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Springfield Nuclear Power Plant

Charles Montgomery "Monty" Burns

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What good is money if it can't inspire terror in your fellow man?

"Excellent."

Voiced by: Christopher Collins (English; early first season), Harry Shearer (English; later season one on), Kai Taschner (German)

Debut: "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"

An extremely elderly (and extremely wealthy) man^note and the corrupt, malevolent owner of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. He always has his eyes on the greatest profit to himself.

Abusive Parents:
- His father and mother were sweet and caring... but unfortunately young Burns went to live with his grandfather, who was not the nicest or morally upstanding of men, if he had any morals at all (at least his parents got to keep his brother George). After a Retcon, we see that his father wasn't that nice either, complaining he should be outside hurting dogs instead of reading comic books.
- Burns has also been on the giving end of this treatment:
  - When Mr. Burns reunites with his long-lost illegitimate son, he pretty much disowns him by the end of the episode, and all but states that he'll only contact him if he's in need of a kidney. He also refers to him as "it" on one occasion.
  - When Mr. Burns takes Bart under his wing, he initially seems to have an almost avuncular relationship with the boy. This trope comes into play, however, when he tries (and nearly succeeds) to persuade Bart that his parents no longer love him.
Affectionate Nickname: During the odd incidences in which he and Homer are friendly with each other, Homer is prone to calling him "Burnsie."
Ambiguously Bi: While his romantic ventures have been based around women, Burns has been shown that he is not above flirting with the same sex — whether it is the Smithers facsimile named Phillip from season 18's "Kill Gil vol. 1&2", owning a nude photo of Mark Twain in the episode "Rosebud", stating outright he enjoys the smell of other men in the episode "Homer vs Lisa and the 8th Commandment", a brief jovial mention of him marrying boxer Jack Dempsey while drunk in the comics or the running gag of his occasional flirtation with both Smithers (such as telling him outright that he loves him in "The Telltale Head" and referring to him as "lovely" in "Homer Goes to College") and Homer Simpson (both comics and show, such as calling him "buxom and flirty" in "Last of the Red Hat Mamas,") the question of 'is he or isn't he' is still a valuable cornerstone of his core character.
Ambiguously Human: It's pretty suspicious that he can take a bullet in the chest and survive, especially considering his age. He also brags about his "strong, sharp teeth" and threatens to "club [people] and eat their bones"... and when, in the episode that has him dating Marge's mother, she tells him "You are the Devil himself!", Burns becomes very angry and defensive ("What?! Who told you- ") before realizing she's speaking metaphorically.
Ambiguously Jewish: Possibly. In "Two Cars In Every Garage And Three Eyes On Every Fish," he brings noodle kugel to the Simpsons family dinner. (Given that one of the episode's writers was Jewish, this may or may not have been intentional.) He's also been shown to be related to famous Jewish comedian George Burns. However, if anything, Mr. Burns' religious beliefs appear to range from atheism to Satanism.
Angry Guard Dog: "Release the hounds".
Angsty Surviving Twin: Has mentioned that his twin was shot by him or one of his siblings in order to get the family inheritance.
Animal Motifs: Is often associated with birds, in particular, vultures.
- His character design, with his thin frame, skinny neck, and beak-like nose, makes him look very bird-like.
- His home includes a menagerie◊ filled with birds, (including vultures that look remarkably like himself◊,) and in 'Fraudcast News', his alter ego in his Itchy & Scratchy propaganda cartoon is a vulture.
- In a more subtle example, nearly all of the establishing shots of the Nuclear Power Plant are accompanied by the sound of a crow's caw. According to 'Burns, Baby, Burns,' he apparently has several pet peacocks that wander around the grounds of Burns Manor.
- In 'The Fool Monty,' Mr. Burns is rendered mentally incompetent after suffering from a head injury. While the mayor holds a meeting to discuss what to do with him, Burns is restrained, appropriately enough, in an over-sized bird cage◊.
Antiquated Linguistics: He does this all the time in his version of Two Decades Behind. In one example, from "Mother Simpson", he went to the post office in order to send a letter to the Prussian consulate in Siam by the 4:30 auto-gyro. The person working at the post office even informed him how historically out of touch he is. Naturally, his mother—who apparently had a torrid affair with President Taft—uses even more outdated language than her son:
Smithers: Hello, Mrs. Burns? This is Waylon Smithers; I have your son Montgomery on the line.
Mrs. Burns: That improvident lackwit? Always too busy striding about his atom mill to call his own mother! I'll give him what-fors 'till he cries 'brassafrax!'
Anti-Villain: Occasionally, such as when he started a recycling business — and recycled sea life into slurry.
Arch-Enemy: To three generations of the Simpsons family; he's also directly responsible for a majority of Homer's tragedies in his life.
- He drove Mona away by identifying her during a hippy protest, forcing her to abandon Homer. Even when Mona was acquitted, Mr Burns got her arrested by the FBI for using multiple fake names in the visitor books of theme parks, which is a federal offense.
- Mona abandoning her family caused Abe to become emotionally abusive towards Homer, and Mr Burns tried to kill Abe or make him suffer when they served together in the United States army. Mr Burns also tried to have Homer's dog, Bongo, euthanized for biting him but was convinced to spare the dog by Abe when the latter offered to be Mr Burns' dog handler. He also inadvertently traumatised Homer as a child by disposing of Waylon Smithers, Sr.'s corpse. Homer discovered the corpse by accident while removing a blockage in an old quarry and the repressed trauma caused him to subconsciously develop an eating disorder to cope.
- Finally, he employed Homer to work in a Power Plant that has so many health code violations that it made Homer sterile. He also sexually harassed Marge, hit Bart with a car, crossed swords with Lisa's environmentalism, and antagonized Maggie when she unwittingly adopted his teddy bear. Oh, and he can't remember Homer's name.
Asshole Victim: Mr. Burns would potentially have been this had he not survived the events of "Who Shot Mr. Burns". That was the whole idea of the Cliffhanger; practically everyone in Springfield wanted to kill him, and in many cases, few would have blamed them, due to Burns's unusually extensive asshole behavior lately. However, not only did he survive, the shooting was an accident (maybe, the ending leaves it ambiguous), leaving it subverted in two different ways.
Bad Boss: Has a trap door in his office to dismiss employees and is fond of villainous demotivators.
Bald of Evil: Well, balding. Flashbacks show he used to have a comb-over in the sixties.
Been There, Shaped History: Apparently, he was behind the Opium War, which would make him a lot older than the century-odd he claims to be.
Big Bad: He's the show's usual recourse when a scheming, villainous plotter is needed for a story. This applies to the video games as well, as he's been the main villain of the arcade game, The Simpsons: Bart vs. the World, and The Simpsons: Road Rage.
Big Bad Ensemble: With Sideshow Bob. Bob is a more active and dangerous threat to the Simpsons, but Mr. Burns is the show's go-to guy for a villainous schemer.
Brain Food: He mentions eating monkey brains a few times and also one of his assistant during a trip where he sold him to cannibals.
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He may be senile, but he is a brilliant businessman... when he can remember what century he's living in, at least.
But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Has a huge problem with this relative to Homer, who he's had countless bizarre encounters and adventures with, some of which would be considered life-changing by any reasonable standard, and yet he never remembers Homer from one meeting to the next.
The Caligula: Mr. Burns usually treats his workers, and even his own workplace, far too shabbily to even be considered a sane boss, never mind a good one.
Caligula's Horse: The power plant is actually legally owned by a canary, as a way for Burns to avoid responsibility when it's investigated for illegal activities. This tendency was also implied in earlier episodes when he made a dog vice president (even after nominating a far more eligible person), and made a carbon rod Employee of the Month instead of Homer.
Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Even though he's the most hated man in Springfield, he's allowed to use his nuclear plant to break countless laws and regulations. If the plant closes down, then the town suffers from a horrifically low employment rate and a power shortage. Quimby even says he is the only person in town that actually pays municipality taxes.
Card-Carrying Villain: At least whenever declaring his own evil doesn't compromise its effectiveness. Or sometimes, even when it does.
Character Catchphrase:
- "Excellent."
- "Release the hounds!"
- "Smithers! Who is that <insert colorful insult>?" [...] "Simpson, eh?"
- He will also occasionally answer the phone with “Ahoy-hoy!”
The Chew Toy: Whenever he is subjected to jokes about how weak and old he is.
Comedic Sociopathy: Many of his evil-doings are played for laughs. See below.
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Poster boy for this trope. He's dumped radioactive waste at public parks and playgrounds, sold weapons to the Nazis, stolen a trillion dollars in foreign aid money from the U.S. government, and (most famously) built a giant sun-blocking device to keep Springfield shrouded in perpetual darkness, all so his electric company could have a truly complete monopoly over the town's energy supply.
Mr. Burns: Listen, Spielbergo, Schindler and I are like peas in a pod! We're both factory owners, we both made shells for the Nazis, but mine worked, DAMMIT!
The Corrupter: When he takes Bart on as his heir, Burns tries to mold Bart in his image. It nearly worked, if Burns hadn't tried to fire Homer.
Cruella to Animals: He has to brainwash Santa's Little Helper to retrain him as a guard dog. And in "Two Dozen And One Greyhounds", he attempts to make a tuxedo out of a litter of puppies.
Dark Is Evil: He once had a plan to block out the sun permanently.
Depending on the Writer:
- He can be a senile old man who can't do anything on his own and still thinks it's the early 1900s, or an extremely conniving Corrupt Corporate Executive (often he's both).
- It's rare, but some episodes, like "King-Size Homer", can have him act as Benevolent Boss if it suits the plot.
- Depending on the episode, he's either a Jerk with a Heart of Jerk who's absolutely as evil as he lets on, or a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who actually has a (very neglected) conscience and is actually capable of being kind to others.
Dirty Old Man: Towards Marge, when she briefly works at the nuclear power plant.
Dragon-in-Chief: Parodied. In "C.E.D'oh", it turns out that while Burns technically runs the power plant, he named a canary as the "real" head of the plant to protect him from being held responsible for the plant's wrongdoings. After Homer let the canary go, Burns eventually became the real head of the plant.
Enraged by Idiocy: Often shown to be infuriated by the idiots he has working for him. Especially Homer, even if he can't remember his name.
Epic Fail: The filming of the Mexico scene in his film "A Burns For All Seasons". They had to do 20 takes, and the best one had Burns falling off his horse and then getting dragged around with his foot caught in the stirrup. In fact, almost any attempt at physical activity can produce this, such as the time he failed to seize a teddy bear from a baby.
Even Evil Can Be Loved: A thoroughly irredeemable Bad Boss and Corrupt Corporate Executive, whose only humanising trait is that he has the Undying Loyalty of his assistant Smithers.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
- While it varies Depending on the Writer, he is occasionally shown to legitimately care about Smithers as a person. Some episodes play up that Smithers is not just his only true friend, but one of the very few people Burns can never truly bring himself to hurt (Blood Feud being a prime example) and later season episodes highlight that while he may or may not return Smithers' romantic interest, he does love him in his own way.
- When recounting the fate of Larry's mother, Burns is actually saddened as he mentions how he never saw her after she was sent off to South America.
- Although he openly treats most living things with contempt, he does have a soft spot for his loyal hounds.
- He genuinely considered Smithers's father his friend and was saddened by his death.
- He's seriously considered leaving his entire fortune and estate to Sheldon◊, his pet tortoise that he's apparently had for most of his life.
- He was engaged to his cousin Lyla in his youth and sincerely loved and desired to marry her. His dark side made this all but impossible, however. Likewise, he genuinely loved Gloria (whom he also proposed to) and was heartbroken when she eventually ran back to her ex-boyfriend Snake.
- During his short-lived marriage with Persephone Odair, he showed nothing but love and support for her goals. He even went as far as to buy her Twitter when Persephone faced criticism on the platform. Even after finding out that she lied to him about her true motives, Burns still offers Persephone a chance to come clean about her motives and for their relationship to last. After their divorce, Burns was very heartbroken and was shown crying during the divorce proceedings and again while jumping in an inflatable castle by himself in his office.
Even Evil Has Standards:
- He doesn't have a high opinion of lawyers.
