History Characters / ArthurYoungerChildren

* CrossdressingVoices: Up until the finale, she was voiced by young boys.

* LackOfEmpathy: One of her flaws. It's mostly expressed towards Arthur, but it's not limited to him: for example, "Arthur's Chicken Pox" has her take advantage of her grandma by faking chicken pox for her attention, not caring that it may hurt her feelings, and in "Prove It", she shamelessly cons her classmates out of their money just to make Arthur agree to take her to a museum. This is justified by her being a toddler.

* PutOnABus: In "A Duty Calls", [[spoiler: he moves away from Elwood City because of his father's military service but he leaves behind Rapty for D.W.]]. We don't know if he'll be back.

%% ItsAllAboutMe: She can be extremely selfish, [[UpToEleven even by the standards of her age]].

* LackOfEmpathy: One of her flaws. It's mostly expressed towards Arthur, but it's not limited to him: for example, "Arthur's Chicken Pox" has her take advantage of her grandma by faking chicken pox for her attention, not caring that it may hurt her feelings, and in "Prove It", she shamelessly cons her classmates out of their money just to make Arthur agree to take her to a museum. Granted, this may be partially justified by her being a toddler, but her lack of empathy seems to stand out [[UpToEleven even by the standards of her age]].

* {{Sadist}}: Sometimes, she seems to like making things hard for Arthur just for her own amusement. In fact, "The Short, Quick Summer" seems to imply that she believes it's the ''role'' of a little sister to make her older sibling's life miserable.
-->'''D.W.:'''I was trying to make him feel rotten, and he feels great. I’m a '''failure''' as a little sister.

* AmbiguousDisorder: D.W. has a massive LackOfEmpathy even by the standards of someone her age, is [[WiseBeyondTheirYears very smart for a four-year-old]] and can sometimes be [[ManipulativeBitch manipulative]], but does show the typical naivety of her age at times, and is capable of caring about her friends and family when it really matters. She also tends to have short-lived obsessions with very specific things, such as her current ones, ''Mary Moo Cow'' and "Crazy Bus". The fact that the other characters often call her and the things she does "weird" doesn't help either.

* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The Nice to D.W.'s Mean and Arthur's In-Between. She's a sweet baby who hardly ever causes any trouble.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Kate can speak to dogs and cats. However, as of "Paradise Lost", it's revealed she will eventually lose this ability.

* BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler: In the TimeSkip ending of the series finale, he appears on a motorcycle being ticketed by D.W. the police officer who warmly greets him upon being told who he is and joins the cast in seeing Arthur's graphic novel.]]

* BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler: In the TimeSkip ending of the series finale, he appears on a motorcycle being ticketed by D.W. the police officer who warmly greets him upon being told who he is and joins the cast in seeing Arthur's graphic novel]]

-->'''Voiced by:''' Helena [=McAnham=] (Living Books, ''Arthur's Teacher Trouble'' game, ''Arthur's Birthday'' game), Michael Caloz (first three seasons), Oliver Graigner (seasons four to six, ''Arthur's Perfect Christmas''), Jason Szwimmer (seasons 7-10, ''It's Only Rock And Roll''), Robert Naylor (seasons 11-15), Jake Beale (seasons 16-17), Andrew Dayton (seasons 18 to 19), Christian Destefano (seasons 20-21), Ethan Pugiotto (seasons 22-present)

-->'''Timmy voiced by:''' Ricky Mabe (seasons 1-5, "Arthur's Perfect Christmas"), Samuel Holden (seasons 6-9, "Arthur - It's Only Rock 'n' Roll"), Tyler Brody-Stein (seasons 10-11), Chris Lortie (seasons 12-13), Dakota Goyo (seasons 14-15), Jacob Ewaniuk (seasons 16-19), Samuel Faraci (seasons 20-present), Max Henry Wolf ("Arthur's Missing Pal")
-->'''Tommy voiced by:''' Jonathan Koensgen (seasons 1-6, "Arthur's Perfect Christmas"), Aaron Grunfeld (seasons 7-8, "Arthur - It's Only Rock 'n' Roll"), Tyler Brody-Stein (season 9), Ryan Tilson (seasons 10-11) Jake Roseman (seasons 12-13), Jake Sim (seasons 14-19), Devan Cohen (seasons 20-present), Madison Danielle ("Arthur's Missing Pal")

