Captain underpants

Captain Underpants is the titular deuteragonist of the Captain Underpants franchise. He is the alter ego of Benjamin Krupp (former alter ego in the book series after Book 12, but still exists in the movie and TV series). He was created by George Beard and Harold Hutchins.

Similar to his alter ego, Captain Underpants is a bald, overweight man. He has a pear-shaped body and a piggish nose. Captain Underpants has green eyes, as shown by the appearance of Mr. Krupp's Dummy.

His attire is nothing more than a pair of white briefs and a red polka-dotted cape fashioned from curtains. In the book series and movie, Captain Underpants' cape always looks the same, while in the Netflix series, it changes design depending on what type of fabric he uses for it. He can’t fly without his cape, so it is very important he wears one.

Captain Underpants' most notable personality trait is his jolliness. He is kind, caring, and brave. He loves and cares about children, especially George and Harold.

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George Beard is a fourth grader at Jerome Horwitz Elementary School. He is best friends with Harold Hutchins and is one of the two main protagonists of the Captain Underpants series. He lives with his parents and two cats.

George is a 10-year-old African-American boy. He is introduced as being "the kid on the left with the tie and flat top". True to this description, George wears a white collared T-shirt with a red tie and has a crew cut (before Harold gave him a haircut during their final anti-bully prank, he had an afro that was bigger than his body at the time). He also wears shorts and brown shoes. In the animated incarnations, his hair is curlier.

In Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, his tie has red and yellow stripes, his shorts are a bit lighter, and his sneakers are black and white.

George Beard, like his best friend Harold Hutchins, is a class clown and loves to pull pranks. However, George Beard is more bold than Harold and usually the brains behind their prank ideas. George Beard is ironically a bit more cautious when it comes to fighting monsters. Despite his pranking nature, George Beard's actions are generally targeted towards adult cruelty, such as his teachers and not his fellow students.

George Beard is creative, curious and imaginative. He is a good-hearted boy, even if quite messy, just like Harold Hutchins.

His other hobbies are skateboarding, watching TV, and making comic books with Harold Hutchins, where he writes the comics. He has created comic book characters like Captain Underpants, Super Diaper Baby, Timmy the Talking Toilet, Dog Man, Ook and Gluk, Boxer Boy, Great Granny Girdle, and the Amazing Cow Lady. Despite crediting himself as a good speller, he often misspells words.

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Harold Hutchins is one of the main characters in the series. He is clever, witty, curious, and good at drawing. He lives with his mom and sister at 1520 Vine Street in Piqua, Ohio, where he and his best friend, George Beard, attend fourth grade together at Jerome Horwitz Elementary School. Dubbed as "the one on the right with the T-shirt and the bad haircut,”. he is one of the two main protagonists of the Captain Underpants series.

Harold, like his best friend George, is a class clown and loves to pull pranks. However, Harold is a bit more timid than George so he usually comes up with their prank ideas. Ironically, Harold is a bit bolder when it comes to fighting monsters. Despite his pranking nature, most of Harold's actions are generally targeted towards adult cruelty, such as his teachers. His other hobbies are skateboarding, watching TV, and making comic books with George, where he draws the pictures. He has created comic book characters like Captain Underpants, Super Diaper Baby, Timmy the Talking Toilet, Dog Man, Ook and Gluk, and the Amazing Cow Lady. He is shown to be caring as in "The Vexing Vile of The Villiany Vimpire", he says he hopes Captain Underpants was okay.

In the ninth book, it is revealed that he was once a quiet child and a bit shy following his parents' recent divorce. He started to come out of his shell when he met his best pal, George. He also appears to be a bit more reluctant when it comes to George's can-do attitude.

Harold is an 11-year-old blonde-haired boy with a large, fluffy hairstyle. His outfit usually consists of a T-shirt and shorts. Like most human characters, he has black dots for eyes, while in puppetry scenes in The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants, he is depicted as having heterochromia (green on the left and blue on the right).

In Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, Harold's shirt is striped green and grey, his shorts are brown, and his slip-on shoes are light blue.

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Mr. Krupp is a mostly bald, overweight man with a pear-shaped body and a piggish nose. As shown by the design of a dummy that resembles him, he has green eyes. Sometimes, when he laughs or becomes angry, his teeth grow sharp. Benjamin covers his bald head with a messy, spider-like toupee. He wears an office shirt, a tie, and a pair of trousers. In the movie, Benjamin's tie is brown, and he wears green pants. Also, his white shirt has a pocket.

Benjamin Krupp is an unbelievably arrogant, unsympathetic, rude, impolite, grumpy, egotistical principal. He distributes detention slips to any student for even a minor infraction, just so long as they are unfortunate enough to cross his path. In one case, Benny punished George and Harold by not allowing them to have cafeteria food and makes them bring their own lunches in his office to keep an eye on them, even though he had no actual proof (however, given that the two were responsible it was justified). Benjamin once blackmailed George and Harold into doing all his daywork and even giving them extra homework in exchange for not getting "killed every day for the rest of their lives".