History Characters / CourageTheCowardlyDogMinorVillains

* [[Characters/CourageTheCowardlyDogMinorVillainsSeason1 Season 1]]: [[labelnote:Click to Expand]][[FoulFox Cajun Fox]], [[DemonicPossession Demon in the Mattress]], [[HarmlessVillain Freaky Fred]], [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent Weremole]], [[ChestMonster Horst's Box Demon]], [[NephariousPharaoh King Ramses]], [[FesteringFungus the Clutching Foot]], [[JerkassGod The Goose God]], [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Queen of the Black Puddle]], [[{{Yandere}} The Precious, Wonderful, Adorable, Lovable Duckling]], [[PlantPeople The Eggplants,]] [[LivingDollCollector The Great Fusilli]][[/labelnote]]

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!!Season 1:
[[folder:Cajun Fox]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Paul Schoeffler
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->''"Hate to pull you from your crib, but I got a granny stew to do."''

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A fox very reminiscent of a certain WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes character. He wants to make a prize-winning granny stew but needs a real granny to make it work, setting his huge eyes on Muriel for it.

* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: He wears oversized sunglasses.
* AffablyEvil: He generally sports a relaxed and laid-back personality, though he sometimes becomes demented when his goals are in danger
* AmusingInjuries: All part of the episode he's in being a WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes-esque take of the show.
* TheBadGuysAreCops: During the chase, Courage calls the police for help, only for the Cajun Fox to respond to the call, complete with squad car and uniform. Whether he’s really a cop or ImpersonatingAnOfficer is unclear.
* BornUnlucky: ''HE'' thinks he's BornLucky. He's wrong, as evident by the abuse he endures while Courage tries to rescue Muriel from him.
* ButtMonkey: Constantly suffering misfortunes goes hand-in-hand with being a Wile E. Coyote {{Expy}}.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Whoo yeah!"
* CoolShades: He wears sunglasses to cover his comedically oversized eyeballs.
* CordonBleughChef: Despite the fact that the recipe sounds like a list of what one would throw into witch's cauldron, his Cajun Fox Stew is apparently superb.
* CunningLikeAFox: He can be sneaky though he fails at being wily enough.
* CurseCutShort: While inside a slowly sinking steamroller, "That dog is a real pain in the a*blub blub*"
* EvilChef: His inclinations towards morally questionable culinary art are so strong, that even when he becomes a member of a LegionOfDoom, his methods always involve some kind of cooking: he hangs Muriel over a cauldron which he has wanted to do for a long time and uses hot-chilli pierogi as projectiles. And of course his weapon of choice for finishing off Courage is a meat-cleaver.
* EvilIsHammy: He shows a neurotic side whenever something doesn't go the way he wants it.
* {{Expy}}: He's similar to [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Wile E. Coyote]] in a few ways, particularly in that he's motivated by his appetite.
* FoulFox: Tries to kidnap Muriel, intending to [[ToServeMan make her into Cajun Granny Stew]].
* {{Gonk}}: Without his shades on, he's pretty weird-looking.
* HammerSpace: It's a wonder how his sunglasses are able to fit over his ginormous eyeballs.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Due to his own bad luck, he often gets hurt by his own actions.
** The ending actually implies he got cooked into his own stew, but he survived this.
* LeanAndMean: His thin body makes one wonder how often does he savour the recipes he concocts.
* {{Leitmotif}}: His is a cheery harmonica and washboard tune.
* MotiveDecay: His original intent was only to cook Muriel into a stew. When Eustace recruits him for his LegionOfDoom, he wants revenge on Courage like the other villains, and mostly ignores Muriel though he probably kept her as dessert.
* RaginCajun: He speaks with a Cajun drawl, and he's quite a dangerous fellow.
* RedRightHand: He's got ''gigantic'' bulging eyes, each one almost the size of his skull, that [[MadEye have mismatched iris sizes and are seemingly always staring off in opposite directions]].
* RenaissanceMan: He's apparently a good chef, a police fox, an ace pilot, and a very fast runner.
* RhymesOnADime: His favorite seems to be "I got a stew to do," since he says it no less than three times.
* SinisterShades: His shades cover his bulging, oversized eyes.
* SmallNameBigEgo: He boasts about being born lucky when it is obvious that such a claim is far from the truth.
* SouthernGentleman: Very polite and genteel for a villainous man-eater.
* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: Throughout the episode, he has no trouble lifting Muriel above his head and running at full speed. At the end, he has trouble just lifting Muriel into the pot. Which happens to be what leads him to not winning.
* SunglassesAtNight: The entire cartoon he's in takes place in a day, but he's seen without them only a few times, even in his den.
* ToServeMan: His attempt to stew Muriel is what drives the plot of his episode.

[[folder:Demon in the Mattress]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Dennis Predovic
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->''"You call THAT an incantation??"''

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Demon described as ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. When someone sleeps on the mattress, he possesses their body by making their skin green and their hair red. It can only be ousted by an incantation.
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* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: The hearse that delivers the mattress is obviously animated in CGI.
* CardCarryingVillain: Considering he's a demon whose only purpose seems to be possessing people who buy the mattress, he's really got no choice and no care but to be unashamed of and willing to admit his malevolent nature.
* DeadpanSnarker: Sometimes. Particularly when Eustace fails through the incantation.
* DemonicPossession: He possesses Muriel, [[spoiler:and Eustace in the ending]].
* EinsteinHair: Muriel gets them when he takes over her body.
* EvilIsHammy: Has some hammy dialogue just as suddenly as he returns to whispering. Probably because he is having the time of his foul existence. And he's voiced by Jim Cummings.
-->'''Demon''': It would be lovely...if I could have...a cup...of...'''''TEA!!!'''''
* EvilLaugh: One of the most memorable in the series as he has a hell of a laugh at everyone else's expense.
* EvilRedhead: While possessing Muriel, it makes her hair turn red.
* EvilSoundsDeep: When possessing Muriel, it gives her a gruff male voice.
* {{Expy}}: Of Pazuzu from ''Film/TheExorcist'', toned down significantly for a kid's show, of course.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He has polite mannerisms, but it still doesn't do anything to hide his nature as a malevolent demon.
* FieryRedhead: Okay the hair isn't technically his, but he is hot-tempered and looks like this while inhabiting Muriel.
* GreenAndMean: The demon turns Muriel green, and the entire room is bathed in an eerie green glow as well.
* LaughablyEvil: This is one demon who makes a riot out of a DemonicPossession. He puts the heck in heckling as all of the things he does after taking over a host are aimed at childishly teasing and trolling all related individuals. He doesn't take himself too seriously either, as he pretends wanting to get something out of himself and whisper something in the victim's ear only to prove that the one thing that he wanted to get out of himself was vomit.
* NightmareFace: A hideous face can be seen on the mattress. Also, the weasel pulls this whenever he hisses.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: An evil spirit who at first inhabits a mattress.
* ShoutOut: Everything the demon does in Muriel's body is very similar to what happens to the girl in the film ''Film/TheExorcist''.
* {{Troll}}: It is not known how typical this behaviour is where he comes from, but he surely likes to mess with people and make them expect the worst only to do something innocuous. Like asking for a cup of tea in a tone of voice that would make one think that he is going to ask for a cup of blood.
* WhoWritesThisCrap: Eustace recites this part of the exorcism chant with bewilderment:
--> "Kick 'em in the dishpan, hoo, hoo, hoo?!"
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[[folder:Freaky Fred]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Paul Schoeffler
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->''"Hello new friend, my name is Fred. The words you hear are inside my head. I say, I said my name is Fred, and I've been... '''veeeeery naaaaughtyyy'''."''

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Muriel's nephew, a barber with an obsession (and possibly a fetish) for cutting every single hair off someone. His episode is narrated by Fred himself through his inner monologue as he talks about being "naughty" throughout his life, all while he wants to make Courage his new plaything.
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* AffablyEvil: If he weren't someone who seems to have a strange satisfaction in cutting every single hair on someone you would think he was just a normal creepy barber that thinks/speaks in rhymes.
* AlliterativeName: Both parts of his name begin with F.
* AnimeHair: Has wild, unkempt hair.
* AntiVillain: Type IV. Unlike most villains in the show, Fred never has any murderous intent with his actions; it's just a sick fetish he can't resist.
* BaldOfAwesome: Appears to be slightly balding.
* TheBarber: He's a barber for a living. Or was, until he started shaving his customers bald and got hauled to the nuthouse.
* BigOlEyebrows: His large eyebrows contribute to his wild appearance.
* BritishTeeth: He's got some pretty bulgy teeth.
* TheCameo: Makes a single-scene appearance at the end of ''Ball Of Revenge'' when he inexplicably appears on the TV Courage just turned on after dealing with a LegionOfDoom of some of his previous villains.
* {{Catchphrase}}: Loves to talk about how he's ''"NAAAUUUUUUUUUGGGHHHTTYYY."''
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: A very mentally disturbed example, but his obsession with shaving people bald makes him one of the strangest characters in the show.
* CreepyChildrenSinging: At one point, a choir of these take over his Leitmotif.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Eustace's description of Fred is kind of redundant.
-->'''Eustace:''' The freak's a barber. A freeeaky barber. With his own freaky barber shop. Where freaky things happen. Freaky ''barber'' things!
* EinsteinHair: Indicative of his messiness and ironic for someone who is obsessed with cutting hair.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Subverted with his girlfriend, who left him after he shaved off her hair (he doesn't seem too bothered by this). Implicitly played straight with Muriel, who dotes on him and whom he seems to genuinely like (at least enough to visit her with no apparent ulterior motive, having not known Courage was there until ''after'' he entered the house). He shows no interest in shaving her (or Eustace but that's likely because he's already bald).
* EveryoneHasStandards: He refuses to shave Courage's tail, because he considers it "weird."
* EvilBrit: Subverted. He has a British accent, and his behavior is both unsettling and inappropriate, but he isn't really evil.
* {{Expy}}: He is essentially a LighterAndSofter version of Theatre/SweeneyTodd.
* {{Fetish}}: He has a weird obsession for shaving hair.
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* HarmlessVillain: The only "threat" Fred poses is just shaving all the hair off someone, and going about it in a very creepy way. Otherwise, he has absolutely no murderous intent and is a rather nice person.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Towards the end, he says something about Eustace having an "ebullient charm". It's not clear why, since Eustace was very cold and inhospitable towards him during the brief moment they interacted (as Eustace [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere wisely chose to spend the day elsewhere]].)
* InnerMonologue: Most of Fred's dialogue is one. He only speaks a couple times to the other characters, and even then it's just short sentences like "[[ItMakesSenseInContext you shouldn't play in the toilet]]," and "Coouuurage...your haaaiiir." Hell, one of the first things he says is, "The words you hear are in my head."
* {{Leitmotif}}: The creepy music box in the background serves as his theme music.
* TheMentallyDisturbed: Was a patient at the "Home for Freaky Barbers." At the end of the episode, he goes back and he doesn't even understand it that way, calling the orderlies "landlords" and the ambulance "private room".
* NoodlePeople: He's drawn with long and thin limbs and torso like most normal human characters on the show.
* NothingIsScarier: Even though he did nothing but just shave hair, he STILL managed to scare a lot of kids.
* ObliviouslyEvil: Possibly. He doesn't seem to see his actions as anything worse than "NAAAUUUUUUUUUGGGHHHTTYYY".
* PerpetualSmiler: Wears a constant grin, which adds to his creepiness.
* PokeThePoodle: He was a mentally unstable barber whose major vice was only shaving too much hair off his victims. Still, the show managed to make that ''really creepy''.
* RhymesOnADime: Most of his episode is his internal monologue, in which he speaks in rhyme.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: He has a very refined and poetic speech pattern, which only highlights his insanity and how differently he perceives the world.
* SharpDressedMan: Wears a nice green suit.
* ShoutOut: To Theatre/SweeneyTodd. He also resembles Film/{{Beetlejuice}}.
* SlasherSmile: Has a creepy smile, although it also looks like a CheshireCatGrin.
* SophisticatedAsHell: He speaks in SesquipedalianLoquaciousness for most of his poem, but one line was "And so I figured 'What the heck?'"
* TraumaticHaircut: Gives an embarrassing haircut to Courage.
* VerbalTic: Just about all his monologues end with him saying "NAAAAUUUUGHTYYYY..."
* WickedCultured: Quite eloquent and well-spoken and dresses in a smart tweed suit.
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[[folder:Weremole]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JohnRDilworth
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A creature that moves underground and mainly preys on rabbits, but if it bites a human or perhaps other creatures that survive its bite, they turn into a weremole themselves. The only way to cure a transformation is to get a hair off the original weremole and get it into the affected person's mouth. ''Presuming you can get lucky enough to get either the Weremole or the victim without getting bitten yourself''.
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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: The Weremole converts Muriel into another weremole, [[spoiler:who in turn converts Dr. Vindaloo, who presumably converts or kills Eustace]].
* TheBrute: As part of the VillainTeamUp in "Ball of Revenge", he serves as the group's muscle.
* DumbMuscle: Katz complains about whoever invited a stupid beast like him to join.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: He has a mouth full of sharp teeth and isn't afraid to use them.
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: A monstrous mole who is just as nasty as any werewolf.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: The creature is about the same size as Courage, but it can lift him and flail him into the air with its mouth alone.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Visible red eyes on its simplistic body.
* VillainousGlutton: It consumes a whole rabbit bigger than itself, bites Muriel, and is still hungry. It's a ravenous, feral carnivore, so this sort of thing is to be expected.
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[[folder:Horst's Box Demon]]
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The demon who lived in the box that Eustace's dead brother left behind as an inheritance.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: This demon looks quite menacing, but after dragging Eustace into its box, Eustace finds that [[spoiler:he has landed in a huge pile of money, much to his {{greed}}y delight. The only problem is that he has nowhere to go to spend it]].
* BiggerOnTheInside: When Eustace gets trapped inside the box, [[spoiler:he finds himself in what appears to be a pocket dimension filled with a vast sea of money]].
* ChestMonster: It's a (seemingly) malevolent spirit that lives inside a money box, and will try to pull in anyone who opens it.
* CreepilyLongArms: All we see of the demon are a pair of long, bony, pitch-black arms and hands.
* EldritchAbomination: There's no telling what exactly this thing is, and its arms and hands are the only parts that are visible.
* TheFaceless: Only its long, gigantic arms are shown.
* NothingIsScarier: WHO KNOWS WHAT THIS THING LOOKS LIKE?!
* TheSpook: No explanation is given for how Horst acquired this cursed money box, or why he gave it to Eustace (aside from most likely just being a {{jerkass}} trickster who was messing with his brother's head again).
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[[folder:King Ramses]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JohnRDilworth
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[[caption-width-right:200:Return the slab, or suffer my curse...]]


