Minor Characters
- Hiro Otomo - One of Huey's friends, a young Japanese-American DJ. Hiro only appeared in the original Diamondback version of the strip. He is named after Japanese comic artist Katsuhiro Otomo.
- Principal Williams - The principal of J. Edgar Hoover Elementary. An out-of-touch white man who prepared for the arrival of Huey and Riley by renting several blaxploitation films, mistakenly thinking of them as representative of black culture. He somehow has access to FBI files of Huey.
- John Petto - Huey, Cindy, and Caesar's white teacher, who is as clueless about how to handle them as the principal is. Old-fashioned and not used to black people, he is intimidated by Huey's intellect and has struggled trying to debate with Huey during class.
- Mrs. Peterson - Riley's teacher who has a strict rule of giving her students no special treatment, where they must pull their weight or fail. Because of this, she once failed a girl from Romania, who was a math genius, but could barely read or write. Before she started teaching, she was originally a nun, then she worked in three maximum-security prisons. Mrs. Peterson has little patience for Riley and his street behavior.
- Flagee and Ribbon
- Psycho Star Wars Guy
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