Characters / The Magic Roundabout

A list of the characters in The Magic Roundabout.

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Main Characters

Dougal

Dougal / Pollux

^{Click to see his post- 2005 CGI era form.}

Voiced by: Michael Karp (1963 series, Pinwheel dub), Robbie Williams (2005 film), Daniel Tay (US redub), David Holt (2007 CGI Series)
Voiced in French by: Jacques Bodoin (1963-1966), Bernard Haller (1966), Christian Riehl (1966-1990), Henri Salvador (2005 film), Martial Le Minoux (2007 CGI Series)

The main character of the show who is a temperamental, grumpy, but lively dog. Despite his love and greed for sugar, he is loyal to his friends, including Florence, his sweet young owner.

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• Action Pet:
  • In the 2005 film, he shows this in the film's climax when he Took a Level in Badass as he bravely goes after the third diamond whilst avoiding Zeebad's attacks and places it into the roundabout's final slot.
  • This will later be used in the CGI reboot series, an example of this is "Dougal the Helpful Helper" where he immediately comes to Florence's rescue by fending off the enchanted vacuum, duster, and mop.
• Butt-Monkey: Sometimes, he can suffer from either bad luck or being outsmarted by any of his friends.
• Character Catchphrase: Particularly in the original series.
  • "Oh, what's the use." or sometimes "Oh, give me strength."
  • Whenever he is shocked our surprised, "What? What-what-what-what-what-what-what?!" ("Qu'est que ça que ce que ça?" in the French version)
  • Also, "Douce reine" in the French version, which translates to "Sweet queen".
• Cheaters Never Prosper: Of course, he does try to cheat in the CGI series, particularly "The Race" when he uses an electric skateboard, only for Zebedee to ricochet him back to the start when he is almost got to the village where the finish line is.
• The Comically Serious: He is shown to be serious at times, despite being usually grumpy, and very much gets caught up in comical slapstick moments.
• Deadpan Snarker: He happens to have a sharp tongue around his friends.
  Florence: (ariving to see Dougal, who is trying on a pair of glasses) Hello, Dougal. Why have you got glasses on for?
  Dougal: Because I'm going deaf.
  Florence: Oh. Oh, I see.
• Detective Animal: In "Dogtective" and "The Case of the Missing Carrots", Dougal would be wearing a deerstalker and calls himself the dogtective where he would be helping solve cases in the aforementioned respective episodes.
• Didn't Think This Through: Dougal would be hit by this in the original series and the CGI revival series. An example of this happens in "Mr. Grimsdale's Holiday" where he leaves the delivery cart with Dylan so he can relax at Florence's house. But what he didn't consider was that his pie is also in the cart when Florence mentions that to him, causing him to search for Dylan and the cart before eventually getting caught out by Ermintrude and Florence.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: At least in the French version of his very first appearance, he barks like a normal dog.
• Embarrassing Old Photo: Dougal is completely embarrassed when his Auntie Primrose shows his baby photographs in an album to Florence and everybody in the episode "Auntie Primrose".
• Excellent Judge of Character: In "Dougal and the Blue Cat", Dougal has his doubts about Buxton the blue cat and doesn't seem to trust him completely as he suspects that his arrival may link up to the event Dougal witnessed the night before. It turns out that his suspicions about Buxton the blue cat are proven correct when he tries to take over the Magic Garden and captures everyone else after he witnessed Buxton being crowned king and overhearing his evil plan.
• Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing: He is the Grumpy to Brian's Gleeful. Brian is happy-go-lucky and cheerful while Dougal is a bit pessimistic and grumpy. Regardless, Dougal is still good friends with him.
• Good Is Not Nice: Dougal would often be rude to anyone in the Magic Garden, though he isn't like that with his relationship with Florence.
• Gratuitous English: In the original French series, Dougal/Pollux, being an English character, would occasionally say certain phrases or words in English. Such episodes include "The Marvelous Cake", "Dylan, Sculptor", "Letter to the Queen", and "The Orchestra".
• Green-Eyed Monster: He can be jealous of other people from time to time. One example is the arrival of Buxton the blue cat in "Dougal and the Blue Cat".
• Hates Baths: As shown in the first episode of the CGI reboot series, Dougal doesn't want to take a bath, and spends the majority of the episode evading Florence and everyone as he tries to avoid taking one.
• Heroic Dog: Being Florence's dog, he always comes to her rescue, even in the 2005 film when he saves her life after re-imprisoning Zeebad.
  Dougal: It's what any incredibly heroic dog would do.
• I Am Very British: He is British in both the English and French versions of the original series. The latter version had Dougal speaking in somewhat broken French with an outrageous English accent as a result of Ivor Wood, who was the show's co-creator at that time.
• It's All About Me: He sometimes brags about himself from time to time.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Dougal may be pessimistic, selfish, and rude, but he is very loyal to his friends, especially Florence, his owner who he loves dearly.
• Knight in Sour Armor: He may be grumpy and complain most of the time, but has heroism built underneath him and does everything he can to protect his beloved owner Florence, along with his friends.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Dougal will get hit by this sometimes and often in the CGI series if his schemes get found out.
• Lazy Bum: In the CGI series, he would tend to sit outside Florence's house eating his pies.
• The Leader: Dougal self-appoints himself as this.
• Loose Lips: In the 2005 film, this is how Zeebad found out about the map due to Dougal unwittingly letting slip of the information whilst being interrogated.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: When he goes with Brian and Dylan or sometimes Florence, he fits in the role of the mean one as he is usually grumpy and selfish, mostly sarcastic and unsympathetic.
• No Sympathy: Dougal rarely shows any signs of sympathy to any of the characters in the original series when they are in despair.
• Puppy-Dog Eyes: Although he is a grown dog, Dougal would do this sometimes to Florence with "Bones are for Eating" being one example.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: He is the red oni (grumpy, mostly rude, and sometimes selfish) that contrasts Florence's blue oni.
• Rude Hero, Nice Sidekick: He's definitely the Rude Hero that contrasts with Brian's Nice Sidekick.
• Strong Family Resemblance: He and his Australian cousin Digger are exactly the same breeds and nearly lookalike, but Digger has auburn fur and a maroon nose. His Auntie Primrose has a similar resemblance to Dougal, except her fur is much darker with grey strands of fur, and wears green lipstick.
• Sweet Tooth: His love for sugar is one of his defining character traits.
• The Unapologetic: Displays this in the Nigel Planer version of "Once Upon a Time".
• Ungrateful Bastard: Dougal would sometimes show a lack of gratitude to his friends. This was lampshaded in "The Wishing Tree" by the one-time eponymous character, no less.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Brian, Dougal would often get irritated with him and even be rude to him. On occasion, he considers Brian his best friend.
• You Have to Believe Me!: When it comes to trying to tell everyone about Buxton's plans, no one, not even Florence herself, would believe him, especially when the cat is shedding tears.

