History Characters / HappyTreeFriendsMainCharacters

%%* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: In the televised series, Disco Bear and Flippy make their first appearances in the second episode "Lesser of Two Evils" as the stars of their own shorts. Flaky, Handy and The Mole also make their debut as the stars ever since the first episode relegated them to background and brief appearances.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Non-villainous example. Nutty is not always taken seriously by the other Tree Friends due to his sugar addiction. There are, however, multiple times where he has killed another character deliberately.

* CharacterDevelopment: After the events of "False Alarm", Nutty seemed to have gained control over his sugar intake. Telling by this, it seems like the therapy he received from Doctor Sniffles actually worked. Well, until his next starring role, but in some episodes where he is prominent beforehand, Nutty's sugar addiction didn't play a role in his deaths or even resurfaced.

* {{Determinator}}: Even when he's dying, he'll always try to get loads of candy.

* SignatureSoundEffect: In later episodes, Nutty would frequently be accompanied by the sounds of a jackhammer.

* BlindMistake: His biggest form of comedy. He has a tendency to mistake gruesome objects for more commonplace ones.

* {{Leitmotif}}: A low metal guitar riff often plays when Flippy is losing control of himself.

* RunningGag: His lack of arms getting in the way of him doing something almost always has the exact same moment of realization and frustrated AsideGlance to the audience when it happens. Petunia is quick to borrow it when she loses her arms.

* TheSociopath: With the exception of Petunia and The Mole (because they're close to him), he doesn't really care or at least isn't fazed by any deaths happening to the other characters around him. A good example is when Nutty got impaled on a carnival set while Handy straight up didn't care and was more moved by him winning the toss game (in "The Wrong Side of the Tracks"). Bonus points for just laughing at Cuddles for losing HIS hands.

* DissonantLaughter: He sometimes laughs while he dies.

* TheStoic: Due to the fact that his face is covered all the time and he's completely voiceless, he shows no emotion whatsoever, no matter what the situation. Justified, as he is blind, so he can't really see what's exciting, depressing, or scary.

* CharacterCatchphrase: "Oh yeah."

* {{Irony}}: She's a skunk who is obsessed with cleanliness.

* TheBully: Downplayed. Though an older Tree Friend, he is sometimes a pushy jock who often pushes, annoys, or even kills his fellow Tree Friends.

* {{Irony}}: She's a skunk who is obsessed with cleanliness.

* TheBully: Downplayed. Though an older Tree Friend, he is sometimes a pushy jock who often pushes, annoys, or even kills his fellow Tree Friends.

* KilledOffscreen: Her infamous death in "Happy Trails Pt. 2: Jumping the Shark."

** In both "Claw" and the YouTube Live Episode, Cuddles is heard laughing playfully the first time he is picked up by the claw.

* DissonantLaughter: Has the recurring tendency of staying happy or [[DissonantSerenity calm]] in the direst situations. For example, in "Cubtron Z" he laughs with joy as the titular cyborg picks him up just before scrapping him against a building.

* AssholeVictim: In "Gems the Breaks", he is killed by Kryptonut, after murdering the Mole.

* TheToothHurts:

* EverybodyDiesEnding:
** It doesn't happen often, but some episodes will have many characters and get all of them killed. The most famous examples are probably "[[Recap/HTFHomeIsWhereTheHurtIs Home Is Where The Hurt Is]]" and "[[Recap/HTFIdolCuriosity Idol Curiosity]]".

* ButtMonkey: A recurring joke is that his lack of hands prevent him from doing certain things, followed by his signature growl of frustration when realizing that said things need hands to be done. There's also the fact that he has one of the lowest survival rates in the series. Take, for example, "Change in Heart" where he is the only character that dies in the episode.

* CosmicPlaything: While everyone has their moments, Handy is ''especially'' put into situations beyond his control. Take "Don't Yank My Chain" as an example, where Handy's logical attempt to break the chain he was strapped to results in his death. His permanent status as an amputee doesn't help, and even beyond the gruesome events, Handy is rarely given a happy ending to begin with. Even Lifty and Shifty are [[ThrowTheDogABone thrown more bones]]. Even if the given situation doesn't involve hands, it's likely to result at Handy's expense. Case in point, Splendid unintentionally hurling a colossal snowball onto Handy's driveway right after he has finished cleaning it, to name one example.

* DistressedDude: In "See What Develops", he was literally hanging by a thread (with his ''mouth'') while Splendid was deciding whether he should rescue him or stop The Mole.

** The singular exception being her "Starring" card for the TV season, portraying flowers dieing.

** In "Easy For You to Sleigh", when his smoke detector went off, he didn't even know how to turn if off properly. So, what does he do? He yanks it out of the ceiling and removes the batteries. Unsurprisingly, he ends up passing out and dying of smoke inhalation later in the episode.