History Characters / BeavisAndButtHeadHighlandHighSchool

* RaceLift: Was originally African-American, but was changed to white to avoid accusations of racism. (Since he has a gun on his person).

* {{Jerkass}}: He's shown to be rude and condescending to the duo even though Beavis and Butt-head haven't gone out of their way to harass him in any particular way and in "Sleepover", he invites the duo over to make them ''watch'' him play video games rather than allow them to play. In that episode, it's also shown Beavis and Butt-head don't like Cody anymore than Cody likes them.
* JerkassToOne: [[TheDividual Or two]] in this case. From what we've seen of him, he's only been shown to act like a prick to Beavis and Butt-head in particular. Whether or not he's this rude and disrespectful to other people hasn't been revealed and it's not totally clear when we find out Cody has trouble keeping friends whether it's his own caustic personality to blame or his AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents scaring them away.
* LaserGuidedKarma: He goes out of his way to be insulting to the duo and in "Sleepover" even invites them over to make them watch him play video games rather than share the controller, for seemingly no other reason than to rudely rub it in their faces. From there on, his parents invite the pair to stay the night much to Cody's chagrin, the duo proceed to embarrass Cody in front of his parents who think Beavis and Butt-head are a positive influence on him, and they both walk away with his video game console after Beavis transforms into Cornholio.

* {{Hypocrite}}: He's the only character to express regret that the duo have apparently passed on in "Beavis and Butt-Head are Dead" but in the earlier episode "It's a Miserable Life", he's among the various characters praying for them to die, citing the at-best remote chance that they could breed.

* AmbiguouslyGay: He has never displayed interest in women, [[TooKinkyToTorture he seemed to really enjoy Butt-Head]] [[GroinAttack kicking him in the Jimmy]], he has the boys as a gay couple in ''A Baby Makes, Uhh, Three'', and in ''Wet Behind The Tears,'' not only did he try to get them naked in public, but he also got [[ArmoredClosetGay rather offended when Butt-Head insinuated that he likes watching dudes take a shower]].

* ButtMonkey: He gets attacked by a [[BearsAreBadNews bear]], [[MadeOfIron thrown through a bus window off a cliff]], [[ItMakesSenseInContext flattened by Beavis in a rolling tire]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking just simply failing to reach out to Beavis and Butt-Head]].

* SitcomArchNemesis: He's an overworked, stressed-out principal, and rather old-fashioned in his thoughts towards student discipline, but he's not exactly EVIL. But then again, it's still hilarious to watch Beavis and Butt-Head drive him nuts, too.

* BerserkButton: He's very protective of his eight-tracks; Beavis and Butt-Head destroying his entire collection marked the one time in the series he angrily expressed an interest in killing them (Though he also immediately got buried underneath said collection). The rest of the time, however, he won't stand for them or any of his students being physically harmed by someone (see BewareTheNiceOnes below).
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Surprisingly, Van Driessen is very protective of Beavis and Butt-Head, despite how poorly they treat him. In the episode ''Manners Suck'' he physically attacks Mr. Manners after Beavis falsely implies that Mr. Manners molested him.

* ButtMonkey: Is getting attacked by a [[BearsAreBadNews bear]], [[MadeofIron thrown through a bus window off a cliff]], [[ItMakesSenseInContext flattened by Beavis in a rolling tire]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking just simply failing to reach out to Beavis and Butt-Head]] enough of a hint?

* CoolTeacher: The best teacher at Highland High, and seems to gain a good deal of respect for it from the students, even from someone like the thuggish Earl. His efforts are completely wasted on Beavis and Butt-Head though.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In his first appearance in "Peace, Love and Understanding" he is a musical guest at the truck rally and he is killed by one of the monster trucks. The series establishes him as the boys' teacher, and his misfortunes stop just short of death.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's the only teacher that cares about his job and believes in doing the right thing, especially in "School Test" where he reports Principal [=McVicker=] to the schoolboard when he fills in Beavis and Butt-Heads' standardized tests so that they'll pass.

* TemptingFate: Asking [[ChaoticStupid Beavis and Butt-Head]] not to touch his irreplaceable 8-track collection. Unsurprisingly, the duo manage to destroy them anyway.

* JerkassHasAPoint: As mentioned above, he at least isn't wrong about how as their teacher, it's his job to protect and/or punish them.

A macho, ill-tempered veteran, Mr. Buzzcut is Beavis and Butt-Head's gym teacher. He tries to keep them under control through constant verbal - and often physical - abuse. Although he takes the opposite approach from Van Driessen, the dumbass duo show him only a margin of respect on account that he will kick their asses if they piss him off.

