History Characters / BojackHorsemanTheMainGroupSocialCircles

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her first appearance in "The Telescope" pretty much lay the foundation of her character: [[NiceGirl she salutes [=BoJack=] upon his entrance in the Laugh Shack]], tries to slip him a beer when she thinks he might nervous about his act while playfully bantering with him and then [[CannotSpitItOut makes thinly-veiled suggestions]] about wanting the horse to accompany her (and Herb, of course!) to see ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.

* SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes: In her first {{Flashback}} appearance from TheEighties, Charlotte mentions to [=BoJack=] that she and Herb later are heading to watch Film/BackToTheFuture ''again'' when passing through the comedy club.

* AdamWesting: Biel plays herself as a rude egotist who is implied to be cheating on Mr. Peanutbutter with her "very good friend [[Music/JustinTimberlake Justin Timberlake]]" and is utterly oblivious of the sorry state of her own filmography. According to WordOfGod, Biel pushed the writers to be ''meaner'' about her, which might explain her role in Season 4.
* AscendedExtra: She only appeared in one episode in season 3, but becomes a major character in season 4.

* IncrediblyLamePun: Has gotten the habit of saying "un-Biel-livable" from Justin Timberlake.
** "Our marriage is over! Biel with it!"
** She has a new perfume in Season 4 - "Biel-ist", which Diane rightfully confuses for "B-List".
** Subverted by her [[spoiler:Governor campaign slogan: "Change you can Jessica-lieve in".]]

* CatchPhrase:

--->''[[HappilyMarried He loves his wife]] and there's nothing you can do / Kyle and the Kids / [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Nothing's gonna be alright, be alright]] / Oh, no!''

* MeaningfulName: Guy is a guy.

* InferredHolocaust: After [=BoJack=] leaves, the disasters he caused around people, especially the Carsons, are left unsolved.

* CloudCuckoolander: She has a... [[InsistentTerminology different]] [[MetaphoricallyTrue perception]] of things when she's [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on drugs]]. She even describes herself as eccentric.

* OldFriend: One of [=BoJack=]'s friends from TheEighties, as well as an [[OldFlame Old]] [[{{UST}} Possible]] [[OldFlame Flame]]. By season 2, she's the last friend he has left from around that era. {{Deconstruction}} ensues that inevitably lead to its collapse in "Escape From L.A."

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Turns out her experiences in "Escape From L.A." haven't affected her that much and has matured into a young adult now going to college. [[HopeSpot Too bad]] [[FromBadToWorse [=BoJack=] wanted to make amends.]] With that said, she seems to be fine as of "Good Damage" and willing to process the trauma.

* TextileWorkIsFeminine: Her room, besides having some posters of [[{{Pun}} Llama]] [[Music/LanaDelRey Del Rey]], has some hand-woven blankets covering the wall. Then, there's also her typical dress, with specific patterns of the culture of New Mexico.

The actress who played Sabrina, the Horse's younger human daughter on ''JustForFun/HorsinAround''. After several attempts to stay famous, including a pop career and fashion line, she ends up burnt out and drug-addicted by the time [[ChristmasCake she’s thirty]]. In Season 1, she and Bojack reconnect and reestablish their friendship.

* BodyMotifs: Her stage outfit has hands as part of the design. [[spoiler: In life, the hands were painted black, likely representing the lack of control she had over her own life and her sexualization from the media. In Bojack's dream, the hands are painted white, symbolising the freedom of the afterlife.]]

* ClothingReflectsPersonality: Her default outfit is an endorsement rather than one she chose herself, showing she's sold out her spare time and interest to pleasing Hollywood critics and gaining fame.

The actress who played Sabrina, the Horse's younger human daughter on ''JustForFun/HorsinAround''. After several attempts to stay famous, including a pop career and fashion line, she ends up burnt out and drug-addicted. In Season 1, she and Bojack reconnect and reestablish their friendship.

* CelebrityResemblance: A subtle detail about their relationship is that one of Diane’s favorite movies is [[WesternAnimation/BeautyandtheBeast Beauty and the Beast]] which previously ended up playing a role in the dissolution of her marriage to Mister Peanutbutter. As a Buffalo, Guy look nearly identical to Disney’s depiction of the Beast (who Disney animators described as a bison mixed with some wolf traits).

* AmicableExes: Despite their very nasty break-up, she at least cared enough about Andrew to visit him in the hospital during the Season 1 finale.

* AmicableExes: She and Todd realize rather quickly that they're too different to make a good couple, but worry they won't be able to find anyone else. They make a pact that if they haven't found love by the time they're 100, they'll give it another shot.

* BadassBaritone: As befitting his appearance, he's a GentleGiant buffalo with a deep voice.

* BareYourMidriff: As a pop star she wore a white crop top.

* BareYourMidriff: Two instances.
** Her original wardrobe, as shown in [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS1E04ZoesAndZeldas "Zoes And Zeldas"]] and "The Bojack Horseman Show", involved a small white t-shirt stopping midways through the torso.
** Her dress in "Love And/Or Marriage" exposes her belly button by an aperture in the middle of it.

* ClothingReflectsPersonality: A mild example, but her original outfit was quite revealing and exposed her midriff, hinting at the desire for sex that puts her at odds with the asexual Todd.

* ChristmasCake: Invoked by the media on her 30th birthday, with [[RealJokeName A Ryan Seacrest Type]] all but saying that her sex appeal has worn off with age, before introducing fourteen-year-old Sextina Aquafina as her essential surrogate.

* ChristmasCake: She's spent her younger years without getting a starring role and believes ''Philbert'' to be her last chance at stardom, since she's now pushing 40. [[spoiler: It's why she tells [=BoJack=] not to take responsibility for strangling her: it would ruin ''Philbert'' and forever tarnish her career.]]

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* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: With her sister Mindy. The only way to tell them apart is Yolanda wears a purple sweater and blue lipstick, while Mindy wears purple lipstick and a blue sweater.

* StereotypeFlip: Rabbits are infamous for their promiscuity and sex drive. Maude is asexual.

* LiquidCourage: {{Invoked|Trope}} from her part in "The Telescope". When [=BoJack=]'s about to go up on stage to do his stand-up act, Charlotte secretly slips him a beer behing her boss's back for some reassurance. [[DefiedTrope He refuses]]. Go figure.

!!Horseman Family

[[folder:Horseman Family (in general)]]
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As you can see, it is anything ''but'' a happy family.]]

->''[=BoJack=] often felt the need to impress me with material items. I wondered where this came from. There were two obvious suspects.''
-->-- '''One Trick Pony''' by Diane Nguyen.

->''And if it were up to me, [the Sugarman summer cabin] would've been torn down years ago. It's a blight on the neighborhood. And that broken door is the cherry on the top of the shit sandwich.''
-->-- '''Eddie the Dragonfly''', [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS4E02TheOldSugarmanPlace "The Old Sugarman Place"]]
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* AbusiveParents: Beatrice and Butterscotch were both absolutely horrible parents towards [=BoJack=]. And as it later turns out, Beatrice learned well from her own horrible father Joseph.
* TheAlcoholic: [=BoJack=], his parents, and his maternal grandmother were all addicted to alcohol, abusing it to cope with their miserable lives.
* AwfulWeddedLife: ''You think?'' In all fairness, as their respective {{flashback}}s in Season 4 show, they didn't start like that.
** Bea and Butterscotch were both once young, idealistic and having a certain fondness for each other. Of course, it wasn't a relationship built in solid foundation - they tied the knot only because they fucked up and Beatrice wouldn't have any sort of intrinsic value beyond what she could offer as a fertile, virginal woman; without it, she had no chance of marrying anyone and Butterscotch felt he owed her at least that to save her reputation. Years later, their seeming idyllic life has not reaped any of the promises they thought it would and so they start resenting each other out of their perceived shortcomings (lack of money and mediocre life the main problems).
** Joseph and Honey, for their part, would often take any opportunity to kiss anywhere. However, when [=CrackerJack=], their only son, died in WWII, Honey was simply devastated while Joseph preferred to ignore his emotions because of his unwillingness to deal with them. Getting worse and worse with time, Honey's depression reached a point where she caused a car crash with Beatrice behind the wheel. Joseph, furious, confronted her over the incident and she admitted to no longer feeling capable of going on without her son. This led to Honey's lobotomy and her being just a brain-dead presence during the rest of both of their lives.
* DeconstructedTrope: The Horseman-Sugarman family deconstructs the typical romantic story of the [[UptownGirl wealthy woman]] [[MarryForLove marrying]] [[RichSuitorPoorSuitor the poor suitor]] and living happily ever after with a child, [[NotWithThemForTheMoney despite losing most of their savings]]. Different lifestyles are tough to overcome, especially when marriage forces to give up such life, regardless of decision. Once reality sets in, Butterscotch and Beatrice's contrasting personalities and the grimness of their situation snowball into a grand deal of resentment of both sides, which they then redirect to the living embodiment of [[MyGreatestFailure their greatest failure]] - the little foal [[TheWoobie [=BoJack=]]].
* DomesticAbuse: One line in "Thoughts and Prayers" indicates that, on top of the emotional harm Beatrice and Butterscotch do unto each other, Butterscotch has gotten physical towards Beatrice before.
-->'''Beatrice:''' If you're looking to get knocked around for an afternoon, why don't you just read one of your father's manuscripts and tell him his prose is pedestrian and derivative? Works for me every time.
* DysfunctionalFamily:
** Sugarman: A seemignly perfect family with suppressed emotions (it was the [[TheForties 1940s]], an openly misogynistic time it was when psychiatrists didn't exist and everyone (especially women) had to keep their emotions in check) - a dead ace of a son, one an emotionally distant father, a broken mother, and a neglected surviving sibling; one cruel grown-up matriarch.
** Horseman-Sugarman: Two alcoholic parents, one a RichBitch with resentment over the loss of her past potential, the other a failed writer with financial resentment towards his wife; one screwed up son.
* FamilyBusiness: Sugarman Sugar [[spoiler:has been sold to a Japanese conglomerate in the present, but]] in its prime, it was the Sugarman and Horseman families' biggest source of income.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: One of the common themes running in the family: ''nobody'' in the family can see beyond their own suffering and slam onto others for a twisted sense of retribution/revenge (something shown to be self-destructive and stupid). Their reasons range from genuine to petty, but never valid or justified. Everyone hurts, is held accountable and pays one way or the other. The best a Horseman can hope to do to get better is to work around their issues and let go of the bitterness, forgiveness optional.
* GildedCage: The Horseman home in San Francisco was mostly a regular, low middle class house without any luxuries which made Beatrice miserable since she was pretty much a housewife in a crappy place. Once Butterscotch got a job at the Sugarman West branch instead of low-paying jobs, the house was gradually redecorated with better tapestry and fancier furniture, which only called attention even more to the empty marriage and lives living within this environment.
* HappyMarriageCharade: The Horseman-Sugarman marriage was hardly a happy one, but having been born out of convenience and necessity (a child conceived out of wedlock), they would usually put a front making it seem they at least tolerated each other.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: The Sugarman company and fortune accumulated during early 20th century collapsed after the DysfunctionJunction concentrated spilled over, causing the heirs, Beatrice (and Butterscotch by proxy) to spend most of the remaining money and Sugarman Sugar to be absorbed by larger corporations.
* ShotgunWedding: Beatrice and Butterscotch had a rushed wedding due to Beatrice' pregnancy.
* ShrineToTheFallen: Negative example. As [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS4E02TheOldSugarmanPlace "The Old Sugarman Place"]] shows, the Sugarman family (family from Beatrice's side) had a summer cabin in Harper's Landing, Michigan that has since fallen into disrepair as a sign to their fall from aristocracy. [[spoiler: It was also the site that saw the destruction and rising rotten core of the entire family. By the end of the episode, the cabin is destroyed by bulldozers by their grandson [=BoJack=], as a way of burning down the past.]]
* SmallRoleBigImpact: They're only seen in {{Flashback}}s or occasional appearances, yet we can all thank them for turning [=BoJack=] from a CheerfulChild into a [[TheCynic Cynic]] and then unleashing him out there in the world.
* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:Crackerjack's death in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII]] is what kick started all the events that would poison and destroy everyone in their family. In order: [[spoiler:his death caused his mother Honey to go mad with grief and get lobotomized. This causes little Beatrice to learn to never love anyone. Honey's lack of care caused by her EmptyShell post-lobotomy state resulted in Beatrice getting scarlet fever, which prompted her father to callously burn all her possessions, including her baby doll, and casually threaten to give her a lobotomy like her mother if she ever cried or allowed her "womanly emotions" to get the better of her again. This resulted in Beatrice bottling up all her trauma, using only scathing sarcasm and resentment to deal with life's problems. Furthermore, Honey's EmptyShell post-lobotomy state resulted in Beatrice being fully raised by her father's sexist ideals, pushing her to the charming stranger Butterscotch that got her pregnant and the subsequent abusive raising of their son, [=BoJack=]]].
* WalkingSpoiler: Honey, Joseph and Crackerjack all become this by default considering they're Beatrice's childhood family and you can't talk about them without revealing Beatrice's backstory... ''especially'' that last one.

!!!'''Bojack's Parents'''

[[folder:Beatrice Horseman]]
-->For Beatrice Horseman, see [[Characters/BoJackHorsemanBeatriceHorseman her own page]].

[[folder:Butterscotch Horseman]]
!!!'''Butterscotch Horseman'''
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[[caption-width-right:210:"[[WindmillPolitical Imaginary friends are freeloaders invented by Communists to rip off welfare]]."]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/WillArnett
->'''Debut:''' [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS1E02BojackHatesTheTroops "[=BoJack=] Hates The Troops"]]

-->''"Well, maybe if my secretary ''also'' refused to get an abortion, I would be."''

[=BoJack=]'s father (d. 31 October 2009), seen only in flashback. A working-class horse who, along with [=BoJack=]'s mother, is much of the reason that [=BoJack=]'s so screwed up.
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* AbusiveParents: Although it was Beatrice whose had a greater influence on [=BoJack=]'s screwed psyche, Butterscotch was still dismissive, manipulative, and even violent towards young [=BoJack=].
* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:When his mistress Henrietta gets pregnant, Butterscotch first tries to blame his wife Beatrice because she's been missing her "womanly duties", making her snap at him. Only then does Butterscotch pleads her to help him and breaks down sobbing, acknowledging how justified she is at hating him and talk to Henrietta "woman-to-woman".]]
* BorrowedCatchphrase: As it turns out, the lame joke "Get It?" [=BoJack=] always says comes from something Butterscotch said while leaving the house.
* CantTakeCriticism: [=BoJack=] states that he was... less than pleased with his novel's reception. He even went so far as to offer to [[DuelToTheDeath duel]] anyone who thought poorly of it, which ultimately led to his death.
* CommonalityConnection: Stuck in a lavish, yet vacuous lifestyle, the rough-and-tumble Butterscotch was drawn to the wealthy, effervescent Beatrice because like him, she was a counter-culture rebel who'd read the Beats, had an independent way of thinking, reminded him of his mother (and had lost a mother as well). Though it was mostly only for a one-night stand, it also got them through the honeymoon period happily enough.
* DirtyOldMan: [[spoiler:Sired Hollyhock on a woman ''40-50 years'' his junior.]]
* DisappearedDad: [[spoiler:To Hollyhock, whom he fathered with his maid, Henrietta. He initially tried to persuade Henrietta to get an abortion and then asked Beatrice to persuade Henrietta.]]
* DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: Almost always seen carrying one while in his studio, evoking the idea of a business-like guy.
* DopeSlap: Often slapped [=BoJack=] whenever he would say something he deemed stupid or do something "un-American".
* DuelToTheDeath: Offered to duel anyone who didn't like his novel and, as [=BoJack=] put it, someone just as insane as him took him up on it just for the novelty. While they were walking out the paces, he turned his head to ask what the person really thought of the book, tripped on a root, bashed his against a rock and died.
* ExecutiveExcess: A former working class aspiring writer, he eventually accepted an unspecified lofty post at his father-in-law's company, the Sugarman Sugar Cube factory, purely to shut up his wife Beatrice. Butterscotch's only interest was working on his novel on the weekend, and so turned to alcoholism, adultery, and spending all Beatrice's inheritance to distract himself.
* ExhaustedEyebags: Had eyebags when portrayed as a married man and father to symbolize his exhaustion and frustration with everything in his life and his weariness and bitterness toward those he deems responsible for his misery.
* ExpressiveEars: His ears perk up when surprised and descend when disappointed. Like [=BoJack=]'s, the way his his head is drawn makes them appear to be perpetually pinned back.
* FantasyForbiddingFather: He brutally shot down pretty much all of young [=BoJack=]'s childhood flights of fancy, dismissing them as unproductive.
* {{Foil}}: In season 4, to [=BoJack=]. Butterscotch and his son share several quirks and attitudes, but in season 4, it can be seen that, through the time, Butterscotch only got worse, more bitter about his married life and a kid only made him worse, with [[spoiler:his affair resulting in a kid]] being something he is shameful of. To [=BoJack=], [[spoiler:Hollyhock as his unplanned daughter]] causes a large advancement for him personally, leading him to become better and reject doing things his father would probably do in the same situation.
* FormerTeenRebel: Ironically he used to be a rebellious young stallion who admired the beats and snuck into rich people's parties for free booze. That is, until being rejected by his idols made him the uber-conservative {{Jerkass}} we know today.
* FormerlyFit: Grew to have a gut when he became elderly.
* HairTodayGoneTomorrow: As a young horse, he had a scruffy, unkempt mane, symbolizing his apparent untamed nature, which of course would make Beatrice attracted to him. By his middle-old age, it had receded to his scalp as thin hairs with what was left having turned grey.
* HandsomeLech: His seducing Beatrice was only intended for a one night stand. Taking into account his expertise at playing charming and knowing what kind of words would convince her, it's implied he has done this before. Beatrice was quite aware of it being a one time thing and was willing to play along with it since she needed to blow some steam...at least until it resulted in pregnancy.
* HenpeckedHusband: And, man, is he bitter about it out of InferioritySuperiorityComplex.
* HeteronormativeCrusader: His monologue in the Cold Opening to "Free Churro" shows that not only does he feel emasculated by having to make his own sandwich and picking his son up from soccer practice, he says that it's not his fault if [=BoJack=] "turns queer" from being confused by gender roles.
* {{Hunk}}: An actual strapping stallion in his youth, compared to Beatrice's nerdy other suitor.
* IWasQuiteALooker: He was quite muscular and trim as a young adult (he ''was'' a draft horse) with a thick, scruffy mane, but by the time he was an older man, he lost most of his mane, with what remained turned grey, and he also gained a bit of a gut.
* JadedWashout: Once his dream of writing the next UsefulNotes/GreatAmericanNovel went down the drain, all he had left was his pride, his unappeasable wife and his young son, all which made him more miserable. He became a bitter, defensive SellOut who could only dream of his non-existent GloryDays.
* {{Jerkass}}:
** Butterscotch's bitter, dismissive of his family at every turn and openly contemptuous towards them for being the final nail in his miserable life. There's also his treatment of [=BoJack=] which ranges from just plain ComedicSociopathy to outright mental and physical abuse.
** Season 4 shows that he pretty much won Beatrice over for a one night stand, among other indiscretions [[spoiler: like having an affair with the maid, using the same story he used to garner sympathy with his wife when they first met no less.]] And unlike his wife or son he has no FreudianExcuse for his behavior.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In his younger years. While a scoundrel in every sense, Butterscotch still was a WideEyedIdealist who dreamed of telling his own story about the struggles of the everyman, had enough decency to actually apologize when he thought he had made a tasteless joke about Beatrice's mother and changes his tune about aborting the baby when Beatrice refuses; even proposing to her when she protests she's now [[DefiledForever a ruined woman]] with no chance to ever marry.
* KarmicDeath: His obsession with his novel proves to be his undoing. According to [=BoJack=], he turned his head to ask the man he was going to duel if he'd really read his book. Distracted, he then tripped over a root and brained himself on a rock.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Shares several mannerisms with his own son, specially their snarky behavior when younger.
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Season 4 reveals that [[spoiler:Butterscotch tried to invoke this to weasel out of taking responsibility for Beatrice's pregnancy by asking if he was the father. Beatrice was not amused.]]
-->'''Butterscotch:''' Are you ''certain'' it's mine?\\
'''[[spoiler:Beatrice]]:''' Well, whose else could it be?!
* MayDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:Had an affair with Henrietta, who was roughly 40-50 years his junior.]]
* MiseryBuildsCharacter: His main philosophy and one he practices at every turn in "raising" his son; as long as [=BoJack=] doesn't do things the way he considers fit, the more punishment and rejection he'll receive. There's the treehouse incident and there's his harsh critic of [=BoJack=]'s drawing for him. The way he sees it, happiness is grueling pain.
* MissingMom: As he tells Beatrice when they first meet, Butterscotch never knew his mother as she died when he was too young.
* NeverMyFault:
** When he has to admit to Beatrice that he ended up [[spoiler: impregnating Henrietta]], he greatly downplays his role in the act, saying that [[spoiler: she "got herself pregnant"]] and then blaming Beatrice for the act, accusing her of [[spoiler: being "neglectful in her wifely duties"]].
** He refuses to take responsibility for his failed writing career, blaming "Jews, liberals, and Commies" for keeping the publishers from appreciating "the genius of [his] work," instead of trying to improve his work based on critical feedback.
* OedipusComplex: [[spoiler: Hinted at, as he fell for Beatrice and Henrietta due to sharing traits with the dead mother he never knew - having a diamond mark and brown hair respectively, which explains how Hollyhock has these traits when it’s revealed Butterscotch is her father instead of [=BoJack=].]]
* OhCrap: His face when Beatrice shows up in his porch is already brimming with dread. When she announces she's pregnant, his face changes to one of utter horror and stuttering, similar to [=BoJack=].
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler:Beatrice refuses to try to convince their maid, Henrietta, to get an abortion until the normally proud and stubborn Butterscotch finally confesses he doesn't know what to do and breaks down crying. Beatrice is so shocked that she goes to talk to the girl.]]
* ParentsAsPeople: He's given some characterization beyond "mean" and "abusive" in the style of "broken dreams". Still doesn't excuse him, but it shows him as having some depth.
* PerpetualFrowner: Always shown frowning unhappily, and couldn't even hide this for a ''family portrait''.
* PetTheDog:
** In the ColdOpen of "Free Churro", Butterscotch initially complains to [=BoJack=] about how Beatrice didn't bother to make him a sandwich. After calming down, he dismisses it and says she's doing her best. This is the ''only'' kind word we've heard him say to or about Beatrice since [=BoJack=] was born.
** Butterscotch hated Beatrice's Supper Club parties, often shutting himself in his office and banging on the walls so they'd keep the noise down, but he would always come out to watch Beatrice dance.
** In "The View From Halfway Down", [[spoiler: he apologizes to his son for being a lousy father, and states that he loved [=BoJack=] even though he was terrible about expressing it. Of course, it may not have been real]].
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He angrily blamed "Jews" for shooting down his failed writing career and is dismissive of his wife Beatrice.
* PosthumousCharacter: He died in 2009, five years before the series begins, and we get to know him through flashbacks.
* {{Pride}}: His FatalFlaw. His writing career came to pretty much nothing, due to his stubborn insistence on writing ''his'' way and completely refusal to try to improve based on the critical feedback he got. And he insisted for the longest time on keeping his exhausting, low-paying day-job at the local cannery, despite Beatrice pointing out that her father was perfectly willing to offer him a higher paying, more comfortable job at the family company, simply because he so deeply resented the idea of being even more beholden to his wealthy in-laws than he already was, and became even more resentful once Beatrice finally talked him into it.
* ResentfulGuardian: Like Beatrice, he partially blames [=BoJack=] for ruining his novelist dream, although it was in part because of his own failed life.
* SignificantDoubleCasting: Shares the same voice actor with his son to emphasize their similarities.
* SourGrapes: His extreme right-wing political views stem from [[spoiler:being rejected by the Beat writers he admired so much.]]
%%* StandardFiftiesFather: He has the look down. The attitude, however...
* StrawPolitical: Espouses extreme right-wing views, such as imaginary friends being invented by communists to create welfare cheats. He is shown to have had different views when he was younger in a flashback in Season 4, wanting to get in with a group of beatnik artists he admired. It's implied that his conservative streak was mostly a bitter response to being rejected by his heroes.
* UndignifiedDeath: He died during a [[DuelTotheDeath duel]] when he tripped and fell over a root and smashed his brains out on a rock. To add insult to injury, his only son never read the book he sacrificied so much for.
-->"Why would I give him that?"
* UptownGirl: A wealthy heiress filly like Beatrice and a working class horse like Butterscotch end up married due to a SurprisePregnancy. Needless to say, that they weren't prepared to be be parents and he wasn't confident enough to healthily marry a well-off financial woman did a number on Butterscotch's life and only made him even more bitter.
* UngratefulBastard: When little [=BoJack=] gave his dad a heart-shaped, handmade card to wish him a happy Father's Day, Butterscotch only criticizes the card for its crappy design, and gives [=BoJack=] a semi-relevant (rhetorical) question about [[ItMakesSenseInContext whether or not to cross the Panama Canal]]; when [=BoJack=] gives the "wrong" answer, Butterscotch slaps him.
-->'''Butterscotch''': Are you gonna go around the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Horn Horn]] like a gentleman, or cut through the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal Panama Canal]] like some kind of Democrat?\\
'''Young [=BoJack=]''': ...The Canal?\\
'''Butterscotch''': (''gives his son a DopeSlap'') You go around the ''Horn'', like God intended!
* UnpleasantParentReveal: PlayedWith. [[spoiler:He's revealed to be Hollyhock's biological father rather than [=BoJack=], which would mean this trope would be played straight if he were alive. He isn't though, having died in 2009, so Hollyhock is spared the disgust.]]
* WhereWereYouLastNight: Beatrice's jealousy would be often triggered by the justified possibility Butterscotch is sleeping with someone else. She would often interrogate him about it in a rather aggressive manner.
* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: He's constantly disappointed with [=BoJack=] for failing to meet his standards on how an American boy should be. From what we see in flashbacks those "standards" are random incomprehensible nonsense unique to him; for instance when a very young [=BoJack=] builds a treehouse himself Butterscotch is enraged that he used screws instead of nails, because he thought of the former as “fancy Jew nails”.

