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* DistaffCounterpart: To [[Characters/BojackHorsemanCharlotteMooreCarson Charlotte Moore]] of all people. Let's see: both were once possible {{Love Interest}}s to different members of the Horseman family, both ended up going separate ways after certain incidents and each one ([=BoJack=] for Charlotte and Beatrice for Corbin) regret not having done anything to keep the relationship alive.

* {{Innocently Insensitive}}: She tells Bojack when they're about to sleep together to "get up on her boat." Too bad it triggered his feelings about Penny Carson.

* WaterIsAir: {{Zigzagged|Trope}}. ''mercilessly'', mostly for the sake of jokes. Land-dwellers need special helmets to breathe in the underwater city. However, we see walruses and other such sea animals that actually ''need'' air doing totally fine without them. In the spirit of this trope, citizens walk and drive along the sea floor instead of swimming or floating (they also walk normally without any extra effort), yet, Bojack realizes soon enough that he actually ''can'' swim, something he takes advantage of to escape safely through a window several stories above the floor. Made even more hilarious by the fact that his pursuers, ''actual fish'', make no effort to swim after him, instead standing there shaking their fists. Printed media and pens seem to be a thing down there as well, but the ''moment'' Bojack tries to communicate with Kelsey through a heartfelt, hand-written letter, the ink ''[[RealityEnsues washes away]]''. This trope seems to be averted and played straight as the story demands, ''and it's perfect''.

* HistoryRepeats: Hmmm, a seemingly collected celebrity who has it all and deep down is a BrokenBird with ParentalIssues, a DarkAndTroubledPast and a pretty bad case of [[{{Narcissist}} Narcissism]]. Are we talking about Secretariat or [[Characters/BojackHorsemanBojackHorseman BoJack]]?

* DirtyCoward: His advice to Bojack boiled down to "run away from your problems and your mistakes instead of facing them". He also sent his brother to Vietnam instead of going himself, because he was cared more about himself than his brother's life.

* WhiteMansBurden: He's dedicated to improving Cordovia's hospitals and homes but dislikes interacting with its inhabitants and tries to care little as possible.

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* TheRealRemingtonSteele: Horrifyingly [[InvokedTrope invoked]]. Part of the cruel punchline towards Diane is that she ''has'' never seen "Leo" and as such, would let her hopes and imagination fly and raise her spirits. Then, when the right time would come, "Leo" would present himself as a homeless person and then revealed as an InventedIndividual. Talk about BigBrotherBully.

[[folder:Sebastian St. Claire]]

* BadSamaritan: ZigzaggedTrope. Sebastian is an egotistical, deeply troubled man whose primary concern is to alleviate his [[WhiteMansBurden wracking feelings of white guilt]] and FirstWorldProblems by providing medical and economic help to the country, which is used for hospitals and foods for refugees, something that actually helps the country and improves the situation. However, [[LackOfEmpathy his detachment]] ensures that no matter what, he's [[ItsAllAboutMe always self conscious]] and [[DissonantSerenity never loses his cool]] staying calm [[MoodDissonance even in situations where he should be panicking or grieving about the lost lives]], which only add to the true despair and miscommunication between the low class Cordovians and the wealthy St. Claire, who has never cared or understood completely such problems.

* CatsAreMean: Full of himself, convinced of his own greatness and ignorant of the true suffering of the survivors in Cordovia, Sebastian makes [[WhiteDwarfStarlet Bojack]] look humble.

* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: The reason why he does charity: His imagining of the pain and suffering less fortunate people were enduring while he was enjoying the luxuries of the high life would often haunt him due to his free time and complete lack of achievements that helped others. Deconstructed, since this is portrayed as a selfish motivation that doesn't actually help people

** To both Mr. Peanutbutter and Bojack. [[StepfordSmiler Mr. Peanutbutter]], despite being an AntiNihilist [[LoveYouAndEverybody tries his best to cheer up everyone]] in a FunPersonified way. Bojack is a [[HatesEveryoneEqually bitter]] and [[ByronicHero troubled]] [[TheCynic cynical]] [[DrowningMySorrows alcoholic]] with [[WhatHaveIBecome deep-rooted contempt]] for himself and [[SourOutsideSadInside sadness]] about the world. Yet, when push comes to shove, he constantly [[HiddenDepths proves himself]] to be [[MoreThanMeetsTheEye a thoughtful, intelligent and tender person]] who [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold can care about ideals and people]]. Sebastian, on the other hand, brings hope to Cordovia out of selfishness and cares nothing about the people outside of guilt and pity.

One of Penny's friends, who accompanies Bojack, Penny and Maddie for prom night. Once Maddy suffers intoxication and is in need of serious medical attention, [=BoJack=] coerces him into staying with her in the hospital. [[spoiler: Re-appears in Season 6]].

* AllThereInTheManual: His surname, Pocket, is only revealed in his character sheet and in a FreezeFrameBonus when looking through the yearbook.

* GreaterScopeParagon: An odd mixture with GreaterScopeVillain, Secretariat is a grand figure in Hollywood history and within horse racing, the protagonist of a modern Greek tragedy and one of the best equine athletes within the game. Fame, recognition, women, awards, standing at the top with every mortal looking up to him for inspiration; even today, when his disgraces and backstabs are well known and documented, Secretariat is still considered a living landmark and fondly remembered by a lot of people and believed to have had an untimely passing. Still, his story and glorification as a figure of veneration has influenced several people to follow in his footsteps, flaws and all. His actions while still living may have costed a Pinto his career and his own brother Jeffretariat his life. Not to say, his horrible, ''horrible'' advice was a key part in the construction of the emotional trainwreck of [=BoJack=] Horseman.

* GreaterScopeParagon: An odd mixture with GreaterScopeVillain, Secretariat is a grand figure in Hollywoo history and within horse racing, the protagonist of a modern Greek tragedy and one of the best equine athletes within the game. Fame, recognition, women, awards, standing at the top with every mortal looking up to him for inspiration; even today, when his disgraces and backstabs are well known and documented, Secretariat is still considered a living landmark and fondly remembered by a lot of people and believed to have had an untimely passing. Still, his story and glorification as a figure of veneration has influenced several people to follow in his footsteps, flaws and all. His actions while still living may have costed a Pinto his career and his own brother Jeffretariat his life. Not to say, his horrible, ''horrible'' advice was a key part in the construction of the emotional trainwreck of [=BoJack=] Horseman.

!!!'''Played by''': Jermaine Fowler

* DirtyCoward: His advice to Bojack boiled down to "run away from your problems and your mistakes instead of facing them".

* TheSociopath: Despite what little screentime he's given, Jeremiah Whitewhale may be the most sinister villain in the entire show, being portrayed as a ruthlessly greedy and heartless man who casually murders people just for the sake of money and power.

* MrAltDisney: The glittery instructional video paints him this way, and the mustache doesn't hurt. Unlike most versions of the trope, however, it's not the creative part of Disney that's parodied, but the sugarcoated monopolism for which the modern corporation is infamous.
** He also seems to be specifically based on Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, especially with the terrible working conditions in his warehouses.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's the Governor of California who shows no signs of [[CorruptPolitician corruption]] and uses his position of power for the benefit of the people.

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!!Malibu, California

[[folder:Tina Bear]]
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Herb's caretaker and nurse at home. Only speaks in grunts.

* BearyFriendly: She's really nice and quite civil towards Herb whenever he needs her. They're shown to be very close.
* BodyguardBetrayal: [[spoiler: SubvertedTrope. At first,]] it seems like Tina, along with Henry Winkler, have conspired to stop the publishing of Herb's book just out of spite. [[spoiler: However, it turns out they have a pretty good reason to do so, as the book was terrible and would have harmed his legacy]]
* TheBusCameBack: Returns in season 4 after disappearing after Herb's death to help out with [=BoJack's=] mother.
* TheCaretaker: For Herb, being his live-in nurse. [[spoiler: Her first reaction when the fight between Herb and Bojack gets physical is to make sure Herb doesn't get hurt.]] She also ends up being this for Beatrice when she's kicked out of her nursing home.
* CruelToBeKind: She [[spoiler:went against Herb's wishes to publish his novel after he died. The reason was so that his legacy wouldn't be tainted further]].
* GentleGiant: She's caring, patient and quite sensitive, in addition to being very tall.
* IntelligibleUnintelligible: She communicates solely in grunts and growls, but some people can understand her and translate for her. Henry Winkler calls her speech [[spoiler: at Herb's funeral "touching" so it's not impossible for humans to understand her.]]
* SlidingScaleOfAnimalCommunication: Level 5, to be specific. Tina ''can'' be understood, but only in certain situations and by certain people. She can also understand what people say and mean, but it's not always two-sided.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: One of the few {{Funny Animal}}s to speak this way.

[[folder:Celebrity Stealing Club]]

Two sisters who make their life goal to steal precious memorabilia from all kinds of celebrities and who end up ransacking [=BoJack=]'s van while Todd's inside while they're both visiting Herb.

