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[[caption-width-right:324:Two usually responsible kids. If something goes wrong, they're usually responsible.]]
->''George is the kid on the right with the tie and the flat-top. Harold is the one on the left with the T-shirt and the bad haircut. Remember that now.''
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/KevinHart (George in the movie)[=/=]Ramone Hamilton (George in the animated series), Creator/ThomasMiddleditch (Harold in the movie)[=/=]Jay Gragnani (Harold in the animated series)\\
'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Bruno Coronel (George), Arturo Castañeda (Harold)\\
'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/TatsuhisaSuzuki (George/movie), Creator/TomoeHanba (George/TV series), Makoto Naruse (Harold/movie), Creator/ShizukaIshigami (Harold/TV series)
Two fourth-grade pranksters, who are best friends and next-door neighbors and the main protagonists of the series. They started a comic book company called "Treehouse Comix, Inc.", and make copies of their latest comic book and sell them on the playground. They are the class clowns in 4th grade at Jerome Horwitz Elementary and often get into trouble of epic proportions.
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* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the books, they met in kindergarten when George beat up a bunch of sixth-graders who were bullying Harold. In the movie, their first moment of bonding is when they both laugh as the kindergarten teacher is [[UranusIsShowing talking about Uranus.]]
* AdaptationalHeroism: While both versions of the duo are portrayed as mischievous pranksters, the movie portrays them as nobler; pulling pranks on the teachers and faculty to make school-life more tolerable for them and their classmates. Their book counterparts pull pranks and make jokes at everyone's expense, and are usually the only ones laughing at the end.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy:
** They are still pranksters in the animated movie adaptation, but are given more heroic moments compared to their borderline-DesignatedHero counterparts. While they were still heroic and likable in the books, they are more creating humor to brighten others' days rather than using it for their own amusement. This leads to the plot point in the movie that is nearly absent in the books, [[spoiler:George and Harold deciding to be nicer to Mr. Krupp because he doesn't have anyone who cares about him. This never happens in the books, where Krupp stays a fairly two-dimensional villain.]]
** This also extends to the animated series where not only are they kind and cooperative with their friends and classmates. Not to mention, they [[spoiler: willingly go into Krupp's office, knowing that doing so would result in their expulsion from Jerome Horwitz, to return his rule book. The reason being that they know [[SympathyForTheDevil his job is the only thing that makes him happy in life]] and [[WhatYouAreInTheDark taking that away would make them just like him]]]].
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In the books, their classmates' opinion of them tends to go up and down depending on how irritating their pranks are at the moment (although everyone loves their Captain Underpants comic books). In the animated series, they have a better relationship with their classmates as a result of their efforts to make the school a more fun place for everyone, not just themselves.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: Two roads are taken at the end of Book 12. [[spoiler: The present versions of George and Harold decide to use Melvin's time machine to look for their pets who went missing during the battle with Professor Poopypants (who has now changed his name to Tippy Tinkletrousers). As for the Yesterday duo, they remain in the present timeline and decide to work on a new comic series featuring Dog Man]].
* ArchEnemy: These fun-loving pranksters are always finding themselves at odds with their cruel child-hating principal, Mr. Krupp, and the school snitch and teacher's pet, Melvin.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: The two have been diagnosed with it by second grade, but they don't mind, even treating it as a badge of honor thanks to them being one of the more creative ones diagnosed with it.
-->"All of the 'experts' at Jerome Horwitz Elementary School had their opinions about George and Harold. Their guidance counselor, Mr. Rected, thought the boys suffered from A.D.D. The school psychologist, Miss Labler, diagnosed them with A.D.H.D. And their mean old principal, Mr. Krupp, thought they were just plain old ''B.A.D.!''"
* AuthorAvatar: Their love of pranks, writing comic books and generally rebellious attitudes make them similar to Dav Pilkey himself as a child.
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:In book 5, they defeat Wedgie Woman by running by with a big box of hair remover spray and yelling that they hope she doesn't get her hands on their giant box of "Extra Strength Spray Starch" (Captain Underpants' one weakness). She falls for it, steals the cans, and sprays them everywhere, which renders her completely bald and powerless, as her powers come from her PrehensileHair.]]
** In the season 3 premiere, [[spoiler: they both end up separated by Krupp in the hopes of pitting them against each other to set them up as life long enemies. The boys decide to play along by becoming the worst of enemies to the point that the entire camp ends up in flames and ruins. Not wanting to put up with their destructive "conflict" anymore, Krupp decides to place them in the same camp]].
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: In book 10, after realizing all the disasters that happened because of their pranks and time-traveling antics, they decide to start being more responsible and give up fun things like comic books and jokes. Immediately after, they get transported by Tippy Tinkletrousers to a BadFuture where their older selves are evil, fun-hating SadistTeacher[=s=] working for an elderly Mr. Krupp.
* BookDumb: They don't get good grades and don't particularly care about doing well in school, although they at least put in the effort to keep their grades at Bs and Cs.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: They sometimes use the word "bub" towards other characters, like Melvin and Captain Underpants.
* {{Catchphrase}}:
--> '''Harold:''' Oh, No!
--> '''George:''' HereWeGoAgain
** Also in the books, whenever something bad is about to happen.
--> '''George:''' I have an idea.
--> '''Harold:''' What?
--> '''George:''' RUN!
** In [[WesternAnimation/TheEpicTalesOfCaptainUnderpants the animated series]], Harold tends to say “So good!” a lot.
* ClassClown: They are known for disrupting classes and pranking others.
* ClassicalAntiHero: They are genuinely good kids; they just happen to go to a school where most of the staff are terrible, lousy people, and their pranks are meant to act out against the terrible establishment. When something goes too far or it results in a supervillain, they go clean up their mess. Of worthy note is that they actually learn their lesson when they do something bad, such as when they realize that it's not nice to make fun of people at the end of book 4. They consider their (admittedly cruel-hearted) teachers and InsufferableGenius Melvin AcceptableTargets, however.
* ComplexityAddiction:
** In Book 9, when it comes to neutralizing resident school bully Kipper Krupp. In the beginning, he is already afraid of George due to a previous incident. Instead of [[MundaneSolution using this fact to scare Kipper into giving up his bullying ways,]] George and Harold devise a complicated plan that involves playing a series of elaborate pranks on Kipper to make him think he's being cursed by "The Haunted Pants of Wedgie Magee".
** They retain this trait in the animated series. [[spoiler: After having their memories erased by Murdsley, the boys discover that they set up an elaborate quest for them to regain their memories. This involves traveling around the globe, switching around the letters to a sign which would activate their locker on voice command which produced a comic that explains everything to them]].
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: In the film, Mr. Krupp decides to punish George and Harold by placing them in separate classes, hoping that doing so will annihilate their friendship. Despite the two living ''right next door to each other'', they deeply dread this punishment and react as if doing so will genuinely ruin their friendship as Krupp intended.
* TheDividual: Really don't have any distinct personality traits that differentiate each other. George is maybe ''slightly'' smarter than Harold, but that's about it.
** The ninth book gave them individual characterizations when they were shown as kindergartners. Little Harold was shy and lonely and spent time coming up with and drawing various superheroes to cope with the stress of being bullied and having a DisappearedDad. Little George was outgoing, quick-thinking, a prolific writer of silly stories, and [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] four sixth graders who were bullying Harold without breaking a sweat.
** The movie additionally elaborated on emphasizing George being bolder and more outgoing, with Harold as more reserved and more emotionally sensitive.
** Their individual characterization is actually quite similar to the way [[ThoseTwoGuys those two]] TricksterTwins [[Literature/HarryPotter Fred and George]] are different. Fred and George had some subtle ones that had to be confirmed by WordOfGod, such as Fred generally being the one who tended to take the lead and be bolder. Overall in the books, Harold is shown to be more CloudcuckooLander and sentimental (prominently when the boys disagree on whether to keep their new pterodactyl as a pet and names it Crackers, or take it back to its own time period), whereas George is more pragmatic and tends to take the lead (such as speaking first or controlling the science device on hand). Concerning their [[EvilCounterpart Evil Counterparts]], Evil!Harold seems to be the one to take the lead in general.
** This is lampshaded in Episode 7 of Season 3 when a scene depicts the two of them sharing the same mindscape and are in instant agreement with each other.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: While training in Ratrick for an assignment in season 2 episode 4 of the series, the latter draws a comic of the loss of his love before the episode. The duo, however, doesn't even realize what he's trying to portray and simply think he finally learned how to make comics, resulting in the rat running away.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** At the end of book 4, they felt remorse for making fun of Professor Poopypants.
** In an episode of the animated series, even they thought a certain idea for a prank was just crossing the line, said prank being giving all the teachers diarrhea and locking all the bathroom doors so they couldn’t get in.
* ForHalloweenImGoingAsMyself: For a past Halloween, the boys dressed up as each other while trick-o-treating.
* FriendlessBackground: In the books, Harold had no friends when he was in kindergarten as he was still processing [[FamilyDrama his father leaving]] and was a frequent victim to Kipper and his trio of stooges. Although he gains a best friend in George, the rest of the series indicates that the pair only have each other to rely on for support as the rest of their peers are either common fans or unfortunate pranking victims.
** Subverted in the animated series as the cast includes [[CanonForeigner a variety of child characters]] whom the boys can count on as genuine friends.
* FutureMeScaresMe: In Book 10, after realizing all the trouble they caused with their pranks and time-traveling shenanigans, they swear off comic books and all fun things, deciding to be more responsible and act like grown-ups. They immediately renege on that vow after going 30 years into the future and seeing their adult selves as mean, overweight, fun-hating SadistTeacher[=s=] working for an elderly Mr. Krupp.
* GoneHorriblyRight: In Book 5, they prank Mr. Krupp by tricking him into giving a card to Ms. Ribble that says "Will you marry me?", but the other teachers think it's for real and set up an entire wedding ceremony and reception for them.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: They always do everything together. In the movie, Mr. Krupp plans to break up their friendship by putting them in ''"SEPARATE CLASSES!!"'' [[spoiler:The heterosexual part is eventually subverted with Harold, however. Still, his chosen husband is not George.]]
* ImageSong: The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTGw94yYD9U A Friend Like You]] perfectly illustrates the friendship between the boys and how much they love and care about each other.
* InformedKindness: Each book's opening maintains that regardless of their constant pranking, George and Harold are genuinely good kids. This can be hard to believe in the first five books, especially with how vicious some of their pranks can be, and the fact that more often than not, they're the cause of the current conflict:
** In the first book, they cause enough disruption at a school football game to get the school to forfeit it, subsequently ruin everyone else's day, and Captain Underpants is later created as a result of their attempt to avoid being punished for this.
** In the second book, Mr. Krupp legitimately bans them from the Invention Convention because the previous year, they played a prank on the teachers and every other student by secretly gluing them to their chairs. George and Harold [[NeverMyFault refuse any responsibility]] and sabotage the other kids' inventions out of spite.
** In the third book, they make animal noises in their science teacher Mr. Fyde's (who's actually not a jerk as the others), making him think he's hearing things. Later, they send a bogus recipe (including baking soda and vinegar) to the lunch ladies just for fun, which greatly backfires when they want to do something ''nice'' for the students and bake cupcakes for everyone. However, while Mr. Krupp is surprisingly reasonable throughout the whole thing, the boys don't see their punishment (eating in Mr. Krupp's office with their own lunches) as a proper punishment, therefore basically getting away scot-free.
** In the fourth book, they're caught changing the letters on a sign on the day they were supposed to go on a school trip, spelling out a message that is admittedly offensive to the teachers. After being punished by being forced into cleaning the teachers lounge, George and Harold pull another prank which causes the teachers to look like evil snowmen, making Mr. Fyde think he's gone crazy and leading to him resigning. Then, when Professor Poopypants joins the school faculty as a substitute science teacher, they repeatedly make fun of his name and cause everyone else to laugh at him, to the point where their latest comic about him drives him to villainy.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: In the season 3 premiere, they both poke fun at [[spoiler: how ridiculous it was for George to make a comic book with [[ArchEnemy Melvin]] of all people. To their dismay, Melvin took their insults to heart and decided to tattle on them to Mr. Krupp]].
** throughout the HalloweenSpecial, George and Harold openly talk about how much Melvin loves the holiday despite the nerd making multiple attempts to get the holiday canceled. It isn't later on that [[spoiler: they realize that Melvin never got to hang out with them in any past Halloweens like they initially believed. He would always stay at home to give away candy to the other kids. It also doesn't help that the boys would scare Melvin with their costumes each year. Once they make this revelation, they attempt to amend bridges by inviting Melvin to go sneak-or-snacking with them]].
* ItWasWithYouAllAlong: In the Epic Choice-O-Rama special, Krupp and Melvin planned to destroy the boys' treehouse citing it as the source of their creative imagination. Even George and Harold are afraid of this as they cherish their ability to create fantastical comic books. [[spoiler: In one of the endings where the treehouse is destroyed, the boys realize that their creativity was always with them after they instantly make a comic of how they'd become miserable robots who would be enslaved by bug aliens]].
* ItsAllMyFault: In book 4, they take responsibility for the role they played in Professor Poopypants' SanitySlippage. They admit that Professor Poopypants probably wouldn't have become evil if they just didn't make fun of him.
* KidHero: Not every pair of fourth-grade best friends gets to save the world with Captain Underpants.
* LaserGuidedKarma: George and Harold get hit by this a few times in the series.
** In the first book, they pull pranks that ruin everybody's day, so Mr. Krupp punishes them by blackmailing them ([[DisproportionateRetribution even though said punishment was disproportionate, though]]).
