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Stewart Stevenson

Voiced in English by: Adam Welsh (1993-1997), Thomas Middleditch (2011), Sam Johnson (2022, adult)

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Carlos Íñigo

Voiced in European Spanish by: Patricia Reija

A hapless nerd who hangs out with Beavis and Butt-Head—not because they like him, but because he'll let them get away with almost anything.

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Tropes associated with Stewart:

• All for Nothing: In the alternate universe of the 2022 revival where Beavis and Butt-head never time traveled, an adult Stewart returns to Highland to become a kidney donor to Beavis, only for Beavis to insult him cruelly many times, show no appreciation for Stewart's effort, and destroy Stewart's transplanted kidney inside his body before the day is even over.
• Alliterative Name: His last and first name begin with an "St" sound.
• Butt-Monkey: He'd be The Chew Toy if he appeared more often.
• Comedic Underwear Exposure: In the banned episode "Stewart's House" where Beavis and Butt-Head walk into his house to watch free cable. They then strip him down to his underwear, hang him on a coat hanger and shove random stuff like sand, rubbing alcohol, and even a cactus down his rear.
• The Conscience: He's usually the one to tell Beavis and Butt-Head that what they're doing could have horrible consequences. Unfortunately for him, they never listen.
• Demoted to Extra: In the 2022 revival, he plays a much smaller role and his only appearance by far is in the alternate universe where Beavis and Butt-head grew old naturally where he tries to donate his kidney to Beavis, only for it to be a wasted effort.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: In a reality where Beavis and Butt-Head never went through the wormhole, Stewart left Highland, found a decent job, and had triplets.
• Extreme Doormat: Beavis and Butt-Head walk all over him. And in It's A Miserable Life, it's shown he would still have his self-esteem and could actually be quite assertive, if not for Butt-Head.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Like Mr. Van Driessen (and extremely similar to the duo's own "relationship" with Todd), Stewart just doesn't grasp that Beavis and Butt-Head despise him, and never stops thinking of them as his best friends, despite all the abuse they put him through. Despite, that he has several friends who are more like him and he should be hanging out with, such as the dorky P.A.T. kids.
• Nice Guy: Stewart is one of the few characters on the show that's genuinely nice and pleasant.
• Nice Mean And In Between: Whenever around the duo, he's the idolizing Nice Guy to Butt-Head's Jerk with a Heart of Jerk and Beavis' Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
• Oblivious to Hatred: He seems to believe Beavis and Butt-head are his best friends, despite how often they bully, insult, and get him into trouble. This is shown in the clipshow Series Fauxnale where his flashback remembering the duo had them hanging out like old friends and talking like they came out of an episode of Leave It to Beaver.
• Older Than They Look: He is supposed to be roughly the same age as the duo, but looks more like a little kid.
• Power Trio: He thinks he's in this with Beavis and Butt-Head. He even describes them as such in a diary entry in This Book Sucks. Beavis and Butt-Head would beg to differ. He also describes them as such as an adult.
• Reused Character Design: As an adult, he looks like a blonde haired Bill Dauterive.
• Self-Serving Memory: In his flashback in "Beavis And Butt-Head Are Dead", he remembers himself and the duo spending time together as the best of friends. Tellingly, the only other person without a real flashback from older episodes in this episode is Butt-Head, who misremembers himself scoring with a classmate.
• Take That!: Wears a Winger shirt, and his wimpiness is compared to the main duo's Metallica and AC/DC shirts.
• Vocal Evolution: His voice was deeper and more emotionless in his earliest appearances, until it became higher and whinier later on, and eventually deeper due to his voice actor going through puberty.
• With Friends Like These...: Though Beavis and Butt-Head don't consider him a friend. Despite the fact that they get him in trouble, he still likes to hang out with them.

Daria Morgendorffer

Voiced in English by: Tracy Grandstaff

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Patricia Acevedo

Voiced in Japanese by: Tomoko Kawakami (Beavis and Butt-head in Virtual Stupidity)

Daria is one of Beavis and Butt-Head's classmates. Intelligent but disaffected, she's amused by the duo's antics, and often makes sarcastic remarks that go right over their heads.

