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| − | *'''Albert Willis''' (voiced by Ava Zinn) - Ava's younger brother, whose physical appearance is very similar to Ava's. He met Julie Crawford in 1989, and they had their first kiss at age of fourteen. Later in her life, Albert and Julie marry and eventually divorce. They have a son Austen and a transgendered female dog, Bianca. Albert drowned in the series premiere and in Quillsville Cold Case he was murdered by Julie. It is also revealed in that episode, he had been unaccepting of Ava's gender transition. *'''Amanda | + | *'''Albert Willis''' (voiced by Ava Zinn) - Ava's younger brother, whose physical appearance is very similar to Ava's. He met Julie Crawford in 1989, and they had their first kiss at age of fourteen. Later in her life, Albert and Julie marry and eventually divorce. They have a son Austen and a transgendered female dog, Bianca. Albert drowned in the series premiere and in Quillsville Cold Case he was murdered by Julie. It is also revealed in that episode, he had been unaccepting of Ava's gender transition. |
| − | *[[Peggy Willis (Queen of the Willis)|Margaret "Peggy" Willis]] (voiced by Ava Zinn) - Ava's cantankerous mother she has a hair-trigger temper. Despite her many shortcomings, she occasionally showed a softer side, for example in the episode "Cotton's Plot" where he helped Peggy learn to walk again after her parachuting accident. Her neck was slashed by bullies at Quillsville Central High School (now Babyface High School) and her head was reattached to spinal cord , resulting in a short height and stilted gait. Despite her disability, she eventually reached the rank of Master Teacher. After Peggy and her first husband Harry, Ava's father, divorced, she married a much younger, soft-spoken, hunky doctor named Charlie who conceived and Peggy gave birth to a daughter "A.A." ("Amanda Ava"). She was immensely proud of her teaching service. Instead of addressing Angie by her name she calls her "Ava's wife". | + | *'''Amazing Ava Amanda "A.A." Willis''' - Ava's half-sister who was born in "Ava and Angela Willis: Celebrating 20 Years". A.A. is Peggy's and Charlie's infant daughter, and the younger of Ava's two half-brothers. A.A. is an abbreviation for "Amazing Ava," implying that the original Ava was unsatisfactory to her mother. Peggy treats A.A. much better than Ava presumably because Peggy sees her as being her second chance of being a better mother than she was for Ava and Albert. A.A. was key at a time when Ava had to convince Peggy not to end her life as well as to permit Ava to give her mother money for the baby's sake (and as payback for the years Peggy raised her and Albert). <!---- A.A. was absent at the time of his father's death, and is not seen throughout the rest of the series, although it is presumed he is living with his mother and stepfather. ---> |
| + | *[[Peggy Willis (Queen of the Willis)|'''Margaret "Peggy" Willis''' (nee Zinn and formerly Willis)]] (voiced by Ava Zinn) - Ava's cantankerous mother she has a hair-trigger temper. Despite her many shortcomings, she occasionally showed a softer side, for example in the episode "Cotton's Plot" where he helped Peggy learn to walk again after her parachuting accident. Her neck was slashed by bullies at Quillsville Central High School (now Babyface High School) and her head was reattached to spinal cord , resulting in a short height and stilted gait. Despite her disability, she eventually reached the rank of Master Teacher. After Peggy and her first husband Harry, Ava's father, divorced, she married a much younger, soft-spoken, hunky doctor named Charlie who conceived and Peggy gave birth to a daughter "A.A." ("Amanda Ava"). She was immensely proud of her teaching service. Instead of addressing Angie by her name she calls her "Ava's wife". | ||
*Charlie Belcher (voiced by George Gray) - Charlie is Peggy's second husband and Ava's stepfather. He's a doctor after he retired from being an Chippendales dancer. He has muscular implants and suffers from depression following the birth of Peggy's daughetr "A.A." He is generally depicted as docile and unintelligent, although he is a certified medical assistant. <!--- She was absent at the time of Cotton's death and was only seen once more, where she says she is engaged and will remarry. --> Charlie was in Kindergarten when Ava was already an adult (indicating she is older than him). | *Charlie Belcher (voiced by George Gray) - Charlie is Peggy's second husband and Ava's stepfather. He's a doctor after he retired from being an Chippendales dancer. He has muscular implants and suffers from depression following the birth of Peggy's daughetr "A.A." He is generally depicted as docile and unintelligent, although he is a certified medical assistant. <!--- She was absent at the time of Cotton's death and was only seen once more, where she says she is engaged and will remarry. --> Charlie was in Kindergarten when Ava was already an adult (indicating she is older than him). | ||
