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Louise Belcher

"You could sell your soul. I did, and look at me. I'm fine."

Voiced by: Kristen Schaal

"I smell fear on you."

Bob and Linda's 9-year-old youngest daughter. Louise is wise beyond her years and has something of a psychopathic streak to her. Her favorite pastimes are creating chaos and devising (sometimes questionably legal) elaborate schemes to make cash, and she is almost always the ringleader during the Belcher kids' misadventures. However, beneath all this she truly does care about her family, her father in particular.

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• Aesop Amnesia: Throughout most of her focus episodes, she has to relearn the exact same lesson about not being selfish.
• Afraid of Blood: A trait she and Bob have in common—while it might be easy to miss due to her macabre sense of humor, one of Louise's standards seems to be directly interacting with blood. She is shown to be horrified by her own Turkey Giblet explosion during a Thanksgiving play and is uncharacteristically nervous to prick Tina's finger for a demonic ritual (to the point that Tina has to do it herself). It's notable that many of her fantasies and schemes involve blood and gore, but when the time comes to actually cause harm or touch blood she recoils in disgust and fear. She's still a 9-year-old, after all.
• Ambiguous Gender Identity: While not as recurring as Gene, there are some hints she might struggle with her gender identity.
  • A majority of her Halloween costumes are at least partially based on male characters^note Edward Scissorhands, the Driver, Anton Chigurh, Jason Bourne, Beetlejuice, and Peter Pan, with only one (Helen Hunt from her role in Twister) based on a female character.
  • In "Ear-sy Rider", she exclaims "Now I want them!" after watching a woman open a beer with her breasts, implying she was uncomfortable with the prospect beforehand.
  • During Gene's story in "The Gayle Tales", her character ("Lou Belchera") is identified as a man.
  • In "Boys 4 Now", she has the throwaway line "No wonder no one likes women." If not an example of her being a Female Misogynist, this could imply that she herself dislikes being a girl.
  • In "The Laser-inth", Gretchen asks Louise to "pretend" to be a real little girl, to which Louise replies "I'll try.".
  • When attending the birthday party in "Bobby Driver", all the girls are given feathered headbands and all the boys are given fedoras. Louise immediately gives her headband to Gene and takes his fedora in return.
  • In "Manic Pixie Crap Show", Louise's speech about "being a girl wrong" could be about her questioning her tomboy interests, but could also be read as her not relating to femininity at all.
  • In the movie, Louise's arc revolves around her not knowing who she is without her bunny hat. While not directly tied to gender, an early sign in transgender youth is an overall lack of self-image. A young child defining herself by an article of clothing is extreme enough to suggest this.
• Animal-Eared Headband: Her pink bunny-eared hat, which she's never seen without.
• Animal Motifs: Louise has a rabbit motif. Besides her iconic, pink bunny ears hat, she also wears yellow bunny slippers with her pajamas. And just like a rabbit, Louise is quite small but fast and deceptively clever. This is also reflected in the movie, her movements involve running like a rabbit (i.e. head down while running and the ears of her hat falling back) and jumping as part of the dance sequences.
• Anti-Hero: Alternates between this and Anti-Villain on a regular basis. She's most likely either doing good things for selfish reasons, or bad things for selfless reasons.
• Arch-Enemy: At least five recurring ones.
  • Millie Frock. While Louise no longer hates Millie, she still prefers to avoid Millie unless absolutely necessary.
  • Logan Bush. Although he hasn't directly antagonized her since Season 9, their animosity is almost on the same level as Bob and Jimmy Pesto's.
  • Phillip Frond. The overall dynamic in Wagstaff often boils down to the their mutual antagonism, and Frond's authority is undermined by his incompetence, putting the two on a more even playing field.
  • Calvin Fischoeder. Mostly played for laughs, since Calvin is a multimillionaire and Louise is the 9-year-old daughter of his struggling tenant, but several episodes have had them go toe to toe as equals, and overall there's no telling who will come out on top. While Calvin defeated her playing hide and seek with Felix, Louise bested him by winning his prized Wheelie Mammoth, successfully blackmailed him once, and very nearly did it again. Their stand-off at her underground casino ended in a draw.
  • Chloe Barbash. While Louise has never liked her and has in fact shown jealousy towards her, she now loathes Chloe because of the way she exploits Rudy. The feeling is mutual; Chloe also set off Louise’s arc in the movie by mocking her bunny ears.
• Ax-Crazy: You need to mash a bunch of her buttons for this to come out, but she will boil you alive if you cross her one time too many.
• Badass Adorable: Louise looks pretty adorable with her bunny ear hat, loves stuffed toys and secretly idolizes her father, but don't let her cute appearance fool you: she can be vicious to those who piss her off and has defeated several people who've crossed her with nothing more than her wit and cunning.
• Bad Boss: When Louise assumes her management position in "Art Crawl", she falls into this immediately, crossing over with Drill Sergeant Nasty. She overworks the kids she's in charge of and takes 100% of the profits for herself.
• Being Evil Sucks: Louise is not as immune to empathy and caring for others as she likes to pretend to be, and trying to do something mean or selfish can often backfire when she just ends up feeling bad for her targets. For example, after a fight with Ms. LeBonz, she writes a scathing review of her in the teacher evaluations, but when reading it to Tina, she immediately realizes she has gone too far and regrets it, attempting to change her evaluation.
• Berserk Button: Has quite a few.
  • The bunny-ears hat. Try to grab it and you will get shit for it. As seen in "Ear-sy Rider", the consequences in succeeding are, let's say, rather unfortunate.
  • Tampering with her possessions or entering her room without permission can drive her into near-insane fury. Bob at least knows to respect her boundaries; Linda, not so much.
  • Anything Millie does can put her in such a rage that she's incapable of acting rationally. Her rants almost invariably drum up sympathy for Millie.
  • As shown in the movie, being called a baby or otherwise calling her bravery into question.
• Big Sister Bully: Inverted, she is sometimes a little sister bully to Tina and/or Gene.
• Big Sister Instinct: Despite being vaguely psychotic and nine she has a protective instinct for those who can’t defend themselves.
  • She has a Little Sister Instinct in regards to her older siblings. With Gene and Tina being as generally inept as they are, she usually takes it upon herself to defend them or take vengeance when someone hurts them. "Drumforgiven" shows a consequence of this—Gene wants to try to stick up for himself rather than having Louise fight all his battles for him.
  • She pokes some light-hearted jokes at him but she seems to have this attitude towards Regular-Sized Rudy, given that she expresses concern and protectiveness towards him sometimes. "Bob Actually" implies that there might be something else at play.
• Birds of a Feather: It's part of why she and Bob get along so well. For instance, when Bob joins her in the Amazon exhibit in "Carpe Museum", he almost acts like an adult version of Louise, down to countering her snarking perfectly. Bob just seems to understand Louise, almost on a level that the other Belchers don't.
• Bitch Slap: She does this to anyone whenever annoyed (or, in rare cases like Boo Boo or Rudy, out of affection). "Boyz 4 Now" is perhaps the most notable instance, to the point that the episode even plays it in slow motion for added effect. The movie mentions she's been doing it since preschool.
• Borrowed Catchphrase: Sometimes she uses her father's trademark "Oh my God" to express frustration. In "The Hormone-iums", she and Bob even say it at the exact same time.
• Breakout Character: In the vein of Bart Simpson or Stewie Griffin, Louise's unrestrained attitude makes her a clear example of the mischievous kind in contrast to Tina's more surprising popularity. It says something that the only two people who routinely get more focus than Louise are the show's namesake and fellow Breakout Character.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: "Poops!... I Didn't Do It Again" implies that she could have genuinely good grades if she actually studied more, as when she does apply herself she knocks it out of the park. "Touch of Eval(uations)" confirms it—she's lazy enough to slap together a project in just a minute (which predictably gets her a crappy grade), but when properly motivated she follows that up with another project that gets an A-. "Amelia" also shows her getting genuinely invested in her Amelia Earhart project and putting together a fantastic shadow display, though she's also largely motivated by proving Wayne wrong.
