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* AmbiguouslyJewish: Constantly uses Yiddish words in his first appearance, even calling Cornfed "treif," Yiddish for non-kosher food.
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* DefectiveDetective: He works as a private detective and is a thoroughly repulsive and awful person. He's also seriously messed up due to a ''horrific'' childhood and his unprocessed grief over Beatrice's death.

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* ParentalNeglect: He often can't remember Mambo's name, and usually wants nothing to do with them. The only time he seems to want to be with them is when ''they'' don't want to be with ''him''.

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* ParentalNeglect: He often can't remember Mambo's name, and usually wants nothing to do with them. The only time he seems to want to be with them is when ''they'' don't want to be with ''him''. His conversation with his mother shows that he's just repeating the cycle.


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* SelfMadeOrphan: One joke hints that he might've shot his own father by accident.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Has light blue hair, just like her triplet sisters Beatrice and Beverly.

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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Has light blue hair, just like her triplet sisters Beatrice and Beverly.



* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Has blue hair like his mother, with a greenish tint.

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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Has blue hair like his mother, with a greenish tint.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: As depraved as Duckman is, he has limits in his libido. He refuses to go anywhere near Princess Fallopeia (because she's essentially a female Ajax), and is repulsed at the sexual advances of Ajax's elderly teacher.

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* EveryoneHasStandards: As depraved as Duckman is, he has limits in his libido. He refuses to go anywhere near Princess Fallopeia (because she's essentially a female Ajax), and is repulsed at the sexual advances of Ajax's elderly teacher. He's also visibly disgusted when he catches one of the teachers at Ajax's school making out with a teenage student in one of the lockers.

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* LoveAtFirstSight: He fell for Beatrice the second he saw her, while driving by her farm. [[MoodWhiplash He then crashed into a cow.]]



* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Ajax, Charles, and Mambo always speak of her with utmost reverence. Even learning that she was married to someone else when she fell for Duckman doesn't disrupt their saintly image of her.



* LoveAtFirstSight: The moment she laid eyes on Duckman, after he accidentally crashed his car in front of her farm.




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* SecretKeeper: The only one who Duckman confided his EmbarrassingFirstName to.
* SympatheticAdulterer: Of the Pay Cheating Unto Normal variety. Her first husband, Richard, is a very nice and charitable person that she cares about, but Duckman is the one she actually falls for. She stayed loyal to Richard out of concern for his heart condition (which Duckman exacerbated when he admitted to the affair in great detail).
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* EveryoneHasStandards: As depraved as Duckman is, he has limits in his libido. He refuses to go anywhere near Princess Fallopeia (because she's essentially a female Ajax), and is repulsed at the sexual advances of Ajax's elderly teacher.
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* HardboiledDetective: Occasionally drifts into this mode when the plot calls for it - he's such a perfect fit that the show's NoirEpisode makes him the protagonist and gives him a full-blown PrivateEyeMonologue.
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* BestFriendsInLaw: With Cornfed, if posthumously on his side.


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* BestFriendsInLaw: With Duckman, if posthumously on the latter's side.
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** When he genuinely falls in love with a woman, almost all of his negative traits vanish and he becomes more self-aware and respectful.

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** When he genuinely falls in love with a woman, almost all of his negative traits vanish and he becomes more self-aware and respectful. A prime example of this is in the final episode, where he meets Ben Stein's bride and is a perfect gentleman to her.
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* SiblingYinYang: Ajax is stupid, spacy, and desperately craves his father's love. Charles and Mambo are brilliant and frequently dismiss their father figure.


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* SiblingYinYang: Charles and Mambo really couldn't be more different from Ajax if they tried.
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* DumbassTeenageSon: Duckman cracks a joke once about his IQ being somewhere in the single digits, though to be fair to Ajax the American education system has done him zero favors.

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* KavorkaMan: Despite being at best average looking, he has attracted some absolute bombshells over the course of the series.



* OnlyFriend: With Cornfed.

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* OnlyFriend: With Cornfed. One episode centers around him trying to make other friends... And they all end up wanting to kill him.


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* MyBiologicalClockIsTicking: "Sperms of Endearment" centers around her desperation to have an actual baby of her own, even though she's basically a mother to Duckman's kids.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: They're usually quite friendly, even to Duckman... But they have their limits and have snapped at Duckman at least once.


