History Characters / MrMen

* GutturalGrowler: She speaks with a very [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Marge Simpson]]-esque growl in the [[WesternAnimation/MrMenAndLittleMiss 90s cartoon.]]

Mr Small is so very small, if Mr Small stood next to a pin, the pin would be far bigger than him! Mr Small desperately wants to get a job. Luckily a kind man, in whose garden, Mr Small lives in, helps him by finding him lots of odd jobs to do.

Mr Small works in a restaurant, but keeps falling in the mustard pots, then worked in a sweetshop but fell into the sweet jars, and it went on and on...Until one day, I won't spoil it for you but it all ended happily ever after!

When a little boy called Jack daydreamed as he usually does, Mr Daydream appeared before him and took him on an adventure on his giant flying bird. He flew them to Africa where they met an elephant and a crocodile that tried to eat them!

They then went to Australia, where Mr Daydream and Jack played with a boomerang, and then they even went to the North Pole where Mr Daydream fell into the snow! Lastly he went to the wild west and he wore a cowboy's hat, but when it went over his head, Jack woke up to find that he had been daydreaming in class again!

Mr Forgetful forgets everything and anything! When he wakes up, he tries to remember his dreams and of course cannot. He walks into his wardrobe instead of out the bathroom and always has burnt toast for breakfast!

He found an old letter that he meant to post three weeks ago, and went to buy a stamp at the post office for it. By the time he got there, he had forgotten what he needed, but Mrs Parcel reminded him that he needed a stamp! Mr Forgetful was asked by the village policeman to deliver the message, "There's a sheep loose in the lane", to Farmer Fields, but he got confused and told him, "There a goose asleep in the rain!"

Mr Jelly is frightened of absolutely everything! Even the slightest thing will send him hiding under the covers! He lives in a quiet house far out into the woods where there is nobody to scare him, except when he one day meets a tramp who tells him how not to be scared, and that is to count from 1 to 10 everytime he gets scared. He then tried it all the time, such as when he thought that is was a crocodile or a tree about to fall on top of him, and he realised that he stood on a twig!

* YourSizeMayVary: Coupled with EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, Mr Jelly is depicted as being the same size as Mr Small or Little Miss Tiny, which justifies his fear of everything. In later appearances, he is more or less the same height as the other characters, although he returns to being small enough to hide under Mr Strong's hat in the ''Go Camping'' book.

Mr Noisy is the noisiest person in the world. When he sneezes you can hear him in the next country, and when he snores it sounds like a herd of elephants! He lives on top of a hill in Wobbletown, which is called that because it always wobbles when Mr Noisy is shouting. One day, Mr Noisy decided to get some meat and bread from Mrs Crumb and Mr Bacon, but they were so annoyed of him being rude and shouting so loudly, the ignored him until he would speak normally. At the end of the day, Mr Noisy was a changed man.

Mr Lazy is the laziest person in the world. He can sleep for hours upon hours upon hours. In Lazyland, they don't even get up in the morning, they get up in the afternoon. One day, when Mr Lazy was taking a nap outside in a chair, he was woken up suddenly by the sound of someone shouting "WAKEUPWAKEUP!". That person was in fact two people, Mr Busy and Mr Bustle. These strange two men made sure that Mr Lazy got to work as there was wood to chop, floors to clean, coal to get, windows to polish, and a lot more things. Mr Lazy had never done this much work in his life, but luckily for him, the two visitors only turned out to be a big dream!

Mr Funny is the funniest person in the whole of Happyland, quite the funniest you have ever seen. To start with, Mr Funny lives in a teapot that has two bedrooms, a bathroom, a kitchen and a living room. What is even funnier is the fact that his car was not in fact a car, but a shoe with wheels!

All the animals and flowers that saw Mr Funny in his show-car laughed so hard, they laughed themselves in two, laughed their tails off or laughed themselves out of the ground.


And when the animals at the zoo were feeling unhappy because they all had colds, Mr Funny pulled such a funny face that the elephant nearly laughed her truck off, the lion nearly laughed his whiskers to pieces and the giraffe nearly laughed a knot in her neck.

