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Nip & Tuck's ChildhoodFriend, and initially Tuck's AbhorrentAdmirer, Thelma is a sensitive, soft-spoken female possum... who just happens to be a hardcore wrestling fan and more than capable of punching somebody's lights out if she feels so inclined. Her dogged pursuit of Tuck pays off when they get a RelationshipUpgrade, and by comic #910, they two of them are married.
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Nip & Tuck's ChildhoodFriend, and initially Tuck's AbhorrentAdmirer, Thelma is a sensitive, soft-spoken female possum... who just happens to be a hardcore wrestling fan and more than capable of punching somebody's lights out if she feels so inclined. Her dogged pursuit of Tuck pays off when they get a RelationshipUpgrade, and by [[https://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0907/ comic #910, #907]], they two of them are married.
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* BaldWomen: Like all lizard females, she's completely bald. She wears wigs to make it more apparent to mammals that she's female, since [[MyEyesAreUpHere getting breast implants felt wrong/demeaning to her]].
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* RealityEnsues: Lampshaded by Zelda in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-89/ post-revival strip #89]]; her quills keep people at a literal distance, and she still ends up constantly having to apologize when they get jabbed, she physically damages property all the time, and she's endlessly trying to keep track of stray quills that've fallen out. Ultimately, she found it so frustrating that by [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-86/ post-revival strip #86]] she had her quills permanently pulled, using laser surgery to destroy the roots so they won't grow back.
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* WalkingDisasterArea: Lampshaded by Zelda in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-89/ post-revival strip #89]]; her quills keep people at a literal distance, and she still ends up constantly having to apologize when they get jabbed, she physically damages property all the time, and she's endlessly trying to keep track of stray quills that've fallen out. Ultimately, she found it so frustrating that by [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-86/ post-revival strip #86]] she had her quills permanently pulled, using laser surgery to destroy the roots so they won't grow back.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Hortense is a smart-mouthed asshole who practically goes out of her way to pick fights, especially with the Todd brotherss, and is pretty much angry towards the world, but does have a good heart under it all and is ultimately shown to be motivated more by uncertainty, insecurity and a lack of a good role model.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Hortense is a smart-mouthed asshole who practically goes out of her way to pick fights, especially with the Todd brotherss, brothers, and is pretty much angry towards the world, but does have a good heart under it all and is ultimately shown to be motivated more by uncertainty, insecurity and a lack of a good role model.
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* StrawFeminist: [[DefiedTrope Defied]] with Hortense, who is intended as a portrayal of a woman with self image issues trying to define herself using feminism, [[FreudianExcuse and being not just unsuccessful, but very troubled because there are so many contradictory feminist philosophies.]] She's essentially the strip's resident JerkassWoobie once you learn exactly why she is the way she is.
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* StrawFeminist: [[DefiedTrope Defied]] with Hortense, who Hortense is a {{deconstruction}} of this trope; she is intended as to be a portrayal of a woman with self image self-image issues trying who tries to define herself using feminism, [[FreudianExcuse and while being not just unsuccessful, but very troubled because there are so many contradictory feminist philosophies.]] philosophies. She's essentially the strip's resident JerkassWoobie once you learn [[FreudianExcuse exactly why she is the way she is.is]].
->'''Hortense:''' All these experts who're supposed to tell you what a woman is supposed to be like -- they can't seem to say the same thing twice in a row! If you use sex appeal, [[MaleGaze you're pandering to the patriarchy]]! If you're aren't sexy, you're repressed! Women can take care of themselves! Women are victimized! Beware! A liberated woman should pay her own way! A man who won't pay the tab is a leech! You're a woman, you can be anything you want -- except for this, that, and the other -- at least for ''this'' week -- and we'll update the list later without telling you!
->'''Hortense:''' All these experts who're supposed to tell you what a woman is supposed to be like -- they can't seem to say the same thing twice in a row! If you use sex appeal, [[MaleGaze you're pandering to the patriarchy]]! If you're aren't sexy, you're repressed! Women can take care of themselves! Women are victimized! Beware! A liberated woman should pay her own way! A man who won't pay the tab is a leech! You're a woman, you can be anything you want -- except for this, that, and the other -- at least for ''this'' week -- and we'll update the list later without telling you!
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* MrsFanservice: This is literally their job at the gas station.
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* MrsFanservice: MsFanservice: This is literally their job at the gas station.
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** And then there's the moment when she admits part of her reason for being de-quilled was because [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-89/ having quills keeps her from living out her fantasies for rough sex]].
** Deconstructed in a story-line in the post-revival series, running from strips [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-86/ #86]] to #91, where Zelda lampshades just how much of a hassle having porcupine quills really is... and that's why she got hers removed.
* RealityEnsues: Lampshaded by Zelda in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-89/ post-revival strip #89]]; her quills keep people at a literal distance, and she still ends up constantly having to apologize when they get jabbed, she physically damages property all the time, and she's endlessly trying to keep track of stray quills that've fallen out. Ultimately, she found it so frustrating that by [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-86/ post-revival strip #86]] she had her quills permanently pulled, using laser surgery to destroy the roots so they won't grow back.
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* CantGetAwayWithNothing: Gilly is ''never'' allowed to have any kind of victories, and even the most innocuous "fault" of his results in instanteous punishment. For example, when he meets a pair of rednecks and laughs at their stereotypical redneck names, he gets electrocuted by one of them as punishment. For another, in the pioneer's day festival mini-arc, Gilly's joke that this takes the County's residents back about five years results in him being beaten up and tied to a tree.
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* CantGetAwayWithNothing: Gilly is ''never'' allowed to have any kind of victories, and even the most innocuous "fault" of his results in instanteous instantaneous punishment. For example, when he meets a pair of rednecks and laughs at their stereotypical redneck names, he gets electrocuted by one of them as punishment. For another, in the pioneer's day festival mini-arc, Gilly's joke that this takes the County's residents back about five years results in him being beaten up and tied to a tree.
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* FatBastard: The "bastard" part may be an overstatement, but Gilly is notedly porky.
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* FatBastard: The "bastard" part may be an overstatement, but Gilly is notedly notably porky.
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Correcting a mistake I made in Thelma's Furry Reminder entry; the Todd who keeps forgetting is Nip, not her boyfriend Tuck.
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** In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0731/ strip #731]], Thelma pulls out her cellphone that she's been keeping in her pouch, with Tuck admitting that he keeps forgetting about it, and Nip dumbfoundedly asking how when she's developed a liking for wearing belly shirts.
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** In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0731/ strip #731]], Thelma pulls out her cellphone that she's been keeping in her pouch, with Tuck Nip admitting that he keeps forgetting about it, and Nip Tuck dumbfoundedly asking how when she's developed a liking for wearing belly shirts.
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* CantGetAwayWithNothing: Gilly is ''never'' allowed to have any kind of victories, and even the most innocuous "fault" of his results in instanteous punishment. For example, when he meets a pair of rednecks and laughs at their stereotypical redneck names, he gets electrocuted by one of them as punishment. For another, in the pioneer's day mini-arc, Gilly's joke that this takes the County's residents back about five years results in him being beaten up and tied to a tree.
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* CantGetAwayWithNothing: Gilly is ''never'' allowed to have any kind of victories, and even the most innocuous "fault" of his results in instanteous punishment. For example, when he meets a pair of rednecks and laughs at their stereotypical redneck names, he gets electrocuted by one of them as punishment. For another, in the pioneer's day festival mini-arc, Gilly's joke that this takes the County's residents back about five years results in him being beaten up and tied to a tree.