-->'''Coach Buzzcut:''' (Face getting red with rage) You just made a fatal mistake, Mr. Candy-Ass! [[PreAssKickingOneLiner I hope you know something about hand-to-hand combat!]]

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: He is yet to appear in the 2022 revival outside of ''Do the Universe''. Another gym teacher voiced by Tru Valentino appears in his place in the season 10 episode "Are You There, God? It's Me, Beavis". SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome as by 2023 he would have likely either retired or been fired for his verbal abuse of students.

* EqualOpportunityEvil: In ''A Baby Makes, Uh, Three,'' he doesn't seem very disgusted by the idea of homosexual couples raising children. He may be a JerkAss, but he's no bigot. Though, it could simply be because he thought it would humiliate Beavis and Butt-Head.

* KarmaHoudini: Beats up and threatens Beavis and Butt-Head a lot--possibly more than even ''Todd''-- and almost never gets punished. In fact, the closest he comes to punishment that we see is him getting a notice from the P.T.A. regarding his harsh disciplinary methods, at which point he loudly threatens to kill whoever ratted him out.

** Heck, the fact that the duo yet ''breathe'' after he puts up with their crap on a daily basis could be this.

* SadistTeacher: Goes ''far'' beyond a reasonable response when dealing with the duo, and often seems to go out of his way to humiliate them. He is shown to even torment his students that don't ignite his wrath, like Martin from ''The Young, Gifted, and Crude,'' as well as Beavis and Butt-Head when they don't throw the first punch.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Though most of the faculty are [[JerkAss jerks]] in their own right (save for [[TokenGoodTeammate Van Driessen]]), Buzzcut is regularly proven to be the worst of the worst, threatening physical violence on his students, ordering the entire class to beat up a new student and [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking always shouting at the top of his lungs for no reason]].

* UltimateJobSecurity: He's a {{jerkass}} who berates his students, assaults them, encourages bullying, and threatens his students with bodily harm. Despite this, he manages to keep his job, presumably because Principal [=McVicker=] respects his views and often covers for him. The closest he gets to losing his job is in ''P.T.A.'', where Beavis and Butt-Head out him for his abusive behavior, which puts him under investigation.

* ThreeAmigos: He thinks he's in this with Beavis and Butt-Head. He even describes them as such in a diary entry in ''This Book Sucks''. Beavis and Butt-Head would beg to differ. He also describes them as such as an adult.

* OedipusComplex: Talks about her own father in a creepily suggestive manner in "Animation Sucks".

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* NotSoAboveItAll: While for the most part, he's extremely accepting and forgiving of Beavis and Butt-Head, every now and then even Van Driessen will say something that shows he really hates and fears the duo just as much as everybody else. Like when he prayed to God in ''It's a Miserable Life'', expressing fear that the two would breed, and when he held a mock graduation ceremony in ''Graduation Day'' where he implied to Beavis and Butt-Head, in only so many words, that they have absolutely NO redeeming qualities or any future to look forward to. ''This Book Sucks'' also contains the lyrics to several of his songs, one of which is titled "The Ballad Of Beavis And Butt-Head". The song discusses how our heroes' laughter gives him nightmares and their behavior is the only thing that's ever made him consider changing careers to sell mens' wear in a mall.

* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:Despite being put on a bus in the revival, an alternate universe alien version of Daria appears in "Abduction."]]
* TheCameo: She appeared in ''Beavis and Butt-Head Do America'' and ''Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe''. In ''Do America'', the ATF storm into the Highland High School, she and the other students run and they were eventually got cavity search. In ''Do the Universe'', she was at Beavis and Butt-Head's trial. She was very upset and angry that Beavis and Butt-Head got off scot free. An alternate-universe version of her appears in "Abduction" as "Smart Daria", one of the Supreme Leaders of Smart Beavis and Butt-head's reality.

* Pyromaniac: Implied. When she discovers Beavis loves fire, she tries to burn down the honor's trailer to impress him, although it's ambiguous if she meant to burn down the trailer itself or started a small fire that grew out of control.

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->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/MikeJudge
->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Creator/GerardoReyero
->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/NobuoTobita (''Beavis and Butt-head in Virtual Stupidity'')
One of Beavis and Butt-Head's teachers, Mr. Van Driessen is an idealistic hippie who tries to help the boys by appealing to their better natures. Predictably, it never works.

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