I want your legal advice, I even pay for it, but to me you're all vipers! You live on personal injury! You live on divorces! YOU LIVE ON PAIN AND MISERY!
- He pays Homer to throw pudding cups at Lenny, much to their amusement. Then Homer throws one at Carl.
[horrified] What are you doing, man?! That's Carl!
- In "Midnight Rx," he announced that the nuclear plant health plan was going to be cut to remove prescription medication costs. After the party, he asked Smithers if he saw a female coworker hooking up with a man she's been after for a while. Once Smithers says that the man she's after is married, Burns orders Smithers to turn their vehicle around so he can warn her.
- He can't bring himself to kill the greyhound puppies because they're just too cute. He then nearly shoots Bart and Lisa instead, but refuses for the same reasons.
- In "Homer's Enemy," he (along with everyone else) is disgusted, and visibly cringes, when Frank Grimes dies by electrocution. He also had a concerned (as well as annoyed) look on his face while Grimes was going insane and pretending to be Homer Simpson.
- In "Homer the Smithers", not only was he shocked when Homer and Smithers were fighting, but he also tried to stop them from fighting.
- In "Thirst Trap: A Corporate Love Story", he was horrified when Persephone was willing to risk poisoning elementary school children with saltwater. Albeit it's largely out of fear of him being criminally liable but still. And, he divorced Persephone after finding out that she lied to him about being a good person.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:
- His moral compass is so far off-kilter that when he's actually trying to do something good, he's even more evil than when he's trying to be evil, as seen in "The Old Man and the Lisa."
- The reason why he hid Smithers Sr.'s body was because Burns thought it was the trend of the time and honored his friend's Heroic Sacrifice by doing so.
Evil Is Hammy: "Moments from now, I will wreak a terrible vengeance on this town! NO ONE WILL BE SPARED! NO ONE!"
Evil Is Petty: He does a number of petty things for no reason other than For the Evulz.
It will be like taking candy from a baby (sees baby) Hey, that sounds like a lark!
- His reaction to a worker asking for Burns to install actual safety measures for the plant? Taunt him, humiliate him, and have him sent via pneumatic tube to places unknown.
Evil Laugh: The page image!
Evil Old Folks: The Trope Codifier for the comedic version. He's done every evil deed imaginable, from blotting out the sun to stealing candy from a baby, and that was just in one episode.
Expy:
- Of Charles Foster Kane. Burns has a lot of moments and traits that are almost directly transplanted from Orson Welles' character; though, where Kane was a sympathetic and misguided Anti-Villain at worst, Burns is an outright greedy, power-mad, unscrupulous monster. He also draws a lot from Ronald Reagan, Rupert Murdoch and Lionel Barrymore, among others.
- Depending on the episode, he's also a pretty uncanny modern-day expy of Ebenezer Scrooge. He's a ruthless, wealthy, elderly corrupt businessman who more or less constantly makes those working for him miserable, who occasionally expresses Lonely at the Top sentiments, but at the same time, can occasionally be persuaded to do the right thing under the circumstances, when someone else (usually Smithers) appeals to his better nature. Heck, Mr. Burns is shown dressed as◊/playing the role of◊ Scrooge on multiple occasions, both in the show and the comics!
Faux Affably Evil: For the most part, he keeps the façade of a polite and soft-spoken businessman while in truth he couldn’t care less about his employees.
Fiction 500: His fortune varies but on his best day, he can pay a million dollar fine and buy the statue of Lady Justice with what is in his wallet.
Flanderization:
- He went from being a ruthless, black-hearted corporate tyrant to a doddering old man with a skewed, quasi-Victorian conception of society. While the writers attempt every so often to enforce his villainous tendencies, his role in the show is now mostly limited to jokes concerning his incalculable age and pronounced frailty.
- Although he had always played an antagonizing role, he originally didn't expand much from being a Jerkass, a Bad Boss, and a Corrupt Corporate Executive who shown little concern about how his actions and company effects the environment, compared to his role later on in "Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part One" where he was not just effecting the environment, but the town's activities as well (such as crushing the Springfield's retirement home and Bart's treehouse drilling for the pursuit of oil). And as stated previously above, Mr. Burns started out as being in his eighties. His senile state has also been exaggerated in later seasons, as well as his aging, to the point of him not even having enough strength to stomp an ant.
- The episode in Season 3 where Burns sells the power plant seems strange now because he seems to get along all right after he and Smithers part ways. Later episodes (e.g. "Homer the Smithers" in Season 7, "The Old Man and the Lisa" in Season 8) show him unable to function without Smithers as his assistant/caregiver.
Finger-Tenting: Possibly the most prominent and well-known example in all fiction.
Freudian Excuse: His father refused to let him have comic books and burned down the company to teach him a lesson (with the people still in it). He also apparently taught him how to be an asshole. He was also taken by his grandfather, a corrupt and selfish businessman.
Friend to Bugs: He's been shown to engage in beekeeping as a hobby, even naming the individual bees. In his office, he also has a small terrarium filled with tarantulas, which he affectionately dubs "Tarantula Town." He was apparently fond of tarantulas during his younger years◊, as well.
Gag Nose: Has a large, hooked nose resembling a beak.
Go-Karting with Bowser: Surprisingly, there are multiple instances in which he and Homer are genuinely friendly with each other. Examples include "Dancin' Homer," in which he and Homer get drunk and heckle baseball players together, "Monty Can't Buy Me Love," in which Homer willingly assists Mr. Burns' various flights of whimsy, and "A Hunka Hunka Burns In Love," in which Homer acts as Mr. Burns' wingman. Unsurprisingly, most incidences of Homer and Mr. Burns getting along happen when at least one of them is off the clock.
Hated by All: Aside from Smithers, just about everyone in Springfield hates him. In fact, in one episode where he's thought to be dead, various people showed up at his funeral just to spit on his grave, to the extent that said grave had to be drained afterwards. In the two-part episode "Who Shot Mr. Burns?", it turns out that Everyone Is a Suspect, even Smithers.
Hero with an F in Good:
- Lisa invokes this, when Burns' temporary Face–Heel Turn to environmentalism and recycling turns out to be literal, revealing that he's been farming sealife and turning it into industrial multi-purpose slurry.
Lisa: You're evil... and when you try to be good, you're even more evil!
- One time he tried giving away money, to show up a Richard Branson expy, by throwing silver dollars from a hot-air balloon, causing injuries and property damage below.
- Subverted when he became Fruit Batman, most of his rescues are staged but he does end up doing the right thing in the end.
Heterosexual Life-Partners: This is how he views his relationship with Smithers, much to the latter's dismay.
Hidden Depths:
- He's a fan of Nancy Drew and owns every book.
- Despite being laughably old and frail, he's a rather◊ impressive◊ dancer, and is implied to be at least somewhat knowledgeable about ballet.
Historical Hero Upgrade: He does this to himself in his film A Burns for All Seasons. It backfires spectacularly when the film is booed by the audience of the Springfield Film Festival.
Historical Injoke: He is stated to be responsible for many atrocities in the history of the world such as preventing Hitler's assassination, caused the Opium War and made the French become forever rude to Americans.
Insistent Terminology: When the nuclear plant begins to melt down in "Homer Defined", Burns laughs off the notion that anyone would call it a meltdown: "It's one of those annoying buzzwords. We prefer to call it an 'unrequested fission surplus'" (which, in actual fact, is a "runaway chain reaction" and isn't a meltdown yet, but will become one if not dealt with pronto).
Intergenerational Friendship:
- Seems to be very friendly with the child heir, Simon Woosterfield.
- His relationship with Smithers, as well. Smithers is in his early forties, while Mr. Burns is anywhere between his eighties or early hundreds. Smithers even refers to him as his "best friend" in 'Brush with Greatness.'
Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Whenever Mr. Burns shows any sign of a softer side, he almost always ends up reverting to form by the end of the episode.
Kick the Dog:
- Too many metaphorical examples to count, but one literal instance occurs in the fourth season episode "Last Exit To Springfield", where Mr. Burns and Smithers, after taking increasingly sensitive security measures to access a secret room in the power plant to deactivate the town's power, encounter a mangy mutt who wanders into the room through a wide-open screen door. Mr. Burns greets it appropriately.
- He's "rewarded" Smithers' absolute devotion by arranging to have Smithers Buried Alive with him when he dies. While Smithers might enjoy being Together in Death with Burns when he also dies, he probably wants to live a little longer after Burns passes.
Lack of Empathy: On his best day, he doesn't care he hit a kid with his car, on his worse, he comes back to finish the job if his team doesn't win the game.
Large Ham: Even a good game of Ms. Pac-Man can get him going.
Last-Name Basis: His first name (Charles) is hardly ever used. When people wish to refer to him informally, he goes by his middle name, Monty.
Laughably Evil: Burns may be an utter bastard, but it's hard not to laugh at how over-the-top evil he is:
Burns: Men, there's a little crippled boy sitting in a hospital who wants you to win this game. I know because I crippled him myself to inspire you.
[Cut to Milhouse in a hospital stretcher with his leg in a cast]
Milhouse: I hope they win or Mr. Burns said he's coming back.
Lean and Mean: A skinny, fragile old man who is also a Bad Boss.
Lethal Chef: His attempt at baking a cake for Homer in "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield" did not go well, among other things involving him using pickled figs. Smithers appropriately ends up gagging when he tries it.
Lonely at the Top: Quite possibly. Several episodes ("Homer's Night Out", "Burns' Heir", and "C.E.D'oh,") to name a few, imply that Mr. Burns occasionally regrets that his workaholic tendencies have prevented him from settling down and having a family of his own.
Burns: Simpson... I am, by most measures, a successful man. I have wealth and power beyond the dreams of you and your clock-punching ilk. (sadly) And yet... I've led a solitary life...
Long-Lived: His age varies from eighty-one to ninety to five hundred years.
Looks Like Orlok: He looks like Orlok even when he's not a vampire. Especially when he wriggles his fingers...
Lust Object: To Smithers, even when Burns does things he hates, Smithers still makes remark on his physique.
Manipulative Bastard: However, many seem acutely aware of Burns's evil ways so sentiments may vary here.
Mean Boss:
- He's a classical stereotype. In fact, he's such a Bad Boss that he's fired Smithers — the only man who (usually) has Undying Loyalty to him — twice, once for being insufficiently toadyish.
- When the worker's union asks for better medical perks, Burns tries to take away the few he's actually given them, and when they strike tries to set strike-breakers on them.
Middle Name Basis: When people call him anything but "Mr. Burns", they call him "Montgomery" or "Monty". That's his middle name, however. His first name is "Charles".
Multiple-Choice Past: Related to his Vague Age. For example, one episode had him as a soldier in the Western European front in World War II, but others indicate he was already running businesses (which traded with the Nazis) during the war. "Rosebud" has him as a child born in simple conditions, but others show him as being born into a rich family. And let's not forget that he claims to be born in Pangaea!
Narcissist: The only person Mr. Burns cares about is Mr. Burns. He always prioritizes his own desires over the wants and needs of others.
Nazi Nobleman: Implied, there are few jokes that state that Mr. Burns served with the Nazis. In n Dollar Maybe, he's confused about shooting Nazis and says that it's not how he remembered it. He owned factories that sold shells to Adolf Hitler in A Star is Burns, he foiled the assassination attempt of Hitler in Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish", and he was shown to be a member of the Waffen-SS in "American History X-cellent".
Necessarily Evil: Mr Burns needs to be evil because he can literally die if he is nice to someone.
Nice to the Waiter: A very downplayed example, but Smithers is one of the few people Burns occasionally doesn't treat with contempt.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: invoked Matt Groening has established that he is based on oil magnate John D. Rockefeller and his grandson David Rockefeller. David Silverman, for his part, based Burns on Fox founder Barry Diller.
Non-Action Big Bad: As he's very frail and elderly and is physically weaker than a baby, most of his evil deeds are carried out by henchmen (or lawyers).
Nominal Hero: Whenever he happens to be on the same side as the good characters — which is not that often.
Oblivious to Love: He doesn't seem to notice Smithers's crush on him.
Out-of-Character Moment:
- Has had a number of these, but a particularly egregious example is the season 10 episode "Monty Can't Buy Me Love"...since when does he care about what others think of him?
- "King Size Homer" is a particularly bizarre example of this trope as well. He's a Benevolent Boss throughout the entire episode and helps the protagonist multiple times.
Parental Substitute: It's revealed that he raised Smithers after his father died, so it could be said that they have a father/son relationship. Even if Smithers has a different type of admiration for him.