The ghost of an Egyptian pharaoh who places a curse on any thief who takes his tomb slab. The first curse being a flood, the second being a really loud, catchy song coming from a record player, and the last being locusts that eat ''anything''.
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* AnachronismStew: How does an ancient king get his hands on a record player? Unexplained and PlayedForLaughs.
* AntiVillain: Granted, he does destroy Courage's house by cursing them, but that's because he just wants the slab to return to its rightful place. The only reason that the three plagues even happened is because Eustace stubbornly refused to give back the slab, regardless of the curse inflicted. His anguished voice also suggests that this is a state of existence that he finds extremely unpleasant, but has no choice but to insist until he gets the slab and the sweet release of death with it.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Return the slab, or suffer my curse..."
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: His second curse is forcing you to listen to a loud yet catchy song. In-universe, it's treated as [[FelonyMisdemeanor being worse than flooding the house]].
--> ''King Raaaaamseeeees! The man in gauze! The man in gauze!''
* CurseOfThePharaoh: Anyone who refuses to return King Ramses' slab will suffer three curses from him, which progress in the manner of [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Arson, Jaywalking, and Murder]] in terms of increasing severity. First he floods your home, then forces you to listen to an annoyingly catchy song, and finally sends a swarm of man-eating locusts after you.
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Eustace repeatedly refuses to return Ramses' slab. After Ramses casts the three curses, Eustace thinks he's got a chance at keeping the slab. [[spoiler:Ramses uses the third curse once more by sending the insects to Eustace then pulls one last curse up his sleeve: he [[AndIMustScream turns Eustace into an engraving on his coffin]].]]
* EvilRedhead: Has three red hairs that move around, seemingly on their own. Could be a GeniusBonus or AccidentallyCorrectWriting, given that the historical UsefulNotes/RamsesII the Great (the most famous pharaoh of that name) was discovered to have had red hair. Though he only does evil things when you have his slab and don't return it.
* ExtremeOmnivore: The third curse is a giant cloud of locusts that eat through anything in their path, ''including living beings''.
* GoryDiscretionShot: The thieves at the beginning of the episode are attacked by Ramses and his locusts. The camera then pans to the side as they scream bloody murder while the cloud consumes their car. Once it quiets down, ''all that's left are dirt streaks on the road''.
* GrailInTheGarbage: The tomb slab was thought to be old garbage by Eustace, but it's only when a TV news report says how much it's worth, does Eustace suddenly want to keep it.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesses He can be any one of eleven pharaohs named Ramses]], although it's possible the specifics are irrelevant in this case.
* LeanAndMean: He's emanciated and rotted like any mummy, so much so that his body is excessively thin under his cloak.
* {{Mummy}}: He's a mummified pharaoh.
* NephariousPharaoh: He can cast one hell of a [[CurseOfThePharaoh mummy's curse]].
* NobleDemon: King Ramses was harmless until thieves stole a slab from his tomb. If someone has his slab, he asks them to return it to him. Only if they don't does he curse them. When he cursed Eustace for keeping the slab he also harmed Courage and Muriel, who were innocent, [[spoiler:but once Eustace gets out of the house still refusing to return the slab, Ramses continues to curse only Eustace, showing that while he is not someone who would NeverHurtAnInnocent, he is at least more willing to hurt guilty people]].
* NotSoAboveItAll: When his first plague fails to get the point across, he actually puts his hands to his hips and lets out an annoyed "Aw, come ''onnnnnnnn...''"
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: He is the spirit of an ancient king with the power to summon curses and create a thick veil of fog when he appears.
* TorturedMonster: It appears that the taking of the slab led to his inability to find rest in his tomb and that only reclaiming it will allow him to end [[AndIMustScream his suffering]] and [[UndeathAlwaysEnds this sickly half-existence]].
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[[folder:The Clutching Foot]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Paul Schoeffler (Big Toe), Arnold Stang (small toes)
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->''"I'm the Big Toe, see? Yeah, see? And what I say goes, see? Got me?"''

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A mobster-like foot fungus monster that is created from a strange infection that overwhelms Eustace. The Big Toe is the mob boss, while all the rest are followers with no different personalities except maybe for the Pinky Toe.
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* BodyHorror: This thing is a parasitic foot fungus that completely engulfs Eustace's body. It's just as gross as it sounds.
* TheBrute: To itself, oddly enough, as it is a gang of 5 all in one, and does the heavy lifting itself.
* {{Catchphrase}}:
** "Yeah, see."
** "Or the fat lady gets it!"
* TheDitz: The Pinky Toe. Compared to the Big Toe, who is the schemer, and the three middle toes who have no personality, he's a bit slower on the uptake.
* EnemyWithout: He was originally Eustace's foot. But in his second appearance, he shows up as his own entity. Last time he was seen growing in Courage's tongue so it is not clear how he managed to find another foot to take over and return. [[NegativeContinuity Well, considering this series...]]
* EyesAlwaysShut: All the toes appear to be squinting to make the classic gangster stereotype even more obvious.
* FesteringFungus: One that doesn't just stop at infecting people's feet.
* TheMafia: They act and sound like stereotypical American mobsters from the Prohibition/Depression era.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The big toe talks like Creator/EdwardGRobinson in one of his iconic gangster roles.
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: The Pinky toe is not only the smallest of the group, but also the slowest into getting into the act. While the other three just speak in unison and repeat what the Big Toe says, he stands out by repeating in delay and then asking some incongruous question.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Pinky Toe suggested they JustShootHim in "Ball of Revenge", and was reprimanded by the other 4 toes for his simple-mindedness, when everyone else had something more special for their greatest enemy in mind.
* ToiletHumor: Whenever he squeezes Muriel, she farts.
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[[folder:The Goose God]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Paul Schoeffler
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->''"If I am to make her mine, I must toss away my fears like lint from a dryer. I am a Goose GOD! I must have this woman as my queen!"''

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ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. He desires love and a worthy queen to be wed to. He gets a crush on Muriel and tries to take her as her queen. At least until he hears the sound of the horn of Eustace's truck.
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* AnythingThatMoves: He's a bird god who wants to get with a human, [[CargoShip and later a motor vehicle]]. Which, due to a later CallBack, ''seems to have stayed a functional relationship''. [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Sounds about right, considering]].
* CharacterTics: He'll often pepper his dialogue with goose honks. It's part of why he later becomes enamored with Eustace's truck.
* EvilIsHammy: He talks like a Shakespearean actor and gesticulates like an opera singer.
* EvilSoundsDeep: A rather impressive baritone, as befitting a goose god.
* {{Expy}}: Of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology the Greek god Zeus]]. He even has the same lust for mortal women.
* FoulWaterfowl: A bird who isn't exactly evil, [[IfICantHaveYou but is definitely a jerk]].
* GreenThumb: He can create an endless field of flowers.
* ImmortalityImmorality: He ultimately decides to kidnap Muriel when he can't win her over, because he feels like it's his right as a god.
* InterspeciesRomance: His episode centers around him trying to woo Muriel. He later settles for a pickup truck though. Then again he is a deity, so the goose is merely his chosen form, and the interspecies is between divine and mortal.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He refuses to take Muriel's "no" for an answer.
* JerkassGods: He's a deity who feels entitled to whomever he lusts after.
* LargeHam: From his hyper-dramatic soliloquies to his ridiculously showy attempts to impress Muriel, nothing this guy does is subtle.
* OddJobGods: He's basically a divine bird-man, who's apparently the God of Geese.
* PhysicalGod: A cartoony Zeus parody, to be exact. Also a goose for whatever reason.
* RhymesOnADime: Not only in his dialogue, but also in the poem and the song he writes for Muriel.
* ShockAndAwe: Can form and throw lightning bolts at will.
* SmugSnake: As you might expect from a god, he has nothing but contempt for mortals. With the exception of Muriel.
* ToothyBird: Has a rather disturbing toothy grin, despite being a goose. Justified in this case, since he's not actually a bird, just a god that looks like one.
* WickedCultured: Writes music and poetry and sings opera. Also kind of a jerk.
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[[folder:Queen of the Black Puddle]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Ruth Williamson
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->''"Eustace..."''

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A siren/succubus-like monster who lives in an alternate dimension, the gateway to which is in a puddle of black water. She lures in men to her home underwater and eats them.
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* AlluringAnglerfish: Very obviously based on one. She lives in the watery depths, her "lure" is her great beauty, and her GameFace strongly resembles an anglerfish, with giant, pointy teeth and an elongated, rounded jaw.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: A blue-skinned humanoid demon.
* {{Angrish}}: Prone to half-coherent rambling if she gets trapped and obscured from her prey.
** "OW! Wait 'til I get outta here, I'll getcha...!"
* BeautyIsBad: She's gorgeous, but also a deadly temptress and a literal man-eater.
* BlackWidow: A supernatural variant. She's essentially a SerialKiller whose "boyfriends" never last past their first date.
* CatchPhrase: "Eustaaaaaaaaace..."
* DarkChick: Particularly when she teams up with some of the other villains of the show.
* EnemyMine: Despite wanting to eat Eustace earlier, [[spoiler:later on she agrees to forming an alliance with him against Courage]].
* EvilWearsBlack: Wears an entirely black dress.
* FemmeFatale: Uses seduction to lure her prey.
* HornyDevils: A [[GRatedSex G-Rated]] example of a succubus, given that she is a demon who uses her beauty to try and lure Eustace to his doom.
* HumanoidAbomination: She usually resembles a human woman, until she prepares to eat someone.
* LeanAndMean: She's very skinny and very evil.
* LiteralManeater: She actively preys on [[ToServeMan men]].
* MakingASplash: She is a water spirit, and has the ability to appear from any source of water.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: In her monster form, she has a lot of fangs.
* MotiveDecay: She originally wanted to eat Eustace. Then she teams up with him to take revenge on Courage.
* NightmareFace: In her predator form.
* OneWingedAngel: Once she's ready to eat her victim, she becomes ''much'' less pretty.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: The Computer outright calls her a sea demon.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: She lives underwater and takes on an angler-like form when Courage comes to rescue Eustace.
* RapunzelHair: Her hair is incredibly long.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Combined with her outfit, it makes for RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver.
* SirensAreMermaids: She's an aquatic monster who uses her beauty and voice to ensnare foolish men. However, she doesn't quite resemble a fish until after she [[OneWingedAngel transforms]] in preparation for eating Eustace.
* TheVamp: She seduces Eustace into her lair, but only so she can eat him alive. Literally.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: She can change from water, into a human-like form, or into a hideous monster. And at the end of the episode, she turns into a dog-like form to try to seduce Courage when he's taking a bath.
* WaterIsWomanly: A beautiful, seductive sea demon with long blue hair and blue-tinted skin. She uses her beauty and voice to lure men for her to eat.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair is a bluish purple.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Errol van Volkheim]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Paul Schoeffler
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Benton Tarantella's late partner-in-crime. Tarantella plans to raise Volkheim from the dead as another zombie to try and eat Muriel together.
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* FilmFelons: Volkhiem and Tarantella posed as ordinary filmmakers, killing people to create {{snuff film}}s.
* ImAHumanitarian: As they are zombies after all, Errol and Benton attempted to eat Muriel.
* KarmaHoudini: Seriously, how does a '''murderer of twelve people''' get ''released'' on "good behavior", while his partner rotted in prison for the rest of his life? And when he returns as a zombie, we can see that he's still as evil as ever.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His name and vaguely German-ish accent are based on real-life silent movie director Creator/ErichVonStroheim. His first name may also allude to documentarian [[Film/TheThinBlueLine Errol]] [[Film/TheFogOfWar Morris]].
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Like Tarantella, Volkheim retains his intelligence and personality as a zombie, but also gains a taste for human flesh.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Courage manages to foil their evil plot by editing the film script, so they release Muriel unharmed. Tarantella and Volkheim argue, and then they leave the house on their separate ways.
* SerialKiller: When they were still alive, Volkheim helped Tarantella murder 12 people. But Volkheim somehow managed to get paroled from prison.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He doesn't even return during Tarantella's second episode. Then again, he did say at the end of Tarantella's first appearance that he was through working with him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Precious, Wonderful, Adorable, Lovable Duckling]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Arnold Stang
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->''"Mama!"''

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A baby duck who hatches from an egg on a cooking pot, who develops a love for Eustace. So much so that he tries to eliminate the one person who likes Eustace just as much as he does: Muriel.
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* AxCrazy: The Duckling basically just acts out on his violent impulses.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He acts cute and sweet whenever it serves him.
* CreepyChild: Actually, a creepy duckling. He's a baby duck who tries to get rid of Muriel because she's on his way to have Eustace's full, undivided attention.
* DirtyKid: He attempts to peep on Muriel while she's bathing until Courage smacks him upside the head.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He has a very childlike love for Eustace, to the point of jealous hatred against the man's wife.
* EvilLaugh: While he's tying Muriel to a rocket, he lets out one of these.
* FoulWaterfowl Yet another evil and wicked bird (this time, a duck), much like Le Quack or the Chicken from Outer Space.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: His own rocket that was meant to blast Muriel to the moon.
* IronicNickname: He's not actually precious, wonderful, adorable, or lovable. [[EnfantTerrible At all.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: He is very nasty towards Courage and Muriel (whenever she isn't looking).
* KillerRabbit: Despite being a baby duck, he was willing to send an old lady to the moon!
* MurderTheHypotenuse: He's plotting to get rid of Muriel in order to have Eustace all to himself.
* OverlyLongName: His IronicNickname is quite a mouthful.
* ParentalSubstitute: He views Eustace as a mother figure. Though of course, [[LackOfEmpathy Eustace doesn't know or care about this]].
* PintsizedPowerhouse: He pulls off feats of strength on par with Courage, despite only being about knee-high to him.
* SlasherSmile: Particularly during his many attempts to kill Muriel.
* ToothyBird: Like Le Quack, he also has teeth.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: To get Courage in trouble, he pretends that Courage hurt him.
* {{Yandere}}: Platonic, but ''very'' extreme example of reacting violently towards a perceived love rival.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Eggplants]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Paul Schoeffler (Bobby Ganoush), Don Peeples (Ratatouille)
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[[caption-width-right:185:Bobby Ganoush and Ratatouille]]

->'''Bobby:''' ''"This is our sworn enemy, the enemy of ALL eggplants! And we shall DESTROY her!!"''

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A large group of living eggplants that believe Muriel is a great evil that must be extinguished, but they won't attack until they are ordered by The Great Eggplant to do so. They become nicer when water finally drops and their vines grow.
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* APigNamedPorkchop: Both Bobby Ganoush and Ratatouille are named after real-life eggplant dishes.
* GRatedDrug: Water mellows them out considerably, invoking this kind of reaction from them.
* HeelFaceTurn: They become more benevolent when the soil becomes more wet.
* NiceHat: Bobby Ganoush a strange-looking toque, while Ratatouille has a CommissarCap.
* PlantPeople: They are anthropomorphic vegetables, after all.
* ShoutOut: The Great Eggplant may be directly or indirectly be based on [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} The Great Pumpkin]].
* TakeAThirdOption: Once they capture Muriel, they can't agree whether to fry or grill her and only reach a consensus when one eggplant says, "Why don't we bake her?"
* ToServeMan: They intend to cook and eat Muriel in retaliation for her making dishes off their "people".
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Great Fusilli]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JimCummings
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->''"Ladies and gentlemen! The Great Fusilli brings for your entertainment pleasure: "A Simple Family Scene"! Starring Eustace! Muriel! And, uh, the cute little doggy."''

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An alligator that runs a mobile stage in his truck, looking for people who wish to become famous stars and tricking them into acting for his (invisible or non-existent) audience, [[spoiler:using the theater masks over the rafters to turn the unfortunate participants into his puppets]].
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* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: An anthropomorphic crocodile with a hat and a cape.
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Succeeds in turning both Muriel and Eustace into puppets, effectively killing them since there seems to be no way to reverse the transformation. And this was originally how the whole show would have ended.]]
* ConMan: He tricks people into joining him as actors, with promises of fame and fortune, only to [[spoiler:transform them into puppets.]]
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:He convinces people to sign on with him, promising to make them stars, but really intending to turn them into puppets.]]
* EvilIsHammy: He acts very dramatic, not only because he's a stageowner, but because he's evil as heck.
* EvilLaugh: He lets out a long, triumphant laugh as [[spoiler:his stage turns Muriel and Eustace into puppets]].
* EvilPuppeteer: A travelling puppeteer who manipulates people into joining him so he can [[spoiler:turn them into puppets]].
* EvilSoundsRaspy: He's one of the most vile characters on the show, and he speaks with Jim Cummings' signature rasp.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He puts on a veneer of politeness when talking to Muriel and Eustace, promising to make them famous, but in a double-meaning way that hints at his true intention of [[spoiler:turning them into puppets]].
* FunnyForeigner: He has a strong Italian accent and is named after a type of pasta. He initially gives off the image of a well-meaning, if overly dramatic, stagemaster, but this trope is subverted when he turns out to be a sadistic villain.
* HellishPupils: His pupils are noticeably slit-shaped. They lend him a sinister glare that is absolutely fitting for his wicked personality.
* HighCollarOfDoom: His OminousOperaCape includes a pink collar that, along with his wide hat, completely covers the back of his head.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:His own stage turns him into a puppet.]]
* LivingDollCollector: [[spoiler:He turns people into puppets and keeps them hung up backstage.]]
* LizardFolk: He is an anthropomorphic crocodile.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Having a lot of teeth is to be expected from an alligator/crocodile. All the things he does are not...
* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: This crocodile proves to be one of the most vile antagonists in the show.
* NiceHat: Wears a wide-brimmed blue hat with a purple band and a long white feather.
* OminousOperaCape: Wears a long purple cape, fitting for such a dramatic stage actor. Of course, it's also fitting considering how evil he is.
* PeoplePuppets: [[spoiler: His stage literally turns people into puppets. This is also how he meets his end.]]
* PsychopathicManchild: Implied. [[spoiler:The way he "plays" with puppet-ified Muriel and Eustace is reminiscent of a cruel kid, and the fact that there are so many unused puppets backstage indicates that he just throws them there when he's done playing with them.]]
* PurpleIsPowerful: His cape and collar are purple.
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:Courage ends up tricking him into turning himself into a puppet, making his victory moot.]]
* {{Sadist}}: What else do we call someone who enjoys [[spoiler:turning everyone he meets into lifeless playthings of his, and feels good as the master puppeteer of corpses]]?
* TopHeavyGuy: He has a barrel chest that tapers down to an extremely tiny waist.
* WickedCultured: Apparently has an artistic bent, despite being a psychopath. Given the loquacious speeches he gives even when used to deceive, he certainly didn't get this theatricality out of Nowhere.
* YellowEyesOfSneakiness: His shifty yellow eyes are an early hint that he's bad news.
[[/folder]]

!Season Two
[[folder:Robot Randy]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/PeterFernandez
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->''"I don't wanna destroy things..."''

