Animaniacs/Characters

Meet the wacky cast of the Warner Bros/Steven Spielberg-produced cartoon Animaniacs and its spin-off Pinky and The Brain. They are categorized by which characters starred in which segments. The characters that show up in Pinky and The Brain, including Pinky and the Brain, who started as characters as part of a segment of Animaniacs, should get listed in the Pinky and The Brain Character Sheet.

Yakko, Wakko, and Dot Warner
The Warner siblings who are the most prominent stars of the show, and as such, get the most screentime. According to the show's backstory, they were created to serve as comic relief to the very dull Looney Tunes character Buddy, but proved to be so troublesome that they were locked in the Warner Bros. Studio Water Tower. Yakko is the talkative, Groucho Marx-esque one who just wears pants, Wakko is the short one with a baseball cap and an extreme appetite, and Dot is the cute one. Voiced by Rob Paulsen, Jess Harnell, and Tress MacNeille, respectively.

Tropes that apply to Yakko:

 * Bubble Pipe: Yakko once "puffs" on a soap-bubble pipe while parodying highbrow intellectuals.
 * Catch Phrase: "Goodnight everybody!"
 * Chivalrous Pervert
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Motor Mouth: Especially when he starts singing.
 * Talking to Himself: With Dr. Scratchansniff.
 * Trouser Space

Tropes that apply to Wakko:

 * Beware the Nice Ones
 * Big Eater
 * British Accents: Wakko has a Liverpool Accent that was modeled after Ringo Starr.
 * Extreme Omnivore
 * Gasshole
 * Nice Hat
 * Potty Emergency: The Trope Namer.
 * Potty Dance
 * Unexplained Accent: Wakko has a Liverpudlian brogue for absolutely no damn reason -- at least not one ever explained on the show.
 * He was actually based specifically on Ringo Starr. Still, that's not an In-Universe explanation.
 * Why Did It Have To Be Clowns: "Clown and Out".

Tropes that apply to Dot:

 * Hair Decorations: Dot's flower.
 * Deliberately Cute Child/The Cutie
 * Ears as Hair
 * Flower in Her Hair
 * Fluffy the Terrible: Most of Dot's "Pets" when she does the "Wanna See My Pet?"
 * Insistent Terminology: Whenever someone refers to the Warner Brothers, expect her to pipe up with "and the Warner Sister!"
 * Overly Long Name: Her full name is Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana-Fana-Bo-Besca the Third. But you can call her Dot.
 * Call her Dottie, and you die.
 * Pink Means Feminine: Her skirt.
 * Sitting Sexy on a Piano: Occasionally.
 * Talking to Herself: With Hello Nurse.

Tropes that apply to two or all three of them:
"Jeff Bennett: Animaniacs gives you pants and no pants conveniently in one show!
 * All Men Are Perverts: Yakko and Wakko, especially when Hello, Nurse! is around. Of course, Dot is not immune to this when a particularly attractive guy is around...
 * Anti-Hero: They are either Type II (Knight in Sour Armor) or III (Good Is Not Nice), depending on the episode.
 * Barefoot Cartoon Animals: Most of the instances where they are wearing full outfits.
 * Berserk Button:
 * Don't draw on Wakko's hat.
 * Call Dot "Dottie", and you die.
 * Cartoon Creature: They have red noses, puppy dog ears, and kitty cat tails.
 * Cloudcuckoolander
 * Deadpan Snarker: Yakko's the most deadpan, but...
 * Dirty Old Men (and a woman!): The "old" part only comes in when you realize that they were drawn in the thirties.
 * Ditzy Genius: As bizarre and insane as all three of them act, they have an utterly brilliant grasp of geograpy, history and a host of other subjects. They can recite the nations of the world, all 50 US states and their capitals, and every President of the United States from memory with no difficulty, and can even throw in some random facts about each while they do it.
 * Expy: Of Bugs Bunny.
 * Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Yakko just wears pants, Wakko just wears shirts, and Dot just wears a skirt. This was Lampshaded in a Kids WB promo talking about how the block featured cartoons "with pants and with no pants".

