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!!Luan L. Loud
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->'''Voiced by: (English)''' {{Creator/Cristina Pucelli}}\\
'''Voiced by: (Latin America)''' Leyla Rangel\\
'''Voiced by: (Brazilian Portuguese)''' Gabriela Medeiros\\
'''Voiced by: (Italian)''' Irene Multari\\
'''Voiced by: (Japanese)''' Misato Matsuoka\\
'''Played by:''' Catherine Ashmore Bradley
The fourth-eldest Loud sister, 14-year-old (15 as of Season 5) Luan has a fondness for comedy and practical jokes. She's an aspiring comedian who often gets on the nerves of others with her tomfoolery, but never gives up. While far less mature and down-to-earth than the others, Luan means well and has a good heart, ultimately sporting not a single mean bone in her body. Well, except on April Fools' Day...
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* TenMinuteRetirement: Decides to tearfully retire from her April Fool's pranks in "Fool Me Twice" after being scared by the prank of her own family. This lasts throughout Season 4 until the Season 5 episode "Silence of the Luans", where [[OnlyOneFindsItFun Lily]] manages to snap her out.
* AbortedDeclarationOfLove: Luan repeatedly tries to come up with excuses as a means of avoiding the scene in the play where she has to [[spoiler: kiss Benny]] in "Stage Plight", because she's insecure of her crush.
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: In "Funny Business", Luan admits that she was initially NotSoAboveItAll when it came to gaining praise from the audience at children's birthday parties, despite having held Lincoln in contempt for his own narcissism about his viral pratfall. However, she learned that different audiences enjoy different forms of comedy.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Sometimes, her cheesy puns manage to make people laugh.
* AllLovingHeroine: Luan is an extremely optimistic individual who wants to enlighten everyone she meets with her acts of comedy. While they often express annoyance towards her, Luan simply shrugs it off and continues her goal of making everyone laugh.
* AnimalMotifs: Luan's appearance is quite squirrel-like, based on her buck teeth and swirly ponytail.
* AnimalsHateHer: When she was just a little girl aspiring to become a comedian, Luan told jokes to the family pets, which they responded to with distaste.
* AnnoyingLaugh: A high-pitched chuckle followed by her saying, "Get it?", which is sometimes, though not always, seen as annoying by her siblings.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: She plays it straight to her older siblings and inverts it to her younger siblings because they don't like her jokes or pranks.
* AprilFoolsPlot: So far, there have been four episodes that focus on her extreme pranks on April Fools' Day.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: "A Pimple Plan" reveals that [[https://theloudhouse.fandom.com/wiki/File:S4E12B_Dang_it.png Luan's hair]] naturally grows in the shape of a jester's hat.
* AttentionWhore: Luan loves being the center of everyone's attention. She occasionally pulls pranks and performs tricks to get a reaction from others, such as in "Cereal Offender" where she demands the whole grocery store to watch her juggle a bunch of eggs.
* AxCrazy: Luan becomes utterly relentless and ruthless with her over-the-top pranks on April Fools.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Quite possibly the least seriously treated member of the family. Everyone regularly [[LamePunReaction groans in annoyance to her comedic antics]] and overall view her as a nuisance. This is best exemplified in "No Laughing Matter" in which she becomes [[CantTakeCriticism sensitive to hearing her siblings' true feelings]] and they feel guilty over their BrutalHonesty for no reason other than love and thus revert her back to her previous state. Even [[ExtremeDoormat Leni]] and ''Lily'' (who's the literal example of this trope) blatantly detest her eccentricity.
* BadassAdorable: "April Fools Rules", "Fool's Paradise", and "Fool Me Twice" reveal that underneath Luan's sweet demeanor is a completely psychopathic side where her pranks are borderline [[DeadlyPrank deadly]]. [[PushoverParents Even her parents are intimidated by it]].
* BananaPeel: Luan sometimes uses the classic 'slipping on a banana peel' prank.
* BerserkButton:
** Stealing her thunder is DEFINITELY not a good idea.
** May God have mercy if you put Mr. Coconuts into storage. Lynn Sr. learned it the hard way in "Feast or Family".
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's kind and perky, but you don't wanna mess with her. [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtGBEgqVUAAU_-Q.jpg This studio drawing]] says it all.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: She's not afraid to show off her angry side if someone messes with her. Should you be on the Loud premises on April Fools Day, then may God have mercy on your soul.
* BigBad: She's the main antagonist of the first three episodes of the April Fool's Day arc ("April Fools Rules", "Fool's Paradise", and "Fool Me Twice") as she is able to sabotage her family with her pranks.
* TheBigDamnKiss: Luan finally gets her first kiss with [[spoiler: Benny]] at the end of "Stage Plight".
* BlackComedy: She mentions that she likes this kind of humor in "Left in the Dark".
* BreakTheCutie: Happens to her in "No Laughing Matter", where Luan becomes disheartened over hearing her siblings express annoyance towards her comedy routine, leading her to drop the act for good. [[spoiler: Until her siblings notice the error in their ways and revert her back to her previous state.]]
* BrilliantButLazy: It's implied that Luan isn't as dimwitted as she seems but is just too lazy and hopelessly naïve to set her mind to academics. In "Future Tense" she was able to solve Royal Woods' parking crisis while volunteering for the local government, showing that she possesses a mild knowledge of serious topics, but since comedy is her ultimate future, 90% of her brain runs on that subject.
* BrokenAce:
** Luan performs her job as an entertainer well in the public eyes, but when she tells jokes and pulls pranks at home, her family always crosses the line. She's also not very knowledgeable of serious topics as "Future Tense" implies. To top it all off, her reputation is not devoid of permanent scars thanks to her annual evil streak.
** Other than "Friendzy" and "Dance, Dance Resolution", most episodes show Luan hanging around by herself and often talking to herself, whether through her puppet Mr. Coconuts or not. Not only at home but also at school. It seemed that before Benny, she was a loner who never had anyone to talk to outside of her family (and a bunch of other clowns from clown school like Giggles). If her lack of social interaction in episodes like "Stage Plight" is any indication, some of her character flaws are perhaps a result, at least partially, of her loner status.
* BucketBoobyTrap: Spends "Project Loud House" trying to use this prank on someone, frequently being foiled by Lincoln. [[spoiler: She finally succeeds with Lincoln's teacher.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Despite Luan's [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} over-the-top eccentricity]], she's extremely competent when it comes to plotting pranks. She's also shown to be a responsible and capable babysitter in "Sitting Bull".
* ButtMonkey: Just how many times has her family groaned at her jokes? Her own pranks even backfire on her sometimes.
* CantTakeCriticism: In "No Laughing Matter", Luan becomes upset when her siblings express opposition to her comedy and eventually retires out of insecurity.
* CatchPhrase: She frequently follows up puns by laughing and saying, "Get it?" Occasionally, she will also say, "But seriously..." after making a pun in a serious situation.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Luan has gone through such a progressive phase throughout the series. She started off as a satellite PluckyComicRelief with little purpose other than to annoy her siblings with her irritatingly lucky routine before being shown as a GreenEyedMonster who gets jealous at the first sight of her stolen thunder. Then, she was portrayed as an utterly sociopathic monster who becomes the show's worst villain yet only on April Fool's Day. After having regressed back to her cheerful ways, she's shown to be semi-capable of going through cynical phases. Her biggest peak yet, however, comes from "Stage Plight", in which she is finally given a plot devoid of her eccentricity which instead focuses on her social anxiety and finally [[spoiler: getting her first kiss.]]
* CharacterTics: "Head Poet's Anxiety" shows that water will squirt out of Luan's gag flower if startled.
* CheerfulChild: Although she's 14/15 and thus older than most examples of the trope, Luan is a happy girl with neverending enthusiasm.
* ChildishOlderSibling: She constantly tells annoying puns and plays pranks on her younger siblings. [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Inverted to her older siblings]].
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Luan is very sweet and kindhearted and averts negative behavior typical of her peers. However, on April Fool's Day, she falls into TeensAreMonsters territory.
* ClassClown: Rare female example. She likes to make other people laugh, is an AttentionWhore, and is even seen literally dressed as a clown in some episodes.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Luan is very strange. Her entire character revolves around telling bad puns, laughing like a lunatic at her own jokes, pulling pranks when least appropriate, and anthropomorphizing her puppet like it's a friend (or boyfriend) of hers.
* ConsultingMisterPuppet: She occasionally interacts with Mr. Coconuts like he's a real person.
* CoolBigSis: While occasionally a nuisance to them, Luan nevertheless loves her younger siblings and likes to entertain them. She can even be moral enough to get her head out of [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Cloudcuckooland]] to support them.
** Out of all her siblings, she seems to share the closest bond with [[TheBabyOfTheBunch Lily]]. She's occasionally seen playing with her and telling her jokes. Lily was also the only sibling who didn't fall victim to any of Luan's fatal pranks in the April Fool's trilogy; even when she did, they weren't specifically meant for her.
