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* NobodyTouchesTheHair: Max hates having his "swoosh" messed with.
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%%* BadassFamily
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* KindheartedSimpleton: Billy is really not that bright, but he is incredibly an nice person, and possibly the friendly member of the entire family (aside from possibly Chloe)

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* KindheartedSimpleton: Billy is really not that bright, but he is incredibly an a nice person, and possibly the friendly friendliest member of the entire family (aside from possibly Chloe)



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* {{Expy}}: Of [[Series/WizardsofWaverlyPlace Harper]]

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* {{Expy}}: Of [[Series/WizardsofWaverlyPlace Harper]]Harper]].



* WhiteSheep: His father is the former Supervillain Evilman, Link meanwhile is a pretty nice guy, much to his father's displeasure.




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* WhiteSheep: His father is the former Supervillain Evilman, Link meanwhile is a pretty nice guy, much to his father's displeasure.



* TheDitz: Was easily duped into believing the Thundermans had moved, and then believed it when another note pushed out from under the door said they would be moving back the next day.



* TheDitz: Was easily duped into believing the Thundermans had moved, and then believed it when another note pushed out from under the door said they would be moving back the next day.

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* TheDitz: Was easily duped into believing the Thundermans had moved, and then believed it when another note pushed out from under the door said they would be moving back the next day.



* [[AsianAndNerdy Asian and Nerdy]]/DitzyGenius ({{Zigzagged}}): Sometimes Gideon can be very nerdy when it comes to certain school subjects on some occasions, but yet when it comes to basic common sense in other situations, he can be very dumb and quite an airhead.

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* [[AsianAndNerdy Asian and Nerdy]]/DitzyGenius AsianAndNerdy[=/=]DitzyGenius ({{Zigzagged}}): Sometimes Gideon can be very nerdy when it comes to certain school subjects on some occasions, but yet when it comes to basic common sense in other situations, he can be very dumb and quite an airhead.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: He harbors a bit of a crush on Barb, much to her growing disgust.

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* ChildishOlderSibling: He's the older brother to Nora and Chloe, but considering he's not the sharpest knife in the door, he naturally acts a bit childish at times



* KindheartedSimpleton: Billy is really not that bright, but he is incredibly nice.

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* KindheartedSimpleton: Billy is really not that bright, but he is incredibly nice.an nice person, and possibly the friendly member of the entire family (aside from possibly Chloe)

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* ShoutOut: His superhero name is an obvious reference to [[Franchise/TheFlash Kid Flash]].



* SueDonym: His superhero name Thunder Man isn't really creative due to his last name already being Thunderman.



[[folder:Barb Thunderman/Electress]]

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[[folder:Barb [[folder:Barbara "Barb" Thunderman/Electress]]



* ArtifactTitle: Her superhero name is Thunder Baby, but by ''The Thundermans Return'', she's not a baby anymore, and she even questions her choice of superhero name.



* ForcedTransformation: Dr. Colosso was a notorious supervillain who Thunderman turned into a rabbit.

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* ForcedTransformation: Dr. Colosso was a notorious supervillain who Thunderman turned into a rabbit.rabbit by his own Animalizer.


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* RetiredMonster: Especially by ''The Thundermans Return'', he has more or less resigned himself to the fact that he'll never be human again and that being a rabbit will be his life from now on, and he starts making some animal friends.
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* AcroFat: Hank’s put on weight since his retirement and is acknowledged several times to have somewhat let himself go. However, he proves on several occasions that despite this he’s still deceptively quick and spry.

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* AcroFat: {{Acrofatic}}: Hank’s put on weight since his retirement and is acknowledged several times to have somewhat let himself go. However, he proves on several occasions that despite this he’s still deceptively quick and spry.
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* AcroFat: Hank’s put on weight since his retirement and is acknowledged several times to have somewhat let himself go. However, he proves on several occasions that despite this he’s still deceptively quick and spry.


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* StrongAndSkilled: One of the reasons he was considered such a great superhero, as well as being the strongest man in the world, Hank is also a master of hand-to-hand combat. He was the one who taught Max and Phoebe after all.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: In "The Thunder Games", he's all for helping his long-lost son Balfour exact revenge on the Thundermans, but draws the line when Balfour reveals his intentions to fry Max's brain.

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* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Max is the bad boy to Billy's kindhearted sensitive guy.



