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Happy Tree Friends Main Character Index
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In General

An ensemble of brightly colored, adorable critters with pie-shaped eyes, heart-shaped noses, and buckteeth. Doomed to die painfully unlucky deaths in every episode, they nonetheless try to be as chipper as their collective name implies.

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• Accidental Murder: With the obvious exceptions of Fliqpy and Mr. Pickels, most Tree Friends kill their peers by accident, to the point where intentional murders committed by anyone else can be listed here. This doesn't count intentional acts that merely lead to a character's death, such as Shifty tossing Lifty off the hot air balloon in "Milkin' It" and Flaky stabbing Flippy in the eye with a glass shard in "Without a Hitch":
  • Lumpy, Handy, Sniffles, and Flippy mysteriously murder Flaky in "Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark."
  • Lumpy (as a giant) kills Toothy, Handy, Cuddles, Sniffles, Mime, and Flaky to eat them in "Dunce Upon a Time."
  • Lumpy intentionally lets Toothy get torn apart by toys in "We're Scrooged."
  • Lumpy, once again, reappears in a role where he intentionally kills other characters in "All in Vein." As a vampire, he is shown killing Giggles and is revealed to have eaten Truffles, Lammy, and Mr. Pickels off-screen.
  • Splendid deliberately disintegrates The Mole after the latter honks at his laser in "Gems the Breaks."
  • Thinking his son is still possessed, Pop intentionally bludgeons Cub with a shovel in "Read 'em and Weep."
• Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Most of the characters have bright and unnaturally colored fur. The exceptions are Pop and Cub, who are beige bears, making them the characters whose fur color is the closest to that of their real-life counterparts.
• Ambidextrous Sprite: Due to the animators mirroring character models rather than redrawing them, this frequently happens to the point where it feels intentional. Some notorious examples include Lumpy's antlers, Nutty's lazy eye, Russell's eye patch and hook hand, and The Mole's mole.
• Animals Not to Scale: With the exception of Lumpy, everyone has the same build and diminutive stature, including Mime (a deer), Lammy (a sheep), and Flippy, Pop, and Disco Bear, who are all unusually tiny bears.
• Animal Species Accent: Several of the characters have voices befitting of their real life species.
  • Lammy the sheep is the best example, saying "baa" whenever she talks.
  • Lumpy can make low-pitched moans like a real moose.
  • Pop, Disco Bear and Fliqpy have deep, gruff voices that many bears, real and fictional, are known for.
  • Sniffles has a shrill, nasally voice, not unlike the sounds anteaters actually make.
  • Flaky makes high-pitched screeches and whines similar to those of actual porcupines.
  • Giggles has a high-pitched voice, a classic chipmunk trait.
  • Nutty chitters like a normal squirrel.
• Animal Stereotypes: Beyond the occasional Furry Reminder, some Tree Friends are naturally more inclined to act like the public perception of their species than others:
  • Cuddles is a rabbit prone to mischievous behavior.
  • Lumpy embodies the idea of a stupid moose.
  • Handy is a hardworking beaver that specializes in housework.
  • Nutty is a squirrel whose sweet tooth is so strong it often makes him homicidally hyperactive.
  • The Mole has vision problems.
  • Lifty and Shifty are raccoons that steal things in almost every episode they appear in.
  • All three adult bear characters represent a different stereotype: Disco Bear's appetite, Pop's bumbling nature, and Flippy's violent reactions to things that provoke him.
• Anyone Can Die: No main character is safe from at least a single Cruel and Unusual Death. Not even the seemingly impervious Cro-Marmot or the Invincible Hero Splendid have survived every episode, although they have the lowest number of deaths alongside Lammy and Mr. Pickels.
• Aerith and Bob: Russell and Petunia are the only characters with actual real-world names.
• Barefoot Cartoon Animal: All except Cuddles (who wears bunny slippers), Disco Bear (who wears disco shoes) and Russell (who wears peg legs).
• Blue Is Heroic: All four blue characters (Lumpy, Petunia, Sniffles, Splendid) are among the friendliest and theoretically most helpful characters in the series. It's zig-zagged in all their cases except Petunia:
  • Lumpy might be one of the strongest Tree Friends with usually good intentions and a plethora of jobs, but his stupidity earns him the highest kill count out of the entire cast, and he has occasionally been deliberately antagonistic.
  • Sniffles is a genius inventor who can solve everyone's problems, but his inventions often backfire, and several episodes focus on his own impulses, such as his rivalry with the ants.
  • Splendid is the resident superhero, but he is extremely neglectful of the people he saves.
• Bright Is Not Good: They are all candy-colored, but that does not make them beacons of good luck. Either their mere presence makes them and others around them doom magnets, or they tend to be death carriers themselves.
• Butt-Monkey: Most of them are fated to messily perish on a regular basis. Even the ones that survive often tend to have something (Lumpy's stupidity, The Mole's blindness, Pop having to worry about Cub, Flippy's PTSD, Lammy's implied schizophrenia) that makes their lives harder.
• Cheated Angle: Due to their large heads and lack of shoulders, the characters may sometimes be drawn with their arms jutting out the sides of their heads.
• The Chew Toy: Of course, since they get killed all the time in nearly every episode. Even when there are no deaths in an episode, you can be sure that there will be excruciating pain for them.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: All of them have been subjected to this at least once. Listing each specific example would be too time-consuming and spoilerific.
• A Day in the Limelight: Every character has had at least two episodes focusing on them.
• Debut Queue: It took the series almost an entire season to introduce each main character, and then Lammy and Mr. Pickels were introduced over a decade after the series started:
  • Cuddles, Giggles, Toothy, and Lumpy in "Banjo Frenzy" and officially in "Spin Fun Knowin' Ya".
  • Petunia and Handy in "House Warming".
  • Splendid in "Helping Helps".
  • Sniffles in "Crazy Ant-ics".
  • Pop and Cub in "Havin' A Ball".
  • Flaky in "Water You Wading For".
  • Nutty in "Nuttin' Wrong with Candy".
  • Lifty and Shifty in "Wheelin' and Dealin'".
  • The Mole in "Pitchin' Impossible".
  • Disco Bear in "Stayin' Alive".
  • Flippy in "Hide and Seek".
  • Russell in "Whose Line is it Anyway?".
  • Mime in "Mime and Mime Again".
  • Cro-Marmot in "Tongue Twister Trouble" before starring in "Snow What? That's What!".
  • Lammy and Mr. Pickels in "A Bit of a Pickle".
• Dysfunction Junction: Aside from the endless deaths they must put up with, a lot of Tree Friends have severe problems as individuals. Two of them, Handy and Russell, have permanently amputated limbs despite their ability to regenerate lost body parts and come back to life. PTSD, OCD, kleptomania, hysteria, ADHD, severe paranoia, implied schizophrenia and sadism, and narcissism are all mental illnesses the characters have been shown to have.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Each of the Tree Friends had different designs in the first two seasons, before the TV series refined them into what we know them as today. Most of the changes were incredibly minor to the point of nothing noticeable, but there were a few noteworthy cases:
  • Fliqpy is the biggest case; at first, he looked exactly like Flippy. Later on, he gained the green eyes and crooked teeth. Finally, the crooked teeth were replaced with fangs.
  • Russell had a five 'o clock shadow in internet Season one, which was removed in all subsequent seasons. His hook was also originally on his left hand, rather than his right.
  • Giggles didn't have the light pink mark on her forehead during her first appearance.
  • Toothy often switched between having his famous gapped teeth and having normal buck teeth.
  • Sniffles initially had a longer trunk, long enough that it almost went past his legs.
  • Lifty and Shifty had pac-man eyes like everyone else, as opposed to the Black Dot Pupils they would gain later on.
• Establishing Character Moment: The following character traits were established by said character's debut episode, while the other characters took a while to develop an identity:
  • Lumpy's deadly stupidity.
  • Handy's handicap preventing him from performing basic tasks despite his offscreen competence.
  • Splendid's lack of superheroic values.
  • Sniffles' penchant for science/math and eating ants.
  • Flaky's cautiousness.
  • Nutty's hyperactivity and sugar addiction.
  • Lifty and Shifty's reliance on thievery to get by in life.
  • The Mole's habit of obliviously performing tasks that require eyesight.
  • Disco Bear's flirtatious narcissism.
  • Flippy's very easily triggered PTSD.
  • Russell's preference for aquatic activities.
  • Mime's dedication to his act.
  • Lammy's friendship with the ambiguously real but always murderous Mr. Pickels.
• "Everybody Dies" Ending: It doesn't happen often, but some episodes will have many characters and get all of them killed:
  • The most famous examples are probably "Home Is Where The Hurt Is" and "Idol Curiosity"^note Expect for whoever's driving the taxi in that episode.
  • "Class Act" is so far the only episode where all the main characters (minus Lammy and Mr. Pickels, who hadn't made their debut yet) are killed.
• Eye Scream: Nearly every character has suffered from an eye injury at least once, with Toothy being a notorious victim.
• Fingerless Hands: Most of them (except Lumpy, Handy, Lammy and Mr. Pickels) have mitten-shaped hands, although they will occasionally be drawn with Four-Fingered Hands.
• Flat Character: Characters such as Petunia, Disco Bear, Mime, Cro-Marmot, and Russell didn't have much personality until the TV series, which thankfully made attempts to flesh them out more.
• Four-Fingered Hands: They will get these sorts of hands occasionally.
• Fur Is Skin: Between Cuddles with his blushing cheeks, Toothy with his freckles, Lumpy with his tan lines, Mime with his face paint and Disco Bear and Cro Marmot with full heads of hair (and chest hair in the former's case), fur and skin are pretty much interchangeable.
• Furry Reminder: Even though they are anthropomorphic, some of the Tree Friends act like real life animals at times. Hell, it even got to the point where the HTF Wiki has compiled a list of all the instances where a character has acted like a real animal. So far, Cro-Marmot, due to his status as a Living Prop, is the only character to not act like a real animal.
• Genre Blind: Just about everyone seems to be unaware of how dangerous their world really is, except Flaky most of the time.
• Green and Mean: Most of the green characters (Fliqpy, Nutty, Lifty and Shifty, and Mr. Pickels) either deliberately antagonize or even kill other Tree Friends in most episodes they appear in.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: A quite common injury that nearly every character has had in at least some form is being split in half.
• The Hero Dies: The starring character(s) usually dies by the end of the episode. The main characters who have yet to survive a starring role are Cuddles, Lifty, and Shifty.
• Humanlike Foot Anatomy: Just about everyone has defaulted to boot-shaped feet, including the ungulate (hoofed) animals.
• Made of Plasticine: Much of the cast^note Minus Lumpy, Flippy/Fliqpy, Cro-Marmot, and Splendid can be hilariously fragile sometimes. Simple injuries like falling on the floor will cause your head to crack open or a window falling shut can chop your arms off.
• Mutilation Conga: Quite a handful of episodes will have at least one character (usually among the starring ones) gradually accumulate more injuries as they become the unluckiest being alive. Expect that character to suffer a slow and agonizing death. Major episodes that do this are "Eye Candy", "The Chokes on You", "Water Way to Go", "Brake the Cycle", "An Inconvenient Tooth", "Ski Ya, Don't Wanna Be Ya!", "Can't Stop Coffin", "Whose Line is it Anyway?" and all the "Sniffles vs. The Ant Family" episodes.
• Negative Continuity: Nobody ever stays dead for more than a single episode.
• No Brows: The closest thing anyone has to eyebrows would be the triangular face patterns that Mime has above his eyes (more than likely just face paint). The only characters that truly break this trend are the prehistoric ancestors of Sniffles and the ants, who sport Big Ol' Eyebrows and a unibrow.
• No-Neck Chump: Aside from Lumpy, none of the characters appear to have necks, but that doesn't save them from neck related injuries.
• Only Six Faces:
  • Everyone apart from Lumpy and Mr. Pickels have the same round face with pie eyes, buckteeth, and heart-shaped noses, with some creative liberties taken with the traditional body, eye and teeth designs, most notably Toothy, Nutty, Fliqpy, Lifty, Shifty, Cub and Cro-Marmot.
  • Sniffles shares the eyes and general typical body shape, but lacks the buckteeth and heart-shaped nose.
• Out of Focus: While every character has gotten some love, some do not appear as often as others:
  • Flippy, Splendid, and Cro-Marmot are the rarest characters in the show. Flippy and Splendid for their tendency to survive while killing other characters in a repetitive manner, and Cro-Marmot for his limiting gimmick that is also like Handy's schtick.
  • Lifty and Shifty, Russell, and Disco Bear also appear infrequently compared to most characters, having barely clocked the 30-episode mark. This was especially the case in the first two seasons, where Lifty & Shifty and Russell's starring roles respectively only involved lone thievery and nautical endeavors, with Lumpy being the only character to regularly interact with them. Disco Bear simply rarely appeared due to the creators' disdain for him. With the exception of Disco Bear, these characters became Ascended Extras in the TV series to offset this.
  • Predictably, due to being introduced late in the show's run, Lammy and Mr. Pickels do not appear in a lot of episodes.
• Pantsless Males, Fully-Dressed Females: Inverted. Flaky lacks clothing, Giggles and Petunia had worn clothes, but normally wear only accessories, and Lammy wears wool but no pants. Meanwhile, most male characters usually have at least one piece of clothing, with Russell, Disco Bear, and Lumpy (the latter's case, however, is only noticeable whenever he is not dressed, since his normal clothes blend with his fur color) wearing full outfits at best.
• Pie-Eyed: A good chunk of them have Pac-Man-esque pupils.
• Purple Is Powerful: Very split. Toothy is one of the series' biggest Butt Monkeys and Mime, despite being capable of miming things to life, has one of the lowest survival rates barring his surprisingly decent track record in the TV series. However, The Mole and Lammy both have impressive survival rates despite their physical and mental impairments.
• Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality: Level 1. Out of the 23 Tree Friends, only four are female (Giggles, Petunia, Flaky, and Lammy).
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad:
  • Cuddles, Giggles, Toothy, and Lumpy, who are the four primary characters. Episodes without any of them are so rare that even if one were to include the irregular episodes and spinoffs, the number would be less than 40. Lumpy is especially guilty due to being the only character with over 100 appearances and showing up in all but two TV episodes.
  • Petunia, Sniffles, Pop, Cub, and The Mole are the show's usual picks for non-primary characters. When they are not busy having all the starring opportunities, they frequently have supporting roles. This is probably due to their reputation for having absurdly messy deaths (Petunia and Sniffles) and wreaking havoc (Pop and The Mole).
• Sudden Anatomy: They usually have oven mitt hands, but they occasionally get Four-Fingered Hands.
• They Killed Kenny Again: Everyone has died at least once, with Cuddles having the most deaths at 58 and Mr. Pickels having the least at one, which happened offscreen. ^note Of course, this isn't taking into account Mr. Pickels' small number of appearances in the series, and Cuddles' high number of appearances for that matter.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Everyone has survived at least one episode. Generally, seeing any character (excluding Lumpy, Pop, The Mole, Flippy, Cro-Marmot, Splendid, Lammy, and Mr. Pickels) survive an episode is nothing short of miraculous.
• Too Dumb to Live: Characters will often make very foolish and impulsive actions that will lead to their deaths. Even the more sensible characters like Sniffles and Flaky have their bursts of stupidity every now and then.
• The Unintelligible: They only speak in gibberish. Although some characters, like Lumpy and Flippy, have said English words (including swearing) that are distinguishable if you listen closely.
• Universal-Adaptor Cast: Everyone has different jobs and occupations in every episode. Lumpy and The Mole (predictably) have had the most number of jobs out of everyone else.
• Vague Age: Their overall ages seem to vary depending on the episode. The only exceptions are Cub, who is a baby, and Disco Bear, Pop, Flippy, and Lumpy, who are confirmed adults. In some episodes, they go to school, but in others, they are seen driving cars and living alone.
• Vocal Dissonance: Some of the Tree Friends, like Pop and Splendid, have pretty deep voices that you wouldn't think they'd have given their chibi-like designs.
• Woodland Creatures: Apart from Russell and Lammy, all the characters are forest dwelling animals and are mostly shown living in trees.

Cuddles

"Caring and sharing is cause for charming cheers!"

Debut: Banjo Frenzy, Spin Fun Knowin' Ya (official, as Cuddles)

Voiced by: Kenn Navarro

A yellow rabbit that wears bunny slippers that share the same shade of pink as his cheeks. The second Tree Friend to be created, Cuddles is one of the four "primary characters" alongside Giggles, Toothy, and Lumpy. He appeared in the pilot, officially debuted in the first episode, has the third highest number of appearances, shows up in most advertisements, and to this day still holds the highest death count in the series.

Despite his cute exterior, Cuddles has a rebellious personality. He enjoys skateboarding, rock music, snowball fights, daredevil acts, and tends to pressure others, most notably Flaky, into committing mischief.

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• And I Must Scream: "Can't Stop Coffin'" just can't give poor Cuddles a break. His screaming inside of the titular coffin is drowned out by multitudes of distractions and loud noises. This leads to him clawing his fingers to the bone trying to scratch his way out, almost burning to death before being "saved" by water entering the coffin and proceeding to almost drown him, to being saved from that by a car breaking through the coffin and having one of its wheels grind down on his face, all while being unable to do anything about it. This doesn't even kill him, as at the very end of the episode he tries to crawl away from the coffin after it opens, moaning in pain before the aforementioned car ends up crushing him to death.
• Blush Sticker: They are always seen on his face.
• Bullying a Dragon: Obviously, Cuddles did not heed the line "Poke a stick at a grizzly bear" when he poked a stick at a rhino and later a baboon in From A to Zoo.
• Bunnies for Cuteness: He's a rabbit, and an adorable one too.
• Buried Alive: In "Can't Stop Coffin'". He doesn't stay alive for long, however.
• Butt-Monkey: Besides Lumpy, he has the highest number of deaths out of all the characters. He has also yet to survive a regular starring episode on his own, along with Lifty and Shifty.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: He gets really upset in "YouTube Subscriptions: 101" when he thought Giggles was dating Disco Bear.
• The Cutie: An innocent rabbit who just wants to have some fun.
• Depending on the Writer:
  • He is ignorant to all forms of danger in some episodes, while being more intelligent in others.
  • He's either among the biggest Butt-Monkeys in the whole series, or narrowly avoids the disasters by sheer luck.
• Dissonant Serenity: Has the recurring tendency of staying happy or calm in the direst situations:
  • He is seemingly unmoved at first when Fliqpy flips his table in "Flippin' Burgers".
  • While he waves at Fliqpy with a somewhat bashful expression in "This is Your Knife, he doesn't seem particularly alarmed when Flippy flips out.
  • In "Cubtron Z" he laughs with joy as the titular cyborg picks him up just before scrapping him against a building.
  • When Lumpy the giant captures Cuddles alongside other Tree Friends in "Dunce Upon a Time", it looks as if they want Lumpy to eat them.
  • In both "Claw" and the YouTube Live Episode, Cuddles is heard laughing playfully the first time he is picked up by the claw.
• Dreadful Musician: As seen in "In a Jam", where he auditions to be a bass player for his favorite band, and... it didn't sound pretty.
• Dumb Blonde: He is a yellow rabbit who tends to be Too Dumb to Live.
• Expressive Ears: His ears droop when he's upset.
• Furry Reminder: In his smoochie, Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow and A Bit of a Pickle, he seems to enjoy carrots. In real life, rabbits will eat carrots.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Has yellow fur and is very friendly.
• Helium Speech: In "From A to Zoo". Later on, his eye is impaled on the nozzle and his screams become higher and higher in pitch before he finally dies.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Toothy. The two are the most reoccurring pairing in the show.
• Informed Ability: The Collect Them All states that Cuddles has a Master's Degree in karate, yet he could barely hold his own against Fliqpy.
• Interspecies Romance: He's together with Giggles in most episodes, who's a chipmunk.
• Ironic Allergy: He's a rabbit and supposedly, he is allergic to carrots, according to his Myspace. However, Kenn Navarro debunked this in a tweet, saying Cuddles is fond of carrots.
• Ironic Name: His name is "Cuddles", and he has a cute-looking appearance to cope with that, but he's actually a daredevil who's quite fond of risky hobbies, and being naturally mischievous to boot.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Cuddles can be a little self-centered and inconsiderate sometimes, such as pushing Flaky down a water slide against her will and accidentally causing her death. But otherwise, he's very kind toward others.
• Keet: Very outgoing.
• The Leader: In situations where Lumpy doesn't have this role, it's usually Cuddles. He often leads the other Tree Friends and their antics.
• The One Who Wears Shoes: Cuddles is one of the few characters to wear any sort of footwear. For that matter, he is the only example to not be a Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal.
• Only Sane Man: The very rare chance that Flaky isn't playing this role, it's him. He'll be more observant and less Too Dumb to Live if the plot demands it.
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Inverted — he's a boy but his favorite color is pink.
• The Prankster: In "From A to Zoo", Cuddles causes some mischief and pranks the animals. Surprisingly though, he's the only character with a death in the episode who isn't killed by any of the animals.
• Precision F-Strike: In "In a Jam", he can be heard saying a muffled "fuck" when The Mole injects cotton into him.
• Rascally Rabbit: He can be quite a mischievous bunny and is known to get other characters to join in his mischief.
• Real Men Wear Pink: He is pretty manly, but he loves the color pink and always wears pink bunny slippers.
• Righteous Rabbit: He's a rabbit who is one of the friendliest characters in the series.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: He has a somewhat high-pitched voice in general, but it's especially obvious when he screams.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The Manly Man to Toothy's Sensitive Guy. Cuddles is impulsive, outgoing and adventurous, while Toothy is somewhat more shy.
• Series Mascot: Cuddles is most prominently used to advertise the show. He usually appears solo in promotional art.
• Stalker with a Crush: In "YouTube Subscriptions: 101" he apparently stalks Giggles over the internet.
• Too Dumb to Live: In "Water You Wading For", when he jumps in a waterhole that has a no-swim sign. Of course, it's possible that he just didn't see the sign.
  • In "From A to Zoo", he pokes a rhino with a stick, then does the same thing to a baboon.
  • In "Dunce Upon a Time", the first place he hides is in a pepper grinder.
• Trademark Favorite Food: He adores carrots. Even if it made him choke.
• Tuft of Head Fur: Has fluffy hair on his head resembling his cotton tail.
• Turbine Blender: In "Spin Fun Knowing Ya", and again in "Blast from the Past". And while it isn't a literal turbine this time around, he suffers a similar fate in "Party Animal".
• Yandere: He is one to Giggles, if "YouTube 101: Subscriptions" is anything to go by, wherein he was furious when he thought Giggles dated Disco Bear. In that same episode, Cuddles is shown to stalk Giggles.
• Yellow/Purple Contrast: His relationship with Toothy, who is shown to be his best friend, with the two of them being the most reoccurring pairing in the series.

