History Characters / Luca

* AgentPeacock: He's an effeminate narcissist who's obsessed with his appearance and his favorite pink sweater, but he's also a vicious bully who's not afraid of using violence to get to his ends. He's also perfectly able to ''stand up on a moving bicycle'' without losing balance.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: She's proven to be protective of her friends and defensive despite her wacky sense of humor.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Massimo had a daughter with a redheaded woman, whom Giulia got her own fiery curls from.

* RedheadsAreUncool: Downplayed. She's the only redheaded child in Portorosso, but is generally considered "uncool" because Ercole is the town bully and to befriend Giulia would drawn his unwanted attention.
* SoapBoxSadie: She's very smart for her age due to her love of knowledge and considers Ercole a dictator to take down, and is the only one bold enough to not let him walk over her.

* NiceHat: Wears a brown flat cap whenever he goes outside.

** He will also run his hands across his face whenever exasperated about something.

* {{Hypocrite}}: When Giualia offers Luca advice on how to get down the hell, Alberto butts in to point out how bossy he thinks she's being, which is then immediately undercut by him taking control of the handles of Luca's bike himself and driving off down the hill despite both Giulia and Luca's complaints.

* WhatTheHellHero: He calls out Alberto during the climax of the movie for crashing Giulia's bike into the sea, being a KnowNothingKnowItAll and [[{{Gaslight}} gaslighting him by calling him crazy]] when Luca sees his parents in town.

* ElementMotif: Alberto appears to be associated with fire, while ironically being from the ocean, which fits with his HotBlooded tendencies. He bonds with Luca around a campfire at his tower, and it's around the same, weakening fire that Alberto sadly explains how [[spoiler:his own dad abandoned him]]. It's made more prominent in ''WesternAnimation/CiaoAlberto'' when [[WellDoneSonGuy Alberto's insecurities in disappointing]] [[ParentalSubstitute Massimo]] results in the latter's boat catching fire when he accidentally breaks a lantern while trying to catch more fish for him.

* ElementalMotif: Alberto appears to be associated with fire, while ironically being from the ocean, which fits with his HotBlooded tendencies. He bonds with Luca around a campfire at his tower, and it's around the same, weakening fire that Alberto sadly explains how [[spoiler:his own dad abandoned him]]. It's made more prominent in ''WesternAnimation/CiaoAlberto'' when [[WellDoneSonGuy Alberto's insecurities in disappointing]] [[ParentalSubstitute Massimo]] results in the latter's boat catching fire when he accidentally breaks a lantern while trying to catch more fish for him.

* HenpeckedHusband: He generally just goes along with what Daniela wants, including sending Luca away to live with his brother Ugo.

** He tends to run his hands across his face whenever exasperated about something.

* KleptomaniacHero: Alberto's first scene is in the movie's prologue where he discretly steals objects from the boat of two fishermen to add them to his collection.

** In ''WesternAnimation/CiaoAlberto'', he also learns to be more communicative with Alberto.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Massimo was married and had a daughter with a redheaded woman, whom Giulia got her own fiery curls from.

* TheQuietOne: Massimo is not the chattiest person. It can be justified by the fact he was either alone or with the company of adults while Giulia was in Genova in the past years. [[spoiler: Now that Alberto lives with him, the latter aims to break the silence between them by trying to make him proud... Hilarity Ensues]].

* TranquilFury: In ''WesternAnimation/CiaoAlberto'', Massimo remains calm in spite of Alberto's various mistakes when he attempts to help him. [[spoiler:Even when he accidentally sets fire to his boat, all Massimo does is give an angry glare at him, but still keeps it contained.]] It gets deconstructed as his absence of words cause Alberto to expect the worst, which leads to [[TheRunaway attempting to run away]].

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* ButtMonkey: Let's see: Luca has his ear pinched by a crab, gets pranked by Alberto during their first meeting, is dragged on land where he trips multiple times and gets attacked ''twice'' by Machiavelli. He slowly grows out of it the more he gets accustomed to the surface.

* CharacterTics: He tends to bite his lip, mostly when stunned or excited about something.

