History Characters / CalvinAndHobbesCalvin

* EntertainmentAboveTheirAge: In an early strip, when he's sick in bed, he watches a soap opera where two lovers are meeting for a secret tryst (with the woman wearing a skimpy negligee) and discuss murdering their spouses to be together. He comments, "Sometimes, I think I learn more when I stay home from school."

* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: He will often be reprimanded or even punished for things, which he would swear are out of his control.

* DontLookAtMe: Despite being a massive AttentionWhore, he hates having his picture taken. Whenever his parents try to take a photo of him, he'll always ruin it by making an ugly face.

* WeirdnessMagnet: Assuming it's not actually all happening in his imagination, lots of strange events happen to Calvin, and only Calvin, without rhyme or reason. He's been abducted by aliens at least three times, replaced by a robot replication, he once grew larger than the Milky Way galaxy, gravity stopped working on him twice, inanimate objects like soap, baseballs, and piles of dead leaves have tried to kill him, he shrinks to bug-size on a semi-regular basis, and his best friend is a talking anthropomorphic tiger who appears as a stuffed animal from everyone else's perspective.

* WeirdnessMagnet: Assuming it's not actually all happening in his imagination, lots of strange events happen to Calvin, and only Calvin, without rhyme or reason. He's been abducted by aliens at least three times, replaced by a robot replication, he once grew larger than the Milky Way galaxy, gravity stopped working on him twice, inanimate objects like soap, baseballs, and piles of dead leaves have tried to kill him, he shrinks to bug-size on a semi-regular basis, and his best friend is a talking anthropomorphic tiger.

* KidsAreCruel: When he's not being the victim of this trope, Calvin himself can be quite the bully towards Susie.

** Calvin has to collect fifty leaves for school, and is given two weeks to do it, but puts it off until the evening before it's due. He is able to get two aliens to collect the leaves for him, but to everyone else the "alien" leaves just look like maple leaves cut into weird shapes and he flunks the project. He complains it was a totally pointless project anyway because identifying leaves is completely useless knowledge, picking up a random leafy branch for emphasis. Then Hobbes points out the plant he's holding is poison sumac.

* CasualDangerDialogue: He never breaks from his flowery smilies even when he's being held at gunpoint or in the middle of a beatdown by some hired goon. Justified, since the "danger" is only happening in Calvin's imagination.

* TheAntiRoleModel: It's safe to assume that everything Calvin does, you should not. While generally kind and absolutely intelligent, he's also demanding, self-absorbed, book-dumb, impulsive, greedy, and quick to anger.

** PlayedForLaughs when he says his alter-ego is "mild-mannered" Calvin. Calvin is a lot of things but "mild-mannered" is not one of them.

* ClicheStorm: Calvin's alter egos are very straightforward in their intentions. Tracer Bullet is a stock FilmNoir detective, Spaceman Spiff is a RaygunGothic superhero, and Stupendous Man is a straightforward SuperHero. The only exceptions with any of them is that they're frequently depicted as {{Failure Hero}}es because of Calvin coming up short. The trope is invoked, because this is all Calvin knows about any of these genres.[[invoked]]

* ClicheStorm: Calvin's alter egos are very straightforward in their intentions. Tracer Bullet is a stock FilmNoir detective, Spaceman Spiff is a RaygunGothic superhero, and Stupendous Man is a straightforward SuperHero. The only exceptions with any of them is that they're frequently depicted as {{Failure Hero}}es because of Calvin coming up short. The trope is invoked, because this is all Calvin known about any of these genres.[[invoked]]

* TrashOfTheTitans: His room is always a complete mess, and unsurprisingly, his mom is always telling him to clean it. In one strip, he imagines himself as a jungle explorer who gets grabbed by a gorilla, who tells him to clean his room. Cut back to reality and Mom says, "You heard me. It's a jungle in there!"

* AllTakeAndNoGive: His quote on the main page sums it up: " I don't want to pay any dues in life. I want to be a one-in-a-million, overnight success! I want the world handed to me on a silver platter!"