| 1 | !![[center: [-''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' '''[[Characters/{{Animaniacs}} Main Character Index]]'''\ |
| 2 | '''The Warner Siblings''' | [[Characters/PinkyAndTheBrain Pinky and the Brain]] | [[Characters/AnimaniacsSlappySquirrel Slappy Squirrel]] | [[Characters/AnimaniacsGoodfeathers Goodfeathers]] | [[Characters/AnimaniacsRitaAndRunt Rita and Runt]] | [[Characters/AnimaniacsButtonsAndMindy Buttons and Mindy]] | [[Characters/AnimaniacsOtherSupportingCharacters Other Supporting Characters]] -] ]] |
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| 6 | !The Warners |
| 7 | [[folder:General]] |
| 8 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/WarnerSibs_277.jpg]] |
| 9 | [[caption-width-right:350:From ''right'' to left, [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Wakko]], [[{{DeadpanSnarker}} Yakko]] and [[OverlyLongName Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana-Fanna Bo Besca the Third.]] But you can call her Dot.]] |
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| 11 | ->''"Come join the Warner Brothers (and the Warner sister Dot)!''\ |
| 12 | ''Just for fun, we run around the Warner movie lot!''\ |
| 13 | ''They lock us in the tower... whenever we get caught!''\ |
| 14 | ''But we break loose, and then vamoose, and now you know the plot!"'' |
| 15 | -->--'''Animaniacs''' theme song |
| 16 | |
| 17 | The Warner siblings who are the most prominent stars of the show, and as such, get the most screentime. According to the show's backstory, they were created to serve as comic relief to the very dull ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' character Buddy, but proved to be so troublesome that they were locked in the Warner Bros. Studio Water Tower. |
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| 19 | * AdaptationalJerkass: |
| 20 | ** A minor example in the 2020 revival; they're still fun loving, and definitely go after jerks, but they aren't quite as cheery. The siblings are much more likely to goof on each other and aren't above mean-spirited stunts (such as what Dot does to Yakko in "The Cutening" or the other two's response to Yakko's PungeonMaster antics in "[=WhoDonut=]"), although the fans admit they like this, as it makes the Warners more sibling-like. |
| 21 | ** Their relationship with Scratchansniff exemplifies this. In the original show, their madcap antics were their way of showing affection for him. Here, it's shown that each of them is a {{troll}} to the good doctor, with the madness being fully deliberate on their end, since they haven't had a relationship for 22 years. Dot complains that it's no fun harassing him if he won't fight back. The Warners in the original series would ''never'' antagonize someone for the sake of winding them up that wasn't a {{Jerkass}}. |
| 22 | * AerithAndBob: Unlike the other two, "Dot" can be a real name. |
| 23 | * AttentionWhore: Yakko, Wakko and Dot are this trope. They live in a water tower of a movie studio lot in Hollywood in plain sight. Even their Twitter account is full of this trope. |
| 24 | * BadassAdorable: They're all cute cartoon characters who look and act like children but can cause serious chaos when left to their own devices. Dot most of all because she's "the cute one". |
| 25 | * BarefootCartoonAnimal: Most of the instances where they are wearing full outfits. |
| 26 | * BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: |
| 27 | ** Yakko - Brains, being the "smarty-pants." He even calls himself that in an episode of the reboot. |
| 28 | ** Wakko - Brawn, the most destructive of the three, and the most likely to use a mallet. |
| 29 | ** Dot - Beauty, being the "cute one," with most of the episodes with the word "cute" in the title centering around her, like "Cutie and the Beast" and "The Cutening" |
| 30 | * BeenThereShapedHistory: They've had run-ins with several historical figures and had a big influence over their achievements. They've inspired Albert Einstein to write E=mc[[superscript:2]], helped Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti paint the Art/SistineChapel, and inspired Creator/PabloPicasso and Beethoven. |
| 31 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: They may be goofy and crazy, but do not underestimate them. |
| 32 | * BlackBeadEyes: The only characters of the series who have this eye style. They ''were'' created in 1929, after all. |
| 33 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: As a result of being literal cartoon characters their "zaniness" doesn't really come with an off switch. They'll get up to the same antics regardless of if you're friend or foe, the only difference being how far they're willing to take things. This means that what they intend as good-natured fun can drive people around the bend just as much as their intentional mayhem, even if they don't mean it as such. Their treatment of Scratchansniff is ''because'' they like the doctor so much and he's a NervousWreck largely from having to deal with them so much. |
| 34 | * TheCameo: They can be seen in the background of the big game in ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy''. |
| 35 | * CardboardPrison: As a result of their antics, the Warner siblings were locked away in the water tower on the Warner Bros. Studios lot, and allegedly hadn't escaped until the series premiere. However, it's shown in later episodes that not only were Yakko, Wakko, and Dot able to get out whenever they wanted, but were even let out more than once while the tower was being fumigated. Furthermore, similar to ComicBook/TheJoker's attitude towards Arkham Asylum, they view their so-called "prison" as their home, and always return to it willingly when they're done causing chaos. In the reboot, Ralph doesn't even bother to chase them unless they are deliberately messing with people's work. |
| 36 | * CartoonCreature: |
| 37 | ** They have bright red noses, puppy dog ears, and kitty cat tails, but what ''exactly'' are they supposed to be remains unknown. Though others often refer to them as "puppy children", they insist they aren't puppies (though Wakko isn't above acting like one for a gag). |
| 38 | ** Lampshaded in "What Are We?" when Scratchansniff asks what the heck the Warners are. Dot is shown to have WolverineClaws she activate by pushing her palm like a cat, and the Warners contort themselves into a variety of shapes, like eels and seals, while listing possibilities. They end the song by revealing what they are: [[TheUnReveal Cute.]] |
| 39 | * ChromaticArrangement: Invoked more often in the reboot. [[https://twitter.com/TheAnimaniacs/status/1328080335234494464 Dot is the red]] by her pink skirt, [[https://twitter.com/TheAnimaniacs/status/1326268397185687552 Wakko wears a blue shirt]], and [[https://twitter.com/TheAnimaniacs/status/1325913554067681281 Yakko is the yellow by his tannish pants.]] |
| 40 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: They take this trope to extremes, as even their theme song is filled with non-sequiturs and bizarre references. Wakko, however, seems to be the most extreme of the three. |
| 41 | * CulturedBadass: Especially Yakko, but all three have a lot of knowledge in many different subjects. |
| 42 | * CuteLittleFangs: All three of them have these in the reboot -- [[ScaryTeeth except when angry]]. They are most prominent in the Korean animated segments. |
| 43 | * DeadpanSnarker: Mainly Yakko and Dot, but Wakko has his moments as well. |
| 44 | * DependingOnTheWriter: Who sleeps where on their triple-decker bunk bed — or for that matter, whether they ''have'' a triple-decker bunk bed, or each have a bed of their own, or all sleep in one big bed. |
| 45 | * DirtyKid: None of them have hit puberty yet, but they all have an appreciation for attractive members of the opposite sex. |
| 46 | * DissonantSerenity: Being cartoon characters, the Warners are able to make fun out of almost anything. This is most prominent in songs like "A Quake, A Quake", where they seem to be having fun in the middle of a massive earthquake that levels everyone's homes, and "Yakko's Universe", where Yakko cheerfully explains how small and insignificant we are in the grand scope of the universe. |
| 47 | * TheDreaded: |
| 48 | ** PlayedForLaughs. They're so ''annoying'' that no one wants to deal with them, and their arrival typically elicits groans of ThisIsGonnaSuck from anyone who knows who they are. |
| 49 | ** That said, those who enjoy the constant gags and don't mind getting messy often [[InvertedTrope welcome the Warners]] for making things fun. |
| 50 | * EverybodyHasStandards: |
| 51 | ** While at best the Warners tend to be manic and at worst absolute lunatics, they do have standards and morals of sorts. In spite of the havoc they wreak, they are fundamentally good kids that just don't know how to calm down. They will never go out of their way to be malicious or cruel with their antics ''unless'' you are a major {{Jerkass}} either to them or to other people who don't deserve it. After that, [[PayEvilUntoEvil you become their "Special Friend".]] They also can't bring themselves to harm someone who, regardless of personal annoyance or irritation to the Warners, hasn't actually done anything bad or harmful to them or others. In "The Sound of Warners", the nanny is being overly friendly to the kids and singing lame songs that are absolutely driving them nuts. But the Warners can't bring themselves to harm her because she's truly trying to care for them in a kind (albeit saccharine) way. The Warners may be [[{{Jerkass}} Jerks]], but their [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold hearts are solid gold]] on the inside. |
| 52 | ** It should be noted that while they do keep to this code, it only goes as far as preventing ''deliberate'' malice from them. There can be a lot of overlap between what they deem to be harmless fun and driven up the wall madness, as a lot of what happens to Scratchansniff shows. Their code also isn't so binding that they're above bringing in someone who doesn't have their limitations to solve problems, as seen when they recruited Slappy Squirrel to deal with the nanny mentioned above. |
| 53 | ** The Warners may delight in bugging and bothering people — especially jerks — but they definitely have a limit as to what they find annoying. It's most notable in "Survey Ladies", when the titular characters won't leave them alone and keep [[OffScreenTeleportation finding them at every possible turn]] to pepper them with questions ("WOULDJA LIKE TAH TAKE A SUR-VEY?"). By the end of the short, all three are ''begging'' them to stop. |
| 54 | * {{Expy}}: Of WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, among others, because of their statuses as {{Karmic Trickster}}s. |
| 55 | * FishOutOfTemporalWater: In the first episode of the reboot, [[spoiler:due to being gone for over twenty years, they aren't up to date on what's happened since their original show ended. They even have a "Catch Up Song" singing about it]]. |
| 56 | * {{Flanderization}}: While early episodes made it clear that the Warners are only deliberately annoying to those who are mean to them, several of the show's later episodes had them bother and cause harm to other people when not provoked. This is especially notable in "Toy Shop Terror" (where they wreak havoc in a toy store during closing hours while the owner is trying to sleep) and "Back in Style" (where they ridicule, sore, and inflict pain on the stars of the cartoons Warner Bros. loaned them to for money). |
| 57 | * FunPersonified: They know how to have fun all the time and they are usually annoyingly hyper and cheerful. |
| 58 | * HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: |
| 59 | ** Yakko wears pants without a shirt, Wakko wears a shirt without pants, and Dot wears a skirt without a shirt. This was [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in a Creator/KidsWB promo talking about how the block featured cartoons "with pants and with no pants". |
| 60 | --->'''Creator/JeffBennett''': ''Animaniacs'' gives you pants and no pants conveniently in one show!\ |
| 61 | '''Wakko''': I have pants! See?\ |
| 62 | '''Jeff''': Liar liar, pants on fire! |
| 63 | ** Also lampshaded in the episode "Animaniacs Stew". |
| 64 | --->'''Dot''': And what's so special about it ''(the episode)''?\ |
| 65 | '''Wakko''': I'm not wearing any pants! |
| 66 | * {{Hammerspace}}: All of them can pull comically large objects out of thin air. Wakko in particular has his [[BagOfHolding Gag Bag]] full of everything from cars to Elvis Presley. Meanwhile, Yakko sometimes pulls things out of his trousers. |
| 67 | * HyperspaceMallet: Their favorite form of slapstick is to pull out an enormous mallet from out of nowhere and whack something with it, whether it be other people or each other. In fact, they were originally designed to simply smash Buddy over and over with it to make ''something'' interesting out of the cartoon. |
| 68 | * InkblotCartoonStyle: As they were created just before the 30s, the Warners are designed like a WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse-pastiche, with limbs as thin as RubberHoseLimbs, black fur, white faces and gloves, FourFingeredHands, and white paws for feet. Yakko and Wakko also lacked tufts of hair until the 2020 remake, another signature of this art style. |
| 69 | * JerkassBall: Some of the things they do could be needlessly cruel to the point of making them unsympathetic, such as stripping and humiliating Otto (a friendly guy who wasn't being a jerk) in the "Schnitzelbank" song. Fittingly, they end up [[LaserGuidedKarma punished for it]], as the sketch ends with Otto [[BewareTheNiceOnes kicking them out]]. |
| 70 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: They may wreak havoc wherever they go and delight in this, but none of them are bad kids, and are only ''deliberately'' malicious to those who truly deserve it. |
| 71 | * KarmicTrickster: They will be cheerful and annoying towards ''anyone'', but their antics are generally harmless (in fact, they can be pretty nice and polite kids)... unless someone's being a colossal jerk, who then becomes their "Special Friend" and the mallets come out. In one episode, they're being driven crazy by a parody of the nanny from ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic''... but can't bring themselves to clobber her, because she's not doing anything ''wrong'', something which is lampshaded in the middle of the episode as part of a moral code of sorts. After attempting and failing to provoke a reaction from her, [[spoiler:they hire Slappy, who lacks such a code.]] |
| 72 | * {{Leitmotif}}: Like most characters on the series. The ''Animaniacs'' theme generally represents them when they make cameos outside of their own stories, though an equally [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw3XqrOC6dA playful]] tune is just as likely to crop up for their mischief. |
| 73 | * MouthyKid: The Warners (especially Yakko and Dot) aren't afraid to put adults in their place or spout out snarky comments about adults' behavior, but most of the adults that they treat with disdain are [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]] {{Jerkass}}es. |
