Characters / Full House

The characters from Full House.

Main Characters

Jesse Katsopolis

Portrayed by: John Stamos

Jesse is Danny's brother-in-law and one of his best friends as well as the Cool Uncle of the Tanner kids. He's a passionate musician, he idolizes Elvis, is kind of a casanova and he's a man with rough exterior, but has soft heart deep down in him. Jesse later dates and marries Becky, Danny's co-host.

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• '80s Hair: All three primary male actors are shown wearing mullets at different points in the show's run.
• AM/FM Characterization: His love of Elvis Presley is a huge part of his character.
• Athletically Challenged: The episode "Air Jesse" has him taking part in a charity basketball game. But he gets in over his head as he has neither the ability or knowledge on how to play basketball. It's only when Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who's serving as a celebrity referee in the game, that shows Jesse to pick a sweet spot (i.e. a spot on the court where he can constantly make baskets) that he finally finds success.
• Back to School: To the high school he dropped out of initially.
• Berserk Button:
  • Don't let him catch you with alcohol, especially if you're underage.
  • Mocking his hair is a good way to anger him, too. Joey's rival Hershel "Stonewall" Binkley, who joined the charity hockey game only to beat and humiliate Joey like when they were kids, provokes him by saying he has split ends, resulting in Jesse nearly lunging at him.
• Catchphrase:
  • "Have mer-cy!"
  • "I'm there for ya babe" becomes one later on.
• Character Development: Initially, he is portrayed as a rebellious, music crazed biker who didn't seem to enjoy helping his family. As seasons progress, he is shown to be more family oriented (to the point of saying they are more important to him than music) and focused less on producing music and more on providing it like owning the Smash Club and running a radio station
• Characterization Marches On: In the early seasons, Jesse was shown being a sports fan such as watching games, and playing football. In later seasons, he hates sports and is shown being uncoordinated.
• Children Raise You: The longer he takes care of his nieces, the more he mellows and matures. Although he retains the Cool Uncle persona, he also becomes a better disciplinarian.
• Cool Uncle: Always a caring uncle to all the girls, especially Michelle.
• The Dandy: He can be pretty conscious about his looks. Especially his hair.
• Deadpan Snarker: Has his moments, like most of the cast members.
• Death Glare: Usually towards Joey.
• Embarrassing First Name: His actual given first name is Hermes. He naturally doesn't enjoy people finding out.
• Fake-Hair Drama: A recurring fear of Jesse's. Some of the dream sequences depict Jesse with varying degrees of hair loss (one depicted an elderly Jesse wearing a toupee similar to the haircut he had at that time; a later one shows him with hair plugs).
• First Gray Hair: Gets his first at 29. Naturally, he freaks out.
• Flanderization: His obsession with his hair and Elvis.
• Former Teen Rebel: A high school dropout, and even in early seasons he was still a rebellious bad boy biker. In later seasons he acts more like a mature adult.
• Friend to All Children: He's always reluctant, but ends up bonding with them anyway.
• Friend to All Living Things: Kids, babies and even animals love this guy.
• Gorgeous Greek: There's no hiding those Mediterranean good looks. He is the handsomest of the three male leads, swooned over by women both in the show and the audience. Played by Real Life example John Stamos.
• Happily Married: To Becky, in later seasons.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: His leather jacket.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Danny and Joey.
• Hippie Parents: He and Becky don't set many limits for their sons and let them get away with everything, causing them to act out.
• Important Haircut: Losing his mullet coincided with the start of his Character Development.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Mainly in the early seasons. His rebellious nature may get the better of him sometimes and can be selfish, but he's still a loving family man at heart.
• Lady Killer In Love: He was a womanizer, until he meets and falls in love with Becky in season 2.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: In season 1 he has long hair. After he cuts it, he's just a Pretty Boy.
• Nobody Touches the Hair: To the point where it borders on being a catch phrase.
• Parental Substitute: To the girls, particularly Michelle.
• The Pete Best: In-Universe. He is this for the Rippers, which becomes much more popular after firing him and finding a different guy as the lead singer.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The Manly Man (rebellious "tough guy") to Danny's Sensitive Guy (the organized Neat Freak).
• Sudden Name Change: His last name was "Cochrane" in season one but John Stamos wanted his own Greek heritage to be implemented into the character by changing his last name to Katsopolis.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Being played by John Stamos.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: He and Joey are good enough friends that they venture into several career paths together (advertising, a radio show,) yet the difference of personalities between a cool, laid-back musician and a goofy, Manchild comedian means they bicker at each other a lot.

