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The closest friends of the Trio. During their adventures in Grundo, they meet several friends who often join the Trio for their adventures, though they never quite become members of the Trio officially.

Beware the Nice Ones: They're all good people, but if you threaten the ones they care about, they won't hold back.
Cast Herd: Arin and Aruzia form a cast herd, since they're rarely seen without each other, with the rest of Grundo Castle as their entourage. Wooly has two cast herds, one with Leota and her students, and one with the Fobs.
Commuting on a Bus: It's not uncommon for them to disappear for multiple episodes, then feature prominently when they come back.
A Day in the Limelight: While they're only supporting characters, they do often play major roles in some episodes.
Debut Queue: In the Five-Episode Pilot, Leota makes herdebut in the first episode, Arin in the second, Wooly in the third, and Aruzia in the fourth. Fuzz debuts after the five-episode pilot, and the Hermit only comes along mid-series.
Determinator: It's a regular theme among good guys to keep trying if there's any chance of victory.
Embodiment of Virtue: The Crystals reveal what traits some of them best embody, like bravery for Arin, trust for Aruzia, or loyalty for Wooly.
A Friend in Need: When someone they care about needs a helping hand, they're there just like the Trio.
Hitchhiker Heroes: During the Trio's journey for the Treasure of Grundo, Arin, Wooly, and Aruzia join the party one by one.
Interspecies Friendship: With the Trio and each other.
No One Gets Left Behind: They refuse to abandon their friends. When the Trio gets captured by M.A.V.O., Wooly, Leota, Arin, and Aruzia set out to find them.
The Power of Friendship: It's a running theme in the series that good guys solve problems this way. It's unfortunately averted when Wooly and Leota fall under the M.A.V.O. dark spell.
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Joining the Trio are the likes of a Hot-Blooded Warrior Prince, his Tomboy Princess sister, a Gentle Giant with mysterious origins, a schoolteacher who can fit in the palm of your hand, a proud Ridiculously Cute Critter, and a hermit with amnesia.
True Companions: The Trio count them as part of their extended family.
Two Girls to a Team: Aruzia and Leota are the main female heroes of the series.
Undying Loyalty: To the Trio and each other. Apart from when they fall under M.A.V.O.'s spell, they would never turn their backs on the people they care about.

Leota the Woodsprite

Voiced by: Russi Taylor (books and special), Holly Larocque (series)

First appearance: "The Treasure of Grundo"

Leota is the second friend that Teddy and Grubby made in Grundo, though they didn't initially start out on a good note. Due to not being able to control the Airship very well, Gimmick accidentally crashed into her tree. Leota was very cross about the whole situation, until Teddy managed to smooth things over with her. She helped Gimmick come up with a steering system for the Airship and has been a good friend ever since.

Adaptation Dye-Job: Leota's wings had an orange and yellow swirly pattern in the books. They're white in the cartoon.
Badass Teacher: She's a teacher who does some heroic feats in the series and has helped save the day on several occasions.
Because You Were Nice to Me: When the Trio accidentally crash into her tree on their maiden voyage, she is furious. However, Teddy wins her over just by calling her "very pretty".
Character Tic: On the cassette tapes and in the live-action, bells would tinkle when she speaks. This is left out of the cartoon.
Cool Teacher: Leota is the teacher at a schoolhouse in a tree. She's a very kind teacher who is loved by all of her students due to how accepting, understanding, and patient she is. She's also very protective of her students, and helps keep them safe when the schoolhouse catches fire.
Faeries Don't Believe in Humans, Either: When she introduces herself, Gimmick says there's no such things as "woodsprites", she quips back that there's no such thing as big bags of air stuck in her tree, yet there it, big as life.
Fairy Companion: To the Trio whenever she joins them on their adventures.
Flight: She can fly because of her wings.
Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: She's the Team Mom, works as a teacher, and always wears a pink hoopskirt, but she's got a daring, heroic side and plays Grungeball with her friends.
Grammar Nazi: Being a teacher, M.A.V.O.'s evil spell briefly turns her into one in "M.A.V.O. Costume Ball".
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's blonde and one of the nicest characters in the series.
Leitmotif: Often, when she appears in an episode, a distinct tune resembling a harp plays.
Lilliputians: Except for her wings and antennae, she looks like a miniature human.
Magic Skirt: She can do loops, spins, and all kinds of maneuvers in the sky with her skirt staying in place.
Mama Bear: To her students. When the school is on fire in "Grundo Graduation", she leads them to safety and doesn't leave the building until everyone else is out. It extends to the Trio when M.A.V.O. captures them.
Ms. Exposition: Sometimes trades this role off with Gimmick. She tells Teddy the legend of the Hermit of Leekee Lake.
Non-Standard Character Design: Unlike other Woodsprites, her wings are white, bigger, fancier, and have a see-through section. In the live-action special, she's the only character portrayed by a live human instead of a puppet.
Only Sane Woman: Frequently the most levelheaded and sensible of the heroes.
Our Fairies Are Different: Woodsprites are the standard tiny humanoid with butterfly wings variety. They also have antennae.
Parrying Bullets: In "Escape from M.A.V.O.", she flies between the airships and deflects the M.A.V.O. arrows barehanded from hitting the Trio's Airship.
The Piano Player: She can play the piano, so this becomes her role when the students put on a graduation show.
Pink Means Feminine: She wears an all-pink outfit.
Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Leota can lift objects several times her size, as demonstrated when she holds and swings a bat in Grungeball. Also, when Eleanor tries to stop her in the air race, Leota's strength is enough to resist the net and drag Eleanor off a ledge into the water.
Platonic Kissing: She kisses Teddy on the cheek at his birthday party.
Pointy Ears: Sometimes yes, sometimes no, Depending on the Artist. Pointy ears are common for Woodsprites.
Post–Wake-Up Realization: In "The Lemonade Stand", when she's awake in bed, she notices her purple spots and calls it a lovely color before realizing that something's wrong.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: She wouldn't normally do this, but during M.A.V.O.'s spell of darkness, Leota doesn't want to be used and leaves to go look after her own affairs.
The Smart Girl: Being a teacher, she is very knowledgeable.
The Smurfette Principle: Tends to trade the role with Aruzia in the heroes. It's not common to have both share the same adventure.
Species Surname: Her full name is Leota the Woodsprite.
Team Mom: Mainly to her students. Being their teacher, she takes charge of their well-being. Sometimes to the Trio too.
Two Girls to a Team: She and Aruzia are the only females who journey with the Trio.
Winged Humanoid: All Woodsprites look like humanoids with butterfly wings
Women Are Wiser: While she and Gimmick are both Smart Guys, she's more practical and down-to-earth.

The Wooly What's-It

Voiced by: Will Ryan (books and special), Pier Paquette (series)

First appearance: "Guests of the Grunges"

A large, furry, purple creature who helps the Trio whenever they need a little physical prowess. Though he looks mean and vicious, Wooly is quite the opposite. He's extremely loyal to those who befriend him, and the quickest way to upset him is to mess with his friends.

Accidental Kidnapping: In "One More Spot", he tries to catch some bugs to study for a school assignment, but he accidentally kidnaps the Trio while they're shrunk to bug-size.
Adaptational Dye-Job: In the books and live-action special, his body is a solid purple color, whereas in the cartoon, his beard, hands, and belly are a much lighter shade than the rest of him.
All of the Other Reindeer: Briefly, when he first joins Leota's classes, the other students only laugh at him when he misunderstands a question. They eventually stop doing this as Wooly adjusts to school.
Angry Fist-Shake: He'll sometimes shake his fists in the air when a villain angers him, such as the Gutangs firing on his friends.
Apologizes a Lot: Whenever he accidentally does something wrong, he apologizes, even if there are other things to worry about (see Skewed Priorities below).
Appropriated Appellation: Wooly's name comes from what others described him as being after he accidentally stranded himself near the Rainbow Falls; a "wooly whatsit". The Snowzos are an obscure species to the other inhabitants of Grundo anyway, but being dyed by the Rainbow Falls made him unrecognizable.
Arrow Catch: In "Through Tweeg's Fingers", he catches an arrow fired by the Gutangs and throws it at one of their planes, smashing its propeller apart.
Audience Surrogate: He's like a stand-in for children watching the show because he has a lot to learn in school and looks at it with a childlike naivete.
Be Careful What You Wish For: In "Elves and Woodsprites", he becomes so tired of being big and clumsy that he asks the Trio to shrink him to Elf-size so he can be like his classmates. Unfortunately, he's also lost his strength and prowess.
Beware the Nice Ones: Wooly wouldn't hurt a fly, but woe to anyone who hurts one of his friends.
Big Damn Heroes: He has a knack for this. Since he's so big and heavy, he can't go on the airship and has to walk wherever Teddy and friends are going while the others fly ahead. This is a good way of Holding Back the Phlebotinum because Wooly's so strong and tough he can generally wipe the floor with any of the bad guys — when he shows up at the destination, it's generally when the others have already been through several hardships that they had to solve without him. More then once, he comes to the rescue at the very last minute, when the others are in serious trouble, and all seems lost.
Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: He's a Snowzo, a species of cat-tailed yeti-like creatures who dwell in the cold regions of Grundo. In fact, he strayed from the group when he was a child and got lost, and ended up being dyed his trademark pink color because he took to drinking from and bathing in the Rainbow Falls.
The Big Guy: When he opts to join the Trio on a mission, he adds some much needed brawn to back them up.
Big-Hearted Bigfoot: Snowzos are based on the yeti (large, furry bipeds who live in the cold regions of the world), and few people are more big-hearted than Wooly.
Big "SHUT UP!":
- After putting out a fire, the Elves and Woodsprites restart the feud that led to it, so Wooly shuts them up with a big "BE QUIET!"
- When everyone falls under M.A.V.O.'s Hate Plague, Teddy tries to stop Grubby, Gimmick, and Wooly from arguing only to receive a collective "Oh, shup up, Teddy!"
Bully Hunter: He won't stand by when he sees someone (usually Tweeg) picking on someone weaker.
Caring Gardener: He's a friendly guy who grows a lot of his own food at his house. In "Harvest Feast", his harvest becomes all kinds of food for the castle banquet.
Character Catchphrase: He almost always says "Hiya" instead of "Hello" or "Hi".
Chekhov's Gun: He finds a shiny red rock at the top of Rainbow Falls in "The Faded Fobs". A few episodes later, it gives Teddy the solution to get back all the money Tweeg cheated out of everyone.
Climbing the Cliffs of Insanity: He's good at climbing cliffs. In the live-action special, it was stated that the Treacherous Mountains were believed to be impossible to climb, but Wooly does it.
Curb-Stomp Battle: After climbing the Treacherous Mountains, Wooly decides to destroy many of the Gutang Flying Machines with ease.
Cute Giant: He towers over the other good guys, but he looks like a purple cross between a gorilla and a teddy bear.
Disney Death: In "Escape from the Treacherous Mountains", he jumps on the last of the Gutang planes and forces it to crash-land. When the heroes find him, they mourn him for a moment before he turns out to be alive.
Does Not Know His Own Strength: He's so strong that sometimes he clumsily breaks things. In "Elves and Woodsprites", he becomes so fed up with being so big and clumsy that he asks the Trio to shrink him with the Reducing Machine.
The Door Slams You: The Wizard is so startled by his appearance that he slams his door in Wooly's face, making him fall on his butt.
Face of a Thug: When the Trio and Arin meet him for the first time, they think he's a dangerous monster. But when he learns that they're searching for a kidnapped princess, he reveals himself to be a Gentle Giant.
Flowers of Romance: On his way to visit Princess Aruzia, whom he has a crush on, he picks some flowers for her in the Jungle with No Name. These flowers turn out to be the antidote for King Nogburt's illness.
Gentle Giant: Despite his immense size and strength, he's actually a very gentle and friendly being.
Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: He knows that bad people do bad things but doesn't understand why. As he puts it, "Why would anybody kidnap a princess? That's bad!"
Go Through Me: In "Autumn Adventure", he blocks one of the M.A.V.O. goons from attacking Teddy, making him bounce backwards off his belly.
Heavy Voice: Inverted. When he is shrunk by Gimmick's Reducing Machine, he gets a higher, squeakier voice. Strangely, it never happens when anyone else shrinks.
Help, I'm Stuck!: In "The Rainbow Mine", he lands rear-end into the mouth of the cave that Rainbow Falls comes out of.
Heroic Sacrifice: He does one in "Escape from the Treacherous Mountains" by jumping on a Gutang plane and making it crash-land before it can shoot his friends. Fortunately, he survives.
Heroic Self-Deprecation: He calls himself dumb several times in "The Wooly What's-It". It turns out that he's just undereducated, and he gets over it once he starts to catch up with the rest of Leota's students.
Humble Hero: Wooly is very helpful to everyone but modest about it too. In "Through Tweeg's Fingers", when the characters thank him for the medicinal flowers he brought them, he modestly says he didn't grow them, just pick them.
"I Am" Song: "What is a Wooly What's-It", sung by the Trio, is all about who he is and what he's like.
I Choose to Stay: In "Wooly and the Giant Snowzos", after he is reunited with his own kind, he decides to stay in Grundo, although he promises to come and visit.
Implausible Boarding Skills: He does some impressive feats on his skateboard during Wizardweek, including jumping over Trembley Fault.
Improvised Clothes: To infiltrate M.A.V.O. and rescue Grubby and Gimmick, Leota makes him a monster costume out of cotton candy.
The Infiltration: Teddy and Leota dress him up in a monster costume and have him pretend to be interested in joining M.A.V.O. so he can sneak in and free Grubby and Gimmick from the M.A.V.O. dungeon.
Interspecies Adoption: He's a Snowzo who is implied to have been raised by Fobs.
Interspecies Romance: He's implied to have a crush on Princess Aruzia. Whether she's aware of it or not is unclear, although she still sees him as a very dear friend.
Keep the Reward: When Arin offers him a reward for helping save his sister, Wooly says he's already been rewarded: he got kissed by a princess.
Leitmotif: Often, an instrumental version of the chorus of "What's a Wooly What's-It" will play while he's seen on the show.
Literal Cliffhanger: After Prince Arin turns into the Iron Warrior, and he and Wooly have a tumble, they roll over the end of a cliff with Wooly clinging to a branch and the Iron Warrior clinging to Wooly's tail. After the branch gives, they fall into the water.
Mathematician's Answer: In math class, when Leota asks how much a hundred trees plus a hundred trees is, Wooly says, "A forest."
Missing Child: There's a legend of a young Snowzo who vanished many years ago, and it turns out to be Wooly.
My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Snowzos live north of the land of Ying, but Wooly grew up in Grundo, so he doesn't share most of his race's aversion to warmth.
No One Could Survive That!: When the Gutang plane he's on crashes, his friends briefly believe that he died, thinking no one could have survived the impact. It turns out that Wooly's just that tough.
An Offer You Can't Refuse: Makes one to Bognostroclum while pretending to be a monster wanting to join M.A.V.O. Bognostroclum says that members can only join at the right time and place, but Wooly picks him up and says, "Do I get to join your club, or do you want to be a door knocker from now on?"
Papa Wolf: Threaten a child or one of his friends and he'll make you sorry. Tweeg discovers this the hard way any time he tries to do a bad deed when Wooly's around.
Prehensile Tail: "The Rainbow Mine" reveals that he can grasp things with his tail.
Purple Is Powerful: He's purple and possesses enormous amounts of strength.
Quest for the Rest: In "One More Spot", Wooly's bothered by the fact that he doesn't know what kind of creature he is, and he's working to figure it out. Eventually, he meets his own kind: the Snowzos.
Ramp Jump: In the final race of Wizardweek, after Tweeg cuts down the suspension bridge behind him, Wooly is forced to jump across Trembley Fault on his skateboard.
Real After All: Gimmick spent most of "Wooly and the Giant Snowzos" claiming that Snowzos aren't real. Not only are they real, but Gimmick has been friends with one for months.
Really Fond of Sleeping: Wooly likes taking naps for fun.
Simpleminded Wisdom: Wooly is undereducated at first and a bit slow, but he does show moments of worldliness.
Skewed Priorities: In "Teddy Ruxpin's Birthday", while playing Grungeball, he's so concerned about the fact that he broke the bat that he forgets to run to first base.
Spanner in the Works: Invariably fouls up the plans of the villains somehow when he gets involved. Like the time he accidentally convinced M.A.V.O that Tweeg had been trying to oust Quellor and take over for himself.
Square-Cube Law: Inverted. In his normal size, he's got Super-Strength, but when he's shrunk by the Reducing Machine, he seems proportionately weaker.
Super-Strength: Even for his size, Wooly is capable of remarkable feats of strength. It's implied that his muscle is denser than most creatures.
Super-Toughness: After his fall at the end of the Gutang battle, he survives crashing a plane, proving that even an impact like that can't kill him.
Supreme Chef: Wooly's a great cook and is happy to prepare something when his friends pop over. In "Harvest Feast", he cooks enough of a feast to fill a banquet.
Technical Pacifist: Just like Teddy and Arin, any time he resorts to violence, it's non-lethal. But grabbing or throwing around someone who makes him angry? Sure.
Temporarily Exaggerated Trait: When M.A.V.O.'s spell of darkness casts over Grundo, it happens to most of Teddy's friends. In Wooly's case, his love for naps is turned up to not wanting to do anything else.
That's No Moon: In "The Rainbow Mine", when he gets stuck in the Rainbow Falls cave entrance, the Trio mistakes him for a big rock.
Trampoline Tummy: In "The Crystal Book", he lets some Fobs use his belly as a trampoline.
Undying Loyalty: When Gimmick uses the Crystal Stethoscope on him, the Crystal says that loyalty is a key trait of his. And he's certainly loyal to his friends.
Unskilled, but Strong: He's the strongest of the good guys but can be a bit clumsy with it.
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: In "Escape from M.A.V.O.", when he sees his friends (really the Anythings) appear to split into Animate Body Parts, he just tells them to quit fooling around.
Vague Age: Wooly lives along and takes care of himself, but he often looks at the world like a young child and attends Leota's class with kids.
Verbal Tic: Often goes "Blblblblblbl!" when talking.
Weaponized Ball: In "Tweeg joins M.A.V.O.", after collecting some of Tweeg's cannonballs to return to him, he throws them at M.A.V.O. Headquarters, breaking right through the stone walls.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Mudblups. In "Autumn Adventure", the Fobs claim that Wooly's not afraid of anything, but to him, the Trio's Mudblup costumes are so convincing that he's terrified of them.

Prince Arin

Voiced by: Willl Ryan (books and special), Robert Bockstael (series)

First appearance: "Beware of the Mudblups"

The son and eldest child of King Nogburt. The Trio first met him while they were being held captive by the Mudblups. He has a very gung-ho attitude and often has to be reined in by the more cool-headed characters. He also transforms into a metal monster called the "Iron Warrior" when he consumes Vitamin Z. He is an Illiper, one of a humanoid race with very blunted muzzles.

Absurdly Sharp Blade: The Grunge gumbo affects what he's wearing, so it makes his sword so sharp that he slice down trees.
Ascended Extra: He and Aruzia appear more and get more focus in the animated series than in the books.
Big Brother Instinct: He will do anything to protect his little sister. Before the start of the series, he set out to find her after she had been kidnapped and just wants to get it done as soon as possible.
The Big Guy: Shares the role with Wooly. He's not as big or strong as the latter, but he is the best fighter of the heroes.
Coconut Meets Cranium: Some coconuts fall on his head as the Iron Warrior.
Destructive Saviour: In "A Race to the Finish", he eats Grunge gumbo and once again turns into the Iron Warrior to stop Quellor's henchmen. But because the Iron Warrior is a mindless monster, he also destroys most of the Grunge village.
Determinator: He refuses to give up finding his sister and is reluctant to stop to rest.
Discreet Dining Disposal: He, Teddy and Gimmick end up dumping the root stew Grubby made overboard the Airship (and onto Tweeg's head) because they're too nice to tell him he's a Lethal Chef.
Dressing as the Enemy: After entering the Hard to Find City, Teddy and his friends beat up some unsuspecting Gutangs and disguise themselves so they can avoid detection.
Emerging from the Shadows: In the Mudblup dungeon, he introduces himself when stepping out of the shadows.
Fiery Red Head: You don't actually see his hair very often, but it is a fiery red shade, and he's a very hot-blooded and hot-headed young man even without turning into the Iron Warrior.
Fire-Forged Friends: He and the Trio become friends when they get captured by and escape from the Mudblups together. After they offer to put off their treasure hunt to help find his sister, he calls their friendship the best treasure he ever had.
Foil: To Teddy. Both are driven, stubborn, and heroic types who will jump at any chance to save their friends. But while Teddy is a patient planner, Arin is impulsive and hot-blooded.
Gut Feeling: When the heroes reach the Hard-to-Find City, Arin admits that he doesn't know for sure where his sister is being held and is just following his instincts. His instincts were right.
Hidden Depths: Seems like just a Hot-Blooded Warrior Prince, but "The Day Teddy Met Grubby" reveals that he can play a good lute.
Hot-Blooded: Prince Arin tends to be impulsive and impatient at times, and his default setting seems to be "enthusiastically energetic bravery", to the point where Teddy and the others have to rein him in occasionally.
Implacable Man: When he becomes the Iron Warrior, he seems unbeatable. The only way to stop him is to change him back by dousing him or waiting for the Vitamin Z to wear off.
Improbable Aiming Skills: Shoots down several enemy Gutang planes with a slingshot.
Inverse Law of Sharpness and Accuracy: His sword. Sometimes it'll be used to damage non-living things or knock people out, but naturally never get to be used to cut or stab anything living.
I Will Find You: His goal at the start of the series, the "you" being his sister.
Knight in Shining Armor: He looks like one, since he wears royal armor.
Leitmotif: The background music that plays when he appears sounds a lively royal fanfare.
Literal Cliffhanger: After Prince Arin turns into the Iron Warrior, and he and Wooly have a tumble, they roll over the end of a cliff with Wooly clinging to a branch and the Iron Warrior clinging to Wooly's tail. After the branch gives, they fall into the water.
Made a Slave: While's a prisoner of the Mudblups, they force him to mine their coal. He says that kind of work is not for a prince like him, be he does it because he has no choice.
Neck Lift: As the Iron Warrior, he grabs Gimmick by the neck and throws him.
Oh, Crap!: He's shocked and screams in terror when he, Teddy and Gimmick find themselves in the middle of a cave-in.
Put Their Heads Together: In "In the Fortress of the Wizard", to rescue Aruzia, Arin grabs the guards and slams their heads together.
Red Is Heroic: He's a heroic guy who wears red under his metal armor, has red hair, and has a red crest on his helmet.
Royals Who Actually Do Something: He and his sister often take part in the Trio's adventuring. He's willing to fight enemies with his sword or go searching for his kidnapped sister himself.
Sibling Team: With his sister in most of their appearances after the Five-Episode Pilot.
Superpowered Evil Side: After consuming anything with Vitamin Z, he turns into the Iron Warrior, an extraordinarily powerful being clad entirely in armor who mindlessly attacks everyone it sees, even his friends.
Technical Pacifist: He's more prone to violence than Teddy, but he still limits himself to knocking the enemy out.
The Unintelligible: As the Iron Warrior, he grunts and growls but doesn't speak.
Warrior Prince: He's the son of the king who dresses like a knight and uses a sword.
Weak, but Skilled: He's not weak by any means, but still a lot weaker than Wooly despite being better at combat.

Princess Aruzia

Voiced by: Katie Leigh (books and special), Abby Hagyard (series)

First appearance: "In the Fortress of the Wizard"

The daughter and second child of King Nogburt and Prince Arin's younger sister. She was held captive by the Gutangs at the start of the story, until Prince Arin and the Trio rescued her. She's more level-headed than her brother and isn't afraid to get herself dirty to help her people. Like Prince Arin, she transforms into the "Aluminum Amazon" when she consumes Vitamin Z.

