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!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/Jillian Bell

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* BigBad: As the film's central villain, he attempts to take out Mondo Burger's competitor, Good Burger, throughout the course of the film.

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* BigBad: As the first film's central villain, he attempts to take out Mondo Burger's competitor, Good Burger, throughout the course of the film.


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* BigBad: Of the sequel, as her motive throughout is to exact revenge upon Ed and Dexter for getting her brother Kurt incarcerated.
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Dexter says in the first movie that he wouldn't be getting a driver's license until the next year, making him 15 in the first movie. High school graduates are usually 17-18. Also, the girl says "veggie burgers" rather than "vegan burgers"


** When a vegetarian customer comes in and asks if they serve vegan burgers, Ed tells her that he can "serve" anything on the menu. Cue him playing tennis with several Good Burger items.

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** When a vegetarian customer comes in and asks if they serve vegan veggie burgers, Ed tells her that he can "serve" anything on the menu. Cue him playing tennis with several Good Burger items.



A high school graduate forced to work at Good Burger due to financial/legal problems and the movie's main protagonist.

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A high school graduate schooler forced to work at Good Burger due to financial/legal problems and the movie's main protagonist.

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* MarriedToTheJob: He even says Good Burger is his life, and apparently never takes off his uniform.
* MoneyIsNotPower: Ed has very little interest in money, and did not let himself get bribed by Kurt into giving him the recipe for his secret sauce. It also appears that Ed (unlike Monique assumed), did know about Dexter deliberately taking away most of his commission money on burger sales, Ed chose to let Dexter keep that money.

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** When a vegetarian customer comes in and asks if they serve vegan burgers, Ed tells her that he can "serve" anything on the menu. Cue him playing tennis with several Good Burger items.
* MarriedToTheJob: He even says Good Burger is his life, and apparently never takes off his uniform.
* MoneyIsNotPower: Ed has very little interest in money, and did not let himself get bribed by Kurt into giving him the recipe for his secret sauce. It also appears that Ed (unlike Monique assumed), did know about Dexter deliberately taking away most of his commission money on burger sales, Ed chose to let Dexter keep that money.



* UltimateJobSecurity: Since his sauce is the only thing keeping Good Burger from going out of business.
* VagueAge: He looks to be the same age as Dexter, a teenager, and says he lives with his parents. However, he doesn’t seem to be in school, and also goes on a date with Roxanne, who is clearly an adult.

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* UltimateJobSecurity: Since his sauce is the only thing keeping Good Burger from going out of business.
business. Amped up in the sequel [[spoiler:when Ed reveals that he now owns Good Burger himself.]]
* VagueAge: He looks to be the same age as Dexter, a teenager, and says he lives with his parents. However, he doesn’t seem to be in school, school and also goes on a date with Roxanne, who is clearly an adult.
adult. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the sequel when he's revealed to have since become a father of seven kids, including his first-born son Ed2.]]



* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: At first he uses Ed for his own selfish gain, but then he considers Ed a good friend and decides to stop taking advantage of him.
* TheLancer: He's the more down to earth sidekick to the loopy Ed.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: At first he uses Ed for his own selfish gain, but then he considers Ed a good friend and decides to stop taking advantage of him.
* TheLancer: He's the more down to earth down-to-earth sidekick to the loopy Ed.



* NeverMyFault: Blames Ed for the car accident that forced him to get a job, when it was mostly his own fault for going so fast in a residential area, not to mention that not only was he not given permission to use his mother's car, ''he didn't even have a license.''

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* NeverMyFault: Blames Ed for the car accident that forced him to get a job, when it was mostly his own fault for going so fast in a residential area, not to mention that not only was he not given permission permitted to use his mother's car, ''he didn't even have a license.''



* SkewedPriorities: Apparently, getting a summer job to pay off his teacher, while still an unpleasant prospect for a teenager, is worse than the fact that he could have ''gone to prison''[[note]]more likely juvie, but still[[/note]] for driving without a license.

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* SkewedPriorities: Apparently, getting Getting a summer job to pay off his teacher, while still an unpleasant prospect for a teenager, is worse than the fact that he could have ''gone to prison''[[note]]more likely juvie, but still[[/note]] for driving without a license.



* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: At first, he's nothing but a selfish and brash slacker annoyed that he has to get a summer job, but he gets better over the course of the movie and starts to think of others besides himself.

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* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: At first, he's nothing but a selfish and brash slacker annoyed that he has to get a summer job, but he gets better over the course of throughout the movie and starts to think of others besides himself.



* VileVillainSaccharineShow: In a movie based on an ''All That'' comedy sketch of all things, he goes as far as to try to poison Good Burger's customers in order to ruin the business. In a sketch it might have been a small thing, but in the movie, the consumption of that poison was likely to either cause severe illness or death. While there were villainous characters on ''All That'' who would threaten others and succeed in taking lives, it was always PlayedForLaughs. In this case, it's not.

