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    Shaun the Sheep 
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Voiced by Justin Fletcher
The titular character of Shaun the Sheep. He is the unofficial leader of the flock, and the most intelligent. He first debuted in the Wallace & Gromit film A Close Shave, but he became an Ensemble Dark Horse among fans- enough to get his own show.
  • Adaptational Personality Change: Shaun's Intellectual Animal traits are amplified a great deal from his Wallace and Gromit appearances, now practically on par with Gromit. As a consequence, he also gains a more mischievous and ever-curious and inventive personality, compared to the mindless Extreme Omnivore with brief flourishes of sapience that he was in the latter.
  • Aesop Amnesia: The Movie has him learning that there are consequences for his misbehaviour and he sometimes has to reign it in. He has to learn such again in the second movie, the specials and multiple episodes.
  • Badass Adorable: Don't let his cute appearance fool you, he's perfectly capable of defending himself and the barn when danger comes.
  • Big Brother Instinct: Is this to Timmy (despite the fact that they are cousins and not brothers). and to Lu-la in the movie. Even if Lu-la irritates him at times (as little siblings sometimes do), he is always protective of their well-being and genuinely cares for them.
  • The Cameo: Appears as a Mystery Mushroom figure in Super Mario Maker.
  • Character Development:
    • In the first movie, he learns to appreciate and love his owner again. According to the producer, Julie Lockhart, his character arc is part of the Be Careful What You Wish For scenario.
    • In the second movie, he learns to take responsibility for his actions, whatever is taking Lu-La back home or his dangerous activities.
  • Cool Big Bro: They're cousins, but Shaun acts like one to Timmy sometimes and little Timmy also idolizes Shaun. Same goes for Lu-la, though she doesn't obey him that much and Shaun's patience has been tested more than once due to this.
  • Didn't Think This Through: Despite being the most intelligent animal in the farm, he falls into this trope more often than not as a result of his schemes.
  • Friend to All Living Things: Took care of a spider that terrorized Bitzer and the flock in unharming ways even when it kept reappearing, waited for a bird to leave her nest before retrieving his golf ball instead of shooing it away...violence just isn't the way for him.
  • Hairstyle Malfunction: As seen in the opening, the wool on Shaun's head is apparently a toupee. He loses it in one episode of Season 5, which necessitates enlisting Bitzer's help to find it.
  • Intellectual Animal: The entire flock is this, but Shaun stands out in particular.
  • I Was Having Such a Nice Dream: Shaun dreams of being the first sheep on the Moon until awakened - twice - by Shirley's snoring!
  • Jerkass Ball: Holds this in the episode "The Farmer's Llamas", due to having a more mean-spirited sense of humor than usual because hanging around with the aforementioned llamas ends up being a bad influence on him. He even tricked the Farmer into buying them in an auction. He wises up after all the damage they cause.
  • The Leader: Of his own flock.
  • Lovable Rogue: His schemes often involve screwing the Farmer or Bitzer in some way, but he has no harmful intent and occasionally tries to do nice things for them to compensate. Usually, the rest of the flock gets in on this too.
  • Mr. Vice Guy: Shaun is at times roguish and mischievous but he is still heroic, well-meaning, good-hearted, loving, caring, and very protective of his baby cousin, Timmy.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Though with no such intentions, he has caused some conflicts in the show more than once. The movies and specials' main plots literally take place because of him.
  • Shorter Means Smarter: He's smaller and less fleeced than his fellow sheep (barring Timmy who is a toddler), but he is the most intelligent of the flock.
  • Silent Snarker: To an extent.
  • Supreme Chef: Episodes like "Frantic Romantic" and "Happy Farmer's Day" shows Shaun to be an excellent cook. He even turns the Farmer's terrible cooking into something edible.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: Shaun is a sheep who'd rather forgo the rules and have loads of fun, while Bitzer is the sheepdog trying to uphold them and keep order on the farm. And yet despite the times they've clashed due to their opposite views, they're very much best buds.

