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DuBois Family

Jazmine DuBois

Jazmine DuBois

Voiced by: Gabby Soleil (English, Seasons 1-3), Kiarah Pollas (English, Season 4), Gaby Ugarte (Latin American Spanish), Yuumi Kikuchi (Japanese)

The biracial daughter of Tom and Sarah DuBois. While Huey finds her to be naive and annoying, she becomes one of his only friends.

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• All Girls Like Ponies: Something which Ed Wuncler I takes advantage of in "The Block Is Hot", offering her a pony to trick her into working in slave-like conditions in a lemonade stand.
• Affectionate Nickname: Robert affectionately calls her “Little baby”.
• Best Friend: Arguably is this to Huey (as well as his only friend) in the animated series, and is Cindy's in the comics.
• Break the Cutie: A major reason Huey has for talking to her in the comics, though he doesn't exactly mean to be malicious; he truly thinks she would be better off if she were a cynic like him, so he makes it his mission to tear down her childish beliefs. However, she has shown herself to be as capable as giving as good as she gets, being the only character besides Caesar to render Huey speechless at times.
• Butt-Monkey: In the comic, though she only tends to be treated badly by Huey and occasionally Riley. It seems like, in general, the world enjoys messing with her naivete. In the show, she's more The Chew Toy since Huey is a lot less abrasive.
• Category Traitor: Early on, Huey considered her one for not completely rejecting her white heritage and becoming another black nationalist like him.
• Children Are Innocent: In the sense of being both naive and good-natured. She also doesn't like it when others drag her into trouble.
• Curly Hair Is Ugly: Jazmine displays this viewpoint on herself. She has a complex about her kinky hair texture and wishes that it was straight like her mother's.
• The Cutie: Just try not to gush when Jazmine is around.
• Cute, but Cacophonic: She is an adorable little girl, but lets out an ear-piercingly loud shriek or cry whenever she's upset.
  Riley: Ey man, is she gonna be crying like this all the time? Because if she is, I say we kick her out!
• Demoted to Extra:
  • In the comics, she has a greatly diminished role after Huey meets and befriends Caesar. She even has a two-year absence before she reintroduces herself.
  • In the first two seasons of the show, she would regularly interact with the main characters and even be the focus of a few episodes and plots. In the last two seasons, she's lucky to ever get a line.
• Fangirl: Of Usher, much like her mom.
• Fan of the Underdog: It is no coincidence that she trusts Huey in spite of him being a Jerkass to her. It is especially prevalent in Season 3 as she is the only person who actually listens to him and has spoken highly of him when even the President of the United States has denounced him.
• Floral Theme Naming: Though her name is spelled as "Jazmine" rather than "Jasmine".
• Fish out of Water: In the comics. Like the Freemans, her family are newcomers to Woodcrest (where from, she doesn't say). Jazmine also doesn't know how to fit in with black or white people.
• Funny Afro: Has a huge afro even bigger than Huey's. It makes her insecure. Played for Laughs, naturally.
• Foil: To Huey. While he is a stoic kid who is very mature for his age, Jazmine is naive, innocent, and curious about the world around her.
• Girly Girl: She wears pink clothes, really wants to have a pony, and she has tea parties with her dolls.
• Girlish Pigtails: Wears her hair in two large afro puffs in the show and has a girly, childlike personality.
• Granola Girl: She is implied to be a vegetarian and displays characteristics of this trope.
  • In "The Fundraiser", she donates most of the money she made with Riley to PETA, much to his dismay.
  • In "The Fried Chicken Flu", she didn't jump on the KFC bandwagon that was sweeping the nation because "fried chicken is murder".
• Hair Color Dissonance: Her hair in the cartoon is presumably supposed to be brown like it is in the comics, however it looks reddish.
• Hikikomori: Once she returns in the comic strip, her two-year-long Chuck Cunningham Syndrome is explained as her locking herself in her room ever since 9/11 out of fear of terrorists.