• Bully Hunter: Not often shown, but she's no fan of bullies and has stuck up for weaker kids on occasion. One episode even saw her put into in-school suspension by Frond because she pantsed a kid who was bullying a smaller child at lunch.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Not under the usual application of the trope, but Louise deserves mention for being a literal one on two occasions.
  • The first instance is during Bob's dream sequence in "Sacred Cow", where she is defending Bob in a murder trial. That said, she's not exactly a good lawyer.
  • She steps up to the plate for real in "A Few 'Gurt Men", defending Mr. Frond from accusations that he stole Mr. Ambrose's yogurt and actually doing a damn good job of it (well, once she actually decides to care).
• Cannot Spit It Out: Has genuine trouble saying the words "I'm sorry" to anyone, making it a point to show she's sorry without saying the actual words. It's a pretty big deal when she casually says it to Rudy.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • "SICK!"
  • "Son of a BITCH!"
• Character Development: While all of the Belchers have undergone this to some extent, Louise's development forms a major part of episodes centered around her, and she's easily the one who's changed the most from Season 1.
  • In the late first season, she mentions how much she can't stand hanging with Tina and Linda, which is made abundantly clear in the third season due to "Mother Daughter Laser Razor" and "Boyz 4 Now", but in said episodes, she grew to respect and like her mother and sister, something made clear by their interactions when they have the focus like "Tina Tailor Soldier Spy" and "The Unnatural". Although she's still shown to prefer the company of Bob and Gene, she won't outright balk at hanging out with the Belcher women like she did before.
  • She's also grown more compassionate over time, mostly from her numerous Jerkass Realizations. Seeing her casually step in to protect Pocket-Sized Rudy from bullies in "Thelma and Louise Except Thelma is Linda" is so very sweet.
  • In the movie, she comes to accept that she doesn't need her bunny ears to feel brave, and even is able to accept being separated from them for brief periods of time, which back in Season 3 would've been an absolute no-no.
  • Interestingly, Louise's development can be measured by who she hangs out with. During her more selfish and manipulative days, she mostly hung out with the gullible and dependent Pesto twins, who would do anything Louise told them to and were more like lackeys than actual friends. In her more selfless and caring days, she mostly hangs out with the smart and autonomous Rudy, who is able to keep up with Louise and is willing to confront her when he disagrees with her actions, making him more of an equal to her. Her attitude towards her friends also differs (she's genuinely respectful and caring towards Rudy, but often sees the Pesto twins as just a means to an end).
• Characterization Marches On:
  • In Season 1, she was a lot more random with her acts of mischief and violence, to the point that she nearly got the restaurant shut down over a rumor. Later seasons show that while she's still prone to making sarcastic jabs at her family, they're largely immune to her more harmful deeds, and she tends to not go after anyone unless they wrong her first.
  • In Season 1, she put up a tough attitude around her family. In later seasons, it's shown that her family is just about the only thing that can consistently make her drop this attitude.
• Character Tics:
  • Twitching her eyes whenever she is about to explode from anger◊. She did this for almost the entire second half of the "Ambergris" episode, due to lack of sleep. She gets this tic from her mother.
  • She tends to show affection for people outside the family by slapping them in the face (Boo Boo in "Boyz 4 Now" and Rudy at the end of "Bob, Actually").
• The Chessmaster: Louise will eagerly exploit stupid people for her own amusement, and she's also quite willing to manipulate her family for her own pleasure. Linda is perfectly aware of the former, as she tells Mr. Frond (whom Louise had pranked by convincing him her father was dead and haunting the restaurant) that "she likes to mess with people she thinks are stupid".
• Child Prodigy: She is able to outsmart adults and find a solution for everything. Her vocabulary is also very advanced for her age.
  • At its highest in "Live and Let Fly", where she was not only able to devise a plan to record Mr. Frond trash-talking the other counselors and get it on a sky banner (through the help of Upskirt Kurt), but also improvise a plan to have Kurt derail her previous plan via slicing off the banner.
• Children Are Innocent: Despite being very mature for her age, Louise is still a young child and the series occasionally throws out some reminders of that.
  • Played for drama in "Hawk & Chick". Due to her age, Louise has trouble comprehending the complexities of interpersonal relationships. This means that she fails to understand why Yuki wants to stay separated from her father, which leads to a nasty case of Broken Pedestal.
  • Played for laughs in "The Silence of the Louise", where she assumes Old Yeller will have a last-second happy ending and is horrified to learn the truth.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Platonic example; her adoration of her father means she tends to get hostile when someone else is the center of her father's attention—especially when that someone is one of her siblings. Gene finds this out the hard way in "Spaghetti Western & Meatballs".
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Zig-Zagged. While Louise is pretty off her rocker herself, she's definitely the smartest and most aware of the Belcher kids. She's the one who has to be the leader between her, Gene, and Tina, as she often has to reel them in when they get distracted. Which makes sense because both Tina and Gene are pretty absent-minded and dim, respectively, when they're on their own.
• Comedic Sociopathy: In the first two seasons especially. She claims that she does not understand emotions like empathy, and actually thinks she's going crazy when she feels sorry for her dad. Seasons 3 and 4 mark her moving out of this status, and she overall shows more empathy towards others nowadays.
• Companion Cube: As seen in "The Belchies", if Louise is left alone long enough, she'll start treating nearby objects like they're alive, and in the movie doesn't want her bunny ears to overhear her talking about them. Like father, like daughter.
• Cordon Bleugh Chef: Despite being the (self-proclaimed) heir apparent of Bob's Burgers, she's going to need a lot more cooking lessons before she's fit to take the helm. She actually seems to understand the mechanics of cooking just fine, but considering her habit of adding candy to just about anything, let's just say she should probably learn which ingredients go well together and which do not.
• Covert Pervert: She pens the diary of a fictional teenage boy describing how attractive his ass is for the sole purpose of keeping Tina reading until her motion sickness caused her to vomit during a car ride. The kicker isn't just that she wrote it, but that it's somehow convincing enough to work.
• Cuteness Proximity: Dogs make her gush like a little girl. She even stole one that was already owned until Linda found out.
• Cute and Psycho: An adorable kid with a bunny ears hat, she's nonetheless someone you don't want to underestimate or piss off in any way.
• Daddy's Girl: It'll take a lot to get her to admit it, but underneath the snark she genuinely loves and respects her father. Several episodes are devoted to exploring the two's incredibly close bond, and it's discussed in-universe that Louise has favored Bob over Linda for her entire life.
  • It's first shown in "Spaghetti Western and Meatballs", where she and Bob have made a late-night tradition of watching (and riffing on) various TV shows, and she outright states she prefers hanging out with him and Gene over Linda and Tina. She quickly gets jealous when Bob starts hanging out with Gene instead, to the point that she even cries over it when she airs her grievances.
  • In "Torpedo", the kids mistakenly assume their parents are getting divorced (due to Tina wildly misinterpreting something Bob said) and choose who they would go with in such an event. Louise almost immediately picks Bob^note she actually picks after Gene does, but she chooses Bob without hesitation and displays no grievances over Gene picking Linda, and it's clear that had she gone first she'd have picked Bob, anyway.
    • A deleted scene from "Hawk & Chick" follows up on this, with Louise straight-up telling Bob to his face that she'd want to stay with him over Linda in the event of a divorce.
  • In "Mother Daughter Laser Razor", it's deconstructed. Louise's clear favoritism of Bob has left her relationship with Linda fairly neglected, and Linda is both aware and jealous of Louise and Bob's bond. Additionally, while Louise bonds with Linda over the course of the episode, the ending makes it clear that Louise is never going to stop favoring her father (though it's Played for Laughs).
