History Characters / BobsBurgersLouiseBelcher

* EnragedByIdiocy: She has low patience for the ignorance of others.

** At its highest in "Live and Let Fly", where she was not only able to record Mr. Frond trash-talking the other counselors and get it on a sky banner (through the help of Upskirt Kurt), but also getting Kurt to ''reverse'' her poor decision via slicing off the banner.

* OneOfTheBoys: She favors Bob and Gene over Linda and Tina, even after bonding with the latter two.

* JuniorCounterpart: It's not obvious at first, but while Louise definitely gets her craziness from her mother Linda, she's actually shaping to be one of these for her father Bob. She takes after most of his distinctive quirks, including his CompanionCube habits and tendency to snark at the insanity of others, as well as sharing similar interests. She's even considered becoming his successor as the head of Bob's Burgers one day.

** Louise is impulsive beyond anyone's control. Unfortunately for her, this gets used against her very often. She never thinks everything through and tends to forget that, as a 9-year-old girl known for not being respectful to others, she has physical and social limits that make things harder for her.

* HalloweenCostumeCharacterization: Though there are exceptions, for the most part her costumes tend to be based on R-rated (or otherwise adult-themed) movies [[EntertainmentAboveTheirAge that she should absolutely not be watching]], showcasing her maturity compared to her siblings as well as her disregard for rules and guidelines.

** Even ignoring her own personal dislike of Chloe Barbash (itself this trope given she has a valid reason), she raises a valid point in "Apple Gore-chard! (But Not Gory)" when she claims her classmates are too obsessed with Chloe (to the point that she's all they talk about even when she's out sick).

** In "The Cook, the Steve, the Gayle, & Her Lover", she's not the one who stole Mr. Frond's doll of Gayle--the culprit is Xander, the son of a guest Bob invited over. But because of her track record, and the fact that she'd just spent the past episode trying to split up Gayle and Frond, nobody believes her and she gets saddled with the blame. Xander actually seemed to commit the crime ''knowing'' Louise would take the fall.

* HalloweenCostumeCharacterization: Though there are exceptions, for the most part her costumes tend to be based on R-rated (or otherwise adult-themed) movies that she should absolutely not be watching, showcasing her maturity compared to her siblings as well as her disregard for rules and guidelines.

** [[GreenEyedMonster Envy]]: Especially when it comes to the attention of her father or siblings. More recently, she is implied to resent Chloe Barbash’s hold on Regular Sized Rudy.

** Chloe Barbash. While Louise has never liked her and has in fact shown jealousy towards her, she now loathes Chloe because of the way she exploits Rudy. Chloe also set off Louise’s arc in the movie by mocking her bunny ears.

* BadassAdorable: Louise looks pretty adorable with her bunny ear hat, loves stuffed toys and [[DaddysGirl secretly idolizes her father]], but don't let her cute appearance fool you: she can be ''vicious'' to those who piss her off and has defeated several people who've crossed her with nothing more than her wit and cunning.

** [[spoiler:In the movie, she comes to accept that she doesn't need her bunny ears to feel brave, and even is able to accept being separated from them for brief periods of time.]]

** In "Turkey in a Can", where she isn't the one putting Bob's turkeys in the toilet despite being the obvious choice. She spends the rest of the episode trying to figure out who did it, and even puts on a presentation just to highlight that she had no motive while everyone else did.

* FollowInMyFootsteps: Provides a technical inversion. "Carpe Museum" reveals Louise wants to run Bob's Burgers when she grows up, something that surprises Bob when he finds out. Although Bob doesn't forbid this like usual inversions--if anything, he's ecstatic. While "What About Job?" doesn't directly follow up on this, Louise still seems amenable to the idea when Bob suggests that the kids could run the restaurant in addition to their dream jobs once he and Linda retire.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Louise can be really controlling and manipulative of the Pesto twins but the Pesto twins return none of the vitriol. Alternatively, their similarities make them FacelessGoons to a BadBoss.

** With her older siblings being as generally inept as they are, she usually takes it upon herself to defend them or take vengeance when someone hurts them. "Drumforgiven" shows a consequence of this--Gene wants to try to stick up for himself rather than having Louise fight all his battles for him.

* NeverMyFault: Frequently something bad happens because of Louise, and she will try to make someone else take the blame, be it losing a ramp given to her by Rudy or gluing her father to the toilet.

** Possible a bit of a ZigZaggedTrope. While Bob does occasionally let the kids watch stuff they probably shouldn't , it's implied Louise hasn't actually seen all of these and is just going by particularly famous images and phrases associated with said movies. When she's dressing as something way above her age group for Halloween, it's usually for the sake of a pun. And when she was dressed as [[Film/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo "The Dragon With a Girl Tattoo"]] and Linda said she was "flipping the script," Louise genuinely didn't know what she meant, implying this particular costume pun was on accident.

* LaughablyEvil: Louise takes ComedicSociopathy to its logical extreme by teetering very close to actual sociopathy[[note]]though she's at least shown to be capable of compassion towards her friends and especially her family, meaning she's not quite there[[/note]]. She's described on [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] as being "manipulative and aggressive...more than willing to exploit people", not exactly terms usually used to describe a protagonist. Her actions aren't always even harmless to the other protagonists of the show, and she very seldom expresses anything approaching remorse, although ultimately she is shown to [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther love her family]]. However, that doesn't keep her from being absolutely hilarious.