Pathetically Weak: Burns varies between being about as strong as you would expect from an old man or so weak that he has great difficulty crushing a paper cup or that a single sponge placed on his head causes him to sink into a bathtub and drown. This trait actually becomes a plot point in "Who Shot Mr. Burns" where Burns is completely unable to steal candy from baby Maggie and in the ensuing struggle, the gun he was carrying went off. The way Burns screamed "Let go of it!" as he did added to the initial assumption that it was a bigger, nastier assailant.
Pet the Dog: He has enough nice moments to remind us that he's human.
Smithers: People think because he's rich and powerful and cruel he doesn't have feelings like other men, but he does.
- He let Maggie keep his beloved old teddy bear in "Rosebud."
- He tended to baby Smithers after his father died in the episode "The Blunder Years."
- Helped Marge in "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays." Subverted in that it's for their "supple young organs."
- In "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story", he willingly pulls a Go Through Me to protect Lisa from a goat. He even gives her a hug a few moments later.
  Mr. Burns: Take me, a barren, old thistle, and spare this sweet, young flower.
- After Bart saved his life with a blood donation (and Smithers pointing it out to him,) he does repay his debts when people aid him directly.
- He fully paid Lisa her share of the profits when she helped him regain his fortune, despite her openly stating her hatred of his methods.
- He agrees to pay for liposuction to enable the more-obese-than-usual Homer slim down to his normal weight, after the latter prevented a meltdown. The original plan was to make Homer work out like he did with the other employees but Burns gave up when Homer couldn't do sit ups.
- Despite his frequent abuse of Smithers, he goes above and beyond in order to gain access to some life saving medication for him. He was also grateful of that Smithers donated his kidney for him.
Burns: Smithers, don't feel so bad. After all, that kidney you donated to me really hit the spot.
- In "Simpson and Delilah", He was ready to fire Homer for committing fraud with the plant's insurance to buy hair-growth medication but decided instead to give him back his old Sector 7G position ^note after he expressed sympathy for Homer because he himself is also unhappy with his baldness.
- In "Dancin' Homer," he sits next to Homer at a baseball game, buys him a beer, and proceeds to get pleasantly drunk with him, even putting his arm around his shoulders affably.
- In "Homer the Smithers," he insists that Smithers go on vacation after having a mental breakdown. When Smithers calls him, he tells Smithers to stop worrying and just enjoy his vacation- he even shows interest in his activities. When Smithers tries to commit suicide by dunking his head in the water cooler, Burns drains all the water out of it.
- In "Homer Goes to College" he ensures Homer gets an education so he can keep his job when it would be easier to fire him.
- In "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk", he gives Smithers his photo with him and Elvis as a parting gift when he sells the plant. When he took up beekeeping as a hobby, he named the queen of his hive after Smithers. They also go out drinking together later in the episode.
- In "Burns' Heir", he's "rewarded" Smithers' years of devotion with the "honor" of Smithers being buried alive with him when he dies. Hey, at least they can be Together in Death.
Phrase Catcher: "That's Homer Simpson sir, one of your <insert derogatory worker slang> from Sector 7G." Followed by "Simpson, eh?"
Politically Incorrect Villain:
- In the earlier seasons especially, Burns was ludicrously sexist. During "The Last Temptation of Homer", he's shown to have a Brazillian soccer team working in his reactor core ("that plane crashed on my property, dammit!"), and is even willing to make ducks pull nuclear waste around, but he won't hire women until forced by the Department of Labor.
- Depending on the Writer he's implied to either be a Nazi or a Nazi-sympathizer despite another episode establishing him as fighting for the US in WWII alongside Abe Simpson. He mentioned once that he build weapons for them, another had him show his "SS card" (as in "Schutzstaffel", not "Social Security"), and was disturbed by a WWII video game he was playing after finding out the soldiers he was shooting at were Germans.
The Power of Hate: This is what's keeping him alive.
Psychopathic Manchild: With his extreme selfishness and fixation on short-term gratification, he can best be described as a spoiled child in the body of an old man.
The Quisling: Despite being a WWII veteran, several episodes imply that he's had close ties to the Nazis and even built weapons for them.
Raised by Grandparents: He was given the choice to be raised by his poor, loving parents or a heartless billionaire and he chose the latter. Said billionaire was his grandfather.
Refugee from Time: Since the mid-1990s, Mr. Burns is usually said to have grown up in the tail end of the 19th century. When this was first established, it would've put him at over 100 years old; while this is obviously longer than most people ever get to live, it's still a fairly plausible age for him to reach, especially since he could afford excellent healthcare. The thing is that Burns still seems to be a child of the late 1800s even as the show has entered the 2020s; since flashbacks suggest he has vivid memories of the era, this would probably make him the oldest person alive in-universe.
The Rich Want to Be Richer: Despite being a billionaire, Mr. Burns tends to jump at the chance to make even slightly more money.
- In "Old Money", he's one of the people who lines up to make their case for Grampa to give the $106,000 Bea left him in her will to, and literally begs Grampa to give the money to him. When Grampa points out that he's already rich, Burns responds with this:
  Mr. Burns: Mr. Simpson, I dread the day when $100,000 isn't worth begging for.
- He also admits to this during a conversation with Homer in "Mountain of Madness":
  Homer: Mr. Burns, you're the richest guy I know. Way richer than Lenny.
  Mr. Burns: Oh yes. But I'd trade it all for a little more.
- In "Monty Can't Buy Me Love", loveable billionaire Arthur Fortune gives out free dollar bills to those attending the opening of his latest megastore. Mr. Burns zaps Ned Flanders with a cattleprod so he can take the dollar Flanders picked up.
Running Gag: As mentioned above, nobody ever leaves his property safely. He sics his hounds on them.
Sadist: He's been known, out of sheer sadism, to drop certain of his employees down a seemingly bottomless trapdoor - with the express intention of killing them (although they inevitably survive).
Same Surname Means Related: Some episodes have him being related to real life celebrities called Burns;
- In "Rosebud", a flashback shows that comedian George Burns is Mr. Burns' younger brother.
- A flashback in The Color Yellow has Burns' grandfather mentioning that his story will one day be told by his descendants, Ric and Ken Burns.
Scatterbrained Senior: Dips his toe in and out of this trope. Sometimes he's quite clever and shrewd, but other times he seems unaware that it's not still the 19th Century, and he's never able to remember who Homer is, even after being reminded that "all the recent events of your life have revolved around him in some way". This is also played for laughs.
Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: He uses his wealth to get away with a lot of things. Except winning the Oscars.
The Scrooge: The very definition of this trope.
Burns: Anybody have change for a button?
Self-Made Orphan: Attributes the cause of his parents' death to getting in his way (though given he was raised by his grandparents and his mother is still alive, he might be talking about them).
A Sinister Clue: He's an evil Corrupt Corporate Executive, and "When Flanders Failed" reveals that he's left-handed.
Sole Survivor: He inherited his fortune after his older siblings died under mysterious circumstances, he's also the semi-final surviving member of The Flying Hellfish until Abe expelled him for attempted murder.
Stalker with a Crush: To Marge, when she was his employee.
Strong as They Need to Be: He is always depicted as being incredibly weak and frail, but it's often exaggerated by the Rule of Funny with things like him being overpowered by an insect or being unable to lift a sponge.
Time Abyss: His birthplace was Pangaea, which would make him at least 170 million years old. However, his age is very inconsistent due to Depending on the Writer and Negative Continuity.
Too Important to Remember You: Especially in the early seasons, he constantly forgets the names of employees like Homer's and has to be reminded by Smithers.
Took a Level in Jerkass: His villainy goes into this level when he does things like block out the sun or trying to kill a child.
Toothy Issue: Possesses an unfortunately large overbite/buck teeth and a small, weak chin. Homer mocks him for this in the episode "Blood Feud," calling him "a senile, buck-toothed old mummy."
Tragic Villain: He was a Cheerful Child, but his grandfather, a cruel and insensitive man, was the reason why he is the man we know today. He lured him away from his loving parents and forcibly adopted Burns. There's also the loss of his teddy bear, Bobo, but that may or may not have actually contributed to it.
Tranquil Fury: Barely raises his voice when he is angry.
Tyrannical Town Tycoon: Whether it's played straight or for laughs varies, but Mr Burns is typically portrayed as having a monopoly over the town's economy and uses it to be above the law.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Until he (almost literally) dropped everything for money.
- Downplayed in certain episodes/comics, where he's shown to not have been all that nice as a child, either.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The relationship between Homer, Abe and Mr. Burns is really dark the more you look into it. It starts with Burns getting carried by Abe through the war; he then unknowingly becomes Abe’s biggest fan when he was a wrestler. His vindictive power and wealth scares Mona into leaving her family. As well as fractured the relationship between Abe and Homer when Abe was forced to give Bongo away. Homer’s life has been ruined in many ways by Mr. Burns yet he ironically grows up to work for him.
Vague Age: He has personally stated his age as 81 years, but Skinner and Homer later separately refer to him as being 104. Compounding matters, he was old enough to be twenty-five years out of Yale in the fifties, while in World War 2 Abe Simpson is clearly several decades older than him. Later episodes have implied his age to be in the thousands or even the millions. Smithers tells him his ATM code is his age (We hear Burns enter a four-digit number, and the first one definitely wasn’t a 0) and he has stated his birthplace to be Pangaea.
Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Especially in the earlier seasons. Freudian Excuse aside, his Kick the Dog moments are much more frequent than those of other Simpsons villains. The few excuses he is given seem so disconnected from his evil, he is hated throughout Springfield, ("Who Shot Mr. Burns" has even Snake Jailbird apologizing for not being around to shoot him).
Villain Decay: Later seasons tend to depict Burns as little more than a feeble, old man who's hopelessly behind the times and cannot function at all without Smithers, whereas in the earlier seasons he was a powerful Corrupt Corporate Executive despite his physical frailty.
Villainous Crush: One time Marge got a job at the nuclear plant and Mr. Burns developed a thing for her.
Villains Out Shopping:
- Invokes this during a lull in one of his schemes, when he finished talking with Lisa in his office. Lisa says she can't leave right away because she is waiting for her ride home. He tries to break the silence by making small talk and asking what she thinks about today's music. When she responds that she thinks it distracts people from more important social issues, he irritatedly comments;
  Burns: *Sighs* My god, are you always on?
- It should be noted that he does enjoy shopping with Smithers.
- He can sometimes get pretty chummy with Homer outside of work; such as in "Dancin' Homer," "Monty Can't Buy Me Love," and "A Hunka Hunka Burns In Love."
Vitriolic Best Buds: With Smithers though the Vitriolic part is entirely on his part with Smithers just taking it.
Vocal Evolution: Back in season 1 when Christopher Collins voiced him, his voice was more demanding, loud and raspy. When Harry Shearer took over, he initially did a more energetic replica of Collins, though around Seasons Four and Five, his voice became softer and sinister. Around Season 34, his voice started to sound a bit raspier, due to Harry Shearer's advanced age.
Weak, but Skilled: In recent seasons, the "skilled" part has been downplayed, but in several episodes over the years he is shown to be both ruthlessly cunning and physically fragile.
Wealthy Yacht Owner: Has one that Homer uses while house-sitting and gets attacked by Ruthless Modern Pirates.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: The episode "Last Exit to Springfield" implies that the reason why he wanted to end the Nuclear Worker's Union was because they were getting corrupt, based on something an atom worker said when he was with his grandfather.
Wicked Wastefulness: Burns is comically miserly toward his employees, but lives an incredibly wealthy life full of frivolous luxuries. In one episode, it's shown that rather than make his bed, he has it incinerated and gets a new one delivered every day
Would Hurt a Child: He has hurt Bart on several occasions with "Bart Gets Hit By A Car" and "Lady Bouvier's Lover" being prime examples of this. He also had a tendency to dump nuclear waste in parks. He only stopped because the number of bald children was getting suspicious. He also implied he kidnaps kids for their organs.
You Are Fat: Burns insults Homer's attempt at losing weight in "Brush With Greatness" by calling him the "fattest thing he's ever seen", which completely shatters his self-confidence in one fell swoop. That's the point where Marge decides there's no inner beauty in Burns and kicks him out of the house.

