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* OnlySaneMan: Is stated to be this by Welling in at least one [[https://www.chicagotribune.com/2003/12/29/no-funny-no-problem/ interview,]] saying: "I'm about the only one in the film who isn't funny ... Everybody else is coming from an angle of excitement. The kids are excited because they're getting toys. Dad's getting a new job. Mom's got a new book. My character is the only one who sits back and says, 'Wait a minute, I think we're getting a little ahead of ourselves.'"
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* RedIsHeroic: Wears a bright red Midland baseball cap in most of his scenes - and insists on wearing it even after being told not to following they move to Evanston.

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* RedIsHeroic: Wears a bright red Midland baseball cap in most of his scenes - and insists on wearing it even after being told not to following they move when he moves to Evanston.
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* BreakTheCutie: Rare example for a male character. Charlie starts out as a good-natured and friendly kid who gets transported to a new city and goes to a school where he's actively singled out for bullying. He remains relatively stoic throughout most of the harassment, but the corn-in-the-locker prank appears to be his breaking point as he can be seen welling up like he's trying to fight back tears.
* RedIsHeroic: Wears a bright red Midland baseball cap in most of his scenes, and insists on wearing it even after being told not to following the movie to Evanston.

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* BreakTheCutie: Rare example for a male character. Charlie starts out as a good-natured and friendly kid who gets transported to a new city and goes to a school where he's actively singled out for bullying. He remains relatively stoic throughout most of the harassment, but the corn-in-the-locker prank appears to be his breaking point as he can be seen welling tearing up like he's trying not to fight back tears.start crying.
* RedIsHeroic: Wears a bright red Midland baseball cap in most of his scenes, scenes - and insists on wearing it even after being told not to following the movie they move to Evanston.
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* RedIsHeroic: Wears a bright red Midland baseball cap in most of his scenes, and insists on wearing it even after being told not to following the movie to Evanston.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: Tina, who is over-protective of Dylan and is not fond of him playing with the Bakers, the main characters of the film. She initially started out as the Bakers' new next-door neighbors, but soon she became a more prominent character. As she, her husband and son are approaching the new Baker house, she notices cartons and cups on the dashboard of the Baker van and looks down on them rudely calling them fast food people. She was rather surprised that the Bakers had twelve kids, and was appalled when Dylan played hockey with them indoors. Tina thinks that the Baker kids will end up on milk cartons and even makes Dylan's birthday party fancy instead of normal (despite having a bouncy castle for the kids). After Dylan is landed in the hospital after the Baker kids ruin his birthday party while they snuck out of the house being grounded and Tom Baker falls on him, Tina furiously tells him his kids can no longer play with Dylan and angrily rants about them. So there you have it, particularly ever since the birthday incident, and even before that, Tina starts to form and develop hatred towards the Bakers.

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* AdaptationalJerkass: Tina, who is over-protective of Dylan and is not fond of him playing with the Bakers, the main characters of the film. She initially started out as the Bakers' new next-door neighbors, but soon she became a more prominent character. As she, her husband and son are approaching the new Baker house, she notices cartons and cups on the dashboard of the Baker van and looks down on them rudely calling them fast food people. She was rather surprised that the Bakers had twelve kids, and was appalled when Dylan played hockey with them indoors. Tina thinks that the Baker kids will end up on milk cartons and even makes Dylan's birthday party fancy instead of normal (despite having a bouncy castle for the kids). After Dylan is landed in the hospital after the Baker kids ruin his birthday party while they snuck out of the house being grounded and Tom Baker falls on him, Tina furiously tells him his kids can no longer play with Dylan and angrily rants about them. So there you have it, it folks, particularly ever since the birthday incident, and even before that, Tina starts to form and develop hatred towards the Bakers.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: Tina, who is over-protective of Dylan and is not fond of him playing with the Bakers, the main characters of the film. She initially started out as the Bakers' new next-door neighbors, but soon she became a more prominent character. As she, her husband and son are approaching the new Baker house, she notices cartons and cups on the dashboard of the Baker van and looks down on them rudely calling them fast food people. She was rather surprised that the Bakers had twelve kids, and was appalled when Dylan played hockey with them indoors. Tina thinks that the Baker kids will end up on milk cartons and even makes Dylan's birthday party fancy instead of normal (despite having a bouncy castle for the kids). After Dylan is landed in the hospital after the Baker kids ruin his birthday party while they snuck out of the house being grounded and Tom Baker falls on him, Tina furiously tells him his kids can no longer play with Dylan and angrily rants about them.