  • In "Carpe Museum", it's revealed that she called Bob "Daddy" until she was eight. Additionally, she reveals that she wants to run the restaurant after Bob retires, and even views Bob as her hero. When she accidentally tells all this to Bob himself, she spends the rest of the episode in (very unconvincing) denial before she finally owns up to it, even giving Bob a hug (and calling him "Daddy" one more time for good measure).
  • In "Late Afternoon in the Garden of Bob & Louise", it's implied that Louise is not only upset with Bob for hiring Logan, but because he paid more attention to his garden plot than her. She also reveals that she considers the restaurant her and Bob's special place.
  • In "Hawk & Chick", it's revealed that one of her biggest fears (if not her absolute biggest) is growing apart from Bob as she gets older, which is brought to the forefront when she learns that her favorite movie stars (who she previously saw as a representation of her bond with Bob) went through the same thing. She noticeably gets upset as she reveals this to Bob himself (and it's hinted through her voice that she came close to crying), and is shown to appreciate it when Bob tells her they'll never meet that fate.
  • In "Glued, Where's My Bob?", she fantasizes about Bob picking her up into his arms and giving her a big kiss. What sells it is the incredibly happy look on her face.
  • In "Poops!... I Didn't Do It Again", Louise actually thanks Bob and hugs him when he helps her with her Shy Bladder, something she almost certainly wouldn't do to another member of her family. The episode also shows a consequence of their bond: because Louise looks up to Bob, she's started subconsciously mimicking some of his behavior, even some of his negative behaviors—including the aforementioned Shy Bladder. Bob is also able to exploit this idolatry to get her to finally shake the habit, specifically by using a public bathroom himself to convince her to do the same.
  • Although Louise often invokes Never My Fault whenever something she does goes wrong, it's shown that whenever that something harms Bob in particular (especially if it's beyond the usual quip or prank) she genuinely feels bad about it, will (eventually) admit guilt, and will work hard to rectify the situation (such as when she believes she's burned the restaurant, or when she and her siblings lose Bob's anniversary gift for Linda). It's also implied that her invoking Never My Fault isn't a serious attempt to deflect blame but rather her being in denial that she's harmed someone she looks up to, and she's noticeably more subdued whenever Bob gets genuinely angry.
  • Bob tries his best to be fair to all of his kids, with well-nigh nothing indicating he has a favorite among them. Still, it's sometimes implied Louise believes she's Bob's favorite child.
  • Louise is capable of showing emotional affection to her entire family, but Bob is one of the only ones she's willing to show physical affection to.
  • In general, if Louise isn't snarking at Bob, she's snarking with him (see "Crawl Space" and "Every Which Way But Goose"), and their bond occasionally shows up even in episodes where it isn't the focus (like "Bob & Deliver" and "The Hurt Soccer"). Besides maybe Tina, Bob is also the family member Louise is most likely to show affection to without any strings attached (compared to how she often only does so towards Linda as a means to an end).
• Deadpan Snarker: Definitely the most socially aware of the three Belcher children, and she knows it.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: "Carpe Museum" sees her become more open about her admiration for Bob after Bob accompanies her in ditching the field trip. Halfway through the episode, she refuses to admit to Bob that she looks up to him, even when only Regular-Sized Rudy would see this (and he's too busy having an asthma attack to really notice). At the end of the episode, she openly calls Bob "Daddy" and gives him a hug even though she runs the risk of not just Rudy but pretty much everyone on the bus possibly noticing.
• Determinator: Once she's set her mind on something, there's very little one can do to get her to back down.
• Deliberately Cute Child: She's aware of how adorable she is and will sometimes use this to her advantage.
• The Dreaded: Bob knows better than to interfere in areas Louise holds sacred, such as her room, and rightly so. Linda, not so much.
• Enfant Terrible: Especially in Season 1, though even then the show downplays it, or at the very least plays it more realistically than most sitcoms. She's got a mischievous streak, a passion for violence, and actually pissing her off is a death sentence, but she's still just a 9 year-old girl, and she's not at all evil, just very unrestrained and sarcastic. She also doesn't have access to the over-the-top gear that most examples of the trope do (again, 9 year-old girl), so she has to make do with wits and sheer brainpower.
  • "Lobsterfest" shows that she has imagined herself on death row.
  • Bob has been shown to be terrified of incurring her wrath, and is the first to advise others to avoid it as well. When the family accidentally melts her Kuchi Kopi toy, his first instinct is to flee. In general, it should say something that the family member Louise looks up to the most is still absolutely frightened of what she's capable of.
    Bob: We should just leave town. Get in the car and go far away.
• Enraged by Idiocy: She has low patience for the ignorance of others, especially when said ignorance interferes with her plans.
• Entertainment Above Their Age: Nine year-olds should absolutely not be watching Drive (2011), Game of Thrones, No Country for Old Men, Mad Max: Fury Road, or Pan's Labyrinth. Louise, naturally, has seen all of them.
  • That said, it's possibly more of a Zig-Zagged Trope. While Bob does occasionally let the kids watch stuff they probably shouldn't, it's implied Louise hasn't actually seen all of these and is just going by particularly famous images and phrases associated with said movies. When she's dressing as something way above her age group for Halloween, it's usually for the sake of a pun. She didn't actually know Anton Chigurh's name, only knowing what movie he was from, suggesting she may have only seen promotional material. And when she was dressed as "The Dragon With a Girl Tattoo" and Linda said she was "flipping the script," Louise genuinely didn't know what she meant, implying this particular costume pun was on accident.
• Establishing Character Moment: While not her first line in the series, it's this moment in the pilot that makes it pretty clear what kind of person Louise is:
  Louise: Hello, and welcome to Bob's Burgers. The Burger of the Day is the "Child Molester". It comes with candy.
• Even Bad Women Love Their Mamas: She's bratty, bitter, and obnoxious, but she still loves her parents, her father in particular.
• Everyone Has Standards: Louise has a moral code, and in spite of her constant troublemaking she will stick to that code.
  • She loves pranking and snarking at her family, but will show remorse if she causes genuine harm as a result. Overall, while she is occasionally irreverent towards her parents, she is never openly malicious towards them, especially not Bob, whom she looks up to. This tends to extend to other adults in the series as well; most if not all of the adult targets of her schemes are due to them having wronged her (or her believing that they wronged her) in some way, and won't intentionally try to cause them excessive harm or give them more hell than she feels is karmic.
  • In "Beefsquatch" she plays both sides of the Bob/Gene rivalry until she becomes visibly fed up with helping both of them and backs away out of disgust.
  • Even she is disturbed by Millie's creepy behavior.
  • Louise thought that blabbing about Jessica's bedwetting secret was too low.
  • Louise frequently takes opportunities to scam or trick people for her own gain, but she is disgusted by Joel tricking money out of his elderly, senile aunt in "Secret Admiral-irer".
  • While she initially wasn't complaining about gooping Bob instead of Gene in "Glued, Where's My Bob?", she's just as horrified as the others when it turns out that the goop she used was akin to superglue, leaving her father stuck to the toilet.
  • In "The Quirkducers", she stages a rather bloody finale for Tina's play, but once she sees it in action she's immediately regretful and realizes she went too far. She even agrees with Mr. Frond when he decides to punish her.
  • In "Bob Actually", when she finds out that Chloe is just pretending to be Regular-Sized Rudy's Valentine to get answers on a quiz, she immediately stands up for him. She may not believe in Valentine's Day, but Rudy is still her friend. And when she has to break the news to Rudy, she ends up kissing him.
  • While she isn't the most respectful kid to her parents, even she was appalled and extremely annoyed by the utter obnoxiousness and disrespect Tammy gave to her and her family in "Sleeping With The Frenemy", to the point of giving an Implied Death Threat.
