Characters / Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022)

This is the character page for the 2022 film. For the Show Within a Show (a.k.a., the original cartoon), please see Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers.

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The Rescue Rangers

Chip

Voiced by: John Mulaney, Tress MacNeille (high-pitched voice), Mason Blomberg (child)

The Rescue Rangers' co-founder, who now works as an insurance salesman.

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• The Ace: Exaggerated. As an insurance salesman, he's managed to earn Employee of the Month so many times, he's got an entire space in his closet dedicated to holding the placards.
• Adapted Out: None of his classic 1940s shorts are included in this iteration.
• Adaptational Jerkass: In the Classic Disney Shorts, Chip was a troublemaker alongside his brother, and tormented Donald Duck or Pluto even if they didn't really do anything to bother the duo. On the original Rescue Rangers, he's got very little patience for Dale's antics and grabbed the Jerkass Ball on occasion, but even then he was still The Hero of the whole thing. This Chip spends much of the film holding a petty grudge at Dale's betrayal for trying to go solo for over 32 years, and can barely be in the same room as him.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: In spite of Chip holding Dale at arms length throughout most of the movie, he does care about him deep down, and finally forgives him by the end of it.
• Berserk Button:
  • He has no tolerance for characters trying to hard to stay relevant, especially when characters try to rap in order to "stay fresh", or making a Spinoff Babies version of a massive franchise.
  • Dale's attempt to launch a solo career and the resulting end of Rescue Rangers is such a sore spot for him, he can barely tolerate his old friend's presence.
  • He also can't stand Alvin and the Chipmunks.
• Blatant Lies: When he first reunites with Dale, he pretends that he isn't upset about Dale's attempts at going solo and getting Rescue Rangers cancelled bothers him, when the tone of his voice and his body language indicate it's still a sore spot for him.
• Cool Big Bro: They are actually the same age, but in Dale's words, during his childhood Chip was like the big brother he never had.
• Deadpan Snarker: Mostly in response to Dale's antics.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • His inability to properly communicate. Had he just told Dale that he was lonely as a child and Dale was the only real friend he ever made, his friend would have likely stayed on Rescue Rangers rather than try to launch a solo career. Instead, it just made Dale feel even more like a second-stringer, and the show is cancelled when he tries going solo with Double-O-Dale (which never gets made). Even when they do reunite. Chip spends so much time refusing to even be in the same room with Dale, let alone speak to him, that it causes more problems between the two when they're trying to find Monty.
  • His stubbornness. While he has every right to be upset at Dale for selfishly trying to launch a solo career at the expense of getting Rescue Rangers cancelled, Chip's My Way or the Highway attitude was the reason the conflict got to where it did, as he effectively called all the shots and made it seem like he "saved" Dale from being left alone in the school cafeteria. Years later, he's still holding onto such a petty grudge and is convinced Dale is solely at fault for the Rescue Rangers cancellation debacle, that the investigation into Monty's disappearance is hindered multiple times.
• Friendless Background: Chip eventually admits to Dale that before Dale transferred to his elementary school, he had no friends whatsoever. This is why he took Dale's attempt to launch a solo career so badly — not only did he feel betrayed, he was afraid of being left alone.
• Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing: During much of the movie, Chip is shown as someone quite serious and somewhat bitter, while Dale is more cheerful and fun. This mirrors their roles in the series, where Chip is an anal-retentive Straight Man and Dale is his Plucky Comic Relief foil.
• Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: He only wears a shirt and occasionally a hat. Pete lampshades this tendency when he holds him captive for not wearing any pants.
• Hypocrite: He accuses Dale of being selfish when he tried going solo, when he himself was being selfish by treating Dale as second fiddle during the two's acting career.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Zig-zagged. As a child, he was lonely and had no friends, so meeting Dale was the best thing that ever happened to him. However, Dale trying to launch a solo career broke the two apart, and Chip is so hurt that he refuses to make any other friends except for his dog — to him, being lonely is better than being hurt. Deep down, he still misses Dale, but can't see past his attempts to try and stay "fresh" to want to make amends.
• Innocently Insensitive: Chip genuinely valued Dale as both his partner and his best friend. However, he didn't realize that their Straight Man/Plucky Comic Relief dynamic led to Dale feeling like the lesser of the two and it certainly wasn't helped by Chip reminding everyone how Dale was all alone at school before he reached out to him.
• Jerkass Has a Point: While he's partially at fault for it, and he's very disdainful towards his old-costar, but Chip isn't wrong that Dale's attempts to stay relevant is superficial and tasteless.
• Jerkass to One: He's pretty nice to everyone but Dale, whom he blames for destroying their careers and friendship due to his selfish desire for the spotlight.
• My Way or the Highway: Dale accuses Chip of having this attitude, and the film proves he isn't wrong. Chip refuses to acknowledge his role in the downfall of the duo's friendship or of Rescue Rangers getting cancelled, and he's insistent throughout most of the case in searching for Monty that he lead the way because he doesn't trust Dale in the slightest (even though a good chunk of his ideas work).
• Never My Fault: Throughout most of the film, he blames Dale and only Dale for getting Rescue Rangers cancelled, conveniently ignoring the fact that his Innocently Insensitive treatment of Dale spurned his partner on the path to trying out a solo career to prove he's not just an idiot.
• Perpetual Frowner: Downplayed. He's not normally in a bad mood, but he's mostly stuck in one through most of the movie because he's being forced to tag along with Dale.
• Poor Communication Kills: When he learns that Dale is trying to jumpstart a solo career, he fails to acknowledge how lonely he was as a kid and that Dale meant a lot more to him than just the dumb, comic-relief sidekick his partner thought he was. It instead results in Dale taking a new pilot, which only gets Rescue Rangers cancelled, Double-O-Dale unmade, and the two's friendship destroyed.
• Rude Hero, Nice Sidekick: Rude Hero to Dale's Nice Sidekick. He's quite cynical and uptight, while Dale is more easygoing and mild-mannered.
• Secretly Selfish: As he later confesses to Dale, being in the spotlight gave Chip a desire to be the "first banana" of the pair, leading him to keep Dale as the idiot of the duo. He only admits them when it appears Dale has been killed by Sweet Pete (luckily he survives).
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Manly Man to Dale's Sensitive Guy. He's rather headstrong and assertive, while Dale is more childish and sentimental.
• The Smart Guy: He's still highly intelligent and cunning on his own, as he's able to successfully sell enough insurance plans to land Employee of the Month multiple times.
• Straight Man: As is set up at the beginning of the movie, the basis for his and Dale's comedy duo was that Chip would play the straight man to Dale's shenanigans. When they moved over to Rescue Rangers, this essentially translated into Chip being the heroic lead while Dale became the comedy relief sidekick. It winds up being Deconstructed, as Dale was put off by this attitude and assumed everyone loved Chip for being the Straight Man, while he was the dumb Comic Relief who got hit in the head with a pipe every week.
• Technologically Blind Elders: Discussed. Chip suspects Ellie of being The Mole because she mentioned that she grew up watching Rescue Rangers in Albany, yet the show never aired there, so her grandmother taped it for her. As far as Chip's concerned, old people can't learn technology. He winds up being proven dead wrong and learns Ellie was telling the truth when Captain Putty reveals himself as Pete's mole.
• Unrelated in the Adaptation: Chip and Dale are just childhood friends instead of brothers in this movie.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: While he did genuinely befriend Dale and worked together with him to build a Hollywood career, Chip set the two's dynamic so he was the Straight Man and Dale was the Plucky Comic Relief. As a result, he came off as the bossy, My Way or the Highway leader of the two, while Dale was left feeling like the "second banana" of the pair who no one would take seriously given he always played the idiot. It spurned Dale into trying a solo career — an act of which Chip took personally and lead the two to fall out.
• Vocal Dissonance: In spite of his small size, he sounds more like a full-grown adult than a chipmunk (barring when he gets angry or passionate and slips into his more familiar squeaky-voice).
• We Used to Be Friends: He and Dale were once very close, but split up when Dale's attempt to launch a solo career and star in his own pilot led to a bitter spat and their show getting cancelled.
• White Collar Worker: At the start of the movie, he's working as an insurance salesman.

Dale

Voiced by: Andy Samberg, Corey Burton (high-pitched voice), Juliet Donenfeld (child)

The Rescue Rangers' co-founder, who's since gotten CGI surgery and makes a living appearing at conventions.

