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    Penny Proud

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The main protagonist.

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• Academic Athlete: She is a straight A student and is also good at sports like football (she was on a team).
• Caused Situational Narcissism:
  • In "A Star Is Scorned", when she decides to quit the singing group LPDZ and gets her friends fired in order to become solo.
  • In the revival episode "Bad Influencer", Penny lets beingness an influencer become to her head.
• Affectionate Nickname: "Infant Girl" by her father. She is also chosen "Itty-Bitty" past Dr. Payne.
• Alliterative Proper noun: Penny Proud.
• Balloon Belly: In "Tween Town", when she drinks a big amount of soda with Dijonay while the adults are gone.
• Bitch Understudy: She becomes this to the Gross Sisters in "Pulp Kick Camp".
• Becoming the Mask: Joins the Gross Sisters to do research for an commodity she'south writing. Not only does she autumn into their ways, just she becomes and then out of command that the Gross Sisters don't want anything to do with her.
• Being Evil Sucks: Penny's autumn to the Nighttime Side in "Lurid Kick Camp" costs her everything and everyone that she loves as well as leaving her in the Gross Sisters' ashy blue skin. Thankfully, everything is resolved by the cease of the episode.
• Dazzler to Beast: In "Pulp Boot Army camp", Penny starts out as beingness very beautiful, but she is horrifically turned into a blue skinned nifty thanks to hanging out with The Gross Sisters.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She can be downright stray when she puts her heed to it, and she has a vindictive streak that puts LaCienega to shame.
• Big Sister Instinct: Despite her occasional annoyance with babysitting her younger twin siblings, if they should exist in danger she'll drop everything to become and protect them.
• Erudite Brunette: It's stated that Penny gets straight Every bit in school and she happens to have black hair.
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: Despite being mature for her age, Penny can be very bratty if she doesn't get what she wants.
• Break the Cutie: Becomes a victim of this during her more than unlucky moments.
  • "Lurid Kick Camp" revolves around Penny going violent subsequently trying to dig upwardly some dirt on the Gross Sisters. She goes so insane that information technology results in her getting sent to kicking camp and eventually, her friends and family don't desire annihilation to practice with her.
  • "Twins to Tweens" is all about Penny condign a black sheep and losing all her friends after Al Roker turns the twins into teenagers.
• Broken Pedestal: Sunny Stevens became one to her over the second act of "Hooray for Iesha" until the actress gave Penny her Freudian Excuse.
• The Bully: Temporarily in "Pulp Kicking Camp" where she assumed the alias P Gimmie.
• Butt-Monkey: Information technology is likely Penny inherits her dad'due south slapstick, As she gets her off-white share of bad luck, whether it be from her friends constantly ditching her, or from her own parents.
• Catchphrase: Every once in a while, Penny's parents get on her nerves, and she mutters "I can't stand y'all!" Only to retract it when she'south overheard.
• Corrupt the Cutie: In "Pulp Kick Camp", she went undercover to exercise a byline on The Checkered Flag Times, but she let her new life as P Gimmie go to her caput.
• Costume Development: In the reboot her sweater is now a darker burgundy, she wears a different white top that slightly exposes her stomach, and her skirt is tighter and is shown to take extra details on it similar pockets and stitching.
• Beautiful Bruiser: Penny is undeniably cute, but she really showed her friends in the karate episode.
• Disproportionate Retribution: In "Pulp Boot Military camp", Penny was, for a time, the queen bee of Sergeant Snelly's camp, running operations and taking everything that did not belong to her like cookies.
• Drives Like Crazy: In The Proud Family unit Motion-picture show, Penny near gives Miss Hightower a heart set on with her reckless driving test. She may have picked this up from Suga Mama.
• Dude Magnet: Penny has attracted a number of young men throughout the series. A few include Myron, Kwok, Carlos, perhaps Glutinous at one point (implied in "Teacher's Pet"), Johnny, (initially) Peabo, 15 Cent, Omar, Tookie, (maybe) Johnny Lovely, Frankie, and Wally (although, he was unknowingly flirting with the Clone!Penny).
• Fifty-fifty the Girls Want Her: Unsaid. When she and her friends spend fourth dimension with Olei, there are hints that the latter may like like Penny.
• Evil Costume Switch: Penny ditches her signature dress for black overalls afterward turning to the Dark Side in "Pulp Kick Camp". When she is sent to Sergeant Snelly's camp, she is given an orangish shirt and camo pants.
• Evil Is Hammy: In "Lurid Boot Camp", when Penny turns to the Dark Side as part of her research, she starts acting more vulgar and snarky when she speaks.
• Evil Makes You lot Ugly: Her pare turns ashy similar the Gross Sisters during her "bad girl" phase in "Lurid Boot Camp".
• Brow of Doom: Many jokes have been fabricated about how big her forehead is.
• Friend to All Living Things: Penny seems to have inherited a love of animals from her mother, as shown in "Tiger Whisperer" towards AJ and Chester the "Psycho Duck", and again towards Shuggie the Panda in "New Kids On The Block".
• Genki Girl: Especially in the intro. She'southward actually energetic and upbeat, which is smashing, considering she's actually able-bodied.
