History Characters / RobotChicken

* [[Characters/RobotChickenOtherMediaCharacters Characters From Other Media]]

* [[Characters/RobotChickenSantaClaus Santa Claus's Home and Workshop]]

* [[Characters/RobotChickenSantaClaus Santa Claus's home and workshop]]

With over a decade on TV, Robot Chicken has amassed a large recurring collection of characters.

* [[Characters/RobotChickenOriginalCharacters Original Characters]

* [[Characters/RobotChickenOriginalCharacters Characters original to the series]]
* [[Characters/RobotChickenSantaClaus Characters from Santa Claus's home and workshop]]
* [[Characters/RobotChickenDCComics Characters from DC Comics]]
* [[Characters/RobotChickenOtherMediaCharacters Characters originating from other media]]
* [[Characters/RobotChickenRealPeople Characters based on real people]]
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* [[Characters/RobotChickenSantaClaus Characters from Santa Claus's home and workhop]]

* [[Characters/RobotChickenRealPeople Characters based on real people]]

* [[Characters/RobotChickenRealPeople Characters based on real people]]

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!!'''"[[AdamWesting Real]]" people'''
[[folder:Seth Green]]
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-->'''Voiced by''': Himself

The show's egotistical creator.
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* AdamWesting: Seth plays himself, with a massively inflated ego.
* BoomHeadshot: He is shot in the head. [[NegativeContinuity More than once]].
* RousingSpeech: Gives one to the recurring characters in "Beginning Season Five".
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: After the show gets cancelled for the first time, he has the chance to go back in time and undo the event that caused it (a bucket of [[VisualPun green]] paint falling over [[OnlySaneMan Keith Crofford]]).
* ShootTheDog: In "Robot Chicken Telethon", he threatens to shoot a puppy if people don't start calling to donate money in two minutes. [[LeeroyJenkins Senreich]] shoots the puppy anyway, so he brings a backup monkey (which Senreich [[RunningGag also shoots]]).
* VengefulGhost: Comes back as a vengeful zombie in "Seth's Revenge", after Senreich kills him and takes over the show.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Matthew Senreich]]
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-->'''Voiced by''': Himself

The show's second banana to Seth, and moderately more sane.
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* AdamWesting: Plays a ditzy, psychotic version of himself.
* AxeCrazy: At least two season finales have ended with him killing everyone.
* BadActing: Let's say... he's a better writer than voice actor.
* TheDitz: Occasionally. He goes on a shooting rampage in the Telethon when he was supposed to only shoot the puppy if nobody called. And he goes "Wow!" when reading it on his cellphone screen before realizing it's upside down and it actually reads "Mom".
* KlingonPromotion: Becomes showrunner after killing Seth in "Seth's Revenge", which prompts him to come back for revenge.
* TheLancer: And no one will let him forget it.
* LeeroyJenkins: In "Robot Chicken Telethon", he shoots the puppy before Seth is done talking. Then he shoots the backup monkey too.
* RefugeInAudacity: When cornered by Seth's and other zombies, he shows them his contract and demands they allow him to write new sketches instead of being killed. It works.
* SelfDeprecation: When Seth is killed in "Beginning Season Five", he cries that he will tell Seth's story. [[FatalFamilyPhoto When he is also killed]], Daniel says that he will also tell Seth's story, because it is more interesting than Matt's.
* TriggerHappy: After shooting the puppy in the telethon, he also shoots the backup monkey and eventually everyone else present including Seth. His excuse is that his finger slipped every time.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Doug Goldstein]]
-->'''Voiced by''': Himself.

The shows co-head writer. Gets possibly even less respect than Matt.
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* InsistentTerminology: Always introduced as "Co-head writer Doug Goldstein".
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mike Lazzo]]
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[[caption-width-right:240:''"Oh man! Oh, by the way... you're canceled!"'']]
-->'''Voiced by''': Himself, Clark Duke

The all-powerful head honcho of Creator/AdultSwim, always ready to cancel the show.
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* BigBad: In almost any meta sketch, as he is shown either canceling the show or in favor of it.
* BitingTheHandHumor: Not giving a very favorable portrayal otherwise, either.
* GroinAttack: In "A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas", he is kicked multiple times there by the Nutcracker.
* HiddenDepths: He is shown dancing to many different tunes at the end of Season 4.
* MacheteMayhem: Attacks the Chicken with a machete during "The Rescue"...
* MutualKill: ...Only to sink it on Crofford's back while Crofford accidentally hits him with his nunchucks. Subverted later because the Chicken has no patience to watch them die.
* NiceHat: Always wears a snow hat, regardless of setting or clothing.
* OffWithHisHead: In "The Rescue", the Chicken stomps his head on the ground, smashing it.
* TheOtherDarrin: Originally voiced by the real Lazzo, and later by Clark Duke.
* PointyHairedBoss: Portrayed as odd and quirky, at least.
* RunningGag: Lazzo canceling the show.
* SuddenlySexuality: After accidentally injuring Crofford, he kisses and caresses him, leading into...
* TogetherInDeath: ...the Chicken killing them together.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Keith Crofford]]
[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rccrofford.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:210:''"These ratings... will be glorious!"'']]
-->'''Voiced by''': Himself, Matthew Senreich

The executive vicepresident of [adult swim].
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* BeleagueredAssistant: Implied in the sketch where he renews the show without consulting Lazzo, who is clearly not happy about it. However, he is not free of quirkiness himself.
* BitingTheHandHumor: Same deal with Lazzo.
* FightingWithChucks: Attacks the Chicken with nunchucks during the "Rescue".
* MutualKill: ...only to hit Lazzo while he sinks his machete on Crofford's back. However, the Chicken kills them first...
* OffWithHisHead: ...by stomping their heads together.
* OldMediaAreEvil: He gloats more than once about how violence going up in ''Robot Chicken'' translates, or will translate on better ratings.
* OnlySaneMan: [[NotSoAboveItAll Downplayed]]. He is saner than Seth and Lazzo and acts as the StraightMan with them, but is no free of craziness himself.
* TheOtherDarrin: Originally voiced by the real Crofford, and later by Senreich.
* SuddenlySexuality: After injuring Lazzo in "The Rescue" (who also injures him) he starts kissing and caressing him...
* TogetherInDeath: ...until the Chicken kills both.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Joey Fatone]]
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-->'''Voiced by''': Himself

The former member of [[{{Music/Nsync}} *NSYNC]]. You know, the fat one.
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* AllYourPowersCombined: Joey harnesses the powers of the other *NSYNC to grow to the [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever Britney]] [[BodyHorror Abomination]]'s size and fight her.
* AndZoidberg: The {{Yakuza}}s sent to murder the *NSYNC don't even recognize him as a member of the group.
* ContinuityNod: He will appear sometimes wearing the karate costume from "[[Film/EnterTheDragon Enter the Fat One]]", despite no reference made to karate.
* GroinAttack: Given one by Franchise/HelloKitty, [[BewareTheNiceOnes of all characters]].
* HeroInsurance: He is not accounted for all the damage done to the city during the fight with the Britney Abomination.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He snatches Anime/MazingerZ's detaching punch-missile and redirects it against him.
* HumanPopsicle: During his training, he is frozen in a duel and broken in a thousand pieces. [[UnexplainedRecovery Then comes back like nothing happened.]]
* IAmNotSpock: He calls Creator/PatMorita "[[Film/TheKarateKid Mr. Miyagi]]" before being corrected.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Uses the urban infrastructure to fight the giant Britney, finishing with using a broken telephone pole to stab her in the heart.
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: "Enter the Fat One" mixes references to Chinese and Japanese media and culture freely.
* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: He wants to take revenge on the {{Yakuza}} for killing his friends. It turns out that the Yakuza were hired by Britney Spears to kill Music/REOSpeedwagon, but they [[MistakenIdentity mistook]] them with the *NSYNC for some reason.
* {{Kaiju}}: Parodied at the end of "Enter the Fat One", when he becomes a giant to fight the equally enormous Britney.
* MistakenForServant: The Yakuza assassins spare him because they mistake him for an errand boy.
* NeckSnap: Delivers one to kill WesternAnimation/HongKongPhooey.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After the other *NSYNC are killed by Yakuzas, he trains to be a karate master and avenge his friends.
* OffWithHisHead: He is decapitated during his training. [[UnexplainedRecovery Then he is back to normal]].
* OneHitKill: Kills [[Franchise/GIJoe Storm Shadow]] with one punch to the heart.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Storm Shadow is surprised and excited to see that Joey has the same tattoo on his arm as him. However, Joey kills him before he can say anything.
* {{Pun}}: "Enter the Fat One" is a continuous pun based on the similarity between Fatone, Fat One (as Morita calls him), and Dragon.
* SelfDeprecation: Fatone voiced himself in a sketch that makes fun of his weight and supposed lack of importance to *NSYNC, the group that made him famous. And he accepted to do that in the first season, without having any idea of how ''Robot Chicken'' would turn out.
* SoleSurvivor: Of the Yakuza hit on the *NSYNC.
* TookALevelInBadass: Becomes a karate legend in "Enter the Fat One".
* TrainingFromHell: Undergoes it in order to avenge his friends.
* UnexplainedRecovery: He sustains injuries that would kill him during his training, like being decapitated and frozen then broken in a thousand pieces, only to turn up again as if nothing had happened.
* YouKilledMyFather: He tells the Yakuza at their "secret" hideout that he is there to avenge his friends. Then repeats [[Film/ThePrincessBride Montoya's speech]] almost word by word when he learns that Britney Spears is the actual responsible.
* JustForFun/XMeetsY: Invoked when he pitches his own idea for a ''Robot Chicken'' sketch, which he describes as a mix of ''{{Film/Rocky}}'' and ''Film/CrocodileDundee''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lindsay Lohan]]
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[[caption-width-right:213:''"Darth Vader, who farts in Heaven... Halloween be the name!"'']]
-->'''Voiced by''': [[CrossDressingVoices Breckin Meyer]]

A rather unflattering portrayal of [[Creator/LindsayLohan the disgraced child actress]].
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Calls Munson a bad boy and falls instantly in love with him.
* AndZoidberg: When she's revealed to be part of the ''{{Series/V}}'' invasion troops, she's trusted to... [[YouGetMeCoffee carry a cup of coffee]]. [[TooDumbToLive Which she immediately drops]]. She's then told to do anything she wants.
* BreathingInSpace: She flies through space without a suit at the end of "There can be only one Lohan" (a.k.a. [[{{Film/Highlander}} Highlohander]]).
* BulletproofHumanShield: Acts as an involuntary one for the Gummy Bear in "Beginning Season Five".
* CrossDressingVoices: Voiced by Breckin Meyer, who is actually a man.
* TheDitz: Portrayed with varying grades of stupidity.
* EarthShatteringKaboom: After winning "the Gift" in "There can be only one Lohan", she makes Earth explode and flies away to party with aliens in outer space.
* FanDisservice: Besides being a doll, she's portrayed as crash, vulgar, constantly drunk or insane, taking out any appeal from her curves and revealing outfits.
* FieryRedhead: Definitely at play in "There can be only one Lohan". Later iterations portray her more as stupid than fiery... but interestingly, that's after she dies her hair black and [[DumbBlonde blond]].
* {{Flanderization}}: From a CloudCuckooLander with a violent streak in her first sketch to suicidally stupid by the ''V.'' parody.
* FourthDateMarriage: In "Bad Boy meets Damaged Girl with Daddy Issues", Munson moves in with her and her family and impregnates her between airings of her reality show, apparently.
* HeroInsurance: During the first duel in "There can be only one Lohan", she destroys an office without [[ApatheticCitizens the officinists]] caring at any point.
* HiddenDepths: She can fight with a two-handed sword (courtesy of her TrainingFromHell with Ramirez), and she [[NoFourthWall understands]] what the "Beginning Season Five" sketch is about from the beginning.
-->'''Gummy Bear''': Oh, who's even shooting at us?!
-->'''Lindsay''': It's just a metaphor for season five, stupid!
* LadyDrunk: She chucks entire bottles down. But the worrying part is that she behaves the same when she doesn't.
* LoveAtFirstSight: She falls in love with Munson after seeing him (or seeing that he is a "[[AllGirlsWantBadBoys bad boy]]"). Munson comes across as more opportunistic.
* {{Malaproper}}:
** Just read the quote (given while assaulting enemy trenches in "Beginning Season Five").
** In "V: The Celebrity Rehab Invasion", she scolds the police for their lack of knowledge of ''Geography''... when she obviously means Biology.
* MonumentalDamage: After killing Creator/AmandaBynes in "There can be only one Lohan", she destroys the Hollywood sign while receiving "The Gift".
* OffWithHisHead:
** Obviously done in "There can be only one Lohan", as it is a parody of ''Highlander''.
** In "V: The Celebrity Rehab Invasion", she thinks that being a lizard implies the [[ArtisticLicenseBiology ability to regrow a head]], and procedes to remove her own herself to demonstrate. [[RealityEnsues She kills herself instead.]]
* PantyShot: Gives a (blurred) one when she gets a BridalCarry by Munson.
* PottyFailure[=/=]ToiletHumor: In "Bad Boy meets Damaged Girl with Daddy Issues", she defecates in Daniel's family's backyard during a drunk bender. They assume it's her dog, and she does not correct them.
* {{Pun}}: While being shot in "Beginning Season Five", she names her movies (''Film/{{The Parent Trap|1998}}'', ''Film/MeanGirls'', ''Film/HerbieFullyLoaded'', ''Georgia Rule'') before ending with ''Film/IKnowWhoKilledMe''.
* {{Reptilians}}: In "V: The Celebrity Rehab Invasion", she appears as one of the alien LizardFolk invaders.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: "Bad Boy meets Damaged Girl with Daddy Issues" gives her sister and mother the same [[ActingForTwo voice]] and personality. By the end of the sketch, they all become pregnant at the same time.
* TheyCallMeMrTibbs: While driving a speeboat in "[[Series/HannahMontana Hannah Dakota]]", she insists on being addressed as "Captain Lohan".
* TooDumbToLive: Taken to extremes in the ''V.'' parody, where she is seen hitting a chair with her face for no reason, and then removes her own head in a futile attempt to prove that reptiles can regrow heads.
* TookALevelInBadass: "There can be only one Lohan" reveals that she was trained in swordsmanship by Ramirez from a young age. She avenges him, receives "the Gift", and promptly destroys Earth.
* TrainingFromHell: Her sword training in "There can be only one Lohan", done while she was filming ''The Parent Trap''.
* YouGetMeCoffee: [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]] in the ''V.'' spoof, where she is trusted to ''hold'' a cup of coffee, then to do whatever she wants when she fails to do even that.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Britney Spears]]
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-->'''Voiced by''': Seth Green

The former teen pop star, and person whom Seth Green presumably hated the most before transferring his sights to Lohan.
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* AllYourPowersCombined: In "Enter the Fat One", she fuses herself with Music/ChristinaAguilera, Music/AvrilLavigne, Music/JessicaSimpson and Music/AshleeSimpson to become the giant {{Kaiju}}-like "Britney Abomination" and kill him.
* AndZoidberg: She doesn't consider Ashlee Simpson worthy of any introduction besides "Jessica Simpson's Sister" and tells her to shut up because "adults are talking".
* BodyHorror: Her fusion with other pop stars and transformation into the giant and aptly named "Britney Abomination", which has a head in place of each hand and foot.
* BuriedAlive: At the end of "Enter the Fat One".
* CrossdressingVoices: Voiced by Seth Green himself.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Spears was already spoofed in a 1999 ''Robot Chicken''-esque stop motion short by Seth Green, years before the series proper began.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: She shrugs when she drops her baby to its death while driving a spaceship in "V: The Celebrity Rehab Invasion".
* {{Kaiju}}: The "Britney Abomination", which she transforms into when combining with other pop stars.
* DecapitationPresentation: Santa Claus decapitates her and brings her head to the Coca-Cola executives when they suggest replacing him with her as their mascot.
* {{Gasshole}}: One of the ''Bloopers!'' programs show her lighting up her farts in the company of her boyfriend.
* LethallyStupid: She carries her baby on her lap as she drives a spaceship without a covered cockpit, using the safety belts for her only. She then flies upside down, apparently trusting the baby to remain in place somehow. Obviously, the child plummets to its death.
* NoodleIncident: It is never explained why she hates and wanted to murder REO Speedwagon.
* {{Reptilians}}: She is revealed to be one of the invaders in the ''V.'' spoof.
* TheEndOrIsIt: The parody of TheStinger in "Enter the Fat One" reveals that she's actually BuriedAlive and is clamoring for vengeance against Fatone.
* UnfinishedBusiness: After being told that the Yakuza killed the *NSYNC by mistake, she says she has this with REO Speedwagon.
* WhoWritesThisCrap: At the end of "Enter the Fat One", she says that the joke sucked and that this cannot be the end of the sketch.
[[/folder]]

!!Recurring Characters From Other Media
[[folder:Santa Claus]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Why, I'm Santa Claus! I was just flying by and heard everyone having a good laugh in here! Please, someone tell me what was... [[HAHAHANo so... funny]]. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Make. Me. Laugh.]]"'']]
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/SethMacfarlane

[[SantaClaus The holidays' jolly bringer of toys]]. But a bit more jaded and dickish than usual.