** Being an entertainer for their birthday parties, she also plays this role to many children whilst exhibiting the courtesy of innocent comedy.
* ColorMotif: She's associated with the color yellow, thanks to her yellow skirt, long socks, and hair scrunchie.
* {{Cosplay}}: Her Full Deck persona has her become the Joker. ''[[ShapedLikeItself Very]]'' [[ShapedLikeItself fitting considering her actual character]] as FunPersonified.
* CrazyPrepared: Luan knows how to pull pranks on even the most unsuspecting of victims, utilizing many prolonged methods beforehand. No wonder she did well in the clowning academy.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Luan may seem like a complete scatterbrain who lacks skill and talent, but on April Fool's Day, she takes her CrazyPrepared pranking methods to an all-time high, even outwitting her parents.
* {{Cuckoosnarker}}: Luan can easily make snarky remarks when provoked, as exhibited through her phone call with Lincoln in "Funny Business".
* CuteAndPsycho: Luan sure is sweet and InnocentlyInsensitive, but on April Fool's Day, she becomes a relentlessly violent sociopath who views her fatal pranks as harmless and amusing.
* TheCutie: Her fatal pranks and annual [[TheSociopath sociopathy]] aside, Luan is just as much a sweet and innocent goody-two shoes as Leni.
* DaddysGirl: Luan has a very close relationship with her father, which he reciprocates. She inherited his immature, eccentric ways and love for puns. She shares a plot with him in "Feast or Family".
* DeadlyPrank: On April Fools Day, her pranks very much dip into this territory. She nearly drowned her family in a pool of gelatin, shaved all the pets, spilled bleach on Lucy, and trapped her family in a fatal motel...and that's just for starters.
* DeadpanSnarker: She can surprisingly be this at times. Not as much as Lori, of course, but Luan can often snark if she's provoked enough.
* DemonicDummy: Her old dummy, Col. Crackers, seems to possess free will and has talked by himself. Also, [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane maybe]] her current one, Mr. Coconuts.
* DependingOnTheArtist: It varies by episode whether Luan has braces exclusively on her upper teeth, or on ''both'' her upper and lower teeth. Sometimes, it may even vary by ''shots''.
* DependingOnTheWriter:
** How humorous Luan is depends on the writer. Contrary to her funny demeanor, she doesn't tell any jokes or make any puns in "Along Came a Sister", "Out on a Limo", "Back in Black", "Cheater by the Dozen", "Spell It Out", "Change of Heart", "Not a Loud", or "No Place Like Homeschool".
** Whether her puns [[ActuallyPrettyFunny make people laugh]] or simply groan in annoyance. The former is shown in "Party Down" and "Head Poet's Anxiety", while in most other episodes it's usually the latter case.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: In "Fool's Paradise", Luan failed to properly unleash her fatal pranks to make it so that her family would fall victim to them, rather she herself did in the end. She gets another in "Fool Me Twice" when her family hires stunt doubles to get pranked for them, she convinced the stunt doubles to humiliate her family in her place. But she didn't consider that her family would be humiliated in front of "other people", instead of just in front of "her", and is guilt-ridden when her family decides to move to escape the embarrassment.
* TheDitz: {{Downplayed|Trope}} as she's not particularly ''dumb'' to the same extent as Leni, but her absurdity and eccentricity often cloud her judgment and make her naïve to rationality, [[DudeNotFunny leading her to clown around when least appropriate]].
* TheDreaded: She becomes this on every April Fools' Day, to the point where even ''Lola'' is terrified of her. Every year she makes a vow to escalate her pranks in the year to follow, which naturally has the family running for the hills; rightfully so as she has mounted an impressive share of potentially life-threatening traps against them.
* DreadfulMusician:
** Shown to be one in "Really Loud Music", where her musical number, "Luan's Laugh Parade", gains disapproval from Luna based on its quirky nature, while Luna herself is looking for the right song of her very own to sing for America's Next Hitmaker.
--->'''Luna:''' Well, it can't be that one.
** She was also the only one who didn't play an actual instrument during her siblings' performance in "House Music", instead using her whoopee cushion.
* DudeNotFunny: Occasionally jokes around in inappropriate situations.
** In "One Flu Over the Loud House", Luan makes a joke while her sisters are being infected with the flu. However, [[LaserGuidedKarma she herself is subsequently given the flu as karmic justice]].
-->'''Luan:''' Guys, it's ''snot'' what you think! ''[sneezes and suddenly gets infected with the flu]''
** In "Rita Her Rights", Luan tells her mom a prison joke while she is in jail.
** Luan plans to tell Rita jokes about how old she is on her birthday in "No Spoilers", only for Lori to act as the voice of reason and tell her that Rita probably wouldn't want to hear jokes about how old she is.
** In "Any Given Sundae", she attempts to cheer Lily up with a string of ice-cream puns. Lola is quick to remind her that Lily had just missed her first bite of ice cream.
* EnemyToAllLivingThings: On April Fools Day, no form of life is safe around Luan, if the Loud pets shivering in fear over having been shaved by her is an indication.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** While she enjoys filming and laughing at other people's humiliation, she would never [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube post an embarrassing video on the web]] without their permission.
** She considers knock-knock jokes to be the lowest form of humor.
** She's completely horrified with what she's done when she believes her doppelganger prank in "Fool Me Twice" was the reason for her family deciding to move house. At that moment, she realised she went too far and promised she would do whatever she could to undo the damage. Of course, the family were just faking as part of a revenge prank.
* EvilLaugh: Luan lets these out whenever her family falls victim to her pranks on April Fool's Day.
* ExactEavesdropping: In "No Laughing Matter," Luan is so excited that she plays over-the-top practical jokes, complemented with {{Pun}}s on her siblings to announce her upcoming stand-up gig. While she's away, they complain about how her "jokes" are not funny, and that the only one who finds humor in her pranks is her. Luan overhears from the staircase, and sadly goes up to her room. [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness After several days of not joking, or pranking her siblings Lincoln becomes concerned,]] and she tells him she's quitting comedy because if she can't make her family laugh, then there's no way she'll make anyone else laugh.
* FamedInStory: Luan is very famous in-universe with both little kids and the elderly due to her classic puns.
* FatalFlaw: Luan's impulsiveness. Some scenes imply that her frequency to joke around and prank are a compulsion, and when done during inappropriate situations, [[LaserGuidedKarma karma will come back to bite her in the ass]].
* ForHappiness: Luan's main goal is to make everyone happy, laugh at her comedic antics at that.
* FriendToAllChildren: Luan is an entertainer for children's birthday parties, so she gets along very well with them. She also shares a close bond with her younger siblings and loves to tell them her jokes, especially Lily. Not surprising, considering she has a bit of a [[KiddieKid childlike personality]] herself.
* FunPersonified: Unless it's April Fool's Day, Luan is a happy-go-lucky, optimistic girl who loves cheering others up with her comedy.
* TheGadfly: Luan clowns around primarily to get attention from her siblings, although she's one of the rare examples where she's not doing it to annoy anyone, but rather entertain them.
* Gasshole: Played with. She has a fondness for fake fart gags, as she often uses whoopee cushions to prank people and she also liked putting fake dog poop in people's meals when working at the Burpin' Burger. However, she seems to draw the line with the real deal, often being grossed out as the others when one of her sisters (usually Lynn) lets one rip.
* GeniusDitz: Despite being an overall scatterbrain, Luan is extremely competent at engineering increasingly complicated pranks on April Fool's Day and can fatally outwit unsuspecting victims.
* GenkiGirl: She's extremely energetic and cheerful.
* GirlishPigtails:
** A flashback in "Head Poet's Anxiety" reveals that Luan used to have pigtails held by two of her scrunchies.
** She also wears pigtails at the back of her hair while under the alter-ego of The Jokester, one with a pink scrunchie and the other with a yellow one.
* GoofyBuckteeth: She has large buckteeth in addition to PubescentBraces, and is the comedian and prankster of the family.
* GreenEyedMonster: In "Head Poet's Anxiety", Luan gets jealous of Lucy surpassing her goal of becoming the youngest performer at Royal Woods Theater and holds a grudge against her throughout the rest of the day. Of course, Luan sacrifices her goal and reconciles with Lucy the next day.
* HairAntennae: She has two long hair strands sticking up from the middle of her forehead, perfectly suiting her quirky nature.
* HeroicComedicSociopath: When April Fool's Day arrives, she becomes ''[[TheSociopath utterly ruthless]]'' on this day.
* HiddenDepths:
** She's capable of engineering complicated traps and planning day-long prank marathons that rely on predicting her victims' actions down to the very ''second''. [[SerialEscalation It gets crazier with each April Fool's prank-a-thon.]]
