History Characters / CalvinAndHobbes

* FormerTeenRebel: Along with her husband. Their yearbooks apparently show them going pretty wild, and Calvin's grandmother has remarked that she was a difficult kid.

* PredationIsNatural: While the nature of Hobbes' eating habits (alongside his everything) are ambiguous, he and Calvin frequently and frankly discuss a tiger's real life eating habits with nothing less than admiration. One early strip mentions 'Tommy Chestnutt', a bully of Calvin Hobbes is said to have eaten.

* VocalDissonance: From how his dialogue is done via grade-school-style handwriting instead of the neat letters of everyone else. Presumably he sounds like a big, mean bully in Bill Watterson's imagination.

* VocalDissonance: From how his dialogue is done via grade-school-style handwriting instead of the neat letters of everyone else. presumably he sounds like a big, mean bully in Bill Watterson's imagination.

* StandardFiftiesFather: Well, he ''tries'' to fit the archetype, but Calvin, being anything but a sitcom kid, makes it difficult. He's also not afraid to show a mischievous side, [[FormerTeenRebel and it's implied he wasn't always so straight and narrow]]. Of course, unlike the original version of this trope, Dad was actually a Boomer, and thus had a somewhat different experience growing up.

* PornStache: It was TheEighties, after all. (He also wears a ''Series/MiamiVice''-style dress shirt, as if to date the strip even more.)

-->'''Calvin''': This was your idea, pea brain.
-->'''Hobbes''': Don't talk to your father that way!

** Not to mention, the class projects she gives include having to collect FIFTY different leaves/insects and labeling them with their scientific Latin names over the course of two weeks.

* MadLibsCatchPhrase: "(Doing unpleasant activity X) builds character."

* VitriolicBestBuds: She and Calvin spend an awful lot of time together, even if they can't stand one another. It's also implied that she doesn't have many friends outside of Calvin, which is probably why she occasionally ropes him into playing house with her.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Firmly believes CapitalismIsBad, yet makes a living as a patent attorney.

A mob of living evil, mutant snowmen. Calvin creates one who, proceeds to attack him and make more like itself.

* {{Irony}}: Firmly believes CapitalismIsBad, yet makes a living as a patent attorney.

* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Despite everything Calvin puts her through, she still makes an effort to be friends with him. It's implied that being an overachiever means she has trouble relating to other kids.

* JerkassBall: She grabs this in the Good Duplicator arc. While she does make an effort to be nice to Calvin in other strips, she treats Calvin's good clone coldly when he tries to do the same. She immediately assumes that Calvin's good clone will get her books messy and threatens to beat him up for giving her a love letter.

* RiddleForTheAges: Is he actually a LivingToy or is his sapience a product of Calvin's imagination? We’ll probably never get a concrete answer.

* ObsessedWithFood: He's always thinking about tuna and salmon. One time, some of the monsters under the bed tried to bribe him with salmon to feed Calvin to them, and he asked, "Is it fresh salmon?"

* RiddleForTheAges: Is he actually a LivingToy or is his sapience a product of Calvin's imagination? The world may never know.

* PuppyLove: Susie occasionally reciprocates Hobbes's crush on her. Besides cuddling him, she's also written him Valentine's Day cards and even invited him to her birthday party. She added a note on the back of his invitation saying that he could bring Calvin along if he had to, almost as an afterthought. When she played "House" with our heroes, she made Hobbes her unemployed house husband while Calvin had to be their bratty, brainless kid.

* TormentedTeacher: Miss Wormwood is so put upon by the daily antics of Calvin (including the [[TropeNamer Trope Naming]] NoodleIncident) that she has taken to drinking Maalox straight from the bottle (to Calvin's visible disgust). Calvin also notes, rather pleased with himself, that it's rumored that Miss Wormwood is "up to two packs a day, unfiltered."