Danny Tanner

Portrayed by: Bob Saget, John Posey (unaired pilot)

The patriarch of the Tanner household. Danny is widower who has to take care of three daughters, and thus he has invited his brother-in-law Jesse and his best friend Joey to live with them and help him out. Danny is a kindhearted father and emotional man, but he can also be very strict and has clear sets of rules. He's a Neat Freak and worked as a TV sports reporter before becoming the host of the TV show Wake Up, San Francisco.

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• '80s Hair: All three primary male actors are shown wearing mullets at different points in the show's run.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He's a very loving father and he doesn't raise his voice that much, but when he does, look out! Stephanie found that out when she refused to clean her room once.
• Bumbling Dad: At times, particularly to D.J., but a very effective one through and through.
• Catchphrase: Averted; he's pretty much the only person in the family without one.
• Characterization Marches On: An early episode had Danny reluctantly cleaning the house when the boys' mothers descend upon them. The same Danny Tanner who in later episodes is shown cleaning his cleaning supplies. Though he was known to be a neat freak when he was a child as well. His messiness at the beginning of the series could be attributed to depression over the recent death of his wife. He also mentioned that he had help cleaning from his mom, then his wife, and now he had to learn for himself.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Danny had moments like this.
• Competition Freak: From time to time, including during the Grand Finale, after he takes offense at a woman who has him Mistaken for Servant.
• Control Freak: He's very controlling. For example, during the family trip to Hawaii, he takes charge and marks all the families' activities together on what he calls a "Clipboard of Fun".
• Disproportionate Retribution: Danny kicks Kimmy out for 3 weeks (later 1 week & 6 days) for breaking one of his TV's in the season 3 episode "Fraternity Reunion". Of course it was just another of the dumb things Kimmy did, and this one was the last straw; plus, he heard DJ screamed and thought someone was hurt.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Jesse and Joey.
• Hidden Depths: He is a skilled pool player (Joey: "He went to school on a billiards scholarship"), dart player (Danny: "I minored in darts"), wrestler ("They called me the "Steel Stringbean") and guitarist. He's also quite skilled at figure skating, though he claims he's rusty at it ("I barely got any height on that double axel"). Also, he's not a bad singer.
• Ironic Nickname: Kimmy calls Danny "Mr. T".
• Married Too Young: Danny and Pamela were high school seniors when they eloped in the fall of 1975, before either turned 18; the series' bible indicates that a formal wedding ceremony, where they recite their vows, takes place in the spring of 1976. Despite this and the fact that their oldest daughter, D.J., is born during their freshman years of college (before either of them turn 20), things turn out well for them and both become successful in the working world.
• Momma's Boy: Implied a few times like when Danny said he kissed his parents and the floor when he returned from camp (which Joey promptly said was a day camp) and telling DJ his mom chose his drink till he was 21. May or may not have completely shaken this after Season 3's "The Return of Grandma," after explaining to his mother that most everything he did as a kid was an attempt to make her happy.
  Joey: (to Jesse) He may need his mother.
• Neat Freak: So much so the trope could be named after him. He thinks of big spring cleaning as an equivalent of Christmas.
• Only Sane Man: The most sensible and realistic of the adult male trio.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The Sensitive Guy (organized Neat Freak) to Jesse's Manly Man (rebellious "tough guy").
• Obsessively Organized: He upgrades from Neat Freak to Obsessively Organized during Spring Cleaning.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: He's over six foot and he's quite good looking.

Joey Gladstone

Portrayed by: Dave Coulier

Joey is a comedian and is Danny's best friend. He's the Honorary Uncle towards the Tanner sisters and he and Jesse are Vitriolic Best Buds with clashing personalities. Joey loves doing impressions of cartoon characters and he's a big child at heart, and thus is very adored by the three girls.