Wakko: I have pants! See?

Jeff: Liar liar, pants on fire!"


 * Inkblot Cartoon Style: The Warners were created in the 1930s when this style of animation was very prominent.
 * Karmic Trickster
 * Madwoman in the Attic: They were sealed away for being too zany.
 * Meaningful Name: Yakko and Wakko.
 * No Celebrities Were Harmed:
 * Yakko is based very much on Groucho Marx.
 * Wakko shows traits from Ringo Starr.
 * Dot was inspired by Gilda Radner, among others.
 * Not Allowed to Grow Up: None of them look older than 10.
 * Old Shame: An in-universe example.
 * Older Than Television: In-universe, they had been drawn as early as the thirties (1929 to be exact).
 * Older Than They Look: They're actually about 60.
 * Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Repeatedly.
 * Two Guys and a Girl: Non-romantic variant, obviously.
 * White Gloves

Ralph Timothy Guard
An overweight Warner Bros. studio security guard who is always trying, but never succeeding, to capture the Warners and return them to the water tower. Voiced by Frank Welker.


 * Characterization Marches On: He first appeared (without a name) on Tiny Toon Adventures where he was surprisingly competent at keeping the characters from getting into the studios they were trying to visit.
 * The Ditz
 * Early-Bird Cameo: His Tiny Toon Adventures appearances.
 * Fat Idiot
 * Running Gag: His chasing the Warners into the other characters' segments.
 * Talking to Himself: With Mr. Plotz.

Dr. Otto von Scratchansniff
The Warner Bros. studio psychiatrist. He has the unfortunate duty of trying to tame the Warners, which always leads to him getting utterly frustrated (and in the case of his first sessions with them, tearing out his hair). Voiced by Rob Paulsen.


 * All Psychology Is Freudian
 * Butt Monkey
 * Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: He is this to the Warner Siblings.
 * Companion Cube: Mr. Puppethead
 * Friends All Along: When the Warners reveal to the doctor that they're capable of acting normally, he asks them why they put him through so much trouble. All three siblings glomp him and proclaim "Cause we love you!" The doctor's response? A very out-of-character moment by happily gathering up all three Warners in a bear hug.
 * Funny Foreigner
 * Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: He used to have fluffy Albert Einstein esq hair before during his first session with the Warners, their antics frustrated him so much he ripped every inch of his hair off his head.
 * Herr Doktor
 * Meaningful Name: In the German dub, he's Dr. Freudlos, a double pun: It literally means "Joyless", as well as being a nod to Sigmund Freud.
 * Parental Substitute: He becomes the closest thing the Warners have to a father figure, and is frequently the one to take them out on outings.
 * Punny Name
 * Talking to Himself: With Yakko.
 * The Von Trope Family

Hello Nurse
Scratchansniff's ravishing assistant whom Yakko and Wakko have the hots for. As you can guess, she is the Trope Namer for Hello, Nurse!. Voiced by Tress MacNeille.


 * Blue Eyes
 * Dumb Blond: In the early episodes she could occasionally come across as one, but as her characterization stabilized it was firmly averted; she's as smart as her bosses, emphasized at the end of Wakkos Wish.
 * Characterization Marches On: In the beginning of the show, and indeed in some of the early spin-off comics, she didn't have much of a personality and was mainly just there to be sexy -- and she had several moments then when she displayed definite traits of a Literal Minded Dumb Blond. Eventually, however, she was developed a little more, to become Scratchansniff's extremely intelligent, Hypercompetent Sidekick, and her Dumb Blond moments completely vanished.
 * Gainaxing: She is sometimes animated this way.
 * Hair of Gold
 * Hospital Hottie
 * Hypercompetent Sidekick
 * Impossible Hourglass Figure
 * Ms. Fanservice
 * Pimped-Out Dress: In the episode "King Yakko", Hello Nurse plays the prime minister of the kingdom, and she wears a magenta dress with ermine trim and a blue cloak.
 * She's Got Legs: Lampshaded in the musical number "Hello Nurse".
 * Talking to Herself: With Dot.
 * Tsurime Eyes

Thaddeus Plotz
The CEO of Warner Bros. (in-universe, that is). Voiced by Frank Welker.


