Courage the Cowardly Dog/Characters: Difference between revisions

The Courage series tend to not have many Sympathetic characters except for Muriel and Courage himself (And some minor monsters that have a sad backstory). Most characters are either major [[Jerkass]]es, legitimately scary, or just rather stupid.

 

Serves as the titular character who is a pink and black spotted dog (of no known specific breed) who saves his owners Muriel and Eustace from all the creatures. No matter if they're Nightmare Fuel, [[Uncanny Valley]], or just plain weird.

 

* [[Wild Take]]: Frequently.

 

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.

 

* [[Trrrilling Rrrs]]: Does this sometimes.

 

A self-proclaimed farmer that tends to be grumpy and isn't really a nice guy to anyone. He thinks he can fix anything and grow anything but this is never the case. He also has a greed for money. Although early on with no backstory whatsoever he seems to deserve what happens to him in each of the episodes when you learn he didn't have that great of a childhood with a non-loving mom and a always better Big Brother he turns into more a [[Jerkass Woobie]] and depending who you are you may actually feel sorry for the guy.

 

* [[Villainous Glutton]]: A rare skinny example.

 

A [[Jerkass]] helper who Courage commonly goes to for advice on stopping the [[Big Bad]] of the episode. His advice for the most part works well, but his insults and sarcastic vibes gets contempt from Courage.

 

* [[Smug Snake]]: A heroic example.

 

A guy of '''extremely'''-heavily implied Chinese descent that makes small cameos in episodes where he almost runs into Courage (usually in his car) and says his catchphrase.

 

* [[You Fool!]]

 

 

* [[Absent-Minded Professor]]

* [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]]

 

Rather equally a [[Jerkass]] to her son as he is to Courage, she insults Eustace at every oppurtunity and as a contrast to her son she is nice to Courage. Occasionally she is the antagonist of a few episodes especially when it's something about helping with a company that helps with wigs.

 

* [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]: Later episodes after her first appearance seem to have her taking it out at Courage.

 

A large delivery mouse who is apparently friends with Courage.

 

* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]]

 

A Wizard/Gypsy chihuahua that offers help or sells magical objects at her trailer. She is able to place curses on those who cross her (Usually Eustace) and Courage has to go find her in order to reverse them.

 

* [[The Trickster]]

 

 

* [[Bald of Evil]]: In "Curtain Of Cruelty", though it becomes [[Bald of Awesome]] at the end.

* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]]

 

 

* [[The Ace]]

* [[Sinister Shades]]

 

 

* [[Badass Moustache]]

* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]]

 

 

* [[Awesome Backpack]]

* [[Skirt Over Slacks]]

 

 

* [[Extreme Doormat]]: Even in a TORNADO he doesn't even do anything CLOSE to panicking.

* [[Sharp-Dressed Man]]

 

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.

 

* [[The Voiceless]]

 

A tall, skinny Anthromorphic cat that is in many episode implied to have several victims like in the motel and his island. He seems to have great skill at games such as Handball, and an expert at staring contests. He is probably the first villian to appear that can be Nightmare Fuel inducing considering his debut is the first episode after the Chicken from Outer Space pilot kinda leaves it open to what the show will get through from the start. He is also the most recurring villain on the show, appearing in a total of five episodes.

 

* [[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".

 

* [[You Haven't Seen the Last of X]]

 

An evil zombie director who puts his "actors" in a position where they'll listen to everything he says where they can be [[Killed Off for Real]] on camera or torture themselves for humor on a live TV show.

 

* [[Wicked Cultured]]

 

A [[Captain Obvious|snowman]] who dreads the disapperence of his snowman friends and the easily meltable substance they're made out of. He tries to avoid ever melting by extracting the Anti-Melting gene of humans in order to maintain himself as it gets warmer where he lives. He's the [[Last of His Kind]], as all the other Snowmen melted, {{spoiler|until Courage repairs the hole in the Ozone Layer, reviving the others and saving his home. Is also one of the few recurring foes to find redemption.}}

 

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

 

* [[Captain Obvious]]: "And know he's running away!"

* [[Chest Insignia]]: They have the numbers 1, 2, and 3 on their vests.

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Toast.

 

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.

 

* [[Triangle Shades]]

 

A shadow of an evil man that passes away thus letting him free. After becoming free he haunts the basement of Courage's Home, but secretly has a passion of becoming a Star.

 

* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]

 

 

* [[Big Foot]]: Duh.

* [[Odd Eyed]]

 

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.