    Timmy 
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Voiced by Justin Fletcher
The youngest of the flock. He is the son of Shaun's aunt, making them cousins. A few of his misadventures are caused by his own childlike curiosity.
  • Breakout Character: Has gotten a lot of popularity in the tv show and even had his own spin-off, Timmy Time.
  • Children Are Innocent: His curiosity and occasional absent-mindedness to danger leads him into trouble sometimes, he doesn't know any better.
  • Companion Cube: His orange teddy bear. To the extent where it serves as a plot point in one episode where the Farmer takes it away from him, causing him to cry until Shaun could get it back.
  • Disappeared Dad: He has no apparent father. It's possible that he's part of the flock, just undistinguished.
  • Hates Baths: In episode "Spring Lamb".
  • Iconic Item: His teddy bear and his yellow pacifier. He loses the pacifier in Timmy Time, as he is a preschooler by human years.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Timmy is troublemaking and rebellious but its simply because he's a baby and doesn't know any better. He is still very innocent, doting, affectionate, and the most adorable thing ever.
  • Living Doorstop: Poor Timmy has been used as a paintbrush, chalkboard eraser, table, plug for a ship's horn, pillow, curling stone, and a handkerchief over the course of just two seasons!
  • Not Now, Kiddo: In "Happy Farmer's Day", when the flock was trying to make a pie for the Farmer to replace the one Shirley had apparently eaten, Timmy kept trying to tell them something, only for him to be ignored. He eventually manages to convey what he was trying to tell them: he had told Shirley to put the Farmer's pie in the freezer for safekeeping.
  • Odd Friendship: In the episode "The Farmer's Llamas", he befriends an enraged rhinoceros.
  • Straying Baby: Sometimes, he wanders off by himself.
  • Tightrope Walking: Does this in the episode "Big Top Timmy".

    Timmy's Mother 
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Voiced by Kate Harbour
Shaun's aunt and the mother of young Timmy, making both Shaun and Timmy cousins. She tends to be a bit careless in looking after Timmy, but should Timmy disappear or get himself in trouble, she is inconsolable until her son is safe and sound.
  • Big Damn Heroes: In "Hide and Squeak", where she and Timmy rescue the cornered Shaun and the mouse from Pidsley, out to get the mouse by any means necessary, with a rope to pull them up to safety. Too bad she didn't count on Pidsley climbing up to get them.
  • Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears: To Timmy whenever she or the flock stumble upon something inappropriate.
  • Iconic Item: Her pink hair curlers. She also carries a pink coin purse which pops up in a few episodes.
  • Mama Bear: In The Flight Before Christmas, she doesn't panic when Timmy disappears while on an escapade with Shaun, just makes it quite clear that Shaun is in serious trouble if they don't get him back. She later rolls up her "sleeves" and breaks down Ben's door to rescue him.
  • The Speechless: Technically. But when Timmy is endangered, she lets out bleats that sound heavily like "Oh no!".
  • Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Played straight in her case, as her hair curlers is a play on a stereotypical housewife.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Most of her appearances have her freak out should something happen to Timmy. Not so much in "The Flight Before Christmas", where, aside from a brief moment of shock, puts a big effort in tracking him down and rescuing him while also laying into Shaun for his irresponsibility.

