The Ziggyz Show / Characters

A page describing the characters of *The Ziggyz Show*.

**NOTE: This page is not in alphabetical order.**

## Kid Ziggy

* **Adaptational Nice Guy**: Unlike the books where he was a bit mischievous, here he is a completely well intentioned guy.

* **Keet**: He is vey gentle and energetic.
* **Nice Guy**
* **Nice Hat**
* **Red is Heroic / Blue is Heroic**: Wears a red and blue cap.

## Hairy Ziggy

* **Adaptational Attractiveness**: He has a yellow small fork on his hair.
* **Nice Guy**
* **Funny Afro**
* **The Pig-Pen**
* **Hates Baths**

* **Non-Standard Character Design:** Unlike other ziggyz, he has hair.

## Square Ziggy

* **Abnormal Limb Rotation Range**: He can move his elbow way far than other Ziggyz. Justified as he is square, this may be his default shape.
* **Affective Nickname**: Called Squaree by his Ziggy friends.
* **Deconstructed Character Archetype**: In the books his squareness was used as a good thing, in the show, he is more likely to see his square shape as a bad thing or an impediment.
* **Nice Guy**
* **Only Sane Man**: He is often the voice of reason of the series.

## Crazy Ziggy

* **Amusing Injuries**: Prone to this.

* **Banana Peel**: He tossed one on his Birthday Episode.
* **Butt-Monkey**: Prone to accidents and injuries.
* **Cloudcuckoolander**: As always...
* **Mad Eye:** His left eye always whirls.
* **Instant Bandages**: Whenever he crushes into things or slaps.

## Pirate Ziggy

* **An Arm And A Leg**: Subverted as he only has a missing hand on wich he wears his hook. However some books portrayed him with a pegleg.
* **Dressed Like A Pirate**:Wears a hat with the Jolly Roger ziggy-fied, an eyepatch and a hook.
* **Butt-Monkey**
* **Talking Like A Pirate**: He speaks with a lot of Ah-Hoy!s and Arrrghs.
* **Pirates**

## Lord Ziggy

* **Amazing Technicolor Wildlife**: Has a red elephant as a pet on his circus.
* **Upper Class Twit**: He tends to act with rudeness.
* **High Class Glass**: Wears a monocle
* **Jerk With A Hearth Of Gold**: He is a nice man after all.
* **Rich Bitch**

* **Jerkass**

## Tenderheart Ziggy

* **Nice Guy:** The nicest of all the Ziggyz.

* **Nice Hat**
* **Extreme Doormat**
* **Apologises A Lot**

## Messy Ziggy

* **Big Eater:** Eats a lot of messy food.
* **Everyone Has Standards:** Despite beign so filthy, he likes having clean hands.
* **Expy:** Of **Mr. Messy** and **PigPen**.
* **Hates Baths**
* **Nice Guy**
* **No Celebrities Were Harmed:** He speaks in a way that brings Peter Lorre to mind.
* **Non-Standard Character Design:** He has gray outlines and waves of dust surrounds him in an animation style that doesn't follow the actual animation style of the show.
* **The Pig-Pen**
* **Smelly Feet**

## Ball Ziggy

* **The Chew Toy:** Subverted. He likes being kicked when playing football.
* **Rubber Man**
* **Non-Standard Character Design:** Unlike the other Ziggyz, he has a solid body.
* **Instant Bandages:** He's always seen with two bandages on each side of his body.

## Ghost Ziggy

* **Chuck Cunningham Syndrome**: He is never seen or mentioned in the season 2 of the series.

* **Jerkass**
* **Jerk With a Hearth of Gold**: He scares people but only for fun.
* **Karma**: Sometimes other Ziggyz scare him instead.
* **The Prankster**
* **Special Effects Failure**: Wears a very, VERY cheap ghost costume.
* **Nightmare Fuel Fetishist**
* **Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant**
* **You Don't Look Like You**: In the books he had the body of a normal Ziggy, with his legs beign replaced by a ghost tail, here he is just a Ziggy covered with a bed sheet.

