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* TheBaroness: And an actual one to boot as she is married to a Baron.
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* LaughablyEvil: Being a tyrannical dictator with the demeanor of a spoiled child, he's guaranteed to make viewers ache with laughter.

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* ChildHater: He hates kids because, let's be honest, he is pure evil.



* CanonForeigner: One of Roald Dahl's original creations.

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* CanonForeigner: One of Roald Dahl's original creations.creations, taking over from the Belgian criminals in the original book.
* ChildHater: He hates kids because, well let's face it, he's pure evil.




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* PunchClockVillain: His job is to capture and imprison children and he does not come off as a very decent guy, no matter how much of a quirky little bastard he is.
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* LivingToys: On the Scale of Living Toys, depending on who you ask, Caractacus pretends to be a puppet/marionette or rag doll. The movie's dialogue confirms that he is, in fact, impersonating a doll.

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* LivingToys: On the Scale of Living Toys, depending Depending on who you ask, Caractacus pretends to be disguises himself as a puppet/marionette or a rag doll. The movie's dialogue confirms that he is, in fact, impersonating doll as a doll.
birthday present for Baron Bomburst. On the Scale of Living Toys,
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* LivingToys: On the Scale of Living Toys, depending on who you ask, Caractacus pretends to be a puppet/marionette or a rag doll. The movie's dialogue confirms that he is, in fact, impersonating a doll.

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* LivingToys: On the Scale of Living Toys, depending on who you ask, Caractacus pretends to be a puppet/marionette or a rag doll. The movie's dialogue confirms that he is, in fact, impersonating a doll.
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* LivingToys: On the Scale of Living Toys,
Toys, depending on who you ask, Caractacus pretends to be a puppet/marionette or a rag doll. The movie's dialogue confirms that he is, in fact, impersonating a doll.
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* LivingToys: On the Scale of Living Toys,



* Living Toys: Somewhat subverted. Truly stiffly moves her upper body, head and arms while her hips, legs and feet remain stationary as she sings and rotates on the spinning disc on the box. Since she's pretending to be a doll on a music box, when her box isn't wound up, Truly stays motionless. The sentience of Truly's doll character is hinted at with words such as "you" and "people" during her song, refering to the Baron's birthday party attendees.

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* Living Toys: LivingToys: Somewhat subverted. Truly stiffly moves her upper body, head and arms while her hips, legs and feet remain stationary as she sings and rotates on the spinning disc on the box. Since she's pretending to be a doll on a music box, when her box isn't wound up, Truly stays motionless. The sentience of Truly's doll character is hinted at with words such as "you" and "people" during her song, refering to the Baron's birthday party attendees.
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* Living Toys: Truly stiffly moves her upper body, head and arms while her hips, legs and feet remain stationary as she sings and rotates on the spinning disc on the box. Since she's pretending to be a doll on a music box, when her box isn't wound up, Truly stays motionless. The sentience of Truly's doll character is hinted at with words such as "you" and "people" during her song, refering to all the Baron's birthday party attendees.

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* Living Toys: Somewhat subverted. Truly stiffly moves her upper body, head and arms while her hips, legs and feet remain stationary as she sings and rotates on the spinning disc on the box. Since she's pretending to be a doll on a music box, when her box isn't wound up, Truly stays motionless. The sentience of Truly's doll character is hinted at with words such as "you" and "people" during her song, refering to all the Baron's birthday party attendees.

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* CanonForeigner: One of Roald Dahl's original creations.



* ChildHater: She ''hates'' children and is the reason why they're outlawed in Vulgaria. Particularly strange considering how much of a {{manchild}} her husband is.

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* CanonForeigner: One of Roald Dahl's original creations.
* ChildHater: She ''hates'' and fears children for reasons that only Dahl knows and is the reason why they're outlawed in Vulgaria. Particularly strange considering how much of a {{manchild}} her husband is.



* CanonForeigner: One of Roald Dahl's original creations.



* MoreDespicableMinion: Despite both The Baron and The Baroness being LaughablyEvil, he is more scary than the two of them due to the fact that he's willing to kidnap children.

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* MoreDespicableMinion: Despite both The Baron and The Baroness being LaughablyEvil, he is more scary than the two of them due to the fact that he's willing to kidnap children.
children and send them away to an uncertain fate.
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* Living Toys: Truly stiffly moves her upper body, head and arms while her hips, legs and feet remain stationary as she sings and rotates on the spinning disc on the box. Since she's pretending to be a doll on a music box, when her box isn't wound up, Truly stays motionless. The sentience of Truly's doll character is hinted at with words such as "you" and "people" during her song.

