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Charles "Charlie" Brown

Charlie Brown: I'd like to be President or a five-star general or a big-time operator...
Patty and Violet: (simultaneously) Hello, there, Charlie Brown!
Patty: That Charlie Brown's a good guy, isn't he?
Violet: He sure is! Good Ol' Charlie Brown.
Charlie Brown: But that's all I'll ever be... Just Good Ol' Charlie Brown...

First Appearance: October 2, 1950 ^‡ (having previously appeared in Li'l Folks starting in 1948) — Final Appearance: February 13, 2000

One of the most famous comic strip characters in history, "Good Ol'" Charlie Brown is the star of the strip. He's the kid who never has things go his way, partly because he's just unlucky and partly because one of his defining qualities is that he's "wishy-washy", and therefore often fails to go after what he really wants. Running Gags with him include trying to kick the football but having it pulled away, being the dedicated manager of a terrible baseball team (or, depending on Rule of Funny, being the terrible manager of a potentially good baseball team), and generally being the strip's Butt-Monkey-in-chief.

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• Actual Pacifist: He seems to despise violence, trying hard to ignore anyone who eggs him on, only once trying to teach a lesson to a bully that had pushed Sally. (He ended up beaten up by the guy's sister.)
  • He also once tried to talk his way out of a slugging from Lucy, and in another strip, Violet, by attempting to lecture them about the pitfalls of resorting to violence to solve problems. In both cases, he failed and got slugged anyway in mid-sentence (Violet even quipped, "I had to hit him quick... he was beginning to make sense!").
• Adaptational Dye-Job: Although Charlie Brown's hair is usually the same color as his skin, the Amiga game "Snoopy: The Cool Computer Game" shows that same tuft as being blond.
• All Love Is Unrequited: Between him and the Little Red-Haired Girl (when you ignore the animated adaptations).
• All of the Other Reindeer: He has a bad reputation among his peers (mostly due to his incompetence) and is a frequent subject of bullying and teasing.
• Audience Surrogate: Charles Schulz was for a very long time puzzled why he made such an extreme Failure Hero in Charlie Brown. Then, one day his son came in after a bad softball game and told him he felt just like Charlie Brown. That was Schulz's "Eureka!" Moment that Charlie was The Everyman.
• Author Avatar: To an extent. For instance, both Charlie Brown's and Schulz's fathers were barbers and their mothers housewives. Charles Schulz was also moved ahead two grades at an early age. As his peers got older, Charles fell behind socially and academically, often feeling like an outcast.
• Berserk Button: Before you complain about the price of haircuts, remember, this guy's dad is a barber. (Something Schroder has forgotten twice.)
• Big Brother Instinct: To both Sally and Linus. And to Lucy and Schroeder on the early days, and Rerun later on. In fact, the only time Charlie Brown is able to shed his Butt-Monkey status is when he's looking out for others, which is also the times he usually achieves success. He beats a young con artist who was cheating people out of their marbles to get Rerun his marbles back. In the 2015 movie, when he decides to help Sally, he loses all clumsiness until he can finish making her act a hit. He also showed this in one arc where he ran away from home and became a mentor to a group of little kids trying to form a sandlot team.
• Born Unlucky: So it would appear. He never wins and nothing goes right for him. When he fails, it's often just because of bad luck.
• Break the Cutie: Oddly enough, it's actually quite difficult to break him; he usually keeps at least a little optimism despite what life throws at him. Sometimes he cracks, though, and it's not pretty when he does. (Lucy found this out the painful way when she donned a Charlie Brown shirt.)
• Butt-Monkey: Oy gevalt. He's not the Trope Codifier, but he might as well be....
• Cannot Talk to Women: At least those he has a crush on, which is the biggest reason he's never able to introduce himself to the Little Red Haired Girl.
• Character Catchphrase: "Good grief." "I can't stand it, I just can't stand it." "Rats." "AAUUGH!" "I never know what's going on." "This time I'm gonna kick that football all the way to the moon!" "You always say you'll hold it, but what you really mean is that you'll pull the football away and I'll fall flat on my back and kill myself".^note There are many variations to this catchphrase, but it would always be something along the lines of those words.
• Characterization Marches On:
  • Early on, he was cheerful and naive and unaware of all his flaws. Within a few years, he developed into the wearisome Failure Hero he is today.
  • He wasn't as nice in the strip's early years. Not only did he pull pranks and say rude things, he could get shockingly violent. One Halloween strip had him respond to Lucy making a very mild joke at his expense by smashing a pumpkin over her head. This would be downright unthinkable after his usual personality was established.
• Charlie Brown Baldness: Trope Namer. According to Charles Schulz, he's blond with a really finely-honed crew cut (which his barber father insists on keeping extremely short), with two squiggles to portray a tuft of blond hair on his forehead.
• The Chew Toy: Charlie Brown is the absolute king of this trope. For fifty years the entire universe tried new and creative ways to mess with him.
  Charlie Brown: Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask: "Why me?" And a voice answers: "Nothing personal, your name just happened to come up."
• Chick Magnet: Both Peppermint Patty and Marcie have a crush on him, as does a minor character named Royanne, who threw two baseball games against his team. He had a girlfriend named Peggy Jean for a while in the 90s. In some adaptations (notably the movie) the Little Red-Haired Girl will actually notice him too.
• Chronic Self-Deprecation: As he himself will freely admit, he can't fly a kite, loses at every sport he tries, doesn't have the respect of his peers, his kid sister, or even his pet dog. He frequently takes his problems to neighbor Lucy van Pelt, who will gleefully add to his list of failings and charge him for the privilege of letting her tear him down, only for him to agree with her assessments.
  Lucy: Do you think you have pantophobia?
  Charlie Brown: What's pantophobia?
  Lucy: The fear of everything.
  Charlie Brown: (Beat)THAT'S IT!
• Classical Anti-Hero: One of the most prominent examples.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: More like Cloudcuckoolander's owner. When Snoopy's bizarreness causes problems in the neighborhood, there's a tendency for everyone to blame him ("He's your dog, Charlie Brown!"), and he'll end up having to deliver a lecture, explain Snoopy's actions, or otherwise interfere.
• Clueless Chick-Magnet: As hard as it is to believe, he is the object of affection for many of the strip's female characters, and a few more girls in the TV specials too. Unfortunately for him, he is completely oblivious to it due to his lack of self-confidence and his own hopeless crush on the Little Red-Haired girl. Despite the girls swooning over him, he laments his inability to understand them. The affection gained by Royanne, great-granddaughter of Roy Hobbs, actually led her to give him those two game-winning home runs in 1993. Or so she claimed. When he told her that Hobbes was a fictional character she... didn't take it well.
• Color-Coded Characters: Yellow by his iconic shirt. It has been colored red in some Sunday strips, however.
• Cosmic Plaything: Often, it seems that the universe is out to make Charlie Brown suffer in absurdly humiliating ways. Perhaps the most famous is the "Kick the Football" running gag.
• Determinator: As often as he's beaten up by the world, he never gives up.
• Determined Defeatist: He knows Lucy will pull away the football, he knows his baseball team is going to lose, he knows the kite won't go up in the air. He tries anyway every single time.
• Disappointing Older Sibling: Charlie Brown is this to his sister Sally due to his wishy-washy nature and consistent record of failure in nearly everything.
• Eating Lunch Alone: "Lunch is the loneliest hour of the day!"
• The Eeyore: On occasion, he is prone to depression and anxiety due to his Butt-Monkey status, and you really can't blame him. Thankfully, he's not always sad.
• Enmity with an Object: With the Kite-Eating Tree, assuming it truly is an object; hard to tell sometimes. And the "conflict" between them has been downright nasty.
• The Everyman: Probably the biggest reason fans relate to him so well is because even though he lacks self-confidence and suffers every now and then, he reluctantly goes out on days when things may go wrong, hoping for the best and tries as hard as he can to accomplish things, regardless of the setbacks.
