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Character page for Netflix 's The Midnight Club The Midnight Club The Midnight Club A secret society, composed of the teenage patients at Brightcliffe Hospice, who get together every night at midnight, in front of a roaring fireplace. After drinking to special toast, one of the group members is chosen to tell a fictional story.

They all meet under the agreement that, when one of them dies, if there is any form of afterlife, then the deceased will do any and everything to try and get a message back to the living. Adaptational Diversity : All five members are white in the book, but of the nine members seen in the series, only Anya and Kevin are white.

Adaptational Expansion : In the book, it's an Oddly Small Organizationwith only four members, despite their being many more patients in the hospice. In the series, it's implied to include all the patients at Brightcliffe.

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Adaptational Mundanity : Inverted. In the book, the club is simply a fun activity started by four patients to make their stay at the hospice more exciting. The agreement gay contact each other after death comes only weeks after its founding. In the series, the club was founded 30 years previously by Julia Jayne, originally had some disturbing cultish overtones, and its explicit connection to death and the possibility of an afterlife is a midnight from the start.

Age Lift : The club itself is implied to have been around for at least 30 years, and none of the current members have any idea who founded it though they discover it was Julia Jayneas it already existed spencer Spence, the is the oldest patient at the start of the series, started at Brightcliffe.

In the book, Spence, Anya, Ilonka, and Kevin all founded it together. Littlest Cancer Patient : The teen-variety. All its members are dying, mostly of cancer, but all of them take an emotional beating in the series and survive it. No Last Name Given : Ilonka is the only whose last name is spoken onscreen, and her last name does not even appear in the credits.

The others all go by their club names. Spared by the Adaptation : In the book, the club ceases to exist when Ilonka dies, as she was the sole living member at that point. In the series, the club is explicitly designed to outlive all its current members, as each new patient at Brightcliffe is eventually initiated, meaning it won't disappear when the current roster dies.

Word of God states that the club itself outlives all the patients' stays at Brightcliffe after the story concludes. To Absent Friends : At the beginning of every meeting of the club, the members give the same toast. To those after. To us now. And to those beyond.

Seen or unseen. Here but not here. Almost all of them get burned in the failed attempt to use a Paragon ritual to cure Anya. Ilonka Pawluk. An ace high school student and foster child, who recently lost her foster mother, Molly, leaving her with her foster father, Tim.