** "No Laughing Matter" reveals that Luan owns a diary, an item typically associated with {{girly girl}}s.
** "Director's Rut" reveals that, not only is she a talented playwright, she's skilled enough to direct it.
* TheHyena: Just about every episode in which Luan has a speaking role, she's bound to laugh at her own jokes, sometimes even twice within the same episode.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** She considers knock-knock jokes to be the lowest form of comedy, yet she herself makes them on occasion.
** In "Head Poet's Anxiety", Luan teaches Lucy to build up a thick skin against criticism in order to pursue her life in the showbusiness, yet she herself was shown to be [[CantTakeCriticism sensitive to criticism]] in "No Laughing Matter", though this could very well have been her learning from that instance.
** Luan called Lincoln out for the pride he exhibited about his viral pratfall in "Funny Business", when she herself was narcissistic about her own fame attained from the attention children give her at birthday parties.
* HypocriticalHumor: In "A Tale of Two Tables", Luan calls Lincoln out for attempting to tell a joke at the dinner table, telling him that such conduct is immature. This is coming from [[PungeonMaster Luan]] of all people.
* TheIdealist: Luan thinks that life is all about fun and laughs.
* IdiotHair: She has a few forehead strands of hair that sprout upwards.
* TheIllegible: When Lincoln reads Luan's pun notebook in "No Laughing Matter", he has trouble deciphering her handwriting.
* TheIngenue: Luan is very much a NiceGirl and a KiddieKid who, prior to "Stage Plight", had [[spoiler: never shared a kiss with anyone]].
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Luan's pranks can go beyond limits at times. Make no mistake though, she has little malicious intent and just wants to make people laugh.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: The beginning of "Head Poet's Anxiety" shows that Luan is on good terms with the elderly, as she is seen on their bus entertaining them with her comedy.
* IRegretNothing: Despite having been served a cold dish of karma at the end of "Fool's Paradise", Luan remains immorally unaffected and plots even nastier pranks to come the next year.
* IRejectYourReality: Luan can't help but use her goofball antics as a defense mechanism and respond to criticism with tears, in addition to using a ventriloquist to make her feel company and being so hopelessly idealistic to the point of turning down cynicism.
* ItAmusedMe: Her family is forced to suffer her many excruciating pranks on April Fool's purely for her own amusement.
* JerkassBall:
** Luan picks this up on every April Fool's Day, where she treats her family like absolute shit and pulls dangerous pranks on them without realizing they could get killed.
** She also picks it up in the middle of "Head Poet's Anxiety", where she becomes a hostile GreenEyedMonster towards Lucy for surpassing her dream of becoming the youngest performer at the Royal Woods Theater, showing that she mentored her AllForNothing. Luckily, Luan comes to a JerkassRealization when Lucy [[PlayingSick plays sick]] out of guilt, ultimately reconciling and sacrificing her dream.
* JerkassRealization:
** At the end of "Fool Me Twice", Luan realizes how cruel her behavior on April Fool's Day has been when the rest of the family threatens to move out of the house and feels sorry for her malicious actions, therefore learning her lesson.
** The climax of "Head Poet's Anxiety" culminates in Luan realizing how much of a selfish GreenEyedMonster she was for discouraging Lucy's record as the youngest performer at the Royal Woods Theater, courtesy of the latter faking sick.
* KarmaHoudini: PlayedWith in "April Fool's Rules" and "Fool's Paradise". In the former, she gets pied in the face by Ronnie Anne yet that is merely a slap on the wrist. In the latter, she gets into a HumiliationConga when she falls victims to her own pranks courtesy of Mr. Loud and Lincoln. However, none of these punishments discourage Luan from plotting even more and much worse pranks the next April Fool's Days.
* KiddieKid: Among Lincoln's circle of teenage sisters, where each of them is either a ValleyGirl or {{tomboy}}, Luan stands out on the middle ground, being more childlike and unique than either of them. She's 14/15 years old yet has a fondness for puns, pranking people, clowns, and childlike comedy in general. She also owns and plays with several novelty toys, most notably her ventriloquist Mr. Coconuts.
* KindheartedSimpleton: Luan is by default a DaddysGirl of a BumblingDad and as such has a brain that runs on impulses and irrationalities. That said, she has little malice behind her actions.
* KnockKnockJoke: She considers these to be the lowest form of comedy, [[{{Hypocrite}} though that doesn't stop her from making them on occasion]].
* LamePunReaction: Her siblings often moan at her jokes.
* LargeHam: Due to being a comedian, she sometimes hams things up.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Every April Fools Day episode gives her some comeuppance one after the other.
** Downplayed in both "April Fool's Rules" and "Fool's Paradise". In the former, Ronnie Anne pies her in face while she falls victim to her own pranks in the latter, but neither stop her from plotting even worse and more cruel pranks the next April Fool's Day.
** Played straight at the end of "Fool Me Twice", where the rest of the Louds claim to be moving out of the house just to mess with Luan in retaliation. It is then revealed that the truck they loaded contained nothing but Luan's stuff, prompting her to chase after it.
* LaughingAtYourOwnJokes: She does this almost all the time.
* LoonWithAHeartOfGold: Luan makes up for her occasional annoyance in well-meaning nature and genuine kindness.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: Luan's crush on Benny launches her into full-on awkwardness in "Stage Plight" as she repeatedly tries to ditch the ''Romeo and Juliet'' play recital to avoid having to kiss him.
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* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: The Masculine Girl to Benny's Feminine Boy. Luan's hobby of pulling pranks and telling jokes aren't traditionally considered feminine, while Benny's emotional sensitivity and love of theater are. Also, while they both have their own puppets, Luan has a male ventriloquist dummy named Mr. Coconuts, who wears a boyish outfit and has a gruff, masculine voice, while Benny has a female marionette named Mrs. Appleblossom, who dresses all girly and has a sophisticated, feminine voice. It's also Luan out of the two who struggles to admit and reveal her feelings out loud, while Benny has no problem expressing his feelings and his affection for Luan in the play.
* MotorMouth: Occasionally, mainly in regards to her enthusiasm for jokes.
-->'''Lincoln:''' Why ''did'' the chicken cross the road?
-->'''Luan:''' TO GET TO THE OTHER SIDE! TO RUN AWAY FROM THE COOK! TO PROVE HE'S NO CHICKEN! ''[laughs maniacally]''
* NiceGirl: She loves making people happy for free and generally is cheerful and friendly. [[TemporarilyAVillain Unless it's April Fool's Day.]]
* NonIronicClown: Numerous episodes have shown Luan either leaving the house, or coming back in, dressed in clown attire, and considering that it is alluded to that she runs a successful business, it means that people hire her, re-hire her, and recommend her services to other parents, whose kids actually like, and laugh at, her clowning act.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: A mild case, but she's the only Loud sister with curved eyelashes, likely to emphasize her quirkiness. Also, most of the siblings' eyebrows are proportioned on their hair, while Luan's are on her face as they should be.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Luan is shown to have shades of this, as she occasionally gets too close to others when trying to entertain them. In "Garage Banned", she invades Lori's personal space during her phone call with Bobby and makes her puppet Mr. Coconuts kiss her, roleplaying as her boyfriend.
* NotGoodWithRejection: In "No Laughing Matter", upon hearing her siblings express annoyance towards her comedy routine, Luan does not take kindly to this and becomes sad.
* OfficialCouple: With Benny. They get together at the end of "Stage Plight" following the recital of the ''Romeo and Juliet'' play, and are confirmed to be dating in "A Pimple Plan".
* OlderThanSheLooks: She could easily pass for a kid around Lincoln's age, given that she has no breasts, wears braces, has a [[VocalDissonance high-pitched voice]], and a KiddieKid demeanor.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** It makes sense that Luan would want to utilize her [[ThePrankster prankster]] status on a holiday like April Fool's Day, but the way she does it goes ''way'' beyond InnocentlyInsensitive territory.
** A less serious example, Luan tells Lincoln that they do not tell jokes at the dinner table in "A Tale of Two Tables".
* OppositesAttract: Downplayed with her relationship with Benny because they both like comedy but Luan is noticeably much peppier and more energetic than the emotionally sensitive, theatre-loving Benny.
* PerformanceAnxiety: Becomes a plot point of "Stage Plight". While it's not so much that Luan is nervous of performing in front of a crowd, it's the fact that [[spoiler: she's never kissed anyone before and she's required to do just that]] in the play.
* PieInTheFace: Being a prankster, she's prone to doing this, which is best demonstrated in the intro where she attempts to pie Lincoln in the face but he dodges.
* PinkGirlBlueBoy: She's the Pink Girl to Benny's Blue Boy. Luan wears a pink flower on her shirt and shoes, while Benny wears a sky blue jacket. Additionally, in "Stage Plight", Luan's Juliet costume is pink and Benny's Romeo costume is blue.