Giggles

"Shy and sweet, this little chipmunk's trademark is her bubbly and giggly personality."

Debut: Banjo Frenzy, (as a blue squirrel), Spin Fun Knowin' Ya (official, as Giggles)

Voiced by: Dana Belben (1999-2003), Ellen Connell (2003-2009), Lori Jee (2009-present), Nica Lorber ("Letter Late Than Never")

A pink chipmunk that wears a red hair bow. Giggles is one of the four “primary characters” alongside Cuddles, Toothy, and Lumpy. She appeared in the pilot (as a blue squirrel), officially debuted in the first episode, and has the second highest number of appearances.

A girly girl, Giggles enjoys stereotypically feminine things like tea parties, and is overly affectionate and romantic; she has shown an interest in no less than five characters. She is also passionate about the environment, and harming it makes her abandon her nice demeanor.

Despite having died almost as much as Cuddles and Toothy, Giggles survives far more often than them and her best friend Petunia. In fact, her survival rate is closer to Lumpy’s than Cuddles or Petunia.

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• Afraid of Blood: A reoccuring trend on the show has Giggles being splattered by someone's blood. This is usually followed up by her screaming in terror.
• Animal Lover: She has a soft spot for animals, perfectly solidifying her Nice Girl demeanor.
• Artistic License – Biology: She's a tailless chipmunk^note Kenn Navarro confirmed Giggles actually does have a tail, but it isn't visible because it's very small..
• Berserk Button: Anything that harms the environment.
• Beware the Nice Ones: In "Every Litter Bit Hurts", she ties herself and Sniffles (without his consent) to a tree to keep Lumpy from cutting it down. Her reaction to Sniffles dying as a result is to jump in front of Lumpy's truck so that he's forced to swerve out of the way.
• Butt Biter: In “Doggone It”, Whistle tears her rear’s skin off before mauling her.
• Comically Missing the Point: Non-verbally in "Eyes Cold Lemonade". While blinded by bandages wrapped around her head, she mistakes Petunia's eyeball for a lemon, juices it and turns it into lemonade. She takes a sip, grimaces at the taste...and decides it needs more sugar.
• The Cutie: An adorable little chipmunk who has a sweet and caring personality... as long as no one harms the environment.
• Damsel in Distress: On occasion. In "Better Off Bread", where Splendid has to save her when she falls off a cliff and "See You Later, Elevator", where fireman Lumpy rescues her from a building fire.
• Demoted to Extra: She is given fewer roles in Post-TV series (regular) episodes, to the extent that she doesn't have her own "starring" card yet in the last three seasons. Excluding brief shorts and irregular episodes, she has been reduced to featuring roles or brief appearances and is entirely absent from all Still Alive episodes (not counting the "Blood Donor" short).
• Depending on the Writer:
  • Her love interest is a notorious subject of this; she and Cuddles are seen as the series' Official Couple in several episodes, but in many other Valentines episodes, she is depicted as the stock Love Interest for most of the male cast.
  • Her relationship with Disco Bear is another. She either loathes him just like Petunia, or, in a few episodes like "Stayin' Alive", "Change of Heart", or "Too Much Scream Time", doesn't really mind him unless he becomes insufferable.
  • While she had plenty of deaths and often suffers a lot, a good number of episodes makes her exceptionally lucky.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: She lacked her recognizable head marking in "Spin Fun Knowin' Ya" and was a blue squirrel instead of a pink chipmunk in "Banjo Frenzy".
• Friend to All Living Things: She seem to do well with non-anthropomorphic animals, unlike the rest. She has a good relationship with her pet cat, and in "Doggone It" and "Dunce Upon a Time", she is on good terms with non-sapient animals.
• Girl Next Door: Gives off this vibe, particularly in episodes like "I Nub You" and "The Carpal Tunnel of Love" music video, where her relationship with Cuddles gets some focus.
• Go Out with a Smile: She is subjected to this twice - during one of her Smoochie deaths, she gives out a smile before succumbing to blood loss, and then as an animation error in "Aw Shucks!".
• Granola Girl: In "Every Litter Bit Hurts", she is shown to care about the environment greatly. Harming the environment is a Berserk Button for her.
• Groin Attack: In "Home is Where the Hurt Is", she slides down a staircase full of nails with the sharp ends sticking out. Yeah.
• Inexplicably Tailless: Despite being a chipmunk, which have long, thin tails in real life, she does not appear to have a tail.
• Informed Species: Aside from her head marking, she doesn't have any characteristics of a chipmunk and may get mistaken for a bear due to her lack of a tail.
• Interspecies Romance:
  • She's together with Cuddles in most episodes, who's a rabbit.
  • She has gone out with half of the male cast, which include Mole (who's a mole), Russell (a sea otter), Cro-Marmot (a frozen marmot) and Flippy (a bear). She once also swooned over Lumpy, who's a moose.
• Love Interest: And how. Her most prominent and de-facto "default" boyfriend is Cuddles.
• Never Bareheaded: Never seen without her bow.
• Nice Girl: She's a sweetheart as long as you don't provoke her.
• Pet the Dog: Giggles is usually extremely abrasive towards Disco Bear. However, in "A Change of Heart", she nearly dies of exhaustion making sure Disco Bear stays alive in the operating room.
• Pink Means Feminine: Very girly and has pink fur.
• Really Gets Around: She's dated several characters in the show, such as Cuddles, Russell and Flippy.
• Red Is Heroic: Wears a red bow and is one of the nicest characters.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: Has pink fur and is very cheerful and romantic.
• Satellite Love Interest: Downplayed. While she does have characterization, her role in the show is little else but "be either Cuddles/Flippy/Russell or Cro-Marmot's girlfriend".
• Silent Snarker: Shows disgust when Disco Bear flirts with her.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Is an Official Couple with Cuddles, who is normally very friendly and kind towards the other characters. Also with Flippy who's social, friendly, and polite.
• Skewed Priorities: In "Eyes Cold Lemonade", Giggles suffers an accident from the lemonade stand's signboard falling down and ripping the skin off her face. Rather than take the day off, she wraps some bandages around her head and continues selling.
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: She has long eyelashes, pink fur, and wears a bow on her head.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: While she dies in many episodes, and still has a low survival rate, she has a better survival rate for the characters who rarely survive.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The girly girl to Flaky's tomboy. She likes tea parties and playing with dolls, but Flaky lacks feminine traits and isn't into the stuff Giggles is into.
• Torso with a View: "Every Litter Bit Hurts" ends with The Mole stabbing her in the heart, leaving a hole in her.
• Turbine Blender: Giggles is sliced up by a plane when the parachute she's riding flies into its propellers in "Wingin' It".
• Woman on Fire: A lot of her deaths involve heat.
  • In "Stealing the Spotlight" her eyes and hands caught on fire because of Lumpy's Christmas lights.
  • In "From Hero to Eternity", she is met with a face full of lava that burns off most of her head.
  • In "Wrath of Con", her head gets melted away by a lightsaber that was liquefied by Splendid's heat vision.
  • In "Who's To Flame", the poor chipmunk is caught on fire along with Petunia and the catastrophe escalated into the entire town blowing up to smithereens.

Toothy

"Using a toothbrush is tantamount for twinkling teeth."

Debut: Banjo Frenzy, Spin Fun Knowin' Ya (official, as Toothy)

Voiced by: Warren Graff, Kenn Navarro ("Keepin' It Reel")

A mauve beaver with a huge gap between his buckteeth, hence his name. Toothy is one of the four “primary characters” alongside Cuddles, Giggles, and Lumpy. He appeared in the pilot, officially debuted in the first episode, and has the fourth-highest number of appearances.

He is also one of the few Tree Friends to not wear any clothes or accessories. Because of this and his fur color being close to the appearance of background characters, Toothy is often used as a generic placeholder in the writing process and is occasionally replaced with someone else.

Although he can be seen as bland, he has shown an interest in gardening, tends to be as mischievous as Cuddles, and is one of the more sensitive Tree Friends, being prone to crying more often than most characters. He is also notorious for his eye-related injuries.

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• Ass Shove: Gets the seat post of his bicycle impaled in his butt in "Break the Cycle".
• Break the Cutie: In several episodes, but especially in "Class Act", where he spends the episode traumatized by seeing his friends getting horrifically injured.
• Butt-Monkey: Most of the time, thanks to his many painful eye injuries and low survival rate.
• Characterization Marches On: He didn't have much personality aside from his similarities with Cuddles and unluckiness. By Season 2, he becomes more emotional and less of a daredevil.
• Childish Tooth Gap: Toothy is the only character with a gap between his teeth. Even fellow beaver Handy doesn't have this feature. ^note It's possible he may have diastema, where a person has a gap in-between their two front teeth.
• Depending on the Writer: Like Cuddles, his personality can be swapped around because of his generic character:
  • He could be just as mischievous as Cuddles or serve as The Straight Man to his antics.
  • He either has the worst luck in the designated episode or can make it out unscathed.
• Depraved Dentist: To Nutty in "Nuttin' But the Tooth". He injects Novocain into Nutty's mouth improperly, drills a hole in the back of Nutty's throat and into the headrest of the chair, and rips Nutty's lower jaw from his head by tying a string from his tooth to a door that he slams shut.
• Divergent Character Evolution: The creators eventually made do with their statement and expanded his character in the later half of the series. He is shown to have interests in gardening and handy work as seen in "An Inconvenient Toothy" and "Brake the Cycle" and can be rather mischevious (though not to the same level as other characters) such as when he kept throwing snowballs at Giggles during her dates in "Cold-Hearted".
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: He had two strands of hair on his head in "Spin Fun Knowin' Ya", which were phased out of his design by the time he made his second appearance.
• The Everyman: Has barely any character traits besides his haplessness. Made apparent by his roles being very inconsequential in most episodes.
• Eye Scream: A Running Gag in the show has Toothy constantly suffering from eye injuries.
  • Most famously in "Eye Candy", where he accidentally jams a lollipop into his eye socket.
  • In "Keepin' it Reel", he gets a projector stuck through his skull, poking out his eye and burning his brain.
  • In "Chew Said a Mouthful", he's already in the hospital after somehow losing his eyeball.
  • In "Idol Curiosity", he is stabbed in the eye by his drink's umbrella and pulls his eye out.
  • In "A Sight for Sore Eyes", he has his eyes cut horizontally by Sniffles' robotic airplane.
  • In "The Carpal Tunnel of Love', he gets a bee sting to the eye. Later his infected eye is ripped out of his head after Lumpy slams a door on him by accident.
  • In the aptly titled "Camp Pokeneyeout", he's hit in the eye with a rock by Cuddles' slingshot.
• Fanboy: Seems to be one to Splendid. In "Remains to be Seen", he dresses up as him for Halloween.
• The Generic Guy: Firstly, his design is rather plain and only his buckteeth, freckles, and large tail separates him from a Generic Tree Friend. Whenever Toothy plays a role in an episode, he was likely given said role because of his seemingly indistinct personality. His own episodes wouldn't even change if another character (and sometimes, much more fitting Tree Friend) replaced his own role, such as Cuddles in "Break The Cycle" or Nutty in "Eye Candy".
• Goofy Buckteeth: His teeth are larger and goofier than those of the other characters.
• Hidden Depths:
  • As revealed in "Read 'em and Weep" he apparently owned the Necronomicon before selling it to Pop.
  • He shows interest in gardening in the episode "An Inconvenient Tooth"
• Nonstandard Character Design: He is the only character with large, gapped teeth while most of the others have basic buckteeth. He is also the only one with freckles.
• Only Sane Man: The very rare chance that Flaky (and Cuddles, sometimes) isn't playing this role, it'll be Toothy. He's usually calmer than the other characters.
• Out of Focus: In the TV Series. He gets the embarrassing merit of being the only main character who has never starred in a TV episode ("Autopsy Turvy" doesn't count, due to his role being a fake-out), even the likes of Cuddles, Petunia, and Cro-Marmot, had at least one episode focusing on them. This is thankfully averted later on in seasons three and four.
• Prone to Tears: He is one of the more sensitive Tree Friends, as several episodes like "Class Act" or "Brake the Cycle" have shown him to be easily prone to crying.
• Reduced to Dust: As if suffering from several eye injuries wasn't enough, Toothy has also died from being disintegrated several times.
  • In "Stealing the Spotlight", he immediately explodes into dust after being exposed to the extreme heat of Lumpy's Christmas lights.
  • In "Mime to Five", Toothy crashes into a pole while on fire, turning his whole body into ashes on impact.
  • In "See What Develops", Toothy is vaporized by the backlash of Splendid's sonic boom.
  • In "Easy Comb, Easy Go", Toothy is disintegrated by the sun when Disco Bear's hair dryer makes a hole in the ozone layer.
• Scary Stinging Swarm: So far, he's been attacked by bees a total of three times, twice of which resulted in a bee sting to the eye.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The Sensitive Guy to Cuddles' Manly Man. Cuddles is sports-oriented and energetic, but Toothy is somewhat shy.
• The Tooth Hurts: Happens surprisingly more infrequently than his bouts with eye injuries, not quite befitting his name, but it still happens:
  • The entirety of "An Inconvenient Tooth" is all about Toothy's teeth overgrowing and him struggling to wear them off.
  • Breaks a tooth and exposes the nerve after biting on a bean can in "Snow Place To Go".
• Third Wheel: Hangs with Cuddles and Giggles, who form an Official Couple in several episodes.
• A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: While a little more cautious than other Friends like Cuddles, Toothy tends to be incredibly impulsive at times, often acting without even thinking twice - usually leading to at least one other person's death. Or his own.
  • He tried to remove a cavity out of Nutty's teeth despite having no actual knowledge or skill in dentistry.
  • He dumped several barrels of gun powder into a cannon, killing himself and Cuddles.
  • He tried riding his new DIY bike despite knowing that he's missing a part to it.
  • In "Who's to Flame?", threw his fireman's axe at a door during a house fire and ended up killing Petunia, who was behind the door.
• Unlucky Everydude: Has a poor survival rate and is also The Everyman.
• Yellow/Purple Contrast: His relationship with Cuddles, who is shown to be his best friend, with the two of them being the most reoccurring pairing in the series.
• Youthful Freckles: They only further cement his Butt-Monkey status.

Lumpy

"For a lazy lunch, try leftover loaf!"

Debut: Banjo Frenzy, (as a dinosaur), Spin Fun Knowin' Ya (official, as Lumpy)

Voiced by: Rhode Montijo (1999-2005), David Winn (2005-present)

A sky blue moose with inverted antlers and unfocused eyes. He is physically the tallest and most distinct of all the Tree Friends, lacking any of the physical features shared amongst other characters. Lumpy is one of the four “primary characters” alongside Cuddles, Giggles, and Toothy. He appeared in the pilot (as a dinosaur), and officially debuted in the first episode.

Having shown up in over 100 episodes, Lumpy has by far the highest number of appearances. He also has the highest kill count, had the most jobs, and has the highest number of survived episodes.

Lumpy is infamous for his Lethally Stupid tendencies, which often sets an episode’s events in motion. He is one of the few Tree Friends to always be portrayed as an adult or authority figure, so he tends to be a recurring caretaker of the other characters. He usually lives in a trailer, has quite the appetite, and because of his size and build, can survive injuries far more grievous than others. Unfortunately, that also means that Lumpy tends to have some of the longest and most torturous deaths in the series.