* ElementalMotif: Alberto appears to be associated with fire, while ironically being from the ocean, which fits with his HotBlooded tendencies. He bonds with Luca around a campfire at his tower, and it's around the same, weakening fire that Alberto sadly explains how [[spoiler:his own dad abandoned him]]. It's made more prominent in {{WesternAnimation/CiaoAlberto}} when [[WellDoneSonGuy Alberto's insecurities in disappointing]] [[ParentalSubstitute Massimo]] results in the latter's boat catching fire when he accidentally breaks a lantern while trying to catch more fish for him.

* LimitedWardrobe: While this is justifiable, Alberto only wears his signature yellow outfit in almost every scene, even ''{{WesternAnimation/CiaoAlberto}}''.

* TantrumThrowing: An offscreen example, but after [[spoiler:Luca betrays him at the beach, a heartbroken Alberto goes back to his tower and trashes his entire human object collection (even the picture he drew of him and Luca). Luca gazes upon the destruction in shock after he follows Alberto to his island]].

* ThrillSeeker: Not only is he bold enough to approach human boats despite the dangers, he loves the adrenaline he gets from rolling down the hill with his makeshift bicycles with Luca, even if he badly falls a couple times, he laughs it out at the fun part of it.

-->'''Alberto''': I'm gonna be the perfect employee. And I'll make Massimo proud!

* IWorkAlone: When Alberto tells Giulia he and Luca are joining her team, she states that she races alone... [[TemptingFate right before the wheel of her cart gets stuck in a crook of the roadway and she requires help from them both to get free]].
* LargeHam: If all her speeches to take down Ercole's "evil empire of injustice" doesn't fit the bill.

* ManicPixieDreamGirl: A platonic version. Sharing her passion of astronomy to Luca pushes him to want to go to school.

* BorrowedCatchphrase: When he reaches the downhill with Giulia's bicycle for the first time, he borrows "Santa Mozzarella!" from her. It indicates how much he and Giulia bonded over the days.

* TheUnmasking: During the Portorosso Cup, Luca [[spoiler:reveals himself in front of the entire town to save Alberto from Ercole]].

* BigBrotherInstinct: Alberto is willing to protect Luca from anyone he tries to hurt, especially Ercole. [[spoiler: Even if that involves publicly revealing that he is a sea monster]].
* BigEater: He identifies himself as this, taking on the pasta-eating portion of the Portorossa Cup for his team as a result.

* CatchPhrase: Screams ''"Andiamo!"'' (Italian for "let's go!") whenever excited or determined about something.

* DidntSeeThatComing: Did ''not'' expect [[spoiler:Luca turning against him, and his identity as a result, at the beach when Alberto reveals himself to Giulia]].
* DramaticIrony: Alberto's [[spoiler: abandonment issues]] cause him to fear losing Luca, so when he [[spoiler: reveals his sea monster form to Giulia, he does so with the motivation of convincing Luca that he can't go to school because of humanity's fear of sea monsters.]] Instead, Luca [[spoiler: pretends to be a scared human to preserve Giulia's image of him, something which Alberto never could have predicted, and, rather than bring Luca closer to him as intended, this only served to damage their relationship even further and lead to their PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure.]] Thankfully, things get better.
** When Luca is training and Giulia offers advice, Alberto butts in to point out how bossy he thinks she's being, which is then immediately undercut by him [[{{Hypocrite}} taking control of the handles of Luca's bike himself and driving off down the hill despite both Giulia and Luca's complaints.]]

* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler: Alberto is officially taken in by Massimo not only as an employee, but as his adoptive son in the credits of ''{{WesternAnimation/Luca}}'', which shows Alberto referring to Massimo as his "dad" on a picture of them]].

* IronicName: His last name means "redfish", whereas he's blue and purple in his sea monster form.

* LeaveMeAlone: Doesn't say this verbatim, but he urges [[spoiler: Luca to go away when the latter tries to apologize for his past actions]] and his ultimate betrayal.
* LimitedWardrobe: While this is justifiable, Alberto only wears his signature outfit in almost every scene.

* MaskOfConfidence: He's way more outgoing than Luca and acts like [[KnowNothingKnowItAll he knows everything]], however [[spoiler:he hides his pain of his father abandoning him and shows himself to be just a kid who's terrified of ending up alone]].