| 74 | * NiceMeanAndInBetween: While all three are perverted and mischievous, Wakko (Nice) is the most friendly of the Warners, Dot (Mean) is spoiled and vain, and Yakko (In-Between) is a DeadpanSnarker, but is nicer than Dot. |
| 75 | * NaughtyIsGood: They are portrayed as heroic characters and usually mischievous with people who deserve it. Though, when they actually have to go over morals as part of the Saturday morning cartoon format, Wakko and Dot cry and moan. |
| 76 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: |
| 77 | ** Yakko is based very much on [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Groucho Marx]]. |
| 78 | ** Wakko shows traits from Music/RingoStarr as well as [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Harpo Marx]]. |
| 79 | ** Dot was inspired by Gilda Radner, among others. |
| 80 | * NonstandardCharacterDesign: The Warners' design was inspired by this 1930's style; them being designed differently compared to the other characters is explained by them actually being created in 1929 InUniverse. |
| 81 | * NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: They often hug and kiss the people (male or female) they interact with. |
| 82 | * ProportionalAging: Although the Warners were created in 1930, the passage of time has a slowed effect on their biological aging. This is evident in the episodes "Wakko's Short Shorts" and "Fear and Laughter In Burbank" in which Wakko ages into an elder after a few centuries and Dot sees her old future self. Tom Ruegger, the creator of the original series, guessed their ages to possibly be 14, 11, and 9 but disputed it. The bible for the original series stated them to be teenagers at that point. |
| 83 | * ObfuscatingInsanity: While they are eccentric, they often play up their {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies to annoy other people for the fun of it. |
| 84 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: Especially seen in the episode "[[Recap/AnimaniacsEpisode5 Taming of the Screwy]]", where Dr. Scratchansniff desperately tries to teach them good manners for most of the episode, but at the end, it's revealed that they are perfectly capable of acting well-mannered and serious -- they just prefer ''not'' to because it's more fun. |
| 85 | * OlderThanTheyLook: Due to being ProportionalAging, the Warners look and act like kids despite being as old if not ''older'' than many of the adults who have to handle their antics. |
| 86 | * OldShame: An in-universe example. The people at Warner Bros. Studios have been so ashamed of the Warners that in addition to locking them away in a water tower, they also refused to release any of their cartoons or to publicly acknowledge the trio's existence. |
| 87 | * OverlyLongGag: Their first solo skit had them trying to get flypaper off their butts. WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck noted that it was a perfectly funny thing for a cartoon short... but this one lasted ''eight hours''. |
| 88 | * PopCulturedBadass: They love to make of pop culture references. |
| 89 | * PungeonMaster: They love playing with words and making puns (even used occasionally [[{{Demographically Inappropriate Humour}} to hide dirty jokes]]) and often rely on [[HurricaneOfPuns hurricanes of puns]], especially when dealing with Dr. Scratchnsniff. |
| 90 | * RhymeThemeNaming: The brothers, Yakko and Wakko, has rhyming names, while the sister, Dot, has an OddNameOut as well as being the only girl. |
| 91 | %%* RoyalBlood: In "[[Recap/AnimaniacsEpisode10 King Yakko]]" [[spoiler:and in ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish''.]] |
| 92 | * RunningGag: |
| 93 | ** They started out as this in the Buddy cartoons, as they'd appear out of nowhere to smash him flat with their mallets. Dot even lampshades this trope by name in "Survey Ladies", as the Survey Ladies' attempts to get them to talk grow increasingly ridiculous. |
| 94 | ** They also have several recurring gags throughout their skits, such as whacking people with a mallet, smooching people they're annoying, and the "Hello Nurse!" reaction. |
| 95 | * ScaryTeeth: In the 2020 reboot, they're often drawn with fangs -- particularly when angry and regularly in the Korean animated episodes. |
| 96 | * SealedGoodInACan: Being locked up in a water tower for several decades certainly counts, though the fact several episodes show them venturing through several different time periods (World War II among them, which largely took place a decade after they were supposedly locked up) implies they might not have even been locked up that long. |
| 97 | * SmarterThanYouLook: As bizarre and insane as all three of them act, they have an utterly brilliant grasp of geography, history, and a host of other subjects. They can recite the nations of the world, all 50 US states and their capitals, and every President of the United States from ''memory'' with no difficulty, and can even throw in some random facts about each while they do it. |
| 98 | * TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Played for laughs. Throw them bodily out the door, turn around, and ''there they are.'' They're also on the ''receiving'' end of this on occasion, notably from the likes of [[OldWindbag Pip]], Baloney the Dinosaur, and [[ChronicPetKiller Elmyra]]. |
| 99 | * ThisMeansWar: Push them too far, and they will say (in unison) this variation of Groucho's and Bugs' quote. Of course, they ocassionally change "war" to "War-ners". |
| 100 | * ToonPhysics: As actual cartoons, all of them abide by this, meaning that they can never really get injured and can express themselves in ways that many of the other characters around them can't. Wakko makes particular use of this, spontaneously multiplying himself when told to do a math problem, inflating like a balloon when asked to "expand" on his thoughts (he pops himself to deflate back into his seat), and twisting himself around in a coil while desperately trying not to wet himself. |
| 101 | * TooSpicyForYogSothoth: Repeatedly. |
| 102 | * TheTrickster: Since they are based on WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, this is a given. |
| 103 | * TuftOfHeadFur: Yakko and Wakko both have these in the reboot. |
| 104 | * TwoGuysAndAGirl: Non-romantic variant, obviously. |
| 105 | * {{Unperson}}: Attempted to them InUniverse, as the studio saw them as an OldShame, locked them in the tower, and refused to acknowledge their existence. |
| 106 | * VocalEvolution: In the reboot, since their voice actors have about 22 more years of experience, the Warners now have a wider range when singing, especially Yakko, who sounds like a smooth Broadway singer in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx36GRy8axQ The Catchup Song]]" when going into the wild-guesses verse, and ''especially'' at the beginning of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfuL2DU_Ekg Reboot It]]". Their voices are also slightly lower due to not being sped up by 5% like in the original run. |
| 107 | * WhiteGloves: All three wear these. In an episode, Wakko's gloves take on a life of their own. |
| 108 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: They're afraid of Mr. Director's eccentricity, Baloney the Dinosaur, the public restroom at a gas station (that hasn't been washed in years), and hippies. |
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| 111 | [[folder:Yakko]] |
| 112 | [[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yakko_warner_animaniacs_579.jpg]] |
| 113 | [[caption-width-right:210:He yaks.]] |
| 114 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/RobPaulsen (English), Creator/RyuseiNakao (Japanese), Rafael Monsalve (Latin American Spanish), Hervé Rey (French), Creator/MassimilianoAlto (Italian) |
| 115 | |
| 116 | The eldest of the Warners. He's the fast-talking, wisecracking, and most literate of the three, taking the lead in conversations and generally looking after his younger siblings when they're not all bouncing off the walls. |
| 117 | ---- |
| 118 | * AllMenArePerverts: Shares this with his brother Wakko, particularly when Hello Nurse is around. Significantly toned down in the reboot. |
| 119 | * AloofBigBrother: He's this toward Wakko, but at least he's caring. |
| 120 | * AmbiguouslyBi: While Yakko is mostly attracted to women, he has kissed a few men on occasion. Yakko once willingly kissed Dr. Scratchansniff (who was really trying to kiss his girlfriend) on the lips, embraced him, and said, "I didn't know you cared." Another episode revealed that Yakko wears [[StockingFiller women's stockings and garters]] (though this could have just been a CutawayGag). |
| 121 | * AmbiguouslyJewish: He's based on Creator/GrouchoMarx and his first name is derived from the Yiddish name "Yakov", not to mention the fact that the real Warner brothers (the studio founders) were Jewish. He and his siblings enthusiastically celebrate Christmas, though. |
| 122 | * AuthorsRetaliation: The 2020 revival features a segment where Yakko is put through his own ''WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck'' trial, where he's tormented by an anonymous animator. Unlike past victims of this homage, Yakko actually has full medium awareness and manages to turn the tables on his tormentor. |
| 123 | * BigBrotherInstinct: |
| 124 | ** When Wakko dies after eating too many Swedish meatballs, you better believe Yakko literally goes to Hell and back to rescue him. (Dot too, of course, but she's Wakko's ''little'' sister.) Also gets expressed subtly throughout, with things like leading his siblings around by the hand and shielding them from danger. He's straight-up PromotedToParent in ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish''. |
| 125 | ** In the 2020 reboot episode "Bun Control", when Wakko gets hurt during the anime sequence, Yakko goes absolutely ballistic, complete with BattleAura, and attacks Dwayne [=LaPistol=] head-on. |
| 126 | * BubblePipe: Yakko occasionally "puffs" on a soap-bubble pipe while parodying highbrow intellectuals. |
| 127 | * ButtMonkey: In the reboot, he's the one getting smashed by a big mallet by Wakko, zapped constantly every time he says a terrible pun, and tormented by an animator a la "WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck". Don't worry, he's cool with it, and he got the best of the animator (something ''Bugs Bunny'' failed to do. Twice). |
| 128 | * CharacterCatchphrase: Whenever some DemographicallyInappropriateHumour shows up (or there's something that could be mistaken for a DoubleEntendre), Yakko blows a kiss to the viewers and says "Goodnight everybody!".[[invoked]] |
| 129 | * CulturedBadass: |
| 130 | ** As wacky as he is, Yakko is still the most literate of the three. He is also shown to be capable of speaking ''proper and actual Japanese'', as opposed to the stereotyped barely-Asian-sounding gibberish you usually get in western cartoons. He can also name every single country in the world and every word in the English language. |
| 131 | ** In the 2020 reboot, he takes grave offense when a rapper disses Creator/WilliamShakespeare and starts a rap battle while constantly quoting "Big Willy Shakes". |
| 132 | * DeadpanSnarker: While all of the Warner siblings can indulge in this a bit, Yakko is the standout. |
| 133 | * {{Determinator}}: One interesting example is him singing all the words in the English language to the tune of the Mexican Hat Dance song. He's obviously broken down when shown singing the "Z" words but refuses to quit and doesn't faint until being requested to [[ImpossibleTask sing all the numbers above zero]]. |
| 134 | * DrearyHalfLiddedEyes: Often has this expression, in both the series proper and promotional art, to show his irreverent, arrogant SmugSmiler personality. |
| 135 | * EverybodyHatesMathematics: In "Gold Meddlers", Wakko and Dot claim that Yakko never learned how to do math. In the original series, he could do math, specifically multiplication. He even had a whole song about how to do multiplication. |
| 136 | * EyebrowWaggle: One of his signature moves, borrowed directly from WesternAnimation/BugsBunny. He'll often accompany a waggle with an AsideGlance after making a sly remark. |
| 137 | * TheFace: While the trio definitely played off each other, Yakko appeared in the most skits, typically got the most lines, and got to sing the most songs. |
| 138 | * HatesBeingAlone: Implied in the reboot. [[spoiler:Before Nickelwise reveals his fear of people not finding him funny, he starts to panic when he realises he is all alone in a dark, empty office, and ''begs'' for someone to talk to him and react to his jokes.]] |
| 139 | * HiddenBackupPrince: To the royal family of Anvilania. |
| 140 | * TheLeader: In so far as the Warners can be said to have a leader, Yakko is it. In his rap in "Gift Rappers", he even calls himself the "leader of the Animated Maniacs". |
| 141 | * KiddieKid: Even though he is older than his siblings, he acts just like them, although he is the wittiest and snarkiest of the three. |
| 142 | * MeaningfulName: Of the three Warner siblings, Yakko's certainly the most vocal. |
| 143 | * MotorMouth: Especially when he starts singing. In the 2020 reboot he challenges Jay-Pac -- a multiple Grammy winning rapper in-universe -- to a rap battle, ''and wins''. |
| 144 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's pretty obviously based on Creator/GrouchoMarx. |
| 145 | * NoodleIncident: Milton Berle and Yakko didn't get along for an unexplained reason. |
| 146 | * AnOddPlaceToSleep: In the reboot, his bed is ''a ball pit''. |
| 147 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: |
| 148 | ** Before the quest of the Wishing Star begins, he spends much of his time caring for Dot while Wakko goes to find work. Yakko is at his most serious and brotherly, reading her bedtime stories and keeping her warm. [[spoiler:In the climax, it's unclear if he figured out she was acting when pretending to die from cannonfire. He looks relieved when she reveals it was a ruse to buy Wakko time to reach the Wishing Star]]. |
| 149 | ** In "Fear and Laughter in Burbank" from the reboot. [[spoiler:When Nickelwise tries to scare Dot by showing her as a no-longer-cute old woman and Wakko with plastic food, they're both fine — [[SubvertedTrope Dot]] is excited by the prospect of seeing her future, and [[ExtremeOmnivore Wakko]] eats all the plastic food anyway. However, when Nickelwise lures Yakko into an empty office environment where there's nobody there to laugh with him, then doesn't react to his jokes, revealing Yakko's fear of people not finding him funny and not being able to "yack" anymore after Nickelwise ''ties his tongue''? The kid breaks, and becomes a screaming, terrified mess. The normally confident, smart-aleck, five-steps-ahead-of-his-foes Yakko is the ONLY ONE of the Warner siblings who the clown manages to scare, and he comes very close to losing his soul before Wakko and Dot show up. He's visibly and audibly shaken by this after he comes to, and only goes back to his usual self after his brother and sister reassure him that they do think he's funny (and that they're both okay after their encounters with Nickelwise).]] |
| 150 | * SadClown: In the 2020 revival, it is revealed that Yakko's fear is that people wouldn't find him funny. |
