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Protagonist

Jacob Luke "Jake" Long

^{Click here for his season one dragon form}

^{Click here for his season two dragon form}

^{Click here for his season one design}

Voiced by: Dante Basco

"From the J to the A to the K to the E, I'm the Mac-Daddy Dragon from the NYC, ya heard!"^note Changed to "Magical protector of the NYC" for the second season

At thirteen (later fourteen) years old, Jake appears to be just your average skateboarding, comic book-loving teen. Unbeknownst to many, though, Jake is actually a fire-breathing dragon whose job is to protect a secret world consisting of leprechauns, mermaids, unicorns and other magical creatures.

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• Achilles' Heel: According to Fu Dog (and Jake himself), Haley is this. Also, as a dragon, he has a weak point located behind the left ear. Spud recalls flicking it and causing Jake extreme pain and Rose reveals that the spot is a sure kill spot if hit firmly.
• Act of True Love: In "Homecoming", he wishes Rose was never taken by the Huntsclan, sacrificing his chance to have a relationship with her to not only save her life but give her the normal life she wants.
• Affectionate Nickname:
  • His dad calls him "Jakers" and several other embarrassing nicknames.
  • Trixie calls him "Jakie".
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Justified, when it comes to avoiding visiting his extended family for their annual family vacation, considering how obnoxious, gross and condescending they generally are, begging on ones’ knees is a natural answer.
• Amazon Chaser: After he, Trixie, and Spud accidentally walk in on Rose doing an intense workout in "Ski Trip", Jake excitedly comments on how Rose is "totally buff".
• Ambiguously Christian: He mentions in "Act 4, Scene 15" that Rose's condo is bigger than his church, but it's unclear if he meant that literally or was just using churches in general as a standard of comparison.
• Anime Hair: Justified and Lampshaded as a liberal use of gel.
• Anti-Hero: Mainly he acts like as a Knight in Sour Armor. His tendency to use lethal force against some magical creatures might boost him up to a Pragmatic Hero, however he only does this when the magical creature in question is exceedingly dangerous or tough enough to handle blows.
• The Apprentice: Justified, part of his training for becoming a fully-fledged dragon, Jake is the dragon apprentice of his grandfather Lao-Shi. This is a common practice amongst the dragons, but he’s the first to have a relative be the master (this is due to Lao-Shi requesting it, as he feared that the Dark Dragon would seek out Jake later on).
• Art Evolution: A pretty jarring case; in season 1 his dragon form is pretty big (resembling a Western dragon), but in season 2 his form is much more wiry.
• Artistic License – Child Labor Laws: Jake is directly stated to have a job at age 14 to pay off his massive credit card debts from the events in "Young at Heart", stacking shelves at a grocery shop until the small hours. His constant excuse of helping out in his grandfathers’ shop before Trixie and Spud learned the truth in season one could also be an example. Trixie lampshades it at one point asking if the city doesn’t have child labor laws in New York.
  • Additionally, both Jake, Trixie and Spud took a number of oddjobs to collect money to replace a broken vase in "Professor Rotwoods Thesis", one of them for a construction company, while another was painting an old house (they painted the wrong one).
  • Not to mention that Jake took a job for Brocomus and his leprechaun clan in "Fool’s Gold", acting as both security/bodyguard and occasional salvage crew for which he was paid handsomely.
  Brocomus: (about Jake in relation to his clan) Our best good luck charm, like a fire-breathing four-leaf clover.
• Badass Armfold: He tries one of these after his first victory over the Huntsclan, it doesn’t work as he’s the victim of a wardrobe-malfunction.
• Balloon Belly: More than once he’s had one.
  • He briefly had one in “The Egg” from eating a factory full of peanutbutter covered eastereggs.
  • He gained a more permanent one from going on an eating binge during “Furious Jealousy” because there weren’t many threats around for him to fight.
• Battle Couple: With Rose. While they more often fight each other, there are still moments when they fight as a team, such as against the Aztec Guardian Serpent in the opening of "Breakout" or against the Chimera in "Dreamscape".
• Beware the Nice Ones: Normally, he's pretty laid back, but if you threaten the Magical World and make him think that his girlfriend has betrayed him, you just might end up being thrown into a steel elevator door.
• Big Brother Instinct:
  • Does genuinely care for Haley, though it doesn't show up often. Nonetheless, threaten her and you will be in for a world of hurt.
  • This is best shown in "Haley Gone Wild", where he's willing to tattle on both her and himself and endure the grounding of a lifetime if it means breaking Haley out of Pooka's brainwashing.
• Big Eater: Shown to be this in "Furious Jealousy". Jake really likes his junk food. Also exemplified in "Flight of the Unicorn", where he turns it up to eleven by eating three servings of streetfood in a single mouthful, or a corndog that's been laying on the ground.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: Even more evident in season one.
• Book Dumb: Justified and subverted, Jake is by no means stupid, but he doesn’t do well academically for several very good reasons.
  • Jakes’ dragon duties together with the training leaves him little time to do his homework and sometimes directly interferes with his attendance at school, in season two, it has gotten to the point that he’s not even in the yearbook. In fact, Lao-Shi and Fu at times unintentionally sabotage his efforts to get schoolwork done, show up for school (not even to have his picture taken) or even stay awake in class. Examples include Fu who gets Jake to an Ogre Ball match (which went into quadruple overtime) or Lao-Shi by cutting up his homework with scissors to help visualize an old saying. That he also sometimes must do his dragon duties while at school, whether by being a bodyguard or by directly leaving school doesn’t help his case either. Prior to Jake assuming his dragon duties, he was noted by Principal Derceto to have been an honor student at his school.
  • Another reason is the teachers, specifically Rotwood, a man who not only is an unfair teacher whom Jake naturally doesn’t get along with, but also doesn’t know his subject, magic and magical creatures, as well as Jake does. That Jake regularly antagonizes Rotwood right back or goofs off in class with his friends does not smooth things over.
• Breath Weapon: Fire, like most other dragons in the series.
• Brother–Sister Team: Occasionally. At other times, he and Haley are at each other's throats.
• But Not Too Foreign: Half-Caucasian, half-Chinese.
• Butt-Monkey: Jake suffers a lot of humiliation in the show. This is mostly caused by his arrogance and selfish choices. Heck, the season 1 intro establishes this trope.
• Character Catch Phrase:
  • "Dragon up!"
  • "Aww man!"
• Chick Magnet: He has mutual attraction with Rose, who is his primary love interest. And during "Siren Says", he got into a Love Triangle with Danika and Vicky.
  • Then there’s Jasmine whom almost immediately agrees to a date with him and looks longingly after him as he leaves with Fu.
  • Similarly in “Halloween Bash” a pair of harpies agree to help him for no other reason than “he’s hot”.
  • Subverted with the Witches of Woodstock, who develops crushes on any man visiting their island.
  • Downplayed with Sara, the first thing she tells him is that he’s cute.
• The Chosen One: He's the first American Dragon. The theme song even calls him this word-for-word.
• Clashing Cousins: With Greggy—err, Gregory. Jake dislikes him because of how big a jerk he is.
• Comedic Underwear Exposure: Jake suffers from this on several occasions. He rivals Ron Stoppable in this department.
  • The very first episode does this after Jakes first run in with the Huntsclan, courtesy of Jake’s lack of control over his transformation into a dragon, Huntsgirl lampshades it for him. It happens again after the Huntsclan has been defeated and Jake is still unaware of it.
  • A downplayed case happens in "The Academy" as well, to both Jake and Spud after they’ve entered the Huntsclan academy and are forced to run a hardcore obstacle course.
  • A subverted case takes place in "Family Business" where Jake believes that he’s actually not in this situation, only to find out that not only is it not a dream, but the person that sees him in his undies is a photographer, who promptly snatches a photo for a major magical newspaper.
• Cool Bike: Subverted, he once had a moped that he drove around school to brag, which was solid gold! He made sure Trixie and Spud had a pair too (and Spuds’ had a little cart).
• Cool Board: Is a frequent skateboarder alongside his friends, and showcases legitimate skill many times over the series.
• Covert Pervert: Downplayed, Jake is a teenage boy and although he likes ogling girls, he is disappointed that Fu would also treat them as objects in "Eye of The Beholder". On another note, in "Hong Kong Nights" he is happily surprised to have a female gogo dancers’ leg pop out of a book.
• Child Hater: Zig-zagged, he gets along great with most kids as shown in "A Ghost Story". He does however have a serious dislike of his younger cousins on his mothers’ side, which, considering their gross behavior and general childishness (especially Greggy), is a justified case.
• Crazy-Prepared: Sometimes. Trixie couldn't tell if she was more disturbed from finding out he owns a leprechaun costume or that he brought it on the ski trip in which he didn't expect to have try and draw out Huntsgirl (he didn't know her identity yet).
• Create Your Own Villain: His adventures in time travel unintentionally landed a weaker member of the Hunstclan into a pit where he is almost mauled to death. That member grew up to be the Huntsman.
• Cultural Rebel: Played with, Jake isn’t entirely on board with the division between the magical and the mundane world as the Dragon Council (and Lao-Shi) expects the world dragons to be. Evident when he threw a party in “Halloween Bash” for both magical creatures and normal humans letting the two worlds mix (though not without snags here and there). A more obvious example is that he refuses to mindwipe Trixie and Spud, his best friends when they find out about the magical world, despite Lao-Shi urging him to.
  • Downplayed when it comes to his very limited knowledge about Chinese New Year traditions, as he’s not culturally Chinese but American, even if he’s ethnically Chinese on his mothers’ side.
• Dating Catwoman: After he finds out Rose is Huntsgirl and they start dating at the beginning of Season 2.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Jake Long deconstructs Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World and Disappointing Older Sibling. Jake is The Chosen One, the Dragon Guardian of an unseen magical realm constantly threatened by those that wish to do it harm. This means he is tasked with fighting the supernatural hating Huntsclan and keeping his dragon powers in top form. This causes him to have serious trouble at balancing his schoolwork, his social life, and his duties. His little sister Haley, who often mocks him for his goof-ups, gets an opportunity to be an American Dragon in the penultimate episode and is reduced to a scattered mess within a week because of how stressful it is. She realizes just how tough her brother has it thanks to everything he has to go through and then chews out both her grandfather and her dragon mentor for expecting young children to hoist huge responsibilities without time for fun or any kind of support.
• Disappointing Older Sibling: Jake is viewed as this by his family members due to his laziness and immaturity. This ignores the fact that his dragon responsibility is a major part of his life. This is deconstructed in an episode when Haley takes his place as the American Dragon, and she sees how hard it really is. Then Haley gains more respect for her older brother.
• Dragon Ancestry: Jake is a dragon on his mother's side, and his grandfather and little sister are dragons as well.
• Dressing as the Enemy: Jake dresses up as a Huntsclan student to infiltrate their base in “The Academy” together with Spud, with entertaining and near catastrophic results. He repeats this tactic in “A Befuddled Mind” alongside Trixie, infiltrating Pandarus’ genius institute dressed as Ogre guards, never mind they didn’t have the right size, shape or looks.
• Driving Test: In one episode, a magical creature turns Jake into an adult and he decides to take a driving test. His driving is so lousy the tester only passes him because he threatens to request the same tester for all next times he takes another driving test.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: Not usually, but sometimes he doesn't get the respect he deserves, especially from Haley. At least until she tries his job for a while and realizes how hard it is...
• Earn Your Happy Ending: The girl that he loves regains her memories of him, his dad finally knows his secret and is great with it, and he defeats the greatest foe to all dragons. Plus, with magic, he and Rose can do a long-distance relationship more easily.
• Et Tu, Brute?: Gets this in "Homecoming", when Fu Dog tells him that Rose has stolen the Aztec Skulls for the Huntsman. He realizes that Rose was a Fake Defector when she calls on the destruction of the Huntsclan, and she frees him.
• Everyone Has Standards: While he often flirts with girls, he knows that women have to be treated with respect and tells Fu Dog he needs to stop treating the magical beauty contest contestants like objects.
• Faking the Dead: The only way he can escape the Huntsclan academy in "The Academy" is to ingest a poison that makes him appear skindead.
• Fantastic Time Management: Played with. Justified and Subverted since Lao-Shi gets Jake a P.M.A (Personal Magical Assistant) named Pix Mc Gee in "Doppel Ganger Gang" to help him manage his schedule. Pix is a sentient calendar and also borderline Drill Sergeant Nasty towards Jake to get him to do all his chores (Dragon training and around the house). By the end of the episode, Pix does however praise Jake for scheduling his days and getting things done, thus mastering time management. However, it’s also a downplayed case, as his stress and workload are only marginally diminished afterwards, so Jake is still missing out on a ton of things in normal life, such as School photos, spending time with his friends or even getting enough sleep.
• Fire-Breathing Diner:
  • During Season 1, a random human sees Jake's fire breath and thinks Jake ate spicy food.
  • One episode of Season 2 features Jake eating fries so spicy he needs his fire-breathing to cool down.
• First Kiss: Initiates his with Rose in Season 2’s "The Academy" right before they’re supposed to do a deathmatch. A quick peck on the lips before they fight. Points for making it memorable.
• For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: His Halloween costume is his dragon form, out in public for all to see.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Zig-zagged. While Jake's laziness and recklessness nature combined with Haley's Child Prodigy nature and maturity would make them the Foolish and Responsible Sibling, respectively, unlike Haley, Jake has shown to handle being the American Dragon and handling enemies way better than she does.
• Generation Xerox: He's a lot how Lao-Shi was when he was younger — cocky, flirtatious, reckless, and show-offy.
• Genre Savvy: Downplayed, in "Bring It On" Jake realizes that something is wrong at Trixie’s slumberparty when the girls are being quiet. While Spud thinks this is because they’re sleeping, Jake reasons that girls never sleep at slumberparties. He’s right.
• Greed: Temporarily, Jake had this in "Fool’s Gold" where he worked for a clan of leprechauns, getting paid in large amounts of leprechaun gold. He got better at the end. Unlike others fitting this trope, he’s willing to work for the money and still maintain his standards.
• Guile Hero: For as much as his cockiness can get him in trouble, there are a few instances where he shows off just how clever he can be in battle, such as when he calms a rampaging giant down by tricking him into thinking that the leprechauns he's angry at aren't really there in "Fool's Gold" or when he makes the Dark Dragon think he followed the villain's demands to give the world's dragons a mind control potion by switching the potion with a harmless novelty tea in "Hong Kong Longs".