** In book 2, after ruining their peers' inventions for the Invention Convention out of spite due to [[JerkassHasAPoint Mr. Krupp justifiably banning them from participating]], Mr. Krupp puts them in detention for the rest of the school year (this is reversed in the end, though).
** In book 3, their pranks influence the lunch ladies ([[TokenGoodTeammate who aren't actually jerks to the children]]) to resign. So Mr. Krupp punishes them by not allowing them to eat school lunch and making them sit in his office. (Although it's PlayedWith in that they don't really see the first half of the punishment as a punishment, and considering that one of the lunch ladies stated during their resignation that she once ate their own cafeteria food and ''[[DamnedByFaintPraise barely got sick at all]]'', they clearly are about as good as their jobs as everyone else at the school.)
* TheLeader: In the animated series, the two share this role as they guide their friends [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits the M.I.S.F.A.R.T.S.]] into helping them overcome whatever obstacles that [[DeanBitterman Krupp]] and/or [[InsufferableGenius Melvin]] throw at them.
* LimitedWardrobe: George always wears a white collard shirt and tie while Harold always wears a striped T-shirt.
* LovableRogue: They are good-natured kids with a fondness for tricks, tricks that, in the movie at least, are meant to brighten their classmates' days.
* MadLibsCatchphrase: At the beginning of every introductory comic that starts each book, George always says some variation of "We are cool!" and Harold always says "Me, too!"
* MeaningfulName: George and Harold got their first names from two of Dav Pilkey’s favorite childhood books; ''Literature/CuriousGeorge'' and ''Literature/HaroldAndThePurpleCrayon''. As for their last names, he got those from the actors who played his two favorite characters on ''The Little Rascals''; Stymie (Matthew Beard) and Wheezer (Bobby Hutchins). "George" and "Harold" are also the names of the brothers from ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife.''
* MrImagination: They conceived many in-universe fictional superheroes such as Dog Man, Super Diaper Baby, and Diaper Dog, The Amazing Cow Lady and of course, Captain Underpants. Unfortunately for them, they go to [[SuckySchool Jerome Horwitz Elementary School,]] where imagination is not only forbidden but discouraged...
* NaughtyIsGood: They're consistently mischievous and show active disdain for the authority figures around Jerome Horwitz Elementary. However, they're also consistently portrayed in much better lights than the school's SadistTeachers, the authoritarian Principal Krupp, or smug nerd Melvin; and most of their antagonism seems to stem from the fact that the school lives to stamp out the creativity and imagination that they value above all else.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: They decide to stop Mr. Krupp from being rehired as a future camp director not only to secure their own summer fun but for the sake of all other children.
* NeverMyFault: In book 2, Mr. Krupp (rightfully) bans George & Harold for participating in the Invention Convention due to a prank the duo pulled on all the staff and students when they participated in the previous Invention Convention. Rather than admitting they were wrong for pulling such a stunt, the boys just play the victim, get angry, and sabotage the other kids’ inventions out of spite.
* {{Nice Guy}}s: Despite them being {{designated hero}}es at times, they are genuinely good kids. This is amped up in the movie and animated series, as they are shown to be popular amongst their peers (except [[TheStoolPigeon Melvin]] [[InsufferableGenius Sneedly]], of course).
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In some form or another, all of their pranks have resulted in the mayhem that unfolds in each book. They were responsible for the majority of chaos in books 1-5.
* NotMeThisTime: In Book 6, Mr. Krupp blames them for him and the other students (except the 4th graders) getting their pants messed up with ketchup packets. While the boys were responsible for the fads, they weren't the ones who took the time to put those ketchup packets under a lot of toilets.
* OhCrap: Any time someone snaps their fingers within hearing range of Mr. Krupp, turning him into Captain Underpants.
* PlotHole: In the Epic Choice-O-Rama special, George is shown with his afro while he and Harold are in 1st Grade. Manga readers can verify that this shouldn't be possible since Harold shaved off his afro when they were still in kindergarten.
* RedOniBlueOni: They're both pretty rambunctious, but in general, George is the bold, leader-ly Red to Harold’s calmer, more sensitive Blue.
** In the animated series, they're both the eccentric Red to [[WomenAreWiser Erica Wang's]] mellow Blue.
* RidiculouslySuccessfulFutureSelf: [[spoiler:After RetGone-ing their evil future SadistTeacher selves, they travel to a different and much happier future where they've successfully published the ''Dog Man'' comic books together, and are HappilyMarried to their partners, with two children each.]]
* ShipperOnDeck: [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, they set up Mr. Krupp with Edith the lunch lady.]]
* SignsOfDisrepair: Their favorite prank is rearranging the letters on signs to spell something silly. [[SkewedPriorities Even when running for their lives from giant booger monsters.]]
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: In book 4, Professor Poopypants is DrivenToMadness over people constantly making fun of his name and uses {{Shrink Ray}}s and HumongousMecha to hold the world hostage, threatening to shrink everyone in the world unless they change their names to ones just as silly as his. When Captain Underpants defeats him and he's being taken away by the police, George and Harold point out that he could have simply changed his own name instead, to which the Professor confesses that such a solution had never occurred to him. Sadly, the name he chooses to change to, Tippy Tinkletrousers, is just as [[UnfortunateName unfortunate]].
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: George is the more reasonable one at times when it comes to certain choices the duo makes.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Rare examples of the ''protagonists'' being this trope. The two have almost identical personalities.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: George's is chocolate chip cookies and Harold's is gum, implying that they have a mutual SweetTooth.
* TrueCompanions: They're best friends and always do everything together, so much that a driving plot point in the movie is their fear of being placed in separate classes.
* WhoWritesThisCrap: [[NoFourthWall Being self-aware they are in a fictional story]], George and Harold constantly take jabs at the author whenever the plot gets weird or stupid.
* YourMindMakesItReal: In episode 5 of season 3, the boys and their friends are transported to a dream dimension where George and Harold hold infinite imaginative power since the dimension was based on ''their dreams''.
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* AfraidOfBlood: He’s implied to be this near the end of the movie.
-->'''George:''' You know what? Let's do a blood oath! But minus the blood! I don't wanna see the blood, no blood!
* BrilliantButLazy: George has been stated to be smarter than kids twice his age, but he clearly doesn't see himself as a role model student.
* BullyHunter: Kindergartener George in book 9, when he witnessed Kindergartner Harold being bullied by Kipper & his goons. This prompts Kindergartner George to beat up the bullies "Indiana Jones" style.
* ChildProdigy: Before entering Kindergarten, he was described as a brilliant student who excelled at social interactions along with writing captivating stories.
* FunnyAfro: He has a huuuge afro when he was little. But he lost it in order to pull off a prank against Kipper Krupp.
* HypnoRay: In all versions of the [=CU=] story, George has always been the one to wield the Hypno-Ring to hypnotize Krupp and anyone else.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: George in the animated series. He has a high-pitched shriek that could rival [[WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball Darwin Watterson]].
* WhipItGood: He uses his tie as a whip to fight back against Kipper and his cronies.
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* AlliterativeName: '''H'''arold '''H'''utchins.
* CloudCuckoolander: Both of them to a certain extent, but in TheMovie, Harold constantly inserts dolphins into their comics and when he thinks about the BadFuture where he and George aren't friends anymore, it ends with a robot apocalypse, just because "it's the future, there have to be robots".
* DisappearedDad: Harold. In the ninth book, it's revealed that his parents divorced and his dad moved to Nevada when he was 6.
* DumbBlonde: Downplayed by Harold. He's a little more foolish and [[CloudCuckoolander odd]] than George, but he's not ''dumb''. He is, after all, one half of the creative force behind Treehouse Comix, Inc., and he and George are on about equal footing when it comes to dealing with the mayhem of Captain Underpants.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Harold has blonde hair and is one of the most heroic characters (if constantly mischievous).
* HasTwoMommies: [[spoiler:Future Harold has a husband, and they have twins named Owen and Kei.]]
* MessyHair: Harold has poofy hair. The first chapter of every book always introduces him as "the one with the T-shirt and the bad haircut".
* OlderSidekick: Harold is the older one by three months, but George is the leader of the two.
* StraightGay: [[spoiler: Future Harold. Apart from having a husband, he shows absolutely no stereotypical gay traits.]]
* TraumaticHaircut: In ''Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman,'' they set up a BatmanGambit to de-power Wedgie Woman (whose powers come from her PrehensileHair) by tricking her into spraying hair remover everywhere. It works, but they get caught in the blast too.
-->'''Harold:''' ''(screams)'' My mom's gonna lay hard-boiled eggs when she sees me!\\
'''George:''' Relax. Our hair will grow back.\\
'''Harold:''' That's easy for you to say. Your hair was only half an inch long!
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[[caption-width-right:324:Two usually responsible kids. If something goes wrong, they're usually responsible.]]
->''George is the kid on the right with the tie and the flat-top. Harold is the one on the left with the T-shirt and the bad haircut. Remember that now.''
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/KevinHart (George in the movie)[=/=]Ramone Hamilton (George in the animated series), Creator/ThomasMiddleditch (Harold in the movie)[=/=]Jay Gragnani (Harold in the animated series)\\
'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Bruno Coronel (George), Arturo Castañeda (Harold)\\
'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/TatsuhisaSuzuki (George/movie), Creator/TomoeHanba (George/TV series), Makoto Naruse (Harold/movie), Creator/ShizukaIshigami (Harold/TV series)
Two fourth-grade pranksters, who are best friends and next-door neighbors and the main protagonists of the series. They started a comic book company called "Treehouse Comix, Inc.", and make copies of their latest comic book and sell them on the playground. They are the class clowns in 4th grade at Jerome Horwitz Elementary and often get into trouble of epic proportions.
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* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the books, they met in kindergarten when George beat up a bunch of sixth-graders who were bullying Harold. In the movie, their first moment of bonding is when they both laugh as the kindergarten teacher is [[UranusIsShowing talking about Uranus.]]
* AdaptationalHeroism: While both versions of the duo are portrayed as mischievous pranksters, the movie portrays them as nobler; pulling pranks on the teachers and faculty to make school-life more tolerable for them and their classmates. Their book counterparts pull pranks and make jokes at everyone's expense, and are usually the only ones laughing at the end.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy:
** They are still pranksters in the animated movie adaptation, but are given more heroic moments compared to their borderline-DesignatedHero counterparts. While they were still heroic and likable in the books, they are more creating humor to brighten others' days rather than using it for their own amusement. This leads to the plot point in the movie that is nearly absent in the books, [[spoiler:George and Harold deciding to be nicer to Mr. Krupp because he doesn't have anyone who cares about him. This never happens in the books, where Krupp stays a fairly two-dimensional villain.]]
** This also extends to the animated series where not only are they kind and cooperative with their friends and classmates. Not to mention, they [[spoiler: willingly go into Krupp's office, knowing that doing so would result in their expulsion from Jerome Horwitz, to return his rule book. The reason being that they know [[SympathyForTheDevil his job is the only thing that makes him happy in life]] and [[WhatYouAreInTheDark taking that away would make them just like him]]]].
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In the books, their classmates' opinion of them tends to go up and down depending on how irritating their pranks are at the moment (although everyone loves their Captain Underpants comic books). In the animated series, they have a better relationship with their classmates as a result of their efforts to make the school a more fun place for everyone, not just themselves.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: Two roads are taken at the end of Book 12. [[spoiler: The present versions of George and Harold decide to use Melvin's time machine to look for their pets who went missing during the battle with Professor Poopypants (who has now changed his name to Tippy Tinkletrousers). As for the Yesterday duo, they remain in the present timeline and decide to work on a new comic series featuring Dog Man]].
* ArchEnemy: These fun-loving pranksters are always finding themselves at odds with their cruel child-hating principal, Mr. Krupp, and the school snitch and teacher's pet, Melvin.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: The two have been diagnosed with it by second grade, but they don't mind, even treating it as a badge of honor thanks to them being one of the more creative ones diagnosed with it.
-->"All of the 'experts' at Jerome Horwitz Elementary School had their opinions about George and Harold. Their guidance counselor, Mr. Rected, thought the boys suffered from A.D.D. The school psychologist, Miss Labler, diagnosed them with A.D.H.D. And their mean old principal, Mr. Krupp, thought they were just plain old ''B.A.D.!''"
* AuthorAvatar: Their love of pranks, writing comic books and generally rebellious attitudes make them similar to Dav Pilkey himself as a child.
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:In book 5, they defeat Wedgie Woman by running by with a big box of hair remover spray and yelling that they hope she doesn't get her hands on their giant box of "Extra Strength Spray Starch" (Captain Underpants' one weakness). She falls for it, steals the cans, and sprays them everywhere, which renders her completely bald and powerless, as her powers come from her PrehensileHair.]]
** In the season 3 premiere, [[spoiler: they both end up separated by Krupp in the hopes of pitting them against each other to set them up as life long enemies. The boys decide to play along by becoming the worst of enemies to the point that the entire camp ends up in flames and ruins. Not wanting to put up with their destructive "conflict" anymore, Krupp decides to place them in the same camp]].
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: In book 10, after realizing all the disasters that happened because of their pranks and time-traveling antics, they decide to start being more responsible and give up fun things like comic books and jokes. Immediately after, they get transported by Tippy Tinkletrousers to a BadFuture where their older selves are evil, fun-hating SadistTeacher[=s=] working for an elderly Mr. Krupp.
* BookDumb: They don't get good grades and don't particularly care about doing well in school, although they at least put in the effort to keep their grades at Bs and Cs.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: They sometimes use the word "bub" towards other characters, like Melvin and Captain Underpants.