    Shirley 
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Voiced by Richard Webber
The largest of the sheep, characterized by her huge size and love of food.
  • Abhorrent Admirer: Towards the Fox in one episode.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Shirley's a Gentle Giant, but she's also no pushover: both Pidsley and the Fox learned the hard way that trying to harm a member of the Flock in front of her and/or tricking her will earn you her wrath.
  • Big Eater: Obviously, which explains why she's so large. Her eating habits are a plot point for episode "Shape Up with Shaun", where her heavy weight makes Shaun come up with a plan for her to lose weight.
  • The Big Guy: Becomes a female example in "Lock Out", in order to deal with Pidsley.
  • Big Fun: Shirley is so large she gets wedged in sheepruns and between gateposts, which is not surprising for a Big Eater. She also makes for a useful trampoline.
  • Extreme Omnivore: Often ruins the Flock's fun or has to be excluded because she can and will eat pretty much anything that happens to be in front of her, from vinyl records, to kites, to a pizza still in the box.
  • Fat Comic Relief: She makes a good trampoline, among other things.
  • Hammerspace: Her large fleece serves as a storage space for all kinds of objects. It is so large that other animals and even Shaun can hide in her fleece without trouble.
  • Hiccup Hijinks: In the appropriately named episode "Hiccups", she gets a bad case of them after guzzling Bitzer's drink, leading him and Shaun to try every hiccup cure they can think of to get rid of them, none without success. She's eventually cured when she ends up catching sight of the Farmer's naked butt (along with the rest of the flock), which scares her to the point that the hiccups are gone. Unfortunately, Shaun and Bitzer then discover that the shock caused all the other sheep to get them.
  • Hidden Depths: Despite usually being portrayed as a dim-witted Living Doorstop or Big Eater, in "Lock Out" she easily curbstomps Pidsley and nails him to a wall with a hammer, and in the episode "In the Doghouse", she turns out to be Secretly Wealthy and contributes several large wads of cash to pay for Bitzer's new deluxe kennel, while all of the other sheep, having no idea of even the concept of money, have contributed buttons, etc.
  • Loud Sleeper Gag: In one episode, she ended up keeping Shaun, and eventually the entire flock, awake with her snoring, requiring them to move her away from their barn, with her eventually ending up in a tree. By then, however, it was morning and Shirley was the only one who ended up getting a decent night sleep.
  • Maximum Capacity Overload: In "Ill Wind", when the sheep were having fun riding the blades of the Farmer's new windmill, when Shirley jumped on, she ended up causing the thing to swing back and forth, disrupting the Farmer and Bitzer's television program, before eventually falling and causing the mill to spin so fast, it caused a power surge.
  • Temporary Bulk Change: In "Shape Up With Shaun", she temporarily becomes slim, but then goes back to normal after being catapulted through the side of a passing pie truck.
  • Took a Level in Badass: In season 1, the most common use for her was a Living Doorstop. From season 2 onwards, she partakes more in Shaun's adventures and becomes more active, showing a few Hidden Depths when needed.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Subverted in "Happy Farmer's Day" where it looked like she had eaten a pie that Bitzer had made for the Farmer, requiring the others to make a new one, with disastrous results. It's eventually revealed that Timmy had convinced her to put the pie away in the freezer for safe keeping.
  • Vocal Dissonance: Is a female sheep, but has a deep, dopey, masculine-sounding voice.
  • Woman Scorned: In "Foxy Laddie", Shirley is furious at the Fox for tricking her via his ram disguise and knocking her out, so she decides to punish him when he is at her mercy... with the exact same Frying Pan of Doom he whacked her with.

    Nuts 
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Voiced by Andy Nyman

  • The Friend Nobody Likes: In "Fruit and Nuts", where the poor sheep is ostracized due to his annoying sneezing habits. Even Shaun wasn't keen on his help in his plan of the week (though he does warm up to Nuts in the end).
  • Loon with a Heart of Gold: As his name says, Nuts is...well, nuts, but is a genuinely nice sheep and only wants to have fun with the rest of his family.

    The Twins 
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Voiced by Simon Greenall
The twins of Shaun's flock and the most prompt to follow him on his antics.
  • Trickster Twins: Just like the rest of the flock, they frequently join Shaun's antics.

    Hazel 
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Voiced by Emma Tate

  • Advertised Extra: Zigzagged. It was clear she was a secondary character, but the 'meet the movie characters' page in the website gave her individual personality traits that were never shown again as she still acts like a background sheep.

