JUAN/Characters

A page for describing characters, playable or not, from the game JUAN.

A lot of characters on this page can be *spoiler-heavy*, so scroll at your own risk.

**PAGE IN CONSTRUCTION: This page is under construction. More information and more characters will be added in the future, along with more tropes to them in alphabetical order.**

## General tropes

* **Amazing Technicolor Population:** In VS Mode you can color your character any color, even their skin.
* **Art Evolution:** Some design tweaks have been made from update to update, particularly the characters hairstyles or limb position.
* **Bullet Hell:** Is possible to upgrade and modify the characters Squary-Guns to the point of having a *10-shot* weapon with multiple effects.
* **Dark Is Not Evil:** Franco with some demonic items is still looking to survive.
* **Flash Of Pain:** Followed by **Mercy Invincibility**.
* **Flight:** The Jetpack item is used to float, allowing to pass over gaps, holes and wet floor.
* **He Who Fights Monsters:** Franco must fight lots of monsters to get his ending.
* **Improbable Weapon User:** The Squary-Gun is just a rubber gun. Justified since the game takes place in his "imagination".
* **Item Get!:** He does these poses when getting an item.
* **Kindhearted Cat Lover:** Franco seems to have adored Curvis, since these items relating to him are very powerful.
* **Non-Standard Character Design: Cun-Cun** and **The Holder** in some ways stand out from the other characters.
	+ Cun-Cun has black hair and dark circles around his eyes, while every other character has brown hair.
	+ The Holder has completely black holes for eyes and a hidden mouth, making him very inexpressive compared to the others.
* **No Name Given:** His surname was not really known for a time. When a bestiary came out inside of *Fold Yourself*, it was revealed that his full name was Juan Franco Dellaglio. Though the game is named JUAN and the surname was always part of Dr. Dellaglio’s name, it was not known that it was Franco’s true name.
* **Paper-Thin Disguise:** A common theory (and confirmed by **Word Of God**) is that every character is just Franco putting on a hat, glasses, mask, etc.
* **Took A Level In Badass:** With the right upgrades and items, Franco can wipe out pretty much anything in his path at the end of the game.
* **Virtual Paper Doll:** Once you unlocked all characters and defeat Franco, you can dress the characters with other character's clothes (only the clothes, not their defining accessories).

### Franco

The main character of the story. A **Jack-Of-All-Stats** without any characteristic in particular. Unlocked by Default.

* **All Take And No Give:** He can consume all the food from NPCs without any comeuppance. Same applies to the Little Snacks from the Fridges.
* **Balance Buff:** He originally started with less range than the standard. This was quickly updated and upgraded in posterior versions.
* **Does This Remind You Of Anything?:** He is very associated with food, food that in this game helps him overcome his problems. In particular, his role in the "All You Can Eat" challenge, where if he stops eating he gradually loses health until he dies.
* **Exhausted Eye Bags:** He has horizontal lines under his eyes in cutscenes and artwork.
* **Having A Blast:** He starts with a single bomb.
* **Jack-Of-All-Stats:** Nothing to stand out about him at first...until you unlock his **Super Comp** that is.
* **The Mentally Disturbed:** Practically the entire game is based on his twisted psyche.
* **White Shirt:** Possibly to represent how he IS himself without any characteristic.

### The Doctor

A character unlocked by defeating Misericorde with Franco. He starts with Magnifying Glass, a powerful item that let him burn out enemies and discover secrets, but can be used only once in every room.

* **Adaptation Hairstyle Change:** In the original Misericordia comic he had a poofy, messy hairdo that was darker brown. In JUAN he has shorter, lighter brown hair parted down the middle.
* **Cyber Eyewear:** His cybernetic glasses have a tiny, seemingly sentient eye on them.
* **Four Eyes, Zero Soul:** Well, more like **five eyes** actually.
* **Pyromaniac:** He is obsessed with explosives and magnifying lenses. And his starting item lets him burn enemies to kill them.
* **Smart People Wear Glasses:** Downplayed since he is a bit looney and maniacal.
* **Kill it With Fire!:** His main method of attack outside of the standard Squary-Gun every character has.
* **Mad Scientist:** Definitely evokes this trope both in looks and playstyle. And he also sports a labcoat.
* **Labcoat Of Science:** He wears a dark navy blue coat.
* **Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass:** His special item.
* **Token Evil Teammate:** Of Franco’s personalities. Maybe...
* **Pauper Patches**: His labcoat *and skin* are all sratchy and ragged.