  • In "Roller? I Hardly Knew Her", she and Tina overhear Doug convincing Gene to sabotage Alex's roller dance with Courtney by triggering Alex's sesame seed allergy so Gene can take his place in the dance competition. Louise is just as shocked as Tina that Gene is willing to do something like that to his friend.
    Louise: I can't believe you're gonna give Alex diarrhea. I mean, it's hilarious, but I thought you liked him.
• Evil Laugh: Yep. Not really clear where she gets it from, though (though most likely Linda, considering she can let them loose whenever her eccentricities get the best of her).
• Expressive Accessory: The ears on her hat droop a little bit when she was disappointed in "Torpedo".
• Fangirl: For Boo-Boo (And it terrifies her).
• Fatal Flaw:
  • Louise is impulsive beyond anyone's control. Unfortunately for her, this gets used against her very often. Despite her constant planning she fails to think everything through and tends to forget that, as a 9-year-old girl known for not being respectful to others, she has physical and social limits that make things harder for her.
  • She has a bad habit of biting off more than she can chew. In "The Kids Run the Restaurant", she makes a ton of money via underground casino, but the instant she senses an opportunity to make it rich by bleeding Mr. Fischoeder dry she gets put five thousand in the hole and is only bailed out by her father. In "Beach, Please" she attempts to blackmail Mr. Fischoeder into giving the kids a free day at Wonder Wharf; Mr. Fischoeder, who was willing to tolerate her previous deals, reminds her who's in charge by immediately taking actions to render her blackmail moot.
• Female Misogynist: Implied by a throwaway line in "Boyz 4 Now" in response to the obnoxious screaming teenage girls at the titular boy band concert. Seemingly reinforced by her disgust of girls her age for reasonable (in the case of Millie stalking her) and less reasonable (in the case of girls who just have different hobbies like stickers or braiding) reasons. Girls she tolerates are few and far between, and the only girl she actually enjoys hanging out with is her sister Tina.
  Louise: No wonder nobody likes women.
• Foil: Tends to be this to her siblings.
  • To Tina:
    • Both are the daughters of the family; Louise being the youngest child overall and Tina being the oldest child overall.
    • Tina is kind, respectful and obedient; Louise is obnoxious, disrespectful, and mischievous.
    • Tina has a high interest in more lighthearted subjects and frequently tries to bond with her female classmates; Louise is a Nightmare Fetishist and hangs out more with the boys in her life.
    • Tina is monotone and expresses little emotion; Louise is extremely hyperactive and loud.
    • Tina isn't very smart and doesn't really understand most social cues; Louise is sly, clever, and street-smart.
    • While both qualify as a Daddy's Girl, Tina is more consistently respectful towards Bob, while Louise's admiration for Bob is more infrequent but tends to be much stronger whenever it pops up.
    • Tina and Louise arguably inherited the opposite traits from their parents: Louise has her mother's charisma, but prefers a more tight-knit social circle like her father does. Meanwhile, Tina has inherited Bob's awkwardness as well as Linda's eagerness to meet new people.
  • To Gene:
    • Both are the youngest and most immature siblings overall, and both are obnoxious troublemakers.
    • Louise is not nearly as odd, irresponsible or dim-witted as Gene is, but Gene isn't as mean or as much of a risk-taker as Louise is.
    • Gene is In Touch with His Feminine Side; Louise is One of the Boys.
    • Both are extremely close to their opposite-sex parent while their relationship with their same-sex parent, while not awful, is clearly lacking in comparison. Additionally, both of them get very possessive of their favorite parent's time and grow hostile if that is interfered with.
• Follow in My Footsteps: Provides a technical inversion. "Carpe Museum" reveals Louise wants to run Bob's Burgers when she grows up, something that surprises Bob when he finds out. Although Bob doesn't forbid this like usual inversions—if anything, he's ecstatic. While "What About Job?" doesn't directly follow up on this, Louise still seems amenable to the idea when Bob suggests that the kids could run the restaurant for fun in addition to their dream jobs once he and Linda retire.
• Freudian Excuse:
  • "Hawk & Chick" reveals that she's terrified Bob will abandon her for one reason or another, retroactively adding an additional layer of fear to her bouts of jealousy when Bob unintentionally starts ignoring her in "Spaghetti Western & Meatballs" and "Late Afternoon in the Garden of Bob & Louise".
  • "Glued, Where's My Bob?" implies that her tendency to invoke Never My Fault stems from how so many of her antics harm her father, someone she genuinely looks up to, with her deep-seated feelings of guilt causing her to run away from the issue entirely rather than face it head-on.
  • The movie finally reveals why she's so attached to her bunny ears: they're a Security Blanket that she believes are the source of her bravery, and without them she feels very insecure about herself.
• Friend to All Living Things: You wouldn't expect it based on her attitude, but she has a soft spot for animals and in return they seem to like her back, as seen in "Adventures in Chinchilla-sitting" with the class-pet Princess Little Piddles preferring her over his usual caretaker Wayne, and with the puppy Colonel Fluffles licking and nuzzling her in "Eat Spray Linda".
  • In general, Louise can show affection much easier to animals than she can to people.
• The Gadfly: As her mother states, she likes messing with people she thinks are stupid—which seems to be a lot of people. She'll even occasionally mess with people she knows aren't stupid, seemingly just to see what she can get away with.
• Genki Girl: Extremely hyperactive, and borderline psychotic.
• A God Am I: In "Burger Wars", when she becomes convinced that she has supernatural powers:
  Louise: Voodoo works. I'M A GOD.
• Green-Eyed Epiphany: In "Bob Actually", she spends the first half of the episode terrified that Rudy has a crush on her. However, when she learns he actually has a crush on Chloe Barbash, she proceeds to become upset about it in a complete 180 from her previous stance, and this is before learning that Chloe is exploiting Rudy's feelings for her to get quiz answers.
• Green-Eyed Monster:
  • As seen above in Clingy Jealous Girl, Louise does not react well when she's not the center of Bob's attention. The A-plot of "Spaghetti Western & Meatballs" is driven by her growing hostility towards Gene when he starts taking up a ton of Bob's time, and it's implied in "Late Afternoon in the Garden of Bob & Louise" that she was jealous of how much attention Bob was paying towards his garden plot.
  • Downplayed example, but she admits in "Tina Tailor Soldier Spy" that she joined the Thundergirls and later set up the Mole Patrol because she was jealous at how much time Tina was spending with them and wanted to hang out with her sister.
  • In "Copa-Bob-bana", she shows a large amount of jealousy over Chloe Barbash after Rudy invites her to their "pool party".
• Growing Up Sucks: Brought to the forefront in "Hawk & Chick", where she reveals her fear that growing up means losing her father, perhaps the person she cares about most.
• Gun Nut: Doesn't own any guns herself but seems to show an interest in them throughout the series. In one episode she comments on how she wants to get a gun license. She also admires Mr. Fischoeder's ex-girlfriend who was a competitive shooter, and she tries to buy a Derringer at a pawn shop.
  Louise: If you teach me to shoot, I'll teach you to regret teaching me to shoot!

H-Z

• Halloween Costume Characterization: Though there are exceptions, for the most part her costumes tend to be based on R-rated (or otherwise older teen/adult-oriented) movies that she should absolutely not be watching, showcasing her maturity compared to her siblings as well as her disregard for rules and guidelines.
• Hates Reading: She does not enjoy reading, and in "The Silence of the Louise" she has to read a book as part of a school competition to win a trip to a water park for all the students. She chose Old Yeller, and forced herself to read it. She's horrified and further put off reading when she reaches the ending, where Yeller gets rabies and dies.
• Hates Their Parent: Prior to the ending of "Mother Daughter Laser Razor", her relationship with Linda was strained at best and outright hostile at worst. She's largely grown out of it, although she won't hesitate to give a reminder that Linda still isn't her favorite parent.