* AccidentalPervert: He tries to hide from a little girl by going back into the chimney, only to get stuck halfway, and his pants to fall off... while wearing [[GoingCommando no underwear]].
* AdaptationalBadass: This version of Santa isn't afraid to beat or shoot anyone.
* AdaptationalJerkass: ...nor to berate, hit, or kill his own employees, or to sleep with prostitutes, or to just take a gift from the sled to hide the fact that he forgot to make one for his wife.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In "Kill Bunny", where he fights Jesus while on the service of the Easter Bunny. In his own sketches, he qualifies more as a very twisted AntiHero.
* AllJustADream: TheReveal of "One Minute 'Till Midnight". This being Robot Chicken, it means things are actually far ''worse'' for Santa and company than in his dream. [[spoiler:He dreams he has only one minute to deliver all the presents. He's actually choking his wife in his sleep, and being kicked by the Elves to stop.]]
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: He's very angry when Superman moves next door, among other things because Mrs. Claus starts placing way too much attention in him.
* AlternateUniverse: In one sketch set in the ''WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer'' universe his appearance is the one he has in that movie, which is completely different from his usual one. But his personality is very much [[BadBoss the same]].
* AntiHero: Surprisingly, he is almost always on the right side of things... despite being also prone to unleashing disproportionate violence. And he clearly loves his wife and his craft.
* AscendedExtra: One of the most recurring characters, yet his first sketch ("[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Santa's Fall]]") just showed him falling out of a chimney, with no characterization.
* BadassBeard: As befits any BadassSanta.
* BadassSanta: RC Santa is not one to mess with. He helped capture Lex Luthor, fought [[Film/TheBourneIdentity Jason Bourne]], and laid waste to a boardroom worth of Coke executives.
* BadSanta: Zig-Zagged, if not subverted. Unlike most examples of the trope, and despite his flaws (he sleeps with prostitutes, and he often hits and kills people), he's still dedicated to bringing toys to the good, and coals to the naughty on Christmas Night, without JackassGenie inclinations.
* BadBoss: He often insults and hits his elves and reindeers, and does not care if they are killed. Sometimes, he is the one who has them killed.
* BatterUp:
** He kills half the Coca-Cola boardroom with a baseball bat for using his likeness without permission since 1931.
** In another sketch, a parent knocks him out with a bat after confusing him with a home intruder.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A World War One soldier jokingly wishes Santa to wipe out the opposing enemy trench as his Christmas gift. So Santa comes, and gives him exactly that... right after the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce 1914 Christmas Truce]] begins.
* BloodIsTheNewBlack: By the time he's done killing Coca-Cola executives, he is trully covered head to toe in red.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: He looks into the camera and addresses the audience in "A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas".
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In his first speaking role, "A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas", he is much more passive and good-natured (brief misogynistic joke aside), and his voice sounds weaker and elderly-like.
* TheCoatsAreOff: He drops his red jacket before attacking the Coca-Cola executives.
* CurbstompBattle: He is unmatched and nearly merciless when beating the executives in "Santa and Coke".
* DeadpanSnarker: Increased with every appearance.
* DecapitationPresentation: He decapitates Britney Spears and shows her head at the surviving Coke executives when they suggest replacing him with her as their mascot.
* {{Deconstruction}}: "The Robot Chicken Lots of Holidays Special" shows him struggling to decide which children really deserve gifts and which coal, and getting shocked by the living conditions of children in extreme poverty. It ends with him walking into the snow while silently pondering life.
%%* DelusionsOfEloquence
* {{Determinator}}: He '''will''' deliver the gifts on time. Nothing else matters.
* DisproportionateRetribution: He beats most Coca-Cola executives to death for using his image without permission... since 1931, as he himself claims. In other words, there is no way those exact executives were old enough to be behind his likeness being stolen and in fact, none of them believed he was real until the walked through their door.
* DistressedDude: In "A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas", he is introduced after the Composite Santa steals his reindeer, presents, and pants.
* TheDragon: To the Easter Bunny in "Kill Bunny", a ''Film/KillBill'' spoof where he plays the part of O-Ren Ishii.
* GoingCommando: In "Up the Chimney", his pants fall while he is stuck halfway into a chimney, revealing he has no underwear.
* HAHAHANo: In "Santa and Coke", he says his iconic "Ho, Ho, Ho" in a sarcastic fashion.
* HappilyMarried: To Mrs. Claus. She's [[AwfulWeddedLife less enthusiastic]].
%%* IAteWhat
* IHaveYourWife: A literal example in "Don't forget about terrorism", where terrorists take his wife and some elves hostage to force him to deliver bombs instead of toys.
* ILied: He allows [[WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer Hermey the Elf]] to return to his job making toys before having him [[YouHaveFailedMe executed]] for leaving it before.
* MistakenForThief: In "Santa [[ToiletHumor Poops]]", he wakes up a family while he is using their bathroom and is attacked by the father with a bat, who then calls the cops.
* MoreDakka: He has a hidden gun safe with submachine guns in his office, and in one sketch, he was transporting a bazooka for a kid in his sled (but had to use it against NORAD).
%%* MyGodWhatIhaveDone
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: The image quote, said sarcastically to the Coca-Cola boardroom.
* RealityEnsues:
** In "NORAD shoots down Santa", the US Airforce shoots him down because he refuses to identify himself and state his cargo.
** In "A Candy Cane", he is gifted a giant candy cane after he breaks his leg. The candy breaks as soon as he tries to walk with it.
%%* SantaClausmas
* SantasExistenceClause: Spoofed in "NORAD shoots down Santa" and "Santa and Coke". In both cases, a number of adults who don't believe in Santa Claus discover that he really exists. And in each case, with different horrific consequences (he is killed in the former, killing Christmas in the process; in the latter, Santa kills them for using his image without paying).
* SarcasmFailure: After sex, he thanks a whore for sucking his "candy cane". She answers that she's sucking a lollipop, not a cane.
* SavingChristmas: "A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas" is a straight example with Goku and Gohan taking on Santa's enemies after they steal everything from him (and threaten Christmas, implicitly). Averted in "NORAD shoots down Santa", which goes to credits while showing children sad because the military killed Santa Claus and left them without presents.
%%* SomebodysWatching
* TheStraightMan: To Goku, Superman, the Nerd, and his own reindeer in different sketches.
* StrongerThanTheyLook: As seen in the image. His red jacket hides very muscled arms and he can swing a bat with enought force to pulverize a skull.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Neither elves nor reindeer are particularly bright.
* TookALevelInBadass: Though "Kill Bunny" already showed him double-wielding katanas earlier, his first speaking role, "A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas", actually had him as a [[NeutralFemale Neutral]] DistressedDude. Later sketches, on the other hand, have him fighting all sorts of enemies with nearly as much weapons.
* WhamLine: Two in "Santa and Coke". First he leaves a executive speechlees by recalling a gift he never brought him. Then he says "I know you are a fucking thief" and everything breaks loose.
%%* WouldntHitAGirl: Zig-Zagged in "Santa and Coke".
* YouHaveFailedMe: He orders Ermey's murder because he dared leave his service to become a dentist.

[[folder:Mrs. Claus]]
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[[caption-width-right:210:''"I hate Christmas. You heard me!"'']]
-->'''Voiced by''': Phyllis Diller, Clare Grant, Creator/ElizabethBanks

Santa's wife. And yes, she has a personality besides that.

%%* AwfulWeddedLife
%%* BewareTheNiceOnes
%%* BiggerBad
%%* EatingTheEyeCandy
%%* EldritchAbomination
%%* EvilOldFolks
%%* IHaveYourWife
%%* TheOtherDarrin
%%* StepfordSmiler
%%* WhamLine
%%* YourCheatingHeart

[[folder:Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer]]

%%* AdaptationalBadass[=/=]ExternalRetcon
%%* NegativeContinuity
%%* TalkingAnimal

[[folder:Superman]]
-->'''Voiced by''': Breckin Meyer

The Man of Steel... and kind of a douche.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Buh-doop doop de-doo doop, Superman!"
* {{Jerkass}}: Unlike the likable paragon of the comics, RC Superman is a narcissistic, lecherous A-hole.

[[folder:Batman]]
-->'''Voiced by''': Seth Green

The Dark Knight, an emotional basket-case.

* BadassBaritone: Parodied. He speaks in a heavily exaggerated version of Christian Bale's Bat-growl.
* NoRespectGuy: Routinely mocked by the rest of the Justice League.

[[folder:Joker]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Darth Vader]]
-->'''Voiced by''': Abraham Benrubi

The feared Dark Lord of the Sith. Who is still carrying a lot of baggage from his Jedi days.

* AffablyEvil: Is generally a nice guy when not on the job and this version changes him from a YouHaveFailedMe BadBoss to a AFatherToHisMen BenevolentBoss.
* AFatherToHisMen: This version of Vader tends to get along with his subornates and gets upset when the rebels kill or at the least inconvience his men.
-->'''Vader:''' (while strangling a rebel) What have you done with those plans?! Gary here never gets to see his daughter because of people like you!
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Compared to his mainstream counterpart this guy's a saint. He only ever commits acts of villainy under direct orders and tends not to embrace a CardCarryingVillain attitude.

[[folder:Emperor Palpatine]]
-->'''Voiced by''': Seth Macfarlane

The supreme leader of the Empire. Who is stuck dealing with all the little annoyances that entails.

* BreakoutCharacter: Thanks to the famed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F1d3QWsyk0 phone call with Vader]], RC Palpantine became a series standby. Even getting the third Star Wars special focused on him.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Palpatine isn't super impressed by his minions. Especially Vader.
-->'''Palpatine:''' Choose your apprentice in haste, repent in leisure as the saying goes.

[[folder:Justice League]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Leagion of Doom]]
* HistoricalRapSheet: Apparently, Cheetah's responsible for the death of the real Princess Diana. She's shocked to learn it was the "wrong limo" (rather than her archenemy ComicBook/WonderWoman) and is last seen lamenting that she'd been "a candle in the wind".
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Skeletor]]
-->'''Voiced by''': Dam Milano.

Arch-enemy of He-Man. And just as incompetent as he ever was.

* LampshadeHanging: People frequently question how he can see or hear with his [[SkullForAHead condition.]]
[[/folder]]

!!'''"[[AdamWesting Real]]" people'''
[[folder:Seth Green]]
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-->'''Voiced by''': Himself

The show's egotistical creator.
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* AdamWesting: Seth plays himself, with a massively inflated ego.
* BoomHeadshot: He is shot in the head. [[NegativeContinuity More than once]].
* RousingSpeech: Gives one to the recurring characters in "Beginning Season Five".
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: After the show gets cancelled for the first time, he has the chance to go back in time and undo the event that caused it (a bucket of [[VisualPun green]] paint falling over [[OnlySaneMan Keith Crofford]]).
* ShootTheDog: In "Robot Chicken Telethon", he threatens to shoot a puppy if people don't start calling to donate money in two minutes. [[LeeroyJenkins Senreich]] shoots the puppy anyway, so he brings a backup monkey (which Senreich [[RunningGag also shoots]]).
* VengefulGhost: Comes back as a vengeful zombie in "Seth's Revenge", after Senreich kills him and takes over the show.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Matthew Senreich]]
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-->'''Voiced by''': Himself

The show's second banana to Seth, and moderately more sane.
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* AdamWesting: Plays a ditzy, psychotic version of himself.
* AxeCrazy: At least two season finales have ended with him killing everyone.
* BadActing: Let's say... he's a better writer than voice actor.
* TheDitz: Occasionally. He goes on a shooting rampage in the Telethon when he was supposed to only shoot the puppy if nobody called. And he goes "Wow!" when reading it on his cellphone screen before realizing it's upside down and it actually reads "Mom".
* KlingonPromotion: Becomes showrunner after killing Seth in "Seth's Revenge", which prompts him to come back for revenge.
* TheLancer: And no one will let him forget it.
* LeeroyJenkins: In "Robot Chicken Telethon", he shoots the puppy before Seth is done talking. Then he shoots the backup monkey too.
* RefugeInAudacity: When cornered by Seth's and other zombies, he shows them his contract and demands they allow him to write new sketches instead of being killed. It works.
* SelfDeprecation: When Seth is killed in "Beginning Season Five", he cries that he will tell Seth's story. [[FatalFamilyPhoto When he is also killed]], Daniel says that he will also tell Seth's story, because it is more interesting than Matt's.
* TriggerHappy: After shooting the puppy in the telethon, he also shoots the backup monkey and eventually everyone else present including Seth. His excuse is that his finger slipped every time.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Doug Goldstein]]
-->'''Voiced by''': Himself.

The shows co-head writer. Gets possibly even less respect than Matt.
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* InsistentTerminology: Always introduced as "Co-head writer Doug Goldstein".
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mike Lazzo]]
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[[caption-width-right:240:''"Oh man! Oh, by the way... you're canceled!"'']]
-->'''Voiced by''': Himself, Clark Duke

The all-powerful head honcho of Creator/AdultSwim, always ready to cancel the show.
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* BigBad: In almost any meta sketch, as he is shown either canceling the show or in favor of it.
* BitingTheHandHumor: Not giving a very favorable portrayal otherwise, either.
* GroinAttack: In "A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas", he is kicked multiple times there by the Nutcracker.
* HiddenDepths: He is shown dancing to many different tunes at the end of Season 4.
* MacheteMayhem: Attacks the Chicken with a machete during "The Rescue"...
* MutualKill: ...Only to sink it on Crofford's back while Crofford accidentally hits him with his nunchucks. Subverted later because the Chicken has no patience to watch them die.
* NiceHat: Always wears a snow hat, regardless of setting or clothing.
* OffWithHisHead: In "The Rescue", the Chicken stomps his head on the ground, smashing it.
* TheOtherDarrin: Originally voiced by the real Lazzo, and later by Clark Duke.
* PointyHairedBoss: Portrayed as odd and quirky, at least.
* RunningGag: Lazzo canceling the show.
* SuddenlySexuality: After accidentally injuring Crofford, he kisses and caresses him, leading into...
* TogetherInDeath: ...the Chicken killing them together.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Keith Crofford]]
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[[caption-width-right:210:''"These ratings... will be glorious!"'']]
-->'''Voiced by''': Himself, Matthew Senreich

The executive vicepresident of [adult swim].
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* BeleagueredAssistant: Implied in the sketch where he renews the show without consulting Lazzo, who is clearly not happy about it. However, he is not free of quirkiness himself.
* BitingTheHandHumor: Same deal with Lazzo.
* FightingWithChucks: Attacks the Chicken with nunchucks during the "Rescue".
* MutualKill: ...only to hit Lazzo while he sinks his machete on Crofford's back. However, the Chicken kills them first...
* OffWithHisHead: ...by stomping their heads together.
* OldMediaAreEvil: He gloats more than once about how violence going up in ''Robot Chicken'' translates, or will translate on better ratings.
* OnlySaneMan: [[NotSoAboveItAll Downplayed]]. He is saner than Seth and Lazzo and acts as the StraightMan with them, but is no free of craziness himself.
* TheOtherDarrin: Originally voiced by the real Crofford, and later by Senreich.
* SuddenlySexuality: After injuring Lazzo in "The Rescue" (who also injures him) he starts kissing and caressing him...
* TogetherInDeath: ...until the Chicken kills both.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Joey Fatone]]
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-->'''Voiced by''': Himself

