History Characters / TheBigLebowski

* SelfMadeMan: Stresses to the Dude the importance of hard work, claiming to have made his fortune by working from the bottom up. [[spoiler:In reality, this is a lie, and whatever money he actually has comes entirely from an allowance given to him by Maude.]]

* AgonyOfTheFeet: One of them allows his toe to be cut off to send [[FingerInTheMail a faked letter saying they have Bunny and they demand money]]. Walter sees the severed toe and says that it doesn't looks like a woman's toe [[BrickJoke some time before we see the bandaged foot]].

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: He tries to construe the plot, but noknowbody explains anything to him and stays in constant bewilderment. He's like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie and wants to what's going on.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: He tries to construe the plot, but noknowbody explains anything to him and stays in constant bewilderment. He's like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie and wants to what's going on.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Deconstructed. Walter is (supposedly) this because of years of mental trauma, thanks to Vietnam and years of living in an unhappy marriage. Not to mention, the other characters aren't just put off by his behavior. They think Walter is a psychopath who is going to snap and kill someone at any moment.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: He tries to construe the plot, but nobody explains anything to him and stays in constant bewilderment. He's like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie and wants to know what's going on.

* AmbiguouslyGay: He's effeminate, wears purple clothing and red nail polish and makes several threats to "fuck" the Dude and his team during their match. Ties in with AllGaysArePedophiles, as he became a registered sex offender after, according to [[UnreliableNarrator Walter]], exposing himself to an 8 year old.

* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: "You pull a piece on the lane, I'll stick that gun up your ass and pull the fucking trigger 'till it goes 'click.'"

* {{Hypocrite}}: During his screaming fit about the delayed semi-final round, at one point he tries to yell "I don't care! It don't matter to Jesus!" despite the fact that it clearly does.

* SmugSnake: Is very cocky about his bowling skills and makes a point of showing off in front of the Dude's team to rub them in their faces.

** He completely snaps when trying to intimidate a teenager he suspects has stolen the ransom money by smashing up what he thinks is his car, screaming, "''This'' is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!" er, "find a stranger in the Alps!"

* SmallRoleBigImpact: They only have one scene, [[spoiler:and it turns out they didn't kidnap Bunny]], but them breaking into the Dude's home and ''especially'' pissing on his rug leads him to approach Mr. Lebowski, which then promptly leads to the latter getting the idea to [[spoiler:use the Dude as TheScapegoat]].

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: The nicest character in the movie. [[spoiler:Also the only one to die]].

* AffectionateNickname: Her husband and his employees (and the Dude) call her "Bunny", although as it turns out, [[spoiler:it's not as affectionate as it initially came across]].

* StupidCrooks: They manage to mistake him for a multi-millionaire - they don't even leave until they finally notice the Dude's living in a crappy house for a millionaire.

%%* AffectionateNickname: Bunny.

[[caption-width-right:300: ''"Am I the only one around here who gives a shit about the rules?!'' '''''MARK IT ZERO!'''''"]]

* OnlySaneMan: Massive subversion -- he thinks he's the only one making sense, but he proves to be the only '''insane''' man: "Has the whole [[WorldGoneMad world gone CRAZY]]?! Am I the only one around here who gives a shit about the rules?" Right before pulling out a Colt on a bowler who simply rule-argued with him.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Talks about how the word "vagina" makes men uncomfortable while avoiding using the word "penis" in the same conversation. She describes "Logjammin'" as disgusting smut, while [[ItsNotPornItsArt her art isn't terribly different from it]]. She's disgusted by those who desire sex without love, while doing exactly that in order to become pregnant. Maude is a walking contradiction.

* {{Jerkass}}: She's generally condescending towards the Dude and speaks about everyone who isn't one of her artist buddies with disdain. Her first encounter with the Dude, after he has unknowingly taken a rug from the Big Lebowski’s home that has sentimental value to her, rather than explain the situation to him and ask for it back, she decides to break into the Dude’s home and has one of her thugs knock him unconscious in order to reclaim the rug. [[spoiler:She even bluntly tells the Dude to his face that she has no interest in him as a person at all immediately after getting him to impregnate her.]]

