The cast of both movies and their respective tie-ins, as well as the novels they're based on.
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!!Titular Character

[[folder:Bambi]]
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->'''Voiced in English by:''' Bobby Stewart (first film; baby), Donnie Dunagan (first film; young), Hardie Albright (first film; adolescent), John Sutherland (first film; adult), Creator/AlexanderGould (Bambi II), Robie Lester (''Thumper's Great Race''), Noah Luke (WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse).
->'''Voiced in European Spanish by:''' Pilar Aguado (House of Mouse)
->'''Voiced in European French by:''' Célim Mouhoubi (first film; young), Bernard Gabay (first film; adult), Philippe Catoire (Bambi II)
->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Creator/YuHayashi (first film/home video; baby & young), Akio Tanaka (first film/theatrical version; adult), Reita Shibai (Bambi II)

The central protagonist of both films and the first novel, Bambi is a deer destined to grow up to become the next Prince of the Forest.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Much spin off media from the Disney film, including the midquel and some comics and books, amp up Bambi's altruism, and show his physical prowess when he was still a young fawn.
* AdaptationalJerkass: Downplayed in the Creator/OsamuTezuka manga adaptation. While he's more or less the same character as he is in the movies throughout it, as an adult he [[AcquiredSituationalNarcissism briefly gains an arrogant and haughty attitude]] after defeating Ronno and evading Man. He gets over it after this change in attitude results in him unwittingly starting a forest fire, [[BreakTheHaughty prompting him to immediately owe up to the consequences of it.]]
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In the novel, it's implied that he and Faline are only attracted to each other out of instinct, given he leaves her once mating season ends due to his fascination with learning more about the Great Prince. The movies make it a mutual romance, and going from the Dell Comic adaptation of ''Bambi's Children'', they still love each other as adults.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: He's a roe deer in the original books, but was changed to a white-tailed deer in the Disney adaptation due to the setting being moved to America.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology:
** Bambi's anatomy is mostly accurate to how a whitetailed deer looks even when taking cartoon exaggeration into account,[[note]]The animators actually studied real deer, which is very noticeable when compared with the ones in ''Snow White''.[[/note]] but the midquel shows that he has upper front teeth to clench with, which is something real life white tailed deer do not have--they have teeth on the upper jaw around (but not at) that area, hence why they chew with their cuds side to side. Presumably, this liberty was taken to make it easier to get expressions out of him.
** While Bambi does subtly age throughout his first year (most obvious when you [[http://cubbi.org/disney/images/bambi2.jpg look at one of the original model sheets]]), his aging is notably slower than that of a real life wild deer, which grow very fast and can reach a size close to that of their mothers in only six months, while Bambi stays the size of a two month old fawn all the way from winter into a few months in his second spring, and apparently doesn't reach the full size of a yearling until he's at least two years old.[[note]]The Dell Comic adaptation claims that the Spring the film cuts to after the death of his mother is the following Spring and not a later one, but the newspaper comic adaptation claims that its Bambi's third spring if not later, seperated by a large TimeSkip--the midquel goes with the latter[[/note]] Bambi also keeps his spots during his first Winter and doesn't lose them until a few months into his second Spring--real deer fawns lose their spots by fall to blend into the environment for survival.
** In the midquel, his antlers start sprouting while he's still the size of a small fawn, even though antler growth usually starts when a deer is much older and bigger--however, his tweaked aging in the films muddles this. Also, Bambi's antlers when he's a yearling and adult are closer to the look of Mule Deer antlers than a white tails.
** While real life deer do in fact bleat to communicate, Bambi's bleating in the midquel sounds closer to that of a sheep or goats rhythmical, vibrating bleat than the honking bleat of a real life fawn. While a fawns bleat can occasionally sound similar to them, they don't do that kind of bleat nearly as frequently.
** Bambi gets "twitterpated" in the spring, but the mating season of white-tailed deer is in the autumn.
** One of the most notorious misconceptions spread by both films (and, surprisingly, even Felix Salten's novel, which has an older doe named Nettla care for Bambi after he loses his mother) is that Bambi, when several months to a year old, is still so young that he ''needs'' a parental figure to keep caring for him, which is not true at all for real life deer. In fact, evidence exists that a button buck orphaned by six months of age would actually have a ''better'' chance at surviving in the wild than one that's still with its mother. Fawns are always weaned and capable of caring for themselves before hunting season, and they are capable of surviving on their own without needing to nurse off their mother when as young as ''two months old'' (although they'll still stick with them and even nurse off them for several months)--in fact, this is exactly ''why'' hunting seasons are scheduled as they are. And even if a doe and its fawn(s) aren't separated by outside means, they spend less than a year together, as a doe separates from her older fawns (bucks go or are forced off to live on their own, does sometimes staying in their mothers territory) to give birth to new fawns the following year.
* BabiesEverAfter: As an adult, he and Faline have twin fawns.
* BabysFirstWords: Bambi's first word was "bird".
* BadassAdorable: As an adult in the original film, and in the climax of the midquel (while he's a fawn). Not bad for a little fawn.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He has a long fuse for sure, but push his buttons enough and he ''will'' show his ugly side--such as taunting him about his father or trying to make a move on Faline.
* BigGood: Bambi has taken over his father's role as the Great Prince of the Forest by the time his children have their own adventures.
* BreakTheCutie: Three times:
** Happens in the first film when his mother dies and his father tells him what happened.
** Happens again in the midquel, once Bambi's hope of his mother being alive get dashed, as well as getting berated by his father for falling for the hunter's trick. A second time occurs when, after spending much time bonding with his father, he discovers he is to be adopted by another doe, leading him to furiously call out his father for sending him away.
* BrokenPedestal: Downplayed. In the midquel, he is initially unimpressed by Ronno, but proves to be the only one to buy his BlatantLies about fighting Man hook, line, and sinker. This quickly stops when Ronno starts bullying him when he concludes Bambi is calling him a liar for calling his story unbelievable, [[SarcasmBlind ignoring that Faline had said the same thing in a legitimately sarcastic manner.]]
* BullyHunter: Does this in both films ([[CowardlyLion despite his fear]]) against Ronno's possessiveness towards Faline.
* ButtMonkey: He receives a lot of AmusingInjuries in the second film.
* CallingTheOldManOut: In the midquel, Bambi calls his father out for giving him away to another doe and just when their relationship was getting stronger and goes as far as to saying that [[YouShouldHaveDiedInstead he wish his father died and not his mother]].
* CharacterDevelopment: Retroactive case. While not a FlatCharacter per se, Bambi's personality in the original movie is kept rather vague, relying more on the naturalistic pace of the movie and his own biological growth. The midquel however plays out far more as a character study for Bambi, giving him far more individual flaws and agency, and also reveals how many steps into his growth before the TimeSkip were played out by his own decisions, particularly when galvanised by his relationship with his father.
* CharacterTic:
** In both films, more-so in the second, he frequently crosses his front legs together as a fawn.
** In the midquel, he has a tendency to lower his ears when he's scared, angry, or sad.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In ''both'' interpretations, amusingly enough:
** The sequel novel ''Bambi's Children'' (along with the Dell comic adaptation) depicts Bambi with a more warm and direct relationship with his children, despite the end of the first novel implying he would repeat the Great Prince's more distant and aloof methods.
** The midquel for the Disney film depicts Bambi as much more talkative and precocious as a fawn. Also, as a result of his mother's death and his aloof father adopting him, he is shown to be more self deprecating and proactive in proving himself. He is also demonstrated to have affections towards Faline even prior to the TimeSkip.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Some time during the two-year TimeSkip, Bambi and Faline realize that they are more than just old playmates.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Bambi as a fawn, especially in the original film.
* ClingyChild: Bambi hides behind his mother's hind legs whenever he feels shy.
* CompositeCharacter: The Disney midquel's take on Bambi seems to borrow lightly from his son Geno's more humanised character in ''Bambi's Children'', particularly his TheSoCalledCoward arc against a rival.
* CowardlyLion: Which is expanded on in the midquel. He is deadly scared of Man, and not without reason, but when someone else is in danger because of Man, Bambi won't run away or stand scared.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: Bambi unwittingly does this for his rivalry with Ronno [[DramaticIrony as much as it feeds into him learning to be more brave and selfless.]] Granted, Ronno was [[TheBully kind of a bad apple from the start]], but Bambi unwittingly upstaging him at everything definitely didn't help matters.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Big brown eyes matched with brown fur.
* DeathGlare: When those iconic doe eyes start to furrow, you know [[LetsGetDangerous some ass-kicking is about to ensue]] from this cute young deer.
* DeerInTheHeadlights:
** Quite literally in the midquel. As a result of his traumatic experiences with Man, Bambi is left paralyzed with fear whenever he spots hunters or dogs closing in on him. He overcomes it in the climax.
** Amusingly enough, his one speaking role in ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' is comparing this trope to a {{stage fright}}ened Shelby the Turtle, before getting stunned himself by [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Benny the Cab's]] headlights.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: In the second novel, he bucks and scares off a young hunter trying to shoot his family, making him the one animal in the series to ever directly defeat Man.
* DisappearedDad: {{Implied|Trope}}. Bambi is last seen as an adult, looking over Faline giving birth to their children, in the same manner his father did with his mother, meaning that Bambi might become a distant father to his kids as well. The sequel book ''Bambi's Children'' and its Disney comic adaptation implies he will similarly still gain a bond with them, however.
* DorkKnight: Gradually becomes more capable and heroic under the Great Prince's upbringing. His shy, clumsy side still remains however, even as an adult. He is most blatantly such around Faline.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Bambi as a fawn has a somewhat feminine looking appearance, due in part to his big rounded head and eyes and eyelashes. His demure personality and [[GenderBlenderName girly sounding name]] has also caused a fair amount of confusion over his gender with audiences. Not helping matters is that Faline (at least as a fawn) has nearly the same body and facial build as him (key difference being her fur color, rounder head and curly ears). It should be noted however that this is TruthInTelevision for fawns, as even wildlife experts have great difficulty in distinguishing the gender of a fawn at a glance. This is later averted when he grows up as, while still cute looking, he then unmistakably looks like a buck. In the midquel, [[TheRival Ronno]] notes the oddity of his name and later disparagingly refers to him as "Princess" to take him down a notch.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Bambi's first appearance in a Disney feature was in fact ''not'' the first ''Bambi'' film, but the Walt Disney Studios tour piece ''Film/TheReluctantDragon''. The film made fake "clips" of both him and [[WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}} Casey Jr.]] for the film to represent the two projects in production.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: Bambi is a [[GenderBlenderName decidedly feminine name]] to give to a buck, and this is implied to extend in-universe, at least in the midquel, Ronno even notes this by asking [[LampshadeHanging "Isn't that a girls name?"]] and [[KickTheDog disparagingly]] refers to him as "Princess" later on. To further this, Bambi is derived from "bambino", the Italian word for "child".
* FatalFlaw: In the midquel, Bambi's main flaw and enemy is his own insecurity, which drives him to try and make his father proud and usually results in him getting into trouble and being humiliated in some manner.
* FirstPersonPeripheralNarrator: In the 1966 vinyl record ''Thumper's Great Race'', Bambi is the narrator where he tells the viewers about the time Thumper, Flower, and the other forest animals participated in a race. In the story, Bambi serves as the judge of the competition and a supporting character.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Melancholic. He's kind and quiet, but somewhat shy and insecure, particularly as a fawn, and he becomes more withdrawn after his mother's death.
* GenderBlenderName: His name is rather feminine sounding and would be more fitting for a doe than a buck.
* GenerationXerox: Takes over being the protector of the forest like his father, as well as possibly becoming an absent father to his own children. Again, like Bambi's own father was to him. In the last shot of the first film, adult Bambi look almost identical to his father save for his shorter antlers. This carries over into the Dell Comic adaptation of ''Bambi's Children'', where he gets a mean set of giant antlers to match his dads, but his fur and eye colors are different. However, the comic of ''Bambi's Children'' shows him having a more warm and direct relationship with his kids than his aloof father (though the midquel would retroactively mirror this).
* GuileHero: In the midquel, when trying to evade some hinting dogs. He is too young to fight them off directly like he does an adult in the original film, so lures them into the forest's harmful elements (eg. DeadlyDodging two while in the tall grass, or dislodging a small avalanche while climbing a cliff).
* HeroicBuild: Animal example. He has very pronounced musculature (something thats inherent to real life deer, who are basically made of pure muscle) as a yearling and adult, befitting his status as a Prince of the Forest.
* HeroicBSOD: In the midquel, whenever he's faced with Man and his hunting dogs, Bambi freezes in fear until he's either pushed out of the way or snaps out of it, thanks to the traumatic experience of having his mother get shot. It's implied this stops after he squares off against the hunting dogs to save Mena.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: In the midquel, he's convinced that the Prince doesn't love him, and that it's his own fault for being a coward. He gradually leaves this behind as the Prince starts [[DefrostingIceKing defrosting]] and showing a more loving attitude to him.
* HeroesFrontierStep:
** In the original film, him rescuing Faline from Ronno and a pack of hunting dogs was to establish his evolution from a sweet but cowardly and oblivious kid to a selfless and bold young adult and future Prince of the Forest.
** The midquel, however, sets it even earlier in childhood when, despite being broken over being sent to live away from his father, he chooses to rescue his adoptive mother by [[HeroicSacrifice distracting a hunter's dogs onto him]].
** The book "Bambi: Friends of the Forest" had an even earlier one (set when Bambi is still very young and his mom is still alive) where Bambi uses himself to lure [[StarterVillain an evil fox]] away from eating Thumper (the Great Prince [[BigDamnHeroes soon intervened and drove off the fox]]), showing that even as an infant, he was a selfless person who always puts his friends safety before his own.
* HeroProtagonist: The story focuses on Bambi's life. From his birth to early childhood to taking on Man as an adult. He's also a polite, heroic NiceGuy.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Thumper, who had been wanting to play and interact with him since his birth.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' utilizes this as a plot point for the Disney version's role, and it isn't denied in the films, either. He suffers much in life, but still comes to act on selfless terms.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: At the beginning of the midquel, he talks about his mother to the Great Prince, unaware this brings up a lot of emotional pain for him. After the Great Prince sternly tells him to "leave the past in the past", Bambi recognizes that the Prince doesn't like talking about it and avoids talking about her for the most part.
* JerkassBall: In the manga adaptation of the first film, Bambi briefly picks one up when he becomes [[TookALevelInJerkass uncharacteristically arrogant and haughty]] after defeating Ronno and evading Man. He drops it as soon as his bad attitude [[BreakTheHaughty unwittingly kicks off an entire forest fire.]]
* KissingCousins: With Faline in the original novel. The movies leave this ambiguous, but both the official newspaper comic adaptation of the first movie and the manga imply the cousin aspect of their relationship is still intact as Faline's mother is still referred to as Aunt Ena.
* LetsGetDangerous:
** Right before engaging in combat with Ronno for trying to separate him from Faline. He repeats this shortly afterward when taking down a whole pack of hunting dogs chasing after her.
** Repeated in the midquel when Ronno presses Bambi's BerserkButton by taunting him because his father sent him off to live with another doe. Again furthered afterward when Mena gets caught in a snare and Bambi skilfully deals with the pursuing hunting dogs.
* LightningBruiser:
** Like his father before him, the adult Bambi is very big and strong for his species[[note]]The white-tailed deer [[AdaptationSpeciesChange of the films]] are much larger than the roe deer of the novels, which are small enough that a fox is a legitimate threat even to adults.[[/note]] but also quick enough to react to Ronno's trick in their battle and turn the tables before Ronno can gain an advantage.
** Even as a fawn, he was no pushover at his best, as he's incredibly fast and, as the midquel attests, can certainly put up a tough fight if needed. (Which is certainly [[TruthInTelevision factually correct]], as even infant fawns are ''very'' physically strong, [[PintSizedPowerhouse much more than they appear]], and it is no exaggeration that their hooves are as sharp as knives).
* LikeFatherLikeSon:
** The end of the first movie implies that, as in the novel, Bambi became regally aloof like his father when it shows him standing besides said father, observing Faline and their newborn children from a distance. ''Bambi's Children'' and the Disney midquel reverse this around, humanising both Bambi and his father respectively into more direct and compassionate parents.
** The Disney midquel reveals the Great Prince to be something of a StepfordSmiler trying to hide his inner pains in a regal facade, with his SinkOrSwimFatherhood risking turning Bambi into the same. The silent gestures as Bambi puts on a noble front for his new carer make clear his father [[JerkassRealization is aware of this]], his CharacterDevelopment galvanised shortly after.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: On the other hoof, the midquel shows just how strongly Bambi and his father's personalities and attitude towards life differ. Bambi, being a child at that point, is naive, clumsy, restless, occasionally reckless, and is far more emotional and fearful than his generally stoic, reserved and wise father. On top of that, the Prince is clearly not much of a people person, if only because his job demands it, while Bambi is very sociable and outgoing. Bambi also lingers greatly on the past, while the Prince strongly prefers to leave it behind him.
* MadeOfIron:
** In the first film, he took a direct (albeit [[CriticalExistenceFailure unseen]]--the Dell comic adaptation claims it was his shoulder that got shot) hit from a hunter's bullet as an adult, but after being briefly incapacitated, was able to shrug it off in order to outrun a forest fire (with the help of his father goading him) and survived it in the long run.
** In the midquel, he manages to survive a high fall with no long term injuries, even though it seemed like it should have killed him ([[DisneyDeath and for a moment it seemed like it did]]).
* MommasBoy: As a child, he was shy and reclusive, preferring to stay close to his ever gentle mother. In the books she attempts to distance him so he can mature, something he resists at first. The Disney interpretation, never being weaned from her in such a manner, is hit harder by her death at first, though, after bonding with his father through this tragedy, he recognises the need to become more independent.
* MyGreatestFailure: It goes unmentioned in the first film and just subtly implied in the midquel that he blames himself for his mother’s death. It leads to the climax of the midquel as...
* MyGreatestSecondChance: When his stepmother is trapped in an snare and tells him to escape, he visibly flashbacks to his mother’s last words. Instead of escaping he lures the dogs away.
* NiceGuy: Bambi is thoughtful, polite, and heroic, although this is more pronounced in the Disney adaptation (especially the midquel).
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In Osamu Tezuka's manga adaptation, Bambi is notably portrayed as a more flawed and fallable character than he was in the movies or even the books on two seperate occasions.
** As a child, he is ''indirectly responsible for his mother's own death''. During winter, he foolishly enters one of Man's cabins with Thumper and, after baking a cake, naively trying to make off with just half the cake while leaving the other half for Man. This provokes the cabins owner into chasing after them with a shotgun, prompting Bambi's mother to sacrifice herself to save their lives.
** As an adult, Bambi briefly becomes [[TookALevelInJerkass incredibly arrogant and haughty]] after defeating Ronno and evading Man. During this, he stumbles across a leftover campfire and, after burning his hoof on a hot piece of coal, angrily and recklessly kicks at the fire out of spite, which unwittingly kicks off an entire forest fire, endangering all of its inhabitants in the process. This even results in him having to save his own father's life, as opposed to the movie where it's the other way around.
* NotSoAboveItAll: While normally very kind and polite, Bambi eventually gives an exasperated eye roll after listening to the Porcupine's RamblingOldManMonologue while trying to get the grumpy old codger to let him cross the log and just jumps over him.
* OfficialCouple: With Faline.
* OutOfCharacterIsSeriousBusiness: You know things have gone off the deep end when someone as genial and kindhearted as Bambi is reduced to uncharacteristic blind rage, such as when Ronno goads him into a fight by insulting him at his lowest emotional point in the midquel, or when Ronno tries to make a move on Faline in the original movie.
* PaleFemalesDarkMales: Much darker in color than Faline.
* PapaWolf: In the second novel, he directly opposes Man to protect his children.
* PinballProtagonist: He is this in the first half of both movies, which is {{justified|Trope}} by his young age. Halfway through both, he does learn to take the initiative to help others and fend for himself.
* PlotArmor: In the midquel, due to the outcome being a ForegoneConclusion, Bambi is guaranteed to have survived the perilous situations he goes through in the film, up to the very high fall that [[DisneyDeath seemingly]] kills him in the end.
* PrestigePeril: Downplayed; his status as the Young Prince not only doesn't gain him any respect from the local bully Ronno, but puts him at odds with his cold and aloof father who favors tradition and puts the needs of the forest first.
* ProtagonistTitle: His name is the title of the book and Disney film, so of course he's the main character.
* PuppyDogEyes: A TropeCodifier alongside ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'', considering theirs were the bases for Creator/OsamuTezuka's, and by extension {{anime}} as a genre's, large eye style.
* TheQuietOne: In the original film, Bambi usually emotes more from facial expression. In the midquel, while still more reserved than [[MouthyKid Thumper]], he is much more talkative.
* RageBreakingPoint:
** In the midquel, when he discovers his father was planning to send him to live with a stepmother after all he had done to bond with him[[note]]The Prince had intended to call off the arrangement after bonding with Bambi, but Bambi wasn't aware of it beforehand and Friend Owl showed up with Mena at the worst possible time before the Prince could explain everything. [[/note]], [[CallingTheOldManOut he furiously calls out his dad on it]] and [[YouShouldHaveDiedInstead wishes he were dead instead of his mother]] before running off.
** Afterward, he's calmed but he's still at his lowest point when he's emotionally crushed by his father's decision to still have him move away with a stepmother. And not long after Bambi has accepted his fate, Ronno shows up and [[KickTheDog rubs the situation in his face purely out of spite]]. Upon hearing Ronno smugly say his dad was so ashamed of him that he "give you away.", Bambi silently and [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness uncharacteristally snaps]] and begins fighting Ronno one on one.
** In the first film, Bambi completely loses it when the adult Ronno begins making a move on Faline and engages in a brutal fight with him. Its notable because its the ''only'' time see Bambi getting genuinely furious (as opposed to just getting flustered at Faline messing with him as a fawn) in it.
* RedOniBlueOni: The reserved and quiet Blue Oni to Thumper's mouthy and loud Red Oni.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething:
** In the second novel, Bambi is essentially the king of the roe deer. His duties, which include arbitrating disputes among the roe deer and monitoring human activity in the forest, keep him so busy that his children Geno and Gurri don't see him for the first time until they are several weeks old.
** Though the Disney version doesn't delve into it much besides inheriting his father's duties, the young Prince's CharacterDevelopment in the midquel is signified by him protecting a doe from Man and his dogs.
* ShrinkingViolet: To an extent, Bambi is portrayed as somewhat shy and insecure, especially as a fawn.
* SingleTear: In the first film after learning his mother's fate.
* TheSoCalledCoward: Bambi is ''not'' fearless, but his willingness to stand up and do something when it matters in spite of being a scrawny little fawn makes his bravery outstanding enough to earn his fathers respect. When pit against Ronno in the midquel, Mena gets caught in a trap and begs the two to save themselves. Ronno runs away screaming for his mother ([[DirtyCoward despite bragging]] about [[{{Hypocrite}} taking on man earlier]]), while Bambi, not wanting Mena to meet the same fate as his late mother, [[HeroicSacrifice uses himself as a distraction to lure the approaching hunting dogs away from Mena]].
* StealthPun: In the midquel, he's shown to have an upper pair of big, rabbit like teeth. In other words, he's buck-toothed.
* StepfordSmiler: In the midquel, he's still grieving over his mother's death and is clearly traumatized by it, but he puts up a brave face and a facade of happiness until he's alone, at which point he usually becomes visibly forlorn. He fortunately grows out of this as he comes to terms with her death.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Not while he's a fawn and yearling, but as an adult at the end of the first film, he's almost identical to his dad save for his shorter antlers. And in the Dell Comic adaptation of ''Bambi's Children'', adult Bambi looks ''exactly'' like his father save for his different fur and eye colors. This carries over to his son Geno in the comic and storybook adaptation of ''Bambi's Children'', who looks exactly like Bambi did as a fawn.
* TookALevelInBadass: In the novel and first film, Bambi shows his new-found badassery after the two-year TimeSkip by defeating Ronno in battle and managing to evade the hunter and his dogs despite being wounded. The midquel shows the leveling-up process in a fair amount of detail.
* TookALevelInJerkass: In the manga adaptation, adult Bambi briefly gets a big head after defeating Ronno and evading Man, to the extent that he acts rude and haughty to even his closest friends. This [[BreakTheHaughty immediately bites him in the flank]] ''[[BreakTheHaughty big time]]'' when his bad attitude culminates in him [[NiceJobBreakingItHero indirectly kicking off an entire forest fire]]. Naturally, he ditches it right afterward, especially as he selflessly risks his own life just to save his unconscious father from being gulfed by the flames.
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: In the midquel, he starts off as an insecure StepfordSmiler still trying to accept his mother's death and [[WellDoneSonGuy make his father proud]]. As he bonds with the Great Prince, he comes to terms with his grief and becomes genuinely cheerful and happy.
* UnderdogsNeverLose: In the Disney films, Ronno is older, bigger built, more aggressive, and has larger antlers (or in the case of the midquel, has any at all), yet he can never quite manage to outdo Bambi.
* UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: Bambi and Faline are cousins in the book but ChildhoodFriends in the film. The manga adaptation does keep the cousin relationship intact, however.
* VocalEvolution: In the midquel, he loses the southern twang he had in the first film, gaining a more generic American accent due to getting a new actor.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Gender-inverted. Bambi will ''always'' protect Faline from danger, either from Ronno or Man.
* WarriorPrince: Grows into this when he takes on Ronno and Man to protect Faline. And like his father, Bambi becomes the next Great Prince of the Forest.
* WellDoneSonGuy: In the midquel, his desire for his dad's good opinion is a large pivot. Played around with, since his father blatantly cares for Bambi, but favors a distant, unaffectionate relationship due to tradition.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Probably the one defining scene that sums up the difference between Bambi and his rival Ronno in personalities in mere moments is the part where Ronno accidentally gets Mena caught in a trap set by Man. Despite Mena begging Bambi to run and save himself, he instead chooses to selflessly distract the dogs onto him and save her life. Ronno, on the other hand, despite boasting about taking on Man head on earlier and denigrating Bambi as a coward, [[DirtyCoward immediately takes off in terror, screaming for his mother.]]
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Bambi's [[GenderBlenderName rather feminine sounding name]] becomes the source of a joke in the midquel when his rival Ronno learns it and rhetorically asks "Isn't that a girls name?"
* WideEyedIdealist: Bambi is very naive and optimistic, though the latter is played with in the midquel due to his insecurities. The midquel even implies via a late night conversation between Bambi and his father that he doesn't even realize what really happened to his mother and assumed she's simply missing and resting elsewhere (though an earlier scene also implies that he ''does'' know and simply doesn't comprehend what death really is).
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: He's shown to be remarkably emotionally mature for his age in the midquel; he's occasionally shown to be able to pick up on some of the Great Prince's emotions, and is shown to have a rudimentary understanding of death, able to comprehend that his mother isn't coming back and that she's [[NeverSayDie "resting"]].
* YankTheDogsChain: In the midquel, Bambi initially hopes his mother is still alive. This lasts until he gets lured into a trap by Man using a deer call that mimic her voice, brutally shattering his hopes, nearly getting him killed by hunting dogs, and earning him a harsh dressing down from the Prince.
[[/folder]]