 * Corrupt Corporate Executive
 * Pointy-Haired Boss
 * Talking to Himself: With Ralph.
 * The Napoleon
 * Throw the Dog a Bone: Though he was known for making bad business decisions and treating some of his employees like crap, Plotz was a step above the average corporate strawman and occasionally would get a moment where he'd realize his own foolishness and regret it, thus prompting the Warners themselves to cut him a break and even give him some small reward.

Mr. Director
A crazy director who looks, sounds, and behaves like a young Jerry Lewis. Voiced by Paul Rugg.

"Take the word 'animal'. Transpose the letters 'n' and 'm' and you get 'aminal'. That, in a nutshell, is comedy."
 * No Celebrities Were Harmed
 * Oh God, with the Verbing!: He speaks like this.
 * Take That
 * You Say Tomato: Mr. Director discusses this trope.

Ms. Flamiel
A schoolteacher who sometimes tries to educate the Warners, only for them to frustrate her in the process. Voiced by Tress MacNeille.


 * Stern Teacher
 * Victoria's Secret Compartment: Quoth Yakko; "Ooh, what else you got in there?"

Baloney the Dinosaur
A sappy orange and light blue dinosaur who is an obvious parody of Barney and Friends. One of the few things the Warners are afraid of. Voiced by Jeff Bennett.


 * Captain Ersatz
 * Department of Redundancy Department
 * The Ditz
 * Take That
 * Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Took three anvils to the head and still kept moving.
 * Tyrannosaurus Rex: Subversion of the usual portrayal.

Francis "Pip" Pumphandle

 * Ink Suit Actor: Pip Pumphandle is based directly off his voice actor Ben Stein.
 * What Could Have Been: He was originally supposed to be a dog.

Dot's Pet
A monstrous creature who is always kept inside a small, white box. The creature's appearance is inconsistent and its color varied, but its most common forms are a large bull-like creature, a plant parodying The Little Shop of Horrors, and a hairy form with enormous teeth. In one case, Mr. Director was her pet.


 * Fluffy the Terrible: Often the case.

Professor Otto von Schnitzelbuskrankengescheitmeier
A fat, jolly German guy who taught the Warners the international friendship song.


 * Big Fun
 * Cameo: In Wakkos Wish.

Sodarn Hissane
A pastishe of Saddam Hussein who appears as the antagonist of "Baghdad Cafe", a Crossover episode starring Yakko, Wakko, Dot, and Slappy.


 * Cameo: In "Hot, Bothered, and Bedeviled".

Wally Llama

 * No Celebrities Were Harmed: He's a parody of the Dalai Lama.

Mr. Gobble
Yakko, Wakko, and Dot's pet turkey who runs and dances to the tune of Turkey In The Straw.

Howie Tern

 * Barefoot Cartoon Animal
 * Informed Species: He is supposed to be a tern, but he looks far more like a stork.
 * No Celebrities Were Harmed: Of Howard Stern
 * Species Surname: Possibly subverted.

The Survey Ladies
Two women who pester Yakko, Wakko, and Dot with a survey involving George Wendt and Beans.

Fermin Flaxseed

 * Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal
 * Inexplicably Tailless
 * Jerkass

Dan Anchorman
A conceited news anchorman for the fictitious Newstime Live programme who refused to pay Yakko, Wakko, and Dot for a sandwich he had ordered. Voiced by Phil Hartman.


 * Hey, It's That Voice!: You might remember him from such programs as The Simpsons.

Duanne Sewer
A rival newsreader of the fictitious Newstime Live program and anchorwoman in Washington DC who appears in the episode "Broadcast Nuisance".


 * No Celebrities Were Harmed: Of Diane Sawyer

Wolf Spritzer
A newsreporter for the fictitious Newstime Live program who appears in "Broadcast Nuisance".


 * No Celebrities Were Harmed: Of Wolf Blitzer

Death
An archetypically portrayed Grim Reaper, with black robe, skeletal appearance, and scythe who speaks with a Swedish accent.

