History Characters / TheMagicRoundabout

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Unfortunately, Florence would sometimes become victim of slapstick as a result of Dougal's antics in the CGI Series.

** 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 a mop.

* CheatersNeverProsper: Of course, he does try to cheat in the CGI series, particularly "The Race" when he uses a 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.
* TheComicallySerious: He is shown to be serious at times, despite being usually grumpy and very much gets caught up in comical slapstick moments.

* DetectiveAnimal: 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 solving cases in the aforementioned respective episodes.

* EmbarrassingOldPhoto: Dougal is completely embarrassed when his Auntie Primrose shows his baby photographs in a album to Florence and everybody in the episode "Auntie Primrose".

* GleefulAndGrumpyPairing: He is the Grumpy to Brian's Gleeful. Brian is happy-go-lucky and cheerful while Dougal is a bit pesimestic and grumpy. Regardless, Dougal is still good friends with him.

* GreenEyedMonster: 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".

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Dougal may be pessimistic, selfish and rude, but he is very loyal to his friends, especially Florence, his owner who he loves dearly.

* RedOniBlueOni: He is the red oni (grumpy, mostly rude and sometimes selfish) that contrasts Florence's blue oni.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: He and his Australian cousin Digger are exactly the same breed and nearly lookalike, but Digger has auburn fur and has a maroon nose. His Auntie Primrose has the similar resemblance to Dougal, except her fur is much darker with grey strands of fur and wears green lipstick.

* UngratefulBastard: Dougal would sometimes shows lack of gratitude to his friends. This was lampshaded in "The Wishing Tree" by the one-time eponymous character, no less.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Brian, Dougal would often get irritated with him and even being rude to him. On occasion, he considers Brian as his best friend.

* BrainyBrunette: Has brown hair and is quite clever on 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 on teaching her students and as well as having to discipline Dougal for his rude behaviour and interruptions.

* CaringGardener: In the CGI series, Florence would plant her flowers in her garden as well as watering them.
* CheerfulChild: Florence is generally positive, although it's more in the sense of being calm, optimistic and sweet-natured.

* ChildrenDoTheHousework: Florence is capable of doing the housework in her house where she would be cooking pies for Dougal or keep 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.
* TheCutie: Florence's kind personality that consists of her sweet nature, selflessness and optimism is what makes her so adorable.

** 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 a 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.

** In "Magic Fairy Ring", when seeing Dougal's disbelief in fairies, Florence is determined to try and open his eyes 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.

* DisappointedInYou: Florence would have that reaction when she learns about Dougal's mischief as well as the trouble he caused to some of his friends in some episodes of the CGI series. She uses her eyes to voice her visible disappointment with Dougal.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Florence wouldn't stand for any rudeness or wrongdoings that is coming from her friends, but she does feel sorry for them, regardless.

* FingerWag: Florence sometimes does a "no-no" finger wag to show her disapproval at Dougal or any of her friends' wrongdoings.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: 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 her flowers in her garden, causing her to try and shoo them away.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Along with her friends minus Dougal, Florence didn't realise 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 about Buxton.
* InnocentBlueEyes: Florence has those in the post-2005 CGI era to emphasise her youthful innocence.

* LimitedWardrobe: Her dress consisting of a blue sweater and a orange skirt with a white petticoat is the only outfit Florence wears. This was lampshaded in the CGI Series episode "Barmy Army".

* MagicSkirt: 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.
* MinorLivingAlone: In the post-2005 CGI era, Florence is shown to be living in her house independently [[FeminineWomenCanCook and knows how to cook]], keep house and look after Dougal who lives with her.
* MoralityChain: To Dougal. Florence doesn't appreciate of his rudeness and his selfish acts, where her stern side towards Dougal has a strong effect when she confronts Dougal if things are going too far.

* NiceGirl: She is a well-mannered, friendly and sweet-natured young girl.
* NiceMeanAndInbetween: She's the nice one when she goes with Dougal and Brian in most episodes as she's optimistic, sweet and more sympathetic.

* OrangeBlueContrast: Florence wears a 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.
* PluckyGirl: Very kind-hearted, calm and optimistic, but never tends to give up when helping her friends in situations, as well as trying to keep spirits up.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Unfortunately, Florence would sometimes become victim of slapstick as a result from Dougal's antics in the CGI Series.

* TranquilFury: 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.

** 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 what prompts her, along with everyone else, to set out to find Dougal in order to make it up to him.

** At the beginning of each episode in the CGI Series, he tells the viewers the brief summary of what will happen in each episode.

* HeroicSacrifice: Subverted in the 2005 film, after being trapped in ice by Zeebad and plummets into the abyss. In the climax, it is revealed that he survived, but still trapped in ice until it slowly melts where he is able to break himself free and springs back to the village.
* ItAmusedMe: While being the ruler of the Magic Garden, Zebedee does enjoy himself to play pranks on his friends in most episodes in the 2007 revival series. However, they are usually figured out by Florence where 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.

