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| - At thirteen-fourteen years old, Jake appears to be just your average skateboarding, comic book-loving teen. Unbeknownst to many, though, Jake is in reality, a fire-breathing dragon whose job is to protect a secret world consisting of leprechauns, mermaids, unicorns and other magical creatures. Tropes Associated With Jake:
* Achilles Heel: According to Fu Dog (and Jake himself), Haley is this.
* Anime Hair
* Anti-Hero: Type II. His tendency to use lethal force against some magical creatures might boost him up to a Type III, though.
* Affectionate Nickname: His dad calls him "Jakers" and several other embarrassing nicknames. Trixie calls him "Jakie".
* Art Evolution: A pretty jarring case; in season 1 his dragon form is pretty big (resembling a Western dragon), but in season 2 his form is much more wiry. The second form is arguably the better design-wise, since it's closer to the depiction of an Eastern dragon and is true to both Jake's true build and personality.
* Beware the Nice Ones / Let's Get Dangerous: Normally, he's pretty laid back, but if you threaten the Magical World and make him think that his girlfriend has betrayed him, you just might end up being thrown into a steel elevator door.
* Big Eater: Shown to be this in "Furious Jealousy". Jake really likes his junk food.
* Breath Weapon
* But Not Too Foreign: Half-Caucasion, half-Chinese.
* Catch Phrase: "Dragon up!" and "Aww man!"
* Dragons Up the Yin-Yang
* For Halloween I Am Going as Myself
* Half-Human Hybrid
* Heartbroken Badass: "Half Baked". Played for Laughs, of course.
* The Hero
* I Just Want to Be Normal: "Being Human".
* I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
* James Bondage: He gets captured a lot. In one episode, he gets captured three times.
* Jive Turkey
* Kid Hero
* Love At First Sight: When he first meets Rose.
* Meaningful Name
* Nice Job Breaking It, Hero
* Official Couple: With Rose.
* One Head Taller: Inverted. Rose is a little taller than him.
* Red Scaled Hero
* Secret Identity: The American Dragon.
* Star-Crossed Lovers: Once again, with Rose.
* Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World
* You Gotta Have Green Hair File:Gramps 7681.png Lao-Shi (Grandpa) Tropes Associated With Lao-Shi:
* Badass Grandpa
* Breath Weapon
* Does Not Like Shoes
* For Your Own Good: Although it was never revealed to Jake or any other of the characters, this was the reason why he asked Rose to break up with Jake.
* Meaningful Name
* Miniature Senior Citizens: Jake's grandfather is so small several people during the Halloween Episode mistook him for a kid dressed like an old Chinese wise man. Then again, it was shown in flashback he wasn't much taller than that during his prime. Jake's Mom should be glad the dragon powers weren't all that skipped her.
* Old Master
* Overprotective Dad: He had a special device to spy on Jake's parents when they were dating.
* Wax On, Wax Off: Some of his training techniques. File:Fu 1376.png Fu Dog A 600 year old talking Shar-Pei, Lao-Shi's only companion and Jake's Animal Guardian. In the 1970s, Fu was a womanizer and a petty thief, but after meeting Lao-Shi, he turned his life around. He's messy and loud and he gambles and harasses women. However, deep down, he has a good heart and is a good, trustworthy friend to Jake. Tropes Associated With Fu Dog:
* A Day in the Limelight: "Fu and Tell", "Nobody's Fu"
* Big Eater: "Two words: I'M HUNGRY!"
* The Gambling Addict
* Heel Face Turn: He was a petty thief in the 1970s.
* Incredibly Lame Pun: Loves these.
* Lovable Sex Maniac: He's about as much of one as a G-rated Disney cartoon will allow. He squeezes a giantess' hump, gets excited when it comes to zipping up a woman's dress, asks a sprite to shake her things his way ( her wings), has stated that he falls in love at least six times a day and is shown dating two dogs at once.