 

* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]

* [[Einstein Hair]]

* [[Evil Is Hammy]]

* [[Who Writes This Crap?]]: "Kick 'em in the dishpan hoo, hoo, hoo!?"

 

A barber that is Muriel's cousin. At first glance, he just seems to be a crazy, creepy barber. But deep down he's [[It Got Worse|much worse then that]]. He speaks in his mind and speaks normally in rhymes, but he has basically an obsession {{spoiler|And possibly a fetish}} for cutting every single hair off someone. When he cuts Courage's hair he doesn't stop until just the hair on Courage's tail remains.

 

* [[The Wonka]]

 

A creature that moves in a similar to [[Tremors]] and mainly preys on rabbits. But if it bites a human or perhaps other creatures that survive it's bite into a weremole themselves. The only cure to a bite such as that is to get a hair off the original weremole and get it into the affected person's mouth. ''Presuming you can get lucky enough to get either the Weremole or the victim without getting bitten yourself''.

 

* [[Villainous Glutton]]

 

 

* [[Amazing Technicolor Wildlife]]

* [[Talking to Himself]]: Ringo must have had a lot of fun arguing with himself for the entire episode.

 

 

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]

* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: WHO KNOWS WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE!?!?!?

 

 

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Return the slab, or suffer my curse..."

* [[Shout-Out]]: To ''[[A Christmas Carol]]''.

 

Mob-like Foot monster that is created from a strange infection that overwhelms Eustace. The Big toe is the mob boss while all the rest are followers with no different personalities except maybe for the Pinky toe.

 

* [[Toilet Humor]]: Whenever he squeezes Muriel, he farts.

 

 

* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]

* [[Renaissance Man]]: He's a musician, an acrobat, and a shadow puppetear.

 

A god that is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. He desires love and a worthy queen to be wed to. He gets a crush on Muriel and tries to take her as her queen. At least until he hears the sound of the horn of Eustace's Truck.

 

* [[Wicked Cultured]]

 

A siren-like monster that lives in a black puddle that she lives in. She lures in men to her puddle and eats them.

 

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Purple Hair]]

 

A duck that hatches from a cooking pot that develops a love for Eustace. So much so he tries to eliminate the one person who likes Eustace just as much as he does: Muriel.

 

* [[Toothy Bird]]

 

A chef and owner of a Hamburger restaurant. The creepy parts of the beginning makes it seem that the meat is made out of [[I'm a Humanitarian|humans who have previously visited the place]]. {{spoiler|But actually he just makes Meat Sculptures of his favorite customers. Not that that's not still not creepy, but still.}}

 

* [[Pig Man]]

 

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.

 

* [[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.

 

* [[Wicked Cultured]]

 

 

* [[Green Eyes]]

* [[Wise Tree]]

 

A robot from a whole colony of similar robots that acts differently from the rest. Instead of wanting to destroy, he wants to pick up a hobby/job of making wooden reindeer. He is at first ridiculed for this but when it turns out to be a great business he is more accepted when he gets back to his planet.

 

* [[Shout-Out]]: His entire speech and mannerisms are a shout out to Christopher Walken.

 

An anthropomorphic cockroach that invites the Bagges family to a hotel room where just on the wall is a small mouse door that has something in there that is never directly known as all that's left of it's victims are bones. Schwick is also a wanted criminal, and to hide his tracks he hires Courage to deliver a present to a scary house with doors of horrible things (One including a certain Violin girl).

 

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

 

A deranged and confused burglar whose very prone to mood swings and personality shifts. Sometimes he's convinced that the Bagges are his own relatives.

 

* [[Split Personality]]: One's a hardened criminal. The other is an [[Affably Evil]] bandit who thinks the Bagges are his relatives and partners in crime.

 

 

* [[Banana Republic]]

* [[Ridiculous Future Inflation]]: "$8,000,000 for a salami!?"

 

A mummy that was once a baker for a royal Mayan queen who is an ancestor of Muriel. He came back recognizing Muriel as the Mayan Queen and Eustace as the Royal Pubba and looks for revenge.

 

* [[The Unintelligible]]

 

A Vacuum salesman that actually uses his stuff to capture people for experiments for his many products.

 

* [[Wicked Cultured]]

 

 

* [[Fish Eyes]]

* [[Solar CPR]]: His episode centered around this.

 

 

* [[Blob Monster]]

* [[Cyclops]]

 

 

* [[Eyes Always Shut]]

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: They hate vanity, but as shown at the end of the episode, they are rather vain.