• Heel Realization: During her more harmful and/or morally questionable schemes, she will inevitably regret things either right before or right after her scheme is complete and attempt to make things right. Sometimes she requires a certain push from an outside party; other times she reaches this point on her own.
• Hidden Depths:
  • In "Carpe Museum", it's revealed that she wants to run Bob's Burgers after her father retires. Yes, the same Bob's Burgers she mocks and derides pretty much every episode. She even considered renaming it to Louise's Burgers, showing she's put some serious thought into running the restaurant.
  • She's got this cute side of being really affectionate to puppies. Mind you, she's not like other average normal girls.
  • In "Thelma & Louise Except Thelma is Linda," she pantsed a bully who was playing keep-away with a younger kid's lunchbox. Linda herself has a really hard time trying to accept how morally right it was for Louise of all people to defend someone else (more so when the bullies didn't get punished but Louise was).
  • In "The Plight Before Christmas", she's presenting a poem at the local library. Everyone assumes she's just presenting a joke poem (and to be fair, it's not like that's an unreasonable assumption), but Tina soon realizes that Louise wrote a genuinely heartfelt poem and wants at least one member of her family to be there when she presents it.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Deep down, Louise truly loves her family and is a good person at heart. She'd just like the few people who know to keep that to themselves.
• Hot-Blooded: Tends to go from zero to screaming the fastest among the Belchers.
• Humble Goal: Her plans for the future, as revealed in "Carpe Museum". Does she want world domination? A high-paying job where she has a ton of influence? No, she wants to work in her father's restaurant.
• Hypocritical Heartwarming: Pretty much her character in a nutshell. If she messes with one of her family members, it's fair game. If any non-Belcher goes after them, however, they better pray Louise doesn't learn about it.
• Iconic Outfit: Louise is never seen without her pink bunny ears hat, and is rarely seen wearing anything other than her green dress. Even when she's wearing a winter coat, her dress can be seen underneath.
  • The colors extend to infancy, where pictures of baby Louise reveal that she wore a green onesie and a pink beanie.
  • The credits of "Die Card, or Card Trying" show Louise in eight of the Belchers' Christmas cards (including the current one), and she's wearing a pink beanie in three of them. This implies she started wearing the bunny ears at around age 4 or 5, and the movie confirms this by explicitly stating she got them after her first day of preschool.
• Irony: Despite not getting along with Linda too well (especially in the early seasons), Louise looks almost identical to her (it's especially noticeable whenever Linda's glasses are off).
  • In "Sliding Bobs", while all the Belchers are (very understandably) horrified at their Habercore counterparts from Tina's story, Louise is definitely the most horrified. But between Charlize's pink hat that she never takes off and her status as a Daddy's Girl, it's arguable that Louise is the Belcher most like her Habercore counterpart.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: She acts confident and haughty, but the movie reveals she has some deep self-esteem issues.
• It Amused Me: Her motivation for some of the mischief she causes.
• It's All About Me: Knows pretty damn well it isn't, though, and will stop when it harms the people she loves.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Being the smart one of her siblings, she'll often raise a valid point that's only slightly muddled by her bluntness and sarcasm.
  • She's a tad dramatic about it, but when she complains about being Surrounded by Idiots in "The Belchies" it's shown several times that she's actually right. All Zeke and the Pestos do is get stuck in a trap (that Bob later has to free them from), Tina outright does nothing because she thinks being helpless will attract Jimmy Jr., and Gene actually steps up to the task—but only when Louise herself gets taken out of commission.
  • Despite being quite abrasive to her mother, Linda does tend to go overboard when trying to bond with her kids (to the point that Bob has outright had to call her out on it), and it's clear to see why Louise isn't jumping out of her seat to hang out with her. Notably, it's only when Linda dials back that the two actually get along.
  • She's the first to protest Gayle dating Mr. Frond, and spends the episode where she learns about this trying to break them up. While her reasons are entirely selfish and she gets called out on it, cut to a few episodes later and it turns out that Mr. Frond was cheating on Gayle, meaning Louise's efforts to end the relationship ultimately would've spared Gayle a lot of heartbreak.
  • While she's hardly any better to him, her hatred of Mr. Frond is quite understandable, given he's more often than not a completely incompetent jerk who brings most of his misfortune upon himself.
  • While it makes her act irrationally, Louise's dislike of Millie is understandable; she's an obsessive psycho who's implied to have broken into her house before and has nearly gotten her killed.
  • Even ignoring her own personal dislike of Chloe Barbash (itself this trope given she has a valid reason), she raises a valid point in "Apple Gore-chard! (But Not Gory)" when she claims her classmates are way too obsessed with Chloe (to the point that she's all they talk about even when she's out sick).
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's mean and psychotic a good portion of the time, but she does have a nice side buried deep down, which mainly comes out when it involves the people she loves. If her siblings or family is wronged or threatened in any way, the culprit usually won't last long afterwards. In fact, the extreme lengths she'll go to protect her family outweighs the lengths she'll go for her own personal pride. She also allows her nice side out with her best friend Rudy. Such as if she realizes her actions have hurt him in some way, she goes out of her way to fix it, and will apologize to him. Her nice, loving side also comes out around animals.
• Junior Counterpart: It's not obvious at first, but while Louise definitely gets her craziness from her mother Linda, she's actually shaping to be most like her father Bob. She takes after most of his distinctive quirks, including his Companion Cube habits and tendency to snark at the insanity of others, as well as sharing similar interests. She's even considered becoming his successor as the head of Bob's Burgers one day.
• Kids Hate Vegetables: She confirms in "Late Afternoon in the Garden of Bob and Louise" that she's not a big fan of vegetables, and even directly attributes it to being a kid. In the credits of "Show Mama from the Grave" she's seen taking the vegetables from her plate of meatloaf and putting them on Tina's.
• Lacerating Love Language: It's a bit of a Running Gag of Louise to slap people she has a crush on. In "Boyz 4 Now", she gets a Celebrity Crush on Boo Boo and becomes determined to smack him. When she meets him again in "Bye-Bye Boo Boo", she gives him another slap, which instantly causes him to remember her. And as a possible Call-Back to this, when she gets to kiss Rudy in "Bob Actually", she slaps him too.
• Lack of Empathy: On one occasion, she freely admits she doesn't understand emotions like empathy, and when she realizes she feels sorry for Bob, she openly questions her own sanity. However, this seems to be diminishing in later seasons, and it's implied that she always could feel empathy, she just pretends otherwise to act tough.
  • This is thoroughly defied in the episode "Nice-capades". Louise, Tina, and Gene accidentally get on the wrong side of a Mall Santa and fear it'll put them in trouble with the real deal, so they put on an ice show singing about all the nice stuff they've done. However, Louise has a Heel Realization during her list of Blatant Lies, and tells the Mall Santa that only Tina and Gene deserve presents for Christmas.
    Louise: A nice person wouldn't put on a "Nice-capades". They wouldn't need to.
  • Also in "The Cook, The Steve, The Gayle, and Her Lover" she realizes that even though she hates Mr. Frond, she shouldn't ruin things between him and Gayle because Gayle is her aunt and she loves her and wants her to be happy.
• The Lad-ette: Prefers to spend more time with the male side of the family than the female side and on some occasions will refer to them all as "the guys", odd considering Bob and Gene are both In Touch with His Feminine Side.
• Large Ham: Doesn't chew scenery like Gene, and in fact generally prefers a quiet approach to a heavy-handed one, but she will immediately take center stage when it is to her advantage.
• Laughably Evil: Louise takes Comedic Sociopathy to its logical extreme by teetering very close to actual sociopathy^note though she's at least shown to be capable of compassion towards her friends and especially her family, meaning she's not quite there. She's described on The Other Wiki as being "manipulative and aggressive...more than willing to exploit people", not exactly terms usually used to describe a protagonist. Her actions aren't always even harmless to the other protagonists of the show, and she very seldom expresses anything approaching remorse, although ultimately she is shown to love her family. However, that doesn't keep her from being absolutely hilarious.