Florence

Florence / Margote

^{Click to see her post- 2005 CGI era form.}

Voiced by: Kylie Minogue (2005 film and US redub), Sue Elliott-Nichols (2007 CGI Series)
Voiced in French by: Patricia Danot (1963-1990), Vanessa Paradis (2005 film), Karine Foviau (2007 CGI Series)

A sweet and kind-hearted girl who is Dougal's young owner and a good friend to everyone in the Magic Garden.

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• Adorably Precocious Child: Florence is quite mature for a young girl where she is level-headed in most situations and rarely gets frustrated.
• All-Loving Heroine: She is a sweet-natured young girl who loves all of her friends, especially Dougal in the gardens. If anyone in the gardens has a problem or encountered a situation, Florence is more than willing to help.
• Bookworm: Florence likes reading in her spare time where this trait comes up more often in the CGI series where at the start of "Snails Alive!" she was seen reading a book about a prince turned into a frog and she was moved to tears when she reads the happy ending where the prince was turned back to normal by a fair damsel with a kiss.
• Brainy Brunette: Has brown hair and is quite clever at either solving situations or setting up plans by using her wits. She is also very educated where one example is the CGI series episode "School's In, Out and Roundabout" where she helps Mr. Rusty solve his crosswords paper and she became the Magic Garden schoolteacher where she takes her role seriously in teaching her students, and as well as having to discipline Dougal for his rude behavior and interruptions.
• Break the Cutie:
  • In "Florence's Party", Florence feels really sad and hurt that her friends seemingly not caring about her birthday. In the Nigel Planer version, the poor girl even blew her nose with a hankie that she got from her Aunt she never met when her friends flat-out ignore her without saying a word.
  • In "Dougal and the Blue Cat", Florence cries whilst singing her sad song after she, along with everyone else were imprisoned in Buxton's dungeon.
  • In the CGI Series episode "Florence's Squeaky Toys", after hearing that the toys she ordered for Basil and Coral's birthdays have gone missing, she starts to shed tears, feeling devastated that she has nothing to give to them.
• Butt-Monkey: Florence would sometimes become a victim of slapstick due to Dougal's antics in the CGI Series.
• Caring Gardener: In the CGI series, Florence would plant flowers in her garden as well as watering them.
• Cheerful Child: Florence is generally positive, although it's more in the sense of being calm, optimistic, and sweet-natured.
• Children Do the Housework: Florence is capable of doing the housework in her house where she would be cooking pies for Dougal or keeping the house nice and tidy. She even started to wear a pink bandana over her hair and bow in Season 2 of the revival series while she does the housework.
• The Cutie: Florence's kind personality consists of her sweet nature, selflessness, and optimism is what makes her so adorable.
• Damsel in Distress:
  • Happens in both Dougal and the Blue Cat and the 2005 film where she is imprisoned by the respective villains, leaving Dougal being the one attempting to rescue her.
  • It also happens sometimes in the CGI Series, with "Read All About It!" being one example after her planned dramatic situation (which is an attempt to get Dougal to make an interesting story about it in the newspaper) goes horribly wrong when Train goes genuinely out of control with Florence still sitting in the carriage, holding on for dear life. Very fortunately, Dougal manages to save her.
• Death Glare: Florence would give some serious ones to Dougal in the revival series if she finds out what he has done in his selfish or devious schemes.
  • In "Higgledy Piggledy", she gives one to Dougal before he strikes the potato into the final piggling hole as she is very cross with him for cheating after catching him rigging one of the holes that Ermintrude was playing to make her lose. He then deliberately misses the hole and loses, giving Ermintrude back her victory.
• Demoted to Extra: In the 2005 film, she was reduced from the role of the deuteragonist to a supporting character, given that she has less screen time due to being trapped in the frozen roundabout. The 2007 revival series reverts her back to her deuteragonist role.
• Determinator: Florence is always determined to try and help her friends or convince Dougal otherwise on different things.
  • In "Magic Fairy Ring", when seeing Dougal's disbelief in fairies, Florence is determined to try and get him into believing in fairies and teaches her friends to dance like fairies. She doesn't give up trying to open Dougal's eyes until she sees that none of her friends are able to dance like fairies though before Zebedee arrives to give her a helping hand.
  • A later episode "The Genius" has Florence being determined to prove Dougal wrong after he deems her and her friends "pathetic" when he was talking to Mr. McHenry.
• Disapproving Look: In the CGI series, Florence would do this to express her disapproval not just for Dougal's rudeness and schemes, but mainly for any of Zebedee's mischievous tricks.
• Disney Death: At the end of the 2005 film, Florence appears to have died from hypothermia after being trapped in the frozen roundabout throughout the film, but it turns out she was comatose when an anxious Dougal revives her with kisses.
• Everyone Has Standards: Florence wouldn't stand for any rudeness or wrongdoings that come from her friends, but she does feel sorry for them, regardless.
  • In "No More Magic, Zebedee", despite being annoyed when Zebedee magically removed her flower garden, Florence doesn't like everyone's idea of upsetting Zebedee by stripping him from his magic powers, but she reluctantly goes along with it.
• Feminine Women Can Cook: Florence has a talent for culinary. In the original series episode "Baking A Pie", she has made a pie all by herself and uses Dougal's oven to cook it. Her culinary talent was shown more often in the revival series where she cooks pies for Dougal.
• Finger Wag: Florence sometimes does a "no-no" finger wag to show her disapproval of Dougal or any of her friends' wrongdoings.
• Friend to All Living Things: Florence is generally friendly to any living thing in the Magic Garden, besides her friends who are animals. Though, she isn't pleased when magpies eat her planted seeds to grow her vegetables, nor the insects that are trying to eat the flowers in her garden, causing her to try and shoo them away.
• A Girl and Her X: Florence and her pet dog Dougal.
• The Heart: She is the feminine member as well as the meditator of the gang to try to persuade everyone to get along.
• Heroes Love Dogs: She is very kind and nurturing towards Dougal.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Along with her friends minus Dougal, Florence didn't realize that Buxton was actually evil until she was chained up by the Blue Army and finally sees Buxton's true nature. It doesn't help that she didn't believe Dougal earlier when he tried to warn her and everybody else about Buxton.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: Florence has those in the post-2005 CGI era to emphasize her youthful innocence.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: She is a perfectly sweet and optimistic little girl with a kind and caring heart. Florence remains her optimism in times when her friends are in a spot of bother.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: Although she has Dougal as her dog, Florence is also fond of cats and takes a liking to Buxton when she meets him.
• Limited Wardrobe: Her dress consisting of a blue sweater and an orange skirt with a white petticoat is the only outfit Florence wears. This was lampshaded in the CGI Series episode "Barmy Army".
• Little Miss Snarker: While still being a sweet-natured little girl and not as snarky as Dougal, she does have her moments when dealing with him. The Nigel Planer episodes would somewhat occasionally have Florence being a Deadpan Snarker, usually leading more towards the "deadpan" part.
• Magic Skirt: Florence's orange knee-length skirt stays in place whenever she runs or jumps. Though her white panties can sometimes be very briefly shown whenever she runs past the camera frame.
• Minor Living Alone: In the post-2005 CGI era, Florence is shown to be living in her house independently and knows how to cook, keeping house and looking after Dougal who lives with her.
• Morality Chain: To Dougal. Florence doesn't appreciate his rudeness and his selfish or devious antics, and her stern side towards Dougal has a strong effect when she confronts Dougal if things are going too far.
• Never Bareheaded: Florence is never seen without her bow, though in two episodes in the revival series (Chilled Out Brian and Radio Roundabout) she is seen without it when she is sleeping in bed.
• Nice Girl: She is a well-mannered, friendly, and sweet-natured young girl.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: She's the nice one when she goes with Dougal and Brian in most episodes as she's optimistic, sweet, and more sympathetic.
• Only Sane Woman: Florence is more sensible and down-to-earth than Dougal or any of her friends whenever they do something that might be silly.
• Orange/Blue Contrast: Florence wears an orange skirt that contrasts with her blue sweater. The collar of her sweater was also orange before it was changed to white in the post-2005 CGI era.
• Plucky Girl: Very kind-hearted, calm, and optimistic, but never tend to give up when helping her friends in situations, as well as trying to keep others' spirits up.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: She is the blue oni (very polite, kind-hearted, calm) in contrast to Dougal's red oni.
• The Reliable One: Since she is level-headed and down-to-earth, Florence is the one that everyone would turn to her for help or advice.
• Reverse Arm-Fold: Florence usually does this as it shows her calm patience, as well as her thinking on how to solve any situation.
• Signature Headgear: She wears a large blue hair bow on top of her head.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Towards Buxton at the end of "Dougal and the Blue Cat". After Buxton failed his plan to take over the garden and even failed the Blue Voice who removes his kingship, Florence is one of those who felt sorry for the blue cat as he is actually crying and forgives him.
• Token Mini-Moe: She is the only member of the gang who is a young girl and human.
• Tranquil Fury: Florence does get cross with Dougal often and sometimes with some of her friends, especially Zebedee, if their antics go too far, but she doesn't raise her voice unless she needs to if it is serious.
• True Blue Femininity: Other than her hair bow, she wears her blue sweater.
• Was Too Hard on Him:
  • In the CGI series episode "The Party", Florence begins to feel bad after she was cross with everyone, especially Dougal for avoiding her and refusing to help her fix her fence ^note Unknown to Florence, everyone was preparing a surprise party for her and they had to avoid her to prevent her from finding out, causing poor Florence to think that they were being mean to her. as she was leaving to go and visit a friend.
  • She also begins to feel that way after she sternly tells Dougal off for rudely interrupting everyone's chance to get a word in about their holidays in the CGI Series episode "Sweet Memories". This is what prompts her, along with everyone else, to set out to find Dougal in order to make it up to him.
• What the Hell, Hero?: In the CGI Series, Florence would have to put her foot down with Dougal at times if he did something wrong which involve his nefarious schemes or selfish acts that caused trouble or discomfort for others.
• White Gloves: Used to wear these during the original series, until the post-2005 CGI era.
• Wise Beyond Her Years: She is shown to be quite sensible and mature for a young girl.
• Youthful Freckles: She has those in the post-2005 CGI era.

