History Franchise / AlvinAndThechipmunks

* '''Alvin''', the mischievous troublemaking lead vocal/front man (and star) of the group.

* '''Alvin''', the mischievous troublemaking leader (and star) of the group.

* Video Games:
## Alvin and the Chipmunks Video Game
## The Squeakquel Video Game
## Chipwrecked Video Game

* BlindWithoutEm: Simon and Jeanette.
* BoyBand: Alvin and the Chipmunks are suggested by some to be the UrExample, both for the squeaky music and the "tween" target audience.

* BreakoutCharacter: Simon was overshadowed in The Alvin Show and a number of early episodes of the '80s cartoon (as reflected in fan mail), which devastated franchise co-owner Janice Karman (feeling like a mother neglecting the middle child), so she set out to remedy that, and soon, Simon became "Mr. Popular" among fans.
** Similar can be said for Jeanette, although she IS constantly overshadowed by Brittany, she's just about THE most popular of the entire six among the fanbase.

* BreakoutCharacter: After their first appearance in the '80 series, the Chipettes have become so popular and get more and more screentime overtime in the series becoming regular characters. Now the Chipettes are integral part of the franchise and appear in all media.

** For the main group Simon was overshadowed in The Alvin Show and a number of early episodes of the '80s cartoon.

** Compare [[Creator/JasonLee live action]] [[http://th00.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2013/202/9/4/jldave_by_spring_heel_jackie-d6ei325.png Dave Seville]] to [[http://th09.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2013/202/d/3/tasdave_by_spring_heel_jackie-d6ei7km.png the first cartoon Dave]].

## ''[[WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks Alvin and the Chipmunks/The Chipmunks]]

## Alvinnn!!! and The Chipmunks

Ironically however, it seems more effort was put into the animation of the Ruby-Spears episodes, the supporting and one-shot characters look more human, and more detail was put into the backgrounds and layouts, while the Mukarumi-Wolf-Swenson and DiC episodes have that standard half-assed Saturday Morning look to them. The character designs did improve with the MWS episodes, and the animation was pretty decent, but the backgrounds and layout were really simplistic; the DiC episodes are pretty awful... a lot of lazy OffModel animations, the backgrounds continue to be simplistic, and unlike the Ruby-Spears episodes, the human characters have a less human, more cartoony look to them.\\\

An animated series revival, titled "ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks", was announced on October 5, 2012. It will begin airing in June 2015 on Nickelodeon.

** Also true from series to series. ''WesternAnimation/TheAlvinShow'' chipmunks look different than the ''[[WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks '80s series]] '' Chipmunks (lampshaded in the episode "[[Film/BackToTheFuture Back to Our Future]]") who look somewhat different from the "A Chipmunk Christmas" version. And well, ''ALVINNN!!!'', where the design was changed to resemble some strange yet cute half-chipmunk-half-human hybrid.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: See GirlsNeedRoleModels above.

* {{Tsundere}}: Brittany

'''NOTE:''' ''Tropes under here are '''specifically''' for whole franchise''.
* Tropes exclusive to the [[TheDarkAgeOfAnimation '60s cartoon]] series go in ''WesternAnimation/TheAlvinShow'';
* Tropes exclusive to the [[TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation '80s cartoon]] series go in ''WesternAnimation.{{Alvin and the Chipmunks}}'';
* Tropes exclusive to the [[AnimatedAdaptation 1987 animated]] film go in ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkAdventure'';
* Tropes exclusive to the DirectToVideo movies go either in:[[invoked]]
** ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunksMeetFrankenstein'';
** ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunksMeetTheWolfman'';
** ''Film/LittleAlvinAndTheMiniMunks'';
* Tropes exclusive to the [[LiveActionAdaptation live action/CGI]] movies go in ''Film.{{Alvin and the Chipmunks}}''.

* RodentsOfUnusualSize: Played straight with. The Chipmunks and Chipettes were originally human-sized making them more like chipmink-shaped humans. This became averted starting with the 2007 film, when they became the size of chipmunks in real life.

