Animaniacs Main Character Index
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Minerva Mink
Minerva Mink
Voiced by: Julie Brown
A mink who is so beautiful she causes all men around her to go crazy for her. Go here for her self-demonstrating page.- Alliterative Name: Minerva Mink
- 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.
- All Women Are Lustful: Minerva tends to berate every schmoe who becomes attracted to her, though she herself tends to go bonkers upon meeting an attractive guy.
- Animals Not to Scale: Her scale changes with the plot. In her first appearance she was shown to be the size of a normal mink (this is in relation to her size compared to Newt, who was shown earlier in that episode only coming up to his master's knee). However, she was most often shown the same size as human beings, only about a head shorter than Hello Nurse.
- Barefoot Cartoon Animal: Normally she does not wear shoes in her animated shorts. Subverted sometimes in the comics (more for fashion motivations).
- Bowdlerise: In the re-release of her episodes, her breasts were airbrushed to remove the cleavage but there are still frames where they did not airbrush out her cleavage.
- Deadpan Snarker: Particularly in the comics.
- Demoted to Extra: Though she was never much of a major character. Justified in that the censors found her cartoons Too Hot for TV and scrapped them, but kept the character. That and the fact that she was merely a one-joke character (the joke being all the male characters going gaga whenever they see her and the ending revealing she is Not So Above It All when it comes to handsome men.) In the end, she only appeared in twelve cartoons altogether, one of which was the Pinky and the Brain finale "Star Warners", five of her appearances were silent cameos, but she gets a much larger presence in the comics however. Not to mention she only makes two cameo appearances in the reboot.
- Dude Magnet: Especially in the comics where even human males want her.
- Everyone Loves Blondes: Although very little of it has to do with her hair...
- Expy: Minerva is very similar to Betty Boop, with her lustful attitude and ability to charm almost any guy. Both characters even share similar development stories (the censors thought both characters were too lustful, and
did a little meddling with them.)- Considering the popularity of furry femme-fatales in the nascent home computer animation scene of the late-80's to the early 1990's, there is a possibility elements of Minerva may have been inspired by these independent cartoon creator's work. Her resemblance to Amy Squirrel
with the colors swapped is noticeable (Amy would later go onto be a supporting character in Sabrina Online). - Not to mention Minerva's formal attire in "Moon Over Minerva" is almost a direct copy of Jessica Rabbit's clothing in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, a film Spielberg helped to produce!
- Considering the popularity of furry femme-fatales in the nascent home computer animation scene of the late-80's to the early 1990's, there is a possibility elements of Minerva may have been inspired by these independent cartoon creator's work. Her resemblance to Amy Squirrel
- Eye Pop: When she first sees Wilford's transformed state, her eyes literally jump out of their sockets, flying over to get a good look at Wilford from multiple angles.
- Femme Fatale: Not evil, but she will use her charms to make men do what she wants.
- Flat Character: Minerva doesn't get much characterization other than being a lustful tease who only has feelings for really handsome guys. Although one of her only noticable quirks is that she loves to make puns.
- Friendly Enemy: By the end of her debut and in the comics, she seems fonder of Newt despite his status as her enemy, but then one can hardly blame her.
- Funny Animal: Aside from her appearance, she basically acts like a human woman.
- Furry Female Mane: She has human-like head hair.
- Gibberish of Love: Goes into the classic "homina, homina" routine when she first sees werewolf Wilford.
- Go-Go Enslavement: As a spoof of Slave Leia on "Star Warner".
- Gold Digger: She say that her ideal boyfriend is not only handsome, but also has rich parents. In the comics, she says her dream is to marry a prince to pay her credit card debt, and another story has Newt discovering the most arousing scent for her is cash. She even goes right past a male hunk to snatch some money out of his hand and hug it instead of him, admitting "I just dig cash" as she does. In "Hercule Yakko", she also reacts the same way to a diamond that men react to her.
- Head-Turning Beauty: She drives every male, no matter their species, into wild take-filled Tex Avery-styled conniptions at her beauty. Especially in the comic. She herself has this reaction to cute guys with Lustful Melt included.
- Heart Beats out of Chest: Goes through an interesting variant when she's brought into werewolf Wilford's embrace: each beat causes her head to expand until it detaches from her body, nearly floating away before she pulls it back down.
- Humanoid Female Animal: Compared to Newt. Averted when Wilford become a werewolf, which in that case, he is just as anthropomorphic as Minerva.
- Hypocritical Humor: Treats men who are attracted to her with disdain and scorn, or takes advantage of then discards them, while she herself goes completely bonkers over any handsome and rich guy and takes rejection poorly.
- I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: Often uses her sex appeal to her advantage.
- Impossible Hourglass Figure: Much like Hello Nurse, her incredibly curvaceous body makes her this.