Zebedee

Zebedee / Zébulon

^{Click to see his post- 2005 CGI era form.}

Voiced by: Ian McKellen (UK; 2005 film and US redub), Wayne Forester (2007 CGI Series)
Voiced in French by: Jacques Bodoin (1963-1990), Élie Semoun (2005 film)

A good-hearted wizard who rules the Magic Garden and loves to bring joy to his friends, as well as serving as their ally.

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• Adaptation Personality Change: In the revival series, he was more mischievous and had the tendency to play tricks on others while in the English version of the original series as well as the 2005 film, he was much more calm, collected, suave and dignified.
• Big Good: Zebedee is a good and benevolent wizard who rules the Magic Garden and leaps to defend his friends from Zeebad.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall:
  • In the 2005 film during its second post-credits scene halfway through the credits, he speaks directly to the audience with his signature "Time for Bed" catchphrase.
  • At the beginning of each episode in the CGI Series, he tells the viewers a brief summary of what will happen in each episode. He sometimes does this at any point throughout an episode to tell the viewers what he'll be doing as his trick.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • "Time for bed!"
  • In the CGI series: "It's time to party!"
  • In the French version, it's "Tournicoti, tournicoton!" which translates somewhat along the lines of "Twirly whirly". Also a Verbal Tic, see below.
• Deus ex Machina: He serves as this in the original series, as well as the CGI series to solve the main characters' problems.
• Disney Death: In the 2005 film, when he falls into the abyss whilst trapped in ice upon battling Zeebad, but luckily, he is revealed to be alive and survived the fall after Zeebad was re-imprisoned.
• Establishing Character Moment: In the very first episode of the original series, he springs out of the box like any ordinary jack-in-a-box, surprising Mr. Rusty out of his hat.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Subverted in the 2005 film, after being trapped in ice by Zeebad and plummeting into the abyss. In the climax, it is revealed that he survived but is still trapped in ice until it slowly melts where he is able to break himself free and springs back to the village.
• It Amused Me: While being the ruler of the Magic Garden, Zebedee does enjoy himself playing pranks on his friends in most episodes of the 2007 revival series. However, they are usually figured out by Florence when she calls for him and admonishes him when his mischief is causing trouble for his friends. But his pranks do come in handy to teach Dougal or anyone a lesson for their actions.
• Playing with Fire: In the 2005 film, Zebedee produces some sort of fiery magic whilst battling Zeebad who produces icy magic.
  Zeebad: I've waited 10,000 years for my revenge, and as you know, revenge is a dish best-served cold.
  Zebedee: Some like it hot, Zeebad.
• Phrase Catcher: "Zebedee, Zebedee, Zebedee!", which is said by the village folk to summon him.
• Red Is Heroic: Zebedee has red skin and is very heroic.
• Sealed Good in a Can: In the French version of the very first episode of the original series, Zebedee was locked in the box for 4,000 years. By the time Mr. Rusty opens the box, Zebedee springs out.
• Token Wizard: He is the only main character who can do magic.
• The Trickster: Particularly in the CGI series (as well as in the French version of the original series), where his tactics are usually found out in the end by Florence and the others.
• Verbal Tic: In the French version, Zebedee has sort of a rhyming verbal tic in tandem with his catchphrase "Tournicoti, tournicoton!" Usually, after a sentence, he would say "Tournico-" followed by the ending adjective of the last word he says. For example, in the American English dub for Pinwheel, he would say something like, "There he is, tournico-tis!")
• White Gloves: Used to wear blue gloves during the original series, until the post-2005 CGI era they were changed to white.
• You Shall Not Pass!: In the 2005 film, he apparently sacrifices himself to prevent his evil twin Zeebad from going after the rest of the gang, where he uses his magic from his mustache to create a landslide to block them when they try to go back and help him.