• The Leader: Of the Belcher kids; she's always the one coming up with plans or navigating her siblings through any given situation.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: She's the Token Evil Teammate of the core Belcher family, but compared to the extended family she's an angel, being infinitely more moral and likeable than her extended family (besides maybe Big Bob).
• Limited Wardrobe: More so than anyone else in the family, and she apparently wore a pink hat/green clothes combo when she was a baby as well. Generally only changes outfits when her green dress is completely unsuitable for what she's doing (skiing, costumes, etc.).
• Little Girls Kick Shins: Played straight when she kicks Sergeant Bosco in "Bob Day Afternoon", but subverted most other times — she'll tackle you properly if she needs to.
• Little Miss Snarker: Pretty much the modern Western Animation icon for this.
• Loophole Abuse: Can and will find a way to exploit any set of rules she finds, especially if it's school-related.
• Mad Eye: Fitting her deranged personality, Louise is typically drawn with one eye bigger than the other^note in earlier seasons it was always the right eye; in later seasons it tends to vary based on which way she's facing. It's more noticeable in the earlier seasons.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy:
  • The loud-mouthed and crazy Masculine Girl to Regular Sized Rudy's Feminine Boy.
  • Also works for her and Gene. Notably, Louise gets along with Bob the best out of the three kids, and Gene gets along best with Linda.
• Master of Unlocking: She can pick any lock in 2 seconds and steam open sealed envelopes.
• Mature Younger Sibling: She views herself as this to her brother Gene, who she terms her "larger brother." Keep in mind this is more in terms of relativity as Louise herself can be fairly immature.
• Mood Whiplash: She does this consistently and in most cases purposefully, especially in the earlier episodes and when trying to 'convince' others to do what she wants.
• Morality Chain: Her family is pretty much the best way to get her nice side to surface.
• Morality Pet:
  • Tina can make Louise realize the error of her ways without saying a word.
  • Louise consistently shows a softer side around Bob and Rudy. And it's not even in the "bring her back to her senses" way like Tina—whenever she's alone with either of the two, Louise will often act so differently it's hard to pinpoint her as the Enfant Terrible she prefers to act like.
• Motivated by Fear: She sees the titular duo in "Hawk & Chick" as a reflection of her bond with Bob, and her motive to reunite the pair stems from a deep-seated fear that she and Bob will one day grow apart like they did.
• Mouthy Kid: The MOUTH on this kid...
• Mundane Solution: Despite her tendency to think of grand schemes, sometimes she recognizes when there's simply no need to. Special mention to "Seven-tween Again", where Gene needs her help to escape from a daycare. After learning about the situation, she does what any reasonable person would do... tell Bob so that he can just sign Gene out.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Often coupled with Pyrrhic Victory; many of her worse actions cause her to undergo a Heel Realization without any prodding from Tina necessary.
• The Napoleon: She's pretty short, but she doesn't have any Height Angst, and the trope applies to her less due to her size and more due to how, if left unchecked, no one would be surprised if she took over Europe.
• Nature Versus Nurture: While previous episodes implied that many of her habits (such as her Companion Cube tendencies) were simply Shared Family Quirks with Bob, "Poops!... I Didn't Do It Again" suggests that she learned some of her behaviors from watching Bob himself. While this is only directly discussed in reference to Louise's Shy Bladder, it's entirely possible it extends to the rest of her and Bob's similarities as well (and would explain quite a lot, considering Bob has a Freudian Excuse for many of his habits while Louise does not).
• Never Bareheaded: Louise never takes her bunny ears hat off. When she was younger, she wore a pink beanie. Even when her hat gets stolen from her in "Ear-sy Rider", we still don't find out what she looks like beneath it, as the top of her head is cut off by the camera, then later she wears a hood. The movie reveals that she's not trying to hide anything specific under the hat—rather, she views the hat as a Security Blanket and refuses to willingly part with it.
• Never My Fault: Frequently something bad happens because of Louise, and she will try to make someone else take the blame, be it losing a ramp given to her by Rudy or gluing her father to the toilet. She does it so often it'd be easier to list whenever she doesn't do it.
  • Surprisingly subverted in the Season 10 premiere where she did not even try to get out of the blame for losing Linda's engagement ring.
  • "Glued, Where's My Bob" shows that in spite of her denying blame for Bob's latest predicament, she actually feels guilty about it, implying that her tendency to invoke this trope is born out of deep regret.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Whenever anything terrible is happening or seems likely to happen, odds are Louise will be rooting for it. She also loves to be terrified, but it takes a lot to manage it. One episode involves her family enacting a huge, elaborate plot involving several other characters to finally manage to scare her, and it turns out it's what she always wanted.
• No Indoor Voice: She's prone to spontaneously shouting at the top of her lungs to get a point across.
• Non-Action Big Bad: Despite being authoritative and controlling towards her family and peers, Louise is still just a 9-year-old girl with most of the same physical capabilities. Against bigger bullies and experienced adults, she tends to be outmatched. It has been noted on more than one occasion, however, that she's much stronger than she looks, and it takes the entire family working together to hold her down long enough to get her to take flu medicine.
• Not Me This Time: Because of her troublemaking nature and rather extensive track record, she's often the first suspect for anything that goes wrong, even when she's actually innocent.
  • In "Broadcast Wagstaff School News", Louise is the first person Tina suspects of being the Mad Pooper. Louise quickly turns out to be innocent, and she actually spends the rest of the episode helping Tina find the culprit.
  • In "Turkey in a Can", Bob immediately accuses her of putting his turkeys in the toilet, and everyone else admits they think she did it too. She spends the rest of the episode trying to figure out the actual culprit, and even puts on a presentation just to highlight that she had no motive while everyone else did.
  • In "The Cook, the Steve, the Gayle, & Her Lover", she's not the one who stole Mr. Frond's doll of Gayle—the culprit is Xander, the son of a guest Bob invited over. But because of her track record and the fact that she'd just spent the past episode trying to split up Gayle and Frond, nobody believes her and she gets saddled with the blame. Xander actually seemed to commit the crime knowing Louise would take the fall.
  • Frond immediately accuses her of destroying his dolls in "The Silence of the Louise". Louise points out that destroying the dolls and making the aftermath look like the scene of a murder is excessive even for her, and just like "Turkey in a Can" she spends the rest of the episode looking for the real culprit.
• Not So Above It All: Unsurprisingly, she mocks Tina for her obsession with Boyz 4 Now, and attends their concert certain that she'll struggle to endure it. Then, upon seeing the youngest member, Boo Boo, Louise becomes just as much of a screaming fangirl as all the others in the crowd. She is, however, disgusted with herself.
• "Not So Different" Remark: According to Linda, Louise inherited from her the zest for life and extra long pinky toe (zest for life is apparently code for having Sticky Fingers), an Eye Twitch, No Indoor Voice, an Evil Laugh, being a Bully Hunter, and even loving murder mysteries. Acknowledged by Bob in "The Kids Run Away":
  Linda: Hey, you gotta fight crazy with crazy.
  Bob: Well, Louise gets this from your side of the family.
  Linda: You don't think I know that? (maniacal laugh)
• Oblivious to Her Own Description: In "Copa-Bob-bana", Louise loudly whispers about Chloe Barbash: “She’s so jealous, it’s so sad.” For context, she spends the entire episode jealous over Chloe's massive pool and Rudy's affection for Chloe.
• Occidental Otaku: It's implied she has an interest in Japanese media. She owns a lot of stuffed animals who seem to be Japanese (based on their names). She enjoys watching Japanese films as well, especially from the Hawk and Chick franchise, which she watches with Bob during their Daddy/Daughter time. Her Kuchi Kopi toy is also based on a Japanese character (and its box is all written in Japanese). She also keeps a stack of manga near her bed, which in one episode she references for information on a Japanese demon she believes is haunting her sister. In "V for Valentine-detta" she wears grotesque facial makeup that makes her resemble an Oni. Another episode has her collect slug-themed Pokémon knock-off cards.