• I Am Not Pretty: In the comics, she would sometimes express insecurity over her appearance (particularly her afro hair). In one strip where Huey (accidentally) says she's pretty she's so happy she starts excitedly planning their wedding (only to quickly realise things won't work out between them because Huey doesn't like playing House and decide they're Better as Friends).
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Jazmine's much lonelier than she sometimes appears. In "Wingmen" she sadly admits to Huey that she doesn't have a best friend and is ecstatic when he returns from Chicago. At the end of the comic when Huey is finally deciding to start the revolution, he invites Jazmine to come along, and while she initially says she can't due to not being allowed to go further from home than the second light post, as soon as Huey offers to be her friend she immediately agrees to go with him.
• Inelegant Blubbering: Does this in "...Or Die Trying" after watching an Anti-piracy PSA.
• Literal-Minded / Sarcasm-Blind: Extremely so in the comic, to the point where Huey can say almost anything to her and she'll take it at face value. This combined with her Wide-Eyed Idealist traits make her extremely gullible (and as a Running Gag, very bad at Your Mom jokes).
• Loophole Abuse: Jazmine becomes the victim of this in "The Block Is Hot" where she gets scammed by Ed Wuncler I into signing a contract where Wuncler provides her lemonade stand supplies (straws, lemons, cups) in exchange for a share of the revenue. The contract enforces Jazmine recoup the budget for supplies but receive only 5 cents per glass of lemonade at a price of $1 as while Wuncler gets the other 95 cents.
• Luminescent Blush: At the end of "Wingmen".
• Morality Pet: Jazmine is this to Huey, which is weird as he is often the one to tear down any wide-eyed delusions she carries. But as soon as someone tries to exploit her or if she needs help, knowing that helping her would be at the expense of his own interests, Huey usually helps her out.
  • The best example of this was when he tried to stop Ed I's scheme against Jazmine in "The Block Is Hot".
  • Also in "The Fried Chicken Flu", Huey lets Jazmine stay at his house during the viral outbreak. Although he was reluctant about it, Huey also allowed Jazmine's parents to join them, so she would calm down.
• Nervous Wreck: She probably got her insecurity from her father.
• Nice Girl: Her sweet nature never dies out despite all the negativity around her.
• Only Friend: To Huey in the animated series. It's also implied that she doesn't have any other friends outside of Huey (and Cindy in the comics).
• Pink Is Feminine: Usually seen wearing a pink jacket.
• Precision F-Strike: She usually avoids profanity and strong words. Sometimes she slips up, such as in her uncensored version of her dream Santa Claus sermon.
• Prone to Tears: She is very sensitive and cries whenever she feels scared or is confronted with the harsher realities of life. This is a result of her sheltered upbringing.
• Ship Tease: It's implied that she may have a crush on Huey. It's most obviously suggested in two comic strips, one where she asks if anyone (like Huey) would ever marry her, and another where she gives him a Valentine's Day card. But Huey, not being a sentimental (let alone romantic) kind of person, seems oblivious to all of this.
• Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: Due to the cartoon making her hair a strawberry blonde, and her status as the protagonist's best friend / Morality Pet / Ship Tease (were they not both 10 years old). Combine this with her light brown skin, and she personifies one of the rarest color combinations on Earth.
• Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Huey takes it upon himself to personally disabuse her of her optimism and (according to him) naivete about the way the world works; she's just as quick to pull the opposite on him.
• Stubborn Hair: Part of what makes her Funny Afro funny is that it automatically reasserts itself almost immediately after she manages to sleek it down.
• Token White: She's the only character in the show with mixed heritage, being half black and half white.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: In a one-sided way with Huey, who is much ruder to her.
• Vocal Evolution: Justified, since her voice actress was a little girl when the series began.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: To the point of naivety.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Much like Caesar, Jazmine will sometimes call Huey out on his Protagonist-Centered Morality.