!!!'''Hollyhock's Family'''

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!!!'''[[OverlyLongName Hollyhock Manheim-Mannheim-Guerrero-Robinson-Zilberschlag-Hsung-Fonzarelli-[=McQuack=]]]'''
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[[caption-width-right:230:"Ever since I was a baby, people have told me I look a lot like [=BoJack=] Horseman."]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AparnaNancherla
->'''Debut:''' [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E12ThatWentWell "That Went Well"]]\\

-->''"...That's a terrible thing to say to a baby!"''
-->--'''Todd, in response to Hollyhock's mentioning of her resemblance to [=BoJack=].'''

A young horse girl who may or may not be [=BoJack=]'s illegitimate daughter. She lives with her eight adoptive dads in Wichita, Kansas.

* AgeAppropriateAngst: She reveals in "Commence Fracking" that the simple fact that she's looking for her mother makes her feel guilty, as she grew up in a healthy home with everything she could have asked for. Essentially, she feels like she doesn't know who she is or where she belongs.
* BigEater: She has a huge appetite that is similar to [=BoJack=]'s.
* BrainyBrunette: She's shown to be very intelligent when academics come up. She even graduated high school early and is taking a gap year during the time she's with [=BoJack=].
* BrokenAce: Her wall is filled with achievements, trophies and pictures of loved ones and friends, but she still feels adrift due to her lack of knowledge about her birth parents.
* TheBusCameBack: She reappears in Season 5, though she makes only a few cameos. It's justified, since she's going off to college and no longer has the time to deal with [=BoJack.=]
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: At the beginning of Season 4, she comes off as much lazier and more selfish than her later energetic and moral portrayal.
* CharacterTics: Circles her knee with a finger while she sits and talks.
* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: When looking around Hollywoo for [=BoJack=], she stumbles onto Todd in a backyard. Todd initially tries to defend himself, since her trenchcoat makes her look imposing.
* DaddysGirl: She was HappilyAdopted by eight gay men in a polyamorous relationship, and she loves them all, even keeping a collage of pictures of them when she was staying with [=BoJack=].
* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: She wonders about her biological parents and hopes they had a good reason for giving her up. As it turns out, her mother [[spoiler:wanted to raise Hollyhock but doing so meant giving up her medical studies career, and she was unwilling to have an abortion. Beatrice actually {{invoked|Trope}} this after learning the baby was her husband Butterscotch's; she says Henrietta has no idea what she's getting into and will eventually regret giving up her future for her baby, and offers her a compromise; she'll pay for the hospital bills and Henrietta's studies, but only if Henrietta gives the baby up.]]
%%* DeadpanSnarker: While nicer about it than [=BoJack=], she's still a snarker.
* DearJohnLetter: [[spoiler:By the second half of season 6, she sends [=BoJack=] one. We never hear what's on it, but it's assumed from [=BoJack's=] reaction that it's her telling him she doesn't want to have any contact with him again.]]
* DemotedToExtra: She appears less post-season 4, since she's leaving for college.
* DescentIntoAddiction: [[spoiler:What her parents believe happened to her after reports reach them about Hollyhock suffering an amphetamines overdose. She was actually being drugged without her knowledge by Beatrice.]]
%%* {{Deuteragonist}}: In season 4, paralleling [[SupportingProtagonist [=BoJack=]]] and [[VillainProtagonist Beatrice]].
* DoesNotLikeSpam:
** She hates applesauce, citing it's too slimy.
** In "What Time is it Right Now?", she admits to hating honeydew, like [=BoJack=]. She even calls honeydew "the Jared Leto of fruits,"[[note]]"[[TakeThat It's the worst part of everything it's in]]."[[/note]] which [=BoJack=] agrees with wholeheartedly.
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Hollyhock didn't have her ear piercings in her first appearance back in season 3.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: For season four. [[spoiler:While she suffers an overdose after getting "Chub-Be-Gone" in her coffee courtesy of Beatrice in "lovin' that cali lifestyle", Hollyhock eventually recovers and gets her real mother's name, Henrietta Platchkey, courtesy of an apparently anonymous [=BoJack=]. She heads to Minneapolis to visit her, and tells [=BoJack=] she's glad to have a brother.]]
* FakeGuestStar: Hollyhock is a major recurring character in season 4, yet Aparna Nancherla is still billed as "Guest Starring".
* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: She and [=BoJack=] both assume [=BoJack=] is her father. [[spoiler:He's actually her half-brother, an illegitimate child of Butterscotch.]]
* {{Foil}}: To both [=BoJack=] and Beatrice, whom she stays with in season four. Consider how Beatrice once told [=BoJack=] that the rot is genetic. Unlike them, however, Hollyhock was raised outside the family by loving and supportive parents, and is thus well-adjusted and good-natured despite some teen angst.
* GenderEqualsBreed: Hollyhock is a female horse and [=BoJack=] might possibly be her father. Whether her mother is human or an animal is unknown for most of the season. [[spoiler:It's revealed that [=BoJack=] is not her father, it's actually his father, Butterscotch, who is the father. Hollyhock's mother is a human nurse named Henrietta Platchkey.]]
* GoodIsNotDumb: One of the nicest and most moral characters on the show. She's shown to have a pretty good head on her shoulders, both academically and emotionally -- she has a wall full of achievements and is realistic and understanding about [=BoJack=]. She doesn't expect him to assume any kind of responsibility and sees through his lies, often states the obvious solution and doesn't condone any of his vitriol or self-destructive behavior.
* HappilyAdopted: Hollyhock seems to be very happy with her eight adoptive fathers, but is still interested in knowing who her biological father and mother are.
* HasTwoMommies: Gender-inverted and exaggerated: She was adopted by ''eight'' gay men[[note]]To elaborate: Five humans, a bear, a duck, and a lizard.[[/note]] in a polygamous marriage, hence her OverlyLongName.
* HeroicBastard: The possible illegitimate child of [=BoJack=] and unknown woman who nonetheless grew up to becomes a caring and sweet person. [[spoiler:Later on, it turns out that she's not [=BoJack=]'s illegitimate child... she's Butterscotch's, as a result of an affair he had with his maid, Henrietta.]]
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: It's heavily {{implied|Trope}} in "Stupid Piece of Shit" that her InnerMonologue is very similar to [=BoJack=]'s, filled with contemptuous remarks and digs at herself for everything she does. The fact that [=BoJack=] tries like hell to avoid facing her and his mother for most of the episode doesn't help.
* HistoryRepeats: In season 4 itself, this is played with. She varies greatly from [=BoJack=] in upbringing and has a little more self-control, but "Stupid Piece of Sh*t" implies she's developing the same inner monologue of self-hate that eats away at [=BoJack=].
* HollywoodPudgy: [[invoked]] Discussed as part of her becoming more self-conscious being in LA around extra thin and attractive models. She's on the heavier side but not in an unhealthy way, her body type is not much different than [=BoJack=] who's also implied to be out of shape. She also has several sports trophies, implying that her physique is actually StoutStrength rather than just pudgy. [[spoiler:Her LOSING weight turns out to be a sign that something is wrong.]]
* IconicSequelCharacter: Hollyhock first appears at the end of season 3 and has a big role in season 4. She is the main character's illegitimate daughter [[spoiler:except she's actually his half-sister]] and her presence forces [=BoJack=] to man up and grow as a person to earn her trust and love, with CharacterDevelopment finally kicking in.
* InsecureLoveInterest: Downplayed. During the brief time she dates Miles in "The Judge", Hollyhock does end up having a little image crisis concerning her weight, calling herself a "blob". [=BoJack=]'s suspicions about Miles don't help either.
* InterspeciesFriendship: [[FreezeFrameBonus One of the pictures in her room]] is of a dog hugging her, implying this trope. Also, ironic considering [=BoJack=]'s [[VitriolicBestBuds relationship]] with Mr. Peanutbutter.
* IntoxicationEnsues: It is eventually revealed that [[spoiler:[=BoJack=]'s mother had been lacing her coffee with fat burner amphetamines]] that takes it toll on her body and cognitive awareness throughout the season. There are hints that she's being doped with something, though.
* ItAmusedMe: Why did she drugged Todd with chloroform a second time in "Hooray! Todd Episode!"? Because it's [[RuleOfCool cool]] and [[ForTheLulz funny]]! Also, it's not like you can't ''not'' use it when you have it.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: [[{{Sloth}} Laziness]], UsefulNotes/{{depression}} and [[ParentalAbandonment abandonment issues]]. She's better at handling them than her contemporaries thanks to the healthy way her adoptive parents raised her.
* IWillFindYou: As of season 4, she has traveled to Hollywoo to find her possible father and mother. [[spoiler:The finale has her flying out to meet her biological mother, Henrietta Platchkey, for the first time.]]
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: She is introduced in the last minutes of season 3.
* LazyBum: She isn't in any rush to clean up [=BoJack=]'s house, let alone keeping the charade she's his newly hired maid to get some DNA for a test. Better take selfies and sleep! While she's much nicer than [=BoJack=], this trait convinces Todd that she very likely is his daughter even without the DNA test.
* LeavingYouToFindMyself: PlayedForDrama. Hollyhock, curious about her past, decides to fly to Hollywoo on her own to find her biological parents, leaving behind her adopted parents. Ripened but inexperienced, Hollyhock sustains herself well enough yet becomes a bit too trusting of her surroundings and the fake glamour of Cali people with only [=BoJack=] to recur to making a dent in her confidence. The purpose of her trip also leaves her with a sense of unease due to the unpredictability: will her parents want to know about her? Is she taking the right call? Hollyhock's parents, by their own part, are constantly worrying about her and [[spoiler:see their apparent fears realized when she suffers an overdose.]]
* LethalChef: She destroys the microwave oven trying to make a simple Pop Tart. Even worse, she was using ''[[TooDumbToLive a fork]]'' to reach for the bruned toast and fend off the fire while the machine was on short-circuit.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Due to their similar mindsets, Hollyhock and [=BoJack=] act this way rather than the father and daughter dynamic they allegedly have. Unlike the Penny situation, Hollyhock has enough maturity to curb some of [=BoJack=]'s worst AntiAdvice, and in turn he makes a more restrained effort to come clean and offer genuine tips (even if coated with a bitter almonds flavor). [[spoiler:These two might have a unconscious sibling sense or at least a sense of what worked better. It helps that they're half-siblings, thanks to a fling between Butterscotch and the maid who would become Hollyhock's mother]].
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon:
** As [=BoJack=]'s daughter, she resembles him far more in physicality if not personality itself: she's far from selfish, actively tries to curb his worst tendencies by calling him out and has the least harmful aspects of him, namely, laziness and lack of concentration.
** [[spoiler:As Butterscotch's '''REAL''' daughter, she has quite a lot of prospects for a future, is cheerful and idealistic not to the point of blissful blindness and knows how to back up her claims beyond simple charm.]]
* LongLostRelative: To [=BoJack=], appearing to be his illegitimate daughter of 16+ years he has no knowledge about. [[spoiler:However, she's not actually his daughter, but rather his sister, on account of both having the same father, Butterscotch.]]
* LovableJock: Most of her trophies are sport-related, she was the captain of her JV soccer team, and in Season 6 she briefly plays rugby, but she's fidgety, nervous and adorable.
* LoveHurts: Once her relationship with Miles falls apart due to the latter's {{ambition|IsEvil}}, Hollyhock can't help but feel bad, and tells [=BoJack=] she wants to be alone.
* LukeIMightBeYourFather: Well, she's not quite sure herself if she's [=BoJack=]'s daughter, and neither is [=BoJack=]. The resemblance, the constant lamp-shading by other people, the multiple women [=BoJack=] slept with without remembering if they ''all'' had the abortion and her being adopted has aroused suspicion. But alas, nothing conclusive. [[spoiler:Although a DNA test reveals they share the same genes, they turn out to be half-siblings.]]
* MeaningfulName: She's named after the hollyhock, a flower whose roots can be used for medicinal purposes. True to her name, every time she appears, she curbs [=BoJack=]'s worst traits and brings out the good side in him. The hind knee area of a horse is also referred to as the hock.
* MentorsNewHope: For [=BoJack=], Hollyhock represents a new chance to make or break a daughter figure, especially considering what happened with Sarah Lynn and Penny when they looked up to him, which makes him nervous and especially cautious to not give wrong impressions around her. Likewise, her self-adjustment and maturity help him face his demons and become a slightly better horse. This is the reason why [[spoiler:her rejection of [=BoJack=] after learning of his role in Sarah Lynn's death is the last straw that drives [=BoJack=] into suicidal depression and break his sobriety.]]
* MoralityPet: To [=BoJack=], as he tries to curb his self-destructive nature to be someone Hollyhock can look up to. They end up being the healthiest relationship [=BoJack=] has really had with anyone, as he is desperate to protect her and in turn she holds him accountable in ways no one else can. [[spoiler: Her cutting ties with him after his disastrous interview in the final season causes him to fall OffTheWagon ''hard''.]]
* NatureVersusNurture: There's no denying Hollyhock has some of the "Horseman gunk" in her DNA. Same traits, same flaws, same propensity to the ol' blues... however, because she was raised by a loving family instead of being subjected to the dysfunction [=BoJack=] was, Hollyhock is much better-adjusted and far more moral than her relatives.
* NiceGirl: Hollyhock is a sweet and affable horse-girl, but she isn't above tricking Todd into pulling out one of his hairs or using chloroform on him.
-->'''[=BoJack=]''': And she's funny, but she's not mean, which is kind of remarkable when you think about it because a lot of 17-year-old girls think you have to be mean to be funny, but Hollyhock is very sweet... even if she can be sarcastic sometimes, but... she has this smile...
* OnlySaneWoman: The only one in season 4 who's got her head screwed right (beside occasionally [=BoJack=]) and who never loses her shit through the season (other than the amphetamine incident).
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Starts acting rather strangely late in season 4, losing her formerly healthy appetite and doing odd things like trying to see how fast she can channel surf or sort all the change in the house, going against her usual laid-back behavior. [[spoiler: Turns out this is because Beatrice was secretly slipping her amphetamines in her coffee in an attempt to make her slim down.]]
* OverlyLongName: She was adopted by eight men in a polyamorous relationship, giving her the unwieldy name of Hollyhock Manheim-Mannheim-Guerrero-Robinson-Zilberschlag-Hsung-Fonzarelli-[=McQuack=]. This makes remembering it a problem for [=BoJack=] [[spoiler:after Hollyhock overdoses on weight loss pills]].
* PositiveFriendInfluence: Being around Hollyhock has been good for [=BoJack=]. Her presence forces him to at least attempt to reconcile with his mother as well as the pressure of being around his possible daughter makes him more wary of himself, with her being a huge reason for his CharacterDevelopment through season 4.
* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: [[spoiler:Her half-brother [=BoJack=]]] was already a grown adult when she was born. When it was first confirmed that they were related, the age gap was so big that everyone just assumed that [[spoiler:Bojack was her ''father.'']]
* RaisedByDudes: Downplayed. She's a jock raised by eight men, but is reasonably well-adjusted and feminine.
* ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow: Lampshaded and justified. Sir Mix-A-Lot questions why she's not in school in "The Judge", but she graduated early and is taking time off before college.
* SiblingYinYang: [[spoiler:Hollyhock is social, a people person, friendly, well-adjusted, no non-sense, goofy and active. [=BoJack=] is brooding, antisocial, rash, childish, goofy, sedentary and messed up.]]
* SmittenTeenageGirl: Her relationship with Miles is based on initial impressions of him as a good, fun guy. She's proven right when he proves to have honest intentions with her. [[spoiler:And wrong when it turns out he's still willing to sell that for a chance for stardom.]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance:
** Outside of the overall pattern of her fur, and the fact everyone has told her since she was little she looked a lot like him, she displays a lot of personality traits similar to [=BoJack=], including general laziness and buying the same disguise kit he has.
** She is implied to have also gotten her looks from [[spoiler:Butterscotch's mother, as she had a diamond marking on her forehead, like Beatrice and [=BoJack=], and chestnut hair like Henrietta, whose hair is styled similarly to Hollyhock's.]]
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In Season 6. [[spoiler:Despite the fact Hollyhock bonds with [=BoJack=] and comes to accept him as her brother, she does ''not'' forgive [=BoJack=] for his past transgressions when they come to light. In fact, due to his dangerous toxicity, she deems it necessary to cut him out of her life completely.]]
* SweetTooth: She loves ice cream and when she and [=BoJack=] go to see Dr. Hu, she's seen eating several lollipops out of the jar.
* TellMeAboutMyFather: The reason she's calling VIM in the first place is because she wants to find out if [=BoJack=] is her birth dad.
* TenderTears: When [=BoJack=] tells her that if she truly belongs to the Horseman family, she might desire more than she'll ever get. Hollyhock, worn out of searching her mom in Hollywoo all day, starts crying and apologizes for it when [=BoJack=] is at a loss of how to comfort her, and explains her fathers told her it's ok to cry and she shouldn't feel bad about feeling bad.
* TraumaButton: As shown in [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS5E09AncientHistory "Ancient History"]], Hollyhock still has bad memories of being drugged by Beatrice, causing her to freeze up in the doorway to [=BoJack's=] house, and dump [=BoJack's=] painkillers down the sink later that evening.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: She admits loving to eat apples. She's also big on pizza, [[spoiler:which turns out to be a red flag when she turns down [=BoJack=]'s offer of it.]]
* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler:It is never revealed what was written in her letter when she permanently broke off contact with [=BoJack=].]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Not only does she basically change the course of the story by just existing, but the fact that she seems to be [=BoJack=]'s illegitimate daughter only makes everything more complicated. [[spoiler:The reality is, she's not his daughter, but rather, his half-sister.]]
* WeightWoe: She gets self-conscious about feeling like a "blob" compared to the skinny but big-assed girls on ''Felicity Huffman's Booty Academy,'' and [=BoJack=] repeating the statement to her innocently doesn't help. [[spoiler:Then a dementia-ridden Beatrice took it upon herself to secretly dose the poor girl with weight-loss pills...]]
* WhatAreRecords: One of the things that distances Hollyhock from [=BoJack=] is that the latter, being a DiscoDan, is attached to outdated tech, something Hollyhock often fails to recognize; exaggerated when the thing she fails to recognize is a DVD case. Once visits to Beatrice become routine, however, she's the one often bringing the DVD cases of ''JustForFun/HorsinAround''.
-->'''Hollyhock''': Why are you carrying that thin hard book?
-->'''[=BoJack=]''': It's not a book, it's a DVD case. We did a special episode about elder care. Now we're gonna watch it and learn how to handle this bitch.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: Because she cut off ties with [=BoJack=], we don't know what became of her after the one year time skip.]]
* WhiteSheep: Out of all the people in [=BoJack=]'s family, she's by far the kindest, most good-natured, and least emotionally stunted. Although she struggles with her self-image and anxiety and has negative traits like laziness, these are portrayed in moderation and are not crippling like they are to [=BoJack=]. A lot of this can be attributed to her being raised in a loving adopted family, as opposed to the terrible and traumatic childhoods that [=BoJack=] and Beatrice experienced.
* YouthfulFreckles: Dots of lighter fur in her cheeks, neck, and shoulders. This shows she's a young adult.

[[folder:Hollyhock's Dads]]
!!!'''Hollyhock's adoptive fathers[[note]](Dashawn Manheim, Steve Mannheim, Jose Guerrero, Cupe Robinson III, Otto Zilberschlag, Arturo "Ice Man" Fonzarelli, Gregory Hsung, and Quackers [=McQuack=])[[/note]]'''
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->'''Voiced by:''' Jay Pharaoh (Dashawn), ??? (the rest)
->'''Debut:''' [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS4E10LovinThatCaliLifestyle "lovin' that cali lifestyle!"]]

Hollyhock grew up being totally unaware of the identities of her biological parents. She was adopted and raised by ''eight'' gay men in a polyamorous relationship who live in Wichita, Kansas serving as her joint legal guardians.

* {{Expy}}: Arturo Fonzarelli (note the name) is a dead ringer for [[Series/HappyDays Arthur Fonzarelli]], and his (graying) pompadour and popped-collar jacket is reminiscent of his style.
* GoodParents: Hollyhock's description of them and their PapaWolf attitudes toward her show that she was cared for and loved throughout her life.
* InsistentTerminology:
** Gregory doesn't like foreign ''movies'', he likes foreign ''films''.
** The group as a collective refuse to recognize any meaning of "dad" other than man/men that raise someone. It causes problems when [=BoJack=] is trying to explain what he'd learned about the man who impregnated Hollyhock's mother.
* InterspeciesRomance: They are in a same-sex polyamorous relationship that includes five humans, one bear, one lizard, and one duck.
* PapaWolf: Every single one of them are ''pissed off'' at [=BoJack=] for not watching Hollyhock enough [[spoiler:to know she became addicted to amphetamines (to be fair, [=BoJack=] didn't know either until it was almost too late);]] and they forbid him from having any more contact with her.
* {{Polyamory}}: They are eight gay men engaged in polyandry with each other.
* PunnyName: Both of the Man(n)heims are human, showing that it's not only animal characters who have {{Species Surname}}s.
* RepetitiveName: Quackers [=McQuack=]'s name, naturally.
* VisualPun: Jose is, indeed, a [[TheBear gay bear]].

[[folder:Hollyhock's Mother '''(Season 4 spoilers)''']]
The Season 4 story arc has Hollyhock enlisting [=BoJack=]'s help to discover who her biological parents were. Very contrary to their initial assumptions about Hollyhock being the daughter of [=BoJack=] and one of his ex-girlfriends, she's actually his ''half-sister'', having been conceived in an extramarital affair by [=BoJack=]'s father '''Butterscotch Horseman''' (see his folder above) and his maid, '''Henrietta Platchkey''' (see her section below).

!!!'''Henrietta Platchkey'''
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->'''Voiced by:''' Majandra Delfino
->'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/BojackHorsemanS4E11TimesArrow Time's Arrow]]"

A maid who used to work for Beatrice and Butterscotch Horseman at their San Francisco home. She's an elusive figure whose name a demented Beatrice keeps mentioning for some reason, apparently confusing her with [=BoJack=] and Hollyhock. As it later turns out, she got impregnated by Butterscotch, thus conceiving and giving birth to Hollyhock.

