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* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: She comes pretty much out of nowhere, sticks out even in a game as weird as this, and despite being the singer of the penultimate level doesn't really have much importance to the story beyond being the last and most intimidating obstacle between Lammy and her goal.

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* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: She comes pretty much out of nowhere, sticks out even in a game as weird as this, and despite being the singer of the penultimate level level, doesn't really have much importance to the story beyond being the last and most intimidating obstacle between Lammy and her goal.



* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: A domineering and vain woman who won't accept failure, but she recognizes talent when she sees it and if you impress her she'll happily reward you.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: A domineering and vain woman who won't accept failure, but she recognizes talent when she sees it it, and if you impress her her, she'll happily reward you.



* TheUnfought: she challenges Lammy to a guitar contest, but Lammy's in a hurry to get back to her show and faxes herself back to Earth.

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* TheUnfought: she She challenges Lammy to a guitar contest, but Lammy's in a hurry to get back to her show and faxes herself back to Earth.
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-->'''Voiced by''': Freedom Brenmer ([=PaRappa=] 2), YÅ«ji Mitsuya (anime)

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-->'''Voiced by''': Freedom Brenmer ([=PaRappa=] 2), YÅ«ji Mitsuya Creator/YujiMitsuya (anime)
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* NiceHat: An embroidered fez.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Uniquely so. Her blue fur and yellow hair stand out compared to other characters, whose fur/body colors are more or less plausible to their species.

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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Uniquely so. Her blue fur and yellow hair stand out compared to other characters, whose fur/body colors are more or less plausible to their species.

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* VagueAge: While Parappa is presumably a teenager or young adult based on certain events in the series(he does earn his driver's license in the first game, implying he's at least 16 in the US version), the teachers often treat him like he's much younger than that, and his puppy-ish appearance makes it difficult to ascertain either way how old he is.



* TheLeader: Of [=MilkCan=], despite being the bassist, she is also the vocalist. Indeed, she's the only one who seems actually enthusiastic about performing.



* {{Shorttank}}: A partly girly and partly tomboyish girl who wears a tanktop, though rather than the usual short shorts she wears big striped pants.
* TheLeader: Of [=MilkCan=], despite being the bassist, she is also the vocalist. Indeed, she's the only one who seems actually enthusiastic about performing.

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* {{Shorttank}}: A partly girly and partly tomboyish girl who wears a tanktop, tank top, though rather than the usual short shorts she wears big striped pants.
* TheLeader: Of [=MilkCan=], despite being the bassist, she is also the vocalist. Indeed, she's the only one who seems actually enthusiastic about performing.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Uniquely so. Her blue fur and yellow hair stand out compared to other characters, whose fur/body colors are more or less plausible to their species.



* AnimalGenderBender: She has antlers.

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* AbsentMindedProfessor: Downplayed. While not a scientist like most examples, she fits the spirit of the trope as a teacher. She's quite an effective driving instructor, but still manages to forget to shut the car door after her and takes at least half the song to realize it.
* AnimalGenderBender: She has antlers.antlers, unlike a real-world female moose.




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* ProperTightsWithASkirt: To go with her no-nonsense demeanor.



* AGodAmI: Played for laughs later in his song. When business appears to be going extremely well for him at the flea market, the success goes to his head enough for him to proclaim himself "the number one ruler of the seven seas" out of nowhere.



* StepfordSmiler: Even when he's disappointed in [=PaRappa=] for not performing up to standards and losing his Cool mode, he's still got that goofy smile even if his voice isn't all that pleased. Taken to its extreme in the second game, where failing the stage has him watch all the party goers ditch the concert from [=PaRappa=]'s absolutely terrible singing and all he can do is awkwardly laugh and barely keep his smile up. Similarly, he makes the same, withering smile if he badly loses in the game's battle mode.

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* StepfordSmiler: Even when he's disappointed in [=PaRappa=] for not performing up to standards and losing his Cool mode, he's still got that goofy smile even if his voice isn't all that pleased. Taken to its extreme in the second game, where failing the stage has him watch all the party goers partygoers ditch the concert from [=PaRappa=]'s absolutely terrible singing and all he can do is awkwardly laugh and barely keep his smile up. Similarly, he makes the same, withering smile if he badly loses in the game's battle mode.




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* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Seems to swim in and out of a stereotypically German or Eastern European accent at parts of his song, particularly on his "th" sounds.



* BadLiar: He's always calm. Even when he's several thousand times his normal size. Nope, you didn't see him freak out, you must have been imagining it.

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* BadLiar: He's always calm. Even when he's several thousand many thousands of times his normal size. Nope, you didn't see him freak out, you must have been imagining it.