Other Farm residents

    Bitzer 
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Voiced by John Sparkles
The Farmer's long-suffering sheepdog. Very loyal to his master, and often put in charge of watching over Shaun's flock.
  • Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Wears a hat and collar.
  • Badly Battered Babysitter: In "Babysitter Bitzer", he ended up watching Timmy while the flock went out on a lady's night. Needless to say, it turns out to be a very trying experience.
  • Butt-Monkey: Poor guy can't seem to catch a break, though he should be glad he's not Gromit.
  • Beleaguered Assistant: At times, though not to the extent of poor Gromit.
  • Character Development:
    • In the first movie, he blames Shaun for losing the Farmer, and spends most of the movie shooting disappointed Death Glares at him, until in the climax, when he finally starts to care for Shaun again before he's thrown in the Quarry by Trumper. He eventually forgives Shaun and they share a hug.
    • In the second movie, spends most of the time forbidding dangerous activities for Shaun and the Flock, especially Shaun (He even forbids making BBQ's and Pizza!). In the climax, he uses a cannon to push Agent Red away. This action of breaking one of his rules is what ultimate saves Shaun and Lu-La from possible capture or death.
  • The Comically Serious: Putting someone serious like Bitzer in the middle of a mischievous flock of sheep has produced many hilarious moments.
  • Control Freak: Likes things to go the way they are listed on his checklist, even going to the point of checking if something he really wants to do is there so he can do it.
  • Crazy-Prepared: In the Season 1 episode "Shape Up with Shaun", Bitzer flips through his clipboard of ways to get Shirley out - including rocket-powered and being on wheels until he found one where she's in a shopping cart.
  • Dogs Are Dumb: Downplayed. Bitzer has shown to be just as smart the flock though he does make some poor choices some times.
  • The Door Slams You: Poor Bitzer always gets the door slammed open on his nose in the opening theme of every episode. Averted at the end of the movie, when the Farmer carefully opens the door to make sure he doesn't hit Bitzer... and then happens anyway when a tired, confused Pig staggers out of the house after the Farmer.
  • Everyone Has Standards: Bitzer occasionally lets the power go to his head and can get too bossy for the sheep's liking, but he will not use his authority for personal gain. When the Naughty Pigs took advantage of being given Bitzer's job in "Pig Trouble" and made the sheep their servants, the injured dog bolts out of his bed and rushes to (albeit vainly) warn the Farmer what's going on.
  • Expy: Of Gromit. Heck, he even looks similar to the lad! Blitzer is Gromit's successor in being the beleaguered and competent dog sidekick to his rather foolish and naïve human master, who also has a habit of being the Butt-Monkey to the antics around him. He also happens to be a canine friend with Shaun. Although, he isn't hypercompetent like our other beloved British Dog.
  • Good Counterpart: To Preston from A Close Shave. Both are bipedal dogs who wear a collar and wooly hat, and act as an antagonist towards Shaun. However, Bitzer is a fundamentally good-natured Hero Antagonist who ultimately just wants to do his job of maintaining order on the farm and keeping the animals safe, and can even be on friendly terms with Shaun when the latter's antics don't get too out of hand. Preston, however, proved to be an outright murderous monster.
  • Greed: With a tiny spot of gluttony thrown into the mix. It has been noted on several occasions that whenever food is involved, Bitzer can be quite selfish and unwilling to share them with anyone, including his friends.
  • Hero Antagonist: Downplayed. Bitzer can sometimes act as an obstacle for the sheep to overcome, but he's Just Following Orders and wants things to run smoothly for the Farmer. He's close buddies with Shaun and the Flock as long as their mischief doesn't run out of control and affect him and/or the Farmer.
  • Hidden Depths: In the episode "The Piano", Bitzer is a surprisingly talented musician much to the Farmer's jealousy.
  • Iconic Item: His blue-knit hat which the Farmer gave to him as a puppy. In the Season 2 episode "Bitzer's New Hat", he is left completely despondent when the Farmer throws his hat in the trash and instead gives Bitzer a hideous new one given to him by his young niece.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: Bitzer can be strict and hot tempered with the sheep, but he is right that they are constantly causing mischief. Whenever one of Shaun's plans has very bad consequences, he will often non-verbally express an I Warned You at him.
  • Mailman vs. Dog: In "Dangerous Deliveries", he develops a bad habit of chasing the postman whenever he shows up, requiring Shaun and the flock to try and help him break it.
  • Mr. Vice Guy: He's strict but he does care for the flock and is still a Nice Guy.
  • Neat Freak: Like a dog, dirt is his friend, but sometimes seeing himself or the farm being messy will make him go full-cleaning mode.
  • Not So Above It All: He tries to keep the sheep in line, but sometimes he joins in with their antics.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: A few times after the Farmer's selfish actions personally affected Bitzer in one way or another.
  • Sick Episode: In Season 2 episode "Fireside Favorite", Bitzer comes down with a cold and has to stay indoors. Which makes him a target to the Jerkass cat Pidsley.
  • Silent Snarker: Even more so than Shaun.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: Bitzer is the sheepdog trying to uphold the rules and keep order on the farm, while Shaun is a sheep who'd rather forgo them and have loads of fun. And yet despite the times they've clashed due to their opposite views, they're very much best buds.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He's absolutely afraid of spiders.