* PinkMeansFeminine: How feminine she is varies, but she wears a pink flower on her shirt and shoes. Furthermore, her bed sheets are pink, and flashbacks in "Hand-Me-Downer" and "Head Poet's Anxiety" respectively reveal that she used to wear a pink bike helmet and pink socks. It seems to be another color affiliated with her aside from yellow.
* PluckyComicRelief: She mostly acts like a comic relief in most episodes.
* ThePollyanna: She always looks on the bright side of life.
* PrankCall: Being a [[ThePrankster prankster]], Luan loves making these.
* ThePrankster: She loves to pull practical jokes on people without warning. Her favorite methods seem to be the BucketBoobyTrap and the PieInTheFace. This is [[ExaggeratedTrope taken up to eleven]] on April Fools Day, when she sets up an insane amount of pranks throughout the house. Or even beyond, when she takes over an entire motel to torment her family in "Fool's Paradise."
* PubescentBraces: She wears braces, the only sibling who currently wears them. A flashback in "Hand-Me Downer" shows that she's worn them at least since she was about twelve years old.
* {{Pun}}: Most of her jokes are puns.
* PungeonMaster: Luan could be the TropeNamer, at least of Western animation. If she says something, it'll more often than not be a pun, much to her siblings' annoyance. Around 90% of her lines consist of puns.
* PuppyLove: She and Benny [[spoiler: share their first kiss]] in the play as Romeo and Juliet respectively, and overall engage in malice-free romance.
* RedOniBlueOni:
** She's the red to Luna's blue; while Luna has a reputation for being the loudest of the Louds, she's generally calm and laid-back whereas Luan is constantly high-energy, spouting puns and pulling pranks.
** Her high-energy antics also make her the red to Lucy's blue in "Head Poet's Anxiety", with Lucy being generally quiet and poetic. In general, she's one of the most red out of all the sisters, along with Lynn and Lola.
** To a point, she's also this with her boyfriend, Benny Stein. While both have their eccentric and energetic sides, Benny is generally more down to earth and level-headed than his joke cracking, prankster girlfriend.
* RiddleForTheAges: Why does she become a villainous prankster on April Fool's Day?
* RiseOfZitboy: "A Pimple Plan" revolves around Luan getting her first pimple and trying to cover it up in time for her date with Benny.
* SadClown: Luan sometimes uses her comedy as a defense mechanism when faced with the sad truth.
* {{Sadist}}: As seen only in the "April Fools" episodes, Luan appears to be a sadist. This is shown when she toys with her own family in order to break them emotionally, and laughs at their misery. That, and she continues pranking them even when they beg her to relent, leaving them in complete and utter fear, not knowing when they will get pranked.
* SanityBall: Luan completely drops her comedy routine and starts to behave like a normal individual in "No Laughing Matter" after realizing how annoying it is. Of course, she goes back to normal in the end. She also did the same thing earlier in "The Butterfly Effect" in favor of becoming an activist, [[spoiler: although the entire thing was revealed to just be Lincoln's imagination.]]
* SharedFamilyQuirks: She gets her fondness for puns from Lynn Sr.
* SignatureLaugh: When she makes a pun, she will frequently emit a light hearty chuckle followed by her saying, "Get it?" It's in fact a defining part of her character that just the sound of it is enough to recognize her. She gets a more EvilLaugh when it's April Fool's Day to show how uncaring and unsympathetic of a prankster she is.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: She gets into a romantic relationship with [[NiceGuy Benny]].
* SkewedPriorities: In "Rita Her Rights", Luan worries about not being able to find her whoopee cushion prior to heading off to class, wasting Rita's time in the process.
* SlasherSmile: Expect her to flash these ''a lot'' when it's April Fool's Day; if she does, ''run.''
* SmarterThanYouLook: Luan's quirky appearance and oddball behavior may suggest her to be a [[TheDitz ditzy]] {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, but her intelligence is exhibited through her plots of prank-pulling, showing that she is too competent for her own good.
* SnarkBall: Luan can easily make snarky remarks when upset, showing that there's depth beyond her eccentricity.
* TheSociopath: She becomes this only on April Fool's Day. To be fair, given her erratic personality, she probably has some sort of MediumAwareness that makes her realize no one could really get harmed from her actions. She does look at the audience in one episode.
* SoUnfunnyItsFunny: The core of Luan's puns, which pop up at least once per episode.
* SquirtingFlowerGag: She wears a squirting flower as standart part of her attire.
* StepfordSmiler: Don't be fooled by her cheerful demeanor: Luan doesn't always have her head in the clouds. There are in fact many scenes that explore her insecurities and low self-esteem. That said, even though she is insecure sometimes, she [[DownplayedTrope doesn't generally fake being happy, and her happiness is usually genuine when she's acting happy.]].
** The first instance of her sadness is shown in "Ties That Bind", although she had a reason to be sad then because she was worried she might get kicked out of the mime act.
** Pretty much reaches its epitome in "No Laughing Matter", in which she, after hearing her siblings aggressively criticize her comedic antics, retires comedy and enters a state of stoicism and sanity. Thankfully, she is brought back to normal in the end. This episode also shows that she owns a diary.
** Also shows signs of being LoveHungry in "Head Poet's Anxiety", where Luan becomes a hostile GreenEyedMonster towards Lucy, who she was supposed to mentor, for stealing her thunder.
** Her musical number "Laugh Parade" from "Really Loud Music" reveals that she contemplates scary thoughts about the world around her "every now and then".
* SuddenlyFluentInGibberish: Translates Lily's 'house story' in "Homespun".
* SuperStrength: She was strong enough to carry Lincoln on her head in "Spell It Out". She also broke out of her cage in "April Fools Rules".
* TalkingInYourSleep: Luan records herself sleeping in case she mutters a joke.
-->'''Luan:''' ''[in her sleep]'' What do you call a sleeping bull? A bulldozer. ''[giggles]''
* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: In "Fool's Paradise", Luan becomes a victim of her own pranks as a form of LaserGuidedKarma.
* TemporarilyAVillain: Whenever April Fool's Day rolls around.
* ThemeNaming: She named both of her ventriloquists, Colonel Crackers and Mr. Coconuts, after food.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Relatively speaking, she is the tomboy to her foil Maggie's girly girl. Despite how the fandom portrays them, in canon Maggie is a gloomy emo-type girl who is seemingly more feminine than average since she wears earrings, dark eyeliner, and a skirt, and speaks with a ValleyGirl speech pattern. Luan is slightly more masculine than the average girl due to her boisterous and energetic attitude, violent and destructive tendencies when it comes to forming pranks, her TomboyishPonytail and mischievous nature. Downplayed as Maggie is not outright feminine and Luan has her fair share of girly traits to balance it out, but of the two, Luan is slightly more tomboyish, while Maggie is probably on a similar level to Lucy.
* TomboyishName: "Luan" is a masculine foreign name, though it does sound like "Luanne", which is indeed a girl's name.
* TomboyishPonytail: Luan is quite mischievous and wears her ponytail in a scrunchie.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Luan is a boisterous girl who loves playing (sometimes destructive) pranks and telling jokes, neither of which are particularly feminine hobbies. Also, she owns a ventriloquist dummy who just so happens to be male that wears boyish clothes. Despite this, Luan wears a skirt, a pink flower on her shirt and shoes, has her ponytail in a scrunchie, and owns a diary. She also joins in on the {{Squee}} with her other sisters upon discovering that Lincoln has a girl interested in him. She also had no problem wearing a dress in "Head Poet's Anxiety".
* TookALevelInBadass: Luan is usually sweet, innocent, and cheerful, but on April Fools Day, she has shown herself to be ''such'' a life-threatening individual.
* TookALevelInCynic: There are times where Luan garners rationality when least expected.
** This is a driving point on the plot of "No Laughing Matter", where Luan enters a stoic phase and begins to behave much more civilized.
** This happened earlier in "Butterfly Effect", where she became less blind to the world's problems and mustered up the courage to become an activist. [[spoiler: Though, the entire thing was just Lincoln's imagination.]]
** In "Future Tense", Luan learns about much more serious matters by interning for the government, [[ItMakesSenseInContext although she only did it because her parents told her to]].
* TookALevelInJerkass: She takes one on every April Fool's Day, during which she unleashes meaner and more brutal pranks than usual.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: It's revealed in "Home of the Fave" that Luan's favorite food is meat stroganoff.
* VocalDissonance: Despite being 14/15 years old, Luan has a high-pitched voice that sounds like that of a little girl.
%%* VillainousHarlequin: At least during the April fools episodes.
* WhoopeeCushion: She owns one which is quite frequently used in her pranks.
* WouldHurtAChild: She's even willing to endanger her younger siblings with her {{Deadly Prank|}}s on April Fool's Day.
