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Heffalumps and Woozles
In General
Creatures that seem to exist solely to steal the unguarded honeypots of poor unsuspecting bears. They were originally treated as entirely fictitious in-universe, being a product of Tigger mispronunciation of "elephants" and "weasels" and Pooh's naïveté, but later works often depict them as actually existing.
- Caged Inside a Monster: At the beginning of "There's No Camp Like Home" in The New Adventures, Piglet has a nightmare about being chased by heffalumps and woozles, ending with him being behind bars inside a police heffalump's stomach.
- Cruel Elephant: The Heffalumps are monstrous elephants said to steal honey.
- Malaproper: "Heffalumps" and "Woozles" are just Tigger's mispronunciations of "elephants" and "weasels", as Pooh points out in The Many Adventures.
- "Pop!" Goes the Human: During the "Heffalumps and Woozles" musical number in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, a heffalump eats Pooh's honey with its trunk. As it eats, it expands like a balloon until it pops after eating too much honey.
- Real After All: In both the original books and the first Disney movies, Heffalumps and Woozles were merely products of Pooh and Tigger's overactive imaginations. Starting from The New Adventures they begin appearing in person, usually as bumbling antagonists.
- Snake Charmer: During the Heffalumps and Woozles sequence, a woozle in a fakir getup charms a rope using a tune played on its nose.
- Wicked Weasel: The Woozles are monstrous weasels said to steal honey.
Heff Heffalump and Stan Woozle
Voiced by: Chuck McCann (Heff) and Ken Sansom (Stan)
Heffalump and Woozle in the flesh. Bumbling gangster types who are constantly after the Hundred Acre Wood's honey supply. Appeared as recurring antagonists in New Adventures.
- Alliterative Name: Heff Heffalump, to the point that his first name seems just an abbreviation of his last name.
- Big Eater: They swipe the entire wood's supply of honey in one night.
- Brains and Brawn: Stan is the planner and Heff is the muscle.
- Bumbling Henchmen Duo: They're always seen together and are the villainous characters who show up the most. Nonetheless, their villainy mostly consists of stealing honey, and they are really bad even at that.
- Card-Carrying Villain: Stan insists that Woozles always get honey by stealing it and is disgusted by Wooster getting honey by asking.
- Cruel Elephant: Heff is an antagonistic toy elephant.
- Dumb Muscle: Heff is bigger and stronger than Stan, but pretty dimwitted.
- Fat and Skinny: Heff is the fat to Stan's skinny.
- Harmless Villain: They sneak into your house at night and rob you dry...of all your honey!!!
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Being up against Pooh of all people almost makes them look competent, but ultimately they're still petty buffoons who suffer slapstick failure.
- Minion with an F in Evil: Heff is noticeably dumber and less conniving than Stan, though not to the extent of Dumb Is Good, as he's still an unrepentant honey-thief.
- Obviously Evil: Stan clearly looks sinister and malicious, even for being a stuffed weasel.
- Real After All: Heffalumps and Woozles were suggested to be mere imaginary threats thought up by Pooh and the others in the original books and Disney material preceding this.
- Schemer: Stan is the brains of the operation and makes all the decisions and ideas.
- Species Surname: They are, indeed, a Heffalump and a Woozle.
- Stupid Evil: For their small scale villainy, at least. Pooh is willing to share his honey, but Stan insists on stealing it. This bites him and Heff in the ass because Pooh's kindness convinces Wooster to be his friend. Since Stan and Heff cannot defeat the giant Woozle, this leaves them with no honey.
- Trademark Favorite Food: They steal honey because they love it so much.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Being a toy elephant in a Disney show, Heff is absolutely terrified of mice, and in the best Disney tradition, this makes him helpless when faced with Roo or Kanga, who he mistakes for giant mice.
- Wicked Weasel: Stan is an antagonistic toy weasel.
- With Catlike Tread: Though, fortunately, the denizens of the Hundred Acre Wood are silly enough that the two manage to be surprisingly good at stealth even with their propensity to give themselves away while hiding.
- Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: Stan has these.
