Courage the Cowardly Dog/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Amusing Injuries]]: Courage takes a lot of pain in many episodes (most notable perhaps in Mecha-Courage), but he's usually okay, and even laughing (albeit as if slapped silly).

* [[Animal Reaction Shot]]: At almost everything he finds scary it instantly cuts to him scream with his mouth open. Different things happen during the screams each time so that each scream doesn't get repetitive.

* [[Badass]]

* [[Badass Adorable]]

* [[Butt Monkey]]

* [[The Cassandra]]

* [[Catch Phrase]]: Several. ("The things I do for love..." for example.)

* [[Civilized Animal]]

* [[Cool Pet]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: When he can talk.

* [[The Determinator]]: No matter how terrified he is or how powerful his opponent may be, Courage will never back down. Best exemplified in the battle with Mecha-Courage.

* [[Dogs Are Dumb]]: Inverted. Courage is one of the smartest characters in the show.

* [[Gag Nose]]: With a zigzag on it.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: He KNOWS when something's wrong.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Rather a sad story, revealed in the last episodes of the series when {{spoiler|an evil doctor rocketed his mom and dad in hopes to create a race of super strong space dogs. Luckily Muriel found him as a baby in a nearby alley.}}

* [[Silent Snarker]]: In his non-speaking moments.

* [[Talking Animal]]: He was very talkative during the first season. But afterwards the creators decided to try and make him not quite as chatty and mostly saying one liners now and then.

* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]

A sweet old lady of Scottish descent who found Courage abandoned by an alley and took him home. She is constantly in danger from the things that come to Nowhere but she always smiles at some point during the episode. And she loves Eustace despite his [[Jerkass]] personality. She also loves using vinegar in ''all'' of her cooking, and in an early episode picked up playing the sitar and also has a fondness for tea.

 

* [[Captain Oblivious]]

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Oh my".

 

* [[Adult Child]]: He's basiclly a [[Bratty Half Pint]] in an old man's body.

* [[Anti Role Model]]

* [[Asshole Victim]]

* [[Berserk Button]]: Cheating him out of money, and messing with his hat, chair, or truck.

* [[Big Bad]]: He's this in an episode wherein he assembles a team consisting of [[Big Bad|himself]], [[The Dragon|Katz]], [[The Brute|the foot fungus gangsters]], [[The Dark Chick|the queen of the black puddle]], and [[Team Pet|the weremole]] [[Moral Event Horizon|in an attempt to kill Courage, luring him into that situation by holding Muriel hostage above a boiling pot.]]

* [[Big Eater]]

* [[The Bully]]

* [[Captain Oblivious]]

* [[Grumpy Bear]]

* [[Grumpy Old Man]]: Should be [[Captain Obvious|obvious]] with what he does for most of the series.

* [[Jerkass]]

** [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: Although it never shows anywhere else, the ending of "The Curse of Shirley" where another hallucination caused by the curse has him see Courage as himself as a young boy with no hat. And in a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] gives him the hat and undoes the curse.

* [[Opaque Lenses]]

* [[Personal Raincloud]]: In "Curse Of Shirley".

* [[Strong Family Resemblance]]

* [[This Is My Chair]]

* [[A Day in The Limelight]]: "Mega Muriel the Magnificent", "Hardrive Courage".

* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]

* [[British Stuffiness]]

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "You ''Twit''".

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

** [[Snarky Inanimate Object]]

* [[Freak Out]]: In "Hardrive Courage" when he gets the virus.

* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: As the end of his episode 'Mega Muriel The Magnificent' would suggest.

* [[Shiny Midnight Black]]

* [[Sinister Shades]]

* [[Smarter Than You Look|Smarter Then He Looks]]: He's actually quite smart when you think that he was able to build things like Mecha-Courage or make Magic Chemicals (Even if at first he failed at making what he wanted: A Water Buffalo). He was also a former student of the "Perfect" Teacher.

* [[Triangle Shades]]

== Dr. Vindaloo ==

 

* [[Back Alley Doctor]]: [[Lampshaded]] by Eustace.

{{quote| '''Eustace:''' That darn doctor doesn't know what he's doing!}}

* [[Badass Moustache]]

* [[Bollywood Nerd]]

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "There is nothing I can do, nothing at all".