All Girls Like Ponies: Hoofed animals called Cloppids takes the place of horses in the series. Aruzia likes them and is good at riding.
All-Loving Hero: She is nice to everyone.
Animal Lover: She loves the many different farm animals kept at her favorite place, the castle's royal stable.
Ascended Extra: She and Arin appear more and get more focus in the animated series than in the books.
Damsel in Distress: At the start of the series, she was a prisoner of the Gutangs, with her brother and the Trio setting out to rescue her.
Destructive Saviour: When she and her brother eat Grunge gumbo in "A Race to the Finish" and become monsters to fight Quellor's henchmen, they also destroy much of the Grunge village.
Dressing as the Enemy: After entering the Hard to Find City, Teddy and his friends beat up some unsuspecting Gutangs and disguise themselves so they can avoid detection.
Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Her trademark robe is a royal purple hue.
Hidden Depths: She can play a beautiful recorder.
Hostage MacGuffin: In the Five-Episode Pilot, she is the Gutangs' hostage, driving Arin and the Trio to rescue her.
Improbable Aiming Skills: Shoots down several enemy Gutang planes with a slingshot.
Land in the Saddle: In "The Day Teddy Met Grubby", while trying to stop a stampede of animals, she and Teddy jump and land on a pair of running bareback Cloppids.
Like Parent, Like Child: When her father sees her riding around the castle with a stampede, he claims that it reminds him of him when he was young.
Modest Royalty: Princess Aruzia wears a plain shirt, farmer's overalls, and work boots while helping with the kingdom's farms. Even her princess gown looks like a simple robe.
Nice Girl: She's always nice to people.
Power of Trust: Her key virtue is Trust according to the Crystals. She trusted her brother and her new friends to help her escape from the Treacherous Mountains.
Pretty Princess Powerhouse: Downplayed. While she's never seen in combat, her skill with a root stew-filled slingshot is a force to be reckoned with.
Princesses Prefer Pink: Her princess outfit has pink accents.
Royals Who Actually Do Something: In "King Nogburt's Castle", she's wearing work clothes and mentions that due to a drought, every able-bodied person in the kingdom is expected to contribute to farm work, including the royals.
Sibling Team: With his sister in most of their appearances after the Five-Episode Pilot.
Superpowered Evil Side: After consuming anything with Vitamin Z, she turns into the Aluminum Amazon, making her much stronger but also mindlessly violent and destructive.
Tomboyish Ponytail: She wears most of her hair loosely, but there is a ponytail in the back.
Tomboy Princess: She's adventurous, willing to help deal with the enemy, spends a lot of time around farm animals, and has no problem putting on overalls to help tend the land during a drought.
Tomboy with a Girly Streak: While a bit of a Tomboy Princess, she still has a pink and purple princess gown that she wears a lot.
The Unintelligible: As the Aluminum Amazon, she grunts and growls but doesn't speak.

Fuzz the Fob

Voiced by: Katie Leigh (books), Holly Larocque (series)

First appearance: "Take a Good Look"

Gimmick's pet Fob. He doesn't appear in all episodes at Gimmick's house. He is cheerful and friendly but also proud of being a Fob, sometimes to the point of cockiness.

Age Lift: Described as a baby Fob in one book, but in the cartoon, he's fully-grown.
Armless Biped: All Fobs have two feet but no arms.
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: In "Take a Good Look", when Gimmick's Reducing Machine restores the Trio to their normal size, they accidentally enlarge Fuzz too, resulting in a giant Fob hopping around the house after them.
Bindle Stick: At part of Teddy's plan, he and some other Fobs have these in "The Rainbow Mine", making Tweeg think they're leaving Rainbow Falls because there's no more water.
Birdcaged: When Tweeg kidnaps him in "The Third Crystal", he's locked in a birdcage. A Fob is small enough for that.
Blowing a Raspberry: While Tweeg holds him captive in "The Third Crystal",
Commuting on a Bus: Despite living with the Trio, he often disappears for a few episodes at a time. It's later established that he sometimes visits his fellow Fobs at Rainbow Falls.
Chromatic Arrangement: Of the three main Fobs, Fuzz is green, Frank is blue, and Faye is red.
Defiant Captive: While he's Tweeg's prisoner, he refuses to show any fear, treating Tweeg like a joke.
A Day in the Limelight: "The Third Crystal" focuses on him.
Distressed Dude: The Trio rescue him from Tweeg in "The Third Crystal".
The Gadfly: But only to Tweeg. While captured, he handles the situation by poking fun at his captor.
Happily Adopted: He's quite happy to be Gimmick's pet.
Heartwarming Orphan: According to the book "Uncle Grubby", Fuzz is an orphan who was found by Gimmick as a baby. He's still a cheerful and well-loved guy.
Hidden Depths: When he joins Wooly's team for Wizardweek, he turns out to be a pretty good glider pilot in "Air and Water Races".
Honorary True Companion: When he appears, he sometimes makes the Trio seem more like a quartet. He lives with them, is treated like part of the family, and joins them on some of their adventures, but he often stays behind or does his own thing while they're off adventuring.
Inconsistent Coloring: In a couple of episodes, he's purple with pink trim, but he's usually green with yellow trim. Justified since Rainbow Falls water gives Fobs their color, so it's possible to change color.
Informed Attribute: In one episode, Teddy says Fuzz is usually too shy to wander far from home, but Fuzz is very nervy and often goes to visit the other Fobs.
Insult Backfire: When Tweeg says "When I'm finished with you and your pals, you'll regret the day you ever laid eyes on me," Fuzz retorts, "I already do."
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's a bit cocky and outspoken but still a nice, friendly guy who's fond of his friends.
Know When to Fold 'Em: During the Wizardweek episode "Air and Water Races", he knows when it's time to bail out rather than risk crashing.
Malicious Misnaming: Calls Tweeg "Tweek" while in a cage, which makes L.B. like him even more.
Motor Mouth: It's not that he doesn't know when to shut up. He just talks fast. This is because Fob voices are sped up to sound higher.
Nerves of Steel: When Tweeg kidnaps him, he discovers that Fuzz doesn't know how to be intimidated.
Obliviously Evil: In "Take a Good Look", he serves as the antagonist without realizing it. He just doesn't recognize his friends in their tiny size and thinks they're juicy bugs.
Parachute in a Tree: After bailing out from his glider in "Air and Water Races".
Prehensile Tail. He can use his tail to hold or carry objects like other Fobs.
Raised by Humans: According to the book version of "Uncle Grubby", Fuzz has been raised by Gimmick since he was a baby.
Remember the New Guy?: He doesn't get much of an introduction when he first appears in "Take a Good Look". It's presented as if Teddy and Grubby already know him well.
Ridiculously Cute Critter: Like other Fobs, he's tiny, squat, has colorful fur, stubby legs, and a long tail.
Sapient Pet: He's Gimmick's pet, but he can talk, think, and is treated like a person.
Super-Persistent Predator: In his first appearance, when the Trio are shrunk by the Reducing Machine, he mistakes them for bugs and chases them non-stop until everyone is back to their normal size.
Suspiciously Specific Denial: In "Fugitives", when he delivers Teddy's message Grubby and Gimmick while M.A.V.O. has them under house arrest, he tells the M.A.V.O. guard that he's not delivering any secret messages and that he doesn't even know who Teddy Ruxpin is. The guard is dumb enough to him through.
Team Pet: To the Trio whenever he's with them.
Water Wake Up: A shrunk-down Grubby falls into his water bowl and wakes him up with a splash to the face.
What Happened to the Mouse?: In the first three days of Wizardweek, he's with Wooly's team, but he disappears for the second half of the Great Grundo Ground Race.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: For a long time, he seems fearless, but when Gimmick tells him about the Giant Snowzos, he's terrified.

The Hermit of Leekee Lake (SPOILERS)

The Hermit of Leekee Lake/Burl Ruxpin

Voiced by: Phil Baron

First appearance: "To the Rescue"

A mysterious being rumored to live on an island in Leekee Lake. He is revealed to be an Illiop, and later, Teddy Ruxpin's father who had his memories erased by the Black Box.

Amnesia Missed a Spot: He has some slight remnant memories that hint who he is. One major clue is that he knows a song that Teddy's father made up for him when he was little.
Ascended Extra: He becomes a major character in the last two main story arcs.
Beary Friendly: He's a nice guy who saves Teddy from drowning in the river in his first appearance.
Big Damn Reunion: When he finally remembers that he is Teddy's father, the two of them sing a song called "Together Again", and then he is reunited with his wife in the next episode.
Blank Slate: When Gimmick tries to use the Crystal Stethoscope on him, it reveals no personality traits. This is what happens when you have your memories erased by the Black Box.
Bound and Gagged: M.A.V.O. wraps him up in chains while he's kept prisoner at Eleanor's house.
Canon Foreigner: He did not appear in the books and cassette tapes.
The Caretaker: After he saves Teddy from drowning in the river, he takes care of him and nurses him back to health while Teddy drifts in and out of consciousness.
Depending on the Writer: In-universe example. There are all kinds of stories floating around about him because no one has met him in person before. "Some say he's a monster with huge glowing eyes, or a fish, or a Fob, or a sneaky M.A.V.O. spy..."
Disappeared Dad: He was captured by M.A.V.O., had his memory erased, and got sent to the Ying Zoo. Even after escaping, he couldn't return to his family due to having lost his memory, so he ended up living in Leekee Lake.
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He's just called the Hermit of Leekee Lake because no one knew his name. Teddy addresses him as Mr. Hermit.
Gale-Force Sound: When he and Teddy say goodbye to Zeb and Maple, Zeb tells him to speak up. He shouts at him, blowing him backwards because Zeb's a tiny Elf.
Good Parents: Even before he remembered he was Teddy father, he was always good to him, even being a Papa Wolf.
Gut Feeling: In "Fugitives", he tells Teddy that they should approach Gimmick's house cautiously, saying he has a hunch that something's wrong. He was right because M.A.V.O. was guarding the house.
Happily Married; To Ilana. He would have returned if he remembered she existed. When they reunite, all is well between them.
The Hermit: It's what everyone calls him because he keeps to himself.
Hostage MacGuffin: After M.A.V.O. accidentally kidnaps him instead of Teddy, they use him as bait, knowing one Illiop will always save another. It gets Teddy captured.
House Squatting: He doesn't own his lair. He just found it. It was built by an old civilization on his island, but since no one used it anymore, he settled there.
"I Am" Song: The characters sing a song about him and his legend, but the lyrics make it clear that no one knows for sure what he is. So, more of an "I Might Be" Song.
Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Like Teddy, he does not fall under M.A.V.O.'s evil spell when they have the Crystals, suggesting that Illiops are immune to it. Maybe this is why M.A.V.O. fears them.
In the Hood: Early on, he would keep the hood of his robe up to make him seem mysterious. He stops wearing it when he begins to open up to Teddy.
Intrepid Merchant: Before he lost his memory, he was a trader and adventurer who traveled around trading his herbs for both food and medicine. He never came back after M.A.V.O. captured him.
It's Quiet… Too Quiet: In "Fugitives", when he and Teddy reach Gimmick's Valley, he says that when everything seems fine like it does then, that's just when things go wrong.
Laser-Guided Amnesia: The Seventh Crystal did this to him, although he is hinted to have some trace memories.
Lethal Chef: He cooks very sticky food from underwater plants that Teddy finds hard to digest. Like with Grubby's root recipes, Teddy pretends to like it.
Living Legend: In Rillonia, he's become such a famous explorer that they hold a special day in his honor.
The Medic: One of his skills is healing. In his first appearance, he nurses Teddy back to health and gives him a homemade healing potion. He gets it from his old life as a trader when he worked with a lot of herbs.
Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: He keeps to himself so much that people aren't even sure what he is. The Grunges think he's a sea monster. He's just an Illiop who's not comfortable being around anyone.
Mysterious Protector: He saves Teddy from drowning in the river, then sneaks away before anyone sees him, leaving Teddy uncertain if he was a dream or not. The next time he saves Teddy, from Dredge while underwater, he drops the secrecy for Teddy only.
Mysterious Watcher: After Leota and Wooly find Teddy alone in the Hermit's camp, the Hermit spends the episode watching him from a distance. He's very interested in the younger Illiop but not ready to show his face yet.
Nobody Here but Us Statues: He surprises everyone in Rillonia with his return, including his wife, by pretending to be the statue that was built to commemorate him.
No Need for Names: He tells Teddy that he doesn't think he has a name. He didn't need one because he had no friends before Teddy.
Shock Stick: Among the many things he's found are a bunch electric shock prods for dealing with underwater creatures. He calls them stingers.
Shrinking Violet: The real reason he runs away from people is that he's very shy.
Shrouded in Myth: Because no one ever knew for sure that he was real, there were all kinds of stories about what he could be.
Sixth Ranger: In the last two story arcs, he becomes an extra member of the heroes.
Something Only They Would Say: When Teddy begins to sing "Will You Go to Sleep Before I Do?", the Hermit joins in. This is the first clue that he's really Teddy's long-lost father who made up that song and sang it for Teddy when he was little.

Grunges

In General

Grunges

The main humanoid race of Grundo. They tend to be passionate about their hobbies and like to fill their days with partying or enjoying music. One of two good races collectively seen regularly in both the books and the cartoons.

Adaptation Dye-Job: Most of them have yellow skin in the books. In the cartoon, they have human flesh tones.
Cast Herd: The Jungle Grunges and Surf Grunges are separate groups who aren't usually seen together except to fill a crowd. Louie belongs to neither group, being part of a two-person herd with his boss.
Cast of Snowflakes: The Grunges all have similar facial anatomy, but their features come in different shapes and designs. Each Grunge also has a distinct outfit and hair.
A Day in the Limelight: After their introduction, they often serve as crowd fillers or Bit Characters, but "Anything in the Soup" gives the Jungle Grunges more screentime, while "Win One for the Twipper" does it for the Surf Grunges.
Demihuman: While Illipers might be a Human Subspecies, Grunges are something else. Humans don't have antennae, two-toed feet, or those oversized noses, but apart from that, the Grunges could almost pass for humans. They also tend to have more body hair, snaggleteeth, and warts.
Four-Fingered Hands: Literally, but they also have just two big toes on each foot.
Life of the Party: Grunges love to dance, play music, and party.
Lovable Jock: A Grunge's favorite game is Grungeball, which is just baseball with a different name. They're friendly folks who are good at it. The Surf Grunges also enjoy surfing.
Named by the Adaptation: None of the Grunges have names in the books except for Louie, the Wizard's assistant, and Boomer, one of the Surf Grunges. The cartoon gives several of them names.
Serious Business: Grunges take their hobbies very seriously. They love music and dance, Jungle Grunges can get touchy about the vegetables they grow, and Surf Grunges are all about surfing.

Louie

Voiced by: Will Ryan

First appearance: "Beware of the Mudblups"

The Wizard's assistant. He uses his trusty camera and flying bicycle to gather information about what's happening around the world.

Adaptation Dye-Job: In the books and the live-action special, he has brown body hair. In the cartoon, it's pink.
The Announcer: He takes the role of announcer at a Grungeball game and during Wizardweek.
Ascended Extra: He and the Wizard appear more in the cartoon than in the books and have major roles in some episodes.
Camera Fiend: He takes his video camera around and films whatever he sees. The Wizard uses the footage to pass himself off as a psychic.
Extra! Extra! Read All About It!: One of his jobs is delivering the Grundo Gazette, and he's known to shout these words when he delivers it.
Forgotten Birthday: Apparently, on his last birthday, the Wizard forgot to buy him a present.
Intrepid Reporter: While Louie works for a wizard instead of the press, he otherwise acts like an old-fashioned news reporter, adventuring out and getting footage of any noteworthy event.
Leitmotif: A slow, old-fashioned sounding bluesy piece plays when he shows up.
My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Most Grunges are wild, fun-loving party animals who don't do a lot of work. Louie is more serious and focused on his job.
"Not So Different" Remark: Louie points out how the Wizard and the Sorcerer, as much as they hate each other, are alike in that they'll both do anything for money.
Open Mouth, Insert Foot: After Wizardland falls apart and leaves the Wizard broke, Louie suggests throwing a party to cheer him up, and they could invite his brother. He realizes too late that he shouldn't have said that last part when the Wizard gets depressed again.
Servile Snarker: He sometimes copes with his job as the Wizard's put-upon assistant by making snarky remarks.
Those Magnificent Flying Machines: He rides around on a pedal-powered helicopter that can carry huge loads.
Unstoppable Mailman: Apart from his job for the Wizard, Louie is also Grundo's mail carrier. Thanks to his helicopter, he can get any mail to anywhere in Grundo.

Jungle Grunges

Voiced by: Holly Larocque (Treena), John Koensgen (Topper), Pier Paquette (Grunge chef), various

First appearance: "Guests of the Grunges"

A tribe of Grunges who live in the Grunge Village in the Jungle with No Name. They're very particular about their Grunge gumbo.

Angry Chef: The chef of the village gets really agitated if you mess up his soup.
Big Eater: They grow giant vegetables in their garden to make soup to satisfy their enormous appetites.
Book Dumb: In their first episode, Jungle Grunges are baffled by Gimmick's big, fancy words until Teddy translates.
Early Installment Character-Design Difference: The Grunge chef had an entirely different design early on.
Earthy Barefoot Character: The Jungle Grunges always go barefoot to show how at home they feel in the jungle.
Fiery Redhead: Treena has bright orange hair and is strong, loud, and passionate.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: They're touchy if you mess with their garden or their soup, but they're still good guys.
Malicious Misnaming: When they first meet Teddy, they call him a "lollipop" named "Teddy Dustpan".
Power-Up Food: Their Grunge gumbo. To them, it just makes them stronger, but too much of its Vitamin Z turns Illipers into monsters.
Recurring Extra: Apart from Treena, Topper, and the Grunge chef, most of the Jungle Grunges get no individual focus and are often used to fill a crowd.
Stout Strength: Some of them have stout builds but are also very strong due to their Grunge gumbo.
Team Chef: There's always that one Grunge in the village who does all the cooking.
Took a Level in Kindness: They start out hostile to the Trio but slowly become nicer and friendlier to them.
Trademark Favorite Food: They love Grunge gumbo.
Vine Swing: Treena and Topper swing on vines into their village in "Anything in the Soup".

Surf Grunges

Voiced by: Abby Hagyard (Jody), Holly Larocque (Ginny), Pier Paquette (Jethro), Anna MacCormack (Jana Lee), John Stocker (Manfred)

First appearance: "The Surf Grunges"

A gang of Grunge teenagers who act like stereotypical surfers and spend most of their time on Ben's Beach.

And the Rest: Jethro introduces Jody, Ginny, himself, and "the rest of the gang". Two others are named Manfred and Jana Lee in "The Lemonade Stand". The last one is never named (though based on his stout build and blond mohawk, he could be Boomer from the books).
Beware the Nice Ones: They're very mellow and even-tempered, but even M.A.V.O. isn't safe from them when the Trio is in danger.
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Of the girls, Jody is blonde, Ginny is brunette, and Jana Lee has deep auburn hair.
Cool Shades: They all own at least one cool pair of sunglasses.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Though they seem lazy and unintelligent, they do help the Trio on a few occasions, once even fighting M.A.V.O.
Gender-Equal Ensemble: Three males and three females appear in their first episode.
Implausible Boarding Skills: They do some unbelievable tricks like group acrobatics when they surf.
Instrument of Murder: In "Leekee Lake", when helping the Trio deal with M.A.V.O., Jody uses her guitar as a club.
Kindhearted Simpleton: They're always nice to Teddy and his friends but not too smart.
Lazy Bum: They're much more laid-back than the Jungle Grunges, preferring to lounge on a beach and surf than do any real work.
Living Prop: The one nameless guy barely speaks and just hangs out with the others if he's there at all.
Magic Feather: Gimmick invents some new Grungeball equipment for their team in one episode. At the end, he reveals that the extra attachments were just to improve their confidence.
Mellow Fellow: They're laid-back surfer types who rarely if ever get angry.
Ms. Exposition: Ginny tells the backstory of Tweeg's family to both the Trio and the viewers.
Never Learned to Read: At one point, Ginny says that they can't read.
Official Couple: In "The Lemonade Stand", Manfred and Jana Lee are revealed to be dating.
Out of Focus: In their debut, Jethro gets a lot of dialogue and seems like the leader. In later appearances, Ginny and Manfred are the main Surf Grunges.
Security Blanket: Jethro sleeps with a teddy bear, which looks a lot like Teddy.
Skewed Priorities: When everyone gets the Tweezles from Tweeg's Rainbow Falls lemonade, Jody is upset because the colors will clash with her bathing suit.
Surfer Dude: They're teenagers who spend most of their time surfing and talk in stereotypical surfer slang.
Sweetheart Sipping: Manfred orders a lemonade with two straws to do this with Jana Lee.

Elroy Tweeg

Voiced by: John Koensgen

First appearance: "The Surf Grunges"

Tweeg's father, believed to be the greatest Surf Grunge ever. He left his wife when he saw her true true and hasn't been seen since Tweeg was little.

The Ace: Regarded as this in-universe to the Surf Grunges. No surfing challenge is too great for him.
Berserk Button: Like other Surf Grunges, he's a very mellow fellow. But according to Ginny, when his wife mocked his surfboard, that was going too far.
Big Damn Reunion: In "Father's Day", he reunites with Tweeg when he comes to meet him.
Canon Foreigner: Didn't appear in the original book and tape series.
Collector of the Strange: He collects rocks and other things he finds on the beach.
Disappeared Dad: He left his wife and son a long time ago because he couldn't stand being married to a literal evil troll anymore.
Good Parents: When he returns, he turns out to be a caring man who wants to bond with his son.
Henpecked Husband: Eleanor insulted him throughout their marriage, but for some reason, he put up with it. Until she insulted his surfboard...
Horrible Judge of Character: He didn't seem to realize how bad his wife was until she hit his Berserk Button.
Humble Hero: He's a legend among surfers and made a lot of money from it, but he doesn't see it as such a big deal.
Interspecies Romance: Well, interspecies marriage, at least. It wasn't romantic. Eleanor's a troll and Elroy's a grunge.
Mundane Object Amazement: He finds rocks and shells on the beach fascinating.
No Accounting for Taste: His fellow Surf Grunges think this about his marriage to Eleanor.
Real Men Wear Pink: In "Air and Water Races", Eleanor says he's the one who sewed together Tweeg's clothes when he was little.
Self-Made Man: With his surfing skills, Tweeg's father earned enough gold to fill a bucket.
Surfer Dude: Like the other Surf Grunges, he acts and talks like one.
Took the Wife's Name: Everyone calls him by Eleanor's last name because Grunges don't normally have last names.

King Nogburt's Castle

King Nogburt and Queen Lillibet

Voiced by: John Koensgen (King Nogburt), Holly Larocque (Queen Lillibet)

First appearance: "The Day Teddy Met Grubby"

The Illiper king and queen of Grundo and the parents of Arin and Aruzia. Both are good, reasonable leaders who are well-regarded by their subjects.

Big Fancy Castle: King Nogburt's castle is probably the fanciest building in all of Grundo.
Big Good: As king and queen of Grundo, they are this to the whole country.
Canon Foreigner: King Nogburt was established as Arin and Aruzia's father in the books, but Queen Lillibet was created for the cartoon.
Cool Crown: The king wears a standard-looking monarch's crown, while the queen wears a simple gold tiara.
The Ghost: King Nogburt is mentioned in the books but only seen in the cartoon.
The Good King: Nogburt is a good ruler who treats his subjects well and is highly regarded.
Good Parents: Both love their children very much and raised them well, never really disciplining them.
Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Lillibet wears a bluish-purple royal coat over her dress.
Happily Married: They're clearly happy together after so many years.
Heroic BSoD: Nogburt falls into one when he and Gimmick get lost in the Sub-Water Boat, not just because he might never see his family again but also because he feels that he left his kingdom a mess thanks to the drought.
The High Queen: Queen Lillibet is called that for a reason.
Large and in Charge: Downplayed, but Nogburt is slightly taller than most Illipers.
Like Parent, Like Child: When King Nogburt sees his daughter riding around the castle with a stampede, he claims that it reminds him of him when he was young.
Magic Antidote: While the Trio visit the castle, a spy slips King Nogburt poison. The royal doctor gives him the antidote with hours to spare, and he's fully recovered afterwards.
Pretty in Mink: Lillibet's royal coat has white fur cuffs and white fur hems.
Princesses Prefer Pink: Lillibet is a rare instance in fiction of a queen whose royal gown is pink. She's still royal, so it counts.
Proper Lady: Lillibet always acts refined and ladylike, fitting her status as a queen.
Purple Is Powerful: Nogburt is a king who wears an all-purple outfit of royal robes.
Requisite Royal Regalia: Their crowns and royal robes.
Royals Who Actually Do Something: During a drought, every Illiper does their part to gather as much food as possible, including the royal family. In "Secret of the Illiops", Queen Lillibet helps start a peanut farm. In "Harvest Feast", King Nogburt goes exploring underwater with Gimmick.
What Does This Button Do?: In "Harvest Feast", then Gimmick takes the king for a spin in the Sub-Water Boat, he asks what the controls do as he tries them. He inadvertently sends them down an underwater tunnel.
What's Up, King Dude?: They treat commoners like Teddy, Grubby, and Gimmick as casual friends. Even so, everyone still addresses them as Your Majesty.

