
Joe RidgewayĮnglish teacher Joe is far younger in the TV show and. He becomes friends with Scot, the members of the film club, and Kinsey in order to get closer to the Locke family – all to find the keys. Rather, the writers have created a different identity for Dodge in the new student Gabe. However, in the season finale, we learn that the romance between Zack and Kinsey hasn’t been retconned. In later episodes, we see flashbacks that show the demonic echo returned in the form of Lucas (Felix Mallard) after being summoned by Ellie, and she gives him the identity key to allow him to become Dodge. Instead of kissing Tyler, Zack becomes best friends with Tyler and the boyfriend of Kinsey. However, in the TV show, once she escapes the well house, she interacts with the Locke kids (even snogging Tyler) and others in that form far more often compared to the comics – which instead sees her quickly use the Gender Key to return to looking like Lucas Caravaggio, adopts the name Zack Wells, and then pretend to be the nephew of Ellie Whedon. Dodge/Lucasĭodge (Laysla De Oliveira) is the female form of the demonic echo of Lucas Caravaggio and, like in the comics, she’s the first version we meet in the well house.

Her death is also changed from the page: originally she is murdered by Dodge but in the season finale, she is mistakenly thrown through the demon portal by the Locke kids and their friends because her identity was changed to look like Dodge. He still plays with action figures, but he communicates more easily with others than on the show.Įllie is similarly manipulated by the echo of her dead boyfriend Lucas/Dodge throughout the season, though in the comics a fragment of his mind inserts itself into Ellie’s, causing her to go slightly mad. In the show, the grandmother is not around but Rufus (Cody Bird) is the adopted son of Ellie and works as the groundskeeper for Keyhouse. He suffers from physical and emotional abuse from his grandmother Candice Whedon until she is murdered by Dodge. Rufus has an unspecified mental disorder and, though he speaks in military language through his action figures, he is more than aware of the dangers around him. In the comics, Rufus is the biological son of Ellie and her ex, Gil, who leaves the family to join the military.