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'''''[[Characters/TheLoudHouseFamily The Loud Family]]:''''' [[Characters/TheLoudHouseLoudSiblings The Siblings]] ('''Luan Loud''')\\
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!!Luan L. Loud
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->'''Voiced by: (English)''' {{Creator/Cristina Pucelli}}\\
'''Voiced by: (Latin America)''' Leyla Rangel\\
'''Voiced by: (Brazilian Portuguese)''' Gabriela Medeiros\\
'''Voiced by: (Italian)''' Irene Multari\\
'''Voiced by: (Japanese)''' Misato Matsuoka\\
'''Played by:''' Catherine Ashmore Bradley
The fourth-eldest Loud sister, 14-year-old (15 as of Season 5) Luan has a fondness for comedy and practical jokes. She's an aspiring comedian who often gets on the nerves of others with her tomfoolery, but never gives up. While far less mature and down-to-earth than the others, Luan means well and has a good heart, ultimately sporting not a single mean bone in her body. Well, except on April Fools' Day...
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* TenMinuteRetirement: Decides to tearfully retire from her April Fool's pranks in "Fool Me Twice" after being scared by the prank of her own family. This lasts throughout Season 4 until the Season 5 episode "Silence of the Luans", where [[OnlyOneFindsItFun Lily]] manages to snap her out.
* AbortedDeclarationOfLove: Luan repeatedly tries to come up with excuses as a means of avoiding the scene in the play where she has to [[spoiler: kiss Benny]] in "Stage Plight", because she's insecure of her crush.
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: In "Funny Business", Luan admits that she was initially NotSoAboveItAll when it came to gaining praise from the audience at children's birthday parties, despite having held Lincoln in contempt for his own narcissism about his viral pratfall. However, she learned that different audiences enjoy different forms of comedy.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Sometimes, her cheesy puns manage to make people laugh.
* AllLovingHeroine: Luan is an extremely optimistic individual who wants to enlighten everyone she meets with her acts of comedy. While they often express annoyance towards her, Luan simply shrugs it off and continues her goal of making everyone laugh.
* AnimalMotifs: Luan's appearance is quite squirrel-like, based on her buck teeth and swirly ponytail.
* AnimalsHateHer: When she was just a little girl aspiring to become a comedian, Luan told jokes to the family pets, which they responded to with distaste.
* AnnoyingLaugh: A high-pitched chuckle followed by her saying, "Get it?", which is sometimes, though not always, seen as annoying by her siblings.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: She plays it straight to her older siblings and inverts it to her younger siblings because they don't like her jokes or pranks.
* AprilFoolsPlot: So far, there have been four episodes that focus on her extreme pranks on April Fools' Day.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: "A Pimple Plan" reveals that [[https://theloudhouse.fandom.com/wiki/File:S4E12B_Dang_it.png Luan's hair]] naturally grows in the shape of a jester's hat.
* AttentionWhore: Luan loves being the center of everyone's attention. She occasionally pulls pranks and performs tricks to get a reaction from others, such as in "Cereal Offender" where she demands the whole grocery store to watch her juggle a bunch of eggs.
* AxCrazy: Luan becomes utterly relentless and ruthless with her over-the-top pranks on April Fools.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Quite possibly the least seriously treated member of the family. Everyone regularly [[LamePunReaction groans in annoyance to her comedic antics]] and overall view her as a nuisance. This is best exemplified in "No Laughing Matter" in which she becomes [[CantTakeCriticism sensitive to hearing her siblings' true feelings]] and they feel guilty over their BrutalHonesty for no reason other than love and thus revert her back to her previous state. Even [[ExtremeDoormat Leni]] and ''Lily'' (who's the literal example of this trope) blatantly detest her eccentricity.
* BadassAdorable: "April Fools Rules", "Fool's Paradise", and "Fool Me Twice" reveal that underneath Luan's sweet demeanor is a completely psychopathic side where her pranks are borderline [[DeadlyPrank deadly]]. [[PushoverParents Even her parents are intimidated by it]].
* BananaPeel: Luan sometimes uses the classic 'slipping on a banana peel' prank.
* BerserkButton:
** Stealing her thunder is DEFINITELY not a good idea.
** May God have mercy if you put Mr. Coconuts into storage. Lynn Sr. learned it the hard way in "Feast or Family".
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's kind and perky, but you don't wanna mess with her. [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtGBEgqVUAAU_-Q.jpg This studio drawing]] says it all.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: She's not afraid to show off her angry side if someone messes with her. Should you be on the Loud premises on April Fools Day, then may God have mercy on your soul.
* BigBad: She's the main antagonist of the first three episodes of the April Fool's Day arc ("April Fools Rules", "Fool's Paradise", and "Fool Me Twice") as she is able to sabotage her family with her pranks.
* TheBigDamnKiss: Luan finally gets her first kiss with [[spoiler: Benny]] at the end of "Stage Plight".
* BlackComedy: She mentions that she likes this kind of humor in "Left in the Dark".
* BreakTheCutie: Happens to her in "No Laughing Matter", where Luan becomes disheartened over hearing her siblings express annoyance towards her comedy routine, leading her to drop the act for good. [[spoiler: Until her siblings notice the error in their ways and revert her back to her previous state.]]
* BrilliantButLazy: It's implied that Luan isn't as dimwitted as she seems but is just too lazy and hopelessly naïve to set her mind to academics. In "Future Tense" she was able to solve Royal Woods' parking crisis while volunteering for the local government, showing that she possesses a mild knowledge of serious topics, but since comedy is her ultimate future, 90% of her brain runs on that subject.
* BrokenAce:
** Luan performs her job as an entertainer well in the public eyes, but when she tells jokes and pulls pranks at home, her family always crosses the line. She's also not very knowledgeable of serious topics as "Future Tense" implies. To top it all off, her reputation is not devoid of permanent scars thanks to her annual evil streak.
** Other than "Friendzy" and "Dance, Dance Resolution", most episodes show Luan hanging around by herself and often talking to herself, whether through her puppet Mr. Coconuts or not. Not only at home but also at school. It seemed that before Benny, she was a loner who never had anyone to talk to outside of her family (and a bunch of other clowns from clown school like Giggles). If her lack of social interaction in episodes like "Stage Plight" is any indication, some of her character flaws are perhaps a result, at least partially, of her loner status.
* BucketBoobyTrap: Spends "Project Loud House" trying to use this prank on someone, frequently being foiled by Lincoln. [[spoiler: She finally succeeds with Lincoln's teacher.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Despite Luan's [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} over-the-top eccentricity]], she's extremely competent when it comes to plotting pranks. She's also shown to be a responsible and capable babysitter in "Sitting Bull".
* ButtMonkey: Just how many times has her family groaned at her jokes? Her own pranks even backfire on her sometimes.
* CantTakeCriticism: In "No Laughing Matter", Luan becomes upset when her siblings express opposition to her comedy and eventually retires out of insecurity.
* CatchPhrase: She frequently follows up puns by laughing and saying, "Get it?" Occasionally, she will also say, "But seriously..." after making a pun in a serious situation.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Luan has gone through such a progressive phase throughout the series. She started off as a satellite PluckyComicRelief with little purpose other than to annoy her siblings with her irritatingly lucky routine before being shown as a GreenEyedMonster who gets jealous at the first sight of her stolen thunder. Then, she was portrayed as an utterly sociopathic monster who becomes the show's worst villain yet only on April Fool's Day. After having regressed back to her cheerful ways, she's shown to be semi-capable of going through cynical phases. Her biggest peak yet, however, comes from "Stage Plight", in which she is finally given a plot devoid of her eccentricity which instead focuses on her social anxiety and finally [[spoiler: getting her first kiss.]]
* CharacterTics: "Head Poet's Anxiety" shows that water will squirt out of Luan's gag flower if startled.
* CheerfulChild: Although she's 14/15 and thus older than most examples of the trope, Luan is a happy girl with neverending enthusiasm.
* ChildishOlderSibling: She constantly tells annoying puns and plays pranks on her younger siblings. [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Inverted to her older siblings]].
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Luan is very sweet and kindhearted and averts negative behavior typical of her peers. However, on April Fool's Day, she falls into TeensAreMonsters territory.
* ClassClown: Rare female example. She likes to make other people laugh, is an AttentionWhore, and is even seen literally dressed as a clown in some episodes.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Luan is very strange. Her entire character revolves around telling bad puns, laughing like a lunatic at her own jokes, pulling pranks when least appropriate, and anthropomorphizing her puppet like it's a friend (or boyfriend) of hers.
* ConsultingMisterPuppet: She occasionally interacts with Mr. Coconuts like he's a real person.
* CoolBigSis: While occasionally a nuisance to them, Luan nevertheless loves her younger siblings and likes to entertain them. She can even be moral enough to get her head out of [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Cloudcuckooland]] to support them.
