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As a whole

In General

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• A Boy, a Girl, and a Baby Family: Anne fills the role of eldest "sister" (age 13), and Sprig has a smaller age gap with her than with Polly (ages 10-11 and ~5 respectively), meaning this dynamic is in play.
• Badass Family: A knowledgeable and spry grandparent, a Wise Beyond Their Years baby, a Fearless Fool who can take on any challenge, and a resourceful 13-year-old human from another world.
• Chain of People: The Plantars form one of these in order to help Anne save Sasha in "Reunion," but it doesn't work.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Inverted. They have chronic being-backstabbed disorder, with several episodes and major plot points revolving around the Plantars and Anne being used and having their trust violated by others, which contrasts against the tightly-growing bond the Family of Choice forge with each other as they grow closer together over Anne's time in Amphibia. Accordingly, Hop Pop burying the music box and lying about it, even with good intentions, is seen as a gross violation of trust by Anne, and it takes a while for things to become okay between them after Anne chooses to remain with the Plantars regardless. Anne Lampshades this once she makes it back to earth with the Plantars and considers how to explain her time Trapped in Another World to her parents.
  Anne: Oh, and I'm not gonna tell them I plan to go back and stop Andrias...or that Andrias betrayed us...or that Marcy did, or that Sasha did...
• Dramatic Irony: 1000 years ago, their distant ancestor Leif was the one that stole the Calamity Box and transported it to Earth as part of an olm prophecy to eventually summon 3 heroes that would undo the corruption of Amphibian society and prevent their abuse of the Calamity Gems as part of their then-Planet Looters lifestyle. In the present day, the Plantars wind up befriending and eventually adopting one of these chosen heroes into their family, completely unaware of their historical connection or the larger destiny they're all part of.
• Family of Choice: Downplayed, since the Plantars chose to adopt Anne, rather than the other way around, but Anne declares them her family at the end of Season 1. Marcy lampshades this trope in her introductory episode.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Anne is Sanguine, Sprig is Phlegmatic, Hop-Pop is Melancholic, and Polly is Choleric.
  • The frog Plantars also form a Freudian Trio:
    • Id: Polly — the most passionate to the point of potential bloodthirst; she even carries a mace called "Old Doris".
    • Superego: Hop-Pop — the elder who favors tradition and rules to keep the Plantars from going on overly wild adventures (particularly in memory of his "Great Gam-Gam"), much to the ire of the others in the family.
    • Ego: Sprig — literally the "middle" in height, age, and temperament compared to Hop Pop and Polly; and a reflection of Anne, given how Anne compares with Sasha and Marcy in their own Freudian Trio.
• History Repeats: Slightly subverted. Several years ago, the Plantar family had to house a foreigner that was quite similar to Anne, outside of the obvious fact she wasn't a human from another world.
• Innocently Insensitive: Seems to be a shared family quirk. All of them, including Anne at times, will make a comment that very clearly causes someone else distress, and then continue talking as if nothing happened. Notably happens in "Handy Anne", with Sprig casually talking about Anne's very recent fallout with Sasha, and in "The Dinner", with the entire family joining in on talking about said fallout in great detail while Sasha and Anne are both in the room with them.
• Meaningful Name: The Plantar family name is both a near-homophone for "planter" (they have a tradition of farming), and an adjective for things related to the sole of the foot (frogs having notably large feet). Fittingly, the sole of the foot is one of the more common places to develop warts (plantar warts), a feature commonly associated with frogs and toads.
• Mind-Control Eyes: Sprig, Polly, and Anne all get these after getting possessed by the mushrooms in "Children of the Spore."
• Missing Mom: In "Hopping Mall", it is revealed that Sprig and Polly's mother died when they were very young. This marks one of the few times a DTVA series brings up the subject of death.
  • "After the Rain" confirms that Sprig and Polly's parents were killed by herons attacking Wartwood in the past while Hop Pop was away, and he has felt guilty about it ever since.
• Nice Mean And In Between: Sprig (nice), Polly (mean), and Hop-Pop (in-between). Anne starts out as In-Between, but becomes Nice over the course of the first season.
• Perpetual Poverty: It is made clear on multiple occasions that the Plantars have very little excess income.
• Raised by Grandparents: Polly and Sprig have been in Hop-Pop's care since not long after Polly was born. They lost their parents at that young age, with Hop-Pop apparently being the only surviving close relative left to take care of them.
• Secret Identity: When on Earth, the Plantars have to keep their identities as frog people a secret from most other humans to avoid being taken away and being experimented on, with only Anne's parents and Domino in on their true nature.
• Shared Family Quirks: Every member has their moments of being wildly impulsive, obstinate, overly-dramatic, and surprisingly indifferent to taking a life.
• Took a Level in Dumbass: While dumbass maybe a strong word. In Season 3A, The Plantars went from taking things carefully and being cautious about their surroundings, to carelessly getting themselves in trouble and can barely walk a few steps without hurting themselves. They also suffer Aesop Amnesia throughout the Earth arc, as they often learn to be careful when going out in public only to completely disregard this message by the next episode.

The girl

Anne Boonchuy

Anne Savisa Boonchuy

"I'm a human being, and I come from another world!"

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"I think the reason I don't want a new look is because I'm finally happy with who I see in the mirror right now. So what ever I put on, I just want to be able to see the same me looking back."

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"Change can be difficult, but it's how we grow. It can be the hardest thing to realize you can't hold on to something forever. Sometimes, you have to let it go; but, of the things you let go, you'd be surprised what makes its way back to you."

Voiced by: (English) Brenda Song (teenager, adult and child), Kai Zen (young child, "Lost in Newtopia") ^{Other Languages} Arelys González (Latin America), Elena Perino (Italian), Rio Sato (Japanese), Julia Khaye (French), Naama Shitrit (Hebrew)

A 13-year-old Thai-American girl who finds a music box that leads her and her friends to Amphibia. She must adjust to her new life and face the ups-and-downs of Amphibia while trying to find a way to get back home. She is associated with the blue gem, representing heart, on the Calamity Box.