• Girlish Pigtails: Her main hairstyle since she was 10 and she's quite feminine.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Penny'due south outfit is predominantly pink, her main hairstyle are Girlish Pigtails, she'south every bit boy-crazy as her friends, and loves to shop. She's also plays in and enjoys basketball, baseball, and football.
• Get-Getter Girl: She combines her father's ambition with her mother'southward common sense. Also, she gets good grades in school and gets forth with her peers.
• Envy Monster: She becomes this in "Poetic Justice" when Dijonay improves at poesy and becomes but every bit good equally her.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Her 2 best friends constantly betray her, belittle her and scheme behind her dorsum, and yet Penny never decides to just ditch them. Penny later explains to Maya in Louder and Prouder that the 1 thing she can count on, is that they at to the lowest degree most of the time, they respect her for being her.
• Informed Deformity: She supposedly has a big brow, and it would be if her eyebrows weren't so loftier upwardly, making it wait rather normal.
• Jerkass Ball: Penny holds on to this in sure episodes, such every bit "Poetic Justice" when she starts being a wiggle to Dijonay due to jealousy or in "Lurid Boot Camp" where she goes native.
• Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation-Guided Karma / You Are Grounded!: Penny is frequently at the receiving cease of this when her secretive plans (as seen in "Rumors" and "Tween Town") go exposed by her parents.
• Last-Name Footing: LaCienega usually refers to her as "Proud" to emphasize that she doesn't consider Penny a friend. Nubia Gross as well usually calls her "Proud", merely everyone else calls her "Penny".
• Lonely at the Summit: In "A Star Is Scorned", she trades success for her friends. And while she does become successful, her friends refuse to talk to her and Penny ends upwardly missing her old life and friends.
• Lovable Jock: Penny excels at basketball, baseball, and football. The final 2 of which she was on a team. And she still remains a decent person.
• Morality Pet: Penny is the only person that Chester treats well (every bit she saved him from drowning before in the episode). Though he can however get upset at her if she doesn't give him what he wants.
• Never My Fault: Despite being the Only Sane Woman, Penny commonly subverts this trope. She normally refuses to admit her mistakes, only comes to repent and feel remorse for her actions at the cease of the episode. Examples:
  • "Tween Town": when she is grounded for lying to her parents near going to a night society, Penny spends the get-go half of the episode moping and complaining almost her parents. She ignores the fact that had she non lied to her parents, she wouldn't have been on penalisation in the offset place. She also wishes for the adults to disappear out of spite.
  • She besides didn't feel like she did annihilation incorrect when she was proven incorrect about Oscar wanting to have an affair with Debra Williams, Trudy'south old college roommate. Certain Penny was correct to be suspicious, but she was very rude to the lady and she flat out called her a homewrecker.
• Prissy Girl: She'due south usually a caring, polite, and selfless person, with it being rare for her to grab the Jerkass Brawl.
• Not So To a higher place It All: Falls victim to peer pressure a few times. She sometimes goes along with whatever her friends do, whether they are right or wrong.
• Only Sane Woman: Oftentimes shares this role with her mother, or else they trade off depending on the episode.
• Out-of-Character Moment: In "Pulp Kicking Army camp", she acts very rude and disrespectful to her parents and Suga Mama. She as well turns against her friends and bullies them forth with the Gross Sisters. She somewhen gets sent to Boot Military camp and then realizes the errors of her ways when the Gross Sisters refuse to house her and tell her that the fact that since she was sent to boot military camp, she was a hardened thug instead of a regular bully.
• Pink Means Feminine: Her outfit is mostly pink.
• Politically Wrong Hero: Was initially afraid of the Zamin family from Culture Shock.
• Properly Paranoid:
  • In "Thelma and Luis", when she finds out that the retirement home that Papi stayed in was actually a prison. She was right all along, but the adults didn't believe her (except for Suga Mama). She was proven correct at the cease of the episode, though.
  • In "Teacher's Pet", Penny's teacher, Miss Dinkins gives her study on Hillary Clinton a declining grade, despite the paper being excellent in quality. Penny concludes that her instructor has a personal grudge confronting her, which gets her a lecture from her female parent about "making excuses"... which it turns out Penny actually wasn't, considering Miss Dinkins did give her an unfair form, simply not precisely because of a grudge against Penny. Actually, Miss Dinkins had a grudge against Suga Mama, which she took out on Penny.
  • Subverted in "Ain't Nothing merely The Real Thingy, Baby". Penny was very suspicious of the fact that Oscar and were having an thing with Trudy's old college roommate, Debra Williams. It also helped that Oscar did prove signs that he was willing to do so. In the end, she was proven wrong.
• Sassy Blackness Adult female: She fits this trope to a tee. If something'southward really bad, she'll start sassing this place upwards.
• Unmarried Woman Seeks Good Man: Penny comes to this conclusion in "Forbidden Appointment" when she and Oscar have talk at the end of the episode to talk over why he'south so against her dating yet.