• One of the Boys: She would rather hang out with Bob and Gene over Linda and Tina, even after bonding with the latter two.
  • "Manic Pixie Crap Show" has Louise wonder if this makes her strange, as she prefers more 'masculine' interests compared to other girls.
• Only Sane Woman: Well, sane is a stretch, but she's often the only Belcher kid who isn't easily distracted or fooled when enacting a scheme. She has to constantly reel in her cohorts and keep them focused.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • If she ever doesn't invoke Never My Fault for something, she feels that bad about something she did. Doing something that genuinely upsets/harms her family (or Rudy) is the most consistent way to get this reaction from her.
  • In "Hawk & Chick", she's rather passive throughout most of the episode, almost never making her usual quips (and when she does, they're rarely directed at someone). Additionally, when her fear of abandonment comes out at the end, it's not through any prodding or investigating by the other Belchers—she reveals it all on her own without having to be prompted. All this shows just how invested she is in the situation regarding Koji and Yuki, and just how terrified she really is about the possibility of losing her father from her life.
• Order Versus Chaos:
  • In a similar vein to Bart Simpson with Principal Skinner and Edna Krabappel, Louise has this dynamic with Mr. Frond and Ms. LaBonz as the troublemaking chaos to their authoritarian order. The difference is that unlike his yellow counterpart, Frond has next-to-no positive or redeeming qualities (LaBonz initially started out unsympathetic as well, but gained significant depth in "Touch of Eval(uations)"; Frond remains just as big a Hate Sink as ever, though).
  • Louise (the most erratic and wild of the Belcher siblings) also has this dynamic with Tina (the most moral and obedient of the Belcher siblings). Although Tina is prone to following Louise's lead, she will always stop Louise from going too far.
• Open Mouth, Insert Foot: In "Carpe Museum", while talking with Bob about the fun they've had ditching a school trip, Louise claims she'd be up for another adventure—specifically, when Bob is old and living in a retirement home, she'll close the restaurant for the day and spring him out to have some fun. Bob realizes that this means Louise sees herself running the restaurant as an adult, which Louise is less than pleased to have out there.
• Parental Favoritism: Aside from being an inversion (favoring Bob over Linda), Louise also seems to be under the impression that she's Bob's favorite child (although Bob himself tries not to play favorites).
• Parental Issues: "Hawk & Chick" reveals one of her biggest fears is developing this with Bob.
• Parental Title Characterization: She called Bob "Daddy" up until she was eight, which was only a year (well, a "year") ago, signifying that the two have a very close relationship. Meanwhile, even in flashbacks Louise has pretty much never called Linda anything other than "Mom" or "Mother" (only calling her "Mommy" when she's trying to butter her up—and even then very, very rarely), signifying that her relationship with Linda, while not bad, is a lot less close than her relationship with Bob.
• Piggyback Cute: Platonic example; for a girl who hates overt displays of affection, she won't hesitate to get a piggyback ride from her father.
  • Bob gives her a piggyback ride in "Bob & Deliver" as the Home Ec-staurant rushes to the cafeteria. It should be noted that Bob didn't offer the ride—Louise got on without being prompted^note he said "Hop on", but he was clearly referring to the food cart, which the other students were riding—and even then, the fact that Louise's mind defaulted to "piggyback ride" after hearing those words definitely implies something. Even after she stops piggybacking, she can be seen holding onto Bob's arm.
  • Bob gives her another piggyback ride in "Sea Me Now" as the Belchers and Teddy depart their boat for shore, likely because Louise is too short to walk through the water.
• Ping Pong Naïveté: She seems to know a lot of things a 9-year-old wouldn't (and often shouldn't) know, yet she still needs a night light and Still Believes in Santa.
• Pink Means Feminine: Not the most feminine girl, but her hat is pink and she's shown to have a softer side.
• Pint-Sized Kid: Comes up to Bob's waist (not counting her bunny ears), making her one of the shortest characters in the entire show.
• Pintsize Powerhouse: Louise is remarkably strong for her stature, being able to resist a full-family holddown while sick with the flu. The Belchers all lampshade it.
• The Prankster: Louise is known for playing elaborate, meticulously planned pranks at school. This becomes a plot point in "Prank You for Being a Friend", where Kaylee asks her advice on how to pull pranks because she wants to get thrown out of Wagstaff and be homeschooled.
• Pyrrhic Victory: On the rare occasion Louise doesn't end her plan of the week prematurely due to a last-second Jerkass Realization, she'll see it through to the end only to realize she doesn't really like how things panned out. For instance, "Topsy" has her stick it to a Thomas Edison-obsessed teacher by proving Edison wasn't a good person, but in the process of recreating one of Edison's more controversial experiments she almost electrocutes Tina.
• Realism-Induced Horror: In-universe; she's a Nightmare Fetishist to a very high degree, loves to talk about things like monsters and cannibalism, and the entirety of "The Hauntening" is based around the fact that she wants to be frightened by a haunted house. However, if there's something that can genuinely upset her, it's something like going to the dentist or growing apart from her father.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: She's the loud, hammy Red Oni to Rudy's quiet, calm Blue Oni. She's also part of this dynamic with Tina, with Louise remaining the Red Oni and Tina replacing Rudy as the Blue Oni. It even fits their color scheme—both Tina and Rudy wear blue shirts while Louise's hat is pink, a color obtained by mixing red with white.
• Revenge: If she's not out for self-gain, she's out to get back at someone who wronged her or someone close to her (or at least someone she thinks has wronged her).
• Sarcastic Devotee: While all of the Belcher family enjoys making fun of Bob from time to time, Louise probably does it the most due to her Gadfly nature. Nevertheless, she truly does love Bob, and makes it clear on more than one occasion that she looks up to him.
  • She's often the first to mock the restaurant, but "Carpe Museum" shows she wants to run it as an adult. When the restaurant faces genuine danger in the 200th episode, Louise leads the kids' efforts to rectify the situation, makes it clear she'd turn to genuine crime in order to save it, and comes the closest of the kids to actually doing so.
• Security Blanket: She views her bunny ears as these, to the point of never willingly separating from them.
• Security Cling: She's not easily scared, but when she is, she has a tendency to grab her father and hold onto him tightly (see "Hawk & Chick" and "The Hauntening").
• Seven Deadly Sins: She's guilty of all seven of them, to varying degrees.
  • Pride: She does not take slights lightly.
  • Envy: Especially when it comes to the attention of her father or siblings. More recently, she is implied to resent Regular Sized Rudy paying more attention to Chloe Barbash.
  • Wrath: Loves to inflict violence and destruction.
  • Sloth: Manipulates others to do her work for her.
  • Greed: Loves money...
  • Gluttony: ...but not as much as candy.
  • Lust: The most incipient of the sins because she is still a child, but she sure loves slapping Boo Boo. And Rudy.
• Sex Is Violence: G-rated version. When she develops a crush on Boo Boo from Boyz 4 Now, she doesn't want to kiss him or get his autograph, she wants to slap him. She follows through at the end of the episode, and even slaps him again during their second meeting in "Bye Bye Boo Boo" (which makes Boo Boo instantly remember her). Later on, when she kisses Regular-Sized Rudy in "Bob Actually", she also slaps him immediately after.
• Shared Family Quirks: She shares a lot in common with both of her parents, for better or for worse.
  • Louise has inherited her mother's energetic attitude, overall craziness, sense of justice, and her eye twitch, as well as much of Linda's physical traits. However, while Linda tries to use these traits to bond with Louise, Louise herself seems to view it as a case of Too Much Alike, seeing as the two don't get along all that well.
