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The characters in [[Disney]]'s newest animated success, ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''.

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* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Not to the same extent as Ferb, but he can wipe out an army of invading robots with a baseball launcher and a robot dog as effectively as anyone else. He also fought an evil dictator from another dimension solo (however briefly) and lived to tell the tale {{spoiler|([[Laser-Guided Amnesia|or not]])}}.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Four words: '''[[Punctuated! forFor! Emphasis!|GET]].''' '''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|ON]].''' '''[[OOC Is Serious Business|THE]].''' '''[[Memetic Mutation|TRIKE]]!!!'''

* [[Break the Cutie]]/[[Heroic BSOD]]/[[Ten -Minute Retirement]]: In "Phineas And Ferb Get Busted", {{spoiler|or at least within [[Dream Within a Dream|Candace's dream within Perry's dream.]]}}

** Also in "Summer Belongs To You" and the [[Christmas Special]].

** "Hey, where's Perry?"/"Oh there you are, Perry!"

** [Adult: "Aren't you a little young to be editing a TV Tropes page?"] "[[Blunt Yes|Why yes. Yes I am.]]"

* [[Characterization Marches On]]: His slightly snarky and mischievous streak in early episodes (even more so in the show's original pitch) essentially vanished in later ones.

* [[Cheerful Child]]

** Or except during "Summer Belongs To You". "GET ON THE TRIKE!"

{{quote| '''Phineas:''' All this time, you could have been cleaning out your own litterbox! ''[Perry shrugs sheepishly]''}}

{{quote| ''(trying to figure out Ferb's sign language)'' " '[[Catch Phrase|I...know...what...we're...going...to do]]...spatula.' Oh, ''today!'' I really should have known that from the context. Oh, here's another one. '[[Catch Phrase|Hey...where's]]...spatula.' Oh, context again."}}

** Not to mention how long it takes him to figure out that Mitch isn't friendly.

*** The movie actually makes this an odd sort of [[Canon]]; {{spoiler|he's really happy when Isabella kisses him (albeit really shocked) and it seems like he wants to do/say something else before their memories are wiped, but never gets the chance}}. The movie just never clarifies whether he's hiding his own feelings, liked the kiss but didn't think of it as love, or wasn't really aware of them - which would push his [[Oblivious to Love]] status [[Up to Eleven]].

* [[The Wonka]]: The kid equivalent. He even gets to dress up as [[Charlie and Thethe Chocolate Factory|Willy Wonka]] during a brief [[Charlie and Thethe Chocolate Parody]] in "Toy to the World".

* [[Mad Scientist]]: After all, he and Phineas do create things like city-spanning roller coaster rides, time machine and tree houses that convert into [[Humongous Mecha|Humongous Mechas]]s. Ferb is also implied to be better than Phineas at the engineering side of things. Phineas just thinks of the ideas.

* [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname]]

** [[May-DecemberMay–December Romance]]: [[Word of God]] states that they'd likely end up together when they get older when "[[Vague Age|that age difference]] won't be so much."

* [[The Silent Bob]]

** Mom. MOM!

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: [[Depending Onon the Writer|Sometimes]].

* [[Guilty Pleasure]]: Ducky Momo, although it's less of a "[[So Bad It's Good|so bad it's good]]" guilty pleasure and more of a nostalgic attachment for her.

{{quote| '''Candace''': What about ''my'' needs?}}

* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: She's often outwardly very mean to her brothers and much of her life revolves around trying to bust them, but on many occasions she shows that she does deeply care for them inside. In fact, she has claimed that one of her reasons for trying to bust her brothers is to protect them from their potentially dangerous activities. However, she isn't exactly a jerk, but can get carried away and wrapped up in trying to bust her brothers.

** In ''Let’s Bounce'', Linda outs Candace as a skort wearer, though this is never actually shown.

* [[Overshadowed Byby Awesome]]: When you have a brother and step brother who can basically bend reality to their whims, its bound to happen.

{{quote| '''Candace''': Why is it when Phineas and Ferb have an idea, everyone's like "Oh, wow, you guys are really clever!" and when I come up with something everyone's like "What, did you say something, Candace?" }}

* [[Princess for Aa Day]]: In "Make Play".

