History Characters / TucaAndBertie

* ChubbyChaser: It’s somewhat implied Bertie is into heavier-set men, as she had a crush on Pastry Pete, who has a belly yet muscular arms, and her boyfriend Speckle has somewhat of a "dad bod".

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: She's a very light eater in contrast to Tuca and we never actually see her digging into her own pastries, but she's got a special love for spicy chips.

Bertie's ex-friend from high school, a Honduran white bat. Is now an acclaimed horror director

* NiceGirl: Downplayed. Muriel is shown to be rebellious but friendly when she and Bertie first become friends, but [[TookALevelInJerkass starts to grow more frustrated with Bertie as she starts getting clingy]].

Bertie's ex-friend from high school. Is now an acclaimed horror director

* IgnoredEpiphany: When she's spotted during the flood and Tuca finally gets her attention, Kara briefly has an expression of worry and horror on her face right before she just shrugs and turns her back. [[spoiler:Subverted when Season 3 reveals her to have had another one of these with her new girlfriend, who she was also treating poorly. This time she listens, and gets therapy]].

* NeverMyFault: She shares to Tuca that her past partners would always "play the victim" in their relationships, hence the reason why they would break up with Kara or why she would end up ghosting and dumping them, all while completely oblivious that her own toxic attitude and insensitive nature were actually the root cause of her breakups. When Bertie runs into and confronts Kara in "The Pain Garden" Kara nonchalantly says Tuca was “too much" for her and she had to think of herself, not even showing any feeling other than apathy when Bertie tells her to get bent. Subverted as "Somebirdy's Getting Married" reveals [[spoiler:she did eventually get therapy and address her issues after her next relationship fell through in a similar way]].

* {{Goth}}: She dresses in black outfits that she steals from a Hot Topic stand-in, listens to obscure dark music, and embraces her individuality. Even as an adult, she's found a career making creepy horror movies.

* ResentfulGuardian: Her latest horror film is "Screech Leeches", about leeches who latch on and copy everything you do. Muriel reveals she based it off her young son who copies and dresses like her.

* AbusiveParents: Downplayed as they did not act nor do anything outwardly malicious towards Bertie, and are shown to have cheery demeanors, but they made her bottle up all her negative emotions, including her trauma from her sexual assault at the Jelly Lakes, which they handled by taking her to a few sessions with the school counselor and then never discussed it with her again. All of which is why Bertie is now in therapy trying to process it and actually talk about it, and on a few occasions has mentioned her "mommy/daddy issues". Bertie also off-handedly mentions to Tuca and Speckle when they’re awe-ing her trophies and awards from her youth that she had a lot of pressure on her growing up, [[EducationMama likely also a result of her parents]]. In another episode she reveals they were uptight and they never did anything fun together.

* ItsAllAboutMe: When Bertie is calling out her parents over not wanting to discuss negative topics, and it’s a large part in why she’s in therapy, her mother scoffs that she understand how her childhood was “terrible", and that she wasn’t a "perfect mother", failing to realize the point of why Bertie is upset.
* IWasQuiteALooker: Anna remarks she used to be hot and have a "great ass" before marrying Henry, and is a bit self conscious at showing her nude body at a spa due to how it’s changed in old age.

* SweaterGirl: Contrasting Tuca's TankTopTomboy.

->'''Voiced by''': John Early

->'''Voiced by''': John Early

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* AnythingThatMoves: Zig-zagged. In her younger days when she drank, she was extremely flirty and sexually active with men and women of all kinds. However, following her near-death experience from alcohol poisoning, she's struggled to get back into the dating scene. In "Bird Mechanics," she hosts a dating game on a "Sex Bus" to test out many different partners at once (even including an elderly man with a husband who's there by accident), but kicks them out for flimsy reasons and eventually prioritizes Bertie over the girl she does pick, showing that Tuca's willing to hook up with anybody in ''theory,'' but still isn't quite ready to get back into the dating game. Season 3's "Leaf Raking" shows her eager to have sex with every raker in the stadium, and even becomes TheChosenOne to break the stadium's curse due to her impressive sexual history, and only fails due to unresolved hangups about her most recent ex affecting her libido.

* QueerEstablishingMoment: Tuca is revealed to be bisexual in "Deli Guy", where flashbacks show her making out with a variety of partners, male and female.

* TheAlcoholic: ''Recovering'' alcoholic. She's revealed to have had several relapses and at least one near-death experience from alcohol poisoning, but is sober when the show starts, and remains so.