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* AdaptationalJerkass: Tina, who is over-protective of Dylan and is not fond of him playing with the Bakers, the main characters of the film. She initially started out as the Bakers' new next-door neighbors, but soon she became a more prominent character. As she, her husband and son are approaching the new Baker house, she notices cartons and cups on the dashboard of the Baker van and looks down on them rudely calling them fast food people. She was rather surprised that the Bakers had twelve kids, and was appalled when Dylan played hockey with them indoors. Tina thinks that the Baker kids will end up on milk cartons and even makes Dylan's birthday party fancy instead of normal (despite having a bouncy castle for the kids). After Dylan is landed in the hospital after the Baker kids ruin his birthday party while they snuck out of the house being grounded and Tom Baker falls on him, Tina furiously tells him his kids can no longer play with Dylan and angrily rants about them. So there you have it, particularly ever since the birthday incident, and even before that, Tina starts to form and develop hatred towards the Bakers.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: Tina, who is over-protective of Dylan and is not fond of him playing with the Bakers, the main characters of the film. She initially started out as the Bakers' new next-door neighbors, but soon she became a more prominent character. As she, her husband and son are approaching the new Baker house, she notices cartons and cups on the dashboard of the Baker van and looks down on them rudely calling them fast food people. She was rather surprised that the Bakers had twelve kids, and was appalled when Dylan played hockey with them indoors. Tina thinks that the Baker kids will end up on milk cartons and even makes Dylan's birthday party fancy instead of normal. After Dylan is landed in the hospital after the Baker kids ruin his birthday party while they snuck out of the house being grounded and Tom Baker falls on him, Tina furiously tells him his kids can no longer play with Dylan and angrily rants about them.

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* AdaptationalJerkass: Tina, who is over-protective of Dylan and is not fond of him playing with the Bakers, the main characters of the film. She initially started out as the Bakers' new next-door neighbors, but soon she became a more prominent character. As she, her husband and son are approaching the new Baker house, she notices cartons and cups on the dashboard of the Baker van and looks down on them rudely calling them fast food people. She was rather surprised that the Bakers had twelve kids, and was appalled when Dylan played hockey with them indoors. Tina thinks that the Baker kids will end up on milk cartons and even makes Dylan's birthday party fancy instead of normal.normal (despite having a bouncy castle for the kids). After Dylan is landed in the hospital after the Baker kids ruin his birthday party while they snuck out of the house being grounded and Tom Baker falls on him, Tina furiously tells him his kids can no longer play with Dylan and angrily rants about them.
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* AdapationalJerkass: Tina, who is not actually evil, but she is over-protective of Dylan and is not fond of him playing with the Bakers, the main characters of the film. She initially started out as the Bakers new next-door neighbors, but soon she became a more prominent character. As she, her husband and son are approaching the new Baker house, she notices cartons and cups on the dashboard of the Baker van and looks down on them rudely calling them fast food people. She was rather surprised that the Bakers had twelve kids, and was appalled when Dylan played hockey with them indoors. Tina thinks that the Baker kids will end up on milk cartons and even makes Dylan's birthday party fancy instead of normal. After Dylan is landed in the hospital after the Baker kids ruin his birthday party while they snuck out of the house being grounded and Tom Baker falls on him, Tina furiously tells him his kids can no longer play with Dylan and angrily rants about them.

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* AdapationalJerkass: AdaptationalJerkass: Tina, who is not actually evil, but she is over-protective of Dylan and is not fond of him playing with the Bakers, the main characters of the film. She initially started out as the Bakers Bakers' new next-door neighbors, but soon she became a more prominent character. As she, her husband and son are approaching the new Baker house, she notices cartons and cups on the dashboard of the Baker van and looks down on them rudely calling them fast food people. She was rather surprised that the Bakers had twelve kids, and was appalled when Dylan played hockey with them indoors. Tina thinks that the Baker kids will end up on milk cartons and even makes Dylan's birthday party fancy instead of normal. After Dylan is landed in the hospital after the Baker kids ruin his birthday party while they snuck out of the house being grounded and Tom Baker falls on him, Tina furiously tells him his kids can no longer play with Dylan and angrily rants about them.

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* AdapationalJerkass: Tina, who is not actually evil, but she is over-protective of Dylan and is not fond of him playing with the Bakers, the main characters of the film. She initially started out as the Bakers new next-door neighbors, but soon she became a more prominent character. As she, her husband and son are approaching the new Baker house, she notices cartons and cups on the dashboard of the Baker van and looks down on them rudely calling them fast food people. She was rather surprised that the Bakers had twelve kids, and was appalled when Dylan played hockey with them indoors. Tina thinks that the Baker kids will end up on milk cartons and even makes Dylan's birthday party fancy instead of normal. After Dylan is landed in the hospital after the Baker kids ruin his birthday party while they snuck out of the house being grounded and Tom Baker falls on him, Tina furiously tells him his kids can no longer play with Dylan and angrily rants about them.