Old Beanly

Voiced by: Rick Jones

First appearance: "King Nogburt's Castle"

An Illiper and King Nogburt's royal messenger. He's very forgetful, so he sometimes has trouble getting his messages to the right party. Despite this, he always seems to come through in the end when making his runs.

Accidental Misnaming: He tends to forget Wooly's name and call him "the Hairy Whosit" or "the Fuzzy Whatchamacallit".
Bizarre Taste in Food: In "Harvest Feast", he remarks that Grubby's sandwiches "could use some roots" (Grubby was out of roots at the time). Most people hate Grubby's root sandwiches.
Forgetful Jones: His memory isn't very good, sometimes even forgetting what he was talking about mid-sentence. It makes it hard to get his messages delivered.
Honorary Uncle: He tells Wooly that he is practically Princess Aruzia's uncle ("Or is it cousin?").
Impeded Messenger: He sometimes has trouble getting his messages delivered on time because he doesn't always remember what they are or who they're for.
Improbable Piloting Skills: In "Air and Water Races", he pilots his biplane amazingly, doing stunts like flying upside down. Not bad for a guy who never flew before.
Named by the Adaptation: In the original book and tape that "Gimmick's Gizmos and Gadgets" is based on, the messenger who invites Gimmick to King Nogburt's Logic Fair is unnamed.
Old Retainer: He's an old man who claims to have served the royal family for countless years as their messenger.
Retired Badass: Not much is known about his backstory, but one or two things he says suggest that he used to be involved with the military.
Unstoppable Mailman: Despite his forgetfulness, he never stops his mission to deliver the right message to the right person, and he always comes through in the end.
Wake Up Fighting: When Grubby wakes him up suddenly in his first appearance, he thinks he's being attacked, so he jumps on Grubby's back and acts like he's in the cavalry.

Eunice

Voiced by: Abby Hagyard

First appearance: "King Nogburt's Castle"

The royal physician at King Nogburt's castle. She is a Perloon and an old acquaintance and Implied Love Interest of Gimmick.

Birds of a Feather: She and Gimmick are both intellectual Perloons who have the same stutter.
Brainy Brunette: She's a doctor with brown hair.
Canon Foreigner: Didn't appear in the original book and tape series.
Distaff Counterpart: To Gimmick. Both are intelligent Perloons in a science-related field who stutter and wear glasses.
Implied Love Interest: Every time she appears, it's hinted that she's Gimmick's love interest, though they don't say it out loud.
The Medic: The court physician who makes the antidote that cures King Nogburt's poisoning.
Nerd Glasses: Always wears square glasses.
New Old Flame: It's hinted that she and Gimmick have had a romantic relationship in the past, which they seem to be rekindling after their reunion.
Smart People Wear Glasses: She's a doctor who wears glasses.
Speech Impediment: She talks with the same stutter as Gimmick. It's implied to be common among Perloons.

Other Grundonians

Fobs

Voiced by: John Stocker (Frank Fob), Abby Hagyard (Faye Fob), various

First appearance: "The Treasure of Grundo"

The other most frequently seen race, mostly as sapient wildlife in the cartoon or as background singers on the cassette tapes. These small, furry creatures usually live near Rainbow Falls and get their colors from drinking its water. Recurring Fobs include Frank, Faye, and their three babies.

Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Frank wears glasses, and Faye wears a shawl.
Alphabetical Theme Naming: Fobs often have first names that start with F, including Fuzz, Frank, and Faye. Some random Fob is apparently named Fred.
Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: They're naturally gray, but thanks to Rainbow Falls water, they come in all colors of the rainbow.
Armless Biped: Fobs have two feet but no arms.
Cheerful Child: The baby Fobs are playful and friendly.
Chromatic Arrangement: Of the three main Fobs, Fuzz is green, Frank is blue, and Faye is red.
A Day in the Limelight: "The Faded Fobs" and "Uncle Grubby" focus on the Fobs.
Early-Installment Weirdness: In "Guests of the Grunges", a baby Fob looks like a miniature version of an adult. In later episodes, baby Fobs have undeveloped tails and antennae, shorter fur, and proportionately larger heads.
Eggshell Clothing: One of the babies briefly wears an eggshell as a hat.
Finishing Each Other's Sentences: Fobs are chatty creatures who often take over talking for each other.
Fun Personified: Fobs are very playful and energetic.
Greek Chorus: In the live-action special, their sole role is to notice what's going on and comment on it. They occasionally do it in the show too.
The Immune: Fobs can't get the Tweezles because Rainbow Falls water has a different effect on them.
Keeping the Handicap: Most Fobs hate when they lose their coloring without Rainbow Falls water, but "Autumn Adventure" reveals that some Fobs choose to stay a dull gray.
Mix-and-Match Critter: Fobs look kind of like a cross between a penguin and a guinea pig with an opossum's tail and a pair of antennae.
Motor Mouth: Fobs are very talkative. When one starts talking, they all join in and start talking over each other.
Prehensile Tail: Fobs don't have arms, but they can use their tails to grasp or carry things.
Ridiculously Cute Critter: Fobs are tiny, have colorful fur, stubby legs, and a long tail.
Species Surname: Frank and Faye Fob.
Straying Baby: In "Air and Water Races", the baby Fobs wander off to Leekee Lake for a swim. They get in trouble when they swim too far.
Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Faye has a lady's shawl and long eyelashes.
Troll: M.A.V.O.'s Hate Plague causes the Fobs to make rude remarks just to get a laugh.

The Wizard

Voiced by: Tony Pope (books and special), John Koensgen (series)

First appearance: "In the Fortress of the Wizard"

A strange man who calls himself a wizard but doesn't actually use magic, instead using a camera and projector to trick people into thinking he can see distant events. He's quite greedy and always looking for a way to make more money, but he's a much nicer person than his brother, the Sorcerer of Ying.

Ascended Extra: He and Louie appear more in the cartoon than in the books and have major roles in some episodes.
Ash Face: When using a flame or rocket to start a race in Wizardweek, this usually happens to him.
The Barnum: While not as unscrupulous as his brother, the Wizard of Grundo does fool his customers and charges a lot for his services. Though he does genuinely try to make his customers happy and satisfied.
Big Brother Bully: He's older than the Sorcerer, and the two hate each other and call each other insulting nicknames.
Brought to You by the Letter "S": The symbol on his hat is a stylized W for "Wizard".
Cool Old Guy: Wooly thinks he's this. While he only seems to care about money, he does act like one at times.
A Day in the Limelight: The Wizardweek arc focuses more on him when he throws a sports festival to bring in money.
The Door Slams You: In "To the Rescue", when Wooly knocks it on his door, he knocks it over right onto the Wizard and leaves him Squashed Flat.
Embarrassing Nickname: The Sorcerer calls him "Stinky". He has one for the Sorcerer too, "Bucky".
Establishing Character Moment: When Teddy says that "the poor princess" needs their help, he says "Poor princess? Forget it!" Gimmick clarifies that Aruzia is a rich but unfortunate princess, so the Wizard changes his mind and lets them in. And that's all you need to know about him.
"Eureka!" Moment: In "Wizardweek", after his destroyed amusement park left him broke and depressed, hearing the word "festival" gives him a brilliant idea: hold a sports festival to honor himself and charge admission fees.
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Everyone in Grundo calls him the Wizard. His name hasn't been revealed.
Everyone Has Standards: Sure, he's a greedy deceiver who only helps people if they pay, but unlike his evil brother, he never harms anyone, is fair to his customers, and the information he sells is true.
Expy: Of the Wizard of Oz. Both are fake wizards living in a fantasy country, using ordinary devices to pass themselves off as powerful wizards. There is even a Shout-Out to it when he says "That's a horoscope of a different color."
Facepalm: Does this when Louie misunderstands him over their radio in his first appearance.
Fake Wizardry: The Wizard does this as a schtick to attract customers. His "magic eye" is just a movie projector screen, but the technology is so rare and obscure that it's easy to fool people. Despite his fakery, all the information he provides is as true as he can make it.
Good Counterpart: Compared to his brother, he's a much nicer person despite being similarly greedy. While the Sorcerer of Ying makes money by exploiting people in his zoo, the Wizard genuinely tries to entertain and help people.
"I Am" Song: Wooly and Leota sing a song all about who he is and what he does in "To the Rescue".
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's greedy and only seems to care about money, but he does have morals that his brother lacks. During Teddy's Disney Death, he mourns Teddy, and in the penultimate episode, he officiates L.B. and Buffy's wedding.
Knowledge Broker: His main source of income is providing information for a fee. While he uses deceit to pass it off as magic, at least the information is as accurate as he's able to give.
Ladies and Germs: Says "Ladies and gentlemonsters" when speaking to the monsters of Ying.
Only in It for the Money: He's not particular about who he helps if he gets paid.
Phony Psychic: The Wizard is an unusual subversion. While he's something of a con artist, the information he presents to his customers is true. He claims the images he shows are the results of his magic, but they're just footage filmed by Louie.
Pointy Ears: His ears are pointy, a feature that most Perloons seem to lack.
Quarreling Song: In "Wizardland", he and his brother sing a song that is basically a debate about who's got the better tourist attraction.
Reasonable Authority Figure: While he only works for money, he's a fair judge or umpire when he oversees sporting events.
Recoiled Across the Room: He fires a cannon to start the Great Grundo Ground Race and gets recoiled backwards.
Robe and Wizard Hat: Always wears a blue robe and pointed blue hat with white suns, moons, and stars all over.
Sibling Rivalry: He and the Sorcerer take this to the next level. The Wizard opens a theme park called Wizardland right across the way from the Sorcerer's own attraction the Ying Zoo, and the two constantly compete for customers.
Slogan-Yelling Megaphone Guy: He uses a megaphone to announce the attractions at Wizardland to draw his brother's customers away.
Speech Impediment: He is a Perloon, but instead of a stutter like Gimmick and Eunice, he talks with a slight lisp.
Squashed Flat: In "Wizardland", when he declares his new theme park open for business, the customers trample all over him and leave him flat. He's back to normal in his next scene.
Sweet Tooth: He admits that he has one in "Tweeg the Vegetable" when he tries some donuts from L.B.
Trash Talk: He and the Sorcerer enjoy doing this to each other. And they use megaphones to do it.
Wizard Beard: He has a white beard like a lot of wizards, although shorter than most.
Wizard Classic: While he's not a real wizard, he looks and acts the part as much as he can. He wears a robe, pointed hat, and white beard and lives in a fortress in the wilderness.

Karen

Voiced by: Michelle Baron (books), Holly Larocque (series)

First appearance: "Grubby's Romance"

A caterpillar who had a short-lived romance with Grubby while he was shrunk by the Reducing Machine. After she turned into a butterfly and he got his size back, they had to say goodbye but promised never to forget each other.

But Now I Must Go: After the Reducing Machine restores Teddy, Grubby, and Gimmick's heights, she bids a tearful farewell to Grubby.
Dance of Romance: She has a romantic dance with Grubby at the Spring Dance.
Flight: After she turns into a butterfly, she can fly.
Four-Legged Insect: As a butterfly, she has two arms and two legs.
Girl of the Week: She's a romantic interest for Grubby but only in "Grubby's Romance".
Grand Staircase Entrance: Her first scene has her coming down the stairs, showing off her beauty and catching Grubby's eye.
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's blonde and very nice.
Humanoid Female Animal: As a caterpillar, she looks a bit like a woman in a long, trailing fur coat. As a butterfly, she looks almost like a human with wings.
Interspecies Romance: Briefly has a fling with Grubby, an Octopede. It doesn't end happily because he becomes big again and she joins the migration after turning into a butterfly.
Love at First Sight: She and Grubby fall for each other when they first meet.
Non-Mammalian Hair: Despite being an insect, Karen sports blonde hair.
Non-Mammal Mammaries: Despite being an insect, Karen sports a massive bust.
Nice Girl: She's very sweet and pleasant.
Old Fashioned Row Boat Date: Grubby imagines him and Karen doing this while singing "Looking Back at Me".
One-Shot Character: She only appears in "Grubby's Romance".
Pink Means Feminine: Her fuzz body is pink. When she grows wings, they're part pink too.
Pretty Butterflies: She's already beautiful as a caterpillar, only to become even more beautiful as a butterfly. Her beauty is remarked on one more than once.
Pretty in Mink: Her fuzzy body looks like a long, trailing fur coat as a caterpillar or a fur bodysuit as butterfly.
Sexy Silhouette: She first appears when Grubby sees her silhouette in front of a bright light.

Seymour

Voiced by: Rick Jones

First appearance: "The Wooly What's-It"

An Elf who is a student in Leota's class. He uses a wheelchair to get around. He helps Wooly get settled into the class.

Badass Driver: He drives a spring-powered windup car in the Great Grundo Ground Race and gets him and Leota through some near-misses.
Handicapped Badass: When he's not sitting in his wheelchair, he's an amazing racing car driver.
Kid Sidekick: To Leota in the Great Grundo Ground Race.
Lilliputians: As an Elf, he's very tiny and can fit in the palm of your hand.
Nice Guy: He's the first of Leota's students to help and support Wooly when Wooly struggles as a new student.
Our Elves Are Different: In this series, Elves are basically Woodsprites without wings: tiny humanoids with antennae and pointy ears.
Pointy Ears: Being an Elf, his ears are pointy.

Katie

Voiced by: n/a

First appearance: "Sign of a Friend"

Another student of Leota's. Katie is a deaf Woodsprite who can't talk, so she communicates in sign language.

Bring Help Back: In "Grundo Graduation", when the Elf and Woodsprite schoolhouse is on fire, Katie flies to the Trio to get their help.
Cute Mute: Being a tiny, fairy-winged girl, she's very cute, and she can't speak.
Flight: As a Woodsprite, she has wings.
Handicapped Badass: She's deaf, but she manages to help save the day during a fire.
Hand Signals: She communicates in sign language.
Inspirationally Disadvantaged: Her character was created to teach An Aesop that deaf and mute people can communicate without using their voices. She's never patronized for it, though.
Nice Girl: She's very nice to her friends and willing to do anything to save them from a fire.
The Nose Knows: In "Elves and Woodsprites", her nose detects fire in the schoolhouse well before anyone else notices it.
Our Fairies Are Different: Woodsprites are the standard tiny humanoid with butterfly wings variety. They also have a pair of antennae, and apparently, they share a common ancestor with modern Elves.
Pointy Ears: Like many Woodsprites, her ears are pointy.
The Speechless: Because she is deaf, she can only communicate by sign language.

Amanda

Voiced by: Michelle Baron (books), Abby Hagyard (series)

First appearance: "One More Spot"

A ladybug who met the Trio when she accidentally took their picnic food. She befriended them and took them to the Bug Fair. Her goal is to earn a new spot, which a ladybug can only do by doing some really good deed.

Adaptation Dye-Job: Black hair in the books, brownish-blonde in the cartoon.
Big Damn Heroes: In "Grundo Graduation", she and her team of ladybugs show up and turn into firefighting water bombers to save the Elf and Woodsprite village.
Determinator: She is determined to come up with some way to earn a new spot.
Flight: Being a ladybug, she can fly. It comes in handy when trying to put out a fire.
Four-Legged Insect: She's got two arms and two legs.
The Leader: Of her team of ladybugs.
My God, What Have I Done?: She feels embarrassed that she almost stole the Trio's picnic food. She thought it was all just growing where she found it.
Nice Girl: Doing good deeds is apparently what ladybugs are all about. Amanda gives up her last chance to win a new spot to spend the day showing her friends a good time at the Bug Fair.
Non-Mammalian Hair: A ladybug with hair.
Red Is Heroic: She's a red ladybug who shows up to heroically help fight a fire with her team.
Sergeant Rock: She leads her girls military-style like a drill sergeant or a squadron leader.
Somewhere, an Entomologist Is Crying: Apart from her four limbs, it is stated that ladybugs get a new spot if they've performed a very good deed during the year. Real ladybugs don't change their number of spots.
Strong Ants: She and her team aren't ants, but they fill the same role of ants carrying off picnic food.
This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself: The rule of getting a new spot means that a ladybug must do her own good deed herself.
Underdogs Never Lose: She laments that she hasn't managed to do a good enough deed all year to get a new spot. But at the Bug Fair, the announcer says that she made three new friends and gave up her last chance at a new spot to make sure they were happy, which is the best good deed anyone can do. So instead of one new spot, she's won three!
Your Size May Vary: Sometimes she's the same size as Leota, sometimes she's small even compared to her.

Anythings

Voiced by: Robert Bockstael (This), Holly Larocque (That), John Stocker (The Other), various

First appearance: "The Mushroom Forest"

A group of shy, cute, furry creatures who live in the Mushroom Forest. They can turn into anything. Originally called Nothings, Teddy convinced them to change their name to Anythings. Their names are three main ones are named This, That, and The Other, while the rest are Some, Another, and One More.

Adaptation Dye-Job: In the books, This is yellow, That is blue, and The Other is pink. In the series, they are pink, brown, and blue respectively.
Animate Inanimate Object: When they shapeshift, they can be walking, talking mushrooms, rocks, barrels, and other things with faces.
Body Double: To help Grubby and Gimmick escape from M.A.V.O., they shapeshift into them and take their place while they escape.
Chekhov's Skill: Their shapeshifting ability lets them infiltrate M.A.V.O. and rescue Grubby and Gimmick.
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: They're the focus of an entire five-episode arc but are never referenced again for the rest of the series.
Color-Coded Characters: While they can take any shape, they often favor forms with their default colors:
- This: Pink with purple trim.
- That: Brown with green trim.
- The Other: Blue with orange trim.
- Some: Green with yellow trim
- Another: Gray with yellow and green trim.
- One More: Purple with tan trim.
Composite Character: In the book illustrations, it seems like more than a dozen Anythings are accidentally taken by the Grunges. The cartoon reduces it to three.
Fantastic Naming Convention: They are named after demonstrative or indefinite pronouns (This, That, The Other, Some, Another, One More), which confuses the Trio at first.
Gender Bender: They can shapeshift into living beings of the opposite sex. They first show this when they turn into Grunges in "Captured", and they don't all become Grunges of the same sex. It's not known how far the gender bender goes, though.
Guest-Star Party Member: In "Captured", "To the Rescue" and "Escape From M.A.V.O", they become guest members of the heroes' group, though they disappear afterwards.
Human Ladder: They do this to ring M.A.V.O.'s doorbell because they're too short to reach it.
The Infiltration: In "Escape From M.A.V.O", by turning into inanimate objects, they sneak through M.A.V.O. headquarters and reach Grubby and Gimmick in the dungeon.
Kiss of Distraction: That plants an unexpected kiss on Grubby's lips to distract him while she runs and hides. Apart from L.B. and Buffy, it's the only kiss on the lips in the show.
The Leader: This. When they infiltrate M.A.V.O., he takes charge and tells them what to do.
Living Prop: The new Anythings introduced in "Anything in the Soup". After that episode, all they really do is double the size of the group.
Meaningful Rename: According to This, they were originally called Nothings because they had no shape of their own. Teddy convinces them to change their name to Anythings because they can change into anything. Their new name makes them more confident.
Named by the Adaptation: The new Anythings from their second appearance have no names in the book. Here, they're named Some, Another, and One More.
Porky Pig Pronunciation: At first, they speak with a nervous stutter. This slowly goes away as they make friends with the Trio and learn not to be so scared anymore.
Ridiculously Cute Critter: They're all small, furry, colorful, and look like plush toys from a fantasy world.
Shapeshifter Default Form: Their true form is colorful furry creatures.
Shrinking Violet: At first, they're very shy, live in the Mushroom Forest where it's always dark, and use their abilities to hide from the world. The Trio teaches them to be brave.
The Smurfette Principle: That is the only known female Anything.
Spell My Name with a "The": The Other. "The" is part of his given name, so he's addressed as "The Other" when spoken to directly.
Took a Level in Badass: They start out very timid but become brave and heroic during in their story arc.
Totem Pole Trench: They do a really weird spin on this. In a shapeshifting version, they sometimes stand on each other's shoulders, and each shapeshifts into part of a person.
Transflormation: Sometimes, they turn into plants. One of the reasons they live in the Mushroom Forest is that mushrooms are easy to imitate (fungi aren't plants, but it counts for the purpose of the trope).
Voluntary Shapeshifting: They can turn into anything or change back at will. The shapeshifting process looks like it was inspired by the Popples.

Wogglies

Voiced by: Various

First appearance: "Wooly and the Giant Snowzos"

Small, rabbit-like creatures that live in Boggley Woods. They always talk in rhyme.

Adaptation Dye-Job: In the books, Wogglies are white with brown or gray spots. In the cartoon, they're more colorful.
Alliterative Name: Wiggs Woggley.
Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: In the cartoon, Gramps is blue and yellow, and Wiggs is purple and orange.
Bunnies for Cuteness: Woggleys are very cute, rabbit-like creatures.
Demoted to Extra: In the books, they are the focus of a story, with Gramps and Wiggs being recurring characters. In the cartoon, they're minor one-shot characters.
The Hyena: On the cassette tapes, the Wogglies are always giggling in the background.
Remember the New Guy?: Because "Lost in Boggley Woods" wasn't adapted into an episode but "Wooly and the Giant Snowzos" was, they appear without an introduction as if everyone already knew them.
Rhymes on a Dime: The Woggleys always talk in rhyme.
Ridiculously Cute Critter: They're rabbit-like creatures who love to bounce, laugh, and make rhymes.
Species Surname: Gramps Woggley and Wiggs Woggley.
Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: "It was big. It was furry. And we ran away in a...in a...real fast."
Super-Senses: According to the books, their big ears let them hear things from very far away.
Trademark Favorite Food: In the books, their favorite food is Boggleberries from the Boggleberry Tree.
Verbal Ticked: When Gramps gets scared enough, he can't rhyme.

Maple and Zeb

Voiced by: Rick Jones (Maple), Robert Bockstael (Zeb)

First appearance: "Teddy's Quest"

An elderly couple of Elves who live alone in Mizzly Meadow with their pet owl Owler. Maple is a kind woman, while Zeb is a grump who likes to keep to himself.

Big Damn Heroes: While Teddy is struggling in a blizzard near their house, Maple and Zeb show up on their owl and lead him to their house.
Canon Foreigner: Didn't appear in the original book and tape series.
Food as Bribe: Maple convinces Zeb to rescue Teddy from the blizzard with his favorite dessert, acorn pie, claiming that she's too worried about Teddy to cook.
Granny Classic: Maple is a kindly old woman who wears an old-fashioned apron and bonnet, knits in her spare time, and is a great cook.
Grumpy Old Man: Zeb likes living far from the Elf Village where no one can bother him, and when strangers show up, all he does is grumble.
Horse of a Different Color: They ride on their pet blue owl Owler.
Housewife: Maple cooks and keeps house.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Zeb may be a Grumpy Old Man who wants to be left alone, but he does help rescue Teddy, lets him and L.B. spend the night, and makes them snowshoes so they can continue their journeys.
Lilliputians: Elves in Grundo resemble humans that can fit in the palm of your hand.
Needlework Is for Old People: The elderly Maple knits in her spare time.
Nice Girl: Maple is happy to help strangers and let them spend the night.
Opposites Attract: The kind and welcoming Maple with the grumpy isolationist Zeb.
Our Elves Are Different: They look like tiny humans with pointy ears.
Pointy Ears: Naturally, being elves, they have this.
Speaks Fluent Animal: Zeb can speak Owl. He teaches a little to Teddy so Teddy can thank Owler himself.
Trademark Favorite Food: Zeb loves his acorn pie.
True Craftsman: Zeb is implied to be one for snowshoe-making. He knows his craft well and makes perfectly functional snowshoes for Teddy and L.B. in one night's work despite having only made elf-sized ones before.
You Are a Credit to Your Race: Zeb admits that Teddy and the Hermit are kind of friendly for big folks.

Non-Grundonians

Ilana Ruxpin

Voiced by: Michelle Baron (books and series, uncredited), B. J. Ward (special)

First appearance: "The Treasure of Grundo" (special), "The Day Teddy Met Grubby" (series)

Teddy's caring mother. She raised Teddy by herself at their cottage in Rillonia.

