Codename: Kids Next Door/Characters

Sector V
The main characters of the show, they are a division of a worldwide organization known as the Kids Next Door. They are considered to be one of the best teams in the KND.
 * 2×4 Technology: What most of their equipment is made of.
 * Badass Adorable
 * Badass Crew
 * Badass Normal: By comparison with most of the villains anyway, as they rely mainly on the aforementioned Bamboo Technology and their military training in combat.
 * Colour Coded for Your Convenience / Five-Kid Band: The team fits this to the letter.
 * The Hero: Numbuh One/Nigel - Red
 * The Lancer: Numbuh Five/Abby - Purple/Indigo
 * The Smart Guy: Numbuh Two/Hoagie - Blue
 * The Big Guy: Numbuh Four/Wally - Orange
 * The Chick: Numbuh Three/Kuki - Green
 * Sixth Ranger: Numbuh Six / Bradley
 * The Load: Temporary Numbuh 49 / Lizzie - Yellow
 * Five Token Band: A British boy, an American boy, a Japanese girl, an Australian boy, and a French/African-American girl.
 * Free Range Children
 * Kid Heroes
 * True Companions
 * Tween Super Spies
 * Two Girls to A Team
 * You Are Numbuh Six

Numbuh 1
Numbuh One / Nigel Uno

""Kids Next Door, battle stations!""

The leader of Sector V, an overworking agent who loves every minute of his job. He is widely considered one of the best of the best. However, his paranoia and stubbornness have gotten in the way of doing his job effectively at times. He is voiced by Benjamin Diskin.


 * Adorably Precocious Child: Tries too hard to not act his age.
 * Agent Mulder
 * Authority Equals Asskicking
 * Bald of Awesome
 * Berserk Button: Messing with his teammates.
 * Cain and Abel: The Abel to the Delightful Children's Cain.
 * Captain Picard
 * Cool Shades
 * Conspiracy Theorist
 * Crack Defeat: "Operation: E.L.E.C.T.I.O.N.S."
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * The Hero
 * Heroic BSOD: Gets this after the Delightful Children turn him into an adult until Numbuh Five gives him a Rousing Speech to get him back.
 * Informed Flaw: According to everyone else in the show, his butt is so huge it's the kind of badonkadonk spoken only in legend.
 * Insulted Awake: Several times.
 * Kissing Under the Influence: In "Operation: L.I.Z.Z.I.E.".
 * Loved I Not Honor More: In "Operation: G.I.R.L.F.R.I.E.N.D.".
 * Married to The Job
 * Meaningful Name: Nigel Uno -- Uno is Spanish for "one".
 * Noodle Incident: The Delightful Children are responsible for him losing his hair. Exactly how we never learn.
 * Officer and A Gentleman
 * Official Couple: With Lizzie,
 * Only Child Syndrome: Nigel is the only Sector V member who doesn't have any brothers or sisters.
 * Paper Thin Disguise: As Billy in The Grim Adventures of the KND. Also, another episode says he fooled the Toiletnator with a T-shirt that said "I am not Numbuh 1".
 * Platonic Life Partners: With Numbuh Five.
 * Playful Otter: Gets turned into one in "Operation: G.R.A.D.U.A.T.E.S.".
 * Prematurely Bald: Thanks to the Delightful Children.
 * Properly Paranoid: While his theories are somewhat plausible in his world, they're so convoluted that it's easy to see where he's stretching it.
 * Real Men Wear Pink: He likes Rainbow Monkeys.
 * Red Oni Blue Oni: The red to Numbah Five's blue.
 * Sunglasses At Night
 * Team Dad
 * Team Dad

Numbuh 2
Numbuh Two / Hoagie P. Gilligan Jr.

""Come to Numbuh Two!""

The team's technology expert who loves cracking bad jokes. As Sector V's technology officer, he designs many of the 2×4 technology the team uses In his off time he enjoys building and flying airplanes and solving mysteries at his school. Voiced by Benjamin Diskin.


 * Adorably Precocious Child: Of the Adorkable type.
 * Ace Pilot
 * Big Eater
 * Big Guy Little Guy: The big to Numbah Four's little.
 * Brains and Brawn: Brains to Numbah Four's Brawn.
 * Bungling Inventor
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer: Despite all his eccentricities, he's an awesome pilot and techie.
 * Beware the Silly Ones
 * Compressed Vice: His chocolate sauce addiction.
 * Crouching Moron Hidden Badass
 * Disappeared Dad: Numbuh Two's dad, Hoagie P. Gilligan, Sr., hasn't been seen at all throughout the series.
 * Dogged Nice Guy: To Cree.
 * Dork Knight
 * Expressive Flight Goggles
 * Extreme Omnivore
 * G Rated Drug: Chocolate syrup in the past, he even went to AA meetings for them.
 * Gadgeteer Genius
 * Genius Ditz
 * Goggles Do Nothing: Half and half, he works with high speed equipment so it would help with wind resistance. But generally just has them on most of the time for no reason either.
 * He's All Grown Up: Teen!Hoagie is pretty cute (not to mention much thinner), and even manages to catch Cree's attention.
 * Improbable Piloting Skills
 * Meaningful Name: Hoagie P. Gilligan Jr., appropriately enough, a twofer reference. First, there's "Gilligan," a reference to the title character of Gilligans Island, who was also second-in-command on the S.S. Minnow. Then there's the "Jr.", often used at the end of a boy's name to signify that he's the second male in the family to have inherited his father's name (a seemingly throwaway detail that actually foreshadows the importance of his Disappeared Dad, Hoagie P. Gilligan, Sr.)
 * Nice Hat
 * Private Detective: His side job, in full-on, trenchcoat-clad Film Noir mode.
 * Pungeon Master
 * Red Oni Blue Oni: The blue to Numbah Four's red.
 * The Smart Guy
 * Turn in Your Badge: He was once on Safety Patrol, but his reasons for leaving the force are unknown.
 * Turn in Your Badge: He was once on Safety Patrol, but his reasons for leaving the force are unknown.

