Kappa Mikey/Characters

Mikey Simon
The main character of the show. An enthusiastic but naive and egotistical 19-year-old American actor from Cleveland, Ohio, who wins a contest to fly to Japan and is hired to play the hero, Kappa Mikey, on the anime Lily Mu.

""Showoffs.""
 * Acquired Situational Narcissism - He reinvents his image as "Bad Boy Mikey", so he won't have to face the fate of winding up in a wimpy kiddy show. He's pretty narcissistic to begin with.
 * Adorkable
 * Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny - "Two hours? Aw man! But I got such a short attention spa-hey! Look at that bird!"
 * Betty and Veronica - The Archie for Mitsuki's Betty and Lily's Veronica.
 * Big No - Has one when he misses the last copy of a video game at the last second.
 * Breakout Character: In-universe, he becomes the most popular character among the Japanese Audience, which is why he was made into the main character of Lilymu.
 * Catch Phrase - "W'ever" and "chill'ax".
 * Character Title - Averted, in that the show is named after Mikey's SHOW name on LilyMu.
 * Cleveland Rocks - It's his hometown.
 * Comedic Hero - "I never wear a belt!"
 * Cool Bike
 * The Danza
 * Eagle Land - He doesn't even try to convince his cast mates to drop the stereotype of Americans!
 * The Faceless - His parents. They are only heard over the telephone.
 * Fish Out of Water
 * The Fool - "See you guys? I don't always screw up!" *one cut later* "I... may have locked the keys in the Tanuki-mobile."
 * Hey, It's That Voice! - Dean Venture from The Venture Brothers.
 * Idiot Hair - Compared by many fans to be inspired by Fry's hairdo from Futurama.
 * Jerkass - In earlier episodes, particularly toward poor Mitsuki.
 * Meaningful Name
 * Michael Sinterniklaas
 * The Millstone
 * No Sense of Direction
 * Non-Standard Character Design - Mikey is drawn in an "American" cartoon style, with four fingers and black dots for eyes. Just about everyone else follows anime art conventions. This is taken further as Mikey is unable to perform typical anime visual gags like Super-Deformed shock.


 * Oblivious to Love - Until the end of the series. Probably. Maybe.
 * Over-Enthusiastic Parents - To the point where they feel the need to give his FRIENDS gifts! They both act sickeningly cheerful over the phone.
 * Redheaded Hero
 * Risky Business Dance
 * The Rival - To Lily, but not all the time.
 * Shirtless Scene - Surprisingly lots of this with Mikey. In one episode, it's implied he'd take any and all opportunities for a strip.
 * Small Name, Big Ego
 * Wacky Guy - A rare case where the main protagonist is the wacky guy!
 * Whatever - Actually, "w'ever". First appears in The Good, The Bad, And The Mikey, where he uses it as a by-product of remodeling his image as a bad boy. It stays, and he uses it so often it becomes his Catch Phrase, and the other characters start using it as well.
 * You Suck

Gonard
The Cell-like bad guy on-camera, but off-camera, he's just a large, pointy-eared, lovable, oafish moron, and Mikey's best pal. - ""SOON THE SKIES WILL MELT UNDER THE HEAT OF MY DOOOOM BEEEEEEEEEEEAM!!!""
 * Adult Child - "I love the zoo! I wanna look at the penguins!"
 * Bag of Holding - His mouth, hair, pockets, hoodie, and butt.
 * Big Eater
 * Book Dumb - "GAH! I'M READING!"
 * Card-Carrying Villain
 * Cargo Ship - Gonard falls in love with a bucket of popcorn and he literally brings it to the beach to watch the sunset, shares a malt with it with two straws, and sleeps with it!
 * Cloudcuckoolander
 * The Ditz - "It's tough when no one understands you. Like when I speak my special Gonard language."
 * Dumb Muscle
 * Expy - If Dragonball Z's Goku were an actor in Tokyo and just a little bit dumber, he'd be Gonard.
 * Evil Is Hammy