Absurdly Elderly Mother: Teddy's a teenager, while Ilana looks a bit old for his mother. She has gray hair in a bun and wears glasses. She looked much younger when Teddy was a baby, so fifteen years seems to have aged her a lot.
Beary Friendly: Just like most Illiops, she is very nice.
Big Damn Reunion: In "The Journey Home", her son returns after being away for a year and surprises her with her long-lost husband. The three spend their time reconnecting as a family.
Caring Gardener: After her husband vanished, she lived a simple life, growing vegetables in her garden. She taught Teddy everything he knows about it.
Good Parents: She loves her son and raised her very well after her husband vanished.
Happily Married: She and her husband were this before they disappeared.
Named by the Adaptation: She does appear in the book and tape "The Day Teddy Met Grubby" without a name. She gets her name from the cartoon.
Nice Girl: When she discovers Grubby has been the one sneaking into the garden at night, she doesn't hold it against him, instead inviting him for breakfast.
Prim and Proper Bun: At some point before Teddy met Grubby, she began wearing her hair in a bun.

Zelza and Xena

Voiced by: Heather Edson (both)

First appearance: "Octopede Sailors"

An Octopede mother and daughter. Captain Zelza commands an Octopede ship. After she and her crew rescued Grubby from the sea years ago, he and Xena became close.

Affectionate Nickname: Zelza affectionately calls Gimmick "Captain Gimmick". He claims it's just "Gimmick", but Zelza convinces him that he deserves the title.
The Bus Came Back: After "The Big Escape", the Octopede sailors disappear for a few story arcs but return for the last one.
Canon Foreigner: Didn't appear in the original book and tape series.
The Captain: Zelza is the captain of her boat.
Childhood Friend Romance: After Grubby and Xena meet again as teenagers, they get a crush on each other.
Damsel in Distress: Zelza and Xena, along with the rest of their crew, end up getting captured by the Sorcerer's forces and locked in the Ying Zoo.
Good News, Bad News: Zelza says this in "Tweeg the Vegetable" after they run aground. The bad news is that there's a big hole in the hull and the bilge pump is broken. The good news? That's as bad as the bad news gets.
Like Mother, Like Daughter: Xena takes after her mother in her abilities as a sailor.
Living Museum Exhibit: When they run around in Ying, the Sorcerer's forces capture them and turn them into a Ying Zoo exhibit called the Amazing Octopedes.
Makes Us Even: In their first appearance, when Grubby helps their ship when they're in trouble during a storm, Zelza calls it "a debt repaid", since they saved him as a child.
Mama Bear: Zelza won't let any harm come to a young Octopede in trouble.
The Navigator: According to Zelza, this is Xena's role on the ship.
Odd Friendship: Zelza strikes up a friendship with eccentric, absent-minded scientist Gimmick. The two become chummy, and she gives him an Affectionate Nickname.
Second Love: Xena is this to Grubby. His fling with Karen didn't end well, but a few months later, when he meets Xena, he falls in love again.
She Is All Grown Up: Grubby and Xena knew each other as kids. Grubby remarks how pretty she's gotten over the years.
Ship Tease: Xena and Grubby have an ongoing mutual crush that pops up every time they meet.
Twice Shy: Grubby and Xena are both are too shy to admit their feelings.

Grubby's Family

Voiced by: Will Ryan (Grubby's father), Michelle Baron (Grubby's mother, uncredited)

First appearance: "Octopede Sailors"

Grubby's parents and five younger siblings. After Zelza and her crew rescued Grubby, they met up in Zelza's village in Rillonia and became some of the few Octopedes living there.

Baby Talk: Grubby's baby sister Molly talks in babbles.
Canon Foreigner: Didn't appear in the original book and tape series.
The Cutie: Baby Molly is a very cute baby.
Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe: Grubby's father is sometimes seen clutching a smoking pipe, which goes with all he wears, a distinguished collar and tie.
Gender-Equal Ensemble: In the family, there are four males (Grubby, his father, and his two brothers) and three females (Grubby's mother and three sisters).
Good Parents: Grubby's parents are very loving to their kids.
Happily Married: Grubby's parents seem happy together.
Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Octopedes, if they wear anything at all, often wear some clothing over their upper bodies.
It Runs in the Family: Octopedes are natural sailors, and Grubby comes from a long line of them. A flashback in "Octopede Sailors" reveals that his father is a skilled sailor in his own right.
Massive Numbered Siblings: Grubby has three younger sisters and two younger brothers.
No Name Given: Two of Grubby's sisters are Liza and Molly. The rest of his family are unnamed.
Nuclear Family: A rather large one consisting of a father, mother, and six kids.
Parents in Distress: A flashback reveals that when Grubby was a kid, his father got thrown overboard their boat during a storm. Grubby managed to pull him back on.
Remember the New Guy?: In their first appearance, only Grubby's parents and brown-haired sister Liza appear. In "On the Beaches", there are four more kids. It's not known when they were born, but except for Molly, they don't look too much younger than Grubby.

Digger

Voiced by: Terrence Scammell

First appearance: "The Journey Home"

An Illiop and childhood friend of Teddy's. He is the first person the Trio meets when they return to Rillonia with Teddy's found father.

Beary Friendly: He's just as nice as all other Illiops.
Canon Foreigner: Didn't appear in the original book and tape series.
Childhood Friends: He's an old friend of Teddy's. Their friendship must have been a while back because he doesn't know Grubby at first.
The Generic Guy: He doesn't get fleshed out much, since he only appears in two episodes.
Mr. Exposition: When the Trio and Burl return to Rillonia, he tells them that the village is having a Burl Ruxpin Day in honor of Teddy's father even though the villagers don't know that Burl is back yet.
Starstruck Speechless: He has trouble speaking when he's thrilled to meet Teddy's legendary father Burl.

Villains

Tweeg and L.B.

In General

The original main villains of the series. Tweeg is a half-Grunge, half-Troll who dreams of being the greatest villain in Grundo, while L.B. is his begrudging Bounder henchman. They appear in more episodes than any other characters except the Trio.

Actually, That's My Assistant: While disguised as painters in the castle, Queen Lillibet calls Tweeg L.B.'s assistant instead of the other way around because she thinks L.B. is doing a better job.
Adaptational Early Appearance: They are introduced in the fourth book and tape Tweeg and the Bounders. In the animated series, they are there from the start.
Adults Dressed as Children: In "The Lemonade Stand", they disguise themselves as two little boys selling lemonade, dressing in old-fashioned sailor boy outfits. Tweeg is way taller than the Trio, but everyone is fooled anyway.
All Take and No Give: Tweeg takes and L.B. gives. Tweeg makes L.B. do all the hard work and heavy lifting around the tower and puts off paying him as much as possible, yet L.B. never resigns.
Ambiguous Syntax: When Tweeg thinks he's sick he says to L.B., "Call me a doctor!" "Okay, Twip. You're a doctor."
Artsy Beret: They wear berets as part of their disguise as painters to sneak into King Nogburt's castle.
Ascended Extra: They only appear in a few of the books, but they appear in all but a few episodes of the series. Tweeg's desire to join M.A.V.O. is just mentioned in the books to give him a motive, but in this series, it's an ongoing story arc. L.B. also has character development, and his relationship Buffy is a subplot.
Ash Face: This tends to happen to them, but mostly to Tweeg, when the cannon doesn't fire properly.
Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: They don't often show it, but L.B. goes for help when Tweeg gets the Tweezles, goes to Ying to find him and bring him home, and later saves him from Quellor's henchmen when they tie him up. They also give each other holiday gifts, and Tweeg also gives L.B. a wedding present when L.B. marries Buffy.
Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: This is how they see things. It's why Tweeg dreams of being a great villain and why L.B. sweet-talks his girlfriend with disgusting metaphors.
Big Guy, Little Guy: Tweeg, a Troll/Grunge hybrid, is a few times taller than L.B., a Bounder.
Blown Across the Room: When Tweeg's cannon fails to fire a cannonball, they (but mostly Tweeg) are prone to getting blasted backwards
Boxed Crook: After Tweeg and L.B. fail Quellor, they're made prisoners, but they're the only ones at M.A.V.O. who have dealt with Teddy, so when Quellor gives them a chance to make up for their mistakes, they jump at the chance. Unfortunately, they Teddy and don't recover the Crystals, so it's back to scrubbing floors for them.
Brains and Brawn: Tweeg describes their relationship this way in "Teddy and the Mudblups". Tweeg does the planning (badly), L.B. does the pulling (begrudgingly).
Bumbling Henchmen Duo: Once they begin working for Quellor, they become this. They were always a bumbling duo, but before, one was the other's henchman.
Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them: They constantly argue and annoy each other, but both have admitted that it's not the same when the other is not around.
Chariot Pulled by Cats: L.B., a bounder, usually pulls Tweeg in his wagon.
Cheaters Never Prosper: No matter how many times they lie and cheat, they never seem to come out on top. It's occasionally subverted. In "Air and Water Races", Tweeg comes up with an idea to sabotage the competition by sewing them into their sleeping bags, allowing his team to get first, second, and third place in the synchronized swimming contest.
Circling Birdies: The "seeing stars" variant tends to happen to Tweeg when he gets knocked on the head. L.B. gets it too on occasion.
A Day in the Limelight: "Tweeg's Mom" mostly focuses on them, while the Trio appear very little in the episode.
Dressed to Plunder: In "Captured", they briefly get to join the M.A.V.O. pirates dressed in pirate clothes.
Expy: Tweeg and L.B. are expies of Dick Dastardly and Muttley. L.B. occasionally laughs like Muttley, and Tweeg not only has his Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat moments but he once said "Drat, drat, and double drat".
Go-Karting with Bowser: In "Win One for the Twipper" and the Wizardweek arc, they compete against the Trio in sporting events.
Human Snowball: In "Wooly and the Giant Snowzos", L.B. rolls down a hill in a big snowball, picking up Tweeg along the way.
I Can't Hear You: Near the end of "Double Grubby", the blast from Tweeg's cannon is so loud that it leaves them both saying, "Speak up! I can't hear you!" to each other at the same time.
Institutional Apparel: While they're prisoners of M.A.V.O. during the Anythings arc, they wear black-and-white striped outfits.
Leitmotif: A sinister tune will often play when the camera points to or pulls into their tower.
Karma Houdini: In many episodes, they spend their time causing trouble and chaos without getting punished. Subverted mid-series when they disappoint Quellor one time too many and get clapped in irons.
Literal Ass-Kicking: Tweeg kicks L.B. away in the rear end in "Musical Oppressors" when he wants him to go find the Black Box.
MacGuffin Blindness: In "Escape from the Treacherous Mountains"¸ they dismiss the Crystals that the Trio found as worthless pieces of glass, thinking that the real treasure is the room full of gold that they left behind. Double-subverted in "Grubby's Romance". Once they take a closer look at the Crystals, they think that they might be valuable...because they look like diamonds.
Master of Disguise: Disguises seem to be the one thing they're always good at. From old ladies to little boys to smooth-talking businessmen, their ability to fool people knows no bounds.
Oh, Crap!: They get this reaction when something goes wrong. For example, when they follow the Trio into a cave in the Great Desert, they realize they're in trouble when they see Mudblups coming.
Paper-Thin Disguise: Tweeg, being a unique hybrid, has a very distinct appearance, but people hardly ever see through his disguises unless he takes them off. But L.B. takes the cake. All he has to do is put on a hat and people are fooled.
Pet the Dog: Both are known to do acts that imply that they don't really hate each other. At the winter holiday season, for example, they give each other presents, although they agree to go back to being bad guys the next day.
Plucky Comic Relief: Tweeg's failed schemes and L.B.'s snark provide a lot of humor in the show. Both serve as each other's Butt-Monkey, and they're the focus of comedic subplots of several episodes.
Punishment Detail: When Tweeg and L.B. are made prisoners of M.A.V.O., they're forced to spend their time washing floors and doing laundry.
Regular Character: In the animated series, they are only absent from a handful of the sixty-five episodes.
Snark-to-Snark Combat: They are both each other's favorite target for derogatory remarks.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: They constantly insult and annoy each other, making you wonder why they put up with the situation for so long.
Unexpected Successor: Both briefly serve as the Supreme Oppressor of M.A.V.O., but neither of them sees it coming. The rules say that the Supreme Oppressor must always possess the Black Box, so just getting a hold of it puts them into the position.
Villain Decay: While they were never that threatening to begin with, their failed attempts at evil deeds began to wear thin by the middle of the series. Around this time, the writers put more focus on Quellor and the rest of M.A.V.O., who were genuinely dangerous villains.
Vitriolic Best Buds: Emphasis on the vitriolic part. Despite their bickering, they stick together.
Working on the Chain Gang: During their time as M.A.V.O. prisoners, they get chained together at the ankles and are forced to clean M.A.V.O. Headquarters.
You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: Any time L.B. gets Tweeg's name right, it means something. He says it to Tweeg's face twice in the series: once when Tweeg thinks he's seriously sick, and once with the rest of the Bounders as holiday gift. Tweeg is very touched by the latter.

Jack W. Tweeg

Voiced by: Will Ryan (books and special), John Koensgen (series)

First appearance: "The Treasure of Grundo"

Tweeg was the Trio's first antagonist. He wants more than anything to be accepted into the Monsters and Villains Organization, but he's just not evil enough. He lives in a tall tower in Gimmick's valley and is constantly trying to run Gimmick out of the valley, so he can claim it all for himself. He is constantly trying to perfect a formula for turning buttermilk into gold.

