History Characters / TheWildThornberrys

* MeaningfulName: A complicated one: Her gift to talk to animals makes her a "Literature/DoctorDolittle" figure. Given her first name, that technically makes her "Eliza Doolittle", the protagonist of ''Theatre/{{Pygmalion}}'' / ''Theatre/MyFairLady''.

* MeaningfulName: Her name may be a ShoutOut to Theatre/MyFairLady's Eliza Doolittle. Her gift to talk to animals also makes her a "Literature/DoctorDolittle" figure.

* BritishStuffiness: Speaks this way despite not being from Britain.

* NeverLearnedToTalk: He [[TheUnintelligible only speaks gibberish]] due to the fact that he was [[RaisedByWolves raised by orangutans]] shortly after [[ParentalAbandonment his parents were killed by poachers]].

* {{Catchphrase}}: ''Smashing!''

* CharacterDevelopment: Much like Tucker, he becomes less self-centered and more considerate as time goes on.

* WomenAreWiser: Is the more sensible one when working with her husband. Every once in a while though this is [[InvertedTrope inverted]], usually when Marianne is flustered or infuriated by something to such a degree Nigel needs to be the voice of reason.

->'''Voiced by''': Creator/KeithSzarabajka (Kip), Creator/MichaelJeter (Biederman)

* {{Geas}}: Her ability to talk with animals includes one: if she ever tells another human being about her powers, she'll lose them permanently. She's forced to break the geas in the movie to save Debbie's life, [[spoiler: but she gets them back by demonstrating that she doesn't need them to help creatures in need.]]

Donnie is a feral boy who was raised by orangutans in Borneo and was taken in by the Thornberry family prior to the series. [[spoiler: His birth parents were naturalists who loved and protected animals with their hearts. One night, two poachers attacked a pair of orangutans, intending to harm or kill the mother and sell the baby on the black market. Donnie's parents managed to save them, but were killed for interfering.]]

* RaisedByWolves: Donnie was raised by a mother orangutan alongside her own offspring for some time [[spoiler: after his parents were killed by poachers when they intervened their attempt to poach the orangutan's baby]].

Marianne’s mother. A fussy but kindly old woman who drops in on occasion.

Nigel's mother, a wealthy and well-connected socialite. She can be [[RichBitch a little abrasive,]] but she does mean well.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Both come across this way, ESPECIALLY Sloan.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Their screentime is negligible, but they successfully present the biggest challenge the Thornberrys ever faced, and even succeeded in [[spoiler: taking away Eliza's powers for a time]].

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Grants Eliza’s desire to speak to animals, but in the process removes her ability to communicate with humans.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Eliza’s kindness to him is what convinced him to give her the gift to talk to animals. Later it becomes “because you were kind to others”, after seeing Eliza risk her life to save Darwin, it convinced Mnyambo to cast a harder spell so that Eliza can speak to both animals and people.

* EquivalentExchange: He explains this is the reason his first spell makes Eliza talk to animals but makes her unable to talk to humans. He does know a spell that lets her do both but it is very difficult to cast, it takes him being touched by Eliza and Darwin’s friendship to convince him to use that spell.