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Bumblelion

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A bumblebee/lion hybrid who is the closest thing the main cast has to a de facto leader. Outgoing, athletic and take-charge, he has a tendency to leap before he looks, which often gets him intro trouble. He was voiced by Brian Cummings.

  • Five-Man Band: The Leader
  • Four-Temperament Ensemble: Of the main four males, Choleric.
  • Hot-Blooded: He is courageous and said to be the sort who "... rush in where angels fear to tread".
  • Jerk Jock: A bit more likable than most examples, though.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He may be a bit of an overactive sports nut, but he dearly loves his friends and will go out of his way to help them when he can.
  • King of Beasts: He's a (half) lion who is presented as the leader of the group.
  • Leeroy Jenkins: Has a bad tendency to go charging off into things without making up a plan first.
  • Love Triangle: He has a major crush on Butterbear, who doesn't seem to reciprocate (or even notice), and is himself the target of admiration from Hoppo; he largely seems to see her as a friend, though there are hints he may not be entirely unattracted.
  • Virtuous Bees: He's a bit of a nuisance, but he's loyal and true.

Butterbear

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Butterbear
A butterfly/bear hybrid, the sweet-spoken, gentle-natured and delicate female of the cast. She was voiced by Kathleen Helppie-Shipley.

  • Beary Friendly: She's a bear-based Wuzzle who is characterized as a sweet, friendly, feminine character. Adding to the semblance of daintiness is that she's much smaller and less imposing than the team's other female character, Hoppo.
  • Green Thumb: She loves gardening.
  • Betty and Veronica: She is the Betty to Hoppo's Veronica over Bumblelion's Archie in their love triangle.
  • Nice Girl: She is gentle and patient despite the crazy adventures of her friends.
  • Supreme Chef: Known for her pies in particular, although she's quite skilled with many forms of cooking. Tropical fruit storms in particular see her working to harvest as much fruit-juice and pulp for her recipes as possible, in contrast to her friends largely being content to ride them out.

Eleroo

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A rather neurotic but sweet-natured elephant/kangaroo hybrid. He was voiced by Henry Gibson.

Moosel

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A cowardly, timid-natured moose/seal hybrid. He was voiced by Bill Scott

  • Ambiguous Disorder: He's extremely timid and prone to wild daydreams.
  • Cloudcuckoo Lander: Whenever his imagination acts up.
  • Cowardly Lion: as shown in "Moosel's Monster".
  • Extreme Doormat: Especially notable in Hooray For Hollywuz.
  • Five-Man Band: The Smart Guy
  • Four-Temperament Ensemble: Of the main four males, Melancholic.
  • Lethal Chef: Apparently, he made a picnic of liver and spinach sandwiches in one episode much to the disgust of the others — keep in mind, food in Wuzz comes in mixed forms like everything else, so liver & spinach being considered disgusting stands out.
  • Lovable Coward: Moosel is easily scared, but is a nice guy and a loyal teammate besides that.
  • Moose Are Idiots: Inverted. Moosel is one of the smartest characters on the show.
  • Mr Fix It: In the storybooks, Moosel runs his own repair shop, and it factors into the plots a fair number of times. Strangely, this aspect of his personality is entirely absent in the cartoons.
  • Mr. Imagination: He has a vivid imagination, which makes him believe in monsters.
  • Nervous Wreck: He's very easy to scare and can easily inflate things with an overactive imagination. That said, he does have standards; in "Bumblelion and the Terrified Forest", whilst he initially panicks when an overhyped Bumblelion claims that Moosel has hooked a sharkosaurus, he loses all fear the instant he sees that it's actually just a minnow-shark.
  • Speech Impediment: Talks with a slight lisp.
  • Straight Man: When he isn't panicking over imaginary monsters.
  • Sweet Seal: Moosel is half-seal and all sweetheart.
  • Tailfin Walking: He stands upright, using his tail-flippers as feet and propelling himself with a kind of hopping motion.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Liver and spinach sandwiches.

Hoppopotamus

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A brash and strong-willed hippopotamus/rabbit hybrid. She was voiced by Jo Anne Worley.

  • All Love Is Unrequited: Her crush on Bumbelion.
  • Attention Whore: Hoppo doesn't like it when the spotlight is not on her or when Bumblelion fails to notice her.
  • Betty and Veronica: She is the Veronica to Butterbear's Betty over Bumblelion's Archie in their love triangle.
  • Big Eater: In "What's Up, Stox?", she eats all the pies Butterbear baked when no one buys them.
  • Drama Queen: She can be very flamboyant in expressing her emotions, especially if she thinks it might endear herself to Bumblelion.
  • Fat Comic Relief: Of the "fat girl who deliberately fails to realize just how hefty she really is".
  • Five-Man Band: The Lancer
  • Large Ham: Whilst Hoppo has definite interests in the theatre, she's not a very good actor. Or performer. Or singer. She tends to overact far too much.
  • Love Triangle: She loves Bumblelion, but he's less than thrilled at her attention, though he's still her friend. Meanwhile, Bumblelion pines after Butterbear, who doesn't seem to notice his feelings for her.
  • Selective Obliviousness: As per older cartoon fat girls, she's often in denial about just how large she is. This trait is particularly prominent in "Hooray for Hollywuz", where she refuses to notice that, really, she's not very talented at all.
  • Tomboy and Girly Girl: Make no mistake, she has a feminine streak as well, but she's certainly not the dainty flower that Butterbear is. Best shown in "Bumblelion and the Terrified Forest", where she repeatedly scorns the actions of the Show Within a Show character Daintybelle and boldly takes charge of an effort to reclaim a witch's castle from the depths of the forest in order to save her friend. To say nothing of her comment about feeling a "belching spell" coming on in the same episode.