Brian

Brian / Ambroise

^{Click to see his post- 2005 CGI era form.}

Voiced by: Jim Broadbent (UK; 2005 film), William H. Macy (US redub), David Holt (2007 CGI Series)
Voiced in French by: Jacques Bodoin (1963-1966), Serge Danot (1966-1990), Jean Anneron (Dougal and the Blue Cat), Dany Boon (2005 film), Martial Le Minoux (2007 CGI series)

A slow, but well-meaning snail, who is hyperactive and happy-go-lucky to everyone.

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• Adaptational Intelligence: In the revival series, Brian became somewhat of a brainiac where he provides information from books and is shown to be smarter than any of the characters in some situations.
• Collector of the Strange: In the CGI Series, Brian has a hobby of collecting different types of gravel as well as any other objects.
• Deadpan Snarker: He shows shades of this in the 2005 film.
• Disney Death: In Dougal and the Blue Cat, he was seemingly killed when Buxton's treacle factory collapses as he was going back for Zebedee's mustache. When the gang explains to a remorseful Buxton what happened, Brian shows up alive and well with Zebedee's mustache.
• Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing: He is the Gleeful to Dougal's Grumpy. Brian is happy-go-lucky and cheerful while Dougal is a bit pessimistic and grumpy. Regardless, Dougal is still friends with him.
• Keet: He was hyperactive in the original series.
• The Lancer: Brian serves as Dougal's companion, even if they may butt heads with each other.
• Loose Lips: In the 2005 film, due to being blindfolded by his own scarf and landed on the roof of the driller train, he unknowingly gives the information of the third diamond away which falls onto Zeebad's ears.
• Nice Guy: Despite being insulted by Dougal on a regular basis, he is still cheerful and happy-go-lucky.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: He's the In-Between when he is paired up with Dougal and Dylan. While he is a happy-go-lucky snail, he does have his cynical moments.
• Never Bareheaded: Always seen wearing his straw hat with a brown band and a green feather. In one episode of the original French series, he supposedly claimed to have brought back a new hat from a vacation, to which Dougal pointed out it actually looked exactly the same as the old one.
• Ocular Gushers: Poor Brian does this in "Interior Des-asters" after Ermintrude accidentally wrecks the interior of his house.
• Rude Hero, Nice Sidekick: He is a happy-go-lucky and cheerful sidekick that contrasts with Dougal's Rude Hero.
• Self-Induced Allergic Reaction: In the CGI Series episode "Nanny Ermintrude", Brian shows up with pink spots all over his face after he has rather foolishly eaten some chocolate where Florence admonishes him by saying that chocolate isn't good for him. His condition was worsened by Ermintrude's nettle soup, but luckily, he gets better when he joins Mr. Rusty, Florence, and Dylan for a walk.
• Shy Shelled Animal: Brian is sometimes seen as being timid or nervous. This is displayed in the original series episode "Dougal Makes A Film" where he hides in his shell when Dougal tells him to film underwater sharks. He is also shy to confess his love to Ermintrude in the 2005 film where she doesn't seem to take notice.
• The Smart Guy: Brian became a bit of a brainiac in the CGI Series where he has a vast library of books in his home.
• Strong Family Resemblance: In "Dougal Sees Double", Brian does actually have a cousin that bears a striking resemblance. He isn't revealed until the end of the episode when Dougal actually sees his cousin without his special glasses.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Dougal, Brian would get offended by Dougal's rudeness on a regular basis. Nevertheless, he is still good friends with him.

Ermintrude

Ermintrude / Azalée

^{Click to see her post- 2005 CGI era form.}

Voiced by: Joanna Lumley (UK; 2005 film), Whoopi Goldberg (US redub), Emma Tate (2007 CGI Series)
Voiced in French by: Micheline Dax (1963-1966), Pascaline Priou (1966-1990), Valérie Lemercier (2005 film), Barbara Tissier (2007 CGI series)

A matronly and operatic cow who loves to sing at the sound of her own voice, eat flowers in the garden and being the main attraction.