* [[Throw the Dog Aa Bone]]: Several, usually due to the fact that her brothers seem to have no animosity towards her despite her busting attempts.

* [[Tsundere]]: Type A with her brothers. She is more ''dere''''derederedere'' with Jeremy.

* [[The Unfavorite]]: Sees are herself as this, although she doesn't moan about it too much, and her parents really do love her.

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* [[Clark Kenting]]: Doofenshmirtz can't recognize him without his fedora (well, he ''did'' recognize him without his hat once, but that's a different story). It's even started to aggravate Perry, about the third time he wasn't recognized, you can see Perry sigh and slap it on. In Doofenshmirtz's defense, [[Justified Trope|he's justified]] in that all platypuses, platypii, platypeople, whatever, are superficially identical (with Phineas noting [[Informed Flaw|Informed Flaws]]s in all the wrong ones).

** His evil(er) counterpart in ''[[Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across Thethe 2nd Dimension|Across the Second Dimension]]'' even [[Lampshade|lampshadeslampshade]]s this by trying to teach him to recognize Perry without the hat. To show how bad Doof-1 is about recognizing Perry, in the movie, he already knew Phineas and Ferb's pet platypus was named Perry and had seen ''that'' Perry fighting the Platyborg and that wasn't enough to make a connection. No wonder Perry got aggravated.

* [[Everything's Better Withwith Platypi|Everything's Better With Platypode]]

** Even funnier when it gets [[Lampshade|lampshadedlampshade]]d in [[Big Damn Movie|the movie]], with a song all about how much better their days/lives are with Perry.

* [[Go-Karting Withwith Bowser]]: He occasionally hangs out with Doofenshmirtz when he's not being particularly evil.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: When Doofenshmirtz decides, all on his own, to stop being evil and make cheese instead, Perry causes him to go back to being evil by [[Rant-Inducing Slight|eating his entire wheel of perfectly aged limburger without permission]]. Granted, Doofenshmirtz ''did'' say it was irresistible.

** [[Not So Stoic]]: He has his moments, most notably in "Druselstein Driving Test Waltz".

{{quote| '''Phineas:''' So all this time, we're like "[[Sarcasm Mode|Oh, he's a Platypus.]] [[Catch Phrase|They don't do much.]]" Well, apperantly, THEY DO!!<br />

{{quote| '''Lawrence''': I'm awesome, you're not. I'm awesome, you're not.}}

{{quote| '''Linda''': Next time, ''destroy him''. Smear the punk. Annihilate him. Make him cry.}}

A mad scientist and [[Card-Carrying Villain]] who seeks to rule the Tri-State Area... usually. Most of his evil schemes actually involve him building an elaborate invention to wreak low-level havoc (like blowing up billboards that are blocking his view of the city skyline), get revenge for a petty slight (like shooting tires at an ice-cream man who ran over his foot), or make amends for some trauma from his comically-bad childhood in [[The Old Country|Drusselstein]] (like dumping sand on the house of a bully who used to kick sand in his face when he was a kid), or some combination of the three.

* [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents]]: To Vanessa.

* [[Conspiracy Placement]]: His building says "Evil Incorporated" and he has his own evil Jingle. Its the page quote.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: In [[The Movie]], compared to his more evil parallel self.

* [[Evil Is Petty]]: All of his [[Evil Plan|Evil Plans]]s. For instance, mindcontrolling pidgeons to poop on his [[Always Someone Better|always better brother]].

* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: Was once thwarted by a potted plant he was using as a [[Companion Cube]] when Perry didn't show up. The [[Fun Withwith Acronyms|OWCA]] made the plant an agent in honor of this feat.

* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]] / [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Jerk]]: Goes back and forth between them.

* [[Literal -Minded]]: Some schemes have included using Norm the Giant Robot Man against Perry, because "[[Green Aesop|The enemy of a platypus is man.]]", making literal mountains out of literal molehills and leaving a giant carbon footprint with [[Shaped Like Itself|a giant foot made out of carbon paper]]. One time he painted himself green to be a better gardner until he realized that "green thumb" was a metaphor. [[Irony|Ironically]], the green paint [[Crowning Moment of Funny|missed his thumbs]].

