List of Courage the Cowardly Dog characters

The following is a list of characters from the Cartoon Network series Courage the Cowardly Dog.

Main characters

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Courage, Muriel and Eustace

Courage, the Cowardly Dog

• Voiced by: Marty Grabstein

Courage is an overly scared dog who lives in Nowhere, Kansas. He was abandoned as a puppy, because his parents were sent into outer space, but was found by Muriel and was taken to her home. His male master, Eustace Bagge, regularly mistreats him. He is constantly saving Eustace and Muriel from extreme danger. Despite his name, Courage is a genuine coward, but he will still go to great lengths to protect his owners. Courage speaks English to the viewers as well as some of the animal characters in the series, but in gibberish to humans. He also seems to have some limited morphing abilities. He is able to briefly transform into any person, creature or object, though he retains his pink coloration.

He was voiced by Howard Hoffman in the pilot, and Marty Grabstein in the series.

Muriel Bagge

• Voiced by: Thea White

Muriel Bagge is a kindly and elderly Scottish woman who took Courage in when he was a puppy. She likes tea and usually tends her garden, has a fondness for cookery, plays the sitar, or watches television.

Eustace Bagge

• Voiced by: Arthur Anderson

Eustace Bagge is a self loving, grumpy and cruel old farmer who mistreats Courage. When Courage manages to defeat the villain in each episode, Eustace often suffers a horrible fate, such as being mummified, possessed, or ejected into space. Some of his behavior comes from him being mistreated as a child by his parents. He at times shows compassion and has worked alongside Courage to save Muriel more than once. He is also insecure due to not having teeth, having a hunched back, and being bald.

Lionel G. Wilson originally voiced the character, but left midway through the third season due to illness and was replaced by Arthur Anderson.

Villains

Benton Tarantella

Benton is a former movie director that has become a zombie. He and his partner, Erroll Von Volkheim, would pose as movie producers to lure unsuspecting victims to their fates, killing twelve people. Eventually, they were jailed for their crimes. However, Von Volkheim was released from jail for good behaviour, while Tarantella died in prison. He first appears at the Bagges' house claiming he wants them to be in a movie he's making, but tricks them into filming a fake movie only to resurrect von Volkheim. His alter ego, Mr. Nasty, is similar to Eustace in identity and temperament, only with sunglasses and bluish skin. His name is also a parody on the famous movie director, Quentin Tarantino.

Cajun Fox

• Voiced by: Jim Cummings

A fox obsessed with cooking, appearing as the main villain in "Cajun Granny Stew".

Cousin Freaky Fred

Cousin Fred is Muriel's creepy nephew who was sent to a psych ward for crazy barbers, due to his obsession with cutting hair. While visiting Muriel, he gets locked in the bathroom with Courage by accident, and shaves off all of Courage's fur while talking about all the incidents including his pet gerbil, his girlfriend, and a customer to his barber shop. He was voiced by Paul Schoeffler in "Freaky Fred", and Ian James Corlett in "Ball of Revenge".

Dr. Gerbil

Dr. Gerbil is a Southern-accented gerbil that has gone crazy due to being experimented on and feeling trapped by his previous owners. He now does weird experiments on people with homemade cosmetic products, because in his mind it's payback for what people do to animals.

Goose God

• Voiced by: Tim Curry

He searches for the woman of his dreams and ends up falling in love with Muriel, for whom he competes with Eustace, who doesn't realize that the Goose God wants to make Muriel his wife and queen.

Jeeves "Evil" Weevil

He is a giant energy-eating weevil who has rancid boiled broccoli stuck between his toes for a week, and wears a blue tuxedo and hat. He is accepted into the Bagges' home after they unintentionally run him over in their truck and injure him.

Katz

• Voiced by: Paul Schoeffler

Katz is a cat, and is Courage's main nemesis in the series. He specializes in scam businesses such as a vacation resort, a confectionary shop, and a submarine cruise line. He always cons Muriel and Eustace into trying whatever service he is providing, but Courage never falls for his schemes.

LeQuack

• Voiced by: Paul Schoeffler

LeQuack is another recurring villain. He is a French con artist duck that has a fake amnesia-specialist license, and comes to their house when Muriel suffers from amnesia. He often ends an episode with the phrase, "You have not seen the last of LeQuack."

