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Howard Weinerman
Character information
Gender Male
Species Human
Age 14 (debut)
15 (The Space Cow-Bros onward)
Hair color Orange
Eye color Brown
Affiliations Good/Neutral or Chaotic Good
Occupation Student at Norrisville High
9th grade student

Norrisville Ninja (Only in "The Ninja Supremacy")
30 Seconds to Math member

Residence Norrisville
Aliases Double Dip, Sweet Little Brother, Useless Little Brother, Prosthetic Little Brother, Howard Brosell (by Heidi)
Howie (by Mort)
Big H, Buddy, Double D, Wooderpopple, Howl, Horase, Harold, Shoobalshlash, Howald Werterdiesh, bro, dude, pal, buddy, big fella, H, homie, Johnny-Squawks-a-Lot (by Randy)
Weinerman (by Brent and Debbie)
Young Hannibal, Chowder Head (by McFist)
Friends Randy Cunningham (best friend)
Dave (sometimes)
Bucky (sometimes)
Pradeep (sometimes)
Theresa Fowler (sometimes, tenuously)
First Ninja
Plop Plop
Gene Levine
Enemies Brent (sometimes)
Bash Johnson (most often)
Doug (mortal enemy)
Sorcerer
Evil Julian
Evil Julian's Soldier
Sorceress
Catfish Booray
Love Interests Morgan (possibly)
Debbie Kang (possibly)
Interests Grave Punchers
Hanging out with Randy
Food
Playing music
Fears Running out of fried chicken
Parents Mort Weinerman (father)
Mrs. Weinerman (mother)
Grandparents Nana (grandmother)
Unnamed grandfather
Siblings Heidi Weinerman (older sister)
Pets McFurbity (formerly, deceased)
Sightings
First Episode Last Stall on the Left
Voiced by Andrew Caldwell
Tōru Nara (Japanese)
Maciej Kowalik (Polish)
Saar Badishi (Hebrew)
Prasad Barve (Hindi)



My best friend's the Ninja! Oh, this is incredible!

–Howard, "Last Stall on the Left"

Howard Weinerman is the deuteragonist of Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja. He is Randy Cunningham's best friend, Heidi Weinerman's younger brother, and a freshman at Norrisville High.

Appearance

Everyday

Howard is short and chubby. He has orange hair like his sister Heidi, brown eyes, and tiny hands. His plump appearance proves to be deceptive, as shown when he speedily makes it first to Shangri-Lunch Table, beating Bash and Randy, in "Der Monster Klub," and throws a stanked monster with Randy in "Randy Cunningham and the Sorcerer's Key," as well as a cinderblock from a considerable distance in "Swampy Seconds." He can also take a hit pretty well, as in "Monster Drill," when he got hit dead-on by the Robo-Mantis, but appears fine afterwards, being more afraid than hurt. He wears a blue McTop with an octopus/squid design on it, a teal jacket with rolled up sleeves, dark green McShorties, and red McKicks.

He usually wears an orange speedo as his main underwear.

Formal

In his formal attire during "Silent Punch, Deadly Punch", he wears a blue sweater with his usual octopus/squid logo, a white shirt, a red necktie, and black trousers. He retains his usual sneakers.

Girl Disguise

In his girl disguise during "Enter the Nomicon", he wears a ginger-haired wig with pink-beaded twintails, a dark red frilled coat, a pink dress, a pink bracelet, and dark red heeled shoes.

Halloween

He has two sets of Halloween costumes.

His first Halloween costume resembles Viceroy's regular outfit, although the hair is actually a wig.

His second Halloween costume is of a brown wolf-head, a red admiral cap with yellow accents and a yellow pin, a tight dark green jacket with yellow buttons, a yellow badge lapelled on his chest, a light blue shirt, and a dark blue tie, while retaining his regular shorts, socks and shoes.

Winter

He has two sets of winter wear.

His usual winter outfit consists of his jacket having rolled down its sleeves, and a red scarf.

His alternate winter outfit comprises of a dark olive winter hat with ear flaps and white ruffles, and a green scarf. He retains his everyday outfit otherwise.

Swimwear

He normally wears a pair of blue swimming trunks as his swimsuit.

Band

In "Unstank My Hart", he has flared up his hair. He also wears a black ripped-sleeved vest with shoulder spikes, a red necktie, black wristbands, tight teal blue trousers, and dark purple and white accented sneakers.

Younger

As a child, Howard looked almost the same like his teenage appearance. However, his hair was less fluffy, evident by how it had one streak instead of two.