* AnythingThatMoves: Zig-zagged. In her younger days, she was extremely flirty and sexually active with men and women of all kinds. However, following her near-death experience, she's struggled to get back into the dating scene. In "Bird Mechanics," she hosts a dating game on a "Sex Bus" to test out many different partners at once (even including an elderly man with a husband who's there by accident), but kicks them out for flimsy reasons and eventually prioritizes Bertie over the girl she does pick, showing that Tuca's willing to hook up with anybody in ''theory,'' but still isn't quite ready to get back into the dating game. Season 3's "Leaf Raking" shows her eager to have sex with every raker in the stadium, and even becomes TheChosenOne to break the stadium's curse due to her impressive sexual history, and only fails due to unresolved hangups about her most recent ex affecting her libido.

* ChubbyChaser: It’s somewhat implied Bertie is into heavier-set men, as she had a crush on Pastry Pete, who has a belly yet muscular build, and her boyfriend Speckle has somewhat of a "dad bod".

* LackOfEmpathy: She treats dying patients on her job as free time instead of a tragedy, which is an acceptable way to handle working in a hospital, and shares pictures of her vulnerable patients freely, which isn't. She also often teases her partners, and would often brush them off as jokes instead of apologizing if she happens to hit a nerve.
* NeverMyFault: She shares to Tuca that her past partners would always "play the victim" in their relationships, hence the reason why they would break up with Kara or why she would end up ghosting and dumping them, all while completely oblivious that her own toxic attitude and insensitive nature were actually the root cause of her breakups. When Bertie runs into and confronts Kara in "The Pain Garden" Kara nonchalantly says Tuca was “too much" for her and she had to think of herself, not even showing any feeling other than apathy when Bertie tells her to get bent.

* AfraidOfDoctors: Due to the trauma of [[spoiler:being in the hospital when her mother died after a terrible car accident]], Tuca doesn’t trust doctors at all. She refuses to go to the hospital to get a painful lump in her side looked at and only ends up going when, during a livestream, the pain becomes unbearable and she ends up begging whoever's listening to come and help her. She's fine ''visiting'' people in the hospital, though, given her nightly visits to her aunt and friendship with Kara, a nurse, in "Nighttime Friend." After [[spoiler: she and Kara break up due to the latter being emotionally abusive she now doesn’t like visiting the hospital due to the possibility of bumping into her]]

* HiddenDepths: In "The Dance," he gives Tuca some very sound (albeit innuendo laden) relationship advice, then casually muses to himself that he wishes he could be a better man for her. He shrugs this off with an "Oh well!" and proceeds to jack off on the Ferris wheel.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: At the end of "Plumage", Bertie furtively masturbates in the bathroom at Pastry Pete's bakery after Pete, whom she has a huge crush on, gets a little too close to her during her apprenticeship. [[spoiler: It turns out to be an early hint of her psycho-sexual troubles.]]

* ADateWithRosiePalms: When Tuca tells him to "beat it," he tells her it'll be for the third time today as he stretches his shoulder.

* PosthumousCharacter: It’s revealed in "Plumage" that she died when Tuca was a child, with "Yeast Week" revealing the cause of death was a car crash and she died while under operation.

->'''Voiced by''': Tunde Adebimpe

* StrongFamilyResemblance: They look almost exactly like Bertie except with slight longer grey “hair" and wrinkles.
* TrashOfTheTitans: When Bertie, Speckle, and Tuca visit for Corpse Week it’s shown Anna has become a hoarder and she refuses to talk about it. It also works as a metaphor for how she and her husband let their mental issues pile up until they can’t ignore them anymore.

* IWantGrandkids: Anna dismissively brings up Bertie not being married or having children yet, and an old woman at the spa they visit questions her about it. Subverted once Bertie confesses she and Speckle have decided to be child-free and Anna starts crying…because she’s actually proud of Bertie making her own choices and she herself always wonders what could've been if she hadn’t married her father.
* ParentsAsPeople: She comes off as emotionally distant and unsupportive, and is shown being critical and dismissive in Bertie's devisions, such as closing her bakery and working under Winter Garcia where she receives no publicity, and her and Speckle not being married yet, to the point where Bertie literally [[ShamefulShrinking shrinks with shame when she does]]. However, after Bertie reveals she doesn’t want kids, Anna cries tears of joy because she’s happy Bertie is making her own choices and knows what she wants, and she reveals she just worries about her and wants her to live her best life, as she herself has some regrets with marrying Henry and wonders what her life would’ve been like if she hadn't settled down.

