Lori Marie Loud is one of the main characters of The Loud House, serving as the deuteragonist in the 1st-4th season and one of the main characters in the 5th-present season. She is also a supporting character in The Casagrandes and one of the deuteragonists in the 2021 Netflix/Nickelodeon film The Loud House Movie.
She was 17 years old (teenager) in the first four seasons, and is now 18 years old (young adult) from season 5 onward. She used to occasionally be a jerk to Lincoln and her younger sisters, but this trait was gradually phased out in the second season onward. She is the former oldest sibling in the house, before the fifth season which she eventually moved out to college at Fairway University and visiting home once in a while.
As the oldest of the Loud kids, Lori originally could be very bossy and condescending towards her younger siblings. Despite her quick temper, though, she cares deeply about her brother and sisters. Lori has a tendency to use the word "literally" in her sentences, though she never seems to use it in proper context. When not asserting her authority over her siblings, Lori frequently spends her time flirting with her ex-boyfriend, Bobby Santiago, through texting on her smartphone.
She likes to keep her shoes under her bed for unknown reasons. She doesn't like the others touching her possessions, especially her cell phone, which seems to be her most valuable object. The reason for this is that she doesn't want to waste her phone memory for messages other than the ones from Bobby. She's also very territorial as she loudly yells at anyone who goes into to her room without permission before kicking them out.
In some occasions, she acts without thinking, and commits malicious actions against the others for her own selfish benefits, like in "Driving Miss Hazy", but since her love for her family always comes before any petty problem, she has a caring heart underneath a rough exterior, and she will always try to fix her mistakes. Deep down, Lori is insecure and is usually frustrated with the responsibilities and burdens of having to take care of her nine wild sisters and only brother. It is also shown that while she gets annoyed and easily agitated by a lot of people, she feels lonely without the people she loves and cares about (such as Bobby and her family) and her worst fear is in fact, losing them forever.
Following Bobby having moved to Great Lakes City in "The Loudest Mission: Relative Chaos" during The Loud House's second season, several of Lori's spotlight episodes in the third and fourth seasons centered around her preparing to graduate high school and go to college. "Driving Ambition" has Lori obtaining a scholarship at Fairway University, a golfing college just five miles outside of Great Lakes City which she'll be close to Bobby again, and she takes a tour of the college in "Don't You Fore-get About Me". In the meantime, she gets a job as the assistant manager for her dad's restaurant in "Can't Hardly Wait" and also tries working as a ride-share driver to save up money to buy her own car for college in "Coupe Dreams", eventually buying an old car from Mr. Grouse. In "Senior Moment", she, along with her friends Carol and Roger, does several activities for the last year of high school.
In the fifth-season premiere, "Schooled!", she moved out to start her freshman year of college at Fairway University and retired from being oldest sibling living in the house, but initially having trouble fitting in and then ultimately deciding that she can make things work out. Since then, she has appeared less frequently on the show and visiting home once in a while, such as for Lana and Lola's birthday party in "Strife of the Party" and Christmas in "Season's Cheatings". She also has episodes focusing on her at Fairway for the first time in "Ghosted!" which shows her without in the Loud House, due to her moving out to attend college and be close to Bobby again. Since in "Lori Days", she is now visiting home every weekend, due to her been away from the Loud House for so long and missing out on everything with her younger siblings.
In "Time Trap!", Lori and her siblings altered history, causing their parents to decide not to have any kids in the future. As a result, Lori got deleted out of existence, although she returned when Lisa and Lily prevented this timeline alteration.
As of the eighth season, she takes a gap year from college and has residence in Mr. Grouse's garage. In the tenth season episode "Cupid's Harrow", Lori and Bobby eventually broke up, but the two agreed to be just friends instead. Since in "Man of My Schemes", she will search for her new boyfriend.
Appearance[]
Lori is tall, with her hair cut to the top of her shoulders. She wears blue eyeshadow, a blue tank top, brown shorts, and blue shoes.
Personality[]
Lori is like your common firstborn daughter, being bossy, stubborn, and easily annoyed by her younger siblings. She happens to be in love with a young man named Bobby, so much, that she talks with him on her smartphone. As the oldest sibling, she is supposed to act responsibly and mature, but sometimes she doesn't act like it, because she behaves like her youngest sisters (which most likely woman-child) such as in Left in the Dark who she's afraid to go down into the dark basement. Despite this, she is calm, warm-hearted, and she speaks in almost monotone. She is prone to saying the word literally to express a point. However, she tends to use the word literally in an incorrect context. Lori and Leni also were roommates before Lori left for college in the fifth season.
She also got mad at Lincoln in the episode Save the Date, when Lincoln hurt Ronnie Anne's feelings and got her and Bobby broken up, so she forced him to apologize to her for the mean thing he said to make up to her. This does not mean that she and Lincoln do not love each other. However, she is shown to have a gold heart for Lincoln in the later episodes of Season 1 to Season 2 onward.
In Season 5, she eventaully moves out to attend college at Fairway University on weekdays and has retirement of being oldest sibling of the house, but she can now coming home for visit on once in a while and still loves them so much.
She is similar to Squidward Tentacles from SpongeBob SquarePants who enjoys bullying, yelling, and very mean at SpongeBob. But unlike Squidward who did not get annoyed by SpongeBob while enter house calling "Hey Squidward!"
Since in season 5, she is also similar to Olga Pataki from Hey Arnold! who has her life at college and visiting home once in a while.
