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Coach Oop is a gym teacher at Mayview Middle School and the father of Ollie Oop in Paranatural.
Appearance[]
Coach Oop is a tall, heavily built man with blue eyes, balding brown hair, and a matching set of thick eyebrows and mustache. He wears a white-and-red baseball cap, a red collared shirt, white shorts, and black shoes. While sitting in his office, Coach Oop appears to be wearing black shorts instead.
Personality[]
Coach Oop is a boisterous, aggressive man with a passion for sports. He shows concern for the well-being of his students, as demonstrated by him taking Max to the nurse's office despite his protests of being fine and giving Jeff Flavors advice about laying low to avoid the Student Council's wrath.
In response to the district-wide ban of dodgeball after complains from "awful parents"[3], Coach Oop created the game Hitball, a variant of dodgeball, as a loophole to the rule.
Paranatural[]
Chapter 4[]
While walking at night with Johnny Jhonny, RJ, and Stephen, Ollie mentions that his parents are with his sister and that he didn't want to bother them for a ride.[4]
Chapter 5[]
During his morning gym class, Coach Oop introduces the rules of Hitball to his students with his son, Ollie, before picking Isabel Guerra and Johnny Jhonny as the team captains. He then retreats to his office overlooking the gym through a glass window, where he proceeds to play free flash games on his computer before falling asleep.
During a Hijack-possessed Jeff's attack on the game, Coach Oop is shown sound asleep on his desk as Violet vainly attempts to wake him up. After the game's conclusion, Violet manages to wake Coach Oop up and bring him back into the gym, where he expresses horror at the state of the class and decides to take Max Puckett and Jeff to the nurse's office and principal's office, respectively. Before letting Jeff go, Coach Oop advises him to keep his head down due to "the stiffs 'round here [not letting] troublemakers go unpunished"[5] Upon returning to the gym and letting the class go, Coach Oop has a short conversation with Ollie.
Later on, as a Hijack-possessed Mr. Spender takes a picture of his stomach injury in the mirror to send to Mina Zarei in the bathroom, Coach Oop passes the door and spots him, the injury concealed by the light in the mirror. After a brief pause, Coach Oop only says "...Nice." before walking away.[6]
Relationships[]
Family[]
- Ollie Oop - Coach Oop has a great deal of admiration for his son, who he refers to as his "baby boy."[7] Ollie utilizes passive-aggressive behavior and sarcasm when talking to his father about issues, which Coach Oop notes his annoyance at until Ollie switches tactics to blunt statements. [8] When their family was reunited at Mayview's General to celebrate Allie's remission, Ollie said that his father "just shows up for that good news", implying that he doesn't consider him a supporting presence in their lives. [9] Ollie has once called his dad "the human incarnation of an insincere apology" and is said to have little patience for his shortcomings. [10]
- Daisy - Whenever their marriage is mentioned, it is always portrayed as a crumbling relationship, a hair's breadth away from divorce. [11][10]
Abilities[]
General[]
Tools[]
mr. sun + doctopi
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Quotes[]
- "Yeah, yeah, pick your besties. Nepotism makes the world go round."
- — Coach Oop to Johnny and Isabel (Chapter 5, Page 29
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- "Pick yer team names, an' be sure to remember: WORK TOGETHER! There's no "I" in "HITBALL"."
- — Coach Oop to Johnny and Isabel (Chapter 5, Page 29)
- "...Dear god. They're going to ban hitball."
- — Coach Oop upon arriving back at the gym (Chapter 5, Page 82)
- "Tell yer lady friend t'get her butt back in the gym before I revoke the overt favoritism her jock status affords her."
- — Coach Oop to Max regarding Isabel Guerra (Chapter 5, Page 87)
- "Those passive-aggressive genes came from yer mother's side of the family."
- — Coach Oop to Ollie (Chapter 5, Page 98)
Trivia[]
- On Chapter 5, Page 28, Coach Oop begins to quote Chinese military strategist and philosopher Sun Tzu before being interrupted. Later, on Chapter 5, Page 71, a drawing of Tzu can be seen behind Dimitri Danger, confirmed by Zack Morrison on his Twitter.
- Coach Oop is one of five characters to have explicitly become a spectral through a near-death experience, the other being Valerie Day, Dimitri Danger, Dave Jones and Ritz Price-Lee.
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