The Tiger Prince

 * Misplaced Wildlife: He and his parents are tigers that live in Africa.

Slappy Squirrel
A cranky squirrel who was once a Looney Tunes star (in-universe, that is). Voiced by Sherri Stoner, who was also one of the show's chief writers.

"Skippy: Could you tell me why there's a bird living on my head?
 * Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal
 * Ambiguously Jewish:

Slappy: A bird? I thought that was a new yarmulke."


 * Anti-Hero: Type III.
 * Badass Grandma
 * Blue Eyes
 * Catch Phrase: "Now that's comedy!"
 * Also, those of the You Remind Me of X format.
 * Chaste Toons
 * Cool Old Lady
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Drives Like Crazy
 * Everythings Nuttier With Squirrels
 * Genre Savvy
 * Grumpy Bear
 * Hates the Job, Loves the Limelight
 * I Was Quite a Looker: And she was too, as evidenced by her Buttermilk ad.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * Mama Bear: Slappy gets very pissed if you harm Skippy.
 * Medium Awareness
 * Never Mess with Granny
 * No Fourth Wall
 * Older Than Television: She was described as "octogenarian" in one episode and has works dating back to the 1930s, perhaps earlier.
 * Parental Bonus: A lot of her subtle jokes about menopause, which of course always go right over Skippy's (and the target audience's) head.
 * Public Domain Soundtrack: Slappy's Leitmotif is Dvorak's "Humoresque".
 * Retired Badass
 * Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!
 * Screwy Squirrel: Word of God has it that she's meant to be an Expy of the real Screwy Squirrel character, only Gender Flipped.
 * So Proud of You: In Bully For Skippy, she wipes away a tear of joy when Skippy announces his desire to get revenge on Duke the bully by shouting "let's get ready to rumble!"
 * You Remind Me of X: From younger versions of celebrities to "a bad accident at Benihana."

Skippy Squirrel
Slappy's nephew who looks up to her. Voiced by Nathan Ruegger.


 * Beware the Nice Ones: Skippy is much more forgiving than Slappy, but if you push him far enough you'll learn that he's inherited his aunt's talents for slapstick revenge. Just ask Duke, the title character of Bully For Skippy...
 * Cheerful Child
 * Deadpan Snarker: Not to the extent that Slappy takes it, but he still gets in quite a few sarcasms as the show moves on.
 * Like Aunt, Like Nephew: In Bully For Skippy, Skippy shows that he's learned a few things from his aunt's old cartoons.
 * Nephewism
 * Parental Abandonment
 * Ridiculously Cute Critter
 * Tagalong Kid
 * Vocal Evolution: Nathan Ruegger's voice had to be pitched up in later episodes because he was getting too old for the part. It's particularly obvious in Wakkos Wish.

Walter Wolf, Sid the Squid, and Beanie the Brain-Dead Bison
Three of Slappy's old nemesises from her cartoons, who continually plot revenge on her, but still never succeed at doing her in. Walter was initially voiced by Frank Welker but for his remaining appearances he was voiced by Jess Harnell for unknown reasons, Sid was voiced by Jackie Burns and Beanie was voiced by Avery Schreiber.

Tropes that apply to Walter Wolf:

 * Alter Kocker
 * Ambiguously Jewish
 * Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal

Tropes that apply to Sid the Squid:

 * Everything's Squishier with Cephalopods

Tropes that apply to Beanie:

 * The Ditz
 * Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal
 * Political Correctness Gone Mad: Played with; Beanie is occasionally referred to with the more PC term "the Cerebreally-Challenged Bison". Slappy, being who she is, sticks with "Brain-Dead".

Tropes that apply to two or all three of them:

 * Butt Monkey: They're Slappy's Rogues Gallery. They pretty much exist to take abuse. Not that they don't invite it upon themselves....
 * Paper-Thin Disguise: As Slappy always says, "Now this is just sad". Half the time Skippy is the one to recognize them first, and he's used to seeing them undisguised and young in his aunt's old cartoons.