* [[Mad Doctor]]

* [[Mad Scientist]]

 

== Eustace's Mother ==

* [[Fiery Redhead]]

* [[Four Eyes Zero Soul]]

** [[Playing Against Type]]

* [[Jerkass]]: Mainly to her son, and to Courage when he gets in the way of her plans.

* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: Essentially his purpose in the series.

* [[Face of a Thug]]

* [[Instant Home Delivery]]

* [[Recurring Extra]]

* [[Rodents of Unusual Size]]

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Cheese.

 

== Shirley the Medium ==

 

* [[Amazing Technicolor Wildlife]]

* [[Berserk Button]]: Being rude to her and swindling her.

* [[The Cassandra]]: She often outright warns Eustace not to do something, but he never listens. That's why her catchphrase is pretty much telling him [[I Told You So]].

* [[Dogs Are Dumb]]: Inverted. She is rather intelligent.

* [[Fortune Teller]]

* [[Great Gazoo]]

* [[Gypsy Curse]]: Puts these on Eustace.

* [[No Name Given]]

* [[Miniature Senior Citizens]]

 

== Horst Bagge ==

* [[Redheaded Hero]]: Most of the time.

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Cookies, seen in "Courage Meets The Mummy" and donuts, seen in "Courage In The Big Stinkin' City".

 

== Parachute Lady ==

The very first monster to disturb the Main Characters house. In the pilot, he harasses the chickens out in their henhouse and he is thwarted after he accidentally shoots himself {{spoiler|Via a mirror from Courage}}. He would later return albeit as a cooked chicken in a later episode where he looks for a new head. It is revealed later he had a wife and a kid with 3 heads.

 

* [[Feathered Fiend]]

* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: His own gun.

* [[Red Eyes Take Warning]]

* [[The Voiceless]]

* [[The Sociopath]]

* [[Wicked Cultured]]

* [[Xtreme Kool Letterz]]

 

A French duck that disguises himself as many jobs but is actually a thief that steals riches from his victims. After his debut his plans are more towards getting revenge on Courage while at the same time trying to steal stuff. He always seems to escape capture every time, and repeats "They have not seen the last of...Le Quack".

 

* [[Ax Crazy]]

* [[Blue Eyes]]

* [[French Jerk]]

* [[Morally Ambiguous Ducktorate]]

* [[Smug Snake]]

* [[Tickle Torture]]: Did this to Muriel once.

* [[Noodle People]]

* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]

* [[Scarf of Asskicking]]

* [[Serial Killer]]: In life, he and his partner killed at least 12 people. He was arrested and died in prison.

* [[Green Aesop]]

* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]}}: {{spoiler|Once Courage repairs the hole in the Ozone Layer and revives all the Snowman's dead friends, he's more than happy to stop being a bad guy and return home in peace.}}

* [[Last of His Kind]]: He's the last Snowman, as the others all melted due to the hole in the Ozone Layer. This is his primary motivation, as he doesn't want his species to die out. {{spoiler|Courage fixes the hole in the Ozone Layer, which revives the other Snowmen, allowing him to return home in peace.}}

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: [[Sean Connery]]

* [[Snowlems]]

* [[Villain Song]]: In "The Snowman's Revenge". Also counts as a [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]], since it came completely out of nowhere and was never mentioned again.

** Also in his first one, as he's just trying to stop his race from going extinct.

 

A fox very reminiscent of a certain [[Looney Tunes]] character. Only the fact that he's a fox, has shades, and actually would of gotten his prize if it weren't for a slapstick chase with a certain cowardly dog.

 

* [[Amusing Injuries]]

* [[Born Lucky]]: At least ''HE'' thinks so.

Demon describes as [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]]. When someone sleeps on the bed he possesses their body by making their skin green, and the hair red. He can only be ousted by an incantation.

 

* [[Conspicuous CGI]]: The herse that deleivers the mattress.

* [[Einstein Hair]]

** Also, the weasel pulls this whenever he hisses.

* [[Shout Out]]: Everything the demon does in Muriel's body is very similar to what happens to the girl in the film ''[[The Exorcist (Film)|The Exorcist]]''.

