The Death Cure Characters

Change is DifficultCh-ch-ch-ch-changes. Yeah, it's easy for David Bowie, but not so much for Thomas. You might be wondering if Thomas's characterization has really changed from the Book Two, but, w...

Keep Your Friends Close And Your Enemies Far Far AwayThe phrase Keep your friends close but your enemies closer doesn't exactly apply to Minho. He wants his enemies to be as far away as possible fr...

The New CrankThere was always something not quite right about Newt. He's always been a fairly main character—and he usually ends up providing some reasonable insights to steer the Gladers in the...

The KeyPlot twist: Brenda works for WICKED. That's right, the Crank girl Thomas finds in the Scorch is yet another Variable—another trick—supplied by the good folks at WICKED. Luckily for Thoma...

Never Trusted AgainRemember Teresa? Like, one of the protagonists back in The Maze Runner? Yeah, she's barely even in The Death Cure. Sure, she has her moments, but her role is reduced astronomical...

The Face Of WICKEDIn every good-guy-versus-bad-guy novel, there has to be a chief bad guy. In The Death Cure, that person is Janson—or as the Gladers like to call him, Rat Man.Janson is the guy w...

A Tortured SoulHe's baaaaaack. Don't worry: Gally won't be throwing any knives in this book. He's actually on the good team. Gally was the kid in the first book who hated Thomas's guts from the ver...

The PilotOkay people, Jorge's that dude who's the "leader" of the Cranks back in the Scorch in Book Two. But it really turns out that Jorge is actually just a pilot for WICKED. He's also one of the...

We never get to actually see Chancellor Paige; Thomas sees posters of her likeness displayed throughout Denver, but she's not actually a living, breathing character that walks around. Instead, we g...

Yeah, the fill-ins. These are the peeps in the background who will very likely get crushed by a giant ceiling tile or zapped by a large bolt of lightning. The other Gladers really just serve the pu...