Waylon Smithers, Jr.

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Yes, Mr. Burns.

Debut: "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" (voice only), "Homer's Odyssey" (in-person)

Voiced by: Harry Shearer

The second-in-command and most competent minion of Mr. Burns, Smithers is fanatically devoted to his master (fortunately for Burns, who is so physically feeble and out of touch with the modern age he depends on Smithers to do everything for him), which is eventually revealed to be due to him being in love with him.

Adaptational Villainy: In the show, Smithers isn't much more than a Yes-Man serving a Corrupt Corporate Executive. In the arcade game, he robbed a jewelry store, wore a cape filled with bombs, and was prone to evil laughter.
Aloof Leader, Affable Subordinate: Has this dynamic with Mr. Burns. While Mr. Burns is one of the most reprehensible villains in the show, Smithers is generally friendly and mild-mannered enough to get along pretty well with most of the plant employees.
All Gays Love Theater: Wrote and starred in a Malibu Stacy musical.
Ambiguously Gay: Early episodes strongly hinted he was gay without directly saying it but it's common knowledge now.
Ancestral Name: His name is Waylon Smithers Jr., after his father Waylon Smithers Sr.
Anti-Villain: He just follow Burns in most of his evil schemes, even though he doesn't like most of them.
Armoured Closet Gay: In earlier seasons, Smithers was indicated to be gay until it became a running joke that Smithers would try to deny his feelings for his boss or hide his sexuality in front of others.
Battle Butler: In the arcade game.
Beard of Sorrow:
- He grows a five o'clock shadow when he believes he shot Mr. Burns. He is clean-shaven again at the end of the episode.
- When Mr. Burns orders Homer be beaten to a pulp, Smithers becomes so stressed out that he stops shaving and looks haggard from the stress.
Big Ol' Eyebrows: One of the few characters with these, they give him a more expressive look.
Butt-Monkey: Smithers gets a lot of badgering and punishment from Burns.
Character Catchphrase: "That's Homer Simpson, sir. One of your (nickname) from sector 7G"
Characterization Marches On:
- Aside from being black in "Homer's Odyssey", a deleted line in "Blood Feud" has him mentioning going home to his wife and kids.
- "Simpson and Delilah" and some other early episodes depicted him as a more petty and conniving Middle-Management Mook with him and Homer having something of a vendetta. He is even depicted as a manic criminal in the 1991 arcade game. "Blood Feud" showed Smithers as extremely grateful to Homer for saving Burns' life, suggesting that his vindictiveness against Homer in "Simpson and Delilah" was more due to Homer's threatening his status as Burns' chief lackey. As long as Homer or anyone else isn't actually threatening his position, Smithers is largely indifferent to them unless they're stifling Burns or being a genuine nuisance. Seasons Two and Three generally developed Smithers' more sympathetic personality, usually only committing evil under Burns' orders.
- "Portrait of a Lackey on Fire" ends with Smithers using puzzles to keep Mr. Burns too preoccupied to carry out his evil schemes. Oddly, this does seem to be one of the most effective strategies against Burns in the history of the series.
Cigarette of Anxiety:
- He doesn't smoke very much, but he's shown doing so when he's particularly upset. Examples include "Who Shot Mr. Burns", when he goes on a bender after being fired by Burns; "Homer The Smithers" when he's desperate to find a temporary replacement as Burns's assistant who won't outshine him; and "Sideshow Bob Roberts", where he's clearly torn between having to go behind Burns's back to get Sideshow Bob removed as Mayor of Springfield, and what Bob's mayoralty could mean for himself and other gays.
- He's seen chain-smoking in "Blood Feud," when he's sitting at his desk and anxiously speaking to one of Mr. Burns' hired goons about Burns wanting Homer to be beaten to a pulp.
Closet Gay: He'll probably still be secretly pining for Mr. Burns when the universe reaches its heat death. Several episodes indicate that he's active in Springfield's gay community when he's off the clock, though. He was also visibly disgusted when he found himself in a strip club.
Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Often this to Burns when he has Scatterbrained Senior tendencies, and Smithers needs to remind him who Homer is.
The Confidant: He gives Mr. Burns advice when feels it's his place to, he listens to his troubles, and even gives him a shoulder to cry on if need be.
Crazy Jealous Guy: Should someone get too close to Burns, Smithers can get surprisingly vindictive. He went to elaborate lengths to ruin Homer's career after Burns promoted him to an executive and shown great approval of him. In one of the comics, when Homer won him in a poker game, he wasted no time forcing Marge out of his life. On the other hand, if anyone goes out of their way to help Burns (in "Blood Feud") or otherwise maintain Smithers' relationship with him (in "Homer The Smithers"), Smithers can be extremely thankful and kind.
Cure Your Gays: His parents tried to turn him straight by making him go to a burlesque house and in an episode set in the future, he has to take anti-gay injections every 10 minutes.
Depending on the Artist: Early on, the artists were a bit inconsistent on how thick his glasses should be, going from thin to having a very large frame. Thin eventually won out.
Depending on the Writer: The show flip-flops between him having Single-Target Sexuality on his boss, and being attracted to men in general.
Desperately Needs Orders: Smithers's servitude to Burns is almost a psychological need. In "Homer the Smithers," when Burns tells Smithers to take a much-needed vacation, he begs to stay, claiming that without Burns, he'll "wither and die." Even while on vacation, he repeatedly calls Burns asking if he has any mail that needs opening.
The Dragon: Depending on whether Burns is on the good or bad side of the episode's events.
Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Smithers had black skin, blue hair and wore a white coat in his debut episode, "Homer's Odyssey".
Everyone Has Standards: Though usually a bit of a doormat to Burns, some of the schemes Burns comes up with will have Smithers objecting to them at the risk of losing his own job.
- He can't bring himself to allow Homer to be beaten up after He saves Burns' life.
- Bart owes his life to Smithers refusing to let Burns leave him for dead after Burns hit him with his car.
- In the movie he tries to spare Apu, Wiggum and Hibbert from harm by warning them that trying to appeal to Burns' better nature is an awful idea.
Extreme Doormat: Most of the time, he's this to Mr. Burns, often doing whatever Burns asks him to do, even at his own expense.
Flanderization: Smithers was originally an exaggeration of the Yes-Man (the guy who always sucked up to his boss). Come season three, the writers started playing with the notion that Smithers was in love with his boss, yet was heterosexual (in "Secrets to a Successful Marriage," Smithers was married to a woman who looked like Elizabeth Taylor's character from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof). This got milked for all it was worth, and now Smithers' sexuality is Ambiguously Gay (or just plain gay) with definite shades of Single-Target Sexuality, though it has been implied that Mr. Burns isn't the only man he loves.
Flat Character: Prior to his character development, he was identified as Mr. Burns' right hand man who was a closeted homosexual with strong feelings for his boss. Over time, he grew into his own character and was more expressive with his sexuality.
Foil: To Mr. Burns, as Mr. Burns is a narcissistic and ruthless sociopath who treats his employees horribly, while Mr. Smithers is a soft-spoken Nice Guy who is on good terms with most of the employees.
Friendly Enemy: While Burns often plays an antagonistic role to the Simpsons or Springfield as a whole, Smithers never fails to be friendly or at least professional to them and people as a whole, particularly while he's off the clock or even while he's still on it. The feeling is mutual; while the family doesn't care for Mr. Burns, they seem to be on good terms with Smithers.
Friend to All Children: Downplayed. While he does assist Mr. Burns in hiding nuclear waste in public areas, among other schemes, he's pretty friendly towards Bart and Lisa, a direct contrast to how his boss acts towards children. He's also pretty friendly and peppy around the kids who visit the plant during a field trip in "Homer's Odyssey." A supplemental promotional advertisement for "Who Shot Mr. Burns" once described Smithers as being "good with kids."
Gay Conservative: Supplemental material has stated that Smithers is a Log Cabin Republican, though he doesn't approve of Sideshow Bob's ultra-conservative views.
Gay Cowboy:
- In "El Viaje Misterioso De Nuestro Jomer", he shows up at the chili festival wearing a pink and white cowboy outfit with a neon sign on the back saying "Hot Nashville Nights".
- In The Simpson Family Smile-Time Variety Hour segment of "The Simpsons Spin Off Showcase", he dresses as a cowboy and sings about whipping it good with a liquorice whip.
Generation Xerox: His father looked very similar to him and had the same job.
- He also greatly resembles his mother.
Green-Eyed Monster: Occasionally, whenever Homer or someone else gains Mr. Burns's favor (such as in "Simpson and Delilah").
The Glomp: He has a tendency to clamp onto people during emotionally charged moments. Examples include "Blood Feud," when he gratefully gives Bart a big hug when the boy agrees to donate blood to a sick Mr. Burns, and again in the same episode, when he bursts into tears and hugs one of Burns' hired goons, as he tells him that Homer helped save Mr. Burns' life. In a deleted "Who Shot Mr. Burns" scene, he gives Mr. Burns a big hug when his boss wakes up from his coma.
Ignored Enamored Underling: He's madly in love with his boss, who doesn't reciprocate.
Incompatible Orientation: He's infatuated with Mr. Burns despite the latter being (most likely) heterosexual and having numerous romances. Smithers is madly in love with him and often tries to confess his feelings for him.
Last-Name Basis: Rarely referred to by his first name, Waylon.
Likes Older Men:
- A gay example. Smithers is hopelessly in love with Burns, who's old enough to be his grandfather. Most episodes depict Smithers as being in his early 40s, while Burns's most common age is 104.
- In a humorous example, Smithers is shown flirting◊ with a mall Santa in an official Twitter Christmas promo.
Love Martyr: A one-sided example. Mr. Burns clearly sees him as nothing more than his servant and treats him callously to boot, but regardless Smithers is madly in love with him an devoted to his duties as his assistant.
Momma's Boy: Burns mentions that Smithers is close to his mother. In "Homer Defined," when Smithers is describing what he did over the weekend, he mentions writing a letter to his mother. And in "Moho House," he's shown happily giving his mother a birthday present.
Morality Pet: It has been shown that for as much of an Ungrateful Bastard as Burns can be to him that he does have a genuine soft spot for him. When Burns had a 10-Minute Retirement after selling the power plant to some German investors, he joined Smithers for a night slumming it at Moe's. Smithers has also occasionally talked Burns out of evil acts such as when he stopped Burns from having Homer beaten for writing an angry letter.
Nerd Glasses: Used to convey his fastidious, pencil-pusher mentality.
Nice Guy: Despite consistently doing the bidding of Mr. Burns, Smithers is usually nice and friendly to others.
Odd Friendship: With Marge Simpson, of all people due to their shared interests and their respective relationship troubles. His relationship with Homer also varies per episode since Smithers can be more approachable than his boss.
Only Sane Employee: Smithers is pretty much the only person at the power plant who actually knows what he's doing. Several episodes show that Homer is just the worst of an extremely stupid and incompetent workforce (sometimes not even the worst).
Only Sane Man: Smithers has no emotional outbursts at all. Aside from some odd details about his love for Burns (his screensaver and the reveal that he raised Smithers after his father died), he is the most reasonable and sane person in the show.
Punch-Clock Villain: Despite working for possibly the evilest man in Springfield, Smithers is perfectly affable when off the clock and has even helped the Simpson family out occasionally. He helped Lisa find the creator of the Malibu Stacy dolls in "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy", went directly against Mr. Burns when he went too far in "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" and genuinely tried to be a Benevolent Boss when Mr. Burns was arrested before he discovered his employees mocking him in "American History X-cellent".
Punny Name: His full name, Waylon Smithers, sounds a lot like "Wayland the Smith" from Germanic/Norse mythology.
Race Lift: In his first appearance ("Homer's Odyssey"), Smithers was dark-skinned with blue hair due to an unfortunate mistake when the show was sent overseas to Korea to be colorized and animated. The production crew did think about leaving him this way, but the thought of a black man who sucked up to his white boss wouldn't sit well with a lot of people, so they made it known that Smithers would be white (er, yellow) for all subsequent episodes. On the DVD commentary for this episode, director Wes Archer said that he made Smithers black by expressing his interest towards including black characters in his episodes. Jokingly handwaved by some of the writers, that in "Homer's Odyssey", Smithers had just come back from holiday with a heavy tan.
Single-Issue Psychology: It was implied in one episode that Smithers' sexuality was caused by Mr. Burns telling him, when he was young, that his father died in the Amazon, killed by a tribe of savage women. It would explain his freak out in a strip club.
Single-Target Sexuality: Smithers admires Mr. Burns way too much for it to be just a sycophant to his boss. In recent seasons, he is attracted to or at least dates other men but it's clear he sees Burns as the love of his life. Even if Burns doesn't feel the same way.
Silent Snarker: Sometimes his expressions speak in place of words.
Straight Gay: He's gay, but he isn't particularly flamboyant. He does join dances and musical numbers with joy but only on a few occasions.
Subordinate Excuse: He's deeply in love with Burns and became his servant for it.
Sycophantic Servant: He's a devoted minion to Mr. Burns. In the Dracula Halloween episode, he is even dressed literally as Renfield in Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula movie
Undying Loyalty: While there are times Smithers will draw the line with Burns' cruelty, he will always end up back by his side by the end of it. Even when Burns was bankrupt and no longer his employer, he immediately moved him to his house and continued to serve his whims.
What Does She See in Him?: An LGBT example, it's not clear why he's so attracted to Burns, a weak, fragile man who is decades older than him and is terrible towards every living being on the planet including himself. The Blunder Years tried to explain this by having Mr. Burns' be a father-figure to Smithers after unwittingly causing Waylon Smithers, Sr.'s death. However, Smithers' is still infatuated with him despite this, either because of continuity or because he has an Electra complex.
Yes-Man: To Mr. Burns.
- One episode parodied the concept by giving Burns a team of Yes Men, with Smithers as alpha. On discovering he's suddenly become poor, Burns denounces them all as the yes men they are. They, of course, reply, "Yes, sir!"
- Subverted by the fact that Smithers will sometimes oppose Burns if he feels he needs to, such as trying to talk Burns out of blocking the sun over Springfield (as it "crossed the line from everyday villainy to cartoonish super-villainy"), or in going behind his back to reveal Sideshow Bob's electoral fraud to Bart and Lisa, fearing the consequences for his "choice of lifestyle" if the Republican Bob takes power. He is also prone to gently correcting some of Burns' less grounded ideas, such as pointing out his planned company softball team consist of now-long deceased veterans, or offering to make a logo for Burns' cult after he repeatedly replicates copyrighted ones by mistake.
You Need to Get Laid: Due to focusing too much of his time on Mr Burns, he is coldly rejected by Mr Burns when Smithers tries to admit his feelings for him. After singing about his woes and sexual frustration, Homer sets him up with another man.

