Beavis

Beavis is characterized by his dark blonde hair that is shaped in a pompadour-like style, severe underbite, battleship bow chin, limited number of teeth, very prominent and wavy caterpillar-like eyebrows, he has a fixated stare on his face and he does not face or look at the audience as his face is almost always shown in profile, his nose is long and sharp with small nostrils (which may be a reason why some girls may like him as stated in Letters to Santa Butt-Head). His eyes are small and quite beady, but they expand whenever he is surprised, scared or in his Cornholio state. Along with Butt-Head, Beavis is one of the skinniest characters in the series and he has quite a raspy voice for a teenager.

Originally starting out as a "sidekick and a follower", Beavis eventually turned into a "loose cannon" as the show went on. He is oblivious to what should be the obvious and is "a zero" in terms of intellect. Contrasting against Butt-Head's more dominant and brash personality, Beavis is more submissive and often tolerates his physical and verbal confrontations, usually without retaliating. However, even Beavis has his limits. There have been occasions in which Beavis has stood up for himself and attacked Butt-Head. In Murder Site, he was driven to the brink of going postal and nearly killing Butt-Head, the latter of whom would not refrain from calling him a "butt-knocker", a term which Beavis inexplicably resents. While viewing a Bon Jovi video, Butt-Head assaulted Beavis because he liked the song that was playing.

In retaliation, Beavis kicked him in the testicles twice and shouted, "You can't tell me what sucks! I like this, so blow it up your ass!" When Butt-Head disrespected Metallica, Beavis got especially defensive and threatened to kick Butt-Head's ass. In the book This Book Sucks, Beavis is the smarter and more dominant of the two, but eventually, Beavis just became a side-kick. Beavis seems to gain a small bit of intelligence in Season 8, being able to use a photocopier and, also, holding back on copying his butt (until Butt-Head suggested it).

He is shown to be a pyromaniac, as evidenced by his chant of "Fire! Fire!". During the original series run, Beavis was no longer allowed to say "fire" after some woman in Ohio claimed an episode where Beavis did his fire thing caused her son to burn her trailer and kill his sister in the blaze. Therefore, Beavis was reduced to saying things like "Fryer!" (when he's at Burger World) or "Liar! LIAR! Liar, liar, pants on... whoa!" (Liar! Liar!). It wasn't until season eight that Beavis was let off the hook and given a clean slate (otherwise he would not have said "Fire!" while reviewing MGMT's "Kids").

Despite his passive behavior, Beavis possesses a number of positive traits and character strengths. He is generally nicer and more optimistic than Butt-Head and treats Stewart Stevenson, a nerdy boy who looks up to the duo, better than he does. He can be extremely witty and when discussing a topic with Butt-Head that neither of them know about or understand, Beavis is more likely to guess the mechanisms at work. Also, in some rare cases, Beavis is prone to bouts of intelligent insight about certain topics. For example, after making himself dizzy, Beavis analyzed a Korn video with much detail and in another episode he discussed the true meaning of Christmas. As well as this, on the rare occasion that a female is interested in the two, it is usually Beavis who gets the attention (Vidiots, Another Friday Night, Teen Talk and Letters to Santa Butt-Head), much to Butt-Head's jealousy.

This may be due to Beavis' childlike temperament, behavior and his approaches to females ("Hey, how's it going?" or "Hey!") rather than Butt-Head's unsuccessful blunt sexual approaches ("Hey, baby.") Even in the pursuit of scoring, both are smart enough to value safe sex and carry contraceptives when they do get to (Friday Night). Notably, both also have great luck with lotto tickets, where they once bought a lawnmower with a $500 winning ticket (Scratch 'N' Win).

Beavis also appears to be incredibly naive for his age, though it is unknown if he is naive or just extremely idiotic. It may be a combination of the two.

Beavis has said that he has voices in his head that tell him to do violent things but he has learned not to do the things it tells him to do (Most Wanted).

In Here Comes the Bride's Butt, Beavis indicates that he has a foot fetish, mentioning that he likes when women have "nice feet" and that he would like to "put [his] hands on them."

Beavis has a fear of blood, or is at least mildly disturbed by it, as he starts screaming and shaking when he gets a nosebleed (though this might just be because it startled him).

Beavis starts to feel true love and expresses many times that he wishes to be listened to and that the "real Beavis" is not truly known.

Beavis does not display as much interest in scoring with chicks as much as Butt-Head does, which is shown in many episodes where the latter continuously tries to flirt with various girls while Beavis is intrigued by something else, usually picking his nose.

Beavis also shows a talent of backmasking or being able to speak backwards (Vidiots - however, he forgets how he does this by the end of the episode) as well as a talent for speaking ultra-fast, He, along with Butt-Head, is shown to be very childish, but Butt-Head displays a bit more maturity than Beavis does.