• Half-Human Hybrid: Technically, as his mother is from a line of dragons (though not one herself) while his father is an average human. This doesn't seem to have any effect on his powers or the plot, though.
• Heartbroken Badass: "Half Baked" is revolved around how Rose's disappearance at the end of "The Hunted" has wreaked havoc on his emotional state.
• A Hero to His Hometown: He is the local Dragon of North America and is regarded as such by the Magical Community there. Though, not always as much as he would like.
• Human Pack Mule: Downplayed, this is one of several uses’ Lao-Shi finds for his grandson when they’re travelling abroad, such as in "Dragon Summit".
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Enjoys being a dragon, but wants to enjoy all the aspects of growing up. Comes to a point in "Being Human" where he purposely gets himself in trouble to have his dragon chi confiscated so he can enjoy graduating middle school in peace.
  • Justified in that his obligations as the American Dragon interfere with his life quite a bit. He was noted to be an honor student when he was younger in contrast to how he is now struggling to get by in school. This in addition to having to hide being a dragon from his dad. This is all on top of the fact that he finds out his crush is part of an organization that wants him dead.
• Improvised Weapon: Now and then he gets creative, like using a beach volley net like a pair of nunchucks against Huntsman in "Hero of The Hourglass" or in "Ski Trip" where he traps Huntsgirl by nailing her to a cliff with icicles.
• In Touch with His Feminine Side: Downplayed, he won’t show it, but Jake is definitely capable of several feminine pursuits, using his claws to make heart-shaped pillows (for Rose) or being competent enough with beauty-products to act as a passable stylist for a beauty pageant in “Eye of The Beholder”.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: "Family Business" implies that he has this, due to having a Child Prodigy for a little sister. Being the American Dragon is, in his own words, the one thing he's good at. So, when Haley begins her dragon training and starts outshining Jake, well...
• Interspecies Romance: Rose, a human, is in a relationship with Jake, who's true form is a dragon.
• Ironic Name: Despite his last name being "Long", he is noticeably short.
• It Sucks to Be the Chosen One: Jake's duties as the American Dragon getting in the way of being able to live as a normal teenager are a constant source of tension in the series. Lampshaded by Haley in her rant to both Sun and Lao-Shi near the end of "Being Human"
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: A non-romantic reason for the breakup. Before Rose can fully sacrifice herself, Jake wishes that she was never taken by the Huntsclan. The result is her living a different life and their relationship being undone until she sees a picture of them from a dance and regains her other memories.
• James Bondage: He gets captured a lot. In one episode, he gets captured three times.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Jake is cocky, slightly rebellious, vain, and often shirks his responsibilities. However, he also has proven to be caring, loyal, and brave.
• Jive Turkey: This raised some controversy with his excessive use of street slang. Executive producer Eddie Guzelian admits that the bravado of Jake's character was shaped by Dante Basco's ad-libbing and their own writing, which was supposed to parody the "wannabe MTV gangsta" crowd. Naturally, it was toned down in season two and even lampshaded in "Switcheroo" when Haley says the best way to imitate Jake is to speak in dated ebonics.
• Kid Hero: Jake is 13 (14 in season 2) and is The Hero.
• Lethal Chef: Zig-zagged, he can cook, but if Jakes’ mind is preoccupied, like when he was depressed about Rose, his food can be outright dangerous. In “Half-baked”, it’s mentioned that “Thankfully, the victims survived his peanut brittle with little damage to their braces”. “Victims” is never a good word when cooking’s involved!
• Love at First Sight: When he first meets Rose.
• Love Hungry: Played with, while he doesn’t have it as bad as some cases, Jake really can’t function all that well if he doesn’t think Rose reciprocates his feelings, justified as it’s one of the few things that keeps him from succumbing to the stress of his massively overburdened workday. This caused Jake to once use one of Cupids’ arrows on Rose when he mistakenly thought she was interested in Brad, but since she already loves Jake, the arrow causes her to hate him instead. Once she’s back to normal, Rose naturally isn’t too happy about it and breaks up with him, getting him down for quite a while. Perhaps uncharacteristically for a teenage boy, he respects her decision by not arguing or trying to win her back, instead giving her space.
  • In "Siren Says" following the events of "Homecoming", Trixie, Spud and Haley all wanted him to get a new girlfriend to help him get over his loss of Rose. The effects of this trope are still in play when Jake screws up that relationship with Danika by accusing her of stealing a pendant and he goes to ludicrous lengths to try and make up for it. It works.
• Malicious Misnaming: Does this when he finds himself encountering the Huntsman in battle, often calling him either "Huntspunk" or "Huntsfool".
• The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life: Very much so, his dragon duties intercept all of his daily activities, including dating. In the case of Rose, it becomes a very complicated case, such as in "Act 4, Scene 15" where both he, and Rose, repeatedly have to excuse themselves, change and fight over a Macguffin. As soon as Jake realizes that Rose is Huntsgirl, it instantly kills any further dates between them. That is until season 2 rolls around and they can go on dream dates.
  • It also messes up his dates with Danica, at least initially, since he’s forced to suspect her of being a magical assassin.
• Maybe Ever After: With Rose, thanks to the show being canceled while the two of them are living in different countries. Though Word of God mentions that had there been a third season, Rose would've moved back to New York City and continued her relationship with Jake.
• Meaningful Name: The Chinese word for dragon is "long". Subverted because it's a coincidence. His surname comes from his father, who's neither Chinese nor a dragon.
• Mirror Character:
  • His grandfather was just like Jake in his youth. In fact, he retained the attitude (but was cockier) as a young adult until he defeated the Dark Dragon the first time. This is probably why he's hard on Jake; he doesn't want his grandson to repeat his mistakes.
  • Jake and Greggy are from the same family and both inherited the family lineage of dragon transformation and are very egotistical regarding their abilities, but Jake has the experience to back the confidence up, and Greggy falls into "overconfident," very similar to how Jake was when the series first began.
• Mistaken for Own Murderer: When Trixie and Spud stumble upon photos of Jake turning into his dragon form, Spud assumes the dragon ate Jake. Trixie quickly points out the correct conclusion.
• Mundane Utility: His grandfather trains him by using his dragon powers to do house chores.
  • Use his tail as a broom.
  • Fangs make useful shears for bonsai trees.
  • A long dexterous dragon tongue is effectively an extra limb, so it's useful for holding a toiletbrush.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: A lot of conflicts resulted from him not taking his job seriously.
• Nutritional Nightmare: Jake really love his junkfood (corndogs, pizza, fishtaco, caramel popcorn and even things that neither Trixie nor Spud will eat). It’s to the point that he has a secret stash in his closet in case he loses any, which Trixie confiscates to make Jake change his unhealthy habits.
• One Head Taller: Inverted. Rose is a little taller than him.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Normally, in a fight, Jake would hurl trash talk and just be overall cocky. In "Homecoming", however, when the Huntsclan crashes the Homecoming ball and threatened Rose to (seemingly) betray him, Jake is so angry/hurt that he drops his normal attitude and mercilessly attacks the Huntsman.
• Papa Wolf: Inverted. Jake becomes enraged at the Jersey Devil for apparently killing his father.
• Pals with Jesus: Downplayed, but he’s on good enough terms with a few divine creatures.
  • He’s familiar with Cupid and the baby-bodied god trusts Jake enough to leave his effects in the dragons’ care while Cupid is taking a break. Cupid doesn’t even mind that Jake abused his arrows, which Cupid is so chill about, that he even offers Jake words of comfort, and ice cream, when it backfires.
  • Jake is also on civil terms with Marty the Grim Reaper, though Marty still freaks him out.
• Paranormal Gambling Advantage: Subverted, Jake used his dragon powers (specifically the eye of the dragon) to hone in on a note with Rose’s name in "Breakout" to pick so he can get her as a team partner for a school science project.
• Playing with Fire: He's capable of manipulating his fire breath to a great extent, forming it into hearts while sustaining the flame is a small example.
• Power at a Price: In one episode, Jake drank a potion that temporarily gave him shapeshifting powers. Until it wore off, he couldn't use any of his other powers.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Gives one to the Strigoi, right before bathing them in sunlight.
  Jake: Oh, coffee’s ready, what better way to greet the dawn?
• Precious Photo: A trait he shares with Rose, their precious photo is of the two of them at the dance where Jake brought a Nix in season one. Jake holds on to his during the time he doesn’t know where Rose is, but discards it after he royally messes up at the Love Cruise after which Rose breaks up with him. He later gets a new one when they get back together prior to "Homecoming". Jake keeps his photo long after he used the crystal skulls to rewrite time and made certain Rose was with her family rather than the Huntsclan. Jake ends up giving it to Rose when he tracks her down in Hong Kong and tries to make her remember her original life. And it works.
• Primary-Color Champion:
  • His signature outfit consists of a red jacket with yellow markings, blue jeans, white t-shirt, and white socks.
  • In his dragon form, his scales are mostly red with his stomach being yellow.
• Protagonist Title: The combination of his full name and his title as the American Dragon is the name of the show.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Downplayed, both because he isn’t overtly masculine, and he only shows a few feminine skills and interests. These include being very skilled at sewing (using his dragon claws to make pillows near instantly) or writing poetry (both for Rose). In addition to these he also writes a diary.
• Red Is Heroic: Tying with him being a Primary-Color Champion, Jake's signature outfit includes a red jacket, and his scales are red in his dragon form.
• Room Full of Crazy: Played for Laughs, during his depressed spell over Rose missing in "Half Baked", Jake had multiple of walls with pictures of her (which went all over the ceiling too), which got both him and Spud kicked out of the monastery they’d joined.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Even when the Dragon council or Lao-Shi orders him to do it, Jake refuses to erase Trixie and Spuds’ memories, after his two best friends finds out about the magical world (and sold him to Rotwood). A very good decision in hindsight, as they help both him, and the magical community on numerous occasions afterwards.
• Secret Diary: The episode “Fu and Tell” reveals that he has one. And he was less than pleased when Haley asked if she could bring it to school for Show and Tell.
• Secret Identity: Downplayed, his identity of the American Dragon is only secret to the Huntsman. Most of humanity are kept in the dark about magical creatures and he has no problem transforming in front of antagonistic magical creatures.
• Self-Applied Nickname: Frequently calls himself the "Am Drag".
• Smarter Than They Look: Jake isn’t stupid by any means, but his actions coupled with his pride and overconfidence make him out to be from time to time, but he still manages to outsmart several foes thoughout the series.
  • He thinks three steps ahead and switches the stolen Leprechaun gold with a pot of gravy in "The Heist" to fool Pandarus who eventually caught them and retrieved the pot.
  • Jake predicts and foils Rotwoods attempt at exposing the Magical world by scrambling his hidden digital camera in "Magic Enemy #1".
  • In "Hong Kong Longs" Jake tricks the Dark Dragon into thinking the entire Dragon Order have been given a magical potion that nullified their powers, which would’ve made them easy prey for the Dark Dragon’s forces, by simply swapping the potion with a harmless one.
• Socially Awkward Hero: Fighting magical monsters he can handle. Talking to pretty blonde girls, not so much.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: Once again, with Rose. While he's the American Dragon sworn to protect all magical creatures, she's a member of the Huntsclan who hunt said creatures. Even by the end of the series, despite Rose remembering Jake and last being seen having a nice moment with him, there are still obstacles making it difficult for them to truly have their happily ever after. Such as the long-distance relationship issues, though it may be easier in a world with magic.
• Strict Parents Make Sneaky Kids: With decently strict parents, Jake’s got several tricks up his sleeve just to leave the house and at least seven ways to watch TV shows his parents (specifically Jonathan) disapprove of, some of which he teaches Haley. This trait comes in handy in his dragon duties as he often needs to sneak out to perform them or trick his opponents in combat.
• Take This Job and Shove It: Jake's reaction to Brocomus offering him a new job is to shut the door in the leprechaun's face. Considering how few scruples the leprechaun has, it's very justified.
  Jake: Sorry, the American Dragon is not for sale.
• Temporary Bulk Change: When he gets his hands on a magic game controller that can manipulate reality, one of the first things he does is give his wiry dragon form a Heroic Build.
• Thicker Than Water: Downplayed, Jake feels this way about his cousin Greggy, but will still smack him around if angered enough.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Subverted. Throughout the series Jake has proven that though he may not advocate for anyone's demise, he's more than willing to permanently take care of the sitaution if needed.
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: The Tiny Guy to Rose's Huge Girl. Justified as they are middle-schoolers and girls are usually taller than boys at that age.
• Unmanly Secret: In "Professor Rotwood's Thesis", it's revealed through Haley that Jake doesn't like having people in his room unsupervised because he's afraid that they'll find out about his teddy bear collection and the fact that he still sleeps with a nightlight since he was 2 years old.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His adventures in time turned a wimpy member of the Huntsclan into the Huntsman, the fourth greatest enemy of the magical community.
• Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World: Deconstructed: He has serious trouble at balancing his schoolwork, his social life and his duties. The episode "Being Human" implies that he's really stressed due to this (Haley can't even start to guess how he does it).
  • An episode did show him attempt to balance this via chi dopplegangers, but he did so via shortcuts (a chi amplifying dust). After he grabbed the wrong one and made a bad chi clone, he reabsorbed them and managed to prioritize what he needed to along with getting his friends to help. However, it is still a great deal of stress and when taking everything to account, he does an admirable job as a hero and magical defender, doing better than what could be realistically expected out of someone in his position.
• Western Zodiac: In "Shapeshifter", Jake states that he's a Pisces.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Says this word-for-word in "Bring it On".
• Wingding Eyes: In Season 1, there are a few moments when his eyes become hearts whenever he sees Rose.