* {{Catchphrase}}:
--> '''Harold:''' Oh, No!
--> '''George:''' HereWeGoAgain
** Also in the books, whenever something bad is about to happen.
--> '''George:''' I have an idea.
--> '''Harold:''' What?
--> '''George:''' RUN!
** In [[WesternAnimation/TheEpicTalesOfCaptainUnderpants the animated series]], Harold tends to say “So good!” a lot.
* ClassClown: They are known for disrupting classes and pranking others.
* ClassicalAntiHero: They are genuinely good kids; they just happen to go to a school where most of the staff are terrible, lousy people, and their pranks are meant to act out against the terrible establishment. When something goes too far or it results in a supervillain, they go clean up their mess. Of worthy note is that they actually learn their lesson when they do something bad, such as when they realize that it's not nice to make fun of people at the end of book 4. They consider their (admittedly cruel-hearted) teachers and InsufferableGenius Melvin AcceptableTargets, however.
* ComplexityAddiction:
** In Book 9, when it comes to neutralizing resident school bully Kipper Krupp. In the beginning, he is already afraid of George due to a previous incident. Instead of [[MundaneSolution using this fact to scare Kipper into giving up his bullying ways,]] George and Harold devise a complicated plan that involves playing a series of elaborate pranks on Kipper to make him think he's being cursed by "The Haunted Pants of Wedgie Magee".
** They retain this trait in the animated series. [[spoiler: After having their memories erased by Murdsley, the boys discover that they set up an elaborate quest for them to regain their memories. This involves traveling around the globe, switching around the letters to a sign which would activate their locker on voice command which produced a comic that explains everything to them]].
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: In the film, Mr. Krupp decides to punish George and Harold by placing them in separate classes, hoping that doing so will annihilate their friendship. Despite the two living ''right next door to each other'', they deeply dread this punishment and react as if doing so will genuinely ruin their friendship as Krupp intended.
* TheDividual: Really don't have any distinct personality traits that differentiate each other. George is maybe ''slightly'' smarter than Harold, but that's about it.
** The ninth book gave them individual characterizations when they were shown as kindergartners. Little Harold was shy and lonely and spent time coming up with and drawing various superheroes to cope with the stress of being bullied and having a DisappearedDad. Little George was outgoing, quick-thinking, a prolific writer of silly stories, and [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] four sixth graders who were bullying Harold without breaking a sweat.
** The movie additionally elaborated on emphasizing George being bolder and more outgoing, with Harold as more reserved and more emotionally sensitive.
** Their individual characterization is actually quite similar to the way [[ThoseTwoGuys those two]] TricksterTwins [[Literature/HarryPotter Fred and George]] are different. Fred and George had some subtle ones that had to be confirmed by WordOfGod, such as Fred generally being the one who tended to take the lead and be bolder. Overall in the books, Harold is shown to be more CloudcuckooLander and sentimental (prominently when the boys disagree on whether to keep their new pterodactyl as a pet and names it Crackers, or take it back to its own time period), whereas George is more pragmatic and tends to take the lead (such as speaking first or controlling the science device on hand). Concerning their [[EvilCounterpart Evil Counterparts]], Evil!Harold seems to be the one to take the lead in general.
** This is lampshaded in Episode 7 of Season 3 when a scene depicts the two of them sharing the same mindscape and are in instant agreement with each other.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: While training in Ratrick for an assignment in season 2 episode 4 of the series, the latter draws a comic of the loss of his love before the episode. The duo, however, doesn't even realize what he's trying to portray and simply think he finally learned how to make comics, resulting in the rat running away.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** At the end of book 4, they felt remorse for making fun of Professor Poopypants.
** In an episode of the animated series, even they thought a certain idea for a prank was just crossing the line, said prank being giving all the teachers diarrhea and locking all the bathroom doors so they couldn’t get in.
* ForHalloweenImGoingAsMyself: For a past Halloween, the boys dressed up as each other while trick-o-treating.
* FriendlessBackground: In the books, Harold had no friends when he was in kindergarten as he was still processing [[FamilyDrama his father leaving]] and was a frequent victim to Kipper and his trio of stooges. Although he gains a best friend in George, the rest of the series indicates that the pair only have each other to rely on for support as the rest of their peers are either common fans or unfortunate pranking victims.
** Subverted in the animated series as the cast includes [[CanonForeigner a variety of child characters]] whom the boys can count on as genuine friends.
* FutureMeScaresMe: In Book 10, after realizing all the trouble they caused with their pranks and time-traveling shenanigans, they swear off comic books and all fun things, deciding to be more responsible and act like grown-ups. They immediately renege on that vow after going 30 years into the future and seeing their adult selves as mean, overweight, fun-hating SadistTeacher[=s=] working for an elderly Mr. Krupp.
* GoneHorriblyRight: In Book 5, they prank Mr. Krupp by tricking him into giving a card to Ms. Ribble that says "Will you marry me?", but the other teachers think it's for real and set up an entire wedding ceremony and reception for them.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: They always do everything together. In the movie, Mr. Krupp plans to break up their friendship by putting them in ''"SEPARATE CLASSES!!"'' [[spoiler:The heterosexual part is eventually subverted with Harold, however. Still, his chosen husband is not George.]]
* ImageSong: The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTGw94yYD9U A Friend Like You]] perfectly illustrates the friendship between the boys and how much they love and care about each other.
* InformedKindness: Each book's opening maintains that regardless of their constant pranking, George and Harold are genuinely good kids. This can be hard to believe in the first five books, especially with how vicious some of their pranks can be, and the fact that more often than not, they're the cause of the current conflict:
** In the first book, they cause enough disruption at a school football game to get the school to forfeit it, subsequently ruin everyone else's day, and Captain Underpants is later created as a result of their attempt to avoid being punished for this.
** In the second book, Mr. Krupp legitimately bans them from the Invention Convention because the previous year, they played a prank on the teachers and every other student by secretly gluing them to their chairs. George and Harold [[NeverMyFault refuse any responsibility]] and sabotage the other kids' inventions out of spite.
** In the third book, they make animal noises in their science teacher Mr. Fyde's (who's actually not a jerk as the others), making him think he's hearing things. Later, they send a bogus recipe (including baking soda and vinegar) to the lunch ladies just for fun, which greatly backfires when they want to do something ''nice'' for the students and bake cupcakes for everyone. However, while Mr. Krupp is surprisingly reasonable throughout the whole thing, the boys don't see their punishment (eating in Mr. Krupp's office with their own lunches) as a proper punishment, therefore basically getting away scot-free.
** In the fourth book, they're caught changing the letters on a sign on the day they were supposed to go on a school trip, spelling out a message that is admittedly offensive to the teachers. After being punished by being forced into cleaning the teachers lounge, George and Harold pull another prank which causes the teachers to look like evil snowmen, making Mr. Fyde think he's gone crazy and leading to him resigning. Then, when Professor Poopypants joins the school faculty as a substitute science teacher, they repeatedly make fun of his name and cause everyone else to laugh at him, to the point where their latest comic about him drives him to villainy.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: In the season 3 premiere, they both poke fun at [[spoiler: how ridiculous it was for George to make a comic book with [[ArchEnemy Melvin]] of all people. To their dismay, Melvin took their insults to heart and decided to tattle on them to Mr. Krupp]].
** throughout the HalloweenSpecial, George and Harold openly talk about how much Melvin loves the holiday despite the nerd making multiple attempts to get the holiday canceled. It isn't later on that [[spoiler: they realize that Melvin never got to hang out with them in any past Halloweens like they initially believed. He would always stay at home to give away candy to the other kids. It also doesn't help that the boys would scare Melvin with their costumes each year. Once they make this revelation, they attempt to amend bridges by inviting Melvin to go sneak-or-snacking with them]].
* ItWasWithYouAllAlong: In the Epic Choice-O-Rama special, Krupp and Melvin planned to destroy the boys' treehouse citing it as the source of their creative imagination. Even George and Harold are afraid of this as they cherish their ability to create fantastical comic books. [[spoiler: In one of the endings where the treehouse is destroyed, the boys realize that their creativity was always with them after they instantly make a comic of how they'd become miserable robots who would be enslaved by bug aliens]].
* ItsAllMyFault: In book 4, they take responsibility for the role they played in Professor Poopypants' SanitySlippage. They admit that Professor Poopypants probably wouldn't have become evil if they just didn't make fun of him.
* KidHero: Not every pair of fourth-grade best friends gets to save the world with Captain Underpants.
* LaserGuidedKarma: George and Harold get hit by this a few times in the series.
** In the first book, they pull pranks that ruin everybody's day, so Mr. Krupp punishes them by blackmailing them ([[DisproportionateRetribution even though said punishment was disproportionate, though]]).
** In book 2, after ruining their peers' inventions for the Invention Convention out of spite due to [[JerkassHasAPoint Mr. Krupp justifiably banning them from participating]], Mr. Krupp puts them in detention for the rest of the school year (this is reversed in the end, though).
** In book 3, their pranks influence the lunch ladies ([[TokenGoodTeammate who aren't actually jerks to the children]]) to resign. So Mr. Krupp punishes them by not allowing them to eat school lunch and making them sit in his office. (Although it's PlayedWith in that they don't really see the first half of the punishment as a punishment, and considering that one of the lunch ladies stated during their resignation that she once ate their own cafeteria food and ''[[DamnedByFaintPraise barely got sick at all]]'', they clearly are about as good as their jobs as everyone else at the school.)
* TheLeader: In the animated series, the two share this role as they guide their friends [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits the M.I.S.F.A.R.T.S.]] into helping them overcome whatever obstacles that [[DeanBitterman Krupp]] and/or [[InsufferableGenius Melvin]] throw at them.
* LimitedWardrobe: George always wears a white collard shirt and tie while Harold always wears a striped T-shirt.
* LovableRogue: They are good-natured kids with a fondness for tricks, tricks that, in the movie at least, are meant to brighten their classmates' days.
* MadLibsCatchphrase: At the beginning of every introductory comic that starts each book, George always says some variation of "We are cool!" and Harold always says "Me, too!"
* MeaningfulName: George and Harold got their first names from two of Dav Pilkey’s favorite childhood books; ''Literature/CuriousGeorge'' and ''Literature/HaroldAndThePurpleCrayon''. As for their last names, he got those from the actors who played his two favorite characters on ''The Little Rascals''; Stymie (Matthew Beard) and Wheezer (Bobby Hutchins). "George" and "Harold" are also the names of the brothers from ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife.''
* MrImagination: They conceived many in-universe fictional superheroes such as Dog Man, Super Diaper Baby, and Diaper Dog, The Amazing Cow Lady and of course, Captain Underpants. Unfortunately for them, they go to [[SuckySchool Jerome Horwitz Elementary School,]] where imagination is not only forbidden but discouraged...
* NaughtyIsGood: They're consistently mischievous and show active disdain for the authority figures around Jerome Horwitz Elementary. However, they're also consistently portrayed in much better lights than the school's SadistTeachers, the authoritarian Principal Krupp, or smug nerd Melvin; and most of their antagonism seems to stem from the fact that the school lives to stamp out the creativity and imagination that they value above all else.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: They decide to stop Mr. Krupp from being rehired as a future camp director not only to secure their own summer fun but for the sake of all other children.
* NeverMyFault: In book 2, Mr. Krupp (rightfully) bans George & Harold for participating in the Invention Convention due to a prank the duo pulled on all the staff and students when they participated in the previous Invention Convention. Rather than admitting they were wrong for pulling such a stunt, the boys just play the victim, get angry, and sabotage the other kids’ inventions out of spite.
* {{Nice Guy}}s: Despite them being {{designated hero}}es at times, they are genuinely good kids. This is amped up in the movie and animated series, as they are shown to be popular amongst their peers (except [[TheStoolPigeon Melvin]] [[InsufferableGenius Sneedly]], of course).
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In some form or another, all of their pranks have resulted in the mayhem that unfolds in each book. They were responsible for the majority of chaos in books 1-5.
* NotMeThisTime: In Book 6, Mr. Krupp blames them for him and the other students (except the 4th graders) getting their pants messed up with ketchup packets. While the boys were responsible for the fads, they weren't the ones who took the time to put those ketchup packets under a lot of toilets.
* OhCrap: Any time someone snaps their fingers within hearing range of Mr. Krupp, turning him into Captain Underpants.
* PlotHole: In the Epic Choice-O-Rama special, George is shown with his afro while he and Harold are in 1st Grade. Manga readers can verify that this shouldn't be possible since Harold shaved off his afro when they were still in kindergarten.
* RedOniBlueOni: They're both pretty rambunctious, but in general, George is the bold, leader-ly Red to Harold’s calmer, more sensitive Blue.
** In the animated series, they're both the eccentric Red to [[WomenAreWiser Erica Wang's]] mellow Blue.
* RidiculouslySuccessfulFutureSelf: [[spoiler:After RetGone-ing their evil future SadistTeacher selves, they travel to a different and much happier future where they've successfully published the ''Dog Man'' comic books together, and are HappilyMarried to their partners, with two children each.]]
* ShipperOnDeck: [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, they set up Mr. Krupp with Edith the lunch lady.]]
* SignsOfDisrepair: Their favorite prank is rearranging the letters on signs to spell something silly. [[SkewedPriorities Even when running for their lives from giant booger monsters.]]
