History Characters / CraigOfTheCreekStumpTrio

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Closed captions originally spelled his name "Mortim'''e'''r".

* CatSmile: She's often seen with one.

* ThreeAmigos: Three inseparable friends.

* KiddieKid: He's ten, but he acts very immature for the average kid his age.

* {{MacGyvering}}: When it comes to adventures around the Creek they mostly rely on the stuff they find there (mostly Craig).

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Kelsey has this dynamic with both boys on the team. Kelsey is a [[{{Tomboy}} tomboy]] who views herself as a fearless warrior. Craig has shown signs of being InTouchWithHisFeminineSide and J.P. is a happy, cheerful, and friendly KiddieKid.

* ICallHerVera: Has called her sword things like and "Li'l Stabby".

** Beauty - J.P., the most imaginative, soft-spoken, compassionate, non-threatening and optimistic of the trio.
** Brains - Craig, the most strategic, inventive and go-getter member of the trio who's always making the maps, fixing problems, finding solutions and coming up with plans on how to save the day or have fun at the creek. [[note]]He could also be considered the "Brains" of his other friend group (The Ice Pop trio, another TwoGuysAndAGirl example) where as [[MagicalGirlWarrior Sparkle]] [[ThePollyanna Cadet]] is the "Beauty" and [[BadassBiker Cannonball]] is the "Brawn".[[/note]]
** Brawn - Kelsey, a fiery, aggressive and brash tomboy who's always looking for an excuse to fight. Same with Omar if you count him as the fifth member of the Stump Kids.

* {{Expy}}: At one point, Barry of the Elders of the Creek points out that trio resembles ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''. J.P. is like Ed (both are unintelligent, and both are the tallest of their respective trios), Craig is like Edd (both are the smart ones), and Kelsey is like Eddy (both are the shortest of their groups and both are short-tempered).

* IconicItem: Each of the kids has their own iconic accessory. Craig has his staff, Kelsey has her sword and J.P. has his oversized jersey.

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Kelsey has this dynamic with both boys of the team. Kelsey is a [[{{Tomboy}} tomboy]] who views herself as a fearless warrior. Craig has shown signs of being InTouchWithHisFeminineSide and J.P. is a happy, cheerful and friendly KiddieKid.

The series' title character, a 9-year-old boy who enjoys exploring his neighborhood creek.

** At the start of season 4, "Beyond the Overpass", Craig once again develops an inflated ego and tries to ride out being the "Hero who saved the Creek" from King Xavier, wanting to get hero discounts from Kit and general acknowledgement from everyone for saving the day. This passes by the end of the episode, when a group of previously banned rollerblader kids actually do thank Craig for his efforts.

* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: Craig is a smart, creative, and a good student, and his head is meant to be shaped like a brain.

** One of his favorite past-times involve reading "Slide the Ferret" comics and playing video games.
* BlatantLies: In "Escape from Family Dinner" he lies and says that he has become a vegetarian and thusly cannot eat what was being served for dinner (steaks). His mother believes him until he decides to bring something suitable to eat before heading to the creek and grabs a chicken leg from the refrigerator.

* CharacterTics: Craig is particular about his "tootsies" (feet). He has special stompy slippers, and bags his shoes to keep them dry while in the water.

* TheDitherer: One of his flaws is that he has a difficult time with decision making. This stemmed from [[spoiler: ruining a weekend with his grandparents and siblings after choosing a court drama movie to watch - not realizing that it would be boring because of its [[CoversAlwaysLie promising and misleading cover art]]]].

* DudeWheresMyRespect: After the Capture the Flag event, Craig tries to get appreciation from the kids at the Creek (and Jessica), except no one gives him any ranging from being too busy to trying to get respect from the wrong people (except for the Roller Bladers on the other side, who kick start the quest to find Kenneth's cube pieces).

** Finesse, after being too-slowed when going to give Keun Sup a handshake.

* GoodWithNumbers: He's gets placed in an advanced math class, which he enjoys, but he admits that he finds the material to be pretty hard.

* IdenticalGrandson: He and his grandpa Earl have the same peanut shaped head, a trait that seemed to skip both of his sons.

** In Operation Hive-Mind he gets a fuchsia-colored splint for his bee-stung finger as he mentions fuchsia is his favorite color. Fuchsia technically falls under pink which is seen as more of a "girly" shade to modern times.
* ItsAllAboutMe: In "Tea Timer's Ball", he is disappointed to learn the party wasn't about Eliza trying to get revenge on him (but rather the Sailor Boy because he didn't invite her to his family's yatch party because he couldn't invite more than 2 friends). Craig is happy to learn [[SkewedPriorities he still has people who want to take their revenge on him, though.]]

* ObliviousToLove: Towards [[spoiler: Wildernessa, somewhat justified as when she tells him how she feels about him in "Breaking the Ice", she expresses it in animal-like way with her birdlike mating dance]].

* TheOnlyOneITrust: "Puppy Love" reveals he's this to Wildernessa. She only contacts Craig and wants to talk to him alone to tell him Cheesesticks ran away because she trusts him and she's worried Kelsey and J.P. would think less of her for losing Cheesesticks. Although it justified since Wildernessa doesn't have a lot of human friends and she mostly interacts with the Stump Trio, and she's more open to Craig after the events of "Breaking the Ice".