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• Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Ermintrude only wears her blue hat and her red neckerchief.
• Accidental Misnaming: One of her character traits in the French version of the original series, especially with Dougal/Pollux.
• Adaptation Personality Change: In the post-2005 era, she became more competent.
• Affectionate Nickname: In the English version, she often calls her friends "dearheart".
• Beware the Nice Ones: She may be a friendly cow, but if she is pushed to her limits (particularly of Dougal's rudeness), she'll bound to get enraged.
• Butt-Monkey: Happens to Ermintrude with slapstick often in the original series and in the 2005 film, as well as the 2007 series.
• Control Freak: Happens in the CGI series episode "The Cow In The Hat", she wears a bossy hat, which resembles a policeman's helmet, that changes her personality as a strict traffic warden and goes to extreme lengths of how things should be in the Magic Garden. Fortunately, at the end of the episode, Florence manages to persuade Ermintrude to change hats in order to get her back to her original self.
• Deadpan Snarker: Has become a bit of one in the 2005 film, and even has a few moments in the 2007 revival series.
• Dreadful Musician: While being an aspiring opera singer and can sing rather well, her singing can be terrible at times.
• The Ditz: She can come off as this in the original series, especially in the French version.
• Feminine Women Can Cook: Ermintrude is also good at cooking as shown in some episodes of the revival series.
• Glass-Shattering Sound:
  • Earlier in the 2005 film, she caused the icicles above in the cave to fall due to her high note, this would later be used to shatter the ice on the roundabout to free the children in the climax.
  • This also happens in the CGI series as well in the episode "Litterbugs", with one of the light bulbs on the roundabout exploding when she sings so loud.
• Jerkass Ball: In the post-2005 CGI era, Ermintrude sometimes grabs it in some episodes which tend to make her a bit arrogant or impulsive, until she realizes the error of her ways in the end.
• Never Bareheaded: Ermintrude always go anywhere with her hat. This is downplayed when she is seen without her hat on a few occasions. She is seen without her hat often in the 2007 revival series.
• Nice Girl: Regardless of Dougal constantly mocking her, Ermintrude is still very friendly to everyone in the Magic Garden.
• Oblivious to Love: In the 2005 film at least. Brian has a crush on her and Ermintrude doesn't seem to take notice until the end of the film.
• Pink Means Feminine: In the original series, her skin is shown to be pink prior to being peach-coloured from Series 4 onwards and in the post-2005 CGI era.
• Prone to Tears: In the book adaptations/yearly annuals of the original series' English version.
• Red Is Heroic: Has red spots on her body, as well as red limbs and a tail. She even wears a red neckerchief.
• Sanity Ball: Ermintrude became less ditzy and more competent in the post-2005 era.
• Sassy Black Woman: Her personality was retooled as this in the American version of the 2005 film with a sarcastic attitude added into it provided by Whoopi Goldberg.
• Signature Headgear: She is almost never seen without her blue-brimmed hat, except on a few occasions, including "Ermintrude's Hat, Part 1" and "Traffic Block and Road Race" from the original series. In some episodes of the CGI series, Ermintrude wears different types of hats such as a beige-brimmed hat with flowers on it.
• Strong Family Resemblance: In "Dougal Sees Double" when Dougal wears his special glasses, he sees two Ermintrude's and greets them, thinking that the duplicate is her sister, leaving her completely puzzled and thinking that he has overdone the sugar. When Dougal isn't wearing his glasses, he actually sees Ermintrude's sister who looks just like her.
• Took a Level in Badass: Ermintrude became a bit of an Action Girl in the 2005 film where she has a few moments. She rescues Dougal from Zeebad's lair by knocking on the ice cage door of Zeebad's henchman Sam, taking out a skeleton that was about to attack Dylan (who's already kicking ass with the skeletons) from behind, and working together with Dougal, Dylan, and Brian on stealing back the first two diamonds from Zeebad and place them in their slots on the roundabout.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Her fear of mice (musophobia) in the CGI Series episode "Ermintrude Gets A Fright". This is revealed when she screams and panics at the sight of two mice that Florence has found whilst planting her strawberries. Fortunately, Ermintrude overcomes her fear at the end of the episode.
• You Leave Him Alone!: Ermintrude got the nerve to say this to Zeebad who is planning to eat Brian when the gang refuses to give up the map. She even got in front of Zeebad as she says this to defend Brian.

Dylan

Dylan / Flappy

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Voiced by: Bill Nighy (UK; 2005 film), Jimmy Fallon (US redub), Jimmy Hibbert (2007 CGI Series)
Voiced in French by: Jacques Bodoin (1963-1966), Christian Riehl (1966-1990), Paul Bisciglia (Dougal and the Blue Cat), Eddy Mitchell (2005 film), Xavier Fagnon (2007 series)

A laid-back and sleepy rabbit who would often drift off to sleep from time to time and play his guitar.

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• Always Identical Twins: In one episode of the original French series, Dylan is revealed to have two unnamed identical twin brothers, who are all just as sleepy in personality as him. Earlier, Dougal challenged Dylan to a race from his sleeping tree to the station and back and mistook one of the rabbit's brothers for him when he arrived there. When he gets back to the tree (which Dylan never left), a distressed and worn-out Dougal thinks he lost the race, until Dylan's first brother shows up and lies down to sleep next to his sibling. At the tail end of the episode, Dougal and Florence find Dylan's second sleepy brother, who pops out of a nearby oven, shushing for some quiet.
• Animation Bump: Initially in the original series, when Dylan slept, he completely covers his eyes with his ears, but beginning with episodes in 1971, he gains closed eyelids.
• Barefoot Cartoon Animal: Dylan is the only animal to wear clothing, but doesn't wear shoes.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Easy-going he may be, but Dylan can engage in martial arts. Also in the climax of the 2005 film, Dylan finally snaps at Zeebad's doing of freezing the sun and retaliates by pelting him with a snowball.
• Blue Is Heroic: Wears a blue waistcoat and blue jeans.
• Character Catchphrase: In the CGI series: "I wish it was time for bed, man!"
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: In the 2005 film, Dylan may be a laid-back and droopy rabbit, but he goes into full badass mode with different forms of martial arts.
  • Also, in the original series, Dylan is shown to have culinary talents, such as making pancakes and spaghetti. He also opened a pizzeria at least twice, and in one episode, recited to Dougal the recipe for making an apricot pie (which Dougal was making for Florence).
• Deadpan Snarker: He does have his moments in the 2005 film.
• Demoted to Extra: Dylan's role was reduced to being a supporting character in Series 3 of the original series, but he does a fair amount of appearances.
• Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes: To emphasize his sleepy and lazy demeanor.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: In the black-and-white episodes of the original series, one of his character traits involved him being an innocent kleptomaniac. On one occasion, he stole some strings holding up a tent for his broken guitar, unaware that the tent was made by Dougal and Brian to surprise Florence. On other occasions, he used Dougal's bed for a nap and took the buttons from the dog's waistcoat so they could dance with his needle and thread.
• Erudite Stoner: He was never actually mentioned to be stoned, but he was just tired and sleepy.
• Forgetful Jones: Dylan can sometimes have the habit of forgetting to remember things that he was going to do. At one point in "Look Back in Gaga", he has a tied forget-me knot in his hankie to help him remember to take the lever back to Zebedee who has given it to him to replace the broken handle of his hoe, but he couldn't remember until Florence notices the knot and Dougal bumping into the hoe.
• Gratuitous Italian / Gratuitous Spanish: In the black-and-white episodes of the original French version, he's a Spanish character with mañana attitude, and speaks with a Mexican accent. In the color episodes, he's switched to having more Italian characteristics.
• Mellow Fellow: Dylan is usually laid-back and rarely flips his lid. Well, except on a few occasions, such as when he throws a snowball at Zeebad in the climax of the 2005 film.
• Nice Guy: Despite being ditzy and rather dopey, Dylan is very friendly and easygoing.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: While he's mostly lazy and a bit ditzy, Dylan is the nice one when he is paired up with Dougal and Brian as he's more relaxed and laid-back than the two and also sympathetic.
• Sleepyhead: Due to being a Heavy Sleeper, he sometimes drifts off to sleep from time to time.
• Talking in Your Sleep: One episode of the original French version had him singing in his sleep in Italian while dreaming about riding a gondola.
• Took a Level in Badass: Dylan became more engaged and active when fighting the temple skeletons and Zeebad in the final showdown in the 2005 film.
• Waistcoat of Style: Subverted, because his blue waistcoat is just plain and simple.
• White Gloves: Used to wear these during the original series, until the post-2005 CGI era.