Jake's Family

Luong Lao-Shi

^{Click here for his dragon form}

Voiced by: Keone Young

Jake and Haley's maternal grandfather, and also the former's dragon teacher.

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• Affectionate Nickname: "G" or "Gramps" by Jake.
• Alliterative Name: Luong Lao Shi. Although, Lao-Shi is his given name.
• Barefoot Sage: There's a few scenes (especially Season 2) where he's shown to not even wear his sandals.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: Has long, messy eyebrows.
• Blue Is Heroic: His main outfit as a human is a robe, his dragon form is blue, and he's a hero.
• Broken Ace: A very powerful dragon and the only one to defeat the Dark Dragon singlehandedly. However, his carefree life style and attitude was gone and he ended becoming a serious old man.
• Character Catchphrase: "Well done, young dragon."
• Chick Magnet: Given how many women shows interest in him through his dating profile (set up by Jake in "Something Fishy This Way Comes"), he can be considered this. Played absolutely straight in his young-and-hot-days as seen in "Hong Kong Nights". Zig-zagged when it comes to the witches of Woodstock though, as they’ll fall for anybody.
• A Day in the Limelight: He gets one in "Hong Kong Nights", which details how he used to be a lot like Jake, how he faced the Dark Dragon, and how he was forever changed even though he came out alive.
• Foreign-Language Tirade: He gives these in Chinese whenever he’s agitated by someone, Jake and Jonathan being prime victims of this.
• For Your Own Good: Although it was never revealed to Jake or any other of the characters, this was the reason why he asked Rose to break up with Jake. Haley calls Lao-Shi out for this in "Being Human," and he realizes he went too far.
• Formerly Fit: Downplayed and Justified as he’s neither young anymore nor terribly out of shape, just far less fit than he used to be. 30 years before training his grandson, Lao-Shi was very muscled. His physique was so shredded his abs literally could be played like a xylophone.
• Has a Type: While Lao-Shi isn’t a huge figure on the dating market, his relationships with Chang and later Principal Derceto implies that he has a thing for confident women with authority and a bit of sternness to them. Not to mention, are taller than him.
• Hidden Depths: He harbors a deep love and appreciation for disco music, dancing and karaoke, enjoying them as often as possible. Aside from music, his hobbies include playing mahjong and cards. Additionally, Lao-Shi has also taken high school classes at some point, one of which was in Norwegian.
• Hypocrite: Like Jake, he has dated women that turned out to be enemies but he thought Rose was distracting Jake from his dragon duties. Jake even mentions this when trying to break it to him gently that his latest girlfriend may be the kelpie they're hunting.
• I Was Quite a Looker: He used to be a magical pin-up boy.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Critical, yes, but he does make good points. For example, admonishing Jake for whenever he abuses magic for his own gain or that dating a mortal enemy can be a problem.
• Jerkass Realization: Downplayed in "Being Human", he realizes that he has been expecting Jake to bear far too much stress for a teenager to handle, and his punishment for the prank he pulled is to cut his summer training in half so he can have some time to relax.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: At times Lao-Shi can be a harsh and disciplinarian task master, especially to Jake, but only because he knows the challenges his grandson will face. He's also shown to have a caring side.
• Kung-Fu Wizard: His obvious martial prowess aside, Lao-Shi has proven to be skilled at magic, whipping up a spell to show what he’s been told before in “Old School Training” or making a magical tracking device for keeping tabs on his daughter in “Hero Of the Hourglass” when she was dating Jonathan. In “Dreamscape” he also showed the ability to manipulate his own dreams without the use of a dream charm and bring in physical objects. A downplayed case since Lao-Shi doesn’t use his magical skills for combat, only in a supporting capacity to his duties.
• Laser-Guided Karma: It was partly his fault that Rose and Jake put their relationship on hold, especially when the price for Jake saving her life was that she wouldn't remember him or the magical world. Quite fittingly, when he ends up in the same situation — or so it seems — Jake indirectly forces him to put his relationship on hold by blowing Deloris's cover. She has to return home as a result.
• Meaningful Name: His full name are the Chinese words for "dragon"(龍) and "teacher" (老师).
• Miniature Senior Citizens: Jake's grandfather is so small several people during the Halloween Episode mistook him for a kid dressed like an old Chinese wise man. Then again, it was shown in flashback he wasn't much taller than that during his prime, so he might have some kind of dwarfism. Susan should be glad the dragon powers weren't all that skipped her.
• Mirror Character: He was just like Jake in his youth. In fact, he retained the attitude (but was cockier) as a young adult until he defeated the Dark Dragon the first time. This is probably why he's hard on Jake; he doesn't want his grandson to repeat his mistakes.
• Noodle Incident: Admits that he’s once flirted with an opponent and that it didn’t end well, who it was, or when, isn’t revealed.
• Obnoxious In-Laws: Back in the day, he did not have a good opinion of Johnathan and did not approve of him dating Susan because he was mortal. He did however, come to respect Johnathan for how much he's willing to sacrifice for Susan. It's clear in the present he still doesn't get along well with Johnathan when they interact, but they're willing to work out their differences.
• Old Master: He is an old and wise dragon master who trains Jake.
• Omniglot: Lowgrade version, he is fluent in Chinese and English and have taken college classes in Norwegian.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: "Hero of the Hourglass" shows that he is not above prejudice against humans, seeing as he didn't approve of Susan dating Jonathan because, you guessed it, he's human. Granted, he does come around after he sees Jonathan standing up to the Huntsclan. Though it's also suggested he just doesn't like Jonathan specifically and/or didn't think he was good enough for Susan rather than just because he was a mortal. He's shown to respect other mortals like Jake's friends well enough in the present, yet still doesn't really care for Jonathan much.
• Shipper with an Agenda: Mixed with some Fantastic Racism, as in "Hero Of the Hourglass" he tried, very ham-fisted and unsuccessfully, to set his daughter up with somebody else than Jonathan, simply because the person was a dragon as opposed to a normal human (He didn’t even know the person).
• Shipping Torpedo: He's not supportive of Jake's romance with Rose and tries to break them up when he deems the former is too distracted by the latter to take his duties seriously.
• Shirtless Scene: Downplayed, in his younger days, Lao-Shi would gladly walk around with his shirt open to show off his chest to the ladies.
• Sitcom Archnemesis: Has a completely onesided one with rival electronics retail store owner Chick Boomgarden, whose store is right across from his. Lao-Shi’s main grievance is that Chick gets more customers, which isn’t hard since Lao-Shi has never had a single one.
• Small Parent, Huge Child: Lao-Shi very short (unless he's in his dragon form), and flashbacks show that he was also pretty small in his younger days. His daughter Susan is much taller than him, as such.
• Stern Teacher: Lao-Shi got this one in the bank, with emphasis on the stern. If Jake misbehaves, his grandfather admonishes him with cruel and unusual punishments, such as cleaning a slimy cauldron with his tongue. However, he is willing to be fair in his punishments, such as after his Jerkass Realization, when he punishes Jake by cutting down on his training.
• Third-Person Person: He occasionally refers to himself as “Grandpa”.
• Wax On, Wax Off: Some of his training techniques involve chores, like cleaning toilets with one's dragon tongue (deflects huntsclan nets) and weeping the floor with one's dragon tail (tail-whipping to trip enemies). But the laundry cleaning was just because "Grandpa needed his laundry done".
• You're Not My Type: Not said directly, but it’s obviously Lao-Shi’s reaction to a series of blind dates that he gets on, justified as he not only didn’t know he was going on any dates, but at least one of the women he met came close to eating him.

Fu Dog

Voiced by: John DiMaggio

"I'm a real dog! Woof!"

A 600-year-old talking Shar-Pei, Lao-Shi's only companion and Jake's Animal Guardian. In the 1970s, Fu was a womanizer and a petty thief, but after meeting Lao-Shi, he turned his life around. He's messy and loud and he gambles and harasses women. However, deep down, he has a good heart and is a good, trustworthy friend to Jake.

