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They'll push your buttons, they'll make you want to hug 'em. This is the character sheet for the titular family of The Proud Family and its revival.

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Main Members

Penny Proud

Penelope Marie "Penny" Proud

Voiced by: Kyla Pratt, Logan Browning (Louder and Prouder, as an adult in "When You Wish Upon a Roker"), Tone Lōc (singing voice, Louder and Prouder)

The main protagonist.

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• Academic Athlete: She is a straight A student and is also good at both basketball and football.
• Acquired Situational Narcissism:
  • In "A Star Is Scorned" when she decides to quit the singing group LPDZ and gets her friends fired in order to go solo.
  • In the revival episode "Bad Influencer", Penny lets being an influencer get to her head.
• Affectionate Nickname: "Baby Girl" by her father. She is also called "Itty-Bitty" by Dr. Payne.
• Afraid of Clowns: According to Oscar in "When You Wish Upon a Roker".
• Alliterative Name: Penny Proud.
• Anti-Hero: Penny is good-natured, but she's prone to making very selfish decisions, and can be a jerkass at times.
• Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: In the original series and the movie all her outfits while performing with LPDZ showed her stomach. She also starts wearing midriffs regularly after returning home with the clones of her family, whereas her real parents (particularly Oscar) didn’t like her wearing them, but changes back into her iconic outfit when she goes to save her real family. Downplayed in Louder and Prouder, where her new top shows a bit of her waist.
• Balloon Belly: In "Tween Town", when she drinks a large amount of soda with Dijonay while the adults are gone.
• Bitch Understudy: She becomes this to the Gross Sisters in "Pulp Boot Camp".
• Becoming the Mask: Joins the Gross Sisters to do research for an article she's writing. Not only does she fall into their ways, but she becomes so out of control that the Gross Sisters don't want anything to do with her.
• Being Evil Sucks: Penny's fall to the Dark Side in "Pulp Boot Camp" costs her everything and everyone that she loves as well as leaving her in the Gross Sisters' ashy blue skin. Thankfully, everything is resolved by the end of the episode.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She can be downright devious when she puts her mind to it, and she has a vindictive streak that puts LaCienega to shame.
• Big Sister Instinct: Despite her occasional annoyance with babysitting her younger twin siblings, if they should be in danger she'll drop everything to go and protect them.
• Brainy Brunette: It's stated that Penny gets straight As in school and she happens to have black hair.
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: Despite being mature for her age, Penny can be very bratty if she doesn't get what she wants.
• Break the Cutie: Becomes a victim of this during her more unlucky moments.
  • "Pulp Boot Camp" revolves around Penny going violent after trying to dig up some dirt on the Gross Sisters. She goes so insane that it results in her getting sent to boot camp and eventually, her friends and family don't want anything to do with her.
  • "Twins to Tweens" is all about Penny becoming a black sheep and losing all her friends after Al Roker turns the twins into teenagers.
• Broken Pedestal: Sunny Stevens became one to her over the second act of "Hooray for Iesha" until the actress gave Penny her Freudian Excuse.
• The Bully: Temporarily in "Pulp Boot Camp" where she assumed the alias P Gimmie.
• Catchphrase: Every once in a while, Penny's parents get on her nerves, and she mutters "I can't stand y'all!" Only to retract it when she's overheard.
• Butt-Monkey: It is likely Penny inherits her dad's slapstick, As she gets her fair share of bad luck, whether it be from her friends constantly ditching her, or from her own parents.
• The Chew Toy: The fact she's the second biggest punching bag the show behind her father, and is on the receiving end of slapstick about 70% of the episodes, places her solely on this trope. Indeed, she took after her father's slapstick.
• Corrupt the Cutie: In "Pulp Boot Camp", she went undercover to do a byline on The Checkered Flag Times, but she let her new life as P Gimmie go to her head.
• Costume Evolution: In Louder and Prouder her sweater is shorter and now a darker red, she wears a different white top that slightly exposes her stomach, and her skirt is now denim and is shown to have extra details on it like pockets and stitching.
• Cute Bruiser: Penny is undeniably cute, but she really showed her friends in the karate episode.
• Disproportionate Retribution: In "Pulp Boot Camp", Penny was, for a time, the queen bee of Sergeant Snelly's camp, running operations and taking everything that did not belong to her, like cookies.
• Drives Like Crazy: In The Proud Family Movie, Penny nearly gives Miss Hightower a heart attack with her reckless driving test. She may have picked this up from Suga Mama.
• Dude Magnet: Penny has attracted a number of young men throughout the series. A few include Myron, Kwok, Carlos, possibly Sticky at one point (implied in "Teacher's Pet"), Johnny, (initially) Peabo, 15 Cent, Omar, Tookie, (possibly) Johnny Lovely, Frankie, and Wally (although, he was unknowingly flirting with the Clone!Penny). In Louder and Prouder she has a boyfriend named Kareem.
• Even the Girls Want Her: Implied. When she and her friends spend time with Olei, there are hints that the latter may like like Penny.
• Evil Costume Switch: Penny ditches her signature outfit for black overalls after turning to the Dark Side in "Pulp Boot Camp". When she is sent to Sergeant Snelly’s camp, she is given an orange shirt and camo pants.
• Evil Is Hammy: In "Pulp Boot Camp", when Penny turns to the Dark Side as part of her research, she starts acting more vulgar and snarky when she speaks.
• Evil Makes You Ugly: Her skin turns ashy like the Gross Sisters during her "bad girl" phase in "Pulp Boot Camp".
• Failure Is the Only Option: Penny dreams of being famous, but it never ends up working out. Two of the three times she becomes famous, she gives it up willingly; in "A Star Is Scorned", she gives it up because it's not worth losing her friends, and in "It All Started With An Orange Basketball", she does briefly become a basketball superstar, but forsakes it because it's not her dream and was pressured into it by her father.
• Flanderization: To an extent. Penny roasting and throwing shade at LaCienega has become a more frequent practice in Louder and Prouder.
• Forehead of Doom: Many jokes have been made about how large her forehead is.
• Friend to All Living Things: Penny seems to have inherited a love of animals from her mother, as shown in "Tiger Whisperer" towards AJ and Chester the "Psycho Duck", and again towards Shuggie the Panda in "New Kids On The Block".
• Genki Girl: Especially in the intro. She's really energetic and upbeat, which is great, because she's really athletic.
• Girlish Pigtails: Her main hairstyle since she was 10 and she's quite feminine.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Penny's outfit is predominantly pink, her main hairstyle are Girlish Pigtails, she's as boy-crazy as her friends, and loves to shop. She's also plays in and enjoys basketball, baseball, and football.
• Go-Getter Girl: She combines her father's ambition with her mother's common sense. Also, she gets good grades in school and gets along with her peers.
• Green-Eyed Monster: She becomes this in "Poetic Justice" when Dijonay improves at poetry and becomes just as good as her.
• Hartman Hips: She has a smaller waist and wider hips in Louder and Prouder, given that she’s supposed to be older.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Her best friends constantly betray her, belittle her and scheme behind her back, and LaCienega would want nothing more to be rid of her if she can, yet Penny never decides to just ditch them. Penny later explains to Maya in Louder and Prouder that the one thing she can count on, is that they at least most of the time, they respect her for being her.
• Informed Deformity: She supposedly has a large forehead, and it would be if her eyebrows weren't so high up, making it look rather normal.
• It's All About Me: At times, Penny can act very selfish, and in the episodes she's selfish it's usually the cause of the episode's conflict.
• Jerkass Ball: Penny holds on to this in certain episodes, such as "Poetic Justice" when she starts being a jerk to Dijonay due to jealousy or in “Pulp Boot Camp” where she goes native.
• Last-Name Basis: LaCienega usually refers to her as "Proud" to emphasize that she doesn't consider Penny a friend. Nubia Gross also usually calls her "Proud", but everyone else calls her "Penny".
• Limited Wardrobe: So much that almost 80% of her wardrobe is the same outfit.
• Lonely at the Top: In "A Star Is Scorned", she trades success for her friends. And while she does become successful, her friends refuse to talk to her and Penny ends up missing her old life and friends.
• Lovable Jock: Penny excels at basketball, baseball, and football. The last two of which she was on a team. And she still remains a decent person.
• Luminescent Blush: In “Puff Daddy” after and awkward encounter with her new Boss Talia Rouge, Penny becomes slightly embarrassed by her multiple “blunders” prompting her to blush very lightly and backs away from the situation.
• Morality Pet: Penny is the only person that Chester treats well (as she saved him from drowning earlier in the episode). Though he can still get upset at her if she doesn't give him what he wants.
• Never My Fault: Despite being the Only Sane Woman, Penny usually subverts this trope. She normally refuses to admit her mistakes, but comes to apologize and feel remorse for her actions at the end of the episode. Examples:
  • "Tween Town": when she is grounded for lying to her parents about going to a night club, Penny spends the first half of the episode moping and complaining about her parents. She ignores the fact that had she not lied to her parents, she wouldn't have been on punishment in the first place. She also wishes for the adults to disappear out of spite.
  • She also didn't feel like she did anything wrong when she was proven wrong about Oscar wanting to have an affair with Debra Williams, Trudy's old college roommate. Sure Penny was correct to be suspicious, but she was very rude to the lady and she flat out called her a homewrecker.
• Nice Girl: She's usually a caring, polite, and selfless person, with it being rare for her to catch the Jerkass Ball.
• Not So Above It All: Falls victim to peer pressure a few times. She sometimes goes along with whatever her friends do, whether they are right or wrong.
• Only Sane Woman: Often shares this role with her mother, or else they trade off depending on the episode.
• Out-of-Character Moment: In "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 since she was sent to boot camp, she was a hardened thug instead of a regular bully.
• Passionate Sports Girl: Penny is a sporty girl. She has specific episodes dedicated to her talents in sports in both the original and revival series. Her phone case and laptop even look like a varsity jacket.
• Pink Means Feminine: Her sweater, sneakers, and hair ties are magenta pink in the original series.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: Was initially afraid of the Zamin family in the Culture Shock episode. She, of course, gets better.
• Properly Paranoid:
  • In "Thelma and Luis", when she finds out that the retirement home that Papi stayed in was actually a prison. She was right all along, but the adults didn't believe her (except for Suga Mama). She was proven right at the end of the episode, though.
  • In "Teacher's Pet", Penny's teacher, Miss Dinkins gives her report on Hillary Clinton a failing grade, despite the paper being excellent in quality. Penny concludes that her teacher has a personal grudge against her, which gets her a lecture from her mother about "making excuses"... which it turns out Penny actually wasn't, because Miss Dinkins did give her an unfair grade, but not precisely because of a grudge against Penny. Actually, Miss Dinkins had a grudge against Suga Mama, which she took out on Penny.
  • Subverted in "Ain't Nothing but The Real Thingy, Baby". Penny was very suspicious of the fact that Oscar and were having an affair with Trudy's old college roommate, Debra Williams. It also helped that Oscar did show signs that he was willing to do so. In the end, she was proven wrong.
• Sassy Black Woman: She fits this trope to a tee. If something's really bad, she'll start sassing this place up.
• Short Teens, Tall Adults: Despite being about 14, Penny is at least a foot or more shorter than most of the adults. The first episode of Louder and Prouder shows Penny growing from 4'0" to 5'4", but she's still a few inches shorter than her mother Trudy.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Penny comes to this conclusion in "Forbidden Date" when she and Oscar have talk at the end of the episode to discuss why he's so against her dating yet.
  Penny: It's not like that daddy. I'm a different woman after tonight. When I first saw Carlos I thought, "This definitely won't be my first love." But as the date when on, I found another side. He's smart, warm, funny, sweet, brave. Actually, he reminded me a lot of you, daddy.
  Oscar: That big guy?
  Penny: Yeah, he's a good person. And that's what important. Not how cute a guy is, how much ice he's wearing, what kind of car he drives.
  • She does end up dating Kareem, a kind and polite young man in Louder an Prouder.
• Straw Feminist: Occasionally for laughs, and normally to gang up with Suga Mama and Trudy against her father.
• Strong Family Resemblance: It's been said by her grandparents that Penny looks a lot like Trudy.
• Team Mom: She tends to take on this role among her group of friends. Most notably in "Tween Town".
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Penny took this trope to a great extent in "Pulp Boot Camp". But this is Deconstructed as she was merely going undercover for her article.
• The Un-Favourite: Penny gets this when BeBe and CeCe are magically aged into teenagers. Her own mother even tells this directly to her face.
• Vocal Evolution: Her voice sounds more womanly in Louder and Prouder, due in part to both her going though puberty and the revival coming out seventeen years after the original series ended, thus her voice actress’ voice would have aged.
• Vocal Dissonance: In the Louder and Prouder episode "Snackland", it’s discovered puberty has now made Penny's singing voice deep and raspy like Tone Loc's (who actually provides her singing voice).
• Villain Protagonist: She becomes this in the second half of “Pulp Boot Camp”, which documents her turn to the Dark Side as she looks for a way to write a compelling article that will get her on the staff of the Checkered Flag Times.
• Wacky Parent, Serious Child: While not without her own quirks, Penny is mature for her age and is more levelheaded than most middle schoolers, whereas her father is playful, immature, and childish.
• We Used to Be Friends: With Dijonay, LaCienega and Zoe after Penny's Face–Heel Turn in "A Star is Scorned".
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Throughout the show, she kept an upbeat disposition of helping and inspiring other people with little or some want of personal gain.
• With Friends Like These...: Her friends include a supposed best friend with Chronic Back Stabbing Disorder (Dijonay), a snooty Alpha Bitch who is frenemies with her at best (LaCienega), and a Shrinking Violet (Zoey) who always lets herself be pressured by the other two.
• You Are Grounded!: Penny is often at the receiving end of this when her secretive plans (as seen in "Rumors" and "Tween Town") go exposed by her parents.