Numbuh 3
Numbuh Three / Kuki Sanban

""What do you think I am, an airhead or something?""

The team's medic, and the most feminine of the kids, a happy-go-lucky girl who loves Rainbow Monkeys. In battle, she specializes in diversionary tactics. She seems to have a lot of admirers, but her heart obviously belongs to a certain Aussie. Voiced by Lauren Tom.


 * Action Girl
 * Ascended Fangirl:
 * Asian Airhead: Type Two.
 * Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny
 * Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Numbuh Four.
 * Bilingual Bonus
 * Kuki's last name ("Sanban") is Japanese for "third one" ("san" means three and the Japanese suffix "-ban" is used when creating ordinal numbers).
 * Her father's name, Kani, is Japanese for "crab".
 * Her mother's name is Genki, who is more staid and well-behaved than what her name implies (see Genki Girl).
 * Berserk Button: Do not insult the Rainbow Monkeys in front of her and Don't even mess with her plushies either.
 * Beware the Nice Ones: And how...
 * Beware the Silly Ones: Ooooh yeah...
 * Cain and Abel: The Abel to Mushi's Cain.
 * The Chick
 * Cloudcuckoolander
 * Clueless Boy Magnet: Numbuh Four aside, she's caught the attention of several other boys.
 * Crouching Moron Hidden Badass
 * Cute and Psycho: At her most frightening.
 * Cute Bruiser
 * Cuteness Proximity
 * Demon Head: When she gets angry.
 * The Ditz
 * Dork Knight
 * Everyone Can See It: With Numbuh Four.
 * Eyes Always Shut: Not always, though.
 * Flanderization: Her love for Rainbow Monkeys grew to ridiculous proportions as the series went on. So much so that it even saved the universe at one point.
 * Friend to All Living Things
 * Genki Girl: Played straight with Kuki; subverted with her mother (who is named Genki, but doesn't act like one).
 * Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Her room doesn't really have anything else.
 * Humongous Mecha: H.I.P.P.Y.-H.O.P., a bunny mecha.
 * I Have You Now My Pretty: A recurring plot with King Sandy.
 * Idiot Hair
 * Idiot Hero
 * Kawaiiko
 * Kiss of Death: When she gets The Virus in "Operation: Z.E.R.O.".
 * Little Miss Badass
 * Loose Lips
 * Mama Bear: Do not mess with the hamsters or Bradley.
 * Meaningful Name: Kuki Sanban -- "Sanban" is Japanese for "third"; Kuki is a misspelling of "kooky" (meaning crazy or off-kilter) and refers to her ditzy, Cloudcuckoolander personality.
 * The Medic
 * Obfuscating Stupidity: According to The Other Wiki, she only acts airheaded and happy to keep from being depressed.
 * Official Couple: With Numbuh Four, so obvious a spoiler tag isn't even needed.
 * The Pollyanna
 * Ridiculously Successful Future Self / Hidden Depths: The Cloudcuckoolander grows up to become.
 * Then again considering her mother and her love of the franchise..hmm.
 * Running Gag: Trying to use the Hippity Hop mecha in battle never ends well.
 * Team Mom: To any animals she comes across.
 * Tender Tears
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly Girl to Numbah Five's Tomboy.
 * Turns Out Like Her Mother: While its live action, her dress and mannerisms as an adult are the spitting image of her mother.
 * Tsundere: Kuki is a Type B (deredere), meaning she's very sweet and cute... unless dealing with Numbuh Four.
 * Unstoppable Rage: When she goes into Demon Mode.
 * We Need a Distraction: Specializes in this when not being The Medic.
 * Wide Eyed Idealist
 * Will They or Won't They: With Numbuh Four, a lot.
 * Will They or Won't They: With Numbuh Four, a lot.

Numbuh 4
Numbuh Four / Wallabee Beatles (Wally)

""Right, first I'll be cleaning your adult-lovin' prissy little clocks...""

The team's combat specialist. He's incredibly lacking in book smarts, but his combat prowess more than makes up for it. In his off time, he competes in adult disapproved sports. Voiced by Dee Bradley Baker.