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* PinkGirlBlueBoy: Averted. Although it's easy to assume that they fit this trope, not even they know what gender they are.
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* SympatheticAdulterer: Zig-zagged, but presented as sympathetic for Duckman in-story. He was genuinely in love with Beatrice and she reciprocated in an affair that led to her getting pregnant, but she was already married to a friendly and upstanding man without Duckman's knowledge. Finding out about their affair led the man to have heart attack from shock, and Duckman went onto marry Beatrice.

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* SympatheticAdulterer: Zig-zagged, but Of the "Pay Cheating Unto Normal", presented as sympathetic for Duckman in-story. He was genuinely in love with Beatrice and she reciprocated in an affair that led to her getting pregnant, but she was already married to a friendly and morally upstanding man without Duckman's knowledge.knowledge. Beatrice remarked she loved her husband but was never in love with him as she was with Duckman. Finding out about their affair led the man to have heart attack from shock, and Duckman went onto marry Beatrice. Duckman displays no remorse to this due to seeing the husband as an obstacle to his future with Beatrice, but displays enough guilt to respect the man at his funeral.

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* HappyDance: "You put your down, down. You thrust your pelvis, huh! You thrust your pelvis, huh!"

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* HappyDance: "You put your down, pants, down. You thrust your pelvis, huh! You thrust your pelvis, huh!"



** When he genuinely falls in love with a woman, almost all of his negative traits vanish and he becomes more self-aware.

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** When he genuinely falls in love with a woman, almost all of his negative traits vanish and he becomes more self-aware.self-aware and respectful.



* SourOutsideSadInside: Never really got over the loss of Beatrice.

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* SourOutsideSadInside: Never really got over the loss of Beatrice and all his bad behavior is his way of coping with his miserable life.
* SympatheticAdulterer: Zig-zagged, but presented as sympathetic for Duckman in-story. He was genuinely in love with Beatrice and she reciprocated in an affair that led to her getting pregnant, but she was already married to a friendly and upstanding man without Duckman's knowledge. Finding out about their affair led the man to have heart attack from shock, and Duckman went onto marry
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* GagPenis: He's never seen naked, but in one episode, he briefly implies this when Duckman assumes he doesn't want to strip down at a nude beach because of a TeenyWeenie (it's actually because of an embarassing tattoo). Considering how talented and skilled he is in everything else, it seems unlikely he'd lie about this.

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* GagPenis: He's never seen naked, but in one episode, he briefly implies this when Duckman assumes he doesn't want to strip down at a nude beach because of a TeenyWeenie (it's actually because of an embarassing embarrassing tattoo). Considering how talented and skilled he is in everything else, it seems unlikely he'd lie about this.



* ParentalSubstitute: For Ajax and the twins, Charles and Mambo, ever since their mother (and Bernice's sister), Beatrice, died.

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* ParentalSubstitute: For Ajax and the twins, Charles and Mambo, ever since their mother (and Bernice's sister), Beatrice, died. She's aware of this and this role eventually leads her to wanting to have a child of her own, with no success.



* StrawFeminist: She's prone to spouting anti-men rhetoric and is the first to complain on the subject of female rights, which she mainly just uses as an excuse to emasculate men. Predominantly Duckman.

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* StrawFeminist: She's prone to spouting anti-men rhetoric and is the first to complain on the subject of female rights, which she mainly just uses as an excuse to emasculate men.and demean men to make herself feel better. Predominantly Duckman.



* MeaningfulName: "The Girls of the Route Canal" reveals his name comes from the side of the truck that brought Duckman back to Beatrice.

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* MeaningfulName: "The Girls of the Route Canal" reveals his name comes from the side of the truck that brought Duckman back to Beatrice.Beatrice and started their family.



* CrazyPrepared: Much as she loved Duckman, she stipulated in her will that Bernice gets part-custody of the kids. There was also fine print saying whoever can be the best provider gets sole custody.

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* CrazyPrepared: Much as she loved Duckman, Duckman she was aware of his many parental faults, and as such she stipulated in her will that Bernice gets part-custody of the kids. There was also fine print saying whoever can be the best provider gets sole custody.



* CovertPervert: Much like her sisters she has a few kinks and it's implied she pleasures herself.

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* CovertPervert: Much like her sisters she has a few kinks and it's implied she pleasures herself.herself regularly.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Duckman leanred the hard way that even they have their limits, and that even they will stand up to him for his recklessness and disrespectful attitude.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Duckman leanred the hard way that even they have their limits, and that even they will stand up to him for his recklessness and disrespectful attitude.
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* BlackWidow: When she looks at herself in a mirror, she remarks "No wonder all my husbands left me" before revealing that she actually killed all her husbands.

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* BlackWidow: When she seemingly looks at herself in a mirror, she remarks "No wonder all my husbands left me" before revealing that she actually killed all her husbands.




