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    The Loud Family 

The Boy

Lincoln Loud

  • "Changing the Baby" shows some of Lincoln's favorite pastimes are playing chess in the park and collecting coins.
  • "Project Loud House" reveals Lincoln can be as poetic as Lucy.
  • In "House Music" it turns out he can play the cello.
  • "Study Muffin" Lincoln tells us he's usually a good student (when he's not distracted by his hot substitute teacher), and is able to score an A on his test.
  • "Pulp Friction" shows that Lincoln not only is a good enough writer and artist that he won a comic writing contest, but that he can redo the entire thing in record time.
  • "Flying Solo" shows that Lincoln is actually a fantastic singer.
  • In "The Waiting Game", he can be just as convincing as Lola at making puppy dog eyes and blackmailing Lori.
  • Despite Lincoln's fame as a pacifist, he also knows how to beat women to defend himself. In "It's a Loud, Loud, Loud, Loud House", he hits Lucy and Lynn Jr. with punches and kicks so as not to share the mysterious note with them. Shortly after, he beats up Lori and the other sisters when they break into his room (okay, this time he used a cloth as a whip).
  • While Lincoln is often seen playing the role of his sisters' victim, he also knows how to play against them. In "Ties That Bind", when he thinks that parents are going to get rid of their children and be left with only one, he prepares a special breakfast to convince his father to choose him. Later, when the sisters think they've actually been evicted, he imagines becoming an only child and turning his sisters' rooms into extensions of his. He even pretends to be sad about their eviction, only to smile behind their back. Yes, he tried to throw his sisters out of the house BEFORE they did it to him in "No Such Luck"!
  • Lincoln is great at resolving the sisters' conflicts in "Baby Steps" (although "Brawl In The Family" contradicts this).

The Older Sisters

Lori Loud

  • Her dream job is to be a CEO of a major corporation. She'll also settle for Co-CEO.
  • A perfect day for her includes a round of golf. One episode reveals that she's on the varsity golf team at her high school (and a later episode reveals that she was the only one to make the varsity team as a freshman).

Leni Loud

  • When she's making Lori's bed for a ride to the mall, she has, as Lincoln puts it, "amazing craftsmanship".
  • Upon mastering the lawnmower, Leni etches her name into the lawn.
  • In "Cheater By The Dozen" she prepares a perfectly-made salmon dish for herself and her siblings, implying she can cook to some extent.
  • In "It's a Loud, Loud, Loud, Loud House" she's shown to be a handy lockpicker and implies she's fully aware the others believe her to be a ditzy airhead.
    Leni: What? There's more to my head than just air, you know.
  • In "Pulp Friction", she manages to get Vanzilla to the Post Office and catch up to Principal Huggins even after it breaks down by using a sash she bought to tie Vanzilla to a tow truck, earning her praise from her siblings, notably Lucy, for her good thinking.
  • She exploited a "test drive" so she and Lori could get a car to make a mall run.
  • In "L is for Love", it's revealed that despite being obsessed with her own looks, she's not shallow at all, as her crush is Chaz, a fat but kindhearted boy.
  • In "Job Insecurity", she apparently has knowledge about Russian cuisine and Hawaiian wildlifenote .
  • "Change of Heart" revolves around her interpersonal skills and creating a surprisingly effective regimen for curing Clyde's infatuation almost on the fly. She also proves to have a surprisingly practical understanding of loofahs, and despite her previously stated dislike of video games, is seen playing them with the boys with a cheerful, goofy smile. She also forgives Clyde for getting blood on her foot, showing her to be more patient and understanding than Lori.
  • In "Leader of the Rack", she proves a surprisingly effective manager when put in charge of Reininger's, keeping both her coworkers and customers happy by combining her usual fun-loving ways with an impressive display of organizational skills.
  • In "No Spoilers", Leni demonstrates herself to be a competent party planner when she salvages her siblings' surprise birthday party for their Mom. Ironically, all their efforts to keep Leni away for fear of her spoiling the surprise only resulted in their preparations failing miserably until they brought Leni back. She is quickly named as the family's permanent party planner for her successful effort.
  • In "A Dark and Story Night", Leni has the resourceful idea to have Triton, DeLola and Ribbon construct a waterwheel underneath the nearby waterfall in order to give the mermaid an alternate, unlimited energy source so that they can acquire her power crystal.
  • In "How Double Dare You!", Leni's knowledge of fashion comes in handy during a geography question of all things and she is able to advance herself and Lincoln into the next round, much to Lisa's amazement. She also proves herself competent in the physical challenges, ultimately claiming the win for herself and Lincoln through raw determination.
  • Despite her reputation for being kind, she also knows how to beat her siblings badly, as seen in "It's a Loud, Loud, Loud, Loud House" and "Brawl In The Family". She also hip-checks and tackles old ladies in "Driving Miss Hazy" with no remorse, both in a video game and in real life.
  • While Lynn is the usual sports fanatic, Leni is revealed in "Can't Lynn 'Em All" to be a huge fan of pro wrestling, although she does admit it's because she treats it like a "big, sweaty soap opera".
  • In The Casagrandes, it's implied in "Undivided Attention" that she's a competent gamer, as her name is seen at third place on the leaderboards of Fashion Safari.