* EpiphanyTherapy: While they're raiding the van looking for things that may be worth something, Todd picks up on their tense sibling relationship and stalls them by appealing to their problems, making them face their lives and slowly open up about who they are.
* GoodCopBadCop: A villainous version. One of them, Kenzie, is nicer, and more approachable, unlike her sister, who's more pushy, colder and pragmatic.
* RecurringExtra: After their introduction, they occasionally show up in the background of parties stealing something or other.
* WholePlotReference: Their whole shtick is based off ''Film/TheBlingRing'' and the real life inspiration for that film.

[[folder:Herb's Lawyer]]

A dapper bat gentleman who is very formal and blind. Chosen by Herb to be his legal advisor due to his vocabulary and professionalism, and not due to his legal skills.

* AntiquatedLinguistics: One of the reasons why he was hired was because of his overly formal way of talking, which makes him sound wise. It's even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by him.
-->'''Lawyer''': I told him, I'm not actually an attorney, I'm just a blind man. Still, Herb thought me wise for some reason. Perhaps it is my overly formal manner of speech. I bid you good day.
* BlindWithoutEm: And even with them, he has barely any idea of who's who. He's got really bad vision.
* CharactersAsDevice: His main purpose in the narrative is to give the cast of ''JustForFun/HorsinAround'' a disk, which is the key to uncovering Herb's "gold".
* DeafComposer: A blind lawyer, to be exact. He's not even a lawyer and yet he's been signed a job in which he has to interact with people all the time, probably has to write dozens of papers and has to make sure that every single one of his client's affairs are met with precision. Even then, can he be sure he's doing it right if it's not by ear?
* SeeminglyProfoundFool: He's just a blind bat without any sort of legal education. Add some well-formulated words, well executed manners and good etiquette and Herb suddenly found the perfect lawyer.

[[folder:Dr. Champ]]
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->'''Played by:''' Sam Richardson

A therapy horse at Pastiches Malibu, the drug rehab facility where [=BoJack=] stays in Season 6.

* BreakTheCutie: Starts out as a rock for recovering addicts to rely on. After [=BoJack=]'s hidden bottle of vodka accidentally ends up in his hands and then his stomach, he relapses into full-on alcoholism overnight and loses all of his confidence.
* ExactWords: He's not a horse who is also a therapist, he's a [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equine-assisted_therapy "therapy horse"]]. He also never technically claims to be a licensed doctor, but also doesn't exactly advertise that "Doctor" is actually his first name. [[spoiler: He uses this to screw over [=BoJack=] and reveal every dark secret he shared with him during his rehab sessions to Paige and Maximilian; since he's a therapy horse and not a therapist, he doesn't have to adhere to client confidentiality.]]
* {{Foil}}:
** Being a horse, it's natural that he would be one for [=BoJack=]. While [=BoJack=] is irritable, antisocial and unable to maintain any close relationships, Dr Champ is calm, outgoing and married. Deconstructed after Dr Champ develops a drinking problem, as unlike [=BoJack=] who is so accustomed to screwing up while drunk that he can always try to do better next time, Dr Champ feels like he's failed after one day of being drunk.
** To [=BoJack=]'s father, Butterscotch. Another horse with a drinking problem, but one who actually tries to stay sober for the sake of his spouse and child. Dr. Champ even [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] it:
--->'''[=Dr. Champ=]:''' I remind you of your father so you simultaneously resent me and crave my approval.
* {{Hypocrite}}: His entire job is about getting people the help they need to overcome their addictions but after he relapses he hates [=BoJack=] for having him checked into rehab to get help, believing that his personal life is more important than getting legitimate help. He also accuses [=BoJack=] of always trying to find excuses for his bad behavior and blaming other people for his problems, right in the middle of him blaming his relapse into alcoholism entirely on [=BoJack=], when [=BoJack=]'s involvement was a genuine accident; Champ was the one who made the decision to continue his drinking binge at a bar (and it already beggars belief that he couldn't tell the difference between booze and water in the first place), much like he was just looking for any excuse at all to start drinking again.
* InsistentTerminology: He's a therapy horse, not a therapist. [[spoiler:This eventually comes to bite [=BoJack=] ''hard'', since Dr. Champ being a therapy horse and not a licensed therapist allows him to spill the beans about everything [=BoJack=] has done to Paige and Maximilian without worrying about client confidentiality.]]
* InVinoVeritas: It's only after [=BoJack=] accidentally gets him drunk that Dr. Champ starts being fully honest, telling Bojack some hard truths while also showing that he has a strong mean streak.
* JerkassHasAPoint: He blames [=BoJack=] for basically ruining his life because of the vodka bottle that [=BoJack=] had been keeping. He's not wrong that [=BoJack=]'s actions began things going wrong for him.
* NeverMyFault: A ZigZaggedTrope. He blames his relapse into alcoholism entirely on [=BoJack=] and has a fair point... only as far the first drink that began things, which is something the [=BoJack=] certainly did not intend and actively tried to prevent. Once he has sobered up and avoided being caught for that one drink, which [=BoJack=] is responsible for, he decides to head to a bar making it a full relapse. [=BoJack=] may have started things but it was completely accidental and the choice to resume drinking was his alone as he was in his right mind when he made it. It's also rather questionable that he didn't know what he was doing with that first drink; vodka isn't exactly easy to chug, nor is it easy to mistake the taste for water.
* OffTheWagon: Thanks to [=BoJack=]. Though it is hard not to see Champ's own subsequent actions and eagerness to blame everything on [=BoJack=] as him just looking for any excuse to jump off.
* TheShrink: Of the well-meaning but ineffective type when sober. When drunk he proves to be more perceptive than he seems, but he still only helps [=BoJack=] to a breakthrough more or less by accident and he's also revealed to have a hidden mean streak.
* StraightGay: His sexuality could not be guessed just by impression alone. It was only in his second-to-last appearance that we find out he has a husband.
* TookALevelInJerkass: After he relapses back into alcoholism, his NiceGuy facade is shed completely, culminating in him [[spoiler: throwing [=BoJack=] under the bus completely out of pure spite by divulging every bad thing [=BoJack=] said about himself to reporters who want to expose [=BoJack=]'s deeds to the world.]]
* UngratefulBastard: [=BoJack=] stays with after he accidentally gets drunk to make sure he sobers up and ensures no one finds out about it. Doctor Champ then runs off to a bar immediately afterwards and [=BoJack=] checks him into a rehab clinic to get the help he'll need. Is Doctor Champ thankful that [=BoJack=] has done everything possible to make sure he gets help? Of course not, he's furious with [=BoJack=] for destroying his personal life by unwittingly making it possible for him to get drunk in the first place.

!!Cordovia

[[folder:Sebastian St. Claire]]
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/KeeganMichaelKey

A GentlemanAdventurer who is doing philanthropist work in [[{{Ruritania}} Cordovia.]] Diane becomes interested in doing an autobiography about him and later, in season 2, [[spoiler: briefly]] becomes his autobiographer.