  Penny: It's non like that daddy. I'm a dissimilar woman after tonight. When I starting time saw Carlos I thought, "This definitely won't be my starting time love." But as the date when on, I establish some other side. He'south smart, warm, funny, sugariness, brave. Actually, he reminded me a lot of yous, daddy.

  Oscar: That big guy?

  Penny: Yes, he'due south a adept person. And that'due south what important. Non how cute a guy is, how much ice he's wearing, what kind of car he drives.

• Slapstick Knows No Gender: The fact that she's the second biggest Butt-Monkey of the show behind her father, every bit well as being on the receiving end of slapstick about 70% of the episodes, places her solely on this trope. In fact, she pretty much took after her father's slapstick.
• Straw Feminist: Occasionally for laughs, and unremarkably to gang upwardly with Suga Mama and Trudy against her father.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Information technology's been said by her grandparents that Penny looks a lot similar Trudy.
• Team Mom: She tends to have on this role among her grouping of friends. Most notably in "Tween Town".
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Penny took this trope to a slap-up extent in "Pulp Boot Camp". But this is Deconstructed as she was merely going undercover for her article.
• The Un-Favourite: Penny gets this when BeBe and CeCe are magically aged into teenagers. Her own female parent fifty-fifty tells this directly to her confront.
• Villain Protagonist: She becomes this in the 2nd one-half of "Pulp Kicking Camp", which documents her turn to the Dark Side as she looks for a manner to write a compelling article that will get her on the staff of the Checkered Flag Times.
• Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Penny is mature for her age and is more levelheaded than most heart schoolers, whereas her father is playful, young, and kittenish.
• We Used to Be Friends: With Dijonay, LaCienega and Zoe later Penny'due south Confront–Heel Plough in "A Star is Scorned".
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Throughout the show, she kept an upbeat disposition of helping and inspiring other people with little or some desire of personal gain.
• With Friends Like These...: Her friends include a supposed best friend with Chronic Back Stabbing Disorder (Dijonay) and a Shrinking Violet (Zoey) who always lets herself be pressured by the other two.

    Oscar Proud

Penny's overprotective father. While he loves his family, he sees money before non-material happiness.

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• Achievements in Ignorance: You'd be surprised how oftentimes he warps the laws of physics past simply being and so inept at whatever he's doing.
• Aesop Amnesia: Every time Oscar is given an Aesop near how he shouldn't be and so protective of Penny in an episode, the aesop ends up non sticking and he goes dorsum to being overprotective in the next episode.
• Agape of Needles: Poor guy was attempting to run from a shot past Dr. Payne in one episode.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Penny views Oscar equally this due to him acting immature for his historic period. He seems pretty shameless near it.
• Berserk Push: Don't mention "Penny" and "boys" well-nigh him.
• Breaking the Cycle of Bad Parenting: Deconstructed. Has an abusive mom in the form of Suga Momma (who beats him for speaking out of turn and belittles him while favoring his north'er exercise well Manchild brother Bobby), overcompensates as an overprotective father of a teenage daughter.
• The Cracking: Is revealed to exist this in heart schoolhouse in the episode "Teacher'southward Pet" when ane of his victims, Dave Foreman, turned out to be an possessor of a private school Oscar and Trudy wanted to enroll the twins in.
• Bullying a Dragon: Oscar sometimes foolishly provokes people and/or animals that are bigger and/or stronger than him to anger. Considering Oscar'due south Barrel-Monkey status, it usually goes as well as you would wait.
• Cracking Magnet: Averted. He's just a victim of slapstick equally an developed. In centre school, he was the bang-up.
• Bumbling Dad: Subverted. Despite being a impuissant goofball, parenting may exist one of the few things he'southward skilful at, though he tends to treat Penny similar a little kid at times.
• Butt-Monkey: On the receiving end of 90% of the slapstick the show has to offer.
• Tin't Become Away with Nuthin': With the amount of punishment he receives, yous'd think he'd be a saint by now. But of grade, it wouldn't be much of a evidence if that were the case.
• Catchphrase:
  • "TRUDAAAAAYY!!" or "MAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" whenever he is (or is nearly to be) on the receiving terminate of some slapstick.
  • Some other catchphrase of his is "I swallow would make ya gustatory modality buds holla!". He says this to others to promote his snacks… which produce toxic side furnishings.
• The Chew Toy: Yes, enough of fans bask seeing Oscar suffer, only when he deserves it.
• Cosmic Plaything: Often, it seems that the universe is out to make Oscar suffer in absurdly humiliating means. For example, it wasn't enough for his infamous basketball moment to be a standard missed shot. It had to curl around the handbasket's rim before somehow flying beyond the entire courtroom and into the opposing team's basket to requite them the win.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: Oscar does non like it when any man flirts with his wife.
• Deadpan Snarker: Constantly, which usually puts him on the bad cease of Suga Mama's pikestaff.
• The Determinator: He keeps on making snacks despite how horrible they are, and notwithstanding he keeps on chugging.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: In the episode "It Takes a Thief" when Oscar visits the zoo, Oscar admits to torturing an elephant named Jumbo with his friends. When Jumbo sees him again, it doesn't stop well for Oscar.
• Ditzy Genius: Oscar is very intelligent, merely he acts ditzy and immature for his age.
• Dude, Where'south My Respect?: As a consistent source of ridicule and mockery by family and others because of his terrible nutrient products and history of failures, Oscar craves respect and notoriety which he outright stated when he wasn't credited in creating a scavenger hunt competition for Wizard Kelly.
• Fatty and Skinny: The skinny to Felix's fat.
• Flanderization: His negative traits are taken Upwards to Xi in Louder and Prouder.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The responsible (owns his own house and constantly tries to improve his career) to Bobby's foolish (still lives with his mother and has no job).
• Freudian Excuse: In a rare example, it'due south strongly implied that the reason he is overprotective of Penny is because Suga Mama never seemed to protect him when he was Penny's age.
• Frying Pan of Doom: Tries to hit a mouse with a frying pan in the episode "Don't Leave Dwelling Without It", but ends upwardly smacking his face instead. He even gets hit in the head with a frying Pan in the opening of "Rumors".
• Genius Ditz: His attempts at new snack recipes occasionally reach Mad Scientist levels, spawning a Super Serum in "A Hero for Halloween" and a perpetual multiplying formula in the film.
• Giftedly Bad: His snacks are notorious for being horrible, yet they attain a level beyond simple culinary incompetence that suggest Oscar is just in the wrong business.
• Goofy Print Underwear: He wears a pair of Thingy underwear in "Hooray for Iesha".
• Henpecked Husband: Trudy wears the pants in their marriage and even threatens harm on Oscar and so she can go her way whenever they have a disagreement.
• Hollywood Economics: Oscar runs a manufacturing plant for his snacks and the simply staff are himself and Mr. Chips the monkey. Considering how poorly his product does, and how abysmal his fiscal situation is compared to Wizard Kelly or the Boulevardezes, it would otherwise be incommunicable for him to maintain his factory fifty-fifty with costless labor from a skilled monkey.
• Jerkass Ball: On the Christmas special, he acts meaner than usual (fifty-fifty though information technology wasn't really polite for the homeless people to go along coming dorsum to his house uninvited). He does come around by the end, even so.
• Jerkass Has a Point: While Oscar can be also obnoxious and carried away with his overprotectiveness, he is correct almost certain things.
  • He was as well correct to be angry with Penny in "Hip-Hop Helicopter" for wearing skimpy clothes on telly. The dress were too revealing for a eye school girl to be wearing, and Trudy even points information technology out (simply then again, he should have been less hostile with his anger). He was also correct to ground her for wearing the apparel again afterward he and Trudy told her not to vesture it.
  • When Puff went missing, Trudy attempts to blame him for it. Withal, Oscar pointedly states that he had intended to look after Puff on "Oscar Day" only Trudy wanted him to go shopping with her.
  • While his suspicions of Chester the Duck was initially out of anger for said duck eating his cobbler pie, Oscar stated he didn't have a skilful feeling almost him. And, he was right.
• Jerk with a Middle of Aureate: Oscar acts obnoxious and immature on a lot of occasions in addition to having greed every bit a pretty serious vice. Still, he is overall a well-pregnant person and securely loves and cares for his family, even his female parent despite the lip he often gives her.
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Combined with Deadpan Snarker in "Tween Town".