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• The Ace: The girl can play tennis, dance like a boss, make advanced puppetry in a few minutes while doing slapstick, and cook delicious Thai/frog fusion cuisine.
• Action Girl: As long as she has a weapon on hand, Anne isn't afraid to get her hands a little dirty.
• Action Survivor: Anne has no powers whatsoever until she's about to leave Amphibia, not even having the ability to sweet-talk people into getting her what she wants like Sasha, so she has to work extra hard to survive in the world of Amphibia.
• Adoptive Name Change: Downplayed. There is no mention of her making a legal name change, but in "The Hardest Thing", she tells Hop Pop that she is proud to call herself a Plantar.
• All-Loving Hero: Though she was a bit jerky at first, Anne proved to be an expert at making connections. Taking the Plantars out of the equation, this proves especially true in "Scavenger Hunt," where three amphibians she only just met on that day risked their lives to save her from a sewer gator because she managed to become good friends with them so quickly.
• All of the Other Reindeer:
  • When Anne first arrives at Wartwood, the locals don't trust her due to a combination of Fantastic Racism and justified fear of someone they've never seen before. They eventually warm up to her, although it takes quite a while.
  • If her flashback and claims are true, back in her world she used to be bullied, and it's implied it was because she's Thai.
• Ambiguously Bi: While her reaction to Dave in "Handy Anne," watching movies with attractive men, and her being a fan of Suspicion Island in "Taking Charge" seems to rule out her being completely lesbian, there have still been a remarkable number of sapphic hints about her throughout the series:
  • Her relationship with Sasha and Marcy is so filled with subtext that it could fill an entire page. And it has.
  • She says that Mrs. Croaker used to be hot in "Cracking Mrs. Croaker", and the reason she doesn't stop Sprig from looking for Jonah is because she lets herself get Distracted by the Sexy.
  • Anne reacts very violently to Hop Pop asking if she has a boyfriend back home, including kicking him off the edge of a cliff.
  • In the same episode, she mentions trying to impress a girl back home to Sprig. Sure, it's because she wants to befriend her, but the intensity she describes it with...
    Anne: I gave Jamie all my pudding cups at lunch, even the chocolate ones with the vanilla ribbons, and nothing! What was her problem??!!
  • In at least two instances, she compliments Sylvia Sundew in a way that sounds like she very personally gets why Hop Pop likes her.
    Anne: Dang, H.P., that's a lot of woman.
  • Though she doesn't have any opportunity to swoon over other women in "Frog of the Year", this episode reveals that she owns — and had in her backpack when she was unexpectedly zapped to Amphibia — a magazine that illustrates the concept of a Love Confession with what appears to be a newly-minted lesbian couple^note the confessor clearly presents as female, and while the object of her affections looks somewhat boyish, the eyelashes are a dead giveaway, possibly suggesting its target audience is lesbian and otherwise not-straight girls (or, of course, it could have been a magazine meant for all girls that simply happened to have chosen a picture of two girls to illustrate a Love Confession).
  • In "Mr. X", she seems to have been a little too into the trailer for Cheerleader Musical 7, which is implied to primarily consist of a montage of cheerleading routines. Coincidentally, Sasha is a cheerleader.
  • In June 2023, Anne and Sasha — who is already confirmed to be bi — appeared together in a Chibi Tiny Tales spot for Pride Month alongside canon LGBT couples like Luz and Amity, fuelling speculation that this was confirmation that Anne is either a lesbian or bi; though Disney tried to downplay things by saying straight allies were also included in the spot.
• Ambiguous Situation: Her actual status following her Heroic Sacrifice due to the vague language the Guardian uses when they mention that they 'backed her up' before she died. Is she a copy of the original Anne who died? Did the Guardian copy her body and transfer her current consciousness to it? Even with the Guardian's assurance that she is still essentially her original self, Anne hangs a Lampshade about it by saying she's probably going get a existential crisis over it down the line.
• Animal Motif:
  • She's often associated with dragonflies, something that is invoked in the episode "Battle of the Bands", as she wears a dragonfly dress. In many cultures, the dragonfly symbolizes change, transformation, adaptability, and self-realization — a perfect match for a resourceful girl who Grew a Spine and gains a Super Mode.
  • Has a prominent association with cats as well, having immense love for her family cat Domino, to the point she's willing to adopt Domino 2 simply because her reminds her of him. Her phone case is obviously cat themed, her bike helmet has an "I love my cat" sticker and in the final battle one of her attacks manifests in the shape of Domino.
  • Her association with frogs is a more obvious one, despite her initial dislike of them. On top of living with the Plantars, a frog family, similar to how tadpoles change into fully limbed amphibians, she grows from a lazy and somewhat selfish pushover to a responsible, selfless and self-confident hero. In the epilogue she even becomes a herpetologist, working with amphibians in an exhibit clearly based off Amphibia.
• Anti-Hero: At the beginning of the series, Anne's kind of a self-reserved jerk who repeatedly causes problems by acting on her impulses and taking fruitless risks, even being willing to steal and make trouble to get her way. However, she's still ultimately willing to help others and save lives, and as her Character Development kicks in, she gradually develops into more of The Hero proper. Though, a large part of this was due to her "friend", Sasha, forcing her to grow past that problem and realize how a friend should really act.
• Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: Somewhat defied. After her Heroic Sacrifice, the Guardian offers her its job as Guardian of the Multiverse. She refuses on the grounds that she's still a kid and will make a mistake, but it decides to wait until her natural lifespan has ended to make her the offer again.
• The Baby of the Bunch: Downplayed since they're all 13, but Marcy's Journal: A Guide to Amphibia reveals that Anne is the youngest of the trio by an ambiguous amount of months.^note Although the girls' birthdays weren't revealed, their Zodiac signs were: Marcy is an Aquarius, Sasha is an Aries and Anne is a Gemini.
• Back from the Dead: Having suffered a Disney Death in her Heroic Sacrifice to save Amphibia and convinced the Guardian that she's not yet ready to take their place yet as the overseer of the Multiverse, she is sent back to life with shards of each Calamity Gem to go back home and live out the rest of her life, reappearing close to where she died literally seconds after she left.
• Bag of Holding: For a girl who wasn't expecting to suddenly find herself stuck in a whole new world, Anne packed a rather surprising number of things in that book bag of hers, including a bunch of magazines, a towel, sunscreen, candy, a bath bomb, a tennis racquet, and several changes of clothes, including two dresses and a tuxedo.
• Bare-Fisted Monk: She’s shown to be quite skilled at Muay Thai. It ends up being something of a Chekhov's Skill, as when she's empowered by her Calamity Box powers, though she completely throws all technique and finesse out the window due to basically running on pure emotional anger towards her target, she's fully aware of how to attack hand-to-hand against her opponents and still able to throw one mean punch in that state, and is now greatly enhanced by her Super Mode, to the extent a partial activation allows her to shred a robot assassin's exterior in a single blow.
• Basement-Dweller: She lives in the basement of the Plantar household, though it has less to do with her not wanting to move out (she makes it clear she wants to go home as soon as she can), and more to do with the fact it's the closest thing the Plantars could give her for a room, given her sudden arrival. It's also easier to sleep in the basement because it's cooler and less humid, as demonstrated when Anne tries sleeping in Sprig's room.
• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The Beauty to Sasha's Brawn and Marcy's Brains. This trope is reinforced by the revelations about the Calamity Box in "A Day at the Aquarium", where the blue gemstone represents heart and is represented by the broadsword.
• Berserk Button:
  • Anne is one of the multitudes who can't stand pineapple on pizza. When Sprig suggests it as a topping in "Hop Luck", she grabs him by the collar and slams him against the wall and says, "Don't you dare talk about pineapple on my pizza. EVER." in a threatening tone.
  • Don't ask her if she has a boyfriend, EVER! Hop Pop learns that the hard way, twice.
• Berserker Tears: In "True Colors", Anne is crying throughout her battle against King Andrias in Super Mode, as it's fueled by her grief over watching Sprig be dropped to his apparent death.
• Best Friend: She is Sprig's first, and best, friend. By the time of Season 2, she's basically become a Cool Big Sis to both him and Polly, given the whole Family of Choice aspect and her becoming more responsible and less selfish, not to mention a diehard Shipper on Deck for him and Ivy. Despite having grown closer to the Plantars as a whole, it's clear that Sprig and Anne's friendship and bond is something that matters dearly to each of them. Anne even calls Sprig her 'best friend, in this or any other world' when begging Andrias to spare him when he takes Sprig hostage to force the heroes to surrender the charged Calamity Box. Witnessing the tyrant apparently give Sprig a Disney Death in response proves to be a strong enough emotional response to unlock Anne's Super Mode, and when he returns to the room afterwards, Sprig's more concerned about Anne's condition than his own near-death experience.
• Beta Bitch: Anne is implied to have been this to Alpha Bitch Sasha, having been friends who defended each other from bullies for most of their childhood, and Anne would always go along with all of Sasha schemes and never stand up to her. This dynamic ended at the end of season 1, with Anne challenging her to a duel. The effects of the relationship, though, wouldn't be fully resolved until the end of the series, since Anne - unlike Sasha and Marcy - had no clear identity of herself or goals in life and tended to always default to what they wanted.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Oh, hell yeah! Anne may have started off as a pushover prior to the series, and represents the gem of heart for a reason, but as Sasha finds out the hard way, it would be wise not to threaten her loved ones or adoptive family, and she's not afraid to talk Sasha down beyond repair. Hell, "True Colors" has her flat-out end her friendship with Sasha because she got tired of her lies, manipulation and bullying. And don't even get us started on the Saiyan-esque powers she unleashes after Sprig nearly falls to his death, delivering one hell of a beatdown to King Andrias.
• Bifauxnen: For her big party in "Anne of the Year", she wears a white tuxedo and styles her hair back, giving her this appearance.
• Bilingual Bonus: She says a couple of sentences in Thai in "Lily Pad Thai".
• Bilingual Conversation: Anne's flashbacks to her life on Earth show that her mom prefers to speak in Thai around the house, whereas Anne mostly sticks to English, though they can understand each other with no problem. On the other hand, while Anne can understand Thai just fine, she can't speak it all too fluently outside of a few sentences and phrases she's picked up from being immersed in Thai culture from a young age. She Lampshades this when she finally manages to return to Earth with the Plantars in tow and discovers that Polly has become an Instant Expert in speaking Thai from watching her mom's Thai romance videos.
• Birthday Beginning: She's the main protagonist, and the plot of the entire series kicks off on her thirteenth birthday when she and her best friends get zapped into Amphibia, bringing the Calamity Box back to its ancient homeworld in the process.
• A Birthday, Not a Break: The stealing of the Calamity Box, opening it, and arriving at the Death World known as Amphibia? All of it happened on her birthday.
• Bird People: She gets transformed into a Bird Person in "Cursed!"
• Blue Is Heroic: She represents the blue gem of heart from the Calamity Box, and grows into a responsible, fearless, brave hero of Wartwood and Amphibia in general.
• Body Backup Drive: In the final episode, the Guardian explains that after her sacrifice, Anne is now in a backed-up version of her body prior to her death. For all intents and purposes, that makes her the original, Back from the Dead, but she mentions the possibility of having an existential crisis upon learning the revelation.
• Body Motifs: Hands and arms. Anne is a caring girl that expresses her affection with physical contact, be it by holding hands or wrapping her friends in warm hugs. It's also reflected in her fighting style, especially after she unlocks her Calamity powers and tends to channel all that energy through her fists. Additionally, while using her powers takes a lot out of her in general, she specifically mentions not being able to feel or move her arms after her first fight against the Cloak-Bot.
• Book Dumb: Anne was never as much of a bookworm as Marcy was. It becomes a plot point in "Scavenger Hunt", where she is envious of not being as smart as Marcy due to the riddles in the temple of wit requiring thinking on another level, and she can't pick them up as quickly as Marcy does, admitting she feels a lot dumber near Marcy.
• Brainy Brunette: Anne is a brunette, and has proven to be quite clever on numerous occasions, even though she’s a chronic slacker and isn't a genius like Marcy or as cunning as Sasha.
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: She shows shades of this early in Season 1. She starts off as irresponsible and self-centered even prior to being stranded in Amphibia. Thankfully, she gets better and more responsible as the series goes on, while still maintaining her feistiness.
• Break the Cutie: The climax of "Reunion" has this pretty much happen to her: after getting along just fine with Sasha, she's forced to fight her in a Trial by Combat for the fate of the Wartwood citizens, including the Plantar family. Then, when Wally's explosive mushrooms cause Toad Tower to collapse, Anne saves Sasha from falling to her doom and tries her hardest to get her back up. Even with the help of the Plantars, it's not enough, and Sasha lets go of Anne's hand so she doesn't fall with her. Finally, after Grime rescues Sasha, Anne can only watch as she sees the unconscious Sasha be rescued by Grime, and Grime shoots her a furious look and growls at her, pretty much confirming she and the Plantars are now on his hit list, as he takes Sasha away. Is it any wonder she starts Inelegant Blubbering afterwards?
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Something that is highlighted in a flashback at the start of "All In" by Anne's principal. Anne's a skilled athlete, performance artist, and puppeteer, and she can cook something fierce due to helping out at the family restaurant. She's even able to come up with an argument that causes the Core, a superintelligent amalgamate of all of Amphibia's rulers, to delay killing her, by pointing out that Darcy doesn't really know how her death will affect the stone she's connected to on the fly. Unfortunately, before she landed in Amphibia, she was kind of Book Dumb, because she never put nearly as much effort into hitting the books as Marcy did, turning in multiple incomplete assignments. Worried about her always floating through life and taking the easy path, Principal Murphy assigned her an essay about what she wanted to do with her life to make her reevaluate herself... the day before her birthday.
• Broken Ace: Anne is a highly flexible athlete, performance artist and puppeteer, and a fabulous cook. She's also got a deep sense of insecurity and selfishness due her "best friend" Sasha emotionally abusing her, and Anne finds herself imitating that behavior with Sprig. She's also insecure with her own intelligence around Marcy, though Marcy doesn't do this intentionally. The trauma of being in another world and separated from her family also doesn't help, since she has no way to get back home.
• Butt-Monkey: During the first season, she gets into some misfortune when she first arrives in Amphibia. She was despised by the townsfolk in Wartwood, leading to her getting herself into unintentionally unfortunate situations that a more experienced inhabitant of Amphibia could help her avoid.
• Cast from Hit Points: Although Anne's Super Mode, granted by her Calamity Gem, is powerful, it's also very energy-consuming. Every time she uses it, the more weak she becomes, to the point she only uses it in case of an emergency. A partial activation, even if not using the full might of her abilities, still renders her unconscious for a short while and leaves her unable to move her arms to open a car door, and Anne herself notes that using her powers feels 'bad' somehow, implying that the greater the amount of power she taps into, the greater the rebound once she stops using them.
• Cellphones Are Useless: Played with. Her phone was transported to Amphibia with her, and it's not only waterproof, but can charge far beyond what a normal phone should. But seeing how she's stuck in a parallel universe with no cell towers, Anne can't really use it for most of its intended purposes.
• Character Development:
  • It's subtle, due to being overshadowed by the show's slapstick, but notice that during the first half of Season 1, most episodes' conflicts are started by Anne acting selfish or reckless, but after she stands up to the tax collectors in the mid-season "Toad Tax", most conflicts in subsequent episodes are usually started by other Wartwood frogs acting quirky or reckless, with Anne often being a voice of reason. It's even lampshaded in the late-season episode "Anne of the Year", where the townsfolk point out that they know Anne isn't perfect, but they're proud of how much she's grown. She also learns to stand up to Sasha, and once they reunite in Season 2, she clearly asks her to recognize that she's not the same kid who had to be protected from bullies anymore.
