History Characters / KingOfTheHillTheHillsFamilyAndOtherRelatives

[[header:Other Platters]]
[[folder:Maddy Platter]]
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->'''Voiced by''': Mimi Rogers ("Square Peg"), Joanna Gleason ("A Rover Runs Through It")

Peggy and Hoyt's ungrateful mother and Luanne's paternal and Bobby's maternal grandmother.

* ArrangedMarriage: Tried to get Peggy to marry a wealthy ranch owner's son, but Peggy refused, apparently leading to their ranch's future closure when their cow trail got taken over (which Peggy later averted by herself).
* BerserkButton: Just being around Peggy sours her mood so bad.
* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: To date, she has never had a plot-line with her granddaughter Luanne.
* GrannyClassic: A devoted housewife and loving, if somewhat overly affectionate grandmother.
* InSeriesNickname: In "Happy Hanks-Giving" Hank calls her "Mother Platter" instead of her name or "Mom."
* ObnoxiousInLaws: She didn't think propane was an effective tool for cooking. Hank's motivation to getting to Montana was to prove her wrong.
* ParentalFavoritism: Peggy claims that she favored Hoyt over her.
* {{Retcon}}: She first debuted as a regular decent mother who had a nice, if occasionally strained relationship with her daughter Peggy. Several seasons later, her entire backstory and Peggy's stance on her changed so drastically that she's portrayed as an ungrateful bitch who made Peggy's childhood a living hell and made Peggy distance herself from her mother for twenty years, which led to Peggy's [[CharacterizationMarchesOn characterization]] to change into a faulty person who believes is right in everything she does.
* SpockSpeak: In "I Remember Mono" she insisted that Peggy was not allowed to use contractions. She seems to have given this up in present day.
* StayInTheKitchen: Originally followed this mindset, and imprinted it onto Peggy.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: She used to look like an older Peggy, until her redesign happened in Season 9.
* TheTalk: Could not bear to give Peggy this when she started puberty, and instead gave her a book called "The Loveliness of Woman" which consisted solely of flowers, the lesson being LieBackAndThinkOfEngland.
* UngratefulBastard: Anything Peggy does right, Maddy will scoff and scold her that she shouldn't feel proud of a problem Peggy caused in the first place (which Peggy never really did start). Not even saving their ranch was enough to make Maddy crack a smile.

[[folder:Leanne Platter]]
!!Leanne Platter
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->'''Voiced by''': Pamela Adlon

Luanne's alcoholic, ex-con mother. Was sent to jail for stabbing her husband Hoyt (Luanne's father and Peggy's brother) with a fork.