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: Compared to his Classic Disney Shorts iteration, who would often join Chip in tormenting Donald or Pluto even if they didn't do anything to them, or his lazy slacker incarnation on the original Rescue Rangers who would look for every excuse to goof off, this Dale is very kind and courteous.
• Adapted Out: None of his classic 1940s shorts are included in this iteration.
• The Alleged Car: Owns a rundown Mercedes Benz convertible that's been retrofitted to work with his small size. To make things more apparent, its entire rear bumper falls off while driving, and refuses to start when Dale tries to go rescue Chip from being bootlegged.
• All for Nothing: Dale tries to launch his own solo career by starring in his own series, Double-O-Dale. This not only gets Rescue Rangers cancelled and his friendship with Chip destroyed, but the series never gets picked up in the first place, leaving Dale to scrape by on meager convention appearances.
• Art Shift: Dale has an In-Universe example, having ditched his hand-drawn look via "CGI surgery" to look fresh for today's audiences.
• Attention Whore: Dale wants everyone's attention to himself, no matter what — even if it hurts others in the process. In fact, his frustration with being Chip's sidekick is what caused him to try and branch off into a solo career with Double-O-Dale. When he sprung the news to Chip that Double-O-Dale was greenlit for a pilot episode, Chip — who had no real friends before Dale — felt abandoned and betrayed. The resulting fallout from Dale's desire for the spotlight led to Rescue Rangers getting cancelled, Double-O-Dale not getting past the pilot stage, and Dale's complete alienation from his former friend and costar, who wants nothing to do with him and does not appreciate his attempts to stay "relevant" through superficial, tasteless stunts.
• Crazy Enough to Work: Some of Dale's ideas to track down Monty, though a bit wild, wind up working to the duo's advantage in spite of Chip not wanting to do it. For example, when they need to steal Sweet Pete's step tracker to find his bootlegging operations, Dale suggests they disguise themselves as rats to fix the spa's pipes, just like they did on the show. Chip thinks it's ridiculous, but it works and nobody's the wiser until they accidentally drop the rat masks.
• The Cuckoolander Was Right: When the duo smell Monty's Rescue Rangers brand cologne in the police station, Dale suspects Captain Putty was Sweet Pete's mole, only for Chip to dismiss him since that was always the case on the show. Turns out Dale was right on the money, as Putty was the mole, even though both he and Pete knew how obvious it would be.
• Disney Death:
  • After escaping from Sweet Pete, Chip sees Dale's body and assumes he drowned. It turns out Dale was fine — the "body" was a discarded piece of merchandise from Double-O-Dale.
  • Sweet Pete pulls a Taking You with Me and seemingly kills Dale with a Bullet Bill. Luckily Dale had taken Chip's Rescue Rangers pog and it deflected the kinetic energy.
• The Ditz: According to Chip, he forgets his own phone number. He is also rather slow on the uptake, particularly when he can't figure out the obvious signs that Chip still resents him for Double O-Dale.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: For all the attention he got on Rescue Rangers, Dale was always seen as Chip's comic-relief sidekick and nothing more. Out of desperation to prove otherwise, he tried launching a solo career, thinking it wouldn't cause any problems. All it does it alienate him from Chip, gets his show cancelled, his solo career never launches, and any attempts to make a comeback are useless as Chip is out of the picture (and understandably wants nothing to do with him).
• Dumbass Has a Point: While Dale isn't the sharpest tool in the shed and torpedoed his and Chip's careers with his poor decision making, he isn't wrong when he calls Chip out on his My Way or the Highway attitude.
• Fatal Flaw: His I Just Want to Have Friends and Attention Whore tendencies. While he still has his fans, Dale torpedoed his friendship with Chip because he wanted to have a greater connection to people — a connection of which he felt he couldn't make if people saw him as the idiot who gets smacked in the head with a pipe every week. Chip refuses to forgive him for his role in getting Rescue Rangers cancelled, or even bother to reconnect with him, just because Dale is still trying superficial and tasteless stunts to get people to pay attention. It's only when Dale stops and accepts that his friends are more important (well that and a Disney Death) that Chip finally forgives him.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Played With. Amongst his old Rescue Rangers costars and his fellow con attendees, the only one who despises Dale is Chip, who understandably hates him for destroying their friendship and careers when he tried to go solo — Monty, Gadget, and Zipper don't hold any grudge against him and are actually happy to see him, while Lumiere, Tigra, and Ugly Sonic get along with him just fine. Outside of it, while he does have a few fans, nobody else is really interested in spending time with him.
• Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing: During much of the movie, Chip is shown as someone quite serious and somewhat bitter, while Dale is more cheerful and fun.
• Idiot Hero: The main hero alongside Chip, yet he is generally not quite right in the head.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Part of the reason for Dale's obsession with recapturing his time in the spotlight is that he just really wants to connect with people... but most of all with Chip. He has established a friendly rapport with Lumiere and Tigra (not so much Ugly Sonic), but he can't stand being apart from his old partner.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: He is rather dense and simple-minded, but he is overall very mild-mannered and tolerant.
• Manchild: He is middle-aged^note Given he was in grade school by 1982, it is clear he is 48+ years old, yet he has quite an exuberant and sensitive personality.
• Nice Guy: For all his faults, Dale doesn't have a mean bone in his body, and he is very patient with Chip snarking at him in spite of the fact that his old partner is clearly still holding a grudge (though Dale doesn't quite pick up on it).
• Noodle Incident: Apparently, he sent numerous self-published scripts to Gadget and Zipper to try and get them to back it.
• Plucky Comic Relief: His role in his partnership with Chip, which carried over to Rescue Rangers. It winds up being Deconstructed, as Dale believes no one thinks of him as anything but Chip's dumb friend he found alone in the cafeteria.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: He correctly deduces that Chip and Ellie are being held hostage by Sweet Pete and that Putty is The Mole in the LAPD when Ellie clues him in to watch the Rescue Rangers episode "When You Dish Upon a Star". While Ellie meant the clue as being that Gadget was double-crossed in the episode, hence everyone else was double crossed, Dale's entire reasoning was based on bowling and tai food. Even Chip isn't surprised that Dale came to that conclusion in such a crazy way.
• Rude Hero, Nice Sidekick: Nice Sidekick to Chip's Rude Hero. He is quite easygoing and mild-mannered, while Chip is more cynical and uptight.
• Sad Clown: The reason he tried to launch a solo career is because he was tired of everyone seeing him as nothing more than Chip's dumb, comedic sidekick. It winds up being Deconstructed, as his actions get Rescue Rangers cancelled, Chip hates his guts for it, and Double-O-Dale never makes it past the pilot stage. Even his attempts to make a comeback in the present day aren't met with any applause, as his stunts are superficial and tasteless, and with Chip out of the picture, very few are interested in a Rescue Rangers reboot.
• Sarcasm-Blind: He doesn't seem to pick up on Ugly Sonic's remarks that he'll "be joining Dale on stage for a reboot" or fails to see that Chip is still bitter about Dale's failed attempt to launch a solo career.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Sensitive Guy to Chip's Manly Man. He is rather childish and sentimental, while Chip is more headstrong and assertive.
• Taking the Bullet: When he and Chip finally defeat Sweet Pete by getting him crushed and pinned under crates and Sweet Pete is about to be arrested by the police and FBI, Dale notices that Sweet Pete is about to shoot Chip, so Dale leaps in front of the bullet to take the shot instead of Chip. Luckily, the bullet's deflected by the vintage Rescue Rangers pog that Chip gave him earlier, making this a non-fatal example of the trope..
• Toilet Humor: Chip claims he's fond of this, as he doesn't want to fall for another one of Dale's dumb fart jokes. He's also the only one comfortable enough with using Sweet Pete's personal toilet to escape the villain.
• Unrelated in the Adaptation: Chip and Dale are just childhood friends instead of brothers in this movie.
• Vocal Dissonance: Like with Chip, he has a deep voice in spite of the fact he's a tiny chipmunk (though he can slip into his more familiar chipmunk voice when he gets angry or passionate).
• We Used to Be Friends: He and Chip were once very close, but they split up when his attempt to launch a solo career and star in his own pilot led to a chain of events that got their show cancelled. Notably, he's pretty regretful of the whole thing and misses his childhood friend, but knows full well that he wants nothing more to do with him.

Monterey Jack

Voiced by: Eric Bana

A member of the Rescue Rangers, best known for his obsession with cheese.

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: A bit. In the original cartoon, Monty was easygoing but still a tough-as-nails brawler who was quick to anger. His "real life" persona shows him as a Nice Guy who is very friendly, loving, and grateful towards his friends.
• Addled Addict: His cheese addiction has clearly got the better of him, to the point he's in debt to Sweet Pete when he bought more of the stuff than he could afford.
• Awesome Aussie: In the show, Monty was one to his crew, being a tough-as-nails brawler with an Australian accent to go with it. In real life... not so much, as he's a washed-up actor who's gotten in too deep with a mobster as a result of his cheese addiction.
• The Big Guy: He's still the largest and oldest of the Rescue Rangers: a huge mouse with an even huger heart.
• Body Horror: He's bootlegged into a copy of Dumbo, leaving him with oversized ears far too big for him. Luckily, Dale knows a guy that's able to fix Monty up.
• Deconstructed Trope: Monty's gimmick in the original cartoon was his obsession with cheese. The film shows what happens when his obsession gets the best of him later in life after being around it for so long.
• Demoted to Extra: While his kidnapping does play a pivotal role in the story, Monty doesn't have that many scenes in the film.
• Distressed Dude: He's kidnapped at the start of the movie, which kicks off the plot.
• Expressive Ears: His ears droop down when he is sad.
• Gentle Giant: The largest member of the Rescue Rangers crew, and also one of its friendliest.
• G-Rated Drug: His cheese obsession is given this treatment in the movie, as it got so out of control that he's snorting it in the family-friendly equivalent of an opium den.
• Meaningful Name: He's a cheese-addicted mouse who has the name of a type of cheese, as Bjornson points out.
• Nice Guy: He treats everyone around him very cordially. Chip even says that he's happy to help Monty out of his jam for being nothing but supportive.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He ends up in debt to Sweet Pete, and him being kidnapped ends up being the catalyst that gets Chip and Dale back together to save him, along with bringing down Pete's operations for good.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Yep, it's still Ch-Ch-Chee-EEEEEESSSEEE! It's Deconstructed this time around, as his cheese addiction gets him indebted to the Valley Gang when he buys more of the stuff than he can afford.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Cheese. Like on the show, the moment he gets a whiff of the stuff, he stops dead in his tracks and won't stop until he gets his hands on it. Unfortunately for him, this love of cheese causes him to buy more than he can afford, and winds up indebted to Sweet Pete as a result.

Gadget Hackwrench

Voiced by: Tress MacNeille

The mechanic girl of the Rescue Rangers. She married Zipper after the cancellation of her series.

