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Cajun Fox

Voiced by: Paul Schoeffler

"Hate to pull you from your crib, but I got a granny stew to do."

A fox very reminiscent of a certain Looney Tunes 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.

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• Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: He wears oversized sunglasses that somehow completely conceal his hideous-looking eyes.
• Affably Evil: He generally sports a relaxed and laid-back personality, though he sometimes becomes demented when his goals are in danger.
• Amusing Injuries: All part of the episode he's in being a Looney Tunes-esque take of the show.
• The Bad Guys Are Cops: 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 Impersonating an Officer is unclear.
• Born Unlucky: HE thinks he's Born Lucky. He's wrong, as evident by the abuse he endures while Courage tries to rescue Muriel from him.
• Butt-Monkey: Constantly suffering misfortunes goes hand-in-hand with being a Wile E. Coyote Expy.
• Character Catchphrase: "Whoo yeah!"
• Cool Shades: He wears sunglasses to cover his comedically oversized eyeballs.
• Cordon Bleugh Chef: 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.
• Cunning Like a Fox: He can be sneaky though he fails at being wily enough.
• Curse Cut Short: While inside a slowly sinking steamroller, "That dog is a real pain in the a*blub blub*"
• Evil Chef: His inclinations towards morally questionable culinary art are so strong, that even when he becomes a member of a Legion of Doom, 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.
• Evil Is Hammy: He shows a neurotic side whenever something doesn't go the way he wants it.
• Expy: He's similar to Wile E. Coyote in a few ways, particularly in that he's motivated by his appetite.
• Foul Fox: Tries to kidnap Muriel, intending to 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.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: 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.
• Lean and Mean: His thin body makes one wonder how often does he savour the recipes he concocts.
• Leitmotif: His is a cheery harmonica and washboard tune.
• Motive Decay: His original intent was only to cook Muriel into a stew. When Eustace recruits him for his Legion of Doom, he wants revenge on Courage like the other villains, and mostly ignores Muriel though he probably kept her as dessert.
• Palette Swap: Resembles an orange and brown version of Katz. He has much larger eyes and a different tail to Katz, but otherwise looks pretty similar.
• Ragin' Cajun: He speaks with a Cajun drawl, and he's quite a dangerous fellow.
• Red Right Hand: He's got gigantic bulging eyes, each one almost the size of his skull, that have mismatched iris sizes and are seemingly always staring off in opposite directions.
• Renaissance Man: He's apparently a good chef, a police fox, an ace pilot, and a very fast runner.
• Rhymes on a Dime: His favorite seems to be "I got a stew to do," since he says it no less than three times.
• Sinister Shades: His shades cover his bulging, oversized eyes.
• Small Name, Big Ego: He boasts about being born lucky when it is obvious that such a claim is far from the truth.
• Southern Gentleman: Very polite and genteel for a villainous man-eater.
• Sphere Eyes: Possibly one of the most exaggerated examples in Western animation, with each one of his eyeballs taking up the size of his entire head that his sunglasses somehow cover up completely.
• Strong as They Need to Be: 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.
• Sunglasses at Night: 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.
• To Serve Man: His attempt to stew Muriel is what drives the plot of his episode.

Demon in the Mattress

Voiced by: Tom McKeon

"You call THAT an incantation??"