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* KnowNothingKnowItAll: The general attitude that Gilly's neighbors have is that Gilly believes he knows everything, but what he actually knows pales in comparison. The biggest reason why Gilly fails at any political debate he gets into is because, ultimately, he doesn't understand his own political beliefs.
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* KnowNothingKnowItAll: The general attitude that Gilly's neighbors have is that Gilly believes he knows everything, but what he actually knows pales in comparison. The biggest reason why Gilly fails at any political debate he gets into is because, ultimately, he doesn't understand his own political beliefs.beliefs, and so he has no way to argue in their favor or discuss the nuance.
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* BaldWomen: Like all lizard females, she's completely bald. She wears wigs to make it more apparent to mammals that she's female, since [[MyEyesAreUpHere getting breast implants felt wrong to her]].
* FreudianExcuse: Hortense gives one over strips #492 to #494; she's the only female lizard in all of Malarkey County, so she feels extremely insecure about her gender, because the only examples she has on waht a "woman" is like comes from the mammals around her, which she's biologically incapable of emulating. She clings to an aggressively independent form of feminism in no small part to try and comfort herself in the face of this insecurity.
* FreudianExcuse: Hortense gives one over strips #492 to #494; she's the only female lizard in all of Malarkey County, so she feels extremely insecure about her gender, because the only examples she has on waht a "woman" is like comes from the mammals around her, which she's biologically incapable of emulating. She clings to an aggressively independent form of feminism in no small part to try and comfort herself in the face of this insecurity.
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* BaldWomen: Like all lizard females, she's completely bald. She wears wigs to make it more apparent to mammals that she's female, since [[MyEyesAreUpHere getting breast implants felt wrong wrong/demeaning to her]].
* FreudianExcuse: Hortense gives one over strips #492 to #494; she's the only female lizard in all of Malarkey County, so she feels extremely insecure about her gender, because the only examples she has onwaht what a "woman" is like comes from the mammals around her, which she's biologically incapable of emulating. She clings to an aggressively independent form of feminism in no small part to try and comfort herself in the face of this insecurity.
* FreudianExcuse: Hortense gives one over strips #492 to #494; she's the only female lizard in all of Malarkey County, so she feels extremely insecure about her gender, because the only examples she has on
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InTheBlood: Several strips imply that Nip and Tuck are practically a DecompositeCharacter of their father; whilst he's normally a stoic, no-nonsense sort, much like Tuck, he's also shown to have a Nip-like affinity for pranks and wicked humor, as seen when [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0302/ he instructs Nip on how to pull off the ultimate revenge prank on his jerky roommate Charlie at stunt school]]. He also has at least some of Nip's borderline pyromania; his efforts at lighting the barbecue at the church picnic in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0501/ strip #501]] even prompt the pastors to comment on how close the apples fell to the family tree. Plus, he's pretty accident prone, which applies to both his sons.
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* InTheBlood: Several strips imply that Nip and Tuck are practically a DecompositeCharacter of their father; whilst he's normally a stoic, no-nonsense sort, much like Tuck, he's also shown to have a Nip-like affinity for pranks and wicked humor, as seen when [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0302/ he instructs Nip on how to pull off the ultimate revenge prank on his jerky roommate Charlie at stunt school]]. He also has at least some of Nip's borderline pyromania; his efforts at lighting the barbecue at the church picnic in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0501/ strip #501]] even prompt the pastors to comment on how close the apples fell to the family tree. Plus, he's pretty accident prone, which applies to both his sons.
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!!Protagonists
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* ActionGirlfriend: Tuck has one in Thelma.
* BattleCouple: And is not lacking in badass-itude himself.
* BatmanGambit: When Nip planned out the route for the Tuck vs Gus auto race, he deliberately included a point where Gus could cheat and take a shortcut. He also ensured that the shortcut went straight through the Malarky county demolition derby.
* InterspeciesRomance: Both of the brothers find themselves falling in love with non-fox women; Tuck falls for his ChildhoodFriend, Thelma the Opossum, whilst Nip winds up with Zelda, a porcupine assistant of his. Tuck and Thelma get married in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0907/ comic #907 of the original run]], with Nip proposing to Zelda [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0908/ at the wedding]].
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The two somewhat fall under this trope during the middle phase of the comic, with Tuck as the solid workaday man with a steady girlfriend, while Nip is running around blowing things up (including himself).
* TooDumbToLive: {{Subverted}} by Nip. While running around blowing up and/or jumping off everything you can find that is flammable and/or tall sounds like a good way to get yourself killed, Nip not only survives, but makes a small fortune as a stuntman and actor.
* BattleCouple: And is not lacking in badass-itude himself.
* BatmanGambit: When Nip planned out the route for the Tuck vs Gus auto race, he deliberately included a point where Gus could cheat and take a shortcut. He also ensured that the shortcut went straight through the Malarky county demolition derby.
* InterspeciesRomance: Both of the brothers find themselves falling in love with non-fox women; Tuck falls for his ChildhoodFriend, Thelma the Opossum, whilst Nip winds up with Zelda, a porcupine assistant of his. Tuck and Thelma get married in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0907/ comic #907 of the original run]], with Nip proposing to Zelda [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0908/ at the wedding]].
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The two somewhat fall under this trope during the middle phase of the comic, with Tuck as the solid workaday man with a steady girlfriend, while Nip is running around blowing things up (including himself).
* TooDumbToLive: {{Subverted}} by Nip. While running around blowing up and/or jumping off everything you can find that is flammable and/or tall sounds like a good way to get yourself killed, Nip not only survives, but makes a small fortune as a stuntman and actor.
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!!!Shared Tropes:
*ActionGirlfriend: Tuck has one in Thelma.
* BattleCouple: And is not lacking in badass-itude himself.
* BatmanGambit: When Nip planned out the route for the Tuck vs Gus auto race, he deliberately included a point where Gus could cheat and take a shortcut. He also ensured that the shortcut went straight through the Malarky county demolition derby.
* InterspeciesRomance: Both of the brothers find themselves falling in loveTheAllegedCar: Zigzagged with non-fox women; Tuck falls for his ChildhoodFriend, Thelma Daisy, the Opossum, whilst Todd Brothers' jeep, which is initially presented as an absolute wreck when Nip winds up with Zelda, a porcupine assistant of his. Tuck and Thelma get married buys it in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0907/ comic #907 com/nip-and-tuck-0040/ strip #40]], but which is ultimately patched up and made into a hard-running, reliable workhorse of the original run]], with Nip proposing to Zelda a car.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Normally, they're both fairly laid-back, easy-going types. Push their buttons, though, and they can get ''mean''. Outright invoked in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0257/ strip #257]], where it's stated that most of Malarkey County's toughs and roughnecks avoid picking fights with the brothers, likening it to picking a fight with your weight in rabid weasels.
* InterspeciesRomance: Neither of the foxes is shown having an interest in vixens. Tuck is pursued (and ultimately caught) by Thelma the possum, whilst Nip tries to ask the Pop's Auto Girls out on dates, and ultimately hooks up with Zelda Porcupine.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Generally, Tuck is the sensible, down-to-earth, solid, workaday man, whilst Nip has been running around doing stunts out of ''Jackass'' all his life.
* RelationshipUpgrade: Thelma and Tuck go from "swooning girl, rejecting guy" to the OfficialCouple in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0204/ strip #204]], after a BigDamnKiss in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0199/ strip #199]]. Then repeated again when they get married in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0907/ strip #907]], with Nip and Zelda getting their own RelationshipUpgrade from "dating" to "engaged" (married offscreen) in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0908/at the wedding]].
very next strip]].
