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* DirtyOldMan: [[InsistentTerminology (And a]] [[DirtyOldWoman woman!)]] The "old" part only comes in when you realize that they were drawn in the thirties, and just look and act like kids.(they are kids even bugs bunny called them kids,comparing with oswald the lucky rabbit,mickey mouse and felix the cat the inseparable warner siblings are kids)
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* EverybodyHasStandards: While at best the Warners tend to be manic and at worst absolute lunatics, they do have standards and morals of sorts. In spite of the havoc they reek, they are fundamentally good kids that just don't know how to calm down. They will never go out of their way to be malicious or cruel with their antics UNLESS you are a major {{Jerkass}} either to them or to other people who don't deserve it. After that, [[PayEvilUntoEvil you become]] [[KickTheSonOfABitch their "Special Friend".]] They also can't bring themselves to harm someone who, regardless of personal annoyance or irritation to the Warners, hasn't actually done anything bad or harmful to them or others. In the Sound of Warner, the nanny is being overly friendly to the kids and singing lames songs that are absolutely driving them nuts. But the Warners can't bring themselves to harm her because she's truly trying to care for them, be nice to them, and kind towards them. The Warners may be {{Jerkass Jerks}} but their [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold hearts are solid gold]] on the inside.
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* EverybodyHasStandards: While at best the Warners tend to be manic and at worst absolute lunatics, they do have standards and morals of sorts. In spite of the havoc they reek, they are fundamentally good kids that just don't know how to calm down. They will never go out of their way to be malicious or cruel with their antics UNLESS you are a major {{Jerkass}} either to them or to other people who don't deserve it. After that, [[PayEvilUntoEvil you become]] [[KickTheSonOfABitch their "Special Friend".]] They also can't bring themselves to harm someone who, regardless of personal annoyance or irritation to the Warners, hasn't actually done anything bad or harmful to them or others. In the Sound of Warner, the nanny is being overly friendly to the kids and singing lames songs that are absolutely driving them nuts. But the Warners can't bring themselves to harm her because she's truly trying to care for them, be nice to them, and kind towards them. The Warners may be {{Jerkass Jerks}} [[{{Jerkass}} Jerks]] but their [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold hearts are solid gold]] on the inside.
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* EverybodyHasStandards: While at best the Warners tend to be manic and at worst absolute lunatics, they do have standards and morals of sorts. In spite of the havoc they reek, they are fundamentally good kids that just don't know how to calm down. They will never go out of their way to be malicious or cruel with their antics UNLESS you are a major {{Jerkass}} either to them or to other people who don't deserve it. After that, [[PayEvilUntoEvil you become]] [[KickTheSonOfABitch their "Special Friend".]] They also can't bring themselves to harm someone who, regardless of personal annoyance or irritation to the Warners, hasn't actually done anything bad or harmful to them or others. In the Sound of Warner, the nanny is being overly friendly to the kids and singing lames songs that are absolutely driving them nuts. But the Warners can't bring themselves to harm her because she's truly trying to care for them, be nice to them, and kind towards them. The Warners may be {{Jerkass Jerks}} but their [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold hearts are solid gold]] on the inside.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While he is a KarmicTrickster (kind of on par with Bugs Bunny), he really is a good-natured guy, he is very protective and loving big brother to Wakko and Dot.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While he is a KarmicTrickster (kind They combine their ruthless dedication to making the lives of on par assholes around the world a living hell with Bugs Bunny), he really is a good-natured guy, he is very protective and loving big brother to Wakko and Dot.their genuine affection for those they care about.
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* SpoiledBrat: Definitely one as a child. And a BrattyHalfPint to boot.
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* SpoiledBrat: Definitely one as a child. child, according to "A Christmas Plotz." And a BrattyHalfPint to boot.boot. As a newborn baby he threatened to sue the doctor for spanking him and at age 5 he brings a team of lawyers to demand a long list of presents from Santa (including a ''horse'', not a ''pony'').
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* OlderThanTheyLook: Not that he looks young, but the Warners' 65th anniversary special reveals that he was already head of the studio when they were created, which means he must be in his mid 80s at the very least, though he seems no older than 70.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: Not that he looks young, but the Warners' 65th anniversary special reveals that he was already head of the studio when they were created, which means he must be in his mid 80s at the very least, though he seems no older than 70. And the Christmas Future scene in "A Christmas Plotz" [[ImprobableAge shows him still alive and well about 40 years in the future.]]
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* PungeonManster: They love playing with words and making puns (even used occasionally to hide dirty jokes) and often rely on HurricaneOfPuns, especially when dealing with Dr. Scratchnsniff.
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* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: The often hug and kiss the people (male or female) they interact with.
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* TheQuietOne: In some gags, he doesn't even talk.
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* TheQuietOne: He's the least talkative of the Warners. In some gags, he doesn't even talk.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Usually averted but she ends up annoying both her brothers during the "I'm Cute" song.
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* PottyFailure: Lampshaded: In the episode with Rasputin, at the end when the moral of the day is revealed to be "Brush your teeth," Dot says, "That makes me feel all warm and squishy. Either that or I need to wear diapers."
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* PottyFailure: Lampshaded: Lampshaded. In the episode with Rasputin, at the end when the moral of the day is revealed to be "Brush your teeth," Dot says, "That makes me feel all warm and squishy. Either that or I need to wear diapers.""
* ProudBeauty: The most fervent admirer of her own cuteness, to {{Narcissist}} levels. Especially during her IAmSong where she states "I'm simply a goddess".
* ProudBeauty: The most fervent admirer of her own cuteness, to {{Narcissist}} levels. Especially during her IAmSong where she states "I'm simply a goddess".
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: "Clown and Out" (another popular [[ADayInTheLimelight "day in the limelight" episode]] featuring Wakko)
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: "Clown and Out" (another popular [[ADayInTheLimelight "day in the limelight" episode]] featuring Wakko) shows that he has a fear of clowns. Also, according to the Topps trading card game for the show, he also fears potty emergencies.
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* DubNameChange: In the German dub his name is Aloysius.Aloysius Bierpichlersemmelknödelmeier.
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* DumbBlonde: In the early episodes she could occasionally come across as one, but as her characterization stabilized it was firmly averted; she's as smart as her bosses, emphasized at the end of ''Film/WakkosWish''.
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* DumbBlonde: In the early episodes she could occasionally come across as one, but as her characterization stabilized it was firmly averted; she's as smart as her bosses, emphasized at the end of ''Film/WakkosWish''.''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish''.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: They've had run ins with several historical figures and had a big influence over their achievements. They've inspired Albert Einstein to write E=MC, helped Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel, and inspired Picasso and Beethoven.
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* KickTheDog: He is within his rights to deny donating his candy to orphans and asking the Warners to leave his store if they're not going to buy anything. It's just he's such an asshole about it, laughing loudly in the Nun's face before kicking her out and being disgusted by the sight of the Warners before they've even entered his store, that warrants his HumilationConga.
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* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: Took [[AnvilOnHead three anvils to the head]] and still kept moving.
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* DodgyToupee: In "Drive-Insane", he wore a very obvious toupee on his date. Made even more obvious seeing that it was several sizes too small for his immense head. When the Warners come to crash his date, Yakko at one point comments, "By the way, something died on your head."
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* ShoutOut: Whenever a Xenomorph appears and Dot brings out her pet, it will mimic the tendency of the second mouth/head in the originals mouth. Yes, this includes the above-mentioned ''Mr. Director.''
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He's not actually ''corrupt,'' but his bad temper, tendency to assign blame at random and money-hungry ways keep him unsympathetic.
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* UnexpectedSuccessor: He's something like [[http://youtu.be/Xn-xTJQbR3g a second cousin twice removed]] to the Anvilanian bloodline.
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* WhiteGloves- All three wears these. In a episode, Wakko's gloves take on a life of their own.
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The Warner siblings who are the most prominent stars of the show, and as such, get the most screentime. According to the show's backstory, they were created to serve as comic relief to the very dull ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' character Buddy, but proved to be so troublesome that they were locked in the Warner Bros. Studio Water Tower.
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* AerithAndBob: Unlike the other two, "Dot" can be a real name.
* BadassAdorable: Dot most of all because she's "the cute one".
* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Most of the instances where they are wearing full outfits.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: They've had run ins with several historical figures and had a big influence over their achievements. They've inspired Albert Einstein to write E=MC, helped Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel, and inspired Picasso and Beethoven.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: They may be goofy and crazy, but do not underestimate them.
* CardboardPrison: As a result of their antics, the Warner siblings were locked away in the water tower on the Warner Bros. Studios lot, and allegedly hadn't escaped until the series premiere. However, it's shown in later episodes that not only were Yakko, Wakko, and Dot able to get out whenever they wanted, but were even let out more than once while the tower was being fumigated. Furthermore, similar to ComicBook/TheJoker's attitude towards Arkham Asylum, they view their so-called "prison" as their home, and always return to it willingly when they're done causing chaos.
* CartoonCreature: They have red noses, puppy dog ears, and kitty cat tails. Though others often refer to them as "puppy children," they insist they aren't puppies.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: They take this trope to extremes, as even their theme song is filled with non-sequiturs and bizarre references. Wakko, however, seems to be the most extreme of the three
* CulturedBadass: Especially Yakko, but all three have a lot of knowledge in many different subjects.
* DeadpanSnarker: Yakko's the most deadpan, but...
* DependingOnTheWriter: Who sleeps where on their triple-decker bunk bed - or for that matter, whether they have a triple-decker bunk bed or each have a bed of their own.
* DirtyOldMan: [[InsistentTerminology (And a]] [[DirtyOldWoman woman!)]] The "old" part only comes in when you realize that they were drawn in the thirties, and just look and act like kids.
* TheDreaded: PlayedForLaughs.
* {{Expy}}: Of WesternAnimation/BugsBunny because of their statuses as {{Karmic Trickster}}s and being created by Warner Bros.
* {{Flanderization}}: While early episodes made it clear that the Warners are only deliberately annoying to those who are mean to them, several of the show's later episodes had them bother and cause harm to other people when not provoked. This is especially notable in "Toy Shop Terror" (where they wreak havoc in a toy store during closing hours while the owner is trying to sleep) and "Back in Style" (where they ridicule and inflict pain on the stars of the cartoons Warner Bros. loaned them to for money).