Lenny Leonard/Lenford and Carl Carlson

Lenny Leonard/Lenford and Carlton "Carl" Carlson

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Carl is on the right, Lenny is on the left. Remember that, now.

Debut: "Life on the Fast Lane" (Lenny), "Homer's Night Out" (Carl)

Voiced by: Harry Shearer (Lenny), Hank Azaria (Carl, 1989-2020) Alex Désert (Carl, 2020-present)

Homer's two workmates and closest buddies.

Tropes applying to both

Alliterative Name: Lenny Leonard. Carl Carlson.
Ascended Extra: They were initially just background characters that appeared at the plant. Over time, they became some of Homer's most frequently seen friends. It's to the point in the later seasons they've all but completely replaced Barney as Homer's go to best friend(s).
Bad Boss:
- Parodied when Mr. Burns lost his fortune, the bank took over the Nuclear Plant and put Lenny in charge. We never really see what goes on except a brief shot of Lenny nervously telling people to work harder, but Homer gets sent home early to think about a bad mistake he made and Smithers describes him as "a real bear on tardiness". Even Mr. Burns takes notice, and the whole thing is referred to as "Lenny's reign of terror".
- When Carl was promoted to being Homer's supervisor he was no better, as he turned Homer into his Beleaguered Assistant, making Homer do all his work and obey his whims while Carl jetsetted over the world and hung out with the rich and famous. Oddly, this contrasts an early episode where Carl is said to already be Homer's supervisor (he enforced his power only once to get Homer to stop insulting him).
Brilliant, but Lazy: They both have masters degrees in nuclear physics but prefer bumming around with Homer at Moe's rather than do any real work. Their former principal even bribed them by making sure they can't enter any great universities and threaten to send a recommendation letter to a good one if they talk about it in "Take My Life, Please".
Characterization Marches On: In early seasons they are only seen at the plant most of the time. They become regulars at Moe's only around season 6. And their Homoerotic Subtext was completely absent until season 8.
Childhood Friends: Apparently with Homer (and Moe) according to episodes like "The Blunder Years" and "The Way We Weren't". Sort of a retcon, because there's no evidence of it in early seasons where Barney was his childhood friend.
Depending on the Writer:
- Depending on the episode and the gag, sometimes Lenny is the popular one ("Not Lenny!") to Carl's The Generic Guy, other times Carl is the popular one to Lenny's Butt-Monkey ("What are you doing man? That's Carl!"). This is largely Played for Laughs, as there's nothing special about either of them, and both are average Satellite Characters who never do anything noteworthy in any episode.
- In "Homer's Enemy," they are implied to be much younger than Homer (they had to have masters degrees to qualify as plant workers; Homer was hired when the plant opened and grandfathered in). Other episodes make them Homer's classmates and childhood friends.
Divergent Character Evolution: Starting as two of Homer's dumb friends, now Lenny's somewhat of a Cloudcuckoolander and Carl is now a Deadpan Snarker. Lenny has evolved to be one of the biggest bores but values his friends a lot (spending a lottery ticket winning on a big party for everyone he considers a friend) while Carl is shown to be a bit sleazy and can fall into False Friend territory such as when he got promoted or ran away with the gang lottery ticket for his own, albeit sympathetic, gain.
Carl: Give me the weapons. (points weapons at Moe and Lenny) Now it's Carl's time.
- Also from Charlie, originally they were just the three generic co-workers of Homer at the Nuclear Plant, voiced interchangeably by the three male voice actors. Eventually Carl and Lenny became Those Two Guys while he fell Out of Focus.
The Dividual: Homer needs to write down which one is the black one and which one is the white one due to how similar they are.
Fair-Weather Friend: Both to Homer. They couldn't care less if he is in trouble and would turn against him at the drop of a hat.
Flanderization: They were originally Those Two Guys whom Homer worked with; both were more competent than Homer, but they still liked him (in a class-clown sort of way). Later in the series, they started being written as secretly gay, to the point where Lenny's defining character trait is his (unevenly reciprocated) infatuation with Carl. Their intelligence also dimmed to Homer's level, making them more liable to join Homer in his antics.
Hero of Another Story: Both of their personal lives are supposedly incredibly exciting, though we never get to see any of it.
Heterosexual Life-Partners: Ambiguously Bi aside, they are usually just friends.
Hidden Depths: Their status as relatively unimportant side characters allows for several of their fantastical accomplishments to be mentioned, but never shown. Carl apparently possesses an IQ of 214 and is deeply in touch with his Icelandic heritage, while Lenny is a war hero who is also a highly successful novelist. Both also have masters degrees in nuclear physics.
Homoerotic Subtext: In the post-Scully years. Ramped up even further during Al Jean's tenure.
Lenny: [seeing Homer and Marge kissing] Remember when we used to kiss like that? [beat] With our respective girlfriends?
Informed Ability: Their skills and accomplishments on paper make them seem like they'd both be highly competent, when in reality both are lazy blue collar workers who spend most of their time drinking.
Ink-Suit Actor: Invoked. Carl looks like an animated version of Alex Désert, his second voice actor.
Mellow Fellow: Both are very laid-back and easy-going most of the time.
Not So Above It All: There are times they can be sucked into Homer's reckless antics. As Frank Grimes pointed out, they are only really sane and competent by comparison.
Only Sane Man: Both of them are quite a bit more together than most, particularly the people they hang out with, but Carl more so.
Repetitive Name: Their full names are Lenny Leonard/Lenford and Carlton Carlson.
Satellite Character: Though Carl has gotten one spotlight episode, both tend to simply act as Homer's friends and little else.
Smarter Than You Look: Even if neither of them appear to be particularly intelligent, especially Lenny (Carl seems slightly smarter than Lenny but that's not saying much), they did earn master's degrees in nuclear physics.
Smart Jerk and Nice Moron: In later seasons, they can be this after their Divergent Character Evolution. Carl is smarter, he considers Lenny dumb in "Pygmoelian", and he's chosen as the supervisor in "The Devil Wears Nada" only because he's less idiotic than Lenny and Homer. On the other hard, Carl is shown to be a selfish False Friend (as seen in "The Saga of Carl") while Lenny is shown to be more generous and caring to his friends (as seen in "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble").
Someone Else's Problem: They are amazingly indifferent to the goings on at the power plant, such as where nuclear waste gets dumped.
Those Two Guys: The original Trope Codifiers.
Vitriolic Best Buds: Not seen that often, but they can be very dismissive of each other (like in "Mountain of Madness").
With Friends Like These...: While they are genuinely close buddies to each other (most of the time), they are not reliable friends to Homer at all. Their helpful moments are very rare.

Lenny

Ambiguously Bi: He seems to be legitimately attracted to Carl, though he has also shown interest in women. Lenny is completely obsessed with him; his vision of heaven is full of Carl, he carved a mountain into the shape of Carl, and he tries to hold Carl's hand in a limo but Carl pushes him away.
Beware the Nice Ones: Carl learned that the hard way in "The Saga of Carl" when Lenny takes Carl's betrayal very hard and attacks him. Immediately lampshaded by Moe.
Moe: When the nice ones snap, it's always a good show.
The Bore: Later seasons explain why Lenny is a Flat Character with that he is just that boring on his own.
Declan Desmond: Lenny, always exciting to hear from you. Did you ever try that new shampoo?
Lenny: Nope, never did. Do you want to see me pay my cable bill? I have checks with butterflies on them. [defensively] I am interesting.
Butt-Monkey: Starting in "Mountain of Madness", probably the first episode where he gets the short end of the stick. For the rest of the show, he gets injured quite often, especially involving his eyes.
Characterization Marches On: In early seasons, he (along with Carl) mostly serves as a Straight Man to Homer. While he's still this in later seasons, he also becomes a comical character on his own, and season 8 also starts a little Running Gag of other characters randomly mentioning him in conversations when he's not around.
Cloudcuckoolander: Downplayed compared to other citizens, but sometimes he's prone to random statements.
Department of Redundancy Department: "I'm Lenny. This is Carl and Homer. I'm Lenny."
Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes: He has big sleepy eyelids, which denote his slacker nature in contrast to Carl's more excitable nature.
Eye Scream: Lenny is way too prone to these types of injuries.
Lenny: "Ow, my eye! I'm not supposed to get [object name] in it!"
Genius Ditz: He is portrayed as a simple, often naive, blue-collar working man but he possesses a master's degree in nuclear physics. And "The Boys Of Bummer" reveals that Lenny is an author of mystery novels that are praised by Stephen King.
Iron Butt Monkey: In "G.I. D'oh", he survives getting crushed by a tank.
Lust Object: Marge is occasionally implied to view him as one, keeping a picture of him in her hair and having a shrine dedicated to him when she thought he was injured. During a non-canon future photo album, Marge is shown to have briefly re-married to Lenny.
Nice Guy: Lenny's generally a laid-back, friendly individual.
Only Sane Man: He's one of a handful of Springfieldians who doesn't join The Leader's Church of Happyology.
Solid Cartoon Facial Stubble: The only non-Simpson who has this. It is depicted as a brown patch filling the area around his mouth.
Straw Loser: Part of his Butt-Monkey status in the mid-to-late seasons.
Lenny: Please don't tell anyone how I live.
Sudden Name Change: Lenny's last name has been inconsistently given as "Leonard" and "Lenford":
- Smithers first calls him Leonard in "Burns' Heir", though it's not clear if that's his first or last name.
- Homer calls him Lenford in Season 13's "The Frying Game". Again not clear if this is his first name or last name.
- He's called Mr Leonard in Season 14's "Bart Of War" and three episodes^note in Season 15 give that as his surname.
- Bart calls him Mr Lenford in "At Long Last Leave", confirming that Lenford was a surname.
The Un-Favourite: As revealed in "Mona Leaves-a", his mother prefers Carl over him.