    The Farmer 
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Voiced by John Sparkles
The absentminded owner of a modest farm. Also the master of Bitzer and every animal currently living on his farm. He is largely unaware of the misadventures his sheep (and Bitzer) get into on a daily basis.
  • Berserk Button:
    • He despises any fox who breaks into his farm, as "Cock-A-Doodle-Shaun" shows.
    • He also hates it when the sheep manage to get into his house.
  • Blind Without 'Em: In the Season 2 episode "Ewe've Been Framed", he's revealed to have extremely short-sighted vision without his glasses.
  • Butt-Monkey: He sometimes suffers some comedic mishaps, mostly as a result of the animals' antics.
  • Clueless Boss: Tends to be portrayed as such, and it was often only through the efforts of Bitzer that things were kept in line.
  • Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": His name is unknown.
  • Green Around the Gills: In "Shaun the Farmer", his face turns green before throwing up.
  • Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: In The Movie, it's revealed that he had a fuller head of hair in his younger days. Now he's on the verge of balding completely.
  • Hopeless with Tech: In the original series, he dismantles and subsequently destroys a computer by tearing out the insides of the tower to find out what's making a buzzing noise, but it's actually a bee. Averted in the Mossy Bottom series, where he's competent at using a laptop, wiring up a security system and sets up a WiFi modem.
  • Identity Amnesia: Suffers from this in the movie adaptation, due to Shaun and the flock's antics. He recovers his memory in the end.
  • Mr. Vice Guy: The Farmer is actually a genuine good guy who is nothing short of loving and lovable. Its that he can be quite grumpy and overworked at moments.
  • Papa Wolf: The first Big Damn Movie establishes that if you mess with his animals, you mess with him. At the climax, after he regains his memory back inside the shed, he angrily prepares to face Trumper. Once they land safe, Trumper throws Shaun to the Quarry, but the Farmer saves him, and faces Trumper who tries to explain his misunderstanding.
    • He flips out once he sees the fox on his farm chasing a huge chicken of his (actually Bitzer in Paper-Thin Disguise) in "Cock-a-Doodle-Shaun" and chases him off with an ax.
  • Sick Episode: Gets a flu-like illness in "Shaun the Farmer", however, he's better by the end of the episode.
  • Strong Family Resemblance: He and his extended relatives all wear glasses and have his orange hair to some extent.
  • Vomit Discretion Shot: Throws up offscreen in "Shaun the Farmer".

    Pidsley 
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The Farmer's often mean-spirited pet cat. He clashes with Shaun and the flock from time to time.

    The Naughty Pigs 
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A trio of pigs who live on the other side of the farm, separated from the field the sheep occupy by a stone wall.
  • Characterization Marches On: Early season 1 had them occasionally smack and toss Shaun around whenever he ended up in their pen. The second half of the season largely dropped this aspect of their charcter, with them not beating him up anymore (though they still love causing him trouble).
  • Enemy Mine: They will occasionally work with the flock, though in "Duck!", Shaun and Bitzer had to bribe them with food.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: See Wouldn't Hurt a Child, though they're more mere bullies then outright evil.
  • Gluttonous Pig: They are frequently seen eating, and one episode revolved around them refusing to let Shaun and the flock get apples from a tree that grew in their pen.
  • Jerkass: Obnoxious, troublesome and quite a pain for the sheep to deal with. They even antagonize Bitzer, their superior (that is, when he's not acting as The Dreaded to them). They luckily do have a few scruples, though.
  • Kick the Dog: Perhaps their meanest act was tormenting an injured Bitzer in "Pig Trouble" by throwing paper balls into his cone. Naturally, a revolted Shaun doesn't take kindly to that.
  • Kick The Son Of A Bitch: Considering that Pidsley is an even bigger Hate Sink than the pigs themselves, no tears are shed when the former receives a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from them.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: They'll usually get what's coming to them for their actions, like in "Pig Trouble", all of their messing around the farm and exploiting both the sheep and Bitzer as their slaves gets them in trouble with the Farmer, who isn't entirely pleased to see his home a total pig sty.
  • Meaningful Name: Three pigs who are naughty, hence the name.
  • Not-So-Innocent Whistle: They are scared of the Mother Duck, and do this when she gives them a Death Glare in "Hard To Swallow".
  • Team Rocket Wins: "Dodgy Lodger" marks their first and only unambiguous victory over Shaun and his flock, due to a pretty good Batman Gambit on their part.
  • Wouldn't Hurt a Child: When they find Timmy after he gets separated from the herd due to one of their antics, they react by putting him in a stroller and giving him a slice of the pizza they stole from the sheep. When he accidentally ends up in danger later in the episode, they help Shaun save him.