| 151 | * TeamDad: He is the "guardian" of the trio, or the parental figure, as he seems to take charge in many situations, and acts generally in a fatherly manner towards his siblings (Especially in ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish''). |
| 152 | * TrouserSpace: Yakko keeps lots of things in his pants. |
| 153 | * UnexpectedSuccessor: He's something like a second cousin twice removed to the Anvilanian bloodline. |
| 154 | * VerbalTic: Tends to say "Uhhhhh..." at the beginning of a sentence. Especially right before a zinger. [[ActorInspiredElement This was actually improvised by his voice actor.]] Interestingly, it's also used in a CouchGag as the only one ''not'' to include the -y suffix. |
| 155 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: He's always only wearing slacks, save for the occasional costume change when the episode/musical number calls for it. |
| 156 | [[/folder]] |
| 157 | |
| 158 | [[folder:Wakko]] |
| 159 | [[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wakko_warner_animaniacs_234.jpg]] |
| 160 | [[caption-width-right:210:He packs away the snacks while UsefulNotes/BillClinton plays the sax.]] |
| 161 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/JessHarnell, Creator/MauriceLaMarche (Wakko's burps in "The Great Wakkorotti" shorts) (English), Creator/YuuMizushima (Japanese), Giset Blanco (Latin American Spanish), Michel Mella (French), Creator/DavideLepore (Italian) |
| 162 | |
| 163 | The middle Warner child. A quiet but especially goofy kid with "middle kid syndrome", his actions speak far louder than his words. |
| 164 | ---- |
| 165 | * AlliterativeName: '''W'''akko '''W'''arner. |
| 166 | * AllDrummersAreAnimals: Whenever drums are needed, such as in a {{Rimshot}} gag or "Little Drummer Warners", he's the one who plays them—which could be explained by this trope, [[FridgeBrilliance the fact that he's based on Ringo]], or both. |
| 167 | * AllForNothing: In "Wakko's America", Wakko breaks into song and correctly names all 50 states and their capitals (with Washington D.C. for flavor). The problem is that he's playing a game of ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' Since he didn't respond in the form of a question, his answer is invalid despite all his effort. He {{facepalm}}s when he realizes this by smashing his own fiddle across his head. |
| 168 | * AllMenArePerverts: Shares this with his brother Yakko, particularly when Hello Nurse is around. Significantly toned down in the reboot. |
| 169 | * BagOfHolding: His Gag Bag can hold everything from the Warners' signature mallets to Music/ElvisPresley to a full-sized car to an entire functioning toilet. |
| 170 | %% Doesnt' explain what the reactijon is. * BerserkButton: Giving him an F (especially on his hat). |
| 171 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: He's a sweet-natured kid, but he's perfectly willing to mallet anyone who annoys him. And when he gets ''REALLY'' mad... watch out. |
| 172 | * BigEater: As the theme song states, "Wakko packs away the snacks". Yakko and Dot might eat their weight in sweets, but Wakko's the type to gobble up everything in the refrigerator, and then eat the fridge for dessert. Thanks to ArtEvolution, the reboot actually shows him as having a bigger gut than his siblings. |
| 173 | * BlueIsHeroic: He wears a blue shirt and is the most kind-hearted of the Warners. |
| 174 | * BorrowingTheBeatles: His voice is modelled after Music/RingoStarr, but done in a higher pitch. [[invoked]] WordOfGod said that one of the reason Creator/JessHarnell got the job is he was asked to do a Music/TheBeatles voice during his audition, and he proved that he was actually able to do a very convicing impersonation of ''all'' of the Fab Four. |
| 175 | ** This is referenced to in "Yakko Amakko" when the animator switches Yakko's voice to Ralph's, then Dot's -- then at Wakko's voice, Yakko actually uses it to do a Ringo impression. |
| 176 | --->'''Yakko:''' Actually, wait. I've always wanted to try this. |
| 177 | * BreakoutCharacter: He was the most popular Warner sibling (and, to an extent, the show, alongside Pinky and the Brain), to the point that he ended up appearing in a lot of episodes without his siblings, or in episodes where his siblings became DemotedToExtra. (i.e. "Clown and Out", "Wakko's Gizmo", "Go Fish", "Bingo", "Ten Short Films About Wakko Warner", etc.) It's pretty much why he was the focus of ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish''; he's pretty much the face of the series. It helps that, of all the Warner siblings, he is the closest in age to the target audience. |
| 178 | * ButtMonkey: Out of the siblings, he tends to be the one who gets the physical abuse, even being used as a battering ram by his siblings in the reboot's pilot. However, like Yakko, he's alright with it. |
| 179 | * CharacterCatchphrase: "Faboo!" |
| 180 | * CharacterExaggeration: His big eater tendecies in the reboot to the point to becoming his only character trait. |
| 181 | * CharacterTics: He's prone to having his tongue hang out for no apparent reason to add to his goofiness. |
| 182 | * ChildishOlderSibling: Sometimes acts like if he was younger than his little sister. |
| 183 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Wakko seems to be the most extreme of the three. In one episode where the kids visit a shopping mall, he walks the wrong way on an escalator and declares "Mine's not working." Yakko explains it as "middle kid syndrome". |
| 184 | * CrazyPrepared: He has almost anything he needs in his [[{{Hammerspace}} Gag Bag]] for any punchline. |
| 185 | * ADayInTheLimelight: |
| 186 | ** "Potty Emergency" features him as he desperately tries to find a potty to use, giving him more lines than he's ever had in any episode prior. |
| 187 | ** "Ten Short Films About Wakko Warner" shows [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ten shorts revolving around Wakko's life]]. |
| 188 | * EquippableAlly: One scene features Dot using Wakko as a {{Gatling|Good}} gun to shoot malted milk balls at a candy store owner. |
| 189 | * EmbarrassingDampSheets: In one issue of the comics, Yakko implies that Wakko once wet the bed when having a nightmare about the Olsen Twins. |
| 190 | * ExtremeOmnivore: Wakko can and will eat anything you put in front of him. [[EatTheBomb Exploding tapes]], glass perfume bottles, the refrigerator and everything in it... if you can think of it, he's probably eaten it. |
| 191 | * {{Gasshole}}: Wakko's ridiculous burping is provided by Creator/MauriceLaMarche, who can actually do that on cue. |
| 192 | * HealingFactor: In "Hidenburg Cola" of the reboot, [[spoiler:after his tail is torn off, he reveals he's 5% salamander and grows it back.]] |
| 193 | * IronicFear: Wakko is violently afraid of clowns despite the fact that he and his siblings resemble classic clowns themselves, with their white faces, red noses, and silly antics. |
| 194 | * LiteralMinded: After one of the the Warners' skits in the 30s, Wakko decides to paint the town red by pulling out a can of red paint and brushing it all over anything in sight. |
| 195 | * MeaningfulName: By a narrow margin, Wakko is the craziest of the Warners (it's the ditziness). |
| 196 | * MiddleChildSyndrome: Probably most evident in that Yakko is a HiddenBackupPrince, Dot introduces herself as "Princess", but he has no noble title at all. He's also dismayed to find that he doesn't get as much fan mail as his siblings, and when he does get it, he admits that some of it was written by himself. |
| 197 | * MyNaymeIs: Wakko's name is spelled with a double k than a "ck" that the word is normally spelled with so as to fit with Yakko better. |
| 198 | * NeverBareheaded: He wears a red, backwards baseball cap that he's almost never seen without. |
| 199 | * NiceGuy: Wakko is a trickster like his siblings but he's sweet-natured and the most polite out of all the Warners. This was downplayed in the revival, but still. |
| 200 | * PinkGirlBlueBoy: Blue Boy to Dot's Pink Girl. He wears a blue turtleneck, while Dot wears a pink skirt. |
| 201 | * PottyEmergency: The TropeNamer and one of his most famous ADayInTheLimelight episodes has him needing to pee after drinking a large soda while at the movies. After a most sadistic search, he finally gets the relief he needs by installing a toilet from his gaggy bag into a room in the very movie he and his siblings are watching. |
| 202 | * PottyFailure: In a special Japanese-themed issue in the comic series, Wakko has to go potty, but can't because he didn't go before he and his siblings left the pagoda. Then, when a herd of bandits run into the Warners, Wakko lampshades this by saying he doesn't have to go potty anymore. |
| 203 | * TheQuietOne: He's the least talkative of the Warners. In some gags, he doesn't even talk. |
| 204 | * {{Rimshot}}: One of Wakko's jurisdictions is to supply these as necessary. |
| 205 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: Aside from a slightly more rounded head, he is the spitting image of Yakko when without his hat. |
| 206 | * SuddenlyShouting: After his first two attempts to whisper to Yakko that he needs to use the restroom in "Potty Emergency" fail, he shouts it loud enough for the entire theater to hear. He does it again to get an obese lady to move aside so he can leave. |
| 207 | * UnexplainedAccent: Wakko has a Liverpudlian brogue for absolutely no damn reason -- at least not one ever explained on the show. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that he's a cartoon character in-universe and therefore pretty much runs on RuleOfFunny. His voice actor, Jess Harnell, explains that RuleOfFunny is the only reason why he gave Wakko the accent. |
| 208 | * ToiletHumor: He provides a lot of this kind of humor. "The Great Wakkorotti" sketches involve him burping classical music, and the plot of "Potty Emergency" involves him drinking too much soda at the movie theater and [[PottyEmergency needing to find a restroom]] before he has an accident. |
| 209 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: In the original series, Wakko used to be an enthusiastic, energetic, creative, polite kid. In the 2020 revival, while still the nicest of the Warners, not so much. |
| 210 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: "Clown and Out" (another popular [[ADayInTheLimelight "day in the limelight" episode]] featuring Wakko) shows that he has a fear of clowns. Also, according to the Topps trading card game for the show, he also fears potty emergencies. |
| 211 | * YoungerThanTheyLook: He's only 7 according to the "Hello Nurse" song, but writers have explained that he only said it in order to rhyme with "heaven". WordOfGod [[note]]in this case, from Tom Ruegger -- who would actually later confirm his age as 11[[/note]] is that the Warners' ages aren't specified beyond "not old enough to date". And course they're technically [[OlderThanTheyLook in their 60s]]. |
| 212 | [[/folder]] |
| 213 | |
| 214 | [[folder:Dot]] |
| 215 | [[quoteright:168:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/download_dot.jpg]] |
| 216 | [[caption-width-right:168:She's cute and has wit.]] |
| 217 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/TressMacNeille (English), Creator/IkueOtani (Japanese), Elena Prieto (Latin American Spanish), Creator/BarbaraTissier (French), Creator/MarisaLeal (Brazilian Portuguese), Creator/IlariaLatini (Italian) |
| 218 | |
| 219 | The youngest Warner and the only girl. Dot is proud of how cute she is, but she's just as willing to take a mallet to the nearest problem as either of her brothers. |
| 220 | ---- |
| 221 | * AbsurdCuttingPower: The WolverineClaws she sprouts in "What Are We?" slice cleanly through Scratchansniff's couch. |
| 222 | * AmbiguouslyBi: Not in the series proper, but potentially ambiguously pansexual if the [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/0127f1e6c04f8d3a0fdf76a29ed40390/1469338af3f3a16b-ca/s1280x1920/77600cc05d75cc8a8c80748e966a2c4073b5b5fa.jpg rainbow she put in the tower]] in the ep 'The Cutening' to go by. She is by far and large into attractive men, and at times hostile towards attractive women. |
| 223 | * AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Usually averted, but she ends up annoying both her brothers during the "I'm Cute" song and annoying Yakko throughout "I'm Mad". |
| 224 | * AttentionWhore: She can be one when she's showing off how cute she is. |
| 225 | * BadassAdorable: She is a cute little girl in a pink dress with a flower in her hair and she's just as devastatingly annoying as her brothers. She also carries cute little boxes that hold her... pets. |
| 226 | * BerserkButton: She does not take kindly to being called "[[EmbarrassingNickname Dottie]]", to the point where she'll kill you if you do. She says herself in the song "Macadamia Nut" ([[SongParody a "Macarena" parody]]) that "if you call me Dottie, I'll have to hurt you." She's ''incensed'' that Yakko, of all people, would make this "mistake" in "Wakkiver Twist" before Yakko reminds her that "Dottie Bates" is her actual name in the sketch. |
| 227 | * CharacterCatchphrase: "''And'' the Warner '''''sister'''''." |
| 228 | * CharacterExaggeration: She had some hints of feminist tendencies in the original show, but it was far from her main trait, with her cuteness being her trademark. Come the 2020 reboot, her "cuteness" shtick was nearly completely dropped and her feminist tendencies were dialed up considerably, to the point that she's given ''two musical numbers'' dedicated to historic women. |
| 229 | * TheCutie: |
| 230 | -->'''Yakko''': I'm Yakko.\ |
| 231 | '''Wakko''': I'm Wakko.\ |
| 232 | '''Dot''': And I'm cute! |
| 233 | * DeliberatelyCuteChild: She exploits her cuteness for all it's worth. |
| 234 | * EarsAsHair: She wears her ears in a scrunchie. |
| 235 | * TheFakeCutie: She likes to think of herself as TheCutie and takes her cuteness very seriously, but she's hardly innocent. She's a snarky troll like her brothers, and is also as perverted as them. |
| 236 | * FluffyTheTerrible: Most of Dot's "Pets" when she does the "Wanna See My Pet?" |
| 237 | * GenkiGirl: She has the same energy of her male siblings. |
| 238 | * GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: She's vain, flirty, wears a pink skirt and a flower in her hair, and brags about her cute appearance. But she's also a mischievous and sassy prankster to the point of being OneOfTheBoys with her brothers. |
| 239 | * GoingCommando: In some parts of the original and the reboot, she was depicted without any panties in some scenes. |
| 240 | * HypocriticalHumor: A [[HeadTurningBeauty sexy woman]] walks by, causing Yakko and usually Wakko to shout "Hello, Nurse!", and Dot insults them for it and sometimes has to drag them away. A sexy man walks by, and she responds in exactly the same way her brothers did. |
| 241 | * InsistentTerminology: Whenever someone refers to the Warner Brothers, expect her to pipe up with "and the Warner ''Sister!''" |
| 242 | * IAmGreatSong: "I'm Cute". Her brothers, who are singing the chorus, eventually get sick of it and interrupt with mocking lyrics of their own. |
| 243 | * JerkassToOne: With Wakko, she is sometimes only picking on him. Justified since they're siblings. |
| 244 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She may act vain, spoiled, and selfish, but she has shown several times that she cares about her brothers and other people. |