* CaptainObvious: In Beatrice's memories, whenever Henrietta says she likes something, she tends to state what it actually is as the reason. For example, she loves paintings because it's "like T.V., only without all the talking and music," and she loves books because "the words tell stories." Beatrice doesn't find this particularly stimulating conversation.
* TheFaceless: Her only appearance is through Beatrice's memories, and her face is scribbled over due to Beatrice's dementia.
* {{Foil}}: To Beatrice. Both are women who were impregnated by Butterscotch and refused to get an abortion. The wealthy born Beatrice decided to marry him and give up her dreams to take care of [=BoJack=] and on the hope Butterscotch would become a famous novelist, but he never did, and that plus the harsh realities of being a parent and regret over not marrying Corbin Creamerman, resulted in her bitterness and resentment for both her son and husband. The struggling nursing student Henrietta (at the insistence of Beatrice) gave up Hollyhock for adoption, went onto become a nurse, and is eager to see her long-lost daughter.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Much to Butterscotch's chagrin, Henrietta refuses to abort her baby. Beatrice managed to compromise with her by convincing her to give the baby up for adoption.
* GoodIsDumb: Compared to Beatrice, who's sharp as a tack but mean as a snake, Henrietta is shown to be extremely sweet if less bright. She is not dumb though as she is a nurse but she might have been naïve for falling for Butterscotch, this is likely due to her young and tender age, being a woman in her 20's.
* MayDecemberRomance: Had an affair with Butterscotch, who was roughly 40-50 years her senior.
* MissingMom: At the insistence of Beatrice, Henrietta gave up Hollyhock for adoption.
* TheMistress: Her affair with Butterscotch led to a pregnancy and the birth of Hollyhock.
* NiceGirl: Cheating aside, Henrietta is tender, cheerful, and never says anything bad about anyone.
* StrugglingSingleMother: {{Discussed|Trope}}. Henrietta doesn't want to abort her baby at first, but she's under no delusions about what her life could be if she chooses to be mother while studying: she mentions the tuition "going up" and breaks down to Beatrice, admitting she doesn't know what to do. Even Beatrice, as cold hearted as she was at that point, tells her point blank that she ''can't expect'' her life to go breezy if she decides to raise a filly, it will eat her away. This is why Beatrice offers her to TakeAThirdOption.
* TheUnreveal: Her face is never shown; she appears only in Beatrice' recollections, where her face is scribbled out due to Beatrice' dementia and resentment.
* WalkingSpoiler: Due to her identity as Hollyhock's true mother, via an affair with Butterscotch.

!!!'''Sugarman Family'''

[[folder:Joseph Sugarman]]
!!!'''Joseph Sugarman'''
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[[caption-width-right:200:As a modern American man I am woefully unprepared to manage a woman's emotions. I was never taught, and I will not learn.]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MatthewBroderick
->'''Debut:''' [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS4E02TheOldSugarmanPlace "The Old Sugarman Place"]]

-->''"All right. Believe it or not, time's arrow neither stands still nor reverses. It merely marches forward."''

Beatrice's father and [=BoJack=]'s maternal grandfather. Joseph was a wealthy sugar tycoon and businessman. But on the other hand, he was a not-so-excellent [[AbusiveParents husband and father]]...

* AbusiveParents: His actions have a profoundly negative effect on his daughter's emotional well-being. He prohibits her from eating ice cream and makes constant asides about her weight, and when she is upset due to her belongings being burned during a bout of scarlet fever, he casually threatens her with a lobotomy if she cries too much.
* AllForNothing: The irony of Joseph's actions is that he ends up destroying both his family and his business in his attempts to save it. His family is damaged beyond repair with his son dead and wife lobotomized. He alienates his daughter and only surviving child, driving her into the arms of a son-in-law whose poor spending habits drive his family to bankruptcy ending with the family business sold to a Japanese conglomerate. Even his property is eventually destroyed after [=BoJack=] demolishes the summer home. All Joseph's efforts to maintain a happy family and business amount to nothing.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He's a charmingly polite family man on the surface; but is really an emotionally manipulative, psychologically abusive asshole with very little consideration for his family's feelings.
* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: He is aware of how fattening his products are and does his best to prohibit Beatrice from eating sugary foods, such as ice cream, to keep her thin.
* ControlFreak: The two times he's shown to lose his temper on-screen, it's because of his "hysterical" wife and rebellious daughter acting out, thus acting out of his control.
* GreaterScopeVillain: His abysmal parenting played a big part in turning Beatrice into a miserable person, which played a big part in turning his grandson into the man he became.
* HairTodayGoneTomorrow: By the 1960s, the smooth bangs in his mane have receded a bit, and by the time of his death in the late 90s he is bald on top with only white hair on the sides.
* HappinessIsMandatory: He believes that sadness is a weak, obstructive, "womanly emotion" and tries to enforce positive feelings in his household to keep everyone moving forward. This is not without long-lasting repercussions.
* HateSink: Joseph Sugarman is probably the most despicable member of the entire Sugarman[-/-]Horseman family line, but for different reasons than the others: While Beatrice and Butterscotch can rival him in terms of child abuse, Beatrice has the big excuse of a neglectful childhood and multiple traumas all around and Butterscotch was decent(ish) enough to actually take responsibility for what he had done to Beatrice. Joseph's lack of trauma, dissonant cheerfulness to his deeply harmful actions and enforced casual misogyny toward his daughter's aspirations and his wife's inability to deal with trauma make a standout monster above all. There's no excuse beyond his experience and how he was taught to deal with everything (though fellow businessman Corbin Creanman was raised with DeliberateValuesDissonance too but was ironically confident enough to reject them), and even those fall flat when so much pain and suffering is caused because of his actions - he is unwilling to reach to anyone and uses extremity, force and emotional blackmail to keep everything in his life in check, no matter how much damage it causes everyone around him. Even his happy façade can drop when something goes wrong and the monster can show itself.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: His actions shaped Beatrice into [[AbusiveParents who she would become]] but nothing he did was out of malice. He gently explains his motives to his daughter [[spoiler: like lobotomizing his wife because of her grief over their son dying or burning Beatrice's possessions because of her scarlet fever]] and despite how horrific his actions are he honestly is acting with the best of intentions for his family.
-->'''Joseph''': As a modern American man, I am woefully unprepared to manage a woman’s emotions. I was never taught, and I will not learn.
* InnocentBigot: Joseph doesn't think highly of civil right movements or feminism, let alone seeing women as people with rights, but his initial appearance masks those traits. Then, it's slowly {{deconstructed|Trope}} showing how this type of mindset can kickstart heinous actions without fully comprehending their impact.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Joseph's biggest failing is to think of his family's well-being insofar as how it affects him, so much he can hardly admit his own mistakes, another moment of InferioritySuperiorityComplex. When he briefly seemed to admit his own mistakes, he lashes out with sudden outbursts of violence.
* JerkassHasAPoint: His only possible redeeming moment is when he is rightly furious at his wife for putting Beatrice's life in danger by forcing her to drive the car because she was drunk.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He is one of the few characters on the show with no humanizing moments. Whenever it looks like Joseph might actually care to some degree for Honey or Beatrice, he proves himself to be devoid of any empathic thinking or basic support to offer.
* LackOfEmpathy: He at least thinks of himself as being a decent family man, but doesn't seem too concerned about actually trying to help his wife or daughter deal with their depressions resulting from [=CrackerJack's=] death. While it seems that he really does love his family, his emotions for them are entirely selfish, and only seems concerned for how they can make ''himself'' feel happy.
* LightIsNotGood: He's almost always seen using the same white vest, even during old age. This color contrasts with his more heinous actions, as detailed all over here.
* NeverMyFault: He blames his [[spoiler:''lobotomized'']] wife for failing to notice that Beatrice had contracted scarlet fever, even though he failed to notice too. Beatrice herself had tried to tell him directly that she was not feeling well minutes before, which he brushed off.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Joseph's personality and actions are a very real brand of scary, mostly because of how little he processes the damage and wrong he's doing, all with a terrifying smile.
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: He bears many similarities to Joseph Kennedy, patriarch of the [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy Kennedy family]]. He was a wealthy and ambitious businessman in mid 20th century America, who had some seriously antisemitic beliefs, lost a son in World War II, [[spoiler:had a female family member lobotomized for embarrassing the family]], and is held to blame for the devastation of his family line.
* ObliviouslyEvil: Despite all the cruel things he does to his wife and daughter (burning his daughter's doll in front of her since she had scarlet fever, [[spoiler:lobomotozing his wife to stop her grief]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking forbidding Beatrice from eating ice cream]]), none of them are really done out of malice but were meant to keep his family stable. Unfortunately, he never considered the emotional and long-term effects.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: His eldest child and only son died in World War II, while Joseph lived on for several more decades.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: [[StrawMisogynist He's incredibly sexist]], believing that his wife and daughter have no place in life [[StayInTheKitchen beyond being in the household]]; he also dismisses their mental illnesses as just being "womanly emotions" that he will not even try to understand as a man. He also blames the Jews for "[[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming provoking]]" UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler into starting UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, and he couldn't care less about the US UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement.
* PosthumousCharacter: He is dead in the present timeline, only appearing in flashbacks.
* ShipperWithAnAgenda: Joseph states outright that he doesn't care about Beatrice's personal interests, only caring that she make nice with Corbin Creamerman so they could get married and their family businesses would work together to make more profit.
* SkewedPriorities: When the doctor informs him that his young daughter's throat has been swollen almost completely shut due to scarlet fever, he tells her that it's an opportunity to lose some weight.
* TheSociopath: He has a deep desire to keep his family safe at all costs... which sounds good and noble on paper, but Joseph's "love" for his family is extremely possessive and self-centered, and he discards all morality to control their future, even if it makes them unhappy or unfulfilled.
* SoftSpokenSadist: In spite of his laundry list of disgusting actions, Joseph's tone of voice is always calm, almost comforting. ''Emphasis in almost''.
* StandardFiftiesFather: Deconstructed. Joseph is introduced as an emotionally distant but caring father of TheAllAmericanBoy that is [=CrackerJack=], but a covertly abusive parent towards his daughter and wife.
* StepfordSmiler: He tends to act constantly cheerful, [[DissonantSerenity even when his domestic life is falling apart]]. It's soon made clear that beneath his superficially happy family-man persona, he's a very grouchy and passive-aggressive ControlFreak who can't stand to not get his way over his wife and daughter. He's also heavily implied to suppress his emotions to an unhealthy degree, especially grief when it comes to [=CrackerJack=]'s death and fury at being unable to control life.
* TheUnfought: While Beatrice never quite forgave her father for all the trauma he caused her, she came around to defend him, even justifying his methods whenever someone would call him out on his actions in a twisted form of StockholmSyndrome. Joseph passed away calmly and without regrets, with his damaged daughter at his side mourning him.
* VillainousLegacy: He started the cycle of abuse in the Sugarman/Horseman family, making him indirectly responsible for all the harm Beatrice and [=BoJack=] have done.
* WantedAGenderConformingChild: Out of his relationships with both of his offspring, Joseph seemed to prefer [=CrackerJack=]'s law-abiding, chip-off-the-ol'-block attitude (even if this blind obedience of his was what led to his death) to Beatrice's increasing questioning of his inner logic and eventually rebellious attitude. As far as he knows, the only way Beatrice can hope to get a cushy future as a housewife is to be light as a feather, smile and act as submissive as possible rather than the "sassy" MouthyKid she slowly transforms during her teenager years. This leads to their strained relationship [[spoiler:after Honey's lobotomy]] becoming even more so after she returns home with a Barnard college degree rather than a husband. Ironically, not presurring her that way might have prevented her marriage with Butterscotch, whose spending habits ruined the family business.

[[folder:Honey Sugarman]]
!!!'''Honey Sugarman'''
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/honey_7.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:200:[[{{Foreshadowing}} I have half a mind]] to kiss you with that smart mouth.]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JaneKrakowski
->'''Debut:''' [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS4E02TheOldSugarmanPlace "The Old Sugarman Place"]]

-->''"Love does things to a person. Terrible things."''

Beatrice' mother and [=BoJack=]'s maternal grandmother. She is a wealthy housewife who dearly loved her family. But after the death of her son [=CrackerJack=] she becomes ''extremely'' emotionally unstable...

* TheAlcoholic: She [[DrowningMySorrows turns to alcohol]] after her son dies in World War II. This leads to a drunk-driving incident that endangers her (and Beatrice') lives.
* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: [[spoiler:In the year that Honey was lobotomized (about 1945), lobotomies were done through a cut above the hairline so regrown hair can cover the incision. Honey's lobotomy leaves her with a big, garish scar right across her forehead, which is admittedly much more dramatic.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:She begs to be free of her grief and pleads with Joseph to "fix" her. However, psychology isn't a perfected field during her time. A lobotomy is believed to be the best option for her at the time.]]
* DeathOfPersonality: Honey starts out as a lively woman with a sassy attitude who loves her family, but after the death of her son causes her to develop a severe case of PTSD and depression, [[spoiler:she is lobotomized, which turns her into an EmptyShell who isn't capable of taking care of her daughter.]]
* DrowningMySorrows: After [=CrackerJack's=] death, her downward spiral leads her to drink excessively in order to cope with her loss.
* EmptyShell: Post [[spoiler:lobotomy]], she hardly shows any emotion or appears to be alive at all. Beatrice describes her as being somewhat dead.
* FemaleMisogynist: Downplayed; her husband tends to be more openly misogynistic, but Honey still clearly has some internalized misogyny herself. She makes pancakes for her husband but doesn't let her young daughter have any, tells Beatrice ice cream is for boys so she can sprinkle some sugar on a lemon and suck on that instead, and when Beatrice tries to lift a suitcase Honey curtly tells her it'll rupture her uterus.
* HystericalWoman: Deconstructed. She's clearly unstable after [=CrackerJack's=] death, but Joseph dismisses it as "womanly emotions". To the audience, it is clear that this is perfectly valid grief that Joseph isn't really equipped to handle.
* LikeMotherLikeDaughter: It's pretty clear Beatrice inherited her keen intelligence, sass, and smart mouth from her mother. (However, while Honey is a cheerful woman who playfully quipped to make people laugh, Beatrice [[spoiler:due to the trauma of her mother's lobotomy]] is a miserable woman who uses her sharp tongue to shiv people.)
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: She loves her son dearly, but his death during the war causes her to descend into such grief that she drinks excessively, tries to make out with her dead son's friend, and makes her very young daughter drive their car which results in minor injuries for both of them. After [[spoiler:she's lobotomized]], she makes Beatrice promise to never love someone as much as she loved [=CrackerJack=].
* MadLibsCatchPhrase: "Why, I have half a mind to [x]!" This takes a very dark turn after [[spoiler:she's been lobotomized]], when she says "Why, I have half a mind..." but trails off.
* MeaningfulEcho:
** She and [=CrackerJack=] play the piano at their summer house. [[spoiler:After [=CrackerJack=] dies, she tries to play the song they always played and can't bring herself to finish it, and after she's lobotomized she can barely play a ''note''.]]
** [[spoiler: Post-lobotomy, she says "I have half a mind..." and trails off, reflecting the earlier, happy scene where she says "I've half a mind to kiss you with that smart mouth", prompting her husband to quip "[[{{Foreshadowing}} THAT half you can keep!]]"]]
* {{Motif}}: Beatrice remembers her as a shadow and after episode 2, she just appears as a shadow. During her flashbacks in "Time's Arrow", her mother appears only as a shadow, sometimes with [[spoiler:the scar in her forehead]] highlighted.
* NothingIsScarier: [[spoiler:Post-lobotomy, Honey is only seen as a shadow or silhouette. Considered how much she's implied to deteriorate over the years post-lobotomy, and how unkempt and zombie-like she holds herself, this just serves to highlight the horror of her condition.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: While young Beatrice is delighted when her mother finally lets her buy a freezy pop, to the audience it's a clear sign of Honey's grief and depression over her son's death. [[spoiler:Honey finally snaps not long after.]]
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Her eldest child and only son dies in World War II. She lives for decades, crippled by grief [[spoiler:and eventually lobotomized]].
* ParentalFavoritism: Downplayed. She isn't mean or overly neglectful, but Honey openly dotes on her son [=CrackerJack=] while treating young Beatrice as almost an afterthought. [[spoiler:It's implied to play part in why her daughter was a poor consolation to losing her son, and could be part of the reason her grief made her willing to endanger her daughter in her drunk driving stunt to "feel alive again."]]
* PosthumousCharacter: She is dead in the present timeline, only appearing in flashbacks.
* SinisterSilhouettes: When she's shown [[spoiler:post-lobotomy]] in flashbacks, Beatrice sees her only as a silhouette with the highlighted [[spoiler:scar]].
* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler:She tries to keep a brave face for her child and husband, but inevitably breaks down as she can't handle life without [=CrackerJack=].]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: She asks Beatrice to never love someone as much as she loved [[spoiler:[=CrackerJack=] after she was lobotomized]], setting the stage for Beatrice' entire outlook on life.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:After her lobotomy, she's reduced to a faint shadow in Beatrice's mind, and we never see what became of her later in life.]] In a sense, this is fitting, showing how she [[DeathOfPersonality had died as a person]] long before her physical body did.
* WhatIsThisFeeling: Due to her own charmed life and the open misogynistic values of the time deeming all turbulent emotions [[HystericalWoman "womanly hysteria"]], when the normally cheerful and vivacious Honey experiences grief and heartbreak from her son's death, she's unable to process or cope with the pain, and ultimately begs to be "fixed."

[[folder:[=CrackerJack=] Sugarman]]
!!!'''[=CrackerJack=] Sugarman'''
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/crackerjack_7.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:200:I will always think of you...]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/LinManuelMiranda
->'''Debut:''' [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS4E02TheOldSugarmanPlace "The Old Sugarman Place"]]

Beatrice' older brother and [=BoJack=]'s maternal uncle. He dies tragically young while fighting for the American military in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.

* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:During the dinner scene in the series' penultimate episode, [=CrackerJack's=] represention in [=BoJack's=] near-DyingDream reveals that he died from a bullet hitting him in the head, with the fatal mark still present and hidden under his mane. Then again, being [=BoJack's=] dream, this may not be accurate.]]
* CoolBigBro: Shown to be a nice older brother to Beatrice when he gives her his old blanket.
* MommasBoy: He has a close relationship with his mom; they affectionately sing a song together, and his death is more devastating for her than her husband.
* NiceGuy: He seemed to have been a very kindhearted young man who dearly loved his family.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: His death causes a good chunk of the plot, specifically involving the dysfunction of his family.
* PosthumousCharacter: He was killed in combat during World War II, and is only seen alive in a single flashback.
* SecurityBlanket: Honey insists on him having his embarrassing yellow-and-blue blanket on hand for their portrait which he insists he's outgrown, but gives to Beatrice to hang onto. [[spoiler:It becomes a TragicKeepsake after he dies, as Honey demands to return to the summer house in the middle of winter in a desperate search for it.]]
* SmallRoleBigImpact: [[spoiler:He doesn't have a huge role in the story as he only appears in flashbacks, however, the aftermath of his death sets up everything else. His death instigates a chain of abuse that starts with his mother and father, passes on to his sister, then to his nephew, and then to his step-niece.]] Even [=BoJack=] who never met [=CrackerJack=] has a sense of the impact he had.
-->'''[=BoJack=]''': The uncle I never met and yet could never live up to.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: He is friendly and good-humored, loves his mother and little sister, and goes off to war under the impression that it he'll kill Nazis by day and kick back in the beer gardens by night. [[spoiler:We last see him in summer and he's dead by winter.]]
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: [=BoJack=] bears a striking resemblance to him, and Beatrice even mistakes an old photo of [=BoJack=] for her brother. Notably, while diamond-shaped stars are shown to run in the family (and serve as a major plot point), [=BoJack=] and [=CrackerJack=] are the only two seen with snips.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:It is [=CrackerJack's=] death during the war that unintentionally sets off the cycle of abuse in the Sugarman/Horseman family.]]
* WideEyedIdealist: Given that he is a happy-go-lucky, rich young man who grew up living quite comfortably at home, he holds some ''very naïve'' expectations about what war will be like.

!!!'''Other Relatives'''

[[folder:Butterscotch's Parents]]
!!!'''Butterscotch's unnamed parents'''
->'''Mentioned:''' [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS4E11TimesArrow "Time's Arrow"]]

-->'''Butterscotch''': "I'm sorry, did--did [Beatrice's mother] pass?"\\
'''Beatrice''': "No, not exactly."\\
'''Butterscotch''': "Mine did."\\
'''Beatrice''': "I'm very sorry to hear that."\\
'''Butterscotch''': "I was little. I don't remember, really. But she had a diamond just like yours. I saw it in a picture once."

Butterscotch's never-seen parents, and [=BoJack=]'s paternal grandparents, who are implied to be the main culprits for the trainwreck their son would eventually become.

* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Butterscotch idealizes his dead mother, and is attracted to women with her features.
* TheGhost: Mentioned, but never seen at all.
* NoNameGiven: Neither of their names were ever revealed.
* PosthumousCharacter: Butterscotch's mother has already been long dead since his early childhood, while his father has most likely already passed away well before the series' present-day.
* PreciousPhoto: The only way Butterscotch is able to remember his mom is by a photo he saw once.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Butterscotch's mother had a diamond marking and brown hair (likely fur also) [[spoiler:just like his illegitimate daughter Hollyhock.]]

!!Carolyn Family

[[folder:Carolyn Family (in general)]]
* AmbiguouslyJewish: For one, "Chickens" sees PC headed to a family wedding between her niece and a dog, with the groom wearing a yarmulke. Then, in [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS4E09Ruthie "Ruthie"]], the eponymous character tells her ancestors' story, which mirrors that of Jewish immigrants, especially the downgraded lifestyle compared to their much better positions in their home country.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: PC emphasizes her large family as one of the reasons why she's so interested in standing out, being the runt and all. So far there are "several nephews and nieces", eleven siblings, and a deceased father and mother.

[[folder:Cutie Cutie Cupcake]]
!!!'''Cutie Cutie Cupcake'''
[[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/princess_carolyn_mom_cutie_cutie_cupcake.png]]
[[caption-width-right:220:''"Can you do this one thing for me?"'']]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DavidSedaris
->'''Debut:''' [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS5E05TheAmeliaEarhartStory "The Amelia Earhart Story"]]

Princess Carolyn's mother. She was a maid who often let her love for drink to overcome her duties, forcing PC to be the responsible one and cover for her.

* AbusiveParents: She would often let her daughter cover up for her shifts because she was often too wasted to actually do anything. She also constantly put down Princess Carolyn's hopes of going to a prestigious college in California, with the excuse that their family was essentially doomed to have a poor life, and in order to [[PleaseDontLeaveMe keep her last child at home.]] However, she does show Princess Carolyn moments of sympathy and kindness, such as giving her her necklace after [[spoiler:Princess Carolyn learns she's pregnant]] and creating a nice story behind it to give her hope. While she does put the blame on Princess Carolyn for [[spoiler:having a miscarriage,]] she still sympathizes a lot with her and even [[spoiler:lets her go to UCLA after all.]]
* AddledAddict: Her alcoholism affected her work schedule and threatened to leave them homeless multiple times.
* ExplosiveBreeder: According to her daughter (and exemplified by various nephews and nieces), she had multiple children and was quite fertile herself. This is implied to be the cause why she and her husband often worked thankless jobs to support the family; the drinking, not so much. [[spoiler:This is contrast with her daughter Princess Carolyn, the runt of the litter, who's unable to get pregnant no matter what. The bitter {{irony}} of the situation isn't lost on her and is a particularly sore spot for her.]]
* TheFatalist: Cutie doesn't believe in free will, thinking everyone's fate is already decided by having "lucky" or "unlucky" numbers with her and her family getting the short end of the stick. Of course, this has become self-fulfilling since she has pretty much given up in trying to do anything, letting booze take the edge away, and it's implied she's now refusing to take responsibility on how her passive attitude might have made her situation worse. At the same time, it's unclear if she always believed it or she's become jaded enough to use it as an excuse.
* LawOfInverseFertility: [[spoiler:An irresponsible alcoholic without anything more than a meager income to support her family which she barely makes, had a numerous litter. Her hard-working, diligent daughter Princess Carolyn, who might have the necessary resources to give a child all it may need, is infertile.]]
* LiesToChildren: [[spoiler: Cutie fabricated a whole story involving a replica necklace she gave Princess Carolyn about it being a family jewel passed down generations. While she initially made up the story to soothe a pregnant young Princess Carolyn's fears, this revelation is the cherry on top of the shit smoothie that breaks PC after a bad day.]]
* LikeParentUnlikeChild: Cutie didn't have any of the work ethic, high-functional alcoholism, determination or charm her younger daughter Princess Carolyn has. [[spoiler:Fertility is also one of the key differences between them and it drives Princess Carolyn mad that for all her accomplishments, she ''can't'' get pregnant like her mother.]]
* ParentalNeglect: Not caring about her daughter having to do her job due to her alcoholism is not a sign of a good family dynamic.
* PetTheDog: Cutie gives Princess Carolyn a replica necklace, fabricated a whole story about it being a family jewel passed down generations, to make a young Princess Carolyn feel better when she [[spoiler:got pregnant]].
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: She doesn't want Princess Carolyn to go to college, let alone in California, because she's the only child who hasn't left her, and is the only one willing to put up with her drunken laziness. Even when P.C. is off to college, she begs her at the last minute to take a gap year to stay home with her, though P.C. solemnly declines, devastating her.
* PosthumousCharacter: Princess Carolyn says the last time she visited her hometown since 2018 was for her funeral (which was before 2014), and she only appears via flashback.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: She has been mentioned by PC and only appears once in season 5, yet she is the main reason why PC is so messed up.

