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Housepets! by Rick Griffin

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This is the list of domestic cat characters in the webcomic Housepets!

Grape Jelly Sandwich

Grape Jelly Sandwich (née Princess Periwinkle)

Any problem can be solved with the correct application of pressure to a stupid person's face.

The Deuteragonist alongside Peanut Butter, her dog adopted brother. Boyfriend to Maxwell.

In contrast to her brother, Grape is more cynical and naturally suspicious of good fortunes, but loves him and still retains a childishness that allows them to get along well together. Early on she discovers the existence of Pete the Gryphon, and develops an obsession with finding him that unintentionally begins a long streak of bizarre occurrences in Babylon Gardens.

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• A Cat in a Gang of Dogs: From kithood, Grape gravitated towards the Good Ol Dogs Club, and continues to show up as an adult primarily for the food served. She has a close enough kinship with them to be their double agent during the Babylon Gardens Water War.
• Affectionate Nickname: From Maxwell: Kitty Whiskers
• Afraid of Doctors: As seen in this strip, Grape's first encounter with a veterinarian seemed like meeting Cthulhu. She still harbors a distrust of vets. Of note: animals in the Housepets! universe act much like furry children.
• Agent Mulder: Early on, after meeting Pete, she becomes obsessed with finding him again to a point that even worries Peanut. This trait of hers comes back when she meets Tarot, and is instantly distrustful of her psychic powers that Peanut regards as normal.
• Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Practically all pets in the comic have a natural fur color. Grape's is purple, however.
• Better as Friends: Initially with Peanut, as the two decide they'd rather pursue other romantic relationships. However, the two become Friends with Benefits later in life, and continue to entertain the other's romantic interest in them.
• Brother–Sister Incest: See Incest Subtext. Grape and Peanut's familial status is unclear, and the two aren't biologically related, but they're adopted by the same family and refer to each other once or twice as brother and sister.
• Brother–Sister Team: Temple Crashes with Peanut at one point, alongside their usual inseparability.
• Broken Pedestal: Despite Peanut warning her this might happen, she ends up being severely disappointed when she finds out that Miss Auburn is the front man for Res' stories and that she isn't the real author.
• Broomstick Quarterstaff: A broom is one of many household weapons Grape utilizes throughout the series, most notably when saving Max from an alligator as a kitten.
• Carnivore Confusion: Of the few times this happens, usually the perpetrator. She deals with the mouse revolution by eating their leader, tries to get into the aviary to feast so often the birds end up unionizing, and later tries to stomp a bird to death to share it with Max.
• Cats Are Snarkers: Grape often expresses herself in a wry or sarcastic manner.
• Cheshire Cat Grin: She sometimes smiles with an intent other than genuine happiness, though not quite as often as you'd expect. Max seems to be rubbing off on her.
• The Chosen One: Averted twice. Pete initially had plans to make Grape his avatar, and claimed Spirit Dragon interfered by getting Tarot involved. Pete strongly suggested he still had ways to make Grape his avatar at his temple, but Zach ended up waking Pete up by accident. Since then, Pete said there was no point anymore and started switching his interest towards King.
• Double Agent: She served as one for the dog's side in the Water War, fighting with the cats and secretly supplying information to the Good Ol Dogs Club.
• Dreaming of Things to Come: Grape's dream of Pete early in the comic leads her actions much later, in a search party for the missing Zach. Following the directions she took in the dream takes her to Pete's temple, where she not only finds Zach but frees Pete. Tarot later reveals he sent her the dream.
• Dying Declaration of Love: When she's hit in the Water War, she asks Zach to tell Peanut she loves him before 'dying'. Being a water balloon that she 'died' to, she quickly walks it off, but plays up the drama anyway.
• Edible Theme Naming: Along with her brother. Grape Jelly is her given name, Sandwich is the family name.