* AllLovingHero: {{Subverted|Trope}}. At first glance, he appears to be doing charity work out of concern for the people in the country and empathizing with the plight of their rough day-to-day life. As Diane later finds out, he's closer to a SociopathicHero.
* AntiHero: He's a clear cut heroic person at least as far as intentions go, but his actions are driven much more by the recognition and his need to alliviate his own guilt than by truly altruistic motives. He's using Diane's book to bring potential investors into the mix and provide tons of donations to his foundations, which admittedly would be used for reconstructing the wasteland the country has become.
%%* BadassAndChildDuo: With Kinkou. Until he dies.
* BadSamaritan: ZigzaggedTrope. Sebastian is an egotistical, deeply troubled man whose primary concern is to alleviate his [[WhiteMansBurden wracking feelings of white guilt]] and FirstWorldProblems by providing medical and economic help to the country, which is used for hospitals and foods for refugees, something that actually helps the country and improves the situation. However, [[LackOfEmpathy his detachment]] ensures that no matter what, he's [[ItsAllAboutMe always self conscious]] and [[DissonantSerenity never loses his cool]] staying calm [[MoodDissonance even in situations where he should be panicking or grieving about the lost lives]], which only add to the true despair and miscommunication between the low class Cordovians and the wealthy St. Claire, who has never cared or understood completely such problems.
* BaitTheDog: His first appearance in "Later" characterizes him as an athletic philanthropist with a knack for spectacle, a flair for the dramatic, and deep bravery, who travels to desolated areas and helping necessitated people while looking cool. When Diane talks to him, he sounds too too good to be true. He is. During Diane's first day, Sebastian introduces her to the people at the refugee camp and even shares a tender moment with one of the orphans, his personal assistant Kinko. The next day, he advises Diane that ''maybe'' she shouldn't spend so much time with Kinko. It all goes downhill from there.
* BigGood: {{ZigZagged|Trope}}. He's this to Cordovia's people, at least to a certain extent. There's no doubt his actions have helped the country. He's building hospitals, restoring culture by staging plays and musicals, and spearheading a soup kitchen serving everyone in a straight line. However, his indifference to the actual people he's helping and his self-centered attitude glorifying himself at the expense of others does hinder whatever good traits he has. Arguably though, his indifference might actually make him ''more effective'' than the empathetic people like Diane. See JerkassHasAPoint below.
* BrokenPedestal: The more time Diane spends with him, the more she becomes disillusioned due to his grand ego and his selfish reasons to do good actions, which she's seen enough of back at home. The fact that he's an EvilCounterpart to the flawed, yet good-natured people in her life just makes her displeasure clearer.
* CatsAreMean: Full of himself, convinced of his own greatness and ignorant of the true suffering of the survivors in Cordovia, Sebastian makes [[WhiteDwarfStarlet Bojack]] look humble.
* CatsAreSuperior: He's a darker take, but he's very much TheAce and a WealthyPhilanthropist, and is a snow leopard.
* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: Sebastian treats the constant war-ravaged environment of Cordovia as normal.
* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: The reason why he does charity: His imagining of the pain and suffering less fortunate people were enduring while he was enjoying the luxuries of the high life would often haunt him due to his free time and complete lack of achievements that helped others. Deconstructed, since this is portrayed as a selfish motivation that doesn't actually help people
* DissonantSerenity: Eerily calm through a bomb attack.
* EvilCounterpart[-/-]{{Foil}}: Sebastian contrasts with many other figures in Diane's life.
** To both Mr. Peanutbutter and Bojack. [[StepfordSmiler Mr. Peanutbutter]], despite being an AntiNihilist [[LoveYouAndEverybody tries his best to cheer up everyone]] in a FunPersonified way. Bojack is a [[HatesEveryoneEqually bitter]] and [[ByronicHero troubled]] [[TheCynic cynical]] [[DrowningMySorrows alcoholic]] with [[WhatHaveIBecome deep-rooted contempt]] for himself and [[SourOutsideSadInside sadness]] about the world. Yet, when push comes to shove, he constantly [[HiddenDepths proves himself]] to be [[MoreThanMeetsTheEye a thoughtful, intelligent and tender person]] who [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold can care about ideals and people]]. Sebastian, on the other hand, brings hope to Cordovia out of selfishness and cares nothing about the people outside of guilt and pity.
** Both [=BoJack=] and Sebastian are {{Narcissist}}s on the surface but have developed deep levels of self-loathing. While Sebastian responded to his insecurities by trying to help people with humanitarian work, [=BoJack=] responds by hurting other people.
* ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask: In his first scene, he goes all around the savaged country on foot, doing backflips, bandaging wounded people, delivering supplies and jumping off a helicopter, all while talking with Diane on the phone.
* GentlemanAdventurer: A pretty brutal {{Deconstruction}}. He's certainly affable, but as Diane finds out, just because he's charming or personable doesn't mean he does this for good reasons.
* GlorySeeker: He's very concerned about his image, and persuades Diane to write about his exploits. There's also the press coverage he demands using photos of himself and starving citizens.
* HearingVoices: Started his humanitarian work to silence the cries of dying people he heard in his sleep
* IdleRich: Before going into humanitarian worn, he used to be a wealthy businessman, owner of a chain of high-end department stores. The screams in his head didn't allow him to enjoy this lifestyle, though.
-->'''Sebastian''': At night I heard the cries of children sick and dying. And I would scream into the night. Shut up! Shut up, children! But the phantom cries would not abate.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Diane notes that he seriously enjoys talking about himself.
* JerkassHasAPoint: While he is a textbook example of narcissism, he does make a solid point to Diane that grieving over the dead won't help them or the living, and his detachment ensures that he's always operational despite whatever horrors come his way.
* LargeHam: Very theatrical, like a stereotypical old-timey adventurer. Considering he's essentially "playing a part", it makes sense.
%%* MeanBoss: To Kinkou.
* NonIdleRich: What he is now. Of course, given what made him decide to go this way was a bad reason, it's a more twisted example. His LackOfEmpathy and superiority complex when it comes to helping the third world inhabitants of Cordovia doesn't help.
* PhotoOpWithTheDog: [[{{Foreshadowing}} During his very first appearance]], Sebastian takes a selfie hugging a barely conscious civilian as a sign of solidarity. He even ignores the fact that the person isn't dead yet and needs medical care.
* ShamelessSelfPromoter: Basically the whole reason why he persuaded Diane to write a biography about him was to use her writings as a PropagandaMachine that would inspire people to donate to his charities. Diane also notes that every three sentences or so he says something about himself.
* SociopathicHero: He incredibly self-centred, who is in Cordovia [[GloryHound mostly for the attention]] and to alleviate his own WhiteGuilt, and has a severe LackOfEmpathy for the war-torn country's people, but there's little doubt his funds and actions ''are'' helping, and his detachment actually helps him because it means he won't waste time grieving or panicking under stress.
* StrollingThroughTheChaos: He keeps a calm demeanor during attacks, and acts surprised and disappointed when Diane instead crouches in fear.
* WealthyPhilanthropist: Taken to its logical conclusion.
* WhiteMansBurden: He's dedicated to improving Cordovia's hospitals and homes but dislikes interacting with its inhabitants and tries to care little as possible.
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[[folder:Kinko]]
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An orphan child that becomes friends with Diane during her time in Cordovia.

* AlienArtsAreAppreciated: For a kid growing up in a completely devastated environment, Kinko is interested in the New Yorker, and asks if he can write food reviews there when he grows up.
* BadassAndChildDuo: With Sebastian. Until he dies.
* BeleagueredAssistant: Sebastian often makes him do dangerous chores and is quite indifferent to his well-being.
* DeathOfAChild: [[TruthInTelevision Such is a fact of life in war-riddled countries.]]
* EmpathyDollShot: A variant. After Diane reads to him from The New Yorker, he falls asleep holding it. Diane finds it, torn and dirty, after the bombing that kills him.
* FreeRangeChildren: {{Deconstructed}}. He's free to roam [[{{Ruritania}} Cordovia]] and be a companion for a philanthropist... because he lost his family and the country's at war.
* HeartwarmingOrphan: He's one of the survivors living in Sebastian's refugee camp and becomes acquainted with Diane, who cares about him deeply.
* IllBoy: Is seen coughing a lot, and being in a war-torn third world country there's a lot of infections he could've picked up.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Diane. She cares for him, and shares her interests with him.
* KillTheCutie: During a bomb attack. Since his family's gone, Diane is the only one who seems to care.
* TranslationYes: A BlackComedy example:
-->'''Kinko''': I am Kinko.
-->'''Sebastian''': In his language, it means, orphan whose parents were murdered by rebels and will die young, probably from malaria.

[[folder:Prince Gustav]]
->'''Played by''': Creator/AaronPaul

The autocratic leader of [[{{Ruritania}} Cordovia]]. He bears a very strong resemblance to Todd Chavez, [[PrinceAndPauper with whom he briefly switched places with]].

* AristocratsAreEvil: He runs Cordovia's tyrannical monarchy, and is known to have committed many war crimes against humanity.
* EvilOverlord: He is responsible for overseeing genocidal atrocities during his country's civil war.
* IdenticalStranger: He looks and sounds a lot like Todd, save for a few differences (such as his thick Eastern European accent).
* PrinceAndPauper: He somehow tricked Todd into briefly switching places with him.

!!Tesuque, New Mexico

[[folder:Pete "Repeat" Pocket]]
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!!!'''Played by''': Jermaine Fowler

One of Penny's friends, who accompanies Bojack, Penny and Maddie for prom night. Once Maddy suffers intoxication and is in need of serious medical attention, [=BoJack=] coerces him into staying with her in the hospital. [[spoiler: Re-appears in Season 6]].

* AllThereInTheManual: His surname, Pocket, is only revealed in his character sheet and in a FreezeFrameBonus when looking through the yearbook.
* AlliterativeName: '''P'''ete '''P'''ocket, as shown in the yearbook. Maybe his nickname is meaningful, after all.
* BetaCouple: He and Maddie are this to Bojack and Penny, since they're carpooling together to the school dance.
* BrokenPedestal: After admiring Bojack because of his openness towards teenage drinking and disregard for rules, he's crushed and horrified when he tries to coerce him into dumping Maddie into a hospital entrance after she suffers alcohol intoxication.
* CharacterDevelopment: He started as an impressionable teen that underwent a traumatic incident with an authority figure. Come Season Six, Pete goes to help a girl having a panic attack and coaches her through a mental exercise to calm her down. He attributes this growth to him seeing a psychiatrist. [[spoiler:Pete also acknowledges that [=BoJack=] was more at fault for Maddy's alcohol poisoning and that it was the wrong thing for the horse to ditch her and Pete]].
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Unexpectedly reappears in Season Six to tell Hollyhock what happened in New Mexico.]]
* CorruptionOfAMinor: First, there's the drinking part where Penny, Maddy and Pete are involved. Then, after Maddie collapses, Pete is persuaded by Bojack to stay with her at the hospital while he returns home with Penny.
* DubNameChange: The French dub changes his name to Brett. This is most likely because it rhymes with the French form of "repeat".
* EveryoneHasStandards: Underage drinking is one thing. Leaving someone who has probably poisoned herself with alcohol barely close to a hospital just because you're afraid of getting into trouble is something ''completely'' different.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[spoiler: In “A Quick One, While He’s Away”, Pete grew out his hair a bit on the top, and has a beard now]].
* FatAndSkinny: The '''Skinny''' to Maddy's '''Fat'''.
* ForcedMeme: He seems to be forcing his VerbalTic, considering he has to do it consciously and doesn't actually remember to repeat himself. [[spoiler: He's dropped attempting to do this by the time Season 6 rolls around]].
* FreezeFrameBonus: His real name is Pete Pocket, as shown in the annuary.
* InformedAbility: He boasts about his tendency to repeat everything twice, yet he never once does it in prom night. He constantly [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it:
-->'''Pete''': Hey, [=BoJack=], I'm Pete. But they call me Pete Repeat because I always say everything twice.
-->'''Bojack''': Everything?
-->'''Pete''': Yeah, it's kind of my thing.
-->'''Bojack''': Okay.
-->'''Pete''': Ah, damn. I forgot to say that twice, didn't I? Usually I do it.
* InnocentBystander: Just one of the many people that Bojack ends up hurting during "Escape From L.A."
* IronicNickname: Despite his nickname being "Repeat", he never once reiterates anything he says during Prom Night.
* InSeriesNickname: Pete "Repeat".
* MoralDilemma: While what happened to Maddy was an accident, he doesn't take well that he has to lie just to cover Bojack's back and responsibility in the incident. He hesitates until Bojack convinces him.
* NiceGuy: He's a perfectly friendly kid who has the severe misfortune of attending prom in the company of Bojack.
* PluckyComicRelief: He's the only source of light in the 2nd half of the episode, and even, it's subverted when he's the one freaking out about what happened to Maddy.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Pete only shows up twice in the 76 episodes of the series, but [[spoiler: him being a witness to Maddy's alcohol poisoning and telling Hollyhock all about it is one of the reasons why Hollyhock eventually made the hard decision to completely cut Bojack out of her life forever]].
* TimePassageBeard: [[spoiler: When Pete meets Hollyhock in the Season 6 Part 1 finale, he now sports a beard]].
* VerbalTic: [[InformedAbility Supposedly]], he says everything two times, but never does so while onscreen.
* WorstAid: Forced to do this to Maddy by Bojack, much to his chagrin.

