History Characters / TheGarfieldShow

* LethalChef: Most of the food he sells qualifies as barely edible at best, which means he often relies on bribing his customers with coupons and deals.

* OneBadMother: Yeah, he's a man who goes by ''Mama'' Meany, and he's more Meany than Mama.

* VillainousGoldTooth: He is the greedy, crooked owner of a pizza place and a recurring antagonist. He has a golden tooth.

--'''Voiced by:''' Creator/CandiMilo

-->'''Voiced by:''' Jason Marsden (Pete), Wally Wingert (Al)

-->'''Voiced by:''' Jason Marsden

-->'''Voiced by:''' Susan Silo

-->'''Voiced by:''' Gregg Berger

-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MarkHamill

-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/SusanSilo

-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/JasonMarsden

-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/CoreyBurton

* AdaptationalIntelligence: Normally a goof and doofus in the comics, he's more intelligent here and catches onto Garfield's antics quicker

!Antagonists

[[folder:Dirk Dinkum]]
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[[caption-width-right:250:"If anybody's gonna find the Zabadu and get rich and famous off of it, it's gonna be Dirk Dinkum!"]]
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/FredTatasciore

A proud and selfish hunter with a love of money and a lack of empathy towards any living creature.

* AlliterativeName: '''D'''irk '''D'''inkum.
* ArcVillain: He is the antagonist of the "Long Lost Lyman" and "Lion Queen" specials.
* BadBoss: He constantly mistreats his assistant Buckley, constantly blaming him for all his problems and eventually firing him in "The Lion Queen". This comes back to bite him later; Buckley ends up retaliating by trying to upstage Dinkum in front of his employer.
* TheBogan: He's Australian and far from being a good person.
* CardCarryingJerkass: He's outright proud to be a mean and repugnant jerk.
* EgomaniacHunter: He's a hunter who especially likes hunting rare and exotic animals, targeting the Zabadu in the "Long Lost Lyman" special and the Manzian White Lion in "The Lion Queen" special.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: He has no idea why Angie quit working for him and guesses it's because he didn't pay her enough, even after she directly states it was because of how he treated animals.
* ExitPursuedByABear: His debut ends with him being chased away by the Zabadu.
* {{Foil}}: To Angie; she's the kind-hearted FriendToAllLivingThings to his money-hungry poacher. Naturally, they tend to clash with each other.
* ForTheEvulz: His whole motivation for being evil is simply because [[EvilFeelsGood he likes being evil.]] His VillainSong "Bad Boy" is about how much he loves trolling other people.
* HatedByAll: He is loathed by everyone he comes across for his behavior and he is more than proud of the fact.
* MeanBoss: He treats his lackey Buckley like trash.
* NeverMyFault: If something goes wrong, he'll blame it on Buckley, even if it was the direct result of him ignoring Buckley's advice.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: While he's proud to be a jerk overall, pretty much all of his schemes on the show are motivated by a desire to get money.
* PetTheDog: "Delicious Donut Day" mentions him as one of the people who mailed a box of Darcie's Donuts to Jon Arbuckle for his birthday.
* VillainSong: He sings "Bad Boy" in "The Lion Queen" special, where he gloats about what a horrible person he is.

[[folder:Buckley]]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Gregg Berger

Dirk Dinkum's much-abused underling.

* ButtMonkey: He's constantly mistreated and blamed for everything by Dinkum.
* TheDogBitesBack: In "The Lion Queen", after being fired by Dinkum, Buckley gets his revenge by bringing in another Manzian white lion to upstage Dinkum in front of his employer.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: His TheDogBitesBack moment ends up reuniting Tania with her mate, giving her the motivation needed to fight back against her captors.

[[folder:Varicella]]
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[[caption-width-right:250:"Thanks for doing the hard work for me. Now all I need is the Lilith Wand, and the world is MINE!"]]
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RoseMarie

A literally heartless old witch who wants to turn all humans into frogs.