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• '80s Hair: All three primary male actors are shown wearing mullets at different points in the show's run.
• The Artifact: Unlike Jesse (the actual uncle), he was just a good friend that agreed to move in to help Danny raise the girls. Over time, the girls had gotten old enough to take care of themselves and Rebecca also moved in after marrying Jesse.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He's a goofy guy, but he can bring the hammer down hard when he's taken advantage of.
• Big Eater: Not to the extent that Steve is, but he's known for his appetite.
• Catchphrase: "Cut it out!", accompanied by hand gestures.
• Children Raise You: Present, but not as much as with Jesse. As noted below, he remains a Manchild, and while he does a lot of "fun" parent stuff like teaching Michelle to ride a bike, he's rarely seen in serious parental roles.
• Cloudcuckoolander: He's a grown man who watches cartoons. That by itself wouldn't mean much. The fact that he constantly talks to people using cartoon voices for no apparent reason does.
• Cool Uncle: Although not an actual uncle. Danny's daughters only call him "Uncle Joey" a few times in early episodes. Despite not being related to the family he acts as an uncle to the kids of the house.
• Entertainment Below Their Age: He loves cartoons, especially Hanna-Barbera ones like Yogi Bear, and can do quite good impressions of characters.
• Genius Ditz: Is pretty clueless most of the time, but he is a real whiz when it comes to making jokes and doing impressions of celebrities and cartoons.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Jesse and Danny.
• Hidden Depths: He has a pilot's license, a teacher's license and could give a surprising detailed response to a question about cartoon violence.
• Honorary Uncle: He is the childhood best friend of Danny who usually handles the day-to-day raising of the kids by doing chores like making meals, driving the kids to school appointments, and after school activities, taking care of Michelle as a baby, and helping the kids with their homework. He also becomes their Uncle Jesse's best friend and Jesse insists his children call Joey, "Uncle Joey" as a sign of respect.
• Lethal Chef: Two words: Flounder Tarts.
• Manchild: Loves cartoons and junk food.
• Parental Substitute: To the girls. This becomes occasionally an issue, as he has to act as substitute of their late mother at school.
• Picked Last: In the first-season episode "Just One of the Guys", he's humiliated to find himself picked last while choosing sides for a game of football.
• Trademark Favorite Food:
  • Overlaps with Real Men Eat Meat, if his homemade dishes like meat muffins and his large stockpile of canned spam meat are anything to go by.
  • He also loves Vanilla Weasels, to the point where he is distraught over Vanilla Weasels being discontinued in one episode.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Jesse.

Donna Jo "D.J." Tanner

Portrayed by: Candace Cameron Bure

D.J. is the oldest daughter of the Tanner daughters. She's intelligent, hard-working, responsible and earnest. Being the eldest also means that a lot of issues with adolescence and puberty will stem mainly from her. Among the three sisters, D.J. has the most amount of relationships throughout the series, with Steve being her one true love.

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• Academic Athlete: She's a straight-A student, member of the soccer team, and purple belt in karate. In one episode Danny mentions she's a natural athlete.
• All Girls Like Ponies: The episode "D.J.'s Very First Horse" was about her and Kimmy trying to buy a horse with hilarious results.
• Book Smart: She's an honor student who often participates in extracurricular activities.
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: Sometimes.
• Catchphrase:
  • "Oh my Lanta"
  • "Whoa, baby!" Usually at the same time with Kimmy.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: To Kimmy. Whenever her friend goes too far, DJ tries to prevent her from doing (or saying) foolish or embarrassing things.
• Cool Big Sis: She's often jealous of her younger sisters, but she loves them.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Quite feminine, composed, and well-behaved, and she has the normal interests of a teenage girl, like dating boys, especially in later seasons. She also like some sports like soccer and karate. Also, her In-Series Nickname "D.J" isn't so feminine.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Kimmy.
• Hormone-Addled Teenager: Played straight with both D.J. and her friend Kimmy.
• In-Series Nickname: Aside from D.J., she's also called "Deej".
• Missing Mom: Several months before the series' began, Danny's wife and the girls' mother, Pam, was killed in an accident caused by a drunk driver.
• Only Known by Initials: Her real name is Donna Jo Tanner.
• Only Sane Woman: Compared to her sisters and her best friend Kimmy, she's usually the most mature and the voice of reason, though she can be Not So Above It All on occasion.
• Really Gets Around: By the end of the series, there's hardly an episode where she isn't seen making out with one guy or another.
• She's All Grown Up: Nearly everybody who has ever watched the show has commented on how she....developed nicely in the show's later seasons.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly Girl to Stephanie's Tomboy.
• Trauma Button: DJ gets very upset at the thought of others getting drunk, given what happened to Pamela.