** And he has a [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter|beautiful daughter]], too.

** [[The Wiki Rule|The show's wiki]] [http://phineasandferb.wikia.com/wiki/Heinz_Doofenshmirtz manages though.]

** In "Vanessassary Roughness" some random biker hits on her while stopped at a light. He simply yelled "SHE'S SIXTEEN!" and [[Disproportionate Retribution|teleports him to another dimension]].

** Lampshaded by Doof himself in "Skiddley Whiffers".

* [[Papa Wolf]]: Hit on his teen daughter, and he'll blast you to another dimension without a second thought. And he'll also throw himself between Vanessa and a swarm of angry bees to take the hit himself, protecting his allergic daughter.

{{quote| "I'm going to have to do the right thing, aren't I?"}}

* [[Raised Byby Wolves|Raised By Ocelots]]: He claims this in one episode, after his birth family disowns him.

* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: There is no C in his surname.

* [[Take Over the City|Take Over the Tri-State Area]]

* [[Minion Withwith an F In Evil|Villain With An F In Evil]]

* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl|Wouldn't Hit A Girl]]: Even if he knows she's [[Freaky Friday Flip|really a male platypus]]. It was still a girl's body, then it might count.

* [[Alliterative Name]]: Only when referred to in his official capacity: Major Monogram.

* [[Characterization Marches On]]: In early chapters he was far more competent and authoritative.

A girl who lives across the way from Phineas and Ferb and is a good friend of theirs. Isabella is a multi-talented member of the [[Scout Out|Fireside Girls]] with [[Merit Badges for Everything|quite a number of accomplishment patches]] to her name. She has a not-so-secret crush on Phineas, and likes to pop in once an episode to ask Phineas "[[Catch Phrase|Watcha doin'?]]" and offer to help.

** [[The Hero|The Heroine]]ine: As the leader of the Fireside Girls.

* [[Hey, That's My Line!]]: Whenever someone else says her catchphrase to Phineas, she [[Berserk Button|won't be too happy about it.]]

* [[All There in Thethe Script]]: His surname, which different sources have given as either Patel, Rai, or Raj.

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Usually averted; he's typically the most submissive and [[Non-Action Guy|least action-oriented]] of Phineas and Ferb's gang. Check out what he's capable of when not being [[Overshadowed Byby Awesome|overshadowed]] by Phineas and Ferb's brilliance in "Bully Bromance Breakup" though...

* [[Overshadowed Byby Awesome]]: When you're [[The Smart Guy]] in the [[Five-Man Band]] led by two geniuses who are already bright enough as is, there really isn't much for you to do. It is something of a trend that Phineas and Ferb go to Baljeet mostly for help with trivial matters such as to find out [[What the Heck Is An Aglet?|what the tip of a shoelace is called]].

{{quote| '''Buford:''' Here's the velvet rope! I never leave home without my velvet rope.<br />

* [[Creator Cameo]]: Voiced by Bobby Gaylor, one of the show's writers.

* [[Gasshole]]: His character on Team Improbable, [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Belch Man]]. Especially since he brings up [[Personality Powers|personality power]] implications.

** In the TV movie, he's revealed to collect existentialist trading cards.

* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Jerk]]: In the Meatloaf Festival episode.

** [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: In other cases, like the Christmas special.

** He does appear in [[The Movie]]. A close look to the {{spoiler|big shark's eye Phineas and Ferb built that is used in the fight against Doof-2 reveals he's riding it.}}

{{quote| '''Phineas:''' Friends, bullies, Irving...}}

* [[Precocious Crush]]: In "Moon Farm" he seems to be trying to flirt with Candace and Stacy.

* [[Sixth Ranger]]: It looks like he's going to become one for Phineas and Ferb's group.

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{{quote| Voiced by: Ariel Winter (Gretchen), Cymphonique Miller (Holly), Isabella Acres (Katie), Madison Pettis (Adyson), Isabella Murad (Milly), Tiffany Espensen (Ginger)}}

* [[Action Girl|Action Girls]]s

* [[All There in Thethe Script]]: [[Word of God|Swampy Marsh has confirmed]] that their names are Gretchen (the one with the glasses), Holly (the African-American one), Katie (the blonde one), Adyson Sweetwater (the one with the sleeveless uniform), Milly (the curly-haired one), and Ginger (the Asian one).

