Willis Family

The Willis Family

Queen of the Willis family
Type	Cartoon family
Created by	Ava Zinn
Origin	The Life of Larry Larry & Steve
Original run	August 12, 2006 (2006-08-12) – present (present)
First appearance	"Death Has a Shadow"
Address	6328 West Evansville Road, Quillsville, Indiana

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 pilot episode 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.
• Julie Crawford Willis (voiced by Holly Everman) – Julie, Bianca's and Austen's violent alcoholic mother was imprisoned for "second-degree assaulting" her husband (Albert, Ava's brother) in the back with a fork and ultimately murders Albert as well as Tom in "Quillsville Cold Case". Though she is often mentioned during the course of the series, she appears in the pilot, "Quillsville Cold Case," visiting Bianca in Quillsville after her release from prison and briefly being courted by Robert Craven.

Angie's Family

• Bob Donaldson (himself) – The main anchorman for Fox 11 Quillsville with Diane Willis, the biological father of Angie, Lisa's first boyfriend. In the episode "Revenge of the Male Anchors 2," it was discovered that Bob is the biological father of Angie.
• Laura Donaldson (herself) - Laura is Angie's half-sister. Laura makes her first appearance when Ava and Deanna are watching news from Fort Wayne, when it was revealed Laura and Angie are sisters.
• Skye Donaldson (voiced by Karly Ryder) - Skye is Bob's husband and Angie's stepmother.
• Ned Shanks (voiced by Garfield Everman) – Ned Shanks is Angie's step-father. Ned lived in Marion, Indiana with his wife Lisa until Lisa divorces him in "Sexist Father." Ned hates Ava because she is no longer living as a male, and often calls her a "Methodist transgendered whore", disapproves of her daughter's family's lifestyle, and frequently attempts to force his religious views on them. To a lesser extent he disapproves of Ava due to her heritage, and is angry with Angela for not marrying an "Irish seed". When Ava (then Frank) and Angie got married, Ned taped the sign "To a Methodist Bastard" underneath the "Just Married" sign on the limousine. Despite all of this, he truly did love and care for Angie, and showed on multiple occasions to care for his grandchildren. Ned used to have a job at a metal fabrication plant. Ned dies in a hospital after uttering "Angie... you're a slutty stinking drunk!" as his last words.
• Lisa Shanks (voiced by ) - Ex-wife to Ned, Ex-boyfriend to Bob Donaldson and mother of Angie. She has gray hair and noticeable wrinkles below her eyes, and wears pink earrings and a purple bead necklace. She also wears glasses and is a heavy smoker. Unlike Ned, she is generally friendly and personable, and gets along well with Ava. Before Ned's death, she divorced him because she had "needs he didn't fill" and dated a younger man for a while. She often appears with news inconvenient or troubling to Angie and her family. Her brief partnership with Angie's biological father, Bob Donaldson, is established in the episode "Revenge of the Male Anchors".

Deanna's Family

• Brandi Lucille Willis (nee Sousa) (voiced by Karly Jameson) – Brandi is Deanna's itinerant, but generally benign wife, and is the mother of Deanna's child. It's often hard for Brandi to hold down a job (she has no credit or Social Security number). She lives on the remainder of the $5 million "settlement monies" she received after "slipping on water at the Sam's Club" having had a portion of her spine fused. Angie tried very hard to break her and Deanna apart, but after Brandi's pregnancy was revealed, she and Ava reconciled the two, giving them a wedding at Brandi's request. Although dimwitted in some aspects, Brandi has learned some facets such as basic math through life experience despite reciving her high school diploma.
• Tessanne Grace Sousa – Daughter of Deanna and Brandi. She was born in the season 6 episode "Brandi See, Donkey Do".
• Louisa Sousa (voiced by ____) – Louisa is Brandi's sister, Deanna's sister-in-law, Tesanne's aunt and the main antagonist in "Brandi See, Donkey Do". She is an intelligent, modern mother who only appears in that episode "Lucky See, Monkey Do". She has two children, one son and one daughter (Tessanne's paternal first cousins) and raises them in strict accordance with contemporary parenting practices, something which leads her into a rivalry with Angie, whose parenting skills are from older schools of thought, over how to assist Brandi as her pregnancy due date approaches. When Brandi goes into labor, Louisa commandeers the situation and insists that Brandi have a natural, drug-free water birth, but under Ava's encouragement to think for themselves about how to raise their child, Brandi and Deanna opt for a hospital birth instead.