* FunPersonified: They know how to have fun all the time and they are usually annoyingly hyper and cheerful.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Yakko just wears pants, Wakko just wears a shirt, and Dot just wears a skirt. This was [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in a Creator/KidsWB promo talking about how the block featured cartoons "with pants and with no pants".
-->'''Jeff Bennett''': ''Animaniacs'' gives you pants and no pants conveniently in one show!\\
'''Wakko''': I have pants! See?\\
'''Jeff''': Liar liar, pants on fire!
** Also lampshaded in the episode "Animaniacs Stew."
-->'''Dot''': And what's so special about it '''(the episode)'''?\\
'''Wakko''': I'm not wearing any pants!
* {{Hammerspace}}: Although Wakko uses his most often (see above).
* InkblotCartoonStyle: The Warners' design was inspired by this 1930s style; and then justified by giving them an in-universe creation date in the 1930s..
* KarmicTrickster: They will be cheerful and annoying towards ''anyone'', but their antics are generally harmless (in fact, they can be pretty nice and polite kids)... unless someone's being a colossal jerk, who then becomes their "Special Friend" and the mallets come out. In one episode, they're being driven crazy by a parody of the nanny from ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic''... but can't bring themselves to clobber her, because she's not doing anything ''wrong'', something which is lampshaded in the middle of the episode as part of a moral code of sorts. After attempting and failing to provoke a reaction from her, [[spoiler:they hire [[ScrewySquirrel Slappy]], who lacks such a code.]]
* MouthyKid: The Warners (especially Yakko and Dot) aren't afraid to put adults in their place or spout out snarky comments about adults' behavior, but most of the adults that they treat with disdain are [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]] [[{{Jerkass}} jerkasses]].
* NaughtyIsGood: They are portrayed as heroic characters and usually mischievous with people who deserve it.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed:
** Yakko is based very much on [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Groucho Marx]].
** Wakko shows traits from Music/RingoStarr as well as [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Harpo Marx]].
** Dot was inspired by Gilda Radner, among others.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: According to an interview with Tom Ruegger, creator and writer of the show, has confirmed that the Warners' biological ages are 14, 11, and 9. Despite their origin of being created in the 30's.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Especially seen in the episode "Taming Of The Screwy" where Dr. Scratchansniff desperately tries to teach them good manners in most of the episode, but at the end it's revealed they are perfectly capable of acting well-mannered and serious.
* OlderThanTheyLook: They had a 65th anniversary special in-universe and they were drawn at their current age back in the 30s so they are pretty much late 70s to early 80s.
* OldShame: An in-universe example. The people at Warner Bros. Studios have been so ashamed of the Warners that in addition to locking them away in a water tower, they also refused to release any of their cartoons or to publicly acknowledge the trio's existence.
* PopCulturedBadass: There are plenty of pop culture references.
* RoyalBlood: In "King Yakko "[[spoiler: and in "Wakko's Wish."]]
* ScrewySquirrel: At their worst. A lot of what the Warners do could be needlessly cruel to the point of making them unsympathetic, such as stripping Otto (a friendly guy who wasn't being a jerk) in the "Schnitzelbank" song or leaving the woodchuck in the toilet in "Kid in the Lid"... until you remember that [[spoiler:everyone's an actor; hardly any of what takes place is "real".]] The Warners were much guiltier of this in early episodes... as the series progressed, the writers put more effort into showing that, even if their victims weren't specifically mean to ''them'', they'd at least make it clear that they were bad people in general.
* SealedGoodInACan: Being locked up in a water tower for several decades certainly counts, though the fact several episodes show them venturing through several different time periods (World War II among them, which largely took place a decade after they were supposedly locked up) implies they might not have even been locked up that long.
* SmarterThanYouLook: As bizarre and insane as all three of them act, they have an utterly brilliant grasp of geography, history and a host of other subjects. They can recite the nations of the world, all 50 US states and their capitals, and every President of the United States from ''memory'' with no difficulty, and can even throw in some random facts about each while they do it.
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Played for laughs. Throw them bodily out the door, turn around, and ''there they are.'' Hilariously, they're on the ''receiving'' end of this upon occasion. Notably from the likes of [[OldWindbag Pip]], Baloney the Dinosaur, and [[ChronicPetKiller Elmyra]].
* ThisMeansWar: Push them too far, and they will say (in unison) this variation of Groucho's and Bugs' quote.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: Repeatedly.
* TheTrickster: Since they are based on WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, this is a given.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Non-romantic variant, obviously.
* WhiteGloves- All three wears these. In a episode, Wakko's gloves take on a life of their own.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: They're afraid of Mr. Director's eccentricity, Baloney the Dinosaur, the public outhouse (that hasn't been washed in years), and hippies.
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* AllMenArePerverts: Shares this with his brother Wakko, particularly when Hello Nurse is around.
* AmbiguouslyJewish: He's based on Creator/GrouchoMarx and his first name is based on the Yiddish name "Yakov". He and his siblings enthusiastically celebrate Christmas, though.
* BigBrotherInstinct: When Wakko dies after eating too many Swedish meatballs, you better believe Yakko literally goes to Hell and back to rescue him. (Dot too, of course, but she's Wakko's ''little'' sister.) Also gets expressed subtly throughout, with things like leading his siblings around by the hand and shielding them from danger. He's straight up PromotedToParent in ''Wakko's Wish''.
* BubblePipe: Yakko occasionally "puffs" on a soap-bubble pipe while parodying highbrow intellectuals.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Goodnight everybody!]]"
* CulturedBadass: As wacky as he is, Yakko is still the most literate of the three. He is also shown to be capable of speaking ''proper and actual Japanese'', as opposed to the stereotyped barely-Asian-sounding gibberish you usually get in western cartoons.
* DeadpanSnarker: While all of the Warner siblings could indulge in this a bit, Yakko was the standout.
* {{Determinator}}: One interesting example is him singing all the words in the English language. He's obviously broken down when shown singing the "Z" words but refuses to quit and doesn't faint until being requested to [[ImpossibleTask sing all the numbers above zero]].
* TheFace: While the trio definitely played off each other, Yakko appeared in the most skits, typically got the most lines, and got to sing the most songs.
* HiddenBackupPrince: To the royal family of Anvilania.
* TheLeader: In so far as the Warners can be said to have a leader, Yakko is it.
* MeaningfulName: Of the three Warner siblings, Yakko's certainly the most vocal.
* MotorMouth: Especially when he starts singing.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's pretty obviously based on Creator/GrouchoMarx.
* TheSouthpaw: He's left handed.
* TeamDad: He is the "guardian" of the trio, or the parental figure, as he seems to take charge in many situations, and acts generally in a father-manner towards his siblings (Especially in Wakko's Wish).
* TrouserSpace: Yakko keeps lots of things in his pants.
* UnexpectedSuccessor: He's something like [[http://youtu.be/Xn-xTJQbR3g a second cousin twice removed]] to the Anvilanian bloodline.
* VerbalTic: Tends to say "Uhhhhh..." at the beginning of a sentence. Especially right before a zinger.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Wakko is an adorable, precious goofball, through and through.
* AlliterativeName: '''W'''akko '''W'''arner.
* AllDrummersAreAnimals: Whenever drums are needed, such as in a {{Rimshot}} gag or "Little Drummer Warners", he's the one who plays them—which could be explained by this trope, [[FridgeBrilliance the fact that he's based on Ringo]], or both.
* AllMenArePerverts: Shares this with his brother Yakko, particularly when Hello Nurse is around.
* BerserkButton: Giving him an F (especially on his hat).
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's a sweet-natured kid, but he's perfectly willing to mallet anyone who annoys him. And when he gets ''REALLY'' mad... watch out.
* BigEater: As the theme song states, "Wakko packs away the snacks". Yakko and Dot might eat their weight in sweets, but Wakko's the type to gobble up everything in the refrigerator, and then eat the fridge for dessert.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Faboo!"
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Wakko seems to be the most extreme of the three. In one episode where the kids visit a shopping mall, he walks the wrong way on an escalator and declares "Mine's broken." Yakko explains it as "middle kid syndrome."
* CrazyPrepared: He has almost anything in his [[{{Hammerspace}} Gag Bag]].
* EquippableAlly: One scene features Yakko using Wakko as a {{Gatling|Good}} gun to shoot malted milk balls at a candy store owner.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Wakko can and will eat anything you put in front of him.
* {{Gasshole}}: Wakko's ridiculous burping is provided by Creator/MauriceLaMarche, who can actually do that on cue.
* MeaningfulName: By a narrow margin, Wakko is the craziest of the Warners (it's the ditziness).
* MiddleChildSyndrome: Probably most evident in that Yakko is a HiddenBackupPrince, Dot introduces herself as "Princess", but he has no noble title at all.
* NiceHat: He wears a red hat.
* PottyEmergency: The TropeNamer and one of his most famous ADayInTheLimelight episodes has him needing to pee after drinking a large soda while at the movies. After a most sadistic search, he finally gets the relief he needs by installing a toilet from his gaggy bag into a room in the very movie he and his siblings are watching.
* TheQuietOne: In some gags, he doesn't even talk.
* {{Rimshot}}: One of Wakko's jurisdictions is to supply these as necessary.
* UnexplainedAccent: Wakko has a Liverpudlian brogue for absolutely no damn reason -- at least not one ever explained on the show. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that he's a cartoon character in-universe and therefore pretty much runs on RuleOfFunny. His voice actor, Jess Harnell, explains that RuleOfFunny is the only reason why he gave Wakko the accent.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: "Clown and Out" (another popular [[ADayInTheLimelight "day in the limelight" episode]] featuring Wakko)
* YoungerThanTheyLook: He's only 7 according to the "HelloNurse" song, but writers have explained that he only said it in order to rhyme with "heaven". WordOfGod [[note]]in this case, from Tom Ruegger[[/note]] is that the Warners' ages aren't specified beyond "not old enough to date". And course they're technically [[OlderThanTheyLook in their 60s]].
