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This is a list of minor characters from the Dilbert comic strip. [edit] Accounting trolls Sadistic trolls from the accounting department whose bodies are 95% saliva. As Dogbert shows, their brains are so hard-wired that seeing someone wearing a baseball cap backwards causes their heads to explode, which he referred to as a "paradigm shifting without a clutch." The trolls' accounting offices resemble a cavernous Hell. They were originally ruled by a witch who turned Dilbert into an accounting troll but was destroyed when Dilbert, assigned to budget erasing, erased the accounting department's budget. The company apparently employs human accountants to interact with other people since most accountants who appear outside the department are human. In the television series one of the trolls was voiced by Gilbert Gottfried. [edit] Anne She gave up exercise, sleep and nutrition for intravenous coffee. Appeared on October 4th 1994. [edit] Baby Appeared in four strips in 2006 from January 25 – 28th. He can hypnotise people with his cuteness. He is a baby in the time-zone that Dilbert stays in because he has jet lag. He was an engineer, but was transferred to sales by Catbert because "no-one wants to hurt a baby". [edit] Bank of Ethel At the beginning of the series, Dilbert kept his money at the Bank of Ethel, a place that has lewd acts, steals money, charges a lot, and is evil. Bit bankers appear as a middle-aged woman with glasses who never cares about people, like the bank itself. After Dogbert became a millionaire as a used car salesman, he lost all his money by keeping it at the Bank of Ethel (in that strip, it was called "Ethel's Savings and Loan"). Dilbert realized the Bank was evil and stopped keeping his money there. [edit] Bill Gates Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, has appeared several times in Dilbert. He once forced Dilbert to take a job as his towel boy after Dilbert buys an unnamed Microsoft product (his house shows up to "assimilate" Dilbert, in a manner similar to a Borg cube). Gates is normally seen in a Star Trek-like setting where he issues orders such as "Launch the competition keeper missiles" from a Captain's chair. Luckily, Dogbert is always ready with interception missiles (unnamed businessmen having a meeting on a giant catapult). [edit] Bingo Dogbert's former friend, current arch-rival. In the early days of the strip, Scott Adams was told that Dogbert had to have a nemesis if the strip were ever going to be animated. Adams drew nine strips about Bingo, but never released them; the strip went in a different direction, turning into the work-oriented comic it is today. In the first strip, Ratbert asks Dogbert about when he and Dilbert met. Dogbert recalls being at the pound, where a teenaged Dilbert adopted him (apparently because he looked "pretty"). Bingo was later adopted by a dairy farmer. At the farm, Bingo created an army of very stupid cows, and used it to kidnap Dogbert. Using caller ID and Ruebert the robot, Dilbert tracked down and rescued Dogbert. Although Dilbert described the endeavor as a "certain-death rescue mission", all got out safely. The strips are wordy and exposition-heavy, and Adams remarks that "if you hate them you're in good company with the other six billion inhabitants of Earth." [edit] Bob, Dawn, and Rex, the Dinosaurs Not extinct, just (usually) hiding. Bob issues wedgies to the deserving, and is often a lackey in Dogbert's schemes. He told Dilbert he was a thesaurus, although later admitted it was a joke. Dawn claims to be a "nobodysaurus" (a pun on "nobody saw us"). Since Bob and Dawn appear to be different species, Rex is presumably a hybrid. Bob cannot tell the difference between Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings, as he revealed in one strip when he told Dilbert that dinosaurs are incapable of lying. Dawn and Rex are seldom seen, while Bob is a semi-regular member of the cast. It is possible that Bob is just more outgoing. Bob makes a cameo appearance in the teaser of one of the TV episodes, and can also be seen amongst several other prehistoric creatures in the opening title sequence. [edit] Bottleneck Bill Shaped like a bottle and, true to his namesake, believes that "anything worth doing is worth delaying". His neck is made of titanium, as he reveals when Alice tries to strangle him. Bill wears a hat in the shape of a bottle cap on his head, and he appears twice the size of his co-workers when sitting down. [edit] Captain Bob Captain Bob is an airline pilot and cannibal who eats people after crashing into a mountain repeatedly. Bob tricks people into being whacked by a tenderizer and pouring Worcestershire sauce all over their bodies, claiming that this is the best way to avoid frostbite. He is ultimately stopped when Dogbert hits his face with a snowball, causing his ovoid body to roll down the mountain. [edit] Cyrus the Virus Cyrus is a man who attacks and replaces members of a company with old goons. He demotes the Pointy Haired Boss to engineer for a week, until he is eliminated and the old boss is promoted back. [edit] DatesDilbert has many dating problems so he goes on blind dates. Among those he dated:
His failure is similar to Jon Arbuckle in Garfield, and he has also been seen in Stephen Pastis' strip Pearls Before Swine on a date with Pig's germophobic sister Farina. [edit] Demon of DemosThe demon of demos appears when Dilbert is giving a technical presentation. The demon prevents the demo from working and displays for the audience "some files that 'the boys' keep on the file server". [edit] Dilbert's DadAlso known as Dadbert. An unseen character in the comic strip, although he does appear in the animated series, in which his appearance is like that of Mammy Two Shoes from Tom and Jerry or Wilson from Home Improvement. He lives at the all-you-can-eat restaurant in the mall because he has not eaten all he can eat. [edit] Dilbert's Mom Also known as Dilmom, she is homely and intelligent. She used to think Dilbert worked at a railroad because he is an engineer. She's often selfish and openly uncaring towards her son; in the TV series she states that, although she loved him, she did not actually like him. She has nearly the same level of technical knowledge as Dilbert, although she has him do technical work for her. She is obsessed with Scrabble, and has been accused of cheating with "counterfeit vowels". (This is a reference to Scott Adams' own mother.) She also is on an unnamed department store's "bad customer list", because she returned over a thousand items to the store, one scarf in particular 17 times. [edit] Hammerhead Bob Summoner and buttinski of long, boring conversations. He has a spring-loaded buttocks, handy for inserting himself into other people's discussions. He also uses ESP to read people's thoughts. Has appeared in six strips as of December 3, 2005. [edit] IshanAttempts to take over Dilbert's office and use it as a base to recreate the Ottoman empire. [edit] Liz Dilbert's girlfriend from 1994 to 1996. He met her at a soccer game, where she rebounded a ball off his head to score a goal. Adams eventually had her break up with him, after she started dating other men. She is Dilbert's longest ever relationship; in a series of rather ambiguous strips, it is suggested that Dilbert almost lost his virginity with her (Seven Years of Highly Defective People). Scott Adams clarified in a user interview that Dilbert is still a virgin and will remain so for a while. She appears to be religious, as she says she doesn't believe in "getting physical" prior to marriage. She is an engineer for another company. She also got along well with Dogbert. [edit] Lola Seems to be the perfect mate for Dilbert: beautiful and loves Star Trek. The only problem is she is high maintenance, mean spirited, and has the mouth of a sailor. Nevertheless, Dilbert believes he cannot do better so he puts up with her. Appeared between 2nd and 7th May, 2005, she shared a cubicle with Dilbert and was very close to him, but ended up dividing and stripping his belongings (down to his eyebrow) when a new cubicle was available to her. A strip one year later (10th May, 2006) shows a woman resembling her dating Dogbert, possibly proving Dogbert's point of "taking your women" to Dilbert. [edit] Loud Howard Another coworker who, despite appearing in just a few comic strips (on 21 April 1995 and 17 March 2006, and again by popular request on 11 October 2006), became a regular character in the TV series. Loud Howard is incapable of speaking quietly, and in the TV series his overpowering voice often breaks anything and everything around him, including people's eardrums. It has also shattered glass and slammed people against the wall. When he sneezes, it is highly advisable to take cover, as the resulting blast has blown the flesh off of people, leaving only a skeleton (at least among the folks in Marketing). In "The Merger", he mentions they "should merge with a company that keeps your fillings from vibrating when you talk", as his fillings fly out of his mouth, later putting them back in. In the strips his loud voice is represented by huge lettering and his comically huge mouth (when talking), which takes up most of the available panel space and is therefore difficult to sustain as a running joke. Howard as a recurring character is better-suited to the animated series, where his voice actor can speak as loudly as necessary. A strip on 14 April 2008 sees Alice, Asok and Dilbert complaining to PHB about Loud Howard insisting on using his speakerphone in his cubicle. The PHB made swift response by moving Loud Howard to a newly-available private office, much to the three employees' dismay. [edit] The Marketing People In one brief series of strips, Dilbert is transferred to marketing, where everyone dresses in togas, drinks wine, and hardly do any work. Every Tuesday they barbecue a unicorn, which, according to Seven Years of Highly Defective People, resulted in complaints from "Unicorn lovers". [edit] Ming Ming is the Webmistress. She once dated Mordac and Dilbert. Like most people at Dilbert's company who control one of the tools he needs to do his job, Ming is sadistic and often creates regulations and procedures just to complicate things. [edit] Mordac Preventer of information services who announces his title whenever he appears. His job is to refuse all requests for new computer hardware and the like; at one time (September 3, 1999), he had a policy to replace damaged equipment, causing a rain of technology from the roof of the building; he may or may not have rethought that policy. Mordac once dated Ming. Once, he changed Dilbert's password to the entire text of The Da Vinci Code, excluding the parts he did not believe (jokingly implying his Roman