- Jerkass: Minerva isn’t very pretty once you get to know her.
- Lustful Melt: She melts into a puddle in the presence of both Wilford's transformed self and Trudy's cousin.
- Ms. Fanservice: She is a beautiful and curvy anthropomorphic mink. In her short she appears in a Modesty Towel and has a Shower Scene (with Sexy Silhouette).
- Non-Mammal Mammaries: Downplayed in that she is a mammal, just not one that would have human-style cleavage. So much that some shots of her abundant breasts were edited in the DVD collection. The intent was for her full cleavage to resemble a large puff of fur, but resulted in what fans tend to refer to as a "uni-boob". Apparently, what was OK on broadcast TV at 4 pm in 1992 was a little too spicy for a DVD release in 2009.
- Not So Above It All: She treats whomever is fawning over her with barely-restrained disdain. But as soon as an attractive guy walks by, she recreates every wild take aimed at her previously, showing that she's just as shallow as the people who gawk at her.
- Overly-Long Tongue: When she first sees Trudy's cousin, her tongue drops out of her mouth and keeps going until there's a whole pile of it at her feet.
- Pink Is Erotic: Minerva gained infamy for her overly sexual design and in the cartoon, she's proven to be so attractive that all the males are aroused by the sight of her. In the episodes, she wears a pink modesty towel, a pink and purple dressing gown, and she is surrounded by pink flowers.
- Pungeon Master: At times. In the Xena parody she starred in on the comic, her awful puns are even the one thing smitten followers can't stand about her.
- 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. She even sings about it in her first appearance.
- Species Surname: Mink.
- Supermodel Strut: Her go-to method of walking.
- The Tease: She gleefully invokes this with both Wilford and Newt, pretending to flirt with them in order to mess with them.
- This Is Unforgivable!: When she hears that Trudy has arranged for her to show her cousin around (without consulting her), she remarks, "A moment of silence for my former best friend."
- Too Hot for TV: In a rare case of self-censorship, the staff retired the Minerva Mink shorts after only two episodes because the sexual undertones were too blatant (her second and last solo short, "Moon Over Minerva", was slightly edited for content before broadcast). She does make cameos sometimes, including the movie Wakko's Wish. Luckily, she went on to have a nice career in the comics, a medium which has far less censorship than TV nowadays.
- Valley Girl: Par the course for a Julie Brown character. She lacks the trademark accent, but retains the other characteristics of the archetype (vapid and snobbish, fashion-obsessed, loves money\buying).
Newt
Voiced by: Arte Johnson
- Advertised Extra: He rarely appeared at all, only only five times in fact, only having a prominent role in two segments (only speaking in one of those and in the other he was basically a normal animal) and his other speaking role was a brief appearance in Gunga Dot, he had a silent appearance in the Macarena music video parody, and a blink you'll miss it cameo in another, but despite all this he was featured in both of the big group shots in the opening theme, making him seem like he'd be a recurring character but in reality he was just a minor character who barely ever showed up. He eventually came Back for the Finale in the Animaniacs' film, Wakko's Wish (literally), appearing in the very last scene that mirrored the show's intro, and in another with the show's various characters, but with no speaking role.
- Ascended Extra: On the other hand, he's present in most Minerva comics.
- Anthropomorphic Zig-Zag: He is a Civilized Animal, but he sometimes a Funny Animal and in "Puttin on The Blitz" (where is a simple guard dog) he is a Nearly Normal Animal.
- Distracted by the Sexy: And to his credit, he still keeps trying to catch Minerva, which would make him a Determinator as well?
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Every attempt to capture Minerva or have her end always bad.
- Road Runner vs. Coyote: The comics often go by the "Meet Minerva" formula where Newt wants to catch her. His bad luck and her sex appeal ensures he fails in amusing ways.
Wilford B. Wolf
Voiced by: Peter Scolari
- Alliterative Name: First and last names both begin with W.
- Anthropomorphic Zig-Zag: He switches between Funny Animal (in his normal form) and Wolf Man (when he turns into a werewolf).
- Chick Magnet: His transformed self earns him attention from a female frog, a female rabbit, and a female bird, who all react the same way their male mates reacted to Minerva.
- Dogged Nice Guy: To Minerva, until she sees him in werewolf form.
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Wears only blue pants.
- Hammerspace: His Nerd Glasses disappear and reappear when he changes between his two forms.
- Lustful Melt: He melts into a puddle to react to Minerva's attractiveness.
- Magic Pants: His pants aren't affected by his transformations.
- Meaningful Echo: While charming Minerva in his transformed state, he describes going on a date with her using the exact same terms Minerva used when she was pretending to flirt with him earlier.
- Mr. Fanservice: As a werewolf. In this form seem to attract all the female animals and not only Minerva.
- Oblivious Transformation: Despite later admitting to being aware that he's a werewolf, Wilford is confused over Minerva going gaga over his transformed state.