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[[folder:Dot]]
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/TressMacNeille (English), Creator/IkueOtani (Japanese), Elena Prieto (Latin American Spanish)
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* BadassAdorable: She is a cute little girl in a pink dress with a flower in her hair and she's just as devastatingly annoying as her brothers. She also carries cute little boxes that hold her.. pets.
* BerserkButton: Call her Dottie, and you die.
* CatchPhrase: "''And'' the Warner '''''sister'''''."
* TheCutie:
-->'''Yakko''': I'm Yakko.
-->'''Wakko''': I'm Wakko.
-->'''Dot''': And I'm cute!
* DeliberatelyCuteChild: She exploits her cuteness for all it's worth.
* EarsAsHair: She wears her ears in a scrunchie.
* TheFakeCutie: She likes to think of herself as TheCutie and takes her cuteness very seriously, but she's hardly innocent.
* FlowerInHerHair: Has a cute flower between [[EarsAsHair her ears.]]
* FluffyTheTerrible: Most of Dot's "Pets" when she does the "Wanna See My Pet?"
* GenkiGirl: She has the same energy of her male siblings.
* HairDecorations: Dot's flower.
* HypocriticalHumor: A sexy woman walks by, causing Yakko and usually Wakko to shout "HelloNurse", and Dot insults them for it and sometimes has to drag them away. A sexy man walks by, and she responds in exactly the same way her brothers did.
* InsistentTerminology: Whenever someone refers to the Warner Brothers, expect her to pipe up with "and the Warner ''Sister!''"
* IAmSong: "I'm Cute".
* {{Kawaiiko}}: She might be a Western example of this, as she constantly brags about her cuteness to the point of having an entire song titled "I'm Cute", and being referred to in the theme song as the "cute" one.
* LittleMissSnarker: Not quite to Yakko's level, but Dot can snark quite a bit as well.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Dot is one of the few inversions in western animation that willingly introduces herself as this trope on a regular basis.
* OddNameOut: She's the only Warner that doesn't have an "-akko" name. Lampshaded in one of the comics, when Yakko says that they should have named her "Dakko."
* OverlyLongName: Her full name is Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana-Fanna Bo Besca the Third. But you can call her Dot. [[BerserkButton Call her Dottie, and you die.]]
* PinkMeansFeminine: Her skirt.
* PottyFailure: Lampshaded: In the episode with Rasputin, at the end when the moral of the day is revealed to be "Brush your teeth," Dot says, "That makes me feel all warm and squishy. Either that or I need to wear diapers."
* SittingSexyOnAPiano: Occasionally.
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!!Major and Minor Supporting Characters
!!!Major Supporting and {{Recurring Character}}s
[[folder:Ralph Theodore Guard]]
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/FrankWelker (English), Creator/FumihikoTachiki (Japanese/regular voice), Creator/KozoShioya (Japanese/few episodes)
An overweight Warner Bros. studio security guard who is always trying, but never succeeding, to capture the Warners and return them to the water tower.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: He first appeared (without a name) on ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' where he was surprisingly competent at keeping the characters from getting into the studios they were trying to visit.
* TheDitz: This guy didn't even notice when the Warners were hiding in ''the chair he was sitting in.''
* EarlyBirdCameo: His ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' appearances.
* FatIdiot: He's dim-witted and very overweight.
* FriendlyEnemy: Although most of his screentime with the Warners involves attempting to capture them while they physically injure him in their attempts to escape, they're pretty cordial to each other when not at odds.
* HappilyMarried: In "A Christmas Plotz" he's shown to have a wife and son.
* PunchClockVillain: He's a security guard: they're anarchy incarnate. You can see how he'd be pitted against them despite a lack of malice on either side.
* RunningGag: His chasing the Warners into the other characters' segments.
* SimpletonVoice: Daaaahh, he takes a while to begin sentences and, daaahhh, complete his thoughts.
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[[folder:Dr. Otto von Scratchansniff]]
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->'''Voiced by''': Rob Paulsen (English), Koichi Kitamura (Japanese/first voice), Mitsuru Ogata (Japanese/rest of the series)
The Warner Bros. studio psychiatrist. He has the unfortunate duty of trying to tame the Warners, which always leads to him getting utterly frustrated (and in the case of his first sessions with them, tearing out his hair). However, he seems to get along with them well (when he's not being terrorized), and they seem to consider him a father figure.
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* AllPsychologyIsFreudian: He's branched out a little - hypnotherapy, group counseling - but when in doubt he returns to Siggy's methods.
* ButtMonkey: The most regular victim of the Warner's antics.
* ChubbyChaser: He attracted to fat women as shown in "Drive-Insane" where he attempts, unsuccessfully, to make an advance on Frau Hassenfeffer.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: To his perpetual woe, Plotz assigned ''him'' to try to put an end to the Warner chaos.
* CompanionCube: Mr. Puppethead sometimes begins conversations with Scratchy.
* EinsteinHair: Used to have it. Until he tore it all out during his first therapy session the Warners.
* FriendsAllAlong: When the Warners reveal to the doctor that they're capable of acting normally, he asks them why they put him through so much trouble. All three siblings glomp him and proclaim "Cause we love you!" The doctor's response? A very out-of-character moment by [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming happily gathering up all three Warners in a bear hug]].
* FunnyForeigner: Has accent, ya?
* HairTodayGoneTomorrow: He used to have fluffy Albert Einstein-esque hair before during his first session with the Warners, their antics frustrated him so much he ripped every inch of his hair off his head.
* HerrDoktor: Vaguely Austrian, maybe.
* {{Leitmotif}}: The episodes "De-Zanitized" and "La La Law" both have an instrumental version of "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" serve as Otto's theme music.
* MeaningfulName: In the German dub, he's Dr. Freudlos, a double pun: It literally means "Joyless", as well as being a nod to Sigmund Freud.
* NervousWreck: Like most cartoon psychiatrists, he ''needs'' one more than he needs to ''be'' one.
* NoRespectGuy: He was one of the greatest psychiatrists in Hollywood before the Warners arrived.
* OpaqueLenses: His glasses.
* ParentalSubstitute: He becomes the closest thing the Warners have to a father figure, and is the one to take them out on outings.
* TeamDad: The Warners seem to view him as this.
* TheVonTropeFamily: 'Von' just in case you thought he was one of the Hackensack N.J. 'Scratchensniffs'.
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[[folder:Hello Nurse]]
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->'''Voiced by''': Tress [=MacNeille=] (English), Lilo Schmid (Latin American Spanish/first voice), Edilú Martínez (Latin American Spanish/rest of the series)
Scratchansniff's ravishing assistant, the frequent subject of Yakko and Wakko's boyish affections. While she's not the TropeNamer for HelloNurse, she [[TropeCodifier gave the trope its current popularity]].
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* TheAce: According to the "Hello Nurse" song, her list of accomplishments includes winning the Tony, Nobel Prize, and Pulitzer, obtaining several Ph.Ds, playing Chopin without rehearsing, singing opera at the Met, starring as the lead role in Theatre/KingLear, becoming the ambassador to China, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking not smoking]].
* ActionGirl: In the comics she is a secret agent and show fight skills.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In the beginning of the show, and indeed in some of the early spin-off comics, she didn't have much of a personality and was mainly just there to be sexy -- and she had several moments then when she displayed definite traits of a LiteralMinded DumbBlonde. Eventually, however, she was developed a little more, to become Scratchansniff's extremely intelligent, HypercompetentSidekick, and her Dumb Blonde moments completely vanished.
* DudeMagnet: Has men lusting after her constantly, especially the Warner Brothers.
* DumbBlonde: In the early episodes she could occasionally come across as one, but as her characterization stabilized it was firmly averted; she's as smart as her bosses, emphasized at the end of ''Film/WakkosWish''.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: A blonde woman and treated as a sex symbol in-universe.
* FrenchMaidOutfit: She wore this costume in an episode in order to teach the Warner siblings table manners. There really wasn't a reason other than HelloNurse.
* {{Gainaxing}}: She is sometimes animated with her breasts jiggling.
* HelloNurse: TropeNamer. Hello Nurse's appearance almost always prompts Wakko and Yakko into exclaiming "Hellooooooo, Nurse!", (one of the show's well-known lines) and jumping into her arms.
* HospitalHottie: Unsurprisingly (though she doesn't have a hospital to heat up).
* HypercompetentSidekick: To Scratchansniff.
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Parodied in ''Wakko's Wish'' where she designs a bottle for Scratchansniff's elixir that is said to be popular because of its more attractive shape. The bottle happens to have a shape similar to Hello Nurse's curvaceous figure. See her picture on the trope page!
* LivingADoubleLife: In the comics, Hello Nurse was also a secret agent. She is an Agent of H.U.B.B.A., wears a white LeotardOfPower and fight villains. She has also an {{Archenemy}} in Nurse Doom, her EvilTwin with red hair.
* MsFanservice: One of the major examples in western animation. Hello Nurse is a sexy and voluptuous blonde woman. She is the main source of {{Fanservice}} in the show over whom Yakko and Wakko continually fawn.
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Like an actress, she is used in other episodes as needed.
* NoNameGiven: Subverted. Hello Nurse is actually her name.
* PhraseCatcher: "Hello, Nurse!" of course.
* ParodySue: At least in this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpS3eFqhxSQ song]] about her.
* PimpedOutDress: In the episode [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU5it18wMAk "King Yakko"]], Hello Nurse plays the prime minister of the kingdom, and she wears a magenta dress with [[PrettyInMink ermine trim]] and a blue cloak.
* SexySecretary: Her duties to Dr. Scratchensniff seem more secretarial than anything medical.
* SexyStewardess: In two shorts, one with the Warner Brothers and another during a cameo with Slappy Squirrel.
* ShesGotLegs: Lampshaded in the musical number "Hello Nurse".
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[[folder:Thaddeus Plotz]]
->'''Voiced by''': Frank Welker (English), Takeshi Watabe (Japanese)
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The CEO of Warner Bros. (in-universe, that is).
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He's not actually ''corrupt,'' but his bad temper, tendency to assign blame at random and money-hungry ways keep him unsympathetic.
* HairTriggerTemper: Just about any of the Warners' antics will set him off.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Appears to hate the Warners, but enlists their help in times of need. He even hired a clown for Wakko's birthday (despite being absolutely terrified of clowns.) This was before he was aware of Wakko's own fear of clowns so it wasn't out of malice.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He regretted ever making the Warners stars.