• Embarrassing Nickname: Crossed with Outgrowing the Childish Name, she's mortified anyone brings up her shelter name of Princess Periwinkle.
• Extreme Omnivore: The type one variety. Dog food, mud, burritos, and whatever Maxwell put into her sandwich (Hint: It was green), she's unphased by it. When asked what the weirdest thing she ate was? Dolphin.
• Establishing Character Moment: Indulging Peanut despite his waking her, agreeing to play his Imaginate, and reacting poorly to his pun.
• Fake Relationship: When Max's price is too steep, she offers to be in one with Sabrina as a Sweet Polly Oliver.
• Fangirl: Lampshaded in Pridelands. She talks about the series in a straight and intelligent manner, but even she gets caught off guard from something as distracting as lions in tribal gear. She's also been caught writing fanfiction more than once (self-insert on one occasion), and then there was her letter to one of the actors of the movie...
• Friends with Benefits: Slash maybe siblings. Peanut and Grape are described as doing 'Mushy Stuff' with each other offscreen, which makes Max blush and cover his waist area while watching. Despite this, both of them are in relationships, and nobody involved seems to mind (Although Max was apparently oblivious).
• Frying Pan of Doom: One of her many bludgeoning weapons.
• Fur Bikini: Wore one as Princess Illaya, during her Pridelands Imaginate.
• Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing: Grumpy to Peanut's Gleeful. Unlike most examples of this dynamic, Grape loves him for his joy and is shown to frequently be Not So Above It All.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Grape's temper is legendary in Babylon Gardens, starting from an early age and continuing into adulthood, where she tends to get violent with weapons at the slightest inconvenience. Over time this trait of hers died down, to the point where it rarely appears nowadays.
• Happily Adopted: Technically all pets, but Grape gets mention for being adopted a while after Peanut, and his immediately taking a liking to her on their first meeting.
• Hates Baths: Alt-text of this comic strongly suggests she hates baths. However, it should be noted she's not afraid of going on water slides or getting wet in a shower (if only to see if Mr. Sandwich has thumbs on his feet). It's most likely she just hates being washed.
• Heroic Bystander: To both Max and Fox when they were young. Even more awesome when you notice she was younger and smaller than both of them!
• Humanizing Tears: While not exactly an unpleasant character, Grape allows herself to admit to her owner that she nearly cried in front of Peanut from embarrassment in one strip, showing depths to her Deadpan Snarker personality.
• Improbable Weapon User: Grape once threatened to stab Maxwell with a sharpened candy cane.
• Incest Subtext: Less so 'Are they romantic' and more so 'Are they siblings'. Grape and Peanut are heavily implied to mess around on the side of their relationships, and Peanut had a crush on her for a long time before they settled as friends. This despite them being adopted by the same human owner, which constitutes siblings for pets, and their being referred to as brother and sister once or twice.
• Incompatible Orientation: Grape admits to Peanut that she's primarily romantically attracted to cats, hence her inability to return his affection. Despite this, they grow closer after he admits his feelings, and the two later engage in very couplish activities, albeit with Max and Tarot involved.
• Interspecies Romance: After years of ship teasing, she turns out to indeed have a romantic tie with her canine housemate Peanut.
• Killer Rabbit: Although Grape can have a short temper at times (especially when her naps are interrupted), she always approaches acts of violence with a straight face.
  • Like when she hit Bino over the head with a frying pan during one of his paranoid tirades.
  • Or when she ate the leader of some revolutionary Communist mice.
  • Or when she threatened King for flirting with Peanut's girlfriend, Tarot.
  • Or as a kitten she shredded both Puppy Bino's face as well as the sign saying "No Cats Allowed" without even changing expressions.
  • She's also threatened to "balance out" Maxwell's ears if he gets too fresh with her. Given that one of his ears has a big bite mark out them, it should be pretty clear what that would entail.
  • And then she once threatened to shiv Maxwell with a candy cane.
  • Even in another dimension, Grape is willing to punch Maxwell over food.
