History Characters / JumanjiTheAnimatedSeries

* InvoluntaryTransformation: He has a tendency to attract this.

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* KnifeNut: When hands aren't enough, he favors bladed weapons.

* BalefulPolymorph: Over the course of the series, he is transformed into a monkey, a turtle, a toucan, a warthog, a Manji, and Van Pelt. [[RunningGag Among others]].

* BalefulPolymorph: Turned into an ostrich in "The Magic Chest".

* BalefulPolymorph: Turned into a warthog in "The Magic Chest". In addition, his counterpart in "Brantford: The Game" is a Manji.

** LargeAndInCharge: Also bigger than his three friends.

* BalefulPolymorph: Turned into a rat in "The Magic Chest".

* BalefulPolymorph: Basically how he was when turned into a toad in "Young Alan." Also note that he wasn't a normal-sized toad but a human-sized one and certainly not happy to be in said form.

* BalefulPolymorph: ...everyone who takes a coin from it is transformed into an animal.

* ShoutOut: In the Pilot, he pulls out a {{machete|Mayhem}} and [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom cuts the rope bridge]] while standing in the middle with Judy and Peter. He explains that this is the ''[[EverythingTryingToKillYou safer alternative]]'' to fully crossing the bridge (and being attacked by {{panther}aAwesome}}s) or fully crossing the river (and being attacked by [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile crocodiles]]).

* NiceHat: A small bowler hat with a plume.

* NiceHat: In contrast to his driver suit, he also wears a top hat.

* NiceHat: Wears a cavalier hat with a red plume.

* NiceHat: He wears a long brimmed black hat, except at Desolation Island where he wears a full militaresque uniform.

* {{Mooks}}: The unnamed henchmen of the Sand King. Being made of sand, they are incredibly easy to beat even by children.
* NiceHat: The Sand King wears a plastic beach bucket for a crown, which doubles as a tool to reconstitute him when he loses too much sand.

* NiceHat: His Sola Topi. He even sleeps with it.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: She's usually not affected by Jumanji's punitive transformations (even when [[KarmaHoudini it's her who cheats]]), and when she and Peter are affected by RapidAging, she remains comparatively beautiful and with very few wrinkles while Peter soon becomes grey-haired, balding and heavily wrinkled. At least until they hit around the 80 year old mark.

* IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight: When Peter joins the Manji tribe, she quickly realizes that he is also in the process of losing his mind and original identity, and compells him to fight it and come back before it is too late.
* ImmuneToSlapstick: As mentioned, the game's magic and inhabitants rarely choose to humiliate or curse her individually, always picking Peter or Alan even when it's her who breaks the rules. A few exceptions occur when the whole group has to be affected to run the plot however, e.g. the FreakyFridayFlip and the RapidAging episodes.

* RousingSpeech: Gives one to the Jumaki in "Air Judy", convincing them to fight against Ibsen and recover their stolen eggs, and earns her being adknowledged as their savior.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: An ImagineSpot in "Nothing to Fear" shows her as an adult with a daughter that looks just like herself, but younger.

* TookALevelInJerkAss: Within the series example in "No Dice", where she blames Alan solely for Peter's injury and calls his decision to take the dice (and, essentially, commit suicide) "the only mature thing he has ever done."

* BlatantLies: In "Truth or Consequently", whose [[AnAesop aesop]] is "Don't lie", he keeps lying about bringing a Jumanji animal into the outside world until he realizes that every lie makes the creature grow, become agresive, or duplicate.

* CheatersNeverProsper: Has a propensity to cheat and find loopholes, with Jumanji punishing him for.
* CoolLoser: Peter is smart, has amazing physical prowress for his age, and is eager to make friends. The school kids prefer to [[BullyingADragon bully him]].

* TheMillstone: The plays often become harder because Peter cheated or got in trouble in some other way.

* SizeShifter: In "Oh, Grow up!". He becomes first gigantic, then diminute.

* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: When Van Pelt's personality begins to take over Peter in "The Law of Jumanji", he allucinates the people and cars in Brantford as Jumanji animals.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Zigzagged in "Nothing to Fear". After dreaming of going naked to school and being laughed at, Peter gains a phobia about being seen naked, which is exploited by Ibsen's "Triangle of Terror". However, he realizes that the only people who can see him naked while in Jumanji are Alan and Judy, and that they don't care. After that, the Triangle materializes a bunch of Manjis just so they can laugh at Peter's nudity.

* AlmostKiss: She is about to kiss Alan in "Perfect Match" when they are crashed by the Jamazons.