- Our Werewolves Are Different: Instead of a human who turns into a wolf when the moon is full, he's a wolf who turns into a different-looking wolf. He doesn't turn into a vicious beast either. Instead, he's quite the well-spoken looker under the full moon. He also reverts back to his normal state whenever clouds block the moonlight.
- Sexier Alter Ego: Wilford is normally a nerdy wolf Abhorrent Admirer who turns sexy under a full moon.
- Species Surname: Wolf.
- You Sexy Beast: In this werewolf form.
Trudy's Cousin
Voiced by: Jess Harnell
- Funny Animal: Aside from his appearance, he basically acts like a human guy.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Rejects and berates Minerva in the same manner she does so to everyone who has the hots for her.
- Oral Fixation: He puts a lollipop in his mouth and it's reminiscent of cigarette smoking.
The Hip Hippos
Flavio and Marita (The Hip Hippos)
Voiced by: Frank Welker (Flavio), Tress MacNeille (Marita)
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Flavio is a light blue hippo, and Marita is a purple hippo.
- Big Fun: They're both obese, being hippos, and they love having a good time.
- Happily Married: A pair of married aristocrats who love each other very much.
- Huggy, Huggy Hippos: They're both perfectly friendly and sweet-natured, although they're oblivioius to as to how much devestation they cause.
- Idle Rich: They're always seen lazing around and enjoying themselves.
- Invincible Incompetent: They were Nigh-Invulnerable because of their extreme weight, which was good because they tended to wreck a lot of stuff with said extreme weight.
- Pale Females, Dark Males: Inverted since he's light blue and she's purple.
- Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Flavio and Marita are blue and pinkish-purple respectively.
- Recurring Extra
- Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: The Hip Hippos tried to do all their own chores when their maid quit, and failed miserably.
- Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Marita differs from Flavio aside from being colored purple instead of blue because she has lipstick and wears a bow.
- Walking Disaster Area: A recurring theme with their shorts—While they're off on their adventures, they're oblivious to the property damage they're causing with their girth and weight, since they're hippos and all. And Gina will be on the receiving end of it whenever she appears.
Gina Embryo
Voiced by: Tress MacNeille
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.
- Badly Battered Babysitter: All of the pain she suffers is because she tries to protect the hippos from getting hurt — unfortunately they were not only Nigh-Invulnerable because of their extreme fat, they also never noticed her (especially when she got crushed with said extreme fat).
- Butt-Monkey: Her attempts at getting the hippos to return to the jungle always result in her getting injured.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: She appears in two shorts and is never seen again.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: She is a gender-flipped version of documentarian John Embry.
- Punny Name
Katie Ka-Boom
Katie Ka-Boom
Voiced by: Laura Mooney
- Affectionate Nickname: Her father refers to her as "Princess".
- Alliterative Name: Katie Ka-Boom
- Ambiguous Innocence: Each time after she explodes she acts as if nothing happened even as everything else around her is in shambles. So either Katie doesnt remember when she transforms (at least much) or she's that callous about it. In a comic story she says "oopsie" after one of her tantrums showing that she was aware that she destoryed the house that time, then people came to repair the house right afterwards so she possibly just doesnt see her tantrums as a big deal. She may also believe that all other teenagers have the same issue she does, as evidenced by her catchphrase.
- Ambiguously Human: She's a teenager that morphs into a monster when ticked...What IS she? An alien? A demon possessing a human girl? Or, since WB also owns DC Comics, a Metahuman? Her brief appearance in the 2020 series shows she's relatively the same age, despite that it's been 22 years since she was last seen. Then again, so is Mindy.
- Beneath the Mask: A comic reveals that Katie is more-or-less capable of containing her anger at school even when having a rotten day, its mostly at home when she releases her anger.
- Bratty Teenage Daughter: She was more bad-tempered and impatient than particularly bratty. She did try to obey her parents now and then.
- Burning with Anger: Katie Kaboom does this once a month.
- The Cameo: Katie and her parents make a silent appearance in Wakko's Wish, opening their windows before "The Wishing Star" song and observing the action.
- She makes an appearance in episode 5 of the 2020 reboot.
- Character Catchphrase: Whenever her parents point out that she's overreacting to the slights and problems that anger her, she always responds with "I am not overreacting! I'm a teenager!".
- Comical Overreacting: Her whole shtick is getting furious over minor inconveniences and such.
- Cute But Psycho: She's quite the looker, but she has a short fuse of an average teenager and has the ability to transform into a monster.
- Daddy's Girl: She appears to be much closer to her father. Whenever she transforms, should her father try and reason with her in her mother's place, she reacts "You always take her side!" and, when she wanted to stay out late for prom night, despite her transformed state, she tried to plead with him and agreed to a compromise with him.