** The Warners' 65th anniversary special has two in-universe examples of big ones:
*** According to him, his biggest mistake was giving them their own cartoons.
*** According to Slappy, it was letting ''Wakko '''direct''''' one of said cartoons.
* TheNapoleon: Plotz is extremely short, with a short temper to match.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Not that he looks young, but the Warners' 65th anniversary special reveals that he was already head of the studio when they were created, which means he must be in his mid 80s at the very least, though he seems no older than 70.
* PunnyName: His surname is Yiddish-American slang meaning "to explode" or "to collapse."
* PointyHairedBoss
* TheScrooge: He even gets his own "Christmas Carol" episode.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: In the episode "Taming of the Screwy," Mr. Plotz is holding a banquet for foreign investors, and said investors want to meet all of the workers at the Warner Bros. studio, including Yakko, Wakko, and Dot. Under his orders, Dr. Scratchansniff manages to convince the Warners to keep their lunacy under control so they can attend the banquet... only for Mr. Plotz to force them out of the banquet regardless because he doesn't trust them not to screw things up. Snubbed and insulted, the Warners return to the banquet and ruin it in their usual KarmicTrickster fashion. In a nutshell, if Mr. Plotz had just let them stay since they were behaving, the entire thing would have gone off without a hitch.
* SpoiledBrat: Definitely one as a child. And a BrattyHalfPint to boot.
* TheVonTropeFamily: As "Baron von Plotz" in ''Wakko's Wish''.
* ThrowTheDogABone: Though he was known for making bad business decisions and treating some of his employees like crap, Plotz was a step above the average corporate villain and occasionally would get a moment where he'd realize his own foolishness and regret it, thus prompting the [[KarmicTrickster Warners themselves]] to cut him a break and even give him some small reward.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Has a fear of clowns.
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!!!Minor Supporting and {{Recurring Character}}s
[[folder:Mr. Director]]
->'''Voiced by''': Paul Rugg
A crazy director who looks, sounds, and behaves like a young Creator/JerryLewis.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: His craziness and eccentricity is so over the top that even the ''Warners themselves'' find him insane.
* MoodSwinger: He alternates between treating comedy as SeriousBusiness and being a TalkativeLoon.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's based on Jerry Lewis.
* OhGodWithTheVerbing: He speaks like this.
* PsychopathicManchild: When in TalkativeLoon mode, he's a shrill, barely coherent idiot.
* SuddenlyFluentInGibberish: Freunleven!
* TakeThat: They lampoon Lewis' over-the-top antics in his comedy films, and they also make a humorous reference to his unreleased drama film ''Film/TheDayTheClownCried'', about a clown that ends up in a Nazi concentration camp (a shining example of one of the jokes on this shown that [[ParentalBonus children normally wouldn't get]]).
* YouSayTomato: Mr. Director discusses this trope.
-->Take the word 'animal'. Transpose the letters 'n' and 'm' and you get 'aminal'. That, in a nutshell, is comedy.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ms. Flamiel]]
->'''Voiced by''': Tress [=MacNeille=]
A schoolteacher who sometimes tries to educate the Warners, only for them to frustrate her in the process.
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* AsideGlance: Once or twice.
* BreakTheHaughty: Her certainty that she can shatter the Warners' wills and make them good little children turns out to be... a little optimistic.
* SternTeacher: Mr. Plotz hired her because she's a stern, abrasive disciplinarian whom he thinks will keep the Warners in line. Still, she's a fairly reasonable example, who genuinely wants to educate the Warners, doesn't deliberately make things hard for them, and would probably be less sour if her students didn't always torment her with their usual antics.
* VictoriasSecretCompartment: She apparently keeps her marker for giving people F's in her blouse. Quoth Yakko; "Ooh, what else you got in there?"
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Baloney the Dinosaur]]
->'''Voiced by''': Creator/JeffBennett
A sappy orange and light blue dinosaur who is an obvious pastiche of [[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney]]. One of the few things the Warners are afraid of.
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* AnvilOnHead: The Warners keep dropping anvils on his head in the episode "Baloney and Kids," but it turns out even ''this'' won't stop him.
* BerserkButton: As shown in his appearance on ''WesternAnimation/PinkyElmyraAndTheBrain'', he '''hates''' cheating.
* CaptainErsatz: An obvious parody of Barney the Dinosaur.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: His "Imagine Song."
* TheDitz: He's not too bright.
* ImplacableMan: To the Warners' terror. '''Nothing''' can make him stop. Nothing! Not even falling anvils!
* IronButtmonkey: He keeps coming back from all the abuse the Warners heap on him.
* TakeThat: He's obviously a jab at Barney the Dinosaur.
--> '''Wakko''': Are we being punished?
--> '''Yakko & Dot''': ''Yes.''
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: Took [[AnvilOnHead three anvils to the head]] and still kept moving.
* TyrannosaurusRex: Subversion of the usual portrayal.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Francis "Pip" Pumphandle]]
->'''Voiced by''': Ben Stein
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* InkSuitActor: Pip Pumphandle is based directly off his voice actor Ben Stein.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Pip turns the usual Warner Brothers (and Sister) formula on its head, delivering the same exasperation they had dispensed to so many others.
* StockholmSyndrome: After he leaves, the Warners find themselves missing him and want to hear another one of his stories.
* TheCatCameBack: The Warners find him impossible to get rid of...until he actually leaves and they decide they miss him.
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: When the Warners encounter him at a Hollywood party, he starts relating a long, rambling, essentially pointless story about how he once encountered [[Series/ThePriceIsRight Bob Barker]] eating a bologna and cheese ball sandwich, and he doesn't leave the Warners alone until he finishes (even practicing OffscreenTeleportation a la [[Creator/TexAvery Droopy Dog]]), boring them to tears.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dot's Pet]]
A monstrous creature who is always kept inside a small, white box. The creature's appearance is inconsistent and its color varied, but its most common forms are a large bull-like creature, a plant parodying ''Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors'', and a hairy form with enormous teeth. In one case, Mr. Director was her pet.
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* FluffyTheTerrible: Often the case.
[[/folder]]
!!!{{One Shot Character}}s
[[folder:Professor Otto von Schnitzelbuskrankengescheitmeier]]
->'''Voiced by''': Creator/JimCummings
A fat, jolly German guy who taught the Warners the International Friendship Song.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's ordinarily a nice guy, but when the Warners spend the entire last segment of the Friendship Song stripping him of his clothes and humiliating him he finally snaps at the end and kicks the three of them out of his village.
* BigFun: He's overweight and tries to sing a song with the Warners about friendship.
* {{Cameo}}: In ''Film/WakkosWish''.
* DubNameChange: In the German dub his name is Aloysius.
* OverlyLongName: His surname is pretty long.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sodarn Hinsane]]
->'''Voiced by''': Frank Welker
A LawyerFriendlyCameo of UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein who appears as the antagonist of "Baghdad Cafe", a {{crossover}} episode starring Yakko, Wakko, and Slappy (the latter in place of Dot).
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* AssholeVictim: Apparently, he was to host the Warner Brothers (and Sister) ''while'' his country is being curb-stomped by an enemy army.
* DubNameChange: Inverted in the Venezuelan Spanish dub: He was "renamed" as "Saddam Hussein", albeit his last name is pronounced more or less the same way as it should be pronounced in Arabic, rather than Spanish or English.
* EarlyBirdCameo: He appears being sent to hell in "Hot, Bothered, and Bedeviled" before his first formal appearance.
* TheNapoleon: He's a world leader who is short in stature.
* PunnyName: His name sounds like "so darn insane".
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Wally Llama]]
->'''Voiced by''': Richard Libertini
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* DisproportionateRetribution: The Warners hound him incessantly to answer their Very, Very, Very, Very Important Question. He just wants an afternoon off to watch ''Baywatch!!''
* LaughingMad: He starts giggling like a lunatic when it turns out he doesn't know the answer to the Warners' question.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's a parody of the Dalai Lama.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mr. Gobble]]
Yakko, Wakko, and Dot's pet turkey who runs and dances to the tune of ''TurkeyInTheStraw''.
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* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: Pretty clever for a turkey, but he's not a talking animal.
* OffscreenTeleportation: He can even appear inside other peoples' hats without being detected.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Howie Tern]]
->'''Voiced by''': Maurice [=LaMarche=]
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* BarefootCartoonAnimal: He has no shoes.
* InformedSpecies: He is supposed to be a tern, but he looks far more like a crane or stork.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Of Creator/HowardStern
* SpeciesSurname: Possibly subverted, since he looks more like a crane or stork than a tern.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Survey Ladies]]
->'''Voiced by''': Creator/KathSoucie and Deanna Oliver
Two women who pester Yakko, Wakko, and Dot with a survey involving George Wendt and Beans.
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* BasedOnATrueStory: A retrospective reveals that the annoying survey ladies were based on a real-life encounter that some of the writing staff had not far from the studio.
* TheCatCameBack: They're everywhere in the mall. ''Everywhere.''
--> '''Survey Lady #2''': We're persistent!
--> '''Yakko''': [[YouKeepUsingThatWord Try using a better deodorant]].
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[[folder:Fermin Flaxseed]]
->'''Voiced by''': Jeff Bennett
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* AlliterativeName: First and last name both begin with F.
* BaldOfEvil: Covered by a highly unconvincing hairpiece.
--> '''Dot''' ''(shyly offering it back):'' You dropped your hair.
* FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: He has a suit and even wears shoes.
* InexplicablyTailless: He appears to be some kind of weasel, but he has no tail.
* {{Jerkass}}: His first scene depicts him laughing off a nun's request that he donate to her charity and literally kicking her out of his store.
* LaserGuidedKarma: He is rewarded for his jerkish behavior by having the Warners torment him and make a mess of his store, getting the crap beaten out of him by a bunch of football players, and turned into a chocolate bunny.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dan Anchorman]]
->'''Voiced by''': Creator/PhilHartman
A conceited news anchorman for the fictitious ''Newstime Live'' programme who refused to pay Yakko, Wakko, and Dot for a sandwich he had ordered.