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• Alchemy Is Magic: He's a very skilled alchemist and potion maker, who frequently mixes potions to do whatever is required in the episode.
  • He made a potion that allows dragons to shapeshift into different people and creatures.
  • A potion for bestowing dragon abilities unto a costume.
  • Memory erasing potion.
  • Memory Improvement potion.
• Asian Lion Dogs: He's a 600-year-old talking shar-pei that lives with the Long family, although he doesn't display any other traits of the traditional temple dogs.
• Bad Date: Aside from his Dating Service Disaster (see below) in "Bring It On", Fu mentions that he had once been on a particularly memorable one, which was allegedly a date with all three of the Gorgon Sisters!
• Becoming the Mask: Downplayed, but in the “Eye of The Beholder” where he has to pretend to be female to win a beauty pageant, he starts to act feminine and makes a small effort to become beautiful such as the old Cucumber Facial. He even starts to respect women for more than their looks. This is all very short-lived.
• Been There, Shaped History: Courtesy of being hundreds of years old and having time-traveled repeatedly, Fu Dog claims to have done a lot for the history of the world, albeit mostly by recklessly destroying famous objects.
  • Causing Atlantis to sink.
  • Causing the RMS Titanic to sink.
  • Introducing the Romans to the concept of toga parties.
  • Giving Betsy Ross the idea to make the American Flag's colors red, white, and blue.
  • Being the reason the Mona Lisa painting features the facial expression it does.
  • Breaking the nose off the Sphinx.
• Big Eater: "Two words: I'M HUNGRY!"
• Blatant Lies: He does this extremely often, whether it’s by spicing up his dating profile with tall tales, trying to cover it up to his friends or attempting to act like a mundane dog in front of non-magical humans. A prime example was when Fu Dog tried to convince Jonathan that he was a normal dog by literally saying “Wouf wouf, dogsound”.
• Body Pocket: He's got lots of them, in the form of his wrinkles.
• Cannot Keep a Secret: Fu’s attempt at blending into the non-magical society isn’t the best, frequently talking around non-magical humans, walking on his hind legs in public (though this was only in season one), buying food at street vendors or driving a car.
• Child Hater: Fu Dog isn’t all too keen on young children, and it’s not exclusively humans that he has a problem with. Case in point, he agrees with Kara of the Oracle twins that he hates puppies since they wet the carpets, yap and chew on everything.
• Dating Service Disaster: He used an online dating site in "Something Fishy this way comes" to land a date with a poodle, it turned out to be a Kelpie in disguise whose goal was to eat Lao-Shi.
• A Day in the Limelight: He got three of them; "Fu Dog Takes a Walk", "Fu and Tell", and "Nobody's Fu".
• Deadpan Snarker: He has a quip for a lot of situations, especially apparent in season one.
• A Dog Ate My Homework: Has been the dog in question at least twice. In “Fu and Tell” one of Haley’s classmates asks Fu to eat his spelling homework since he didn’t finish it. Fu obliges, commenting that it “Tastes like about a D-”. Then, in “Hero of the Hourglass”, he once ate Jake’s homework, which caused Jake to get in trouble with his dad.
• Doing Research: His task in several episodes is to look up different creatures and objects and provide background information on how to combat them or what they can do.
• Drives Like Crazy: When he’s behind the wheel in “Professor Rotwoods thesis”, all passengers are worried (One of them a seasoned dragon). Justified, as he technically doesn’t have a license (only a dog license) and was trying to save Jake.
• The Engineer: Downplayed, Fu Dog is remarkably skilled with different kinds of technology and has made several magical items to help the dragons, including a contraption that can disrupt the Huntsclan's teleportation grid and a trap for Manticores.
• Extreme Omnisexual: Fu could be the poster child for this trope, he has flirted with- and dated numerous different women from different races, ages and looks (beauty isn’t the most important thing for him it seems). These women includes a hunchback, elves, cyclopes, a pixie, arachnid-human (Veronica), a female Cerberus, other magical dogs, humans, a centaur, Ms. Hades (yes it is indeed a female version of Disney Hades), a gargoyle, normal dogs and an individual with two humanoid upper bodies sharing a lizard's lower body, just to name a few.
• Eye of Newt: His potion ingredients are quite diverse and rare and includes Bat liver Oil, trolls burps, butterfly spit, essence of bat sinew and a literal eye of newt (which he proclaims doesn’t do anything, but Fu believes a potion has to have it any way).
• Fat Slob: A rare “heroic” example of this, Fu Dog willingly eats any kind of food he can find (ANY KIND!), he leaves stains and leftovers for weeks no matter where (including the counter in Lao-Shi’s shop), his burps have resonating echoes and his fur is so dirty, that his fleas treat his body like a vacation home. Considering his multitude of skills this trope could transcend into a downplayed case of Genius Slob.
• The Gambling Addict: He'll frequently make bets or have a bet he's made in the past come back at the worst possible time. Not even near-death has helped curb it.
• Good Luck Charm: It’s debatable how lucky it is, but Fu Dog inherited his dad‘s lucky enchanted coin (which has been passed down for at least seven generations, making it thousands of years old), which Yan Yan has stolen from him on numerous occasions (and then he stole it right back later).
• Good Old Fisticuffs: Strong enough to send Yan-Yan flying across the classroom.
• Heel–Face Turn: He was a petty thief in the 1970s until he befriended Lao.
• Hidden Depths: Despite his amorous nature that make him fall in love easily, Fu Dog is seemingly devoted to whomever he’s dating, as he mentions he dated an elf in the 1800’s and actually learned the language (at the very least he can read it). Fu Dog also at one point tried to take his love of puns and humor to the next level and be a standup comedian. He was, however, booed off stage. Additionally, Fu Dog knows how to fly a plane (the kind used in World War I at least, which leads into a bit of Fridge Horror in how he learned to fly one).
• Horse of a Different Color: Fu was the “horse” to Spud in "Siren Says" while they were under the control of the titular Siren. He himself has repeatedly used his dragon partners in the same capacity, which once led to him crashing Jake into a beach when he tried to steer him.
• Hyperspace Arsenal: We've seen him producing a lot of things from his wrinkles, ranging from lesser things like cell phones and shoes to anvils.
• Hypocritical Humor: On so many occasions it's practically a fixture of his character. That dog lacks integrity.
  • In “Bodyguard Duty” he chastises the goblins for wanting to take advantage of the Oracle twins’ abilities to cheat at gambling, but immediately afterwards tries to do the exact same.
  • In “Feeding Frenzy” he Lampshades Lao-Shi’s family’s inability to keep their magical nature hidden, before immediately saying “Woof woof, dog sound” (exact words) when Jonathan approaches.
  • “Game On” sees Fu not wanting to go with Jake because he was worn out and complained about his bad day, despite the vast majority of Fu's lines until that point had been complaining about his new diet or insulting others.
• Ignored Epiphany: In "No Body’s Fu" he cannot grasp the concept that Jake standing him up is exactly what he did to the young dragon earlier in the episode.
• It Runs in the Family: As shown in “Body Guard Duty” Fu takes after his grandmother, an equally old selfish dog with a love of sports that’ll gladly throw down when there’s a chance for it.
• Jealous Pet: Subverted as he’s technically not a pet, but he is a dog and really unhappy about being temporarily replaced as animal sidekick in “No Body’s Fu”. That Bananas B, the replacement magical animal guardian, is instantly well liked by Jake (which isn’t hard as the chimp actually does help out Jake with Dragon duties, schoolwork and social life without sabotaging it in some way) doesn’t make it better in the slightest.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Fu's a chronic gambler, womanizer, and full of obnoxious puns and one-liners. That said, he's a devoted member of the team and always there to provide Jake with some emotional support and advice.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: He's about as much of one as a G-rated Disney cartoon will allow. He squeezes a giantess' hump, gets excited when it comes to zipping up a woman's dress, asks a sprite to shake her things his way ( her wings), has a memory book implied to be about his time in a strip club, and has stated that he falls in love at least six times a day and is shown dating two dogs at once.
• Mayfly–December Romance: Considering his age, many of his flings could very well be this.
• Meaningful Name: Fu Dog is named after the Chinese guardian lions that stands outside of buildings bringing powerful mythical benefits to the inhabitants. Fitting for an animal guardian.
• Mentor Mascot: He's responsible for helping train Jake and will often take the reins when Lao-Shi isn't around. He also has to pretend to be Lao-Shi's pet.
• My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: He can't speak dog, so he has to rely on an English/Dog dictionary. His attempt to ask other dogs caught by a dog catcher "What are you in for?" ended up being "My pants taste like salami."
• Non-Human Sidekick: Notably the consistent non-human on the heroes' side given all the dragons can switch back and forth, Trixie and Spud and later Rose are normal humans and most magical creatures are just walk-ins for any given episode.
• Older Sidekick: At 600 years old, he’s at least thrice the age of Lao-Shi and Jake combined (let alone the rest of the Dragon team). Considering his grandmother is 1400 years old, he has many years ahead of him.
• Pals with Jesus: Fu is an old friend of Marty, the current Grim Reaper, they continually play practical jokes on each other. Fu also readily provides Marty with a place to crash when his condo is being renovated, to the shock of Jake.
• Plucky Comic Relief: Rarely lets anything get him down or stop him from making a joke. He's also prone to cheering up Jake when the poor kid's down.
• Pungeon Master: Loves puns.
• Puppy-Dog Eyes: According to him, he invented that trick. And yet even he can’t resist it.
• Really 700 Years Old: He's 600 years old.
• Reformed Criminal: Lao-Shi met Fu in the 1970s when he was a womanizing thief, stealing valuables from women to pay off his monumental gambling debts. After being impressed with Lao-Shi, he decided to give up his life of crime to be his sidekick.
• Shipper on Deck: He is usually the one who supports Jake/Rose the most.
• Smart Animal, Inconvenient Instincts: Fu may be smart enough to use the internet or play poker, but the second there’s an “attractive” female nearby, he’s in a completely different dimension and ignores everything else. The same can be argued is the case when there’s food involved, perhaps best showcased during the season two intro where he stops at a Hotdog stand in the middle of a frantic run.
• Straw Misogynist: Most prominent in "Eye of the Beholder" where he spends the first half of the episode eyeing up all the female beauty pageant contestants while making the occasional sexist remark. He does learn to view them more as actual people and not just sex objects after he's forced to disguise himself to enter the pageant and deal with being on the receiving end of the chauvinistic treatment.
• Talking Animal: Has fully human speech capabilities.
• Verbal Tic: "A-goo-goo"
• Whole Some Crossdresser: Averted on two occasions.
  • Tries to pass off as a woman named “Fuella” to win a beauty pageant, but he wins based on personality (and because the other contestants forfeit in support of him).
  • In “Dragon Summit” he dresses up like a Siren to help Jake train, freaking the poor dragon out.