* GoingtotheStore: After a teary eyed Bertie runs to her old room after confronting her parents, Bertie's dad jumps out of a window claiming to get ice, prompting Tuca to snark that that's what they need.

* EverythingIsBetterWithPenguins: Subverted. Bertie loves being his apprentice and crushes hard on him, but not so much when he manhandles a different, younger apprentice and even less so when she finds out he has a monopoly on any and all baking businesses in Birdtown.

* TheFaceless: Her "head "is just the leaves of her plantstalk, though she does have small, hardly seen mouth on her stem

* ShesGotLegs: She is "a toucan woman with strong legs." One episode puts a lot of focus on her thighs, though she also has some insecurity about them.

* TheFaceless: Her "head "is just the leaves of her plantstalk.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To Pastry Pete. The two are similar in that they're both seabirds who have aggressive personalities that [[BitchInSheepsClothing gradually go from "charming" to "ugly"]], and they both [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty get away with their actions for a period of time]]. The difference is that Pete is a successful, straight guy who abuses his employees often verbally and even sometimes physically or sexually, showing the obvious evils of the patriarchy and upper class; on the other hand, Kara is a lesbian middle-class woman who abuses her partners almost always emotionally, showing that anyone can be an abusive {{Jerkass}}, regardless of gender, sexuality or social status. Pete preyed deliberately on the ShrinkingViolet Bertie while Kara preyed on the outspoken GenkiGirl Tuca, showing that anyone of any personality can be preyed upon.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Bertie is specified as a song thrush, it’s even her last name.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: She's a red-crested turaco.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: She's a [[https://imgb.srgcdn.com/hr3l6uMGM2htzxI9FCdJ.png Honduran white bat.]]

* AmbiguouslyBi: Her general preference is for the guys, but after her high school friend Muriel kissed her, she was pretty eager for more.

* {{Foil}}: To Kara, both being ex-partners of Tuca. [[spoiler:Kara is an abusive, toxic, consumptive bitch who forces Tuca to accommodate to her own schedule while leaving Tuca no time for her own, and consistently blames her own problems on other people. Figgy is polite, considerate, and assures he loves Tuca no matter her own problems. It's his stubborn refusal to move past his ''own'' toxic ViciousCycle that prompts Tuca to break up with him, and even after that they remain AmicableExes, while Kara and Tuca decidedly are not. Ultimately, while both he and Kara suffer from very severe problems that complicate--and break--their relationship with Tuca, Figgy has the clout to at least ''try'' and work out his problems with Tuca, while Kara doesn't get better until after breaking up with Tuca.]]

* NiceGuy: Very friendly, and he feels good when he takes care of other people. He loves Tuca and assures her he likes "all of" her. [[spoiler: Unfortunately his heavy drinking habits and refusal to quit cause Tuca to break up with him]].

A fig tree and Tuca's boyfriend [[spoiler:later ex, later boyfriend again]] in season 3.

* AdultsAreUseless: Instead of helping a young Bertie through her trauma, they never spoke about it with her, or anything “unpleasant" in general, and instead pawned her off onto the even more incompetent school counselor, leaving their then teenage daughter with no emotional support and made her fell like she had to bottle up all her emotions.
* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: The Songthrush house is covered with garbage, and Bertie's parents keep trying to divert attention from it. Bertie claims that they ignore obvious issues like this all the time, including her sexual trauma, which they only addressed with a few school counselor meetings and then never spoke to her about it again.

* ParentsAsPeople: They seemed to want to do right by Bertie, and they believed they did because she was a good student and won many awards. Bertie's outburst at their behavior also seemed to somewhat get through to them as they look remorseful after she leaves the next day after Corpse Week.

* FamilyDisunion: In ”Fledging Day" (the shows’ universe's equivalence of Mother's Day) Bertie spends the whole day with Anna but things are awkward due to Anna being emotionally distant and criticizing Bertie's decision to close her bakery and work for Chef Winter Garcia without being in the public eye. By the end they manage to grow closer after Anna surprisingly is proud of Bertie for wanting to be child free, and after Bertie saves Anna from her old flame wanting to hook up with her again. She even takes a box of Winter snacks that Bertie helped make.

* ParentsAsPeople: She comes off as emotionally distant and is shown being critical of Bertie's decisions, but after Bertie reveals she doesn’t want kids Anna cries tears of joy because she’s happy Bertie is making her own choices, and she reveals she just worries about her and wants her to live her best life, as she herself has some regrets with marrying Henry and wonders what her life would’ve been like if she hadn't settled down.