Sarah DuBois

Sarah DuBois

Voiced by: Jill Talley (English), Angelica Villa (Latin American Spanish)

A white woman, who is Tom's wife and Jazmine's mother. Her marriage with Tom gets strained because of politics (in the comics) and his phobia of rape (in the show). She's also the least seen member of the DuBois family.

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• Adaptational Job Change: In the comic strip, she's also an attorney just like Tom; but in the TV series, she seems to just be a housewife.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: She wishes that Tom was more assertive and dominant, and less of a pushover and wimp. She actually gets excited when Tom gets possessed by Stinkmeaner and shows her the time of her life in bed.
  • In Pretty Boy Flizzy, the eponymous character implies that this has less to do with Tom, and more to do with Sarah being a "boring" person herself.
  Flizzy: Your wife doesn't like me better. You guys are both just boring as fuck.
• Berserk Button: Her husband's lack of assertiveness and masculinity. Hell, she even once threw a pillow at Tom for apologizing to her.
• Deadpan Snarker: Especially towards Tom whenever he acts cowardly or submissively.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Her hair was originally straighter and shorter, matching her comic design.
• Fangirl: Of Usher, Barack Obama, and Pretty Boy Flizzy.
• Has a Type: Very attracted to African American men. While she does love Tom, she seems to prefer her crushes to be more "street" and firm.
• Henpecked Housewife: She is often pretty frustrated by Tom's uptightness and awkwardness in public. His obsessive phobia about Prison Rape has taken a toll on their marriage.
• Jerkass Ball:
  • In "Tom, Sarah, and Usher" where she blatantly flirts with Usher in front of Tom and then has the nerve to get mad at him for reacting poorly. Even worse is that it was all an elaborate plan to get Jazmine, who is a huge fan of Usher, a chance to meet him (though it is heavily implied that she does still hold a degree of attraction), which, if she had simply told Tom that, probably would've helped extinguish his suspicions.
  • To a major extent in "Pretty Boy Flizzy", where her previous frustration at Tom's stuffiness is exaggerated to unreasonable demands, insensitivity and self-centered mood-swinging. Likewise, her wandering eye is ramped up to the point of throwing herself at other men, and putting down Tom in front of their daughter (though granted, that was while drunk).
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: But at the end of that episode, she apologizes to Tom for pushing him around earlier. She also shows care for Tom, tearfully refusing to leave him behind in the "Fried Chicken Flu" episode.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Sarah and Tom respectively. While Sarah isn't a tomboy by any means, she would at least seem so in comparison to her very unmasculine husband. She's frustrated that he isn't the dominant spouse. Also taken up a notch when concept art for a video game in development shows Sarah angrily armed with a crossbow as while Tom is cowering with a wooden shield and lacrosse stick (although to be fair, Sarah is carrying Jazmine at the time).
• Progressively Prettier: In the first season, she was closely modeled after her comic appearance and was pretty plain-looking. With Season 2, she's taller, her hair is now wavy instead of straight, and she has a sleeker physique with a bigger bust.
• Really Gets Around: Implied to have dated many men (only black as befitting her Race Fetish) before she settled down with Tom.
• Satellite Character: She's Tom's wife, Jazmine's mother, the Freemans' neighbor, and every episode she's featured in deals with one of those facts.
• Straw Character: She and her husband are stereotypical clueless moderate liberals. Although they almost split in one comic arc, because she voted for Ralph Nader instead of Al Gore like Tom did.
  • Sarah herself is one of stereotypical white women who fetishize black men.
• Where da White Women At?: In the comics, she is stated to have only dated black men, eventually marrying Tom. She's still openly attracted to other black men, much to Tom's dismay.

Wuncler Industries

Ed Wuncler I

Edward "Ed" Wuncler I

Voiced by: Edward Asner (English), Gabriel Pingarrón (Latin American Spanish)

Ed Wuncler I is the wealthiest businessman in Woodcrest. Not surprisingly, his greed and amorality are insatiable.