- 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.
- Hidden Depths: The final episode shows that she can play the violin.
- Hulking Out: When she's angry, she turns into an enormous monster.
- In the Blood: A comic story reveals that she has an older cousin who similarly transforms into a monster when angry (she is also a bridezilla who says "I'm not overreacting I'm a bride."). So it seems that Katies transformations are a hereditary trait among Kaboom women.
- Karma Houdini: She destroys her parents' house with her violent outbursts, and is never punished for it, mainly because her parents are terrified of her.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: In episode 5 of the 2020 reboot, she was hunted down, stuffed, and mounted by her ex-boyfriend Chicken Boo.
- Non-Standard Character Design: Her design looks more like a Disney character than the Looney Tunes-inspired designs of the series.
- 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.
- Person of Mass Destruction: Her monstrous phase causes incredible damage to the family house, often explosive as the surname indicates. Amusingly, the least destructive occasion was when she was outside home (her driving lesson).
- Rule of Three: Whenever Katie transforms, she angrily repeats a statement three times.
- Shapeshifting: Katie can turn into a giant monster, but amusingly it's never the same giant monster. Her tansformations depend entirely upon what's getting her so angry. It also comes with mild Reality Warper powers as she can pull objects like clothes or disco balls out of nowhere.
- Snap Back: Almost all her shorts end with the family home in ruins, but it's back to normal in time for the next short. God knows what her parents' insurance premiums are. Though a comic story shows that after each outburst their home is repaired by "Acme Home Replacement Services" which is completed by the time Katie returns home from school.
- Teens Are Monsters: Literally. Katie frequently turns into a monster when she's angry.
- Visual Pun: Whenever angered, she turns into a monster. Literally.
- Write Who You Know: Nicholas "Shecky" Hollander based Katie on his own teenage daughter, who was going through her own tantrum phase.
Tinker
Voiced by: Justin Garms
Katie Ka-Boom's little brother.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: He teases Katie over being able to see her belly-button when she tries wearing a crop-top. And this is despite witnessing first hand what happens to his sister when she gets mad.
The Ka-Boom parents
Voiced by: Rob Paulsen (Mr. Kaboom) Mary Gross (Mrs. Kaboom)
Katie and Tinker's parents who love their daughter but are too afraid to really do anything when it comes to her powers.
- Everyone Has Standards: Katie's parents have largely resigned themselves to the endless property damage and destruction that her monstrous transformations cause. But in one segment, her father actually put his foot down—she was requesting to have no curfew on her prom night, and he likely feared for her safety. It's a rare Moment of Awesome for him, as he stands firm on the issue and manages to make Katie say "please" while transformed, revert from monster-to-human, and agree to a peaceful compromise of an extended, but not limitless, curfew. This is the only time we see this happening.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Rob is definitely channeling the late Jimmy Stewart as Katie's father.
- Papa Wolf: As described above, Katie's father (and, to a lesser extent, her mother) only stand up to her literally explosive temper when her requests or overreactions might put her in danger. They may be afraid of her monster form, but she's still their daughter, and they won't let anyone hurt her.
- Pushover Parents: They try to discipline Katie, but her violent outbursts always terrify them.
- Standard '50s Father: The dad is a clear parody of Jimmy Stewart and the live in a very 50's-ish suburban home.
Other Segments and Characters
The Mime
- Cosmic Plaything: He pretty much exists only to get abused and injured constantly.Narrator: And so everyone in Acme Falls got his or her wish...[safe drops on Mime] except for the Mime, that is.Yakko: I don't know about him, but that sure was my wish.
- Every One Hates Mimes: The purpose of "Mime Time" sketches is to show a mime going through Amusing Injuries.
- Iron Butt Monkey: No matter how many horrible injuries he suffers, the Mime will always be back for more.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: He's almost always shown with a big smile on his face, but he's among the angry cast members who wish harm on Chicken Boo in the 2020 series for capturing them.
- The Speechless: Justified since he's a mime. He has actually said two words, in the French-themed Buttons and Mindy episode "Les Boutons et le Ballon". "Le owww." He also sings in crowd scenes, though his voice is cleverly lost among the throng.
- Your Mime Makes It Real: The Mime mimes something which then comes true. For example he'll mime pulling a rope and it turns out he's pulling a tiger towards him.
Chicken Boo
Voiced by: Frank Welker
A giant chicken who has a habit of disguising himself as a human.
- The Ace: He's exceedingly good at nearly everything he does, except for disguises. Then, 22 years later...
- Acrophobic Bird: Surprisingly averted for a cartoon chicken. A few shorts show that he is actually able to fly and he escapes some of his pursuers this way.
- Adaptational Villainy: In episode 5 of the 2020 reboot, he is revealed to have captured all of the Animaniacs characters from the original series minus the Warners and Pinky and the Brain...all because he was left out of the reboot.