!!!Nip Tropes:
*SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The two somewhat fall under this trope during ChessMaster: Nip is capable of coming up with surprisingly far-reaching, complicated plans to achieve goals he desires, be it a simple prank or to achieve a greater good.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Downplayed, but after themiddle phase of the comic, Harvest Dance, with Tuck as the solid workaday man hooking up with Thelma and having been shut down by Beebee because her then-beau Gus Gunthry has a steady girlfriend, while pretty well-paying job, [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0232/ Nip finds himself questioning what he'll do with his life]]. Fortunately, fate intervenes and he finds himself on the road to being a professional stunt man.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Of the two brothers, Nip isrunning ''definitely'' the worst driver, not helped by his ThrillSeeker attitude, which means he tends to roar around blowing things up (including himself).
at top speed and try to pull off crazy stunts.
*TooDumbToLive: {{Subverted}} by ObfuscatingStupidity: Well, it might be a bit of stretch to say he's ''obfuscating'' with it, but people tend to underestimate Nip because they see "redneck", and then they see his ThrillSeeker antics and correct themselves to "''dumb'' redneck". In reality, Nip is actually quite cunning, and more than willing to exploit it when people look down on him.
* ThrillSeeker: Nip is a hardcore adrenaline junkie, who has been doing stupid, risky stunts for fun his whole life. His parents are actually thrilled when he decides to become a stuntman, because they figure he was always going to be risking his fool neck anyway; at least this way he gets paid for it.
!!!Tuck Tropes:
* BattleCouple: He's not a regular fighter, but he is more than capable of handling himself in a brawl. As is his viciously talented indy wrestling girlfriend (later wife), Thelma Possum.
* BerserkButton:
** Anything relating to redneck stereotypes will piss Tuck off. Downplayed in that he won't usually get violent over it, but he makes it very clear how much he hates the stereotypes.
** One thing that ''will'' make him violent? [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0255/ Insulting Thelma.]]
* FurryReminder: In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0485/ strip #485]], it's mentioned that Todd's "strong musky cologne" is actually his natural musk glands; in reality, male foxes do have musk glands, and produce a notedly strong odor.
* NoGuyWantsToBeChased: Initially, he rejects Thelma because of how ardently she pursues him. Seeing her sitting on her own and weeping at the Harvest Dance is what persuades him to finally give her a shot.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Yeah, Tuck is ''usually'' the sensible one compared to Nip.While running around blowing up and/or jumping off everything you But Tuck can find that is flammable and/or tall sounds like a good way be just as silly, immature or impulsive, under the right circumstances. For example, [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0094/ after trying to get yourself killed, Nip not only survives, but makes rid of a small fortune as a stuntman and actor.mole on the property]].
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* BattleCouple: And is not lacking in badass-itude himself.
* BatmanGambit: When Nip planned out the route for the Tuck vs Gus auto race, he deliberately included a point where Gus could cheat and take a shortcut. He also ensured that the shortcut went straight through the Malarky county demolition derby.
* InterspeciesRomance: Both of the brothers find themselves falling in love
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Normally, they're both fairly laid-back, easy-going types. Push their buttons, though, and they can get ''mean''. Outright invoked in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0257/ strip #257]], where it's stated that most of Malarkey County's toughs and roughnecks avoid picking fights with the brothers, likening it to picking a fight with your weight in rabid weasels.
* InterspeciesRomance: Neither of the foxes is shown having an interest in vixens. Tuck is pursued (and ultimately caught) by Thelma the possum, whilst Nip tries to ask the Pop's Auto Girls out on dates, and ultimately hooks up with Zelda Porcupine.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Generally, Tuck is the sensible, down-to-earth, solid, workaday man, whilst Nip has been running around doing stunts out of ''Jackass'' all his life.
* RelationshipUpgrade: Thelma and Tuck go from "swooning girl, rejecting guy" to the OfficialCouple in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0204/ strip #204]], after a BigDamnKiss in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0199/ strip #199]]. Then repeated again when they get married in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0907/ strip #907]], with Nip and Zelda getting their own RelationshipUpgrade from "dating" to "engaged" (married offscreen) in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0908/
!!!Nip Tropes:
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* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Downplayed, but after the
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Of the two brothers, Nip is
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* ThrillSeeker: Nip is a hardcore adrenaline junkie, who has been doing stupid, risky stunts for fun his whole life. His parents are actually thrilled when he decides to become a stuntman, because they figure he was always going to be risking his fool neck anyway; at least this way he gets paid for it.
!!!Tuck Tropes:
* BattleCouple: He's not a regular fighter, but he is more than capable of handling himself in a brawl. As is his viciously talented indy wrestling girlfriend (later wife), Thelma Possum.
* BerserkButton:
** Anything relating to redneck stereotypes will piss Tuck off. Downplayed in that he won't usually get violent over it, but he makes it very clear how much he hates the stereotypes.
** One thing that ''will'' make him violent? [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0255/ Insulting Thelma.]]
* FurryReminder: In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0485/ strip #485]], it's mentioned that Todd's "strong musky cologne" is actually his natural musk glands; in reality, male foxes do have musk glands, and produce a notedly strong odor.
* NoGuyWantsToBeChased: Initially, he rejects Thelma because of how ardently she pursues him. Seeing her sitting on her own and weeping at the Harvest Dance is what persuades him to finally give her a shot.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Yeah, Tuck is ''usually'' the sensible one compared to Nip.
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* DamselOutOfDistress: When she gets snookered into a $10,000 debt by a bunch of con artists, she pays off the debt herself-by moonlighting as an indie wrestler.
* FurryReminder: Nip occasionally has trouble remembering that she has a pouch.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Somewhat {{Justified}}. Thelma's wardrobe at the beginning of the comic is distinctly un-sexy, and she gets a lot prettier once she buys herself some nicer dresses.
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* DamselOutOfDistress: When she gets snookered into a $10,000 debt by a bunch of con artists, she pays off the debt herself-by moonlighting as an indie wrestler.
* FurryReminder: Nip occasionally has trouble remembering that she has a pouch.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Somewhat {{Justified}}. Thelma's wardrobe at the beginning of the comic is distinctly un-sexy, and she gets a lot prettier once she buys herself some nicer dresses.
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Possum (later Thelma Todd)]]
Nip & Tuck's ChildhoodFriend, and initially Tuck's AbhorrentAdmirer, Thelma is a sensitive, soft-spoken female possum... who just happens to be a hardcore wrestling fan and more than capable of punching somebody's lights out if she feels so inclined. Her dogged pursuit of Tuck pays off when they get a RelationshipUpgrade, and by comic #910, they two of them are married.
* AgeInappropriateDress: Thelma dresses ''extremely'' conservatively. As in, Hortense, Malarkey County's resident "angry feminist", [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0733/ tells her she dresses down too much at one point]], and hangs a lampshade that if ''she'' is critizing Thelma's lack of sex appeal, then she is ''desperately'' overemphasizing her modesty. In the "lost strips" from the Nip & Tuck/Funday Pawpet Show crossover, Thelma actually states [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0926/ at one point]] that she takes her wardrobe advice from her great-grandmother.
* CharacterDevelopment: Grows more confident in her sexuality and becomes less of an InsecureLoveInterest over the course of the comic.
* DamselOutOfDistress: When she gets snookered into a $10,000 debt by a bunch of conartists, artists who are trying to trap her into being a porn star for them, she pays off the debt herself-by herself -- by moonlighting as an indie wrestler.
* FurryReminder:Nip occasionally has trouble remembering that she She has a pouch, which she routinely uses as a pocket when it's convenient. She also likes to hang upside by her tail.
** The first appearance of female possums in the Nip & Tuck world having pouches is way back in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0036/ strip #36]], where Thelma manages to sneak some of her mother's famous hard candy away by smuggling it in her pouch.
