History Characters / RamonaQuimby

* AmbiguousDisorder: Davy's mentioned to have trouble completing his schoolwork accurately. At one point, he's described as having difficulty distinguishing between reading "saw" and "was", and "dog" and "god", which could be a symptom of dyslexia.

** In ''Ramona the Pest'', she trades the overalls she wore in the ''Henry Huggins'' books and "Beezus and Ramona" for dresses as she enters kindergarten. This makes sense for the time the first books were written: pants and overalls on girls were verboten in schools. In the later books, she goes back to wearing pants most of the time. This is likely due to each book taking place in the year it was written, with "Ramona Forever" taking place in the 90's when girls wearing pants had become commonplace.

* AnimalMotif: Cats and rabbits, the latter especially in books where she was younger and her character less developed. Her mother and some of the neighbors affectionately refer to her as a "bunny," and she responds to this by wearing paper rabbit ears when she is younger and twitching her nose like a rabbit when she is older, though she grows out of this. Being called a rabbit/bunny made her feel adorable and safe in her family's care. She is also shown as being very fond of cats, including the family cat Picky-picky. When she is shown how to print the letter Q in her last name, she quickly discovers that it can be easily made into a rear-facing cat, and she persists in using it even after learning to write in cursive. The cat-eared Q thus becomes a signature that all of Ramona's friends, family, and teachers easily recognize. For a book presentation in third grade, she is assigned a book about a cat and chooses to wear a cat mask, using a then-popular real-life Meow Mix cat food commercial as the theme for her presentation. Cats are also perceived to curious, mischievous, strong-willed, and generally affectionate unless provoked to anger - all traits that Ramona herself possesses.

* GagHaircut: In ‘’Ramona and Her Mother’’, she refuses to let her mother cut her hair, and uses all her savings to get a haircut from a local Beauty School. Unfortunately the girl she had wanted was now a graduate and the student she gets decides to do what he wants with her hair, insisting she’ll love it when he’s finished. She ends up with a super-teased, thickly-sprayed 80’s “big hair” do and, as Ramona thinks, ends up looking like “an unhappy seventh grader with 40-year-old hair.”

* GreenEyedMonster: When Beezus feels guilty over not loving Ramona sometimes, Bea makes her feel better by explaining that she and Beezus' mother Dorothy used to fight a lot as girls, too. She tells a story from their childhood, about how she got jealous of Dorothy's beautiful new autograph album and ruined it by writing her name on every single page.

* LackOfImagination: Implied in ''Ramona the Brave'', when she copies Ramona's paper bag owl and gets praised by the teacher for her "wise old owl", which makes Ramona so angry she crumples up both owls.
--> When their teacher asks what Susan's owl is looking at, she suggests "Another owl", which Ramona thinks is dumb and she could have said, a witch riding on a broom, a mouse, or a bat.

* AnimalMotif: Rabbits and cats. Her mother and some of the neighbors affectionately refer to her as a "bunny," and she responds to this by wearing paper rabbit ears when she is younger and twitching her nose like a rabbit when she is older, though she grows out of this. She is also shown as being very fond of cats, including the family cat Picky-picky. When she is shown how to print the letter Q in her last name, she quickly discovers that it can be easily made into a rear-facing cat, and she persists in using it even after learning to write in cursive. The cat-eared Q thus becomes a signature that all of Ramona's friends, family, and teachers easily recognize. For a book presentation in third grade, she is assigned a book about a cat and chooses to wear a cat mask, using a then-popular real-life Meow Mix cat food commercial as the theme for her presentation. Cats are also perceived to curious, mischievous, strong-willed, and generally affectionate unless provoked to anger - all traits that Ramona herself possesses.

* AnimalMotif: Rabbits and cats. Her mother and some of the neighbors affectionately refer to her as a "bunny," and she responds to this by wearing paper rabbit ears when she is younger and twitching her nose like a rabbit when she is older, though she grows out of this. She is also shown as being very fond of cats, including the family cat Picky-picky. When she is shown how to print the letter Q in her last name, she quickly discovers that it can be easily made into a rear-facing cat, and she persists in using it even after learning to write in cursive. The cat-eared Q thus becomes a signature that all of Ramona's friends, family, and teachers easily recognize. For a book presentation in third grade, she is assigned a book about a cat and chooses to wear a cat mask, using a then-popular real-life Meow Mix cat food commercial as the theme for her presentation. Cats are also perceived to curious, mischievous, strong-willed, yet affectionate - all traits that Ramona herself possesses.

* AnimalMotif: Rabbits and cats. Her mother and some of the neighbors affectionately refer to her as a "bunny," and she responds to this by wearing paper rabbit ears when she is younger and twitching her nose like a rabbit when she is older, though she grows out of this. She is also shown as being very fond of cats, including the family cat Picky-picky. When she is shown how to print the letter Q in her last name, she quickly discovers that it can be easily made into a rear-facing cat, and she persists in using it even after learning to write in cursive. The cat-eared Q thus becomes a signature that all of Ramona's friends, family, and teachers easily recognize. For a book presentation in third grade, she is assigned a book about a cat and chooses to wear a cat mask, using a then-popular real-life Meow Mix cat food commercial as the theme for her presentation.