Catholicism). He also configured Alice's screensaver to log her out after two seconds of inactivity, which she then avoided by using a bobbing bird toy. Note that he now has a different hairstyle and no longer has his trademark glasses. In one strip, Catbert jumped over a cubicle wall and attacked Mordac for making his personal printer a shared device. It may or may not be intentional that Mordac's name is almost a reversal of CD-ROM. Mordac introduced himself on September 15, 1997 as "Mordac the Refuser". The following day, his name became "Mordac the Preventer". [edit] Mother Nature Mother Nature killed Dilbert in 1990 by having three deer shoot him with an arrow (she allegedly got the idea from a Gary Larson cartoon) as an unorthodox example as punishment for littering. Dilbert was revived a month later when his garbageman cloned him from DNA samples in his garbage. She also appeared in several other strips, including one where she demonstrated to Dogbert "the beauty of nature" by killing a bird that she claimed was singing off-key. Dogbert saw Mother Nature smiling after doing so, and he accused her of enjoying being cruel, after which she promptly zapped Dogbert as well. [edit] Ruebert Ruebert was a robot Dilbert threw away, but which his garbageman rebooted. It taunted and irritated Dilbert because it did not have the Robot's Code (loosely based on Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics). Ruebert's name came from Dilbert's comment that he "rued the day" he created him. Dogbert put a shame module into his system and turned him into a worrying, guilt-ridden machine. He then created a female robot that dumped him immediately. Ruebert would return in the strips never printed that were meant to bring in an arch-nemesis for Dogbert named Bingo, also a dog. [edit] Scott Adams From January 2 to 7, 2006, a series of strips featured Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams trapped in Dilbert's world where he had to escape by going through the Yellow Sticky Note Road and meet the wizard of landfill(Wally), parodying The Wizard of Oz. Scott also was anonymously portrayed in these earlier strips:
[edit] Sourpuss The Office Sourpuss hired by the Pointy-Haired Boss because "every office has one" — as the name suggests, he is very pessimistic. Appeared from December 7 – December 10, 2005 as an engineer. True to his name, he resembles an anthropomorphic cat with pursed lips, as if he had just eaten something very sour. One of his better quotes was "when life gives you lemons, choke on 'em and die, you stupid lemon eater" [edit] Specter of Unpaid Overtime Visits Dilbert at the office, saying he is there to rake up the sticky notes, due to the fact that he had a rake instead of a scythe; aspires to the role of a Grim Reaper, so he hits Dilbert with this rake. When Dilbert tells Dogbert, Dogbert says that "I only enjoy stories when it involves you getting hit by a rake." Dilbert replies that that is the only time when he has been hit by a rake. Dogbert then plans to tell the gardener (unseen character) that Dilbert insulted his wife. First appeared 25 October 2005. [edit] Stan The all-too-slick marketer. Temporarily turned into a weasel (4 July 1995) by the power of suggestion when Dilbert told him he could alter his DNA through his LAN. Dilbert eventually changed him back into a human via the Placebo effect by telling him about a rumour of a focus group, who might have said something which, taken out of context, could imply that he wasn't becoming a weasel. [edit] Steve Steve is a decorated United States Army combat veteran. He first appeared on September 5, 2006. Steve has a hard time adjusting to office life, the joke being that the office is a more miserable work environment than a war zone. He recently appeared in a strip with Topper; during a meeting, Steve talks about a mission where he took RPG fire from the roof and Topper tops it off by saying he killed 900 insurgents with his bare hands. [edit] Techno Bill One of the most popular bit characters, Techno Bill was shown briefly in 1992. Techno Bill wears a belt of electronic tools, and uses auto-dialing to defeat Dilbert's lesser assortment of personal electronic devices. He was voiced by Phil Hartman in the Desktop Diversions game "Techno Raiders." [edit] Ted, the Generic Guy At first was meant to be a main character, as he is seen in most comics in the early years of the strip, but didn't turn out as interesting as Adams had hoped, so he became the Generic guy. Never the focus of events himself, but appears wherever an otherwise-insignificant employee character is required. People who have known him for years still cannot describe him. He has taken on various roles, and often does not speak. There is certainly more than one Ted roaming around since he is fired (or killed) again and again in various strips, or perhaps security just can't remember his face. He has a brief appearance in the animated series. [edit] Tina, the Brittle Tech Writer A radical feminist, but less inclined to react than Alice. She once had a crush on Dilbert, but it ended when she was "darned to Heck" by Phil. Tina feels that her job (writing and editing product instructions) is not appreciated by anyone in the company. However, it is implied that Tina is merely blaming gender discrimination for her work problems instead of her own incompetence (she once thought of blaming immigrants