Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Her presence as a new member in the Circus unintentionally develops conflict in the pilot as Ragatha is encouraged to have Pomni meet Kaufmo and Caine is encouraged to create the "Gather the Gloinks" adventure also leading to Zooble getting captured. Meeting Kaufmo leads to Ragatha's avatar getting damaged due to his abstraction and Caine's disappearance for the adventure prevents Ragatha from getting healed until Pomni gets his attention by accidentally entering the Void through the last of a series of "exit" doors. Jester hat: a colorful hat with bells on the ends that is often worn by jesters or clowns during Halloween. Name Amnesia: None of them can remember their name before the Circus, instead using bizarre ones chosen by Caine. Broken Smile: As her time in the Circus goes, she starts getting unhappy smiles all around, especially at the pilot's ending feast; you can practically hear her sanity crumbling in the grimacing, pained smile creeping onto her face seemingly against her will. Early-Bird Cameo: A vocal variant. His off-screen voice is heard in Bubble's teaser, released days before his own.

Jumping spider: a type of spider that jumps and could be used as a Halloween decoration or costume. Expy: Her Expressive Mask concept is modeled after Kedamono from Popee the Performer, as confirmed by Gooseworx. Despair Event Horizon: They're the result of this: any of the performers completely losing it mentally and/or emotionally will result in them abstracting - which, with the Circus being the way it is (not to mention the inhabitants probably can't escape), is only a matter of time. Ambiguous Situation: It's deliberately left vague as to whether her emotions determine her masks or her masks determine her emotions. Lovable Coward: While he wants to help Zooble while they're kidnapped by the Gloinks, he's... not the best help, as he's scared to go to their nest and to fight their queen.Historic England had many roles in the kingdom, with jesters playing an integral role in the formation of arts and entertainment. Some have even claimed because of court jesters, we have stand-up comics today. Oh, how history surprises us! Early Installment Character-Design Difference: A downplayed example but in most promos released before the pilot's trailer (including her original 2D artwork before it was updated and the series' main poster), the gloves and shoes in each of Pomni's sides had the same color as each other (blue for the right glove and shoe, red for the left ones). From the pilot's trailer onwards, Pomni's right glove is red and her left one is blue, leading to the shoes and gloves on each side to have different colors instead. Getting Eaten Is Harmless: Zooble is swallowed by the Gloink queen upon meeting her, which Jax assures they'll be fine despite. True to form, the Queen promptly regurgitates them when Kaufmo lands on her, no worse for wear. The Pollyanna: Her introductory tweet describes her as the "sweetest little optimist" in the Digital Circus, which she shows by reacting to the cleaver launched into her head as if it were nothing. That said, the Death Glare she gives Jax after he trips her in his introductory short implies that she has her limits, and the synopsis all but states she has her own trauma like all the others. It's heavily implied this is a coping mechanism and a survival tactic.

Loss of Identity: As said by Caine, entering the circus forces them to inevitably confront a radically changed life. To demonstrate Pomni panics over forgetting her original name and Zooble's abandoned any gender identity because they've lost the concept of it. Repulsive Ringmaster: He's a mad, creepy-looking A.I. in charge of the titular circus, putting the human souls trapped there through torturous acts without much concern for, or awareness of, their physical or mental well-being. A Head at Each End: The Queen has identical faces on both ends of her body, though only one is shown actually speaking. The other head just spits out new Gloinks made from the objects she swallows.That said, female jesters were treated a bit more humanely than men, and we're often harmed or killed. They were for entertainment only, being more like 'in-house' performers for royalty. Men, however, often also took on roles of messengers, bringing news from towns or other areas into the castles they worked in. In many ways, both of these roles could be compared to that of indentured servants at the time, minus the cooking and cleaning and child watching. Gaslighting: Pomni sees what is clearly an exit door, but Caine claims that she must be suffering a "digital hallucination" from her recent arrival. O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When Pomni presses him about the exit she saw, the normally bombastic ringmaster hastily shuts her down and just... stands floating in the air, his hand fidgeting as if he's trying to compose himself before getting everybody to move along. It's ambiguous if he responds this way because he knows the exit she's talking about is dangerously unfinished, or if there's something else going on he doesn't want her knowing about.

Floating Limbs: His hands are White Gloves that hover in front of his body. When he tries to save Zooble from the Gloinks in the pilot, this only results in the Gloinks stealing his hands too when he grabs Zooble's head. Et Tu, Brute?: Though she accepts Pomni's apology to her the first time she gets abandoned, understanding that there were extenuating circumstances at the time, her demeanor towards Pomni at the end after she has to drag herself towards Caine to be healed implies that she took her new friend abandoning her a second time despite her apology much harder. Though it's also implied that she could just still be feeling guilty herself over how much Pomni's first day ended up going wrong, if not both. Big Bad Wannabe: The Gloink Queen was conjured by Caine to be the Big Bad of the "Gather the Gloinks" adventure, but none of the cast take it seriously, and the Queen ends up being trounced by the Abstracted Kaufmo, an actual threat to the performers that eclipses anything the Gloink Queen could have done. Insect Queen: They have a queen and a generally ant-like eusocial structure, living in a cavernous nest and bringing objects for the Queen to gloink. The Ghost: Already abstracted by the start of the series, so what he was like as a person can only be inferred by what the other performers say about him.Walking Spoiler: It's almost impossible to talk about him and his conspicuous absence from the intro without revealing that he abstracted, bringing up abstraction and its greater implications in the process.

Beatrice K. Otto offers a fascinating history of the jester in her book Fools Are Everywhere: The Court Jester Around the World (2001). For example, she quotes Sima Xiangru (ca. 179-117 BC), who in Rhapsody on the Shanglin Park writes:

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Smug Smiler: Jax' smile coupled with his sassy manners and his sneaky eyes are a way to make him all the more insufferable to his comrades. Voiced by: Michael Kovach (English) Other dubs Pablo Gandolfo (Spanish), William Viana (Brazilian Portuguese), Max Mann (Russian), Soichiro Sugawa (Japanese), Bryan Dave Bobadilla Perez (Filipino), Richard MR Toelle (Indonesian)