• Lady Looks Like a Dude: Except on the rare cases her eyelashes are out, she possesses no obvious clues as to her gender. The entire first year of the comic, everyone (including her brother) thought she was a guy.
• Lady Macbeth: She serves this role quite literally, when she plays Lady Macbeth in the Scottish play's Imaginate. She plays this up further for comedy, implying that she has much more control over her husband than Lady Macbeth did in the original.
• Little Miss Badass: Housepets Babies revealed her to be violent and good at fighting even from a young age, as shown when she fought off a shotgun wielding kidnapper and his pet alligator using only a broom.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Masculine Girl to Peanut's Feminine Boy.
• Meaningful Name: Her fur color was part of Mr. Sandwich's motivation for wanting to adopt her, because it's the color of grape jelly.
• Missed the Call: Background details like Pete's character sheet imply Grape was intended to be Pete's avatar for a while. She barely dodged this bullet when Joel showed up, and Pete latched onto him instead.
• Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls: Of the Pridelands' sizable fandom, only Grape's fanfic is ever mentioned, and repeatedly made fun of.
• Noodle Incident: At one point while using Tarot's powers to Imaginate, she did something unspeakable out in the street. Whatever it was, she blushes Through a Face Full of Fur when its brought up, and Tarot doesn't let her use her powers in that way anymore.
• Not Blood Siblings: Grape and Peanut's Friends with Benefits relationship seems to invoke this. Both are separate species and not blood related, but adopted under the same household in a relationship often compared to siblings elsewhere in the comic.
• Not So Above It All: From the beginning, despite usually being the Straight Man, she shows herself more than willing to go along with Peanut's games and general nonsense.
• An Odd Place to Sleep: Being a cat, she's chosen a few of these. A limited-time bookmark showed her sleeping on top of the fridge, and another strip showed her trying to sleep between the bars of two wooden chairs.
• Platonic Declaration of Love: Grape's to Peanut's are often suggested to be this, but later matters between the two make how 'platonic' it is murky.
• Properly Paranoid: After Pete's escape, Grape begins taking suspicion of any human with the same name. Of course, the one time the comic chooses to focus on, it actually is Pete.
• Really Fond of Sleeping: Naturally comes with being a cat. Her very first appearance features her being awakened from a nap by Peanut and complaining about it.
• Secret-Keeper: Of Joey's cat Cosplay until she found out the cats knew anyway, Fido and Sabrina's forbidden relationship, and Res's role in creating the Prideland series of books. Although not mean-spirited or intentional at all (because Maxwell failed to notice it), her and Peanut's relationship also ended up being kept a secret for some time.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She may be into musclebound males, but she will take a sweet and considerate boyfriend over jerkish hunks any day.
• Sleepyhead: A Running Gag throughout the strip's early years featured her repeated attempts to fall asleep, always being foiled by Peanut's loud waking.
• Sweet Polly Oliver: Pretends to be a male named Concorde to get close to Jata, under guise of dating Sabrina.
• Tomboy: To Lady Looks Like a Dude levels. The comic was a good few months old before anyone realized Grape was female, much to her annoyance. The revelation didn't change her interactions with anyone except Peanut and Max. Lampshaded and punned here.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: As a kitten, she used her claws to give a younger Bino his first injury and fought an alligator with a Broomstick Quarterstaff, ending in her victory.
• Tsundere: Best shown when she originally met Peanut, which comprised of her yelling at him to leave her alone, then getting sad when he had to go. She's mellowed out since, but the tendency still shows up now and then.
• We Have Become Complacent: Grape believes humans are like this in a number of early comics, stating her opinions to Peanut in regards to matters like their Unlimited Wardrobes.
• Women Prefer Strong Men: Grape taste in males (both dogs and cats) runs towards hunky and muscular. If they look like a body-builder, they'll typically get a reaction out of her. Whether she actually likes them enough to date depends on personality, though.

