Hey Arnold!/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Hypocrite]]: What Helga feels and how Helga acts are always opposite things.

* [[Jerkass]]

* [[The Ladette]]: A pre-teen version.

* [[Loving Bully]]: The poster girl.

* [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man]]

* [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]]: More episodes focused on Helga than any other character except for Arnold, and that's ''not'' including the ''many'' Arnold/Helga episodes.

* '''[[Tsundere]]''': Type A. Oh so much, until [[The Movie]].

* [[The Unfavorite]]

* [[Break the Haughty]]: All the freaking time, but most notably ''Rhonda's Glasses'' and ''Rhonda Goes Broke''.

* [[Fallen Princess]]: This is the subject of a couple episodes (most notably "Rhonda's Glasses" and "Rhonda Goes Broke"), but she's always back on top by the end.

* [[Large Ham]]: She's pretty prone to this when she breaks into histrionics, especially in the episode "Rhonda Goes Broke".

* [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]]: Despite often being a typical spoiled rich girl, she does have a kind side. Not only does she always do the right thing in the end, but her best friend - Nadine - is middle-class.

* [[Dumb Muscle]]

* [[Informed Judaism]]: His Jewish background wasn't mentioned until the episode in which he tries to run away from his own bar mitzvah, though prior to that, it was established he had a mom who acted like a [[Jewish Mother]].

* [[No Indoor Voice]]

=== Sid ===

Psychotic kid with black hair and glasses

* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: To Rhonda.

* [[Ax Crazy]]

* [[The Other Darrin]]: Played by four actors. [[Ben Diskin]], Eugene #3, lasted the longest at three seasons.

* [[The Pollyanna]]: he is almost always freakishly happy and optimistic, despite his luck issues.

* [[Youthful Freckles]]

* [[Offhand Backhand]]: Helga frequently does this to Brainy.

* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]: Being offscreen most of the time, it's pretty easy for Brainy to do this. Lampshaded in several episodes where he shows up behind Helga in the most ''improbable''. places, such as on Elk Island, the {{spoiler|Supposedly}} haunted train, and even in an Alley that Helga ''made sure'' was empty.

** [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"| Everyone Calls Him Brainy]]: His real name is never reveal.

* [[The Quiet One]]

* [[Satellite Character]]: To Helga.

* [[Shadow Archetype]]: Helga is an [[Hypocrite]] with [[Hidden Depths]] who denies her feelings. Brainy is a guy with [[Hidden Depths]] who always try to say her feelings (but cannot for the asthma). [[Be Yourself|Brainy is the one thing Helga wants and fears to be]]. Brainy is Helga's [[Satellite Character]] [[Fridge Brilliance|because Brainy is Helga's self, and Helga is Brainy's]] [[Shadow Archetype]].

* [[Vader Breath]]

=== "Big" Bob Pataki ===

Father of Helga and Olga. Runs a local business aptly named "Big Bob's Beepers".

** Basically any episode that accentuates his [[Jerkass]] qualities ends with him getting a solid block of hilarious karma dropped on his head. "Roughin' It" is another good example, where he ends up alone in his RV stuck with sunburn, swamped with bugs, and itching from poison ivy (not to mention having been electrocuted by his own faulty products earlier) while everyone else enjoys camping the old fashioned way.

* [[Jerkass]]: Most of the time, he's this.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: His "orphan boy" line (referring to Arnold) in "Parent's Day". It's so mean it would be a Moral Event Horizon if he'd said it directly to Arnold (as it stands, he was talking to Helga and was just characteristically loud and uncaring about anyone else overhearing.)

* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: Consistently calls Helga by her sister's name, and almost always gets Arnold's name wrong.

* [[Cool Old Lady]]

* {{spoiler|[[Generation Xerox]]: In "Girl Trouble," she and Phil had a relationship very similar to Helga and Arnold when they were younger. As part of the gag, Gertie in the flashback is voiced by Helga's voice actor.}}

* [[Obfuscating Insanity]]: There are rare times where she behaves in an odd fashion - only to then imply it was just an act.

* [[OOC Is Serious Business]]: In "Parents Day," she acts like her usual fun-loving, crazy self. After seeing Arnold so depressed over his [[Parental Abandonment]], however, she snaps out of the role she was playing and acts far more subdued.