History Characters / BloomCounty

* FatCat: In any of the early strips… although his belly looks more distended than overweight.

* LukeIAmYourFather: ''Bloom County 2015'' reveals that Garfield is, in fact, Bill's father, but Garfield [[IHaveNoSon refuses to acknowledge it]].

[[folder:Lesser Multiple-strip Characters]]

[[folder: Bloom County]]

[[folder: Outland]]

!!Tim W.Forty

[[folder: Opus]]

[[folder: Bloom County 2015]]

* OutOfFocus: Outside of the below mentioned strip didn't have much of a roll in the strip.

Milo's uncle, presumably. Spens every holiday camped out in his front yard waving an American flag, drinking a beer. A Trump supporter, he is very vocal about what he thinks about America.
* Eagleland: Of the boorish variety.

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Introduced partway through the first strip's run, Bill is an ugly, mangy, flea-bitten, smelly, all-around-nasty creature who "speaks" almost entirely in rude sounds… and has run for president twice, been both a HairMetal musician and a fundamentalist preacher, and has bedded innumerable women. Also, he tends to die a lot – one time resulted in his body becoming a vessel for Creator/DonaldTrump's brain. He is the second most popular character in the series, and the only one besides Opus and Steve to play a major role in every post-''Bloom County'' comic.

** SuddenlyVoiced: When he's Fundamentally Oral Bill or has the brain of Creator/DonaldTrump, he's fairly chatty.

Yes, ''that'' Creator/DonaldTrump. A source of occasional jokes during ''Bloom County''. After an accident during the comic's last year, his brain was installed in Bill The Cat's body – Bill himself had died (again) and wasn't using it. The decision by the real thing to run for president was what convinced Berkeley Breathed to resurrect the strip. Naturally, Trump is again a frequent source of mockery in the 2015 version.

%%* MyBelovedSmother:

%%* TheShortGuyWithGlasses

%%* CharacterOverlap: Was created for the Academia Waltz, and as a result is the only character to show up in all 5 of Brethed's Strips.

%%* OpaqueNerdGlasses

* CelebrityVoiceActor: Was voiced by an uncredited Creator/DustinHoffman for ''A Wish for Wings That Work.''

* TheWoobie: Most of her appearances involve a humiliating high school experience, such as a disastrous prom (where her date, Steve Dallas, spikes the punch and barfs during the slow dance) and a lousy party (where she has to play Spin the Bottle with [[CloudCuckoolander Weird Harold]].

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Recently resurfaced in ''Bloom County 2015'', where she's closer in personality to her appearance in ''The Last Basselope'': very innocent and naive about the human world, with her mythical aspects emphasized (as opposed to her more cynical demeanor in the original strips).
%%* TheComicallySerious

%%* TalkingAnimal

%%* FatBastard

%%* HeterosexualLifePartners

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%%* ThoseTwoGuys

%%* DeadpanSnarker

%%* DeadpanSnarker

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: One of the biggest cases of this. Early on he was an overzealous jock who forced his son into doing things and tried to stop him from going out with blondie based on her race. After his divorce, he becomes a more sympathetic character who's exasperation with his son comes more from Binkley constantly waking him up and who's generally beaten down by life.

** Also asks Steve if the jury's box is anything like a litter box when he's on trial for communism, spoke a bit in his earlier appearances, and one appearance gave him a single line that Breathed was compelled to change for the books, [[CreatorAmnesia thinking he was never supposed to talk]] (despite it ruining the punchline).

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Despite appearing in two of Breathed's four previous strips, she has not appeared or even been mentioned in ''Bloom County 2015''.

* AnythingThatMoves: He's dated cats ''and'' humans, and has also been exposed as a vegesexual.

* BeenThereShapedHistory: He caused the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 by leaning on a lever, in front of a sign with very big words saying, [[TooDumbToLive "WARNING! DO NOT LEAN ON LEVER!"]]

* DirtyCommunists: A long arc involved him exposed as a Soviet spy, his Communist sympathies rather obvious. He was traded for Cutter John, but eventually kicked out of Russia after being more trouble than he was worth.

* InsaneForgiveness: He's committed numerous atrocities (treason, human trafficking, drug running, draft dodging, and shot up the neighborhood with a machine gun loaded with "cop-killer" bullets) but the other characters in Bloom County always welcome him back.

* LastOfHisKind: All the others died out from high cholesterol because they ate Pop Tarts with too much butter.

* BreakoutCharacter[=/=]EnsembleDarkHorse: Opus was originally only supposed to appear for a few weeks, but both the fans and Breathed himself loved the character so much, he quickly became a regular and eventually the main character. "Pear Pimples for Hairy Fishnuts" was arguably his breakout.

* MyBelovedSmother: See WantingIsBetterThanHaving below.

* BeenThereShapedHistory: He caused the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 by leaning on a lever, in front of a sign with very big words saying, [[TooDumbToLive "WARNING! DO NOT LEAN ON LEVER!"]])

* BeenThereShapedHistory: He caused the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 by leaning on a lever, in front of a sign with very big words saying, [[WhatAnIdiot "WARNING! DO NOT LEAN ON LEVER!"])

* TheUnintelligible: he only speaks coherently every once in a while. Usually he says little more than "ACK."

* BeenThereShapedHistory: He caused the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 by leaning on a lever. (In front of a sign with very big words saying, [[WhatAnIdiot "WARNING! DO NOT LEAN ON LEVER!"]])

* {{Hypocrite}}: During his stint as a self-righteous televangelist, Bill persecuted penguins for their "penguin lust." It's later revealed that he's had his own indiscretions with a "transexual slave trader". Bill showed no remorse, and his viewers quickly forgave him,

* ManChild: Acts like this from time to time, especially in Bloom County 2015 with his man bun and his closet of shame filled with a sex doll and a Bart Simpson Bong with a trump poster on the side.

* LittlestCancerPatient: Though it's mitgated by the fact he's baased on an actual Cancer Patient and his cancer is downplayed after his first few apperances.

The son of a local waitress who suffers from cancer. Steve takes a shine to him and serves as a surrogate father to the boy. His mother appreciates Steve's help but refuses to consider entering into a relationship. Unlike her son she harbors no illusions regarding him.

Sugar's son who suffers from cancer. Steve takes a shine to him and serves as a surrogate father to the boy.

* TheAlcoholic: When Bloom County's staff submitted to drug tests, Thornhump's results showed that he consumed massive quantities of alcohol that day. The last panel of the strip shows Opus delivering Thornhump's six martini lunch.