Wooster
Voiced by: Jim Cummings
Hulking, thuggish Woozle who only appeared in the New Adventures episode "The Great Honey Pot Robbery".
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: He's enormous, big enough to push over trees or squash any of the heroes like a bug.
- The Brute: Stan and Heff initially recruit him to be the muscle in order to defeat Pooh and friends so they can steal all their honey.
- The Dreaded: Heff is absolutely terrified at the prospect of calling Wooster out to help, and once they see him, almost everyone is equally scared... except Winnie the Pooh.
- Face of a Thug: He has a very round, squashed-in, ugly, brutish sort of face that emphasizes his ogre-like status amongst the Woozles.
- Gentle Giant: After his Heel–Face Turn, he shows he can actually be a very gentle and friendly individual.
- Heel–Face Turn: After Pooh offers to be his friend, Wooster decides to politely ask for honey rather than steal it.
- Hulk Speak: Wooster has a noticeably simplified manner of speech that roughly fits this trope.
- Informed Species: Unlike Stan and the other Woozles seen during the "Heffalumps and Woozles" song, he doesn't even look like a Woozle, what with his ridiculously muscular body and the shape of his head.
- Knight of Cerebus: He's pretty frightening by the show's standards, at least until his Heel–Face Turn.
- Never Learned to Read: Pointed out by Stan when Wooster ignores a sign pointing towards an Obvious Trap set up by Rabbit.
- One-Shot Character: He appeared only in "The Great Honey Pot Robbery".
- Top-Heavy Guy: A truly exaggerated and frightening example; Wooster's body seems to be all barrel chest and muscular arms, tottering along on comparatively tiny little legs.
- Tiny-Headed Behemoth: His head actually isn't too small, but on his massive shoulders, it looks ridiculously undersized.
Others
Movies
The Skullasaurus (unmarked spoilers)
Voiced by: Jim Cummings
The main antagonist of Pooh's Grand Adventure. The most terrifying monster Pooh and friends have ever faced, lurking in the Skull Cave well into the Great Unknown of the Hundred Acre Wood. It has kidnapped Christopher Robin who was able to leave a distress note before it happened, and now hunts Pooh and his party as they set out to rescue Christopher.
... Or so it would seem. In reality, the Skullasaurus doesn’t exist and is merely the sounds of Pooh’s rumbling tummy, overblown thanks to the gang’s fears and insecurities.
- Actually, I Am Him: The group learns from Christopher Robin that the Skullasaurus isn’t real and the noises they’ve heard are just Pooh’s tummy rumbles.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: It's imagined to be a huge monster, likely comparable to a dinosaur given the "saurus" part of its' name. When Piglet, Rabbit, Tigger, and Eeyore mistake Pooh's reflection for it, they believe this trope is in effect and think it's a gigantic monster.
- Big Bad: The main antagonist of Pooh’s Grand Adventure who has seemingly kidnapped Christopher Robin, forcing the heroes to go after him. Even though it’s not seen and it’s revealed to not exist, the Skullasaurus is still the personification of the group’s fears and doubts that they must confront and defeat on their journey.
- The Dreaded: The gang quickly becomes terrified of the monster and are given no reason to not be until the end of the movie when they learn it wasn’t real. When they arrive at Skull and hesitate to enter due to not knowing what they’ll find inside, Eeyore points out to the group that staying outside will only make them easy prey for the Skullasaurus, quickly convincing them to follow him inside.
- Knight of Cerebus: The threat of the Skullasaurus is perhaps the gravest threat to the group’s lives they’ve ever faced. Even the fact that it’s not real doesn’t change the fact that the plot set into motion by Christopher Robin leaving the Wood for school turns the film into the single darkest Pooh fiction, as it’s still responsible for the franchise’s heaviest storytelling and character development to date.
- Nothing Is Scarier: We never see the monster because it doesn’t exist, but until it's true nature is revealed, that’s why it’s so scary.
- No-Sell: Rabbit leading the group into the Forest of Thorns to try to lose it doesn’t work as it’s quickly heard in the distance.