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• Action Survivor: You'd be surprised on how many risky situations Lumpy managed to survive. For example, he survived the arctic tundra in "Snow Place to Go" and managed to (off-screen) find civilization again. In "Remains to Be Seen", he gets through a zombie epidemic and a zombie Fliqpy encounter. In "By the Seat of Your Pants" he manages to kill Fliqpy. In "See You Later, Elevator" he navigates his way through a burning building, twice. And in "Read 'em and Weep", he's capable of subduing the demon taking control of Cub (plus it's heavily implied that Lumpy has much better control over the demon when he gets possessed).
• Adults Are Useless: Lumpy is one of the few characters who's never portrayed as a child when the plot requires it, but that doesn't make him any more competent or responsible.
• Animals Hate Him: You won’t believe how many times Lumpy has gotten mauled or killed by an animal. He has been attacked by dogs, a grizzly bear, vultures, a snapping turtle, ducks, a baboon, a snake, and a flock of birds.
• Anti-Role Model: Who wants to follow in his footsteps? Some episodes have presented him as such, including "Every Litter Bit Hurts" and "Wingin' It".
• Ascended Extra: While Lumpy was already one of the major characters before, his role has gotten large enough to overshadow several other characters. In the TV Series he appears in every episode with the exception of two^note Being "And The Kitchen Sink" and "Easy For You to Sleigh" and stars in maybe less than half of the episodes^note  Sixteen of the thirty nine episodes. One can even argue that he is the main character of the show, as he has the most screen time and development than anyone else.
• Asshole Victim:
  • In "Wingin It", he takes all the parachutes. It comes back to bite him in the ass when he dies.
  • In "Every Litter Bit Hurts", he's a nuisance to the environment and ends up getting several characters killed. Later on he crashes his truck into a dam which explodes and causes a flood, then gets stuck and ends up getting ripped in half by a tree stump.
  • In "Mime to Five", he's depicted as a greedy circus owner who not only exploits his new employee Mime, but also abuses his animals by whipping them. He ends up getting eaten by his killer ducks.
  • In "We're Scrooged!", he kills Toothy to sell his body parts and organs for money, but later gets crushed to death by a shelf.
• Ax-Crazy: In the pilot episode, he kills Giggles, Cuddles, and Toothy just because they laughed at him.
• Big Brother Instinct: When the smaller Tree Friends are in his care, he'll go to great lengths to try and protect them — even if he usually winds up killing them or himself in the process.
• Big Eater: Lumpy is known for eating lots of foods. Sandwiches and meats are his particular favorites.
• The Big Guy: He is the tallest of the Tree Friends.
• Black Dot Pupils: Has these in contrast to the Pie-Eyed look of the other characters.
• Blue Is Heroic: Lumpy is a blue and well-intended moose.
• Body Pocket: Lumpy apparently has chest pockets in his fur. Of course, certain episodes explain this away, where he is shown to actually wear a shirt and pants that are the same color as his fur.
• Born Lucky: Depending on the Writer. Lumpy is somehow both this and Born Unlucky. He sometimes survives deadly situations or even become the Sole Survivor of the episode through sheer luck — other times he ends up having some of the absolute worst injuries and deaths the show has to offer.
• Butt-Monkey: Lumpy's deaths are slower and more painful than others due to his strength and size. And while he has a high survival rate, he shares the highest amount of deaths with Cuddles.
• Character Catchphrase: "Mm-hmm!"
• Character Development: Lumpy became slightly less dumb in the TV series and is instead more of a clumsy Everyman.
• Cheated Angle: His antlers regularly switch positions, with the upwards-pointing one often facing the same direction as his snout.
• Comically Cross-Eyed: He goes crossed-eye in most episodes.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass:
  • Lumpy and Fliqpy have fought two times in the series and in both of them, Lumpy actually wins!
  • He takes down a squid the size of a small house with a mouse trap.
  • "Wipe Out" reveals he's a pro surfer, even managing to juggle chainsaws while hanging ten.
  • He climbs a rope with a freshly paralyzed back in "Take a Hike", and the rescue he (almost) pulls off at the end of "The Wrong Side of the Tracks" also counts.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Along with Sniffles, he suffers some of the worst deaths. "Just Desert" has his antlers get sliced off, his mouth bloody from having sand stuffed into it, his body torn apart by vultures, and finally disintegrated to bones from a dust devil.
• Depending on the Writer:
  • His personality. He's either a Nice Guy, a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, a Jerkass, or even a Villain Protagonist.
  • How intelligent he is. Lumpy might show a smidgen of common sense, be dumber than a door nail, or even own the Smart Ball in really rare cases.
  • Lumpy's luck is quite inconsistent. He gets out of deadly situations unscathed in some episodes, while he undergoes a lengthy death in others.
• Dirty Coward: In "Wingin' It", Lumpy uses many electronic devices in a passenger jet in flight, disrupting its navigational systems. When the plane starts to malfunction, Lumpy kicks out the plane's door, sucking several characters to their inevitable deaths, and takes all of the parachutes for himself, forgetting to properly put on even one.
• The Ditz: Lumpy's stupidity is the driving force behind the plots of many episodes.
• Expy:
  • Of Bullwinkle, to the point that the creators had to invert the direction of his antlers to keep him from looking too much like Bullwinkle.
  • He's also similar to Goofy, especially his Simpleton Voice.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: In "Banjo Frenzy", he was a cyan dinosaur with light green spikes on his back and tail and an abdominal marking of the same color.
• The Fool: Has survived the most but is a complete imbecile.
• Fur Is Clothing: As seen in episodes like "You're Bakin' Me Crazy", Lumpy actually wears a normal outfit that blends in with his blue fur color. Without it, his nipples and genitals (which are unseen by the viewer for obvious reasons) are visible.
• Furry Ear Dissonance: He lacks large, visible ears like real moose, instead having suble ear holes (like seals or sea lions).
• Genius Ditz: Despite being the dumbest Happy Tree Friend in the show, he also ironically shows the most common sense than anybody else. He has exceptional planning skills, can perform a job competently when he needs to, and in very rare instances, be the Only Sane Man of a situation when all the other Tree Friends prove to be bigger fools than him.
  • He's one of the few characters to be aware of The Mole's blindness and Flippy's PTSD. He is also the only one to actively do something about it. He gave The Mole a seeing-eye dog and taught Flippy solid coping methods for his episodes, which only stopped working because of serious contrivances that pushed them to their limit.
  • Despite having the highest kill count in the series due to his lethal stupiditiy he is routinely shown to be rather competent in jobs that involve health. Jobs where he was a doctor, surgeon, an optometrist, and even a therapist show that he is not always that dumb.
  • In the episode "In Over Your Hedge," he made a motor-powered hedge trimmer in less than a minute.
• Gentle Giant: The tallest Tree Friend and usually pretty kind.
• Greed: Lumpy has displayed signs of this on a few occasions, especially in "We're Scrooged".
• Heroic Sacrifice: In "Blood Donor", where he donates all of his blood to Giggles, saving her from flatlining at the hospital — at the cost of his own life.
• Idiot Houdini: Several episodes have him being the accidental sole cause of the carnage that ensues but his luck tends to keep him alive. Most famously in "Aw, Shucks!", where Lumpy is the cause of sixteen deaths - excluding his.
  • That being said, there have been a lot of aversions too. Such as in "We're Scrooged", where he suffers a Karmic Death after his Greed gets the better of him.
• Inexplicably Tailless: While moose have tails in real life (albeit very stubby ones), this isn't the case for Lumpy.
• Insufferable Imbecile: His stupidity has done harm in countless instances. His occasional hostile moments do not help.
• Jackass Genie: Unintentionally in "As You Wish", wherein he was a genie, but his attempts at granting wishes killed everyone.
• Karmic Death: A large portion of Lumpy's deaths relate to him doing something thoughtless, usually while on the job.
  • In "Concrete Solution", Lumpy hides the fact he accidentally killed Handy by hiding him in the cement they were pouring. Later he's crushed by the block of cement with Handy's corpse pressed inside it.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: Whenever he's not an antagonist or a Lethal Klutz, his true well-meaning nature emerges. He put his life on the line on several occasions to help others.
• The Klutz: He is a foolish moose who specializes in being a deadly doofus, and at most times, ends up tripping on his two left feet.
• Lazy Bum: Spends a lot of his time relaxing while in very busy situations.
• Lean and Mean: During his more antagonistic roles, he qualifies as this.
• Lethal Klutz: His stupidity has caused so many deaths that he has an official kill count that's higher than that of even Evil Flippy/Fliqpy. In fact, he holds the highest official kill count in the series... mostly due to his stupidity.
• Lethally Stupid: Trope Codifier. His stupidity caused many deaths. The creators said the reason Lumpy has so many different jobs is because his incompetence causes havoc wherever he goes, and gives different situations.
• Life-or-Limb Decision: In "Out on a Limb", he is forced to cut his leg off with a spoon. Unfortunately for him, he cuts off the wrong leg, so he has to do it all over again.
• Literal Genie: In "As You Wish", where he plays a genie in a (table) lamp. His wishes cause grave injuries or death to the other characters.
• Made of Iron: Despite being the most unintelligent Tree Friend in the cast, he is the one who survives the most — a more common occurrence is "Too Dumb For Those Around Him To Live". It seems to have a reason — he is the tallest and probably strongest of the cast excluding Splendid, so in the times he doesn't die immediately, he gets injured. In the TV season, he has survived falling off a highway overpass onto the road below and then getting run over by Lifty and Shifty's van ("Concrete Solution"), and getting hit head-on by a truck and being entangled in a bicycle ("A Change of Heart").
• Manchild: Frequently engages in childish activities with the rest of the cast.
• The Millstone: His dumbness is what usually jumpstarts a plot.
• Moose Are Idiots: Lumpy is perhaps the Trope Codifier. He's so dumb he usually gets everyone else around him killed.
• Naked People Are Funny: Flashes Giggles on two separate occasions.
• New Job as the Plot Demands: Ranging from surgeon to plumber, Lumpy sticks out for the multitude of different jobs he has held (the wiki lists over 50 of them).
• Nice Guy: In most of his appearances, he's usually a well-intentioned guy.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Not only does Lumpy tower over the other Tree Friends, he also lacks the round faces that every other character has. He looks the most like the animal he is compared to the other Tree Friends. He is also one of the few characters (along with Sniffles) who does not have a heart-shaped nose.
• Noodle People: Compared to the chibi-esque body shape the other characters have, Lumpy is tall, thin and lanky (comparable to a sausage in shape).
• Odd Friendship: With Russell the sea otter, mostly in the earlier seasons. Shown in "Sea What I Found", where he and Russell go fishing and later treasure hunting together, in "Get Whale Soon", where they both get stranded inside a whale and where Lumpy's death was enough to push Russell over the edge, and "In a Jam", where they make a band along with Handy and when Russell dies, Cuddles is made to be his replacement due to Cuddles' lost eye reminding Lumpy of Russell.
• Out-of-Character Moment:
  • He plays the villain in "We're Scrooged!", killing Toothy in order to sell his body parts for profit. In the TV episode "Dunce Upon a Time", which is a Whole-Plot Reference to Jack and the Beanstalk, Lumpy takes on the role of the lumbering giant of the castle in the sky, killing the other characters to make his meal and when they try to escape.
  • There are times when Lumpy has bursts of intelligence, which goes against his usual The Ditz portrayals.
    • In "Doggone It", he was the only one to realize the reason for Whistle's attacks, even if it took a while for him to figure it out).
    • In "A Sight for Sore Eyes", he realized the danger The Mole's blindness poses to everyone and gave him a guide dog to replace his cane.
    • In "We're Scrooged!", he quickly managed to make a paddle with his own eye to prevent Sniffles from leaving the shop.
    • So far he is the only one to be aware of what causes Flippy's PTSD, since in "Without a Hitch" and "Random Acts of Silence", several characters who appear to be aware of Flippy's PTSD thought that he could flip out randomly, while in "Double Whammy Part 1" Lumpy figured out the cause of his problem and attempted to cure it.
    • He managed to finish the bridge in "Concrete Solution" despite all his coworkers being dead.
    • In "A Change of Heart", he saved Disco Bear's life by giving him a heart transplant...with an orca's heart.
• Papa Wolf: He'll come to the rescue for his fellow Tree Friends. Hell, some antagonists and wild animals had been slaughtered or put back into their place by Lumpy just because they had antagonized his friends.
• Parental Substitute: He is essentially the only chaperone the smaller Tree Friends have. In most episodes, he is given the responsibility to look after them.
• Pointy-Haired Boss: Every other Tree Friend, with the exception of Pop and Cub, has worked for Lumpy one way or another, while Lumpy himself is the only character who has not worked for somebody else during an occupation. Of course, this only furthers the bloodshed.
• Precision F-Strike: He has a tendency to say "What the hell?" when something goes wrong, except for in "Doggone It", where it's this.
• Running Gag: A lot of his deaths involve getting eaten by vicious and/or wild animals. He tends to fall from great heights as well.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: Lumpy speaks with a deep voice, but in his death throes he has a high-pitched scream.
• Series Mascot: Like Cuddles, he is heavily featured on promotional material, which isn't a surprise given his high amount of appearances.
• Simpleton Voice: A dopey voice for a dopey character.
• Slashed Throat: Accidentally gives himself one in "The Way You Make Me Wheel" while trying to shave and drive a car at the same time.
• Strong as They Need to Be: How much damage he can take heavily varies. For example, he survived a very high fall from an airplane in "Winging' It" but dies when he falls off of a tree that The Mole could easily climb in "All Flocked Up".
• Smart Ball:
  • How Lumpy defeats Evil Flippy and the zombies in "Remains to be Seen".
  • He also managed to outsmart Fliqpy again in the episode "By The Seat of Your Pants"
• Sole Survivor: Lumpy tends to be the only survivor of many episodes, mainly due to his dumb luck. This includes: "Spin Fun Knowin' Ya", "Wheelin' and Dealin'", "You're Bakin' Me Crazy", "Jumping The Shark", "Remains to be Seen", "Peas in a Pod", "Without A Hitch", "See You Later, Elevator", "All Work and No Play", "Snow Place to Go", "Aw, Shucks!", "Junk in the Trunk", "Ski Patrol", "Ski Kringle", and "Strain Kringle".
• Sudden Anatomy: A few examples.
  • While his teeth are typically found below his snout, that can change depending on his expression.
  • Four separate episodes have depicted him with hoofed and toed feet as well as blue and green eyes.
• Team Dad: Besides Pop, Lumpy is the closest Tree Friend to a parental figure and usually fills the "adult" roles, such as the chaperone, babysitter, teacher, and so on.
• Too Dumb to Live: Seeing how his primary trait is his stupidity and this series is all about gruesome accidents, this is a given. His idiocy frequently proves fatal to both himself and others.
• Temporarily a Villain:
  • In "Dunce Upon a Time", where he is a giant who eats people.
  • In "We're Scrooged", he lets Toothy die so he can sell his body parts.
  • In "All in Vein", as a vampire that sucks the blood of other Tree Friends.
• Trademark Favorite Food: He seems to like sandwiches a lot.
• Trashy Trailer Home: He is most often shown to live in a trailer that is Bigger on the Inside.
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: His incompetence and antagonism can border from inconvenient to destructively catastrophic. As a result, however, he usually ends up paying the price in the most gruesome ways for his repeated blunders.
• Weirdness Magnet: Lumpy tends to be in the middle of the weirdest situations the show has to offer, as demonstrated by the amount of strange, dangerous, and often supernatural antagonists Lumpy has faced off such as: man-eating turtles, zombies, Lovecraftian demons, a massive head-stealing kraken, invincible alien clones of himself, giant bears, haunted tricycles, Whistles the Killer Dog, and a very persistent crow.

Petunia

"Plant plenty of pretty, perfumed, purple and pink flowers!"

Debut: House Warming

Voiced by: Dana Belben (1999-2003), Ellen Connell (2004-2009), Lori Jee (2009-present), Sarah Castelblanco ("Remains To Be Seen"), Nica Lorber ("A Bit Of A Pickle")

A blue skunk that wears a flower on her head and a car freshener shaped like a pine tree around her neck. She debuted in the second episode and has been one of the most prominent Tree Friends since then.

Originally depicted as Giggles’ equally girly best friend, Petunia was eventually revealed to have obsessive compulsive disorder. She is particularly obsessed with cleanliness in an ironic twist. To add insult to injury, her deaths are among the messiest and the most outlandish. Petunia was once the only Tree Friend to have never killed someone else, until the episode “Who’s to Flame?”. She is also the only character to have committed suicide.

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• Aerith and Bob: Along with Russell, she is one of two characters with realistic human names.
• Aside Glance: She looks at the camera angrily after failing to grab a bowling ball in "I Nub You", much like her boyfriend Handy often does.
• Bring My Brown Pants: Because of a cherry drink, she completely lets loose when she and Lumpy realize that the bus they were in was heading towards a cliff in "Happy Trails Part 1".
• Blue Is Heroic: A blue skunk who is one of the main protagonists.
• Butt-Monkey: Even by the standards of this series, her deaths can be pretty brutal. She's also only survived a single starring role throughout the entire series (House Warming), and even then it ends with her being reduced to a barely-alive pile of burnt mush.
• Damsel in Distress: Less than Giggles, but still falls into this on occasion. Such as in "Dunce Upon a Time", where she is imprisoned by Lumpy the Giant and in "Gems the Breaks" where she along with Giggles, are tied up by Lifty and Shifty.
• Divergent Character Evolution: At first, she started out as a Palette Swap of Giggles, with the exception of her design. She would later grow into the extreme Neat Freak she is now.
• Driven to Suicide: In "Wishy Washy", she peels her skin off with a potato peeler. Technically she was trying to scrub the sewage off her body at the time, but still. This also marks the only suicide so far in the entire series.
• Eye Scream: In "Eyes Cold Lemonade", the lemonade stand signboard falls down and squishes Petunia, causing her eye to fall out of her head. Giggles (who is blind due to an earlier accident) confuses it for a lemon when she touches it, slices it up and squeezes it into eyeball juice.
• Flat Character: Initially Petunia, as mentioned, was just Giggles but as a skunk. This changed in the TV series where she is revealed to have severe OCD.
• Furry Reminder:
  • In "Blind Date", when Disco Bear was flirting with her, she responds by spraying him with her skunk spray. (Though it could've been mace since his eyes were red but considering she's a skunk...)
  • She's seen holding grapes in "Camp Pokeneyeout", which is something skunks eat in real life when they forage for food.
• Interspecies Romance: At first with Mime, who's a deer, but then with Handy, who's a beaver.
• Irony: She’s a skunk who is obsessed with cleanliness.
• Neat Freak: She panics at the mere sight of dirt and filth.
• Nice Girl: Usually very friendly towards the other characters.
• Obsessively Organized: "Wishy Washy" gratuitously showed us how bad it can be with her panic attacks. She showers a lot, will do anything to put things in their proper place, and hyperventilates if anything is not the least bit organized.
• Official Couple: With Mime first, then Handy as her most prominent.
• Orange/Blue Contrast: Her relationship with Handy.
• Potty Emergency: In "Happy Trails" as well as "Wingin' It"; she seems to like her soda and juice boxes.
• Purple Is the New Black: She has dark blue fur, in contrast to the black fur of actual skunks. Considering this is a world of Amazing Technicolor Wildlife, it's not a big deal.
• Sanity Slippage: In "Wishy Washy" as she gets dirty from Lumpy trying to unclog the toilet. Culminating in Petunia going insane and committing the only suicide in the series.
• Ship Tease: In House Warming, after Handy builds a new treehouse for her, Petunia affectionately hugs him. They eventually become an Official Couple in the season three episode I Nub You.
• Signature Hair Decs: She wears a pink petunia on her head.
• Silent Snarker: Expresses disdain whenever Disco Bear attempts to hit on her.
• Smelly Skunk: Subtly defied — It has never been hinted that Petunia smells bad, but her five showers a day, the flower on her head and the air-freshener necklace may have something to do with that.
  • The singular exception being her "Starring" card for the TV season, which portrays her with flowers wilting.
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: She has long eyelashes and a flower on her head.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The girly girl to Flaky's tomboy. Flaky doesn't look very feminine and once played soccer, while Petunia enjoys girly activities and loves to keep clean.
• True Blue Femininity: Her fur is dark blue. She's also noticeably feminine compared to Flaky.
• Terrified of Germs: She is constantly showering and freaks out whenever dirt gets on her. It gets her into trouble in "Wishy Washy" and "Home is Where the Hurt is".
• Too Dumb to Live: In "Breaking Wind", she lights a match when the atmosphere is choked with flammable gas and causes the entire planet's surface to explode.

Handy

"A happy home has all the right hardware for any happenstance!"

Debut: House Warming

Voiced by: Warren Graff, Kenn Navarro ("A Hole Lotta Love")

An orange beaver with amputated hands. He is always seen wearing a hard hat, a tool bet, and arm-nubs wrapped in bandages. As his attire implies, Handy is often seen working as either a construction worker or a mechanic. Although he is able to complete manual tasks offscreen, he loses this ability when the camera focuses on him. When his lack of hands becomes a nuisance, Handy pulls his trademark frustrated glance at the camera. Handy also has a weird tendency of being indifferent to the deaths around him, even cheering and mocking someone else’s demise.

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• Agony of the Feet: Handy accidentally steps on sharp objects in both “Shard at Work” and “No Time Like the Present”. He also loses his feet in “Class Act” and “By The Seat of Your Pants”.
• Aside Glance: Once he realizes he does not have hands or tries to do something that requires hands, he will glare into the camera.
• Badly Battered Babysitter: In "A Handy Nanny", he gets injured and eventually killed whilst babysitting Cub.
• Behind the Black: Whenever he successfully does something that requires hands, it's almost always done off-camera.
• Birds of a Feather: He is close friends with The Mole; likely because they are both handicapped and have had their lives drastically changed because of it. They go on a road trip together in "Don't Yank My Chain". In "No Time Like the Present" they seem to be living together as roommates. They are often working together (such as building houses, bridges, or being lumbermen). Notably in the TV series, where Handy displays a clear Lack of Empathy at many characters' misfortunes, he is genuinely horrified at The Mole's death and silently mourns him.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Whenever he gets frustrated over his lack of hands, he turns to the camera and growls.
• Busy Beaver: He is often seen trying to work in construction. Emphasis on the word "try", as his lack of hands usually stops him from actually building anything, although he has built a few things on his own.
• Butt-Monkey: A recurring joke is that his lack of hands prevent him from doing certain things, followed by his signature growl of frustration when realizing that said things need hands to be done. There's also the fact that he has one of the lowest survival rates in the series. Take, for example, "A Change in Heart" where he is the only character that dies in the episode.
• Chick Magnet: Both Giggles and Petunia have shown fondness towards him in a few episodes. Handy eventually becomes an Official Couple with the latter.
• Cosmic Plaything: While everyone has their moments, Handy is especially put into situations beyond his control. Take "Don't Yank My Chain" as an example, where Handy's logical attempt to break the chain he was strapped to results in his death. His permanent status as an amputee doesn't help, and even beyond the gruesome events, Handy is rarely given a happy ending to begin with. Even Lifty and Shifty are thrown more bones, even if they have a lower survival rate than him. Even if the given situation doesn't involve hands, it's likely to result at Handy's expense. Case in point, Splendid unintentionally hurling a colossal snowball onto Handy’s driveway right after he has finished cleaning it, to name one example.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Even though his abuse isn't that notorious, his deaths are frequently among the messiest and most agonizing. Like Sniffles and Lumpy, he often takes plenty of gruesome misery before finally dying. In "Don't Yank My Chain", Handy is beaten up, injured, dropped into a well, almost drowns, and nearly killed by a saw, but nothing comes close to his ultimate death, where he is dragged against the ground and slammed against a tunnel by his chain that is wrapped around a train. His infamous scream and the detailed shot of his face just before his demise really sells it.
• Disability as an Excuse for Jerkassery: Some episodes, most notably "The Wrong Side of the Tracks", imply that Handy rarely feels empathy for the deaths of others because of his own lack of hands.
• Disproportionate Retribution: In "Happy Trails Pt. 2", he, along with Flippy, Lumpy and Sniffles, kill Flaky, just because she popped the raft with her quills.
• Distressed Dude: In "See What Develops", he was literally hanging by a thread (with his mouth) while Splendid was deciding whether he should rescue him or stop The Mole
• Early-Installment Weirdness: While he's one of the show's defining Butt-Monkey, the first season not only has him survive 3/4 episodes he was featured in, which is 75%, but he also starred in two of these episodes and didn't die.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Calling him evil outright is stretching it, but Handy is shown to be quite The Sociopath with a lot of Jerkass tendencies. That being said, he does seems to feel remorse upon seeing the deaths of Petunia and The Mole.
• Fiery Redhead: Downplayed. He's an orange beaver who's easy to irritate, both from the difficulties his lack of hands causes him and from everyone else's shenanigans.
• Freudian Excuse: Handy rarely feels empathy when someone dies and is occasionally a short-tempered jerk. However, a few episodes imply that this behavior stems from his lack of hands, which he had lost from presumably a work-related accident.
• Furry Ear Dissonance: He usually lacks ears under his hat (except for a few occasions), which is especially egregious as the other beaver character Toothy has visible ears.
• Grievous Bottley Harm: In "Spare Me", he's hit in the back of the head while drinking soda from a bottle, which causes it to get stuck in his eyesocket while his eye rattles around inside the bottle.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He's mostly just irritated but when push comes to shove, expect to get a big earful.
• Handicapped Badass: He has built an entire house by himself twice. And that's without mentioning the other things he's pulled off.
• Helicopter Blender: In "Who's to Flame?", after pushing an eject button on his helicopter, Handy is sent flying into the blades.
• Ironic Name: His name is a combination of this and Meaningful Name. The ironic part is that he doesn't actually have hands, instead having bandaged nubs in their place. The meaningful part is that despite this, he's a perfectly capable repairman and construction worker... as long as the actual fixing or building takes place off-screen.
• Interspecies Romance: With Petunia, who's a skunk.
• Jerkass: He is often apathetic when someone dies and tends to act incredibly petty or bitter. He was especially antagonistic in "Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark", where he murders Flaky simply for popping a raft and threw Lumpy out of a rocket simply because he thought the moose was "extra-weight".
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Even with all of his Jerkass tendencies that show up every now and then, Handy genuinely loves helping others by fixing and building things for them. Some of his fellow Tree Friends, such as Giggles and Petunia, even express their gratitude towards him, which he wholeheartedly accepts.
• Lack of Empathy: The episode "The Wrong Side of the Tracks" and "Ipso Fatso" shows that he rarely ever feels sympathy or grief when other characters die or get injured (with a few exceptions being The Mole and Petunia). He suffers a Karmic Death in both episodes.
• Mr Fix It: He's a construction worker without hands, yet he manages to perform tasks that require them, including building an entire house. We just do not see him actually do it.
• Named After the Injury: His name is Handy. And he lost both hands.
• Never Bareheaded: So far, what he looks like under his hard hat hasn't been revealed. ^note We do actually see what's under his hat for a few frames, however. Apparently, he doesn't have visible ears. Although, he is also shown to have visible ears in "Blind Date".
• Non-Indicative Name: His name is Handy, but he has no hands.
• Official Couple: With Petunia in "I Nub You".
• Oh, Crap!: Gets a massive one that would put Enel to shame right before he slams into the train tunnel in "Don't Yank My Chain".
• Only Sane Man: Aside from not showing commiseration for another character's pain, Handy is relatively wiser and more down-to-earth than most of his fellow Tree Friends.
• Orange/Blue Contrast: His relationship with Petunia.
• Pet the Dog: Handy is often unsympathetic to someone's misfortune, but there are some exceptions:
  • In the short "Claw", he attempts to save Cuddles from the claw.
  • Handy silently mourns The Mole's death in "Don't Yank My Chain".
  • After witnessing Petunia's second injury in "I Nub You", he seems to be genuinely horrified.
• Silent Snarker: Would easily be the most fit to say something sarcastic if he could.
• The Sociopath: With the exception of Petunia and The Mole (because they're close to him), he doesn't really care or at least isn't fazed by any deaths happening to the other characters around him. A good example is when Nutty got impaled on a carnival set while Handy straight up didn't care and was more moved by him winning the toss game (in "The Wrong Side of the Tracks"). Bonus points for just laughing at Cuddles for losing HIS hands.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Despite his low survival rate, he fares better in Season 1, where he survived three of his four appearances. And while he also had a terrible survival rate in the TV series, he manages to come out entirely unscathed in the TV Series' finale "Friday the 13th", as he survived the two segments "Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow" and "Double Whammy" without even receiving a single flesh wound.^note "Autopsy Turvy" technically doesn't count, since it's actually revealed to be "Double Whammy, Part 2", and as such, it's part of the same segment.
• Vibrant Orange: Subverted. Handy, the show's only orange character, is one of the cast's grumpiest and unluckiest, even when the violence is not taken into account.