For information about her portrayal on Daria, see that show's character sheet

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Tropes associated with Daria:

• Actually Pretty Funny: This video shows her cracking up when Butt-Head said "I rest on your face" in court.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the Marvel tie-in comics, Beavis and Butt-head are somewhat nastier to her than they were in the show, often making rude remarks about her appearance and notably being able to get under her skin and make her visibly angry more. And the feeling was mutual on her part, with Daria shutting Stewart up forcefully and making sure Beavis and Butt-head got left behind on an Amish farm once. Though there were also instances where Daria was somewhat closer to them than in the show, with Beavis and Butt-head going to her home during special events like Halloween and Christmas, with her even trying to explain to them the meaning of Christmas.^note During those times the duo went to her home, her parents and sister Quinn were not present as by the comic book publication date, Daria's family hadn't been officially created yet.
• Ascended Extra: She got a slightly larger role in the comic series, and then got her own spin-off.
• Brainy Brunette: She's a wise-cracking Teen Genius with brown hair.
• Breakout Character: Got her own show after Beavis and Butt-Head got cancelled.
• The Bus Came Back: Despite being put on a bus in the revival, an alternate version of Daria from the Smart universe appears in "Abduction."
• The Cameo: She appeared in Beavis and Butt-Head Do America and Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe. In Do America, the ATF storm into the Highland High School, she and the other students run and they were eventually got cavity search. In Do the Universe, she was at Beavis and Butt-Head's trial. She was very upset and angry that Beavis and Butt-Head got off scot free. The alternate Smart universe version of her appears in "Abduction" as the aptly-named "Smart Daria", who is one of the Supreme Leaders of Smart Beavis and Smart Butt-Head's reality.
• Characterization Marches On: Especially evident in the Marvel tie-in comics. She starts out as a more generic know-it-all but gains the wry, unflappable, sarcastic streak we all know and love later on.
• Deadpan Snarker: Mostly towards Beavis and Butt-Head.
• Distaff Counterpart: She's stoic, unflappable and snarky like Butt-Head but with the intelligence to pull it off.
• In-Series Nickname: Beavis and Butt-Head are really fond of calling her "Diarrhea".
• Limited Wardrobe: Like the rest of the characters, though in this series, she had three regular outfits (Her third one, which included her white shirt, black jacket, was the one she was shown in the most)
• Only Sane Woman: Within her classmates, and possibly a good amount of the community.
• Out-of-Character Moment: Breaks out into hysterics at the word "masturbation" in "No Laughing" with the other students. Though this could've been her laughing at the duo's predicament of being prohibited from laughing; or due to the animation direction being "the students laugh", and the animators making her laugh along with the rest of the class. Also, people in their middle to early high school phases simply tend to crack up more at sexual humor. At this stage of her life, it's very likely she hadn't fully matured into the Daria everybody recognized.
• Put on a Bus: It is mentioned in the 2011 revival that she moved away, as per the first episode of her own series (Beavis thought she had committed suicide).
• Teen Genius: As an honors student at Highland High.

Cassandra

Another of B&B's classmates, Cassandra is a hippie-ish aspiring artist of possible Asian descent. She doesn't get much screen time, but the series hints that she has some disturbing Hidden Depths.

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Tropes associated with Cassandra:

• Ambiguously Bi: A big fan of notoriously lesbian singer K.D. Lang, though she also expresses a fondness for older men in other episodes. It's unclear if she herself really has lesbian tendencies or she simply loves K.D. Lang's music and is open minded enough that she doesn't care about the singer's sexuality.
• Granola Girl: Like Van Driessen, she's a nature-loving hippie.
• Hot for Teacher: Her story about how a teenage girl and her English teacher drown together implies she might be attracted to Mr. Van Driessen
• Nice Girl: She's one of the few students in Highland High who isn't a Jerkass or close enough aside from Stewart. She seems to have a high tolerance for Beavis and Butt-Head's stupidity, and she even gave them advice in Animation Sucks.

Earl

One of the students of Highland High. He is a thug who brandishes a pistol.