The former member of [[{{Music/Nsync}} *NSYNC]]. You know, the fat one.
----
* AllYourPowersCombined: Joey harnesses the powers of the other *NSYNC to grow to the [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever Britney]] [[BodyHorror Abomination]]'s size and fight her.
* AndZoidberg: The {{Yakuza}}s sent to murder the *NSYNC don't even recognize him as a member of the group.
* ContinuityNod: He will appear sometimes wearing the karate costume from "[[Film/EnterTheDragon Enter the Fat One]]", despite no reference made to karate.
* GroinAttack: Given one by Franchise/HelloKitty, [[BewareTheNiceOnes of all characters]].
* HeroInsurance: He is not accounted for all the damage done to the city during the fight with the Britney Abomination.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He snatches Anime/MazingerZ's detaching punch-missile and redirects it against him.
* HumanPopsicle: During his training, he is frozen in a duel and broken in a thousand pieces. [[UnexplainedRecovery Then comes back like nothing happened.]]
* IAmNotSpock: He calls Creator/PatMorita "[[Film/TheKarateKid Mr. Miyagi]]" before being corrected.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Uses the urban infrastructure to fight the giant Britney, finishing with using a broken telephone pole to stab her in the heart.
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: "Enter the Fat One" mixes references to Chinese and Japanese media and culture freely.
* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: He wants to take revenge on the {{Yakuza}} for killing his friends. It turns out that the Yakuza were hired by Britney Spears to kill Music/REOSpeedwagon, but they [[MistakenIdentity mistook]] them with the *NSYNC for some reason.
* {{Kaiju}}: Parodied at the end of "Enter the Fat One", when he becomes a giant to fight the equally enormous Britney.
* MistakenForServant: The Yakuza assassins spare him because they mistake him for an errand boy.
* NeckSnap: Delivers one to kill WesternAnimation/HongKongPhooey.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After the other *NSYNC are killed by Yakuzas, he trains to be a karate master and avenge his friends.
* OffWithHisHead: He is decapitated during his training. [[UnexplainedRecovery Then he is back to normal]].
* OneHitKill: Kills [[Franchise/GIJoe Storm Shadow]] with one punch to the heart.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Storm Shadow is surprised and excited to see that Joey has the same tattoo on his arm as him. However, Joey kills him before he can say anything.
* {{Pun}}: "Enter the Fat One" is a continuous pun based on the similarity between Fatone, Fat One (as Morita calls him), and Dragon.
* SelfDeprecation: Fatone voiced himself in a sketch that makes fun of his weight and supposed lack of importance to *NSYNC, the group that made him famous. And he accepted to do that in the first season, without having any idea of how ''Robot Chicken'' would turn out.
* SoleSurvivor: Of the Yakuza hit on the *NSYNC.
* TookALevelInBadass: Becomes a karate legend in "Enter the Fat One".
* TrainingFromHell: Undergoes it in order to avenge his friends.
* UnexplainedRecovery: He sustains injuries that would kill him during his training, like being decapitated and frozen then broken in a thousand pieces, only to turn up again as if nothing had happened.
* YouKilledMyFather: He tells the Yakuza at their "secret" hideout that he is there to avenge his friends. Then repeats [[Film/ThePrincessBride Montoya's speech]] almost word by word when he learns that Britney Spears is the actual responsible.
* JustForFun/XMeetsY: Invoked when he pitches his own idea for a ''Robot Chicken'' sketch, which he describes as a mix of ''{{Film/Rocky}}'' and ''Film/CrocodileDundee''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lindsay Lohan]]
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[[caption-width-right:213:''"Darth Vader, who farts in Heaven... Halloween be the name!"'']]
-->'''Voiced by''': [[CrossDressingVoices Breckin Meyer]]

A rather unflattering portrayal of [[Creator/LindsayLohan the disgraced child actress]].
----
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Calls Munson a bad boy and falls instantly in love with him.
* AndZoidberg: When she's revealed to be part of the ''{{Series/V}}'' invasion troops, she's trusted to... [[YouGetMeCoffee carry a cup of coffee]]. [[TooDumbToLive Which she immediately drops]]. She's then told to do anything she wants.
* BreathingInSpace: She flies through space without a suit at the end of "There can be only one Lohan" (a.k.a. [[{{Film/Highlander}} Highlohander]]).
* BulletproofHumanShield: Acts as an involuntary one for the Gummy Bear in "Beginning Season Five".
* CrossDressingVoices: Voiced by Breckin Meyer, who is actually a man.
* TheDitz: Portrayed with varying grades of stupidity.
* EarthShatteringKaboom: After winning "the Gift" in "There can be only one Lohan", she makes Earth explode and flies away to party with aliens in outer space.
* FanDisservice: Besides being a doll, she's portrayed as crash, vulgar, constantly drunk or insane, taking out any appeal from her curves and revealing outfits.
* FieryRedhead: Definitely at play in "There can be only one Lohan". Later iterations portray her more as stupid than fiery... but interestingly, that's after she dies her hair black and [[DumbBlonde blond]].
* {{Flanderization}}: From a CloudCuckooLander with a violent streak in her first sketch to suicidally stupid by the ''V.'' parody.
* FourthDateMarriage: In "Bad Boy meets Damaged Girl with Daddy Issues", Munson moves in with her and her family and impregnates her between airings of her reality show, apparently.
* HeroInsurance: During the first duel in "There can be only one Lohan", she destroys an office without [[ApatheticCitizens the officinists]] caring at any point.
* HiddenDepths: She can fight with a two-handed sword (courtesy of her TrainingFromHell with Ramirez), and she [[NoFourthWall understands]] what the "Beginning Season Five" sketch is about from the beginning.
-->'''Gummy Bear''': Oh, who's even shooting at us?!
-->'''Lindsay''': It's just a metaphor for season five, stupid!
* LadyDrunk: She chucks entire bottles down. But the worrying part is that she behaves the same when she doesn't.
* LoveAtFirstSight: She falls in love with Munson after seeing him (or seeing that he is a "[[AllGirlsWantBadBoys bad boy]]"). Munson comes across as more opportunistic.
* {{Malaproper}}:
** Just read the quote (given while assaulting enemy trenches in "Beginning Season Five").
** In "V: The Celebrity Rehab Invasion", she scolds the police for their lack of knowledge of ''Geography''... when she obviously means Biology.
* MonumentalDamage: After killing Creator/AmandaBynes in "There can be only one Lohan", she destroys the Hollywood sign while receiving "The Gift".
* OffWithHisHead:
** Obviously done in "There can be only one Lohan", as it is a parody of ''Highlander''.
** In "V: The Celebrity Rehab Invasion", she thinks that being a lizard implies the [[ArtisticLicenseBiology ability to regrow a head]], and procedes to remove her own herself to demonstrate. [[RealityEnsues She kills herself instead.]]
* PantyShot: Gives a (blurred) one when she gets a BridalCarry by Munson.
* PottyFailure[=/=]ToiletHumor: In "Bad Boy meets Damaged Girl with Daddy Issues", she defecates in Daniel's family's backyard during a drunk bender. They assume it's her dog, and she does not correct them.
* {{Pun}}: While being shot in "Beginning Season Five", she names her movies (''Film/{{The Parent Trap|1998}}'', ''Film/MeanGirls'', ''Film/HerbieFullyLoaded'', ''Georgia Rule'') before ending with ''Film/IKnowWhoKilledMe''.
* {{Reptilians}}: In "V: The Celebrity Rehab Invasion", she appears as one of the alien LizardFolk invaders.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: "Bad Boy meets Damaged Girl with Daddy Issues" gives her sister and mother the same [[ActingForTwo voice]] and personality. By the end of the sketch, they all become pregnant at the same time.
* TheyCallMeMrTibbs: While driving a speeboat in "[[Series/HannahMontana Hannah Dakota]]", she insists on being addressed as "Captain Lohan".
* TooDumbToLive: Taken to extremes in the ''V.'' parody, where she is seen hitting a chair with her face for no reason, and then removes her own head in a futile attempt to prove that reptiles can regrow heads.
* TookALevelInBadass: "There can be only one Lohan" reveals that she was trained in swordsmanship by Ramirez from a young age. She avenges him, receives "the Gift", and promptly destroys Earth.
* TrainingFromHell: Her sword training in "There can be only one Lohan", done while she was filming ''The Parent Trap''.
* YouGetMeCoffee: [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]] in the ''V.'' spoof, where she is trusted to ''hold'' a cup of coffee, then to do whatever she wants when she fails to do even that.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Britney Spears]]
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-->'''Voiced by''': Seth Green

The former teen pop star, and person whom Seth Green presumably hated the most before transferring his sights to Lohan.
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!!'''Credits characters and relatives'''
[[folder:Chicken]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/robotchicken.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Bab-bagawk?!"'']]
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/SethGreen

The titular "Robot Chicken", although his name is only Chicken according to WordOfGod. As shown in the original credits, he was once a normal chicken that was run over by a car while trying to [[StealthPun cross]] a highway. However, he was found by the MadScientist, who took him to his laboratory and turned him into a {{cyborg}} to bring him BackFromTheDead, strap him to a chair and force him to watch ''Robot Chicken'' sketches.

* ADogNamedDog: He is a chicken named Chicken.
* AllForNothing: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-Zagged]] in regards to the rescue of his wife in "Fight Club Paradise". The Chicken fights his way back to the Mad Scientist's lab, only to be told that he made fried chicken of her. However, this is a lie and she is unharmed. Nevertheless, by the next special she has left him.
* AlternateUniverse: In the ''StarWars'' special, he plays the part of Darth Vader at the end of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''... before being forced to watch the ''Star Wars'' sketches.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: After almost effortlessly [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge massacring]] the Mad Scientist's minions through his castle, he finds himself [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking completely outmatched]] in combat by the MadScientist. In all likelihood, the Mad Scientist made him weaker than himself to avoid him turning the tables on him.
* AndIMustScream: For the first five seasons, he is strapped to a chair and forced to watch "mind-numbing" television constantly.
* AnimalGenderBender: He is canonically male, but not a rooster. Maybe he is an immature chicken, but his escape sketch implies he is an adult and [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics his wife]] doesn't look like like a hen either. At least one action figure box fell to the confusion and claimed him as female. And to fuel the misconception, Dark Meat is clearly a rooster despite having the same size and proportions as the Chicken.
* AscendedExtra: In the beginning, he was only present in the opening credits and had no presence or impact on the show itself.
* BackFromTheDead: ''Twice''. He was revived once in the past by the Mad Scientist, and again in TheFuture by the Mad Scientist's descendant.
* BirdPeople: Downplayed, but he is largely treated as human after he escapes the Mad Scientist's lab.
* CarnivoreConfusion: He shares with his wife the chicken cuts he thought were his wife just a minute before.
* TheChewToy: While the show may throw him a bone once in a while, it is undeniable that the creators delight in tormenting him.
* {{Cyborg}}: In his present form, he is half organic and half robotic.
* DecoyProtagonist: Before he was given an arc in the specials, he had no impact on the show proper despite being named after him.
* {{Determinator}}: It doesn't matter how much his (after)life sucks. He never gives up.
* DisproportionateRetribution:
** He slaughters several characters in "The Rescue" who are little, or no threat to him.
** At the end of "Arkham Breakout", after many wacky escape attempts by DC supervillains, he pulls out a submachine gun and shoots the least threatening inmate of all: [[AndZoidberg Mr. Banjo]].
* TheDogBitesBack: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-Zagged]] in "Fight Club Paradise". The Chicken escapes, but the Mad Scientist kidnaps his wife to lure him back into the castle. The Chicken kills most of his minions in a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, but finds himself outmatched by the Scientist... until he [[CallItKarma accidentally locks his wrist]] on the same chair he strapped the Chicken and his wife to. The Chicken then kills the Scientist by crushing him under [[KarmicDeath the same TV monitors]] the Scientist used to torment him.
* DrowningMySorrows: He is reduced to this after his wife leaves him.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: He is only reunited with his wife after killing the Mad Scientist while believing she was already dead.
* EscapedFromTheLab: Happens [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome offscreen]] in "Fight Club Paradise".
* EnemyMine: He later frees the Mad Scientist and teams up with him to fight the Mad Scientist's son.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** He doesn't hurt the nerds during his RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
** He decapitates all the cyborgs of the Mad Scientist's Son except the Robot Homeless Man, who expressed his [[PuppeteerParasite unwillingness]] to fight.
* EvilKnockoff: "Dark Meat", an evil red rooster cyborg made by the Mad Scientist's son.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Brought BackFromTheDead to watch mind-numbing television constantly, and it happens to him twice.
* HappilyMarried: He is revealed to have a wife, Cluckerella, in "Fight Club Paradise".
* TheHero: Plays the part in the segments "The Rescue" and "Robot Chicken and Mad Scientist to the Rescue!", where he fights the Mad Scientist's son.
* HeroicSecondWind: During the RoaringRampageOfRevenge, he takes a beating from Bitch Pudding but makes a comeback and throws her off the railing to a DisneyDeath. It is then [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] at the Mad Scientist's lab: the implication that the Scientist cooked his wife enrages the Chicken, but he is outmatched in the fight by the Scientist.
* HumanPopsicle: The latest seasons show the Chicken being frozen in TheFuture, then being tawed and revived by the Mad Scientist's descendant.
* KnightInSourArmor: During his RoaringRampageOfRevenge, the Chicken kills several characters that weren't a threat to him and even made a point of not antagonizing him. He still spared the nerds from harm, though.
* LivingWeapon: He has a laser eye and the specials reveal that he was fitted with several blades, electrical charges and even a jetpack. Yet the Mad Scientist's intention was for him to watch only StopMotion cartoons... [[TheEndOrIsIt or was it?]]
* NegativeContinuity: The early credits show that he was a regular chicken before being turned into a cyborg, but "Fight Club Paradise" has him returning to a human home and having a humanoid wife. The house has photos of the Chicken and his wife that shows him in his cyborg self.
* NonIndicativeName: Being flesh mixed with robotics, he's actually a cyborg.
* OneManArmy: In his RoaringRampageOfRevenge during "The Rescue", where he effortlessly kills most of the Mad Scientist's minions.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Has one after the Mad Scientist [[IHaveYourWife kidnaps his wife]].
* SeriesMascot: To the point of naming the show and being used in its logo.
* ShoutOut: His arc is a pastiche of pop culture, just like the series. His revival evokes ''[[Film/Frankenstein1931 Frankenstein]]''; his looks, ''{{Franchise/Terminator}}''; his abilities, ''Film/RoboCop'' and ''Series/TheBionicWoman''; and his fate, the torture scenes of ''Film/AClockworkOrange''.
* StealthPun: He is a chicken that was killed while crossing a road.
* TalkingWithSigns: Uses them when he wants to be understood by humans.
* ThrowTheDogABone: After killing the Mad Scientist, he discovers his wife is actually unharmed and is [[EarnYourHappyEnding reunited with her]].
* TookALevelInBadass:
** He becomes a OneManArmy in "Fight Club Paradise", when he takes the Mad Scientist's castle by assault to rescue his wife.
** A second one in "Chipotle Miserables", where he is revealed to have the power to fly.
* TheUnintelligible: He speaks in chicken noises.
* UpliftedAnimal: Used to be a regular chicken before being made humanoid by the Mad Scientist as part of the revival process. If we ignore NegativeContinuity.
* WhosLaughingNow: After killing the Mad Scientist, he revives him through the same process and forces him to watch cartoons instead.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Became a OneManArmy after being tortured for years.

[[folder:Mad Scientist]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rcmadscientist.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"It's '''alive'''!"'']]
-->'''Voiced by''': [[{{Music/Primus}} Les Claypool]]

A psychotic, perpetually smiling MadScientist that lives in a dark castle. He turns the Chicken into a cyborg to revive him and make him watch ''Robot Chicken'' sketches continuously.