* AnimalMotif: Rabbits and cats. Her mother and some of the neighbors affectionately refer to her as a "bunny," and she responds to this by wearing paper rabbit ears when she is younger and twitching her nose like a rabbit when she is older, though she grows out of this. She is also shown as being very fond of cats, including the family cat Picky-picky. When she is shown how to print the letter Q in her last name, she quickly discovers that it can be easily made into a rear-facing cat, and she persists in using it even after learning to write in cursive. The cat-eared Q thus becomes a signature that all of Ramona's friends, family, and teachers easily recognize. For a book presentation in third grade, she is assigned a book about a cat and chooses to wear a cat mask, using a then-popular real-life Meow Mix cat food commercial the theme.

* AnimalMotif: Rabbits and cats. Her mother and some of the neighbors affectionately refer to her as a "bunny," and she responds to this by wearing paper rabbit ears when she is younger and twitching her nose like a rabbit when she is older, though she grows out of this. She is also shown as being very fond of cats, including the family cat Picky-picky. When she is shown how to print the letter Q in her last name, she quickly discovers that it can be easily made into a rear-facing cat, and she persists in using it even after learning to write in cursive. The cat-eared Q thus becomes a signature that all of Ramona's friends, family, and teachers easily recognize.

* AnimalMotif: Rabbits and cats. Her mother and some of the neighbors affectionately refer to her as a "bunny," and she responds to this by wearing paper rabbit ears when she is younger and twitching her nose like a rabbit when she is older, though she grows out of this. She is also shown as being very fond of cats, including the family cat Picky-picky, and when she is shown how to draw the letter Q in her last name, she discovers that it can be easily made into a rear-facing cat, and she persists in using it even after learning to write in cursive. The cat-eared Q thus becomes a signature that all of Ramona's friends and family easily recognize.

* PromotedToLoveInterest: In the ''Film/RamonaAndBeezus'' film, Beezus is shown to have a crush on him, and they end up dating. In the books, they do have some subtle ShipTease moments, but nothing ever comes of it. He's last mentioned in ''Ramona And Her Father'', and quietly disappears from the plot ever since, implying that he and Beezus has drifted apart as they grow up and have new groups of friends.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Davy’s mentioned to have trouble completing his schoolwork accurately. At one point he’s described as having difficulty distinguishing between reading “saw” and “was”, and “dog” and “god”, which could be a symptom of dyslexia.

* PutOnABus: He's never seen again after "Ramona and Her Mother," since Ramona transfers to a different school.

* AloofOlderBrother: He doesn't get along very well with his little sister Willa Jean and finds her annoying, though they do care about each other.

* TheScapegoat: Ramona hates staying at the Kemps' house because she's always blamed by Mrs. Kemp when Willa Jean does something wrong since she's older and "should have known better".

* PoeticJustice: A mild case. Howie's sister, Willa Jean, annoys Ramona and Howie in the exact same manner that Ramona annoyed Henry and Beezus in the first book. Not that Ramona would ever admit that she acted that way.

[[folder: Ramona Quimby]]

[[folder: Beatrice "Beezus" Quimby]]

[[folder: Roberta Quimby]]

[[folder: Dorothy Quimby (nee Day)]]

[[folder: Robert Quimby]]

[[folder: Aunt Beatrice]]

[[folder: Picky-Picky]]

[[folder: Mr. Quimby's grandmother]]

[[folder: Henry Huggins]]

[[folder: Davy]]

[[folder: Howie Kemp]]

-->''That was the trouble with Howie. If she offered him a glass of bug juice, he said, "That's Kool-Aid." If she said, "It's been a million years since I had a Popsicle," he said, "You had a Popsicle last week. I saw you."''

[[folder: Willa Jean Kemp]]

[[folder: Mrs. Kemp]]

* HateSink: She essentially functions as one. Although most adults in the series are shown to be [[ParentsAsPeople flawed but well-meaning people in their own ways,]] Mrs. Kemp is the only adult to be unreasonably cruel towards Ramona, always blaming her for the bratty things Willa Jean does.

[[folder: Uncle Hobart]]

[[folder: Susan Kushner]]

-->'''Ramona''': I just got mad. Old copycat Susan thought she was so big.\\
'''Mrs. Quimby''': Susan is the one I feel sorry for. You are the lucky one. You can think up your own ideas because you have imagination.

[[folder: Daisy Kidd]]

[[folder: Danny / "Yard Ape"]]

* {{UST}}: Well, in the sense that 9-year olds can have romantic tension. Ramona and Yard Ape both clearly have crushes on each other, but they don't want to admit it to each other, and the series ends before they're old enough to start dating.
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* EmbarrassingNickname: Hates being called "Davy-in-the-Gravy".

A boy in Ramona's fourth-grade class. Even though he starts out teasing her and stealing her eraser, they become friends and she quickly develops a crush on him.

* GirlinessUpgrade: In "Ramona the Pest", she trades the overalls she wore in the ''Henry Huggins'' books and "Beezus and Ramona" for dresses as she enters kindergarten. This makes sense for the time the first books were written: pants and overalls on girls were verboten in schools. In the later books, she goes back to wearing pants most of the time. This is likely due to each book taking place in the year it was written, with "Ramona Forever" taking place in the 90's when girls wearing pants had become commonplace.