  Oscar: Yous did all those things considering you lot are on a punishment which comes from the Latin word "puni" which means "no movies" and the Latin give-and-take "ment" which means "I meant it!".

• Large Ham: There's not one episode that doesn't have Oscar chewing the scenery.
• Lethal Chef: His Proud Snax makes a lot of people either gag or feel ill later they eat them. The simply one who likes them, however, is Peabo.
• Manchild: Less so than his brother Bobby, but he's still prone to kittenish antics and tantrums that make Penny seem mature by comparing.
• Men Employ Violence, Women Utilise Communication: Oscar is the personification of this trope. Or at least he would be if he wasn't a huge wimp. And Trudy and Suga Mama accept been known to utilise violence
• Mistaken for Adulterous: In "Ain't Nothing But the Real Thingy, Baby", Penny suspects Oscar of cheating on Trudy with the latter'south one-time college roommate, Debra Williams. It besides helps that Oscar did testify eagerness to visit Debra's house, which but supported Penny's suspicion. Penny is proven wrong at the terminate of the episode when Oscar and Debra explicate why they were willing to communicate with each other, and there human relationship was strictly platonic.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Betwixt: Mean to Trudy's squeamish and Suga Mama'due south in-betwixt. He'south e'er sick-tempered and hammy when he doesn't get what he wants.
• No Respect Guy: All he really wants is to be a success. All it gets him is his head handed to him. Repeatedly.
• Nonstandard Character Design: Weirdly enough, he's the only graphic symbol in the prove with consistently defined pupils.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Oscar volition never alive down missing the shot at his high school basketball game game. The moment is constantly brought upwardly past Wizard Kelly.
• Overprotective Dad: He's rabid about keeping Penny away from boys. His weakness for pretty girls implies that he might be projecting just a piffling flake.
• Papa Wolf: Wherever Penny is concerned, he immediately grows a spine fabricated of adamantium.
• Pet the Dog: The few genuine examples is that he does care for Trudy and Penny. The one time he acts as a surrogate father is in "Love Thy Neighbor" when he gives some pep talk to LaCienega about her abnormally big feet.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: He's initially afraid of the Zamin family, who are Pakistani, and views them every bit abnormal weirdos.
• Properly Paranoid: About the Talking Babe and his ability to talk, just nobody believes him.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Oscar fits into this at times despite his immaturity. A proficient case would exist in "The Altos" when he takes a mentor role for Glutinous.
• Straw Loser: Meager task, unsuccessful, unathletic, wimpy, and all around untalented. He all just exists to brand Penny and Trudy look better by comparison.
• Straw Misogynist: Oscar has shades of this, such as thinking that football and basketball are but men's games.
• Strong Family Resemblance: "Teacher'south Pet" shows that Oscar got all of his looks from his begetter.
• Tempting Fate: Oscar boldly - albeit stupidly - tells Bebe and Cece the story of how he used to fire water guns at Jumbo the Elephant in the episode "Information technology Takes a Thief". Jumbo is non mocked still and fires water from his trunk at Oscar, sending him into a lagoon of crocodiles.
• This Loser Is Yous: A reasonably intelligent human who yet is a perennial failure due to his stubbornness and obsession with becoming a successful businessman. He's basically a G-Rated Willy Loman.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Oscar does go a victory every so often.
  • "Ane in a Million" has him convincing Penny to have a very big risk by letting him take a basketball challenge in her place. He gets cheered by everyone, including Suga Mama, and does make the shot. Information technology's borderline ruined when Wizard Kelly pulls some Verbal Words to try and cheat Oscar out of whatsoever real gains merely Penny points out some Loophole Corruption that keeps information technology a firm win for Oscar.
  • "Teacher's Pet" has Oscar having to put up with a old bullying victim forcing him to pay through the nose in order to consider the twins for a good school. Subsequently the human basically forces Oscar to permit him dance with Trudy, he finally has plenty and cuts in to tell the guy that he is through with his pettiness and leads Trudy abroad while apologizing for tanking the twins' chances. He winds up getting The Large Damn Osculation from his wife.
• Too Dumb to Live: He often falls into this when he ignores communication given to him regarding his rubber and ends up bringing some of the bad luck on himself and also going through near-decease experiences.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Subverted. He'south non ugly, but he is very skinny compared to Trudy's curvaceous torso.
• The Unfair Sex: Trudy openly flirts with other men, only if Oscar were to do the aforementioned with women, Trudy volition go upset.
• The Unfavorite: Subverted. It's obvious that his female parent prefers his older brother, simply she makes it articulate that she loves Oscar just equally much. Different near cases he never seems bothered by his brother beingness favored and the ii are shown as quite shut, fully willing to help the other in any attempt. Any vitriol he does have gets channeled towards Suga Mama for doing the favoring.