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• Adaptational Personality Change: Averted and Played for Laughs. While practically every other character undergoes some form of change in personality for the film, Gadget is expressly stated to pretty much be the same character from the original show.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: She has given birth to 42 children but looks just the same as before said feat. Granted, toons like her can ignore such wear and tear if suffering it would have no comedic or dramatic value, but this is notable since other toons suffering the physical and mental ravages of time drives the main plot.
• Demoted to Extra: Gadget does help her friends out during the climax but she doesn't have much screen-time in the film, due to Chip refusing to let Dale call them.
• 11th-Hour Ranger: Dale recruits her to help infiltrate Sweet Pete's base during the finale.
• Explosive Breeder: She's given birth to 42 mouse/fly hybrids. Of course, both flies and mice are known for their fecundity in Real Life.
• Happily Married: With Zipper.
• Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action: She's somehow managed to breed with a fly to create a massive swarm of mixed-species children that have rodent and insectoid traits such as wings and multiple arms.
• I Am Not Spock: Averted in-universe, and lampshaded; she admits that, unlike most of the other Animated Actors in the movie, she's basically the same person as her character on the show thanks to her mechanic skills.
• Nice Girl: She is just as kind-hearted and helpful as she was in the original cartoon.
• Ship Tease: Early on in the movie, she and Zipper had some flirtatious banter at the party, foreshadowing the two's eventual marriage.
• Tank-Top Tomboy: She sports a black tank top as she works on a vehicle at her home.
• Vocal Evolution: While Tress MacNeille voices Gadget again, her voice is noticeably older due to the passage of time since the original series aired, even in the scenes that take place during the show's original production. In fact, she sounds tonally closer to Daisy Duck here. Makes sense considering Tress was around 70 by the time of recording.
• Wrench Wench: She specializes in auto repair, which she points out is exactly like her character in the original Rescue Rangers cartoon.

Zipper

Voiced by: Dennis Haysbert, Corey Burton (high-pitched voice)

A housefly who is the shortest member of the Rescue Rangers and married Gadget after the cancellation of her series.

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• Demoted to Extra: Along with Gadget, Zipper doesn't have much screen-time in the film due to Chip refusing to let Dale call the two. However, he does still get to help his friends out during the climax.
• Happily Married: With Gadget.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Gadget continues working as a mechanic while he's the stay-at-home dad taking care of the kids.
• Nice Guy: Possibly the reason he and fellow sweetheart Gadget ended up together.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: He has a very flowery and sophisticated way of talking. Something his wife Gadget really appreciates.
  Gadget: I love it when you talk fancy, honey!
• Suddenly Voiced: In the cartoon, he communicated through high-pitched chattering noises. Now, he has the famously deep voice of Dennis Haysbert.
• Undying Loyalty: Has been Happily Married to Gadget for many years and he doesn't give up on his friends when he helps them out.
• Vocal Dissonance: Despite being small and only making high-pitched noises in the original cartoon, Zipper has an extremely deep voice that sharply contrasts his appearance.

The Valley Gang

Sweet Pete

Voiced by: Will Arnett, Jim Cummings (Shredder and Fat Cat voices in Frankenstein form), Betty Lou Gerson (Cruella DeVille voice in Frankenstein form, archived footage)

Originally the successful titular protagonist of the animated Disney classic, Peter Pan, after he was kicked out due to growing up, he has since become a lonely, bitter, and jaded criminal who plans on getting his revenge by kidnapping toons and having them star in mockbusters against their will.

For tropes relating to his original appearance, see this page.