** Thelma's pouch is visible as a scar-like line on her belly in strips [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0157/ #157]], [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0439/ #439]] and [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0745/ #745]].
** In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0731/ strip #731]], Thelma pulls out her cellphone that she's been keeping in her pouch, with Tuck admitting that he keeps forgetting about it, and Nip dumbfoundedly asking how when she's developed a liking for wearing belly shirts.
** In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0247/ strip #247]], Thelma is shown hanging upside down from a tree branch by her tail, with Tuck implying that this is normal behavior for her and other possums.
* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Thelma Possom, hand's down. She seems like a sweet Southern gal, all shy and polite and demure... and, for the most part, she is. She's also a huge wrestling fan, to the point that her idea of a romantic date, as seen in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0290/ strip #290]], is to get front row tickets to a match featuring one of her favorite wrestlers. She's also a skilled wrestler herself; first displaying it [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0422/ when she blatantly threatens Toober into bringing his band to the wedding of Corporal Bo]], she later wrestles as an indy female fighter under the name "The Hillbilly Hellion" during the "beauty contest scam" story arc. Tuck walks in on her manhandling a hulking bruiser nearly twice her size in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0522/ strip #522]], and in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0523/ the next strip]], she effortlessly pounds on that same wrestler when he foolishly interrupts her conversation with Tuck. Then there's her solution for a replacement romantic activity when Tuck strains a groin muscle and can't dance with her: [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0787/ skeet shooting]]. Or the fact that her husband [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-32/ gets her a pistol for her birthday]], to her delight.
* GroinAttack: Thelma's [[Film/TheBeverlyHillbillies Hickory Nut Crunch wrassling technique]], first seen in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0535/ strip #535]]. It appears as painful as it sounds, but hey, the guy did KickTheDog first.
* InsecureLoveInterest: Thelma, in the early days of her relationship with Tuck, is extremely uncertain that she's physically attractive enough. She grows out of it as time passes and Tuck very amply demonstrates he desires her, with the biggest step towards it coming in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0543/ strip #543]].
* NaughtyByNight: Invoked in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0221/ strip #221]], when Nip teases Tuck that the normally very prudish-acting Thelma may turn out to be quite the little bundled of repressed desires now that they've gotten a RelationshipUpgrade. Turns out to be {{foreshadowing}}; through CharacterDevelopment, Thelma ''does'' go on to be much more uninhibited in the bedroom, with the girl who [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0488/ couldn't initially bare to partake in a lingerie party]] and [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0744/ had to be forced to show off a new bikini to her boyfriend]] gravitating to [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-69/ buying some Victoria's Secrets products for her husband]].
* SheCleansUpNicely: Somewhat {{Justified}}. Thelma's wardrobe at the beginning of the comic is distinctly un-sexy, and she gets a lot prettier once she buys herself some nicerdresses.
[[/folder]]dresses. First appears in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0157/ strip #157]].
* ShotgunWedding: Invoked by a horrified Thelma in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0473/ strip #473]] when she gets a glimpse of the lingerie they're going to wearing as part of the party.
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[[folder: Zelda Porcupine (later Zelda Todd)]]
A shy and reclusive porcupine girl, a neighbor to Hortense, who has been crushing on Nip Todd since they were kids together. Brought out of her shell after accidentally securing a position as a dee-jay at the local radio, she and Nip hook up at the cruise celebrating Nip's second ever film, "Rebel Cry".
* CharacterDevelopment: Like Thelma, she grows increasingly more confident and outgoing over the events of the comic.
* CovertPervert: Despite her shy attitude, she has a ''very'' healthy libido, especially when she first manages to get an eyeful of a naked Nip in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0750/ strip #750]].
--> Zelda's friend and assistant, Charlotte: "You put his clothes back on right this minute, young lady!---"
--> Zelda (blushing & grinning hungrily): [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments "No. Go 'way."]]
* CurbStompBattle: Zelda vs Moby [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0791/ here]]. A verbal rather than a physical beatdown, but no less overwhelming for that.
* FurryReminder: Zelda's quills are a recurring element of her interactions, with their painful presence being a source of gags and references throughout the comic. In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0780/ strip #780]], when Zelda's personal assistant Charlotte gently asks if a backless dress isn't a little racy for Zelda's first date with Nip, the porcupine actually forgets about her pre-date nerves to snarkily point out that ''all'' of her dresses are by necessity backless, or end up that way after she's worn them once, since her back is covered in needle-sharp quills.
* HyperventilationBag: Zelda uses one before interviewing Nip on the radio. He's her crush, you see. And it's a PoolScene.
* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Zelda calling Michael Moby out on his so-called status quo.
* ShrinkingViolet: Zelda is, initially, so shy around people it's painful. She grows out of it.
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!!Antagonists
[[folder: Gilly Gopher]]
A big city gopher with a head full of college learning and left-wing ideology, Gilly is a recent migrant to Malarkey County who just can't seem to get along with his neighbors.
* AchievementsInIgnorance: Despite his characterization as somebody distinctly lacking in intelligence, Gilly does manage to genetically engineer [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0112/ a six-legged chicken]], [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0179/ a flying cow]], and [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0180/ an invisible pig]].
* ButtMonkey: To put things in perspective, the story's 1000th strip consists of Gilly running around screaming as Nip launches fireworks at him.
* CantGetAwayWithNothing: Gilly is ''never'' allowed to have any kind of victories, and even the most innocuous "fault" of his results in instanteous punishment. For example, when he meets a pair of rednecks and laughs at their stereotypical redneck names, he gets electrocuted by one of them as punishment. For another, in the pioneer's day mini-arc, Gilly's joke that this takes the County's residents back about five years results in him being beaten up and tied to a tree.
* {{Determinator}}: Despite the naked contempt his neighbors show him, and their willingness to shower him with everything from insults to pranks to physical violence, Gilly never even considers leaving the County and moving somewhere less hostile.
* EvilutionaryBiologist: Well "evil" might be a far stretch, but Gilly [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0111/ firmly believes that genetic engineering is the Farming Of Tomorrow... despite potential risks]].
* FatBastard: The "bastard" part may be an overstatement, but Gilly is notedly porky.
* HarmlessVillain: For all that Gilly is an "antagonist" in the comic, he's not really a bad person. He just has the misfortune of having a different political belief system to that of his neighbors.
* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: He's not really stupid, but he has a tendency not to think beyond the liberal philosophies he's been taught and follows, and ignores the inconsistencies therein, and has issues not putting his foot in his mouth when trying to get his points across, as he is basically parroting what he's been taught.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: The general attitude that Gilly's neighbors have is that Gilly believes he knows everything, but what he actually knows pales in comparison. The biggest reason why Gilly fails at any political debate he gets into is because, ultimately, he doesn't understand his own political beliefs.
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Even when he's not trying to be rude, Gilly has a problem to insult or annoy people at the worst possible moment.
* StalkerWithACrush: When Gilly falls for Zelda after debating with her under her initially anonymous identity as a local Malarkey county deejay (from [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0561/ strip #561 onwards]]), he becomes so obsessed with finding out who she is so he can ask her out that he breaks into the radio station to find her, unwittingly outting her identity to the whole of the county. Deconstructed in that this is an absolutely '''terrible''' idea on his part, which quite permanently torpedoes any chance he may have ever had of getting her to like him, even if they didn't have opposing political views. Most obviously, the first time he sees her after that in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0570/ strip #570]], she immediately maces him when he is foolish enough to approach her again, and [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0571/ in the next strip]] she gives him a quick TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and then ''deliberately'' jabs him with her quills, the first time she is ever seen acting that violently in the series.