 * Anti Hero: Type II or III.
 * Badbutt
 * Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Numbuh Three.
 * Berserk Button: You will not harm his baby brother or Numbuh Three in his presence. And, while he's not as bad about it as another vertically-challenged blond, don't make fun of his height, and don't call him an idiot either.
 * The Big Guy: Despite being the shortest in the group.
 * Big Guy Little Guy: The little to Numbah two's big.
 * Blinding Bangs
 * Blood Knight
 * Boisterous Bruiser
 * Book Dumb: And proudly so, though.
 * Brains and Brawn: Brawn to Numbuh Two's Brains.
 * Bratty Half Pint: At his worst.
 * Break the Haughty
 * Butt Monkey
 * Cannot Spit It Out: And don't be fooled by the times it actually looks like he's going to spit it out. It can be something else entirely.
 * Crazy Jealous Guy
 * Crouching Moron Hidden Badass
 * Cry Cute: At the end of "Operation: S.A.F.E.T.Y.", when he thought his baby brother got hurt.
 * Cute Bruiser: Even more so than Numbuh 3, as he also appears to have Super Strength.
 * Drunk With Power: Became this after assuming team leader in "Operation: C.A.N.N.O.N"
 * Everyone Can See It: With Numbuh Three.
 * Four Is Death: As the aforementioned team's resident Blood Knight, he is the one who ends up in combat a lot. He tends to be the unluckiest member of the group, yet has his happy moments. In perspective, he is the only member of the KND to not suffer a Gender Bender (and manages to be the only male by the end of Operation F.U.T.U.R.E.) as well as
 * Good Is Not Nice: While a member of the KND, he can still be a bully befitting his age.
 * Gosh Darn It to Heck: His constant use of the word "Crud".
 * Green Eyes
 * Hair of Gold
 * Hair Trigger Temper: Has a fuse as short as his height... and don't tell him that either.
 * Idiot Hero
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold
 * Land Down Under
 * Let Me At Him
 * Master of the Mixed Message: Just ask Numbuh Three.
 * Meaningful Name: Wallabee Beatles -- four members of The Beatles [a.k.a "The Fab Four"]. Also, four is considered an unlucky number in Chinese culture and Wally is the unluckiest member of the group.
 * The Napoleon
 * Official Couple: With Numbuh Three
 * Red Oni Blue Oni: The red to Numbah Two's blue.
 * Ridiculously Successful Future Self / Hidden Depths: The Book Dumb kid grows up to.
 * Screams Like a Little Girl: It's not pointed out specifically, but it's hard to not notice.
 * She Is Not My Girlfriend: To Numbuh Three.
 * Small Name Big Ego: When it comes to his schoolwork.
 * Super Drowning Skills: Can't swim, at least before "Operation: P.O.O.L.".
 * Testosterone Poisoning: Justified in that he is 10.
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: "Operation: C.A.N.N.O.N."
 * Why Did it Have to be Blood?: He's known to be hemophobic.
 * Will They or Won't They: With Numbuh Three.
 * The Worf Effect: First to charge in, often the first to go down.
 * The Worf Effect: First to charge in, often the first to go down.

Numbuh 5
Numbuh Five / Abigail Lincoln (Abby)

""I like it when things are too easy.""

The team's second-in-command, she's the one that keeps a level head under all circumstances, even when everyone else loses it. In her spare time, she's a candy hunter, which brings her in conflict with her rival Heinrich and candy pirate Stickybeard. Voiced by Cree Summer.

"Numbuh Five: The last time Numbuh Five didn't help someone kidnapped by the Delightful Children, they did something she can't ever forgive!
 * Action Girl: Especially when up against Cree.
 * Agent Scully: Is usually skeptical toward Nigel's conspiracy theories and will often be wrong.
 * Bifauxnen: Dressed up in a suit once for a dance.
 * Braids of Action
 * Bring It
 * But Not Too Foreign: She's half-French, even though both of her parents are black. Though it's likely her mom was raised in France.
 * Cain and Abel: The Abel to Cree's Cain.
 * Cool Big Sis: She has her moments, but especially "Operation: D.O.G.H.O.U.S.E.".
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Enforced Cold War: With Cree; both of them have to keep up the act of two loving sisters at home while pointing lasers at each other beneath the dinner table.
 * Girl of Adventure: When she's candy hunting.
 * Heroic Sacrifice: In "Operation: Z.E.R.O.".
 * Hidden Depths: Only Sane Man + Positive Discrimination + My Greatest Failure + My Greatest Second Chance
 * The Lancer
 * Little Miss Badass: One of the most action-prone girls in the show.
 * Little Miss Snarker
 * Meaningful Name: Abigail Lincoln -- has the same initials and last name as U.S. President Abraham Lincoln (A.L.), whose face is on the five dollar bill in American currency.
 * Mini Dress of Power
 * My Greatest Failure:
 * My Greatest Failure:

Numbuh Four: What?! What did they do that was so bad?!

Numbuh One: ... They made me bald."

"Numbuh Five: Something just happened. It's as if million of gallons of ice cream just... disappeared."
 * My Greatest Second Chance: Seeing an opportunity to save a student from the Delightful Children.
 * My Significance Sense Is Tingling:


 * Nice Hat: Doubles as a Memento MacGuffin.
 * Noodle Incident: It's mentioned in passing in one episode that Numbuh Five was once leader of Sector V. She stepped down from the position after some incident, but we never find out. Other bits point that she couldn't take the stress of full on leadership. She
 * Not So Above It All: During a mission,Numbuh 4 stops to take some candies.Later,she tries to do the same.
 * Official Couple:
 * Only Sane Employee: To Numbuh One.
 * Only Sane Girl
 * Platonic Life Partners: With Numbuh One.
 * Positive Discrimination: The black girl is the coolest, the sanest, and quite often the smartest of the gang.
 * The Quiet One
 * Red Oni Blue Oni: The blue to Numbah One's red.
 * Salt and Pepper:
 * Sassy Black Girl
 * Sweet Tooth: All the kids are, but only Numbuh Five would risk her life in search of legendary sweets.
 * Team Mom
 * Third Person Person: Not always, but very, very often.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to Numbah Three's Girly Girl. Subverted by their usual manner of dress; Kuki wears a sweater and sneakers while Abby usually goes around in a minidress, white Mary Janes, and earrings.
 * Twofer Token Minority: French and African.
 * Wise Beyond Her Years

Numbuh 6
Numbuh Six / Bradley

A skunk that Numbuhs Two and Three took under their wing since "Operation: C.A.M.P.". After foiling Chester's plan of making a work camp out of an actual kid's camp, he is inducted into the Kids Next Door as an honorary member. After getting critically injured by Cree, Numbuh Two upgrades him into half-skunk, half-robot R.O.B.O.-B.R.A.D.L.E.Y. in "Operation: H.O.S.P.I.T.A.L.". He is voiced by Dee Bradley Baker.


 * Badass Adorable: Especially as Robo-Bradley.
 * Cool Pet
 * Cyborg
 * The Danza
 * Killer Rabbit
 * Ridiculously Cute Critter
 * Smelly Skunk
 * Team Pet
 * You Are Number Six: Literally.