    The Bull 
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The Farmer's aggressive bull who will charge at anyone who dares to disturb him, especially when the color red is involved.
  • Berserk Button:
    • Seeing Red will massively set him off.
    • He also doesn't like intruders on his side of the yard.
  • The Dreaded: All the farm residents keep their distance from him.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: Oh boy does he have this. Making him see anything colored red is a quick way to enrage him.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's not just an aggressive, dreaded bull; a few moments, such as helping Shaun defeat the Naughty Pigs in "You Missed A Bit", or helping the Flock bring the Farmer home in the first movie show he can cooaperate when necessary.
  • Kick The Son Of A Bitch: He always sends the Pigs running and/or flying after whatever misdeeds they'd done, and once extended this treatment to Trumper in The Movie.

    Mower Mouth 
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The Farmer's goat whose voracious appetite puts Shirley's to shame.
  • Big Eater: This goat can pratically eat anything, though a few episodes such as "Draw The Line" and "Get Your Goat" establish that there's a limit on how much he can eat before he just passes out from overeating.
  • Hypnotic Eyes: In "The Stare", Mower Mouth is somehow able to gaze at Shaun and the entire flock and put them under his control.
  • Nice Guy: Mower Mouth's more abrasive actions are few and far between. In fact, he is quite friendly to Shaun and the others. That said, he isn't immune to the effects of the Jerkass Ball.

Introduced in the movies

    Slip 
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Voiced by Tim Hands
Introduced in the first movie. Slip is a street wolf-dog who befriends Shaun and helps him to find the Farmer.
  • I Just Want to Be Loved: Despite enjoying going around the city, Slip wants to be adopted by someone. This reflects how it would be Shaun's life without the Farmer. She gets her wish in the ending, when she's adopted by a bus driver, who just so happened to be the same one whose path she (unknowingly) crossed back in the city.
  • The Dog Bites Back: Literally. She starts defenseless when Trumper captures her in his introduction. When Trumper tries to escape from the Farmer, she bites his foot to stop him.

    Trumper 
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Voiced by Omid Djalili
Introduced in the first movie. The Big Bad of the Movie from the Animal Containment who ruthlessly chases Shaun and the Flock to capture and eventually exterminate them.
  • Arch-Enemy: For Shaun, mostly being the first sheep to capture. It sticks like this until the end.
  • Bad People Abuse Animals: Even before being the Chief Animal Containment, he hated animals and become an expert on capturing them.
  • Big Bad: Of the first movie. He won't give up easily when it comes to capturing or exterminating animals.
  • Butt-Monkey: He can't escape this trope, even after becoming a real threat to Shaun.
  • Diabolical Dog Catcher: He mocks the animals who are in the pound just for fun. He hates when people adopt any of the animals he captured.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: He has no problem with killing animals, especally trying to push them on a quarry. However, when it comes with the Farmer, he makes it clear it wasn't his intention to kill an old man since he didn't know there was a human inside the shed.
  • I Can Explain: When the Farmer confronts him, he tries to explain his misunderstanding. This only ended up as a distraction when he gets kicked out by the bull of the farm on the back.
  • I Just Want to Be Badass: Almost no one in the Big City cares or notices about him and his job. Although, it's just for a moment after capturing Slip, the street dog.
  • Jerkass: To the Flock and any other animal.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: His intention to capture (and later kill) Shaun and the flock leads him to be confronted by the farmer, get kicked by a bull, crashed on a pile of manure and eventually getting fired for his work.
  • Oh, Crap!: Trumper notices the Farmer after the Farmer saved Shaun for falling to his death. This makes him realize his mistake, and tries to run away, but Slips stops him.
  • Sanity Slippage: In the farm, when he gets off the caravan, he becomes more aggressive than before.
  • Villainous Breakdown: He almost succeeds in throwing the animals and the Farmer (who are hidden in a sheld) in a rock quarry with a tractor. Then, he throws Shaun as his last attempt to kill him.
  • Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Although he's meant to be comedic, the Flock sees him as a big threat for them. Especially in the climax.