- Animals Not to Scale: He's one huge chicken.
- Anthropomorphic Zig-Zag: Chicken Boo is a Nearly Normal Animal, but when he puts on a Paper-Thin Disguise, he becomes something of a Funny Animal. He does seem to return to normal when it inevitably comes off.
- Beware the Silly Ones: He was just a silly little chicken who had C-List skits in the original. Then the 2020 reboot happened, and he took out nearly the entirety of the original cast.
- Body Horror: When he emerges from his Dr. Water Grubb disguise, he does it in an extremely disturbing manner.
- Broken Pedestal: When his disguises fails, one person who has already seen through him says "I told you that guy was a chicken!", and everyone who praised Chicken Boo earlier tries to eat him.
- Butt-Monkey: He is constantly shunned by those around him because he's a giant chicken, and his disguises always fail. He was also the 'most hated' character of the original series, which led to him being left out of the reboot, with arguably more disliked characters such as the Hip Hippos and Katie Ka-Boom being chosen over him.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He somehow managed to capture and mount Slappy Squirrel and Katie Kaboom of all people.
- Exit, Pursued by a Bear:
- This literally happens to him at the end of "Davy Omelette".
- At the end of "Good Warner Hunting", he ends up getting chased by all the co-stars he had hunted down.
- Every Episode Ending: His shorts always ended with him walking off to find the next thing to disguise as while the last two lines of his theme song played, including his crossover short with Katie Ka-Boom.
- Failed a Spot Check: In "Good Warner Hunting", as "Dr. Walter Grubb", he hunted down all the characters and claimed that the Warner trio is all he has left, but he clearly neglected Pinky and the Brain, which, strangely enough, isn't even pointed out in the segment.
- Although, if you look carefully, you can see heads resembling Pinky and the Brain, suggesting he might think he's already captured them, but, in reality, they're identical characters.
- Feathered Fiend: In "Good Warner Hunting".
- From Nobody to Nightmare: No one really thought anything of him back in the '90s. In 2020, it turns out that they REALLY should have.
- Full-Body Disguise / Latex Perfection: Dr. Walter Grubb is probably his greatest and most convincing disguise yet.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Chicken Boo was rejected from being in the reboot because he was so unpopular. He turned evil and swore revenge on the main cast by trying to stuff them, but failed.
- Hidden Depths: His brief cameo in the last MasterClass collaboration video shows that he's teaching a class on advanced particle physics.
- If I Can't Have You…: A variant. Chicken Boo's entire mindset is that if he can't be in the reboot, then no one can.
- Informed Ability: In many of his segments, he would be unmasked and ousted before he even got the chance to show off his reputed skills on screen.
- Kavorka Man: He's attracted the attention of several women (save for the ones who do see through his disguise) and at least one guy.
- Knight of Cerebus: As Dr. Walter Grubb. There's a lot of levity to the character and he fails against the Warners as much as you would expect. For most of the episode. His methods may not mean much but his intentions are played dead serious and the latter half of the episode shows him having stuffed and mounted nearly the entire cast of the original series, with the Warners coming perilously close to meeting the same fate. And while The Reveal does dial back his threat level it doesn't change the fact that he was hunting down his co-stars and leaving them in an And I Must Scream situation.
- Mirror Character: His role in the reboot is similar to Buddy's in the original series. A protagonist in the proceeding series who went Out of Focus due to being
The Scrappy. They came back in an episode full of cameo's as the Big Bad, seemingly having Took a Level in Badass and gained a new voice to make them more menacing. They were built up as a Knight of Cerebus but ended up suffering the same barrage of slapstick that usually befalls those who antagonize the Warner's and their defeat is entirely their own making, with the Warner's having nothing to do with it. - Morphic Resonance: His disguise as Dr. Walter Grubb, while more elaborate than his usual disguises, still has features similar to that of a chicken, most notably his pointed beak-like nose and his bottom heavy body shape.
- Non-Standard Character Design: He looks more realistic than the other animal characters in the show.
- Older Than They Look: Season 2 of the reboot reveals he was hatched not too long after Noah's Ark (and the Warner's Ark) set sail, meaning Chicken Boo is thousands of years old.
- Only Sane Man: Almost every Chicken Boo sketch featured exactly one person who realized that Boo was just a bird wearing a ludicrously transparent disguise. That poor soul would desperately try to convince everyone of the truth ("HE'S A CHICKEN, I TELL YA! A GIANT CHICKEN!"), but was inevitably spurned or thought to be speaking metaphorically. Luckily, they would get their just desserts when Boo's disguise inevitably came off, allowing them to gloat ("I TOLD YA THAT GUY WAS A CHICKEN!").
