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* [[It's All About Me]]
* [[Jerkass]]
** [[Jerk Withwith 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.
** [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Jerk]]: Except in "Curse Of Shirley" and "Demon in the Mattress".
* [[Lack of Empathy]]
* [[Lantern Jaw of Justice]]
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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.
 
* [[A Day in Thethe Limelight]]: "Mega Muriel the Magnificent", "Hardrive Courage".
* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]
* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type 2]].
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
** [[Snarky Inanimate Object]]
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Bob]]: 2+5=BOB
* [[Freak-Out]]: In "Hardrive Courage" when he gets the virus.
* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: As the end of his episode 'Mega Muriel The Magnificent' would suggest.
* [[Magical Database]]: Seems to have everything to know on how to help Courage defeat the monsters that invade their home.
* [[The Mean Brit]]
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A guy of implied Chinese descent that makes small cameos in episodes where he almost runs into Courage (usually in his car) and says his catchphrase.
 
* [[All There in Thethe Script]]: He's never referred to by name, though his name is known.
* [[Asian and Nerdy]]
* [[Asian Rudeness]]
* [[A Day in Thethe Limelight]]: "Courage vs. Mecha Courage", "Courage The Fly", and "Squatting Tiger Hidden Dog".
* [[Annoying Laugh]]
* [[Brainy Brunette]]
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* [[Lean and Mean]]
* [[Mad Scientist]]
* [[No Name Given]]: See [[All There in Thethe Script]] above.
* [[Noodle People]]
* [[Recurring Extra]]
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* [[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]]
* [[You Fool!]]
 
== Dr. Vindaloo ==
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* [[Fiery Redhead]]
* [[Four Eyes, Zero Soul]]
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: [[Billie Lou Watt|She]] was the original [[Astro Boy (Animeanime)|Astro Boy]] and [[Kimba the White Lion]].
** [[Playing Against Type]]
* [[Jerkass]]: Mainly to her son, and to Courage when he gets in the way of her plans.
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* [[Blinding Bangs]]: As a professor, he has a huge pith helmet that covers his eyes.
* [[Commissar Cap]]: Sports this sometimes.
* [[Donut Mess Withwith a Cop]]: In "Courage In The Big Stinkin' City".
* [[Porn Stache]]
* [[Redheaded Hero]]: Most of the time.
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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.
 
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Chickens]]
* [[Feathered Fiend]]
* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]: His own gun.
* [[Pint-Sized Powerhouse]]
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]
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* [[Ax Crazy]]
* [[Badass]]
* [[Badass in Aa Nice Suit]]
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "I wish you hadn't done that".
** [[Go-Karting Withwith Bowser|"A little sport]] [[An Offer You Can't Refuse|before dying?"]]
** "Sad, isn't it?"
* [[Cats Are Mean]]
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* [[Ax Crazy]]
* [[Badass in Aa Nice Suit]]
* [[Bald of Evil]]: If you don't count the twigs sticking out of his head.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "This is ''GREAT!''"
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* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: [[Sean Connery]]
* [[Shout-Out]]: He sounds like [[Sean Connery]].
** Even more so with his invention the Snowfinger. Obviously a shout out to ''[[Goldfinger (Film)|Goldfinger]]''.
** Also, his introduction: "The name's Man. Snowman."
* [[Snowlems]]
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* [[Gonk]]: Without his shades on.
* [[Hammerspace]]: How do his eyes fit under his glasses?
* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]: Well more like his own stew pot.
* [[Humanlike Foot Anatomy]]
* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]
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* [[Lean and Mean]]
* [[Noodle People]]
* [[Rhymes Onon a Dime]]
* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Looney Tunes|To Wily E. Coyote]].
* [[Sinister Shades]]
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== Demon in the Mattress ==
Demon describes as [[Exactly What It Says Onon 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]]
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* [[Nightmare Face]]: On the mattress.
** 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]]''.
* [[Who Writes This Crap?]]: "Kick 'em in the dishpan hoo, hoo, hoo!?"
 