Mr. Rusty

Mr. Rusty / le Père Pivoine ("Father Peony")

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Voiced by: Jimmy Hibbert (UK; 2005 film and 2007 CGI Series), Cory Edwards (US redub)
Voiced in French by: Christian Riehl (1963-1990)

An elderly repairman who operates the Magic Roundabout with his barrel organ and loves to bring fun and joy to the children who ride on it.

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• Big Ol' Eyebrows: He has big bushy grey eyebrows.
• Cool Old Guy: He may be elderly, but he still operates and make repairs on the Magic Roundabout.
• Cowboys and Indians: In the French version of the very first episode of the original series, it's revealed that, as a child, he used to play this with wooden horses (particularly Buffalo Bill hunting bison).
• *Crack!* "Oh, My Back!": This sometimes happens to him in the 2007 CGI series, with "Nanny Ermintrude" being one example. He is shown having sprained his back at the start of the episode before Ermintrude makes him jump to try and make his back feel better. Needless to say, it only worsened a bit.
• Demoted to Extra: He was reduced to being one of the supporting characters in Series 3, but still makes appearances very often. Also, he was reduced to a minor character in the 2005 film since he was one of the people who are trapped in the frozen roundabout.
• Friend to All Children: Very friendly to the children who love to ride the Magic Roundabout. He is especially good friends with Florence and at one point obliges to her request to play the barrel organ music for her.
• Nice Guy: He is an optimistic, fatherly and caring man.
• Never Bareheaded: Mr. Rusty is never seen without his green top hat with a yellow feather. There have been a few occasions where his hat came off in a few black-and-white episodes of the original series that revealed his bald head. Even the revival series episode "Who's Taken the Moon?" has Mr. Rusty wearing a sleeping cap at one point.
• Organ Grinder: Mr. Rusty always uses his barrel organ to make the Magic Roundabout revolve.
• Parental Substitute: Becomes this to Florence and the other children whenever necessary.
• The Reliable One: Like Florence, Mr. Rusty is the person that people turn to for advice as he is wiser. Being one of Florence's friends, she would come to him for help in sorting out problems that her friends are having.
• White Gloves: Used to wear these during the original series, until the post-2005 CGI era.

Mr. McHenry

Mr. McHenry / Bonhomme Jouvence ("Mr. Young")

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Voiced by: Jimmy Hibbert (2007 CGI Series)

An elderly gardener with a youthful personality who would ride along on his tricycle.

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• Caring Gardener: Despite being elderly, he always tends to his flowers.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: In the French version of the original series (beginning with the color episodes), he's voiced by a woman (probably to best fit with his French name, "Mr. Young").
• Demoted to Extra: He was reduced to being of the supporting characters in Series 3 of the original series.
• Everything's Louder with Bagpipes: In the CGI Series episode "Windbag", he ends up being a Dreadful Musician due to Zebedee tampering with his bagpipes and causing everyone else to get headaches. Fortunately, he, along with Basil and Coral use their tampered bagpipes to scare off the magpies from Florence's vegetable garden.
• Put on a Bus: For unknown reasons, he fell into this in the 2005 CGI film and was somewhat replaced with Mr. Grimsdale. Thankfully, he returned (albeit with a redesign) for the 2007 reboot series. (Unlike the original series though, the French dub of the reboot series uses his English name, instead of "Bonhomme Jouvence", while Mr. Grimsdale has the gardener's French name instead.)
• Signature Laugh: Has this in the French version of Dougal and the Blue Cat, as opposed to his usual verbal tic (see below).
• Verbal Tic: In the French version, Mr. McHenry has his catchphrase "Hep, hep hep!", which somewhat translates to something speedy like "Go, go, go!" to reflect his youthful personality despite his old age.

Train

Train

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Voiced by: Lee Evans (2005 film), Chevy Chase (US redub)

An animate locomotive who is very punctual in the Magic Garden and always there to take the passengers to each destination.

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• Big Damn Heroes: In the climax of the 2005 film, Zeebad has secured hold of the third diamond and mocks Dylan's attempts to use Zebedee's magic box to save Dougal and his friends, until a healed Train shows up from behind Zeebad and runs him over, knocking the diamond free for Dougal to chase after it and place it in its slot on the roundabout.
• Cool Train: Train is not only a cool locomotive in general, but he can carry loads and passengers in his trucks and carriages.
• Deadpan Snarker: Train has his/her moments in the original series, particularly with "Piano Moving" being one example.
  Dougal: (when Florence said she'd help, but only if Dougal is calm) I am calm!
  Brian: You don't look very calm.
  Train: He's about as calm as an elephant stampede.
• Demoted to Extra: Train was reduced to being one of the supporting characters in Series 3 of the original series.
• Sentient Vehicle: Train is a living steam locomotive.
• She's a Man in Japan: Train is a female in Eric Thompson's English dub of the original series.
• The Silent Bob: Train is completely silent in the 2007 CGI Series and the French version of the 2005 film. In the former, he can communicate to others by whistling.

Other Characters

Florence's Friends

Florence's Friends (Paul, Basil, and Coral / Pio, Basile, and Coralie)

Voiced by: Ediz Mahmut and Daniella Loftus (2005 film), Sue Elliot-Nichols and Emma Tate (2007 CGI Series)

A small group of children who are also Florence's friends where they would often spend time with her and ride the Magic Roundabout.