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A robot from a whole planet of militaristic robots, who acts differently from the rest. Instead of wanting to destroy things, he wants to pick up a hobby/job of making wooden reindeer. Pressured by his peers, he lands on Nowhere and tries to take over the Bagge farm.
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* AlienInvasion[=/=]RobotWar: Randy's people invade other planets for a living. He's given the task of finding a planet to conquer in order to prove his worth; so he chooses Earth. He never moves beyond seizing the Bagge farmlands though.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: He isn't well-liked by the rest of his kind. Ironic that he makes reindeer, no. In fact he's also [[Literature/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer red colored]]... hmm.
* CompanionCube: He regards his wooden reindeer dolls as his friends.
* DanceOff: He is defeated, not through combat, but in a dance battle with Courage.
* DisintegratorRay: His head is a dome that contains a large laser cannon, which he uses to incinerate Eustace ''[[TheyKilledKennyAgain multiple times]]''.
* EarlyBirdCameo: He's among the monsters and villains seen in the show's opening in the first season even though he doesn't appear within the series until season two.
* GeniusBruiser: Despite being a giant, destructive robot, he's rather gifted when it comes to woodcarving.
* HumongousMecha: He's a giant alien war robot, though fully autonomous.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: He's not really interested in invading other worlds like his fellow robots, he just wants to whittle and make reindeer dolls.
* LargeHam: Due to his voice actor doing a rather dramatic Creator/ChristopherWalken impression.
* MadeASlave: He enslaves the Bagge family and forces them to build statues of his likeness.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: He may not be as impressive as the other robots, but in Nowhere, he's still a HumongousMecha with lasers.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Shwick]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Paul Schoeffler
[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/schwick.png]]

->''"By the way, name's Bushwick. But call me Shwick. Just Shwick. Don't ever call me Bushwick. Just Shwick."''

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An anthropomorphic cockroach who invites the Bagge family to a dusty hotel room in New York City, where just on the wall is a mousehole-sized door that has something in there that is never directly known, as all that's left of its victims are bones. Shwick is also a wanted criminal, and to hide his tracks he hires Courage to deliver a present to a scary apartment with rooms full of horrible things (one including a certain Violin Girl).
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* BerserkButton: Calling him "Bushwick" sets him off. He prefers to be called "Shwick". Just "Shwick".
* BigCreepyCrawlies: He is an anthropomorphic cockroach.
* BrooklynRage: From the real world Brooklyn neighborhood Bushwick. You can call that Bushwick, but not him.
* TheCameo: He makes a voice-only cameo at the end of "Ball of Revenge," complaining that he didn't get to be part of the LegionOfDoom.
* TheComicallySerious: A large part of his appeal is that he is always speaking in a conspicuous and sinister tone even while participating in a hair-length contest with Eustace or changing a danger sign with a skull to a not be afraid one with a ''smiling face''.
* CreepyCockroach: One that's as big as a human.
* DoNotCallMePaul: Not "Bushwick". "Shwick". Just "Shwick".
* EarlyBirdCameo: He doesn't appear until season two, but is one of the monsters and villains seen in the show's opening in the first season.
* FatBastard: Fat and very, very much a crook. Well, for as fat as a cockroach can be.
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Amusingly wears boxers beneath his gross cockroach skin. And he is very proud of them.
* HairTriggerTemper: It doesn't take much for his rough and violent temper to be seen. Just a broken squeegee and he immediately declares war on Courage and somehow comes to the conclusion of being double-crossed, when a ''whole freaking train'' broke into his apartment.
* NothingIsScarier: "Ya see dese bones? Ya wanna know what made dese bones? Ya don't wanna know what made dese bones."
* ObviouslyEvil: The funniest thing about him is that he couldn't look more guilty if he tried. He is a giant cockroach with a shifty demeanor who lurks in a dark alley and ''only Courage'' is even close to suspicious.
* SerialKiller: Whatever's living in that mousehole, Shwick's clearly fed a lot of people to it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Basil]]
[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/basil_front.png]]

->''"Nigel, why ya tyin' up Mama Mashed Potatoes and Uncle Twinkle-Toes?"''

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A deranged and confused burglar who is very prone to mood swings and personality shifts. Sometimes he's convinced that the Bagges are his own relatives.
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* AffablyEvil: When he thinks that the Bagges are his family, he's very nice to them.
* AmbiguousDisorder: He, rather randomly, enters delusions that the people he's trying to rob are his extended family. It could be anything from dissociative identity disorder to schizophrenia.
* AntiVillain: He's an aggressive thief, though he's very mentally ill, so it at least partially excuses his crimes.
* AxCrazy: The crazy part of this criminal speaks for itself, though Fish-Crazy would be more accurate.
* BadassNormal: He was one of the very few antagonists on the show that was nothing more than a normal human. A terminally confused human wielding a fish, but a human nonetheless.
* BlatantBurglar: He is never seen wearing anything other than his domino mask and burglary clothing even when he gives up this way of living.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: To the point where even Muriel agrees with her husband that he's nuts. His major goal in life (which he eventually succeeded in) was to be an ''electric eel masseuse''. Yeah.
* DominoMask: He never gets up without it.
* EarlyBirdCameo: He first appears in "The Shadow Of Courage" as one of Courage's [[ImagineSpot Imagine Spots]] when he believes the titular shadow is a burglar.
* EvilBrit: In his "hardened criminal" identity, he's a thug with a Cockney accent. Subverted with his other affable personality.
* LanternJawOfJustice: Complete with "chin-butt".
* TheMentallyDisturbed: On a comparable level to Fred. It's clear this guy has issues.
* NiceHat: A knit hat to fit his burglar outfit.
* PermaStubble: He is always slightly unshaven like your typical prisoner.
* ShamuFu: His WeaponOfChoice is a big fish.
* SplitPersonality: It sounds impossible, but in truth he manages to invert this trope, and it's ''other'' people that he splits in his mind. At first he behaves like a hardened criminal, but then he adopts a very AffablyEvil demeanor towards the Bagges, and then he goes back to being aggressive. The reason is that it's not his personality that really changes, but rather his understanding of who the surrounding individuals are; his victims become just as suddenly his relatives and partners-in-crime, as back to who they really are.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:King Kong & Monkey Nephew]]

A duo of monkeys who secretly rule over the Banana People of the year 3001, tricking them into thinking they're being led towards salvation.
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* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Kong is a giant ape that easily towers over the Banana People and the Bagges.
* FalseProphet: The monkey dresses up in a banana leader suit to trick the other citizens into following him to what they think is salvation, when really it's to his uncle so he'll eat them alive.
* ImAHumanitarian: For a given definition of the trope that doesn't particularly involve human flesh, but they're beings that set up a scheme to devour the dominant species of Earth in 3001.
* HurricaneOfPuns: Kong is a monkey's uncle whose nephew plays the role of top banana to trick the Banana People until they go bananas when they find out the truth. This is all played narratively in the episode and only once do they point out one of these puns out loud.
* NamesTheSame: The giant ape is identified as [[Film/KingKong1933 King Kong]] despite having no obvious similarity to his namesake besides being a giant ape. If anything, he looks less like a gorilla and more like an orangutan.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mayan Baker]]
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A mummy who was once the royal baker for a Mayan queen, who was a [[{{Reincarnation}} past incarnation]] of Muriel. He came back recognizing Muriel as the Mayan Queen and Eustace as the [[EvilChancellor Royal Pooh-bah]], and looks for revenge against them since he was wrongly sentenced to death.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The ancient Mayans didn't usually mummify their corpses -- although that could be explained as it being inflicted on the baker as a punishment -- and South American mummies weren't wrapped in bandages like their Egyptian counterparts. Tangentially related, [[RuleOfFunny although obviously meant as a joke]], Pooh-Bah isn't an actual rank in Mayan society (or any society for that matter). It's a character from a Gilbert and Sullivan light opera, a very high ranking minister of state... in Japan.
* BodyHorror: The description of his torture invokes unsettling imagery regarding his anatomy. Including [[MouthStitchedShut his mouth sewn shut]] and [[EyeScream his eyes plucked out of their sockets]]. And keep in mind the steps that go into the mummification process.
* EarlyBirdCameo: In spite of making his full debut in season two, he can be seen in the first season's opening.
* FrameUp: It was the Royal Pooh-bah who caused him to be mummified, as he was stealing cookies behind the queen's back, and the baker had tried to stop him. Once Courage has the scene re-enacted (via hypnosis), only this time ending with the Pooh-Bah revealed as the culprit, does he finally find peace.
* MouthStitchedShut: His lips were sewn shut as part of the mummification process.
* {{Mummy}}: A rare Mesoamerican example of an undead preserved corpse, even if it still invokes a few of the Egyptian stereotypes associated with mummification.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: All that can be seen of his face are glowing red eyes.
* ShowSomeLeg: Hilariously hitched a ride by exposing his leg to Di Lung and it worked, despite the fact that the sexy leg obviously belonged to a centuries-old rotting corpse.
* ShownTheirWork: The ancient Mayans did believe in reincarnation, so it makes sense that an undead Mayan with a grudge would go after the ones he thinks are the reincarnations of the ones who wronged him.
* TheUnintelligible: Due to having been dead and mummified, he can't speak properly or clearly. Having his mouth stitched closed probably doesn't help.
* TragicVillain: He never actually harms anyone. All he really wants is vindication for being wrongly punished centuries ago. Once Muriel -- hypnotized to think she's the Mayan queen -- exonerates him, he is satisfied, and only demands a warm blanket to rest in as compensation.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Doctor Gerbil]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JohnRDilworth
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->''"Actually it's doctor. Doctor Gerbil. But my friends call me Lou-Lou May."''

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A gerbil in vacuum salesman garb who supposedly owns a line of products with his name. In reality, he's a cruel scientist wanting to turn the Bagges into his unfortunate lab rats.
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* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: He is a purple-furred gerbil.
* AxCrazy: His acts of mad science and insane vigilante action say it all.
* ConMan: A door-to-door salesman who intends to kidnap would-be customers.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He acts like a SouthernGentleman, but is actually a MadScientist who enjoys tormenting his subjects.
* FishEyes: They're slightly different sizes too.
* ForScience: Performs all sorts of torturous experiments on humans, just to satisfy his curiosity. Some of his dialogue implies that he used to be a lab rat, so he might be doing it for revenge.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: He wears plaid top-coat, a bowtie, and a bowler hat, but no pants.
* HonestJohnsDealership: A vacuum salesman is a dubious profession as it is, but for him its a front to kidnap people for experimentation.
* InformedSpecies: Despite his name, he looks more like a guinea pig than a gerbil.
* JustTheIntroductionToTheOpposites: Here we have an animal kidnapping and experimenting on humans instead of the other way around.
* KillerRabbit: He's a cute-looking, if very large gerbil, but he's also evil and sadistic.
* MadnessMantra: The [[EarWorm annoyingly catchy jingle]] that plays in his evil lair:
-->''"It's Doc Gerbil's World! It's Doc Gerbil's World!..."''
* MadScientist: He kidnaps humans to experiment on them with his consumer products. He implies that this is revenge for the same being done to him in the past.
* NiceHat: He wears a derby that's a bit too small for his head.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Or at least he would be if he wasn't so...unnerving.
* RodentsOfUnusualSize: He's about the same height as Courage.
* SeldomSeenSpecies: How many other gerbils have you seen in media?
* SmugSnake: See the quote above. He fancies himself a refined salesman when he's nothing but a crazy evil scientist.
* SouthernFriedGenius: An impressive MadScientist with a Dixie accent.
* WickedCultured: A man of science with a refined bearing and genteel mannerisms. He's also freaking insane.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mustafa al Bacterius]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Arnold Stang
[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mustafa_al_bacterius.png]]

->''"You humans are not satisfied messing with your own planet. You feel the need to mess with space also. Well, if the sun wants to fizzle, let it. We like it dark. So get a flashlight and some D cells, cause it's lights out, space clowns!"''

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A microscopic alien who tried to prevent the Bagges from fixing the sun.
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* BizarreAlienBiology: Part of a species that can survive in absolute darkness and (supposedly) cold, not caring that the Sun is about to extinguish itself and trying to stop Courage from fixing the issue.
* {{Determinator}}: Getting blasted out of a spaceship toilet into the vacuum of space wasn't enough. [[spoiler:At the end, he's now inside Eustace.]]
* FishEyes: His eyes are huge and crossed, standard for several other characters in the series.
* GagNose: A big bulbous one that somehow fits inside his helmet.
* KnightTemplar: He believes that Earthlings have no right to mess with the natural order of outer space, even if it's for good intentions.
* MindControl: He hijacks Muriel's brain to sabotage their mission.
* SolarCPR: His episode centered around resuscitating the Sun.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Katz's Mutant Jam]]
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A recipe of sentient jam that Katz cooks up in order to terrorize his rival in a cook-off, Muriel.
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* BlobMonster: Made from living jam.
* {{Cyclops}}: Has a single eye.
* {{Mook}}: By far the only other time Katz has ever "employed" something to attack the Bagge family in his stead, creating this creature so it would go after Muriel.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Of all people, ''Eustace'' manages to send it screaming it terror after [[RunningGag scaring it away with his "Ooga Booga" mask]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Guardians of the Golden Hat]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Arnold Stang (Monk Leader), Todd Stashwick (Subordinates)
[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/monks.jpg]]

->'''Monk Leader:''' ''"Okay. You better give up the hat, or one of you is gonna be sacrificed!"''

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A clan of hooded monks who guard the Golden Hat Eustace tried to get his mitts on. After he refuses to give it back to them, they awaken a large stone golem to have one of them (Muriel, naturally) sacrificed as punishment.
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%%* {{Alter Kocker}}
* AntiVillain: They're pious monks who renounced vanity and material gain to protect an ancient relic. They're not necessarily evil, but they'll immediately leap into sacrificing offenders who try to take the Golden Hat from their temple.
* EyesAlwaysShut: It's not clear if they're doing that on purpose or they're suppose to be some sort of East Asian sect.
* {{Fat Bastard}}s: Perhaps implied that they are very gluttonous for people who chose an ascetic way of living.
* GagNose: All of them have bulbous noses that poke rather conspicuously out of their hoods.
* {{Gonk}}s: They're pretty odd-looking even for this show.
* HypocriticalHumor: They hate vanity, but Courage defeats them and their huge golem by making them embrace outward appearance through some fashionable clothes.
* LivingStatue: To sacrifice Muriel, the monks awaken a huge statue that supposedly represents a deity of worship. Courage has to deal with the statue as well as the cult, so he makes sure to get a nice extra large jacket for it as well.
* LogicalWeakness: Both the stone golem and their temple is protected by some kind of magic that depends on their faith and lack of materialism. Therefore, corrupting them into becoming vain through fashion immediately causes the golem and their temple to come crashing down to rubble.
* TakenForGranite: [[spoiler:Turns out the Golden Hat is cursed and will turn its thief into stone. Eustace finds out the hard way.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sharky]]
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->''"Aye, me mateys! The wind's right, the salt is callin'! ...and the party's over."''