Maxwell

You're like, the coolest cat I know.

Babylon Gardens' definitive Cool Cat, and Grape's boyfriend. He tends to be less in the loop about supernatural going-ons than the rest of them, sticking generally to more grounded conflicts.

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• Affectionate Nickname: From Grape and (at one time) Sabrina: Maxie.
• Amicable Exes: Its mentioned that he and Sabrina used to date, but she has no problem hanging out with him around his new girlfriend, although she's still happy to share embarrassing stories with him.
• Awkward Kiss: From Rufus, of all people. However, it's eventually revealed to be that the kiss had an entirely different meaning: Maxwell was an injured, scared kitten in the rain with wild animals hunting for him and he was begging Rufus to stay with him. Considering how scared Maxwell was before his story was interrupted, it's reasonable to assume Rufus was trying to calm Maxwell down.
• Big Brother Instinct: This is shown to be one of the main reasons he went against a crocodile in the first place when he was clearly terrified. At the time, he didn't want a kitten to be hurt and decided to be a distraction for the crocodile while Grape and Fox got away. He also appears to have become attached to Grape before he found out she was a girl, giving her news of the stuff going on around Babylon Garden.
• Big Ego, Hidden Depths: His constant haughtiness stems from his inner insecurities over getting people to like him. He's afraid that if he doesn't put forth the absolute best effort to impress those around him, he won't be good enough to warrant anyone's attention, especially Grape's. It's also the same reason he didn't reply to Rufus's letters. He felt he couldn't come up with a good enough letter to write back to Rufus about and ended up being too late when Rufus passed away.
• Cheshire Cat Grin: He loves to put on a big smile whenever he's trying to drive a point home. Which happens a lot.
• Ear Notch: Max has a bite mark out of his right ear. It's currently unknown how he received it.
• Failed a Spot Check: Poor Maxwell didn't notice that Peanut and Grape were lovers, despite dating Grape for years 'and' when he sang "Can you Feel the Love tonight" to them... while they were playing as Simba and Nala.
• Fake Relationship: With Sabrina, to protect her from Jata while he stays in Babylon Gardens. Bonus points for the two being Amicable Exes.
• From Stray to Pet: Born in a pound, became a stray by choice when he left and stumbled onto Rufus' farm. After living without an owner for a period of time, Rufus eventually decided the farm wasn't safe for him and gave him up to a human home.
• Heroic Bystander: Was one back when him and Fox were kidnapped years back. This was, ironically enough, also when he started to develop his insecurities towards Grape, since it wasn't Max that saved Fox and Grape but Grape herself. And she only started to save them when Max got in trouble.
• High on Catnip: He's implied to have a mild addiction, to the point of taking catnip from complete strangers. In the Hot Springs arcs, he feels the need to insist to his father that he's not on a catnip bender.
• Horrible Judge of Character: As a child, he willingly came along with a man with a Face Framed in Shadow and sinister hat at the promise of catnip, and was naturally instantly bound and thrown into a cellar.
• Innocently Insensitive: Has shades of this, such as checking to see if he's still Grape's best friend in the middle of her turmoil over accidentally ruining her chances with Res. In general, he rarely thinks before he speaks, and can come off as The Cynic as a result.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: It's stated in the cast page that Maxwell gets his kicks out of annoying people, and on occasion he has done jerkish things in the past (which Grape calls him out on), but it's also shown that he doesn't want to be considered malicious to his friends. Grape has strongly hinted that this is the reason she sticks with Maxwell.
• Likes Older Women: Potentially. When it's still thought he had a romantic fling with the older Rufus, Sabrina teases him by claiming it explains why he went after her, an older cat.
• Medal of Dishonor: Maxwell's bell is one of these. He was so bad at catching mice when he was a kitten that the mice snuck a bell on him while he was sleeping.
• Mistaken for Gay: Parting at the end of Temple Crashers 2, Max receives a Last Kiss from Rufus before the latter returns to Heaven. Several characters take this to mean the two were in love, which earns him (unbothered) ribbing from his current partner Grape and his ex, Sabrina. Later, in The Maxwell Thing, he amends this by revealing Rufus was actually a father figure to him.
• Muscle Angst: Decides to work out while Grape is busy fangirling on Jata, fearing that Jata will cause her to lose interest in Max. Turns out Grape likes him more for being adorable than muscular anyway, since she's well aware how bad he is at acting tough. It later gets averted when Maxwell points out that he learned this was part of Grape's character.
• My Girl Is a Slut: Max was unaware that Grape and Peanut were in love on the side, despite Grape's committed relationship to him, but ultimately decides he's unbothered by it. She also lusts after a number of broadly built, muscular men, sometimes right in front of him, and he admits that so long as it makes her happy he's happy.
• Secret-Keeper: Max is aware that Res is the true author of the Pridelands series of books, but doesn't tell Grape.
• Street Urchin: While mentioned to have spent his early years in the pound, he eventually left to try and find someone who would adopt him, becoming this.
• Tragic Keepsake: Rufus's letters, though it becomes a memento after a visit from Rufus.

Sabrina D'Angelo

Max's ex, Fido's boyfriend, and Tarot's protege as a prophet in training.

