The Maze Runner characters

Chuck

Chuck

Chuck is a very young and chatty Glader, the best friend of the Thomas in the Maze. He is the youngest among all other boys from the story. The boy becomes very attached to others and can be a true friend. In the book, Chuck's personality represents innocence. However, the hero changes...

Teresa Agnes

Teresa Agnes

Teresa is a teenager who arrives in the Glade immediately after Thomas. Her arrival becomes a huge shock to the Gladers as she is the first woman to ever come to the Glade. She is a very striking girl, with black hair and fair skin. She looks like a fifteen years old girl, though she is already...

Minho

Minho

Minho is a Glader and the keeper of the Runners. He is the first together with Thomas who succeed to survive at night in the Maze. As far as his appearance is concerned, he has many Asian features. His arms are truly strong, and the hair is short and dark. Also, he looks older than he truly is...

Alby

Alby

Being an outrageous leader of the Gladers, Alby is the oldest and the most trusted man in The Glade who keeps everything under his control. He is a person of color with a short-cropped hair and dark eyes. His face is always cleanly shaved. Throughout the story, the man has authority over much of...

Gally

Gally

Gally is a Glader with dark hair and green eyes.  He is a fascinating character in the story and differs from others with his realistic perception of reality. The hero also has an exciting life story. When he was nearly ten years old, he worked in the garden. He has very good logic and helps...

Ben

Ben

Ben is a semi-minor character in the book, a former Runner. He is nearly sixteen years old. Ben is a skinny boy with pale skin, blond hair, and deep eyes. The hero goes through the Changing and undergoes a serious metamorphosis after it. During the process, he gets the strong desire to kill Thomas...

Newt

Newt

Newt, who is named after Isaak Newton, is a Glader who looks much younger than many other Gladers. Being placed with the Group A, he is separated from his sister. He is Alby's Second-in-command and, for some time, Newt befriends Minho and Alby. He is rather tall and well-built boy, with blonde...

Thomas

Thomas, the main protagonist of the book, is one of the creators of the Maze together with Teresa Agnes. He is the last guy who comes into The Glade - a square place surrounded by a high Maze. In the beginning, one may see that all the citizens of The Glade treat him with some kind of caution...

Frypan

Frypan is an older-looking, bearded, and sloppy guy who dislikes when other individuals take any of his belongings. Even though he ignores the basic rules of hygiene, he is the resident chef of the Glade, and everybody trusts him in performing this role. The hero merely hates when others invade...

Clint

Clint is rather a short guy with dark grey curly hair. He is rather a minor character who is a former Glader. The hero operates in The Maze Runner as a Med-jack, along with his partner Jeff. Even more, he is almost always seen together with Jeff. The first time when Newt introduces Clint is when...

Jeff

Jeff is a former Glader, another professional Med-jack. However, he was not a Med-jack from the very beginning and wanted primarily to be a Runner. Jeff is rather a large tall boy with a buzz cut hair and a high-pitched voice. Practically, there is not a lot of information about the character. The...

Winston

Winston is the keeper and slicer of the Blood House, the place where animals are killed for providing food for Gladers. Contrary to what the readers may think, he truly loves his job and enjoys killing animals. It is difficult to say exactly whether he is named after a British scholar Robert...

Zart

Zart is the keeper of the Track-hoes and is one of the first keepers who work with Thomas. He is not a talkative person at all and is generally described as being a broody and big man. However, he is physically strong and perfectly performs his job. Talking about his appearance, he also has black...

Ava Paige

Chancellor Ava Paige is an enigmatic and highest-ranking chancellor. As far as her appearance is concerned, she may be described as a round-faced woman who has her hair always pulled back. From the beginning, Ava Paige is against the use of Immunes for the Trials. Also, she is one of those...

Hideous Woman

Hideous Woman is a crazed lady who unexpectedly appears in the story and puzzles the main hero with her strange behavior. She comes to inform Thomas that he is the only one meant to save all of them from the Flare and that it is his primary mission. She runs over by the car driven by the rescue...

The Creators

The Creators are special agents who are the primary participants of the organization WICKED, or World In Catastrophe Killzone Experiment Department. In general terms, they design a variety of experiments which they conduct on the Claders who imprisoned them. They are shown as individuals with...