* AllThereInTheManual: His real name is apparently [[ShoutOut Fritz]] [[MeaningfulName Huhnmörder]], but he is known as the Mad Scientist.
* AlternateUniverse: In the ''StarWars'' special, he plays the part of the Emperor at the end of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', using Force lightning to revive the Chicken.
* AndIMustScream: After being killed by the Chicken, he is revived and forced to watch TV in his place.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He actually bests the Chicken in combat, unlike his minions.
* BackFromTheDead: He is killed by the Chicken in "Fight Club Paradise", and then revived by him and forced into his previous fate.
* BigBad: Of the "The Rescue" segment.
* CallItKarma: After his death, he is revived and forced to endure the torture he subjected the Chicken to... for two seasons.
* {{Cyborg}}: Turned into one by the Chicken, as part of the revival process.
* DecapitationPresentation: When he switches places with the Chicken in the opening, due to the size difference, the Chicken rises only his decapitated head from the ground.
* EnemyMine: He teams up with the Chicken in "Chipotle Miserables", in order to defeat and take revenge on his son.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Called the Mad Scientist, despite having a real name.
* EvilGenius: Even leaving aside his status as Mad Scientist, he is one of the few inhabitants of his castle that can rub two braincells together. If not the only one.
* EvilIsBigger: He towers over the Chicken and [[LargeAndInCharge all of his minions]].
* EvilLaugh: Heard in the original intro, when he finds the chicken by the road.
* EyeScream: His son takes out his remaining organic eye to use it for the optical scanner that guards his cyborg-making technology.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Turned into a cyborg and revived after his death, then forced to watch ''Robot Chicken'' sketches continuously. This is made worse by his son, who instead of freeing him mutilates his remaining organic eye to steal his cyborg-making tools.
* ForScience: In the sketch "You can't do that on Robot Chicken!" he taunts the Chicken by telling him that he crossed the road "to die in the name of Science!"
* GenerationXerox: His long-time descendant taws and revives the original Chicken to subject him to more cartoons.
* HeelFaceTurn: In "Chipotle Miserables", he joins the Chicken to defeat his evil(er) son.
* HerrDoktor: His real name is German.
* IHaveYourWife: When the Chicken escapes in "Fight Club Paradise", he kidnaps his wife to lure him back.
* JerkAss: As if everything he does to the Chicken wasn't evil enough, he also mocks and taunts him in "You can't do that on Robot Chicken!"
* KarmicDeath: While fighting the Chicken, he accidentally locks his wrist in the same chair he strapped the Chicken to. The Chicken then kills him by crushing him under the same TV monitors he used to torment the Chicken.
* LargeAndInCharge: Taller than any of his minions.
* MadScientist: But of course.
* MeaningfulName: His real last name (Huhnmörder) is German for "Chicken Murderer".
* MiniMecha: Part this, part PoweredArmor. He uses this to take on his son in "Chipotle Miserables".
* OffWithHisHead: He is decapitated by the falling monitors.
* PerpetualSmiler: His smile is permanent, including while he laughs, and even when things don't go his way.
* ShoutOut: His first name is Fritz, like the assistant in ''Film/Frankenstein1931'' ([[LostInImitation not]] [[TheIgor Igor]]) and his character is patterned after the film version of Dr. Frankenstein (and a bit of Emmett Brown from ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture''). In "You can't do that on Robot Chicken!" he taunts the Chicken and then [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre chases him with a chain saw]].
* SlasherSmile: A big toothed smile he wears [[PerpetualSmiler permanently]].
* SlowClap: Sarcastic version done to mock the Chicken after he fights his way through the castle.
* TheSpeechless: He is only ever heard in the original intro, where he laughs and screams "He is alive!" after reviving the Chicken. His voice was provided by Les Claypool from ''{{Music/Primus}}'' who also composed the theme song.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: The [[DistantFinale distant]] [[TheFuture future]] opening from Season 8 onwards reveals a long line of Mad Scientist's descendants, all of them with the exact same face and SlasherSmile.
* TalkingWithSigns: He uses them to talk to the Chicken in "You can't do that on Robot Chicken!"
* WildHair: Just look at the picture.

[[folder:Cluckerella]]
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[[caption-width-right:210:''"I'm leaving you. Sorry."''[[note]]''"This was the only scrap of paper I could find."''[[/note]] ]]
-->'''Voiced by''': [[ActingForTwo Seth]] [[CrossDressingVoices Green]]

The Chicken's wife, kidnapped by the Mad Scientist and forced to watch sketches in his place to lure him back.

* ActingForTwo: Also played by Seth Green.
* AllForNothing: Subverted in "Fight Club Paradise". The Mad Scientist tells the Chicken that he has made fried cuts out of her, but she's actually unharmed.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: The Mad Scientist doesn't mutilate her and add robotic body parts like he did to the Chicken, and only forces one of her eyes open instead of two.
* BirdPeople: A straighter example than her husband.
* BizarreSexualDimorphism: She's a chicken but she has humanoid features like breasts and flowing blond hair.
* CarnivoreConfusion: She eats the chicken cuts her husband initially mistook for her.
* CrossDressingVoices: Has a male voice actor despite being female.
* DisposableWoman: She exists as a reason for the Chicken to fight the Mad Scientist and all his minions.
* DistaffCounterpart: Of the Chicken.
* HairOfGold: Has it, despite being a bird.
* InformedSpecies: Canonically a chicken, but looks more like an unspecified humanoid bird.
* InterruptedBath: The Mad Scientist kidnaps her while she is taking a shower.
* NeutralFemale: She doesn't even reveal that she is alive until the Mad Scientist is dead, despite being nearby and not BoundAndGagged.
* NonMammalianMammaries: She has breasts despite being a bird.
* PutOnABus: By the next special, she's left the Chicken without an explanation.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Subverted in "Fight Club Paradise". The Mad Scientist implies he cooked her to mess with the Chicken, but he actually did not.
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: She has long blond hair instead of a crest, NonMammalianMammaries, and wears women's clothes and makeup while her male counterpart is nude and chicken-like.
* UngratefulBastard: She abandons the Chicken after all he did to rescue her.

[[folder:Mad Scientist's Son]]
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[[caption-width-right:321:''"Oh, they might not pay for a President no, no... but how about '''all''' the presidents?!"'']]
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/ZacharyLevi

The Mad Scientist's twisted son, who steals his cyborg-making tools as part of a plot to kidnap all living US presidents for ransom.

* AmusingInjuries: He survives a free fall from a great height with no ill effects.
* BigBad: Of the "Robot Chicken and Mad Scientist to the Rescue!" segment.
* BigOlEyebrows: Has them despite being obviously younger than his dad. Presumably inherited them from him, and it was the Mad Scientist's eyebrows that [[InvertedTrope thinned]] with age.
* CallItKarma: After his defeat, the Mad Scientist straps him to the chair and forces him to watch sketches.
* CurbStompBattle: Beaten effortlessly by his father, both with and without his PowerArmor. There is a reason he ''didn't'' release him.
* DeadpanSnarker: He jokes that his father is taking the torture graciously because he keeps his [[PerpetualSmiler perpetual smile]].
* {{Greed}}: He kidnaps the presidents to demand $100 billion.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: A literal instance happens to him after he is already defeated by his father: UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter kicks him in the nuts.
* HumiliationConga: His plan is derailed by his father and the Chicken, his cyborgs killed (except [[UncertainDoom maybe]] for [=RoboHobo=]), he is beaten up and has his testicles kicked after the fact by a nonagenarian, and he is finally strapped to a chair and forced to watch ''Robot Chicken'' sketches (the same torment he forced the presidents to endure during their captivity).
* IHaveYourWife: He takes all living US presidents hostage and forces them to watch ''Robot Chicken'' sketches until he is paid a $100 billion ransom.
* NonActionBigBad: He uses his cyborgs to fight the Chicken. When they are defeated, he is beaten effortlessly by his father.
* NoNameGiven: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in his TV address. "My name is 'guy you're going to pay $100 billion'!"
* OedipusComplex: Instead of rescuing his father, he antagonizes (and [[EyeScream mutilates]]) him, telling him his research with the Chicken didn't go far enough and "[[StealthPun lacked a certain vision]]."
* OneSceneWonder: He is only in one sketch but he made a memorable villain. Just look at the tropes list.
* OutsideContextVillain: He comes from nowhere to antagonize both the Chicken and his father, making them team up.
* SequelEscalation: Much more talkative and proactive than his father, to whom he scolds for his "[[StealthPun lack of vision]]" at one point. He makes ''four'' cyborgs (Dark Meat, Cyborg Raccoon, Robot White-Tailed Deer, and Robot Homeless Person a.k.a [=RoboHobo=]) instead of one; takes ''five'' hostages to make them watch sketches instead of one, who are also living US presidents instead of a dead chicken by the road; and uses both for a stated purpose (netting himself $100 billion in ransom).
* ShoutOut: He uses a freshly taken human eye to get pass an optical scanner like Simon Phoenix in ''Film/DemolitionMan'', and gives the presidents the option of doing "[[Film/TheHumanCentipede a human-centipede dealie]]" as part of a sadistic choice.
* SadisticChoice: He'll either make the presidents watch ''Robot Chicken'' or turn them into a human centipede if his demands aren't met.
* SlasherSmile: Though unlike his father, he is capable of changing expression.
* StealthPun: He scolds his father for his "lack of vision" after cutting his remaining organic eye.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Looks just like his father, but younger and with slightly rounder features.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Despite being shown to take the Mad Scientist's place on the chair at the end of the episode, he is never seen again in either credits or sketches.
* WildHair: LikeFatherLikeSon.

!!Recurring original characters
[[folder:Nerd]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"That would be shooo coool..."'']]

A bucktoothed, bespectacled fanboy of all things geek. Aside from the titular Chicken, he is the show's most recurring character.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: To his CelebCrush Creator/ScarlettJohansson, and really, any female he takes interest in. In a non-romantic way, to Creator/GeorgeLucas and Creator/GeorgeRRMartin.
* AllJustADream: All his visits to established franchises can be counted as this, even when it is not explicitly stated. It also works well to discard NegativeContinuity issues.
** He actually catches on from "[[Literature/TheWizardOfOz The Nerd in Oz]]" and begins [[ExploitedTrope altering his dreams]] to make them [[TookALevelInBadass cooler]] or have a DreamWithinADream that is more to his liking.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Everyone he knows or meets treats him with contempt.
* AllThereInTheManual: His real name is apparently Arthur Kensington, Jr.
* AlternateUniverse: When AllJustADream won't just cut his sketches.
* AttractiveBentGender: Several instances. In "Spring of the Drowned Girl", every man seems to find him hot after he is turned into a woman, even though he is still the same from the neck up. In "Series/QuantumLeap [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Nerd]]" his female form is pounded from behind by Munson while he says "I think I love you!", even though his body didn't become as well figured as in the former. And we can only speculate what [[Series/GameOfThrones Khal Drogo]] thought when he called him a "girl" and recruited him to be his wife's handmaiden.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Anything he thinks would be "shooo coool" always turns not to be.
* BlackComedyRape: Seems to fall victim to unwanted male attention quite often.
* BodyHorror: The CruelTwistEnding of "Spring of the Drowned Girl". It turns you into a girl like the one in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' as he hoped, alright. But it is a [[JackassGenie morbidly obese girl with chronic flatulence]] because that was what the girl who drowned there was like in life.
* ButtMonkey: Subject to all sorts of misfortunes in every episode he appears in.
* CatchPhrase: "I wish I was X / were in Y... that would be shooo coool..."
* CelebCrush: On Scarlett Johansson.
* ColdBloodedTorture: In "Where is Mordor?", he is subjected to waterboarding by security forces who [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure don't know about Mordor]], but suspect it is in [[TheWarOnTerror Pakistan]].
* CruelTwistEnding: Nearly all his appearances go extra-awry in the end.
* TheChewToy: Subject to numerous misfortunes in every episode he appears in.
* DaydreamBeliever: Either that or he has narcholepsia and very well timed dreams.
* DeathbedConfession: At the end of "A Date with Scarlett", he confesses to his CelebCrush turned lifelong wife Scarlett Johansson that he faked the fight with terrorists that made her fall in love with and marry him. "Scarlett" then [[InvertedTrope inverts the trope]] by confessing that he is actually her ([[UnsettlingGenderReveal male]]) [[DecoyGetaway body double]].
* DreamWithinADream: The Nerd doesn't like that his dream took him to ''Series/TeamKnightRider'', so he sleeps [[DreamWithinADream in the dream]] (despite the car's warning that he can't do that) so he can be with Creator/DavidHasselhoff in the original ''Series/KnightRider''.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: He was called "Gary" once in his first sketch.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Despite having a real name, he is known as "The Nerd" or less commonly, "The Dork".
* {{Fanboy}}: Of every and anything nerd. From ''Franchise/StarWars'' to ''Knight Rider.''
** Hilariously [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] in the segment "Doctor Who meets the Nerd". The Nerd feels he ''should'' be interested in ''Series/DoctorWho'' because it is "nerdy"; but being American, he has actually [[AmericansHateTingle never watched it]] and admits he only knows about it from PopCulturalOsmosis. As soon as he is allowed into the TARDIS, he becomes bored and irritates the Doctor by comparing him to [[{{ComicStrip/Peanuts}} Snoopy]].
* FixFic: In-universe, he roleplays a new ''Star Wars'' movie where [[EnsembleDarkhorse Boba Fett]] is revealed to have survived and goes to Endor to slaughter [[TheScrappy the Ewoks]].
* {{Flynning}}: In his first sketch, "A date with Scarlett", he pretends to fight terrorists to impress Scarlett Johansson.
* TheFool: Even leaving his nerdiness aside, he is a very naive and sometimes outright childish individual.
* GenreSavvy: Knows all the cliches and tropes of the odd situations he finds himself in.
* HiddenDepths:
** The sketch "Dorky Dancer" is just about him showing his dance moves. YMMV if they are impressive or pitiable.
** "The Nerd goes to {{Series/Westworld}}" shows the Nerd breaking several {{sexbot}}s [[SexGod after having sex with them nonstop for weeks]]. He may not know "how sex works" but he has endurance.
* IAteWhat: At the end of "Unicorn Mayonnaise", he informs his audience that he used "magic mayonnaise" he got from polishing an [[BestialityIsDepraved obviously]] [[DepravedHomosexual horny]] {{unicorn}}'s [[SomethingElseAlsoRises horn]] to make the very sandwiches they are eating.
* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey:
** In "[[Film/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe The Lion, the Witch, and the Locker]]", he blindly converts to the Witch's side when she shows him her boobs.
** In "Spring of the Drowned Girl", he day-dreams about getting stuff for free by showing his boobs to people. He calls this his "newfound superpowers".
* InterrogatedForNothing: In "Where is Mordor?", he [[Film/WarGames accidentally hacks a nuclear silo]] and [[ThrowawayCountry bombs Canada]] while trying to roleplay ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' online. He is immediately "renditioned" by security forces and waterboarded while being aggressively asked who "the High Priestess" is and the location of Mordor. The Nerd then yells that he will say anything the interrogator wants and he is encouraged to say Mordor is in Pakistan.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: After his sexual advice to Daenerys in "Game of Pixilated Naughty Parts" has disastrous consequences, he flatly admits he doesn't know "how sex works".
* KnowWhenToFoldThem: He is the last character faced by the Chicken during his rampage in "The Rescue". While he shows some attempt to fight it, he immediately drops it and just opens the door to the MadScientistLaboratory for him. As a result, he is one of the few minions of the Mad Scientist's to survive the rampage unscathed.
* LovableCoward: He drops any intention of figthing the Chicken before antagonizing it, and screams "like nails on chalkboard" after putting on Franchise/GreenLantern's ring.
* MrSeahorse: At the end of "The Nerd on Creator/TheCW" he dreams he is pregnant, much to his confusion because he is a virgin (and male).
* NegativeContinuity: At work when AllJustADream and AlternateUniverse don't clearly apply. He's even been killed by Matthew Senreich in "Robot Chicken Telethon" and brought back as a [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombie]] in the following sketch "Seth's Revenge", only to appear as normal in his next episode.
* NerdyNasalness: The Nerd, among other stereotypical nerd traits, speaks with a very nasal voice.
* PrisonRape: At the end of "Where is Mordor?", he is thrown in prison with a cellmate who wants to make him "his" 'High Priestess'.
* RealAfterAll: The "Spring of the Drowned Girl" can actually turn you into a girl, but not in [[MenAreStrongWomenArePretty the kind of girl]] the Nerd imagines.
* RealityEnsues: While dreaming of being ComicBook/GreenArrow's KidSidekick in "The Nerd on the CW", Green Arrow tells him to stop shooting {{Mooks}} on the head and to just incapacitate them by shooting them elsewhere. The Nerd shoots one on the leg, who promptly bleeds out to death from habing his femoral artery ruptured.
* RescueSex: In "A Date with Scarlett", Scarlett Johansson falls in love and marries him after he stages rescuing her from fake terrorists.
%%* SantaClausmas
* SeriesMascot: He is the most recognizable of the series's characters along with the Chicken. But unlike the Chicken, he is mostly featured in the sketches proper rather than the opening credits.
* SeriousBusiness: Because of his {{geek}}ishness, he has trouble weighting the importance of things. For example, it takes him a lot of time to choose between a once-in-alifetime date with his CelebCrush Scarlett Johansson and a [=GameBoy=] Advance. In a DistantFinale, he tells his son that the day of his birth was not even close in happiness to the one he dressed as a [[Franchise/StarWars Tauntaun]] and convinced George Lucas to ride him.
* SexGod: As told in HiddenDepths entry, when Nerd went to Westworld, he ended up delaying his journey due to spending two weeks having non-stop sex with one of the {{sexbot}}s, then did it again for another two weeks in a orgy with multiple robot prostitutes. Both times doing it to the point of utterly ''breaking'' them, and he only finally stopped the first time because he was interrupted, and the second time because he was previously tricked into a quest for a promised prize (which was, of course, a "sexy prize").
* SleepyHead: Falls asleep at the drop of the hat to experience his nerdy dreams. He eventually starts to think he might be narcoleptic.
* SomethingElseAlsoRises: In "Game of Pixilated Naughty Parts", he uses the {{Creator/HBO}} logo to hide his erection. Afterward, it rises and lowers accordingly.
* SpeechImpediment: He shlursh his S's, giving him a voice similar to Sid from ''WesternAnimation/IceAge''.
* StrongFamilyResemblance:
** His son, shown at the DistantFinale of "A Date with Scarlett" and "George Lucas at the Convention", is exactly like him but younger. He wears the same glasses even as a newborn.
** His mother is just like him, except female and slightly older (and arguably even more nerdy). His father doesn't look much like him but has the [[HereditaryHairstyle same hair]] and glasses.
* TeenyWeenie: His small penis is made fun of by two girls in "[[Series/TheGreatestAmericanHero Greatest American Nerd]]".
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: In-universe. He hates the ''Knight Rider'' sequel because of all the changes from the original, the live-action ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas!'', and worries about how the new ''Star Wars'' trilogy will ruin the series.
* TooDumbToLive: His wife reveals he was a man all along in his deathbed, leading him to understand only then why "she" had a penis (and not a small one).
* TookALevelInBadass: Realizing that he is in a dream, he changes the original ''The Wizard of Oz'' supporting characters to be Film/TheCrow (as the Scarecrow), [[{{Franchise/Transformers}} Optimus Prime]] (as the Tin Woodsman), and [[WesternAnimation/Thundercats1985 Lion-O]] (as the Cowardly Lion), then they take the Wicked Witch's castle by assault and defeat her and the monkeys under the Nerd's lead.
* UnexplainedRecovery: A rare example within the same sketch in "Greatest American Nerd". The Nerd jumps from a roof and seemingly falls to his death. After that, his body is picked by Bill Maxwell and used for all sort of stunts until he abandons it and the Aliens retrieve the suit from him, leaving him naked. Two neighbor girls pass by and make fun of his tiny penis. ''Then'' the Nerd wakes up with no apparent ill effects ([[HumiliationConga shame aside]]).
* VagueAge: [[NegativeContinuity Some sketches]] portray him as a high schooler, others in college. The Unicorn, who otherwise shows interest in young boys and teenagers, is aroused by him. In a Christmas special, he learns that SantaClaus is his real dad. His mom actually fathered him with the Krampus, who she met at a college debate in 2002. The episode was released in 2013; in other words, the Nerd was ''[[WritersCannotDoMath eleven]]'' at the time... which was several years after his introduction.
* WhoWritesThisCrap: In "Beginning Season 5", he criticizes the show's decision to parody the Normandy scene in ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' as "unoriginal"... only to [[HypocriticalHumor immediately parody]] the BulletTime scene in ''Film/TheMatrix''.