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* [[Anime Hair]]
* [[Ax Crazy]]
* [[Badass in Aa Nice Suit]]
* [[Bald of Awesome]]: Appears to be slightly balding.
* [[The Barber]]
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* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: Even though he did nothing but shave hair the entire, he STILL managed to scare a lot of kids.
* [[Perpetual Smiler]]
* [[Rhymes Onon a Dime]]
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]
* [[Sharp-Dressed Man]]
* [[Shout-Out]]: To [[Sweeney Todd]]. He also resembles [[Beetlejuice (Film)|Beetlejuice]].
* [[Slasher Smile]]
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: He speaks in [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]] for most of his poem, but one line was "And so I figured 'What the heck?'"
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* [[Evil Brit]]: Subverted.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Ringo Starr.
* [[Jerk Withwith 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).
* [[Morally-Ambiguous Ducktorate]]
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* [[Conspicuous CG]]: Intentionally invoked with King Ramses' character design.
* [[Evil Redhead]]
* [[Grail in Thethe Garbage]]: The Slab was thought to be old Garbage by Eustace, it's only when a TV News report says how much it's worth does Eustace suddenly want to keep it.
* [[Lean and Mean]]
* [[Mummy]]
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== The Goose God ==
A god that is [[Exactly What It Says Onon 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.
 
* [[Blue Eyes]]
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* [[Odd Job Gods]]
* [[Physical God]]
* [[Rhymes Onon a Dime]]
* [[Shock and Awe]]
* [[Smug Snake]]
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* [[Enfante Terrible]]
* [[Evil Laugh]]
* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]: His own rocket that was meant to blast Muriel to the moon.
* [[Jerkass]]
* [[Morally-Ambiguous Ducktorate]]
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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.
 
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Bob]]: O'Gonoush.
* [[Eyes of Gold]]
* [[Fundamentally Funny Fruit]]
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* [[Evil Laugh]]
* [[Eyes of Gold]]
* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]: His own stage makes him one of the puppets.
* [[Lean and Mean]]
* [[Lizard Folk]]
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Calling him "Buschwick".
* [[Big Creepy -Crawlies]]
* [[Con Man]]
* [[Do Not Call Me Paul|Do Not Call Me Buschwick]]: Just "Schwick".
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== Alien Brain Visitor ==
 
* [[Expy]]: Of [[E.T. the Extraterrestrial (Film)Extra-Terrestrial|ET the Extraterrestrial]].
* [[Nice Hat]]
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]
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* [[Affably Evil]]
* [[Badass in Aa Nice Suit]]
* [[Big Creepy -Crawlies]]
* [[Big Eater]]
* [[The Butler Did It]]
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* [[Evil Brit]]
* [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal]]
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Hey, it's [[Tony Jay|Claude]] [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|Frollo!]]
* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]: Rather grossly drinks his own body fat.
* [[The Jeeves]]
* [[Lean and Mean]]
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* [[A Dog Named "Dog"|A Rat Named Rat]]
* [[Minion Withwith an F In Evil]]
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]
* [[Right-Hand-Cat|Right Hand Rat]]
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* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]
* [[Badass in Aa Nice Suit]]
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "DRAAAAAGSVIIIILE..."
* [[Disco Dan]]
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* [[Body Horror]]: His normal appearance and what he does to Muriel.
* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]
* [[Expy]]: Of [[Super Mario Bros.|Bowser]].
* [[Eyes of Gold]]
* [[Gonk]]
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* [[Finishing Each Other's Sentences]]
* [[For the Evulz]]
* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]: Their own Magic Quilt.
* [[Lean and Mean]]
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Quilters called "Stitch".
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* [[Evil Redhead]]
* [[Fat Bastard]]
* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]: Is hypnotized by his own face on a billboard.
* [[Madness Mantra]]: ''"Buy Flantasy Flan, buy Flantasy Flan..."''
* [[Mass Hypnosis]]
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* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]
* [[Rodents of Unusual Size]]
* [[Whole-Plot Reference]]: To ''[[The Nutcracker (Theatretheatre)|The Nutcracker]]''.
* [[You Dirty Rat]]
 
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* [[Eyes of Gold]]
* [[The Fighting Narcissist]]
* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]
* [[Nice Hat]]
* [[It's All About Me]]
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* [[Conjoined Twins|Conjoined Triplets]]
* [[The Ditz]]: The middle head.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Chickens]]
* [[Fish Eyes]]: The middle head.
* [[Multiple Head Case]]
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]
* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]] possibly.
* [[The Smart Guy]]: The right head.
* [[Smart People Wear Glasses]]: The right head.
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* [[For Science!]]
* [[Four Eyes, Zero Soul]]
* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]: His own rocket.
* [[Mad Doctor]]
* [[Mad Scientist]]: AND HOLY SHIT HOW.
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* [[Large Ham]]
* [[Sadist Teacher]]
* [[Shout-Out]]: Towards the end, the Witch from ''[[The Wizard of Oz (Filmfilm)|The Wizard of Oz]]''.
* [[Smug Snake]]
* [[The Spook]]
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