Oscar Proud

Oscar Jackson Proud

Voiced by: Tommy Davidson

Penny's overprotective father. While he loves his family, he sees money before non-material happiness.

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• Abusive Parents: Oscar does love his family but he has his moments, especially in Louder and Prouder.
• Achievements in Ignorance: You'd be surprised how often he warps the laws of physics by simply being so inept at whatever he's doing.
• Aesop Amnesia: Every time Oscar is given an Aesop about how he shouldn’t be so protective of Penny in an episode, the aesop ends up not sticking and he goes back to being overprotective in the next episode.
• Afraid of Needles: Poor guy was attempting to run from a shot by Dr. Payne in one episode.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Penny views Oscar as this due to him acting immature for his age. He seems pretty shameless about it.
• Animals Hate Him: He is attacked by animals on a regular basis. Puff (a poodle) bites him on the ear at the end of the show's intro, and in the revival, zoo animals start protesting against him for feeding them his snacks. He even suffered a karmic attack when an elephant that he used to bully as a child filled up its trunk with water and sprayed him into a pool of crocodiles.
• At Least I Admit It: When it was discussed why he's so overprotective in Louder and Prouder, he admits some of his overboard behaviors are him wanting something out of the situation, and nothing to do with Penny.
• Berserk Button: Don't mention "Penny" and "boys" (unless they’re gay) near him.
• Bolt of Divine Retribution: He falls victim to this at the beginning of "The Camp, The Counselor, The Mole and The Rock" for refusing to pay his local church the money he promised them. ^note It probably didn't help that this was his first church attendance in months due to watching football.
• Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: He's rabid about keeping Penny away from boys. His weakness for pretty girls implies that he might be projecting just a little bit. Other times, it's usually an excuse to get something out of it, which he did admit in "When You Wish Upon a Roker".
• Breaking the Cycle of Bad Parenting: Deconstructed. He has an Abusive Mom in the form of Suga Mama (who beats him for speaking out of turn and belittles him while favoring his n'er do well Manchild brother Bobby), overcompensates as an overprotective father of a teenage daughter. That said, he shows no favoritism towards his children, a contrast to his mother and maternal grandfather.
• The Bully: Is revealed to be this in middle school in the episode "Teacher's Pet" when one of his victims, Dave Foreman, turned out to be an owner of a private school Oscar and Trudy wanted to enroll the twins in.
• Bullying a Dragon: Oscar sometimes foolishly provokes people and/or animals that are bigger and/or stronger than him to anger. Considering Oscar's Butt-Monkey status, it usually goes as well as you would expect.
• Bully Magnet: Averted; he's just a victim of slapstick as an adult. In middle school, he was the bully.
• Bumbling Dad: Subverted; despite being a clumsy goofball, parenting may be one of the few things he's good at, though he tends to treat Penny like a little kid at times.
• Butt-Monkey: On the receiving end of 90% of the slapstick the show has to offer.
• Can't Get Away with Nuthin': With the amount of punishment he receives, you'd think he'd be a saint by now. But of course, it wouldn't be much of a show if that were the case.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • "TRUDAAAAAYY!!," "PENNY!!!," and/or "MAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" whenever he is (or is about to be) on the receiving end of some slapstick.
  • Another catchphrase of his is "One swallow would make ya taste buds holla!". He says this to others to promote his snacks… which produce toxic side effects.
• The Chew Toy: Yes, plenty of fans enjoy seeing Oscar suffer, only when he deserves it.
• Cosmic Plaything: Often, it seems that the universe is out to make Oscar suffer in absurdly humiliating ways. For instance, it wasn't enough for his infamous basketball moment to be a standard missed shot. It had to roll around the basket's rim before somehow flying across the entire court and into the opposing team's basket to give them the win.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: Oscar does not like it when any man flirts with his wife.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Oscar may be a doofus who makes horrible snacks and does embarrassing things to his family, but he's a lot tougher and sharper than he thinks. When push comes to shove and his family is in danger and puts his mind to it, he'll rise to the occasion. He single-handedly gave Al Roker a rude surprise, and he's shown to be a natural cowboy and got better at it as he practiced.
• Deadpan Snarker: Constantly, which usually puts him on the bad end of Suga Mama's cane.
• Determinator: He keeps on making snacks despite how horrible they are, and yet he keeps on chugging. It took his factory getting shut down to put an end to his business.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: In the episode "It Takes a Thief" when Oscar visits the zoo, Oscar admits to torturing an elephant named Jumbo with his friends. When Jumbo sees him again, it doesn't end well for Oscar.
• Ditzy Genius: Oscar is very intelligent, but he acts ditzy and immature for his age.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: As a consistent source of ridicule and mockery by family and others because of his terrible food products and history of failures, Oscar craves respect and notoriety which he outright stated when he wasn’t credited in creating a scavenger hunt competition for Wizard Kelly.
• Fantasy-Forbidding Father: In the movie, he forbids Penny from joining the dance team that she wanted to audition to. In the end of the movie, he does loosen up.
• Fat and Skinny: The skinny to Felix's fat.
• Fatal Flaw: Oscar is well known for being cheap and hard-headed. As Suga Mama can attest, he’s been like this growing up.
• Flanderization: His negative traits are exaggerated in Louder and Prouder, to the point where he is His Own Worst Enemy.
• Foolish Husband, Responsible Wife: The foolish to Trudy's responsible. He's impulsive, stubborn, overprotective and runs an unsuccessful snack business while Trudy is the clear breadwinner of the family with her veterinary job.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The responsible (owns his own house along with Trudy and constantly tries to improve his career) to Bobby's foolish (still lives with his mother and has no job).
• Freudian Excuse: In a rare example, it's strongly implied that the reason he is overprotective of Penny is that Suga Mama never seemed to protect him when he was Penny's age.
• Frying Pan of Doom: Tries to hit a mouse with a frying pan in the episode "Don't Leave Home Without It", but ends up smacking his face instead. He even gets hit in the head with a frying Pan in the opening of "Rumors".
• Genius Ditz: His attempts at new snack recipes occasionally reach Mad Scientist levels, spawning a Super Serum in "A Hero for Halloween" and a perpetual multiplying formula in the movie. In Louder and Prouder, he seems to at least understand theoretical physics, to the point of designing a ride that can break the sound barrier, but his reaction when actually going on the ride demonstrates that he doesn't understand the implications of such concepts when applied in real life.
• Giftedly Bad: His snacks are notorious for being horrible, yet they reach a level beyond simple culinary incompetence that suggests Oscar is simply in the wrong business.
• Goofy Print Underwear: He wears a pair of Thingy underwear in "Hooray for Iesha".
• Hated by All: Well, hated by most. Whether it be people or animals alike, Oscar tends to make enemies everywhere he goes, often due to his jerkish behavior around them but sometimes for no clear reason (though being the owner of an infamous snack company may have something to do with it). While his family and neighbors don't hate him, they too can find him insufferable at times.
• Hates Their Parent: Not outright hatred, but he and his mother get on each other's nerves a lot, to the point that their bickering is one of the show's most frequent sources of comedy. But when it's all said and done, they have each other's backs.
• Henpecked Husband: Trudy wears the pants in their marriage and even threatens harm on Oscar so she can get her way whenever they have a disagreement. Most notably, Trudy feels Oscar doesn't give half the effort to his family that he does to his failed snack line.
• Hidden Depths:
  • In "Behind Family Lines", he at one point refers to his father-in-law as "Papa Doc", the nickname of Haitian dictator Francois Duvalier, showing knowledge of Haitian history/political figures.
  • In "Old Towne Road", it's revealed that he's naturally gifted at lassoing and horse-riding.
• His Own Worst Enemy: Louder and Prouder justifies his Butt-Monkey treatment by showing how Oscar brings a lot of his abuse on himself by being obnoxious, overbearing, and domineering for the way he treats people around him. "It All Started With an Orange Basketball" ends with his defeat by Wizard Kelly simply because Oscar was such a Stage Mom that he alienated Penny (his best player) and threw a Rage Quit when things didn't go the way he wanted.
• Hollywood Economics: Oscar runs a factory for his snacks and the only staff are himself and Mr. Chips the monkey. Considering how poorly his product does, and how abysmal his financial situation is compared to Wizard Kelly or the Boulevardezes, it would otherwise be impossible for him to maintain his factory even with free labor from a skilled monkey.
• Jerkass Ball:
  • On the Christmas special, he acts meaner than usual (even though it wasn't really polite for the homeless people to keep coming back to his house uninvited). He does come around by the end, however.
  • He is notably meaner (or at least less sympathetic) throughout the first season of Louder and Prouder. He does become somewhat better by the turn of Season 2.
• Jerkass to One: A Crueler to One example. Oscar's a jerk to most people but is most antagonistic towards Suga Mama, who often retaliates by hitting him.
• Jerkass Has a Point: While Oscar can be too obnoxious and carried away with his overprotectiveness, he is right about certain things.
  • He was also right to be angry with Penny in the episode "Hip-Hop Helicopter" for wearing skimpy clothes on television because they too revealing for a middle school girl to be wearing; Trudy even agrees with him.
  • When Puff went missing, Trudy attempts to blame him for it. However, Oscar pointedly states that he had intended to look after Puff on "Oscar Day" but Trudy wanted him to go shopping with her.
  • While his suspicions of Chester the Duck were initially out of anger for said duck eating his cobbler pie, Oscar stated he didn't have a good feeling about him. And, he was right.
  • While his constant potshots at Sugar Mama are largely unmerited you can't exactly blame Oscar for his irritation with his mother. She insults him constantly, even when Oscar hasn't done anything to her; she responds to his insults with violence (even if it is of the slapstick variety) and has been shown a few times to be The Thing That Would Not Leave, having taken over the guest room at the house even though she has her own home and complains about being forced to move out of the room when someone else needs it. There's also the fact that Oscar has been The Unfavorite of his mother since childhood and she still treats him like that in the present so it's honestly not surprising that he's a bit bitter as an adult.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Oscar acts obnoxious and immature on a lot of occasions in addition to having greed as a pretty serious vice. However, he is overall a well-meaning person and deeply loves and cares for his family, even his mother despite the lip he often gives her.