* StrawmanPolitical: Pretty much his only real purpose in the thread is to be a punching bag for his liberal political beliefs.
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[[folder: Gus Gunthry]]
A brutish and hulking boar, Gus Gunthry is Malarkey County's resident JerkAss.
* CanCrushingCranium: Played with when a drunken and belligerent Gus Gunthry picks a fight with Nip Todd by [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0215/ crushing his beer can against Nip's head]].
* DomesticAbuse: Downplayed, but Gus' relationship with Beebee has some very unsettling overtones, particularly when he shows up drunk at the Harvest Dance and gets ''very'' angry to find she's been dancing with someone else. Fortunately, the closest he ever gets to hurting her is when he [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0217/ roughly grabs her arm]], and Beebee breaks up with him afterwards.
* FatBastard: Gus is overweight and one nasty cuss of a man.
* JerkAss: Gus Gunthry is the most hated man in Malarkey County for a reason. He actually provokes the normally mild-tempered Tuck to attack him in a rage when he [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0255/ brutally mocks him for hooking up with somebody as "ugly" as Thelma]].
* LaserGuidedKarma: Zigzagged. In general, karma ''will'' come back to bite Gus in the immediate fallout of his latest wrongdoing, but he never learns a permanent lesson from his misdeeds.
** After he picks a fight with Nip Todd at the Harvest Fall Dance, Beebee breaks up with him.
** After Gus [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0255/ insults Thelma]] and [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0260/ agrees to a race to settle the fight]], Nip goes out of his way to ensure that karma comes back to bite the JerkAss pig ''big time'', resulting in Gus losing the race ''and'' having his beloved car wrecked. And then he goes on to get himself a job as a trucker, which makes him a big man in Malarkey County.
* MissingMom: Gus Gunthry's mother left his father for being abusive, and his grandmother did the same to his grandfather, as he admits in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0573/ strip #573]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Whilst "Feminism" may be a dirty word in Malarkey County, the locals still believe in treating women with courtesy and respect. Gus is a notable exception, with a StayInTheKitchen attitude even his fellows regard as embarrassing.
* StoutStrength: He may be a big lardass, but he's also got plenty of muscle under the fat, allowing him to take a lot of punishment (unless you hit his GlassJaw) and dish even more out.
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!!Supporting Cast
[[folder: Hortense]]
The only female lizard in all of Malarkey Country, the insecure Hortense is the region's resident "angry feminist".
* AbhorrentAdmirer: When Hortense gets flirtatious calls from the gator men aboard the cruise ship, initially, she's very flattered, since she's not used to being seen as "sexy" by men. [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0758/ When they keep it up all day despite her lack of reciprocation, then she gets angry]].
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: A variant; in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0752/ strip #752]], Hortense apologizes for her wildly unusual behavior, in particular snatching Thelma's bathrobe away to force the possum into showing up her new bikini for Tuck, by explaining that the intense heat of the tropical Carribean sun is so different to what she's used to in Malarkey that she was effectively drunk.
* BaldWomen: Like all lizard females, she's completely bald. She wears wigs to make it more apparent to mammals that she's female, since [[MyEyesAreUpHere getting breast implants felt wrong to her]].
* FreudianExcuse: Hortense gives one over strips #492 to #494; she's the only female lizard in all of Malarkey County, so she feels extremely insecure about her gender, because the only examples she has on waht a "woman" is like comes from the mammals around her, which she's biologically incapable of emulating. She clings to an aggressively independent form of feminism in no small part to try and comfort herself in the face of this insecurity.
* FurryReminder:
** Hortense, and by extension all female lizards, lack breasts, despite the female anthros from mammalian species all having prominent bosoms. Even the female opossums like Thelma have them.
** Hortense uses her lizard's prehensile tongue to snag the wedding bouquet in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0434/ strip #434]].
** In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0492/ strip #492]], Hortense has a Freudian slip about how being a reptile means she's hairless, coldblooded, scaly, and completely lacking in female mammalian sexual characteristics, which leaves her feeling very un-womanly when she's been surrounded by mammalian women all her life. This is followed by her asking Thelma to carry her back inside before the cold puts her into torpor two strips afterward.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Hortense is a smart-mouthed asshole who practically goes out of her way to pick fights, especially with the Todd brotherss, and is pretty much angry towards the world, but does have a good heart under it all and is ultimately shown to be motivated more by uncertainty, insecurity and a lack of a good role model.
* ShipperOnDeck: Downplayed, but in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0542/ strip #542]], Hortense privately admits to Nip that she hopes Tuck and Thelma work things out and get back together - they're currently in the middle of emotional drama after Tuck's attempt to give Thelma a confidence boost backfired - because she believes they're good for each other.
* StrawFeminist: [[DefiedTrope Defied]] with Hortense, who is intended as a portrayal of a woman with self image issues trying to define herself using feminism, [[FreudianExcuse and being not just unsuccessful, but very troubled because there are so many contradictory feminist philosophies.]] She's essentially the strip's resident JerkassWoobie once you learn exactly why she is the way she is.
* WhatTheHellHero: Hortense blasts Tuck for forcing Thelma into a beauty contest in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0510/ strips #510-#514]]. As she points out, beauty contests are stressful, degrading and vicious, and if Thelma comes in last, it'll surely destroy her fragile self-confidence.
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!!!Pa & Ma Todd
The parents of our male protagonists, a pair of simple, sensible country farmers.
InTheBlood: Several strips imply that Nip and Tuck are practically a DecompositeCharacter of their father; whilst he's normally a stoic, no-nonsense sort, much like Tuck, he's also shown to have a Nip-like affinity for pranks and wicked humor, as seen when [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0302/ he instructs Nip on how to pull off the ultimate revenge prank on his jerky roommate Charlie at stunt school]]. He also has at least some of Nip's borderline pyromania; his efforts at lighting the barbecue at the church picnic in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0501/ strip #501]] even prompt the pastors to comment on how close the apples fell to the family tree. Plus, he's pretty accident prone, which applies to both his sons.
* OpenMindedParent: To Tuck's surprise, [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0238/ their parents congratulate Nip on deciding to pursue a career as a stuntman]], pointing out he was always being a crazy ThrillSeeker anyway, so at least now he can make money off of it.
* ParentalSexualitySquick:
** When Tuck and Thelma [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0335/ unwittingly walk in on Tuck's parents about to make love during Nip's stint at stuntman school]], Tuck is horrified and embarrassed.
** When Nip learns in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0582/ strip #582]] that his mom used to be one of "Pop Otto's Auto Girls" -- the skimpily clad beauties who work at the local auto shop -- after unwittingly ogling a picture of her from when she was one, he is so repulsed he [[BrainBleach asks Tuck to ram a toilet brush into his ear and scrub his brain clean of the image]].
!!!Pop Otto
The owner of Malarkey County's main gas-station and car repair center.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He is Pops. That's the only name anybody ever gives him in most of his strips -- only a single strip [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0582/ reveals one of his names is "Otto"]].
!!!The Pop's Auto Girls
A band of three beautiful young women - Beebee (rabbit), Janine (mouse) and Sasha (squirrel) - who work as customer service at Pop Otto's gas station. They're actually the latest in a long line of beautiful women who've been working there since the store was founded 30 years ago.
* InterspeciesRomance: Early in the strip, Beebee was dating Gus Gunthry, but she ultimately broke up with him and hooked up with a cougar named Gary instead. All three girls also went dancing with Nip Todd at the Fall Harvest Dance.
