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Characters from Dora the Explorer as commonly depicted in GoAnimate videos.
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The Marquez family
In general
- Adaptational Jerkass: All of them, but especially Mami and Abuela when compared to their canonical counterparts.
- Adaptational Villainy: Arguably got it worse than Caillou's family, as all of them have become pretty terrible people in the grounded videos.
- Badass Family: They can pull off amazing feats together, or just one member of the family doing something awesome.
- Breakout Character: For basically the same reasons as Caillou and his family.
- Butt-Monkey / The Chew Toy: They get put through a lot of bad luck.
- Depending on the Writer: It's rare, but some users do give Dora and her family more sympathetic qualities.
- Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!: A favourite punishment of the adults, as shown in videos such as Dora Argues With Her Dad/Belted and Grounded
and Dora's Christmas Punishment Day. - Dysfunctional Family/Big, Screwed-Up Family: Much like the Caillou family, they make the Griffins look like the Tanners.
- Jerkass: Dora is a bully, and her parents are abusive towards her.
- Pet the Dog: They're not incapable of empathy, even if these moments tend to be fewer and far between compared to Caillou and his family.
Dora
Dora is the other most popular grounding victim in the grounded videos. Much like Caillou, she regularly misbehaves for a multitude of different reasons before inevitably getting busted and grounded. Despite interacting with Caillou frequently, most of the videos involving her have their own set of characters for Dora to interact with. Many of Dora's videos take place at school, where Dora pulls pranks, picks on other students like star student Gina, and makes messes that get her grounded. She is voiced by Kayla or Julie.
- Adaptational Jerkass: Just like Caillou, she's not the plucky, happy girl you know.
- Adaptational Villainy: Just like all the troublemakers.
- Always Someone Better: Dora harbors a resentment for her fellow student Gina, who is much more well-behaved and does well at school.
- Breakout Character: The second most well-known character in the GoAnimate world.
- Butt-Monkey: For similar reasons to Caillou; characters largely don't enjoy having her around.
- Calling the Old Man Out: Dora attempts to stand up to her parents in some videos, to varying levels of success. (Usually, they don't work.)
- Creepy Child: To an extent.
- Cute and Psycho: Not to Caillou's extent, though.
- Cute Bruiser: Just as strong as Caillou and just as cute.
- Depending on the Artist: Her general appearance depends on the user.
- Depending on the Writer: As you can see from the two pictures of Dora to the right, there are many different ways Dora appears in the grounded videos. Her design varies wildly across many videos, depending on how much the user wants her to look like her TV counterpart or not.
- Distaff Counterpart: She serves as one to Caillou in videos where they appear together. Some users have also depicted her as Caillou's Love Interest.
- The Dog Bites Back: Often happens in deconstruction videos or videos involving her where she isn't the target.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Often gets called "Dora The Motherfucking Explorer" by her parents.
- Enfante Terrible: Not as much as Caillou is, but she is known to be violent.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She and Caillou tend to be good friends.
- Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: The pranks she pulls are extremely dangerous, but she finds them funny.
- Evil Knockoff: Thanks to the two differentiating designs, the original Dora design is usually referred to as "Fake Dora".
- Evil Laugh: "Mwoo-harharharharharharharhar-ha-ha."
- Freudian Excuse: When users give her a reason for troublemaking, it's usually because of her parents abusing her.
- Hoist by Her Own Petard: Dora's school pranks tend to backfire on her horribly, whether directly or indirectly.
- In-Series Nickname: Her parents often call her "Dora the Mexican/Motherfucking Explorer" as their Catchphrase.
- Informed Ability: Dora's trademark exploring is largely ignored unless it's the focus of the plot of a grounded video.
- Jerkass: Like all troublemakers.
- Karmic Butt-Monkey: Dora is a mean-spirited prankster who often gets grounded and is injured by her own tricks sometimes.
- Kids Are Cruel: Mean to other students and is constantly pranking them.
- Mean Boss: Often is this towards Boots if he's present in a video.
- Never My Fault: In samster5677's videos, Dora is convinced that Gina deserves all the attacks that she has been given and that she (Dora) shouldn't be punished for it. Later videos has her convinced that all of her punishments are this and that her mother treats her unfairly. To be quite fair, it's hard to tell who is in the right in that case.
- Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Lots of characters get spooked by her actions, even if they aren't so bad.
- Pet the Dog: Dora is evil, but does have kind moments.
- Phrase Catcher: "Dora the Motherfucking Explorer".
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Despite being a little girl, Dora is capable of hospitalizing people she beats up, moving large objects like 1,500 pound balls with ease, and destroying buildings single-handedly. (Though the last case is seen across many troublemakers.)
- The Prankster: Dora has an affinity for pulling pranks, almost all of which backfire on her spectacularly.
- Super-Strong Child: She can lift heavy objects and is able to break people's bones easily.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: Often gets this in deconstruction videos or videos involving her where she isn't the target.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: While she's already much more unpleasant than her canon counterpart, the user adamkleinschmidt2003's portrayal of Dora, who was notable as one of the Grounded genre's biggest
Jerkass Woobies in many of his early videos, acts a lot less sympathetic and much more unrepentant/belligerent when caught in later videos. - Took a Level in Kindness: In Deconstruction videos, or videos involving her where she isn't the target, she comes off as a bit nicer.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Too many to list.
- Unexplained Accent: She speaks with an American accent; her mom has an Indian accent; her dad has a Mexican accent; and her Grandma has a Colombian accent.
- Villainous Friendship: When her relationship with Caillou isn't romantic, it tends to be this.
- The Woobie: Because of how many bad things happen to her, she can be seen as this.
- Would Harm a Senior: Has no qualms with attacking her Grandma.
Mami and Papi Marquez
Dora's mother, nicknamed Elena or Veena, is the most common character seen to punish Dora. She is shown to have a Hair-Trigger Temper and is annoyed fairly easily, and sometimes crosses the line when punishing her daughter. Dora's father, who is often nicknamed Miguel or Cole, is shown to be marginally less harsh, but still plenty verbally abusive to Dora.
- Abusive Parents: In several videos, but most notably Samster5677's series. Mami in particular is often shown to be an extremely abusive mother who is quick to ground Dora the second she screws up and sometimes will even tell Dora to her face that she wishes Dora were dead.
- Adaptational Jerkass: In the original show, Mami and Papi are shown to be level-headed parents who show great enthusiasm in Dora's exploring. However, in the videos, they are shown to hate Dora's exploring and downright hate Dora to the point they wish she never existed.
- Adaptational Villainy: It's to be expected, since they are the parents of a troublemaker in this series.
- Angrish: Like Boris, Mami and Papi are shown to use "OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH!!!" when giving out to Dora. Because of Papi's thick Spanish accent, however, his rendition of this phrase sounds more like "OCK OCK OCK OCK OCK OCK OCK OCK OCK OCK OCK!!!" instead.
- Ax-Crazy: Most of the Punishment Day videos involving Mami portray her as this.
- Berserk Button: Dora's trademark exploring is a big pet peeve of theirs.
- Boomerang Bigot / Hypocrite: They often call on Dora for being Mexican, despite the fact that they themselves are also Mexican.
- The Bully: They both are well known for their abuse of their daughter.
- Catchphrase: "Dora the Mexican/Motherfucking/Poopy/Illegal Imogrant/Shitty-Ass Explorer!"
- Depending on the Writer: Some users show them as okay parents, but most depict them as evil ones.
- Distaff Counterpart: They're both respectively ones to Boris and Doris.
- Everyone Went to School Together: In some videos, they are shown to have gone to college with Boris and Doris.
- Expy: Mami is very similar to Boris in ways, right down to the point where she sometimes has a "Teeth Girl" variant or shipped with him. Likewise, Papi is the Doris expy.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Mami has one.
- He Who Fights Monsters: They attempt to strike down Dora's villainy, even though they're just as mean as she is.
- Jerkass: They're abusive, unsympathetic, and racist to Mexicans.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Mami and Papi aren't incorrect about Dora's brattiness.
- Magnificent Moustaches of Mexico: Miguel.
- Makeup Is Evil: Mami is an abusive mom who usually wears lipstick.
