History Characters / AlfredJKwak

* FreudianExcuse: Sort of; Dolf had a rather crappy childhood. It's made relatively clear though that a crappy childhood excuses nothing. After all, Alfred himself had a relatively crappy childhood too.

* TheWrongfulHeirToTheThrone: He's ignorant and bad at his job.

The king's classist ministers, who naturally live in the rich north. Named ones are the bullterrier

The king's classist ministers, who naturally live in the rich north.

[[folder: Von Paljas' seer friend]]

* NoNameGiven: His name never seems to get mentioned in any language.

[[folder: Pierrot]]
A clown who owns a magic violin and lives in the moon, and apparently has psychic powers because he's able to contact Von paljas' seer friend in his dreams.

* MagicMusic: His violin.

* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: At the beginning of episode 2.]]

[[Von Paljas' seer friend]]

!! Characters exclusive to the original stage musical

[[folder: The Fox]]
The fox that Alfred encounters in the musical.

[[folder: The Ladder]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Ladder as played by Herman Van Veen.]]
An effeminate talking french ladder that helps Alfred as he's heading towards the king's castle.

* AnimateInanimateObject
* GratuitousFrench: The ladder can be heard using various french words and refers to Alfred as "Alfredo".
* IncrediblyLongNote: He's mostly heard singing very long notes. Eric Van Der Wurff can be seen conducting his performance.
* NiceHat: He wears a french beret.

[[folder: The River]]
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A talking river that helps Alfred.
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%%* AnimateInanimateObject

* [[Acrofatic]]: His tricks are pretty impressive for hus size and body type.

!! The king & his court

[[folder: As a whole]]
The King's council that consists of, among others, colonel Rangpang, Sir Poen, The Archbishop, and The Secretary Of The Treasury.
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* DecadentCourt: They are happy to jail an innocent man and steal in order to maintain their lavish lifestyle during the country's economic hardships. Well, everybody but Franz Ferdinand himself. He hesitates, but is quickly convinced to do what the council wants.
%%* {{Greed}}
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: Dolf's coup give many of them a reality check, in particular the King. Colonel Rangpang and Poen van Kalekoen take the time to apologize to Alfred for their theft before they escape Dolf.]]
* VillainousGlutton: They immediately spend [[spoiler: Alfred's]] money on banquets.
* RoyallyScrewedUp: Radbout is actually violently insane, though his son Franz is just very lazy and stupid.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We don't know what happens to them after [[spoiler: Franz Ferdinand abdicates]].

[[folder:King Franz Ferdinand]]
The King of Waterland and the son of King Radbout. Franz seems to be a little divorced from reality and used to living in luxury, but is a mostly good person. He never wanted to be a king [[spoiler: and eventually steps down to make Great Waterlands a republic]].

* {{Foil}} / ShadowArchetype: Can be seen as one to professor Von Paljas, at least in the fishing arc. Both of them are technological geniuses, but while Von Paljas does everything to protect nature and animals, Hannibal cheerfully disregards everything in the name of money and scientific advancement. They both act [[AffablyEvil ni]][[NiceGuy ce]], though during the fishing arc it's Von Paljas who's shown losing his temper, while Hannibal remains nonchalant/cheerful until [[spoiler: Rokodile plots to murder the protesting fishermen and their families.]]

[[folder: Bart Beton]]
A beaver who's the CEO of the Concrete Company that had a part in destroying the home of Alfred's parents and Henk. Later appears in episodes 26, 31, and 32.

* HighClassGlass: Wears a monocle.
* KarmaHoudini: He never faces any consequences for the things he was a part of.
* DubNameChange: Bert in german.

[[folder: Mr. Knox]]
A dog investor who first appears in episode 26 as Rokodil's funder, and later [[spoiler: runs for president in episodes 43 and 44]].

* DubNameChange: Named Taalavaara in the finnish dub.

[[folder: The Poodle]]
A female poodle that only shows up in the 26th episode. She's mr. Knox's secretary during their visit to the Himalayas.