• Karmic Butt-Monkey: Zig-zagged in the original series. While half of the abuse Oscar goes through is undeserved, some of the Oscar abuse comes off as karmic and cathartic due to how much of a jerk Oscar can be at times. The trope is played straight in season 1 of Louder and Prouder, where he more consistently endures slapstick as a result of his own actions.
• Kavorka Man: Downplayed. While he isn't really bad-looking or anything, he's still an obnoxious loser who's the butt of endless jokes, yet a lot of the women he's flirted with seem to be into him as well.
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Combined with Deadpan Snarker in "Tween Town".
  Oscar: You did all those things because you are on a punishment which comes from the Latin word "puni" which means "no movies" and the Latin word "ment" which means "I meant it!".
• Large Ham: There's not one episode that doesn't have Oscar chewing the scenery.
• Lean and Mean: Downplayed. He's definitely lean, but a decent person who is prone to being immature, petty, overbearing, greedy and selfish at the worst of times.
• Lethal Chef: His Proud Snax makes a lot of people either gag or feel sick after they eat them. The only one who likes them is Peabo. Oscar knows full well that everyone hates his snacks but he refused to give up until his factory got shut down in the Louder and Prouder episode "BeBe".
• Made Out to Be a Jerkass: Very often when Oscar retaliates against Suga Mama, onlookers (even other members of the family) will call him out for it. In "Penny Potter", he finally tells her off, only for Trudy to make him apologize to her in the next scene. And Dr. Payne scolded him more than once for disrespecting her. Sadly, this is Truth in Television for some dysfunctional family dynamics.
• Manchild: Less so than his brother Bobby, but he's still prone to childish antics and tantrums that make Penny seem mature by comparison.
• Men Use Violence, Women Use Communication: Subverted. Oscar would be the personification of this trope if he wasn't a huge wimp. On the other hand, Trudy and Suga Mama have been known to use violence, but prefer to use communication first and foremost.
• Mistaken for Cheating: In "Ain't Nothing But the Real Thingy, Baby", Penny suspects Oscar of cheating on Trudy with the latter's old college roommate, Debra Williams. It also helps that Oscar did show eagerness to visit Debra's house and has been a known Casanova Wannabe, which only supports Penny's suspicion. Penny is proven wrong at the end of the episode when Oscar and Debra explain why they were willing to communicate with each other, and their relationship was strictly platonic.
• Never My Fault: In some cases, Oscar has issues taking responsibility for his actions.
• Noodle People: He is exceptionally thin and lanky compared to other characters, to the point where if he turns his body to a certain angle, he disappears.
• No-Respect Guy: All he really wants is to be a success. All it gets him is his head handed to him. Repeatedly.
• Nonstandard Character Design: Weirdly enough, he's the only character in the show with consistently defined pupils.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Oscar will never live down missing the shot at his high school basketball game. The moment is constantly brought up by Wizard Kelly.
• Papa Wolf: Wherever Penny or the twins are concerned, he immediately grows a spine made of adamantium.
• Parents as People: There's no denying that Oscar loves Penny, but he does have his problems raising her. Oscar seems to take his overprotectiveness over Penny too far and even had issues with her even interacting with boys. He also seems to be pushy with his dreams and tries to force them on Penny at times (the episodes "Spelling Bee" and "It All Started with an Orange Basketball" can come to mind).
• Pet the Dog: The few genuine examples are that he does care for Trudy and Penny. The one time he acts as a surrogate father is in "Love Thy Neighbor" when he gives some pep talk to LaCienega about her abnormally large feet.
• Phrase Catcher: Trudy will often respond to the aforementioned "TRUDAAAAAYY!!" with an "Oscar, what are you yelling about now?" In more passive contexts it's sometimes rephrased as "What are you up to now?"
• Politically Incorrect Hero: He's initially afraid of the Zamin family, who are Pakistani, and views them as abnormal weirdos. He's also homophobic, as shown in Louder and Prouder's "Father Figures", but he learns his lesson at the end of the episode and seems to be working on it. Strangely enough, he’s never displayed this prejudice towards Michael, though he might've just made an exception towards him because Michael's orientation means that he'll never make a move on Penny.
• Properly Paranoid: About the Talking Baby and his ability to talk, but nobody believes him.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Oscar fits into this at times despite his immaturity. A good example would be in "The Altos" when he takes a mentor role for Sticky.
• Riddle for the Ages: One has to wonder exactly how Oscar got his own snack company in the first place given how ten out of ten doctors likely recommend staying away from Proud Snacks.
• Straw Loser: Meager job, unsuccessful, unathletic, wimpy, and all-around untalented. He all but exists to make Penny, Trudy, Suga Mama, and the twins all look better by comparison.
• Straw Misogynist: Oscar has shades of this, such as thinking that football and basketball are only men's games.
• Strong Family Resemblance: "Teacher's Pet" shows that Oscar got all of his looks from his father.
• Sudden Sequel Heel Syndrome: He plays the role of antagonist far more frequently in Louder and Prouder than he did in the original series by virtue of his negative qualities being played up much more.
• Tempting Fate: Oscar boldly - albeit stupidly - tells BeBe and CeCe the story of how he used to fire water guns at Jumbo the Elephant in the episode "It Takes a Thief". Jumbo is not pleased, however, and fires water from his trunk at Oscar, sending him into a lagoon of crocodiles.
• This Loser Is You: A reasonably intelligent man who nonetheless is a perennial failure due to his stubbornness and obsession with becoming a successful businessman. He's basically a G-Rated Willy Loman.
• Troubled Abuser: He verbally insults his mother because of how she treated him growing up.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Oscar does get a victory every so often.
  • "One in a Million" has him convincing Penny to take a very big risk by letting him take a basketball challenge in her place. He gets cheered by everyone, including Suga Mama, and does make the shot. It's borderline ruined when Wizard Kelly pulls some Exact Words to try and cheat Oscar out of any real gains but Penny points out some Loophole Abuse that keeps it a firm win for Oscar.
  • "Teacher's Pet" has Oscar having to put up with a former bullying victim forcing him to pay through the nose in order to consider the twins for a good school. After the man basically forces Oscar to let him dance with Trudy, he finally has enough and cuts in to tell the guy that he is through with his pettiness and leads Trudy away while apologizing for tanking the twins' chances. He winds up getting The Big Damn Kiss from his wife.
  • In "Snackland", he finally gets a taste of genuine financial success when his titular amusement park becomes successful in spite of (or really, because of) how dangerous it is, even being able to have a celebrity musician perform at his park. Of course, his park would be shut down by later episodes because it's too dangerous.
  • He gets a bit more poignant one in the Louder and Prouder two-parter "Old Towne Road" when he meets his maternal family. Showing natural talent in horse riding and lassoing, impresses his grandfather so much that he instantly starts showering him with the love, support and affection that Suga Mama never gave him. It reduces him to tears.
• Too Dumb to Live: He often 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: In Louder and Prouder, he's a much bigger jerk than he was in the original. While he is still a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, he is an awful friend to Felix, acts more abusive to others to get what he wants, acts like a Bad Boss towards Mr. Chips and Peabo, can be inconsiderate towards Penny's feelings, and he can even be mean to Bobby at times. However, by Season 2, Oscar's jerkness has been dialed back a bit where he is a lot more supportive of Penny this time around even trying to stick up for her in the opening episode.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Subverted. He's not ugly, but he is very skinny compared to Trudy's curvaceous body.
• The Unfair Sex: Trudy openly flirts with other men, but if Oscar were to do the same with women, Trudy will get upset.
• The Unfavorite: Subverted. It's obvious that his mother prefers his older brother, but she makes it clear that she loves Oscar just as much. Unlike most cases he never seems bothered by his brother being favored and the two are shown as quite close, fully willing to help the other in any endeavor. Any vitriol he does have gets channeled towards Suga Mama for doing the favoring.
• The Unapologetic: There are some cases that Oscar has issues apologizing.
  • In the episode "Teacher's Pet," he didn't want to apologize to the dean of the school (that he was trying to get his twins in) for bullying him back in middle school.
  • In Louder and Prouder episode "Father Figures," Suga Mama even had to force Oscar to apologize for his behavior towards the new neighbors.
• Unknown Rival: To Wizard Kelly, a rivalry that is so one-sided that it stretches the meaning of the word to its limit.
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: In Louder and Prouder, he's so much of a jerk and unsympathetic. It makes it hard to root for him but also makes the abuse he frequently endures much more cathartic and justified.
• Vocal Evolution: His voice sounds lower and more gruff in Louder and Prouder.
• Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Oscar is wacky and immature compared to his daughter Penny who acts much more mature than him most of the time.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: While they bicker frequently, it's more than likely he just wants Suga Mama to respect him. Even though she barely tolerates him, she does admit she's proud of him on occasion.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: It’s been shown and stated in a select few episodes that Oscar is afraid of heights.
• With Friends Like These...: In the new series, he tends to treat his friend Felix like crap.
• Wouldn't Hit a Girl: The reason why Trudy and Suga Mama will always beat Oscar.
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: In "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thingy, Baby", 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.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: A regular victim of this. He's constantly excluded from things the rest of the family is invited to, his attempts at success always blow up in his face and he ends up being outmatched by anyone he competes against.