!!Bambi's Friends

[[folder:Thumper]]
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->'''Voiced in English by:''' Peter Behn (first film; young), Tim Davis (first film; adolescent), Sam Edwards (first film; adult), Creator/JuneForay (''Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse's Birthday Party Album''), Robie Lestor (''Thumper's Great Race''), Brendon Baerg (Bambi II)
->'''Voiced in European French by:''' Dimitri Rougeul (first film; young), Emmanuel Karsen (first film; adult), Gwenaël Sommier (Bambi II)
->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Shohei Yamauchi (Bambi II)

Bambi's best friend, a peppy little rabbit.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology:
** He has padded feet, which real life rabbits do not have [[note]] Rabbits do have a "footpad" (seen [[https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.6aab76da5eb9d4e44c9eae10fb1aae7e?rik=GOCiGJJ0Exm0FA&pid=ImgRaw&r=0 here]]) but they're not like the padded feet that dogs and cats have[[/note]]. Also, his nose is drawn as looking like a cat's nose as opposed to the "V"-shaped noses actual rabbits have.
** "A Day With Papa" says that Thumper does not have claws, even though even real life infant rabbits do have claws.
* BabiesEverAfter: Has a number of bunny daughters with Miss Bunny.
* BerserkButton: After Ronno mockingly calls him a "widdle bunny", Thumper is enraged and shoves Bambi into him, knocking Ronno into the mud.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Thumper is older than Bambi, so he takes to helping him out as he grows into a Prince, even helping him talk as an infant. Less prominent with his own younger sisters, who chase and bug him to the point of annoyance.
* BrattyHalfPint: A downplayed nice version, but he can be annoying or impatient at times.
* BreakoutCharacter: He is by and far '''the''' most popular character from the film next to Bambi himself. He is the star of his own series of books; "Disney Bunnies", and he even got his own merchandise line. He was also intended to have his own spin-off feature film and [[http://jimhillmedia.com/editor_in_chief1/b/jim_hill/archive/2007/08/16/tube-thursday-the-disney-afternoon-shows-that-you-didn-t-get-to-see.aspx TV series]] in the ''Disney Afternoon'' block, though these ideas were dropped. He also starred solo in a few of the vintage Dell Disney comic books.
* BrutalHonesty: Thumper has a tendency to bluntly point out the truth when the polite thing to do is to just keep his mouth shut.
* BunniesForCuteness: An adorable, friendly rabbit.
* CanonForeigner: Although Thumper superficially resembles the novels' Friend Hare (called simply "the hare" in the second book), his personality and role are very different in keeping with the film's LighterAndSofter feel.
* CharacterTics:
** Thumps his foot to get someone's attention or when excited.
** Twitches his nose when he speaks. Bambi even tries to mimic it early in the film.
* CheerfulChild: As a child in both the original film and midquel, he is an upbeat, peppy, and mostly happy little bunny.
* CryIntoChest: He's seen crying into Flower's arms after seeing The Great Prince reuniting with Bambi after his apparent death.
* DramaPreservingHandicap: [[DownplayedTrope A very minor one]], but the story "A Day With Papa" states that, unlike real baby rabbits, Thumper (at least as an infant) does not have claws, just so he can't simply climb back down a tree he got stuck on and has to rely on his father to help him back down.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Like some Elementary and Middle School girls, Thumper is hyper, excitable, goofy, and talkative. His voice and prominent buckteeth help with the "goofy girl" appearance.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Choleric, though he's definitely not as mean-spirited as other examples. He's very extra-vented and hyper, and is always very blunt even when he should really have some tact.
* GreekChorus: In the second comic book adaptation of the first movie (Dell Four Color #186), Thumper himself serves as the narrator of the story.
-->"The curtain goes up! You're about to hear the story of ''Bambi'' the little deer. Deep in the forest, one early spring morn beneath a thicket, little Bambi was born. It's a wonderful story as you will soon see, and I know you'll like ''Thumper'', 'cause that, friends is ''me''! (I made that last part up myself!)"
* HeterosexualLifePartners: This was already heavily implied in the first film, but it's in full throttle in the midquel. Thumper does everything to help Bambi connect with his father and greatly prefers his company over his sisters.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Given his MouthyKid tendencies, he tends to blurt out some insensitive things.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Zig-zagged. He can be a bit of a BrattyHalfPint at times but he means well and is, for the most part, a nice and decent guy.
* {{Keet}}: By far the most energetic in the trio of him, Bambi, and Flower.
* MeaningfulName: Thumps his foot to get someone's attention or when excited.
* MouthyKid: Far more talkative and blunt-speaking than Bambi. This is more punctuated in the midquel, where he is perfectly willing to lip back at his sisters or Ronno.
* OfficialCouple: With Miss Bunny.
* PluckyComicRelief: His main role in the original film is to provide levity after its dark moments.
* RedOniBlueOni: The mouthy and loud Red Oni to Bambi's reserved and quiet Blue Oni.
* ResentfulOutnumberedSibling: As the only son in the family, he finds his sisters annoying and would rather hang with with Bambi and Flower than them.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: A cute little rabbit.
* ShooOutTheClowns: Disappears during all of Bambi's confrontations with Man and Ronno in the first film. Downplayed in the second film where he does briefly appear to help Bambi during the climax.
* TryingNotToCry: After The Great Prince reunites with Bambi near the end of the midquel. Thumper is trying his hardest to resist crying as he's watching the two bonding. He eventually gives in and quickly weeps into Flower's arms.
* VocalEvolution: In both movies before he grows up.
** In the first movie, his voice has subtly matured by the time winter falls.
** Due to having a new actor in the midquel, Thumper's voice is somewhat different and lacks the subtle southern twang he had in the first film. Which is rather odd considering he retains the southern dialect as an adult.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Flower]]
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->'''Voiced in English by:''' Stan Alexander (first film; young), Tim Davis (first film; adolescent), Creator/SterlingHolloway (first film; adult), Dal McKennon (''Thumper's Great Race''), Nicky Jones (Bambi II)
->'''Voiced in European French by:''' Jehan Pagès (first film; young), Creator/EmmanuelCurtil (first film, adult), Martin Faliu (Bambi II)
->'''Voiced in Japanese by:''' Yui Nakajou (Bambi II)
->'''Voiced in Hungarian by:''' Creator/CsongorSzalay (young)


A minor character in the films, he is close friends with Bambi and Thumper.
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* AbsurdPhobia: The second film reveals that Flower is afraid of turtles. Bambi and Thumper are understandably bewildered as to why he's afraid of ''turtles'' of all things; later, when Ronno is bitten by a snapping turtle, Flower tries to claim this proves his point.
* AdaptedOut: In Creator/OsamuTezuka's manga adaptation of Bambi, Flower is completely replaced with an entirely new character, a bucktoothed beaver nicknamed Buckteeth.
* AdvertisedExtra: Usually given billing on par with Bambi and Thumper, but gets a lot less focus than them in the films.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology:
** Early in the midquel, he hopes the groundhog will see his shadow so he can have more time to hibernate. In real life, skunks do not hibernate, although they are generally inactive during wintertime.
** Also in the midquel, his smelly musk is presented as a foul smelling green mist typical of cartoon skunks, as opposed to the stinky liquid spray it would be in real life.
* AscendedExtra: Despite the prominent focus he gets in advertising, Flower only had a rather small amount of screentime overall as a child (two brief scenes) and not much more as an adult (the part with him getting twitterpatted, and his brief reappearance in the finale). The midquel gives him significantly more screentime to work with.
* BabiesEverAfter: Has a son with Miss Skunk, whom he names after Bambi.
* BrickJoke: Flower's "Turtles are so scary" line midway through the midquel [[spoiler:gets backed up at the end when Ronno winds up with a turtle clinging to his nose.]]
* BootstrappedTheme: A small riff from the first film is arranged into Flower's {{Leitmotif}} in the midquel.
* CampStraight: Despite whatever misconception you might have had, Flower is male, one who was even the first of the trio to have a girlfriend. When Friend Owl is discussing the "horrors" of springtime, he points to each male, saying "You! And you!" in turn. When he gets to Flower, he pauses for a moment before saying, "Yes... it could even happen to YOU!"
* CanonForeigner: An original character for the Disney adaptation, created to help with the LighterAndSofter feel of the film similar to Thumper. Unlike Thumper or Friend Owl, he doesn't even have any loose counterpart in the novel, which takes place in Europe where there are no skunks.
* CharacterDevelopment: Downplayed, but in the midquel he does learn to be more brave with the help of Bambi and Thumper.
* TheCutie: Most of the main cast are already cute, but Flower is downright adorable and lovable even by their standards. He's even more shy and innocent than Bambi.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Before he grows up. He has a very high, cute voice, and acts very demure and a bit shy, and would rather sit and smell the flowers than go on an adventure. After he grows up, his voice gets deeper, the first hint that he is actually a male, but he still looks effeminate. Mild size and colour differences are the only way to tell him apart from his love interest.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Phlegmatic. He's bashful and kind, and is somewhat lazy and really enjoys hibernating in the winter.
* FunnyAnimal: His design is noticeably more anthropomorphic than most of the other animals, with human-like fingers and toes. This seems to be consistent with how the other skunks in the franchise are drawn.
* GenderFlip: In some storybook adaptations of the movie, such as the Disney's Wonderful World of Reading series, Flower is referred to as a female.
* InnocentBlueEyes: His blue eyes make him look even more sweet and innocent.
* InvisibleParents: We never see his parent(s) in the original film and its strongly implied that he lives alone, but the midquel has a parent skunk (implied to be his mother) make a ''[[FreezeFrameBonus very]]'' [[FreezeFrameBonus brief appearance]] early on, implying that Flower does have parents, but we just never get to see them.
* IronicName: A [[SmellySkunk skunk]] named "Flower".
* LineOfSightName: Sort of; see OnlyKnownByTheirNickname below.
* LovableCoward: His meekness is more punctuated in the midquel. He has a phobia of turtles, and is the most visibly terrified of Ronno, even fainting when he charges his way.
* NiceGuy: He's kind and friendly, if a bit shy. He's the only character in the main cast to show absolutely no malice towards any other character.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The infant Bambi, who has just learned the word "flower" but is still unclear on its meaning, calls the young skunk that, and the name sticks.
-->'''Thumber:''' ''(laughing)'' That's not a flower! He's a little--
-->'''Flower:''' Oh, that's all right. He can call me a flower if he wants to. *''shy chuckle''* I don't mind.
* ThePollyanna: Flower is very optimistic, easily excited, and by far the most cheerful of his already genial group of friends.
* PredatorsAreMean: Averted. Flower is a skunk[[note]]which are carnivores in real life[[/note]], and is by far the nicest character in the series next to Bambi's mom.
* PrettyBoy: Anthropomorphic example; even as he grows older, he maintains his effeminate features.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Big time. For a cartoon skunk, Flower is ''adorable''.
* SatelliteCharacter: Of all the lead characters next to Bambi's Mother and (arguably) Faline, Flower is by far the least layered in terms of personality, with his bashful kindness being his most distinctive traits, and he is seldom seen interacting with anyone besides his friends, and seldom makes any direct impact on the films stories. Even the midquel only slightly expands on his character more, playing up his naive innocence more. His role is so inconsequential to the story overall that the manga adaptation [[AdaptedOut straight-up replaced him with an entirely different character]].
* ShooOutTheClowns: Disappears during all of Bambi's confrontations with Man and Ronno in the first film. Downplayed in the second film where he does briefly appear to help Bambi during the climax.
* ShrinkingViolet: Very quiet and shy.
* SmellySkunk: Averted in the first film, played straight in the midquel as part of a gag. [[spoiler:It later becomes a ChekhovsGag when Flower uses it to scare off one of the dogs that was chasing Bambi]].
* ThroughAFaceFullOfFur: Flower turns red when being kissed for the first time, the blush traveling from his nose all the way to the tip of his tail.
* VocalEvolution: Like with his friends, he loses the slight southern twang in the midquel.
* WeaponizedStench: In the climax of ''Bambi II'', Flower sprays a pack of hunting dogs chasing Bambi with his skunk stench.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He has a fear of turtles in the midquel.
[[/folder]]

!!Bambi's Family

[[folder:Bambi's Mother]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Paula Winslowe (first film), Carolyn Hennesy (Bambi II), Maïk Darah (first film, Bambi II) (European French dub)

ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Killed in the most famous moment of the original film, her death is the driving force of the midquel.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. In the books, she was still a NiceGirl but applied some ToughLove to Bambi, mainly when she starts weaning him away from her. This was dropped in the Disney adaptation.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: For the purpose of humanizing her character, the film shows her keeping Bambi with her all the way from spring to late winter, far longer than any real life doe would raise a fawn before forcing them to become independent. This starkly contrasts with the novel, which shows her actively weaning Bambi and leaving him to fend for himself when he's only a few months old ([[TruthInTelevision accurate to how real life does raise buck fawns]]).
* BootstrappedTheme: A choral instrumental of "Love Is A Song That Never Ends" plays when she appears in Bambi's dream the midquel, notably being the most significant (and final) use of the theme in that film.
* TheCameo:
** In the midquel, she makes a brief but plot critical, posthumous reappearance in a dream Bambi is having. However, Its [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane left ambiguous]] as to whether it really is her or if its just a figment of Bambi's dreams.
** Along with a speaking cameo in the Donald Duck short "No Hunting", recycled footage of her grazing with Bambi right before she dies appears in ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone'', ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook'', ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'', and ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''. Ironically enough, [[http://forthebirdsblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/disneys-gettin-lazy-3-whatever-happened.html as this blog points out]], for having been one of their most infamous {{Character Death}}s, Bambi's mother may be Disney's most frequent recurring character ([[OverlyNarrowSuperlative across the films, at least]]).
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: In the midquel, the Great Prince recounts to Bambi of how she and him first met as fawns.
* ChildhoodFriends: Was friends with Mena since they were fawns.
* DeathByNewberyMedal: She's famously shot dead by a hunter midway through the first film.
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Possibly the UrExample. Which was a result of her trying to get [[HeroicSacrifice Bambi away from Man and to safety.]]
* DisneyDeath: One of, if not ''the'' most infamous {{aver|tedTrope}}sion of this trope in Disney history.
* DreamSequence: She briefly appears to Bambi via this in the midquel.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Her TakingTheBullet to save her son's life.
* FlatCharacter: She lacks a clear personality beyond being a generic good mother, and her only purpose in the story is to die to further Bambi's character development. They didn't even bother coming up with a name for her.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Phlegmatic. She's calm and patient, and always shown to be a compassionate and kind mother.
* GoodParents: In the both the book and the movie, she's shown to be a kind and caring mother to Bambi before she dies (even if she uses ToughLove a bit more in the novel).
* HeroicSacrifice: She dies in order to get her son away from Man.
* MamaBear: As stated under HeroicSacrifice, she went as far to be killed by Man to give her son a chance to run to safety.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The dream sequence in the midquel where Bambi sees her again leaves it ambiguous as to whether or not it really is her coming back from the afterlife to see him one last time, or if its just a despair induced dream instead, though the implications seems to lean more towards the former.
* MissingMom: To Bambi after she is shot and killed by Man, leaving her son in the care of her mate, the Great Prince.
* MoodWhiplash: Bambi's mother's death scene is so memorable because the film had been much lighter and softer up until that point. Directly afterwards, there's a cut right into spring with joyful birds singing an upbeat song [[IntercourseWithYou about the mating season]].
* NiceGirl: In both the book and the movie, she is loving, kind, and patient.
* NoNameGiven: Her real name isn't given, everyone just refers to her as "Bambi's mother".
* ParentalNeglect: In the novel, she gradually grows more distant to Bambi, eventually abandoning him for a time once mating season arrives. She does come back, however, only to vanish during the hunter's rounds in the following wintertime, where it's strongly implied, but never explicitly stated, that she was killed.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: The midquel starts right after the Great Prince informs Bambi of his mother's death and her passing is one of the biggest subjects during the movie.
* ProperlyParanoid: In both the novel and movie, she exercises extreme caution when going out into the meadow to make ''sure'' man isn't present to harm Bambi. In the movie, she becomes rightfully terrified when Bambi cheers out and impulsively tries to run into it without fear. And to say nothing of the parts where man does show up to threaten his life.
* PosthumousCharacter: In the midquel, where her death is the mainspring of its plot. She makes a brief but plot critical cameo in a dream sequence, but its [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane unclear]] if it really is her or if its just a figment of the dream.
* SacrificialLion: She was a major character in the first part of the original novel and film, and her death is essentially the end of Act 1.
* SatelliteCharacter: Her relationship with Bambi is the entire crux of her character, and we never see her directly interacting with anyone besides her son.
* SnowMeansDeath: A heavy snowfall begins as Bambi goes back out calling for her.
* SoundOnlyDeath: Originally, she was shown collapsing into the snow after jumping over a log, but it was scaled back to just having a gunshot sound right after a scene change.
* TakingTheBullet: Kept herself directly behind Bambi as they ran off to ensure his safety, taking the poachers bullet to save her son's life.
* UnnamedParent: She's only known as "Bambi's mother" in the book and film.
* UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: It's never mentioned that she's twins with Faline's mother in the film.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Great Prince of the Forest]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Fred Shields (first film), Creator/PatrickStewart (Bambi II); François Marthouret (first film) Philippe Catoire (Bambi II) (European French dub)

The wise guardian of the forest, the oldest surviving deer in the forest, and the father of Bambi.
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* ActionDad: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. He ''warns'' the other forest animals when there is danger most of the time, but when it comes to [[PapaWolf his son]], he's not afraid of getting violent.
* AdaptationalBadass: The Great Prince is called that only once in the novel, where he's usually called "The Old Prince" or later, "The old stag"[[note]]''[[AllLowercaseLetters not]]'' [[AllLowercaseLetters in proper case]][[/note]].
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: While his cold and aloof personality in the first film is consistent with how he was portrayed in the novel, the midquel has him go through a character arc where he [[DefrostingIceKing gradually mellows]] into a more warm and affectionate parent towards Bambi.
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In the novel, if you go by the assumption that he actually is Bambi's father, he never once speaks of Bambi's mother and, going by Bambi and Faline's short lived romance during mating season, its safe to say that he would have never had a real relationship with her beyond mating season. The first movie implies that he still cares for her, given that he rushes up to protect both her and Bambi when a hunter is shooting at them in the meadow. The midquel takes it even further by making it clear that he genuinely loved her, to the extent that even discussing her is visibly painful for him to do.
* AdaptationalWimp: Downplayed in the manga adaptation, as ''Bambi'' is the one who has to save his life from the forest fire when he falls unconscious, unlike the film adaptation where its the Great Prince who saves him.
* AgeLift: He is much younger in the film than in the book.
* AngerBornOfWorry: In the midquel, Bambi's well-being is an enormous trigger; thus, he uncharacteristically stammers and snaps at him when he nearly gets himself killed by a pack of hunting dogs:
-->''"What if I hadn't gotten to you in time?! [[NeverSayDie You could have been...]] When I tell you to run, you ''run''! '''NEVER''' freeze like that! Ever!"''
* TheArtifact: In the novel, the prince title wasn't an indication of royalty as much as it was a catch-all term for full grown roe deer stags. Tellingly, he is called the Great Prince and Old Prince exactly ''once'' each in the book. The movies, while never directly debunking this [[note]]Bambi and the Great Prince are the only adult stags given direct referral in the films so we have only them to base on[[/note]], seem to liken this aspect of him to a more literal, if primitive, form of royalty (note that in the movie, his son's birth is so significant that numerous animals flocked to see him with the Prince watching from afar, while the novel treats Bambi's birth as a mundane thing and no other animals (save a magpie) come to see it, not even the Prince himself).
* ArtisticLicenseBiology:
** While he's a white tailed deer in the Disney movies, his oversized antlers and thickened neck, complete with ruff, make his appearance closer to that of an elk.
** He is shown with fully-grown antlers in spring, summer and winter, and in spring again the midquel, even though deer shed their antlers and grow new ones every year.
** The midquel shows him having the same den (a small grotto canopied by a large, fallen tree) over the course of a few months, even though deer never have a consistent home or sleep in the exact same place twice in real life to evade predators.
** Also, its implied in the midquel that Bambi's Mother was the Great Prince's only mate and that he had a genuine loving relationship with her, whereas real life bucks sire multiple does per season and never interact with them outside of mating season, being attracted to them out of instinct rather than by personality or affection. Also note that this is a change from the novel (concerning Bambi and Faline mating), which more accurately depicted how a buck and doe's relationship works.
* AscendedExtra: He has between 3 to 4 minutes of screentime in the original movie and minimal dialogue. In the midquel, he is the {{Deuteragonist}}.
* BigDamnHeroes:
** Saves Bambi from a pack of hunting dogs in the midquel.
** To a lesser degree, he appears before Bambi to motivate him to escape the forest fire in the first film.
** In "Bambi: Friends of the Forest", he saves Bambi from the wrath of a hungry fox just when it was about to catch him.
* BigGood: Seen as the protector of the forest.
* BrokenAce: He has an air of dignity and is the BigGood. He becomes the "broken" part following his mate's death, which he spends the midquel struggling to come to terms with.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: The Great Prince makes it very clear from the get-go how big of a responsibility being a prince is to Bambi, and its clear the Great Prince takes his job very seriously at the expense of anything else. This plays a big part of the midquel's conflict and eventually even causes a riff between him and Bambi.
* CharacterDevelopment: ''Bambi II'' has him start off as an aloof, authority figure to Bambi. Over the course of the film, the Prince grows closer to his son, and as a result, more warm and open.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: In the midquel, he recounts to Bambi of how he and his mother first met as fawns.
* TheComicallySerious: A few jabs at the Great Prince's humorless demeanor are made in the midquel, especially in his attempts to raise Bambi:
-->'''The Great Prince:''' A prince does ''not'' "Woo-hoo".
* CompositeCharacter: The Disney interpretation of the Great Prince (particularly his characterization in the midquel) has shades of both his original novel characterisation (a stern, aloof teacher of sorts to Bambi who, underneath his tough exterior genuinely cares about him) and that of Bambi's more direct and fatherly characterisation in ''Bambi's Children''.
* CruelToBeKind: In the midquel, he insists that raising Bambi like his mother is not his place, and completely against tradition. As such he attempts to remain aloof towards his son and sets upon finding him a surrogate mother. Despite Bambi being ''extremely'' crushed by this decision, he believes it is for the best for his son's upbringing, though starts to regret it later on.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindows: He has brown fur and brown eyes.
* DefrostingIceKing: In the midquel, he becomes more open and fatherly to Bambi as they bond.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: He became the second main focus in ''Bambi II''.
* DisappearedDad: {{Zigzagged|Trope}}. It's [[TruthInTelevision true]] that male deer leave their children to be raised by their mates, plus it is his job to protect the forest. But, he took on an active fatherly role for Bambi after the death of his mate.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Like all the films' parents, he has [[UnnamedParent no known name]], but he does have his title.
* ExperiencedProtagonist: He's already a master explorer and the guardian of the forest who is respected by all by the time the story starts.
* FatalFlaw: His {{Pride}} and favoring of tradition, though he gradually grows out of this due to his son's influence.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Melancholic. He constantly focuses on keeping up a dignified, regal facade and can be very harsh and distant, but he does care deeply for his son and the denizens of the forest.
* GoodIsNotNice: He's all for keeping the animals safe from Man, but he's also a DisappearedDad and can be rather harsh and distant. {{Justified|Trope}} in that traditionally the Prince [[TheNeedsOfTheMany looks after the forest as a whole]] while the does are the ones who usually care for the fawns, a case of TruthInTelevision, so he's not used to hands-on parenting at first.
* HeartbrokenBadass: In the midquel, the loss of Bambi's mother hits him extremely hard. Discussing her is visibly painful for him, and he at times appears to view Bambi as the only thing he has left of her. And he's absolutely devastated when he thinks Bambi died near the end of it.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: A couple remarks he makes in the midquel (that he didn't make an impressive jump like Bambi does at one point until he got his antlers, that he was a lot like Bambi when he was younger), along with his status as the protector of the forest and his advanced age (Bambi's Mother explicitly says he's older than any other deer in the forest) imply that he's had his fair share of offscreen adventures over the years.
* InterspeciesFriendship: He (a white-tailed deer) has one with Friend Owl. It's even implied that Friend Owl, besides being his advisor and confidant, is his ''only'' friend.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Elements of this are present in both films, but it's more obvious in the midquel. He's intimidating and aloof, but ''does'' care for his son and takes his job as a protector for the other animals seriously. Plus, he softens up over the course of the film.
* JerkassRealization: It is evident by the time another doe comes to take Bambi that the Great Prince is starting to regret the arrangement. The body language between him and Bambi as he leaves with Mena also makes apparent to him that some of his teachings have risked converting his son into a broken StepfordSmiler.
* LightningBruiser: Not shown in the first film, but the midquel upgrades him to this; when Bambi is endangered by a hunter, he shows up to his rescue in ''seconds'', and he effortlessly fights an entire pack of hunting dogs on his own, literally sending them running off in fear.
* LukeIAmYourFather: The Great Prince turns out to be Bambi's father midway through the first film. The midquel (which takes place immediately after the death of Bambi's mother) also states early on that he is his father.
* MadLibsCatchphrase: "A prince does not (do X)." or "A prince (does X)." in the midquel.
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Unlike the movies, his relation to Bambi in the novel is uncertain. In the films, Bambi was explicitly the son of the Great Prince, but in the book there is nothing proving that the two are related at all, although they do come to have a father/son relationship. The closest to confirmation given on this is an implication that the pair of fawns Bambi meets at the end of the novel are his own, [[BookEnds which mirrors a similar scene early in the book where the Prince scolds Bambi (when he's a fawn) for crying out for his mother.]]
* ManlyTears: The sign of his full defrosting when he believes Bambi is dead in the midquel.
* TheMarvelousDeer: Bambi's father is the Great Prince of the forest who guards the woodland creatures from the dangers of hunters.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: The Great Prince does everything in a ridiculously majestic manner but somehow seems to do it all with his eyes closed.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]] in the midquel. When Bambi seemingly dies from a high fall, its clear just from his reaction to it that he blames himself for it happening, since going through with his plan to send Bambi away with a stepmother indirectly set off that series of events.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: While Friend Owl's untimely arrival with Mena didn't help his case, the entire third act of the midquel is kicked off by the Prince [[PoorCommunicationKills withholding from Bambi that he was planning to send him off to live with another doe]]. In fairness, the Prince had bonded with Bambi by that point and intended to call off the arrangement, but after Friend Owl drops the news at the worst possible time, Bambi assumes the worst and refuses to hear him out, making the Prince think he has to go through with his original plan anyway. This, combined with Ronno's bullying of Bambi shortly after, unwittingly culminates in a series of events that nearly gets both Bambi and his would-be stepmother killed.
* NotSoStoic: Even before he starts to defrost in the midquel, the Prince has several brief moments where he drops his regal mask.
* TheObiWan: Raises Bambi into a prince after his mother's death. Some of his tutoring is shown in the midquel (and put to use by Bambi during the climax).
* OutOfCharacterIsSeriousBusiness: When the Prince isn't acting like his usual regal and stoic self, you know things have gone south, such as him desperately rushing to save Bambi from a pack of hunting dogs and then [[AngerBornOfWorry furiously bawling him out afterward]] for falling for a hunters trick and not listening to his calls to run away while he stood frozen in fear. And then theres his [[ManlyTears tranquil emotional breakdown]] when he thinks Bambi died as an indirect result of his own actions.
* PapaWolf: Despite his aloof parenting, he genuinely loves Bambi. A few of Man's hunting dogs found that out the hard way.
* ParentalNeglect: In keeping with the semi-realistic deer behavior of the first film, he doesn't seem to have much to do with his son until his mother's death. This comes back to haunt him in the midquel, where he is left to care for Bambi alone.
* ParentsAsPeople: In the midquel. Despite bucks naturally not being responsible for caring for their fawns, the Great Prince does show that when push comes to shove, he is indeed mentally equipped to be a good parent and genuinely wants what's best for his son, but his pride, his favoring of tradition, his initially stern and distant upbringing and his belief in the responsibility of putting [[TheNeedsOfTheMany the needs of the forest first]] put him at odds with raising his son, at least until the ending of the midquel when he finally realizes just how worthless that attitude really is.
* PoorCommunicationKills: In the midquel, the third act is kicked off by the fact that the Prince, having bonded with Bambi over a period of a few months, neglected to tell Bambi of his initial plan to send him off to live with an adopted mother until it was too late, and Bambi's grief over the matter makes him decide that he has to go through with it anyway. This indirectly sets off a chain of events that nearly gets his son killed.
* TheQuietOne: He really doesn't talk that much, having about five lines in the original film. Similar to Bambi, he has far more lines in the midquel, despite keeping his reserved personality for the large part.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the book it is never mentioned if he actually is Bambi's father, though they do develop a father/son bond when Bambi grows up.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Namely, raising and protecting his son and heir, as well as warning other deer whenever Man is nearby and protecting them from traps the latter sets.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Implied in the midquel. Going from the fact that its painful for him to even discuss Bambi's Mother, its clear he's never stopped loving her.
* SourOutsideSadInside: This is [[ImpliedTrope implied]] in the Prince's characterization, particularly in the midquel. Beneath his aloof, humorless and stern exterior lays [[Series/TheITCrowd a lonely loner on a lonely road, alone]]. Its clear that he lives a life of isolation due to his responsibilities, and he tries his best to bottle up or hide any emotion he has. Its clear that Friend Owl is the only friend he has, and even there its more along the lines of a [[NumberTwo "king and his subject" relationship]]. Its also clear that the death of Bambi's mother affected him just as much as it did Bambi, to where its visibly painful for him to even discuss her. Fortunately, Bambi becoming a big part of his life ends up bringing out the best in him and mellows him out into a more pleasant person.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the novel, the Great Prince is last depicted leaving Bambi to die, presumably of old age. A similar transition of him departing as Bambi [[PassingTheTorch takes his place]] appears in the film, but the Great Prince's death is not directly implied. [[note]]Although Bambi's mother once told her son that the Great Prince was the oldest deer in the forest, much less time passes in the film than in the novel.[[/note]]
* TheStoic: In the original film. He's initially this in the midquel, too, but softens.
* SubvertedCatchphrase: When Bambi seemingly dies in the midquel, the Prince is so choked with grief that he can't bring himself to finish saying "A prince does not..."
* SugarAndIcePersonality: His stern and serious personality can make him seem aloof and uncaring, but he has a soft side for his family.
* TookALevelInKindness: He starts as a cold, stern and aloof authority figure that is basically rearing Bambi out of obligation (while its clear he ''does'' care about his welfare, he believes he has no business directly raising Bambi and is only doing so until Friend Owl can find a suitable stepmother for him), but when Bambi makes an effort to prove himself, he gradually earns his father's affection and he begins mellowing out and shedding his icy personality--only to relapse when he finally goes through with his plan to send Bambi off with a stepmother, but it's clear he's not happy about having to do it. The biggest catalyst to this is when Bambi almost dies as an indirect result of his attitudes, where the Prince finally and truly mellows into a caring parent for him.
* UnnamedParent: As with many other characters. He is only known by epithets: ''The Great Prince'' in the films, and the Old Prince or simply "the old stag" in the novel.
* VocalEvolution: Due to the necessary switch of actors between films, Patrick Stewart's portrayal of the Prince, while a close match for Fred Shields, is noticably deeper in the midquel than in the original movie and has a full on British accent whereas Shields was gruffer and had more of a Midatlantic accent.
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[[folder:Faline]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Cammie King (first film; young), Ann Gillis (first film; adult), Creator/AndreaBowen (Bambi II); Morgan Flahaut (first film; young), Aurélia Dausse (first film; adult), Claire Bouanich (Bambi II) (European French dub)