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A mean-spirited captain who mans the ship the Bagges use to see Carmen the sea monster. Little do the Bagges know he's trying to capture Carmen.
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* AxCrazy: He's obsessed with hunting a sea monster [[spoiler:who is actually harmless]].
* BigBadWannabe: He doesn't even come ''close'' to capturing Carmen. If anything, Carmen instead defeats him herself by causing a bunch of stalagtites in her cave to fall around him in a cage formation.
* ConMan: He offers a free peaceful river cruise to the Bagge family, only to have them shanghaied into becoming his crew to capture a giant serpent.
* DressedToPlunder: Seriously, he is like a sketch from a child's drawing book about pirates.
** BeardOfEvil[=/=]SeadogBeard: Like a pirate stereotype, he has a huge bushy beard.
** EyepatchOfPower: Wouldn't look like a pirate without an eyepatch.
** HookHand: He actually has an organic hand he pops off and replaces with a hook.
** NiceHat: As expected, he wears a pirate hat.
* EvilIsHammy: He is hammy to the point of drooling as he speaks.
* {{Expy}}: A modern version of Ahab chasing his own personal Literature/MobyDick, except here it's a giant red serpent.
* {{Jerkass}}: He abuses his crew, especially [[ButtMonkey Courage]]. He's also a jerk for [[spoiler:trying to kill [[DarkIsNotEvil Carmen]]]].
* {{Pirate}}: He turns out to be a river pirate, rather than a cruise boat captain.
* TalkLikeAPirate: Given his real appearance and objective, his accent couldn't be anything else but this.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kangaroo Monster]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Lionel G. Wilson (Kangaroo Eustace), Marty Grabstein (Kangaroo Courage)
[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7_30.png]]

A giant, prehistoric kangaroo. Eustace and Courage both turn into these after receiving bone transplants from the remains of this ancient creature, the latter doing so in response to Eustace going pretty much crazy over the power it gives him.
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* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: The Kangaroo Monster is gigantic. Kangaroo Eustace even gets to kidnap Muriel and go on a rampage through cities around the world.
* KangarooPouchRide: Eustace carries Muriel in his pouch at one point. Courage later does the same, but giving her a ride back home instead.
* TakesOneToKillOne: Courage turns himself into a kangaroo monster to fight Eustace and save Muriel.
* TransformationHorror: A prehistoric kangaroo bone being surgically transplanted into Eustace was the cause of everything.
* VillainousLegacy: The Kangaroo Monster itself has already become extinct; the main conflict in the episode centers on Eustace becoming the Kangaroo Monster as a result of the surgical implant.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Alien]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Jon Adams
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[[caption-width-right:310:Alien]]
[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/alien_brain_boss.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:310:Alien's Master]]

->''"Car broke. Phone? Yes?"''
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An alien who tries to extract the essence of kindness from Muriel for his master in an attempt to achieve galactic conquest.
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* AliensAreBastards: He turns Muriel into a nasty {{Jerkass}}, and conspires with his master to take over the galaxy.
* BrainMonster: His body consists only of an exposed brain, two eyes, and three tentacles for limbs. His master is an even larger brain-creature.
* EmotionEater: His tentacles can drain one's kindness into a liquid form, which he then gives to his master for [[ItMakesSenseInContext some kind of galactic domination scheme]].
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: He turns nice and polite after getting splashed with kindness, even helping Courage and Muriel escape his master. Courage rewards him by blowing both him and his master up with a CartoonBomb.
* HughMann: Like many other villains, he fools Muriel and Eustace with a poor disguise (in his case, a [[NiceHat fedora]] and [[ConspicuousTrenchcoat trenchcoat]]); despite how painfully obvious it is that he isn't human or any sort of Earthly creature.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Meant to make him resemble "It" from ''Literature/AWrinkleInTime''. Neither are pleasant beings.
* StarfishAlien: He and his master are definitely some of the more bizarre-looking creatures on this show.
* TookALevelInKindness: Unwillingly, after getting splashed with some of Muriel's kindness. He immediately releases both Courage and Muriel and lets them leave.
* VerbalTic: Often replies to others with "{{Yes|Man}}".
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Whip]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Lionel G. Wilson
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->''"I'll be back in a year, at sundown, to get me loot from those what swindled me! And ain't no "lawman" gonna stop me!"''

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Eustace portrayed as a villainous cowboy who wielded a whip in an ImagineSpot for a story Muriel was reading.
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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: After becoming a zombie, his skin is green.
* TheDreaded: Almost everyone in the Wild West city is afraid of him to the point that once word spread that The Whip has returned, they immediately high-tail themselves outta the city.
* {{Expy}}: He's Angel Eyes from ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'' with Zorro's aesthetic. Also a zombie, because why not.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: He wears glasses and is just as mean as Eustace.
* LanternJawOfJustice: Inverted: he has Eustace's impressive jawline, but he's a villain.
* LeanAndMean: Skinny and very unpleasant like Eustace.
* OpaqueLenses: His glasses' lenses are not transparent.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: He's a {{revenant| zombie}} (sapient zombie), portrayed with green skin and mostly-human appearance.
* PianoDrop: He gets defeated (and possibly killed) this way: Courage sends him a present (despite the Whip's insistence that "it's not me birthday") containing a large bullseye. The whip throws it to the ground and stomps on it in confusion… only for a fighter jet to fly by and drop a piano right on top of him.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Much like Eustace. Unlike Eustace, he's explicitly evil.
* TheEndOrIsIt: Somehow appears ''outside'' the story once Muriel finishes reading. And that's the end of the episode.
--> '''Courage''': *with faux-cowboy accent* Well, HereWeGoAgain.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: He lets out a quick "uh-oh" a split second before his defeat-by-PianoDrop.
* WhipItGood: He gets his name from his use of a bullwhip as a weapon.
* ZorroMark: Leaves whip-marks in the shape of a "W".
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jeeves Weevil]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Paul Schoeffler
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->''"Commonly known as the 'butler bug', madame. We live to serve."''

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A rather gentlemanly anthropomorphic weevil who treats his hosts seemingly well, except it's a front for him to feed off their blood and nutrients, leeching off his hosts for his own benefit.
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* AffablyEvil: He acts very polite. Always offers to help yet it turns out that what he really does is to offer himself more helpings.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: He's a 6-foot-tall insect. After Courage defeats him, he shrinks down into a normally tiny weevil.
* BigEater: Besides feeding on human body fluids, he also seems to enjoy boiled broccoli, to the extent that he'll eat it even if it's rancid and been between his toes for a week.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: Borrows Eustace's "Stupid Dog! catchphrase after Courage defeats him.
* TheButlerDidIt: He's posing as a butler just so he can eat Eustace and Muriel.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "I don't want to impose..."
* ConMan: He's most likely not actually a butler, just a rather sophisticated imposter.
* EvilBrit: Sounds like a classic English gentleman.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Especially odd because he's wearing full evening dress otherwise. Just no pants.
* HorrorHunger: He drains Eustace and Muriel of their body fat and blood, which gradually causes them to shrivel up into emaciation (with Eustace eventually crumbling into a pile of dust).
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Courage tricks him into rather grossly drinking his own body fat, turning him into a harmlessly small bug.]]
* TheJeeves: His name is even "Jeeves Weevil".
* LeanAndMean: With blood though he satisfies his HorrorHunger.
* NiceHat: He wears a top hat.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: He has red eyes even though the effect is rendered moot by the fact that they are compound eyes.
* SharpDressedMan: He dresses like a quintessential gentleman, aside from the fact that he's really a big bug.
* SmugSnake: He never loses his smarmy tone or haughty confidence, which his manners actually complement, except at the very end when Courage finally figures out how to beat him.
* WickedCultured: His refined dress and manners are just a cover for the fact that he's a life-stealing insect.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The [=McPhearson=] Phantom]]
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->''"Don't be shoutin' in me ear. We're after the same thing."''

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A ghost who haunted the Bagge household one day to torment Muriel and Eustace in order to destroy their marriage.
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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Practically all her murder attempts are cartoony slapstick even at their worst, although they do become more and more lethal as she continues.
* EarlyBirdCameo: She doesn't appear until season two, but one of the creatures seen in the first season's opening is a white ghost that resembles her.
* EvilIsHammy: She is a pretty loud (and mouthy) presence.
* FatBitch: She must have been a rather portly woman in life.
* HeelFaceTurn: Kind of. [[spoiler:After learning it was actually Ma Bagge's ancestor who killed her husband, she stops tormenting Muriel and switches gears to Ma Bagge]].
* LivingShadow: A smoke-like spirit that looks like a shadow with a simplistic face.
* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: Once Eustace and Muriel reconcile, "I sense a disturbance in the force!"
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Appears as a [[LivingShadow black and shadowy]] phantom.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: [[spoiler:It really was the great great aunt of ''someone'' in the Bagge family who murdered her husband, it just wasn't Muriel's, or even Eustace's.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: She has red eyes when she's pretty pissed off.
* RevengeByProxy: She tries to ruin Muriel's marriage, because she believes that [[SinsOfOurFathers Muriel's great-great-aunt fed her husband to the]] LochNessMonster. [[spoiler:Though it later turns out that it was actually ''Ma Bagge's'' great-great-aunt who was responsible for the murder.]]
* UnfinishedBusiness: A family vendetta she started is why she's come back from the dead.
* ViolentGlaswegian: She is apparently Scottish.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Spirit of the Harvest Moon]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/FredMelamed
[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_spirit_of_the_harvest_moon.jpg]]

->''"On this night of the Harvest Moon, when all that grows from the soil is celebrated and offerings are made, you have '''nothing'''."''

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A spirit representing the Harvest Moon and the autumnal equinox, appearing as a giant floating head in the Bagge house's basement. It curses Muriel and Eustace to either leave their house or grow something to appease it, lest they face the consequences.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: The Spirit values work over everything and is actually implied to be benevolent... unless you are Eustace and you dare to mock him while being a lazy slob. For what it's worth, it does good on its promise and leaves the Bagges alone when Courage finally appeases it.
* BaldOfEvil: He has no hair, but does have a very nightmarish presence.
* BargainWithHeaven: He appears because the Bagges pray to him on the festival of the Harvest Moon to help their crops grow, but they never have anything to offer in return. He decides to take their entire farm in compensation.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: There is no light in the spirit's blank eyes...
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Get... ouuuuut."
* ColdBloodedTorture: Because Eustace stubbornly refuses to get off his rear and meet its demands, the spirit traps him and Muriel in the basement and starts raising the heat, seeking to kill them through slow, painful dehydration.
* DeadpanSnarker: Makes some dry remarks to Eustace about his ineptitude as a farmer, which even devolves into slightly-petty insults as he and Muriel just rub his incompetence on his face.
* DemonHead: He manifests as a big, floating head.
* EldritchAbomination: All we know about this mysterious spirit is that he's some sort of agricultural deity. And a very creepy, angry, sinister one to boot.
* EvilIsHammy: He wouldn't have been complete without a thundering presence. Ironically, [[ColdHam it never needs to raise its voice to achieve this]].
* EvilSoundsDeep: Incredibly deep, even sounding nightmarish.
* GeniusLoci: The spirit's power was causing the house itself to attack Eustace and Muriel.
* KnightTemplar: His only concern is making sure that Eustace, [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything as a self-described farmer]], actually grows a crop for the first time in years, [[DisproportionateRetribution threatening to kill him and his wife if he fails]].
* MediumBlending: A real live-action head was used to make him, adding a filter over him to make him look spookier.
* MindOverMatter: Uses telekinesis on household objects to attack and intimidate the Bagges.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: His dialogue when he departs suggests that he was simply trying to encourage Eustace to grow something on his own rather than relying on The Spirit for help. Eustace, being irascible, stubborn, and incompetent doesn't get it, so Courage has to bail him out.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sand Whale]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Arnold Stang
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->''"He's standin' right THERE! Don't try to fool me!"''

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A sand whale who has a vendetta against Eustace's father Ickett for stealing his accordion, which has become a family heirloom according to Eustace's mother.
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* AntiVillain: Not exactly "evil" so much as "stubborn and refusing to listen".
* {{Catchphrase}}: "ICKETT?! ICKETT BAGGE?!"
* EvilIsHammy: He's not all that evil, just a little too intense with his grudge against Ickett. But he sure is dramatic.
* {{Expy}}: An inversed expy of [[Literature/MobyDick Captain Ahab]] due to being a whale who's obsessed with getting even with a human who took something from him. In this case, he is satisfied when he gets his accordion back. At which point Ma Bagge turns into the Ahab to get it back.
* LargeHam: Both literally and figuratively in this case, as he's dramatic in speech and also very huge, being a whale and all.
* MonsterWhale: Downplayed. While he plays an antagonistic role, he has the understandable motive of wanting his property back, even if he's taking his grievances out on the wrong person.
* SandIsWater: For him, sand is possible to swim through like water.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dr. Zalost]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Paul Schoeffler
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->''"If you don't fund my project, I'll use your city as research! And that would make the people very... ''unhappy''."''

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The world's unhappiest scientist and a weapon expert, having created a type of cannonball that can make anyone it hits feel miserable and depressed like himself. Armed with the cannons of his giant walking tower, he starts a siege at Nowhere in revenge for being denied a government research grant from the mayor.
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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: He has green skin to reflect his sorrowful mood. [[spoiler:But after he eats Muriel's plums, it changes to a healthy natural color to showcase his newfound happiness.]]
* BigOlEyebrows: His eyebrows take up a good third of his face.
* CollapsingLair: [[spoiler:When Courage mixes Muriel's happy plums into his cannonball formula, the overload causes the entire tower to come crashing down and the happy cannonballs explode out like a volcano, returning the people of Nowhere to normal.]]
* CreepyCrossdresser: Downplayed, but he wears high heels.
* EvilLaugh: When he does laugh, its a textbook example.
* EvilSoundsDeep: One of the deepest voices in the show. And very evil.
* TheEeyore: He suffers from severe depression.
* {{Greed}}: Subverted. He asked for an enormous sum to turn the people of Nowhere back to normal, but this wasn't out of a desire for material wealth. He did in the hopes that the money would bring him happiness.
* GreenAndMean: He's a villain with green skin. [[spoiler: His HeelFaceTurn has his skin become a normal human color.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: After eating Muriel's "happy plums", he becomes a cheerier and nicer person.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Zalost berates humanity for being selfish, after he literally just stated that no one deserves to be happy if he can’t, and has subjected an entire town to his experimental cannonballs after being denied money.
* LaserGuidedKarma: A strange positive case where [[spoiler:no matter how unhappy he is, he still considers plums to be his favorite. This ends up helping him when he stops to try Muriel's happy plums, and needless to say, they're the best he's ever had.]]
* LeanAndMean: Short, thin, and deeply unhappy.
* MadScientist: Or rather a Sad Scientist, as he's more unhappy than unhinged.
* MeaningfulName: "Zalost" means "sorrow" or "sadness" in Serbian/Croatian (both are the same language, but there is a naming dispute that crosses the line of the [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement rule of cautious editing]], so look up The Other Wiki for more info).
* RedEyesTakeWarning: He notably loses his red eyes when he loses his depression.
* SoreLoser: He and Courage get into a round of Hangman. Courage manages to correctly guess the word. He growls that Courage cheated and fires a cannon at him. (To clarify, it was a four letter word with two "O"s as vowels and he ''had a cannon as an obvious clue'').
* ThinChinOfSin: He has a rather pointy chin.
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: [[spoiler:Thanks to Muriel's "happy plums", he finally loses his depression]].
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: According to him, [[spoiler: plums were already this before he ate Muriel's.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Zalost is a clinically depressed MadScientist envious of other people's happiness. Desiring to make everyone as miserable as him, Zalost rains cannonballs down on Nowhere, converting its denizens into hollow shells of their former selves. Even when the mayor of Nowhere relents and pays him handsomely to cease his attack, Zalost decides to continue it after noting that the money still didn't make him any happier.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: His is a rather sickly red-violet color.
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: Despite the mayor paying Zalost over $33 billion dollars, Zalost goes against his word to turn the people of Nowhere back to normal. It's not because he was lying out of malevolence, but out of disappointment that the money didn't help make him happy.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rat]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Arnold Stang
[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rat_3.png]]

Dr. Zalost's assistant.
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* ADogNamedDog: A rat named Rat.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: He and Zalost don't seem to get along very well until [[spoiler:they each end up having some happy plums, which makes Zalost help calm down the now baby Rat by giving him a hug.]]
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Inverted. He's pretty good at doing Zalost's dirty work, but he's awful at doing the one thing that Zalost really wants him to do: giving hugs. [[spoiler:After the happy plums help get rid of their negative qualities, it seems Zalost is better at giving ''him'' hugs.]]
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Getting hit by one of the cannonballs makes him a buff, angry monstrosity.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Just like his master. Unlike his master, he keeps them when he's turned good.
* RodentsOfUnusualSize: He's pretty large for a rat to begin with, being about the same size as Courage. After getting hit with one of Zalost's unhappy cannonballs, he grows into a huge monster. But after swallowing some happy plums, he shrinks down to a baby.
* SilentSnarker: Never says a word, but his contempt for Zalost is made perfectly clear by the annoyed groaning sounds he makes.
* ThrowTheDogABone: More like "Throw the Rat a Bone"; after getting turned into a baby, he's constantly seen crying throughout the remainder of the episode, until [[spoiler:the reformed Dr. Zalost]] cheers him up at the end.
* YouDirtyRat: A rat assisting Dr. Zalost in robbing everyone of happiness.
[[/folder]]

!Season Three
[[folder:Maria and Manuel "Mano" Ladrones]]
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[[caption-width-right:310:Maria]]
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[[caption-width-right:135:Mano]]

->'''Maria:''' ''"Our casa is your casa... Which means what's mine is yours and what's yours is mine. All MINE."''

