club eltingville

A group of teenagers obsessed with comics, horror, science fiction, and role-playing games form a club where meetings end in absurd fights over trivial details. It's a satire of geek fandom.

Jerry Stokes

Full name: Jerome Titus Stokes Jr.

Age: 17 years

Position: Secretary of Fantasy and Role-Playing

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Jerry with the others

He is the weakest and becomes the victim of Bill and Pete's teasing.

He tries to please Josh, but ends up being ridiculed.

His relationship with everyone is one of submission: he laughs nervously and goes along with things so as not to be expelled.

Pete DiNunzio

Full name: Peter Michael DiNunzio

Age: 17 years

Position: Secretary of Horror

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Pete with the others

He is violent with everyone, especially with Josh, whom he insults for his elitist air.

With Bill, he alternates between rivalry and complicity in attacks.

He mocks Jerry, although he sometimes uses him as an easy target to vent his aggression.

Josh Levy

Full name: Joshua Aaron Levy

Age: 17 years

Position: Secretary of Science Fiction

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Josh with the others

He engages Bill in intellectual discussions, but usually loses due to the other's aggressiveness.

He looks down on Jerry, treating him as ignorant.

With Pete, the relationship is tense: Josh considers him rude and uncultured, while Pete sees him as pedantic.

Bill Dickey

Full name: William Alan Dickey

Age: 17–18 years (27–28 in the epilogue)

Position: Comics Secretary / Club Leader

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Bill with the others

He treats everyone with sarcasm and verbal abuse.

He constantly mocks Jerry, humiliating him to reaffirm his leadership.

Clash with Josh in trivia debates, as they both want to prove their superiority.

With Pete, the relationship is one of aggressive rivalry, although sometimes they team up to attack others.

He is the most insecure and passive.

Although he neither leads nor confronts, he joins in the mockery and humiliation so as not to be excluded.

It represents the figure of the fan who, out of fear of rejection, reinforces toxicity instead of questioning it.

He is the most aggressive and violent of the group.

His temper is explosive, with a tendency towards insults and physical confrontation.

She embodies the misogyny and hostility of the fandom, reacting furiously to any threat to her "geek territory".

He is the intellectual elitist, obsessed with demonstrating superiority through impossible trivia.

His personality is pedantic, with a pseudo-academic air that seeks to invalidate anyone who does not know as much as he does.

It represents the part of the fandom that turns knowledge into a weapon of exclusion.

He is the self-proclaimed leader of the group.

His dominant trait is cruel sarcasm and the need to humiliate others.

It represents the figure of the fan who uses his knowledge to exert power and control over the group.

His relationship with others is abusive: he ridicules Jerry, mocks Pete, and competes with Josh.