Bambi's {{love interest|s}}.
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* AllAnimalsAreDogs: She wags her tail and wiggles her rear like a dog during her first encounter with Bambi.
* BabiesEverAfter: As an adult, she and Bambi have twin fawns.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: While she herself is pretty powerless against Ronno, she gets visibly angry with his bullying of Bambi in the midquel, and snaps at him to back off when he tries to make her leave.
* CharacterDevelopment: A retroactive case in the midquel. In the original movie, she was a hair breadth away from being a FlatCharacter, with her defining traits being her boundless energy and teasing of Bambi as a child. The midquel presents a bridge between her young and older self, showing her as already becoming much more mature and level headed, [[LittleMissSnarker occasionally even sarcastic]], while showing hints of being a flirt, when Bambi meets up with her again around early spring.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: She took a liking to Bambi practically from the first moment they met. In the original, he didn't reciprocate -- or even encounter her again -- until they were adults. The midquel makes it a point to flesh out their relationship.
* TheCutie: Next to Flower, she's probably the most adorable of the lead characters. The midquel slightly takes the edge off of it by giving her a more mature and snarky personality, but she's still a very lovable character all around.
* DamselInDistress: Bambi has to rescue her twice as an adult, first from the unwanted attentions of Ronno and then from a pack of hunting dogs. A downplayed case as a fawn, where Bambi stood up for her as she was being bullied by Ronno.
* DeadpanSnarker: She gains a bit of a sarcastic streak in the midquel, particularly when she's around Ronno, who's just asking to have some snark dolled out at his expense.
* DudeMagnet: Both [[ChildhoodFriendRomance Bambi]] and [[VillainousCrush Ronno]] have an interest in her.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Sanguine. She's bubbly, energetic, cheerful and hyperactive, though she eventually matures into a demure and polite young doe, without losing her spirited nature.
* GenkiGirl: As a kid, Faline was ''extremely'' hyper. Case in point, her reaction to Bambi saying a simple "Hello" to her for the first time is to {{squee}} in euphoria. Downplayed in the midquel where she is shown to be developing a slightly more mature and level-headed personality as a transition to adolescence.
* GirlNextDoor: Gives off this vibe, particularly in the midquel where her {{genki|Girl}}ness is substantially toned down from what it was in the first film.
* TheHyena: She was quite the giggly girl as a fawn. She gradually sheds this trope as she grows older.
* HiddenDepths: While a bit of a DamselInDistress, Faline has demonstrated a few moments of quick thinking and resourcefulness of her own prompting. Such instances include climbing a cliff to escape Man's dogs and getting to safety from the forest fire across a lake.
* InnocentBlueEyes: Zigzagged. Her eyes are canonically blue to represent her [[NiceGirl friendly nature]], but they are brown in several scenes in the original film.
* KissingCousins: She was Bambi's cousin in the original novel. The movie leaves it up in the air whether they're biologically related or not, but both the newspaper comic and manga adaptations do keep the cousin relationship intact.
* LittleMissSnarker: A moderate playful example as a fawn, teasing Bambi when they first met and having a few unimpressed one-liners towards Ronno.
* NeutralFemale: When Bambi and Ronno fight over her, she just stands against a rock wall and watches. {{Justified|Trope}} because female deer are perfectly fine with being battled over during the mating season.
* NiceGirl: She's sweet, loving, caring, and likable.
* OfficialCouple: With Bambi.
* PaleFemalesDarkMales: Much lighter in color than Bambi. It's even more pronounced when you compare her to Ronno.
* {{Protectorate}}: Despite his timid streak, Bambi will always stick up for Faline.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Especially in the original, she doesn't really have much personality (she appears to be a GenkiGirl as a fawn but we don't know anything about her and loses even this trait as an adult), and sparsely interacts with anyone besides Bambi. The midquel fleshes her personality out a little more and gives her more screen time with the other characters, although she remains fixated around Bambi and is still often kept OutOfFocus.
* SheIsAllGrownUp: She invokes this reaction in Bambi after they've both hit puberty.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Faline naturally prefers [[NiceGuy Bambi]] over [[{{Jerkass}} Ronno]].
* StepfordSmiler: Has traces of this in the novel, where she cheerfully and bluntly defines danger to Bambi and Gobo as "what you run away from" before going back to playing, unable to cope with the emotion of fear. The novel doesn't go deep enough to show whether or not she ever developed the repression problems that usually come with this trope.
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Albeit a [[DownplayedTrope more subtle example than most.]] To make her obviously distinguishable as a girl, she has a much lighter shade of brown than Bambi and has InnocentBlueEyes, and a rounder head and ears to match.
* UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: The book has Faline as Bambi's first cousin, which is dropped from the Disney film by not referring to her mother with a title. However, the newspaper comic and manga adaptations of the story do refer to her mother as Aunt Ena, [[SubvertedTrope implying this may not actually be the case]] (unless Aunt Ena is Bambi's ''honorary'' aunt).
* VocalDissonance: Despite being younger than Bambi, to where she still has her spots by the end of the midquel, she sounds older than him in it to match her more mature personality.
* VocalEvolution: Of the main cast, the obligatory change in voice actors for the midquel is the most obvious for her, with Andrea Bowen's teenager-like performance sounding absolutely ''nothing'' like Cammie King's high-pitched and sing-songy voice for the infant Faline in the original film (though serendipitously, Bowen's performance is fairly close sounding to Ann Gillis, the adult voice actor for Faline).
* WeaknessTurnsHerOn: Notably, [[ShrinkingViolet Bambi]] never pursues her, romatically or otherwise; even as far back as their very first encounter (long before Bambi evolved into her DorkKnight), [[RussianReversal she's always the one pursuing him]] (or in the case of Ronno targeting her as adults, the one imploring him to intervene).
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: In the midquel, she is more grounded and insightful, despite the ending also suggesting she is the youngest of the main cast.
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[[folder:Geno]]

Bambi's son and oldest child.
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* DemotedToExtra: Due to Disney never making an AnimatedAdaptation of ''Bambi's Children'', Geno only has a minor role as an infant at the end of the first film. Disney did produce a ComicBookAdaptation which roughly follows his role in the novel.
* TheSoCalledCoward: After his cousin Boso starts antagonising him and challenging him to a fight, he initially refuses. After Boso goads him over, Geno reluctantly complies and defeats him in a secluded area (where he had hoped Boso would not get humiliated).
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[[folder:Gurri]]

Bambi's daughter and youngest child.
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* DamselInDistress: Gurri is attacked by a fox at one point before a gamekeeper shoots it and takes the injured Gurri away. This is believed to be this trope in action as well, but the gamekeeper only kept her until she was healthy again.
* DemotedToExtra: Due to Disney never making an AnimatedAdaptation of ''Bambi's Children'', Gurri only has a minor role as an infant at the end of the first film. Disney did produce a ComicBookAdaptation which roughly follows her role in the novel.
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!!Other Residents of the Forest

[[folder:Friend Owl]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Will Wright (first film), Junius Matthews (Thumper's Great Race), Creator/KeithFerguson (DVD menu for Bambi: Special Edition and Bambi II); Creator/GerardHernandez (first film) Jean-Claude Donda (Bambi II) (European French dub); Kazuo Kumakura (Japanese dub of Bambi and Bambi II)

A mentor of sorts to the heroes.
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* AdaptedOut: In Osamu Tezuka's manga adaptation of Bambi, he's reduced to a mere one-panel cameo appearance and his role in the story is otherwise replaced by a new bullfrog character.
* AdaptationNameChange: In the 1966 vinyl record ''Thumper's Great Race'' and 1970 book adaptation ''Thumper's Race'', he's known as "The Wise Old Owl".
* AscendedExtra: Appears a bit more in the sequel.
* BerserkButton: He ''hates'' when people sing "Let's Sing a Gay Little Spring Song".
--> '''Friend Owl:''' Every spring, it's the same old thing. ''(In a mocking falsetto)'' "Tweet tweet, tweet tweet! Tweet tweet, tweet tweet! [[SarcasmMode Love's sweet song!]] ''(Stops falsetto)'' Hmph! Pain in the pin feathers, I call it.
* TheCameo: He makes an appearance in both video game adaptations of VideoGame/TheJungleBook. In the Genesis version, he is an enemy, while in the SNES version, he will give Mowgli extra health.
* CompositeCharacter: Friend Owl draws traits from the second novel's characterizations of the screech owl and the captive horned owl, and has superficial similarities to the two owls present in the first novel.
* CoolOldGuy: If he's not in a grouchy mood, he's quite mellow and amiable.
* DemotedToExtra: In Tezuka's manga adaptation of Bambi, he only gets a brief cameo in one panel.
* ADogNamedDog: He's an owl named "Owl". "Friend" might not actually be part of his proper named due to The Great Prince once referring to him as simply "Owl" in the midquel.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Melancholic. He's kindhearted and well-meaning, but he's also grumpy and [[KnowNothingKnowItAll knows a lot less than he thinks he does.]]
* GrumpyOldMan: Don't wake him up; at least, not during the mating season.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Friend Owl is something of a pompous crank, but seems to care about the youngsters of the forest.
* JumpScare: Gets up close and personal with the camera twice in the first film.
* KnightInSourArmor: He shows signs of this with his whole speech about "twitterpation" and how relationships should be avoided at all costs.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Not very good at mentoring the heroes, and a lot of his advice, particularly when it comes to love, is absolutely ''terrible''.
* NoNameGiven: Simply called "Friend Owl".
* NumberTwo: He unofficially acts as a subject of sorts to the Great Prince in the midquel, helping him find a doe to raise Bambi, while also shrewdly nudging him to bond with his son.
* TheObiWannabe: He attempts to act like a mentor, but he's not so good at it.
* TheOwlKnowingOne: Played with. While something of a KnowNothingKnowItAll, he seems genuinely knowledgeable in some areas. In the midquel, he is near instantly observant that Bambi would be in better care with his father.
* VocalEvolution: His voice is noticeably higher sounding in the midquel.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Thumper's family]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Margaret Lee (mother); Creator/ArielWinter, [=McKenna=] Cowgill, Emma Rose Lima (sisters); Édith Barijoane (mother); Pauline Larrieu (mother) (Bambi II); Naomi Libraty, Camille Timmerman, Gwendoline Sommier, Clara Quilichini (sisters) (European French dub)

Thumper's mother and five sisters (four in the midquel).
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* AllThereInTheScript: According to the ''Disney's Bunnies'' storybooks, four of Thumper's sisters are called Trixie, Daisy, Ria, and Tessie.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: All of Thumper's sisters in the midquel, who follow and cling to him perpetually. He is constantly trying to ditch them.
* AscendedExtra:
** Thumper's Sisters end up as supporting characters in the midquel complete with their own scenes, while they are mostly remembered for trying to help Bambi say "bird" in the first film.
** The whole family is in focus in the ''Disney's Bunnies'' storybooks. Papa Bunny even breaks from his role as TheGhost in "A Day With Papa Bunny".
* BigBrotherWorship: All the sisters towards Thumper. They always want to play with him.
* BrattyHalfPint: The sisters can act annoying to Thumper.
* TheDividual: Thumper's sisters all look and act identically to each other, to the point where both the midquel and ''Disney's Bunnies'' series drop the fifth sister with absolutely no change to the dynamic. They aren't even given individual names outside of the latter.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: His mother is Phlegmatic; his sisters are Sanguine.
* GenderSwap: In the 1966 vinyl record ''Thumper's Great Race'' and book adaptation ''Thumper's Race''. One of Thumper's five/four sister's was changed to a male named "Floppy".
* GenkiGirl: The sisters are very playful and energetic.
* TheGhost: Thumper's father does not appear at all in either film, but is mentioned a few times, always by Thumper's mother when she reprimands him by making him repeat words of advice his father gave him. The ''Disney Bunnies'' storybook "A Day With Papa" averts this by having him appear in person.
* GoodParents: Thumper's mother is stern, but clearly a well meaning and caring parent. Thumper's father is implied to be this in the films, and its shown clearly in the ''Disney Bunnies'' storybook "A Day With Papa", wheres he's not only a very nice guy, but a very effective parent, not talking down to Thumper or even reprimending him when he disobeys him but instead telling him to never be afraid to ask him for help. And he clearly values his son's imagination and curious attitude.
* KiddieKid: Thumper's sisters are older than Bambi and Faline. However, while the latter two act more like adolescents by the Interquel, Thumper's sisters act pretty exactly the same as they did when Bambi was born in the first film.
* MythologyGag: The midquel's AnnoyingYoungerSibling dynamic between Thumper and his sisters is ripped from a Disney storybook "Thumper's Little Sisters". Curiously there are also less sisters there than in the original film as well.
* NiceGuy: Thumper's father is shown to be this in the ''Disney Bunnies'' book "A Day With Papa". He has a very nice attitude and never gets angry at his son.
* NoNameGiven: None of his family members are given names in the films. Four of Thumper's sisters are [[NamedByTheAdaptation occasionally named in Disney storybooks]], though his parents remain [[UnnamedParent Mama and Papa Bunny]].
* StrongFamilyResemblance: In the ''Disney Bunnies'' books, Thumper's father looks ''exactly'' like his son, just significantly larger.
* SequelNonEntity: The fifth, unnamed sister is inexplicably gone from the midquel (and the Disney storybooks).
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[[folder:Miss Bunny]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Thelma Hubbard

Thumper's future mate.
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* AgeLift: Interestingly, a lot of Disney merchandise ages her down to pair her with Thumper as a child, despite only meeting him as an adult in the film.
* AllThereInTheScript: She is referred to as "Miss Bunny" in merchandise, though is unnamed in the film itself.
* BabiesEverAfter: Has a number of bunny daughters with Thumper.
* BreakoutCharacter: Despite only appearing in one scene of the first film, she is popular in Disney merchandising, especially in Japan.
%%zce* InnocentBlueEyes: Though they prove very seductive.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Thumper is assured he will never be "twitterpated"....then he sets eyes on her.
* NoNameGiven: If "Bunny" is indeed her last name, then her first name is not revealed.
* OfficialCouple: With Thumper.
* SpeciesSurname: She's a rabbit named Miss ''Bunny''.
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[[folder:The Porcupine]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Brian Pimental; Gérard Surugue (European French dub)

A territorial porcupine who Bambi and his friends cross paths with during the midquel.
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* BerserkButton: Sure, he'll chew you out and treat you to a long rant if you trespass on his log, but disrespect him and you'll get to enjoy his quills.
* CanonForeigner: He's a new character created for the midquel, although his persona loosely takes inspiration from accounts in the original ''Bambi'' novels where an ornery hedgehog recurrently pricks the fawns for bothering it. The Little Golden Book "Bambi: Friends of the Forest", which predates the midquel and is set during Bambi's infancy, had an almost identical looking porcupine appear in it, but his friendly demeanor makes it clear he's not the same character as this porcupine.
* ChekhovsGunman: Ends up used as one during the climax. Bambi wakes him up and then catapults him at one of the hunting dogs chasing him.
* CreatorCameo: He's voiced by midquel director Brian Pimental.
* DefeatEqualsFriendship: A downplayed one. After getting his revenge sting at the end of the film, he is shown rather contently waving Bambi goodbye.
%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Melancholic.
* GrumpyOldMan: The resident one for Bambi's forest, even moreso than Friend Owl.
* HypocriticalHumor:
-->'''Porcupine:''' That's the problem with these kids today: no respect. No respect at all! ''[The Great Prince comes by and stares at him]'' What're you looking at, you big moose?
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: A grumpy old bastard who violently defends his log and has no qualms about sticking children with his quills. That said, if he's not antagonized or having his territory intruded on, he's not that bad, and he's shown to be perfectly happy listening to Thumper's story and contentedly waves at Bambi after sticking him with his quills one last time (to get him to kiss Faline).
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: After stinging Bambi midway in the film, he appears much later during the climax where Bambi launches him onto the dogs, doubling as payback for earlier. See ChekhovsGunman above.
* NoHeroToHisValet: He doesn't seem to recognize the Great Prince despite him being the one who keeps the entire forest safe, and also doesn't seem to take Bambi's truthful claims of being the Young Prince seriously, though it's probably motivated by more by him being a GrumpyOldMan than anything else.
* RamblingOldManMonologue: He's prone to ranting about respect, and the lack of it from the kids these days.
* ShipperOnDeck: Though a little more violent than most, the Porcupine uses his quills to get Bambi to kiss Faline.
* {{Troll}}: He clearly takes a lot of pleasure in refusing to allow Bambi to get across his bridge, and starts scurrying across it to taunt him.
* WouldHurtAChild: PlayedForLaughs in this case, but he has no qualms or shame over shooting his quills at Bambi.
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[[folder:The Groundhog]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Brian Pimental, Éric Métayer (European French dub)

A skittish groundhog that predicts the end of winter every year.
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* CanonForeigner: A minor new character created for the midquel.
* CreatorCameo: Like the Porcupine above, the director of the midquel provides his voice.
%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Phlegmatic.
* NervousWreck: The stress that comes with having to potentially tell all of the forest that winter's not over year after year has not been kind to him.
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[[folder:Mena]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/CreeSummer; Marjorie Frantz (European French dub)

A {{childhood friend|s}} of Bambi's mother who was intended to be Bambi's stepmother, but an encounter with a hunter's trap and his dogs, as well as Bambi bonding with his father, changes this. Only had a couple of minutes of screentime.
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* CaughtInASnare: Ronno rams Bambi into her, causing her to lose her balance and trigger a hunting trap.
* ChildhoodFriends: With Bambi's mother, as said above.
* DamselInDistress: [[CaughtInASnare Got her back leg stuck in a trap]] thanks to Ronno and had to be saved by both Bambi and his father.
* {{Expy}}: Of Nettla from the original novel, who took Bambi in after his mother died. Unlike Mena, however, Nettla was a [[GrumpyOldMan Grumpy Old Doe]].
%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Phlegmatic.
* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: She urges both Bambi and Ronno to run after getting caught. Both do, but Bambi takes the time to catch the attention of the hunting dogs before fleeing.
* MeaningfulEcho: When the above happens, she says the exact words Bambi's mother said to him before she died.
* MythologyGag: Her name is one letter off of Aunt ''Ena'', a minor character from the book who was Faline's mother.
* NiceGirl: In the short time she adopts Bambi, she displays a kind, motherly personality. Her first instinct after getting caught in a trap is to [[IWillOnlySlowYouDown urge Bambi to run and save himself]].
* ParentalSubstitute: After the death of Bambi's mother, the Great Prince selects Mena to raise Bambi in hope of avoiding SinkOrSwimFatherhood.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: She only appears near the end of the midquel, but her role sows the seeds for Bambi's HeroesFrontierStep and growth into a future prince.
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[[folder:Faline's Mother (Aunt Ena)]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Mary Lansing

A minor character in both the original novels and the Disney movies, although she has more presence in the books.
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* DemotedToExtra: Already having a modest role in the books, she only appears in the scene where Bambi first meets Faline and when she rescues her from the wrath of a hunter. She gets hit with this even harder in the midquel, where she only gets a very brief cameo early in the film.
* NoNameGiven: She's called Aunt Ena in the novel, but she isn't named in the movies. However, the official newspaper comic adaptation of the movie does refer to her as Aunt Ena, as does the manga adaptation.
* UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: She's stated to be Bambi's aunt in the book, but this aspect of her is dropped from the Disney movie. However, the newspaper comic and manga adaptation still refers to her as Aunt Ena, [[SubvertedTrope implying this may not be the case.]] (Then again she could just be an ''honorary'' aunt.)

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!!Antagonists

[[folder:Ronno]]

!!Ronno
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->'''Voiced by:''' Anthony Ghannam (''WesternAnimation/BambiII''); Pierre Casanova ([[UsefulNotes/FrenchLanguage European French]] dub)

->''"Don't feel bad. If we didn't have cowards, we couldn't tell who the brave ones are."''

