do. Doom also has a secret crush on Scaredy-Bat, but hides it from him and his friends, because she is worried that Scaredy might reject her out of fear. Doom is also very intelligent and clever and can develop solutions to the problems her friends are having. Doom loves yarn, milk, fish, books, spending time with her friends, helping Ruby mentor Tina and ogoling over Scaredy-Bat, and dislikes water, pickles, big dogs, feeling doubtful, small spaces, Bunny, mice, birds and Luna's dirty jokes.

Tina Burton (Ingrid Nilson) - Tina Burton, an 18-year-old goth girl and the tritagonist of the series. Tina lived in New York City with her mother, Janet Burton. Tina is described as the opposite of Ruby Gloom, who is optimistic, positive and confident, while Tina is moody, cynical, insecure and rebellious. Having enough of her outlandish personality, her mother decided to have Tina sent to a finishing school in England, so that she could become a proper young lady and be more elegant and graceful. However, she didn't realize that she got onto the wrong plane, which took her to Gloomsville. There, she ended up living with Ruby and her friends. She gets freaked out when she sees that all of Ruby's friends are, in fact, monsters...who are surprisingly friendly. She is currently uneasy about them and the strange population of Gloomsville. Her distrust is basically the core center of the show's story, since it involves Ruby trying to show Tina that, despite how scary things might be to her, the best thing to do is to look on the bright side of these kind of things...and teach her how to be a better version of herself without the need of becoming an upper crust aristocrat. Whenever Tina is unsure of what to do next or feeling doubtful, she'll always get useful advice from Ruby's best friend, Doom Kitty. Tina likes horror movies, video games, scary stories, haunted houses, romance novels, hanging out with her friends and dark makeup. She wears black eyeliner and lipstick, has long hair that covers the right side of her face, a ponytail and is dressed in black fingerless gloves, black skull dress, black and white striped tights and black shoes. Tina's mother doesn't know that Tina is in Gloomsville instead of the finishing school she is supposed to go to, and Tina altered the finishing school's records to make it look like she's there. She sends letters to her mother saying how great her "school" is, and what she and her friends do. Tina thinks that lying to her mother is easy...as long as a certain event or mess-up doesn't try to blow her cover. Tina also has the ability to transform into a wolf-like creature at will, whenever she is in danger or when she has to save her friends from uncertain peril. Her friends don't know her secret and think that Tina and her wolf form are two different people. They named her alter-ego "Doom Puppy", which is like a canine counterpart to Doom Kitty, who actually knows Tina's secret, but kept it not just because only Tina can understand her, but because she's worried that her friends might reject Tina out of fear.

Iris (Stacey DePass) - a cyclops girl who is always adventurous and fearless...and most of the time unaware of the trouble she runs into, and is one of the main protagonists of the show.

Misery (Tara Strong) - a banshee girl who, like the rest of her family, is known to have pretty much the worst bad luck in the world and is one of the main protagonists of the series. Her purple dress is now black and her hair has a wet-like style. She also has a black wolf named Jason, whose name is like a nod to Jason Voorhees from the Friday The 13th film series.

Skull Boy (Scott McCord) - an overly-talented living skeleton who continues to try and figure out the source of his birthplace and the identity of his family. He is one of the main protagonists of the series. In the reboot, he wears a gray hoodie and blue jeans.

Poe (Adrian Truss) a cultural sophisticated crow and one of the main protagonists of the series.

Frank, (David Berni) Len's conjoned brother who is the lead singer, guitarist, drummer and trumpeter of their band, RIP, and one of the main protagonists of the series.

Len, (Jeremy Harris) Frank's conjoned brother who is his dimwitted partner in their band, RIP, and one of the main protagonists of the series.

Scaredy Bat, (Peter Keleghan) an indian-accented bat who is scared of pretty much everything, and is one of the main protagonists of the series. Doom Kitty has a crush on him, since she gets all dreamy and anxious almost every time she is near him. Scaredy now wears a red bowtie instead of his purple scarf.

Luna (Cree Summer) - a female ghost and one of the main protagonists of the series. Luna is Boo Boo's sister, and is filling in for him while Boo Boo is managing his scare job at another mansion in Eastern Europe. As with her brother, Luna's job to scare The Mansion's residents is too hard, due to her being thought of as cute, and, like Boo Boo, the only person she can successfully scare is Scaredy-Bat. Doom Kitty has more of a bigger grudge against Luna than she did with Boo Boo, due to Luna getting Doom in trouble with her own presence. Luna is capable of morphing into giant beasts, but not even that can scare the pants off of her friends.