[[folder:Maddy Ginsberg]]
[[quoteright:160:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2015_07_17_at_95759_am.jpg]]
!!!'''Played by''': Creator/AliWong

Penny's second friend, after Alison Flierl, who along with Penny, Bojack and Pete, carpools to the prom. [[labelnote:Spoiler Information]] After drinking too much of [=BoJack=]'s alcohol, she ends up suffering from alcohol poisoning during the double date.[[/labelnote]]

* BetaCouple: She and Pete are this to Bojack and Penny, since they're carpooling together to the school dance.
* BigFun: A bit overweight, and quite a party girl on her own.
* CorruptionOfAMinor: For starters, there's the drinking part where Penny, Maddie and Pete are involved. Then, as she goes overboard with the drink, she ends up intoxicating herself and in need of medical attention.
* DroppedABridgeOnHer: Her collapse comes out with little build-up.
%%* FatBestFriend: To Penny.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: {{Deconstructed}}. This is what happens when a no-holds-barred drinker with no limits and a irresponsible flaw enabler with no concept of responsibility meet and how bad things get when both of them enable each other in some capacity.
* InnocentBystander: Less so than Pete, since she also brought it on herself; but she's, like him, just one of the many people that Bojack ends up hurting during "Escape From L.A."
* LeftHanging: Whether she managed to recover or died is left up in the air, since we don't see what happens afterwards. [[spoiler: “A Quick One, While He’s Away” reveals that Maddy did survive the alcohol poisoning]].
* MoralDilemma: While what happened to Maddy was an accident, Pete doesn't take well that he is forced to lie just to cover Bojack's back and responsibility in the incident, as well as stay to see if she'll be okay. Even worse, the first option was leaving her at the entrance.
* RememberTheNewGuy: She's Penny's ''new'' best friend. Apparently, Alison F. just wasn't up to the task anymore.
* SacrificialLamb: Her fate is the first of many disasters caused by Bojack in "Escape From L.A."
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: What happens to her afterwards is never revealed. [[spoiler: Until season 6, where we learn that she survived.]]
* WorstAid: Poor Maddy ends up getting intoxicated on the alcohol brought by Bojack and when deciding what to do, Bojack decides to leave Pete in the hospital to accompany her while he takes Penny home.
[[/folder]]

!!New York City, New York

[[folder:Jill Pill]]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/MaraWilson

A rising playwright spider in New York theatre who was involved in "The Bojack Horseman Show".
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* ArtsyBeret: An avante-garde playwright and lover of TrueArt who always wears a red beret.
* AboutTheAuthor: Variation, mixed with CharacterShilling. Princess Carolyn mentions that she's the critical darling of New York critics.
* CrewOfOne: Her "one act, one man, one night only" shows involve her running the whole thing, without backup. In the "Greg Kinglear" presentation [=BoJack=] sees, for example, Jill handles the puppet's strings, lighting, and scenery through her spider web and eight arms. Being a spider makes this easy for her.
* CrypticBackgroundReference: At first, she seems like just a one-off character who can offer [=BoJack=] a job after filming Secretariat, but then, it's revealed that Jill knows Bojack because she worked with him on his show... [[spoiler: which is ''not'' JustForFun/HorsinAround.]]
* DramaQueen: Not in the traditional sense, but her EstablishingCharacterMoment involved asking the waitress to have the cook ''whisper their dreams'' into her omelette while preparing it.
* ExtraEyes: Eight eyes to be precise. {{Justified}} due to being a spider.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first time we see her in person is during a live representation of "Greg Kinglear", her latest play. It has little equipment and no budget, which shows her valuing the message over aesthetic regarding what she wants to tell. The play itself and the way she approaches it also show a quirk of hers: consummate professionalism even in the most ridiculous circumstances, especially in the way she responds with stoicism to all the over-the-top tragicomedy surrounding her.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: [=BoJack=] doesn't remember her at all, [[spoiler: until Princess Carolyn reminds him of ''his other show''.]]
* GivenNameReveal: [[spoiler:Her real name, as stated and presented in "The [=BoJack=] Horseman Show" by Cuddlywhiskers, is Jill Filipowicz.]] "Jill Pill" is just her StageName.
* TheMistress: [[spoiler: To Cuddlywhiskers, the co-writer of ''The [=BoJack=] Horseman Show''.]]
* OldFlame: [[spoiler: Again, to Cuddlywhiskers. Why did they broke up is never stated, although his reclusive attitude since the show's failure and her interests shifting may have something to do.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: [[spoiler:She's only known by the name "Jill Pill" in New York rather than her actual name. This is partly the reason why [=BoJack=] has a hard time recognizing her, since he remembers her as Jill Filipowicz.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: What initially appears to be a grand opportunity for [=BoJack=] to participate in a play ends the moment Jill presents her idea and he rejects it because of how ludicrous it sounds.]]
* TrueArt: InUniverse, what she's doing nowadays. Of course, this being a {{Satire}}, it has to do with a puppet of Greg Kinnear playing a loose representation of ''Theatre/KingLear'' as well as naked old men being reborn with milk.
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: Her character reveals that [=BoJack=] had another show, less known than Horsin' Around, in which he worked with Jill.]]
* WhamLine: Near the end of "Out to Sea", Princess Carolyn again mentions Jill Pill's desire to speak to [=BoJack=] about the play she's putting together.
-->'''[=BoJack=]''': Jill Pill?
-->'''Carolyn''': Ring any bells? Apparently she worked on your TV show.
-->'''[=BoJack=]''': ''Horsin' Around''?
-->'''Carolyn''': No actually. The ''other'' TV show.
-->'''[=BoJack=]''': Other TV show...? Oh, ''shit!'' Jill...

[[folder:Cuddlywhiskers]]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/JeffreyWright

The hamster producer of ''The [=BoJack=] Horseman Show''.
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* BrokenAce: Cuddlywhiskers won numerous awards and accolades for his work, but they never made him happy.
* IvyLeagueForEveryone: He attended Harvard and was president of the ''Lampoon'', which he often mentions.
* ReclusiveArtist: InUniverse. After succumbing to depression, he finally managed to heal himself by living a secluded peaceful lifestyle.

!!Manatee Fair

[[folder:Amanda Hannity]]
->'''Played by:'''Christine Baranski
The manatee Editor-in-Chief of the Manatee Fair magazine.

