Hoagie Gilligan Jr. (Codename: Kids Next Door)

Hoagie Gilligan Jr. a.k.a. Numbuh 2 is one of the four deuteragonists of the 2002 animated series, Codename: Kids Next Door. He is a German Kids Next Door Operative in Sector V.

Why He Rocks

 * 1) He is the overweight, intellectual, aviation enthusiastic, pun-cracking boy of Sector V, which gives him a lot of funny moments.
 * 2) He is Sector V’s mechanical genius, and while least skilled in the art of combat, he makes up for it with his great intelligence, adaptability and unwillingness to give up.
 * 3) * Numbuh 2’s skills are shown from building simple but effective inventions, to building the entire Sector V Treehouse, which is impressive.
 * 4) * He was also able to see true colors of some people, like Numbuh 3’s sister, Mushi, in Operation: C.L.U.E.S.
 * 5) He cares about his teammates very much, and even though not shown as much as Numbuh 3, it’s still regularly shown throughout the series.
 * 6) He’s shown to have a great and hilarious interest in food, especially chili-dogs (which is Sonic the Hedgehog’s favorite food).
 * 7) * He is the only person who is able to stomach Gramma Stuffum’s grotesque food to a greater extent than his teammates, which is helpful when facing her.
 * 8) In Operation: D.O.G.F.I.G.H.T., he is shown to love flying and would occasionally refers to himself as "King of the Skies".
 * 9) He has a close bond with his baby brother, Tommy Gilligan, despite the fact he finds him annoying most of the time as seen in Operations: T.O.M.M.Y. and T.R.I.C.Y.C.L.E. According to Numbuh 1, Numbuh 2 taught Tommy how to build ships before Tommy became a KND operative.
 * 10) It’s also funny to see how his jokes tend not to work out on his teammates, and as a result, Numbuh 5 would often hit him with her trademark hat or complain about his wisecracks.
 * 11) He has a close friendship with Numbuh 1, and like Numbuh 4, he was devastated when Numbuh 1 joined the Galactic KND in Operation I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Numbuh 2 has an a too big obsession with technology, as when he was forced to stay in Sector A, with no technology, in Operation: A.M.I.S.H., he begged Numbuh 1 to take him back to the treehouse.
 * 2) He tends to go too overboard with his food interest, such as when he ate all of his family’s turkey, the whole thing, in Operation: C.L.U.E.S.
 * 3) Not all of his jokes land, especially the one-liners.

Trivia

 * He and Numbuh 5 are the only members of their sector who have American-style accents.
 * Despite being Numbuh 2, he is not second-in-command of Sector V, the occupation belonging to Numbuh 5.
 * Operation: I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S. shows he married Numbuh 5 in the future.
 * The episodes where he is the main character tend to be heavy parodies of film noir, old west or political movies/novels, implying he enjoys these genres.