 

 

* [[Ax Crazy]]

* [[Talk Like a Pirate]]

 

 

* [[Cyclops]]

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]

 

 

* [[Kangaroo Pouch Ride]]

* [[Transformation Trauma]]

 

 

* [[Expy]]: Of [[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|ET the Extraterrestrial]].

* [[Verbal Tic]]: "Yes."

 

 

* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]

* [[Zorro Mark]]

 

A rather gentlemanly anthropomorphic Weevil that treats hosts seemingly good but actually drinks their life slowly to feed himself. If you're a [[Dragonball Z]] fan, it reminds you a lot of a certain other nightmarish insect like creature. Only Weevil's is even ''slower''.

 

* [[Wicked Cultured]]

 

 

* [[Evil Is Hammy]]

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]

 

A spirit that warns the family (Especially Eustace) that something must grow on the farm "or else". We never actually see what Or Else means. But it's presumed to be really bad.

 

* [[Syncro-Vox]]

 

A sand whale that has a vendetta against Eustace's father for stealing his Accordion. In which it has become a family heirloom according to Eustace's Mother.

 

* [[Sand Is Water]]: For him, it is.

 

An evil, always frowning doctor that created Cannonballs that makes anybody in negative moods. He uses his moving tower that has tons of cannons to fire them around town. He has a pet rat that he simply calls Rat.

 

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Pink Hair]]

 

 

* [[A Dog Named "Dog"|A Rat Named Rat]]

* [[You Dirty Rat]]

 

 

* [[Beauty Mark]]: Maria.

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

 

A robot half-sphere in a color scheme like Courage made by Di Lung in order to make "better dog". It does everything right that Courage can do but is defeated despite a heavy beating put on Courage by his own sheer willpower to survive.

 

* [[Robot Names]]

 

 

* [[Blue Eyes]]: One raccoon

* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]s

 

An old singer that Eustace was a big fan of. His spirit is trapped in a record and he comes out when played.

 

* [[Totally Radical]]

 

 

* [[Blue Eyes]]

* [[Personal Raincloud]]

* [[Physical God]]

 

A thin man who like other portrayals of the Sandman is like the god of Sleep. However he has a problem trying to sleep, that even his herd of sheep can not get him to lie down. So he chooses to take Muriel's deep sleep literally from under her nose. {{spoiler|At least until Courage finds his Teddy Bear.}}

 

* [[Wicked Cultured]]

 

 

* [[Expy]]: Of Vastabael Backjurius from "Mission To The Sun".

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Vinegar!

 

 

* [[Brawn Hilda]]s

* [[Toothy Bird]]: The Norweigian Blue.

 

 

* [[Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal]]: The Mayor and the small, female coralite.

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Pie.

 

A as far as we know human who found a way to extend his life beyond centuries using uncleanliness that distorts his appearence but makes his life longer. He attempts to get Eustace and Muriel to follow his philosophy but it makes the family miserable.

 

* [[The Pig Pen]]

 

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.

 

* [[Smart People Wear Glasses]]: One of the frogs.

 

 

* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]

* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]

 

 

* [[Curtains Match the Window]]

* [[Non-Standard Character Design]]

 

 

* [[Blue Eyes]]

* [[Nightmare Retardant]]: [[In-Universe]].

 

 

* [[Alliterative Name]]

* [[Turtle Power]]

 

 

* [[Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal]]

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Worms.

 

 

* [[Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal]]

* [[Fish People]]

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: She's a missionary fish! Get it?

* [[Purple Eyes]]

* [[Smug Snake]]

 

 

* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]

* [[Cool Shades]]

* [[Evil Counterpart|Eviler Counterpart]]: Of Eustace.

* [[Humanoid Abomination]]

* [[Jerkass]]: [[Up to 11]].

* [[Lantern Jaw of Justice]]

* [[Lean and Mean]]

* [[Nice Hat]]

* [[Sinister Shades]]

 

 

* [[Man-Eating Plant|Man Eating Plants]]

* [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family]]

 

 

* [[Conjoined Twins]]

* [[Theme Twin Naming]]

 

 

* [[Acrofatic]]

* [[Wicked Cultured]]

 

 

* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]

* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]

 

 

* [[Abusive Parents]]: At least his father.

* [[Rodents of Unusual Size]]

 

 

* [[Acrofatic]]

* [[You Dirty Rat]]

 

 

* [[Ax Crazy]]

* [[Violent Glaswegian]]

 

 

* [[Brainy Brunette]]

* [[Shiny Midnight Black]]

 

 

* [[Black Vikings]]: Vikings in America?

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]

 

 

* [[Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal]]

* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: "What the Bayou!?"