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Tropes associated with Earl:

• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the Marvel Comics series, he and Todd are shown to be close friends and frequently hang out in the same social circles. In the show, Earl never once talked to Todd.
• Ascended Extra: He plays a much bigger role in the Marvel Comics series and is shown to be friends with Todd.
• A Day in the Limelight: A central character in Incognito as he threatened to harm the boys.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Compared to Todd, he's this. While he's a thug, he at least respects Mr. Van Driessen and is more willing to stand down from taking more extreme actions at the teacher's request.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • After a rival tried to shoot him during Mr. Van Driessen's class Incognito, he shouted out that Mr. Van Driessen doesn't like being interrupted.
  • In "Safe Drivng", even he was horrified at the wreckage scene in Coach Buzzcut's driver's ed video.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: In "Incognito", he had planned to kill the duo because they accidentally knocked a cigarette out of his hand. And in "Pierced", he overhears Beavis and Butt-Head laughing at his new earring and he beats them both up.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Mentioned earlier, he respects Mr. Van Driessen as a teacher. He was almost in tears when Mr. Van Driessen had confiscated his pistol and other assorted weapons. He then thanks Beavis and Butt-head and lets them off the hook. If not for this, he'd be just another Todd Ianuzzi.
• Race Lift: Was originally African-American, but was changed to white to avoid accusations of racism. (Since he has a gun on his person).

Cody

One of the students of Highland High in the 2022 revival.

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Tropes associated with Cody:

• A Day in the Limelight: He gets a spotlight episode in the season 10 finale "Sleepover."
• Fat Bastard: Downplayed, although he can be pretty rude to people, particularly Beavis and Butt-head.
• Hates Everyone Equally: He doesn't appear to like anyone. He openly hates Beavis and Butt-Head, scoffs at the idea at going to a school dance, and scornfully refers to Glennis as a "weird girl" even though they both share a Friendless Background.
• Hidden Depths: "Sleepover" implies he has few, if any friends, and whatever friends he does make, his family often scare away with their clingy behavior.
• Jerkass: He's shown to be rude and condescending to the duo even though Beavis and Butt-head haven't gone out of their way to harass him in any particular way and in "Sleepover", he invites the duo over to make them watch him play video games rather than allow them to play. In that episode, it's also shown Beavis and Butt-head don't like Cody anymore than Cody likes them.
• Jerkass to One: Or two in this case. From what we've seen of him, he's only been shown to act like a prick to Beavis and Butt-head in particular. Whether or not he's this rude and disrespectful to other people hasn't been revealed and it's not totally clear when we find out Cody has trouble keeping friends whether it's his own caustic personality to blame or his Amazingly Embarrassing Parents scaring them away.
• Laser-Guided Karma: He goes out of his way to be insulting to the duo and in "Sleepover" even invites them over to make them watch him play video games rather than share the controller, for seemingly no other reason than to rudely rub it in their faces. From there on, his parents invite the pair to stay the night much to Cody's chagrin, the duo proceed to embarrass Cody in front of his parents who think Beavis and Butt-head are a positive influence on him, and they both walk away with his video game console after Beavis transforms into Cornholio.
• Soapbox Sadie: In "Pranks", he admonishes the duo for trying to TP a house while there's a supply chain crisis going on, and tells them to watch the news.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: His interactions with Beavis and Butt-Head are very similar to that of Daria in the original series, while he is overweight and socially awkward like Stewart (though unlike Stewart he despises the boys), with Cody's parents also being shown to interact with the duo like the Stevensons once did. And before "Sleepover" when he was still a minor character, Cody had traits reminiscent of Dean, a more minor B&B character from the original run, who was another chubby student who occasionally stopped to make casual conversation with the duo.

Glennis

A student in the 2022 revival who develops a crush on Beavis.

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• Eating Lunch Alone: At the start of the episode, she is eating a sandwich by herself.
• Hidden Depths: She seems to be pretty good at drawing, sketching the Metallica logo out of memory. Even Beavis, who at this point fears her, praises her skills.
• Horrible Judge of Character: She thinks Beavis is an outcast like her, not realizing there's a very good reason she shouldn't associate with him.
• Love at First Sight: Glennis falls for Beavis when he's Cornholio, and being dragged away by security guards.
• Meet Cute: Parodied. She falls in love with Beavis, while he's in the middle of a Cornholio episode.
• One-Shot Character: Due to getting arrested for arson, she only appears in "The Weird Girl."
• Poor Communication Kills: Sadly, she could've saved herself a lot of trouble if she just came out and told Beavis she had a crush on him, as he never gets any of her singles, and because he Never Learned to Read, he thinks the note she gave him means she wants to kick his ass.
• Pyromaniac: Implied. When she discovers Beavis loves fire, she tries to burn down the honor's trailer to impress him, although it's ambiguous if she meant to burn down the trailer itself or started a small fire that grew out of control.
• Shy Blue-Haired Girl: A loner with a quiet voice, and blue hair to boot.