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• Actor Allusion:
  • As a washed-up, Hollywood has-been voiced by Will Arnett, who went from the star a hit, family-friendly project to an ugly, cynical jerk, he's basically BoJack Horseman (though Pete's actions in this film make BoJack look like a saint by comparison). For an added bonus, his monster form comes with an animal head (albeit a cat and not a horse).
  • More tragically, he almost mirrors the fall of the original actor Bobby Driscoll, having a short run of fame only to fade into obscurity once he grew up. Instead of dying in poverty though this Pan goes the other route of crime lord.
• Adaptational Badass:
  • Zig-zagged between this and Adaptational Wimp. Physically, he's horribly out of shape, as he pulls a muscle while trying to chase Chip and Dale through FanCon. Resourcefully? He runs the Valley Gang far better than he did with the rowdy Lost Boys, even to the point that he makes Captain Hook's pirate crew look less efficient.
  • His Arm Cannon, mixing Megatron's fusion canon and Bowser's Bullet Bill Blaster, in his Frankenstein form. In their respective canon sources, neither are able to fire at a rapid pace. Here, Pete is able to fire out Bullet Bills similar to a Tommy Gun.
• Adaptational Ugliness: Each Peter Pan tends to be a skinny young man, but this one is fat and has a noticeable five-o-clock shadow and a Gag Nose, a result of a botched CGI surgery. He lost the ugliness of his head when it gets transformed to an attractive cat head.
• Adaptational Villainy: Like with Once Upon a Time, this Pan is definitely not on the side of the angels, although he's less eternally-young monster and more stereotypical-mobster psycho.
• Alternate Company Equivalent: To Big Jack Horner. Both were Fairy Tale protagonists who grew up and became sociopathic gang leaders who serve as the Big Bad of their respective movies.
• Arm Cannon: His Frankenpete form comes with one. It's mounted and fires in the same manner as Megatron's, but it's shaped like a Bill Blaster from Super Mario Bros., and fires Bullet Bills.
• Art Shift: An In-Universe example. Although he's depicted as a 3-D model with a 2-D overlay, his transformation into Frankenpete causes many of his parts to be depicted using photorealistic CGI. This is evident with Ralph's arm, Woody and Optimus Prime's legs, his Bill Blaster/Fusion Canon arm, and especially his cat head.
• Bad Boss: As he was rampaging through sets in search of Chip and Dale, he grabs Pete the cat and throws him aside. What's more, Pete appeared to be a willing actor for the bootleg films Sweet Pete was making.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: He has no qualms hurting some of the animal stars out there in Hollywood, like Winnie the Pooh, Flounder, or Bambi. Hell, he even willingly tried to murder both Chip and Dale just for the sake of it.
• Berserk Button:
  • He doesn't take kindly to the idea of giving others a big break, as it reminds him of the time when he considered filming his original film to be his 'big break' before his dismissal. This was shown when Chip and Dale tried to peacefully reason with Sweet Pete by offering him money to pay off Monty's debt and give Monty a break, and rather than obliging to their deal, Sweet Pete instead decides to bootleg both chipmunks, ultimately leading to his own downfall.
  • He hates it when anybody meddles in his operations, as it deprives him of the chance to take his revenge.
  • He especially hates diet drinks.
• Big Bad: He's the main antagonist of the film, with the main conflict coming from him kidnapping toons to force them to star in mockbusters. He kidnaps Chip and Dale's old friend Monty, causing Chip and Dale to investigate him and his operations in their search for their friend.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Subverted. He recognizes Cubby when he encounters him at Fan Con, having worked with him on Peter Pan for years until his own departure. He even admits to Cubby of how his life has turned out.
  Sweet Pete: (annoyed that Jimmy caught Cubby by mistake instead of the chipmunks) WHAT?!
  Cubby: (happy at first) Peter, is that really you? (gets disgusted by Sweet Pete's new appearance) You got old.
  Sweet Pete: (sullenly) Yeah, death is coming for us all, kid.
• Composite Character: While he's the classic Peter Pan from Disney's lineup, his story borrows from other Pans of fiction, including Hook (a Pan who grew up and lost all wonder and imagination as a result) and Once Upon a Time (a gang leader who Would Hurt a Child).
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Inverted as Sweet Pete isn't so much an archetype but instead the actual Peter Pan from the 50's Disney film. This movie shows what kind of person a cocky, insensitive, and unthinkably cruel boy like Peter would become if he decided to grow up and had to live with the harsh realities of being a child actor in show business. The results are not good to say the least.
• Diabolical Mastermind: Given to his newfound connections as an intelligent mob boss, Sweet Pete has put many toon stars in debt (given to their personalities and quirks) through extortion and blackmail, and in case they would fail to pay back, he would have them kidnapped and their appearances altered to star in mockbuster films for the rest of their lives. He even managed to cover his bootlegging business by opening himself up a legitimate factory of designing portable toilets so that the authorities won't keep track of his illegal operations. He also anticipates the possibility of his enemies being wary of his intents by using social media to keep track of their moves, just like he did with Dale's social posts.
• Disproportionate Retribution: He decided to get revenge for being let go from Hollywood by getting other toons in his debt, kidnapping them when they fall behind on payments, then altering them to force them to star in his mockbusters for all time.
• Does Not Like Spam: Diet soda. He unknowingly takes a sip of it at FanCon and spits it out.
  Sweet Pete: Eugh! It's diet.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?:
  • His role in the film is to get toons indebted to him, kidnap them when they fail to pay him back, then alter and enslave them to forever work in his mockbuster empire. In essence, he's the cartoon equivalent of a loan shark, a human trafficker, and a slave driver all in one.
  • As noted by various critics, his circumstances are horrifyingly similar to Bobby Driscoll's (Peter Pan's voice actor) fate, which Disney was partly responsible for.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: He does not look like a lady, until he gains a female looking cat face, but the body build still looks like that of a man.
• Equal-Opportunity Evil: Pete's top henchmen are all different types of CGI toons (Jimmy is regular CGI, Bob is Uncanny Valley CGI, etc.) His other underlings are humans. This is justified because he is motivated by his feelings of rejection, so it makes sense that he would employ anyone willing to work for him.
• Evil Counterpart:
  • To both Chip and Dale. Like Dale, he attempted to stay relevant after losing his career by getting a CGI surgery, and when it failed, he turned to a different career like Chip. The big difference is that Pete wound up turning to crime, while Dale turned to the convention circuit and Chip went into insurance.
  • To Ugly Sonic. Both of them were tossed to the curb by Hollywood due to being too unattractive for the spotlight. However, Ugly Sonic was able to roll with the punches, turn the situation to his own advantage, and ultimately find happiness once more. Sweet Pete, on the other hand, let bitterness and resentment consume him and turn him into a monster.
• Evil Makes You Ugly: While Pete growing up certainly hurt his boyish image, it wasn't the worst thing to look at. As Sweet Pete, he's fat, balding, grew out stubble and chest hairs, and is also the leader of a bootlegging gang that enslaves toons.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Well, he is voiced by Will Arnett. He gets a deeper voice via accidental bootlegging with Shockwave's voice.
• Face–Heel Turn: He went from the unquestionable hero of Neverland to the Jerkass mob boss who's kidnapping toons to turn them into bootlegs and force them to star in mockbusters.
• Fat Bastard: After getting blacklisted by Hollywood, Peter Pan lets himself go and becomes Sweet Pete, who turns toons into bootlegs to sell them to the black market.
• Faux Affably Evil: When he introduces himself to Chip and Dale, he is initially polite and respectful to the two. However, when they dare ask to pay off Monty's debt, he shows his true colors and decides to force the two to join their costar in his mockbuster empire.
• Former Child Star: In his backstory, he explains that after doing the main role of Peter Pan, puberty was not kind to him and the film industry threw him away like he was nothing. Ironically, the same thing happened to Peter Pan's real life voice actor, Bobby Driscoll.
• Formerly Fit: Was once the slender Peter Pan. After leaving Hollywood (on their behalf), he becomes the out-of-shape Sweet Pete.
• Freudian Excuse: Sweet Pete is a Former Child Star that Hollywood tossed to the curb when he hit puberty, which drove him to exact revenge on other stars for having longer and more respectable careers than him.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: He was once the respectable actor of Peter Pan, but getting blacklisted by Hollywood has turned him into an amoral criminal who disfigures and sells toons to the black market.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Much of his descent into villainy stems from jealousy over how many of the toons got to enjoy long, well-established careers, but he was cast aside the moment he got too old. Funny enough, his chimera form has the right leg of Woody, who himself was this trope prior to Character Development kicking in.
• Hypocrite: He wants to exact revenge because he was forgotten by the film industry. However, his revenge is ruining the lives of hundreds of toons who had nothing to do with it.
• Ironic Nickname: Sweet Pete definitely does not have a sweet personality.
• Irony:
  • In his original movie, he was in opposition to Captain Hook, a man who opposed Pan out of revenge for taking something from him (in that case, his hand). Now Sweet Pete has become Hook in all but name and missing hand, seeking revenge on the industry that took his career from him. He's even become a gang leader like Hook.
  • His Frankenpete form has a few parts from largely heroic characters — Woody, Optimus Prime, Wreck-It Ralph, and Mickey Mouse, yet he himself is far from heroic.
• It's All About Me: It's painfully obvious he's selfish and cares only about himself. He gives little thought towards the suffering of his victims when some of them are in the same boat as he is, and he will gleefully murder anyone who gets in his way.
• I Was Quite a Looker: He was rather attractive as Peter Pan, but after letting himself go, he becomes quite ugly, which Cubby is quick to point out when he encounters him.
• Karmic Transformation: While he doesn't seem to mind, at the end of the film, his bootleg machine malfunctions and fires on him multiple times, turning him into a bootleg chimera of various cartoons — very fitting considering he gleefully turned other toons into bootleg versions of themselves against their will — ones that had nothing to do with his vendentee.
• Kick the Dog: Played for Laughs. When he has Chip tied up, he cruelly tells him he's more of a fan of Alvin and the Chipmunks.
  Chip: You monster!
• Know When to Fold 'Em: After his failed attempt to kill Chip thanks to Dale taking the hit, Sweet Pete finally surrenders as the FBI agents restrain him.
  Sweet Pete: (being arrested by the FBI agents) Alright, alright, you got me! Calm down!
• Lack of Empathy: He couldn't care less about dooming the lives of numerous innocent toons who have done nothing wrong to him.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Once Chip and Dale put a kink in his operations and alert Ugly Sonic and the FBI, he's not only turned into a mishmash of cartoons, but his entire operation is shut down in one swoop.
• Laughably Evil: He is a corrupt psychopath, but his sarcastic, bitter, and rather over-the-top one liners make him quite amusing all the way through.
• The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: After getting a cat's head, he can't help but be distracted by Circling Birdies.
• Mirror Character: To Ugly Sonic. Both were kicked off their respective projects for not having the right looks (Pete for getting older, Ugly Sonic because the internet couldn't stand how he looked), and both are still very bitter about losing their old job, but while Ugly Sonic used his reputation to his advantage and rebuilt his career on a respectable path, Pete became dejected and turned to crime out of revenge towards the system that rejected him. To add insult to injury, Ugly Sonic winds up joining the FBI, while Pete ends up arrested by them.
• Misplaced Retribution: He decided to get revenge for being let go from Hollywood by getting other toons in his debt, kidnapping them when they fall behind on payments, then altering them to force them to star in his mockbusters for all time. It's horrifying only by itself, but it's more disgusting because all his victims had nothing to do with his life.
• Mix-and-Match Critter: How he ends up in the climax of the movie. His head is based on Fat Cat's, mixed with Marie from The Aristocats and Felicia from The Great Mouse Detective, he gets Silver's coat from Treasure Planet, the pants of Mickey Mouse, the legs of Sheriff Woody and Optimus Prime, the arms of Wreck-It-Ralph, the spiked shoulder pad of the Shredder, and Megatron's fusion canon mixed with Bowser's Bill Blaster. All that remains of his original identity is his torso and occasionally his voice, though that gets replaced with Shredder's and Cruella DeVille's on occasion. This makes him a cat-man-pirate-mouse-toy-robot-video game character-ninja.
• The Mockbuster: In-Universe, this is Pete's speciality. Having made one of his old movie, he decides to start making numerous other titles with the various toons he's kidnapped. To get around copyrights, he slightly alters them against their will so they appear as recognizable, but legally distinct characters, and names the movies as obvious riffs on, but still legally distinct, versions of the familiar classics.
• Mythology Gag:
  • As Sweet Pete:
    • He shouts Bangarang and Cuckarookaro during the film.
    • While he's chasing Chip and Dale through FanCon, a few notes of "You Can Fly, You Can Fly, You Can Fly!" play while he grunts "Think of happy little thoughts".
  • In his Frankenpete form:
    • He shout's Wreck-It Ralph's Catchphrase when he first appears in this new form.
    • After chasing Chip and Dale through the set of Pooj the Fat Honey Bear, his voice slips into The Shredder and declares he's going to make the two into chipmunk soup. The 1990 movie Shredder famously declared that he would dine on turtle soup.
    • He turns his Optimus Prime leg into a roller skate. While the Bumblebee Prime has yet to do so on screen, the Transformers: Animated version of Bumblebee did just that on the show frequently.
• Nice Character, Mean Actor: Downplayed. His character was a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, while he himself is an amoral sociopath.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Pete feels the need to exact his revenge on the industry for cutting him loose when he was no longer of use to them. When Chip and Dale inadvertently bring up that bad memory, he deems them both victims to his mockbuster empire instead of letting them pay off Monty's debt. They wind up bringing down his entire operation as a result.
• Not Allowed to Grow Up: Averted. Despite the fact he's the Trope Namer, Pete wound up getting smacked with the one thing he'd never thought possible: puberty. After that, his brief career in Hollywood sank, and his descent to villainy began.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted; he has Disney's other Pete working as an actor for his mockbuster films.
• One-Winged Angel: Albeit, not exactly willingly when his modification machine malfunctions and starts zapping him repeatedly, turning him into a disjointed mashup of Disney characters, with a CG version of Fat Cat's head, Silver's coat, Wreck-It Ralph's left arm, and Sheriff Woody's right leg. Alongside other cartoon parts, such as '87 Shredder's shoulder (and voice) and Optimus Prime's left leg.
• Orcus on His Throne: Given how badly he's fallen out of shape, he leaves the collecting of indebted toons to Jimmy and Bob while he handles all the bootlegging work. It's best exemplified during the chase at FanCon, where he tries to get involved personally in catching Chip and Dale, only to have to rest up because he pulled a muscle.
• Original Generation: While most of Frankenpete's parts come from specific characters, his cat head seems to be that of an original character, although it does look similar to other cat characters, including Fat Cat from the original Rescue Rangers show, or Felicia from The Great Mouse Detective.
• Pragmatic Villainy: He has several of these moments that help keep him afloat for so long.
  • He opens a legitimate business front that buys merchandise no one ever wanted, and melts them down into port-a-potties. That way he can keep the cops from looking too closely on his activities.
  • He tracks his targets primarily by social media, as it allows him to keep an eye on them without giving away his intents. After all, a single social media follow isn't enough evidence that someone is being targeted.
  • Each of the toons he targets are indicated to have fallen on hard times, which he preys upon by offering them a loan to feed their addictions (cheese for Monty, krill for Flounder, etc.). That way, when they disappear off the radar, few people will be looking for them. Targeting stars still on the market, or at least in the public eye, would draw too much attention to his activities.
  • Bribing Captain Putty to act as The Mole in the LAPD not only gives him a perfect guy to warn him about potential raids, but allows any investigations into his operations to be derailed or stuck in an ungodly amount of red tape, discouraging the cops from looking into things further.
• Redemption Rejection: Chip and Dale give him a You Are Not Alone speech. He rejects it and stays evil.
• Revenge Before Reason: Rather than skip town when his operation is exposed, Pete decides to go after Chip and Dale so he can bootleg them as punishment for shutting him down. The resulting chase through FanCon gets Bob arrested by the LAPD, and although he's able to nab Chip, it results in The Reveal that Putty's on his payroll. This allows Ellie to send Dale a subtle warning about what happened, giving him the means to get Gadget and Zipper's help in rescuing their friend. The resulting chaos causes Pete to be transformed into Frankenpete, who continues to pursue Chip and Dale in a Roaring Rampage of Revenge that exposes his bootlegging operations are being done at the docks rather than overseas, allowing the toons captured to be eventually freed. Within minutes, Putty is arrested, Ugly Sonic brings the FBI to shut Pete down, and Pete has not only attacked federal law enforcement, but has an additional attempted murder charge waiting for him as his nearly kills Dale in a final act of Taking You with Me. All of that could have been avoided had he listened to Bob's suggestion to clear out.
• Self-Disposing Villain: Pete could have easily kept his operation going if he had just let Chip and Dale pay off Monty's debt and let them go on their way. Because they accidentally trigger his Berserk Button, he winds up trying to bootleg them along with their old costar, which sets off a chain of events that gets him bootlegged and arrested, exposing his mole in the LAPD, and landing him and all parties involved in prison.
• Shout-Out: He has one of Judge Doom's DIP vials in his torture tools.
• The Sociopath: He shows no remorse for disfiguring and enslaving countless toons for his mockbuster empire. Once his plan gets thwarted, he spitefully attempts to murder Chip and Dale, all the while completely disregarding the safety of his workers and the innocent bystanders in his path.
• Solid Cartoon Facial Stubble: The Boy Who Never Grew Up is now aged up to a balding, corpulent has-been with eye bags and persistent darkness in his lower face. Sweet Pete has plentiful body hairs that are drawn individually, but the facial stubble is a solid color. He loses the stubble when he gets turned into Frankenpete.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: His build and role as a crime boss made him one to Fat Cat. He later gets a head similar to Fat Cat's.
• Taking You with Me: A non-fatal example. After Chip and Dale bury him under a crate, the FBI places him under arrest. Knowing he'll be put away for good, Pete fires a Bullet Bill out of his Arm Cannon to kill Chip out of revenge. Dale notices it and takes the bullet by using a vintage Rescue Rangers pog to deflect the kinetic energy and keep it from killing him. This results in Pete getting into even more trouble with the FBI.
• This Is Gonna Suck: Sweet Pete's reaction after his severely broken and malfunctioning modification machine, surviving the initial explosion and having shrunk his henchman Jimmy into a fairy in a misfire, turns its aim straight at him next.
• Took a Level in Cynic: In his youth, he was bright and optimistic about the future. Now that he's experienced rejection from Hollywood and fallen out of shape, he's not in a cheery mood anymore. When he reencounters Cubby after all these years, he basically tells him, "Death comes for us all."
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Pan wasn't the nicest guy in his movie, but he still stood for what's good and right. That all changed when Hollywood saw him "grow up" and decided he wasn't worth keeping around anymore. Left bitter at such rejection, he decided that he was going to make the system pay for discarding him, throwing away any morals he had for the sake of revenge.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: While Sweet Pete explains to Chip and Dale why he makes bootleg movies, he told them that he had a great time acting in the Peter Pan movie, but he was kicked out due to him growing up and he became more bitter, cold, soulless, cruel, heartless, and trying to stay fit. So, it's easy to feel bad for him after all the stuff he's been through.
• Would Hurt a Child: Amongst his numerous victims are Peppa Pig, Bart and Lisa Simpson, Jimmy Neutron, Sora, Phineas, and Dipper Pines.