* BadBoss: While cordial to others in the field, she isn't a good woman to work under, as she fires an employee and sends another one home just because their dresses are ugly.
* BrutalHonesty: Her bread and butter. She fires assistants because they dress ugly, she tells Diane the expose won't sell any magazines, she tells Princess Carolyn that having a child might not be beneficial to her career, etc.
* ConflictingLoyalty: She sides with Diane that Hank needs to be taken down, but changes her mind once she learns that the story will not make much revenue.
* DaEditor: Deconstructed. As Editor-in-Chief, she has last say on what gets printed, but she still needs to submit to the powers above her, as Manatee Fair is just a magazine owned by a much larger company.
* {{Deadpan Snarker}}: She has her moments.
* FatBastard: An aggressive editor who is very overweight. Justified due to her species.
* GrandeDame: An editor-in-chief, poised, assertive, high end and polished.
* IronLady: Deconstructed. Amanda truly is a force to be reckoned with and she earns much respect from other females in the industry. Despite being a feminist with noble intentions, she is still just a cog in the machine and must hold her tongue if the story won't generate much revenue for her bosses.
* GoingForTheBigScoop: She encourages Diane to get Nicole, Hank's current assistant, on the record discussing what it was like to work under him.
* KickTheDog: She harshly breaks it to Diane that she can't publish the latter's expose on Hank Hippopopalous because it won't sell magazines and Manatee Fair and MBN are sister companies, despite previously wanting to work alongside her.
* LadyDrunk: InformedFlaw. Princess Carolyn mentions she "can knock a drink back like a Kennedy at a wake for one of the other Kennedys" and still be a superb editor, but she is never shown drinking any alcohol on-screen.
* {{Hypocrite}}: She tells Diane women shouldn't have to fear talking out of turn and not being pretty little housewives, and yet she fires her staff for their less than flattering attire.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Averted. She will fire somebody for so much as their ugly attire.
* PowersThatBe: Deconstructed, as it is an unfortunate consequence of her position. While Manatee Fair has the power to influence people, it's still just a subsidiary of a much larger conglomerate - AOL-Time-Warner-Pepsico-Viacom-Halliburton-Skynet-Toyota-Trader-Joe's to be specific. While she might want to take down Hank, the megacorporation owns the MBN Network, which profits off of Hank's dance show, so it would be bad for business to talk smack about him.

[[folder:Heather]]
->'''Played by:''' Natasha Leggero
A journalist working for Manatee Fair, who interviews Bojack in "Start Spreading the News."

* ChekhovsGun: The tape recording she has of Bojack confessing that she nearly slept with Penny is never shown for the rest of Season 3. In "Bojack the Feminist" Ana realizes Vance and Bojack are just pretending to be feminists for the publicity and don't really care about women, she gives the tape to Diane, which leads to their relationship souring.
* {{Innocently Insensitive}}: She tells Bojack when they're about to sleep together to "get up on her boat." Too bad it triggered his feelings about Penny Carson.
* IntrepidReporter: She compromises her integrity by sleeping with Bojack. After an unfortunate remark, she triggers Bojack, who confesses that he nearly slept with a teenaged girl in New Mexico and the version of him in Secretariat is just computer generated. Would've made for such a scoop, but thankfully, Bojack had Ana Spanakopita as his publicist.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Heather only appears in one episode, but the tape she records leads to the fracturing of Bojack and Diane's relationship in Season 5.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's never really stated what Ana meant by "took care of everything" beyond the fact Ana somehow took possession of the tape. She can be heard talking on the phone to Heather in "It's You" when Bojack gets nominated for an Oscar.

!!Pacific Ocean City

[[folder:General]]
* ApocalypseHow: [[ApocalypseHow/Class0 Class 0]]. [[spoiler:In [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E12ThatWentWell "That Went Well"]], the crash between the ''Escape from L.A.'' and the Cargo Cartindale transporting food, combined with the sun heat, causes several tons of pasta to boil, threatening Pacific Ocean City's existence. As it's explained, if nothing is done, it could lead to the entirety of its population being boiled alive. Then again, considering we're talking about sea creatures here, this could lead to a [[ApocalypseHow/Class4 Class 4]] scenario.]]
* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: One of the rare episodes that take place outside Hollywoo.
* AtlantisIsBoring: {{Averted|Trope}}. The entirety of [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E04FishOutOfWater "Fish Out Of Water"]] takes place in Pacific Ocean City and it's one of the most [[SugarWiki/AwesomeArt beautifully animated episodes of the series]].
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Barely avoided after the major incident in [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E12ThatWentWell "That Went Well"]]. [[spoiler:Boiled alive by pasta and probably rising to the surface to be eaten by either people or predators is not a good way to go.]]
* FishPeople: It's an underwater city, so ''yeah''.
* NoNameGiven: Other than [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname "Skinny Gina"]] and [[TheIngenue Nadia]], none of POC's citizens are named.
* UnderwaterCity: A real, functional Atlantis without any fantastic technology and just a different culture. This of course presents several problems during season 3.
** [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E04FishOutOfWater "Fish Out Of Water"]]: [=BoJack=]'s visit for the Pacific Ocean Film Festival is made difficult by the CultureClash, especially not knowing how to operate his helmet, how to eat while underwater, which signs not to do in public, what's the bus schedule, how to pay for things, the list goes on. This is shown to demonstrate the issues BJ has with communication and the problems that come with an actual UnderwaterCity.
** [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E12ThatWentWell "That Went Well"]] shows also what would happen if a catastrophe were to occur nearby: [[spoiler:in this case, a shipwreck containing a lot of food. The citizens are lucky someone was impulsive enough to buy several strainers.]]
* WaterIsAir: {{Zigzagged|Trope}}. ''mercilessly'', mostly for the sake of jokes. Land-dwellers need special helmets to breathe in the underwater city. However, we see walruses and other such sea animals that actually ''need'' air doing totally fine without them. In the spirit of this trope, citizens walk and drive along the sea floor instead of swimming or floating (they also walk normally without any extra effort), yet, Bojack realizes soon enough that he actually ''can'' swim, something he takes advantage of to escape safely through a window several stories above the floor. Made even more hilarious by the fact that his pursuers, ''actual fish'', make no effort to swim after him, instead standing there shaking their fists. Printed media and pens seem to be a thing down there as well, but the ''moment'' Bojack tries to communicate with Kelsey through a heartfelt, hand-written letter, the ink ''[[RealityEnsues washes away]]''. This trope seems to be averted and played straight as the story demands, ''and it's perfect''.
* WeirdCurrency: The underwater dwellers use multicolored shells as currency.
[[/folder]]

%%[[folder:Seahorse Baby]]

[[folder:Seahorse Father]]
* ExplosiveBreeder: Yeah, the whole giving birth to 6 infants thing...
* FishPeople: A humanoid seahorse.
* MisterSeahorse: His role in the episode, as he gives birth.
* NoNameGiven: "Hippocampus Father" or "Mr. Seahorse", your pick.
* NonVerbalMiscommunication: The reason behind the whole shebang: Mr. Seahorse starts going into labor on his way to work and because of the no-delivery policy of the bus driver, he’s forced to ask a “surface” stranger for help...except the stranger doesn’t understand, can’t talk due to ignorance of how his helmet works and doesn’t know the first thing about being a midwife. After a disastrous, yet clean birth, he leaves with his 5 children...leaving the 6th behind, which the stranger tries to tell him about to no avail, since he still can’t talk.
* ObviousPregnancy: Symptoms include panicking, bloated belly, the nature of real seahorses, going into contractions, asking a stranger for “assistance”. If only he had a T-shirt saying “Giving birth over here!”, there could be a definite diagnosis.
* OneShotCharacter: Only appears in [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E04FishOutOfWater "Fish Out Of Water"]].
* PanickyExpectantFather: Well, wouldn't you panic if you're about to give birth in a bus, the drivers have a explicit clause that keeps them from delivering and you're forced to ask a stranger for assistance?
* ParentalNeglect: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. He doesn’t realize he has a sixth offspring until BJ comes knocking at his door, leaving him dismayed. However, the brief scene of him interacting with his children shows him coming home tired and passive enough to be yanked by them is gonna happen often.
* ParentsAsPeople: Due to his long shifts at the Taffywater Factory, he often arrives home tired. Having 5 (later 6) kids waiting for you back home hoping to play with you doesn't help.
* SatelliteCharacter: Mixed with LivingMacGuffin. His role is basically being the father of the lost baby hippocampus [=BoJack=] has to reach to return his baby.
* TheUnintelligible: Due to most Pacific Ocean citizens having an indecipherable language due to being underwater, BJ has a hard time understanding why he's panicking in the bus until he sees his belly and then can't call him to get his forgotten baby.
* UngratefulBastard: PlayedWith. When BJ finally returns his baby, the hippocampus father is confused by the situation, then resigned to feeding another mouth. However, he still offers [=BoJack=] some forms of compensation: giving him money or inviting him to dine with them.
* YouAreNumberSix: The only thing he changes when he gets his baby back is the congratulatory mantle, crossing "5" and putting "6".

!!Sacramento, California

[[folder:Woodcharles "Woodchuck" Coodchuck-Berkowitz]]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/AndreBraugher

The incumbent woodchuck Governor of California, whom Peanutbutter runs against during Season 4.