-->'''Zeebad:''' I've waited 10,000 years for my revenge, and as you know, revenge is a dish best-served cold.\\

* VerbalTic: 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 ''Series/{{Pinwheel}}'', he would say something like, "There he is, tournico-tis!")

* DisneyDeath: In ''Dougal and the Blue Cat'', he was seemingly killed when Buxton's treacle factory collapses as he was going back for Zebedee's moustache. When the gang explains to a remorseful Buxton of what happened, Brian shows up alive and well with Zebedee's moustache.

* RudeHeroNiceSidekick: He is happy-go-lucky and cheerful sidekick that contrast with Dougal's Rude Hero.
* SelfInducedAllergicReaction: In the CGI Series episode "Nanny Ermintrude", Brian shows up with pink spots all over his face after he rather foolishly eaten some chocolate where Florence admonishes him by saying that chocolate isn't good for him. His condition was worsened from Ermintrude's nettle soup, but luckily, he gets better when he joins Mr. Rusty, Florence and Dylan for a walk.
* ShyShelledAnimal: 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 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.

* StrongFamilyResemblence: 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 until Dougal actually sees his cousin without his special glasses.

An 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.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: She may be a friendly cow, but if she is pushed her to her limits (particularly of Dougal's rudeness), she'll bound to get enraged.
* ControlFreak: Happens in the CGI series episode "The Cow In The Hat", she wears a bossy hat, which resembles a policeman's helmet, [[TheKilljoy 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.

* JerkassBall: In the post-2005 CGI era, Ermintrude sometimes grabs it in some episodes which tends to make her a bit arrogant or impulsive, until she realises the error of her ways in the end.
* NeverBareheaded: Ermintrude always go anywhere with her hat. This is downplayed where she is seen without her hat on a few occasions. She is seen without her hat often in the 2007 revival series.

* PinkMeansFeminine: 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.

* RedIsHeroic: Has red spots on her body, as well as having red limbs and a tail. She even wears a red neckerchief.

* SignatureHeadgear: 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.

* StrongFamilyResemblence: 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.
* TookALevelInBadass: Ermintrude became a bit of an ActionGirl in the 2005 film where she has a few moments. She rescues Dougal from Zeebad's lair by knocking the ice cage door on 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.

* YouLeaveHimAlone: Ermintrude got the nerve to say this to Zeebad who is planning to eat Brian when the gang refuse to give up the map. She even got in front of Zeebad as she says this to defend Brian.

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

* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: 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.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: 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 to making an apricot pie (which Dougal was making for Florence).

* DrearyHalfLiddedEyes: To emphasis his sleepy and lazy demeanor.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: 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.

* NiceGuy: Despite being ditzy and rather dopey, Dylan is very friendly and easy-going.

* TalkingInYourSleep: One episode of the original French version had him singing in his sleep in Italian, while dreaming about riding a gondola.

* DemotedToExtra: He was reduced to being one of the supporting characters in Series 3, but still make appearances very often. Also, he was reduced as a minor character in the 2005 film since he was one of the people who are trapped in the frozen roundabout.
* FriendToAllChildren: Very friendly to the children who loves to ride the Magic Roundabout, especially Florence and obliges to her request to play the barrel organ music for her.
* NiceGuy: He is a optimistic, fatherly and caring man.
* NeverBareheaded: 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 in the revival series episode "Who's Taken the Moon?" has Mr. Rusty wearing a sleeping cap at one point.
* OrganGrinder: Mr. Rusty always uses his barrel organ to make the Magic Roundabout to revolve.

* TheReliableOne: Like Florence, Mr. Rusty is the person that people turn to for advice as he is more wiser. Being one of Florence's friends, she would come to him for help on sorting out problems that her friends are having.

* DemotedToExtra: He was reduced into being of the supporting characters in Series 3 of the original series.
* EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes: In the CGI Series episode "Windbag", he ends up being a DreadfulMusician due to Zebedee tampering with his bagpipes and causes 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.
* PutOnABus: For unknown reasons, he fell into this in the 2005 CGI film and 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.)

* DemotedToExtra: Train was reduced into being one of the supporting characters in Series 3 of the original series.

* PutOnABus: 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.

* HiddenDepths: In the CGI Series episode "Dylan's Big Gig", it is revealed that Mr. Grimsdale is also very handy with building skills where he builds a stage for Dylan's gig on such a short notice as his decking is far too small for Dylan to do his gig.
* OverworkedSleep: In the CGI Series episode "Mr. Grimsdale's Holiday", due to rushing around of having to do so much deliveries that he ends up tired whilst driving his motorbike. He loses control when he does wakes up, causing him to crash into his shop.

* HeelFaceTurn: Sam ultimately does this having realised the truth about Zeebad and rides an elk back to the village to turn against Zeebad.

* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: 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 realised 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.