### Cun-Cun and Santi

A pair of brothers unlocked by defeating The Folder with Franco. They start with **Tigre**, a familiar that can block shots and damage enemies that walks around the duo. After defeating Ghosttail, Cun-Cun starts with **Lotto**, a shield-like familiar that blocks shots.

* **Anti-Antichrist:** In a sense, since Santi is confirmed to be **The Folder**'s son, that would make him some sort of devil's spawn, but he is a player character assisting Franco instead of an enemy.
* **Attack Animal:** Tigre, and later Lotto, though Lotto does not actually attack and just blocks enemy shots and bites.
* **Bash Brothers:** They never seen apart.
* **Big Guy, Little Guy:** Cun-Cun and Santi, respectively.
* **Clutch Character:** At first having double shots can be quite OP, but then the game continues into more dangerous foes that have rather erratic movement that can be difficult to dodge with lower speed.
* **Exhausted Eye Bags:** They have dark circles around their eyes. Only Cun-Cun shows them in-game though.
* **Gameplay Ally Immortality:** Santi is not affected by Cun-Cun's shots or enemies.
* **Stone Wall:** Cun-Cun is pretty slow, but stars with four red hearts and Santi and Tigre (and later Lotto) as helpers.
* **Keet:** Santi.

### Clanky

A shy-seeming character unlocked by purchasing three different objects from the Shop. He starts with Holy Cap, a special item that negates all first damage taken in a level.

* **The Eeyore:** Of Franco's personalities. Even his Squary-Gun is paler looking compared to the rest!
* **Eye-Obscuring Hat:** He wears a white ushanka hat that covers his face. A good indicator of his bashful persona.
* **Glass Cannon:** He starts with a very efficient shield power-up and high damage, but cannot take more than two hits.
* **Mechanically Unusual Class:** He starts with a shield and has no health.
* **One Hit-Point Wonder:** Apart from his Holy Cap, he cannot take more than two hits of damage.
* **Living In The Shadows:** He certainly evokes this with his shy demeanor and hidden face.

### The Holder

A character unlocked by the efforts of the community, in the *Ending Folds* ARG, Holder is the greedy side of Franco that, according to **Word Of God**, would work with his enemies just for a quick cash. He starts with **The Wallet** and three coins.

* **Adam Smith Hates Your Guts:** Shops and the Gambling Zone have higher prices when playing as him and losing money in the Gambling Zone makes him lose health and power.
* **Black Eyes Of Evil:** Not outright evil but he sure is suspicious looking and has completely black eyes and the only character to have them.
* **No Name Given:** He is only ever referred to as "The Holder".
* **Working Class Hero:** What he supposedly represents, aside from the ambiguous morality every character has.
* **Greed:** His main characteristic. He starts with the Wallet item and three coins, and losing coins in the Gambling Zone actually makes him lower his health and damage.
* **Malevolent Masked Men:** Not outright malevolent, but he´s wearing a face mask and is quite shady-seeming.
* **Mechanically Unusual Class:** He fires two bullets simultaneously from his Squary-Gun.
* **No Mouth:** His mouth is covered by the mask he wears.
* **The "The" Title Confusion:** Sometimes he´s referred to as The Holder, but other times he´s just Holder.

## ? Characters

*Fold Yourself* added special alternate versions of every playable character in the game. Each one of them is unlocked by reaching The Big House and using a special card in one of the rooms as their respective main counterpart.

### In General

* **Bad Future:** They appear to be the original characters after the worst possible timeline. Theire depressed, mutilated or broken in some way, and their main attributes are twisted or exaggerated versions of their usual specialty.
* **Discard And Draw**
* **Break The Cutie**
* **Morality Stain**
* **Logical Extreme**

### Franco?

Alternate Franco is wrapped up in a straightjacket and has signs of self-harm. He can only have one type of item, consumable, and food for the whole run, essencialy limiting his possibilities.

* **Straightjacket:** He is wrapped up on one.
* **Should Only Chose One:** He can only hold one of every type of consumable in the game.
* **Discard and Draw:** His main gimmick. He should do this to keep going through the levels.
* **Dropping This Here**
* **The Mentally Disturbed: Up To Eleven**. This version of Franco appears to have no trail of his semi-sane original self.

### **The Doctor?**

A zombified version of the Doc, he appears to have had his cybernetics taken full control over his body. He starts with Magnifying Lens in the consumable slot and attacks by firing a thin laser out of the small eye on his glasses.