* AmbiguouslyJewish: His surname seems like it's stereotypically Ashkenazi-Jewish, however his voice actor is obviously African-American.
* AnArmAndALeg: His hands are crushed while trying to rescue Mr. Peanutbutter from his sunken mansion in ''Underground'', and are later replaced with a series of transplants.
* BoringButPractical: His overall approach to politics. Unfortunately, the public doesn't much care for boring policy talk, preferring BreadAndCircuses instead.
* ButtMonkey: Mr. Peanutbutter's ridiculous gubernatorial campaign to oust Woodchuck puts the latter through a ''lot'' of misery; from almost losing his political office to an obviously unqualified buffoon, to getting his hands amputated and (repeatedly) replaced.
* TheComicallySerious: He presents a very dignified public face and is almost completely humourless; the writers love shoving him into the most ridiculous premises they can come up with.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After being ridiculed, slandered, having both of his hands broken and going through various humiliating arm surgeries, he ultimately gets reelected as Governor of California with the help of Peanutbutter by the end of the season.
* {{Foil}}: To Mr. Peanutbutter. Both are running for California Governor, but couldn't be more different. Mr. Peanutbutter is an excitable celebrity who only decided to go into politics because he thought he'd be good at it and win because everyone likes him, his main method is BreadAndCircuses, but he is ignorant over how to be a politician. Chuck is a stoic current Governor who has been one for many years and wants to still be one because he understands the current issues of the state, his main method is BoringButPractical, and unlike Mr. Peanutbutter, Chuck is very smart when it comes to politics.
* NiceGuy: He tries to use his position to genuinely benefit people and when Mr.Penutbutter and others are trapped underground he goes out of his way to save them [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight despite the political rivalry]], [[BeingGoodSucks shame none of these are rewarded or acknowledged.]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His vocal cadence is heavily reminiscent of UsefulNotes/BarackObama.
* OnlySaneMan: He treats his job with all the competency and seriousness it deserves while everything else goes mad around him.
* PunnyName: His full name is a pun on the "How much wood could a woodchuck chuck" TongueTwister.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's the Governor of California who shows no signs of [[CorruptPolitician corruption]] and uses his position of power for the benefit of the people.
* SarcasmFailure: When the whole ski-race thing came up he sarcastically agrees to it if somebody decides to waste a whole lot of time and money to get a bill to legitimise it passed. Naturally that's exactly what happens (along with a load of riders including a bridge to Hawaii).
* SurroundedByIdiots: He's pretty exasperated by the Peanutbutter campaign. This comes to a head when he gets trapped underground with them after a botched (by the rescuees!) attempt to rescue them.
* TemptingFate: Sick of dealing with reporters bringing up the issue, he accepts that he would be willing to ski race Mr. Peanutbutter for the Governorship but only if there were a State Constitution Amendment made to allow it, which he believes would never happen. One montage later...

!!Harper's Landing, Michigan

[[folder:Eddie]]
->'''Played by''': Colman Domingo

A lonely old dragonfly who lives in a rural Michigan town, right next-door to the former Sugarman summer cabin. When Bojack moves into his family's old cabin, he becomes Eddie's neighbor and acquaintance.

* AcrophobicBird: Acrophobic Bug, in this case; he's a flying insect, but stubbornly refuses to fly. This is because it reminds him too much of how his late wife died in a tragic flying accident, which he feels is his fault.
* BerserkButton: He gets pretty pissed off when [[spoiler:[=BoJack=] tricks him into flying again, due to the [[FreudianExcuse bad memories he has of this experience]]. See InterruptedSuicide below.]]
* DeathSeeker: Subtle, but he's rarely seen to do much of his time nowadays, just wallowing in his house before the Sugarman home fixing takes his time. [[spoiler:Once his widower status and role in his wife's death is revealed, Eddie's actions are clearer: he's just bidding his time until both are reunited again. Anything else is irrelevant.]]
* DieOrFly: {{Invoked|Trope}} on him, [[spoiler:as [=BoJack=] slips off the roof on purpose to get him to fly. It backfires when the realization he's doing it and BJ tricked him causes ''a massive'' FreakOut which leads to Eddie almost killing them both.]]
* FireForgedFriends: At first, Eddie finds [=BoJack=] to be an annoying neighbor, but they soon start bonding as Eddie helps [=BoJack=] repair and renovate the old Sugarman house. [[spoiler:But after Eddie tried to kill himself and [=BoJack=], the latter destroys his own ancestral home and abandons their broken friendship.]]
* {{Foil}}:
** To Honey Sugarman. Both characters have a mental breakdown (and even a simultaneous [[GriefSong musical number]]) due to the loss of a loved one, but they react to their grief in different ways. While Honey caused her car to crash with her ([[HarmfulToMinors and Beatrice]]) in it in an attempt to "feel alive again" after her son's death, [[spoiler:Eddie attempted to kill himself (and [=BoJack=]) specifically because he ''didn't'' want to live after his wife's death]].
** Also to [=BoJack=] himself. Like the horse, Eddie is struggling day to day to keep going even when he's reluctant to let go of the past; this made complicated by both guilty parties' roles in their own personal hell: [[spoiler:encouraging others to partake in their excesses only for their loved ones to die because of it.]] An interesting example, since it's Eddie's exposure to [=BoJack=] makes the latter realize how meaningless and self-destructive it is to wallow in pity longer than it's needed, but it never does the same for Eddie who remains somewhat the same from beginning to end.
* FreudianExcuse: He stopped flying and fell into a deep depression, because of how he accidentally got his wife killed while they were soaring through the sky on one fateful day.
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:Eddie's entire story arc. He's a depressed, guilt-ridden widower who's decided to live the rest of his life waiting for death to reunite with his wife (that is, if he believes in the afterlife at all) and one of the last inhabitants of [[DyingTown Harper's Landing]]... before Joseph Sugarman's grandson, "Hambone Fakenamington" (BJ) shows up, looking for answers. Together, they rebuild the derelict summer home and become friends, upon which BJ learns more about Eddie's issues with flying. Once the work is finished, the clueless horse tries to help by tricking him into flying. Eddie promptly explodes in madness and grief and tries to end it all with BJ as collateral. When that fails and BJ rescues him, Eddie finally admits his despair....only for BJ to be horrified and disgusted with this funhouse version of himself and decides to high-tail it out of there, leaving Eddie the same as before.]]
* InterruptedSuicide: [[spoiler:An attempted MurderSuicide; he grabs [=BoJack=], flies high up in the sky, and then falls into a lake. [=BoJack=] saves both himself and Eddie from drowning, but then leaves as Eddie cries about not wanting to live anymore.]]
* KickTheDog: Granted, [=BoJack=] didn't help him at all by gaslighting him, [[spoiler:but he did it with good intentions. Eddie, for his part, got crazy and tries to kill both of them. Little wonder [=BoJack=] leaves him to his own devices afterwards.]]
* KillTheOnesYouLove: By proxy. [[spoiler:Eddie wanted to see how far up they could reach while Lorraine didn't. Prodding further made her relent, which resulted in her death by get sucked by an airplane engine.]]
* TheLostLenore: He lost his wife Lorraine due to him recklessly flying higher with her than they should have, causing her to be sucked into a jet engine. The rest of his days have been filled with regret, and he still keeps all of her belongings intact.
* NiceGuy: While he appears to be depressed and emotionally damaged, and occasionally (playfully) insulted Bojack and acted like a lonely grump, he is still likable and sympathetic. When he realizes Bojack cannot fix his grandparents' house, he is more than willing to spend almost a year fixing their place out of just wanting to help. When Bojack says he wants to repay him back for all his help, all he does is close his tool box and says "don't sweat it".
[[/folder]]

!!Eden, North Carolina

%%[[folder:Cooper Thomas Rogers Wallace Jr.]]
%%[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cooper Thomas Rogers Wallace Sr.]]
->'''Played by''': Creator/DaveedDiggs

Cutie Cutie Cupcake's employer, a businessman who made his fortune off of answering machines.
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* PreppyName: "Cooper Thomas Rogers Wallace", as he's rich. He passed it on to his son.
* RichesToRags: {{Implied}}. His riches come from answering machine tapes, and when Princess Carolyn visits the old Cooper mansion, it's run down and for sale. He likely lost all his money when answering machines went out of style.
* ShotgunWedding: While he's miffed that his son "knocked up the help", he does intend to do right by Princess Carolyn -- he plans to have his son marry her and turn her into a high-society woman.
[[/folder]]

!!Chicago, Illinois

[[folder:Jeremiah Whitewhale]]
->'''Played by''': Creator/StephenRoot

The corrupt billionaire CEO of the Whitewhale megacorporation.
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* BadBoss: He personally ''murdered'' a certain factory worker under his employ, who dared to attempt to unionize his fellow coworkers and demand better working conditions (like reducing their 17-hour shifts to 8 hours, or even being allowed to take more frequent bathroom breaks).
* CardCarryingVillain: He's completely aware of his infamous reputation and openly brags about it with pride.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: As the eponymous leader of the [[MegaCorp Whitewhale company]], he has gleefully acquired and consolidated countless other corporations to form a gigantic monopoly, and he isn't above resorting to outright ''murder'' to get rid of anyone who inconveniences him.
* EvilOldFolks: He apparently started his business empire sometime in the early 20th century, and has grown increasingly more super-rich over the decades. As for how he's been able to live so long, it's implied to be due to his habit of buying organ transplants [[ImmortalitySeeker in hopes of being able to live forever]].
* HateSink: He exists as a biting satire of MegaCorp monopolies. Having a hand in every industry he can think of, Jeremiah forces other companies to sell themselves to him by driving them out of the market when they refuse. After dominating a market, he works his employees to the bone, having them murdered for things like [[EvilIsPetty taking too many bathroom breaks]] and leaving their bodies on the floor to scare the employees. This is all a plan [[CardCarryingVillain to be as openly evil as possible]] so his fellow billionaires will buy into his company to maximize his power, which he uses to do things like getting [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney murder legalized for billionaires]].
* ImmortalitySeeker: He buys organ transplants so he can live longer.
* KarmaHoudini: He is able to get away with killing that aforementioned factory worker, due to the US Congress passing a law that [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney allows billionaires the right to commit murder]].
* LargeAndInCharge: He's a whale who's the CEO of a MegaCorp. Though his body is human-sized, his head is nearly as large as the rest of his body.
* LaughablyEvil: He's definitely one of the most despicable minor antagonists to appear in a single episode, but there's something rather amusing about just how [[EvilIsHammy over-the-top]] and [[CardCarryingVillain brutally honest]] he is about his actions.
* MobySchtick: He's a white sperm whale. Diane and Guy meet a one-eyed reporter named Isabel, sitting in front of a painting of a ship, who is obsessed with taking down his company the same way Captain Ahab is obsessed with killing Moby-Dick.
* MonsterWhale: Metaphorically speaking. Instead of a literal SeaMonster, he's a "monster" as in an evil person, a "giant" as in extremely rich and powerful, and he "swallows" small companies by buying them out.
* MrAltDisney: The glittery instructional video paints him this way, and the mustache doesn't hurt. Unlike most versions of the trope, however, it's not the creative part of Disney that's parodied, but the sugarcoated monopolism for which the modern corporation is infamous.
** He also seems to be specifically based on Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, especially with the terrible working conditions in his warehouses.
* SpeciesSurname: He's a white whale whose last name is Whitewhale. It doesn't get much more on-the-nose than that.
[[/folder]]