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• Character Catchphrase: In the French version of the original series, Paul often quoted his father, often beginning his sentences with "My dad, he always says..." ("Moi, mon père, il dit toujours...")
• Girlish Pigtails: Coral has her hair in two pigtails.
• Put on a Bus: In the original series, after the series was broadcast in color, the other children made a few appearances in four episodes, then only appeared in the opening and closing sequences. In the CGI era, the original character of Basil fell into this and had his name given to Paul.

Mr. Grimsdale

Mr. Grimsdale

Voiced by: Jimmy Hibbert (2005 film), John Krasinski (US redub), Wayne Forester (2007 CGI Series)

The Magic Garden' delivery man and shopkeeper who sells things to the inhabitants and delivers them to their homes.

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• Blind Without 'Em: In the CGI series episode "Florence's Squeaky Toys", Mr. Grimsdale accidentally leaves his glasses at home, and due to his blurry vision, he ends up delivering the toys that Florence ordered for Basil and Coral's birthdays to Dylan and Ermintrude by mistake.
• Brick Joke: In the 2005 film, Mr. Grimsdale goes to get the things Dougal requested while he "looks after" the cart. He does return at the end of the film with all the things Dougal requested, only to find Dougal on the Magic Roundabout who is hiding awkwardly from him.
• Hidden Depths: In the CGI Series episode "Dylan's Big Gig", it is revealed that Mr. Grimsdale is also very handy with building skills when he builds a stage for Dylan's gig on such short notice as his decking is far too small for Dylan to do his gig.
• Overworked Sleep: In the CGI Series episode "Mr. Grimsdale's Holiday", due to rushing around and having to do so many deliveries that he ends up tired whilst driving his motorbike. He loses control when he wakes up, causing him to crash into his shop.

Soldier Sam

Solider Sam

Voiced by: Ray Winstone (2005 film), Bill Hader (US redub), Jimmy Hibbert (2007 CGI Series)
Voiced in French by: Gérald Jugnot (2005 film)

An animate foot guard figurine who is used to operate the Magic Roundabout. When put under the spell by Zeebad, he serves as his henchman.

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• Absurd Phobia: In the CGI Series episode "Barmy Army", Sam and his soldier friends are all afraid of bananas.
• Animate In Animate Object: Sam becomes animate by Zeebad's enchantment to become his henchman. Even though Zebedee restores Sam back to life at the end of the film, he is reverted back to his inanimate form. However, he is completely animate in the CGI series.
• Butt-Monkey: Sam can fall into this due to a number of Amusing Injuries throughout the film.
• Charlie Brown Baldness: He actually has some strands of hair on top of his bald head underneath his bearskin cap as revealed in "Parcel Force".
• Gasp of Life: After Zebedee places the third diamond back into Sam's body to bring him back to life, Sam does this as he is resurrected.
• Gem Heart: The third diamond is revealed to be Sam's heart after Zeebad fatally wounds him in the chest, and even takes it out which ends Sam's life in progress.
• Heel–Face Turn: Sam ultimately does this having realized the truth about Zeebad and rides an elk back to the village to turn against Zeebad.
• Minion with an F in Evil: Sam comes off as this in the 2005 film when he is enlisted as Zeebad's henchman after he was catapulted off the roundabout by the encasing ice. He has no knowledge of torturing subjects and when Zeebad is out of earshot, Sam resorts to ask Dougal his "worst fear" and promptly feeds him sugar cubes.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: After he is injured when the driller train exploded due to an overload of coal, Zeebad just leaves him there for dead. However, an elk awakens him, and having realized his true duty is to protect the roundabout, he rides the elk back to the village to make a stand against Zeebad but is quickly overpowered.
• Too Dumb to Live: When arriving at the temple, Sam goes in first as he thinks that the entrance might be too dangerous as he has six senses, but he failed to notice that there are tiles on the floor that activate the booby traps. When he steps on a tile, a spear flings out from the ground and stops in front of Sam's face before it can impale him.
  Zeebad: Try concentrating on your other five, and you might not lose your head.
• Ungrateful Bastard: In the CGI Series episode "Barmy Army", Sam felt upset that his soldier friends are delayed and couldn't come to his party, however Florence and everyone else cheers him up by acting as his comrades and hoping to be invited to his party. When Sam's soldier friends do arrive for his party, how does Sam respond to Florence, Dougal, and their friends' kindness after what they did for him? He still doesn't invite them to his party and only allows his soldiers. However, Sam and his soldier friends panic and hide under the table due to being surrounded by bananas (which was all Zebedee's doing just to make Sam think otherwise), and eventually does invite Dougal, Florence, and their friends to his party in exchange for removing all the bananas from their sights.

Fly

Fly

Voiced by: Wayne Forester (2007 CGI Series)

Dougal's housefly companion who loves to eat food and often hangs out with Dougal.

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• Early-Installment Weirdness: For his debut in the CGI episode "Dougal's Bad Smell Day" where he is talking to Dougal who's hiding in a rubbish bin, he is rather small and barely seen. However, he is bigger and more visible since his next appearance in "Dougal Goes to the Moon".
• Filching Food for Fun: Fly has the habit of eating some food from Mr. Grimsdale's shop, much to Mr. Grimsdale's displeasure.
• Four-Legged Insect: Fly only has two arms and two legs.

Antagonists

Madam Blue

Madam Blue

Voiced by: Fenella Fielding
Voiced in French by: Christine Lefèvre

The cunning female voice who says that she is blue and her main aim is to turn everything in the universe blue.

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• Greater-Scope Villain: Though Madam Blue possesses a bigger threat and only her voice is heard, she isn't directly involved much as most of the villainous actions come from Buxton, who is the Big Bad of the film.
• Villainous Breakdown: In response of finding out "Blue Peter's true identity who is none other than Dougal, Madam Blue unleashes a violent lightning storm around the factory which causes it to start collapsing and removes Buxton from his title. Afterwards before the factory fully collapses, Madam Blue breaks down and screams in agony over her failure of her plans to turn everything blue.
• The Voice: The owner of the Blue Voice is never seen, but only her voice is heard.
• You Have Failed Me: Madam Blue is understandably furious with Buxton and punishes him by striping him of his title.

Buxton the Blue Cat

Buxton the Blue Cat

Voiced by: Eric Thompson
Voiced in French by: Paul Bisciglia

The cunning and evil cat who serves the Blue Voice by planning to take over the Magic Garden and turn everything blue.