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* VileVillainSaccharineShow: In a movie based on an ''All That'' comedy sketch of all things, he goes as far as to try to poison Good Burger's customers in order to ruin the business. In a sketch sketch, it might have been a small thing, but in the movie, the consumption of that poison was likely to either cause severe illness or death. While there were villainous characters on ''All That'' who would threaten others and succeed in taking lives, it was always PlayedForLaughs. In this case, it's not.



* CorruptCorporateExecutive: She runs a massive Mondo Burger-like corporation that not only wants to monopolize the fast food industry, but replace all its employees with robots.

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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: She runs a massive Mondo Burger-like tech and fast food corporation that not only wants to monopolize the fast food industry, but replace all its employees with robots.



A manipulative lawyer for [=Mega-Corp=] and Katt Bozwell's right-hand man.



* FauxAffablyEvil: Cecil seems like a cool guy at first, but after [[spoiler:successfully tricking Ed and Dex into selling Good Burger with the intent of shutting the flagship location down and rebranding the IP into the soulless Mega Good Burger, he's a cunning and manipulative lawyer and Katt Bozwell's right-hand man.]]




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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:After Ed reprograms the Ed-amatronics to run amok at all Mega Good Burger locations around the world, he tries fixing the situation before eventually giving up and telling Ed that all ownership of Good Burger will be returned to him immediately before fleeing the scene.]]
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The usually unfailingly chipper Ed delivering a WhatTheHellHero to Dexter after the latter sells off the Good Burger to its competitor in the sequel is what really drives home to Dex just how badly he screwed up this time.
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* TooDumbToFool: Roxanne attempts to seduce him to get the secret recipe. She ends up hurting herself countless times.

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* TooDumbToFool: Roxanne attempts to seduce him to get the secret recipe. She ends up hurting herself countless times. The two goons that Katt sends to coerce him into selling the Good Burger in the sequel meet with the same fate.
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* SkewedPriorities: Apparently, getting a summer job to pay off his teacher, while still an unpleasant prospect for a teenager, is worse than the fact that he could have ''gone to prison'' for driving without a license.

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* SkewedPriorities: Apparently, getting a summer job to pay off his teacher, while still an unpleasant prospect for a teenager, is worse than the fact that he could have ''gone to prison'' prison''[[note]]more likely juvie, but still[[/note]] for driving without a license.
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* DumbassHasAPoint: He actually had a well thought-out reason for [[spoiler:overloading Mondo Burger's meat supply with their burger-growth chemicals instead of simply stealing a can and showing it to the police and for hacking the Ed 2s to go haywire instead of shutting them down in the sequel]]. He's not as stupid as some make him out to be.

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* DumbassHasAPoint: He actually had a well thought-out reason for [[spoiler:overloading Mondo Burger's meat supply with their burger-growth chemicals instead of simply stealing a can and showing it to the police and for hacking the Ed 2s Ed-Bots to go haywire instead of shutting them down in the sequel]]. He's not as stupid as some make him out to be.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Considering that she tries to ''kill'' Ed and Dexter by sabotaging the self-driving car she sends them off in, it's only fitting that she gets taken down when Ed hacks her company's fast-food serving robots. On her opening day, no less!

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* DumbassHasAPoint: He actually had a well thought-out reason for [[spoiler:overloading Mondo Burger's meat supply with their burger-growth chemicals instead of simply stealing a can and showing it to the police]]. He's not as stupid as some make him out to be.

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* DumbassHasAPoint: He actually had a well thought-out reason for [[spoiler:overloading Mondo Burger's meat supply with their burger-growth chemicals instead of simply stealing a can and showing it to the police]].police and for hacking the Ed 2s to go haywire instead of shutting them down in the sequel]]. He's not as stupid as some make him out to be.


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* GeniusDitz: He's a naive simpleton who's smart enough to [[spoiler: gather evidence that can be used against Kurt and Mondo Burger and hack a worldwide population of fast-food franchise robots to put said franchise out of business.]] Seriously, he's beware the [[BewareTheNiceOnes nice]] and [[BewareTheSillyOnes silly]] ones rolled up into one person with a dash of CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass for good measure.
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* TrueCompanions: Working for Ed has brought them closer.
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* EasilyForgiven: Evidently, Roxanne doesn’t hold a grudge against him for the injuries he unwittingly inflicted on her. Years later, she went on to become his children’s nanny and a family friend.
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* HonoraryAunt: Downplayed; Given how long she’s known Ed and enjoys being his children’s nanny, she can be considered this.

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* BeingEvilSucks: The injuries (albeit accidental) she sustained from her encounter with Ed was enough to make her quit Mondo Burger and turn her life around for the better. In the sequel, she’s a nun who makes an honest living as a family nanny.



* DefeatEqualsFriendship: She goes on to become friends with Ed, and the nanny to his children.



* HeelFaceTurn: She’s a much nicer, trustworthy person in the sequel.