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• Affectionate Nickname: According to Sabrina and Max when they were dating: Kitty Whiskers. She also calls him 'Punkin' in Scaredy Cats.
• All Witches Have Cats: Played with. She's a black cat who is training to become a witch under Tarot.
• Amicable Exes: Its mentioned that she and Max used to date, but she has no problem hanging out with him around his new girlfriend, although she's still happy to share embarrassing stories with him.
• Ascended Extra: Sabrina rarely appeared in the strip early on, but has become a frequently seen character since the strip's earliest days, mostly tied in to her connection with the growing incidence of supernatural story arcs. It's even lampshaded once.
  Alt Text: *gasp* Sabrina said words.
• Cats Are Magic: The other major character in the comic to use magic, and the archetypal black cat.
• Childhood Marriage Promise: Towards Jata. She didn't take it seriously — but in her defense, she was only six months old at the time of betrothal. Jata, however, takes it very literally, ignoring the fact that Sabrina has tried brushing him off a few times with 'Concord' and Fido and insisting on marrying her.
• Death Is Cheap: Subverted. Sabrina makes it clear in Temple Crashers 2 that a resurrection spell is one of her limitations she is not capable of casting, if it even exists.
• Emerald Power: When souped up by Dragon's control, her magic and eyes become an eery glowing green.
• The Exile: Sabrina was born in Africa, and spent a good portion of her life living in Malta and the fictional country of Feraga. After her owner angered the King in some unspecified way, she was forced to leave and came to America.
• Friendly Enemy: With Keene and King. Despite the two being on opposite ends of The Game, they get along fine because all of them realize the frivolity of the Gods running it.
• Friend to All Living Things: She can't bring herself to kill the animals she manages to catch, so she tasks Fido with taking care of them instead. That's how Fido acquired his Head Pet, Spo.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Sabrina is a normal sized cat, but looks tiny compared to Jata, a leopard she made a Childhood Marriage Promise to.
• Ignored Expert: Tarot tells Keene (Through Sabrina) in no unclear terms that trying to use a mana wish to achieve equality for all species is a terrible idea. He goes ahead with it anyway, and Sabrina reacts venomously, especially since she's already had bitter experiences with him in the past.
• Intergenerational Friendship: Tarot apparently didn't know Sabrina was much older than her, but the two remain steadfast friends throughout the comic's run.
• Interspecies Romance: Sabrina is a house cat in a clandestine relationship with Fido, a dog (though she isn't as concerned about keeping it a secret as he is). She used to be in one with Jata, a leopard.
• Long-Lived: She remembers when cell phones weren't so commonplace, which is actually pretty old for a cat. But don't try to point that out to her, or she will get ugly.
• Lovely Angels: One half of a pair with Tarot. While their fighting together is alluded to throughout the comic, we eventually see them tag-team Bailey when she briefly becomes Pete's avatar. The two are shown to be a hard battle for her, even with her armour and sword, helped in part by their usage of magic(k) and close coordination.
• Magical Girlfriend: Sabrina is a cat with supernatural powers who is a girlfriend to Fido, and previously to Maxwell. She is capable of creating bold text on a Ouija board, and may be capable of (or has the connections to) have someone erased from existence. It's possible she was bluffing, but Fido took the threat very seriously.
• Magic Is Feminine: The other most prominent magic(k) user in the story, next to the female Tarot.
• Master-Apprentice Chain: The goddess Dragon trained the dog Tarot trained the cat Sabrina. Without Tarot being able to use her magic anymore, the future of said apprenticeship is uncertain, but Sabrina still runs odd jobs for her and often serves as her Mouth of Sauron when Tarot can't be bothered to show up.
• Merlin and Nimue: The psychic-in-training under Tarot, who passes on knowledge given to her by Dragon.
• Mouth of Sauron: She frequently delivers messages for Tarot, running back and forth across the neighborhood when Tarot is preoccupied with other things.
• Mrs. Robinson: While it's unknown just how old Sabrina is, she's clearly older than many of the pets around her, but flirts with a few men and dates the younger Fido (and Max in the past).
• Muggle–Mage Romance: With Fido, who never seems bothered by her psychic abilities, although he may have dated her before she met Tarot.
• My Species Doth Protest Too Much: It's implied she doesn't enjoy hunting mice, in stark contrast to Grape who callously kills one onscreen. This leads to her sparing Spo and passing him off to Fido.
• Really Moves Around: She's been all around the world thanks to the work of her father, an archaeologist, and her role helping Tarot in The Game. Australia and Africa (Both the jungles and Egypt) are specifically named or shown.
• Refusal of the Call: She adamantly refuses to help Kitsune in Heckraiser, choosing instead to enjoy her vacation in Heaven- Surprisingly, since Tarot needs the assistance as well.
• Secret-Keeper: For some time, Sabrina kept a lot of information under wraps, including her current relationship with Fido, her past relationship with Jata, and the connection between King and Joel Robinson. None of them are secrets anymore.
• Smart People Play Chess: Her and Tarot both engage in a game of Precognition Chess, playing through an entire round in their minds without touching the board.
• The Tease: Frequently this to her boyfriend, and on occasion other people. When King barges in on her and Fido's lovemaking, she sticks her tongue out at him coyly.
• Teleportation: One of her more scarcely used powers, which she demonstrates while Temple Crashing.
• Translator Microbes: She reads Hieroglyphs in Pete's temple by looking at the text in the astral plane and interpreting its intent, rather than the exact wording. She also casts the spell that allows Satau to speak English with the pets when they meet.
• Unconventional Wedding Dress: Her wedding dress she nearly marries Jata in holds a large Ankh on her breast, matching the collar she usually wears.
• When You Coming Home, Dad?: Sabrina spends the entire comic away from her dad, unable to contact him as he's busy working around the world, which he's stopped taking her along for. Sabrina even wrote this phrase on a stone tablet while in the past hoping he'd find it.
• Willing Channeler: In-Training. Word of God states that should something happen to Tarot, Sabrina can take over the role of Spirit Dragon's avatar. We eventually get to see what this would look like, complete with Dynamic Entry.
• Witch Classic: She wears a witches hat to Australia and while Temple Crashing.
• Younger Mentor, Older Disciple: Sabrina is stated to be older than Tarot, but still diligently follows her word when teaching magic(k).