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A duo of Mexican robbers who take refuge at the Bagge household on their run from the cops. Maria then orchestrates a plan to commit a new string of thefts by shifting the blame onto Muriel. Her partner, by the way, is a disembodied hand.
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* BeautyMark: Maria has a beauty mark on her cheek.
* ConMan: Maria. She takes advantage of Muriel's good nature to assume her identity, then frame her for a theft she committed.
* CriminalDoppelganger: Maria is a criminal who looks a little like Muriel, a fact she uses to frame her for her crimes.
* EvilCounterpart: Invoked. Maria changes her appearance to look like Muriel to frame her.
* EvilHand: Mano is just a large, disembodied hand.
* FatBitch: Maria is as obese as Muriel, but has none of her genuine niceness.
* MeaningfulName: Mano is a disembodied hand, and his name is [[BilingualBonus Spanish for "hand"]]. Likewise, the duo's surname, "Ladrones", is Spanish for "thieves".
* OutlawCouple: Maria and Mano are a pair of married criminals.
* PaperThinDisguise: Maria's Muriel disguise shouldn't have fooled anyone due to her beauty mark, lack of glasses, dark skin, and reddish eyes, yet everyone believes Muriel committed the crime due to Maria leaving behind several of Muriel's personal belongings at the scene of the crime.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Maria. Though her eyes are more of an orangish-red, it's still close enough to count as this trope.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mecha-Courage]]
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[[caption-width-right:115:"Bow-wow."]]

A DoAnythingRobot with a paint job resembling Courage's fur, made by Di Lung in order to make "better dog". It does everything Courage can do and more, which makes it start taking over his life.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: As Di Lung boasts, Mecha-Courage can beat Courage at anything. [[spoiler:Subverted as it is a machine, and it has to run out of juice sooner or later.]]
* {{Catchphrase}}: Its monotone 'barking': "BOW-WOW."
* EvilCounterpart: A mechanical Courage without any of the love of the real Courage.
* InformedSpecies: Looks absolutely nothing like a dog, he looks more like Rumba someone glued fake ears on.
* {{Jerkass}}: It has no remorse for any of Courage's pain, beating him within an inch of his life. To the point where it's arguably one of the most hateful villains on the show.
* LogicalWeakness: [[spoiler:Sure, it can probably resist a lot of things, but as pointed out above, it has to run out of energy sooner or later. Not only that, it can deal a lot of abuse, but Courage is an expert at ''taking'' it, meaning it eventually overloads itself when "fighting" him since there's nothing else it can possibly do.]]
* RobotDog: Designed to be a perfect "dog", despite barely looking like one.
* RobotMe: A robotic counterpart to Courage. Although the only real parallels between the two are their color schemes.
* RobotNames: Is called Mecha-Courage to distinguish itself from the real Courage.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Raccoon Twins]]
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Two mischievous raccoons who terrorized Courage and the Bagges when they went camping.
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* AntiVillain: All they really want is a parental figure to have fun with them.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: They become Courage's friends after he scares Eustace into letting them go, later retuning the favor by hunting him back.
* TheCameo: They are seen among the audience of animals during Eustace and the Buck's game of Hunt for Knowledge in "Farmer Hunter, Farmer Hunted".
* DarkIsNotEvil: They're pretty damn mean, but not evil.
* GreenEyedMonster: They're definitely jealous of Courage's bond with Muriel, which is part of why they kidnap her to stay with them. The trope is later averted when Courage saves them from Eustace.
* IdenticalTwinIDTag: Their eye colours. One has orange eyes and the other has blue.
* {{Nightmare Fetishist}}s: They enjoy scary movies.
* {{Rascally Raccoon}}s: Their pranks are a bit more mean-spirited than is normal, but it fits.
* {{Ridiculously Cute Critter}}s: Especially when they're watching a movie with Muriel.
* ShoutOut: Possibly to the Twins from ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'', who were both dressed as raccoons. Their designs are this to Avery, a racoon from a rather obscure Dilworth short made for preschoolers (yes, you read right).
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Velvet Vic]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JohnRDilworth
[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vv_2.jpg]]

->''"Groovy-o, daddy-o!"''

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An old singer whom Eustace was a big fan of. His spirit is trapped in a vinyl record, and he's looking for someone to take his place.
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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: He has light purple skin.
* {{Catchphrase}}: He frequently says "DRAAAAAGSVIIIILE..." whenever something bad happens.
* DiscoDan: He seems to come from a long time ago, probably the mid-20th century, when Eustace was young.
* EvilRedhead: He is pretty ruthless, which may explain why Shirley imprisoned him.
* LogicalWeakness: His curse seems to be tied to a specific song, so changing the medium (vinyl to CD) doesn't seem to affect it as long as it's played during his concert.
* SealedEvilInACan: His spirit was sealed within one of his records, and he wants to escape by having someone take his place in imprisonment, focusing on Muriel because of her piano skills.
* SharpDressedMan: Always dressed for a concert.
* SlasherSmile: He always has this big and unnatural grin, which makes him look both fake and unctuous, especially when he imprisons old ladies to save his skin.
* TotallyRadical: He speaks entirely in 1950s hepcat slang such as "Dragsville" and "Groovy-yo, daddy yo!"
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Storm Goddess and Duncan]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Ashley Albert (Storm Goddess)
[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stormgodness.jpg]]
[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/duncan.png]]

->''"He's MY dog, and that's that!"''

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A weather goddess who lost her dog, Duncan. She mistakes Courage for her lost pet, and chaos ensues.
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* AntiVillain: The Storm Goddess is only antagonistic because she wants her lost pet back. Otherwise, she isn't really malicious.
* BlowYouAway: She can cause windstorms when angered.
* DarkSkinnedRedhead: She has dark brown skin, but also a head of red hair.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: When the Storm Goddess tries to dognap Courage, {{M|amaBear}}uriel isn't afraid to argue with her over him. This while the goddess' storm is becoming stronger to the point of causing a localized ''hurricane''.
* DogsAreDumb: Duncan, who is seen mindlessly licking the God Bone and doesn't seem much less mindless when he gets over it.
* EvilRedhead: Not really evil, just very stubborn.
* FieryRedhead: She is definitely very short-tempered.
* IdenticalStranger: Resembles the show's Parachute Girl. [[ReusedCharacterDesign The cartoon really liked reusing character designs.]]
* ImpossiblyDeliciousFood: The God Bone, which no dog can resist licking.
* JerkassGods: She tears through the Bagge farmhouse in search of her dog, with no regard to who gets hurt in the process.
* LeanAndMean: The goddess and Duncan are both exceptionally thin and not very nice.
* NoodlePeople: Has skinny limbs and torso much like the Parachute Girl, who she greatly resembles.
* PersonalRaincloud: Follows her around everywhere, and changes the weather it produces depending on her mood. Makes sense, considering she's a storm goddess.
* PhysicalGod: She is of course an anthropomorphic weather deity.
* ReusedCharacterDesign: She is blatantly the Parachute Lady with different colors and clad in a toga.
* SassyBlackWoman: Not a traditional example, but she's very argumentative.
* WeatherManipulation: She can control the weather.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Sandman]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Paul Schoeffler
[[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sadman.jpg]]

->''"I bring deep, sandy sleep to the world, and yet... I can't sleep..."''

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The bringer of sleep and dreams. However, he has so much difficulty trying to sleep that even his herd of sheep can't help him anymore, so he chooses to take Muriel's sleep literally from under her nose.
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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: He has blue-gray skin.
* BadassCape: A high-collared affair that looks really cool when he flies with it.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Courage discovers the Sandman stole Muriel's sleeping sand, he refuses to let the Sandman go to sleep until he returns it to Muriel by blocking the Sandman from his bed. Sandman complains the bed's [[NotBigEnoughForTheTwoOfUs not big enough for both of them]]. Ironically, the bed looks really big and seems to have more than enough area for both of them in such a scenario.
* DominoMask: A classic, eyes-whited-out version. Who he'd need to protect his identity from is an open question.
* EvilBrit: Subverted. He's not evil, he just wants to be able to sleep.
* LeanAndMean: Very thin and the antagonist of his episode. But he's not a bad guy; he just really wants to get some sleep.
* NiceHat: A pointy wizard-esque hat.
* NiceShoes: A pair of pointy elfin shoes.
* NoodlePeople: It's particularly notable when he flies, and his whole body flaps in the wind like a limp noodle.
* PointyEars: Much like everything else on him, really. It's meant to give him a fey, elfin look.
* PublicDomainCharacter: He's TheSandman himself.
* TheSleepless: His scheme is mainly because he can't sleep himself. Turns out the reason he lost his natural ability to sleep was because he lost his teddy bear. When Courage finds it by pure luck, the Sandman returns Muriels sleep.
* SmugSnake: He comes off this way when Courage meets him, mostly because he's a little pissed that he was woken up from his first sleep in years.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Computer Virus]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Arnold Stang
[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/p_3.jpg]]

->''"I'm sick, and now I gotta deal with you!?"''

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A sentient malware program who plagues the Computer one day and takes Muriel hostage inside the virtual world.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: It forces the Computer to digitize Muriel so he'll have someone who can possibly help him with his sickness.
* AntiVillain: The virus isn't evil, it's just looking to cure itself from a harsh flu and is running out of ideas after the artichoke syrup soup Muriel was looking for didn't help. The problem is that he's SO desperate that he's resorted to kidnapping Muriel and won't let her go unless he finds a solution that works for him (and isn't leeches).
* BizarreAlienBiology: His body is a string of binary arranged and merged into a worm-like form.
* {{Expy}}: Resembles Mustafa al Bacterius from "Mission to the Sun". He's even voiced by the same person.
* GagNose: His nose is bulbous.
* {{Gonk}}: He has a comically ugly countenance.
* {{Irony}}: Despite being a sentient computer virus whose sole reason for existing is for infecting other computers, he's come down with an actual illness.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: After escaping with Muriel in his grasp, he spends the rest of the episode laying down on his chair and sneezing.
* PickyEater: Apparently doesn't like to eat something if it's "organic".
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Vinegar is his favorite, which is fortunate when he is informed what the gelatin given to him is made of.
-->'''Computer Virus''': Vinegar? Why didn't you say so? I ''love'' vinegar!
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Valkyries and the Trolls]]
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Two opposing factions met by the Bagges in their trip to Norway. The Valkyries are engaged in war with the Trolls, but their sister Brunhilde is missing and a series of coincidences lead them into thinking Muriel is their sister.
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* AntiVillain: The Valkyries only want their sister back to fight in the war they're a part of, and the Trolls seem to be mostly trying to defend themselves, only trying to eat Courage for dinner after thinking he's a spy from the Valkyries.
* BrawnHilda: All of them are Norse women with large builds. Being opera singing Valkyries, this is to be expected.
* GrossupCloseUp: A detailed closeup is given of one of the Valkyries' fist after she slams through the vacation house Muriel's in. She has some nice KnuckleTattoos, though (the letters of "LOVE").
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V92OBNsQgxU As expected]], "Ride of the Valkyries" serves as their theme music.
* MusicalEpisode: Played with. The Valkyries sing their lines and the whole thing plays out like a Norse-inspired opera take on ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' (with a much happier ending), except no one else in the episode sings their lines like the Valkyries. The one other character who sings is the Troll that Brunhilde is in love with, to show how much he truly loves her, and the rest of the cast only joins in when the conflict is settled.
* PowerOfLove: Courage stepping in as a minister to marry the Troll King and Brunhilde in front of their fellows settles the dispute on the spot and erases their animosity.
* StarCrossedLovers: Brunhilde and the Troll King, who are supposed to be mortal enemies. They truly do love each other, but their respective clans are engaged in war with one another, so Brunhilde had to hide away with the King so they could be together.
* ShoutOut: [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus The Norweigian Blue]].
* StoutStrength: The Valkyries are thick, round, and with the strength of ten men.
* ToothyBird: The Norweigian Blue.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Conway the Contaminationist]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/PeterFernandez
[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/conway.png]]

->''"Live longer! Live better!"''

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A very, ''very'' old man who claims that he extended his lifespan through terrible hygiene. He attempts to get Eustace and Muriel to adopt his lifestyle, but it makes the family miserable instead.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: It's not entirely clear if he thinks his lifestyle is actually working for the Bagges or realizes that he's killing them and simply doesn't care.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: His appearance and his lifestyle are positively alien, but there's nothing else to suggest that he's anything but a very strange-looking human with an odd body chemistry.
* BaldOfEvil: He doesn't have much hair on his head.
* BizarreHumanBiology: The guy has a point about living longer with his lifestyle: He claims to be 193 years old. He even required sludge to drink to fully recover from his plane crash injuries. The problem is that when he tries to make other people adapt to his way of living, he doesn't seem to realize such a lifestyle only benefits ''him'' and him alone.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Live long like Conway!"
* CharlieBrownBaldness: He has a few odd strands of hair here and there.
* ConMan: Maybe. It's not clear if he thinks his lifestyle is actually beneficial to others, or is just a freeloader who loves being dirty.
* EvilOldFolks: A 193-year-old man who's AmbiguouslyEvil.
* EvilSoundsRaspy: His voice is very raspy.
* TheNoseless: His nose seems to have rotted off a long time ago.
* ObliviouslyEvil: He means well, he's just not aware of the harm his lifestyle causes to other people.
* ThePigPen: Obviously, Conway loves rolling in filth and [[HatesBaths thinks any form of cleanliness or hygiene is abhorrent]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He insists that being completely filthy all the time is healthy for you (or so he claims).
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Professor Mean]]

->''"An intruder?! Well, I guess it's CURTAINS for you!"''

