Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law

Characters

Sebben and Sebben

• Harvey T. Birdman starred in the Hanna-Barbera show Birdman and the Galaxy Trio in the sixties. He gets strength and power from sunlight, and grows weak if kept away from the sun for too long. His superpowers include flight, the ability to create a solid light shield, and the ability to shoot energy beams from his hands. He has since retired from his superhero job and is now working for the law firm of Sebben and Sebben. Harvey is six and a half feet tall, and has large wings growing out of his back. He wears a suit and his old superhero mask. His clients consist of other Hanna-Barbera characters of the past and present.
• Avenger is Harvey's old avian sidekick, now serving as his legal secretary. Avenger sits on a perch on Harvey's desk, and sleeps in a canary cage in the office at night. Avenger's tasks usually involve taking dictation or filing. Avenger is badly hindered by his inability to speak, even though it is clear that he can understand, or a least perceive, the meaning in the speech of other characters.
• Peanut looks exactly like Birdman's old sometime-sidekick Birdboy, only with a pink vest on. Unlike Birdman, Peanut's powers are not natural. His wings are metal or wooden, and it's strongly implied that he got them to get hired by Birdman, and his shield and energy beams come from "power bands" on his wrists. Harvey hired Peanut as a legal clerk. He is often working behind the scenes to uncertain or explicitly seedy ends.
• Phil Ken Sebben is the president and founder of the law firm Sebben and Sebben. Back when Birdman was a superhero, Phil was Harvey's boss. His code name, "Falcon Seven," sounds like his real name, "Phil Ken Sebben." Phil is a blonde man with an eyepatch (which may or may not be responsible for his constant vision problems) and a dark suit. He has a habit of laughing randomly whenever he says a double entendre or a non sequitur.
• Peter Potamus works at the law firm of Sebben and Sebben as a fellow lawyer. The former star of Peter Potamus and His Magic Flying Balloon, he has taken the role of annoying co-worker. He is also portrayed as a ladies man, who is always sleeping with women, or is seen with items such as blow-up dolls and pornography. More often than not, his sole line is an insinuating, "Did you get that thing I sent ya?"
• Azul Falcone is a Spanish lawyer who is very charming and popular. Formerly the superhero Blue Falcon, Falcone was made partner in the Sebben & Sebben firm. Falcone often relies on his sidekick Dyno-Mutt. Known to throw parties at the drop of a hat. Also interested in "beautiful and expensive silk panty garments". He has since been demoted to being a men's room attendant in the Sebben & Sebben building.
• Judy Sebben is Phil's daughter, who seems to be very interested in Harvey's work as a lawyer. After earning a law degree by taking a three-hour course, she joins the firm as an associate and takes on the alter ego of Birdgirl. In her Birdgirl identity, she is frequently the victim of sexual harassment from her father, who doesn't recognize her and thinks she's a new intern.

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Image:Birdman.jpg|Harvey Birdman

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Image:Avenger.jpg|Avenger

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Image:Young_Peanut.jpg|Peanut

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Image:Phil_Ken_Sebben.jpg|Phil Ken Sebben

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Image:petpot.jpg|Peter Potamus

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Image:Azul_Falcone.jpg|Azul Falcone

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Image:JudySebben.JPG|Judy Sebben

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Image:Birdgirl.JPG|Birdgirl

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Court

• Judge Mentok the Mindtaker was a former enemy of Birdman. He has various psychic powers including the ability to teleport, read minds, hypnotize, see the future, and move things with telekenesis - all referred to as "mind taking". He has been given the personality of a flamboyant stage magician; because of this, he often predicts the outcome of the cases he presides over before they have even started. He has a flair for the dramatic and often makes a grand entrance, such as appearing in a cloud of smoke or from a bolt of lightning. He also has a habit of imitating a theremin when carrying on with great vanity about his powers. Judge Mentok was apparently sent to Earth as an infant in a scene based on the 1978 Superman movie. As his rocket took off, Momtok, his mother, told him not to go into law.
• Judge Hiram Mightor was a Hanna-Barbera super-hero of the sixties known as the Mighty Mightor, one who lived in prehistoric times with a beautiful wife and a 10-year-old son, and got his powers from a magic club. He uses such a club as a gavel of sorts and speaks with a southern accent (as opposed to the cartoon from which he is derived). He dresses in traditional judge's robes and wig, the effect of which is slightly marred by the large horns that protrude from the top of his mask. He also seems to have a problem remembering Harvey's name.
• Myron Reducto is an attorney at a rival law firm, and is one of Harvey's most common courtroom opponents. He is a small man with green tinged skin, who brandishes a shrink-ray. He and Birdman were bitter enemies back during the old days, but seem to have put aside their differences, clashing only on a professional level. They often eat lunch together. Reducto, unlike most of the former hero/villain characters, seems to have a great deal of trouble letting go of his past. He is also obsessed with Booty as well as things that are smaller than him, like Inch High, Private Eye. Works at Freezoid, Zarog and Skon.
• Vulturo is another of Harvey's rival lawyers. He was a villain in Birdman's old show. His primary set-back is a speech impediment that he seems entirely unaware of. He starts out talking in a normal voice, but soon trails off into incomprehensible gibberish. This seems to have little effect on his success rate as a lawyer.
• Evelyn Spyro Threakmorton is another villain/lawyer with Shakesperean tendencies. He acts very theatrically and stages plays in the courtroom as arguments.
• Stan Freezoid is another villain/lawyer with freezing ability. He gets most of his clients when they slip and fall on the ice that he carelessly creates while walking down the street.
• Francis X. Shado is another lawyer who looks like a leprechaun and is also a known brain thief, he is known for his persuasive power over juries. Works at Freezoid, Zarog and Skon. He is in an ongoing rivalry with Judge Mentok.

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Image:Mentok the Mindtaker.jpg|Mentok the Mindtaker

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Image:Mightor.jpg|Judge Hiram Mightor

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Image:Reducto.jpg|Reducto

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Image:Vulturo.jpg|Vulturo

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Image:Spyro.jpg|Spyro

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Image:Freezoid.jpg|Freezoid

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Image:Shado.JPG|Shado

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Others

• X the Eliminator is a former villain of Birdman's who is far more pathetic than threatening. He was commissioned by the organization F.E.A.R. to obtain the crest on Birdman's helmet for the sum of one million dollars. Thirty years later, he has yet to complete the task. He still obsesses over Birdman, to the point of stalking him, and continues to plot Birdman's death. However, X's tool of choice is an ungainly silver death console that uses obsolete technology (vacuum tubes), requiring an inconveniently long time to recharge. X is never seen outside his hooded costume, and still lives with his mother.
• Bear is a recurring pantomime character who appears randomly throughout each episode, often at the end and joining in with the laughter of the rest of the cast.
• Gigi is a recurring character, first appearing in the second season episode Trio's Company. She is a flighty, easily distracted woman who has been married seven times (and counting), and whose wanton philandering is available to everyone except Birdman.
• Dvd is Sebben and Sebben's efficiency expert. Formerly named David, he eliminated the vowels from his own name to save time. Dvd briefly instituted a battery of oppressive office efficiency measures, including replacing Birdman's secretary Debbie with a PDA, replacing the office elevator with an energy-saving firepole, and imposing a maximum usage of one sheet of bathroom tissue per restroom visit.
• Debbie is Birdman's secretary and receptionist. Most often her appearances are only as an impatient, annoyed voice over the intercom.