Demon described as Exactly What It Says on the Tin. 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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• 2D Visuals, 3D Effects: The hearse that delivers the mattress is obviously animated in CGI.
• Artifact of Doom: It's a mattress of all things that contains a demon who possesses whoever sleeps on it.
• Card-Carrying Villain: 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.
• Deadpan Snarker: Sometimes. Particularly when Eustace fails through the incantation.
• Demonic Possession: He possesses Muriel, and Eustace in the ending.
• Einstein Hair: Muriel gets them when he takes over her body.
• Evil Is Hammy: Has some hammy dialogue just as suddenly as he returns to whispering. Probably because he is having the time of his foul existence.
  Demon: It would be lovely...if I could have...a cup...of...TEA!!!
• Evil Laugh: One of the most memorable in the series as he has a hell of a laugh at everyone else's expense.
• Evil Redhead: While possessing Muriel, it makes her hair turn red.
• Evil Sounds Deep: When possessing Muriel, it gives her a gruff male voice.
• Expy: Of Pazuzu from The Exorcist, toned down significantly for a kid's show, of course.
• Faux Affably Evil: He has polite mannerisms, but it still doesn't do anything to hide his nature as a malevolent demon.
• Fiery Redhead: Okay the hair isn't technically his, but he is hot-tempered and looks like this while inhabiting Muriel.
• Green and Mean: The demon turns Muriel green, and the entire room is bathed in an eerie green glow as well.
• Laughably Evil: This is one demon who makes a riot out of a Demonic Possession. 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.
• Nightmare Face: A hideous face can be seen on the mattress. Also, the weasel pulls this whenever he hisses.
• Our Demons Are Different: An evil spirit who at first inhabits a mattress.
• Psychopathic Manchild: His general behavior shows him to be like this, as he devotes himself to annoying and scaring Courage and Eustace for the hell of it with child-like giddiness.
• Shout-Out: Everything the demon does in Muriel's body is very similar to what happens to the girl in the film The Exorcist.
• 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.
• Who Writes This Crap?!: Eustace recites this part of the exorcism chant with bewilderment:
  "Kick 'em in the dishpan, hoo, hoo, hoo?!"

Freaky Fred

Voiced by: Paul Schoeffler

"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."

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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• Affably Evil: 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 rather amiable yet very weird barber that thinks/speaks in rhymes.
• Alliterative Name: Both parts of his name begin with F.
• Anime Hair: Has wild, unkempt hair.
• Anti-Villain: 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.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: His large eyebrows contribute to his wild appearance.
• British Teeth: He's got some pretty bulgy teeth.
• Card-Carrying Villain: At least enough to describe himself as "NAAAUUUUUUUUUGGGHHHTTYYY," even if he has not much else in mind.
• The Cameo: 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 Legion of Doom of some of his previous villains.
• Character 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.
• Creepy Children Singing: At one point, a choir of these take over his Leitmotif.
• Department of Redundancy Department: 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!
• Einstein Hair: Indicative of his messiness and ironic for someone who is obsessed with cutting hair.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: 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).
• Everyone Has Standards: He refuses to shave Courage's tail, because he considers it "weird."
• Evil Brit: 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 Lighter and Softer version of Sweeney Todd.
• Fetish: He has a weird obsession for shaving hair.
• Harmless Villain: 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.
• Horrible Judge of Character: 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 wisely chose to spend the day elsewhere.)
• Inner Monologue: 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 "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.
• The Mentally Disturbed: 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".
• Noodle People: He's drawn with long and thin limbs and torso like most normal human characters on the show.
• Nothing Is Scarier: Even though he did nothing but just shave hair, he STILL managed to scare a lot of kids.
• Obliviously Evil: Possibly. He doesn't seem to see his actions as anything worse than "NAAAUUUUUUUUUGGGHHHTTYYY". Otherwise, he seems willing to consider them such.
• Perpetual Smiler: Wears a constant grin, which adds to his creepiness.
• Poke the Poodle: 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.
• Rhymes on a Dime: Most of his episode is his internal monologue, in which he speaks in rhyme.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: He has a very refined and poetic speech pattern, which only highlights his insanity and how differently he perceives the world.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Wears a nice green suit.
• Shout-Out: To Sweeney Todd. He also resembles Beetlejuice.
• Slasher Smile: Has a creepy smile, although it also looks like a Cheshire Cat Grin.
• Sophisticated as Hell: He speaks in Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness for most of his poem, but one line was "And so I figured 'What the heck?'"
• Traumatic Haircut: Gives an embarrassing haircut to Courage.
• Verbal Tic: Just about all his monologues end with him saying "NAAAAUUUUGHTYYYY..."
• Wicked Cultured: Quite eloquent and well-spoken and dresses in a smart tweed suit.

