Thinning-haired, amply-contoured gentlemen appear to be common in Archie Comics (Mr. Weatherbee, Coach Kleats, Smithers, Pop Tate).
Luke Perry died of a stroke in March 2019 and as a result of his death, Fred was killed off-screen by a speeding car while helping someone else who had a flat tire.
Mary Andrews is a middle-aged, pleasant-mannered, red-haired woman and Archie's typical American suburban mother.
This implies that he belonged to a fraternal order (like the Masons); later in the same story, he is shown to be present when a high-wire act in which Archie was involved goes wrong.
In the Season 1 finale, it is revealed that Hal made his then-girlfriend Alice give up her baby son for adoption while they were in high school.
Hal claimed he wanted to "cleanse the town" after being brainwashed as a child by his parents, who made him think such thoughts after his father massacred a family of four.
Alice's controlling nature is later attributed to her difficult life, with the startling revelation that she grew up on the Southside of Riverdale and was forced to give up her infant son for adoption when she was a teenager by her then-boyfriend Hal, making room for some sympathetic qualities.
Both have strawberry-blonde hair, are currently in their twenties, and are close to each other in age, but are significantly older than Betty (Polly still affectionately calls her "baby sister" on occasion).
Jughead's dad Forsythe Pendleton Jones II is very thin, unlike Fred Andrews or Hal Cooper.
Because of some confusion between the Archie Comics artists and the Filmation animation studio, Hot Dog switched owners frequently when he started appearing more.
Jughead dislikes the name in any form, and continues the family tradition of referring to the person only by his/her nickname by calling the baby "Jellybean".
To Reggie Mantle, whenever he mentions Jellybean's real name, "Forsythia", some kind of disaster happened to him, like his car being towed, or him slipping on a can, injuring himself, or most notably, being carried away by an elephant from the circus.
[8] In a story called "Picture This", during a trip to the mall with Betty, Veronica wanted to have Jellybean taken to a photo studio (similar to Glamour Shots).
This version of Grandma Jones (who still bears a strong resemblance to Jughead) is a hip single woman that drives a convertible and lives in the Riverdale suburbs.
She has a normal nose, short gray hair, and a heavier body build than the prior version of Grandma Jones that appeared during the "new look" period.
Often a minor character in many stories featured in Archie Comics, Hermione Lodge is a patrician but loving woman who is loyal to her family and often at a loss in dealing with the angst and attitudes of modern teenagers.
She is generally portrayed as a slender, white-haired woman, but, like many of the parents of the Archie teenagers, she has been made more youthful in recent years by the writers and editors of the comic book series.
She and Veronica are living in a luxury apartment building in Riverdale that Hermione owns and has a butler and doorman Smithers, still loyal to the Lodge family.
After Jason's memorial, Hermione ran into Fred, who tells her that the bookkeeper position in his business is still vacant so she can have the job if she wants, which she accepts in excitement.
In one story, Marcy eventually got a stepfamily when Elsie married widower Max Wells (who, unfortunately for Veronica, was the father of her new boyfriend Bryan, making them now cousins).
She is a stocky woman with short black hair (with streaks of white and gray), and she is partial to plaid flannel shirts.
He is pushed very hard and in Riverdale is a character who gets on Betty and Veronica's bad side and spends a lot of time trying to make a new image.
He wears contact lenses, a fact that is revealed when he loses them due to squirts of water from a water-gun-carrying Veronica Lodge.
At a televised quiz program, similar to Jeopardy!, Cedric sabotages Dilton to guarantee that Pembrooke will win the event.
He dated Betty's sister Polly prior to his death and she is initially pregnant with and later gives birth to and raises their children who are twins.
Clifford and Penelope were instrumental in thwarting Cheryl's scheme to break up the Riverdale gang's friendships for good when they were informed of their daughter's deceit by a concerned Mr. Weatherbee.
They forced her to shed her assumed identity of Shirley Merryweather and punished her by making her attend Riverdale High for the remainder of the school year.
The key factor to Wendy's character is that despite her attractiveness, she has a hard time finding a date due to her relationship with the principal.
Other potential love interests have included Dilton Doiley, and Bingo Wilkin; however, the stories involving these were one-off plots, no one has become her official boyfriend.
In the end, he started a family and a successful motorcycle business, but he and his brother fell out of touch due to their strained relationship.