Staff

David Van Driessen

Voiced in English by: Mike Judge

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Gerardo Reyero

Voiced in Japanese by: Nobuo Tobita (Beavis and Butt-head in Virtual Stupidity)

One of Beavis and Butt-Head's teachers, Mr. Van Driessen is an idealistic hippie who tries to help the boys by appealing to their better natures. Predictably, it never works.

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Tropes associated with Mr. Van Driessen:

• Abusive Parents: This Book Sucks contains the lyrics to several of his songs. "Chopping Wood With My Father" describes how Van Driessen's father was a stereotypical man's man who considered him a weakling "hippy freak" despite Van Driessen's attempts to get him to love him. Van Driessen's brother Tom was a strong, athletic soldier who their father favored, and who violently punched Van Driessen when Tom was killed in Qatar. The only time Van Driessen and his father were close was when they were chopping wood, and now he's dying from Alzheimer's. It's implied that Van Driessen won't be sad to see him go.
• Aesop Amnesia: He's repeatedly learned that Beavis and Butt-Head are crude, destructive morons (particularly notable in the episode where they "clean" his house), yet continues to rather naively support and encourage them. Though it's justified as Van Driessen has an optimism very uncharacteristic of the Highland High staff.
• Berserk Button: He's very protective of his eight-tracks; Beavis and Butt-Head destroying his entire collection marked the one time in the series he angrily expressed an interest in killing them (though he also immediately got buried underneath said collection). The rest of the time, however, he won't stand for them or any of his students being physically harmed by someone.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Surprisingly, Van Driessen is very protective of Beavis and Butt-Head, despite how poorly they treat him. In "Manners Suck", he physically attacks Mr. Manners after Beavis falsely implies that Mr. Manners molested him.
  Van Driessen: (slapping Mr. Manners) You wanna touch my students, I'll touch you!
• Butt-Monkey: He gets attacked by a bear, thrown through a bus window off a cliff, and flattened by Beavis in a rolling tire. He also fails to reach out to Beavis and Butt-Head.
• Character Catchphrase
  • "Beavis and Butt-Head, what a [X] (usually "pleasant") surprise!", for whenever the duo encounter him outside of school.
  • "Mmkay"; May or may not be the basis for Mr. Mackey's famous Verbal Tic catchphrase.
• Characterization Marches On: Originally couldn't stand Beavis and Butt-Head like anyone else and actually threatened to kill them in "Cleaning House", but at least tolerated them more than most people would. However, in later episodes, this gets toned down, as he starts to care about them and become more likable and laid-back in tone. In fact, he defends Beavis and Butt-Head when they're missing and assumed dead—something he would never have done in earlier episodes. It's worth noting that even after his changed attitude towards the duo, he's among those praying for them to die at the beginning of "It's A Miserable Life", apparently because of the possibility that they may end up breeding. Zigzagged in the 90's finale, when he's the one faculty member to show any regret over the duo's (ultimately exaggerated) demise.
• Cool Teacher: He is the best teacher at Highland High and seems to gain a good deal of respect for it from the students, even from someone like the thuggish Earl. His efforts are completely wasted on Beavis and Butt-Head though.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: In his first appearance in "Peace, Love and Understanding", he is a musical guest at the truck rally and he is killed by one of the monster trucks. The series establishes him as the boys' teacher, and his misfortunes stop just short of death.
• Granola Boy: One of the few male examples of a vegetarian peace-lover.
• Hippie Teacher: Literally. He looks as if he's still living in the 1960s.
• Horrible Judge of Character: When it comes to Beavis and Butt-Head, he doesn't seem to grasp that the duo's problem isn't that they're misunderstood or don't get enough support; they simply don't have the level of humanity he's looking for in them.
• Hypocrite: He's the only character to express regret that the duo have apparently passed on in "Beavis and Butt-Head are Dead" but in the earlier episode "It's a Miserable Life", he's among the various characters praying for them to die, citing the at-best remote chance that they could breed.
• Made of Iron: Not even two falls off of a cliff or getting run over by a monster truck tire can keep him down.
• New-Age Retro Hippie: If he was any more of a hippie, he'd float away on a cloud of love.
• Nice Guy: He's the only teacher who's respectful towards Beavis and Butt-Head, and constantly encourages them that they can succeed if they put their hearts in it.
• Not So Above It All: While for the most part, he's extremely accepting and forgiving of Beavis and Butt-Head, every now and then even Van Driessen will say something that shows he really hates and fears the duo just as much as everybody else. Like when he prayed to God in It's a Miserable Life, expressing fear that the two would breed, and when he held a mock graduation ceremony in Graduation Day where he implied to Beavis and Butt-Head, in only so many words, that they have absolutely no redeeming qualities or any future to look forward to. This Book Sucks also contains the lyrics to several of his songs, one of which is titled "The Ballad Of Beavis And Butt-Head". The song discusses how our heroes' laughter gives him nightmares and their behavior is the only thing that's ever made him consider changing careers to sell mens' wear in a mall.
• Older Than They Look: In the 2022 revival, he has some bags under his eyes to show that he's aged but otherwise looks almost exactly the same as he did in the 90s with not a strand of gray hair even though he's now in his 60s and is quite possibly eligible for retirement and social security.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: He's the only teacher that cares about his job and believes in doing the right thing, especially in "School Test", where he reports Principal McVicker to the schoolboard when he fills in Beavis and Butt-Heads' standardized tests so they could pass.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Always Blue. He's calm, friendly, and unlike Buzzcut and McVicker, tolerant of Beavis and Butt-Head.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The Sensitive Guy to Buzzcut's Manly Man.
• Tempting Fate: Asking Beavis and Butt-Head not to touch his irreplaceable 8-track collection. Unsurprisingly, they end up destroyed anyway.
• Token Good Teammate: Especially in the final episode before the revival, when the other teachers celebrate the death of Beavis and Butt-Head, and he asks them to be more respectful and empathic towards two dead students.
• Unfortunate Names: His last initials are V.D., which may not be coincidental given the source.
• Verbal Tic: Ends most of what he says with "Mmkay?"