[[folder:Composite Santa]]
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[[caption-width-right:210:''"My only weakness!"'']]
-->'''Voiced by''' Creator/ChristianSlater

A bizarre individual, who is half SantaClaus on one side, and half snowman on the other. Also murderously insane.

* AnachronismStew: Created from DNA samples in TheFifties, even though cloning from adult animals wasn't accomplished until TheNineties.
* AnticlimaxBoss: Despite appearing in command of the bad guys in "A Very Manga/DragonBallZ [[ChristmasEpisode Christmas]]" and getting into a screaming contest with Goku, he turn out to be a DecoyLeader with no supernatural attacking powers that is defeated easily... from standing too close to the actual target of Goku's attack.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In "A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas", he steals Santa's sled, reindeer, and pants.
* ArtificialHuman: He was created in a laboratory by a MadScientist.
* AxCrazy: The rare event is when he doesn't try to murder someone.
* BadSanta: Half Bad Santa, half Bad Snowman.
* BodyHorror: He is half Santa Claus and half Snowman, [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready in case you didn't notice]].
* CatchPhrase: "____! My only weakness!"
* CombatPragmatist: In "The Rescue", he's one of the only characters able to land more than a single hit on The Chicken, which he manages by surprise attack from the air. It doesn't last long, however, as The Chicken grabs a bat in a lull and beats him senseless with it.
* DeadlyEuphemism: Crossing with MetaphoricalTruth. He says he has "five good reasons" for a reindeer to shut up: the five bullets he empties on it next.
* DecoyLeader: He appears to be the BigBad of "A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas" as he bosses the Nutcracker and the Little Drummer Boy, but he is actually taking orders from [[TheManBehindTheMan Mrs.]] [[EvilAllAlong Claus]].
* EatTheSummoner: The first thing he did after being brought to life was shoot the Mad Scientist who created him and the two {{Mooks}} who helped retrieve his DNA.
* EscapedFromTheLab: After murdering his way out.
* EvilKnockoff: Of Santa Claus. And that's considering Santa Claus [[BadSanta isn't]] a completely morally upstanding individual in ''[[CrapsackWorld Robot Chicken]]''.
* EvilLaugh: An evil-sounding version of Santa's "Ho, Ho, Ho!"
* GoneHorriblyWrong: The Mad Scientist who created him thought he would make Christianity become the world's only religion by making Christmastime as alluring as possible.
* ImMelting: RealityEnsues. He is half snow, so it only takes Goku one Kame-hame-ha to heat his snow part over 32 Fahrenheit and melt it. Stepping on one foot of seawater will also do it.
* MirrorMonster: He can be summoned by repeating "Ho, Ho, Ho" before a mirror. [[EatTheSummoner Doesn't end well for the summoner]].
* ShallowParody: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. His Snowman part is introduced as "half-WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman" even though it looks nothing like Frosty. A flashback reveals that the Mad Scientist wanted Frosty's DNA to create him, but that his minion could not be arsed to get it and instead brought a sample of random snow.
* ShroudedInMyth: Goku doesn't even know the abilities of Composite Santa, just that he "[[UncannyValley freaks the (bleep) out]]" of him.
* TriggerHappy: He is constantly shooting people and seems to favor the [[GatlingGood Thompson submachine gun]].
* UncannyValley: In-universe. It is clearly his non-human appearance that freaks out Goku.
* UnexplainedRecovery: He comes back every time after he is destroyed, but being made of snow, it's likely that he can regenerate to an extent and thus doesn't need to invoke NegativeContinuity.
* UngratefulBastard: He was brought to life and given milk and cookies. His instant reaction was to murder the very people responsible.
* WeaksauceWeakness: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]]. He is defeated in every segment he appears, always by completely different means (temperatures over 32 Fahrenheit, water, baseball bats, bullets, wood). After that, he'll always die saying "No! [Item used to defeat me], my only weakness!"
* WouldHurtAChild: He kills countless by different means - but mostly shooting and bombing.
* JustForFun/XMeetsY: In-universe. The Mad Scientist who created him wanted a hybrid of Santa and Frosty the Snowman, with the powers of both.

[[folder:Humping Robot]]
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[[caption-width-right:320:KA-CHUNK-KA-CHUNK-KA-CHUNK...]]
-->'''Voiced by''': N/A

A non-talking iron humanoid robot that was introduced humping a washing machine in a sketch, either because he was programmed to or because he actually finds it arousing. It has since humped lots of different objects.

* AccidentalHero: His humping a clausured church's bell in "Humping Robot Saves Christmas" ends... doing pretty much that.
* ExactWords: In "[[{{Film/Battleship}} Battlehump]]", the scientists theorize that "hump" must mean something different in the robots language because of their repeated announcement that they want to hump earthlings. However, they really meant humping.
* GiantMook: In "Battlehump", several humping robots invade Earth including a giant one.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Gets to play the part of the one-armed soldier in a ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' spoof... except he humps his own severed arm.
* NuclearOption: The giant humping robot is lured to a nuclear silo disguised as an asscrack and destroyed.
* OffWithHisHead: Loses his head once in a while. Senreich destroys it with a [[BoomHeadshot shotgun]] in "Robot Chicken Telethon", while the Chicken uses a powerful electric charge from his own body to [[YourHeadASplode obliterate]] it.
* OverlyLongGag: The original gag occupied four segments in a single episode, during which the robot did nothing but hump the moving washing machine. This was back when sketches were usually very short.
* PrisonRape: While working as a [[WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs security guard]] in [[Creator/DCComics Arkham Asylum]], he rapes [[{{Franchise/Batman}} The Penguin]] in his cell.
* {{Sexbot}}: He is gifted to the Nerd by the {{Series/Westworld}} crew in exchange for leaving the park and stop costing them millions in destroyed robots. [[AttractiveBentgender The Nerd doesn't seem to mind.]]
* TheSpeechless: He doesn't speak, only humps.
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Given a blonde wig and makeup by the Westworld technicians to pass it as female.
* UnexplainedRecovery: He is brought back after being decapitated, presumably because he was repaired in the meantime. And yet "Seth's Revenge" showed a tombstone to the then recently destroyed robot in a cemetery, so maybe he is [[ReplacementGoldfish replaced]] instead, like it happens to the squirrels in ''Robot Chicken'''s [[WMG/PoisonOakEpilepticTrees version]] of ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks.''
** "Battlehump" reveals that there are many humping robots indeed, and that they are invading Earth to hump everyone.

[[folder:Aliens]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Damnit, damnit, damnit!"'']]
-->'''Voiced by''': Seth Green, Breckin Meyer, and Adam Talbot

A race of wacky [[TheGreys grey]] aliens that appear whenever the plot demands aliens not from an established franchise.

* AlienAbduction: They perform and also [[PersecutionFlip fall victim]] to this.
* AlienBlood: They have green blood.
* AnalProbing:
** Parodied in "Alien Abduction Reversal", where rednecks abduct an unsuspecting alien to probe his anus ForScience. They also want him to [[{{Film/Deliverance}} squeal like a little piggy]] during the procedure.
** Further PlayedForLaughs in "A PR Nightmare", which reveals that AnalProbing is something that happened only once but the Aliens can NeverLiveItDown.
* BenevolentAlienInvasion: In "The Twist", they invade Creator/MNightShyamalan's [[{{Film/Signs}} home]] to ask him for sugar to make some food for him and his family. [[RunningGag What a tweest!]]
* BlackComedyRape: What AnalProbing actually is.
* CatchPhrase: "Damnit, damnit, damnit!!"
* DancePartyEnding: They dance [[IncrediblyLamePun the twist]] at the end of "The Twist". What a tweest!
* FlyingSaucer: Their vehicle of choice.
* TheGreys: Grey colored and with the typical Grey head.
* HistoricalInJoke: They switched the original Music/MichaelJackson for the white one in the aftermath of his burning hair incident, as part of some unexplained plot to take over Earth.
* HumanoidAliens: Unlike most depictions of TheGreys, they have human-like size and proportions from the neck down.
* {{Lunarians}}: They live on the Moon, either because they originate there or colonized it in the past.
* NeverLiveItDown: AnalProbing was something that one weird alien (or two) did once without authorization but humans now believe the Aliens do all the time.
* NonMaliciousMonster: The FlyingSaucer attack in "Unplanned Invasion" is actually one Alien taking his first driving class.
* OffWithHisHead: One gets decapitated by the Chicken during his rescue of his wife.
* PersecutionFlip: "Alien Abduction Reversal" has rednecks travelling on spacefaring pickup trucks and bringing unsuspecting aliens to Earth with the intention of probing their anus and making them squeal.
* ToServeMan: After stating their intention to serve him, Shyamalan asks if they mean to [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E89ToServeMan cook him and his family]] and what a great twist that would be. They appear to be offended by the question... but [[TheUnreveal don't correct him]].

[[folder:Bitch Pudding]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"BLAM! You all get a [[{{Pun}} taste]] of the Bitch Pudding!"'']]
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/KateeSackhoff

A foulmouthed, crass denizen of [[WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake Strawberry Land]].

* AlternateUniverse: The later sketches put her in a completely different world without reference to Strawberry Land or any implication of it existing in the setting. For example, she replaces Abigail in a spoof of ''Theatre/TheCrucible'', and plays a CowboyCop in a BuddyCopShow parody titled "[[Series/MurderSheWrote Murder, She Bitched]]."
* [[AntiHero Anti-Heroine]]: She reluctantly becomes one for the [[BlandNameProduct Schlorps]] in the "Bitch Pudding Special". Unfortunately, by that point nearly all Schlorps are dead. Repeats again in "Murder, She Bitched", which recasts her as a Cowboy Cop.
* TheArtifact: Her name, a reference to her origin as a parodic ''Strawberry Shortcake'' character, in sketches that make no reference to it.
* AscendedExtra: From a one-off gag in a sketch about butt-sex, to getting her own episode.
* BaitAndSwitch:
** In "Bitch Pudding Special", all the inhabitants of [[BlandNameProduct Pastryville]] expect the worst when she takes the stand to speak in a funeral, but she gives a [[HiddenDepths beautiful eulogy]]. As soon as everyone is relieved, however, she starts insulting the deceased and [[CrossesTheLineTwice pretends fucking her casket]].
** In "Murder, She Bitched", she replies to her partner's comment that she needs a warrant to enter a place by yelling "Here's my warrant!" and kicking the door down. After that, she clarifies that she has an actual warrant and pulls it out from her pocket.
* BlandNameProduct: Used all over the "Bitch Pudding Special" (Pastryville for Strawberry Land, Schlorps for [[Franchise/TheSmurfs Smurfs]], etc), which hints to its nature as a PoorlyDisguisedPilot for a Bitch Pudding SpinOff.
* BuddyCopShow: The sketch "Murder, She Bitched" casts her as a CowboyCop partnered with a ByTheBookCop played by Creator/ErnieHudson
* CatchPhrase:
** "BLAM!", usually after sassing someone.
** Later on, she starts singing a [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic]] "DA-DA-DA-DAAAAH!", often before yelling: "[[ThirdPersonPerson Bitch Pudding]]!"
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Most of her things are yellow, including her clothes and her house.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In "[[Film/SeasonOfTheWitch Season of the Bitch]]... Pudding". When a {{poltergeist}} stacks all the kitchen chairs over the table, she throws them to the ground and brags about how she ruined the poltergeist's "art". The exasperated poltergeist says that it was not supposed to be art, it was supposed to scare her.
* CowboyCop: Plays one in "Murder, She Bitched."
* CurbstompBattle: On the Squirrel Wizard in "Bitch Pudding Special". Except... it's not actually the Squirrel Wizard, but his innocent "[[SuddenlySexuality partner]]".
* DarkActionGirl: The only denizen of Strawberry Land that is not afraid to get in a fight.
* DeadpanSnarker: She disses snark like there is no tomorrow.
* DecoyGetaway: She switches clothes with a guy to escape execution in "Bitch Pudding's ''The Crucible''.
* DisneyVillainDeath: She is thrown off the railing by the Chicken in "The Rescue".
* EvilCounterpart: To WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake.
* {{Flanderization}}: In her first appearance, she's mildly sassy. She eventually evolved into a typhoon of rudeness and profanity.
* TheFunInFuneral: "Bitch Pudding Special" opens with a funeral she was purposely left out of, and which she proceeds to crash.
* GingerbreadHouse: Like all houses in Strawberry Land, her house resembles a dessert. In this case, a yellow pudding.
* HypocriticalHumor: When brought to trial for "assaulting a 94-year old man", she defends herself saying, "he sassed me!"
* IgnoredEpiphany: Played with in "Bitch Pudding Special". It takes her forever to bring herself to save the Schlorps from the furious Squirrel Wizard. By that point, they are all but wiped out completely.
* JerkAss: She gratuitously antagonizes the other inhabitants of Strawberry Land, who have varying tolerance to her antics.
* MoreDakka: At the end of "Bitch Pudding Special", she pulls out [[{{Film/Predator}} 'Ol Painless]] and massacres the inhabitants of Pastryville.
* [[SirSwearsALot Lady Swears-a-Lot]]: Capable of dissing a hurricane of profanity like there is no tomorrow.
* NegativeContinuity: She has her feet blown off in "Beginning Season 5" and dies in "The Rescue", only to appear again with no ill effects.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: She has fully detailed eyes instead of BlackBeadEyes to set her apart from the other Strawberry Shortcake characters.
* NoSell: She drives a ''{{poltergeist}}'' mad and out of her house by showing no fear and antagonizing it.
* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: The "Bitch Pudding Special", the only not devoted to an established franchise, replaces all references to Strawberry Land with "Pastryville" and has "Schlorps" at war with a Squirrel Wizard instead of Smurfs with Gargamel.
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: In her special, the fed-up denizens of Pastryville arrange to have her thrown in a volcano. She escapes and returns to see the whole town having a party to celebrate her murder.
* SeriousBusiness: In ''The Crucible'' parody, she takes personal offense to a man claiming the bonfire party in the woods was just "stupid girls playing". The man was trying to protect his daughter from being accussed of witchcraft. But because Bitch Pudding was there and doesn't want to be called stupid, she claims that the man's daughter was having sex with the Devil.
* SlasherSmile: She smiles to the camera, covered in the blood of a man she just murdered, in the opening montage of "Murder, She Bitched".
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: In the ''The Crucible'' parody, when asked what the girls were doing in the woods (a [[GirlOnGirlIsHot sexualized]] [[GilliganCut bonfire party]]), she mutters a little, very fake sounding "Nothing".
* ThirdPersonPerson: Downplayed. Only sometimes she introduces herself by saying "Bitch Pudding" or "the Bitch Pudding".
* TokenEvilTeamMate: Of the Strawberry Landers.
* TookALevelInBadass: She is the only character along with the Mad Scientist to put a real fight against the Chicken. She had not displayed any fighting powers before that sketch.
* TookALevelInJerkAss: In her first appearance, she makes off-color jokes and sass her fellow Strawberry Landers, but she collaborates with them. In later appearances, she gratuitously comfronts them and murders people.
* VillainousRescue: She stops the poltergeist from going after Strawberry Shortcake. Not because she cares for Strawberry, but because she had picked a fight with the entity.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: In her special, the Pastryvillagers' plan to get rid of her involves knocking her out, tying her to a vulture (that also works as the town's post officer) and throwing her in an active volcano, ''[[CruelAndUnusualDeath alive]]''. Presumably, the Pastryvillagers are [[TastesLikeDiabetes too innocent]] to kill her themselves even after making the decision that she should be killed. [[NoNonsenseNemesis She doesn't have such qualms]].