• Extreme Doormat: He's often pushed around by others and can't stand up for himself.
• Failure Hero: But the people around him admire him as much as they hate him.
• Failure Is the Only Option: ...the fates deny Charlie Brown complete success at the end of a storyline, returning him to Butt-Monkey status.
• Fanboy: Of Davy Crockett, as shown in the early days. Also of Willie Mays, although Charlie Brown's favourite baseball player is the fictional Joe Shlabotnik — see Fan of the Underdog, below.
• Fan of the Underdog: He hero-worships a (fictional) former major league baseball player named Joe Shlabotnik who's almost as bad as he is. In one arc, Joe was demoted to the minors after a season batting average of .004. His greatest achievements as a player were making spectacular plays on routine fly balls and throwing out a runner who had fallen down between first and second. In another arc, he became manager of a team called the Waffletown Syrups, only to be fired after one game after calling for a squeeze play - with no one on base. (Ironically, that arc ended with Charlie Brown, getting to meet his hero and get an autographed ball, and save it from a street tough with Snoopy's help.)
• The Friend Nobody Likes: He's this through Seniority, Proximity, Pity, and Caring. While all of the permanent characters are his friends, he is often ostracised by them, and three of his friends (Lucy, Violet, and the original Patty) even bully him. Downplayed after Violet and Patty's disappearance from the strip and the introduction of Peppermint Patty and Marcie who both have a crush on him. Shultz reasoned that, as sympathetic as Charlie Brown is, he believed his mopey lamenting habits would become obnoxious to others.
• Full-Name Basis: To most every regular except Peppermint Patty, who calls him "Chuck" and Marcie who often calls him "Charles". (Although Lucy did simply call him simply "Charlie" once during the Christmas special.) Little kids occasionally call him "Charles" or "Mr. Brown".
• The Gadfly: Surprisingly enough, in the comic's early years, before he became the "eternal loser" we know today, Charlie Brown was a lot more of a wiseguy and would often purposefully tell bad or insulting jokes just because he thought it was funny when people got all riled up.
• Guilt by Association Gag: People blame poor Charlie Brown for everything - even when he has no idea what's going on. Especially Sally, with whom its a Running Gag.
• High Hopes, Zero Talent: He loves to play baseball and dreams of being a big-league player someday. He's also terrible at baseball and his team always does better when he isn't playing. He never seems to get the message, and none of his players care enough about baseball to kick him out.
• Home Sweet Home: Doesn't like going to camp and is glad to be back.
• In-Series Nickname: "Chuck" by Peppermint Patty and "Charles" by Marcie. Years later, he was called "Brownie Charles" by Peggy Jean. Snoopy refers to him as "Round Headed Kid" both in thought/animal speech and in his welcome home banner for Charlie Brown.
• Irony: He is frequently called a "blockhead" by the other kids, yet he is shown to be the most mature and smart kid in the neighborhood second to Linus, plus being a consistently good student. And for extra irony, the girl who often calls him "blockhead" is both incompetent at giving psychiatric advice and is anything but a good student.
• Limited Wardrobe: His yellow shirt with a zig-zag pattern. Doubles as an Iconic Outfit.
• Lonely Together: When lonely at camp, he once managed to befriend another lonely kid.
• Love Makes You Dumb: "Love makes you do strange things."
• Love Triangle:
  • Apex of one between Peppermint Patty and Marcie, although he doesn't seem to realize it. And instigates his own once or twice. Unfortunately, All Love Is Unrequited in this series.
  • Many of the early strips implied various forms of love triangles between Charlie Brown, Shermy, Patty, and Violet (once she showed up). Often Patty and Violet fought over who was Charlie Brown's girlfriend, although they were just as likely to be fighting to push him onto the other girl.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: The soft spoken feminine boy (one of three) to Lucy's short-tempered masculine girl.
• Mr. Vice Guy: At first, Charlie Brown's rampant cynicism was meant to be justification for how Born Unlucky he is, but over time, his bad luck ended up becoming the catalyst for his cynicism rather than being caused by it.
• Nice Guy: While he was more of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold in the very early days, Charlie Brown is one of the most beloved sweethearts in cartoon history. He is a genuinely kind-hearted kid that it pains us to see such a nice kid not always get his way and absolutely cheer for him when it does. As a matter of fact, Charlie Brown is such a Nice Guy that in one part of an animated short, he was eager and determined (via Inner Monologue) to give a Valentine's Day card to Lucy, the same Lucy who would blame him for the common cold if she could.
• Oblivious to Love: Is this way with Peppermint Patty and Marcie. Makes sense in Marcie's case, since she doesn't show it as much, but he must be practically blind to miss all the signals Peppermint Patty throws at him.
• Obsessively Normal / Ungrateful Bastard: One of his famous lines is "Why can't I have a normal dog like everybody else?" Charlie Brown does not realize how lucky he is to have a dog like Snoopy given his multi-talented abilities.
• One-Note Cook: "All I can make is cold cereal and maybe toast."
• Popularity Power: He may get no valentines from his class, but fans never fail to send them to him by the hundreds. And that's just one example.
• Real Life Writes the Plot: Schulz's real life father Carl Schulz was a barber, and Charlie Brown's dad, who was unseen, owned a barber shop. Schulz, like Charlie Brown, had often felt shy and withdrawn.
• Second Place Is for Losers: His ultimate fate in A Boy Named Charlie Brown.
• Stepford Smiler: Perpetually depressed, but always trying to put on a happy face around his friends. Unless it's about baseball, where he takes defeat very seriously.
• Straight Man: In the stories focusing on Sally, Charlie Brown stands back and gets to comfortably be the Deadpan Snarker to his sister's silliness.
• This Loser Is You: Except Charlie Brown is NOT a "loser".
  Charles Schulz: A real loser would give up.
• Throw the Dog a Bone:
  • He had some success in the 90s after decades of constant failure – he managed to hit a home run and win the game for his team not once but twice; he defeated a bully named Joe Agate in marbles; and he might have even kicked the ball for once.
  Charlie Brown: I hit a home run in the ninth inning, and we won! I was the hero!
  Sally: You?!
  • He kicked Lucy's football while being invisible in It's Magic, Charlie Brown. Snoopy does make him visible again near the end, causing Charlie Brown to miss the ball this time and fall flat on his back, but he is still happy and satisfied that he finally accomplished something he never succeeded at.
• Too Incompetent to Operate a Blanket: He's known for lacking skill; for instance, Linus says in A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving that Charlie Brown can't butter toast.
  • In a Chex Party Mix commercial, he himself states that he can't make toast.
• Tuckerization: Charles Schulz met the character's namesake at a Minneapolis Bureau of Engraving class: The real-life Charlie Brown, who had a round face like the character, served at the Hennepin County Juvenile Detention Center, where he helped troubled youths, and went out of his way to show he cared about them.
• Valentine's Day Vitriol: Charlie Brown does not like Valentine's Day, as it reminds him of how little he thinks people like him.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: He's had a lot of heartwarming moments involving him going to his dad's barbershop, something Schulz has said is autobiographical. (Schulz's father was also a barber, and they used to walk home after work and read the comics together, something that inspired him.) Also, Charlie Brown gave his mom a nice card and a dozen roses on a Mother's Day when his entire team forgot about it.
• Wise Beyond Their Years: As are almost all the kids in this series. It's kind of a staple of Schulz's work.
• Yank the Dog's Chain:
  • He once bowled a perfect game and won a trophy, but true to form it gave him no joy, as they spelled his name wrong ("Charlie Braun").
  • In a series of strips in April 1973, Charlie Brown's team won the first game of the season but they had to forfeit because of a gambling scandal (Rerun bet a nickel that the team would win). Walter Cronkite himself congratulated Charlie Brown's victory on his news report, only to sadly retract it the next week. (And the bettor who bet against the team? Snoopy.)
• You Are Fat: He has gotten this from Lucy a few times. In A Boy Named Charlie Brown, his stomach is one of the features Lucy examines.