!Past Characters

!!Secretariat's Backstory

[[folder:Secretariat]]
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->'''Played by''': Creator/JohnKrasinski

A former race horse from TheSeventies (based on the [[RealLife actual]] [[UsefulNotes/HorseRacing race horse]]) and [=BoJack=]'s personal hero. After being banned from ever racing again for betting on his races, he commits suicide by jumping off a bridge.
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* OffstageVillainy: See AmbiguousSituation and KickTheDog above.

[[caption-width-right:160:[[ItMakesSenseInContext If you know the context]], you would be making [[CorruptionOfAMinor this face too]].]]

One of Penny's friends, who accompanies Bojack, Penny and Maddie for prom night. [[labelnote:Spoiler Information]] Man, he really should have stayed home. Once Maddy suffers intoxication and is in need of serious medical attention, [=BoJack=] coerces him into staying with her in the hospital.[[/labelnote]]

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: He is famed InUniverse for saying everything two times. Surprisingly, [[InformedAbility he never uses this apparent ability onscreen]].

* VerbalTic: He repeats things. [[InformedAbility Supposedly]].

[[folder:Sadie]]
->'''Played by''': Creator/JaimePressly
A pregnant teen Princess Carolyn visits.

* CommonalityConnection: She admits that she's pleased Princess Carolyn is also from Eden.
* TeenPregnancy: Her main role is to be a potential birth mother for Princess Carolyn, because she got knocked up at eighteen.

[[folder:Cooper Thomas Rogers Wallace Sr.]]
->'''Played by''': Creator/DaveedDiggs

Cutie Cutie Cupcake's employer, a businessman who made his fortune off of answering machines.
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* PreppyName: "Cooper Thomas Rogers Wallace", as he's rich. He passed it on to his son.
* RichesToRags: {{Implied}}. His riches come from answering machine tapes, and when Princess Carolyn visits the old Cooper mansion, it's run down and for sale. He likely lost all his money when answering machines went out of style.
* ShotgunWedding: While he's miffed that his son "knocked up the help", he does intend to do right by Princess Carolyn -- he plans to have his son marry her and turn her into a high-society woman.
[[/folder]]

!!New York City, New York

[[folder:Jill Pill]]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/MaraWilson

A rising playwright spider in New York theatre who was involved in "The Bojack Horseman Show".

* ArtsyBeret: An avante-garde playwright and lover of TrueArt who always wears a red beret.
* AboutTheAuthor: Variation, mixed with CharacterShilling. Princess Carolyn mentions that she's the critical darling of New York critics.
* CrewOfOne: Her "one act, one man, one night only" shows involve her running the whole thing, without backup. In the "Greg Kinglear" presentation [=BoJack=] sees, for example, Jill handles the puppet's strings, lighting, and scenery through her spider web and eight arms. Being a spider makes this easy for her.
* CrypticBackgroundReference: At first, she seems like just a one-off character who can offer [=BoJack=] a job after filming Secretariat, but then, it's revealed that Jill knows Bojack because she worked with him on his show... [[spoiler: which is ''not'' JustForFun/HorsinAround.]]
* DramaQueen: Not in the traditional sense, but her EstablishingCharacterMoment involved asking the waitress to have the cook ''whisper their dreams'' into her omelette while preparing it.
* ExtraEyes: Eight eyes to be precise. {{Justified}} due to being a spider.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first time we see her in person is during a live representation of "Greg Kinglear", her latest play. It has little equipment and no budget, which shows her valuing the message over aesthetic regarding what she wants to tell. The play itself and the way she approaches it also show a quirk of hers: consummate professionalism even in the most ridiculous circumstances, especially in the way she responds with stoicism to all the over-the-top tragicomedy surrounding her.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: [=BoJack=] doesn't remember her at all, [[spoiler: until Princess Carolyn reminds him of ''his other show''.]]
* GivenNameReveal: [[spoiler:Her real name, as stated and presented in "The [=BoJack=] Horseman Show" by Cuddlywhiskers, is Jill Filipowicz.]] "Jill Pill" is just her StageName.
* TheMistress: [[spoiler: To Cuddlywhiskers, the co-writer of ''The [=BoJack=] Horseman Show''.]]
* OldFlame: [[spoiler: Again, to Cuddlywhiskers. Why did they broke up is never stated, although his reclusive attitude since the show's failure and her interests shifting may have something to do.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: [[spoiler:She's only known by the name "Jill Pill" in New York rather than her actual name. This is partly the reason why [=BoJack=] has a hard time recognizing her, since he remembers her as Jill Filipowicz.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: What initially appears to be a grand opportunity for [=BoJack=] to participate in a play ends the moment Jill presents her idea and he rejects it because of how ludicrous it sounds.]]
* TrueArt: InUniverse, what she's doing nowadays. Of course, this being a {{Satire}}, it has to do with a puppet of Greg Kinnear playing a loose representation of ''Theatre/KingLear'' as well as naked old men being reborn with milk.
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: Her character reveals that [=BoJack=] had another show, less known than Horsin' Around, in which he worked with Jill.]]
* WhamLine: Near the end of "Out to Sea", Princess Carolyn again mentions Jill Pill's desire to speak to [=BoJack=] about the play she's putting together.
-->'''[=BoJack=]''': Jill Pill?
-->'''Carolyn''': Ring any bells? Apparently she worked on your TV show.
-->'''[=BoJack=]''': ''Horsin' Around''?
-->'''Carolyn''': No actually. The ''other'' TV show.
-->'''[=BoJack=]''': Other TV show...? Oh, ''shit!'' Jill...

[[folder:Cuddlywhiskers]]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/JeffreyWright

The hamster producer of ''The [=BoJack=] Horseman Show''.

* BrokenAce: Cuddlywhiskers won numerous awards and accolades for his work, but they never made him happy.
* IvyLeagueForEveryone: He attended Harvard and was president of the ''Lampoon'', which he often mentions.
* ReclusiveArtist: InUniverse. After succumbing to depression, he finally managed to heal himself by living a secluded peaceful lifestyle.
[[/folder]]

!!Manatee Fair

[[folder:General]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Amanda Hannity]]
->'''Played by:'''Christine Baranski
The manatee Editor-in-Chief of the Manatee Fair magazine.

* BadBoss: While cordial to others in the field, she isn't a good woman to work under, as she fires an employee and sends another one home just because their dresses are ugly.
* BrutalHonesty: Her bread and butter. She fires assistants because they dress ugly, she tells Diane the expose won't sell any magazines, she tells Princess Carolyn that having a child might not be beneficial to her career, etc.
* ConflictingLoyalty: She sides with Diane that Hank needs to be taken down, but changes her mind once she learns that the story will not make much revenue.
* DaEditor: Deconstructed. As Editor-in-Chief, she has last say on what gets printed, but she still needs to submit to the powers above her, as Manatee Fair is just a magazine owned by a much larger company.
* {{Deadpan Snarker}}: She has her moments.
* FatBastard: An aggressive editor who is very overweight. Justified due to her species.
* GrandeDame: An editor-in-chief, poised, assertive, high end and polished.
* IronLady: Deconstructed. Amanda truly is a force to be reckoned with and she earns much respect from other females in the industry. Despite being a feminist with noble intentions, she is still just a cog in the machine and must hold her tongue if the story won't generate much revenue for her bosses.
* GoingForTheBigScoop: She encourages Diane to get Nicole, Hank's current assistant, on the record discussing what it was like to work under him.
* KickTheDog: She harshly breaks it to Diane that she can't publish the latter's expose on Hank Hippopopalous because it won't sell magazines and Manatee Fair and MBN are sister companies, despite previously wanting to work alongside her.
* LadyDrunk: InformedFlaw. Princess Carolyn mentions she "can knock a drink back like a Kennedy at a wake for one of the other Kennedys" and still be a superb editor, but she is never shown drinking any alcohol on-screen.
* {{Hypocrite}}: She tells Diane women shouldn't have to fear talking out of turn and not being pretty little housewives, and yet she fires her staff for their less than flattering attire.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Averted. She will fire somebody for so much as their ugly attire.
* PowersThatBe: Deconstructed, as it is an unfortunate consequence of her position. While Manatee Fair has the power to influence people, it's still just a subsidiary of a much larger conglomerate - AOL-Time-Warner-Pepsico-Viacom-Halliburton-Skynet-Toyota-Trader-Joe's to be specific. While she might want to take down Hank, the megacorporation owns the MBN Network, which profits off of Hank's dance show, so it would be bad for business to talk smack about him.