Coach Bradley Buzzcut

Voiced in English by: Mike Judge

Voiced in Japanese by: Atsushi Tamura (Beavis and Butt-head in Virtual Stupidity)

A macho, ill-tempered veteran, Mr. Buzzcut is Beavis and Butt-Head's gym teacher. He tries to keep them under control through constant verbal — and often physical — abuse. Although he takes the opposite approach from Van Driessen, the dumbass duo show him only a margin of respect on account that he will kick their asses if they piss him off.

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Tropes associated with Mr. Buzzcut:

• Alliterative Name: Although his first name is never used in the series and only appears in the books.
• Ambiguously Gay: He has never displayed interest in women, he seemed to really enjoy Butt-Head kicking him in the Jimmy, he has the boys as a gay couple in A Baby Makes, Uhh, Three, and in Wet Behind The Rears, not only did he try to get them naked in public, but he also got rather offended when Butt-Head insinuated that he likes watching dudes take a shower.
• Berserk Button:
  • Never punch him, even if you are about as strong as Mr Burns. Ever!
    Coach Buzzcut: (face getting red with rage) You just made a fatal mistake, Mr. Candy-Ass! I hope you know something about hand-to-hand combat!
  • Don't you dare tell him that you don't know anything about the Founding Fathers of America.
  • Don't hit his students. Only he can do that.
• The Bus Came Back: Despite not otherwise appearing in the 22 revival, an alternate universe alien version of Buzzcut appears in "Abduction."
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He is yet to appear in the 2022 revival outside of Do the Universe. Another gym teacher voiced by Tru Valentino appears in his place in the season 10 episode "Are You There, God? It's Me, Beavis". As by 2023, he would have likely either retired or been fired for his verbal abuse of students.
• Deadpan Snarker: Low on the deadpan, high on the snarky, especially when it comes to the duo.
• The Dragon: To McVicker.
• The Dreaded: He is apparently feared by the Highland High student body. In "Manners Sucks", Mr. Van Driessen threatens to bring him in get his unruly class under control, and this is enough to get all the students to quiet down immediately.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: He's practically an Expy of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman from Full Metal Jacket. Made more apparent as he wore more formal attire in earlier episodes. He's also a Marine.
• Equal-Opportunity Evil: In "Baby Makes, Uh, Three", he doesn't seem very disgusted by the idea of homosexual couples raising children. He may be a Jerkass, but he's no bigot. Although it could simply be because he thought it would humiliate Beavis and Butt-Head.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: It takes every ounce of his strength to not kill Beavis and Butt-Head.
• Hypocritical Heartwarming: He'll damn well make sure no non-staff member will lay hands on Beavis and Butt-head... only he gets to lay an asskicking on them.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: In "Candy Sale", he stops Mr. Candy from physically assaulting Beavis, but only because he believes only he can beat up his students.
  Coach Buzzcut: This is my class! I do the ass-kicking around here!
• Jerkass Has a Point: He at least isn't wrong about how as their teacher, it's his job to protect and/or punish them.
• Karma Houdini: Beats up and threatens Beavis and Butt-Head a lot — possibly more than even Todd — and almost never gets punished. In fact, the closest he comes to punishment that we see is him getting a notice from the P.T.A. regarding his harsh disciplinary methods, at which point he loudly threatens to kill whoever ratted him out.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: In "P.T.A.", the duo outs him on his abusive methods at a P.T.A. meeting, causing him to receive angry letters questioning his disciplinary methods. "Baby Makes Uh, Three" has them get away with stuffing a bag of sugar into his car's gas tank. "They're Coming To Take Me Away, Huh-Huh" implies that he was previously punished for his methods. "Safe Driving" also ends with him being genuinely terrified alongside the duo when they crash into a truck.
• Knight Templar: He's trying to enforce responsibility and order in the classroom... with a mindset better suited to boot camp. In an active warzone.