** While this is generally attributed to Walter, who latches on to it and refuses to let go, it's technically the Dude who pretty much solves the "mystery" early on [[spoiler: when he makes an off-hand comment that she probably 'kidnapped' herself to escape from all her debts; he's not ''quite'' right, since it's ''actually'' that she just left town for a few days and didn't bother to tell anyone, but he's not far off the mark either.]]

* CloudCuckoolander: To a lesser extent than Walter, but he's still a pretty odd guy. At the beginning, he writes a check for 69 cents; drinks White Russians in the morning; listens to the sounds of the bowling alleys while taking a nap on his rug and whale sounds in his tub.

** Donnie talking in general seems to annoy Walter, enough to tell him to "shut the fuck up" in response to anything he says, even something as mundane as Donnie telling him they've posted the dates for the bowling tournament.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His first scene is conversing with the Dude about the first home invasion and spouting off various theories and odd phrases, showcasing his CloudCuckoolander personality.

* FatalFlaw: A mix of [[HairTriggerTemper Wrath]] and his inflexibility. Walter is a firm PrinciplesZealot, and while this makes him honorable and loyal to his friends, he treats all rules (both official and unofficial) with an intensity that results in DisproportionateRetribution when someone breaks them. When one of his bowling buddies steps over the line, he points a gun to his face until he accepts it. When The Dude theorizes that Bunny kidnapped herself to extort her husband for money, it's Walter who decides to {{Troll}} the "kidnappers" by swapping the money out for his laundry out of a twisted sense of karma. He nearly gets into a fight with a waitress over him loudly swearing in a family restaurant, and needlessly escalates the tensions between them and the Nihilists, resulting in Donny dying from a heart-attack.

-->Saturday, Donny, is Shabbos, the Jewish day of rest. That means that I don't work, I don't drive a car, I don't fucking ride in a car, I don't handle money, I don't turn on the oven, and I sure as shit '''DON'T FUCKING ROLL!!!'''

* ItsNotPornItsArt: How she justifies the things she does. Despite working with porn stars, and owning an extensive collection of porn movies. She ''does'' have clear standards, however, as she claims that "Logjammin'" is an artless travesty.

* {{Straw Nihilist}}s: Played for laughs. Their amusing CatchPhrase is often applied free of any particular context. They're very enthusiastic about their nihilism, and love to bring it up. Their nihilism, however, doesn't stop them from [[spoiler:whining about how "It's not fair!" when their attempt to extort money out of the heroes is foiled. By the time the nihilists confront the Dude, he knows that they're just pretending that they've kidnapped a woman, when they never had her in the first place. Walter retorts: "'FAIR?!' WHO'S THE FUCKING NIHILISTS HERE, YA FUCKING CRY-BABIES!?"]].

* AffectionateNickname: Bunny.

* CatchPhrase: "Nobody fucks with The Jesus!"
* ComicallyLopSidedRivalry: Being the leader of the OpposingSportsTeam, Jesus gets incredibly hyped about the competition between his team and the Dude's team, but they don't take him seriously. Not even Walter, a man who treats LoopholeAbuse as SeriousBusiness worthy of being shot over.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Subverted. She offers herself to The Dude, albeit without love and solely to conceive a child.

* MockMillionaire: [[spoiler:He doesn't actually have much money to his own name; it all comes from his late wife's estate and is largely handled by his daughter with him merely using money that is actually hers and which she shares with him. He plays the part of a millionaire anyway because he likes throwing his weight around. Maude even says the few times he was given the chance to make money for himself, he screwed up badly]]

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:His death is a deliberate subversion of the unwritten rule that nobody ever dies for random or plot-unimportant reasons in FilmNoir, or really, any genre except weird comedies. "It's a heart attack." Though, considering the scene in which his death occurs, it may be a DoubleSubversion.]]

* IdiotBall: The Dude firmly grabs hold of it when he decided to get involved with the millionaire Lebowski’s personal business, which is when most of his troubles started, after already taking a rug to replace the one the one he lost.

* IdiotBall: The Dude’s firmly grabs hold of this when he decided to get involved with the millionaire Lebowski’s business after already taking a rug to replace the one the one he lost.

* {{Jerkass}}: She's generally condescending towards the Dude and speaks about everyone who isn't one of her artist buddies with disdain. [[spoiler:She even bluntly tells the Dude to his face that she has no interest in him as a person at all immediately after getting him to impregnate her.]]