[[folder:Citizens of Pastryville/Strawberry Land]]
-->'''Voiced by''': Various

Extras usually appearing in skits that feature Strawberry Shortcake or Bitch Pudding.

!!In general
* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: In the "Bitch Pudding Special", the entire town of Pastryville celebrates with a giant festival when they think Bitch Pudding is dead.
* AxCrazy: Don't let their cute looks fool you, they're happy to resort to murder in any situation.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: For a bunch of cute, innocent-looking villagers, they can get pretty violent.
** In the "Bitch Pudding Special", the entire town attempts to murder Bitch Pudding after she gives a rude speech at Granny Grahamcrackers' funeral.
** Strawberry and her friends set the Purple Pieman's house on fire and stone him to death after accusing him of taking Black Cherry Pie's black cherry (as in, the fruit).
** Strawberry has Huckleberry Pie arrested and hanged after accusing him of having sex with the Purple Pieman (actually, the Pieman was having sex with [[Film/AmericanPie an actual huckleberry pie]] and yelled out its name in a moment of ecstasy).
* BlandNameProduct: "Pastryville" substitutes for Strawberry Land in the BackdoorPilot "Bitch Pudding Special".
* EdibleThemeNaming: Of course, being knock-offs of ''Strawberry Shortcake'' characters. Examples include Granny Grahamcrackers, Black Cherry Pie, and Buttermilk Biscuits.
* EuphemismBuster: One mentions that Granny drove a local girl to the city to get her tonsils removed, only for another to [[DeadBabyComedy joke]] that it was her "unborn tonsils".
* NegativeContinuity: In the [[PoorlyDisguisedPilot "Bitch Pudding Special",]] their hometown is referred to as [[BlandNameProduct Pastryville,]] but in every other skit it has it is Strawberry Land. Maybe it's supposed to be a different village within it.
* RecurringExtra: Black Cherry Pie, Fudge Turnover, Huckleberry Pie, and Blueberry Muffin have appeared in a handful of skits each.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Pastryville to Strawberry Land and the female Pastryvillager, Raspberry Parfait, that presides over Gramma's funeral to Strawberry Shortcake (who is suspiciously absent).

!!Granny Grahamcrackers

* BreadEggsMilkSquick: At her funeral, Raspberry Parfait lists things she did for her neighbors, including knitting Black Cherry Pie's favorite scarf, fixing Fudge Turnover's leaky roof, and driving Buttermilk Biscuits to the big city to get...[[LastSecondWordSwap her tonsils out.]]
-->'''Fudge Turnover:''' Yeah, her ''unborn'' tonsils!
* TheGamblingAddict: According to Bitch Pudding, she had a gambling addiction.
* GrannyClassic: The citizens of Pastryville describe her as warm and caring.
* PosthumousCharacter: "Bitch Pudding Special" opens with the Pastryvillagers attending her funeral.

!!Black Cherry Pie

* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' steal her black cherry.
* NegativeContinuity: She gets killed by Bitch Pudding with a minigun near the end of the "Bitch Pudding Special", but reappears in the skit "My Black Cherry is Gone".
* NiceHat: She wears an upside-down red ice cream cone for a hat.
* ParentalIncest: According to Bitch Pudding, she left home because her daddy took her "black cherry".
* PerkyGoth: She dresses in red and black, but she's as cheerful as any other Strawberry character.

!!Fudge Turnover

* AmbiguouslyBrown: He appears to be the TokenMinority of the Strawberryland cast.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He'd never take anyone's black cherry without their consent!
-->'''Bitch Pudding:''' Mmm, that's not what ''I'' heard.
-->'''Fudge Turnover:''' Oh, shut up, Bitch Pudding!
* {{Jerkass}}: He acts pretty blasé about Granny getting heatstroke while fixing his leaky roof and makes a crass joke in church about Buttermilk Biscuits getting an abortion.
* NegativeContinuity: He gets killed by Bitch Pudding with a minigun near the end of the "Bitch Pudding Special", but reappears in the skit "My Black Cherry is Gone".
* NiceHat: Wears a little brown fedora with a piece of fudge in the top.

!!Raspberry Parfait

* FamousLastWords: "F*** you, Bitch Pudding."
* NiceHat: A pink cap with a raspberry decoration (what else) at the side.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For Strawberry herself in the "Bitch Pudding Special".
* TeamMom: From her limited screentime, she appears to be one for the citizens of Pastryville, presiding over Granny's funeral and giving a speech about her being neighborly.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has fluffy, curly pink hair.

[[folder:Daniel a.k.a. "Gyro-Robo"]]
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[[caption-width-right:318:''"I won't even... '''dignify''' this scene with my analysis."'']]
-->'''Voiced by''': Seth Green

Another nerd, this time more negative minded. He has an online show where he does nothing but complain about things ''Robot Chicken'' sketches get wrong.

* ActingForTwo: When shown next to the other Nerd, who is also voiced by Seth Green.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: His reaction to the sketch about masturbating autobots implies that someone walked in on him while he was jacking off in the bathroon. And in the holidays special, he lies down half a dozen unpaired socks for St. Valentine's and claims that they are his "dates".
* AppropriatedAppelation: He took the "Gyro-Robo" name from a helicopter autobot that used to be called Gyro-Robo before being renamed "[[ALizardNamedLiz Copter]]".
* BasementDweller: Shown to spend too much time in his room, judging by the half eaten pizza and empty containers of soda and Chinese food.
* BringMeMyBrownPants: Pisses himself when the Chicken gives him a DeathGlare. He's lucky that's all he got compared to most everyone else.
* BulletproofHumanShield: Downplayed in the ''Saving Private Ryan'' sketch, where he uses [[SelfDeprecation Green and Senreich's bodies]] as cover.
* ButtMonkey: In contrast to the other Nerd, who ''[[ThrowTheDogABone sometimes]]'' gets things go his way, Daniel is a complete failure.
* DirtyCoward: In "The Rescue", he approaches the Chicken to scold him for plagiarizing the fight from ''Film/TheProtector'', only to run away and piss in a potted plant when the Chicken lands his eyes on him.
* DemotedToExtra: He's become largely redundant with the other Nerd being [[NegativeContinuity pushed back]] to High School and becoming negative about changes to his favorite franchises, so it's not a surprise that he is seen a lot less and when he appears, it is as a supporting character in the other Nerd's sketches, instead of starring in his own (where he used to lead his own troupe of nerds).
* DoNotAdjustYourSet: He pirates the transmission of ''Robot Chicken'' in his first sketch to expose his critique.
* ItsAllAboutMe: His complains to ''Robot Chicken'' are just about his own sentiments being hurt and not the objective quality of the sketch.
* MommasBoy: He lives with his mom and she babies him.
* PrematurelyBald: Despite being a teenager, he is bald under his cap and grows his remaining hair long to disguise it.
* SeriousBusiness: He hates ''Transformers'' being misrepresented.
* SpeechImpediment: He shlursh his S's like the other Nerd, but sounds somewhat fatter. This might be related to him producing excess saliva in "Bad Boy meets Damaged Girl with Daddy Issues". He also pronounces his R's like G's sometimes.
* ThisLoserIsYou: Yes. If you complain about shows parodied in ''Robot Chicken'' the wrong way, you are a fat, PrematurelyBald, [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbating]] MommasBoy who is [[BarbaricBully bullied]] at school. You are welcome.

[[folder:Bloopers Host]]
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[[caption-width-right:210:''"Are you ready for more of those hilarious bloopers?!"'']]
-->'''Voiced by''': Jamie Kaler

The mentally disturbed host of ''Bloopers!'', an ''Series/AmericasFunniestHomeVideos''-style show.

* BigNo: In response to the incident in ByNoIMeanYes.
* ByNoIMeanYes: While being held in a dungeon by a dictator, he is told that he'll soon be free. To watch his movies-on-demand service. Which only carries ''Film/ChristmasWithTheKranks''.
* ComedicSociopathy: The ''Bloopers!'' segments are overhelmingly violent and cruel, even by the show's standards.
* CruelMercy: In "The Rescue", he is surprised to be saved from committing suicide by hanging by the Chicken, only to have his head smashed in.
* DrivenToSuicide: He attempts suicide at the end of every ''Bloopers!'' program.
* ExcitedKidsShowHost: Technically not a kids show, but he fits the trope to a T.
* LawOfInverseFertility: He impregnated the first girl he ever had sex with, resulting in a daughter who got herself impregnated at 13.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: In "Personal Bloopers!", he is shown being chased and hit with a belt by his father when he was a child.
* HopeSpot:
** Told about being free soon... free to watch one movie while still in the dungeon.
** In "The Rescue", he screams "My life has value after all!" Then the Chicken kills him.
* ImaginaryFriend: "Personal Bloopers!" ends with TheReveal that his live audience only exists in his mind.
* NoNameGiven: Never named on screen or otherwise.
* OffWithHisHead: He gets his head blown off with a [[BoomHeadshot shotgun]] by Senreich in "Robot Chicken Telethon" and his head smashed in by the Chicken in "The Rescue".
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: He commits suicide or is killed in most sketches he is in, only to [[NegativeContinuity appear again]] like nothing happened.
* ToiletHumor: During his vacation in [[SouthOfTheBorder Mexico]], he was hit with a massive diarrhea that made him defecate until he destroyed the toilet.
* StepfordSmiler: He has a massive grin and seems happy when he is on camera, but he is actually depressively suicidal.

[[folder:Gary the Storm Trooper]]
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[[caption-width-right:211:''"I'm probably gonna get fired for this but... ([[ClusterBleepBomb bleep]]) it. I love my daughter!"'']]
-->'''Voiced by''': Donald Faison

A normal 29-year old husband and father of a young girl from Leeburg, Virginia who is employed as a Storm Trooper for the Empire of ''Star Wars''.

* AlternateUniverse: Obviously, in the ''Star Wars'' films there isn't a young girl named Jessica accompaning her father stormtrooper. Or it is not "bring your child to work" day at any point in the films.
* AscendedExtra: Literally and figuratively. The premise is that he is one of the millions of Stormtroopers in the first film, now shown as a main character. He also goes from starring in just one sketch in the second ''Star Wars'' special to seven in the third special.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: He fought the rebels when they stole the Death Star's plans, was one of the patrolmen hypnotized by Obi-Wan, caused Luke's aunt and uncle's deaths, almost crashed the Death Star and survived its explosion by being aboard a TIE-Fighter, and walked on Darth Vader throwing down the Emperor.
* ContinuityNod: When Beru tells him to stay until the droids return, he says "they are not the droids we are looking for, anyway".
* DisasterDominoes:
** Him just using the toilet while in Owen and Beru's house spirals out of control until it results in their deaths.
** He runs over an Ewok while on patrol in Endor and his attempts to MercyKill it only makes it suffer more and attract more Ewoks.
** Downplayed when he accidentally ends in control of the Death Star. He causes several personal accidents and almost crashes on Earth, but manages to save the day in the last moment.
* TheEveryman: Of the Empire's troops.
* TheFaceless: He never removes his helmet. Not even to sleep.
* HappilyMarried: He seems so.
* MercyKill: He tries to do this to an Ewok he run over but ends repeatedly hitting it on the face with its own cane.
* MoralityPet: His daughter Jessica is one for him and becomes one unexpectedly for ''[[BigBad Darth]] [[HiddenDepths Vader]]''.
* OfCorpseHesAlive: When surrounded by Ewoks, he tries (futilely) to convince them that their pal is still alive and friends with him.
* PerspectiveFlip: The sketches retell several scenes in the first trilogy of ''Star Wars'' from Gary's perspective.
* PunchclockVillain: He works for the Empire but doesn't voice support for it.
* StaringDownCthulhu: He defends his daughter from Darth Vader, risking job and life.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He started the fire that killed Luke's aunt and uncle and almost crashed the Death Star on Earth after being left for one hour driving it.

[[folder:Little Drummer Boy]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"A drumroll? It's '''so''' suspenseful!"'']]
-->'''Voiced by''': Seth Green

An {{animesque}} drummer [[Literature/TheSteadfastTinSoldier little tin soldier]] spoof.

* {{Animesque}}: Because of his introduction during the "A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas" sketch, he looks very similar to Goku and Gohan.
* {{Anticlimax}}: His demons are destroyed by Goku as soon as they are summoned.
* TheArtifact: However, later sketches make no mention to Manga and draw jokes only from his nature as drummer. He also doesn't use his drum to summon demons like in the original sketch.
* AscendedExtra[=/=]DemotedToExtra: Zig-Zagged. Introduced as a subordinate of Composite Santa, he appears in later sketches on his own capacity. However, all of these jokes are about the fact that he is a drummer boy, and not the supernatural Manga warrior he was introduced as.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: See RunningGag.
* DisproportionateRetribution: In "The Rescue". he ''suggests'' playing a drumroll for the Chicken to add suspense. The Chicken kills him in a horrible way.
* EyeScream: The Chicken takes his drumsticks and stabs him in his eyes with them.
* IronicDeath: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]]. After the incident above, he cries "Aaaah, what an ironic death!"
* MundaneMadeAwesome: His drumming skills are treated like an Anime attack in his first sketch (including dropping his drumsticks like a badass after playing a RimShot).
* NonIndicativeName: His second sketch is titled "Little Drummer Goku" even though Goku doesn't appear and it's all about the Little Drummer Boy and Composite Santa playing music.
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: In the ''Saving Private Ryan'' spoof, he is shot once on the forehead before leaving the landing craft and lives long enough to voice his disappointment.
* RimShot: Done twice in "A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas", to punctuate jokes made by Mrs. Claus.
* RunningGag: Everytime he does a RimShot in "A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas", he extends his hand to the camera and drops the drumsticks like a badass.
* SummoningRitual: Marching to a certain melody in his drum can summon black demons to fight for him.
* UnexplainedRecovery: After being apparently vaporized by Goku in "A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas", he reappears to punctuate Mrs. Claus's words with a RimShot or two.

[[folder:Unicorn]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"A unicorn's just a horse who's a little more [[DoubleEntendre horny]] than usual."'']]
-->'''Voiced by''': [[WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast George Lowe]]

A DepravedHomosexual {{unicorn}} from a magical land, always craving sex with a young male [[BestialityIsDepraved human]].

* AssShove: He is forcefully shoved long objects up his ass twice. Of course he thinks not really bad about it.
* BestialityIsDepraved: He is sexually depraved and he is only interested in having sex with humans.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: In "The Lion, the Witch, and the Locker", he winks to the camera after saying that he'd like to "[[DoubleEntendre cross swords]]" with the Nerd.
* DecapitationPresentation: The Nerd is seen pulling his decapitated head by the horn in the ''Saving Private Ryan'' spoof.
* DepravedHomosexual: A sex addict who is only attracted to young human males.
* DestinationDefenestration: In "The Rescue", the Chicken throws him out a glass window of the castle.
* DoubleEntendre: He makes constant ones, always of a sexual nature.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction:
** Having some long object forcefully shoved up his ass either "[[Franchise/StarWars only makes him stronger]]" or is "not half bad, actually" (in the case of [[SomethingElseAlsoRises his own severed horn]]).
** When he replaces the horse in ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', he ''[[TooKinkyToTorture enjoys]]'' being eaten and encourages the zombies to continue.
* MythologyGag: A literal one. In the legend, unicorns were naturally drawn to the 'purity' of virgins... which [[TechnicalTruth the Nerd is]].
* NonMaliciousMonster: In "The Double-Edged Horn", it is revealed that the teenage boy he was going to apparently rape had actually agreed to it: he intended to film the encounter and sell copies to pay for college. On the other hand, he kills several boys in "Unicorn Jockey" with [=STDs=] after pressuring them into sex in exchange for winning horse races... and he clearly knew that would happen.
* RhinoRampage: FridgeLogic aside, he can, and will use his horn as a weapon.
* SomethingElseAlsoRises: He draws pleasure from having his horn "polished". The procedure climaxes in him producing "unicorn mayonnaise" (somehow).
* SummoningRitual: In "The Double-Edged Horn", he is summoned by a teenage girl opening her unicorn-themed diary [[{{Film/Gremlins}} after midnight]] (something the [[GypsyCurse Gypsy]] that sold the book to her told her [[IgnoredExpert not to do]]).
* TalkingAnimal: He talks and has human intellect, but is completely equine otherwise.
* TastesLikeDiabetes: He is associated with pastel tones and rainbows. His own flesh is ranbow-colored, as revealed when he is eaten by zombies.
* TooKinkyToTorture: You can't harm him by shoving objects up his ass, no matter how big. And he actually enjoys being eaten.
* UncertainDoom: The Chicken throws him off a window, but it isn't shown if it was tall enough for a DisneyVillainDeath.
* {{Unicorn}}: He is one.
* VerbalTic: Due to his equine nature, he tends to draw his I's and E's when he talks.