Nutty

"Nuttin' wrong with going nuts for nectarously nice candy!"

Debut: Nuttin' Wrong with Candy

Voiced by: Michael "Lippy" Lipman

A lime green squirrel with a green lazy eye and several pieces of candy stuck in his fur. Because of his hyperactive personality, Nutty rarely utters sounds aside from jittery laughter and screams of pain. His addiction to candy is so severe that he will pounce on anything that remotely looks like candy, whether it is edible or not. Said addiction also makes him act callously at the expense of others, and sometimes himself.

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• Agonizing Stomach Wound: His stomach is pierced by candy canes in the “False Alarm” episode. Surprisingly, he survives.
• And I Must Scream: In "Dunce Upon a Time", Nutty eats beans, which start to grow into a giant beanstalk in the night out of his body painfully. At the end of the episode, it shows that he was still alive before Giggles kills him with an axe so Lumpy couldn't reach the ground.
• Asshole Victim: Depending on the episode. He's not always a Jerkass to others, but when he is, expect him to die in the end.
• Autocannibalism: In "Camp Pokeneyeout", he uses his own eyeballs as marshmallow replacements for his s'mores.
• Ax-Crazy: Not to Flippy's level, but he still has his moments. He has killed people for candy.
• Berserk Button: Do not come between him and his candy or games, as proven in False Alarm.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Non-villainous example. Nutty is not always taken seriously by the other Tree Friends due to his sugar addiction. There are, however, multiple times where he has killed another character deliberately.
• Braces of Orthodontic Overkill: In "Chew Said a Mouthful", he gets them to hold his jaw together after breaking it on a gobstopper.
• Big Eater: Has a huge appetite, mainly towards sugar.
• Black Dot Pupils: An interesting case in that his left eye with the green iris has the traditional Pac-Man eyes like the rest of the Tree Friends, but his right eye is just a solid black dot.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: A blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment but in the episode, From Hero to Eternity, he's seen playing a game of chess with Sniffles and it's implied that he's winning.
• Character Tics: Jittering around.
• Character Development: After the events of "False Alarm", Nutty seemed to have gained control over his sugar intake. Telling by this, it seems like the therapy he received from Doctor Sniffles actually worked. Well, until his next starring role, but in some episodes where he is prominent beforehand, Nutty's sugar addiction didn't play a role in his deaths or even resurfaced.
• Cloudcuckoolander: He is a literal nutcase who often mistakes products that slightly bear a resemblance to candy as the very item he desires, and rarely pays attention to the carnage around him, sometimes even smiling at the deaths of himself or others.
• Comically Cross-Eyed: Nutty has amblyopia in his left eye (the one with the green iris). "False Alarm" subtly implies that it's a result of his sugar addiction.
• Companion Cube: "A Sucker For Love" was almost entirely dedicated to his fantasies of various candies... as girlfriends and wives. Also doubles as a Cargo Ship.
• Curtains Match the Window: His colored eye matches his green fur.
• Cute and Psycho: An adorable squirrel who has killed people.
• Demoted to Extra: Nutty's role is often regulated to plots revolving around candy. Because of this, after the first season, episodes truly centered on Nutty are usually Once a Season. It is more apparent in Post-TV episodes, where he only had a handful of roles in seasons three and four and only one appearance in the Still Alive episodes.
• Depending on the Writer: His addiction to candy. He's either just very fond of sweets, has a concerning endearment for it, or tends to dangerously obsess over anything remotely sugary.
• Determinator: Even when he's dying, he'll always try to get loads of candy.
• The Ditz: As a result of his candy addiction, he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer. He often manages to come off as even dumber than Lumpy, who can at least generally tell what is and isn't food.
• Dissonant Laughter: He sometimes laughs while he dies.
• Edible Theme Clothing: As shown in "Chew Said a Mouthful", he treats the candy constantly stuck to his body as clothes. He even has a "wardrobe" in the form of a drawer filled with the same type of candy and straightens the candy cane after "putting it on" as if it were a tie.
• Extreme Omnivore: He'll eat anything that vaguely resembles candy, from Christmas lights to cement mix and even other characters in costume.
• Eye Scream: Not as often as Toothy, but Nutty has had eye-related injuries more often than the average Tree Friend:
  • In “Dunce Upon a Time”, the beanstalk that grows in his body pushes his eyeballs out of their sockets.
  • In “A Sight for Sore Eyes”, his retinas are sliced off by Sniffles’ metal “paper” airplane.
  • In “Camp Pokeneyeout”, one of his eyes is burned and melted by his marshmallow, and he somehow loses the other one offscreen and turns it into a s'more.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: It's shown in several instances that the other characters view Nutty as an annoyance or a bother of some sort.
• Goofy Buckteeth: Though buckteeth are rather common within the cast, Nutty tends to be the most outwardly foolish of the gang, especially since his obsession with candy clouds his judgement. He's generally quite hyperactive due to his aforementioned sugar intake.
• Green and Mean: Nutty can be pretty selfish, and his fur is green.
• G-Rated Drug: Consuming anything sugary, sometimes in tiny amounts, will send Nutty bouncing off the walls. Prolonged periods without sugar will send Nutty into withdrawal symptoms, becoming irritable and mentally imbalanced.
• Groin Attack: He takes a yo-yo to the crotch in one of the options in "Nutty's Party Smoochie", grinding it against his groin so hard that he combusts, ending up as a charred skeleton.
• Hidden Depths:
  • In one episode he was playing checkers against Sniffles — and was winning. Not something expected from the off-the-walls Sweet Tooth squirrel, especially not against the resident Smart Guy. Though, considering it's Happy Tree Friends, their game never gets finished.
  • If you discount the fact that it's directed towards candy, his Imagine Spots in "A Sucker for Love" shows him being much more romantic than you'd expect from his normal personality, bringing his "wife" breakfast in bed and even imagining having children. Also, he has a serious jealous side.
• The Hyena: He's always laughing, even when dying.
• Irony: In "Chew Said A Mouthful", it's revealed that he hates the taste of apples but still wears a candy apple on his forehead. Probably helps though that the candy apple is... well, candy coated.
• Jerkass: Will gladly prioritize his sugar addiction over the lives of others.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite his selfish tendencies, he's proven that - as long as nobody gets in the way of his candy or video games - he's a fairly decent guy. A Sucker For Love is a good example of this with him bringing his "wife" breakfast in bed and imagining having children with her.
• Karma Houdini: Usually, an episode where Nutty is a Jerkass ends with his death, but in the “False Alarm” episode, where he is probably at his worst due to his video game addiction arguably getting four Tree Friends intentionally killed, his only “punishment” is rediscovering his candy addiction.
• Karmic Death: A huge portion of his deaths are well deserved. One good example is "Icy You", where his head is crushed after he spends the episode taking advantage of Lumpy's tongue being stuck in a roller grill and stealing all the candy in the convenience store.
• Keet: Permanently bouncing off the walls.
• Laughing Mad: Even when in pain, suffering, or dying he'll intersperse giggling with groaning and screaming.
• Meaningful Name: His name says it all — he's as nutty as a squirrel's breakfast.
• Odd Friendship: Despite his rambunctious nature, he does manage to get along with Sniffles of all people.
• Papa Wolf: He does something to Lumpy in "Sucker for Love" after the latter eats his chocolate children to wind himself up in jail. Turned out it was all a daydream, but it's still Nutty's dream, after all.
• Perpetual Smiler: Alongside bouncing off the walls, Nutty always smiles. Even when he's in pain, that smile rarely leaves his face.
• Sanity Ball: In "Take a Hike", Nutty is shown to be on his sane side when he and Petunia became lost and thirsty. He became annoyed at her moaning.
• Screwball Squirrel: A squirrel who's - as the name suggests - about as nutty as a bag of peanuts.
• The Sociopath: There are times where Nutty will endanger the lives of not only himself but the people around him, and he doesn't seem to care when his actions get them killed.
• Signature Sound Effect: In later episodes, Nutty would frequently be accompanied by the sounds of a jackhammer.
• Skewed Priorities: Doesn't matter if he's about to drop dead, he'll still do anything for some sweets.
• Sweet Tooth: A whole mouthful then some. It's almost always what lands him into trouble.
• Take a Third Option: His addictive personality means he can get hooked onto other things besides candy. Shown in "False Alarm" when he compulsively plays video games not long after getting clean from sugar.
• Too Dumb to Live: Many of his deaths could have been avoided if he learned how to prioritize his own well-being over some sweets.
  • In "Chew Said a Mouthful" he bites on a jawbreaker and smashes up his jaw three times.
  • In "A Sucker for Love", he scoops up some glass shards and gumballs from a broken gumball machine and shovels them all into his mouth. When he blows a bubble, it pops and the shards impale his face.
  • In "As You Wish", he wishes for a lollipop, tries swallowing the entire thing whole, and promptly chokes to death.
  • In "Going Out With a Bang", he steals a box of fireworks from Cuddles and Toothy thinking that it was candy. It ends up exploding from his ass, killing him and several bystanders in the process.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Anything sweet, in case all the candy plastered to his fur wasn't a clue. He'll even eat sugar straight from the bag if that's an option.
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: A selfish squirrel who cares more about sweets than his friends, not that the writers care about giving him a good survival rate. Also, he's one of the franchise's most recurring characters.
• Villain Protagonist: In "A Sucker for Love", he tries to steal a lollipop from Cub.
• Verbal Tic: That lip-smacking sound he makes whenever he comes across anything sweet.

Sniffles

"Science is seriously satisfying!"

Debut: Crazy Ant-ics

Voiced by: Liz Stewart

A baby blue anteater with thick glasses and a pocket protector. He is one of the few characters to lack the iconic heart-shaped nose and buckteeth due to his snout. Additionally, he is the only character whose species is foreign to North America.

A nerdy Tree Friend in both design and demeanor, Sniffles is portrayed as the smartest character in the show. He loves science, inventing things, Star Trek, and superheroes, especially Splendid. He is also rivals with an ant family that always brutally kill him whenever he tries eating them. Because of his plans’ tendency to backfire, Sniffles’ deaths are some of the most agonizing in the series.

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• Aardvark Trunks: Has a very expressive mouth at the tip of his trunk. His trunk was originally very long and droopy in earlier episodes but later shortened, though is still more flexible than what is possible for an anteater, even if somewhat. A few episodes take this to the extreme. When the inside of his head is shown, his trunk is not only hollow, but he seems to have a second pair of jaws at the base of his skull.
• Adaptational Species Change: He was a squirrel in early concepts, but is now an anteater, still to this very day.
• And I Must Scream: Seems to be a frequent victim of this.
  • In "Blast of the Past", where he unwittingly gets trapped in a time loop of himself dying.
  • In "Dream Job" where Lumpy inadvertently tortures Sniffles by flipping through various channels of the TV attached to his dream helmet, forcing him to go through numerous deaths until he overpowers the TV and renders him catatonic.
  • Every "Sniffles vs. The Ant Family" episode puts him in one (except "Suck it Up").
    • In "Crazy Ant-ics", where the Ant Family traps his tongue in their ant hill and begins to torture him.
    • At the end of "Tongue Twister Trouble", he gets frozen alive.
    • In "A Hard Act to Swallow", they nail his body to a tree while they torture him from the inside.
    • In "Tongue in Cheek", where he is mind controlled by the Ant Family to commit self-Cold-Blooded Torture.
• Ascended Extra: Sniffles' importance has grown as time went on. In the TV Series, he stars in six episodes, while the average character stars in 3 at best ^note This also earned him the second highest number of starring roles in the TV series, exceeded by only Lumpy. Because he appears so often, he's one of the most recurring characters behind the original four, and given his ongoing rivalry with the Ants and knack for inventing a boundless array of machinery, he often plays a major role in the episodes featuring him.
• Asshole Victim: Zig-zagged. When against the Ants, he's depicted as the aggressor and they are the victims; he always has plenty of chances to back out of his war with them but refuses to leave them alone. He's at his worst in "Tongue in Cheek," when he destroys their house and pushes them to the brink of tears. That being said, the Ants take their retaliation far beyond self-defense and end up torturing and killing Sniffles in such a horrific manner that one can't help but feel sorry for him anyways.
• Badass Bookworm: As seen in "Idol Curiosity", he can hold his own pretty well against opponents.
• Bespectacled Cutie: Has big round glasses that enhance his cute appearance.
• Blind Without 'Em: In "A Sight For Sore Eyes", it is revealed that Sniffles is extremely nearsighted when we cut to his POV when his glasses are cut in half by his paper airplane-shaped rocket. Truth in Television, as anteaters have very poor eyesight in real life.
• Blue Is Heroic: In the episodes that don't feature the ants, he prefers to help out others.
• Blue Means Smart One: He is light blue and supposedly the most intelligent character in the show.
• Body Pocket: Has a pocket protector wielding some pens but doesn't seem to have any other kind of clothing on him.
• Bullying a Dragon: Despite the ants' constant Cold-Blooded Torture of him, he still has the nerve to keep on targeting them. Nevertheless, he ends up dying painfully.
• Bungling Inventor: His inventions often backfire lethally on him and those around him due to design flaws or him using them unwisely.
• Butt-Monkey: He has gone through some of the most agonizing and horrifying deaths the show has to offer, has had at least six episodes entirely devoted to torturing him, and is frequently put into several And I Must Scream scenarios.
• Character Catchphrase: "Aha!"
• Characterization Marches On: In the first season, he's mostly just generically nerdy, and the episodes centering around him focus on his battles with the ants. The second season opener "Happy Trails Pt. 2" gives him his knack for inventing and science when he turns a broken school bus into a rocket ship, a trait that would go on to become his main gimmick in the series going forward.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Falls victim to this whenever the ants are involved.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Happens to him a lot, even by Happy Tree Friends standards. His most famous death is in the episode, "Tongue In Cheek", where the ants install a mind control device on Sniffles and force him to eat a razor blade apple, stick his tongue in a shredder, nail his tail to the ground, and have his organs ripped out of his mouth while being fully conscious of it the whole time.
• Cute Bookworm: Plenty of fans find him adorable specifically because he's a dorky nerd.
• Determinator: Goes to extremes to catch the ants... not that he ever succeeds.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Sniffles himself gets this whenever he tries to eat the ants. Granted, fatally eating them is pretty bad, but the torture they inflict on him in return is very painful and prolonged.
• Ditzy Genius: While Sniffles is often considered the smartest character due to his inventions and book smarts, he doesn't use much common sense. He is very prone to overlooking errors in his creations, and despite his remarkable IQ, he is generally stubborn and frequently shows stupidity that is comparable to the more scattered-brained characters.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Sniffles had a much longer snout in Seasons 1 and 2.
• Evil Versus Evil: He is usually the aggressor to the ants, but since the ants launch massive Disproportionate Retribution against him, he is easily the lesser of two evils.
• Expy: He is possibly based off of Arthur Read due to their glasses and the aardvark from The Ant and the Aardvark, since they are both blue and fail to catch the ants they want to eat.
• Eye Glasses: His glasses don't change shape, but his pupils sometimes overlap the frames. His actual eyes, though rarely seen, are either shown as Black Bead Eyes or the standard pie eyes.
• Fatal Flaw: His sheer determination. Most of his suffering is a direct cause of him never giving up. Throughout most of the Ants episodes, he is a victim to Cold-Blooded Torture, but still never backs down. In "Blast From the Past", he keeps subjecting Cuddles, Giggles, Toothy, and Lumpy to several Cruel and Unusual Death with his time-machine in order to make the playground safe before trapping himself in an eternal loop of himself dying.
• Gadgeteer Genius: He was able to build a functioning rocket ship out of the remains of a school bus and a Time Machine out of a washer, for starters.
• Heroic BSoD: He mentally shuts down after suffering nightmares in "Dream Job".
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Damn near all of his creations have completely backfired on him in one way or another.
• Idiot Ball: While Sniffles is frequently proven to be very intelligent, he makes loads of mistakes that are on par with Lumpy's.
  • In "Party Animal", while Fliqpy was busy killing his party guests, Sniffles apparently doesn't even bother escaping for his own life. When he does try to flee the scene, he decides to hide in a barrel of water.
  • In "I've Got You Under My Skin", Sniffles hoarded the ball. His invention that was meant to traverse into Giggles' body had an intentionally placed timer (he doesn't even attempt to give himself more time by rewinding the dial) and for most of the episode, Sniffles recklessly causes harm to Lumpy from the inside. By the end, he caused the death of himself, Giggles, and Lumpy, which was ultimately proven to be all for nothing, since Giggles had quickly healed up after her initial injury just before she died, as all she needed was a good rest.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: When he's cast as the villain, (usually when up against the Ants) expect little to no success on his part. "Tongue in Cheek" being the most prominent, and horrifying, example of this trope.
• Mad Scientist: Sometimes he gets a bit crazy whilst inventing things.
• Misapplied Phlebotinum: He manages to build a mind control helmet and a tiny, fully-functioning robot... only to try and capture ants to eat. And the Time Machine? Built just so he could go back to keep his milk from getting spilled. (Though, the latter was put to better intentions. Almost.)
• Misplaced Wildlife: He's a South American anteater in a cast of North American woodland critters. ^note Their range does slightly extend into North America (specifically parts of Mexico), but even then they typically prefer tropical forests.
• Nerd Glasses: Complete with tape to hold the lenses together.
• Nerdy Nasalness: Befitting his large snout and nerdy demeanor, he has a high-pitched nasally voice.
• Nonstandard Character Design:
  • Like Lumpy, he does not have a heart-shaped nose or buckteeth.
  • His prehistoric counterpart seen in "Blast from the Past" is one of the only characters in the series to sport (visible) eyebrows.
• Odd Friendship: Despite his extreme intelligence, he gets along well with a nutcase like Nutty, who otherwise rubs everyone the wrong way.
• Overly-Long Tongue: While justified, considering he's an anteater (a species with long tongues), his tongue is quite long even by those standards.
• Psychic-Assisted Suicide: In "Tongue In Cheek", courtesy of the Ant Family using his mind control helmet.
• Razor Apples: The ant family mind-control Sniffles to eat one in "Tongue In Cheek".
• Silent Snarker: Has some moments, being The Smart Guy and all. He gives a very appropriate one to Nutty in "False Alarm", as the nutcase indulged in far too many sweets that resulted in his detriment.
• The Smart Guy: Usually builds intricate gadgets that drive the plot of some episodes.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: The show's resident Gadgeteer Genius is also the only character to wear glasses (not counting The Mole's sunglasses, but that's a different trope entirely).
• Sudden Anatomy:
  • His mouth appears and disappears, depending on whether he talks or what emotion he conveys.
  • Starting in late Season 3, the shape of his snout would change from curved to straight between shots.
• Throw the Dog a Bone:
  • He managed to get back against the ants by eating one of their ancestors when he went back in time to grow some trees in "Blast from the Past".
  • He invented an automatic slingshot gun in "Camp Pokeneyout" — one that did not backfire or lead to his death. It marks the only invention in the whole series that did nothing wrong.
  • In any episode where he plays the role of a doctor (with the sole exception being "Concrete Solution"), he is spared.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Ants, befitting of an anteater, even though he's only been able to successfully eat one during the course of the series. He usually goes to great lengths just to capture one.
• Tongue Trauma: Due to his long tongue, Sniffles has had a lot of tongue-related injuries.
  • Is forced to stick his tongue in a paper shredder and later forcibly ties it around an oar in "Tongue In Cheek".
  • Gets his tongue attacked by the Ant family in "Crazy Ant-ics".
  • In "Tongue Twister Trouble", he gets his tongue clawed off by a cat.
• Toothy Bird: Sniffles has teeth, but real-life anteaters are toothless.
• Villain Protagonist: In the episodes with the Ant family, he is shown as the villain.

Pop

"Parental parents are patient and proud."

Debut: Havin' A Ball

Voiced by: Aubrey Ankrum

A beige adult bear with clothes reminiscent of the stereotypical 50s father look. He is rarely seen without his son Cub, and he rarely interacts with other characters as a result. Pop might care deeply for his son, but his irresponsible behavior tends to get Cub hurt and even killed. Nevertheless, he is always determined to save his son whenever he knows Cub is hurt or lost.