Weremole

Voiced by: John R. Dilworth

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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• And Then John Was a Zombie:
  • The Weremole converts Muriel into another weremole, who in turn converts Dr. Vindaloo, who presumably converts or kills Eustace.
  • Averted in its second appearance in "Ball of Revenge". Courage does not become another weremole despite being mauled by him.
• The Brute: As part of the Villain Team-Up in "Ball of Revenge", he serves as the group's muscle.
• Dumb Muscle: Katz complains about whoever invited a stupid beast like him to join.
• Feral Villain: Doesn't have much in the way of motive or personality, it just wants to eat. It can also be fooled fairly easily.
• Hair of the Dog: An example that pulls from the trope's namesake: The only cure for weremole conversion is a hair from the mole that bit the victim, which is how Courage cures Muriel at the end of the episode.
• More Teeth than the Osmond Family: He has a mouth full of sharp teeth and isn't afraid to use them.
• Our Werebeasts Are Different: A monstrous mole who is just as nasty as any werewolf.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: The creature is about the same size as Courage, but it can lift him and flail him into the air with its mouth alone.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Visible red eyes on its simplistic body.
• Villainous Glutton: 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.

Horst's Box Demon

The demon who lived in the box that Eustace's dead brother left behind as an inheritance.

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• Ambiguously Evil: This demon looks quite menacing, but after dragging Eustace into its box, Eustace finds that he has landed in a huge pile of money, much to his greedy delight. The only problem is that he has nowhere to go to spend it.
• Bigger on the Inside: When Eustace gets trapped inside the box, he finds himself in what appears to be a pocket dimension filled with a vast sea of money.
• Chest Monster: It's a (seemingly) malevolent spirit that lives inside a money box, and will try to pull in anyone who opens it.
• Creepily Long Arms: All we see of the demon are a pair of long, bony, pitch-black arms and hands.
• Eldritch Abomination: There's no telling what exactly this thing is, and its arms and hands are the only parts that are visible.
• The Faceless: Only its long, gigantic arms are shown.
• Nothing Is Scarier: WHO KNOWS WHAT THIS THING LOOKS LIKE?!
• The Spook: 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).

King Ramses

Voiced by: John R. Dilworth

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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• Anachronism Stew: How does an ancient king get his hands on a record player? Unexplained and Played for Laughs.
• Anti-Villain: 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.
• Character Catchphrase: "Return the slab, or suffer my curse..."
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: His second curse is forcing you to listen to a loud yet catchy song. In-universe, it's treated as being worse than flooding the house.
  King Raaaaamseeeees! The man in gauze! The man in gauze!
• Curse of the Pharaoh: Anyone who refuses to return King Ramses' slab will suffer three curses from him, which progress in the manner of 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.
• Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Eustace repeatedly refuses to return Ramses' slab. After Ramses casts the three curses, Eustace thinks he's got a chance at keeping the slab. Ramses uses the third curse once more by sending the insects to Eustace then pulls one last curse up his sleeve: he turns Eustace into an engraving on his coffin.
• Evil Redhead: Has three red hairs that move around, seemingly on their own. The interesting thing is that the historical Ramses II 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.
• Extreme Omnivore: The third curse is a giant cloud of locusts that eat through anything in their path, including living beings.
• Gory Discretion Shot: 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.
• Grail in the Garbage: 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.
• Historical Domain Character: He can be any one of eleven pharaohs named Ramses, although it's possible the specifics are irrelevant in this case.
• Lean and Mean: 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.
• Nepharious Pharaoh: He can cast one hell of a mummy's curse.
• Noble Demon: 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, 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 Never Hurt an Innocent, he is at least more willing to hurt guilty people. Most notably, the Bagges, who innocently stumbled on the cursed slab, were given multiple chances to return it, whereas the thieves who actually stole it in the first place weren't.
• Not So Above It All: 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..."
• Our Ghosts Are Different: He is the spirit of an ancient king with the power to summon curses and create a thick veil of fog when he appears.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: While Courage and Muriel was undeserving of his harm, killing Eustace very much applies as so.
• Tortured Monster: 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 his suffering and this sickly half-existence.