[[folder:Gummy Bear]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm so happy 'cause I'm a gummy bear, gummy bear![[note]]AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!![[/note]]"'']]
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MichelleTrachtenberg

An animated, sentient gummy bear that is [[RunningGag doomed]] [[ComedicSociopathy to scream in pain]] from stepping on a bear trap in every sketch she's in.

* {{Autocannibalism}}: In her first sketch, she cuts her trapped foot by eating her own flesh - which she notes, is delicious.
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: In the ''Saving Private Ryan'' she spoofs, she gets almost completely covered in Lindsay Lohan's blood.
* BulletproofHumanShield: Involuntary version in the aforementioned sketch, where Lindsay Lohan soaks up all the bullets, resulting in the Gummy Bear behind her being shocked but completely unharmed.
* DarkReprise: In "The Rescue", she changes her tune to "I'm so happy 'cause you're gonna die, GONNA DIE!"
* DirtyCoward: She waits for and attacks the Chicken, but as soon as he gets the upper hand, she cries out for him to stop.
* ExpositoryThemeTune: Her song, where she is states that she is happy for being a gummy bear (which she is).
* EyeScream: The Chicken peaks her eyes out before throwing her in the bear traps she's [[KarmicDeath placed for the Chicken]].
* KarmicDeath: She sets five bear traps for the Chicken, who avoids them successfully and throws the Gummy Bear in one. The Gummy Bear then activates all traps one by one, until only its screaming head is left.
* LifeOrLimbDecision: In the first sketch, the Gummy Bear resolves to amputate her trapped foot as her only way to escape.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Although she screams a lot when falling into a trap, she doesn't seem to mind biting off her foot and actually finds her flesh delicious.
* RunningGag: She steps in ''at least'' one bear trap in every sketch she's in.
* SequelEscalation: In her first sketch, she step on two bear traps and suffered one amputation. In "The Rescue", she is thrown by the Chicken on to a trap and ends activating ''five'' of them in quick succession, losing each of her limbs and her torso until she is reduced to her screaming head.
* TastesLikeDiabetes: Everything is usually sweet about her sketches... until she steps on a bear trap.
* TookALevelInJerkass: In "The Rescue", where she acts outright villainous, lies the bear traps for herself intending to hurt the Chicken with them, and boasts that she's happy because he is going to die.
* UnexplainedRecovery: She's always back to full and unharmed after every sketch. She might have some regenerative powers or maybe she's replaced by other gummy bear.
* UpToEleven: Her falling into a trap after another in "The Rescue". Just read SequelEscalation.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Munson]]

-->'''Voiced by''': Breckin Meyer
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Yeah, baby! lntroducing King Kickass! Everyone who plays this queer game has two vaginas. Yeah Three, two, one, awesome!"'']]
A jerkish teenager that bullies the nerds, and specially Daniel.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Creator/LindsayLohan [[InvokedTrope calls him one]], and is instantly attracted to him.
* BarbaricBully: He invades Daniel's home whenever he wants and insults and hits him while in there.
* BridalCarry: Carries Lohan like this after falling in LoveAtFirstSight with her.
* DirtyCoward: [[FreezeFrameBonus Seen]] running away screaming as soon as the Chicken comes near him in "The Rescue".
* FourthDateMarriage: Munson is shown living with Lohan and to have made her pregnant at the end of their sketch.
* GroinAttack: Done to an alien in the season four finale.
* KarmaHoudini: He suffers no retribution until the sketch "Zombie Love", which probably happens in an AlternateUniverse anyway.
* MyNaymeIs: WordOfGod is that his name is Munson, not Manson.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: A different jerk bullies Daniel and the other Nerd in "The Lion, the Witch, and the Locker".
* ThirdPersonPerson: Sometimes refers to himself as "Munzie" and "King Kickass".
* TooDumbToLive: During a ZombieApocalypse, Munson finds himself on the school's rooftop with an assault rifle. What does he do? Shoot Daniel mom's car until he drops the rifle. And when he finds himself handcuffed to a pipe and unarmed, with zombies at the door, but the Nerds hand him a handsaw? Why, throw the handsaw at Daniel mom's car, then ask for another one.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Pablo Rodríguez]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"There's 283 American dollars we won't see again."'']]
-->'''Voiced by''': N/A

A [[SouthOfTheBorder Mexican]] {{cyborg}} nicknamed "[[Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan The Six Million Peso Man]]".
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* TheArtifact: His name and his cyborg nature are not referenced past his first episode.
* {{Cyborg}}: Like the Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan, but [[ForeignRemake Mexican]].
* DemotedToExtra: He is reduced to filling crowd scenes in his following episodes.
* DynamicEntry: In "The Rescue", he manages to briefly get the drop on the Chicken when he's about to face off with three others via swinging kick and they gang up on him together, but it doesn't last long before the Chicken recovers and [[CurbStompBattle kicks all of them to the curb]].
* MagnificentMoustachesOfMexico: His black moustache occupies about a quarter of his face, obscuring his mouth.
* MundaneUtility: After his RefusalOfTheCall, he uses his SuperSpeed to cross the American border and his SuperStrength to throw orange packages.
* NegativeContinuity: He is the only member of the Telethon who survives Senreich's rampage: the shotgun blast knocks his sombrero out first, then he blocks a new shot to his head at the cost of [[LifeOrLimbDecision his hand]]. Nevertheless, he also appears zombified in the following sketch, "Seth's Revenge" (and with both of his hands).
* RefusalOfTheCall: Whatever the Mexican scientists wanted him for, it was clearly not to cross illegally to the United States.
* RidiculousExchangeRates: According to the sketch, six million Mexican pesos are equivalent to 283 American dollars[[note]]They are actually about $317,000 as of 2019.[[/note]]
* SouthOfTheBorder: He is introduced as a "Mexican test pilot" while the image shows him crashing into a cactus while riding a donkey. He has a magnificent moustache and wears a poncho and a giant sombrero. He uses his SuperStrength to open a taco, jump the border fence, and sell oranges as an illegal immigrant. He sleeps on the street at any given hour, under his sombrero and with his back against the wall. At least, none of the other Mexican characters in the sketch look so ridiculously stereotypical.
* SuperSpeed and SuperStrength: Gained both with his bionic conversion.
* TheSpeechless: He never speaks.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mo-Larr]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rcmolarr.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Looks like someone has not been flossing!"'']]
-->'''Voiced by''': Michael Ian Black

A relentlessly dedicated dentist in [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 Eternia]], who pulls rotten teeth out of hero and villain alike (but mostly [[ButtMonkey Skeletor]]).
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: His real name is Moe Larrstein.
* {{Defictionalization}}: A real Mo-Larr toy for the He-Man series was made by Mattel in 2010, complete with a dentist chair, tools, and a Skeletor toy missing one tooth.
* HeroicBuild: As befits any male born in Eternia.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: "Mo-Larr: Eternian Dentist" retells his college education as if it was a SuperheroOrigin story.
* PunnyName: His Eternian name is read just like "molar", the tooth.
* SeriousBusiness: He takes dentistry very seriously and will not accept an appointment being cancelled, even if he has to fight [[FrazettaMan beast men]] and capture a supervillain for it. He will also not dispense any other medical care, even if the patient is bleeding from having her feet amputated.
* TrueNeutral: A "one-dimensional asshole" who only cares about his craft.
* UncertainDoom: In "The Rescue", he is beaten by the Chicken and splatters some blood on the wall, but not to the extent of other characters who have their heads completely destroyed.
[[/folder]]

!!Recurring Characters From Other Media
[[folder:Santa Claus]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Why, I'm Santa Claus! I was just flying by and heard everyone having a good laugh in here! Please, someone tell me what was... [[HAHAHANo so... funny]]. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Make. Me. Laugh.]]"'']]
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/SethMacfarlane

[[SantaClaus The holidays' jolly bringer of toys]]. But a bit more jaded and dickish than usual.
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* AccidentalPervert: He tries to hide from a little girl by going back into the chimney, only to get stuck halfway, and his pants to fall off... while wearing [[GoingCommando no underwear]].
* AdaptationalBadass: This version of Santa isn't afraid to beat or shoot anyone.
* AdaptationalJerkass: ...nor to berate, hit, or kill his own employees, or to sleep with prostitutes, or to just take a gift from the sled to hide the fact that he forgot to make one for his wife.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In "Kill Bunny", where he fights Jesus while on the service of the Easter Bunny. In his own sketches, he qualifies more as a very twisted AntiHero.
* AllJustADream: TheReveal of "One Minute 'Till Midnight". This being Robot Chicken, it means things are actually far ''worse'' for Santa and company than in his dream. [[spoiler:He dreams he has only one minute to deliver all the presents. He's actually choking his wife in his sleep, and being kicked by the Elves to stop.]]
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: He's very angry when Superman moves next door, among other things because Mrs. Claus starts placing way too much attention in him.
* AlternateUniverse: In one sketch set in the ''WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer'' universe his appearance is the one he has in that movie, which is completely different from his usual one. But his personality is very much [[BadBoss the same]].
* AntiHero: Surprisingly, he is almost always on the right side of things... despite being also prone to unleashing disproportionate violence. And he clearly loves his wife and his craft.
* AscendedExtra: One of the most recurring characters, yet his first sketch ("[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Santa's Fall]]") just showed him falling out of a chimney, with no characterization.
* BadassBeard: As befits any BadassSanta.
* BadassSanta: RC Santa is not one to mess with. He helped capture Lex Luthor, fought [[Film/TheBourneIdentity Jason Bourne]], and laid waste to a boardroom worth of Coke executives.
* BadSanta: Zig-Zagged, if not subverted. Unlike most examples of the trope, and despite his flaws (he sleeps with prostitutes, and he often hits and kills people), he's still dedicated to bringing toys to the good, and coals to the naughty on Christmas Night, without JackassGenie inclinations.
* BadBoss: He often insults and hits his elves and reindeers, and does not care if they are killed. Sometimes, he is the one who has them killed.
* BatterUp:
** He kills half the Coca-Cola boardroom with a baseball bat for using his likeness without permission since 1931.
** In another sketch, a parent knocks him out with a bat after confusing him with a home intruder.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A World War One soldier jokingly wishes Santa to wipe out the opposing enemy trench as his Christmas gift. So Santa comes, and gives him exactly that... right after the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce 1914 Christmas Truce]] begins.
* BloodIsTheNewBlack: By the time he's done killing Coca-Cola executives, he is trully covered head to toe in red.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: He looks into the camera and addresses the audience in "A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas".
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In his first speaking role, "A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas", he is much more passive and good-natured (brief misogynistic joke aside), and his voice sounds weaker and elderly-like.
* TheCoatsAreOff: He drops his red jacket before attacking the Coca-Cola executives.
* CurbstompBattle: He is unmatched and nearly merciless when beating the executives in "Santa and Coke".
* DeadpanSnarker: Increased with every appearance.
* DecapitationPresentation: He decapitates Britney Spears and shows her head at the surviving Coke executives when they suggest replacing him with her as their mascot.
* {{Deconstruction}}: "The Robot Chicken Lots of Holidays Special" shows him struggling to decide which children really deserve gifts and which coal, and getting shocked by the living conditions of children in extreme poverty. It ends with him walking into the snow while silently pondering life.
%%* DelusionsOfEloquence
* {{Determinator}}: He '''will''' deliver the gifts on time. Nothing else matters.
* DisproportionateRetribution: He beats most Coca-Cola executives to death for using his image without permission... since 1931, as he himself claims. In other words, there is no way those exact executives were old enough to be behind his likeness being stolen and in fact, none of them believed he was real until the walked through their door.
* DistressedDude: In "A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas", he is introduced after the Composite Santa steals his reindeer, presents, and pants.
* TheDragon: To the Easter Bunny in "Kill Bunny", a ''Film/KillBill'' spoof where he plays the part of O-Ren Ishii.
* GoingCommando: In "Up the Chimney", his pants fall while he is stuck halfway into a chimney, revealing he has no underwear.
* HAHAHANo: In "Santa and Coke", he says his iconic "Ho, Ho, Ho" in a sarcastic fashion.
* HappilyMarried: To Mrs. Claus. She's [[AwfulWeddedLife less enthusiastic]].
%%* IAteWhat
* IHaveYourWife: A literal example in "Don't forget about terrorism", where terrorists take his wife and some elves hostage to force him to deliver bombs instead of toys.
* ILied: He allows [[WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer Hermey the Elf]] to return to his job making toys before having him [[YouHaveFailedMe executed]] for leaving it before.
* MistakenForThief: In "Santa [[ToiletHumor Poops]]", he wakes up a family while he is using their bathroom and is attacked by the father with a bat, who then calls the cops.
* MoreDakka: He has a hidden gun safe with submachine guns in his office, and in one sketch, he was transporting a bazooka for a kid in his sled (but had to use it against NORAD).
%%* MyGodWhatIhaveDone
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: The image quote, said sarcastically to the Coca-Cola boardroom.
* RealityEnsues:
** In "NORAD shoots down Santa", the US Airforce shoots him down because he refuses to identify himself and state his cargo.
** In "A Candy Cane", he is gifted a giant candy cane after he breaks his leg. The candy breaks as soon as he tries to walk with it.
%%* SantaClausmas
* SantasExistenceClause: Spoofed in "NORAD shoots down Santa" and "Santa and Coke". In both cases, a number of adults who don't believe in Santa Claus discover that he really exists. And in each case, with different horrific consequences (he is killed in the former, killing Christmas in the process; in the latter, Santa kills them for using his image without paying).
* SarcasmFailure: After sex, he thanks a whore for sucking his "candy cane". She answers that she's sucking a lollipop, not a cane.
* SavingChristmas: "A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas" is a straight example with Goku and Gohan taking on Santa's enemies after they steal everything from him (and threaten Christmas, implicitly). Averted in "NORAD shoots down Santa", which goes to credits while showing children sad because the military killed Santa Claus and left them without presents.
%%* SomebodysWatching
* TheStraightMan: To Goku, Superman, the Nerd, and his own reindeer in different sketches.
* StrongerThanTheyLook: As seen in the image. His red jacket hides very muscled arms and he can swing a bat with enought force to pulverize a skull.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Neither elves nor reindeer are particularly bright.
* TookALevelInBadass: Though "Kill Bunny" already showed him double-wielding katanas earlier, his first speaking role, "A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas", actually had him as a [[NeutralFemale Neutral]] DistressedDude. Later sketches, on the other hand, have him fighting all sorts of enemies with nearly as much weapons.
* WhamLine: Two in "Santa and Coke". First he leaves a executive speechlees by recalling a gift he never brought him. Then he says "I know you are a fucking thief" and everything breaks loose.
%%* WouldntHitAGirl: Zig-Zagged in "Santa and Coke".
* YouHaveFailedMe: He orders Ermey's murder because he dared leave his service to become a dentist.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mrs. Claus]]
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[[caption-width-right:210:''"I hate Christmas. You heard me!"'']]
-->'''Voiced by''': Phyllis Diller, Clare Grant, Creator/ElizabethBanks

Santa's wife. And yes, she has a personality besides that.
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%%* AwfulWeddedLife
%%* BewareTheNiceOnes
%%* BiggerBad
%%* EatingTheEyeCandy
%%* EldritchAbomination
%%* EvilOldFolks
%%* IHaveYourWife
%%* TheOtherDarrin
%%* StepfordSmiler
%%* WhamLine
%%* YourCheatingHeart
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer]]
----
%%* AdaptationalBadass[=/=]ExternalRetcon
%%* NegativeContinuity
%%* TalkingAnimal
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Superman]]
-->'''Voiced by''': Breckin Meyer

The Man of Steel... and kind of a douche.
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* {{Catchphrase}}: "Buh-doop doop de-doo doop, Superman!"
* {{Jerkass}}: Unlike the likable paragon of the comics, RC Superman is a narcissistic, lecherous A-hole.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Batman]]
-->'''Voiced by''': Seth Green

The Dark Knight, an emotional basket-case.
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* BadassBaritone: Parodied. He speaks in a heavily exaggerated version of Christian Bale's Bat-growl.
* NoRespectGuy: Routinely mocked by the rest of the Justice League.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Joker]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Darth Vader]]
-->'''Voiced by''': Abraham Benrubi

The feared Dark Lord of the Sith. Who is still carrying a lot of baggage from his Jedi days.
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* AffablyEvil: Is generally a nice guy when not on the job and this version changes him from a YouHaveFailedMe BadBoss to a AFatherToHisMen BenevolentBoss.
* AFatherToHisMen: This version of Vader tends to get along with his subornates and gets upset when the rebels kill or at the least inconvience his men.
-->'''Vader:''' (while strangling a rebel) What have you done with those plans?! Gary here never gets to see his daughter because of people like you!
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Compared to his mainstream counterpart this guy's a saint. He only ever commits acts of villainy under direct orders and tends not to embrace a CardCarryingVillain attitude.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Emperor Palpatine]]
-->'''Voiced by''': Seth Macfarlane

The supreme leader of the Empire. Who is stuck dealing with all the little annoyances that entails.
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* BreakoutCharacter: Thanks to the famed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F1d3QWsyk0 phone call with Vader]], RC Palpantine became a series standby. Even getting the third Star Wars special focused on him.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Palpatine isn't super impressed by his minions. Especially Vader.
-->'''Palpatine:''' Choose your apprentice in haste, repent in leisure as the saying goes.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Justice League]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Leagion of Doom]]
* HistoricalRapSheet: Apparently, Cheetah's responsible for the death of the real Princess Diana. She's shocked to learn it was the "wrong limo" (rather than her archenemy ComicBook/WonderWoman) and is last seen lamenting that she'd been "a candle in the wind".
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Skeletor]]
-->'''Voiced by''': Dam Milano.