• Laughably Evil: He is quite an amusing character in spite of his cruel behavior.
• Made of Iron: It'll take more than getting hit by a steamroller to kill him. Or a collision with an oncoming truck, assuming "Safe Driving" wasn't a retcon.
• Never My Fault: During his flashback montage in Beavis & Butt-Head Are Dead, the clips consisted of moments of him antagonizing the duo rather than the other way around with the other characters. This seems to imply that his hatred for the duo isn't as justified as others, since they're not the only people that he treats horribly.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: His Drill Sergeant Nasty tendencies have a strong resemblance to R. Lee Ermey.
• No Indoor Voice: He barks out his lessons, demands, and lectures at the same volume—that of a drill-sergeant on the parade ground.
• Non-Indicative Name: He doesn't actually have a buzzcut, despite his surname, as his hair is more of a flat-top with the sides of his head shaved off.
• Not Allowed to Grow Up: Surprisingly averted unlike essentially every other character on the show. In season 8, he appears to have aged due to his thinning hair. However, the duo's antics may have caused him to lose his hair like they did to McVicker.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Gets pissed off if someone else threatens to discipline the duo, even if it is the Lord Almighty Himself.
• Pet the Dog:
  • When Principal McVicker has a heart attack in Beavis and Butt-Head Are Dead Coach Buzzcut performs CPR on him.
  • As much as saving Beavis and Butt-Head in "Candy Sale" is more Hypocritical Heartwarming, He's technically right that it's his job to punish his students.
  • The fact that the duo yet breathe after he puts up with their crap on a daily basis also could be this.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red Oni to both Van Driessen and McVicker.
• Sadist Teacher: Goes far beyond a reasonable response when dealing with the duo, and often seems to go out of his way to humiliate them. He is shown to even torment his students that don't ignite his wrath, like Martin from "The Young, Gifted, and Crude", as well as Beavis and Butt-Head when they don't throw the first punch.
• Semper Fi: Buzzcut is a former United States Marine and Vietnam War veteran.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The Manly Man to Van Dreissen's Sensitive Guy.
• The Sociopath: He has no control over his temper, manipulates others into doing what he wants, and is willing to beat any of his students to near death for no reason whatsoever.
• Survival Mantra: After giving mouth-to-mouth to Beavis and Butt-Head (which was another attempt at humiliation by picking them out of the rest of the class), he's seen gargling and spitting repeatedly in the bathroom, repeating the following phrase over and over:
  Coach Buzzcut: A Marine can stand anything! A Marine can stand anything! A Marine can stand anything!
• Token Evil Teammate: Though each of the faculty (save for Van Driessen) is unpleasant in their own right, Buzzcut is regularly proven to be the worst of the worst, threatening physical violence on his students, ordering the entire class to beat up a new student, and always shouting at the top of his lungs for no reason.
• Too Kinky to Torture: Shows signs of this in the infamous episode where he tells Butt-Head to "kick him in the jimmy" and his response is a strained-yet-enthusiastic: "Eee... YES! Do it again!" He could also be trying to show up the boys by proving to them how much pain he can really endure, but still.
• Tough Love: On his better days, he veers into this, using his Drill Sergeant Nasty routine to whip students into shape rather than to bully them. "Buff 'N' Stuff" has him subject Beavis and Butt-Head to remedial weight training out of genuine desire to improve them, and even delivers a Rousing Speech to get them into it.
• Ultimate Job Security: He's a jerkass who berates his students, assaults them, encourages bullying, and threatens his students with bodily harm. Despite this, he manages to keep his job, presumably because Principal McVicker respects his views and often covers for him. The closest he gets to losing his job is in "P.T.A.", where Beavis and Butt-Head out him for his abusive behavior, which puts him under investigation.
• Vocal Evolution: When he first appeared on the show, his voice was noticeably less gruff compared to later appearances.