** Out of all her siblings, she seems to share the closest bond with [[TheBabyOfTheBunch Lily]]. She's occasionally seen playing with her and telling her jokes. Lily was also the only sibling who didn't fall victim to any of Luan's fatal pranks in the April Fool's trilogy; even when she did, they weren't specifically meant for her.
** Being an entertainer for their birthday parties, she also plays this role to many children whilst exhibiting the courtesy of innocent comedy.
* ColorMotif: She's associated with the color yellow, thanks to her yellow skirt, long socks, and hair scrunchie.
* {{Cosplay}}: Her Full Deck persona has her become the Joker. ''[[ShapedLikeItself Very]]'' [[ShapedLikeItself fitting considering her actual character]] as FunPersonified.
* CrazyPrepared: Luan knows how to pull pranks on even the most unsuspecting of victims, utilizing many prolonged methods beforehand. No wonder she did well in the clowning academy.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Luan may seem like a complete scatterbrain who lacks skill and talent, but on April Fool's Day, she takes her CrazyPrepared pranking methods to an all-time high, even outwitting her parents.
* {{Cuckoosnarker}}: Luan can easily make snarky remarks when provoked, as exhibited through her phone call with Lincoln in "Funny Business".
* CuteAndPsycho: Luan sure is sweet and InnocentlyInsensitive, but on April Fool's Day, she becomes a relentlessly violent sociopath who views her fatal pranks as harmless and amusing.
* TheCutie: Her fatal pranks and annual [[TheSociopath sociopathy]] aside, Luan is just as much a sweet and innocent goody-two shoes as Leni.
* DaddysGirl: Luan has a very close relationship with her father, which he reciprocates. She inherited his immature, eccentric ways and love for puns. She shares a plot with him in "Feast or Family".
* DeadlyPrank: On April Fools Day, her pranks very much dip into this territory. She nearly drowned her family in a pool of gelatin, shaved all the pets, spilled bleach on Lucy, and trapped her family in a fatal motel...and that's just for starters.
* DeadpanSnarker: She can surprisingly be this at times. Not as much as Lori, of course, but Luan can often snark if she's provoked enough.
* DemonicDummy: Her old dummy, Col. Crackers, seems to possess free will and has talked by himself. Also, [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane maybe]] her current one, Mr. Coconuts.
* DependingOnTheArtist: It varies by episode whether Luan has braces exclusively on her upper teeth, or on ''both'' her upper and lower teeth. Sometimes, it may even vary by ''shots''.
* DependingOnTheWriter:
** How humorous Luan is depends on the writer. Contrary to her funny demeanor, she doesn't tell any jokes or make any puns in "Along Came a Sister", "Out on a Limo", "Back in Black", "Cheater by the Dozen", "Spell It Out", "Change of Heart", "Not a Loud", or "No Place Like Homeschool".
** Whether her puns [[ActuallyPrettyFunny make people laugh]] or simply groan in annoyance. The former is shown in "Party Down" and "Head Poet's Anxiety", while in most other episodes it's usually the latter case.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: In "Fool's Paradise", Luan failed to properly unleash her fatal pranks to make it so that her family would fall victim to them, rather she herself did in the end. She gets another in "Fool Me Twice" when her family hires stunt doubles to get pranked for them, she convinced the stunt doubles to humiliate her family in her place. But she didn't consider that her family would be humiliated in front of "other people", instead of just in front of "her", and is guilt-ridden when her family decides to move to escape the embarrassment.
* TheDitz: {{Downplayed|Trope}} as she's not particularly ''dumb'' to the same extent as Leni, but her absurdity and eccentricity often cloud her judgment and make her naïve to rationality, [[DudeNotFunny leading her to clown around when least appropriate]].
* TheDreaded: She becomes this on every April Fools' Day, to the point where even ''Lola'' is terrified of her. Every year she makes a vow to escalate her pranks in the year to follow, which naturally has the family running for the hills; rightfully so as she has mounted an impressive share of potentially life-threatening traps against them.
* DreadfulMusician:
** Shown to be one in "Really Loud Music", where her musical number, "Luan's Laugh Parade", gains disapproval from Luna based on its quirky nature, while Luna herself is looking for the right song of her very own to sing for America's Next Hitmaker.
--->'''Luna:''' Well, it can't be that one.
** She was also the only one who didn't play an actual instrument during her siblings' performance in "House Music", instead using her whoopee cushion.
* DudeNotFunny: Occasionally jokes around in inappropriate situations.
** In "One Flu Over the Loud House", Luan makes a joke while her sisters are being infected with the flu. However, [[LaserGuidedKarma she herself is subsequently given the flu as karmic justice]].
-->'''Luan:''' Guys, it's ''snot'' what you think! ''[sneezes and suddenly gets infected with the flu]''
** In "Rita Her Rights", Luan tells her mom a prison joke while she is in jail.
** Luan plans to tell Rita jokes about how old she is on her birthday in "No Spoilers", only for Lori to act as the voice of reason and tell her that Rita probably wouldn't want to hear jokes about how old she is.
** In "Any Given Sundae", she attempts to cheer Lily up with a string of ice-cream puns. Lola is quick to remind her that Lily had just missed her first bite of ice cream.
* EnemyToAllLivingThings: On April Fools Day, no form of life is safe around Luan, if the Loud pets shivering in fear over having been shaved by her is an indication.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** While she enjoys filming and laughing at other people's humiliation, she would never [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube post an embarrassing video on the web]] without their permission.
** She considers knock-knock jokes to be the lowest form of humor.
** She's completely horrified with what she's done when she believes her doppelganger prank in "Fool Me Twice" was the reason for her family deciding to move house. At that moment, she realised she went too far and promised she would do whatever she could to undo the damage. Of course, the family were just faking as part of a revenge prank.
* EvilLaugh: Luan lets these out whenever her family falls victim to her pranks on April Fool's Day.
* ExactEavesdropping: In "No Laughing Matter," Luan is so excited that she plays over-the-top practical jokes, complemented with {{Pun}}s on her siblings to announce her upcoming stand-up gig. While she's away, they complain about how her "jokes" are not funny, and that the only one who finds humor in her pranks is her. Luan overhears from the staircase, and sadly goes up to her room. [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness After several days of not joking, or pranking her siblings Lincoln becomes concerned,]] and she tells him she's quitting comedy because if she can't make her family laugh, then there's no way she'll make anyone else laugh.
* FamedInStory: Luan is very famous in-universe with both little kids and the elderly due to her classic puns.
* FatalFlaw: Luan's impulsiveness. Some scenes imply that her frequency to joke around and prank are a compulsion, and when done during inappropriate situations, [[LaserGuidedKarma karma will come back to bite her in the ass]].
* ForHappiness: Luan's main goal is to make everyone happy, laugh at her comedic antics at that.
* FriendToAllChildren: Luan is an entertainer for children's birthday parties, so she gets along very well with them. She also shares a close bond with her younger siblings and loves to tell them her jokes, especially Lily. Not surprising, considering she has a bit of a [[KiddieKid childlike personality]] herself.
* FunPersonified: Unless it's April Fool's Day, Luan is a happy-go-lucky, optimistic girl who loves cheering others up with her comedy.
* TheGadfly: Luan clowns around primarily to get attention from her siblings, although she's one of the rare examples where she's not doing it to annoy anyone, but rather entertain them.
* Gasshole: Played with. She has a fondness for fake fart gags, as she often uses whoopee cushions to prank people and she also liked putting fake dog poop in people's meals when working at the Burpin' Burger. However, she seems to draw the line with the real deal, often being grossed out as the others when one of her sisters (usually Lynn) lets one rip.
* GeniusDitz: Despite being an overall scatterbrain, Luan is extremely competent at engineering increasingly complicated pranks on April Fool's Day and can fatally outwit unsuspecting victims.
* GenkiGirl: She's extremely energetic and cheerful.
* GirlishPigtails:
** A flashback in "Head Poet's Anxiety" reveals that Luan used to have pigtails held by two of her scrunchies.
** She also wears pigtails at the back of her hair while under the alter-ego of The Jokester, one with a pink scrunchie and the other with a yellow one.
* GoofyBuckteeth: She has large buckteeth in addition to PubescentBraces, and is the comedian and prankster of the family.
* GreenEyedMonster: In "Head Poet's Anxiety", Luan gets jealous of Lucy surpassing her goal of becoming the youngest performer at Royal Woods Theater and holds a grudge against her throughout the rest of the day. Of course, Luan sacrifices her goal and reconciles with Lucy the next day.
* HairAntennae: She has two long hair strands sticking up from the middle of her forehead, perfectly suiting her quirky nature.
* HeroicComedicSociopath: When April Fool's Day arrives, she becomes ''[[TheSociopath utterly ruthless]]'' on this day.
* HiddenDepths:
** She's capable of engineering complicated traps and planning day-long prank marathons that rely on predicting her victims' actions down to the very ''second''. [[SerialEscalation It gets crazier with each April Fool's prank-a-thon.]]