Bambi's [[TheRival rival]]. He started out as an arrogant, self-centered, and insufferable bully when they initially meet as fawns, and later grows up into a hulking and hostile buck who fights Bambi over the right to have Faline for himself.
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* AbledInTheAdaptation: In the novel, Ronno has a lame leg due to surviving a gunshot. In the movies, he lacks any disabilities in order to be more of a rival to Bambi.
* AbhorrentAdmirer: Ronno has some degree of feelings (or at least lust) for Faline, who is annoyed by him at best and otherwise outright dislikes him.
* TheAce: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. He thinks of himself as such and the film makes him seem like he'd have this potential. But when push comes to shove, he's a cowardly bully who'd rather flee from a dire situation to save his own skin than take the initiative to help.
* AdaptationDyeJob: He has brown eyes in the original, but in the midquel he has green eyes, probably to help further distinguish him from Bambi and to [[GreenEyedMonster subtly establish his personality]].
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Ronno in the movies has little in common with his character in the novel. His novel counterpart was Bambi's friend (at first) and was already grown up by the time Bambi was born, and while he got aggressive towards Bambi during mating season, he wasn't a sociopathic bully like the midquel depicted, much less the vicious and near mindless [[FlatCharacter blank slate of a brute]] that the original movie depicted him as either. The midquel in particular [[SameCharacterButDifferent alters his personality so drastically]] that a new viewer would be forgiven for thinking that he was simply a new character created for it.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Like with Bambi, he was a roe deer in the book, but was changed into a white-tailed deer for the movies since roe deer don't live in the states.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In the novel, he was actually Bambi's friend until the latter matured and became a rival for does. In both movies, he's a rival and enemy of Bambi out of the starting gate.
* AesopAmnesia: Pissing off the Young Prince at his lowest point was ''not'' a smart move on his part, to say the least. During the events on the midquel, he drove Bambi to [[RageBreakingPoint uncharacteristic rage]] by insulting his lineage, which got him beaten up immediately and started off a chain reaction of events that nearly got Bambi and his stepmother killed while exposing Ronno for the coward he is when he runs off from the threat of Man. Instead of learning his lesson from this, Ronno doubles down on his resolve and [[WeWillMeetAgain swears revenge on Bambi]], which culminates in them fighting again once Ronno is fully grown up...which ends with him getting his flank handed to him yet again by an also fully grown up Bambi, and completely galvanises Faline's love for the latter. DidntThinkThisThrough does not describe how much he screwed the pooch by making the Young Prince his worst enemy.
* AgeLift: In the novel, he is implied to be several years older than Bambi. In the midquel film, he is only slighter older than Bambi.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: [[{{Irony}} Despite being a bully himself]], Ronno is basically an outcast from the other animals, though its for reasons be brought on himself for his lousy personality rather than being arbitrarily ostracized.
* AllThereInTheScript: Even though his name is never given in the first film proper, he is still named in character design material for the first film, and he is likewise named dropped in the Dell Comic and manga adaptations.
* AlphaBastard: Apart from the fact that he's not a highschooler, he acts like this {{trope}} because of his arrogance and tendency to look down on others, ''especially'' in regards to Bambi.
* AlwaysSecondBest: A partial reason for his growing hatred of Bambi in the midquel, growing rather competitive around him in terms of athleticism and skill.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: He's an even match for Bambi in combat as a fawn, but as they grow up, Bambi eventually turns the odds in his favor. But in terms of popularity among the animals, its absolutely inverted; Bambi is far more popular and successful in his goals than Ronno ever was or will ever hope to be.
* AmbiguousSituation: As a result of the midquel having Ronno swearing revenge, his and Bambi's meeting as yearlings, with neither Bambi recognizing Ronno or Ronno reacting to Bambi's name, raises the question if they even recognized each other as old rivals, if Ronno had completely forgotten about Bambi or if he had completely moved past his rivalry and was more focused on the fact that it was the mating season.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: In the original film at least. The only reason he and Bambi come into conflict is because the latter followed Faline into the former's territory, which is how battles between white-tailed bucks happen during the mating season. The midquel, as well as Tezuka's manga adaptation, throws out any ambiguity by showing that even as a fawn, he was basically a sociopath in the making.
* AmbitionIsEvil: Almost everything Ronno does in the midquel is motivated by his desire to come out on top of his petty jealousy-fueled rivalry with Bambi, and given it '''never''' works out in his favor, its meant to show that his ruthless and selfish attitude is absolutely no way to get through life.
* AmusingInjuries: He's a frequent recipient of these due to his KarmicButtMonkey status in the midquel.
* AntiClimax: Despite being the closest thing the midquel has to an on-screen antagonist (not counting Man's dogs, who are personality-less extensions of Man's will), his fight with Bambi was anything but spectacular. The latter actually manages to get the upper hand over him for most of it, and the fight technically ends in a draw after Ronno flees the scene due to the sudden arrival of Man (though Bambi is clearly the moral victor of it).
* AntiRoleModel: As a fawn, his whole role in the midquel basically exists to spell out how having an arrogant, entitled and haughty macho attitude is absolutely no way to get through life in contrast to Bambi's altruism and sincere efforts to earn his victories, and he is a boorish, sociopathic, and all-around-awful person.
* AntiVillain: Initially, if you [[AmbiguouslyEvil interpret him as being a villain]] in the first film and not take the midquel and other tie-ins into account. He's presented as a very agressive buck that Bambi unwittingly set off by wandering into his territory, prompting Ronno and Bambi to fight over Faline. This might seem evil to a normal person, but this is [[TruthInTelevision actually typical behaviour for real life deer]] (and is also accurate to how the other bucks treated Bambi in the novel as he got older). The Dell Comic adaptation (where, unlike the movie, he's given bits of dialogue) slightly humanizes these traits by [[AdaptationalVillainy explicitly presenting him as a villain]] who is out to claim Faline as his own, [[EntitledToHaveYou regardless of whether she wants to be his mate or not]]. Tezuka's manga adaptation also establishes that even as a fawn, he was a jerk and a bully towards Bambi in [[ToxicFriendInfluence the guise of a friend]]. The midquel follows this and [[RetCon retcons]] Ronno's behaviour in the first film by having him be an arrogant bully who treated Faline this way since he was a fawn, and also having his motive for fighting linked with his bitter childhood rivalry with Bambi.
* ArchEnemy: For Bambi. The two clash with each other due to Bambi's [[NiceGuy strong moral compass]] and Ronno's complete and utter lack of such. Plus Bambi's usually on the receiving end of Ronno's bullying.
* ArcVillain: The midquel retroactively makes Ronno one for Bambi. While not the main villain of the movies, he's the closest thing they have to an on-screen antagonist.
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: He has mildly impressive athletic prowess for a fawn, and an unjustifably high opinion of himself as a result of it.
* AscendedExtra: He was just a brief rival for Bambi in one scene of the original film and had miminal characterization and no dialogue. In the midquel, he's a fully fledged antagonist who appears in several scenes. Osamu Tezuka's manga adaptation also gives his fawn form a more prominent role, though nowhere to the extent of the midquel.
* AssholeVictim: Aside from some mildly dorkish qualities in his introduction (which in itself is a transparently insincere act done to try and get others to pay attention to him), there is absolutely ''nothing'' about him that’s close to sympathetic. He’s a slimy, amoral bully who cares for no one but himself. Him running away in fear of Man, his many pitiful pratfalls and love of his mother do not make him sympathetic whatsoever, and the former just exhibits how selfless Bambi really is in comparison by risking his life to save his would-be stepmom. As such, whenever bad things happen to Ronno, the audience can't help but derive amusement if not downright catharsis from his suffering, as he's a complete dickhead who deserves to be punished for his actions.
* AttemptedRape: Implied in the first film, when he forces Faline away from Bambi. Luckily for her, Bambi's quick to put a stop to it.
* AttentionWhore: Ronno is very self-centered, so he desperately craves attention. His first scene in the midquel has him rudely try to draw as much attention to himself as possible by scaring the Groundhog for laughs and showing off to the others in an attempt to make friends with them. Later on, when Ronno is showing off to a clearly unimpressed Faline, she is drawn away by the yelling of an injured Bambi, and Ronno is clearly aggravated over this.
-->'''Ronno:''' "Hey! I wasn't finished talking about me!"
* AxCrazy: As an adult. Ronno was willing to ''kill'' Bambi and ([[ImpliedTrope possibly]]) ''rape'' Faline.
* BadassAdorable: As a fawn, he is somewhat adorable in appearance and can put up a fight when he wants to (key word being when he ''wants'' to).
* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: The midquel fleshes out Ronno and Bambi's rivalry akin to this. Ronno's introduction and StartOfDarkness coincides with (and usually pivots) much of Bambi's HeroesFrontierStep and CharacterDevelopment.
* BarbaricBully: Not so much as a fawn, but he definetely becomes this once he becomes a yearling.
%% Doesn't explain what the reaction is. * BerserkButton: Going hand in hand with his short temper and big ego, do ''not'' call him a liar, and ''especially'' do not fire the first shot in a fight against him, accidentally or otherwise.
* BestServedCold:
** In the midquel, he waits until Bambi is at his lowest emotional point before insulting his heritage to goad him into a fight, arrogantly believing he has the advantage. [[RageBreakingPoint It quickly backfires on him]] ''[[SummonBiggerFish big time]]''.
** As a adult, when he's much physically stronger than when he and his rival were fawns, he wastes no time trying to force himself on Faline and drive Bambi away, and then fighting him when he refuses to back down. Once again, it completely backfires on him as Bambi still proves himself his superior in combat.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: In the midquel, Ronno is a pitiful KarmicButtMonkey who suffers many a pratfall, but even as a fawn he shows signs of the savage brute that he grows into in the original movie.
* BeingEvilSucks: Ronno's bullying attitude [[HisOwnWorstEnemy is his own undoing]] and ensures that he never forms any real friendships or gets any respect from others. If anything, it just keeps feeding back into itself to ensure he stays the same awful person he is up until adulthood.
* BetaTestBaddie: His whole motivation for bullying Bambi and others stems from his InferioritySuperiorityComplex towards him.
* BigBad: While [[GreaterScopeVillain Man]] is unquestionably the real menace to the animals, Ronno serves as the tangible main antagonist of the midquel and, ironically, gets far more focus in it than the threat of Man.
* BigBadEnsemble: With [[GreaterScopeVillain Man]] in the midquel, though Ronno curiously gets more plot focus than the former in it.
* BigBadSlippage: Ronno doesn't necessarily start off as an ''evil'' person, just a mild pest. It isn't until the climax of the midquel that he truly descends into being a villain.
* BigBadWannabe: That being said, Ronno isn't really much of a threat to Bambi at first, at most a petty bully and nuisance who is more talk than show. It isn't until their rivalry becomes personal by the midquel’s climax that he really earns this, and even there he's immediately upstaged in terms of being a threat by the sudden presence of Man.
* BitCharacter: In the original movie, he has about two minutes of screentime and no lines, and just serves as a personified obstacle for Bambi to overcome. The midquel gives him a notably more prominent role and a more fleshed out personality.
* BitPartBadGuy: In ths original movie, he's just another obstacle for Bambi to deal with for a couple of minutes.
* BlatantLies: While it is possible he did learn about how Man makes their deer calls by spying on them, his story about bravely taking on Man head-on is undeniably false, especially when he runs away in terror at the very ''idea'' of confronting Man later in the midquel. Faline doesn't buy his story for a second (though Bambi is naive enough to buy it).
* BoisterousBruiser: Ronno is a fighter, and has the loudmouth and arrogance to go with it.
* BornUnlucky: ''Nothing'' ever goes right for Ronno, whether it's because of [[KarmicButtMonkey swift karma for his actions]] or just pure bad luck on his part.
* BrattyHalfPint: As a fawn, Ronno was a braggart, a bully, a liar, a coward, manipulative, and has the worst qualities of a child, seeming to mainly be brought about by his pride at having his antlers starting to come in and his spots have gone. [[TookALevelInJerkass He got worse as an adult]].
* BreakTheHaughty: In the midquel, the closest thing he gets to karma for (accidentally) nearly getting Bambi and Mena killed is being put through yet another humiliating pratfall when a turtle bites and clings to his nose, sending him off crying for his mom--right after boasting to Bambi that [[WeWillMeetAgain they'll meet again some day]].
* TheBully: When you get right down to it, at his core, Ronno is a fairly physically apt bully who enjoys putting on airs and throwing his weight around, but when the chips are down, he's [[WhatYouAreInTheDark revealed]] to be nothing more than a SmugSnake and a DirtyCoward who enjoys imposing on others weaker than him (and blows up if they so much as dare to fight back) and would rather save his own hide than even consider helping others. He constantly insults Bambi and his friends and looks down on them, and shows no respect for anyone. Part of the reason he even became such a heated rival towards Bambi was out of spite and feeling entitled to be superior to him. When he grows up, he degenerates into an outright BarbaricBully.
* BullyBrutality: In the climax of the midquel, he tries to beat Bambi up during a fight, and once he grows up and they get into a scuffle over Faline, he tries to ''kill'' him.
* CallousnessTowardsEmergency: As soon as he realizes Man's hounds are heading his way and Mena tells both him and Bambi to run, Ronno simply flees for his life, while Bambi, after some hesitation, instead chooses to sacrifice himself to save her life.
* CantTakeCriticism: Ronno gets flustered when Bambi (non-ironically) expresses in awe that Ronno's story of taking on Man is "Unbelievable.", [[SarcasmBlind misinterpreting it as Bambi calling him a liar]].
* CharacterDevelopment: Retroactive case. Ronno's personality in the original movie is [[FlatCharacter rather vague]], and he just serves as another obstacle to Bambi. The midquel however plays out far more as a character study for him just like it does for his rival, giving him far more individual flaws and agency, and also reveals the devolution into the hulking brute he grew into in the original movie was played out by his own decisions, particularly when galvanised by his sour relationship with his rival Bambi.
* TheCharmer: Subverted. Ronno likes to ''think'' of himself as a PrinceCharming, but that's just his narcissism in action; Faline isn't remotely impressed by anything he does and at most tolerates his presence, assuming she's not [[PrinceCharmless already feeling repelled by his creepy attitude]].
* ChekhovsGunman: At first it doesnt seem like his rivalry has [[PlotIrrelevantVillain much bearing on the actual story of the midquel]], but it culminates in him picking a fight with Bambi on purpose, the aftermath of which unwittingly sets off the climax of the movie.
* TheChewToy: Any time Ronno suffers, it's because he deserves it.
* ClassicVillain: In the second film, he is basically an EvilCounterpart to Bambi and has the staple traits of one. He is also guilty of five of the SevenDeadlySins.
** {{Pride}}: He has an [[SmallNameBigEgo undeservedly high opinion of himself]] and is [[EntitledBastard extremely arrogant]] in his attitude towards everyone.
** {{Greed}}: Given he has a huge ego, he is [[AttentionWhore greedy for any kind of attention]] he can get.
** [[GreenEyedMonster Envy]]: He is [[DrivenByEnvy spitefully envious of Bambi]] due to the latter unwittingly upstaging him over and over.
** {{Lust}}: As an adult, he openly lusts after Faline, though the midquel implies this lust goes all the way back to their childhood.
** [[HairTriggerTemper Wrath]]: He is short-tempered, impatient and prone to violence if he feels slighted.
* ClimaxBoss: He serves as this to Bambi in both the original movie and its adaptations, as well as the midquel.
* CockFight: He gets into a nasty one with Bambi over Faline in the original movie.
* CombatPragmatist: Ronno is more than willing to fight dirty in order to win against a foe.
* CompositeCharacter: Ronno in the midquel takes traits from both the movies interpretation of him and traits of a character from ''Bambi's Children'', Boso, who is the cousin of Geno and is spitefully jealous of Geno because he's the son of Bambi, who is now the Great Prince of the Forest. It also takes cues from Osamu Tezuka's manga adaptation of Bambi, which notably depicted Ronno as a fawn being at odds with Bambi decades before the midquel did it.
* CondescendingCompassion: After Bambi performs a stunt to try and impress his father and has it backfire on him, Ronno comes across him with porcupine quills in his rump and uses the chance to offer mocking condolences for the incident where Bambi nearly got mauled by a pack of hunting dogs after freezing up, saying that if they didn't have cowards like him, they wouldn't know who the brave ones were. He does similar later on when Bambi's sent off to live with a stepmom.
* ConflictKiller: The focus of the midquels story is on the relationship between Bambi and his father, with Ronno's rivalry with Bambi seemingly having little relevance to the story at first. Cue Ronno showing up and making a bad situation even worse when Bambi is sent off to live with a stepmother after having a falling out with his father over it; the climax is entirely sprung by him picking a fight with Bambi, which ends with Bambi and his fathers relationship being repaired and Ronno being utterly humiliated.
* CreateYourOwnHero: Ronno's bullying of Bambi in the midquel is unwittingly a catalyst in helping him learn to become more brave and assertive in the face of danger, which culminates in Bambi selflessly sacrificing himself to save Mena's life from Man while Ronno in turn [[DirtyCoward flees screaming for his mother.]]
* CreepyChild: Ronno's behaviour as a fawn as his rivalry with Bambi gets worse is disturbingly cruel and cold, akin to being a sociopath in the making.
* DarkIsEvil: In both movies, he has a much darker shade of fur than any of the other deer as a visual red flag that he's trouble.
* DeadpanSnarker: Is prone to throwing out some pretty cruel and venomous one-liners, especially towards Bambi.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of TheBully type of character, showing just how following this kind of mindset can [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome swiftly bring real consequences onto whoever embraces it]]. Ronno's arrogant and all around anti-social personality pretty much [[TheFriendNobodyLikes precludes him from forming any real friendships with the others]], and this feeds into his ambitions to force people to like him over his rival, which only make him come off as a pathetic and desperate creep who keeps digging himself deeper with each situation until ''everyone'' hates him by the end, and for good reason. In short, Ronno is HisOwnWorstEnemy.
* DemotedToExtra: And then [[AscendedExtra re-ascended back]] to a role somewhat different than what he originally had. He had a larger role in the novel beyond simply being a rival to Bambi, being already grown and Bambi having already known him even before his mother died. The first film reduces him down to one scene, with no name, no dialogue and no real characterization. The midquel then expands his character back, but only really rebuilds his character on his rival status, portraying his rivalry with Bambi growing and building from childhood rather than having him become a rival only after Bambi grows up. Even with that, he ''never'' appears in any Bambi tie-in that doesnt directly adapt the events of the movies, and has ''never'' been featured in any of the series merchandise. [[PutOnABus He doesn't even so much as get a mention]] in ''Bambi's Children'', either.
* {{Determinator}}: Deconstructed. He has similar ambitions to Bambi in that they both want to prove themselves, but whereas Bambi risks himself out of selflessness and to earn the respect and affection of his father, Ronno goes about it in a [[AmbitionIsEvil completely ruthless way]] and [[ItsAllAboutMe for entirely self-serving reasons.]]
* DiabolusExNihilo: He literally comes out of nowhere in the original film, and is gone practically as fast as he appears.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: He often gets into many a pratfall because he's so focused on showing off to or showing up others to satisfy his ego that he doesn't stop and think about how what he's doing might reflect back on him and he ends making many reckless and stupid decisions as a result.
* DirtyCoward: He brags about being able to take on Man early in the film and is more than willing to chase and fight Bambi when he's a fawn because its clear he has some advantage over him in terms of being older and starting to bud antlers--but as soon as Mena gets snared in a trap that summons a pack of hunting dogs, he flees in terror while calling out for his mom.
* DiscOneFinalBoss:
** In the original movie, he's taken out by Bambi somewhat early in the third act, though his threat turns out to be nothing compared to the return of Man and the subsequent forest fire.
** In the midquel, his fight with Bambi is actually the setup for the films climax, where Bambi has to deal with the far greater threat of Man and his hounds instead.
* DisproportionateRetribution: His bullying towards Bambi is almost entirely fueled out of petty envy of Bambi (unwittingly) upstaging him constantly along with the frustration of the various embarrassing pratfalls he keeps bringing on himself, to the point of insulting him to his face to kick him down a notch.
* TheDitz: He's obnoxiously thickheaded and childish.
* DrivenByEnvy: His petty envy of Bambi is a strong motivator of him constantly trying to one-up the young prince.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Everyone in the forest finds Ronno to be [[TheFriendNobodyLikes an annoying pest at]] ''best'' despite his considerable athleticism and bravado in contrast to Bambi's scrawiness and timid nature. Due to his fragile ego and sense of arrogant entitlement, he doesn't take it well and grows to hate Bambi more and more throughout the film because of it. It comes to a head when he uses the fact that The Great Prince sent Bambi away to live with a stepmom as ammo to take him down a peg and goad him into a fight so he can prove himself superior in a fight.
* DumbassHasAPoint: For all his MilesGloriosus boasting in the midquel, his description of Man's deer call was incredibly accurate, as Bambi would later find out when he fell for the trick when he thought that it was his mother calling him.
* DumbMuscle: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. Ronno isnt particularly stupid, but he is very impulsive, reckless and short sighted thanks to his big ego, which causes no end of trouble for him.
* DumbJock: To go in hand with his JerkJock persona, he's not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree, although this stems more from his recklessness and impulsive personality and lack of proper social skills than straight up stupidity.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Similar to Bambi, Ronno in his yearling form first appeared as two [[FreezeFrameBonus "blink and you'll miss him" cameos]] in ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' prior to the midquel.
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: In the original movie, his eye color was brown, whereas the midquel retcons it into being green to [[GreenEyedMonster better suit his personality.]]
* EarNotch: He's had one since childhood.
* EmergingFromTheShadows: When he begins to taunt Bambi in the climax of the midquel, he's first shown coming out of the shadows of the nearby brush to foreshadow the sinister nature of whats about to follow.
* EntitledBastard: This is Ronno's major flaw, along with his pride. He feels he should be stronger than Bambi and has the right to Faline as a mate for himself without her consent, while constantly denegrating Bambi as a coward and wimp despite him upping Ronno at everything he does and showing absolutely no respect towards him despite being the next prince of the forest. His entire rivalry with Bambi is built on entitlement.
* EntitledToHaveYou: Has this opinion of Faline.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In Bambi II, its established right off the bat that he's a smug AttentionWhore and bratty troublemaker. The very first thing he does is [[KickTheDog cruelly scaring the Groundhog back into his hole after he doesn't see his shadow]] and [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor laughing about it]], and then bragging about blatantly false feats to Bambi and co, as well as acting aggressive when Bambi seemingly questions his stories. On top of that, he's shown to be openly disrespectful to his own mother, in case you didn't already get the hint that [[HateSink were not supposed to like him.]]
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: {{Zig Zagg|ingTrope}}ed. [[BrattyHalfPint Ronno is even disrespectful to his own mother]], but often goes crying to her whenever he is faced with danger.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Arguably Ronno's biggest flaw is his complete failure to understand ''why'' others like Bambi so much over him--even if he wasn't the next Prince of the Forest, Bambi is humble and selfless and earns all of his victories and respect from his friends by what he does, while Ronno [[EntitledBastard arrogantly expects things to go his way because he's older and stronger]] despite having no real deeds to show for it, and [[HisOwnWorstEnemy fails to understand that he's constantly shooting himself in the foot with his selfishness and egotism.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: As much of a jerk as he is, despite getting the upper hand, he stops his rage-fuelled fight with Bambi when he realizes he accidentally trapped Mena in a hunting snare. Even more so since he is rightfully terrified of Man and actually confronting it or its hounds despite his past boasting.
* EvilCounterpart: To Bambi. The titular character is sweet, brave, humble, and respects Faline in spite of a shy crush; Ronno is callous, cowardly, arrogant, and tried to force himself onto Faline when they were adults. Even dynamically, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain basically everything that Ronno does]] as he becomes [[StartOfDarkness darker and more obsessive]] coerces Bambi into becoming [[HeroesFrontierStep more bold and altruistic]].
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor:
** Ronno's idea of a joke is scaring the Groundhog after he becomes elated at seeing his shadow isnt there. Naturally, he's the only one laughing at it.
** Shortly after he cracks a joke about the forest being on fire, something that is ''very'' serious business to the woodland critters in this franchise.
* EvilLaugh: Ronno occasionally lets out a smug chuckle, accented with a snort.
* EvilIsBigger: Downplayed; as a fawn he's identical in size to Bambi, but as a yearling, he's slightly larger and more stocky than Bambi, though its difficult to notice this unless you look at [[https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/-bHhrYi8WiIfKLvsCQYLLZSVdCbJ4YDrF9HNSBJSyXvZhpJ8owQORR_82DBK_83y2ljng3KSux507BsANXic0q3CNhKnzi6AB5IZqcjDwMdf6zlP9JKMEbEJZhCimiHbzUVaMbabU2RkgRM0Z-QP75wqUPqXbwGkTfKPc6q6VAYmTWk3qUoR33_yZBF9mTFW8wc the films model sheets]].
* EvilIsPetty: Ronno takes things way too personally and overreacts to any slight, whether it was intentional or not. And when Bambi is sent off to live with Mena, Ronno uses the opportunity to rub the whole situation in his rivals face, implying that he was such an embarrassment to the Great Prince that he "(gave him) away", which Ronno has nothing to gain from beyond kicking Bambi down a peg.
* EvilMakesYouUgly: Downplayed. As a fawn, he's actually kindof adorable looking. As a yearling, still as bitter and veangeful as ever? He looks like the deer equivilent of a biker thug that you do '''not''' want to get on the bad side of.
* EvilPlan: Repeat: ''everything'' he does is for the sake of showing up Bambi.
* EvilVirtues: If nothing else, he is not at all lazy and is extremely determined, and at least loves his Mom, even if he doesnt necessarily respect her.
* EvilVsEvil: Man is out to get him and the other wildlife animals.
* ExitPursuedByABear: Parodied; in his PostClimaxConfrontation with Bambi, he's sent packing by a mere snapping turtle biting his nose.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: As a fawn, he actually has a appearance thats at worst unremarkable and at best kindof adorable. This is completely offset by [[TheSociopath his real personality.]]
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: No matter what he does, Ronno is always doomed to play second fiddle to Bambi. In the midquel, its an outright ForegoneConclusion that Bambi was going to overcome his bullying of him.
* FalseFriend: In Osamu Tezuka's manga adaptation of Bambi, Bambi befriends Ronno as a fawn, unaware that he's a local troublemaker, and Ronno immediately tricks him into directly risking his life by interacting with Man, purely for kicks on his part. Afterward, the Bullfrog who mentors Bambi becomes belligerant at the very mention of Ronno's name and warns him to stay away from him.
* FatalFlaw: Ronno has at least three of them.
** '''{{Pride}}''' is the most prominent of them. He's a narcissist who constantly throws his weight around and believes he's better than everyone else, [[FeetOfClay even if he has little to show for it]] and it [[PrideBeforeAFall constantly causes problems for him.]]
** '''[[UnstoppableRage Wrath]]''' is his other most prominent trait. He is [[HairTriggerTemper very quick to anger]] and is not above resorting to violence to impose himself on others, and due to his anger, he often winds up making many reckless and stupid mistakes that only further lower others opinions of him.
** Fueling both of the above and vice versa is '''[[InferioritySuperiorityComplex Envy]]'''. He's a shameless and insecure AttentionWhore and GloryHound who is spitefully jealous of Bambi and aspires and pretends to be what Bambi is [[EntitledBastard for all of the wrong reasons and without truly earning it.]]
* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: His attitude towards Bambi; the fact that he, an older and physically stronger deer, is constantly AlwaysSecondBest to a younger and scrawny fawn drives him crazy, which eventually leads him to purposefully insult and goad Bambi into fights so he can take him down a notch.
* FeetOfClay: He'll brag up a storm about being able to take on Man head-on, but the moment threat of Man rears its ugly head, Ronno takes off screaming for his mother.
* FisticuffProvokingComment: When Ronno confronts Bambi during the start of the climax, the latter is already at an emotional low due to his father handing him over to a doe. Ronno, who has gotten competitive towards Bambi throughout the film, starts heckling Bambi, though the latter, while clearly ticked, walks away. Then Ronno mocks the fact his father was supposedly ashamed enough of him to give him away. Bambi then [[RageBreakingPoint silently and uncharaceristically snaps]] and angrily fights Ronno.
* FlatCharacter: In the original film, he's little more than a personified obstacle for Bambi to overcome, and isn't given a clear personality beyond being a particularly aggressive and amorous buck. Even the two comic book, newspaper comic and manga adaptations, despite giving him bits of dialogue, do little to flesh him out more beyond establishing him as a rather generic jerk [[EntitledToHaveYou who wants Faline for himself]]. The midquel ''significantly'' fleshes him out into a more [[RoundedCharacter three-dimensional character]].
* FlawExploitation: Ronno is well aware of how insecure Bambi is in regards to earning his fathers approval, and uses it to try and tear him down emotionally and mentally.
* {{Foil}}:
** To his rival, Bambi. The CentralTheme of the midquel is coming to terms with one's fears, accepting them and overcoming them, and [[BeYourself not trying to be something you're not to become better.]] Bambi realizes, faces and overcomes them and finds himself while earning the respect of his father and friends as a result, while Ronno [[NeverMyFault refuses to owe up to his own flaws]], [[DirtyCoward gives in to his fears]] and goes out of his way to try to be something he isn't ([[FeetOfClay which gets him nowhere and only highlights his flaws further]]) due to his [[EntitledBastard spiteful envy of his rival]], and this culminates in everyone hating him in the end. It is not at all disingenuous to say that Ronno is what Bambi could have easily become if he didn't have the guidance of his parents and friends to keep him on the straight and narrow.
** He's also one to Thumper. While Thumper can certainly be an immature brat and occasionally acts selfish and cocky, he has his heart in the right place and [[BigBrotherInstinct wants to help Bambi more than anything else]], and at the end of the day, he loves and respects his family when push comes to shove. Ronno, in contrast, is all the brat with none of the heart, being a purely self centered person and has no respect for anyone else.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Ronno's cowardly nature gets hinted at even before the climax. When he's messing with Bambi in their first meeting, he briefly gets much more timid when his mother calls out for him. Later on, after hechases Bambi and Thumper, he gets [[KnowWhenToFoldEm noticably scared and shrinks away into the bushes]] as soon as he sees the Great Prince standing right behind his son.
* ForTheEvulz: While most of what Ronno does is motivated by his jealous ambition to prove himself Bambi's superior, him rubbing it in Bambi's face that his father "gave him away" (to a stepmother) was a [[EvilIsPetty spiteful and petty act]] done solely to [[KickTheDog hit Bambi where it hurt the hardest for his own amusement.]]
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Choleric. Ronno is young, very strong willed, overconfident to the point of being arrogant, HotBlooded, [[HairTriggerTemper short-tempered]], rude, rebellious, and is driven entirely by his ego and selfish goals, which [[TheDeterminator he relentlessly pursues]]. He's also a callous, cruel and unemphatic bully and a SoreLoser who has a vengeful deep seated hatred of Bambi for [[ItsPersonal petty personal reasons]], and there's little low he won't stoop to in order to get the advantage over him.
* FriendlessBackground: Its implied he's never had any friends before meeting Bambi and co., and when his attitude when trying to make friends is shown, its not hard to piece together why. Its implied this might have been part of the reason he turned out the way he did, as he didn't grow up with strong friendships like Bambi did that helped him stay on the straight and narrow.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: He starts off as this in the midquel, since he's trying to make friends and Bambi and Faline are at least tolerant of him at first, but their opinion of him quickly sours due to Ronno's bullying personality and doesnt improve.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Downplayed. Abiding by the midquel's chronology, his increasing jealousy and hatred of Bambi embittered him from merely a childish, cowardly braggart to a sinister, terrifying beast. However, once he battles Bambi when they both reach adulthood, he doesn't last much longer than a minute.
* FuryFueledFoolishness: Ronno, with his haughty ego combined with his short temper, has a really bad habit of doing some really reckless and stupid things when he gets angry, and it ''always'' comes back to bite him in the flank.
* GenderedInsult: Besides rudely mocking Bambi's feminine name ("Bambi? Isn't that a girls name?"), he later disparagingly calls him [[MaliciousMisnaming "Princess"]] during his ReasonYouSuckSpeech.
* GloryHound: His whole motivation is getting recognized by others, and it feeds heavily into his rivalry with Bambi.
* GoodColorsEvilColors: Ronno has a much darker shade of auburn fur to set him apart from the other characters, and as a fawn he has green eyes to subtly reinforce his jealously of Bambi.
* GoldfishPoopGang: Zigzagged in the midquel. At first he's a mild and ineffectual nuisance to the other animals at worst, but the climax shows early signs of the sinister beast he grows into from the original movie.
* GreenAndMean: Downplayed. Ronno's fur color isnt green (rather a dark reddish brown), but his eye color is purposefully retconned in the midquel from also being brown to being green in the midquel for visual storytelling purposes. And to say he is mean is an understatement.
* GreenEyedMonster: Quite {{literal|Metaphor}}ly, in fact; he has green eyes and is driven by the fact that he's [[AlwaysSecondBest always playing second fiddle]] to Bambi. He fulfills the "monster" part moreso as an adult. It's hinted that his jealousy is partly because of Bambi's status as the son of The Great Prince.

