Penny Proud

• Acquired Situational Narcissism: In the episode "A Star Is Scorned" when she decides to quit the singing group LPDZ and gets her friends fired in order to go solo.
• Actor Allusion: One episode has Penny communicating with a tiger similar to Dr. Dolittle. Her voice actress Kyla Pratt played the daughter of the famous doctor in the modern film version that also inherited his gift in a later sequel.
• Alliterative Name
• Balloon Belly: In "Tween Town"
• Beauty Mark
• Berserk Button: Insulting her. Lacienega usually pushes it.
• Beware the Nice Ones
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: At times.
• Butt Monkey: Gets her fair share of bad luck, whether it be from her friends constantly ditching her, or from her own parents.
• Girlish Pigtails
• Go Getter Girl
• Green-Eyed Monster: She becomes this in the episode "Poetic Justice" when Dijonay improves at poetry and becomes just as good as her.
• Nice Girl
• Not so Above It All: She sometimes goes along with whatever her friends do, whether they are right or wrong.
• Only Sane Girl
• Out-of-Character Moment/Took a Level in Jerkass: In the episode, "Pulp Boot Camp," she acts very rude and disrespectful to her parents and Suga Mama. She also turns against her friends and bullies them along with the Gross Sisters. She eventually gets sent to Boot Camp and then realizes the errors of her ways when the Gross Sisters refuse to house her and tell her that the fact that she was sent to boot camp, she was a hardened thug instead of a regular bully.
• Straw Feminist
• Strong Family Resemblance: It's been said several times that Penny looks a lot like Trudy.
• The Unfavourite: Penny gets this when BeBe and CeCe are magically aged into teenagers. Her own mother even tells this directly to her face.

Oscar Proud

• Achievements in Ignorance
• Berserk Button: Don't mention "Penny" and "boys" near him.
• Bumbling Dad
• Butt Monkey
• Cant Get Away With Nuthin
• Catchphrase: "TRUDAAAAAYY!!"
• The Chew Toy: Yes, plenty of fans enjoy seeing Oscar suffer, only when he deserved it.
• Deadpan Snarker
• Fat and Skinny: The skinny to Felix's Fat.
• Henpecked Husband: And how!!
• Hey, It's That Guy!: Hey kids, it's Tommy Davidson!
• Jerkass: At times.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He cares about his wife and kids.
• Man Child
• Men use Violence, Women use Communication: Oscar is the personification of this trope.
• Never Live It Down: An In-Universe example. Oscar will never live down missing the shot at his high school basketball game. The moment is constantly brought up by Wizard Kelly.
• No Respect Guy
• Overprotective Dad
• Papa Wolf
• Straw Loser
• Too Dumb to Live: He sometimes falls into this when he ignores advice given to him regarding his safety and ends up bringing some of the bad luck on himself and also going through near-death experiences.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: On the Christmas special.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: With Trudy.
• The Unfair Sex: Big time.
• The Unfavorite
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Sometimes.
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: In the Thingy episode, he doesn't try to attack all the babies when they repeatedly hit him in the face. Subverted when he tries to fight the Talking Baby.
• Wouldn't Hit a Girl: The reason why Trudy and Suga Mama will always beat Oscar.

Trudy Proud

• Bob Haircut
• Cute Bruiser: Trudy really can pack a punch!
• Double Standard: Abuse—Female on Male: Towards Oscar.
• The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: With older sister Diana.
• Hair-Trigger Temper
• Hot Mom
• Hypocrite/Moral Myopia: She openly jokes and talks about cheating on Oscar with other men and repeatedly flirts with men in front of Oscar, but gets angry when Oscar does the same thing with other women. An infamous example is in the episode "Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thingy Baby."
• Impossible Hourglass Figure
• Jerkass Ball: Rarely.
• Mama Bear
• Men use Violence, Women use Communication
• Only Sane Woman
• Reasonable Authority Figure
• Tsundere
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: With Oscar.
• Women Are Wiser

Suga Mama

• Abhorrent Admirer: Towards Papi.
• Abusive Mother: Towards Oscar.
• Cool Old Lady
• Deadpan Snarker
• Double Standard: Abuse—Female on Male: Towards Oscar.
• Foot Focus
• Freudian Excuse: Suga Mama admitted that she was the unfavorite in her family, so she decided to treat Oscar the same.
• The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: With older sister Spice.
• Heroic BSOD: Not heroic per se, but she had one in "She Drives Me Crazy"
• Hey, It's That Guy!: Harriette Winslow, a bit older and sassier.
• I Was Quite a Looker
• Jerkass: Towards Oscar, usually.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: When she protects Oscar from her older sister and shares a heartwarming moment with him. She also loves her other family members too.
• Mama Bear: In the wrestling episode.
• Never Mess with Granny
• Sassy Black Woman
• Senior Sleep Cycle
• Third-Person Person: Occasionally. Like "Suga Mama don't like..." or "Suga Mama's in the house!"
• The Unfavourite: Suga Mama is implied to be this when an episode introduced her older psychic sister, who she claimed to be their parents' favorite.
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist

Bebe and Cece

• Annoying Younger Siblings
• Jerks: They become this when they are magically aged into teenagers.
• Never Grew Up
• Theme Twin Naming

Puff

• Butt Monkey / The Chew Toy
• Canine Companion: To Suga Mama.

Bobby Proud

• Cool Uncle
• Lounge Lizard: Minus the lounge. Will often break out in song speech and use the microphone he always carries with him.
• Momma's Boy
• One of the Kids
• Parental Favoritism: Suga Mama likes Bobby more than she likes Oscar.
• Straw Loser: Being more liked than his brother doesn't prevent Bobby from falling under this trope. He still lives with his mother and isn't very successful in his singing career.
• Verbal Tic: Bobby, y'all!