Accidental Aiming Skills: The first time his cannon hits something, he was aiming for Gimmick's house as usual, but instead he hits Mrs. Maggotheart's collection wagon. The other time, he's trying to take the Airship out of the final Wizardweek race, but he ends up hitting his mother's vehicle.
Agony of the Feet: It's a Running Gag. He's had boxes, cannonballs, and other things land on his foot in "The Faded Fobs", "Sign of a Friend", "The Crystal Book," In "The Black Box", and "A Race to the Finish".
Ain't Too Proud to Beg: On several occasions, he's willing to get down on the floor and beg Quellor or his mother to have mercy.
Amnesiacs are Innocent: When Tweeg zaps himself by the Black Box, he doesn't act villainous anymore.
Amusing Injuries: Tweeg falls victim to a lot of these. Sometimes he's Hoist by His Own Petard, sometimes L.B. puts it on him, and sometimes things just happen.
Amusingly Awful Aim: Tweeg regularly bombards Newton Gimmick's house with a cannon from his tower. However, Tweeg's aim is so bad that there is a neat, clean ring of cannonballs all around Newton's house.
Anything but That!: The worst possible fate imaginable to him is being locked in a room with the M.A.V.O. dues collector.
Bait-and-Switch Comment: He does this twice in "The Great Grundo Ground Race". Before the race starts, he says, "I've never challenged Mummy before. I'm afraid it might upset her." [...] "Upset her when I leave her sucking dust at the finish line!" Later, when L.B. helps him escape the capture of Quellor's henchmen, he says, "I never thought I'd thank you for anything, L.B." [...] "So I won't."
Balcony Escape: He climbs out his window down his balcony at one point, so he won't have to face Mrs. Maggotheart when she comes over. The rope breaks.
Bald of Evil: He's a villain who's bald. It's not clear why. Both his parents have a head full of hair, yet a cross between their races doesn't.
Bare-Handed Puppetry: In "Elves and Woodsprites", he dresses his hand as an Elf named Tweegle and draws on a face so he can cause trouble in the Elf and Woodsprite Village.
Because I Said So: His usual response when L.B. asks why he has to do a certain task.
Berserk Button: Cannot stand it when people mess up his name. Of course, L.B. loves to deliberately do this just for kicks.
Betrayal by Offspring: He sells his own mother out to the Mudblup King so he and L.B. can escape from prison.
Beware the Silly Ones: Despite his status as an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain, Tweeg has twice nearly managed to start a war; once between the formerly friendly Elves and Woodsprites, and again between M.A.V.O. and the Gutangs. His actions were only stopped at the last minute both times.
Big Bad Ensemble: Part of one along with Quellor, the Mudblup King, the Sorcerer, and the Gutangs. All are independent villains of each other.
Big Damn Reunion: In "Father's Day", he reunites with his father when his father comes to meet him.
Blank Slate: After he's had his memory erased by the Black Box, he is left with no thoughts and no personality. When Gimmick tries to use the Crystal Stethoscope on him, it doesn't register any personality traits at all.
Blessed with Suck: Being a cross between a Troll and a Grunge has its problems. He has his mother's evil morals but his father's skills, so he can't be both happy and successful.
Blowing a Raspberry: In the Wizardweek ground race, after the Elves and Woodsprites fix his sabotage, he blows them one in frustration.
Bouncer: During L.B.'s reign as Supreme Oppressor, he becomes the new gatekeeper and is forced to deal with the riffraff of monsters that try to come in.
Bound and Gagged:
- In "Uncle Grubby", when he's put on trial at M.A.V.O., he's chained up in court. He's then gagged so he can't defend himself because no M.A.V.O. trial is a fair one.
- In "Winter Adventure", Quellor's henchmen come to his tower and tie him up so they can get his gold formula. They skip the gag, though, because then he can't tell them what they want him to know.
Brought to You by the Letter "S": He often monograms his things with a big T for Tweeg.
Buffy Speak: When he has some catapults built for war with the Gutangs, he calls them "springy things". When L.B. clarifies that they're called catapults, Tweeg thinks he's thinking of caterpillars.
Captivity Harmonica: Plays one after being thrown in the M.A.V.O. dungeon. After being fed up with being locked up, he throws it in frustration.
Card-Carrying Villain: Or card-carrying villain wannabe. In Grundo, villains usually refer to themselves as villains, including Tweeg.
Catch Your Death of Cold: After being caught in a sudden downpour in his burned-down house, his next scene has him sneezing under a blanket with his feet in hot water.
The Chew Toy: He never seems to stop being a source of comedic pain.
Classy Cane: In some of his disguises, he dresses as a gentleman holding an old-fashioned cane.
Clothing Damage: Notable for how it's accomplished. After accidentally blasting himself with the black box, the now mindless Tweeg wanders off from the Hard to Find City in a ditzy daze. Next time we see him, the collar of his robe is missing, the sleeves are in tatters, and his ankles are exposed due to the damage being out in the wild has done.
Compliment Backfire: Eleanor sets him up to fall for this. When she accuses him of calling her a liar, he denies that, but then, she gets offended by the notion that she's not a liar.
Con Man: Swindling and cheating are explicitly in the M.A.V.O. list of required bad deeds. He does manage to do this in a couple of episodes, although he gets his comeuppance.
Conspiracy Theorist: He frequently suspects that the good guys are conspiring against him, usually to steal his recipe for making gold out of buttermilk.
Cool Crown: In a couple of Imagine Spots, he fantasizes about wearing a royal crown. He actually gets one when he becomes the Supreme Oppressor of M.A.V.O. for a while.
Cranial Eruption: In "Thin Ice", when he opens the door while Mrs. Maggotheart is hammering a poster to it, she accidentally bops him on the head and gives him one.
Creepy Crossdresser: He's a Master of Disguise, and a few of his disguises involve him dressing as a woman.
Crippling the Competition: During a Grungeball game, when his team is losing bigtime, he tricks the Grunges into eating plants that give them awful stomachaches, and in Wizardweek, the only reason his team wins one event is he makes sure the other players can't get out of bed.
Cut Lex Luthor a Check: His alleged gold recipe only ever comes out with buttermilk donuts. L.B. eventually figures out that he and the Bounders could make money if they started selling the donuts and only abandon the idea when L.B. thinks that the formula has worked. But even if selling donuts occurred to Tweeg, he probably wouldn't do it. Running an honest business wouldn't score any points with M.A.V.O.
Dastardly Whiplash: Tweeg is known to wear a black outfit and moustache in his schemes, and is an Expy of Dick Dastardly.
Determinator: You've got to give him credit. He sure doesn't give up his dream.
Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: After crossing a bridge during a race, Tweeg stopped to destroy it and even waited to see how the Wooly What's-It would cross it. And he wasn't even on the lead.
Didn't Think This Through: He does this all the time.
Disappeared Dad: Well, sort of; Tweeg's father Elroy didn't so much "disappear" as he got divorced from (kicked out by) Tweeg's mother, Eleanor, who retained custody of their son. Tweeg knew he was still alive, but never met up with him until episode 61, "Father's Day"; they do get on very well, but, ultimately, Tweeg has too much of his mother in him and he ultimately leaves his dad in shame.
Disguised in Drag: Sometimes he disguises himself as a woman, including his first disguise ever in "In the Fortress of the Wizard".
Disproportionate Retribution: He decides to go to war against the Gutangs when their ambassador says that they can't afford the new subscription rate of True Villainy.
The Door Slams You: Another Running Gag. Eleanor did it in "Tweeg's Mom" and "M.A.V.O. Costume Ball", and Grubby in "Teddy and the Mudblups",
Do Wrong, Right: He pulls this on himself, knowing getting into M.A.V.O. means successfully filling a list of bad deeds. L.B. says that since he always fails at that, maybe he could try doing right wrong!
Dramatic Drop: In Wizardweek, while trying to make a magic potion, L.B. catches him by surprise and makes him drop and break the beaker.
Drunk with Power: After he becomes the Supreme Oppressor, he goes so mad with power that he actually declares war on the Gutangs. This time, he goes so far that L.B. betrays him and helps Quellor get back into power.
Dude, Where's My Respect?: Tweeg desperately wants to be taken seriously as a villain, but nobody gives him even the slightest credit. Even his own minions mock him. To his face.
Embarrassing First Name: To Tweeg, anyway; his full name is actually Jack W. Tweeg. We never do find out what the "W" stands for, so it is possible he also has an Embarrassing Middle Name.
Embarrassingly Painful Sunburn: While lying on the beach in one episode, he ignores his father's advice to put on some lotion and gets a terrible sunburn on his nose.
Embodiment of Vice: When Gimmick uses the Crystal Stethoscope on him in disguise, the Crystal says the trait he embodies is greed.
Entertainingly Wrong: When he spies on the Trio, sees that they're cooking something with buttermilk and flour, and remembers how L.B., who is a jerk and a troublemaker to him, hasn't gotten any money from him in ages, he concludes that L.B. must have sold his gold recipe to Gimmick. The Trio are just baking cookies.
Epic Flail: He tries to use a flail in "The Crystal Book", but he accidentally breaks his mother's mirror with it and drops it on his foot. So, Epic Fail of Epic Flail.
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Zig-zagged. He outright says that he loves her in "Tweeg's Mom". For the rest of the series, it's questionable whether what he feels for her is genuine love, although he still wants to make her proud.
Evil Genius: He calls himself all the time, although the genius part is questionable at best.
Evil Is Petty: He does all kinds of petty things, such as belittling his employees, refusing to thank people who help him, and not brushing his teeth. It's established in-universe that to be a proper villain, you have to do both major and minor bad deeds.
Evil Knockoff: In "Win One for the Twipper", he becomes one for Newton Gimmick called Winston Tweeter, wearing the exact same outfit and even having the same stutter.
Evil Laugh: He often does this when he's happy or thinks he's being clever.
Faint in Shock: At the end of his trial in "Uncle Grubby", M.A.V.O. gives him a second chance to complete his checklist, but to make sure he does it right, they assign L.B. as his supervisor, which makes him faint.
Faking Amnesia: After getting his memory restored by the Black Box in "The Big Escape", he pretends to still have amnesia for a little while to take advantage of Eleanor and L.B.
A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted: He actually manages to cheat Grundo's people out of a lot of money with his Rainbow Falls water scheme, but the Trio trick him into giving the money back by making thinking he'll be even richer.
Forgot to Mind Their Head: While working his Wizardweek chariot, L.B. calls out to him, causing him to bump his head under the chariot.
Freudian Excuse: Tweeg sings a song about how his mother always abused him as a child and made him into the rotten guy he is today.
Get Out!: Tells this to the Bounders when he thinks that L.B. leaked out his gold formula to the Trio.
Glad I Thought of It: Sometimes, L.B. will make a suggestion and Tweeg will pretend he thought of it himself, such as giving everyone the Tweezles and selling a fake cure in "The Lemonade Stand".
Gold Fever: If there's gold to be had, he's got to have it. He blows a lot of his money on buying buttermilk and flour because he thinks he has a recipe for turning it into gold.
Goofy Print Underwear: Once, he lifts his robe to reveal orange boxers with white spots.
Got Me Doing It: In "In the Fortress of the Wizard" and "The Medicine Wagon", after hearing L.B. call him "Tweek" or "Tweeze" too many times, he accidentally calls himself that.
Grapes of Luxury: After he is declared the new Supreme Oppressor, the first thing he orders after having Quellor locked up is for Mrs. Maggotheart to peel grapes for him to eat.
Greed: He'll do anything if it means getting rich. In "The Crystal Book", Gimmick's new invention the Crystal Stethoscope reveals that greed is a key trait of his.
Green and Mean: He's bright green and a villain. He gets it from his Troll mother.
Green-Eyed Monster: Tweeg's vendetta against Gimmick is solely due to the fact that Gimmick is a brilliant inventor and creates many marvelous inventions, whilst Tweeg's perpetual quest to create a formula that will turn buttermilk into gold has never succeeded.
Hair-Trigger Avalanche: When he fires his cannon in the winter, the noise causes an avalanche that buries him and his tower.
Harmless Lady Disguise: For his first disguise in the show, he dresses as a little old lady and asks for their help. The Trio don't suspect the disguised Tweeg, though they admit that "she" is a little strange.
Hates Their Parent: While he wants to make her proud, you can't call it affection. When he realizes his mother was in a dream he had, he calls it a nightmare.
Heel–Face Door-Slam: In "Father's Day", Tweeg actually considers giving up on villainy and committing to the Surf Grunge lifestyle he actively enjoys... but, upon seeing his father's championship winnings, he can't resist his mother's training and steals them. When his dad catches him out with them, Tweeg gives them back in shame at hurting his dad and then returns to his tower, resigning himself to villainy.
Hidden Depths: When reunited with his father, after being given an opportunity to practice, Tweeg turns out to be a natural surfer.
High Hopes, Zero Talent: All he really wants to be is a great villain like his mother, but since his talents come from his father's side, he's not very good at villainy.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Often, it's his own fault that his schemes fail because he doesn't think things through. Once he tries to use the Black Box against Quellor, only to erase his own memories because he doesn't know how to aim it.
Hypochondria: During the Tweezle episode, he turns red with blue spots. Okay, viable reason to think you're sick. But then he starts to think he's getting other symptoms that he never had like a fever. At the end of the episode, he and the Trio sing a song about how your attitude can affect how healthy you feel.
"I Am" Song: "The Black Box", he sings "I'm Tweeg" which is basically him singing about what his name is and the proper way to say it. The next episode, he gets another called "I'm the Supreme Oppressor".
"I Can't Look!" Gesture: When Sludge, Drudge, and Trudge ransack his tower looking for the gold formula, he scrunches his eyes and tries to look away.
I Have Your Wife: He kidnaps Fuzz, Gimmick's pet Fob, and leaves a threatening note saying that if the Trio don't leave the valley by sundown, they'll never see him again.
I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: When he sees the result of Gimmick Palate Propping L.B., he complains, "Why am I always pulling things out of your mouth? I'm a villain, not a dentist."
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: He's not called the world's worst shot for nothing. He's so terrible at aiming his cannon that Gimmick outright states the safest place to be when Tweeg starts shooting is right where he's aiming for. He's even taken to writing "return to Tweeg" on all his cannonballs because he loses that many of them.
Inane Blabbering: After he has his memories erased, he can only babble at first. He's gradually able to speak coherently, but he still knows nothing until his memories are returned.
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: For all his antagonistic role, Tweeg just... isn't a very good villain. Even In-Universe, his "enemies" see him as more of a nuisance than an actual threat. Episode 61 actually implies Tweeg would really be happier if he gave villainy up, but he can't think of anything else to do with himself.
Insane Troll Logic: In "Wooly and the Giant Snowzos", Tweeg comes to the conclusion that since snowballs are sparkly, and so are the Crystals, this means the Crystals are made of snow.
Insistent Terminology: In "The Crystal Book", he tells his mother he's not whining. He's whimpering.
Insult Backfire: When Bognostroclum pulls a Bait-and-Switch Comment that ends with insulting him, Tweeg responds that he has no time for flattery. And during the Wizardweek parade, when the crowd boos Tweeg, he takes it to mean they love him.
I Take Offense to That Last One: Tweeg hates the fact that M.A.V.O. has been hunting him like a common villain. Because he's not common, he's a master villain!
The Klutz: He's a real bungler in what he does and tends to be a victim of amusing injuries.
Ladies and Germs: He introduces his phony rainmaking machine by saying "Illipers and Perloons, Grundonians and Nogburtniks".
Lampshade Wearing: In "Teddy and the Mudblups", after he sneaks into Gimmick's house, he puts on a lampshade and pretends to be a lamp so he won't be noticed.
Last-Name Basis: Everyone calls him Tweeg. In fact, even his own parents don't call him Jack, though they often affectionately call him Tweegie.
Late to the Realization: Sometimes he takes a minute to realize something. For example, in the live-action special, L.B. has to tell him multiple times while he's busy feeling sorry for himself that the Airship is landing.
Lean and Mean: He's tall, thin, and villainous.
Let's You and Him Fight: In "Elves and Woodsprites", he tricks the Elves and the Woodsprites into fighting, since the M.A.V.O. list of bad deeds includes starting a fight between perfectly good friends. He tries it again between Gimmick and Grubby in "Teddy and the Mudblups", but Teddy solves the disagreement quickly.
Lineage Comes from the Father: Inverted. Not only does he prefer to take after his mother, but he also goes by her last name. Grunges don't have last names, though, so Elroy took Eleanor's when they married.
Literal-Minded: When Louie visits Tweeg's lemonade stand, he orders a lemonade "on the rocks". Tweeg shrugs and dumps some lemonade on the ground.
Living Museum Exhibit: The Sorcerer's minions find him without his memory and deliver him to their boss, who presents him as "The Troll-Grunge with No Brain."
Lying Finger Cross: In "Wizardweek", when Teddy wishes him good luck, he crosses his fingers behind his back while he wishes him the same.
Malicious Misnaming: Not only does L.B. do it to Tweeg, Tweeg also does it to Teddy, calling him such names as "Teddy Dustbin" or "Teddy Rucksack".
Manipulative Bastard: He can be this when he wants to be. He manages to manipulate the Mudblup King into letting him go by making the king think Eleanor will marry the king, and later manipulates Quellor into letting him keep his memory in exchange for the (fake) gold formula.
Mathematician's Answer: When Quellor asks if he acquired the Crystals by stealing or treachery, Tweeg just gives a nervous "Yes." Quellor is pleased with this answer.
Medicine Show: In "The Medicine Wagon", he opens one to sell his phony Tweezle remedy, even getting the Bounders to do a song and dance number like a commercial.
Mysterious Middle Initial: It's never revealed what the W stands for.
Never My Fault: Whenever one of his plans doesn't work, he insists that it must be L.B.'s fault.
No Listening Skills: He never listens to L.B. has a helpful suggestion and just brushes off L.B.'s warning that things will go wrong.
Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid: Tweeg's mother, Eleanor, is a Troll, whilst his father, Elroy, is a Surf Grunge.
Non-Promotion: Eleanor, in a rare moment of kindness, recommends Tweeg for the new keeper of the gate. Tweeg is thrilled at first because it means he's an important member of M.A.V.O. but comes to hate it when he realizes how much work it involves.
No Sense of Direction: When he and L.B. fall from the Eclipse and land in the water, he insists that they're swimming in the right direction to land. The shore is right behind them without them even knowing it.
Nosy Neighbor: He's always using his telescope to spy on Gimmick's house from up in his tower, thinking that Gimmick is up to something.
Not Quite Dead: After the Eclipse sinks into the water, Quellor wonders if Tweeg went down with it. The next scene is a shot of him and L.B. swimming away.
Not-So-Harmless Villain: Although he never succeeds at doing anything too villainous, Tweeg also has a fairly ruthless streak. He actually sold his own mother to the Mudblup King as a bride in return for a trunk full of gems^note, and once abducted Gimmick's pet Fob, Fuzz, in order to blackmail Gimmick into leaving the valley.
Old-Timey Bathing Suit: He wears a blue-and-yellow-striped one in "Air and Water Races".
Opportunistic Bastard: He loves to seize any opportunity that pops up to get rich or commit an evil deed. Unfortunately, he doesn't think long-term, just focusing on the opportunity itself, so it rarely goes well.
The Paranoiac: He's got more than enough criteria to count:
- Never My Fault: He blame others, mostly L.B., when one of his plans goes wrong while taking credit for L.B.'s good ideas.
- Suspiciousness / Cynicism: He's very suspicious of the Trio, assumes that they're out to get him, and believes that he has to lie and cheat to get what he wants.
- Jerkass: He rarely cares about anyone but himself.
- Self-Importance: He thinks he's a genius and that it's his destiny to be the richest and greatest villain in Grundo.
- Conspiracy Theorist: He frequently suspects that the good guys are conspiring against him, usually to steal his gold formula.
Patchwork Kids: He's half-Troll, half-Grunge and looks it. He has the tall, humanoid build of a Grunge but has his mother's green Troll skin. And while he follows his mother's morality, he gets his father's talents.
Pie in the Face: When M.A.V.O. finally gets the Crystals, the monsters are so happy that they have fun throwing pies around the meeting room. One hits Tweeg.
Plot Allergy: Complains when he gets covered in strawberry juice that strawberries give him a rash.
Polka-Dot Disease: Subverted. He wakes up one morning having turned red with blue dots all over and thinks he has this. L.B. calls the condition the Tweezles. After the Trio try to help him, they figure it out that skin only changed because he drank Rainbow Falls water.
Powder Gag: In "Double Grubby", when his cannon misfires, the ball lands on the flour bag L.B. stole and leaves him covered with flour. It makes him look like an Illiop.
The Prankster: He turns into one in "M.A.V.O. Costume Ball". When forced to greet party guests at the door, he does so with practical jokes. Apparently, M.A.V.O.'s spell of evil even made him be a better bad guy.
Purple Is the New Black: He wears a dark purple robe. The ambiguity of purple is fitting for a guy who wants to be a villain but never quite makes it.
Recoiled Across the Room: This sometimes happens him when he fires his cannon. Since he lives at the top of a tower, he's prone to riding his cannon backwards down his long spiral staircase.
Removing the Rival: One of his favorite tactics in a competition is this. During a Grungeball game, he gives some of the other team a stomachache, allowing his own team to catch up, and in Wizardweek, the only event his team won was the synchronized swimming because he sabotaged all the other teams.
Replaced with Replica: In "Winter Adventure", the Bounders help him escape Sludge, Drudge, and Trudge by replacing him with a dummy.
The Rival: He sees his relationship with Gimmick as this, though they play it straighter during sporting events when they compete against each other.
Secondary Color Nemesis: He's green and wears purple. At one point, it's revealed that he wears orange underwear, completing the set.
Shamed by a Mob: After L.B. gives his wedding vows to Buffy, Tweeg says, "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." The guests glare at him angrily.
Sharp-Dressed Man: Some of his disguises have him dressed in a suit and tie to look like a respectable businessman.
Sissy Villain: He's really skinny, crossdresses multiple times in the series, and has a voice that sounds like it never aged properly.
Slippery Skid: In "King Nogburt's Castle", he runs onto his balcony, steps on one of his cannonballs, and rolls and crashes right through his railing.
Small Name, Big Ego: He calls himself an Evil Genius, but he's not nearly as smart (or for that matter as evil) as he thinks he is. The times when he actually knows what he's doing in his schemes are few and far between.
Smug Snake: A villain who thinks he's way better than he really is. He often looks smug until his plans turn sideways.
Snake Oil Salesman: One of his favorite ways to get quick cash, either by selling dubious knickknacks imagined problems or a largely harmless "cure-all" potion that gives its drinkers spots.
Soda Can Shakeup: After stealing Grubby's root beer recipe and selling it as "Villain Up", the customers want a little more fizz. So shakes a whole barrel of it as much as he can, and it explodes, splashing everyone.
Speech Impediment: When dressed as a little boy selling lemonade, he uses a fake impediment to make him sound more childish, somewhere between a mild lisp and mild Elmuh Fudd Syndwome.
Staircase Tumble: He's prone to falling down his staircase. And since he lives at the top of the tower with a long, spiraling stone staircase, it's a long and painful fall.
Status Quo Is God: Any time he looks like he's going to succeed doesn't last long. At one point, he becomes Supreme Oppressor, only to lose the spot by the end of the next episode.
Sticky Fingers: Stealing is one of the things he has to do to join M.A.V.O. When he visits his mother and she opens her safe, he snatches a ruby. She catches him in the act but comments that he's got the right idea.
Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard: He says just this about L.B.'s wedding vows to Buffy, which are really just a piece of bad poetry. The other guests give Tweeg a Death Glare.
Surfer Dude: He tries to adopt this lifestyle to bond with his father and picks up the slang quickly, although he eventually goes back to being a villain.
Taking Candy From A Baby: This is on the checklist of bad deeds for someone who wants to join M.A.V.O. He even forces L.B. to stand in for a baby for practice. At one point, he does steal candy from baby Fobs, but Wooly was there at the time and angrily forces him to give it back.
Tally Marks on the Prison Wall: While locked up in "Autumn Adventure". It's parodied because he's actually marking off the minutes.
Tampering with Food and Drink: Apart from the Rainbow Falls lemonade fiasco, he hides a special plant that causes a belly ache in some hot dogs and tricks the Grunges into eating them.
Tempting Fate: In "Beware of the Mudblups", he swears he'll get the best of Gimmick one day. "May I be struck from above if I don't." He immediately gets struck by some root stew that was dumped overboard the Airship.
That Reminds Me of a Song: In some episodes, he announces it, such as in "Tweeg Gets the Tweezles" when he says he feels a song coming on.
That's an Order!: When he forces L.B. to scrape the slime off the bottom of the Eclipse, he says that he's ordering and not asking him to do it.
This Means War!: During his brief reign as the Supreme Oppressor, he says this to the Gutang Ambassador.
Throw the Dog a Bone: Despite his many failures, occasionally, he manages to actually do something nasty that works. In "Teddy and the Mudblups", he sells out his own mother to the Mudblup King, which is a triple whammy for his checklist of bad deeds.
Trapped the Wrong Target: When he finds out that there's a reward for capturing Teddy, he tries to find him with a net. He hears someone coming and catches L.B. by mistake.
The Un Favourite: He's actually an only child, and he still manages to be this in his mother's eyes.
Ungrateful Bastard: One episode had Tweeg believing he had some horrible disease. The Trio, at L.B.'s request, came to the tower to help and offered folk remedies. Finally, Gimmick figured out that Tweeg had been drinking water from Rainbow Falls. Rather than be thankful his "disease" is just a temporary discoloration, Tweeg throws a fit, demanding Gimmick and company leave his tower and accusing them of using this as an opportunity to torture him and learn his secrets.
Walking Disaster Area: He's such a bungler that you can count episodes where he doesn't cause disaster on one hand.
"Well Done, Son" Guy: Part of the reason Tweeg is driven to become a great villain is to make his mother proud. Even little things like hearing her call him "son" fill him with joy.
Who's Laughing Now?: When he briefly becomes the new Supreme Oppressor, he basks in it by getting back at others, throwing Quellor in the dungeon and forcing Mrs. Maggotheart to feed him Grapes of Luxury.
Wingding Eyes: After he has his memory erased, he has spirals or circles around his pupils.
Word, Schmord!: In "The Black Box", Tweeg says "Screwdriver Schmewdriver" because what L.B. stole is more important than the tool he needed before.
Xanatos Speed Chess: When he quickly changes their cover from portrait painters to housepainters to infiltrate the castle, he explains to L.B. that part of being a good villain is adjusting your plans.
You're Insane!: When M.A.V.O. is short on funds and Mrs. Maggotheart suggests selling M.A.V.O.'s gold and jewels, then-Supreme Oppressor Tweeg calls her a nut.

L.B.

Voiced by: Tony Pope (books and special), Robert Bockstael (series)

First appearance: "The Treasure of Grundo"

The long-suffering minion to Tweeg, L.B. (Lead Bounder) is a sarcastic little creature who loves nothing more than to snipe at Tweeg every chance he gets.

Adaptation Dye-Job: The tuft of hair around his horn is yellow in the books, brown in the live-action special, and pink in the cartoon.
Affably Evil: L.B.'s a villain but not really a bad guy. Ironically, the only one he's really mean to is his boss. At least he and Teddy manage to get along late in the series.
Agony of the Feet: In "The Hard to Find City", Tweeg responds to L.B.'s smart remark by stepping on his foot.
All Your Base Are Belong to Us: L.B. ransacks Gimmick's house so he can steal the Crystals for Tweeg.
And Then I Said: In "The Crystal Book", after a cut to a scene of them on route, he tells Eleanor, "And that was when all my problems in nursery school first started."
Armless Biped: All Bounders have no arms.
Aside Glance: He occasionally looks or speaks in the direction of the viewer, making him the only character to break the fourth wall.
Beach Kiss: In "On the Beaches", after L.B. proposes to Buffy, they kiss and are struck by a wave, which makes their kiss seem more powerful.
Because You Were Nice to Me: The reason why he manages to become a Friendly Enemy to Teddy is because Teddy treated him a lot nicer than any villain ever did. Teddy even saved his life.
Beleaguered Assistant: L.B. is constantly put upon, cleaning house, pulling the wagon, and basically doing whatever his boss tells him to. Rarely does Tweeg show any appreciation for what he does, let alone even pay him. L.B. grumbles but never seems to quit.
Benevolent Boss: L.B. during his brief run as the head of M.A.V.O., his first (and only) major order is to hold a massive party and invite all members across Grundo to attend. He is also this to the gang of Bounders, even going using his wedding present to give them the backpay they're owed from Tweeg when he could have easily kept it.
Berserk Button: L.B. constantly puts up with getting insulted and abused by Tweeg, but in "Anything in the Soup", when Tweeg insult L.B.'s girlfriend, that is going too far.
Bizarre Alien Limbs: Since Bounders have no hands, they often use their horns as hooks to carry things.
Blowing a Raspberry: Does this to Eleanor in "Tweeg's Mom" after she calls him an overgrown tomato.
Bouncing Battler: Being a Bounder, he's known to attack this way. In the first episode, he has his team attack Teddy and Grubby this way.
Callousness Towards Emergency: In "The Great Grundo Ground Race", when he sees Tweeg stuck in a quicksand pit, instead of trying to help, he and his gang decide to stand, watch, and sing a barbershop song about how he's sinking.
Character Development: One of the few villains who receive it. At the start, he shows no love for the good guys, but by the end of the series, he has become a bit of a Friendly Enemy to Teddy.
Comedic Sociopathy: Whenever Tweeg falls, gets hit by something, or any other funny injury, L.B. can only stand there and laugh madly.
Comically Missing the Point: Even though L.B.'s funny remarks are usually just him being a smartass to his boss, there are times when he misses the point of what Tweeg says. Sometimes, he misses the point because he's being a smartass:
Tweeg: There must be something I can do wrong! What am I doing right?
L.B.: You ain't doing nothing right.
Tweeg: No, no, L.B.! I want to do something wrong right!
L.B.: How about if you did something right wrong?
Compliment Backfire: In "The Faded Fobs", when Tweeg calls him a good Bounder for obeying his orders, L.B. claims there's no such thing as a good Bounder.
Danger — Thin Ice: In "Teddy's Quest", while trying to make his way through the snow, he has to cross a frozen, and the ice breaks. He would have died if Teddy wasn't around to save him.
Deadpan Snarker: Especially when dealing with Tweeg.
Destination Defenestration: After Quellor returns, Black Box in hand, to reclaim his position of power, he kicks L.B. out the window.
The Door Slams You: In "Wizardland", Eleanor answers her door and slams it into him.
Dragon Ascendant: Accidentally managed to become the Supreme Oppressor of M.A.V.O., making him (temporarily) Tweeg's boss. Tweeg handled it with about as much grace as you'd expect from him.
Dream Walker: In "King Nogburt's Castle", L.B. appears to physically jump into Tweeg's dream (presented as a thought bubble) to wake him up.
Dude, Where's My Reward?: L.B. often complains about how Tweeg doesn't pay him for months at a time. Then, after he goes to work for Quellor, he complains that he hasn't received a reward for helping Quellor get his power back. Quellor says the reward is the privilege of working for him.
Dude, Where's My Respect?: For all the work he does for Tweeg, the latter rarely shows any appreciation for it, just treating him like a servant whose purpose is for him to kick around.
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Unlike his boss, he seems to genuinely love his mother when she shows up.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: The focus of a song as L.B. could not for the life of him figure out why the Trio were willing to take care of a sick Tweeg. He also didn't understand why Teddy saved him from drowning in a frozen pond either. Subverted near the end after L.B. pays Teddy back, L.B. comments to himself that it felt nice doing a good deed.
Evil Cannot Stand Cuteness: L.B. hates Fobs because they're so nice, cute, and helpful.
Eyepatch of Power: When they join the M.A.V.O. pirates on the Eclipse, L.B. wears one to look Dressed to Plunder.
Face Death with Dignity: When he breaks through the river ice in the middle of winter and finds himself unable to escape, he prepares to accept his fate in the most dignified way he can.
First-Name Basis: By the last major story arc, he's started calling Teddy by his first name, cementing their Friendly Enemy relationship.
Friendly Enemy: He works for Tweeg, but he doesn't really consider Gimmick or the others to be his actual enemies; he's simply doing his job. Late in the series, it's implied that he and Teddy could actually be friends if L.B. wasn't working for a villain.
The Gadfly: Mostly towards Tweeg. He makes wisecracks at his expense because he loves to get a rise out of him.
Getting the Boot: After he gets caught trying to steal the Black Box in "Octopede Sailors", he's thrown out the M.A.V.O. Headquarters door and lands in the mud.
Goo Goo Getup: In "Sign of a Friend", when Tweeg needs to practice taking candy from a baby, he forces L.B. to put on a bonnet and sit in a pram.
Handy Feet: Bounders can do this, but they rarely do because it's hard for them to stand on one foot. Mostly, they use their mouths or horns to hold things.
Harmless Freezing: After falling in frozen water and sitting in there for a few minutes waiting to drown, Teddy rescues him and he's fine after sitting by a fire for a while.
Human Doorstop: Forced to be a stepping stool in "Tweeg's Mom" when Eleanor gets off the wagon.
Human Snowman: After the snow falls from a tree on top of him, the other Bounders call him the Abominable Snowbounder.
The Imp: Subverted. Bounders are small, troublesome villains and are generally seen as a nuisance by both the heroes and their superiors. But L.B. is a lot more competent than his boss and even manages to become Supreme Oppressor for a time.
Insult Backfire: After Quellor makes him Tweeg's supervisor, Tweeg says, "You couldn't supervise slime!" L.B. turns it around by saying, "That's what I keep telling them, but they gave me the job anyway."
I Warned You: Tweeg never seems to listen to L.B.'s warnings that something is going to go wrong.
Jerkass Has a Point: Occasionally, when Tweeg is actually listening to L.B. for a change, he'll admit that L.B., for all of his insults and complaints, has a point. For example, when Tweeg gets a load of gold in "Through Tweeg's Fingers", L.B. points out he may not get a chance to show it to Quellor once Eleanor sees the gold. Tweeg agrees and decides to skip his mother's house and go straight to Quellor.
Ladies and Germs: He says "Ladies and gentlemonsters" in "M.A.V.O. Costume Ball".
The Leader: Of the Bounders. His initials stand for "Lead Bounder".
Lima Syndrome: After Tweeg kidnaps Fuzz and locks him in a cage, he comes to like the little guy. This is mainly because Fuzz enjoys trolling Tweeg as much as L.B., but considering L.B.'s general opinion of Fobs, it says a lot.
Literal-Minded: In "Double Grubby", L.B. thinks a cat burglar means someone who steals cats.
Love at First Sight: He once claimed that he fell for Buffy from the moment he laid eyes on her.
Makes Us Even: During his brief reign as Supreme Oppressor, M.A.V.O. captures him. He orders them to let him go to pay him back for saving his life, making them even.
Malicious Misnaming: Frequently gets Tweeg's name wrong on purpose, calling him things like Twizzle or Twink, to annoy and irritate him. This often prompts Tweeg to angrily spell his name out loud. It occasionally extends to other characters too. He once called Teddy Ruxpin "Teddy Fishfin", Gimmick "Limerick", and Quellor "Queelor". Even King Nogburt himself is not immune, as he's called him "King Nogburl/Nogburn/Nosebleed".
Misspelling Out Loud: In "The Third Crystal", when Tweeg once again clarifies that his name is spelled T-W-E-E-G, L.B. retorts that "It'll be M-U-D-D mud."
Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: In "The Hard to Find City", after getting sick of Tweeg going mad with power, he makes a deal with Quellor: he'll help him get back into power if he can become his "right-hand Bounder". Quellor agrees. But to Quellor, that job amounts to being a maid for all of M.A.V.O. Headquarters. L.B. decides that Quellor treats him worse than Tweeg ever did, so he decides to get his own boss and his old job back.
Musical Number Annoyance: He sometimes gets annoyed when Tweeg bursts into song. In "Escape from the Treacherous Mountains", when Tweeg feels a song coming on, L.B. wishes he had hands so he could cover his ears.
My Beloved Smother: His mother means well but is way too controlling when it comes to planning his wedding to Buffy.
My New Gift Is Lame: Just about everyone brings a gift to his and Buffy's wedding, but a lot of it looks like unwanted junk to him.
Noble Demon: He may be on the villains' side, but he's got a sense of honor. During his M.A.V.O. reign, after he remembers how Teddy saved him from drowning, he declares that he owes him, so he orders the monsters to let him go.
Not in My Contract: In "Sign of a Friend", when forced to help Tweeg practice taking candy from a baby, L.B. complains that playing babies isn't in his contract.
Not-So-Final Confession: When he thinks he's going to down in icy water, he declares "Buffy, I...I love you! I never told you, and I'm sorry!" She's not actually there to hear it, but the sentiment is there. He's just trying to get his regrets off his chest while he's still alive.
Number Two: Among the Bounders, he's Tweeg's second in command.
Official Couple: Buffy is his girlfriend and eventual wife.
Only Sane Man: To Tweeg's crew. Tweeg is an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain, and the other Bounders are not very bright.
Personal Mook: To Tweeg. The Bounders work for him, but L.B.'s his right-hand Bounder.
Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He's tiny compared to Tweeg, but he can pull Tweeg's wagon with Tweeg in it.
Prehensile Tail: Because L.B. doesn't have hands, he sometimes uses his stubby tail as a hand, although he prefers to use his mouth.
Punch-Clock Villain: L.B. isn't really evil. For the most part he just wants to be entertained and have fun, he just has a moral bar that's lower than most people.
Pungeon Master: He loves making puns, usually to mock Tweeg.
Refuse to Rescue the Disliked: Downplayed. He doesn't exactly refuse, but he's reluctant to rescue Tweeg when he falls into a pit of quicksand. He comes around when Tweeg even offers to finally pay him, but it's all for nothing when Quellor's thugs come along and pull him out.
Remembered Too Late: In "Wizardweek", when Tweeg tries to launch himself from a catapult, he says that this time, he's accounted for both height and wind direction. "What else is there?" L.B. thinks he forgot a factor and only remembers what it is after Tweeg is launched: distance!
Rousing Speech: Double-subverted. When he acts as a coach to the Mudblup Mashers Grungeball team, the "pep talk" he gives is anything but encouraging. But for some reason, it does give them the confidence to go out and win. As L.B. says, Mudblups are really stupid.
Running on the Spot: Near the end of "M.A.V.O. Costume Ball", when Quellor threatens to throw him in the dungeon for usurping his position, he does this while trying to run away, giving Quellor enough time to kick him out the window.
Self-Deprecation: He admits to himself that he can't be all that smart if he willingly works for someone like Tweeg.
Shout-Out: He makes several of them.
- When a cannon misfire causes Tweeg to get splattered with flour, L.B. says, "Now, that's entertainment."
- While he and Tweeg are M.A.V.O. prisoners and Tweeg is forced to load the Eclipse with cargo, L.B. says to "tote these bales onto that barge."
- When he decides to Face Death with Dignity while sinking into a frozen lake, he looks back on his life and says "I did it my way".
Signature Laugh: A wheezing laugh, often heard when Tweeg suffers from amusing misfortune.
Silly Love Songs: At the M.A.V.O. costume ball, he sings one for his girlfriend called "Your Rotten Heart, Your Ugly Face". To a villain, it's flattery, but to everyone else, the things he compares her to in the song make it seem like a silly way to be romantic.
Slave to PR: After he lets Teddy go from M.A.V.O., he makes it clear that he means "Don't mention it" literally because he has a reputation to uphold.
Status Quo Is God: No matter what happens in the series, even if they're separated for a few episodes, he always manages to go back to working for Tweeg.
Tuft of Head Fur: Some Bounders have a head full of hair, but L.B. just has a tuft of pink hair around the base of his horn.
Use Your Head: Tweeg tells him to do this to help him move a treasure chest in "Escape from the Treacherous Mountains". Just before L.B. makes contact, the treasure disappears, and he sends Tweeg flying backwards instead.
Villainous Valor: Although L.B's status as "evil" is arguable, he does have a fairly strong code of honor. He made sure to repay Teddy for saving his life when he got the chance, even if the decision was an unpopular one.
Waddling Head: Well, hopping head, but same thing. A Bounder is just a large head with a pair of legs and a tail sticking out the back.
Waving Signs Around: In "Teddy's Quest", he and the Bounders are so fed up with Tweeg putting off their paychecks for so long that they start a protest at the tower, waving signs, demanding that he finally pay them.
Who's Laughing Now?: After being put upon and abused for so long, he pulls this on Tweeg twice in the series. When Quellor demands that Tweeg complete the M.A.V.O. checklist of bad deeds by the next initiation day, L.B. is made his supervisor to make sure he does it. Now Tweeg has to do what he says, and L.B. takes full advantage of it. Then when L.B. becomes Supreme Oppressor, he makes Tweeg do humiliating tasks like delivering party invitations.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: L.B. is terrified of ''Fobs'. You know, those cute little rainbow-hued fluffy guys? That's like being afraid of a declawed kitten.
Win One for the Gipper: In the episode appropriately titled "Win One for the Twipper", he gives a villainous version to the Mudblup Mashers. It gives them confidence, but it doesn't work because the other team is just too good for them. The Mashers only catch up when Tweeg sabotages the competition.
You Don't Want to Catch This: When Sludge, Drudge, and Trudge grab Tweeg and try to take him back to Quellor, L.B. saves him by telling them that Tweeg has a fatal, contagious disease called Woofinpoof disease. This scares them away.