Cleo (Ashleigh Ball) - a teenage mummy and one of the main protagonists of the series. Believing herself to be a reincarnation of the famed Empress of Egypt, Cleopatra, Cleo has a regal personality and acts like she is in control of a very risky situation, when most of the time, she isn't. She is bossy, vain, pompous, proud, but is still pretty friendly. Whenever she's in trouble, she will either pray to her "gods" to save her or she will try to use her mystical powers to save herself, but since she doesn't really have mystical powers and doesn't know it, her friends use physical effects and booby traps to make it look like she does. She wears a costume that is modeled after a mummified version of the empress she believes she is.

Toon Kitty (Nicole Oliver) Doom Kitty's deranged doppleganger and one of the supporting protagonists of the series. Created by Dr. Kevin Oz, who attempted to create a clone of Doom for his evil plans, Toon Kitty was bonded with a dangerous chemical that causes the drinker to turn erratic, which twisted and warped her mind and turned her into a bouncing, bumbling, chaotic troublemaker. Though she looks exactly like Doom Kitty, Toon's appearance is heavily inspired by the DC Comics supervillain, The Joker, while her personality is based on history of 40s cartoon characters. Toon is basically zany, unpredictable, uncontrollable, mischievous and looney. She enjoys anything that would make her laugh and likes to pull pranks on her identical, more sane duplicate.

Janet Burton (Mary Elizabeth McGlynn) - Tina's mother and one of the supporting protagonists of the series. Janet is a caring woman who manages a 5-star hotel and sent her daughter off to finishing school, on account of Tina's goth-like personality gets her in trouble a lot. She is considered to be extremely overprotective and concerned about what her daughter does, despite her daughter being an adult. Janet doesn't know that Tina is actually at Gloomsville, and Tina altered the finishing school's records to make it look like she's there. She gets letters from her daughter saying how great her school is, and what she and her friends do. Since she doesn't travel a lot, this gives Tina the opportunity to lie to her about what she is really doing...as long as nothing happens that might blow her cover.

Kat (Mark Hamill) - a sociopathic alien cat and a minor supporting protagonist/antagonist in the series. Formerly known to the world as the main antagonist of the retired cartoon "Kid Vs. Kat", Kat has tried countless times to take over the world so that his people could move to it, due to the excessive pollution on his planet. However, he failed thanks to the successful efforts of Coop Burtonburger and his friends. But now, things didn't end well for Kat. His alien origin was revealed, his mission was dissolved and he was thought to have been taken away from his family by the government, but it turns out he was actually incarcerated in the Van Helsing Memorial mental institution, a facility located north of Gloomsville built to contain mentally-ill people and animals and provide the treatment they need. Kat is shown to have started showing respect for Earth and its inhabitants, though he still retains some of his sadistic traits. Kat is considered as the evil opposite of Doom Kitty, since both characters are considered as smart, clever, don't like rodent-based creatures and can sometimes help people out of sticky situations.

Augustus Meridith (Kerry Shale) - The Mayor of Gloomsville and one of the supporting protagonists of the series. It's his duty to make sure everything goes swell in Gloomsville, even when it's not.

Mr. Mummbles (Derek McGrath) - Ruby's next-door neighbor who was first thought to be a murderer by Poe, but was revealed to be an amusement park owner and inventor. He's one of the supporting protagonists of the series.

Venus (Kath Soucie) - Iris' french-accented pet Venus Flytrap and one of the supporting protagonists of the series.

Judy Keaton (Kimiko Glenn) - Tina's 1st best friend-turned-arch enemy and the central antagonist of the series. Years ago, Judy was originally Tina's best friend who loved playing with her and hanging out with her...until it was discovered that Judy has a deep hatred toward Tina's family, since Tina's father killed Judy's brother, who was half-demon, by drowning him in holy water. Enabled by grief, Judy believed that monsters could be just as human as her kind and started a campaign to get justice for those condemned by Vincent...starting with exposing the truth about his crimes and slandering her friend's family, while also concealing her involvement from her. Judy is considered as angry and hate-filled and doesn't have any regard for the things she does, but still shows respect for Tina and unsuccessfully tries to convince Tina to join her mission.

