Dad's Army/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[The Captain]]

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "You stupid boy!" (To Pike); "There is a war on, you know."

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Captain Mainwaring hates Nazis and Germans in general. He seems to have an unintended snobbish look on other foreigners.

* [[The Ghost]]: Mrs. Mainwaring.

* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: Captain Mainwaring is easily offended if directly of subtly insulted.

* [[Its Pronounced Tropay]]: He often has to remind people how to pronounce his name correctly (It is correctly pronounced as "Manner-Ring").

* [[Large Ham]]

* [[The Napoleon]]: Actually nicknamed "Napoloen" by Warden Hodges, and dreams about being Napoleon in one episode.

* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: Usually when working at the bank.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Believes himself to be this, although he is just as looney as most of his troops.

* [[Patriotic Fervor]]: Very patriotic and scolds those who do not follow his example.

* {{spoiler|[[Phony Veteran]]}}

* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|He has never actually had any combat experience, and was never a soldier in World War I. He is briefly removed from command until the other troops send letters to the war office asking for his return.}}

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: With Wilson, despite their differences in attitude and class.

* [[What an Idiot!]]: Several characters think he is an idiot, mainly Frazer, Hodges, and Captain Square.

* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: {{spoiler|Heavily implied to be Pike's real father.}}

** In an interview, David Croft said that this was true "in his opinion." Counts as [[Word of God]] to me.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: When Mainwaring off doing something looney, Wilson holds this trope.

* [[You Are in Command Now]]: Happens twice. Once when Mainwaring is stripped of his command when it turns out he {{spoiler|is a self-proclaimed officer}}; and again when Wilson becomes the Eastgate bank manager.

 

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: The most nuttiest of the troops.

* [[Cool Old Guy]]

* [[Large Ham]]

* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]

* [[Honest John's Dealership]]

* [[The Nicknamer]]: He calls Jones "Jonesy", Pike as "Pikey", and Frazer as "Taffy".

 

=== Private James Frazer ===

* [[The Creepy Undertaker]]

* [[Doomy Dooms of Doom]]

* [[The Eeyore]]

* [[Father Neptune]]

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]

* [[Old Soldier]]

 

=== Private Charles Godfrey ===

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Turn off that light!"; "You bloomin' hooligans!"; "Now, look here, Napoleon!"

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Only the Verger finds his jokes amusing.

* [[Grumpy Bear]]

* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]

 

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