* ColdHam: Despite his evident freak-out for much of his level, he seldom raises his voice and in fact never loses his cool tone entirely; instead, his quivering delivery, face and gestures do most of the heavy lifting.



* HappyDance: If he wins a round in the battle mode, he's got a proud and spin-happy dance to show for it.



* NervousWreck: When he's not in his standard environment, such as being many times larger than normal, he becomes this. For reference, every lyric of his when the duo are stuck in space ''taller than the planet'' has him panicking and pleading to return back to normal.

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* NervousWreck: When he's not in his standard environment, such as being many times larger than normal, he becomes this. For reference, every lyric of his when the duo are is stuck in space ''taller than the planet'' has him panicking and pleading to return back to normal.normal. Downplayed in his fourth verse, though, when he sounds much calmer and is able to reason with Parappa somewhat.
* NiceHat: An embroidered fez.
* NotSoStoic: As noted above in the tropes above, his chill demeanor does seem to be genuine... but he can't help but react strongly in times of actual peril, evidently to his own embarrassment.



* HappyDance: If he wins a round in the battle mode, he's got a proud and spin-happy dance to show for it.

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* HappyDance: If he wins SoulBrotha: Played with. While not literally a round in Black man (being, you know, [[CaptainObvious an ant]]), Guru Ant still certainly speaks to the battle mode, he's got a proud spirit of this trope, what with his generally cool demeanor, greater use of slang than most of the other instructors, and spin-happy dance to show for it.a song and instrumental that wouldn't sound entirely out of place somewhere in Music/{{SnoopDogg}}'s discography.



* ActionGirl: While never seen in direct combat, a female boot camp instructor is this by default.



* DefrostingIceQueen: Her song starts off with her being pretty tough and bossy on [=PaRappa=], guiding him along the intense training routine. Near the end of the stage when she's established she's impressed with his performance, she drops most of her bossiness to ask for break, complain about her age and workout routine and just outrights cuts the training short when she feels like they did a good enough job that day.

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* DefrostingIceQueen: Her song starts off with her being pretty tough and bossy on [=PaRappa=], guiding him along the intense training routine. Near the end of the stage when she's established she's impressed with his performance, she drops most of her bossiness to ask for a break, complain about her age and workout routine and just outrights cuts the training short when she feels like they did a good enough job that day.



A octopus barber who's well known for his skill. However, thanks to a device made by Colonel Noodle, he's become obsessed with giving everyone afros that can grow to massive sizes. The teacher of Stage 5, where he promises to restore everyone's hairdo's if [=PaRappa=] proves his skill as a barber.

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A An octopus barber who's well known for his skill. However, thanks to a device made by Colonel Noodle, he's become obsessed with giving everyone afros that can grow to massive sizes. The teacher of Stage 5, where he promises to restore everyone's hairdo's if [=PaRappa=] proves his skill as a barber.



* AlwaysCamp: His occupation as a hairdresser emphasizes his camp-iness. Even when he isn't brainwashed into a flailing and fun loving maniac with shears, he's still about as effeminate.

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* AlwaysCamp: His occupation as a hairdresser emphasizes his camp-iness. Even when he isn't brainwashed into a flailing and fun loving fun-loving maniac with shears, he's still about as effeminate.effeminate.
* BerserkButton: Downplayed, but he clearly hates having piles of hair on the floor in his salon. He will actually briefly stop the rap to clean it up whenever that happens.



* EvilMakeover: As noted under TentacleHair below, being brainwashed changes his looks almost entirely. His whole body turns colors, he becomes [[EvilIsBigger larger]], his [[ScaryTeeth teeth]] become visible, his eyes get wider and his pupils seem to shrink.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: His name is just his occupation and his species.



* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: His name is just his occupation and his species.
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* NeverMyFault: In some stages in co-op mode, she'll blame Lammy for them failing. She blames various extenuating circumstances for most of her lose quotes in the versus mode, too.

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* NeverMyFault: In some stages in co-op mode, she'll blame Lammy for them failing. She blames various extenuating circumstances for most of her lose quotes in the versus VS mode, too.
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* NeverMyFault: In some stages in co-op mode, she'll blame Lammy for them failing.

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* NeverMyFault: In some stages in co-op mode, she'll blame Lammy for them failing. She blames various extenuating circumstances for most of her lose quotes in the versus mode, too.
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* AbusiveParents: Downplayed. , It's plain to see that he doesn't much care for his son, considering he comes back from the dead to point out aloud and in public what a terrible job he's doing ''right in front of him''. [[spoiler:This becomes more apparent when Colonel Noodle's childhood is revealed. Thankfully he has a HeelRealization in the end and reconnects with his son.]]

