History Characters / TheSecretLifeOfPets

** In the first movie, she comes to Max's rescue and attacks the Flushed Pets with a CurbStompBattle when they were cornering Max and about to attack him (not knowing he was working together with Snowball to save their friends).
** In the sequel, she, her friends, the Crazy Cat Lady and her pet cats use the lady's car to run Sergei over when he was about to kill Max, Hu, Snowball and Daisy, rescuing the latter four.

* EarNotch: Has a notch in his ear, how he got it was unknown.

* TheVoiceless: He cannot talk because the dogs don't speak [[AnimalTalk wild animal.]]

* BusCrash: By time Duke is able to make it back to his old home, Fred has sadly died.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Nowhere to be seen in the sequel.

A kindhearted human girl and Max and Duke's owner

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* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: Gidget: 1, Flushed Pets: 0]].

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Her undying dedication to searching for Max and protecting him from Snowball and his minions [[spoiler: pays off when he returns her feelings for him at the end. Of course she had to fight off Snowball's army before he even really notices her.]]

* CatsAreMean: Downplayed to "[[CatsAreSnarky Cats Are Snarky]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Jerks With Hearts Of Gold]]"; she's a bit aloof, cutting and haughty and states to Max's face that she doesn't care about him or his problems, but she clearly cares more than she lets on.

** Like any cat, she affects an air of aloof dignity. Like any cat, she goes ''completely to pieces'' when startled and bounces across the entire buffet at Pops' party. Which is then broadcast on Youtube.

* RunningGag: He continually attempts to eat some of the smaller members of the group. {{Justified|Trope}} [[TruthInTelevision since even "domesticated" hawks]] [[ShownTheirWork have a habit of trying to eat small animals, as its hard-wired into their brains]].

* TheDitz: He is clearly shown not to be the sharpest tool in the shed among the search party
* FaceHeelTurn: Has a short one after he [[spoiler: briefly joins the Flushed Pets]]. Although given his general lack of smarts and amiability, it seems to be based more on a lack of understanding of precisely what's going on combined with his just being friendly and sociable more than anything else.

* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: He abandons the group after [[spoiler: [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Gidget blows their cover to the flushed pets]]. He ends up getting caught by them anyway and [[FaceHeelTurn joins them]]]].

* WithFriendsLikeThese: [[spoiler: He is shown laughing along with the Flushed Pets at Max right before they're about to attack him for [[NotWhatItLooksLike supposedly attacking Snowball]]. Although in his defense, given his general amiable nature and lack of smarts he seems to be just genuinely pleased to see Max while not fully understanding exactly what's going on]].

* SmallRoleBigImpact: While he only appears in one scene, it is this scene where he tells Duke that his old owner died after he disappeared, which causes him to accuse the cat of lying and try to scare away his owners, who then call Animal Control to take him away.

* NoodleIncident: He died… of something.

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: He and Max end up killing The Viper]]

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

* JerkAssHasAPoint: While he's gruff about it, the advice he gives to Max is true. Most of the time, a kid will learn that doing something dangerous will result in them getting hurt. Said kid will not do that thing anymore in order to avoid danger. However, there are those times where a little protection is necessary to prevent the child from getting killed.

* ExBigBad: becomes a hero in ''The Secret Life of Pets 2''.

* CaptainErsatz: He looks like a thinner [[WesternAnimation/DespicableMe Gru]]. He dresses in black, has a big nose, speaks in a Russian accent, and [[spoiler: is bald]]. Hey, it's Illumination's first big hit. You gotta reference it in ''some'' way, shape, or form.

* CharacterTic: Becomes overprotective of Liam, which causes him to scratch himself whenever he feels that he's in danger. The scratching gets so bad that Katie has to get him fitted for the hone of shame.

* CrushFilter: Max suddenly sees Gidget with all new eyes when she opens the can of whoop ass on the Flushed Pets.

* GoodFeelsGood: [[spoiler: Says this after rescuing Max and Duke]]

* HumansAreCthulhu[=/=]HumansAreTheRealMonsters: The entire reason he leads the group of flushed animals is his belief that Humans are no good and will abandon their pets. [[spoiler: This all changes after his HeelFaceTurn]].

* FreudianExcuse: This pig is quite correct to be angry and resentful that his only purpose as a pet was to be a practice dummy for tattoo artists until he ran out of space, where he was summarily abandoned.

* ForgottenFallenFriend: By the end of the movie, everyone has completely forgotten he even existed.

A male duck who was a member of the Flushed Pets before dying prior to the events of the film. According to [[BigBad Snowball]], he was the only member of the Flushed Pets who would kill humans on sight.

* ForgottenFallenFriend: Like [[spoiler:The Viper]], everyone seems to forget he existed.

--> Voiced by: '''Eric Stonestreet'''

An abusive and cruel circus ringmaster.

* RightHandCat: Actually, right-hand ''monkey'' to Sergei.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: See Butt Monkey, above.

* CoolPet: Predictively he ends up as someone's pet, specifically [[spoiler: the CrazyCatLady.]]