Haley Kay Long

^{Click here for her dragon form}

Voiced by: Amy Bruckner

Jake's younger sister who's a perfectionist and almost never gets in trouble. She has just mastered her dragon form and has just started her training.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: In Season 1, her dragon form was purple, but after the Art Shift in Season 2, it was inexplicably changed to pink.
• Always Someone Better: Subverted. While she is a better student and is shown to have a natural talent with her Dragon Skills, it's also shown that this is specifically because she doesn't have to Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World like Jake does on a daily basis. After Jake temporarily gave up his role as the American Dragon, Haley had to assume the responsibility... and cracked under the pressure in less than a week. This helps her gain a newfound respect for her older brother and leads her to calling out their grandfather in "Being Human."
  • In "Family Business," Haley ended up kidnapped when her dragon powers were on the fritz, courtesy of a jealous Jake, necessitating a rescue from her brother; after the rescue, Haley reveals that the effects of the powder wore off pretty much the moment she was kidnapped—it was her own fear that prevented her from fighting back. This is notably one area where Jake trumps Haley, as when he was in a similar situation, held against his will while in dragon form, he was able to get out of it with little to no help.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: To Jake, primarily because she's so perfect.
• Asian and Nerdy: Chinese-American and is a gifted Child Prodigy.
• Attention Whore: Seems to have shades of this, such as in "Fu and Tell." Jake later brings up how much she likes attention in "Switcheroo."
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Haley always wanted to be the American Dragon and gets her wish in "Being Human". However, during that time, she cracks under the pressure.
• Berserk Button: While she generally doesn’t get worked up by monsters or people, there’s two things that will eventually make her snap:
  • People being unjust towards her brother, she'll chew you out, being her grandfather or dragonmaster won't stop her.
  • Not getting respect and being played pranks on for several hours, so naturally she doesn’t get along with her cousin Andrew and his siblings.
• Big Brother Worship: "Switcheroo" reveals that while Haley may not show it, she thinks of Jake as her main admiration and inspiration.
• Big Sister Instinct: Inverted. Haley is younger than Jake but comes to his defense when Lao-Shi calls him selfish for wanting a break from his duties.
• Borrowed Catchphrase: She borrows her brother's "Dragon Up" when she transforms.
• Brother–Sister Team: Occasionally. At other times, Jake and Haley are at each other's throats.
• Breath Weapon: Is shown to breathe fire like all other dragons.
• But Not Too Foreign: Like her brother, she's half Chinese and half Caucasian.
• Calling the Old Man Out: Does this to her grandfather in "Being Human."
• Characterization Marches On: In the first season Haley was still a child prodigy, but was far more willing to go along with more immature and reckless endeavors, and attended a public school. In the second season, though, she still showed moments of her living up to her age, her traits of being the more successful and intelligent sibling were brought to the forefront to better contrast her with Jake.
• Children Are Innocent: Haley fully believes her paper fortune teller in "Siren Says":
  Haley: (To Jake after he'd criticized her paper fortune teller) It's not stupid, it's science; Ink, plus paper, plus girl's intuition, equals mystic truth.
• Child Prodigy: Season two shows her to have natural dragon talent, showing her brother up like she always does. It's also established that she attends a school for gifted children. However, it's also been shown this is primarily because she doesn't have the same duties that her brother does. When the buck is passed to her, her grades start slipping as she becomes a nervous wreck.
• Clashing Cousins: While she tries to avert it, she really doesn't get along with her cousins on her mother's side of the family, see Berserk Button.
• Crocodile Tears: Does this to get her way in "Fu and Tell". it's so effective, it even works on Jake when he's angry at her for going through his stuff and her admitting that she was looking for his diary to use for a show and tell at her school.
• The Cutie: Pigtails. Feminine dress. Angelic voice. Smiley face. 'Nuff said.
• Damsel in Distress: At the end of "Family Business".
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Zig-zagged. While Haley's Child Prodigy nature and maturity combined with Jake's laziness and recklessness nature would make them the Responsible and Foolish Sibling, respectively, unlike Haley, Jake has shown to handle being the American dragon and handling enemies way better than she does.
• Girlish Pigtails: Her usual hairstyle is two, long pigtails.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Just like her big brother, as their mother is from a line of dragons (though not one herself) while their father is an average human.
• Let's See YOU Do Better!: Jake convinces her to keep quiet about his plan to get suspended by convincing her she'd be better at being the American Dragon. She does her best but becomes really stressed at the end of "Being Human" and has more sympathy for Jake.
• Like a Daughter to Me: While Sun never outright says it, it's clear as day that she cares for Haley as if she were her own daughter.
• Madness Mantra: Not from her own mouth, but at the height of her stress-induced breakdown in "Being Human" she's stuck staring at nothing squeezing the doll she was given over and over again: "You're special! You're special! You're special! You're...!"
• Meaningful Name:
  • Haley is named after Halley's Comet; Susan Long took a liking to the name after she and Jonathan attended a party and watched the comet bypass Earth in orbit.
    • Meta example, Haley is also named after Hailie Jade, the daughter of Eminem.
  • The Chinese word for dragon is "long". Subverted because it's a coincidence. Her surname comes from her father, who's neither Chinese nor a dragon.
• Mundane Utility: Haley is good enough with her claws to use them to chop vegetables during season 1.
• Morphic Resonance: Haley as a dragon doesn’t look that much different from when she’s human other than having pink skin and a tail. Namely, her hair, face, not to mention her size is the same as when she’s human. Because of this, her father immediately recognizes her in dragon form, even if he didn’t see her transform.
• Not So Above It All: As shown in the stinger to "Haley Gone Wild," even Haley doesn’t like educational TV and would rather watch shows like Belching Monkeys.
• Pint-Sized Kid: It's established by Jake in "The Legend of the Dragon Tooth" and "Switcheroo" that she is literally only 2 feet tall, although he was more than likely just exaggerating; of course, the way it's shown, she might as well be.
• Shipper on Deck: Subtle, but she's implied to ship Jake and Rose. In "Switcheroo", she tells Jake she can see why he likes Rose and then puts a nice portrait of Rose into her locker and signs it as being "from Jake". Then, during her Calling the Old Man Out to Lao-Shi in "Being Human", Haley brings up how Jake had to part farewells with the "girl he loves" aka Rose.
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Her dragon form is pink.
• Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World: Deconstructed in "Being Human," where she temporarily takes over as the American Dragon... and cracks under the pressure in less than week. However, she gains a newfound respect for her older brother and even defends him against their grandfather, pointing out the severity and all the personal losses Jake's had to go through as a result of it.

Jonathan Long

Voiced by: Jeff Bennett

Jake and Haley's goofy, but loving father who has no idea that he has married into a magical family. As well as being goofy and embarrassing, he is also strict, however, he only is that way because he wants his children to remain safe. For if you hurt his children, beware.

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• Adults Are Useless: Played with, due to his manchild personality and easily excitable character, he’s not always the best to do things. Susan, Lao-Shi and Jake lampshade that Jonathan isn’t the best at dealing with stress, case in point: Jonathan at one-point panics when he got his sweater on backwards and had to get help getting it right.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: The classic embarrassing father. He often does or says something that humiliates his son. However, unlike most people of this trope, he also has a strict side.
• Badass Normal: Has no magical powers, yet can hold his own against the Jersey Devil (and even better—he thought it was a bear, meaning that he was willing to go after a bear to save his son).
• Big Brother Bully: Downplayed, confesses in a panic during the interrogation by the Huntsclan in "Hero of The Hourglass" that he once let the air out of his sister’s garden pool. His relationship with Patchouli is way better as adults.
• Brainy Brunette: Has brown hair and, while he may be goofy, he has also proven to be intelligent.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass:
  • When the Jersey's Devil attacked him, he mistook it for a bear and went into survival mode. When the Jersey's Devil attacked Jake, he still mistook it for a bear and threw it down off a cliff with a Swiss-Army Weapon fitted with bear spray.
  • He defeated the entire army of Shade Demons in the series finale by grabbing a ceremonial vase with his fanny pack and reflected moonlight off of it. Jake even lampshades it proudly.
• Fainting: He tends to pass out whenever he's overexcited, most notably whenever he learns that magic exists.
• Foreign-Language Tirade: Tried to pull one on Lao-Shi in "Feeding Frenzy" by using his high school Norwegian, only for Lao-Shi to reveal that he also took that class.
• Good Parents: As embarrassing as Jonathan can be to Jake, he also has proven to be a devoted father with a reasonable strict side.
• Good with Numbers: Implied. Jonathan's job is a financial planner, and given it's requirements, he may be good at math.
• Happily Married: While their marriage isn't given a lot of focus, he and Susan have been shown to deeply love one another. Heck, they're even High-School Sweethearts.
• High-School Sweethearts: He and his future wife Susan would meet and date each other during their junior year of Fillmore High School.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Zig-zagged. Jonathan gets the jeebies from the Pooka and forbids Haley from watching the Pooka TV show, but has zero problems with talking happily with a trio of Strigoi that wants to eat him, though it’s partially justified, since he thought they were potential business partners for his company.
• Interspecies Romance: Zig-zagged. While he's a human, Susan comes from a long line of dragons but it skipped her generation, making her technically human. Also, according to one of the writers of the show on the Toonzone forums, at one point there were plans to reveal that he's a werewolf.
• Manchild: Jonathan is a hyperactive goofy man who loves to have fun.
• Meaningful Name: The Chinese word for dragon is "long". Subverted because it's a coincidence, as he's neither Chinese nor a dragon.
• Nice Guy: While Jonathan is embarrassing, he is also a caring, protective man.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Unlike most Manchild fathers in cartoons, Jonathan is rather strict in parenting and whenever Jake is being disobedient or lies about something (usually due to dragon business), that is when Jonathan puts his foot down and punishes his son.
• Papa Wolf: See the first example of his Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass entry. Also when Jake was defeated by some vampires (they were masquerading as important business associates), Jonathan got pissed and let them have it. He ends up being crucial in defeating the Dark Dragon in the series finale on hearing that Jake was in danger. This almost would've been a literal example if the show had followed through with their earlier plans to reveal that he's a werewolf.
• Secret-Keeper: In the series finale, "Hong Kong Longs", he finds out about his wife's side of the family being dragons and the existence of magical creatures. He faints at the reveal, but ultimately, rather than leave Susan and/or get angry about her not telling him about this for such a long time, he's actually very accepting of it and even admits that he always had a feeling that there was something "magical" about his family.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: Square glasses in his case. Still, a Brainy Brunette.
• Supernatural-Proof Father: However, according to one of the writers of the show on the Toonzone forums, at one point there were plans to reveal that he's a werewolf, essentially making Jake and Haley Heinz Hybrids.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Whenever something supernatural happens around him, Jonathan thinks it is something normal. One episode he ends up in a tea shop full of mythical creatures yet doesn't even question about it.

Susan Long

Voiced by: Lauren Tom

Jake and Haley's mother. She has no magical powers, since they skipped her generation. She is reluctant to reveal her family's heritage to her husband (apparently out of the fear that he will abandon her), and to this end, lies to her husband about Jake's business, sometimes letting Jake take the fall.

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• Affectionate Nickname: "Lotus Blossom" by her father.
• Benevolent Boss: Susan is seemingly on very good terms with her three employees in her catering company.
• Camera Fiend: In the early episodes of Season 1, she's shown to be this whenever her children hit a big milestone (i.e. Jake going to his first school dance or Haley losing her first tooth). This aspect of her character died down as the series went on.
• Feminine Women Can Cook: She's very good at cooking and even has her own catering company.
• Good Parents: Not shown a lot, but Susan has shown to be an attentive and caring mother to her kids, but knows when to discipline them.
• Happily Married: While their marriage isn't given a lot of focus, she and Jonathan have been shown to deeply love one another. Heck, they're even High-School Sweethearts.
• High-School Sweethearts: She, and her future husband Jonathan, would meet and date each other during their junior year of Fillmore High School.
• Interspecies Romance: Zig-zagged. Susan comes from a long line of dragons but it skipped her generation, making her technically human while Jonathan was born a regular human. Also, according to one of the writers of the show on the Toonzone forums, at one point there were plans to reveal that he's a werewolf.
• Meaningful Name: Her maiden name, Luong, is Chinese for "dragon".
• Missing Mom: Lao-Shi's wife (Susan's mother) was never seen or mentioned.
• Muggle Born of Mages: The dragon powers skipped her generation.
• Nice Girl: Overall, Susan is a caring and decent person.

Jake's Close Friends

Arthur P. "Spud" Spudinski

Voiced by: Charlie Finn

One of Jake's two best friends. Despite being a bit of a ditz, he's quite reliable. Season 2 shows off he is actually very intelligent, but because of how he was raised, he doesn't like to show it.

