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Main Protagonists

The main nine playable characters seen in the series. It originally started out with just four characters in the first game with Cuddles, Flaky, Petunia, and Nutty, but Giggles and Toothy became playable in the second game while Neena and Tacho started becoming regular player characters in the spin-off Happy Tree Friends Adventures Land and Minttles is set to come in either the seventh game (The Greatest Battle Ever) or HTFA World.

Tropes applied to these characters:

  • Badass Adorable: Who would have thought that a team of cuddly cartoon animals that are infamous for being extremely fragile can take down an army that can kill them several times over?
  • Big Eater: In games featuring Edible Collectible, the characters can be considered this.
  • Demoted to Extra: All six are held hostage by Bowser in HTF Origins, along with other Happy Tree Friends (including Flippy!).
  • Goomba Stomp: They can do this in HTFA Land.
  • Heroic Mime: In the first game.
  • Kid Hero: Six of the nine characters are stated to be 9 years old according to Radel, despite the fact that their actual age is very vague in canon (or if basing on the HTF crew's (possibly) joke answer to a fan's question, around 500 years old). Neena and Minttles are 11 years old while Tacho is 10.
  • The Unintelligible: Averted in this fangame series. They all speak clear English instead of random gibberish.
  • Vague Age: Averted, unlike the HTF show itself. See the Kid Hero section above.
  • Victory Pose: In HTFA Land onwards, they have their own animation after clearing a level or defeating a boss.

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     Cuddles 
Special Power: Carrot Drill

"Heheh! Good job!"

The Happy Tree Friends mascot and the lead character of the HTF group. Shoots the fastest.


     Flaky 
Special Power: Spin Dash (HTFA 6), Hyper Jump (HTFA Land, Maker)

"Yay! Yay, I'm done!"

A red porcupine whose cowardice has been toned down somewhat in this series. She's willing to join Cuddles and company to defeat Bowser and his army. Jumps the highest.


     Petunia 
Special Power: Spray of Death

A dark blue skunk who is one of the playable characters that have high running speed in the series.


     Nutty 
Special Power: Chocolate Freeze Wall

"AHAHAH! HAHAHA! Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!"

A hyperactive green squirrel with sweets stuck on his fur. He still retains his sugar-crazed trait and ditzy personality. He is able to stop dead on his tracks whenever the player suddenly lifts off their finger from the directional left/right button, making him the least slippery character to play as.


     Giggles 
Special Power: Kiss of Death

"Well done! Haha!"

A pink chipmunk with a big red bow on her head. First appeared as a Damsel in Distress in HTFA 1, then became playable starting from HTFA 2 onwards. Like Petunia, she runs faster than average characters.


     Toothy 
Special Power: Cry Pump

"Yeah! Great!"

A purple beaver who first appeared in HTFA 1 as a pilot of a spaceship that he uses to pick up the heroes and Giggles in order to escape the self-destructing lair. He became playable starting from HTFA 2 onwards. Being a beaver, he can handle being underwater better compared to other characters.


     Neena 
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/neena.png
Creator: Neenagirl2220 (now ImTheOneConfused)
Special Power: Aqua Orb

"Well done."

A light blue cat with long brown hair, magenta glasses, light blue tank top, and dark blue pants. She usually appears alongside Tacho, as both often assist the heroes in one way or another. Design-wise, by HTF standards, she has the most complex design.

While she was semi-playable in a single section in HTFA 5 (only limited to jumping), she became fully playable in HTFA Land, replacing Brandy in HTFA 6. Like Flaky and Brandy before her, Neena is capable of jumping higher than most playable characters.