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• Affably Evil: While this is mostly an act for his amoral schemes, he is surprisingly friendly to those he takes a liking to. This is best shown with his relationship with Robert, as despite making it clear to him that he owns his house and can kick him out if he wants to, he quickly gets along with him, inviting him to his garden party and holds nothing against him when Riley ends up shooting Ed Wuncler III (knowing that it was likely his fault that happened in the first place).
• Bad Boss: Not surprisingly, he treats all his employees like crap.
  • He arbitrarily fired the entire staff of a restaurant, except for the illegal immigrants from Mexico.
  • He proudly exploits child labor, whether it's outsourced to a foreign sweatshop, or even Jazmine's lemonade stand at home.
  • He orders the murder of a kickball referee, because he accepted bribes from the Chinese team instead of Wuncler himself.
  • And he almost got Dan the security guard murdered, as part of a convoluted plot to profit from his death.
• Bald of Evil: Partially bald, but close enough.
• Big Bad: Due to being the most socially powerful villain in the show, although he's only the antagonist of some few episodes.
• Characterization Marches On: In his first appearance, he comes across as a crass, but easygoing, old man. It is in his second appearance that we see how cruel he is when he manipulates and defrauds Jasmine.
• The Chessmaster: While most of the other villains are crazy and/or stupid, Ed I is very clever and cunning.
• Con Man: Wuncler has no problems with simple dishonesty, such as in "The Block Is Hot" when he tricked Jazmine into selling lemonade for him with an empty promise of a pony.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: As the owner of the conglomerate Wuncler Enterprises, he dominates the economy and politics of Woodcrest, using his wealth and power to get away with doing anything unethical.
• Deadpan Snarker: Ed I is a master of mean-spirited sarcasm and sardonicism.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: His business tactics in "The Itis" are deliberately played as using drugs and crime to drive down property values on desirable locations.
• Enemy Mine: In "The Red Ball", Huey has no choice but to accept Wuncler's offer to become the captain of the Woodcrest kickball team and recruit other players, as Wuncler bet most of the real estate in Woodcrest (including the Freeman house) to his business rival Long-Dou from Wushung, China.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Subverted-while he has bailed his grandson out of trouble on multiple occasions, it's obviously more out of concern for his family's image than love for his grandson. When his grandson is taken hostage, he doesn't lift a finger to help him.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • While he's willing to abuse others for profit, he holds little personal bigotry. He'll screw over anyone for more money, but as Huey notes, not out of racist hatred.
  • He's annoyed with his grandson's antics, thinking of him as a complete buffoon.
  • He thinks Dan Stuckey is a "cocksucker" and "a waste of usable organs." While Wuncler's conspiracy to kill him is about profit than hate, Wuncler notes that Stucky is so unpleasant, no one would actually miss him.
• Evil Old Folks: Old enough to have an adult grandson.
• Evil Plan: Hatches a few, usually involving money.
• Expy: Imagine Ed Asner still channeling Lou Grant, and you wouldn't be too far off.
• Fat Bastard: He personifies the "fat cat capitalist".
• Faux Affably Evil: He can be very polite when he needs to be, especially to Robert Freeman. But he still has zero qualms about cruelly manipulating other people for his own greed. The best example of this is when he tricks Jazmine into selling her lemonade stand to him, while promising her a pony. He then orders her to work like a sweatshop laborer, while using loopholes to avoid paying his end of the bargain.
• Fiction 500: His grandson once robbed a bank, and the police would only bring back the wallet he dropped there, because he owns both the bank and the police. Hell, the federal government has even judged him as too rich to be arrested.
• Greater-Scope Villain: It's not explored in too much detail, but Wuncler is personally involved in much of the social corruption that pervades Woodcrest (and the rest of America, if not the world). He's the personification of "The Man" that Huey despises so much.
• Greed: Wuncler is probably the richest, most powerful man in the country, but he'll still pull many messed-up scams and crimes to get more cash. Because shit, you can never have enough, right?