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• Aborted Declaration of Love: In "Homecoming", he tried to confess to Trixie. However, Trixie cut him off and the two decide that they're just better off as being "friends and nothing more".
• Accidental Hand-Hold: This happens twice with Stacey in "Bring It On". The first time was, in his own words, the "life-altering encounter" that led to him developing a crush on her.
  Spud: My head's been spinning ever since…
• Accidental Kiss: Has one with Trixie in the dark in the episode "Homecoming", thinking it was his crush Stacy (while Trixie thought it was her crush Kyle). Neither were pleased when they found out and agreed they were better as friends.
• All Guys Want Cheerleaders: In season two, Spud's crush is on head cheerleader, Stacey.
• Amazon Chaser: It doesn't come up much, but it's there, such as when he high-fives Jake after seeing Rose's fit physique in "Ski Trip". In season two in "The Academy", he is overjoyed when he sees two female Huntsclan trainees start fighting over him (which happens twice). Later in the same episode, he asks two cheerleaders at his regular school if they’d be willing to do it too, but to no avail.
  Spud: "Go ladies! Fight for the trophy that is me!"
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Spud is not the best at paying attention, as Fu Dog found out when he specifically told him to not let in a troll that was trying to collect money from the canine and Spud did it anyway as he was busy balancing a banana on his nose at the time.
• Brainy Brunette: Spud has brown hair and, despite his strange demeanor, he's actually a genius.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Spud is actually a genius but doesn't apply himself because he fears the added pressure that comes with being incredibly smart.
• Cannot Dream: Zig-zagged. Spud does have vivid, detailed dreams about being a superhero, but he never remembers them when he wakes up. When he uses a dreamcatcher to enter his dream world, he's pleased by what he finds.
• Cargo Ship: In-universe, for the duration of "The Ski Trip" Spud developed a crush on a ski lift, even imagining being married to and having kids with it. After Spud fell from it, he makes it clear that HE broke up with IT.
• Characterization Marches On: In Season 1, he was firmly characterized as an idiot with the occasional stroke of brillliance in specific areas. In Season 2, he's revealed to be a genuine genius, but deliberately keeps his intellect secret because he believes it'll prevent him from truly enjoying his life.
• Chick Magnet: Surprisingly, Spud had this role in “The Academy” while he was undercover as a Huntsclan trainee. This started before the other students came to believe he’d even defeated the Kraken, where girls were fighting over who got to be his date for the upcoming school dance. The misunderstanding only marginally intensified the magnetism. Naturally, he milked it as much as he could, even going to the dance with the two girls fighting over him.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: "Supernatural Tuesday" even gives us a peek into his mind.
  Spud: No matter where you go, if you try to hide, the moon will always find you.
• Collector of the Strange: According to Jake in "The Doppelgänger Gang", Spud's favorite possession is a ball of bellybutton lint he's been collecting since he was 3 years old.
• A Day in the Limelight: "A Befuddled Mind" and "Shaggy Frog". Also, both he and Trixie share the spotlight in "Keeping Shop".
• Deliberate Under-Performance: He is revealed to be a Child Prodigy in the second season of the series, but purposefully scores low as he is happy being lackadaisical and doesn't want any type of expectation put on him, especially due to an overbearing father. Considering that when Jake and Trixie trick him into actually scoring high, he nearly gets used by Jake's enemy Eli Pandarious, he's got a point.
• Disappeared Dad: The only time we see his father is in flashbacks, implying that he may no longer be in the picture.
• The Dreaded: According to Fu, he is this to a gang of biker trolls.
• Dressing as the Enemy: Does this along with Jake in “The Academy” to infiltrate the Huntsclan Academy, and he loved it (see Chick Magnet). When Jake got exposed and captured, Spud evaded capture by replacing his number tag with that of another Huntsclan student.
• Eccentric Artist: Spud is surprisingly talented when it comes to art, or at least for recreating great artists’ works, as he has used his (wrong) test results at school to recreate Leonardo Da Vinci’s "The Last Supper" in "A Befuddled Mind" or when he painted a mural on a garage door in the time it took Jake and Trixie to paint a wall together in "Professor Rotwood’s Thesis". During "A Befuddled Mind" Spud manipulates common lamps to create a mini light show like the ones in a concert. And since it’s Spud, the eccentricity is ever present, though unlike other cases of this trope, Spud is very humble about his skills and doesn’t show them off, though the fact he doesn’t want his intelligence and skills acknowledged because it’d take away his fun certainly has a part in this.
• Evil Laugh: Has a "talent" for lampshading these. He has one as well. It needs work.
• Friendly Fire: A literal case occurs in "Keeping Shop", where Spud and Trixie have temporarily gained dragon powers, and Spud used his firebreath to accidentally burn Trixie’s rear because he misunderstood Fu’s commands.
• Freudian Excuse: The reason Spud prefers to act stupid is because his parents wished to force the genius out of him even when he was still in diapers.
• Heroic Wannabe: After learning of one his best friends is a magical hero, Spud develops a secret desire to be a hero like Jake. It is revealed that he sometimes dreams of being a potato themed superhero.
• Hidden Depths:
  • It's been hinted several times that Spud actually has a magical background (namely that his great-grandfather may have been a wizard), but is just unaware of it. Not to mention the reveal he is actually something of a genius, which was actually lightly foreshadowed when he appeared in the Lilo & Stitch: The Series crossover and named the experiment of the episode after Bartholomew.
  • He professes that he is also a lifelong fan of K.E.W.L. (King Extreme Wrestling League) in "Ring Around the Dragon", quite surprising given his extremely mellow character.
• Hollywood Hacking: Spud rules this trope, cracking the Huntsclans’ code and simultaneously hacking their teleportation system in the matter of seconds. A task which the dragon council had tried and failed to do for hundreds of years. It’s dialed up to eleven as Spud explains that it was a “tricky task”, suggesting he could have done it even faster.
• I Just Want to Be Special: "Shaggy Frog" shows him being somewhat jealous of Jake for being a magical hero.
• Last-Name Basis: A variant. He goes by a shorten version of his last name.
• Like Father, Unlike Son: It is revealed in a flashback that Spud’s father is an extremely serious man that urged his son to perform explementary ever since Spud was a toddler, including teaching him about Trickle-down Economics and scolding him for laughing at slapstick humor. His father is the reason for Spud’s laidback, goofy slacker persona, as he didn’t want to become all-work and no play.
• Magic Wand: Spud is surprisingly proficient in using the two wands he took from Eli Pandarus to perform a spell he’d only seen once.
• Mellow Fellow: He has a very relaxed demeanor.
• Muggle Best Friend: He and Trixie are Jake's closest friends.
• My God, What Have I Done?: He and Trixie have this moment in "Professor Rotwood's Thesis", when they discover that Jake is the dragon they just sold to Rotwood for a cash reward.
• Mysterious Middle Initial: We never find out what the "P" stands for.
• Nice Guy: A generally decent, if weird, guy.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: While strange, he's actually a genius. However due to an overbearing father he's came to the conclusion that you can be smart, or happy, but not both.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Everyone calls him Spud. The only one who calls him Arthur is his mother.
• Secret-Keeper: Becomes this after learning of Jake being a dragon "Professor Rotwood's Thesis", when Jake refuses to have his memory wiped.
• Shipper on Deck: He ships Jake and Rose, even after Jake finds out she’s Huntsgirl, which leads to Jake having conflicted feelings about her (until her Heel–Face Turn, anyway).
  Jake: Ugh, when I see her, it’s like I don’t know whether to kiss her, or to incinerate her with a fireball!
  Spud: Yep, sounds like True Love to me, bro.
• Ship Tease: With Trixie. To both's happiness, they don't get romantically together.
• The Slacker: Spud is very dedicated to “Chilling, hanging out and loitering” for a simple Saturday.
• Stalker with a Crush: Toward Stacy. While he doesn't actually stalk her, he has invented a device made to track her anywhere on the planet.
• Superpowers For A Day: In "Shaggy Frog", a frog biting him gives him frog-like superpowers. He's cured by the end of the episode.
• Surfer Dude: Not so much the looks than the accent.
  Spud: Dude… I could have sworn I was a dude!
• Undying Loyalty: Downplayed, but if Jake is going somewhere, whenever possible, Spud is not two steps behind supporting him however he can. This include taking on the Dark Dragon, joining a monastery, retrieve a magical artefact from a cave filled with traps, infiltrating the Huntsclan academy, or fighting the Huntsclan itself.
• Unwilling Suspension: Happens to him in "A Befuddled Mind".
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: In "Half-Baked", it's revealed that he is terrified of clowns due to an incident involving a Clowny McHonk-Honk parade balloon when he was 5.
  Spud: Me, 12 trombonists, and the Cable Access weather lady haven't been the same since.
• Youthful Freckles: Spud has six freckles, three on each of his cheeks, and is quite friendly.

Trixie Carter

Voiced by: Kali "Kittie" Troy

One of Jake's best friends. She sometimes acts as the voice of reason. Shows signs of becoming a doctor.

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• Action Girl: On occasion, Trixie shows she’s both able and willing to throw down with either dragons, trolls or gorgons, backup preferred, but she’ll go solo if needs be.
• Affectionate Nickname: "Trix" by her friends.
• All Girls Like Ponies: Averted, when meeting a Unicorn, Trixie is not impressed.
• A Day in the Limelight: "Bring It On". She and Spud also share the spotlight in "Keeping Shop".
• Celeb Crush: Wanted to marry Denzel Washington in season one.
• Cloud Cuckoolanders Minder: Trixie often tries to rein in Spud and explain some of his more illogical ideas and fantasies. She often fails.
• Cosplay: She dressed up as a videogame character for a game convention in “Haley Gone Wild”. The only reason she did it was because Spud promised it’d be a dual costume. She wasn’t pleased to find out that his costume consisted of the gaming controller since he was the player that actually played the character.
• The Dreaded: At least according to Fu Dog, she (and Spud) is this to a gang of biker trolls.
• Dressing as the Enemy: She infiltrates Pandarus’ fortress together with Jake dressed as Ogre guards.
• Dude Magnet: Downplayed, there’s a few boys that have found Trixie attractive over the series and have asked her out on dates, namely Kyle Wilkins and an Asian kid in “Supernatural Tuesday”.
• The Fashionista: Subverted, while she prefers to wear sweatshirts and tomboy clothes, Trixie owns a large amount of designer clothes, which her mother buys her from all over the world. The cheerleaders can’t get enough of it.
• Gamer Chick: She enjoys playing videogames, visits arcades and is not adverse to go to gaming conventions (In Cosplay), all with her best friends.
• Girliness Upgrade: Subverted, she's not averse to wearing dresses when she’s going to a dance. In “Bring It On” Trixie temporarily ditches her tomboy outfits to infiltrate the cheerleaders’ clique. She likes being able to speak about boys with them, but it doesn’t stick.
• Hidden Depths: She has some aspirations to be a doctor in the future, since she likes the sound of "Doctor Carter".
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She can be very rude and inconsiderate, but is a loyal and brave person.
• Leg Focus: An episode has Trixie become a cheerleader. When her two male friends see her in a revealing miniskirt for the first time they get distracted. One of them goes on to talk about her legs for a while afterward, questioning why she never showed off her legs before.
• Military Brat: Her dad's a fighter pilot in the Air Force.
• Muggle Best Friend: She and Spud are Jake's closest friends.
• My God, What Have I Done?: She and Spud have this moment in "Professor Rotwood's Thesis", when they discover that Jake is the dragon they just sold to Rotwood for a cash reward.
• One of the Boys: The only ones she hangs out with are Jake and Spud.
• Raised by Grandparents: Downplayed. Both of Trixie's parents are still alive, but with her dad being overseas in the military and her mom being relatively busy with working as an airline pilot, Trixie's grandmother appears to be her primary caregiver when neither of her parents are around.
• Sassy Black Woman: Very much so. In fact, she's this trope to the extent she is because no one was going to tell her voice actress to tone down her natural personality.
• Secret-Keeper: She keeps Jake's magical background and duties a secret.
• Self-Applied Nickname: She has a tendency to call herself "Mama Trixie", but the only other character to call her this is Lilo.
• Shipper on Deck: Zig-zagged, Trixie doesn’t support Jake or Spud when it comes to girls they really like (Rose and Stacy) but does support them when it comes to girls she likes, like Vicki (boy was she wrong on that front). It was played straight in season one with Jake and Rose, but this ended when Trixie suspected that Rose was Huntsgirl.
• Ship Tease: With Spud. To both's happiness, they don't get romantically together.
• Stress Vomit: After accepting, Trixie’s second response to Kyle asking her if she wanted to be his date for the love cruise is this. He takes it well.
• Stronger Than They Look: She doesn't look weak per ce, but she's deceptively strong, as she can easily move around in metalarmour when figthing a dragon.
• Team Mom: Hence why she calls herself "Mama Trixie".
• Token Black Friend: To Jake and Spud.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to Haley's girly girl.
• Two First Names: "Carter" can also be a first name.
• Verbal Tic: She uses the word "baby" a lot.