Stephanie Tanner

Portrayed by: Jodie Sweetin

Stephanie is the middle child of the Tanner sisters. She's quite snarky and has a lot of witty comments for almost any situation.

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• Adorably Precocious Child: In the first seasons unless Michelle became old enough to take that role.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: She loves reading D.J.'s diary and eavesdropping on her telephone calls. She annoyed her a lot in early episodes and it's used as a plot point in more than one episode.
• Catchphrase: "How rude!" "Well pin a rose on your nose" and "Hot dog." She dropped these as she got older.
• Deadpan Snarker: Especially towards Kimmy.
• Genki Girl: She's perky, talkative and the most excitable of the girls. This gets toned down as she gets older.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Mr. Bear, see below.
• Little Miss Snarker: The snarkiest one in the family. She and Kimmy are frequently making off-handed jabs toward one another throughout most of the series.
• Middle Child Syndrome: She even has an episode dedicated to her fear that she'd never be as good or loved as her sisters. She has a Imagine Spot where both DJ and Michelle upstage her at everything. (She became an astronaut, went to Mars, and learned to fly. She gets upstaged when DJ went to get the mail and Michelle blinked.) Later, they remind her that there are great sides to being the middle, such it being the best part of the cookie and mistakes they made with DJ they won't make with her, depressing DJ but making Stephanie happy.
• Missing Mom: Several months before the series' began, Danny's wife and the girls' mother, Pam, was killed in an accident caused by a drunk driver.
• Mouthy Kid: She pretty much epitomizes this trope in the early seasons. She gets better later on.
• Out of Focus: Starting around Season 6, Stephanie gets less episodes that focus on her (unless they deal with tough issues like smoking or joyriding) and is mostly added in for a cold opening, subplot, or as an extra character in the main plot.
• Positive Friend Influence: She helps Gia regain stability in her life to the point even Gia's mom appreciates the affects she's had.
• Security Blanket: Mr. Bear. In an aversion of the usual storyline for this trope, she actually ends up keeping it all through the series.
• She's All Grown Up: Like DJ she became more crushworthy as she hit puberty.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to D.J.'s Girly Girl.
• Tomboyish Ponytail: She often wears this in her hair in Seasons 4 and 5.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: In Seasons 4 and 5.
• Took a Level in Cynic: Starting in Season 6, Stephanie becomes more sarcastic and negative.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Gia in the later seasons.
• Wise Beyond Their Years: At only 8, she knows DJ is telling the truth when she swears "I didn't do anything!", even though she doesn't even know what's going on—"You looked me right in the eyes. When you lie, you look at the top of my head."

Michelle Tanner

Portrayed by: Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen

Michelle is the youngest of the Tanner sisters, being still a baby at the beginning of the series, but she would later grow up into an elementary school kid. Unlike her sisters, Michelle has no memories of their mother because she's too young to remember her.