  • Lampshaded during her second temple trial. Valeriana calls her out on her most selfish actions and is absolutely certain that Anne isn't worthy of bearing the power of the heart of the Calamity Box, but when she risks falling off the plateau to certain death, Anne saves her without hesitation. She's learned that doing the right thing comes before anything else, even personal bias. Valeriana then reveals that bravery and empathy, both of which Anne has in abundance, are nothing without responsibility, and allows her to recharge the gem.
  Anne: You were right. I did lie and steal. If that makes me unworthy, fine. Those bad choices were mine and I'll own them. But making them taught me that it's always better to do the right thing. So that's what I did, regardless of how much I didn't want to.
  • In Season 3, her parents marvel at how much more responsible and level-headed she's become.
  • Her development finishes when her Heroic Sacrifice to save Amphibia from The Core and proves worthy to be considered a Guardian.
• Chekhov's Skill: Her learning swordfighting in "Combat Camp" ends up being important three episodes later, in "Reunion".
• Childhood Friends: She and Marcy have been friends with Sasha since kindergarten. Marcys Journal A Guide To Amphibia reveals she and Marcy have been best friends since they were 3 years old.
• The Chosen One:
  • Of the blue Calamity Gem, which represents heart.
  • Because of her Heroic Sacrifice in the Grand Finale, she was chosen by the current Guardian to become the next Guardian of the Multiverse. While she turns the offer down because she's Just a Kid and would rather spend the rest of her life as an average human, the Guardian leaves the spot open, thinking she might change her mind once she passes away from natural death.
• Clone Angst: Anne lampshades that she's probably going to have an existential crisis down the line when told by the Guardian that she died... but the Guardian had, in their vague words, 'backed her up'. Whether the Anne we know and love did actually get Killed Off for Real, and that this Anne is just a clone of the original, or her body being backed up and her consciousness transferred to it upon her death is up to debate.
• Color Motif: Blue and purple. She's powered by the blue Calamity Gem, representing the heart, and her school uniform has a purple skirt^note purple is a mix of blue and red, representing Sasha's influence on her since the beginning of the series. The one other character that is represented by these specific colors is Andrias.
• The Conscience: Zig-zagged. Depending on the plot, Anne will either be the voice of reason for Sprig and other characters (along with Polly at times), or Sprig will be playing the role as The Conscience for Anne.
• Cool Big Sis: She serves as this to the Plantar children, but Sprig more-so. It's clear that their friendship is very strong.
• Cool Sword: The sword she receives from Tritonio Espada has a blade that glows blue and is implied to be connected to the Calamity Box, and she's shown wielding it in the Season 2 opening. In the show itself, however, she only uses it once.
• Cope by Pretending: Anne pretends in Season 2 that her fight with Sasha hasn't greatly affected her.
• Conscience Makes You Go Back: In "Anne or Beast?", Anne captures Sprig in her trap, but when the beast comes, she runs away leaving Sprig behind. She then stops and considers what she is doing, and goes back to save Sprig.
• Cosmic Entity: The Guardian, an unfathomably vast and powerful higher-dimensional being who has watched over all worlds in the multiverse for aeons and creator of the Calamity Stones, offers for her to become one, having proven herself in their eyes to be worthy of their position for only ever using the power of the Calamity Gems for good (where literally everyone else to get their hands on the gems for the last ten thousand years had abused them), partly so they can finally retire. Anne quickly turns them down, afraid that despite all the Character Development she's gone through she might still screw it up, and wants to live a full life where she can continue to grow and change first. Impressed, the Guardian agrees and has her brought Back from the Dead, although the option is still open for her when she finally reaches her natural end.
• Determinator: Anne will stop at nothing to find a way home to Earth; she'll never put her sword down and give in for anything. Even though she's trapped a world away, Anne becomes so angered at what Andrias is plotting that she will do whatever it takes to return to Amphibia, take down Andrias, protect all worlds, including Earth, save her friends, and defeat him once and for all.
• Detrimental Determination: At times, her determinating has downsides. She tends to not think about long-term results and to think her way is the best way, and her not stopping to rethink her ideas and courses of action can cause problems and conflicts to arise.
• Disney Death: Anne sacrifices her life to save both Amphibia and Earth from the Core's machinations, and dies as a result. The way this trope comes into play is not your standard "but the character lives in the end" fare, as Anne does actually die and stays dead, but the Guardian "backed her up" prior to her death, resulting in her original body dying while Anne’s consciousness is placed in the newly created/backed up body. Alternatively, the original Anne dies and is not sent back to Amphibia, but the clone is pretty much exactly the same as her, so it amounts to the same result.
• Does Not Like Spam:
  • As Sprig soon learns, Anne does not like pineapple on pizza.
  • In "Night Drivers", during a nightmare she's having, Anne apparently doesn't like the taste of licorice-flavored yogurt.
  • "The New Normal" reveals that she dislikes durian due to the horrible smell.
• The Dog Bites Back: After enduring a lifetime of manipulation, Anne finally stands up to Sasha and duels her.
• Emotion Suppression: Anne has been doing this since her fight with Sasha. This is also implied to be the case in Season 3. With no clue on whether Sasha made it out of the castle or not, or what Andrias may be doing to Amphibia, and clinging to a silver of hope that Marcy may still be alive, Anne is always shown doing something or keeping busy (to the point of suffering from burnout due to spending her days and nights looking for ways to return to Amphibia), and the few times she's by herself, her face betrays how wistful and worried she is really feeling.
• Enemy Mine: In "True Colors". She is perfectly willing to work with Sasha and Grime (after the two had just betrayed the group), due to King Andrias being revealed to be a far greater threat.
• Establishing Character Moment: In the first episode, we see her being able to set traps, create makeshift spears and outrun predators for days, which indicates her resourcefulness. Also, she frees Sprig from the trap she made and saves him from a giant mantis, despite her first instinct being to run away. This proves that while she can be selfish, she always tries to make the right choice.
• Exhausted Eye Bags:
  • She has these in her first meeting with Sprig, no doubt thanks to the stress of suddenly arriving in a new world she knows nothing about.
  • They're firmly present in "Fight at the Museum", since she's burning herself out by constantly looking for ways to open the portal to return to Amphibia and keeping everything a secret from her parents.
• Extreme Doormat: Before she arrived in Amphibia, Anne was always submissive to Sasha, even being forced to cut school to hang out, but this changes in the Season 1 finale. After Sasha forces her to submit by dropping her sword and breaking the other frogs' spirits, Sprig stands up for Anne. She, in turn, grows a spine.
• Eye Color Change: When fending off the giant mantis in the first episode, her eyes briefly flash blue◊. The Season 2 premiere "Handy Anne" also shows this, but it is done in a way that proves that the above example was not a mere animation error, and is instead indicative of a superhuman ability given to her by one of the Calamity Box's gems.
• Family of Choice: Within the space of a few episodes, she and the Plantar family bond so deeply, that she's practically a Plantar herself at this point. She'll stick with them through thick and thin.
  Anne: (after the Plantars enter the Cage of Shame) Any chance I can squeeze in there?
  Hop Pop: How 'bout it, Carl?
  Carl: The more the merrier.
  Sprig: Get in here, you crazy kid!
  Anne: Woo-hoo!
• Fashionable Asymmetry: She wears just a sock on one foot, and a sock and yellow high-top sneaker on the other. Justified, since her other shoe is in Grime's possession.
• Fatal Flaw: It's a toss-up between her desire to have friends and her recklessness:
  • Her desire to have friends: Growing up, Anne was picked on for being Thai-American and was so desperate for friends that she became an Extreme Doormat to Sasha and Marcy. She also starts off with a pretty messed-up idea of what friendships should look like due to their Toxic Friend Influence, and was sent to Amphibia in the first place due to letting Sasha and Marcy pressure her into stealing the Calamity Box. Once in Amphibia, a lot of Anne's more selfish or reckless actions come from wanting acceptance from the residents of Wartwood, like letting fame go to her head in "Breakout Star", lying that she likes camping to feel included with the Plantars in "Anne vs. Wild", temporarily joining the tax collector gang due to them treating her better than the Wartwood residents in "Toad Tax", and almost siding with Sasha against Wartwood in the Season 1 finale.
  • Her recklessness: in Season 2, Anne has a tendency to apply movie logic to her life without thinking about the potential consequences. Not to mention, she doesn't let the blue gem charge fully before rushing off to help her friends, even though they were actually fine. In that particular case, however, her decision to do so actually works out for the better.
• Feather Fingers: Being turned into a bird person in "Cursed!" does nothing to prevent her from being able to hold things, as she simply uses her wings as arms and hands.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: The Fighter to Marcy's Mage and Sasha's Thief. Anne has been officially trained in Muay Thai and swordfighting, and can improvise in combat.
• Fighting Your Friend: She's forced to fight Sasha in "Reunion."
• Flower Motifs: Anne's third season design and her Calamity-based Super Mode are based on lotuses, which are seen in Thai culture as a symbol of spiritual awakening, which is fitting given her Character Development into becoming a more selfless person.
• Foil: She and Sasha contrast quite nicely with each other:
  • Where Anne managed to survive in the wild long enough to reach civilization, Sasha wasn't so lucky and became Grime's prisoner.
  • Where Anne initially had no easy way of escaping her 0% Approval Rating among the populace of Wartwood, Sasha easily charmed the toad soldiers into loving her.
  • Where Anne remained mostly a common citizen of Wartwood, Sasha quickly climbed up the ranks on the Toad Tower, becoming Grime's second in-command.
  • She and Sasha both have a distorted view of friendship, despite genuinely caring for one another. Sasha believes that friends are people who will do whatever you want as long as you compliment them, while Anne believes that she has to do whatever her friends want in order to "earn" their friendship.
  • Regarding their arrogance and mistakes, Sasha practices Never My Fault, while Anne engages in My God, What Have I Done?. Whereas Anne is always horrified and apologetic on realizing she's done wrong to the Plantars or other frogs, Sasha is Obliviously Evil to the point that Sprig calling her out leads to her trying to kill him. Sasha is also blindsided when her wanting to "rescue" Anne and find a way home isn't enough to make up for her playing The Farmer and the Viper through advancing Captain Grime's agenda to the innocent frogs that have housed Anne for several months.
  • In leadership, Anne's development has her growing more assertive while away from Sasha, who had been the leader of their friend group. The result of the above other differences in development is that Anne always unifies her team together, no matter the obstacles, with her creative thinking and genuine and mutual respect and belief in those who stand with her. This contrasts with Sasha, a capable and equally charismatic but ultimately more toxic leader who inspires and supports her followers when it's convenient for her, but who treats her friends as followers first and foremost and whose lack of integrity or respect for them ultimately drives them away.
• Forced Transformation: She gets turned into a bird person in "Cursed!". However, she doesn't get the ability to fly, which disappoints her greatly.
• Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: Anne feels betrayed when she discovers that Hop Pop lied to her about the Calamity Box, as he buried it instead of sending it to a contact of his. However, after hearing his reasons and seeing that he's truly sorry for lying to her, Anne forgives Hop Pop. Despite not being upset with him anymore, Anne can't let go of the feeling of anger and betrayal, because Hop Pop's actions caused a lasting strain in their relationship. However, Anne does want to move past what happened with the Calamity Box, as she tells Hop Pop that she doesn't know what he needs to do in order to amend their strained relationship. Although, Anne is encouraged by Hop Pop when he tells her that she can take all the time she needs, which she appreciates.
• Freudian Trio: The Ego to Sasha's Id and Marcy's Superego, as reflected by the frogs of Wartwood being the Ego to toadkind's Id and Newtopians' Superego. What Anne and/or frog-kind lack in preparation and the proper "toolkit", they make up for with improvisation and social skills.
• Friendless Background: Played with. Before meeting Sprig, Anne's only friends were Sasha and Marcy, the former having been her best friend since kindergarten. However, the dynamics between the three of them are much more complex than what they may seem.
• Frog and the Scorpion: Her desire to have friends blinds her to Sasha's toxicity; when Sasha joins Toad Tower in an effort to bring her friends back home, Anne finally realizes the one-sided nature of their relationship and fights back to save the frogs.
• General Failure: When she returns to Wartwood, she is voted the leader of the frog resistance. However, she has quite a bit of difficulty in taking command, as she's been away for a while and is inexperienced in fighting Andrias' forces. She decides that Sasha is a more effective leader, so she has her make the decisions.
• Glass Slipper: While being transported to Amphibia, she loses one of her yellow sneakers, and when Grime discovers the other one, it's evidence for him that there are other humans besides Sasha.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: On two separate occasions, Anne's eyes briefly begin to glow a bright blue color. This is a hint at the Super Mode granted to her by the blue gem on the Calamity Box, and she finally unlocks her full power in "True Colors". Whenever she uses her Calamity powers, Anne's irises turn bright blue.
• God Job: She's offered the job of being the Guardian of the Multiverse by the current Guardian, having proven herself worthy in their eyes. She turns it down, as she's afraid she would screw it up, but the Guardian leaves the option open for her for when she finally has a natural death.
• Going Native:
  • Within a month of living in Amphibia, she learns to like the taste of bugs. Notably, by "If You Give a Frog a Cookie", she's apparently gotten so used to the diet that she doesn't even consider that her mom might take issue with cicada cookies.
    Hop Pop: Now who wants pillbug pancakes?
    Anne: Ooh! My favorite! (pause) ... I've been here too long!
  • By "Quarreller's Pass", she's adopted their local turns of phrase, such as "Thank Frog!"
• Gold-Colored Superiority: In "The Hardest Thing", her full Calamity Form gives her armor with golden accents, and is noticeably more powerful than her usual Super Mode.
• Grew a Spine: After doing little to fight back against Sasha's Toxic Friend Influence for much of her life, Anne finally gathers the courage to not be swayed by Sasha's manipulative tendencies and stand up for what she thinks is right.
• Happily Adopted: Despite being of another species and from another world, Anne comes to love the frog family that took her in as her own. She still seeks to return to her biological family on Earth, but the other Plantars consider Anne a member of their family, and Anne comes to identify as such too.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: When details of the Calamity Box's nature revealed each gem had a symbol and power type asspciated with it, direct translation from the Amphibia language (really a cipher for the Latin alphabet) to English showed that the blue gem, which is Anne's, represents "Heart".
• The Hero Dies: Even the Guardian makes it unambiguously clear upon meeting her: she is dead, having sacrificed herself to save Amphibia at the cost of her own life. She would had stayed dead had the Guardian not 'backed her up'.
• Heroic Sacrifice: After speaking with the Mother of Olms, Anne learns that there is a spell to save Amphibia from catastrophe, albeit at the cost of her own life. When Sasha and Marcy give up their gems due to being unable to sustain their powers as long as Anne can, she makes a wish upon the stones to obliterate the Core and save Amphibia, but sure enough, it costs her life in the end, as she crumbles away like dust in the wind in the arms of her loved ones. Fortunately, it doesn't stick.
• Heroic Safe Mode: She becomes furious at Sasha when she betrayed her yet again, and goes absolutely ballistic when Andrias drops Sprig to his doom.
• Heroines Prefer Swords: Whenever Anne fights with a real weapon, it is always a sword. She's first given a blade by the toad tax collectors in "Toad Tax". Later, she's formally trained in the art of sword-fighting by Tritonio Espada. This all culminates in her two swordfights between her and Sasha in both season one and two's finales, both of which she manages to win.
• Hero of Another Story: Given her brief cameo in the The Owl House season 2 finale, she's this to the characters of that show.
• Hidden Depths:
  • She's quite resourceful, as she was able to make both a rope trap and spear by herself after getting stuck in Amphibia.
  • She's an accomplished fusion chef, having helped out at her parents' restaurant, and opens a Thai fusion restaurant in Amphibia.
  • She's a very good and patient cat owner, not just keeping Domino 2 for the snuggles but actively taking care of her: making sure she has space to play, cleaning up after her, and staying patient during her adjustment period. Which makes it all the more heartbreaking when Domino 2 ends up not working out. Luckily, it does pay off in season 3, where Anne manages to fully tame Domino 2, and since she's the 'alpha moth', the Resistance can now train the others as air cavalry.
  • A few episodes imply that, for all her tendency towards poor grades, she does have a decent grasp on Chemistry. She even lampshades it when, after explaining some bodily chemical reactions, she comments that that was probably the smartest thing she'd ever said.
  • One of the movies on her phone is, of all things, an expy of My Dinner with Andre, a film that very much differs from the shows she typically is shown watching, with her intro to it suggesting she's interested in independent films.
  • Similarily, she mentions having read Dante's Inferno and gives it an A+ for story, implying that she has an appreciation for classical literature.
  • She can be a decent strategist when she wants to be. In "True Colors", she is the one who puts together the plan to free King Andrias and prevent the toad army from getting into Newtopia.
• The Homeward Journey: Her goal in the first two seasons is to find a way to return home, which she finally accomplishes in the season two finale. It's inverted in the first half of season 3, where her goal is instead to go back to Amphibia from home, and most importantly to stop an invasion from reaching her home.
• Hope Spot:
  • The chest that transported her to Amphibia ends up with her, so she tries to use it to go back home. Naturally, it fails. This is because the three gems on the box lost their power upon teleportation, and need to be recharged to work again.
  • Anne reunites with Sasha at the end of "Anne of the Year", confirming her that she's no longer alone (in a sense) in Amphibia... this is a few seconds before Sasha reveals she came with the toad army.
• Humans Are Flawed: She has this attitude towards herself. She turns down the Guardian's offer to take its place as the Guardian of the Multiverse because she's made "a HUNDRED dumb mistakes" in the past, and if given authority over time and space, would probably cause a multiversal catastrophe. She even says that no one is perfect and she's constantly learning.
• Humans Are Ugly: Sprig takes time to point out that Anne is apparently an "ugly, ugly, ugly hero!"
• Hypocrite: A tragic example. She doesn’t take well to Hop Pop and Marcy's "betrayals", despite them having both selfish and sympathetic reasons to do so (Hop Pop's was to protect Sprig and Polly after the death of their parents, Marcy's was because she was terrified to be separated from her friends, due to her father's new job out of state), and yet she does exactly the same thing to her own parents by neither telling them what happened in "True Colors" nor about the incoming invasion, both to make her offer to let the Plantars stay in their house more pleasing, and out of fear of their reaction about her powers and the other girls' whereabouts. Granted she does come to forgive the two and realize how similar they are and their point of view.
• I Choose to Stay: During "Reunion", Sasha gives Anne an ultimatum: drop her sword and come with her to Toad Tower so they can find a way to get back home. End. Of. Discussion. At first Anne looks like she'll go through with it, but after being defended by Sprig, Anne finally grows a spine and refuses to do what Sasha says, even with the possibility she may never go back home because of it. This basically marks the end of their friendship for a time.
• Ideal Hero: Very much so, as seen all throughout the series. Ultimately, she is the one who makes the ultimate sacrifice to save both her world and the world of Amphibia, and she dies in the process. The Guardian tells Anne that because of her heroic deeds, especially in regards to using the stones' power for good, she was the only mortal qualified to take their place as a guardian watching over the cosmos. Anne declines the offer on account of not feeling ready herself, though she still leaves the possibility of taking up the spot after she's lived her life.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Both on Earth and Amphibia. Back home, Anne was an Extreme Doormat to Sasha because she was afraid the latter would stop being friends with her. In Amphibia, a lot of her more selfish actions come from wanting acceptance from the residents of Wartwood.
• I Know Madden Kombat: Prior to her getting sword training from Tritonio, Anne tended to favor using a tennis racket she had in her bag when she was transported to Amphibia as a melee weapon, it being the closest thing she had to a usable weapon and had experience in using. Following said training, Anne has also started using swords in direct combat as well, notably dual-wielding both weapons in "Handy Anne" to take out the combined Veggie Monster. Curiously, despite Tritonio gifting her a Cool Sword, which Anne is depicted prominently using in her brief sword fight with Sasha in the updated season 2 intro, Anne instead is shown to use scavenged swords from her enemies whenever she's forced into fights afterwards, despite presumably having kept the weapon following Tritonio's arrest. During the climax of the finale, she conjures up a giant Hard Light tennis racket and appropriately-sized tennis ball to wipe out Core forces.
• Immigrant Parents: Anne is the second-generation daughter of first-generation immigrants from Bangkok, Thailand.
• Improbable Weapon User: She's been seen holding a tennis racquet as a weapon.
• Improvised Weapon: The spear she wields when she first meets Sprig is one she created out of some wood she found.
• Indy Ploy: Anne may not be a Teen Genius like Marcy or a tactical mastermind like Sasha, but she's exceptionally good at coming up with battle plans on the fly, even when the odds are against her.
• Informed Flaw: Anne is often called stupid by her enemies. That is a very gross oversimplification of her intelligence.
• Interspecies Friendship: With all the Plantars, and Sprig in particular. She also forms an Intergenerational Friendship with Wally in "Wally and Anne".
• Internal Reveal: The end of "Anne of the Year" has her find out that Sasha, and by extension Marcy, traveled to Amphibia too. Unfortunately, she also finds out about Grime and his toad army...
• Irony: Of the cosmic variety. Back on Earth, Anne absolutely hated frogs, and her skipping out on a frog dissection assignment with Sasha was the reason they ended up in Amphibia in the first place. This is part of the reason Sasha is so surprised when Anne chooses to stand up for the Plantars and refuses to give Hop Pop up for a chance at going back home. Anne starts the series absolutely loathing frogs, and ends it as a herpetologist with a genuine love for them.
• It's Personal with the Dragon: Of all the major villains in the series, King Andrias is depicted as Anne's Arch-Enemy due to their growing enmity over the course of the third season and he's her opponent in the climax of "All In", which leaves Sasha to tackle Darcy.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She starts off as one, as she can be quite self-centered and controlling at times, thinking that her ideals and methods are beneficial to everyone, and has a habit of jumping into situations without thinking about the consequences. But, beneath her arrogance and brashness is a very kind girl who is loyal and will do anything to protect those she loves. Most of her negative qualities likely came out of hanging around with her "best friends", as they were the ones to encourage her to steal the music box even though she really didn't want to. By season 3, she has by and large shuffled off the "jerk" aspects of this trope and has cemented herself as an out-and-out hero with a heart of gold.
• Killed Off for Real: Implied, and only technically speaking. The Guardian makes it clear that the Anne we've been following up until the finale did in fact die, but it vaguely states that it "backed [her] up", making it unclear if this is a technically new and separate Anne that has all the memories and personality of the original, or if the original Anne's consciousness has been placed in a replacement body. Anne thinks she'll have an existential crisis about it either way.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: On Earth, she has a cat named Domino whom she misses dearly. She briefly tries adopting a very catlike caterpillar she names Domino 2, but it doesn't end up working out for her. Until season 3B, that is.
• Large Ham: While normally level-headed, she can get really hammy during emotional moments, like when she learns they were mistaken about the Plantars being infected with a fatal disease:
  Anne: (sobbing and holding the Plantars in a tight, awkward hug) You're gonna LIVE!
  Polly: Is she going to stop?
  Anne: LIVE!
  Hop Pop: (as Anne continues to shout "LIVE!") Just let it happen, kids. Just let it happen.
• The Leader: While Sasha was originally the leader of the three-girl friend group, time away from Sasha has developed Anne into this. She's more assertive about her intentions, but still respectful and supportive of the ideas and concerns of her teammates, and unifies her group together no matter the obstacles with her creative thinking and deep emotional investment in others, building up her teammates' individual strengths.
  • In season 3, she shares the title of Commander of the Wartwood Resistance with Sasha in a pretty smooth partnership.
• Leitmotif:
  • "Anne's Theme", which is a soft, soothing track describing her compassion and leadership. It even plays in the end credits.
  • The song that Anne writes about her time in Amphibia, "No Big Deal", is also given several orchestral remixes during key moments in her journey, like the first unveiling of her Calamity powers in "True Colors", or the Calamity trio's anime battle in space in "The Hardest Thing".
• Limited Wardrobe: Anne always defaults to her school uniform with messy hair and a missing shoe, even though she has at points complained about needing two shoes, "Best Fronds" shows she packed sandals in her bag, and she can get a complete wardrobe change whenever the plot requires (which includes new shoes and fixed hair). Marcy lampshades this in "Bessie & MicroAngelo", pointing out that Anne should take the opportunity for a wardrobe change whilst they're in Newtopia, especially since at that point, they were on the cusp of returning home, and Anne wouldn't have the opportunity to try out Cool Outfits from another world once they did. Anne's horrified reaction to realizing Marcy intended to give her a makeover (along with the subsequent flashbacks of her getting some horrendous haircuts from previous attempts back on Earth) imply Anne has developed an aversion to drastically changing her looks, especially since Anne's time in Amphibia allowed her to feel comfortable as herself for the first time in a while. That said, Anne does somewhat update her look with an armored breastplate that she wears throughout the next few episodes when adventuring.
  • Despite wearing casual clothes throughout the first half of season 3, she changes back to her school uniform upon returning to Amphibia. Sure enough, by the end of the following episode she has already lost a shoe, and her hair returns to its regular messiness.
• Likes Older Women: In a case of Ambiguously Bi. Anne twice makes comments about the attractiveness of older women, once saying about Sylvia "That's a lot of woman" and later finding a picture of younger (but still significantly older than Anne) ms. Croaker and calling her hot.
• Locked Out of the Loop:
  • She's unaware of Hop Pop burying the Calamity Box that transported her to Amphibia and then lying about it to her. However, she eventually finds out in "After the Rain", and runs away into the forest. Although she thinks about leaving the Plantars, Anne changes her mind when Hop Pop explains that his intentions were to protect his family because of what happened to Sprig and Polly's parents and shows deep remorse for lying to her, and she forgives him.
  • In the second half of season 3, time away from Amphibia has left her totally unprepared to learn how much Andrias destroyed the place and the way the Wartwood Resistance operates.
• Losing a Shoe in the Struggle: Somewhere between entering Amphibia and meeting Sprig, Anne lost one of her shoes. She continues her adventures with a shoe on one foot and just a sock on the other. This becomes a plot point after Grime finds the shoe and gains proof there are other humans besides Sasha. As of season 3, Grime still has her other shoe. She returns to Amphibia in the second half of season 3 with two shoes, but promptly loses one in a pool of quicksand, and is not amused when this is pointed out.
• Madness Mantra: In "True Colors". After King Andrias drops Sprig to his seeming death, the heartbroken Anne gains a Super Mode from her connection to the blue Calamity gem. She goes on to pummel Andrias and his forces, saying "Give him back!" over and over.
• Magic Skirt: This is on Disney Channel, after all. The most notable example is the season 1 finale, where Anne spends a solid minute hanging upside down to no effect.
• Meaningful Name:
  • The name "Anne" is Hebrew for "gracious" or "merciful". Pretty self-explanatory. It's also a name that's been borne many times by royalty, which fits her being a nice foil to Andrias.
  • "Savisa" is an Asian name of Hindu origin whose meanings include determination, reliability, and professionalism. Anne never uses it herself, but her parents do. It symbolizes their wishes for her and the person they hoped she would become pre-Character Development.
  • "Boonchuy" roughly translates from Thai as “one who encourages or performs good deeds”. Again, pretty self-explanatory.
• Messianic Archetype: Anne is a girl of humble beginnings who becomes the Guardian of the Stones' Chosen One, and faces off against a Satanic being in the form of the Core. Destroying the Core comes at the cost of her sacrificing her life, essentially dying for Amphibia's sins, but she does get resurrected afterwards. Like most Christ-like figures, she still humbles herself and doesn't think much about having power or becoming a ruler. That said, she'd rather live life without the high expectations cast upon her, so she adopts the humble profession of being a herpetologist. Sure enough, she is worshipped by Amphibia as a savior.
• Messy Hair: Anne's hair is always messy with twigs and dead leaves sticking out of it, and it somehow stays this way even while submerged underwater. Even when she actually does get it cleaned up and styled, circumstances always conspire to revert it back to the exact same twig-filled mess before the episode is over. In "The Sleepover to End All Sleepovers", Anne sees herself in a mirror and realizes she has this, apparently somehow having missed noticing the state of her hair the whole time she was in Amphibia. In "True Colors", it turns out the twigs and leaves were actually Foreshadowing of Anne's Super Mode that is revealed in the episode, with the twigs and branches literally growing out of her head and leaves generating from her hair, implying that they were always returning to the same look because of her connection to the Calamity Box and its associated powers.
• Modesty Shorts: As shown in "Dating Season" and "Family Shrub", she wears grey shorts underneath her skirt, as seen here◊.
• Muggle Best Friend: She's a literal case towards Sprig and eventually most of Wartwood, being the only Token Human for miles around.
• Mystical Lotus: When Anne gains her Super Mode in the second season finale, her hair takes on a lotus shape. In season 3, she starts wearing a T-shirt with a lotus-shaped flame emblem.
• Near-Death Experience: In season 3, she's almost killed by the Cloak-Bot. Thrice. The "near" part of the trope finally gets scratched off in the finale, though in a weird way the trope still applies.
• Nice Girl: She evolves into this as the series goes on.
• Nice Mean And In Between: Anne is the in-between to Marcy's nice and Sasha's mean. She's a fun-loving girl who's The Hero of the show, but is also assertive and strong-willed. "True Colors" reveals that, in terms of sheer morality, Anne is Moral, Sasha is Immoral, and Marcy is Amoral.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In "True Colors". Anne and her friends manage to stop Sasha and Grime, free King Andrias, and give him the Calamity Box. They, all of Amphibia, and every other world would have been much safer if they failed, as Andrias shortly thereafter reveals himself to be a Multiversal Conqueror who has set his sights on Earth.
• The Night Owl: She tends to stay up late reading books and eating loud snacks.
• No One Gets Left Behind: Anne made it clear to herself that she is to return to Earth with both Marcy and Sasha. No exceptions.
• Not Afraid of You Anymore: Anne spent most of her life being an Extreme Doormat because she was afraid Sasha would not want to be her friend anymore if she wasn't. Even though their friendship is irreparably changed in the season 1 finale, Anne remains tentatively hopeful that Sasha might change for the better and their friendship can be repaired. However, in "True Colors", when Sasha reveals she lied about being reformed to manipulate Anne into helping her conquer Newtopia, and implicitly threatens to end the friendship again to force Anne back in line, Anne angrily declares that she is done listening to Sasha and their friendship is over. Sasha is stunned.
• Oh, Crap!: She gets this expression in the first episode when the beast roars, letting her and Sprig know it's nearby.
• Passionate Sports Girl: She mentions that she used to play varsity tennis at her school.
• Phoneaholic Teenager: Downplayed. Anne doesn't have her face glued to her phone 24/7, but she does tend to act like it's her Security Blanket, growing uneasy when its battery dies. However, the phone does contain memories of her home that she's afraid of losing, so it's kind of understandable why she would freak out in that context.
• Power Dyes Your Hair: Upon connecting to the blue stone's power, her hair changes from brown to pure blue.