- Paper-Thin Disguise: His segments are essentially a giant parody of this trope. Boo's disguises are always incredibly flimsy and do nothing to disguise the fact that he's a six-foot-tall chicken, but they always manage to convince nearly everyone around him that he's an expert in whatever field he's chosen to enter for the day. Notable instances include a taped-on mustache (suddenly he's the biggest movie star in Hollywood), a white karate uniform and headband (he's now "Moo Goo Gai Boo", master of martial arts), or a gray hat (which grants him the position of General of the Confederate Army). Averted in the reboot, where he has a full-body disguise of a hunter who speaks in full English.
- The Scrappy: Invoked. Yakko and Dot (Wakko was oblivious) love tormenting him about the fact he was the least-liked character of the original series in "Good Warner Hunting"
- Shown Their Work: Like real-life chickens, he is capable of short flights, something not usually seen in cartoon chickens.
- The Speechless: He's a generally mute character, save his realistic clucking. In "Good Warner Hunting", even though it was only while he was dressed as Dr. Walter Grubb, he spoke perfect English.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: The Christmas episode, where he plays a mall Santa, actually gives him a happy ending where he rides with Santa in his sleigh.
- Toothy Bird: Usually averted, except when he needs them to make certain expressions.
- Villainous Breakdown: The Warner Siblings push his buttons as Dr. Grubb by going on about how was the least popular character in the original series, and wasn’t allowed in the reboot. This causes Dr. Grubb to have a meltdown, leading to The Reveal.Dr. Walter Grubb: It’s not fair! If I’m not allowed to be in the reboot, nobo...! Nob-b-BACAWK! NOBODY IS!
- Walking Spoiler: You see all the spoiler tags? They're all for his presence in the reboot.
- Warts and All: Even after he's unmasked, the Moneypenny Expy in the James Bond parody still loves him.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: He is regularly ostracized seemingly for the sole reason that he is a huge chicken, regardless of whether he was any good at his job prior to being unmasked. Justified, as they could be craving chicken for lunch and/or dinner.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: His opening theme shows that he doesn't just try to look like human guys.
- Would Hit a Girl: Or rather, would hunt down and mount a girl on his wall, as he did with several female characters.
- Would Hurt a Child: He actually mounted Mindy and Skippy, a couple of young children, onto his wall.
- Yandere: In episode 5 of the 2020 reboot, he hunted down, stuffed and mounted his ex-girlfriend Katie Ka-Boom.
- You Have to Believe Me!: There's always one character who sees through The Masquerade. Only one, though, and they’re naturally quick to gloat when he gets found out.
Mr. Skullhead
The star of the "Good Idea/Bad Idea" segments.
- The Chew Toy: Whenever this poor skeleton shows up, someone is about to inflict pain on him.
- Dem Bones: Before Animaniacs, he was doing skits for Tiny Toon Adventures. The skull is inspired by Elmyra's skull on her headband.
- Early-Bird Cameo: He was a minor recurring character on Tiny Toon Adventures.
- The Speechless: He's a mute skeleton.
- Talking with Signs: In a scene where he's grabbed by a bear, he holds up a sign that says: "HELP ME!"
- Too Dumb to Live: A lot of the bad ideas he tries in "Good Idea, Bad Idea" are really bad. "Playing cops and robbers in the bank", for instance.
Colin, a.k.a., The Randy Beaman Kid
Voiced by: Colin Wells
- Bowdlerize: The original animation of the "pop rocks and soda" story had the Randy Beaman Kid crossing his legs and pulling his crotch, clearly having a Potty Emergency, but it was replaced with the animation from the "giant marshmallow" story.
- Cannot Tell a Joke: He has absolutely no sense of delivery, telling his stories in a monotonous run-on sentence and then just stopping abruptly.
- Character Catchphrase: Almost always begins his stories with "One time, okay, see one time, Randy Beaman...", and ends by saying "'Kay, bye."
- The Ghost: He talks an awful lot about his friend Randy Beaman, but we never actually see Randy Beaman himself.
- Motor Mouth: When he's relating a story about his friend Randy, you'll begin to wonder how this kid manages to breathe.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: All of the Randy Beaman stories end with a rather surreal punchline.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: He's the only other recurring character of the original series (outside of the Warners or Pinky and the Brain) never shown to be captured by Chicken Boo in the 2020 series.
Baynarts "Charlton" Woodchuck
Voiced by: Jeff Bennett
An aspiring woodchuck actor from Wheatina, Kansas.
- Butt-Monkey: His single starring role, "Hollywoodchuck", is nothing but him suffering one Amusing Injury after another.
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": Do Not Call Me Baynarts.
- Fur As Clothing: In the reboot, a deranged hunter boasts that he skinned Charlton Woodchuck and shows the Warners a coat made of his fur. Later Charlton, alive, naked, and quite furious, is seen to be holding his fur, and puts it back on before chasing after the newly-revealed Chicken Boo along with all the other "victims".
