History Characters / AnimalHouse

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* ReallySeventeenYearsOld: [[spoiler:Actually, she's ''thirteen''. Originally, she was written as a seventeen year old, but was changed to 13 as a CensorDecoy. The censors and MPAA didn't mind either way and the writers decided to make her 13.]]

* LovableCoward: Makes no attempt to stand up for the girls during "The Negroes took our dates" scene and quickly makes himself scare. It hilarious.

* TheNeidermeyer: The TropeNamer. Many military movies had a pompous blow-hard before and after, but he is something truly special.

* {{Jailbait}}: Don't worry, her actress was eighteen when they were filming.

* {{Pettanko}}: When she takes her bra off and falls unconscious immediately afterwards, Pinto is left with two handfuls of the toilet paper she used to stuff it.

* BerserkButton: The fake news that Mandy and Otter are having an ongoing affair -- though Greg manages to channel his into TranquilFury.

* TheStoolPigeon: She squeals to Greg about Mandy's affair with Otter.

* ChivalrousPervert: He might be a bit of a shameless womanizer, but he's very respectful towards women and doesn't make any attempts to steal girls of any fellow fraternity members. However, that rule doesn't apply to Dean Wormer or Marmaland. Then again, this is [[{{Jerkass}} Wormer and Marmaland]] we're talking about.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: He's the cool professor at Faber. In the classroom, he's up front with his students about how boring he finds Milton. In private, he calls his own work a piece of excrement. Katie says he's the only professor she likes, and Pinto agrees that he's a wonderful teacher. Then [[spoiler: he turns Katie, Pinto and Boon on to drugs; later, he seduces Katie]].

* YourCheatingHeart: She has an affair with Jennings.

* NotSoAboveItAll: While he's the most moral of the Deltas, he's not above stealing exam answers or pulling pranks. It seems he only wants show enough restraint that the group doesn't get expelled.

* PeepingTom: He uses a ladder to peer through the second-story window of a sorority house and looks up the cheerleaders' skirts while under the bleachers.

* {{Adorkable}}

* {{Adorkable}}

* TheEveryman

* ButtMonkey: Both in-universe and in real life. As Creator/KevinBacon couldn't sit with the rest of the crew during the premiere because the usher didn't believe he was in the movie.

* AmbiguouslyGay: He's one of the only members of Delta to not have a girlfriend, and is never seen flirting with any girls.

* NoSocialSkills: He has a hard time talking to the Deltas when he first enters.

-->'''Played by''': Bruce [=McGill=]

-->'''Played by''': Tim Matheson

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Despite being one of the more moral characters, a Confederate flag can be seen in his room.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Boone.

!!Donald "Boone" Schoenstein

* CaptainObvious: "Boone, we're the only white people here".

* NiceGuy: He feels guilty when Boone gets him to shoplift a bunch of meat and when he thinks about having sex with a passed out Clorette.

* AmusingInjuries: He suffers this when Otter and Boone scare his horse, causing it to run off while dragging him behind on the ground. He's later seen wearing a neck-brace, but eventually recovers.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: He's the cool professor at Faber. In the classroom, he's up front with his students about how boring he finds Milton. In private, he calls his own work a piece of excrement. Katie says he's the only professor she likes, and Pinto agrees that he's a wonderful teacher. Then [[spoiler: he turns Katie, Pinto and Boone on to drugs; later, he seduces Katie]].

* EasilyForgiven: Boone catches her having an affair with Jennings, but the two of them manage to reconcile in the end.

* WomenAreWiser: She constantly wishes that Boone would stop being so immature and start acting more responsibly.

* KickTheDog: Driven to his limits, he expels the entire Delta House, which he is entirely justified in doing as they are collectively and individually a degenerate menace. He goes over the line by also informing the Delta's local draft boards that they are now eligible for military service, for no reason other than malice; mind you, this is 1962, and in about four years [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar things will get pretty scary for draftees]].

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: The Omegas give him a nasty one when Greg Marmalard [[BerserkButton is led to believe Mandy's been having an affair with Otter]].