[[folder:Billy Thunderman/Kid Quick]]
->Actor: Creator/DiegoVelazquez

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[[folder:Billy Thunderman/Kid Quick]]
[[folder:Nora Thunderman/Laser Girl]]
->Actor: Creator/DiegoVelazquez
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Billy is very caring and protective of Chloe. He likely ''would'' be like this toward Nora as well, except that Nora, being so much smarter than [[TheDitz Billy]], is usually the one to take charge for them.
* BlowYouAway: He's able to create powerful tornadoes by rapidly spinning his arms.
* ChildhoodBrainDamage: In "A Hero Is Born," Barb doesn't want Hank to fly her to the hospital while in labor to avoid repeating the last time they did so while subtly pointing in Billy's direction, indicating that she gave birth to him midair.
* TheDitz: Nearing TooDumbToLive levels.
* KindheartedSimpleton: Billy is really not that bright, but he is incredibly nice.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Billy's much nicer than his tyrannical sister Nora.
* NiceGuy: Probably the nicest of all the kids, even surpassing Phoebe. He has a very strong moral code, and will even bust his and Nora's plans at times.
* SuperSpeed: Up to date his only power.
* TookALevelInDumbass: By the time of the later seasons, Billy's TooDumbToLive levels seem to have increased up to the point where he literally has to write on his hand to remember his own family members’ names.

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[[folder:Nora Thunderman/Laser Girl]]
->Actor: Creator/AddisonRiecke

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[[folder:Hank Thunderman/Thunderman]]
->Actor: Creator/ChrisTallman

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* BigBrotherInstinct: Billy is very caring and protective of Chloe. He likely ''would'' be like this toward Nora as well, except that Nora, being so much smarter than [[TheDitz Billy]], is usually the one to take charge for them.
* BlowYouAway: He's able to create powerful tornadoes by rapidly spinning his arms.
* ChildhoodBrainDamage: In "A Hero Is Born," Barb doesn't want Hank to fly her to the hospital while in labor to avoid repeating the last time they did so while subtly pointing in Billy's direction, indicating that she gave birth to him midair.
* TheDitz: Nearing TooDumbToLive levels.
* KindheartedSimpleton: Billy is really not that bright, but he is incredibly nice.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Billy's much nicer than his tyrannical sister Nora.
* NiceGuy: Probably the nicest of all the kids, even surpassing Phoebe. He has a very strong moral code, and will even bust his and Nora's plans at times.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Billy is the kindhearted sensitive guy to Max's bad boy.
* SuperSpeed: Up to date his only power.
* TookALevelInDumbass: By the time of the later seasons, Billy's TooDumbToLive levels seem to have increased up to the point where he literally has to write on his hand to remember his own family members’ names.

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[[folder:Hank Thunderman/Thunderman]]
->Actor: Creator/ChrisTallman

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* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Billy's much nicer than his tyrannical sister Nora.


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* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Nora's much tyrannical than her nicer brother Billy.
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* TheKlutz: Max is a super-klutz who doesn’t always pay attention to his surroundings that he easily falls victim to booby traps. He also tends to forget about pranks he set up until it’s too late and either he or his friends or family are on the receiving end of them.

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* TheKlutz: Max is a super-klutz who doesn’t always pay attention to his surroundings that he has plenty of butterfingers moments and easily falls victim to booby traps. He also tends to forget about pranks he set up until it’s too late and either he or his friends or family are on the receiving end of them.
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* TheKlutz: Max is a super-klutz who doesn’t always pay attention to his surroundings that he easily falls victim to booby traps.

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* TheKlutz: Max is a super-klutz who doesn’t always pay attention to his surroundings that he easily falls victim to booby traps. He also tends to forget about pranks he set up until it’s too late and either he or his friends or family are on the receiving end of them.
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* TheKlutz: Max is a super-klutz who doesn’t always pay attention to his surroundings that he easily falls victim to booby traps.
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* FatalFlaw: Phoebe has a big ego and tends to react negatively when she feels her status as “perfect prodigy” is threatened.
** She nearly ruins her friendship with Cherry when the latter gets picked as a cheerleader over her. Barb later states that she has a jealousy streak.
** She specifically has the need to be better than Max. When Max gets more praise in art class then her she becomes jealous (despite being better than him in every other subject) and she makes it her main goal to make an art piece that’s “better than Max’s”. When it’s discovered that Max actually has Billy get him art thrown away by a studio she asks Billy to get her something better to show off but he ends up stealing a priceless vase from a museum instead.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: He has quite the ego and thrives off people admiring him.