Res Auburn (Maine Coon)

How do you do it? Talk to people you don't know like they're your best friend?

The unknown real author of the beloved Pridelands series, whose owner takes credit in a mutual agreement. Early on he accidentally reveals himself to Grape, and the two become friends despite Res living in Canada.

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• Adrenaline Makeover: A rare gender-flipped example. Res is normally timid, nervous, and a Shrinking Violet, but gaining weretiger powers in the temple makes Res's fur noticeably more scruffy and rugged, something Grape notices as she expresses interest in staying near him to see if he has a burlier form.
• Author Avatar: He appears in the middle of Heckraiser to respond to criticisms about the arc, framed as responding to criticisms about his own book series.
• Badass Adorable: His weretiger form in the Temple Crashers 2 arc is imposing with a dash of cuddly likability.
• Broken Pedestal: Played with and mostly subverted. While his owner does take credit for his work, Res wants it that way due to being very shy, and feeling indebted to her for taking him in when he was a stray.
• Creator Breakdown: Part of the reason why he visits the Sandwiches is because he's tired of "eating and breathing Pridelands", and needs a break. Later on, he has another as a result of Writer's Block because he can't figure out how to end the Pridelands series to his satisfaction, and runs straight to the Sandwich family for help.invoked
• Cowardly Lion: Despite his terror, he puts on a face of confidence to take on an Eldritch Abomination by himself when the situation seems the most dire.
• Ghostwriter: One for Miss Auburn, his owner. None of the books credit him, which is how he prefers it.
• Grew a Spine: Post Temple Crashers 2, he's shown to be more confident than his initial Shrinking Violet persona. He's even bold enough to talk back to a fan at an interview when his writing choices are criticized.
• Hulking Out: His weretiger form in Temple Crashers 2 allows this, growing twice into a much larger and more muscular form.
• I Just Want to Be Special: When pressed on it in Temple Crashers 2, he admits that he dreams about being a weretiger.
• Involuntary Shapeshifting: What remains of his weretiger form after leaving Pete's temple seems to come back involuntarily, during bouts of emotion or while sneezing.
• Kamehame Hadoken: He defeats The Forgotten with one, notably not killing it, but only pushing it back far enough to close the portal on it.
• Load-Bearing Hero: After defeating The Forgotten, Res holds up the collapsing temple just long enough for Keene to save them.
• Mega Neko: At the climax of Temple Crashers 2, he grows skyscraper-sized to battle The Forgotten.
• Monochromatic Eyes: As a weretiger.
• Not Quite Back to Normal: After his experience in Temple Crashers 2, he's shown to retain some modicum of magic(k). Most notably, he accidentally turns into a larger Hulking Out form twice, once by sneezing and once by losing his temper at an interview.
• Our Werebeasts Are Different: Becomes a weretiger in Temple Crashers 2 using a paper bag hat. With this power, he can switch between normal and Mega Neko forms, the latter of which can be anywhere from human-sized to building-sized. This form also makes him much more muscular and stronger to boot.
• Prophet Eyes: As a weretiger, either this or Supernatural Gold Eyes.
• The Quiet One: His text is generally written to be much smaller than Grape's, except when he's panicking.
• Saying Too Much: How Grape initially finds out who he is. She asks where Res' owner is, and Res blurts out without thinking that she's the one signing autographs.
• Secret-Keeper: Res is the real Pridelands author and keeps that knowledge under wraps as much as possible.
• Shrinking Violet: Despite the occasional outburst, Res is primarily shy and self-effacing. When he first meets Grape, he admits that the stress of being the secret Pridelands author makes it hard for him to talk to other cats. With Grape's influence, he ends up growing more confident, and even makes a public appearance to answer questions from fans as a 'story consultant'.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: As a weretiger, either this or Prophet Eyes.
• Thrill Seeker: He admits fighting a monster in Temple Crashers 2 is exciting for him, and a good break from writing.
• Unfazed Everyman: Surprisingly, he takes well to meeting a real angel in Temple Crashers 2, which is only the start of a whole lot of weirdness he takes in stride.

