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** The third is when he and Carl's dad engages in a feud joined by their wives, he's more unreasonable and [[AbusiveParent crueler towards Jimmy in order to forbid him being friends with Carl]] then usually when his feuding with his neighbor clouded his better judgment with him going so far of degrading into an AbusiveParent and a FantasyForbiddingFather by [[DisproportionateRetribution banning Jimmy from inventing anything because so he could make the feud last]].
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** In "The Egg-Pire Strikes Back" she tells King Goobot how to get inside Jimmy's lab after learning it from Carl and Sheen. Partly subverted since for all she knows they just want to help her in being able to compete with Jimmy on an equal footing by means of building a lab of her own, though she's dumb enough to trust the Yolkians (and so is everybody else in town, except Jimmy). When she realizes that her actions put the whole Retroville in danger, she is the first to call on the others to believe Jimmy and help him bring down Poultra.

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** In "The Egg-Pire Eggpire Strikes Back" she tells King Goobot how to get inside Jimmy's lab after learning it from Carl and Sheen. Partly subverted since for all she knows they just want to help her in being able to compete with Jimmy on an equal footing by means of building a lab of her own, though she's dumb enough to trust the Yolkians (and so is everybody else in town, except Jimmy). When she realizes that her actions put the whole Retroville in danger, she is the first to call on the others to believe Jimmy and help him bring down Poultra.



* AmbiguousGender: In the film, he's referred to as male and a "god", but in "Return of the Yolkians", she's referred to by female pronouns. This ''may'' be justified because the Poultra who appeared in "Return of the Yolkians" wasn't the same one as the original, but the episode words it in a way that suggests that Poultra has ''always'' been female.
* BackFromTheDead: Subverted - she wasn't killed in the movie, but apparently died in between the movie and the show [[spoiler:though Ooblar states she simply left for another civilization]]. In the TV special "Return of the Yolkians", a duplicate of her is cloned, and Jimmy mentions it's not the same Poultra.

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* AmbiguousGender: In the film, he's referred to as male and a "god", but in "Return of the Yolkians", "The Eggpire Strikes Back", she's referred to by female pronouns. This ''may'' be justified because the Poultra who appeared in "Return of the Yolkians" "The Eggpire Strikes Back" wasn't the same one as the original, but the episode words it in a way that suggests that Poultra has ''always'' been female.
* BackFromTheDead: Subverted - she wasn't killed in the movie, but apparently died in between the movie and the show [[spoiler:though Ooblar states she simply left for another civilization]]. In the TV special "Return of the Yolkians", "The Eggpire Strikes Back", a duplicate of her is cloned, and Jimmy mentions it's not the same Poultra.

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* BackFromTheDead: Subverted - she wasn't killed in the movie, but apparently died in between the movie and the show [[spoiler:though Ooblar states she simply left for another civilization.]] In the TV special "Return of the Yolkians", a duplicate of her is cloned, and Jimmy mentions it's not the same Poultra.

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* BackFromTheDead: Subverted - she wasn't killed in the movie, but apparently died in between the movie and the show [[spoiler:though Ooblar states she simply left for another civilization.]] civilization]]. In the TV special "Return of the Yolkians", a duplicate of her is cloned, and Jimmy mentions it's not the same Poultra.



* FatalFlaw: His inability to finish anything repeatedly comes back to bite him. In his first appearance, he's forced to abandon his pursuit of Jimmy because he kept forgetting to put a bathroom in his robot suit.



* TakeOverTheCity: In his first appearance. Jimmy assumes he's just gonna take over the world, but he says he's going for something smaller.

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* TakeOverTheCity: In his first appearance. Jimmy assumes he's just gonna take {{take over the world, world}}, but he says he's going for something smaller.


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* DarkActionGirl: She's a very skilled martial artist and nearly defeats Jet Fusion in hand-to-hand combat.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: She often plays off that she's either oblivious to Jimmy's crush on her or mildly reciprocates it, but "Vanishing Act" reveals that she's fully aware of Cindy's crush on him and supports her, viewing Jimmy as merely a friend.
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Morality pet? How?


* MoralityPet: To Nick.
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* BookDumb: In "Raise of the Oozy Scab", Brittany is revealed to be illiterate.



* NeverLearnedToRead: Which she sometimes denies.
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Cleaned up some stuff. Nick & Brittany are hardly his best friends.


