Sherman's Lagoon / Characters

Sherman

The strip's title character, a dim-witted great white shark who loves to eat.

Big Eater: Oh yes.
Big Fun
Does Not Like Spam: He doesn't like vegetables. Eating one apparently "burns" for him.
Extreme Omnivore: Just how much has he eaten over the years? We're not sure.
Fat Idiot
Henpecked Husband: To Megan.
Honorary Uncle: To Fillmore's son Clayton. It gets a Lampshade Hanging.
Fillmore: Clayton, my boy, you remember your Uncle Sherman, don't you?
Clayton: How could he possibly be my uncle? We're turtles and he's a shark!
Fillmore: He's not literally your uncle... it's figurative, son.
Clayton: So, how come I don't have a figurative mom?
Sherman: It's his literal cologne.
Literal-Minded: He thinks that enlightening someone is done with a flashlight.
Nice Guy: He's not without his limits, but he's one of the strip's more easygoing characters.
Trademark Favorite Food: It's hard to pinpoint just what, exactly, his favorite food is, but he's rather fond of Twinkies.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He's afraid of sea snakes (especially striped ones) and clownfish.

An intelligent, socially-awkward sea turtle who serves as the strip's Only Sane Man. He enjoys reading and writing poetry. He can't find a mate.

Beware the Nice Ones: He's a nice guy, but he DOES have his limits.
Butt-Monkey
Casanova Wannabe
Honorary Uncle: To Sherman and Megan's son Herman.
Nice Guy: Along with Sherman, he's one of the strip's nicer characters.
Only Sane Man: When they made a stage adaptation of the show, he even gets a song about it.
Papa Wolf: The strip where he first meets Clayton has him discovering the baby sea turtle crawling out of the sand. Then a nearby seagull eats him. To which Fillmore shouts "NOOOOOOOOO!" and strangles the seagull, causing Clayton to come flying out.
Trademark Favorite Food: He loves eating jellyfish.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: One strip reveals that he's afraid of clowns, but in another storyline where the circus comes to town he's fine around the clownfish.

A greedy, short-tempered hermit crab who constantly comes up with get-rich-quick schemes. Obviously, he's a good crab deep down.

Casanova Wannabe: He's no better at getting women than Fillmore is.
The Friend Nobody Likes: Fillmore in particular can barely stand him much of the time.
Hair-Trigger Temper: It's easy to see why he and the equally-quite hot-tempered Megan don't get along.
Honorary Uncle: To Sherman and Megan's son Herman.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's rude and self-centered, but when the chips are down, he is always there for Sherman.
Naked People Are Funny: Runs around naked a lot.
Penny-Pinching Crab: Greedy? Check. Unethical? Check. Constantly comes up with get-rick-quick schemes that usually backfire on him? Check.
Third-Person Person: When he becomes the Bounty Hunter.

Sherman's bossy control-freak of a wife.

Control Freak
Dirty Coward: When she discovers that Captain Quigley is pursuing Sherman again, she kicks him out of the house until Quigley gives up.
Hair-Trigger Temper: Oh yeah.
Hypocrite: She gets bent out-of-shape when Sherman uses his hula dancing skills to tell a story about how much he hates Megan's mother... but she's totally fine with using her hula dance to tell a story about SHERMAN'S problems.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold
What Does He See In Her?: One wonders what Sherman sees in her, considering how overbearing and bossy she can be. Granted, it's not like Sherman doesn't have his flaws, but compared to Megan...

A young fish with Nerd Glasses. He's a computer geek.

The Cracker: Over the years, he's used his computer skills to launch a Mars rover, steal underwear from Baby Gap, and start an 86-minute war between Vermont and Canada.
Gadgeteer Genius
Nerd Glasses

A lazy polar bear who heads to the beach up on the shore for hibernation every year.

Beary Friendly: A snarky but generally laid-back and easygoing polar bear.
Beary Funny: He's not ferocious in the slightest.
Cool Shades: Always wears sunglasses.
Lazy Bum: Which Hawthorne tends to give him a hard time about.
Misplaced Wildlife: Sort of. He's from the North Pole, but he heads to the beach for hibernation.
Trademark Favorite Food: He loves his smoothies.

A Moai statue. He has the ability to turn the characters into other animals.