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* CorruptPolitician: A massively over-the-top example. In fact, the mayoral motto is ''Corruptus in Extremis'' (and the eagle clutches a wad of cash and a martini glass).

* EasilyForgiven: DependingOnTheWriter, sometimes the family will hate him for his murder attempts whereas other times they'll let bygones be bygones. An example would be when the family was OK with him marrying Selma, other cases were keeping his criminal past a secret so he can fix their car and Lisa being his lab partner with gene splicing vegetables. Bart is the only one who holds a justifiable grudge against him.

* EvilerThanThou: His brother Cecil, who nearly kills the entire town by blowing up a dam, which even Bob was willing to pull a HeroicSacrifice to stop. Bob however never saw Cecil as eviler or better.

[[Characters/TheSimpsonsTheSimpsonFamily Simpson Family]] ([[Characters/TheSimpsonsHomerSimpson Homer Simpson]], [[Characters/TheSimpsonsMargeSimpson Marge Simpson]], [[Characters/TheSimpsonsBartSimpson Bart Simpson]], [[Characters/TheSimpsonsLisaSimpson Lisa Simpson]]) | [[Characters/TheSimpsonsExtendedFamily The Simpsons Extended Family]] | [[Characters/TheSimpsonsElementarySchool Springfield Elementary School]] | '''Government, Judges and Lawyers, Police and Criminals''' | [[Characters/TheSimpsonsNuclearPowerPlantShopkeepers Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, Springfield Shopkeepers]] | [[Characters/TheSimpsonsChurchDoctorsCelebrities First Church of Springfield, Doctors, Celebrities]] | [[Characters/TheSimpsonsFriendsNeighborsFamilies Friends and Neighbors, Families]] | [[Characters/TheSimpsonsOtherRecurringCharacters Other Recurring Characters]] | [[Characters/TheSimpsonsItchyAndScratchyCharacters Itchy & Scratchy Characters]] | [[Characters/TheSimpsonsOneTimeCharacters One-time Characters]]]]-]]]

[[Characters/TheSimpsonsTheSimpsonFamily Simpson Family]] ([[Characters/TheSimpsonsHomerSimpson Homer Simpson]], [[Characters/TheSimpsonsMargeSimpson Marge Simpson]], [[Characters/TheSimpsonsBartSimpson Bart Simpson]], [[Characters/TheSimpsonsLisaSimpson Lisa Simpson]]) | [[Characters/TheSimpsonsExtendedFamily The Simpsons Extended Family]] | [[Characters/TheSimpsonsElementarySchool Springfield Elementary School]] | '''Government, Judges and Lawyers, Police and Criminals''' | [[Characters/TheSimpsonsNuclearPowerPlantShopkeepers Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, Springfield Shopkeepers]] ([[Characters/TheSimpsonsCharlesMontgomeryBurns Charles Montgomery "Monty" Burns]]) | [[Characters/TheSimpsonsChurchDoctorsCelebrities First Church of Springfield, Doctors, Celebrities]] | [[Characters/TheSimpsonsFriendsNeighborsFamilies Friends and Neighbors, Families]] | [[Characters/TheSimpsonsOtherRecurringCharacters Other Recurring Characters]] | [[Characters/TheSimpsonsItchyAndScratchyCharacters Itchy & Scratchy Characters]] | [[Characters/TheSimpsonsOneTimeCharacters One-time Characters]]]]-]]]

* CampStraight: A Shakespeare-quoting, musical theatre-loving, highly cultured psychopath who, despite his effete tendencies, is attracted to women. It's also downplayed in that he's actually bisexual; Homer lampshades this trope when, in "The Italian Bob," he assumed that Terwilliger was "out loud and proud" because of his stereotypically homosexual interests.

* AmoralAttorney: Though he's too incompetent to be especially dangerous, he has absolutely no problem with dealing under the table or falsifying evidence if he thinks it'll help his case. (It usually doesn't.) He also believes that, without lawyers, the world would be a PerfectPacifistPeople {{Utopia}} -- a thought which makes him shiver.
* ArtisticLicenseLaw: PlayedForLaughs; Hutz's actions frequently go below even what someone with no legal training would think to try. This has included blatant violations of protocol and mixing up or flat-out forgetting basic terminology.

* NewJobsAsThePlotDemands: He's been seen assuming other jobs when his law work dries up, such as a real estate salesman, a talent agent, and a babysitter.

* PerpetualPoverty: Still keeps up his law firm business, despite being on constant hard times and having few real successes. In one episode, the family hires him on as a babysitter for eight dollars a night and two popsicles out of the freezer (and he gets to keep the birdcage he found when rummaging through their trash), which he considers a good deal.

* AscendedExtra: He first appeared in a bit scene in "Bart the Murderer", went largely unused for the next 8 seasons, and was then reused for the gag below in "Insane Clown Poppy." Since then, he has become a semi-regular recurring character.

* {{Jerkass}}: He's greedy, unethical, treats people like dirt and has zero positive traits. The main thing keeping him out of HateSink territory is just that he's too incompetent to do anything actually harmful.

** When he told his goons that Troy [=McClure =] "sleeps with the fishes", [[BestialityIsDepraved he wasn't using mafioso-speak]].

* Acrofatic: Like Homer, he can be surprisingly quick on his feet at times, catching up with and tackling Snake after a car crash and later managing to do a front flip off a roof even though he messed up the landing and got hurt.

-->'''Chief Wiggum''': *chuckles* Just don't let it happen again, ya big lug.

* ArtifactAlias: He continues to go by his stage moniker long after his career with Krusty ended in "Krusty Gets Busted". He doesn't seem to mind being called by this name either; he doesn't correct anyone or get mad when anyone refers to him as such. Even his mayoral campaign ads say "Vote for Sideshow Bob" as opposed to "Vote for Terwilliger" or simply "Vote for Bob". The only time he ever seems to get angry at the name is when he is about to crash a plane into Krusty in "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming". Bart begs him not to say that Krusty "made [Bob] into who he is" and without him he wouldn't even be known as "Sideshow". Bart's plea [[BerserkButton just makes Bob scream in fury while he increases the speed of the plane]].

* AdventurerArchaeologist: He was formerly an idealistic Indiana Jones-type archaeologist, but became a thief.

One of the main judges in Springfield. Voiced by Creator/HarryShearer.