* TheGadfly: Between talking, psychoanalizing, cleaning, whistling, singing, hiccuping and screaming, she has an astounding ability to make Van Pelt mad without pretending it.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: After being accidentally captured by Van Pelt, who was baiting a {{Slurpasaur}}, she takes him for [[DamselInDistress her savior]] and a potential LoveInterest. She keeps trying to converse with him after he angrily yells her to shut up and fires, and threatens her with his gun multiple times. It is only after he tries to recruit her into hunting Peter and Judy that she finally decides [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere it's best to leave his house]].
* LettingHerHairDown: She unmades her bun for a date with Alan in "Perfect Match."

* ScreamingWoman: Wether atop of a Slurpasaur or being startled by a stuffed bear.
** SeriousBusiness: In "Truth or Consequently", she screams the same way when she discovers she missed on a sales discount.
* SupernaturalProofFather: [[GenderFlip Gender Flipped]]. She refuses to admit that Jumanji is a magical board game and insists that the HungryJungle is AllJustADream.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: He is absent minded but competent in his field.

* EvilGenius: Not to earn him a scolarship, but he is cunning and fools Peter, Judy and Alan at different points (which is something not many characters actually do).

* WoundedGazelleGambit: He pretends to fall in one of Van Pelt's traps to lure Peter out.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: She is very unimpressed by Jumanji and adapts quickly to it. She recognizes Alan despite 20+ years having passed since he disappeared and thinks nothing of that, or the fact that he now looks like a fully grown caveman.

** Hightlighted in "Young Alan". [[AlternateContinuity Ten-year-old]] Alan is naïve and easily scared, but by the end of the episode he is already showing his ability to survive.
* AlternateContinuity: In this continuity, Jumanji takes all its players to the jungle after giving them a clue that they must solve to return. Alan found the game already in the attic like Judy and Peter (rather than in a construction site), but missed his clue when his mother called him. He has been trapped inside ever since, a few HopeSpot excluded, and as a result he never shaves his beard nor changes clothes in the series.

* BagOfHolding: He has all sorts of useful tools in his bag, including a machete, a makeshift knife/sword thing, rope and a grapple hook.

* TheChewToy: Poor, poor Alan. Things always seem to go worse for him, and especially after the kids are returned home but he is left adrift at sea, swimming rapids, running from Van Pelt or in free fall.

* HeroicSacrifice: A non-instant example in "No Dice", when Alan, blaming himself for Peter being injured in a fall, decides to take the game's dice to Jumanji so no one plays it ever again. It also counts as an example of ItsAllMyFault, MyGodWhatHaveIDone and IChooseToStay.

* ShotgunWedding: Placed at the receiving end of one in "Perfect Match."
* ShoutOut: In the Pilot, he pulls out a [[MacheteMayhem machete]] and [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom cuts the rope bridge]] while standing in the middle with Judy and Peter. He explains that this is the ''[[EverythingTryingToKillYou safer alternative]]'' to fully crossing the bridge (and being attacked by [[PantheraAwesome panthers]]) or fully crossing the river (and being attacked by [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile crocodiles]]).
* TarzanBoy: Due to remaining in the jungle, he resembles {{Franchise/Tarzan}} in more than one way. He even lets out a Tarzan-like scream while swinging from a vine in the opening.

* InkSuitActor: Of all characters she is the one that resembles her voice actress the most.

* DelightingInRiddles: He guides the main characters through TheMaze by using riddles in the style of the game' clues. [[spoiler:Obviously, because he is trying to make them believe that he is Jumanji.]]

* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: [[spoiler:His clue told him that he couldn't pass through the gate to get home no matter what he tried. He thought his clue was telling him ''to find a way to pass through the gate'', so he spent ''years'' trying to figure out how, and when he couldn't he spent ''centuries'' waiting for someone smarter to come along so ''they'' could figure it out for him and he could follow them through. But his clue was actually telling him [[ExactlyWhatitSaysontheTin that there was no way to pass through the gate.]] All he had to do was admit that he couldn't pass through the gate and he would've been sent home. But he had misunderstood his clue, and trapped himself in Jumanji by doing the ''exact opposite'' of what he clue was telling him.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:He claims to have been trapped in Jumanji "for many years, maybe centuries." There is a chance that you can't die of old age in Jumanji and will keep playing for eternity [[AgeWithoutYouth as a decrepit old man]]. And when you are released after that, if you do, the world you knew may no longer be there.]]

* InTheHood: He wears a red robe with hood.