| + | * '''Harrison "Harry" Elroy Claussen (formerly Willis)''' (voiced by [[wikipedia:David Caruso|David Caruso]]) – Harry is Peggy's first husband, and Ava's father. He divorced Peggy after suffering years of verbal abuse. Harry is a kind man who collects knickknacks because they made him happy during Peggy's abuse. Ava is often over-protective of him, fearing he is too old and fragile to go out and do things on his own. Harry lives in Iowa with her Japanese transgendered husband Clyde Claussen (voiced by [[Leonard Lai]]). Harry's legal name varies during the series. He is listed as "Harry" on Ava's and Albert's birth certificates, but is addressed as Harrison by the clergyman during his wedding to Clyde. | ||
| + | * '''Vladamir''' (voiced by [[Ted Shields]]) – Vladamir is Ava's and Albert's elder half-Russian transgendered half-brother who has lived in Russia all his life. Ava and Vladamir have the same mother, due to Peggy's affair with a Russian doctor during her war days, and share many similarities in appearance and mannerisms (this in spite of the fact that Ava actually shares more of her father's features); one of these is that when he is shocked, like Ava, he yells "GAAH!" Like Ava, Vladamir also has an enlarged penis after his transition from female to male and is an assistant manager at the company for which he works, making robots and robot accessories. | ||
| + | * '''[[Diane Willis]]''' (herself) – The main anchorwoman for Fox 11 Quillsville with Bob Donaldson and Ava's cousin. In the episode "Ava Gets Dianed," Peggy gives her prized Mercedes to Diane without allowing Ava a chance to buy it. Diane enters the car for husband Clyde Lee (himself) in a demolition derby in which it is badly damaged. Ava and Diane make their peace after Diane has the car repaired and installed at the Mercedes Ranch. | ||
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| + | * '''Elroy "Lucky" Kleinschmidt''' (voiced by [[Tom Petty]]) – Lucky is Luanne's itinerant, but generally benign redneck husband, and is the father of Luanne's child. It's often hard for Lucky to hold down a job (he has no credit or [[Social Security number]]). He lives on the remainder of the $53,000 "[[Financial compensation|settlement monies]]" he received after "slipping on pee-pee at the [[Costco]]" having had a portion of his spine fused. He was nicknamed "Lucky" after the settlement windfall. After he spent a majority of his money customizing his truck, his finances dwindled down to nine thousand dollars but regained another $53,000 when an [[ambulance chasing]] lawyer paid off Lucky to avoid a lawsuit. Peggy tried very hard to break him and Luanne apart, but after Luanne's pregnancy was revealed, she and Hank reconciled the two, giving them a [[shotgun wedding]] at Lucky's request. He is also one of the guitarists for John Redcorn's band "Big Mountain Fudgecake". Although dimwitted in some aspects, Lucky has learned some facets such as basic math through life experience as opposed to formal education, and was astute enough to deduce that his father-in-law spent time in jail whereas Luanne believed the story that he works on an oil rig. He yearned to receive his GED but only to prove he was good enough to marry Luanne. | ||
| + | * '''Gracie Margaret Kleinschmidt''' – Daughter of Lucky and Luanne. She was born in the [[List of King of the Hill episodes#Season 13|season 13]] episode "Lucky See, Monkey Do". Luanne originally wanted to name her Lasagna (stating that [[Lasagne|lasagna]] was their favorite food) while under the influence of hospital analgesics, but choosing a more conventional name after she had recovered. | ||
| + | * '''Myrna Kleinschmidt''' (voiced by [[Paget Brewster]]) – Myrna is Lucky's sister, Luanne's sister-in-law, Gracie's aunt and the main antagonist in "[[Lucky See, Monkey Do]]". She is an intelligent, modern mother who only appears in the episode "Lucky See, Monkey Do". She has two children, one son and one daughter (Gracie's paternal first cousins) and raises them in [[Strict father model|strict accordance]] with [[contemporary]] [[parenting practices]], something which leads her into a rivalry with Peggy, whose parenting skills are from older schools of thought, over how to assist Luanne as her pregnancy due date approaches. When Luanne goes into labor, Myrna commandeers the situation and insists that Luanne have a natural, drug-free [[water birth]], but under Hank's encouragement to think for themselves about how to raise their child, Luanne and Lucky opt for a hospital birth instead. | ||
| + | * '''Leanne Platter''' (voiced by [[Pamela Adlon]]) – Leanne, Luanne's violent alcoholic mother, Gracie's grandmother, Bobby's aunt and Lucky's mother-in-law she was imprisoned for "second-degree assaulting" her husband in the back with a fork. Though she is often mentioned during the course of the series, she appears only in the episode "Leanne's Saga," visiting Luanne in Arlen after her release from prison and briefly being courted by Bill Dauterive. | ||