* OddFriendship: A boy genius who is best friends with an asthmatic hefty boy who's obsessed with llamas, a hyperactive Hispanic kid who's obsessed with a superhero, a skateboarding bad boy, his academic rival, a sassy girl who loves music and a ditzy dumb blonde.

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* OddFriendship: A boy genius who is best whose closest friends with are: an asthmatic hefty boy who's obsessed with llamas, a hyperactive Hispanic kid who's obsessed with a superhero, a skateboarding bad boy, his academic rival, a rival/biggest bully/love interest & said rival's music loving sassy girl who loves music and a ditzy dumb blonde. best friend.

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--->'''Jimmy:''' *jumping and pumping fist to the air* "I did it! She likes me! She's gonna go out with me! I made a date with Cindy!" *beat* [[BigNo "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"]] [[SkywardScream *shot of him from up, and then zooms out to Retroville and Earth*]]
** It even happens with a similar situation where in ''VideoGame/JimmyNeutronVsJimmyNegatron'', where Cindy falls in love with Negatron.
--->'''Jimmy:''' Not that! Anything but that! [[BigNo "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"]]

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--->'''Jimmy:''' *jumping and pumping fist to the air* "I did it! She likes me! She's gonna go out with me! I made a date with Cindy!" *beat* [[BigNo "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"]] [[SkywardScream *shot of him from up, and then zooms out to Retroville and Earth*]]
** It even happens with a similar situation where in ''VideoGame/JimmyNeutronVsJimmyNegatron'', where Cindy falls in love with Negatron.
--->'''Jimmy:''' Not that! Anything but that! [[BigNo "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"]]
Negatron.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Cindy holds a particular fondness towards [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents Timmy Turner]] because he actually treats her with respect and values her intellect (to Cindy's delight). Even after learning Timmy lied to her about being a genius so she could like him, she still considers him a decent guy because he was genuinely sorry about it.

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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Cindy holds a particular fondness towards [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents Timmy Turner]] because he actually treats her with respect and values her intellect (to Cindy's delight).respect. Even after learning Timmy lied to her about being a genius so she could like him, she still considers him a decent guy because he was genuinely sorry about it.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Jimmy tends to be arrogant, condescending, and snarky, creating various inventions for his own selfish intentions. However, in the end, he's well-meaning and does care about his friends and parents.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Jimmy tends to be arrogant, condescending, and snarky, creating various inventions for his own selfish intentions. However, in the end, he's well-meaning and does care about his friends and parents.parents and at the end of the day, always saves the world.



* TookALevelInDumbass: He tends to let his overconfidence and arrogance get the best of him quite a few times.

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* TookALevelInDumbass: He While still a genius in his own right, he tends to let his overconfidence and arrogance get the best of him quite a few times.



* TooQualifiedToApply: In "The Science Fair Affair", Principal Willoughby decides that Jimmy's high IQ and scientific knowledge gives him an unfair advantage over the other students, so he bans him from participating in future science fairs to give other kids a chance.



* JerkassHasAPoint: Cindy is not entirely wrong about Jimmy always causing trouble for the town (and sometimes, the world) and always points out the flaws in his "brilliant plans". In "The Science Affair", although more to make herself win, she's not entirely wrong that [[ChildProdigy Jimmy]] should no longer be permitted to participate in school science fairs since he wins ''every year'' and give other kids a chance.

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* JerkassHasAPoint: Cindy is not entirely wrong about Jimmy always causing trouble for the town (and sometimes, the world) and always points out the flaws in his "brilliant plans". In "The Science Affair", although more to make herself win, she's not entirely wrong that [[ChildProdigy Jimmy]] should no longer be permitted to participate in school science fairs since he wins ''every year'' and give other kids a chance.is the therefore TooQualifiedToApply.

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* HiddenDepths: Despite scoring a [[EpicFail quadruple F-minus]] on a U.S. history exam, in "Who Framed Jimmy Neutron", he is aware that Jimmy Carter is the 39th President of the U.S., showing that he has at least some educational knowledge of U.S. history.