    Lu-la 
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"Tu-pa?"
Voiced by Amalia Vitale
Introduced in the second movie, Farmageddon. An adorable but impish little alien who crash-lands near Mossy Bottom Farm. It is Shaun's mission to help her get back home, even if her powers cause lots of mischief along the way.
  • Annoying Younger Sibling: To Shaun. Her tendencies to disobey Shaun and clumsiness getting on the way of his plans to help her have touched the sheep's nerves in a lot of scenes of the movie. Despite all this, they still love each other dearly and taking care of her has made Shaun realize just how much Bitzer has to go through.
  • Extreme Omnivore: Zigzagged. Invoked, in that when Shaun takes her to a convenience store, she tries to eat many different things that humans (or intelligent animals) wouldn't eat, but for the most part it's because she's unfamiliar with earthly items and so she can't tell what's food and what isn't. Most notably, after taking a big bite out of a roll of toilet paper, she spits it out in disgust.
  • Gasshole: After guzzling down three 2-liter bottles of soft drink simultaneously, she proceeds to let loose a thunderous belch that carries on without stopping for a good minute and is shown to not only shake everything off of the shelves in the store, but triggers an earthquake felt through the whole village, and is even heard as far away as Africa!
  • Innocent Aliens: Lu-La is this, especially following The Reveal that she's an actual toddler.
  • Like Brother and Sister: As part of Shaun's arc of taking responsability, Lu-La acts like a younger sibling to him, and they share a lot of fun moments together.
  • Psychic Powers: She can elevate things as well as living creatures with her ears.
  • Spoiled Brat: Implied. While it's somewhat justified due to her very young age, a lot of the destruction she causes is because she refuses to take "No" as an answer from Shaun, and when he finally gets sharp with her, she sulks. Also her parents reaction to her explaining all the chaos she committed can best be interpreted as "Oh, that's nice", with little attempt to explain how dangerous it was taking a joyride with their spaceship.
  • Voice Changeling: Lu-La can perfectly imitate other voices.
  • What Does This Button Do?: Why she ended up on Earth in the first place.

    Agent Red 
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Voiced by Kate Harbour

  • Big Bad: The main antagonist of Farmageddon, trying to capture Lu-la to prove the existence of aliens.
  • Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Trumper, the main villain of the first movie, was a crude, boisterous sociopath of a man with virtually no redeeming qualities, who suffered a humiliating defeat. Agent Red, the main villain of the sequel, is a cold and ominous woman who is eventually revealed to have a very sympathetic backstory and makes a Heel–Face Turn.
  • Freudian Excuse: As a child, she saw Lu-la's parents one night, and told everyone in her classroom about it for Show and Tell. After being ridiculed for believing in aliens, she became very intense about proving they exist. In the end, after Lu-La's parents arrive, and she gets to meet them firsthand, she lets them and Lu-la go without any further issues.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Upon seeing Lu-la's parents, the same aliens she saw as a child, she gives up chasing Lu-la and goes in to hug the aliens, who gladly accept.
  • Surrounded by Idiots: She seems to convey this as her opinion on the Hazmats even without a single line.
  • Villainous Breakdown: Like most Aardman villains, she gets really unhinged at the climax. Her hair gets messed up, and she does a few Slasher Smiles as she becomes desperate to catch Lu-la.