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A diminutive scientist who built a machine capable of creating a giant energy "curtain" that sweeps across Nowhere and makes anyone it touches a mean, cruel person.
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* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Neither Courage nor Muriel are affected by the Cruelty Curtain, the former due to Muriel's fabric softener making him feel warm and cozy on his own, and the latter for her inherent goodness. Too bad Eustace is also immune to the Kindness Curtain later on due to being such a huge {{Jerkass}}.
* EnergyWeapon: The eponymous "Curtain of Cruelty", a huge energy wall that sweeps across the land and makes people and animals become cruel and mean-spirited.
* ForTheEvulz: The Professor doesn't seem to have any major objective other than making people become as miserable as himself.
* GoodColorsEvilColors: The Cruelty Curtain is a hard, vivid pink, while the Kindness Curtain that Courage ends up creating is a soft, tender [[BlueIsHeroic blue]].
* HatePlague: Any living creature touched by the Curtain becomes mean-spirited and hateful, bringing harm to others just because they can (an environment Eustace naturally uses to his advantage). Only a few select people are immune to it (Courage because of Muriel's home-made fabric softener, and Muriel herself due to her inherent IncorruptiblePurePureness).
* HeelFaceTurn: Mean gets the first taste of the newly-created Kindness Curtain and feels the happiest and kindest he's been in years. [[EarnYourHappyEnding It even leads to him becoming mayor]].
* MadScientist: A small, cruel scientist who wants people to be as cruel as he is.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Bullfrogs]]
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[[caption-width-right:310:King Buffo]]

->'''King Buffo:''' ''"Need water. Find... NEW pond!"''

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A tribe of bullfrogs led by their king, Buffo. After their pond dries up, they take over the Bagges' home and forces them to make a new pond.
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* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Buffo and the smart frog wear nothing but a crown and glasses respectively.
* AchillesHeel: They're rather forceful, cruel frogs, but they're still frogs. They won't resist a chance to launch their tongues to catch flies, even if it's on something like fly paper. As for Buffo, intimidating as he is, he's nothing without his subjects.
* TheBrute: One of the frogs is a buff thug that enforces Buffo's will, even being the one to turn Eustace and Muriel into obedient frog-like drones.
* HulkSpeak: Buffo doesn't seem to have good grammar.
-->'''Buffo''': You! Dig pond! Now!
* OverlyLongTongue: They're frogs, so this is a given. It's also what does the tribe in by the end.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: One of the frogs wears glasses and is more intelligent and articulate than the others.
* ToServeMan: The frogs decide to roast Muriel and Eustace over a fire, as petty revenge over humans eating frog legs.
* YouNoTakeCandle: Buffo speaks in sentence fragments.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tulip and her Worm]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BJWard
[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tulip.png]]

->''"Oh, wormy! I've missed you, you runaway worm, you!"''

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A giant alien girl who lost her pet worm, which is naturally at the Bagges' farm listening to Courage's tuba. It eats Muriel when agitated, which forces Courage to take it back home to its owner to save his own.
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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Being an alien, she has vivid blue skin.
* AntiVillain: Neither Tulip nor her worm are villains. Tulip is just an alien child and the Worm is, for all intents and purposes, an animal that doesn't know any better.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Tulip looks like a photorealistic human girl except for having blue skin, fully white hair and actual flowers growing off the top of her head. Her pet worm, meanwhile, looks like a giant earthworm with a wide mouth full of teeth, a streamlined digestive system (with salt and pepper to season the food), a blue body and a tiny "head" where its eyes are.
* EvilBrit: Tulip has a British accent and, while not really evil, she does nearly kill Muriel and Courage as they board the teddy bears' spaceship to go home.
* MeaningfulName: Actual tulips stick out of her hair.
* MusicSoothesTheSavageBeast: The worm is soothed by tuba music, which is how Courage comes across it on their property. It wiggles its little head (and then its whole massive body) happily when it has music to listen to.
* NonstandardCharacterDesign: Tulip is designed more photorealistically than the other characters in the show, looking exactly like a normal human girl minus the skin and flowers.
* PetMonstrosity: The giant flesh-eating worm is Tulip's tiny pet.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Teddy Bears]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Jon Adams (Lead Teddy)
[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bears_8.jpg]]

->''"Questions FIRST! Sheesh!"''

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Tulip's two other "pets" who have come to Earth to retrieve her main pet, the blue worm.
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* AntiVillain: They're not evil, one of them is just a trigger-happy idiot. And they do have a good reason to be a little on edge; the worm they're looking for is pretty dangerous.
* DumbMuscle: The one who keeps frying before asking.
* FlyingSaucer: They pilot their flying saucer quite well. Well enough to instruct Courage to fly one immediately.
* {{Jerkass}}: Not very polite, as mentioned by Muriel
* LaserBlade: The bazooka one of them uses acts like this.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: They're literally the size of teddy bears to humans, but they're smaller than Tulip's fingertips.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mondo the Magician]]
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->''"Tricks? I don't do tricks! I do magic!"''

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A hideous monster disguised as a human magician who tried to take Muriel as his bride.
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* AlliterativeName: His name and occupation begin with the same letter.
* BadassBoast: "Get real, kid! I'm the greatest magician in the ''world''!"
* BadassCape: In his disguise, he wears an awesome cape.
* BalefulPolymorph: He casts a spell that turns Muriel into another monster of his own species. He also later turns Dr. Vindaloo into lettuce. In the end, Courage defeats Mondo by turning him into a rabbit.
* BrokenPedestal: Courage, a budding magician, initially idolizes him. When his true form and desires are revealed, Courage is horrified.
* EvilSorcerer: He puts a curse on Muriel for his own selfish desires.
* EvilSoundsDeep: His voice gets considerably deeper when his true form is revealed.
* {{Gonk}}: His true appearance is horrifying. And that's really saying something in a series like this one.
* HumanDisguise: When he introduces himself, Mondo looks like a [[TallDarkAndHandsome tall, handsome man with tan skin]]. It soon turns out that he's actually wearing a [[LatexPerfection rubber suit]], and his true form looks very disgustingly inhuman.
* KingKoopaCopy: His appearance is a clear parody of [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bowser]]... Very dessicated and sickly-looking, but still a parody.
* LizardFolk: His true appearance is that of an ugly reptilian creature.
* MagiciansAreWizards: He's a Las Vegas-style stage magician, but carries around a bag of powder that lets him perform real magic.
* SmugSnake: His downfall comes about because he underestimated Courage so severely that he just leaves his magic powder out where anyone can use it.
* TrappedInTVLand: Mondo magically traps [[ButtMonkey Eustace]] inside his own TV set, leaving him at the mercy of whatever show was currently on the air.
* TurtlePower: He has a spiky turtle-like shell.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Rattlesnake]]
[[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/snake.jpg]]

->''"Mmm... Babies...! I looove babies."''

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A rattlesnake accidentally awoken by Courage who wants to eat three baby birds they were tasked with watching over by the babies' mother.
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* EatsBabies: He tries to eat three baby birds.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His eyes are red.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: He's a snake who tries to eat three baby birds while Courage and Muriel are looking after them.
* SssssnakeTalk: Averted. He never emphasizes his S's with hissing, the hissing is a separate sound effect that mixes in with his speech.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Fishionary]]
[[quoteright:217:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fishtionary.png]]

->''"I'm here to offer you the opportunity to return from wence you came."''

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A fish who tries to "convert" the Bagges into living life as sea creatures for her own personal benefit.
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* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: She wears a headscarf.
* FauxAffablyEvil: She seems polite and friendly, but it's a facade hiding her self-righteousness and hypocrisy.
* FishPeople: She is a talking fish from an UnderwaterCity.
* HypocriticalHumor: In the beginning, she said that acting like a human was "uncivilized", but towards the end, she was seen sitting on a chair and watching TV.
* SlasherSmile: Her default expression, oddly enough. It's a big hint that she's not a nice as she seems.
* SmugSnake: She has the audacity to send the Bagges off to be "civilized" and then move into their house and lounge around.
* StrawHypocrite: It's implied that she just wanted Eustace, Muriel, and Courage out of the house so that she could live there herself.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mr. Nasty]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Arthur Anderson
[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mr_nasty.png]]

->''"Hello, idiots. I'm home!"''

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The living embodiment of Eustace's [[{{Jerkass}} meanness]], made possible by a magic camera used by Benton Tarantella.
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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: He's Eustace with blue skin and dark-tinted glasses.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Eustace follows Mr. Nasty to star in their own TV show at the end of the episode. Eustace, enjoying the money earned from his counterpart's popularity, dared him to "take your best shot". The response?
-->'''Mr. Nasty:''' "Your agent hates you, too. He just negotiated you a great, big cut! And your agent's taking 95%!" (Proceeds to take Eustace's money bags which makes him cry.)
* CoolShades: He wears sunglasses, which are made to look like Eustace's glasses, no less.
* EnemyWithout: He's Eustace's meanness in physical form.
* EvilerThanThou: An ''eviler'' clone who makes the original Eustace look like a Boy Scout.
* TheHeartless: The living embodiment of all of Eustace's nastiness.
* HumanoidAbomination: He sort of looks human, but he's really an artificial being who came out from a TV. He's also covered in a blue aura.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's ''[[UpToEleven even worse]]'' than the original Eustace, which is saying something given that Eustace was already a pretty mean guy.
* LanternJawOfJustice: He has a large chin, minus the justice.
* LeanAndMean: Just like Eustace, he is skinny and a jerk, but turned UpToEleven.
* MeaningfulName: It's all he is, a nasty person with not even the slight ''hint'' of humanity Eustace can occasionally show.
* NiceHat: He has Eustace's newsboy cap, only blue instead of brown.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Benton Tarantella is more interested in Courage's nastiness in what appears to be dumping Muriel into a pit of quicksand, Mr. Nasty storms off for being ignored.
* SinisterShades: He wears a darker version of Eustace's ScaryShinyGlasses.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mega-Veg's Mutant Plants]]
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Mutant vegetables created by a phamaceutical company that turns the Bagge farm into an isolated simulation dome when Eustace blindly calls them for a free, repeating food source.
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* AchillesHeel: Their taste for human flesh also extends to sweat, which they apparently can't resist. Sniffing Eustace's sweat on themselves makes them get into a feeding frenzy that has them eat ''each other'' into mush.
* BewareMyStingerTail: The tomatoes are infused with hornets and can fly in formation while sporting sharp stingers. Eustace's face is left completely swollen from their attack.
* BulletSeed: The mutated pea pods can shoot out their seeds as projectiles.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The Mega-Veg businessman that signs the Bagges up for the dome experiment also seals them inside, fully aware of what his "product" can do to them.
* ItCanThink: Despite having animal DNA in their composition, they're smart enough to handle stoves and human appliances to cook their prey. The tomatoes can also dress for winter.
* {{Leitmotif}}: A corrupted version of Edvard Grieg's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rh8gMvzPw0 Morning Mood]]", when the real thing isn't being played instead.
* {{Man Eating Plant}}s: Rather ironic, considering that they're mutated from common edible plants.
* MixAndMatchCritters: The vegetables are infused with several different animal DNA strands, including ''hornets, pythons and piranhas''.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: The pea pods and lettuce batches have several rows of sharp teeth to eat human flesh with.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Elisha and Eliza Stitch]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Fran Brill
[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stitch_9.png]]
[[caption-width-right:310:"Weave, believe, belong! Weave, believe, belong! Leave the circle never! Weave the quilt forever!"]]

A mysterious pair of Siamese twins who try to get Muriel to join their quilt club. And by "join their club" we mean "become a part of their magic quilt for all eternity".
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: They look human-ish, but they've been around unchanged since at least prehistoric times and have the ability to sew human women into their demonic quilt, which calls into question as to what they really are.
* AndIMustScream: They trick women into getting embroidered on their quilt for eternity.
* ConjoinedTwins: Two heads who share the same body.
* ConArtist: Their "quilt club" is really a demonic quilt that wants to assimilate people into itself.
* CreepyTwins: Conjoined twins who are both evil.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Their process of tricking Muriel into joining their "club" is identical to that of someone luring someone else into becoming a member of a {{Cult}}.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Both of them are textbook examples of creepy people with dark hair and pale skin, complete with RavenHairIvorySkin.
* FinishingEachOthersSentences: Multiple times in a single sentence, in fact. It's part of their twin motif.
* ForTheEvulz: Their magic quilt doesn't seem to serve any really purpose; they're just doing it because they can. Although them trapping souls into the quilt might also be to preserve their immortality.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: They become trapped in their own magic quilt after Courage gets Muriel and the other women out.
* ImmortalityImmorality: Have been trapping women inside their magical quilt throughout all of human history, possibly to maintain their immortality, seeing as the symbol they require to do this apparently represents everlasting life. Their oldest known victim is a cavewoman.
* LeanAndMean: Their torso is a double-wide, but individually they're both rather skinny.
* MeaningfulName: Quilters called "Stitch".
* MonsterMisogyny: A rare example where the "monster" is also female, all of their victims are women and they're never shown going after men.
* MultipleHeadCase: A single body with a conjoined torso and two heads that are "sisters".
* Really700YearsOld: They've been around since prehistoric times.
* SingleMindedTwins: They share the same body, so that's hardly surprising.
* ThemeTwinNaming: Their names are extremely similar, save for one or two letters.
* WiseOldFolkFacade: They make polite conversation with Muriel when she asks about their quilt club, but then [[ObstructiveBureaucrat shoot down her attempts to prove herself worthy of joining the club]]. When the Stitch Sisters finally allow Muriel into the club, it turns out that the whole thing is a ruse to [[spoiler:steal the souls of master quilters and [[ImmortalitySeeker prolong the Stitch Sisters' lives.]]]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:King of Flan]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Jorge Pupo
[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/flan_3.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:310:"Buy flantasy flan."]]

A rotund business baron advertising his flan all across Nowhere, except he uses hypnotic suggestion to make people crave his product to insane degrees so he'll be rich off their brainwashing.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: He's a short and fat man, but he can curl up into a ball and roll around really fast. He actually moves pretty fast even without this as seen when he chases Courage up a ladder.
* BootstrappedLeitmotif: Reuses the same {{Leitmotif}} that Maria had.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Just look at his shady business plan and [[MindControl aggressive marketing strategy]].
* DashingHispanic: Averted, he's got the deep voice and the accent, but he's short, fat and a thouroughly unpleasant person.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: His actions make him come across [[GRatedDrug more like a drug kingpin than anything else]]. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard His downfall]] can be seen as analogous to a dealer [[GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply getting high off his own supply]].
* EvilLaugh: A particularly good evil laugh.
* EvilRedhead: Has short red hair and is a villain.
* FatBastard: He's obese, but he later grows even fatter after he gets [[HoistByHisOwnPetard hypnotized into addiction to his own flan]].
* HammerSpace: Keeps a large amount of flan containers on his person.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He gets hypnotized by his own face on a billboard.
* MadeOfIron: At the end of his attack on Courage, he falls from a great height while hanging onto his massive spinning screen. He crashes through all floors of his estimated 15 floor tower, only stopping when he hits the ground floor. He comes out that physically unscathed.
* MadnessMantra: ''"Buy Flantasy Flan, buy Flantasy Flan..."''
* MassHypnosis: He uses hypnosis in his TV commercials to make any viewer become addicted to his flan. This causes riots to break out in Nowhere grocery stores, while Muriel and Eustace turn morbidly obese.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Looks and sounds like a much fatter Creator/PeterLorre.
* RollingAttack: He fights Courage by using this move.
* SlasherSmile: A rather unnerving toothless grin. It's even more disturbing when it's plastered on every TV screen and billboard.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Chief Wiki Wiki]]
[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chief_wicky_wicky.png]]

A tribal chief who makes the Bagges's vacation to a tropical island difficult.
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* AffablyEvil: He's not evil, he just wants to throw Muriel into the volcano to appease his volcano god. Once he becomes convinced that there is no volcano god, he sends them home and offers them a boar as an apology.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: He and the rest of the island natives are blue.
* AppeaseTheVolcanoGod: Has the Bagges come to his island so he can [[HumanSacrifice throw Muriel into the volcano]].
* FatBastard: He tricks the Bagges into a vacation on his island just so he can throw Muriel into the volcano. Although, he's not the worst guy in the world; he's only doing it to save his island, and apologizes once the whole thing is over.
* FatIdiot: When the volcano starts going, he jumps to the conclusion that he has to offer it a human sacrifice. It has no basis in island tradition, and there's no indication that has ever worked before, that's just how his mind works.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Does not wear a shirt.
[[/folder]]

!Season Four
[[folder:The Beaver]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Max Casella
[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_beaver.png]]

->''"No more music!"''