• Unknown Rival: To Magician Kelly, a rivalry that is and then one-sided that it stretches the meaning of the word to its limit.
• Wacky Parent, Serious Kid: Oscar is wacky and immature compared to his girl Penny who acts much more mature than him most of the fourth dimension.
• "Well Done, Son!" Guy: While they bicker oft, it'south more than likely he but wants Suga Mama to respect him. Fifty-fifty though she barely tolerates him, she does admit she's proud of him on occasion.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Information technology's been shown and stated in a select few episodes that Oscar is afraid of heights.
• Wouldn't Hit a Girl: The reason why Trudy and Suga Mama will ever crush Oscar. This is pretty justified, as they are his family members.
• Wouldn't Injure a Child: In "Ain't Nothing Similar the Real Thingy, Baby", he doesn't attempt to assail all the babies when they repeatedly hit him in the face. Subverted when he tries to fight the Talking Baby.

    Trudy Proud (nee: Parker)

Voiced by: Paula Jai Parker

Penny'southward mother. She works as a veterinarian and, according to Penny, keeps everything in the Proud household together.

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• Only Not Too Black: She's much lighter skinned than the residuum of her family unit and the only low-cal skinned black grapheme in general.
• Catchphrase: Usually when she is worried about her kids (or even Oscar), she'll often shout "MY BABIES".
• Clingy Jealous Daughter: Like how Oscar tin can be, Trudy can go easily jealous when he starts flirting with another woman.
• Daddy'southward Girl: She is shown to go out of her way to please her parents when they come to visit, fifty-fifty keeping the house spic and bridge and taking out the Tv to delight her TV-antisocial father and prissy mother.
• A Day in the Limelight: In "In that location's Something Most Rene" where her position inside the family as the housekeeper is explored. The episode is completly told from her perspective.
• Depending on the Writer: Peradventure subjected to this the well-nigh of the family. In some episodes, she'due south a loving mother and married woman with a rational head on her shoulders. In others, she can be remarkably self-centered, petty, and even tearing.
• Double Standard: Corruption, Female person on Male person: Her treatment of Oscar whenever he gets out of line or does something stupid definitely wouldn't be comedic if the genders were reversed.
• Friend to All Living Things: She's a veterinary. In i episode, she demands that Oscar go rid of a mouse in the house merely expressly forbids him to kill it.
• The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: With older sister Diana.
• Adept Parents: She's a lot less restrictive and more open-minded towards Penny than her husband while as well being willing to put her human foot downwards and convince her girl to do the correct matter.
• Hartman Hips: Has wide hips to bear witness off her maturity.
• Hot-Blooded: When prompted, she acts just as emotional and tempered every bit Oscar.
• Hypocrite: She openly jokes and talks virtually cheating on Oscar with other men and repeatedly flirts with men in front of Oscar, only gets angry when Oscar does the same thing with other women. An infamous example is in "Ain't Zippo Like The Real Thingy, Babe".
• It's All About Me: At her worst, she can go really hung upward on not getting her way.
• Jerkass Ball: Anytime her bossiness and possessiveness clouds her judgement.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Trudy can get jealous on times equally well equally snobby, snobby and aggressive towards her family on occasion, just she'due south usually portrayed as a loving and agreement person despite these moments. When these ugly moments aren't popping up, she'due south a loving mother and caring persona all around who tries to help
• Mama Behave: In one case, she'southward even not-so-subtly compared to an actual comport in this regard.
• Men Use Violence, Women Utilize Communication: Usually. But she'south non afraid to flip the script when pushed.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Dainty to Oscar's mean and Suga Mama'south in-between. She's the more than sensible and rational member of the family who serves equally a Reasonable Potency Figure.
• Non So Above Information technology All: She has her moments of acting only every bit immature and mean like Oscar.
• Simply Sane Woman: When her own clinginess and competitiveness aren't dialed up, she shares this role with Penny.
• Reasonable Authority Effigy: Compared to Oscar, who tends to exist strict to the betoken of unfairness.
• Spoiled Brat: At her worst, she tin come off as this.
• Supreme Chef: Her cooked food usually looks delicious. This is best shown when she cooks Oscar his favorite things and the time when she invited her family unit over and two members ate all her food that everyone else was supposed to eat.
• Tsundere: She switches betwixt Type A and B, depending on the episode. She as well truly loves Oscar, but information technology's often difficult to tell.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Oscar is all pencil-like and Trudy is very shapely.
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: During the episodes where she gets particularly bossy.
• Uptown Girl: She was born into a significantly wealthier family, while her married man was not.
• Vocal Evolution: In "Louder & Prouder", her vocalization is much deeper than it was in the original show.
• Women Are Wiser: Not that the men set the bar all that high.