Luna Loud

  • Who would have thought that a wild future rock star like her could also play piano, classical violin, or a harp?
  • "A Roadie To Nowhere" shows that she is way more adept at coding than she lets on.

Luan Loud

  • She's capable of engineering complicated traps and planning day-long prank marathons that rely on predicting her victims' actions down to the very second. It gets crazier with each April Fool's prank-a-thon.
  • "No Laughing Matter" reveals that Luan owns a diary, an item typically associated with girly girls.
  • In "Funny Business", she runs her own children's party venture ("Funny Business Inc.") and teaches Lincoln a cardinal rule of entrepreneurship: study your target audience.
  • "Director's Rut" reveals that, not only is she a talented playwright, she's skilled enough to direct it.
  • In "Head' Poet Anxiety", she exhibits a good deal of emotional intelligence, to the point where she encourages Lucy to continue with her poems. This lasts until Luan is stung by envy.

Lynn Loud Jr.

  • She's quite mechanically gifted it turns out modifying the family bike into a top of the line sports bike.
  • In "Racing Hearts," she proves that she is excellent at baking, though to be fair, she was working alongside Scoots.
  • She proves herself to be quite creative in "A Dark and Story Night" where her additions to the story she and her siblings were telling included transported the characters of said tale to an outer space basketball court where she appeared as an imaginative three-eyed, muscular (and possibly masculine) tough) alien called Tricksy. Not bad for someone who's often labelled as a Dumb Jock.
  • In "Future Tense", she's able to take first place in the State Math Bowl.
  • In "Time Trap!", she can easily tell that removing the vase in the past could potentially affect the spacetime continuum.

The Younger Sisters

Lucy L. Loud

  • She admits in "Sleuth or Consequences" that even she needs a break from the dark and gloomy every once in a while, and is secretly a fan of the extremely "girly" Princess Pony series, which even Lola, the girliest Girly Girl of the ten sisters, doesn't like.
  • Also despite her seemingly casual disregard for everything, she admits in "Sleuth or Consequences" that she couldn't cope with her siblings teasing the way Lincoln can, and sometimes implies she is somewhat insecure and lonely. In "Head Poet's Anxiety", she is very sad to have her poem rejected by a publisher and Luan helps her train her emotional intelligence.
  • She owns a pink ribbon in the game "Lincoln's List".
  • Despite being so emotionally suppressive, gloomy and/or quiet most of the time, she has moments of being hot-blooded and violent, like when she attacked Lynn in "Garage Banned" or challenged Lola to a fight after she insulted her in "Room With a Feud".
  • She appears to have a natural talent for sports (although this could possibly just be a side effect of being roommates with Lynn for so many years). When she is forced to take up basketball in one episode, she instantly becomes a whiz. Likewise, in "Sand Hassles" she is shown to be good at Volleyball.
  • Despite her reputation for being pure and kind, Lucy can be cruel to her siblings. In "Room With A Feud", she challenges Lola to a fight after being offended. In "Read Aloud", to win a book reading contest, she suggests locking Lola in the basement with chains and having Lana pretend she has a split personality, as if Lola never existed. In "Spell It Out", she "bewitches" her siblings, causing them to lose their voices, and she becomes the dictator of the house.
  • Despite being goth and wearing black, Lucy doesn't mind changing her outfit as needed, as in "Back In Black", where she tries to make up like Lola to win Rocky's heart.

Lana Loud

  • Her palette might be generally yucky, but a throwaway line she shouts in "Fed Up" (specifically, while all kids shout out that they want pizza, she can instead be heard saying, "Indian!") suggests she might actually have a taste for exotic cuisine.
  • Although she is a fan of dirt and wildlife, Lana is able to disguise herself as Lola and mimic her mannerisms, as seen in "Toads and Tiaras" and "Sister Act". In "Read Aloud", she is also willing to pretend that she has a split personality as part of Lucy's plan to pretend that Lola never existed (fortunately, the plan never comes to fruition).
  • Although Lana is a born competitor, she also knows how to back down when necessary. In "A Mutt Above", she realizes that she doesn't need to prove anything to anyone and doesn't even pretend to be what she isn't.

Lola Loud

  • Despite her "girliness", she's not averse in joining some of the cruder antics of the siblings, such as burping contests. She also doesn't care much getting dirty by Lana, as implied in "Picture Perfect", where she laughs while being chased by Lana. She is also able to step out of costume as needed, such as in "Write And Wrong", where she joins the sibling farce and pretends to be Flip's daughter.
  • Despite being a Girly Girl, she knows how to disguise herself as Lana and imitate her rudeness, as seen in "Sister Act".
  • She's pretty good with stick-based weapons, such as golf clubs. Probably from all those ribbon dances she's doing for beauty pageants... invoked
  • For a six-year-old, she's very mature when it comes to working independently with minimal supervision, since she's homeschooled during the main competition season for beauty pageants.

