History Characters / TheMoomins

* BadassPacifist

* TheStoic
* WalkingTheEarth

* [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Comically]] / TragicallyMissingThePoint: Another classic Hemulen trait. Usually their obliviousness is played up for comedy, but sometimes it has tragic or at least potentially tragic consequences.

* DefrostingIceQueen: ''Literally''. In ''Moominpappa at Sea'' she slowly develops a sort-of friendship with Moomintroll, and at the end of the novel she no longer freezes the ground when she walks on it.

* WalkingWasteland

* BlessedWithSuck/CursedWithAwesome: Her tiny size gives her a ''lot'' of problems (especially in ''Moominsummer Madness''), but it also gives her a lot of advantages. Sometimes she's annoyed at not being bigger, but usually she accepts it; in one episode of the 1990s anime she even gets a moment's {[Genre Savvy}}ness when she claims that she's too small for anything serious to happen to her.

** And in various adaptations she tends to be portrayed as even larger. The various anime series tend to keep her at roughly the same size as in the book illustrations, but in the "fuzzy felt" series she reaches up to Moomintroll's shoulders, and in the live-action series she's played by normal-sized women and as such isn't even particularly little.

* HandicappedBadass: It's never actually ''addressed'' in the stories that she may have any sort of disability, and the books are the only continuity where it can be inferred at all... but Little My has to have been born with some sort of dwarfism or [[NeverGrewUp syndrome that makes her age much more slowly than anyone else]]. She's older than both Snufkin and Moomintroll, but according to the revised edition of ''Moominpappa's Memoirs'' she "for some reason" stopped growing at a very young age. ''MoominsummerMadness'' is probably the book where her size gives her the most problems (and it's the only book where she expresses clear annoyance at being so little), though it's also an advantage at times. The "Badass" part comes across from the fact that she never lets her size slow her down any.

* [[MisterImagination Miss Imagination]]: In the books, where she'll gleefully lapse into any kind of morbid, disturbing fantasy or story, especially if there's a chance of frightening someone with them.

* BrattyHalfPint
* DeadpanSnarker: Again, most prominently in the comic strip, but it's a central part of her character in every other incarnation as well.

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Choleric

* YourSizeMayVary: How big ''is'' Little My? Reading the books, it's impossible to tell, especially in the later books. In her first appearances she's ''tiny'' and has to be carried everywhere (or perch on top of Snufkin's hat), but in later books she's grown at least a bit larger. Just how large is difficult to pin down; on one page she's described as to tiny that she doesn't even leave footprints on the snow, on another she's large enough that several mice can sit on her lap. She's small enough to hide in a sewing-basket or teapot, but large enough to climb an ordinary staircase with no problems. According to the illustrations, she's slightly less than half Moomintroll's height, but even this seems to fluxate a little.

* ControlFreak

* {{Doppelganger}}: for Moomin in the comics. In other media they tend to be more easily distinguished.

* DeadpanSnarker
* FieryRedHead

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold

* Doppelganger: for Moomin in the comics. In other media they tend to be more easily distinguished.

* TheUnintelligible: Treated like this in-universe in the beginning, as only the [[Translator Buddy Hemulen understands what they're saying and has to translate for the others]] (and even he misunderstands them frequently). The audience can usually make out what they're saying with no problem, though.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Declaring her hatred for and frustration with how boring everything is, she wishes everything was different and she could experience something dangerous. She gets both those wishes granted, and it's ''scary.''

* CarefulWhatYouWishFor: Declaring her hatred for and frustration with how boring everything is, she wishes everything was different and she could experience something dangerous. She gets both those wishes granted, and it's ''scary.''

* CarefulWhatYouWishFor: Declaring her hatred for and frustration with how boring everything is, she wishes everything was different and she could experience something dangerous. She get both those wishes granted, and it's ''scary.''

* {{Invisibility}}: Presented here as something that happens to people who are too timid.

* DogStereotype: {{Averted.}} He is a tiny dog, but has none of the stereotypical bravery or agression associated with tiny dogs.

* TheComicallySerious: A classic Hemulen trait.

!!Sorry-Oo

!!Ninny

--> Nominally the main character of the books (though most of the books are more of an EnsembleCast thing], and by far the one who changes and develops the most over the series. He starts out as a very young boy who rarely strays from his mother, but over the course of several books grows into an independent and self-assured troll. Sometimes timid and overly-emotional, but generally brave, friendly and polite to everyone he meets.

-->Moomintroll's mother, and basically the surrogate mother of everyone in the series. Calm, nurturing and seldom cross or upset, she usually likes to let her "children" find their own way in life, but is always ready with a comforting word and a piece of candy or two if anyone should need her.

-->The patriarch of the Moomin family. Kind of blustery and self-important at times, and sometimes his restless and adventurous nature get the better of him, but he's a kind and loving father and husband. He's an excellent seaman.

--> A tiny, but fiercely independent and often mischievous Mymble; she lives with the Moomins and is sort of their unofficially adopted daughter. She's impossible to frighten or upset and has a cheerfully morbid imagination, but can be a good friend when she wants to be.

--> Moomintroll's first friend, who for the first few books lives with the Moomins as a sort of surrogate son/brother. He's an over-emotional, self-interested LovableCoward, and the only character in the books who desires money and wealth. In the comic strip he's always trying various get-rich-quick schemes, but few of them have any success.

-- Moomintroll's best friend and Little My's brother; he's a philosophical and solitary vagabond and musician who lives a nomadic lifestyle, smokes a pipe and values freedom above all else. He keeps as few worldy possessions as possible; the only two things he owns and loves are his old green hat and his harmonica.

--> Moomintroll's girlfriend. She's not a Moomin herself, but a Snork -- a being that's almost completely identical to a Moomin except with the ability to change colors according to her mood. Extremely vain and often rather silly, but with surprising HiddenDepths.

--> Snorkmaiden's brother. He's a thinker and organizer who likes to boss other people around and tell others what to do. The AnimatedAdaptation turns him into a BunglingInventor.

-->The self-declared "villain" of Moominvalley; he's a troublemaker and rascal who's always up to dodgy and probably illegal things. He was introduced in the comic strip and doesn't appear in any of the novels -- only in the last short story, ''An Unwanted Guest'', does he appear, as a "secret friend" of Moominpappa.

--> The biggest threat and scariest creature in Moominvalley; she's cold and unfeeling and creepy, and everything she touches freezes. If she stays in one spot for more than one hour, the ground dies and nothing can ever grow there again.

* AnIcePerson
* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold

!!Hemulen

* FiveManBand: The Leader

* NiceGuy

!!Moominmama

!!Moominpapa

* NiceHat

* JerkAss

* MasculineGirlAndFeminineBoy: Masculine Girl to Sniff's Feminine Boy.

* MasculineGirlAndFeminineBoy: Feminine Boy to Little My's Masculine Girl.

!!Mrs Fillyjonk

* CartoonCreature