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* {{Jerkass}}: To ensure that the audience doesn't feel sorry for him suffering the Warners' retribution towards him denying them a tip, his first scene has him angrily fire his makeup assistant for being a smidgen late and yelling at the rest of the news studio that they are useless.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Yes, he is incredibly conceited and abrasive, but if a delivery person ''ate the sandwich you ordered right in front of you and then demanded a tip'', wouldn't you be pissed too? The Warners were lucky he didn't call the shop to complain!
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Of Sam Donaldson.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ivan Bloski]]
->'''Voiced by''': Creator/GeorgeDzundza
A {{Jerkass}} accountant who finds himself sharing an airplane with the Warners and becomes their "Special Friend." He is a parody of the notorious stock trader Ivan Boesky, who was convicted in a 1987 insider trading scandal.
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* {{Jerkass}}: He's a loud-mouthed asshole, and his entire short goes to great lengths to show this. Immediately after threatening to buy the airline just so he can fire the lady who accidentally got him bumped down to coach from first class, he literally throws a man with a broken leg out of his way, ordering him to "quit faking it and get a job," and then forces his way onto the plane, orders the stewardess to throw everyone in coach off the plane just so he can have privacy, and screams in the stewardess' face to get him 14 bags of peanuts. Needless to say, when Yakko, Wakko, and Dot appear and name him their "Special Friend," he deserves every minute of torture they give him.
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[[folder:Duanne Sewer]]
->'''Voiced by''': Tress [=MacNeille=]
A rival newsreader of the fictitious ''Newstime Live'' program and anchorwoman in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC who appears in the episode "Broadcast Nuisance".
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Of Diane Sawyer
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Wolf Spritzer]]
->'''Voiced by''': Rob Paulsen
A newsreporter for the fictitious ''Newstime Live'' program who appears in "Broadcast Nuisance".
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Of Wolf Blitzer
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Death]]
->'''Voiced by''': Jess Harnell
An archetypically portrayed Grim Reaper, with black robe, skeletal appearance, and scythe who speaks with a Swedish accent.
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* ExactWords: He tricks Yakko and Dot into betting their lives away.
* FateWorseThanDeath: (With apologies for the pun.) The Warners demand to spend the rest of eternity with him, adopt him as their father figure, and call him 'Daddoo.' He gets so fed up with it that he declares them all to be alive and informs them that it will be a long time before he lets them back in his domain again.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Satan]]
->'''Voiced by''': Creator/RonPerlman
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* ButtMonkey: Probably the only reason ''Hot, Bothered and Bedeviled'' was green-lighted. Even for a Yakko/Wakko/Dot villain he comes off as a complete chump.
* GetOut: Eventually gives up on the idea of subjecting the Warners to an eternity in the lake of fire, in favor of ''never'' having to see them again.
* {{Satan}}: The rather campy, traditional Big Red Guy with a Fork.
--> '''Yakko''': Does George Hamilton know your tan is better than his?
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Calhoun Q. Capybara and Lew-Lew the Ring-Tailed Lemur]]
->Calhoun Capybara voiced by: Jim Cummings
->Lew-Lew voiced by: Jess Harnell
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* {{Expy}}: Of WesternAnimation/YogiBear and Boo-boo.
* InformedSpecies: Calhoun looks somewhat like a bear, while Lew-Lew resembles a red panda or a raccoon.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Tiger Prince]]
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* MisplacedWildlife: He and his parents are tigers that live in Africa.
* TakeThat: His segment serves solely as a rather mean-spirited dig towards ''Disney/TheLionKing'', since Yakko appears in the role of Rafiki and drops the cub after raising him to the sky, faux-innocently remarking that he thought cats always landed on their feet.
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The Warner siblings who are the most prominent stars of the show, and as such, get the most screentime. According to the show's backstory, they were created to serve as comic relief to the very dull ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' character Buddy, but proved to be so troublesome that they were locked in the Warner Bros. Studio Water Tower.
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* AerithAndBob: Unlike the other two, "Dot" can be a real name.
* BadassAdorable: Dot most of all because she's "the cute one".
* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Most of the instances where they are wearing full outfits.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: They've had run ins with several historical figures and had a big influence over their achievements. They've inspired Albert Einstein to write E=MC, helped Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel, and inspired Picasso and Beethoven.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: They may be goofy and crazy, but do not underestimate them.
* CardboardPrison: As a result of their antics, the Warner siblings were locked away in the water tower on the Warner Bros. Studios lot, and allegedly hadn't escaped until the series premiere. However, it's shown in later episodes that not only were Yakko, Wakko, and Dot able to get out whenever they wanted, but were even let out more than once while the tower was being fumigated. Furthermore, similar to ComicBook/TheJoker's attitude towards Arkham Asylum, they view their so-called "prison" as their home, and always return to it willingly when they're done causing chaos.
* CartoonCreature: They have red noses, puppy dog ears, and kitty cat tails. Though others often refer to them as "puppy children," they insist they aren't puppies.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: They take this trope to extremes, as even their theme song is filled with non-sequiturs and bizarre references. Wakko, however, seems to be the most extreme of the three
* CulturedBadass: Especially Yakko, but all three have a lot of knowledge in many different subjects.
* DeadpanSnarker: Yakko's the most deadpan, but...
* DependingOnTheWriter: Who sleeps where on their triple-decker bunk bed - or for that matter, whether they have a triple-decker bunk bed or each have a bed of their own.
* DirtyOldMan: [[InsistentTerminology (And a]] [[DirtyOldWoman woman!)]] The "old" part only comes in when you realize that they were drawn in the thirties, and just look and act like kids.
* TheDreaded: PlayedForLaughs.
* {{Expy}}: Of WesternAnimation/BugsBunny because of their statuses as {{Karmic Trickster}}s and being created by Warner Bros.
* {{Flanderization}}: While early episodes made it clear that the Warners are only deliberately annoying to those who are mean to them, several of the show's later episodes had them bother and cause harm to other people when not provoked. This is especially notable in "Toy Shop Terror" (where they wreak havoc in a toy store during closing hours while the owner is trying to sleep) and "Back in Style" (where they ridicule and inflict pain on the stars of the cartoons Warner Bros. loaned them to for money).
* FunPersonified: They know how to have fun all the time and they are usually annoyingly hyper and cheerful.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Yakko just wears pants, Wakko just wears a shirt, and Dot just wears a skirt. This was [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in a Creator/KidsWB promo talking about how the block featured cartoons "with pants and with no pants".
-->'''Jeff Bennett''': ''Animaniacs'' gives you pants and no pants conveniently in one show!\\
'''Wakko''': I have pants! See?\\
'''Jeff''': Liar liar, pants on fire!
** Also lampshaded in the episode "Animaniacs Stew."
-->'''Dot''': And what's so special about it '''(the episode)'''?\\
'''Wakko''': I'm not wearing any pants!
* {{Hammerspace}}: Although Wakko uses his most often (see above).
* InkblotCartoonStyle: The Warners' design was inspired by this 1930s style; and then justified by giving them an in-universe creation date in the 1930s..
* KarmicTrickster: They will be cheerful and annoying towards ''anyone'', but their antics are generally harmless (in fact, they can be pretty nice and polite kids)... unless someone's being a colossal jerk, who then becomes their "Special Friend" and the mallets come out. In one episode, they're being driven crazy by a parody of the nanny from ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic''... but can't bring themselves to clobber her, because she's not doing anything ''wrong'', something which is lampshaded in the middle of the episode as part of a moral code of sorts. After attempting and failing to provoke a reaction from her, [[spoiler:they hire [[ScrewySquirrel Slappy]], who lacks such a code.]]
* MouthyKid: The Warners (especially Yakko and Dot) aren't afraid to put adults in their place or spout out snarky comments about adults' behavior, but most of the adults that they treat with disdain are [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]] [[{{Jerkass}} jerkasses]].
* NaughtyIsGood: They are portrayed as heroic characters and usually mischievous with people who deserve it.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed:
** Yakko is based very much on [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Groucho Marx]].
** Wakko shows traits from Music/RingoStarr as well as [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Harpo Marx]].
** Dot was inspired by Gilda Radner, among others.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: According to an interview with Tom Ruegger, creator and writer of the show, has confirmed that the Warners' biological ages are 14, 11, and 9. Despite their origin of being created in the 30's.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Especially seen in the episode "Taming Of The Screwy" where Dr. Scratchansniff desperately tries to teach them good manners in most of the episode, but at the end it's revealed they are perfectly capable of acting well-mannered and serious.
* OlderThanTheyLook: They had a 65th anniversary special in-universe and they were drawn at their current age back in the 30s so they are pretty much late 70s to early 80s.
* OldShame: An in-universe example. The people at Warner Bros. Studios have been so ashamed of the Warners that in addition to locking them away in a water tower, they also refused to release any of their cartoons or to publicly acknowledge the trio's existence.
* PopCulturedBadass: There are plenty of pop culture references.
* RoyalBlood: In "King Yakko "[[spoiler: and in "Wakko's Wish."]]
* ScrewySquirrel: At their worst. A lot of what the Warners do could be needlessly cruel to the point of making them unsympathetic, such as stripping Otto (a friendly guy who wasn't being a jerk) in the "Schnitzelbank" song or leaving the woodchuck in the toilet in "Kid in the Lid"... until you remember that [[spoiler:everyone's an actor; hardly any of what takes place is "real".]] The Warners were much guiltier of this in early episodes... as the series progressed, the writers put more effort into showing that, even if their victims weren't specifically mean to ''them'', they'd at least make it clear that they were bad people in general.
* SealedGoodInACan: Being locked up in a water tower for several decades certainly counts, though the fact several episodes show them venturing through several different time periods (World War II among them, which largely took place a decade after they were supposedly locked up) implies they might not have even been locked up that long.
* SmarterThanYouLook: As bizarre and insane as all three of them act, they have an utterly brilliant grasp of geography, history and a host of other subjects. They can recite the nations of the world, all 50 US states and their capitals, and every President of the United States from ''memory'' with no difficulty, and can even throw in some random facts about each while they do it.
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Played for laughs. Throw them bodily out the door, turn around, and ''there they are.'' Hilariously, they're on the ''receiving'' end of this upon occasion. Notably from the likes of [[OldWindbag Pip]], Baloney the Dinosaur, and [[ChronicPetKiller Elmyra]].