[[folder:Mr. Carolyn]]
!!!'''Mr. Carolyn'''
->'''Mentioned:''' [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E09BestThingThatEverHappened "Best Thing That Ever Happened"]]

Princess Carolyn's father. He lived in Raleigh, NC, and was separated from PC's mom. Died somewhere between the mid-2000s, with his daughter attending his funeral alongside [=BoJack=]. Due to lack of actual information, most of these tropes are, let's say, ambiguous.

* TheGhost: Unlike his wife, he's only mentioned in passing. Although the appearance of PC's siblings implies that he's a calico breed.
* PosthumousCharacter: He died some time during 2007-2014, long before the series started as PC was still with [=BoJack=] at the time.

[[folder:Ruthie Carolyn]]
!!!'''Ruthie Carolyn (formerly "Untitled Princess Carolyn Project")'''
->'''Voiced by:''' ???
->'''Debuted:''' ''The Stopped Show''
[[quoteright:221:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ruthie_s6b.png]]

A porcupine baby girl whom Princess Carolyn adopted at the end of Season 5. Her biological mother is a [[TeenPregnancy human teenaged girl]] named Sadie, her biological father a porcupine named Strib.

* CuteButCacophonic: As adorable as Ruthie is, she's still a newborn, and is initially very needy and prone to bawling no matter what PC does. She eventually settles down, becoming if anything a rather obliging baby.
* FurryReminder: Her quills flare up when she's unhappy.
* InterspeciesAdoption: She is a porcupine who gets adopted by Princess Carolyn, a cat, at the end of Season 5.
* MeaningfulName: Princess Carolyn ends up naming her Ruthie, after her fantasy of her future descendant, because the porcupine is proof that Princess Carolyn will have descendants even if she's not related to them by blood. It's also a nod to the pep talk a stressed out Princess Carolyn receives shortly after getting her home...that motherhood is her newest job, and it's a ruthless one.
* WorkingTitle: When Princess Carolyn first adopted her, her name was literally "Untitled Princess Carolyn project", since Princess Carolyn wasn't able to think of an actual name for her just yet. She eventually decides to name her Ruthie.

[[folder:Sadie]]
!!!'''Sadie'''
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JaimePressly
->'''Debut:''' "The Amelia Earhart Story"
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sadie.png]]

A human girl from Eden, North Carolina (Princess Carolyn's hometown). She is the biological mother of Ruthie, whom Carolyn adopts immediately after her birth.

* CommonalityConnection: She admits that she's pleased Princess Carolyn is also from Eden.
* TeenPregnancy: Her main role is to be a potential birth mother for Princess Carolyn, because she got knocked up at eighteen.

[[folder:Strib]]
!!!'''Strib'''
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JaimePressly
->'''Debut:''' "The Amelia Earhart Story"
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/strib2.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"He's not exactly the romantic type, but he's got those eyes you just can't say no to, you know what I mean?"'']]
Ruthie's bio-dad.

* FlatCharacter: There's not much to him besides that he's "not really romantic" and that his real name is "Dennis."
* NoAccountingForTaste: His whole relationship with Sadie is this, as there was ''something'' about him that attracted her but it wasn't enough to keep that relationship going. At one point, Sadie tells Princess he's not really a romantic type and we get that when he tried to get her back with "Give me another chance to tell you that I love you or whatever".
* SatelliteCharacter: His only prominences in the story are that he's Sadie's ex and Ruthie's bio-dad.

!!Nguyen Family

[[folder:Nguyen Family (in general)]]
[[quoteright:360:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/enhanced_6150_1410994451_11.png]]
[[caption-width-right:360:[[BigScrewedUpFamily Such a happy family, aren't they?]]]]

This bunch of stereotypical Bostonian assholes are Diane Nguyen's family, who are introduced in "Live Fast, Diane Nguyen" when she visits them to bury their father. As it turns out, they're not really nice people.
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* AbusiveParents: Diane's mother and (deceased) father could go toe-to-toe with Beatrice and Butterscotch Horseman. The father delighted on humiliating and making Diane feel less, while the mother constantly guilt-trips her into doing things for the family while coddling and preferring the most useless links in the family.
* TheAlcoholic: Their local hangout is a bar and they constantly drink beer in the house.
* AsianRudeness: Played with. They're Vietnamese-American and very impolite, but their rudeness is of a distinctly ''American'' flavor.
* BigBrotherBully: Much like their parents, Diane's brothers often got a kick out of humiliating their little sister; the worst case being the PrankDate with her fake pen-pal Leo, which they videotaped.
* DeadpanSnarker: Very bitter examples. Every word they say related to Diane comes of the most passive-aggressive flavored kind.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The instant Diane walks through that door, all of them start [[EntitledBastard chastising her for abandoning them]], despite [[NeverMyFault being pretty awful excuses of human beings and a bad influence on her]].
* ImmigrantPatriotism: They're Vietnamese-American immigrants who are so patriotic that they don't even ''[[ExaggeratedTrope remember]]'' that they're immigrants. This is TruthInTelevision: immigrants often overcompensate by trying to fit in that they're ironically the most representative of such country's lifestyle.
* JadedWashout: Each one of them seem to be stuck in a memory bubble of their own making, despite no longer being young, oblivious to how much their lives suck or why should they stop acting like frat boy jerks. One of them, Marty, still believes he'll get into B.C. despite not having entered.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: The only reason why they reached out for Diane was to ensure their dad's funeral, a funeral which they didn't even attend, since they opted for chumming Dad instead, making Diane lose time, money and dignity.
* StereotypeFlip: A family of Vietnamese-Americans who act like {{Southies}}.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Pa Nguyen]]
!!!'''Mr. Nguyen'''
->'''Voiced by:''' Paul F. Tompkins
->'''Debuted:''' ''Live Fast, Diane Nguyen''
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Diane's father, whose death is the main plot of "Live Fast, Diane Nguyen". He is only seen alive in a {{Flashback}} in "The [=BoJack=] Horseman Show" and "Dog Days Are Over".
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* AbusiveParents: Just like his wife and sons, Diane's father delighted on seeing his daughter fail and suffer. She describes him as " a mean, sadistic alcoholic who never supported anything [she] did and actively delighted on seeing [her] fail".
* AlcoholicParent: Going by what he looks like in a flashback, we're going to guess that he was a heavier drinker than Ma.
* BigSleep: As far as the Nguyen brothers are concerned, their dad just fell asleep in the couch as always and never woke up. The rest of the family failed to notice his death for some time, with some of the brothers dick-facing him as a prank.
* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: He was a Vietnamese immigrant and a professor of Vietnamese history at a prestigious university. His children are completely out of touch with their Vietnamese heritage.
* HiddenDepths: Whoever knew such a mean, sports-obsessed drunk who raised a bunch of equally mean, moronic, deadbeat sons would be a professor of Vietnamese history at Tufts University? Perhaps Diane's intelligence didn't come ''completely'' out of nowhere from her family after all.
* ImmigrantPatriotism: He was a proud American patriot with [[{{Southies}} an accurate regional Boston accent]] who ''happened'' to teach Vietnamese history, and wouldn't let anyone tell him otherwise. When young Diane asks to learn more about her Vietnamese heritage he flatly refuses for this reason.
-->We're as American as pho!!!
* MutilationConga: Drawn on, putrid state, torn apart and turned into chum and then lost through Boston.
* NoNameGiven: His real name is never revealed. He's known only as "Pa" and that's it.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: His death kicks the main plot of "Live Fast, Diane Nguyen" and Diane's trip to Boston to reconnect with her Family.
* SmarterThanYouLook: Turns out he was a professor of Vietnamese history at Tufts University (which is borderline-Ivy League) despite what his stereotypical {{Southies}} demeanor would suggest.

[[folder:Ma Nguyen]]
!!!'''Mrs. Nguyen'''
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->'''Voiced by:''' Melissa Leo
->'''Debuted: Live fast Diane Nguyen.

Diane's constantly nagging mother.
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* AbusiveParents: Of the emotional kind. The moment Diane walks up that door, she starts deriding her for not showing often, if at all ([[NeverMyFault despite the fact that her manipulations are one of the reasons]]), as well as "trying to shove" her better life up everyone's throats ([[HumbleHero she doesn't]], [[TheResenter they all hate her because she ''is'' better]]). She also allows her sons to mock her only daughter.
* AlcoholicParent: Constantly accompanies her children to the local bar and seems to support their decision to drink in the house, since she also does it. Like any good example of this trope, she's also a bad mother.
* CosmeticHorror: The exceeding makeup she uses only makes her appearance even more unflattering when mixed with the wrinkles and the overstuffed hairstyle.
* UnnamedParent: She's only referred to as "Ma" or "Mom" during her one and only appearance in the series (give or take a cameo in season 3), leaving her nameless.
* UselessBystanderParent: While Diane can attest to the fact that her brothers were basically sheep mindlessly joining in the abuse and her father one of the main ringleaders, she doesn't mention her mother at all in any specific manner of abuse; e.g. using "my parents" as a form of speech to refer to them, heavily implying Ma's greater crime was standing still while the rest of the family abused Diane and recriminating her when she attempted to fight back or do something about her life. Indeed during her visit, Ma Nguyen never really verbally assaults her or humiliates her in any way, just sitting in the background and sarcastically putting her down or reacting with indifference to most things her children say or do, at no point raising her finger to help her and siding with the rest when Diane tries to complain.
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[[folder:Gary Nguyen]]
!!!'''Gary Nguyen (the Black Sheep)'''
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/PattonOswalt
->'''Debuted:''' ???

Diane's brother is a literal black sheep who just like her other brothers regularly mistreats her despite being the obvious candidate for that kind of suffering.
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* HappilyAdopted: He was adopted by the Nguyen family, and contrary to any kind of normal expectations, there's no sign that he was discriminated or ostracized by the family in any way. Matter of fact, he gets along with his brothers and parents far better than Diane does.
* InterspeciesAdoption: Gary, a black sheep was adopted by a human family.
* VisualPun: He is a ''literal'' black sheep, contrasting with Diane being a ''figurative'' BlackSheep.
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[[folder:Artie Nguyen]]
!!!'''Artie Nguyen'''
->'''Voiced by:''' Mike O'Malley
->'''Debuted:''' ???

One of Diane's older brothers and the main ringer of abuse for the rest.
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* HeroWorshipper: He's an enormous fan of movie and television stars. As such, when Diane shows up with [=BoJack=], he's elated to finally meet someone with a Hollywood vehicle under his belt and spend most of his time trying to interact with him on some capacity.
* ImmigrantPatriotism: He insists that the family is as American as they can come despite being Vietnamese-American. Sure, they have adopted and assimilated to the culture of the country: football, typical (and dysfunctional) family disputes and complaining about everything. But it's quite telling that they have to be reminded that they're not exactly born in U.S.A.
--->''"Step off! We're American as Pho!"''
* IShallTauntYou: Without any concern for Diane, he shows [=BoJack=] and the rest of the family the infamous "Cry-ane" video for no reason whatsoever. [[ItAmusedMe Okay, maybe couple of reasons]]. All while ''she's still standing there''.
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[[folder:Marty Nguyen]]
!!!'''Marty Nguyen'''
->'''Voiced by:''' ???
->'''Debuted:''' ???

Diane's brother who spends the days sitting in the couch watching a repetition of a game of 86'.
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* JadedWashout: Failed to get into B.C. [[BelievingTheirOwnLies (despite claiming he will get at some point, never mind he tried when he was 18 and is now in his 30s)]] and spends his days watching TV.
* LazyBum: Sits in the couch all day watching the repetition of a game. Even when Diane shows up after 5 years, he keeps his eyes glued on the TV.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tommy Nguyen]]
!!!'''Tommy Nguyen'''
->'''Voiced by:''' ???
->'''Debuted:''' ???

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!!Peanutbutter Family

[[folder:Captain Peanutbutter]]
!!!'''Captain Peanutbutter'''
->'''Voiced by:''' Music/WeirdAlYankovic
->'''Debuted:''' "Old Acquaintance"

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Mr. Peanutbutter's brother, who still lives in their hometown somewhere in the Labrador Peninsula of Canada.
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* FormallyNamedPet: Following the same pattern as his brother, "Captain" is his actual first name. Furthermore, logically (and adorably) enough, his kids call Mister Peanutbutter "Uncle Mister".
* NiceGuy: He's quite sweet and friendly like his brother.
* SecretlyDying: [[spoiler:Turns out he has a twisted spleen, a very serious condition in dogs in RealLife. He is reluctant to tell Mr. Peanutbutter, and acts awkward and cryptic towards Diane because of this. But fortunately, he soon gets better.]]
* StepfordSmiler: He seems cheery and optimistic like everyone else in his hometown, [[spoiler:but he's very anxious about (possibly) dying from an illness]].
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[[folder:Mr. Peanutbutter's ex-wives]]
Mr. Peanutbutter has had quite a few failed marriages over his lifetime. His first two wives were [[Characters/BojackHorsemanLAResidents Katrina]], and then [[Characters/BojackHorsemanLAResidents Jessica Biel]]. [[spoiler:He eventually divorces [[Characters/BojackHorsemanMainCharacters Diane Nguyen]] by the beginning of Season 5.]] Read their respective pages for more information.
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!!Chavez Family

[[folder:Helen Chavez]]
!!!'''Helen Chavez'''
->'''Voiced by:''' Chloe Dykstra
->'''Debuted:''' ???

Todd's mother. She and her husband (Todd's stepfather Jorge) kicked him out of their house for being a lazy slacker addicted to video games.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: This happens in-universe when characters discuss her kicking Todd out of her house. [=BoJack=] admits he thought she did it because Todd was gay and was proven wrong; Todd was asexual but she didn't know that at the time. Todd at first thinks it's because she hates him. Later, however, he comes to admit that it was probably that he needed the ToughLove and motivation to not be a LazyBum. [[spoiler:The series finale leaves it ambiguous if she and Todd were able to reconcile, though he steals back his kidney to donate to her]].
* BitCharacter: She only appears briefly in a {{flashback}} in "Zoes and Zeldas" to demonstrate disappointment over Todd's downward spiral, to try to get Todd to snap out of playing ''Decapathon'' and to eventually leave him to his own luck.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: As Todd relates, how she got fed up with his laziness after becoming a slacker and kicking him out is the reason why he ended up living with [=BoJack=] in the first place.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jorge Chavez]]
!!!'''Jorge Chavez'''
->'''Voiced by''': Creator/JaimeCamil
->'''Debuted:''' ???

Todd's Mexican stepfather, and whom he gets his surname from.
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* FreudianExcuse: His ToughLove towards Todd stemmed from the fact that he had to face racism for being a Hispanic immigrant throughout his life.
* HenpeckedHusband: Spent a decade not contacting Todd at the insistence of his wife, who loves Todd enough to accept a phone call but is too proud to have either herself or Jorge be the first to reach out.
* HiddenDepths: As much as he complains about Todd's ZanyScheme approach to solving problems, he proves rather adept at using it himself, specifically taking advantage of others' racism to get results.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Jorge isn't wrong about Todd being a lazy, irresponsible, unmotivated freeloader who just coasts through life without any effort or forethought.
--> '''Todd''': Why can't you see I'm living a good life? I have friends, I have a job--\\
'''Jorge''': You sleep on the couch and you play with puppets all day.
* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: He and Todd don't get along well, primarily because Jorge disdains how carefree and lackadaisical Todd tends to act in life.
* {{Workaholic}}: He's a very well-educated and hard-working white-collar professional, and takes pride in this fact.
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This is a list of supporting characters on the show who are closely associated with the [[Characters/BojackHorsemanMainCharacters Main Characters]] in some way or another, but who are technically not members of their families. This includes current/former love interests (both unmarried partners and ex-spouses), current/former friends and acquaintances, and also their respective family members.

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!!Love Interests

!!!'''[=BoJack's=] Lovers'''

[[folder:Sarah Lynn]]
!!!'''Sarah Lynn (born Sarah Himmelfarb)'''
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[[caption-width-right:150:"Suck a dick, dumbshits!"]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KristenSchaal
->'''Debut:''' [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS1E01TheBojackHorsemanStoryChapterOne "The [=BoJack=] Horseman Story: Chapter One"]]\\

-->''"I can constantly just surround myself with sycophants and enablers until I die tragically young."''

The actress who played Sabrina, the Horse's younger human daughter on ''JustForFun/HorsinAround''. After several attempts to stay famous, including a pop career and fashion line, she ends up burnt out and drug-addicted. In Season 1, she and Bojack reconnect and reestablish their friendship.