Trudy Proud

Dr. Gertrude "Trudy" Parker-Proud

Voiced by: Paula Jai Parker

Penny's mother. She works as a veterinarian and, according to Penny, keeps everything in the Proud household together.

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• Berserk Button: Trudy doesn't like being lied to as even Penny and her friends are not safe.
• Catchphrase: Usually when she is worried about her kids (or even Oscar), she'll often shout "MY BABIES".
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Like how Oscar can be, Trudy can get easily jealous when he starts flirting with another woman.
• Control Freak: Sometimes things always have to be Trudy’s way or the highway.
• Daddy's Girl: She is shown to go out of her way to please her parents when they come to visit, even keeping the house spic and span and taking out the TV to please her TV-hating father and prissy mother.
• A Day in the Limelight: In "There's Something About Rene" where her position within the family as the housekeeper is explored. The episode is completly told from her perspective.
• Depending on the Writer: Possibly subjected to this the most of the family. In some episodes, she's a loving mother and wife with a rational head on her shoulders. In others, she can be remarkably self-centered, petty, and even violent.
• Disproportionate Retribution: In "Grandma's Hands", she decides that the best course of action for Penny dodging homework and missing her curfew is to lock her out of the house - a punishment even Oscar had issues with.
• Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Her treatment of Oscar whenever he gets out of line or does something stupid definitely wouldn't be comedic if the genders were reversed.
• Foolish Husband, Responsible Wife: The responsible to Oscar's foolish. He's impulsive, stubborn, overprotective and runs an unsuccessful snack business while Trudy is the clear breadwinner of the family with her veterinary job.
• Friend to All Living Things: She's a veterinarian. In one episode, she demands that Oscar get rid of a mouse in the house but expressly forbids him to kill it.
• The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: With older sister Diana, a glamorous Broadway singer while Trudy is a suburban mother and veternarian.
• Good Parents: She's a lot less restrictive and more open-minded towards Penny than her husband while also being willing to put her foot down and convince her daughter to do the right thing.
• Hartman Hips: Has wide hips to show off her maturity.
• Hot-Blooded: When prompted, she acts just as emotional and tempered as Oscar.
• Hypocrite: 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 "Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thingy, Baby".
• It's All About Me: At her worst, she can get really hung up on not getting her way.
• Jerkass Ball: Anytime her bossiness and possessiveness clouds her judgement.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Trudy can get jealous at times as well as bossy, snobby and aggressive towards her family, but she's usually portrayed as a loving and understanding person despite these moments. When these ugly moments aren't popping up, she's a loving mother and caring person all around who tries to help everyone.
• Mama Bear: Once, she's even not-so-subtly compared to an actual bear in this regard.
• Men Use Violence, Women Use Communication: Usually. But she's not afraid to flip the script when pushed.
• Not So Above It All: She has her moments of acting just as immature, controlling, and mean like Oscar.
• Only Sane Woman: When her own clinginess and competitiveness aren't dialed up, she shares this role with Penny.
• Out of Focus: In the first season of Louder and Prouder she gets very little screentime and no focus episodes on her.
• Parents as People: Despite Trudy being the better parent (out of her and Oscar), she still has her issues raising Penny. When it comes to Bebe and Cece, there can be some parentification that she expects from Penny (her always making Penny watch the twins has been an issue mainly in the original series). The parentification exen extends to the reboot in which she expected Penny to be the third parent to Bebe and Cece when Bebe is revealed to have autism.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Compared to Oscar, who tends to be strict to the point of unfairness.
• Spoiled Brat: At her worst, she can come off as this.
• Supreme Chef: Her cooked food usually looks delicious. This is best shown when she cooks Oscar his favorite things and the time when she invited her family over and two members ate all her food that everyone else was supposed to eat.
• Tough Love: In "Grandma's Hands," she locks Penny out of the house because she kept breaking curfew/sneaking back in at night and skipping school assignments, but at the end of the episode, she says she did this because she loves her.
• Tsundere: She switches between Type A and B, depending on the episode. She also truly loves Oscar, but it's often hard to tell.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Oscar is all pencil-like and Trudy is very shapely.
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: During the episodes where she gets particularly bossy.
• Uptown Girl: She was born into a significantly wealthier family, while her husband was not.
• Vocal Evolution: In Louder & Prouder, her voice is much deeper than it was in the original show.
• Women Are Wiser: Not that the men set the bar all that high.

Suga Mama

Charlette "Suga Mama" Proud (née Towne)

Voiced by: Jo Marie Payton, Dominique Fishback (Louder and Prouder, as a child and young adult in "Old Towne Road")