* RedBaron: In "The Other Side" when King Xavier asks who he is, Craig refers to himself as "Craig of the Creek", which the Xavier refers to him as from then on.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: While he has not worn it since then early on in the series his mother gave him one of her old scarfs to serve this role to his Creek Clothes.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: "Vulture's Nest" shows he's terrified of vultures, after one attacked him for going near its nest at an abandoned barn. He gets over this fear after Bad Moves invites him and his friends to give a performance at their concert in said abandoned barn, and their song manages to intimidate that same vulture.

One of Craig's friends, an 8-year-old only child and fan of fantasy. Never goes anywhere without her parakeet, Mortimor.

* BadassAdorable: Is a tiny 8 year old girl and fierce warrior.

* BoisterousWeakling: Kelsey thinks herself a warrior and will readily try to solve problems with force. This usually only works against kids either intimidated by her willingness to fight, or willing to ''play'' fight in response. Otherwise she tends to get subdued rather easily.

* ButtMonkey: Half the time, whenever she picks fights within reason, it’s either with the wrong kids or at the wrong opportunity which could result to her injuries or embarrassment.

* ChronicPetKiller: Kelsey had thirty-seven pet birds, all of which have died. She reassures Mortimor, the thirty-eighth, that things will be different with him. Cue ominous close-up on Mortimor.

* HeightAngst: She punches JP in the ribs when he cracks a joke about her height, and gets angry at younger kids who assume she's their age.

* ICallHerVera: Has called her sword things like "Tubinator" and "Li'l Stabby".

* PipePain: In a less-lethal variant, Kelsey uses a prop sword made from a ''plastic'' pipe. Less dangerous than a real sword or metal pipe, but [[MyLittlePanzer still quite capable of breaking thing]]. It even gets taken away for an episode when she accidentally breaks a hole in a wall. The show's staff actually made a replica and were surprised how heavy it was.%%What A Cartoon podcast, "Craig of the Creek"
* PuppyLove: She's implied have a crush on Wildernessa a few times. [[spoiler:Later on, she has ShipTease with Stacks that becomes a real romantic relationship in "Fire and Ice"]].

* VocalEvolution: Her voice sounded younger in earlier episodes to the way she sounds now.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Very distractible, will believe any bizarre idea as soon as it is proposed, has to be reminded to keep his clothes on...

* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: He has a spare key to Craig's house in case of an emergency for when the kids are locked out, except he regularly enters the house when the family is out, much to Laura's dismay and Craig's, Jessica's, and Bernard's chagrin.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Downplayed. While the trio are all kids, "Sunday Clothes" reveals that J.P. is in middle school while Craig and Kelsey are in elementary school, but he doesn't look much older than either of his friends.

* VibrantOrange: He wears an orange jersey, has orange hair and is also very playful and fun-loving.

Kelsey's pet parakeet that usually stays on her head.

* AnthropomorphicShift: In the earliest episodes, Mortimor was completely animal-like. Over the course of the first season, he began to emote using his wings like hands and react to human speech as if he understood it. In "Mortimor to the Rescue", he is mostly human in thought-process, and has bursts of overtly human body language.

* FeatherFingers: Mortimor often uses his wings like hands to emote, though not to manipulate objects. Most blatantly, he gives Craig a thumbs-up near the end of “The Curse.”

* LivingProp: Originally, Mortimor had no character than just being Kelsey's small pet bird, though Kelsey sometimes exaggerated about his abilities. As episodes progress he has been shown to have subtle traces of personality and desires such as shaking his head "No" and rampaging on Craig's bug city. In "Secret In A Bottle", Kelsey even expresses displeasure on how Craig and J.P. don't consider Mortimor as an official member of the team.

* StealthPun: Being portrayed as being Kelsey's pet mouse rather than a bird in Alternate Creekiverse is thought to be a play on how Disney's Mickey Mouse was originally planned to be known as Mortimer.

** Mis-Snake, after accidentally injuring a girl with a toy snake.

* AmbiguouslyJewish: Says she's able to recognize and read cursive due to her "[[YiddishAsASecondLanguage bubbe]]" (grandmother). [[AllThereInTheManual Made explicit]] in a [[https://twitter.com/cartoonnetwork/status/1376210722938630148/ Passover tweet]] from Cartoon Network.

* PuppyLove: She's implied have a crush on Wildernessa a few times. [[spoiler:Later on, she has ShipTease with Stacks and they confess to one another in "Fire and Ice"]].

* ImageSong: Gets one in "[=JPony=]" called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoOTm3poxGE "Do The J.P"]]

* SkintoneSclerae: Unlike most of the other characters, he and his sister have skin-toned whites. Though "Jextra Perrestrial" seems to imply that they're actually black/deep grey (provided they're not the irises). He later straight up claims he has no "whites" in the eyes.

* EmpathyPet: Mimics Kelsey expressions or body language in some episodes.

** In Adventures in Baby Casino, Craig is also good at Tic-Tac-Toe, thanks to a corner method he uses to win.

** ''Ace of Squares'' sees Craig develop an inflated ego after dethroning the previous [[VictoryGloating Ace of Four Square]]. Because the kids of the Creek spend the next day talking trash to him about wanting to beat him, Craig decides to return the taunting in kind and starts playing dirty.