Mr Mean is a miserable miser of a man who means to anyone and everyone. His house is broken, dirty and has never been painted. Mr Mean simply grumbles on about the price of nails, but all of his furniture is made from old orange boxes. His house doesn't have any fires, carpets, pictures or curtains, just boring old wood. You would think that Mr Mean is poor, but in fact he has lots of money but never spends any of it or gives it to anyone. He even gave his brother a piece of coal for Christmas so that he didn't have to spend any money. One day, an old wizard came and taught him his lesson, by turning all his money into potatoes and whenever he was mean turned different parts of him into different vegetables! However, Mr Mean was a changed man, and he became so kind that the following year he gave his brother a nicer, better present...two pieces of coal!

* LeanAndMean: Literally. He's one of thinnest Mr Men, and is not called "Mr Mean" for nothing.

Mr Chatterbox can go on forever. He simply wouldn't stop talking! He would talk to anybody and everybody about anything and everything. One day he was talking to Mr Stamp the postman for so long, that he was late delivering everyone else's letters.

He then went on to talk to Mr Bowler, the hat maker. The villagers and him were getting tired of his chatting, so he ordered in a special hat for Mr Chatterbox. When he tried it on, Mr Chatterbox suddenly found that the hat was getting bigger and bigger until it covered him completely up!

Mr Fussy is so fussy that he would have to make sure that everything was all neat and tidy, and in its proper place. Absolutely everything had to be clean or straight. He spends every day of his life doing this, fussing over this and that. "Fussy old fusspot" everyone calls him. One day, his long lost cousin from Australia, Mr Clumsy, came to visit. Mr Fussy's trouble started then, as he is the complete opposite to cousin. In the end, however Mr Clumsy does decide to leave, but Mr Fussy has another unexpected visit from someone else...

Mr Bounce is so like a rubber ball, that when he touches the floor, he bounces right up and down! He once climbed over the farm fence and when he landed on the other side, he bounced so high, he landed with a splash in the duck pond, and weren't they surprised to see him!



Mr Bounce was so sick and tired of bouncing everywhere, that he decided to go and see the Mr Men doctor. Mr Bounce went into town on the local bus, but after stepping off of the bus, he bounched up into the air, and through the window of the doctor's surgery....

The doctor gave Mr Bounce some special boots that helped weighed him down and stopped him bouncing all the way home.

Did they work or did Mr Bounce do a Mr Forgetful.....?

Mr Muddle is an individual who can never get anything right. The simplest of things confuses him, such as putting on his coat and hammering in a nail into the wall. Mr Muddle even walks back to front! On a day out, Mr Muddle met George the fisherman, who really confused Mr Muddle when he simply asked him to help him push his boat out to sea. George told Mr Muddle the exact opposite of what he really wanted him to do, and Mr Muddle did exactly the right thing! George then told everyone in Seatown how to deal with Mr Muddle. The next day he met Mr Brick, the town builder, who did exactly the same thing when he asked him to hold his coat (so Mr Muddle held his ladder), and so did Mrs Scrub and Mr Black.

Mr Strong is the strongest of all the Mr men, but this lands him in trouble! He regularly breaks things he touches by accident. But sometimes it saves the day....

* SuperStrength: Mr. Strong's defining characteristic is his incredible physical strength. He lifts an entire barn, flips it upside down to fill it with water from a river, and carries the now much heavier barn to put out the fire consuming a farmer's cornfield. All without breaking a sweat.]

Even a very normal day is a disaster with Mr. Clumsy. The only place he's safe is asleep in bed! Hargreaves' story of Mr Clumsy is a catalogue of endless disaster! Everything Mr Clumsy touches, breaks or ends up where it shouldn't. Everywhere he goes, chaos erupts.