Snoopy

"It was a dark and stormy night…"

—opening line to his perennially-rejected novel

First Appearance: October 4, 1950 — Final Appearance: February 13, 2000

Charlie Brown's pet beagle. Introduced two days into the strip, he initially acted much like a normal dog. Because Schulz had no truck with Animal Talk, the only way of knowing what Snoopy was thinking was to give him thought balloons. It soon became clear that Snoopy's imagination was...vivid. Running Gags include him pretending to be a "world-famous" something or other, fighting the Red Baron, teasing the cat next door or stealing Linus's blanket.

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• Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: His antics will sometimes have him in outfits that consist of a hat appropriate to the situation, his collar (or another piece of neckwear), and nothing else. His World War I Flying Ace getup, for instance, consists only of an aviator hat, goggles, and a scarf.
• The Ace:
  • Charlie Brown fails at almost everything he does; Snoopy can do anything he imagines, which adds a lot of fun to the otherwise down-to-earth comic strip.
  • That being said, his imaginative adventures display him being quite unskilled. He usually is shot down by the Red Baron, he fails every time in court as an attorney, and as Joe Cool never manages to attract any girls.
• Action Pet: Many of his alter egos, especially as "The World War I Flying Ace" where he's involved in endless battles with the Red Baron.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: In the comic strips, Snoopy is prone to Comedic Sociopathy, although he has occasional moments of kindness and is a dedicated Scoutmaster to Woodstock and the other birds. The TV specials downplay his Jerkassery, giving him more selfless moments, while The Movie in particular makes him more loyal and empathetic to Charlie Brown.
• Adaptation Personality Change: In the animated specials and movies, he can only make nonverbal sounds instead of "speaking" via thought bubbles. Subverted in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (where he's voiced by Robert Towers) and Snoopy the Musical (where he's voiced by Cam Clarke).
• Afraid of Needles: One strip shows the entire cast of the strip trying to pry Snoopy off of a tree, with Snoopy pleading, "I don't want another rabies shot!" Fortunately, he got it. Snoopy also shares Linus's fear of having slivers removed, as illustrated in a 1981 storyline in which both Linus and Snoopy attempted to evade Lucy and her tweezers. Snoopy eventually turned to the Cat Next Door, who solved the problem by "remov[ing] [him] from the sliver."
• Animal Lover: Loves bunnies, to the point that his refusal to chase them gets him in trouble with the Head Beagle (fortunately the Head Beagle is a Reasonable Authority Figure).
• Anthropomorphic Shift: To the point that Peppermint Patty thought him to be "that funny-looking kid with the big nose". Oddly, he seemed to slide back to acting more like a normal dog in the strip's later years.
• Apathetic Pet: He is an independently minded dog who barely acknowledges Charlie Brown as his owner, unless he wants to be fed. He doesn't even refer to Charlie Brown by name, only as "the round headed kid." He does show that he cares for Charlie Brown from time to time, especially in animated productions.
• Arch-Enemy: The Red Baron, when he's imagining himself as "The World War I Flying Ace". His real-life opponent is World War II, the "stupid cat next door", who routinely decimates his doghouse with a single swipe.
• Artistic License – Animal Care: Snoopy loves to eat chocolate, even though it's very toxic to dogs.
• A Dayinthe Limelight:Snoopy is the main character in What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown, Life is a Circus, Charlie Brown, It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown, Snoopy's Getting Married, Charlie Brown and Snoopy's Reunion.
• Badass Adorable: He can do some pretty extraordinary things, especially for a dog. Especially evident when taking on the persona of "Joe Cool" or fighting the Red Baron.
• Berserk Button: Being called "banana nose", something which Woodstock likes to push a lot.
• Big Eater: He loves his suppers, as well as pizza, candy, and chocolate chip cookies.
• Breakout Character: Following the Anthropomorphic Shift. In the early Peanuts strips, Snoopy acted like an ordinary dog, and wasn't a key character. He quickly became the most iconic character of the series, arguably even more than Charlie Brown.
• Cartoon Dog Breed: An unusual case. Strictly speaking, he falls under the Informed Species banner as he's well-known to be a "beagle" despite not looking like one. However, Snoopy's character design has been extremely influential on many breedless cartoon dogs since, with many, many of them copying his style of "white dog with black ears and a single large black spot." He was also based on Schulz's childhood dog, who was a mutt of unknown breed, making him an honorary member of the trope simply by dint of influence.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • "Poor, sweet baby!" while giving an upset female character a "Shut Up" Kiss.
  • "How gauche!" when anyone suggests doing something he considers beneath him.
• Characterization Marches On: In his earliest appearances, he behaved like a normal dog, walking around on four legs, and didn't appear to have an owner, roaming freely around the neighborhood. Charlie Brown would become his owner, and his Intellectual Animal and Silent Snarker tendencies were established later.
• Charlie Brown from Outta Town: Ironically, he provides the examples of this, when he shows up as the Masked Marvel at various competitions.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Why can't Charlie Brown have a normal dog like everybody else? Well, if he did, his life would be pretty boring.
• Confusion Fu: In one arc, he stands up to Lucy, and licks her into submission. ("What kind of stupid fight is this??" she shouts.)
• Cool Shades: He dons these as "Joe Cool".
• Cowardly Lion: Did not hesitate to attack World War II after he (mistakenly) thought the cat had caught Woodstock. He still got thrashed, but surprised everyone with how much of a fight he gave to protect his friend.
• A Day in the Limelight: He's been the focus of a few animated specials, including He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown, What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown!, It's Magic, Charlie Brown, and Snoopy's Getting Married, Charlie Brown, as well as the feature film Snoopy, Come Home and the stage production Snoopy The Musical.
• Deadpan Snarker: The biggest snarker next to Lucy.
• Deuteragonist: Easily the series' most important character behind Charlie Brown himself.
• Disembodied Eyebrows: Some illustrations of him depict him with these, such as the one on this page.
• Dream Sue: A famous aversion. All Snoopy's dream personas are losers, including a pilot who always gets shot down and a lawyer who never wins a case.
• Expressive Ears: Snoopy's ears pointed straight up when he's shocked.
• Eyes Always Shut: When Snoopy is put into a three dimensional form, like in toys, statues, etc. his eyes will always be closed. The only exceptions are the Snoopy Flying Ace video game and The Peanuts Movie.
• Fantastic Racism:
  • "I don't care for any story where the dog comes out second best!"
  • He was the target of this in Snoopy, Come Home: "NO DOGS ALLOWED!"
  • Snoopy is extremely racist himself...toward cats.
    "I have the world's largest collection of anti-cat jokes!"
• Four-Fingered Hands: In contrast to most of the characters, he has four fingers.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Leukine.
• Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better: He usually stands on two legs, except for the earliest comics.
• Friendly Enemy: To rabbits in general. "Happiness is loving your enemies" is one of his mottoes, spoken while hugging two of them. He claims his dad was the same way, as is Olaf.
• Funny Animal: A non-speaking variant, courtesy of his thought balloons (and occasional typewritten missives).
• Furry Confusion: In the Charlie Brown special Life is a Circus, he falls in love with a non-anthropomorphic female dog.
• Happy Dance: The Trope Codifier, most often when Charlie Brown serves him supper.
• Heli-Critter: He sometimes used his ears as a propeller. In fact, he even provides the page image.
• Heroic BSoD: Snoopy goes into an extreme form of this when he receives a rejection slip for It Was a Dark and Stormy Night, referred to in-universe as Rejection Slip Shock. Lucy's cure: tell the author what he's written is as good as anything else being published these days.
• Hey, You!: From the early 1970s onward, he refers to Charlie Brown as "The Round-Headed Kid". In one strip, he has trouble filling out a form where he has to write "Name of Owner", and is embarrassed when Charlie Brown has to remind him.
• I Am Not Weasel: For a long time, Peppermint Patty thought that Snoopy was a human, and called him the "funny-looking kid with the big nose".