| 245 | * {{Kawaiiko}}: She might be a Western example of this, as she constantly brags about her cuteness to the point of having an entire song titled "I'm Cute", and being referred to in the theme song as the "cute" one. |
| 246 | * LittleMissSnarker: Not quite to Yakko's level, but Dot can snark quite a bit as well. |
| 247 | * MeaningfulName: She's named for the dot in "Warner Bros'''.''' Pictures". |
| 248 | * MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Dot is one of the few inversions in Western animation that willingly introduces herself as this trope on a regular basis. |
| 249 | * NotSoAboveItAll: She rolls her eyes at her brother's perverted moments, but she's just as excited as they are when it comes to painting naked people all over the Sistine Chapel with Michelangelo. |
| 250 | * OddNameOut: She's the only Warner that doesn't have an "-akko" name. Lampshaded in one of the comics, when Yakko says that they should have named her "Dakko". |
| 251 | * OddReactionOut: Seeing as the Warner siblings are all straight, a common occurrence is Yakko and [[DirtyKid Wakko]] finding a lady very hot, but Dot being the OnlySaneWoman, rolling her eyes at their behaviour. |
| 252 | * OnlySaneWoman: Whenever Yakko and Wakko become perverted when seeing hot women like Hello Nurse. |
| 253 | -->'''Dot:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Boys]]. |
| 254 | * OverlyLongName: |
| 255 | ** Her full name is Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana-Fanna Bo Besca the Third. But you can call her Dot. [[BerserkButton Call her Dottie, and you die.]] |
| 256 | ** In one skit, even Dot gets exasperated at how long her name is and how easy it is to mess up. Yakko teases her for this, and she dares him to try saying her name without messing up. [[InsultBackfire He does.]] |
| 257 | * PinkGirlBlueBoy: Pink Girl to Wakko's Blue Boy. Wakko wears a blue turtleneck, while Dot wears a pink skirt. |
| 258 | * PinkMeansFeminine: Her skirt. |
| 259 | * PottyFailure: Lampshaded. In the episode with Rasputin, at the end when the moral of the day is revealed to be "Brush your teeth," Dot says, "That makes me feel all warm and squishy. Either that or I need to wear diapers." |
| 260 | * ProudBeauty: The most fervent admirer of her own cuteness, to {{Narcissist}} levels. Especially during her IAmSong where she states "I'm simply a goddess." |
| 261 | * SmallNameBigEgo: She believes to be perfect in every way. The song "I'm cute" is all about her endlessly praising herself, while also claiming [[BlatantLies "I am never vain"]] among her positive qualities. |
| 262 | %%* StrawFeminist: She's a pastiche of modern day feminists, especially in the reboot. She somehow thought that a female CEO of a major corporation would translate into [[InsaneTrollLogic becoming a CEO herself in the future]], but that CEO told her to bug off when Dot tried beseeching her to be her successor. |
| 263 | %%* TookALevelInJerkass: In the original series, she was already the TokenEvilTeammate of the Warners due to how vain she was, but in the reboot, her new [[StrawFeminist feminist persona]] made her act even more self absorbed than before. She also became more irritating, constantly bringing up how capable a woman is. |
| 264 | * {{Tsundere}}: She can be friendly, but also tends to get angry more often than her brothers. |
| 265 | * UngratefulBastard: After all those years Yakko took care of her and Wakko going to get money for a surgery in ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'', taking the lead in some episodes in the reboot and let her have a voice, she paid them jokes, insults, etc. |
| 266 | * VanityIsFeminine: She's extremely vain and concerned with her appearance, far more than her brothers. |
| 267 | * VocalEvolution: Her voice is noticeably deeper in the reboot, likely due to her voice actress, Creator/TressMacNeille, not being able to reach the same tones from the original series. |
| 268 | [[/folder]] |
| 269 | |
| 270 | !Major Supporting Characters |
| 271 | |
| 272 | [[folder:Ralph Theodore Guard]] |
| 273 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ralph7_1378.jpg]] |
| 274 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/FrankWelker (English), Creator/FumihikoTachiki (Japanese; regular voice), Creator/KozoShioya (Japanese; few episodes), Michel Modo (French) |
| 275 | |
| 276 | An overweight Warner Bros. studio security guard who is always trying, but never succeeding, to capture the Warners and return them to the water tower. [[spoiler:Briefly the CEO of Warner Bros in-between Season 2 and Season 3 of the revival.]] |
| 277 | ---- |
| 278 | * {{Acrofatic}}: Ralph may be big and fat, but he is able to keep up with the Warners when they are on a fast train in the Western Stage in the Sega Genesis Game and when he tries to grab them in the Super Nintendo Game he gains a quick burst of speed. |
| 279 | * AdaptationalBadass: While he is pathetic at his job in the Animaniacs show, in the video games Ralph can actually put up a serious threat for the Warner Siblings if they are not careful. |
| 280 | * AdaptationalDumbass: In his appearances in ''Tiny Toon Adventures'', he was a competent security guard who did a good job keeping toons like Plucky from getting past him without a valid reason. In this show, he isn't that much different from the DumbMuscle characters from ''Looney Tunes'', and is often seen sleeping on the job. |
| 281 | * ArtEvolution: He appears in the 2020 series with a slightly altered look to fit the new angular art style, as well as a more realistic security guard outfit (a dull grey color as opposed to blue that made him look like a cop). |
| 282 | * BigEater: He loves junk food, which is why he is so fat. |
| 283 | * ButtMonkey: He always fails in his duty of catching the Warners, and even when he isn't chasing them, bad things tend to happen to him. |
| 284 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: He first appeared (without a name) on ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' where he was surprisingly competent at keeping the characters from getting into the studios they were trying to visit, all the while sleeping on the job. (Of course, there is a difference when the Toons are more than seventy years old and have decades of escaping the water tower. Plucky was only a few years old in cartoon time). |
| 285 | * TheDitz: This guy didn't even notice when the Warners were hiding in ''the chair he was sitting in.'' |
| 286 | * DumbIsGood: Ralph isn't bright, but his heart's in the right place. He's just doing his job to keep the Warners out of trouble; he means no harm. |
| 287 | * EarlyBirdCameo: His ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' appearances, where he was BrilliantButLazy. |
| 288 | * FatIdiot: He's dim-witted and very overweight. As seen in the 2020 series, this has not changed. |
| 289 | * FriendlyEnemy: Although most of his screentime with the Warners involves attempting to capture them while they physically injure him in their attempts to escape, they're pretty cordial to each other when not at odds. |
| 290 | * HappilyMarried: In "A Christmas Plotz", he's shown to have a wife and son. |
| 291 | * HeroAntagonist: Technically it's his job to keep the Warners out of trouble. They acknowledge it and only mess with him because they're Toons and that's what they do. Heck, when Plotz fires him, the Warners show Plotz a BadFuture where Plotz's son avenges his father to protect their guard. |
| 292 | * HiddenDepths: ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'' reveals that he's actually content with his life. He says if he got a wish, he would retain his job as a cop but would want to direct traffic. Considering most of the antagonists in ''Animaniacs'' are never satisfied. |
| 293 | * ManChild: Ralph has a very childlike mindset. |
| 294 | * ObsessedWithFood: Just look at ''Meatball Man'' and all the other food related things Ralph pushed for in his [[spoiler: brief time as Warner CEO]]. |
| 295 | * PermaStubble: Always has 5 o'clock shadow. |
| 296 | * PunchClockVillain: He's a security guard while the Warners are anarchy incarnate. You can see how he'd be pitted against them despite a lack of malice on either side. |
| 297 | * RunningGag: His chasing the Warners into the other characters' segments. |
| 298 | * SimpletonVoice: [[VerbalTic Daaaahh]], he takes a while to begin sentences and, daaahhh, complete his thoughts. Daaahh, he also addses, daaahh, unnecessary pluralses to his wordses sometimes. |
| 299 | [[/folder]] |
| 300 | |
| 301 | [[folder:Dr. Otto von Scratchansniff]] |
| 302 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/DrScratchansniff_5954.jpg]] |
| 303 | ->'''Voiced by''': Rob Paulsen (English), Koichi Kitamura (Japanese; first voice), Mitsuru Ogata (Japanese; rest of the series), Patrick Préjean (French), Creator/AnttiPaakkonen (Finnish) |
| 304 | |
| 305 | The Warner Bros. studio psychiatrist. He has the unfortunate duty of trying to tame the Warners, which always leads to him getting utterly frustrated (and in the case of his first sessions with them, tearing out his hair). However, he seems to get along with them well (when he's not being terrorized), and they seem to consider him a father figure. |
| 306 | ---- |
| 307 | * AdaptationalBadass: While jerkish, you have to respect the fact that in the reboot, he managed to get one over the Warner siblings, twice. And boasts that he'll actually be able to win sometimes in the future (though whether he'll make good on his threat in future seasons remains to be seen). |
| 308 | * AdaptationalJerkass: In the 2020 revival, he seems to have finally had enough of the Warners' nonsense, and gets positively ''gleeful'' when he gets to one-up them for a change, gloating and mocking them for all he's worth. Somewhat justified when you realize it's been 22 years since he had to deal with them. |
| 309 | * AllPsychologyIsFreudian: He's branched out a little - hypnotherapy, group counseling - but when in doubt he returns to Siggy's methods. |
| 310 | * ArtEvolution: In the 2020 series, he has a more detailed labcoat, a longer nose, and now has five fingers on each hand instead of [[FourFingeredHands four]]. |
| 311 | * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: In the original series, the Warners tend to drive him insane in more often than not, but at the end of the day, he's closest thing they have to a parent, and is shown to deeply care about them. |
| 312 | * BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: In the season finale of the revival, his sickness and subsequent request for a Hindenburg Cola turns out to be a ruse to put the Warners through Hell and then spray them in the face with said cola to prove his AdaptationalBadass bona-fides. However, immediately after gloating over his victory, he takes a sip of the still fizzy soda and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard his head immediately inflates into a blimp and sends him floating out the window and crashing outside.]] |
| 313 | * ButtMonkey: The most regular victim of the Warners' antics, which eventually led to him seeking revenge on them. |
| 314 | * ChubbyChaser: He's attracted to fat women as shown in "Drive-Insane" where he attempts, unsuccessfully, to make an advance on Frau Hassenfeffer. |
| 315 | * CloudcuckoolandersMinder: To his perpetual woe, Plotz assigned ''him'' to try to put an end to the Warner chaos. |
| 316 | * CompanionCube: Mr. Puppethead sometimes begins conversations with Scratchy. |
| 317 | * DemotedToExtra: Plays a much smaller role in the 2020 revival; in the first season he only has a major role in a single episode. He plays much more prominent roles in the second season however. |
| 318 | * DodgyToupee: In "Drive-Insane", he wore a very obvious toupee on his date. Made even more obvious seeing that it was several sizes too small for his immense head. When the Warners come to crash his date, Yakko at one point comments, "By the way, something died on your head." |
| 319 | * EinsteinHair: Used to have it. Until he tore it all out during his first therapy session the Warners. |
| 320 | * {{Expy}}: Looks very much like [[VideoGame/ManiacMansion Dr. Fred Edison]]. |
| 321 | * EyesOutOfSight: His glasses block his eyes, which remain unseen, even in the reboot. |
| 322 | * FriendsAllAlong: When the Warners reveal to the doctor that they're capable of acting normally, he asks them why they put him through so much trouble. All three siblings glomp him and proclaim "Cause we love you!" The doctor's response? A very out-of-character moment by happily gathering up all three Warners in a bear hug. |
| 323 | * FunnyForeigner: Has accent, ya? |
| 324 | * GagNose: His nose is re-designed in the 2020 series to be long and beak-like and often wobbles when he moves. |
| 325 | * HairTodayGoneTomorrow: He used to have fluffy Albert Einstein-esque hair before during his first session with the Warners, their antics frustrated him so much he ripped every inch of his hair off his head. |
| 326 | * HerrDoktor: Vaguely Austrian, maybe. |
| 327 | * {{Leitmotif}}: The episodes "[[Recap/AnimaniacsEpisode1 De-Zanitized]]" and "La La Law" both have an instrumental version of "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" serve as Otto's theme music. |
| 328 | * MeaningfulName: In the German dub, he's Dr. Freudlos, a double pun: It literally means "Joyless", as well as being a nod to Sigmund Freud. |
| 329 | * NervousWreck: Like most cartoon psychiatrists, he ''needs'' one more than he needs to ''be'' one. |
| 330 | * NoRespectGuy: He was one of the greatest psychiatrists in Hollywood before the Warners arrived. |
| 331 | * OnlySaneMan: In "[[Recap/AnimaniacsEpisode5 Taming of the Screwy]]" where he tries to get the Warners to behave since they want to go to the party where wealthy Japanese investors are attending. Scratchensniff futilely advises Plotz to honor his promise to let the Warners stay all night, and he's sorry when telling the kids. He then lets Plotz reap what he has sewn, and only tries to take the check the Warners received when it seems the situation has been defused. Scratchensniff declines to get involved when Plotz chases the Warner for the check, just shrugging his shoulders. |
| 332 | * OpaqueLenses: His glasses are totally opaque, making his eyes impossible to see. |
| 333 | * ParentalSubstitute: He becomes the closest thing the Warners have to a father figure, and is the one to take them out on outings. |
| 334 | * TeamDad: The Warners seem to view him as this, much to his chagrin. |
| 335 | * TheVonTropeFamily: 'Von' just in case you thought he was one of the Hackensack N.J. 'Scratchansniffs'. |
| 336 | [[/folder]] |
| 337 | |
| 338 | [[folder:Hello Nurse]] |
| 339 | [[quoteright:136:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hello_nurse4.jpg]] |
| 340 | ->'''Voiced by''': Tress [=MacNeille=] (English), Lilo Schmid (Latin American Spanish; first voice), Edilú Martínez (Latin American Spanish; rest of the series), Véronique Alycia (French) |
| 341 | |
| 342 | Scratchansniff's ravishing assistant, the frequent subject of Yakko and Wakko's boyish affections. |
| 343 | ---- |