M.A.V.O.

In General

The Monsters and Villains Organization. Made up of the most ruthless and evil villains in Grundo, M.A.V.O.'s goal is to gather the Crystals and use their power to spread evil and darkness across Grundo. Tweeg's lifelong dream is to join M.A.V.O., but to do that, he must do a truly nasty deed.

Adaptation Expansion: M.A.V.O. is mentioned in the books and is on the map of Grundo, but it only exists to give Tweeg a motive for wanting to be a villain. Here, it not only appears, but gets a whole cast of characters.
All Trolls Are Different: Many members are trolls, but they don't seem to follow any pattern other than being ugly and vaguely humanoid. They come in all different shapes, colors, and sizes.
Animal Motifs: The bull is prominently featured in their architecture. Bulls are known for being strong and fierce.
Ascended Extra: From a mere mention in the books to being a full-blown cast of characters in the TV series.
Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: Their goal is to spread darkness and evil across the land, and they worry about being free from "the threat of goodness".
Canon Foreigner: All members of M.A.V.O. were invented for the cartoon except Tweeg's mother, who is mentioned in passing in the books.
Card-Carrying Villain: Literally. M.A.V.O. membership comes with a card, though only Ms. Maggotheart presents hers (usually when shaking down another member for their late dues).
Cast of Snowflakes: The nameless background M.A.V.O. members all have unique designs that get used over and over to fill a crowd, so almost every member is at least a Recurring Extra.
Cool and Unusual Punishment: They have all kinds of punishments for people who disappoint or anger the Supreme Oppressor, but one of the worst is being forced to spend a day locked in a room with the M.A.V.O. dues collector!
Evil Minions: Generally, any member who doesn't normally fight, such as Bognostroclum, Mrs. Maggotheart, or the Understander of Legends.
For the Evulz: They do things just because it's evil. However, it gets a bit more development than in most series. In the world of this show, being evil is treated as a lifestyle and a culture, and it's a case of Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad.
Fun with Acronyms: M.A.V.O. stands for the Monsters and Villains Organization.
Gotta Catch Them All: M.A.V.O. must gather all the Crystals to spread their spell of darkness. Over the course of a couple of episodes, they get scattered as they're stolen and passed between villains who each decide to hoard one for themselves, forcing Tweeg to gather them again.
Hate Plague: The primary goal of M.A.V.O. is to spread a stormy darkness over Grundo that causes plants to start withering and bring out the worst in the population of the land. They succeed, at least for a while.
It Must Be Mine!: They must have the Crystals to spread their spell of darkness across Grundo and make them all-powerful.
Leitmotif: A shot of the Headquarters is often accompanied by a distinctive dark and unsettling piece.
Kangaroo Court: One of the plots of "Uncle Grubby" was Tweeg being taken to M.A.V.O. court to answer for his failures. A rule prohibited the defendant (Tweeg) from speaking.
Loyal to the Position: They are compelled to obey whoever happens to be the Supreme Oppressor because the Supreme Oppressor has the memory-erasing Black Box.
Mooks: Any member of M.A.V.O. who's not named is treated as one, although none of them are killed. If you pay attention, there are several recurring individual mooks.
Mordor: The patch of mountains where M.A.V.O. HQ is situated is usually dark and cloudy, surrounded by desolate-looking crags and bluffs.
Nebulous Evil Organization: Their agenda is to spread evil and darkness across Grundo. It's called the Monsters and Villains Organization for a reason.
Recurring Extra: Several nameless members of M.A.V.O. have very distinct designs and are reused whenever random monsters are needed to do something or a crowd needs to be filled.
Villain Song: M.A.V.O. has its own in-universe official anthem about how they're villains, which they often sing at meetings.
Villains Out Shopping: Like most people, they like to take a break from their usual activities and have fun. In one episode, they have a costume party with music and dancing.

Quellor

Voiced by: Les Lye

First appearance: "Tweeg's Mom"

The feared overlord of M.A.V.O., Quellor is the closest thing the series has to an overarching bad guy. He has a nasty habit of erasing the memory of those who displease him and selling them off to the Ying Zoo.

Absurdly Sharp Blade: His sword can slice right through solid wood.
Angry Collar Grab: He picks up Tweeg by the collar and throws him across the room to convince him to hand over his gold formula.
Bad Boss: An interesting example. While he has all the earmarks of this, he IS the leader of an Obviously Evil Nebulous Evil Organisation, and this is actually expected of him in the group's bylaws.
Big Bad: He's the real antagonist behind the entire course of the show. His ambition to collect all of the crystals and generally cause mayhem is what drives most of the show's conflict.
Big Bad Ensemble: There are several independent factions of villains in the series, so he's part of one, along with Tweeg, the Sorcerer, the Mudblup King, and the Gutangs.
Big "SHUT UP!": He prefers the word "Silence!", which he'll yell to shut up those beneath him.
Big "WHAT?!": He tends to yell "What?!" when he hears something shocking, such as after he learns that a Crystal was stolen from an Illiop in "Tweeg's Mom".
Bill... Bill... Junk... Bill...: In "The Ying Zoo", he sorts through his mail, saying "Death threats, eviction notices, catastrophe predictions...how come I never get anything interesting?"
Breakout Villain: Around mid-series, he replaces Tweeg as the main villain. Most fans agree that he makes a better Big Bad than the latter.
Bright Is Not Good: His outfit is partly bright gold, but he's a villain.
Buried Alive: In "Musical Oppressors", when he corners Teddy in a cave, he accidentally causes a rockslide that briefly buries him, though he's fine when he climbs out of it.
Canon Foreigner: Along with the other members of M.A.V.O., Quellor was created just for the animated series.
Circling Birdies: In "Teddy's Quest", after getting knocked out by Trudge's club, he lays on the ground unconscious, stars swirling over his head.
Cool Chair: As the Supreme Oppressor, he gets an ornate stone throne at the top of a flight of stairs where he can look down on everyone.
Deadpan Snarker: Sometimes. When Tweeg promises Quellor that he won't fail him, right before klutzing out, Quellor says, "That would be a nice change."
Didn't Think This Through: Surprisingly, when he threatens to erase Tweeg's memory, if Tweeg did not reveal him the secret gold-making formula. Tweeg rather logically pointed out, that if Quellor erased his memory, he would erase the formula, too.
Dismissing a Compliment: In one episode, after getting tired of Bognostroclum's many creative honorifics titles for him, he tells him to knock off the cheap flattery.
Duet of Differences: When he and Teddy are in the same boat, they sing the duet "All Locked Up" about how they want to get out of jail, but for opposite reasons: Teddy has a desire to do good for everyone, while Quellor wants out so he can bring evil.
Even Evil Has Standards: He's the most treacherous and feared villain in Grundo, and it's his goal to spread evil throughout the land, but he's also proud of the business relationship that M.A.V.O. has with the Gutangs, and when Tweeg declares war against the Gutangs for petty reasons, he's disgusted. Quellor may be the Supreme Oppressor, but he earned it by doing wrong right.
Evil Is Hammy: Quellor talks as big as he looks.
Evil Laugh: Unlike Tweeg, who's just a wannabe, his deep evil laugh sounds really frightening.
Evil Overlord: As the Supreme Oppressor of the Monsters and Villains Organization of Grundo, you know he's got this going on.
Evil Sounds Deep: He has by far one of the deepest voices of any character in the series.
Evil Sounds Raspy: Not only is his voice deep, it's raspy too, and he's the Big Bad.
Fantastic Honorifics: Bognostroclum loves coming up with creative evil honorifics for him like "Your Gruesomeness", "Your Vileness", "Your Wickedness", "Your Nastiness", etc.
Flat "Yes": Delivers one to the Sorcerer in "The Big Escape" when the Sorcerer asks if Quellor expects him to hand over his star attraction Tweeg.
Genius Bruiser: He's large, strong, and physically intimidating but also a very competent leader.
Get Out!: Twice in the series—once where he discovers his henchmen lied to him about killing Tweeg, and once after hearing them ask stupid questions that have nothing to do with his orders—he gives them a furious "Out! Out! OUT!"
A Glass in the Hand: In "The Big Escape", he crushes a goblet in his fingers.
Glowing Eyes of Doom: Near the end of "M.A.V.O. Costume Ball" when he approaches L.B. to reclaim his title of Supreme Oppressor, his eyes turn a glowing yellow to show L.B. how screwed he is.
Go-Karting with Bowser: Believe it or not, Teddy and Quellor sing a duet together when they're both trapped in M.A.V.O.'s prison. They manage not to be overtly antagonistic towards each other, though Quellor's lines lamenting not having the freedom to be an Evil Overlord do creep Teddy out.
Gold-Colored Superiority: Wears a gold hood, cape, and belt to symbolize he's the leader of M.A.V.O.
Hair-Trigger Temper: Do the slightest thing to annoy him and he'll go into a rage.
Happiness Is Mandatory: According to Bognostroclum, there's actually a rule in the M.A.V.O. handbook that the Supreme Oppressor must have at least fifteen minutes of fun per day.
Harmless Electrocution: In "The Big Escape", he gets so overloaded with electricity that you can see his skeleton. He's fine afterwards.
Hero vs. Villain Duet: Teddy and Quellor sing a duet called "No Place To Go" while they're both imprisoned in MAVO's Dungeon with, Teddy lamenting that while locked up, he's unable to help his friends, cheer people up, or explore whereas Quellor is angry he can't spread darkness, kick a Fob and make it yelp, or be cruel to his grandmother. Funnily enough while they do react to each other's verses, they manage to keep the harmony through the whole song and don't break down into any sort of insults.
Hidden Depths: "The Hard to Find City" reveals that he can fly a plane.
Hoist by His Own Petard: After he briefly gives himself Psycho Electro powers, he thinks it's the perfect weapon. He never realized until it was too late that once the generator shorts out, the only one who'll get electrocuted is him.
Horned Humanoid: He has two horns and looks like a tall humanoid.
I Control My Minions Through...: He's an example of both Fear and Power. As the Supreme Oppressor, he is the leader of M.A.V.O. and holds the Black Box, a magical device that can erase your memory.
I Don't Pay You to Think: In "Teddy Ruxpin's Birthday", when they're trying to replicate Tweeg's gold formula, and Sludge has his doubts about the recipe, Quellor says, "I do not require you to think."
Improvised Weapon: When he follows Teddy into a cave in "Musical Oppressors", he rips a stalactite out of the ceiling and uses it as a club.
In the Hood: He always wears his hood and mask, so all we see of his face are his white eyes.
"I Want" Song: "All Locked Up", a duet he shares with Teddy of all characters, is about how they both want to get out of prison, though for different reasons.
Knight of Cerebus: Decidedly more competent than many of the other villains, things tended to get fairly serious when Quellor took part in the plot.
Large and in Charge: Is easily the biggest member of M.A.V.O., though this is not the only reason he's in charge.
Laser-Guided Karma: On his way to attack a supposedly captive and helpless Teddy, Quellor gets to be on the receiving end of his own newly acquired Shock and Awe powers when Teddy's cage barely misses him but does nail Trudge, who is carrying Quellor's power source, severely damaging it. The resulting X-Ray Sparks experience is poetic justice given he was probably planning to zap Teddy if he'd gotten to him.
Let's See YOU Do Better!: In "Leekee Lake", when an underling says he's hardly the Supreme Oppressor after he loses the Black Box, Quellor threateningly asks if he thinks he could do a better job.
Literal Ass-Kicking: Kicks Drudge down a hill in frustration in "Up for Air". He also kicks L.B. out a window when he reclaims his power in "M.A.V.O. Costume Ball".
Look Behind You: He tries to pull this on Trudge when his henchmen betray him. He didn't count on it causing a Plank Gag.
Lost My Appetite: In "The Great Grundo Ground Race", after he complains that his breakfast is moving and Trudge deals with it by smashing it with his club to, Quellor says this.
Magic Enhancement: After all the Crystals are in the great ring and M.A.V.O.'s Hate Plague spreads across Grundo, Quellor is even stronger than usual.
Master Swordsman: He handles his sword with great expertise, although we only see it used on non-living objects.
Mistaken for an Imposter: In "M.A.V.O. Costume Ball", when he returns to the meeting hall after Teddy's escape, L.B. thinks he's someone in a Quellor costume for a party and even awards him first place for the funniest costume.
Oh, Crap!: When he sees the power pack for his Psycho Electro abilities begin to short out, Quellor immediately tries to escape his harness, but has no luck. The last instant before the power surge hits is a closeup of Quellor's horrified face as he realizes what's about to happen, enhanced by the fact that his normally featureless eyes have been given small pupils to emphasize his feelings. You almost feel sorry for him.
Orcus on His Throne: Zig-zagged. Before he meets Teddy, he's never seen outside of M.A.V.O. Headquarters. He'd prefer to send his henchmen to do things for himself while he stays at the Headquarters, but he's not afraid to lead the charge himself. He personally oversees the maiden voyage of the Eclipse, the search for the Black Box, and the expedition to Ying.
Ordered Apology: After Sludge calls Trudge fat, Quellor orders him to say he's sorry.
Pet the Dog: He shows a surprising amount of affection toward his "pets", especially a unique gray one named Dweezil. He also sometimes thanks his underlings when they actually do something useful.
Psycho Electro: Quellor attempts to gain this for an episode or two via a convoluted set of wires and a portable electricity generator. It doesn't end well.
Purple Is Powerful: His robe is dark purple, and he's the most powerful villain in Grundo.
Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony: The champagne bottle variant. When the M.A.V.O. airship is ready to launch, he smashes a bottle on it and christens it the Eclipse.
Speaks Fluent Animal: He can communicate with his pets.
Spit Take: In "Teddy Ruxpin's Birthday", when he sees that Tweeg is still alive, he spits out his drink. It hits the Understander.
Super-Strength: He's always been strong enough to lift and toss his underlings around, but when M.A.V.O.'s evil spell spreads through Grundo, he becomes so strong that he can rip a large stalactite out of a cave ceiling.
Surrounded by Idiots: Most of his minions are either just plain stupid or annoying. He feels frustrated. He wonders what he did to deserve them.
Tap on the Head: In "Teddy's Quest", when he takes on all three of his henchmen, he gets knocked on the head by Trudge's club, making him pass out and wake up in a cell unharmed.
Too Desperate to Be Picky: While Tweeg and L.B. are M.A.V.O. prisoners, he's forced to give them another chance in "Anything in the Soup" because they're the only ones who are familiar with Teddy.
[Verb] This!: When he catches L.B. trying to make off with the Black Box, L.B. feebly says he was taking out to be dry-cleaned. "I'll dry-clean you!"
Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: For a basically charming series (for the most part), Quellor does give an ominous vibe.
Villain No Longer Idle: After he encounters Teddy face to face for the first time, he becomes a lot more proactive in M.A.V.O.'s activity. This is a turning point in the series when things start to get darker and more dangerous.
Villain Respect: He praises Gimmick's inventiveness when his stolen plans allow M.A.V.O. to build their own airship.
Villain Song: In his part of "All Locked Up", he sings about how he'd love to do evil as much as Teddy would do good.
Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: When L.B. finds himself stuck working as his maid, Quellor says that L.B. should consider the privilege of working for him to be reward enough.
Wolverine Claws: He dons some fake long claws when he attempts to go Psycho Electro, with shocks generated from their tips.
X-Ray Sparks: His when his electrical power system shorts out and he gets electrocuted, he looks like a skeleton in a silhouette. This is actually the closest thing we get to seeing what he looks like under his clothes.
Yellow/Purple Contrast: He wears a yellow hood, cape, and belt over a purple cloak.

Eleanor Tweeg

Voiced by: Abby Hagyard

First appearance: "Grubby's Romance"

Tweeg's overbearing mother, a troll who sees him as a disappointment. Tweeg is always trying to make her proud by becoming a member of M.A.V.O.