Candie Chipmunk

 * Blue Eyes
 * Neat Freak: She won't even let Slappy throw away a can in her recycle bin.
 * Sanity Slippage: After Slappy torments her.

Stinkbomb D. Bassett

 * Chaste Toons: Averted.
 * Old Dog

Bumpo Bassett

 * Running Gag: He wants to smell his grandfather, Stinkbomb.

Doug the Dog

 * Bully Bulldog
 * The Unintelligible: He has no real form of speech beside barks and grunts.

Codger Eggbert

 * No Celebrities Were Harmed: He's a parody of Roger Ebert.

Lene Hisskill

 * No Celebrities Were Harmed: He's a parody of Gene Siskel.

Duke
The squirrel who bullied Skippy in "Bully for Skippy".


 * Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal
 * Top-Heavy Guy

The Goodfeathers
Bobby is the leader of the main three pigeons. Depending on his mood, he can be the Only Sane Man who tries to keep Pesto in line or just sit back and laugh at Squit's misfortune. Pesto is the pigeon with a Hair-Trigger Temper, and is prone to taking offense at any comment given to him, even if it's in a good light, and beats up Squit for it. Squit is the rookie who joins the Goodfeathers in the first short and spends the rest of them surviving day to day life in the constant presence of the ever-violent Pesto.

Tropes that apply to Squit:

 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
 * Dogged Nice Guy
 * Interspecies Romance: With Carloota the sparrow in "West Side Pigeons".
 * The Kirk
 * Naive Newcomer
 * Toothy Bird: The toothiest of the three.

Tropes that apply to Pesto:

 * Berserk Button: More like Berserk Keyboard.
 * Hair-Trigger Temper
 * Jerkass
 * The McCoy
 * Mismatched Eyes: He has one Green Eyes and one magenta one.

Tropes that apply to Bobby:

 * Beware the Nice Ones: Well, not exactly, nice, but he's the most stoic of the group and is probably the most level-headed, as well. That being said, Pesto is actually scared of him when he gets serious.
 * Eyes Always Shut
 * Only Sane Bird: When he's not laughing at Pesto.
 * The Spock

Tropes that apply to two or all three of them:

 * Anthropomorphic Zig-Zag
 * Butt Monkey: Though Squit get's the most of it.
 * No Celebrities Were Harmed: They are parodies of Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Ray Liotta. Mostly of their role in Goodfellas, but can also take on aspects of other characters played by those actors (such as Bobby in a parody of Raging Bull).
 * Toothy Bird

Solley (a.k.a. The Godpigeon)
The Don of the Goodfeathers enterprise. Typically enters a scene, dispenses some vaguely wise-sounding gibberish, chuckles a little and leaves. Held in very high regard by the other birds.


 * Big Eater
 * Eyes Always Shut
 * No Celebrities Were Harmed: Marlon Brando again.
 * The Unintelligible

The Girlfeathers, Sasha, Kiki, and Lana
Sasha is Squit's girlfriend and Pesto's sister, Kiki is Pesto's girlfriend, and Lana is Bobby's girlfriend.


 * Distaff Counterpart: Of the Goodfeathers.
 * Dumb Blonde: Kiki, even though she isn't blonde, she fits the trope.
 * Hair-Trigger Temper: Sasha, just like her brother.
 * Love Interest: To the Goodfeathers.
 * Tertiary Sexual Characteristics

Steven Seagull
Pesto and Sasha's stepfather.


 * No Celebrities Were Harmed: Of Steven Seagal
 * Species Surname

Carloota

 * Interspecies Romance: With Squit the pigeon
 * Pale Females, Dark Males: Inverted since she has darker colored feathers than the male sparrows.
 * Tertiary Sexual Characteristics

Krup-Kitty

 * Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal
 * Cats Are Mean: Sort of.
 * Fat Bastard: Sort of.
 * Fat Cat
 * Nice Hat
 * You Gotta Have Gray-Blue Fur

Rita and Runt
A stray cat and dog trying to find a home for themselves.