* TheBusCameBack: In the sequel, she has become a nun and nannies for Ed's children.

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* HonoraryUncle: By the sequel, Ed has numerous children and they all call him "Uncle Dex". He also has an estranged biological niece named Mia who also works at Good Burger.



* HumanPopsicle: At some point, he gets stuck in Good Burger's second walk-in freezer and is discovered and thawed out in the sequel. He takes having missed two decades of his life, including high school and college, surprisingly well.



* HateSink: There's nothing positive about Kurt. He abuses his employees, knowingly endangers the health of his customers, and uses his political connections to avoid facing the consequences of his actions.

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* HateSink: There's nothing positive about Kurt. He's intentionally written to be as much of an over-the-top asshole as possible. He abuses his employees, knowingly endangers the health of his and Good Burger's customers, and uses his political connections to avoid facing the consequences of his actions.


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The two menacing assistant managers of Mondo Burger


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* TheBusCameBack: In the sequel, she has become a nun and nannies for Ed's children.


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[[folder:Mega Corp]]

!!Katt Bozwell
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/Jillian Bell

The CEO of Mega Corp and Kurt's younger sister
* AintTooProudToBeg: When she finds herself drenched in condiments and captured by an Ed robot, she frantically apologizes and begs Ed and Dexter to let her go.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: She runs a massive Mondo Burger-like corporation that not only wants to monopolize the fast food industry, but replace all its employees with robots.
* FreudianExcuse: Although he brought it completely on himself, having her brother lose his business and go to prison was probably her StartOfDarkness, as she blames Ed and Dexter for "destroying her family".
* KickTheDog: She blows up the Burgermobile just to spite Ed and Dexter.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: She shares Kurt's ruthless streak, but instead of having Ed and Dexter committed, she ''blows up the Burgermobile and sends them home in an automated BMW that tries to crash itself with them in it.''

!!Cecil [=McNevin=]
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* AmoralAttorney: He pressures Ed and Dexter into signing away Good Burger's rights without reading the fine print. They realize too late that this means he can shut down the restaurant to pave the way for a global automated "Mega Good Burger" chain.
* TheDragon: He's Katt's right-hand man and is responsible for tricking Ed and Dexter into signing away ownership of Good Burger to Mega Corp.

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!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Hamilton von Watts (Troy) and J. August Richards (Griffin)

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!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Hamilton von Watts (Troy) and J. August Richards Creator/JAugustRichards (Griffin)
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* CharacterCatchPhrase: "Welcome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger, can I take your order?"

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* CharacterCatchPhrase: CharacterCatchphrase: "Welcome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger, can I take your order?"
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** When Roxanne first sees Ed at Good Burger, she tells him that he is hot. Ed responds by telling her that he sweats at work.
** After their outing at the miniature golf course, Dexter asks Monique if she wants to go for a walk. Ed then asks Dexter what he is supposed to do in the meantime and Roxanne wakes up from her coma and says, “Hello?!”. Ed says “Hello” to her, as if he thought she was saying “hello” in a friendly tone.
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* CatchPhrase: "Welcome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger, can I take your order?"

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* CatchPhrase: CharacterCatchPhrase: "Welcome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger, can I take your order?"



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* SmallNameBigEgo: Kurt has a massive ego and an inflated sense of entitlement.

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* SmallNameBigEgo: Kurt has a massive ego and an inflated sense of entitlement. He goes as far as declaring during the training session that Mondo Burger will be the biggest burger chain on the planet within ''two years.''
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* BenevolentBoss: He's certainly nicer than Kurt.

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* BenevolentBoss: He's certainly far nicer than Kurt.Kurt and generally treats his employees well, including letting them leave early when he realizes keeping them at the store during Mondo Burger's opening is pointless. While he gets exasperated at Ed's antics he gives him an extra profit-sharing incentive as a reward for revitalizing Good Burger's business with his secret sauce.
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Throw The Dog A Bone didn't apply to Mr. Wheat so it shouldn't be here.


* JerkassHasAPoint: As harsh as he comes off, he has every right to be mad at Dexter for crashing into him on his way home, especially since Dexter didn't even have a license.

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* JerkassHasAPoint: As harsh as he comes off, he has every right to be mad at Dexter for crashing into him on his way home, especially since Dexter didn't even have a license. He's also not wrong to suggest that Dexter should take his education more seriously.



* ThrowTheDogABone: He does this for Dexter when it comes to the car accident, believe it or not. While he had every right to send Dexter to jail for driving without a license (which is ''very'' much illegal), Mr. Wheat gives him an out by having him work a summer job to pay off the damages done to his car and mailbox since he doesn't want to send a black man to jail.

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* ThrowTheDogABone: He does this for Dexter when it comes to the car accident, believe it or not. While he had every right to send Dexter to jail for driving without a license (which is ''very'' much illegal), Mr. Wheat gives him an out by having him work a summer job to pay off the damages done to his car and mailbox since he doesn't want to send a black man to jail.

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