Abhorrent Admirer: She has one in the form of the Mudblup King. He's in love with her but she can't stand being close to a walking, talking pile of mud.
Abusive Parents: Of the emotional variety to both her son and her ex-husband. Apparently, the first time she laid eyes on him was two or three weeks after he was born, and since then, all she's done for him is berate him.
Alto Villainess: She has a deep, rough voice for a female character, though she rarely sings.
Arranged Marriage: On the receiving end, courtesy of her son selling her to the Mudblup King.
Bill... Bill... Junk... Bill...: In "The Ying Zoo", she sorts through her mail, saying "Blackmail demands, extortion notices, death threats...always the same junk mail!"
Blatant Lies: When she produces the Crystal that she kept for herself, she tells Tweeg, "It must have got jammed behind the cheap upholstery in that wagon of yours."
Cane Fu: She walks with a wooden cane that she sometimes uses as a weapon.
Compliment Backfire: After Mrs. Maggotheart calls her "too kind" after she congratulates her on becoming the new Eclipse commander, Eleanor says she'll have to watch that.
Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: During Wizardweek, when it's her turn in the relay obstacle course, she tries to cheat by running on the ground instead of using the ropes. It doesn't work because you need the ropes to get over the water.
Disappointed in You: She sends a letter expressing her disappointment in him.
Domestic Abuse: She verbally abused both her husband and her son all the time.
Evil Old Folks: She looks like an old, gray woman and is evil through and through.
Evil Smells Bad: Her perfume of choice is "Essence of Garlic".
Fate Worse than Death: When the Mudblup King wants to make her his queen, she says she'd rather rot than be married to him.
The Ghost: In the original book and tape series, she's mentioned but never appears. She becomes a full-blown character in the animated series.
Gold Digger: When she hears that Tweeg can make gold, she suddenly shows uncharacteristic concern for his well-being, and it's implied that she only married Elroy for his surfing winnings.
Greed: She's both tight with money and willing to steal what she thinks are valuable crystals from her son.
Green and Mean: She's a mean, green troll. Trolls in the Teddy Ruxpin universe come in many colors, but she's an especially mean one.
Hair-Trigger Temper: She goes into a rage over all kinds of things, but especially anything to do with Tweeg or the Mudblup king.
Harmless Electrocution: In "M.A.V.O. Costume Ball", Tweeg's joy buzzer is so powerful that it overloads her with electricity and leaves her hair standing on end, but she's okay afterwards.
Hate Sink: Eleanor is notably both the only Abusive Parent and domestic abuser in the series, despite every bit of it being played for laughs. It's downright cathartic when Tweeg turns the tables on her for his own profit.
Interspecies Romance: Well, interspecies marriage, at least. It wasn't romantic. Eleanor's a troll and Elroy's a Grunge.
Jerkass: She hates almost anyone apart from Ickly, Sparky, and Quellor. She never feels a hint of remorse for being an abusive mother to Tweeg.
Kick the Dog: She's proud of how much she mistreats her son and takes any chance to do it.
Lethal Chef: Her goulash is so terrible that the Hermit of Leekee Lake manages to use it as acid to eat through his chains.
Malicious Misnaming: Once refers to Wizardweek as Lizardweek.
Monster Fan Girl / All Girls Want Bad Boys: Is romantically attached to Quellor. The latter trope is why her marriage to Tweeg's father, a Nice Guy, didn't work out.
My Beloved Smother: Most of the time she is emotionally distant and detached from her son, but that doesn't stop her from swinging into this trope full tilt in his presence.
Not a Mask: When the Trio meet her for the first time, they're convinced that she's really Tweeg using one of his disguises and think that it's just on very tightly when they try to pull it off. She's offended that they think she is her son.
Pet the Dog: On the rare occasions when she's seen Tweeg do something right for a change, she'll willingly acknowledge it and even call him "son". When the Understander takes over and fires Bognostroclum, Eleanor personally nominates Tweeg for his job.
Prim and Proper Bun: In her younger days, her hairstyle was a ponytail, but after she got old and her hair turned gray, she started wearing an old lady's bun.
Rank Up: For most of the series, she's a regular member of M.A.V.O. She briefly becomes the new Understander of Legends when the Understander becomes the new Supreme Oppressor, although when the latter goes back to her old position, Eleanor goes back to being a regular member.
Secondary Color Nemesis: Like her son, she is green and wears purple.
Sinister Schnoz: Her long, pointed, warty nose looks like a stereotypical wicked witch's nose.
Sleep Mask: Wears one in bed as seen in "Octopede Sailors".
Solitary Sorceress: She lives in an old house, with only her pet for company, way out in the middle of nowhere near the Wall of Ying.
So Proud of You: Occasionally, she shows genuine approval when he accomplishes something for a change. She says this word for word in "The Crystal Book" when he manages something on his checklist of bad deeds and in "M.A.V.O. Costume Ball" when he pulls a malicious prank on her.
Start My Own: Halfway through Wizardweek, she gets fed up with Tweeg's team losing, so she and Sparky form their own team.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Any time she and Tweeg work together.
That Reminds Me of a Song: Seeing Tweeg stuck in a quicksand pit during the race, she says it makes her feel like singing. Yes, that's how much she hates her son.
Villainous Friendship: She and Bognostroclum are old friends. He's one of the only people that she's genuinely nice to, and she's able to talk him into bending the rules just this once when she has the Crystals for Quellor.
Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: She's bitter over the fact that her son doesn't show his appreciation for her just acknowledging him and feeding him maybe once or twice when he was young.
Why Couldn't You Be Different?: She's always reminding her son how she hates the way he's no good as a villain.
Wicked Witch: Lives in a spooky house with a bat-like pet, and looks like an ugly, green hag with warts and a long nose. Though she doesn't know a lick of real magic, she fulfills every other part of the trope.

Ickly Bognostroclum

Voiced by: Pier Paquette

First appearance: "Tweeg's Mom"

The gatekeeper of M.A.V.O. and Quellor's right-hand monster. He's obsessed with rules and regulations and won't do anything if the paperwork isn't filled out. He has a habit of quoting the M.A.V.O. handbook and citing exactly where in the book a rule is printed.

Accidental Misnaming: Briefly calls Teddy a "lollipop" instead of an Illiop in his first appearance. He was trying to repeat what Eleanor whispered to him, so maybe she was being too quiet for him to hear properly.
Bait-and-Switch Comment: In "The Black Box", he says, "Ah, Tweeg. How wonderful to see your face again. Reminds of the last time I was sick!"
Blatant Lies: Like L.B. and the Tweegs, he decides to hold onto one of the Crystals, leaving just one to present to Quellor. When Tweeg is sent to gather the rest, he nervously tells him he "misplaced it earlier".
Bothering by the Book: He knows all the M.A.V.O. rules by heart, and he does his best to enforce them on everybody. Quellor has come close to throttling him twice for such actions.
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: His rule-blabbering may get on people's nerves, but it's also what makes him one of the few M.A.V.O. members who is actually good at his job.
The Dragon: To Quellor. He's his right-hand monster and often the only one he can count on to do his job right.
Gate Guardian: His job is the keeper of the gate at M.A.V.O. Headquarters.
Horned Humanoid: Has a pair of horns.
Inane Blabbering: Twice in the series, he falls into this state thanks to Tweeg: once when Tweeg showed up with the Black Box, and once where he proved Not Quite Dead.
Last-Name Basis: Most people call him Bognostroclum. Eleanor calls him Ickly because they're old friends. Eventually, so does Tweeg because he can't pronounce "Bognostroclum".
Obsessively Organized: He's obsessed with doing everything exactly the way the rule book says.
Obstructive Bureaucrat: He insists that everything be done by the book and by filling out any attached paperwork. He always seems to have the right forms on hand for anyone to do anything at M.A.V.O.
Photographic Memory: He's memorized the M.A.V.O. handbook so well that he can recite the exact section, page, paragraph, or line of each rule.
Punch-Clock Villain: Subverted. He seems like he's being evil because it's literally his job, but he once stole one of the Crystals for himself because a real villain never passes a chance to steal.
The Reliable One: Because he sticks to the rules but will bend them when his boss orders him to, he's Quellor's most dependable minion.
Rules Lawyer: He's got every single M.A.V.O. rule memorized and uses them like weapons. As keeper of the gate, he's got a rule for every occasion when it comes to keeping out the riffraff.
Screw the Rules, It's the Apocalypse!: As obsessed as he is with the rulebook, he'll cast it aside when his life is in danger. When he refuses to allow a disguised Wooly to join in M.A.V.O. in "Escape from M.A.V.O." because it's not the time and place for recruiting new members, Wooly's threats are enough to make him forget the rules and give Wooly application forms.
Staff of Authority: He always carries a long ornate staff, but it's more of a symbolic item than a weapon.
The Unpronounceable: But only to Tweeg, who struggles to say "Bognostroclum".
Villainous Friendship: He and Eleanor are old friends. He's one of the only people that she's genuinely nice to, and she's able to talk him into bending the rules just this once when she has the Crystals for Quellor.

The Understander of Legends

Voiced by: John Stocker

First appearance: "Tweeg's Mom"

An old, vaguely trollish woman and the wisest member of M.A.V.O. Her job is being the keeper of M.A.V.O.'s ancient knowledge. She's a cautious, pragmatic villain who has a secret dream of becoming the Supreme Oppressor herself.

Affably Evil: She's usually very soft-spoken for a M.A.V.O. member, although she has her limits.
Bastard Understudy: She acts devoted to her superiors and the cause for a long time. She really wants to be the Supreme Oppressor, but she's willing to take her time and work behind the scenes. Late in the series, she gets tired of M.A.V.O. failing to find Teddy Ruxpin, so when everything is in place, the gloves come off and she takes over.
Big "SHUT UP!": Delivers one of these in "Fugitives" when she gets fed up with listening her fellow M.A.V.O. women, yelling "SILENCE!"
Cunning Linguist: The legends of M.A.V.O. are carved in the stone walls of the meeting hall. Most people can't read them, so the Understander's job is to understand them.
Determinator: After she takes over M.A.V.O., she devotes all resources toward finding Teddy and refuses to give up.
Dragon Ascendant: Briefly declares herself the new Supreme Oppressor, even though she doesn't have the Black Box. Ironically, she loses her position to another Dragon Ascendant, L.B., when he does have the Black Box.
Dragon with an Agenda: She's one of Quellor's most high-ranking servants, but she has her own motivations beyond her job. She wants Quellor's position, but we don't learn this until late in the series.
Everyone Calls Her "Barkeep": She's only ever called by her title. This confuses Tweeg a bit in "Thin Ice" when the M.A.V.O. positions get reshuffled and she's no longer the Understander.
Evil Cripple: She's got a hunched back and can't walk very well. Still plenty evil.
Evil Genius: Her job is knowing the legends and secrets of the Monsters and Villains Organization.
Evil Old Folks: She might be the oldest member of M.A.V.O.
Evil Sounds Deep: For a woman, she has a low, almost masculine-sounding voice, due to her voice actor being male.
Finger Extinguisher: She blows out a candle in "Teddy's Quest" by pinching the flame in her fingers.
Gracefully Demoted: When L.B. gets ahold of the Black Box and is declared the new Supreme Oppressor, she doesn't argue, since she's afraid of the Black Box just like everyone else. She goes back to being the Understander.
I Want Them Alive!: After Quellor dispatches his minions get Teddy dead or alive, she argues that they need him alive to get the Crystals. Quellor doesn't listen, so she conspires behind his back. After she takes over and puts out a wanted poster for Teddy, it says, "Wanted Alive".
I Warned You: She suggested to Quellor that the Crystals that Tweeg brought them might be fake and is happy to remind him that they turned out to be just salt.
Manipulative Bastard: She pulls the strings on Sludge, Drudge, and Trudge to manipulate them into helping her usurp Quellor's spot.
Ms. Exposition: This is literally part of her job: to explain M.A.V.O.'s goals and legends and what's so important about them.
No Name Given: She's only called the Understander. When she moves up and Eleanor takes her spot, Tweeg finds it a bit confusing in "Thin Ice" when Mrs. Maggotheart tells him what's what.
Only Sane Woman: Surrounded by idiots, jerkasses, and power-mad tyrants, she's easily the most stable and sensible person at M.A.V.O.
Pragmatic Villainy: She wants to spread evil across Grundo as much as anyone, but she is patient, cautious, and calculating. While Quellor wants Teddy out of the way one way or another, the Understander wants to keep him alive because he can lead them to the Crystals.
Staff of Authority: Always carries a staff with an orb on top to show her authority.
Tranquil Fury: At first. When she discovers the fake Crystals are pieces of salt, she tells Quellor coldly as she crushes one in her hand. Later, when she betrays Quellor and takes over M.A.V.O., her temper shows more.
Women Are Wiser: Easily the wisest member of Quellor's underlings, while the male henchmen are usually more incompetent.

Mrs. Maggotheart

Voiced by: Rick Jones

First appearance: "Tweeg Gets the Tweezles"

The M.A.V.O. dues collector who makes sure members are completing their lists of bad deeds. Most members of M.A.V.O. fear her because of all the bills she forces them to pay.

Accidental Kidnapping: In "Fugitives", she's sent to kidnap Teddy and accidentally brings back the Hermit instead, not knowing there was more than one Illiop in Grundo.
Accidental Misnaming: When she first appears, she accidentally calls Tweeg "Tweek". Unlike the Bounders, she just misread his name on a paper.
Ash Face: She ends up covered in char marks after Tweeg's cannon hits her wagon.
The Captain: After the Understander becomes the new Supreme Oppressor, she is appointed the new commander of the M.A.V.O. pirates.
Cool Sword: When she becomes commander of the M.A.V.O. pirates, she gets a sword.
Creepy High-Pitched Voice: The highest-pitched M.A.V.O. member. You can tell she's a villain trying to hide her nastiness when she talks pleasantly.
Delayed Reaction: In "Escape from M.A.V.O.", when she discovers the Airship parked at M.A.V.O., she's distracted by the parking violation committed, so it takes her a minute to realize what she's looking at.
The Dreaded: She is this to most of M.A.V.O. because of all the bills she gives them. In fact, being locked in a room with her is a punishment reserved for the biggest rule breakers.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She has a husband named Spittle.
Evil Debt Collector: Mrs. Maggotheart combines this with Intimidating Revenue Service in her role as M.A.V.O.'s dues collector. Once Tweeg becomes an apprentice member, she dogs him every day demanding he pay the rather sizable debt he's accrued.
Evil Is Petty: She throws out bills for whatever minor excuse she can think of. Let her hang a wanted poster on your front door? You pay to rent it. Don't know where the person in the poster is? You're fined for not knowing.
Faux Affably Evil: She often speaks very pleasantly and politely but goes into an absolute fury when she's upset.
The Friend Nobody Likes: Being a debt collector, no one in M.A.V.O. likes to deal with her. They put up with her because they need her to do her job.
Green and Mean: She's got sickly green skin and is particularly nasty.
Hate Sink: Is probably the most despicable character in the series. She makes Tweeg looks like a boy scout.
Hold Your Hippogriffs: In one episode, she says "Thank badness" because to M.A.V.O., Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad.
Intimidating Revenue Service: She furiously hounds Tweeg until he pays. If he doesn't, M.A.V.O. will come for him. Given she also has Sludge, Drudge, and Trudge assisting her, the intimidating part comes with the territory.
Kick the Dog: She'll happily bully a sick person to give herself more points as a M.A.V.O. member.
Middle-Management Mook: Not quite one of the top dogs at M.A.V.O., not very action-oriented, but has an important job. She manages day-to-day affairs like finances and liaison that keep M.A.V.O. running. Ironically, people hate dealing with her even more than Quellor.
Mood-Swinger: She tends to flip between a sickeningly sweet voice and a shrieking temper multiple times in the same conversation.
No Full Name Given: Her first name is unknown.
Psycho Pink: Wears a pink cloak to contrast against her froggy green skin.
Rank Up: Promoted to commander of the M.A.V.O pirates in "Thin Ice".
Stepford Smiler: Wavers between this and Suddenly Shouting. Gimmick only witnesses the former and mistakenly believes she is a pleasant person.
Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Not even Quellor or the Gutangs are ruthless capitalists collecting debt For the Evulz.

Sludge, Drudge, and Trudge

Voiced by: Pier Paquette (Sludge), Les Lye (Drudge), Rick Jones (Trudge)

First appearance: "The Mushroom Forest"

A trio of M.A.V.O. enforcers Quellor tasks first with finding Teddy Ruxpin, then with capturing Tweeg. They're actually formidable in a fight, but their tracking skills leave much to be desired.

Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When Quellor finds out that they lied to him about killing Tweeg, they're all willing to beg for him to spare their lives.
Alphabetical Theme Naming: Their names rhyme: Sludge, Drudge, and Trudge. It extends to Drudge's family (see below).
Backhanded Apology: After Quellor orders Sludge to apologize for calling Trudge fat, Sludge just says, "I'm sorry you're so fat". Trudge is dumb enough to accept this.
Blame Game: In "Autumn Adventure", when Quellor learns that they lied about killing Tweeg, they try to blame each other for coming up with the idea.
The Brute: They're all super-strong villains but not too bright.
Carry a Big Stick: Trudge is usually seen carrying around a huge club as his weapon.
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Sludge is blue, Drudge is green, and Trudge is tan.
Comically Missing the Point: They do this a lot. When Quellor gives them orders and asks them if they have any questions, they ask stupid questions that have nothing to do with the topic.
Cranial Eruption: In "Thin Ice", when Sludge insults Eleanor, she angrily throws her hairbrush at him and gives him a bump on the head.
Deadpan Snarker: Drudge. He gets some of the wittiest lines of any M.A.V.O. member. When visiting Tweeg's house, he says, "For a guy who knows how to make gold, he sure lives cheap."
Death Faked for You: When they fail to capture Tweeg in "A Race to the Finish", they stick some slime mold in a bottle and present it to Quellor, claiming that it's a pulverized Tweeg.
Decoy Damsel: When M.A.V.O. accidentally kidnaps the Hermit of Leekee Lake instead of Teddy, they have Sludge dress up as the Hermit in a dungeon cell and grab Teddy when he tries to rescue the Hermit.
The Ditz: Trudge. The other two are dumb but not quite as clueless as him.
Divergent Character Evolution: Though they appear as early as "The Mushroom Forest", they started as generic henchmen and didn't even have names for a few episodes. As they started to appear more, they gained distinct personalities: Sludge the fiercest and the leader, Drudge the slightly more sensible Deadpan Snarker, and Trudge the strongest and dumbest.
The Dog Bites Back: How the Understander gets them to go along with her coup, she points out Quellor's Bad Boss tendencies and offers them better positions under her rule.
Dumbass Has a Point: Sometimes, they make good points. In "Leekee Lake", Sludge suggests recruiting Drudge's cousin for deep water salvage. Quellor likes the idea. In "Winter Adventure", when Tweeg is caught and tied up, Trudge points out that they'll never get any answers from Tweeg if they gag him. In "Teddy's Quest", Drudge sees a flaw in the Understander's scheme: they can't take over if Quellor has the Black Box.
Dumb Muscle: All three qualify as far as M.A.V.O. is concerned, but Trudge serves as this for the group itself, being both the strongest and the dumbest of the trio. He's actually powerful enough that he accidentally knocks out Quellor himself when he turns around.
Elite Mooks: As Quellor's personal henchmen, they rank a cut above most mooks in M.A.V.O.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Drudge has a family in Ying that he seems to be fond of.
Extreme Omnivore: When Drudge was a kid, he ate his cousin's coloring book.
Family Theme Naming: Drudge has a cousin named Dredge, the son of his Auntie Smudge and Uncle Grudge.
Fiery Redhead: Sludge has deep, crimson hair and the worst temper of the three.
Forgot to Mind Their Head: It happens to Sludge while they're tearing apart Tweeg's tower for the gold formula and his head is in a cupboard.
Genius Ditz: Drudge knows how to manipulate a reluctant relative into helping him, has been to school (someplace called Troll Tech), and is one of the only characters in the whole series to see through a Paper-Thin Disguise when he recognizes Teddy in his Mudblup costume.
Goldfish Poop Gang: Not really quirky enough for the other trope, but they tend to show up a lot to cause trouble for the good guys.
Good Old Fisticuffs: Sludge and Drudge usually fight barehanded, although they did once briefly grab a sword and a mace respectively to use.
Green and Mean: Drudge is a dull shade of green.
I Am Big Boned: When Sludge complains about Trudge being fat, Trudge insists that he is "husky".
Interrogation by Vandalism: In "Winter Adventure", the three of them come to Tweeg's tower demanding his formula for turning buttermilk into gold. When he doesn't hand it over, they tie him up and throw everything around the room. Tweeg can hardly stand to watch.
Malicious Misnaming: Drudge once calls Teddy "Teddy Dustbin", a name Tweeg once used.
Manipulative Bastard: Believe it or not, Drudge. He gets his cousin Dredge to go along with M.A.V.O.'s plan by threatening him, first by bringing up Dredge's mom and then the Supreme Oppressor's Black Box.
Minion with an F in Evil: Less due to any lack of desire to be evil and more down to their sheer stupidity.
The Napoleon: Sludge is the smallest but also the bossiest and most short-tempered of the three.
Noodle Incident: Drudge once mentioned in passing that he was kicked out of Troll Tech.
Oh, Crap!: In "Autumn Adventure", they realize they're in big trouble when Quellor sees Tweeg still alive. Later in the same episode, they think they've caught the Trio in their Mudblup costumes, only to realize too late that they're real Mudblups.
Only Sane by Comparison: Drudge is by a small margin the smartest and most sensible of the three, but compared to the rest of M.A.V.O., he's still an idiot.
Ordered Apology: Quellor orders Sludge to apologize for calling Trudge fat.
Outfit Decoy: When Teddy goes to rescue the Hermit from the M.A.V.O. dungeon, he sees someone in a cell in the Hermit's rope, hood up, facing the back of the cell. It turns out to be Sludge in disguise.
Plank Gag: In one episode, while trying to make Tweeg's gold recipe, Quellor tells them to stand aside. Trudge turns around and knocks Quellor into the mixture with his club.
Psychopathic Manchild: All three are dangerous brutes and will pummel their enemies mad, but they have the mentality of children. When Quellor announces that they're going to the Ying Zoo, Drudge responds like an eager child.
Real Men Wear Pink: Sludge wears pink armor.
Remember the New Guy?: They're not really introduced. They appear suddenly in "The Mushroom Forest" without even explaining who they are.
Ring-Ring-CRUNCH!: In "Winter Adventure", when the alarm clock in Tweeg's tower wakes them up, Sludge smashes it with his fist.
Savage Spiked Weapons: In "Teddy's Quest", Drudge snatches a mace off a suit of armor to fight Quellor. It fit him being one of The Brutes.
Self-Deprecation: When Drudge calls his cousin too stupid to be dishonest, he says it's a family trait.
Simpleton Voice: They all sound this way at times, but mostly Trudge.
Sinister Schnoz: Trudge has about the hugest nose in the show.
Terrible Trio: They're three nasty but ineffective villains who are hardly ever seen one without the others. Sludge is the aggressive leader, Drudge is Only Sane by Comparison, and Trudge is the Dumb Muscle of the three.
Villains Out Shopping: When Quellor announces that they're going to the Ying Zoo to get Tweeg, Drudge is excited about going to the zoo. They also briefly join the good guys in a costume parade.
Vitriolic Best Buds: They don't always get along, but they stick together anyway.
Your Costume Needs Work: In "Autumn Adventure", when they join Teddy and the Grunges at a costume party, Teddy mistakes them for Grunges in costumes.

Blatsmear Rogle

Voiced by: Robert Bockstael

First appearance: "The New M.A.V.O. Member"

A member of the M.A.V.O. Board of Directors. Usually a background character, though he has a notable role in a few episodes.

Ascended Extra: When he first appears, he's treated as just one of the background monsters to the point where you can mistake which one is him if you're not paying attention. Later, he gets a supporting role in a few episodes.
Brutal Honesty: He's the one who tells Quellor that he's hardly the Supreme Oppressor anymore without the Black Box, the source of his power. "More of a Lessor Oppressor."
Cranial Eruption: In "Leekee Lake", after a Grunge bops him on the head, he's left with a bump.
Even Evil Has Standards: When Sludge suggests that they recruit Drudge's cousin Dredge, Rogle is nervous about it.
Got Volunteered: When Quellor leads an expedition to recover the Black Box, he forces Rogle to be the one to dive for the wreck of the Eclipse. It's all for nothing because it's too deep to swim to it.
Horned Humanoid: He's got two horns and a vaguely humanoid shape.
Jack of All Trades: Being often a background character, he tends to fill whatever role the show requires for him at the time.
Last-Name Basis: We only know his first name because Bognostroclum called him that in his first appearance.
Mook Lieutenant: During the hunt for Teddy Ruxpin in the winter, he leads the monsters.
New Job as the Plot Demands: His introduction episode says he's the originator of the slime pie, but when he gets his first significant role in an episode, he is officially identified as a Board of Directors member. Still later, he is shown leading a party tracking Teddy.
The Omniscient Council of Vagueness: He's a member of the M.A.V.O. Board of Directors, but it's never revealed what they actually do, and since the rest of the board members aren't identified, the board remains a mystery.
Recurring Extra: One of several monsters who usually appears a lot to make M.A.V.O. seem larger than the major members.
Suddenly Voiced: He speaks for the first time in "Leekee Lake", twenty-six episodes after his debut.

Quellor's pets

Voiced by: Various

First appearance: "The New M.A.V.O. Member"

A collection of flying rat/lizard/bat hybrids. They serve as Quellor's spies and message carriers.

Animal Espionage: In "The Hard to Find City", one of them feeds information on Tweeg's actions to Quellor.
Bat Out of Hell: They have bat wings, and some have other chiropteran features.
Ear Wings: Some have wings sticking out of the side of their heads.
Instant Messenger Pigeon: A whole swarm of them. Their job is to fly invitations to M.A.V.O. meetings all over Grundo.
Mix-and-Match Critters: They're like rats, lizards, or mixes of the two, and they all have bat wings.
Morality Pet: To Quellor. He seems to genuinely love his pets.
No Name Given: Their species is never named. Quellor calls one of them a "stoolpigeon", but that could just be its job rather than its species.
Non-Standard Character Design: Although they vary in appearance, they're all brown except for Quellor's favorite named Dweezil, who is light gray.
Parrot Pet Position: Dweezil the gray one is known to perch on Quellor's shoulder.
Reptiles Are Abhorrent: They serve a villain, and many of them look like lizards.
Sapient Pet: From the way Quellor can understand and communicate with them, they are implied to be sapient.
The Unintelligible: They just make squeaks and squawks.
You Dirty Rat!: They serve a villain, and many of them look like rats.