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A beaver who built a giant dam that ended up flooding Nowhere.
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* AbusiveParents: His father wasn't very supportive of his interest in jazz music, to the point that he forced his son into abandoning his pursuits to work in construction. He's notably not happy when his son rediscovers his love for jazz music and starts performing with Courage. The beaver's mother, in contrast, loves her son and is shown to be happy for him when his love for jazz music is rekindled.
* CoolHelmet: A construction helmet with a unique design.
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* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: A little less than halfway even, seeing as he doesn't even have a shirt. Just a construction vest, gloves, and occasionally a helmet.
* RodentsOfUnusualSize: Even for a beaver he's pretty big.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Initially only did dam work to appease his father, though obviously not happy about it. Courage re-ignites his love of jazz music.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Dancing Rats]]
[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ratdancing.jpg]]

Two vicious rats who terrorize Courage and the Bagges during a trip to a dump.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: Surprisingly good dancers considering their body fat.
* AxCrazy: They waste no words and go straight to the trap-setting.
* CreepyTwins: They look similar and act as a duet so they invoke this, regardless of relation.
* {{Fat Bastard}}s: Their gluttony drives them to villainy.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: One of them has red eyes. It's the least demonic thing about him.
* RodentsOfUnusualSize: Big enough to see humans as a meal.
* SilentAntagonist: Neither of them says a single word.
* StoutStrength: Pretty strong for their size.
* WholePlotReference: There episode is entirely a reference to ''Theatre/TheNutcracker''.
* YouDirtyRat: They are dirty both literally as they live in a dump and [[ToServeMan in their intentions for the elderly couple.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rumpledkiltskin]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AlanCumming
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->''"Who am I? Who AM I!? Nevermind who I am!! And start yer weavin', baby!"''

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An odd Scottish man who tricks Muriel into coming to Scotland so she can make him kilts for his business. He also refuses to say his name and gets very angry when Courage keeps trying to discover it.
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* AxCrazy: Crazy enough to threaten an old lady with physical harm if she doesn't comply to his insane demands.
* BeardOfEvil: A big bushy red one on his diminute chin.
* BerserkButton: ''Hates'' his birth name, and in a refence to the myth of Rumelstiltskin, won't allow anyone who speaks it to remain under his roof, even if it ruins his evil scheme. Or if you're ''his own mother!''
* BigNo: His reaction when Courage uses charades to teach Muriel his real name.
* BlatantLies: He seeks out Muriel because she's the only surviving member of the Bagge's who knows the clan's unique kilt pattern. To get her in his clutches, he claims he's her "great-uncle Angus".
* ConMan: A rather convoluted one at that, going to the trouble of tricking Muriel to Scotland just to force her to make kilts.
* DelayedOhCrap: Gets one of these moments once he starts putting together exactly what Courage is MimingTheClues to put together.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: He is very ashamed of his name.
* EvilIsHammy: HairTriggerTemper, NoInsideVoice...Holy crap, is he.
* EvilRedhead: The result of being Scottish and a ''huge'' jerk.
* {{Expy}}: He's a spoof of {{Literature/Rumpelstiltskin}}.
* FieryRedhead: Goes with his ViolentGlaswegian personality.
* HairTriggerTemper: Pretty much anything sets him off. It's implied that his EmbarrassingFirstName is a bee in his bonnet.
* ILied: When a distraught Muriel tearfully asks how her own relative could enslave her, he laughs and points out she doesn't even have a great-uncle, he just lied to get her to Scotland.
* KarmaHoudini: What does he get in return for forcing Muriel into labor? Getting her as a buisness partner!
* KickTheDog: He's at his meanest when he fires ''his own mother'' for mentioning his name.
* NiceHat: He wears a massively oversized tam-o-shanter.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Muriel points out that if he hates his name so much, he could just change it. Rumpledkiltskin had no idea you could do that.
* ViolentGlaswegian: He's Scottish and ill-tempered.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dr. Gerhart's House]]

The imposing manor Dr. Gerhart calls home, given life through his experiments with music and sound. It refuses to share its occupant with any "neighbors" despite his protests, and attacks the Bagges' farmhouse in a fit of rage.
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* AntiVillain: The house is extremely jealous of anyone who meets her owner, but in the end all she needed was some refurbishing and care to become calmer and accept the idea. She's certainly thankful to Courage after getting a make-over.
* ClingyJealousGirl: The house is ''very'' protective of Gerhart, and will lash out at any new "neighbors" that come too close for comfort.
* EldritchLocation: A sentient house that screams in rage and is very clingy to her owner.
* GeniusLoci: Gerhart gave life to his home so he could finally have someone to live with, but the house is not only extremely clingy, she's also possessive and will attack any new "neighbors" he tries to meet. The years of disrepair and lack of care with the interior probably didn't help matters, but by that point the doctor was too depressed from his enforced loneliness to notice.
* HeelFaceTurn: Once Courage and Dr. Orbinson give it a new paintjob and some refurbishing, the house calms down and stops her attack, even allowing her owner to get the neighbors he always wanted and thanking Courage for his effort.
* HellIsThatNoise: The house can vocalize its rage through female-like screaming and roaring. It thankfully soothes when she gets calmer after her make-over.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: The house can use its individual parts as different types of weapons and appendages, firing off its fence posts as missiles and using its weathervane as a guided rotary blade that chases down Muriel and Eustace in their basement.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Windmill Vandals]]
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Ghostly horsemen who attack the Bagges should their windmill ever stop spinning.
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* ArtShift: Not even close to cartoony as the rest of the cast. They're very detailed and anatomically accurate.
* BlackVikings: Vikings in America? In the Midwest? That farm for a living? Technically, they're not actually referred to as vikings, but it's hard to see their design as anything else.
* CerebusRetcon: That windmill that's always by the farm apparently served no purpose other than as a visual gag. When these guys debut, we learn that it's the only thing keeping them from destroying the farm and killing the occupants.
* EvilIsPetty: Their GhostlyGoals turn out to be destroying the business competition that they obsessed over since they were alive and, until that happens, they aren't willing to put either their vendetta against farmer Galette or themselves to rest.
* FourIsDeath: Four vandals, four blades on the windmill, four magic symbols to ward them off. Their episode is heavy on the symbolism.
* GreenEyedMonster: They bear a grudge against the Bagge Farm because the original owner broke their monopoly on milling.
* HornyVikings: Horny Vandals, in this case. If anything, that's even more historically inaccurate.
* LosingYourHead: They non-fatally decapitate Courage, Eustace, and Muriel. It's unknown if this is some sort of power the Vandals have, or if it's just cartoon logic at work.
* NegativeContinuity: The windmill is destroyed several times before and after their appearance, but they only show up in their featured episode. However it maybe that the windmill blades have to stop turning first for the spell to take effect as the computer describes.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: They all look [[DemBones skeletal]] and are tied to the working of the farm windmill. If it stops, they'll come.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Their glowing red eyes are a sure sign that they're undead and up to no good.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Big Bayou]]
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->''"Hello, me. Oh, don't I look fine! I'm so beautiful."''

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A narcissistic snake who captured some slugs to turn his shed skins into monuments to his "beauty". The slugs then send a distress call in the form of a magically-induced cold that affects Muriel, calling Courage to help them achieve freedom.
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* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: He's a snake that wears a tophat and a bowtie.
* TheFightingNarcissist: Inverted. He's so narcissistic that he can't bring himself to fight copies of himself, even when they're beating him to near death.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Courage manages to use his own venom to reanimate the snake scarecrows he was forcing the slugs to make. Then using the magic book to gain control of them and send them after Bayou. As Bayou was so vain, he couldn't bring himself to attack them.
-->'''Big Bayou''': Y-you're all me! I can't do this to me! (''gets tackled'')
* ItsAllAboutMe: He inserts the word "me" into almost every other sentence, so it's obvious he only cares about himself.
* {{Narcissist}}: Dude loves himself so much that when Courage brings his skins to life and sics them on Bayou, he can't bring himself to fight his likenesses and gets [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]].
* NiceHat: He's got a pretty nice tophat.
* {{Pun}}: His attempt at a PreMortemOneLiner:
-->'''Big Bayou''': As we say in the bayou, "Bye You!"
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: A voodoo witch doctor snake who enslaved a colony of slugs.
* ShrineToSelf: He enslaved the slugs just so he'd have someone to make his shed skins into tributes of himself.
* SissyVillain: ''Highly'' effeminate, vain, and nitpicky.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: He kidnaps and enslaves a race of talking slugs.
* SmallNameBigEgo: He is vain to the point where it's just silly, despite being nothing more than a slave driver of a bunch of slugs.
* SmugSnake: Quite literally. He does have some level of talent, but its all eclipsed by his massive ego.
* SssssnakeTalk: Exaggerated, since he drags out a bunch of letter sounds, not just the "S".
* UnusualEuphemism: "What the Bayou!?"
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Everett the Swamp Monster]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KevinConway
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->''"My Swamp Woman... I lost you once, but now I'm bringing you back."''

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A confused swamp monster who thinks Muriel is his bride.
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* TheAloner: Being without his bride for a while has made him a bit delusional and his memory a bit fuzzy.
* CaptainErsatz: Of [[Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon Gill-Man]].
* {{Catchphrase}}: "SWAAAAMP WOMAAAAN..."
* {{Expy}}: Take [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo Dory]], multiply by two, make them humanoids with kelp bodies and make it a married couple. That'd be Everett and Catherine.
* FluffyTheTerrible: A horrifying swamp monstrosity with an obsessive love for his wife... and his name is Everett, married to Catherine the Swamp Woman.
* ForgetfulJones: He's not all there when it comes to his ability to remember things. The reason he goes for Muriel as his wife is because he earnestly forgot what the Swamp Woman looked like, despite the fact ''she looks [[DistaffCounterpart pretty much like him]]''. And the reason she hasn't come back in so long is because ''she also forgot about him''.
* HairTriggerTemper: He's constantly pissed off because his girlfriend left him, which leads him to cause rampant destruction in Nowhere.
* HumansAreUgly: Catherine is horrified that her husband thinks Muriel is anything close to her in appearance, calling her "disgusting". Everett also realizes his mistake and reacts with equal disgust when he takes a better look at Muriel.
* InterspeciesRomance: Downplayed, he's chasing Muriel out of a delusional belief she's his wife.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Goat]]
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->''"This place is sacred! Go ba-a-a-a-ack!"''

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The lone guardian of a magic spring which dried up thanks to pollution caused by humans.
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* AntiVillain: Type II: His grudge against humanity is obviously justified, but he still takes it out on poor Courage and Muriel because by that time he sees all people as the same.
* ExtremeOmniGoat: Averted. He is never seen eating, so the stereotype of goats being capable of eating anything inedible never comes up. He also doesn't eat the mountains of trash polluting his spring.
* GreenAesop: His episode gives the moral that people should not be greedy and destroy natural habitats, which is what happened to the healing spring in Mt. Nowhere.
* HumansAreBastards: Considering what happened, you can't blame him for having an unfavorable view on humans.
* LastOfHisKind: He's the only one left because the other goats that lived on the mountain were thrown off it by tourists, especially Horst.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Ironically, the brutal beating he gives Courage is what helps restore the spring.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: He has red eyes, most likely the result of sleep deprivation and his neckache.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Evil Carrot]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Paul Schoeffler
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[[caption-width-right:310:"Grow, expand, EXPLODE!"]]

An experimental missile in the form of a giant carrot that causes anyone who eats it to grow to the size of a farmhouse, then explode.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Well, he is technically a computer going haywire.
* {{Catchphrase}}: ''"Grow, expand, explode! Grow, expand, explode!"''
* CoolHelmet: He wears a combat helmet, just so you know he's military technology.
* EvilIsHammy: Being hammy is part of his programing for some reason.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext It's an Explosive Cyborg Carrot Missile]].
* NoIndoorVoice: He's constantly shouting.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mad Dog]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:"I take you from a two-bit joint and make you a class act, and you want to make me second-rate?! If I even SMELL Kitty, I'll bury the two of ya!"]]

A sociopathic Doberman and Bunny's ruthless, controlling boyfriend who is extremely hostile towards her - purely because of her association with Kitty.
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* AngryGuardDog: A savage Doberman, but the trope is downplayed in that he's guarding Bunny from her friend.
* BaitAndSwitch: The threat in his quote sounds quite menacing until the reveal that his meaning isn't a DeadlyEuphemism.
* TheBrute: He relies almost purely on his muscles. His profession doesn't have much need for any other skills.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Threatens to bury Bunny and Kitty if he even ''smells'' the latter around, which seems to add even more credence to the interpretation that Kitty and Bunny might have feelings for each other. Of course, considering Kitty's tried to get Bunny to leave him, and isolating one's victim is a standard tactic in the abuser's playbook, it's also very likely that he's trying to keep them apart so Kitty can't help Bunny.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The episode has a lot of focus on atmosphere, and Mad Dog's presence escalates it a little above your usual kids show premise, especially since other than the fact he's an anthro dog, [[KnightOfCerebus nothing about him is fantastical, and his abuse of Bunny is played distressingly close to reality]]. Not only that, her backstory with Kitty and his talk of turning Bunny into a "class act" invokes the theme of prostitution, and hints at this being a case of an abusive jackass who got severely angry that his supposed girlfriend might like her "friend" a little more.
* DogsAreDumb: As cruel as he is, he isn't very bright.
* DomesticAbuse: What he does to his girlfriend Bunny. And the way it's depicted is disturbingly realistic.
* DumbMuscle: More brawn than brain and yet he is no stranger to emotional manipulation.
* EvilIsHammy: His tone is always loud and dominating.
* EvilSoundsDeep: He has a deep voice.
* GangBangers: His gang are a bunch of lowlife punks who do dirty jobs for money. [[WickedPretentious This doesn't prevent him from having a high opinion of himself and their lifestyle]].
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Wears a white tank top, but no pants.
* HateSink: Mad Dog is a disturbingly realistic take on a {{Domestic Abuse}}r who threatens to kill Bunny and her friend Kitty if he sees them together again and he attempts to mow Bunny and Courage down with his car when Courage helped her to escape.
* {{Jerkass}}: A disturbingly realistic jerk too, which makes him stand out. Threatening Bunny with violence if he even smells Kitty further cements this.
* KnightOfCerebus: He's a lot scarier than some other villains, since he's more of a realistic kind of evil. The only funny aspect to his character is his defeat.
* {{Mundanger}}: Aside from being an anthropomorphic dog, there's really nothing fantastical about him. He's just a scarily realistic portrayal of a gangster and a domestic abuser. He's probably lucky that [[NeverSayDie his defeat was ultimately cartoonish]].
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Has red eyes that make him even scarier.
* RunningOnAllFours: Does this when he wants to run quickly.
* SpikesOfVillainy: Wears a spiked dog collar.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Evil Empress]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Winnie Chaffee
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Di Lung's aunt, who happens to be a Chinese empress. She desires a truly innocent person's (Muriel's) bones to grind up into a concoction that'll restore her fading power.
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* AlliterativeName: Her title is an alliteration, anyway. She's not given a proper name.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Her skin is a pale green color.
* AnachronismStew: The Chinese monarchy has been abolished since 1911, so she shouldn't exist.
* AristocratsAreEvil: Along with her nephew, she is a blue-blood nightmare.
* AsianRudeness: Though she doesn't interact much with her victims, politeness isn't really her strong point.
* EvilLaugh: Her laugh becomes distorted when she goes for the kill.
* {{Evil Sorcer|er}}ess: She has some magic powers, such as levitation and laser beams.
* EvilTwin: It turns out that she stole the throne from her sister, the Good Empress, who retakes it after Courage defeats the Evil Empress.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Anyone would need to be saved from such a wicked queen.
* LadyOfBlackMagic: An empress of China able to cast magical lasers.
* LeanAndMean: Very thin, and very evil.
* NiceHat: She wears a Han Dynasty ''guan''.
* PimpedOutDress: An imperial garb and matching hat to fit with her position.
* TakenForGranite: Courage sending her lasers back at her turns her to stone and explodes her in midair.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Shirley's Giant Starfish]]
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A giant monster created by a curse cast by Shirley when Muriel refuses to speak after an argument with Eustace. It will only stop its rampage when she speaks once again.
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* BatmanGambit: Courage finally realizes that if she won't talk because of Eustace, she'll talk for ''him'' instead, deliberately placing himself in the monster's path so Muriel will scream and rush to his defense.
* CurseEscapeClause: It only stops its rampage when Muriel finally speaks again.
* EldritchAbomination: What is it exactly? Where did it come from? How can Shirley control it? It's impossible to say.
* StarfishAlien: Whatever this thing is, it looks exactly like a starfish down to the podia underneath it. Except this one ''roars'' and is big enough to wipe Nowhere off the map just by crossing it.
* WorldWreckingWave: That's what it basically is in monster form.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jojo the Dolphin]]
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A cocky dolphin that goes against Eustace in a set of competitions, as a result of Eustace's claim that he can do better than him.
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* BalefulPolymorph: When Courage attempts to hypnotize Eustace to be even better, during their rematch, he instead hypnotises Jojo and his mentor, causing them to burst like a cocoon and become a guppy and a newt respectively.
* CheatersNeverProsper: While they win the first round fairly thanks to how badly Eustace does, the rematch sees Jojo and his trainer play dirty against their improved opponent, as evident when the trainer smacks Eustace when he is in the lead. Courage's efforts to help motivate Eustace result in the two of them getting hypnotized and morphed into weaker beings that can't win even with cheating.
* CoolShades: The Trainer wears cool sunglasses.
* DarkSkinnedBlond: The Trainer has blond hair and dark skin. It's most likely a tan and bleach.
* DeviousDolphins: Jojo is most certainly NOT a FriendlyPlayfulDolphin.
* InelegantBlubbering: Jojo cries after Eustace bests him in their contest.
* SapientCetaceans: Jojo can use his flippers and flukes to play instruments, climb on rings, throw basketballs, and even give autographs.
* ShoutOut: Wetworld is this to Seaworld.
* SmugSnake: Jojo is ''insufferably'' smug and smarmy. It really says something when you're so stuck up that Eustace looks sympathetic by comparison.
* TriangleShades: The Trainer's sunglasses are triangular.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:William the Dragon]]
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->''"I WOULD eat you, if I could fly..."''