* TheAlcoholic: She's able to down an entire fridge of Alamo beer in just a couple of nights. And that's after rehab.
* AxCrazy: Once she goes back to drinking, she loses it.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Claims that she's changed. She hasn't.
* CoolBigSis: What Leanne wants Luanne to see and refer to her as. In reality, she's more of a BigSisterBully.
* DirtyCoward: When Peggy stops her from stabbing Luanne's boyfriend Buckley with a fork, she apologizes to her...and attacks her the minute her back is turned. After Peggy kicks her ass, she literally runs off crying.
* DomesticAbuse: Abused Hoyt throughout the marriage, which eventually resulted in him getting stabbed with a fork (which lead to her arrest). She starts abusing Bill once she starts drinking again.
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: One of the rare aversions on television. Her treatment of Hoyt, Bill, and the others is treated as seriously as if she were a male abuser.
* EvilCounterpart: To Peggy, in terms of a mother figure towards Luanne.
* FanDisservice: She tries giving a striptease to Buckley. However, Buckley is more disgusted (and alarmed) to be being sleazily seduced by his girlfriend (Luanne)'s mom.
* GoldDigger: Downplayed; while she does spend all of Bill's money, it's mostly because he's too meek to say no and she's too clueless to realize that nice things cost money. However, she does seem to have this attitude towards Luanne and Hoyt.
* HairTriggerTemper: When she drinks. Poor, poor Bill...
* HateSink: She's a [[TheAlcoholic drunk]], [[AxCrazy violent]], [[DomesticAbuse abusive]], promiscuous, [[NeverMyFault irresponsible]], [[PsychopathicManchild childish]], parasitic, and overall repulsive white trash loser. She destroys everything she touches and leaves incredible amounts of chaos and strife wherever she goes, plays the victim whenever one of her many horrible acts blows up in her face, and gleefully exploits Bill's loneliness and Luanne's desperate desire to have some kind of relationship with her own mother for her own selfish, short-sighted gain so she can continue to live the same destructive and parasitic existence she's carried out since she was a teenager.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: If she hadn't spent Bill's money so freely, he could have afforded his medication and his toe fungus wouldn't have driven her back to drink.
* IHaveNoSon: After Peggy kicks her ass, Leanne is humiliated and gets ready to leave, telling Luanne to come with her. After Luanne refuses, Leanne disowns her before leaving the neighborhood (and Luanne's life) for good.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Near the end, Leanne attempts to stab Luanne's boyfriend Buckley with a fork, only to be stopped by Peggy, who gives her a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech speech]] about her behavior towards her daughter. At first, Leanne seems to oblige by apologizing for her behavior, but as soon as Peggy's back is turned..... Leanne attempts to attack her, gloating about how she assaulted her ex (Peggy's brother). Even when Peggy manages to fight back by kicking her in the ass, Leanne leaves town in a huff after stealing Bill's truck, coldly disowning Luanne when the latter refuses to join her.
* {{Jerkass}}: And probably one of the worst in the entire series.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: In spite of getting her ass handed to her by Peggy, she does get away at the end of "Leanne's Saga", [[IHaveNoSon disowning her daughter]] and stealing Bill's truck, the latter whom doesn’t want to risk another hostile confrontation by calling the cops. A couple of episodes in Season 6 and 7 has Luanne offhandedly mention her mom's in jail for fighting constantly, implying all of Leanne's poor choices landed her back behind bars at some point after she fled.
* KnightOfCerebus: Her one appearance marks one of the darker episodes in the series, taking all of the comedy out of Luanne's shattered home life and showcasing one of the rare examples of female-on-male abuse treated seriously on TV.
* LadyDrunk: She ''thinks'' she's a HardDrinkingPartyGirl, but she's too old, too violent, and has a serious drinking problem.
* LowerClassLout: The epitome of such. Drunk, violent, barely dressed, and a slut.
* MrsRobinson: She is very obviously attracted to her daughter's boyfriend Buckley, even ''offering him a lap dance'' when she's drunk. It's the only time we ever see [[TheStoic Buckley]] look scared shitless.
* OffTheWagon: And it gets worse from there. She was already a jerk to Luanne. When she's drunk, she gets violent.
* ParentalNeglect: She's rather emotionally abusive towards Luanne. She was even okay with her daughter dropping out of college to get a job to support the two of them. This is mainly because she doesn't want to ''be'' a mother, as seen in the episode where she comes back and tries (emphasis on "tries") to be Luanne's CoolBigSis.
* PsychopathicManchild: It is quite clear she doesn't want to be seen as a mother. She even yells at Luanne that she is no longer her "sister" before leaving.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: She appears in just one episode and is only mentioned a handful of times. However, she is the reason that Luanne has to move in with the Hills, since she stabbed her husband with a fork, which led to her being arrested and him running away.
* TheSociopath: And not a high-functioning one. She's had repeated contact with law enforcement, is manipulative and exploitative towards anyone she comes across, cares only for herself, and lives a parasitic lifestyle.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Basically looks like a middle-aged Luanne, only with badly dyed hair.
* TeenPregnancy: Implied. Leanne claims to be 34 which would make her only 16 years older than her daughter. However, if she's not lying about her age, she has aged terribly [[YoungerThanTheyLook as she appears to be in her 40s or 50s.]] (which is often TruthInTelevision; constant drinking, smoking and not taking care of oneself will prematurely age anyone.)