Principal McVicker

Voiced in English by: Mike Judge

Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Salvador Delgado

Voiced in Japanese by: Katsuhisa Houki (Beavis and Butt-head in Virtual Stupidity)

A nervous, high-strung bureaucrat who lives in terror of B&B and occasionally tries to get rid of them. Of course, he always fails.

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Tropes associated with Mr. McVicker:

• The Alcoholic: Has been driven to drinking and pill popping by the duo's antics.
• Anti-Villain: He's the closest thing Beavis and Butt-Head have to an Arch-Enemy but is legitimately trying to run an educational institute for the sake of learning in the face of the pair constantly being disruptive.
• Arch-Enemy: He's the most recurring antagonist the duo face throughout the series before the revival despite not being an actual "bad guy" and both sides tend to hate each other, with McVicker's feelings of personal hatred and loathing for two always skyrocketing because of how much stress and terrible times they put him through.
• Back from the Dead: Although he apparently died of a heart attack at the end of Season 7, he appears in the season 8 episode Dumb Design proving that he wasn't dead after all. And even with the 2011 series being overridden by the 2022 revival, he's still shown at the 1998 trial for Beavis and Butt-head in Beavis And Butthead Do The Universe, revealing he did survive the events of "Beavis And Butt-head Are Dead".
• Bad Boss: In "School Test", when Mr. Van Driessen threatens to report him to the schoolboard for filling in Beavis and Butt-Head's standardized tests, McVicker fires him and blames him for Beavis and Butt-Head's incompetence.
• Bald of Evil: He's not exactly evil, but he is bald and antagonistic.
• Berserk Button: Beavis and Butt-Head themselves, to the point where he's almost always (justifiably) hostile towards them.
• Big Bad: A Sitcom Archnemesis example, being the most recurring antagonist in a position of authority to the Villain Protagonist pair. While he's not exactly villainous, he antagonizes (and in turn gets antagonized by) the duo enough to count as the "main villain" character.
• Bring My Brown Pants: It's heavily implied that he soils himself in "Citizen Butt-Head" when he learns that Beavis and Butt-Head are not only still on campus for President Clinton's visit but are at the forum where the President is going to speak.
• The Bus Came Back: Despite not otherwise appearing in the 2022 revival, an alternate universe alien version of Mc Vicker appears in "Abduction."
• Butt-Monkey: Bad things happen to him, usually thanks to Beavis and Butt-Head.
• Caught with Your Pants Down: Manages to get caught by Beavis and Butthead in the middle of getting spanked by a dominatrix at a seedy motel. He ends up expelling them for their troubles.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He is yet to appear in the 2022 revival outside of Do the Universe. Granted, since he's most likely dead (this time for real) due to his age and deteriorating health worsened by the duo, or retired from his job.
• Cigarette of Anxiety: He smokes several of these due to the stress Beavis and Butt-Head cause him.
• Create Your Own Villain: It's implied that the reason McVicker is so stressed and angry is because of our heroes' making his life miserable. When Beavis actually apologized for something, McVicker was so surprised and pleased that he actually let Beavis go. In an alternate universe where Butt-Head never existed, McVicker is shown to be a lot calmer and still have his hair. He might still be a strict disciplinarian, but he wouldn't be a heavy substance abuser always on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
• Dean Bitterman: Mostly because of Beavis and Butt-Head.
• Dirty Old Man: In the movie, Beavis and Butt-Head walk in on him getting spanked by a prostitute.
• Drowning My Sorrows: It's shown that the stress from having to deal with Beavis and Butt-Head causes Principal McVicker to drink heavily. He even keeps a bottle of liquor in his desk and takes hits off it while working.
• Goofy Print Underwear: Was wearing a pair of heart patterned boxers when the boys walk in on him getting spanked in Do America.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: The things that Beavis and Butt-Head say or do tend to get him angry pretty quickly.