Rose/Huntsgirl

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Voiced By: Mae Whitman

"And one last thing. Never show a dragon mercy. Ever."

A hot, popular girl at school, Rose catches the attention of Jake immediately. However, there is more to this girl than meets the eye. She is actually a highly skilled hunter, trained by the Huntsclan to fight and slay dragons. Jake's girlfriend.

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• Action Girl: Girl has serious skills. If the scene where she curbstomps the Huntsclan members who confront her on the Huntsman's orders in "Homecoming" and her alone giving the Dark Dragon a run for his money in "Hong Kong Longs" are any indication, she may even be a borderline One-Woman Army.
• Act of True Love: Proves once and for all how much she loves Jake when she sacrifices herself to make sure he and his family are forever safe from the Huntsclan at the end of "Homecoming".
• All Up to You: Essentially, her role in the final episode, where after all the world's dragons are defeated by the Dark Dragon, she steps up to the plate and defeats him. This was pretty much exactly what Jake intended, as he goes looking for her under the belief that they need a natural dragon slayer to deal with the problem.
• Amnesiac Lover: Becomes this after the events of "Homecoming" when Jake wishes she was never stolen by the Huntsclan, effectively erasing her memories of him. It's not until she sees the picture of herself and Jake at the dance that it all comes back to her.
• Anti-Hero: Committing an act of genocide to save the Magical World and her family cements her as this. She's probably a Pragmatic Hero.
• Anti-Villain: Played with throughout the series. In season one, she's generally portrayed as a straight villain in her Huntsgirl persona, with it being through knowing her as Rose that makes Jake think there's good in her. It's not until season two, after her Heel–Face Turn, that the show gives her the tragic backstory of being kidnapped at birth to retroactively make her fit this trope. In addition, there are individual episodes in season two where she plays the role of a sympathetic antagonist: "The Love Cruise", where she tries to kill Jake because Jake shooting her with one of Cupid's love arrows has made her Not Herself and "Homecoming", where she betrays Jake because she's being blackmailed, only to be revealed to be Good All Along at the end.
• The Apprentice: She is literally at the "Apprentice Level" in the Huntsclan. She's skilled, but Jake is just as skilled, preventing her from ever rising in Huntsclan status.
• Badass Bookworm: Shows signs of being this, as she's seen reading when Jake opens a second portal to her location with the Krylock venom potion in "Half Baked" and when Jake and Haley see her walking across the street in "Switcheroo".
  Haley: She's pretty. Graceful. Reads books. I'd say she's way out of your league.
• Badass Normal: Pretty much the entire Huntsclan, really, but when a fourteen-year-old girl built like a drinking straw is fighting huge firebreathing dragons to a standstill, you know you don't want to get on her bad side.
• Battle Couple: With Jake. While they more often fight each other, there are still moments when they fight as a team, such as against the Aztec Guardian Serpent in the opening of "Breakout" or against the Chimera in "Dreamscape".
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Zig-zagged, in ”Act 4, Scene 15”: Rose accidentally gets shot in the knee by a ray from Huntsmans staff-weapon, resulting in her getting her leg in a cast at the end of the episode. But there’s no permanent damage in subsequent episodes.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Rose starts falling for Jake because he cheered her up and danced with her after she got dumped at the school dance by Brad (her actual date). That Jake keeps it up regularly, such as during their stint at acting in "Act 4, Scene 15" and on their date afterwards only strengthens her feelings for him.
  • Exploited in "Switcheroo" by Haley as a favor to Jake. Rose is gifted a painting of her by Haley which make Rose take Jake back after she broke up with him at the end of "Love Cruise".
• Beware the Nice Ones: Jake is thrown for a loop when he learns that sweet Rose is the same Huntsgirl that has been trying to kill him all of first season. Even after her Heel–Face Turn, she's still dangerous.
• Big Damn Heroes: Gets a couple moments, such as when she stuns the Huntsman from behind just as he's about to slay Jake in "Breakout" or when she accepts the Dark Dragon's challenge of a fighter who can take him in "Hong Kong Longs".
• Big Eater: Played with. During one of her and Jake's dream dates, she enlarges a crepe until it's as big as she is.
  Rose: Yeah, but if we're having dream crepes, we may as well make them real dream crepes.
• Birthmark of Destiny: The Mark of the Huntsclan.
• Born Winner: Being born with a Huntsclan dragon birthmark makes her a natural-born dragon-slayer. Even without training, her blood and instincts give her a disproportionate advantage in fighting magical creatures, and with training she's nearly unbeatable.
• Braids of Action: Usually wears her hair in a braid when she leaps into action.
• Calling the Old Man Out: The Huntsman gets a faceful of this when he busts Rose for being a Mole. She curb-stomps his men and holds him at lance point, snarking that he taught her too well. Rose was not happy to learn she had been stolen from her real parents and told him off for lying to her.
• Celeb Crush: She had one for Jaren MacArthur in season one, she’s very excited when, unbeknown to her, Jake transforms into him so he can impress her.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: She's easily the most skilled non-magical character on Jake's side, being more or less his equal in terms of combat, durability, and agility. The only possible explanation is her years of Huntsclan training.
• Chekhov's Skill: In "Act 4, Scene 15" Rose is shown having an interest in acting and being good enough to land the female lead in a school play. This skill becomes very useful come Season two.
• Child Soldiers: She's only 13-14, and her whole life has been about learning how to fight, hunt, and kill magical creatures.
  Rose: I've been dreaming about slaying a dragon since birth.
• Combat Pragmatist: She's not afraid to fight dirty, going for her enemy's back more than once. Case in point, she's first introduced kicking Jake from behind while he's smack-talking the Huntsman.
• Covert Pervert: "Shapeshifter" paints her this way, in her lust for pop star Jaren MacArthur. When she fights Jake while he's assumed the pop star's image with his shapeshifting powers, she goes so far as to slap his ass.
• Crazy-Prepared: Downplayed, while not as diligent as some cases of this trope, Rose did bring her Huntsclan uniform and weapons with her to a valentine’s prom in "Love Cruise" where she didn’t expect to fight anything.
• Cupid's Arrow: Played for Drama, Jake literally shot her with one of Cupid’s arrows in "Love Cruise", but since she already loves him, it had the reversed effect and she tried to slay him! She temporarily broke up with him afterwards.
• Custom Uniform: Her season one Huntsclan uniform. In contrast, season two averts this, giving her a standard apprentice uniform.
• Dark Action Girl: Before her Heel–Face Turn, she was an antagonist who would try to slay Jake.
• Dark and Troubled Past: She was kidnapped as an infant from her biological family and then lied to by the Huntsman that they died, as well as being taught wrong teachings about magical creatures and being put through intense training.
• Dating What Daddy Hates: She, a member of the Huntsclan, is dating Jake, the American Dragon.
• Death Is the Only Option: In "Homecoming", after using the Aztec Skulls to destroy the Huntsclan, her dialogue makes it clear that she genuinely believes that the deaths of her, the Huntsman, and all other Huntsclan members are the only way everyone she cares about will be safe. Justified as Rose knows fully well how relentless and monstrous the Huntsman is. As she points out, even if she had destroyed the skulls right then, the Huntsman would know Jake's identity, and his loved ones would always be in danger as long as the Huntsman was still alive.
• The Dog Bites Back: Considering all he did to her, it seems only fitting that, in the end, she's the one who gets to take out The Huntsman.
• The Dragon: To The Huntsman, before her Heel–Face Turn.
• Dreaming the Truth: Subverted, this is technically how Rose finds out about her parents because her dream amulet allows for access to someone’s’ subconscious and their deepest memories, all the way back to infancy and even a persons’ birth.
• Dream Walker: Through her dream amulet, Rose can not only experience her own dreams fully but also visit others’. This is useful when giving the dreamer messages or warnings, spying on people and gather intel. It even allows her to dive into her own memories, no matter how far back. No doubt Rose’s preferred use of it, however, is for her and Jake to have literal dream dates and get away from their normal lives for a few hours at night.
• Dude Magnet: Downplayed, Jake and Brad are the only named characters that pursue her throughout the series, but in season one, there were several guys that had taken note of her looks in "Act 4, Scene 15".
• Dumb Blonde: Inverted. She has blonde locks but is down-to-earth, perceptive, and ruthless.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: At the end of "Homecoming", Jake grants her wish of a normal life.
• Easily Forgiven: Played with, as it depends on the character. Jake is a straight example, as he forgives her for her transgressions as Huntsgirl the moment she sets him free rather than kill him in "The Hunted", seeing as he's in love with her. Spud spends "The Academy" not trusting her very much, but comes around once he sees the lengths she went to in order to help Jake fake his death. On the other hand, Trixie and Lao-Shi never really seem to officially forgive her, seeming like they really just kind of tolerate her for Jake's sake.
• Eyes Never Lie: During "The Hunted" Rose starts to notice that Jakes' eyes in his dragon form seem very familiar, but can't connect the dots at the time.
• Face Realization/Heel Realization: Upon learning Jake is the American Dragon in "The Hunted," she finds herself unable to commit to the dragon-slaying doctrine that she's been instilled with all her life, choosing instead to free him and run off in shame. During the time she spent away, she apparently studied more into the Huntsclan's ideology and goals from a less biased perspective and came to the conclusion that the "family" she'd been fighting for was nothing but an evil genocidal cult of Fantastic Racists.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: Her dress in season two leaves one shoulder bare and exposes a little leg.
• First Girl Wins: Even though Jake likes Danika, too, it's clear that Rose is his true love.
• Flower Motifs: As her name states, roses are common motif with her. Her main color motif is pink, which is a usual color for a rose. Her pants from the first season had a rose picture. The second season opening briefly shows Jake handing her a pink rose.
• Genocide from the Inside: Uses the Aztec Skulls to almost entirely wipe out the Huntsclan, while being a member herself.
• Girly Bruiser: Rose is a fierce, no-nonsense martial artist as Huntsgirl, but when she's not in the costume, she wears clothing with pink and flower patterns, has a bedroom with stuffed unicorns and other frills, and gushes over a teenaged pop star. 
• Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Rose qualifies when she dresses nicely, her dress in "Dragon Breath" and "Love Cruise" does fit this. The same could be said about her “Cleopatra” costume in "Act 4, Scene 15".
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Zig-zagged. Rose has pretty, blonde locks but is both an adversary and primary love interest for protagonist Jake. On both sides, she's either genuinely a cold-hearted hunter or a sweet-hearted young lady. She finally plays the trope straight after her Heel–Face Turn.
• Happily Adopted: Subverted until her heel-face-turn, she was seemingly content with being in the Huntsclan, as Rose didn’t know any better than what the clan had taught her. Although Rose was aware of the extreme training regimen, she was dedicated and even looked forward to slaying her first dragon in order to properly join the Huntsclans’ ranks. This trope was completely averted following the events of "The Hunted" and absolutely inverted after "Dreamscape", which opened her eyes to the lies that the clan (and specifically the Huntsman) has told her all her life.
• Heel–Face Turn: Learning that Jake is the American Dragon is enough to show her that pretty much everything she was taught about magical creatures was wrong, prompting her to do this.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Subverted. She wishes for the destruction of the Huntsclan with the Aztec Skulls, but as she soars into the air, Jake uses his wish to save her. Granted, she still gets an Obi-Wan Moment where she smiles down at Jake.
• He's Back!: Female version. While there wasn't any Heroic BSoD, she makes a grand return to action in "Hong Kong Longs" after she regains her memory.
• Identity Amnesia: She loses her memories of Jake and her life in the Huntsclan as a result of Jake saving her with his wish. She got better in the Grand Finale with her memories restored, though.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: Zig-zags between this and Icy Blue Eyes. She's both an antagonist and love interest for Jake, and while she's ruthless as Huntsgirl, she also displays genuine kindness in her civilian identity. Finally plays this straight after her Heel–Face Turn.
• Interspecies Romance: Rose, a human, is in a relationship with Jake, whose true form is a dragon.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: She wishes she had a normal life, free of the Huntscan. Jake grants this wish.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Zig-zagged. Rose is...a complicated example. On the one hand, she's a member of the Huntsclan and has sworn an oath to kill the American Dragon aka her primary love interest and protagonist, Jake, which makes her a ruthless enemy; on the other hand, her civilian identity as Rose also has her display genuine love for Jake and friendliness in general. After her Heel–Face Turn, she becomes way nicer, but remains an Anti-Hero.
• Killer Rabbit: That pretty girl in the picture there is capable of knocking out several mythical creatures with her Waif-Fu. Acknowledged in-universe and by the rest of the Huntsclan: when he learns of her Heel–Face Turn, the Huntsman confronts her armed and backed by four other Huntsclan members who has already slayed a dragon (a big accomplishment, they have often remarked, and a sign of their strength and skill). It takes Rose FIVE SECONDS to defeat the four Huntsclan members and hold the Huntsman at the point of his own energy lance.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Downplayed, during season one, pre-Heel–Face Turn, Huntsgirl was this compared to Huntsman. Where she was mainly concerned with slaying a dragon so she could advance within the ranks, she also showed genuine interest and amazement at some magical objects, such as a griffon egg or her dream charm. Compare the Huntsman, who not only wanted to exterminate all magical creatures but also saw magical object as simply something to be sold off.
• Likes Clark Kent, Hates Superman: As Rose, she was initially fond of Jake, which later blossomed into a crush and love, while as Huntsgirl, she hated the American dragon which was justified given their status as sworn enemies (not to mention all the times he defeated her and Huntsman or his constant wisecracking). That all changed after "The Hunted" however.
• Love Redeems: Her love for Jake causes her to abandon her Huntsclan ideals and ultimately nearly kill herself to rid the world of their threat.
• Maybe Ever After: With Jake, thanks to the show being canceled while the two of them are living in different countries—it's implied that they keep up a Long-Distance Relationship.
• McNinja: Or, as Trixie calls her, "Little-Miss-Ninja-Thang".
• More Deadly Than the Male: To be precise, she’s far more willing to be lethal than Jake is, just look at her killcount: One Huntsclan.
• Non-Protagonist Resolver: Rose, not Jake, is the one to defeat both the Huntsclan and the Dark Dragon.
• Official Couple: Jake's main love interest, and as of the end of the series, they seem to be reconciling their relationship.
• One Head Taller: Inverted, Rose is significantly taller than Jake. This was more evident in season one, while season 2’s artshift makes it less so, but still retains her having a height advantage.
• One True Love: To Jake. While he's shown an attraction to other girls and has even dated a few, it becomes clear throughout the series that the only girl he really has eyes for is Rose.
• Only One Name: She was never given a last name. Justified by her being in the Huntsclan; her last name was originally supposed to be "Killdragonosa", but the writers chose to drop it because they figured it would have been merely a fake name given to her by the clan.
• Parental Abandonment: Rose thinks that both of her parents are dead. Turns out The Huntsman kidnapped her at birth.
• Past-Life Memories: At the end of "Hong Kong Longs", she recovers her memories of when she was Huntsgirl.
• Practice Kiss: Subverted and justified, half the story of "Act 4, Scene 15" is about her and Jake trying to practice kissing for the (episode) titular scene of “Anthony and Cleopatra”. Que several hilarious instances of the pair getting interrupted, whether it be by their attempts to do their duties without the other one noticing, the Huntsman walking in on them or their own awkwardness and nervousness.
• Precious Photo: Hers in one of her and Jake at the dance where he brought a Nix and started winning her heart in “Dragon Breath”, which she shares with Jake. In “The Hunted” the depth of her feelings towards Jake are made clearer as she hugs the framed photo which she usually have placed on her nightstand. It’s so precious to her that it becomes Roses’ way of remembering her previous life with the Huntsclan, after Jake showed her the photo in "Hong Kong Longs" which prompted her to come and help fight the Dark Dragon. The photo thus doubles as an active Memento Macguffin.
• Prophecy Twist: As Huntsgirl, she says it's her destiny to kill a dragon. She ends up defeating the Dark Dragon, albeit non-fatally, to save not only all of humanity but also the world's dragons in the series finale, which was not what the Huntsclan intended.
• Put on a Bus: As a result of Executive Meddling after she lost her memory as a result of being rescued from an attempted Heroic Sacrifice. She was brought back in the series finale.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: At the end of season one, for "failing" to kill Jake during the Grand Equinox Hunt, she's sent back to the Huntsclan Academy to help teachers give dragon slaying lectures to trainees.
• Redemption Earns Life: Jake's wish that saves her allows her to relive her life as a normal girl.
• Reformed, but Not Tamed: If episodes like "Homecoming" and "Hong Kong Longs" are anything to go by. Yes, she's totally cool with magical creatures now, but she'll always be a trained killer. In fact, she's perfectly fine with committing mass-murder if that's what she has to do to protect those she cares about. Jake himself acknowledges this, as when he tracks down Rose in Hong Kong, he specifically tells her to kill the Dark Dragon.
• Reptiles Are Abhorrent: This is what The Huntsman taught her. She no longer believes this.
• Ret-Gone: Jake's wish at the end of "Homecoming" ends up doing this to Huntsgirl.
• Roofhopping: As seen in "Old School Training", she has this ability.
• Secret Identity: Huntsgirl.
• Single-Target Sexuality: Subverted, Rose did go with Brad to a school dance, but as soon as he showed how shallow he is, and Jake entered the field, she latched on to him and hasn’t shown any interest in other guys afterwards.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Rose first started developing an attraction to Jake when he comforts her after Brad dumps her on their date. The attraction gets stronger as they start dating each other. As the two grew closer, Rose began to love Jake more and more because of his heroism, kindness, and being a great boyfriend.
• Smooch of Victory: Gives one to Jake in “Hong Kong Longs” after they’ve defeated The Dark Dragon, much to his surprise and happiness. This also counts as a Big Damn Kiss as it signifies that she remembers everything from her original life, most importantly, her feelings for Jake.
• Spanner in the Works: Her Heel–Face Turn ends up spelling the end of the Huntsclan, which not even Jake wanted.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: With Jake. While she's a member of the Huntsclan who hunt said magical creatures, he's the American Dragon sworn to protect all said creatures. Even by the end of the series, despite Rose remembering Jake and last being seen having a nice moment with him, there are still obstacles making it difficult for them to truly have their happily ever after. Such as the long-distance relationship issues, though it may be easier in a world with magic.
• Strong Family Resemblance: From what we see in "Dreamscape", "Homecoming", and "Hong Kong Longs", she's the spitting image of her mother.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: As Rose, she's kind and sweet. As Huntsgirl, she's driven, fierce, and ruthless.
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: The Huge Girl to Jake's Tiny Guy. Justified as they are middle-schoolers and girls are usually taller than boys at that age.
• Terms of Endangerment: In season one, she has a tendency to refer to Jake as "dragon boy". After learning that Jake is the American Dragon and undergoing her Heel–Face Turn, she stops doing this.
• Token Good Teammate: The only member of the Huntsclan presented to the audience as likable and sympathetic.
• The Tragic Rose: Is kidnapped at birth, brainwashed, and is ultimately forced into a position where she sees sacrificing herself as the only solution.
• Tyke-Bomb: The Huntsman raised and trained her from a young age to slay magical creatures.
• Undying Loyalty: To Jake. When she tells the Huntsman that she'd never betray Jake in "Homecoming", she makes sure he finds out the hard way that she wasn't kidding.
• Ungrateful Bastard: At the end of "Ski Trip", after Jake saves her from falling to her death.
• Unicorns Are Sacred: Subverted, in "The Hunted" Rose has a unicorn figure on her desk whose neck she twists around to access the hidden Huntsclan armory in her room.
• Villainous Vow: Makes one in "The Hunted", before the Grand Equinox Hunt. She breaks the vow by the end of the episode.
  Rose: Tomorrow, I swear on our ancestors that I will slay the American Dragon and fulfill my destiny!
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: After discovering Jake's secret, she not only pulls a Heel–Face Turn but does everything she can to protect him from the Huntsclan.
• Wistful Amnesia: The end of "Homecoming" implies that traces of her Huntsclan life still exist in her memory, with her asking Jake if she knows him because he looks familiar. Sure enough, in "Hong Kong Longs", she regains her memory by seeing the photo of her and Jake from the school dance at the beginning of the series and joins in on the final battle almost like nothing ever happened.
• Writing Around Trademarks: Her Huntsclan moniker had to be changed from "Thorn" to "Huntsgirl" in order to avoid legal trouble.^note Presumably with the obscure DC Comics heroine (whose Split Personality was a villain named Thorn.)
• You Said You Would Let Them Go: A variation of this happens between Rose and The Huntsman in “Homecoming” after he blackmails her to betray Jake in exchange for the location (and safety) of her birth parents.
  The Huntsman: Excellent work, Huntsgirl.
  Rose: I gave you your skulls, now tell me where my parents are!
  The Huntsman: Not until my plan is complete.
  Rose: What? But you promised!
  The Huntsman: And you promised your allegiance!

