Characters from Doraemon: Nobita and the Island of Miracles ~Animal Adventure~.
Allies to the gang
Nobisuke / Dakke
This is how one should realistically react to Time Travel.
Nobita's father, Nobisuke, from over two decades ago when a case of mistaken identity have Nobisuke being sent to the future instead of Nobita. And then Nobisuke lose his memory shortly after his arrival before meeting his future son, while being oblivious the whole time.- Accidental Hero: While trying to hide from Sherman's minions, Sky, Lock and Snake (who's hunting down Koron and the village kids) Nobisuke accidentally fell off a cliff... on the back of a sleeping saber-toothed tiger, waking it into a rampage which scares off the villains, unintentionally saving Koron and other children. It was here Nobisuke meets the kids of Rokuro village for the first time, beating Doraemon and the others by a few scenes.
- Accidental Misnaming: After forgetting his name, "Nobisuke", he tries asking questions, "What is it...?" (何だっけ, "Nandakke"), which leads to Koron mistaking his name to be "Dakke". Said name sticks around for the rest of the story until he got his memories back in the final scene.
- Continuity Nod: Nobisuke-as-Dakke is shown to be an exceptionally good artist, as seen when he tries sketching Kurajo - a nod towards the manga, where Nobisuke as a child is a talented art student whose goal was to be an accomplished artist, only for his dreams to hit a curb and eventually became an office worker.
- Fish out of Water: He doesn't take it well from being displaced from the 1980s to 200 years later. In an island filled with giant animals he thought was extinct, no less! His subsequent Freak Out is quite justified until he meets Koron and the Rokoro village kids.
- Identical Stranger: Looks exactly like Nobita, though it was justified since he's actually Nobita's dad, Nobisuke, from the past, after being dragged into the future by Gonsuke.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Shortly after arriving in the future, he gets hit in the head by Doraemon's Memory Stick, a gadget Doraemon accidentally lost during an earlier visit. He get his memories pre-Time Travel back towards the end of the adventure, but his experience in Miracle Island gets wiped instead.
- Missing Child: A child from the 1980s missing in the future, after being dragged to the 22nd Century into the nature sanctuary called Miracle Island.
- Mistaken Identity: Was mistaken to be Nobita by Gonsuke, leading to Nobisuke being dragged along for the adventure, despite him protesting all the way.
- Mythology Gag: Nobita encountering an Identical Stranger of himself was the subject of an earlier movie, Doraemon: Nobita's the Legend of the Sun King, though this one is justified by Dakke actually being Nobisuke, Nobita's dad.
Koron
With her pet dodo, Kurajo
A little girl from Rokoro village, the first of the village kids who meets the amnesiac Nobisuke.
- Cheerful Child: She's six years old, hyperactive, and loves clinging onto everyone she meets, easily befriending Nobisuke and later on becomes attached to Nobita and the gang.
- The Cutie: Being the youngest and most adorable member of the cast.
- Damsel in Distress: Was kidnapped alongside Suneo, Kelly and Kurajo by Sherman's minions. Suneo, usually a coward, notably puts up a brave front against Sherman when the villain tries interrogating them.
- Friend to All Living Things: To humans, robots, animals, even befriending Nobita's pet beetle Kabuta.
- Raised by Grandparents: Raised by her grandfather, Ouro the village chief, after her parents' death years ago.
Dr. Kelly
The director and supervisor of Miracle Island.
- Damsel in Distress: Was kidnapped alongside Suneo, Koron and Kurajo by Sherman's minions. Suneo, usually a coward, notably puts up a brave front against Sherman when the villain tries interrogating them.
Gonsuke
- The Driver: His main job is to transport guests around and collect them from their respective eras, with half his screentime in a driver's seat.
- Flat Character: He's there to fill up the background.
- Robot Buddy: Dr. Kelly's robotic colleague and sidekick.
- Satellite Character: Save for his conversation with Nobisuke after capturing him in the past, all his screentime are conversations with either Dr. Kelly, Nobita, and / or Doraemon.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Despite his very limited screentime, his screwing up early on is what leads to Nobisuke being sent to the future instead of Nobita, which in turn leads to Nobisuke meeting the gang, the final encounter with the Golden Beetle, and Nobisuke remembering the whole thing as a dream after his memory's erasure - which in turn, have Nobisuke narrating his meeting with the Golden Beetle in a dream to Doraemon and Nobita in the present. The whole adventure wouldn't have happened without Gonsuke's mistake!
- Token Robot: He's the only robot staff on Miracle Island.
Villains
Sherman
A millionaire and collector of exotic animals who intends to steal the Golden Beetle from Miracle Island, despite knowing full well the beetle's capture would spell doom to all wildlife on said island. His minions in giant robots and enslaved prehistoric animals are the main threats in the entire film, with Sherman himself commandeering them from his headquarters.
- Amusing Injuries: Gets put through a bunch of these in his final scene - after his attempt to kill the heroes fail, his Glyptodon mech blows up with him in the cockpit, giving him an Ash Face while depositing Sherman into a herd of furious wildlife his minions enslaved, ready to rip him to shreds.
- Bad Boss: He's, frankly, not a good employer to his minions. To the point of scolding Locke and Snake for running away from a saber-toothed tiger.
- Bald of Evil: Doesn't have a single hair on him, and is evil to the core. He's also the only bald villain of the picture and their leader.
- Big Bad: The financier of the poachers invading Miracle Island with their mechs, with his underlings tearing said island apart for him to seek the Golden Beetle.
