History Characters / Rugrats

* HumanHammerThrow: The giant robot version piloted by Jean-Claude does this - Bowser style - the the babie's Reptar mech while singing to the tune of ''La Donna É Mobile''

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Has these in its video game appearance

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Angelica's doll.

%% * TheAce: She is WiseBeyondTheirYears and has many talents.

* MamaBear: As her vine swinging in the "Vacation" special can attest to.

* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: While Chuckie doesn't remember her that much, he does have fond memories of her in dreams when she played him and when he was around wasn't afraid.

* BabysitterFriendship: Taffy is hired to look after the babies while Didi goes BackToSchool to master her degree in child development. Taffy is a songwriter who has her own band, Taffy and the Saltwaters, and she has a soft spot for babies, whom she calls "[[AffectionateNickname Minis]]". The babies befriend her, and she takes them to wonderful places such as Boingo Burger, a fast food restaurant featured in "[[Recap/RugratsS9E10BestestOfShowHoldThePickles Hold the Pickles]]", and a video arcade featured in "[[Recap/RugratsS9E5DiapiesAndDragonsBabyPower Diapies and Dragons]]". Taffy even narrates the stories of ''Literature/SnowWhite'' and ''Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk'' in the "Tales from the Crib" duology of direct-to-video movies.

* {{Flanderization}}: Her willingness to refer to and stick to Dr. Lipschitz' advice can be rather extreme in the later seasons, as early episodes would have her sometimes question the advice given by him even if she'd still stick to it, or ultimately go back on it when it was clearly making Tommy miserable. It's too the point where an episode had the person on Lipschitz hotline actively chide her for considering throw all of Tommy's Reptar merch away to force him to like a more family friendly character. This is usually because she's used as an example to show just [[AnAesop how God Awful some popular childcare advice can actually be in practice.]]

%% * HeterosexualLifePartners: With Tommy: they've been best friends since the start of the series, and continue to remain besties in the ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' spinoff.

* NerdyNasalness: Chuckie has a perpetually constipated nose, giving him a nasal voice. [[note]]This is especially prominent after Creator/NancyCartwright replaced Creator/ChristineCavanaugh as his voice actress after the latter retired from voice acting (and died twelve years later).[[/note]] He fits other nerdy stereotypes as well, as he's gawky, neurotic, jumpy and bespectacled. In "The Smell of Success", Chuckie undergoes a treatment to cure his condition, only to find the effects of it are temporary.

** Sometimes averted: [[HeroesWantRedheads he's actually shown to be quite popular with the ladies in certain episodes (such as "Cradle Attraction").]]

* HeroesWantRedheads: Pulls a big hero move by racing through Paris on a bike to stop the wedding and falls in love with redheaded Chas.

* GutturalGrowler: Phil has a very deep voice for a toddler.

* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Downplayed as she is far from sympathetic, but her plans are always undone in a humiliating manner, by ''babies'' no less.

* InformedJudaism: Actually averted (unlike most other examples on kids' TV, which always weakly hint that a character may or may not be Jewish). In addition to the token Hanukkah special, his family also celebrates Passover. On top of that, his maternal grandparents (Boris and Minka) are established to be Eastern European Jews (possibly Russian or Ukrainian). In both ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'', Tommy and his family follow both Judaism '''''and''''' Christianity.

* CheerfulChild: All of them are generally happy-go-lucky babies, but it’s taken to very extreme levels with Tommy Pickles, who is almost always upbeat.

* IdiotHero: Downplayed, he is more intelligent than most examples of this trope, but then again, he is just a baby and can act reckless at times and usually doesn’t think twice in situations, and as of a result, cries.

* ProneToTears: While he is indeed a fearless leader, there are quite a few episodes where he’s seen crying (either to act like a typical baby or to be manipulative), and it is of course justified as he’s still a baby.

* PerpetualFrowner: Maybe not always seen frowning, but he certainly doesn’t smile as much as the other babies do and has been known to be a ProneToTears LovableCoward.

* ChildrenAreInnocent: Believe it or not, even Angelica shows shades of this once in a while, most notably her InnocentSwearing in “Word of the Day,” mercifully censored via SoundEffectBleep.

* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: One of Angelica’s redeeming qualities was how she never made a negative comment about Chuckie’s late mother, Melinda, or even interferes during the MoodWhiplash moment of the episode, ''Mother’s Day''.

* ProneToTears: He's definitely not above crying, and given the fact he’s the youngest of the babies, it’s a definite given.

** Don’t ever tell Stu to get a real job. Stu claims that he would be wasting his life as "a clock-punching, paper-pushing, bean-counting accountant" (which is what Drew works as).

