Important characters in the two Hoodwinked movies. WARNING: Unmarked spoilers ahead.
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Red Puckett
- Voiced by: Anne Hathaway (first film) and Hayden Panettiere (second film)
Red Puckett is a teenage girl and the most important of the six protagonist characters. She claims to get her name from the red hooded cloak she wears. In the first movie, she is the first of the four suspects to be interviewed by Flippers.
- Aside Glance: Multiple examples throughout her story in the first movie.
- When she throws a magazine over the side of her treehouse and causes a car to crash into a tree. At the sound of the crash, she blinks and gives a startled look at the camera.
- When she is retrieving Granny's recipe book from the vault, the woodpecker asks her, "Are they gonna get your recipes?" Red turns and says "Not today," to the bird. The camera is positioned in such a way that it looks like she is speaking to the camera.
- When Japeth denies having just spoken normally, she gives a dissatisfied look to the camera.
- Berserk Button: Whatever you do, do not degrade her of being a little girl or even insult her Granny. If you do ANY of those, then prepare yourself for a beatdown (as an arrogant bridge troll learned the hard way).
- Bound and Gagged: In Boingo's cable car in the first one. At a couple of instances in the second movie as well.
- Broken Pedestal: Red does not really like it when she discovers Granny has hidden her own double life as an extreme sports athlete from her.
- Crazy-Prepared: Even though Red could not have anticipated the encounter with the Wolf after she falls from the cable car, for some odd reason, she carries a can of "Wolf-Away Spray".
- Deadpan Snarker: Has a lot of witty lines.
- Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting: Red is a black belt.
- Flat "What": Gives one when she sees Japeth with helicopter horns. She gives a Big "WHAT?!" when the Wolf is revealed to be a reporter.
- Friend to All Living Things: Parodied. Creatures in the forest all greet Red by first name, Boingo and others included, when they see her. According to Flippers, the only crime Red has ever committed has been flying a swarm of hummingbirds over a river without a license. The Wolf is seen observing that bit of "Great Big World" from a bush, and comments, "Whoa! Creepy!" Red would be a full version of this trope if not for the fact that in the Wolf's story, there's a scene where she viciously beats him up, which in Red's defense would be reasonable self-defense since she thinks he's trying to kill her.
- The Hero: She is the main heroine of the Hoodwinked story.
- Ink-Suit Actor: Some say that Red's face, to some extent, bears some of Anne Hathaway's face qualities.
- "I Want" Song: "Great Big World".
- Little Red Fighting Hood: There's a reason why there's a picture at Granny's house of Red in a martial arts uniform, with the caption "Red Puckett: Forest Regional Karate Champion".
- MacGuffin Delivery Service: Red transporting her granny's recipe book is the basis for her story.
- Meaningful Name: Lampshaded:Red Puckett: They call me "Red" because of this red hood I wear.
Nicky Flippers: What about when you're not wearing it? (beat)
Red Puckett: (quietly) I usually wear it. - Medium Awareness: When Red is singing "Great Big World", depending on your perspective, she may be singing to herself, to the creatures she passes, to the police detectives who are interviewing her, or to the camera.
- No Flow in CGI: The directors went for a Stop Motion look and feel in order to justify this inevitability. Red only has four fingers and the likeness of a doll.
- Offscreen Teleportation: Has one episode confronting Boingo at the end. When she arrives at the top tram terminal, Red is still hanging on to the side of the car and watching Boingo and Dolph. They start walking away. She is not seen again until Boingo tells Dolph, "You ask yourself, 'Where do I see me in five years?'" and she replies, "How about behind bars?" at which point we see Red now standing at the bottom of the ramp, despite us not seeing her walking over from where she was hiding a moment earlier.
- Oh, Crap!: Several moments for Red. Namely, her reaction to the Wolf unmasking himself, for one. Then there's her reaction during the treehouse scene to a glass window being shattered, which leads her to discover the break-in at Granny's store. Also, her face right before the mine cart crashes at the end of "Be Prepared".
- Only Sane Man: Red is this during the entire mine cart scene with Japeth.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When introducing herself to Flippers, Red says she pretty much always wears her red cloak/cape thing. After her Broken Pedestal moment with Granny, she removes it. She is not seen wearing it again until when Granny uses it during the tramway rescue.
