History Characters / FuturamaThePlanetExpressCrew

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: When asked what field he hopes to win a Nobel Prize in, he responds "I don't care. They all pay the same". He doesn't bother to develop cleaner fuels because too busy developing makeup for dogs - "that's where the money is".

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/PhilLaMarr [[labelnote:'''Other Languages''']]Lionel Melet (French, Seasons 1-5), Éric Missoffe (French, 6-Present)[[/labelnote]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KateySagal

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BillyWest

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BillyWest

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/PhilLaMarr

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/LaurenTom

* FoundFamilyViaWork: Despite only Fry and Professor Farnsworth (and Cubert) being biologically related, the Planet Express crew get along like an extended family, albeit a ''quite'' dysfunctional one. Most are [[RagtagBunchofMisfits ostracized among their peers]] and don't have actual family members or friends to rely upon, so when one crew member has a personal problem or has accomplished something important, their coworkers will be there to support them. This view of the company comes up in "Future Stock" when Fry's 1980s businessman friend restructures Planet Express to be more serious and efficient:

* DrivenToSuicide: One of the few serious examples in the show. Towards the end of "The Sting" she becomes so distraught over her inability to separate reality from her own dreams caused by the guilt she feels that she decides the only way out is to eat enough space honey to fall into a perpetual sleep. Luckily, Fry manages to talk her out of it and then [[spoiler:it turns out most of the episode was just AdventuresInComaLand and she wakes up for real]].

** Leela's love for violence was played up later in the show and in the movies. Before that she just got irritated a lot and would sometimes react by punching people. In the movie, ''Bender's Game'', the professor has to put a shock collar on her to stop her from hitting and it doesn't even work. In fact, she starts to like the electric shocks because of her newly-formed association with them and violence. [[TooKinkyToTorture At one point, we see her moaning suggestively and repeatedly. This is because she associated the pain with the pleasure of beating people up]].

* KarmaHoudini: PlayedForLaughs in ''[[Recap/FuturamaS6E21YoLeelaLeela Yo Leela Leela]]'', where she gets away with ripping off an [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter adorable alien species]] for her children's show. She isn't happy about this at all, especially when the Humplings insist on bearing no ill will towards Leela for what she's done.
* KeepingTheHandicap: In ''[[Recap/FuturamaS3E9TheCyberHouseRules The Cyber House Rules,]]'' she decides to undergo surgery to become a normal two-eyed woman. At the end of the episode, she goes back to having one eye because she understands this is an important part of her.

* NotSoAboveItAll: While Leela generally acts as one of the more level-headed and responsible members of the Planet Express Crew, she can be just as reckless or childish as the others.
** For instance, in one episode, rather than pay a nominal parking fee for a Hollywood premiere she flies around for hours before landing on the La Brea Tar Pits... which is ''exactly'' the sort of thing she usually scolds Fry and Bender for.

* OnlySaneByComparison: She's definitely a genius in comparison to Fry and the most functioning adult of the Planet Express Crew with the least quirks or [[ComedicSociopathy sociopathic tendencies.]] But that doesn't stop her from having serious anger issues, obsessive grudges, or from coming off as socially awkward around people who aren't her co-workers. She also has a very poorly adjusted life outside of work, due to her FriendlessBackground and [[ParentalAbandonment not meeting her parents until adulthood.]]

* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She's generally tough and masculine, but is plenty capable of showing sensitivity and vulnerability. She has a soft spot for cute animals and can be downright motherly at time.

%%* BorschtBelt: As part of his role as [[SpaceJews Space Jew]], he's also a classic Borscht Belt-style comedy character.
* BreakoutCharacter: Although the least relevant of the Planet Crew express and receiving little if any development in the original run, Zoidberg ended up rivaling Bender, the intended target of this trope, as one of the more liked characters of the series. As a result, he's had several plot important roles in several episodes of the Comedy Central era.

* ButtMonkey: The most common recipient of the trope. In one episode Leela crashes the Planet Express ship through the roof. Hermes turns to Zoidberg and promptly docks his pay.

* JerkassBall: He comes off as pretty friendly and nice for the most part but he feeds off nasty things (in fact, in the video game it is implied that he has eaten humans) and has taken deplorable actions: framing Fry for breaking the Professor's bottle, or [[KickTheDog severing Fry's right arm]] in a fight over a female of his species. Subverted, when he immediately felt guilty and tried to ''kill himself'' over the former, and apologized and made up for the latter.

* NiceGuy: Despite his odd habits and and lack of knowledge about human anatomy, Zoidberg is one of the more morally positive characters on the show. It's been shown he's willing to sacrifice his own happiness on multiple occasions to help others. He gives up a potentially luxurious life for Farnsworth, a loving relationship with a woman in order to give her a sense of smell (although in that case, it actually works out because she finds his repugnant odor to be attractive), and a literal fortune in order to show people a good time. Not only that but he'll risk life and limb for his friends, such as backstabbing a murderous robot Santa Claus and saving Professor Farnsworth from a yeti. Not only that but Zoidberg is perhaps the only person on Earth who meets said Robot Santa's impossibly high standards for good behavior (EVEN AFTER BETRAYING HIM, although it could be argued that Santa saw it as him being loyal.)

* TokenGoodTeammate: In "Xmas Story" he was specifically the only member of the Planet Express Crew (and apparently ''on Earth'') who is not on Santa's naughty/target list.

