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* [[The Cassandra]]
* [[Cavalier Competitor]]: Over the kick ball game. At least until Ming [[It's Personal|makes it personal.]]
* [[The Comically Serious]]: A ten year old who plans a prison escape, thinks he can bring down the man and brings [[Fighting with Chucks|nunchucks]] to the cinema. And all with a straight face.
* [[Composite Character]]: Cartoon Huey combines Comic Huey's radical views and cynicism with Caesar's [[Only Sane Man]] attitude.
* [[Conspiracy Theorist]]: He thinks that every white man's in on it, and that you can't tame them with cheese. He's at least wrong about the cheese part. Downplayed in the cartoon, where he acknowledges that most white people are just very, very ignorant, or are evil for non-racist reasons.
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* [[Innocent Prodigy]]
* [[Insufferable Genius]]: Particularly in the comic.
* [[Intelligence Equals Isolation]]: Huey has no real friends. He scares them all off [[Birds of a Feather|except for Caesar]] and Jazmine, especially in the cartoon, due to Caesar's absence.
* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]:
** With Tom, at least as much as Huey's cynicism will allow.
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* [[Noble Male, Roguish Male]]: The (relatively) noble one
* [[Only Sane Man]]
* [[Perpetual Frowner]]: Almost always seen with a frown to emphasize his pessimistic and cynical personality. He's only smiled about 5 times in the animated series.
* [[Poster Gallery Bedroom]]: His (half of the) room is neat with a full bookshelf, a computer and posters of Che and Malcolm X.
* [[Power Fist]]: He builds one with instructions from [[Everything Is Online|the Internet.]]
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* [[The Snark Knight]]: A very accurate example.
* [[Soapbox Sadie]]
* [[The Spock]]
* [[The Stoic]]
* [[Straight Man]]
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* [[Evil Laugh]]: His sadistic snicker.
* [[Flashback to Catchphrase]]: In "The Story Of Gangstalicious, Part 2".
* [[Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling|Foolish Sibling]]
* [[Genius Ditz]]
* [[Genre Savvy]]: He can predict his Grandad's Catcher Freeman story.
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* [[Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour]]
* [[Ungrateful Bastard]]
* [[Verbal Tic]]: He seems to have picked up a new one lately whenever he mentions something gay, no homo.
* [[Where Da White Women At?]]: In Roberts [[Daydream Surprise]].
** Although he's actually pretty asexual in both the comic and show. He sees bitches as more of a status symbol than anything.
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{{quote|'''Uncle Ruckus:''' (Calmly) Say that again? I couldn't hear you over the sound of me shittin' myself.}}
* [[Canon Immigrant]]: He was originally created for the show, but McGruder added him to the comic in the brief period between the show starting and the comic ending.
* [[Characterization Marches On]]: Season 1 actually has moments where he seems completely aware that he's black. Refering to whites as "they" and blacks as "we" is a subtle example.
** Other lines include "I was happy at the back of the buss" and "I would have shoot you myself but I realised the white man got better aim." Not to mention the episode "The Passion of Reverend Ruckus".
* [[Continuity Nod]]: He's a reverend again in "Stinkmeaner Strikes Back".
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* [[Mad Eye]]: Interestingly enough, this is the only one with color.
* [[N-Word Privileges]]: No one takes offense to his song in "The Garden Party", or anything else he says because he has these.
* [[Non
* [[Pass Fail]]
* [[Pet the Dog]]: In ''A Huey Freeman Christmas.''
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* [[Cheerful Child]]
* [[Fan Girl]]: Of Usher.
* [[Funny Afro]]: Makes her insecure. Played for laughs, naturally.
* [[Green Eyes]]
* [[Hikikomori]]: Once she returns in the comic book her two year long [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]] is explained as her locking herself in her room ever since 9/11 our of fear of terrorists.
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* [[Luminescent Blush]]: At the end of "Wingmen".
* [[Vocal Evolution]]: Justified since her voice actor was a little girl when the series began.
* [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]
=== Cindy McPhearson ===
[[File:Cindy_2175.jpg|frame]]
* [[Character Exaggeration]]: In the original comic, she was simply a white student obsessed with black culture and oblivious to Huey's blatant dislike of her. In the show, she's an over-exaggerated wigger.
* [[Cheerful Child]]: The comic version is arguably even more cheerful than Jazmine since she doesn't have Jazmine's insecurities or Huey to depress her.
* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: Cindy only appeared in the comic strip for the first 2 years during the comic's lifespan. The other four years? She dropped off the face of the Earth. She made her first appearance in 7 years on the show and has been shown to be becoming an [[Ensemble Darkhorse]].
* [[Defeat Equals Friendship]]: With Riley in the cartoon.
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* [[Nice Guy]]
* [[Prison Rape]]
* [[Starbucks Skin Scale]]: "Well, actually I'm more of a caramel complexion."
* [[Straight Edge]]
* [[Strawman Political]]: He and his wife are stereotypical clueless moderate liberals.