- Outside-Context Villain: As it lurks in the Great Unknown where presumably no member of the Wood has ever gone, the group are unfamiliar with it and quickly become terrified of this very dangerous, unknown threat.
- Super-Persistent Predator: Once the group crosses into the Great Unknown, the Skullasaurus persistently pursues them for the remainder of their journey - which is because it's just the sounds of Pooh's tummy, explaining why it's always nearby.
- The Unseen: It’s never seen, only heard groaning and roaring as it hunts the gang - but that’s because it doesn’t exist.
- Unseen No More: The group minus Pooh thinks they’ve finally seen it during the climax when they witness the huge, frayed reflection of Pooh in the crystals.
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: For a franchise that can be enjoyed by all ages all the way down to preschoolers, a huge, predatory monster constantly hunting the heroes is a pretty intimidating threat. Being a manifestation of the movie’s dark, dramatic tone instead of an actual monster arguably makes the prospect even more frightening.
- Walking Spoiler: The central twist of the film is that it doesn’t exist, flipping most of the movie on its head.
The Backson
Voiced by: Huell Howser
A creature that Owl imagines when being asked to read a note from Christopher Robin, ending up mistaking the words "back soon" for "Backson." First mentioned in The House at Pooh Corner, but made its animated debut (with more detailed characterization) in the 2011 Winnie the Pooh film.
- Adaptation Expansion: The only thing we learn about the Backson in the novel is that it's busy with something, and that it may or may not be Spotted or Herbaceous. In the movie, we get a lot more (mis)information about the creature and even see it in person.
- Adaptational Villainy: Of sorts. In the original novel, Owl and Rabbit just imagine him as a mysterious friend of Christopher Robin's, but in the Disney version Owl thinks he's an evil monster who's captured Christopher Robin. Subverted when it turns out the real Backson is actually a Nice Guy.
- Dark Is Not Evil: He initially appears pretty fearsome, but it turns out he's a rather pleasant guy.
- Disney Acid Sequence: The Backson Song, in classic Disney tradition, involves lots of weird, out-there events and backdrops.
- Eyes Out of Sight: His eyes are always covered by his hair.
- Felony Misdemeanor: The things that the characters claim the Backson to commit during its musical sequence are mostly rather unfantastical and mundane, such as "scribbling in all your books", getting you to sleep in, spilling your tea, interrupting your train of thought, and never saying "pardon" when it bumps into you, mixed with more serious things such as chipping your tooth and stealing your youth.
- Real After All: The Backson makes an appearance in the post-credits stinger of the movie, but he seems to be a rather cheerful fellow.
- The Stinger: The Backson stomps along through the woods, looking menacing, and then comes across the objects trail that Pooh and friends left, and cheerfully proclaims about how you can find so many interesting things in the woods. He sees the picture of himself, thinks everything must belong to the guy in the picture, and proceeds to pick up the items, leading right into the pit and falling into it.
- "The Villain Sucks" Song: The Backson Song, which is all about what a monstrous, evil fellow he is.
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
The Bugs
Voiced by: Jim Cummings
An army of green, caterpillar-like insects who are forever attempting to devour Rabbit's garden. Their unnamed leader wears a bicorn hat and epaulettes, evoking Napoléon Bonaparte, and affects the mannerisms of a general.
- Big Eater: They love to gorge on Rabbit's vegetables. Especially the big bug from "The Bug Stops Here", who gets banished because he'd eat too much of their haul.
- Cartoon Bug-Sprayer: Rabbit often uses one of these against them
- Somewhere, an Entomologist Is Crying: Naturally, the bugs do not resemble any real species. Mostly, they just combine the stereotypical traits of caterpillars and ants.
- Token Heroic Orc: The big bug in "The Bug Stops Here" befriends Roo and Dexter and nicknamed "Science".
- The Unintelligible: All of their lines are sped up gibberish done by Jim Cummings. Only a few instances of their lines are intelligible orders from their leader, such as "Retreat!" or "And stroke, stroke, stroke!"