* BrokenPedestal: [[Towards Dolf in episodes 43 and 44, largely in 44 but there already are shades of this in episode 43. You can see him grow increasingly terrified of Dolf and his actions.]]

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* AdultFear: Salem abducts his daughter, uses her life to blackmail him, and he doesn't know if she's being treated humanely.
* BadBoss: Repeatedly manhandles acsubordinate in rage.

* YourCheatingHeart: He's married, but doesn't tell Winnie and tries to get into bed with her.

* {{Expy}}: Of Michael Jackson.

* NiceHat: His white and blue fedora in Winnie's daydream.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Pikkie, translated as "Grabbie". A better translation for his name would be "Pecker", [[LuckyTranslation which actually conveys all three possible Dutch meanings]]: "to peck with a beak", "to steal something away" and [[UnfortunateNames "tiny penis"]].

* UnfortunateNames: "Pikkie" is a pun on "pikken", a Dutch slang term for stealing (because he can't resist stealing shiny objects). Unfortunately, "Pikkie" is also a Dutch slang term for a small penis.

* BlackBeadEyes: Occasionally when he removes his sunglasses, he is depicted with beady eyes.

* MsFanservice: A very attractive poodle.

[[folder: The dog investor]]

A female poodle that only shows up in the 26th episode. She's an observer with K. Rokodil and Hannibal during their visit to the Himalayas.

* ShesGotLegs: She's notable for having very long legs exposed, even while standing outside the freezing Himalayas.

* DubNameChange: He's named Hanski in Finnish.

* DubNameChange: He's named Harri in Finnish.

* PapaWolf: He fights Krabnagel to [[spoiler:draw him away from Alfred]].

* FanNickname: Some people in the comments of german Alfred J. Kwak videos refer to him as "Kradolf".

* AllThereInThemanual: Schor's name can only be seen on [[https://haraldsiepermann.com/2018/12/03/introduction-to-dolf-de-kraai/ his character]] [[https://haraldsiepermann.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Harald-Siepermann-Dolfs-father-Model-Sheet.jpg sheet]].

* DubNamechange: In the finnish translation of the illustrated booklets that narrate the events of episodes, she's called Praa. She's also called that in the finnish translation of the Panini sticker book.

* BilingualBonus: "Scheisse" is German for "shit".

* ModestRoyalty: [[spoiler:He's a part of a royal family, but lives as an ordinary university teacher in Great Waterland.]]

* Cartooncreature: Obviously, nothing like them really exists.

* NonUniformUniform: Basically they all wear random shit. One has a picklehaube and a diaper, one has a viking helmet and a dagger, one has a ''propeller hat'', and more.

* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: The finnish translation of the Panini sticker book calls them ducks, though in the cartoon proper wannes says that he's a goose.

* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: The finnish translation of the Panini sticker book calls them ducks, though in the cartoon proper wannes says that he's a goose.

A hippo who acted as Dolf's closest aide during his stint [[spoiler:as a dictator]]. He reappears in [[spoiler:the final episode, still loyal to Dolf, to help him escape prison]].

* NamedaftersomebodyFamous: The meaning behind his english name, Hermann, is very apparent when you consider the context he appears in.

** The german dub calls him "Hippo Nilpferd" ("Hippo Hippo"). It's unclear of that's his full name or if it's supposed to be understoop as "Hippo ''the'' Hippo").

An evil genie that terrorized his home long ago.

* SatelliteCharacter: Both of them only physically appear in episode 1, and don't have any characterization besides their speciesism. Schor is mentioned once in the well episodes.

* [[spoiler: InterspeciesRomance: Someehat interestingly considering their speciesism, they're an interspecies couple. She is a blackbird, resulting in Dolf having a yellow beak.]]

* MixandmatchCritters: Looks kind of similiar to Waterland's palace guards.

* AdultFear: Yil abducts his daughter, uses her life to blackmail him, and he doesn't know if she's being treated humanely.

[[caption-width-right:350:The Latter as played by Herman Van Veen.]]

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