 

 

* [[Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal]]

* [[Papa Wolf]]

 

 

* [[The Brute]]

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

 

 

* [[Extreme Omni Goat]]: Averted. He is never seen eating.

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]

 

 

* [[Catch Phrase]]: ''"Grow, expand, explode! Grow, expand, explode!"'' Well, it's the only thing he says.

* [[No Indoor Voice]]

 

 

* [[Bald of Awesome]]

* [[Paper Master]]

 

 

* [[Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal]]: Bunny.

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

 

 

* [[Angry Guard Dog]]

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]

 

 

* [[Alliterative Name]]

* [[Shiny Midnight Black]]

 

 

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]

 

 

* [[Cool Shades]]: The Trainer.

* [[Triangle Shades]]: The Trainer.

 

A dragon who appears in the episode "Food Of The Dragon". He devours Eustace and threatens to eat Muriel and Courage unless Courage can teach him how to fly. He chases after Courage and Muriel and discovers that {{spoiler|he's actually a water-dwelling dragon}} (which is why he cannot fly) {{spoiler|and is reunited with his long-lost brother)}}. Oh, and he takes Eustace out of his own stomach.

 

* {{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.}}

 

A female, space-dwelling squid who was tragically and heartrendingly separated from her husband, who was devoured by a space whale. She ends up crashing onto Earth as the last of her kind... and getting progressively sicker. Unfortunately, the government discovers her and wants possession of her- right when she's pregnant with babies. {{spoiler|Courage saves the squid's babies... but the mommy still passes away, turning into a field of flowers, while her eggs hatch into newborns, fly off into space, and give birth to new stars.}}

 

* [[Space Whale]]: A nasty enemy of these creatures.

 

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.}}

 

* [[Toothy Bird]]

 

 

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

* [[Those Two Guys]]

 

 

* [[Blob Monster]]

* [[Eyes of Gold]]

 

 

* [[Beauty Mark]]

* [[The Voiceless]]

 

Quite possibly the worst villain of the entire series, he stands out as Courage's ''biggest'' nightmare. Why? This screw-loose "vet" came up with a horrible idea back when Courage was a puppy- abduct dogs and rocket them off to the moon to make them into super breeds of space dogs. Tragically... {{spoiler|He captured Courage's beloved mom and dad, and Courage himself, with plans to send them into space. Although Courage's parents came to the rescue, the doctor sealed them up in a rocket with a one-way trip to the moon in store. Courage was too terrified by this predicament to do anything but escape harm through a garbage chute- only to watch his parents be catapulted into space- in tears. Fortunately, a younger Muriel discovered the young pup in the dumpster and gave him a happy home.}} Many years later, the maniac doctor, albeit considerably older and balder, still continues his twisted plans... but now Muriel and Eustace get trapped in a rocket themselves. {{spoiler|But this time, Courage refuses to stand by and watch his family be taken from him, freeing the two of them. In the struggle, the evil vet gets himself locked inside his own rocket and propelled to the moon... where every dog he victimized is waiting for him- including Courage's decidedly furious parents.}}

 

* [[Mad Scientist]]: AND HOLY SHIT HOW.

 

* [[Control Freak]]

* [[Evil Brit]]

* [[Wicked Cultured]]

 

Nothing is much known about the character itself, but it's one off appearance in "Big Stinkin' City" is one of those sights a Courage fan never forgets. From the back it looks like a normal girl playing Violin (Though even this is considered Uncanny Valley considering everything else around is animated). But when it turns around it has a scary looking claymation face that brings the Uncanny Valley [[Up to Eleven]] as there's realistic looks, animated background, and claymation all in one spot. Though it seems that the girl's face is not always like that, as she appears normal on a television that Eustace is watching later in the episode.

 

* [[The Spook]]

 

 

* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]

* [[Noodle People]]

 

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.}}

 

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Fish.

 

A blue... ''thing'' that appears in the first of Courage's nightmares in "Perfect". Probably [[Nightmare Fuel|one of the series' scariest things, if not the scariest]], joining the ranks of King Ramses and the Harvest Moon Spirit in terms of CGI abominations. It appears to be a warped trumpet with a [[Uncanny Valley|horrible human face stuck on it]], or possibly a deformed fetus with a horrible human face stuck on it.

Currently serves as the image for the series' [[Nightmare Fuel]] page.

* [[The Spook]]

 

A bizarre, blue-scaled, red-finned, green-eyed fish that appears in the bathtub to tell Courage that it's alright to be imperfect and accept his flaws as what makes him unique and beautiful.