- Enemies List: Keeps a list of names of people who, when he's famous, will make a point not to like.
- Prima Donna Director: When directing Slappy in "Nutcracker Slappy".
- Small Name, Big Ego: He thinks he's the absolute best there is at acting, but is nothing more than an egotistical twit.
The Flame
Voiced by: Luke Ruegger
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.
- And I Must Scream: Played for Laughs. The Flame doesn't seem remotely aware that the humans he speaks to cannot see he is sentient, much less hear him. Whenever they speak, or react in a way that seems like they can see or hear him, it's just a coincidence.
- Animate Inanimate Object: He's a sentient candle flame.
- Been There, Shaped History: He was present at the writing of THE Declaration of Independence.
- Out-of-Genre Experience: Unlike the rest of the shorts in the series, the Flame's shorts aren't at all comedic. They're drawn very conservatively (as opposed to the wacky, bouncy style of the other segments) and are played completely straight.
Birdie
Voiced by: Cody Ruegger
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.
- Happily Adopted: In "My Mother the Squirrel", he is shown to be pretty fine with having Slappy as his adoptive mother.
- Imprinting: In addition to mistaking a jet for his mother in his debut short, "My Mother the Squirrel" has him mistake Slappy Squirrel for his mother.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: He's one adorable baby bird.
Buddy
Voiced by: Jim Cummings
One of the original stars of the Warner Bros. cartoon studio. 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.
- Adaptational Badass: In the Anniversary Special he's not a Flat Character like the original Buddy.
- Adaptational Villainy: The original B&W Buddy wasn't a villain.
- Ax-Crazy: He wants to get even with the Warners for stealing his spotlight, and he intended to do so by planting a bomb in a podium.
- Big Bad: Of the "65th Anniversary Special".
- Butt-Monkey: The Warner Bros. and Sister got their starring roles by starring cartoons consisting of whacking Buddy in the head with a mallet over and over again.
- 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! note
- Cerebus Retcon: Buddy's history was altered to fit the Animaniacs' universe. The Warners' constant abuse of him on the set resulted in him getting fired from Warner Bros. and years of psychological trauma, resulting in his desire for revenge.
- Foreshadowing: In one of his interviews, he looks around suspiciously while he does his signature laugh.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: He gets blown up by the very bomb he planted for the Warners.
- Mood-Swinger: Constantly switches between being cheerful and affable to being very angry.
- Pie-Eyed: His eyes have pupils shaped like pies with a piece missing.
- Sphere Eyes: He has big round eyes.
- Stepford Smiler: Type C. Just look at that picture of him. Of course, he ditches it once it's revealed he's a bad guy.
- Throw the Dog a Bone:
- As the Warners received their award, they give a big thanks to Buddy for their stardom and that he deserves the award as much as they do, and wish he was at the ceremony. Touched by their speech, he ran up on stage and thanks them for it. He hears the bomb ticking and gets blown up and smashed by a giant hammer. His old schtick with the Warners.
- Even before this, one retired WB executive reveals that when the studio made the decision to fire Buddy, the Warners were the only ones there who fought to save his job.
- Very Loosely Based on a True Story: While his creation didn't lead to the genesis of the Warner Brothers, Buddy is actually a very real cartoon character created in 1933 by Earl Duvall and his cartoons were particularly infamous even back then for being insanely boring. Also, Warner Bros. indeed brought another animator, Friz Freleng, to try and spice things up after his first cartoons failed. He succeeded by creating Porky Pig, who had the lions share of shorts for several years after that.
Mary Hartless
Voiced by: Valri Bromfeld (some episodes), Tress MacNeille
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Of Mary Hart.
Wakko's Wish Characters
King Salazar The Pushy
Voiced by: Paxton Whitehead
The vain and greedy king of Tickonia who invaded the kingdom of Warnerstock and now lords over it.- Bad Boss: He treats the Goodfeathers (his minions in the movie) with contempt, prompting them to get the wishing star for themselves to wish for respect.
- Big Bad: He is the movie's main villain.
- Evil Sounds Deep: He has a very deep and intimidating voice.
- Four-Fingered Hands: Most notable aversion among all the characters in the Animaniacs Verse.
- Hate Sink: Salazar is a greedy, callous, and murderous dictator who, unlike most of the other antagonists of the Warners, has no redeeming qualities to his name.
- Heroic Build: Inverted. Salazar has a tall, muscular build, but he is the villain.
- Jerkass: He's a very unpleasant dick, specially towards the Goodfeathers. Even more so after he discovered their intentions to use the wishing star against him.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Just when he's feeling bad about apparently killing Dot, he starts attempting to shoot Wakko as he reaches out to the star.