  Huey: Don't you have enough money?
  Wuncler: No.
• Hate Sink: Despite initially seeming like a decently polite, if somewhat behind-the-times businessman, from his second appearance onwards, Ed I shows his true colors as a deeply corrupt asshole willing to exploit children, manipulate poor people, and even stage a terrorist attack just to make more money.
• Insistent Terminology: Often refers to Robert's last name as "Free Man".
• I Own This Town: His family has held Woodcrest in their hands since the 19th century.
• Jerkass: Wuncler has done multiple acts of pure malice throughout the series, and he is very proud of them. Hell, he had no problem with screwing over a little girl.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • Even he can't ignore his grandson's stupidity and recklessness. So he doesn't mind Riley shooting him out of a window (which Ed III persuaded him into doing while wearing a bulletproof vest), and it could possibly be one of the real reasons why he has no qualms about Jack Flowers capturing him.
    "In thirty years, that boy will be President of the United States... and he'll still be a fucking idiot."
  • In "The Red Ball", Wuncler is not impressed when Huey recruits several people for the Woodcrest kickball team, who just happen to lack any real skills or talents for the sport. He gives quite a scathing and non-inspirational speech to them:
    "This team is pathetic. They don't stand a chance against the Chinese. Not one single goddamn shot in hell. It'll be an embarrassment they'll never, ever live down for the rest of their miserable lives until they die. You know what one of these balls can do to a human body? They'll get torn to pieces. Ripped to shreds. Some may even lose control of their bowels. By the third inning, they'll be pissing and shitting on themselves right in front of their friends and loved ones. It's going to be flat out fucking terrible."
• Karma Houdini: Much of the point of his character is that, being the embodiment of "The Man", there's very little anyone in the cast can do to permanently harm him, and in many episodes, he comes out at the very least ahead of when he started. You know you're one when even the President personally phones the agent holding you at gunpoint to tell him to stand down.
• Loophole Abuse: He refuses to give Jazmine the pony he promised, and sticks her with a $300 bill, despite Jazmine selling more than enough lemonade cups than they agreed on; due to subtracting the money it took to build her new stand, marketing and promotion, the lemons, cups, umbrellas, straws, and even the gas that was used to drive Wuncler back and forth from her cut of only 5 cents per lemonade sold.
• Meaningful Name: His name refers to the Once-Ler from Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, who was just as greedy as he is.
• Morally Bankrupt Banker: He owns the bank that holds the loan on the Freemans' house (and apparently most of the other real estate in town as well).
• Pet the Dog: As long as he doesn't have a scheme going, he likes Robert and when Riley shoots Ed III he just shrugs it off (correctly assuming it was Ed III's own fault anyway) and share a drink instead.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Downplayed; in the first episode of the series, he made derogatory comments about Arabs and Muslims (referring to them as being people of "terrorist descent"). Though he otherwise doesn't seem to be really racist (at least towards other kinds of people), and is simply just a greedy old man. He even once financed an Arab shopkeeper who opened a 7-Eleven store; as long as Wuncler can make a profit, he doesn't really care.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Along with a generous helping of Screw the Rules, I Have Money!. His family is stated to have easily bribed the local police department. And they even have immunity from the federal government.
• The Sociopath: He will do anything to get more cash, other people be damned. He's done everything from cheating people out of money, to conspiring to murder them. Also after Jack Flowers abducts Ed III at gunpoint, Ed I seemed rather disturbingly apathetic about his own grandson's well-being.
  Ed I: Why don't you just shoot him?
• Straw Character: Some of his rhetoric seems to be conservative/libertarian-based. Since he is a satiric characterization of Prescott Bush, it is kind of expected.
• Would Hurt a Child: He happily and proudly exploits Indonesian girls to work in his sweatshops, and he has no qualms about using Jazmine for a profit.