* MadScientist: Stu is more of the eccentric variety, but a lot of Stu’s inventions are... questionable. He tried inventing, among other things: an anti-gravity playpen, Mr. Friend; a robot that has HEAT SEEKING detection, and his initial Reptar Wagon prototype SHOT FIRE! Stu is also a very proud man about his work, especially when it comes to the larger mechanics like a fire breathing dragon for a renaissance fair or the Giant Robo-Reptar that was in the second movie.
* ManChild: Depending on the episode, Stu ranges from "immature adult" during arguments and short feuds with his older brother Drew, to what can only be described as "borderline mentally deficient" at seemingly random times. In "The Blizzard", he runs into the kitchen and screams "Yippee, school's been cancelled!" after a big snowstorm, at which point Chas has to remind him that he's 35 years old and doesn't have to go to school anymore. In "Chuckie Vs. the Potty", he rushes to get Chuckie's potty while Chuckie is in the bathroom— Didi tells him to "put it down," and Stu puts it down right where he's standing... outside of the bathroom. Even Chuckie probably realizes that the potty doesn't belong in the hallway.

* EveryoneHasStandards: He may be a pretty big pushover when it comes to disciplining Angelica, but he does have his limits. When he discovers that she stole from the adult Chaz in Chuckie’s Wonderful Life, he’s livid to the point of driving her over, making her apologize, and revoking her dessert privileges for a week.

* TheAce: She is completely awesome at everything she turns her hand to: aviation, cooking, parenting, mechanical engineering, medicine. During the episode that introduces her and her husband, it's a running gag how Didi is constantly discovering new things to admire about her new friend and being totally blown away and a little intimidated. She's also quite friendly and kind — the kind of person who makes you wish you were cool enough to be her friend.

A world-renowned [[TheShrink child psychologist]] ([[TheAllegedExpert who clearly has no idea what he’s talking about]]) to whom Didi always quotes.

* HerrDoktor: He speaks with a German accent. And his first name is Werner. He even hums “Deutschland Uber Alles” twice.

* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: In "Mommy's Little Assets", Charlotte has Jonathan keep an eye on Tommy and Angelica when she is forced to take them to work due to all the adults being gone and no babysitter wanting to look after Angelica more than once. Jonathan neglects to keep an eye on the kids (which the all adults do at least once an episode), and Tommy and Angelica get away and roam the building. Charlotte immediately fires him after she finds the children, even going as far as to tell Jonathan to call security on himself. At the end of the episode, Charlotte re-hires Jonathan with a promotion as a reward for bringing Famous Ethel and Abe, who are impressed with her maternal instincts towards Angelica and have decided to sell their cookie company to [=MergeCorp=] based on it, to her house. To Jonathan's dismay, it's not a Vice President position—it's supervisor of [=MergeCorp's=] daycare center, starting with watching Angelica.

* ForTheEvulz: She hates kids for no reason, and she isn’t even given a FreudianExcuse. And you have to wonder why someone like her works at a children’s theme park.

* LargeHam: She's very over-the-top for a Rugrats villain considering that she' voiced by Susan Sarandon.

* PapaWolf: A near literal example as he’s a dog who is very protective of the babies. Protective enough to fight a large wolf and [[spoiler:to almost pull a HeroicSacrifice.]] It’s also worth noting that he refers to them as his babies in ''Rugrats Go Wild''.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Simultaneously this and ReallySevenHundredYearsOld—despite being absolutely massive, Dactar is implied to have hatched the very day he came to attack Tokyo. However, given that he’s a pterosaur and his egg was situated in the prehistoric La Brea tar pits, Dactar was likely in said egg for a very, VERY long time.

* HappilyMarried: To Betty, despite their personality differences

* CatchPhrase: "A baby's gotta do, what a baby's gotta do" and after the movie, "Hang on to your diapies, babies".
* CheerfulChild: Tommy is very fearless & happy-go-lucky most of the time, this is also justified as he's still a baby.

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* CatchPhrase: "Halt! I am Reptar!", though later on he became TheVoiceless.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Can I have a hug?"

* HappilyAdopted: In "Finsterella", Kira officially adopts Chuckie, and though there is a growing period between the two, she makes it clear that wile it will take time for her to understand him better, no matter the situation, she does and will always love him as her son.

* SeniorSleepCycle: Tends to fall asleep whenever the plot tells him to.
** He apparently has always been like this, as Didi mentions in the first movie that he "slept through Pearl Harbor".

-->'''Miriam:''' ''(to Lou)'' Remember when you got your head stuck in the fence and those two kids we used to play with, Bill and Jill helped pull you out?\\

'''Miriam:''' Well...no one would've done that for me. They all liked ''you''.\\

'''Miriam:''' No they didn't. They were ''[[TheDreaded afraid]]'' of [[TheBully me!]]