* TheKlutz: An even bigger example then Mr. Bump

Mr. Quiet lives in Loudland, where everybody and everything is too loud for him. Loudland would be suitable for Mr. Noisy, but not for Mr. Quiet. Mr. Quiet is scared. Whenever he tries to go shopping, he can only whisper what he wants, which results in the grocer, the milkman, the baker, and the butcher to shout "CAN'T HEAR YOU! NEXT PLEASE!" One day Mr. Quiet gets a letter from Mr. Happy to stay in Happyland, where Mr. Quiet gets a job in a library, where the rule is to always be quiet. Mr. Quiet is so happy he laughs out loud.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He's frightened of loud noises which is why he never liked living in Loudland or being around [[NoIndoorVoice Mr Noisy]] or the [[MotorMouth Chatterboxes.]]

If it rained he would worry that the roof of his house would leak or if it didn’t rain that his house plants would die, this Mr Men charater is often like someone we all know!

* NiceGuy: He is shown to worry about other people as well as about himself (for example, about Mr Bump hurting himself, about Mr Greedy getting ill from overeating, about Mr Noisy losing his voice from being so loud, etc).

Mr Skinny is sick and tired of being the skinniest Mr Man in Fatland. Do Dr. Plump and Mr. Greedy have the cure? Wait and see!

%%* NoodlePeople

Mr. Mischief loves to play mean pranks on other Mr. Men. For example, he bakes Mr Greedy a cake made out of toothpaste and mud! However, one day he gets a taste of his own medicine...

Mr Greedy is truly the greediest person in the whole of Misterland (well maybe not the greediest, there is someone else who could be greedier!). He can eat his way through as much food you or I could eat in a week in an hour! Mr Greedy's problem was that the more he ate the fatter he became. Then the fatter he became the more hungry he became and the more hungry he became the more he ate! Mr Greedy once has 9 slices of toast and a whole packet of cornflakes for his breakfast one day! However he learnt his lesson when he met a giant and ate all of his giant-sized dinner! He had a stomach ache after that!

Mr Happy is always happy. He always has a large grin on his face and is always trying to cheer up everyone who is feeling down. He lives in a house at the foot of a mountain next to a lake. In Happyland everyone and everything is happy, even the flowers smile! He is so happy that he even managed to find Mr Grumble a hobby that he actually liked (even though that hobby was grumbling!)

Mr Nosey has the longest nose you have ever seen! He always uses his nose to poke into other people's business, always reading other people's newspapers rather than his own on the train or opening other people's post to find out what was inside. However the people of Tiddletown do not like this one bit. All of the residents of Tiddletown decide what to do about Mr Nosey: Mr Chips, the carpenter; Mrs Washer, the laundrette; Mr Brush, the painter; and even Mr Herd, the farmer, they all got their own back on nosey Mr Nosey.

--> '''Mr Nosey''': Do you always talk like this?\\

'''Mr Nosey''': How very kind kind.\\

Mr Sneeze comes from Coldland, near the North Pole. The only problem with Coldland is that everyone always has a cold. All of the people and the elephants in Coldland all have red noses.

Whenever Mr Sneeze gets up, you guessed it he sneezes, and then goes downstairs, sneezes, eat his breakfast, sneezes...etc. One day Mr Sneeze decided to leave Coldland and find a cure for all his sneezing.

Mr Sneeze packed all the things he needed (mainly hankerchiefs) and set off until he found a wizard and found he wasn't in Coldland at all. What do you think happened next?

Mr Bump is always having accidents, bumping into things and landing in holes. Little accidents and big accidents. Mr Bump was once carrying a ladder to fix his chimney pot, but smashed his living room window when he was turning round. When he turned to see what had happened, SMASH! went the kitchen window went as well.

So you see, this happens quite a lot. When he tried to get a job, everything he did, he always had accidents and got the sack from every job, however he now works for Mr Barley in his orchard as an apple picker. He just walks around and soon enough he bumps into a tree and an apple falls down!

* AmusingInjuries: a frequent victim of slapstick comedy and his injuries are played for laughs.

Mr Snow is made totally from snow. When it snowed 2 days before Christmas, all the kids were very excited because it had never ever snowed so much in one day!