Ed Wuncler II

Edward "Ed" Wuncler II

Voiced by: Sam McMurray

Ed Wuncler II is the son of Ed I, and father of Ed III. The main antagonist of the Season 4 story arc, he's a Loan Shark who only worsens Robert's bankruptcy and makes him fall in debt to him.

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• Ax-Crazy: Between his short and volatile temper, and being implied to have stabbed a debtor to death in a fit of rage, he's fairly unstable; and unlike most of the humorous sociopaths on the show, it's rather scary to watch. Hell, near the climax of "Freedomland", we see him when he's literally holding an ax, planning to cut the foot off a little boy with it.
• Big Bad: Of the Season 4 story arc.
• Berserk Button: Do not owe him money. He has been known to kill people for that.
• Character Catchphrase: "Robert motherfucking Freeman!"
• Con Man: Wuncler easily tricks Robert into signing contracts that further increase his own debt.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Like father, like son.
• Disposing of a Body: Leaves one in the Freemans' garage, and implies this is the type of work that Robert Freeman will do for him.
• The Dragon: As the second-in-command of the family business, although his dad only played one minor role in the Season 4 storyline.
• Equal-Opportunity Evil: Sort of, in his own twisted way. The Freedomland slaves consist of both black and white people.
• Eviler than Thou: Actually manages to be worse than his father in Season 4. His business practices, such as forcing people in debt to him to sign themselves into slavery, makes anything Wuncler Sr. did look like a Girl Scout troop by comparison. He doesn't even care that much about collecting his debts; he just likes having people indebted to him.
• Faux Affably Evil: Barely hides his malice toward his debtors behind a smile, and is implied to kill those who make him too angry. He also cares little about actually getting the debt paid off, opting to trick his debtors into further debt or more serious binding contracts, to wring out every penny he can get from them.
• The Ghost: Played with. Ed Wuncler II's existence was implied because Ed Wuncler III was Ed Wuncler I's biological grandson. However, he finally makes an appearance in Season 4.
• Greed: This sin seems to run in the family.
• Indentured Servitude: He makes his debtors sign away their freedom to serve him, forcing them to role-play as slaves in Freedomland, a theme park modeled after a 19th century plantation.
• Jerkass: Being a Wuncler after all, this should come off as no surprise.
• Karma Houdini: The most karma that Ed II receives is getting kicked in the face by Huey, who then succeeds in destroying Freedomland. But otherwise, Wuncler managed to escape without long-term consequences.
• Knight of Cerebus: Even in a Black Comedy like this show, Ed II's evil behavior is rarely ever Played for Laughs. He is presented as being very menacing, and his homicidal tendencies are treated as Nightmare Fuel in-universe.
• Loan Shark / Morally Bankrupt Banker: He comes toward financially vulnerable people such as Robert Freeman and offers to "help" them out, only to make them owe even more money than before.
• The Mafia: In contrast to his son's wannabe street gangster attitude, Ed II acts more like a "made man", showing up to places in a white suit and committing crimes well-associated with the mob such as extortion, loan sharking, and financial blackmail.
• N-Word Privileges: Gives himself these, since he's a Wuncler.
  Ed II: Robert Freeman, my nigga! Can I say that? Yes, I can!
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Although his father and son are both based on Prescott and George W., Ed II himself is more of an unflattering caricature of financial tycoon Neil Bush, George W.'s brother, who was implicated in the S&L scandals of the 80's for offering funding to private business with his clients' money, but never indicted on criminal charges.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: He has total carte blanche to treat people like garbage due to his father being rich.
• The Sociopath: And he's an even worse one than his father. He's committed similar crimes with even more ruthless execution.
• White Gangbangers: Though more like a mobster and less like a street gangster.
• Would Hurt a Child: He had no problem with trying to slice off Huey's legs, simply for opposing his slavery park.

