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Rock Trolls
In General
- Badbutt: Rock Trolls are an incredibly intense tribe of aggressively confrontational attitudes, but they still react with shock to the same Faux Horrific things most other tribes would, or an accidental middle finger from Thrash.
- The Ditz: Most of them show this trope at different levels, but special mention goes to Sid Fret, who can't distinguish Rock fashion and lyrics at all. Much of the time, it's mentioned that they only show a decent capability in their areas of particular knowledge or expertise (for instance, Sid's roadie occupation).
- Iconic Sequel Character: Like most other Troll Tribes introduced after the Pop Trolls, they've only been around since the second movie, and yet are considered fundamental to the franchise.
- Rebellious Spirit: A big part of rock culture is a rebellious attitude (how that works with a monarchy is anyone's guess), which is most often expressed by dissenting jeers at event announcements. Poppy experiences this firsthand in the TrollstTopia episode "Trollvial Pursuit".
Queen Barb
"By the end of my World Tour, we're all gonna have the same vibe. We're all gonna be one nation of Trolls... under Rock!"
The antagonistic Queen of the Hard Rock Trolls. Queen Barb has the strength and grace of Joan Jett, the no-holds barred attitude of Wendy O. Williams, and the sassy swagger of Deborah Harry.
- Affably Evil: She treats her fellow rock trolls like family, loves her aging father, and even comes off as friendly to the trolls whose strings she aims to steal from (without counting her few insults towards their genres, and even then they're not rather harsh).
- Big Bad: The main antagonist of the second movie.
- Bratty Teenage Daughter: Barb's voice actress Rachel Bloom describes her as such, though she has never actually shown any actual.
- Caretaker Reversal: Barb frequently dotes on her aging Dad.
- Caustic Critic: During the events of Trolls World Tour this electric-guitar-toting troll has had harsh words on the other trolls' music, saying Techno isn't real music, Classical music is "boring" because there's no words, and Pop music is "bland, repetitive, the lyrics are empty and it crawls into your head like an earworm!". However, she pretty much gave up on this by the end of the movie.
- Chainsaw Good: Barb trashes her Angler Bus by slicing a couch in half via chainsaw. She apparently does this often because there are repair seams, and a Rock Troll in the couch doesn't flinch from reading his book when Barb reveals his hiding spot.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Barb is the opposite of Chef in many terms.
- Whereas Chef was the aged, resentful former royal chef to the ruling family of Bergen Town who sought to overthrow King Gristle Jr. out of revenge for his father scapegoating and exiling her twenty years prior for the Pop Trolls escaping their kingdom, Barb is the young, devil-may-care queen of the Hard Rock Trolls who seeks to forcefully unify all the troll tribes under her music by destroying their respective genres so that only rock music remains.
- Chef was a Manipulative Bitch who opted to hide her goals behind the facade of wanting to atone for her past failures and make her people happy once more, while Barb was all too honest with what she wanted to do with the strings of the other troll tribes.
- While Chef immediately established herself as a threat to Poppy by kidnapping her friends and usually did her own dirty work, Barb never properly interacted with Poppy before the final act of the sequel, up until which point she had relied on bounty hunters to locate Poppy and bring her to Barb with the Pop trolls' string.
- Chef wanted to rule over the Bergens for the sake of power and respect, which left her with little-to-no redeeming factors, while Barb was only trying to wipe out all non-Rock music in a misguided attempt to bring peace and unity to all trolls; she eventually learns her lesson and changes for the better.
- Daddy's Girl: Even though he's grown hazy and senile Barb has great affection and respect for her father.
- Delinquent Hair: In a new take on the iconic standing troll hair, Barb has a mohawk.
- Dramatically Missing the Point: Barb knows how wrong it was for the ancient Pop Trolls to try and take over all music, yet still thinks turning trollkind hard rock is for the best. Clearly, all she understands from history is that pop shouldn't rule the world, but "real music" like rock can.
- Ear Notch: Half of her left ear seems to have been torn off.