* HairTriggerTemper: It doesn't take much to fluster him, even as a fawn. As a grown stag, all it takes for Bambi to set him off was unwittingly wandering into his territory.
* HatedByAll: By the end of the midquel, no one has even an ounce of respect for him at all. He's on bad terms with the rest of the cast, particularly Bambi.
* HateSink: Where do we even start? In the midquel, Ronno is made into a thoroughly obnoxious and unpleasant bully towards everyone and is '''not''' one to be trusted, and [[TheFriendNobodyLikes hes not well liked by the other animals in turn]]--[[NiceGuy Bambi]] gradually grows to hate his guts, even the [[NiceGirl kindhearted Faline]] at most grudgingly tolerates him and otherwise makes no attempt to hide her dislike of him, and Thumper and Flower's opinion of him isn't any better--its safe to say that he's made out to be the most vile on-screen character in the series as a result. Since Man is [[OutOfFocus reduced to a]] PlotIrrelevantVillain (with their hunting dogs merely being an extension of their will with no defined personalities), Ronno's role in the film exists to give the audience a physical foe to root against during Bambi's struggles. He's not ''too'' bad at the start of the film--while he already shows early warning signs of his bullying attitude and acts like an annoying braggart, you can at least ''slightly'' sympathize with him at that point [[FriendlessBackground since its shown he has no other friends]] (though his attempts at acting nice are a clearly an insincere act done just to get others to like him), but as time goes on, he [[TookALevelInJerkass progressively gets more and more repulsive]] as his rivalry with Bambi grows out of control due to a perfect storm of [[EvilIsPetty petty jealousy]] and [[EntitledBastard arrogant entitlement]]. He not only shows [[LackOfEmpathy absolutely no sympathy]] for Bambi as he's coming to terms with the loss of his mother and struggles to earn the respect of his father, he [[FlawExploitation cruelly preys on his insecurities from the situation]], later using the fact that the Great Prince sends Bambi off to live with a stepmom as ammo to crush any sense of pride he had left and goad him into a fight. In other words, the fawn is basically a [[TheSociopath sociopath in the making]]. To say the least, you ''will'' feel catharsis when Bambi [[RageBreakingPoint finally snaps]] and fights him.
* HisOwnWorstEnemy: Everything and anything bad that happens to Ronno is brought entirely on himself due to his arrogance, outlook on life, HairTriggerTemper, and not learning his lesson regardless of whatever consequences befall him. Even if Bambi hadn't entered his life, its safe to say he'd be a lost cause as a person.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: His final attempt to humiliate Bambi as a fawn not only backfires in his face directly because of his own actions, but ends up repairing the relationship between Bambi and his father and earning the young prince the respect of others in the forest even more, while outright guaranteeing that everyone else, who already treated Ronno [[TheFriendNobodyLikes with ill regard at best]], will ''never'' give him any of the respect or attention he so desperately craves.
* HornAttack: In the midquel, he's already started growing out his antlers before Bambi, which gives him an upper hand over him in combat at first.
* HotBlooded: Ronno is quite easy to fluster and is full of pride and fighting spirit.
* HumiliationConga: Basically all of Ronno's scenes in Bambi II are a veritable conga line of him making a fool of himself or getting humiliated over and over again. Its as if the filmmakers were asking themselves [[KarmicButtMonkey "How many ways can we make this jackass suffer indignation?"]]
** When he's bragging about his antler stubs to the others, it ends with him getting buried in snow after he jabs at a tree, and he gets embarrased by his mother soon after.
** Next we see him, he's making a fool of himself by trying and failing to impress Faline as he recklessly charges into a tree and keeps conking himself on the head. This quickly leads to Bambi and Thumper accidentally provoking him into a chase, which results in Bambi making an incredible leap that impresses the Great Prince, which Ronno tries and fails to recreate, landing in a muddy pond instead.
** During the montage of Bambi and his father bonding, Bambi effortlessly outruns Ronno without even trying, much to Ronno's shock.
** This culminates in Ronno goading Bambi into a fight, which results in Ronno soundly getting his butt handed to him by Bambi (though with great difficulty on the latters part). The subsequent attack by mans dogs [[DirtyCoward sends him running off screaming for his mother while Bambi saves the day]]. Last we see of him, Ronno is boasting to Bambi how they'll meet again one day, but he winds up in one more pratfall where he trips and a turtle ends up biting and clinging to his nose, sending him off screaming in pain for his mother.
** Retroactively, this all culminates in a grown up Ronno getting soundly defeated in a fight by Bambi in the original film, ending with him taking a great fall and sent limping off in humiliation.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Early in ''Bambi II'', he brags about confronting Man head on in a sneak attack and [[PsychologicalProjection disses Bambi as being a coward]] after he nearly gets killed by mans hounds. Cue the climax, and the first sign of Man attack has him running off screaming for his mother, while Bambi directly intervenes to save his stepmothers life instead of running to safety.
* IgnoredEnemy: Despite his efforts, Bambi doesnt even acknowledge Ronno at all in private, let alone as a rival, only when Ronno personally prods him into a fight. [[PostClimaxConfrontation When they last meet in the midquel]], Bambi doesnt even try wasting time saying a word to him, instead letting him dig his own grave thanks to a nearby snapping turtle. Its not until they meet again as adults that Bambi truly takes him seriously as a threat.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Subverted — Ronno is a clear case of NoRespectGuy and a foolish KarmicButtMonkey, all of which are classic symptoms of the ISV. While his pitiful nature has endeared him to some fans, it's made very clear that his [[SmallNameBigEgo arrogance]] and [[EntitledBastard selfishness]] is the primary instigator of his bullying, and his actions as a result of this almost gets both Bambi and Mena killed as a result of his irrational determination to prove himself superior to Bambi.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Ronno suffers from his badly. He simply cannot accept that Bambi is his better in virtually every way.
* InsufferableImbecile: Downplayed. Ronno isn't particularly ''stupid'', more shortsighted and reckless, but he is ''definetely'' insufferable.
* InterimVillain: Ronno serves as this for the films midquel, as Man is DemotedToExtra and otherwise has little direct involvement in the plot.
* {{Irony}}: In the midquel, he makes certainly false boasts of taking on Man single-handed. Rather poetically, that's exactly what [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter Bambi]] did in the second novel.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Ronno is an extremely self-centered and all around selfish person with a big ego to match.
* ItsPersonal: His rivalry with Bambi stems entirely from petty envy he has towards the young prince constantly upstaging him with seemingly little effort.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Deconstructed. Ronno ''does'' want to have friends, but only on his terms.
* JerkassToOne: A variant 2 type. Ronno is an all-around asshole to everyone in the midquel, but he's ''especially'' cruel to Bambi, constantly insulting him, scaring him, and even physically abusing him.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He's as mean as Bambi is [[NiceGuy nice]]. However in the climax of the midquel, when Bambi is sent off to live off with Mena, Ronno shows up to see off Bambi, [[BaitTheDog seemingly going to offer his condolences for moving]]...only to use the opportunity to [[KickTheDog smugly hit him where it hurts the hardest]] by implying to him that his father thinks so little of him that he'd "give [him] away."
* JerkJock: The deer equivalent, as he usually prefers intimidating others physically when they don't do as he wants.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: As yearlings, Bambi finally gives him what he deserves when he fights him to defend Faline, ending with Ronno being soundly defeated and forced to limp off in humiliation.
* KarmicButtMonkey: Especially in the midquel, when Ronno suffers many a humiliation and AmusingInjuries for his awful attitude and nobody treat him with an ounce of dignity. He also gets his butt thoroughly handed to him by Bambi in the first film for trying to make a move on Faline.
* KickTheDog: Already dissing him as a coward after hearing Bambi nearly got mauled by a pack of hunting dogs after freezing in fear, by far the cruelest thing he does to Bambi in the midquel is rub it in his face that his father was sending him off to live with Mena, smugly wording it that his dad thought so little of him that he wanted to "give you away.", done purely to spite Bambi and goad him into a fight.
* KidsAreCruel:
** In the manga adaptation, Ronno is depicted as being [[ToxicFriendInfluence a bad influence on Bambi]] and deliberately tricks him into wandering into Man's territory just for kicks.
** In the midquel, Ronno has a personality that screams "sociopath in the making" and is an insensitive, arrogant jerk who becomes angry, even violent, over the pettiest of slights.
* KiddieKid: He may be older than Bambi and his friends, but he's actually ''less'' mature than any of them, and when he's not putting on a tough show, he's a pathetic MommasBoy.
* KnightOfCerebus: While he poses nowhere near the level of threat that Man does, when he shows up in the original movie and in the climax of the midquel, things get much more serious in tone from then on.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm:
** When an adult isnt around to help Bambi, he's more than willing to pick on him, but as soon as the Great Prince shows up behind them, he fearfully realizes he's in over his head and retreats into the nearby shrubbery until they leave.
** As soon as the mere presence of Man rears its ugly head, Ronno immediately drops the fight with Bambi and takes off for dear life.
* LackOfEmpathy:
** You'd think he'd be nicer to Bambi considering he just lost his mother to Man and is still coming to terms with it. No; Ronno [[KickTheDog uses the opportunity to humiliate Bambi]] when he discovers Bambi froze in fear when he got tricked by one of Man's deer calls and nearly got killed by a pack of hunting dogs.
** He deliberately annoys people around him, yet gets [[{{Hypocrite}} downright incensed when someone else deliberately slights him.]]
** When the Great Prince sends Bambi away to live with a stepmother, Ronno immediately jumps on the opportunity to use it to humiliate Bambi even more by implying his father was so ashamed of him that he "(gave him) away." And after he nearly gets Bambi and Mena killed by accident, not only does he ''not'' owe up to his actions afterward, he immediately boasts about how [[WeWillMeetAgain he'll get even with Bambi for besting him in a fight eventually]].
* LargeHam: Subtlety is not his strong suit as a fawn, especially when he gets angry. This is inverted when hes grown up, as he doesn't say a single word (and only has sparse dialogue in a couple of the comic adaptations) and lets his actions do the talking.
* LastVillainStand: Ronno's childhood rivalry with Bambi culminates in him getting utterly humiliated and sent packing, promising to return eventually. This retroactively escalates into their meeting as yearlings, where Ronno engages in an absolutely brutal fight with his rival, though Bambi eventually emerges as the victor.
* LaughablyEvil: As much of an [[HateSink unrepentant asshole as he may he]], he's also so downright ''pathetic'' and petty that his bad luck or many pratfalls that he [[KarmicButtMonkey brings on himself]] provide a lot of the midquels comic relief.
* LetsGetDangerous: In the climax of the midquel, Ronno briefly drops his usual [[LargeHam hamminess]] in favor of a [[TranquilFury more calm, composed, and surprisingly creepy demeanor]] in the moments before he fights Bambi.
* LightningBruiser: As an adult in the first film, he is basically equal in speed and strength to Bambi. While he's AlwaysSecondBest in the midquel, he still puts up a vicious fight in their scuffle.
* MaliciousMisnaming: In his ReasonYouSuckSpeech to Bambi, he starts it right off by disparagingly referring to him as "Princess".
* MeetMyGoodFriendsLeftyAndRighty: Calls his antlers "Stab" and "Jab". Or collectively, "[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything the boys]]".
* MightMakesRight: The main source of Ronno's [[EntitledBastard sense of entitlement]], as he's older and (at first) physically stronger than Bambi.
* MilesGloriosus: In his child form at least. Despite his boasting and being older than Bambi or Faline, he's actually more immature than either of them, and [[DirtyCoward he is usually the first to run from even the slightest threat]].
-->'''Ronno:''' [[IWantMyMommy MOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMYYYYYY!!!!]]
* MinorInjuryOverreaction: While standing up to Ronno as he harasses Faline, Bambi gets pushed into Ronno by Thumper in an attempt to make Bambi seem braver. Ronno at most gets knocked onto his bad and has a bit of mud splotched on his face. Uninjured but with his pride wounded, Ronno is set off enough to immediately chase after both of them with the intent of beating them up.
* MisplacedRetribution: After their second meeting in the midquel, Ronno is almost universally defined by his hatred for Bambi. Although Bambi did stand up to him and unwittingly humiliated Ronno afterward, he didnt intentionally provoke him into chasing him — Thumper did by shoving Bambi right into him, not to mention he, not Bambi, was the one [[IShallTauntYou taunting him]] after they successfully escape him. But since Ronno is so singlemindedly obsessed with getting even with Bambi (which is implied to be out of jealousy that he's the son of the Great Prince), he doesn't acknowledge Thumper's role in their rivalry (though he doesn't have any issue with chasing both him and Bambi), mainly due to the fact that Thumper is at most a harmless nuisance to him (with Ronno at most mocking him as being a cutesy little rabbit), and otherwise has no personal beef with him.
* MommasBoy: Though based on all his boasting and posturing, he doesn't want to admit it. It's implied that his mother [[SpoiledBrat spoils him by putting up with his awful attitude]]. Thumper outright insults him as being one.
* MoralMyopia: He hates Bambi for constantly upstaging him and wants nothing more than to prove himself his better if not just get even with him, but Ronno himself is an arrogant sociopath who views himself as better than everyone else, and virtually all of the humiliation he goes through was brought entirely on himself and had nothing to do with Bambi's own actions.
* MotiveDecay: His initial motive is to try and make friends ([[ItsAllAboutMe on his own terms]]) and [[EntitledToHaveYou force Faline to like him]], but his priorities shift to wanting revenge on Bambi above all else due to the latter constantly upstaging Ronno without even trying.
* NamedInTheSequel: In the first film, Ronno has no name, no dialogue, vague characterization, and is essentially a RandomEncounter. It wasn't until the mid-quel that he's named on-screen.
* {{Narcissist}}: To go hand in hand with his huge ego, Ronno is extraordinarily selfish and is a very self-absorbed AttentionWhore. A large chunk of his screentime is just him trying (and failing) to flaunt how superior he is to everyone else around him.
* NeverMyFault: He takes out his anger on Bambi for his shortcomings rather than take responsibility for his actions. After Mena nearly gets mauled by a pack of dogs thanks to his fight with Bambi, not only does he ''not'' owe up to his mistake, but instead makes it clear he still he has a bone to pick with Bambi.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:Throughout the midquel, he was unintentionally the catalyst for a lot of Bambi's CharacterDevelopment, as well as strengthening the bond between him and his father, and ultimately reuniting them during the climax.]]
* NoNonsenseNemesis: As a yearling, in stark contrast to how he acted as a fawn, Ronno wastes absolutely no time bragging, boasting or insulting his rival when they meet again; in fact, he doesn't so much as [[TheVoiceless say a word to Bambi]]--[[TranquilFury his perpetual scowl and aggressive posture says it all]]. He immediately gets down to business trying to claim Faline for himself and brutally fighting off Bambi when he gets in his way.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: To further distinguish him from Bambi and Faline in the midquel, he notably does not have spots, already has antler stubs growing out and has a noticeably different facial design. This also extends to his adult appearance, as his antlers and perpetual scowl instantly make him distinguishable from the other deer.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: Ronno's prowess as a fawn only comes off as remarkable in comparison to the younger fawns and animals he likes to pick on (and even thats not saying much, as Bambi manages to outrun, outjump and out''fight'' him). When he's put up against a ''real'' threat like Man and his hounds, he immediately crumbles like a deck of cards.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: In the midquel, his fawn counterpart is mostly just an ineffectual bully and very buffoonish. After he gets aggravated by Bambi one too many times however, he confronts and cruelly goads him into a fight, taking on a far more vicious and sinister air that foreshadows his later years.
* NoRespectGuy: A villainous example rather than a herioc one. No matter what Ronno does or how hard he tries to impress anyone, ''everybody'' regards him as an annoying joke. Considering Ronno's ego, [[DudeWheresMyRespect he doesn't take it very well.]] Rather ironically, Bambi, the focus of a lot of his antagonism, was the nearest to being genuinely amazed by him at first (see SarcasmBlind below).
* NoSocialSkills: Ronno doesn't seem to know how to not be extremely rude, threatening, or how to stop hurling insults at people or bragging for attention each time the chance presents itself. On top of that, hes SarcasmBlind ([[{{Irony}} despite having a snarky personality himself]]), [[CantTakeCriticism and is rather poor at taking criticism]], misinterpreting an innocent remark by Bambi (about his story of attacking Man) as calling him a liar.
* NothingIsScarier: In the original film, he has zero speaking lines and nothing is given to establish his character, leaving only his ominous, intimidating presence and imposing threat between Bambi and Faline. Even with the midquel giving his character context, it's rather chilling wondering how he turned from a loud mouthed pipsqueak into ''that''....
* ObviouslyEvil: His Auburn fur color is visibly darker than the others fawns and he has [[GreenEyedMonster green eyes as a red flag]], is [[SmallNameBigEgo undeservedly arrogant]] and rude to everyone he interacts with at ''best'' and an outright [[TheSociopath sociopath in the making at worst]], and relentlessly bullies the Young Prince, who is clearly going through great hardship in his personal life, [[EvilIsPetty purely out of petty jealousy]].
* ObliviousToHisOwnDescription: Kinda. After Bambi has a mishap with an ornery porcupine, Ronno uses the chance to talk down to Bambi, snidely saying "Don't feel bad. If we didn't have cowards, we couldn't tell who the brave ones are." This becomes ironic considering what he see both [[HeroicSacrifice Bambi]] and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Ronno]] do later on.
* OhCrap:
** As soon as he sees the Great Prince standing right behind Bambi, he slowly shrinks in fear into the nearby shrubbery.
** His reaction to the idea of actually facing Man is straight up terror.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Subverted. He brags about having taken on Man head-on, but this is [[BlatantLies clearly a humbug he made up to impress Faline]], given he runs off screaming at the very idea of actually confronting Man later on. It is possible that he at least got a look at how they make deer calls (he had to learn about it somehow) but embellished the part about attacking them to make himself look better.
* OpportunisticBastard: As soon as he discovers Bambi is being sent off to live with a stepmother by his father, he immediately springs at the chance to use it to insult and humiliate Bambi right to his face and goad him into a fight.
* OutOfCharacterIsSeriousBusiness: You know things have gotten bad when Ronno ''isn't'' acting like his usual cocky, go-getting self. When the threat of Man rears its ugly head in the climax of Bambi II, Ronno makes absolutely no attempt to live up to his earlier boasts of taking Man head on--in fact, he's downright ''terrified'' and runs off screaming for his mother to help him.
* PaperTiger: For all his bullying, athletic chops and bragging of impressive feats like taking on Man head-on, Bambi is ultimately his superior--he manages to outrun him on two different occasions, outjump him, and he hands Ronno his flank to him in both of their fights with each other. Besides that, he's a complete coward (and a MommasBoy on top of that) when it comes to actually facing the threat of Man when it rears its ugly head. This changes when he grows up, as he briefly becomes a legitimate threat to Bambi in combat.
* PerpetualFrowner: As a yearling, his head is designed in such a way that it looks like he's always scowling. The antlers are designed to help frame this scowl as well.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Even as a fawn, he's quite physically strong and fast and can at least match Bambi near blow for blow in a fight.
* PlotIrrelevantVillain: While Ronno is the closest thing the films have to an on-screen antagonist, his role in both the original movie and most of the midquel is just to be another obstacle for Bambi to overcome. In the original film, he was just a completely random fight for Bambi to overcome and help finally cement his and Faline's love for one another, and in the midquel, the real conflict is driven by Bambi trying to earn the love and respect of his father, as Man's role is [[DemotedToExtra nowhere as prominent a threat]]. While he does torment Bambi at points and accidentally prods him into performing a leap that impresses the Great Prince, Ronno doesnt directly move the plot forward until the climax, where his actions indirectly spur the climax into action and [[NiceJobFixingItVillain unwittingly becomes the catalyst in Bambi and his father finally bonding.]]
* PluckyComicRelief: PlayedWith. Ronno has more of a role himself than just being behind jokes, but he ends up being one of the primary sources of comic relief in the midquel because of his status as a truly pathetic [[TheChewToy walking punching bag]] to the world around him.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Besides being a bully, [[EmbarrassingFirstName he mocks Bambi for having a "girls name"]] and later [[MaliciousMisnaming disparaingly calls him "Princess"]], likely for his effeminate and demure nature. He also displays mildly misogynistic behavior towards Faline as a fawn (which escalates into implied AttemptedRape when they're yearlings).
* PostClimaxConfrontation: In the midquels epilogue, which is implied to take place several days after the events of the films climax, Ronno shows up to make it clear to Bambi that WeWillMeetAgain. Fortunately, Bambi doesn't have to lift a hoof to deal with it--Ronno's sudden mishap with a turtle does the job for him instead.
* {{Pride}}: Among Ronno's defining traits is his arrogant, haughty attitude.
* PrideBeforeAFall: This happens constantly to Ronno throughout Bambi II, as if to hammer home that [[AntiRoleModel his haughty attitude is absolutely no way to get through life.]]
* PrinceCharmingWannabe: Goes hand-in-hand with his [[AlwaysSecondBest constant placings in second]] and obnoxious attitude.
* PrinceCharmless: In reality, Ronno is closer to this, despite thinking of himself as a PrinceCharming. At any rate, Faline is unimpressed by him at best if not downright repulsed by him.
* PrivilegedRival: Both played straight and {{inverted|Trope}}. On the one hand, he's older, stronger, and much more belligerent and go-getting than Bambi, which places him higher in the mating competition hierarchy. On the other hand, Bambi is [[RoyalBlood the son of The Great Prince]] and makes an accidental habit of [[AlwaysSecondBest upstaging Ronno multiple times]], something that fuels Ronno's jealous hatred of him.
* PsychologicalProjection: He loves to denigrate Bambi as being a coward while championing himself as a brave and noble fawn. [[{{Hypocrite}} Its all talk]] and his ego imposing his own flaws on his rival; when the chips are down, Ronno is a [[DirtyCoward complete coward]] who [[ItsAllAboutMe only cares about saving his own hide]], while [[TheSoCalledCoward Bambi]] is the one who acts selflessly and brave in the face of danger--apparently Ronno never realized that ''bravery'' isn't necessarily the same thing as ''fearlessness''.
* PutOnABus: Curiously, Ronno does not appear at all in ''Bambi's Children'', whether it be the book or Disney's comic book adaptation of it. He isn't even mentioned in passing. Instead, Bambi's son Geno gets a [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute superficially similar new rival]] when he grows up, Boso, though unlike Ronno, Geno and Boso eventually form a friendship after Geno saves him once he gets shot in the shoulder by a hunter.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When Bambi is at his lowest emotional point after being sent off to live with a stepmom by his father, Ronno swiftly uses the opportunity to hit him where it hurts the hardest for his own amusement.
-->'''Ronno:''' "Hello, [[MaliciousMisnaming Princess]]. You're not leaving without saying goodbye? And I thought we were pals. I feel for you. Gosh, I really do. It's gotta be hard to have a father that's so ashamed of you that he'd ''give you away''".
* TheResenter: He was very resentful towards Bambi for always being stronger than him as a fawn, to the point where it fuels his rivalry towards him.
* {{Revenge}}: Ronno doesn't really have goals as much as he has grudges. His entire modus-operendi is just spiting Bambi if he so much as inconveniences him, all because he thinks he's a weakling and is entitled to more attention and respect than him.
* RevengeBeforeReason: He has ''nothing'' to gain from bullying Bambi beyond petulant ego gratification and amusement; if anything, if he actually did get away with it, [[VillainBall it would have undoubtedly landed him in hot water]] with the Great Prince (who '''no''' deer in the forest, [[KnowWhenToFoldEm not even Ronno]], wants to get on the bad side of) or his own mother, and further sour the other children's opinion of him even more.
* RetCon: Ronno's heated childhood rivalry with Bambi is this. Not only was it something that was never present in the novel, there was nothing indicating in the original movie that Bambi or Ronno even knew each other before or had a prior history (though the comic adaptations imply that they at least know who he is). The midquels expansion of Bambi's backstory thus added more to the characters relationships retroactively.
* TheRival: In the midquel, Ronno is at odds with Bambi on a variety of matters.
* RivalTurnedEvil: He starts off as a mere bully to Bambi, but as the midquel goes on and he grows up, he becomes an outright EvilCounterpart and ArchEnemy of Bambi.
* RoundedCharacter: While Bambi is by no means a FlatCharacter, Ronno ironically has a much more fleshed out personality than him in the midquel despite having far less screentime in comparison (ironic considering he had virtually no personality at all in the first film) due to his much more proactive and aggressive characterization (while Bambi is certainly trying to achieve his own goals, he's a [[PinballProtagonist relatively passive protagonist in comparison]]) and giving him clear and believable motivations for his bullying, as well as his laundry list of notable character flaws compared to his much more heroic rival. It could easily be argued that Ronno is the most fleshed out of all the characters in the midquel, if not the ''entire series'', next to the Great Prince of the Forest.
* {{Sadist}}: Ronno really gets a kick out of bullying others weaker than him, especially in regards to how he treats Bambi.
* SameCharacterButDifferent: Ronno as a fawn is so heavily expanded upon as a character in the midquel compared to his [[FlatCharacter vague personality]] in the first film and its tie-in materials (and so drastically different from how he's portrayed in the novel) that a new viewer would be forgiven for thinking he was a CanonForeigner made up for it instead of the younger form of Bambi's future rival.
* SatelliteCharacter: He basically exists just so Bambi can have a physical adversary to deal with (Man is on its own playing field compared to the animals, but never directly appears in the movies), and he's seldom seen interacting with anyone besides Bambi or Faline--at most, he just acts dismissive towards Thumper and Flower.
* SarcasmBlind: After hearing Ronno bragging, Faline compliments his story as being "almost unbelievable" in a subtle sarcastic tone. Bambi, not catching on repeats that with sincere interest. Ronno is then convinced ''Bambi'' was mocking him.
* SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp: Ronno becomes this as he becomes a hulking and rage-filled buck as a yearling, though the bully aspect of him was established retroactively via the manga adaptation of Bambi and then the midquel decades later.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Ronno lets out a shrill and terrified [[IWantMyMommy "Mommy!"]] when the threat of Man shows up in the climax.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: As soon as the threat of Man rears its ugly head near him, he immediately heads for the hills.
* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: He cannot ''stand'' being AlwaysSecondBest to Bambi, which ends up fueling his hateful and petty rivalry towards him.
* SelfDisposingVillain: In the PostClimaxConfrontation of the midquel, Bambi doesn't even bother directly dealing with Ronno as he boasts to him; he simply stands by and lets him walk right into the path of a snapping turtle, who bites his nose and sends him running off wailing while Bambi and friends share a laugh at his expense.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Zigzagged, although Ronno acts more macho than Bambi, he is actually even more emotional, especially when it comes to showing anger. While Bambi can certainly get heated at times, he has a long fuse and you have to ''really'' hit a raw nerve to get him angry, whereas Ronno is basically [[HairTriggerTemper a ticking time bomb who will lose it at even the slightest provocation.]]
* SequelNonEntity: He isn't so much as mentioned in the comic adaptation of ''Bambi's Children'', with Geno's cousin Boso serving as a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute in his absence.
* SevenDeadlySins: Ronno is guilty of five of them. He is [[EntitledBastard extremely arrogant]], [[AttentionWhore greedy for any kind of attention]], is [[DrivenByEnvy spitefully envious of Bambi]], lusts after Faline (though this is more prominent as an adult), and is short tempered, impatient and prone to violence. The only boxes he doesn't check off is gluttony and sloth--he is certainly not a lazy person, if anything being [[AmbitionIsEvil too ambitious and for the wrong reasons]]).
* ShadowArchetype: Ronno basically exists to be the polar opposite of Bambi, and gives an idea of what a pugnacious jerk he could have easily become if he didnt have a strong moral compass and sense of responsibility instilled into him by his family and friends to guide him and not let his ego or privilege go to his head.
* SingleTargetSexuality: The only doe he's interested in is Faline. It's completely one-sided on his part, as she cannot stand Ronno.
* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: The trailers and ads for the midquel put the focus entirely on Bambi and his father's relationship, and don't so much as even allude to Ronno's expanded role in the film.
* SlidingScaleOfAntagonistVileness: Ronno falls straight into the Least Sympathetic end of it, if not the Permanently Unsympathetic part of it.
* SlidingScaleOfVillainEffectiveness: Ronno belongs in the Low Threat end of the scale. He's usually a foolish bully and nuisance at worst.
* SlidingScaleOfVillainThreat: Ronno falls squarely into the Local Area Threat. He's only a threat compared to the other small group of animals he bullies, and [[NormalFishInATinyPond not even that much of one as is.]]
* SmallNameBigEgo: He has a very overinflated opinion on himself and his skills, [[NormalFishInATinyPond which are mildly impressive compared to the other fawns at best.]] And getting his ego deflated constantly not only fails to humble him each time, [[TookALevelInJerkAss but only adds more fuel to the fire instead.]]
* SmallRoleBigImpact: In both movies, he doesn't get all that much screentime, but he unwittingly helps reinforce Bambi and Faline's love for each other as adults, and he has a significant role and a much more fleshed out personality in the midquel despite still having a relatively small amount of time on-screen in it (roughly 7 to 8 minutes total).
* SmugSmiler: Ronno often sports an arrogant smile as a fawn due to his cocky personality, but as a yearling he switches to being a PerpetualFrowner instead.
* SmugSnake: As a byproduct of his arrogant attitude, Ronno is a real smartass who constantly speaks in a condescending sarcastic tone of voice to others (Bambi in particular) and loves to rudely insult them to take them down a notch, and is clearly full of himself, pretentiously thinking he's better than everyone else. In reality, he's a foolish, immature and selfish brat who deserves no respect from anyone, and at best he's a mildly strong bully who has a very bad tendency to overestimate himself and underestimate his opponent and situation, which often leads to many a BreakTheHaughty moment for him.
* TheSociopath: As a fawn, Ronno is gradually shown to have nearly all of the defining traits of one. He is [[HairTriggerTemper quick to anger]] and prone to violence if things dont go his way, [[LackOfEmpathy he is devoid of any empathy or conscience]] to speak of (to the extent that he's [[BrattyHalfPint even disrespectful to his own mother]]), [[ConsummateLiar tries to stack the deck in his favor]], [[AttentionWhore always tries to put the spotlight on himself without earning it]], [[ItsAllAboutMe completely puts his own desires before anyone elses]], and on top of all that, he is extremely arrogant, having a completely undeserved sense of [[EntitledBastard entitlement]] and [[{{Pride}} self-importance]] and shows absolutely no respect towards anyone else, not even the son of the Great Prince. It's {{subverted|trope}} as he does [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas love his mother]] deep down.
* SoreLoser: He does not take losing to Bambi well, which only fans the flames for his bullying towards him.
* SpoiledBrat: Its implied that Ronno's mother spoils him by putting up with his lousy attitude, hence why he's such a petulant MommasBoy.
* StartOfDarkness: The midquel serves as one for Ronno, showing just how a fawn could gradually devolve into the hulking monster he became in the original movie.
* StrongerThanTheyLook: As with Bambi, he's surprisingly strong even as a fawn, being capable of making very long leaps (though he just slightly falls short of Bambi's leap over a chasm) and can put up a good one-on-one fight when he wants to.
* StupidEvil: Probably his primary flaw is that he prioritizes indulging his own ego over doing things that would actually benefit him or others, which causes trouble for not only Bambi and friends but himself as well.
* SuddenlyVoiced: Unlike the original movie, where he doesn't have a single line of dialogue, Ronno is fully voiced in the midquel. The newspaper comic adaptation, the first Dell Comic adaptation and the manga give him some small bits of dialogue too. As if to highlight the irony, Ronno does all the talking in their climatic fight in the midquel, while the furious Bambi doesn't so much as utter a single word.
* SummonBiggerFish: Ronno unwittingly pulls this on ''[[HoistByHisOwnPetard himself]]'' when his attempt to continue fighting against Bambi accidentally gets Mena knocked into a trap set by Man, which immediately alerts a pack of his hunting dogs to their presence.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Ronno may be able to intimidate others with his apt ability, but his bullying and haughty, anti-social attitude guarantees that he will ''never'' earn their friendship or respect in the way Bambi does, since Ronno basically expects everything to go entirely his way out of entitlement.
* ThinSkinnedBully: Ronno loves imposing over others weaker than him, but immediately gets annoyed or rouses with anger whenever anyone so much as [[CantTakeCriticism criticises him]] or stands up to him.
* TookALevelInBadass: Timeline wise, he grows from a cowardly, dimwitted bully to a rather sinister, hulking deer.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Ronno starts off a mere childish bully towards Bambi when they first meet. The midquel shows him embitter into a more personal rival, obsessed with besting and diminutizing Bambi. Taking this as CharacterDevelopment into the original film adds to his sinister form as an adult, who even seems to provide an animal example of ([[ImpliedTrope implied]]) AttemptedRape when he tries forcing Faline apart from Bambi.
* TranquilFury: At the end of the midquel and in the first film. When Ronno ''does'' hit his RageBreakingPoint, he becomes very calm, scowls and tries to ''kill'' Bambi on the spot. It's, [[NightmareFuel surprisingly unsettling]].
* TrashTalk: Ronno loves belittling and insulting Bambi to make himself seem better or to just get a rise out of him.
* TruthInTelevision: Ronno's behaviour, both as a fawn and adult, is actually much closer to the real life behaviour of deer than any other deer in the series besides the Great Prince. Real wild deer can get very pugnacious and hormonal and operate in a strict "survival of the fittest" and MightMakesRight heirarchy--real life would be nowhere as kind to his rival, and he'd probably be a dominant alpha male as an adult. Fortunately for Bambi and unfortunately for Ronno, the movies arent real life.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Ronno has a bad habit of getting in over his head in a fight, failing to take Bambi seriously due to his more demure nature. This ends with him getting his flank handed to him in both of the times they fought together.
* TheUnfettered: There is little low that Ronno won't stoop too to get what he wants, which extends to him trying to kill Bambi as an adult so he can have Faline all to himself.
* UnskilledButStrong: For a fawn, he's quite physically apt, but he's clearly not very bright and his arrogance constantly makes him do really reckless and stupid things.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His actions in the climax of the midquel nearly get Bambi and Mena killed by hunting dogs. Ironically, this also [[NiceJobFixingItVillain ends up galvanizing the relationship between Bambi and his father]].
* VeryPunchableMan: Ronno retroactively becomes this via the midquel due to becoming a full on HateSink and KarmicButtMonkey, but Bambi doesn't really get to let loose on him until they're yearlings.
* VillainsActHeroesReact: Played with. At first, Ronno is a much more proactive and assertive character than his rival Bambi, who has [[PinballProtagonist a very passive personality in comparison and initially has no control of the events going on around him as a child,]] and ''never'' intentionally instigates a conflict like Ronno does. If anything, part of the reason Bambi even learns to become more assertive and take the initiative is because [[CreateYourOwnHero Ronno's bullying unwittingly prods him into doing it.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: For instance, last we see him as a fawn, after boasting to Bambi about how they'll meet again, Ronno slips up and gets his nose bit by a nearby turtle, and he's reduced to a panicking mess as he runs off in pain for his mom while begging someone to get it off.
* VillainExitStageLeft: As a yearling, after being throughly defeated by Bambi, he's last seen limping off to parts unknown. The midquel trades this off by having Ronno [[ExitPursuedByABear comically running off after yet another painful and humiliating pratfall instead.]]
* VillainHasAPoint: A bullying antagonist and HateSink he may be, but Ronno turned out to be absolutely correct on how Man had a device to make themselves sound like a deer.
* VillainousCrush: In both movies, he wants Faline for himself and tries to drive her away from Bambi. Its completely one-sided on his part, as Faline clearly finds him unpleasant to be around.
* VillainousUnderdog: A particularly interesting case. He's ''supposed'' to be [[HateSink an unlikable bully]], but he's also such a hopelessly pitiful character [[BornUnlucky due to the sheer misfortune he keeps bringing on himself]] in spite of his [[AmbitionIsEvil very ambitious nature]] (as opposed to Bambi, who has a [[PinballProtagonist much more passive personality]] in comparison), that he boomerangs back into being a an IneffectualSympatheticVillain in the eyes of some viewers. It helps that his catalyst is that, while a palpable threat for the meek Bambi, [[TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin he can never best him outright]].
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: Despite being nowhere near the threat level of Man, and being in a lighthearted family film, and having some humorous qualities as a result of being a pitiful KarmicButtMonkey, Ronno still manages to stand out for being a cruel, unpleasant, and sociopathic creep with whose worst moments are not PlayedForLaughs.
* TheVoiceless: In the original film, he has absolutely no spoken dialogue (the Dell Comic adaptations of the movie and the manga do give him several lines and name him on-panel).
* WeWillMeetAgain: The last time Ronno meets Bambi in the midquel, he boasts to Bambi about how he'll be back again one day, [[ExitPursuedByABear just before he winds up in another pratfall that get his nose bitten by a turtle and sends him off screaming for his mom.]]
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Probably the one defining scene that sums up how selfless and noble Bambi is and how selfish and self-serving Ronno is in mere moments is the part where Ronno accidentally gets Mena caught in a trap set by Man. Despite Mena actually begging Bambi to run and save himself, he chooses to selflessly distract the dogs onto him and save her life. Ronno, on the other hand, despite boasting about taking on Man head on earlier and denigrating Bambi as a coward, [[DirtyCoward immediately takes off in terror, screaming for his mother.]]
* YouAreWhatYouHate: Ronno disses Bambi as being a coward in an early attempt to kick him down a notch, even though Ronno himself is revealed to be one later on.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: Ronno only has a passing resemblance to his adult self as a fawn, having completely different fur and eye colors. He also has a much wider range of expression, whereas his adult self has a [[PerpetualFrowner perpetual scowl fixed on his face.]] This is undoubtedly a big factor in why some viewers don't immediately recognize him as the stag Bambi fought in the first movie in a younger form.
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[[folder:The Hunter(s) / "Man"]]
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The unseen antagonist of the film, an unknown deer-hunter (or several) responsible for the death of Bambi's mother.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: The novel ''Bambi's Children'' can be considered such, since it is the only interpretation that humanises them individually over playing them a mostly ambiguous force of nature to the forest animals. Disney's ComicBookAdaptation even breaks the film's lore to maintain this, showing humans in person and giving them characterisation.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: [[DownplayedTrope Heavily downplayed]]. In the movie, it's left completely ambiguous what their feelings of the animals are, but [[WordOfGod per word of the original animators below]], [[ObliviouslyEvil they're completely unaware of how cruel their actions are]]--at any rate, Man's actions in the film are by no means portrayed in a sympathetic light. In the novel, the hunter who kills Bambi's mother (and a lot of other animals, too) is CruellaToAnimals and makes his intentions perfectly clear by sadistically ''[[EvilLaugh laughing]]'' the whole time as he remorselessly slaughters them one by one.
* AntiVillain: [[Creator/DisneysNineOldMen According to animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston]] in their book ''Literature/TheDisneyVillain'', Man is this, simply because [[ObliviouslyEvil he had no comprehension of the pain and terror he was inflicting on what he simply thought were mindless animals.]]
-->"The biggest threat, of course, is from the predator, man, and his gun. As victims, the deer have no way of combating this foe and must suffer the consequences. Man, for his part, has no thought or understanding of the pain he has inflicted on the wild animals by pursing his own personal desires. There is no villainy in his heart when he kills Bambi's mother, yet to the audience, this is an event that stays with them for the rest of their lives."
* BigDamnHeroes: In the second novel ''Bambi's Children'' and Disney's comic adaptation, a gamekeeper more than once saves Bambi's family from hostile forces.
* BigBad: They are central antagonists to Bambi and the other animals. They even kill Bambi's mother at one point.
* CreepyCrows: In the second film, Man's appearances are forewarned by a flock of crows crying out a distorted "MAN!" in what seems to be a mix of a human voice and a bird call.
* ADogNamedDog: He's a human male who is only ever referred to as "Man."
* TheDreaded: All the forest animals are terrified of him. All other hazards of forest life pale in comparison to His ability to kill from a distance and seemingly at will. In the novel, animals who encounter His scent for the first time barely have enough presence of mind to run away.
* EldritchAbomination: From the animals' perspective, at least. The original novel goes to great lengths to hammer home just how alien and terrifying the mere ''presence'' of a human, much less their unusual appearance and actions, are to a normal animal, to the extent that some believe they have a fire burning inside of them and that a hunters gun is a "third hand" that can kill without touching. Even early on in the book and the first film, the fear of encountering one of them is so great that Bambi's mother exercises extreme caution when she steps out into the meadow to make absolutely sure that there is no threat to her or Bambi present. This is averted in the sequel novel and its comic adaptation, which humanizes them considerably.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: In the novel, the hunters are known by the animals simply as "He" or "Him", plural "Hes", [[CapitalLettersAreMagic always in proper case]], while the films refer to them solely as "Man".
* EvilLaugh: In the novel, the unseen hunter in the wintertime lets out a very chilling series of "Ho ho! Ha ha!"s as he ruthlessly shoots down the animals in his line of sight.
* EvilPoacher: He (or at least the one who kills Bambi's mom and the other animals) is unambiguously evil in the novel. The films do not present Man's actions in a positive light either, but muddle it as to whether man is being intentionally manevolent or not (though Frank and Ollie stated it was the latter). ''Bambi's Children'' downplays this further by presenting man in a more positive light, showing they can be either good or bad to the animals.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: In an early draft for the film, there was a scene planned in which Bambi's dad showed Bambi the charred corpse of a man[[note]]implying that the hunters [[LaserGuidedKarma did not survive the forest fire caused by their own unattended campfire]][[/note]], so Bambi would learn that not even Man could escape death's clutches. Walt Disney [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids found the scene too graphic]] and cut it.
* {{The Ghost}}s:
** The Disney interpretation. At one point in the first film's production process, a hunter's shadow was to appear the first time Bambi and family were fleeing, but even that brief appearance was cut. The closest thing he gets to an on-screen appearance is the glint of a distant rifle scope in the interquel. The Dell comic adaptation ''does'' show a few men in the far distance when Bambi and the Great Prince are watching their camp, but they're so far away that their facial features are completely indecipherable, and we get a one panel glimpse of the rifle used to shoot Bambi in the shoulder. Note that this is not the case in the novel, where Bambi sees man on a few occasions, and some copies of the novel come with illustrations of them.
** However, Disney's ComicBookAdaptation of ''Bambi's Children'' pulled TheReveal to match the novel, showing humans in person to develop on the story's more sympathetic light on them.
* GreaterScopeVillain: In the midquel for the most part. While Bambi does almost fall prey to a hunter early on, most of the conflict is between him and his father, while the climax involves Man's hunting dogs rather than Man themselves.
* HumansAreCthulhu: More so in the first novel than in the second or the films. The first novel has a darker tone that extends to the portrayal of the hunters as well. In the films, he is more of an occasional hazard; but in the novel he always comes with a foreboding atmosphere and is viewed as all powerful, ultimately inescapable and so terrifying that deer can barely bring themselves to run away. The second novel {{downplay|edTrope}}s the trope greatly, with the animals understanding that humans somehow use an object (the "thunder-stick") to kill, although the operation of firearms remains beyond their ken. It also delves into sympathetic humans such as the gamekeeper that nurses Bambi's daughter Gurri, with the animals understanding man can kill ''or'' help them.
** In the movie, Man is a powerful and deadly UnseenEvil. He stalks the forest and all that it's shown is a shadow and His sounds.
* HumansKillWantonly: Though not intentional in the film (he was not shown as an attempt to strike a balance between not vilifying hunters while also averting NoAntagonist, which kids would not understand), it, like the first novel, nevertheless tends to send this message. The second novel [[DownplayedTrope tones it down]] by introducing, among other things, the concept of "open" and "closed" seasons.
* KnightOfCerebus: Any scene with Man in it darkens the mood and sets a tense atmosphere, with a few characters dying by Man's hands, with Bambi's mother being the most noticeable.
* {{Leitmotif}}: The first film gives them a chilling {{ostinato}} of three chromatically ascending notes: B♭-B-C. The story goes that Music/JohnWilliams was inspired by this theme for his famous ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' leitmotif. Strangely, the midquel abandons this.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: In the novel, the Great Prince brings Bambi to His dead body for the purpose of teaching him one last lesson. Bambi learns man is not all powerful, he has needs like animals do and dies like animals do, and there is [[{{God}} something greater than Him.]] The Great Prince then calls Bambi "my son" for the last and only the second time, before going off to die, presumably of old age.
* NothingIsScarier: He is never seen (except for the glint of a rifle in the interquel) nor heard (except for gunshots and an artificial deer call) in either of the films, and is all the scarier for it.
* ObliviouslyEvil: In spite of his ranking in the twentieth rank in the ''AFI's 100 Years. . .100 Heroes and Villains'' list, He's still implied to be nothing more than a normal hunter. Animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston also confirmed that (in the movie) his actions are born out of obliviousness towards the animals' true nature instead of cruelty for its own sake. However, since the story is told from the perspective of the animals, he becomes some kind of [[HumansAreCthulhu inapprehensible threat]].
* PlotIrrelevantVillain: While the plot of the midquel was directly kicked off by Man's actions in the first film, they only get one scene in focus early on. The conflict is mostly Bambi trying to bond with his father, with Ronno being the closest thing to an antagonist for the bulk of the film until the climax, where Man's precense is implied due to the pack of hunting dogs going after Bambi, but they don't directly take part in it.
* UnseenEvil: Disney's decision to not show Man to avoid vilifying hunters appears to have backfired on Disney as it just made him scarier in people's minds, so much so that he ranked 20 in ''AFI's 100 Years. . .100 Heroes and Villains'' list, also being the only character on that entire list who is never shown. Subverted in the second novel and its comic book adaptation, which shows at length that the humans around the forest aren't all bad people.
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: They significantly darken the tone of this otherwise lighthearted film whenever they are present.
* VillainDecay:
** Following on from the end of the first novel, ''Bambi's Children'' goes out of it's way to humanise mankind, thus abolishing a lot of their all powerful nightmarish image to the animals. A hunter does appear, but an ineffectual one that Bambi manages to shoo away by bucking. The Disney comic book of the novel even extends on this by subverting their usual role as TheGhost.
** Averted in the interquel with Man himself, as he remains an unseen, terrifying figure in spite of being DemotedToExtra. However, a mild case of this does hit Man's hunting dogs; they're still pretty menacing and scary, but a few of them get taken out in a comedic, slapstick fashion by the child protagonists, with some making comical expressions as it happens.
* TheVoice: In the midquel you hear him using deer calls. The deer hear it as "I'm here", "It's me", or "Hello." In the novel, Bambi hears it as Faline's voice saying, "Come!"
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!!Novel-Exclusive Characters