Lucy Prince (Tabitha St. Germain) - Tina's rival and one of the antagonists of the series. Lucy and her family are famous people who made their fortune making horror movies, which are one of Tina's favorite things. However, while Tina is a big fan of their movies and desires to be in one of them, Lucy despises her out of jealousy. Lucy is selfish, mean, rude, obnoxious, posh and cruel and would do anything to get Tina out of her spotlight. Tina can throw a tantrum when she doesn't get her way or when someone says no to her.

Bongo (Christopher Corey Smith) - a scary clown and one of the antagonists of the series. He was hired for entertainment during Ruby's 6th birthday, but he instead frightened Ruby and caused her to develop a fear of clowns. 7 years later, he returned for Iris' birthday, only because she asked for him. Bongo is also the manager of a circus called "Bongo's Bonkers Boys". He's very skilled at making balloon animals, hosting gruesome party games, rigging sweet desserts with explosives and doing stand-up comedy. To himself, he believes that he makes people laugh with antics, but to everyone else, he is extremely terrifying. The only thing that terrifies him most is Scaredy Bat, since everyone knows that Bats and Clowns are natural enemies in the wild.

Bunny (Steve Blum) - a cute little rabbit and one of the antagonists of the series. As you know, in the original series, Bunny was originally thought to be a cute, cuddly bunny who was a little under the weather. But it turns out that he was actually a dirty rotten little thief who tried to steal all of the gang's possessions, including Ruby's brush, Poe's gold-plated feather duster, Misery's hot water bottle and engraved tissue dispenser, and tried to boot Doom Kitty out when she discovered his true nature, but Doom captured him and revealed what he was and got him kicked out. After he was kicked out, Bunny was walking on the road, miles away from Gloomsville with his carrier, Bunny was revealed to have robbed 15 other homes before The Mansion, and was captured by authorities and imprisoned in a maximum security pound. Now incarcerated, Bunny prepares for a day when he will escape and exact revenge on Doom Kitty, who he believes is responsible for his imprisonment.

Dr. Kevin Oz (Jeff Bennett) - a mad scientist and one of the antagonists of the series. He poses as a harmless and caring veteranarian who people think are offering medical care to their pets, when actually, he is using them as test subjects for his evil experiments and when he does, he gives the animal a relaxing solution so that they could feel calm after their...treatment. Oz was once a professor at a very prestigic school, but was fired for his inhumane experiments. Oz is dangerously insane, though intelligent, and doesn't regret what he does or who he hurts.

Theodore Van Helsing (Robin Atkin Downes) - a famed monster hunter and one of the antagonists of the series. Though he has a large fortune and inheritance, Theo doesn't desire to be famous just because of his wealth. He believes that a rare and great achievement would grant him a great deal of glory, which is why he took up his ancestors' legacy as monster hunters. He's become a primary enemy for Ruby and her friends, since her friends are monsters...and Theo sees them as his prey. He is ruthless, remorseless, obsessive, paranoid and insane and is someone that is described as extremely dangerous.

Jack Trade (Trevor Devall) - a conniving con man and one of the antagonists of the series. Jack has a notorious reputation for cheating people out of their money by tricking people into buying useless stuff that looks like pretty rare and historical items. Jack is deceitful, dishonest and smug. He has no regard for what he does or who he double-crosses.

Vincent Burton (Corey Burton) - Tina's deceased father and a posthumous antagonist of the series. Vincent was killed in a mysterious fire years ago during the time when Tina was 3 years old. Tina never really knew her father a lot, aside from the fact that there was accusations that he was a heartless, corrupt madman who had a very merciless hatred for the supernatural and the mysterious. According to history records, in Transylvania, when he was 8, Vincent's brother and father were ripped to shreds and killed by a werewolf. His mother died later from depression and a broken heart. This caused Vincent to grow a deep resentment towards supernatural creatures such as ghouls, ghosts, goblins, monsters and anything else that isn't all ordinary. 20 years later, Vincent spent that time used his fortune to try and create a world without difference...but he did that by secretly hunting down and killing mythical creatures, whether they are disguised as humans or not. His wife, Janet, who he met when he was 17, did not know about this until she met a man who claimed that he saw Vincent kidnap a werewolf in his human form. Horrified by this, Janet did intend to report him to the authorities, but since she is afraid of what Vincent will do to her if she does, she decided not to. Vincent spent 5 more years on his horrible crusade until his death in 1996. Not wanting her daughter to grow up like him, Janet covered up her husband's crimes and told her a different version of his perspective of the supernatural, making her believe monsters are scary and not evil. However, it wasn't until evidence about her father's true history and his childhood was revealed, much to her horror. Her father was described as paranoid, vengeful, ruthless and cruel.