Numbuh 60
Numbuh Sixty / Patton Drilovsky

""Numbuh Sixty reporting for duty!""

The boy in charge of training new recruits at Kids Next Door Artic Base, he cuts no slack with new recruits. He is voiced by Matt Levin.


 * Drill Sergeant Nasty
 * Meaningful Name: Patton refers to the famous World War II general. The last name is obvious.
 * Large Ham: if the following quote is any indication:
 * Numbuh 60: "To the MOOOOOOOON!"

Numbuh 65.3
Numbuh Sixty Five Point Three / Herbie

""Sir, I needed those official orders signed seventy two point zero berger seconds ago""

A Kids Next Door desk operative who frequently delivers mission specs to Sector V. He works on the Moon Base. Voiced by Dee Bradley Baker.


 * Megane
 * Mission Control
 * Mister Exposition
 * Obstructive Bureaucrat

Numbuh 74.329
Numbuh Seventy Four Point Three Two Nine

""If you honor what your friends are fighting for, you'll make that sacrifice.""

A high-ranking Kids Next Door scientist. His technology is what keeps the KND running. Voiced by Dave Wittenberg.


 * Mad Scientist
 * TV Genius
 * TV Genius
 * TV Genius

Numbuh 86
Numbuh Eighty Six / Fanny Fulbright

""Of all the stupid things in the stupid world of stupid people acting stupid, you boys are the stupidliest! It's like you're trying to win a stupid contest but you're too stupid to take a stupidity test!""

The former Head of Decommissioning and current Global Tactics Officer. She's a shrill girl with a particular intolerance for the male sex. But due to her behavior, she has next to no friends. Voiced by Jennifer Hale.


 * Action Girl
 * Berserk Button: Saying anything anti-feminist around her is a big No-No.
 * Also don't ever call her "Toots", as Numbuh 2 learned the hard way in "Operation: P.I.N.K.-E.Y.E."
 * Break the Haughty
 * Does Not Like Men: AND HOW!
 * Fiery Redhead: Bordering on Evil Redhead.
 * Getting Crap Past the Radar / Stealth Pun: During "Operation: G.R.A.D.U.A.T.E.S." she was turned into a dog, resulting in a muttering of "Well that figures...".
 * Her name in the UK is a bit obscene too (see Meaningful Name below)
 * Jerkass: Later went from Straw Feminist to a just plain jerk to everyone.
 * Little Miss Badass
 * Meaningful Name
 * Well, meaningful Numbuh, when you look at her rank: to be "eighty-sixed" is American slang for being thrown out, eliminated, or rejected (it's also used in restaurant lingo to mean that a menu item has run out and is no longer available)
 * Her first name is also meaningful, at least in the UK and Ireland where she is from. In the UK, "fanny" is a vulgar slang term for the female genitalia, another slang term for that part of the the body is "cunt" . "Cunt," in both UK and US slang, is also used to mean someone who is unpleasant (it's stronger than "bitch"), so combining that with Fanny's personality, and you have a Meaningful Name that somehow got past the censors -- at least the ones in the UK (in American English, "fanny" is one of many slang terms for the human buttocks and isn't considered obscene at all. Funny and a tad improper -- yes, but not obscene).
 * If you're willing to think deeper than her name could be meaningful in the US too. Another slang term for your butt is "ass", and that's even more commonly used to refer to an unpleasant person (similar to "bitch", once again).
 * The Medic: A flashback to Numbuh Five's second Mission shows 86 wearing hat with a cross and checking on the injured. How she went from a medic to head of decommissioning is not explained.
 * Never My Fault: Her introduction episode in which she never takes responsibility for her own blunders which wound up hampering Sector V's efforts for the mission. Thank karma kicked in when the spy she thought she she capture was actually an undercover agent (Number 362 in fact up) whose mission was ruined by 86 and get harshly chewed out for it (for added irony through out most of the episode she was putting down the boys in the group the most for any minor screw ups. End of the episode saw a girl doing this to her.)
 * Noodle Incident: According to a canon comic, whatever made her hate boys happened after she became an operative.
 * Slap Slap Kiss: With Numbuh Ninteenth Century.
 * Straw Feminist: Later became less of this and more flat-out unfriendly to everyone.
 * Too Dumb to Live: She's really dedicated to her job so much so that it blinds her to the most obvious points of logic such as in Operation E.N.D when she sent to capture and decommission Sector V based on the fact the computer says their turning 13. Numbuh One points out they're in the same age group, she and he even went to kindergardern together. But nope if the databanks says their teens it must be true! No point in questioning it.
 * Tsundere: A G-rated Asuka, really.
 * Unexplained Accent: If she's the daughter of, where does her Irish accent come from? Apparently her mother, as revealed during her first slumber party (ever).
 * Unexplained Accent: If she's the daughter of, where does her Irish accent come from? Apparently her mother, as revealed during her first slumber party (ever).

Numbuh 362
Numbuh Three Sixty Two / Rachel T. McKenzie

""As Kids Next Door Soopreme Leader, I hearby order you to... go long!""

Originally the top spy in the KND, she is now its current Soopreme Leader. Due to her busy and demanding job, she's often stressed, but at heart she stands stubbornly for the rights of kids everywhere, and if the situation arises she can be fun-loving too. Has grown to form a close friendship with Nigel Uno. Voiced by Rachael MacFarlane.