* NoIndoorVoice: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]. [[spoiler:He is using a communications device intended to convince people that he is a bodyless voice. And when that fails, he still needs to scare the newcomers in order to maintain TheMasquerade.]]

* BeardOfEvil: He has longer villainous goatee than in the film in contrast to the full bearded Alan.

* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: Van Pelt is this trope made character (although he also hunts animals). After receiving confirmation that someone arrived by playing the game, he will try to shoot it.

* OmnicidalManiac: Human or animal, almost everything is far game. Though interestingly, he is actually uninterested in hunting people until they tell him they were brought in by playing the game.

** He seems to specially detest Alan for being a "smelly caveman". Nevermind that he could easily solve that if he helped him instead of trying to kill him. When he switches bodies with him, he actually likes it (but he does take a shower and change clothes, still).

* NiceHat: A small bowler hat with plume.

* TreacherousQuestGiver: He sends the trio on several [[FetchQuest Fetch Quests]] to get the clock back, only to reveal that a new shipment of the thing he sent them to fetch has arrived and now he is no longer interested in buying it.
* TheTrickster: If you are in Jumanji and are looking for a battle of wits instead of fangs, guns or poison, see him.

* BalefulPolymorph: Basically how he was when turned into a toad in "Young Alan." Also note that he wasn't a normal sized toad but a human sized one and certainly not happy to be in said form.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: He non-chalantly reveals that some of the most bizarre of Jumanji creatures, like [[ManEatingPlant Man-Eating plants]], armoured hippos, acid-spitting toads and flying hairy piranhas (if not everything else too), are actually robots built by him. And he does it just [[PunchClockVillain because it is his job]].

** In-universe, he is actively modifying Jumanji to be this, by designing, building and adding in new bizarre, deadlier creatures to the HungryJungle.

** Ibsen claims carnivore plants, armoured hippos and acid-spitting toads as his creations. Carnivore plants have been present since the first episode (and were also in the movie), and he later sends an armoured hippo after the heroes (but pieces of one can be seen [[EarlyBirdCameo earlier]] in his workshop). An acid-spitting toad appears in the following episode.
* FreakyFridayFlip: He artifically switches the minds of several people and animals in "Who am I?"

* JustFollowingOrders / PunchClockVillain: Although he clearly enjoys his work, he estates several times that building deadly machines is just what he does and that he merely works there. He doesn't actually try to explain why he should do that or who is employing him.

* SupernaturalFearInducer: In "Nothing to Fear", he builds a machine that allows him to read and materizalize the worst fears of Judy, Peter, Alan, and eventually [[HoistByHisOwnPetard himself]].

* YouAreACreditToYourRace: [[FridgeBrilliance In retrospect]], his admiration for Alan's capacity to survive, leading to him questioning if he's not actually a robot made by Ibsen... rather than "organic trash".

* LethalLavaLand: He comes out of a lava dock area with a giant, carnivorous lava-toad.
* NiceHat: Wears a cavalier hat with red plume.

* TouchOfDeath: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]]. He casually picks up and tosses aside a jaguar that Van Pelt was tracking, and he melts Peter's shoe just by holding it in his hand.

* ActingForTwo: Schlatter voices both Flint and Judy's original school crush, Wade. This is another hint that Jumanji is deliberatedly engineering Flint to trap Judy.

* CollapsingLair: After being defeated, his high rise castle collapses.

* OminousFloatingCastle: Flint lives in a high rise castle above the clouds.

* StepfordSmiler: His friendly demeanor is a cover to his real intentions.

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: [[spoiler:Flint doesn't turn Judy into stone the first time he has the chance because he wants her to wear a PimpedOutDress first. He has much less qualms about Peter and Alan, because they force him to act immediately.]]

* AmbiguouslyEvil: He takes a liking for Peter, and he is uninterested in other thing than killing the Draken, but he will have no mercy for anything and anyone standing in his way.

* TheNoseless: He used to have a nose, but the Draken ate it and he wears a wooden prothesis in its place.

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: He doesn't actually engage on onscreen piracy, presumably because there are no ports to sack and no other ships on the sea for him to steal from. The closest he comes is in "Return of Squint", when he takes over Ibsen's submarine (which the main trio had also stolen, themselves), but he "recruits" them instead of marooning or executing them.

** In a windless stretch, he makes Alan and Judy row the ship while Peter plays a drum, like in ''[[Film/BenHur1959 Ben-Hur]]''.

* UnexplainedRecovery: It doesn't matter how doomed he seems at the end of one episode, he always returns in a later one with no sign of harm. In "Return of Squint" he claims he managed to escape the maelstrom and swim to a desert island. In "The Ultimate Weapon", he appears again without a word about how he managed to escape from maneating mermaids at the bottom of the sea.