  • Action Girl
  • Ascended Extra: She first appeared as a NPC that helps your character travel across the water by water-skiing. She gains the same role again in HTFA 5, but she can be controlled as well, albeit only limited to jumping. Only after having some Demoted to Extra moments (becoming a plain NPC in HTF Origins and HTFA 6) she is finally Promoted to Playable in HTFA Land.
  • Blue Is Heroic: A blue cat.
  • Cute Kitten
  • Depending on the Artist: Neena's design pretty much depends on who drew her. Some depict her with larger, clearly cat-like ears; some drew her with the triangular ears (like Lifty and Shifty); some drew her glasses completely covering her eyes; some drew the glasses covering the eyes partially... the list goes on...
  • Evil Knockoff: Mecha Neena, who only appears in HTFA 6.
  • An Ice Person: Her main element in RPG: The Fire Point is Ice.
  • Interspecies Romance: With Nutty the squirrel (not in-game, only fanworks).
  • Making a Splash: Neena seems to be associated with water in this series. She assists the Happy Tree Friends in water-skiing levels, her Evil Knockoff utilizes water as one of the attacks, and her Special Power involves firing bubbles/water-based projectiles.
  • Non-Standard Character Design: Compared to other HTF characters who are more simplistic in design, her design is rather complex, what with having hair like a human and being a Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal. Granted, some HTF characters from the canon side can be this too (Disco Bear, Russell, etc.), but she definitely stands out because the majority of the HTF characters featured in this series has simplistic designs.
  • Original Character: Neena is one of the fan-made HTF characters.
  • Sixth Ranger: Became one of the main heroes starting from the Land spin-off.
  • Spread Shot: Her Special Power is this, probably to make up for the fact that Brandy is not returning. Instead of mini-twisters, though, she fires basically bigger orbs that can go through any terrain.
  • Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Has long eyelashes.

     Tacho 
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tacho.png
Creator: Lanathewolf (now pinkkris)

A dark red wolf with dandruff on his hair and tail. He usually appears alongside Neena as NPCs. He's later playable in HTFA Land, replacing Izzy in HTFA 6. Like him, Giggles, and Petunia, Tacho is capable of running faster than most playable characters, and is only one of two playable male characters with this attribute.


  • Big "NO!": When he dies in HTFA Land.
  • Breaking the Fourth Wall: In HTFA Land, it is clear that Tacho is waving to the player as his Victory Pose, as seen by how his eyes are facing the player. His victory quote (see the character quote above) is even addressed to the player, the only "friend" he actually "sees".
  • Evil Knockoff: Mecha Tacho in HTFA 6. Infamous for being That One Boss in that game.
  • Original Character: Tacho is one of the fan-made HTF characters.
  • Playing with Fire: His Special Power, which involves him shooting a fireball that can pass through walls. His main element in RPG: The Fire Point is also Fire.
  • Promoted to Playable: He appears in HTFA 4, 5, 6 and Origins as a NPC. He later became playable in HTFA Land.
  • Red Is Heroic: A red wolf.
  • Sixth Ranger: Became one of the main heroes starting from the Land spin-off.

    Minttles 
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Creator: CookietheMouse
Special Power: Tail Spin

A light green squirrel with big buckteeth similar to Toothy's and a liking for mints. He was introduced in The Fire Point, but is a planned standard playable character for two upcoming games.


Allies and Other Playable Characters

This covers characters that are allies to the main protagonists, including characters that can be playable in certain games (e.g.: Allay and Lemy in Happy Tree Friends Origins).

Tropes applied to these characters:

  • Badass Adorable: You cannot underestimate these characters too when it comes to taking down Bowser and his army.
  • Big Eater: In games featuring Edible Collectible, some of the characters can be considered this.
  • Goomba Stomp: Lemy and Allay can do this in HTF Origins. In HTFA Land, Neena and Tacho also join in on the stomping fun.
  • NPC: If not playable.
  • Victory Pose: In HTFA Land onwards, if they're playable, they have their own animation after clearing a level or defeating a boss.

     Twin Bee and Win Bee 
Universe: TwinBee

A pair of sentient ships that are playable in the underwater and outer space levels in HTFA 2. In HTFA 4 and 6, only TwinBee himself appears, and he is not playable.

In HTFA 2, you can either play as TwinBee if you choose a male character or WinBee if you choose a female.


  • Color-Coded for Your Convenience: In HTFA 2, male Happy Tree Friends ride TwinBee (blue). Female Happy Tree Friends ride WinBee (pink) instead.
  • Cool Ship
  • Demoted to Extra: In HTFA 4, 6, and RPG: the Fire Point, only TwinBee appears, and the travels involving him are only shown in cutscenes, while WinBee is absent from both games.
  • Everything Trying to Kill You: Only the empty space and collectibles (and your own bullets) are safe to fly through when the player plays as one of the ships. Not only the enemies are capable of one-shotting them due to the ships being a One-Hit-Point Wonder in this state, solid walls and obstacles can also destroy them if the player so much as touches them.
  • One-Hit-Point Wonder: Unlike the HTF characters, both ships are so fragile that they explode after simply taking one hit from anything.
  • Pink Girl, Blue Boy: That's how the game decides which ship the player is going to play as.
  • Sapient Ship: As mentioned before, both TwinBee and WinBee are sentient ships.
  • Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: WinBee, the female ship, is pink and used only by female Happy Tree Friends in HTFA 2. Her cockpit is even shaped like a heart symbol.
  • Unexpected Shmup Level: Levels involving them are pretty much this.