The Clutching Foot

Voiced by: Paul Schoeffler (Big Toe), Arnold Stang (small toes)

"I'm the Big Toe, see? Yeah, see? And what I say goes, see? Got me?"

A mobster-like parasitic fungus that assimilates Eustace after acquiring him as its host. 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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• Body Horror: This thing is a parasitic foot fungus that completely engulfs Eustace's body. It's just as gross as it sounds.
• The Brute: To itself, oddly enough, as it is a gang of 5 all in one, and does the heavy lifting itself.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • "Yeah, see."
  • "Or the fat lady gets it!"
• The Ditz: 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.
• Enemy Without: 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. Well, considering this series...
• Eyes Always Shut: All the toes appear to be squinting to make the classic gangster stereotype even more obvious.
• Festering Fungus: One that doesn't just stop at infecting people's feet.
• The Mafia: They act and sound like stereotypical American mobsters from the Prohibition/Depression era.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: The big toe talks like Edward G. Robinson in one of his iconic gangster roles.
• The Runt at the End: 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.
• Stating the Simple Solution: Pinky Toe suggested they Just Shoot Him 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.
• Toilet Humor: Whenever he squeezes Muriel, she farts.

The Goose God

Voiced by: Paul Schoeffler

"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!"

Exactly What It Says on the Tin. 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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• Attempted Homewrecker: He wants Muriel even after she tells him she's a married woman.
• Character Tics: He'll often pepper his dialogue with goose honks. It's part of why he later becomes enamored with Eustace's truck.
• Evil Is Hammy: He talks like a Shakespearean actor and gesticulates like an opera singer.
• Evil Sounds Deep: A rather impressive baritone, as befitting a goose god.
• Expy: Of the Greek god Zeus. He even has the same lust for mortal women.
• Foul Waterfowl: A bird who isn't exactly evil, but is definitely a jerk.
• Green Thumb: He can create an endless field of flowers.
• Immortality Immorality: He ultimately decides to kidnap Muriel when he can't win her over, because he feels like it's his right as a god.
• Interspecies Romance: 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.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: He refuses to take Muriel's "no" for an answer.
• Jerkass Gods: He's a deity who feels entitled to whomever he lusts after.
• Large Ham: From his hyper-dramatic soliloquies to his ridiculously showy attempts to impress Muriel, nothing this guy does is subtle.
• Odd Job Gods: He's basically a divine bird-man, who's apparently the God of Geese.
• Physical God: A cartoony Zeus parody, to be exact. Also a goose for whatever reason. (Then again, there's actually a myth where Zeus was with a woman in the form of a swan.)
• Rhymes on a Dime: Not only in his dialogue, but also in the poem and the song he writes for Muriel.
• Shock and Awe: Can form and throw lightning bolts at will.
• Smug Snake: As you might expect from a god, he has nothing but contempt for mortals. With the exception of Muriel.
• Toothy Bird: 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.
• Wicked Cultured: Writes music and poetry and sings opera. Also kind of a jerk.

Queen of the Black Puddle

Voiced by: Ruth Williamson

"Eustace..."