| 344 | * TheAce: According to the "Hello Nurse" song, her list of accomplishments includes winning the [[RealAwardFictionalCharacter Tony, Nobel Prize and Pulitzer]], obtaining [[GeniusesHaveMultiplePhDs several Ph.Ds]], playing Chopin without rehearsing, singing opera at the Met, starring as the lead role in ''Theatre/KingLear'', becoming the ambassador to China, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking not smoking]]. |
| 345 | * ActionGirl: In the comics, she is a secret agent and shows fighting skills. |
| 346 | * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: She sometimes gets annoyed by the Warners' antics, but in spite of that, as shown in many shorts, she really does love them, even when Yakko and Wakko lust over her. |
| 347 | * BuxomBeautyStandard: Her buxom figure is a major reason she's such a DudeMagnet. If characters aren't ogling her legs, then they're ogling her chest instead. |
| 348 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: In the beginning of the show, and indeed in some of the early spin-off comics, she didn't have much of a personality and was mainly just there to be sexy -- and she had several moments then when she displayed definite traits of a LiteralMinded DumbBlonde. Eventually, however, she was developed a little more, to become Scratchansniff's extremely intelligent, HypercompetentSidekick, and her DumbBlonde moments completely vanished. |
| 349 | * DependingOnTheWriter: |
| 350 | ** Either she is tolerant of the Warners' antics (like in "[[Recap/AnimaniacsEpisode1 De-Zanitized]]" or "[[Recap/AnimaniacsEpisode5 Taming of the Screwy]]"), or she is just as annoyed with them as Scratchansniff (like in "The Sound of Warners"). |
| 351 | ** Also, her IQ is either 157 (like in her titular song) or 192 (like in ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish''). |
| 352 | * DudeMagnet: Has men lusting after her constantly, especially Yakko and Wakko. |
| 353 | * DumbBlonde: In the early episodes, she could occasionally come across as one, but as her characterization stabilized, it was firmly averted; she's as smart as her bosses, emphasized at the end of ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish''. |
| 354 | * EveryoneLovesBlondes: A blonde woman and treated as a sex symbol in-universe. |
| 355 | * GeniusesHaveMultiplePhDs: Zigzagged for Hello Nurse -- in the song the Warner siblings sing about her, they claim she has several [=PhDs=] when trying to make her come across as a genius. However, at the end, they say, "If she's not all we said, then may lightning strike us dead", and then [[AmbiguousEnding lightning strikes them but doesn't kill them, leaving it ambiguous as to whether any of what they said was true]]. |
| 356 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Her hair is blonde and is one of the nicest characters in the series. |
| 357 | * HappilyMarried: Implied in ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'', where she and Scratchensniff start a business together making soda. They also adopt Rita and Runt. |
| 358 | * HeadTurningBeauty: TropeCodifier, and former TropeNamer. Hello Nurse's appearance almost always prompts Wakko and Yakko into exclaiming "Hellooooooo, Nurse!", (one of the show's well-known lines) and jumping into her arms. |
| 359 | * HospitalHottie: Unsurprisingly, she's a nurse whose major purpose is to be a MsFanservice and her entire character is based on the stereotype of nurses being major sexpots. |
| 360 | * HypercompetentSidekick: She's often far more competent at her job than her superior Dr. Scratchansniff. |
| 361 | * ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'' where she designs a bottle for Scratchansniff's elixir that is said to be popular because of its more attractive shape. The bottle happens to have a shape similar to Hello Nurse's curvaceous figure. See her picture on the trope page! |
| 362 | * LegFocus: Her hospital skirt leaves her legs expose, and they're often emphasized by MaleGaze or BetweenMyLegs shots. Wakko even claims she's "She's got legs like Astaire" in the Hello Nurse song. |
| 363 | * LivingADoubleLife: In the comics, Hello Nurse was also a secret agent. She is an Agent of H.U.B.B.A., wears a white LeotardOfPower and fights villains. She has also an {{Archenemy}} in Nurse Doom, her EvilTwin with red hair. |
| 364 | * LustObject: Yakko and Wakko continually fawn over her, always reacting to her whenever she's near them. |
| 365 | * MsFanservice: She's a sexy blue-eyed blonde woman with an ImpossibleHourglassFigure that frequently moves with a SupermodelStrut and a {{Sexophone}} cue. She is usually dressed in a [[FormFittingWardrobe form-fitting]] nurse outfit, but also wears various other FanserviceCostumes over the course of the show. She is the main source of {{Fanservice}} in the show, having several gratuitous fanservicey scenes and plenty of MaleGaze shots, and is [[LustObject constantly lusted after by Yakko and Wakko.]] |
| 366 | * NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Like an actress, she is used in other episodes as needed. |
| 367 | * NiceGirl: She's very sweet and kind-hearted, and helpful towards pretty much everyone (most notably being incredibly patient with Ivan Blosky, even though he's a massive JerkAss). In the self-titled song, Wakko points out that she volunteers at the local zoo, feeding baby animals. She's also patient with the Warners, even when Yakko and Wakko ogle her. |
| 368 | * NoNameGiven: She originally didn't have a name, with characters either referring to her as "Nurse" or "Hello Nurse". Only many years after the original series ended did WordOfGod give her a name, when [[https://twitter.com/tomruegger/status/1282209112650969093 Tom Ruegger revealed her real name on Twitter]] to be [[PunnyName Heloise Nerz]]. |
| 369 | * ParodySue: She's incredibly beautiful, has a genius intellect, and is extremely competent at anything she tries to do, often being portrayed as a HypercompetentSidekick to Scratchansniff and having many impressive achievements and hobbies. This is Lampshaded by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8E4XoAeVdw her song]] with lists her many prestigious accomplishments, such as winning a Pulitzer, a Tony, a Nobel Prize in physics, being an ambassador to China, having several [=PHDs=], etc. |
| 370 | * PhraseCatcher: Due to being a HeadTurningBeauty, when she walks into a room men tend to greet her with a "Hellooooooo, Nurse!". This became one of the show's RunningGags, with many variants involving other characters, such as Dot also using it when she sees a {{Hunk}}. |
| 371 | * PimpedOutDress: In the episode "[[Recap/AnimaniacsEpisode10 King Yakko]]", Hello Nurse plays the prime minister of the kingdom, and she wears a magenta dress with [[PrettyInMink ermine trim]] and a blue cloak. |
| 372 | * PutOnABus: The 2020 revival has Dr. Scratchansniff say that she left to join Doctors Without Borders. |
| 373 | * {{Sexophone}}: Whenever she's on screen, a saxophone riff is expected to be heard. Either that or a beating tom-tom. |
| 374 | * SexySecretary: Her duties to Dr. Scratchansniff seem more secretarial than anything medical. |
| 375 | * SexyStewardess: In two shorts, one with the Warners and another during a cameo with Slappy Squirrel. |
| 376 | * SoapboxSadie: At least according to Wakko in the "Hello Nurse" song, where he claims she's "politically correct" and shows her marching [[EarthyBarefootCharacter barefoot]] in hippie clothes with similarly dressed hippies while holding sings promoting peace and protesting the hunt of whales. |
| 377 | * SoBeautifulItsACurse: She can often receive the unwanted attention of Yakko and Wakko. In ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'', she laments that she gets more recognized for her beauty rather than her intelligence. |
| 378 | * SupermodelStrut: She often walks with a sway to her hips, to illustrate her status her a MsFanservice. This is part of why she's a HeadTurningBeauty that gets men distracted when she walks past them. This is more notable in "[[Recap/AnimaniacsEpisode5 Taming of the Screwy]]", where she moves her hips back and forth in an exaggerated manner while dressed in her FrenchMaidOutfit. |
| 379 | [[/folder]] |
| 380 | |
| 381 | [[folder:Thaddeus Plotz]] |
| 382 | ->'''Voiced by''': Frank Welker (English), Takeshi Watabe (Japanese), Yves Barsacq (French; series), Philippe Dumat (French; ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'') |
| 383 | [[quoteright:212:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/animaniacs_thaddeus_plotz.png]] |
| 384 | The CEO of Warner Bros. (in-universe, that is) during the original 1990s series. |
| 385 | ---- |
| 386 | * AdaptedOut: Plotz is not present in the reboot, with Nora Rita Norita taking his place. She has a large portrait of him in her office, however. |
| 387 | * AssholeVictim: Whenever he is a victim of the Warners' antics, he mainly deserves it for being an unsympathetic boss. |
| 388 | * BreakTheHaughty: In "[[Recap/AnimaniacsEpisode95 Hooray for North Hollywood]]", the Warners' titular movie proving to be a smash hit after he had rejected it, while the film he green-lit, Jamelot, bombs, resulting in him getting fired, really does a number on his ego, as he gets left without a job or a home. |
| 389 | --> '''Plotz:''' All alone on New Year's Eve. What an arrogant pig-headed fool I've been. |
| 390 | * TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:Returned as a judge in the second part of "[[Recap/Animaniacs2020Episode21 Wakkiver Twist]]".]] |
| 391 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: In ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'', he’s a ruthless and cruel tax collector, but even he is absolutely terrified of [[VileVillainSaccharineShow King Salazar]]. He was also against Salazar’s idea of killing the Warners and couldn’t understand why they were such a problem for him. |
| 392 | * HairTriggerTemper: Just about any of the Warners' antics will set him off. |
| 393 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Appears to hate the Warners, but enlists their help in times of need. He even hired a clown for Wakko's birthday, despite being absolutely terrified of clowns. This was before he was aware of Wakko's own fear of clowns so it wasn't out of malice. |
| 394 | * MeanBoss: His bad temper, tendency to assign blame at random and money-hungry ways keep him unsympathetic. |
| 395 | * MeaningfulName: Plotz is a Yiddish word meaning "to explode in anger or irritation", very fitting for such a temperamental man. |
| 396 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He regretted ever making the Warners stars. |
| 397 | ** The Warners' 65th anniversary special has two InUniverse examples of big ones: |
| 398 | *** According to him, his biggest mistake was giving them their own cartoons. |
| 399 | *** According to Slappy, his ''stupidest'' mistake was letting ''Wakko '''direct''''' one of said cartoons. |
| 400 | ** In the second part of "[[Recap/AnimaniacsEpisode95 Hooray for North Hollywood]]", he regrets turning down the Warners' script when he sees how successful and profitable their movie is. |
| 401 | * TheNapoleon: Plotz is extremely short, with a short temper to match. |
| 402 | * OlderThanTheyLook: Not that he looks young, but the Warners' 65th anniversary special reveals that he was already head of the studio when they were created, which means he must be in his mid 80s at the very least, though he seems no older than 70. And the Christmas Future scene in "A Christmas Plotz" [[ImprobableAge shows him still alive and well about 40 years in the future]]. |
| 403 | * PassingTheTorch: Implied when Nora Rita Norita has a huge portrait of him in her office. Given his age, he likely retired and let her take the reins. |
| 404 | * PunnyName: His surname is Yiddish-American slang meaning "to explode" or "to collapse". Full name is a possible play on "bad plots". |
| 405 | * PointyHairedBoss: Shows shades of this at times. |
| 406 | * RichInDollarsPoorInSense: He's the CEO of a major movie studio who oversees films with hundred-million dollar budgets on a regular basis, yet he can't even dial his own phone when his secretary has to call in sick. |
| 407 | --> '''Plotz:''' Okay...so there's a four...do I press this four? ''(sobs)'' I can't do this... |
| 408 | %%* TheScrooge: He even gets his own "Christmas Carol" episode. |
| 409 | * SelfFulfillingProphecy: In the episode "[[Recap/AnimaniacsEpisode5 Taming of the Screwy]]", Mr. Plotz is holding a banquet for foreign investors with the intention of getting $1 billion from them, and said investors want to meet all of the workers at the Warner Bros. studio, including Yakko, Wakko, and Dot. Under his orders, Dr. Scratchansniff manages to convince the Warners to keep their lunacy under control so they can attend the banquet... only for Mr. Plotz to force them out of the banquet regardless because he doesn't trust them not to screw things up. Snubbed and insulted, the Warners return to the banquet and ruin it in their usual KarmicTrickster fashion. In a nutshell, if Mr. Plotz had just let them stay since they were behaving, the entire thing would have gone off without a hitch. [[spoiler:It worked out for the best anyway, since the foreign investors praised the Warners for making the party so much fun and gave THEM the $1 billion.]] |
| 410 | * SequelNonEntity: He only appears as a painting in his old office, with his whereabouts between "The Scoring Session" and "Suspended Animation" and fate currently unknown. |
| 411 | * SpoiledBrat: Definitely one as a child, according to "A Christmas Plotz." And a BrattyHalfPint to boot. As a newborn baby he threatened to sue the doctor for spanking him and at age 5 he brings a team of lawyers to demand a long list of presents from Santa (including a ''horse'', not a ''pony''). |
| 412 | * ThrowTheDogABone: Though he was known for making bad business decisions and treating some of his employees like crap, Plotz was a step above the average corporate villain and occasionally would get a moment where he'd realize his own foolishness and regret it, thus prompting the [[KarmicTrickster Warners themselves]] to cut him a break and even give him some small reward. They even gave up their earnings from a successful movie to hire him back. |
| 413 | * TheVonTropeFamily: As "Baron von Plotz" in ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish''. |
| 414 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Has a fear of clowns. Shares this with Wakko. |
| 415 | [[/folder]] |
| 416 | |
| 417 | [[folder:Nora Rita Norita]] |
| 418 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_2020_11_23_124547.png]] |
| 419 | ->'''Voiced by''': Stephanie Escajeda |
| 420 | The new CEO of Warner Bros. after 22 years, replacing Mr. Plotz. |
| 421 | ---- |
| 422 | * AllThereInTheScript: Her name is revealed in the end credits. |
| 423 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: She plays a similar antagonistic role to the Warners as Plotz did, and is still a bit of a MeanBoss, but her attitude is very different; she's far less emotional and childish, and doesn't seem to have his stinginess or PointyHairedBoss tendencies either. Whereas Plotz took the Warners running amuck personally, Nora Rita just reacts with dismissive annoyance and generally just doesn't have time for their tomfoolery. And of course she's a tall and thin Latina, whereas Plotz is a short and fat Caucasian man. |