** Throughout the franchise, beginning with ''WesternAnimation/TheAlvinShow'' all the way up to the live-action ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'', Dave, the Chipmunks and the Chipettes went through different eye colors: Theodore[[note]]Black eyes in ''The Alvin Show'', ''Alvin and the Chipmunks/TheChipmunks'' episodes done by Ruby-Spears and in ''Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein''; Green eyes in ''The Chipmunk Adventure'', ''The Chipmunks'' episodes done by DiC/Mukarumi-Wolf-Swenson, ''Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman'', '' Little Alvin and the Mini-Munks'' and in the live action/CGI movies[[/note]] and Eleanor[[note]]Brown eyes through the ''Alvin and the Chipmunks/TheChipmunks'' cartoon series, ''The Chipmunk Adventure'' and ''Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman''; Green eyes in ''Little Alvin and the Mini-Munks'' and the live action/CGI films[[/note]] went through two, Alvin[[note]]Black eyes in ''The Alvin Show'', ''Alvin and the Chipmunks/The Chipmunks'' episodes done by Ruby-Spears and in ''Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein''; Blue eyes in ''The Chipmunk Adventure'', ''Alvin and the Chipmunks/The Chipmunks'' episodes done by DiC/Mukarumi-Wolf-Swenson, ''Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman'' and '' Little Alvin and the Mini-Munks''; Amber eyes in the live action/CGI films[[/note]], Simon[[note]]Black eyes in ''The Alvin Show'', ''Alvin and the Chipmunks/The Chipmunks'' episodes done by Ruby-Spears and in ''Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein''; Gray-Blue/Blue-Gray eyes in ''The Chipmunk Adventure''; Blue eyes in ''Alvin and the Chipmunks/The Chipmunks'' episodes done by DiC/Mukarumi-Wolf-Swenson, ''Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman'', ''Little Alvin and the Mini-Munks'' and the live action/CGI films[[/note]] and Jeanette[[note]]Green eyes through the ''Alvin and the Chipmunks/The Chipmunks'' cartoon series, ''The Chipmunks Adventure'' and ''Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman''; Brown eyes in ''Little Alvin and the Mini-Munks''; Purple eyes in the live action/CGI films[[/note]] went through three, Dave[[note]]Black eyes in ''The Alvin Show'', the ''Alvin and the Chipmunks/The Chipmunks'' episodes done by Ruby-Spears and in ''Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein''; Gray-Blue/Blue-Gray eyes in ''The Chipmunk Adventure''; Brown eyes in ''Alvin and the Chipmunks/The Chipmunks'' and in the live action/CGI films; Blue eyes in that one Easter Special done by DiC and ''Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman''[[/note]] went through four and Brittany[[note]]Blue eyes through the ''Alvin and the Chipmunks/The Chipmunks'' cartoon series, ''The Chipmunk Adventure'', ''Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman'', ''Little Alvin and the Mini-Munks'' and the live action/CGI films[[/note]] is the only one who retained the same eye color thus far.
** Simon[[note]]Black in ''The Alvin Show'', the first season of ''Alvin and the Chipmunks/The Chipmunks'', ''Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein'', ''Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman'' and in the live action/CGI films; Blue in the rest of ''Alvin and the Chipmunks/The Chipmunks'' series, ''The Chipmunk Adventure'' and ''Little Alvin and the Mini-Munks''[[/note]] and Jeanette [[note]]Black in the first season of ''Alvin and the Chipmunks/The Chipmunks'' and ''Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman'', Pink for the rest of ''Alvin and the Chipmunks/The Chipmunks'' series, ''The Chipmunk Adventure'' and ''Little Alvin and the Mini-Munks''; Purple (opal shaped) in the live action/CGI films[[/note]] went through different glasses frame colors.

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The chipmunks in the ''ALVINNN!!!'' revival, despite looking like the result of a weird genetic experiment in crossing chipmunk genomes with that a human. One troper's response to seeing a picture of the new Alvin for the first time was to check Amazon UK for ''plushes''.

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The chipmunks in the ''ALVINNN!!!'' revival, which had it's design directions changed to look more human again. One troper's response to seeing a picture of the new Alvin for the first time was to check Amazon UK for ''plushes''.

** Also true from series to series. ''WesternAnimation/TheAlvinShow'' chipmunks look different than the ''[[WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks '80s series]] '' Chipmunks (lampshaded in the episode "[[Film/BackToTheFuture Back to Our Future]]") who look somewhat different from the "A Chipmunk Christmas" version.

* {{Edutainment}}: Believe it or not, some of the episode veered into this territory. The episode ''Food For Thought'' is one example, being a good source to learn American history.

* {{Edutainment}}: Believe it or not, some of the episode veered into this territory. One troper actually learnt American history from the episode ''Food For Thought''.

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The chipmunks in the revival, which had it's design directions changed to look more human again. One troper's response to seeing a picture of the new Alvin for the first time was to check Amazon UK for ''plushes''.

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The chipmunks in the revival, which had it's design directions changed to look more human again. ThisTroper's response to seeing a picture of the new Alvin for the first time was to check Amazon UK for ''plushes''.

* {{Revival}}: The late 1970s/early 1980s records, the 1980s ChristmasSpecial and Saturday morning series, and the [[LiveActionAdaptation Live-Action Adaptations]]. A new animated series was announced in October 2012.

An animated series revival, titled "ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks", was announced on October 5, 2012. It will begin airing in March 2015 on Nickelodeon.

* NegativeContinuity: ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkAdventure'' went into production shortly after the first season of [[WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks the 1980s cartoon series]]. It was here that the character of Miss Miller was developed, as a babysitter for The Chipmunks. Because production of the movie was so massive, it wasn't released until 1987, and by that time, Miss Miller had been introduced a year earlier on the cartoon, as The Chipettes' adoptive mother. So, as far as the movie's universe is concerned, The Chipettes are still living on their own, and Miss Miller hadn't adopted them yet.