Crud
Voiced by: Jim Cummings
Debut: "Cleanliness Is Next to Impossible"
- Eldritch Abomination: By Winnie the Pooh standards, at least.
- Evil Is Hammy: Courtesy of Jim Cummings.
- Killed Off for Real: Both he and his minion Smudge get sucked into Christopher Robin's vacuum, making them the only characters in the entire Winnie the Pooh franchise to die.
- Knight of Cerebus: Goofy a villain as he seems to be, he's still a lot darker and edgier than you'd ever expect to see in a Winnie the Pooh story.
- Laughably Evil: Even with his slightly horrific concept, he has a rather petty comical demeanor. His motives are solely to create trash, after all.
- Trash of the Titans: Taken to villainous extremes, creating a monster that wants to spread mess all over the world.
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Well, sort of. By normal media standards, he is merely a Laughably Evil cartoon blob who wants to make the world messy, but by the usual standards of the Winnie The Pooh universe (that usually doesn't even have actual villains) he's actually kinda unsettling.
Bruno
Voiced by: Jim Cummings
Debut: "Monkey See, Monkey Do Better"
A clockwork gorilla. Initially appearing in a birthday box on Christopher Robin's bed, when the others unwrap him, he proceeds to proclaim himself "the best toy a kid could get" and proceeds to show them up by outdoing each and every one of them. Distraught, the others prepare to leave, only to find out that they misunderstood Christopher's words; he wasn't a present for Christopher, he was a present Christopher was going to give someone else. Realizing his mistake, Bruno allows himself to be rewrapped in order to be sent on to his real home.
- Character Catchphrase: "The best toy" and "the best present a kid could get"; he repeats variants of these constantly throughout the episode.
- Driven to Suicide: Yes, in a Pooh cartoon! Towards the episode's climax, Bruno hears Christopher telling the other toys that he's not keeping Bruno. The gorilla is so shocked and aghast at this that he proceeds to wander off into the Hundred Acre Wood and pulls out his key, slumping over on a log as he basically dies. He is found and rewound a few minutes later, but still, it's quite creepy.
- Extreme Omnivore: When outdoing Pooh at gathering honey, Bruno eats the entire hive, waxy shell and all, then blows the bemused bees out of his ears.
- Gary Stu: This is how he's seen In-Universe; no matter what Pooh and his friends try to do in order to prove they're special, Bruno outdoes them.
- Hero Antagonist: Bruno isn't really a villainous character, though he is kind of an arrogant jerk, but he drives the whole plot of the episode by scaring the other toys into believing Christopher Robin will get rid of them if they're not as special as Bruno is.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: He's so assured he's the perfect toy that when he believes he's been rejected by Christopher Robin, he tries to deactivate himself in disillusionment.
- Jerkass: Not only is he full of himself, he belittles the other toys and gets them into challenges to prove his superiority to them.
- Killer Gorilla: Not literally, but he still fits the spirit of the trope by being a gorilla who's a trouble-making antagonistic character.
- Meaningful Name: Not Bruno himself, but his episode; "monkey see, monkey do" is a now rather old-fashioned saying about mimicking someone else's talents or achievements. This monkey sees something done, and then goes out of his way to do it better.
- Small Name, Big Ego: His huge ego is his most defining trait; he manages to outdo Tigger at being full of himself. His sheer arrogance drives the whole plot of his episode, and when he hears that Christopher Robin apparently doesn't want him, he has a full-fledged breakdown that leaves him... well, see Driven to Suicide.
Nasty Jack
Voiced by: Jim Cummings
Debut: "Paw and Order"
The leader of the Horse Thieves.
- Berserk Button: Jack gets very angry at Rabbit serving him and his gang banana splits with carrots on top (instead of cherries) at the saloon, and actually reaches over the counter to grab him.Nasty Jack: WHAT?! (low, menacing growl) No cherries...?
- The Dreaded: Is previously noted to have "trounced" several previous Sheriffs in his criminal career.
- Heel–Face Turn: He ceases all hostilities against the gang when Piglet makes him the sheriff.
- Laughably Evil: Given the show, he attacks the gang with things like ice cream.