    Suga Mama

Penny's paternal grandmother and the mother of Oscar. As a kid, she was involved in The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry with Spice, Oscar'southward aunt. Subsequently Spice turned out to be a witch, Suga Mama got fed up and came to hate magic. Every bit an developed, Suga Mama is a hip old woman who favors her oldest son Bobby over Oscar. She is non overtly nasty to Penny and Trudy, but she'due south very hateful to Oscar in a catty sort of way. She also appears to be humorously athletic despite her age.

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• Abhorrent Gentleman: She has the hots for Papi, who clearly does not feel the same, but since he simply speaks Castilian, Suga Mama never catches on.
• Abusive Mom: Towards Oscar, physically and verbally (Oscar usually brings information technology on himself, merely sometimes Suga Mama will make fun of him or hitting him unprovoked).
• Appreciating Nickname: Dr. Payne calls her "Suga Acquit".
• Aw, Look! They Actually Do Beloved Each Other: For all her mockery towards her son, Suga Mama will make it articulate while she doesn't ever similar him, she will always love Oscar. She stands up to both Wizard Kelly and her sister Spice for him.
• Birds of a Feather: Her and Trudy's relationship is built on their compulsive need to continue Oscar under their thumb.
• Breaking the Cycle of Bad Parenting: She grew up being unfavored by her parents for her magical sister and argues that her favoritism of her sons wasn't as bad every bit her parents. She still cares for Oscar.
• Cain and Abel: The Abel to Spice's Cain.
• Absurd Old Lady: She's hip, tin can wrestle, a cracking baseball coach, and funny. Many of Penny's friends comment on how cool she is.
• A Solar day in the Limelight: "Hmm... Tastes Similar...", which focuses on her relationship with Oscar. She even gets to sing a song in information technology!
• Deadpan Snarker: She is quick with the sarcastic comments, especially at Oscar'southward expense.
• Expiry Glare: Gives an water ice common cold one to Penny in "Bad Influencer" after she finds about about narcissistic activities.
• Dirty Old Woman: Suga Mama has shades of this such as flirting with Passenger vehicle Williams (who is implied to be years younger than her) and also forcing Dr. Carver to bathe with her in a jacuzzi due to her allure to him. She also showed attraction to the wrestler Mongo (who is also unsaid to be twice her historic period).
• Does Non Similar Magic: Suga Mama hates and fears annihilation having to do with magic. This applies to the telekinetic abilities of her sister Spice and an incident with Tristan the Sorcerer in which he swapped her caput with Puff's.
• Doting Grandparent: Suga Mama has a close human relationship with her elder granddaughter. She even acts as a surrogate grandmother, if not positive role model, to most of the show's cast.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Literally everyone, including her family calls her Suga Mama. Hell, it may even be her actual proper name.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • She clearly doesn't like the Parker Family's visits, and who could blame her. She is obviously only doing this to please Trudy. In the episode "Behind Family Lines", she is visibly upset at Trudy's mother Maureen mistaking her for a maid. When Penny succeeds at bringing the two families closer together, Suga Mama regards her earlier behavior equally a "downright embarrassment".
  • She can't become one episode without insulting Oscar, but she wouldn't deceive him or use him for own personal gain, as shown in the episode with her sister. As she states to him, she may non always like him, but she always loves him.
  • For all her flaws, she genuinely does love Oscar, fifty-fifty if her parenting made him the unsuccessful peachy he would get, and her and Trudy'due south relationship appears to be a fairly happy ane.
• Fatal Flaw: Her womanly short-temper and jealousy work against herself and her family unit at sure points.
• Eyes Always Shut: She rarely shows her optics, just she nonetheless can move around but fine. Well, that's because she'south constantly squinting due to having poor eyesight, and her usual glasses (which she hasn't bothered to alter) are not sufficiently correcting her vision.
• Freudian Excuse: Her sister was built-in magical and she wasn't, leading her parents to favor Spice over her. In return, she favors her oldest son Bobby.
• The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: With her older sister Spice.
• Hero of Another Story: She, along with Puff and the Twins, are the protagonists of the "Proud Family Shorties".
• Heroes Love Dogs: Suga Mama has a shut relationship to Puff and became utterly distraught when he went missing.
• Heroic BSoD: Not heroic per se, but she had i in "She Drives Me Crazy" due to her failing eyesight.
• I But Want to Be Normal: Becomes this as a way to cope with Spice being a witch, while she wasn't. Both her and her sons have a need to be as manifestly, and socially acceptable as humanly possible, preferring to sweep Spice and any mention of magic under the rug. Given Oscar's abiding schemes failing and Bobby's talent making him something of manchild, this is subverted.
• I But Want to Be Special: As a child. A good case can be made that she still wants to be special even equally an old woman and that she is but overcompensating in her "normal life" considering she is fully aware of it, which also leads to her handling of Oscar.
