Kelbo Russo |
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Kelbo Russo |
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Russo Family Wizard |
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Hank Russo (father) |
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Russo Family |
Monte Carlo Kelbo Russo (Jeff Garlin) is the brother of Jerry Russo and Megan Russo. He is naturally male, but is often female when he takes on his other persona as the singer Shakira.
History
After Jerry won the Wizard Competition, he gave his powers to Kelbo, because Jerry wanted to get married to a mortal. Kelbo's first appearance was in "Alex in the Middle," and later in "Retest." Kelbo made another appearance in a season 3 episode "Dude Looks Like Shakira."
Personality
Kelbo is a fun-loving guy who uses his magic to enjoy himself and do practically everything Jerry tells his kids not to do. However, when it comes to using his powers in a serious situation Kelbo is somewhat lacking due to his inexperience and lack of ability to focus. In fact, it's apparent that he was actually the worst wizard out of Jerry, Megan and himself. However, Jerry chose to let him keep the power because, for as bad as he is at magic, Kelbo lacks any non magical skills, meaning his life would have been far worse off without them, as compared to his brother who set up his own business and his sister who is a talented painter.
Powers & Abillities
Kelbo's wand resembles a typical magician's wand; the main part of the shaft is made of dark brown wood, while the two ends are made of lighter wood. It is snapped almost in half in the middle, and often folds in on itself, a sign that he is sloppy.
- Magic: Like all wizards with powers, he has ability to cast spells and perform magic. Being a full wizard he has great power, however, due to his lack of knowledge about wizardy, his mastery over his powers is very poor prefer to use it only to make jokes.
- Telekinises: He can make things move with his mind
- Wish granting: Like all wizards
- Flight: All full wizards can fly
- Spellcasting: As a wizard he can cast spells
- Teleportation: via magic
- Body Morphing: This is Kelbo's main magical talent, and without using it to earn money as Shakira.
Relationships
Jerry and Megan Russo
Even though Kelbo appears to have no grudges against Jerry or Megan, Jerry states in the series finale that the reason Kelbo doesn't come around any more than twice a year at most was because he has a sense of resentment to Jerry because Kelbo, Jerry, and Megan let their wizard competition come between them.
Max Russo
It is shown that in "Retest" that Kelbo and Max are very alike, as they are both forgetful, irresponsible and very careless. Unlike Max however who has shown to be talented at running the store along with other mundane skills, Kelbo lacks 'any' none-magical talents.
Trivia
- As the relative-counterpart to Max, it is possible that Kelbo is the youngest of his three siblings as well.
- He sometimes uses his wizard powers to go fishing for llamas.
- He wants to be in the city of Atlantis when he was going to lose his powers in Retest.
- At the end of every episode he appears in, he makes a prank call on his wand.
- He hates cinnamon.
- He won the Indianapolis 500 auto race in the year 2090.
- He teaches Alex the "Cranium Revolvous" spell in the episode, "Alex In The Middle".