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• Adorably Precocious Child: The precocious yet lovable youngest child with many Catch Phrases.
• And Starring: In the last season, the twins are credited as "and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen as Michelle".
• Annoying Younger Sibling: In later seasons.
• Bratty Half-Pint: Could be justified because she's the youngest, but many people found her "cute" antics and smart-mouthing bratty. Her brattiness is taken up to eleven in the Disney World episode.
• Breakout Character: Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen were not given their own billing in the opening credits during the original first-run ABC series; they were not permanently added until Season 2. Michelle becomes the most well-known character and towards the end of its run Full House was pretty much "The Michelle Show". The Olsen twins (arguably the best known actresses from the show) even get the And Starring treatment in the last season.
• Catchphrase: Several. "You got it dude!" "Aw nuts" "You're in big trouble, mister!" etc. She eventually dropped them when she got older, though.
• Cheerful Child: Being a young child, Michelle is quite playful and adventurous.
• Cool Big Sis: To her cousins Nicky and Alex in the last couple of seasons.
• The Cutie: The studio audience goes "aww" a lot whenever Michelle does something "cute".
• Daddy's Girl: Being the baby of the family, Michelle always receives the most attention.
• Deliberately Cute Child: During her toddler years—it's even lampshaded by her uncles a few times. She knows she is cute and can get away with a lot of things because of it.
• Girlish Pigtails: In some episodes.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Her stuffed pig named Pinky.
• In-Series Nickname: "Squirt" by Kimmy (which Michelle hates) and "Munchkin" from Uncle Jesse (which is fine with her).
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She can be bratty and mischievous, but she eventually realizes the errors of her ways by the episode's conclusion and she deeply adores her family.
• Karma Houdini: Big time. Even though the plot of Season 4's "Crimes and Michelle's Demeanor" involved Danny realizing he was letting her get away with too much, then deciding to punish her. Lampshaded occasionally in the rest of the series. Although usually when Michelle does something wrong she DOES get a talking-to and occasionally she'll get punished, ex: The episode "Sisters in Crime".
• Kid-Appeal Character: Young children often referred to Full House as "The Baby Michelle Show".
• Little Miss Snarker: When she is older.
• Missing Mom: Several months before the series' began, Danny's wife and the girls' mother, Pam, was killed in an accident caused by a drunk driver.
• Mouthy Kid: Less so than Stephanie, but is still snarky enough to qualify.
• Never My Fault: In later seasons.
• Precocious Crush: Michelle gets a crush on Steve after she gets a Valentine's Day present from him and wants to marry him. Steve goes along with it believing she's pretending. After he realizes the truth, Michelle is heartbroken at first but she gets over it.
• Promotion to Opening Titles: In season 2.
• Spoiled Brat: Especially in later seasons, partially because Danny rarely disciplined her for several years and is by far the most spoiled of the three sisters.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: As Michelle gets older, she gets more episodes revolving around her, especially starting in Season 6. The writers brought it to the point where Michelle was essentially the main character by the end of the series.
• Sweet Tooth: Is a fiend for cookies, ice cream, chocolate and anything sweet.

Becky Donaldson Katsopolis

Portrayed by: Lori Loughlin

Becky is Danny's co-host in "Wake up, San Francisco", who eventually dates and marries the latter's brother-in-law Jesse, thus becoming the aunt of the Tanner kids. She and Jesse eventually become parents themselves as she gives births to the twins Nicky and Alex.

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• And Starring: In season 3 she is credited as "and Lori Loughlin".
• Cute, but Cacophonic: Becky can't sing. Oddly, though, "Our Very First Telethon" showed her singing a duet on live TV with Danny, and her voice was decent.
• Deadpan Snarker: She can be sarcastic.
• Happily Married: To Jesse, in later seasons.
• Hippie Parents: She and Jesse are not very good at disciplining their boys or teaching them right for wrong, causing them to act out such as destroying Michelle's science project or keeping them up all night.
• Iconic Sequel Character: She's one of the main characters, but is only introduced in season 2.
• Lethal Chef: Rebecca suffers from this reputation, much to her annoyance. An episode involves her and Michelle learning how to cook together, however, with rather appetizing results to subvert the trope.
• Nice Girl: Very caring and helpful, and gets along with everyone.
• Only Sane Woman: She is practical and often seen giving advice to her three nieces.
• Parental Substitute: To the Tanner girls (like Jesse and Joey).
• Promotion to Opening Titles: In season 3.
• Team Mom: She becomes a sort of mom substitute to D.J., Stephanie, and Michelle.