Arch-enemy of He-Man. And just as incompetent as he ever was.
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* LampshadeHanging: People frequently question how he can see or hear with his [[SkullForAHead condition.]]
[[/folder]]

!!'''"[[AdamWesting Real]]" people'''
[[folder:Seth Green]]
[[quoteright:197:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rcsethgreen_8.jpg]]
-->'''Voiced by''': Himself

The show's egotistical creator.
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* AdamWesting: Seth plays himself, with a massively inflated ego.
* BoomHeadshot: He is shot in the head. [[NegativeContinuity More than once]].
* RousingSpeech: Gives one to the recurring characters in "Beginning Season Five".
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: After the show gets cancelled for the first time, he has the chance to go back in time and undo the event that caused it (a bucket of [[VisualPun green]] paint falling over [[OnlySaneMan Keith Crofford]]).
* ShootTheDog: In "Robot Chicken Telethon", he threatens to shoot a puppy if people don't start calling to donate money in two minutes. [[LeeroyJenkins Senreich]] shoots the puppy anyway, so he brings a backup monkey (which Senreich [[RunningGag also shoots]]).
* VengefulGhost: Comes back as a vengeful zombie in "Seth's Revenge", after Senreich kills him and takes over the show.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Matthew Senreich]]
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rcsenreich_5.jpg]]
-->'''Voiced by''': Himself

The show's second banana to Seth, and moderately more sane.
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* AdamWesting: Plays a ditzy, psychotic version of himself.
* AxeCrazy: At least two season finales have ended with him killing everyone.
* BadActing: Let's say... he's a better writer than voice actor.
* TheDitz: Occasionally. He goes on a shooting rampage in the Telethon when he was supposed to only shoot the puppy if nobody called. And he goes "Wow!" when reading it on his cellphone screen before realizing it's upside down and it actually reads "Mom".
* KlingonPromotion: Becomes showrunner after killing Seth in "Seth's Revenge", which prompts him to come back for revenge.
* TheLancer: And no one will let him forget it.
* LeeroyJenkins: In "Robot Chicken Telethon", he shoots the puppy before Seth is done talking. Then he shoots the backup monkey too.
* RefugeInAudacity: When cornered by Seth's and other zombies, he shows them his contract and demands they allow him to write new sketches instead of being killed. It works.
* SelfDeprecation: When Seth is killed in "Beginning Season Five", he cries that he will tell Seth's story. [[FatalFamilyPhoto When he is also killed]], Daniel says that he will also tell Seth's story, because it is more interesting than Matt's.
* TriggerHappy: After shooting the puppy in the telethon, he also shoots the backup monkey and eventually everyone else present including Seth. His excuse is that his finger slipped every time.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Doug Goldstein]]
-->'''Voiced by''': Himself.

The shows co-head writer. Gets possibly even less respect than Matt.
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* InsistentTerminology: Always introduced as "Co-head writer Doug Goldstein".
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mike Lazzo]]
[[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rclazzo_0.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:240:''"Oh man! Oh, by the way... you're canceled!"'']]
-->'''Voiced by''': Himself, Clark Duke

The all-powerful head honcho of Creator/AdultSwim, always ready to cancel the show.
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* BigBad: In almost any meta sketch, as he is shown either canceling the show or in favor of it.
* BitingTheHandHumor: Not giving a very favorable portrayal otherwise, either.
* GroinAttack: In "A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas", he is kicked multiple times there by the Nutcracker.
* HiddenDepths: He is shown dancing to many different tunes at the end of Season 4.
* MacheteMayhem: Attacks the Chicken with a machete during "The Rescue"...
* MutualKill: ...Only to sink it on Crofford's back while Crofford accidentally hits him with his nunchucks. Subverted later because the Chicken has no patience to watch them die.
* NiceHat: Always wears a snow hat, regardless of setting or clothing.
* OffWithHisHead: In "The Rescue", the Chicken stomps his head on the ground, smashing it.
* TheOtherDarrin: Originally voiced by the real Lazzo, and later by Clark Duke.
* PointyHairedBoss: Portrayed as odd and quirky, at least.
* RunningGag: Lazzo canceling the show.
* SuddenlySexuality: After accidentally injuring Crofford, he kisses and caresses him, leading into...
* TogetherInDeath: ...the Chicken killing them together.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Keith Crofford]]
[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rccrofford.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:210:''"These ratings... will be glorious!"'']]
-->'''Voiced by''': Himself, Matthew Senreich

The executive vicepresident of [adult swim].
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* BeleagueredAssistant: Implied in the sketch where he renews the show without consulting Lazzo, who is clearly not happy about it. However, he is not free of quirkiness himself.
* BitingTheHandHumor: Same deal with Lazzo.
* FightingWithChucks: Attacks the Chicken with nunchucks during the "Rescue".
* MutualKill: ...only to hit Lazzo while he sinks his machete on Crofford's back. However, the Chicken kills them first...
* OffWithHisHead: ...by stomping their heads together.
* OldMediaAreEvil: He gloats more than once about how violence going up in ''Robot Chicken'' translates, or will translate on better ratings.
* OnlySaneMan: [[NotSoAboveItAll Downplayed]]. He is saner than Seth and Lazzo and acts as the StraightMan with them, but is no free of craziness himself.
* TheOtherDarrin: Originally voiced by the real Crofford, and later by Senreich.
* SuddenlySexuality: After injuring Lazzo in "The Rescue" (who also injures him) he starts kissing and caressing him...
* TogetherInDeath: ...until the Chicken kills both.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Joey Fatone]]
[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rcfatone.jpg]]
-->'''Voiced by''': Himself

The former member of [[{{Music/Nsync}} *NSYNC]]. You know, the fat one.
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* AllYourPowersCombined: Joey harnesses the powers of the other *NSYNC to grow to the [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever Britney]] [[BodyHorror Abomination]]'s size and fight her.
* AndZoidberg: The {{Yakuza}}s sent to murder the *NSYNC don't even recognize him as a member of the group.
* ContinuityNod: He will appear sometimes wearing the karate costume from "[[Film/EnterTheDragon Enter the Fat One]]", despite no reference made to karate.
* GroinAttack: Given one by Franchise/HelloKitty, [[BewareTheNiceOnes of all characters]].
* HeroInsurance: He is not accounted for all the damage done to the city during the fight with the Britney Abomination.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He snatches Anime/MazingerZ's detaching punch-missile and redirects it against him.
* HumanPopsicle: During his training, he is frozen in a duel and broken in a thousand pieces. [[UnexplainedRecovery Then comes back like nothing happened.]]
* IAmNotSpock: He calls Creator/PatMorita "[[Film/TheKarateKid Mr. Miyagi]]" before being corrected.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Uses the urban infrastructure to fight the giant Britney, finishing with using a broken telephone pole to stab her in the heart.
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: "Enter the Fat One" mixes references to Chinese and Japanese media and culture freely.
* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: He wants to take revenge on the {{Yakuza}} for killing his friends. It turns out that the Yakuza were hired by Britney Spears to kill Music/REOSpeedwagon, but they [[MistakenIdentity mistook]] them with the *NSYNC for some reason.
* {{Kaiju}}: Parodied at the end of "Enter the Fat One", when he becomes a giant to fight the equally enormous Britney.
* MistakenForServant: The Yakuza assassins spare him because they mistake him for an errand boy.
* NeckSnap: Delivers one to kill WesternAnimation/HongKongPhooey.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After the other *NSYNC are killed by Yakuzas, he trains to be a karate master and avenge his friends.
* OffWithHisHead: He is decapitated during his training. [[UnexplainedRecovery Then he is back to normal]].
* OneHitKill: Kills [[Franchise/GIJoe Storm Shadow]] with one punch to the heart.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Storm Shadow is surprised and excited to see that Joey has the same tattoo on his arm as him. However, Joey kills him before he can say anything.
* {{Pun}}: "Enter the Fat One" is a continuous pun based on the similarity between Fatone, Fat One (as Morita calls him), and Dragon.
* SelfDeprecation: Fatone voiced himself in a sketch that makes fun of his weight and supposed lack of importance to *NSYNC, the group that made him famous. And he accepted to do that in the first season, without having any idea of how ''Robot Chicken'' would turn out.
* SoleSurvivor: Of the Yakuza hit on the *NSYNC.
* TookALevelInBadass: Becomes a karate legend in "Enter the Fat One".
* TrainingFromHell: Undergoes it in order to avenge his friends.
* UnexplainedRecovery: He sustains injuries that would kill him during his training, like being decapitated and frozen then broken in a thousand pieces, only to turn up again as if nothing had happened.
* YouKilledMyFather: He tells the Yakuza at their "secret" hideout that he is there to avenge his friends. Then repeats [[Film/ThePrincessBride Montoya's speech]] almost word by word when he learns that Britney Spears is the actual responsible.
* JustForFun/XMeetsY: Invoked when he pitches his own idea for a ''Robot Chicken'' sketch, which he describes as a mix of ''{{Film/Rocky}}'' and ''Film/CrocodileDundee''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lindsay Lohan]]
[[quoteright:213:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rclohan.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:213:''"Darth Vader, who farts in Heaven... Halloween be the name!"'']]
-->'''Voiced by''': [[CrossDressingVoices Breckin Meyer]]

A rather unflattering portrayal of [[Creator/LindsayLohan the disgraced child actress]].
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Calls Munson a bad boy and falls instantly in love with him.
* AndZoidberg: When she's revealed to be part of the ''{{Series/V}}'' invasion troops, she's trusted to... [[YouGetMeCoffee carry a cup of coffee]]. [[TooDumbToLive Which she immediately drops]]. She's then told to do anything she wants.
* BreathingInSpace: She flies through space without a suit at the end of "There can be only one Lohan" (a.k.a. [[{{Film/Highlander}} Highlohander]]).
* BulletproofHumanShield: Acts as an involuntary one for the Gummy Bear in "Beginning Season Five".
* CrossDressingVoices: Voiced by Breckin Meyer, who is actually a man.
* TheDitz: Portrayed with varying grades of stupidity.
* EarthShatteringKaboom: After winning "the Gift" in "There can be only one Lohan", she makes Earth explode and flies away to party with aliens in outer space.
* FanDisservice: Besides being a doll, she's portrayed as crash, vulgar, constantly drunk or insane, taking out any appeal from her curves and revealing outfits.
* FieryRedhead: Definitely at play in "There can be only one Lohan". Later iterations portray her more as stupid than fiery... but interestingly, that's after she dies her hair black and [[DumbBlonde blond]].
* {{Flanderization}}: From a CloudCuckooLander with a violent streak in her first sketch to suicidally stupid by the ''V.'' parody.
* FourthDateMarriage: In "Bad Boy meets Damaged Girl with Daddy Issues", Munson moves in with her and her family and impregnates her between airings of her reality show, apparently.
* HeroInsurance: During the first duel in "There can be only one Lohan", she destroys an office without [[ApatheticCitizens the officinists]] caring at any point.
* HiddenDepths: She can fight with a two-handed sword (courtesy of her TrainingFromHell with Ramirez), and she [[NoFourthWall understands]] what the "Beginning Season Five" sketch is about from the beginning.
-->'''Gummy Bear''': Oh, who's even shooting at us?!
-->'''Lindsay''': It's just a metaphor for season five, stupid!
* LadyDrunk: She chucks entire bottles down. But the worrying part is that she behaves the same when she doesn't.
* LoveAtFirstSight: She falls in love with Munson after seeing him (or seeing that he is a "[[AllGirlsWantBadBoys bad boy]]"). Munson comes across as more opportunistic.
* {{Malaproper}}:
** Just read the quote (given while assaulting enemy trenches in "Beginning Season Five").
** In "V: The Celebrity Rehab Invasion", she scolds the police for their lack of knowledge of ''Geography''... when she obviously means Biology.
* MonumentalDamage: After killing Creator/AmandaBynes in "There can be only one Lohan", she destroys the Hollywood sign while receiving "The Gift".
* OffWithHisHead:
** Obviously done in "There can be only one Lohan", as it is a parody of ''Highlander''.
** In "V: The Celebrity Rehab Invasion", she thinks that being a lizard implies the [[ArtisticLicenseBiology ability to regrow a head]], and procedes to remove her own herself to demonstrate. [[RealityEnsues She kills herself instead.]]
* PantyShot: Gives a (blurred) one when she gets a BridalCarry by Munson.
* PottyFailure[=/=]ToiletHumor: In "Bad Boy meets Damaged Girl with Daddy Issues", she defecates in Daniel's family's backyard during a drunk bender. They assume it's her dog, and she does not correct them.
* {{Pun}}: While being shot in "Beginning Season Five", she names her movies (''Film/{{The Parent Trap|1998}}'', ''Film/MeanGirls'', ''Film/HerbieFullyLoaded'', ''Georgia Rule'') before ending with ''Film/IKnowWhoKilledMe''.
* {{Reptilians}}: In "V: The Celebrity Rehab Invasion", she appears as one of the alien LizardFolk invaders.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: "Bad Boy meets Damaged Girl with Daddy Issues" gives her sister and mother the same [[ActingForTwo voice]] and personality. By the end of the sketch, they all become pregnant at the same time.
* TheyCallMeMrTibbs: While driving a speeboat in "[[Series/HannahMontana Hannah Dakota]]", she insists on being addressed as "Captain Lohan".
* TooDumbToLive: Taken to extremes in the ''V.'' parody, where she is seen hitting a chair with her face for no reason, and then removes her own head in a futile attempt to prove that reptiles can regrow heads.
* TookALevelInBadass: "There can be only one Lohan" reveals that she was trained in swordsmanship by Ramirez from a young age. She avenges him, receives "the Gift", and promptly destroys Earth.
* TrainingFromHell: Her sword training in "There can be only one Lohan", done while she was filming ''The Parent Trap''.
* YouGetMeCoffee: [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]] in the ''V.'' spoof, where she is trusted to ''hold'' a cup of coffee, then to do whatever she wants when she fails to do even that.
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[[folder:Britney Spears]]
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-->'''Voiced by''': Seth Green

The former teen pop star, and person whom Seth Green presumably hated the most before transferring his sights to Lohan.
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[[folder:Superman]]
-->'''Voiced by''': Breckin Meyer

The Man of Steel... and kind of a douche.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Buh-doop doop de-doo doop, Superman!"
* {{Jerkass}}: Unlike the likable paragon of the comics, RC Superman is a narcissistic, lecherous A-hole.

[[folder:Batman]]
-->'''Voiced by''': Seth Green

The Dark Knight, an emotional basket-case.

* BadassBaritone: Parodied. He speaks in a heavily exaggerated version of Christian Bale's Bat-growl.
* NoRespectGuy: Routinely mocked by the rest of the Justice League.

[[folder:Joker]]

%%* SurroundedByIdiots
%%* TookALevelInBadass
%%* WhamLine
%%* WouldntHitAGirl
%%* YouHaveFailedMe

** BadassBeard: As befits any BadassSanta.
** BadassGrandpa: He is several centuries old and he's comparable to ''Superman'' in some of his abilities.