• Power Echoes: The first time she taps into the blue Calamity Gem's power, her voice gains an echoic reverb to go along with her Super Mode.
• The Power of Friendship:
  • She's able to make friends quickly thanks to her sunny disposition and good manners. Marcy says she's actually jealous of this, since despite her incredible intelligence, she's so shy that sometimes she can't even look at people in the eye.
  • This is also how her "blue powers" activate, because she represents heart, and her Super Mode is triggered by her love of the Plantars, her friends, and her family when in near-fatal danger.
• Power Glows: Throughout the first two seasons, she gets moments of glowing eyes and enhanced physical capabilities, implying there's something hidden within her. The season 2 finale all but confirms it, thanks to her retaining some of the Calamity Box's blue gemstone power, allowing her to access a sort of Super Mode that Sasha explicitly notes to not be a human thing. Said Super Mode unleashes enough energy to cause the sticks and leaves stuck in her hair to come back to life, turning into a sort of floral Cool Crown.
• Power-Strain Blackout: After activating her Super Mode for the first time, Anne is only able to keep up the attack for a couple of minutes before collapsing in exhaustion.
• Rage Breaking Point: In "True Colors". After telling off Sasha for her betrayal and being sent to the dungeon, Anne's rage continues to build until she finally snaps and headbutts the nearest toad guard in anger. This distraction provides a crucial opportunity for General Yunan to sneak up on and knock out the remaining guards.
• Refusal of the Call: In "The Hardest Thing", she turns down the Guardian's offer of taking up its post and powers, knowing that, even with her Character Development, she'd likely screw things up, because she's Just a Kid. After hearing her talk about change, the Guardian decides to send her back to life, hoping that after living a full natural life, she'll have continued growing enough that she'll feel worthy of taking up the position.
• Rise of Zitboy: A female example. In "Breakout Star", Anne gets acne, but the townsfolk of Wartwood mistake them for warts. Since this froggy society finds warts appealing, Humans Are Ugly goes right out the door for that episode, and this Zitgirl rises in popularity.
• Sanity Slippage: While it's mainly Played for Laughs, it's pretty clear in early season 2 that Anne's mental stability has taken some major blows from the length of time she's been Trapped in Another World, the constant dangers she's fought, the emotionally exhausting outcome of her fight with Sasha at the end of season 1, and her fear that she's putting her new-found family in danger to find her a way home. After the Plantars are abducted by a hungry predator in "Anne Hunter", Anne's mind generates a stress-induced hallucination of Sprig to help her cope. She realizes this means she's finally snapped completely under the pressure, but accepts it rather gracefully as just being inevitable due to her situation.
• School Uniforms are the New Black: She uses her Saint James School uniform as her standard outfit for the first two seasons. Justified, since she was wearing it when she got sent to Amphibia. She does occasionally dress up for specific occasions, such as "Anne of the Year" and "The Dinner", but it's implied that she sticks to her uniform mainly because it's already wrecked by her adventures in Amphibia. She is given an opportunity to upgrade her look towards the tail end of season 2, but after all the experiences she's had so far, Anne is comfortable with the way she looks, minimizing her changes to just an armored breastplate she wears throughout the remaining episodes when adventuring. She does grow out of this, though, in the season 3 premiere, where she has a new and more casual outfit due to being back on Earth at that point. However, upon returning to Amphibia, she wears an identical outfit to her school uniform, albeit with it being clean and having both shoes.
• Secret Test of Character: To charge her gem at the second temple, she's repeatedly tested by Valeriana to see if she's ready, so that she will admit her mistakes she made in the past and learn from them.
• Security Blanket:
  • Her phone. She has a Freak Out when it runs out of batteries with no obvious way to recharge it.
  • To an extent, the Calamity Box itself also serves as this, being Anne's only real hope of being able to return home. She's noticeably wary of not showing it to the Plantars initially until she's come to trust them enough after spending several weeks bonding with them, and finding out that Hop Pop lied about showing the Calamity Box to any knowledgeable contacts to help her, and instead buried it in the garden, is enough to seriously damage her trust in him, to the point she willingly returns to the cave in the woods where she used to live before the Plantars took her in, rather than stay under the same roof of a person who, in her eyes, tried to keep her Trapped in Another World for selfish reasons. Even after Hop Pop manages to explain himself, Anne's left with noticeable trust issues towards him in the subsequent episode. Upon recovering the box after it went missing, Anne morosely hugs it, showing how dependent she is on having a chance to return home, no matter how slim. It's heavily implied that if she didn't have the box on her, Anne would have wound up in a Heroic BSoD shortly after arriving in Amphibia.
• Series Goal: Adjusting to life in Amphibia while, at the same time, finding a way to get back home. She succeeds in doing so by the season 2 finale "True Colors". But the circumstances don't leave her feeling happy with the result. She comes home with no Sasha, no Marcy, and no Calamity Box.
  • In season 3, as she's managed to come home, her main goal becomes rescuing Sasha and Marcy, who are still stuck in Amphibia, bringing the Plantars home, and stopping Andrias from invading other dimensions.
• Serious Business: She HATES pineapple on her pizza.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Whenever Anne is dressed for a special occasion, like a girls night out with Polly or her award ceremony in "Anne of the Year", she pulls off the look quite spectacularly.
• Shipper on Deck:
  • When she first meets Sprig's friend, Ivy, she immediately notes how cute they would be together, even trying to pick their ship name.
  • Anne is in full support of Hop Pop getting together with Sylvia.
• Shouldn't We Be in School Right Now?: Despite returning to Earth in S3, Anne is never seen going back to school.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!:
  • Sasha tries to get under Anne's skin during the Trial by Combat. Anne simply snaps at her about how she never seems to shut up.
  • In "True Colors", she reacts to Sasha betraying everyone and trying to talk her way back into Anne's good graces by calling her insane and a "horrible person", and announcing that she's done being friends with her.
  • In "The Hardest Thing", when the Core calls the Calamity Gems "Amphibia's greatest treasure", she says that they aren't the world's greatest treasure, with an image of her friends and Found Family from that world flashing on screen to show what she thinks the world's treasure really is.
• The Slacker: As shown in flashbacks, she doesn't really do well in school. Her mom points out just how unusual if is for her to research something.
• Slapstick: She constantly ends up being the victim of slapstick anticks even for the most random reasons for most of the series, and it's implied she got it from her equally unlucky, accident prone father.
• Stepford Smiler: Of the depressive kind. As revealed in Marcy's Journal, she did not take the sight of an impaled Marcy in "True Colors" well at all. In her entries, she admits that the thought of Marcy and Sasha being in danger, or worse dead, affected her sleeping habits to unhealthy levels and that she feared that if she let her feelings about it out, she would risk to break down in front of her family.
• Sticky Fingers: Stealing the music box from the thrift store was what brought Anne to Amphibia in the first place. In "Best Fronds", she also swipes Hop Pop's key from his pocket while he's sleeping.
• Stock "Yuck!": She loathes pineapple pizza, to the point she threatens Sprig for even suggesting it. She also hates black licorice, even getting nightmares about it.
• Super Mode:
  • In the Season 2 finale, she unlocks the powers given to her by the Calamity Box after watching Sprig get dropped from King Andrias's castle. She gains a blue Battle Aura, Not Quite Flight, Super-Speed, partial Shock and Awe abilities and Super-Strength. She immediately uses it to really lay the hurt on Andrias.
  • In the series finale, for the final battle with the Core-controlled moon, she, along with Sasha and Marcy, gain access to full power of their calamity forms, which, in addition to a costume upgrade, gives them greatly-increased versions of Anne's Calamity power, as well as the ability to conjure Green Lantern-style constructs. When their combined power proves insufficient, Anne is given access to an even more powerful form channeling the power of all three Calamity Stones, granting her enough power to destroy the Core, at the cost of her own life. She gets better.
• Supreme Chef: Anne is great at making fusion meals, as shown in "Lily Pad Thai".
• Tempting Fate: In "Battle Of The Bands", Anne decides to perform a song about how much she's grown to love her second home in Wartwood, and how her time in Amphibia was no big deal after all. Considering everything that happens to her and her friends in the very next episode, "True Colors", Anne quickly finds she might have spoken a bit too soon about that.
• Terrible Artist: Vlog from the Blog reveals that Anne's drawing capabilities aren't exactly up to par with the rest of her skills. She's shown great creativity and vision before, but this apparently doesn't transfer well when sketched out on paper. The Plantars themselves range from passable to genuinely good artists when interpreting their human selves; Anne's "frogsona", on the other hand, is a squiggly mess.
  Hop Pop: (reacting to Anne's drawing) Oh dear Frogs!!!
  Sprig: Oh jeez, Anne!
  Polly: (screaming in horror)
• There's No Place Like Home: One of her main goals, besides becoming a hero, is to find a way to go back home, given her first experiences in Amphibia didn't exactly endear her to the place.
• Things Are More Effective in Hollywood: Anne's phone, full stop. She can drop it in a lake◊ for an unspecified length of time, and it works fine afterwards! Its battery life can be charged up to 10,000%! And despite every rough-and-tumble scrape Anne herself has gone through since arriving in Amphibia, there's not so much as a hairline scratch on it!
• This Is Gonna Suck: When she finds out she actually did die and the Anne who'll be sent back to the living world is a backup clone, she notes she'll be having an existential crisis later on in life.
• Time-Shifted Actor: In series, Anne is voiced by two different actors during the different stages of her life. She's voiced by Kai Zen as a child, and Brenda Song as both a teenager and adult.
• Token Houseguest: Anne lives with the Plantars, being the only one not related to any of them.
• Token Human: Played with. On the one hand, she's not the only human in Amphibia, as Sasha and Marcy were sent there as well. On the other hand, she's the only human resident in Wartwood; that's only because the Plantars chose to be her foster family.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She is either this or a Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak. She is feisty and tenacious, never afraid of speaking her mind or resorting to physical violence when need be. She has an adventurous spirit and partakes in many athletic activities. She even wears a suit in "Anne of the Year". Despite having a somewhat tomboyish persona at first glance, her femininity is just as prominent, if not more so. She enjoys stereotypical girls' activities such as going to the mall, painting her nails, and reading teen romance magazines. Polly was even too boyish for her own liking; she attempted to change her to fit in with the feminine ideal. Then there are traits that don't really fit into either category, such as her dislike of camping, not because she minds it on principle but simply because she is hopelessly inept at it.
• Tomboyish Voice: She has a fairly raspy voice, and while she isn't as tomboyish as Polly, Marcy, or Ivy, she is still rather adventurous, headstrong, and athletic.
• Took a Level in Badass: In the season 1 finale, after having had enough of Sasha pushing her around, Anne finally stands up to her.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Anne becomes gradually less bratty, selfish, rude and reckless over the second half of season 1 but is still her feisty self.
• Touched by Vorlons: When she was transported to Amphibia, the power of the blue Calamity Gem transferred to her, which manifests as the blue gem's glow in her eyes in moments of extreme stress. Unlike her friends, however, when it comes time to recharge her gem, she fails to let it charge completely, and thus she retains a connection to the gem. This allows her to achieve a Super Mode in the season 2 finale when the grief and rage from Sprig's supposed death pushes her over the edge.
• Toxic Friend Influence: Sasha has definitely left a dark mark on Anne's moral fiber. Luckily, she gets better during the course of the series.
  Anne: Look, if a friend likes a pencil case, you get it for them. If your friend likes your new shoes, you give them to her! And if a friend wants you to steal a crazy music box from a thrift store, even if you really don't want to... you do it, okay?
• Tragic Keepsake: Marcy's journal, which she takes with her back to Earth after Marcy is stabbed and seemingly killed by King Andrias.
• Trapped in Another World: The music box which magically transported Anne to Amphibia is still in her possession, but unable to send her back to Earth. It eventually gets charged up in season 2, and Anne is able to get back home, with the Plantar family, but without her friends or the calamity box.
• Undying Loyalty: She's very loyal to those she considers her friends, which unfortunately prevents her from standing up to Sasha until the end of season 1.
• Unreliable Expositor: When first asked by Sprig how she got to Amphibia, Anne replies that she has no idea. Yet the ending and the opening sequence show that she was lying, and she knew exactly how she got there. She does eventually come clean about the specifics once she's come to trust the Plantars enough to show them her only hope at returning to a normal life, but on the other hand, Anne really did have no idea how opening an old music box transported her to a world of anthropomorphic frogs.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Because her friendship with Sasha had disintegrated by the time they reunited, Anne choosing to return to Wartwood with the Plantars led to Marcy catastrophizing about their friendship falling apart and winding herself up into a meltdown. This made Marcy vulnerable to a Deal with the Devil from Andrias, who suggested adventures in other worlds might clear any bad blood between the three, eventually leading to the "True Colors" debacle.
• Verbal Tic: Tends to begin and end a lot of her sentences with "Dude".
• Vitriolic Best Buds: She has become this with Mayor Toadstool in season 2 after the two being antagonistic towards each other for a long time.
• Vocal Dissonance: Her voice is somewhat deep and tomboyish for a 13-year-old girl.
• Voice of the Legion: Her voice gains a deep, reverberating undertone when in her Super Mode.
• We Used to Be Friends:
  • She and Sasha are no longer friends by the end of "Reunion", since Anne's chosen to side with the Plantars and Wartwood while Sasha has remained loyal to the toad army. Naturally, this is also because Anne has realized how controlling Sasha was to her in the past. Despite this, Anne wants to make things right with Sasha and deep down still considers her a friend.
  • After initially trying to give Sasha another chance in "The Third Temple" and finding out Sasha was just using her to get to Newtopia and start the toad rebellion behind her back in "True Colors", Anne promptly gives up on her and ends their friendship. However, this doesn't stick for long; both girls are able to not just rekindle their friendship but also boost it to unseen levels and become truly nontoxic friends for the first time in their lives.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • In "After the Rain", she is outraged to hear that Hop Pop lied to her about what he did with the music box (leading to the box going missing). Hop Pop trying to explain himself by saying he was trying to protect Sprig and Polly just hurts Anne more, since it implies he doesn't really see Anne as family.
  • In "True Colors", she can barely believe the revelation Marcy knew what the music box was from the beginning, and actually hoped it would transport them away from Earth. Anne calls Marcy out on how her self-centered decision led to the three of them being separated from their homes and families.
• What You Are in the Dark: When the beast she and Sprig are being wary of draws near, Anne's first instinct is to run away while Sprig is still trapped in her... trap. She could have left him to be eaten by the beast, but she eventually comes back and rescues him from the trap before the beast gets them.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Frogs used to disgust her, until she arrived in Amphibia.
• Wild Hair: She has big, messy, unkempt hair with sticks and leaves in it.
• You Can't Go Home Again:
  • The chest that transported her to Amphibia doesn't work anymore, and the mountains surrounding Wartwood are all but impassable when she arrives, so until the roads clear in a couple months, she's stuck with the Plantars. She eventually is transported back to Earth by the season 2 finale, but with the Plantars and without her friends.
  • Inverted in the finale. She, Sasha and Marcy are able to open a portal to go home, but there's only enough power for a one-way trip. After saying a final goodbye to all their friends in Amphibia, they return to Earth permanently.
• Your Days Are Numbered: When she turns down the Calamity Guardian's offer of taking over its job, it suggests that she might be willing to reconsider when she passes away naturally in 78 years, meaning that Anne will die at the age of 91.