** "No Laughing Matter" reveals that Luan owns a diary, an item typically associated with {{girly girl}}s.
** "Director's Rut" reveals that, not only is she a talented playwright, she's skilled enough to direct it.
* TheHyena: Just about every episode in which Luan has a speaking role, she's bound to laugh at her own jokes, sometimes even twice within the same episode.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** She considers knock-knock jokes to be the lowest form of comedy, yet she herself makes them on occasion.
** In "Head Poet's Anxiety", Luan teaches Lucy to build up a thick skin against criticism in order to pursue her life in the showbusiness, yet she herself was shown to be [[CantTakeCriticism sensitive to criticism]] in "No Laughing Matter", though this could very well have been her learning from that instance.
** Luan called Lincoln out for the pride he exhibited about his viral pratfall in "Funny Business", when she herself was narcissistic about her own fame attained from the attention children give her at birthday parties.
* HypocriticalHumor: In "A Tale of Two Tables", Luan calls Lincoln out for attempting to tell a joke at the dinner table, telling him that such conduct is immature. This is coming from [[PungeonMaster Luan]] of all people.
* TheIdealist: Luan thinks that life is all about fun and laughs.
* IdiotHair: She has a few forehead strands of hair that sprout upwards.
* TheIllegible: When Lincoln reads Luan's pun notebook in "No Laughing Matter", he has trouble deciphering her handwriting.
* TheIngenue: Luan is very much a NiceGirl and a KiddieKid who, prior to "Stage Plight", had [[spoiler: never shared a kiss with anyone]].
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Luan's pranks can go beyond limits at times. Make no mistake though, she has little malicious intent and just wants to make people laugh.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: The beginning of "Head Poet's Anxiety" shows that Luan is on good terms with the elderly, as she is seen on their bus entertaining them with her comedy.
* IRegretNothing: Despite having been served a cold dish of karma at the end of "Fool's Paradise", Luan remains immorally unaffected and plots even nastier pranks to come the next year.
* IRejectYourReality: Luan can't help but use her goofball antics as a defense mechanism and respond to criticism with tears, in addition to using a ventriloquist to make her feel company and being so hopelessly idealistic to the point of turning down cynicism.
* ItAmusedMe: Her family is forced to suffer her many excruciating pranks on April Fool's purely for her own amusement.
* JerkassBall:
** Luan picks this up on every April Fool's Day, where she treats her family like absolute shit and pulls dangerous pranks on them without realizing they could get killed.
** She also picks it up in the middle of "Head Poet's Anxiety", where she becomes a hostile GreenEyedMonster towards Lucy for surpassing her dream of becoming the youngest performer at the Royal Woods Theater, showing that she mentored her AllForNothing. Luckily, Luan comes to a JerkassRealization when Lucy [[PlayingSick plays sick]] out of guilt, ultimately reconciling and sacrificing her dream.
* JerkassRealization:
** At the end of "Fool Me Twice", Luan realizes how cruel her behavior on April Fool's Day has been when the rest of the family threatens to move out of the house and feels sorry for her malicious actions, therefore learning her lesson.
** The climax of "Head Poet's Anxiety" culminates in Luan realizing how much of a selfish GreenEyedMonster she was for discouraging Lucy's record as the youngest performer at the Royal Woods Theater, courtesy of the latter faking sick.
* KarmaHoudini: PlayedWith in "April Fool's Rules" and "Fool's Paradise". In the former, she gets pied in the face by Ronnie Anne yet that is merely a slap on the wrist. In the latter, she gets into a HumiliationConga when she falls victims to her own pranks courtesy of Mr. Loud and Lincoln. However, none of these punishments discourage Luan from plotting even more and much worse pranks the next April Fool's Days.
* KiddieKid: Among Lincoln's circle of teenage sisters, where each of them is either a ValleyGirl or {{tomboy}}, Luan stands out on the middle ground, being more childlike and unique than either of them. She's 14/15 years old yet has a fondness for puns, pranking people, clowns, and childlike comedy in general. She also owns and plays with several novelty toys, most notably her ventriloquist Mr. Coconuts.
* KindheartedSimpleton: Luan is by default a DaddysGirl of a BumblingDad and as such has a brain that runs on impulses and irrationalities. That said, she has little malice behind her actions.
* KnockKnockJoke: She considers these to be the lowest form of comedy, [[{{Hypocrite}} though that doesn't stop her from making them on occasion]].
* LamePunReaction: Her siblings often moan at her jokes.
* LargeHam: Due to being a comedian, she sometimes hams things up.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Every April Fools Day episode gives her some comeuppance one after the other.
** Downplayed in both "April Fool's Rules" and "Fool's Paradise". In the former, Ronnie Anne pies her in face while she falls victim to her own pranks in the latter, but neither stop her from plotting even worse and more cruel pranks the next April Fool's Day.
** Played straight at the end of "Fool Me Twice", where the rest of the Louds claim to be moving out of the house just to mess with Luan in retaliation. It is then revealed that the truck they loaded contained nothing but Luan's stuff, prompting her to chase after it.
* LaughingAtYourOwnJokes: She does this almost all the time.
* LoonWithAHeartOfGold: Luan makes up for her occasional annoyance in well-meaning nature and genuine kindness.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: Luan's crush on Benny launches her into full-on awkwardness in "Stage Plight" as she repeatedly tries to ditch the ''Romeo and Juliet'' play recital to avoid having to kiss him.
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* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: The Masculine Girl to Benny's Feminine Boy. Luan's hobby of pulling pranks and telling jokes aren't traditionally considered feminine, while Benny's emotional sensitivity and love of theater are. Also, while they both have their own puppets, Luan has a male ventriloquist dummy named Mr. Coconuts, who wears a boyish outfit and has a gruff, masculine voice, while Benny has a female marionette named Mrs. Appleblossom, who dresses all girly and has a sophisticated, feminine voice. It's also Luan out of the two who struggles to admit and reveal her feelings out loud, while Benny has no problem expressing his feelings and his affection for Luan in the play.
* MotorMouth: Occasionally, mainly in regards to her enthusiasm for jokes.
-->'''Lincoln:''' Why ''did'' the chicken cross the road?
-->'''Luan:''' TO GET TO THE OTHER SIDE! TO RUN AWAY FROM THE COOK! TO PROVE HE'S NO CHICKEN! ''[laughs maniacally]''
* NiceGirl: She loves making people happy for free and generally is cheerful and friendly. [[TemporarilyAVillain Unless it's April Fool's Day.]]
* NonIronicClown: Numerous episodes have shown Luan either leaving the house, or coming back in, dressed in clown attire, and considering that it is alluded to that she runs a successful business, it means that people hire her, re-hire her, and recommend her services to other parents, whose kids actually like, and laugh at, her clowning act.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: A mild case, but she's the only Loud sister with curved eyelashes, likely to emphasize her quirkiness. Also, most of the siblings' eyebrows are proportioned on their hair, while Luan's are on her face as they should be.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Luan is shown to have shades of this, as she occasionally gets too close to others when trying to entertain them. In "Garage Banned", she invades Lori's personal space during her phone call with Bobby and makes her puppet Mr. Coconuts kiss her, roleplaying as her boyfriend.
* NotGoodWithRejection: In "No Laughing Matter", upon hearing her siblings express annoyance towards her comedy routine, Luan does not take kindly to this and becomes sad.
* OfficialCouple: With Benny. They get together at the end of "Stage Plight" following the recital of the ''Romeo and Juliet'' play, and are confirmed to be dating in "A Pimple Plan".
* OlderThanSheLooks: She could easily pass for a kid around Lincoln's age, given that she has no breasts, wears braces, has a [[VocalDissonance high-pitched voice]], and a KiddieKid demeanor.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** It makes sense that Luan would want to utilize her [[ThePrankster prankster]] status on a holiday like April Fool's Day, but the way she does it goes ''way'' beyond InnocentlyInsensitive territory.
** A less serious example, Luan tells Lincoln that they do not tell jokes at the dinner table in "A Tale of Two Tables".
* OppositesAttract: Downplayed with her relationship with Benny because they both like comedy but Luan is noticeably much peppier and more energetic than the emotionally sensitive, theatre-loving Benny.
* PerformanceAnxiety: Becomes a plot point of "Stage Plight". While it's not so much that Luan is nervous of performing in front of a crowd, it's the fact that [[spoiler: she's never kissed anyone before and she's required to do just that]] in the play.
* PieInTheFace: Being a prankster, she's prone to doing this, which is best demonstrated in the intro where she attempts to pie Lincoln in the face but he dodges.
* PinkGirlBlueBoy: She's the Pink Girl to Benny's Blue Boy. Luan wears a pink flower on her shirt and shoes, while Benny wears a sky blue jacket. Additionally, in "Stage Plight", Luan's Juliet costume is pink and Benny's Romeo costume is blue.