* Mentor Mascot
* Non-Human Sidekick
* Plucky Comic Relief
* Really 600 Years Old
* Talking Animal
* What Could Have Been: He was originally going to be voiced by Jay Leno. File:Spud 8974.png Arthur P. "Spud" Spudinski One of Jake's two best friends. Tropes Associated With Spud:
* A Day in the Limelight: "A Befuddled Mind" and "Shaggy Frog". Also, both he and Trixie share the spotlight in "Keeping Shop".
* All Guys Want Cheerleaders
* Cloudcuckoolander
* Evil Laugh: Has a "talent" for lampshading these. He has one as well. It needs work.
* Genius Ditz
* I Just Want to Be Special: "Shaggy Frog".
* Muggle Best Friend
* Obfuscating Stupidity
* Only Known By His Nickname: Everyone calls him Spud. The only one who calls him Arthur is his mother.
* Plucky Comic Relief
* Secret Keeper
* Sidekick
* Superpowers for A Day: "Shaggy Frog".
* Unwilling Suspension: Happens to him in "A Befuddled Mind". File:Trixie 5735.png Trixie Carter One of Jake's best friends. Tropes Associated With Trixie:
* A Day in the Limelight: "Bring It On". She and Spud also share the spotlight in "Keeping Shop".
* Black Best Friend
* Jive Turkey
* Military Brat
* Muggle Best Friend
* Odango
* One of the Boys
* Sassy Black Woman
* Secret Keeper
* Sidekick
* Tomboy File:Letsjustsayitbroughtbacksomemem2 1699.png File:Hunts 2994.png Rose/Huntsgirl A hot, popular girl at school, Rose catches the attention of Jake immediately. However, there is more to this girl than meets the eye. She is actually a highly skilled hunter, trained by the Huntsclan to fight and slay dragons. Jake's girlfriend. Tropes Associated With Rose:
* Action Girl
* Anti-Hero: Committing an act of genocide to save the Magical World cements her as this. She's probably a Type III.
* The Apprentice: She is literally at the "Apprentice Level" in the Huntsclan. She's skilled, but Jake is just as skilled, preventing her from ever rising in Huntsclan status.
* Badass Adorable
* Badass Normal
* Birthmark of Destiny
* Blondes Are Evil: Subverted. Not evil, just misguided.
* Blue Eyes
* Braids of Action
* Capulet Counterpart
* Custom Uniform: Her Season One Huntsclan uniform.
* Cute Bruiser
* The Dragon: To The Huntsman, before her Heel Face Turn. Ironic, isn't it?
* Earn Your Happy Ending: At the end of "Homecoming", Jake grants her wish of a normal life.
* First Girl Wins
* Girl Next Door
* Hard Head: "The Halloween Bash".
* Heel Face Turn
* Heroic Sacrifice: Subverted. She wishes for the destruction of the Huntsclan with the Aztec Skulls, but as she soars into the air, Jake uses his wish to save her. Granted, she still gets an Obi-Wan Moment where she smiles down at Jake.
* I Just Want to Be Normal
* Killer Rabbit: That pretty girl in the picture there is capable of knocking out several mythical creatures with her Waif Fu.
* Acknowledged in-universe and by the rest of the Huntsclan: when he learns of her Heel Face Turn, the Huntsman confronts her armed and backed by four other Huntsclan members who has already slayed a dragon (a big accomplishment, they have often remarked, and a sign of their strenght and skill). It takes Rose FIVE SECONDS to defeat the four Huntsclan members and hold the Huntsman at the point of his own energy lance.
* Love Redeems
* McNinja: Or, as Trixie calls her, "Little-Miss-Ninja-Thang".
* Official Couple: With Jake.
* Only One Name: She was never given a last name. Justified because of her being in the Huntsclan; her last name was originally supposed to be "Killdragonosa", but the writers chose to drop it because of this.
* Parental Abandonment: Rose thinks that both of her parents are dead. Turns out The Huntsman kidnapped her at birth.
* Put on a Bus
* Redemption Earns Life
* Reptiles Are Abhorrent: This is what The Huntsman taught her. She no longer believes this.