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* Living Toys: Truly stiffly moves her upper body, head and arms while her hips, legs and feet remain stationary as she sings and rotates on the spinning disc on the box. Since she's pretending to be a doll on a music box, when her box isn't wound up, Truly stays motionless. The sentience of Truly's doll character is hinted at with words such as "you" and "people" during her song.song, refering to all the Baron's birthday party attendees.
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* Living Toys: Truly stiffly moves her upper body, head and arms while her hips, legs and feet remain stationary as she sings and rotates on the spinning disc on the box. Since she's pretending to be a doll on a music box, when her box isn't wound up, Truly stays motionless. The hint of sentience of Truly's doll character is when she says words such as "you" and "people" during her song.

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* Living Toys: Truly stiffly moves her upper body, head and arms while her hips, legs and feet remain stationary as she sings and rotates on the spinning disc on the box. Since she's pretending to be a doll on a music box, when her box isn't wound up, Truly stays motionless. The hint of sentience of Truly's doll character is when she says hinted at with words such as "you" and "people" during her song.
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* Living Toys: Truly stiffly moves her upper body, head and arms while her hips, legs and feet remain stationary as she sings and rotates on the spinning disc on the box. Since she's pretending to be a doll on a music box, when her box isn't wound up, Truly stays motionless. The hint of sentience is when she says words such as "you" and "people" during her song.

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* Living Toys: Truly stiffly moves her upper body, head and arms while her hips, legs and feet remain stationary as she sings and rotates on the spinning disc on the box. Since she's pretending to be a doll on a music box, when her box isn't wound up, Truly stays motionless. The hint of sentience of Truly's doll character is when she says words such as "you" and "people" during her song.
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* Living Toys: Truly stiffly moves her upper body, head and arms while her hips, legs and feet remain stationary as she sings and rotates on the spinning disc on the box. Since she's pretending to be a doll on a music box, when her box isn't wound up, Truly stays motionless. The hint of sentience is when she says the words "you" and "people" during her song.

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* Living Toys: Truly stiffly moves her upper body, head and arms while her hips, legs and feet remain stationary as she sings and rotates on the spinning disc on the box. Since she's pretending to be a doll on a music box, when her box isn't wound up, Truly stays motionless. The hint of sentience is when she says the words such as "you" and "people" during her song.
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* Living Toys: On the Scale of Living Toys, Truly is disguised as, to an extent, an immobile, but still sentient doll. She stiffly moves her upper body, head and arms while her hips, legs and feet remain stationary as she sings and rotates. When her box isn't operating, Truly stays motionless. The hint of sentience is when she says the words "you" and "people" during her song.

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* Living Toys: On the Scale of Living Toys, Truly is disguised as, to an extent, an immobile, but still sentient doll. She stiffly moves her upper body, head and arms while her hips, legs and feet remain stationary as she sings and rotates. When rotates on the spinning disc on the box. Since she's pretending to be a doll on a music box, when her box isn't operating, wound up, Truly stays motionless. The hint of sentience is when she says the words "you" and "people" during her song.
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* Wind-UpKey: The toymaker inserts a wind-up key into the music box to start it up. Caractacus also winds it up after his rag doll dance.

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* Wind-UpKey: The toymaker inserts a A wind-up key is inserted into the music box to make it start it up. Caractacus also winds it up after his rag doll dance.
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*Living Toys: On the Scale of Living Toys, Truly is disguised as, to an extent, an immobile, but still sentient doll. She stiffly moves her upper body, head and arms while her hips, legs and feet remain stationary as she sings and rotates. When her box isn't operating, Truly stays motionless. The hint of sentience is when she says the words "you" and "people" during her song.
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* RobotGirl: Inverted. She disguises herself as a mechanical doll on a music box as a birthday present for Baron Bomburst of the movie's climax.

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* RobotGirl: Inverted. She disguises herself as a mechanical doll on a music box as a birthday present for Baron Bomburst of in the movie's climax.

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* PunnyName: Quite fitting for the daughter of a confectionary maker.

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* PunnyName: Quite fitting for the daughter of a confectionary maker. The musical adaptation expands on this with having two sisters and a brother. Her sister's names are Madly and Deeply and her brother is named Seriously.