* ThePigPen: The Draken smells terribly. This pestilence is the only way it can be found, and why Squint (who lost the sense of smell along with his nose) actually needs a crew.

* WeHaveReserves: Thought he welcomes in new expeditionaries, he doesn't mind losing them.

* {{Foil}}: He is Peter - if he was insane, hyperactive, made of mud, and had no supervision at all. Conversely, his sister is one to Judy (and [[ActingForTwo also voiced]] by Debi Derribery).
* GoneHorriblyWrong: Peter wishes to have his own little brother, who likes him, always wants to play and have fun. Mud Boy is all that, but is also an insane being who would rather kill than stop or be abandoned.

* UglyCute: Just look him.

* BigBad: To the monkeys. If he is not their outright leader, they do respect his authority. And oddly, so do Slick, Ibsen and Van Pelt. The "people" he sends to prison include monkeys, bears, ants, Jumaki and Fludgels, and the way he claims to preside a trial for "crimes against Jumanji" indicates that he must have quite the power within the world of the game.

* LawfulEvil: And like everything else in Jumanji, the laws are distorted, absurd or plain dickish.
* NiceHat: He wears a long brimed black hat, except at Desolation Island where he wears a full militaresque uniform.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: He claims to have arrived "years ago", when Van Pelt was the only hunter in Jumanji. How did he arrive and where did he come from? It is entirely possible he is from earth, yet given that he is as pale as Van Pelt, when his skin tone has any consistency anyway, he may come from a different game, which given his militaristic aesthetic, was most likely war-themed.

* DependingOnTheArtist: In his debut episode alone, his skin keeps changing shades from him being equally as pale as Van Pelt to him having a relatively normal skintone.

* FauxAffablyEvil: He seems more polite and well spoken than Van Pelt, and seems to have some standards where Van Pelt has none (for instance, he doesn't kill children), but he wants to kill Alan as much as him and is not above playing dirty as it is later revealed.

* NobleDemon: Comes across as this in his first episode, since unlike Van Pelt he treats Alan with 'respect' despite wanting to kill him, gives him a chance to escape, and considers hunting children beneath him. However this is subverted when he is revealed to be [[ILied a liar]] and [[FauxAffablyEvil a cheat]].

* WeaponOfChoice: He carries a German Mauser with telescopic sight.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In "El Pollo Jumanji", the monkeys attack the main trio while they are transporting a large jar containing (normal sized) bees and honey. The jar breaks and the bees attack the monkeys, making them flee.

* BigCreepyCrawlies: The worker ants are human sized and the queens are [[LargeAndInCharge so massive]], they can't walk by themselves.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Or rather, both sides have no point, since their [[SillyReasonForWar reason for the war]] is stupid.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The red ants and the black ants are identical except in their color, flag and siege WeaponOfChoice.

* EnemyCivilWar: Judy, Alan and Peter are thrown in the middle of the AntWar and play both sides to survive and rescue each other.
* EnemyMine: When the trio reveal that they have stolen the "[[McGuffin bahoot]]", the ants momentarily stop their battle and try to attack them.

* {{Phlegmings}}: The ant queens are drooling perpeually.

* SillyReasonForWar: The black ants claims the red ants stole the "black bahoot". The red ants claim the black ants want to steal their "red bahoot". The red and black bahoots are one and the same, a red and black ball of filth and queen ant spit.
* TalkingAnimal: They are still recognizable as ants despite a couple changes.

An ancient tribe in Jumanji who found a way out of the game, according to legend.

* HiddenElfVillage: The Jumaki city is built at cloud altitude ([[OminousFloatingCastle if not directly on the clouds]]), and its inhabitants are hostile to strangers. It used to be at lower altitude before it was rebuilt closer to Jumanji's sun.
* IntelligentGerbil: Compared to the ants, who fall closer to TalkingAnimal, the Jumaki are a genuine attempt to make a civilization of birds with human intelligence. They have an unintelligible language that is equal parts sound and mime, build high-rise cities that look losely like agregated swallow nests, raise their eggs communally, attack in chaotic swarms, and have tridents that look loosely like bird feet as their WeaponOfChoice.
* IOweYouMyLife: Judy spares her group when she unwittingly saves a Jumaki egg that Ibsen left behind, and is later honored by the Jumaki for exorting them to fight Ibsen with a RousingSpeech.

* MonochromaticEyes: They have all black eyes.

* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: The one Jumaki female looks very close to the interpreter, but with eyelashes and a slightly more feminine-looking silouhette and head feathers.
* TheUnintelligible: Their language is made of chirps and body movements. The interpreter speaks perfectly accented English, thought.
* VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: They have arms, feet and wings.

* ShoutOut: The Sand King's treasures include a "S.S. Titanic" float. [[Creator/JamesCameron Cameron's]] ''{{Film/Titanic|1997}}'' came out the same year as the episode.

* BearyFriendly: Probably the first Jumanji creature we see that is completely, non-debatably harmless.

* TheCavalry: Just before The Judge is going to execute the main trio, a group of Fludgels arrive with a giant orb to buy their freedom.

* BizarroWorld: A bizarre version of the common Manjis, with Alan's face plasted everywhere.

* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Their leader resembles Tribal Bob, but with brown beard and hair.

* TheVoiceless: They never speak and perhaps have not the ability to do so.

* EgomaniacHunter: UpToEleven. Van Pelt literally lives by and for the hunt. And he is a gargantuan JerkAss.

** Taken UpToEleven in "Return of Squint", when he disregards the building depth pressure until the submarine is crushed, then insists on going to the UnderwaterRuins anyway. And then running to the mermaids.

* DeathByMaterialism: UpToEleven. [[spoiler:He turns the Palace of Clues into a CollapsingLair by retrieving two magical rubies, and keeps hoarding gold while [[QuicksandSucks being sucked into the ground]] while saying that it's alright if he dies because he'll die rich.]]

* LiteralSplitPersonality: In "The Three Peters", Jumanji punishes Peter by splitting him into a Peter that is [[AbsurdPhobia afraid of everything]], a Peter so sweet he TastesLikeDiabetes, and a [[TookALevelInJerkass violent jerkish]] Peter that almost gets everyone killed.

* HollywoodNerd: The Jumaki interpreter (see image) is child-sized and has no muscles compared to every other adult Jumaki male we see.

* InvoluntaryShapeShifter: Downplayed in "Who an I?" Slick's body is switched with a chimpanzee, but the chimpanzee already looked like a chimpanzee version of Slick.

* {{Expy}}: Due to remaining in the jungle, he resembles {{Franchise/Tarzan}} in more than one way. He even lets out a Tarzan-like scream while swinging from a vine in the opening.

* ALoadOfBull: After getting the Magic Chest, the Sand King is transformed into a bull (still made of sand) and charges at the main trio.

* BadassMoustache: Also longer in this continuity.

* BadassBeard: At first glance. He turns out to not be very badass, although he has his moments.

* BadassMustache: Kaiser Wilhelm-style handlebar, of course.

* NotSoDifferent: After defeating Van Pelt in "The Law of Jumanji", Alan moves into his house, drinks his scotch and puts on his night robe. When Judy calls him on it, he denies to be anything like Van Pelt... while adopting the exact same position that Van Pelt has in a portrait hanging behind him.

* TheBeastMaster: In addition to his dogs, he has a [[EverythingIsBetterWithMonkeys monkey butler]] and Peter gains the ability to command an elephant while being possessed by Van Pelt. And during his competition with his rival Von Richter, Van Pelt used weasels to counter Von Richter's eagles.

* WouldNotHurtAChild: He considers hunting children beneath him, unlike Van Pelt. However, after all the trouble Judy and Peter put into disrupting his hunt, he even shows a willingness to kill them.
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** In a windless stretch, he makes Alan and Judy row the ship while Peter plays a drum, like in ''Film/BenHur''.

* WouldNotHurtAChild: He considers hunting children beneath him, unlike Van Pelt.

* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: when he transforms into some animal, his pants mysteriously disappear.

* PigMan: In "El Pollo Jumanji" Peter turns into a warthog, [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal his pants disappear]] and his appearance scares Maria.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Those Three Bad Monkeys. Although "The Prize" shows that there are more monkeys, these three are recurring.

* HotterAndSexier: [[JailBait While she is still very obviously a minor]], she is also more grown and shapely than her movie counterpart. This is even more evident when she wears something other than her [[IconicOutfit overalls]], as is the case for most of the third season.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: He claims to have arrived "years ago", when Van Pelt was the only hunter in Jumanji. How did he arrive and where did he come from?

* AristocratsAreEvil: Although not stated, he has an aristocratic demeanor and appears to be richer than Van Pelt.

* SmallAnnoyingCreature: Before he makes himself grow up.

* SmallAnnoyingCreature: The smallest monkey seems incapable of going without annoying someone. Even members of its own species.

* BeardOfEvil: He has longer villainous goatee than in the film.