Penny's paternal grandmother and the mother of Oscar. As a kid, she was involved in The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry with Spice, Oscar’s aunt. After Spice turned out to be a witch, Suga Mama got fed up and came to hate magic. As an adult, Suga Mama is a hip old woman who favors her oldest son Bobby over Oscar. She is not overtly nasty to Penny and Trudy, but she's very mean to Oscar in a catty sort of way. She also appears to be humorously athletic despite her age.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: She has the hots for Papi, who clearly does not feel the same, but since he only speaks Spanish, Suga Mama never catches on.
• Abusive Mom: She's abusive towards her son Oscar, physically and verbally.
• Action Girl: As a young girl in "Old Towne Road", she actually had excellent bullriding skills, where she exhausted the animal. Too bad her father dismissed her due to her gender.
• Affectionate Nickname: Dr. Payne calls her "Suga Bear".
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: For all her mockery towards her son, Suga Mama will make it clear while she doesn't always like him, she will always love Oscar. She stands up to both Wizard Kelly and her sister Spice for him.
• Birds of a Feather: Her and Trudy's relationship is built on their compulsive need to keep Oscar under their thumb.
• Blind Without 'Em: Suga Mama can’t see squat without her glasses…but even her current glasses don't correct her vision well enough.
• Butt-Monkey: Nowhere close to what Penny and especially Oscar endure, but she's had some bad luck thrown at her expense (like when she and Oscar shared a beating in a championship wrestling match). Other people (mostly Oscar and Papi) also insult her appearance.
• Cain and Abel: The Abel to Spice's Cain.
• The Chain of Harm: Applies to her backstory in the original series and the retconned one in the revival. In the original, she was overlooked by her parents in favor of her sister Spice and would wind up favoring Bobby over Oscar. In the retconned backstory, she grew up constantly being insulted and dismissed by her misogynistic family for having ambitions seen as masculine, while she would end up belittling and dismissing Oscar constantly (albeit for different reasons).
• Cool Old Lady: She's hip, can wrestle, a great baseball coach, and funny. Many of Penny's friends comment on how cool she is.
• Cordon Bleugh Chef: Zigzagged. The original series implies she's a good chef, but some of her cooking methods are very gross. The most notable example being in one episode where she deigns to help Oscar by cooking a family treat in his snack factory; the snack is a huge success... until Sugar Mama reveals in a televised interview that part of the cooking process involves stirring it with her feet. The consumers are disgusted and Proud Snacks Factory is once again struggling for customs.
• A Day in the Limelight: "Hmm... Tastes Like...", which focuses on her relationship with Oscar. She even gets to sing a song in it! The revival gives her "Old Towne Road" which focuses on her relationship with her estranged family.
• Deadpan Snarker: She is quick with the sarcastic comments, especially at Oscar's expense.
• Death Glare: Gives an ice cold one to Penny in "Bad Influencer" after she finds about about her narcissistic activities.
• Dirty Old Woman: Suga Mama has shades of this such as flirting with Coach Williams (who is implied to be years younger than her) and also forcing Dr. Carver to bathe with her in a Jacuzzi due to her attraction to him. She also showed attraction to the wrestler Mongo (who is also implied to be half her age).
• Does Not Like Magic: Suga Mama hates and fears anything having to do with magic. This applies to the telekinetic abilities of her sister Spice and an incident with Tristan the Magician in which he swapped her head with Puff’s.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • She clearly doesn't like the Parker family's visits, and who could blame her. She is obviously only doing this to please Trudy. In the episode "Behind Family Lines", she is visibly upset at Trudy's mother Maureen mistaking her for a maid. When Penny succeeds at bringing the two families closer together, Suga Mama regards her earlier behavior as a "downright embarrassment".
  • She can't go one episode without insulting Oscar, but she wouldn't deceive him or use him for her own personal gain, as shown in the episode with her sister. As she states to him, she may not always like him, but she always loves him.
  • For all her flaws, she genuinely does love Oscar, even if her parenting made him the unsuccessful bully he would become, and her and Trudy’s relationship appears to be a fairly happy one.
  • She doesn't tolerate Oscar’s homophobia towards Barry and Randall, even if she is from a generation where it's heavily institutionalized.
  • She strongly disapproves of Penny's friends for their repeated betrayals and exploitations of her granddaughter and encourages Penny to break up with them, in one episode disdainfully telling Penny that Dijonay is "faker than [her] fake friends".
• Eyes Always Shut: She rarely shows her eyes, but she still can move around just fine, and her eyes only widen when she's shocked or surprised. Well, that's because she's constantly squinting due to having poor eyesight, and her usual glasses (which she hasn’t bothered to change) are not sufficiently correcting her vision. Subverted in Louder and Prouder where her eyes are more frequently visible.
• Fatal Flaw: Her womanly short-temper and jealousy work against herself and her family at certain points.
• Freudian Excuse: Her sister was born magical and she wasn't, leading her parents to favor Spice over her. In return, she favors her oldest son Bobby. The revival retcons her story as having come from a Oklahoma farm family with misogynistic ideas about women.
• Given Name Reveal: Louder and Prouder episode "Old Towne Road" reveals that her real name is Charlette Towne.
• The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: With her older sister Spice.
• Gruesome Grandparent: Mostly averted. She's often much nicer to her grandkids than to her younger son, but can be strict to Penny when pushed hard enough. The one time she plays this trope straight is "Grandma's Hands", where she makes Penny work around the house in order to discipline her.
• Hero of Another Story: She, along with Puff and the Twins, are the protagonists of the "Proud Family Shorties".
• Heroes Love Dogs: Suga Mama has a close relationship to Puff and became utterly distraught when he went missing.
• Heroic BSoD: Not heroic per se, but she had one in "She Drives Me Crazy" due to her failing eyesight.
• Hypocrite: Regardless of the backstory in either the original or Louder and Prouder, she was a victim of Parental Favoritism, yet continues doing the exact same thing by babying Bobby and treating Oscar as less than ideally. While Oscar is rude to her, it's obviously out of resentment for how he was raised.
• Hypocritical Heartwarming: Only she can demean her son; Trudy has the sense not to punish Oscar unless it's necessary. Anyone else who does it receives a satisfying smirk. She's less than pleased when Spice reveals that Oscar never truly was her favorite nephew after all.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Becomes this as a way to cope with Spice being a witch, while she wasn't. Both her and her sons have a need to be as plain, and socially acceptable as humanly possible, preferring to sweep Spice and any mention of magic under the rug. Given Oscar's constant schemes failing and Bobby’s talent making him something of manchild, this is subverted.
• I Just Want to Be Special: As a child. A good case can be made that she still wants to be special even as an old woman and that she is just overcompensating in her "normal life" because she is fully aware of it, which also leads to her treatment of Oscar.
• I Was Quite a Looker: See for yourself.◊
• Jerkass Has a Point: On her bad days, Suga Mama isn't certainly a pleasant (or the most pleasant) person, especially how she can treat her son and her family at times but has a good point to make at times.
  • She usually comments on how she doesn't like Dijonay and how Penny shouldn't hang out with her. Considering the number of times Dijonay has ditched Penny and sold her out, Suga Mama is definitely not wrong.
  • In "Penny Potter", while she's not nice to her sister's arrival, Suga Mama turns out to be right about Spice being up to no good.
  • In "A Perfect 10", Sugar Mama remains silent on how everyone's been acting the whole episode, but near the end of it all, everyone's arguing makes her snap, blowing up at everyone for their collective part in LaCieniga's downfall from her career. She even specifically calls the adults out for putting so much on a child. By the end of it all, they're left apologizing to one another over everything.