* UngratefulBastard: 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 cheer 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, what does Sam respond to Florence, Dougal and everyone's 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 everyone to his party in exchange of removing all the bananas from their sights.

* GreaterScopeVillain: Though Madam Blue possess 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 BigBad of the film.
* VillainousBreakdown: In response of finding out "Blue Peter's true identity who is none other than Dougal, [[UnstoppableRage 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.

* YouHaveFailedMe: Madam Blue is understandably furious with Buxton and punishes him by striping him from his title.

* HeelFaceTurn: After being stripped from his powers by Madam Blue, Buxton returns to the garden, crying in remorse of his actions [[EasilyForgiven and is promptly forgiven by everyone.]]

The cold-hearted and tyrannous ice wizard who is Zebedee's arch nemesis and vows revenge on Zebedee for imprisoning 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.

* BigBad: 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 on 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.
* BlueMeansCold: Zeebad has icy blue skin and has ice powers.

* TheDreaded: 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 are slowly becoming less afraid of him until they are brave enough to take him on in the final battle.

* AnIcePerson: Zeebad is a evil ice wizard and actually beats Zebedee in a duel.
* IcyBlueEyes: Being a evil ice wizard, Zeebad has those to represent his cold-hearted personality and his nature.
* KickTheDog: 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.

* NearVillainVictory: He succeeded on 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 steal back the diamonds and place them in the roundabout, which in turn re-imprison Zeebad back inside the roundabout.

* SealedEvilInACan: 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 in his prison in the end when all three diamonds are placed in their slots on the roundabout.

* LadyMacbeth: She serves as this to Buxton who does all the work for her.

* ShopKeeper: Not only is he a delivery man, but he runs a shop in the village.

* PetTheDog: 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. Ends up {{Subverted|Trope}} when he abandons Sam and then kills him without regret.

!!!'''Voiced by''': Fenella Fielding\\

* NiceShoes: She is always seen in a pair of her big white laced ankle boots in a "Babybotte" fashion with its heel blocks. Although in the post-2005 CGI era, they were colored beige.

* BigBad: She is the bigger bad in the film than Buxton who serves her.
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* BigBad: Despite the Blue Voice being the bigger bad, Buxton, under her orders, plots to take over the gardens and make everything blue. He even imprisons everyone with the exception of Dougal in the dungeon.

* TheDreaded: She is feared by Buxton, who is nervous when doing the seven tests in order to gain his title.
* GreaterScopeVillain

* TheDreaded: She is feared by Buxton, who is nervous when doing the seven tests in order to gain his title.

* SurroundedByIdiots: He can feels 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."

* NeverBareheaded: 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.

* NiceHat: 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.

* NiceHat: 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.

* NiceHat: 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.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Dougal may be pessimistic and rude, but he is very loyal to his friends, especially Florence, his owner who he loves dearly.

* GrumpyBear: Or in this case, Grumpy Dog. Dougal can usually come across as being smart-mouthed, irritable and gruff around anyone.

* {{Jerkass}}: He became a bit of one in Nigel Planer's re-narrations of the original series. This trait would sometimes happen in the CGI series as well.

** In "Magic Fairy Ring", when seeing Dougal's disbelief in fairies, Florence is determined to try and open his eyes into believing in fairies.

* DisneyDeath: At the end of the 2005 film, Florence appears to have died from hypothermia after being trapped in the frozen roundabout, but it turns out she was comatose when an anxious Dougal revives her with kisses.
* EveryoneHasStandards: 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.

* NiceGirl: She is a well-mannered and sweet-natured young girl.

* NiceShoes: She is always seen in a pair of her white laced ankle boots in a "Babybotte" fashion with its heel blocks. Although in the post-2005 CGI era, they were beige.

* AbsenteeActor: He didn't appear in the 2005 film, but he did appear in the 2007 CGI series.

* DeadpanSnarker: Only in the US dub of the 2005 film.

* {{Meganekko}}: In the post-2005 era, Coral now wears glasses as part of her redesign.

* PantyShot: Downplayed. Florence's white panties can be briefly seen for only one or two frames when she runs past in a close-up shot in a few episodes of the 2007 revival series such as "Auntie Primrose", where Florence's panties can be seen briefly by freeze framing the scene where she tries to save Primrose.

* DeadpanSnarker: She somewhat becomes this occasionally in the Nigel Planer episodes, usually leading more towards the "deadpan" part.

* LittleMissSnarker: While being a sweet-natured little girl and not as snarky as her dog Dougal, she does have her moments when dealing with him.

* AdultFear: He does fear for the children's safety in the 2005 film when the roundabout spins out of control due to being heavily damaged when Dougal accidentally crashed the sugar cart into it, and immediately tries to rescue the children by leaping onto the roundabout and trying to shut it down.

* NeverBareheaded: 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.

* OnlySaneWoman: Florence would become this as she is more sensible and down-to-earth than Dougal or any of her friends whenever they do something that might be silly.