* ActorAllusion: InUniverse. Bojack's AffectionateNickname for her in ''Horsin' Around'' was "Prickly Muffin". When Sarah became a one-time pop star, one of her most successful singles was named "Prickly Muffin" complete with [[IncestSubtext suggestive lyrics]].
* AmbiguouslyBi: While she's only shown in relationships with men onscreen, she also makes statements about not really caring about gender.
* AmbiguouslyJewish: Her original surname was "Helmulfarb", according to the captions, which seems to be a garbled version of "Himmelfarb", a generally Ashkenazi Jewish surname. Also, she mentions that she doesn't want her body to be a temple because she's been to Temple and it's boring; using "Temple" in that context implies a Jewish service.
* AmicableExes: Despite their very nasty break-up, she at least cared enough about Andrew to visit him in the hospital during the Season 1 finale.
** She and [=BoJack=] also seem to have a somewhat friendly - if unhealthy - dynamic after they discontinue their sexual relationship.
* AttentionWhore: She wants to be the center of attention at all times, and she's willing to go to extremes, including self-mutilation, to achieve that. [[spoiler:Deconstructed in "The View From Halfway Down", in which she reveals that in her mind, she's given her entire life to her fans, the only reason she resorts to sexual outbursts and attention-grabbing gimmicks is to cater to their expectations. That being said, the whole thing ''did'' happen in [=BoJack's=] mind, so we're not sure as to how accurate the whole thing is.]]
* BareYourMidriff: As a pop star she wore a white crop top.
* BigSleep: [[spoiler:After all of their misadventures, Sarah Lynn just dozes off peacefully at the planetarium and never wakes up.]]
* BodyMotifs: Her stage outfit has hands as part of the design. [[spoiler: In life, the hands were painted black, likely representing the lack of control she had over her own life and her sexualization from the media. In Bojack's dream, the hands are painted white, symbolising the freedom of the afterlife.]]
* CastIncest: An in-universe example. In a drunken stupor, Sarah Lynn and Bojack, who played her foster father in ''Horsin' Around'', have a blow-out argument, [[SlapSlapKiss then have sex]]. It appears as if their sexual relationship continues for a while after this, as well.
* CatchPhrase:
** Her character Sabrina's catch-phrase on ''Horsin' Around'' was "That's too much, man!"
** "Suck a dick, dumb shits!" (sometimes followed by BlowingARaspberry), later [[BorrowedCatchphrase adopted by other characters]].
* CheerfulChild: She {{used to be|ASweetKid}} an extremely sweet-natured child who just wanted to be loved. The juxtaposition of the genuine NiceGirl she was in flashbacks and the jaded, spoiled adult she eventually became is at the heart of her relationship with [=BoJack=], who both sees her as something like his own daughter as well as seeing much of his own life and many regrets in how she turned out.
* ChildishToothGap: Had a tooth gap as a child which symbolized her child-like innocence.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Sarah was a curious, kind child who just wanted to please the people around her -- which ended up destroying her as she tried to live up to Hollywood's impossible standards and the adults around her taught her she was only valuable as long as she was popular.
* ChristmasCake: Invoked by the media on her 30th birthday, with [[RealJokeName A Ryan Seacrest Type]] all but saying that her sex appeal has worn off with age, before introducing fourteen-year-old Sextina Aquafina as her essential surrogate.
* ClothingReflectsPersonality: Her default outfit is an endorsement rather than one she chose herself, showing she's sold out her spare time and interest to pleasing Hollywood critics and gaining fame.
* CloudCuckoolander: She has a... [[InsistentTerminology different]] [[MetaphoricallyTrue perception]] of things when she's [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on drugs]]. She even describes herself as eccentric.
* ContractualPurity: InUniverse example. Her contract for ''Horsin' Around'' was written to preserve her family-friendly, innocent image. After the show ended, she was desperate to shed her squeaky-clean image, and ended up JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope in the other direction.
* CorruptTheCutie: Sarah Lynn started out her career as a sweet, eager-to-please child, but abuse from her parents, neglect from her costars, and terrible advice from the one person she looked up to put her on a path to become a nihilistic, reckless and erratic hedonist.
* CreatorBacklash: InUniverse, Sarah Lynn has a tortured relationship with her TeenIdol[=/=][[ChildPopStar pop star]] career -- proud of the work, but disgusted by perverted fans telling her how she was the first girl they ever masturbated to ''every day''.
* CynicismCatalyst: Her reunion with Bojack in 2007. At that point, Sarah Lynn was extremely famous and understood that people mainly cared about her image, but still hardworking, intelligent and charitable. When [=BoJack=] visits her, she sees it as a chance to reconnect with someone who really care about her. Then, [[spoiler:he lets it slip he wants her to appear on ''The [=BoJack=] Horseman Show'' to boost ratings. Seeing that even her close friends just see her as someone to exploit, she tells [=BoJack=] to leave, and later decides that nothing really matters, including her own life.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Exposed to the toxic culture of Hollywoo as a child star where she was under the "guidance" of her self-absorbed co-star, overbearing StageMom, and heavily implied sexually abusive stepfather.
* DeadArtistsAreBetter: In-universe, [[spoiler:after her death, her innocent waif image is extolled more than her party girl lifestyle, and she is remembered fondly after all her attempts to stay relevant]].
* DescentIntoAddiction: After JustForFun/HorsinAround ended, Sarah Lynn struggled to keep herself relevant through launching a clothing line and becoming a pop star. The failure of these attempts, along with the awareness that people only cared about what they could get from her, lead to Sarah Lynn turning to drugs.
* DesperatelyCravesAffection: As a child, Sarah Lynn just wanted the approval of the adults around her, even when they blatantly ignored her wishes or taught her terrible lessons. As an adult, this desire for love mutated into [[AttentionWhore an unhealthy hunger for fame and attention.]]
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler: Falls asleep curled up with [=BoJack=] at the planetarium and never wakes up. [=BoJack=] is deeply traumatized by her death, and blames himself.]]
* DissonantSerenity:
** While she's stabbing herself in the hips with the bayonets, all she mutters are a few sedated if pained grunts. Even after starting to bleed and everyone looking at her horrified, Sarah Lynn asks calmly (even with difficulty) if someone would like to see her take a dump in some of the furniture. When almost bleeding to death in [=BoJack=]'s car, she's treating the whole thing like a minor mishap.
** She identifies the bear fur in Herb's suitcase by licking it, and casually says she can recognize the taste because [[RapeAsBackstory her stepfather was a bear]]. Everyone else is taken aback, but Sarah Lynn is completely casual about it.
* DramaQueen: When she's not too hopped up on drugs to care, Sarah Lynn flies off the handle at the smallest thing. Her EstablishingCharacterMoment is her screaming and stabbing herself at the mere suggestion her boyfriend might leave her.
* FormerChildStar: Of the "drug-addled trainwreck" variety, capped off with a pushy StageMom and having several terrible role models (including [=BoJack=] himself).
-->'''Sarah Lynn''': Oh, you 'know what I'm going through'? Why? Because you were on some dumb kids' show a million years ago? I had [[Creator/MaryKateAndAshleyOlsen my own fashion line when I was]] ''ten''. By [[Music/BritneySpears 20, I was packing stadiums]]. I get letters every day from boys telling me that I was the first girl they masturbated to. ''[[NotHyperbole Literally]]'', someone tells me that every day!\\
'''[=BoJack=]''': That is gross.\\
'''Sarah Lynn''': Oh-ho, I know!
* FreudianExcuse: Most of her flashbacks include trying to be friends with Bojack or her other co-stars and always getting rejected. There's also her stepfather who took advantage of her, and her mother was a very pushy StageMom. It didn't help that she was introduced to alcohol at a young age.
* FriendlessBackground: Because she grew up a child star with an exploitative StageMom, she's never formed a relationship that went beyond the superficial.
%%* FullNameBasis: Everyone who meets her calls her "Sarah Lynn".
* FunctionalAddict: '''More''' so than Bojack. She takes whatever drug she can find, but she still leads a (semi) normal life, at least by Hollywoo standards.
* GenkiGirl: As a young girl, Sarah Lynn was bouncy, energetic, and extroverted. After losing her relationships to the pressure of the entertainment industry, the destruction of her career, and her descent into addiction, Sarah Lynn still has her effervescence, but it's been redirected into a constant need for stimulation and gratification in the form of drugs, partying, and other excess.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:After a series of drug-fueled misadventures, winning an Oscar and finally going to the planetarium like she wanted, she dies peacefully in Bojack's arms.]]
* TheHedonist: Sarah Lynn lives for her pleasure. In Season Three, she manages to go sober for nine months just so her high will be intensified once she goes off the wagon.
* HiddenDepths: Expresses an interest in being an architect that she quickly dismisses as a joke, and yet demonstrates an actual appreciation and knowledge of architecture. She wants to go to the planetarium because of how trippy everything gets if you're there while high. Later, [[spoiler: she reveals that it's actually because she loves the amount of effort that goes into making a domed building]].
-->'''Sarah Lynn''': ''(regarding a playhouse they smashed)'' You gotta use parallel joints to support that foundation, dumb-shit!
* HotterAndSexier: Reinvented herself as a sexy teen pop star in a desperate attempt to shed her squeaky clean sitcom child star image.
* IAmWhatIAm: [[spoiler: Sarah Lynn is aware that her lifestyle and abuse of drugs ''will'' catch up to her at some point, and she's quite accepting of that fact.]]
* IcyBlueEyes: She has these and they fit her cold, self-absorbed personality pretty well.
* InnocenceLost: She was a sweet kid, until the entertainment industry took everything from her and discarded her, leaving her a jaded mess..
* InnocentBlueEyes: As a child, her blue eyes signified her innocent, hopeful outlook.
* {{Jerkass}}: Sarah Lynn is rude, abrasive, self-centered and frequently manipulative.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS2E03StillBroken "Still Broken"]]: Sarah Lynn calls out [=BoJack=] for trying to absolve himself of guilt for what he did for Herb, something that hits home.
--->'''Sarah Lynn:''' Oh, I get it. You just don't wanna be here.
** [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E11ThatsTooMuchMan "That's Too Much, Man!"]]: She points out the ethical issues with letting children act.
--->'''Sarah Lynn''': You know, it's amazing that it's legal for kids to be actors. How is that not child labor? I didn't know what I was signing up for. I was three.
* KickTheDog: She pawned Bojack's TV Guide award which he gave to her in a moment where he said she was LikeADaughterToMe because she "needed" drug money. The lady is a celebrity and can easily afford drugs. While her telling Bojack she was a bigger celebrity was a legitimate point, her rejecting his kind gestures wasn't.
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:After going on a massive six week binge with Bojack, she ends up falling unconscious at the planetarium and dies once she gets to the hospital, possibly because Bojack waited 17 minutes to call 911 so he could pretend he wasn't with her when she overdosed]].
* LackOfEmpathy: She'll play on others' emotions for her own benefit but goes out of her way to ignore anyone's suffering [[ItsAllAboutMe but her own]]. Interestingly, she does seem to expect the same treatment in return -- she'll pawn a keepsake for drugs, but instantly forgive someone for using her.
* ALessonLearnedTooWell: The crux of her character. During a {{Flashback}} in "Prickly Muffin", [=BoJack=] gives her a little [[AntiAdvice advice]] on life. She takes it to heart.
-->'''[=BoJack=]''': Hey, you see those people?\\
'''Sarah Lynn''': Yeah.\\
'''[=BoJack=]''': Those boobs and jerkwads are the best friends you'll ever have. Without them, you're nothing. Remember that. Your family will never understand you. Your lovers will leave you or try to change you, but your fans, be good to them and they'll be good to you. The most important thing is, you got to give the people what they want, even if it kills you, even if it empties you out until there's nothing left to empty. No matter what happens, no matter how much it hurts, you don't stop dancing, and you ''don't stop smiling, and you give those people '''what they want'''.''
* LustObject: {{Deconstructed}}. She's this for a lot of teens who grew up in TheNineties and still send her love letters that detail how she was the first girl they masturbated to. She thinks this is disgusting, but she doesn't want to disappoint people by saying so publicly.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Barely bats an eye when she stabs herself.
* MoralityPet: Zigzagged with Bojack.
** When he was filming with her, he was dismissive and gave her AntiAdvice that would shape her worldview. Then he wanted to use her when she was a pop idol, which sent her further down the path of self-destruction.
** As an adult, however, [=BoJack=]'s nicer side tends to come out around her. He lets her stay in his house for several days and tells her to go to rehab. Todd even noted that Bojack has never been that "nice" to anyone using him.
** But then [=BoJack=] gives up and convinces her easily to go OffTheWagon in Season 3 [[spoiler:which leads to her death after he takes her to the planetarium]]. Nevertheless, when [[spoiler:Sarah Lynn dies, Bojack is genuinely motivated to clean up his act and become a better person and apologizes to her in his DyingDream for letting her succumb to the overdose]].
* MsFanservice: While she oscillates between flaunting her figure and being disgusted at people's reactions, Sarah Lynn is very attractive indeed and can be quite open about her figure when she feels like it, using it for her HotterAndSexier revamp.
* NaiveEverygirl: When younger, Sarah Lynn entered show business with nothing more than the desire to have fun and make friends. No need to say how that turned out.
* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: [[spoiler: After Sarah Lynn dies from a heroin overdose, the public sees her more as the innocent waif she was before her party-girl and drug-fueled lifestyle. In fact, this is one of the reasons why the public turned against Bojack when word gets out that he was responsible for her death]].
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Is based off of many former child stars who took on more sexual images as they reached adulthood, had [[StageMom Stage Parents]], and/or are infamous for erratic behavior and drug use due to the toxicity of the entertainment business, including Creator/JudyGarland, Music/BritneySpears, Creator/MileyCyrus, and Creator/LindsayLohan. Design-wise Sarah Lynn resembles Lohan the most.
** Her character, Sabrina, on Horsin' Around is also reminiscent of Michelle Tanner from Series/FullHouse, who was played by [[Creator/MaryKateAndAshleyOlsen the Olsen Twins]].
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Sarah Lynn, with [=BoJack=]. Both are washed-up, self-absorbed celebrities who bury their deep-seated parental issues and resentment towards Hollywood under heaping mounds of substance abuse as a way to run from their problems. One of the main differences is that Sarah Lynn started earlier, crashed harder, and was more famous than [=BoJack=] ever was. Lampshaded:
-->'''Diane''': [Sara Lynn] is the one with substance abuse problems and daddy issues.\\
'''[=BoJack=]''': Hey, we BOTH have substance abuse problems and daddy issues!
* ObfuscatingStupidity: She tends to act mostly like a deranged drunken lunatic with little understanding of the world, but she uses this as a shield to protect herself from people who extort her. She also has a passion for architecture and is quite knowledgeable on the subject. Her mother however forces her to be a pop star against Sarah Lynn’s will, so she turns to alcohol and drugs to cope with having a lifestyle she never wanted or asked for.
* OnlyAFleshWound: When [=BoJack=] tries to send her to rehab for a second time in [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS1E03PricklyMuffin "Prickly Muffin"]], she claims she's fine, and shows him that she fixed her stab wound with duct tape.
* PassedInTheirSleep: [[spoiler: After too much drugs and recklessness, Sarah Lynn dies after falling unconscious at the planetarium in "That's Too Much, Man!".]]
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: In her introduction episode, Sarah Lynn's OnAgainOffAgainBoyfriend, Creator/AndrewGarfield, tries to walk off on her. At first frantic, she immediately threatens to kill herself right there to stop him, then [[{{Yandere}} follows through with it]] by stabbing herself in the gut with a rusty bayonet.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: [[spoiler:Her death turns out to be the lynchpin of season 6, serving as the catalyst of the weight of all of Bojack's past mistakes and abhorrent behavior crashing down on him in the worst ways possible.]]
* PrettyFreeloaders: Takes advantage of [=BoJack=]'s offer to stay at his house by partying and destroying the place. When called out on it, she plays the guilt card, then goes right back to it.
* PromiscuityAfterRape: Heavily implied that she was molested by her stepfather. She currently engages in a great deal of casual sex.
* RapeAsBackstory: {{Implied|Trope}}, what with her being familiar with bear fur because of her bear stepfather, and saying she was "homeschooled" by him while mentioning he's a photographer.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Sarah Lynn gives Bojack a pretty harsh (if not justified) one:
-->'''Sarah Lynn''': You sit up here in your little house and feel sorry for yourself? Ugh, guess what, Bojay: in order to be a has-been, you actually have to have, y'know, BEEN!
* RecognitionFailure: It takes her several hours (and a lot of paint huffing) to realize the weird redhead that's been following them at Herb's funeral is her former co-star Bradley Hitler-Smith, even when he was standing in front of her and it was their first "unofficial" reunion in years.
* SafetyInIndifference: She doesn't care about anything anymore, not if she can help it. Intensely jaded and constantly high, she uses her entitled tabloid antics to distract herself from the emptiness of her life.
* ShesAllGrownUp: Savagely deconstructed, Sarah Lynn's arc serves as AnAesop on how damaging showbiz can be to child stars. She started off as an innocent child with a cute lisp who was pushed into the limelight by her StageMom into a self-destructive hedonistic megastar whose fans have fetishised her for most of her life (she regularly receives messages from fans telling her that she was the first person they ever masturbated to) and who has surrounded herself with sycophants and enablers that let her get away with literally everything short of murder. In the end, the logical conclusion to the death-spiral of her life is so obvious that even she sees it coming.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: InUniverse. In a flashback, Joelle recalls that in the later years of ''Horsin' Around'', the show would often focus on Sarah Lynn and her [[ComingOfAgeStory coming of age experiences.]] This would ignite the [[SiblingRivalry feud]] described above.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: She had a system of going sober for a few months to shed her drug tolerance, to regain her beloved highs when she went back on. Before Bojack called her, she was at nine months, the longest she'd ever gone. [[spoiler:When she gets off the wagon, the same amount of alcohol and heroin that she could handle in the past was enough to give her an overdose]].
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: She often uses it at the end of her sentences or insults.
* TookALevelInJerkass: From [[ChildrenAreInnocent sweet, innocent]] child actress to [[HorribleHollywood tantrum-throwing, entitled]] fading former pop star.
* TraumaCongaLine: A distillation of the abusive childhoods and erratic adulthoods of various real {{Former Child Star}}s: [[CelebrityIsOverrated Pushed into showbiz]] by her overbearing StageMom when she was three. Implied to have been sexually molested by her photographer and stepdad. Brushed off when she tried to connect with her ''Horsin' Around'' coworkers. Received horrible AntiAdvice from her [[ParentalSubstitute surrogate father figure]] [=BoJack=] about how no one would ever love her except an audience, so she must play to them all the time no matter ''what''. As a result, she threw herself into fame and celebrity, becoming a pop star, fashion icon, and drug-addled HardDrinkingPartyGirl before she even hit 18. At some point, "the light inside [her] died," and she StoppedCaring, embracing her DramaQueen celebrity image. And then [=BoJack=] came back into her life, eventually pulling her out of rehab/recovery on a weeks-long bender [[spoiler:before she eventually overdosed and died]].
* TwoFirstNames: ''Sarah'' and ''Lynn''. Not that it's confusing for anyone, since she's carved out a niche for herself as a world-famous pop star.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: From a charity-running TeenIdol to a sultry pop star sex symbol. As a child, Sarah Lynn was as sweet and friendly as the character she played on ''Horsin' Around''. She lost her innocence early, and a life of Hollywood/music industry excess have turned her into a spoiled DramaQueen.
* WomanChild: At thirty, she still dresses and acts like a spoiled teenager.
* YouthfulFreckles: Which represent her [[InnocenceLost lost innocence]] and [[WomanChild stunted maturity]].

[[folder:Wanda Pierce]]

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[[caption-width-right:143:"Of course, I haven't had sex in 30 years. [[DudeShesLikeInAComa I hope.]]"]]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/LisaKudrow

->[[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure "Who?"]]

An anthropomorphic owl that recently awoke from a 30-year coma. She is Head of Programming for the Major Broadcast Network (MBN) because of her 30 year service with the company, and everyone above her kept getting fired while she was comatose. [=BoJack=] is immediately attracted to her because she has no idea that he is famous, having missed his entire career, and they enter a relationship that lasts most of the season.

* AlmightyIdiot: PlayedWith. Wanda has been named Head of Programming in MBN at the start of Season 2, giving her auteur license regarding green-lighting shows, full staff control and final word in all important decisions concerned with the future of the network; this due to a special loophole involving a long career courtesy of a coma and issues with her primacy rather than any indication of real boss material, not to say her rather outdated and outlandish concept pitches which aren't hindered nor given breathing space to develop or object by a bunch of butt-kissers and her undeterred optimism about them. However, she's rather savvy when it comes to what people want to see and what are the commodity shows that will ensure people will keep tuning in next time as well as hiring people efficient in ways she's lacking expertise in. And as shown below in BewareTheNiceOnes, when she gets serious, she gets ''fucking'' serious.
* AmbiguousInnocence: She's certainly nice, full of energy and unwilling to be rude or harm anyone. Still, someone who's more than willing to resort to some less-than-noble tactics to achieve a constant flow in her job, especially in light of moral conundrums, knows far more than she lets on.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: While Wanda resists [=BoJack=]'s attempts to get a LoveConfession out of her after an awkward IUhYouToo moment in "Higher Love", when the horse goes too far and is nearly choked by an EroticAsphyxiation machine (long story), Wanda immediately rushes worried to his side and tells him that she does love him as well.
* AngstWhatAngst: Wanda often remains positive and cheerful through the second season, not letting things like an uncertain future for the network or her feeling out of place get her down. She even chastises people for being negative, which makes it doubly ironic that she's dating [=BoJack=]. It turns out that part of it is a facade, with the main reason why she doesn't like hanging out with negative people is because she doesn't want to be reminded of her own problems. She breaks up with [=BoJack=] once it becomes clear that he is every bit of negative as Diane, leaving her to face reality alone. [[invoked]]
* AnimalStereotypes: She hoots, flies and turns her head 180° in everyday situations. Her first line is even a rather on the nose "who".
* AntiVillain: [[TotalitarianUtilitarian Type III]], bordering in [[MyCountryRightOrWrong Type IV]]. Wanda has a rather amiable personality, but her alliances and retrograde way of thinking (in more than one way) cause inconveniences, if not trouble for the main characters on several occasions.
* BadBoss[-/-]BenevolentBoss: Oscillates between the two. She's peppy and benevolent and always nice... to a point. She'll threaten you if you step out of line, as Mr. Peanutbutter finds out.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Her personality notwithstanding, being a person who woke up from a 30-year-old coma, Wanda is still a network TV executive. This side of her bares its fangs (or, in her case, talons) when she responds to Mr. Peanutbutter's hesitation to patch things with Bojack, shortly after their all-too-real confrontation centering the dog's wife and Bojack's ghostwriter, Diane.
-->'''Wanda''': You want to host a game show where everyone feels bad at the end? You can get in your little car, drive to Santa Monica and pitch it to AMC. But these people want resolution, okay? So you get your little butt back on that stage and you '''resolve'''.
* BornLucky: Oh, yes. There's absolutely no reason why any of Wanda's actions or ideas should land on their feet, take hold and become successes, but they do. '''To almost to a cosmic degree.''' Sure, she's got professional counselors and even a consigliere in the form of emotional wreck Pinky Penguin, but most of her whims receive no bounds in terms of budget, even if the concepts are outdated, worn out or just plain nonsensical. No reason to be original or productive in a meaningful way; just pump out rehashes (or at least revolutionary programs whose importance has diminished over the years). And it goes beyond the lucky shots during her stint as Head of Programming at MBN: she manages to keep the teetering network afloat through sheer will, an iron fist and friendly, obligatory reminders to everyone involved, avoids being dragged down by the Hippopopalous scandal while maintaining their main figure of popularity [[spoiler:and eventually is recruited by another company ''before'' MBN loses its mascot program, ''HSAC: WDTK? DTKT? LFO!'' because of creator demands, all fault falling toward her successor Pinky.]]
* BreakUpToMakeUp: [[spoiler:"[[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E01StartSpreadingTheNews Start Spreading The News]]" reveals that after breaking up with [=BoJack=] and falling into an emotional slump for a while, Wanda has put her life together again, gotten a better job at another TV network on Detroit and moved from her sister's house to her own.]]
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: The '''Gentle Girl''' to Bojack's '''Brooding Boy'''. A {{Deconstruction}} of this trope as well, since rather than complementing each other, their personalities don't exactly blend together ''because'' of their differences.
* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:Once her life picks up again after her break up with [=BoJack=] and the network stabilized, Wanda is approached by another company and after striking a deal, leaves Hollywoo and appoints Pinky as her replacement.]]
* CantCatchUp: Sometimes, the advances become a little too much for her. She takes in stride, though.
* ClicheStorm: InUniverse and [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]. The majority of the programs green-lighted during Wanda's time as Head of Programming are simply played out cliches out of tired ideas, since being from a different time, she has to do a lot of catch up.
* ClosestThingWeGot: The reason why Wanda was chosen to be the Head Of Programming wasn't because she was the most capable, or the most prepared, but because she was the one with the most seniority out of the network, since everyone else kept getting fired or retired.
* ConvenientComa: A variation. It's convenient for '''Bojack''', since she [[PopCulturalOsmosis has no idea who he is]], giving him a chance to start fresh.
* CuteOwl: She's really good-looking.
* DamnedByFaintPraise: Done as a [[EstablishingCharacterMoment quick demonstration]] of who's Wanda: after having sex, she tells [=BoJack=] "that was amazing", only to backpedal when she remembers that since she's been in a coma for the past 3 decades, she hasn't had any so that may not be true.
* DarkhorseVictory: Because of her coma, she outlived every other executive, making her the default to go for MBN CEO, regardless of her talent or ideas.
* DeadpanSnarker: Despite being out of the game for 30 odd years, she can snark with the best of them.
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: {{Discussed}}. Wanda admits not having had sex in over 30 years due to her coma unless of course something happened while she was incapacitated. She seriously hopes that's wasn't the case.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: If you believe the offscreen exposition after she and [=BoJack=] broke up, [[spoiler:another company poached her and made her head of production. This decision suited her very well]].
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: She dresses in 80s style clothes and spends most of the season adjusting to the technology of 2015.
-->"Give me your fax and pager number so I can add them to my Rolodex!"
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: {{Played With}}. Wanda has a sister with darker brown feathers not involved at all in showbiz with whom she's crashing before meeting [=BoJack=]. Her sister is often seen as a sensible owl who is always there for her little sister; regardless, neither of them is irresponsible in the least, rather, it's their different personalities that make them seem like that: [[SiblingYinYang Wanda is loud, energetic and strange in dissonance to the new era, while her sister is more quiet, reserved and reliable]].
* GenkiGirl: Very much so. She's peppy, always energetic and ready to tackle whatever happens, be it new experiences, plans improvised in the moment or just plain work. This creates friction at times with [=BoJack=] since she usually sees the bright spot where he can only see a black hole. They later break up over it, since from Wanda's perspective, she needs someone who can be open to possibilities and not as full of cynicism. However, judging from her last scene in season 2, it might be that Wanda, despite her attitude, actually needs someone who can support it when it's crumbing instead of contributing to it.
* GoingDownWithTheShip: {{Averted|Trope}}. [[spoiler: Wanda is approached by another large media corporative between seasons 2 and 3, eventually leaving the helm in the hands of [[DoomMagnet Pinky]]... just in the nick of time as J. D. Salinger pulls the plug on one of their top-rated programs as an artistic whim. Seems like she caught a lucky break there.]]
* GoodIsNotSoft: She's nice and understanding, but that doesn't mean she will take everything Bojack gives her. Or show much sympathy towards her employees should they not comply to what the network wants.
* GreenEyedMonster: Subtle, but it's there. For starters, there's the way Bojack connects better with Diane. Then, how he talks to his ''girlfriend'' about talking to her because Diane isn't there. Oh, how about finding out he kissed her? Piling it up, Wanda slowly starts distrusting Diane around [=BoJack=], even if she's too nice to show it openly. This is not helped by her new found rock-bottoming nihilism when she crashes in the house and starts ebbing away the feel-good attitude in both [=BoJack=] and Wanda.
* GuiltByAssociation: The ensuing scandal of Hank Hippopopalous' supposed abuse of his assistants ends up bringing bad publicity to MBN Network, since their involvement with such a person puts some bad light in the company. The potential blowback of the continuing scandal causes Wanda, who's already experiencing tension at work, to try (and fail) to convince [=BoJack=] of not supporting Diane's crusade.
* HistoryRepeats: [[spoiler: A {{FreezeFrameBonus}} of the newspaper in "Nice While It Lasted" reveals some time between seasons 3 and 6, she fell into a ''second'' shorter coma, and woke up to become the president of Gronkle.]]
* HopelessWithTech: Due to her missing out on several decades, she only knows technology from the 80s.
* HopeSpot: After breaking up with Bojack, she moves back with her sister, having nowhere else to go. Suddenly, there's a knock at the door. Wanda immediately goes to open it... [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle and it's the pizza guy.]]
* ICanChangeMyBeloved: She has this kind of attitude towards Bojack, wanting to get the best out of him. It fails.
* IconicSequelCharacter: Introduced in season 2, one of the {{Ur Example}}s of [=BoJack=]'s {{Love Interest}}s and certainly the first and most perfect example of a stable girlfriend for the force of nature horse. She's certainly popular with the fandom at least due to her effervescent charm.
* ImprobablyQuickComaRecovery: She was in a coma for about three decades, but quickly regains full mobility after waking up.
* {{Irony}}: Wanda is cheerful, bubbly, has a hidden cynical side and always tries to see the silver lining in situations where logically it would be best to assume otherwise, making [=BoJack=] fall head over heels with her. That's right: the resident grouch enters a relationship with a DistaffCounterpart of Mr. Peanutbutter.
* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: {{Averted|Trope}}. Out of all of [=BoJack=]'s {{Love Interest}}s, Wanda is the only one Princess Carolyn has never had any disagreements or being vehemently opposed to (even if her squabbles with Diane were somewhat minor).
* LateToTheTragedy: One of her suggestions was for David Copperfield to disappear the World Trade Center. [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror Yeah...]]
* LetTheBullyWin: Once [=BoJack=] starts getting ahead of Creator/DanielRadcliffe in ''Hollywoo Stars And Celebrities: What Do They Know? Do They Know Things? Let's Find Out!'', Wanda off-camera asks him to give Radcliffe the game since he's the audience's favorite and after all he's not really interested in winning, just showing up the smarmy shortie. [[FromBadToWorse And then a Secretariat question had to pop up]].
* LoveAtFirstSight: [[MaddenIntoMisanthropy Bojack]] and [[TheIdealist Wanda]] met each other through Pinky and fell in love the first time they talked and laid eyes on each other, which only increases when Bojack finds out that Wanda might be the only woman in all Hollywoo who doesn't know who he is, believing her to be a chance to start anew, since they clearly love each other. This instead blinds them to each other's flaws and different personalities, which only exacerbate the other's life. Eventually, they realize that although they still care about one another, they rushed things and can't be together anymore.
--> '''Wanda''': It's funny. When you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.
* LoveMakesYouUncreative: By way of being TheObstructiveLoveInterest, Wanda starts valuing the relationship in terms of easing [=BoJack=] on the idea of caving in to Hollywoo's demands to avoid him any possible conflicts and make him happy with what he's got, although [[DeconstructedTrope this trope is more fleshed by virtue of having both good and bad reasoning]]. First stop is positive reinforcement and ruling out negative emotions, capped off with a supportive appearance in one of MBN's recent shows and letting him become a {{jobber}} for PR sake. More sympathetic are her attempts to stop him from angsting about Secretariat's AdaptationDecay and slipping into self-loathing again with Diane's help. It's this last gesture that makes him think she's trying to influence her to dropping any sort of individuality and desire of how his dream project should be and let the crappy product so far to proceed, leading to a rather hurtful argument and inevitable breakup.
* MundaneObjectAmazement: Due to her missing out several years of technological advancement, she's amazed by everyday artifacts and social media. This is her reaction to a second screening:
-->'''Wanda''': I love stupid bullshit like this!
* NiceGirl: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Wanda tries very, very much to be this to everyone she meets. While she's nice in a personal level, that doesn't mean she's completely understanding or good: she has flaws after all and not pleasant ones. If anything, she can be a tad vindictive and non empathetic to situations that affect others, especially when those situations work in benefit of the people around her and herself. She does try to understand and can have serious discussions about important personal issues but rather than digging deeper, she'd prefer if everyone would settle into accepting an unmoving reality rather than acting for a change, especially when doing so could be problematic. She chooses not to show these traits, better to hide them out of tact or concern about how it will affect other people but they crop up from time to time which happens at really a bad time.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: This ends up breaking her and [=BoJack=] up. She can see that a drunk HeroicBSOD Diane is a bad influence on him, that his mistake in insulting Abe caused the ''Secretariat'' filming to stress him out, and that his dream of being his hero is dying. Instead of confronting them and delivering any ultimatums, Wanda says she has a surprise for [=BoJack=]: pack his bags, because they are going to Santa Barbara for a weekend! She promises there will be lots of good wine, sunshine, and plenty of loving from her, to give him a proper vacation. Rather than appreciate the kind gesture, [=BoJack=] was insulted and started a fight with her. Wanda is shocked but accepting when she realizes they were never going to work out because he had too many red flags.
* OlderThanTheyLook: No wrinkles on sight, peppy attitude, and good looks, you'd think she's nowhere as close to [=BoJack=] or Mr. Peanutbutter's age. Maybe the coma kept her body on stasis.
* OfficialCouple: With Bojack in season 2. At least until [[WhamEpisode episode 10.]]
* TheOneThatGotAway: Eventually to [=BoJack=], in a different sense than Charlotte: instead of wishing to have done something to strengthen their relationship, he wishes to have been a better, different, more positive person as to not have broken their relationship apart.
* OppositesAttract: [=BoJack=] falls head over heels with [[WideEyedIdealist Wanda]]. This is later [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] as they both come to realize and resent their polar opposite personalities, until they finally break up.
* PingPongNaivete: Can be as dull as a burnt-out bulb one moment and sharp as a tack the next.
* PointyHairedBoss: Normally, she would be this, given her played-out ideas. The fact that her shows are succeeding [[TakeThat speaks clearly of Hollywoo.]]
* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Due to having been in a coma for 30 years.
* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:By the third season, she's become a bigshot executive for a broadcast network in Detroit.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: PlayedWith. She's friendly, reasonable and benevolent, but as Mr. Peanutbutter finds out, she's not above coercion or threats to get what she wants.
* RummageSaleReject: Her normal outfit seems to be an odd combination of different outfits.
* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: Her first appearance is in the 2nd episode of season 2, "Yesterdayland".
* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: InUniverse. Many of her programming ideas would have been revolutionary back in the 80s. Now they're simply current and arguably played out.
* SilverVixen: Despite being closer in age range to 50 just like PB and [=BoJack=], Wanda most definitely doesn't look like it, much less act as such. While her dress hints at a major dissonance in terms of recent fashion and her age could be determined to be much more than 30, she could be easily mistaken for a really good-looking older woman, though not as old as she really is.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: She calls out [=BoJack=] on his jealous, neurotic attitude, wondering what happened to the more reasonable side of him she had seen until then.
* SmokingHotSex: Has sex this way with [=BoJack=] in "Yesterdayland".
* StepfordSmiler: In an unusual way: Wanda '''is''' a genuinely happy and cheerful individual... ''BUT'' she's not without moments of sadness, self-doubt and introspection. Still, being part of the grand cog machine that is Hollywoo means she can't let such emotions come in the way of working in Tinseltown. Which is not to say outbursts of such kind do not occur, just that she tries to steer away from any torque that isn't emotionally positive, including possible reminders in the form of situations or people. While successful for the most part, getting involved with [=BoJack=] starts bringing up some of those darker aspects of her personality including jealousy at his relationship with Diane, sadness over her stressful job and anger over his overly needy personality and bursts of impulsiveness. This convinces her neither of them can coexist together.
* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: She is an executive from MBN... who has been in coma for 30 years.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: For the most part, Wanda is a fairly reasonable, if a bit absent minded boss who can be talked to and is always nice to her employees. However, when she commands you to do something, she fully expects you to do so and poor you if you refuse.
* TemporaryLoveInterest: For [=BoJack=] through season 2.
* TotalitarianUtilitarian: Wanda is a more nuanced, complex believer in this trope. On one hand, following one's personal interests indiscriminately can develop conflict in more than one field, especially when working within an established system, reason why being part of such overarching machine she's against such collapse, and doesn't necessarily ensure things and circumstances will get better. Quite the opposite can happen. Add the pressures of her job, the trapeze act that is her constant livelihood and how often she's seen self-interest get in the way of happiness and comfort. On the other, her response to all that philosophical pondering is "keep going and think nothing about it" which if applied in the right circumstances would be what an AntiNihilist would say, except she refers to keeping the status quo, horrid parts and all, while ironing everyone's disagreements of it into eventual acceptance and search of a comfort place within. She's not completely convinced of it, though, and her time with [=BoJack=] awakens slowly that independent part of herself which enters conflict with her previous ideology.
* WomanChild: A woman in her 50s who acts about half her age if not less at times due to being stuck in a coma since the 80s.
* YouAreInCommandNow: The most senior member of MBN by virtue of the rest of her contemporaries either let go or retired. As such, the only viable choice as Head Of Programming.
* YouNeverDidThatForMe: An emotional, unstated example. Wanda can't help but notice how for all of their love toward each other, [=BoJack=]'d rather be there for Diane's sake and even talks more freely to her than with Wanda herself, ''his girlfriend''. Even with any advice she gives him has no comparison to the influence Diane has on him or how in spite of telling him to talk Diane out of facing Hank Hippopopalous, [=Bojack=] is instead swayed toward "[her] corner". The last straw, however, comes when [=BoJack=] decides not to go back to the ''Secretariat'' set after being disillusioned about how it's turning out and outright ignores her.