Party

In "Fake Fight For Your Right to Party", he wears a teal blue holiday shirt with dark blue tentacle patterns and rolled up sleeves, brown wristbands, red fedora, a puka necklace with an octopus trinket, black pants, and grey shoes.

Spring Break

During spring break in "Club Ninja-dise", he wears a red fedora, a holiday jacket in blue and teal with rolled up sleeves, blue trunks, and teal hollowed sandals. He also wears a Chill-o-meter afterwards.

Personality

Howard can be described as an odd mixture of both loyal, loud-mouthed, and fairly laidback. He is a huge glutton who always becomes quite emotional when his food is ruined, damaged, or snatched away, as seen in "Got Stank" and "McFear Factor." It is also revealed that he is aware he's less intelligent than Randy, since he laughed with Randy when Randy suggested for Howard try to come up with an idea, or he is simply acknowledging that he prefers not to do so, as he has shown some intelligence in later episodes. Such as knowing how many Scoville units a habanero pepper has in "McFists of Fury." Another notable example, is in "Julian's Birthday Surprise" when he swapped out the power ball with a decoy to save the day. He is also aware that he is naturally a jerk, as shown in "So U Think U Can Stank," when he agrees to be the mean judge in the Norrisville High Talent Show, in which he aggressively rejects talent show participants for little to no reason, to earn praises from the audience thus turning them into monsters. Another instance of his desire to be praised by fans is when he was very mean to the Psychobot while replacing Randy as the Ninja in "The Ninja Supremacy," and letting his fame go to his head and taking took advantage of being the temporary Ninja by cutting in line and having students glorify him.

Although he can be rude and troublesome, he has Randy's best interests at heart, and proves to sometimes be very loyal and helpful in saving him, in "30 Seconds to Math", by protecting his secret identity and again doing something similar in "Debbie Meddle", and aiding in defeating his enemies, in "Nukid on the Block" against Franz Nukid, Swampy Seconds when he threw a cinder block at a monsterfied Catfish Booray to save Randy, and also in "Big Trouble in Little Norrisville" by using the power ball to help Randy.

Despite the boys' deep friendship bond, Howard is prone to mooching off Randy for his own benefits. He often gets angry at Randy, though never long lasting. Howard lacks a sense of responsibility, and usually tries to foist the blame for his own mistakes on someone else, usually Randy. He sometimes is unable to keep his mouth shut, which can cause problems, as shown in "Gossip Boy", although in this instance occurred is likely because he felt pressured by his sister, who kept insisting that he must have an important secret. Nevertheless his gift of gab proves useful when having to explain what happened to the island to Principal Slimovitz in "Escape from Detention Island," preventing all the punished students from any further penalties.

Randy usually does his best to solve a problem, while Howard will not want to deal with it if it interferes with his own desires. He tends to have bad judgement, as in "Night of the Living McFizzles," when he eats the candy despite knowing it will turn him into zombie at the end of the episode. He often pressures Randy into doing what he wants or thinks Randy needs over responsibility. Although coming up with good ideas at times, he can also give Randy stupid ideas, like giving all the water and food to the smell-of-death vine right away in "Dawn of the Driscoll." He ate most of the victory nachos he had prepared and still whined that Randy should give him the last piece although he himself had already eaten the rest in "Monster Dump". He is always scolding Randy for something that Randy should say to him instead.

While selfish and self-centered, Howard is also very insensitive to others, such as eating Randy's gravy fries in "Bash Johnson: 11th Grade Ninja". When his own benefits are at stakes or lost, however, Howard is actually sensitive and emotional, taking things personally, whether they be insults or even as simple as losing all his candies in "Night of the Living McFizzles." This can sometimes result in him being angry towards the offender, who is often and unfortunately Randy. Once apologized to, however, Howard doesn't bear a grudge, and occasionally he has moments where he's very nice and supportive, although they never last for very long.

Howard is also shown to be a hypocrite, as he often gets mad at Randy for doing the right thing or rarely his own selfish things while Howard gets happy when they do things his selfish things (which gets them in trouble a lot). He also sold Randy out at the Stache Society for bring a fakie (and out of jealousy) even though Howard himself is also a fakie. Another example is Howard got mad at Randy for missing his birthday, when it is stated that Howard doesn't know Randy's birthday or that he is 14.

Despite mostly presenting himself as uncaring, he does genuinely value and care for Randy, but he usually uses his rudeness as a fad to cover it, hence why he has difficulty expressing that he cares.