 * Action Girl
 * Ascended Extra: She was only in one episode in season 2 and was never seen again until after Chad betrayed the team.
 * Authority Equals Asskicking: "Operation: I.T.", "Operation: Z.E.R.O."
 * Big Good
 * Brown Eyes: Her eyes sometimes appear brown.
 * The Chains of Commanding: What kick-starts "Operation: I.T.".
 * Hair of Gold
 * Hey Its That Voice / The Danza: Numbuh 362 is Seth Macfarlane's Real Life sister (who's usually cast in one of his many shows: Rachael was Olivia the child star on Family Guy and Hayley Smith on American Dad).
 * Idiot Ball
 * "The Grim Adventures of the KND" for Rule of Funny.
 * "Operation: Z.E.R.O." too, when the KND museum was under attack. Sector V was the closest. She ordered them to come back to the base which was also under attack but Nigel refuses till the museum was safe. Once Sector V did that as well as save the base single-handily, she chews out Nigel for disobeying orders. She does apologize later though once Grandfather is defeated, admitting if she had listened to him before the whole mess would've never happened.
 * I Just Want to Be Normal: In "Operation: I.T.". To be fair, in her world being normal means spending all day doing whatever you want in a giant treehouse and going on exciting missions.
 * Little Miss Badass
 * Meaningful Name: She's two numbers off from 360, a full circle. As in the KND revolves completely around her.
 * Mundane Made Awesome: Defeats Father by eating through a wall of broccoli. Though to be fair, broccoli does seem to be some kind of universal kryptonite in the show.
 * Nice Hat
 * Reasonable Authority Figure
 * Ship Tease: With Numbuh One in "Operation: I.T.".
 * Team Mom
 * Wise Beyond Her Years

Father /
Father

""Bravo, Mr. Uno. You managed to skillfully outwit a bunch of children. The question is, do you have what it takes to play with the big boys?""

The mysterious head villain, Father is a man who wears a suit of shadows and is skilled in very dark powers. He schemes to enslave all children and turn them into his twisted version of "delightful". But despite his dark and malicious appearance, sometimes all he wants to do is curl up in a bathrobe with some Rocky Road. He is voiced by Maurice La Marche.


 * Affably Evil
 * Arch Enemy: To the Kids Next Door in general and Numbuh One in particular.
 * Awesome McCoolname:
 * Big Bad: Alternates with Mr. Boss depending on the focus.
 * Break the Haughty
 * Burning With Anger: Not just Wreathed in Flames, but they increase in intensity when angry.
 * Cain and Abel:
 * Card Carrying Villain
 * Child Hater
 * Clothes Make the Superman: Proabaly a power inherited from Grandfather (its never really explain) but the shadow look is actually cover giving him his powers and intimidating nature. The one time its taken off, we see the real Father ( and
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Kinda becomes this through Villain Decay.
 * Diabolical Mastermind
 * Disproportionate Retribution: In the finale, he wants to kill Numbuh One for stealing his pipe.
 * Enemy Mine: With the KND in "Operation: Z.E.R.O.".
 * Evil Is Burning Hot: Is it ever.
 * Glowing Eyes of Doom
 * Hair Trigger Temper: Through Flanderization.
 * Hates Being Touched
 * Humanoid Abomination: Can in ways be seen as this.
 * Large Ham: You can tell Maurice La Marche is having way too much fun with this role.
 * The Man Behind the Man: In the earlier episodes, the Delightful Children were the main villains, though he was actually mentioned in the first episode. In "Operation: C.A.N.N.O.N." the Delightfuls mention a curfew alert stating that they had to leave their butt whupping on Sector V or else Father would be angry.
 * Meaningful Name:
 * Moral Myopia: Has own experiences of child abuse from his father, yet is perfectly fine with bullying kids during his grown up years.
 * Names the Same: No, he's not the Big Bad from Fullmetal Alchemist, although their roles in their respective series are surprisingly similar.
 * No Celebrities Were Harmed: His voice is a parody of Kirk Douglas, which LaMarche previously used on Animaniacs.
 * One Winged Angel / Scaled Up: In "Operation: I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S.". He turns into a dragon. Somehow.
 * Playing With Fire: Gets it from his dad.
 * Sinister Silhouettes
 * The Unfavorite: Grandfather favored  over him mostly because Father was too spineless to stand up for himself.
 * Vile Villain Saccharine Show
 * Villains Out Shopping
 * Xanatos Gambit
 * Well Done Son Guy: To his father, Grandfather.
 * Villains Out Shopping
 * Xanatos Gambit
 * Well Done Son Guy: To his father, Grandfather.

The Delightful Children from Down the Lane
The Delightful Children from Down the Lane

""Hello Kids Next Door. Perhaps you would like to try kicking our posteriors now?""

Father's eerie children, supposedly an adult's view of the "perfect" kids. They are educated, well-dressed and polite, but are somewhat uncivilized in their burning hatred for the Kids Next Door. They always appear clustered together, move as one and speak in perfect unison. They are voiced by Benjamin Diskin, Dee Bradley Baker, and Cree Summer.