Mr Messy is the messiest person in the world. You can always tell when he has been somewhere because there is always a trail of fingerprints wherever he has been. Messy by name, messy by nature! His house was not much better, there were broken windows and loose roof tiles. On one of his walks through the woods near his house, he found a beautiful house where he met Mr Tidy and Mr Neat, who were cleaning a house. They then saw Mr Messy and proceeded to clean his house for him, which he was not happy about!

Mr Topsy-Turvy is always the wrong way round!, watch the film and see what happens.

%%* EyeObscuringHat

As he is probably the most stuck-up, richest, rudest Mr Man you'd ever meet, so it follows that he is not very popular. Thankfully the goblins take a real interest in Mr. Snooty, and use all of their magic powers to frighten him into changing.

** In "[[KickTheDog Little Miss Shy And The Fairy Godmother"]], neither she nor Little Miss Naughty pay for insulting [[ShrinkingViolet Little Miss Shy]] for her shyness and driving her to tears outside of being shocked when the glass slipper actually fits her.

* KarmaHoudini: [[AvertedTrope she normally averts this trope,]] but there are a few occasions where she isn't brought to justice for her actions:

** In "[[KickTheDog Little Miss Shy And The Fairy Godmother"]], neither she nor Little Miss Bossy pay for insulting [[ShrinkingViolet Little Miss Shy]] for her shyness and driving her to tears outside of being shocked when the glass slipper actually fits her.

* DistaffCounterpart: To Mr. Fussy

* DistaffCounterpart: To Mr. Small

* KarmaHoudini: While [[AvertedTrope Karma normally catches up to her whenever she does something bad,]] there are a few times where she doesn't receive comeuppance for her actions:

* DubNameChange: Called "Little Miss Ditzy" in the US version, but in the US dub of the [[WesternAnimation/MrMenAndLittleMiss 1995 cartoon]], she's still called "Little Miss Dotty."

* IronicName: Her introductory story is dedicated to [[SubvertedTrope Subverting]] this trope by having her be shown to get into mishaps (With the narrator even asking why the story is called ''Little Miss Lucky'' despite getting into unlucky situations) throughout the story only for it to turn out to be a [[AllJustADream dream.]]

* DistaffCounterpart: To Mr. Rush

* MeaningfulName: Is so named because she is Wise.

* DistaffCounterpart: To her brother, Mr. Bump

* TheKlutz: Like Mr. Bump

* CuddleBug: She loves cuddling people

* MeaningfulName: Is so named because of her Sparkle.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: [[DownplayedTrope not so much a jerk as just being cocky and headstrong]], but she's overall a nice person and is willing to help others in need and stand up for them.

* RadishCure: Punishes Mr. Greedy for his eating habit by making him eat all the GiantFood on his plate causing Mr. Greedy to feel sick.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in Mr. Mischief - A Spot Of Trouble. He gives [[ThePrankster Mr. Mischief]] the idea to infect everyone with measles by telling him that measles are catching but then Mr. Mischief chooses to try and infect Mr. Happy (Who had the measles once in Little Miss Helpful's book) only for Mr. Happy to turn out to have become immune to the measles, meaning no epidemic happened.

* UngratefulBastard: They responded to Mr. Good's acts of kindness towards them with hostility. I.E. Accusing him of stealing when he tried to help one of them carry their shopping.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite the fact that he loves being messy(hence his name), even he looked disgusted when a slime monster covered him in slime in ''Adventure With Monsters''.

* NonStandardCharacterDesign: The only Mr. Man whose ears are actually visible on his head.

* {{Workaholic}}:In his own book, he wakes up at six o clock, bathes, has breakfast, reads the paper, and cleans his entire house. When he's done, it's seven o clock. Then he has lunch with Mr. Slow next door, requiring him to mow Mr. Slow's lawn, which takes him five and a half minutes (he'd have finished in only five minutes, but had to mow around Mr. Slow). Then he goes home and cleans his entire house again!