• I Was Quite a Looker: Run into for yourself. ◊
• Jerkass Has a Point: On her bad days, Suga Mama isn't certainly a pleasant (or the virtually pleasant) person, especially how she tin can care for her son and her family at times but has a practiced bespeak to make at times.
  • She usually comments on how she doesn't similar Dijonay and how Penny shouldn't hang out with her. Considering the number of times Dijonay has ditched Penny and sold her out, Suga Mama is definitely non wrong.
  • In "Penny Potter", while she's not dainty to her sister's arrival, Suga Mama turns out to exist right about Spice beingness up to no skilful.
• Jerkass to One: Suga Mama is friendly towards everybody on the show, only she is rude and condescending to Oscar, even when he does nothing to provoke her.
• Wiggle with a Heart of Aureate: When she protects Oscar from her older sis and shares a heartwarming moment with him. She besides loves her other family unit members too.
• Mama Bear:
  • No affair how much Oscar may annoy her, should someone injure him, she won't take information technology kindly. She even lampshades this in "Penny Potter" when Spice, her kleptomaniacal older sister tries to scam Oscar.
  • The same goes for anyone messing with Penny, she threatened to beat upward the Gross Sisters and Wizard Kelly when they disrespected her granddaughter.
  • In "Psycho Duck", she immediately goes to save Bobby from drowning.
• Made of Iron: Even an old timer like her has seen herself in a lot of dangerous situations, and and she ends up surviving them. Oscar makes annotation of the things she 'has survived, as well as things she could'' survive.
• Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher: Suga Mama seems to take the idea that Bobby is simply a immature prodigy and treats him appropriately. Bobby doesn't seem to mind, as information technology makes her easy to dearest him. In the instance of Oscar, she drops the trope entirely.
• Ms. Vice Girl: She gives rude remarks and acts kind of a jerk to her own son Oscar. Even so for equally edgy as she is, she is genuinely friendly to many and is a loving grandmother and mother-in-law.
• My Beloved Smother: To Bobby, only non so much with Oscar.
• Never Mess with Granny: Specially not one who tin effortlessly pile-drive a 300 pound man.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Betwixt: In-betwixt to Trudy's prissy and Oscar's hateful. She's a Cool One-time Lady who as quite the attitude, only shows her soft side time to time.
• Obnoxious In-Laws: Subverted. She gets forth well with her girl-in-constabulary, but not her son.
• Parental Favoritism: Suga Mama likes Bobby more than she likes Oscar, fifty-fifty though Bobby is a failure.
• Parents equally People: The reason she spoils Bobby so much is considering of her childhood spent being The Un-Favourite next to her magical sister, so she desperately wanted her oldest son to experience special and loved.
• Pink Means Feminine: Inverted. She wears a mixture of calorie-free and dark pinkish wear just likes a many masculine topics.
• Properly Paranoid: She knew improve than to trust Sister Spice.
• The Resenter: It'southward implied that Suga Mama's reactionary attitude toward the revelation that her sister Spice was a telekinetic witch was partly out of resentment due to her being The Unfavorite. The aforementioned also applies to Gertie Dinkins when she lost Percy Proud to Suga.

• Senior Sleep Wheel: She falls comatose the instant she sits downwardly in forepart of the TV.
• Spiral Politeness, I'yard a Senior!: That's Suga Mama for you lot.
• She Cleans Upward Nicely: When she gets dorsum in shape to fit in her wedding dress in "Wedding Bong Blues", she'southward indistinguishable from her twenty-ish year-old self.
• Stepford Smiler: Suga Mama is a fine example of the sort who initially seems to be her mask. "Penny Potter" suggests that her mask adult as the means to bargain with her resentment over her older, "perfect" sister Spice getting magic and non herself.
• Stronger with Age: She'south got pro-wrestler levels of physical forcefulness. And at 80, no less.
• Super Strength: In the episode "Smack Mania 6: Mongo Vs. Mama'due south Boy", she is shown to exist able to elevator very heavy people with ease.
• The Matter That Would Not Leave: She's over at Oscar'southward firm then ofttimes that it's easy to forget she has her ain business firm. And Oscar often points this out.
• Third-Person Person: Occasionally. Like "Suga Mama don't similar..." or "Suga Mama's in the business firm!".
• The Unfavorite: Nosotros don't actually know since nosotros never become to see Spice'southward and her parents, just it is unsaid the reason she is then bitter and resentful towards magic is that she felt left behind when her sister could perform telekinetic abilites and that her parents heavily favored Spice over her.
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Her complete lack of empathy tin can put her hither sometimes, especially where Oscar is concerned.
• Nosotros Used to Exist Friends: She and one of Penny's teachers, Ms. Dinkins, used to be the best of friends. Still, when they met Percy Proud, the human who ended up fathering Oscar and Bobby, both of them fought over him and it ended their friendship. Information technology took years for the two to finally reconcile.
• When Elders Attack: She doesn't merely utilise her cane to keep her steady.
• Women Are Wiser: Like Trudy, she is more intelligent and reasonable than her son, though not by very much.

