Below is a list of all characters and their names given by the Dumb Ways to Die Wiki community, before their official names were announced by Metro.
Except for the characters in the Characters with official name section, they still have their own unofficial names simply for ease of reading and writing about them.
Characters with official name
The original music video
Names for all the characters in the original music video were announced at a Facebook post.
Verse 1
Set fire to your hair |
Blue Head Fire Guy ↓ Fire Head ↓ Set fire into hair character ↓ Smokey[1] ↓ Numpty[2] |
Poke a stick at a grizzly bear |
Yellow Stick Guy ↓ Mr.Poker ↓ Mr. Poker ↓ Hapless[3] |
Verse 2
Get your toast out with a fork |
Skeltion Guy ↓ Skeleton Guy ↓ Toasty[7] ↓ Dummkopf[3]/Dumbkopf[8]/Dummbkopf[9] |
Do your own electrical work |
Elecy |
Teach yourself how to fly |
Plane Driver ↓ Hikouki[11] ↓ Stupe |
Eat a two-week old unrefrigerated pie |
Pie Guy ↓ Blue Peanut ↓ Lax |
Verse 3
Invite a psycho killer inside |
Psycho Killer ↓ Clod |
Scratch a drug dealer's brand new ride |
Mr.Bag ↓ Mr. Garbage Bag ↓ Doomed |
Take your helmet off in outer space |
Mr.No Head Eyeballs ↓ Mr. Eyeballs ↓ Numskull |
Use a clothes dryer as a hiding place |
Spinny ↓ Bungle |
Verse 4
Keep a rattlesnake as a pet |
Snaker ↓ Keep a rattlesnake character ↓ Snake-eyes ↓ Mishap[3] |
Sell both your kidneys on the internet |
Mr.Kidney ↓ Dunce[12] |
Bridge
Dress up like a moose during hunting season |
Amoosing | Disturb a nest of wasps for no good reason |
B |
Stand on the edge of a train station platform |
Mr.Rocker ↓ Stumble[12] |
Drive around the boomgates at a level crossing |
Patience ↓ Jason ↓ Bonehead[12] |
Run across the tracks between the platforms |
Mr.Balloons ↓ Putz[12] |
Others
Dumb Ways to Die (application) / Print advertisement |
Phoney ↓ Phoney[16] |
Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games |
Splinters ↓ Loopy[17] |
Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games |
Potty ↓ Boffo[18] ↓ Boffo Loco[19] |
Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games |
Puck ↓ Ruckus[20] |
Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games |
Crumple / Skellieflop[6] ↓ Zany[21] |
Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games |
Gordy ↓ Madcap[22] |
Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games |
Bruce ↓ Dumbbell[23] |
Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games |
Louco ↓ Stupa[24] |
Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games |
Bruce[25] ↓ Phyllis[26] |
Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games |
Dingy ↓ Dingy[27] |
Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games |
Junior ↓ Junior[27] |
Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games |
Bard ↓ Bard[28] |
Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games |
Boothy ↓ Boothy[29] |
Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games |
Knucklehead ↓ Knucklehead[29] |
Dumb Ways to Draw |
Simpleton[30] ↓ Simpleton[31] |
Dumb Ways to Draw |
Shonky[30] ↓ Shonky[31] |
Dumb Ways to Draw |
Klotz ↓ Nincompoop[31] |
Dumb Ways to Die Facebook page |
Mr. Clown ↓ Clown[32] |
Characters with unofficial name
The below names are given by Dumb Ways to Die Wiki community or somewhere else.
- Melbourne International Film Festival
- April Fools Ways to Die
- Running of the Bulls
- Slip on the platform when you're running late
- Follow your Mate Through a Ticket Gate
- Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games
- Halloween
- Dumb Ways to Die Facebook page
- Nothing at the moment
- RTD
- Dumb Ways to Die 3: World Tour
- Dumb Ways to Draw
- N/A
Trivia
- Bonehead was previously named "Jason" by the Dumb Ways to Die Wiki community when the source of his name being found in Dumbwaystodie.com until it got rebooted into the teaser of Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games. The following were the steps of which how to find it out:
- Right click on any of website's contents and press "inspect element". Pressing F12 also works.
- Put the screen at an angle, so you can see "inspect element" and the boomgates guy.
- Hover your mouse over the line in inspect element that has
jason
. The blue box shows what it is. And it's on the boomgates guy.- Since the Third Website Release, he was seen again but the element's name was changed into
character car
.
- Since the Third Website Release, he was seen again but the element's name was changed into
References/Notes
- ↑ Smokey is a pun on the word Smoke.
- ↑ His name was revealed at a Facebook post.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 His name was revealed by his plush's product name.
- ↑ Meddy is a pun on the word Medicine.
- ↑ Skelly is a pun on the word Skeleton.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 He originally was thought to be a different character.
- ↑ Toasty is a pun on the word Toast.
- ↑ A post in Dumb Ways to Die Facebook page
- ↑ Medium Dummbkopf - Dumb Ways To Die Shop
- ↑ Elecy is a pun on the word electric.
- ↑ Hikouki is the Romanization of the Japanese word
飛 行 機 , meaning Plane or Airplane. - ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 His name was confirmed by Ms.Waymark the General Manager of DWtD series.
- ↑ The name was given by the YouTuber lonniedos after playing the Dumb Ways to Die (application).
- ↑ Amoosing is a pun on the word Amusing and Moose.
- ↑ The name B sounds the same like the word bee.
- ↑ The name was approved by Practice Mode which was updated at the app version 2.3.0.
- ↑ His name was revealed at a Facebook post.
- ↑ His name was decided at a Facebook post.
- ↑ His middle name was decided at a Facebook post, which middle name was originally decided for his name before DWtD App page MOD realized he is an existing character and already has a name.
- ↑ His name was decided at a Facebook post.
- ↑ His name was decided at a Facebook post.
- ↑ His name was decided at a Facebook post.
- ↑ His name was decided at a Facebook post.
- ↑ Her name was confirmed at update note of DWtD2 version 1.7..
- ↑ Due to she has similar characteristics with Dumbbell, which made her being believed she and Dumbbell were the same character.
- ↑ Her name was introduced at a Facebook post.
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 His name was officially displayed after the Character Book update.
- ↑ His name was officially displayed after the Super Hero update.
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 His name was officially displayed after the Alien Invasion update.
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 The name was found in the in-game asset of Dumb Ways to Draw.
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2 The name is officially announced in the YouTube video Meet the New Beans.
- ↑ They appear to be called just clown.
- ↑ The name is German for rider.