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* AbusiveParents: Downplayed. , It's plain to see that he doesn't care much care for his son, considering he comes back from the dead to point out aloud and in public what a terrible job he's doing ''right in front of him''. [[spoiler:This becomes more apparent when Colonel Noodle's childhood is revealed. Thankfully he has a HeelRealization in the end and reconnects with his son.]]
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* MirrorSelf: Lammy had strokes of strange but good luck in the fifteen minutes before the show which ultimately helped her arrive on time, more ready than ever to play. Rammy had strokes of relatively mundane bad luck culminating in being late for her show and in no condition to be on stage even if she ''had'' been on time. Lammy even leaves Hell/the island when she arrives. [[{{Synchronization}} Maybe she's right to blame her counterpart for her bad luck]].

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* MirrorSelf: Implied. Lammy had strokes of strange but good luck in the fifteen minutes before the show which ultimately helped her arrive on time, more ready than ever to play. Rammy had strokes of relatively mundane bad luck culminating in being late for her show and in no condition to be on stage even if she ''had'' been on time. Lammy even leaves Hell/the island when she arrives. [[{{Synchronization}} Maybe she's right to blame her counterpart for her bad luck]].



* AbusiveParents: Not to a very large extent, but the fact that he comes back from the dead to tell everyone what a terrible job his son is doing ''right in front of him'', it's plain to see that he doesn't much care for him. [[spoiler:This becomes more apparent when Colonel Noodle's childhood is revealed. Thankfully he has a HeelRealization in the end and reconnects with his son.]]

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* AbusiveParents: Not to a very large extent, but the fact that he comes back from the dead to tell everyone what a terrible job his son is doing ''right in front of him'', it's Downplayed. , It's plain to see that he doesn't much care for him.his son, considering he comes back from the dead to point out aloud and in public what a terrible job he's doing ''right in front of him''. [[spoiler:This becomes more apparent when Colonel Noodle's childhood is revealed. Thankfully he has a HeelRealization in the end and reconnects with his son.]]



A haunted game powering Colonel Noodle's noodlizing machines, it was pulled off store shelves for its tendency to curse anyone who loses to it into eating nothing but noodles for the rest of their lives. Unluckily for [=PaRappa=], he's the only one who can enter the game and try to beat it to discover the Noodle Syndicate's weakness.

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A haunted game powering Colonel Noodle's noodlizing machines, it was pulled off store shelves for its tendency to curse anyone who loses to it into eating nothing but noodles for the rest of their lives. Unluckily for [=PaRappa=], he's [=PaRappa=] steps up as the only one who can to enter the game and try to beat it to discover the Noodle Syndicate's weakness.
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* GracefulLoser: Though she's a SoreLoser for most of the game, she'll finally relent after losing to Lammy on the final stage:
-->'''Rammy:''' Ok, you win. I'll go back to Hell[=/=]I guess I'll just go home now.



* SoreLoser: If she loses in VS mode, she won't take a loss quite well.

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* SoreLoser: If she loses in VS mode, she won't take a loss quite well.she'll often have an excuse or complaint ready.
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* LethalChef: In the comics, she substitutes ''vinegar'' for sweet cream in a cake recipe and bakes muffins that inevitably end up both too burnt to eat and about twice her size. She also apparently has a tendency towards making [[AlienLunch bizarre meals]] such as "banana soup" and strawberry-onion cake ''with a lit stick of dynamite in it.''

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* LethalChef: In the comics, she substitutes ''vinegar'' for sweet cream in a cake recipe and bakes muffins that inevitably end up both too burnt to eat and about twice her size. She also apparently has a tendency towards making [[AlienLunch bizarre meals]] meals such as "banana soup" and strawberry-onion cake ''with a lit stick of dynamite in it.''
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* BadassBaritone: He has the deepest voice out of all the other characters.
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* BadassBaritone: He has the deepest voice out of all the other characters.
* BadassBaritone: He has the deepest voice out of all the other characters.
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* CluckingFunny: She's a rapping chicken who pretends to be on TV all the time.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: He's romantically interested in Sunny Funny, but Stage 2 has him practicing "romantic karate" on PJ. This includes kissing him.

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* AmbiguouslyBi: He's romantically interested in Sunny Funny, but Stage 2 of ''[=PaRappa=] 2'' has him practicing "romantic karate" on PJ. This includes kissing him.
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* SweetSheep: While she started out extremely shy (based on a sheep's timida and meek nature), a nervous wreck, and isn't confident without her guitar. She gained more confidence by the end of her game debut and is a great friend with Katy and Parappa.