when she learned that Alice is the highest paid person). She asked Alice, once, to teach her to be an engineer after tech writers were downsized. In more recent strips, however, the feminist aspect of her character has been comparatively played down. In response to allegations that Scott Adams portrayed Tina in a sexist fashion, Adams also created the character of Antina (according to Seven Years of Highly Defective People, the name stands for antidote to Tina), who did not act or look like a woman (with the exception of a rather large pair of breasts), for one strip. According to Seven Years, a large number of readers thought he was referring to lesbians with the character. [edit] Topper A male character who constantly tries to "win" conversations. He cannot start a conversation, as it "ruins his system". He has appeared several times, in 2001 on the 1st of January to the 4th. He then reappeared on 24 August 2004, in 2005 from the 16-19 of August and 12 December, in 2006 on 22 April and from 13-15 November, and in 2008 on 6 January. Topper has been known to pick on everyone in the office, including Alice and the Boss, and his one-upmanship ensures that he is unbeatable in a conversation. He has even gone so far as to repeatedly slam his head on a table because one of his co-workers had a headache. It has never been made clear whether or not any of his ridiculous claims are factual, and he tends to cover his tracks when people ask for proof of his supposed feats of greatness. For example, he once claimed to have caught and captured a dinosaur, then when someone wanted to see it, he said "Too late, I also make the world's best barbecue sauce." [edit] The Useless GuyA person who never works at all. He would rather take up the space of other coworkers and eat their donuts. Sometimes he will clip out articles and publications and leave them on other people's chairs. He makes an appearance in the TV series in Y2K, where he attempts to do research on "history" upon hearing the word. [edit] Vijay Proclaimed as "the world's most desperate venture capitalist", he funds a garage-based start-up of Dilbert, a garbage-based city of Dogbert and stalks people so that he can fund any idea they may have. "Vijay" is a common Indian name. [edit] Wally LookalikesAdams in the beginning used people that looked like Wally. According to Adams, once Wally became a main character, the Wally clones were replaced with Ted the Generic Guy. Many of them are:
Also, Dilbert was called "Wally" for a company TV commercial in the 9/20/1991 strip. [edit] The World's Smartest Garbageman Philosopher and scientist. Sometimes solves extremely complex problems for Dilbert. When Mother Nature had a deer shoot Dilbert with a bow and arrow, he saved Dilbert's life by repairing a cloning device that Dilbert had thrown out. In the TV show, it was revealed that he was the only garbageman in the entire city, and was able to accomplish this by traveling from house to house instantaneously with wormholes. The World's Smartest Garbageman owns a working phaser, a "chaos driven weather control device", and an "anti-stupidity gun" which destroys the stupid part of a person while leaving the rest intact. Dilbert borrows the anti-stupidity gun in one strip, and uses it on the pointy haired boss. However, the result of this was that the PHB was reduced to an empty suit and a couple of points of hair. Dogbert borrows the phaser in another strip because Dilbert refuses to make one for him. Dogbert uses it to zap stupid people for a couple of strips, then returns it. After the Garbageman asks him if he used it in anger, Dogbert replies that he was wagging the entire time and probably wouldn't stop for a couple days. In one particular strip, the Garbageman completes an almost-fully operational robot Dilbert throws out, and sends it to harass him. Adams claims that the irony of a genius working as a garbage man is that we really have no right to question his choice of careers as we are not as smart as he is. In fact, when asked by Dilbert about why is he a garbageman, he replies by saying the most adequate question would be why is Dilbert an engineer. Further displaying his electronic talents he and Dogbert invented dial-up Internet, to see "how long people would sit in front of a screen waiting for a barely recognizable blotch", taking no credit for the feat, "blaming it on a drunken college student", who was seen later with people bringing him baskets full of money. [edit] Zimbu A monkey who humiliates Dilbert and Wally by constantly outperforming them. He uses his tail to operate the computer mouse while using both hands to type and is therefore the fastest programmer at the company. Not unlike Dogbert, he appears to be superior to humans as a species. This could be yet another indicator that Scott Adams does not think much of the human race. This is also supported by some of his comments in the Seven Years of Highly Defective People: "I support equal rights for pets" (80) and "Imagine an advanced race of aliens who talk to the average human; do you think they'll be impressed?" (112). Zimbu also appeared in the TV show, helping Wally prevent the company's computers from crashing on Y2K, and also represented the CEO when the CEO visit was canceled. [edit] Miscellaneous/One-offThere are many others that were created and are known, such as:
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