Other Cats

Fiddler (Calico) and Keys

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• Ambiguous Gender: One's a boy and the other's a girl, but it's never specified which one is which. Given that Fiddler is a calico cat, chances are good that this character is female, though.
• Creator Couple: Apparently their relationship is "strained" in universe, but they do date, and their artistic lives aren’t negatively affected by their love affair.
• Meaningful Name: Fiddler plays violin, while Keys plays piano.

Jasper

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• Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: He and Grape are the only unnaturally colored pets in the comic. He's indigo.
• Expy: of Tom. He even shares his name with Tom's first incarnation.
• The Voiceless: As would befit an expy of Tom, he's only ever spoken in quotes from the Tom And Jerry cartoons, and then only once.

Mr. Bigglesworth(s) (Siames)

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• Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: One single Bigglesworth wears glasses, one of his only distinguishing features. A few others wear different accessories throughout the series.
• Ambiguous Gender: Since they're all virtually identical, it's hard to tell which ones are male and female. Even they have trouble with it, leading to more than one Unsettling Gender-Reveal.
• Inexplicably Identical Individuals: Only some of the Bigglesworths are related, but they all look pretty much the same. Things get even weirder when they do things like give roll call or go on dates.
• Interspecies Romance: One of them is implied to be in one with Rex, a bulldog.
• Planet of Steves: They are at least eleven different cats, all named Mr. Bigglesworth (yes, even the girls). They blame it on their owner being a stereotypical Crazy Cat Lady, but occasionally they use it to mess with people.
• Pretty Boy: Even the males are fairly feminine looking, especially in the eyes, which leads to a few gender confusions.
• Shout-Out: To Speed Racer. When they get into a go-cart race at the ferrets' theme park, one of the Bigglesworths dresses up in a Racer "B" costume. Parodied because the Mr. Bigglesworth announcing the race can't see through the Paper-Thin Disguise.
• Speak in Unison: A group of them dress as ghosts and scare Zach at a haunted house this way.

Marvin Arbelt

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• Those Two Guys: He and Tiger are invariably seen together.
• Straight Man: He's usually juxtaposed with Tiger as the "normal" one between them, and often states the obvious about whatever zany thing Tiger is doing.

Delusional Steve

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• Cloud Cuckoolander: He's so out there that he will conspire to out-think imaginary versions of himself for no discernable reason.
• Funetik Aksent: He briefly adopts one wherein he pronounces "w" like "v" and thus calls himself "The Viper" (really "The Wiper", as he was shoveling snow from walks at the time) which he claims is part of an alias to prevent mice from knowing he's coming.