 * Adorably Precocious Child: Bruce (Short blonde kid).
 * Anti Hero: Type V.
 * Badass Normal: Well, sort of, as they, unlike some KND villians, technically have no superpowers.
 * Bigger Bads: Seriously does their danger rating of 10 ring any bells?
 * Blinding Bangs: David (Tall kid).
 * Braces of Orthodontic Overkill: Lenny (top right) has headgear underneath his football helmet.
 * Brainwashed and Crazy:
 * Broken Streak:.
 * Cain and Abel: The Cain to Numbuh 1's Abel
 * Card Carrying Villain
 * Cereal Vice Reward: The "C.A.K.E.D." missions.
 * Chronic Villainy: Literally. They're so brainwashed that any reversing is only temporary.
 * The Collector of the Strange: Toenails.
 * Creepy Children
 * The Dragons
 * Enemy Mine: With the KND in "Operation: Z.E.R.O.".
 * And to a lesser extent "Operation: Z.O.O.".
 * Even Evil Has Standards: They sell out Father in "Operation: I.T." because even they don't like broccoli.
 * Evil Counterpart: To Sector V.
 * Eye Glasses: Ogie (Short Braded girl) has these.
 * The Faceless / Never Bareheaded: Lenny (top right). Subverted in that he eventually does show his face In "Operation: U.N.D.E.R.C.O.V.E.R.".
 * Famous Last Words: As in The Movie: "Tell...The Kids Next Door...That we miss them!"
 * Fan Nickname: Ashley and Ogie (The two unammed girls of the group.)
 * Flanderization
 * Hates Being Touched
 * Hive Mind / I Am Legion /VoiceOfTheLegion: They talk and act as if they are just one person instead of five.
 * Jerkasses: Despite their image as "perfect children", they're sadistic and cruel to everyone else of their own kind, particularly whenever it's their birthday where they never share their cake with other kids and flaunt it.
 * Kids Are Cruel: And HOW!
 * Light Blue Eyes Take Warning
 * Light Is Not Good
 * Mind Control Eyes: Light Blue.
 * Naughty Is Good
 * No Name Given: Only two girls are unnamed.
 * One Winged Angel: In "The Grim Adventures of the KND", as the Delightful Reaper.
 * The Psycho Rangers: They look eerily similar to sector V.
 * Sharp Dressed Children
 * Shout Out: They seem to based off of the antagonists in one of the Co-Creator's 1996 Ka Blam Sketch The Off-Beats known as The Populars.
 * Stepford Smilers
 * Strange Minds Think Alike
 * Student Council President: In "Operation: E.L.E.C.T.I.O.N.S.". Lampshaded in "U.N.D.E.R.C.O.V.E.R." by Lenny.
 * Troubling Unchildlike Behavior
 * Villains Out Shopping
 * Shout Out: They seem to based off of the antagonists in one of the Co-Creator's 1996 Ka Blam Sketch The Off-Beats known as The Populars.
 * Stepford Smilers
 * Strange Minds Think Alike
 * Student Council President: In "Operation: E.L.E.C.T.I.O.N.S.". Lampshaded in "U.N.D.E.R.C.O.V.E.R." by Lenny.
 * Troubling Unchildlike Behavior
 * Villains Out Shopping

Chad Dickson
Chad Dickson / formerly Numbuh Two Seventy-Four

""There was no way I was going to turn over everything I ever built, everything I ever worked for, to a bunch of snot-nosed kids!""

Former Soopreme Leader of the Kids Next Door idolized and loved by all, he turned evil the moment he turned thirteen. He then served as a high-ranking member of the Teen Ninjas, and lost all the respect he had to his name. Generally cocky and approving of himself, both before and after his betrayal. Voiced by Jason Harris.


 * Becoming the Mask: Sort of.
 * Badass Normal
 * Big Brother Mentor: Was this when he was still Numbuh 274.
 * Blond Guys Are Evil
 * Card Carrying Villain
 * Child Hater
 * Evil Is Dumb: After he turns evil, he automatically loses competence.
 * Face Heel Turn
 * Fallen Hero
 * Hoist By His Own Petard: During Nigel's training days, Chad showed him a move that left Nigel flat on his back.
 * Lamarck Was Right: His parents are Destructo Dad and Mega Mom, and later becomes a more recurring threat than they ever were.
 * Pride: He thinks he's still the best there is.
 * Teens Are Monsters
 * Villainous Breakdown:
 * Villainous Crossdresser: In "Operation: S.L.U.M.B.E.R.".
 * Teens Are Monsters
 * Villainous Breakdown:
 * Villainous Crossdresser: In "Operation: S.L.U.M.B.E.R.".

Cree Lincoln
Cree Lincoln/ formerly Numbuh Eleven

Numbuh Five's older sister and former Kids Next Door operative, skilled, cool and determined. Her relationship with her sister is very strained, but deep down they really do love each other. She is a high ranking member of the Teen Ninjas and Father's apprentice. Voiced by Cree Summer.


 * Badass Normal
 * Bare Your Midriff
 * Big Sister Mentor / Cool Big Sis: When she was still in the KND. Now, while such moments are very rare, Cree has shown that she's not totally uncaring toward Abby.
 * Cain and Abel: The Cain to Numbuh Five's Abel.
 * Card Carrying Villain
 * Child Hater
 * The Danza
 * Dark Action Girl
 * Enforced Cold War
 * Face Heel Turn
 * Fallen Hero
 * Instant Armor
 * Ship Tease: With Maurice.
 * Teens Are Monsters

Mr. Boss
Mr. Boss

""So long, shrimp! I hope your friend likes Pluto!""

CEO of a big company and additionally the "leader" of the villains, he tends to lead them on cooperative missions. He hates all children... except his own. Voiced by Jeff Bennett.


 * Big Bad: Alternates with Father on this position.
 * Card Carrying Villain
 * Child Hater
 * Corrupt Corporate Executive
 * Everyone Calls Him Barkeep: "Operation: D.A.D.D.Y." reveals his last name to be, so his villain name only shows his position.
 * Good Smoking Evil Smoking
 * Moral Myopia: He hates kids unless they happen to be his.
 * Pet the Dog: He does love his own children.

Toiletnator
Toiletnator

""Kids Next Door, prepare to be flushed!""

The show's most pathetic villain. He gets no respect from the Kids Next Door or his fellow villains. Voiced by Dee Bradley Baker.