 

== Freaky Fred ==

* [[Bald of Awesome]]: Appears to be slightly balding.

* [[The Barber]]

* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: [[Subverted]], as he's not evil, just a little... [[Verbal Tic|NAAAAUUUUGGHHTYYY...]]

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "NAAAUUUUUUUUUGGGHHHTTYYY."

* [[Leitmotif]]: The creepy music box in the background.

* [[The Mentally Disturbed]]

* [[Noodle People]]

* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: Even though he did nothing but shave hair the entire, he STILL managed to scare a lot of kids.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: *laid egg* "I told you to stop doing that".

* [[Evil Brit]]: Subverted.

* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: They may argue, but deep down they really care about each other.

* [[Mind Control]]: Uses devices to control Muriel, Eustace, and Courage (Although willingly).

* [[Shock and Awe]]

* [[Smug Snake]]

* [[Morally Ambiguous Ducktorate]]

* [[Toothy Bird]]

* [[Making a Splash]]

* [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family]]: In her monster form.

* [[Red Eyes Take Warning]]

* [[The Vamp]]

* [[Morally Ambiguous Ducktorate]]

* [[Overly Long Name]]

* [[Slasher Smile]]

* [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]: To get Courage in trouble.

Large group of living eggplants that believe Muriel is a great evil that must be extinguished. But they won't attack until they are ordered by The Great Eggplant to do so. They become nicer when water finally drops and their vines grow.

 

* [[Eyes of Gold]]

* [[Fundamentally Funny Fruit]]

* [[Nice Hat]]: Bob O'Gonoush and Ratatoullie

* [[Shout Out]]: The Great Eggplant may be directly or indirectly be based on the [[Peanuts|The Great Pumpkin]].

An alligator stage owner that finds people wishing to make famous stage stars/actors and make him puppets on his stage for an audience that actually isn't even there. When they act on stage, strings come down from the masks and transforms them into puppets.

 

* [[Ax Crazy]]

* [[Badass Cape]]

* [[Fat Bastard]]

* [[Goofy Print Underwear]]

* [[My Name Is Not Durwood|My Name Is Not Buschwick]]

* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: Ya d'wanna know what made dese bones...

* [[Con Man]]

* [[Fish Eyes]]

* [[Mad Scientist]]

* [[Nice Hat]]

* [[Con Man]]

* [[Evil Brit]]

* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: Rather grossly drinks his own body fat.

* [[The Jeeves]]

 

* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]

* [[Evil Laugh]]

* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]

== Rat ==

 

* [[Minion With an F In Evil]]

* [[Red Eyes Take Warning]]

* [[Rodents of Unusual Size]]

* [[Silent Snarker]]: Rat

* [[Evil Twin]]

* [[Fat Girl]]: Maria.

* [[Red Eyes Take Warning]]: Maria.

 

 

* [[Blue Eyes]]

* [[Dogs Are Dumb]]: Duncan.

* [[Evil Redhead]]

== The Coralites ==

 

* [[Lilliputians]]

* [[Nice Hat]]: The Mayor Coralite has a spiffy top hat.

A group of bullfrogs led by a king that after their Pond dries up takes over the Bagges' home and forces them to make a new pond.

 

* [[The Brute]]: One of the frogs.

* [[Frogs and Toads]]

 

* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]

* [[Evil Brit]]: Well, she's more of an anti-heroic brit.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Tulips stick out of her hair.

 

== Mona Lisa ==

* [[Gonk]]

* [[Lizard Folk]]

* [[Shiny Midnight Black]]

* [[Smug Snake]]

* [[Turtle Power]]

 

== Baby Birds ==

 

* [[Fish Eyes]]

* [[Picky Eater]]

== The Fishtionary ==

 

* [[Fish People]]

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: In the beggining, she said that acting like a human was "uncivilized", but towards the end, she was seen sitting on a chair and watching TV.

== Evil Plants ==

 

* [[Mix and Match Critters]]: Sort of. They're pants combined with animals.

* [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family]]

* [[Con Man|Con Women]]

* [[Creepy Twins]]

* [[Evil Laugh]]

* [[Eyes of Gold]]

* [[For the Evulz]]

* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: Their own Magic Quilt.