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* [[Hair of Gold]]
* [[Hot Mom]]: Oh Yes. Especially in the cartoon.
* [[Satellite Character]]: She's Tom's wife, Jazmine's mother, the Freeman's neighbor and every episode she's featured in deals with one of those facts.
* [[Token White]]
* [[Where Da White Women At?|Where Da Black Men At]]: In the comics, she only dated black men, eventually marrying Tom. She's still openly attracted to black men, notably Usher and President Obama in the show, much to Tom's dismay.
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* [[Friendly Enemy]]: He's well aware that Huey is [[Wise Beyond Their Years|Wise Beyond His Years]], and seems to genuinely like Granddad. Huey mentions that he doesn't think he's racist, just a greedy old man.
* [[Ink Suit Actor]]: Imagine Ed Asner still channeling [[The Mary Tyler Moore Show|Lou Grant]], and you wouldn't be too far off.
* [[Jerkass]]: Wuncler has done multiple acts of pure malice throughout the series and he is proud of them.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: You know you're one when even '''the president''' ''personally phones'' the agent holding you at gunpoint to tell him to stand down.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: His name refers to the Once-Ler from Dr. Seuss' [[The Lorax]], who was just as greedy as he is.
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** To be precise, he soiled himself at least a dozen times, the other members of his unit called him "Stinkbomb", and he was eventually kept from joining on patrols because the enemy could smell him coming.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: (What the) Fuck y'all lookin' at?
* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]
* [[Fearless Fool]]: He invites Riley to test his ballistic vest with live ammo while he's wearing it, wanders in full view through raging gunfights [[Guns Akimbo|firing]] [[Gangsta Style|wildly]] [[A-Team Firing|at nothing,]] and seems to forget that taking both hands off the steering wheel to shoot out of a moving car is a bad idea, among other things. He's really, ''really'' lucky to be alive at this point.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: [[Chappelle's Show|Charlie Murphy]], is that you?
* [[Jerkass]]: Hoo boy.
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* [[Upper Class Twit]]
* [[Evil Redhead|VERY Morally Ambiguous Redhead]]
* [[White Gang-Bangers]]
=== Gin Rummy ===
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* [[Trigger Happy]]
* [[Upper Class Twit]]
* [[White Gang-Bangers]]
=== Colonel H. Stinkmeaner ===
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* [[Like a Badass Out of Hell]]: "Hell ain't SHIT!"
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: "''I got 'three-stick nunchucks'!''"
* [[Training From Hell]]: ''Literally''. "''This is how you break yo foot off in a mothafuckas' ass!''"
* [[Trash Talk]]
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|This Is For Emphasis Bitch Nyukka]]
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* [[Cute and Psycho]]
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Troubled would be an understatement for this girl: beside from being [[Raised by Wolves]], Luna has suffered every type of abuse in every relationship she's been in. It doesn't help that she grew up in a broken home with an abusive father.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Like her mother, Luna was severely abused over the slightest things, whether the cooking was cold and the laundry was done wrong.
** Her friend Nicole doesn't help either; she suggested that Luna should just outright ''kill'' Granddad just for cutting their weekend short.
{{quote|'''Nicole:''' Now remember, this is not your fault. This man took your weekend from you. Two days you'll never get back! You gotta kill him.}}
* [[Domestic Abuse]]:
{{quote|'''BITCH, THIS CHICKEN IS COLD!'''}}
* {{spoiler|[[Interrupted Suicide]]:}} Only most likely because Granddad and Tom {{spoiler|were in the same room and tied up when Luna contemplated whether she should blow herself up with a grenade.}}
** {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide]]:}} [[Sarcasm Mode|Thanks a lot, Nicole.]]
* [[Large Ham]]: "If I could just find a man to love me-he-he-he-he *gasp* eh-he-he-he-he *gasp* eh-he- *beat* [[Overly Long Gag|-eee.]]"
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** It's also implied {{spoiler|she's also suffered this during that summer with Jim Brown.}}
* [[She Fu]]: She beats the living shit out of Huey, chokes out Granddad, and tosses Tom across the room by the neck with her legs, ** [[Waif Fu]]: Luna is also much stronger than she looks, as she is seen a flashback beating the crap of a guy three times her size in the Kumite (<small>[[Running Gag|HIYAA!]]</small>) flashback and ''rips his heart right out of his chest.'' She also laments wiping the floor with Huey by ''punching a hole in the wall.''
* [[Skilled but Naive]]: A literal example; she's practically a trained killer, but easily fell for Granddad's Fidel Castro lie.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Type C.
* [[Toxic Friend Influence]]: Her friend Nicole is the epitome of this trope.
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{{quote|'''Luna:''' I thought you were going to say that I was crazy and you didn't want to see me again ''like the others''. }}
* [[Woman Scorned]]: She rose hell when she found out Granddad lied to her about attending Fidel Castro's birthday party.
* [[Yandere (disambiguation)]]: And ''how''.
=== Otis "Thugnificent" Jenkins ===
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