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• Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: He is the only blue cat ever seen. However, it ends up subverted at the end of the film when Buxton blushes for shame, revealing his true colour of his fur to be white.
• Big Bad: Despite Madam Blue being the Greater-Scope Villain, Buxton, after being crowned king by Madam Blue, plots to take over the gardens and make everything blue. He even imprisons everyone with the exception of Dougal in the dungeon.
• Card-Carrying Villain: He quietly admits to being wicked and evil.
• Character Catchphrase: "I'm so evil" in the English version. ("Moi, le chat" or "I, the cat" or "Me, the cat" in the French version.)
• Cats Are Mean: Very sly and manipulative.
• Crocodile Tears: Buxton uses this on everyone, sans Dougal, to keep them from finding out about his evil plans.
• Heel–Face Turn: After being stripped from his powers by Madam Blue, Buxton returns to the garden, crying in remorse for his actions and is promptly forgiven by everyone.
• Tears of Remorse: Buxton does this after he was stripped from his reign of power.
• Villain Song: Buxton sings two:
  • "Success! King Buxton" (also sometimes referred to as "I Am King"), sung when he becomes king of the blue army. It's all about how triumphant he feels, and how he is determined to lead the blue army to victory by eliminating everything not blue.
  • "We Are Blue," in which he and "Blue Peter" (Dougal pretending to be evil) sing about how they're both very blue and very evil, but Buxton is moreso than Blue Peter.
• Villainous Friendship: When Dougal disguises himself and pretends to be an evil blue dog named "Blue Peter," Buxton appoints him as Prime Minister and strikes up a surprisingly genuine friendship with him. They sing a song together, and Buxton defends Dougal when Buxton's prisoners are insulting him.

Zeebad

Zeebad / Zabadie

Voiced by: Tom Baker (UK), Jon Stewart (US redub)
Voiced in French by: Michel Galabru

The cold-hearted and tyrannous ice wizard who is Zebedee's arch nemesis and vows revenge on Zebedee for imprisoning him years ago to prevent him from creating a new ice age. When he is accidentally released by Dougal, he plans to re-freeze the world again and freeze the sun by using three diamonds.

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• Ax-Crazy: Zeebad is very violent with his magical powers. When he gets provoked by Dylan, who's snapped and thrown a snowball at him, he tries to zap him, but only zaps Ermintrude's tail, causing her to scream in pain.
• Big Bad: He plans to freeze the world again with three diamonds while he does everything he can to try and kill Dougal and his friends with his powers. Furthermore, he was able to weaken Zebedee when he is distracted by stopping Sam from attacking the others and overpowers him by freezing half of his body before sending him plummeting into the chasm to his presumed demise.
• Blue Means Cold: Zeebad has icy blue skin and ice powers.
• Canon Foreigner: He is the only character who didn't exist in the original series.
• Card-Carrying Villain: He's well aware of his status as (in Dougal's words) a despicable fiend, considering it a gift.
• Deadpan Snarker: He was flanderized as a comical one in the US dub of the 2005 film.
• Dirty Coward: He immediately tries to escape his fate when Dougal eventually defeats him in the film. Inevitably, he's imprisoned in the titular roundabout again anyway.
• The Dreaded: He is so menacing that he is feared by Dougal and everyone when he is released back into the real world. However, throughout the film, the gang is slowly becoming less afraid of him until they are brave enough to take him on in the final battle.
• Evil Counterpart: As well as being an Evil Sorcerer, Zeebad is an evil jack-in-the-box figure counterpart to Zebedee.
• Evil Overlooker: Played With. Movie poster art featuring him has his enlarged head looming in the background above the foregrounded heroes.
• An Ice Person: Zeebad is an evil ice wizard and actually beats Zebedee in a duel.
• Icy Blue Eyes: Being an evil ice wizard, Zeebad has those to represent his cold-hearted personality and his nature.
• Jerkass: Zeebad is openly unpleasant to everyone he meets, and doesn't even hide this behind the image of someone pretending to be nice.
• Kick the Dog: When Sam is injured after the driller train exploded, Zeebad leaves him there for dead and makes his way to the frozen Magic Roundabout alone. Zeebad does it again when he fatally wounds Sam in the chest with his magic, revealing that the third diamond is inside him, and rips it out, ending Sam's life in the process.
• Lack of Empathy: He is willing to freeze the world without caring much for those who are helpless and trapped in the frozen roundabout or nature around him. To push it further in the climax, he even fatally injures his former henchman Sam and unremorsefully ends his life on the spot upon taking the third diamond out of his chest.
• Large Ham: Being voiced by Tom Baker, Zeebad's lines are quite hammy.
• Manipulative Bastard: He is very cunning and successfully convinces the gullible Soldier Sam, who is enlisted as Zeebad's henchman, to help him find the three enchanted diamonds, which he claims they are taken from him by a treacherous thief.
• Near-Villain Victory: He succeeded in getting all three diamonds which he uses to freeze the sun to fully finish freezing the world. He would have won if Dougal and his friends hadn't stolen back the diamonds and placed them in the roundabout, which in turn re-imprison Zeebad back inside the roundabout.
• Pet the Dog: After taking the first diamond and the map, Zeebad manages to save Sam from falling to his demise in the boiling lava when they destroyed the bridge to prevent the heroes from escaping, before praising Sam for his good work. That being said, he later abandons Sam when he's injured and kills him without regret once he turns on him, heavily implying that Zeebad solely saved Sam because of his usefulness.
• Red Baron: Doubles as a Shout-Out: in the US dub, he gives himself the title of Lord of the Springs.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: He was imprisoned in a lava-filled cavern underneath the Magic Roundabout by Zebedee 10,000 years ago to stop him from freezing the world again. But now since Dougal accidentally released him, he is free to wreak havoc once more with his powers. Fortunately, he gets re-imprisoned back to his prison in the end when all three diamonds are placed in their slots on the roundabout.
• Stupid Evil: Though he's manipulative, his pride as an ice wizard causes him to believe that he can do anything and assume his wins far too quickly. He is proven wrong over and over again and makes many embarrassing mistakes in his pursuit of the heroes.
• Surrounded by Idiots: He can feel like this around his henchman Solider Sam, his comment about him when he falls over on his baton, "You just can't get the staff these days."
• Would Hurt a Child: Freezing the Magic Roundabout over whilst escaping from his prison, traps Florence and the children, which left them shivering. For Florence, she lost conscious and very nearly froze to death, until Dougal manages to rescue her from a near-death experience by waking her up in the end.