Jimmy

Voiced by: Da'Vone McDonald

A polar bear henchman who works for Sweet Pete.

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• Affably Evil: Outside of being a kidnapper and aide to Sweet Pete's schemes, Jimmy is a total Fanboy for Baloo and he has casual conversations with Bob the Dwarf outside of work.
• Bears Are Bad News: He is a partner-in-crime for Sweet Pete and is a big, imposing polar bear, who's seen kidnapping Flounder from The Little Mermaid.
• The Brute: Serves as the muscle for Sweet Pete, whether if it's kidnapping toons or pushing through crowds at a convention.
• Co-Dragons: With Bob and later Captain Putty for Sweet Pete.
• Corrupted Character Copy: Of the Coca-Cola polar bear, if said polar bear ended up as The Brute for a bootlegging crime boss.
• Fanboy: Of Baloo, to where he momentarily stops chasing Chip and Dale just so he can geek out over seeing his idol.
• Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: All he wears is a red vest jacket.
• Karmic Transformation: A couple stray shots from the malfunctioning bootlegging machine shrinks his head and then turns him into a tiny fairy, which while humiliating, he had kidnapped countless toons and forced them to be bootlegged as well.
• Tiny-Headed Behemoth: Briefly has this for a split-second when the malfunctioning bootlegging machine turns his head small before he was turned into a fairy.

Bob the Dwarf

Voiced by: Seth Rogen

A Lord of the Rings-esque Dwarf who hails from a part of town where the CGI is... iffy.

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• Affably Evil: Despite his allegiance with Sweet Pete, he seems rather easygoing unless someone gets in the way.
• Co-Dragons: With Jimmy for Sweet Pete. After he's out of the picture, Captain Putty takes his place.
• Corrupted Character Copy: He's a much more villainous (and off-putting) version of the dwarves seen in Middle Earth.
• Doppelgänger Crossover: He meets 2019 Pumbaa, Mantis, and B.O.B. at the convention. All three voiced by his actor, Seth Rogen.
• Eyes Always Averted: As part of his Uncanny Valley Running Gag, he sometimes has problems making eye contact with other people.
• Going Through the Motions: He emotes gratuitously, often out of sync with his dialogue.
• Ink-Suit Actor: He looks just like his actor if he were a questionably-animated CG Dwarf.
• Ironic Name: Bob... isn't exactly the first one that comes to mind when thinking of Dwarven names.
• Laughably Evil: Given he is played by Seth Rogen, this is expected.
• Self-Deprecation: When he crashes into the convention floor, he gets called out on his looks by Pumbaa — specifically the one from The Lion King (2019), from another film accused of dipping too much into the Uncanny Valley. It also doubles as this Pumbaa is also voiced by Seth Rogen... who's then joined by Mantis from Kung Fu Panda and B.O.B. from Monsters vs. Aliens, who are also voiced by Rogen, who quickly take to mocking him.
• Take That!:
  • His existence, and that of the denizens of his neighborhood, is one to the Uncanny Valley, specifically towards the poor CGI featured in The Hobbit^note Though in their defense, the boot budget didn't allow them much alternative, alongside a few of the actors being too old to do the physical acting their roles required., Beowulf (2007), and Cats. Chip even says he has The Polar Express eyes.
  • By extension, he's also a Take That aimed at the Ink-Suit Actor trope, as he looks exactly like Seth Rogen, raising the question of why he couldn't be a live-action character instead of an animated one. Driving this home is the appearance of three other animated characters voiced by Seth Rogen with much more inspired character designs.
• Uncanny Valley: In-Universe, he's from a part of Hollywood where every character's CGI was done improperly, and looks horribly off to everyone as a result.
• Vocal Dissonance: An imposing (if off-putting) dwarf warrior stepping straight out of Middle-earth... with the goofy voice and gruff laugh of Seth Rogen.

Bjornson the Cheesemonger

Voiced by: Keegan-Michael Key

A Muppet henchman of Sweet Pete's who sells contraband stinky cheese.

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• Beware the Silly Ones: Despite the fact he looks like a silly Muppet, he's part of an underground crime ring and he's played rather seriously.
  Bjornson: (to Chip and Dale, menacingly) You cops?
• Corrupted Character Copy: If Swedish Chef was a G-Rated crack dealer. That's a sentence that exists now.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: When asked about stinky cheese, Bjornson gets wary, suspecting if Chip and Dale are cops. He lets the two in a secret entrance of his shop, revealing a basement full of mice customers, indulging in the stuff in a very explicit fashion. Bjornson's operation has direct ties with Sweet Pete's business, and the cheese is expensive and addicting enough for Bjornson's costumers to be indebted to Pete. It's clear that stinky cheese is treated like an illegal hard drug, with Bjornson's shop selling the smuggled cheese being treated like an opium den or crackhouse run by the mafia or other criminal organization.
• Expy: Of the Swedish Chef from The Muppets, having the same hair color and a Scandanvian accent, although he drops it when he gets serious.
• Faux Affably Evil: He will act happy and jolly in front of unsuspecting customers, but immediately drops it when his cover gets blown.
• Karma Houdini: Unlike Bob, Jimmy, Putty, and Sweet Pete, he does not get arrested and continues to work on Main Street.
• Laughably Evil: He's a shifty character to say the least, but his overly-energetic movements and exaggerated mouth-flapping make it hard not to laugh at him.
• Muppet: A CGI version of one, complete with the camera deliberately obscuring his legs as if an actual puppeteer is performing him.

Captain S. Putty (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

Voiced by: J. K. Simmons

A claymation police detective.