Tropes that apply to Rita:

 * Anthropomorphic Zig-Zag
 * Cats Are Superior
 * Cat Up a Tree: In "Up A Tree".
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Ear Notch
 * Foreshadowing: Blink and you'll miss it: In the "Up A Tree" segment, during Rita's first musical number, she goes into a very minor Disney Acid Sequence about the advantages of Chicago as they appear onscreen. One of them is the Sears Tower, which she stands on. Afterwards, she immediately jumps off, and if you look closely at the expression on her face, you can tell that she's clearly acrophobic. Guess what happens later.
 * Green Eyes
 * "I Want" Song: Every time she sings a song, it's about how much she wants a home or thinks she's found one.

Tropes that apply to Runt:

 * Berserk Button: Mentioning cats to Runt, which leads us to Dogs Are Dumb below.
 * Big Friendly Dog
 * The Ditz
 * Dogs Are Dumb: Runt seriously is unaware that Rita is a cat.
 * Occasionally subverted in that Runt will sometimes see the danger before Rita, such as when Cleopatra was going to drop her into a bonfire as a ritual sacrifice.
 * No Celebrities Were Harmed: Runt is a takeoff of Dustin "Rainman" Hoffman.

Tropes that apply to both:

 * Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: The both of them disappeared as series regulars after Season 2, to the point that a parody of the Rugrats intro showed a picture of them on a milk carton. They eventually did come Back for the Finale and Wakkos Wish.
 * Female Feline, Male Mutt
 * Furry Female Mane: Inverted.
 * Huge Guy, Tiny Girl
 * Little Guy, Big Buddy
 * Local Reference: When Rita and Runt go to Poland in "Puttin on the Blitz", Rita sings that it doesn't look like Burbank, more like Van Nuys. (Both are cities in Los Angeles. You can guess which one has higher property values).
 * Musical Episode: Rita and Runt have at least one song per short.
 * Odd Friendship
 * Platonic Life Partners

Dr. Phrankenstein

 * Elmuh Fudd Syndwome
 * Mad Scientist: A female example.
 * Skunk Stripe

Scout
He is Dr. Phrankenstein's creation intended to destroy the world, but he is really just a playful dog who wants to have fun.


 * Amazing Technicolor Wildlife
 * Big Friendly Dog

Mr. Squeak
Dr. Phrankenstein's faithful pet rat.


 * Right Hand Rat

Mrs. Mumphead
An eccentric old lady who constantly hums to herself and appears in the crossover episode "No Place Like Homeless".

Crackers the Parrot
Mrs. Mumphead's aggressive pet parrot.


 * Feathered Fiend
 * Speech-Impaired Animal
 * Pokémon-Speak: He only says his name.

Mr. Tristesse

 * Meaningful Name/Bilingual Bonus: Tristesse is the French word for "sadness."

Kitty Litter, Kitty Ducockis, and Cat Ballue

 * Blue Eyes: Kitty Litter the Siamese cat.
 * Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Kitty Ducockis (the blonde), Kitty Litter (the brunette), and Cat Ballue (the redhead)
 * Cats Are Mean: Sort of.
 * Fat Bastard: Kitty Ducockis
 * Fat Cat: Kitty Ducockis again.
 * Unfortunate Name: Kitty Litter.

Marabella Maybeloota Missy McCoy

 * Cat Up a Tree

Kiki the Gorilla

 * Maniac Ape

Sykes the Crow

 * Feathered Fiend
 * Ravens and Crows: The crows part of the trope.

Mindy and Buttons
A send up of Lassie. Mindy Sadlier is a toddler who constantly wanders off into dangerous situations prompting her dog, Buttons, to keep her out of it at the expense of his safety.

Tropes that apply to Mindy:

 * Blue Eyes
 * Catch Phrase: Mindy's "Okay, Lady, I love you, bye-bye."
 * Constantly Curious: Mindy constantly asks questions to people much to their annoyance.
 * Hair of Gold: Her hair is a rather pale shade of blonde.
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: Mindy is Bart Simpson, Maggie (when she coos or cries), Ralph Wiggum, Todd Flanders, and Kearney (the bully who's Older Than He Looks)!
 * Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Mindy is smack-dab in the middle of growing up under some extremely neglectful conditions, though being a toddler, she's blissfully unaware of it so far.
 * My Name Is Not Durwood: Mindy always addresses her mom as "Lady."