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A dragon that eats Eustace alive and tries to do the same to Muriel, except he can't fly or do what other dragons are capable of (like spitting fire). Courage tries to help him rediscover himself, lest he and Muriel get eaten too.
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* EvilBrit: Subverted. He has the accent, but he's not really a bad guy.
* LongLostRelative: He has a brother that is also a water dragon, whom he reunites with at the end of his episode.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Turns out, the reason he can't fly is because he's a water dragon who got separated from his family as a baby, and was raised by flying dragons.
* ToServeMan: Well he is a dragon. Subverted in that he was just going along with what his foster family does. When he tastes fish for the first time and likes it, he admits he didn't really like the taste of humans.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Son of the Chicken from Outer Space]]
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The son(s) of the villain from the pilot of the series. They are conjoined triplets who have 3 heads consisting of a leader, the smart one (who tends to flash a camera), and an idiot one. They are sent down by their mother to Nowhere to take revenge for the death of their father by killing Courage. If they don't kill him, they are told that they can't come back home.
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* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: One of the heads wears glasses. All of them wear a camera.
* AvengingTheVillain: They were sent by their mother to avenge their father's death. However, it later turns out that they desire to return home more than getting revenge.
* ConjoinedTwins: Or triplets. Three heads sharing the same body.
* TheDitz: The middle head is very stupid.
* FeatheredFiend: They're the son(s) of a rather evil chicken after all.
* FishEyes: The middle head's eyes aren't looking in the same direction.
* HeelFaceTurn: After Courage decides to help them out, they become good.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: They have red eyes.
* ShoutOut: ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' possibly. Courage's solution to their problem also glens a bit from ''Film/WhiteMenCantJump''.
* TheSmartGuy: The right head is the most intelligent of the three.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: The right head wears glasses and is the brains of the outfit.
* ToothyBird: Apparently a trait of their species is to be birds with teeth.
* TheVoiceless: None of the heads spoke a single word throughout the entire episode.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Ulcer]]
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->''"All this callous, selfish behavior...! People selling themselves! Their talent, their art... for fame and fortune! It makes me... SICK."''

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A fleshy creature in a glass orb inhabiting a large theater under Hollywood, which is now composed of his entire body. The Bagges are lured into it and told to entertain him for rewards, while also under threat of death from his bodily functions.
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* ArtistDisillusionment: In-universe, as he was once an entertainer himself, but became disgusted at seeing other artists selling themselves out solely for fame and fortune rather than just doing it because it bought them joy. So much so that he somehow became an ulcer in his own stomach.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: He finally learns to embrace optimism and be a better person again after Courage goes out of his way to save his owners, then the Ulcer when his heart suddenly stops.
* BlobMonster: He's essentially a giant talking ulcer stuck to a fleshy stomach wall that is now an entire cabaret.
* BodyHorror: He was formerly a guy whose body somehow turned inside out and ''consumed an entire theater''.
* BodyMotifs: In play mostly because the entire theater is the body of what WasOnceAMan. He makes several mentions of both his stomach and his heart, which now exist as part of the theater itself, and makes several other body-related terms to show his displeasure.
* CausticCritic: Exaggerated, since he actually ''kills'' acts that displease him.
* CharacterTics: He convulses in pain when he's displeased, as if complaining about a harsh pain in his body. He also enlargens his eyes when he's emphasizing his points.
* GeniusLoci: The cabaret he inhabits is made of his own body, so he can control most of it himself.
* HollywoodAcid: What was once a man's stomach is now concealed by the cabaret's stage, the certain doom waiting for any entertainer that displeases the Ulcer. Even more fitting, since this episode takes place in Hollywood.
* HumanAllAlong: He was once an entertainer whose contempt for the greed and materialism of others caused him to become a monster.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: What his cabaret ultimately is, testing entertainers by baiting them with luxurious rewards and superficial promises of fame before sending them to be digested. He's not too concerned whether the acts are good or bad, the mere fact they're taking his offers is an insult to his patience. Courage only manages to make him stop and become human again by showing actual kindness, both to his owners and the man the Ulcer once was by saving their lives.
* WombLevel: Because of his disgust with artists seeking only fame and superficiality, he became a tumorous ulcer and his inner body was spread across an entire theater under Hollywood, the walls becoming his flesh and his stomach now hidden under the stage to punish any new acts that displease him. Even his massive heart is now a fixture under the main showroom floor.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Librarian]]
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[[caption-width-right:287:"SHHHH!"]]

A mysterious old librarian who curses the Bagges due to an extremely overdue library book. Unless Courage can pay the return fee, Muriel and Eustace will remain cursed, becoming characters from the book and fighting each other.
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* AchillesHeel: The overdue return fee will just keep growing and growing as part of the curse she casts, but she's still bound to the exact price showing on the reader. Courage slamming her stand in frustration causes it to drop to just a single cent off what he made previously, making it possible for him to clear the debt for good.
* BecomingTheCostume: The Librarian curses Muriel and Eustace into becoming the characters of the book Courage failed to return, causing them to chase each other into dangerous situations neither of them is safe from. The curse will only stop when Courage pays his overdue return fee.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: A glasses-wearing ScaryLibrarian who charges exorbitant overdue fees and curses you if you don't pay up.
* LeanAndMean: Impossibly thin, and way crueler than a librarian ought to be.
* MagicLibrarian: She casts a curse on the overdue library book, so Eustace and Muriel get paper-cuts from it, and they transform into characters from the book.
* MouthOfSauron: The lion statues in her library speak with ominous tones of voice in her stead.
* ScaryLibrarian: Return your book in time and pay your fee... or else.
* TheSilentBob: She doesn't speak, but her ability to make her point is helped out by the signs around her and two talking lion statutes.
* TheVoiceless: With the exception of shushing Courage when he's too loud, even though the "library" is more of a roadside stand, and there's nobody else around, meaning that the librarian is either incredibly sensitive to loud noises, or is just a massive {{Jerkass}}.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Cruel Veterinarian]]
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[[caption-width-right:310:"May I talk with the two of you for a moment? In... PRIVATE!"]]

Quite possibly the worst villain of the entire series, he stands out as Courage's ''biggest'' nightmare. Why? This screw-loose "vet" came up with a horrible idea back when Courage was a puppy - abduct dogs and rocket them off to the moon to make them into super breeds of space dogs. Tragically... He captured Courage's beloved mom and dad, and Courage himself, with plans to send them into space. Although Courage's parents came to the rescue, the doctor sealed them up in a rocket with a one-way trip to the moon in store. Courage was too terrified by this predicament to do anything but escape harm through a garbage chute- only to watch his parents be catapulted into space - in tears. Fortunately, a younger Muriel discovered the young pup in the dumpster and gave him a happy home. Many years later, the maniac doctor, albeit considerably older and balder, still continues his twisted plans... but now Muriel and Eustace get trapped in a rocket themselves.
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* AbortedArc: Officially set up a storyline that would've brought the show's biggest question to resolution: Will Courage reunite with his long-lost parents? Because his debut episode was the very last of the series, this will never be resolved.
* BaldOfEvil: He was already balding when Courage first met him as a pup, but the rest of the Vet's hair had fallen out by the time they next meet- which makes him look ''far'' scarier than we first saw him.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Sending dogs to the moon to make them super-dogs sounds insane and stupid. Turns out, it works. Unfortunately for the Doctor, that means that he's trapped on the moon with a colony of super-strong dogs that are all ''extremely'' pissed at him.
* EarAche: Courage disorients him by screaming into his stethoscope.
* EvilOldFolks: One of the most evil characters in the series, and he's no spring chicken.
* ForScience: His primary motive is to do what he does to advance science, to hell with the unethical problems that may come up.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: He wears glasses and has absolutely no soul at all.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Remember every villain ever portrayed on this show and how Courage is often scared to death of them? This guy is the one who directly ''traumatized Courage as a child.''
* HateSink: He was the one who kidnapped Courage's parents, and kidnapped many more dogs, sending them to the moon for an experiment. The consequences of his actions led Courage to be completely isolated by any care or love until Muriel found him. And unlike most villains in the series, he has no cool qualities and his cruelty is played very seriously, cementing himself as a horrible man and one of the most hated villains in the series.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: His own rocket and [[LaserGuidedKarma every]] [[TheDogBitesBack dog]] [[LaserGuidedKarma he ever sent to the moon]] end up becoming his undoing.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Apparently sending a dog to the moon makes it strong. Well, considering what happens in the ending...
* {{Jerkass}}: He's as unpleasant as he is evil.
* KarmicDeath: Maybe, maybe not. It's ambiguous whether or not [[TheDogBitesBack the dogs on the moon]] killed him, but either way [[LaserGuidedKarma he finally got what]] [[AssholeVictim he deserved in the end]].
* KnightOfCerebus: Arguably the darkest villain on the show behind Katz.
* MadDoctor: Calling him a "veterinarian" is stretching the term to its breaking point, since he deliberately sent Courage's parents into space.
* MadScientist: He tries to make a race of super dogs by sending dogs into space.
* NoNameGiven: Didn't have a name; of course, he sticks out so well amongst Courage's rogues gallery, he doesn't really need one.
* OhCrapSmile: He makes one when karma is about to bite him in the ass -- literally!
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Has blood red eyes, as shown when his goggles are taken off, and is the only human character in the show to have them. Even when his goggles are on, you can still see tiny red dots in the middle of the lenses if you look closely.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Him sending his parents off to space made Courage so overprotective of Muriel.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Perfectionist]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Gerrianne Raphael
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[[caption-width-right:301:"And do it perfectly!"]]

A perfectionist teacher-like figure who shows up in the Bagges home out of the blue and forces Courage to be her student, teaching him to be arbitrarily "perfect" no matter how much suffering it brings him.
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* CatchPhrase: "Do it perfectly!"
* CharacterTic: She tends to smack her ruler against whatever hard surface is at hand whenever she tries to make a point. After Courage defies her and accepts himself, she smacks the ruler hard enough that it shatters to bits.
* ControlFreak: If it's not perfect according to her arbritary, highly-specific standards, then it's nothing short of a disgrace. She puts Courage through one hell of a "study session" just so he can learn to be "perfect".
* EvilBrit: Her British accent fits into her "strict schoolmaster" theme.
* EnemyWithin: The episode doesn't go out of its way to say what she really is or if she's real or just imaginary, but given the fact that she's never seen interacting with either Muriel or Eustace, shows up not too long after Eustace belittles Courage for his "imperfection", and only seems to be around Courage anytime she's on-screen, it's heavily implied she's a manifestation from Courage's mind, hallucinated or made real, torturing him as part of his low self-esteem and want to be perfect... even if it ends up hurting himself.
* EvilIsHammy: Her melodramatic personality is just one of the many things that make her unpleasant.
* EvilTeacher: She approaches Courage, and strictly trains him into becoming a perfect dog.
* FinalBoss: Technically the last villain faced in the show, although she was just another minor one-shot antagonist. Could count as the PostFinalBoss in a sense, given what the [[GreaterScopeVillain penultimate villain meant to the entire series]], and how her appearance wraps up the last couple loose ends of Courage's self-doubts and insecurities.
* TheHeartless: She's the manifestation of Courage's self-esteem issues and lack of confidence.
* ImMelting: After Courage defeats her, she melts into a puddle.
* {{Jerkass}}: Repeatedly tells Courage that his ways are not perfect in cruel, belittling ways, not offering any constructive criticism besides giving him instructions and just ''expecting'' him to do it right the first time.
* ThePerfectionist: She won't stand anything being imperfect. On Cartoon Network's online episode viewer, in the episode's description, she was even named "The Perfectionist." It is unknown if that is her actual name.
* RageBreakingPoint: Once Courage makes a drawing that he folds to form a number six, she finally snaps, smashes her ruler into bits and rants about that "imperfection" while yanking her hair, melting into a puddle as she does.
* SadistTeacher: Her goal is to mentally break Courage into "perfection".
* ShoutOut: Towards the end, her death is a nod to the demise of the Wicked Witch of the West from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
* TheSpook: She appears out of nowhere to give Courage lessons, and only he appears to be aware of her existence. It's one of the indicators that she's a figment of his imagination.
* VillainousBreakdown: When Courage manages to make something that is both perfect and imperfect at the same time (perfect in that it's accepting himself and imperfect as he doesn't do as she wanted him to), she keeps shouting 'that's not perfect!' [[MadnessMantra over and over]], breaking her facade of control and slowly melting down into nonexistence.
* WickedCultured: A highly refined charm school teacher. And an evil manifestation of self-doubt.
[[/folder]]

!TV Special
[[folder:Clyde the Fog Spirit]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JohnRDilworth
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The antagonist of the special CGI short film ''The Fog of Courage''. He's a phantom trying to retrieve a locket from (guess whose house) that contains a picture of his lover Cariana.
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* AntiVillain: Why does he terrorize the Bagges' farmhouse? He just wants to retrieve the locket that will reunite him with his beloved Cariana.
* BerserkButton: His response to Eustace telling him to make him an offer? He angrily releases a trail of clouds from his mouth that surrounds the farmer and Courage.
* {{Determinator}}: He'll do anything to take back his old locket, and for more than just its nostalgic/romantic/sentimental value; but also in order rejoin Cariana in the afterlife.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's very obsessed with the memory of his late wife/lover/girlfriend Cariana. According to the Computer, the locket works like a totem of sorts that keeps their souls together, so anyone else claiming it splits them apart.
* OminousFog: If you haven't guessed already, he's surrounded by mist when he appears.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: He manifests as a giant FlyingFace in a vast cloud of OminousFog.
[[/folder]]

This is a list of all minor and one-shot villains that appeared in ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' listed per episode airing order.

!Season One

* {{Catchphrase}}:
** "Eustaaaaaaaaace..."

!!!'''Voiced by:''' ???

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Arnold Stang (Monk Leader)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Laura Berger

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Jon Adams (Second Teddy)