 * Awesome McCoolname
 * Butt Monkey: Pre-Crisis Doctor Light could kick his ass.
 * Card Carrying Villain
 * Child Hater
 * Crouching Moron Hidden Badass: He's show several signs of this through the series...Idiot though he may be, this does still apply.
 * "Operation F.L.U.S.H." -- He takes out five other villains thinking they're KND operatives in disguise. Of course, the five villains in question had just successfully taken over the Sector V treehouse, and then Numbuhs 1-5 (The actual members of Sector V who have been all excused from school early) show up and kick his butt. What an Idiot.
 * Friendly Enemy: He was friends with Numbuh Four for awhile ("Operation M.O.V.I.E."), and joined the announcers in the finale. Though, in the CM/HB example he referred to Numbuh Four (actually Nightbrace) as his arch-nemesis. Gets kinda weird when it's revealed in a canon comic that
 * Granola Guy: Likes vegetables, hates meat.
 * Harmless Villain: He's called the Toiletnator, for crying out loud!
 * Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Very ineffectual, very sympathetic. Except when he is kind of effective.
 * The Millstone: To the villains. Oh, so much.
 * Not So Harmless Villain
 * He comes up with a plan in "Operation: M.O.V.I.E.S." that impresses the other villains. Too bad Numbuh Four heard it first.
 * He also managed to "flush" the entire Grand Canyon after the KND filled it with cereal and milk.
 * Toilet Humor: Played with. This is a kids' show, so it's used only in the most literal sense.
 * Villain Episode: "Operation: F.L.U.S.H."
 * Villains Out Shopping
 * What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway: His motif is questionable. It also seems he's got some psychic control over flushing.
 * Heart Is an Awesome Power: Invoked. See the entries on Crouching Moron Hidden Badass and Not So Harmless Villain. It doesn't seem so much that his powers are useless, he's just normally too short-sighted to use them correctly.

Stickybeard
Stickybeard

A spirited candy pirate who loots and plunders candy from neighborhood children. He respects Numbuh Five and seeks her as an apprentice. Voiced by Mark Hamill.


 * Badass Beard
 * Badass Normal: Among few villains that don't have superpowers
 * Captain Color Beard: Or Adjective-beard.
 * Card Carrying Villain
 * Enemy Mine: With Numbuh Five, against Black John Licorice.
 * Eternally Pearly White Teeth: Subverted, his teeth are incredibly rotten from all the candy.
 * Even Evil Has Standards: He refuses to allow the Great White Asparagus to eat Sector V. Though that was more of a The Only One Allowed to Defeat You moment than anything else. Though over all, he does seem to have some degree of honor.
 * Friendly Enemy: With Numbuh Five (at least).
 * Hook Hand: With a candy cane instead of a hook.
 * Pirate
 * Serious Business: Candy stealing is his prime modus operandi. Get in the way of that, and you're good as dead. And also being told if he was "sugar-free".
 * Talk Like a Pirate: Of course, since he's an odd Expy of Blackbeard.
 * Villains Out Shopping: He's helped Numbuh Five in one episode.
 * We Can Rule Together: To Numbuh Five. It almost succeeded until she remembered her friends, but now it leads to below.
 * Worthy Opponent: To Numbuh Five.

Heinrich Von Marzipan
Heinrich Von Marzipan

""Ach, lipschen, I say so many things I do not mean. Like, ah, no more candy for me, or, who would like some of my lollipops!""

A former friend of Numbuh Five and current candy-hunting rival. He greedily seeks forbidden candy regardless of the consequences. Voiced by Dee Bradley Baker / Candi Milo.


 * Arch Enemy: To Numbuh Five.
 * Brought Down to Normal: Got turned into a chocolate monster that can turn anything he touches into chocolate. After Numbuh Five defeats him, the KND turns him back to normal.
 * Card Carrying Villain
 * : In sacrificing his, he
 * Greed: Obsessed with getting candy and never sharing it, which usually leads to many of his downfalls.
 * Homage: To Indiana Jones Nazi villains.
 * I Lied: As his quote indicates.
 * My Name Is Not Durwood: Numbuh Five calls him "Heinie".
 * Never My Fault: He does this a lot, such as in his first appearance where he blames Abby for tainting the candy with the taste of asparagus when she warned him before hand that being greedy will put that curse into effect. It's also
 * One Winged Angel: In his first appearance after obtaining a jewel, he transforms into a monster with power of candy. Numbuh Five defeats him though. After falling into a chocolate volcano, he returned as a powerful monster who can turn things into chocolate by touching it. He was cured by the KND though.
 * Noodle Incident: Throughout the series he remains angry at Numbuh Five for "Guatemala". His last apperance reveals that
 * Roaring Rampage of Revenge: When he returns after falling into a chocolate volcano, having been turned into a chocolate monster.
 * Serious Business: Like with Stickybeard, Candy is serious business.
 * Serious Business: Like with Stickybeard, Candy is serious business.

Grandfather
Grandfather

Father 's father and an Evil Overlord who once ruled the entire planet. He's by far the most dangerous enemy the KND have every faced and makes Father look like a saint compared to him. Acted as the Big Bad in The Movie. Voiced by Neil Ross.