- Easily Forgiven: By the end of the movie, even after turning over a leaf, no one holds it against her that she tried to force unity over the Trolls tribe by brainwashing them with rock. Granted, as she instigated the events that led to the tribes unifying peacefully.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Gender Flipped; Barb adores her Daddy like no one else.
- Even Evil Has Standards: When Poppy destroys the strings, she is rightfully furious with her. She wanted to unite music under Hard Rock, not destroy it completely.
- Evil Counterpart: She's basically Poppy's Shadow Archetype; both of them are queens of different breeds of Trolls who are surrounded by sycophants and only wish to unite all of trollkind. The only major difference is that while Poppy is Obliviously Evil, tending to ignore people's differences and her friend's objections if they conflict with her Sugar Bowl worldview, Barb is more self-aware about it, knowing that she is surrounded by dishonest sycophants and tries erasing everyone's differences by force.
- Expecting Someone Taller: After taking Poppy's mailed response of "friendship" as a threat and given the Pop Trolls were previously a threat to all Tribes and thus considered "evil", Barb finds the Pop Troll's appearance hilarious, pointing out that she's a full centimeter taller than Poppy.
- Friend to All Children: During "Crazy Train", Barb gives some attention to a Rock Troll child (named Amp in supplementary material); when Barb's guitar creates huge red fireworks, the delighted child's creates tiny lightning bolts.
- Friendless Background: The Rock Trolls are constantly at Barb's command and comrade with her which Barb plays along with, but she admits she knows it's only because she's their queen.
- Girl Group: After all is forgiven Barb yells to her 'pal' Carol that with Poppy they can have a Girl Group! Carol is psyched.
- Heel–Face Turn: By the end of the film, she abandons the plan for conquest and learns to accept others for who they are and what music they like, as everyone else does the same, and accepts Poppy's friendship without hesitation.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: Beneath it all, it is pretty clear that she sees her position as queen to be isolating, mocking Poppy's olive branch for being as simple as "let's be friends" and tries and fails to goad her groupies into camaraderie.
- Large Ham: True to her music genre, she maintains a massive presence wherever she goes.
- Loyal Animal Companion: Barb adores Debbie, the hairy white bat who acts as a messenger pigeon. During a tantrum when Barb is about to chainsaw a couch she takes a beat to move Debbie from the danger before returning to carnage.
- Mad Artist: Evil intentions laid out, Barb still puts on wicked show.
- The Nicknamer: She calls Poppy "Pipsqueak", "Popsqueak" and "Popcorn". She also calls Branch "Boytoy".
- "Not So Different" Remark: Barb states that despite their 'taste in music, clothes and general lifestyle', she and Poppy are similar in spirit. They're both both queens who are under the pressure of ruling, and struggle with the line between "friend" and "subject".
- Pink Means Feminine: Subverted. She might look greyish, but she's actually muddy red/dark pink. And in constrast to the more pink Poppy, she's more tomboyish.
- The Power of Rock: In this case, Barb's loud music can topple homes and oceanic reefs.
- Rotten Rock & Roll: She's the queen of Hard Rock (and its many variants), and is the Big Bad of World Tour. This is obviously averted in all of her appearances after the movie.
- The Rock Star: Credit to Rachel Bloom's acting and the animators for Barb's electric passion.
- Smug Smiler: Regularly has a sneer as a reference to Elvis Presley, the King of Rock.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The tomboy to Poppy's girly girl.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: She tried to eradicate all music other than her own because she believed the Trolls would never live in harmony with each other so long as there was more than one kind of music.
Riff
Voiced by: Karan Soni
"Actually, I'm doing this for college credit."
Barb's beanie-wearing drummer.
- All Drummers Are Animals : At one point, he hit his drums with his face.
- Armor-Piercing Question: He winds up giving one to Barb in pointing out how her plan may unite all the Troll Tribes under Rock, but in doing so will rob her own tribe of their individuality and what makes them unique.Riff: If we all look the same, act the same, dress the same, how will anyone know we're cool... or something?
