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== Immediate Family ==
 
=== [[The Protagonist|Homer Jay Simpson]] ===▼
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▲=== [[The Protagonist|Homer Jay Simpson]] ===
 
{{quote|"Lord help me, I'm just not that bright."|''Some Enchanted Evening''}}
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* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: In the episode "Homer Goes to College," Homer is convinced his college experience will be exactly like the [[Wacky Fratboy Hijinx|party atmosphere]] college is often depicted as in [[Animal House|movies]], not realizing he's in a satire that thoroughly subverts the trope.
 
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=== [[Action Mom|Marjorie "Marge" Simpson]] (née Bouvier) ===
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{{quote|The mother and typically both [[The Straight Man]] and [[Closer to Earth]], Marge is predominantly a homemaker, but does have her wilder side. Loving and supportive, her devotion to her family may be strained at times but is never broken. Voiced by Julie Kavner.}}
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* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]
 
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=== [[Anti-Hero|Bartholomew "Bart" Jo-Jo Simpson]] ===
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{{quote|The original [[The Protagonist|protagonist]] of the show in early seasons, a self-professed hellion and mischief-making little punk, though not incapable of good things for the right reason. Voiced by [[Nancy Cartwright]].}}
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* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] / [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]: Sometimes when he does something with the legitimate intent of helping someone "chill out", it backfires. A notable instance was when he got Mrs. Krabappel fired when he and the other students attempted to get her to become cooled down by spiking her drink with alcohol, because of Bart's experiences with his dad.
 
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=== [[Granola Girl|Lisa Marie Simpson]] ===
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The smart one and the middle child, Lisa is both a bookworm and something of the "hippie" of the family. Her intelligence, as seasons roll on, can sometimes make her into an annoying know-it-all. Has trouble fitting in with other kids her age. Voiced by Yeardley Smith.
 
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* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]
 
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=== [[Brainy Baby|Margaret "Maggie" Simpson]] ===
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{{quote|The youngest of the children. Typically a marginal figure, but does get her share of scenes. {{spoiler|Most famous for turning out to have accidentally shot Mr. Burns in the series' first two-parter episode.}} Voiced by [[Elizabeth Taylor]], [[Jodie Foster]], [[James Earl Jones]], [[Nancy Cartwright]], and [[Yeardley Smith]].}}
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== Extended Family ==
 
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=== [[Shell Shocked Senior|Grampa Abraham "Abe" Simpson]] ===
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{{quote|Homer's elderly, cranky, senile father, a sergeant in [[WW 2]]. For all Homer's failures as a father-figure, ''his'' father has proven he was worse. Voiced by [[Dan Castellaneta]].}}
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* [[When I Was Your Age]]: He loves these
 
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=== [[Cool Old Lady|Grandma Mona Simpson]] ===
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{{quote|A militant hippie in her youth, she had to leave Homer and her husband alike when Homer was young because she made an enemy of Mr. Burns and fled into the hippy underground. Sincerely loves her family, and desperately wants to be with them. Dies in her third appearance. Voiced by Glenn Close, Maggie Roswell, [[Tress MacNeille]] and Pamela Hayden.}}
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* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: A meta example. "Mother Simpson" aired during the seventh season and averting the trope was the initial impetus to producing the episode. Showrunners Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein admitted surprise that in all those years the status of Homer's mother had never been given on-screen.
 
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=== Patricia "Patty" and Selma Bouvier ===
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{{quote|Marge's twin sisters, addicted to smoking and notoriously crabby. Both dislike Homer intensely, and neither of them is interested in the male gender itself much (so much so that it is eventually revealed that {{spoiler|Patty is a lesbian}}), though Selma does want to have a child. Voiced by Julie Kavner.}}
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=== Snowball II ===
 
{{quote|Lisa's pet cat.}}
 
* [[Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal]]: She only wears a collar and she doesn't even wear one all the time.
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=== Santa's Little Helper ===
 
{{quote|Bart's pet, a greyhound abandoned one Christmas due to his never winning any races. Though Homer had just lost a bundle betting on him instead of the dog that Barney tipped him off to bet on, Bart took such a shine to him that Homer brought him home and the family adopted him. Once ran away and was taken in as Mr Burns' new guard dog, while another prominent interact with Mr. Burns was when he ended up purchasing the 22 pups he had fathered on a champion racing female greyhound, which all turned out to be world champions. As a result, Mr Burns can remember Santa's Little Helper, but not Homer.}}
 