| 424 | * FamilyThemeNaming: Her daughter (Cora), her sisters (Maura and Theodora), and her great-grandmother (Flora Dora) all have names that rhyme with her own. |
| 425 | * FemaleMisogynist: Implied. One of her first lines is a blunt admission that she has no interest in helping any women in the company other than herself. |
| 426 | * {{Foil}}: To Hello Nurse. Both of them are the only prominent human women in their respective series, are fairly attractive and are known to be quite intelligent (HN of the GeniusDitz variety and Nora being a BrainyBrunette). The main differences are that Hello Nurse is a light-hearted blonde-haired Caucasian woman who was recognized more for her physical beauty and served mainly as Dr. Scratchansniff's assistant while Nora is a woman of color with a tough, no-nonsense personality and is the new boss of the Warner Bros. Studio. |
| 427 | * GagNose: Her nose is pretty pointy. Overlaps with SinisterSchnoz, as she's usually an antagonist as the MeanBoss of the Warner siblings. |
| 428 | * GranolaGirl: She takes her physical health with absolute seriousness. Most of her scenes feature her performing some type of exercise and she went LaughingMad when the Warners accuse her of eating Wakko's donuts. |
| 429 | * HairTriggerTemper: She appears to have developed one in season 2 which has her getting aggressively angry for no particular reason, though she is still more controlled than her predecessor. |
| 430 | * ImpossibleHourglassFigure: She has wide hips, a narrow waist and a well-defined bust. |
| 431 | * LaughingMad: In "Whodonut", the Warners interrogate her over who ate Wakko's designer donuts. As a fitness nut, she seems to have a psychotic break at the suggestion, cackling maniacally as she asks them if she'd really ruin her chances of reaching TheSingularity by eating refined sugars. Her unhinged behavior is creepy enough that the Warners take it as clear proof of her innocence and quickly carve a hole in the window to make their escape. |
| 432 | * LittleBlackDress: Wears one when going to a family reunion at her great grandmother's. |
| 433 | * LongLostRelative: Ralph turns out to be related to Nora from her great grandmother's side. This leads to him taking over her role as the the CEO of Warner Brothers. |
| 434 | * MeanBoss: She has a bit of a stern tone, and she proclaims to have a "pulling back the corporate ladder" mentality after Dot says she wants to succeed her. |
| 435 | * NotSoAboveItAll: Her LaughingMad section above shows that she can be just as zany as the inhabitants of the Animani-verse. |
| 436 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: More so than Mr. Plotz. While she's annoyed about the Warners showing up after 22 years and Yakko eating her tablet, Nora just rolls her eyes and grabs a spare from a cabinet of replacements. She all but says that she's not going to punish Ralph for failing to catch the Warners because they've been irrelevant for 22 years and they are pretty harmless. While Nora refuses to handle the bun problem, she hints to the Warners that she won't stop them from handling the situation, trusting they'll know what to do. Nora also cites MoralPragmatist; if she rocks the boat, that would lead to everyone in the Hollywood lot turning against her for wanting cute bunnies off their property, and it would make her look like a hypocrite since she also has buns multiplying. The Warners doing it on the other hand are allowed because they're Toons and don't have a job to lose. |
| 437 | * RepetitiveName: Her last name is just her [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs first two names combined]]. |
| 438 | * TheReveal: Episode 1 doesn't mention her name until the end credits. |
| 439 | [[/folder]] |
| 440 | |
| 441 | !Minor Characters |
| 442 | |
| 443 | [[folder:Mr. Director]] |
| 444 | ->'''Voiced by''': Paul Rugg (English), Patrick Guillemin (French) |
| 445 | A crazy director who looks, sounds, and behaves like a young Creator/JerryLewis. |
| 446 | ---- |
| 447 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: His craziness and eccentricity is so over the top that even the ''Warners themselves'' find him insane. |
| 448 | * MoodSwinger: He alternates between treating comedy as SeriousBusiness and being a TalkativeLoon. |
| 449 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's based on Creator/JerryLewis. Specifically, his suave way of talking is based on Buddy Love from ''Film/TheNuttyProfessor1963''. |
| 450 | * OhGodWithTheVerbing: He speaks like this. |
| 451 | * PsychopathicManchild: When in TalkativeLoon mode, he's a shrill, barely coherent idiot. |
| 452 | * SuddenlyFluentInGibberish: Freunleven! |
| 453 | * TakeThat: They lampoon Lewis' over-the-top antics in his comedy films, and they also make a humorous reference to his unreleased drama film ''Film/TheDayTheClownCried'', about a clown that ends up in a Nazi concentration camp (a shining example of one of the jokes on this shown that [[ParentalBonus children normally wouldn't get]]). |
| 454 | * YouSayTomato: Mr. Director discusses this trope. |
| 455 | -->Take the word 'animal'. Transpose the letters 'n' and 'm' and you get 'aminal'. That, in a nutshell, is comedy. |
| 456 | [[/folder]] |
| 457 | |
| 458 | [[folder:Ms. Flamiel]] |
| 459 | ->'''Voiced by''': Tress [=MacNeille=] (English), Nicole Favart (French) |
| 460 | A schoolteacher who sometimes tries to educate the Warners, only for them to frustrate her in the process. |
| 461 | ---- |
| 462 | * AsideGlance: Once or twice. |
| 463 | * BreakTheHaughty: Her certainty that she can shatter the Warners' wills and make them good little children turns out to be... a little optimistic. |
| 464 | * SternTeacher: Mr. Plotz hired her because she's a stern, abrasive disciplinarian whom he thinks will keep the Warners in line. Still, she's a fairly reasonable example, who genuinely wants to educate the Warners, doesn't deliberately make things hard for them, and would probably be less sour if her students didn't always torment her with their usual antics. In later appearances, she's shown to be successfully teaching them. |
| 465 | * VictoriasSecretCompartment: She apparently keeps her marker for giving people F's in her blouse. Quoth Yakko; "Ooh, what else you got in there?" |
| 466 | [[/folder]] |
| 467 | |
| 468 | [[folder:Baloney the Dinosaur]] |
| 469 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/JeffBennett |
| 470 | A sappy orange and light blue dinosaur who is an obvious pastiche of [[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney]] and the star of his own ShowWithinAShow. One of the few things the Warners are afraid of. |
| 471 | ---- |
| 472 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: Since he's a parody of Barney the Dinosaur, a character portrayed by a man in a costume, and he's in a ShowWithinAShow, you would expect that Baloney is also played by a man in a costume. Baloney is frequently depicted with a few stitches and seams indicating that he's a costume, but there's really no indication of a human actor wearing the costume. Baloney is shown transforming from a stuffed animal into his default form, but there's no indication that this is just an in-universe special effect. Also, Baloney's face moves [[ExpressiveMask just like that of a living thing]]. The seams are the only indication that he's not just an anthropomorphic dinosaur, but he may actually be a living dinosaur costume. |
| 473 | * AnvilOnHead: The Warners keep dropping anvils on his head in the episode "Baloney and Kids," but it turns out even ''this'' won't stop him. |
| 474 | * CaptainErsatz: An obvious parody of Barney the Dinosaur. |
| 475 | * CreepyMascotSuit: PlayedForLaughs. He's really just a childish and stupid parody of [[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney the Dinosaur]] (a popular children's character portrayed by a man in a costume), but the Warners are terrified of him partially because they find his saccharine nature annoying, and partially because Baloney is an ImplacableMan to the AmusingInjuries that the Warners give him. Strangely, it's hard to tell whether Baloney is an actual dinosaur or a person in a costume. He does have seams indicating that he's a costume, but [[ExpressiveMask his face and mouth move like that of a living thing]], and there's no indication of a human actor inside the costume. Also, at the beginning of Baloney's show, he magically transforms from a stuffed animal, but there's no indication that this is just an in-universe special effect. So, for all we know, Baloney could be a living, empty mascot costume. |
| 476 | * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: His "Imagine Song". |
| 477 | * TheDitz: He's not too bright. Then again, he is the host of an unbearably saccharine kids show. |
| 478 | * TheDreaded: [[HorrifyingTheHorror The Warners dread him]] partially because of his unbearably saccharine nature, and partially because he's an ImplacableMan to their pranks. |
| 479 | * DumbDinos: A very dumb dino. |
| 480 | * ExpressiveMask: Although Baloney is slightly implied to be a costume (see AmbiguouslyHuman above), his face moves as if he's fully alive. |
| 481 | * FatIdiot: He's as stupid as he is rotund. Very. |
| 482 | * FriendToAllChildren: PlayedForLaughs. Baloney seems to get along great with the human children in his show, and so Baloney thinks the Warners love him just as much, even though it's clear that they don't like him in the slightest. |
| 483 | * ImplacableMan: To the Warners' terror, '''nothing''' can make him stop. Nothing! Not even falling anvils! Subverted at the end, when the third anvil dropped on his head seems to have finally done him in (he's clearly dazed and ready to pass out). |
| 484 | * IronButtMonkey: He keeps coming back from all the abuse the Warners heap on him. He actually ''likes'' it and thinks it's all a fun game. |
| 485 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Baloney's second most notable personality trait (the first is being dumb as a rock) is loving himself way too much. He loves to talk about himself ("It's me, Baloney!" "M is for me!") and constantly tries to force the Warners to be his friends. |
| 486 | * KidsShowMascotParody: Baloney is one of the earliest examples of a Barney parody, debuting during the latter's heyday. Given that he's a dumb, cloying anvil magnet, he clearly [[TakeThat wasn't meant]] to be flattering. |
| 487 | * KindheartedSimpleton: Well, he really ''does'' want to make friends, he's just too stupid to know how obnoxious he is. |
| 488 | * RaptorAttack: In his appearance on ''WesternAnimation/PinkyElmyraAndTheBrain'', he goes full-on ''Film/JurassicPark-Velociraptor'' on Pinky and the Brain for helping Elmyra cheat. |
| 489 | * ShowWithinAShow: He's the star of an in-universe show called ''Baloney and Kids'', which is apparently just about him being friends with kids. |
| 490 | * SickeninglySweet: This is the Warners' reaction to him. As a parody of Barney the Dinosaur and other kid's show hosts, Baloney is overly cheerful and sappy, constantly singing, using phrases like "yum yum doodle dum" and wanting to be friends with everyone. |
| 491 | * SimpletonVoice: He's a total moron, and has a deep, silly voice. |
| 492 | * TooSpicyForYogSothoth: The Warners, who quite literally live to annoy people, do everything they can to get away from this buffoon. |
| 493 | [[/folder]] |
| 494 | |
| 495 | [[folder:Francis "Pip" Pumphandle]] |
| 496 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/BenStein |
| 497 | A dwarfish, talkative man who bores the Warners with his long, one-sided conversations but is overall rather friendly. |
| 498 | ---- |
| 499 | * BigGood: He is this in ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish''. When Wakko asks for a star to grant his wish, Pip appears as an angel, giving Wakko instructions on how to do so. While he bores Wakko to death and nearly shakes his arm off, Pip grants Wakko the wish, no strings attached, when the Warner makes it. |
| 500 | * TheBore: He ends up boring the Warners to death with his long, pointless story about his encounter with Bob Barker, and they can't shake him off. |
| 501 | * CaptainOblivious: Though Pip appears marginally aware of the Warners -- stopping talking to greet each new face as they introduce each other to him in a desperate attempt to get away, and doing a synchronized spit as he brushes his teeth with them in the morning -- he doesn't seem to have a clue just how agonizingly boring he is, or how much torture he's putting them through. |
| 502 | * InkSuitActor: Pip Pumphandle is based directly off his voice actor Ben Stein. |
| 503 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Pip turns the usual Warner Brothers (and Sister) formula on its head, delivering the same exasperation they had dispensed to so many others. |
| 504 | * ShaggyDogStory: What exactly ''is'' his Bob Barker anecdote? [[spoiler:He was out shopping one day, smelled a scent so peculiar (orchids and bologna) that he tried to track it down at all the flower stores in the area, then gave up and bought a couch; finally, as Pip was coming out of the furniture store, he bumped into Bob, who wore an orchid in his lapel and was eating a bologna and cheeseball sandwich. ''That's it''.]] Some of the tangents he goes on don't even relate to the story itself, just leading into one another and further distracting him. |
| 505 | * StockholmSyndrome: After he leaves, the Warners find themselves missing him and want to hear another one of his stories. |
| 506 | * TheCatCameBack: The Warners find him impossible to get rid of... until he actually leaves and they decide they miss him. |
| 507 | * TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: When the Warners encounter him at a Hollywood party, he starts relating a long, rambling, essentially pointless story about how he once encountered [[Series/ThePriceIsRight Bob Barker]] eating a bologna and cheese ball sandwich, and he doesn't leave the Warners alone until he finishes (even practicing OffscreenTeleportation a la [[Creator/TexAvery Droopy Dog]]), boring them to tears. |
| 508 | [[/folder]] |
| 509 | |
| 510 | [[folder:Dot's Pet]] |
| 511 | A monstrous creature who is always kept inside a small, white box. The creature's appearance is inconsistent and its color varied, but its most common forms are a large bull-like creature, a plant parodying ''Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors'', and a hairy form with enormous teeth. In one case, Mr. Director was her pet. |
| 512 | ---- |
| 513 | * FluffyTheTerrible: Often the case. |
| 514 | * ShoutOut: Whenever a Xenomorph appears and Dot brings out her pet, it will mimic the tendency of the second mouth/head in the originals mouth. Yes, this includes the above-mentioned ''Mr. Director.'' |
| 515 | [[/folder]] |
| 516 | |
| 517 | !One Shot Characters |
| 518 | |
| 519 | [[folder:Professor Otto von Schnitzelbuskrankengescheitmeier]] |
| 520 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/{{Jim Cummings|1952}} (English), Gérard Rinaldi (French) |
| 521 | A fat, jolly German guy who taught the Warners the International Friendship Song. |
| 522 | ---- |