[[folder:Hoyt Platter]]
!!Hoyt Platter
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/JohnnyKnoxville

Luanne's biological father (even though earlier episodes revealed that Hoyt was a wussier, male version of Peggy), Peggy Hill's older brother, and Leanne Platter's ex-husband. He was once thought to have escaped to an oil rig to get away from his abusive wife (and wouldn't come back until he got her death certificate in a fax), but a later episode revealed that this was a cover story; Hoyt was in jail and, if he screws up again, he'll be there for life.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: When he came back, he gave his sister Peggy ''two lottery tickets'' that were ''already scratched'' (and weren't even winning tickets). Things got worse from there until he was arrested again.
* ChronicVillainy: Seems incapable of passing up the opportunity to commit a crime.
* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: He's stinking in jail forever, Luanne.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He sincerely loves Luanne (as shown in his last scene with Hank), but still seems willing to sell her out to avoid jail. A rare example of this trope making a character ''less'' sympathetic. When he's about to do the right thing and confess into making Lucky take the fall for him, he ask Hank to not tell Luanne this, to which Hank agrees.
* TheGhost: Was this for most of the show's lengthy run, only being mentioned in a few episodes that concerned Luanne.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's almost as bad as his wife in this regard.
* LaserGuidedKarma: After getting Lucky to take the fall for a crime he committed, Hank and Peggy set him up to get his third strike.
* ManipulativeBastard: He uses his daughter's happiness of seeing him back to get away as an excuse for any stupidities he pulls on the Hills and her husband. In the end, karma gets him good and Luanne is led to believe he got a better position at the oil rig.
* {{Retcon}}: A jarring example. Originally Hoyt was a male version of Peggy who ran away and joined an oil rig to get away from [[DomesticAbuse Leanne]] and wouldn't return until her death certificate was faxed to him. When he finally makes his appearance, he is shown to be a convict on his last strike and that the "oil rig" story was a lie, and he'd been gone for most of Luanne's life (originally, she was an adult still acknowledging just having seen him). He's such a manipulative bastard he would've even thrown his own daughter under a bus if it meant him avoiding jail.
* StupidCrooks: Not only does he commit random crimes for no good reason, but he falls for Hank and Peggy's obvious plan to get him his third strike.
* UnseenNoMore: Finally appears in the flesh in "Life: A Loser's Manual" (though a younger version of him was seen in Hank and Peggy's wedding video from season 3's "Hank's Cowboy Movie").

[[folder:Elroy "Lucky" Kleinschmidt]]
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[[caption-width-right:231:Slipped on pee-pee at the [=CostCo=].]]
->'''Voiced by''': Music/TomPetty

A 35-year-old hillbilly introduced later in the series whose personal income consists primarily of nothing but personal injury suit victories. Becomes involved with Luanne, then later marries and has a child with her.

* MoneyDumb: Another of Bobby's faults is that he doesn't understand the value of money and is clueless about what his family can and can't afford, not because he's spoiled but because he genuinely doesn't know. In his defense, his poor knowledge is due to Hank thinking Bobby's too young to understand yet. It comes to a head in "Rich Hank, Poor Hank" when Bobby finally learns the importance of cash after stealing the family credit card to go on a shopping spree, forcing Hank to break the truth to his son.

* MoneyDumb: Another one of Bobby's flaws is that he doesn't understand the value of money. Bobby is entirely clueless about the family's finances and what they can afford; it's not because he's spoiled but because he's genuinely ignorant of how important a dollar is and believes his family can afford anything. In Bobby's defense, his skewed understanding of how much money Hank earns and has is because Hank thinks Bobby is too young to know about money. Things come to head in "Rich Hank, Poor Hank" when Bobby finally learns the importance of money when he falsely believes his family is wealthy and steals the family credit card to go on a shopping spree.

* AthleticallyChallenged: He can't play sports to save his life, in stark contrast to his father, Hank, who was a star football running back in high school. The pilot episode has Bobby on the softball team and gets a black eye because he wasn't watching where the ball was going. Another episode has Bobby on the football team and Hank tries to talk the coach into NOT playing Bobby. Another one has Bobby on the track team and the coach using Bobby's lack of athletic abilities to motivate the rest of the team, much to Hank's chagrin.