Although Pop is an ordinary Tree Friend in size and strength, he frequently survives his episodes, often at Cub's expense. Combined with his frequent appearances, his luck blesses him with the fourth highest survival rate in the series, with only Mr. Pickels, Splendid, and Cro-Marmot outranking him. His wife is confirmed to have permanently died before the series began in a tweet by Ken Navarro.

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• Abusive Parents: Downplayed. While he doesn't mean to hurt his son, he often lapse into this territory because of his bad parenting. For example, when Pop failed to remove nail from Cub's head in "Stealing the Spotlight", instead of calling the hospital, he instead hammers it deep into Cub's head, ignoring his whine as he does so.
• Adults Are Useless: Blantanly, since his bad parenting had led to several of Cub's deaths. And even if he does recognize his mistakes, his efforts to save Cub are futile.
• Asshole Victim: Pop does suffer a few cruel deaths like everybody else, though because of his abysmal parenting and tendency of killing many characters ("A Hole Lotta Love" and "See Ya Later, Elevator" being the worst offenders) all thanks to his stupidity, he doesn't get as much empathy from viewers.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Pop is usually neglectful and irresponsible, but he really does care for his son. This is especially proven true whenever Cub is either dead or missing, where he breaks down into tears. The most depressing examples includes "And The Kitchen Sink" and "Water Way to Go".
• Bears Are Bad News: Downplayed, because while his terrible parenting skills usually mean a terrible death for his son Cub, he doesn't intend to do so, has a good heart and only wants what's best for him.
• Beary Friendly: He isn't shown interacting with characters other than Cub often, but when he does he is shown to be a good-natured sort.
• Bumbling Dad: His obliviousness to his son's safety often leads to the latter's often gruesome deaths.
• Characterization Marches On: Up to the TV Season, it took quite a while for the creators to settle on an identity for Pop:
  • In his debut episode, Pop wasn’t neglectful or as careless when it came to Cub. In fact, he went out of his way to make his son happy, to the extent of putting his own life at risk.
  • By his next appearance, Pop is completely oblivious to the pain he’s causing to Cub. However, in the storyboarding of this episode, he went so far as to intentionally dispose of his son’s corpse by setting it on fire. Meanwhile, In the storyboards of what was planned to be his third appearance, “Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark”, Pop was originally going to have Flippy’s role, meaning he would appear without Cub and would’ve killed Flaky in cold blood. As with the previous episode, the creators found this characterization to be jarring for Pop, so they replaced him with Flippy in the final episode.
  • Pop died a bit more frequently in early episodes, most notably, he is the only character who rarely dies to have a Smoochie and to die in their introductory episode. In “Pop’s BBQ Smoochie”, Pop also appears without Cub, which is something that rarely happens nowadays.
• Doting Parent: Despite his obliviousness, Pop really does love his son. He will usually go the extra mile just to make Cub happy and occasionally spoils him.
• The Determinator: The few times he ever is aware that Cub is in danger he'll never stop in trying to save his son, up to and including going over a waterfall in "And the Kitchen Sink" and successfully fending off a rabid dog in "Doggone it!"
• Early-Installment Weirdness: In "Havin' A Ball", Pop spends the episode injuring himself to help Cub rather than accidentally harming his son. He also dies in the episode despite it being his debut, in contrast with the other characters with high survival rates. His second appearance, "Chip Off the Ol' Block", does a better job establishing his dynamic with Cub.
• Eye Scream: One of his deaths in "Pop's BBQ Smoochie" is him being impaled through the eye and the back of his head with a kabob stick.
• Good Parents: The rare instances where Pop doesn't kill Cub, he's shown to be a very caring father to his infant son. Of course, this is Happy Tree Friends we're talking about, so even if he's a fully engaged father, they will find some way to kill Cub.
• Goofy Buckteeth: Buckteeth is shared by nearly all the main characters in the show, but it fits Pop especially given his bumbling and hammy nature.
• Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: His robe and cap.
• Hands-Off Parenting: Pop often lets Cub wander around or play with something he shouldn't.
• Helicopter Blender: His first death in "Having a Ball" has him on the bad end of falling on top of moving helicopter blades.
• Hidden Depths:
  • He's apparently a cheapskate, which is evident in "Read Em and Weep" and would actually explain some things.
  • As seen in "A Handy Nanny", Pop has an interest in bowling and seems to be talented at the sport, considering that he won a large trophy by the end of the episode.
  • In "Chore Loser", Pop is shown to be quite the gamer upon playing with Cub's game system.
• Insufferable Imbecile: Pop isn't very bright, thanks to his general obliviousness to Cub's pain. Beyond his parental stupidity, he also tends to be a fickle to deal with. While he isn't an outright villain compared to other reoccurring jerkasses in the series, the few times he interacts with the other characters shows his less bearable side.
• Jerkass: On his worst days, he can be impatient and somewhat rude when he's interacting with somebody else, like Sniffles or Nutty. He also seems to hold a low opinion on most of the other characters, generally eyeing those like Splendid with a cynical expression and showing apathy to someone's death or misfortune.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In some episodes, like "A Vicious Cycle". When the plot demands it, Pop is also shown to be a caring father, especially in later episodes.
• Karma Houdini: While Pop is irresponsible and his careless actions often result in Cub's death, he tends to survive most of his appearances.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: He survived all of his starring roles in the TV series, where Pop was responsible for most to every death, and regularly got away with causing Cub's death with the exception of "Stealing the Spotlight". Season 4 finally balances this out by having Pop die more often than Cub.
• Large Ham: Given his bumbling nature, Pop tends to ham it up more than others. It's often emphasized by the ways he reacts to seeing Cub missing or hurt.
• Lethally Stupid: His obliviousness are the usual catalyst that leads to Cub and others' deaths, and sometimes his own.
• Offing the Offspring: As a whole, he ends up killing his son repeatedly because of his incompetence, but in "Read 'em and Weep", he murders Cub out of his own volition, just because he thought his son was still possessed.
• Papa Wolf: He becomes unusually confrontational when Nutty steals Cub's lollipop in "A Sucker for Love".
• Parental Obliviousness: How clueless he is to trouble Cub gets into usually causes the latter's deaths.
• Parents as People: He is irresponsible and often clueless, which always mean a terrible death for Cub. Despite that, he truly cares about and will go the extra mile just to help his son.
• Pushover Parents: He doesn't do anything about the chaos Cub causes in "Cubtron Z" and did nothing while Cub was whacking Giggles' seat with a toy airplane in "Wingin' It".
• Red Is Heroic: Wears a red hat and robe, and at least tries to save his son.
• Running Gag: In most of the TV episodes where Pop and Cub appear but don't star, Cub is killed by the other characters' antics and Pop is left crying over his remains.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Pop & Cub frequently appear in the series and tend to get a lot of spotlight. In the TV series, they had major roles in the two segments where Lumpy does not appear and in Pop's case, he is the only character to appear in two Smoochies.
• Smoking Is Cool: Has a pipe in his mouth most of the time. According to his "Collect Them All" card, he even smokes it while he sleeps.
• Too Dumb to Live: As with Lumpy and The Mole, his actions usually result in the deaths of others, but there's also a good number of instances where his obliviousness becomes his own downfall as well.
  • In "Easy For You to Sleigh", when his smoke detector went off, he didn't even know how to turn it off properly. So, what does he do? He yanks it out of the ceiling and removes the batteries. Unsurprisingly, he ends up passing out and dying of smoke inhalation later in the episode.
  • In his debut episode, he walks straight into traffic just to get Cub's ball on the other side of the road.
  • In "See You Later, Elevator", he tosses a lit match out of a window. Said match gets blown right back into the lower floor and causes a fire that resulted in Pop's own death alongside many others.
• Took a Level in Kindness: After the television series, Pop is not nearly as abrasive towards the other characters and seemed to have become more social. He even invited some police officers to have a few drinks as an award for supposedly putting Fliqpy to justice.

Cub

"Cute kids are cuddly and carefree!"

Debut: Havin' A Ball

Voiced by: Dana Belben (2000-2005), Ellen Connell (2005-2009), Lori Jee (2011-present)

A beige bear cub, hence his name, that always wears a propeller beanie hat and a diaper. He is the only one Tree Friend to be exclusively portrayed as a child, although whether he is a very young baby or a toddler depends on the episode. Because of his small stature, Cub is the most defenseless character in the dangerous world of Happy Tree Friends, which often costs him dearly. His innocence also makes him oblivious to the carnage around him. He has even occasionally played with severed body parts.

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• A Dog Named "Dog": A bear cub named Cub.
• Baby Talk: Being a baby, this is how Cub talks.
• Black Bead Eyes: The Pie-Eyed variant; he lacks sclerae around his black pupils.
• Butt-Monkey: Dies in most of his appearances, usually caused by his father by accident. Unlike most of the characters, he has barely any way to protect himself due to just being a baby.
• Demonic Possession: In "Read 'Em And Weep", an Eldritch Abomination possess him.
• Dead Baby Comedy: Literally, since he dies a lot and is a baby.
• Death of a Child: He's often killed off in horrible ways, just like the other animals.
• Disney Death: In "And the Kitchen Sink" when Pop sees Cub's seemingly decapitated head lying in the sand after the two have gone over a waterfall. When he grabs his head, he finds that he was just buried in the sand up to the neck, and Cub lets out a weak cough.
• Fearless Infant: Sometimes, he is happy even in dangerous situations. He also is seen happy even when he sees somebody dying.
• Free-Range Children: In quite a few episodes, he's seen without Pop.
• Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Poor Cub isn't even out of diapers, and yet he is often maimed by his incompetent father.
• Humongous Mecha: In "Cubtron Z", where Pop manages to revive him as a gigantic robot to help protect him from the dangers of the rest of the world. It works too well.
• Made of Iron: In "And the Kitchen Sink", Cub survived being scalded by extremely hot water (by mistake), having his entire lower half of his body disintegrated in a sink garbage disposal, being pulled by the neck with a rope tied to a station wagon whose accelerator Pop floored (in an attempt to free Cub from the sink drain), being dragged by said station wagon while still stuck in the sink, and falling off a waterfall. These injuries and situations usually kill or dismember the older Tree Friends. He only died by drowning in the bathtub when Pop was looking away.
• Missing Mom: His mom is never seen nor mentioned. The creators have confirmed that she passed away.
• Morality Pet: For Pop. Fliqpy also seems to intentionally spare Cub in "A Vicious Cycle".
• Not Allowed to Grow Up: Since his debut, Cub has remained... well, a cub
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: He is a cute bear cub.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Pop & Cub frequently appear in the series and tend to get a lot of spotlight. In the TV series, they had major roles in the two segments where Lumpy does not appear in. Cub alone becomes this in Season 2, as he starred in a total of six episodes, two of which his father doesn't appear.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Initially he would die often and Pop rarely so. However, the fourth season of the internet series would turn this around, with Cub being spared more frequently and Pop taking more hits.

Flaky

"Wherever there's trouble, this dandruff-laden porcupine is sure to be far, far away."

Debut: Water You Wading For

Voiced by: Nica Lorber

A red porcupine whose quills are full of dandruff. Flaky is shy, overly cautious to the point of paranoia at times, prone to motion sickness, and has an endless list of phobias. However, she is compassionate and perfectly capable of bravery when necessary. She is also the subject of a long-standing gender dispute, though most of the creators and fans refer to her as a female. Her official gender description on the website is a question mark.

On April 28, 2012, on the Twitter for Happy Tree Friends, in reply to someone's tweet, it was an actual discussion about Flaky's gender and they intentionally stated Flaky was a girl, confirming Flaky's gender.

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• All of the Other Reindeer: Downplayed. While not hated, the other characters tend to abuse her a bit. For example, in "Happy Trails Pt. 2" Lumpy, Flippy, Handy and Sniffles murder her just because she popped a raft when the characters were stranded on an island.
• Ambiguous Gender: The creators (usually) say girl. They also like trolling the fanbase, as seen in "Something Fishy", when she couldn't decide whether to go into the men's or women's restroom, where her unknown gender is actually lampshaded. (In the end, she went into the women's restroom, which proved disastrous, because the plumbing was infested by Russell's deadly piranha fish.)
• Animal Lover: Has a very kind and caring nature towards animals. The feeling is NOT reciprocated.
• Animals Hate Her: She's been either killed, eaten, or non-fatally maimed by: an eagle, an orca, sharks, seagulls, carnivorous plants, a piranha, a baboon (presumably), and even a kaiju. In fact, the only character with a higher number of animal-related deaths and injuries is Lumpy.
• Armor Is Useless: Flaky's quills do nothing to dissuade the various predators that attack her over the course of the series, despite that being their main purpose for a porcupine.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She is one of the more caring characters of the series, sometimes even going against her fears to help someone or throw a surprise party for a Serial Killer (granted, he's only like that when he is reminded of the war). That said, "Without a Hitch" has her causing another character harm intentionally, and leading to their death because of her paranoia alone.
• Butt-Monkey: She is often pushed around by the other characters. It doesn't help that Flaky's deaths are seriously some of the strangest, most gruesome, and utterly embarrassing in the series. She's also only survived one starring role (that being "Water You Wading For") and not a single irregular episode.
• Characterization Marches On: Flaky was less anxious and seemed to be rather carefree in her earliest appearances. She was mainly there to be the only Tree Friend aware of danger, while everybody else was oblivious. At times, Flaky was shown doing activities that would be risky by her standards, like hanging off a monkey bar in "Treasure Those Idol Moments". By Season 2, she became much more perpetually anxious and emotionally unstable.
• Companion Cube: A garden gnome she finds in a box in "Snow Place to Go", after being stranded along with Lumpy, Russell, Cuddles, Giggles and Toothy. She starts to have a rather creepy, if oddly affectionate and motherly, attitude towards it during her Sanity Slippage right before her death.
• Cowardly Lion: When she isn't simply cowardly, she does go against her fears when she has to.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: Due to having quills, she is prone to accidents that involve inflatable things, sometimes even things where there is nothing inflatable around.
• Demoted to Extra: After her starring role in the 2009 Halloween Episode, Flaky's prominence dwindled quickly. Having only a handful of roles in season three and being entirely absent from season four bar one featuring role in "Going Out With a Bang".
• Desecrating the Dead: While pretty much all of the tree friends have had embarrassing things done to their dead bodies, Flaky seems especially prone to it, with her remains getting used as a coat, a nest, and a hermit crab's shell among other things.
• Fiery Redhead: Inverted. She's the only red character in the main cast, and she's also the most timid and shy character in it, tending to get both literally and figuratively pushed around by them. The closest she ever gets to being angry is when she gets briefly annoyed when a Generic Tree Friend pushes her in "Rink Hijinks" and when she slaps Nutty's hand away and scolds him with a stern finger wag when he tries to take the chocolate chips she needs for baking in "Party Animal".
• Furry Ear Dissonance: She appears to lack ears, while real porcupines have at least small ears.
• Grievous Harm with a Body: She's used as a club by Fliqpy to kill Cuddles with in "Keepin' It Reel". Considering her quills, it worked.
• High-Pressure Blood: When she bleeds out of her eye in one of her Smoochies. It was enough to make her eyeball pop out as it floats on a blood fountain from her eyelid.
• Idiot Ball:
  • In "Wingin It", she slides off the emergency inflatable slide, but it pops.
  • Something similar happens in "Happy Trails Pt. 2" wherein she rides an inflatable raft with the rest of the cast, but she pops it.
• Inexplicably Tailless: Real porcupines have tails that serve an important function in self-defense. Flaky, however, doesn't seem to have one.
• Informed Species: Due to her lack of a tail, she could easily be mistaken for a hedgehog.
• Killed Offscreen:
  • Her infamous death in "Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark."
  • In "Wingin' It," Godzilla came out of nowhere at the end of the episode rampage, with Flaky screaming in terror. Her fight with Godzilla is not shown, but it’s extremely unlikely she survived.
• Lovable Coward: She is understandably always scared of everything, but her whimpering, stuttering and crying is the cutest thing you'll ever see on the show. Not to mention the moments she is actually happy.
• Meaningful Name: Flaky has dandruff flakes in her quills.
• Nice Girl: Usually caring and nice towards everyone.
• Noodle Incident: Flaky has a strange fear of baby chicks that has yet to be explained.
• Odd Friendship: Nutty was the one who was helping her out with her surprise birthday party in "Party Animal". The birthday party was for Flippy, which is even more odd considering she should probably be afraid of him.
• Only Sane Man: When living in a world where you can die by falling down the stairs, getting hit by a coconut in the head, or being split in half by a stump, she has every right to be freaked out of her mind.
• Out-of-Character Moment: In "Party Animal", she throws a party, when she usually never takes the initiative to do anything. The party's for Flippy, who she normally fears. Usually she knows better than do such a thing.
• Perpetual Frowner: It is almost rare to see Flaky without an uneasy look on her face, even when she is smiling.
• Plot Allergy: Peanuts, as shown in "Party Animal".
• Properly Paranoid: Considering what usually ends up happening after attempts at even the safest actions, Flaky's fears seem considerably less unreasonable.
• Red Is Heroic: A caring porcupine, and the only main character with red fur.
• Sanity Slippage: "Without A Hitch", where she kills Flippy thinking he was going to kill her. She also loses her mind in "Snow Place to Go" momentarily as she treats a ceramic gnome as a real person.
• Ship Tease: Taking the show's standards into account, she is this with Flippy, particularly "Party Animal" on both parts, "Without A Hitch" on Flippy's part and "Random Acts Of Silence" on Flippy's part, again.
• Shrinking Violet: Painfully, yet somewhat justifiably.
• Spike Shooter: Averted, despite the myth about porcupines shooting their quills. Though there has been occasions where her quills had been launched by something else. In "Rink Hijinks", for example, she is sucked into a floor waxer and slowly shredded. As she was being spun around her quills start to get launched everywhere, with a good chunk of them going straight into Disco Bear.
• Stripped to the Bone: She met this fate twice throughout the series existence — it happened to her in "Boo Do You Think You Are?" and "Breaking Wind".
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Averted — she's the only female character to not have pronounced eyelashes or wear female accessories like bows or jewelry. Possibly what led to the high amount of Viewer Gender Confusion before her gender was explicitly stated.
• Threatening Shark: She's been attacked by sharks three times over the course of the series: In "Wipe Out", "Happy Trails Pt. 2", and "Wingin' It". Interestingly, she's survived all three of these attacks, only to die to something else.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The tomboy to either Giggles'/Petunia's/Lammy's girly girl. They all have eyelashes and like girly stuff, but Flaky does not have visible eyelashes and doesn't engage in the activities they like. Her smoochie seems to indicate that she is more interested in physical sports (which is surprisingly atypical of her personality).
• Too Dumb to Live:
  • In "Happy Trails Part 2: Jumping the Shark", when she sat on an inflatable raft that Lifty and Shifty inflated. Because her quills touched the raft, it sank and ended up leading to Lifty's, Shifty's, and her own deaths^note To be clear, her death did not come from drowning in the water or being eaten by sharks, but rather getting subjected to everyone's homicidal rage for her mistake.
  • Also happens in "Wingin' It", when she finally lands the abandoned plane. She attempts to slide down the emergency inflatable slide, only for it to pop, due to her quills^note Again, she doesn't drown, but Godzilla comes out of nowhere to eat her.
  • In "Dunce Upon a Time", her fist hiding spot is a toaster... with untoasted bread already in there.
• Tuft of Head Fur: Has a spiky tuft of quills on top of her head.
• Verbal Tic: "Eheheheh...heh heh..."
• Vomit Discretion Shot: In "Wingin' It", where the sight of a plane makes her double over and puke just offscreen. The puddle is seen in the next shot, though.
• Vomit Indiscretion Shot: In the "Wingin' It", after being told by Mime that there's a chance that they'd get eaten by "Godzilla", she hurries to the bathroom to toss her cookies. Due to some turbulence, however, she ends up being thrown around the room, vomiting all the while. Petunia, who entered the bathroom after she left, was naturally horrified, and probably thought it was something else due to the color...
• What You Are in the Dark: In the Halloween Episode "Without a Hitch," Flaky's paranoia gets the better of her and she impales Flippy's eye with a shard under the belief that he was going to kill her (he wasn't).
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Flaky has an odd fear of baby chicks, more so than everything else. Guess what she encounters in the petting zoo in "A To Zoo". Weirdly enough, it seems to be just chicks. She doesn't appear to be particularly afraid of any other birds.

The Mole

"Myopic, meandering marches most often lead to macabre mishaps."

Debut: Pitchin' Impossible

Voiced by: N/A

A blind lavender mole with a mole on his face. He also wears shades that hide his eyes and a turtleneck that does the same to his mouth. In addition to his blindness, The Mole is mute and is implied to have hearing problems as well. His inability to properly communicate with other Tree Friends makes him one of the more oblivious characters. Despite being sightless, he frequently does things that require vision, especially driving.

Although his demeanor and blindness are recipes for disaster, The Mole actually has one of the highest survival rates in the series, mostly due to dumb luck. A lone Ka-pow! episode, "Mole in the Big City", visits the idea that The Mole is an international spy, an actual character trait that was cut before he was introduced into the series.