Kimmy Gibbler

Portrayed by: Andrea Barber

D.J.'s best friend and a neighbor of the Tanners. Kimmy keeps barking into their house and is rarely welcomed by anyone who isn't D.J. due to her obnoxious personality. She also has her signature stinky feet that nobody can stand.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: Towards several of the men on the show, especially Jesse (she even slapped Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on the butt).
• Book Dumb: She's a straight-D student and gets rejected by literally every college in California.
• Butt-Monkey: No one except D.J. seems to tolerate her, and she's often insulted and made fun of by everyone, even the adults.
• Catchphrase: "Whoa, baby!"
• Cloudcuckoolander: According to D.J. "Kimmy's not an airhead. She just hates thinking."
• Comically Small Bribe: She attempts to get into to Stanford by submitting the application along with a $20 bill, only for Stanford to reject her by sending her $40 and a note asking her to pretend it never happened.
• Deadpan Snarker: In early seasons she's very snarky towards the family.
• Didn't Think This Through: Kimmy's indifference to her education causes her to be rejected by every university in California. Stanford even sends her rejection letter with $40 (after she bribed them with a $20) and a note saying "Let's pretend this never happened". She actually does regret this, both for being a failure and because it means she will be separated from DJ who despite also being rejected from Stanford at least got into Berkeley.
• The Ditz: She's a terrible student and not very smart.
  Stephanie: Kimmy, you're so dumb you don't even know how dumb you are.
  Kimmy: You're the one who's dumb: capital D-U-M!
  DJ: Kimmy, there's a B.
  Kimmy: [turns around] Where? I hate bees!
• The Dreaded: The Bratty Half Pints she babysits are terrified of her. She's very good at keeping them in line so they behave.
• Drop-In Character: Like Steve Urkel, she serves as the weird annoying neighbor to the main family.
• Fatal Flaw: Her indifference towards higher education results in her getting rejected by every California-based university. The best she could do was go to a community college.
• Fearless Fool: By her own admission, she's too dumb to be scared. Which is why she can climb a mountain without a care in the world.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Aside from her friend D.J., most of the other household members can't stand her. Stephanie and Jesse are the most vocal in their dislike of her.
  Kimmy: Hey, guys!
  Stephanie: Gibbler, don't you ever knock?
  Kimmy: I used to, but no one ever let me in.
• Genki Girl: She is usually perky and upbeat.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With D.J.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Despite generally being not particularly bright, Kimmy at one point did better in Spanish class than DJ did. She helped persuade Danny into considering getting DJ her own phone line by explaining the costs of installing a second phone line. She also somehow got a perfect score on her driver's exam. No, she didn't cheat (though she did on her first time). She's just a surprisingly really good driver (a fact that surprises Danny). Kimmy's also an expert drummer, keyboard player and bagpiper. She can also ride a unicycle. She's also an expert at keeping the bratty children she babysits in line.
  • In "Another Opening, Another No Show", she was hurt when Jesse insulted the way she decorated her uniform.
  • She's also a very good businesswoman, to the point where she started and owns her own successful party planning company in Fuller House.
• Hormone-Addled Teenager: Played straight with both D.J. and her friend Kimmy.
• Last-Name Basis: Not always, but several members of the Tanner household often call her Gibbler, showing how much they don't like her.
• Never a Self-Made Woman: Averted. Despite her lack of education, Kimmy started and owns a very successful party planning company by the time of Fuller House.
• The Nicknamer: "Squirt" for Michelle, "Hairboy" for Jesse, "Mr. T" for Danny.
• No Indoor Voice: Occasionally when she enters the house she'll scream DJ's name in a loud, grating voice.
• Rummage Sale Reject: She has absolutely ridiculous taste in clothes.
• Parental Neglect: Implied.
• Promotion to Opening Titles: From season 5 onward, despite having been around since season 1.
• Shoe Phone: Her personal phone is one of the Sports Illustrated Sneaker Phone, an actual working corded phone built into a sneaker, which was given away as a promotional item with subscriptions to their magazine for a time in the early 90s.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: To Jesse and Stephanie.
• Smelly Feet Gag: One of the central running gags is that Kimmy Gibbler has smelly feet. Every time she takes off her shoes, the other characters have to move away from her (though they usually can't stand her as it already is). The smell seems to come right out after she takes off her shoe or shoes. Apparently, this runs in her family, as she mentions in one episode that DJ probably won't want to spend the night at her house since her father has just run out of foot deodorant.
• Straw Loser: She's pretty much there to make D.J. and the Tanner girls look good.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Kimmy loves trout.