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Despite scoring a [[EpicFail quadruple F-minus]] on a U.S. history exam, in "Who Framed Jimmy Neutron", he is aware that Jimmy Carter is the 39th President of the U.S., showing that he has at least some educational knowledge of U.S. history.history.
** In "Who Framed Jimmy?", Sheen mentions he's taken bear-wrestling classes, as he was able to wrestle a entire ''wild grizzly bear '''without a scratch on him'''''.
---> '''Sheen:''' Man, those bear-wrestling classes my dad made me take sure paid off.
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The main protagonist. He is a boy with a stunning IQ and a love for science. From Hypercubes to Hypnorays, Jimmy can whip up the most amazing inventions. However, things have a way of going awry, and more often than not, Jimmy has to save the day from himself. But with friends, family, and a secret lab, there's no problem this boy genius can't handle. Right?

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The main protagonist. He is a boy with a stunning IQ of 210 and a love for science. From Hypercubes to Hypnorays, Jimmy can whip up the most amazing inventions. However, things have a way of going awry, and more often than not, Jimmy has to save the day from himself. But with friends, family, and a secret lab, there's no problem this boy genius can't handle. Right?



-->'''Cindy:''' Jimmy, haven't you learned from the Yolkian incident not to talk to intergalactic strangers?

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-->'''Cindy:''' Jimmy, haven't you learned from [[WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius the Yolkian incident incident]] not to talk to intergalactic strangers?



* AnimeHair: Lampshaded consistently. It's been compared to a gum massager, soft-serve ice cream, fudge dip, and still other more ridiculous things.

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* AnimeHair: Lampshaded consistently. It's been compared to a gum massager, soft-serve ice cream, fudge dip, and still other more ridiculous things. He's also been called "Fudgehead" by [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents Timmy and Cosmo]].
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* ExtravertedNerd: An [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} eccentric]] comic book-loving nerd. Unlike most examples, though, he's very unintelligent.
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* TooKinkyToTorture: Sheen seems to get a kick out of being electrocuted. In "Krunch Time", after Carl gets electrocuted trying to remember which door has cheese behind it, Sheen is eager to take his turn just so he can touch "the shocky door" again. At the end of the episode, when Jimmy sabotages his perfect candy by having it electrocute people, [[OnlyOneFindsItFun Sheen is the only one who enjoys it]]. At the end of "Who's Your Mommy?", he, Jimmy and Carl go to Planet Shmengy to celebrate the birthday of Shmengo, Carl's adopted son who's an alien jellyfish. After Carl gets electrocuted from hugging Shmengo, Sheen hugs Shmengo and gets electrocuted as well. He then hugs Shmengo a second time just so he can get electrocuted again.
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* HiddenDepths: Despite scoring a [[EpicFail quadruple F-minus]] on a U.S. history exam, in "Who Framed Jimmy Neutron", he is aware that Jimmy Carter is the 39th President of the U.S., showing that he has at least some educational knowledge of U.S. history.

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* SurroundedByIdiots: Ooblar is nowhere near as intelligent as he is and he only keeps him around because he's his brother. His followers can be like this to some degree, and for that, he punishes them by sucking them out of his spaceship.



King Goobot's less than competent assistant.

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King Goobot's less than competent assistant.assistant and brother.



* TooDumbToLive: He's not too bright.

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* TooDumbToLive: He's not too bright.bright and this annoyed Goobot so much that, originally, in the novelization, Goobot was supposed to kill him with the Doomstick.
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* GreenAndMean: She often wears a green outfit and is quite sassy and condescending towards others (especially Jimmy).

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** The first is when Jimmy altered the past so that his dad would invest his only money ($50) into the then non-popular restaurant [=McSpanky's=], to make his parents rich and allow him to get an expensive set of encyclopedias that he wants. Unfortunately along with Judy, he becomes a snobby rich man with no interest in his son, forgetting his name and offering him some money to leave. He even refuses to help pay for a lifesaving operation for his father merely because he does not want to lose any money.

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** The first is when Jimmy altered the past so that his dad would invest his only money ($50) into the then non-popular restaurant [=McSpanky's=], to make his parents rich and allow him to get an expensive set of encyclopedias that he wants. Unfortunately Unfortunately, along with Judy, he becomes a snobby rich man with no interest in his son, forgetting his name and offering him some money to leave. He even refuses to help pay for a lifesaving operation for his father merely because he does not want to lose any money.



* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Inverted. He's the least intelligent member of his family and the only one to wear glasses.



* BettyAndVeronica: Quite literally the sweet-natured Betty to Cindy's Veronica. Ironically, Betty looks like Veronica and Cindy looks like Betty.