• Hero Antagonist: Considering Beavis and Butt-Head's status as Villain Protagonists. Especially since most of his actions toward them are either justifiable responses to their shenanigans or efforts to keep them under control.
• Hollywood Heart Attack: Suffers one in the finale of the show's original run.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Yes, big time.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Most of the time, he's cruel to Beavis and Butt-Head, even wishing death upon them. However, his hatred for the duo is reasonable since they are constantly causing trouble for him and the school.
• Jerkass to One: He's at his worst around the duo. Otherwise, he's cool as long as nobody pisses him off.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's much nicer and calmer when Beavis and Butt-Head aren't involved. Also, he did once show leniency to Beavis when he apologized for misbehaving in "The Great Cornholio".
• Nervous Wreck: Due to Beavis and Butt-Head's abuse. "It's a Miserable Life" shows that without Butt-Head and his Toxic Friend Influence on Beavis, he's a lot calmer and still has his hair.
• Not So Above It All: Despite his clear disdain for Beavis and Butt-Head's disruptive behavior, there are many instances where McVicker is shown to be almost as amoral and conniving as they are. For example, in the episode "Wet Behind The Rears", Beavis and Butt-Head are showering in their underwear after gym class. Suddenly, the fire alarm goes off, and they are forced to get out before they can put their clothes back on. Cue the rest of the school pointing and laughing at them and the grand revelation that the fire alarm was deliberately set off by McVicker and Buzzcut to humiliate Beavis and Butt-Head.
• Perpetual Frowner: He is almost always shown in a sour mood, mainly due to the duo's terrible behavior.
• Pet the Dog: In "The Great Cornholio" when Beavis apologizes for being disruptive, McVicker decides to just let him go without punishing him (as it's the first time either of the duo has ever apologized for anything), even saying that he's proud of him.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue Oni to Buzzcut's Red. Buzzcut is abusive to all his students and has No Indoor Voice, while McVicker is only really angry when Beavis and Butt-Head are involved. He's also a Red Oni to Van Driessen.
• Sanity Slippage: He suffers an epic one in "They're Coming To Take Me Away, Huh-Huh" to the point that not only is he committed to a mental hospital due to Beavis and Butt-Head's antics, but even so much as seeing the duo triggers him.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: He is an overworked, stressed-out principal and rather old-fashioned in his thoughts towards student discipline, but he's not exactly evil. But then again, it's still hilarious to watch Beavis and Butt-Head drive him nuts, too.
• Verbal Tic: His noticeable "Uhhhh".
• Villainous Breakdown: Well, it'd be more accurate to call it an antagonistic breakdown rather than a villainous one, but he's had a few regardless.
  • The episode "Breakdown" centers around McVicker going through a worsening freak-out from the sheer stress Beavis and Butt-Head have caused him, resulting in him getting institutionalized.
  • In the original finale, "Beavis and Butt-Head are Dead", after spending the whole episode celebrating their deaths, the shock of seeing them alive induces a massive Freak Out in McVicker where he recalls all the assorted stunts they pulled over the years via a montage and ends with him suffering a heart attack.
  • He has one in the episode "School Test" when he finds out that all the time Beavis and Butt-head spent doing their standardized tests and all they wrote was their names. He angrily kicks a chair and starts cheating on their tests, and when Van Driessen states that he will have to report this, McVicker fires him and blames him for the duo's stupidity.
  • The episode "Citizen Butt-Head" has him soil himself when he learns that Beavis and Butt-Head are at the school forum where President Bill Clinton is about to speak. He then goes berserk and runs madly out of his office, across the Highland High campus and into the gym where the forum's happening. He lunges for Beavis and Butt-Head, but gets beat up by the Secret Service when they think he's after the President.