Lisa Loud

  • For a scientific genius, she's implied to have an appreciation for music. In "For Bros About To Rock", she enjoys opera music and "Potty Mouth" has her appreciating rap music and jazz. She also demonstrated that she can play a xylophone flawlessly, implying that Luna mightn't be the only musically gifted Loud.

    Supporting Characters 

Lincoln's Friends

Clyde McBride

  • As "Overnight Success" shows, he actually has something in common with each of Lincoln's sisters except for Lori. On a more serious note, it turns out that part of the reason he loves spending time at Lincoln's house is that with him being an only child, it can get pretty lonely at his house sometimes.

Liam Hunnicutt

  • Despite the country motif he plays up, his favorite music is rock and roll. He's also a member of his school's chess club, which is rather unexpected for a country boy.

Zach Gurdle

  • Known for living between a highway and the circus.

Royal Woods Elementary School

Rocky Spokes

  • He seems like a average, normal kid at first, but he shares Lucy's interest in the macabre.

Royal Woods High School

Sam Sharp

  • In "Racing Hearts", it is revealed that she has some Granola Girl traits. As she likes organic smoothies, chickens, and is an expert at outdoorsy activities such as rock-climbing and sailing.

Neighbors and Friends

Bud Grouse

  • He's pretty good with computers once he learns how to use them.

Royal Woods Elementary School Facility

Agnes Johnson

  • Or not so hidden. Mrs. Johnson likes mechanical bull riding.
  • She accidentally showed the class a picture of her doing so in "Shell Shocked".
  • It's the stated explanation for how she broke her leg in "Study Muffin".

Principal Wilbur T. Huggins

  • He's a strict, no-nonsense principal. He also listens to "Ooh Girl" from "Boyz Will Be Boyz" and is a big fan of the Ace Savvy comic books since childhood.

Nurse Patti

  • She enjoys playing mini-golf.

Cheryl

  • Turns out she's just as experienced in the field of beauty pageants.

Chester "Chunk" Monk

  • The season 3 premiere reveals that he's in his own band.

The Casagrandes

    The Santiago/Casagrande Family 

Santiago/Casagrande Children

Ronnie Anne Santiago

  • In "Shell Shocked", Ronnie's at home behavior is the exact opposite of her at school behavior, with her being shown to frequently cook for her single mother, be openly (if affectionately exasperatedly) supportive of Bobby and generally demonstrate a knack for domestic chores.
  • In "The Casagrandes", Ronnie is shown to be exceptionally dedicated to her studies and has made the honor roll for her efforts.

Bobby Santiago

  • We find out in "A Fair to Remember" that he's always longed for a younger brother to play "big bro" to, and he feels Lincoln fits the bill perfectly. Also, in "Relative Chaos," Bobby's shown to have some business savviness from working so many part-time jobs. He's a very talented singer and guitarist, too, as shown in "Face the Music with the Casagrandes" and "A Very Casagrandes Christmas."

Carlota Casagrande

  • She does livestreams of makeup tutorials. The amount of people watching her streams suggest that she's very popular.

Carlos Jr. "CJ" Casagrande

  • "Short Cut" reveals he's quite talented at being a barber, to the point Carlota turns to him for styling advice.

Carlino "Carl" Casagrande

  • He knows how to successfully tamper with report cards and documents. He even admits that he's done it multiple times with Vito's parking tickets.

Santiago/Casagrande Adults

Hector Casagrande

  • He has a deep appreciation for the arts and culture. Hector himself is a skilled guitarist and on his birthday he requests that each of the Casagrandes perform with an artistic theme.
  • He's also the leader of his own mariachi band.

Frida Puga Casagrande

  • Frida is an incredibly talented artist; her works range between painted portraits to live art projects.

Carlos Casagrande

  • When he was in college, he used to be a popular skater who went by the nickname "Carlos X." But after he and Frida had their kids, she made him stop because she was afraid of him getting hurt.

    Supporting Characters 

Apartment Neighbors

Vito Filliponio

  • In "New Roomie," he is shown to be a skilled cook, amazing the Casagrandes with his spaghetti and meatballs, and cannoli for dessert. He also likes to sing opera—in fact, it's implied that he was a professional opera singer when he was younger.

Around Town

Sameer

  • He comes from Kansas.
  • In "Operation Dad", he has a nerdy side as he tells his friends that he's interested in joining the mathematician's club or the debate team.

Mr. Scully

  • "Guilt Trip" shows that he and Mrs. Kernicky can dance for hours on end without getting tired, as Bobby and Ronnie Anne, unfortunately, learn the hard way.

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