| + | * '''Hoyt Platter''' (voiced by [[Johnny Knoxville]]) – Hoyt is Luanne's father, Peggy's twin brother, Hank's brother-in-law, Bobby's uncle, Lucky's father-in-law, Gracie's grandfather and Leanne's ex-husband. Despite Luanne's beliefs, he never worked on an [[Oil platform|oil rig]], but was in jail for most of Luanne's life, with the oil rig story acting as a cover so Luanne wouldn't know her father was a convict. He appears in only one episode: "Life: A Loser's Manual". After being released from jail, Hoyt commits a robbery and tricks Lucky into taking the blame, but he eventually confesses and is sentenced to life in prison under a [[three-strikes law]]. The episode "Leanne's Saga" reveals that Hoyt was planning on marrying a pharmacist girl before Leanne, then working as a stripper, entertained at his bachelor party. | ||
| + | * '''Maddy Platter''' (voiced by [[Joanna Gleason]]) – Maddy Platter is Peggy's and Hoyt's mother, Hank's mother-in-law and Bobby's and Luanne's grandmother. Mother Platter lives in [[Montana]] with her son Hoyt. She's an old-fashioned, tough-as-nails rancher type and loathes Peggy for deserting the family ranch and not marrying a local neighbor boy. Strangely, earlier episode flashbacks feature a totally different "Peggy's mother" character, who is essentially an older version of Peggy—it's not made clear if one is her real mother and one is her stepmother, or if the "Maddy" mother character [[Retroactive continuity|retconned]] the older version completely. | ||
| + | * '''Doc Platter''' – Doc is Peggy's and Hoyt's father, Hank's father-in-law and Bobby's and Luanne's grandfather. He makes only a single major appearance when Peggy, Bobby and Hank visit the family ranch. He seems to be going somewhat senile and preachy, which Hank misinterprets as old-fashion Western-style wisdom. | ||
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==Angie's Family== | ==Angie's Family== | ||
Revision as of 23:41, 11 September 2018
| Queen of the Willis family | |
| Type | Cartoon family |
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| Created by | Ava Zinn |
| Origin | The Life of Larry Larry & Steve |
| Original run | August 12, 2006 – present |
| First appearance | "Death Has a Shadow" |
| Address | 6328 West Evansville Road, Quillsville, Indiana |
Contents
Main family
Ava Willis
Aeverine "Ava" Melanie Florence Willis,[1] (formerly Frank Michael Willis), voiced by Ava Zinn. Ava is the father of the Willis family, protagonist who proudly sold "retail gifts and retail accessories" as the assistant manager (later manager) at Craven Gifts, and throughout the entire series always makes a big deal about the job when everybody around Ava finds her occupation boring. A few episodes show Ava escaping from her troubled home life by working on her home and garden when times are tough.[2] In early episodes, Ava resembles—in both voice and appearance—the Claudia character from Amanda & Elisa, a character also voiced by Zinn. Ava is usually a well-meaning parent, but is often confused and anxious towards modern trends and the antics of her friends and family members. She transitioned to from male to female on November 1, 1999 and has an enlarged clitoris, which made concieving children with Angie difficult. Ava is uncomfortable with public displays of intimacy with her wife and children. She has a very difficult time saying "I love you" to any member of her family, as she thinks it is unmanly. Ava's trademark exclamation when surprised or angered or in times of discomfort (sounding like "Aahhh!") and "Dammit") are running gags on the series. Ava is a byproduct of a bygone era - always faithful, friendly, firm, reasonable, well-read and hard-working. Much of the series revolves around Ava's desire to do the right thing compared to much of the rest of the people around her who would rather cheat, lie or exploit. Ava is a proud Hoosier, having grown up there. She was, however, born a boy in a ladies room at Cleveland Municpal Stadium, and spent the first three days of her life in Cleveland, Ohio.
In an interview with News Setinel Zinn described her as "Hank Hill as a woman with the knowledge of what she's doing. She has the mind of a transgendered man, basically, and a source of big laughs is when she does realize she's doing something right."[3]
Angie Willis
Angela "Angie" Anne Willis (née Donaldson and formerly Shanks), voiced by Holly Everman from 2006-2011, Karly Jameson since 2019. Angie is the mother of the Willis family works as a substitute accountant. Angie was born in Utah and was adopted by Ned and Lisa Shanks. Her strained relationship with her stepfather is a source of drama for her.
Angie is the Head of the Willis family and bespectacled woman who is just a big child. She has other roots beside her Irish ones, including African-American, Spanish, Scottish and German. She is incredibly jealous of other attractions Ava has in her life, an attitude that tends to get out of hand in most cases. In one episode, Angie and Ava split up because of Angie's jealousy only to discover that Ava has the same character flaw and the two decide to live with their mutually jealous nature. Angie has a very short attention span and frequently ends up in bizarre situations, as Deanna points out in one episode, after Angie's bird dies "She will get over it pretty quickly and then move on to another crazy-ass thing".
