Charlie "Cheese" Burger

## Character Overview

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## Background

Nicknamed "Cheese". Charlie doesn't get why everyone who associates with him calls him "Cheese"...He doesn't even like cheese. A shy kid. Keeps to himself, plays video games, old VHS tapes of Batman and old wrestling shows. During high school, he watches everyone as he hopes that someone...anyone...can pick him to go on "adventures", as he likes to put them. Despite his name, he is a vegetarian and nobody gets why, as they all try to force him to eat...cheeseburgers...when all he wants is a salad.

Cheese first appeared in the episode "My Friend Goo" where he's introduced as a fellow employee to Embeth Pegg at Major Video. When first interacting with the Kollok Radar, he's annoyed at Em for having to pick up her shifts, but his tone changes when the Radar turn him on to the strange things happening in Kollok. After dealing with Cassandra Crane, and hearing about Tibby Devin being locked in the Police Interrogation room, Cheese agrees to join the Kollok Radar on their adventure to save him. While in the tunnels underneath Kollok, Cheese ingests 3 Crocodile Tears pills, and subsequently becomes "melted cheese".

For the duration of time between "Paper Cuts" and "Is She Weird", Cheese is taken care of by Laura Bennett, who dotes after him the best she can. At the beginning of "Is She Weird" Cheese is stolen by Mike Mikelson for The Traveler.

In Episode 36, "Lullaby", Cheese returns, this time with doll limbs affixed by his own regrowing flesh to the side of the mason jar he subsists in. He appears at Mallory Jenkins's house, asking if they had felt the "the blast". Cheese states that the blast triggered voices within him to start telling him to grow again. After explaining his situation, he begs to Kollok Radar to help him save Mike Mikelson, who helped him escape from the Traveler's grasp. The group encounters Alice, who reveals to them a portal in the floor. Mallory jumps inside, and the rest of the group follow.

The Kollok Radar takes a trip through time as they are first taken to 1928, and then to 1940. Everyone they encounter seems taken aback by Cheese, though in typical Kollok fashion, no one is generally disturbed by it. During their time in 1940, a tragedy strikes, and all of the men in the community center begin ripping themselves apart. Cheese begins to be drawn to several symbols that are cut into the bar in the rafters of the barn. He burrows into one of the bodies, and begins using it to grow, before he starts to float in the air. Laura tries to convince him to come down, not wanting to leave without him, but as another portal opens beneath them, Em pushes them forwards towards it. It is then that the Radar begins to realize that Cheese might not just be Cheese anymore, but instead, perhaps has taken on the essence of Phobos, drawing his power.

When meeting back up with Em in 1943, she reveals that after the portal disappeared, Cheese did too, and she hasn't heard from him since.

## Personality

Cheese is stubborn but eager to please, he wants nothing more but to feel included within the Kollok Radar, even after being melted in Episode 28.

## Appearances

* Season 2 - KOllOK 1991: Bleach
	+ "My Friend Goo"
	+ "Paper Cuts"
	+ "Lullaby"
	+ "And Therein..."

## Quotes

"Aaah fUCK, fuck, okay, uh, sorry uuuh we're gonna close up for the day so if you could- if you could get out-"

"I don't even know what the fucking 'table' is!"

"So I could be like a part of the group, going on theses... adventures and stuff, it sounds... it sounds fun!"

"If you guys need a hero in your group, like, I'm willing to step up!"

"I mean, this is awesome. This is cool to be a part of this, I'm excited to be along for the ride."