Lacienega Boulavardez

• Alpha Bitch
  • Lovable Alpha Bitch: LaCienaga was originally a full-fledged Alpha Bitch and antagonized Penny, but they eventually become friends and she rounds out the Four Girl Ensemble.
• Bilingual Bonus: LaCienega's name means "the bog/swamp" in Spanish.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: With the adults.
• Break the Haughty: In the episode when she is made fun of for her big feet.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
• Inferiority Superiority Complex
• It's All About Me
• Jerkass
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Rarely.
• Meaningful Name: Both her and her mother are named after streets in Los Angeles.
• Pride
• Small Name, Big Ego: Thinks she is prettier than she really is.
• Spicy Latina

Sunset Boulavardez

• Fair Cop
• Hey, It's That Guy!: Hey, it's Hawkgirl!
• Hot Mom
• Spicy Latina
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: With Felix.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: With Felix.
• Women Are Wiser

Felix Boulavardez

• Bumbling Dad
• Henpecked Husband
• Fat and Skinny: The fat to Oscar's skinny.
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: With Sunset.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: With Sunset.

Papi Boulavardez

• Deadpan Snarker: Towards Suga Mama.
• The Hyena
• Jerkass: Insults Suga Mama in Spanish.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Looks like an elderly version of Cesar Romero as The Joker sans makeup.
• No Guy Wants to Be Chased: Especially by Suga Mama.
• You Gotta Have Green Hair

Dijonay Jones

• Abhorrent Admirer: Towards Sticky.
• Aesop Amnesia: All the freakin' time.
• Balloon Belly: In "Tween Town".
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
• Dark-Skinned Blonde
• False Friend: To Penny.
• Genki Girl
• Gossipy Hens
• Jerkass
• Laser-Guided Karma: Is struck by this rarely.
• Loose Lips
• Massive Numbered Siblings: 9.
• Sassy Black Woman
• Took a Level in Jerkass: In the episode "The Adventures of Bebe sitting" when she leaves Penny with her siblings to attend a concert.
• With Friends Like These

Sticky Webb

• Butt Monkey: Sometimes.
• Cool Shades
• Expy: Sticky resembles Khalil from Bebe's Kids.
• Green-Eyed Monster: He becomes this when Dijonay goes out with Duke in the episode "Surf and Turf".
• Nice Guy: Heck, he's probably one of the few character who doesn't do outright Jerk Ass things
• No Guy Wants to Be Chased: Especially if the chaser's name is Dijonay Jones.
• Punny Name
• The Smart Guy: He's very tech-savvy.

Zoey Howser

• Bob Haircut
• Hey, It's That Guy!: It's Punky Brewster!
• Hollywood Nerd
• Meganekko
• Nerd Glasses
• Nice Girl: One of the nicest.
• Not so Above It All: She sometimes ditched Penny along with Lacienega and Dijonay.
• Only Sane Girl: She is this when Penny's other friends ditch her at times.
• Shrinking Violet
• Token White
• Youthful Freckles

The Gross Sisters

• Big, Thin, Short Trio
• Even Evil Has Standards: The Gross Sisters refuse to house Penny after she escapes from boot camp, figuring that while they're bullies, the fact that Penny was sent to boot camp makes her a hardened thug.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: They love each other.
• Expy: Nubia Gross resembles LaShawn from Bebe's Kids.
• Gang Of Bullies
• Jerks
• Pet the Dog: In "The Party". They don't show up to torment Penny... they actually legitimately act like nice people.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Olay, who in better clothing also appears thinner as well.
• Terrible Trio
• The Voiceless: Olay and Gina.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Actually, they have blue hair, blue skin, and wear blue overalls. It's revealed that the reason the girls are blue is due to them being ashy.

Myron

• Black and Nerdy
• Throw the Dog a Bone: In the episodes "Rumors" and "Election."

Wizard Kelly

• The Ace
• Always Someone Better
• Catch Phrase: "It all started with a basketball."
• Companion Cube: His basketball.
• Eviler than Thou: Not evil per se, but if you take Oscar, remove his redeeming qualities, and add more "smug" and jerkass", you have Wizard Kelly.
• Expy: Of Magic Johnson, whom his voice actor, Aries Spears, often impersonated on Mad TV. Plus, R Kelly for his singing voice.
• The Faceless
• Friendly Enemy: He is usually nice to the the Prouds sometimes.
• Jerkass
  • Jerk Jock: He is a basketball player.
• Karma Houdini
• Pride
• Rich Bastard
• The Rival: To Oscar
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
• Third-Person Person

The Talking Baby

• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing:He only talks when Oscar is around and torments Oscar, then acts like a regular baby around other people.
• Creepy Child
• Enfant Terrible
• Jerkass
• Karma Houdini: He never gets punished for his unprovoked jerkass behavior towards Oscar.
• Manipulative Bastard
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: To Oscar.

Peabo

• Adorably Precocious Child
• Nice Guy
• Only One Name
• Only Sane Boy: He usually warns Oscar about his antics.

Omar

• The Ditz
• Dumb Jock
• Lovable Jock

Michael

• Ambiguously Gay
• Butt Monkey

The Chang Triplets

• Asians And Nerdy
• Butt Monkey: They get bullied by the Gross Sisters and sometimes get kicked out of events.
• No Name Given: Only one of the Chang triplets is ever given a name. (The girl in the red dress is Debbie).