Courage the Cowardly Dog: Difference between revisions

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* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Mad Dog looks (and acts) like a highly stereotypical [[Scary Black Man]] and has rather-distinctly brown fur, but fur colors are not necessarily the same thing as skin colors.

* [[Anachronism Stew]]: "Modern" China looking '''considerably''' more like Ancient China in ''Squatting Tiger, Hidden Dog''.

* [[Asian and Nerdy]]: Di Lung is about as [[Ethnic Scrappy|stereotypically]] Asian as cartoon characters get, and also [[GeniusDitz about as talented]].

* [[Ask a Stupid Question]]: Courage always does this with the computer, though he isn't really asking a stupid question, it's how the computer interprets it. Here's an example:

{{quote|'''Courage:''' Computer. How do you get rid of bad eggplants?

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** Eustace may be a jerk, and his actions later in life are pretty much inexcusable, but to say he's entirely responsible is a bit harsh. His father was basically nonexistent, off chasing whales, his mother verbally and physically abused him, and his older brother left home as soon as he could to go be rich, and never share any of that with the family, only laugh at Eustace's fate. He had a pretty bad upbringing.

*** Ah, so he has a [[Freudian Excuse]].

* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Katz (who is '''easily''' the biggest sadist in the entire series) and Di Lung (who somehow manages to be enough of an irredeemable douchebag to actually make Eustace look like a '''saint''' when compared to him). The Evil Empress from ''Squatting Tiger, Hidden Dog'' might actually be even '''more''' of a CCV than Katz and Di Lung, however.

* [[The Cassandra]]: Courage, he always notices that something is evil, while Muriel and Eustace usually are ignorant of it.

** The same thing can also be said about [[Fortune Teller|Shirley]].

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** This is lampshaded in some small, throwaway moments. For example, at the beginning of The Last of the Starmakers, Courage is on the porch and picks up the newspaper with his hand before putting it in his mouth and giving it to Eustace.

* [[General Failure]]: Mr. Frith's "General" form, to the point where [[Irony|he even fails to disarm one of his own bombs]] in ''Muriel Blows Up''.

* GeniusDitz: [[Asian Rudeness|Di]] [[Nouveau Riche|Lung]] may generally act like a '''complete''' idiot (especially when he is delivering his infamous [[Running Gag|catchphrase]]), but when it comes to science and engineering, he is '''absurdly''' talented to say the '''least'''.

* [[Gentle Giant]]: Randy The Robot becomes one of these after he finally gets over his [[All Of The Other Reindeer]] angst.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: The show's entire premise: mature themes of horror played ''straight'' in a show appealing to people of all ages and levels of maturity. Several more specific (and traditional) examples as well.

** Kitty and Bunny. How S&P didn't catch that is a mystery.

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* [[No Accounting for Taste]]: Muriel and Eustace's marriage.

* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: The ending to the Le Quack episodes ends with the titular villain escaping from his confinement and he always leaves behind evidence as he goes such as a police van crashing with no officers in site and an entire prison on fire with no signs of other convicts, though it's never explained how he managed to escape every time. Since he usually fights Courage through the means of cartoonish antics, [[Fridge Horror|this just makes the endings]] [[Nightmare Fuel|even scarier]].

* [[Nouveau Riche]]: Di Lung is an absolutely '''definitive''' East Asian example of this.

* [[Odd Job Gods]]: The Goose God. It was never quite clear what he was god ''of'', but it presumably had something to do with waterfowl.

** He was the God of Honking.