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* SweetSheep: While she started out extremely shy (based on a sheep's timida timid and meek nature), a nervous wreck, and isn't confident without her guitar. She gained more confidence by the end of her game debut and is a great friend with Katy and Parappa.

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* {{Keet}}: Rather enthusiastic when he's busting rhymes.
* NiceHat: An orange beanie with a symbol of a frog on it.

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* {{Keet}}: Rather enthusiastic when he's busting rhymes.
* NiceHat: An orange beanie with a symbol of a frog on it.
rhymes..
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* PokeThePoodle: Sure, only being able to eat noodles is a horrible punishment for failure, but there's nothing stopping you from just playing the game again to try and undo the curse. Remember, the curse only applies if you don't beat the game.

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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:His attempts to introduce his own passion into his son's life went far out of control, ostracizing him from others and making him outright ''hate'' burgers.]]


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* LikeFatherLikeSon: [[spoiler:Like his father, he's forcing people to indulge in his preferred food, only in his instance, it's noodles as opposed to burgers. However, Beard Burger only did this to Colonel Noodle, while the latter did this to everybody out of revenge. Also, his mother turned into a burger from eating so many, while Colonel Noodle's plan is to turn all food into noodles. His situation with burgers in his flashback even mirrors Parappa's sitation with noodles!]]
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* AbusiveParents: Not to a very large extent, but the fact that he comes back from the dead to tell everyone what a terrible job his son is doing ''right in front of him'', it's plain to see that he doesn't much care for him.[[spoiler:This becomes more apparent when Colonel Noodle's childhood is revealed. Thankfully he has a HeelRealization in the end and reconnects with his son.]]

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* AbusiveParents: Not to a very large extent, but the fact that he comes back from the dead to tell everyone what a terrible job his son is doing ''right in front of him'', it's plain to see that he doesn't much care for him. [[spoiler:This becomes more apparent when Colonel Noodle's childhood is revealed. Thankfully he has a HeelRealization in the end and reconnects with his son.]]

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* AbusiveParents: Not to a very large extent, but the fact that he comes back from the dead to tell everyone what a terrible job his son is doing ''right in front of him'', it's plain to see that he doesn't much care for him.[[spoiler:This becomes more apparent when Colonel Noodle's childhood is revealed. Thankfully he seems to have a HeelRealization in the end and reconnects with his son.]]

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* AbusiveParents: Not to a very large extent, but the fact that he comes back from the dead to tell everyone what a terrible job his son is doing ''right in front of him'', it's plain to see that he doesn't much care for him.[[spoiler:This becomes more apparent when Colonel Noodle's childhood is revealed. Thankfully he seems to have has a HeelRealization in the end and reconnects with his son.]]



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* ButtMonkey: You can guarantee something hilariously bad will happen to Gaster in every episode he appears in.
* HarmlessVillain: Even when he is being actually competent, Gaster is little more than a nuisance.

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* ButtMonkey: You can guarantee something hilariously bad will happen to Gaster in every episode he appears in.
in. Most of the time he deserves it.
* HarmlessVillain: Even when he is being actually competent, Gaster is usually little more than a nuisance.
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* BaldOfAwesome: Comes with being an old man.
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* FirehouseDalmatian: He's a firefighting dalmatian.
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*SmallRoleBigImpact: Has been used as a power source for Colonel Noodle's noodlizing machines before it was discovered in the intro for Level 6. Nevertheless, after that level's completion, the heroes discover they can use sweets to confront noodles as well as reverse-engineer the game to use in the De-Noodlizer

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* FriendToAllLivingThings: In the [=RodneyFun=] comics, fish, flowers and plants alike all love her.



* MusclesAreMeaningless: In the comics, she manages to carry a box full of baking supplies stacked on top of two large bags of rice. She thinks it doesn't weigh that much.



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%%* SunnySunflowerDisposition* SunnySunflowerDisposition: She's a sweet flower girl.
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* SweetSheep: While she started out extremely shy (based on a sheep's timida and meek nature), a nervous wreck, and isn't confident without her guitar. She gained more confidence by the end of her game debut and is a great friend with Katy and Parappa.

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* ExpressiveAccessory: Messing up in ''Um Jammer Lammy'''s second-to-last stage results in [=PaRappa=] getting electrocuted. The frog on his beanie reacts to getting electrocuted too.



* FurryReminder: Losing a versus level in Um Jammer Lammy has him whimper like a puppy.

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* FurryReminder: Losing a versus level in Um ''Um Jammer Lammy Lammy'' has him whimper like a puppy.


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* SignatureHeadgear: His beanie, of course!

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