• I'm Not Hungry: In 1973, his reaction to losing the Daisy Hill Puppy Cup was to go on a hunger strike. It lasted exactly one day.
• Insistent Terminology: Any time he pretends to be someone important, he'll call himself the "world-famous x", even if that profession is something you would never describe as "world-famous" (e.g. golf caddy).
• Informed Species: Most people probably wouldn't know he's a beagle without being told. At first glance, he looks like a Dalmatian (particularly Pongo from 101 Dalmatians) with only one spot on his back, and Charles Schultz based him on his childhood Pointer. By Schulz's own admission, he decided to call Snoopy a beagle not because he particularly resembled one, but because he liked the sound of the word.
• Intellectual Animal: Snoopy provides the page image. He's one of the smartest characters in the cast, although most of said intelligence is spent dreaming up his flights of fantasy. He may not be a Bible scholar like Linus, but his imaginative escapades show him to have a respectable knowledge of literature, drama and history (especially of World War One.) He also appreciates art, owning (at different times) paintings by Van Gogh and Andrew Wyeth.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Snoopy can be quite obnoxious, snooty, and selfish at times. But when it comes to the crunch, he's good-natured, friendly, and will go out of his way to help people or animals in need. His heart of gold tendencies are played up in the TV cartoons and movie (see Adaptational Nice Guy).
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Especially when he lectures the Beagle Scouts about nature.
• Large Ham: So much so that one of Charlie Brown's oft-repeated laments about Snoopy is "Why does he have to make such a big deal out of everything?"
• Master of Disguise: Snoopy's tendency to masquerade as actual people tends to fool everybody around him who isn't Charlie Brown. Among others, getups that fool others include the WWI Flying Ace, Flashbeagle, Joe Cool, the Easter Beagle, and the Masked Marvel.
• Meaningful Name: Besides the image of a dog snooping around, Schulz biographer David Michaelis says that snupi is a Norwegian term of affection. Schulz's mother (the daughter of Norwegian immigrants) suggested Snoopy as a possible name for a future family dog (but she passed away before they could get one).
• Miles Gloriosus: He tends to insult and threaten the mean cat next door a lot, only to cower in terror when he gets close.
• Moment Killer: He and Woodstock had a brief falling out because Snoopy had monopolized the attention of a female bird (and presumed love interest) that Woodstock had introduced him to at a party.
• Most Writers Are Writers: He's an aspiring author.
• Mr. Imagination: Quite often, he'll imagine himself to be anyone. This trait of Snoopy's is so prominent that it was the theme of a McDonald's line of toys during March 2018. Snoopy was featured as a baseball player, basketball player, detective, dancer, Beagle Scout, pirate, superhero, and astronaut,^note the latter possibly a reference to his affiliation with NASA and status as the mascot of aerospace safety as well as his classic personas of World War I Flying Ace, "Joe Cool", and famous author (with his iconic typewriter). He's also quite adept at animal impersonations, having done everything from rabbits to vultures to dinosaurs.
• Non-Human Sidekick: To Charlie Brown and occasionally other characters. In the early days, it was unclear who was the owner of Snoopy.
• An Odd Place to Sleep: For some reason, he prefers to sleep on top of his doghouse, rather than inside it.
• Old Soldier: World War I veteran, and shows a great deal of experience with military customs, courtesies, tactics, and training. Adopted as a mascot by several military organizations. Spent each Veteran's Day enjoying root beer with Bill Mauldin. Allied records regarding his exploits are somewhat vague due to the high level of secrecy involving many of the operations he took part in.
• Pet the Human: Snoopy will sometimes go out of his way to support and comfort his owner. The Peanuts Movie took this to greater lengths.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: In the July 11, 1975 strip, he's seen effortlessly lifting Charlie Brown over his head in the last panel.
• Really Fond of Sleeping: Snoopy is quite the connoisseur of naps. Best exemplified in one strip where he bemoans "I missed The Golden Age Of Radio. I missed the golden age of television. I missed the golden age of movies. I refuse to miss the golden age of sleeping!"
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: He'll play up to this if it means he gets food.
• Scout-Out: His "Beagle Scouts" (Woodstock and other birds).
• Series Mascot: Seen on a lot of Peanuts merchandise.
• Shipper on Deck: In The Peanuts Movie, he tries to get the Little Red Haired Girl to notice his master.
• The Silent Bob: He becomes one in nearly every animated special and movie, most notably What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown!. Creator Charles Schulz had considered many ways to animate his thoughts into speech, before deciding not to have him speak at all and communicate only in pantomime (accompanied with various barks, whimpers, and snarls), which worked out rather well. Snoopy often mimics the actions of others, such as Lucy in A Charlie Brown Christmas.
• Silent Snarker: We can read his thoughts, but he comes off as this to the kids in-universe, rolling his eyes and expressing derision through animal sounds. Sometimes his thoughts aren't even shown, and we're left to guess.
  Snoopy: My mind reels with sarcastic replies!
• Small Name, Big Ego: Snoopy constantly refers to himself as "world famous" whether he's an attorney, a novelist or even a grocery clerk, despite typically failing at whatever he's doing.
• Sore Loser: He can go into a destructive rage when he loses. Especially in tennis, as seen in both You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown and Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!).
• Suddenly Voiced: Because the material would not work with his usual pantomime acts, the Animated Adaptations of the two stage musicals, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and Snoopy!!! The Musical lets the audience hear his thoughts so that he can participate in the song numbers. In You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown his speaking/singing voice was provided by Robert Towers, and in Snoopy!!! The Musical by Cam Clarke.
• "Take That!" Kiss: He does that a lot. Usually to Lucy.
• Through a Face Full of Fur: Trope Namer. He would be seen blushing occasionally, and Charlie Brown even lampshaded it, saying "How could anybody blush through a face full of hair?"
• Trademark Favorite Food: By the time the Nineties rolled around, he was pretty obsessed with cookies. Also, angel food cake with seven minute frosting. But originally, it was candies, to the point where Shermy, Patty, and Charlie Brown had to trick him or otherwise give up their candy to him. And who could forget all those pizzas before going to bed? And, as always, root beer!
  Snoopy: (sigh) I could eat a twenty-four inch pizza without batting a lip.
• The Troublemaker: Snoopy tends to cause a good deal of trouble for the neighborhood, often prompting Charlie Brown to ask, "Why can't I have a normal dog, like everybody else?!"
  • He frequently attempts to steal Linus's signature Security Blanket. If Linus sees him coming, he will caution him that the attempt will earn him a punch in the nose.
  • He's frequently being chided by Lucy for whatever cause she seems to be justified in at that given moment, such as lecturing him for dancing when there was so much trouble in the world. Snoopy's response is usually to ignore her, or to give her a very unwanted smooch.
  • Schroeder has caught him dancing atop his piano from time to time, and usually manages to send him packing with a Death Glare. He probably wishes he could do the same with Lucy.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Sometimes his getups and antics are noted and commented on. And sometimes it seems like they're missing the point, such as Charlie Brown grumbling about having to untangle Snoopy's ears. After Snoopy had been flying around. Under his own power.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: There are some fans who really liked Robert Tower’s and/or Cam Clarke’s voices for Snoopy’s dialogue in You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown/Snoopy the Musical’s animated specials, and thought it was a shame that they were never used again, even though Schulz never wanted Snoopy to have dialogue in the cartoons.
  • In fact, some would even go as far as to say that Snoopy being pantomime only works as funny small slapstick scenes in a B-plot to the plot of a special, and feel as though newer animated stuff like The Snoopy Show focusing mainly on him just doesn’t work, while him having thoughts adds more to his character/personality.