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• Actor Allusion: J.K. Simmons has played a Dirty Cop in 21 Bridges.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He appears stern but reasonable when he was introduced. This all turns out to be an act as he was actually in cohorts with Sweet Pete. Not only that, but he was the one who gave Ellie the bogus tip that led to the infamous Nick Jr. attack.
• Captain Obvious: When Pete's bootlegging machine goes on the fritz:
  Putty: Fix that! You should fix that!
  Sweet Pete: Thanks for the input, genius!
• Card-Carrying Villain: He proudly admits he is "a greedy little Smurf who did it for the money".
• Corrupted Character Copy: Of Gumby, if he was a corrupt police officer mixed with the T-1000. Ellie even calls him "a low rent Gumby" after arresting him.
• Co-Dragons: After Bob the Dwarf is taken out the picture, he takes his spot and serves as one with Jimmy to Sweet Pete.
• Dirty Cop: He's secretly working for Sweet Pete. He even lampshades how obvious this was.
• Evil All Along: He turns out to be working for Sweet Pete and gave the anonymous tip that Ellie regarded as My Greatest Failure.
• Evil Is Hammy: Once The Reveal happens, the gloves come off and he really lets loose on the ham. Given he is voiced by J.K. Simmons, this is to be expected.
• Evil Is Petty: He falsely tipped Ellie that Peppa Pig was spotted at the Nick Jr. studios, leading to a raid that resulted in the toons attacking the cops and soiling Ellie's reputation, just so he could destroy her confidence for the fun of it.
• Foreshadowing: When first encountered, Putty dismisses the notion that Monty could be rescued from the Valley Gang because of how hard it's been to take them down (not to mention all the red tape involved). While it seems like he's giving Chip and Dale the run-around out of apathy, it's really a big red flag that he's involved in Sweet Pete's operations.
• Healthcare Motivation: Subverted. He claims to Ellie that he fell in with Sweet Pete so he could pay for an operation to save his mother, but then starts laughing midway through and reveals that it was a joke. He truthfully confesses to Ellie that he just joined up with Sweet Pete because he's greedy for money.
• Human Popsicle: Gets frozen in his fight against Ellie when she uses a fire extinguisher on him.
• Ink-Suit Actor: He is basically the blue Gumby counterpart to J.K. Simmons.
• Jerkass: None of the Valley Gang are great guys, but while Sweet Pete at least has a tragic origin, and Bob and Jimmy are Affably Evil, Putty is a traitorous, sadistic, greedy asshole with nothing likable beyond being Laughably Evil.
• Karmic Butt-Monkey: He constantly gets stuff stuck on his back (i.e., a Monopoly gamepiece, one of his subordinates, and chewing gum) and endures a bunch of other Amusing Injuries. Given how much of a Jerkass he is, however, it's all warranted.
• Kick the Dog: He cruelly taunts Ellie about the Nick Jr. incident, which clearly scarred the latter for life. He twists the knife further when he reveals he's the one who gave the false tip about it.
• Large Ham: Loud, boisterous, and especially nasty, Putty can barely keep his voice down in whatever scene he's in. Given he is voiced by J. K. Simmons, this is expected.
• Laser-Guided Karma: He was the one who led to Ellie's reputation getting ruined by giving her a bad tip. She's the one who ultimately defeats him and gets him arrested and sent to prison.
• Laughably Evil: He loves trolling people and making puns.
• Literally Shattered Lives: How he's defeated by Ellie in their fight. Being made of plasticine, this doesn't kill him, but it takes a while for him to reform to normal size.
• Only in It for the Money: His motivation for working for Sweet Pete. He even admits this to Ellie after having her trapped in the warehouse.
  Putty: I'm a greedy little Smurf who did it for the MONEY!
• Pet the Dog: He does compliment Ellie's work in bringing down Sweet Pete's bootlegging hideout, though it winds up being Subverted later when he reveals his true colors.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: As silly as he can be, he's formidable in a fight. He's like a toddler-sized T-1000 that's only not immediately lethal because he's still made of clay.
• Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: He does this during the fight between him and Ellie, from "Boing!" when jumping to scatting the Cancan when attacking her with cymbals.
• Shapeshifter Weapon: He can mold his hands into objects like cymbals and an anvil to attack with.
• Stop Faux-tion: He's a claymation-style character created using CGI.
• Terminator Impersonator: T-1000 variety. He's dressed like a member of law enforcement and is malleable to the point where it's hopeless to fight him. He's even defeated by being frozen and shattered.
• Walking Spoiler: It's hard not to talk about him without bringing up that he's in cahoots with Sweet Pete.

FanCon Guests

Baloo

Voiced by: Steven Curtis Chapman

The famous bear of The Jungle Book and TaleSpin, Baloo has since made an impressive career comeback by getting CGI surgery and starring in a remake of his old movie.

To see tropes from his original appearance, see here.

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: Although he's the same Baloo from TaleSpin, he lacks the show's nastier and more selfish attitude.
• Anthropomorphic Shift: While he has the physical appearance of the Baloo from the remake, he walks upright and wears clothes. Justified due to it being the original Baloo.
• Art Shift: He underwent CGI surgery to help revitalize his career.
• Bait-and-Switch: He's introduced this way by making it seem that Dale is up to appear on stage and begin his efforts to revitalize his career. Instead, old Baloo's the one to take center stage.
• Beary Funny: He's a big goofball on stage, but the fans love him all the more for it.
• Big Fun: He's a big, hefty bear, and a class act with his fans. The moment he starts singing "The Bare Necessities", the crowd goes nuts.
• Career Resurrection: In-Universe, he gets CGI surgery and manages to relaunch his career with a hit remake of his old movie, allowing him to enjoy the fruits of stardom once more.
• Composite Character: He's the original Baloo from The Jungle Book and TaleSpin with the appearance of his live-action remake counterpart courtesy of a CGI surgery.
• A Dog Named "Dog": His name means "Bear" in Hindi, so he's a bear named Bear.
• Fun Personified: It's all part of his laid-back personality, and his desire to live it up both on and off the stage.
• Gentle Giant: A big bear though he may be, Baloo is a fan-favorite from con-goers to a criminal because of how laid back and lively he is.
• Nice Guy: True to form, Baloo is a cool guy to everyone around him. When he shows up on stage, he sings "The Bare Necessities" without skipping a beat, and when he sees Chip and Dale, he's happy to see the two are back together again. Even Jimmy, one of the Co-Dragons to Sweet Pete, can't help but fanboy over the guy.

Lumiere

Voiced by: Jeff Bennett

The Ensemble Dark Horse of Beauty and the Beast, this dashing, debonair candelabra has been making appearances at conventions to help make ends meet.

To see tropes from his original appearance, see here.

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• Badass Boast: When he confronts Bob.
  Lumiere: You want a piece of me? Be my guest!
• Badass Bystander: Along with Tigra, he prevents Bob from catching Chip and Dale before calling the cops on him.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Like with his home series, Lumiere is a gentleman all around. But if you mess with his friends, he'll burn you, as Bob found out the hard way when he tried kidnapping Chip and Dale.
• Epic Fail: Lumiere graciously accepts five dollars from a con-goer, only to burn it with the candle on his head. He then laments he needed that money.
• Nice Guy: He's nothing if not a gentleman (er, gentlecandelabra) to his fans and to his fellow con-attendees. He shows great encouragement of Dale's desires to reboot Rescue Rangers, and bows with gratitude out of being given money (which he then burns).
• Odd Friendship: He's struck up a rapport with a Cat Girl superhero, a has-been chipmunk detective, and the discarded design of Sonic The Hedgehog.
• Playing with Fire: He can weaponize his flames if he needs to, and uses it to scare off Bob.
• Riches to Rags: Implied, as he gets bummed when he accidentally burns a five dollar bill and moans that he needed the cash. Seeing as he never got the CGI treatment like Dale and Baloo, it implies that it wasn't him in the live-action remake of his old movie, and he's been scooting by on convention appearances to make ends meet.

Ugly Sonic

Voiced by: Tim Robinson

The original, infamously horrific character design of Sonic the Hedgehog. When kicked off the project and replaced by the redesign fans know and love, he struck out on his own and used his infamy to his advantage. A joke he may be, but his rolling with the punches has helped him find new work.

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• Adam Westing: In-Universe, he knows people hate him, so every appearance he makes, he takes plenty of opportunities to poke fun at himself. It works, and he gets himself a new show out of it.
• Adaptational Ugliness: Exaggerated from his original design. His eyes were changed to something more resembling Fugglers dolls, he has thick jowl lines, and he is much more out of shape.
• Art Evolution: While still based on that infamous first design, there are some small changes made to Ugly Sonic to round out his features. Most notably, his eyes are more sunken into his face, and he has a noticeable gut to him. Clearly the negative feedback got to him.
• Big Damn Heroes: He arrives at the climax of the film in a helicopter alongside the FBI to help Chip and Dale capture Sweet Pete.
• Brought Down to Normal: Being kicked off the movie took away his super speed. Now? He's "slooooooooow, baaabyyyyyyy".
• Career Resurrection: In-Universe, he was kicked off the original Sonic movie when the internet took one look at him and hated his looks. After that, he built himself a habit of making fun of himself, which earned him enough notoriety that the FBI hired him to host Ugly Sonic, Uglier Crimes, allowing him to bounce back.
• Determinator: You got to admit, he does share Sonic's determination by taking advantage of his own character's reputation until landing a reality TV show deal with the FBI.
• Divergent Character Evolution: He's gone from the original design of Sonic to existing alongside the redesign, and fully admits he is not actually Sonic. Not only does he look different, but he's also super slow!
• Eternally Pearly-White Teeth: His disturbing human-like teeth are given a ton of focus in his scenes, with no less than two slow motion close-ups on them.
• Foil: To Sweet Pete, as both were rejected from their work due to their appearance, but Ugly Sonic was able to take it all in stride and eventually used his looks as part of his fame and get his own reality show, whereas Sweet Pete became bitter and jaded at how Hollywood treated him.
• Formerly Fit: He's grown a gut since his original appearance, and he says that he's now very slow, instead of having Super-Speed.
• Gonk: He's called "Ugly Sonic" for a reason. The movie emphasizes his ugliness by frequently presenting him in a head-on view instead of 3/4, and by making close-ups on his human-like teeth.
• Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: He's seen wearing a brown jacket at the convention, and FBI clothing during the climax, and amusingly still doesn't wear pants. One assumes he is still wearing the iconic red shoes, but they are not seen in the film, for copyright purposes.
• In Name Only: An In-Universe example. He has a similar name and appearance to the iconic character in the live-action film adaptations, but that's about it.
• Ironic Name: Despite still being called "Sonic", but with Ugly in his name, he doesn't have Super-Speed. To which he lampshades that that's Sonic's thing.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: A lot of his character arc represents exactly what happened to him in real life—he was supposed to be the movie Sonic, but was removed from the project by a Sonic who looked closer to the original design because nobody could stand how deep he delved into the Uncanny Valley.
• Meaningful Name: He's called Ugly Sonic, need to say more of his looks?
• Nice Guy: He has no hard feelings for Sonic replacing him and is the one who saves Chip and Dale from Sweet Pete through an FBI helicopter.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: His yellow jacket, large gut and TV show with law enforcement make him an analog to Steven Seagal.
• Real After All: Ugly Sonic claims that he is making a show with the FBI and Dale obviously doesn't believe him. When he goes to Ugly Sonic to warn the FBI about Sweet Pete's operations, the fact he's going so slow about it makes Dale admit he thinks that the hedgehog was lying about getting a show. Then it turns out he was telling the truth, as he shows up with the FBI during the climax.
• Ripped from the Headlines: His story is exactly that of what befell his design in real life, being removed from the film after the internet had a massive backlash against it.
• Running Gag: Twice does the camera focus in on his human teeth, with both Chip and Dale having an awkward reaction to it.
• Self-Deprecation: He's come to terms with being mocked and replaced, even joking about it and making a career out of it.
• Super-Speed: Averted. Losing his role in the movie also changed him from the fastest thing alive to "slooooooooow, baaabyyyyyyy".
• Uncanny Valley: Invoked, with some close-ups of his disturbingly human-like teeth and tongue for emphasis.
• Vocal Dissonance: His voice is very gravelly and deep in tone, a stark contrast to the more youthful and spirited take of other Sonics, especially the one who replaced him.
• What Could Have Been: An In-Universe example. He was supposed to be the lead of Sonic the Hedgehog (2020), but he was kicked off the project when, as he put it, "the internet got one look at [his] perfectly human teeth and burnt the place down."
• White Gloves: Nope, but he's still got the white fur on his hands to emulate that.