Nicky and Alex Katsopolis

Portrayed by: Daniel and Kevin Renteria (season 5), Blake and Dylan Tuomy-Wilhoit (seasons 6-8)

The twin boys of Jesse and Becky. They are youngest children within the Tanner household.

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• Always Identical Twins: Played by Real Life twins.
• Bratty Half-Pint: Neither of the boys are given much in the way of boundaries, causing them to act out.
• Catchphrase: Sometimes when one says something the other will say double that ie "I want dessert." "Double dessert." "Shame on them." "Double shame."
• Coordinated Clothes: Occasionally.
• Cousin Oliver: The twin sons of Jesse and Becky added to the cast in later seasons, when Michelle is already older.
• Deliberately Cute Child: When Michelle grows older, the role gets filled by twins Nicky and Alex.
• Karma Houdini: This gets called out by Danny of all people that Becky and Jesse need to be able to discipline the boys. The worst they get for the below mentioned moment is a no longer amnesiac Michelle demanding her toy back.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: In the finale, they take full advantage of Michelle's amnesia to get her to give them one of her toys. Probably justified because they're kids and don't understand the seriousness of the situation—but "justified" is not the same as "excused". There was also an earlier episode where they destroyed Michelle's science project and didn't know they weren't supposed to, which has Danny mention that parents are usually the one to teach children discipline.
• Trickster Twins: They are both mischievous and cause much stress to their parents' lives.

Steve Hale

Portrayed by: Scott Weinger

D.J.'s boyfriend whom she has hooked up with prior to the beginning of season 6. He's the captain of the wrestling team and is quite obsessed with eating food.

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• Ascended Extra: He first appeared in "Sisters in Crime". In the next season, he becomes her steady boyfriend and a recurring character for the whole season.
• Back for the Finale: DJ frets over not being able to get a prom date, but Kimmy finds one for her - Steve.
• Big Eater: Gained some lampshading in the Season 6 intro.
  Danny: We gotta build a drive-thru window.
• Love Interest: To D.J. He serves as her main love interest, which continues in Fuller House.
• Lovable Jock: He is the captain of his wrestling team, but he's a really Nice Guy.
• Nice Guy
• Promotion to Opening Titles: In season 6.
• Put on a Bus: After season 7, when he and D.J break up. They get together again in the final episode.

Other Characters

Vicky Larson

Portrayed by: Gail Edwards

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• Big Damn Kiss: With Danny once the characters vacation in Disney World.
• Career Versus Man: The reason she and Danny eventually break-up.
• Long-Distance Relationship: Tries to keep one with Danny for a while, although they eventually couldn't deal with the distance and found their relationship to be unfulfilling.
• Married to the Job: Which leads to her breaking up with Danny. She chose a network gig in NYC, and he breaks up with her.
• Sickeningly Sweethearts: With Danny in seasons 6-7.
• Tsundere: Type B initially, to Danny.
• Workaholic: She loves her job as a reporter and often finds little time to create a fulfilling love life because of this. In fact, she accepted a job as a network anchor in New York City. Danny tells her that he cannot take a long-distance relationship, and the two break off their engagement and break up, although they still have feelings for each other.

Gia Mahan

Portrayed by: Marla Sokoloff

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• Book Dumb: She used to ditch school numerous times, and got her "friends" to ditch too, because she thinks School Is for Losers.
• The Bully: Her initial characterization.
• Fearless Fool: She leads Stephanie into dangerous situations quite a few times.
• Freudian Excuse: According to her mom, Gia's attitude came from taking her parent's divorce really hard.
• Generation Xerox: A sibling version; her relationships with Stephanie and Michelle are a nigh perfect parallel to Kimmy's relationships with DJ and Stephanie.
• Held Back in School: It is often implied that she was held back at least once in school.
• Hormone-Addled Teenager
• Rebellious Spirit: A cigarette-smoking, rebellious pre-teen with horrible grades.
• Smoking Is Cool: Implies this in an episode in season 7.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality
• Took a Level in Kindness: After becoming best friends with Stephanie, Gia stops smoking, becomes more respectful, improves her grades, and (especially being on the other side of a Prank Gone Too Far) stops pranking people.
• Toxic Friend Influence: Sort of, to Stephanie.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Stephanie.