* **And I Must Scream:** This version of the Doc appears to have his cybernetic robot eye taken full control over his body, leaving him as a walking corpse and the evil eye´s puppet.
* **Artificial Zombie:** The decaying lifeless corpse of the Doctor, still moving around thanks to the cybernetic glasses controlling the body.
* **Clothing Damage**: His labcoat is even more stitched than his regular counterpart.
* **Cybernetics Eat Your Soul**: His cybernetic eyeglasses have taken over his body and controls him like a puppet.
* **Red Eyes, Take Warning:** The tiny eye on the Doctor´s glasses is now angrily red and willing to conquer every level using the Doc´s body like a puppet.
* **The Undead:** Duo to the robotic eyeglasses possessing his body, he is only animate by their willing commands.
* **Mechanically Unusual Class:** He attacks enemies by using a laser beam rather than wielding the Squary-Gun like the rest of the characters.
* **Long-Range Fighter**: Due to using a laser beam to attack, he can kill enemies from any distance.
* **Our Zombies Are Different**: A zombified husk of the Doc kept animate by the cybernetics on his face.

### **Cun-Cun?**

Depressed and filled with regret, Alter Cun-Cun is played solo and starts with the innate Anima Sola that keeps enemies in place for five seconds. However, after 10 or 15 seconds after entering a new level, Santi´s **Vengeful Ghost** will emerge from the ground and start chasing Cun-Cun?. Should Santi? touch Cun-Cun?, he will be reduced to half a red heart.

* **Deadly Dodging:** What the player must do to escape Santi´s constant hunting down on his brother.
* **HP To 1:** What happens if Santi? touches him.
* **Mortons Fork:** Santi? provides a nasty one, sure, he could kill you, but you also could actually use him to kill enemies for you with careful enough playstyle.
* **Murder Into Malevolence:** Santis normal counterpart is a **Cheerful Child** who cares for his big brother, however, now he seems to want nothing but to kill Cun-Cun in revenge,
* **My God, What Have** **I Done?:** Cun-Cun?s facial expression surely seems to be of this over his brother.
* **Roaring Rampage Of Revenge:** Santi?, obviously. He would not rest until Cun-Cun? pays.
* **Undeathly Pallor:** Cun-Cun?'s skin is completely white and has black eyes with white pupils.
* **Vengeful Ghost:** Santi?

### Clanky?

Alternate Clanky is wearing a long grey cloak. He no longer has Holy Cap, instead, he starts with a special passive ability that helps him dodge bullets, providing that bullets come from enemies and not other obstacles. He now dies from one hit.

* **Ambiguously Human:** While Clanky is human, this version of him raises some questions. No part of his body is visible, and when he dies he just dissappears leaving his empty trenchcoat behind.
* **Bad With The Bone:** When he goes Under Rage he begins attacking close-range with a large pointy bone club.
* **Cobweb Of Disuse:** He´s covered in one in his loading screen portrait, possibly for hiding in the closet for an extended period.
* **One Hit-Point Wonder:** Played straight with this version, as simply touching an enemy will kill you.
* **Living In The Shadows:** Even moreso than his regular counterpart, what with his gloomy demeanor and **Face Framed In Shadow**.
* **In Da Hood:** He´s wearing a cloak.
* **Deadly Dodging:** You definitely have to be careful while playing as this guy, as any bullet will instanly end the run, however, due to his special time-slowing mechanic this is a little better to grasp.
* **The Faceless:** Even moreso than regular Clanky, whatever his face looked originally, now is just completely covered.
* **Then Let Me Be Evil:** This version of Clanky apparently has had enough of others walking over him and treating him like crap, so he dons an **All-Encompassing Mantle** **Black Cloak** and goes **Bad With The Bone** on every enemy that tries to touch him.

### The Holder?

Alternate Holder has blood stains on his face mask, pale skin and coughs uncontrollably. He starts with all of his health bar filled and a triple shot. Each time he purchases an object, one hearth of health is removed from his health bar permanently, meaning you have to be careful when opting wich object you want to buy. Aside from that, he has a new melee attack that contamines enemies close to him, dealing damage each time you use it.

* **Adam Smith Hates Your Guts:** Even moreso than regular Holder, as now buying anything causes permanent damage to him.
* **Black Eyes Of Evil:** Like his normal counterpart.
* **Sneeze Of Doom:** He has a special attack that consists of sneezing enemies out and spill germs on them, dealing them five ticks of damage per second.
* **Power At A Price:** He stars with full HP, but one hearth is permanently removed if he purchases an object.
* **Mechanically Unusual Class:** His aforementioned characteristics makes him a rather risk-or-reward type of character.
* **No Mouth:** Like his regular counterpart, he wears a face mask over his mouth.
* **Greed:** Wich was probably the cause for his current state...and still fully goes on with it.