- Never My Fault: In samster5677's videos, Mami can take this to extremes, as some of Dora's actions are caused by Mami making sure that Dora's life is as miserable as possible, then being shocked when Dora responds explosively.
- Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: They can get kinda creepy at times.
- Satellite Character: Papi doesn't often get much characterization beyond agreeing with Mami on something.
- Tautological Templar: They have their moments.
- Unexplained Accent: Mami talks in a faint Indian accent.
- The Unintelligible: Most of Papi's typical voices are ones intended for Spanish dialogue. Because of this, his English dialogue is usually so thickly accented that most users have to caption it.
- Verbal Tic: In some creators' versions, Mami prefixes nouns with "Mexican", such as "go upstairs to your Mexican room right now".
- Would Hurt a Child: They inflict agonizing Punishment Days on Dora whenever she messes up.
Abuela Marquez
Dora's grandmother, who commonly serves as both the enabler and the Foil to Dora's actions, and is commonly seen when Dora commits a misdeed or tantrum, as well as being seen in punishment days. She has been voiced by Soledad and Catherine.
- Adaptational Jerkass: Much like her daughter, Abuela is shown to be constantly rude to Dora.
- Adaptational Villainy: She's a Cool Old Lady in Dora's original show, but not here.
- Berserk Button: Never call her fat.
- Butt-Monkey: A victim of Dora's schemes.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Usually, everyone refers to Abuela by "Abuela" as Dora's grandmother, much like in canon.
- Fat Bastard: Abuela is shown to be extremely heavyset and apathetic to things going on around her until Dora raises a stink. After which, she gets every bit as violent as Mami and Papi.
- Grumpy Old Man: She's strict and rude.
- Jerkass: Ridiculously strict, impolite, and apathetic.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Abuela makes good points on occasion.
- No Sympathy: She's apathetic to everything around her until Dora does something bad.
- Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: She's often rather mean spirited.
- Unexplained Accent: Her second-most popular voice "Catherine" is a British voice, while her daughter, granddaughter and son in-law have Spanish or American accents (sometimes Indian for her daughter).
- The Unintelligible: Like Papi, Abuela's normal voice of Soledad is one for Spanish dialogue, so she's commonly subtitled for the audience.
Other characters
Boots
Despite the animal characters largely being not present in the grounded videos, Boots still makes appearances from time to time.
- Adaptational Jerkass: Just like everyone else.
- Adaptational Villainy: Went from Dora's friend to somebody who's fine with betraying Dora.
- Cowardly Sidekick: And not in a funny way, see Dirty Coward.
- Demoted to Extra: Even though he still appears more often than the other animal characters (i.e. Benny, Tico, etc.), Boots, for the most part, rarely appears in the grounded videos unless a plot requires him to be present.
- Dirty Coward: Whenever he and Dora get caught causing trouble, Boots will ditch Dora and let her get all the punishment for it.
- The Dragon: To Dora whenever Kevin isn't playing the role.
- Et Tu, Brute?: He's willing to betray Dora whenever she does something bad.
- Gonk: Owing to not being a human character like everyone else, some of his depictions can get rather odd to look at compared to everyone else.
- Jerkass: He's an awful friend to Dora, even willing to ditch Dora when something bad happens.
- Maniac Monkeys: He's a monkey and he likes causing trouble.
- Non-Human Sidekick: To Dora.
- The Starscream: The treacherous right-hand man of Dora.
- With Friends Like These...: The character dynamic between Dora and Boots becomes this in the grounded videos, to the point that Boots can and will throw Dora under the bus when she misbehaves.
Swiper
Another of the animal characters who will appear in the Dora videos if so chosen by the user.
- Adaptational Badass: He's a far more capable character here than in his home series.
- Adaptational Jerkass: Swiper was merely a kleptomaniac with sympathetic qualities in the original Dora the Explorer series. In the grounded videos, however, Swiper has no qualms about actually hurting Dora and is sometimes genuinely malicious.
- Adaptational Villainy: In the original series, Swiper would never go as far as killing Dora.
- Demoted to Extra: Like Boots, Swiper only appears every so often in the grounded videos, usually only when a video's plot requires him to be there.
- Jerkass: He often exhibits genuine malice in the grounded videos, especially towards Dora.