* ThisMeansWar: Push them too far, and they will say (in unison) this variation of Groucho's and Bugs' quote.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: Repeatedly.
* TheTrickster: Since they are based on WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, this is a given.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Non-romantic variant, obviously.
* WhiteGloves- All three wears these. In a episode, Wakko's gloves take on a life of their own.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: They're afraid of Mr. Director's eccentricity, Baloney the Dinosaur, the public outhouse (that hasn't been washed in years), and hippies.
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[[folder:Yakko]]
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/RobPaulsen (English), Creator/RyuseiNakao (Japanese), Rafael Monsalve (Latin American Spanish)
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* AllMenArePerverts: Shares this with his brother Wakko, particularly when Hello Nurse is around.
* AmbiguouslyJewish: He's based on Creator/GrouchoMarx and his first name is based on the Yiddish name "Yakov". He and his siblings enthusiastically celebrate Christmas, though.
* BigBrotherInstinct: When Wakko dies after eating too many Swedish meatballs, you better believe Yakko literally goes to Hell and back to rescue him. (Dot too, of course, but she's Wakko's ''little'' sister.) Also gets expressed subtly throughout, with things like leading his siblings around by the hand and shielding them from danger. He's straight up PromotedToParent in ''Wakko's Wish''.
* BubblePipe: Yakko occasionally "puffs" on a soap-bubble pipe while parodying highbrow intellectuals.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Goodnight everybody!]]"
* CulturedBadass: As wacky as he is, Yakko is still the most literate of the three. He is also shown to be capable of speaking ''proper and actual Japanese'', as opposed to the stereotyped barely-Asian-sounding gibberish you usually get in western cartoons.
* DeadpanSnarker: While all of the Warner siblings could indulge in this a bit, Yakko was the standout.
* {{Determinator}}: One interesting example is him singing all the words in the English language. He's obviously broken down when shown singing the "Z" words but refuses to quit and doesn't faint until being requested to [[ImpossibleTask sing all the numbers above zero]].
* TheFace: While the trio definitely played off each other, Yakko appeared in the most skits, typically got the most lines, and got to sing the most songs.
* HiddenBackupPrince: To the royal family of Anvilania.
* TheLeader: In so far as the Warners can be said to have a leader, Yakko is it.
* MeaningfulName: Of the three Warner siblings, Yakko's certainly the most vocal.
* MotorMouth: Especially when he starts singing.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's pretty obviously based on Creator/GrouchoMarx.
* TheSouthpaw: He's left handed.
* TeamDad: He is the "guardian" of the trio, or the parental figure, as he seems to take charge in many situations, and acts generally in a father-manner towards his siblings (Especially in Wakko's Wish).
* TrouserSpace: Yakko keeps lots of things in his pants.
* UnexpectedSuccessor: He's something like [[http://youtu.be/Xn-xTJQbR3g a second cousin twice removed]] to the Anvilanian bloodline.
* VerbalTic: Tends to say "Uhhhhh..." at the beginning of a sentence. Especially right before a zinger.
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[[folder:Wakko]]
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/JessHarnell, Creator/MauriceLaMarche (Wakko's burps in "The Great Wakkorotti" shorts) (English), Creator/YuuMizushima (Japanese), Giset Blanco (Latin American Spanish)
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* {{Adorkable}}: Wakko is an adorable, precious goofball, through and through.
* AlliterativeName: '''W'''akko '''W'''arner.
* AllDrummersAreAnimals: Whenever drums are needed, such as in a {{Rimshot}} gag or "Little Drummer Warners", he's the one who plays them—which could be explained by this trope, [[FridgeBrilliance the fact that he's based on Ringo]], or both.
* AllMenArePerverts: Shares this with his brother Yakko, particularly when Hello Nurse is around.
* BerserkButton: Giving him an F (especially on his hat).
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's a sweet-natured kid, but he's perfectly willing to mallet anyone who annoys him. And when he gets ''REALLY'' mad... watch out.
* BigEater: As the theme song states, "Wakko packs away the snacks". Yakko and Dot might eat their weight in sweets, but Wakko's the type to gobble up everything in the refrigerator, and then eat the fridge for dessert.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Faboo!"
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Wakko seems to be the most extreme of the three. In one episode where the kids visit a shopping mall, he walks the wrong way on an escalator and declares "Mine's broken." Yakko explains it as "middle kid syndrome."
* CrazyPrepared: He has almost anything in his [[{{Hammerspace}} Gag Bag]].
* EquippableAlly: One scene features Yakko using Wakko as a {{Gatling|Good}} gun to shoot malted milk balls at a candy store owner.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Wakko can and will eat anything you put in front of him.
* {{Gasshole}}: Wakko's ridiculous burping is provided by Creator/MauriceLaMarche, who can actually do that on cue.
* MeaningfulName: By a narrow margin, Wakko is the craziest of the Warners (it's the ditziness).
* MiddleChildSyndrome: Probably most evident in that Yakko is a HiddenBackupPrince, Dot introduces herself as "Princess", but he has no noble title at all.
* NiceHat: He wears a red hat.
* PottyEmergency: The TropeNamer and one of his most famous ADayInTheLimelight episodes has him needing to pee after drinking a large soda while at the movies. After a most sadistic search, he finally gets the relief he needs by installing a toilet from his gaggy bag into a room in the very movie he and his siblings are watching.
* TheQuietOne: In some gags, he doesn't even talk.
* {{Rimshot}}: One of Wakko's jurisdictions is to supply these as necessary.
* UnexplainedAccent: Wakko has a Liverpudlian brogue for absolutely no damn reason -- at least not one ever explained on the show. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that he's a cartoon character in-universe and therefore pretty much runs on RuleOfFunny. His voice actor, Jess Harnell, explains that RuleOfFunny is the only reason why he gave Wakko the accent.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: "Clown and Out" (another popular [[ADayInTheLimelight "day in the limelight" episode]] featuring Wakko)
* YoungerThanTheyLook: He's only 7 according to the "HelloNurse" song, but writers have explained that he only said it in order to rhyme with "heaven". WordOfGod [[note]]in this case, from Tom Ruegger[[/note]] is that the Warners' ages aren't specified beyond "not old enough to date". And course they're technically [[OlderThanTheyLook in their 60s]].
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[[folder:Dot]]
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/TressMacNeille (English), Creator/IkueOtani (Japanese), Elena Prieto (Latin American Spanish)
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* BadassAdorable: She is a cute little girl in a pink dress with a flower in her hair and she's just as devastatingly annoying as her brothers. She also carries cute little boxes that hold her.. pets.
* BerserkButton: Call her Dottie, and you die.
* CatchPhrase: "''And'' the Warner '''''sister'''''."
* TheCutie:
-->'''Yakko''': I'm Yakko.
-->'''Wakko''': I'm Wakko.
-->'''Dot''': And I'm cute!
* DeliberatelyCuteChild: She exploits her cuteness for all it's worth.
* EarsAsHair: She wears her ears in a scrunchie.
* TheFakeCutie: She likes to think of herself as TheCutie and takes her cuteness very seriously, but she's hardly innocent.
* FlowerInHerHair: Has a cute flower between [[EarsAsHair her ears.]]
* FluffyTheTerrible: Most of Dot's "Pets" when she does the "Wanna See My Pet?"
* GenkiGirl: She has the same energy of her male siblings.
* HairDecorations: Dot's flower.
* HypocriticalHumor: A sexy woman walks by, causing Yakko and usually Wakko to shout "HelloNurse", and Dot insults them for it and sometimes has to drag them away. A sexy man walks by, and she responds in exactly the same way her brothers did.
* InsistentTerminology: Whenever someone refers to the Warner Brothers, expect her to pipe up with "and the Warner ''Sister!''"
* IAmSong: "I'm Cute".
* {{Kawaiiko}}: She might be a Western example of this, as she constantly brags about her cuteness to the point of having an entire song titled "I'm Cute", and being referred to in the theme song as the "cute" one.
* LittleMissSnarker: Not quite to Yakko's level, but Dot can snark quite a bit as well.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Dot is one of the few inversions in western animation that willingly introduces herself as this trope on a regular basis.
* OddNameOut: She's the only Warner that doesn't have an "-akko" name. Lampshaded in one of the comics, when Yakko says that they should have named her "Dakko."
* OverlyLongName: Her full name is Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana-Fanna Bo Besca the Third. But you can call her Dot. [[BerserkButton Call her Dottie, and you die.]]
* PinkMeansFeminine: Her skirt.
* PottyFailure: Lampshaded: In the episode with Rasputin, at the end when the moral of the day is revealed to be "Brush your teeth," Dot says, "That makes me feel all warm and squishy. Either that or I need to wear diapers."
* SittingSexyOnAPiano: Occasionally.
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!!Major and Minor Supporting Characters
!!!Major Supporting and {{Recurring Character}}s
[[folder:Ralph Theodore Guard]]
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/FrankWelker (English), Creator/FumihikoTachiki (Japanese/regular voice), Creator/KozoShioya (Japanese/few episodes)
An overweight Warner Bros. studio security guard who is always trying, but never succeeding, to capture the Warners and return them to the water tower.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: He first appeared (without a name) on ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' where he was surprisingly competent at keeping the characters from getting into the studios they were trying to visit.
* TheDitz: This guy didn't even notice when the Warners were hiding in ''the chair he was sitting in.''
* EarlyBirdCameo: His ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' appearances.
* FatIdiot: He's dim-witted and very overweight.
* FriendlyEnemy: Although most of his screentime with the Warners involves attempting to capture them while they physically injure him in their attempts to escape, they're pretty cordial to each other when not at odds.
* HappilyMarried: In "A Christmas Plotz" he's shown to have a wife and son.
* PunchClockVillain: He's a security guard: they're anarchy incarnate. You can see how he'd be pitted against them despite a lack of malice on either side.
* RunningGag: His chasing the Warners into the other characters' segments.
* SimpletonVoice: Daaaahh, he takes a while to begin sentences and, daaahhh, complete his thoughts.
