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Jonah

Jonah is a prophet, who goes around giving people God's messages. However, when God sends him to Nineveh to tell the people there to give up their evil ways, he refuses, wanting nothing to do with those people, and tries to run away from his calling.

• Beyond Redemption: When he refuses to give the Ninevites the second chance God gave him and is infuriated at the very idea that God would be merciful to anyone else, Khalil and Reginald consider Jonah to be a lost cause and leave him to sulk.
• Despair Event Horizon: Crosses over when he sees that God isn't wiping out the Ninevites and as Khalil leaves him at the end of the story after biting off the plane that was his shade.
• Holier than Thou: His justification to not go through with God's plan is that the Israelites (and notably, him) are the chosen people and the Ninevites are not. Even after the Ninevites genuinely repent, let him go, and change their ways, he still doesn't see them worthy of the compassion and mercy given to him.
• Hypocrite: Despite Jonah doing wrong in God's eyes, He offered Jonah a second chance. However, Jonah doesn't believe God would give a single Ninevite one.
  Pirates: You'd think he'd have learned a lot from being saved from an awful spot.
  But the second chance that he had got, he didn't want to be spread.
• Identical Stranger: The famous rock star Twippo is a dead ringer for him. What relationship there is (same person, descendant, reincarnation, coincidence) is left completely ambiguous.
• It's All About Me: Khalil calls him out on this, retorting, "Has it ever occurred to you that maybe God loves everybody?! Not just you?!"
• Lack of Empathy: Towards the Ninevites; he waits for God to destroy them all... after delivering a message of God's mercy to them.
• Punch-Clock Hero: He only ultimately delivers the message to Nineveh because he has to. Once he has, he still waits around for them to all die anyway.
• Refusal of the Call: He does not want to help the Ninevites, and tries to go as far away from Nineveh as possible.
  • The Call Knows Where You Live: Trying to hide from God Himself goes as well as can be expected.
• Skewed Priorities: Spends one minute wanting God to wipe Nineveh off the face of the Earth, and the next minute whining that Khalil ate a weed that was shading him.
  Khalil: All your whining made me hungry!
• What the Hell, Hero?: When Jonah gets upset that God doesn't wipe out the Ninevites anyway... after they've already repented, Khalil gets righteously frustrated with him.
• You Can't Fight Fate: Why a prophet, of all people, thought he could run from the message of the Lord Almighty is something only Jonah knows, but run he did, and the entire story is basically God pushing him back in the direction he's supposed to be going.

Khalil

Khalil was introduced in Jonah, he has since become a regular in the series.

A caterpillar/worm who is a traveling rug salesman. When he meets Jonah, he decides to become Jonah's traveling buddy and help him on his mission.

• Accidental Misnaming: Jonah constantly mispronounces Khalil's name as "Carlyle."
• Adaptational Species Change: Downplayed. His original counterpart was only stated to be a worm, but this version is half caterpillar. But he's okay with it now.
• Ascended Extra: In the Book of Jonah, the worm appears in exactly one sentence near the end. Khalil is the Plucky Comic Relief for most of the film.
• Broken Pedestal: Khalil Squees when he recognizes Jonah, but that ends pretty drastically.
• Canon Character All Along: He's the worm who ate the plant Jonah was using for shade.
• Comically Missing the Point: He jumps to conclusions about why Jonah is traveling to Tarshish, thinking Jonah is going to disrupt a ring of camel thieves. Jonah doesn't bother to correct him.
  Khalil: (after learning Jonah's true intent) But... the camels...?
• Funny Foreigner: Talks in a thick middle-eastern accent. It's even implied that he is a Muslim.
• It Runs in the Family: His catchphrase is him stating that various quirky traits run deep in his family, ranging from insight to digestion.
• The Load: He ends up being the Only Sane Man at the end.
• Mad Libs Catch Phrase "[Quality] runs very deep in my family!" Patience doesn't run THAT deep, though.
• Series Mascot: Khalil is this for the film, having lots of spin-off merchandise themed around him, playing a role in the VBS program for the film and appearing on the spine of the home video release of not only the film itself (rather than the main character, Jonah), but also on the spine of Jonah Sing-Along Songs And More.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After Jonah whines about God not zapping the Ninevites already, only to cry over his cut-down tree shade, Khalil gives up on him. Patience runs very deep in his family... but not that deep.

Reginald

• Even the Dog Is Ashamed: Despite being loyal to Jonah, he unceremoniously follows Khalil after he abandons Jonah.
• High-Class Glass: A camel with a monocle.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Follows Khalil when he leaves Jonah in disgust.
• Uncatty Resemblance: Like his owner, he wears a distinctive monocle and has an aloof air about him.

King Twistomer

The King of the Ninevites, enemies of the Israelites which are infamous for slapping people with fish, including each other. However, this was because he, like the rest of them, can't tell good from bad, which all changes after Jonah comes to Nineveh.

• Big Bad: He's the ruler over Nineveh, the people of whom are the reasons why God sent Jonah to Nineveh.
• Evil Is Petty: He was going to have Jonah and his friends publicly executed just because they were found guilty of high thievery when they went on a tour. Granted, it was just Larry who stole Nineveh's products because he was misled into thinking they were free, as they were in a large bowl in the open, but Twistomer wanted all five of them dead anyway.
• Heel–Face Turn: He truly repents when he signs the order that the Ninevites need to repent and give up their corrupt deeds, and lets Jonah and his friends leave Nineveh as it becomes a much better place.
• Hypocrite: Wanted Jonah and his allies sentenced to death for committing "high theft against the royal city of Nineveh", even though the Ninevites themselves were thieves and Twistomer did nothing about it up until hearing Jonah's message.
• My God, What Have I Done?: When he hears the message from Jonah that God will destroy Nineveh if they don't stop their violence, Twistomer is upset at realizing what he's done, as he didn't know it was wrong because no one told him beforehand.