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes?: Despite his bravery, it is revealed in one episode of the [[WesternAnimation/MrMenAndLittleMiss 1995 cartoon]] (namely ''Mr. Brave vs. Koko the Gorilla''), that he has Arachnophobia, which is known as a fear of spiders.

* PurpleIsPowerful: He's purple and is possibly the most powerful character in the series, since nothing is impossible to him.

* PurpleisPowerful: He's purple is possibly the most powerful character in the series, since nothing is impossible to him.

* LoveableJock: She is the most athletic of all the Mr. Men and Little Misses and is a sweet-natured person.

* LeanAndMean: Literally.

Never has Mr. Cheerful been without a smile. From breakfast in the morning to his bath at night. He was even happy when it rained! When he met Mr. Funny, he was so happy that he pulled off a funnier face than he usally does. One day, he runs into Little Miss Splendid who begins to smile, but then complains about Mr. Cheerful not raising his hat. For the first time in his life, Mr. Cheerful lost his smile--and blushed bright red. Miss Splendid finally talks him into raising his hat, showing the total of only three hairs on his head. Miss Splendid tells Mr. Cheerful that it is his big bright smile that everyone loves, not how many hairs he has on his head. So from that day on, Mr. Cheerful was once again, never without a smile. And everyone he passes leaves with a smile. There's only one thing left to say... hats off to Mr. Cheerful!

Mr Worry worries abot everything and all things. Life is just one long worry for poor Mr Worry. He was always worried that if he went shopping he would leave something behind, or lose something on the way home.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Given her LackOfEmpathy, tendency to spread lies and her [[{{Sadist}} getting jollies out of watching people get hurt]], it could be stated that she's a [[TheSociopath sociopath]] but it has not been officially confirmed.

* KarmaHoudini: They never get any punishment for they mean attitude.

%%* NiceGirl

* DistaffCountepart: To Mr. Mischief

* DistaffCounterpart: To Mr. Bump

* {{Baby of the Bunch}}: While most of the cast are implied to be young adults or in their late-teens, Little Miss Tiny seems to be the youngest Little Miss.

* VerbalTic: They both have a tendency to repeat the last word of a sentence. [[note]] sentence [[/note]]

* {{BabyoftheBunch}}: While most of the cast are implied to be young adults or in their late-teens, Little Miss Tiny seems to be the youngest Little Miss.

* BabyoftheBunch: While most of the cast are implied to be young adults or in their late-teens, Little Miss Tiny seems to be the youngest Little Miss.

* NiceGuy: He has perfectly good manners and doesn't even snap at Mr. Uppity for acting rude throughout his birthday party or at Mr. Mean for getting him a crappy present.

* TokenMiniMoe: Most of the cast are implied to be adults and/or teenagers, Miss Tiny [[{{TheBabyoftheBunch}} seems to be the youngest Little Miss]] and she's very cute.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Given her LackOfEmpathy, tendency to spread lies and her [[{{Sadist}} getting jollies out of watching people get hurt]], it could be stated that she's a [[TheSociopath sociopath]] but it's not been confirmed.

* FrameUp: She framed Mr. Small for giving rude nicknames to Mr. Uppity and Mr. Clever.

* KarmaHoudini: While [[AvertedTrope Karma normally catches up to her whenever she does something bad,]] there are a few times where she doesn't pay for her actions:
** In Mr. Brave's story, she doesn't get punished for attempting to humiliate Mr. Brave in front of his friends outside of being shocked that people still praised him for arriving late for [[ControlFreak Little Miss Bossy's]] tea party.
** In the TV episode "Mr. Skinny's Incredible Bet", she isn't caught for causing a fight between Mr. Skinny and Mr. Greedy.

** In ''Little Miss Dotty Goes To Home Farm'', she gets thirsty enough to drink some new milk out of the barrel.

* AdaptationalJerkass: In a couple of episodes of the 90s cartoon, she can come off as a bit of a JerkJock.

'''Narrator''': [[LampshadeHanging Their way of talking seemed to be]] [[NoFourthWall catching catching!]]