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• Behind the Black: Whenever he eats, due to having No Mouth.
• Blind Driving: Often seen driving, despite being blind. Naturally, this leads to several mishaps.
• Blind Mistake: His biggest form of comedy. He has a tendency to mistake gruesome objects for more commonplace ones.
• Blind People Wear Sunglasses: Mole is blind, and ambles about with a red-ended walking staff, turtleneck sweater, and rounded sunglasses similar to those of John Lennon.
• Butt-Monkey: Despite his high survival rate, he has gone through some of the most agonizing deaths the show has to offer such as getting his head sliced in half by a saw, getting disintegrated while his car is destroyed by Splendid's laser, had his head crushed by the ground while in a drill machine, etc.
• Captain Oblivious: Even taking his blindness into account, there are many instances where he should be able to hear or feel that something is wrong, but doesn't.
• A Dog Named "Dog": A mole named "The Mole."
• Drives Like Crazy: Whenever he's seen in a car, he will either crash it or drive clumsily. Justified, as he's blind.
• The Faceless: He always wear sunglasses and his turtleneck sweater covers his mouth all the time, making him appear expressionless at all times.
• Furry Ear Dissonance: Has small, bear like ears at the top of his head. Moles in real life have inconspicuous (almost invisible) ears at the sides of their heads.
• Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: No pants.
• Handicapped Badass: As seen in "Mole in the Big City", he is blind but a great spy.
• Informed Species: He doesn't really look like a mole, more like a bear instead.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: After spending the first two seasons generally unscathed, with his few deaths being relatively mundane and shared with other characters, The Mole finally gets the proper Happy Tree Friends treatment in the TV series, where he dies far more often and in far messier and unique ways.
• Killed Offscreen: Around half his deaths, including his first five, follow this noticeable pattern.
• No Mouth: His mouth is covered by his sweater.
• Nice Guy: Apparently, seeing as how he was willing to take his date to many nice areas in "Blind Date", and in "Out Of Sight Out Of Mime", he gives trick or treaters a lot of candy. In another episode, he tries to get a baby bird back in the tree. He also likes to help others regularly, though he does sometimes cause them problems.
• Running Gag: The Mole is seen driving in almost every episode that he appears in season four.
• The Speechless: He's never said a single word in any of his appearances. He never even makes any vocal noises of any kind. This is particularly notable, since even Mime (whose name should be self-explanatory) makes vocal sounds every now and then.
• Spell My Name with a "The": The only character to have the word "the" as part of his name.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: One of the most recurring characters aside from the main four, with his episode count rivaling Sniffles'. This is probably due to his blindness and hearing issues being an ideal recipe for disaster, similar to Lumpy's stupidity.
• The Stoic: Due to the fact that his face is covered all the time and he's completely voiceless, he shows no emotion whatsoever, no matter what the situation. Justified, as he is blind, so he can't really see what's exciting, depressing, or scary.
• Sunglasses at Night: Possibly justified by the fact that he's blind. A trivia card mentions he has unseen blue eyes, though.
• Too Dumb to Live: While most of his mistakes can be explained by his blindness, the fact that a blind person is doing all these things that require sight in the first place indicates that he's not the brightest bulb. Like Lumpy, a more common occurrence being "Too Dumb For Those Around Him To Live"(exceptions being "Who's to Flame?" and "A Sight For Sore Eyes").

Disco Bear

"Don't be a drag. Get down and dance! Can you dig it?"

Debut: Stayin' Alive

Voiced by: Peter Herrmann

A golden bear with an orange afro that wears a yellow leisure suit. As his name indicates, Disco Bear is stuck in the 70s. He frequently dances, has an ego the size of an airplane, and never forgets to flirt with the female characters when he sees them, much to their dismay.

It is implied that Disco Bear was a celebrity in the disco era, and clings to his golden days as a way to cope with his insecurities. He is also overweight due to his love for greasy food. It took until the TV series for the creators to stop finding him annoying and actually start liking him.

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• Agonizing Stomach Wound: His intestines are pulled out of his stomach and used like a leash in "Doggone It".
• Asshole Victim: He deserves some of his deaths and injuries due to his obnoxious behavior.
• Attention Whore: One of the reasons he was hated by fans and creator alike; he often forced himself into a scene to be the main attraction of it.
• Balloon Belly: During "Ipso Fatso", due to being overweight.
• Bears Are Bad News: Downplayed in that he's more of a selfish egomaniac rather than an outright villain.
• Big Eater: In "A Change Of Heart", he orders a lot of food at the café, leading to his heart attack. Furthermore, Disco Bear is constantly seen eating various foods on the show to an exceptionally higher degree than other characters (barring Nutty and Lumpy of course).
• Big Ego, Hidden Depths: "Easy Comb, Easy Go" hints that he fakes his egoism.
• The Bully: Downplayed. Though an older Tree Friend, he is sometimes a pushy jock who pushes, annoys, or even kills his fellow Tree Friends.
• Casanova Wannabe: Continuously flirts with the female characters throughout the series. The only female he has not flirted with is Lammy, because they have never interacted before.
• Cerebus Retcon: "Easy Comb, Easy Go" and "Ipso Fatso" adds a complex layer to Disco Bear's egotism. He is such an attention-seeking narcissist because of his many insecurities, primarily his obesity, unpopularity, and unattractiveness.
• Character Catchphrase: "Oh yeah."
• A Dog Named "Dog": Disco Bear, alongside The Mole, has the most self-explanatory name in the series.
• Deep-Fried Whatever: His Trademark Favorite Food, which lead to bad consequences in "A Change Of Heart" and "Ipso Fatso".
• Disco Dan: Lives in a house with typical 1970's paraphernalia, such as shag carpeting and wood paneling. In early episodes a disco ball would appear out of nowhere to signal his arrival. He even wakes up to it on his alarm clock.
• Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes: In most cases, he lowers his eyelids in correlation to his funky mood.
• A Day in the Limelight: Whenever Disco Bear is a "starring" character, he usually shares or even lends the spotlight to the other starring character(s); he's rarely the protagonist. However, in the two TV episodes that star Disco Bear, "Ipso Fatso" and "Easy Comb, Easy Go", he's the lead character with his own struggles.
• Evil Redhead: Not evil per se, but he is a narcissist who has caused the deaths of others because of his egotism.
• Eye Scream: Similar to Nutty, Disco Bear's had more eye-related injuries than the average Tree Friend despite not being as known for them as Toothy:
  • When he dies for the first time in "Rink Hijinks", his right eye is pierced by one of Flaky's quills.
  • During his date with Petunia in "Blind Date", she sprays him in the eyes when he tries to kiss her.
  • In "As You Wish", the sun rays reflecting on his giant disco ball burn his eyes before killing him.
  • In "Wishy Washy", while in a bathtub, he is impaled in the eye with a pipe drill and then has his internal organs pulled out by Lumpy.
  • In "Easy Comb, Easy Go", he shoves his head in hair growth formula, causing hair to grow in his eyes, forcing him to pull a strand of hair out of one of his eyes and then shave his eyes off.
  • In "Put Your Back Into It", his back injury makes one of his eyes pop.
• Fan Disservice: Anytime Disco Bear is seen shirtless. "Sea What I Found" shows how much it affects the other Tree Friends as well, as Pop has a shocked and disgusted look on his face when he sees Disco Bear walking along the pier in a speedo.
• Fat Bastard: When he temporarily gained a fat belly in "Ipso Fatso". He goes back to being a skinny jerk after the episode ends.
• Fat Comic Relief: In "Ipso Fatso", where he is shown with a Balloon Belly due to eating a lot.
• Fat Idiot: Disco Bear might be a hefty Tree Friend, as proven by "Ipso Fatso" and his Smoochie, but several episodes prove that he isn't that smart. A few episodes had Disco Bear mistake a character's flailing in pain as them dancing.
• Flat Character: Before the TV series, he didn't have much personality.
• Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: He wears a yellow disco suit and shoes, and he's one of the only two characters who are fully dressed most of the time, the other being Russell.
• Gag Haircut: In "Easy Comb, Easy Go", his afro gets cut off by the Mole, leaving only his sideburns. It's even made funnier when he tries to flirt with Giggles and Petunia after they fawn over Mime's new purple afro wig, only for them to laugh and point at Disco Bear for his lack of an afro, leading him to sulk away dejectedly.
• Hate Sink: He's Out of Focus for a reason. He is so egotistic and pushy that not even the creators liked him. At least, not until the TV series which gave him some actual personality.
• Hidden Depths: Disco Bear had his own album in the 70s, meaning he was a celebrity during his prime. His "Collect Them All" card also states that he was a Frisbee champion back in 1972.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: "Easy Comb, Easy Go" suggests he might not be as egotistic as he acts.
• Informed Flaw: He's frequently described as being overweight. Barring his Balloon Belly in "Ipso Fatso", Disco Bear doesn't really look any heavier than, say, Cuddles or Toothy.
• Informed Species: If not for his name, you'd assume him to be a lion due to his hair and color scheme.
• Jerkass: Has a massive ego and he has a tendency of shoving others. He was at his worst in "Easy Comb, Easy Go".
• Large Ham: Disco Bear enjoys chewing the scenery he's in.
• Laser-Guided Karma: At the end of "Ski Ya, Wouldn't Wanna Be Ya!". During the beginning he belittles Flaky for her fears of skiing and inadvertently starts the torment she goes through throughout the episode by pushing her onto the ski lift. Right at the end, the board with the nail in which Flaky used to get down the mountain, stabs Disco Bear in the head, killing him.
• Leitmotif: A disco beat always accompanies him.
• Man on Fire: Catches on fire in "Who's to Flame?", but is so busy trying to control the fire truck's hose that he lets the fire hurt him.
• Narcissist: Admiring his good looks, to the point where his self-esteem drops at the sight of imperfections.
• Out of Focus: He is one of the rarest characters in the whole show. In fact, he was the only main character to appear once in Season 1, only had minor appearances in Season 3, and completely disappeared in the Still Alive episodes. That being said, the creators' particular abhorrence of Disco Bear might explain his infrequency.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: For a character with a deep voice, he screams in a high-pitched voice when he's in pain.
• Slashed Throat: Courtesy of Fliqpy in "Double Whammy".
• Trademark Favorite Food: Anything deep fried.

Russell the Pirate

"Row, row, row your boat down a running river!"

Debut: Whose Line is it Anyway?

Voiced by: Jeff Biancalana (2000-2003), Francis Carr (2006-present)

Russell's current design

Russell's original design (with five o'clock shadow)

An aquamarine sea otter with a pirate motif, complete with a Jolly Roger hat, an eyepatch, a hook hand, and peg legs. He also wears a ripped red striped shirt and black pants. His accessories actually cover his missing eye, hand, and legs. Russell's vocabulary, including his screams, usually consists of "Yar" and other variations. If an episode's events become too much for him, he usually snaps and starts laughing maniacally.

Russell was originally one of the more asocial characters, usually seen near the sea on his own or with Lumpy. As years passed, he became more sociable. He enjoys nautical activities, such as fishing, sailing, or hunting for treasure, and he even lives in a house boat (perched in a tree). His Season 1 design had him with five o'clock shadow, but this has been retired since Season 2 onward.

Due to being, well... a pirate, he most notoriously appears in YouTube's video on copyright that its users are forced to watch if they get a strike on their channel.

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• Aerith and Bob: Along with Petunia, Russell is one of only two characters with an actual human name.^note Indeed, it rhymes with mussels, his Trademark Favorite Food, but that's a Stealth Pun than anything else.
• Agonizing Stomach Wound: In "Idol Curiosity", he is hit in the stomach by an anchor, which causes his intestines to be pulled out of his body and tied to the anchor. This injury also leads to his death when the ship sinks, taking the anchor down with it and pulling Russell into the water, drowning him.
• Animals Hate Him: Frequently attacked and killed by sea creatures.
• A Pirate 400 Years Too Late: The only pirate in this relatively modern universe.
• Ax-Crazy: After accidentally killing Lumpy in "Get Whale Soon", where he starts to viciously attack the insides of the whale in a poor attempt of revenge.
• Blue Is Heroic: Turquoise fur and one of the more heroic protagonists.
• Butt-Monkey: Often falls under this banner, mainly because of his ocean-related deaths. He has also never survived a role before the TV series. He fares a little better in subsequent episodes, where he survives one of his three starring roles in the TV series.
• Cartoony Tail: Real sea otters have flat tails, but his looks more like that of a beaver.
• Characterization Marches On: Russell was much less social with other Tree Friends and acted like a true pirate, as his episodes were strictly nautical-related and always took place near the ocean. In later seasons, he becomes a Friendly Pirate who develops a romantic interest in Giggles and doesn't have as much of a pirate-esque demeanor.
• Digital Piracy Is Evil: In "Youtube Copyright School", he learns about the law of copyright on Youtube.
• The Ditz: He's not the sharpest knife in the drawer. In "Whose Line is it, Anyway?" he accidentally eats a live puffer fish that suffocates his throat — but rather than to get help, he still tries to continue fishing. In "All Bottled Up" rather than calling the ambulance after getting impaled in the chest by a bottle, he opted to drive himself to the hospital despite being in no condition to drive. In "Put Your Back Into It" he accidentally rips off Disco Bear's head with a rod, thinking that he's a fish, cooks it, and serves it to Giggles.
• Dressed to Plunder: He's dressed like a stereotypical pirate, with a bicorner hat complete with skull and crossbones, a hook, two peg legs, an eyepatch, and a striped sailor's shirt. He also has a stubble in his first two appearances, before getting his design changed. "Sea What I Found" also shows that he owns a parrot (or at least an alarm clock shaped like one).
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Russell had a solid gray five o'clock shadow in Season 1.
• Eyepatch of Power: He wears an eyepatch and is one of the more heroic protagonists.
• Fanboy: In "Youtube Copyright School", he's a huge fanboy of Lumpy and the Lumpettes.
• Flat Character: Besides from being a typical pirate, Russell doesn't have much character aside from his insanity complex that's only briefly touched in "Get Whale Soon" and "Snow Place to Go".
• Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: He wears a red-striped shirt, black pants with peg-legs, a Jolly Roger Hat, and a Hook Hand. He's also one of the only two characters who are fully dressed most of the time, the other being Disco Bear.
• Furry Ear Dissonance: He lacks visible ears under his hat, while real otters have small ears.
• Hook Hand: Standard pirate equipment.
• Grievous Bottley Harm: Apart from the first four seconds, he spends all of the episode "Bottled Up Inside" with his bottle ship pierced through his stomach and chest.
• Informed Species: He looks more like a beaver than otter. Somewhat justified, as Russell is a sea otter, which does have a flat tail.
• Jolly Roger: He wears a black hat with a skull-and-crossbones symbol as part of his stereotypical pirate garb.
• Misplaced Wildlife: Being a marine animal among mostly forest-dwellers. Granted, he does spend a lot of his time near the sea and water.
• Never Bareheaded: He's only been seen without his Jolly Roger pirate hat once in "Something Fishy", where it's shown that he lacks visible ears, but he has a single strand of curly hair on the top of his head.
• Odd Friendship: With Lumpy in earlier seasons, as they were often paired together such as in: "Get Whale Soon", "Sea What I Found", and was a member in Lumpy's band at "In a Jam". It's also worth noting that Lumpy's death is what causes Russell to enter his "crazy state", likely out of sorrow, guilt, and remorse, since his death was Russell's fault in "Get Whale Soon".
• One-Word Vocabulary: While the other characters' speech is too garbled to be understood, it's at least somewhat varied. Russell, on the other hand, pretty much only says "Yar".
• Out of Focus: In the show's early days, he was one of the cast's rarest characters. He appeared in only five episodes in the first two seasons, having a minor role in two of them, making him as relevant as Flippy, Splendid, and Cro-Marmot. His starring roles were rather repetitive as they involved the sea in some capacity. The TV series fixed this issue by having him be more sociable and appear far more often. Indeed, Russell appears in 16 of the TV season's 39 episodes.
• Perma-Stubble: He had a five o'clock shadow back in Season 1 during the episodes "Whose Line is it, Anyway?" and "Off the Hook", but it's been retired starting from his appearance in the Season 2 episode "Get Whale Soon".
• Piranha Problem: In "Something Fishy" when he brings his pet piranha to school and the ending of the "Youtube Copyright School" episode.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: He likes sailing, fishing, and treasure and has a pirate hat, a peg leg, and an eyepatch. However, he never really commits acts of piracy or otherwise does anything particularly illegal or immoral, being more of a sailor than a pirate, and there are many episodes where he's not even shown on a ship. The closest he ever gets is committing copyright infringement in "Youtube Copyright School" and hunting for sunken treasure with Lumpy in "Sea What I Found".
• Playful Otter: He's a sea otter who does join in on fun activities every now and then, such as going trick or treating in "Remains To Be Seen" and playing baseball in "Can't Stop Coffin".
• Sanity Slippage: Trying to escape a whale's belly, Russell becomes insane after several failed attempts in "Get Whale Soon". He also becomes hysterical while being chased by an orca in "Snow Place To Go".
• Seadog Peg Leg: Russell has all the features of a typical pirate, including not one, but two peg legs.
• Semiaquatic Species Sailor: Russell the sea otter is a pirate.
• Solid Cartoon Facial Stubble: Russell, befitting his pirate motif, used to have a swath of gray around his mouth, but it was removed later on in the series.
• Talk Like a Pirate: "Yar!"
• Throw the Dog a Bone: In the first two seasons, Russell had the absolute lowest survival rate in the entire cast. Even Lifty and Shifty, who also died in all their appearances, at least had a debatable death. Russell's deaths in those seasons were all visible to a degree. The TV series had him survive a decent chunk of his appearances, and the subsequent Internet seasons gave him a decent death-survival ratio. Nowadays, Russell has one of the highest survival rates among the characters that "rarely survive" their appearances, only beaten by Mime and Giggles.
• Trademark Favorite Food: His favorite food is clams, as shown in his season 1 character intro and his debut episode.
• Verbal Tic: "Yar!"

Lifty and Shifty

"No need to be thrifty, just take what's nifty and be back in fifty!"

Debut: Wheelin' and Dealin'

Both voiced by: Mark Giambruno (2000-2005), Kenn Navarro (2006-present)

Left: Lifty, Right: Shifty

A pair of twin green raccoon brothers. Shifty is the one with the fedora. As some of the most antagonistic characters, most of their roles consist of them tormenting other characters, typically by stealing their property. Their schemes usually horrifically backfire on them, earning them the lowest survival rates in the series.

While Lifty is the more mechanical one and takes care of technical aspects, Shifty is the general planner and more callous one. He has left Lifty for dead on several occasions, even killing him at times.