[[folder:Ana Spanakopita]]
->'''Played by''': Creator/AngelaBassett
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->'''Debut:''' "Out to Sea"

A Hollywood film publicist known as "The Oscar Whisperer", she's known to correctly predict (and influence) one person's probability to win an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for a performance.

* AlmightyJanitor: Doesn't seem to hold an "official" position in the Hollywoo machine, but is highly revered as the go-to person when you want your star to win an Oscar.
* BeneathTheMask: When she's not a cold, hard, scarily-competent publicist, [[spoiler:she's a sad, lonely MissingMom spilling mac 'n cheese mix on herself in her rumbled pajamas, living alone in a one-room apartment.]]
* BrokenWinLossStreak: [[spoiler:With [=BoJack=] failing to get even a nomination nod at the Oscars, this marks the first time Ana has faced failure at her job in 10 years of grooming would-be nominees.]]
%%* BrutalHonesty: With a molecule-thin candy coating.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Effective as an influence for an Oscar campaign, but she has a love for the dramatic presentation.
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:Her return in season 5 reveals the New Mexico incident to Diane, worsening the Diane-[=BoJack=] conflict in the second half of the season.]]
* ChallengeSeeker: She's a hard and savvy worker, but she's gotten to where she is by [[spoiler:playing it safe vis-a-vis acting as a publicist for most of the Oscar nominee roster.]] Tired of this, she decides to [[spoiler:represent [=BoJack=] exclusively midway through Season 3.]]
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In her first appearance, Ana was presented as eccentric and with a grand sense of theatrics, even going as far as MilkingTheGiantCow through mannerisms alone. Contrasts heavily with the no-nonsense, down to earth and deadly serious woman whose level of competence rivals that of Princess Carolyn. Then again, it could be presented as ObfuscatingStupidity or even [[ObfuscatingInsanity insanity]] on her part and it would be totally in character for her.
* EdibleThemeNaming: Ana's surname is Spanakopita, which is also the name of a Greek dish (better known as a spinach pie).
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Barely escaped drowning in a car accident when she was 17. This and some sobering advise she received from a life guard played a heavy part in her desire for control over her own life and her predilection for ditching self-destructive situations.]]
* FriendsWithBenefits: Has a sexual relationship with [=BoJack=] before the horse asks their relationship to be something more. She also implies that she has had these kinds of relationships with previous men before.
* GroinAttack: Was impressed by [=BoJack=]'s moxie, but nearly crushes his groin in retaliation.
* HypercompetentSidekick: To protagonist [=BoJack=] in season 3. Ana is his hypercompetent publicist, scheduling interviews, coaching, and cleaning up his messes.
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: While "love" might be a strong word for it, [[spoiler: she hooks up with [=BoJack=] after he'd told her off, explaining that ''no one'' ever dares talk to her that way and she finds it really hot.]]
* InkSuitActor: Bears a resemblance to her actress Angela Bassett.
* JerkassHasAPoint: When [=BoJack=] calls her out on only being interested in him as a client when she thinks he's going to win an Oscar [[spoiler:and then dumping him when it turns out he wasn't even nominated for an Oscar, she explains her reasoning with a metaphor she learned on her first day of training as a lifeguard in college: there are some people you want to save, but you can't. They're just going to thrash and struggle, and they're going to take you down with them. She recognizes [=BoJack=] is one such person, and has no intention of being dragged down with him.]] Considering how many hearts [=BoJack=] has broken and how many lives he's ruined over the course of the series, it's hard to blame her.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: {{Zigzagged|Trope}}. After coming off as interested in only maintaining her career before showing a more vulnerable side to [=BoJack=] when they decide to officially date one another, [[spoiler:she appears to have only kept a tender façade after she drops him as soon as she's aware that he wasn't nominated for an Oscar. However, once [=BoJack=] comes over and over to her house to demand an explanation over why she left, Ana explains her reasons through a harsh metaphor of her time as a lifeguard: she's learned over and over not to help people who are only interested in sinking and she's not going to be insisting on their case after a certain point, instead leaving them to their fate since she'd drown alongside.]]
* KickTheDog: If Ana [[BrutalHonesty getting to the point]] towards Bradley about [=BoJack=] not wanting to do his show wasn't harsh enough, then needlessly calling him a "talentless loser" was.
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Appears in the last episode of the 2nd season and has a bigger role in the 3rd one.
* MissingMom: Ana briefly mentions she has a son that, [[NoodleIncident for some reason]], she's not allowed to see.
* RedBaron: Known as "The Oscar Whisperer" in the business as her clients tend to win big at the awards.
* RousingSpeech: A master at these, oddly overlapping with BastardlySpeech, NewEraSpeech, BlatantLies... a bit of column A, B, C or all. E.g. her speech in [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E01StartSpreadingTheNews "Start Spreading The News"]] that brings [=BoJack=] out of his funk.
-->'''Ana''': Stop punishing yourself.\\
'''[=BoJack=]''': I was in New Mexico.\\
'''Ana''': None of that matters. All that matters now is the story. We get to decide what our story is. Nobody else gets to tell you what your story is.\\
'''[=BoJack=]''': What is my story?\\
'''Ana''': I'll tell you. This has been your dream for the last 30 years. You made it happen. An Oscar won't make you happy forever, it won't solve all your problems. You win that Oscar, the next day you go back to being you. But that night is a really good night. I think you deserve a really good night, and I know how to get you there. Do you want that?\\
'''[=BoJack=]''': Yes, I do.\\
'''Ana''': Go introduce your movie. Tell your story. Tomorrow we fly to Chicago.
* SharpshooterFallacy: [[spoiler:The secret to her success: she simply takes ALL of a given year's Oscar favorites as clients and ditches the ones that don't make it]].
* TheSocialExpert: Her job involves grooming nominees to become ultimate HollywoodHypeMachine bait for press, public and authorities. A knack for social interaction, pragmatism and presence to ensure things go her way are only some of the weapons in her bag. Aside from scheduling meetings, Ana coaches on what to say at the exact moment, has a tight grasp on tailoring her help to her client, nips every possible obstacle with right tools and incentives and generally offers a "stick" approach to motivate. Becoming one for [=BoJack=] in time for his Oscar nomination puts her at odds with Princess Carolyn due to their similar roles in his life.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: She mentions that she likes eating honeydew to [=BoJack=], which [[DoesNotLikeSpam disgusts]] the horse.

[[folder:Gina Cazador]]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/StephanieBeatriz
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[[caption-width-right:150:No, I love being alone. I wish I were alone right now.]]

Bojack's fellow costar (and eventually girlfriend) on the set of ''Philbert''. She's a 39-year-old actress who's experienced with playing forgettable roles in TV shows that quickly get canceled. But despite her cynicism, she still dreams of rising to stardom in Hollywoo.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: She's very likely Latina with her Hispanic-sounding surname and her tan skin, but her background is never specified.
* BrokenBird: She used to have big dreams and aspirations of becoming a big Hollywoo star or even getting to be on Broadway, but over years of getting side roles in failing shows, she's lost faith in herself and believes that, at best, if she's very lucky, she could get an Emmy when she's 60 for playing Creator/BenjaminBratt's mother. Not to mention that she's also resigned herself to never having a real romantic relationship and only having flings with her co-stars. Bojack actually gets her to believe in herself again and ''Philbert'' turns out to be her big break. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for her, in order to keep her career on its upward trajectory, she has to hide the fact that [=BoJack=] nearly strangled her to death when high on prescription drugs when filming the second season, rather than trying to bring him to justice. And as Season 6 shows, the after effects of the incident make her more anxious and difficult to work on other projects]]
-->'''Gina:''' When I was a little girl, my mom took me to see A Kernel of Truth on Broadway. It wasn't a big hit.\\
'''[=BoJack=]:''' Yeah, I know. I Googled the reviews so I could mock you. That Frank Rich could be a real frank bitch, am I right?\\
'''Gina:''' Well, I was six and it blew my mind. I spent my childhood dreaming of, one day, getting to sing on Broadway. But, I guess, I wasn't good enough. So now I get steady TV work, which is fine, and I'm fine, but I still listen to that musical because it reminds me of a time when I was less jaded, when I believed I could do anything, and that makes me feel good.
* ChristmasCake: She's spent her younger years without getting a starring role and believes ''Philbert'' to be her last chance at stardom, since she's now pushing 40. [[spoiler: It's why she tells [=BoJack=] not to take responsibility for strangling her: it would ruin ''Philbert'' and forever tarnish her career.]]
* TheCynic: Spending years in Hollywoo only managing to get bit roles in shows that never last past one season has caused her to become rather jaded.
-->'''Gina:''' The key is to have zero expectations, and then you'll never be disappointed.
* DeadpanSnarker: She is highly sarcastic.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:A poster in the background of the finale shows that she got the part in the Super Hero movie she was looking for, and Kelsey saw her potential.]]
* EveryYearTheyFizzleOut: ''Philbert'' is said to be her 28th attempt at a series, and the first to make it past one season. [[spoiler: Too bad it doesn't last.]]
* FriendsWithBenefits: All of her previous relationships have been nonromantic flings with past co-stars and her relationship with [=BoJack=] starts off like this, as well. However, she's so touched by the fact that [=BoJack=] comes over to her house in "Ancient History" after shooting for ''Philbert'''s first season has wrapped up to ask to continue their relationship that she agrees to move their relationship into genuine romantic territory. [[spoiler:Of course, she didn't know that the only reason he asked to continue their relationship was because he was trying to stall to give Hollyhock enough to time to grab pills for him from Gina's place.]]
* HiddenDepths: [=BoJack=] is surprised to learn that she's a fan of musicals, a corn-themed musical in particular. Of course, being [=BoJack=], he relentlessly makes fun of her for this.
-->'''[=BoJack=]:''' Are you into musicals? \\
'''Gina:''' I sense you'll make this a thing.\\
'''[=BoJack=]:''' Well, well, well, the stone-hearted cynic, who thinks feelings are for suckers, has a secret soft spot for sappy musicals.\\
'''Gina:''' Okay.\\
'''[=BoJack=]:''' When you say, "Okay," do you mean okay like "correct," or okay like "OK-lahoma"?
* HoistByHerOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Her decision not to speak out about [=BoJack=] strangling her on set brings more problems to her career. In ''A Quick One While He's Away'', she grows anxious and stressful over last-minute changes to a script, and freaks out when a co-star introduces an unchoreographed dip to a dance routine. Since she never told anybody about the strangling incident, nobody knows the reasons behind this behaviour, and they treat her like a prima donna. This even causes her director to call her "difficult to work with" in a discussion with Kelsey, potentially derailing her career -- luckily, Kelsey ultimately disregards this advice.]]
* HollywoodToneDeaf: Downplayed. She's not the best singer, mostly due to nerves and being untrained/unprepared, as shown in the mortifying singing audition she performs for Flip and Princess Carolyn. Averted during [=BoJack=]'s dream sequence in "The Show Stopper," where she proves to be quite skillful, as her voice actress is a trained singer.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's cynical, acerbic, and aloof--Bojack even calls her a "sentient wall of spikes"--but as season 5 progresses, she opens up and reveals a softer and surprisingly dorky side to [=BoJack=].
* LesserOfTwoEvils: [[spoiler:After [=BoJack=] strangles her, she asks him not to admit what he's done, because Philbert is her big break, and revealing that and taking responsibility would ruin her.]]
* LoveInterest: To [=BoJack=] in Season 5.
* LoveMartyr: Comes with being BJ's girlfriend.
* MoralityPet: She became one for Bojack.
* MsFanservice: She expresses no problems with getting naked in front of the camera whenever she's ordered to do so.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: {{Defied|Trope}}; [[spoiler: The reason why she willingly goes along with covering up Bojack strangling her, even when he offers to come clean about what happened, is because ''Philbert'' was her big break. If the incident was revealed to the public, not only would it ruin the show, but it would also taint her reputation as an actor to the point that she would solely be known as "The Girl Who Got Choked By [=BoJack=] Horseman"]].
* RomanceOnTheSet: InUniverse. She's cast and hired to play Philbert's FriendOnTheForce and this leads her to become involved with BJ herself. [[GoneHorriblyWrong It doesn't end well]].
* SpicyLatina: Well, AmbiguouslyBrown, but her name indicates Hispanic or Latin descent. She's also set to portray a "sassy" cop who is the show's MsFanservice due to having a lot of nude scenes. [[SubvertedTrope However, when not in character as Sassy, she's more deadpan than "spicy"]].
* TemporaryLoveInterest: She becomes involved with [=BoJack=] in Season 5, but it ended when [[spoiler:[=BoJack=] got so strung up on painkillers that he strangled her]].

!!!'''Carolyn's Lovers'''

[[folder:Ralph Stilton]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RaulEsparza
->'''Debut:''' "Love And/Or Marriage"

-->''"I could use a bite to eat, though. There's this great place around the corner. It's a little hole in the wall, but they do a nice cheese plate."''

Heir to the Stilton Hotel FamilyBusiness and Stefani's brother, Ralph often proudly boasts his SelfMadeMan status with his gift card company. Initially Princess Carolyn's 3rd blind date on a row during season 3, he and PC hit it off well enough only to find her schedule wouldn't allow her to see him that often. Once VIM goes under, Ralph and PC begin dating all through season 4, where a series of hints lead them to try to have a baby. Things might be more complicated than previously thought...

* AffectionateNickname: His mother, Mimi, refers to him as "little city mouse" at the end of his visit to his parents' mansion. He doesn't mind unless she starts insulting his girlfriend...
* BirdsOfAFeather: He and Princess Carolyn hit it off because of their similar sense of humor.
* BadDate: {{Discussed|Trope}}. Like Carolyn, he's had his fair share of them, courtesy of choosing to go on {{Blind Date}}s. Although they have low expectations for their first date, they hit it off and date for a while.
* BlindDate: How Ralph and Princess Carolyn (accidentally) meet. It's the only bright spot in their experience with the formula.
* CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler:After spending most of their visit to his parents' house keeping mum about his family's FantasticRacism as an attempt to maintain the peace, Ralph eventually tells everyone off for being rude to Princess Carolyn since he's dating her ''AND THEY ARE HAVING A CHILD''.]]
* ColorMotif: Courtesy of his suit.
** His green suit alines perfectly with a part of his personality: tranquility, relaxing and representing new beginnings. Ralph's basically PC's desire for a decent boyfriend come true or, at least, what she claims she wants in a guy.
** His button-down shirt is sky blue, which represents calmness and serenity, pretty much qualities from a MellowFellow.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Ralph, subconsciously at least, is aware his family comes from a lineage of mice that was persecuted by a tyrannical madcat called King [=PussPuss=] and such, they're ''not'' fans of any feline, which makes him worried this trope will come in play when they and Princess Carolyn meet during the "Squeakivus" festivities reunion. While these concerns prove to be unfounded, the celebrations are anti-cat, which makes PC uncomfortable, and she's treated by Ralph's mother Mimi as a temporary fling due to her perceived disrespect of the holiday, something which angers him.
* DeadpanSnarker: Very quick with the snappy comebacks.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: [[spoiler:Invites Princess Carolyn over to spend "Squeakivus" holiday with his family... which mainly involves hating on cats. To his credit, he lampshades it when he remembers that this kind of tradition is prejudiced against cats rather than just some "innocent" tradition.]]
* InterspeciesRomance: Him (a mouse) and Princess Carolyn (a cat). This proves to be the first obstacle for them when they meet, since being literal cat-and-mouse is a deal breaker for both. Ironically, it's their mutual joking about it and trading Elefante for a smaller, intimate restaurant what hooks them up.
* LoveMartyr: Not to begin with, but [[spoiler:this is the logical conclusion of his UnderstandingBoyfriend act toward Princess Carolyn.]]
* MalignedMixedMarriage: His family hates cats, and he plans on having a baby with one.
* MyCard: After PC realizes she doesn't have the time to go on a second date with him, Ralph simply gives her his card and tells her to give him a call if she finds some time to spare. [[spoiler:She eventually does.]]
* NiceGuy: One of the nicest in the show.
* NiceMice: A mouse and a total NiceGuy.
* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The "Nice" out of the sibling trio. Charming, accommodating, tactful and nice.
* NoodleIncident: In their first encounter, Ralph agrees with PC's view of blind dates being awful, simply saying he's "been there".
* ASharedSuffering: He dislikes blind dates due to previous bad experiences, something he finds out to have in common with Princess Carolyn when they meet face-to-face. Might as well be because they didn't expect themselves, a mouse and a cat, to be hooked up on a date due to their species.
* SharpDressedMan: Anywhere he goes, he's wearing his green suit and flannels. Even in photos of his and Princess Carolyn's trip to Egypt, he doesn't change clothes.
* ShoutOut:
** His name comes from two children's book characters who happen to be mice, Literature/RalphSMouse and Literature/GeronimoStilton. He even has a fashion sense very much like the latter.
** His surname and status as a hotel heir bring to mind the Hilton Hotels.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: He takes after his father in the physical looks.
* UptownGuy: {{Zigzagged|Trope}}. He and Princess Carolyn don't have an extreme difference in financial standing, but he was born into wealth, while she was born into a family that ''served'' the wealthy and became a SelfMadeWoman. While Ralph makes a point to distance himself from his wealth in Princess Carolyn's eyes, this only becomes more and more poignant when they start dating: PC's constantly showered with gifts – personalized greeting cards just for her, one every day; not to say, Ralph's family has an elegant mansion with lobsters gardeners, a hedge maze with sugar water as a reward, a rollercoaster and lots of antiques, something which partly contributes to Princess Carolyn's uneasiness during their visit.
* YankTheDogsChain: {{Invoked|Trope}} by him as a practical joke and then, done to him.
** When Princess Carolyn finally plucks up the nerve to call him after their amazing first date, he launches into a whole story about how he eloped with a ballerina at the opera and they had an amazing honeymoon and--he's just kidding. He'd love to see her again.
** During [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS4E09Ruthie "Ruthie"]], Ralph has to concentrate on creating a new greeting card to play with the "big boys", while PC heads off to work on VIM, now pregnant with their child. During the rest of the day, Ralph calls PC constantly, believing her to still be pregnant and meeting with her during dinner, excited to talk about "Philbert" and how he can't wait to "pinch his little cheeks". As such, [[spoiler:it comes as quite a shock when he discovers PC not only has miscarried, ''but she has done so more than once'' and she's been lying to him about it. After a squabble, Princess Carolyn breaks up with him; this after Ralph having confronted his family over their treatment of her and renouncing "Squeakivus". No family, no girlfriend and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking still no definitive greeting card idea]].]]
[[/folder]]

!!!'''Diane's Lovers'''

[[folder:Wayne]]
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!!!'''Played by''': Wyatt Cenac

A writer for Buzzfeed (and Diane's ex) who's writing an article on Mr. Peanutbutter in "Zoes and Zeldas". Author of the dichotomy and famous [[MemeticMutation Meme]] "Are you a Zoey or a Zelda?", based on the PolarOppositeTwins featured in ''[[ShowWithinAShow Mr. Peanutbutter's House]]''.