Ed Wuncler III

Edward "Ed" Wuncler III

Voiced by: Charlie Murphy (English), Noé Velazquez (Latin American Spanish), Keiji Fujiwara (Japanese)

Ed Wuncler III is the youngest (and dumbest) member of the Wuncler family. After returning from the Iraq War, he and his best friend Gin Rummy commit a series of petty crimes.

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• The Alcoholic: He loves his forties.
• Ambiguously Bi: Although Ed likes women, his friendship with Rummy sometimes comes off (accidentally) looking like a gay romance. This was lampshaded by Riley.
• Ax-Crazy: He's prone to impulsive outbursts of violence, often at the wrong times. The fact that his temper and lack of empathy is a very prominent figure in his very destructive behavior causes him to do things that are highly irrational and downright insane.
• Berserk Button: He really hates being stared at by crowds of people. This usually happens after he or Rummy has done something completely out of the blue.
  Ed III: (What the) fuck y'all lookin' at?!
• The Berserker: Ed is very reckless and impulsive as he often has many outburst out of pure unadulterated chaos where he rushes into a fight guns blazing without any regard of his safety.
• Blood Knight: He loves firefights and getting into the heat of combat.
• Bring My Brown Pants: His time in Iraq... good God. To be precise, he soiled himself at least a dozen times, the other members of his unit called him "Stinkbomb", and he was eventually kept from joining on patrols because the enemy could smell him coming.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • "[What the] Fuck y'all lookin' at?!"
  • "KIYAAA, BITCH!" (Whenever he's about to kick a door in)
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He's last seen in the Season 3 finale "It's Goin' Down", which had a rather ambiguous ending. He's nowhere to be seen or heard from in Season 4.
• Cool Big Bro: Riley sees him as a surrogate one. He's an awful influence, but he at least genuinely cares about the little guy.
• Evil Redhead: He's a criminal (though not a very good one) and has red hair. Although he isn't technically evil he's just very destructive.
• Failed a Spot Check: Ed takes this to truly impressive levels.
  • While trying to kidnap Oprah, Ed assaults the wrong bookstore and mistakenly takes Maya Angelou, even though one had a large crowd of people outside and a large sign saying "Welcome Oprah".
  • Another time, when Riley tries to get his help in dealing with a bully, Ed kidnaps the wrong kid... despite the fact that Riley gave him a picture.
• Fearless Fool: He invites Riley to test his ballistic vest with live ammo while he's wearing it, wanders in full view through raging gunfights firing wildly at nothing, and seems to forget that taking both hands off the steering wheel to shoot out of a moving car is a bad idea, among other things. He's really, really lucky to be alive at this point.
• From Camouflage to Criminal: He's an Army veteran turned career criminal, who often uses military gear in his crimes. However, his background doesn't make him very competent, and it's implied he was a pretty terrible soldier.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Ed is a highly unstable person with a very explosive temper and angering him is an easy way for him to go completely insane. Which involves a wide range of guns and firing at random people for no reason whatsoever.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: He's best friends with Gin Rummy.
• Hot-Blooded: Not only is Ed very temperamental but he is also very loud and often acts like a raging wildfire filled with a lot of passion behind each and everyone of his very impulsive actions.
• Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Despite being a war veteran, he's really bad at shooting. We only see him manage to shoot two people:
  • A police officer in "A Date with the Health Inspector" (by accident, though he somehow survived).
  • A mob enforcer in "The Fundraiser" (who may have actually been killed).
• Jerkass: While he's nice enough when things are going his way, he's prone to impulsive acts of violence and has a filthy mouth. He's not above hurting or killing people if other people tell him to do so either.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Ed may be a very destructive and temperamental as well as being a very violent individual, but at the end of the day, he is still caring at times. This is especially the case with his best friend Gin Rummy whom he often hangs out with. He's also taken a liking to Riley and forms a big brother-like relationship with him. Even though he isn't the best influence, he still cares for him and his family whenever they need help.
• Karma Houdini: Due to his grandfather's protection, he is practically untouchable to law enforcement.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: Possibly. In "It's Goin' Down". In the ending, Ed III is last seen being taken away as a hostage by Jack Flowers. We don't know what happens to him afterwards.
• Laughably Evil: Due to a combination of being recklessly malicious, yet also stupidly incompetent.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: A violent, petty street criminal as opposed to his father and grandfather who maliciously exploit people. He also regards the Freemans with actual friendship.
• Motor Mouth: Nobody does rambling anecdotes quite like Charlie Murphy.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: He's the third son of a wealthy conservative family, was groomed for greatness from the start, had a brief and unimpressive military career, his symbol is a "W", he's best friends with a guy named Rummy, and he's more or less treated as an incompetent buffoon who escapes consequences due to his family connections and blaming things on terrorists, suggesting him to be a very unflattering portrait of a young George W. Bush. Or, as his grandfather put it:
  "Someday, that boy will be President of the United States... and he'll still be a fucking moron."
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: He may be a stupid and incompetent criminal, but that doesn't mean he's not dangerous, as he's still tried to shoot at people with lethal intent, and might have killed someone (see Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy above).
• N-Word Privileges: He and Rummy call each other "niggas" despite both of them being white. As shown in Season 4, he might've gotten this from his father.
• Pocket Protector: His bulletproof vest and big "W" medallion has spared him from death on several occasions.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He and Rummy once tried to rob a Middle Eastern store owner, claiming he was a terrorist as an excuse. They're also both quite sexist, referring to women almost exclusively as "bitches".
• Pretty Fly for a White Guy: Despite being a rich white guy, he acts like a black gangster.
• Psychopathic Manchild: He's an overgrown rich boy who doesn't have a real job, and instead spends his time by committing armed robberies and kidnappings. Also when he was onced angered while playing video games, he drew out a handgun and shot up his PlayStation 2, before his butler replaced it with another PS2.
• Put on the Bus: Completely absent in Season 4.
• Running Gag: Will generally find some way to get shot in the chest (surviving due to his ballistic vest or "W" medallion).
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: He's a wanted criminal who has robbed banks and convenience stores, engaged in kidnapping and domestic terrorism (the latter instigated by his own grandfather no less) but gets away with it because his granfather owns the police.
• Seinfeldian Conversation: Which he hangs a lantern on.
• Stupid Crooks: Ed and Rummy usually botch their crimes hilariously. They still prove to be menaces to society though.
• Those Two Guys: With Rummy.
• Trigger-Happy: He's often itching to unload his gun on something.
• Undying Loyalty: Towards Riley; Ed will do pretty much anything Riley asks of him even if there's nothing in it for him or if it is guaranteed to get him in trouble.
• Upper-Class Twit: A good example of how money doesn't buy class.
• Villainous Friendship: With Rummy. Despite their many unsavory qualities, they're shown to genuinely care about each other.
• Villain with Good Publicity: In "A Date with the Health Inspector", Ed and Rummy get away with robbing a convenience store, because it seemed that the owners were terrorists (or were mistaken for terrorists, it wasn't made clear who they really were). They were painted as heroes afterwards.
• Would Hurt a Child: In "Shinin'", Ed is shown to be willing to kidnap (and threaten to torture) a little boy if (he thinks that) someone asked him to do it.

Gin Rummy

Gin Rummy

Voiced by: Samuel L. Jackson (English), Armando Coria (Latin American Spanish)

Ed III's best friend, a fellow Army veteran, and his partner in crime.