Tigra

Voiced by: Lisa Cackowski

Alias Greer Grant, she hails from the Marvel Comics as a superhero transformed into a Cat Girl. With her only major appearance being the short-lived cartoon The Avengers: United They Stand, she has taken to the convention circuit.

To see her tropes from her original appearance, see here.

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• Adaptational Modesty: Tigra is wearing pants and a tank top in this film, instead of either her more modest bikini from her cartoon of origin, or her much skimpier bikini from the comics.
• Badass Bystander: She and Lumiere help save Chip and Dale from Bob and call the cops on him.
• Blunt "No": Dale asks if she wants to hang out outside of the con. She shoots him down fast, which he then lampshades.
• Cat Girl: Her physical appearance is this, unsurprising considering her comic of origin.
• Mythology Gag: Her booth is covered with screenshots from her show and a few issues from the comics she appeared in.
• Nice Girl: She is very supportive of Dale's efforts to help revitalize his career and helps protect him from Bob.
• Odd Friendship: She's developed a strong rapport with a has-been cartoon chipmunk, an ugly Sonic the Hedgehog, and a talking French candelabra.

Pumbaa, Mantis, and B.O.B.

Voiced by: Seth Rogen

A trio of cartoon characters all voiced by Seth Rogen, all in attendance at FanCon.
To see tropes from their original appearances, see here for Pumbaa, here for Master Mantis, and here for B.O.B..

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• Ambiguous Situation: It's not clear if Pumbaa is the original having undergone CGI surgery, or a replacement actor for The Lion King (2019).
• Biting-the-Hand Humor: Pumbaa, a character who's been accused of dipping too much into the Uncanny Valley, mocks Bob for the same thing. For an added bonus, the VFX company did the character models for both The Lion King remake and The Hobbit.
• Doppelgänger Crossover: Their whole scene consists of characters played by Seth Rogen.
• Lost in Translation: The scene doesn't quite work as much in the Japanese version due to the trio having different voice actors as well as the fact that only Takuya Kirimoto has done one of Seth Rogen's characters (Mantis).
• Self-Deprecation: Their whole scene is a double whammy, first in regards to Pumbaa making fun of the Uncanny Valley dwarf Bob for looking strange (when he's faced criticism over the same thing), and second in regards to everyone in their scene together being voiced by Seth Rogen.
• Signature Laugh: All of them laugh in the one made famous by Seth Rogen.

He-Man and Skeletor

Voiced by: Alan Oppenheimer

Normally a pair of arch-enemies fighting for control of Eternia, the Most Powerful Man in the Universe and the self-proclaimed "Lord of Destruction" actually spend a lot of time hanging out at conventions together.

See tropes from their original appearance here.

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• Adaptational Wimp: Instead of the brave and fearless warrior he is in the show, He-Man gets jumpy when Chip and Dale run under his feet while fleeing Bob.
• Animation Bump: Although the characters use the exact same designs as their cartoon appearances, there's a lot more motion and fluidity in their movements than in their home show.
• Cassandra Truth: Played for Laughs, but Skeletor doesn't believe that He-Man felt something under the table, dismissing it as his foe just feeling a breeze from not wearing any pants.
• Deadpan Snarker: Skeletor still takes the opportunity to mock his foe with dry wit, this time over feeling Chip and Dale underfoot.
• Go-Karting with Bowser: He-Man and Skeletor, arch-enemies in every incarnation of their franchise, attend conventions together.
• Laughing at Your Own Jokes: You can hear Skeletor chuckling after he takes a swipe at He-Man's lack of pants.
• Mean Character, Nice Actor: Skeletor is normally unwilling to even be in the same room with He-Man without wanting to destroy him, but the two are a lot friendlier in real life. Though Skeletor still calls He-Man a boob.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: He-Man only wears a loin-cloth, boots, and gauntlets, showing off his massive physique. Doesn't stop Skeletor from mocking him when he's frightened by a feeling underfoot, and only now, after wearing no pants for years, does he notice something.

Darkwing Duck (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

Voiced by: Jim Cummings

An ego-driven superhero from Saint Canard and the star of Darkwing Duck, this glory-hounding duck wants a reboot.

For tropes relating to his original appearance, see here.

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• Breaking the Fourth Wall: When yelling at the Rescue Rangers and chanting "We want Darkwing!", he turns directly to the camera and asks the audience to join with him.
• Composite Character: Darkwing is the original iteration, but his over-inflated sense of egotism and his jealousy towards being denied a reboot is eerily similar to that of Jim Starling, the actor who played Darkwing in the Show Within a Show version of DuckTales (2017). Heaven hopes he doesn't become Negaduck like Starling did...
• Irony: He complains about not getting a reboot, in spite of the fact he was a recurring guest-star in the DuckTales (2017) reboot, but also because Seth Rogen is currently in the process of rebooting him. Evidently DW didn't get the memo.
• It's All About Me: He's not upset about the fact that the Rescue Rangers are getting a reboot; he's upset that he's not getting one.
• Nice Character, Mean Actor: Zig-zagged. While Darkwing is no saint in his native show, with his massive ego and all, he's still a decent guy at heart and always does the right thing in the end. Outside of it, his ego is still inflated as ever, and he hates the idea that other shows are getting rebooted over him.
• No Indoor Voice: When he starts booing the Rescue Rangers, he rarely lowers his voice in his rant against them.
• Shout-Out: His marquee stand at his booth is shaped like the logo to Batman: The Animated Series, but with him instead of Batman as the subject.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Darkwing, like usual, can't stand the idea of sharing the spotlight with anyone else. When the Rescue Rangers get back together, he starts complaining about how they're getting a reboot and not him. Evidently, just being a recurring guest star on DuckTales (2017) wasn't enough for him.
• Walking Spoiler: Good luck bringing up anything about him since he was never shown in any promotional material.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: He describes his lack of attention as a "load of malarkey".

Other Guests

Several other guests are in attendance at FanCon. For tropes related to their original appearances, please see their respective pages:

• Greedo
• Salacious B. Crumb
• Doc McStuffins
• Paul Rudd
• The Mane Six
• Cubby

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• Big Damn Heroes: Downplayed, as it's only for a brief moment (and highly unintentional at that), but the Mane Six are able to get Chip and Dale away from Sweet Pete's gang long enough by galloping through the convention hall. It winds up buying just enough time for Lumiere and Tigra to stop Bob and hold him long enough to call the police.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: While Doc McStuffins, Paul Rudd, Cubby, and the Mane Six can be easily spotted, Kronk, Greedo, and Crumb's cameos can only be briefly glimpsed. The former's booth is seen just as Chip and Dale flee from Ugly Sonic's booth while being pursued by Sweet Pete, and the Star Wars characters can be spotted on posters outside the convention.
• Mythology Gag: A Giant Funko Pop! of Giant-Man is seen amongst the items being brought to Paul Rudd to sign.
• Vocal Dissonance: Inverted. Cubby actually sounds more like a proper kid here than he did in the original movie.
• What Could Have Been: Parodied In-Universe, but Paul Rudd claims that Ant-Man was meant to be called "Aunt Man", and that his superpower would have been to be attractive to Aunts. Somehow or another, it still gets made anyway.

Other Characters

Det. Ellie Steckler

Portrayed by: KiKi Layne

A rookie LAPD officer who is a huge fan of Rescue Rangers.

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• Ascended Fangirl: She loved Rescue Rangers when she was a kid and helps them solve a case.
• The Dog Bites Back: She is the one who defeats Putty and has him put into custody, which is fitting since the latter constantly looked down on her and ruined her self-esteem out of spite.
• Ironic Echo: As she defeats him, she tells Putty, "Don't be so fragile." Putty said the same to her earlier when he reveals he is the one who gave the bogus tip to Nick Jr. during the Peppa Pig case. Also doubles as a Pun when she pushes the frozen Putty to the ground and breaks him apart.
• My Greatest Failure: Captain Putty shows a lack of trust in Ellie after an anonymous tip that would've helped them find a missing Peppa Pig, but it led to the police raiding Nickelodeon Junior Studios and Ellie's reputation being sullied (one cop even got neutered when he was mauled by the PAW Patrol). It turns out that Putty was the one who gave the tip after all.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Putty and the rest of the LAPD refuse to let her live down the Nick Jr. incident.
• Red Herring: Chip suspects that she is lying about being a fan of the Rescue Rangers and that she is working for Sweet Pete, since some details of her story don't seem to add up. But it turns out she was being completely honest with them and her boss, Captain Putty, is the one really working for Sweet Pete.
• Token Human: She is this of the main cast as well as the most prominent human in the film.