  • While many of her comments towards Oscar are less than pleasant, a lot of the time she also rightly points out a lot of his negative traits (and said traits are ones that other characters besides Suga Mama have issues with).
• Jerkass to One: Suga Mama is friendly towards everybody on the show, but she is rude and condescending to Oscar, even when he does nothing to provoke her.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: When she protects Oscar from her older sister and shares a heartwarming moment with him. She is also very friendly and a loving grandmother.
• Karma Houdini: Rarely ever gets called out for her treatment towards Oscar, which is the complete opposite vise versa.
• Mama Bear:
  • No matter how much Oscar may annoy her, should someone hurt him, she won't take it kindly. She even lampshades this in "Penny Potter" when Spice, her crooked older sister tries to scam Oscar.
  • The same goes for anyone messing with Penny, she threatened to beat up the Gross Sisters and Wizard Kelly when they disrespected her granddaughter.
  • In "Psycho Duck", she immediately goes to save Bobby from drowning.
  • In "Old Towne Road Part 2," she immediately jumped in to save Oscar from an angry bull despite not wanting to deal with her other family anymore.
• Made of Iron: Even an old timer like her has seen herself in a lot of dangerous situations, and she ends up surviving them. Oscar makes note of the things she has survived, as well as things she could survive.
• Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher: Suga Mama seems to have the idea that Bobby is just a young prodigy and treats him accordingly (she even had to cut his steak even in high school). Bobby doesn't seem to mind, as it makes her easy to love him. In the case of Oscar, she drops the trope entirely.
• Ms. Vice Girl: She gives rude remarks, can be hardcore, and acts kind of a jerk to her own son Oscar. However, as edgy as she is, she is genuinely friendly to many and is a very loving grandmother and mother-in-law.
• My Beloved Smother: To Bobby, but not so much with Oscar.
• Never Mess with Granny: Especially not one who can effortlessly pile-drive a 300 pound man.
• Obnoxious In-Laws: Subverted. She gets along well with her daughter-in-law, but not her son. Even so, she never got along well with the Parkers until the events of "Behind Family Lines".
• Only Known By Her Nickname: Literally everyone, including her family calls her Suga Mama. Indeed, she's gone by Suga Mama since her teenage years. In "Old Towne Road Part 1", The Prouds didn't even know her real given name was Charlette until Trudy did some extensive genealogy research. In Part 2, it’s implied her Native American ex-lover Quannah gave her the nickname Suga.
• Open-Minded Parent: Well, Grandparent, in this case. Despite coming from an era that was way more hostile towards gay people, she's much more accepting of Penny associating with children who have gay parents than Oscar, her own son, is, and doesn't hesitate to blast Oscar for it. She also argues and fights Oscar for being overprotective of Penny due to her gender and age, given she dealt with misogyny herself.
• Parental Favoritism: Suga Mama likes Bobby more than she likes Oscar, even though Bobby is a failure.
• Pink Means Feminine: Inverted. She wears a mixture of light and dark pink clothing but likes a many masculine topics.
• Properly Paranoid: She knew better than to trust Sister Spice.
• Pushover Parents: Subverted. Suga Mama may be more reasonable than Oscar is towards Penny, but that doesn’t mean she won’t put her foot down if she has to. In “Tween Town”, she upheld the punishment Oscar and Trudy invoked on Penny for lying to them, admitting she punished Oscar just as hard when he did something as bad that. In the Louder and Prouder episode "Bad Influence(r)", she was going to ground Penny herself for skipping classes, though Penny gets her sent to Dr. Payne’s weight loss boot camp.
• The Resenter: It's implied that Suga Mama's reactionary attitude toward the revelation that her sister Spice was a telekinetic witch was partly out of resentment due to her being The Unfavorite. The same also applies to Gertie Dinkins when she lost Percy Proud to Suga. Even with her story retconned, she still carries this trait towards her sexist family.
• Sassy Black Woman: Fits the archetype with her constant snark, particularly towards Oscar.
• Senior Sleep-Cycle: She falls asleep the instant she sits down in front of the TV.
• Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: That's Suga Mama for you.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: When she gets back in shape to fit in her wedding dress in "Wedding Bell Blues", she's indistinguishable from her 20-ish year-old self.
• Stepford Smiler: Suga Mama is a fine example of the sort who initially seems to be her mask. "Penny Potter" suggests that her mask developed as the means to deal with her resentment over her older, "perfect" sister Spice getting magic and not herself.
• Stronger with Age: She's got pro-wrestler levels of physical strength. And at 80, no less.
• Super-Strength:
  • In the episode "Smack Mania 6: Mongo Vs. Mama's Boy", she is shown to be able to lift very heavy people with ease.
  • In her appearance in the Lilo & Stitch: The Series crossover episode "Spats", she is able to fight a giant, muscular, whale-like alien and win.
• The Thing That Would Not Leave: She's over at Oscar's house so often that it's easy to forget she has her own house. And Oscar often points this out.
• Third-Person Person: Occasionally. Like "Suga Mama don't like..." or "Suga Mama's in the house!".
• The Unfavorite: We don't actually know since we never get to see Spice's and her parents, but it is implied the reason she is so bitter and resentful towards magic is that she felt left behind when her sister could perform telekinetic abilites and that her parents heavily favored Spice over her. In the Retcon, she came from a family of men who rode bulls in Oklahoma and was dismissed and belittled by her father for her ambitions and gender.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Downplayed in Louder and Prouder. Suga Mama is still friendly, larger-than-life woman and a loving grandmother but she is somewhat more hardcore on Penny than she was in the original series. This includes grounding Penny in season 1 and making her work like a dog in the season 2 episode "Grandma's Hands". What makes this downplayed is that she is still doing what she does because she loves Penny.
• Tough Love: Her abuse seems to boil down to tough love taken a bit too tough. In "Grandma's Hands", she disciplines Penny by making her sleep in Puff's tiny dog bed and doing various exhausting chores, but says she is doing this simply because she loves her. It also is heavily implied that she treated Oscar the same way.
• Tragic Dream: As a child, she desperately wanted to be a rodeo champion, but couldn't because she was a female. She was unable to get over her jealousy of her sister being a witch, and it destroyed their relationship for the rest of their lives. This is subverted as Spice proved to be a Wicked Witch.
• Troubled Abuser: Her parents loved her sister more than her, which made her believe that Spice was a freak (along with being evil, the latter proved to be correct). This belief led to her abusing her own son. It’s also one of her few redeeming qualities that prevents her from being a 100% Abusive Mom to Oscar. The revival has her having suffered misogyny within her family.
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Her complete lack of empathy can put her here sometimes, especially where Oscar is concerned.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Gal: In the reboot, her father belittled and dismissed her attempts to show how skilled she is in rodeo because of her gender. It's tellingly the only thing he ever complimented her on was having Oscar and even then it's a Stealth Insult when he says she did "one thing right" with a less than proud look on his face.
• We Used to Be Friends: She and one of Penny's teachers, Ms. Dinkins, used to be the best of friends. However, when they met Percy Proud, the man who ended up fathering Oscar and Bobby, both of them fought over him and it ended their friendship. It took years for the two to finally reconcile.
• When Elders Attack: She doesn't just use her cane to keep her steady.
• Where Did We Go Wrong?: She carries this vibe when calling out Oscar's homophobic stance towards Maya and KG's two fathers, openly admitting it's reasons like this that make her ashamed of having Oscar for a son.
• Women Are Wiser: Like Trudy, she is more intelligent and reasonable than her son, though not by very much.
• Younger Than They Look: Stated as such in "Old Towne Road", with her still-living father saying she hasn't aged well. Dialogue in "Grandma's Hands" suggests that she is only sixty.