* PinkMeansFeminine: How feminine she is varies, but she wears a pink flower on her shirt and shoes. Furthermore, her bed sheets are pink, and flashbacks in "Hand-Me-Downer" and "Head Poet's Anxiety" respectively reveal that she used to wear a pink bike helmet and pink socks. It seems to be another color affiliated with her aside from yellow.
* PluckyComicRelief: She mostly acts like a comic relief in most episodes.
* ThePollyanna: She always looks on the bright side of life.
* PrankCall: Being a [[ThePrankster prankster]], Luan loves making these.
* ThePrankster: She loves to pull practical jokes on people without warning. Her favorite methods seem to be the BucketBoobyTrap and the PieInTheFace. This is [[ExaggeratedTrope taken up to eleven]] on April Fools Day, when she sets up an insane amount of pranks throughout the house. Or even beyond, when she takes over an entire motel to torment her family in "Fool's Paradise."
* PubescentBraces: She wears braces, the only sibling who currently wears them. A flashback in "Hand-Me Downer" shows that she's worn them at least since she was about twelve years old.
* {{Pun}}: Most of her jokes are puns.
* PungeonMaster: Luan could be the TropeNamer, at least of Western animation. If she says something, it'll more often than not be a pun, much to her siblings' annoyance. Around 90% of her lines consist of puns.
* PuppyLove: She and Benny [[spoiler: share their first kiss]] in the play as Romeo and Juliet respectively, and overall engage in malice-free romance.
* RedOniBlueOni:
** She's the red to Luna's blue; while Luna has a reputation for being the loudest of the Louds, she's generally calm and laid-back whereas Luan is constantly high-energy, spouting puns and pulling pranks.
** Her high-energy antics also make her the red to Lucy's blue in "Head Poet's Anxiety", with Lucy being generally quiet and poetic. In general, she's one of the most red out of all the sisters, along with Lynn and Lola.
** To a point, she's also this with her boyfriend, Benny Stein. While both have their eccentric and energetic sides, Benny is generally more down to earth and level-headed than his joke cracking, prankster girlfriend.
* RiddleForTheAges: Why does she become a villainous prankster on April Fool's Day?
* RiseOfZitboy: "A Pimple Plan" revolves around Luan getting her first pimple and trying to cover it up in time for her date with Benny.
* SadClown: Luan sometimes uses her comedy as a defense mechanism when faced with the sad truth.
* {{Sadist}}: As seen only in the "April Fools" episodes, Luan appears to be a sadist. This is shown when she toys with her own family in order to break them emotionally, and laughs at their misery. That, and she continues pranking them even when they beg her to relent, leaving them in complete and utter fear, not knowing when they will get pranked.
* SanityBall: Luan completely drops her comedy routine and starts to behave like a normal individual in "No Laughing Matter" after realizing how annoying it is. Of course, she goes back to normal in the end. She also did the same thing earlier in "The Butterfly Effect" in favor of becoming an activist, [[spoiler: although the entire thing was revealed to just be Lincoln's imagination.]]
* SharedFamilyQuirks: She gets her fondness for puns from Lynn Sr.
* SignatureLaugh: When she makes a pun, she will frequently emit a light hearty chuckle followed by her saying, "Get it?" It's in fact a defining part of her character that just the sound of it is enough to recognize her. She gets a more EvilLaugh when it's April Fool's Day to show how uncaring and unsympathetic of a prankster she is.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: She gets into a romantic relationship with [[NiceGuy Benny]].
* SkewedPriorities: In "Rita Her Rights", Luan worries about not being able to find her whoopee cushion prior to heading off to class, wasting Rita's time in the process.
* SlasherSmile: Expect her to flash these ''a lot'' when it's April Fool's Day; if she does, ''run.''
* SmarterThanYouLook: Luan's quirky appearance and oddball behavior may suggest her to be a [[TheDitz ditzy]] {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, but her intelligence is exhibited through her plots of prank-pulling, showing that she is too competent for her own good.
* SnarkBall: Luan can easily make snarky remarks when upset, showing that there's depth beyond her eccentricity.
* TheSociopath: She becomes this only on April Fool's Day. To be fair, given her erratic personality, she probably has some sort of MediumAwareness that makes her realize no one could really get harmed from her actions. She does look at the audience in one episode.
* SoUnfunnyItsFunny: The core of Luan's puns, which pop up at least once per episode.
* SquirtingFlowerGag: She wears a squirting flower as standart part of her attire.
* StepfordSmiler: Don't be fooled by her cheerful demeanor: Luan doesn't always have her head in the clouds. There are in fact many scenes that explore her insecurities and low self-esteem. That said, even though she is insecure sometimes, she [[DownplayedTrope doesn't generally fake being happy, and her happiness is usually genuine when she's acting happy.]].
** The first instance of her sadness is shown in "Ties That Bind", although she had a reason to be sad then because she was worried she might get kicked out of the mime act.
** Pretty much reaches its epitome in "No Laughing Matter", in which she, after hearing her siblings aggressively criticize her comedic antics, retires comedy and enters a state of stoicism and sanity. Thankfully, she is brought back to normal in the end. This episode also shows that she owns a diary.
** Also shows signs of being LoveHungry in "Head Poet's Anxiety", where Luan becomes a hostile GreenEyedMonster towards Lucy, who she was supposed to mentor, for stealing her thunder.
** Her musical number "Laugh Parade" from "Really Loud Music" reveals that she contemplates scary thoughts about the world around her "every now and then".
* SuddenlyFluentInGibberish: Translates Lily's 'house story' in "Homespun".
* SuperStrength: She was strong enough to carry Lincoln on her head in "Spell It Out". She also broke out of her cage in "April Fools Rules".
* TalkingInYourSleep: Luan records herself sleeping in case she mutters a joke.
-->'''Luan:''' ''[in her sleep]'' What do you call a sleeping bull? A bulldozer. ''[giggles]''
* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: In "Fool's Paradise", Luan becomes a victim of her own pranks as a form of LaserGuidedKarma.
* TemporarilyAVillain: Whenever April Fool's Day rolls around.
* ThemeNaming: She named both of her ventriloquists, Colonel Crackers and Mr. Coconuts, after food.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Relatively speaking, she is the tomboy to her foil Maggie's girly girl. Despite how the fandom portrays them, in canon Maggie is a gloomy emo-type girl who is seemingly more feminine than average since she wears earrings, dark eyeliner, and a skirt, and speaks with a ValleyGirl speech pattern. Luan is slightly more masculine than the average girl due to her boisterous and energetic attitude, violent and destructive tendencies when it comes to forming pranks, her TomboyishPonytail and mischievous nature. Downplayed as Maggie is not outright feminine and Luan has her fair share of girly traits to balance it out, but of the two, Luan is slightly more tomboyish, while Maggie is probably on a similar level to Lucy.
* TomboyishName: "Luan" is a masculine foreign name, though it does sound like "Luanne", which is indeed a girl's name.
* TomboyishPonytail: Luan is quite mischievous and wears her ponytail in a scrunchie.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Luan is a boisterous girl who loves playing (sometimes destructive) pranks and telling jokes, neither of which are particularly feminine hobbies. Also, she owns a ventriloquist dummy who just so happens to be male that wears boyish clothes. Despite this, Luan wears a skirt, a pink flower on her shirt and shoes, has her ponytail in a scrunchie, and owns a diary. She also joins in on the {{Squee}} with her other sisters upon discovering that Lincoln has a girl interested in him. She also had no problem wearing a dress in "Head Poet's Anxiety".
* TookALevelInBadass: Luan is usually sweet, innocent, and cheerful, but on April Fools Day, she has shown herself to be ''such'' a life-threatening individual.
* TookALevelInCynic: There are times where Luan garners rationality when least expected.
** This is a driving point on the plot of "No Laughing Matter", where Luan enters a stoic phase and begins to behave much more civilized.
** This happened earlier in "Butterfly Effect", where she became less blind to the world's problems and mustered up the courage to become an activist. [[spoiler: Though, the entire thing was just Lincoln's imagination.]]
** In "Future Tense", Luan learns about much more serious matters by interning for the government, [[ItMakesSenseInContext although she only did it because her parents told her to]].
* TookALevelInJerkass: She takes one on every April Fool's Day, during which she unleashes meaner and more brutal pranks than usual.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: It's revealed in "Home of the Fave" that Luan's favorite food is meat stroganoff.
* VocalDissonance: Despite being 14/15 years old, Luan has a high-pitched voice that sounds like that of a little girl.
%%* VillainousHarlequin: At least during the April fools episodes.
* WhoopeeCushion: She owns one which is quite frequently used in her pranks.
* WouldHurtAChild: She's even willing to endanger her younger siblings with her {{Deadly Prank|}}s on April Fool's Day.
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