History Characters / JamesAndTheGiantPeach

[[caption-width-right:350: ''"Let the biddies come! I'll take 'em both on!"'']]

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: After Mr. Centipede succeeds in finding a compass and tries hard not to fall asleep, Mr. Grasshopper relieves him of his duties as a way to make up for kicking him in the face earlier, despite Mr. Centipede saying that he doesn't want to quit his task. Mr. Centipede, touched by his kindness, thanks him before he falls asleep.

* TheHerosBirthday: James celebrates his eighth Birthday with his parents in the beginning of the film. They surprise him to a trip to New York City. Unfortunately the rhino came along to spoil the fun.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: While his role is unchanged between book and movie, in the book he's a ''lot'' more unhinged and comes across as borderline creepy. The movie version, while still mysterious and weird, is a lot gentler and more reassuring, speaking in a soft voice and telling Jamed that he doesn't mean him any harm. He's also the one who (silhouetted, but it's clearly him) starts the demand to let James speak when Spiker and Sponge try to take him away.

* YouAreFat: In the poem they recite, Spiker calls Sponge ugly for having a fat belly.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: In the movie, Centipede starts to fend off the skeleton pirates before James and Miss Spider return to the surface. Cue the DeadHatShot which indicates his apparent fate, but then [[spoiler:he emerges from the water completely alive and unharmed.]]

-->[[spoiler:"Very informative magazine, the ''National Geographic.'' Wonderful pictures."]]

%%* TeethFlying: This happens to him during the giant shark attack.

A member of the group of bugs that James befriends. He is self-centred and narcissistic and takes longer to warm up to James than most of the others but eventually accepts him into the surrogate family that has been formed in the end.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: This hits him hard in the movie when the others call him out on his BlatantLies and turn their backs on him. Cue him pulling off his HeroicSacrifice.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: After Centipede succeeds in finding a compass and tries hard not to fall asleep, Grasshopper relieves him of his duties as a way to make up for kicking him in the face earlier, despite Centipede saying that he doesn't want to quit his task.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After Mr. Centipede jumps in the water to find a compass, Mr. Grasshopper thinks he committed pesticide for what he did to him.
--> '''Mr. Grasshopper:''' Good heavens! He's committed pesticide. Oh, this is all my doing

* DreamSequence: He has a nightmare in the film about a caterpillar version of himself being threatened by Spike and Sponge, who try to unleash the rhino on him after they spot him eating "their" peach.

* AlienLunch: In both the book and the movie, he sings a song about some of the finest dishes a bug could ever have such as "pickled spines of porcupines", "earwigs cooked in slime" and "curried slugs". In the book, he sings it alone, while in the film, some of the other bugs take up a few of the verses.

%%* AntiHero: He is this before his first practical idea to get he and his friends out of danger succeeds.

* ChildHater: They have no qualms at all about being inexcusably cruel to young children in general, not just James.

* ForTheEvulz: Spiker and Sponge are the classic "pure evil villains". They just hate James for no apparent reason and they aren’t even given a FreudianExcuse. They even have no problem casually talking smack about James’ dad simply because he was a dreamer.

* HeyYou: They never refer to James by his real name and only call him such derogatory names like "disgusting little beast" and "miserable creature".

* AdaptationalVillainy: They were certainly evil in the book, but in the movie, they actually try to ''kill'' James towards the end.

** They're even worse in the movie, where they take their hatred of James to bigger levels after he escapes in the giant peach, and they try to kill him with axes at the climax.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the book, they are crushed to death by the peach, whereas in the movie, they survive the event with only their car getting totaled and even in the end are simply arrested and taken away after the bugs stop them from killing James.

* VitriolicBestBuds: He and the Centipede develop this dynamic in the movie; they're always at each other's throats but get an AwLookTheyReallyLoveEachOther moment or two.

* Parental Substitue: Of the three male bugs, he has the best relationship with James and takes on a fatherly role towards him from the start. Old Green Grasshopper is usually seen close by James and is quite protective of him. His smile towards James when the little boy is asking him about his music easily shows how fond Grasshopper is of James.

* KarmicDeath: In the book, they trip over each other and both get crushed by the peach during their struggle to get up. Averted in the movie, where the peach runs over their car, and they both survive.

* Papa Wolf: Of the three male bugs, he has the best relationship with James and takes on a fatherly role towards him from the start. Old Green Grasshopper is usually seen close by James and is quite protective of him. His smile towards James when the little boy is asking him about his musiceasily shows how fond Grasshopper is of James.

* ButtMonkey: Centipede suffers the most abuse out of any character that is not James, and in the book, he's quite proud of that - [[StaticCharacter he doesn't take anything away from it]].

* TookALevelInKindness: Whilst in the book, he retains his snobbish attitude throughout as a result of being a StaticCharacter, but in the film, he learns from his mistakes and becomes nicer to his friends as the things progress, particularly to James.