[[folder:Gobo]]
Faline's brother.
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* AdaptedOut: He was completely dropped from the Disney movies and tie-in materials.
* DisneyDeath: In the novel, he's seemingly killed and dragged off by a hunter during Bambi's first winter. Some time later, he returns as a grown stag, having been nursed back to health by a hunters family and released back into the wild. Unfortunately, losing his fear of humans made him an easy target for another hunter, who quickly and brutally kills Gobo when he tries to befriend him.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: The book describes the mortal wound he got from a hunters bullet ("bloody entrails oozing from his torn flank") and Gobo screaming in agony as the human, whom he was so certain would be friendly, finishes him off.
* OfficialCouple: With Marena following his return to the forest.
* PetBabyWildAnimal: After Gobo is nursed back into health by a hunters family, he's released back into the wild with the other deer. This quickly has devastating consequences, as Gobo loses his fear of Man and ends up becoming an easy victim of a hunter making rounds as a result.
* PosthumousCharacter: Long dead by the events of ''Bambi's Children'', Gobo is mentioned by Bambi and Faline after their daughter, Gurri, is taken by a gamekeeper who saved her from a fox, fearing if she stays with the man for so long she’ll turn out like Gobo in losing her wild habits.
* TooDumbToLive: By animal standards,as he tries to befriend another hunter and we see how well that went. It's also noted that he would wander out into the open in the middle of the day without thinking and assumed he could find the same hunter who took care of him as a fawn with the intention of living with him whenever survival became too hard, such as during the winter.
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[[folder:Old Nettla]]
An old doe who takes care of Bambi after his mother dies.
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* GrumpyOldMan: She means well, but she's cantankerous in personality.
* PosthumousCharacter: After the novels year long time skip, it's implied that she died of old age during it.
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[[folder:Marena]]
A doe notable for having a much more idealistic view of the animals' relationship to Man than most.
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* AdaptedOut: Like Gobo, she was not included in either film.
* BreakTheCutie: She witnesses Gobo's gruesome death firsthand.
* LesCollaborateurs: Believes deer and Man can coexist peacefully. It's part of why she is attracted to Gobo after he comes back.
* OfficialCouple: With Gobo following his return to the forest.
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[[folder:Karus]]
One of main antagonists of ''Bambi: A Life in the Woods''. He picks a fight with Bambi to get Faline as his mate but he loses.
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* AdaptedOut: His role was largely given to Ronno in the movies
* WeUsedToBeFriends: When they were fawns, he used to get along really well with Bambi and that the latter "passionately" loved him. When Bambi got his antlers, this changed