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Adyson gets hit hard with it in "The Great Indoors," undergoing several accidents.

* [[The Chick|The Chicks]]s: Holly, Katie, and Milly.

** Short. Short hair. Small eyes. Glasses. [[Hey Arnold!|Pheebs]], is that you?

* [[Gadgeteer Genius|Gadgeteer Geniuses]]es: Most of the time they're just helping the title characters out in the background (which is impressive enough in itself), but they can also build a time machine on their own given only a blueprint (and it was a ''flawed'' blueprint too<ref>Even though the "flaw" consisted of a [[Crowning Moment of Funny|spelling error]]</ref>).

* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick|Hypercompetent Sidekicks]]s: Not only to the boys, but also to Isabella (who is herself an example of this trope). One of the most notable demonstrations of this is in "It's About Time!"

* [[Wrench Wench|Wrench Wenches]]es: They're just as mechanically skilled as the title characters.

* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: Averted ''hard''.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Later episodes have started to develop him into this.

* [[He Who Must Not Be Seen]]: Averted. He was originally going to be an unseen character referenced only in conversations. Mitchell Musso, meanwhile, had been cast as Ferb, but when the creators decided to make him British they wanted to retain Musso's voice, expanding on Jeremy as a result.

** Later episodes avert this, giving him more personality. He's incredibly dedicated to his sister Suzy, responds to Candace's antics with some accepting amusement and snarking, and feels hurt whenever Candace thinks he would dislike her for trivial things, as she's wont to do.

* [[Throw the Dog Aa Bone]]: He embodies this trope for Candace - the boys' invention will have vanished, her mom thinks she's making it up and she just looks like a fool...but then Jeremy will do something nice for her.

* [[Asian Airhead]]: Type Two. [[Played With]] because of Candace's own personal manias, which make Stacy the more level-headed one fairly often.

{{quote| '''Stacy''': By the way, the best part was when you used him as a table.}}

* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: Her name is sometimes misspelled "Stacey", but that's actually the masculine variant of the name.

{{quote| '''Candace:''' Do you know what they have in France?<br />

{{quote| '''Candace:''' Oh, and Stacy, [[Lampshade Hanging|pyramids? Really?]]<br />

* [[Adult Child|Adult Children]]ren

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Winifred is [[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents|Mama Cosma]]! And Reginald [[Star Trek Generations|tried to enter the Nexus]]!

* [[Enemy Mine]]: Sort of, Candace once has to babysit her and the two of them wind up teaming up to try and get Phineas and Ferb to bust themselves.

* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: The character's first name is officially spelled Carl on the show, despite the ends credits spelling it with a K. Perhaps due to this, "Ain't No Kiddie Ride"'s credits lists him as Carl Karl.

* [[Characterization Marches On]]: After only two episodes of showcasing it, the above-mentioned [[The Cassandra]] quality seems to have been dropped from her character, perhaps to serve as a parallel to Candace since those episodes were a reversal of the show's usual formula.

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Oh, Vanessa, [[Adventure Time (Animation)|why are you so mean?]]

{{quote| '''Doofenshmirtz:''' So you just took it from a little girl and left her there crying? Wow, that ''is'' evil. Honey, I'm so proud of you! [[Evil Feels Good|It felt good,]] didn't it? Yeah, we can build on this. }}

* [[Official Couple]]: Revealed in 'Brain Drain' that she's going out with Johnny. [[Word of God]] says she'll probably get together with {{spoiler|Ferb}} one day when they're older, though.

* [[Statuesque Stunner]]/[[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]

* [[Obliviously Evil]]: In most of Heinz's [[Freudian Excuse|Freudian Excuses]]s that involve him, Roger doesn't seem to realize what his actions were doing to his brother, with even his younger self's actions in "Make Play" making at least some sense when you consider how much his parents pampered him. In "Magic Carpet Ride", the only time he's part of a [[Freudian Excuse]] when he's older than a child, he's genuinely regretful of how his actions hurt Heinz, even if it wasn't completely his fault.