Carl

Clear Their Name: Carl goes to Iceland in "The Saga of Carl" so he could repair the bad reputation his family had. Though if he had done so he would have found out that his ancestors were actually 'worse' than people remember..
A Day in the Limelight:
- "The Saga of Carl" in Season 24.
- To a lesser extent, the subplot of "The Devil Wears Nada" in Season 21 which focuses on him being a Mean Boss, especially since Lenny barely appears in the episode.
- "Carl Carlson Rides Again" in Season 34 is all about Carl trying to figure out his identity.
Deadpan Snarker: Sometimes he plays the snarky Straight Man to Lenny or the other guys.
Dramatic Irony: Carl stole his friend's share of the lotto win so he can repair his family's reputation in their town, however, it was made clear when his friend read it, they were far worse than anyone realize. Not only that, what Carl did to his Homer, Moe and Lenny pretty much added to the horribleness of his family's legacy.
False Friend: In "The Saga of Carl" he betrays the rest of the gang, including Lenny, because he feels there was never a real friendship between them.
Happily Adopted: He is from Iceland and he was ready to betray Homer and crew to restore the family honor.
Mistaken for Gay: Depending on the writer, his friendship with Lenny is enough for the town to spread rumours about them being gay. While Lenny appears to be more overt in his feelings for Carl, Carl himself doesn't reciprocate and is tired of the rumours.
Multiple-Choice Past: Was adopted by a yellow couple from Iceland but flashbacks have shown his childhood and teenage years in Springfield and black family members who look like him are occasionally seen.
Oblivious to Love: Depending on the writer, Carl is either unaware of Lenny's obsession with him or is aware of the gay rumours about him and Lenny.
Token Black Friend: Among the friends of the bar, he is sometimes referred to by Homer as "the black one".
The Whitest Black Guy: Carl's most recent A Day in the Limelight episode was about him being this; confessing that since he was adopted and raised by a white couple from Iceland he always had trouble relating to other black people.
"I've always felt like an outsider. Not Icelandic enough, not black enough. I mean, hey, sure, I'm barfly enough, but that's not enough."

Charlie

A workmate with Homer, Lenny and Carl. Voiced by Dan Castellaneta.

Butt-Monkey: He has bad luck in most of his appearances.
Living Prop: While he receives a few lines here and there, particularly in earlier episodes, he's generally a background character with little in the way of any clear characterization.
Only One Name: His last name is never revealed.
Out of Focus: While always a very minor character, he appears more often in early seasons (for example in Homer at the Bat). In later seasons, he's mostly in the background.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In "King Size Homer", he gets injured on the job with disability pay which becomes the main inspiration for Homer's scheme to get overweight and exploit the program so he can work at home too.

Shopkeepers

Moe Szyslak

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If you're gonna read my section there's a two drink minimum!

Debut: "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"

Voiced by: Hank Azaria

The famously ugly, surly owner of Moe's Tavern, the Local Hangout that Homer, Carl, Lenny and Barney frequent. Has a soft side under his crustiness, and is one of Homer's closest friends.

Abhorrent Admirer: Towards Marge, and not just her. Moe's romantic attractions have resulted in criminal behavior and run-ins with the law; he has stalked Maude Flanders and other townspeople, he must register as a sex offender, and has had a restraining order placed upon him.
Acquainted with Emergency Services: Inverted for Black Comedy: he is so obsessed with trying to kill himself that Springfield's suicide prevention hotlines have blocked his number.
Alien Blood: Has been shown to bleed green. He claims that's only the first few drops and it will come out red afterwards.
Ambiguously Bi: Between his "not in public!" comment when Homer kissed him in "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Bluefish," waxing poetic about stupid pretty boy quarterbacks for a bit too long, secretly writing and enjoying gay fanfiction, calling himself Homer's life partner (and frequent jokes about him having a similar place in Homer's life to Marge), treating Homer going to other bars as if he were cheating on him, and using the excuse that he only kissed Waylon to "see what kissing a man was like" despite the fact he's kissed multiple men over the course of the series, an argument for Moe not being completely straight could definitely be made. Also falls into the Hypocrite category as he was shown in earlier years to be homophobic (although that's lessened exponentially over time, to the point where he was the first townsperson to speak up in defense of legalizing gay marriage in Springfield).
Ambiguously Human: Claims to be "half monster-half Armenian", his father was once shown to be a yeti, in one episode he cut himself and green stuff came out, and he once showed Bart and Milhouse a jar containing his tail.
Ax-Crazy: He has his moments.
Moe: (after beating a fake Homer with a bat) Who is the sociopath now?
Back-Alley Doctor: Revealed to be one in "HOMЯ", though he operates in his bar rather than a back alley.
Moe's Business Card: Yep, I'm a surgeon.
Badass Bystander: Moe is one of the most combat-capable characters in the series, either with his shotgun or with his fists.
The Bartender: It's his job.
Backstory of the Day: Far from unique on this show, but he is rather prone to it. Episodes will reveal out of nowhere that he's a former prizefighter, was a forgotten member of the Little Rascals, is a devout snake-handler/follower of Voodoo, is an illegal immigrant (and his ethnic heritage isn't kept straight either)... the list goes on and on. Though in fairness, the "prizefighter" bit hasn't been totally thrown by the wayside, as people will sometimes call attention to his cauliflower ears. In "Dumbbell Indemnity," he explains to Renee that boxing permanently made his brain erratic.
Berserk Button: Whoever that one punk kid is that keeps bothering his place with prank calls. The second he gets even the slightest clue who it is, he drops everything to get sweet, sweet revenge.
Big Damn Heroes: Moe has used his shotgun to "persuade" people not to hurt Homer and Marge.
Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: Moe Goes from Rags to Riches shows that his father was a yeti.
Breakout Character: Initially just another member of the secondary cast, Moe gradually grew into one of the most important characters in the series outside of the Simpson family.
Brooklyn Rage: Can be pissed off just by being humiliated by a prank call and has a New York accent (since his voice is based off of Al Pacino).
Butt-Monkey: In later seasons, he becomes one of the biggest losers along with Kirk and Gil. It's well known he hates his life and is so desperate that he wants to kill himself, though it's usually Played for Laughs.
Child Hater: Except during his Friend to All Children moments. The latter is most notable with the Simpson kids.
Moe: See, this is why we should hate kids!
Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Comedian Rich Hall always claimed Moe's likeness was based on him, which Matt Groening eventually confirmed.
Creepy Good: Even though he's a fundamentally good person, he's often quite unnerving.
Deep-Fried Whatever: Ordered a giant, military-grade deep fryer for his restaurant Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag. It can flash-fry a buffalo in 40 seconds (which, according to Homer, is too long to wait).
Did Not Get the Girl: His easy-to-lose harsh temper usually turns down women and finding a girlfriend for Moe has therefore been a running joke, from indulged sexual abstinence to unsuccessful suicide attempts to dating generally rejected women.
Driven to Suicide: The later episodes play up the fact that Moe is so depressed that he keeps trying to kill himself — to the point that Suicide Prevention has to block his number. It is also implied at least once that the only reason why he constantly attempts to commit suicide is because Reverend Lovejoy keeps on telling him that he has nothing to live for.
Early Installment Character-Design Difference: In the first season, Moe had black hair and wore a white shirt, peach apron and pink bow tie. From the second season onwards, Moe has grey hair and wears a lavender blue shirt with a navy blue apron and bow tie.
Eye Scream: Apparently has a tendency to do this to people he invites to his house.
Everyone Has Standards: Played for Laughs in Lisa the Iconoclast:
“Homer, you know I support, uh, most any prejudice you can name, but your hero-phobia sickens me"
Flanderization: He started out as a cheap, grumpy bartender who would do anything for a little extra money, including resorting to humorous behind-the-scenes illegal activities (such as smuggling animals for unknown reasons). He was also surly and hot-tempered, but still a good man overall. He was just a troubled, unhappy grouch living a disappointing, loveless life and doing whatever he can to improve it. As the series progressed however, his behavior became increasingly unethical and criminal. He started to encourage alcoholism, became a registered sex offender, engaged in far worse crimes, and is now subjected to a Running Gag where he attempts suicide and always fails due to bad luck.
Former Child Star: In one episode he claims he was one of The Little Rascals. And in-universe it actually appears to be true.
Friend to All Children: Despite being creepy to adults, children love him. He's quite nice to Bart (Moe doesn't know he is the one prank calling him) and Lisa (who tells Moe she likes him in "Homer the Moe"), and is the nicest babysitter Maggie's ever had. He also reads to sick children at the hospital on Wednesday nights.
The Friend Nobody Likes: His loyal customers are the closest thing he has to actual friends, but sometimes he annoys them like in "My Fare Lady" when they call him a "jerk". Lampshaded in "Pygmoelian":
Moe: Okay, I get it. I ain't pleasant to look at.
Lenny: Or listen to.
Carl: Or be with.
Gonk: A running gag is that he is ugly. Sometimes to the point of being considered inhuman.
Gun Nut: Moe loves his shotgun, and he isn't afraid to threaten people with it. He's saved both Homer and Marge with it on separate occasions.
Hair-Trigger Temper: He is very impulsive and irritable.
Hero of Another Story: After "Das Bus" ended he somehow saved the kids who were stuck on an island, not to mention his adventures at the end of "The Homer They Fall". Apparently one Christmas while attempting suicide, he was shown what the world would be like had he never been born.
Hidden Depths: Some of his ambiguous backstory includes details like being a voodoo practitioner, as well as going to homeless shelters to read them books like Little Women (of course, when Ned Flanders points this out, Moe tells him that if he ever makes it public knowledge, he will tear Ned apart).
Hollywood Voodoo: Reveals himself to be a practicer in "The Joy of Sect", and he uses voodoo dolls to make Barney want beer. Back in "Homer the Heretic" he claimed to be a snake-handler, which either contradicts this^note or reinforces it.^note
Hope Crusher: He makes people's lives just a bit more hellish through a variety of nasty pranks so he will feel a little bit better about himself.
Hypocrite: Once railed against "immigants", despite being an immigrant of some ambiguous kind himself.
I Coulda Been a Contender!: Moe is frustrated by the failure of his once promising boxing career, which he blames on politics, rather than the fact he couldn't take a punch.
I Just Want to Have Friends: He often feels lonely and it's implied many times that he Desperately Craves Affection, such as the episode "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches" where he thinks his only friend is his bar rag (although, other episodes make it clear that he's friends with his customers).
Informed Deformity: While Moe is quite odd-looking compared to other characters, people act like he's hideous and even inhuman. He's not even that odd looking by Groening-character design standards—he really isn't any uglier than Nelson, Barney, or Mr. Burns. None of them are supposed to be particularly good looking, but none of them are considered monsters the same way he is.
I Take Offense to That Last One: Played with.
Ned Flanders: (in an uncharacteristic bout of rage) You ugly, hate-filled man!
Moe: Hey! I may be ugly and hate-filled but- ...what was that third thing you said?
I Was Quite a Looker: Then he started boxing, which is the explanation for why he became so ugly that women find him repulsive.
"They called me Kid Gorgeous. Then I was Kid Presentable. Then Kid Gruesome. Then finally, Kid Moe."
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite his somewhat angry and occasionally unpleasant attitude at times, he shows a soft spot towards children and his close friends and customers. He also does very noble acts in the credits of "The Homer They Fall", being seen saving multiple people, putting out a forest fire, and giving food to a famished village.
Kindhearted Cat Lover: Moe really loves cats. He dotes on his pet cat Mr. Snookums, is kind to Snowball II, and kisses a random stray cat after successfully getting a date.
Multiple-Choice Past: Several episodes contradict each other as to what his nationality actually is.
Noble Demon: He gets on quite well with the Simpsons. He's bonded with the Simpson kids, and used his shotgun to save Homer from being beaten up and Marge from being threatened by a gang of angry cab drivers.
No Celebrities Were Harmed;
- Hank Azaria described his original voice as a bad Al Pacino impression.
- Bart pranking him was based on retired boxer, Louis "Red" Deutsch whose bar would get pranked called every week by radio DJs, John Elmo and Jim Davidson. When he realized he was being pranked, Red would get mad and threaten to kill them.
Non-Specifically Foreign: Has an ambiguous ethnic background - has variously been implied or described as Dutch, Italian, Armenian, Arab, Polish...
Odd Friendship: With Sideshow Mel, of all people. Lampshaded in "Moho House".
Sideshow Mel: Why are you telling me?
Moe: I always considered us friends.
Parental Neglect:
- Implied in "Pokey Mom", where he mentions lingering emotional pain because his father never hugged him.
  Moe: Now I can focus on my crippling emotional pain. Oh daddy, why? Why won't you hug me? You hugged the mailman!
- One episode implies that Moe's parents left him at a summer camp and never came to pick him up.
- As of "King Leer," he now has a solid backstory, which includes Moe's father kicking him out as a preteen for disappointing him. Judging by the constant name-calling from his father and siblings, Moe's sister treating his abandonment as his fault, and the fact that their go-to for winning family arguments is to start smacking each other with shoes, it's reasonable to assume the mistreatment went beyond neglect.
Papa Wolf: To Maggie Simpson. He'll go to extreme lengths to keep her happy and safe, including facing down the Springfield Mafia. While this plot gets dropped in the series proper, the spin-off comics and books show that Moe remains Maggie's doting babysitter even after the events of "Moe Baby Blues."
Perpetual Frowner: He's a fairly depressed individual, as shown when he attempts to commit suicide in "Moe Baby Blues".
Punny Name: Not Moe himself, but he's always being asked for Al Coholic, Jacques Strappe, I.P. Freely, Seymour Butz, Homer Sexual (not Homer Simpson), Ivana Tinkel, Mike Rotch, Amanda Huggin-Kiss, and Hugh Jass.^note
Running Gag:
- He often receives humiliating prank calls from Bart Simpson. He's unaware who's calling, and issues death threats to the caller.
- In the later seasons, every other appearance of his features another failed suicide attempt.
Sadist: A few times he mentions his enjoyment of feeding on the disappointment of others, usually for very petty reasons like having their parking spot taken.
Self-Applied Nickname: Whenever he wants to appeal to kids he calls himself "Uncle Moe"—he once turned his bar into the family restaurant "Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag," and also used it when babysitting Maggie in "Moe Baby Blues" and bonding with Marge and the Simpson kids in "Mommie Beerest."
Shotguns Are Just Better: Keeps one behind his bar and uses one as part of his self defence through dance class.
Stalker with a Crush: He has long been infatuated with Marge (whom he often refers to as Midge) and has on occasion professed his love for her and tried to win her away from Homer. His infatuation was intense enough to enter stalker territory. Ironically, she's one of his most frequent customers' wives.
Stealth Pun: Constantly threatens his mysterious prank caller with death if he ever finds out who they are. Guess this bartender would really like to be a Bart-ender.
Straw Loser: He is often portrayed as ridiculously pathetic (especially later episodes) to the point of being a bigger loser than his customers.
Territorial Comic Relief: In "Radioactive Man", Moe claims that he was once one of the original members of The Little Rascals, but was fired after he beat the original Alfalfa to death for stealing his signature Running Gag.
Throw the Dog a Bone: In "The Wayz We Were," he reunites with Maya from "Eeny Teeny Maya Moe" and the two end up getting married, despite Moe's paranoia that she would leave him if her ever said he loved her.
Took a Level in Badass: Sometimes, like in the couch gag where the couches attack and Moe is seen as the one of the few fighting back, blasting at his bar seats with a shotgun and knocking away his stools.
Toxic Friend Influence: In several instances, Moe shows he deliberately manipulates Homer and Barney into drinking, confident in his belief that they'll be back. And if they turn against him, Moe quickly becomes incredibly sour, slapping Barney when he tries to point out Moe insulted Homer behind his back.
Trapped by Gambling Debts: He once mentions owing $64,000 and asks the Simpsons for funds to dig himself back up. But he too is a Loan Shark, matter-of-factly telling Homer when he needs a loan that if he can't provide collateral, he will have to break his legs right then and there.
Unexplained Recovery: He was hit by a train in "Lisa Goes Gaga", but is back alive and well in "Moonshine River".
Vitriolic Best Buds: More or less with all his regular customers.
Vocal Evolution: Moe's voice sounds more nasally in the first few seasons to reflect his weasel-like qualities. Sometime after season 6, Hank Azaria dropped the nasal inflection and Moe's voice lowered considerably into Hank's natural speaking octave.
White Sheep: Moe's not a beacon of purity, but, as "King Leer" shows, he's much better than the rest of his family, who, beyond somehow being more sleazy and corrupt than Moe when it comes to business, will also happily abandon him, insult him, throw him under the bus (in the case of his siblings), or manipulate him for their own gain, (in the case of his father, who delights in manipulating all his children and pitting them against each other). They're actually so bad that Marge flat out tells him that he's justified in cutting off his family because he deserves better than them, despite her firm belief that families should always work things out and stick together. In fact, while describing his family situation, Moe acknowledges the trope by name.
Moe: Yeah, well, let me explain. You know how the world sees me as a, uh—
Homer: Human toilet brush?
Moe: Bingo. Well, I'm the white sheep of my family.
With Friends Like These...: He treats his customers as he treats everyone else, even the ones who are somewhat closer to him, contributing to his The Friend Nobody Likes status. It doesn't help that he's constantly hitting on Homer's wife.

