Howard Wolowitz - Personality

Personality

Like his friends, Howard is a big fan of comic books and superheroes. Until after he returned from space in season six, his preferred personal transportation was via his Vespa motor scooter. However, he has sold the Vespa and bought a Mini Cooper in the episode "The Parking Spot Escalation", using the fundings from his space travel, and lives with his wife Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz, after moving out of his mother's home.

Besides English, Howard can speak six languages including French, Mandarin, Russian, Persian, Arabic, and the constructed language Klingon from the Star Trek franchise. He also knows some words in Sindarin, one of the elvish dialects invented by J.R.R. Tolkien for The Lord of the Rings. Although in the show, Howard has been mentioned to speak these languages, the writers have not explored his proficiency much. The episode "The Wiggly Finger Catalyst" also reveals he knows American Sign Language.

Until his marriage, Howard fancied himself a "ladies' man" and he provided outrageous pick-up lines whenever there was a female present, resulting in humiliating turn-downs. Howard describes himself as a romantic, although he usually comes across as overtly sexual, and in the words of Penny, disgusting. However, Penny's animosity toward Howard has mellowed somewhat since Howard started dating Penny's work colleague Bernadette, to whom he is now married. When Howard found an ALF doll and revealed that it filled a void for him when his father left, Penny felt sympathetic and began to feel she better understood his behavior.

Howard, much like Penny, dislikes many of Sheldon's antics, but he has grown accustomed to them. One time, Penny asked how Sheldon had gotten friends and Howard simply replied "We liked Leonard".

Howard is allergic to peanuts, which give him a life-threatening anaphylactic reaction, which he once got on puropse just to keep Leonard busy at the hospital (as they were planning a suprise birthday party for him), and once, when he was depressed about breaking up with Leslie Winkle in Season 3, while he was at Las Vegas with Raj and Leonard, he tweeted "I'm so lonely and horny, i'm thinking of opening this $20 can of peanuts and end it all". He also mentioned having transient idiopathic arrhythmia. Howard is proud of the fact that he has only 3% body fat, which Raj notes makes him look like a human chicken wing.

Although Jewish, Howard is not very serious about his faith and does not keep kosher. For instance, he eats pork, and when the price of pork went up at the group's favorite Chinese restaurant, he remarked "it's getting tougher and tougher to be a bad Jew". On another occasion, when Howard tried to date Sheldon's sister, Missy, he said he would kill his rabbi with a pork chop if his religion was an impediment, and one of the reasons he was happy to continue dating Bernadette (who is Catholic) was the chance to really annoy his mother. Despite this, Howard has shown some belief in his faith. When he and Raj posed as goths to pick up women, he wore fake-tattoo sleeves and refused to get real ones (although he attempted to get one but was too scared of the needle). It is noted in "The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis" that he observes Hanukkah. He also apparently attends High Holy Day services, as Sheldon once critically noted that he was not available to compete in Halo during those times. In "The Financial Permeability" he made the sign of the Cross—a Catholic practice—during an encounter with Kurt, Penny's ex-boyfriend.

As of the episode "The Herb Garden Germination", he is engaged to Bernadette when she said yes to his marriage proposal. They eventually married in "The Countdown Reflection," the Season 5 finale, which was actually a small reception. They had a bigger, "official" one after Howard returned from space (although this was not mentioned).