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• Anti-Villain: In some episodes, Lifty and Shifty would steal items out of genuine necessity. Furthermore, instances where their home is explicitly shown, it appears to be poverty-stricken.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: While it's unclear which twin was born first, Shifty seems to view Lifty as this. Best exempified in Doggone It where Lifty is seen trying to steal money from Shifty while he was driving.
• Ascended Extra: In the pair's first few episodes, they would show up very sporadically and hardly had any appearances at all. However, by the TV Series, Lifty and Shifty started to appear more and muster their way into having the third-highest number of starring roles. At this point, you can call them the closest to villains for Happy Tree Friends, barring Fliqpy of course.
• Black Dot Pupils: They're notable for being the only characters besides Lumpy and the Ant Family to sport these (though they had the standard Pie-Eyed pupils during the first two seasons).
• Big Bad Wannabe: They attempt to play as the villains, but many other characters (such as Splendid, Lumpy, or Fliqpy) prove themselves as bigger threats. "Gems The Breaks", "Easy For You to Sleigh", and "Dunce Upon A Time" are especially where the trope lingers; the episode portrays them as villains at first, only for the main character to cause far more damage than and even kill the raccoon duo.
• Bullying a Dragon: No matter who's the victim, Lifty and Shifty are determined to steal their valuable loot, which includes Lumpy, Splendid, and Fliqpy. As most would guess, these scenarios always send the raccoon thieves to their doom.
• Cain and Abel: If an opportunity would present itself, Shifty would be the first in leaving Lifty to die. It never ends well for him.
• Can't Get Away with Nuthin': They have died in every episode of the internet series so far, but managed to do otherwise in some of the TV episodes^note Most notably "Concrete Solution", where they accidentally run over Lumpy and steal his wallet, and leave him to die as they drive off.
• Cheshire Cat Grin: Often seen with this. One of their trademark features, along with their laughs.
• Death by Materialism: A common cause of death or injury for them. See the "Sea What I Found" example below for an example.
• Demoted to Extra: Unfortunately, the instant Happy Tree Friends shifted back to its internet roots, Lifty and Shifty reverted back into their sporadic infrequency. If truth be told, they have gotten this treatment even worse than before. No really, they now give Flippy and even Splendid a run for their money.
• Dirty Coward: Shifty. He'll gladly leave his brother to die or even kill him directly if the alternative endangers his own life or their loot.
• Diurnal Nocturnal Animal: While actual raccoons are mostly nocturnal, these two can be active during both day and night.
• The Dividual: Being identical twins and having the same voice and personalities, there's really not much separating the two.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: They initially had Pie-Eyed pupils like the rest of the characters in the first two seasons, and for a bit of the TV series. Of course, some frames gave them the more distinct rounded pupils that they would end up getting as a regular attribute.
• Evil Laugh: They're well-known for their laughs, which crosses into Giggling Villain territory. There's even a compilation of them (as of July 23rd, 2011).
• Evil Genius: To a certain degree of "genius", Lifty seems to be this for the duo, as he is the one seen working on their van and handling equipment.
• Five-Finger Discount: Though they have Four-Fingered Hands, they're pretty skilled at swiping stuff from the other Tree Friends.
• Furry Reminder:
  • In As You Wish, they are seen rummaging through the garbage like real raccoons do.
  • Raccons are also known for being sneaky and opportunistic, traits which Lifty and Shifty are famous for.
• Green and Mean: They have green fur and are crooks.
• Giggling Villain: They like to do Evil Laughs a lot.
• Harmless Villain: Subverted. While they tend to be incompetent as thieves and most Tree Friends (barring Fliqpy) rarely kill another intentionally, these two do not have any qualms about harming others or each other to reach their ulterior goal. This includes straight-up murder.
• The Hyena: They are constantly laughing evilly, sometimes for no reason.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: They are sometimes seen helping others, and other times committing crimes.
• Identical Twin ID Tag: Shifty always wears a hat.
• Informed Attribute: According to the "Collect Them All" section (From the "First Blood" DVD), Shifty has a gambling problem.
• Jerkass: They swindle, steal, and pillage from the other characters on a regular basis, even if it sends their victims to their deaths.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: They have been seen in a few episodes doing nice things to others, such as offering an inflatable raft for the stranded Tree Friends to ride with them in "Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark."
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Along with being a callous thief, a couple of times Shifty seems like he's going to show some care towards his own brother. However, he soon reveals that isn't the case.
  • When Lifty gets pinned under several beams in "Sea What I Found", Shifty originally seems like he's going to pull him out. Instead, he happily grabs the treasure he gathered and abandons him to save his own skin.
  • Shifty seems horrified in "Swelter Skelter" when he accidentally causes Lifty's death... only to sigh in relief because he is still alive. Also, his reaction implies he looked upset only because he thought he was in danger.
• Justified Criminal: In some episodes, they are shown to live in poverty, making their thefts come off less "evil" and more "desperate".
• Karma Houdini: While their survival rate is very low, there's a handful of times where they manage to steal something and get off scot-free, most notably in "Concrete Solution", where they steal Lumpy's wallet after accidentally running him over and end up being among the few survivors of the episode.
• Karmic Butt-Monkey: They're callous, opportunistic criminals who suffer from the lowest survival rates in the show and almost always painfully die in whatever episode they appear in. Shifty (who also has the lowest survival rate out of all characters) in particular sometimes happily betrays his brother to save his own skin, and almost immediately dies a brutal death.
• Karmic Death: Most of their deaths are a result of their thievery. Shifty also tends to suffer worse fates between the two for attempting to kill his brother more often than not.
  • In "Don't Yank My Chain", they steal a car at a gas station. At the end of the episode, they get run over by a train when the car runs out of fuel right on the track. As a bonus, the original owner(s?) of the car are being dragged along the train when this happens.
  • In "Sea What I Found", Shifty chooses to save the jewelry Lifty is carrying rather than Lifty himself when the latter gets pinned under an iron bar. The underwater volcano they're over soon proceeds to melt the gold, which covers Shifty. Lifty in turn survives relatively unharmed, only to drown when he tries to grab his now golden brother (presumably to sell).
• Laughably Evil: Like the others, their deaths are mostly played for laughs. What makes these two even more hilarious is that they have it coming in many cases. Sometimes, you just have to root for the two.
• Lovable Rogue: Downplayed a bit on the "Lovable" part, but sometimes, you just gotta root for them for mischief.
• Meaningful Name: "Shifty" refers to a deceitful or evasive person, which of course is fitting for a thief who sometimes leaves his brother behind for his own selfish needs.
• Never Bareheaded: Shifty has almost never been depicted without his fedora, save for a few instances in some episodes, such as "Who's to Flame?" and "Junk in the Trunk".
• Perpetual Smiler: They're almost always seen wearing mischievous grins on their faces.
• Pet the Dog:
  • In "Happy Trails Part 2: Jumping the Shark", when they try to save everyone by using an inflatable raft to bring everyone back to civilization. Too bad that didn't work quite as they planned.
  • In "Class Act", as a Funny Background Event, Shifty can be seen trying to pull a badly injured Lifty away for help. Considering what Shifty usually does to Lifty, this really shows that they really do care about each other (at least Depending on the Writer).
  • The two help Disco Bear with his balding problem in "Easy Comb, Easy Go". Probably the first instance where the two rascally raccoons make money honestly.
  • After accidentally hitting Lumpy with their van in "Concrete Solution", they're horrified and try to save his life. Granted, they eventually do steal his wallet.
  • In "Buns of Steal", Shifty saves Lifty (who got his foot accidentally nailed to their van) from falling off by nailing his other foot to The Mole's van. It doesn't save him from getting gutted by a fence and being pulled apart though. However, Shifty is shown to be apathetic towards his death.
• Rascally Raccoon: They are the de facto villains of the series.
• Siblings in Crime: They are kleptomania brothers and work together.
• Sibling Rivalry: They're sometimes seen fighting over who gets to rightfully keep things they have stolen.
• Skewed Priorities: They often prioritize stealing over surviving. In "Sea What I Found", for example, Lifty is about to reach the surface of the ocean when he notices that Shifty is made of gold, then goes back down to get him, resulting in Lifty drowning.
• The Sociopath: Sometimes. They often show No Sympathy when characters die (even themselves), a prime example being in "Who's to Flame?", where they take advantage of the city wide inferno to loot corpses. But other times they do feel sympathy and even try to save them, like in "Claw", where they try to save Cuddles from the eponymous claw machine.
• Stupid Evil: They seem to basically steal because they just like stealing, often stealing things they couldn't possibly take or things that have no value (for instance, doing a Weight and Switch, and then trying to steal back the bag of sand and triggering the trap anyway).
• Team Rocket Wins: While their schemes usually result in them dying painfully, they get away scot-free with stealing meat in "Ipso Fatso" and taking Lumpy's wallet in "Concrete Solution". They also succeed in selling many bottles of hair growth to Disco Bear in "Easy Comb, Easy Go".
• Throw the Dog a Bone: After dying in every appearance they had in the internet shorts, the television series sees them surviving a few episodes.
• Together in Death: Though their deaths may be spaced out, if one of the siblings die in an episode, the other one falls not too far behind. The only episode (or rather, Break) that averts this is "Cheesy Does It", where Shifty has his face melted from insanely hot pizza as Lifty suffers from nothing.
• Token Evil Teammate: They occasionally join other characters and sometimes even help out ("Jumping the Shark" and "Claw"). But most of the time, they'd rather steal and are at odds with the rest of the cast.
• Too Dumb to Live: Their thievery usually goes against common sense, and usually gets themselves killed.
• Trademark Favorite Food: A Running Gag in the series is them stealing various meats or cows.
• Ungrateful Bastard: They show zero gratitude towards Cuddles in "Junk in the Trunk" for helping them lift an elephant.
• The Unintelligible: While other characters can be understood if one listens to them closely enough, Lifty and Shifty usually only speak in complete gibberish. There HAVE been a few times where they can be understood.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Shifty tends to either kill or leave Lifty behind in order to escape with their loot.
• Villain Protagonist: They are the closest thing to villains besides Fliqpy and Mr. Pickels, and they are the main characters of most of the episodes featuring them, even getting the third highest amount of starring roles in the TV series behind Lumpy and Sniffles.

Mime

"If actions speak louder than words, then this silent deer never stops talking. His annoying actions will leave you speechless."

Debut: Mime and Mime Again

Voiced by: Sarah Castelblanco

A violet deer with white and pink face makeup and a striped shirt. He is dedicated to his mime persona, and never talks as a result, even when in dire pain. Some episodes have shown that he is capable of speech, but chooses to remain silent, which can get him and other Tree Friends in trouble.

Mime is interested in performance arts beyond miming, and is able to juggle, make balloon animals, and ride unicycles. It is also implied that his mimed objects are real, and his otherwise empty house tent actually has invisible furniture. Mime's deaths are notable for mostly being instantaneous, with only a few of his demises actually being painful.

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• Arrows on Fire: He gets killed by one in "Double Whammy".
• Blush Sticker: As part of his mime getup.
• Butt-Monkey: Has only ever survived in one internet episode, that being: "Mime and Mime Again", his debut episode. He fares a little better in the TV series, where he is one of only three characters to survive in all of their starring roles.
• The Casanova: Mime seems to attract both of the show's prominent female characters. In "Easy Comb, Easy Go", Petunia and Giggles swoon over him, in "Who's To Flame?", they came together and have breakfast, and in "I Heart U", Mime and Petunia have a romantic interaction.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: In an unusual aversion, Mime's deaths are so consistently quick and/or realistic that this kind of death sticks out when he's one of the more prominent victims:
  • In "Party Animal", his hand is shredded by a blender and the rest of his body joins it when Fliqpy forces it through the active blender.
  • In "Wingin' It", he is sucked out of a plane, and the speed of the fall turns his head's skin into a parachute. When Mime lands, he is forced to tear the skin off his body, and is finally run over by the same plane when Flaky lands it.
  • In "Double Whammy", Fliqpy forces him to drink alcohol and shoots a fiery arrow into his chest, causing Mime's innards to incinerate and blow up from the inside out.
  • In "Random Acts of Silence", Fliqpy slices his eyeball with a piece of paper, then skins him with a machete while forcefully spinning him.
• Cute Mute: He never says anything.
• Demoted to Extra: After the TV series. His appearances in season 3 were only a handful and he only had one featuring role in Season 4 and one in Season 5 (the "Still Alive" episodes).
• Early-Installment Weirdness: In "Happy Trails Pt. 1", he dies for the first time by slowly and audibly choking on a peanut. This is a far cry from Mime’s other deaths, known for being quick and painless. Even during his few subsequent painful deaths, he doesn’t utter a sound despite being in far more pain.
• Elective Mute: In several episodes, he makes brief vocal sounds, such as snoring, gagging, or gurgling. He most likely chooses not to speak or scream out of showmanship. Deconstructed since this often leads to the deaths of those around him. One notable example is "Who's To Flame?", when he calls 911 and doesn't actually speak to Lumpy on the other end.
• Everyone Hates Mimes: His dedication to his mime persona, while endearing to most, is also considered irksome by others and often leads to the deaths of one or several Tree Friends due to the lack of mutual understanding. Funnily enough, Mime also shows himself to be noisy, since he is easily prone to disturbing other characters, with Flippy especially viewing him as an annoyance.
• Eye Scream: His infamous paper cut to the eye in "Random Acts of Silence".
• Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Wears no pants.
• His Name Really Is "Barkeep": His name is literally Mime, and he's a mime.
• Human Jack-O-Lantern: Well, more like deer Jack-O-Lantern, but this is what The Mole turns his head into after Lumpy accidentally beheads him in "Out of Sight, Out of Mime".
• Karma Houdini: All three starring roles that he survives have him get away with causing almost every death in the episode:
  • In "Mime and Mime Again", he irresponsibly gets Toothy's bandages stuck in a fan and causes the beaver's death when he is sucked into the fan and shredded to pieces. Mime simply drags himself away with an imaginary rope and gets away with killing Toothy.
  • In "Who's to Flame?", while not responsible for the fire, he did make the situation worse by not putting his mime pride aside and talking to Lumpy on the phone. This creates a chain reaction that leads to the town exploding, killing every remaining survivor in the episode except Mime himself, who managed to leave the town offscreen and not be caught in the explosion. Keep in mind that this episode featured 17 characters, so Mime unintentionally worsened an incident, leading to the deaths of almost every main character, and was rewarded with being the Sole Survivor.
  • In "Mime to Five", his stubborn dedication to his mime persona is responsible for all deaths in the episode. Discounting the Generic Tree Friends, he caused 11 deaths and he ends up being one of the few survivors alongside Cro-Marmot and Petunia.
• Nice Guy: A good-natured and friendly deer who often uses his talents to cheer others up.
• Non-Ironic Clown: He seems to be a cross between a mime and a clown. In addition to his mime act, he also makes balloon animals, juggles, rides a unicycle, etc. His debut episode alone shows him working as a hospital clown.
• Nonverbal Miscommunication: He does not speak, but there have been several instances where he tries to make a phone call... and mimes over the line.
• Official Couple: With Petunia at first, before she started dating Handy.
• Perpetual Poverty: Unlike the other Tree Friends, it's frequently shown that Mime does not make a lot for a living. He is shown to live in a tent while everyone else is consistently shown to be living in houses and has no furniture or belongings to speak of (though being a mime, he likes to act like he does have furniture). "Mime to Five" has this as a plot point where he tries out a series of jobs to earn money.
• Poor Communication Kills: Due to never speaking, nobody can understand him. This bad habit causes the incident in "Who's to Flame?" to escalate to disastrous proportions, and every death in "Mime to Five".
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Similar to Russell, Mime had one of the lowest survival rates in the show's early days, with only his debut episode being kind enough to not kill him off. The TV series cut Mime some slack. Not only did he survive over a third of the episodes he appeared in, he also survived his two starring roles. He goes back to having an abysmal death-survival ratio in modern internet seasons, but his track record in the TV series still blesses him with a decent survival rate for Happy Tree Friends standards. Only Giggles fares better among the characters that die more often than not.
• Trademark Favorite Food: He loves peanuts, for some reason. ^note Mime is a deer and deer enjoy snacking on nuts in real life, so it makes some amount of sense. He "cries" when Lumpy smacks his peanuts away in "Party Animal".
• Your Mime Makes It Real: It is sometimes shown that he can bring seemingly imaginary objects into actual reality, such as in the episodes "Easy For You to Sleigh" and "I Heart U". When Lifty and Shifty steal his "imaginary" safe while he's not home — he comes back and somehow notices that it's gone.

Cro-Marmot

"Literally, the first "inanimate character." This ancient mammal is frozen in ice, but manages to get around the block."

Debut: Tongue Twister Trouble (cameo), Snow What? That's What! (first starring role)

Voiced by: N/A

A yellowish green prehistoric marmot with brown hair that covers his eyes, a loincloth, and a club. He was frozen back in the prehistoric era, and is stuck in a block of ice as a result. Despite this predicament, he can move and perform tasks, usually offscreen like Handy.

Because he is essentially immobile and mute when he is onscreen, Cro-Marmot is rarely focused on. Most of his appearances consist of cameos. He also rarely dies, and even half of the few deaths he has are debatable. The only time he was seen outside of his ice block is the irregular episode “Dino-Sore Days”, which stars Cro-Marmot in the prehistoric era.

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• Behind the Black: Everything he does is never seen, because he is in an ice cube all the time.
• Carry a Big Stick: Always seen carrying a club nearly as big as he is. Though, unusually for this series, it's never killed anybody due to being frozen in ice along with Cro-Marmot himself.
• The Casanova: Sometimes female characters are shown fanboying over him.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Has been completely phased out of the show after the season three finale.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: His only on-screen death. In "Dino-Sore Days", he first gets his guts ripped out by a dinosaur, he then flees but comes to a cliff, which forces him to use his intestines as a rope to get across the other side. Only to be consumed by a pterodactyl, which chews him up and feeds his remains to its chicks.
• Cute Mute: He never says anything due to being inside of a cube, plus he's called "Sexy Mute" in "Intimate Spotlight".
• A Day in the Limelight: Has only two starring episodes — tied with Lammy and Mr. Pickels for the least amount (though, should the show continue, they'd definitely pass him eventually) — that being: "Snow What? That's What!" and "Wipe Out!". He's notably the only character not to get a starring role in Season 2.
• A Dog Named "Dog": Like The Mole and Disco Bear, he is named after his species.
• Eaten Alive: His death in "Dino-Sore Days".
• Early-Bird Cameo: Made two cameos in "Tongue Twister Trouble" and "Sweet Ride" before finally having his own episode, "Snow What? That's What!". This makes him the only Tree Friend to not debut in his first starring role.
• Eyes Out of Sight: His hair conceals his eyes.
• Flat Character: Seen as more of a Living Prop than a genuine character. He is one of the least popular characters in the series, particularly due to sharing his most notable traits (his muteness and ability to perform impossible tasks offscreen) with The Mole, Handy, and Mime, who are far more flexible characters.
• Human Popsicle: Or Marmot Popsicle. He is stuck with a perpetual smile and never talks.
• Informed Ability: As revealed in "Intimate Spotlight", he's an accomplished writer, painter, and pianist. Also, he has his own brand of foot powder, held a tour on Broadway, is known for his loud antics and energetic performances, and had been titled "Sexiest Happy Tree Friend" in 1992.
• Informed Attractiveness: In "Intimate Spotlight", he's referred to as the sexiest Happy Tree Friend, even though he looks rather plain compared to the other Tree Friends.
• Informed Species: Like The Mole and Giggles, Cro-Marmot looks more like a bear than the animal he is actually supposed to be. In his "Dino-Sore Days" appearance, he looks more like a dog.
• Living Prop: Cro-Marmot has barely any episodes focused on him and does not do anything onscreen. He also shows no range of emotion either.
• Made of Iron: He rarely dies because of him always shielded by his ice cube.
• Out of Focus: The least focused-on character in the show. He technically shows up almost as often as the likes of Lifty and Shifty, Disco Bear, and Russell, but he is a background character in most of his appearances. Compared to Flippy and Splendid, the other "rare characters" who play a major role in almost every episode in which they appear, Cro-Marmot is definitely underused.
• Perpetual Smiler: Has a smile always stuck on his face. Justified, because he can't change expression in his ice cube.
• The Speechless: Has literally no vocal sounds. Justified as he is always inside of a ice cube.
• The Stoic: Cro-Marmot does not show any expression whatsoever due to being stuck in an ice cube.

Flippy/Fliqpy

"Fire fried food is a feast for a famished soldier."

Debut: Hide and Seek

Flippy is voiced by: Aubrey Ankrum (2000-2006), Kenn Navarro (2006-present)

Fliqpy is voiced by: Aubrey Ankrum (2000-present)

Flippy

Fliqpy

A light green bear and veteran soldier. Despite being retired, he is never seen without his military jacket, dog tags and beret. Flippy is usually one of the sweetest characters, but seeing or hearing anything that remotely resembles war triggers his PTSD, turning him into Fliqpy.

As Fliqpy, he gains visibly green irises, his teeth turn into fangs, and his personality becomes sadistic and murderous. Fliqpy is under the delusion of still being in the war, and views his fellow Tree Friends as enemy soldiers. He subjects anyone he comes across to a messy and gruesome fate.

Flippy rarely appears due to the repetitive nature of the episodes he is featured in. Because he is trained in combat and usually kills everyone around him, his deaths are also infrequent. He stars in Ka-pow! alongside Splendid and Buddhist Monkey.