Apu Nahasapeemapetilon

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Thank you, come again!

Debut: "The Telltale Head"

Voiced by: Hank Azaria

The owner of Springfield's main convenience store, the Kwik-E-Mart, which is open 24/7 and, as such, attracts plenty of customers despite its rather lacking standards of quality (like Homer, Bart, and Snake Jailbird, who only comes in to rob the place). Renowned as a workaholic, he is eventually partnered off with an arranged marriage and ends up the father of octuplets.

Almighty Janitor: Has one of the most unassuming jobs in Springfield, yet he's one of its smartest, most resourceful citizens.
Ascended Extra: Was simply the convenience store clerk that only knew the family because they shopped there. Over time, his screentime grew and he got several focus episodes ("Homer and Apu", "Much Apu About Nothing", "The Two Mrs Nahasapeemapetilons", "Eight Misbehavin'"). He is now, arguably, one of the most important non-Simpson family member characters, to the point of being the fifth playable character in Hit and Run.
Asian Store-Owner: Indian, specifically.
Beta Couple: With Manjula to Homer and Marge in later seasons.
Beware the Nice Ones: Is normally friendly and genial, but has shown himself capable of both considerable strength and intense rage.
Bollywood Nerd: Doesn't come up a lot, but he graduated as top of his class in computer science at Cal Tech (Calcutta Tech)—a class of 7 million.
Breakout Character: Apu initially started off as a comparatively minor character, but eventually got multiple focus episodes and is now one of the most prominent supporting characters. It got to the point where Apu became a playable character - the only non-Simpson of the five characters in-game - in Hit and Run.
But for Me, It Was Tuesday: How he see's being held up at gun point and occasionally shot, all just part of the job. He even has former robbers he likes due to the personal way they handled the robberies (waiting with him while the ambulance gets there, using nylon ropes) such as Snake, Sideshow Bob or Jack Crowley.
Character Catchphrase:
"Thank you, come again!" (even to store robbers!)
"I can't believe you don't shut up!"
The Chew Toy: He's been shot so many times that it's just a $100 fine.
Chick Magnet: Apu enjoyed a reign as Springfield's most eligible bachelor — until he got married.
Cool Car: Drives a '79 Pontiac Trans Am that could only be described as bitchin'.
Demoted to Extra: Apu — for many years one of the show's most prominent and iconic secondary characters — has not had a speaking line since 2017, though he continues to appear in background shots. Although the producers announced that all other non-white characters voiced by white actors would be recast, and many have since returned with their new voice actors, Apu remains conspicuous in his absence.
Determinator:
- In one early episode, Apu says that the town government should hire more police officers, since he'd been shot 8 times that year. As a result, he almost missed work. Almost.
- And then there was the time when he managed to work a 96-hour shift without having a break. It ended when he started thinking he was a hummingbird and tried to drink nectar out of his brother's head.
Do Wrong, Right: Official Kwik-E-Mart policy to selling bad food. Sell gone-off food if you will, but have a scapegoat handy.
Eternal Employee: Apu is almost always seen working at the Kwik-E-Mart. He's so dedicated, he once worked a 96-hour shift without a single break.
Everyone Has Standards: Is normally lax towards safety standards, but sometimes, both out of self-interest and genuine concern for his fellow Springfielders, he draws a line. For example, in The Simpsons Hit & Run, he is shocked that he has been selling Buzz Cola once its true nature is revealed.
Flanderization: He went from an impossibly cheap shopkeeper who couldn't care less for his customers into a hard-working, intensely patriotic immigrant. After Manjula was herself Flanderized into an extreme nag, Apu somewhat relapsed into his old "dishonest salesman" traits while his workaholic tendencies were ret-conned into an excuse for him to stay away from home at any costs.
Funny Foreigner: When the show needs an Indian stereotype joke.
The Gambling Addict: In "Much Apu About Something", it is revealed he has sold most of his stake in the store to Sanjay to cultivate his addiction to scratch-and-win cards.
Hidden Depths: Graduated top of his class of 7 million in Computer Science at Calcutta Technical Institute and originally came to America to study for his Ph.D. in the subject, which he did successfully; he only works as a convenience store clerk because he genuinely loves that job. An early episode also showed that he was a volunteer fireman.
Immigrant Patriotism: He started his stay in America as an illegal immigrant, though he later passed his citizenship exam and was officially recognised as a legitimate Indian American.
Lisa: You know, Apu, in a way, all Americans are immigrants, except Native Americans.
Homer: Yeah. Native Americans like us.
Lisa: No, I mean American Indians.
Apu: Like me.
Made of Iron: Has been shot so many times that when he was shot saving James Woods, the bullet ricocheted off another bullet that had previously been lodged there.
Manipulative Bastard: One Season 4 episode shows Apu curries Homer's favour in order to stop him going to the much cheaper store next door.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: Hank Azaria reportedly based his voice on Peter Sellers' Indian character in The Party.
Out of Focus: From season 27 onwards, he has begun to appear much less frequently, and rarely serves as anything more than a background character on the occasions when he does. This is presumed to have been done in response to the growing complaints directed at his character for being a racial stereotype.
Perfectly Arranged Marriage: While their marriage is far from perfect (the stresses of raising eight kids and Apu's infidelity), Apu and Manjula got off to a great start and do love each other. While many fans worry that this has been subverted, as some bitterness still remains, later episodes suggest they worked it out.
Rant Comedy: Occasionally slips into this, such as when Principal Skinner inadvertently ripped off Jurassic Park in his book concept. It's implied that Apu lectured Skinner on this for at least several minutes.
Apu: Oh, you have got to be kidding, sir. First you think of an idea that has already been done, and then you give it a title that nobody could possibly like! Didn't you think this...
[fade cut]
Apu: [more agitated] ...on the bestseller list for 18 months! Every magazine cover had it...
[fade cut]
Apu: ...most popular movies of all time, sir! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?! ...I mean, thank you, come again.
Sanity Ball: A common holder. While he can be just as vulnerable to the wackiness of Springfield as most, he has a self-awareness and common sense that means he is usually one of the sanest in the room.
Shout-Out: His name is one for Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy.
Sixth Ranger: Was this to the main Simpsons family in The Simpsons Hit & Run. Additionally, if the show needs Homer to have a friend outside of his regular drinking circle, Apu will be a likely candidate.
Stereotypical South Asian English: His accent is sing-song, his speech can get verbose, and he often mentions Hindu gods.
Super-Stoic Shopkeeper: Can show signs of this at times, as part of his personality as the Determinator.
Too Many Babies: When he and Manjula could not conceive a child, they underwent IVF and Manjula had octuplets. It also helped that Apu, Homer, Marge and Bart were each slipping her fertility drugs.
Workaholic: His devotion to his work is paramount.