     Flippy 
Special Power: Gun Shot

A green bear who is a war veteran. Known for his "flip-outs", which cause him to become the killing machine known as Fliqpy in the show he originated from. He's pretty much just the same as he ever was in his home show, with Fliqpy being Always Chaotic Evil and always on Bowser's side whenever he shows up in the series.

He first appears in HTFA 2 as a hidden boss, whose level can only be accessed via a level selection screen that can only be activated using button combination on the game's start screen. He later appears in HTFA 6 as one of the major bosses, as well as being a boss fight in RPG: The Fire Point during Cuddles and co.'s time in the Ice Cave. He is planned to be playable, this time in normal form, in Happy Tree Friends Adventures Legends, being Brandy's replacement for that game.


  • Anti-Villain: Type II. Most notable in HTFA 6 and RPG as he's in Bowser's side just because he turned into Fliqpy. Watch him getting up after his defeat in that game. He, after turning back to normal, ends up being confused at the situation.
  • Ascended Extra: First appeared as a hidden boss in HTFA 2, then gets Demoted to Extra in HTF Origins as one of the captured Happy Tree Friends, then becomes a major boss in HTFA 6 and RPG, and is planned for a playable appearance in a future title.
  • Ax-Crazy: His Fliqpy self is a murderous maniac.
  • Badass Adorable: He's a cute bear who is very good as assassinating others in as Fliqpy.
  • Beary Friendly: His good side, obviously.
  • Bears Are Bad News ONLY as Fliqpy.
  • Bragging Rights Reward: In HTFA 2, defeating him gives you 20 additional lives. If you're really good at the game, you might not need that much.
  • Child Soldiers: Apparently, he's 13 years old according to HTFMegaman.
  • Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: It's hard to see, but he has them as Fliqpy.
  • Curtains Match the Window: Once again, hard to see due to sprite size (except for his depiction on a huge portrait in his boss battle in HTFA 2), but when he flips out, he actually has green eyes that are a darker shade of his fur.
  • The Determinator: He will always chase after the player during his Boss Battle in HTFA 6.
  • Energy Weapon: Fires lasers as his main attack in HTFA 6.
  • Expy: Of Rambo.
  • Green and Mean: He is a green bear, but only mean when he is flipped out.
  • Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: No pants.
  • Macross Missile Massacre: Can fire missiles in HTFA 6.
  • Made of Iron: He can take more punishments than the player characters. Just look at his Life Meter.
  • Nice Guy: For those who are unaware of his personality, he is actually this when not flipped out, or in other words, outside boss battles against him. In fact, he's planned to be playable in the upcoming Happy Tree Friends Adventures Legends.
  • Playing with Fire: In HTFA 2, and those flame shots are fired in a Spread Shot.
    • He also uses flame shots in HTFA 6, but only when he is unleashing missiles.
  • Promoted to Playable: Set to become playable in Legends.
  • Shell-Shocked Veteran
  • Spread Shot:
    • In HTFA 2, he can shoot a few fireballs that go in different directions.
    • As Brandy's replacement for Legends, gameplay footage of him in action shows him wielding a gun that can shoot bullets in three directions, much like Brandy's Small Tornadoes and Neena's Aqua Orb.
  • Stationary Boss: In HTFA 2.

     Lemy 
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lemy.png
Creator: zolrac3005 (now Doctor-Lemur

A white lemur wearing a blue headband. Loves peace, yet is willing to participate in wars. Only appears in HTF Origins and HTFA 5, the latter being a NPC.


  • Combat Pragmatist: Lemy's skills in RPG: The Fire Point utilize pragmatic battle style ranging from kicking sand to blind enemies to insulting his enemies to anger them (read: Attack buff but leaves them confused).
  • Guest-Star Party Member: In RPG: The Fire Point.
  • Original Character: Lemy is one of the fan-made HTF characters.
  • Put on a Bus: After a single playable role in HTF Origins, he ends up as a NPC in HTFA 5. And that is all, until...
    • The Bus Came Back: Lemy becomes a playable guest party member in RPG: The Fire Point.