* NotMeThisTime:

* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Zig-Zagged. While Louise is pretty off her rocker herself, she's definitely the smartest sibling and the one who has to be the leader between her, Gene, and Tina, as she often has to reel them in when they get distracted. Which makes sense because both [[TheDitz Tina and Gene]] are pretty absent-minded and dim, respectively, when they're on their own.

* TheUnreveal: When it looks like we'll finally see her without her hat off when it gets taken in "Ear-Sy Rider", the top portion of her head is blocked off by the upper camera border. [[spoiler:When it falls off at the end of the movie, she's almost entirely offscreen until she puts it back on.]]

* AfraidOfBlood: While it might be easy to miss due to her macabre sense of humor, one of Louise's standards seems to be directly interacting with blood. She is shown to be horrified by her own Turkey Giblet explosion during a Thanksgiving play and is uncharacteristically nervous to prick Tina's finger for a demonic ritual (to the point that Tina has to do it herself). It's notable that many of her fantasies and schemes involve blood and gore, but when the time comes to actually cause harm or touch blood she recoils in disgust and fear. She's still a 9-year-old, after all.

** She tends to show affection for people outside the family by slapping them in the face (Boo Boo in "Boys 4 Now" and [[spoiler:Rudy at the end of "Bob, Actually"]]).

* PinkMeansFeminine: Not the most feminine girl, but her hat is pink.

** With her older siblings being as generally inept as they are, she usually takes it upon herself to defend them or take vengeance when someone hurts them.

** A majority of her Halloween costumes are at least partially based on male characters[[note]]Edward Scissorhands, the Driver, Anton Chigurh, Jason Bourne, Beetlejuice, and Peter Pan[[/note]], with none thus far actually based on female characters.

* HalloweenCostumeCharacterization: Her costumes tend to be based on R-rated (or otherwise adult-themed) movies that she should absolutely not be watching, showcasing her maturity compared to her siblings as well as her disregard for rules and guidelines.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's mean and psychotic a good portion of the time, but she ''does'' have a nice side buried deep down, which mainly comes out when it involves the people she loves. If her siblings or family is wronged or threatened in any way, the culprit usually won't last long afterwards. In fact, the extreme lengths she'll go to protect her family outweighs the lengths she'll go for her own personal pride. She also allows her nice side out with her best (and possibly only) friend Rudy. Such as if she realizes her actions have hurt him in some way, she goes out of her way to fix it, and will apologize to him. Her nice, loving side also comes out around animals.

* TheLeader: Of the Belcher siblings.

* ShyBladder: She does not like to use public bathrooms. She apparently shares this with Bob, though the possibility is raised that she outright ''learned'' it from him rather than simply inheriting it.

** Played for laughs in "The Silence of the Louise", where she assumes ''Literature/OldYeller'' will have a last-second happy ending and is horrified to learn the truth.

* SevenDeadlySins: She's guilty of every single one of them.

* SpringtimeForHitler: Often plans something or helps out under the assumption that things will go wrong and she'll get a front row seat to the chaos, naturally leaving her dumbfounded when several of these plans go near-perfectly. Additionally, in "The Quirk-ducers" she directly emulates the TropeNamer in an attempt to get school canceled, which winds up going the ''opposite'' way ([[PyrrhicVictory she gets exactly what she wanted but realizes it wasn't worth it]]).

* FollowInMyFootsteps: Provides a technical inversion. "Carpe Museum" reveals Louise wants to run Bob's Burgers when she grows up, something that surprises Bob when he finds out. Although Bob doesn't forbid this like usual inversions--if anything, he's ecstatic.
** While "What About Job?" doesn't directly follow up on this, Louise still seems amenable to the idea when Bob suggests that the kids could run the restaurant in addition to their dream jobs once he and Linda retire.

*** While "What About Job?" doesn't directly follow up on this, Louise still seems amenable to the idea when Bob suggests that the kids could run the restaurant in addition to their dream jobs once he and Linda retire.

* GreenEyedEpiphany: In "Bob Actually", she spends the first half of the episode terrified that Rudy has a crush on her. However, when she learns he actually has a crush on Chloe Barbash, she proceeds to become upset about it in a complete 180 from her previous stance, and this is ''before'' learning that Chloe is exploiting Rudy's feelings for her.

* JuniorCounterpart: It's not obvious at first, but while Louise definitely gets her craziness from her mother Linda, she's actually shaping to be one of these for her father Bob. She takes after most of his distinctive quirks, including his CompanionCube habits and tendency to snark at the insanity of others, as well as sharing similar interests. She even plans to become his successor as the head of Bob's Burgers one day.

* FollowInMyFootsteps: Provides a technical inversion. Louise wants to run Bob's Burgers when she grows up, something that surprises Bob when he finds out. Although Bob doesn't forbid this like usual inversions--if anything, he's ecstatic.

* BitchSlap: She does this to anyone whenever annoyed (or, in rare cases like Boo Boo, out of affection). "Boyz 4 Now" is perhaps the most notable instance, to the point that the episode even plays it in slow motion for added effect. The movie mentions she's been doing it since preschool.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Downplayed; she's not ''evil'' or even a truly awful person, but she's definitely the most selfish of the core five Belchers. The other four are a JerkWithAHeartOfGold at their ''worst'', but Louise is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold at her ''best''. Furthermore, whenever the Belchers are trying to prevent something bad, Louise will instead be cheering it on (unless it's something ''terrible'' or against her own interests).

** with her older siblings being as generally inept as they are, she usually takes it upon herself to defend them or take vengeance when someone hurts them.