- Knight of Cerebus: A thoroughly dangerous foe who is played far more seriously than any other opponent the Warners face. There is the exception of the scene where he interrogates the Warners, where he's portrayed as comically as their other antagonists, but even here he completely deflates all the humor once he loses his temper and throws the Warners in his dungeon to be tortured.
- Literal Ass-Kicking: The Warners kick him in the rear when they boot him out of the castle in the film's ending.
- My God, What Have I Done?: He is visibly shocked and ashamed when he presumably kills Dot, but this guilt doesn't last long as he immediately orders Wakko to be shot as well.
- Primary-Color Champion: Inverted. His kingly attire uses red, yellow/gold, and blue quite liberally to invoke the image of The Good King, but he's a cruel, selfish villain.
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Despite his occasional comedic bits, King Salazar is a cruel megalomaniac whose threat is played seriously. He is noticeably one of the few villains the Warner siblings aren't able to overcome without outside help and one of the few to potentially have a kill count.
- Villain Song: At one point, he sings about how much he wants the wishing star.
- Would Hurt a Child: He hates the Warner Siblings to the point of explicitly ordering them killed.
- You Killed My Father: While not directly stated, the film heavily implies that he was the one who assasinated the Warners Parents.
The Warners' Parents
King William the Good and Queen Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana Fanna Bo Besca the Second.
- Good Parents: From what we know of them, they were both loving and kindly parents to their childen.
- Overly Long Name: The Warner Sibs' Mom, Queen Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana-Fanna Bo Besca the Second. Although not stated in the movie, we know her name because Dot's full name is Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana-Fanna Bo Besca the Third.
- Posthumous Character: Passed away before the main events of the movie.
- Strong Family Resemblance: The family portrait seen in the film's ending shows that they look a lot like their children.
Reboot characters
Starbox and Cindy
Cindy holding Starbox.
A very small alien and a young girl. The alien tries to escape the girl's grasp to give the signal for world domination as the rest of his armada is waiting in orbit.Voiced by: Danny Jacobs (Starbox), Eleanor Johnson (Cindy), Maria Bamford (Scout)
- Accidental Hero: By keeping Starbox from reaching his Big Red Button, Cindy is inadvertently saving the planet from being invaded by the Grimlox.
- And Call Him "George": Cindy could give Elmyra a run for her money in the abusive pet-owner department. Justified, since Cindy is a little girl who probably hasn't had a pet before Starbox.
- Asshole Victim: Starbox is trying to get the world invaded by his species, and so he richly deserves Cindy’s ignorance.
- Butt-Monkey: Starbox, having to deal with the humiliating things Cindy puts him through.
- Composite Character: Cindy appears to be this to Mindy from the original series. Her name even rhymes. There's also some similarities to Elmyra, who made several appearances in the original series as well as the non-canon spinoff with Pinky and the Brain; her nightgown in her first appearance has a similar color scheme to Elmyra's dress. Additionally, her tendency to tell long stories is similar to Colin the Randy Beaman Kid.
- Failure Is the Only Option: No matter what Starbox tries, he can't push the Big Red Button to summon his armada.
- Jagged Mouth: Starbox’s mouth is serrated bluntly in a way that resembles the stylized teeth of a human skull.
- Keystone Army: Starbox's armada can't make a move until he gives the signal, with them hovering above Earth until he does.
- Motor Mouth: Cindy. Much of her dialogue is ad-libbed by an actual child.
- Nice Girl: Cindy is this, naturally, despite her treatment of animals. She's certainly a lot more likeable than Elmyra.
- Non-Standard Character Design: Cindy looks much more realistic compared to the other human characters on the show.
- Predator Pastiche: Scout, an assassin hired by the king of Starbox's race, bears a resemblance to the Predator, being an alien warrior with dreadlock-like Alien Hair, tasked to hunt down Starbox.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To those mentioned above.
- The Unintelligible: Starbox only really grunts and screams, but when he does talk, it's this.
- You Have Failed Me: By Season 3, the king of Starbox's race has grown tired of waiting, and sends in Scout to eliminate Starbox and begin the invasion.
The Incredible Gnome in People's Mouths
Voiced by: John DiMaggio
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Definitely not shown to be the most pleasant guy, but to quote him after saving a woman from a Sham Wedding involving pinball machines: "I go where I'm needed." Said woman certainly didn't seem to mind his company either.
- Leitmotif: "Gnome" from Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition".
- No Indoor Voice: He shouts practically all of his lines.
- Shout-Out: The intro and outro to his segments are based on The Incredible Hulk (1977).
- Orifice Invasion: It's in his name. He can effortlessly fit in people's mouths without obstructing them at all, until he decides to emerge.
- Voice for the Voiceless: Speaks up for people who are being mistreated but can't (or won't) speak up for themselves.
- Was Once a Man: According to the intro, he used to be a normal man before the freak accident that turned him into a gnome.