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* VocalDissonance: Her voice sounds NOTHING like that of a typical woman.
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* NotSoDifferent: With Duckman; she can be crude, perverted, and bad-tempered as him, except she's more restrained about it. Duckman himself believes that for all their SiblingYinYang, Bernice is a lot like Beatrice.



* NotSoDifferent: Resents Duckman for his childhood torment and being made the most unpopular kid in school. "Cock Tales for Four" reveals that Duckman was also a frequent target of abuse, second only to King Chicken himself, and only teased King Chicken to be one of the guys instead of the punching bag, even if for a brief moment.
-->'''Duckman:''' [[LampshadeHanging Oh, what, that never occurred to you?]]
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* RudeHeroNiceSidekick: The Rude Hero to Cornfed's Nice Sidekick. Duckman is shown to be a self-centered angry douche while Cornfed is nice and polite.

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* RudeHeroNiceSidekick: The Rude Hero to Cornfed's Nice Sidekick. Duckman is shown to be a self-centered self-centered, angry douche while Cornfed is nice nice, loyal and polite.



* RudeHeroNiceSidekick: The Nice Sidekick to Duckman's Rude Hero. He is shown to be is nice and polite while Duckman is shown to be a self-centered, angry douche.

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* RudeHeroNiceSidekick: The Nice Sidekick to Duckman's Rude Hero. He is shown to be is nice nice, loyal and polite while Duckman is shown to be a self-centered, angry douche.
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* RudeHeroNiceSidekick: The Rude Hero to Cornfed's Nice Sidekick. Duckman is shown to be a self-centered angry douche while Cornfed is nice and polite.


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* RudeHeroNiceSidekick: The Nice Sidekick to Duckman's Rude Hero. He is shown to be is nice and polite while Duckman is shown to be a self-centered, angry douche.
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* AndIMustScream: The comics stressed she's aware of what's going on around her. Once, when she was [[ItMakesSenseInContext left at the altar]], she cried in private afterward. Other episodes showed that she doesn't make expressions (somehow).

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* AndIMustScream: The comics stressed she's aware of what's going on around her. Once, when she was [[ItMakesSenseInContext left at the altar]], she cried in private afterward. Other episodes showed that she doesn't does make expressions (somehow).
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--> "Damn... stupid... '''OXYGEN!!!'''"

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** In "Joking the Chicken", turns out its his speech about how comedy needs to be offensive wasn't a result of the intelligence potion.

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** In "Joking the Chicken", turns out its his speech about how comedy needs to be offensive wasn't a result of the intelligence potion.


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** Several times throughout the series, he shows himself to be a very competent detective when he's motivated, such as in "Married Alive" and "Gland of Opportunity". He's just so blinded by his temper, addictions and crippling self-esteem issues that this almost never happens.


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* GagPenis: He's never seen naked, but in one episode, he briefly implies this when Duckman assumes he doesn't want to strip down at a nude beach because of a TeenyWeenie (it's actually because of an embarassing tattoo). Considering how talented and skilled he is in everything else, it seems unlikely he'd lie about this.


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** Despite his stoic and celibate nature, he does show sexual frustration almost on Duckman's level a few times.


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* QuestForSex: Somewhat unwillingly in "Pig Amok", where it's revealed that the men of Cornfed's family suffer from a rare, and possibly unique, genetic defect that requires them to lose their virginity by the age of 30, or die when their system goes berserk before shutting down. Despite Duckman's "help", Cornfed comes very close to dying, but ends up losing his virginity to Bernice, saving his life.
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* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Characters will almost always point out all of his previous appearances when he shows up.

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* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Characters will almost always point out all of his previous appearances when he shows up.
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* BadBoss: Try asking Fluffy and Uranus how good of a boss he is, once he's done killing them anyway.
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* LastNameBasis: Everyone calls him Duckman, and he really hates his given name.


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* LastNameBasis: Like Duckman, he's also always referred to by his surname.


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* JerkassToOne: She's a loving mother figure for the kids, a good friend to Cornfed, and an obnoxious bitch to Duckman. Though many times he does actually deserve it.


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* NiceMeanAndInBetween: Of the triplets she's easily the mean.


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* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The nice girl of the triplets.


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* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The in between of the triplets.

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* TheDogBitesBack: When Duckman abuses their hospitality, they snap and give him a long, swear-laden rant before kicking him out.



* TheDogBitesBack: When Duckman abuses their hospitality, they snap and give him a long, swear-laden rant before kicking him out.

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