I Am Not Okay With This is one of Netflix's newest teen shows (based on the comic by Charles Forsman) making waves. Depicting the life of a moody and angry sixteen-year-old girl with few friends, the story veers off into supernatural territory when we find out she can blow things up with her brain when she gets mad. Unable to control it, most of the drama in I Am Not Okay With This happens when people start finding out, and she tries to figure out what it is.
One of the most compelling parts of I Am Not Okay With This is the friendships and the family relationships, which are few, but nevertheless strong, with the characters really having fun with each other one screen. Without further ado, here are the main characters of I'm Not Okay With This and how they've developed so far, according to the D&D alignment system.
10 Syd - Chaotic Good
The main character in I Am Not Okay With This, Syd is moody, angry and constantly grumpy, but nevertheless, she tries really hard and has a good heart. Despite the fact that she can literally blow things and people up, she doesn't want to use her powers for bad, and feels guilty when she accidentally uses her powers. Most of the show, she has a huge moral dilemma about her powers, and in the last episode, she tries her hardest to keep her cool but things just end up chaotic because she doesn't know how to control her powers yet.
9 Stanley - Neutral Good
Stanley is one of the sweetest characters on I Am Not Okay With This, genuinely wanting to be around Syd despite how angry she can get at him, or how mean. When he discovers her powers, he immediately promises not to tell anyone and keeps his promise. Then, he decides to try to help her get a hold on her powers because he cares about her and doesn't want her to suffer from her lack of control.
Throughout the show, he goes along with all her chaos and makes sure to help her when he can. He also never expects anything from her, despite really being into her romantically.
8 Dina - Neutral Good
At first, we might have categorized Dina as lawful good, a sweet teen who follows the rules, wants to date the cute popular boy, proceeding to go to his games and wear his football jacket. But soon enough, when Syd's life starts being chaotic, Dina gets sucked in. She ends up helping Syd and Stanley steal from the principal's office and smokes weed with them there. However, Dina's character hasn't been fully developed, and we don't fully get a three-dimensional character, so to speak. We'll have to wait until Netflix renews I Am Not Okay With This for a second season to know whether she stays Neutral Good or not.
7 Brad - Chaotic Evil
While Brad seems schemey throughout Netflix's I Am Not Okay With This, he seems like a low-level villain whose actions are based on wanting to get the girl and wanting to act whichever way he wants without consequences. He's mostly a bit of a controlling scum bag when he cheats on Dina, and he gets mad at her for hanging out at the party with Syd instead of him.
His chaos and evil tendencies truly come out when he steals Syd's diary, starts reading it in front of the school, and starts shouting hateful and homophobic taunts at her while bashing her. When you add all his actions up together, he truly becomes Chaotic Evil.
6 Maggie - Chaotic Neutral
Syd's mom's actions throughout I Am Not Okay With This are mostly led by the circumstances of her life. She doesn't really get the chance to be good because she is constantly working 60-hour weeks after the suicide of her husband, and trying to raise two kids who are more than a handful. While Maggie's chaos is understandable, she often takes out a lot of her anger on Syd, saying some mean and unreasonable things. While we understand that a mom's job is difficult, it seems a little too much for Maggie to put so much onto her kid, which is why she doesn't veer into good territory, despite not being a bad person.
5 Liam - Lawful Good
Liam is a good kid, sad about his dad's death and just trying to do his best. He is smart and clearly loves his sister and mom, trying to resolve their arguments by taking the pressure off. When Syd tells her mom that she does everything for Liam after her mom asks her to pick him up after school and make him supper, Liam offers to cook to help his sister to stop the fight.
Though definitely a bit too reserved, as we see when he gets hit by another kid at school and doesn't say anything about it, he obeys the rules and just wants the best for others. When Syd goes to prom, he pretends to be her dad, telling her to get home at a reasonable time, and to have fun.
4 Ricky - Neutral "Undecided"
Ricky is a hard character to pin down because he is so much in Brad's shadow. When rumors start going around that Brad is a cheater and has gotten chlamydia, he's the only one who stays at the lunch table with him. When Brad goes off the rails and is clearly about to do something bad at the prom, Ricky looks weary but brushes the feeling off, pretending that everything is going to be okay and that his friend isn't clearly plotting something bad. Hopefully, Ricky will be able to shine in the second season now that Brad is gone and not sit in his shadow.
3 Jenny - Neutral Evil
Jenny is obviously chaotic, causing a ruckus where ever she goes. She drinks too much, got sent to rehab, came back still drinking and smoking. She also doesn't care about anyone else, acting in a way that pleases herself only, and not caring about the way her actions affect others.
When she sleeps with Brad, she isn't sorry for helping him cheat on Dina, but rather makes a joke of it in front of her and Syd, at Brad's expense. She's mostly a flat character, causing havoc, and is neutral because she doesn't really have a singular allegiance.
2 Mr. Whitaker - Lawful Neutral
Mr. Whitaker ends up having to play the Judge, the character that acts as the law in high school. Because he's a high school teacher with kids roaming around doing God knows what, he can't really be much more than someone who enforces the rules; he doesn't have time to be anything else. And given his age, he's probably been a teacher, and then a principal for a long time, and must be pretty fed up with dealing with rowdy teenagers. When the burrito bomb happens, and a low breaking noise erupts, he screams "I'm too old for this s**t," which hopefully means he's going to retire soon, for his own sake.
1 Mr. File - Lawful Neutral
Mr. File is just doing his job, trying to teach the kids sex ed without silly interruptions -- such as the one provided by Brad. Mr. File, like Mr. Whitaker, doesn't really have much of a personality beyond being a school teacher trying to do his best at teaching. He seems more non-plussed than Mr. Whitaker, though maybe that's because he has less responsibility. He's pretty lawful, taking his job seriously, and when Brad copies off Dina's test, he gives them both detention since he doesn't have allegiances and just doesn't accept cheating, whether you're the cheater or being cheated off of.
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