Tropes that apply to Buttons:

 * Badly-Battered Babysitter
 * Big Friendly Dog
 * Butt Monkey
 * No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Buttons goes to enormous lengths, risking his own hide to keep Mindy from harm. Every episode ends with Buttons getting in trouble over some (Generally minor) misbehavior he performed in the course of his duties. At least till the movie, where he finally got his due.
 * Vertigo Effect: Occasionally done with Buttons the moment Mindy escapes.

Tropes that apply to both:

 * Little Guy, Big Buddy: Arguably so.

Mindy's Mom
A woman who Mindy always calls "Lady", except in Wakkos Wish, in which she finally calls her "Mom."

Mindy's Dad
A man who Mindy always calls "Mr. Man."

Minerva Mink


A mink who is so beautiful she causes all men around her to go crazy for her.


 * All Men Are Perverts: Pretty much the entire basis of her shorts, which are very Red Hot Riding Hood-esque. Inverted whenever a male character is hunky enough for her to go absolutely gaga over, as those fellas seem to have an unusually high tolerance for her sex appeal.
 * Barefoot Cartoon Animal
 * Demoted to Extra: Though she was never all too major a character.
 * Furry Female Mane
 * Getting Crap Past the Radar: Sadly, the radar caught up with this series and, outside of some quick appearances, the Minerva Mink cartoons only lasted two episodes.
 * Hello, Nurse!: Often paired up with the Trope Namer for double the fun!
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: Julie Brown (a former MTV VJ and star of the short-lived Comedy Central show "Strip Mall") as Minerva, Peter Scolari (from "Bosom Buddies") as the nerdy wolf who turns into a hunk when the moon is full as seen in "Moon Over Minerva", and Arte Johnson (from Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In) as the bloodhound who tries (and fails) to be won over by Minerva in "Meet Minerva".
 * Humanoid Female Animal
 * I Have Boobs - You Must Obey!: Often uses her sex appeal to her advantage.
 * Ms. Fanservice
 * Petting Zoo Person
 * So Beautiful It's a Curse: As revealed in the comics, Minerva has an extremely hard time doing ordinary things like grocery shopping and filing taxes, because every male of every species in the area is panting and hooting at her. Much like fans.
 * Something Else Also Rises: The male reactions to Minerva, full-stop!

Newt

 * Anthropomorphic Zig-Zag
 * Distracted by the Sexy: And to his credit, he still keeps trying to catch Minerva. Does that make him a Determinator as well?
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: Newt is voiced by Arte Johnson (one of the cast members from the late 1960s sketch show Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In)
 * Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: YMMV, but Newt has his work cut out for him. And yes, he IS the villain of "Meet Minerva".

Wilford B. Wolf

 * Anthropomorphic Zig-Zag: He switches between Funny Animal and Petting Zoo Person.
 * Funny Animal: In normal form.
 * Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal
 * Magic Pants
 * Mr. Fanservice: As a werewolf.
 * Our Werewolves Are Different: He doesn't turn into a viscious beast. Instead, he's quite the well-spoken looker under the full moon.
 * Petting Zoo Person: When he turns into a werewolf.
 * Sexier Alter Ego: Wilford is normally a nerdy wolf Abhorrent Admirer who turns sexy under a full moon.
 * You Sexy Beast: As a werewolf.

Trudy's Cousin

 * Petting Zoo Person

Flavio and Marita (The Hip Hippos)
A rich pair of hippos who speak with Spanish accents who moved out of Africa and into a penthouse. Followed around by a zoologist named Gena Embryo who tries to keep them out of danger since the two are on the endangered list, but usually ends up battered in the process.