Capabilities

Intelligence

Howard is not as smart as Randy, and even acknowledges it in "Got Stank," laughing at the thought with Randy. His grades are low, which could be because he isn't that smart or lazy. He does know about Scoville units ("McFists of Fury"), though. Although Randy is the one to come up with ideas and plans more often, Howard has proven to make just as good or just as bad ideas.
Stanks like teen spirit

In "Dawn of the Driscoll," he suggests feeding and watering their plant right away, which Randy agrees to and results in them getting an "F" (they got a "C" later on). He also suggests going through a window to get to the movie, a far less complicated ploy than Randy's plan to sneak in through the sewers in "Grave Puncher: The Movie."

His insight often either helps or saves Randy depending on the situation. When Randy is hypnotized in "30 Seconds to Math," Howard quickly thinks up a plan and cleverly encourages everyone into believing that the ninja is inside them and therefore throwing off McFist's scheme. He reminds Randy about the smoke bomb tree in "Silent Punch, Deadly Punch," and tries to stop Randy from telling "Der Monster Klub" about the way to get stanked. Howard shakes the log in "Ninja Camp," knocking everyone else off and winning the challenge, revealing that he has some sort of common sense. In "Stanks Like Teen Spirit," he shows a great skill at chess, despite never having played it before. With this ability, he beats the chess-bot in order to destank everyone whom lost to it.

It's probably best for Randy never to underestimate Howard under any circumstances.

Music Playing Skills

Howard is a talented drum machinist, being able to play real music with actual drum sticks with his drum machine. Although not as good as Randy in terms of singing, he is still able to compose and sing catchy songs with Randy, like Detention Deficit Disorder.

It is unknown if Howard got his drum machine repaired or replaced after he lost it in "Everybody Ninj-along" because of the Amp-Bots's destruction.

Costume Design

Throughout the series, Howard has shown great talent in putting together costumes. Instead of dressing up as the front of a cow in "Dawn of the Driscoll" and "Night of the Living McFizzles", which would've matched up to Randy's half, he dressed up as Viceroy, impressing the evil genius himself when the two saw each other. For "Grave Puncher: The Movie!," Howard creates a costume based off one of the Grave Puncher characters. In "Shoob Tube," Howard has a sumo outfit and a gorilla-in-a-tuxedo suit. In preparation for Word War One in "Hip Hopocalypse Now," using stuff from his locker, Howard puts together an outfit to look hip, including glasses with blinds and saggy pants. For the upcoming history report in "The Ninja Identity," he makes a outfit of Victor Von Van. In "Rorg: Hero of a Past" he improvises the costume of Rorg's sidekick, Socko.

Sometimes, his outfits have been quite useful. In order to give Mac Antfee the Nomicon while not getting caught, Howard, under Randy's orders, dresses up as a girl, wearing a dress, high-heels, and a wig with ponytails in "Enter the Nomicon." Other times, though, his costumes cause him a lot of trouble. Mr. Driscoll mistakes Howard for Viceroy because of the costume and therefore kidnaps him in "Dawn of the Driscoll." During "Monster Drill," McFist and Viceroy think Howard is the real Ninja because of the ninja costume he is wearing for the drill.

Piloting

Like his dad, Howard is shown to fly vehicles, despite never learning them. In Let Them Eat Cake Fries, Howard used his father's ID to steal a Glider and a Clamp Gun. Howard used the glider as part of his Le Béret costume, using it to hijack Gene Leve's blimp and later to fly down to the high school to save the protesting students from the batter that had been dropped on the school. It is unknown if Howard kept the glider or returned it back to Mcfist Industries.

Gaming Skills

Just like Randy, Howard has been shown to have great gaming abilities. Randy complains about a move in Grave Puncher that Howard uses to beat him in "Grave Puncher: The Movie!." Although Randy is the best at the games at Greg's Game Hole, Howard is never far behind in skill, and beats Randy at Jack Hammer in "Weinerman Up," but only because Randy let him so that Howard finally listens to him and destroys the Jack Hammer robot.

Other Skills

In "Weinerman Tested, Cunningham Approved", Howard is revealed to have the strange ability to break everything he touches, including all the McFist products which are guaranteed to be indestructible. Even the mad scientist Viceroy considers Howard the most destructive force he's ever seen. This curse is really uncontrollable as Howard killed even his McFist-branded hamster once.

In "Debbie Meddle", he demonstrates ventriloquism skills, being able to control a puppet resembling the Ninja with voice-acting to fool the entire school and discredit Debbie Kang's news story.

In the final episodes, Howard shows the strange capability of grabbing a Sorcerer's Ball barehanded and even using its power frequently without being corrupted by it, something not even Randy as the Ninja managed to do. These abilities were never explored, as the series was cancelled afterwards.