Derek S. Boyd

Portrayed by: Blake McIver Ewing

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• Adorably Precocious Child: Derek is very educated and well-spoken for a boy of his age.
• Crazy-Prepared
• Hidden Depths: He is an extremely talented singer, which becomes more obvious once he gets past his stage-fright.
• In Touch with His Feminine Side
• Neat Freak: He often takes this to Obsessively Organized levels.
• Nice Guy: Bordering on Extreme Doormat sometimes. He's extremely polite to people, including adults.
• Performance Anxiety: Initially, although Michelle helps him overcome this.
• Puppy Love: With Lisa, another one of Michelle's friends. They even sing a love song together for a talent show.
• Wise Beyond His Years: He is quite well-spoken and articulate for someone his age.

Teddy

Portrayed by: Tahj Mowry

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• The Bus Came Back: He returns near the end of season 7.
• Cheerful Child
• Only One Name: His last name is never revealed.
• Puppy Love: Arguably, with Michelle in season 8, although it doesn't last long.
• Put on a Bus: To Amarillo in the second episode of season 6.

Denise Frazer

Portrayed by: Jurnee Smollett

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• Cheerful Child
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: She is one of Michelle's best friends in the 5th, 6th and 7th seasons but disappears without a trace after the season seven finale.
• Deliberately Cute Child
• Distaff Counterpart: To Teddy.
• Quirky Curls
• Mouthy Kid

Aaron Bailey

Portrayed by: Miko Hughes

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• Bratty Half-Pint: Good lord. He was played by Miko Hughes, best known as the demon child from Pet Sematary, and the poor kid was typecast as evil, bratty, and obnoxious children for years.
• The Bully: He is the typical class bully, who tends to be annoying and rude at times.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Eventually, Aaron becomes good friends with Michelle and is accepted into the group of friends, despite being a little bit of a pest.
• It's All About Me: Teddy at one point claims that Aaron is "too bossy" whenever they're together.
• Jerkass: With some occasional Jerk with a Heart of Gold moments.
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All
• Mouthy Kid
  Aaron: Do I have the biggest part?
  Jesse: No, but you have the biggest mouth.
• Spoiled Brat: Especially towards Jesse.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: with everyone, especially Michelle. Best summed up by the following quote:
  Michelle: "Okay, we'll play Hide-and-Seek. You hide and we'll try to find you. (Beat) Maybe."

Pam Tanner (neé Katsopolis)

Portrayed by: Christine Houser

The late matriarch of the Tanner family. She was Danny's wife, the mother of D.J., Stephanie and Michelle, as well as Jesse's big sister. She died in a car accident because of a drunk driver.

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• Cool Big Sis: To Jesse.
• Deadpan Snarker: Has shades of this, as seen in one of Danny's home movies.
• Drunk Driver: The very cause of her death, and it's implied the drunk died, too, as the family does not make any mentions of court or settlements (which would be expected if the drunkard survived). She also reportedly did not wear a seat belt, claiming she didn't want to wrinkle her dress.
• Married Too Young: The series' bible establishes that Pamela and Danny eloped in the fall of 1975, while they were both still in high school, and that a wedding ceremony (where they formally recite their vows) took place in the spring of 1976, around the time of her 18th birthday. Things turned out well for the young couple, as they both are able to graduate from college (even with D.J. being born during what would have been both Danny and Pamela's freshman years of college), welcome two more daughters, live in a nice house and have a loving family.
• Missing Mom: To the three girls. Makes an appearance in "Goodbye Mr. Bear" during a home movie.
• Posthumous Character: The premise of the series is that she was killed in a car accident, so Jesse and Joey moved in to help Danny with his daughters.
• Shared Family Quirks: In the one time she is shown, it seems she also likes to add "Huh?!" at the end of sarcastic or exasperated comments, much like her little brother Jesse.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Discussed in one episode. Danny claims she was the most perfect woman he ever knew, but Jesse quickly reminds him of her flaws. ("And when we were little she used to hold me down and stick carrots up my nose!")