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Sprig Plantar

"What?! Does this look like a face that could deceive you?"

^{Click here for his appearance in the epilogue}

Voiced by: Justin Felbinger

An adventurous and curious 11-year-old pink frog who befriends Anne.

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• Amazon Chaser: After admitting to falling in love with Ivy Sundew (who often bests him in combat).
  Anne: Oh, you just fell in love with her, didn't you?
  Sprig: Yeah, I just fell in love with her.
• Badass Adorable: He's a cute little frog kid who's outsmarted plenty of monsters with Anne.
• Best Friend: He quickly develops this relationship with Anne. By the time of season 2, she's basically become a Cool Big Sis to both him and Polly, given their Family of Choice and her becoming more responsible and less selfish, not to mention being a diehard Shipper on Deck for him and Ivy. Despite having grown closer to the Plantars as a whole, it's clear that Sprig and Anne's friendship and bond is something that matters dearly to each of them. Anne even calls him her 'best friend, in this or any other world' when begging Andrias to spare him when he takes Sprig hostage to force the heroes to surrender the charged Calamity Box. Witnessing the tyrant apparently give Sprig a Disney Death in response proves to be a strong enough emotional response to unlock Anne's Super Mode, and when he returns to her side afterwards, Sprig's more concerned about Anne's condition than his own near-death experience.
• Brats with Slingshots: The opening shows him using one of these.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: When Hop Pop reminds him of his acts of irresponsibility (ruining dinner, crashing a cow-worm through the living room, attracting giant fireflies by leaving the lights on), he brushes it off like it just was a bad day. As in, those incidents all happened the previous day.
• Cheerful Child: Whenever he's happy, he shows himself to be quite an excitable young lad.
• Cheery Pink: He has pink skin, and is a Cheerful Child.
• The Conscience: Zigzagged. Since Anne's sense of right and wrong has been messed with by Sasha and Marcy, it's often up to Sprig to set Anne on the right path. However, at times it will be Anne and occasionally Polly playing the role of The Conscience for Sprig, cause he isn't always a shining beacon of morality, being willing to sabotage Sylvia Sundew joining them on their family fishing trip so he could spend time with Hop Pop like they had traditionally done ever since he was a tadpole, sneaking into Mrs. Croaker's house in a desperate attempt to get her to like him, and comforting the horrifying pumpkin monster underneath the family house only so he could get it to lower its guard and imprison it again.
  Sprig: I loved it! ...and then betrayed it!!
• Constantly Curious: He's described as curious, which becomes evident once he meets Anne for the first time.
• Cowardly Lion: His first meeting with Anne aside, if he and Anne encounter any malevolent or dangerous creature, he'll get scared of it nine times out of ten, but it won't stop him from fighting back.
• Creepy Child:
  • He has his moments where he is disturbingly on board with harassing, endangering, burglarizing, or outright attempting to murder other characters.
  • He's morbidly curious to know if Hop Pop has 'ever killed a man' in "Bizarre Bazaar".
• Deuteragonist: He's the second-most important character after Anne.
• Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: He has a serious problem when it comes to pulling levers.
• Fearless Fool: Despite being stuck in Anne's trap and believing her to be a monstrous beast, Sprig, rather than freak out, warns Anne that eating him might not be the best idea and that he doesn't taste good.
• Fiery Redhead: He's very excitable, and under his hat he's hiding a tuft of orange hair.
• The Fool: Despite having lived in Amphibia long enough to know how dangerous it is, he constantly shows himself to lack a bit of common sense whenever he's out in the wild.
• Fragile Speedster: Sprig showcases great agility throughout the series, pulling off acrobatic stunts to outmaneuver larger predators and threats, such as the giant mantis in "Anne or Beast" that would be able to kill him in one hit, given his youthful age and relatively weaker body strength. In "True Colours", he takes out both Captain Grime and one of Andrias' robots via dodging their attacks and accurately shooting them with his slingshot, but when Andrias grabs him, he's utterly helpless to do anything to stop the madman from throwing him to his doom.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: He's foolish, and Polly's responsible.
• Friendless Background: He was considered too "weird" to bond with other frogs his age, so he jumps at the chance to be friends with Anne. Though, he apparently always had his 'ambush' playtime with Ivy beforehand, but he never really thought about them as friends in the same way.
• Goggles Do Nothing: Sprig rarely places those goggles he wears over his eyes,◊ and considering the climate in Amphibia, they probably wouldn't be of much use anyway.
• Gut Feeling: Sprig has the intuition to know when something is off, and his intuition usually checks out. In "Best Fronds," he can tell something is not quite right about the lake. In "Combat Camp", Sprig has a sinking feeling that the "test" is a real heist, but Anne, being Anne, ends up convincing him otherwise. In "Reunion", Sprig finds it unusual that the toads are being friendly towards the frogs, and he ends up being right about it being a ruse to kidnap them. In "Marcy at the Gates", he's suspicious of Marcy in part because of the encounter with Sasha and her turning out to be 'evil' in his words, worried that the same could be true of Anne's other friend. Despite Marcy being complicit in pushing Anne to steal the Calamity Box, the end of the episode seems to prove him wrong, as Marcy turns out to be a Cute Clumsy Girl whose only problem is not paying enough attention to things around her and causing accidents. However, "True Colors" reveals that he was Right for the Wrong Reasons, as whilst Marcy is a Nice Girl most of the time, she's revealed to have known about the Calamity Box's dimensional properties in advance, and tricked Anne and Sasha into shoplifting it and then using it so they could have adventures together and never be separated in a poorly thought-out plan, meaning that while she's still nowhere near as bad as he feared and certainly no Sasha, she's not quite as innocent as she seemed.
• Hidden Depths: More than once, he's shown to be a good fiddler. This becomes a major plot point in "Fiddle Me This".
  • The "Vlog from the Bog" short "Glamour!" reveals he's talented in makeup application. Anne even says he's more talented in it than she is, calling him a "makeup god".
• Humans Are Cthulhu: His first meeting with Anne has him mistake her for a beast primarily because she looks completely different from everything he's seen before, though he soon warms up to her once he realises she's not dangerous precisely because of that. In Vlogs from the Bog, when he tries drawing himself as a human being, he apparently thinks it's possible for humans to walk around on their hair if it's long enough, despite having Non-Mammalian Hair himself.
• Humans Are Ugly: Despite disliking Anne's looks, he doesn't let it get in the way of forming a friendship with her.
  Sprig: You're not a beast at all, you're a hero! An ugly, ugly, ugly hero!
• Hypocrite: In "True Colors, Sprig singles out Marcy because she tricked Anne and Sasha into coming to Amphibia with her so she could spend time with them. But later in "Sprivy", he and his girlfriend Ivy willingly put an important mission at jeopardy by tricking their teammates, because he didn't want to spend even 5 minutes away from his girlfriend.
• Innocently Insensitive: In season 2, there's a Running Gag of him bringing up uncomfortable subjects to people and not realising or fully processing how uncomfortable it makes them. In "Handy Anne" he brings up Sasha and Anne's climatic fight in "Reunion", which Anne is still slightly traumatized by, in "The Ballad of Hopediah Plantar" he sings a song about "Reunion" that paints his grandparent in an unflattering light and fails to realize this would obviously upset him, and in "The First Temple" he brings up the uncomfortable issues that Anne and Hop Pop are tiptoeing around regarding Hop Pop burying the music box in the backyard and lying to Anne about it. The last one makes Polly call him out for it.
  Polly: You need to stop.
• Interspecies Friendship: With Anne.
• In Touch with His Feminine Side: In "Girl Time", Sprig is distraught that Anne and Polly go to the spa without him. In "Civil Wart," when Wartwood is split down the middle over whether the girl in a teen love flick should choose the sensitive deer-man Alistair or brawly cyborg Hunter, Sprig identifies with Alistair due to how much of a sensitive dreamer he is. Sprig even says what he likes most about Alistair is how unashamed he is to cry. In the 'Vlogs from the Bog' episode Glamour, Sprig turns out to be a Child Prodigy at applying makeup, to the point of giving an Art Shift to those he works on, despite never having used or seen makeup before. Anne says that Sprig's talent goes beyond being a makeup guru, and is more of a makeup god.
  Anne: (after Sprig stops a rampaging monster by giving it a makeover as well) He's a god!!!
• Lethal Chef: He's not as bad as Hop Pop, but he once somehow made pizza dough explode.
• Magnetic Hero: Deconstructed. A lot of the townsfolk like him because of how cute he looks. However, due to this, he is completely and utterly baffled by Sadie Croaker not immediately liking him, going to extreme measures to try to get her approval.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: He's the Feminine Boy to both Polly and Ivy's Masculine Girl.
• Meaningful Name: A sprig is a small twig or plant shoot, fitting his family's farming heritage.
• Native Guide: He serves as this to Anne, having lived in Amphibia all his life, while Anne has just arrived. It's also Downplayed, as he's also never left the valley before, or really explored far from Wartwood without Hop Pop's supervision at all, before Anne starts getting him to push his boundaries more. In season two, the journey from Wartwood to Newtopia is as much a fresh experience for him as it is for Anne, and if anything he's the most enthusiastic about seeing all the cool sights and experiences along the way, as showcased in "Fort in the Road".
• Never Bareheaded: He's almost always seen with his green cap on his head.
• Nice Guy: He's outgoing, friendly, and is very welcoming to Anne once he finds out she isn't going to eat him, despite calling her an "ugly, ugly, ugly hero".
• Nice Mean And In Between: He's the nice to Polly's mean and Hop Pop's in-between; he's the friendliest of the Plantars and Anne's main sidekick.
• Non-Mammalian Hair:
  • His hat covers up a tuft of orange hair◊.
    Anne: Wait, you have hair?
  • In "Cursed", Sprig's curse causes his hair to grow so much that towards the episode's end, he basically resembles an orange mop head.
  • Said hair also increases his Strong Family Resemblance to Leif, his distant ancestor and King Andrias' former friend who stole the Calamity Box and sent it to Earth. Her own choice of wardrobe exposed her hair, so with Sprig's covered up by his hat, it's implied to be the main reason that Andrias hasn't fully realised their familial connection yet, though his attempted murder of the young frog implies that he may be subconsciously reminded of her when looking at him.
• Orphan's Ordeal: Sprig has to deal with the fact that his parents have died when he and Polly were very young, and he can hardly remember what they are like. The real truth is that they were eaten by giant herons, something Sprig doesn't like to talk about.
• Overly-Long Tongue: Even for a frog, Sprig's tongue is quite lengthy.◊
• Puppy Love: Both he and his love interest Ivy Sundew are pre-teens.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: In the season 1 finale, he delivers an epic one to Sasha about how Anne doesn't have to be pushed around by a bully like her after she forces her into submission and he slingshots a sludgeball into the former's face.
  Sprig: For someone who's Anne's best friend, you sure don't know her well. She's brave, she's smart, and most of all, she's not gonna be pushed around by a bully like you!
• Redhead In Green: His goggles and hat are green, and he has orange hair under his hat.
• Signature Headgear: He wears a green hat and goggles, which were given to him by his parents before their death.
• Tragic Keepsake: His hat and goggles are this for him, since he was given them on his birthday by his parents, and since he can no longer remember them clearly, he keeps the hat close in order to keep a memento of them close by. This is especially notable as present-giving on birthdays isn't a usual custom in Amphibia, and the Plantars are usually depicted as being dirt-poor, so his parents had to have put extra effort into giving him the gift.
• Tunnel King: "Flood, Sweat, and Tears" reveals Sprig to be a pretty good hole digger.
• Turn the Other Cheek: He gets caught in Anne's trap and is threatened by her, and when the actual beast appears, she's going to leave him for dead. Even after realizing she's not a beast, you'd think Sprig would at least hold some distrust of Anne after the above, but he quickly gets over it.
• Undying Loyalty: To Anne, which is why she considers him her true best friend, since he's the only one who did not take her for granted nor betray her trust.
• Vocal Evolution: Justin Felbinger's voice cracked sometime between seasons 1 and 2, but remained as Sprig's voice actor, which is lampshaded in "Friend or Frobo?". This marks one of the few times in Western animation that a child voice actor has not been replaced after their voice changes. It's implied this may be due to Sprig going through his own frog variation of puberty, due to the timescale of the show taking place over several In-Universe months.
• Voice Changeling: He can do a perfect imitation of his sister's voice.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Technically, since he usually wears a jacket and shorts, leaving his chest bare.
• Weak, but Skilled: He's about as strong as you'd expect a young frog person to be, but his skill with a slingshot allows him to beat much tougher opponents, including Grime and Andrias' Mecha-Mooks, by aiming for the weak spots they possess to maximise his reach advantage.
• You Remind Me of X: A heavily implied trope. Sprig has a Strong Family Resemblance to his distant ancestor Leif, King Andrias' friend from over 1000 years ago and the one who betrayed him and stole the Calamity Box out of concern that their misuse of it would eventually destroy Amphibia. It's implied this resemblance is a major motivating factor in Andrias attempting to kill Sprig after the heroes give him back the Calamity Box and Anne accidentally hits his Berserk Button about his broken friendship.
• You Won't Like How I Taste: His first words to Anne.
  Sprig: I have bad news for you, beast: I taste terrible!