* {{Irony}}: In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0650/ strip #650]], [[spoiler:Beebee]] explains that "Magical Princess Usagi was CutShort at twelve episodes because an executive complained that she didn't have enough appeal for teenage boys. She promptly grew up into one of Malarkey County's most notoriously ''gorgeous'' women.
* MagicalGirl: Turns out that [[spoiler:Beebee]] used to be a voice actress and model for a short-lived MagicalGirl anime called "Magical Princess Usagi", which is revealed in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0648/ strip #548]].
* MrsFanservice: This is literally their job at the gas station.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Invoked InUniverse, when Nip asks why Beebee would date the likes of Gus. She bluntly tells him it's because he's got a good-paying job.
!!!The Lapin Family
A local family of rabbit farmers. Lil Bit is one of their many daughters -- it's unclear if Beebee is too.
* BerserkButton: Don't go talking about "government mandated population control" where Mr. Lapin or his 14 well-loved kids can hear it.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: The Lapin family, being that they are redneck rabbits, naturally has a ''huge'' army of kids, with at least 14 children at the first count given in the series.
!!!Tagger
An extremely clever and gifted young beaver pup, Tagger is Nip's best friend. Lil' Bit has a crush on him.
* TheTrickster: Tagger is infamous throughout Malarkey County for his skill at pranks.
!!!Eugene
Thelma's younger brother, and Tagger's rival, being his equal in smarts and pranking ability.
* BrattyYoungerSibling: Loves to annoy his big sister.
* TheTrickster: Like Tagger, he's great at playing pranks on people.
!!!Lil' Bit
A younger member of the sizable Lapin brood, Lil Bit is one of the main recurring "younguns" after Tagger and Eugene. She has a youthful crush on Tagger.
* ChangingOfTheGuard: Played for laughs when [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0278/ Lil Bit tells Thelma she's taken up pester-flirting with Tagger to keep alive the spirit of Thelma's own pursuit of Tuck after their]] RelationshipUpgrade.
* InterspeciesRomance: Lil' Bit is a rabbit, and her sort-of boyfriend Tagger is a beaver.
Nip & Tuck's ChildhoodFriend, and initially Tuck's AbhorrentAdmirer, Thelma is a sensitive, soft-spoken female possum... who just happens to be a hardcore wrestling fan and more than capable of punching somebody's lights out if she feels so inclined. Her dogged pursuit of Tuck pays off when they get a RelationshipUpgrade, and by comic #910, they two of them are married.
* AgeInappropriateDress: Thelma dresses ''extremely'' conservatively. As in, Hortense, Malarkey County's resident "angry feminist", [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0733/ tells her she dresses down too much at one point]], and hangs a lampshade that if ''she'' is critizing Thelma's lack of sex appeal, then she is ''desperately'' overemphasizing her modesty. In the "lost strips" from the Nip & Tuck/Funday Pawpet Show crossover, Thelma actually states [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0926/ at one point]] that she takes her wardrobe advice from her great-grandmother.
* CharacterDevelopment: Grows more confident in her sexuality and becomes less of an InsecureLoveInterest over the course of the comic.
* DamselOutOfDistress: When she gets snookered into a $10,000 debt by a bunch of con
* FurryReminder:
** The first appearance of female possums in the Nip & Tuck world having pouches is way back in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0036/ strip #36]], where Thelma manages to sneak some of her mother's famous hard candy away by smuggling it in her pouch.
** Thelma's pouch is visible as a scar-like line on her belly in strips [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0157/ #157]], [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0439/ #439]] and [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0745/ #745]].
** In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0731/ strip #731]], Thelma pulls out her cellphone that she's been keeping in her pouch, with Tuck admitting that he keeps forgetting about it, and Nip dumbfoundedly asking how when she's developed a liking for wearing belly shirts.
** In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0247/ strip #247]], Thelma is shown hanging upside down from a tree branch by her tail, with Tuck implying that this is normal behavior for her and other possums.
* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Thelma Possom, hand's down. She seems like a sweet Southern gal, all shy and polite and demure... and, for the most part, she is. She's also a huge wrestling fan, to the point that her idea of a romantic date, as seen in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0290/ strip #290]], is to get front row tickets to a match featuring one of her favorite wrestlers. She's also a skilled wrestler herself; first displaying it [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0422/ when she blatantly threatens Toober into bringing his band to the wedding of Corporal Bo]], she later wrestles as an indy female fighter under the name "The Hillbilly Hellion" during the "beauty contest scam" story arc. Tuck walks in on her manhandling a hulking bruiser nearly twice her size in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0522/ strip #522]], and in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0523/ the next strip]], she effortlessly pounds on that same wrestler when he foolishly interrupts her conversation with Tuck. Then there's her solution for a replacement romantic activity when Tuck strains a groin muscle and can't dance with her: [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0787/ skeet shooting]]. Or the fact that her husband [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-32/ gets her a pistol for her birthday]], to her delight.
* GroinAttack: Thelma's [[Film/TheBeverlyHillbillies Hickory Nut Crunch wrassling technique]], first seen in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0535/ strip #535]]. It appears as painful as it sounds, but hey, the guy did KickTheDog first.
* InsecureLoveInterest: Thelma, in the early days of her relationship with Tuck, is extremely uncertain that she's physically attractive enough. She grows out of it as time passes and Tuck very amply demonstrates he desires her, with the biggest step towards it coming in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0543/ strip #543]].
* NaughtyByNight: Invoked in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0221/ strip #221]], when Nip teases Tuck that the normally very prudish-acting Thelma may turn out to be quite the little bundled of repressed desires now that they've gotten a RelationshipUpgrade. Turns out to be {{foreshadowing}}; through CharacterDevelopment, Thelma ''does'' go on to be much more uninhibited in the bedroom, with the girl who [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0488/ couldn't initially bare to partake in a lingerie party]] and [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0744/ had to be forced to show off a new bikini to her boyfriend]] gravitating to [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-69/ buying some Victoria's Secrets products for her husband]].
* SheCleansUpNicely: Somewhat {{Justified}}. Thelma's wardrobe at the beginning of the comic is distinctly un-sexy, and she gets a lot prettier once she buys herself some nicer
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* ShotgunWedding: Invoked by a horrified Thelma in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0473/ strip #473]] when she gets a glimpse of the lingerie they're going to wearing as part of the party.
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[[folder: Zelda Porcupine (later Zelda Todd)]]
A shy and reclusive porcupine girl, a neighbor to Hortense, who has been crushing on Nip Todd since they were kids together. Brought out of her shell after accidentally securing a position as a dee-jay at the local radio, she and Nip hook up at the cruise celebrating Nip's second ever film, "Rebel Cry".
* CharacterDevelopment: Like Thelma, she grows increasingly more confident and outgoing over the events of the comic.
* CovertPervert: Despite her shy attitude, she has a ''very'' healthy libido, especially when she first manages to get an eyeful of a naked Nip in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0750/ strip #750]].
--> Zelda's friend and assistant, Charlotte: "You put his clothes back on right this minute, young lady!---"
--> Zelda (blushing & grinning hungrily): [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments "No. Go 'way."]]
* CurbStompBattle: Zelda vs Moby [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0791/ here]]. A verbal rather than a physical beatdown, but no less overwhelming for that.
* FurryReminder: Zelda's quills are a recurring element of her interactions, with their painful presence being a source of gags and references throughout the comic. In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0780/ strip #780]], when Zelda's personal assistant Charlotte gently asks if a backless dress isn't a little racy for Zelda's first date with Nip, the porcupine actually forgets about her pre-date nerves to snarkily point out that ''all'' of her dresses are by necessity backless, or end up that way after she's worn them once, since her back is covered in needle-sharp quills.
* HyperventilationBag: Zelda uses one before interviewing Nip on the radio. He's her crush, you see. And it's a PoolScene.
* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Zelda calling Michael Moby out on his so-called status quo.
* ShrinkingViolet: Zelda is, initially, so shy around people it's painful. She grows out of it.
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!!Antagonists
[[folder: Gilly Gopher]]
A big city gopher with a head full of college learning and left-wing ideology, Gilly is a recent migrant to Malarkey County who just can't seem to get along with his neighbors.
* AchievementsInIgnorance: Despite his characterization as somebody distinctly lacking in intelligence, Gilly does manage to genetically engineer [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0112/ a six-legged chicken]], [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0179/ a flying cow]], and [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0180/ an invisible pig]].
* ButtMonkey: To put things in perspective, the story's 1000th strip consists of Gilly running around screaming as Nip launches fireworks at him.
* CantGetAwayWithNothing: Gilly is ''never'' allowed to have any kind of victories, and even the most innocuous "fault" of his results in instanteous punishment. For example, when he meets a pair of rednecks and laughs at their stereotypical redneck names, he gets electrocuted by one of them as punishment. For another, in the pioneer's day mini-arc, Gilly's joke that this takes the County's residents back about five years results in him being beaten up and tied to a tree.
* {{Determinator}}: Despite the naked contempt his neighbors show him, and their willingness to shower him with everything from insults to pranks to physical violence, Gilly never even considers leaving the County and moving somewhere less hostile.
* EvilutionaryBiologist: Well "evil" might be a far stretch, but Gilly [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0111/ firmly believes that genetic engineering is the Farming Of Tomorrow... despite potential risks]].
* FatBastard: The "bastard" part may be an overstatement, but Gilly is notedly porky.
* HarmlessVillain: For all that Gilly is an "antagonist" in the comic, he's not really a bad person. He just has the misfortune of having a different political belief system to that of his neighbors.
* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: He's not really stupid, but he has a tendency not to think beyond the liberal philosophies he's been taught and follows, and ignores the inconsistencies therein, and has issues not putting his foot in his mouth when trying to get his points across, as he is basically parroting what he's been taught.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: The general attitude that Gilly's neighbors have is that Gilly believes he knows everything, but what he actually knows pales in comparison. The biggest reason why Gilly fails at any political debate he gets into is because, ultimately, he doesn't understand his own political beliefs.
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Even when he's not trying to be rude, Gilly has a problem to insult or annoy people at the worst possible moment.
* StalkerWithACrush: When Gilly falls for Zelda after debating with her under her initially anonymous identity as a local Malarkey county deejay (from [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0561/ strip #561 onwards]]), he becomes so obsessed with finding out who she is so he can ask her out that he breaks into the radio station to find her, unwittingly outting her identity to the whole of the county. Deconstructed in that this is an absolutely '''terrible''' idea on his part, which quite permanently torpedoes any chance he may have ever had of getting her to like him, even if they didn't have opposing political views. Most obviously, the first time he sees her after that in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0570/ strip #570]], she immediately maces him when he is foolish enough to approach her again, and [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0571/ in the next strip]] she gives him a quick TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and then ''deliberately'' jabs him with her quills, the first time she is ever seen acting that violently in the series.
* StrawmanPolitical: Pretty much his only real purpose in the thread is to be a punching bag for his liberal political beliefs.
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A brutish and hulking boar, Gus Gunthry is Malarkey County's resident JerkAss.
* CanCrushingCranium: Played with when a drunken and belligerent Gus Gunthry picks a fight with Nip Todd by [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0215/ crushing his beer can against Nip's head]].
* DomesticAbuse: Downplayed, but Gus' relationship with Beebee has some very unsettling overtones, particularly when he shows up drunk at the Harvest Dance and gets ''very'' angry to find she's been dancing with someone else. Fortunately, the closest he ever gets to hurting her is when he [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0217/ roughly grabs her arm]], and Beebee breaks up with him afterwards.
* FatBastard: Gus is overweight and one nasty cuss of a man.
* JerkAss: Gus Gunthry is the most hated man in Malarkey County for a reason. He actually provokes the normally mild-tempered Tuck to attack him in a rage when he [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0255/ brutally mocks him for hooking up with somebody as "ugly" as Thelma]].
* LaserGuidedKarma: Zigzagged. In general, karma ''will'' come back to bite Gus in the immediate fallout of his latest wrongdoing, but he never learns a permanent lesson from his misdeeds.
** After he picks a fight with Nip Todd at the Harvest Fall Dance, Beebee breaks up with him.
** After Gus [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0255/ insults Thelma]] and [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0260/ agrees to a race to settle the fight]], Nip goes out of his way to ensure that karma comes back to bite the JerkAss pig ''big time'', resulting in Gus losing the race ''and'' having his beloved car wrecked. And then he goes on to get himself a job as a trucker, which makes him a big man in Malarkey County.
* MissingMom: Gus Gunthry's mother left his father for being abusive, and his grandmother did the same to his grandfather, as he admits in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0573/ strip #573]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Whilst "Feminism" may be a dirty word in Malarkey County, the locals still believe in treating women with courtesy and respect. Gus is a notable exception, with a StayInTheKitchen attitude even his fellows regard as embarrassing.
* StoutStrength: He may be a big lardass, but he's also got plenty of muscle under the fat, allowing him to take a lot of punishment (unless you hit his GlassJaw) and dish even more out.
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[[folder: Hortense]]
The only female lizard in all of Malarkey Country, the insecure Hortense is the region's resident "angry feminist".
* AbhorrentAdmirer: When Hortense gets flirtatious calls from the gator men aboard the cruise ship, initially, she's very flattered, since she's not used to being seen as "sexy" by men. [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0758/ When they keep it up all day despite her lack of reciprocation, then she gets angry]].
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: A variant; in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0752/ strip #752]], Hortense apologizes for her wildly unusual behavior, in particular snatching Thelma's bathrobe away to force the possum into showing up her new bikini for Tuck, by explaining that the intense heat of the tropical Carribean sun is so different to what she's used to in Malarkey that she was effectively drunk.
* BaldWomen: Like all lizard females, she's completely bald. She wears wigs to make it more apparent to mammals that she's female, since [[MyEyesAreUpHere getting breast implants felt wrong to her]].
* FreudianExcuse: Hortense gives one over strips #492 to #494; she's the only female lizard in all of Malarkey County, so she feels extremely insecure about her gender, because the only examples she has on waht a "woman" is like comes from the mammals around her, which she's biologically incapable of emulating. She clings to an aggressively independent form of feminism in no small part to try and comfort herself in the face of this insecurity.
* FurryReminder:
** Hortense, and by extension all female lizards, lack breasts, despite the female anthros from mammalian species all having prominent bosoms. Even the female opossums like Thelma have them.
** Hortense uses her lizard's prehensile tongue to snag the wedding bouquet in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0434/ strip #434]].
** In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0492/ strip #492]], Hortense has a Freudian slip about how being a reptile means she's hairless, coldblooded, scaly, and completely lacking in female mammalian sexual characteristics, which leaves her feeling very un-womanly when she's been surrounded by mammalian women all her life. This is followed by her asking Thelma to carry her back inside before the cold puts her into torpor two strips afterward.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Hortense is a smart-mouthed asshole who practically goes out of her way to pick fights, especially with the Todd brotherss, and is pretty much angry towards the world, but does have a good heart under it all and is ultimately shown to be motivated more by uncertainty, insecurity and a lack of a good role model.
* ShipperOnDeck: Downplayed, but in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0542/ strip #542]], Hortense privately admits to Nip that she hopes Tuck and Thelma work things out and get back together - they're currently in the middle of emotional drama after Tuck's attempt to give Thelma a confidence boost backfired - because she believes they're good for each other.