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* BettyAndVeronica: Quite literally the sweet-natured Betty to Cindy's Veronica. Ironically, [[{{Irony}} Ironically]], Betty looks like Veronica and Cindy looks like Betty.



* KavorkaMan: A rare female example. She attracted Thomas Edison, went dancing with President Hoover, flirts with Sam and was once married to a werewolf.

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* KavorkaMan: A rare female example. She attracted Thomas Edison, went dancing with President Hoover, flirts with Sam and was once married to a werewolf. All this despite being an old woman who looks like a chicken and has similar mannerisms.



* PuttingThePalInPrincipal: While he's not very good at his job, he's still a friendly and likeable guy who generally gets on well with the students.



* AffablyEvil: Sure, he's got evil scheme after evil scheme, but he's still a pretty friendly guy. For example, when he suffers a PottyEmergency, he politely asks Sam if he can use the restroom at the Candy Bar, and even tries to order some food when he's told the restrooms are for paying customers only. He even asks how his old teacher, Ms. Fowl doing.

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* AffablyEvil: Sure, he's got evil scheme after evil scheme, but he's still a pretty friendly guy. For example, when he suffers a PottyEmergency, he politely asks Sam if he can use the restroom at the Candy Bar, and even tries to order some food when he's told the restrooms are for paying customers only. He even asks Jimmy how his old teacher, Ms. Fowl Fowl, is doing.



* BondVillainStupidity: She devised a death trap for Jimmy and Jet Fusion instead of killing them directly like the majority of Bond villains. Considering her debut is in an episode parodying spies film, it's to be expected.

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* BondVillainStupidity: She devised a death trap for Jimmy and Jet Fusion instead of killing them directly like the majority of Bond villains. Considering her debut is in an episode parodying spies film, spy films, it's to be expected.expected.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Her first appearance implies that she was only evil reluctantly, feeling obligated to engage in it out of loyalty to her father. This doesn't carry over to later episodes.



* BewareTheSillyOnes: Their personalities and bickering is mostly comical. However, these two are easily among the most dangerous antagonists in the series as their second appearance was literally seconds away from the extinction of the human race.

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* BewareTheSillyOnes: Their personalities and bickering is are mostly comical. However, these two are easily among the most dangerous antagonists in the series as their second appearance was saw them literally seconds away from the extinction of the human race.



* LogicBomb: How they are typically defeated. Their first appearance Jimmy abused their directive to protect him from attackers by beating himself up in front of them. In their second appearance (after Jimmy's first attempt at this made things much [[KillAllHumans MUCH worse]]) Jimmy overloaded them by forcing them to calculate the exact value of pi. In addition, when Jimmy repurposes them to proofread his artistic classwork, his attempts at poetry is so bad it also has this effect.

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* LogicBomb: How they are typically defeated. Their first appearance Jimmy abused their directive to protect him from attackers by beating himself up in front of them. In their second appearance (after Jimmy's first attempt at this [[NiceJobBreakingItHero made things much things]] much, [[KillAllHumans MUCH worse]]) Jimmy overloaded them by forcing them to calculate the exact value of pi. In addition, when Jimmy repurposes them to proofread his artistic classwork, his attempts at poetry is are so bad it they also has this effect.



* FingerGun: All three of them use this motion when shooting some kind of gooey substance used in sealing Jimmy's lab.



* FingerGun: All three of them use this motion when shooting some kind of gooey substance used in sealing Jimmy's lab.



* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Tee turns against the League of Villains because most of its other members continuously demean and disrespect him.



* BitchInSheepsClothing: His first appearance. Since his identity had been uncovered, he dropped the nice facade in subsequent appearances.



* BitchInSheepsClothing: His first appearance. Since his identity had been uncovered, he dropped the nice facade in subsequent appearances.



* OnlySaneMan: Putting aside his need to change diapers, he's mostly this with King Goobot.


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* LikesOlderWomen: He has a thing for Beautiful Gorgeous, who's at least 20 years his senior. Of course, being an infant means most women are older than him by default.
* OnlySaneMan: Putting aside his need to change diapers, he's mostly this with King Goobot.


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* VocalDissonance: Despite being an infant, he has a pretty deep voice.
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* LastNameBasis: Always referred to by his title, though the door to his office and reveals his first name: William.

