History Characters / Talespin

* PantheraAweseome: An anthropomorphic tiger who wields enormous influence and is respected by nearly everyone.

!!One-shot villains

* ActionMom: Ironically, despite presenting herself as more refined and less uncouth than the others, she's actually ''more'' likely to get violent with the bad guys than Baloo or Kit are.

* AffectionateNickname: Referred to as "Becky" by Baloo. Rebecca seems to treat it as such, only accepting the name whenever she is in a good mood with him.

* BearsAreBadNews: Unlike the easygoing Baloo, Becky is mostly no-nonsense when it comes to business. The pilot has learned time and again not to get on her bad side. And mercy on those who mess with, endanger, or threaten her daughter Molly.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Although the series does not maintain a strict continuity, an early episode has Rebecca trying to learn to fly with Baloo's reluctant instruction. In a later released episode, Rebecca has apparently learned a lot since she is able to operate the Seaduck with decent skill in pressing circumstances.

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: The show seemed to enjoy having little Rebecca kick around big hefty Baloo. However it is downplayed in terms of violence, and Baloo is at least granted forms of revenge besides his own hand.

* FurryFemaleMane: While the other bear characters have scruffy fur on top of their head, she has long humanlike hair.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JimCummings

* DoNotCallMePaul: Louie doesn't like it when his Aunt Louise addresses him as Luis.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JimCummings

--> '''Kit:''' ''Giant mirrors!'' How'd you build ''them?!''
--> '''Carnage:''' Do not be ''ridiculous!'' [[MathematiciansAnswer We did not build them: we stole them!]]

* LargeHam: Thanks largely to Creator/JimCummings' voice acting.

* {{Not So Harmless Villain}}: While he's a goofy ButtMonkey, he can be a genuine threat.
* OffScreenVillainDarkMatter: It doesn't matter how beat up the Iron Vulture gets or how many planes he loses, he always has more. It's implied when Baloo isn't involved, his piracy is a lot more successful.

The whiny, brownnosing, but ultimately disloyal [[EliteMook lackey pirate]] of [[TerribleTrio Don Karnage]]. He is nearly always [[EvilDuo paired with Dumptruck]]. He has a very nasal voicetone. While he follows Karnage out of a sense of greed and fear, he'd turn on him in a moment flat if he thought he could get away with it, and stab him InTheBack (episodes: "Stuck on You", "A Baloo Switcheroo").

--> '''Gibber:''' (unintelligible mumbles)
--> '''Karnage:''' "What do you '''mean''' ''[whatever Gibber is trying to warn him about]''."

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JimCummings

The adviser and chancellor to Lotta's father, King Amok, who is plotting to seize power for himself and force the Princess to marry him. He is a large and menacing vulture.

* AudioErotica: Creator/JimCummings gives him a very seductive purr for a voice, apparently to explain why he's so persuasive.

* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: After he takes over Macadamia, he plans to marry Princess Lotta--whether she likes it or not.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JimCummings

* CassandraTruth: She warns her BumblingDad King Amok not to trust the ObviouslyEvil Trample; unfortunately, while the king means well, he's a HorribleJudgeOfCharacter. Fortunately, Trample is defeated in the end.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In contrast with her bumbling father King Amok, a HorribleJudgeOfCharacter who trusted the ObviouslyEvil Trample despite Lotta's well-founded suspicions. She's also a NiceGirl who genuinely wants to improve the lives of her subjects.

* HonestCorporateExecutive: If a very ruthless one.

* KnightOfCerebus: Played with. While not the most antagonising villain (and even prone to acts of good will), Khan is a much more serious and intimidating figure than most of the other more comical RoguesGallery and is implied to hold a very dangerous amount of power if not for his scruples.

* NervesOfSteel: Nothing ever phases Shere Khan, not even getting shot at in his private plane by air pirates as seen in "From here to Machinery". When his then business partner was panicking insanely for help on the radio, Shere Khan throws him aside and simply summarizes their situation over the radio lines and would humbly request assistance which will be well rewarded.

* TheStoic: Big time. The arguably best example of this is in "From Here to Machinery" when he doesn't even ''flinch'' when gunfire hits the drinking glass he's holding. If angered, he simply states that his patience is being "tried" or if he's not amused.

* AdaptationalNameChange: ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' gives his full name as Baloo von Bruinwald.

* AdultFear: Like all parents, Becky is most often drop everything if Molly is in danger. She'll also scold and/or attack anyone, including Baloo and Kit, if they put her in said danger.

* BadassMustache: A variation; the three whiskers hanging from his snout vaguely resemble Literature/FuManchu's mustache.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MichaelGough

* NotSoDifferent: Despite their very contrasting ethics, Rebecca shares more in common with Baloo than she'd like to admit. She will recurring berate him over one of his flaws, only minutes before she makes a similar mistake (eg. chastising Baloo over his temper, before he has to restrain her from assaulting a client).

* TheChessmaster: Is well capable of running things in his favour, by either siding with the heroes for mutual goals or getting away when things don't work out.

* DependingOnTheWriter: Though the pilot establishes him as being a past associate of the Sky Pirates, it is not brought up in many episodes after, to the point that in some episodes, Kit seems completely naive about the pirates with no suggestions of any background besides that of a normal child. This is part because the pilot episode was actually made late in the series' production order (in conceptual stages, Kit was going to be Rebecca's son).

* FakeDefector: During the pilot, he seemingly betrays his friends and rejoins the Air Pirates, giving them enough time to escape. He later rejoins them while helping to foil the pirates' plans.
* FatalFlaw: His desire to prove himself. While it makes him enterprising and hardworking, he's more than once rushed off into a dangerous situation because it might give him the chance to become a pilot or get recognition.

* InnocentProdigy: Kit is often rather intelligent, and sometimes shown to have more common sense than his peers, his occasional childlike naivete or rambunctiousness shows at times however.

* RetiredBadass: He was one of the best pilots of his time, but an injured leg forced him to quit flying early.

* PositiveDiscrimination: Averted. She and Baloo juggle the SanityBall rather evenly.

* CatsAreMean: Once he gets a taste of power, he's thoroughly nasty and vindictive.

->'''Voiced by:''' Ed Gilbert

** Not only is he shown to have his own fleet of airplanes, he has own personal navy. He calls his warships "gunships" but in terms of size and armament they more so resemble battleships.

->'''Voiced by:''' Sally Struthers

* BrokenPedestal: To everyone. At the end of the episode featuring a prototype jet engine, the fact that he mishandled top-secret government cargo, shot at civilians, and very nearly got the experimental jet engine into the hands of sky pirates, lands him in so much hot water, he's lucky the episode ended with him delivering the pickles that was originally Baloo's charter.

* EvilDuo[=/=]ThoseTwoBadGuys: With Dumptruck.

* ImprobablePilotingSkills: Baloo is so good a pilot he can pilot a plane even if he has to resort to directly manipulating the control cables to a craft's flaps and rudder when the yoke was broke. Furthermore, in one episode, he was able to quickly learn how to fly a prototype helicopter, despite the fact that operating that kind of vehicle is a completely different (not to mention ''revolutionary'' for the 1930s) concept in aviation. And don't forget, he was able to successfully "pilot" a prototype jet engine merely by hanging on to it and tugging on it real hard. No wings, no rudder, no ''plane''. Just the engine. He even broke the sound barrier while riding it.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Baloo at times can be rather obnoxious and selfish, and will do anything to shy from work, but cares deeply about his friends and family. Do ''not'' hurt them.