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* InsultBackfire: When Mark, one of the Baker kids, runs away, Tina rudely says that she knew "One of their kids would fall on a milk carton." And says that 12 is too big a number. She then says that they'll never find him and to let the police handle it, but Kate replies that they will, because "Like you said, 12's a big number."
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* LonelyRichKid: Dylan's family is very well off and his parents throw him a ridiculously lavish birthday party instead of a normal one with party hats, cake, or even a clown. He loves the company of the Baker kids and wants to have siblings.

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* LonelyRichKid: Dylan's family is very well off and his parents throw him a ridiculously lavish birthday party instead of a normal one with party hats, cake, or even a clown. He loves the company of the Baker kids and wants to have siblings.siblings, but his mother won't let him.
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* LonelyRichKid: Dylan's family is very well off and his parents throw him a ridiculously lavish birthday party instead of a normal one with party hats, cake, or even a clown. He loves the company of the Baker kids and really wants to have siblings, but his mother won't let him.

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* LonelyRichKid: Dylan's family is very well off and his parents throw him a ridiculously lavish birthday party instead of a normal one with party hats, cake, or even a clown. He loves the company of the Baker kids and really wants to have siblings, but his mother won't let him.siblings.
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* LonelyRichKid: Dylan's family is very well off and his parents throw him a ridiculously lavish birthday party instead of a normal one with party hats, cake, and/or even a clown. He loves the company of the Baker kids and would really want to have siblings of his own, but his mother won't let him.

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* LonelyRichKid: Dylan's family is very well off and his parents throw him a ridiculously lavish birthday party instead of a normal one with party hats, cake, and/or or even a clown. He loves the company of the Baker kids and would really want wants to have siblings of his own, siblings, but his mother won't let him.
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* LonelyRichKid: Dylan's family is very well off and his parents throw him a ridiculously lavish birthday party instead of a normal one with party hats, cake, and/or even a clown. He loves the company of the Baker kids and really wants to have siblings, but his mother won't let him.

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* LonelyRichKid: Dylan's family is very well off and his parents throw him a ridiculously lavish birthday party instead of a normal one with party hats, cake, and/or even a clown. He loves the company of the Baker kids and would really wants want to have siblings, siblings of his own, but his mother won't let him. him.
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* LonelyRichKid: Dylan's family is very well off and his parents throw him a ridiculously lavish birthday party instead of a normal one with party hats, cake, and/or even a clown. He loves the company of the Baker kids and wants to have siblings.

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* LonelyRichKid: Dylan's family is very well off and his parents throw him a ridiculously lavish birthday party instead of a normal one with party hats, cake, and/or even a clown. He loves the company of the Baker kids and really wants to have siblings.siblings, but his mother won't let him.
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* LonelyRichKid: Dylan's family is very well off and his parents throw him a ridiculously lavish birthday party. He loves the company of the Baker kids and wants to have siblings.

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* LonelyRichKid: Dylan's family is very well off and his parents throw him a ridiculously lavish birthday party.party instead of a normal one with party hats, cake, and/or even a clown. He loves the company of the Baker kids and wants to have siblings.
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* BreakTheCutie: Rare example for a male character. Charlie starts out as a good-natured and friendly kid who gets transported to a new city and goes to a school where he's actively singled out for bullying. He remains relatively stoic throughout most of the harassment, but the corn-in-the-locker prank appears to be his breaking point as he can be seen welling up like he's trying to fight back tears.
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* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Hypocrite Hypocrite]]: Laughs at Hank after the dog starts chewing out his junk as part of his siblings' prank (and doesn't express any disapproval of it later), but is extremely sensitive to even light teasing from his teammates, never mind the full-on prank that comes later.

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* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Hypocrite Hypocrite]]: {{Hypocrite}}: Laughs at Hank after the dog starts chewing out his junk as part of his siblings' prank (and doesn't express any disapproval of it later), but is extremely sensitive to even light teasing from his teammates, never mind the full-on prank that comes later.
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* BrattyHalfPint: Very much so.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Often clashes with Lorraine.
* ThePrankster
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* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Hypocrite Hypocrite]]: Laughs at Hank after the dog starts chewing out his junk as part of his siblings' prank (and doesn't express any disapproval of it later), but is extremely sensitive to even light teasing from his teammates, never mind the full-on prank that comes later.
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* {{Jerkass}}: She would rather choose her boyfriend over her family. Luckily she changes though.