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* LastNameBasis: Always referred to by his title, though the door to his office and reveals his first name: William.
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* AccidentalHero: In "The Great Egg Heist", he accidentally mixes up the real jade egg with the fake decoy one after the inferred lasers trigger his allergies, and he ends up putting the real one back. This ends up saving everyone when Professor Calamitous tries to use the egg as a power source for his doomsday device, but the fake egg causes it to meltdown and explode. To be fair to Carl though, he knew there was a chance he mixed the eggs up and tried to warn Jimmy, but Jimmy [[NotNowKiddo constantly ignored him]].

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* BookDumb: An exaggerated example, given he's very incompetent in school, yet makes up for it with his encyclopedic knowledge of superheroes like Ultra Lord.



* TeachersUnfavoriteStudent: Miss Fowl has a particular dislike towards him due to his obession with Ultra Lord, to the point where [[ShowAndTellAntics he showed off his action figure of him for show and tell seven weeks in a row]], and because he is extremely BookDumb, to the point where he once scored a [[FMinusMinus F----]] on a test (one of his answers was that Ultra Lord was the father of our country, which was on the official Ultra Lord website). She is also not above insulting [[HollywoodToneDeaf his terrible singing voice]], to the point where after she gives him a solo in the school choir to thank him for saving the town from the Twonkies (since they like terrible music but hate good music), she locks him in a sound-proof booth. In "Journey to the Center of Carl", when all of her students are too sick to go to school thanks to Jimmy's sick patches, she admits that she misses all of her students, except for Sheen.

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* TeachersUnfavoriteStudent: Miss Fowl has a particular dislike towards him due to his obession with Ultra Lord, to the point where [[ShowAndTellAntics he showed off his action figure of him for show and tell seven weeks in a row]], and because he is extremely BookDumb, to the point where he once scored a [[FMinusMinus F----]] on a test (one of his answers was that Ultra Lord was the father of our country, the United States, which was on the official Ultra Lord website). She is also not above insulting [[HollywoodToneDeaf his terrible singing voice]], to the point where after she gives him a solo in the school choir to thank him for saving the town from the Twonkies (since they like terrible music but hate good music), she locks him in a sound-proof booth. In "Journey to the Center of Carl", when all of her students are too sick to go to school thanks to Jimmy's sick patches, she admits that she misses all of her students, except for Sheen.
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* VileVillainLaughableLackey: The Vile Villain to Ooblar's Laughable Lackey.

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* VileVillainLaughableLackey: The Laughable Lackey to Goobot's Vile Villain.

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* VileVillainLaughableLackey: The Vile Villain to Ooblar's Laughable Lackey.


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* VileVillainLaughableLackey: The Laughable Lackey to Goobot's Vile Villain.
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* StarterVillainReturns: Makes a return in the series including the finale ''The League of Villains''.

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* StarterVillainReturns: StarterVillainStays: Makes a return in the series including the finale ''The League of Villains''.
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* ContraltoOfDanger: Has a sensual, breathy voice. She amps up the breathiness whenever [[TheTease flirting]].
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His first scene in the movie has him eating his own pet alien and then having a crew member [[ThrownOutTheAirlock spaced]] for [[DisproportionateRetribution unceremoniously showing up in his throne]], all within a minute.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His first scene in the movie has him eating his own pet alien and then having a crew member [[ThrownOutTheAirlock spaced]] for [[DisproportionateRetribution unceremoniously showing up in his throne]], throne room]], all within a minute.
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Trans woman were not born as men, doctors assigned them that gender, but they made a mistake just because of their genitals.


** "Lady Sings the News" -- Principal Willoughby implies that Miss Fowl might be a trans woman (i.e., she was born a man).

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** "Lady Sings the News" -- Principal Willoughby implies that Miss Fowl might be a trans woman (i.e., she was born a man).woman.
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* ChicAndAwe: Cindy complains about Jimmy being best man at Jet Fusion's wedding to Beautiful Gorgeous in "My Big Fat Spy Wedding", only to stop stunned as Jimmy shows up in a handsome tux. [[WomenAreWiser Libby]] has to snap her out of it.
-->'''Cindy:''' So Neutron's the best man? Yeah, more like the best NERD! I bet he'll look like a total... ''(Jimmy shows up outside the church in a tux. Cue fade to pink background, [[WingdingEyes eye-hearts]] and hair patting)'' ...HUNKMUFFIN.
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For characters from the ''WesternAnimation/PlanetSheen'' spin-off, see [[Characters/PlanetSheen here]].

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