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[[folder:Dr. Otto von Scratchansniff]]
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->'''Voiced by''': Rob Paulsen (English), Koichi Kitamura (Japanese/first voice), Mitsuru Ogata (Japanese/rest of the series)
The Warner Bros. studio psychiatrist. He has the unfortunate duty of trying to tame the Warners, which always leads to him getting utterly frustrated (and in the case of his first sessions with them, tearing out his hair). However, he seems to get along with them well (when he's not being terrorized), and they seem to consider him a father figure.
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* AllPsychologyIsFreudian: He's branched out a little - hypnotherapy, group counseling - but when in doubt he returns to Siggy's methods.
* ButtMonkey: The most regular victim of the Warner's antics.
* ChubbyChaser: He attracted to fat women as shown in "Drive-Insane" where he attempts, unsuccessfully, to make an advance on Frau Hassenfeffer.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: To his perpetual woe, Plotz assigned ''him'' to try to put an end to the Warner chaos.
* CompanionCube: Mr. Puppethead sometimes begins conversations with Scratchy.
* EinsteinHair: Used to have it. Until he tore it all out during his first therapy session the Warners.
* FriendsAllAlong: When the Warners reveal to the doctor that they're capable of acting normally, he asks them why they put him through so much trouble. All three siblings glomp him and proclaim "Cause we love you!" The doctor's response? A very out-of-character moment by [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming happily gathering up all three Warners in a bear hug]].
* FunnyForeigner: Has accent, ya?
* HairTodayGoneTomorrow: He used to have fluffy Albert Einstein-esque hair before during his first session with the Warners, their antics frustrated him so much he ripped every inch of his hair off his head.
* HerrDoktor: Vaguely Austrian, maybe.
* {{Leitmotif}}: The episodes "De-Zanitized" and "La La Law" both have an instrumental version of "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" serve as Otto's theme music.
* MeaningfulName: In the German dub, he's Dr. Freudlos, a double pun: It literally means "Joyless", as well as being a nod to Sigmund Freud.
* NervousWreck: Like most cartoon psychiatrists, he ''needs'' one more than he needs to ''be'' one.
* NoRespectGuy: He was one of the greatest psychiatrists in Hollywood before the Warners arrived.
* OpaqueLenses: His glasses.
* ParentalSubstitute: He becomes the closest thing the Warners have to a father figure, and is the one to take them out on outings.
* TeamDad: The Warners seem to view him as this.
* TheVonTropeFamily: 'Von' just in case you thought he was one of the Hackensack N.J. 'Scratchensniffs'.
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[[folder:Hello Nurse]]
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->'''Voiced by''': Tress [=MacNeille=] (English), Lilo Schmid (Latin American Spanish/first voice), Edilú Martínez (Latin American Spanish/rest of the series)
Scratchansniff's ravishing assistant, the frequent subject of Yakko and Wakko's boyish affections. While she's not the TropeNamer for HelloNurse, she [[TropeCodifier gave the trope its current popularity]].
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* TheAce: According to the "Hello Nurse" song, her list of accomplishments includes winning the Tony, Nobel Prize, and Pulitzer, obtaining several Ph.Ds, playing Chopin without rehearsing, singing opera at the Met, starring as the lead role in Theatre/KingLear, becoming the ambassador to China, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking not smoking]].
* ActionGirl: In the comics she is a secret agent and show fight skills.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In the beginning of the show, and indeed in some of the early spin-off comics, she didn't have much of a personality and was mainly just there to be sexy -- and she had several moments then when she displayed definite traits of a LiteralMinded DumbBlonde. Eventually, however, she was developed a little more, to become Scratchansniff's extremely intelligent, HypercompetentSidekick, and her Dumb Blonde moments completely vanished.
* DudeMagnet: Has men lusting after her constantly, especially the Warner Brothers.
* DumbBlonde: In the early episodes she could occasionally come across as one, but as her characterization stabilized it was firmly averted; she's as smart as her bosses, emphasized at the end of ''Film/WakkosWish''.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: A blonde woman and treated as a sex symbol in-universe.
* FrenchMaidOutfit: She wore this costume in an episode in order to teach the Warner siblings table manners. There really wasn't a reason other than HelloNurse.
* {{Gainaxing}}: She is sometimes animated with her breasts jiggling.
* HelloNurse: TropeNamer. Hello Nurse's appearance almost always prompts Wakko and Yakko into exclaiming "Hellooooooo, Nurse!", (one of the show's well-known lines) and jumping into her arms.
* HospitalHottie: Unsurprisingly (though she doesn't have a hospital to heat up).
* HypercompetentSidekick: To Scratchansniff.
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Parodied in ''Wakko's Wish'' where she designs a bottle for Scratchansniff's elixir that is said to be popular because of its more attractive shape. The bottle happens to have a shape similar to Hello Nurse's curvaceous figure. See her picture on the trope page!
* LivingADoubleLife: In the comics, Hello Nurse was also a secret agent. She is an Agent of H.U.B.B.A., wears a white LeotardOfPower and fight villains. She has also an {{Archenemy}} in Nurse Doom, her EvilTwin with red hair.
* MsFanservice: One of the major examples in western animation. Hello Nurse is a sexy and voluptuous blonde woman. She is the main source of {{Fanservice}} in the show over whom Yakko and Wakko continually fawn.
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Like an actress, she is used in other episodes as needed.
* NoNameGiven: Subverted. Hello Nurse is actually her name.
* PhraseCatcher: "Hello, Nurse!" of course.
* ParodySue: At least in this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpS3eFqhxSQ song]] about her.
* PimpedOutDress: In the episode [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU5it18wMAk "King Yakko"]], Hello Nurse plays the prime minister of the kingdom, and she wears a magenta dress with [[PrettyInMink ermine trim]] and a blue cloak.
* SexySecretary: Her duties to Dr. Scratchensniff seem more secretarial than anything medical.
* SexyStewardess: In two shorts, one with the Warner Brothers and another during a cameo with Slappy Squirrel.
* ShesGotLegs: Lampshaded in the musical number "Hello Nurse".
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[[folder:Thaddeus Plotz]]
->'''Voiced by''': Frank Welker (English), Takeshi Watabe (Japanese)
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The CEO of Warner Bros. (in-universe, that is).
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He's not actually ''corrupt,'' but his bad temper, tendency to assign blame at random and money-hungry ways keep him unsympathetic.
* HairTriggerTemper: Just about any of the Warners' antics will set him off.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Appears to hate the Warners, but enlists their help in times of need. He even hired a clown for Wakko's birthday (despite being absolutely terrified of clowns.) This was before he was aware of Wakko's own fear of clowns so it wasn't out of malice.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He regretted ever making the Warners stars.
** The Warners' 65th anniversary special has two in-universe examples of big ones:
*** According to him, his biggest mistake was giving them their own cartoons.
*** According to Slappy, it was letting ''Wakko '''direct''''' one of said cartoons.
* TheNapoleon: Plotz is extremely short, with a short temper to match.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Not that he looks young, but the Warners' 65th anniversary special reveals that he was already head of the studio when they were created, which means he must be in his mid 80s at the very least, though he seems no older than 70.
* PunnyName: His surname is Yiddish-American slang meaning "to explode" or "to collapse."
* PointyHairedBoss
* TheScrooge: He even gets his own "Christmas Carol" episode.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: In the episode "Taming of the Screwy," Mr. Plotz is holding a banquet for foreign investors, and said investors want to meet all of the workers at the Warner Bros. studio, including Yakko, Wakko, and Dot. Under his orders, Dr. Scratchansniff manages to convince the Warners to keep their lunacy under control so they can attend the banquet... only for Mr. Plotz to force them out of the banquet regardless because he doesn't trust them not to screw things up. Snubbed and insulted, the Warners return to the banquet and ruin it in their usual KarmicTrickster fashion. In a nutshell, if Mr. Plotz had just let them stay since they were behaving, the entire thing would have gone off without a hitch.
* SpoiledBrat: Definitely one as a child. And a BrattyHalfPint to boot.
* TheVonTropeFamily: As "Baron von Plotz" in ''Wakko's Wish''.
* ThrowTheDogABone: Though he was known for making bad business decisions and treating some of his employees like crap, Plotz was a step above the average corporate villain and occasionally would get a moment where he'd realize his own foolishness and regret it, thus prompting the [[KarmicTrickster Warners themselves]] to cut him a break and even give him some small reward.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Has a fear of clowns.
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!!!Minor Supporting and {{Recurring Character}}s
[[folder:Mr. Director]]
->'''Voiced by''': Paul Rugg
A crazy director who looks, sounds, and behaves like a young Creator/JerryLewis.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: His craziness and eccentricity is so over the top that even the ''Warners themselves'' find him insane.
* MoodSwinger: He alternates between treating comedy as SeriousBusiness and being a TalkativeLoon.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's based on Jerry Lewis.
* OhGodWithTheVerbing: He speaks like this.
* PsychopathicManchild: When in TalkativeLoon mode, he's a shrill, barely coherent idiot.
* SuddenlyFluentInGibberish: Freunleven!
* TakeThat: They lampoon Lewis' over-the-top antics in his comedy films, and they also make a humorous reference to his unreleased drama film ''Film/TheDayTheClownCried'', about a clown that ends up in a Nazi concentration camp (a shining example of one of the jokes on this shown that [[ParentalBonus children normally wouldn't get]]).
* YouSayTomato: Mr. Director discusses this trope.
-->Take the word 'animal'. Transpose the letters 'n' and 'm' and you get 'aminal'. That, in a nutshell, is comedy.
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[[folder:Ms. Flamiel]]
->'''Voiced by''': Tress [=MacNeille=]
A schoolteacher who sometimes tries to educate the Warners, only for them to frustrate her in the process.
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* AsideGlance: Once or twice.
* BreakTheHaughty: Her certainty that she can shatter the Warners' wills and make them good little children turns out to be... a little optimistic.
* SternTeacher: Mr. Plotz hired her because she's a stern, abrasive disciplinarian whom he thinks will keep the Warners in line. Still, she's a fairly reasonable example, who genuinely wants to educate the Warners, doesn't deliberately make things hard for them, and would probably be less sour if her students didn't always torment her with their usual antics.
* VictoriasSecretCompartment: She apparently keeps her marker for giving people F's in her blouse. Quoth Yakko; "Ooh, what else you got in there?"