* [[Villain Withwith Good Publicity|Jerk With Good Publicity]]: Though how much of a jerk [[Depending Onon the Writer|tends to change from episode to episode.]] On the one hand he's implied to be part of the reason Danville is such a nice place to live, having done a lot of genuinely good work and helped a lot of people, and his niece Vanessa says she likes him. On the other hand, he's rather full of himself, lazy when he can get away with it, and often quite a jerk to his brother ("And I've already wasted half the morning not caring at all about being on time for our golf game.")... then again, he spent twenty years restoring his brother's painting he accidentally ruined (though, that may have just been because he respected the quality of the work, but he did go to lengths to credit Heinz in his speech), so it's a really mixed bag.

A slightly scatterbrained android build by Dr. Doofenshmirtz to destroy Perry the Platypus in the episode "Greece Lightning", based on the Doctor [[Literal -Minded|misinterpreting an old film strip]] about how [[Green Aesop|"the greatest enemy of the platypus is man"]]. Norm eventually started showing up in later episodes helping out Doofenshmirtz with the occasional evil scheme. He has some of the personality attributes of an eerily-cheerful office-worker from [[The Fifties]], with an occasional sarcastic streak.

* [[A Day in Thethe Limelight]]: "A Real Boy"

* [[Servile Snarker]]: Rarely, but that just [[Crowning Moment of Funny|makes it funnier]].

* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Doesn't really show much expression sans that smile no matter what he's feeling (though his smile does flip into a frown on rare occasions, especially in later episodes). Justified, as he's a robot who can't show expressions.

{{quote| ''(big smile)'' "Now I know I have a heart---because it's ''breaking!''" ''([[Single Tear]])''}}

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{{quote| Voiced by: Jeff Bennet}}

** [[Not-So-Imaginary Friend]]: But she sees him in another dimension.

* [[In-Series Nickname]]: Always calls Candace "[[Gender Blender Name|Kevin]]," for some reason.

* [[Talking Withwith Signs]]: This is how he communicates with humans without a translator.

{{quote| '''Mitch''': Just so we're clear, I am ''not'' your father.}}

{{quote| Voiced by: Seth Green}}

* {{spoiler|[[Ship Tease]]: With Vanessa.}}

* [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname]]

* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type III]].

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: {{spoiler|Rescuing the first dimension kids and Doof and handing Phineas the dimensional remote, in a very [[Badass]] manner}}.

* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: Not exactly a jerk, but {{spoiler|she's willing to sacrifice the first dimension protagonists to keep her own brothers safe, not to mention being reluctant to help the first dimension Phineas and Ferb at first until Phineas-2 pleaded with her. She later returns and saves the first dimension characters.}}

* [[Creator Cameo]]

* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Jerk]]: {{spoiler|He appears to be feeling bad after Candace-2 betrays the first dimension protagonists, but he was mostly just regretting not getting his nachos.}}

* [[Big Bad]]: Of [[The Movie]].

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Humorously [[Subverted]]. He lost his toy train, and that's it.

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: He lost his toy train. ...That's it. A direct contrast to Doof-1 and his many, sometimes contradicting, backstories.

* [[Laughably Evil]]: A good example of a villain who is both funny and genuinely threatening.

* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]

* [[Anvil Onon Head]]: [[Subverted Trope|A Norm-Bot fell from a great height, and it looks like it was going to fall on Perry the Platyborg, then it misses]]. [[Double Subversion|Then he gets hit by a bus]].

* [[The Dragon]]: To Doof-2, as general of his army.

* {{spoiler|[[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]: While being part machine gave him some advantages over Perry-1, during their climactic showdown his tail barb spears a turkey and the rigidity of his mechanical parts prevents him from getting it off. He is then defeated when the turkey ends up on his head and he backs into an electric socket, which shocks him through his metal body.}}

* [[The Chick|The Chicks]]s: Holly-2, Katie-2, and Milly-2.

* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick|Hypercompetent Sidekicks]]s

* [[Only One Name]]: All except Adyson-2 and Ginger-2.

* [[Mecha -Mooks]]

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