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: In book 4, Professor Poopypants is DrivenToMadness over people constantly making fun of his name and uses {{Shrink Ray}}s and HumongousMecha to hold the world hostage, threatening to shrink everyone in the world unless they change their names to ones just as silly as his. When Captain Underpants defeats him and he's being taken away by the police, George and Harold point out that he could have simply changed his own name instead, to which the Professor confesses that such a solution had never occurred to him. Sadly, the name he chooses to change to, Tippy Tinkletrousers, is just as [[UnfortunateName unfortunate]].
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: George is the more reasonable one at times when it comes to certain choices the duo makes.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Rare examples of the ''protagonists'' being this trope. The two have almost identical personalities.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: George's is chocolate chip cookies and Harold's is gum, implying that they have a mutual SweetTooth.
* TrueCompanions: They're best friends and always do everything together, so much that a driving plot point in the movie is their fear of being placed in separate classes.
* WhoWritesThisCrap: [[NoFourthWall Being self-aware they are in a fictional story]], George and Harold constantly take jabs at the author whenever the plot gets weird or stupid.
* YourMindMakesItReal: In episode 5 of season 3, the boys and their friends are transported to a dream dimension where George and Harold hold infinite imaginative power since the dimension was based on ''their dreams''.
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* AfraidOfBlood: He’s implied to be this near the end of the movie.
-->'''George:''' You know what? Let's do a blood oath! But minus the blood! I don't wanna see the blood, no blood!
* BrilliantButLazy: George has been stated to be smarter than kids twice his age, but he clearly doesn't see himself as a role model student.
* BullyHunter: Kindergartener George in book 9, when he witnessed Kindergartner Harold being bullied by Kipper & his goons. This prompts Kindergartner George to beat up the bullies "Indiana Jones" style.
* ChildProdigy: Before entering Kindergarten, he was described as a brilliant student who excelled at social interactions along with writing captivating stories.
* FunnyAfro: He has a huuuge afro when he was little. But he lost it in order to pull off a prank against Kipper Krupp.
* HypnoRay: In all versions of the [=CU=] story, George has always been the one to wield the Hypno-Ring to hypnotize Krupp and anyone else.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: George in the animated series. He has a high-pitched shriek that could rival [[WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball Darwin Watterson]].
* WhipItGood: He uses his tie as a whip to fight back against Kipper and his cronies.
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* AlliterativeName: '''H'''arold '''H'''utchins.
* CloudCuckoolander: Both of them to a certain extent, but in TheMovie, Harold constantly inserts dolphins into their comics and when he thinks about the BadFuture where he and George aren't friends anymore, it ends with a robot apocalypse, just because "it's the future, there have to be robots".
* DisappearedDad: Harold. In the ninth book, it's revealed that his parents divorced and his dad moved to Nevada when he was 6.
* DumbBlonde: Downplayed by Harold. He's a little more foolish and [[CloudCuckoolander odd]] than George, but he's not ''dumb''. He is, after all, one half of the creative force behind Treehouse Comix, Inc., and he and George are on about equal footing when it comes to dealing with the mayhem of Captain Underpants.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Harold has blonde hair and is one of the most heroic characters (if constantly mischievous).
* HasTwoMommies: [[spoiler:Future Harold has a husband, and they have twins named Owen and Kei.]]
* MessyHair: Harold has poofy hair. The first chapter of every book always introduces him as "the one with the T-shirt and the bad haircut".
* OlderSidekick: Harold is the older one by three months, but George is the leader of the two.
* StraightGay: [[spoiler: Future Harold. Apart from having a husband, he shows absolutely no stereotypical gay traits.]]
* TraumaticHaircut: In ''Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman,'' they set up a BatmanGambit to de-power Wedgie Woman (whose powers come from her PrehensileHair) by tricking her into spraying hair remover everywhere. It works, but they get caught in the blast too.
-->'''Harold:''' ''(screams)'' My mom's gonna lay hard-boiled eggs when she sees me!\\
'''George:''' Relax. Our hair will grow back.\\
'''Harold:''' That's easy for you to say. Your hair was only half an inch long!
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->''George is the kid on the right with the tie and the flat-top. Harold is the one on the left with the T-shirt and the bad haircut. Remember that now.''
->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/KevinHart (George in the movie)[=/=]Ramone Hamilton (George in the animated series), Creator/ThomasMiddleditch (Harold in the movie)[=/=]Jay Gragnani (Harold in the animated series)\\
'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Bruno Coronel (George), Arturo Castañeda (Harold)\\
'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/TatsuhisaSuzuki (George/movie), Creator/TomoeHanba (George/TV series), Makoto Naruse (Harold/movie), Creator/ShizukaIshigami (Harold/TV series)
Two fourth-grade pranksters, who are best friends and next-door neighbors and the main protagonists of the series. They started a comic book company called "Treehouse Comix, Inc.", and make copies of their latest comic book and sell them on the playground. They are the class clowns in 4th grade at Jerome Horwitz Elementary and often get into trouble of epic proportions.
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* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the books, they met in kindergarten when George beat up a bunch of sixth-graders who were bullying Harold. In the movie, their first moment of bonding is when they both laugh as the kindergarten teacher is [[UranusIsShowing talking about Uranus.]]
* AdaptationalHeroism: While both versions of the duo are portrayed as mischievous pranksters, the movie portrays them as nobler; pulling pranks on the teachers and faculty to make school-life more tolerable for them and their classmates. Their book counterparts pull pranks and make jokes at everyone's expense, and are usually the only ones laughing at the end.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy:
** They are still pranksters in the animated movie adaptation, but are given more heroic moments compared to their borderline-DesignatedHero counterparts. While they were still heroic and likable in the books, they are more creating humor to brighten others' days rather than using it for their own amusement. This leads to the plot point in the movie that is nearly absent in the books, [[spoiler:George and Harold deciding to be nicer to Mr. Krupp because he doesn't have anyone who cares about him. This never happens in the books, where Krupp stays a fairly two-dimensional villain.]]
** This also extends to the animated series where not only are they kind and cooperative with their friends and classmates. Not to mention, they [[spoiler: willingly go into Krupp's office, knowing that doing so would result in their expulsion from Jerome Horwitz, to return his rule book. The reason being that they know [[SympathyForTheDevil his job is the only thing that makes him happy in life]] and [[WhatYouAreInTheDark taking that away would make them just like him]]]].
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In the books, their classmates' opinion of them tends to go up and down depending on how irritating their pranks are at the moment (although everyone loves their Captain Underpants comic books). In the animated series, they have a better relationship with their classmates as a result of their efforts to make the school a more fun place for everyone, not just themselves.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: Two roads are taken at the end of Book 12. [[spoiler: The present versions of George and Harold decide to use Melvin's time machine to look for their pets who went missing during the battle with Professor Poopypants (who has now changed his name to Tippy Tinkletrousers). As for the Yesterday duo, they remain in the present timeline and decide to work on a new comic series featuring Dog Man]].
* ArchEnemy: These fun-loving pranksters are always finding themselves at odds with their cruel child-hating principal, Mr. Krupp, and the school snitch and teacher's pet, Melvin.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: The two have been diagnosed with it by second grade, but they don't mind, even treating it as a badge of honor thanks to them being one of the more creative ones diagnosed with it.
-->"All of the 'experts' at Jerome Horwitz Elementary School had their opinions about George and Harold. Their guidance counselor, Mr. Rected, thought the boys suffered from A.D.D. The school psychologist, Miss Labler, diagnosed them with A.D.H.D. And their mean old principal, Mr. Krupp, thought they were just plain old ''B.A.D.!''"
* AuthorAvatar: Their love of pranks, writing comic books and generally rebellious attitudes make them similar to Dav Pilkey himself as a child.
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:In book 5, they defeat Wedgie Woman by running by with a big box of hair remover spray and yelling that they hope she doesn't get her hands on their giant box of "Extra Strength Spray Starch" (Captain Underpants' one weakness). She falls for it, steals the cans, and sprays them everywhere, which renders her completely bald and powerless, as her powers come from her PrehensileHair.]]
** In the season 3 premiere, [[spoiler: they both end up separated by Krupp in the hopes of pitting them against each other to set them up as life long enemies. The boys decide to play along by becoming the worst of enemies to the point that the entire camp ends up in flames and ruins. Not wanting to put up with their destructive "conflict" anymore, Krupp decides to place them in the same camp]].
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: In book 10, after realizing all the disasters that happened because of their pranks and time-traveling antics, they decide to start being more responsible and give up fun things like comic books and jokes. Immediately after, they get transported by Tippy Tinkletrousers to a BadFuture where their older selves are evil, fun-hating SadistTeacher[=s=] working for an elderly Mr. Krupp.
* BookDumb: They don't get good grades and don't particularly care about doing well in school, although they at least put in the effort to keep their grades at Bs and Cs.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: They sometimes use the word "bub" towards other characters, like Melvin and Captain Underpants.
* {{Catchphrase}}:
--> '''Harold:''' Oh, No!
--> '''George:''' HereWeGoAgain
** Also in the books, whenever something bad is about to happen.
--> '''George:''' I have an idea.
--> '''Harold:''' What?
--> '''George:''' RUN!
** In [[WesternAnimation/TheEpicTalesOfCaptainUnderpants the animated series]], Harold tends to say “So good!” a lot.
* ClassClown: They are known for disrupting classes and pranking others.
* ClassicalAntiHero: They are genuinely good kids; they just happen to go to a school where most of the staff are terrible, lousy people, and their pranks are meant to act out against the terrible establishment. When something goes too far or it results in a supervillain, they go clean up their mess. Of worthy note is that they actually learn their lesson when they do something bad, such as when they realize that it's not nice to make fun of people at the end of book 4. They consider their (admittedly cruel-hearted) teachers and InsufferableGenius Melvin AcceptableTargets, however.
* ComplexityAddiction:
** In Book 9, when it comes to neutralizing resident school bully Kipper Krupp. In the beginning, he is already afraid of George due to a previous incident. Instead of [[MundaneSolution using this fact to scare Kipper into giving up his bullying ways,]] George and Harold devise a complicated plan that involves playing a series of elaborate pranks on Kipper to make him think he's being cursed by "The Haunted Pants of Wedgie Magee".
** They retain this trait in the animated series. [[spoiler: After having their memories erased by Murdsley, the boys discover that they set up an elaborate quest for them to regain their memories. This involves traveling around the globe, switching around the letters to a sign which would activate their locker on voice command which produced a comic that explains everything to them]].
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: In the film, Mr. Krupp decides to punish George and Harold by placing them in separate classes, hoping that doing so will annihilate their friendship. Despite the two living ''right next door to each other'', they deeply dread this punishment and react as if doing so will genuinely ruin their friendship as Krupp intended.
* TheDividual: Really don't have any distinct personality traits that differentiate each other. George is maybe ''slightly'' smarter than Harold, but that's about it.
** The ninth book gave them individual characterizations when they were shown as kindergartners. Little Harold was shy and lonely and spent time coming up with and drawing various superheroes to cope with the stress of being bullied and having a DisappearedDad. Little George was outgoing, quick-thinking, a prolific writer of silly stories, and [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] four sixth graders who were bullying Harold without breaking a sweat.
** The movie additionally elaborated on emphasizing George being bolder and more outgoing, with Harold as more reserved and more emotionally sensitive.
** Their individual characterization is actually quite similar to the way [[ThoseTwoGuys those two]] TricksterTwins [[Literature/HarryPotter Fred and George]] are different. Fred and George had some subtle ones that had to be confirmed by WordOfGod, such as Fred generally being the one who tended to take the lead and be bolder. Overall in the books, Harold is shown to be more CloudcuckooLander and sentimental (prominently when the boys disagree on whether to keep their new pterodactyl as a pet and names it Crackers, or take it back to its own time period), whereas George is more pragmatic and tends to take the lead (such as speaking first or controlling the science device on hand). Concerning their [[EvilCounterpart Evil Counterparts]], Evil!Harold seems to be the one to take the lead in general.
** This is lampshaded in Episode 7 of Season 3 when a scene depicts the two of them sharing the same mindscape and are in instant agreement with each other.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: While training in Ratrick for an assignment in season 2 episode 4 of the series, the latter draws a comic of the loss of his love before the episode. The duo, however, doesn't even realize what he's trying to portray and simply think he finally learned how to make comics, resulting in the rat running away.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** At the end of book 4, they felt remorse for making fun of Professor Poopypants.
** In an episode of the animated series, even they thought a certain idea for a prank was just crossing the line, said prank being giving all the teachers diarrhea and locking all the bathroom doors so they couldn’t get in.
* ForHalloweenImGoingAsMyself: For a past Halloween, the boys dressed up as each other while trick-o-treating.
* FriendlessBackground: In the books, Harold had no friends when he was in kindergarten as he was still processing [[FamilyDrama his father leaving]] and was a frequent victim to Kipper and his trio of stooges. Although he gains a best friend in George, the rest of the series indicates that the pair only have each other to rely on for support as the rest of their peers are either common fans or unfortunate pranking victims.
** Subverted in the animated series as the cast includes [[CanonForeigner a variety of child characters]] whom the boys can count on as genuine friends.
* FutureMeScaresMe: In Book 10, after realizing all the trouble they caused with their pranks and time-traveling shenanigans, they swear off comic books and all fun things, deciding to be more responsible and act like grown-ups. They immediately renege on that vow after going 30 years into the future and seeing their adult selves as mean, overweight, fun-hating SadistTeacher[=s=] working for an elderly Mr. Krupp.