Hopediah "Hop Pop" Plantar

"Anne, there's a big difference between courage and stupidity!"

Voiced by Bill Farmer

Sprig and Polly's old-fashioned and overprotective grandpa.

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• Accidental Hero: After his rant criticizing Mayor Toadstool, the villagers convince him to run in the election against Toadstool. This, indirectly, sparks a rebellion among the other villages oppressed by Toad Tower, who celebrate Hop Pop as a hero without him even knowing about it.
• Affectionate Nickname:
  • "HP" by Anne. He dislikes it at first, but it quickly grows on him.
  • Sylvia refers to him as "Hoppy".
• Appeal to Tradition: He has a habit of stubbornly sticking to the old ways of doing things (such as in "Hop Luck"), and encourages the rest of the family to do the same.
• Arranged Marriage: He's tried to arrange two marriages so far for Sprig, first with Maddie Flour and then with Ivy Sundew.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: He's hard on Sprig because he fears that his grandson is irresponsible. But when he hears Sprig went into the woods to chase down a "monster", he leads a mob without hesitation to save him. Eventually this extends to Anne, whom he houses and eventually comes to see as his own granddaughter.
• Berserk Button: Don't disrespect family tradition in front of him. He considers it very important.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • He often shouts "Dang it, boy!" whenever Sprig screws up.
  • He also tends to shout "SAY WHAAAT?!" when surprised by something. This even officially became his catchphrase after he stared in a commercial in "Hollywood Hop Pop".
• Character Development:
  • As the series goes on, Hop-Pop slowly let's go of his attachment to the old ways and learns to embrace change.
  • He also becomes less overprotective of his grandchildren, and begins to have fun and get in trouble with them.
• Cool Old Guy: A lifetime of working the fields, especially in Amphibia, has left him with a surprising amount of strength and competence when his life's in danger.
• Easily Forgiven: Subverted but also Downplayed. Hop Pop isn't a malevolent frog-person by any means, but he did lie to Anne, stealing her music box and burying it in his backyard. As expected, when Anne finds this out she isn't happy and almost leaves the Plantar household, only forgiving Hop Pop when he explains why he did what he did. However, whether it was because Anne hadn't fully worked through her fresh trust issues with Hop Pop, or because Sprig accidentally reopened her wounds, Anne admits that she felt like she was too hasty in forgiving Hop Pop and tells him she needs time to truly forgive.
• Fatal Flaw: His belief in tradition and that he always knows best. In "Hop Luck", he refuses to admit that the family recipes are just not tasty, even when Anne points out they can make a new dish. He also insists on teaching Anne about the Plantar family history, and how to do Amphibian taxes. It culminates in him burying the music box to protect Anne and the others, even though it's the only clue she has to finding a way home.
• Good Old Ways: He's a firm believer in tradition, and is usually against novelty.
• Hidden Depths:
  • In "Best Fronds", the book he's reading is titled "So You're a Failed Actor".
  • In "Bizarre Bazaar", he's revealed to be a great cockroach racer known as "the Wrecker".
  • For some reason, he has access to lore that even Newtopia's library (at least, the non-secret library) doesn't have.
  • He once dreamed of being an actor. While his ambitions never really went anywhere, he can still put on a decent performance when he wants to.
  • In the Vlog from the Blog video "Learning About Each Other", he manages to do an impressive drawing of what he thinks he'd look like as a human.
• Honorary Uncle: To Anne, so much that he refers to Anne as a Plantar when she won the Frog Of The Year Award. Heck, in "Lost in Newtopia", he refers to Anne as his adoptive granddaughter.
• Hypocrite: He occasionally calls out his grandchildren and Anne on things he himself does.
• Identical Stranger: A frog from Anne's world, seen in "Reunion", bears some resemblance to Hop Pop, but is more realistically drawn... and is also dead.
• Inconsistent Spelling: His name has been written as both Hopadiah and Hopediah in the show. However, in a world without standardized spelling, both might be considered correct.
• Lethal Chef: He's not the best cook. While the frogs in Amphibia might like to eat bugs, the soup he makes in "Cane Crazy" has some in it that are still alive, and when Anne mocks his cooking skills, Sprig and Polly laugh instead of defending him. "Hop Luck" reveals that in the annual Wormwood pot luck, they've always come in last, though that might be because he's following the awful recipes in the family cookbook. Vlogs from the Bog reveals that one of his recipes involves having the still-living bug ingredients Duel to the Death if they won't Face Death with Dignity, and when they instead team up and beat the stuffing out of him, he falls back on his 'secret explosive ingredient'— a Boom Shroom. The video ends with the Plantars' house aflame.
  Anne: Yep. It always comes to this.
  Hop Pop: (defensively) It was all in the recipe!
• Locked Out of the Loop: In the season 1 finale, it is revealed that he inspired rebellions for frogs in the valley to rise against the toads, which he wasn't even aware of.
• Miniature Senior Citizens: He's only slightly taller than his grandson and shorter than most adult Amphibians. Among humans, he tries to pass himself off as this.
• Nice Guy: He's stern, traditional, and overprotective, but he’s a very loving and friendly guy who only wants what’s best for his family, including Anne.
• Nice Mean And In Between: The in-between to Sprig's nice and Polly's mean; he's not that aggressive, but is more impulsive than he appears to be.
• Non-Mammalian Hair: He seems to have tufts of grey hair on the side of his head.
• Noodle Incident:
  • In "Flood, Sweat & Tears", his speech about roommates turns into a rant that heavily suggests that his married life was not ideal.
  • In "The Domino Effect", he rants on and on about Charlie the spider, and never mentions whatever happened to him.
• Older Is Better: Hop Pop's outlook on life is very much based around traditional values, and thus many episodes often have his views clash with Anne’s newer, more modern ways.
• Outliving One's Offspring: He sadly outlived whichever one of Sprig and Polly's parents was his child, as they got eaten by herons when Polly was just a baby.
• Papa Wolf:
  • When he learns Sprig went into the forest to track down the "beast" and will probably be eaten, he doesn't hesitate for a second to charge into the woods to save his grandson.
  • When Mayor Toadstool calls Sprig goofy for losing the grubhog in "Grubhog Day", Hop Pop immediately jumps to his defense.
• Parental Substitute: He became this to Anne while she's stranded in Amphibia.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: He's very strict with what he allows his grandchildren and Anne to do, but only because he cares about them and wants them to be safe.
• Sacred Hospitality: He offers his home to Anne when she frets about being stranded in Amphibia for two months. The fact he witnessed her protecting Sprig from the mantis likely played a huge part in this decision, given his overprotective nature and fear of the unknown was brought about by his self-blamed failure to stop Sprig and Polly's parents from being Eaten Alive by herons, so seeing Anne defend his kin made him feel indebted to her, despite still seeing her as a freakish creature.
• Senior Sleep-Cycle: He likes to take naps throughout many episodes.
• Sleeps with Both Eyes Open: He tends to do this a lot, according to "Best Fronds".
  Sprig: He makes a great scarecrow!
• Stronger Than They Look: He's old, and barely taller than Sprig, but a lifetime of working the fields, especially in Amphibia, have left him with a surprising amount of strength and competence when his life's in danger. He's demonstrated several times to be the strongest of the Plantar family bar Anne, capable of lifting and spinning them all around by himself in a Chain of People as demonstrated in "After the Rain", and K.O's Mayor Toadstool in a boxing match during the mayoral elections in "Hop-Popular", despite the latter's greater size and physical strength. During "True Colors", when he and the rest of the heroes are attacked by Andrias' Mecha-Mooks forces, he's one the the few without a weapon to defend himself with, so he resorts to punching the robots bare-handed. Understandably, this hurts him, but he's nonetheless able to knock them backwards with only his raw physical strength, leaving them open for a killing blow by one of his better-equipped allies. In All In, it's revealed in a flashback that he managed to fight the same herons that killed his grandkids' parents, managed to scar one of them, and most likely helped fight them out of Wartwood.
• Trademark Favorite Food: He develops a love for avocados during his stay on Earth, wanting to take some back with him to start an empire on selling a safer version of avocados that don't risk blindness like the Amphibian variant does. "The Hardest Thing" shows that he succeeded and now grows "California Avocados" on the Plantar farm.
• Vocal Evolution: He noticeably sounds more elderly in the earlier episodes than he does now.
• Voice Changeling: In "Adventures in Catsitting", he mimics a fire alarm and the confirmation sound of a bus card reader. It seems that his grandchildren's talent for mimicking voices runs in the family.
• Voice of the Resistance: It turns out his exploits throughout season one (most notably running for mayor against a toad) inspired rebellions against the toads all over the valley, though he himself was unaware of this.
• When I Was Your Age...: He often slips into rants about how much better things used to be when he was Anne's and Sprig's ages. It's particularly shown in "Stakeout".

Polly Petunia Plantar

"Just give me an excuse to use old Doris here."

^{True Colors/Season 3 spoilers}

^{Polly in the Epilogue}

Voiced by: Amanda Leighton

Sprig's polliwog sister who carries herself around inside a bucket.

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• 11th-Hour Superpower: In "True Colors", her legs finally come in, allowing her to not only dodge King Andrias' attempt to kill her, but to evade his robots and snatch the Calamity Box.
• Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: While the adult frogs are fully dressed, Polly, a tadpole, is naked apart from a bow on her head. Sprig is shown to have been the same way when he was a tadpole, wearing only his green cap instead. This overlaps with Adults Are More Anthropomorphic.
• Alliterative Name: Polly Petunia Plantar.
• Ambiguously Gay: Though she's way too young to be seriously thinking about that sort of thing, she has shown sexual attraction once: to a young Mrs. Croaker, photos of whom she's too busy looking at with Anne to stop Sprig from searching for Jonah.
  Anne: So, you wanna stay here and look at more pictures of hot Croaker?
  Polly: You read my mind!
• Artistic License – Biology: In real tadpoles, the legs are the appendages which grow in first, not the arms.
• Badass Adorable: She's small and cute, yet can kick butt with the best of them. Growing her legs makes her both even more adorable and even more capable.
• Bathtub Mermaid: Before she grows her legs, Polly can usually be found in a bucket of water. However, she can get around just fine without water, and can even hop around somewhat without fully-formed legs yet.
• Blood Knight: She'll jump at any excuse to get into a fight.
• Brainy Baby: She's still a tadpole, but is way more responsible than her brother, who is already a full-grown frog. See Child Prodigy below.
• Brutal Honesty: She isn't afraid to express how she feels about the people around her.
• Child Prodigy: Apparently, she learns to speak Thai fluently from Mrs. Boonchuy's Thai romcoms during her time on Earth, a lot faster than Anne ever could, especially for someone her age. She's also a pretty skilled mechanic, being able to rebuild and revive Frobo after only spending a couple of hours researching online. This might have something to do with her being descended from Leif, an inventive genius gardener that engaged in intellectual pursuits with the young, kinder Andrias, whom by the present is renowned for his smarts, and in particular, his skill at Flipwart.
• Comically Small Bribe: It's easy to sway her in your favor, as long as you have candy to barter. Justified, since she is a small child.
• The Conscience: At times, Polly and occasionally Anne have to try to prevent Sprig from making stupid choices, but he ends up ignoring them and ends up causing trouble anyways, much to their annoyance.
  Polly: Get used to this feeling!
  
