| NOTE: This page only covers Beetlejuice in the Musical. His movie varient can be found here. |
Lawrence Beetlejuice is the titular protagonist of the musical of the same name, based on the film.
He is a demon who is cursed to be invisible to the living until one says his name 3 times, which he also can't say.
He is played by Alex Brightman in the Broadway show and Justin Collete in the tour.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Heinous?[]
- He was a bio-exorcist who dead people hired to scare living people out of their homes, mentioning he's been "scaring for millennia".
- During the song "The Whole Being Dead Thing", he told the audience that if he heard their cell phone ringing, "I'll kill you myself".
- He showed no concern about an ensemble member being taken away by the "giant snake here", instead cheerfully waving to her.
- He wanted to have someone say his name three times in a row to summon him, also saying he wants people to say to him "hey, I see you, I accept you, I fear for my safety around you".
- He mentioned he's been watching Adam and Barbara for a while, and admits it was very creepy.
- He was excited at the prospect of Adam and Barbara's deaths because only dead people are able to summon him, even watching it with popcorn and a soda.
- He threw the Handbook for the Recently Deceased into a fire to make Adam and Barbara think they have to stay to help him rather than go to the Netherworld, even mimicking a puppet show where the book is a living puppet who screams when it dies.
- He repeatedly sexually harassed Adam and Barbara, saying to him "let's all get naked", telling them "come on, let's make out a bit", and outright forcefully kissing them, with Adam saying Beetlejuice has "pinched, groped, and harassed him".
- He begged Adam and Barbara to hire him to scare Lydia, Charles, and Delia out of the house after they bought it, and was ecstatic when they agreed, deciding to teach them how to be scary.
- He told Adam and Barbara he would love to kill Lydia, Charles, and Delia if he was able to, horrifying them.
- He told Adam and Barbara he's "trying to fill them with wisdom and skill and the instinct to kill", and told them to make Lydia, Charles, and Delia say his name three times to summon him while they're still "quaking in terror".
- After Adam and Barbara failed to be scary at all, he abandoned them, telling them he'll "see them in Hell".
- When Lydia came to the roof to kill herself after finding out Charles and Delia were engaged, Beetlejuice became ecstatic after realising Lydia could see him, and after she told him she was going to jump, he told her to summon him by saying his name three times and told her she should kill Charles.
- After Lydia refused to summon him and Adam and Barbara came in and warned her that Beetlejuice is "a dangerously unstable individual", Beetlejuice possessed them to make them say good things about him, with Barbara shouting "what the heck was that?" and Adam mentioning it was "so violating".
- After Lydia, Adam, and Barbara tried to scare Charles and Delia out of the house during an important meeting only to fail miserably, Lydia summoned Beetlejuice as a last resort, who proceeded to have the pig meal turned sapient and chase Barbara, before summoning a monster to get Maxie Dean, Maxine Dean, their five lawyers, Charles, and Delia to "run for their lives" while the monster says "we've come for your daughter, Chuck", with Adam and Barbara being forced into the attic.
- He and Lydia scared many people who came into the house, including a girl scout with congenital heart disease that could have died from a sheer shock and one who outright faints, with them both finding people screaming beautiful, and he possessed the people he scared just to do a dance break.
- After Lydia decided to ask Adam and Barbara how to use the Handbook for the Recently Deceased to find her mom, he decided to force Lydia to marry him so he can roam free in the living world, defending it by saying it's "just a green card thing" while calling it a "super evil plan".
- He tricked Lydia by giving her a spell in the Handbook for the Recently Deceased that he claimed will bring her dead mom back, only for it to instead exorcise her new mother figure Barbara, which is "death for the dead", while Barbara screams in pain, which he claimed was all Lydia's fault for wanting her mother back.
- He told Lydia the only way to save Barbara was if she married him, again calling it a "green card thing", using his powers to tie up Adam and Charles after they objected.
- He attempted to send Adam and Barbara to the Netherworld, only for Lydia and Charles to go there instead, leading him to decide to kill Adam, Barbara, Delia, and Otho with a game show.
- After deciding the game was taking too long, he tossed the wheel with Otho aside, with Otho being sent to the Netherworld because Delia wanted him dead for being a con artist.
- He tried to kill Charles after not buying that he was actually going to give him his blessing to marry Lydia.
- After being fooled into thinking Lydia actually wanted to marry him, he went along with it, cheerfully saying "I'm a creepy old guy" and that "I was ignored, but now, I'm adored, because I extorted, tortured, and lied, give it up for my underaged bride!"
- After unable to process his anger after being turned alive, he decided to try murdering one of the heroes, only to be stopped by Lydia.
- While saying goodbye to Barbara, he made a last attempt to seduce her, and said "go f*ck yourself" to Charles after Charles said to having changed throughout the journey.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- He is played entirely for laughs, not having a single serious moment throughout the musical that lasts for more than a few seconds.
- His curse makes him sympathetic in a played-for-laughs way, with "Invisible (Reprise)" highlighting this.
- He is genuinely good friends with Lydia, relating to her with them both disliking their parents and helping her get Charles and Delia out of the house, and tries to stop Juno from taking her to the Netherworld.
- He has some respect for the Maitlands for shedding their boring personality and fighting back.
- He has standards, as he mentions that he can't believe that some cultures think that adults marrying kids is OK.
- He partially redeems himself after coming back to life, killing Juno to save the Maitlands and the Deetzes.
External Links[]
- Beetlejuice on the Villains Wiki