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• Actor Allusion: In his first appearance, Rummy quotes Samuel L. Jackson's famous "What?" speech from Pulp Fiction practically line-for-line.
• Ambiguously Bi: Although Rummy likes women, his friendship with Ed sometimes comes off (accidentally) looking like a gay romance. This was lampshaded by Riley.
  • However, unlike Ed who is completely oblivious to these implications, Rummy will often seem expectant during these moments, only to be annoyed when he notices Ed legitimately means nothing by it.
• Ax-Crazy: He even exclaims during his debut in "A Date with the Health Inspector", that he'll shoot up an entire block and endanger countless lives, just to hunt down one man (the so-called "Xbox Killer"):
  Rummy: "I'd be dead on his ass like Spenser For fuckin' Hire. I'll hunt him down and feed him his own testicles. And I'll do it in a jiffy. And I don't care if his mama there, his grandmama, innocent bystanders, little kids, babysitters, bill collectors — whatever! I'll leave his whole block filled with hot brass if I have to. And you know why? BECAUSE I JUST DON'T GIVE A FUCK! (calm again) Y'all sure you don't want no breakfast? I got some English muffins and peach jelly."
• Berserk Button: He despises new age technology as he views at as being frustrating to adapt to and the fact that he sees it as impractical.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Much like his best friend Ed III, he's nowhere to be seen in Season 4.
• Deadpan Snarker: Usually towards Ed III.
• Even Evil Has Standards: For all his trigger-happy psychopathy, it's implied by his conversation with Riley in his first appearance that even Rummy was disgusted at the government lying about the "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq, vocally being angry when pointing out how everyone knows they didn't find any of the WMD.
• Feigning Intelligence: He tries to appear smarter than he actually is, such as his infamous "known unknowns" speech in "A Date with the Health Inspector".
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: His glasses don't conceal the fact that he's a violent thug.
• From Camouflage to Criminal: He's an Army veteran turned career criminal, who often uses military gear in his crimes. However, his background doesn't make him very competent for some reason.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: He's best friends with Ed III. Although the "heterosexual" part might be questionable.
• Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Despite being a war veteran, he's really bad at shooting, and we never see him kill anyone in gunfights.
• Jerkass: Just like his best friend, he's a violent criminal who doesn't give a damn about potentially causing civilian casualties.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Although he's very ruthless he isn't without his good side as he's more than willing to help out Ed, Riley, and even Robert in desperate situations. Even though he may be blunt about it, he's not all that bad once you are on friendly terms with him.
• Karma Houdini: Due to being Ed III's friend, and Ed I's henchman, he gets immunity for his crimes. But this is possibly subverted in "It's Goin' Down". We last see Rummy after Jack Flowers defeats him in a fight, followed by being taken away in Jack's car. What happens next is unknown.
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Fancies himself a criminal mastermind but, while significantly smarter then his best friend, he is still a trigger-happy nutcase whose plans are riddled with holes.
• Laughably Evil: Like Ed III he's an incompetent crook who thinks he's a criminal mastermind, and has no qualms over committing violence.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: When Robert is trying to solve his problems about his alleged son Lando, Rummy keeps suggesting to kill him, and he even points a loaded pistol behind Lando.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: A lot of his dialogue and character is a mockery of Donald Rumsfeld (it's in the name), the Secretary of Defense for most of George W. Bush's administration. His poor planning abilities and overconfidence are references to criticisms of Rumsfeld's handling of the Iraq invasion, with him quoting Rumsfeld at points when trying to justify his own idiocy (i.e. "unknown unknowns" and "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence").
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: On one occasion, we get to see him kidnapping and murdering a crooked kickball referee on Ed I's orders. He also very likely would've killed Lando had Robert wanted him to or not acted fast enough.
• N-Word Privileges: He and Ed call each other "niggas" despite both of them being white.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He and Ed once tried to rob a Middle Eastern store owner, claiming he was a terrorist as an excuse. They're also both quite sexist, referring to women almost exclusively as "bitches".
• Pretty Fly for a White Guy: Despite being a rich white guy, he acts like a black gangster similar to Ed.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Much like Ed III, Rummy is a violently unstable thug from a privileged background, who seems to have nothing better to do with his time besides re-enacting Grand Theft Auto in real life.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Since Ed's grandfather owns the police.
• Seinfeldian Conversation: Which he hangs a lantern on.
• Sophisticated as Hell: Rummy's dialogue with Ed III show some mildly clever insights, albeit peppered with a lot of slang and profanity.
• The Straight Man: Well he is slightly smarter than Ed, though that's really not saying much.
• Stupid Crooks: Ed and Rummy usually botch their crimes hilariously. They still prove to be menaces to society though.
• Those Two Guys: With Ed.
• Trigger-Happy: He's often itching to unload his gun on something.
• Upper-Class Twit: A good example of how money doesn't buy class.
• Villainous Friendship: With Ed III. They're far from good people, but they do care about each other.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Thanks to being Ed III's friend and cohort.
• Would Hit a Girl: If his rant mentioned above is any indication, he has no problem with shooting up a house with an old lady in it.
• Would Hurt a Child: Nor does he care about the age of any of his potential victims.

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