BeBe and CeCe Proud

Benjamin Jackson "BeBe" and Cecilia Nicole "CeCe" Proud

As infants in the original series.

As toddlers in Louder and Prouder.

Voiced by: Tara Strong (original series and Lilo & Stitch: The Series), Lee Thompson Young and Sicily Johnson (as teens in "Twins to Tweens"), Aiden Dodson and Bresha Webb (Louder and Prouder)

Penny's younger twin siblings, a boy (BeBe) and a girl (CeCe).

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• Annoying Younger Siblings: Not that they can help it. At least it seems that way.
• Born Lucky: When they’re aged up in “Twins to Tweens”, everything magically goes right for them at Penny’s expense. It’s hard to say if this applies to them currently.
• Brainy Baby: Times two. They do things that no infants can do their age. In the revival, they've been aged up to two years old but still help Oscar out with his Proud Snacks ventures. BeBe himself has more potential, though he has to deal with autism not letting him properly register pain or fear.
• Costume Evolution: In Louder and Prouder, BeBe now has purple shorts and a light blue sock, and CeCe has a magenta hairband with a flower on it, a longer pink dress with a tutu skirt and a blow around the middle, and white leggings underneath.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: In the Louder and Prouder, where BeBe and CeCe are now two years old, CeCe now has a full head of hair styled into two Afro puffs.
• Eyes Out of Sight: Bebe's eyes are never shown.
• Fearless Infant: Both of them, but BeBe is far more so due to being in the autism spectrum.
• Gender-Blender Name: BeBe. If he wasn't said to be a boy, you would have thought he was a girl from his name. (Though it turns out to be a nickname; his first name is "Benjamin").
• Jerkass Ball: Normally, they are loving siblings towards Penny. However, in "Twins to Tweens", they become jerks towards Penny by shunning her with the rest of her family and friends.
• Not Allowed to Grow Up: They remain infants for the vast majority of the series. They're aged up to two-year-olds in the revival, however.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Louder and Prouder episode "Snackland" reveals that their real first names are "Benjamin" and "Cecilia", but they're still only ever referred to by their nicknames.
• Oral Fixation: BeBe almost always has something in his mouth; in the original series he constantly has a baby bottle in his mouth and in Louder and Prouder he has a pacifier. After his Plot-Relevant Age-Up in "Twins to Tweens", he has a lollipop in his mouth instead. Season 2 of Louder and Prouder implies that this may be a sensory stim for him, as he's revealed to be on the autism spectrum.
• Shout-Out: Named for BeBe and CeCe Winans, a brother and sister singing duo. However, while BeBe Winans real name is also Benjamin, CeCe Winans's real name is Pricilla rather than Cecilia.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Many episodes have shown that Oscar sported a large Afro when he was younger, which he seems to have passed onto BeBe. CeCe, meanwhile, resembles Trudy.
• Theme Twin Naming: The only difference between their nicknames is the consonant letters used.