* GoneHorriblyRight: In Book 5, they prank Mr. Krupp by tricking him into giving a card to Ms. Ribble that says "Will you marry me?", but the other teachers think it's for real and set up an entire wedding ceremony and reception for them.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: They always do everything together. In the movie, Mr. Krupp plans to break up their friendship by putting them in ''"SEPARATE CLASSES!!"'' [[spoiler:The heterosexual part is eventually subverted with Harold, however. Still, his chosen husband is not George.]]
* ImageSong: The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTGw94yYD9U A Friend Like You]] perfectly illustrates the friendship between the boys and how much they love and care about each other.
* InformedKindness: Each book's opening maintains that regardless of their constant pranking, George and Harold are genuinely good kids. This can be hard to believe in the first five books, especially with how vicious some of their pranks can be, and the fact that more often than not, they're the cause of the current conflict:
** In the first book, they cause enough disruption at a school football game to get the school to forfeit it, subsequently ruin everyone else's day, and Captain Underpants is later created as a result of their attempt to avoid being punished for this.
** In the second book, Mr. Krupp legitimately bans them from the Invention Convention because the previous year, they played a prank on the teachers and every other student by secretly gluing them to their chairs. George and Harold [[NeverMyFault refuse any responsibility]] and sabotage the other kids' inventions out of spite.
** In the third book, they make animal noises in their science teacher Mr. Fyde's (who's actually not a jerk as the others), making him think he's hearing things. Later, they send a bogus recipe (including baking soda and vinegar) to the lunch ladies just for fun, which greatly backfires when they want to do something ''nice'' for the students and bake cupcakes for everyone. However, while Mr. Krupp is surprisingly reasonable throughout the whole thing, the boys don't see their punishment (eating in Mr. Krupp's office with their own lunches) as a proper punishment, therefore basically getting away scot-free.
** In the fourth book, they're caught changing the letters on a sign on the day they were supposed to go on a school trip, spelling out a message that is admittedly offensive to the teachers. After being punished by being forced into cleaning the teachers lounge, George and Harold pull another prank which causes the teachers to look like evil snowmen, making Mr. Fyde think he's gone crazy and leading to him resigning. Then, when Professor Poopypants joins the school faculty as a substitute science teacher, they repeatedly make fun of his name and cause everyone else to laugh at him, to the point where their latest comic about him drives him to villainy.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: In the season 3 premiere, they both poke fun at [[spoiler: how ridiculous it was for George to make a comic book with [[ArchEnemy Melvin]] of all people. To their dismay, Melvin took their insults to heart and decided to tattle on them to Mr. Krupp]].
** throughout the HalloweenSpecial, George and Harold openly talk about how much Melvin loves the holiday despite the nerd making multiple attempts to get the holiday canceled. It isn't later on that [[spoiler: they realize that Melvin never got to hang out with them in any past Halloweens like they initially believed. He would always stay at home to give away candy to the other kids. It also doesn't help that the boys would scare Melvin with their costumes each year. Once they make this revelation, they attempt to amend bridges by inviting Melvin to go sneak-or-snacking with them]].
* ItWasWithYouAllAlong: In the Epic Choice-O-Rama special, Krupp and Melvin planned to destroy the boys' treehouse citing it as the source of their creative imagination. Even George and Harold are afraid of this as they cherish their ability to create fantastical comic books. [[spoiler: In one of the endings where the treehouse is destroyed, the boys realize that their creativity was always with them after they instantly make a comic of how they'd become miserable robots who would be enslaved by bug aliens]].
* ItsAllMyFault: In book 4, they take responsibility for the role they played in Professor Poopypants' SanitySlippage. They admit that Professor Poopypants probably wouldn't have become evil if they just didn't make fun of him.
* KidHero: Not every pair of fourth-grade best friends gets to save the world with Captain Underpants.
* LaserGuidedKarma: George and Harold get hit by this a few times in the series.
** In the first book, they pull pranks that ruin everybody's day, so Mr. Krupp punishes them by blackmailing them ([[DisproportionateRetribution even though said punishment was disproportionate, though]]).
** In book 2, after ruining their peers' inventions for the Invention Convention out of spite due to [[JerkassHasAPoint Mr. Krupp justifiably banning them from participating]], Mr. Krupp puts them in detention for the rest of the school year (this is reversed in the end, though).
** In book 3, their pranks influence the lunch ladies ([[TokenGoodTeammate who aren't actually jerks to the children]]) to resign. So Mr. Krupp punishes them by not allowing them to eat school lunch and making them sit in his office. (Although it's PlayedWith in that they don't really see the first half of the punishment as a punishment, and considering that one of the lunch ladies stated during their resignation that she once ate their own cafeteria food and ''[[DamnedByFaintPraise barely got sick at all]]'', they clearly are about as good as their jobs as everyone else at the school.)
* TheLeader: In the animated series, the two share this role as they guide their friends [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits the M.I.S.F.A.R.T.S.]] into helping them overcome whatever obstacles that [[DeanBitterman Krupp]] and/or [[InsufferableGenius Melvin]] throw at them.
* LimitedWardrobe: George always wears a white collard shirt and tie while Harold always wears a striped T-shirt.
* LovableRogue: They are good-natured kids with a fondness for tricks, tricks that, in the movie at least, are meant to brighten their classmates' days.
* MadLibsCatchphrase: At the beginning of every introductory comic that starts each book, George always says some variation of "We are cool!" and Harold always says "Me, too!"
* MeaningfulName: George and Harold got their first names from two of Dav Pilkey’s favorite childhood books; ''Literature/CuriousGeorge'' and ''Literature/HaroldAndThePurpleCrayon''. As for their last names, he got those from the actors who played his two favorite characters on ''The Little Rascals''; Stymie (Matthew Beard) and Wheezer (Bobby Hutchins). "George" and "Harold" are also the names of the brothers from ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife.''
* MrImagination: They conceived many in-universe fictional superheroes such as Dog Man, Super Diaper Baby, and Diaper Dog, The Amazing Cow Lady and of course, Captain Underpants. Unfortunately for them, they go to [[SuckySchool Jerome Horwitz Elementary School,]] where imagination is not only forbidden but discouraged...
* NaughtyIsGood: They're consistently mischievous and show active disdain for the authority figures around Jerome Horwitz Elementary. However, they're also consistently portrayed in much better lights than the school's SadistTeachers, the authoritarian Principal Krupp, or smug nerd Melvin; and most of their antagonism seems to stem from the fact that the school lives to stamp out the creativity and imagination that they value above all else.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: They decide to stop Mr. Krupp from being rehired as a future camp director not only to secure their own summer fun but for the sake of all other children.
* NeverMyFault: In book 2, Mr. Krupp (rightfully) bans George & Harold for participating in the Invention Convention due to a prank the duo pulled on all the staff and students when they participated in the previous Invention Convention. Rather than admitting they were wrong for pulling such a stunt, the boys just play the victim, get angry, and sabotage the other kids’ inventions out of spite.
* {{Nice Guy}}s: Despite them being {{designated hero}}es at times, they are genuinely good kids. This is amped up in the movie and animated series, as they are shown to be popular amongst their peers (except [[TheStoolPigeon Melvin]] [[InsufferableGenius Sneedly]], of course).
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In some form or another, all of their pranks have resulted in the mayhem that unfolds in each book. They were responsible for the majority of chaos in books 1-5.
* NotMeThisTime: In Book 6, Mr. Krupp blames them for him and the other students (except the 4th graders) getting their pants messed up with ketchup packets. While the boys were responsible for the fads, they weren't the ones who took the time to put those ketchup packets under a lot of toilets.
* OhCrap: Any time someone snaps their fingers within hearing range of Mr. Krupp, turning him into Captain Underpants.
* PlotHole: In the Epic Choice-O-Rama special, George is shown with his afro while he and Harold are in 1st Grade. Manga readers can verify that this shouldn't be possible since Harold shaved off his afro when they were still in kindergarten.
* RedOniBlueOni: They're both pretty rambunctious, but in general, George is the bold, leader-ly Red to Harold’s calmer, more sensitive Blue.
** In the animated series, they're both the eccentric Red to [[WomenAreWiser Erica Wang's]] mellow Blue.
* RidiculouslySuccessfulFutureSelf: [[spoiler:After RetGone-ing their evil future SadistTeacher selves, they travel to a different and much happier future where they've successfully published the ''Dog Man'' comic books together, and are HappilyMarried to their partners, with two children each.]]
* ShipperOnDeck: [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, they set up Mr. Krupp with Edith the lunch lady.]]
* SignsOfDisrepair: Their favorite prank is rearranging the letters on signs to spell something silly. [[SkewedPriorities Even when running for their lives from giant booger monsters.]]
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: In book 4, Professor Poopypants is DrivenToMadness over people constantly making fun of his name and uses {{Shrink Ray}}s and HumongousMecha to hold the world hostage, threatening to shrink everyone in the world unless they change their names to ones just as silly as his. When Captain Underpants defeats him and he's being taken away by the police, George and Harold point out that he could have simply changed his own name instead, to which the Professor confesses that such a solution had never occurred to him. Sadly, the name he chooses to change to, Tippy Tinkletrousers, is just as [[UnfortunateName unfortunate]].
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: George is the more reasonable one at times when it comes to certain choices the duo makes.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Rare examples of the ''protagonists'' being this trope. The two have almost identical personalities.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: George's is chocolate chip cookies and Harold's is gum, implying that they have a mutual SweetTooth.
* TrueCompanions: They're best friends and always do everything together, so much that a driving plot point in the movie is their fear of being placed in separate classes.
* WhoWritesThisCrap: [[NoFourthWall Being self-aware they are in a fictional story]], George and Harold constantly take jabs at the author whenever the plot gets weird or stupid.
* YourMindMakesItReal: In episode 5 of season 3, the boys and their friends are transported to a dream dimension where George and Harold hold infinite imaginative power since the dimension was based on ''their dreams''.
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[[folder:Tropes applying to George]]
* AfraidOfBlood: He’s implied to be this near the end of the movie.
-->'''George:''' You know what? Let's do a blood oath! But minus the blood! I don't wanna see the blood, no blood!
* BrilliantButLazy: George has been stated to be smarter than kids twice his age, but he clearly doesn't see himself as a role model student.
* BullyHunter: Kindergartener George in book 9, when he witnessed Kindergartner Harold being bullied by Kipper & his goons. This prompts Kindergartner George to beat up the bullies "Indiana Jones" style.
* ChildProdigy: Before entering Kindergarten, he was described as a brilliant student who excelled at social interactions along with writing captivating stories.
* FunnyAfro: He has a huuuge afro when he was little. But he lost it in order to pull off a prank against Kipper Krupp.
* HypnoRay: In all versions of the [=CU=] story, George has always been the one to wield the Hypno-Ring to hypnotize Krupp and anyone else.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: George in the animated series. He has a high-pitched shriek that could rival [[WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball Darwin Watterson]].
* WhipItGood: He uses his tie as a whip to fight back against Kipper and his cronies.
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[[folder:Tropes applying to Harold]]
* AlliterativeName: '''H'''arold '''H'''utchins.
* CloudCuckoolander: Both of them to a certain extent, but in TheMovie, Harold constantly inserts dolphins into their comics and when he thinks about the BadFuture where he and George aren't friends anymore, it ends with a robot apocalypse, just because "it's the future, there have to be robots".
* DisappearedDad: Harold. In the ninth book, it's revealed that his parents divorced and his dad moved to Nevada when he was 6.
* DumbBlonde: Downplayed by Harold. He's a little more foolish and [[CloudCuckoolander odd]] than George, but he's not ''dumb''. He is, after all, one half of the creative force behind Treehouse Comix, Inc., and he and George are on about equal footing when it comes to dealing with the mayhem of Captain Underpants.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Harold has blonde hair and is one of the most heroic characters (if constantly mischievous).
* HasTwoMommies: [[spoiler:Future Harold has a husband, and they have twins named Owen and Kei.]]
* MessyHair: Harold has poofy hair. The first chapter of every book always introduces him as "the one with the T-shirt and the bad haircut".
* OlderSidekick: Harold is the older one by three months, but George is the leader of the two.
* StraightGay: [[spoiler: Future Harold. Apart from having a husband, he shows absolutely no stereotypical gay traits.]]
* TraumaticHaircut: In ''Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman,'' they set up a BatmanGambit to de-power Wedgie Woman (whose powers come from her PrehensileHair) by tricking her into spraying hair remover everywhere. It works, but they get caught in the blast too.
-->'''Harold:''' ''(screams)'' My mom's gonna lay hard-boiled eggs when she sees me!\\
'''George:''' Relax. Our hair will grow back.\\
'''Harold:''' That's easy for you to say. Your hair was only half an inch long!
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: They always do everything together. In the movie, Mr. Krupp plans to break up their friendship by putting them in ''"SEPARATE CLASSES!!"'' [[spoiler:The heterosexual part is eventually subverted with Harold, however.]]
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: They always do everything together. In the movie, Mr. Krupp plans to break up their friendship by putting them in ''"SEPARATE CLASSES!!"'' [[spoiler:The heterosexual part is eventually subverted with Harold, however. Still, his chosen husband is not George.]]
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* AfraidOfBlood: He’s implied to be this near the end of TheMovie.
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* AfraidOfBlood: He’s implied to be this near the end of TheMovie.the movie.
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-->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/KevinHart (George in the movie)[=/=]Ramone Hamilton (George in the animated series), Creator/ThomasMiddleditch (Harold in the movie)[=/=]Jay Gragnani (Harold in the animated series)
-->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Bruno Coronel (George), Arturo Castañeda (Harold)
-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/TatsuhisaSuzuki (George/movie), Creator/TomoeHanba (George/TV series), Makoto Naruse (Harold/movie), Creator/ShizukaIshigami (Harold/TV series)
-->''George is the kid on the right with the tie and the flat-top. Harold is the one on the left with the T-shirt and the bad haircut. Remember that now.''