McPhearson Phantom

An evil female ghost from Scotland who kept on torturing Eustace and framing Muriel for it, because one of Muriel's ancestors apparently killed her husband.

Mecha Courage

Mecha Courage is a mechanical version of Courage that is created by Di Lung in attempt to prove that he has created a more superior dog than Courage.

The Cruel Vet

The Cruel Vet is responsible for separating Courage from his parents as a puppy. He captured them, put them in a rocket ship, and sent them to the moon, believing they would turn into superdogs. He later tries to do the same to Eustace, Muriel, and Courage years later but is sent to the moon himself, where he finds that all the dogs survived, including Courage's parents.

The Chicken from Outer Space

• Voiced by: Howard Hoffman

He is the first villain of the series. He first appears and tries to take over the farm, and ends up being shot by his own laser gun by Courage.

The Empress

She was the aunt of Di Lung, and she appeared in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dog, where her source of power (a magic silkworm) is dying and needs the bones of someone truly innocent to recharge it.

The Great Fusilli

• Voiced by: Jim Cummings

He is an alligator that is into theater arts who turns people into puppets so they cannot leave his show.

The Stitch Sisters

• Voiced by: Fran Brill

The Stitch Sisters are conjoined twins who have a quilt club, and try to trick Muriel into stitching the symbol of life onto a quilt containing all their other victims the sisters have tricked.

Weremole

It is a legendary mole similar to a werewolf but much smaller and just as mean. It has a taste for rabbits as the computer stated. It bites Muriel on the hand, and when the moon is full, she transforms into a weremole.

Minor characters

Computer (Simon Prebble) - Courage's computer that speaks with a British accent and gives him advice on how to deal with crazy situations. He is very sarcastic towards Courage and has a habit of regularly cracking jokes in any situation.

Courage's Parents (Susan Yezzi and Tom Kenny) - Not much is known about his parents, as they were seen only in a few episodes, with one episode centering on flashbacks to his parents in the veterinarian's office where Courage last saw his parents. They were launched into space by the veterinarian, and Courage avoided a similar fate by escaping through a garbage chute, where he was found by Muriel.

Di Lung (Tim Chi Ly) - Inventor and is the creator of Mecha Courage. He is very inconsiderate at most times, and even gets caught in the middle of the chaos going on in Nowhere. He has twin aunts; one evil and the other good. Tim Chi Ly also serves as one of the show's animators.

Dr. Vindaloo (Paul Schoeffler) - An Indian doctor with a thick accent, whom Eustace and Muriel see when something is wrong. He is one of the very few characters in the series who can perfectly understand what Courage is trying to say. He diagnoses his patients as not having serious problems or that there is nothing that he can do. The sign on his office door reads, "Dr. Vindaloo, M.D. Quack."

Ma Bagge (Billie Lou Watt) - Eustace's mother, with whom he shares a love-hate relationship. Like him she is actually bald but wears a wig and looks almost identical to her son, but much shorter. Like Eustace, Ma is insecure due to being bald, but she does have her teeth.

General and The Lieutenant - They take pleasure in fighting each other and are, usually, doing so while trying to solve an important problem, often badly hurting each other by shooting each other or dropping sixteen-ton weights on each other.

Nowhere Newsman - He is the newsreporter of Nowhere, Kansas. He introduces every episode stating, "We interrupt this program to bring you the Courage the Cowardly Dog Show."

Shirley the Medium (Mary Testa) - A Chihuahua dressed as a gypsy fortune teller who lives in, and sells junk out of, her caravan. When giving Courage advice, she normally plays a saxophone between sentences, sometimes with an extended solo at the end.

The Duck Brothers - Three brother ducks from outer space; one of them is always laying eggs even though he is male. They were voiced by Ringo Starr in "The Duck Brothers", and then Samuel Vincent in "Ball of Revenge".

Space Dino - Dinosaur-like creature that sits on a meteor outside Earth's atmosphere, and is always seen with a tennis racket, which he uses to hit celestial objects.

The Valkyries - Four very large Viking women who are sisters. Courage ends up marrying one of the sisters with the troll king, which causes peace between the two different tribes.

The Hunchback of Nowhere - A deformed man who came to the Bagges' house looking for shelter from a storm, but Eustace cast him out, although Courage and Muriel were more than willing to share their home with him. He and Courage became fast friends.