Linus van Pelt

"Cheer up, Charlie Brown…"

—A phrase he ends up saying far too often

First Appearance: September 19, 1952 — Final Appearance: January 1, 2000^† (final spoken line: December 14, 1999)

A shy, smart young boy. Born in 1952, Linus developed into a hyper-intelligent toddler who could do almost anything (including build a huge paper boat and dribble a basketball like a pro) but evolved into... well, an Innocent Prodigy. He's not beyond childhood naïveté, such as his established belief in The Great Pumpkin every Halloween. There's also his trademark blue Security Blanket, which he's rarely seen without.

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• #1 Dime: His blue blanket. Schulz claimed that Linus' blanket was inspired by blankets like this that his own children carried around, and claimed that he had no idea that he would end up coining the term "security blanket" as a result of it.
• Afraid of Needles: Linus is not only afraid of getting shots, he's scared when he has to get a sliver taken out of his finger with a needle or tweezers. (For the latter, Charlie Brown gave some advice, telling him to pretend he was being tortured by pirates who wanted him to tell them where the gold was buried. After having his mother remove the sliver — indicated by an off-panel scream from Linus — he came back and said, "I told them where the gold was buried!")
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: He outright begs and pleads Lucy to tell him where she buried his blanket. It doesn't work.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: Lucy finds him annoying and is embarrassed by his habits.
• Art Evolution: In The Peanuts Movie, Linus' hair is dark brown, is considerably more wispy, and has more hairs on his head to compensate for the change to 3D CG. where, by nature of the medium, more of his hair would be visible.
• As the Good Book Says...: He often quotes Scripture, and can engage in learned theological debate like he's a seminary graduate.
• A Day in the Limelight:Linus is the main character in Why, Charlie Brown, Why?, It Was My Best Birthday Ever, Charlie Brown and Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown.
• Badass Adorable: He is proficient in using his blanket as a weapon, a skill that carries over into the animated adaptations and which he won't hesitate to use if you insult his blanket habit or bully a girl in his presence. His most extreme example is the Very Special Episode Why, Charlie Brown, Why?, where, devoid of his blanket for the whole episode (to stress the seriousness of the subject), he nearly clobbers a kid who was bullying his cancer-stricken friend/crush for her chemo-induced baldness.
• Berserk Button:
  • Being called "sweet babboo" by Sally. Also, DO NOT bully girls around him, especially ones he has a crush on.
  • Insulting his belief in the Great Pumpkin or insinuating the Great Pumpkin isn't real. Watch the end credits of It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown for an example.
  • Trying to steal his blanket from him can also set him off violently. Most notably, when Snoopy, himself in a bad mood from getting kicked out of a library thanks to a "NO DOGS ALLOWED" sign, attempts to take it for himself, it leads to the two coming to blows in their Escalating War in Snoopy Come Home.
• Beware the Nice Ones: That blanket isn't just for show. Get him riled enough and he'll show you what he can do with it. He also yelled at a bully in "Why, Charlie Brown, Why?".
• Book Smart: He is the most knowledgeable of the kids.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: In the 1960s he was often depicted as not being particularly motivated when it came to schoolwork, achieving only average and sometimes failing grades despite his immense intelligence.
• The Casanova: Around the late-80s and 90s, Linus was often seen getting together with multiple girls, including Janice, Melody-Melody, Mimi, and Lydia. There were even some cases, like with Mary Jo and even the Little Red-Haired Girl, where Linus would end up with girls that Charlie Brown was interested in.
• Character Development: A very subtle example, but during the final decade of the strip, Linus actually began to outgrow his blanket, carrying it around far less than in previous years.
• Characterization Marches On: Before becoming the blanket-hugging, gospel-quoting weirdo, Linus started out as a baby learning to cope with the world.
• Color-Coded Characters: Red
• Character Tic: Sucking his thumb.
• A Day in the Limelight: Linus has gotten his share of memorable story arcs in the strip over the years, often focusing on his attachment to his security blanket and attempts (whether voluntary or forced on him by Lucy) to give it up. And It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown focused more on him than anyone else. As did Why, Charlie Brown, Why?.
• Deadpan Snarker: Sometimes, and it's one of the only traits he has in common with his sister.
• Delicious Distraction: For Linus, it's toast. He's claimed he can't hear a thing while he's eating toast because the crunching echoes inside his head. "Actually, it's very peaceful... eating toast is like getting away for the weekend."
• Determinator: No matter how many times Linus is disappointed in the Great Pumpkin's failure to show up, he refuses to give up hope that he will one day see the Great Pumpkin.
• Did Not Get the Girl: Like with Charlie Brown, his love life is pretty pathetic: Miss Othmar runs off with her boyfriend before he could give her a box of chocolates, Truffles ends up liking Snoopy better, Lydia and Tapioca Pudding both continuously drive him crazy, and Melody-Melody betrays him and runs off to the Super Bowl.
• Disappointing Older Sibling: Like his big sister Lucy, Rerun is embarrassed by Linus' habits, such as his security blanket, sucking his thumb, and waiting for The Great Pumpkin every October. Rerun has even admitted to Snoopy that he is unable to look up to Linus as a role model because of these habits.
• Everyone Loves Blondes: A few of his crushes each had blonde hair, such as Mary Jo, Mimi, and possibly Janice.
• Expressive Hair: His hair points straight upwards whenever he's startled, angry, or scared.
• Failure Is the Only Option: Two for him—he will never see the Great Pumpkin on Halloween, and he will never be able to give up his beloved blanket (and believe us, he has tried). In A Charlie Brown Christmas, he even said he might turn his blanket into a suit jacket. (Funnily enough, it was Snoopy who ended up doing that in the strip some years later. The latter event was in fact the one time Linus succeeded in kicking his blanket habit—only for him to relapse when Charlie Brown bought him a new blanket to replace the one Snoopy destroyed.)
• False Prophet: Linus is accused of being one by Marcie's parents after she decides to join him in waiting for the Great Pumpkin. Sally is no help at all.
  Sally: [to Linus] I'm looking up all the Scriptures that warn us about false prophets. Jeremiah, Matthew, Luke, John... I think you're off the hook. I'm almost to the end, and I haven't come across your name. (November 5, 1977 strip)
• Gentleman and a Scholar: Linus is one of the most self-possessed characters in the strip, lacking Charlie Brown's social awkwardness and Lucy's ego, and he also knows a ridiculous amount about the Bible, Christian theology, education policy and anything else he takes an interest in.
• Going Cold Turkey: Linus has been in this position numerous times over the years with his security blanket. But whether it was voluntary (i.e. asking Snoopy to keep the blanket for him) or forced upon him by Lucy (i.e. burying the blanket underground), they've all failed to break him of the "habit."
• Hollywood Jehovah's Witness: Parodied in the Sunday strips where he door knocks the neighborhood trying to spread the word about the Great Pumpkin, right down to his trying to leave literature behind, occasionally joined by Snoopy (who he bribes with cookies). The was partly inspired by Schulz's daughter Amy, who converted to Mormonism and served as a church missionary.
• Implied Love Interest: In ''Why, Charlie Brown, Why?'', he's strongly shown to be smitten with his friend Janice, such as when he hugs her before he leaves the hospital, enjoys her company, and defends her from a Jerkass bully.
• Improbable Weapon User: Linus showed Roy why he was never concerned about people ridiculing him about his blanket: he uses it as a whip and shears off a tree branch with it.
  Linus: They never tease me more than once.
• Innocent Prodigy: Former Trope Namer. He has great insight into some situations and a very high intellect such as being able to precisely quote any passage of Biblical scripture, but he also believed in the Great Pumpkin, which brought him ridicule despite his intelligence. He's an average student at best. And he hates to be separated from his beloved blue blanket.
• Jerkass Ball: Downplayed but he tends to pick it up where the Great Pumpkin is concerned. His beliefs come from a good place but he tends to preach about the Great Pumpkin and try to insert it into conversations whenever Halloween is due, regardless of whether or not anyone is actually willing to listen to him. He's also pretty unsympathetic to anyone who finds themselves inconvenienced by actually buying into his diatribes or otherwise put out from him trying to spread the word. As far as he's concerned insuring that everyone knows about the Great Pumpkin trumps any personal concerns or wants, even if he or others have to pay the price.
  • A good example of Linus' Lack of Empathy shows up when he runs for class president. He pretty much has the election won until he brings up the Great Pumpkin in the final debate, which is pretty well shown to be the only reason he lost. Afterward, Charlie Brown and Lucy, who were due for positions as part of Linus' campaign, are hurt and angry at him for costing himself a guaranteed win. Linus feels that his belief system means more than any prospective gains that would come from not bringing it up and refuses to see that he caused any harm with his actions. It would have been one thing if Linus was the only one affected but both his best friend and sister also wound up losing out because of his actions and he doesn't offer so much as an apology. Charlie Brown is normally tolerant and accepting of Linus' eccentricities but this time has had enough and points out that Linus didn't have to even bring up the Great Pumpkin but Linus still chose to do so, putting his personal beliefs over doing right by his friends. Even after Charlie Brown and Linus settle things Linus still tries to get Charlie Brown to wait with him in the pumpkin patch, not seeming to grasp that this is probably a bad time for it.
  • Linus also shows a subtle arrogance in his belief that his pumpkin patch is the most sincere one and as such the one that the Great Pumpkin will visit. He point blank refuses to consider that any other pumpkin patch may be the one chosen and always assumes that his will be the one the Great Pumpkin chooses.
• Matchmaker Crush: On the Little Red-Haired Girl, whenever it's especially inconvenient for Charlie Brown.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: The soft spoken feminine boy (one of three) to Lucy's short-tempered masculine girl.
• Mature Younger Sibling: He's a wise kid (albeit one with a slight immature streak) who is mostly even-tempered and in touch with moral principles, as opposed to his older sister Lucy, who will fly into a rage at the smallest provocations. He at least tries to steer her in the right direction, but she doesn't listen to him.
• Nice Guy: He's normally kind, well-meaning, and a good friend to Charlie Brown.
• No Matter How Much I Beg:
  • Linus enlists Snoopy in this trope to kick his blanket habit. Snoopy eventually resorts to having it made into sport coats for himself and Woodstock. He also tries it with Charlie Brown with less success.
  • An earlier attempt at this with Linus's teacher, Miss Othmar, also failed. In an attempt to get her to stop biting her fingernails, Linus asked his teacher to keep his blanket for him. The trouble was, he made such a deal thinking Miss Othmar would cave and start biting her nails again, which she didn't, and Linus became a wreck without his blanket. He finally got Miss Othmar to agree to give the blanket back, with the tradeoff that he could no longer bring it to school.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business
  • Linus is normally the gentlest of all the main cast towards Charlie Brown. However, in a 1969 arc, when he learns the Little Red-Haired Girl is moving away (not to return for several years), he repeatedly urges his friend to finally tell her how he feels and say goodbye. Charlie Brown is, true to form, too wishy-washy to do so. Linus's pleas become increasingly urgent when he spots the girl's family packing everything into their car. When Charlie Brown still fails to act, and the car finally pulls away, Linus completely loses it and rages at Charlie Brown for his wishy-washiness and cowardice. He's so furious that when Lucy, who normally intimidates him, happens by, he screams, "AND DON'T YOU GIVE ME ANY TROUBLE!", then storms off, leaving her bewildered. A few strips later, he kicks Charlie Brown in the butt after C.B goes on about all the things he would have liked to done with the LRHG.
  • He becomes uncharacteristically moody and aggressive in Why, Charlie Brown, Why? when his friend/crush Janice is diagnosed with leukemia, snapping at his sister and nearly clobbering a bully who teased Janice for her chemo-induced baldness. He also is sans blanket for the entire special, a choice made by Schulz to emphasize the seriousness of the subject matter.
• Oral Fixation: He seems hooked on thumb-sucking as much as his blanket.
• Out of Focus: Come the 1990s, in favor of his little brother Rerun.
• Precocious Crush: He had one on his teacher, Miss Othmar.
• Ping Pong Naïveté: From erudite philosopher to naive kid whose imagination and fears run away from him — snapping back and forth (or doing both at once) is one of Linus' prevailing traits.
• Security Blanket: Trope Namer. An early '60s set of strips showed Linus having a full on nervous breakdown in the time it took for the blanket to run through the washer and dryer. In a Pet the Dog moment for her, Lucy rushes to get it to him before he completely collapses into catatonia.
• She Is Not My Girlfriend: "I'M NOT YOUR SWEET BABBOO!"
• Shipper on Deck: Linus ships Charlie Brown and the Little Red-Haired Girl, resulting in him having an utter Freak Out at Charlie Brown for not having the courage to speak to her before she moves away. However, his own penchant for the Red-Haired Girl has occasionally caused him to sabotage his own ship.
• Still Sucks Thumb: Whenever he's holding his blanket.
  Lucy: I've tried it and it almost makes me sick!
  Linus: Maybe I taste better than you!
• Smart People Wear Glasses: He donned them for a brief period in the early '60s.
• Unexplained Recovery: His blanket is destroyed in a few strips, but always pops up again.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He has an obsessive fear of queen snakes ("Boy, you get chomped by a queen snake and you've had it!"), and either doesn't know or doesn't care that queen snakes are non-venomous. He also fears getting chomped by "night snakes," but considers rock snakes harmless because all they can do is hit you in the back of the leg with a rock.
• Windmill Crusader: More than likely, his annual quest to wait for the Great Pumpkin and prove he exists is a pointless pursuit. (Well, probably. All that is known is, if the Great Pumpkin does exist, Linus has never succeeded in his goal.)
• Wise Beyond Their Years: Possibly wisest of the cast. He can quote multiple Biblical passages from memory, sees images from famous works of art in the clouds, takes replicas of archaeological finds to show-and-tell, and many, many more.

Lucille "Lucy" van Pelt

"Five cents, please."