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* {{Jerkass}}: LoveMakesYouDumb: She would rather choose ignores all the warning signs that Hank isn't the guy for her, in part because of love and in part because she needs him to assert her boyfriend over independence from her family. Luckily Fortunately, she changes though.later dumps him.



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* TheFashionista TheFashionista: It is her life's ambition to become a "style guru", and she helps her mother dress for an interview.
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!!!Jake Baker (Jacob Smith)

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!!!Mark Baker (Forrest Landis)

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!!!Mark Baker (Forrest Landis)(Creator/ForrestLandis)



!!!Jessica & Kim Baker (Creator/LilianaMumy and Morgan York)

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!!The Bakers
!!!Tom Baker (Creator/SteveMartin)
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* BumblingDad
* FamilyMan
* HappilyMarried: To Kate.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: His new coaching job means he has to spend less time with his kids.

!!!Kate Gilbreth-Baker (Creator/BonnieHunt)
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Was forced to grow up without her sister, who died when she was still a child.
* GoodParents
* HappilyMarried: To Tom.
* {{Housewife}}

!!!Nora Baker-[=McNulty=] (Creator/PiperPerabo)
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* CoolBigSis: Everyone sees her as this.
* HappilyMarried: To Bud in the sequel.
* {{Jerkass}}: She would rather choose her boyfriend over her family. Luckily she changes though.
* OnlySaneWoman: She is this to her family.

!!!Charlie Baker (Creator/TomWelling)
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* AloofBigBrother: Becomes this after the family moves because he's miserable at his new high school.
* CoolBigBro: Is this initially, especially to Henry.

!!!Lorraine Baker (Music/HilaryDuff)
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* BigSisterInstinct: She has this for Sarah.
* TheFashionista
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Often clashes with Sarah.

!!!Henry Baker (Creator/KevinGSchmidt)
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* BigBrotherWorship: He has this for Charlie.

!!!Sarah Baker (Creator/AlysonStoner)
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* BrattyHalfPint: Very much so.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Often clashes with Lorraine.
* ThePrankster
* {{Tomboy}}

!!!Jake Baker (Jacob Smith)
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Has this for Mark after he learns the latter is being bullied.
* OutOfFocus

!!!Mark Baker (Forrest Landis)
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* BlackSheep: None of the other kids seem to like him and he's often ignored by his parents, causing him to feel neglected and, eventually, run away from home.
* DemotedToExtra: Mark is the most visible of the younger children, in the sequel he gets a lot less to do.
* FriendToAllLivingThings
* NerdGlasses

!!!Jessica & Kim Baker (Creator/LilianaMumy and Morgan York)
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* FinishingEachOthersSentences
* TwinBanter

!!!Mike Baker (Blake Woodruff)
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* OutOfFocus

!!!Nigel & Kyle Baker (Brent and Shane Kinsman)
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* CoordinatedClothes
* TricksterTwins

!!First Movie Supporting Characters
%%!!!Shake [=McGuire=] (Creator/RichardJenkins)
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%%* PhraseCatcher: "What a hotdog!"
%%!!Hank (Creator/AshtonKutcher)
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!!!The Shenks
Played by Steven Anthony Lawerence (Dylan), Paula Marshall (Tina) and Alan Ruck (Bill)
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* HenpeckedHusband: Bill doesn't offer much resistance to Tina's usually domineering style of parenting, and it is subtly implied that he would've happily had more children if Tina had willed it. It's when one of the Baker children go missing though that he ignores Tina and offers whatever help he can.
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* LonelyRichKid: Dylan's family is very well off and his parents throw him a ridiculously lavish birthday party. He loves the company of the Baker kids and wants to have siblings.
* NiceGuy: Bill is nice, having a much more open mind towards the Bakers than Tina. When she straight up refuses to help the family find Mark, Bill and Dylan immediately volunteer regardless of Tina's protests.
* SiblingsWanted: Dylan desperately wants to have siblings, but his mother refuses to have any more.


!!Second Movie Characters
%%!!!Bud [=McNulty=] (Johnathan Bennett)
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%%* HappilyMarried: To Nora.

%%!!!Jimmy Murtaugh (Creator/EugeneLevy)
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%%* BigOlEyebrows: As per Eugene Levy.

!!!Sarina Murtaugh (Carmen Electra)
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* HiddenDepths: She is initially presented as Jimmy's DumbBlonde trophy wife, but she truly wants to be a good mother to her stepkids. When she sees the wedge that Jimmy's pressuring and obsession with upping Tom is driving between himself and his kids, she sets him straight.

!!!Eliot Murtaugh (Creator/TaylorLautner)
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* DatingWhatDaddyHates: He goes on a date with Sarah Baker, only to be interfered by her father.
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