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Charlie Brown

Big Brother Instinct: To Linus and Sally. Especially towards Sally when he chooses to help her at the school talent show.

Break the Cutie: When his homework assignment is ripped to shreds by the Red Baron.
Butt-Monkey: Nothing goes right for this guy at least in the first half.
Character Development: He starts as being a clueless Everyman, but eventually becomes into his own unique heroic character.
Chew Toy: Despite feeling sorry for him we also laugh at Charlie Brown's antics.
Clueless Chick-Magnet: Towards the little red haired girl.
Determinator: He never gives up on the little red haired girl.
The Everyman: We empathise with him throughout the film.

The Friend Nobody Likes: While he gets along with Linus he seen as this by Lucy sometimes.

Limited Wardrobe: It's even imitated by the other characters when they worship him.

Nice Guy: Charlie Brown’s defining trait is his kindness. Throughout the movie, the Little Redhead Girl develops feelings for him because of how selflessly kind he is in helping his friends and sister.
Popularity Power: When his friends think he got a high score on his test.
Stepford Smiler: On occasion to hide his depression.

Sally Brown

Voiced by: Mariel Sheets

Book Dumb: The reason why she is disappointed when she has to go back to school after the summer.
Deadpan Snarker:
Sally: Can a brother and a sister get a divorce?

Hypocrite: Her brother sacrifices his planned magic act in the talent show to save her own act from being a complete embarrassment for her yet when he needs a dance partner to practice with, she doesn't want to know.

Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's not a very reliable sister but she does have a heart.

Lucy Van Pelt

Voiced by: Hadley Belle Miller

Angrish: When Charlie Brown says that the little red haired girl has a pretty face.

Not So Above It All: When wearing the Charlie Brown shirt.
Only Sane Man: When Charlie Brown becomes popular.
Vitriolic Best Buds: Lucy often tells Charlie Brown to not be himself and can be quite mean to him (as she usually is). However, like always, she does still help him out and the two are friends.

Snoopy

Adaptational Nice Guy: He still has his selfish moments and enjoys being The Gadfly, but for the majority of his screen-time in this movie Snoopy is shown at his kindest and most supportive, going out of his way to help Charlie Brown with his problems. Not always successfully, but it's not for lack of trying.
It's Personal: Upon seeing Charlie heartbroken at his school paper getting destroyed by getting shredded by the Red Baron's plane, he declares war on the Red Baron himself though he wounds up sparing him in favor of saving Fifi's life instead.

Woodstock

Anti-Hero: Despite being a semi-sexist Jerkass, he is firmly on the side of the heroes even if he isn't as much help to Snoopy's plans to help Charlie than Snoopy himself is.
Badass Adorable: Was the one who had a central role in the fall of the Red Baron thus becoming as much of a public Hero as Snoopy ever was.
The Chew Toy: He is always made the butt of the joke from getting hit by a snowball and getting smacked around by a typewriter to getting struck by lightning and nearly falling to his death only to remember he can fly.
Ridiculously Cute Critter: He is as cute as Snoopy if not more so.

Characters / The Peanuts Movie