* StrawFeminist: [[DefiedTrope Defied]] with Hortense, who is intended as a portrayal of a woman with self image issues trying to define herself using feminism, [[FreudianExcuse and being not just unsuccessful, but very troubled because there are so many contradictory feminist philosophies.]] She's essentially the strip's resident JerkassWoobie once you learn exactly why she is the way she is.
* WhatTheHellHero: Hortense blasts Tuck for forcing Thelma into a beauty contest in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0510/ strips #510-#514]]. As she points out, beauty contests are stressful, degrading and vicious, and if Thelma comes in last, it'll surely destroy her fragile self-confidence.
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!!!Pa & Ma Todd
The parents of our male protagonists, a pair of simple, sensible country farmers.
InTheBlood: Several strips imply that Nip and Tuck are practically a DecompositeCharacter of their father; whilst he's normally a stoic, no-nonsense sort, much like Tuck, he's also shown to have a Nip-like affinity for pranks and wicked humor, as seen when [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0302/ he instructs Nip on how to pull off the ultimate revenge prank on his jerky roommate Charlie at stunt school]]. He also has at least some of Nip's borderline pyromania; his efforts at lighting the barbecue at the church picnic in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0501/ strip #501]] even prompt the pastors to comment on how close the apples fell to the family tree. Plus, he's pretty accident prone, which applies to both his sons.
* OpenMindedParent: To Tuck's surprise, [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0238/ their parents congratulate Nip on deciding to pursue a career as a stuntman]], pointing out he was always being a crazy ThrillSeeker anyway, so at least now he can make money off of it.
* ParentalSexualitySquick:
** When Tuck and Thelma [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0335/ unwittingly walk in on Tuck's parents about to make love during Nip's stint at stuntman school]], Tuck is horrified and embarrassed.
** When Nip learns in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0582/ strip #582]] that his mom used to be one of "Pop Otto's Auto Girls" -- the skimpily clad beauties who work at the local auto shop -- after unwittingly ogling a picture of her from when she was one, he is so repulsed he [[BrainBleach asks Tuck to ram a toilet brush into his ear and scrub his brain clean of the image]].
!!!Pop Otto
The owner of Malarkey County's main gas-station and car repair center.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He is Pops. That's the only name anybody ever gives him in most of his strips -- only a single strip [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0582/ reveals one of his names is "Otto"]].
!!!The Pop's Auto Girls
A band of three beautiful young women - Beebee (rabbit), Janine (mouse) and Sasha (squirrel) - who work as customer service at Pop Otto's gas station. They're actually the latest in a long line of beautiful women who've been working there since the store was founded 30 years ago.
* InterspeciesRomance: Early in the strip, Beebee was dating Gus Gunthry, but she ultimately broke up with him and hooked up with a cougar named Gary instead. All three girls also went dancing with Nip Todd at the Fall Harvest Dance.
* {{Irony}}: In [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0650/ strip #650]], [[spoiler:Beebee]] explains that "Magical Princess Usagi was CutShort at twelve episodes because an executive complained that she didn't have enough appeal for teenage boys. She promptly grew up into one of Malarkey County's most notoriously ''gorgeous'' women.
* MagicalGirl: Turns out that [[spoiler:Beebee]] used to be a voice actress and model for a short-lived MagicalGirl anime called "Magical Princess Usagi", which is revealed in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0648/ strip #548]].
* MrsFanservice: This is literally their job at the gas station.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Invoked InUniverse, when Nip asks why Beebee would date the likes of Gus. She bluntly tells him it's because he's got a good-paying job.
!!!The Lapin Family
A local family of rabbit farmers. Lil Bit is one of their many daughters -- it's unclear if Beebee is too.
* BerserkButton: Don't go talking about "government mandated population control" where Mr. Lapin or his 14 well-loved kids can hear it.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: The Lapin family, being that they are redneck rabbits, naturally has a ''huge'' army of kids, with at least 14 children at the first count given in the series.
!!!Tagger
An extremely clever and gifted young beaver pup, Tagger is Nip's best friend. Lil' Bit has a crush on him.
* TheTrickster: Tagger is infamous throughout Malarkey County for his skill at pranks.
!!!Eugene
Thelma's younger brother, and Tagger's rival, being his equal in smarts and pranking ability.
* BrattyYoungerSibling: Loves to annoy his big sister.
* TheTrickster: Like Tagger, he's great at playing pranks on people.
!!!Lil' Bit
A younger member of the sizable Lapin brood, Lil Bit is one of the main recurring "younguns" after Tagger and Eugene. She has a youthful crush on Tagger.
* ChangingOfTheGuard: Played for laughs when [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0278/ Lil Bit tells Thelma she's taken up pester-flirting with Tagger to keep alive the spirit of Thelma's own pursuit of Tuck after their]] RelationshipUpgrade.
* InterspeciesRomance: Lil' Bit is a rabbit, and her sort-of boyfriend Tagger is a beaver.
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* DamselOutOfDistress: When she gets snookered into a $10,000 debt by a bunch of con artists, she pays off the debt herself-by moonlighting as an indie wrestler.
* FurryReminder: Nip occasionally has trouble remembering that she has a pouch.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Somewhat {{Justified}}. Thelma's wardrobe at the beginning of the comic is distinctly un-sexy, and she gets a lot prettier once she buys herself some nicer dresses.
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* ActionGirlfriend: Tuck has one in Thelma.
* BatmanGambit: When Nip planned out the route for the Tuck vs Gus auto race, he deliberately included a point where Gus could cheat and take a shortcut. He also ensured that the shortcut went straight through the Malarky county demolition derby.
* InterspeciesRomance: Tuck (fox) and Thelma (possum). [[spoiler: Later on, Nip (fox) and Zelda (porcupine)]].
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The two somewhat fall under this trope during the middle phase of the comic, with Tuck as the solid workaday man with a steady girlfriend, while Nip is running around blowing things up (including himself).
* TooDumbToLive: {{Subverted}} by Nip. While running around blowing up and/or jumping off everything you can find that is flammable and/or tall sounds like a good way to get yourself killed, Nip not only survives, but makes a small fortune as a stuntman and actor.
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* BatmanGambit: When Nip planned out the route for the Tuck vs Gus auto race, he deliberately included a point where Gus could cheat and take a shortcut. He also ensured that the shortcut went straight through the Malarky county demolition derby.
* InterspeciesRomance: Tuck (fox) and Thelma (possum). [[spoiler: Later on, Nip (fox) and Zelda (porcupine)]].
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The two somewhat fall under this trope during the middle phase of the comic, with Tuck as the solid workaday man with a steady girlfriend, while Nip is running around blowing things up (including himself).
* TooDumbToLive: {{Subverted}} by Nip. While running around blowing up and/or jumping off everything you can find that is flammable and/or tall sounds like a good way to get yourself killed, Nip not only survives, but makes a small fortune as a stuntman and actor.
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The good ol' boys that headline the comic. Twin fox brothers, they couldn't be more different if they tried, with Nip being a rather reckless fool that gets into countless shenanigans while Tuck is the more down to earth, sensible one. Don't let their different demeanors fool you; the Todd brothers are a tight-knit duo, and those that cross them learn the hard way why it's not a good idea to cross them.
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The good ol' boys that headline the comic. Twin fox brothers, they couldn't be more different if they tried, with Nip being a rather reckless fool that gets into countless shenanigans while Tuck is the more down to earth, sensible one. Don't let their different demeanors fool you; the Todd brothers are a tight-knit duo, and those that cross them learn the hard way why it's not a good idea to cross them.