* AmicableExes: {{Subverted}}. Try as he might, he and Diane are '''''not''''' in a good stance about their previous relationship. DoubleSubverted in "One Trick Pony" when she asks his help for publishing Bojack's biography behind his back.
* BlackAndNerdy: Well, he'd argue it's more of an [[InsistentTerminology "intellectual"]] look, but it still fits, even if it's just in appearance and intelligence, not attitude.
* ChekhovsGunman: While his first appearance in "Zoes and Zeldas" seemed like a one-shot, he returns in "One Trick Pony" to assist Diane.
* TheCynic: One of the reasons why Diane broke up with him. He ''just'' can't see past the flaws of people and accept the good things. Another reason may be because Diane's secretly afraid they're TooMuchAlike.
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: Just when Diane is about to confront him over the real reason he's been around Mr. Peanutbutter and her after most likely finishing his article, a FreezeFrameBonus reveals that in-between the gibberish he's been writing, there's a sentence: "dianeiloveyouleavethatdumbdogalready". Guess why he was so intent in getting close to Diane and demeaning Mr. Peanutbutter.
* {{Foil}}:
** Like [=BoJack=]. he has a crush on Diane and doesn't respect her wishes about the matter. Unlike [=BoJack=], Wayne is refined and intellectual. He was unable to stay friends with her but to his credit he didn't traumatize her with his shenanigans the way the horse did.
** He and Guy were both boyfriends that understood what Diane needed and that sheer oblivious optimism wouldn't cut it. The thing is that Wayne felt that he was the best thing Diane would ever get so she should return to him. Guy knew when to set boundaries with Diane, and he would consistently consider her feelings on every matter. He understood that knowing how the world works doesn't mean you have to make yourself miserable.
* {{Hipster}}: {{Implied}} with his clothes and personality.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's exactly as smug and self-righteous as anybody gets, especially when it comes to high-brow subjects of which he considers himself an specialist. This is one of the reasons why Diane got quickly tired and broke up with him: he's too willing to accept the negativity and criticize everyone without any basis.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** [[spoiler:[[RewatchBonus Looking back]], he's right about Diane's inability to accept she's unhappy in a life giving everything she has ever wanted and how every step she takes is one of obliviousness to avoid breaking up with Mr. Peanutbutter.]]
** He was also right about Diane's desire for fame being more important than any friendship, seeing as how quickly she turned on [=BoJack=] once he refused to approve an advance of ''One Trick Pony''.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: While it seems that he is a cynic, Mr. Peanutbutter notes that he and Diane have a bit in common and jokingly asks why they broke up. Diane finds out that Wayne wasn't really writing the article, but using it as an excuse to hang out with her more. She calls him out for the lies, and he launches into a filibuster that she and Mr. Peanutbutter are too different, and one day that will all come crashing down.
* KirkSummation: Doubles as a pretty harsh TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. However, it doesn't come out of bitterness, but as an attempt to make Diane wake up about her situation:
-->'''Wayne''': You know what your problem is? You're trying to be a Zelda but you're so obviously a Zoe.\\
'''Diane''': Ugh! Don't label me. You don't know who I am.\\
'''Wayne''': You can live your happy Zelda life in this happy Zelda town and pretend you're a happy Zelda, but I know you, and this isn't you. People don't change, Diane, not really. Mr. Peanutbutter's a Zelda. He's happy and he's carefree and he's loving, but you and me, we're Zoes. We're Zoes, Diane. We're cynical and we're sad and we're mean. There's a darkness inside you, and you can bury it deep in burritos as big as your head, but someday soon, that darkness is gonna come out, and when it does, I want you to call me.
* KnightOfCerebus: His speech at the end of the episode about people not being able to change, coupled with [[TheDogWasTheMastermind the events intersected along with it]], are the specific moment where the series starts [[CerebusSyndrome delving deeper into the dark state of its characters]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: See KirkSummation above.
* TheReveal: He finished the article about Mr. Peanutbutter a long time ago, and it's far from flattering.
* AWolfInSheepsClothing: Turns out he finished his article about Mr. Peanutbutter a while ago, and he's just starving off to get close to Diane.
* WritersSuck: A writer for Buzzfeed and definitely a sad jerk.

[[folder:Guy]]
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/LakeithStanfield

A buffalo cameraman who works with Diane during Season 6, before becoming romantically involved with her.

* AmicableExes: Downplayed, as he and his ex-wife do have some tension among them in regards to Guy spending time with Sonny, but their relationship isn't expanded on.
* BadassBaritone: As befitting his appearance, he's a GentleGiant buffalo with a deep voice.
* FamilyThemeNaming: He and his family all have names that are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what they say on the tin]]; he's a guy named Guy who has a son named Sonny and an ex-wife named Lady.
* {{Foil}}: To Mr. Peanutbutter -- Mr. Peanutbutter was a rich and famous {{Pollyanna}} who treated Diane like a princess, but this was ultimately an overcompensation for his inability to connect with her on a deeper level. Guy is much more down-to-earth, works in a blue-collar profession, and forms a genuine connection with Diane.
* GentleGiant: He's a big, muscular buffalo, and a very caring father and boyfriend.
* GoodParents: Guy has shown to be a caring and attentive father to his son, Sonny.
* HasAType: According to his son, Sonny, Guy tends to go for [[BrokenBird emotionally damaged women]] (like Diane) whom he nurses back to health, then they leave him once they've regained their confidence. Given his turbulent relationship with his ex-wife, one can infer that's what happened to them, unless Sonny was just told that by his mother, as he apparently wasn’t even aware his parents fight constantly and borderline hate each other. [[spoiler:Ultimately Averted with Diane, whom he ends up HappilyMarried with by the end of the series.]]
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Naturally with Diane, given she's a Vietnamese-American human and he's a big buffalo man.
* InterspeciesRomance: He's a buffalo who becomes romantically involved with Diane, who's human. [[spoiler:By the end of the series, they've gotten married.]]
* LastGuyWins: He's introduced in the final season as a love interest for Diane. [[spoiler:They're married by the final episode.]]
* MeaningfulName: Guy is a guy.
* NiceGuy: He's almost always calm, easygoing, and a very kind and loyal lover to Diane.
* OnlySaneMan: He is the most normal boyfriend that Diane has. As she's struggling on her book, he suggests solutions.
* RedHerring: Early in their relationship, Guy has Diane literally climb down a drain pipe from second story window and wait in the freezing cold for him to bring her stuff down to avoid letting his son see her, and introduces her as a "woman he works with" to his buddies, which seem like red flags to the viewer. However, when Diane calls him out on it several months later [[spoiler:he introduces her to Sonny, who starts off hostile to Diane but slowly warms up to her over time, their relationship becomes loving and serious, and they become HappilyMarried by the end of the series.]]
* RelationshipUpgrade: He and Diane start off as boyfriend and girlfriend in his debut episode. [[spoiler:The series finale reveals that they got married]].
* StrongFamilyResemblance: He and Sonny look nearly alike except for their different fur colors and Guy being a bit bigger.

!!!'''Peanutbutter's Lovers'''

[[folder:Katrina]]
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->'''Played by''': Creator/LakeBell

->'''Diane''': ''"What did we say about knocking?"''\\
'''Katrina''': ''"It wastes vital seconds we'll never get back? Anyway, everyone who isn't me needs to shut up right now."''

->'''First appearance:''' [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS2E07HankAfterDark "Hank After Dark"]]\\
'''Official Debut:''' [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E12ThatWentWell "That Went Well"]]

Mr. Peanutbutter's first ex-wife, as revealed in a {{Flashback}} in "Hank After Dark". She was highly manipulative, condescending, treated the Labrador like shit and would openly cheat on him, even in public.

* TheAlcoholic: Heavily [[ImpliedTrope implied]] during her first appearance, but this line towards Erica says it all:
-->'''Katrina''': (cheerful) Erica! Throw me a raft. I'm dying.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: An unsympathetic example. In her {{flashback}} appearance in [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS2E07HankAfterDark "Hank After Dark"]], she had brunette hair when younger and a pretty icy, irascible attitude at everything and everyone, her husband especially.
* AscendedExtra: Originally one-shot character, Katrina has a much larger role in season 4.
* AwfulWeddedLife: She disliked being married to Mr. Peanutbutter just as much as he disliked being married to her. Unlike Mr. Peanutbutter, she wasn't afraid of showing it in public.
* BitchAlert: Mr. Peanutbutter mentioned being married before, but Katrina's introduction of her berating and threatening her husband while looking for some alcohol in the afterparty of the Oscars shows that his previous marriage wasn't a happy one.
* ChekhovsGunman: After a one-off appearance in a season 2 flashback, Katrina shows up in the season 3 finale to announce to Mr. Peanutbutter intentions from some of the higher-ups to make him a governor candidate. Of course, this'd mean working with her, which neither of them are comfortable with.
* {{Determinator}}: Credit where is due, Katrina works hard to get Mr. Peanutbutter elected, even if she doesn't personally like him or thinks he's capable of leading (though she keeps the charade going to better control the clueless candidate). [[spoiler:When PB drops from the race, the SunkCostFallacy and sacrifices she's made to get him that far makes it far more personal for her, and with Jessica Biel as her 2nd puppet, she tries to sink PB and Woodchuck.]]
* EasyEvangelism: Played for laughs as part of her StartOfDarkness. A single lengthy conversation with Tim Allen and Ben Stein at a Halloween party years ago was enough to turn her into a hardline conservative.
* EvilDuo: [[spoiler:With Jessica Biel, after Katrina becomes her campaign manager. Being both exes of PB, they're joined by their lust for power and their hatred (or in Jessica's case, love-hate) of him.]]
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Yes. She's clearly aching for a drink the entire time she's with Mr. Peanutbutter in the after awards party, as she directly tells him she's going to find someone with booze and whether that "embarrasses" him.
* HateSink: Little to no redeeming qualities, being an insufferable person to be around, treating Mr. Peanutbutter like an annoyance, a hard headed alcoholic and openly cheating on her husband. No wonder Mr. Peanutbutter is so hung up and needy on Diane.
* IceQueen: She's really a cold-hearted individual.
* InterspeciesRomance: She, a human, was married to Mr. Peanutbutter, a yellow anthropomorphic Labrador.
* {{Jerkass}}: She's an enormous ''bench'' to everyone she meets, her husband most of all. Except Erica. She's a mutual friend. Other than that, drunk, unpleasant, bitter and unfriendly by default.
* JerkassHasAPoint: While her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Diane may been scathing, she was right that Diane never supported Mr. Peanutbutter's run for California Governor.
* LadyDrunk: A mean one at that. It's clear during the entire talk with [=BoJack=] that she's going cold turkey without a drink. Thankfully, Erica comes to her rescue.
* ReallyGetsAround: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]] to be cheating on her husband frequently, who being the doormat he is, just prefers to ignore it.
* StartOfDarkness: Season 5 reveals that she became the colder, cynical, right-wing Katrina that the audience knows because she was forced to talk politics with Creator/BenStein and Creator/TimAllen after Mr. Peanutbutter abandoned her at [=BoJack=]'s Halloween party.
* VillainBall: Beyond any reasoning, Katrina is one of the main culprits when it comes with the situation going FromBadToWorse in [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS4E07Underground "Underground"]]. As a campaign manager, she can't let the fundraiser for Mr. PB go sideways, so she tries to find a way to spin the whole thing into a possible win scenario where he played the reliable leader. When Woodchuck arrives with an effective rescue plan, Katrina ''can't'' accept defeat, so she keeps inserting Mr. Peanutbutter into the situation, who being who he is constantly screws it up. It gets to the point where she could easily give up, making everything easier for everyone but her desire to win gets the better of her.
* VillainousCheekbones: She's a mean drunk ex-wife who is drawn with sharp cheekbones.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Well, she hasn't lost her shirtty attitude even when her hair color has faded away.
* WorkingWithTheEx: In season 4. As part of a possible governor candidature for Mr. Peanutbutter, she now has to work hand in hand with him. Neither is very thrilled with the idea.

[[folder:Jessica Biel]]
->'''Played by''': Creator/JessicaBiel
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Noted Hollywoo actress and Mr. Peanutbutter's second wife.

* AdamWesting: Biel plays herself as a rude egotist who is implied to be cheating on Mr. Peanutbutter with her "very good friend [[Music/JustinTimberlake Justin Timberlake]]" and is utterly oblivious of the sorry state of her own filmography. According to WordOfGod, Biel pushed the writers to be ''meaner'' about her, which might explain her role in Season 4.
* AscendedExtra: She only appeared in one episode in season 3, but becomes a major character in season 4.
* AxCrazy: Goes completely off the deep end in "Underground", screaming about burning people as soon as the crisis starts, [[spoiler:eventually succeeding in doing so to Creator/ZachBraff, cannibalizing the latter's corpse and attempting to sacrifice Mr. Peanutbutter.]]
* BestKnownForTheFanservice: InUniverse. Twice.
** Diane doesn't know who Jessica is after she names several films she's been in, and it isn't until she says she was "the girl from ''Series/SeventhHeaven'' who took her clothes off for that one magazine" that Diane recognizes her.
** Later, Mr. Peanutbutter is unsure whether she was in ''Film/TheIllusionist2006'' or ''Film/ThePrestige'', and she rightfully calls him out on it.
--->'''Jessica''': Do you ''know'' which one I was in?\\
'''Mr. Peanutbutter''': Do ''you''?\\
''({{Beat}})''\\
'''Jessica''': Ugh!
* DoesNotLikeSpam: {{Exploited|Trope}}. Diane exposes Jessica's dislike of avocados to the public to turn California voters against her, foiling Katrina's plan and ensuring Woodchuck's victory in the special election.
* {{Foil}}: To Katrina. Both are the career driven, ex-wives of Mr. Peanutbutter (with both cheating on him during their own marriage to him). However, while Katrina is serious and icy, while Jessica is an AxCrazy LargeHam.
* HypocriticalHumor: She is constantly putting down Mr. Peanutbutter for taking every offer he gets regardless of how much he enjoys it, calling them "beneath him", yet keeps bragging about her own participation in critically reviled films (''Film/{{Stealth}}'', ''Summer Catch'', ''Film/TheRulesOfAttraction'', ''Film/INowPronounceYouChuckAndLarry'') apparently oblivious to their reception.
* IncrediblyLamePun: Has gotten the habit of saying "un-Biel-livable" from Justin Timberlake.
** "Our marriage is over! Biel with it!"
** She has a new perfume in Season 4 - "Biel-ist", which Diane rightfully confuses for "B-List".
** Subverted by her [[spoiler:Governor campaign slogan: "Change you can Jessica-lieve in".]]
* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: Regarding the events of "Underground".
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Not only does she suffer no consequence for murdering and cannibalizing Zach Braff, she even runs for Governor!]]
* OvercomplicatedMenuOrder: A RunningGag is her ''very'' pedantic, overly specific way of ordering anything.
** [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E02TheBojackHorsemanShow "The Bojack Horseman Show"]]: Take for instance a normal day with her (then) husband Mr. Peanutbutter at a Starbucks. So punctilious even her husband has it memorized.
--->'''Jessica''': Oh, I usually like a cool drink when it's hot outside and a warm drink when it's cold outside. But today is a perfect day, so--\\
'''Mr. Peanutbutter''': One lukewarm coffee for my gorgeous spouse!
** [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS4E10LovinThatCaliLifestyle "lovin' that cali lifestyle!"]]: Several years later (season 5, to be precise), behold her menu order while on an interview with Diane.
---> Ugh! I'll have the avocado toast. But instead of the avocado part, I want fresh sea air, and instead of the toast, I'll have a single grain of rice.
* ThisIsGoingToBeHuge: Apparently she was "told" that ''Film/INowPronounceYouChuckAndLarry'' was going to be "[[BlatantLies a very important gay rights movie]]"

[[folder:Pickles Aplenty]]
->'''Played by''': Creator/HongChau (Season 5), Creator/JuliaChan (Season 6)
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A pug waitress and Mr. Peanutbutter's new girlfriend after his divorce from Diane.

* BettyAndVeronica: The cheerful, optimistic Betty to Diane's snarky, jaded Veronica.
* BigEater: One of the perks of her job is that at the end of her shift, she gets to take everyone's leftover scraps, put them in a trough, and eat them.
* BirdsOfAFeather: She has quite a bit in common with Mr. Peanutbutter; they're both dogs (albeit different breeds), they both have cheerful, scatterbrained and immature personalities, and [[FurryReminder their canine behavior]] is played up for humor.
* TheCutie: She's friendly, supportive, has a soft, high pitched voice, and displays even less negativity than her boyfriend. Doesn't hurt that she's a little pug.
* TheDitz: Very scatterbrained and forgetful, but a real sweetheart.
* DistaffCounterpart: Of Mr. Peanutbutter, down to her enthusiasm toward [=BoJack=]. Unlike PB, BJ doesn't remember her name.
* DogsAreDumb: Much like Mr. Peanutbutter, she's not terribly bright and can be forgetful. [[spoiler: In "Mr. Peanutbutter's Boos", it's suggested that she might be more intelligent than the ditzy, happy-go-lucky persona that she puts on, and instead plays it up in order to stand out from his more jaded ex-wives.]]
* FurryReminder: Like Mr. Peanutbutter, her dogginess is very much played up.
* GenkiGirl: Very upbeat and cheery.
* HiddenDepths: "Mr. Peanutbutter's Boos" shows that she's more aware of the pressures of being Mr. Peanutbutter's girlfriend than she lets on, and she intentionally plays up the ditziness because she's afraid of being compared to his ex-wives.
* MayDecemberRomance: She's twenty-five, making her twenty four years younger than Mr. Peanutbutter, a power imbalance which Diane calls him out for when he seeks her advice.
* NiceGirl: Pickles is the female equivalent of Mr. Peanutbutter.
* PunnyName: When you add her last name. Pickles-A-Plenty!
* PuppydogEyes: In a very literal sense. They provide the final push for [[spoiler:Mr. Peanutbutter to propose to her rather than admit he cheated on her twice.]]
* PutOnABus: [[spoiler: She decides to put the engagement on hold in order to take a lucrative job opportunity with Joey Pogo on his tour.]][[spoiler: She permanently breaks up with Peanutbutter an offscreen text message and starts dating Joey Pogo in the next episode.]]
* ReallyGetsAround: Sleeps with over 30 people [[spoiler:in an effort to even things out between her and Mr. Peanutbutter after the latter cheats on her with Diane, as per their mutual plan. Mr. Peanutbutter, bizarrely enough, is cheerfully encouraging of this.]]
* VocalDissonance: For a pug, you might expect a deeper or rougher voice, but she has a cute, high pitched voice that sounds odd coming from a pug.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Even with the ridiculous ThemeNaming of canines in the series, Pickles takes the cake (biscuit?) of having the punniest name so far.
* WomanChild: She's childish and innocent — perhaps intentionally so, in order to [[spoiler: keep Mr. Peanutbutter from getting bored with her]] — which is part of the reason she connects so well with Mr. Peanutbutter.

!!!'''Todd's Lovers'''

[[folder:Emily]]

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->'''Played by:''' Creator/AbbiJacobson
->'''First appearance:''' [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS1E04ZoesAndZeldas "Zoes And Zeldas"]]\\
'''Official Debut:''' "Love And/Or Marriage"

Todd's high school girlfriend who, after being ignored too many times due to his video game addiction, dumped him. In Season 3 she returns and reunites with Todd when they reunite at a wedding rehearsal. They found "Cabracadabra", a taxi service with women drivers, later on. They don’t rekindle their relationship, despite their mutual feelings, due to Todd realizing he’s asexual.

* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: [[spoiler:Emily's fling with [=BoJack=] started with them meeting at the hotel bar where the wedding rehearsal Emily's friend ensued. They briefly talk and she orders a whiskey. [[GilliganCut Cut to them in bed together]].]]
* AscendedExtra: Starting with a quick cameo in [[[[Recap/BojackHorsemanS1E04ZoesAndZeldas one episode in season 1]], Emily has a larger part in Todd's storyline in season 3.
* BareYourMidriff: Two instances.
** Her original wardrobe, as shown in [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS1E04ZoesAndZeldas "Zoes And Zeldas"]] and "The Bojack Horseman Show", involved a small white t-shirt stopping midways through the torso.
** Her dress in "Love And/Or Marriage" exposes her belly button by an aperture in the middle of it.
* TheBusCameBack: Returned midway through Season 5 after being absent for most of Season 4.
* CannotKeepASecret: And if she attempts it, she'll be as conspicuous as possible. [[spoiler:Ask [=BoJack=]. Or Todd even.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: During the 2007 flashback, Emily wasn't convinced that Todd couldn't just not like anyone. But the season 3 finale has her fully accept Todd coming out as asexual.
* ClothingReflectsPersonality: A mild example, but her original outfit was quite revealing and exposed her midriff, hinting at the desire for sex that puts her at odds with the asexual Todd.
* EarlyBirdCameo: In [[https://www.reddit.com/r/BoJackHorseman/comments/4ubcnp/emiles_first_appearance_s1e4/ "Zoes and Zeldas".]] She has a much larger role in season 3.
* FlippingTheBird: In their teenage years, after getting fed up with Todd's blatant disregard of her, she flips him off and goes on her own way.
* HairstyleInertia: Has had pretty much the same hairstyle since she was a pre-teen/teenager.
* IncompatibleOrientation: Emily and Todd care about each other very much, but she has very strong sexual needs while he's asexual.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Emily really cares about Todd, which is why she tells him [=BoJack=] "hasn't been a good friend to him" [[spoiler:which eventually pushes Todd to finally leave that toxic friendship]], is supportive of his asexuality and his relationship with [[spoiler:Yolanda]] (even if the latter doesn't work out in the long run), and [[spoiler:creates an asexual dating website for him]].
* NiceGirl: Her desperate need for sex aside, she is really sweet, supportive, and nice who genuinely cares about Todd and immediately accepts him as who he is when he [[spoiler: finds he may be asexual]].
* NewOldFlame: To Todd. Emily used to be his girlfriend and their encounter sets them to be a potential couple, [[spoiler:until it's {{subverted|Trope}} when Todd's reticence in sealing the deal leads him to come out as asexual.]]
* OstentatiousSecret: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. While they slip right through Todd, Emily's attempts to cover up [[spoiler:her workout session with [=BoJack=]]] involve being as suspicious as possible, stuttering and avoiding questions about betrayals. People suspect something, sure, but not the ones she's hiding the secret from. [[spoiler:Gets worse after she comes clean about it: Todd still ''doesn't'' know what happened, but for her to get so upset, it must have been something big. She doesn't say it, which makes Todd's imagination to run wild. This leads to a tragic falling out between the friends.]]
* RelationshipRevolvingDoor: Emily has this kind of relationship with Todd, dating back to 2007 when his irresponsibility drives her away [[spoiler:and they get close again in 2015 when they reencounter in a restaurant and connect again]]. Then, it's "off" again when Emily leaves Cabracadabra and "on" when they bury the hatchet and start over as JustFriends. They briefly toy with the idea of getting back together against in Season 5, but agree they're BetterAsFriends.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Does this after getting fed up with Todd's irresponsibility. [[spoiler:And she does it again to Todd in season 3 after the guilt gets the better out of her. So much that she even suggests Todd should cut her off from the company's earnings. [[AllLovingHero He's having none of it]].]]
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan:
** Even though she left Todd because of his addiction to a game, she really appreciates how sweet and thoughtful he is.
** Come Season 4, [[spoiler: the IncompatibleOrientation with Todd's asexuality has caused them to drift apart, as she's only seen in the first episode, and her parting words (aside from sending Todd a gift of a "Drone Throne") were that she ''does'' need sexual gratification in a relationship to be happy, which Todd was unable to provide]].