    M-U-G-G-1N5 
Voiced by David Holt

  • Iron Butt Monkey: Is the butt of a lot of physical comedy, and is at one point even taken apart, though being a robot, can quickly rebuild itself.
  • Undying Loyalty: A devoted servant to Agent Red. It tries to break her fall during the climax (though quickly realises there's little chance of doing such while she's in a Humongous Mech), and cries Tears of Joy when she finally meets the aliens of her past.

    The Hazmats 
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  • The Men in Black: Subverted pretty fast. They look competent and dangerous at first... up until we get to their base. Lu-la's UFO is apparently the first they have ever found, their only known base is situated under a (fake) car wash and they work for the Ministry of Alien Detection, and appear to have a few dozen people working for them at most.
    • Then, due to a case of Mistaken Identity when they mistake Bitzer for an alien, they greet him in a fairly friendly manner and try to explain Earth to him. Two of them even take a selfie with him.
  • Punch-Clock Villain: And even this is downplayed, at worst. They aren't really actively malevolent - at worst, they appear to be trying their best to establish a peaceful First Contact, do their jobs, find alien spacecraft/UFOs for study, and not get ridiculed.
  • Surveillance Station Slacker: One of these guys is seen, asleep (hazmat suit and all), at the surveillance station when it detects Lu-la's impressive belch.

Other characters

    The Farmer's Niece 
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A young girl who is the Farmer's niece, obviously. The titular character of episode "The Farmer's Niece", she quickly becomes an irritation to Shaun and his flock.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She seems so sweet and innocent on the outside, but to the audience and the farm animals, it's only a masquerade she keeps up in front of her uncle, the Farmer.
  • Bratty Half-Pint: Oh so very much. Both Shaun and Bitzer learn this the hard way.
  • The Dreaded: All the animals were reduced to hiding from her by the time she reappears in "Bitzer's New Hat".
  • Girlish Pig Tails: She has a pair of these to convey her seeming childlike innocence.
  • Hated by All: All except the farmer initially, as she comes off as a needy Bitch in Sheep's Clothing that caused trouble for the animals, outright lies about breaking fragile objects. She maintains this front right until the very end where her antics finally get noticed by the Farmer, to which she's sent away. By "Bitzer's New Hat", even the Farmer is relieved to be free of her constant troublemaking.
  • Jerkass: She seems to derive childish amusement from tormenting the sheep and Bitzer, including taking away and playing with Timmy's pacifier, getting Bitzer covered in thorns and wrapping him up in bandage tape, and riding Shaun like a horse to the point of exhaustion.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: Her antics with the flock ultimately get her in trouble with the Farmer, when a game of "play horsey" with Shaun launches her right into the cake her uncle was making.
  • Pet the Dog: Giving the Farmer a hand-made hat in "Bitzer's New Hat". Granted, it was poorly made, but it's the thought that counts.

    The Fox 
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Introduced in Adventures from Mossy Bottom

    Stash 
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    Rita 
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  • Super-Strength: Regularly handles packages one-handed that other characters can barely pick up. One Couch Gag has her tossing an anvil from her truck.
  • Unstoppable Mailman: If she has a package to deliver, it will get delivered.

    Lexi 
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  • Always Someone Better: A more suave and competent celebrity sheepdog compared to Bitzer, but also much more of a Smug Snake. Most of their bouts make apparent Lexi could run rings around Bitzer if her Jerkass behaviour didn't keep coming back to bite her.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: No pun intended. Acts as decent as a celebrity has to with her fans but shows her snooty nature by looking down at Bitzer and mocking him after winning a race.

    Ben 
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  • Clueless Boss: Similar to Shaun's farmer, he is usually oblivious to the antics of the animals.
  • Jerkass Ball: Downplayed in The Flight Before Christmas. He does come across as a bit of an unintentionally neglectful and superficial parent (such as thinking that a video of him reading a story is a substitute for actually doing so). He learns better though.
  • Nice Guy: Contrary to his dog, he doesn't act smug about his talents and is actually a kind celebrity.

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