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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• Amazing Technicolor Population: A blue-skinned humanoid demon.
• Angrish: Prone to half-coherent rambling if she gets trapped and obscured from her prey.
  • "RAAAAHH!! HEY, LET ME OUTTA HERE! I’LL GET YA, YA GOOD-FOR-NOTHING-!!"
• Animal Motifs: She's based on an anglerfish. She lives in the watery depths, her "lure" is her great beauty, and her Game Face strongly resembles an anglerfish, with giant, pointy teeth and an elongated, rounded jaw.
• Beauty Is Bad: She's gorgeous, but also a deadly temptress and a literal man-eater. Subverted in her true form, which matches the ugliness on the inside.
• Black Widow: A supernatural variant. She's essentially a Serial Killer whose "boyfriends" never last past their first date.
• Character Catchphrase: "Eustaaaaaaaaace..."
• Enemy Mine: Despite wanting to eat Eustace earlier, later on she agrees to forming an alliance with him against Courage.
• Evil Wears Black: Wears an entirely black dress.
• Femme Fatale: Uses seduction to lure her prey.
• Hot as Hell: A G-Rated example of a succubus, given that she is a demon who uses her beauty to try and lure Eustace to his doom.
• Humanoid Abomination: She usually resembles a human woman, until she prepares to eat someone.
• Knight of Cerebus: Her episode features very little humour and later it becomes a terrifying race against time to save Eustace.
• Lean and Mean: She's very skinny and very evil.
• Literal Maneater: She actively preys on men.
• Making a Splash: She is a water spirit, and has the ability to appear from any source of water.
• More Teeth than the Osmond Family: In her monster form, she has a lot of fangs.
• Motive Decay: She originally wanted to eat Eustace. Then she teams up with him to take revenge on Courage.
• Nightmare Face: In her true form.
• One-Winged Angel: Once she's ready to eat her victim, she becomes much less pretty.
• Our Demons Are Different: The Computer outright calls her a sea demon.
• Our Mermaids Are Different: She lives underwater and takes on an angler-like form when Courage comes to rescue Eustace.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Combined with her outfit, it makes for Red and Black and Evil All Over.
• Sirens Are Mermaids: 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 transforms in preparation for eating Eustace.
• The Vamp: She seduces Eustace into her lair, but only so she can eat him alive. Literally.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: 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.
• Water Is Womanly: 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.

Errol van Volkheim

Voiced by: Paul Schoeffler

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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• Film Felons: Volkhiem and Tarantella posed as ordinary filmmakers, killing people to create snuff films.
• I'm a Humanitarian: As they are zombies after all, Errol and Benton attempted to eat Muriel.
• Karma Houdini: 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.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: His name and vaguely German-ish accent are based on real-life silent movie director Erich von Stroheim. His first name may also allude to documentarian Errol Morris.
• Our Zombies Are Different: Like Tarantella, Volkheim retains his intelligence and personality as a zombie, but also gains a taste for human flesh.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: 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.
• Serial Killer: When they were still alive, Volkheim helped Tarantella murder 12 people. But Volkheim somehow managed to get paroled from prison.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: 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.

The Precious, Wonderful, Adorable, Lovable Duckling

Voiced by: Arnold Stang

"Mama!"

A baby duck who hatches from an egg on a frying pan, 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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• Ax-Crazy: The Duckling basically just acts out on his violent impulses.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He acts cute and sweet whenever it serves him.
• Creepy Child: Actually, a creepy duckling. He's a baby duck who tries to get rid of Muriel because she's in his way of having Eustace's full, undivided attention.
• Dirty Kid: He attempts to peep on Muriel while she's bathing until Courage smacks him upside the head.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He has a very childlike love for Eustace, to the point of jealous hatred against the man's wife.
• Evil Laugh: While he's tying Muriel to a rocket, he lets out one of these.
• Foul Waterfowl: Yet another evil and wicked bird (this time, a duck), much like Le Quack or the Chicken from Outer Space.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: He gets launched to the moon, along with Eustace, by his own rocket that was meant to blast Muriel there.
• Ironic Nickname: He's not actually precious, wonderful, adorable, or lovable. At all.
• Jerkass: He is very nasty towards Courage and Muriel (whenever she isn't looking). For example, when Eustace complains about Courage bringing him "a rotten egg", he promptly obliges his "mama" by kicking Courage on the knee with a huge boot.
• Killer Rabbit: Despite being a baby duck, he's willing to send an old lady to the moon.
• Murder the Hypotenuse: A non-romantic example. He's plotting to get rid of Muriel in order to have Eustace all to himself.
• Overly Long Name: His Ironic Nickname is quite a mouthful.
• Parental Substitute: He views Eustace as a mother figure. Though of course, Eustace doesn't know or care about this.
• Pintsized Powerhouse: He pulls off feats of strength on par with Courage, despite only being about knee-high to him.
• Slasher Smile: Particularly during his many attempts to kill Muriel.
• Toothy Bird: Like Le Quack, he also has teeth.
• Yandere: Platonic, as he considers Eustace his "mama", but very extreme example of reacting violently towards a perceived love rival.