* MirrorCharacter: With Daniela, though it isn't obvious at first. [[spoiler: Both are strong, dominant personalities that mean well for Luca but put soothing their own fears over supporting him when his dreams differ from their plans for him. They even both attempt to use exposure as a means to return him to them. Both instigate conflicts for Luca in his character arc of becoming more assertive and determining his own life. Meaningfully, once Alberto overcomes his own fears, he's the one to convince Daniela to let Luca go.]]

* ScarsAreForever: He has a small scar on his left arm. [[https://twitter.com/sketchcrawl/status/1407213600989581312?lang=fr The director confirmed]] it came from the fisherman's harpoon in the movie's prologue.

* CurtainsMatchTheWindows: Like her son and her husband, her human appearance has brown eyes and hair.*

* MaskOfConfidence: He's way more outgoing than Luca and acts like[[KnowNothingKnowItAll he knows everything]], however [[spoiler:he hides his pain of his father abandoning him and shows himself to be just a kid who's terrified of ending up alone]].

* IJustWantToHaveFriends: He lives in an old tower, and [[spoiler:we learn he was abandoned by his father a long time ago for some reason]]. When he meets Luca, he's so eager to make and maintain a friendship with him that he doesn't know how to deal with the jealous feelings he has when Luca and Giulia start to bond over their love of learning.

* MaskOfConfidence: He's way more outgoing than Luca and acts [[KnowNothingKnowItAll he knows everything]], however [[spoiler:he hides his pain of his father abandoning him and shows himself to be just a kid who's terrified of ending up alone]].

* BrainyBrunet: As a human, Luca's head scales turn into chocolate brown hair, and he's shown to be a fast learner: he manages to make blue prints of a Vespa that he ends up building with Alberto (despite barely grasping the concept of a human scooter), and adheres faster to human culture than Alberto does (knowing "stupido" isn't a friendly greeting, but an insult).

* PrefersGoingBarefoot: Both he and Alberto go barefoot, likely justified because of their sea monster status.

* PrefersGoingBarefoot: Both he and Luca go barefoot, likely justified because of their sea monster status.

* TantrumThrowing: An offscreen example, but after [[spoiler:Luca betrays him at the beach, a heartbroken Alberto goes back to his tower and trashes his entire human object collection (even the picture he drew of him and Luca). Luca gazes upon the destruction in shock after he follows Albert to his island]].

->'''Voiced by''': Saverio Raimondo (English and Italian)[[note]]'''Other languages''': Moisés Iván Mora (Latin American Spanish), Creator/DaisukeNamikawa (Japanese) [[/note]]

->'''Voiced by''': Creator/JackDylanGrazer (English), Luca Tesei (Italian)[[note]]'''Other languages''': Iván Bastidas (Latin American Spanish), Yuto Ikeda (Japanese) [[/note]]

* MeaningfulName: The Visconti surname is barred by a famous noble family in Italy, who ruled Milan during the Middle Ages and were stated to be ruthless dictators, which Ercole is among the children in Portorosso. The Visconti's family logo is also represented by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visconti_of_Milan a man being swallowed by a sea serpent]], tying to the movie's theme of sea monsters.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Despite indulging in cheating during the first two rounds of the Cup, he reacts to Luca actually outpacing him in the bike race by accusing ''him'' of cheating.

* LeanAndMean: Tall, thin and a catty brat.

** Blink and you'll miss it, but when Ercole enters the town and says "Ciao Belle!" to the sisters, Concette pulls out her tongue and retches in disgust.

* EffeminateVoice: Possesses a high-pitched, shrill NoIndoorsVoice.

* NoIndoorsVoice: He spends most of his time yelling on screen, most of the time at his underlings. When he ''isn't'', [[NotSoHarmlessVillain he sounds far more menacing]], as seen in the scene where he threatens Alberto and Luca in front of the Vespa shop.

* ComfortBlanket: His pink sweater is this to him, as Ercole is shown hugging it the way a child would [[spoiler:after his goons throw him in the fountain]].

* ICallItVera: He addresses his beloved Vespa as ''Piccolina'', Italian for "little one".

** Blink and you'll miss it, but when Ercole enters the town and says "Ciao Belle!" to the sisters, Pinuccia pulls out her town and retches in disgust.

** NotSoStoic: However, she gan go ham for her job as she impersonates Giorgio Giorgioni before taking the entires for the race.

* WomenPreferStrongerMen: One could assume so, due to Massimo's build.