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* ExtravertedNerd: Despite his geekiness and unpopularity, he is very talkative and engages in a lot of social activities and school functions, has attended and hosted parties, and has gone out with several girls.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Fruit pies.

* SignatureFavoriteFood: Fruit pies.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After a certain point in the series, G.H. is never seen or mentioned again, including in the final appearances on the show of both of his parents.

* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: In "My Hair Lady", where she gets a job as a hair stylist at a trendy salon, and "Manger Baby Einstein", where she becomes the star of a series of direct-to-DVD children films featuring her Manager Baby puppets.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Bobby was initially a slow, confused kid who didn't have much in the way of personality. His effeminate characteristics and odd charisma quickly became his defining traits.

* {{Determinator}}: Hank is fully aware that all of his badass war hero stories might be total bullshit, but one thing that is indisputably true is that the man lost his shins and was told he would never be able to walk again. 18 months later, he walked right up to the doctor who told him that and beat him up.

* InnocentBigot: Downplayed. He learns a lot of comedy from his surroundings, but he doesn't always get ''why'' people are laughing. He'll occasionally bust out an antisemitic caricature[[note]]''"Whaddaya talkin' about?"''[[/note]] because it makes people laugh and he doesn't know what Judaism is. (He's met [[AlterKocker Gary]], but he assumes Gary talks and acts different because he's from Arizona.)

* SheCleansUpNicely: Peggy (even in the earliest episodes) was never ugly (despite Dale, Kahn and Minh's assertions to the contrary), but she has always been depicted as rather "plain Jane", if not bordering on masculine. But episodes like "Peggy's Pageant Fever" and "Ho Yeah!" prove that she's very attractive when all dolled up.

* ProgressivelyPrettier: In the beginning of the series, Peggy had eyes that almost looked like dots and was drawn rather lackluster. Later seasons had her with a more bright-eyed look and with more vivid coloring with a touch of raspberry-colored lipstick.

* UglyGuyHotWife: Once he and Luanne are married. He sort of points this out, mentioning Gracie looks pretty like Luanne, but that may change "once her teeth come in".

* TheUnfavorite: Unlike Cotton, nobody else in the family seems to love or even like G.H., and this includes his own mother. Besides the fact that he's a loud, fussy baby, he seems to engender resentment in almost every other family member. Didi gets stuck with pretty much all of the hands on child care while Cotton is out running around, and her resentment and frustration are the catalysts for the few times the otherwise passive Didi stands up to Cotton. Peggy is jealous that her father-in-law had a baby. Cotton giving him the spite name of "Good Hank" certainly didn't start things out on the right foot with his brother, Hank. It doesn't help that Cotton uses G.H. to insult Hank's masculinity while showing G.H. the affection Cotton denied Hank.

[[caption-width-right:320:"All right, all right, I'm callin' him [[ParentalFavoritism G.H.]...[[TheUnfavorite Good Hank]]!" - Cotton]]

[[caption-width-right:320:"All right, all right, I'm callin' him [[ParentalFavoritism G.H.]...Good [[TheUnfavorite Hank]]!" - Cotton]]

[[caption-width-right:320:"All right, all right, I'm callin' him [[ParentalFavoritism G.H.]], for Good [[TheUnfavorite Hank]]!" - Cotton]]

* OldDog: She was brought home as a puppy before Bobby was conceived, meaning she's at least 14 years old by the show's end. This makes her extremely geriatric for a bloodhound, whose average lifespan is 6-8 years and very seldom live past age 12.

* WellDoneSonGuy: Bobby sometimes tries to make his father proud of him when it appears that Hank doesn't love him enough. He became terrified of the idea of having a baby sibling because he thought the only reason Hank and Peggy were proud of him was because he didn't have any siblings to be compared to (as Hank has a narrow urethra and a low sperm count, making it impossible for them to have another child). The very first episode actually stated that Bobby was afraid Hank doesn't love him all the time - which is entirely untrue, Hank is just emotionally stunted.

%%* DistressedDamsel: Subverted in some episodes, played perfectly straight in others.

* MatzoFever: The last two men she was with (Gary and Chuck) were both Jewish.