* Reverse Mole / Fake Defector: In "Homecoming".
* Roof Hopping: As seen in "Old School Training", she has this ability.
* Secret Identity: Huntsgirl.
* She's Back: While there wasn't any Heroic BSOD, she makes a grand return to action in "Hong Kong Longs" after she regains her memory.
* Star-Crossed Lovers: With Jake.
* The Tragic Rose
* Waif Fu
* Writing Around Trademarks: Her Huntsclan moniker had to be changed from "Thorn" to "Huntsgirl" in order to avoid legal trouble. File:Halieha 4043.png Haley Long Jake's eight year old younger sister who is a perfectionist and never gets in trouble. She has just mastered her dragon form and has just started her training. Tropes Associated With Haley:
* Always Someone Better: Subverted. While she is a better student and is shown to have natural talent with her Dragon Skills, it's also shown specifically because she doesn't have to Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World like Jake does on a daily basis. When she took full responsibility, she cracked under pressure in under a week. Leads to her getting a new found respect for her older brother and the Calling the Old Man Out moment.
* Annoying Younger Sibling
* Attention Whore: Seems to have shades of this, such as in "Fu and Tell". Jake later brings up how much she likes attention in "Switcheroo".
* Berserk Button: In "Being Human".
* Brother-Sister Team: Occasionally. At other times, Jake and Haley are at each other's throats.
* Breath Weapon
* But Not Too Foreign
* Calling the Old Man Out: Does this to her grandfather in "Being Human".
* Child Prodigy
* Distressed Damsel: At the end of "Family Business".
* Girlish Pigtails
* Magic Skirt
* Pint Sized Kid
* Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Her dragon form is pink. File:Jjohn 9748.png Jonathan Long Jake's goofy, but loving father who has no idea that he has married into a magical family. As well as being goofy and embarrassing, he is also strict, however, he only is that way because he wants his children to remain safe. For if you hurt his children, beware. Tropes Associated With Jonathan Long:
* Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
* Badass Normal
* Berserk Button: Do not hurt his son. You will be entering a world of hurt if you do.
* Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: when the Jersey's Devil attacked him, he mistook it for a bear and run. When the Jersey's Devil attacked Jake, he still mistook it for a bear and threw it down off a cliff with a Swiss Army Weapon fitted with bear spray.
* Papa Wolf
* Secret Keeper: In "Hong Kong Longs", he finds out his families are dragons and magical creatures are real. He accepts it.
* Supernatural Proof Father File:Sulong 1639.png Susan Long Jake's mother. She has no magical powers, for they skipped her generation. She is reluctant to reveal her family's heritage to her husband (apparently out of the fear that he will abandon her), and to this end, lies to her husband about Jake's business, sometimes letting Jake take the fall. Tropes Associated With Susan Long:
* Hot Mom
* Muggle Born of Mages File:Sun 337.png Sun Park The Korean Dragon, Haley's dragon master and Jake's Home Economics teacher. Tropes Associated With Sun:
* Hippie Teacher: She doesn't like being called "Ms. Park", says words like "groovy" and believes that violence is for the weak and cowardly.
* Mysterious Watcher: She seems to come off as this towards Jake in her first appearance, before she turns out to be Haley's mentor.
* Technical Pacifist: This exchange during one of her fights:
* What Could Have Been: In the original plan for "Homecoming", she got Killed Off for Real. The Disney Execs didn't dig it.
* The Worf Effect: Appears to be a victim of this. She is easily defeated by Chang (twice), is blasted out of the air by The Dark Dragon in the series finale and even gets attacked by humans with soda cans in "Haley Gone Wild".
* There's a Worf Had the Flu in the third. I mean, a pacifist dragon against humans? That's no sell for her. Also justified with the Dark Dragon and Chang (YMMV on the latter): Chang is quite more experienced and violent than her, and the Dark Dragon in the Grand Finale is so powerful that when he blasted her he was also taking on and winning against dozens of dragons at once, including the only two who had actually managed to defeat him in the past.
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