Rhinokey

A wisecracking, pun-obsessed, goofball rhino/monkey hybrid. He was voiced by Alan Oppenheimer.

  • Cloudcuckoo Lander: He's constantly snickering to himself as he keeps finding ways to interject puns or make jokes out the situation.
  • Five-Man Band: Kid-Appeal Character
  • Four-Temperament Ensemble: Of the main four males, Sanguine.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: As annoying as his incessant puns and frequent pranks can be, he's still a loyal friend and devoted to his friends.
  • Keet: Rhinokey is full of energy and constantly moving, joking or laughing.
  • Mischief-Making Monkey: Half-monkey, but 100% fixated on telling jokes and playing pranks.
  • Plucky Comic Relief: His love of pranks and incessant puns make it obvious he's supposed to be 'the funny guy' in his crew.
  • The Prankster: Whilst he slings jokes and puns most commonly, he also enjoys a good prank.
  • Pungeon Master: Give him an opening, even the slightest, and he'll make a pun about it. Most of his dialogue tends to be pun-related. In one episode, he even scares away some flants by telling them puns.
  • Rhino Rampage: Subverted. He never goes beyond practical jokes.
  • Silly Simian: A goofy half-monkey creature who is mostly comic relief.
  • You Are Fat: Tends to make jokes about Hoppo's weighty appearance or unladylike behavior.

Crocosaurus

The local antagonist, a crocodile/dinosaur hybrid who lives in a run-down ship/home on the outskirts of the city. Greedy and lazy, he causes frequent problems for the main cast due to his desire for quick cash and a luxuriantly indolent lifestyle. He was voiced by Alan Oppenheimer.

  • Big Bad: He's the only antagonist who shows up in multiple episodes and he's clearly unscrupulous.
  • Dumb Dinos: He is part-dinosaur, and is lazy and ignorant. It should noted that the show was made during the time where old dinosaur stereotypes from before the Dinosaur Renaissance were still stuck in the public's mind.
  • Harmless Villain: He's the "Big Bad" only in that he's the recurring antagonist. His evil is limited pretty much to laziness and lack of scruples, though he is a willing thief.
  • Informed Species: It's unclear if he even is a hybrid since he looks more like an anthropomorphic crocodile.
  • Lazy Bum: Crock hates the idea of work. Not legitimate work, mind you, he's not a Card-Carrying Villain, he just hates the idea of having to do actual labor. His place is a tumble-down, squalor-filled ruin because he won't get up and fix it, he's seen eating magazine pictures due to lack of food and treating Flizard's mention of "work" as if the Wuzzle had said something profane in "Bulls of a Feather", and the whole plot of "Crock Around The Clock" is caused by his laziness in face of the approaching tropical fruit storm.
  • Never Smile at a Crocodile: He is part crocodile and the main villain.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: He is simply referred to as "Crock".
  • Reptiles Are Abhorrent: The closest thing the series has to a recurring antagonist, and he's a reptilian wuzzle said to be half dinosaur and half crocodile.
  • Spell My Name With An S: Is his nickname spelled "Croc" or "Crock?"
  • Villainous Glutton: Crock's a bad guy who just loves to eat.

Brat

One of Crock's underlings/henchgoons, a bizarre and feral creature of indeterminate origins. He was voiced by Bill Scott.

  • Cartoon Creature: While most of the characters are obvious combinations of real animals, Brat is pretty much a nondescript hairy thing. He does have a pig-like snout, though; popular fanon is that he's part boar, part rat, which would fit with the naming gimmick the Wuzzles largely have going on.

Flizard

A skittish, servile frog/lizard hybrid who works for Crock. He was voiced by Brian Cummings

  • Affably Evil: Despite being Crock's minion, he's too timid and unthreatening to come off as a real villain.
  • Harmless Villain: He's only evil in that he's being pushed around to do Crock's dirty work, and even then rarely graduates to more than just serving his boss as a grunt.
  • Lovable Lizard: Downplayed in that he's still an antagonist, but he is rather friendly.
  • Non-Mammalian Hair: He oddly has brown hair, despite being part-amphibian and part-reptile.
  • Token Good Teammate: Despite being loyal to Crock, he is quite amiable and tolerant towards the other Wuzzles.

Tycoon

  • Easy Come, Easy Go: He originally owned a money tree, but considering it was stolen and ruined by Crock, and he gave his extra seed away, only to have that tree destroyed too, he's ultimately broke. Despite this, he's surprisingly chipper about everything.
  • Five-Man Band: Sixth Ranger (If there were a second season, he'd most likely be this)
  • Punny Name: He's a tiger/raccoon hybrid, but he's also introduced as being filthy rich, aka a tycoon.
  • Rascally Raccoon: Averted. He's part raccoon but there's nothing rascally about him.

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