• Cunning Linguist: Though she never gets to use it, she learns fluent (if slightly accented) Thai just from watching Oum Boonchuy's thai romance movie collection. Anne remarks with annoyance that Polly is a better thai speaker than her.
• Cute, but Cacophonic: Polly's horrible singing voice is her most dangerous asset. Especially if you're a winged creature in midair with no means of covering your ears.
• Dumbass No More: "Dumbass" might be a little strong, but she takes a sharp uptick in intelligence in Season 3, where she learns mechanics well enough to repair a robot and picks up on the Thai language by watching the family's romcoms.
• Extremely Protective Child: If you threaten her family, watch out! She will go on the attack.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Despite being a bit reckless and hotheaded, she's still way more responsible than Sprig. This starts getting somewhat reversed over the course of the series, in part because Anne's Character Development pushes her into the role of being the 'responsible one' in the family alongside Hop Pop, allowing Polly to act out more and have fun, and by "Friend or Frobo" she's the one pushing Anne and Sprig to have dumb, but exciting adventures, whereas the two of them have somewhat calmed down through their experiences. The same episode sees her embrace the role of the responsible sibling in regards to Frobo, though.
• Hammerspace: Polly can produce her flail on demand, even though it's bigger than she is. She also apparently has a stash of emergency cookies she keeps hidden in her bow on the Plantars' road trip to Newtopia.
• Hates Baths: When Hop Pop has to clean Polly, it can take all day.
  Polly: You'll never take me alive!
  Hop Pop: Dang it, Polly, you're gettin' filth everywhere!
  • "Truck Stop Polly" has her willingly getting filthy so the others can wash her because she's missing the routine of home life on the road to Newtopia, and is looking to re-create the comforting activities they did back in Wartwood to make everybody feel more at ease on the dangerous trip.
• Hidden Depths: She often tries to act much older then she is, but occasionally she just wants to be treated like a kid, so long as she isn't ignored in the process. The sudden exodus from Wartwood has been as hard on her as the rest of the family.
  • She's actually pretty smart, as seen with her becoming fluent in Thai after a few days from just watching Thai-language romcoms and learning how to build robots after a few hours watching videos on the subject.
• Hot-Blooded: Polly's very aggressive, to the point where it was a letdown for her when she realized Anne really wasn't a bloodthirsty monster. An official character card◊ lists both her patience and tact as not applicable. This is a huge problem on Earth; aggression is not socially acceptable behavior there, and Anne has to stop her from getting into fights with neighborhood kids.
  Polly: You're not gonna eat us, are you? You're not even gonna try. Disappointing.
• I Call It "Vera": She's named her Rolling Pin of Doom "Doris."
• Instant Expert: When her legs finally emerge in "True Colors". Aside from some minor balance issues, she gets the hang of running very quickly. This could be slightly justified, as she's shown to be capable of leaping and bouncing around on her own just fine even without her legs fully grown, so she has some prior experience with movement — just not with her own two feet yet.
  • A better example is with robotics, especially in her efforts to revive and upgrade Frobo. While she still has to learn a lot about the craft, it doesn't take her very long to be highly skilled in it.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's hotheaded, stubborn, and pretty blunt, but she's also very loyal and compassionate.
• Just a Kid: While she doesn't mind being treated like a kid, Polly hates it when she is ignored or pushed to the side because she is too young. Whenever she misbehaves, it's often because she wants attention.
• Kiddy Coveralls: Polly is seen wearing a set of overalls during the first Time Skip in "The Hardest Thing", having grown up to be a Wrench Wench.
• A Lizard Named "Liz": Or rather, a pollywog named Polly.
• Meaningful Name: She is a pollywog named Polly. Her middle name of 'Petunia' also ties her into the agriculture-based Theme Naming of the Plantar family.
• Nice Mean And In Between: She's the mean to Sprig's nice and Hop Pop's in-between; she's always hot-headed and aggressive.
• Only Sane Man: She enjoys this role once and once only in "Dating Season", where she's the only one who thinks that Sprig and Ivy should figure out their relationship for themselves.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: In some promotional images, she's lifting up objects far bigger than herself.
• Punny Name: A tadpole is also known as a pollywog.
• Raised by Dudes: Anne assumes that her lack of femininity comes from the fact that she was raised by two men, her grandfather and her older brother.
• Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome: Over the course of a few months, she fully develops legs and a head of hair. Judging by how everybody else looks to be the same age in the epilogue, it's been not too long since the girls left, nine months to be precise, yet Polly has developed a full-grown body during this time.
• Sweet Tooth: Enjoys gorging herself on sweets. It's the main method to convince her to be bad.
  Polly: I don't have a candy problem! You have a candy problem!
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: She wears a pretty yellow bow atop her head.
• Tomboy: In "Girl Time", she doesn't have any interest in any of the "girly" activities Anne takes her out to, and becomes the town's champion at spitting, an activity that's perceived as masculine.
• Vocal Evolution: Her voice sounds more nasal early on, but the nasality gets toned down and her voice is more higher-pitched by the end of season 1.
• Voice Changeling: She can do a perfect imitation of her brother's voice.
• Wrench Wench: In season 3, she becomes fairly skilled in robotics to try and fix Frobo. By the time of the Distant Finale, her frog form character design includes worker's overalls, a mechanic's glove, and a wrench sticking out of her pocket, implying that she's continued her mechanical aptitude with Amphibia's machinery.

Animal and robot companions

Bessie

Anne: "Bessie, things are gettin' messy!"

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker

The Plantars' giant snail, which they ride upon and use to pull their cart.

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• A Day in the Limelight: "Anne Theft Auto" is Bessie's time to shine.
• Automaton Horses: Averted. Anne starts off thinking Bessie is just this, and is proven wrong in "Anne Theft Auto," when she learns the hard way that Bessie is a living creature who gets scared when predators are around, and needs special coaxing, instructions and snacks for different situations. Various episodes also show that Bessie can get tired, injured, or side-tracked like any animal.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Bessie is a yellow slug rather than a purple snail in the first episode.^note The slug is never identified as Bessie and might be a different animal, but later episodes show Bessie being the Plantars' only draft animal.
• Hidden Depths: Anne learns all about these by reading a book on Bessie's entire history in "Anne Theft Auto," and comes to appreciate Bessie as a noble, strong, loyal steed.
• Horse of a Different Color: Bessie is used as a horse.
• Interspecies Romance: In the series finale, it's revealed that Bessie got together with Joe Sparrow and even sired sparrow-snails with him.
• Let's Get Dangerous!:
  • "Bessie, things are gettin' messy!"
  • When a bird flies away with MicroAngelo in "Bessie & MicroAngelo", she yanks a chain hard enough to break it, uses a door to Ramp Jump into the air, and smacks the bird away in one hit.
• Luminescent Blush: When Joe Sparrow performs a mating dance, Bessy blushes and covers her face.
• Shoo Out the Clowns: All three season finales have had Bessie be completely absent, though it's mainly justified in that the locations that house said climactic confrontations aren't ones that Bessie would be able to easily enter, help out the Plantars, or even have much reason to be involved with in the first place.
• Speedy Snail: She's not Sonic the Hedgehog fast, but she can match the speed of a Real Life horse from Earth.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Mushrooms, which comes in handy when nearly all of Wartwood is infected by a mind-controlling fungus.
• Treasure Chest Cavity: She has a "secret compartment" where her owners store a bag of special berries to feed her in certain emergencies. It's right on her shell, over a bunch of pulsating organs.
• Undying Loyalty: To the Plantar family. Hop Pop recalls in the book he wrote of Bessie's history that at one point he was ready to fall asleep and freeze to death in a snow storm, but Bessie called him back from the abyss by singing to him. Anne is moved to tears just reading about it.

MicroAngelo

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker

A baby snail that Polly adopts during the family's stay in Newtopia.

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• Innocent Blue Eyes: He has bright blue eyes.
• Non-Standard Character Design: He's one of very few characters on the show with a permanently visible eye color.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: Just look at him! Even beyond that, since he's a baby, he's barely larger than Polly, and has at least once chased his own tail.

Frobo (F0-R1)

^{Click here for Frobo 2.0}

Voiced by: Matt Braly

A robotic frog constructed in an ancient factory just before its destruction. He secretly follows the Plantars during their road trip to and from Newtopia, and is eventually taken in by the Plantars after Polly meets and befriends him.

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• Artificial Stupidity: From what we've seen of Frobo so far, he doesn't seem to be firing on all cylinders per se. One notable example is how he repeatedly walks into a tree for presumably a long period of time, turns around the tree, and then starts to walk into another tree. In "Friend or Frobo?", Polly refers to him as a baby.
• Baby See, Baby Do: He takes to mimicking Polly when they first meet.
• Be the Ball: He can curl up into a ball and roll around, mimicking Polly when she does it.
• Big Guy Fatality Syndrome: He becomes the first victim of King Andrias' wrath after he tries to protect Polly from the tyrant.
• Big Little Brother: With his Baby See, Baby Do personality, his relationship to Polly is similar to that of a younger sibling, but he's of course much bigger than she is.
• Declaration of Protection: In "True Colors", he tells Polly he will save her... just before King Andrias smashes him to pieces.
• Deus Exit Machina: Even after befriending the Plantars, he is mostly absent from their conflicts and adventures. This is especially prominent in "The Third Temple", wherein he does accompany the Plantars to the eponymous temple and actually helps them solve the first 'test'. However, he is then left outside to look after the exhausted Joe Sparrow, when instead, between his greater strength from being a robot and resistance to heat, he would have been more beneficial inside the temple helping with the straightforward challenges, whereas the Plantars themselves were basically The Load inside, due to being dehydrated from the heat. He finally gets to help them out several times in "True Colors", only to end up being destroyed by King Andrias.
• Do-Anything Robot: He can basically do whatever gag the plot requires. He demonstrates a talent for farming at the drop of a hat when asked to show off for Hop Pop, can be used as a grill for cooking, and turns into a fog machine for the Battle of the Bands.
• A Dog Named "Dog": In this case, a Frobot named "Frobo", though his real name is F0-R1.
• Expy: Of The Iron Giant.
• Extendable Arms: He can stretch his arms long enough to lift a building into the clouds.
• Eye Beams: He can shoot deadly beams from his eyes.
• Flawed Prototype: He's the first frobot that has been built in 1,000 years, but thanks to Sprig's antics in the factory where he was created, he's not part of Andrias's army and doesn't take orders from him, leading the king to declare him "defective".
• Good All Along: When he first appears, and later throughout the second season, he comes across as an intimidating robot tracking down Anne and the Plantars, even if he doesn't seem particularly good at it at points. Then comes "Friend of Frobo?", where he finally catches up to them at Wartwood and... turns out to be quite docile upon meeting Polly.
• Good Colors, Evil Colors: His chassis is brown, seemingly setting him up as an enemy, but he turns out to be friendly. This is contrasted by Andrias’s Frobots, which are black with red eyes. After getting rebuilt by Polly, he has a magenta color scheme matching hers.
• He's Back!: After spending much of season 3 reduced to just a head, Polly manages to finally and fully repair (and even upgrade him) in "All In" using the tools and materials in Anne's and Sasha's school workshop.
• Outside-Context Problem: Amphibia, by and large, is more or less in a medieval time period, with a few anachronisms in some leisure activities, with the majority of weaponry being swords, maces, shields and bows. Something as highly advanced as a Do-Anything Robot is completely beyond the capability of any of the various towns and communities Anne and the Plantars encounter to make or even comprehend, and it's only through Anne's own knowledge of robots from Earth, herself another form of an Outside-Context Problem to Wartwood, that anybody has any idea what he is. Even then, Anne's own world doesn't have the technology necessary to make a fully-sentient and advanced machine like Frobo, and she's only seen depictions of beings like him in Earth fictional media like her video games. Frobo turns out to be Foreshadowing for Andrias' army of Mecha-Mooks, and the fact that Amphibia, and in particular its capital Newtopia, used to have regular access to such advanced systems. The technology imbalance is revealed to be because somebody once stole the Calamity Box, the power source of the Magitek surrounding the land, causing it to decay into its current state by the present, with only Andrias himself aware of what has been lost.
• Plug 'n' Play Technology: Even when reduced to a head, he's modular enough to be repaired with Earth technology. Afterwards, he's set up on a toy car to move around, and can easily read a DVD or Anne's phone to project desired information from them through his eyes.
• Portmanteau: His name is a portmanteau of "frog" and "robo", which is apparently the name of a type of robot in one of Anne's video games.
• The Quiet One: He doesn't really talk much aside from saying his first words.
• Robot Buddy: He ends up befriending the Plantars, especially Polly.
• Rogue Drone: Frobo is a Frobot from King Andrias' army, but Sprig's antics cause him to go rogue before being programmed into his army's network. The king is NOT happy that Frobo isn't fighting in service to him.
  Andrias: Oh, look at this. One of my robots. Must be defective.
• Satellite Character: After befriending Polly and being accepted into the Plantar family, he doesn't really do much on his own except follow them around and only ever uses his robotic capabilities whenever the plot needs it.
• Scarily Competent Tracker: Even though the Plantar family outpaces him throughout their journey, he never loses track of them, and eventually follows them all the way back to Wartwood.
• Shoo Out the Clowns: He's destroyed by Andrias near the end of "True Colors", with only his head remaining.
• Shout-Out: He's essentially a Kapool if the Laputans had designed it, with a bit of Ivan's Uranus thrown in.
• Sole Survivor: He is the only robot to have been completed by the assembly line in the factory the Plantars stumble into before it explodes.
• Suddenly Voiced: He says his first word in "Friend or Frobo?", which is Polly's name.
• Token Heroic Orc: He is the only Frobot in King Andrias' army to be on the side of good.
• The Voiceless: He spends most of season 2 being a silent robot, and it isn't until "Friend or Frobo?" that Frobo learns how to speak.
• We Can Rebuild Him: After he gets destroyed by Andrias in True Colours, Polly is able to fully rebuild him in "All In".

Ancestors

Emma Plantar

Emma Plantar was a Newt adventurer who travelled Amphibia and collected relics, before settling down and being taken in by the Plantar family.

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• Happily Adopted: Emma is considered a fully member of the Plantar family, and while she is long deceased, there is no indication that she was unhappy with it.
• Identical Stranger: Emma looks like a pink newt version of Anne.
• Posthumous Character: Emma has been dead for a long time, and is only talked about through Plantar family ancestry.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Despite only coming up once and briefly, they're the turning point in Anne viewing herself as part of Plantar family, massively influencing Anne's character arc leading to many ensuing happenings in the series.

Lily Plantar (Unmarked Spoilers)

"In the end, my only remaining wish is that somehow, someday, my love reaches you. So I'm begging you, my dearest friend, don't close yourself off. Open your heart, and follow it."

^{Click here to see her in her younger years}
"We must find the Olms; they'll know what to do! I'm sorry, my friend. This thing can't stay in Amphibia..."

The founder and matriarch of the Plantar family, a thousand years before the present. Unbeknownst to anyone, Lily was originally Leif, a gardener from Newtopia and close friend of then-Prince Andrias. After receiving a vision foretelling Amphibia's doom, Leif stole the music box that powered Newtopia's empire and hid it on Earth.

Fearing the consequences of her betrayal, Leif hid in the small settlement of Wartwood, starting a family under the assumed name of Lily Plantar. Though she never saw Andrias or Barrel again, she wrote one last message to Andrias before she died of old age. Her words would eventually reach her old friend through her distant descendant Sprig.

For tropes about her, see this page, under Andrias' Former Friends.

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