* [[A Dog Ate My Homework]]: Santa's Little Helper does this once, much to Bart's surprise.
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=== Jeff "Comic Book Guy" Albertson ===
[[File:comicbookguy.jpg|thumb|300px|Worst character image ever.]]
{{quote|Overweight and extremely nerdy owner and proprietor of the local shop, "The Android's Dungeon", which sells comics and similar paraphernalia. Legendary for his sarcastic, cynical outlook on life. Voiced by [[Hank Azaria]].}}
 
* [[Berserk Button]]: See the article on [[Canon]].
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=== Apu Nahasapeemapetilon ===
 
{{quote|Owner of the local convienceconvenience store, "The Kwik-E-Mart", which is open 24/7 and cheap and so attracts plenty of customers despite its rather lacking standards of quality. Renowned as a workaholic, he is eventually partnered off with an arranged marriage and ends up the father of octuplets. Voiced by [[Hank Azaria]].}}
 
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Was simply the convenience store clerk that only knew the family cause they shopped there. Over time, his screentime grew and he got [[Day in The Limelight|several focus episodes]].
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* [[Immigrant Patriotism]]
* [[Massive-Numbered Siblings]]: When he and Manjula could not conceive a child they underwent IVF and Manjula had ''octuplets''.
* [[Veganism and Vegetarianism]]: The season 7 episode "Lisa the Vegetarian" (the one with [[Paul McCartney]] as a guest-star) showed that Apu had always been vegetarian.
* [[Your Cheating Heart]]: Cheats on Manjula with the Squishee lady.
 
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=== Itchy ===
{{quote|The psychotic mouse member of the cartoon duo, a clear expy-cum-parody of [[Tom and Jerry|Jerry]] at his most [[Jerkass]]. He is usually the antagonist, and always brutally slaughters Scratchy in the show, no matter how little Scratchy may have done to deserve it.}}▼
 
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Itchy include:}}
▲{{quote|The psychotic mouse member of the cartoon duo, a clear expy-cum-parody of [[Tom and Jerry|Jerry]] at his most [[Jerkass]]. He is usually the antagonist, and always brutally slaughters Scratchy in the show, no matter how little Scratchy may have done to deserve it.}}
 
* [[Amazing Technicolor Wildlife]]
* [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal]]
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=== Scratchy ===
{{quote|The cat member of the ''[[Tom and Jerry]]''-parodying [[Show Within a Show]], Scratchy is almost never a bad person in his depictions, but invariably suffers nightmarish deaths at Itchy's hands.}}▼
 
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Scratchy include:}}
▲{{quote|The cat member of the ''[[Tom and Jerry]]''-parodying [[Show Within a Show]], Scratchy is almost never a bad person in his depictions, but invariably suffers nightmarish deaths at Itchy's hands.}}
 
* [[Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal]]: He only wears [[White Gloves]]
* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: He suffers one [[Once Per Episode]]
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=== Poochie ===
{{quote|Homer's attempt at designing a new character to boost interest in the Itchy & Scratchy Show, who became loathed by the fanbase and was promptly removed with all speed.}}▼
 
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Poochie include:}}
▲{{quote|Homer's attempt at designing a new character to boost interest in the Itchy & Scratchy Show, who became loathed by the fanbase and was promptly removed with all speed.}}
 
* [[Barefoot Cartoon Animal]]: When he is not wearing shoes.
* [[Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal]]: When he is wearing shoes.
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=== Kang and Kodos ===
{{quote|Cyclopian aliens resembling giant green heads on writhing octopus tentacles, these two aliens from Rigel IV make guest appearances in some episodes but are most prominent in the "Simpson's Halloween" episodes, which are non-canonical horror anthologies.}}▼
 
▲{{quote|Cyclopian aliens resembling giant green heads on writhing octopus tentacles, these two aliens from Rigel IV make guest appearances in some episodes but are most prominent in the "Simpson's Halloween" episodes, which are non-canonical horror anthologies.}}
 
* [[Aliens Speaking English]]: Rigellian coincidentally sounds just like English
* [[Cyclops]]
* [[Halloween Episode]]: Traditionally, they've appeared in every installment, whether cameo appearance or part of the plot in a Halloween story (TOH I: "Hungry are they Dammed", TOH VI: "Citizen Kang", TOH IX: "Starship Poopers").
* [[Naughty Tentacles]]: Averted. They impregnate Marge by zapping her with a special ray gun instead of actually having sex with her.
* [[Starfish Aliens]]
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