* [[Multiple Head Case]]

* [[Shiny Midnight Black]]

* [[Theme Twin Naming]]

 

* [[Cool Helmet]]

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: "THAT DAM BEAVER".

* [[Rodents of Unusual Size]]

 

* [[Red Eyes Take Warning]]

* [[Rodents of Unusual Size]]

* [[You Dirty Rat]]

 

* [[Evil Redhead]]

* [[Fiery Redhead]]

* [[Large Ham]]

* [[Nice Hat]]

== Big Bayou ==

 

* [[Bow Ties Are Cool]]

* [[Eyes of Gold]]

* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]

* [[Nice Hat]]

* [[Smug Snake]]: Literally.

* [[Sssssnaketalk]]

== The Buck ==

 

* [[Badass]]

* [[Bald of Awesome]]

* [[Eyes of Gold]]

* [[Genius Bruiser]]

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: He thinks Muriel is his girlfriend.

 

== Kitty and Bunny ==

 

* [[Amazing Technicolor Wildlife]]

* [[Catgirl]]: Kitty.

* [[Pass Fail]]: Kitty's mask and dress are a fairly obvious metaphor.

* {{spoiler|[[Poor Communication Kills]]}}: {{spoiler|Almost the case between Courage and Kitty.}}

* [[Tsundere]]: Kitty is Type A.

 

* [[Evil Is Hammy]]

* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]

* [[Jerkass]]

* [[Large Ham]]

* [[Lean and Mean]]

* [[Nice Hat]]

* [[Shiny Midnight Black]]

 

 

* [[Cool Shades]]: The Trainer.

* [[Lantern Jaw of Justice]]: The Trainer.

* [[Shout Out]]: Wetworld is this to Seaworld.

 

* [[Evil Brit]]: Subverted.

* {{spoiler|[[Our Dragons Are Different]]}}: Turns out, the reason he can't fly is because {{spoiler|he's a water dragon that got seperated from his family as a baby and was raised by flying dragons.}}

 

The son(/s) of the villain from the pilot of the series. They have 3 heads consisting of a leader, the smart one (who tends to flash a camera), and an idiot one They are sent down to Nowhere to take revenge for the death of their father by killing Courage. If they don't kill him they are told they can't come back home. {{spoiler|They of course fail to kill Courage and after seeing them cry thinking they can't go back home, Courage opts to fake a beating using the camera.}}

 

* [[Conjoined Twins|Conjoined Triplets]]

* [[The Ditz]]: The middle head.

* [[Fish Eyes]]: The middle head.

* [[Multiple Head Case]]

 

* [[Blinding Bangs]]: Lazzo's eyes are always hidden by his hat.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: Jay's "RIIIIIIIIGHT...".

* [[Commissar Cap]]: Lazzo.

* [[Evil Old Folks]]

* [[Fat Bastard]]

* [[Four Eyes Zero Soul]]

* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: His own rocket.

* [[Jump Scare]]

* [[Nightmare Face]]

* [[The Spook]]

 

A water-dwelling dragon that Courage and Muriel meet towards the end of the episode "Food Of The Dragon". He seems scary at first, but turns out to be very friendly. {{spoiler|He's William's long-lost brother.}}

 

* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: Unlike "flying dragons", water dragons can't fly, have flippers instead of wings, and eat fish instead of people.

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Fish.

 

* [[Blue Eyes]]

* [[Conspicuous CG]]: Like Ramses, another intentional example.

* [[Fan Nickname]]: Its given name is a [[TV Tropes]]-official nickname, too.

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: It claims that Courage is imperfect, while it is a mishmash of trumpet and... whatever- not a perfect human form.

* [[Nightmare Dreams]]

** ''The fact he's got a character spot on this page in the first place'' should tell you something.

* [[Our Monsters Are Weird]]: It's a blue, hazy, floating broken bugle with a face stuck on it, with weird tendrils attached to its head with thorns for ears and a whispery voice, often described as a "fetus." Words cannot describe it.

* [[Eat the Dog]]: Poor guy ends up being eaten for dinner. [[Played for Laughs]]- although he's now beer-battered, he's still alive and gets off a goofy laugh that basically takes the show to the point where things can't get any weirder, closing out the series poetically.

* [[Green Eyes]]

 

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