Bobby Proud

Robert Jackson "Bobby" Proud

Voiced by: Cedric the Entertainer (Original series and Louder and Prouder), Arsenio Hall (The Proud Family Movie)

Oscar's older brother who likes to sing.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: He has the hots for Trudy's sister, Diana, who doesn't have a positive opinion of him. She'll sometimes give him credit for trying though.
• Art Evolution: Perhaps the most notable change in his design in Louder and Prouder is that he has more visible ears, which he lacked in the original series.
• Ascended Extra: Despite being a member of the Proud family, he was more of a reoccurring character during the shows original run. In Louder and Prouder he gets promoted to the main cast and has more screen-time than before.
• Big Eater: If there's one thing Bobby loves more than singing, it's stuffing his face. Especially when he doesn't have to pay for it.
• Breakout Character: Only appearing in a handful of episodes, Bobby grew in popularity to the point where he had his own music video and being a main character in the other series.
• Butt-Monkey: Like Oscar, he tends to get himself hurt a lot.
• Chewing the Scenery: Almost every appearance of him is this, and most of his dialogue is sung pretty loudly.
• Companion Cube: Bobby always carries a microphone with him, due to the fact that much of his dialogue is sung.
• Cool Car: See Crazy-Prepared below.
• Cool Uncle: Penny, Bebe, and Cece love Bobby and see him as this. Bobby loves them back and has been particularly helpful towards Penny and even her friends.
• Costume Evolution: In Louder and Prouder his style goes from 70s to 90s-inspired clothes and hair, with "Home School" mentioning Bobby Brown as one of his influences.
• Crazy-Prepared: Bobby's car is equipped with a lot of things that can help him avoid trouble, like transforming into a mailbox so he can place his car anywhere without getting parking tickets, and his car has a parachute that activates if in case his car goes over a ledge.
• Disco Dan: His personal style is always a few decades behind whenever the show's being made. His first look, with its puffy bandana'd afro and sequined polyester jumpsuit, is straight out of the disco-funk era; Louder and Prouder redesigns his wardrobe as closer to early 90's hip-hop and new jack swing, featuring a two-tone hi-top fade and parachute pants.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The foolish (still lives with his mother and has no job) to Oscar's responsible (owns his own house and constantly tries to improve his career), though even Oscar is no less of a goofball.
• Genius Ditz: He's a dummy in some regards, but you gotta admit he knows a thing or two about technology. Bobby gave his car the ability to transform into a mailbox. And then there are the upgrades to Trudy’s van in the revival.
• Honorary Uncle: Everyone in Penny's friend group refers to him as Uncle Bobby.
• Lazy Bum: Bobby often mooches off of his relatives and others, and yet, somehow Suga Mama favors him. In the revival, it seems Bobby has at least started trying to pull his weight for the family, one of them being upgrading Trudy's van for her veterinarian services. In the Movie, he also helped Oscar with a jingle for his Pork Nut recipe.
• Lounge Lizard: Minus the lounge. Will often break out in song speech and use the microphone he always carries with him.
• Manchild: The main reason why he was the only adult that Al Roker was unable to make disappear. As Bobby puts it, "I'm a kid at heart!"
• Momma's Boy: Suga Mama tends to baby him even more than she does with Oscar.
• Mr. Vice Guy: Bobby really isn't too bad a guy but he can be just as, if not more, immature than Oscar. He also appears to be self-invested in his own singing career and is spoiled by his mother.
• Nice Guy: Despite his childishness, he's still a good person.
• One of the Kids: He's shown to be closest to Bebe and Cece in terms of maturity and more childish than Oscar. In fact, it's what wound up forcing Al Roker to free the other adults as his magic wasn't able to make Bobby disappear.
• Promotion to Opening Titles: By "Louder and Prouder", Bobby is in the new opening theme, and most notably in the family photo.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Bobby is the sensitive guy to Oscar's Manly Man. Oscar has shown himself more than once to be quite badass, Bobby himself even said in "Old Towne Road" that he's a lover, not a fighter.
• Straw Loser: Being more liked and respected 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. In the revival, however, at least he’s become more competent, let try to be helpful.
• The Thing That Would Not Leave: In Louder and Prouder, he more or less lives in the Proud household, that Penny even admits she can't escape him popping up wherever and whenever he pleases in her own home.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Downplayed in Louder and Prouder. Bobby is still the irresponsible but happy-go-lucky and good-hearted uncle he was in the original series but he does act somewhat unabashedly rude and douchey more than before, such as kicking Penny out of her own group or leaving Dijonay behind. Other instances show he’s rather underhanded and shifty, like taking gas without paying, or even tricking Zoey into cleaning his apartment. This is somewhat justified as Bobby does has been promoted from reoccurring character to the main cast and therefore he has a lot more screentime. Despite this, he at least tries pulling his own weight in the family, even though he is a layabout.
• Trademark Favorite Food: In Louder and Prouder, Bobby seems to love nachos (specifically cheapo gas station nachos) with jalapeños and cheese.
• Vanity License Plate: The license plate on his Crazy-Prepared Cool Car reads DIS FUNK.
• Verbal Tic: "Bobby, y'all!"

Pets

Puff

Voiced by: Tara Strong (Original series), Carlos Alazraqui (The Proud Family Movie and Louder and Prouder)

Suga Mama's pet poodle.

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• Anthropomorphic Shift: Puff goes through a brief, downplayed one in “Bad Influence(r)”, as a result of Dr. Payne’s boot camp, which has him jacked up and standing on two legs.
• Butt-Monkey: He's one of the main sources of physical slapstick in the series.
• Canine Companion: To Suga Mama, being a poodle she is often seen carrying. This case goes even further, as he even helps Suga Mama was able to pass her driver's test.
• Even the Dog Is Ashamed: He's a poodle who, like everyone else, looks down on Oscar for his foolishness and attacks him on a semi-regular basis.
• Meaningful Name: He has a puff of hair and his name is Puff.
• Uncatty Resemblance: His fur, on the top of his head, is cut to look similar to Suga Mama's afro-puffs.
• Undying Loyalty: Even when given the chance to be pampered as a dog model, he couldn't bear the thought of being away from Suga Mama.

Mr. Chips

Voiced By: Kevin Michael Richardson (original series), Carlos Alazraqui (Louder and Prouder)

Oscar Proud's pet monkey that was introduced in Season 3 and started to help him out more in the Proud Snacks Factory.

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• Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: In Louder and Prouder, his fur and skin are both a tint of purple, as opposed to the natural brown in the original series.
• Butt-Monkey: Pun aside, Mr. Chips is constantly at the abuse of Oscar but will often return the favor if needed.
• Hidden Depths: Despite being a monkey that is always dragged around by Oscar, Mr. Chips is actually pretty good at his job at the Proud Snacks factory. It even got to a point where he (a monkey) and Peabo (a child) are able to work a forklift while Oscar can't.
• You Don't Look Like You: He looks drastically different in Louder and Prouder than he did in the original series, having purple-ish fur and looking older and more tired.

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