Haley's Ally

Sun Park

^{Click here for her dragon form}

Voiced by: Sandra Oh

The Korean Dragon, Haley's dragon master, and Jake's Home Economics teacher.

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• Feminine Women Can Cook: She's the Home economics teacher, so it's a given.
• First-Name Basis: "Please, call me Sun. Miss Park is so formal."
• Hippie Teacher: She doesn't like being called "Ms. Park", says words like "groovy" and believes that violence is for the weak and cowardly.
• Mind Manipulation: Subverted, through her meditation training, Sun can calm down aggression in many people or reverse mind control. This falls apart if she’s overwhelmed though.
• Mysterious Watcher: She seems to come off as this towards Jake in her first appearance, before she turns out to be Haley's mentor.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: Sun is initially shown to be this in "Half-Baked" after having witnessed Jake defeat the Krylock Demon, use magic and transform into a dragon. It’s justified as she’s later revealed to be a dragon herself and Haley’s dragon master, the council would naturally have told her about the world dragon where she was going and she’d be familiar with Lao-Shi and Jake after they defeated the Dark Dragon.
• Sensei-chan: To the point that she very rarely gives out letter grades.
• Stern Teacher: Averted initially, she’s really kind towards her students and especially Haley who she teaches with a combination of praise, trust and light exercises. When Haley temporarily takes over the reins of being the American Dragon however, Sun’s methods and expectations starts mirroring Lao-Shi’s, much to Haley’s chagrin.
• Technical Pacifist: This exchange during one of her fights:
  Chang: Sun Park, I thought you were all about peace and love.
  Sun: And what I really love is to give you a piece of this!
• The Worf Effect: Appears to be a victim of this. She is easily defeated by Chang (twice), is blasted out of the air by The Dark Dragon in the series finale and even gets attacked by humans with soda cans in "Haley Gone Wild".
• Worf Had the Flu: A pacifist dragon against humans means a lot of holding back. Also justified with the Dark Dragon and Chang; Chang is more experienced and violent than she is, and the Dark Dragon in the Grand Finale is so powerful that when he blasted her he was also taking on and winning against dozens of dragons at once, including the only two who had actually managed to defeat him in the past.

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