Tom Willis
Deanna Willis
The Willis Sextuplets
The Willis Sextuplets (Stuart, Ron, Brian, Luanne, Emilie, and Hillary) are the youngest of of the Willis family children, born in 2008 in "And Then there were 13". Because they were so young, the sextuplets didn't play a large role in the series' initial run. The sextuplets will not appear in the premiere episode of Season 6.
Shushu Willis
Rags Willis
Heather Willis
Ava's Family
- Albert Willis (voiced by Ava Zinn) - Ava's younger brother, whose physical appearance is very similar to Ava's. He met Julie Crawford in 1989, and they had their first kiss at age of fourteen. Later in her life, Albert and Julie marry and eventually divorce. They have a son Austen and a transgendered female dog, Bianca. Albert drowned in the series premiere and in Quillsville Cold Case he was murdered by Julie. It is also revealed in that episode, he had been unaccepting of Ava's gender transition.
- Amazing Ava Amanda "A.A." Willis - Ava's half-sister who was born in "Ava and Angela Willis: Celebrating 20 Years". A.A. is Peggy's and Charlie's infant daughter, and the younger of Ava's two half-brothers. A.A. is an abbreviation for "Amazing Ava," implying that the original Ava was unsatisfactory to her mother. Peggy treats A.A. much better than Ava presumably because Peggy sees her as being her second chance of being a better mother than she was for Ava and Albert. A.A. was key at a time when Ava had to convince Peggy not to end her life as well as to permit Ava to give her mother money for the baby's sake (and as payback for the years Peggy raised her and Albert).
- Margaret "Peggy" Willis (nee Zinn and formerly Willis) (voiced by Ava Zinn) - Ava's cantankerous mother she has a hair-trigger temper. Despite her many shortcomings, she occasionally showed a softer side, for example in the episode "Cotton's Plot" where he helped Peggy learn to walk again after her parachuting accident. Her neck was slashed by bullies at Quillsville Central High School (now Babyface High School) and her head was reattached to spinal cord , resulting in a short height and stilted gait. Despite her disability, she eventually reached the rank of Master Teacher. After Peggy and her first husband Harry, Ava's father, divorced, she married a much younger, soft-spoken, hunky doctor named Charlie who conceived and Peggy gave birth to a daughter "A.A." ("Amanda Ava"). She was immensely proud of her teaching service. Instead of addressing Angie by her name she calls her "Ava's wife".
- Charlie Belcher (voiced by George Gray) - Charlie is Peggy's second husband and Ava's stepfather. He's a doctor after he retired from being an Chippendales dancer. He has muscular implants and suffers from depression following the birth of Peggy's daughetr "A.A." He is generally depicted as docile and unintelligent, although he is a certified medical assistant. Charlie was in Kindergarten when Ava was already an adult (indicating she is older than him).
- Harrison "Harry" Elroy Claussen (formerly Willis) (voiced by David Caruso) – Harry is Peggy's first husband, and Ava's father. He divorced Peggy after suffering years of verbal abuse. Harry is a kind man who collects knickknacks because they made him happy during Peggy's abuse. Ava is often over-protective of him, fearing he is too old and fragile to go out and do things on his own. Harry lives in Iowa with her Japanese transgendered husband Clyde Claussen (voiced by Leonard Lai). Harry's legal name varies during the series. He is listed as "Harry" on Ava's and Albert's birth certificates, but is addressed as Harrison by the clergyman during his wedding to Clyde.
- Vladamir (voiced by Ted Shields) – Vladamir is Ava's and Albert's elder half-Russian transgendered half-brother who has lived in Russia all his life. Ava and Vladamir have the same mother, due to Peggy's affair with a Russian doctor during her war days, and share many similarities in appearance and mannerisms (this in spite of the fact that Ava actually shares more of her father's features); one of these is that when he is shocked, like Ava, he yells "GAAH!" Like Ava, Vladamir also has an enlarged penis after his transition from female to male and is an assistant manager at the company for which he works, making robots and robot accessories.
- Diane Willis (herself) – The main anchorwoman for Fox 11 Quillsville with Bob Donaldson and Ava's cousin. In the episode "Ava Gets Dianed," Peggy gives her prized Mercedes to Diane without allowing Ava a chance to buy it. Diane enters the car for husband Clyde Lee (himself) in a demolition derby in which it is badly damaged. Ava and Diane make their peace after Diane has the car repaired and installed at the Mercedes Ranch.
Angie's Family
- Ned Shanks
- Lisa Shanks
- Bob Donaldson
- Skye Donaldson
- Laura Donaldson
Deanna's Family
- Brandi Willis
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