-->'''Voiced by:''' Vanessa Lengies (seasons 1-7), Sally Taylor-Isherwood (seasons 8-present)

-->'''Voiced by:''' Jesse Camacho (season 8), Nicholas Wheeler-Hughes (season 11), John Flemming (seasons 16 - 17), Christian Distefano (seasons 18-present)

* ButtMonkey: Occasionally gets some misfortunes and is picked on by the Tibble Twins.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: [[DownplayedTrope For the most part D.W. looks like a regular five-year-old girl]], but some shots depict her as being tall enough to reach above Arthur's shoulder.

%% WiseBeyondTheirYears: You'd be hard-pressed to find a four-year-old girl as eloquent and crafty as D.W. in real life.

* GratuitousFrench: She tends to use random French words and phrases from time to time, thanks to the influence of her French nanny Marie-Helene.

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* OnlyOneName: Unlike most of the other characters, her last name isn't really known.

* SpoiledSweet: She's spoiled with tons of possessions, a private nanny, a tutor, and fancy food, yet she's generally one of the nicest kids in preschool.

* SelfServingMemory: In "Go To Your Room, D.W.", when she gets sent to her room for being mean to Kate, she tells Nadine a bunch of falsified memories of how her parents abused her, like when they forced her to be Arthur's slave when he was sick and not allowing her to attend Aunt Lucy's wedding. Nadine doesn't buy a word of it.

** In "Arthur's Big Hit", it is implied that her crying after Arthur punched her for destroying his model airplane was faked in order to [[PlayingTheVictimCard play victim to her parents]], since [[DelayedReaction she at first only looked shocked and took a few seconds to start crying]].

* JerkassHasaPoint: D.W. can sometimes be a spoiled brat, but she brings up valid points at times:
** In the episode "Ungifted", Arthur wanted to make it up to Buster for giving away a model Buster made for him. D.W. suggested his autographed Bionic Bunny poster; at first Arthur said that it’s signed but D.W. asks him how the poster is more important than his friendship with Buster.
** In "Mind your Manners" when the Tibbles wonder why their grandmother doesn't want go out to eat, D.W. flat out tells them that they are slobs and have horrible table manners. She even refuses to teach them because the last time she tried to teach Tommy to be good in "My Fair Tommy", he went back to his old ways.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's rude, bossy, loves winding Arthur up and sometimes talks about how eager she is to get rid of him. But deep down, she is a good kid, and a couple of times it is shown that she actually loves and cares about her brother.

* AssholeVictim: Any moment where D.W. gets in trouble or attacked by Arthur is pretty well-deserved for being such a brat.

* BigSisterBully: Towards Kate at times; most notably when she threatens to pinch her for touching her toys, though unlike other times, she gets grounded for once. {{Inverted|Trope}} with Arthur, as she can be downright nasty to him at times, such as in "Arthur's Big Hit" when she broke his model plane and showed no remorse for it. [[BullyingADragon This gets her punched by him.]]

* BigSisterMentor: Some episodes had her take up being one toward Vicita, but the results were mixed at best.

* BrattyHalfPint: Whines when things don't go her way.
* BrightIsNotGood: She may wear a primarily pink and white outfit, but she is ''far'' from a good girl. [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Most of the time, at least]].
* TheBully: She takes joy out of harassing Arthur and screws over other people as well.
* BullyingADragon: In "Arthur's Big Hit", despite Arthur being two heads bigger than her and is ''clearly'' reaching his RageBreakingPoint, she still has the nerve to be domineering towards him. She naturally gets punched in the arm by him for it.