* ArcVillain: She is the central villain of the "Bewitched" multi-parter.
* CainAndAbel: The Cain to Mrs. Cauldron's Abel, as she is her evil sister.
* ConnectedAllAlong: Near the end of the special she appears in, it’s revealed that she is Mrs. Cauldron's sister and therefore Abigail and Winona's other aunt.
* DarkIsEvil: She exemplifies the trope of being as evil as one is hideous, in contrast to the other witches.
* EvilAunt: To Abigail and Winona, as the revelation of her being Mrs. Cauldron's sister makes her their aunt, too.
* GoodCostumeSwitch: Upon reforming, she switches from red and black clothing to a light blue ensemble.
* GreenAndMean: Has green skin and is a WickedWitch.
* HeelFaceTurn: She ends up redeemed at the end of "Bewitched".
* NearVillainVictory: She almost succeeds in her scheme to [[BewitchedAmphibians turn all humanity into frogs]], but ends up reformed when Abigail uses Mrs. Cauldron's heart amulet to replace the heart she is lacking.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: She's an evil witch who wears red and black clothes.
* SealedEvilInACan: She was sealed in Mrs. Cauldron's spell book for 1,000 years.
* VillainSong: In the last part of the "Bewitched" special, she sings "Varicella Song" during her NearVillainVictory.
* WickedWitch: A classic example of a villainous witch until her HeelFaceTurn.

[[folder:Master Control]]
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[[caption-width-right:250:"Earth people are already forgetting that they should be in command of their technology, instead of the other way around."]]
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MarkHamill

A big and powerful robot who desires to rule the earth.

* ArcVillain: He's the main threat faced in the "Mean Machine" special.
* CyberCyclops: He's a one-eyed robot.
* HeelFaceBrainwashing: After his defeat, he ends up being reprogrammed to serve Garfield.
* OutsideGenreFoe: Possibly the most outlandish foe Garfield has faced in the franchise even within the already weird series, as his modus operandi, design and plans as a world-conquering alien robot all are closer to those found a sci-fi epic than a comedic episodic cartoon about a lasagna-eating fat cat.
* VillainSong: He gets two:
** In "Robot Rampage", he sings "That Fat Cat", where he expresses how crucial it is to eliminate Garfield for his plan to succeed.
** The final part "The Robot Revolution" has him sing "Alarm Song", where he orders his robot minions to stop Garfield and Odie.

[[folder:Metalla]]
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/SusanSilo

One of Master Control's lieutenants, and the more overtly evil of the two.

* CoDragons: With Techno, both of them serving as Master Control's main lieutenants.
* CyberCyclops: She's a one-eyed robot.
* {{Fembot}}: The only notable female robot in the story, she naturally has a far more humanoid and feminine body compared to the others.
* HartmanHips: She has these to compliment her feminine appearance.
* HeelFaceBrainwashing: Like her boss, she ends up reprogrammed to serve Garfield.
* MaleGaze: We get a lot of shots of her behind throughout the special.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Of all the robots in "The Mean Machine", she's the only one definitively confirmed to be female.

[[folder:Techno]]
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/JasonMarsden

Master Control's other lieutenant, a more cowardly robot

* ButtMonkey: Takes plenty of abuse from his boss.
* CoDragons: With Metalla, both of them serving as Master Control's main lieutenants.
* HeelFaceBrainwashing: Like his boss, he ends up reprogrammed to serve Garfield.
* IrritationIsTheSincerestFormOfFlattery: He ocasionally mimics Metalla, which annoys her.
* {{Oculothorax}}: His body consists of nothing but an eyeball with six arms attached.

[[folder:Goliath]]
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/TBD

Master Control's robot chicken

* AnimalMotifs: Chickens, Of course!
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: He's the biggest robot so far.
* BadassBoast: "You will not interfere! You will be CRUSHED!"
* FinalBoss: Of the Mean Machine saga.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: After Garfield launches Blenn's compass in his mouth he short curcuits and wraps himself on the sprocket socket and unplugs it.

[[folder:Ratzo]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Why settle for scraps when you could have the whole thing? We're rodents! We steal stuff! Let's pillage the fridge and eat everything!"]]
-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/CoreyBurton

A megalomaniacal rat with big ambitions.

* ArcVillain: He is the main antagonist of the "Rodent Rebellion" four-part special.
* FinalBoss: Of the 2008 series as a whole.
* YouDirtyRat: He's a rat in addition to being a conniving jerk who forms a team of rats and other rodents to steal everything in the city.

* ButMonkey: He's constantly mistreated and blamed for everything by Dinkum.

* VillainSong: He sings "Bad Boy" in "The Lion Queen" special, where he gloats about what a horrible person he is. The title refers to what the people he's bothered have frequently said to him.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Some episodes see him act like more of a jerk than his comics counterpart, often in the form of applying harsher punishments to Garfield’s misbehavior and punishing the generally better-behaved Odie alongside him.

* NearVillainVictory: She almost succeeds in her scheme to turn all humanity into frogs, but ends up reformed when Abigail uses Mrs. Cauldron's heart amulet to replace the heart she is lacking.

-->'''Voiced by:''' Jason Marsden

-->'''Voiced by:''' Melissa Disney (Season 1), Grey Griffin (Season 2 onward)