    Bebe and Cece

Voiced past: Tara Strong (Original series), Lee Thompson Young and Sicily Johnson (every bit teens in "Twins to Tweens"), Aiden Dodson and Bresha Webb (Louder and Prouder)

Penny'southward younger twin siblings, a boy (Bebe) and a daughter (Cece).

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• Annoying Younger Siblings: Not that they can help it. At least it seems that way.
• Blinding Bangs: Bebe'southward pilus covers his eyes.
• Brainy Baby: Times ii. They exercise things that no 1 year olds tin can exercise their age.
• Gender-Blender Proper name: Bebe. If he wasn't said to be male child, you would have thought he was a daughter from his name.
• Jerkass Brawl: Unremarkably, they are loving siblings towards Penny. However, in "Twins to Tweens", they become jerks towards Penny by shunning her with the remainder of her family and friends.
• Non Allowed to Grow Upward: They remain infants/toddlers for the vast majority of the serial. They're merely aged up by a couple years in the revival, however.
• Shout-Out: Named for Bebe and Cece Winans, a brother and sister singing duo.
• Potent Family Resemblance: Many episodes have shown that Oscar sported a big Afro when he was younger, which he seems to have passed onto Bebe. Cece, meanwhile, resembles Trudy.
• Theme Twin Naming: The only differences between their names are the consonant messages used.

    Puff

Suga Mama'due south pet poodle.

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• Butt-Monkey: He's one of the main sources of physical slapstick in the series.
• Canine Companion: To Suga Mama, being a poodle she is oft seen carrying. This instance goes fifty-fifty farther, as he even helps Suga Mama was able to laissez passer her commuter'due south exam.
• Meaningful Name: He has a puff of hair.
• Uncatty Resemblance: His fur, on the superlative of his caput, is cutting to look like to Suga Mama'southward afro-puffs.
• Undying Loyalty: Even when given the take a chance to be pampered equally a dog model, he couldn't comport the idea of being away from Suga Mama.

    Bobby Proud

Oscar'south older brother who likes to sing.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: He has the hots for Trudy's sister, Diana, who doesn't accept a positive opinion of him. She'll sometimes requite him credit for trying though.
• Barrel-Monkey: Like Oscar, he tends to get himself hurt a lot.
• Chewing the Scenery: About every appearance of him is this, and most of his dialogue is sung pretty loudly.
• Companion Cube: Bobby ever carries a microphone with him, due to the fact that much of his dialogue is sung.
• Cool Uncle: Penny, Bebe, and Cece honey Bobby and come across him as this.
• Disco Dan: His personal way is always a few decades behind whenever the prove's being fabricated. His first expect, with its puffy bandana'd afro and sequined polyester one-piece, is straight out of the disco-funk era; Louder and Prouder redesigns his wardrobe every bit closer to early 90'south hip-hop and new jack swing, featuring a two-tone hi-top fade and parachute pants.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The foolish (still lives with his mother and has no chore) to Oscar's responsible (owns his ain house and constantly tries to improve his career), though even Oscar is no less of a goofball.
• Genius Ditz: He's a dummy in some regards, simply you lot gotta admit he knows a matter or two about applied science. Bobby gave his car the ability to transform into a mailbox. And and so at that place's the upgrades to Trudy'south van in the revival.
• Lazy Bum: Bobby often mooches off of his relatives and others, and even so, somehow Suga Mama favors him.
• Lounge Cadger: Minus the lounge. Volition often suspension out in song speech and utilise the microphone he always carries with him.
• Manchild: The main reason why he was the only developed that Al Roker was unable to make disappear. As Bobby puts information technology, "I'm a child at middle!"
• Momma's Boy: Suga Mama tends to baby him even more than than she does with Oscar.
• Mr. Vice Guy: Bobby really isn't as well bad a guy but he can be merely equally, if not more, immature than Oscar. He as well appears to be self-invested in his own singing career and is spoiled by his mother.
• Nice Guy: Despite his childishness, he's still a good person.
• One of the Kids: He'due south shown to be closest to Bebe and Cece in terms of maturity and more childish than Oscar. In fact, information technology'due south what wound up forcing Al Roker to free the other adults equally his magic wasn't able to make Bobby disappear.
• Promotion to Opening Titles: By "Louder and Prouder", Bobby is in the new opening theme, and most notably in the family photo.
• Harbinger Loser: Beingness more than liked and respected than his blood brother doesn't prevent Bobby from falling under this trope. He still lives with his mother and isn't very successful in his singing career.
• Verbal Tic: "Bobby, y'all!"

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