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• Advertised Extra: Look at some of the promotional material. Flippy is almost always featured in the promos. Take this one for example. It makes out Fliqpy as if he was the main character. Hell, Flippy makes appearances in merchandise almost often as Cuddles. In the actual show, he rarely appears. Compared to Splendid, you can at least count Flippy's appearances more than on one hand, but try comparing the episode count of Mime to Flippy's and say that the latter appears just as often.
• Alternate Identity Amnesia: Flippy can't remember Fliqpy's actions and doesn't seem to be even aware of his existence until "Double Whammy".
• Anti-Hero: A Nominal Hero in "Operation: Tiger Bomb".
• Anti-Villain: Type II.
• Arrows on Fire: Fliqpy kills Mime with one in "Double Whammy".
• Art Evolution: The show took a while to settle on his appearance while flipped out. In his very first episode he actually looked just like normal Flippy. After that he was drawn with green eyes and crooked teeth for a while, until the latter were finally replaced by fangs.
• Ax-Crazy: His flipped-out state is a mass murderer who takes pleasure out of killing others.
• Badass Adorable: Flippy can still put up a pretty tough fight even when he isn't flipped, as we see in "Double Whammy".
• Bears Are Bad News: Flippy actually plays with this trope, being one of the nicest characters in his normal state. However, when he does flip out, he becomes an Ax-Crazy serial killer.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: His kills also extend to non-anthropomorphic characters. In fact, his first on-screen kill was a Woodpecker.
• Beary Friendly: His good side plays this straight as an arrow, being gentle, helpful, and caring.
• Berserk Button: Anything that reminds Flippy of war can turn him into Fliqpy.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Flippy is one of the sweetest characters on the show, just as long as he doesn't turn into Fliqpy... He also kills Flaky in "Happy Trails Part 2" after she accidentally pops the raft with her quills. It's noticeably the first time he has intentionally killed someone when not in Fliqpy mode.
• Big Bad: Aside from (the less formidabel) Lifty & Shifty and occationally Lumpy, Fliqpy is the only firmly evil character in the series and has the highest intentional body count. He is also the one who has taken the role as a villainous antagonist most times.
• Blood Knight: It's apparent that as Fliqpy, he really enjoys his kills.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: Fliqpy is a scary, violent, murderous bear, but is a big softie in his "Flippy" persona.
• Carnivore Confusion: Flippy has eaten Mime's remains, and has drunk Cuddles's and Shifty's blood. This seems akin to cannibalism until you realize that Flippy is a bear, and the other three are a deer, a rabbit, and a raccoon respectively; suddenly, the issue becomes that much more complicated.
• Characterization Marches On:
  • In Fliqpy's first 4 appearences, most notably "Hide And Seek", he seemed less like a psychopathic killer and more like a delusional soldier. He rarely smiled let alone laughed and would use quicker methods of killing. Ever since "Remains To Be Seen", we got the sharp toothed laughing psychopath we all know and love.
  • Before the TV series, episodes starring Flippy didn't firmly establish his Fliqpy persona as a separate consciousness. A few episodes imply that he was a simple Insane Equals Violent nutcase and didn't make any proper indication that Fliqpy was his own character. Most evidently, his facial features do not change at all once he flipped out in his debut, he murdered Flaky in his "Good Flippy" persona out of malice in "Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping The Shark", and the episodes where his PTSD was triggered did not explicitly show his flashbacks. Later episodes show that Flippy and Fliqpy are separate minds at constant odds, his traumatic flashbacks are directly shown, and he demonstrates genuine remorse in several instances.
• Conservation of Ninjutsu: In "Double Whammy", an army of Fliqpys and an army of Flippys are much less resistant than the originals.
• Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: He gets a noticeable eyeshadow whenever he goes into Fliqpy mode.
• Curtains Match the Window: While he normally has black Pac-Man-like eyes like the rest of the tree folk, he gains green eyes when he flips out, which is a darker shade than his light green fur.
• Cute and Psycho: Flippy is a cute and kind bear, but his Fliqpy self is completely insane.
• Dark and Troubled Past: We aren't given too many specifics about his actual time in the W.A.R. until "Operation: Tiger Bomb" where it was revealed that the first time he flips out was after killing his teammates by accident and having to hide in one of their corpses to survive.
• Death Glare: Fliqpy's main face in his first 4 episodes until it was replaced with his sharp toothed Slasher Smile as early as "Remains To Be Seen".
• The Determinator: Fliqpy seems to try to kill Lumpy more obsessively than he does with the other characters, and goes to great lengths to do, the biggest examples being: "Remains to be Seen", "Hear Today Gone Tomorrow", and "By The Seat Of Your Pants", and in all of those episodes, he dies while Lumpy manages to survive.
• Demonic Possession: Fliqpy possesses Cub's bike in "A Vicious Cycle" after being struck by lightning holding it.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: As pointed out in Art Evolution, Fliqpy originally had the usual pie eyes and buckteeth, then green eyes and crooked teeth, and finally green eyes and fangs.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: When Flippy first appeared in "Hide and Seek", his kills as Fliqpy were more tactical and warlike. Starting with "This Is Your Knife", he'd be more openly brutal and creative with his murders.
• Even Evil Has Standards: In "Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow", Fliqpy tries to kill a deaf Lumpy with a helicopter. But once it reminds him of a dream he just had where he did the same to Flippy riding a unicorn/alicorn, he cries (while still being Fliqpy) and turns back into his good self.
  • Also, though a vicious murderer with a sadistic taste in blood, Fliqpy seems to consistently avoid murdering small children and disabled people, as he rarely aims to kill Cub, Handy, or The Mole in particular. The worst thing that he did to Handy was cut off his legs in "By the Seat of Your Pants", rendering him immobile.
• Evil Laugh: Fliqpy has a normally deep one, though he uses a more raspy variant in "Party Animal".
• Evil Sounds Deep: Fliqpy's voice is much deeper than Flippy's.
• Expy: Of Rambo. In his first appearance, his kills mirror that of Rambo.
• Eye Scream: Flaky stabs him in the eye in "Without a Hitch", suffering from her own Sanity Slippage due to remembering her various deaths at his hands (keep in mind that he never flips out in the episode whatsoever). This leads to him getting hit by a truck.
• Fangs Are Evil: One of Fliqpy's main distinguishing features are that his mouth is full of fangs.
• For the Evulz: Fliqpy violently slaughters his victims just for his amusement. That, and the fact that he simply views everyone around him as enemy soldiers in a war.
• Freudian Excuse: The sole reason why Fliqpy is so fixated on killing his fellow Tree Friends is because of a very stressful incident during the war that gave him severe PTSD.
• Green and Mean: He has green fur, but he'll only be mean if he turns into Fliqpy.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Anything that reminds Flippy of war will trigger his evil side.
• Heavy Sleeper: As seen in "Easy For You to Sleigh" and "Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow". In the former, Lifty and Shifty drop a vase on the floor, accidentally turn on the TV, tie him up, and drive a forklift around his house, and he doesn't even stir until they try to steal his cookies and drop a crumb on the floor.
• Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Wears no pants.
• Helicopter Blender: In "Hear Today Gone Tomorrow", he, along with Cuddles, is accidentally shredded by his helicopter.
• Improvised Weapon: Fliqpy has a knack for transforming nearby objects into lethal weapons, such as a movie projector, a propeller blade, a rose, a straw, and even a Christmas cookie.
• Jekyll & Hyde: Flippy and Fliqpy are complete polar opposites of each other, yet Flippy is the only character who can hold his own in a fight with Fliqpy.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Zigzagged. As Fliqpy, he's an insane and sociopathic killer, but as Flippy, he's a social, friendly, and polite bear. Also, though he has the highest intentional slaughter count, Fliqpy has allowed some of the disabled characters, Cub, and Flaky to live in some of his homicidal sprees.
• Karma Houdini: While Flippy often dies, the same can't be said for Fliqpy.
• Karmic Death: In "Remains to be Seen", Fliqpy first gets killed when he rams his truck to a tree, killing himself and everyone near him. Then he becomes a zombie and dies again when he gets his brain stuck to a leaf blower, causing it to inflate, which attracts the attention of his zombified victims, leading to a zombified Toothy biting his brain, causing it to explode.
• The Millstone: In "Operation: Tiger Bomb", he's singlehandedly responsible for the deaths of his teammates and the mission going to hell in a handbasket... until he flips out for what is implied to be the first time and cleans house.
• Mirror Match: Gets into an out-and-out deathmatch against his Fliqpy personality in "Double Whammy". In spite of everything, Flippy manages to triumph over Fliqpy... only to suddenly get hit by a passing vehicle the minute he steps into broad daylight.
• Mood-Swinger: While this is not his disorder, and merely triggered by his PTSD attacks, he can go from heartwarmingly friendly one minute to a cold-blooded killer the next.
• Nice Guy: As Flippy, he's good-natured and friendly.
• Obliviously Evil: Flippy never knew that he was killing other Tree Friends until "Double Whammy". Even then, Fliqpy doesn't even realize that he's killing innocent people, as he simply views them as enemy soldiers in a war.
• Officer and a Gentleman: Flippy is polite, always happy to help his friends, and enjoys tea parties if his dreams are to be believed, and while he's not serving in the army anymore, he still wears the uniform and has retained the skills.
• Pet the Dog:
  • In "Party Animal", he doesn't kill Flaky despite killing everyone else around him (although this is possibly due to her having an allergy), and probably doesn't kill her in "Random Acts of Silence" either.
  • One of the most famous examples is in "Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow". In the episode, Fliqpy tries to shred Lumpy with his helicopter, but then, he imagines a familiar scene of doing it to his good self riding a unicorn/alicorn while he was dreaming, and cries before flipping back and deciding to save Lumpy.
• Perpetual Smiler: Fliqpy is always seen with a Slasher Smile on his face.
• Plot Allergy: Peanuts, in the episode "Party Animal".
• Psycho Knife Nut: Fliqpy is a gleeful mass murderer with a bowie knife as his iconic killing tool; not that he needs it.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Besides collecting weapons in his bunker-house, he likes flowers, tea parties, pink penguins, and unicorns/alicorns. According to the "Collect Them All" section (From the "First Blood" DVD), Flippy also knits sweaters.
• Recurring Riff: Typically, when Flippy is triggered enough to start killing, his transformation is triggered by a quite literal Recurring Riff: a low, descending guitar tone and background sounds of warfare.
• The Rival: Fliqpy seems to be one to Lumpy. As the former seems to hunt him down more obsessively while the latter is responsible for a big portion of his Karmic Deaths. Their "rivalry" comes to head in several episodes. Though this might veer towards more as an Unknown Rival, as Lumpy always attacks out of self-defense.
  • In the episodes: "Keepin' it Reel"^note In which Fliqpy (seemingly) snaps his neck, "A Vicious Cycle"^note Where his spirit is able to murder him, and "In Over Your Hedge"^note Where he rips his head off Fliqpy is able to kill him.
  • However, in the episodes: "Remains to be Seen"^note Where Lumpy is able to kill Zombie!Fliqpy by inflating his brain, "Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow"^note Where Fliqpy's plans to kill him keep backfiring on him — by the end, Fliqpy dies along with Cuddles, "Double Whammy"^note Where Lumpy manages to find a way to subdue his split personality, and most famously in "By the Seat of Your Pants"^note Where Lumpy intentionally disembowels Fliqpy when he is impaled on the flagpole, Lumpy reigns victorious over him (or is at least able to survive his encounter).
    • Despite this however, Lumpy's relationship with regular Flippy seems to be positive — except in "Jumping The Shark", where Flippy along with Sniffles and Handy throw him out of their desert-island escape-rocket when viewing him as The Load. Their rocket ends up crashing into the sun while Lumpy is none the wiser. Also in "Without a Hitch", where Lumpy accidentally runs over Flippy in the dark highway.
• Sadist: Considering his frequent evil laughs, his near-constant Slasher Smile, and how gratuitously torturous some of his kills are, all signs point towards Fliqpy enjoying the carnage and pain he causes everyone around him.
• Scary Librarian: In "Random Acts of Silence", he only lives up to the "scary" part of it when he flips out and murders Mime, Sniffles, and Nutty (and possibly Flaky off screen) with various library utensils.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: His post-traumatic stress disorder has manifested itself into both schizophrenia (having hallucinations of his evil self and of many versions of himself and his evil self going into battle) and Split Personality (he becomes an entirely different person when something reminds him of war and he doesn't remember the things he's done as his other self either).
• Ship Tease: Taking the show's standards into account, he has this with Flaky, particularly in "Party Animal" on both parts and "Without a Hitch" on Flippy's part. In his flipped-out state in "Party Animal", "Random Acts of Silence", and "Double Whammy", he doesn't kill her. In fact, her screaming snaps him out of his flipped-out state in "Double Whammy". Not that he hasn't ever killed her, though. He murders her in his debut, even.
• Slasher Smile: Fliqpy's mouth is almost always glued in this sort of evil grin.
• The Sociopath: Once he turns into Fliqpy, he is the only character of the main cast willing to kill people completely out of sadism.
• Sociopathic Soldier: Fliqpy uses the skills and physical prowess his soldier training gave him to murder nearly everyone he can get his hands on, and he enjoys every minute of it.
• Split Personality: He's a Nice Guy in Flippy mode, and an insane murderer in Fliqpy mode.
• Split-Personality Switch Trigger: He changes from the kind and friendly Flippy to the Ax-Crazy murderer Fliqpy whenever something reminds Flippy of the war he served in and triggers a PTSD attack. And unfortunately for everyone around him, a lot of things remind Flippy of the war he served in. There are also a few instances where Fliqpy flips back into Flippy, though this doesn't seem to have a consistent trigger, ranging from him getting startled by the sound of Flaky exploding in "Party Animal" to him seeing a butterfly in "By the Seat of Your Pants".
• Spree Killer: Fliqpy's modus operandi is brutally murdering whoever happens to be near him when he flips out, even himself!
• Super Mode: In later episodes, Flippy can trigger Fliqpy mode on the word go, as seen in "Random Acts of Silence".
• Super-Strength: Fliqpy stops the blades of a biplane with his bare hands in "Double Whammy".
• Taking You with Me: Fliqpy manages to pull this off in "Remains to be Seen", driving his truck straight into the Tree Friends, killing himself in the progress.
• A Taste of Defeat: While Fliqpy usually comes up on top whenever he flips out and goes on a mass murdering spree, there are a few instances where he actually loses.
  • In "Remains to be Seen", after Fliqpy has killed nearly the entire cast of characters and, as a zombie, has continued his rampage; Lumpy accidentally sticks a leaf blower into zombie Fliqpy's brain, which causes it to expand in size like a balloon, and with help from zombie Toothy, he explodes.
  • In "By the Seat of Your Pants" Fliqpy spends the near entirety of the episode chasing Lumpy in order to kill him. By the end of the episode Fliqpy is accidentally impaled by the top of a flagpole and has still managed to survive, what does Lumpy do? He purposefully lowers the flag causing Fliqpy's body to be dragged along with it, effectively disembowling him.
• Trauma Button: Has many relating to war that will cause his flip-outs; some examples being popping sounds, fire, sharp objects, and gunshot-like noises.
• Villain Protagonist: Though not intentionally, once Flippy flips out, he kills other characters without remorse or mercy.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: PTSD is a devastating mental illness, and it's very easy to feel sorry for Flippy, even though he has the second-highest kill count in the series.
• Would Hit a Girl: Would kill one, in fact. He's killed all of them except Lammy, who he has never interacted with currently.
• Would Hurt a Child: Aside from killing the other characters who are ostensibly children, he ends up killing Cub in the explosion at the end of "Flippin' Burgers". The creators also implied that Fliqpy killed him at the end of "A Vicious Cycle".

Splendid the Flying Squirrel

"Super squirrel swooping in for the save!"

Debut: Helping Helps

Voiced by: Rhode Montijo (2004-2006), David Winn (2006-present)

A cyan "superhero" flying squirrel with a red mask. He has a variety of superpowers beyond flight, just as heat vision, frost breath, supersonic hearing, high durability, and super speed. While admired by his peers, particularly Sniffles and Toothy for his comic book appearances, Splendid is an awful superhero and his negligence often costs the Tree Friends their lives. He would usually prefer to do his own thing, like knitting and reading.

Like Flippy, Splendid’s habit of accidentally killing other characters through failed heroic deeds makes his schtick repetitive. As a result, he has the lowest number of appearances out of the characters introduced in the first season. He also has the lowest number of deaths, having only died twice, and once onscreen. His only weakness is a green acorn-shaped rock called Kryptonut, which caused the aforementioned onscreen death. He has an evil twin/evil counterpart, Splendont, who ironically is much better at being a superhero. Splendid stars in Ka-pow! alongside Flippy and Buddhist Monkey.

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• Alliterative Name: 'S'plendid the Flying 'S'quirrel
• Anti-Hero: A Nominal Hero.
• Asshole Victim: In "Gems the Breaks", he is killed by Kryptonut. Considering the fact that, in this episode, he murdered The Mole, in general has a Lack of Empathy for the characters he killed, and refuses to learn from his mistakes, he definitely had it coming.
• Blue Is Heroic: He's a blue squirrel who is a superhero. Not a good one though.
• Clark Kenting: He is a news reporter for The Daily Acorn while not doing superhero stuff.
• Cool Mask: A red one. He is never seen without the mask, even while Clark Kenting.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: He's only died onscreen once, but man, was it this — he inhales a powdered version of Kryptonut, which causes his skin to flay itself off and him to start projectile vomiting out most of his organs. When he attempts to hold it in, he explodes with the force of a bomb.
• Designated Hero: Invoked. He's a superhero in title only. He only helps others to get attention, and all his attempts to "save" people will result in them dying.
• Destructive Saviour: Often causes more problems than he solves.
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: Most of his kills come accidentally from the fact he can't control how strong he or his powers are.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: When he first appeared in "Helping Helps", he had a high-pitched voice similar to Toothy's and Handy's.
• Evil Twin: Splendont, complete with Color Coding For Our Convenience.
• Exposed Animal Bellybutton: Given this for one shot in the episode "Wrath of Con".
• Expy: He takes inspiration from Rocky the Squirrel, as his design and character has some nods to Rocky.
• Failure Hero: His efforts to do good often lead to mass destruction and deaths of others.
• Fartillery: In "Breaking Wind", his flatulence becomes a weapon of mass destruction.
• Flying Brick: Has the standard set of superhero powers: Flight, Super-Strength, Super-Speed, Eye Beams, Super-Breath, and Super-Senses.
• Gasshole: Look at all these tropes about "Breaking Wind". Have you seen any other character with a fart-related trope about them?
• Humiliation Conga: Gets this in "Gems the Breaks", after Lifty and Shifty discover his weakness.
• Informed Flaw: See Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? — he never shows having any problems from flying at great heights.
• Jerkass: He causes more problems than he does solve them and is only a hero just to get credit.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Whenever somebody he attempts to help dies, he's mostly only worried about getting into trouble than the fact that they just died.
• Karma Houdini: Thanks to his Nigh-Invulnerability, he's one of the few characters that rarely die, and usually escapes unscathed from the chaos and destruction he causes. The only exception is "Gems the Breaks".
• Kryptonite Factor: He's deathly weak to Kryptonut. Lifty and Shifty take advantage of his weakness and show him Kryptonut to ward him away so they can cause trouble.
• Lack of Empathy: He doesn't actually care when someone he is trying to protect dies.
• Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: In "Breaking Wind", he inadvertently destroys the world.... by farting.
• New Powers as the Plot Demands: Comes with being a Superman Expy. This is made most obvious in "Class Act" and "Breaking Wind"; in "Class Act" he is killed when the school explodes, but in "Breaking Wind" he is completely unharmed when the Earth explodes.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Tends to survive things other tree friends can't, which is made abundantly clear in "Breaking Wind" where the entire planet explodes and he is unharmed. He has so far only died twice, one of which was due to Kryptonite Factor. To date he has only ever died in "Class Act" (confirmed by the creators) and "Gems the Breaks".
• Pet the Dog: Downplayed, but there are times where he does feel bad about the characters Accidental Murder, that he would briefly mourn them.
• Powerful, but Incompetent: He's a Superman Substitute who never manages to actually save someone (and if he does, they usually don't stay alive for long afterwards) due to a combination of stupidity, carelessness, and a lack of interest in his "job".
• Screams Like a Little Girl: Although Splendid is manly, his screams are anything but.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Seems to have a one-sided example with the Mole in "See What Develops" and "Gems the Breaks". In both episodes he seems incredibly annoyed by him.
• The Sociopath: He is a superhero out of pure narcissism, and he doesn't actually care when someone dies under his watch.
• Super Loser: He has all the powers of Superman, but he's too stupid to do anything useful with them.
• Superman Substitute: His Flying Brick powers, Clark Kenting, and Kryptonite Factor all imply this.
• Super-Strength: Due to being a superhero, he can lift things much bigger than himself.
• Super Team: The Supremely Sensational Stupendously Spectacular Super Squad, or SSSSSuper Squad for short. Splendid is a member of the team.
• Vomit Indiscretion Shot: At the end of "Gems the Breaks", he vomits compulsively due to being exposed to Krypnonut.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: The Collect Them All section states that Splendid has acrophobia, a fear of heights.

Lammy and Mr. Pickels

"Long lasting friends don't tend to be fickle. More likely, they would laugh and love to tickle!"

Debut: A Bit of a Pickle

Voiced by: Renée T. MacDonald

Lammy

Mr. Pickels

A purple sheep accompanied by her pickle friend that may or may not be actually alive. The only Tree Friends to be introduced after the first season, they won the "Vote or Die" 10th anniversary contest in 2010. Lammy is friendly and accommodating. Similar to Russell, her voice is a series of "baas" repeated in different tones. Even though Lammy’s attitude is genuine, Mr. Pickels usually prevents her from getting new friends by killing them.As a dark twist, Lammy is too late to save them and always looks like the murderer to others. Whether Mr. Pickels is actually doing the killings or Lammy is schizophrenic and blames her imaginary friend for her own actions is deliberately kept ambiguous. Both characters survive fairly often, with Mr. Pickels arguably having the highest survival rate in the series.

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• Ax-Crazy: Mr. Pickels (intentionally), and Lammy (unintentionally). Lammy seems to be unaware that her actions harm others, and that her imaginary friend Mr. Pickels is the one harming others.
• The Bad Guy Wins: In both of Mr. Pickels' major appearances, he manages to kill any possible new friend that Lammy has made while she is left to either: accidentally becoming his accomplice to the murders or getting falsely arrested for his crimes.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Lammy is a friendly sheep, but (maybe?) is the one accidentally doing all the killing whilst she imagines Mr. Pickels is doing it.
• Black Bead Eyes: Mr. Pickels, like Cub, lacks sclerae around his black pupils.
• Butt-Monkey: Lammy has either been killed or incarcerated in most of of her appearances.
• The Cassandra: In her debut episode, no one believes her when she claims that Mr. Pickels is killing everyone.
• Companion Cube: In his normal state, Mr. Pickels is shown to be a regular pickle that Lammy considers her Imaginary Friend.
• The Cutie: Lammy is a sweet and loving sheep who - despite her implied schizophrenia - just wants to get along well with others. Makes her even cuter once you combine that with her signature "baahs".
• Eye Scream: In their debut episode, Lammy is shot in the eye with a taser, and then electrocuted. We later see her with her eye horribly swollen, dark red, and covered in welts. If you pause while she's being tased, you'll notice she has a crack in her skull.
• Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Lammy has purple fur and is noticeably more feminine compared to Flaky.
• Green and Mean: Mr. Pickels, a psychotic murderous pickle.
• Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Lammy only wears a wool shirt.
• Jerkass to One: Inverted; Mr. Pickels is friends with Lammy, but the same definitely can't be said about anyone else who comes between them.
• Karma Houdini: Mr. Pickels has yet to suffer any consequence for killing any of Lammy's new friends (asides from being Killed Offscreen by Lumpy in All in Vein).
• Killed Offscreen: Mr. Pickels is partially eaten and Lammy is crushed like a soda can along with Truffles by Count Lumpy off-screen in "All in Vein".
• A Lizard Named "Liz": Lammy is a purple sheep and her name references the term "lamb" (which refers to a young sheep).
• Misplaced Wildlife: Lammy is a barn animal who lives with forest-dwellers.
• My Nayme Is: Yes, the pickle's name is spelt "Mr. Pickels", not "Mr. Pickles".
• Not-So-Imaginary Friend: "Royal Flush" seems to show that Mr. Pickels is not just in her imagination, as he kills Flaky while Lammy's whereabouts are accounted for. Note that Mr. Pickels pulls the rug from under Flaky when he's supposed to be in the toilet... provided, of course, Flaky didn't simply slip on the rug from leaning too hard towards the toilet.
• Nice Girl: Lammy is a loving and sweet girl... whenever she isn't accidentally killing people.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Lammy's attempts to stop Mr. Pickels end in death and disaster.
• Out of Focus: Being introduced late in the series' run, they have the lowest number of appearances. Even then, they were already overshadowed by Lumpy come Season Four, leaving them with only small featuring roles or brief cameos. Heck, Truffles, a minor character and the loser of "Vote or Die" has appeared in more episodes than Lammy and Mr. Pickels.
• Pokémon Speak: Lammy speaks with a sheep's bleat. It's most pronounced when she's laughing or panicking.
• Remember the New Guy?: She was treated like she was always there the whole time.
• Split Personality: It's implied that Mr. Pickels is the result of Lammy having Dissociative Identity Disorder.
• Sweet Sheep: Lammy is a sheep and is a loving and caring girl... as long as she isn't accidentally killing people.
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Lammy has long eyelashes and, like Giggles, wears a bow on her head. Mr. Pickels, on the male end of the spectrum, wears a top hat and has a mustache.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Lammy is the girly girl to Flaky's tomboy. Lammy wears a bow and has eyelashes, but Flaky has neither of those and does not like some of the girly things Lammy likes.
• Tuft of Head Fur: Similar to Cuddles, Lammy has a puff of wool on top of her head shaped like her tail.
• Verbal Tic: Her laughter, cries, or screams are wavering and elongated, sounding very much like how an actual sheep "baahs" when they bleat.
• The Voiceless: Mr. Pickels never speaks.
• Yandere: A platonic example, as Mr. Pickels doesn't like when Lammy shows affection to others, which is what sets off his killing sprees in the first place.

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