 * Hey, It's That Voice! - Adult Goku himself.
 * Gasshole
 * Mad Scientist - His villain role is somewhat like this.
 * Mean Character, Nice Actor
 * Momma's Boy
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning - As if his villain role isn't physically intimidating enough, he has red pupils on yellow whites!
 * Sean Schemmel
 * Shirtless Scene
 * Trademark Favorite Food - Gonard and Sandwiches, sittin' in a tree...
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Lily
The tempermental diva used to be the star of LilyMu and the biggest one in Japan, until Mikey dropped in and stole her thunder, which she totally hates him for. -
 * Action Girl
 * Bare Your Midriff - On and off-camera.
 * Betty and Veronica - The Veronica to Mitsuki's Betty for Mikey's Archie.
 * Chickification - In her LilyMu show...and occasionally off it.
 * Color-Coded for Your Convenience - If you're stumped at what to color any of Lily's possessions, just make it pink.
 * Cross-Popping Veins
 * Cute and Psycho - Very much describes her LilyMu role against her real personality.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Death Glare
 * The Dulcinea Effect - Mikey has this for her.
 * Jerkass/ Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Depending on her mood.
 * Nice Character, Mean Actor
 * Pet the Dog - Her friendship with Mitsuki.
 * The Prima Donna
 * Lily delivers "The Reason You Suck" Speech at Mikey as soon as the pilot episode... calling back a similar speech he received from a casting director in Cleveland! He appears to have just forgotten about it and flirted with her anyway.
 * Rich Bitch
 * School Uniforms Are the New Black - As much as possible, she wears what appears to be a simplified-for-lazy-animators basic sailor uniform. It's even weirder when you remind yourself that she isn't in school!
 * Small Name, Big Ego - May be a rare female case.
 * Sour Supporter
 * Token Evil Teammate
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl - Alternates with Mitsuki.
 * On-camera: Girly Girl to Mitsuki's Tomboy.
 * Off-camera: Tomboy to Mitsuki's Girly Girl.
 * Tsundere - An extreme case of Type A.
 * Zettai Ryouiki - She reveals a bit more, in that her stockings do not go above her knees.

Mitsuki
The other lead female of the show, Mitsuki is shy, polite, and totally has the hots for Mikey! -
 * Action Girl - On and off-camera. She can supposedly crush all ten major arteries of an opponent in under 15 seconds.
 * Bare Your Midriff - On and off-camera.
 * Betty and Veronica - The Betty to Lily's Veronica for Mikey's Archie.
 * Beware the Nice Ones - Don't you EVER... press any of Mitsuki's buttons!
 * Boobs of Steel - Being a children's show, they're never emphasized, but there they are.
 * Cannot Spit It Out - Until The Musical.
 * Gasshole - In Live LilyMu. But she didn't enjoy it, and it wasn't her fault.
 * Mean Character, Nice Actor
 * My Friends and Zoidberg - Mitsuki often gets the short end of the stick when trying to earn the other characters' respect. The other characters often forget her name.
 * Nice Girl
 * Non-Singing Voice - Mitsuki was the only character who's talking voice actor had to be replaced when singing.
 * Shy Blue-Haired Girl
 * The Straight Woman
 * Take a Third Option - In her past life as a secret agent. "How about Option 3: I kick you!"
 * Team Mom
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: Alternates with Lily.
 * On-camera: Tomboy to Lily's Girly Girl.
 * Off-camera: Girly Girl to Lily's Tomboy.
 * Tsundere - Type B.
 * Unrequited Love - Subverted in the last couple of episodes, where Mikey had started finally acknowledging Mitsuki's affections.
 * White Dwarf Starlet - What Mitsuki would've become if Mikey had never starred on LilyMu in the first place, shown in a parallel universe.
 * Who Is This Girl Again?
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Guano
The Lily Mu mascot character and frazzled writer/director/actor. -
 * Butt Monkey
 * Catch Phrase and Verbal Tic - "GUANO GUANO!"
 * Everything's Better With Guanos
 * Germans Love David Hasselhoff - Invoked in-universe, the American version of Lilymu was macekred to turn Guano into the main character.
 * Getting Guano Past The Radar - His name is Spanish for 'bat manure'.
 * Interspecies Romance - Guano falls in love with a human teenage girl who saw some of Lily Mu. She admitted that she always thought he was a puppet.
 * Parody - of Pikachu from Pokémon
 * Sidekick - his role on LilyMu
 * Talking Animal - Though it's very probable that he's a guy in a suit, Guano's costume is VERY expressive.
 * The Un-Reveal - Despite confirmation that he is in fact wearing a costume, we never see him without it.
 * Later episodes give credibility to the possibility the costume isn't exactly a costume at all, or that his body underneath the outfit is exactly the same as the suit, tail and all.
 * Worthless Foreign Degree - Guano has a Running Gag wherein he always fears getting fired because otherwise he'd have to go back to doing such-and-such random jobs like shampoo commercials, mining, or dancing in a kickline. Granted, Guano seems to be of the same ethnicity as his friends. He did go to film school, however.
 * Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? - Has a phobia for basically anything you can think of, and beyond.