—the price she charges for 'Psychiatric Help'

First Appearance: March 3, 1952 — Final Appearance: December 13, 1999^† (final spoken line: December 12, 1999)

Linus's older sister. She started off in 1952 as a wide-eyed, childish little girl but gradually evolved into the bossy fussbudget we all know to this day. She antagonizes not only Linus, but Charlie Brown as well.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: Towards Schroeder. You have to wonder just why he (or even his unseen parents) let her into his house to bother him, as she could often be an outright vandal when he ignored her, destroying his piano on two separate occasions.
• Adaptational Nice Girl: When Peanuts animation began, the producers realized that Lucy's strip portrayal didn't translate well from print to dramatized narrative, with her aggressiveness contrasting too strongly with the more mild-mannered portrayals of Charlie Brown and Linus, basically making Lucy come across as a shrill Jerkass. So they mellowed her out with more of a Sugar-and-Ice Personality, getting Pet the Dog moments like when she wakes up early to retrieve Linus from the pumpkin patch in It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. She's still a crabby jerk, but compared to the strips, she's not quite as bad.
• Art Evolution: In The Peanuts Movie, Lucy's dress is a darker shade of blue, with the exception of the flower collar, which remains light blue.
• Berserk Button: Criticizing her for anything that she does. (Although in one 1978 storyline, Lucy was simply stunned speechless when Charlie Brown told her she wasn't perfect, and later on regretted not having hit him for that.)
• Big Bad: At least, as "bad" one can be by Peanuts standards. She is effectively the strip's main antagonist and spends many of appearances being a massive thorn in Charlie Brown's side.
• Big Eater: "Being crabby all day makes you hungry!" she claims.
• Big Sister Bully: She yells at Linus and punches him a lot. Her violent tendencies were toned down by the late 1970s and her abuse of Linus became primarily verbal thereafter. That said, she's far more lenient with her even younger brother, Rerun.
• Big Sister Instinct: She's very protective of Rerun, and sometimes can be protective towards Linus as well.
• Big Sister Mentor: Often acts as a mentor to her little brother Rerun. She thinks of herself as one regardless, for both baby brothers:
  Lucy: Having a big sister is like having a compass to guide you through life.
  Rerun: [to Linus] Is that true?
  Linus: [with his blanket over his head] I just left.
• Blatant Lies: She often employs these to induce Charlie Brown to kick the football.
• Characterization Marches On: Early on, she was nothing like her most famous personality: she was a wide-eyed toddler who acted, well, like a toddler. Her future nastiness was occasionally foreshadowed, as even as a baby she still had a propensity towards deliberately antagonizing Charlie Brown in particular. For instance, this, this and this strip. Such moments became more and more frequent until they became one of her trademarks.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • "You blockhead!", "I'm gonna slug you.", "I've been kissed by a dog! I've got dog germs! Get hot water! Get some disinfectant! Get some iodine!" or some variation thereof ^note Bleah!, "Five cents, please," and "How about I hold the football, and you come running and kick it?"^note This catchphrase would have something along the lines of this, although she words it differently a lot of the time.
  • "I'll probably never get married."^note In the early years of the strip, always said after Schroeder rejects her advances.
• Character Development: Schulz admitted later on that exposure to her brother Rerun had affected her in a positive way, which made her more difficult to write.^note "Suddenly Lucy's personality has mellowed, and she has become the only Peanuts character to pay much attention to him. We have seen her playing games with Rerun and actually trying to teach him a few things, but directly opposite of the outrageous teachings she used to push upon Linus. This, then, is the problem — what do we do with Lucy? She seems no longer to be a fussbudget, but we also don't want her to be too nice."
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She is obsessively infatuated with Schroeder and goes to ridiculous lengths to beat out her competition for his attention — namely, his piano.
• Color-Coded Characters: Blue
• Comedic Sociopathy: When Lucy needs to solve a problem, she shouts. If shouting doesn't work, she uses her fists. If fists don't work, she uses her feet.
• Consummate Liar: No matter how many times she tricked Charlie Brown into trying to kick the football (only to pull it away), he'd always fall for it again the next year.
• Creepy Child: Her early appearances depicted her as one — this was unintentional.
• A Day in the Limelight: Lucy is the main character in Play It Again, Charlie Brown, Snoopy Presents: For Auld Lang Syne, and Snoopy Presents: Lucy's School.
• Deadpan Snarker: She's especially snide towards Charlie Brown.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Lucy reacts violently to something as mundane as someone standing in her way on the sidewalk.
  Charlie Brown: [after Lucy and Snoopy get into a brawl, which Snoopy wins by kissing her into submission] I'm surprised at you two! Brawling in the street like a couple of hoods! What's the matter with you?!
  Lucy: HE WAS STANDING WHERE I WANTED TO WALK!
  Charlie Brown: The ultimate crime.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: While all the characters changed appearance over the strip's first ten or so years, Lucy had a very specific example. When she was first introduced, in March 1952, she was the only character who had circles around her eye dots: all the others had plain eye dots. By May 1952, these had became the familiar parentheses around the outsides of her eye dots, and when Linus was introduced in October of that year, he had the same feature.
• Ear-Piercing Plot: In one arc, Lucy and Peppermint Patty wanted to get their ears pierced, and Marcie was a big help, telling them about all the dangers of getting that done by an unskilled amateur; Patty almost freaked when Marcie mentioned a penicillin shot. Eventually they decided to go the safe route and have a doctor do it, but Lucy chickened out and ran after hearing Patty overreact to it.
• Exact Words: The strip of March 30, 1980.
  Charlie Brown: Come on, let's hear it for our team!
  Lucy: IT!
  Charlie Brown: That isn't exactly what I meant.
• Foil: To her younger brother Linus, in many ways. While Linus is generally calm and stoic and only loses his temper occasionally, Lucy is confrontational and has a Hair-Trigger Temper. To further highlight their personality differences, one only has to look at their interactions with Charlie Brown. Linus more often than not acts as a supportive friend to Charlie and offers helpful advice in times of need, while Lucy is antagonistic towards Charlie and tends to make whatever self-esteem issues he may have worse with her hurtful comments that only serve to boost her own ego. Also, while Linus is the target of his Abhorrent Admirer Sally, Lucy herself plays the role of an Abhorrent Admirer to Schroeder.
• For the Evulz: While Violet had her reasons with keeping the football away from Charlie Brown, Lucy has no apparent reason to do it to CB other than simply because...well, let's face it, she's a world-class bitch.
• Girls Like Musicians: She has a crush on Schroeder, who plays the piano.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: She wears a frilly blue dress with a bow, is very vain about her appearance, acts more flirty and romantic than all the other girls, plays baseball only because she has a crush on a boy in the team, and she's terrible at it. But she's also known for being short-tempered and aggressive, and gets a Tomboyness Upgrade in later years of the strip, as she starts to wear pants more often and hang out only with guys, without losing her girly traits.
• Gratuitous Latin:
  Lucy: [hugging Snoopy] Felicitas est parvus canus calidus. That's Latin for "Happiness is a warm puppy."
  Snoopy: [eye roll] I can't stand it!
• Hair-Trigger Temper: It takes very little to trigger Lucy's Berserk Button. She's not above slugging Linus or Charlie Brown for no apparent reason and before they even see it coming.
• Hopeless Suitor: Towards Schroeder, who only cares for Beethoven music.
• Hypocrite:
  • Lucy's good at pointing out other peoples' faults, but try to do the same with her and she'll either slug you, go into Heroic BSoD from shock of someone telling her she isn't perfect, or hit below the belt with an even more cutting insult.
    Lucy: I just think I have a knack for seeing other people's faults.
    Linus: What about your own faults?
    Lucy: I have a knack for overlooking them.
  • For someone who calls Charlie Brown a "blockhead", she is horrible at psychology, and nothing — despite her criticizing Linus when he fails to make the honor roll or makes only average grades — indicates she's a good student.
  • Even though she tells Charlie Brown nobody likes him, she herself is not liked by the other kids either for how rude and bossy she is. At least Charlie Brown has some friends who respect him, while everyone usually just tolerates Lucy at best.
• "I Want" Song: "Lucy Says" in the TV special It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown becomes this during the bridge. "Lucy says, 'I wanna be the queen of the world, yes I do'..."
• Insult Backfire: Lucy knows she is a crabby "fussbudget" and wears those titles with pride, so anyone who tries to call her out on her attitude often fails to get through.
  Charlie Brown: I see you're wearing your crabby face again today...
  Lucy: There's nothing wrong with being crabby...I'm proud of being crabby...THE CRABBY LITTLE GIRLS OF TODAY ARE THE CRABBY OLD WOMEN OF TOMORROW!
• It's All About Me: Oh yes. When told that the world doesn't revolve around her, her response is a stunned pause followed by, "You're kidding!"
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Yes, Lucy does have a heart under all that crabbiness.