 * Abusive Parent: He's why Father is the way he is.
 * Big Bad: Of The Movie.
 * Card Carrying Villain: The first thing he says after being reawakened is to thank Father for "reawakening the pure evil" laying dormant within him.
 * Eldritch Abomination
 * Evil Overlord: Once ruled the world with an iron fist before Numbuh Zero betrayed and defeated him.
 * Eviler Than Thou: To literally every villain in the Rogues Gallery once they find out his plan to turn everyone that's ever been a kid into Senor Citizombies includes them. Father actually outright states that Grandfather is eviler than him before reviving him, calling him "The World's Most Ultimate Evil".
 * Expy: He seems to be partially based on Aku from Samurai Jack -- a black, shadowy monster who stands a couple stories tall in his natural state, can manipulate fire, and his very awakening pretty much spells doom for the whole world.
 * Fisher King: When he rules the world, he uses his Reality Warper abilities to convert into an old-style Crapsack World complete with child labor, Industral Era-style factories making tapioca pudding for him to eat.
 * Genre Savvy: Is smart enough to NOT underestimate Hope Springs Eternal and understands he hasn't really won until he's destroyed the Book of KND, which let Numbuh Zero defeat him the last time. And he also doesn't go out to find it until nearly the entire world is under his control and the Kids Next Door are all but destroyed.
 * Humanoid Abomination:
 * Large Ham: Is an even bigger ham than his son.
 * Laser Guided Amnesia: Literally. Had his memory erased by Numbuh Zero using some kind of laser, reducing him to a harmless old man until he's "recommissioned" by Father. This actually seems to be the only way to defeat him, as all other attempts failed completely.
 * Morality Pet: Subverted.  seems to be this, as he does like him as his son and considers him the favorite...then tries to incinerate him when he turns on him without blinking an eye.
 * Actually he liked  more for the fact he was willing to stand up to him and give Grandfather something challenge.
 * Nigh Invulnerability: His reaction to getting crushed under the entire Kids Next Door Moonbase is to dust himself off and ask if they really thought that would work.
 * No Ontological Inertia: His defeat restores the world to normal.
 * Physical God: He's the single strongest villain in the series and is capable of surviving a direct hit from a Colony Drop without even a scratch. He can also 'age' the entire world at will.
 * Playing With Fire: Father gets it from him.
 * Rapid Aging: His primary ability is to age everything he touches, though not only does he age them rapidly, he turns them into his 'Senor Citizombie' minions.
 * Reality Warper: He's capable of changing the world as he sees fit, normally to a more "old time" look.
 * Super Powered Evil Side: His human form is a harmless old man so long as his memories aren't restored.
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Tapioca pudding, so much so that was one of the reasons he wanted to rule the earth.
 * Transformation Sequence: Unlike Father, who just grows his "shadow suit" back, Grandfather sucks in the shadows from everything in the room to form his after being reawakened in a much more eleborate fashion.
 * The Virus
 * Vile Villain Saccharine Show
 * Well Done Son Guy: Done to Father, apparently not even reawakening him from his slumber earns his respect.
 * Citizombie Apocalypse

Lizzie
Elizabeth Devine (Lizzie)

Numbuh One's demanding girlfriend. While she's quite clingy, she does genuinely care for Nigel, but his work for the Kids Next Door strains their relationship. Voiced by Grey Delisle.


 * Badass Normal: Bonus points for not even being a KND Operative.
 * Characterization Marches On: In her first appearance, she brainwashed Nigel into being her obediant boyfriend and even tried to make him destroy to his friends. The KND fight back and Nigel is unbrainwashed, but the episode ends with Lizzie getting the date she wanted anyway. Later episodes more or less completely ignored her origin story, and considerably softened her character.
 * Clingy Jealous Girl
 * Day in The Limelight: "Operation: L.U.N.C.H."
 * Easily Forgiven: Apparently Nigel and the rest of Sector V had no hard feelings over the little matter of her having originally tried to Brainwash him. Though it's mostly just Numbuh One and Numbuh Three. Numbuh Two and Four openly dislike her, dreading any contact with her at all. They just don't verbalize it much due to fearing her bad temper (well, at least Numbuh Two fears her temper). Numbuh Five is tolerant of her at best.
 * Eye Glasses
 * I Want My Beloved to Be Happy:.
 * Lethal Chef
 * Let's Get Dangerous: When she's properly motivated (either by Numbuh One being in danger or her plans being interrupted one too many times), she's a mecha-commandeering force to be reckoned with.
 * The Load: On occasion.
 * Official Couple: Her and Numbuh One.
 * Palette Swap: She has the same character model as one of the Delightful Children From Down The Lane.
 * Tsundere: Type A and hard, sometimes dipping into Yandere'ish tendencies in her more extreme moods.

Tommy Gilligan
Tommy Gilligan (The Tommy)

Numbuh Two's little brother, Tommy is an excitable child ready to fight adult tyranny. Unfortunatly, circumstances effectivly halted his KND career. He now fights solo as "The Tommy". Voiced by Dee Bradley Baker.

"Numbuh Five: "I work alone! I am The Tommy!" He is definitely your brother, Numbuh Two."
 * Broken Streak: In "Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-F.O.U.R." he breaks his family's Tube-A-Thon losing streak (Despite his brother coming in 2nd).
 * The Cowl: Well, he tries to be at least.
 * A Day in The Limelight: "Operation: D.U.C.K.Y.".
 * Disappeared Dad
 * Dude Where's My Reward: In "Operation: G.R.A.D.U.A.T.E.S.".
 * Hates Baths
 * Heroic Sacrifice: In "Operation: G.R.A.D.U.A.T.E.S.".
 * Heroic Wannabe
 * I Work Alone: After becoming "The Tommy".
 * Keet: Ties in with his Large Ham status, as he is alot more hyper and enthusiastic than his brother
 * Large Ham: Once he becomes "The Tommy", he becomes considerably hammier.


 * Lower Deck Episode: "Operation: T.R.A.I.N.I.N.G.".
 * Sixth Column
 * Spell My Name With a The: He calls himself The Tommy, though he's about the only one.
 * Tagalong Kid
 * You Are Number Six: Played with; He takes the title of Numbuh T during his brief tenure with the KND.

The Kid
The Kid

A pilot in shades, The Kid is a rival pilot of Numbuh Two, and Numbuh Four's rival for Numbuh Three's affections. Voiced by Carlos Alazraqui.


 * Cool Shades
 * No Name Given
 * The Rival: To Numbuh Two.
 * Romantic False Lead: In the Numbuh Three/Numbuh Four pairing.
 * You Know What You Did: In "Operation: D.O.G.F.I.G.H.T.".