* BoobsOfSteel: Leela is probably the toughest person in the series. She's also among the bustiest.

* AbandonedCatchphrase: "But I am already in my pajamas." was intended to be his main CharacterCatchphrase. He said it in "Space Pilot 3000" and "The Series Has Landed", the first two episodes of the series, before abandoning it permanently.

* AbandonedCatchphrase: "But I am already in my pajamas." was intended to be his main CharacterCatchphrase. He said it in "Space Pilot 3000" and "The Series Has Landed", the first two episodes of the series, before abandoning it permanently.

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* WorkingWithTheEx: She and Fry dated for a while, until he dumped her. The same is true with her and Bender, who dumped her upon the revelation that they'd be in a monogamous relationship.

* BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting: Amy's own parents don't really treat her with respect and constantly nags her for grandkids. Contrast that with her absolute love for her children with Kif even if its hard work raising them and the fact they aren't biologically her's.

** While she's reluctant to give up her party girl lifestyle to be a mother in "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch," she accepts by the end of the episode out of love for Kif. When the babies are born twenty years later in "Children of a Lesser Bog," she's fully invested in being a parent and latches onto her babies immediately, indicating she's greatly matured over the years and is more willing to settle down.

* TooDumbToLive: Zoidberg manages to trick her into freeing him several times in "Why Must I Be a Crustacean In Love?" (and he does it one more time before the scene ends), and a robotic food disposal almost chops off her hand in "Mother's Day" by offering her a diamond ring in the drain until the others stop her. In both scenes someone calls her a 'moron' (Bender in the former, Prof. Farnsworth in the latter).

* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: "Put Your Head On My Shoulders" shows how good she can relate to Fry's odd behavior with family matters. They both later decide to stop their advances on each other on account of Fry thinking she was everywhere in his life.

* TheKlutz: Frequently falls over. In one episode Fry refers to her as "a klutz from Mars".

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: She's an intern at Planet Express, but never seen to do actual work there. The second episode says that Professor Farnsworth keeps her around because she has the same blood type as him. She's still shown assisting Fry, Leela, and Bender on deliveries at times and occationally will pilot the ship in Leela's absense. The episode "That Darn Katz!" [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this when the professor says she was ready to get her doctorate twelve years ago but forgot to mention it.

* InformedFlaw: According to Leo and Fry, she has a chunky backside. Implied to be leftover from when she was overweight. We the audience can't really make this out, even when she's wearing her raunchier outfits.

* GoodBadGirl: Not only is she open to dating non-humans, but in some episodes, dates creatures that aren't even humanoid. She still brags about her "general sluttiness" though.

* IWasQuiteALooker: He has very much gotten out of shape since his limboing days (apparently due to "the munchies"), although he's still a champion limbo master.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
** [[spoiler:He approved Bender (then an infant) on the production line even though he was defective and should have, according to regulation, been immediately destroyed. Years later, he assists Bender as he struggles with accepting his newly discovered mortality.]]
** He also wasn't angry with Leela for messing up when she was filling in for him, and easily helped get everything back on track.
** When Fry reads his mind in "Into the Wild Green Yonder", it is revealed that Hermes secretly thinks that Zoidberg is "pathetic but lovable".

* ButtMonkey: He's the character most likely of receiving the short-end of the stick when Zoidberg isn't available.

* {{Acrofatic}}: Despite his big build, he's incredibly agile and is able to do some incredible limboing

* TokenGoodTeammate: In "Xmas Story" he was specifically the only member of the Planet Express Crew (and apparently ''on Earth'') who is not on Santa's naughty/target list.
* TokenNonHuman: He's the only crew member to be fully alien, which creates conflict when he has to serve as a doctor to his human/humanoid co-workers while knowing nothing about human anatomy.
* TookALevelInBadass: Zoidberg seems to have become more competent after the show moved to Creator/ComedyCentral.

** Back in the day, the crew that worked for the professor loved Zoidberg under the leadership of Captain Tucker.

* AliensLoveHumanFood: Dr. Zoidberg and his species (the Decapoidians) became infatuated with Earth food upon arriving on the planet, especially anchovies, which eventually leads to the extinction of said species after the Decapoidians eat them out of existence. Zoidberg himself appears to have an ''addiction'' to the fish and upon trying a few he displays the telltale behavior of a drug addict going into withdrawal.

* FishPeople: As a Decapoidian, he's an aquatic alien who resembles various sea animals of Earth (most obviously crustaceans and cephalopods).

* NiceGuy: Despite his odd habits and and lack of knowledge about human anatomy, Zoidberg is one of the more morally positive characters on the show. It's been shown he's willing to sacrifice his own happiness on multiple occasions to help others. He gives up a potentially luxurious life for Farnsworth, a loving relationship with a woman in order to give her a sense of smell (although in that case, it actually works out because she finds his repugnant odor to be attractive), and a literal fortune in order to show people a good time. Not only that but he'll risk life and limb for his friends, such as backstabbing a murderous robot Santa Claus and saving professor Farnsworth from a yeti. Not only that but Zoidberg is perhaps the only person on Earth who meets said Robot Santa's impossibly high standards for good behavior (EVEN AFTER BETRAYING HIM, although it could be argued that Santa saw it as him being loyal.)