## Alien Ziggy

* **Bizarre Alien Biology**: He can pull out many arms out of his body and use his eyes as headlights.
* **Canon Foreigner**: He was created specially for the show.
* **Human Subspecies**: More like Ziggy subspecies.
* **Human Aliens**
* **Humanoid Aliens**

## Somersault Ziggy

* **Meaningful Name**: He likes to do awesome somersaults and he reach splendid heights.
* **Double Jump**: He can do these.
* **In A Single Bound**
* **Nice Guy**
* **Nice Hat**

## Helicopter Ziggy

* **Die or Fly**: In one episode, he thought his palettes where broken, but when he fall over his tall bed he could fly again.
* **Nice Guy**
* **Ironic Fear**: He is scared of heights!.
* **Heli-Critter**

* **The Hero**: He is seen as this by others, as he can fly he can rescue Balloon Ziggy from flying out his hand, save people from a building on fire, or rescue kittens from trees.

## Sarcasm Ziggy

* **Amazing Technicolor Population:** He's blue.
* **Canon Foreigner:** He was created for the show.
* **Deadpan Snarker:** Isn't called Sarcasm Ziggy for nothing.
* **Jerk With A Hearth Of Gold**
* **Sour Supporter:** Sort of...whenever the other ziggyz do anything.

## Balloon Ziggy

* **Amazing Technicolor Population**: Has a red face, but is a balloon so what gives...

* **Floating Face**
* **Non-Standard Character Design**
* **Flat Character**
* **Facial Horror**
* **Tear off Your Face**

## Sleepy Ziggy

* **Brilliant,But Lazy**: He can run very fast as revealed when he was hungry and followed the smell of a pizza.

* **Catch-Phrase**: "I'm kinda tired now..."
* **Heavy Sleeper**
* **Lazy Bum**
* **Unmoving Plaid**: The star pattern on his hat has this effect.

## Wrathful Ziggy

* **Amazing Technicolor Population**: Unlike other Ziggyz, he is red. Although this can be due to him beign angry all the time.
* **Adaptational Villainy**: Unlike the books when he was grumpy and that's it, here he has villainy tendences.
* **Big Ol' Unibrow**
* **Grumpy Bear**: Well, Duh!.
* **Nice Hat**
* **Jerk With a Hearth of Gold**
* **You Gotta Have Blue Hair:** Has a blue unibrow.

## Stroky Ziggy

* **Adaptational Villainy**: Same case as Wrathful Ziggy.
* **Ambiguous Disorder**
* **Split-Personality**: He has two personalities represented by his stroked side and his normal side.
* **Body Horror**
* **Facial Horror**
* **Two-Faced**

## Cool Ziggy

* **The Bully**

* **The Stalker**
* **Upper Class Twit**
* **Eye Glasses**: Wears small round lennon sunglasses.
* **Cool Shades**
* **Cassanova Wannabee**

* **Sunglasses at Night**

## Bow Ziggy

* **Adaptation Name Change:** She was named Well Doomed Ziggy in the cards, but was renamed Bow Ziggy in the show, due to the original name being confusing for US viewers.
* **All About Me:** She loves to talk about herself.
* **Flat Character:** She isn't usually given a more developed personality.
* **Girlish Bowtie:** A red star hairpin.
* **The Smurfette Principle**: The only female Ziggy in the show.
* **You Gotta Have Blue Hair:** She has pink hair.

## Mysterious Ziggy

* **The Un-Reveal**

* **No Mouth:** His mouth is covered by his turtleneck.
* **The One Who Must Not Be Seen**
* **The One Who Must Not Be Heard**

## Lunch Ziggy

* **Big Eater**
* **Heavy Sleeper**
* **Nice Guy**

## Specky Ziggy

* **Ambiguous Disorder**: He is way too nervous.
* **Butt-Monkey**: He falls into this at times.
* **Eye Glasses**
* **Smart People Wear Glasses:** Averted. He isn't really that smart in the show, however, in the original books he was the smarterst ziggy.
* **Cowardly Lion**
* **Lovable Coward**

## Thieve Ziggy

* **Affectionate Pickpocket:** He does this at Police Ziggy
* to steal his keys once.
* **Butt-Monkey**

* **The Kleptomaniac**
* **Bandito**
* **The Voiceless:** His comedic shorts are mute.

## Police Ziggy

* **Big Ol' Unibrow:** Type I.
* **Canon Foreigner:** He was created for the show.

* **Hammerspace Police Force:** He often pull random policial things out of nowhere.
* **Police Brutality**: He often smacks Thieve Ziggy with a baseball bat.
* **The Voiceless:** Like Thieve Ziggy, he never speaks on his comedy shorts.

## Leggy Ziggy

* **Adaptational Attractiveness**: Gains a **Nice Hat**.
* **Gentle Giant:** Though he's only a giant in the sense that his legs are long.
* **Nice Guy**
* **Nice Hat**