(Barb and the Rock trolls begin to look unsure as the realization sets in) - Everyone Has Standards: When he sees the effects of the ultimate power chord on the Troll monarchs, he's taken aback and concedes to Poppy's point that everyone being the same isn't a good thing.
- Eye-Obscuring Hat: He wears a beanie cap that covers his eyes. He has to move it in order to make his eyes visible, though he otherwise doesn't seem to have any vision problems with it.
- Eyes Out of Sight: He always has his eyes obscured by his beanie cap. The only time they're exposed in some way is when he peeks his right eye out of the beanie.
- The Intern: He claims that he's working for Barb so that he can get college credit.
- Punch-Clock Villain: His aforementioned college credit implication makes him this.
- Wheelchair Antics: Riff backs Thrash's wheelchair in reverse when they expect Barb to go in a fury.
King Thrash
Voiced by: Ozzy Osbourne
"It's alright, Barbara. Just let everyone be what they wanna be. Including you."
The retired king of the Rock Trolls, who is wheelchair-ridden and hazily happy to watch his daughter Barb rock and rule.
- Can-Crushing Cranium: After drinking his "fiber" juice, he crushes the box against his head.
- Caretaker Reversal: Barb is patient and loving with her father at all times.
- Cool Old Guy: He's the retired king of the Rock Trolls, and even while being old, wheelchair-bound, and senile, he still knows how to rock out.
- Extraordinary World, Ordinary Problems: King Thrash is a member of a race of magical trolls in a very magical world, but he is still afflicted by senescence. He is wheelchair-bound and is implied to be going senile with his daughter needing to take care of him.
- Fog of Doom: When exiting from the restroom, Thrash has a smoke and fog show.
- Guilty Pleasure: Thrash likes Poppy's friendly letter to his daughter and hums the "Trolls Just Wanna Have Fun" message from the card. Barb is horrified at this, and quickly tries to get his mind off it.
- Mighty Glacier: The Rock Trolls patiently wait for him to bend his fingers in the "sign of the horns". At one point he believes he's done it, and Riff gently flicks his old fingers up to finish the gesture.
- Mundane Made Awesome: Him exiting the bathroom is accompanied by a smoke show and fire.
- Retired Badass: He's the former king of the volcano-living Rock trolls. On a sweet note, Barb respects him as an idol.
- Scatterbrained Senior: Thrash exhibits forgetfulness that suggests the onset of senility.
- Techno Wizard: Still in charge of the pyrotechnics of Barb's concert.
- Wheelchair Antics: Riff backs Thrash's wheelchair in reverse when they expect Barb to go in a fury.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: He supports Barb through her world domination plot and is comforting, even when things don't work out her way.
Carol
Voiced by: Marcella Lentz-Pope
"A girl group? Nice!"
A Rock Troll "friend" in Barb's entourage.
- Aloof Ally: Barb insists that Carol is her friend, even though she doesn't seem to care. She does react with excitement at the end when Barb tells her that they can form a girl group with Poppy, though.
- Lazy Backup: Like the rest of Barb's tour; after they do Barb's bidding, they tend to lounge about her Angler Bus.
- Trademark Favorite Food: She's seen eating spray cheese in almost all her scenes.
Debbie the Bat
Barb's fluffy white pet bat. She delivers mail like a messenger pigeon.
- Bat Out of Hell: The Pop Trolls find her monstrous.
- Instant Messenger Pigeon: Debbie is used to deliver messages by Barb.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Debbie is a hairy bat. Debbie Hairy. Deborah Harry.
Country Trolls
In General
- The Cynic: Unlike the other kinds of trolls who's music are used as different forms of escapism, their music is more grounded, their Establishing Character Moment being Delta singing a song about life's inherent sadness and arresting Poppy, Branch and Biggie for doing a pop ballad, calling it a "crime against music."
- Our Centaurs Are Different: These trolls resemble centaurs more than any other troll.