M.A.V.O. Pirates

Voiced by: Various

First appearance: "Captured"

A group of monsters who dress and act like pirates and serve as the crew of M.A.V.O.'s own airship the Eclipse.

Boarding Party: The M.A.V.O. pirates once used the Eclipse to board the Airship and kidnap the Trio.
Bowled Over: Gimmick uses a barrel to knock down the M.A.V.O. monsters in "Captured", accompanied by a bowling strike sound effect.
Dressed to Plunder: The M.A.V.O. pirates dress in stereotypical pirate outfits.
Pirate Song: They sing a song about how they're pirates in "Fugitives" while preparing for a voyage.
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: They dress and talk like pirates and have their own ship, but they never do any plundering or pillaging.
Sky Pirate: The M.A.V.O. pirates are the crew of their own airship, the Eclipse.
Talk Like a Pirate: The M.A.V.O. members don't usually talk this way, but they adopt pirate talk as the crew of the Eclipse.

The Land of Ying

The Sorcerer

Voiced by: Robert Bockstael

First appearance: "Tweeg the Vegetable"

The Wizard of Grundo's younger brother and the proprietor of the Ying Zoo, a tourist attraction that displays monsters and exotic creatures. Both are driven by greed, but the Sorcerer is more ruthless and villainous.

The Announcer: He announces the attractions at the Ying Zoo with a loudspeaker.
Annoying Younger Sibling: He's younger than the Wizard, and the two hate each other and call each other insulting nicknames.
Bad Boss: He's not very nice to anyone, not even his employees. At one point, he tells his lackey Spango, "Remind me to have something horrible done to you later."
The Barnum: Like the Wizard, he's a showman who runs a tourist attraction and only cares about milking people of as much dough as he can get from them.
Big Bad Ensemble: He leads his own group of villains separate from Tweeg, Quellor, the Mudblup King, and the Gutangs.
Collector of the Strange: He captures and collects exotic creatures to fill his zoo, and the rarer and odder his attractions, the more money he makes.
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Like his brother, he'll lie and deceive to con people out of their money, but he does it by running the Zoo as a major business, whereas the Wizard just sells honest information.
Creepy Crows: The Sorcerer has a talking pet crow who flies around Ying to spy on people and search for creatures who could be the next specimens for the Ying Zoo.
Embarrassing Nickname: He hates when his brother calls him "Bucky". He responds by calling his brother "Stinky".
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He's only ever called the Sorcerer.
Evil Counterpart: To the Wizard. While both are greedy con men, the Wizard is a fair man who tries to please people and is willing to help them if he gets paid. The Sorcerer, on the other hand, locks people in cages and exploits them for money.
Evil Sorcerer: He's a fake sorcerer, but he's definitely a villain. There's probably a reason why he's called the Sorcerer and his good brother is called the Wizard.
Fake Wizardry: In a world where few people understand advanced technology, he passes the off zoo's electric lighting system as magic.
The Jailer: He may see himself as a zookeeper, but he treats the beings who inhabit it like prisoners. And they didn't even do anything wrong. They're just a good way to bring in cash.
Mr. Exposition: He tells Teddy and Grubby the story about an Illiop who used to live in the zoo but escaped years ago. This turns out to be more important than it seems when you learn who that Illiop is.
An Offer You Can't Refuse: Quellor gives him one when he refuses to hand over Tweeg: if he doesn't, he'll become an attraction in his own zoo via the Black Box.
Only in It for the Money: The well-being of his exhibits doesn't matter to him. The only thing he cares about is how much money they make him.
Pointy Ears: Like his brother, his ears are pointy.
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: He's called the Sorcerer, but he's never seen doing any sorcery. Granted, he and his brother can't do real magic, but the Wizard at least tries to pass himself off as a wizard. Apart from the faux-magical lighting system mentioned above, the Sorcerer doesn't do anything even resembling magic. He's just a businessman who happens to dress like a sorcerer.
Quarreling Song: In "Wizardland", he and his brother sing a song that is basically a debate about who's got the better tourist attraction.
Reverse Psychology: He pulls this on Gimmick. When Wizardland steals his customers, he tries to get Gimmick to build a theme park ride in the zoo. Gimmick initially refuses because it does him no good if he's still a prisoner, but the Sorcerer plays on Gimmick's pride and pretends to doubt whether he can do it. Gimmick, being an Insufferable Genius, decides to prove he can.
Sibling Rivalry: He and the Wizard take this to the next level. The Wizard opens a theme park called Wizardland across the way from the Ying Zoo, and the two constantly compete for customers.
Slogan-Yelling Megaphone Guy: He uses a megaphone to announce how great his zoo is and bring back the customers that his big brother is stealing at his new theme park.
Surrounded by Idiots: He feels this way about his employees.
Trash Talk: He and the Wizard enjoy doing this to each other. And they use megaphones to do it.

The Henchmonsters

Voiced by: Various

First appearance: "Tweeg the Vegetable"

A group of monsters who dress like soldiers and serve the Sorcerer.

Bird People: One of the Henchmonsters is a female anthropomorphized blue bird. On one version of the map of Grundo, the western part of Ying is even labeled "Bird People".
Dumb Muscle: The large, yellow, pig-nosed Henchmonsters serve as the muscle to carry out the Sorcerer's bidding but don't seem very bright.
Identically Named Group: Three large, yellow monsters are all named Fred.
Knows the Ropes: They used lassos in "The Ying Zoo" to capture Teddy and Grubby and drag them to their cells.
Mooks: They're mostly nameless creatures who give the heroes a threat to deal with.
Non-Mammal Mammaries: One of the Henchmonsters is a female blue birdlike creature who has a pair of breasts.
Pig Man: The Freds have pig-like snouts and occasionally make snorting noises.
The Smurfette Principle: The blue birdlike creature is the only known female Henchmonster.
Undying Loyalty: The Sorcerer puts up with them because they are, according to him, "extremely loyal".

Dredge

Voiced by: Les Lye

First appearance: "The Third Crystal"

Drudge's tentacled cousin from a swamp in Ying. M.A.V.O. recruited him to retrieve the Black Box from Leekee Lake.

Alphabetical Theme Naming: Drudge and Dredge's names are almost identical.
Canon Foreigner: Didn't appear in the original book and tape series.
Combat Tentacles: In "Up for Air", he attacks Teddy in Leekee Lake with his tentacles. He rips Teddy's diving helmet off and might have made Teddy drown if Teddy hadn’t discovered the Fourth Crystal's power.
Did Not See That Coming: As he tries to chase and eat Teddy in his diving suit, he did not expect a second Illiop to show up and give him an electric shock. "Drudge didn't say nothing about any underwater hazards."
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: He loves his mother, Drudge's Auntie Smudge. When he initially refuses to do his cousin a favor, Drudge convinces him by threatening to tell her.
Family Theme Naming: Drudge and Dredge are cousins.
Harmless Electrocution: Three times in "Up for Air". When he tries to eat Teddy in Leekee Lake, the Hermit saves Teddy with his Static Stun Gun. When Dredge grabs the stun gun and goes after them, he accidentally hits the metal surface of the Sub-Water Boat with it, which shocks his whole body. Then, when he tries to stop the Sub-Water Boat, Teddy presses a button that releases an even bigger shock.
Hybrid Monster: Based on his appearance and relationship to Drudge, he must be the offspring of a Troll and some kind of cephalopod-like monster.
Knotty Tentacles: While he's chasing Teddy around the wreck of the Eclipse, he sticks two of his tentacles through the portholes, causing Teddy to tie them in a knot.
Nerves of Steel: Subverted. While M.A.V.O. is waiting for Dredge to come back up, Quellor suggests that he might have met his match down there. Drudge denies this and states the trope name exactly. Just then, Dredge leaps out of the water in terror.
Quellor: Nerves of steel, eh?
Drudge: Okay then. How about aluminum foil?
Odd Name Out: He's the only known member of his family whose name doesn't rhyme. His parents are Smudge and Grudge, and his cousin is Drudge.
Once Done, Never Forgotten: The reason Dredge is reluctant to help his cousin? When they were kids, Drudge ate his coloring book! Even after all these years, Dredge hasn't forgiven him.
Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: After getting shocked one time too many, he swims away as fast as he can, jumps out of the lake, and resigns.
Super-Persistent Predator: When he spots Teddy in his diving suit, he decides to stop searching and have lunch.
Tentacled Terror: Dredge is a monster who's basically a half-Troll, half freshwater octopus-thing, and he proves a major threat to Teddy.
Tentacle Rope: He uses his tentacles to restrain Teddy by the legs.

Other Villains

Bounders

Voiced by: Les Lye (Harry), Pier Paquette (Hugo), Rick Jones (Spike), John Stocker (Biff)

First appearance: "The Treasure of Grundo"

A group of red armless bipeds. They're sarcastic and mischievous creatures who work for Tweeg. L.B. is their leader. Recurring Bounders include Harry, Hugo, Spike, and Biff.

Adaptation Dye-Job: Some appear in the books with different hair colors. Harry's hair is a much darker shade of purple in the cartoon than in the books, while Hugo's hair is light brown in the books but dark red in the cartoon.
Armless Biped: Bounders have two legs but no arms.
Callousness Towards Emergency: In "Grundo Graduation", Tweeg's tower catches fire, and the Bounders just stand there watching it. In "The Great Grundo Ground Race", they're callous towards Tweeg being stuck in quicksand, claiming that they're too busy singing.
Comedic Sociopathy: Whenever Tweeg becomes a victim of slapstick or his schemes backfire, the Bounders tend to just stand by laughing.
Dumb Muscle: A Bounder is much stronger than he looks, and some of them aren't very bright.
Early-Installment Weirdness: When they first appear,
The Gadfly: Like L.B., they love seeing Tweeg's reaction when they make a rude remark.
Handy Feet: Though most Bounders use their mouths as hands, they can use their feet.
Human Ladder: L.B. treats Biff as one in "King Nogburt's Castle" because he's too short to reach Tweeg's telescope.
Malicious Misnaming: Like L.B., they refuse to correctly pronounce Tweeg's name.
Meaningful Name: Spike has a spike on his head. Harry is the hairiest Bounder.
Named by the Adaptation: Some Bounders, such as Harry and Hugo, were in the books but unnamed.
Pet the Dog: Though they annoy Tweeg and complain about working conditions, they do willingly go to rescue him from Quellor's henchmen in "Winter Adventure", and when everyone in Grundo is giving out holiday gifts, they give Tweeg the best gift he could ask of them: they get his name right.
Punch-Clock Villain: Just like L.B., they help Tweeg commit crimes because it's their job.
Simpleton Voice: Spike and Biff have voices that make them sound unintelligent.
Three Stooges Shout-Out: Biff has Moe's bowl cut, Hugo has red hair around a bald spot like Larry, and Spike is sometimes bald like Curly (he's also been drawn with L.B.'s hair). Harry's thick, parted hair may be based on Shemp.
Waddling Head: Well, hopping head, but same thing. A Bounder is just a large head with a pair of legs and a tail sticking out the back.
Waving Signs Around: In the strike in "Teddy's Quest" mentioned above, the Bounders go on strike at the tower, waving signs and demanding their pay.

Buffy

Voiced by: Abby Hagyard

First appearance: "Grundo Graduation"

A female Bounder who becomes L.B.'s love interest later in the series. By the end of the series, they are married.

Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: She only wears a blue bow around her horn.
Adaptation Dye-Job: She appears in an illustration in one of the books where her hair is longer and blonde. In the cartoon, she has the same tuft of pink hair as L.B.
Armless Biped: Being a Bounder, she has two legs and no arms.
Ascended Extra: She only has a minor appearance in a single book. In the cartoon, she's a recurring character. Also, when she first appears in the cartoon she starts out as just a regular member of L.B.'s gang, but her role gets bigger as the series goes on and she's cemented as L.B.'s love interest.
Beach Kiss: In "On the Beaches", as she and L.B. stroll along the beach, L.B. proposes to her and she says yes, followed by a kiss between them.
Big Damn Kiss: After L.B. proposes on the beach, they share a kiss on the lips. The instant their lips touch, they are struck by a wave from the ocean, which makes the kiss feel even more intense.
Bouncing Battler: She doesn't usually take part in attacks but is still capable of this when she wants to.
Malicious Misnaming: Just like the rest of the Bounders, she'll call Tweeg any old thing that starts with "T-W".
My Beloved Smother: Her mother means well but is way too controlling when it comes to planning her wedding to L.B.
My New Gift Is Lame: Just about everyone brings a gift to her and L.B.'s wedding, but a lot of it looks like unwanted junk to her.
Named by the Adaptation: She appears in one of the books but isn't described or named. She was named Buffy for the animated series.
One of the Boys: She spends all her time hanging around male Bounders, isn't shown having any female friends, and takes part in the sporting events of Wizardweek.
Remember the New Guy?: Most of the Bounders were with the group since the beginning. Buffy, however, suddenly appears with the group near the end of "Grundo Graduation" without an introduction.
Satellite Love Interest: She doesn't have much of a personality other than "L.B.'s girlfriend".
The Smurfette Principle: She is the only female Bounder in the group. In fact, she's the only known female Bounder at all until her and L.B.'s mothers appear in the second-to-last episodes.
Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: You can tell she's a girl because of her long eyelashes and the bow around her horn.
Tuft of Head Fur: She has the same tuft of pink hair around the base of her horn as L.B.
Waddling Head: Well, hopping head, but same thing. A Bounder is just a large head with a pair of legs and a tail sticking out the back.
Waving Signs Around: In the strike in "Teddy's Quest" mentioned above, the Bounders start a protest at the tower, waving signs, demanding that Tweeg finally pay them.

Mudblups

Voiced by: Tony Pope (Mudblup King, special), John Koensgen (Mudblup King, series), various

First appearance: "Beware of the Mudblups"

A group of strange creatures made of mud. They live in a cave in the Great Desert and rarely venture out because they can't stand bright light.

Abhorrent Admirer: The Mudblup King falls in love with Tweeg's mother Eleanor when they get captured by the Mudblups. He would happily make her his queen if she didn't find him repulsive.
Achilles' Heel: When the bright light from Louie's camera blinds a Mudblup, Arin tells Teddy and Gimmick that the Mudblups detest bright lights.
Adaptation Expansion: In the books, they're not developed much more than being a nasty group of creatures who capture anyone who comes along. In the adaptations, they mine diamonds and have a king.
Always Chaotic Evil: Mudblups are repulsive monsters who live underground (as they are Weakened by the Light) and enslave anyone who dares wander into their caves.
Berserk Button: Do not enter their cave uninvited or steal their coal, or they will throw you in the dungeon. And don't call the king things like "Your Griminess" or "Your Sliminess".
Big Bad Ensemble: The Mudblup King leads his own people independently of other villains like Tweeg, Quellor, the Sorcerer, and the Gutangs.
Blinded by the Light: Mudblups live underground, so they can't stand bright lights. Louie's camera's light blinds the prison warden so Teddy, Gimmick, and Arin can escape, and when they come back to rescue Grubby, they carry candles.
The Brute: They're all strong but not too smart.
Carry a Big Stick: Large clubs are their weapon of choice.
Chekhov's Skill: In "Teddy and the Mudblups", a Mudblup clubs a rock that ricochets around the cave. Tweeg remembers this and comes up with a plan to use the Mudblups as a Grungeball team.
Cool Shades: There is one way that Mudblups can venture out in sunlight: by wearing sunglasses. The King wears a 1980s visor-style pair.
Didn't Think This Through: When they catch Leota and Seymour, they lock them in a cell, not realizing that the bars are too widely spaced to hold them.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The Mudblup King falls in love with Eleanor, though it's one-way.
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Mudblup King is just called that.
Hidden Depths: In "Win One for the Twipper", the Mudblups turn out to be pretty good Grungeball players.
Hidden Elf Village: They live in a cave in the Great Desert where no one else lives, have no mercy for thieves and intruders, and don't interact much with the outside world.
Innate Night Vision: Because they spend all their lives in caves, they can see in the dark.
Kryptonite-Proof Suit: Bright sunlight hurts their eyes, but they can be outside on a sunny day if they wear sunglasses.
Lethal Chef: Prince Arin says that their food is terrible, although he thinks Grubby's root stew is worse.
Muck Monster: They are made of mud, hence their name. How these creatures evolved in a dry desert environment is anyone's guess.
Oh, Crap!: This is their reaction anytime a bright light hits their eyes.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: They have red eyes to make them look even more menacing.
Rock Monster: In some ways, they behave more like this than a Muck Monster. While they're made of mud, they don't leave puddles or splatters of mud on whatever they touch. Mud is technically made of rock, so it counts.
Super-Strength: They're able to break right through solid rock despite being merely made of mud.
Verbal Tic Name: They often make "blup-blup" sounds, hence their name.
Voice of the Legion: In the animated series, a Mudblup often sounds like a few people speaking at the same time.
Weakened by the Light: Prince Arin explains that because the Mudblups spend all their time in darkness, they can't stand bright lights. The heroes use this to their advantage multiple times in the series.
Worthless Yellow Rocks: They mine both coal and diamonds and think that the former is much more valuable and attractive than the latter.
Your Costume Needs Work: Sludge, Drudge, and Trudge briefly mistake them for the Trio, who were dressed in Mudblup costumes earlier.

Gutangs

Voiced by: Pier Paquette (Court Jester), John Koensgen (Gutang Ambassador), various

First appearance: "In the Fortress of the Wizard"

A tribe of evil, militaristic beings with powerful weapons and fighter planes to fight off any invasion. They live in the Hard to Find City high in the Treacherous Mountains.

Always Chaotic Evil: Gutangs are introduced singing a song about how mean and evil they are. Throughout the show, they use their flying machines to cause trouble for the heroes.
Ambadassador: All Gutangs are trained in warfare. Presumably, this includes the Ambassador who acts as their liaison to M.A.V.O.
Armored Villains, Unarmored Heroes: They always wear one-piece full-body armor that makes them look like a brown owl. Apart from Prince Arin, none of the heroes wear armor.
Armor Is Useless: Even though they're always wearing armor, it's easy enough to beat them up or knock them out cold if you can catch them off-guard.
"Ass" in Ambassador: The Gutang Ambassador may be good at his job, but he's a jerk and a villain who seizes the opportunity to milk M.A.V.O. of all the money he can.
Big Bad Ensemble: The Gutangs are a faction of villains who work independently from other Big Bads including Quellor, Tweeg, the Sorcerer, and the Mudblup King.
Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Gutangs appear to be monkey-like creatures, but they are not called monkeys.
Cool Helmet: Their helmet is so large that it covers their head and entire body and is specially designed to look like an owl.
Court Jester: One goes undercover as the jester of King Nogburt's court so he can poison the king's drink and feed information to Gutang invaders.
Expressive Mask: Sometimes, their helmets show expression, like an Eye Pop that says Oh, Crap!.
Eye Pop: As said above, one of them does this when he realizes he's in trouble while flying his plane in "Escape from the Treacherous Mountains".
The Faceless: The Gutangs' armor always hides their faces, although the Court Jester's eyes are visible through his mask.
Flower-Pot Drop: Teddy and Gimmick push a large planter on top of some Gutangs so they can knock them out and steal their armor.
Green and Mean: If their arms, legs, and tails say anything, Gutangs are green villains under their armor.
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Their weapons usually either miss or hit the hull of the Airship, never stopping the heroes. The closest they get to a good hit is when one of their arrows hits the airbag, but Teddy plugs the leak.
Inverse Law of Sharpness and Accuracy: The Gutangs' spears and arrows might hit the Airship or damage something, but they'll never actually hit or injure a person.
Leitmotif: Often, during Gutang raids or battles, a sped-up rearrangement of the Gutang song will play in the background.
Maniac Monkeys: Gutangs are monkey-like creatures and hostile to pretty much everyone that they can't do a business deal with.
The Mole: While undercover, the Court Jester feeds information to his people and sends lantern signals so they know when to attack.
Mooks: They all look alike and most of them exist to give the heroes someone to fight or shoot down.
Oh, Crap!: Even though you can't see their faces, you can still tell when they realize they're screwed when their planes have been jammed by Grubby's root stew.
Only in It for the Money: The Ambassador is willing to do business with M.A.V.O. and provide his people's services, but only if they get paid. When Quellor asks whether they're ever evil just for the fun of it, the Ambassador says, "Yes, but that costs extra."
Precursor Killers: In the finale, the truth behind them is finally revealed: For a long time, the Illiops thrived in the Hard to Find City and had a prosperous relationship with the Illipers. But then the Gutangs attacked both of their peoples. The surviving Illiops were driven out and forced to flee Grundo as the Gutangs took it over their city.
The Runt at the End: During their Villain Song, when a troop of Gutangs are marching on patrol, there's one running after them to catch up who ends up tripping and falling down the steps.
Tampering with Food and Drink: The Court Jester sneaks poison into King Nogburt's grundleberry juice.
Tap on the Head: The heroes sometimes knock them out but never kill them.
Uniformity Exception: The Gutang Ambassador's helmet has a bright red crest like an ancient Roman helmet, and he wears a blue sash fastened with a gold badge.
Villain Song: They have a song that they sing while marching about how terrible they are:
We're cruel, we're nasty, we're ugly, and we're mean.
We're as bad a gang of evil Gutangs as you have ever seen.
So don't come near our fortress, or you will have to pay
A terrible price. It won't be nice. It could ruin your whole day.
Villains Out Shopping: They love to play card games in their spare time.
Water Source Tampering: King Nogburt's castle gets its water from a series of secret underground aqueducts built long ago, but the Gutangs have been secretly stealing the water, causing the kingdom's drought.

Sparky

Voiced by: Pier Paquette

First appearance: "Tweeg's Mom"

Eleanor Tweeg's pet. He is treated as a sort of "watchdog" but isn't too good at his job.

All Animals Are Dogs: Sparky acts like a dog and is treated like one, but he looks reptilian. Whatever he is, he sure isn't a dog.
Canon Foreigner: Didn't appear in the original book and tape series.
Cartoon Creature: It's not clear what he's supposed to be. He's short, fat, quadrupedal, vaguely reptilian, and has one eye and Ear Wings. He looks a bit like the offspring of a Bounder and one of Quellor's pets.
Circling Birdies: While warming up for the last Wizardweek race, he gets so dizzy that he sees circling stars.
Cyclops: He has one eye.
Ear Wings: He has batlike wings to fly with and they stick out of the side of his head.
Incompetent Guard Animal: He's not necessarily stupid, but he's bad at his job because he doesn't care about it.
Mix-and-Match Critters: He seems to borrow features from dogs, bats, lizards, and the mythical Cyclops.
Non-Human Sidekick: He usually stays at Eleanor's house, but he serves as her non-troll sidekick when they enter as a team in the Great Grundo Ground Race.
The Quiet One: He sometimes goes whole episodes without speaking.
Right-Hand Cat: Eleanor keeps him as a pet, and he's got an unpleasant personality, but he's not shown doing any fighting.
Sapient Pet: He's Eleanor's pet, but he can speak and acts like his own person.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He becomes so frustrated with being stuck on guard duty when his mistress goes to enjoy the M.A.V.O. costume ball that he decides to go to the party himself, expecting the Hermit to just stay put.
Snarky Non-Human Sidekick: He he's a snarky non-troll sidekick to Eleanor.
Suddenly Voiced: It isn't until many episodes after his debut that he speaks for the first time.

Characters / The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin

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The Trio

Allies

Major Allies

In General

Leota the Woodsprite

The Wooly What's-It

Prince Arin

Princess Aruzia

Fuzz the Fob

The Hermit of Leekee Lake/Burl Ruxpin

Grunges

Grunges

Louie

Jungle Grunges

Surf Grunges

Elroy Tweeg

King Nogburt's Castle

King Nogburt and Queen Lillibet

Old Beanly

Eunice

Other Grundonians

Fobs

The Wizard

Karen

Seymour

Katie

Amanda

Anythings

Wogglies

Maple and Zeb

Non-Grundonians

Ilana Ruxpin

Zelza and Xena

Grubby's Family

Digger

Villains

Tweeg and L.B.

In General

Jack W. Tweeg

L.B.

M.A.V.O.

In General

Ickly Bognostroclum

The Understander of Legends

Mrs. Maggotheart

Sludge, Drudge, and Trudge

Blatsmear Rogle

Quellor's pets

M.A.V.O. Pirates

The Land of Ying

The Sorcerer

The Henchmonsters

Dredge

Other Villains

Bounders

Buffy

Mudblups

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