* ChromaticArrangement: In one episode, the Tibble twins do this to her clothes.
* CompanionCube: Her snowball. Until she lost it, that is.

* CrocodileTears: Has used these to get her way on at least three occasions.

* CreepyChild: The fact that she seems to outright ''take pleasure'' in making Arthur's life more difficult [[LackOfEmpathy with no remorse]] makes her come off as this.
* DeadpanSnarker: Has unfailing snark.

* DoesNotLikeSpam: [[PunctuatedForEmphasis "I! HATE! SPINACH!!!"]] Cue FullNameUltimatum. She got over it, though.

* FullNameUltimatum: Heard often due to the amount of trouble she gets in.

* GoToYourRoom: A frequent punishment of hers. Usually, the worst she gets.

* {{Hypocrite}}: D.W. has a borderline ''contempt'' for the Tibble twins because of their naughty, boisterous and dishonest personalities. This is despite the fact that she can be quite the troublesome and dishonest kid herself. In "My Fair Tommy", she even tries to ''teach Tommy good manners'', despite being quite a badly-behaved kid herself.
* IdioticPartnerConfession: Usually something like, "Wow, Arthur. This person isn't as scary as you say." In "Arthur's Pet Business", she tells Mrs. Wood that Arthur lost Perky.

* InstantExpert: Usually at things that Arthur failed at.
* IronicName: The name "Dora" means "gift" and " Winifred" means "blessed peacemaking". Considering [[BrattyHalfPint her personality]], she certainly isn't a gift to Arthur, nor is she a peacemaker exactly.
* ItsAllAboutMe: She can be extremely selfish, [[UpToEleven even by the standards of her age]].

* KarmaHoudini: She's gotten away with her mischief many times.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: There are some occasions in which she ''does'' get punished by her parents.
* KidsAreCruel: Textbook example. She's quite mean-spirited for a four-year-old, especially to Arthur.

* LittleMissSnarker: Usually towards Arthur.

* MouthyKid: D.W. can be rude, but sometimes she does have a point.

* PlatonicLifePartners: Becomes best friends with Bud in Season 16.
* PlayingSick: On two occasions, both times being in order to take advantage of other people's sympathy.

* TheStoolPigeon: "MOOOOOOM! Arthur broke a window!"
* TagalongKid: Whenever she hangs out with Arthur's group.

* WiseBeyondTheirYears: You'd be hard-pressed to find a four-year-old girl as eloquent and crafty as D.W. in real life.

* BigSisterBully: Towards Kate at times; most notably when she threatens to pinch her for touching her toys, though unlike other times, she gets grounded for once. {{Inverted|Trope}} with Arthur, as she can be downright nasty to him at times, such as in "Arthur's Big Hit" when she broke his model plane and showed no remorse for it.

* HairDecorations: She has green hair ties that hold up her GirlishPigtails.

* HairDecorations: Light blue scrunchies that hold up her GirlishPigtails. In Season 16 and onward, they were recoloured pink.

* HairDecorations: A lavender hairband and bow.

* IronicName: The name "Dora" means "gift". Considering [[BrattyHalfPint her personality]], she certainly isn't a gift to Arthur.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's rude, bossy and is a right pain in the backside to Arthur, but deep down she is a good kid, and a couple of times it is shown that she actually loves and cares about her brother, although DependingOnTheWriter she can also be just a plain {{Jerkass}} who doesn't care about him at all and is in fact outright eager to get rid of him.

* OnlyKnownByInitials: Nobody calls D.W. "Dora" or "Dora Winifred" unless it's her parents issuing a FullNameUltimatum or they want to deal with a major tantrum. In S2's "D.W. Goes to Washington", Mr. Read actually didn't seem to remember her full name.

** She's alsp an AnimalLover of the highest order.

%% * SpoiledSweet: She's spoiled with tons of possessions, a private nanny, a tutor, and fancy food, yet she's generally one of the nicest kids in preschool.