-->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Bruno Coronel (George), Arturo Castañeda (Harold)
-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/TatsuhisaSuzuki (George/movie), Creator/TomoeHanba (George/TV series), Makoto Naruse (Harold/movie), Creator/ShizukaIshigami (Harold/TV series)
-->''George is the kid on the right with the tie and the flat-top. Harold is the one on the left with the T-shirt and the bad haircut. Remember that now.''
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-->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Bruno Coronel (George), Arturo Castañeda (Harold)
-->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/TatsuhisaSuzuki (George/movie), Creator/TomoeHanba (George/TV series), Makoto Naruse (Harold/movie), Creator/ShizukaIshigami (Harold/TV series)
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->'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/KevinHart (George in the movie)[=/=]Ramone Hamilton (George in the animated series), Creator/ThomasMiddleditch (Harold in the movie)[=/=]Jay Gragnani (Harold in the animated series)\\
'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by:''' Bruno Coronel (George), Arturo Castañeda (Harold)\\
'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/TatsuhisaSuzuki (George/movie), Creator/TomoeHanba (George/TV series), Makoto Naruse (Harold/movie), Creator/ShizukaIshigami (Harold/TV series)
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* MeaningfulName: George and Harold got their first names from two of Dav Pilkey’s favorite childhood books; ''Literature/CuriousGeorge'' and ''Literature/HaroldAndThePurpleCrayon''. As for their last names, he got those from the actors who played his two favorite characters on ''The Little Rascals''; Stymie (Matthew Beard) and Wheezer (Bobby Hutchins).
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* MeaningfulName: George and Harold got their first names from two of Dav Pilkey’s favorite childhood books; ''Literature/CuriousGeorge'' and ''Literature/HaroldAndThePurpleCrayon''. As for their last names, he got those from the actors who played his two favorite characters on ''The Little Rascals''; Stymie (Matthew Beard) and Wheezer (Bobby Hutchins). "George" and "Harold" are also the names of the brothers from ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife.''
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* AfraidOfBlood: Near the end of the movie, it’s implied that George is this.
-->'''George:''' You know what? Let's do a blood oath! But minus the blood! I don't wanna see the blood, no blood!
* AlliterativeName: '''H'''arold '''H'''utchins.
* BrilliantButLazy: George has been stated to be smarter than kids twice his age, but he clearly doesn't see himself as a role model student.
* BullyHunter: Kindergartener George in book 9, when he witnessed Kindergartner Harold being bullied by Kipper & his goons. This prompts Kindergartner George to beat up the bullies "Indiana Jones" style.
* CloudCuckoolander: Both of them to a certain extent, but in TheMovie, Harold constantly inserts dolphins into their comics and when he thinks about the BadFuture where he and George aren't friends anymore, it ends with a robot apocalypse, just because "it's the future, there have to be robots".
* DisappearedDad: Harold. In the ninth book, it's revealed that his parents divorced and his dad moved to Nevada when he was 6.
* DumbBlonde: Downplayed by Harold. He's a little more foolish and [[CloudCuckoolander odd]] than George, but he's not ''dumb''. He is, after all, one half of the creative force behind Treehouse Comix, Inc., and he and George are on about equal footing when it comes to dealing with the mayhem of Captain Underpants.
* AfraidOfBlood: Near the end of the movie, it’s implied that George is this.
-->'''George:''' You know what? Let's do a blood oath! But minus the blood! I don't wanna see the blood, no blood!
* AlliterativeName: '''H'''arold '''H'''utchins.
* BrilliantButLazy: George has been stated to be smarter than kids twice his age, but he clearly doesn't see himself as a role model student.
* BullyHunter: Kindergartener George in book 9, when he witnessed Kindergartner Harold being bullied by Kipper & his goons. This prompts Kindergartner George to beat up the bullies "Indiana Jones" style.
* CloudCuckoolander: Both of them to a certain extent, but in TheMovie, Harold constantly inserts dolphins into their comics and when he thinks about the BadFuture where he and George aren't friends anymore, it ends with a robot apocalypse, just because "it's the future, there have to be robots".
* DisappearedDad: Harold. In the ninth book, it's revealed that his parents divorced and his dad moved to Nevada when he was 6.
* DumbBlonde: Downplayed by Harold. He's a little more foolish and [[CloudCuckoolander odd]] than George, but he's not ''dumb''. He is, after all, one half of the creative force behind Treehouse Comix, Inc., and he and George are on about equal footing when it comes to dealing with the mayhem of Captain Underpants.
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* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Harold has blonde hair and is one of the most heroic characters (if constantly mischievous).
* HasTwoMommies: [[spoiler:Future Harold has a husband, and they have twins named Owen and Kei.]]
* HasTwoMommies: [[spoiler:Future Harold has a husband, and they have twins named Owen and Kei.]]
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* LimitedWardrobe: Harold always wears a striped T-shirt, and George always wears a white collared shirt and tie.
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* MessyHair: Harold has poofy hair. The first chapter of every book always introduces him as "the one with the T-shirt and the bad haircut".
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* OlderSidekick: Harold is the older one by three months, but George is the leader of the two.
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* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: George in the animated series. He has a high-pitched shriek that could rival [[WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball Darwin Watterson]].
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* StraightGay: [[spoiler: Future Harold. Apart from having a husband, he shows absolutely no stereotypical gay traits.]]
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* TraumaticHaircut: In ''Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman,'' they set up a BatmanGambit to de-power Wedgie Woman (whose powers come from her PrehensileHair) by tricking her into spraying hair remover everywhere. It works, but they get caught in the blast too.
-->'''Harold:''' ''(screams)'' My mom's gonna lay hard-boiled eggs when she sees me!\\
'''George:''' Relax. Our hair will grow back.\\
'''Harold:''' That's easy for you to say. Your hair was only half an inch long!
-->'''Harold:''' ''(screams)'' My mom's gonna lay hard-boiled eggs when she sees me!\\
'''George:''' Relax. Our hair will grow back.\\
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* YourMindMakesItReal: In episode 5 of season 3, the boys and their friends are transported to a dream dimension where George and Harold hold infinite imaginative power since the dimension was based on ''their dreams''.
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* YourMindMakesItReal: In episode 5 of season 3, the boys and their friends are transported to a dream dimension where George and Harold hold infinite imaginative power since the dimension was based on ''their dreams''.dreams''.
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[[folder:Tropes applying to George]]
* AfraidOfBlood: Near the end of the movie, it’s implied that George is this.
-->'''George:''' You know what? Let's do a blood oath! But minus the blood! I don't wanna see the blood, no blood!
* BrilliantButLazy: George has been stated to be smarter than kids twice his age, but he clearly doesn't see himself as a role model student.
* BullyHunter: Kindergartener George in book 9, when he witnessed Kindergartner Harold being bullied by Kipper & his goons. This prompts Kindergartner George to beat up the bullies "Indiana Jones" style.
* ChildProdigy: Before entering Kindergarten, he was described as a brilliant student who excelled at social interactions along with writing captivating stories.
* FunnyAfro: He has a huuuge afro when he was little. But he lost it in order to pull off a prank against Kipper Krupp.
* HypnoRay: In all versions of the [=CU=] story, George has always been the one to wield the Hypno-Ring to hypnotize Krupp and anyone else.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: George in the animated series. He has a high-pitched shriek that could rival [[WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball Darwin Watterson]].
* WhipItGood: He uses his tie as a whip to fight back against Kipper and his cronies.
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[[folder:Tropes applying to Harold]]
* AlliterativeName: '''H'''arold '''H'''utchins.
* CloudCuckoolander: Both of them to a certain extent, but in TheMovie, Harold constantly inserts dolphins into their comics and when he thinks about the BadFuture where he and George aren't friends anymore, it ends with a robot apocalypse, just because "it's the future, there have to be robots".
* DisappearedDad: Harold. In the ninth book, it's revealed that his parents divorced and his dad moved to Nevada when he was 6.
* DumbBlonde: Downplayed by Harold. He's a little more foolish and [[CloudCuckoolander odd]] than George, but he's not ''dumb''. He is, after all, one half of the creative force behind Treehouse Comix, Inc., and he and George are on about equal footing when it comes to dealing with the mayhem of Captain Underpants.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Harold has blonde hair and is one of the most heroic characters (if constantly mischievous).
* HasTwoMommies: [[spoiler:Future Harold has a husband, and they have twins named Owen and Kei.]]
* MessyHair: Harold has poofy hair. The first chapter of every book always introduces him as "the one with the T-shirt and the bad haircut".
* OlderSidekick: Harold is the older one by three months, but George is the leader of the two.
* StraightGay: [[spoiler: Future Harold. Apart from having a husband, he shows absolutely no stereotypical gay traits.]]
* TraumaticHaircut: In ''Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman,'' they set up a BatmanGambit to de-power Wedgie Woman (whose powers come from her PrehensileHair) by tricking her into spraying hair remover everywhere. It works, but they get caught in the blast too.
-->'''Harold:''' ''(screams)'' My mom's gonna lay hard-boiled eggs when she sees me!\\
'''George:''' Relax. Our hair will grow back.\\
'''Harold:''' That's easy for you to say. Your hair was only half an inch long!
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[[folder:Tropes applying to George]]
* AfraidOfBlood: Near the end of the movie, it’s implied that George is this.
-->'''George:''' You know what? Let's do a blood oath! But minus the blood! I don't wanna see the blood, no blood!
* BrilliantButLazy: George has been stated to be smarter than kids twice his age, but he clearly doesn't see himself as a role model student.
* BullyHunter: Kindergartener George in book 9, when he witnessed Kindergartner Harold being bullied by Kipper & his goons. This prompts Kindergartner George to beat up the bullies "Indiana Jones" style.
* ChildProdigy: Before entering Kindergarten, he was described as a brilliant student who excelled at social interactions along with writing captivating stories.
* FunnyAfro: He has a huuuge afro when he was little. But he lost it in order to pull off a prank against Kipper Krupp.
* HypnoRay: In all versions of the [=CU=] story, George has always been the one to wield the Hypno-Ring to hypnotize Krupp and anyone else.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: George in the animated series. He has a high-pitched shriek that could rival [[WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball Darwin Watterson]].
* WhipItGood: He uses his tie as a whip to fight back against Kipper and his cronies.
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[[folder:Tropes applying to Harold]]
* AlliterativeName: '''H'''arold '''H'''utchins.
* CloudCuckoolander: Both of them to a certain extent, but in TheMovie, Harold constantly inserts dolphins into their comics and when he thinks about the BadFuture where he and George aren't friends anymore, it ends with a robot apocalypse, just because "it's the future, there have to be robots".
* DisappearedDad: Harold. In the ninth book, it's revealed that his parents divorced and his dad moved to Nevada when he was 6.
* DumbBlonde: Downplayed by Harold. He's a little more foolish and [[CloudCuckoolander odd]] than George, but he's not ''dumb''. He is, after all, one half of the creative force behind Treehouse Comix, Inc., and he and George are on about equal footing when it comes to dealing with the mayhem of Captain Underpants.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Harold has blonde hair and is one of the most heroic characters (if constantly mischievous).
* HasTwoMommies: [[spoiler:Future Harold has a husband, and they have twins named Owen and Kei.]]
* MessyHair: Harold has poofy hair. The first chapter of every book always introduces him as "the one with the T-shirt and the bad haircut".
* OlderSidekick: Harold is the older one by three months, but George is the leader of the two.
* StraightGay: [[spoiler: Future Harold. Apart from having a husband, he shows absolutely no stereotypical gay traits.]]
* TraumaticHaircut: In ''Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman,'' they set up a BatmanGambit to de-power Wedgie Woman (whose powers come from her PrehensileHair) by tricking her into spraying hair remover everywhere. It works, but they get caught in the blast too.
-->'''Harold:''' ''(screams)'' My mom's gonna lay hard-boiled eggs when she sees me!\\
'''George:''' Relax. Our hair will grow back.\\
'''Harold:''' That's easy for you to say. Your hair was only half an inch long!
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* TheDividual: Really don't have any distinct personality traits that differentiate each other. George is maybe ''slightly'' smarter than Harold, but that's about it.
** The ninth book gave them individual characterizations when they were shown as kindergartners. Little Harold was shy and lonely and spent time coming up with and drawing various superheroes to cope with the stress of being bullied and having a DisappearedDad. Little George was outgoing, quick-thinking, a prolific writer of silly stories, and [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] four sixth graders who were bullying Harold without breaking a sweat.
** The movie additionally elaborated on emphasizing George being bolder and more outgoing, with Harold as more reserved and more emotionally sensitive.
** Their individual characterization is actually quite similar to the way [[ThoseTwoGuys those two]] TricksterTwins [[Literature/HarryPotter Fred and George]] are different. Fred and George had some subtle ones that had to be confirmed by WordOfGod, such as Fred generally being the one who tended to take the lead and be bolder. Overall in the books, Harold is shown to be more CloudcuckooLander and sentimental (prominently when the boys disagree on whether to keep their new pterodactyl as a pet and names it Crackers, or take it back to its own time period), whereas George is more pragmatic and tends to take the lead (such as speaking first or controlling the science device on hand). Concerning their [[EvilCounterpart Evil Counterparts]], Evil!Harold seems to be the one to take the lead in general.