[[folder:Heather]]
->'''Played by:''' Natasha Leggero
A journalist working for Manatee Fair, who interviews Bojack in "Start Spreading the News."

* ChekhovsGun: The tape recording she has of Bojack confessing that she nearly slept with Penny is never shown for the rest of Season 3. In "Bojack the Feminist" Ana realizes Vance and Bojack are just pretending to be feminists for the publicity and don't really care about women, she gives the tape to Diane, which leads to their relationship souring.
* {{Innocently Insensitive}}: She tells Bojack when they're about to sleep together to "get up on her boat." Too bad it triggered his feelings about Penny Carson.
* IntrepidReporter: She compromises her integrity by sleeping with Bojack. After an unfortunate remark, she triggers Bojack, who confesses that he nearly slept with a teenaged girl in New Mexico and the version of him in Secretariat is just computer generated. Would've made for such a scoop, but thankfully, Bojack had Ana Spanakopita as his publicist.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Heather only appears in one episode, but the tape she records leads to the fracturing of Bojack and Diane's relationship in Season 5.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's never really stated what Ana meant by "took care of everything" beyond the fact Ana somehow took possession of the tape. She can be heard talking on the phone to Heather in "It's You" when Bojack gets nominated for an Oscar.

[[folder:Guy]]
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/LakeithStanfield

A buffalo cameraman who works with Diane during Season 6, before becoming romantically involved with her.

* AmicableExes: Downplayed, as he and his ex-wife do have some tension among them in regards to Guy spending time with Sonny, but their relationship isn't expanded on.
* BadassBaritone: As befitting his appearance, he's a GentleGiant buffalo with a deep voice.
* FamilyThemeNaming: He and his family all have names that are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what they say on the tin]]; he's a guy named Guy who has a son named Sonny and an ex-wife named Lady.
* {{Foil}}: To Mr. Peanutbutter -- Mr. Peanutbutter was a rich and famous {{Pollyanna}} who treated Diane like a princess, but this was ultimately an overcompensation for his inability to connect with her on a deeper level. Guy is much more down-to-earth, works in a blue-collar profession, and forms a genuine connection with Diane.
* GentleGiant: He's a big, muscular buffalo, and a very caring father and boyfriend.
* GoodParents: Guy has shown to be a caring and attentive father to his son, Sonny.
* HasAType: According to his son, Sonny, Guy tends to go for [[BrokenBird emotionally damaged women]] (like Diane) whom he nurses back to health, then they leave him once they've regained their confidence. Given his turbulent relationship with his ex-wife, one can infer that's what happened to them. [[spoiler:Averted with Diane, whom he ends up HappilyMarried with by the end of the series.]]
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Naturally with Diane, given she's a Vietnamese-American human and he's a big buffalo man.
* InterspeciesRomance: He's a buffalo who becomes romantically involved with Diane, who's human. [[spoiler:By the end of the series, they've gotten married.]]
* LastGuyWins: He's introduced in the final season as a love interest for Diane. [[spoiler:They're married by the final episode.]]
* MeaningfulName: Guy is a guy.
* NiceGuy: He's almost always calm, easygoing, and a very kind and loyal lover to Diane.
* OnlySaneMan: He is the most normal boyfriend that Diane has. As she's struggling on her book, he suggests solutions.
* RedHerring: Early in their relationship, Guy has Diane literally climb down a drain pipe from second story window and wait in the freezing cold for him to bring her stuff down to avoid letting his son see her, and introduces her as a "friend" to his buddies, which seem like red flags to the viewer. However, when Diane calls him out on it several months later [[spoiler:he introduces her to Sonny, who starts off hostile to Diane but slowly warms up to her over time, their relationship becomes loving and serious, and they become HappilyMarried by the end of the series.]]
* RelationshipUpgrade: He and Diane start off as boyfriend and girlfriend in his debut episode. [[spoiler:The series finale reveals that they got married]].
* StrongFamilyResemblance: He and Sonny look nearly alike except for the different fur colors and how Guy is bigger.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jeremiah Whitewhale]]
->'''Played by''': Creator/StephenRoot

The corrupt billionaire CEO of the Whitewhale megacorporation.
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* {{Adorkable}}: A manatee reporter who sings sea shanties.

* {{Adorkable}}: He stammers a lot, is interested in vegetable oil, and is very sweet.

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the classical romantic underdog: [[WeakButSkilled wimpy yet witty]], [[{{Adorkable}} lovable yet a pushover]] and [[GeekPhysiques the less]] [[BadassBookworm overtly]] [[BettyAndVeronica masculine]] in a LoveTriangle, Corbin seems to qualify for the dark horse who eventually wins the girl. The fact that he ''would have'' had things gone just slightly differently is played for tragedy.

* OnlySaneMan: He is the most normal boyfriend that DIane has. As she's struggling on her book, he suggests solutions.

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* GoodCopBadCop: A villainous version. One of them, Kenzie, is nicer, and more approachable , unlike her sister, who's more pushy, colder and pragmatic.

* DarkestHour: His first loss against "Giant Hearted" Sham is implied to have been this in the {{Biopic}}. His being banned for life from racing most definitely ''was'' this, and it led to his suicide.

* GreaterScopeParagon: An odd mixture with GreaterScopeVillain, Secretariat is a grand figure in Hollywoo history and within horse racing, the protagonist of a modern greek tragedy and one of the best equine athletes within the game. Fame, recognition, women, awards, standing at the top with every mortal looking up to him for inspiration; even today, when his disgraces and backstabs are well known and documented, Secretariat is still considered a living landmark and fondly remembered by a lot of people and believed to have had an untimely passing. Still, his story and glorification as a figure of veneration has influenced several people to follow in his footsteps, flaws and all. His actions while still living may have costed a Pinto his career and his own brother Jeffretariat his life. Not to say, his horrible, ''horrible'' advice was a key part in the construction of the emotional trainwreck of [=BoJack=] Horseman.

* HistoricalInJoke: Secretariat's first racing loss against "Giant Hearted" Sham, which is one of the iconic scenes in the biopic, is a reference to the real Secretariats "rival" Sham, who beat him in the 1973 Wood Memorial (though only coming in second, the actual winner being a stallion named Angle Light). This was seen as a huge upset at the time. Ironically, despite the impact the loss had on the fictional Secretariat, in real life Sham would go on to become AlwaysSecondBest to Secretariat.
* HistoryRepeats: Hmmm, a seemingly collected celebrity who has it all and deep down is a BrokenBird with ParentalIssues, a DarkAndTroubledPast and a pretty bad case of [[{{Narcissist}} Narcissism]]. Are we talking about Secretariat or [[Characters/BojackHorsemanBojackHorseman [=BoJack=]]]?

* TheScottishTrope: A {{biopic}} about his life had been in production since the mid-80s with any attempts to make it often resulting in delays, turnarounds or just sheer DevelopmentHell. The curse believed to be bestowed upon the movie was legend among Hollywoo. It was only in 2014 when the movie finally got underway with Kelsey Jannings as director, Lenny Turtletaub as producer and [=BoJack Horseman=] (one of Secretariat's biggest fans) playing the lead. Even then, the misfortunes occurred during filming certainly reek of this trope: frequent clashes between director, producer and main actor; another actor’s off-set death; delays resulting in a total rewrite of the movie with shift of crew halfway through filming; a repeated face-burning incident; and most notably [=BoJack=] disappearing mid-film and a resulting massive ToneShift of a kind not seen before in Hollywoo. Worse, people bought the bullshit version instead of the reality.

* SoundOnlyDeath: [[InvertedTrope Inverted.]] He’s shown jumping off the John F. Kennedy Bridge and hitting the water, but the only sound heard is the wind and the traffic on the bridge.

[[folder: Dr. Champ]]

A former race horse from TheSeventies (Based on the [[RealLife actual]] [[UsefulNotes/HorseRacing race horse]]) and [=BoJack=]'s personal hero. After being banned from ever racing again for betting on his races, he commits suicide by jumping off a bridge.

* BrokenWinLossStreak: The race against "Giant Hearted" Sham, as presented in the {{Biopic}}, was the first race of many that Secretariat lost and is considered the beginning of his downfall.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: {{Implied}} with his commentary of "not having had a happy childhood" in response to a fan letter sent by Bojack in [[TheSeventies 1973]].

Ehmm...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin is it really necessary to explain this one]]? Ok, Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States of America, governing from 1969 to 1974, year in which he resigned from office. As it turns out, he had another shady dealing, this time with Secretariat, about a certain drafting...

* AnimalCompanion: Just like his RealLife counterpart, he still has Checkers on his side. Although as his bodyguard rather than a pet.