Delta Dawn
Voiced by: Kelly Clarkson (second movie), Jenny Mermelstein (Holiday In Harmony)
The Mayor of the Country Trolls who takes pride in her dry way of life.
- Celebrity Resemblance: Her large, bright red hair and blue eyes make her look Reba McEntire.
- Country Mouse: The Mayor of the Country Trolls.
- Real Women Have Curves: Her large hips and bust make her one of the most full-figured trolls shown in the franchise.
- The Sheriff: Also the apparent sheriff of Lonesome Flats.
- Song of Solace: Introduced singing Born To Die, a song about the hardship and eventual end of life that Country Trolls just try to endure while taking comfort in each other.
- Wild Hair: Subverted. Her tall hair has silk curls, not unlike Marie Antoinette.
Clampers Buttonwillow
- Voiced by: Betsy Sodaro
Delta Dawn's niece.
- Buzzsaw Jaw: A variation; Clampers has multiple rows of teeth in concentric circles that she uses to gnaw her way through plants and terrain. Fortunately for Branch, against troll skin it just tickles.
- Girlish Pigtails: Rather big ones that point straight up.
- Hero-Worshipper: She enjoys poking in and out of Delta's hair and imitates her aunt's words.
- Extreme Omnivore: She'd happily chew up a scrapbook if they let her.
- Now That's Using Your Teeth!: Her teeth spin like a mower and can bite through the quilt earth.
- Wild Child
Growley Pete
- Voiced by: Kevin Michael Richardson
- The Guards Must Be Crazy: He was was assigned to guard the jail that Poppy, Branch and Biggie were put it, by the time Hickory breaks the door off, Pete is fast asleep.
- Pokémon Speak: He usually just says different variations of the word "growl".
Classical Trolls
In General
- Hates Being Touched: Trollstopia shows that on the whole they don't like hugging, even as babies, preferring to bow instead.
- Iconic Sequel Character: Like most other Troll Tribes introduced after the Pop Trolls, they've only been around since the second movie, and yet are considered fundamental to the franchise.
- Our Angels Are Different: These trolls have fly-shaped wings and live high in mountains just about touching clouds. Given their small and pudgy appearance, they're closer to the Putto of Classical art.
- Pintsized Powerhouse: They're physically on average the smallest of all trolls but, even while flying, they can carry things many times their weight.
- Younger Than They Look: Their putto cherub appearance makes them nearly indistinguishable from their babies besides size. If situations like Minuet is common, they fly so often that they're unused to walking, and look like a toddler doing it.
Trollzart
- Voiced by: Gustavo Dudamel
The Conductor of the Classical Music trolls. Sensitive and proud, this troll leader sadly had the least screentime of all the tribes.
- Badass Boast: He gives a pretty good one on behalf of his people when Queen Barb attacks.We will not go quietly!
- Subverted, sadly, as Barb beats them in a about a minute.
- Fat and Proud: All Classical trolls are quite plump, and Trollzart is very dignified.
- Onomatopoeia: While conducting with the Classical String in his baton, music notes are visible in the air.
Pennywhistle
- Voiced by: Charlyne Yi
A sentient flute with a soft voice.
- Animate Inanimate Object: She's a talking flute, and the only sentient instrument in the franchise so far
- The Cutie: She's so adorable.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Downplayed at first then played straight. She was a traveler who stumbled upon Symphonyville and the Classical trolls adopted her but it all went downhill when Queen Barb destroyed Symphonyville and kidnapped the trolls. By the time Queen Poppy and her friends arrive, Pennywhistle is scared and traumatized.
- Determinator: She stays behind to fix Symphonyville. Even if she is the only to do so, has no hands, and is incredibly small.
- Shrinking Violet: She is a mild-mannered, meek little flute who speaks softly and is quite scared when Poppy, Branch and Biggie arrive, even asking them if they're nice or mean before she shows herself to them. Justified, as she was still traumatized by the Rock Trolls abducting the Classical Trolls.