  • The "Jerk" part started out with her being a "fussbudget", and it just got worse from there. Despite this and her bossiness, crabbiness and tendencies towards violence, she's not a monster. For example, when Charlie Brown became ill and had to spend time in the hospital, Lucy got upset (although, characteristically, her first response was "I need somebody to hit!") She eventually prayed that if he got better, she wouldn't pull the football away. She kept her promise. And then Charlie Brown spoiled it all by accidentally kicking her hand.
  • A less dramatic, more humorous but still sweet example. In another strip, when Charlie Brown was willing to go outside in the middle of a huge blizzard to just fly a kite, Lucy was truly worried for his safety. Eventually pleading him not to go because he could freeze to death.
  • In another strip, when Linus had to temporarily fill in for Charlie Brown during a baseball game and did much better than him, Lucy attempted to spare his feelings and didn't want to directly say he was better. Of course her efforts were in vain, but it was still a nice thing to do.
  • She also has a love-hate relationship with Snoopy, often putting up fights with him most of the time, but also sometimes showing him some sort of affection, like patting his head and hugging him in this strip.
  • In the animated It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, she goes out very late at night and gets Linus when he was about to sit in the pumpkin patch all night, and gently gets him into bed without so much as a complaint. It's implied by a quick wake-up and immediately checking Linus' bedroom she might have been waiting to see if he came back.
  • By the very late 1980's up until her final appearance, her crabby tone was toned down a little.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: Lucy often gets away with her more petty acts of bullying and obnoxiousness, but every now and then will be the butt of a joke herself. She frequently gets outplayed when she tries to antagonize Snoopy.
• Kick the Dog: She is needlessly cruel to Charlie Brown on occasion and the number of times she yeets her football away from him will surely get her under your skin.
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Lucy often makes wild, ridiculous claims and then laughs Charlie Brown to scorn for talking sense. This bothers him to the point of feeling terribly ill. The song "Little Known Facts" from You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown covers how seemingly uneducated Lucy is.
• Large Ham: She rivals Sally in this department. Particularly in the late '50s and early '60s strips, in which she often has overly dramatic reactions to a simple question or statement from Charlie Brown.
  [upon realizing Charlie Brown hesitates to confirm she's pretty] "You didn't answer right away. You had to think about it, didn't you? You think I'm ugly, don't you? I KNOW WHEN I'VE BEEN INSULTED! I KNOW WHEN I'VE BEEN INSULTED!!"
  "EWWW! DOG GERMS!!"
  [after Charlie Brown tells her this is Children's Art Month] "Why THIS month? Why not LAST month? Why not NEXT month? You can't narrow down art to one particular time of year! Art must be UNCONFINED! ART MUST HAVE FREEDOM! YOU CAN'T SAY, 'TODAY WE WILL PRODUCE A WORK OF ART'! YOU CAN'T SAY..." [Charlie Brown sighs as Lucy continues her rant]
• Little Miss Snarker: From her very first appearance, she may well be considered the queen of Little Misses Snarkers. Of course, sarcasm was far from the only thing that made her what she was.
• Ludicrous Gift Request: A variation on the trope. Her gift requests aren't unreasonable, but the occasion for which she wants to be given gifts is: Beethoven's birthday.
• Mad Love: Her obsession with Schroeder, even if it's clear he's not interested in her.
• Malaproper: She does this on occasion. For example, when she hurts her arm playing baseball, she angrily threatens to sue everyone associated with baseball, including Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and "Willard Mullin". In one arc, when Snoopy quits the team, she said he's always "changing rainbows."
• Manipulative Bitch: She will do anything to get what she wants and betray anyone if it serves her, or if she can get some laughs out of it.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: The short-tempered masculine girl to Schroeder, Linus and Charlie Brown's soft spoken feminine boys.
• Murder the Hypotenuse: Schroeder's piano. Once she threw it to the Kite Eating Tree, and another time she threw it down the sewer. Unfortunately for her, he quickly replaced it each time. Also, on occasion, with Frieda, that is, before Frieda disappeared from the strip.
• Never My Fault: Her constantly pulling the football away when Charlie Brown's supposed to kick it, causing them to lose the game, and then blaming Charlie Brown for it in It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown is one of the main reasons that special has a poor reputation amongst fans.^note  The other reason is the prominence of the Little Red-Haired Girl – including giving her a name (Heather) and a face in direct contravention of Schulz's wishes. It even used to be the Trope Namer for that page.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: The in-between to Patty's nice and Violet's mean. Lucy is extremely self-centered and callous, but unlike Violet, she's not above helping others when possible. Superiority complex aside, Lucy has the ability to be down-to-earth.
  • When it comes to her and her siblings, however, she's the mean to Rerun's nice and Linus's in-between.
• No Indoor Voice: While all the characters can do it to a degree, Lucy is the unrivalled master of it.
• Non-Standard Character Design: In her earliest appearances, she was the only character with Sphere Eyes.
• Not So Above It All: One Sunday strip, from October 24, 1965, shows Linus writing another letter to The Great Pumpkin with Lucy right by his side the whole time criticizing him. But in the final panel, after Linus mails the letter and walks off, Lucy asks "Did you tell him I've tried to be good, too?"
• One-Note Cook: "How did Beethoven feel about cold cereal?"
• One of the Boys: Despite being a Girly Girl, in the later years she would only hang out with Charlie Brown, Linus, and Schroeder, and rarely wore dresses.
• Outdated Outfit: Lucy continued to wear those frilly little puff-sleeved sash dresses and saddle shoes decades after they'd ceased being standard everyday girlwear, although starting in The '70s she often wore a shirt and pants instead. By The '90s the shirt and pants had become her regular outfit in the strip, though in pop culture her classic blue dress remains iconic.
• Resentful Outnumbered Sibling: When Linus and Lucy's mother gives birth to a baby boy, Lucy is annoyed that she still doesn't have a sister and she even calls their new brother a "rerun". Since then, their brother has always been called Rerun.
• Pet the Dog:
  • She can be protective toward Linus. Sometimes. She is also touched whenever Linus does something spontaneously kind for her, probably because she doesn't expect him to.
  • Even more so to Rerun. While she slugs, manipulates, and bosses Linus around all the time, she's very nurturing to Rerun.
  • The famous line "Happiness is a warm puppy" originates from her; she says it after giving Snoopy a hug.
  • In Charlie Brown All-Stars, she (along with the rest of the girls and Snoopy) feels guilty for hurting Charlie Brown's feelings after finding out the reason he turned down Mr. Hennessy's deal on getting uniforms is because the league wouldn't have allowed girls and dogs on a team. So they decide to make him a uniform out of Linus's blanket.
• Running Gag: Pulling the football away after getting Charlie Brown to come kick it.
• Screaming at Squick: Only happens in response to Snoopy pulling a "Take That!" Kiss.
• Shower Scene: In a 1992 Sunday strip, Lucy was so grossed out at being kissed by Snoopy's "dog lips" that she ran home and jumped into the shower fully clothed. (Snoopy did the same.)
• The Shrink: The advice she gives at her psychiatric booth is usually worthless at best, but where else can you get it for five cents a session?
• Small Name, Big Ego: Very much so, even the quote above describes as "a combination of zero brains and infinite self-esteem".
• Sphere Eyes: In her earliest appearances, and was the only character to have them to boot.
• Tender Tomboyishness, Foul Femininity: The Foul Femininity to Peppermint Patty's Tender Tomboyishness. Peppermint Patty is a tomboyish Passionate Sports Girl who almost never wears dresses and is rather laid-back and friendly for the most part. Lucy often wears a blue dress, is more openly flirty and romantic, and does not get along with others whatsoever.
• Third-Person Person: Lucy spoke like this in her earliest appearances, when she was still a toddler.
• Throw the Dog a Bone:
  • After acknowledging Beethoven's birthday in a 1984 strip, Schroeder gives her a kiss on the cheek. Not that she ever finds out.
  • In a 1970 strip, Schroeder used the promise of this to bait-and-switch Lucy, announcing he was going to kiss her on the nose but then having his "representative" (Snoopy) deliver the kiss instead, much to Lucy's horror.
• Tiny Tyrannical Girl: She's very bossy and loud-mouthed towards other people.
• Token Evil Teammate: Compared to the other kids, she's by far the nastiest.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Surprisingly, Lucy resorted less to physical violence and became more self-conscious in the later strips. She once forgot to hit Charlie Brown after he offended her by telling her she wasn't perfect, though that was likely because she was in a state of Heroic BSoD. She's still snarky and crabby, though.
• True Blue Femininity: A blue dress was her Iconic Outfit for most of the strip's run.
• Tsundere: Lucy is sweet when it comes to Schroeder, her love interest, but she's mean and crabby when it comes to everybody else. And when it comes to her "competition" for Schroeder (namely, his piano), then it's a completely different story.
• Villainy-Free Villain: Lucy is the closest thing the strip had to an ongoing antagonist, but because this was a newspaper strip and therefore Status Quo Is God, none of the malicious things she did ever had any lasting consequences.