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[[folder:Baloney the Dinosaur]]
->'''Voiced by''': Creator/JeffBennett
A sappy orange and light blue dinosaur who is an obvious pastiche of [[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney]]. One of the few things the Warners are afraid of.
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* AnvilOnHead: The Warners keep dropping anvils on his head in the episode "Baloney and Kids," but it turns out even ''this'' won't stop him.
* BerserkButton: As shown in his appearance on ''WesternAnimation/PinkyElmyraAndTheBrain'', he '''hates''' cheating.
* CaptainErsatz: An obvious parody of Barney the Dinosaur.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: His "Imagine Song."
* TheDitz: He's not too bright.
* ImplacableMan: To the Warners' terror. '''Nothing''' can make him stop. Nothing! Not even falling anvils!
* IronButtmonkey: He keeps coming back from all the abuse the Warners heap on him.
* TakeThat: He's obviously a jab at Barney the Dinosaur.
--> '''Wakko''': Are we being punished?
--> '''Yakko & Dot''': ''Yes.''
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: Took [[AnvilOnHead three anvils to the head]] and still kept moving.
* TyrannosaurusRex: Subversion of the usual portrayal.
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[[folder:Francis "Pip" Pumphandle]]
->'''Voiced by''': Ben Stein
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* InkSuitActor: Pip Pumphandle is based directly off his voice actor Ben Stein.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Pip turns the usual Warner Brothers (and Sister) formula on its head, delivering the same exasperation they had dispensed to so many others.
* StockholmSyndrome: After he leaves, the Warners find themselves missing him and want to hear another one of his stories.
* TheCatCameBack: The Warners find him impossible to get rid of...until he actually leaves and they decide they miss him.
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: When the Warners encounter him at a Hollywood party, he starts relating a long, rambling, essentially pointless story about how he once encountered [[Series/ThePriceIsRight Bob Barker]] eating a bologna and cheese ball sandwich, and he doesn't leave the Warners alone until he finishes (even practicing OffscreenTeleportation a la [[Creator/TexAvery Droopy Dog]]), boring them to tears.
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[[folder:Dot's Pet]]
A monstrous creature who is always kept inside a small, white box. The creature's appearance is inconsistent and its color varied, but its most common forms are a large bull-like creature, a plant parodying ''Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors'', and a hairy form with enormous teeth. In one case, Mr. Director was her pet.
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* FluffyTheTerrible: Often the case.
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[[folder:Professor Otto von Schnitzelbuskrankengescheitmeier]]
->'''Voiced by''': Creator/JimCummings
A fat, jolly German guy who taught the Warners the International Friendship Song.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's ordinarily a nice guy, but when the Warners spend the entire last segment of the Friendship Song stripping him of his clothes and humiliating him he finally snaps at the end and kicks the three of them out of his village.
* BigFun: He's overweight and tries to sing a song with the Warners about friendship.
* {{Cameo}}: In ''Film/WakkosWish''.
* DubNameChange: In the German dub his name is Aloysius.
* OverlyLongName: His surname is pretty long.
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[[folder:Sodarn Hinsane]]
->'''Voiced by''': Frank Welker
A LawyerFriendlyCameo of UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein who appears as the antagonist of "Baghdad Cafe", a {{crossover}} episode starring Yakko, Wakko, and Slappy (the latter in place of Dot).
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* AssholeVictim: Apparently, he was to host the Warner Brothers (and Sister) ''while'' his country is being curb-stomped by an enemy army.
* DubNameChange: Inverted in the Venezuelan Spanish dub: He was "renamed" as "Saddam Hussein", albeit his last name is pronounced more or less the same way as it should be pronounced in Arabic, rather than Spanish or English.
* EarlyBirdCameo: He appears being sent to hell in "Hot, Bothered, and Bedeviled" before his first formal appearance.
* TheNapoleon: He's a world leader who is short in stature.
* PunnyName: His name sounds like "so darn insane".
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[[folder:Wally Llama]]
->'''Voiced by''': Richard Libertini
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* DisproportionateRetribution: The Warners hound him incessantly to answer their Very, Very, Very, Very Important Question. He just wants an afternoon off to watch ''Baywatch!!''
* LaughingMad: He starts giggling like a lunatic when it turns out he doesn't know the answer to the Warners' question.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's a parody of the Dalai Lama.
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[[folder:Mr. Gobble]]
Yakko, Wakko, and Dot's pet turkey who runs and dances to the tune of ''TurkeyInTheStraw''.
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* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: Pretty clever for a turkey, but he's not a talking animal.
* OffscreenTeleportation: He can even appear inside other peoples' hats without being detected.
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[[folder:Howie Tern]]
->'''Voiced by''': Maurice [=LaMarche=]
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* BarefootCartoonAnimal: He has no shoes.
* InformedSpecies: He is supposed to be a tern, but he looks far more like a crane or stork.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Of Creator/HowardStern
* SpeciesSurname: Possibly subverted, since he looks more like a crane or stork than a tern.
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[[folder:The Survey Ladies]]
->'''Voiced by''': Creator/KathSoucie and Deanna Oliver
Two women who pester Yakko, Wakko, and Dot with a survey involving George Wendt and Beans.
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* BasedOnATrueStory: A retrospective reveals that the annoying survey ladies were based on a real-life encounter that some of the writing staff had not far from the studio.
* TheCatCameBack: They're everywhere in the mall. ''Everywhere.''
--> '''Survey Lady #2''': We're persistent!
--> '''Yakko''': [[YouKeepUsingThatWord Try using a better deodorant]].
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[[folder:Fermin Flaxseed]]
->'''Voiced by''': Jeff Bennett
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* AlliterativeName: First and last name both begin with F.
* BaldOfEvil: Covered by a highly unconvincing hairpiece.
--> '''Dot''' ''(shyly offering it back):'' You dropped your hair.
* FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: He has a suit and even wears shoes.
* InexplicablyTailless: He appears to be some kind of weasel, but he has no tail.
* {{Jerkass}}: His first scene depicts him laughing off a nun's request that he donate to her charity and literally kicking her out of his store.
* LaserGuidedKarma: He is rewarded for his jerkish behavior by having the Warners torment him and make a mess of his store, getting the crap beaten out of him by a bunch of football players, and turned into a chocolate bunny.
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[[folder:Dan Anchorman]]
->'''Voiced by''': Creator/PhilHartman
A conceited news anchorman for the fictitious ''Newstime Live'' programme who refused to pay Yakko, Wakko, and Dot for a sandwich he had ordered.
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* {{Jerkass}}: To ensure that the audience doesn't feel sorry for him suffering the Warners' retribution towards him denying them a tip, his first scene has him angrily fire his makeup assistant for being a smidgen late and yelling at the rest of the news studio that they are useless.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Yes, he is incredibly conceited and abrasive, but if a delivery person ''ate the sandwich you ordered right in front of you and then demanded a tip'', wouldn't you be pissed too? The Warners were lucky he didn't call the shop to complain!
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Of Sam Donaldson.
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[[folder:Ivan Bloski]]
->'''Voiced by''': Creator/GeorgeDzundza
A {{Jerkass}} accountant who finds himself sharing an airplane with the Warners and becomes their "Special Friend." He is a parody of the notorious stock trader Ivan Boesky, who was convicted in a 1987 insider trading scandal.
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* {{Jerkass}}: He's a loud-mouthed asshole, and his entire short goes to great lengths to show this. Immediately after threatening to buy the airline just so he can fire the lady who accidentally got him bumped down to coach from first class, he literally throws a man with a broken leg out of his way, ordering him to "quit faking it and get a job," and then forces his way onto the plane, orders the stewardess to throw everyone in coach off the plane just so he can have privacy, and screams in the stewardess' face to get him 14 bags of peanuts. Needless to say, when Yakko, Wakko, and Dot appear and name him their "Special Friend," he deserves every minute of torture they give him.
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[[folder:Duanne Sewer]]
->'''Voiced by''': Tress [=MacNeille=]
A rival newsreader of the fictitious ''Newstime Live'' program and anchorwoman in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC who appears in the episode "Broadcast Nuisance".
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Of Diane Sawyer
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[[folder:Wolf Spritzer]]
->'''Voiced by''': Rob Paulsen
A newsreporter for the fictitious ''Newstime Live'' program who appears in "Broadcast Nuisance".
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Of Wolf Blitzer
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[[folder:Death]]
->'''Voiced by''': Jess Harnell
An archetypically portrayed Grim Reaper, with black robe, skeletal appearance, and scythe who speaks with a Swedish accent.
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* ExactWords: He tricks Yakko and Dot into betting their lives away.
* FateWorseThanDeath: (With apologies for the pun.) The Warners demand to spend the rest of eternity with him, adopt him as their father figure, and call him 'Daddoo.' He gets so fed up with it that he declares them all to be alive and informs them that it will be a long time before he lets them back in his domain again.
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[[folder:Satan]]
->'''Voiced by''': Creator/RonPerlman
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* ButtMonkey: Probably the only reason ''Hot, Bothered and Bedeviled'' was green-lighted. Even for a Yakko/Wakko/Dot villain he comes off as a complete chump.
* GetOut: Eventually gives up on the idea of subjecting the Warners to an eternity in the lake of fire, in favor of ''never'' having to see them again.
* {{Satan}}: The rather campy, traditional Big Red Guy with a Fork.
--> '''Yakko''': Does George Hamilton know your tan is better than his?
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[[folder:Calhoun Q. Capybara and Lew-Lew the Ring-Tailed Lemur]]
->Calhoun Capybara voiced by: Jim Cummings
->Lew-Lew voiced by: Jess Harnell
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* {{Expy}}: Of WesternAnimation/YogiBear and Boo-boo.
* InformedSpecies: Calhoun looks somewhat like a bear, while Lew-Lew resembles a red panda or a raccoon.
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[[folder:The Tiger Prince]]
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* MisplacedWildlife: He and his parents are tigers that live in Africa.
* TakeThat: His segment serves solely as a rather mean-spirited dig towards ''Disney/TheLionKing'', since Yakko appears in the role of Rafiki and drops the cub after raising him to the sky, faux-innocently remarking that he thought cats always landed on their feet.
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