- Small Role, Big Impact: She appears when Poppy arrives at the now-destroyed Symphonyville and tells her about Barb's plans for the strings. This causes Poppy to change her plans from befriending Barb to stopping her and seeing her as a real threat. Pennywhistle stays behind to fix the city by herself, and only makes brief appearances for the rest of the movie.
Funk Trolls (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
In General
- Bubble Gun: One prominent example of Funk Troll technology is remote control bubble technology.
- Four-Fingered Hands: They go a step further and are sometimes depicted as having only three fingers.
- Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better: Some members are quadrupeds while others are bipeds. Though the former don't have a problem using their forelimbs to manipulate tools. Notably, they use their four legs to pull off complicated dance moves other trolls can't do.
- Higher-Tech Species: They have the most advanced technology in the entire setting, functionally living in a terrestrial spaceship.
- Iconic Sequel Character: Like most other Troll Tribes introduced after the Pop Trolls, they've only been around since the second movie, and yet are considered fundamental to the franchise.
- Long Neck: A notable tribal trait are their long necks, coming from being based on a giraffe "Trollimal" toy.
- Mellow Fellow: Their most defining trait.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: When the Rock trolls come to destroy their music and capture their people, the Royal Family don't even hesitate to arm themselves, and lead their people into battle.
- Thinking Up Portals: One of the advanced sciences mastered by Funk Trolls is the ability to open wormholes at will to a desired location. They use this to quickly travel anywhere throughout the universe or even the multiverse.
- Ultraterrestrials: Funk trolls have all the aesthetics of ultra advanced space aliens but are native to the same planet as the other tribes.
- Walking Spoiler: Their existence exposes the fact that Cooper isn't actually a Pop Troll, hence why they're excluded in most of the merchandise for Trolls World Tour. They still had plenty of merchandise for following installments, though.
King Quincy and Queen Essence
- Covered in Kisses: Cooper gets a face full of blue-lipstick kisses from his mom, the smile is adorable.
- Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry: Both have added layers of tinsel in their fur (golden for Quincy and silver for Essence, respectively). Quincy has a star earring, like his son Prince D, and a golden cape, shades and toerings for his frontal feet. Not jewelry in Essence's case, but she sparkles with silver glitter around her eyes and her star-crown.
- Good Parents: Their relationship with Prince D shows to be affectionate and mutually supportive.
- Hollywood Genetics: Quincy has a purple fur color and Essence has a blue one, but both of their sons have pink fur.
- I Will Find You: After Cooper's egg got snatched away they never stopped looking for him until they found him.
- So Unfunny, It's Funny: King Quincy's 'Dad Joke' was admittedly lame but Cooper loves his hearing it and Prince D gave his Dad a high-five (not clear if he thinks it's actually funny or he just likes his dad's attempt).
Prince D
- Voiced by: Anderson Paak
- Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry: Has a sparkling staring earring and gold beads in his dreads. His royal family has added gold fringes between the layers of their fur.
- Hollywood Genetics: He has pink fur, which neither of his parents have.
- Mama's Boy: Implied. While Darnell is close with both of his parents, he seems to have a closer bond with his mother. During "Just Sing" Queen Essence approaches him to put their heads together as a sign of affection.
- Prince Charming: He is approachable, gentle and can sing a sweet serenade.
- The Wise Prince: Prince D is very openminded and kind. He knew of Pop's tyrannical history but still showed understanding to Poppy's ignorance.
Techno Trolls
In General
- Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Their skin looks like PVC wire coating, their hair like optical fibers, their teeth like the bars of a music visualizer and they have angular features reminiscent of pixels.
- Bioluminescence Is Cool: They can glow in the dark.
- Cardiovascular Love: Their hearts are always visible on their chests. In World Tour, they're all red (though they show blue and green glowing during the beginning of "Just Sing"), but TrollsTopia depicts them in a variety of colors.
- Flying Seafood Special: At least in the movie, Trollex's movement is simplified by having him hover over land.
