Like Sammy Seminole, he donned cartoonish Native American-themed outfits, and performed clownish stunts. He is dim-witted, vain and clownish. Incapable of normal speech, his early behavior is often clownish and servile but obedient. Dericke is involved in clownish battlefield antics with a French soldier. His body contorts into countless postures of clownish arrogance without signs of effort. "The Topeka State Journal" reported in 1908 that Rapps' clownish antics had returned. She is alternately enraged and amused by Lord's clownish replies to her questions. The name "Bayard" became associated in English literature with a clownish, blind and foolish horse. He also plays the fool, adopting clownish behavior so as to seem harmless. Where Crawford was delightfully clownish, Ball's Fosco is altogether more sleek and dangerous. She is grateful for his kind treatment but angered by his clownish behavior. They can be slow-paced, but can have a clownish and energetic temperament. He briefly tempered his clownish behavior, but in 1908 he started up again. The Cai Dan (, "colorful role") is a clownish woman. Some critics consider Sebastian and Antonio clownish and not a real threat.