** This is lampshaded in Episode 7 of Season 3 when a scene depicts the two of them sharing the same mindscape and are in instant agreement with each other.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: While training in Ratrick for an assignment in season 2 episode 4 of the series, the latter draws a comic of the loss of his love before the episode. The duo, however, doesn't even realize what he's trying to portray and simply think he finally learned how to make comics, resulting in the rat running away.
** The ninth book gave them individual characterizations when they were shown as kindergartners. Little Harold was shy and lonely and spent time coming up with and drawing various superheroes to cope with the stress of being bullied and having a DisappearedDad. Little George was outgoing, quick-thinking, a prolific writer of silly stories, and [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] four sixth graders who were bullying Harold without breaking a sweat.
** The movie additionally elaborated on emphasizing George being bolder and more outgoing, with Harold as more reserved and more emotionally sensitive.
** Their individual characterization is actually quite similar to the way [[ThoseTwoGuys those two]] TricksterTwins [[Literature/HarryPotter Fred and George]] are different. Fred and George had some subtle ones that had to be confirmed by WordOfGod, such as Fred generally being the one who tended to take the lead and be bolder. Overall in the books, Harold is shown to be more CloudcuckooLander and sentimental (prominently when the boys disagree on whether to keep their new pterodactyl as a pet and names it Crackers, or take it back to its own time period), whereas George is more pragmatic and tends to take the lead (such as speaking first or controlling the science device on hand). Concerning their [[EvilCounterpart Evil Counterparts]], Evil!Harold seems to be the one to take the lead in general.
** This is lampshaded in Episode 7 of Season 3 when a scene depicts the two of them sharing the same mindscape and are in instant agreement with each other.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: While training in Ratrick for an assignment in season 2 episode 4 of the series, the latter draws a comic of the loss of his love before the episode. The duo, however, doesn't even realize what he's trying to portray and simply think he finally learned how to make comics, resulting in the rat running away.
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* TheDividual: Really don't have any distinct personality traits that differentiate each other. George is maybe ''slightly'' smarter than Harold, but that's about it.
** The ninth book gave them individual characterizations when they were shown as kindergartners. Little Harold was shy and lonely and spent time coming up with and drawing various superheroes to cope with the stress of being bullied and having a DisappearedDad. Little George was outgoing, quick-thinking, a prolific writer of silly stories, and [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] four sixth graders who were bullying Harold without breaking a sweat.
** The movie additionally elaborated on emphasizing George being bolder and more outgoing, with Harold as more reserved and more emotionally sensitive.
** Their individual characterization is actually quite similar to the way [[ThoseTwoGuys those two]] TricksterTwins [[Literature/HarryPotter Fred and George]] are different. Fred and George had some subtle ones that had to be confirmed by WordOfGod, such as Fred generally being the one who tended to take the lead and be bolder. Overall in the books, Harold is shown to be more CloudcuckooLander and sentimental (prominently when the boys disagree on whether to keep their new pterodactyl as a pet and names it Crackers, or take it back to its own time period), whereas George is more pragmatic and tends to take the lead (such as speaking first or controlling the science device on hand). Concerning their [[EvilCounterpart Evil Counterparts]], Evil!Harold seems to be the one to take the lead in general.
** This is lampshaded in Episode 7 of Season 3 when a scene depicts the two of them sharing the same mindscape and are in instant agreement with each other.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: While training in Ratrick for an assignment in season 2 episode 4 of the series, the latter draws a comic of the loss of his love before the episode. The duo, however, doesn't even realize what he's trying to portray and simply think he finally learned how to make comics, resulting in the rat running away.
** The ninth book gave them individual characterizations when they were shown as kindergartners. Little Harold was shy and lonely and spent time coming up with and drawing various superheroes to cope with the stress of being bullied and having a DisappearedDad. Little George was outgoing, quick-thinking, a prolific writer of silly stories, and [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] four sixth graders who were bullying Harold without breaking a sweat.
** The movie additionally elaborated on emphasizing George being bolder and more outgoing, with Harold as more reserved and more emotionally sensitive.
** Their individual characterization is actually quite similar to the way [[ThoseTwoGuys those two]] TricksterTwins [[Literature/HarryPotter Fred and George]] are different. Fred and George had some subtle ones that had to be confirmed by WordOfGod, such as Fred generally being the one who tended to take the lead and be bolder. Overall in the books, Harold is shown to be more CloudcuckooLander and sentimental (prominently when the boys disagree on whether to keep their new pterodactyl as a pet and names it Crackers, or take it back to its own time period), whereas George is more pragmatic and tends to take the lead (such as speaking first or controlling the science device on hand). Concerning their [[EvilCounterpart Evil Counterparts]], Evil!Harold seems to be the one to take the lead in general.
** This is lampshaded in Episode 7 of Season 3 when a scene depicts the two of them sharing the same mindscape and are in instant agreement with each other.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: While training in Ratrick for an assignment in season 2 episode 4 of the series, the latter draws a comic of the loss of his love before the episode. The duo, however, doesn't even realize what he's trying to portray and simply think he finally learned how to make comics, resulting in the rat running away.
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: Two roads are taken at the end of Book 12. [[spoiler: The present versions of George and Harold decide to use Melvin's time machine to look for their pets who went missing during the battle with Professor Poopypants (who has now changed his name to Tippy Tinkletrousers). As for the Yesterday duo, they remain in the present timeline and decide to work on a new comic series featuring Dog Man]].
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* AfraidOfBlood: Near the end of the movie, it’s implied that George is this.
-->'''George:''' You know what? Let's do a blood oath! But minus the blood! I don't wanna see the blood, no blood!
* AlliterativeName: '''H'''arold '''H'''utchins.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: Two roads are taken at the end of Book 12. [[spoiler: The present versions of George and Harold decide to use Melvin's time machine to look for their pets who went missing during the battle with Professor Poopypants (who has now changed his name to Tippy Tinkletrousers). As for the Yesterday duo, they remain in the present timeline and decide to work on a new comic series featuring Dog Man]].
* AfraidOfBlood: Near the end of the movie, it’s implied that George is this.
-->'''George:''' You know what? Let's do a blood oath! But minus the blood! I don't wanna see the blood, no blood!
* AlliterativeName: '''H'''arold '''H'''utchins.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: Two roads are taken at the end of Book 12. [[spoiler: The present versions of George and Harold decide to use Melvin's time machine to look for their pets who went missing during the battle with Professor Poopypants (who has now changed his name to Tippy Tinkletrousers). As for the Yesterday duo, they remain in the present timeline and decide to work on a new comic series featuring Dog Man]].
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* BrilliantButLazy: George has been stated to be smarter than kids twice his age, but he clearly doesn't see himself as a role model student.
* BullyHunter: Kindergartener George in book 9, when he witnessed Kindergartner Harold being bullied by Kipper & his goons. This prompts Kindergartner George to beat up the bullies "Indiana Jones" style.
* BullyHunter: Kindergartener George in book 9, when he witnessed Kindergartner Harold being bullied by Kipper & his goons. This prompts Kindergartner George to beat up the bullies "Indiana Jones" style.
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* CloudCuckoolander: Both of them to a certain extent, but in TheMovie, Harold constantly inserts dolphins into their comics and when he thinks about the BadFuture where he and George aren't friends anymore, it ends with a robot apocalypse, just because "it's the future, there have to be robots".
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* AfraidOfBlood: Near the end of the movie, it’s implied that George is this.
-->'''George:''' You know what? Let's do a blood oath! But minus the blood! I don't wanna see the blood, no blood!
* AlliterativeName: '''H'''arold '''H'''utchins.
* BrilliantButLazy: George has been stated to be smarter than kids twice his age, but he clearly doesn't see himself as a role model student.
* BullyHunter: Kindergartener George in book 9, when he witnessed Kindergartner Harold being bullied by Kipper & his goons. This prompts Kindergartner George to beat up the bullies "Indiana Jones" style.
* CloudCuckoolander: Both of them to a certain extent, but in TheMovie, Harold constantly inserts dolphins into their comics and when he thinks about the BadFuture where he and George aren't friends anymore, it ends with a robot apocalypse, just because "it's the future, there have to be robots".
* AfraidOfBlood: Near the end of the movie, it’s implied that George is this.
-->'''George:''' You know what? Let's do a blood oath! But minus the blood! I don't wanna see the blood, no blood!
* AlliterativeName: '''H'''arold '''H'''utchins.
* BrilliantButLazy: George has been stated to be smarter than kids twice his age, but he clearly doesn't see himself as a role model student.
* BullyHunter: Kindergartener George in book 9, when he witnessed Kindergartner Harold being bullied by Kipper & his goons. This prompts Kindergartner George to beat up the bullies "Indiana Jones" style.
* CloudCuckoolander: Both of them to a certain extent, but in TheMovie, Harold constantly inserts dolphins into their comics and when he thinks about the BadFuture where he and George aren't friends anymore, it ends with a robot apocalypse, just because "it's the future, there have to be robots".
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* AfraidOfBlood: Near the end of the movie, it’s implied that George is this.
-->'''George:''' You know what? Let's do a blood oath! But minus the blood! I don't wanna see the blood, no blood!
* AlliterativeName: '''H'''arold '''H'''utchins.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: Two roads are taken at the end of Book 12. [[spoiler: The present versions of George and Harold decide to use Melvin's time machine to look for their pets who went missing during the battle with Professor Poopypants (who has now changed his name to Tippy Tinkletrousers). As for the Yesterday duo, they remain in the present timeline and decide to work on a new comic series featuring Dog Man]].
-->'''George:''' You know what? Let's do a blood oath! But minus the blood! I don't wanna see the blood, no blood!
* AlliterativeName: '''H'''arold '''H'''utchins.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: Two roads are taken at the end of Book 12. [[spoiler: The present versions of George and Harold decide to use Melvin's time machine to look for their pets who went missing during the battle with Professor Poopypants (who has now changed his name to Tippy Tinkletrousers). As for the Yesterday duo, they remain in the present timeline and decide to work on a new comic series featuring Dog Man]].
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* AfraidOfBlood: Near the end of the movie, it’s implied that George is this.
-->'''George:''' You know what? Let's do a blood oath! But minus the blood! I don't wanna see the blood, no blood!
* AlliterativeName: '''H'''arold '''H'''utchins.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: Two roads are taken at the end of Book 12. [[spoiler: The present versions of George and Harold decide to use Melvin's time machine to look for their pets who went missing during the battle with Professor Poopypants (who has now changed his name to Tippy Tinkletrousers). As for the Yesterday duo, they remain in the present timeline and decide to work on a new comic series featuring Dog Man]].
* AfraidOfBlood: Near the end of the movie, it’s implied that George is this.
-->'''George:''' You know what? Let's do a blood oath! But minus the blood! I don't wanna see the blood, no blood!
* AlliterativeName: '''H'''arold '''H'''utchins.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: Two roads are taken at the end of Book 12. [[spoiler: The present versions of George and Harold decide to use Melvin's time machine to look for their pets who went missing during the battle with Professor Poopypants (who has now changed his name to Tippy Tinkletrousers). As for the Yesterday duo, they remain in the present timeline and decide to work on a new comic series featuring Dog Man]].
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-->''George is the one on the right with the tie and the flat-top. Harold is the one on the left with the T-shirt and the bad haircut. Remember that now.''
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: Two roads are taken at the end of Book 12. [[spoiler: The present versions of George and Harold decide to use Melvin's time machine to look for their pets who went missing during the battle with Professor Poopypants.Poopypants (who has now changed his name to Tippy Tinkletrousers). As for the Yesterday duo, they remain in the present timeline and decide to work on a new comic series featuring Dog Man]].
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** In the first book, they cause enough disruption at a school football game to get the school to forfeit it, and subsequently ruin everyone else's day, and Captain Underpants is later created as a result of their attempt to avoid being punished for this.
** In the second book, Mr. Krupp bans them from the Invention Convention because the previous year, they played a prank on the teachers and every other student by secretly gluing them to their chairs. George and Harold [[NeverMyFault refuse any responsibility]] and sabotage the other kids' inventions out of spite.
** In the second book, Mr. Krupp bans them from the Invention Convention because the previous year, they played a prank on the teachers and every other student by secretly gluing them to their chairs. George and Harold [[NeverMyFault refuse any responsibility]] and sabotage the other kids' inventions out of spite.
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** In the first book, they cause enough disruption at a school football game to get the school to forfeit it, and subsequently ruin everyone else's day, and Captain Underpants is later created as a result of their attempt to avoid being punished for this.
** In the second book, Mr. Krupp legitimately bans them from the Invention Convention because the previous year, they played a prank on the teachers and every other student by secretly gluing them to their chairs. George and Harold [[NeverMyFault refuse any responsibility]] and sabotage the other kids' inventions out ofspite.spite.
** In the third book, they make animal noises in their science teacher Mr. Fyde's (who's actually not a jerk as the others), making him think he's hearing things. Later, they send a bogus recipe (including baking soda and vinegar) to the lunch ladies just for fun, which greatly backfires when they want to do something ''nice'' for the students and bake cupcakes for everyone. However, while Mr. Krupp is surprisingly reasonable throughout the whole thing, the boys don't see their punishment (eating in Mr. Krupp's office with their own lunches) as a proper punishment, therefore basically getting away scot-free.
** In the fourth book, they're caught changing the letters on a sign on the day they were supposed to go on a school trip, spelling out a message that is admittedly offensive to the teachers. After being punished by being forced into cleaning the teachers lounge, George and Harold pull another prank which causes the teachers to look like evil snowmen, making Mr. Fyde think he's gone crazy and leading to him resigning. Then, when Professor Poopypants joins the school faculty as a substitute science teacher, they repeatedly make fun of his name and cause everyone else to laugh at him, to the point where their latest comic about him drives him to villainy.