DJ Herzogenaurach

Voiced by: Flula Borg

A DJ snake who frequents one of the spas that Sweet Pete visits.

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• Ascended Fanboy: He is a huge fan of Chip 'n Dale and in the credits scene, he's seen doing a cover of the Rescue Rangers theme alongside them.
• Cool Shades: He wears a pair of orange shades.
• Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: He wears a black gangster beanie and a white shirt with a blue mark on it.
• Snakes Are Sinister: Very much inverted. At first, Chip and Dale think he is a mean and menacing snake, but it is later revealed that he is a Nice Guy and a huge fan of Chip 'n Dale.

Coercive Insurance Employees

Portrayed by: Nneoma Sampson (Human Co-Worker)

Voiced by: Scott Whyte (Bull Co-worker), Keegan-Michael Key (Frog Co-worker)

Chip's coworkers at his new day job.

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• Nice Guy: From what little is seen of them, both of Chip's coworkers are pretty friendly with him, even inviting them to an after-work party.
• Special Effects Failure: Invoked In-Universe, as the CGI used to depict them is subpar like a typical insurance commercial mascot.
• Take That!: Their existence is one towards the major insurance companies and their poorly-animated CGI mascots—the frog in particular is meant as one towards GEICO and their gecko.

Cameos

Voiced by: Charlie Fleischer (Roger Rabbit), David Tennant (Scrooge McDuck), Jim Cummings (Fat Cat, Pete, Pooh, Tigger), Rachel Bloom (Flounder, Cubby, Bart Simpson), Jorma Taccone (Batman), Akiva Schaffer (E.T.)

The various inhabitants of the real world, consisting of fictional characters from various projects in pop culture history. For tropes related to their original appearances, please see their respective pages:

• The Three Little Pigs
• Roger Rabbit
• The Little House
• Scrooge McDuck
• The Magic Carpet
• Flounder
• Linda Flynn-Fletcher
• Mr. Natural
• Blaster
• Batman
• Randy Marsh
• Butt-Head
• Bonkers
• Fat Cat
• Professor Norton Nimnul
• Vin Diesel

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• Adaptation Personality Change:
  • Butt-Head is much more intelligent in real life, enough to be an actor-turned-politician a la Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
  • Linda Flynn-Fletcher has some kind of shady dealings going on.
  • The Nick Jr. characters, though not seen onscreen, are willing to attack the LAPD when their studio is raided—acts of which none of their characters would ever do in their shows.
  • Peppa Pig, Flounder, The Simpsons, Pete, the cast of Winnie the Pooh, Sora, Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Jimmy Neutron, a Smurf, a Snork, Frog Tiana, Abu, Launchpad, Phineas and many others got themselves indebted to a mobster, which most of them would have never done (sans Homer Simpson) in their respective shows.
• Adaptational Wimp: Most of the characters caught by Sweet Pete's goons are some that would've taken them out or at least given a fight, especially the likes of Sora, Homer, Shenron, and Samurai Jack. Justified by them all being just actors with none of the skills of their famous roles.
• Alternate History: Several of these toons are shown as being down on their luck, despite the fact that several of them (notably The Simpsons clan, Patrick, Peppa Pig, Sora, Launchpad, and the cast of Winnie the Pooh) have ongoing or recent projects during the film's release.
• Ambiguous Innocence: It's shown that Monty and Flounder were bootlegged because they were in debt to the Valley Gang. It's never clarified if all the captured toons had shady business with the mafia or were just innocent victims taken for Pete's films. Given the amount of victims, there can be plenty of both parties here. Phineas' mother is said to have shady business, but it's never clarified if he himself was involved in it. It should be noted that they're all perfectly fine with hanging around the police after being freed, none of them are bothered or worried.
• Ambiguous Situation:
  • There's some lack of certainty regarding Pete's role in Sweet Pete's mockbusters, as he appears unaltered compared to the rest of his victims (merely being dressed in Aladdin's Prince Ali outfit) and shows himself to be more worried over Chip and Dale ruining his gig rather than being kidnapped or forced to do the mockbuster against his will. As such, it's not clear if he's really a willing participant.
  • A lot of the toons on Sweet Pete's mockbusters are obvious parodies of existing cartoon characters (including Ariel, Eric, Triton, Ursula, Belle, Beast, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts, Simba, Timon, and Casper the Friendly Ghost), but it's not clear if it really is these toons or stand-ins that Pete altered.
  • Amongst the parts for Frankenpete are Woody and Optimus Prime's legs, Shredder's shoulder, Wreck-It-Ralph and Megatron's arms, Fat Cat, Felicia, and Marie's heads, Long John Silver's coat, Mickey Mouse's pants, and Bowser's Bill Blaster. The movie never makes it clear if Pete just happened to have the information from them on file, or if he got them from bootlegging said toons himself. The fact they aren't seen in the container when the FBI frees them makes it further unclear.
• And I Must Scream: This is how any toon that ends up in Sweet Pete's clutches ends up. When kidnapped for failing to pay him off, they have their mouths erased, are altered to pass copyright muster, and then forced to star in mockbusters for all time. Such poor folks include Flounder, Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, the entire Simpsons clan, and even Pete.
• Art Shift: How some of Sweet Pete's victims have been changed. A blink and you miss it appearance by Marceline from Adventure Time shows she was turned into a black and white Rubberhose cartoon, and Bubbles has been turned into an anime styled girl. Also applies in a meta-sense, as the cameos are for the most part, animated in the styles of their respective shows or movies.
• Beware the Nice Ones: It's mentioned than when the Nick Jr. studios were raided by the police, the toons—themselves the epitome of family-friendly entertainment and all kind characters in their respective series—attack the cops. One poor soul got his reproductive organs destroyed by the PAW Patrol dogs.
• Body Horror: When the toons are bootlegged, their bodies are altered to a point that makes it look horribly unbearable for them. Fred Flintstone is turned into Bigfoot from A Goofy Movie (complete with the same pair of underwear on his head), Kaa from The Jungle Book is forcibly given human hands across his body to make him look more like Randall from Monsters, Inc., and Phineas Flynn is meshed into a Looney Tunes-style dodo—alterations of which were done to them unwillingly.
• Everyone Went to School Together: Chip and Dale attended high school with Blaster.
• Freudian Excuse: Implied with some of the Main Street vendors. Linda is seen selling goods there (in order to hide a shadier, more lucrative business), but her son Phineas turns out to be one of the bootlegged slaves indebted to Sweet Pete (having been morphed into a Loony Tunes Dodo shape). The universe being what it is though, it's unclear if they actually do have any relation off-set.
• Hulking Out: Garfield was bootlegged to be much more muscular. Captain Putty notes the poor cat couldn't survive being that bulky.
• Irony:
  • Pooh is among the bootlegged toons, despite becoming a Public Domain Character the year of the film's release.
  • Bubbles is styled as an anime girl. Whether this was intentional or not is tough to say.
• Karma Houdini: Most of the Main Street characters are doing some very shady things (it's considered a bad part of town and every toon there is apparently up to something illegal), but apart from possibly the Muppet baker (who has a direct tie to the antagonist and revealed his own operation to the heroes), none of them are tied to the problem, and as such they aren't brought to justice for things like selling SSN numbers.
  • Linda Flynn-Fletcher's Main Street operations, whatever they may be, are allowed to continue unimpeded.
  • The entire Nick Jr. toon lineup is indicated not to have received any punishment for attacking the LAPD.
• Mix-and-Match Critter: How some of Sweet Pete's victims end up, in order to look like more abstract characters. Kaa in particular is given human-like arms and legs so he can resemble a bootleg Randall from Monsters, Inc., Woody Woodpecker is given a Gummi Bear-like body, and Frog Tiana has been given insect wings so she can fly like Tinkerbell.
• Mythology Gag: The Simpsons, when bootlegged, appear to resemble their original iteration from The Tracy Ullman Show, complete with the scratchy outlines and distorted shapes. What's more, Homer gets hit by Marge's car, much like what happens in the theme song in later seasons.
• Nice Character, Mean Actor:
  • Linda Flynn-Fletcher, a Nice Girl and one of animation's best mothers, is secretly dealing in some sort of illegal product.
  • As mentioned above, the Nick Jr. characters are representative of children's educational programming—kind, peaceful, and heroic—yet they're willing to maul the police for raiding their studio (though this was intended as a Take That! against said programs.)
  • It's an Open Secret that Jack Skellington commits embezzlement on his own charity (or so Bob claims).
• Noodle Incident: Some of the characters like Flounder are deep in debt to Sweet Pete, but nothing's ever revealed how, or why. All that's spoken of Flounder's debt is that he fell behind on krill payments.
• Riches to Rags: Monty mentions that a lot of older cartoon stars have been struggling since their last projects, which puts nearly all of them in a prime position for Sweet Pete to put them in his debt and force them to star in his mockbusters when they fall behind on payments (though some like Patrick Star and Peppa Pig still have shows going in spite of it).
• Subverted Catchphrase: Enforced by Sweet Pete, who makes his victims speak in catchphrases other than their own to avoid getting a copyright strike. Pooh (or Pooj) says "Boh Bahbah" instead of "Oh, bother", and Bart says "Ay, Pachunga" instead of "Ay, Carumba!"
• Writing Around Trademarks: In-Universe, the bootleg victims are transformed into legally-distinct, but still visually recognizable versions of themselves to scoot around existing copyright laws. For example, Pooh and company get turned into "Pooj the Fat Honey Bear", the Simpsons are turned into "the Stitsons", and Pete is made to star in a mockbuster of Aladdin called "Prince Jahli".

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