The Eggplants

Voiced by: Don Peoples (Bobby Ganoush), Jason Antoon (Ratatouille)

Bobby Ganoush and Ratatouille

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

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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• G-Rated Drug: Water mellows them out considerably, invoking this kind of reaction from them.
• Heel–Face Turn: They become more benevolent when the soil becomes more wet.
• A Pig Named "Porkchop": Both Bobby Ganoush and Ratatouille are named after real-life eggplant dishes.
• Plant People: They are anthropomorphic vegetables, after all.
• Shout-Out: The Great Eggplant may be directly or indirectly be based on The Great Pumpkin.
• Take a Third Option: 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?"
• To Serve Man: They intend to cook and eat Muriel in retaliation for her making dishes off their "people".

The Great Fusilli

Voiced by: Jim Cummings

"Ladies and gentlemen! The Great Fusilli brings for your entertainment pleasure: "A Simple Family Scene"! Starring Eustace! Muriel! And, uh, the cute little doggy."

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, using the theater masks over the rafters to turn the unfortunate participants into his puppets.

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• Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: An anthropomorphic crocodile with a hat and a cape.
• The Bad Guy Wins: 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.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Acts friendly towards the Bagges and persuades them to travel with him, but really wants to trick them into becoming puppets. It’s clear he’s done this numerous times before.
• Con Man: He tricks people into joining him as actors, with promises of fame and fortune, only to transform them into puppets.
• Deal with the Devil: He convinces people to sign on with him, promising to make them stars, but really intending to turn them into puppets.
• Evil Is Hammy: He acts very dramatic, not only because he's a stageowner, but because he's evil as heck.
• Evil Laugh: He lets out a long, triumphant laugh as his stage turns Muriel and Eustace into puppets.
• Evil Puppeteer: A travelling puppeteer who manipulates people into joining him so he can turn them into puppets.
• Evil Sounds Raspy: He's one of the most vile characters on the show, and he speaks with Jim Cummings' signature rasp.
• Faux Affably Evil: 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 turning them into puppets.
• Funny Foreigner: 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.
• Green Gators: Fusilli is an anthropomorphic, dark-green alligator. His underside has olive-green and pale-green stripes.
• Hellish Pupils: His pupils are noticeably slit shaped. They lend him a sinister glare that is absolutely fitting for his wicked personality.
• High Collar of Doom: His Ominous Opera Cape includes a pink collar that, along with his wide hat, completely covers the back of his head.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: His own stage turns him into a puppet.
• Killed Off for Real: Assuming becoming a puppet is fatal, he's one of the few characters who is unambiguously dead by the end of his episode, and unlike Eustace he never comes back.
• Knight of Cerebus: One of the few truly monstrous characters, and pretty much the only villain who gets away with killing Muriel by the end.
• Living Doll Collector: He turns people into puppets and keeps them hung up backstage.
• Lizard Folk: He is an anthropomorphic crocodile.
• More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Having a lot of teeth is to be expected from an alligator/crocodile. All the things he does are not...
• Never Smile at a Crocodile: This crocodile proves to be one of the most vile antagonists in the show.
• Obviously Evil: When the audience sees him, it's clear that something is up with him considering his dark colour scheme, lizard-like yellow eyes, and evil chuckle after he introduces himself.
• Ominous Opera Cape: Wears a long purple cape, fitting for such a dramatic stage actor. Of course, it's also fitting considering how evil he is.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Implied. 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.
• Purple Is Powerful: His cape and collar are purple, and he's the owner of a magical stage with the power to turn anyone who performs on it into a lifeless puppet.
• Pyrrhic Victory: Courage ends up tricking him into turning himself into a puppet, making his victory moot.
• Sadist: What else do we call someone who enjoys turning everyone he meets into lifeless playthings of his, and feels good as the master puppeteer of corpses?
• Top-Heavy Guy: He has a barrel chest that tapers down to an extremely tiny waist.
• Wicked Cultured: 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.
• Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: His shifty yellow eyes are an early hint that he's bad news.

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