| 523 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: He's ordinarily a nice guy, but when the Warners spend the entire last segment of the Friendship Song stripping him of his clothes and humiliating him he finally snaps at the end and kicks the three of them out of his village. |
| 524 | * BigFun: He's overweight and tries to sing a song with the Warners about friendship. |
| 525 | %%* TheCameo: In ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish''. |
| 526 | * DubNameChange: In the German dub his name is Aloysius Bierpichlersemmelknödelmeier. |
| 527 | * NationalStereotypes: He's a stereotypical overweight, jolly and fun-loving German man. |
| 528 | * OverlyLongName: His surname is pretty long, which Wakko lampshades at one point. |
| 529 | * ShamefulStrip: The Warners subject him to this, tearing his clothes off bit by bit until he's in nothing but his boxers. |
| 530 | [[/folder]] |
| 531 | |
| 532 | [[folder:Sodarn Hinsane]] |
| 533 | ->'''Voiced by''': Frank Welker (English), Mario Santini (French) |
| 534 | |
| 535 | A LawyerFriendlyCameo of UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein who appears as the antagonist of "Baghdad Cafe", a {{crossover}} episode starring Yakko, Wakko, and Slappy (the latter in place of Dot). |
| 536 | ---- |
| 537 | * AssholeVictim: Apparently, he was to host the Warner Brothers (and Sister) ''while'' his country is being curb-stomped by an enemy army. |
| 538 | * DubNameChange: Inverted in the Venezuelan Spanish dub: He was "renamed" as "Saddam Hussein", albeit his last name is pronounced more or less the same way as it should be pronounced in Arabic, rather than Spanish or English. |
| 539 | * EarlyBirdCameo: He appears being sent to hell in "Hot, Bothered, and Bedeviled" before his first formal appearance. |
| 540 | * TheNapoleon: He's a world leader who is short in stature. |
| 541 | * PunnyName: His name sounds like "so darn insane". |
| 542 | [[/folder]] |
| 543 | |
| 544 | [[folder:Wally Llama]] |
| 545 | ->'''Voiced by''': Richard Libertini (English), Yves Barsacq (French) |
| 546 | ---- |
| 547 | * DisproportionateRetribution: The Warners hound him incessantly to answer their Very, Very, Very, Very Important Question. He just wants an afternoon off to watch ''Baywatch!!'' |
| 548 | * LaughingMad: He starts giggling like a lunatic when it turns out he doesn't know the answer to the Warners' question. |
| 549 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's a parody of the Dalai Lama. |
| 550 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After going LaughingMad, he seems to quit his job (or at least leave for a long vacation). |
| 551 | [[/folder]] |
| 552 | |
| 553 | [[folder:Mr. Gobble]] |
| 554 | Yakko, Wakko, and Dot's pet turkey who runs and dances to the tune of ''TurkeyInTheStraw''. |
| 555 | ---- |
| 556 | * AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: Pretty clever for a turkey, but he's not a talking animal. |
| 557 | * OffscreenTeleportation: He can even appear inside other peoples' hats without being detected. |
| 558 | [[/folder]] |
| 559 | |
| 560 | [[folder:Howie Tern]] |
| 561 | ->'''Voiced by''': Maurice [=LaMarche=] |
| 562 | ---- |
| 563 | * BarefootCartoonAnimal: He has no shoes. |
| 564 | * InformedSpecies: He is supposed to be a tern, but he looks far more like a crane or stork. |
| 565 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Of Creator/HowardStern |
| 566 | * SpeciesSurname: Possibly subverted, since he looks more like a crane or stork than a tern. |
| 567 | [[/folder]] |
| 568 | |
| 569 | [[folder:The Survey Ladies]] |
| 570 | ->'''Voiced by''': Tress [=MacNeille=] (Tall Survey Lady) and Deanna Oliver (Short Survey Lady) |
| 571 | |
| 572 | Two women who pester Yakko, Wakko, and Dot with a survey involving George Wendt and Beans. |
| 573 | ---- |
| 574 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: They're even better at irritating people than the Warners, to the point where they're actually able to give them ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine. |
| 575 | * UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents: They have a Midwestern twang to their voices--"WOULDJA LIKE TAH TAKE A SUR-VEY?" |
| 576 | * BasedOnATrueStory: A retrospective reveals that the annoying survey ladies were based on a real-life encounter that some of the writing staff had not far from the studio. |
| 577 | * BeyondTheImpossible: They are so obnoxious and persistent that even the Warner Siblings, who absolutely love bothering people, can't stand them. |
| 578 | * BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Their survey begins with two normal, if disjointed, inquiries: "Do you eat beans?" and "Would you like to see a new movie starring George Wendt?". They then proceed to ask an endless array of questions combining the two ideas: "Do you eat beans with George Wendt?" "Would you like to see George Wendt eating beans in a movie?" "How many bean-eating movies have you seen with George Wendt?" "Do you eat beans at George Wendt-bean-eating movies?" The short ends with them showing no signs of slowing down. |
| 579 | * BullyingADragon: Inverted. Most people who bother or irritate the Warners get a taste of their own wacky antics and medicine--but in this case, the Warners are ''so'' annoyed by the Survey Ladies that, after a bit of fun at their expense, they start running from them and screaming for them to stop. |
| 580 | * TheCatCameBack: They're everywhere in the mall. ''Everywhere.'' |
| 581 | --> '''Survey Lady #2''': We're persistent! |
| 582 | --> '''Yakko''': [[{{Malaproper}} Try using a better deodorant]]. |
| 583 | * {{Determinator}}: They'll stop at ''nothing'' to complete their survey, and chase down the Warners, and anyone who'll listen, until they do. |
| 584 | * ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: They're ladies with a survey. Hence "Survey Ladies". |
| 585 | * FatAndSkinny: One is a tall, auburn-haired thin woman, while the other is a short, fat blonde. |
| 586 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: PlayedForLaughs--when the Warners first encounter the Survey Ladies, they seem pleasant, if annoying. But when the siblings refuse to finish, the Ladies [[LetsGetDangerous get dangerous]] and start an endless pursuit that ends with Yakko, Wakko, and Dot--who once irritated ''Death himself'' into submission--surrendering and tearfully begging them to stop. |
| 587 | * InexplicablyAwesome: Though the Survey Ladies look like average middle-aged human women, they possess the powers of teleportation, changing size (as demonstrated when they appear in a music box and cash register) and form (as revealed when they hide in a bottle of cologne), and are annoying enough to bother the Warners themselves. |
| 588 | * NoNameGiven: Never referred to by anything but "Survey Ladies." |
| 589 | * NothingIsFunnier: No explanation is ever given for ''why'' the ladies are trying to complete a survey, or, more importantly, why on Earth said survey contains questions about George Wendt movies, beans, and George Wendt eating beans in a movie. |
| 590 | * OffscreenTeleportation: They can travel from location to location instantaneously, without any sign of how they do it. |
| 591 | * TooSpicyForYogSothoth: Even the Warner Siblings, masters of irritation, find them incredibly annoying, and can't escape them no matter how far they run. |
| 592 | [[/folder]] |
| 593 | |
| 594 | [[folder:Fermin Flaxseed]] |
| 595 | ->'''Voiced by''': Jeff Bennett |
| 596 | ---- |
| 597 | * AlliterativeName: First and last name both begin with F. |
| 598 | * BaldOfEvil: Covered by a highly unconvincing hairpiece. |
| 599 | --> '''Dot''' ''(shyly offering it back):'' You dropped your hair. |
| 600 | * EveryoneHasStandards: Before the nuns are about to attack him, he stops them by reminding them that they shouldn't resort to physical violence. |
| 601 | * FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: He has a suit and even wears shoes. |
| 602 | * InexplicablyTailless: He appears to be some kind of weasel, but he has no tail. |
| 603 | * {{Jerkass}}: His first scene depicts him laughing off a nun's request that he donate to her charity and literally kicking her out of his store. |
| 604 | * KickTheDog: He ''is'' within his rights to deny donating his candy to orphans and asking the Warners to leave his store if they're not going to buy anything. It's just he's such an asshole about it, laughing loudly in the Nun's face before kicking her out and being disgusted by the sight of the Warners before they've even entered his store, that warrants his HumiliationConga. |
| 605 | * LaserGuidedKarma: He is rewarded for his jerkish behavior by having the Warners torment him and make a mess of his store, getting the crap beaten out of him by a bunch of football players, and turned into a chocolate bunny. |
| 606 | * VillainHasAPoint: Much of a jerk as he is, he does have the legal right to deny the nun and the Warners their requests. He's also able to save his skin from the nuns when they're about to attack him by pointing out they aren't supposed to resort to violence, which they agree with. [[spoiler: Until the nuns pray for the Notre Dame football team to take care of it for them, which they do.]] |
| 607 | [[/folder]] |
| 608 | |
| 609 | [[folder:Dan Anchorman]] |
| 610 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/PhilHartman |
| 611 | |
| 612 | A conceited news anchorman for the fictitious ''Newstime Live'' programme who refused to pay Yakko, Wakko, and Dot for a sandwich he had ordered. |
| 613 | ---- |
| 614 | * {{Jerkass}}: To ensure that the audience doesn't feel sorry for him suffering the Warners' retribution towards him denying them a tip, his first scene has him angrily fire his makeup assistant for being a smidgen late and yelling at the rest of the news studio that they are useless. |
| 615 | * JerkassHasAPoint: Yes, he is incredibly conceited and abrasive, but if a delivery person ''ate the sandwich you ordered right in front of you and then demanded a tip'', wouldn't you be pissed too? The Warners were lucky he didn't call the shop to complain! |
| 616 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Of Sam Donaldson. [[spoiler: Originally named Slam Fondlesome until they were forced to change his name to something less risque-sounding. The new parody name sounds more like Dan Rather.]] |
| 617 | [[/folder]] |
| 618 | |
| 619 | [[folder:Ivan Bloski]] |
| 620 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/GeorgeDzundza (English), Jean-Pierre Moulin (French) |
| 621 | |
| 622 | A {{Jerkass}} accountant who finds himself sharing an airplane with the Warners and becomes their "Special Friend." He is a parody of the notorious stock trader Ivan Boesky, who was convicted in a 1987 insider trading scandal. |
| 623 | ---- |
| 624 | * {{Jerkass}}: He's a loud-mouthed asshole, and his entire short goes to great lengths to show this. Immediately after threatening to buy the airline just so he can fire the lady who accidentally got him bumped down to coach from first class, he literally throws a man with a broken leg out of his way, ordering him to "quit faking it and get a job," and then forces his way onto the plane, orders the stewardess to throw everyone in coach off the plane just so he can have privacy, and screams in the stewardess' face to get him 14 bags of peanuts. Needless to say, when Yakko, Wakko, and Dot appear and name him their "Special Friend", he deserves every minute of torture they give him. They even end up bringing him back to the water tower in TheStinger so they can ''continue'' tormenting him. |
| 625 | [[/folder]] |
| 626 | |
| 627 | [[folder:Duanne Sewer]] |
| 628 | ->'''Voiced by''': Tress [=MacNeille=] |
| 629 | |
| 630 | A rival newsreader of the fictitious ''Newstime Live'' program and anchorwoman in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC who appears in the episode "Broadcast Nuisance". |
| 631 | ---- |
| 632 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Of Diane Sawyer |
| 633 | [[/folder]] |
| 634 | |
| 635 | [[folder:Wolf Spritzer]] |
| 636 | ->'''Voiced by''': Rob Paulsen |
| 637 | |
| 638 | A newsreporter for the fictitious ''Newstime Live'' program who appears in "Broadcast Nuisance". |
| 639 | ---- |
| 640 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Of Wolf Blitzer |
| 641 | [[/folder]] |
| 642 | |
| 643 | [[folder:Death]] |
| 644 | ->'''Voiced by''': Jess Harnell (English), Philippe Dumat (French) |
| 645 | |
| 646 | An archetypically portrayed Grim Reaper, with black robe, skeletal appearance, and scythe who speaks with a Swedish accent. |
| 647 | ---- |
| 648 | * ChessWithDeath: Well technically checkers with death, this was made at the request of Yakko and Dot. |
| 649 | * ExactWords: He tricks Yakko and Dot into betting their lives away. |
| 650 | * FateWorseThanDeath: (With apologies for the pun.) The Warners demand to spend the rest of eternity with him, adopt him as their father figure, and call him 'Daddoo.' He gets so fed up with it that he declares them all to be alive and informs them that it will be a long time before he lets them back in his domain again. |
| 651 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: Unlike most of the other characters in the series, he has five-fingered hands instead of the customary [[FourFingeredHands four]]. |
| 652 | * NorseByNorsewest: He speaks with a Swedish accent and "lives" in Sweden. The holes where his eyeballs would be are also blue. |
| 653 | * ShoutOut: His design and accent are a clear reference to the classic Swedish film Film/TheSeventhSeal. |
| 654 | [[/folder]] |
| 655 | |
| 656 | [[folder:Satan]] |
| 657 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/RonPerlman (English), Creator/PascalRenwick (French) |
| 658 | ---- |
| 659 | * BigRedDevil: Has the classic look with a muscular body, red skin, [[BeardOfEvil goatee]], bovine horns and hooves, and three-pointed pitchfork. |
| 660 | * ButtMonkey: Probably the only reason ''Hot, Bothered and Bedeviled'' was green-lighted. Even for a Warner villain he comes off as a complete chump. |
| 661 | * TheDevilIsALoser: The sole reason why he is the ButtMonkey. |
| 662 | * GetOut: Eventually gives up on the idea of subjecting the Warners to an eternity in the lake of fire, in favor of ''never'' having to see them again. |
| 663 | * {{Satan}}: The rather campy, traditional BigRedDevil. |
| 664 | --> '''Yakko''': Does George Hamilton know your tan is better than his? |
| 665 | [[/folder]] |
| 666 | |
| 667 | [[folder:Calhoun Q. Capybara and Lew-Lew the Ring-Tailed Lemur]] |
| 668 | ->Calhoun Capybara voiced by: Jim Cummings |
| 669 | ->Lew-Lew voiced by: Jess Harnell |
| 670 | ---- |
| 671 | * {{Expy}}: Of WesternAnimation/YogiBear and Boo-Boo. |
| 672 | ** ExpyCoexistence: Yogi and Boo-Boo actually appear in the 2020 reboot segment "Suffragette City". |
| 673 | * InformedSpecies: Calhoun looks somewhat like a bear, while Lew-Lew resembles a red panda or a crab-eating raccoon. |
| 674 | [[/folder]] |
| 675 | |
| 676 | [[folder:The Tiger Prince]] |
| 677 | ---- |
| 678 | * MisplacedWildlife: He and his parents are tigers that live in Africa. |
| 679 | * TakeThat: His segment serves solely as a rather mean-spirited dig towards ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', since Yakko appears in the role of Rafiki and drops the cub after raising him to the sky, faux-innocently remarking that he thought cats always landed on their feet. |