- Manly Facial Hair: Jack has a combination of a thick black mustache and Perma-Stubble on a very hefty jawline, firmly establishing the guy as a big, tough villain at a glance.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Nasty Jack. Which is, of course, lampshaded by Piglet.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Vocally, Jack behaves like Jack Nicholson when he is an outlaw. He then switches to John Wayne when Piglet makes him sheriff.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: Introducing himself as a Visual Pun, he's not the most sinister antagonist the Pooh cast went up against; but he is one of the craftiest, keeping one step ahead of them up until Piglet coerces him into a Heel–Face Turn. They even complain he's too savvy to follow the script.
- Top-Heavy Guy: He's all chest, with big arms but tiny legs. That might make sense for Funny Animals of some species, but a horse?
- Visual Pun: He's not a horse thief, he's a Horse Thief (the name of his gang).
- Worthy Opponent: Sees the Masked Bear as this, deciding to get serious when he poises a threat to his control over the town.
The Pack Rats
Voiced by: Jim Cummings
Debut: "The Rats Who Came to Dinner"
A trio of rodents in New Adventures who compulsively steal anything that isn't nailed down, replacing it with a walnut as "payment". The gray one is the leader, the orange one is an overweight dimwit and the brown one has a slight attitude problem.
- And You Thought It Was Real: They spend their time in "Oh, Bottle!" chasing a treasure map thinking it leads to real treasure, not realizing that Pooh and Christopher Robin were just playing pretend.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Pooh tells them, "When someone does something nice for you, you're supposed to do something nice for them. That's called friendship." So they do just that: they save the other characters' possessions from the flood.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: They don’t see themselves as thieves because they leave a walnut behind. They also have to be taught the concept of generosity and still struggle to understand how it works.
- Butt-Monkey: All of them, but especially the orange one, are prone getting knocked about.
- Calling Card: They leave walnuts in place of whatever they take.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Each specific memeber of the group is colored a specific hue so you can easily tell them apart.
- Freudian Trio: The irascible brown one is the id, the balanced, in-charge gray one is the ego and the easy-going but long-suffering orange one is the superego.
- Goldfish Poop Gang: They're even less intimidating than Stan and Heff!
- Harmless Villains: Even by the standards of this show, they're pretty pathetic. They're not even really out to be bad, they just can't help but steal stuff.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: They can be quite helpful at times, but they can't fight the urge to continue stealing.
- Hero with an F in Good: In "The Rats Who Came to Dinner", they try to be good to others but are pretty clueless about how to do it.
- Impossible Theft: They're good at this. How can three tiny rats steal an entire household, furniture and all, in less than one night?
- My God, What Have I Done?: In "Oh, Bottle!", after chasing a treasure map, thinking it leads to real treasure, they feel terrible learning that Pooh and the gang were planning to use it to save a friend.
- No Name Given: They have distinct personalities but not names.
- Punny Name: A pack rat is an American rodent that obsessively gathers various oddments in its nest. So, we have the "Pack Rats", who're actual rats who obsessively steal anything and everything that catches their eyes.
- Rule of Three: They're always shown in a group of three, and they fit the standard "three characters" archetypes.
- Sticky Fingers: When something catches their eye, they feel the need to take it. Most of the stuff they don't even use. They just let it accumulate in their home and hoard it.
- Terrible Trio: They're three villains who're never seen apart from each other.
- The Unintelligible: They often speak in a series of squeaks and chatters. Fortunately, Gopher is a rodent himself and can translate. Though in "The Rats Who Came to Dinner", they have a limited grasp of English.
- Even then, one of their lines in "Nothing But the Tooth" is clearly "We have to get that tooth!" sped up in a manner similar to Chip 'n' Dale. In fact, all of their lines are sped up recordings of Jim Cummings.
- Villain Decay: Mild example, but the Pack Rats are slightly more threatening in their first appearance, "Nothing but the Tooth", than in the other two episodes featuring them.
- You Dirty Rat!: They're rats who're compulsive thieves and villains, if minor ones.