     Allay 
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/allay.png
Regular Allay (left) and Princess Allay (right)
Creator: Cherry-Chowder (now CrabbyNoobs)

A yellow bear with brown hair tied in a ponytail and wears light blue shirt, and dark blue skirt. Most of the time, she appears in her princess form, which has her fur color being pink and wearing a crown (her Transformation Trinket) and red dress, and can transform further into Allayna, an evil form of her with wings based on Flandre's. She rules the Happy Tree Kingdom and most of the time shares the same role as Peach from Super Mario Bros., thus becoming Bowser's favorite target in this series.

In Happy Tree Friends Adventures Game Boy, Allay is revealed to have a Superpowered Evil Side, Allayna (based somewhat on Flandre), who only appeared in that game in the opening cutscene as part of Bowser's threat to Cuddles. Allayna, however, is set to be a part of Happy Tree Friends Adventures 7: The Greatest Battle Ever's story.

     Brandy 
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brandytvt.png
Creator: 090shinsuke090 (now Mr-Shin)
Universe: Happy Tree Friends (formerly)
Special Power: Small Tornadoes

"Not bad. Not bad..."

A blue and white arctic fox that wears a red bandanna around his neck. Only notable for having a single game appearance, in HTFA 6. There, he can be fought as one of the bosses, which after defeating him allows him to join your party. Like Flaky, he's a high jumper.

In the hands of his creator, he's now a completely original character not tied to HTF. Because of this, he's now six feet underground in Lunavut Cemetery, as seen in RPG: The Fire Point.


  • Blow You Away: His Special Power allows him to fire mini-twisters in a Spread Shot.
  • Blue Is Heroic: A blue fox.
  • Brainwashed: After being captured by Bowser and his minions, he gets brainwashed and becomes one of the orb holders.
  • Defeat Means Friendship: See below.
  • Fighting Your Friend: To make him playable, the player has to defeat him.
  • Homing Projectile: As a boss, he can fire several mini-twisters that are shot to the player's spot.
  • One-Shot Character: Only appears in HTFA 6. His creator is no longer involved with the HTF fandom not long after the game's release.
  • Original Character: Brandy used to be a HTF fan character. Now he is no longer associated with HTF.
  • Redemption Demotion: As a playable character, he's just as weak as the other playable characters and his mini-twisters are now part of the Special Power, which is limited to a Spread Shot and is even restricted by the limited amount of Special Power gauge that must be kept refilled if you want to keep using his power. Justified here, as he was simply Brainwashed by Bowser during the battle against him and it's possible that he had more power in that state.
  • Spread Shot: His mini-twisters are shot this way.

     Izzy 
Universe: Digimon
Special Power: Laser Gun

"Cool!"

A child prodigy from the Digimon universe. For some reason, he appears in HTF form (a purple, half-dressed cartoon squirrel). He only appears in HTFA 6, where he (like Tacho in later games) was capable of running faster than most other playable characters. He can only become playable if you've beaten the first third of the game.


  • Adaptational Badass: Knowing the franchise he came from, he might be curb-stomped easily by Bowser and his army. Once he decided to join you, not only he can attack in the same way as the other playable characters, he also brings along a friggin' laser gun! Who needs Tentomon (as well as a Digivice, for that matter) if he can just blast machineries to oblivion and splatter the organic ones into Ludicrous Gibs with just a freakin' laser gun and an infinite supply of balls/orbs?
  • Big "NO!": When he dies in HTFA 6, only in the updated version though.
  • Energy Weapon: His Special Power. Looks like he decided to take a lesson from Jeff.
  • Fragile Speedster
  • Guest Fighter: A non-fighting game example. He's the only non-HTF representative to be fully playable. (Twinbee and Winbee are limited to certain levels in HTFA 2)
  • Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: He still dons his typical attire, albeit without pants and shoes.
  • One-Shot Character: Like Brandy, only appears in HTFA 6. He is originally planned to appear in some of the future HTFA titles, but the fact that his HTF style designer (now apart of the HTF fandom) considered the HTF style creation an Old Shame makes this unlikely that he will ever appear again.
  • Real Men Wear Pink: Has pink diamond marking on top of his head.
  • The Smart Guy

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