Ozu
The kung-fu-master-like executive producer. - "Guano: But... but you said you'd never tamper with my creative vision. Ozu: (Calmly) I didn't tamper... (angrily) I lit it on fire -- and danced on the ashes!"
 * Badass Grandpa
 * Catch Phrase - "You're fired!" Yeah.
 * Cool Old Guy - He knows kung fu, karate, and can negotiate the hell outta' rival companies to get his way.
 * Cross-Popping Veins
 * Drill Sergeant Nasty
 * Eccentric Mentor
 * Executive Meddler


 * Funny Foreigner
 * Luke, I Am Your Father - Revealed in the Christmas episode that
 * The Mentor
 * Multiple Choice Past
 * No Indoor Voice
 * The Obi-Wan - except for the whole 'dying and Passing the Torch' thing.

Yes Man
Ozu's chimp-faced assistant. -
 * Butt Monkey
 * Cartoon Physics
 * Catch Phrase - "YES!"
 * The Ditz
 * Hammerspace - He seems to LIVE by this method.
 * Keet
 * Making a Spectacle of Yourself - Yes Man has quite the expressive, yellow glasses.
 * My Friends and Zoidberg
 * No Indoor Voice
 * Sidekick
 * Yes-Man - Well, d'ur!

Others

 * Alter Kocker: The Japanese red dragon in The Man Who Would Be Mikey has this personality.
 * Cats Are Mean
 * Crying Indian - the episode Mikey, Kappa.
 * Expy - Gonard, and then there's Doctor Takashi Katashi... who wears his "doctor head thing" over his left eye.
 * The two girl singers in the Battle of the bands episode are very similar to Ami & Yumi.
 * Heck you can find a lot of Expies of anime characters in the background.
 * This troper recalls one reporter that was an unholy fusion between Yubaba and Joan Rivers.
 * The Faceless - Mikey's parents, Gonard's mom.
 * Humongous Mecha - They are sentient actors on Lily Mu, but aren't seen that often off-camera.
 * One episode features Gonard facing off the Lily Mu Team with a pair of granny robots.
 * Insane Proprietor - Mr. Stereo.
 * Large Ham - Most of the antagonists... all usually voiced by Sean Schemmel.
 * Last-Episode New Character - Lawrence, a parody of Clarence from It's a Wonderful Life, in the Season One finale, is Mikey's Bishonen guardian angel. The sound engineers in the Season Two finale may count.
 * Leitmotif - various side characters, including Socky and Ozu's twin brother Brozu, who both have hip-hop tunes play whenever they're on-screen.
 * Name McAdjective - Richie McMillions.
 * Shallow Parody - Characters resemble famous anime stars, but the parody pretty much stops at appearances.
 * Sitcom Arch Nemesis
 * Talks Like a Simile - the Script Assassin.
 * Yuppie Couple - At least a half-dozen of these, including a pirate, a little old lady, a delivery guy, a biker named Beef, and a janitor. Whether or not Yoshi the cameraman counts is debatable.


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