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!!Manga-Exclusive Characters

[[folder:Grandpa]]
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A wise old frog who mentors Bambi time to time.
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* CanonForeigner: While a frog did appear in the original movie, it had no personality to speak of. This character was improvised for the manga by Tezuka and has a clear personality and somewhat important role in the story.
* {{Expy}}: He is a stand-in for Friend Owl, who [[DemotedToExtra only gets a glorified cameo]] in the manga adaptation.

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[[folder:Buckteeth]]
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A character created for Creator/OsamuTezuka's manga adaptation of Bambi, he is a friendly neighbor of Bambi and co.
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* AlliterativeName: A '''b'''eaver named '''B'''uckteeth.
* CartoonCreature: He's supposed to be a beaver but he's drawn more like an otter.
* CanonForeigner: While beavers did appear in the movies, they were never given any characterization. Buckteeth is a notable exception to the rule, as he was created solely for the manga's take on the movie.
* {{Expy}}: Buckteeth is clearly meant to be a stand-in for Flower, who was AdaptedOut of the manga due to skunks not being native to Japan.
* MeaningfulName: He has a broad pair of buck teeth. Bambi gives him his line of sight nickname due to them.

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!!Disney Tie-in Characters

[[folder:Chestnut]]

A minor character who appears solely in the comic story "Horsing Around". He's a friendly little foal who lives with his mother at a ranch near the forest. One day, he got lost from his mother, and Bambi and Thumper helped him find his way back to her.
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* CanonForeigner: A oneoff character created solely for Disney magazine comic story starring Bambi.
* CheerfulChild: Despite getting lost from his mother, he has a pleasant demeanor and immediately hits it off with Bambi and Thumper.
* FlatCharacter: Isn't given much personality beyond being friendly and cheerful.
* NiceGuy: He's polite and courteous to his newfound friends, and stays friends with Bambi and Thumper after they return him to his mother.
* PunnyName: Lampshaded by Chestnut in-story, pointing out that he's named after the Horse Chestnut.

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[[folder:The Fox]]

A minor villain who only appears in the storybook "Bambi: Friends of the Forest".
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Real foxes rarely go after white-tailed fawns, as they are scavengers that usually go after small prey like rodents, and it would be rather difficult for a fox to actually catch and kill a fawn unless it was a newborn and a [[MamaBear doe wasn't around to defend it in time.]][[note]] the novels did have foxes as active predators, but the deer in them are roe deer ([[AdaptationSpeciesChange changed to white-tails in the Disney movies]]) and thus small enough that even a fox can be a threat to them.[[/note]]
* {{Expy}}: Multiple fox characters appear in the novels, though this one's role bears resemblance to a similar plot line in ''Bambi's Children'' where Geno lured a wolf dog away from the other deer, with Bambi saving him during the chase.
* FlatCharacter: Isn't given any personality beyond being a vicious predator who tries to eat Thumper and Bambi.
* NearVillainVictory: The fox came dangerously close to catching Bambi and ending his life when he was still in his infancy, but the Great Prince [[BigDamnHeroes intervened just in time and drove him off.]]
* NoNameGiven: He isn't named and is just called a fox by the forest animals.
* PredatorsAreMean: Unlike the [[CarnivoreConfusion docile predators]] we've seen in the films, the fox is a vicious carnivore who comes dangerously close to killing Thumper and Bambi for food.
* StarterVillain: Since he appears in Bambi's life when he's still an infant, he's possibly the first foe Bambi has faced prior to his encounters with Man and Ronno.
* VillainOfTheWeek: He only makes a brief, onetime appearance to cause Bambi and friends trouble, and is never seen again elsewhere.
* TheVoiceless: He's given no dialogue at all.
* WouldHurtAChild: He came very close to eating Thumper and would've succeeded if not for Bambi luring him away, and its perfectly clear he wants to kill and eat the then-infant Bambi too.
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