 * Amazing Technicolor Wildlife
 * Big Fun
 * Blue Eyes: Marita.
 * Happily Married
 * Idle Rich
 * Pale Females, Dark Males: Inverted since he's light blue and she's purple.
 * Pink Girl, Blue Boy
 * Rich in Dollars, Poor In Sense
 * Tertiary Sexual Characteristics

Gena Embryo
The zoologist who follows Flavio and Marita and tries to protect them because she considers the two to be on the endangered species list, but usually ends up battered in the process. She seems unaware that the hippos can look after themselves.


 * Brainy Brunette: Averted.
 * Butt Monkey

Katie Ka-Boom
A teenage girl who gets so much stress from her family that she literally turns into a monster in each segment. Voiced by Laura Mooney.


 * Bratty Teenage Daughter
 * Burning with Anger
 * Hair-Trigger Temper: Every problem a teen could have (panicking over her date being late, trying to learn how to drive, getting a pimple, etc.) causes her to turn into a monster.
 * No Periods, Period: And that's why the writers created Katie Kaboom to explain to innocent little children why their big sister chucks a psycho for NO JUSTIFIABLE REASON WHATSOEVER once a month. Basically, their explanation was Teens Are Monsters.
 * "I'm Not Overreacting!! I'm a Teenager!!".
 * Standard Fifties Father: Katie's dad (who sounds like Jimmy Stewart)
 * Teens Are Monsters: Literally.

Tinker
Katie Ka-Boom's little brother.

The Mime
The star of the "Mime Time" segments, who always gets injured trying to silently mimic what the narrator is describing.


 * Everyone Hates Mimes
 * Iron Butt Monkey
 * The Speechless

Chicken Boo

 * Animals Not to Scale: He's a chicken, I tell ya! A giant chicken!
 * Anthropomorphic Zig-Zag
 * Everything's Better with Chickens
 * Paper-Thin Disguise: Exaggerated
 * You Have to Believe Me: The entire point of the character

Mr. Skullhead

 * Butt Monkey
 * Early-Bird Cameo: In Tiny Toon Adventures.
 * Nice Hat
 * The Speechless

Colin, a.k.a., The Randy Beamen Kid



 * Blue Eyes
 * Motor Mouth
 * Nice Hat

Baynarts "Charlton" Woodchuck
An aspiring woodchuck actor from Wheatina, Kansas.


 * Butt Monkey

The Flame
A childlike candle flame who shows up at important historical events like Jefferson's authoring of The Declaration of Independence and Longfellow's writing of Paul Revere's Ride. Voiced by Luke Ruegger.


 * Animate Inanimate Object

Birdie
A baby bluebird who hatches while the mother bluebird is away. He sees a F-117 Nighthawk fly by and mistakes it for his mother. Voiced by Cody Ruegger.

Buddy


One of the original stars of the Warner Bros. cartoon studio, Buddy was hastily created by animator Earl Duvall as an ersatz of Bosko the Talk Ink Kid, and from late 1933 to 1935, he served as the lead star of the Looney Tunes shorts. In real life, the character was reviled by the staff due to his complete and utter lack of personality, only magnified by the dull, plotless cartoons he starred in, and was immediately phased out once Porky Pig became the studio mascot. In-universe, he was upstaged by Yakko, Wakko and Dot, who were brought in to spice up his boring cartoons by bashing him in the head over and over again with a mallet. His sole appearance in the series is in "The Warners 65th Anniversary Special", where he comes back as a villain in an attempt to get revenge on the trio for destroying his career.


 * A Day in the Limelight: "The Warner 65th Anniversary Special" features the comeback of one of the original Looney Tunes stars, Buddy...as a villain, no less! And voiced by Jim Cummings!
 * Ax Crazy
 * Flat Character: The original B&W Buddy. The special gives him a little more personality.
 * Sphere Eyes
 * Stepford Smiler: Just look at that picture of him. Of course, he ditches it once it's revealed he's a bad guy.

Mary Hartless

 * No Celebrities Were Harmed: of Mary Hart.

King Salazar The Pushy

 * Big Bad
 * Four-Fingered Hands: Most notable aversion among all the characters in the Animaniacs Verse.
 * Jerkass

The Warner Sib's Parents

 * Overly Long Name: The Warner Sibs' Mom, Queen Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana Fanna Bo Besca the Second