  • Louise has inherited her father's scheming mind (which she acknowledges and is actually grateful for), his Shy Bladder, his tendency to make an inanimate object into a Companion Cube, his love of TV and movies, and his vindictive streak that comes out whenever he's wronged. The two also tend to be the characters most likely to snark about the craziness around them, and as "Carpe Museum" reveals, while Louise's craziness comes from Linda, her sense of adventure actually comes more from Bob. Unlike with Linda, these similarities actually seem to bring Louise and Bob closer.
• Shipping Torpedo: She does not support Gayle and Mr. Frond at all, albeit primarily because she doesn't want Frond to be her uncle. She gets over it at the end of the episode, though Frond eventually ruins things anyway.
• Shorter Means Smarter: She's the shortest of the siblings (owing to being the youngest) and is definitely the smartest, being the one who plans out most of the kids' schemes.
• Shy Bladder: She does not like to use public bathrooms. She shares this with Bob, though the possibility is raised that she outright learned it from him rather than simply inheriting it.
• Signature Headgear: Her pink bunny ears hat. If you like staying in one piece, do not touch it. And heaven forbid if you actually manage to separate the hat from Louise...
• The Smart Girl: Of the Belcher children. She thinks up a lot of their plans/schemes.
• Smart Jerk and Nice Moron: The Smart Jerk to Tina's Nice Moron. Louise is shown to be very intelligent and good at planning, but she often uses this to manipulate other people for her own gain; meanwhile, Tina is airheaded and doesn't think things through, but is very kind and selfless.
• Springtime for Hitler: Whenever someone else has a plan, she'll help out under the assumption that things will go wrong and she'll get a front row seat to the chaos, naturally leaving her dumbfounded when several of these plans go near-perfectly. Additionally, in "The Quirk-ducers" she directly emulates the Trope Namer in an attempt to get school canceled, which winds up going the opposite way (she gets exactly what she wanted but realizes it wasn't worth it).
  Louise: (after a Playing Cyrano plot goes near-flawlessly) I thought this was gonna go disastrously wrong, not disgustingly right.
• Sticky Fingers: She absolutely loves stealing, and routinely goes through her parents’ wallets and sibling’s candy stashes. Tina usually has to rein her in.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Ironically, Louise heavily resembles a younger Linda, with both possessing similar facial features and hair.
• Suddenly Shouting: Occasionally starts yelling with no warning.
• Surrounded by Idiots: Tends to believe this whenever her plans involve anyone whose surname isn't Belcher or Stieblitz (and even then her siblings and Rudy aren't entirely safe from it). It's most pronounced in "The Belchies" in regards to Zeke and the Pestos, but at the same time it's pretty clear she's not entirely wrong about that much.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: Her major crush on Boo Boo from Boys 4 Now. She constantly tries to hide her infatuation by mixing insults with her compliments to him. When discussing Boo Boo in "The Hauntening", she claims that she doesn't care or even know that it was his birthday the previous week. She says it in that order.
• Taking You with Me: Parodied when a gym teacher tries to make Louise remove her hat.
  Louise: I told you, I have a raging staph infection under here! Touch this hat and we all go down! You want to play dodgeball in the hospital?!
• Tears of Fear: In "Large Brother, Where Fart Thou?", when she's about to be beaten up by Logan, she's so scared she actually starts crying.
• Tiny Tyrannical Girl: Even her parents are intimidated by her.
• Token Evil Teammate: Downplayed; she's not evil or even a truly awful person, but she's definitely the most selfish of the core five Belchers. The other four are a Jerk with a Heart of Gold at their worst, but Louise is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold at her best. Furthermore, whenever the Belchers are trying to prevent something bad from happening, Louise will instead be cheering it on (unless it's something terrible or against her own interests).
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: She's the Tomboy to Tina's Girly Girl; while she isn't particularly boyish, her tomboyish side is especially evident by how she prefers the company of Bob and Gene, and how she generally joins Gene in performing gross feats. She also enjoys manga, Gothic culture, and scary things.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She claims to dislike most girly things out loud and ridicules Tina for having a crush on Jimmy Junior — or for that matter boys in general, but her room is fairly feminine, she has a soft spot for puppies and she developed a major crush for a boy band's lead singer. Not to mention her pink hat.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Throughout the seasons, it's subtle but shown that Louise has slowly grown a little more compassionate over time. While she hasn't lost her mischief and chaotic-loving nature, she has shown to be fairly willing to do things for the people she cares about, especially if it's her family or a close friend. She's even willing to help out someone she doesn't like, as seen in "A Few 'Gurt Men" where she ultimately decides to defend Mr. Frond when he is falsely accused of something he didn't do because she understands what that's like.
• Too Much Alike: Despite her and Linda being very much alike, they're easily the two family members who bicker the most. Interestingly, she averts this with Bob despite the two also being very similar to each other.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: In the first episode she makes a thrusting motion when explaining her parents are "really grinding... the meat", clearly showing she knows what sex is^note Later episodes make it clear that, while she understands the mechanics just fine, the deeper aspects of maturity are still beyond her.
  • Louise's rather dangerous ideas of fun also unnerve most people around her, with only Linda (who is a poor role model when it comes to this stuff) not being very bothered by it.
• Tsundere: She acts this way towards Boo Boo, and despite her attempts at hiding it only gets more and more obvious about it.
  Louise: There's that idiot Boo Boo. It was his dumb birthday last week, not that I care or even know that.
• Twitchy Eye: Whenever she enters Ax-Crazy mode. This is a trait she picked up from her mother. As shown in "Ambergris", a lack of sleep can also result in her doing this.
• The Unreveal: When it looks like we'll finally see her without her hat off when it gets taken in "Ear-Sy Rider", the top portion of her head is blocked off by the upper camera border. When it falls off at the end of the movie, she's almost entirely offscreen until she puts it back on, and all we get is the other characters' reactions to it.
• The Un-Smile: She's perfectly capable of smiling normally, but when explaining to Linda that she sold her soul in "The Unnatural", she punctuates it with a smile that looks less like the smile of a happy 9 year-old and more like the smile of someone who's about to have a psychotic breakdown.
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: The main Jerkass/Jerk with a Heart of Gold of the family who nonetheless tends to be the most intelligent (or, that's how she thinks of it, anyway). She's been dropping the "unsympathetic" part more and more often, though.
• Unusual Euphemism: She refers to knives as pointy pals.
• Villain Protagonist: Many of Louise's focus episodes see her cause chaos or commit acts of dubious morality for her own self-gain.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: One-sided; Louise can be really controlling and manipulative of the Pesto twins but the Pesto twins return none of the vitriol. Alternatively, their similarities make them Faceless Goons to a Bad Boss.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: In the 200th episode, she's willing to break into a restaurant and steal an important grill part in order to save her father's own restaurant. She ends up a split-second from actually doing so before her conscience gets the better of her.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Delivers one to Tina for knowingly leaving her stuck with Tammy in "Mazel-Tina", even saying "what the hell" verbatim.
  • Tina gives her a non-verbal one in "The Cook, the Steve, the Gayle, & Her Lover" when she tries to sabotage Gayle's love life because she doesn't want her dating Mr. Frond.
• Wise Beyond Their Years: Played with. She's definitely got the vocabulary, mentality, and intelligence of an adult, but she still shows some childish naïveté, such as still believing that Santa Claus is real.
• Worthy Opponent: Louise is an incredibly cunning girl who is often Surrounded by Idiots. On the rare occasion someone rises to her level, this Mouthy Kid can be surprisingly civil and complimentary.
  • Bonds with Jessica during "Slumber Party" after she proves to be a worthy competitor.
  • She concedes that Henry will be an amazing president after learning she was an Unwitting Pawn for his master plan to win the election.
  • She eventually comes around to respecting Millie's... eccentricity.
  • Calvin Fischoeder is about the only person who can go against Louise toe to toe, which she acknowledges.

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