- Malevolent Masked Man
- Swiper, No Swiping!: Well duh, he's the Trope Namer.
- Would Hit a Girl: He has no qualms with harming Dora.
- Would Hurt a Child: In videos where he appears, he often kills or hurts Dora.
Azul
A blue train, often stated to be "fake" for one reason or another. Because of this, he's often shown as a target for grounding in Thomas-related videos.
- Berserk Button: As this video shows, he HATES being called slow.
- Body Horror: Insomuch as it can apply to a train. He often gets recycled into other, more mundane trains.
- Butt-Monkey: Is often bullied by other train characters.
- Jerkass Woobie: He is an abrasive character, but with everyone picking on him and calling him a "fake train", can you really blame him?
- Special Effects Failure: Because of the limitations of GoAnimate, he's often portrayed as a white-skinned human with a blue and cyan gi, blue hair, a blue chef's hat, and gray shoes; similar to the Thomas & Friends characters whenever they appear.
Original Dora the Explorer-related characters
Ms. Christina
In lieu of having Ms. Martin as her teacher at school, Dora has her own teacher in the form of Miss Christina. She's commonly depicted as an African-American woman in a red dress with white ruffles who's frequently exasperated with Dora's actions and pranks. She's voiced by Amy.
- Berserk Button:
- Do not misbehave in her class.
- May God have mercy on your soul if you call her the n-word.
- Butt-Monkey: Dora's pranks tend to influence Miss Christina in many negative ways.
- Canon Foreigner: An original GoAnimate character.
- Cluster F-Bomb: Downplayed. While she often uses "fuck", it is often when she is mad, and hardly uses it when in a normal attitude.
- Depending on the Writer: Her appearance tends to differentiate between users and even people who use her. Examples include if her dress has a halterneck-like strap or fluff, alongside a pink bangle on her right arm or not. Her shade of hair color, while usually chocolate brown, also differentiates at random.
- Happy Holidays Dress: Her dress has a very "Mrs. Claus"-esque design to it, right down to the white fluff at the hems.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Any sympathy can be given to her since Dora is a true jerk.
- Sadist Teacher: Somewhat downplayed, surprisingly enough. By and large, Miss Cristina is far less of an Evil Teacher than Ms. Martin, and, despite not liking Dora very much, usually treats Dora the same as the other students until Dora causes trouble. However, she does have her moments where she actively antagonizes Dora, though they happen less often than Ms. Martin.
- Stern Teacher: Very strict to her students, especially Dora.
- Teacher's Pet: Gina Delgado is her favorite student, to Dora's chagrin.
Gina Delgado
Gina Delgado is the favourite student of Ms. Christina as commonly depicted in several videos. In comparison to Dora, Gina is shown to be an extremely intelligent, polite and hardworking child, and as such, she is rarely seen being punished or grounded. Due to this, Dora is commonly shown to harbour a grudge against her because Gina often snitches on Dora, and is constantly shown attempting to find several ways to dethrone Gina from her spot.
- The Ace: She gets A's in every single subject. She even once got a 4.0 GPA.
- Butt-Monkey: She is the often the butt of Dora's pranks. And even if she's not the main target of Dora's tricks, she'll still get injured by them.
- Canon Foreigner: Another original GoAnimate character.
- The Chew Toy: As mentioned above, there are several videos where Gina is victim to actions committed by Dora to the point where she is even seen being killed, which are played for comedy.
- Nice Girl: Very well-mannered and nice. She doesn't always blow her stack when wronged like everyone else does outside of rare occasions, and she rarely rubs her high-ranking status as a school student in Dora's face at all.
- Not So Above It All: There are those rare videos where she isn't quite so nice and is even the troublemaker.
- Only Sane Man: Out of most of the characters in the "Dora Gets Grounded" series, Gina is one of the nicest characters, and is rarely seen screwing up or getting grounded. However, it is not uncommon to see videos of her being killed or being The Chew Toy to Dora's actions.
- The Stool Pigeon: She's always snitching on Dora.
- Teacher's Pet: In comparison to Dora, she is the favoured student of Miss Christina.
- They Killed Kenny Again: No matter how many times she is killed, she is almost always seen alive in future videos.