- The Collector: His goal is to collect every single rare, exotic, previously extinct species of animals... even if it means destroying an island of sentient life in the process.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: The villains of the post-2005 movies before Sherman are a hostile robot army from space, a powerful mer-demon warlord and a race of plant aliens attempting to terraform the universe. Sherman on the other hand is one of the first regular human villains in a while, one without superpowers of any sort, relying on his minions with their mechs.
- Dirty Coward: High and Mighty when he's in control of his giant robot, runs with his tail between his fat ass once he's beaten. While begging for the heroes to save him, no less!
- Evil Poacher: He's the leader of an illegal hunting group intending to steal the prehistoric animals in the Miracle Island sanctuary, and have no qualms capturing the Golden Beetle for himself even if it means destruction of all livelihood on said island.
- Exit, Pursued by a Bear: After Sherman's Glyptodon mech blows up, he's then thrown into the middle of the grasslands, amidst a herd of prehistoric animals he enslaved, now freed by the heroes. Cue Sherman sprinting like crazy with a dozen moas, saber-toothed tigers, woolly rhinocerouses and assorted wildlife chasing after him.
- Fat Bastard: Morbidly overweight, obese, and a thoroughly unpleasant scumbag who takes delight in taking Miracle Island hostage and threatening the children in Rokoro village.
- Hate Sink: You might notice pretty much every villain in Doraemon films post-2005 have some likeable qualities, "cool" factors, or at the very least, a bit of redeeming value (like those alien plants who's terraforming planets due to trying to save their own kind)... save for this guy. Sherman is just an overweight, self-centered and self-indulgent Fat Bastard who whines like a Manchild when things doesn't go his way, have no qualms destroying entire villages and threatening children to complete his collection of exotic animals, and a Dirty Coward to boot once he's defeated in the finale.
- Hypocrite: He scolds and berates his underlings for running away from danger, despite being a coward who runs from wild beasts he enslaved at the end of the film.
- Laser-Guided Karma: He who orders indiscriminate hunting and poaching of the wildlife on Miracle Island narrowly avoids being ripped to shreds by the herd of furious, prehistoric animals he intends to capture and sell, and in his final scene Sherman - alongside Sky, Lock and Snake - are shoved into the same cramped cell he had Suneo, Koron and Dr. Kelly locked in previously, guarded by the saber-toothed tiger, woolly rhinocerous and giant moa his minions enslaved.
- Manchild: Every single scene between Sherman and his mooks have him berating them for their failure and whining for them to "do whatever it takes to capture the Golden Beetle".
- Orcus on His Throne: He spends most of his screentime giving instructions to his minions, and when he gets into action, he's in the cockpit of his giant Glyptodon mech controlling it to crush the heroes.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: He appears to be one to Dolmanstein from the very first Doraemon movie, both of them being wealthy billionaires from the future and collector of exotic species who funded a group of poachers in carrying out his activities. Both of them are eager to destroy entire ecosystems just to complete their personal collection and have no qualms hurting children who got in the way, with Sherman interrogating Suneo in front of Dr. Kelly, Koron and Kurajo echoing Dolmanstein threatening Doramon and Nobita in a colosseum containing a T-Rex. However Sherman is portrayed far more comically and gets a more humiliating comeuppance after his defeat.
- Villain in a White Suit: He's clad entirely in white, and is the leader of the villains.
- Would Hurt a Child: Would he ever. When Nobita - on foot - tries stopping Sherman (who's in his gigantic Glyptodon mech) from crushing Kabuta, Sherman doesn't even hesitate to attempt stomping Nobita with his robot's front, which he nearly succeed if not for Kabuta suddenly reviving and coming to the rescue, tackling Sherman - robot and all - off a cliff.
Sky, Lock and Snake
From L - R, Sky, Locke, and Snake
Sherman's mooks, which he sends to attack Miracle Island in order to locate the Golden Beetle.
- '80s Hair: For some reason, Sky have an 80s-style Afro over her head, despite being a poacher from over two centuries later.
- Bad People Abuse Animals: Besides the whole poaching profession, the three of them have no qualms enslaving animals with electrical collars and use them as steeds.
- Beard of Evil: Locke had quite the imposing moustache and beard, and he's one of the villains.
- Evil Poacher: Their jobs, and they really enjoy it.
- Fat and Skinny: The two men, Locke and Snake, in that order.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Like their boss, they're crammed alongside Sherman in a cage while being watched by the wild beasts they previously took pleasure in hunting and poaching.
- Slave Collar: On their giant animal steeds, which they abducted from the forests of Miracle Island and use as rides, and commandeering them to attack the heroes. Their rides are later freed from control by Doraemon and gang, with the collars removed.
- Smug Snake: All three of them have no qualms rubbing their power before their helpless captives when they're in control (thanks to having giant, mind-controlled prehistoric animals at their disposal), only to completely lose it once Doraemon's gadgets turns the situation around.
- Terrible Trio: The Quirky Miniboss Squad serving Sherman, whom are more than willing to capture defenseless wildlife and assault a peaceful village.
- Two Guys and a Girl: Sky and Locke are the guys, and Snake is the only woman of the trio.
- Underestimating Badassery: They scoff at the prospect of fighting "kids", only to be utterly obliterated by Doraemon's gadgets in the finale.
- Would Hurt a Child: All the villains technically falls under this trope, but especially notable for Sky, who gleefully volunteers to hunt down Nobita and friends, takes delight in stalking the lost Nobisuke, and had her Quetzalcoatlus robot bombard Rokoro village despite knowing there are children inside.