| 680 | [[/folder]] |
| 681 | |
| 682 | [[folder: C. C. [=DeVille=]]] |
| 683 | ---- |
| 684 | * BigBad: Of ''The Great Edgar Hunt''. |
| 685 | * DisproportionateRetribution: Tries to melt down all the Edgars because they overlooked his movies. |
| 686 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Based off Creator/CecilBDeMille. |
| 687 | * RightHandCat: Has a rabbit he likes to stroke to emulate this trope. [[spoiler: It’s last seen hopping off into the sunset.]] |
| 688 | * SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:After he’s defeated, Ralph throws him in the water tower with the Warners, who immediately start annoying him. Cue BigNo.]] |
| 689 | [[/folder]] |
| 690 | |
| 691 | !!Minor and one-shot characters in the [[WesternAnimation/Animaniacs2020 reboot]] |
| 692 | |
| 693 | [[folder:Odysseus]] |
| 694 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/DiedrichBader |
| 695 | [[Literature/TheOdyssey The King of Ithaca.]] He angers the Warners, who are Greek gods, and must face their wrath. |
| 696 | ---- |
| 697 | * AdaptationalDumbass: The mythical Odysseus was famous for his intellect and cunning. This guy, by contrast, is a macho meathead like the warriors Odysseus was often contrasted against during the Trojan War. |
| 698 | * BareMidriffsAreFeminine: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. He wears a [[ChainmailBikini midriff-baring armor]], but he's a [[TestosteronePoisoning ridiculously manly]] JerkJock. |
| 699 | * CarpetOfVirility: He has large patches of hair on his chest, belly and armpits, befitting his macho behaviour. |
| 700 | * ChainmailBikini: The armor he wears in the first half of his short covers his chest but exposes his muscular abs and [[CarpetOfVirility belly hair]]. |
| 701 | * {{Jerkass}}: His introduction involves him getting the Warners wet twice with his boat, prompting them to smite him. Doubling as a JerkJock. |
| 702 | * MagicSkirt: Even when head-down in the sand, his skirt covers his buttocks.[[note]][[WhatCouldHaveBeen Originally]], the creators intended to avert this trope and [[FanDisservice have his hairy buttocks revealed]], but the executives asked the scene to be censored.[[/note]] |
| 703 | * TooKinkyToTorture: He ends up enjoying the Warners' first two attempts to punish him. Subverted on the third attempt where they get him to crack and apologize. |
| 704 | [[/folder]] |
| 705 | |
| 706 | [[folder:Polyphemus]] |
| 707 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MauriceLaMarche |
| 708 | [[Literature/TheOdyssey The Cyclops of Ancient Greek myth]], who is the one that ''finally'' brings down Odysseus, and is a rip on UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump. |
| 709 | ---- |
| 710 | * DumbMuscle: He's huge and very powerful in terms of strength, but isn't shown as much for brains. |
| 711 | * GrossUpCloseup: Subject to a few of these, as he's not presented as being the healthiest looking cyclops in the world. One such action is to use Odysseus ''as his new loofa''. |
| 712 | * {{Trumplica}}: His skin-tone, mannerisms, and speech pattern are all based on the ex-President. |
| 713 | [[/folder]] |
| 714 | |
| 715 | [[folder:Nils Niedhart]] |
| 716 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/FredTatasciore |
| 717 | A large buff Olympic medalist. |
| 718 | ---- |
| 719 | * TheAhnold: A big, muscle-bound man with an Austrian accent who loves to show off. |
| 720 | * BackForTheFinale: Serves as the antagonist in the third episode, and he doesn't appear again until the final episode of season 1. Later makes a couple more appearances in Season 2. |
| 721 | * BriefsBoasting: For the majority of his debut episode, the only thing he wears is a pair of [[RealMenWearPink pink]] briefs, and he's a rude, bragging person who loves to show off his muscles. |
| 722 | * DraggedOffToHell: In his ''first two'' appearances. |
| 723 | * EscapedFromHell: Nils ended up in Hell at the end of his debut episode, but escapes offscreen to return in the season finale. |
| 724 | * JerkJock: He's a strong athlete who's very full of himself and rudely dismisses the Warners (who in turn start [[KarmicTrickster tormenting him]]). |
| 725 | * RealMenWearPink: Literally; he always wears pink clothes (and if he puts on a shirt, it [[BareMidriffsAreFeminine exposes his midriff]]), but he's a comically manly and muscular JerkJock. |
| 726 | [[/folder]] |
| 727 | |
| 728 | [[folder:Dwayne [=LaPistol=]]] |
| 729 | ->'''Voiced by''': Danny Jacobs |
| 730 | A bun enthusiast. |
| 731 | ---- |
| 732 | * AnimalMotifs: Rabbits. He has two big front teeth, and his {{Animesque}} counterpart has two strands of hair that stick up separate from the rest of his hair like a rabbit's ears. |
| 733 | * HulkingOut: For the Animesque battle with the Warners, he turns much bigger and more muscular than he normally is. |
| 734 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's a a thinly-veiled parody of Wayne [=LaPierre=], the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association. |
| 735 | [[/folder]] |
| 736 | |
| 737 | [[folder:Dr. Walter Grubb]] |
| 738 | ->'''Voiced by''': Danny Jacobs |
| 739 | A hunter who dedicates his life to hunting the ''Animaniacs'' cast. However, he is also somebody else entirely, and the details of who he really is can be found in [[Characters/AnimaniacsOtherSupportingCharacters Other Supporting Characters]]. |
| 740 | ---- |
| 741 | * CanonCharacterAllAlong: The end of his short reveals him to be none other than [[spoiler:Chicken Boo.]] |
| 742 | * EgomaniacHunter: He is obsessed with himself and his collection of ''Animaniacs'' characters. |
| 743 | * EvilCounterpart: To Ralph. Both want to catch the Warners to lock them up. But the difference is, what Ralph is doing is part of his job as a security guard and doesn't want to harm them, Grubb is a sadistic hunter who wants to put the Warners' heads in his wall, along with the old characters. |
| 744 | * FailedASpotCheck: Aside from the Warners, Grubb claims to have successfully hunted down every character from ''Animaniacs''. However, it should be noted that he is missing more than the Warners, such as Pinky and the Brain, which the Warners call him out on. [[spoiler:They especially bring up Chicken Boo, who Grubb turns out to be.]] |
| 745 | * FullBodyDisguise: At the end of his episode, [[spoiler:Grubb is revealed to be Chicken Boo's best disguise ever.]] |
| 746 | * LatexPerfection: He looks like a perfectly normal human (with unusually small feet), with an expressive face. [[spoiler:Nothing indicates that he's a giant chicken wearing a human disguise.]] |
| 747 | * TookALevelInJerkass: He's a full-blown villain with a vendetta against the ''Animaniacs'' cast. His counterpart in the original series was merely [[spoiler:a giant chicken who wore disguises to fit in with humans, with no malicious intent]]. |
| 748 | * WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to talk about him without mentioning who he actually is. |
| 749 | [[/folder]] |
| 750 | |
| 751 | [[folder:Jay-Pac Le East Tha Rapper]] |
| 752 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/ZenoRobinson |
| 753 | A rapper who gets challenged by Yakko. |
| 754 | ---- |
| 755 | * BattleRapping: Engages in one with Yakko. Yakko comes out victorious. |
| 756 | * DefeatMeansRespect: After being beaten by Yakko, he holds no grudge and even congratulates the Warner. |
| 757 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His name parodies three famous rappers: Jay-Z, Tupac, and Kanye West (le East, in this case). |
| 758 | [[/folder]] |
| 759 | |
| 760 | [[folder:Nickelwise]] |
| 761 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/PeterStormare |
| 762 | A thinly veiled {{Expy}} of Pennywise from ''Film/It2017''. |
| 763 | ---- |
| 764 | * {{Expy}}: Of Pennywise, as stated above, right down to being portrayed by a Swedish actor. |
| 765 | * MonsterClown: Comes with the territory of being a Pennywise expy. Ironically, this doesn't make Wakko scared of him any more than most other clowns... or scared of him at all. |
| 766 | * NearVillainVictory: If Wakko and Dot didn't show up when they did, he would've sucked Yakko dry of his soul. |
| 767 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: At first, he comes across as more pathetic than the MonsterClown is parodying, with his attempts at scaring Dot and Wakko going about as well as one would expect. But then he gets to Yakko, whose insecurities are about no one finding him funny and not being around those who do, and suddenly Nickelwise becomes more threatening than any antagonist the sibs have faced. |
| 768 | * WrongGenreSavvy: Thought he was in a horror film instead of a parody of one. |
| 769 | * YourSoulIsMine: He sucks up a person's soul once he gets them frightened. He loses the souls he has collected when the Warners [[HorrifyingTheHorror frighten him with their zaniness]]. |
| 770 | [[/folder]] |
| 771 | |
| 772 | [[folder:Cora]] |
| 773 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/ChrissieFit |
| 774 | Nora's teenage daughter. |
| 775 | ---- |
| 776 | * AlphaBitch: She's a sixteen-year-old RichBitch, what do you expect? |
| 777 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: She's never seen again after season 2, not even when we see Nora's home. |
| 778 | * DisappearedDad: Nora is her only seen parent. |
| 779 | * GratuitousSpanish: Occasionally, she speaks Spanish. In fact, her first line was spoken in Spanish. |
| 780 | -->'''Cora:''' (''during her temper tantrum)'' ¡NO LO PUEDO CREER![[note]]I CAN'T BELIEVE IT![[/note]] |
| 781 | * HairTriggerTemper: She is prone to throwing tantrums when her mother doesn't fulfill ''every'' one of her wishes. |
| 782 | * ItsAllAboutMe: She loves being the centre of attention, and tells her mom to get off ''her'' stage at her sweet 16th. |
| 783 | * OverlyLongName: Queen Cora Nora Bora-Bora Angora Dora Norita the Fourth. She even uses it as a counterattack to Dot's trademark long name. |
| 784 | * PhoneaholicTeenager: Played with; in her debut episode she tells the ''other'' teenagers at her party to stop looking at their phones and start paying attention to her; but in her second appearance in "23 & WB", she asks her mother if she can look at her phone instead of spending time at the family party. |
| 785 | * SpoiledBrat: She's extremely spoiled by her mother, and gets upset if she doesn't get everything she wants. |
| 786 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: She resembles a short version of her mother. |
| 787 | [[/folder]] |
| 788 | |
| 789 | [[folder:Emperor Nero]] |
| 790 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/FredTatasciore |
| 791 | |
| 792 | The greedy and narcissistic emperor of Rome, based partly on [[UsefulNotes/{{Nero}} his historical counterpart]] and partly on UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump. |
| 793 | ---- |
| 794 | * BeardOfEvil: He has a neckbeard similar to his historical counterpart. |
| 795 | * TheCaligula: A greedy, selfish and lazy ancient Roman emperor. |
| 796 | * FatBastard: He's overweight and an awful person in general. |
| 797 | * MajorGeneralSong: His own song about himself and role in history is a parody of "Modern Major General" by Adrian D. Holmes, and is entitled "Ancient Roman Emperor". |
| 798 | * {{Trumplica}}: It's made very clear that this interpretation of Nero is modeled after Donald Trump, and this is even lampshaded in the middle of a song about him. |
| 799 | -->'''Warners:''' ''(singing)'' Takes endless golf sabbaticals, his tweets are unsyntactical-\ |
| 800 | '''Yakko:''' [[LampshadeHanging Um, we're still talking about Nero, right?]] |
| 801 | * TakeThat: Towards UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, as many of Nero's actions and personality quirks are based on the former President. |
| 802 | * VillainSong: "Ancient Roman Emperor", sung to [[MajorGeneralSong a familiar tune]], starts out as Nero bragging about his heinous deeds, but then devolves into [[TheVillainSucksSong the Warners mocking him]]. |
| 803 | [[/folder]] |
| 804 | |
| 805 | [[folder:The Animator]] |
| 806 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NancyCartwright |
| 807 | The animator who messes with Yakko in "Yakko Amakko". |
| 808 | ---- |
| 809 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Unlike Bugs Bunny ("Duck Amuck") and Elmer Fudd ("Rabbit Rampage"), she's an ordinary human animator who admits that tormenting her cartoons is one of her only outlets. She's also the only one who gets bested by her cartoon star, after Yakko tricks her into giving him extra arms so that he can pull her into the shot. |
| 810 | * DefeatMeansFriendship: She and Yakko easily reconcile following her explaining herself, and the two hook up to {{troll}} Warner Studios over ice cream. |
| 811 | * HartmanHips: She's ''very'' curvaceous around the glutes, contrasting her moderately-sized body and skinny legs. |
| 812 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: She looks a lot more realistic than other reboot humans. Justified in that in-universe, she's not a cartoon character. |
| 813 | |
| 814 | [[/folder]] |
| 815 | |
| 816 | [[folder:May the Mayfly]] |
| 817 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KariWahlgren |
| 818 | ---- |
| 819 | * BlackComedy: The entire segment she is in is about how exercise won't do May the Mayfly any good, since her species is destined to live only a few minutes. |
| 820 | * FourLeggedInsect: She is an insect who has four legs. |
| 821 | * {{Irony}}: May's wings crumble from aging just as she's about to use them for the first time. |
| 822 | * RapidAging: Well, it's normal by a mayfly's standards, but May starts out young and withers away before our eyes in a matter of minutes. |
| 823 | * WeAreAsMayflies: Played with, as a literal mayfly demonstrates the trope. |
| 824 | [[/folder]] |
| 825 | |
| 826 | [[folder:Flora Dora]] |
| 827 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/CandiMilo |
| 828 | Nora's grandmother and the CEO of Warner Bros.' in-universe parent company, Mucho Telèfono. |
| 829 | ---- |
| 830 | * CoolOldLady: She's not only filthy rich, but her entire plan to pass the company onto one of her heirs is done with exceptional skill. |
| 831 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Her company, Mucho Telèfono, is one to AT&T, who owned Warner Brothers during the time of the series premier. |
| 832 | * TakeThat: She mentions she's very gullible because she watches a lot of Tucker Carlson. |
| 833 | [[/folder]] |
| 834 | |
| 835 | [[folder:Dr. Jurgen von Scratchansniff]] |
| 836 | ->'''Voiced by''': Rob Paulsen |
| 837 | Otto's identical twin brother. |
| 838 | ---- |
| 839 | * AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Jurgen looks and sounds exactly like his brother to where the Warners mistake him for Otto upon meeting him. |
| 840 | * EatenAlive: His fate at the end of his episode is him getting eaten by a whale. |
| 841 | * MadDoctor: He created his own series of Warners so that he could KillAndReplace the originals with ones that were obedient. Unfortunately for him, the originals convince the copies to turn on him. |
| 842 | [[/folder]] |
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