Jeff "Comic Book Guy" Albertson

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Debut: "Three Men and a Comic Book"

Voiced by: Hank Azaria

The overweight and extremely nerdy owner and proprietor of "The Android's Dungeon", which sells comics, figurines, and similar nerdy paraphernalia. He's legendary for his sarcastic, cynical outlook on life.

Alliterative Name: Matt Groening originally wanted his real name to be Louis Lane and wasn't there when the writers decided to call him Jeff Albertson.
Basement-Dweller: His father-in-law complains about him living in the basement beneath his store.
Berserk Button: Being stupid when it comes to comic books.
Bart: Hey, Milhouse, watch me make a loser lose it.
Comic Book Guy: Ugh, customers, I hate them.
Bart: Excuse me, I just heard that before Spider-Man was a movie, it was a comic book. Is that possible?
Comic Book Guy: What the-? Gah! Suffering Steve Ditko! How can you not know that Spider-Man first appeared in 1962's classic Amazing Fantasy #15? Gaaaah!
Bart: Oooh, twelve cents! I'll take eight!
Comic Book Guy: What the- you idiot! Mint condition copies are like $40,000 each! Must.. lie down... on pile of unsold Hulk hands!
Big Bad: Of "Brick Like Me", as he represents the part of Homer's psyche that wants him to remain in the LEGO World rather than head back to the real world.
Character Catchphrase: "Worst. (insert noun here). Ever."
Compressed Hair: His hair is normally pulled back in what seems to be a typical balding-guy ponytail—but when he lets it down, as seen in one episode when he gives Bart his "man-scrunchie," it flows with volume and sheen worthy of a salon commercial.
Deadpan Snarker: Comic Book Guy seems to live by the philosophy "If you can't say something snarky or sarcastic, don't say anything at all."
A Degree in Useless: He has a masters' degree in folklore and mythology, and for his thesis he translated The Lord of the Rings into Klingon. However, "Married to the Blob" reveals that he has a degree in Chemical Engineering, a fact that finally convinces Mr. Nakamura that he is the right man for his daughter Kumiko. But his expertise in that field was never referenced before or since.
Disappeared Dad: He says the closest thing he ever had to a father figure was an Obi-Wan Kenobi action figure.
Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes: He always wears a condescending half-lidded stare, whether surveilling his store or shooting snarky comebacks to his customers.
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": For over a decade, he was just known as "Comic Book Guy" until he gave his real name out in random conversation in "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass" (the writers say that episode was chosen for the task because it was post-Super Bowl and thus would have such a large audience).
Fat Bastard: Comic Book Guy is fat and a snobby shopkeeper who insults others that don't know as much as he does, and acts like a jerk to Bart and Milhouse even after they saved his life from a heart attack.
Fat Slob: Eats a lot and spends all his time lazing around with his geeky stuff.
Flanderization: Like everyone else's personality on the show, being a Deadpan Snarker got exaggerated to the point that it's his only personality trait.
Freudian Excuse: It is heavily implied, if not outright stated, that the reason why Comic Book Guy often is sarcastic and insulting to people is because he himself is a victim of it in regards to his obesity.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm heading back to my own store, where I dispense the insults rather than absorb them.
Genius Slob: Comic Book Guy isn't concerned about his appearance, resulting in perpetual food stains on clothes that are too small for him. He also happens to have an IQ of 170.
Happily Married: With Kumiko.
Hidden Depths:
- "Homer the Whopper" reveals that he actually wrote over 300 issues of his own comic book series, Everyman. Much to Bart and Milhouse's surprise, they really enjoy it, and the only reason Comic Book Guy didn't try to find a publisher is because he was afraid of being mocked.
- "The Dad-Feelings Limited" shows that he used to be decently athletic as a child, being on a baseball team and developing a very good curve ball. The disappointment of his father missing his debut play made him so depressed he lost the game, whereupon his team tossed him into a dumpster that just happened to be for thrown out comics. This is where he developed most of his current attitude.
Iconic Sequel Character: One of the supporting characters who didn't appear in the first season, as he's introduced in season 2.
Inferiority Superiority Complex: As much as he likes snarking and talking down to people, he tends to lose all composure whenever someone laughs at or insults him. At one point it even triggered a heart attack.
Insufferable Genius: He has an IQ of 170 and is a member of the Springfield chapter of Mensa. However, he also has a snobby, superior personality that prevents him from making friends.
It Runs in the Family: His blood relatives are shown to all be overweight who uncannily resemble him and are also into comic books, just different genres. His first cousin is nicknamed Comic Book Gay and he vaguely states to be into "comics of a different type". His other cousin, incidentally introduced in the Bongo comics, is called Graphic Novel Kid and prefers horror. "The Dad-Feelings Limited" shows that hobbyist collecting runs in the family, as both his father and his aunts and uncles all have their own collections.
Jerkass: Overprices comics, bans Milhouse and Bart from his store, and is a general jerk to everyone. It's reached the point where several episodes (such as "They Saved Lisa's Brain" and "Worst Episode Ever") show him as a straight up Jerk with a Heart of Jerk.
Likes Older Women: Once dated (and lost his virginity to) Agnes Skinner.
Mad Libs Catch Phrase: Worst/Best __ Ever.
Minor Flaw, Major Breakup: When he meets a female nerd at "Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con" in "Mayored to the Mob":
Comic Book Guy: Tell me, how do you feel about 45-year-old virgins who still live with their parents?
Female Nerd: Comb the Sweet Tarts out of your beard and you're on!
Comic Book Guy: Don't try to change me, baby.
Nerds Speak Klingon:
- "Three Men and a Comic Book": Jeff mentions that he has a Masters in Folklore and Mythology, part of which involved translating The Lord of the Rings into Klingon.
- "Worst Episode Ever": After he gets thrown out of Moes, he asks himself "Is there a word in Klingon for loneliness?", looks in his pocket dictionary. "Oh, yes. Garr'dock!".
- "My Big Fat Geek Wedding": When Jeff tries to get married to Edna Krabappel it is conducted in Klingon; apparently the guests (sci-fi convention attendees) can all understand it.
  Jeff: Edna, the Klingons have a romantic saying. (speaks Klingon) Roughly translated it means I would kill the children of a thousand planets just to see you smile.
  Edna: Oh, that is the most romantic thing I've ever heard. Which is kinda sad if you think about it.
- "Moms I'd Like to Forget"
  Jeff: The answer is no, and I can say it in Na'vi and Klingon, which are pretty much the same. I have some theories about that, which I will share with you never.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: His voice was modeled on Ralph Bakshi.
Perverse Sexual Lust: His greatest sexual fantasy is revealed to be Greta the genderbent gremlin. Kumiko cosplays as her to try and seduce him into conceiving a kid with her.
Proud to Be a Geek: "I've spent my entire life doing nothing but collecting comic books. A life well spent!" Although in "Treehouse of Horror VIII", Comic Book Guy admits "I've wasted my life" the instant before he is killed by a Neutron Bomb. It probably doesn't count as Treehouse of Horror episodes are never canon.
Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness:
Bart: How come I've never seen that Itchy & Scratchy before?
Comic Book Guy: Perhaps because you are a prepubescent ignoramus.
Straw Fan: Though he was originally just the standard nerd, when the show crossed into Long Runner territory, he would often mock the large section of the fanbase that think the show isn't good anymore, but still watch it religiously anyway. CBG's catch phrase actually originated from a usenet post which complained about an episode from season four — to put things in perspective, season four is now generally considered to be part of the show's peak.
Take That, Audience!: The writers have been using Comic Book Guy to lampoon the show's fans ever since "The Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Show", though most viewers didn't notice this until the season 11 episode "Saddlesore Galactica."
Comic Book Guy: Last night's Itchy & Scratchy was, without a doubt, the worst episode ever. Rest assured I was on the Internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world.
Bart: Hey, I know it wasn't great, but what right do you have to complain?
Comic Book Guy: As a loyal viewer, I feel they owe me.
Bart: For what? They’ve given you thousands of hours of entertainment for free. What could they possibly owe you? If anything, you owe them.
Comic Book Guy: Worst. Episode. Ever.
Throw the Dog a Bone: "Married to the Blob" is all about this, as he finally gets married.
Tummy Cushion: Often when he is with his wife Kumiko, he lets her rest on his huge belly.
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: In the Season 25 episode "Married to the Blob", he meets, charms, and marries Kumiko, improbably sprightly young Japanese woman. They're still married after the episode.
Ungrateful Bastard: To Bart and Milhouse for saving his life. Eventually, he does apologize though.
Vocal Evolution: In his first appearance, he lacked his pretentious over-pronunciation, with Hank Azaria largely just voicing him in his normal voice but with a lisp.
Worst. Whatever. Ever!: His Mad Libs Catch Phrase and the Trope Maker. It was introduced in Season 8's "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show" to describe the Itchy and Scratchy episode that introduced Poochie. Comic Book Guy then proceeds to call it the "Worst Episode Ever".
You're Not My Type: Is ultimately on the receiving end of this from Mrs. Krabappel in "My Big Fat Geek Wedding." He's oddly okay with it.
"There are a n valid reasons. Which one did you choose?"

Luigi Risotto

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Debut: "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song"

Voiced by: Hank Azaria

The stereotypically Italian owner of Luigi's, an Italian restaurant in Springfield that serves average Italian food.

Edible Theme Naming: His surname is a reference to the Italian food risotto.
Gratuitous Italian: He does not actually speak Italian, only "fractured English" with a strong Italian accent, as did his parents.
Two-Faced Aside: A Running Gag. Luigi is incredibly polite to his customers, runs in the kitchen and immediately badmouths them to his unseen cook Salvatore while unaware that they can hear him.
Luigi Risotto: Oh, you miss you friend, huh? Don't-ah you worry, my cook can surely cheer you up-ah. (enters kitchen) Hey Salvatore, give-ah the ugly kid a plate of the red-ah crap-ah!

Herman Hermann

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Debut: "Bart the General"

Voiced by: Harry Shearer

The deranged, one-armed owner of Herman's Military Antiques.

Depraved Homosexual: He takes Snake and Chief Wiggum captive for the implied purpose of raping them in "22 Short Films About Springfield."
Herman: As soon as Zed gets here, the party will begin.
Evil Cripple: He's missing his right arm. As for the other part, well, maybe he's not outright "evil", but certainly not on the up-and-up.
Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: He often has a cigarette in his mouth, and he's a very shady character.
Handicapped Badass: He once held Snake and Chief Wiggum hostage while wielding a shotgun in his left arm.
Hidden Depths: Herman actually looks a bit worried/empathetic when he asks "Small world huh?" as Skinner tries an old helmet he wore while imprisoned for two years in an Vietcong Interment Center.
Honest John's Dealership:
- Herman once sold Abe a fez that he said was once worn by Napoleon for a week. When Abe buys it and leaves his own hat behind, Herman then tries to pass it off as the hat William McKinley wore when he was assassinated.
- There's also him apparently either not understanding or uncaring of the concept of a waiting period when selling firearms, which by Herman's own definition is "waiting for the buyer to give him cash, period."
Knight of Cerebus: He's easily one of the darkest and most serious characters in the show. When he was an antagonist in "The Springfield Connection", he wasn't played for laughs at all, instead kidnapping Homer and being ready to shoot Marge.
Multiple-Choice Past: Was originally going to be this regarding the source of his missing right arm, giving a different story every time he appeared. His debut appearance has him claim the arm was lost when he hung it out the bus window for too long, but his flashback in "To Cur With Love" has him stick it out on a street while trying to hail a car, resulting in the arm being torn off by a passing dogcatcher truck driven by Chief Wiggum.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: His voice is based on George H. W. Bush.
Repetitive Name: The only way it could be more repetitive is if his first and last names were both spelled the same way.

Akira Kurosawa

Debut: "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish"

Voiced by: George Takei (first appearance), Hank Azaria (subsequent appearances)

A Japanese restaurant owner and martial arts instructor.

Japanese Politeness: Banning Homer from his restaurant for being a Caustic Critic would be rude. Killing him is fine, though.
Shout-Out: Named after the famous one.

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