- Iconic Sequel Character: Even more so than the rest of the Troll Tribes, since they have received a large
Ensemble Dark Horse treatment from fans. - Non-Indicative Name: Downplayed. Techno is a subgenre of Electronic music, which they actually represent more in general. In fact, they were never seen making actual Techno music at all ("One More Time" is more like House than Techno).
- Our Mermaids Are Different: These Trolls are aquatic in nature and phosphorescent, making them similar to mermaids.
- Tailfin Walking: They can walk and even run on their tail fins when on land.
- Token Aquatic Race: They're the only major underwater species in the franchise thus far. This is emphasized in the 2D-animated installments, where trolls from every other species need to at least put on a helmet when entering Techno environments.
King Trollex
- Voiced by: Anthony Ramos (movies), Anthony Lee Medina (Trollstopia)
The King of the Techno Trolls. He thrills as DJ and is proud to protect his people.
- Advertised Extra: Despite appearing in a ton of promotional material and almost every trailer for the second film, he only appeared for a few minutes in the beginning and briefly in scenes towards the end of the movie.
- Blue Is Heroic: He's mostly a rich blue.
- The Good King: When Queen Barb arrives in his kingdom, he doesn't even hesitate to confront her, without any sign of fear. He tries to talk her out of attacking instead of immediately getting violent, and only surrenders because she started attacking his people, and surrendering right then was the only way to protect them at that point. And at the end of the movie, he never shows any fear for himself, even after seeing Barb turn people into Rock Zombies. He only shows any fear once Barb makes it clear she intends to enslave his people.
- Punny Name: His name is likely a pun between "Troll" and "Skrillex".
Other Trolls
Chaz
- Voiced By: Jamie Dornan (movies), Sam Haft (Trollstopia and Trolls Remix Rescue)
"Well, you've just never had the Chaz experience..."
A Smooth Jazz Troll who plays a soprano saxophone. He works as a bounty hunter, mesmerizing targets with his music before restraining them.- Actor Allusion: Perhaps an unintentional example, but Chaz is quite the Mr. Fanservice, not unlike Jamie Dornan's most famous
Star-Making Role. - The Bus Came Back: He makes an prominent appearance in the Trolls: TrollsTopia Season 2 episode "Smooth Operator". As of then, he is the only World Tour-introduced (sans Tiny) character to return.
- Candlelit Bath: As a part of his whole package as a romantic jazz player, he appears out of a river filled with bubbles and floating candles.
- Carpet of Virility: Has thick chest hair in the shape of a heart. Lampshaded by Poppy on her first sighting towards him.
- Creepy Jazz Music: Played with as his music is just run of the mill smooth jazz, but it's smoothness freaks the Pop trolls out when the spell is broken.
- Magic Music: His music has the strongest effect on Trolls outside the six strings, putting those who listen to it under a blissful hallucination.
- Musical Assassin: The only of the bounty hunters shown to directly use his music for hunting. He uses a smooth jazz sax solo to bliss targets out, tying them up while they're under his spell.
- Petal Power: His music conjures a breeze of rose petals.
- Power Floats: He and his sax defy gravity.
- Sexy Sax Man: He plays a soprano sax and is characterized as very sensual.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Only wears leather pants.
Tresillo and the Reggaeton Trolls
- Voiced By: J Balvin (Tresillo), Berenice Amador (Marimba), Jamila Hache (Tambora)
"I can't live in a world without Reggaeton..."
A trio of Reggaetón Trolls that work as Bounty Hunters. Tresillo is the male leader and his silent backup dancers are Marimba (orange troll with mostly teal hair) and Tambora (lime green troll with hot pink hair).
- Meaningful Name: Tresillo means "triplet", which refers to a pattern of three notes commonly used in Latin American music. An apt name for a leader of three Reggaeton Trolls.
- Perma-Stubble: Tresillo has a green stubble.
- Worthy Opponent: The Reggaeton Trolls show respect for the K-Pop Trolls' dancing. They even suggest teaming up to split Branch for the reward.