** In the second book, Mr. Krupp legitimately bans them from the Invention Convention because the previous year, they played a prank on the teachers and every other student by secretly gluing them to their chairs. George and Harold [[NeverMyFault refuse any responsibility]] and sabotage the other kids' inventions out of
** In the third book, they make animal noises in their science teacher Mr. Fyde's (who's actually not a jerk as the others), making him think he's hearing things. Later, they send a bogus recipe (including baking soda and vinegar) to the lunch ladies just for fun, which greatly backfires when they want to do something ''nice'' for the students and bake cupcakes for everyone. However, while Mr. Krupp is surprisingly reasonable throughout the whole thing, the boys don't see their punishment (eating in Mr. Krupp's office with their own lunches) as a proper punishment, therefore basically getting away scot-free.
** In the fourth book, they're caught changing the letters on a sign on the day they were supposed to go on a school trip, spelling out a message that is admittedly offensive to the teachers. After being punished by being forced into cleaning the teachers lounge, George and Harold pull another prank which causes the teachers to look like evil snowmen, making Mr. Fyde think he's gone crazy and leading to him resigning. Then, when Professor Poopypants joins the school faculty as a substitute science teacher, they repeatedly make fun of his name and cause everyone else to laugh at him, to the point where their latest comic about him drives him to villainy.
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* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the books, they met in kindergarten when George beat up a bunch of sixth-graders who were bullying Harold. In the movie, their first moment of bonding is when they both laugh as the kindergarten teacher is [[UranusIsShowing talking about Uranus.]]
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* GoneHorriblyRight: In Book 5, they prank Mr. Krupp by tricking him into giving a card to Ms. Ribble that says "Will you marry me?", but the other teachers think it's for real and set up an entire wedding ceremony and reception for them.
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Two fourth grade pranksters, who are best friends and next-door neighbors and the main protagonists of the series. They started a comic book company called "Treehouse Comix, Inc.", and make copies of their latest comic book and sell them on the playground. They are the class clowns in 4th grade at Jerome Horwitz Elementary and often get into trouble of epic proportions.
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Two fourth grade fourth-grade pranksters, who are best friends and next-door neighbors and the main protagonists of the series. They started a comic book company called "Treehouse Comix, Inc.", and make copies of their latest comic book and sell them on the playground. They are the class clowns in 4th grade at Jerome Horwitz Elementary and often get into trouble of epic proportions.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: While both versions of the duo are portrayed as mischievous pranksters, the movie portrays them as more noble; pulling pranks on the teachers and faculty to make school-life more tolerable for them and their fellow classmates. Their book counterparts pull pranks and make jokes at everyone's expense, and are usually the only ones laughing at the end.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: While both versions of the duo are portrayed as mischievous pranksters, the movie portrays them as more noble; nobler; pulling pranks on the teachers and faculty to make school-life more tolerable for them and their fellow classmates. Their book counterparts pull pranks and make jokes at everyone's expense, and are usually the only ones laughing at the end.
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** They are still pranksters in the animated movie adaptation, but are given more heroic moments compared to their borderline-DesignatedHero counterparts. While they were still heroic and likable in the books, they are more creating humor to brighten others days rather than using it for their own amusement. This leads to the plot point in the movie that is nearly absent in the books, [[spoiler:George and Harold deciding to be nicer to Mr. Krupp because he doesn't have anyone who cares about him. This never happens in the books, where Krupp stays a fairly two-dimensional villain.]]
** This also extends to the animated series where not only are they kind and cooperative with their friends and classmates. Not to mention, they [[spoiler: willingly go into Krupp's office, knowing that doing so would result in their expulsion from Jerome Horwitz, in order to return his rule book. The reason being that they know [[SympathyForTheDevil his job is the only thing that makes him happy in life]] and [[WhatYouAreInTheDark taking that away would make them just like him]]]].
** This also extends to the animated series where not only are they kind and cooperative with their friends and classmates. Not to mention, they [[spoiler: willingly go into Krupp's office, knowing that doing so would result in their expulsion from Jerome Horwitz, in order to return his rule book. The reason being that they know [[SympathyForTheDevil his job is the only thing that makes him happy in life]] and [[WhatYouAreInTheDark taking that away would make them just like him]]]].
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** They are still pranksters in the animated movie adaptation, but are given more heroic moments compared to their borderline-DesignatedHero counterparts. While they were still heroic and likable in the books, they are more creating humor to brighten others others' days rather than using it for their own amusement. This leads to the plot point in the movie that is nearly absent in the books, [[spoiler:George and Harold deciding to be nicer to Mr. Krupp because he doesn't have anyone who cares about him. This never happens in the books, where Krupp stays a fairly two-dimensional villain.]]
** This also extends to the animated series where not only are they kind and cooperative with their friends and classmates. Not to mention, they [[spoiler: willingly go into Krupp's office, knowing that doing so would result in their expulsion from Jerome Horwitz,in order to return his rule book. The reason being that they know [[SympathyForTheDevil his job is the only thing that makes him happy in life]] and [[WhatYouAreInTheDark taking that away would make them just like him]]]].
** This also extends to the animated series where not only are they kind and cooperative with their friends and classmates. Not to mention, they [[spoiler: willingly go into Krupp's office, knowing that doing so would result in their expulsion from Jerome Horwitz,
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: There are two roads that are taken at the end of Book 12. [[spoiler: The present versions of George and Harold decide to use Melvin's time machine to look for their pets who went missing during the battle with Professor Poopypants. As for the Yesterday duo, they remain in the present timeline and decide to work on a new comic series featuring Dog Man]].
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: There are two Two roads that are taken at the end of Book 12. [[spoiler: The present versions of George and Harold decide to use Melvin's time machine to look for their pets who went missing during the battle with Professor Poopypants. As for the Yesterday duo, they remain in the present timeline and decide to work on a new comic series featuring Dog Man]].
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* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:In book 5, they defeat Wedgie Woman by running by with a big box of hair remover spray and yelling that they hope she doesn't get her hands on their giant box of "Extra Strength Spray Starch" (Captain Underpants' one weakness). She falls for it, steals the cans and sprays them everywhere, which renders her completely bald and powerless, as her powers come from her PrehensileHair.]]
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* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:In book 5, they defeat Wedgie Woman by running by with a big box of hair remover spray and yelling that they hope she doesn't get her hands on their giant box of "Extra Strength Spray Starch" (Captain Underpants' one weakness). She falls for it, steals the cans cans, and sprays them everywhere, which renders her completely bald and powerless, as her powers come from her PrehensileHair.]]
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* ClassicalAntiHero: They are genuinely good kids; they just happen to go to a school where most of the staff are terrible, lousy people and their pranks are meant to act out against the terrible establishment. When something goes too far or it results in a supervillain, they go clean up their mess. Of worthy note is that they actually learn their lesson when they do something bad, such as when they realize that it's not nice to make fun of people at the end of book 4. They consider their (admittedly cruel-hearted) teachers and InsufferableGenius Melvin AcceptableTargets, however.
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* ClassicalAntiHero: They are genuinely good kids; they just happen to go to a school where most of the staff are terrible, lousy people people, and their pranks are meant to act out against the terrible establishment. When something goes too far or it results in a supervillain, they go clean up their mess. Of worthy note is that they actually learn their lesson when they do something bad, such as when they realize that it's not nice to make fun of people at the end of book 4. They consider their (admittedly cruel-hearted) teachers and InsufferableGenius Melvin AcceptableTargets, however.
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** In Book 9, when it comes to neutralizing resident school bully Kipper Krupp. At the beginning, he is already afraid of George due to a previous incident. Instead of [[MundaneSolution using this fact to scare Kipper into giving up his bullying ways,]] George and Harold devise a complicated plan that involves playing a series of elaborate pranks on Kipper to make him think he's being cursed by "The Haunted Pants of Wedgie Magee".
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** In Book 9, when it comes to neutralizing resident school bully Kipper Krupp. At In the beginning, he is already afraid of George due to a previous incident. Instead of [[MundaneSolution using this fact to scare Kipper into giving up his bullying ways,]] George and Harold devise a complicated plan that involves playing a series of elaborate pranks on Kipper to make him think he's being cursed by "The Haunted Pants of Wedgie Magee".
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** The ninth book gave them individual characterizations when they were shown as kindergartners. Little Harold was shy and lonely, and spent time coming up with and drawing various superheroes to cope with the stress of being bullied and having a DisappearedDad. Little George was outgoing, quick-thinking, a prolific writer of silly stories and [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] four sixth graders who were bullying Harold without breaking a sweat.
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** The ninth book gave them individual characterizations when they were shown as kindergartners. Little Harold was shy and lonely, lonely and spent time coming up with and drawing various superheroes to cope with the stress of being bullied and having a DisappearedDad. Little George was outgoing, quick-thinking, a prolific writer of silly stories stories, and [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] four sixth graders who were bullying Harold without breaking a sweat.
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* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: While training in Ratrick for an assignment in season 2 episode 4 of the series, the latter draws a comic of the loss of his love prior to the episode. The duo however, don't even realize what he's trying to portray and simply think he finally learned how make comics, resulting in the rat running away.
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* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: While training in Ratrick for an assignment in season 2 episode 4 of the series, the latter draws a comic of the loss of his love prior to before the episode. The duo duo, however, don't doesn't even realize what he's trying to portray and simply think he finally learned how to make comics, resulting in the rat running away.
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** In the end of book 4, they felt remorse for making fun of Professor Poopypants.
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** All throughout the HalloweenSpecial, George and Harold openly talk about how much Melvin loves the holiday despite the nerd making multiple attempts to get the holiday cancelled. It isn't later on that [[spoiler: they realize that Melvin never got to hang out with them in any past Halloweens like they initially believed. He would always stay at home to give away candy to the other kids. It also doesn't help that the boys would scare Melvin with their costumes each year. Once they make this revelation, they attempt to amend bridges by inviting Melvin to go sneak-or-snacking with them]].
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** All throughout the HalloweenSpecial, George and Harold openly talk about how much Melvin loves the holiday despite the nerd making multiple attempts to get the holiday cancelled.canceled. It isn't later on that [[spoiler: they realize that Melvin never got to hang out with them in any past Halloweens like they initially believed. He would always stay at home to give away candy to the other kids. It also doesn't help that the boys would scare Melvin with their costumes each year. Once they make this revelation, they attempt to amend bridges by inviting Melvin to go sneak-or-snacking with them]].
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* MrImagination: They conceived many in-universe fictional superheroes such as Dog Man, Super Diaper Baby and Diaper Dog, The Amazing Cow Lady and of course, Captain Underpants. Unfortunately for them, they go to [[SuckySchool Jerome Horwitz Elementary School,]] where imagination is not only forbidden, but discouraged...
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* MrImagination: They conceived many in-universe fictional superheroes such as Dog Man, Super Diaper Baby Baby, and Diaper Dog, The Amazing Cow Lady and of course, Captain Underpants. Unfortunately for them, they go to [[SuckySchool Jerome Horwitz Elementary School,]] where imagination is not only forbidden, forbidden but discouraged...
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* RedOniBlueOni: They're both pretty rambunctious, but in general George is the bold, leader-ly Red to Harold’s calmer, more sensitive Blue.
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* RedOniBlueOni: They're both pretty rambunctious, but in general general, George is the bold, leader-ly Red to Harold’s calmer, more sensitive Blue.
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* FunnyAfro: George had one as big as he was in kindergarten, but he shaved it off in order to disguise himself as Wedgie Magee.
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adorkable cleanup, now it's YMMV. removing misuse and ZCE, and moving appropriate examples to YMMV
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* {{Adorkable}}: Both of them have their moments thanks to their love for comic books and dumb jokes.
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* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: In book 10, after realizing all the disasters that happened because of their pranks and time-traveling antics, they decide to start being more responsible and give up fun things like comic books and jokes. Immediately after, they get transported by Tippy Tinkletrousers to a BadFuture where their older selves are evil, fun-hating SadistTeacher[=s=] working for an elderly Mr. Krupp.
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* InformedKindness: Each book's opening maintains that regardless of their constant pranking, George and Harold are genuinely good kids. This can be hard to believe in the first five books, especially with how vicious some of their pranks can be, and the fact that more often than not, they're the cause of the current conflict:
** In the first book, they cause enough disruption at a school football game to get the school to forfeit it, and subsequently ruin everyone else's day, and Captain Underpants is later created as a result of their attempt to avoid being punished for this.
** In the second book, Mr. Krupp bans them from the Invention Convention because the previous year, they played a prank on the teachers and every other student by secretly gluing them to their chairs. George and Harold [[NeverMyFault refuse any responsibility]] and sabotage the other kids' inventions out of spite.
** In the first book, they cause enough disruption at a school football game to get the school to forfeit it, and subsequently ruin everyone else's day, and Captain Underpants is later created as a result of their attempt to avoid being punished for this.
** In the second book, Mr. Krupp bans them from the Invention Convention because the previous year, they played a prank on the teachers and every other student by secretly gluing them to their chairs. George and Harold [[NeverMyFault refuse any responsibility]] and sabotage the other kids' inventions out of spite.
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* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In the books, their classmates' opinion of them tends to go up and down depending on how irritating their pranks are at the moment (although everyone loves their Captain Underpants comic books). In the animated series, they have a better relationship with their classmates as a result of their efforts to make the school a more fun place for everyone, not just themselves.
