History Characters / DextersLaboratory

* BarbarianLongHair: Reaches Down to the small ofhis back
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: His system of ethics is basically go to planet, fight champions and blow the up to spare them of their disgrace.
* ChallengeSeeker: His main MO throughout his intergalactic travels. He seeks to find his WorthyOpponent, going planet to planet defeating each champion. If any world fails to produce a worthy adversary, he blows it up.

%%* BlueandOrangeMorality

* BadassMustache[=/=]EyepatchOfPower: Has a mustache, wears an eyepatch, and is in charge of both Honeydew and Monkey.

* BlueandOrangeMorality

* BadassBeard: And in the episode in which he is introduced, he and Dexter (who had obtained his own beard through [[HollywoodScience SCIENCE]]) [[PrehensileHair join beards to fight criminals]]).

->Voiced by: Eddie Deezen

* CatchPhrase: "Dee Dee get out of my [[AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle lab-OR-a-tory!"]]
* TheChewToy: He suffers this greatly in alot of crazy forms. For example, his entire lab is completely destroyed, the earth is destroyed, Dexter is turned into a sandwich, etc. He also gets into big trouble from his mom and dad as well. Especially his backbone-lacking teenage/young adult self in "Ego Trip", who works for Mandark designing cubicles in the future.

* DitzyGenius: He's able to time-travel, create robots and build portals to other dimensions, but is utterly incapable of taking care of himself for a single day when his mom is sick. He doesn't know how to cook (having never heard of "flour"), and as for cleaning... Also why would he put buttons and triggers in places Dee-Dee would obviously activates. In general, what he has in scientific smarts, he lacks in common sense.

** His devotion to science. He will sometimes employ convoluted scientific methods to achieve his goals, often overlooking more simple solutions that would be unlikely to blow up in his face.

%%* TheFinickyOne

* GoodIsNotNice: He's an egotistical jerk, but undeniably a good person.

* HerrDoktor: Dexter is a MadScientist with a German accent — made more blatant (and funny) since none of his family has any accent or gives any indication they have any German ancestry

* NotSoAboveItAll: Dexter often participates in the foolishness of not only Dee-Dee, but the other kids his age. Justified, considering that despite him being more intelligent than his ppers, he is still a child.

%% * OnlySaneMan:

* DependingOnTheWriter:
** Gets hit with this pretty bad. How nice or annoying she is varies wildly from episode to episode. In some episodes, she's rather innocent and her destructive tendencies are accidental and due to playful clumsiness. In others, she's far more malicious and intentionally antagonistic.
** She flip-flops from stupid to a StraightMan for Dexter.

** Slightly related- she got frustrated by a bunch of shoe gnomes who all tried to immortalize her feet when she bared them in the act of trying on their shoes.
** She also stomped an oversized amount of laundry into a washing machine shoeless.

* ParentalObliviousness: It's amazing how he, along with Mom haven't figured out that the lab exists.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Her obsession with cleanliness goes beyond what is healthy.

* NeatFreak: The episode "Pslyghtly Psycho" suggests that she is actually germophobic, particularly when her gloves and slippers are removed and she finds herself afraid to even set foot on the carpet barefoot.

* ParentalObliviousness: It's amazing how she, along with Dad haven't figured out that the lab exists.

* FreudianExcuse: His parents were people perpetually stuck in the 60's summer of love (i.e. hippies) and constantly stifled his scientific curiosity. He tried his best to go along with it, but one chance meeting with Dexter on the day he moved into the neighborhood ended with Dexter laughing in his face. Needless to say that was the straw that broke the camel's back. PlayedWith. He was shown to have always been born with a negative disposition and his parents really didn't understand him though when they did realized they were denying some of his needs, they left their home and traveled around, eventually settling in Dexter's neighborhood.

%%* BadassMustache

* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: When Huntor's technology completely counteracts Monkey's powers, Monkey defeats the villain using only his skills, brains, and - uh - guerilla tactics.

* InterspeciesRomance: He is often paired with his sidekick and girlfriend Agent Honeydew on his missions who he cares about deeply and appears to posses a psychic link with her.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:In her second appearance, due to falling in love with Monkey]].

* SamusIsAGirl: [[spoiler:Implied in her second appearance; she and Monkey not only fall in love, but she lays an egg. So she's either a girl or a MrSeahorse]].

%%* FreudianExcuse

* EasilyForgiven: As far as any of his fellow imaginary beings are aware, he socked the king of Koosland in the face, took his crown, and kissed the queen. The king immediately forgives him for it.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Dee Dee adores him, but Dexter's justifiably annoyed by him and he's resoundingly disliked in the Land of Koos. He makes a brief cameo in the Powerpuff Girls, where nobody likes him except Bubbles.

* FreudianExcuse: See HenpeckedHusband.

* DisproportionateRetribution: His hatred and obsession with ruining Dexter is later revealed to have stemmed from their first meeting, where Dexter laughed at his EmbarrassingFirstName. To punctuate this, [[ForMeItWasTuesday Dexter doesn't even seem to recognise Mandark the second time they meet.]]

* BadBoss: His young adult self in TheMovie, who punishes one of his employees (Dexter) for almost being late by lashing him in front of the other workers.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: He had telepathy is his first appearance, an ability that was never brought up again.

* {{Flanderization}}: Became more and more like a stereotypical EvilGenius as time went on. He was just originally portrayed as Dexter's rival and at best, just wanted his lab shut down. Suddenly it went from that to trying to take over the world. To a lesser extent, his crush on Dee-Dee.

* VillainousCrossdresser: Once Mandark replaced Dexter's mom. No one in the family noticed it, until the real mom came by.

* VillainDecay: When Mandark was introduced first, he was portrayed as being much smarter than Dexter, and his lab was (And still is) even bigger and more impressive than Dexter's; however, after Dee Dee destroyed his lab, Mandark [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter fell to second place,]] [[CantCatchUp and is no longer]] Dexter's equal.

* {{Narcissist}}: He has a ''very'' high opinion of himself. Case in point: in "The Parrot Trap," he built a robotic parrot purely so he could hear it repeat his own self-indulgent praises.

* BigGood: In "Ego Trip". Also in any crossovers with other Cartoon Network franchises, he's either this or the de facto {{Leader}} including Cartoon Cartoon Fridays and FusionFall.

* BigFun: He's a huge and obese creature and really loves to have fun.

* EasilyForgiven: As far as any of his fellow imagery beings are aware, he socked the king of Koosland in the face, took his crown, and kissed the queen. The king immediately forgives him for it.

* EasilyForgiven: As far as anyone's aware, he socked the king of Koosland in the face, took his crown, and kissed the queen. The king immediately forgives him for it.