History Characters / RockosModernLife

* ShownTheirWork: Hippopotamuses are known to be very violent, ill-tempered animals. This fact is reflected by her beatings on Rocko when he unintentionally ticks her off.

* VocalEvolution: His voice got higher in season 2, but then in ''Static Cling'' it got deeper like in season 1.

* VocalEvolution: His voice is deeper in ''Static Cling''.

* FurryReminder: In "Gutter Balls" and the video game ''Spunky's Dangerous Day'', he is shown kicking while standing on his tail like a real wallaby would. He has also spent inside his mother's pouch as a joey.

** In the opening of the pilot, one of his baby pictures show him inside his mother's pouch.

* KangaroosRepresentAustralia: Rocko is a wallaby (which he notes is like a kangaroo, but smaller) who was born in Australia but moved to America. Although the show is subject to NegativeContinuity, making when exactly Rocko moved unclear[[note]]flashbacks from episodes such as "Power Trip" and "Rinse and Spit" show Rocko and Filburt having known each other since they were kids, implying he had moved a long time ago[[/note]], flashbacks from episodes such as "Junk Junkies" and "Wimp on the Barby" show Rocko having grown up in Australia, and the plot of "Kiss Me, I'm Foreign" involves Filburt marrying Rocko to prevent him from being wrongfully deported.

* ShesGotLegs: Her gorgeous legs are often all we see of her.

* GrumpyBear: One of the crabbiest characters on the show.

* IWasQuiteALooker: According to his profiles on the old Nickelodeon website, he used to be handsome and athletic, but a case of unrequited love sent him into a downward spiral, which entailed a stay at a mental institution and culminated in his present {{Nerd}} status.

* FunnyForeigner: Downplayed. His only trait that qualifies for this is probably his accent, especially when he says "crikey" or "me" instead of "my".

* TurtlePower: He's a turtle.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Not a lot of wallabies in fiction.

* {{Jerkass}}: His defining character trait is that he's really unpleasant, especially due to his irrational enmity towards Rocko and constantly going out of his way to make the wallaby's life a living hell.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: His reconciliation with his daughter Rachel earns him this, but only towards her (and his wife). In Closet Clown, his heart of gold is amplified. Otherwise, he's a...

* {{Jerkass}} / MeanBoss: He has absolutely ''no'' respect for Rocko and treats him and his customers like trash in general.

* BigScrewedUpFamily: While his adopted family is already qualified for this trope (see details in The Wolfe Family folder), his biological family is actually worse--Heffer's biological father didn't want him (as with the "millions of children" that have searched for him,) his real mom was made into a car seat in Illinois, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and his stepmom is a sweet cow who's married to a Jerk Ass]].

** In another episode he wins a van for eating an entire plate of a certain meal thought impossible to finish. While casually talking with Rocko. The kicker is that he only ordered ''one'' plate of the meal instead of his originally intended ''two'' plates because there ''wasn't enough cows in the '''North American continent''' for two plates.''

* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: The show's intro sums it up ''perfectly.'' [[SubvertedKidsShow Maybe even a little bit]] ''[[UpToEleven too]]'' [[SubvertedKidsShow perfectly...]]

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: He is one cute wallaby. His voice takes it UpToEleven.

** Taken UpToEleven in another episode where he wins a van for eating an entire plate of a certain meal thought impossible to finish. While casually talking with Rocko. The kicker is that he only ordered ''one'' plate of the meal instead of his originally intended ''two'' plates because there ''wasn't enough cows in the '''North American continent''' for two plates.''

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: His reconciliation with his daughter Rachel earns him this, but only towards her (and his wife). In Closet Clown, his heart of gold is amplified UpTo11. Otherwise, he's a...

* HollywoodNerd: He wears glasses and is often socially inept.

* InformedSpecies: She's a cane toad, just like her mom and pop. Unlike her parents whose massive heads and butts give them at least a passing resemblance to toads, Rachel's skinny face and body makes her look like a green humanoid instead.

Ed Bighead's wife.