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* HeroProtagonist

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* HeroProtagonistHeroProtagonist: of the series.


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* {{Hypocrite}}: She often (physically) punishes Max whenever he mocks or insults her (such as having her mathlette team sneeze on him after he said she wasn’t able to solve a math problem one to many times, or using her telekinesis to knock him away other times) yet she continually belittles and insults him.
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* LazerGuidedKarma: Whenever Max does something wrong it ends up backfiring on him. Usually resulting in him being humiliated (sometimes greatly) or even physically injured. Sometimes to DisproportionateRetribution degrees.

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* LazerGuidedKarma: LaserGuidedKarma: Whenever Max does something wrong it ends up backfiring on him. Usually resulting in him being humiliated (sometimes greatly) or even physically injured. Sometimes to DisproportionateRetribution degrees.
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* TheDogBitesBackz: In "Thunderman Secret Revealed", Max finally gets back at his family for most of their unjustified treatment he revived.

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* TheDogBitesBackz: TheDogBitesBack: In "Thunderman Secret Revealed", Max finally gets back at his family for most of their unjustified treatment he revived.
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* LazerGuidedKarma: Whenever Max does something wrong it ends up backfiring on him. Usually resulting in him being humiliated (sometimes greatly) or even physically injured. Sometimes to DisproportionateRetribution degrees.
** When he chooses to steal Pheobes tickets to go with a girl he likes, he not only ends up not going (while she does) but he is pooped on by a bird, it becomes a meme on the internet, and he’s stuck in a portapotty as it gets knocked over.
** When he decides to do a “ninja” job for a kids birthday party without Billy and Nora, he ends up with a broken arm and the mom refuses to pay him since he didn’t finish the performance (because he was beat up!). [[KickTheDog Then he gets laughed at his injury later by his siblings.]]
** Also, that time where he drew on his father’s face with a marker when he was asleep. His FATHERS response isn’t to ground or scold him, but to knock Max out the same way and encourage the rest of the family to draw on Max’s face with him.
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* TheDogBitesBackz: In "Thunderman Secret Revealed", Max finally gets back at his family for most of their unjustified treatment he revieved.

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* TheDogBitesBackz: In "Thunderman Secret Revealed", Max finally gets back at his family for most of their unjustified treatment he revieved.revived.



* TheUnfavorite: Whenever her brother Perry is around, her parents forget she exists. They even left her at Summer Camp for a month because they didn't realise they hadn't taken her home when distracted by Perry. Then it is demonstrated that Perry causes this to happen to everyone around him.

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* TheUnfavorite: Whenever her brother Perry is around, her parents forget she exists. They even left her at Summer Camp for a month because they didn't realise realize they hadn't taken her home when distracted by Perry. Then it is demonstrated that Perry causes this to happen to everyone around him.
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->Actor: Creator/DanaSnyder

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* CharacterDevelopment: Starts off as your generic supervillain, only to grow to genuinely care for Max, expressing shock when his son announces that he intends to fry Max's brain, even referring to Max as "the evil son I never had" ''in front of his actual biological child.''
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* TheDogBitesBackz: In "Thunderman Secret Revealed", Max finally gets back at his family for most of their unjustified treatment he revieved.

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* BoyfriendBlockingDad: He grills anyone who wants to go out with Phoebe.



* OverProtectiveDad: He grills anyone who wants to go out with Phoebe.
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* SpoiledSweet: Through, raised by snobbish parents, but he's pretty nice.

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* SpoiledSweet: Through, Though, raised by snobbish parents, but he's pretty nice.
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* SpoiledSweet: Raised by snobbish parents, but he's pretty nice despite that.

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* SpoiledSweet: Raised Through, raised by snobbish parents, but he's pretty nice despite that.
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* NiceGuy
* SatelliteLoveInterest

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* NiceGuy
NiceGuy: In all his apperences he was a nice, easy going and charming pretty boy.
* SatelliteLoveInterest
SatelliteLoveInterest: In all his apperences was about Phoebe and her crush on him.
* SpoiledSweet: Raised by snobbish parents, but he's pretty nice despite that.

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