The K-Pop Gang
"...and we can't live in a world without K-Pop!"
- Voiced By: Red Velvet
A five-member girl group of K-Pop Trolls.
- Chrome Champion: Their skin is chrome instead of the regular felt.
- No Name Given: Averted. Not said in the film but each troll is named: Kim-Petit, Gomdori, Wani, Baby Bun and Ari.
- Orphaned Etymology: One will ponder how the name "K-Pop" came to exist in a world without a Korea.
- Worthy Opponent: The K-Pop Trolls show respect to the Reggaeton Trolls after their dance battle. They're also willing to join them in a team-up.
The Yodelers (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
"Ya darn skippy, playa-play."
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- Voiced by: Sam Rockwell (Hickory), Flula Borg (Dickory)
A pair of bounty hunters who hunt inconspicuously.
- A Dick in Name: Dickory is antagonistic by circumstance, and pushy and smug about it.
- At Arm's Length: Immediately after their split, Hickory has to hold Dickory back in this manner to keep him from attacking Poppy.
- Becoming the Mask: Hickory slips into his Country Troll accent even after exposed. Also, he and Dickory stand in the Country Troll's section of the Rock concert arena.
- Contrasting Replacement Character: Hickory serves as a subtle one to Creek from the first Trolls film, being a charming troll who Poppy naively trusts before he betrays her. Creek is a member of Poppy's village and a longtime friend that she'd known for years, but he turns out to be a Dirty Coward who sells out his entire village the moment his own life is in danger. In contrast, Hickory is a foreign troll that Poppy meets on her journey to unite the troll clans and is secretly plotting against her the whole time, but he gradually has a change of heart and is genuinely remorseful when Poppy ends up captured by Barb.
- Fauxreigner: They pretend to be a Country Troll in order to track down Poppy and her group, with Hickory hiding his German accent behind a thick Southern drawl.
- Fiery Redhead: Hickory's hair is just deep enough orange to almost match Dickory's vermilion beard and ponytail. The trope is played with for Hickory and played straight for Dickory.
- Friends Are Chosen, Family Aren't: Hickory grows to genuinely like the Pop Trolls and tried to free Poppy before his brother revealed their true intentions.
- Hell-Bent for Leather: Both of them wear lederhosen, but Hickory's Country disguise also includes a fringed brown leather vest.
- I Did What I Had to Do: Like the other Bounty Hunters, they worked for Barb so she'd spare their music from being erased.
- Lovable Rogue: A tall, handsome stranger offering you a ride out of town after breaking down the door of the jail cell you were in? Clearly a faster and more exciting option than your partner's Boring, but Practical tunnel dig with a collapsible shovel. We also hear Hickory whoop with glee as he outruns Delta and her posse, clearly having the time of his life.
- Meaningful Name: Hickory is the face of their guise as a Country Troll, while Dickory is more forceful in their mission of capturing Poppy.
- Mr. Fanservice: Hickory is significantly taller than the average two-legged Troll, and even most Country Trolls, with a very noticeable set of pecs under a leather vest with no shirt. His official character profile even describes him as "ruggedly handsome", with "a singing voice as smooth as his saddle".
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Dickory can generate enough kicking power to send Chaz hurtling off the raft and into the water.
- Ruritania: They both wear European-style clothing, they represent a genre that originated in rural Europe, and Dickory talks in a heavy accent, meaning it’s likely the Yodelers hail from the Troll equivalent of this.
- Signature Headgear: Both Yodelers wear Tyrolean hats adorned with gamsbart brush trophies. As the face of their Country Troll disguise, Hickory wears a tall, wide-brimmed cowboy hat.
- Totally Radical: Dickory talks like this in a somewhat sardonic manner. "Ya darn skippy, playa play!"
- Two Men, One Dress: In their disguise as a Country Troll, Hickory is the face while Dickory plays the back half.
- Walking Spoiler: Their folder title warns of unmarked spoilers for a reason.
