List of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law characters

This article lists the characters that appear on the popular Adult Swim program Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. Several of this show's characters also appear on the Hanna-Barbera program Birdman and the Galaxy Trio.

Main characters

Birdman gets strength and power from sunlight, and grows weak if kept away from the sun for too long. His superpowers include flight, though as Harvey Birdman, he often completely forgets about this. He also has the ability to create a shield of solid light, and the ability to shoot destructive energy beams from his fists. These powers are thought to stem from the crest on his helmet, though Harvey is not entirely sure of the crest's true role in his powers.
He has since retired from his superhero job and is now working for the law firm of Sebben & Sebben. Harvey is generally honest, a little dim, 6'6", and has large wings growing out of his back, genetically inherited from his father. His clients consist of other Hanna-Barbera characters of the past and present.
Flashbacks to Phil's childhood invariably show him engaging in extremely dangerous practices involving his blind eye (such as pointing a sharp stick at it), making his blindness seemingly inevitable. These same flashbacks also show that he believes his eyepatch not to be his most noticeable physical characteristic, but rather an embarrassing scar which he received from a broken binder clip (which he grew his mustache to cover). He has numerous vision problems; it is implied that he is blind in the eye not covered by his eyepatch, and he states that he "sees everything 3 feet to the left" of where they really are, and must account for this fact. Said partial blindness causes him to kill Birdman in the series finale by hitting him with a bus, which crashes into a building. He confirms this by showing everyone Birdman's blood, causing everyone to laugh, as most episodes end.
Despite these apparent vision problems, when seen using binoculars, a telescope, etc. over-top his eye-patch, there's an image of a perfectly functioning eye (with eyebrow) in the lens of the device, which even blinks in unison with his non-covered eye. This contradicts the one episode Phil lost his eye-patch and decided to simply not wear one (followed by trying out a clear eye-patch). Although the left side of his face was kept from the camera, the reaction of everyone in the office was that of disgust. He is voiced by Stephen Colbert. First appearance: "Death By Chocolate."

Recurring characters

Minor characters

See also

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