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*RobotGirl: Inverted. She disguises herself as a mechanical doll on a music box as a birthday present for Baron Bomburst of the movie's climax.
*Wind-UpKey: The toymaker inserts a wind-up key into the music box to start it up. Caractacus also winds it up after his rag doll dance.



* {{Manchild}}: Extremely immature and enjoys playing with toys like a child.

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* BigBad: He is the main villain of the movie.
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[[folder: The Child Catcher]]
* EvilWearsBlack: He wears black and he's a child kidnapper.
* MoreDespicableMinion: Despite both The Baron and The Baroness being LaughablyEvil, he is more scary than the two of them due to the fact that he's willing to kidnap children.
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!! Potts Family and friends:

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A down on his luck inventor and loving father who builds the titular car.
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* BunglingInventor: Most of his inventions don't function properly.

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[[folder:Truly Scrumptious]]
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* DefrostingIceQueen: At first she acts coldly towards Caractacus, because of the careless way he's raising his children, but soon sees that he really cares about them and warms up to him.
* PunnyName: Quite fitting for the daughter of a confectionary maker.
* SpoiledSweet: She's the daughter of a rich candy factory owner and lives in an aristocratic mansion but is actually a very humble and kind person.

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[[folder:Jeremy and Jemima Potts]]
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* CheerfulChild: Well, until they get kidnapped by the Child Catcher that is.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"I'm off to India, gonna have a cup of tea with the Maharajah. Cheerio." ]]

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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: He is only known as "Grandpa".
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!! Vulgarians:

[[folder:Baron Bomburst]]
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* {{Manchild}}: Extremely immature and enjoys playing with toys like a child.
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* ChildHater: She ''hates'' children and is the reason why they're outlawed in Vulgaria. Particularly strange considering how much of a {{manchild}} her husband is.
* ParachutePetticoat: Happens to her after Chitty's EjectorSeat sends her flying. She even provides the trope image.
* UnwantedSpouse: The Baron clearly doesn't like her very much and is constantly trying to kill her. If she's noticed she's not letting it show.
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!! Potts Family and friends:

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->''' Played by: '''Creator/DickVanDyke
A down on his luck inventor and loving father who builds the titular car.
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* BunglingInventor: Most of his inventions don't function properly.


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[[folder:Truly Scrumptious]]
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->''' Played by: '''Sally Ann Howes
Caractacus' love interest who accompanies the family on their adventure.
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* DefrostingIceQueen: At first she acts coldly towards Caractacus, because of the careless way he's raising his children, but soon sees that he really cares about them and warms up to him.
* SpoiledSweet: She's the daughter of a rich candy factory owner and lives in an aristocratic mansion but is actually a very humble and kind person.

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[[folder:Jeremy and Jemima Potts]]
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->''' Played by: '''Adrian Hall, Heather Ripley
Caractacus' two children.
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* WhatAnIdiot: They fall for the Child Catchers disguise and get kidnapped.

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[[folder:Grandpa Potts]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:"I'm off to India, gonna have a cup of tea with the Maharajah. Cheerio." ]]

->''' Played by:''' Lionel Jeffries
The Potts families grandfather.
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: He is only known as "Grandpa".
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!! Vulgarians:

[[folder:Baron Bomburst]]
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->''' Played by: '''Creator/DickVanDyke
A down on his luck inventor and loving father who builds the titular car.
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* BunglingInventor: Most of his inventions don't function properly.


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[[folder:Truly Scrumptious]]
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->''' Played by: '''Sally Ann Howes
Caractacus' love interest who accompanies the family on their adventure.
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* DefrostingIceQueen: At first she acts coldly towards Caractacus, because of the careless way he's raising his children, but soon sees that he really cares about them and warms up to him.
* SpoiledSweet: She's the daughter of a rich candy factory owner and lives in an aristocratic mansion but is actually a very humble and kind person.

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[[folder:Jeremy and Jemima Potts]]
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->''' Played by: '''Adrian Hall, Heather Ripley
Caractacus' two children.
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* WhatAnIdiot: They fall for the Child Catchers disguise and get kidnapped.

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[[folder:Grandpa Potts]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:"I'm off to India, gonna have a cup of tea with the Maharajah. Cheerio." ]]

->''' Played by:''' Lionel Jeffries
The Potts families grandfather.
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: He is only known as "Grandpa".
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!! Vulgarians:

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!! Potts Family and friends:

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-> Played by: Sally Ann Howes


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-> Played by: Lionel Jeffries


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