Notable Possesions

McFist Industries Products

As Randy states "We are McFist men from head to toe". Howard' may be such a big fan of the products either because it's just popular, or that he finds that there's something good about it. He even exclaims that McFist can do no wrong in "Rise of the Planet of the Robo-Apes" when the Barf-a-Centauri opens, much to Randy's annoyance.

In particular, he gets a new McFist Pad in "Raiders of the Lost Nomicon," but it's shown that he broke it in "Weinerman Tested, Cunningham Approved." Howard probably gets a free McFist Pad when McFist is forced by the Ninja to give out in "McOne Armed and Dangerous" since he possesses one again in "All the Juice That's Fish to Swim."

Grave Puncher Series

Howard is also a big fan of Grave Puncher. He has posters of it covering all of the walls in his room. He and Randy play the first three games together and were working on the fourth. He does not like it when people say he is not a good Grave Puncher.

Schooling

English

Howard asks to copy off of Randy's paper in "Last Stall on the Left," but other than that, Howard's abilities in English are unknown. He seems to be good with speaking and persuasion, though, so if he actually puts effort into it, he's probably not that bad.

Science

Howard isn't very good at science, coming close to failing class in "Attack of the Killer Potatoes." It is his idea to feed and water the plant at the same time in "Dawn of the Driscoll," which kills the plant and leads Mrs. Driscoll to give them a bad grade. If he hadn't used the excuse of being kidnapped by Mr. Driscoll to boost their grade, Randy and Howard would note been allowed to go to the Frightacular.

Physical Education

Howard despises P.E., describing Coach Green as entirely insane. He attempted to escape climbing the rope in "The Tale of the Golden Doctor's Note," although being able to do it just fine. He also wants to win the three-legged challenge with Randy in order to get a class day of napping and save everyone's butts in "Randy Cunningham and the Sorcerer's Key."

Spanish

Howard is not good at Spanish, using food words that he learned from the guy who runs the taco cart. Randy and Howard fail their Spanish report because of this in "Viva El Nomicon," but after Howard listens to Debbie's Hypno-Spanish book, he is able to speak it fluently and save their grade.

Home Economics

Howard really seems to enjoy the class, especially since it earned him and Randy the class-fecta for being partners in every class during "Nukid on the Block".

History

Howard creates a costume of the creator of the Norrisville Van Dam in "The Ninja Identity," but doesn't memorize the facts and assumes he knew everything because he is dressed up as him, frustrating his partner Randy who actually did most of the work on their project.

Mathematics

As shown in "Randy Cunningham and the Sorcerer's Key," Howard doesn't seem to understand math and do well at it, thinking that an isosceles triangle is a made-up thing.

v - e - d Characters

MAIN
Howard WeinermanRandy Cunningham
VILLAINS
Catfish BoorayEvil Julian's SoldierThe DisciplinarianMac AntfeeMcFistMonstersQueen GabnidineEvil JulianThe SorcererThe SorceressTenguViceroy's CreationsViceroy
STUDENTS
Bucky HensletterBackground studentsBash JohnsonBraedonBrentButtermakerDancing FishDaveDebbie KangDougFlute GirlHeidi WeinermanJacquesJulianJuggoLevander HartMorganStevensTheresa FowlerPradeepRachelRanginald BagelRudd RhymezTiny Timmy Scratch-It
ADULTS
Brawn BrickwallBrock OctaneBuilding InspectorCoach GreenCharlie CluckerDickieDoctor SamFather McFistGregHippie LibrarianJason MyersJerry DriscollMan-GongMarci McFistManager BryceMort WeinermanMother ViceroyMiss RingwaldMr. BannisterMrs. CunninghamMrs. DriscollMrs. DempseyMrs. WeinermanMiss WickwhackerNameless Art TeacherNameless shades ladyUncle SledgePitch KickhamPrincipal SlimovitzRandy's NeighborPJ McFlubbusterRuthSuperintendentSenora JorgeSinjin KnightfireSundownS. Ward SmithThe MessengerThe KevTerry McFistVictor Von Van
GROUPS
30 Seconds to Math (band)Bash & the BrosDancing FishDer Monster Klub (group)Norrisville Police DepartmentNorrisville High School BoardNorrisville High Marching BandNorrisville High Twirl TeamNorisu NineRhymez's Rap PosseWave Slayers Team
OTHER
Background charactersFirst NinjaLe BéretNeil ApestrongMrs. ApestrongNinja of '05NomiRandyNorisu NineOttoPlop PlopPortal BeastGrave Puncher (character)

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