[[folder:Yolanda Buenaventura]]
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->'''Played by''': Creator/NatalieMorales

An axolotl girl who dates Todd after informing each other of their mutual asexuality.

* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: With her sister Mindy. The only way to tell them apart is Yolanda wears a purple sweater and blue lipstick, while Mindy wears purple lipstick and a blue sweater.
* AmicableExes: She and Todd realize rather quickly that they're too different to make a good couple, but worry they won't be able to find anyone else. They make a pact that if they haven't found love by the time they're 100, they'll give it another shot.
* BrutalHonesty: She does not mince words and says the facts as they are.
* BlackSheep: While her family members are all extremely promiscuous with careers in pornography and sex advice, Yolanda is completely asexual with a career in business investigation. She hides her asexuality from her family for a long time due to her fear of ostracization, but they constantly coax her to discuss her sex life with Todd. [[spoiler:They do accept her after a long discussion.]]
* GoGetterGirl: A more down-to-earth example. It's also what separates her from her family. She's a young woman who's very goal- and career-focused, wanting to look back at the end of her life at all the things she's accomplished academically and professionally. Her family is more interested in having mindbogglingly good sex (and building careers around it). This is also why she and Todd are not compatible romantically.
* LiteralMinded: When Emily says she's glad to finally meet the "famous Yolanda," Yolanda informs her she is not famous and Emily must have her confused with a different Yolanda who is famous. When Emily clarifies that she meant Todd talks about her so much she feels like she's famous, Yolanda says that that was not made clear.
* NoSenseOfHumor: Yolanda is genuinely humorless, not finding most of Todd's antics funny or even that amusing. Even she admits she's a [[ToughRoom "tough crowd"]], which is why she warns Todd to make an special effort in making his "clown dentists" act hilarious or she'll close it down. [[spoiler:While this doesn't stop her from asking Todd out, it does no favors for their actual relationship, and they break up on the grounds that they have nothing in common apart from their asexuality.]]
* OppositesAttract: Deconstructed. She thinks it's a good idea to date Todd for a while since being so different means they can help each other grow and become well-rounded people. Eventually, she realizes they have nothing in common apart from their asexuality, and it's not enough to hold a relationship.
* PolarOppositeTwins: Yolanda is an asexual young professional while Mindy is a forward sex advice columnist.

[[folder:Maude]]
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->'''Played by:''' Echo Gilette
->'''Debut:''' [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS6E07TheFaceOfDepression "The Face Of Depression"]]\\

A rabbit barista at Cinabunny who becomes involved with Todd.

* BirdsOfAFeather: She's just as nice and silly as Todd, though slightly more grounded. To drive it home, their names rhyme with each other.
%%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: As great of one as Todd.
* InterspeciesRomance: She's a rabbit and she enters a relationship with Todd, who's human.
* LastGirlWins: Todd's final love interest and who he stays with by the series finale.
* NiceGirl: Maude is shown to be a friendly and sweet young woman.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: She's introduced to be a companion for Todd, and due to her late arrival on the show, we don't get to see much of her apart from Todd barring her first appearance at Cinnabunny (which mostly serves to establish the traits that convince [=BoJack=] to hook them up to begin with).
* StereotypeFlip: Rabbits are infamous for their promiscuity and sex drive. Maude is asexual.
* WomenAreWiser: A downplayed example. Maude is only slightly more serious than Todd but her silliness still exceeds her common sense.

!!Other Families

!!!'''Sarah Lynn's Family'''

[[folder:Carol Himmelfarb-Richardson]]

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[[caption-width-right:200:Mommy didn’t do what she did to the Star Search producer so that you could be an architect]]

Sarah Lynn's mother who pushed her into show business.

* AbusiveMom: Of the psychological variety. She aggressively pressured her daughter into becoming an actress/singer, despite her stated desire to be an architect, and even scolds her for saying so. Even after Sarah Lynn became a world famous pop star nothing was ever good enough for her mother. It's also heavily implied that she was in someway complicit regarding Sarah Lynn being molested/raped by her stepdad.
* AdultsAreUseless: It's implied that she was aware of [[spoiler:her husband molesting Sarah Lynn when the latter was a child]] and didn't do a thing about it.
* FatBitch: Had a noticeable double chin when Sarah Lynn as a child and has become obese by the present day, and is an aggressive stage mom who exploits her daughter and her fame [[spoiler:even after she died]].
* FinancialAbuse: It's heavily implied that she and her bear husband were living off Sarah Lynn's royalties. [[spoiler: They continue to profit off her after her death as well]].
* IgnoredEpiphany: Carol broke down when [[spoiler:Sarah Lynn died, in a private moment with [=BoJack=] and her husband so it wasn't to gain fame or sympathy points. She said ItsAllMyFault and walked sobbing to her daughter's deathbed as her husband comforted her. Come a few episodes later, in the present day she's using Sarah Lynn's image for advertising and blaming [=BoJack=] for her death, deflecting from any responsibility on her part. Which, it was [=BoJack's=] fault for her death but everyone could see Sarah Lynn was a ticking time bomb, plus she was the one who pushed her into the toxicity of Hollywoo in the first place]].
* KarmaHoudini: She exploits her daughter long after [[spoiler:Sarah Lynn has overdosed]] and no one makes her pay for the consequences.
* OpportunisticBastard: She uses Sarah Lynn as a means to get fame and money vicariously. [[spoiler:When she finds that Bojack was responsible for Sarah Lynn's death, she wastes no time in filing a lawsuit]].
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: She [[spoiler:outlives her daughter and seems to get a brief HeelRealization that it was partly her fault]]. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:an IgnoredEpiphany ensues]].
* PetTheDog: Before she realized she could use [[spoiler: [=BoJack=] as a scapegoat]], Carol seemed to truly grieve when [[spoiler:Sarah Lynn died]]. She aptly said ItsAllMyFault, to the horse and her husband, without any cameras or press and talked to the coroner without her usual manipulations.
* StageMom: Carol entered Sarah Lynn as a child into television and singing, not caring when her daughter fell to drugs and flippantly said one day she would get an overdose.

[[folder:Sarah Lynn's Stepfather]]
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Sarah Lynn's stepfather, a bear who is a professional photographer and implied to have sexually abused his stepdaughter during childhood.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His outfit, last name and occupation (photographer), are clear references to real-life alleged rapist [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Richardson Terry Richardson]].
* ParentalIncest: It's implied in several episodes that he sexually abused Sarah Lynn as a child. He spent time alone with her in her homeschool, and in one flashback, Sarah Lynn has to be removed from her dressing room because her stepdad is "being weird" in there. As an adult, Sarah Lynn mentions she recognizes the ''taste'' of bear fur because of her stepdad. He's also based off Terry Richardson, a photographer infamous for sexual assault allegations.
* WickedStepfather: He's strongly implied to be a pedophile who forced unspeakable sexual acts on his stepdaughter.

!!!'''Carson Family'''

[[folder:Carson Family (in general)]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:L to R: Kyle, Trip, Penny, Charlotte]]

* BraggingThemeTune: As it details below in {{Leitmotif}}, "Kyle and The Kids" is basically a description of the life of Charlotte's family and how they're perfectly happy with no one to ruin their happiness. Ouch.
* ChubbyMamaSkinnyPapa: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Charlotte and her husband, Kyle. She's slim and fit, while Kyle's a BigBeautifulMan.
* DysfunctionalFamily: Not overtly or completely so, but there were problems with the family before our [[NominalHero "hero"]] arrived. He just had to make them '''worse'''.
* GenderEqualsBreed: Penny, the daughter, is the same species as her mother yet has her father's hair color in the fur. Trip is a human like his dad and clearly has the same hair.
* HappilyMarried: Charlotte is in a stable, loving, and and secure marriage with Kyle; this reveal to [=BoJack=] in "Escape From L.A." makes him very shocked and regretful.
* InferredHolocaust: After [=BoJack=] leaves, the disasters he caused around people, especially the Carsons, are left unsolved.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8KOp1-XBMc "Kyle And The Kids"]], an upbeat 80's style sitcom song containing LyricalDissonance and MoodDissonance considering how bleak is the episode in which it plays.
* MissedHimByThatMuch: One of the pictures from the PhotoMontage in "Escape From L.A." shows the Carson family vacationing at Todd's Disneyland. Since that park burned down at the end of "Yesterdayland", they were attending at the same time ''[=BoJack=] and Wanda were.''
* PhotoMontage: At the beginning of the episode, in order to explain who's who in the family.
* TwoFirstNames: "Carson" can also be used as a first name.
* WalkingSpoiler: Since they basically spoil what Charlotte has been doing since last seen by [=BoJack=], so yeah.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Charlotte Carson]]
!!!'''Charlotte Carson (née Moore)'''

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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/OliviaWilde
->'''Debut:''' The Telescope

An old friend of [=BoJack=] and Herb (whom she briefly dated) from before they made it big. Despite some chemistry with [=BoJack=], Charlotte left L.A. shortly before the creation of ''JustForFun/HorsinAround'', and becomes TheOneThatGotAway for him. They catch up at Herb's funeral, where Charlotte, now married with two kids, invites [=BoJack=] to visit her in New Mexico whenever he has the chance. This sets up crucial events near the end of Season 2.

* AmbitionIsEvil: Subverted. She believes Los Angeles is a tar pit, where people get so caught up in chasing dreams that they drown themselves. Charlotte notably wound up with a humble, showbiz-free life compared to Herb or [=BoJack=]. However, she later states that she doesn't really believe Los Angeles is the problem, but the people who let themselves drown.
* {{Bambification}}: Charlotte is a deer, and her presence often exudes an aura of hope and innocence in [=BoJack=]'s life, be it in {{Flashback}}s, hallucinations or just plain fantasies of life outside Hollywoo. This only serves to contrast her presence in [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS2E11EscapeFromLA "Escape From L.A."]] as even more jarring - she's unwilling to be that crutch to [=BoJack=] and it leads to a moment so horrifying that shakes her to the core.
* TheBeard: Herb dated her before he was outed as gay.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Despite her genial personality, she threatens to kill Bojack if he shows up around Tesuque or near her family again.
* BrutalHonesty: She doesn't hesitate to be blunt about what she wants to say. For example, one of the first things she says to [=BoJack=] when meeting in Tesuque after a while?
-->''When's the last time you slept? You look like shit.''
* ChekhovsGunman: She is mentioned and shown in a {{Flashback}} in "The Telescope" as Herb's girlfriend and someone who [=BoJack=] had a secret (and unconfessed) crush on. She returns for a brief cameo at Herb's funeral, exchanging some catch-up with [=BoJack=] and suggesting that he may visit her some time. Then comes the 2nd season episode "[[DramaBomb Escape From L.A.]]"
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Smokes as an excuse to skip the rest of Herb's funeral in "Still Broken", since she doesn't want to stay and be reminded of him. That's when [=BoJack=] catches her and they start to reconnect.
* DeadpanSnarker: Her sarcasm is rather deadpan, but still good-natured.
** "Still Broken" has two examples back-to-back.
*** When she's asked about why she wandered off Herb's funeral, she has only this to say:
---->'''Charlotte''': I'm no good with funerals. When I cry, it messes up my makeup and then I get really bummed out.
*** Her response to [=BoJack=]'s question about whether Herb talked about their meeting when the two meet again at his funeral:
---->'''[=BoJack=]''': Did he tell you anything else?\\
'''Charlotte''': No, we talked about cancer, how hard it is living with cancer, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking about the L.A. Kings]], and [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment then back to cancer.]] [...][[DistinctionWithoutADifference Then I read that chapter in your book about how he never forgave you and he tried to kick you out of the house and you ended up wrestling on the floor over a telescope.]]
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: She moved to Maine to figure out what she wanted in life. It doesn't last long, as she moved to New Mexico about a month later.
* DueToTheDead: She returns briefly to L.A. to attend Herb's funeral.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her first appearance in "The Telescope" pretty much lay the foundation of her character: [[NiceGirl she salutes [=BoJack=] upon his entrance in the Laugh Shack]], tries to slip him a beer when she thinks he might nervous about his act while playfully bantering with him and then [[CannotSpitItOut makes thinly-veiled suggestions]] about wanting the horse to accompany her (and Herb, of course!) to see ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.
* {{Foil}}: To [[Characters/BojackHorsemanBojackHorseman [=BoJack=]]] and [[Characters/BojackHorsemanHollywooTVMovieCrews Herb]]:
** Like Herb, she has a deep attachment to [=BoJack=] and her friends, but while Herb has ambitions and follows them, she comes to the realization that she's coat tailing someone else's without stopping to think about her own.
** She has a family, is perfectly happy and stable and is simply able to live a normal, uneventful life due to having left [=BoJack=] and L.A. behind. [=BoJack=]'s life is completely out of control, has no children, family or stable friendships all because he chose a life in L.A. instead of going with Charlotte.
* AFriendInNeed: She allows [=BoJack=] to stay with her family because she knows he needs support.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: {{Zigzagged|Trope}}. Charlotte's glad to see [=BoJack=] visiting her, which makes her ignore some of his questionable actions like moving next to the Carson house for two months and taking Penny to the prom. She ''does'', however, notice something is troubling him and even has a heart to heart with [=BoJack=] in which she realizes how sad and lonely he is and how much trouble he could cause if he stays.
* IncompatibleOrientation: She used to date Herb, who was StraightGay. As she slowly realized that they had different goals, Charlotte decided to leave Hollywood since she noted that "she isn't the person Herb is looking for".
* InterspeciesFriendship: With [=BoJack=] (a horse) and Herb (a human). She remained friends with Herb after their breakup until his death from cancer and a peanut truck crash, while her friendship with [=BoJack=] hit an stagnation point after TheEighties and was put to rest after the incidents of "Escape From L.A.".
* InterspeciesRomance: She (a doe) was in a relationship with Herb (a human), and now is married to Kyle, another human.
* {{Irony}}: Charlotte's idyllic life in New Mexico is ruined by [=BoJack=] trying to impose ''his'' own version of an idyllic life together.
* JustFriends: Despite their past chemistry, she tries to remain nothing more than a supportive friend to [=BoJack=] after reuniting in [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS2E11EscapeFromLA "Escape From L.A."]], but through a mixture of him trying to replicate his dream life with her by hanging on to her Family and her unwillingness to think too hard about the past and what could have been, it collapses instead.
* LeavingYouToFindMyself: The breaking point for Charlotte's decision to say good riddance to L.A. was realizing she was in a loveless relationship following around two guys whose dreams weren't the same as hers, so she goes to Maine and then New Mexico to build a good life.
* LiquidCourage: {{Invoked|Trope}} from her part in "The Telescope". When [=BoJack=]'s about to go up on stage to do his stand-up act, Charlotte secretly slips him a beer behing her boss's back for some reassurance. [[DefiedTrope He refuses]]. Go figure.
* LustObject: For [=BoJack=], although unlike other examples of the trope, he ''is'' genuinely interested in Charlotte, even if it's made painfully clear that he's interested [[LovingAShadow in who she was rather than who she is now]].
* MamaBear: Although she's a civilian shopkeeper, she threatens to kill Bojack if he tries to contact her daughter again after he nearly sleeps with her. Later, she calls [=BoJack=] in a fury when journalists come to ask Penny some questions about the horse and Sarah Lynn; Charlotte found out that [=BoJack=] went to Oberlin to apologize, and tells him to deal with the journalists.
* MellowFellow: GenderFlipped version. Very calm, rarely gets worked about something and tries to defuse conflicts as much as she can. That being said, when the fuse is short of exploding, this trope goes out of the window and it ''shows''.
* MinorMajorCharacter: She doesn't appear as often as other important supporting characters like [[Characters/BojackHorsemanHollywooTVMovieCrews Sarah Lynn]], yet nevertheless she's one of the biggest influences in [=BoJack=]'s life and each of her appearances often result in big changes for the series. Without her, [=BoJack=] would probably have no other alternative than Hollywoo and might have not committed one, no, check that, two of his [[MyGreatestFailure greatest failures]].
* MumLooksLikeASister: Aside from some natural signs of aging, she is drawn very similarly to how she used to look in her youth, and as a result looks similar to her daughter Penny. [=BoJack=], who’s three years older than her, even notes in "The Telescope" that she’s aged really well
* MyCard: She gives Bojack her card and direction after Herb's funeral in case he wants to visit.
* NewOldFlame: PlayedWith. Charlotte appears once again in season 2 and once she talks with [=Bojack=] and gives him her card suggesting he visits her at New Mexico sometime, the show appears to be setting them up as a possible couple, only to then subvert it when it turns out she's now married and has no outward interest in taking a trip down memory's lane like [=BoJack=]'d wish. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Of course, it's not like she had been waiting him all those years.]]
* NiceGirl: She's always helpful, kind and caring. When [=BoJack=] shows up at Tesuque to visit her, she offers him to stay a while at her house after seeing how tired he is. Of course, that doesn't mean she won't threaten to kill you if you try to sleep with her daughter.
* OlderAndWiser: Somewhat. She's certainly accommodated into normalcy, is more mature than she was back in the day and has a better grasp on people around her than 20 years ago.
* OldFriend: One of [=BoJack=]'s friends from TheEighties, as well as an [[OldFlame Old]] [[{{UST}} Possible]] [[OldFlame Flame]]. By season 2, she's the last friend he has left from around that era. {{Deconstruction}} ensues that inevitably lead to its collapse in "Escape From L.A."
* OneHourWorkWeek: She handles personally a textile shop and judging by her informality when it comes to work hours, she can come and go anytime she pleases.
* TheOneThatGotAway: Bojack is still incredibly hung up on her to the point that he eventually goes to New Mexico just to find her and realizes that she has truly gotten away for the better.
* TheOneWhoMadeItOut: Out of the three friends from Hollywood, she's the only one who was smart enough to leave Hollywood when she could, and turned out all the better because of it. Too bad she invited that toxic side back into her life when the horse reappeared.
* ParentsAsPeople: Kind, friendly, and looks out for her kids. However, she ignores some of her old friend's questionable actions like moving next to the Carson house for two months and taking Penny to the prom, which leaded to... Even so, in "Good Damage" when Penny is thinking of telling journalists how she almost slept with [=Bojack=], Charlotte advises her daughter to take a few days to decide if she wants to, and then call them; while Penny thinks it could turn her trauma into something better, Charlotte tells her the world doesn't work like that and it may make her feel worse. Then Charlotte proceeds to call [=BoJack=] to handle this mess so her daughter isn't unfairly pressured.
* PresentAbsence: Even 20 years after having seen her for the last time, she's still fresh in [=BoJack=]'s mind.
* PunBasedTitle: Her shop is called "Your Deer Friend".
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Before leaving L.A., Charlotte gave [=BoJack=] a short, but painful and accurate one. Worst of all, it didn't came out of hatred or exasperation, but of disappointment:
-->''Hey, do you ever wonder what would have happened if you'd met me before Herb did? Would you have made a move on me? [...] I don't think you would have. You know why? I think you're a coward.''
* RebelRelaxation: During her re-introduction in "[[Recap/BojackHorsemanS2E03StillBroken Still Broken]]", as she unwinds with a smoke under the fresh cover of a tree after Herb's funeral.
* ShoutOut: She's named for Charlotte Haze, the stepmother from ''Literature/{{Lolita}}'' who finds out that her lover was preying on her daughter. Similarly, Charlotte Carson finds her daughter in a compromising position with someone she considered a friend and was hitting on her. Unlike Mrs. Haze, however, Charlotte is able to take charge of the situation by sending Penny to her room before kicking [=BoJack=] out of their house. She also has serious, nonjudgmental talks with Penny about what happened so that her daughter's trauma doesn't overwhelm Penny.
* SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes: In her first {{Flashback}} appearance from TheEighties, Charlotte mentions to [=BoJack=] that she and Herb later are heading to watch Film/BackToTheFuture ''again'' when passing through the comedy club.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Her reaction to Herb scoring the television project and [=BoJack=] simply being content with what he has. Since they both seem to have their own plans and they deviate from any kind of group thing, Charlotte decides she has to leave in order to find her own path.
* SecondarySexualCharacteristics: A HumanoidFemaleAnimal with FurryFemaleMane, curvy figure, breasts and groomed style.
* SelfMadeWoman: Nowadays, she owns and works in a textile store in the streets of Tesuque, New Mexico and seems to get a reliable income from it, even if she admits it's not the only textile store in town. She tells [=BoJack=] that she worked very hard to build her life.
* ShipSinking: Any chance Bojack had to reunite with Charlotte was shot and left to bleed out when he discovered she was married. And it was put out of its misery when she caught him with her daughter.
* ShipTease: Charlotte's interactions with [=BoJack=] back in the day had shades of this, with her often dropping hints about a reciprocating attraction towards him and often hanging out with him more than Herb. One interpretation for her final speech to him before leaving L.A. and before discovering him with her daughter is Charlotte reminding herself that as much attraction as there is between them, [=BoJack=] is ''not'' a viable romantic partner.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: In the present, she has settled down with Kyle Carson, a good guy and supportive husband who clearly makes her happy. This is why she refutes [=BoJack=]'s attempts to get her to run away with him.
* TextileWorkIsFeminine: Charlotte now owns a hand-woven crafts shop filled with blankets and other stuff called "Your Deer Friend" in Tesuque, although she's not over enthusiastic about it and admits that there are a lot of shops like that around.
* TranquilFury: When she's rattled enough, as [=BoJack=] finds out. She never really raises her voice, but it's clear that every word she's spitting is meant to the fullest extent possible, and there's no doubt to anyone that she'll keep her promise of trying to kill [=BoJack=] if he ever returns.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Had this with [=BoJack=] back in TheEighties, since it's clear from their interactions that Charlotte and him have much more chemistry than she and Herb, not to say about how she often confides more into him than Herb. From their last interaction, it's revealed that Herb spotted her first and actually had the guts to go talk to her (despite being gay), while [=BoJack=] who was interested, never moved a finger. Charlotte catches around this and decides to shoot down a possible relationship when she decides to leave L.A. based on his supposed cowardly nature. When they're reunited 20 years later, she seems to be a little more supportive of him than she should, and when his attraction is made evident, the arguments she gives to stop are more like reminders for herself rather than outright dismissals.
* YourMakeupIsRunning: {{Discussed}}. She explains to [=BoJack=] that this is the reason why she doesn't like attending funerals: the tears that swell up in her eyes usually ruin her mascara and she doesn't want to make an scene at Herb's funeral.
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[[folder:Kyle Carson]]
!!!'''Kyle Carson'''
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EdHelms
->'''Debut:''' "Escape from L.A."

Charlotte's human husband, and the father of Penny and Trip.