However, when he is made to feel insecure or weak in any way, he tends to violently lash out and descend into screaming fits, often foregoing reason and going to extreme lengths to punish others for any perceived slight.
She is self-absorbed, shallow, petty, and the most often subject to ridicule from The Gang in many different forms: they call her extremely ugly (resembling a bird in a negative and humorous way), lazy, and completely talentless.
He used to be a successful businessman with a long history of illegal operations (such as running sweat shops, drug-dealing, and working for Jeffrey Epstein "on the sex island" to score discounted snorkeling) and dealings with sordid characters.
Owning 51% percent of shares at Paddy's Pub, Frank "The Captain of the Gang" is considered to be the de facto boss and makes a majority of the business decisions at the bar.
This lifestyle choice involves eating cat food, using a "toe knife", living on about five dollars a week (not counting his morning cocaine routine), keeping a mini meats fridge in his apartment, as well as sausages in his shirt pocket, and sharing a bed (which is also their couch) with Charlie.
He doesn't believe in or trust psychiatrists, and was admitted into a school for clinically insane children for a short while as a child before he was cleared of any legal mental issues, having received a certificate stating that he did not have "donkey brains".
In the fantasy, Dee is a celebrity who achieves fame after entering witness protection through her portrayal of an English butler character, in an allusion to the 1980s television series Mr. Belvedere.
The Lawyer (Brian Unger) is a recurring character first seen in "Dennis and Dee's Mom Is Dead" where The Gang mistake him for having personal involvement as the executor of Barbara Reynolds' will.
He first appears in "The Gang Exploits a Miracle" where it is revealed that he has continued to harbor a high school crush on Dee (who at the time used an elaborate semi-permanent aluminum medical back brace).
One recurring theme in the series is Cricket's downward spiral and suffering at the hands of the Gang; due to them, he leaves the priesthood, supports himself by grifting or panhandling, becomes addicted to PCP and crack cocaine, has his legs broken by members of the Philadelphia Mafia, frequently commits sex acts with dogs, has his throat sliced by Frank in a wrestling match, is hunted by Mac and Dennis for sport, and suffers a gunshot wound in his hand when he is trespassing at Paddy's and Frank accidentally shoots him.
He shows up in "Mac's Big Break", when he appears on Dennis and Dee's inaugural podcast, remarking about his life as a homeless person - during this episode he reveals that he stopped believing in God since "a Chinaman stole my kidney".
After having half of his head nearly burned off, he also stops giving any thought whatsoever to his physical appearance, with long, filthy, matted hair and scraggly beard.
In the season 11 episode "Dee Made a Smut Film", Cricket says that a cat bit off one of his toes at some point, and describes in exacting detail how he was involved in a dog orgy (almost bragging about it).
Fraternal twin brothers Liam (Jimmi Simpson) and Ryan McPoyle (Nate Mooney) are creepy, incestuous, former elementary-school classmates of Mac and Charlie.
The most notable relative is Doyle McPoyle (Bob Rusch), an aspiring football player who lost his chance to play for the Philadelphia Eagles when a hallucinating Frank accidentally shot him in the leg.
Ryan and Liam later reappear in the Season 9 episode "The Gang Squashes Their Beefs" as part of an ensemble invited to Dennis and Mac's apartment to make amends for past transgressions.
During the episode Liam displays immense difficulty adapting to his disability, relying on Ryan for assistance in most situations, as well as wearing a flesh-colored eye-patch and later painting on an eye in the hopes of making his injury less visible.
In High School Dee wore a back brace and was dubbed the Aluminum Monster while Ingrid was morbidly obese and was given the name Fatty Magoo.
In Season 9, Dee later invites Gail, who is now working at a local Wawa convenience store, to a Thanksgiving dinner at Dennis and Mac's apartment to "squash their beefs".
He appears in the episode "The Maureen Ponderosa Wedding Massacre", where he spikes a punch bowl with bath salts and it is revealed that Frank is his AA sponsor.
He pretends to be Donovan McNabb doing a plug for McDonald's but the gang calls him out, recognizing him as "that guy from The Cosby Show" who played "Sondra's husband Alvin."
[7] In a tongue-in-cheek online special feature for season 10, Ellis is filmed making a promotional video and about to reveal her name when Glenn Howerton arrives.
Howerton begins to allude to bad things happening to her and when she does not understand, he reveals her real-life husband Charlie Day pointing a sniper rifle at her.
Frank later maniacally tricks the gang into exhuming her body to teach them a lesson (having convinced them that she had faked her own death and buried her jewelry in her grave), leaving Dee and Dennis horrified.
The antithesis of Frank, Bruce devotes his time and money to charities and philanthropic efforts, including adopting several suffering children in Africa.
In "Dennis Looks Like a Registered Sex Offender", he is out on parole and convinces Mac to help him "take care of some people" he has listed, including former witnesses in his trial and the judge who sentenced him.
Charlie and Mac become convinced that he is using them as drivers while making the rounds to murder the people on his list (similar to the movie Collateral) and try to get Luther sent back to prison.
She is always portrayed smoking and usually watching television, completely apathetic to what's going on around her, and openly states that she hates both Mac and Luther, and the entire human race in general.
Mac claims that she is a skilled mechanic, having worked all the way up to the position of manager at a Jiffy Lube, which, despite Charlie's skepticism, she demonstrates by repairing Bonnie's ceiling fan.
In season eight, a home video from the early 1980s shows that as children, Dennis and Dee were forced to attend a neo-Nazi Hitler Youth camp coordinated by their grandfather.