Sally Brown

"Abraham Lincoln was our 16th King, and the father of Lot's wife…"

—a typical book report that Sally Brown might give.

First Appearance: August 23, 1959 — Final Appearance: February 6, 2000

Charlie Brown's younger sister, making her debut in 1959. She's not that bright, and sometimes prone to firing off sarcasm when Charlie helps her with homework. She has an unrequited crush on Linus, who she says is her "sweet babboo". Linus, on the other hand, denies his status as her "sweet babboo".

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• Abhorrent Admirer: No matter how pretty Sally might be, Linus would like to remind you that he is not her "sweet babboo".
• All Love Is Unrequited: For Linus. There have been other boys (notably Harold Angel and Cormac) who have had crushes on her, but she, much to Linus' chagrin, remains faithful to her Sweet Babboo.
• Anime Hair: In stark contrast to Charlie Browns' permanent buzzcut (which leaves only two hairs on his temple visible), Sally's hair is much more visible as it's yellow and prominently spiked upward in two places, with Sally having some hair bunched up at the front, though this does leave some noticeable bald patches at the front of her head.. The other girls by comparison have pretty conventional haircuts, which makes Sally stick out like a sore thumb. One does have to wonder how her hair is standing up like it does though.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: Charlie Brown tries to be understanding, but he loses his patience with her sometimes.
• Art Evolution: The Peanuts Movie changes the spots from black to dark pink, due to the change to CGI, as well as depicting the front of her hair in better detail (notably including the bald-patches and Anime Hair, instead of trying to tone it down or add more hair to their head).
• A Day in the Limelight:Sally is the main character in Snoopy Presents: It's the Small Things, Charlie Brown.
• Big Brother Worship: Inverted. She thinks Charlie Brown is weird.... and an idiot. Which doesn't stop her from blackmailing him into helping her with homework (or more often, doing her homework for her).
• Book Dumb: She struggles at school and has trouble with her homework.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • "My sweet babboo!"
  • "Isn't he the cutest thing?"
• Characterization Marches On:
  • Early on, she was originally just sweet and naive before she devolved into The Ditz.
  • Later on, Sally was ironically the reasonable one in the room when briefly assigned by their minister to teach stories from the Bible to some preschool kids, but one boy wouldn't stop confusing the Bible with The Great Gatsby, to her frustration.
  • While she usually refers to Charlie Brown as "big brother", she actually did refer to her own big brother as "Charlie Brown" in a few early strips.
  • Sally and Snoopy enjoyed playing together when she was a baby; they even teamed up to steal Linus's blanket on occasion. Once she grew to school-age, however, their relationship turned into one of mutual dislike, similar to that between Snoopy and Lucy.
• Companion Cube: Many strips had her talking to the school building.
• Color-Coded Characters: Originally sky-blue (back when all the girls wore dresses), but also pink later on.
• Costume Evolution: Sally was the first female character (discounting Peppermint Patty and Marcie, who virtually never wore dresses) to switch from wearing a dress to wearing pants on a regular basis, years before Lucy did the same, although the dress remained her trademark outfit in the animated TV specials. By the late '70s, she was rarely shown in a dress in the strip outside of school.
• The Ditz: She can be pretty ignorant. One example is thinking that her family is famous just because their name was in a telephone book.
• Dumb Blonde: She has shades of this, mostly in the school reports she writes (such as "Butterflies are free. What does this mean? This means you can have as many of them as you want.")
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Sanguine.
• The Ghost: Although she was first mentioned on May 26, 1959, she was constantly talked about by Charlie Brown and his friends, but not officially introduced to the strip until August 23, 1959.
• Greed: Combined with It's All About Me, though you can attribute it to her being six. For instance, she wants money for Christmas ("Tens and twenties", at a time that she's basically asking for hundreds accounting for inflation.)
• Hopeless Suitor: Quote Linus: "I'm not your 'sweet babboo!'" Ironically, it was Linus who was first interested in her, albeit in a creepy Wife Husbandry kind-of-way when Sally was still a baby.
• I Reject Your Reality: Her response every time Linus denies being her sweet baboo.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She can often be quite mean (particularly to her older brother), but she does love her brother and can be a nice person, especially around Linus.
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Because she's too lazy to do actual homework, Sally will usually bluff or improvise her way through any school assignment.
• Large Ham: She's a prime example of this trope.
• Malaproper: Her school reports, to the point of being a Running Gag.
• Pink Means Feminine: She wears a pink dress with dots, and when they switch to shirts later on, they are also pink with dots.
• Running Gag: In the '90s, a new character trait appeared where she developed "new philosophies". But the "philosophies" are actually just common phrases such as "Who cares?", "Oh, yeah? That's what you think!", "No!", "Waddya think?", and "I can't stand it!". These strips inspired the song in the 1999 revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown that would end up winning Kristin Chenoweth her first Tony Award, "My New Philosophy".
• Shipper on Deck: She ships Charlie Brown/Marcie, and not subtly: "KISS HER, YOU BLOCKHEAD!"
• Stalker with a Crush: On Linus, practically since the day she learned how to walk.
• Straight Man and Wise Guy: In the "beanbag chair" strips, Sally acts as the Wise Guy to Charlie Brown's Straight Man.
• Took a Level in Dumbass: Got less and less smart as the strip went on. This makes her insults of her brother's intelligence both hypocritical and ironic.
• Tsundere: Often this with Linus. Early on, she's almost as adamant as Lucy at bugging Linus to give up his blanket, since she regards him as husband material except for the blanket. When Linus gives her the brushoff, she'll sometimes retaliate by yanking his blanket away a la Lucy and Schroeder's piano. She'll also ask her big brother to play "hit man" by slugging or punching her "Sweet 'n' Sour Babboo" in revenge, which Charlie Brown is understandably reluctant to do.

Woodstock

First Appearance: March 4, 1966^‡ Name finally revealed on June 22, 1970 — Final Appearance: January 16, 2000

A yellow "hippie" bird that Snoopy met in the late 1960s. Unnamed at first, the bird became known as Woodstock after the music festival of the same name.

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• Acrophobic Bird: A literal example. Going too high causes him a lot of trouble.
• Adaptational Villainy: In Poptropica's Great Pumpkin Island, Woodstock takes the role of the otherwise unseen Red Baron during the island's dogfight sequence, in addition to him otherwise not being in the special the island was based on.
• Affectionate Nickname: Snoopy often refers to him as his "Friend of Friends".
• Ambiguous Gender: In the character's first few years Schulz had considered the bird to be female (since "she" was Snoopy's "secretary"), but the bird was never referred to by any specific pronouns. After reading a magazine article about the Woodstock festival, he decided that "Woodstock" would make a good name for the bird, but also that it was a decidedly masculine one, so he set Woodstock as male from that point on.
• Art Evolution: Schulz started out drawing more realistic-looking birds and ended up drawing ones that look like Woodstock. This may be because Woodstock was originally supposed to be a chick that hadn't fully matured (see below).
• Butt-Monkey: Especially in Snoopy, Come Home.
• Carnivore Confusion: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving ends with him enjoying a turkey dinner with Snoopy. (Which is odd, considering how he was always scared of being eaten on Thanksgiving in the strips.) To be fair though, Woodstock himself isn't a turkey...maybe.
• Cartoon Creature: While he's obviously a bird, it's not clear what species of bird he is. Lampshaded in one strip, wherein Snoopy tries to figure out what Woodstock's species is and never finds an answer. Schulz never clarified the issue either. It's basically assumed he's a canary.
• Cloudcuckoolander: The most notable example is a story arc where he and Snoopy got in a fight, when he sent Snoopy a bill for breaking his heart.
• A Day in the Limelight: The special It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown was centered around Woodstock, as he and Snoopy attempt to solve the mystery of who stole his nest.
• Deadpan Snarker: Apparently.
• Depending on the Artist: His flying abilities (or lack thereof) in the cartoons, as per Rule of Funny.
• Eyes Always Shut: Similar to the Snoopy example, his eyes are always closed in three-dimensional merchandise.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: He has yellow feathers and is Snoopy's closest friend.
• Hidden Depths: Knows a surprising amount of baseball trivia.
  Snoopy: How'd he ever hear of Ollie Bejma?
  • He's also a veteran of the Vietnam War, which explains his ability to pilot a helicopter.
• Intellectual Animal: Not as much as Snoopy, but does have his own opinions on things.
• Intelligible Unintelligible: His dialogue is rendered as scratch marks which only Snoopy understands, so the readers have to take a wild guess as to what exactly he’s saying. Often overlaps with Repeating So the Audience Can Hear.
• The Klutz:
  • Woodstock is not the best flier in the world, when under his own power. It's never outright stated, but Woodstock is implied to be one of two birds that hatched in a nest their parents made on Snoopy's stomach (in 1966), and which Snoopy tipped out before they were ready to fly—they were later shown to be flying upside down, and one of them became a recurring character that was eventually named as Woodstock. This puts a rather darker turn on their friendship, perhaps even that Snoopy felt guilty over the incident.
  • As far as dating the character's origin, there is, alternatively, the fact that the "character copyright" Schulz took out for what eventually became Woodstock was dated 1965. (A copyright date of 1965 is included on any licensed merchandise featuring Woodstock.) The best candidate for a "klutz bird" that appeared in the strip that year was from October 20, a bird on Snoopy's doghouse asking him for directions south, and who promptly falls off to the ground as he starts on his way, leading Snoopy to remark, "He'll never make it." Still, storywise, the bird hatched in '66 mentioned above appears to be the clearest antecedent.
• Mouthy Bird: He has a rounded beak that acts like a mouth.
• Musical Theme Naming: Woodstock gets his name from the iconic music festival of 1969.
• No Name Given: For his first few years.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He once won a fight with the mean cat next door. Seriously. Exactly how is a mystery. Also, Snoopy once formed a football team consisting of himself, Woodstock, and his other bird-friends, who managed to play Peppermint Patty's team and win, again done completely offscreen.
• She's a Man in Japan: The Norwegian translation gives him the name "Fredrikke", a definitely female name, and refers to him exclusively as a female.
• Toothy Bird: He even needed braces once!
• The Unintelligible: His dialogue is almost always depicted as a series of vertical lines which only Snoopy and other birds understand. However, he can apparently type in English.
• The Vietnam Vet: When Woodstock pilots a "helicopter" (i.e. Snoopy using his ears as rotor blades) to rescue Linus from a rooftop in one story, Linus asks Woodstock where he learned to his piloting skills, and Woodstock replies " 'Nam". However, it's just a one-off joke and it doesn't drastically define his character.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: His relationship with Snoopy occasionally tips over into this. Woodstock occasionally enjoys referring to Snoopy as "banana nose," which Snoopy hates.

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