- Pensieve Flashback: When Red retells the confrontation with the Wolf at Granny's house to Flippers, he tries to trick her and asks if Kirk burst in right after the "what big facial qualities" bit. Immediately, the scene cuts to that part of the meeting. Red is on the opposite side of the Wolf and Granny from wear she is in the original scene, and has her hands out in a brace position when Kirk comes in. After a few seconds of the Wolf reacting, Red waves her hands and says, "No! No! Not yet!" and all of the on-screen action freezes in time. With a dismissing wave of her hand, the scene rewinds. A second later:Nicky Flippers: And then the Axeman Cometh?
Red Puckett: You got it.
(Inside the flashback, Kirk bursts through the window)
Red Puckett: Only, he was screaming.
Kirk: [weakly] Aargh? [Red glares at him]
Red Puckett: Like a maniac! - Slow-Motion Pass-By: Red gives a very disgusted Death Glare at the Wolf as she leaves from her questioning and passes him, on the way to his questioning. Topped with an overdone dramatic soundtrack.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: In the sequel, Red is significantly more hot-headed and doesn't work well with anyone, despite being fairly down-to-Earth and kind in the first movie.
- Waif-Fu: Red is a proficient martial artist (she's a black belt and the region champion, and even has a photo of herself in a martial arts uniform on the wall in Granny's house). Too bad her moves are ineffective against rabbit ears.
- Was It All a Lie?: Red found out about her Granny's double life. She felt betrayed because Granny never lets her do anything. Granny thought Red was happy and it was important that she deliver her goodies as their ancestors had done. Granny realized she deserves more in life after Red asked her that question.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Red gives one to her grandmother after finding out that she had a double life and never told her about it.Red: I'm being ridiculous? You're off living la vida loca, risking your life for some dumb thrills and I'm supposed to stay home and be your happy little delivery girl?!
Granny Puckett
- Voiced by: Glenn Close
- Cool Old Lady: Her age does not stop her from participating in extreme sports.
- Given Name Reveal: Her first name is revealed to be Abigail in the sequel.
- Mama Bear: Mess with Red at your own peril. When Boingo traps Red in a cable car full of explosives, Granny immediately races to save her by using a baking tin to grind down the cable.
- Never Mess with Granny: She easily takes down the extreme team backed by Boingo.
- Nice Girl: She is not your typical granny, but she is still sweet, loving, and kind.
- Obfuscating Insanity: Being middle-aged, she pretends to be eccentric around Red. Because of this, her "What? Who's there?" is interpreted as her being her eccentric self by Red.
Kirk Kirkkendall
- Voiced by: Jim Belushi (first film) and Martin Short (second film)
- Alliterative Name: Kirk Kirkkendall.
- The Big Guy: Interestingly enough, Flippers points this out when he accuses him of being the Goody Bandit.
- Demoted to Extra: Shows up much later and does much less in the second film.
- Dumb Muscle: He's huge and strong, but also so dumb that he doesn't know how to use an ax to cut down trees until he reads a book about it.
- Friend to All Children: While adults think of him as a weirdo, the children love him for giving them schnitzel. He even gets a big musical number about it.
Wolf W. Wolf
- Voiced by: Patrick Warburton
- Adaptational Heroism: Here, he's a good guy helping to catch the Goody Bandit.
- Alliterative Name: All of his names start with the letter W.
- Barefoot Cartoon Animal: In Hoodwinked Too!, he wears a hoodie and jeans, but no shoes.
- The Big Bad Wolf: Subverted. With the movie being based on the Red Riding Hood tale, and the fact it starts at the part where the Wolf infiltrates Granny's house and pretends to be her, everyone, in and out-of-universe expect him to be a bad wolf early in the story. But because the movie is a parody of the classic tale, he turns out to be a good guy who only looked evil at first, due to bad luck and timing. From the wolf's own point of view, the trope is inverted because he considers himself the good guy, and thought at first that Red and Granny were the evil ones.
- Butt-Monkey: He frequently suffers comedic antics while chasing Red, such as getting his tail caught in Twitchy's camera, being beaten up by Red, and falling into a river while chasing a swarm of birds wearing Red's hood.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Despite his terrifying appearance, he's on the side of good.
- Deadpan Snarker: Second only to Red.
- A Dog Named "Dog": He's a wolf named Wolf W. Wolf.
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: In the first movie, he wears a hoodie but no pants.
- Hero Antagonist: He repeatedly chases Red down and eventually sneaks into her house, but only because he believes she and Granny are evil. Several of his "evil" actions, such as roaring at Red, vowing to get her and her Granny, and tying up Granny and putting her in the closet are given benign explanations (his tail got caught in Twitchy's camera, he believes the two are evil, and he genuinely had no idea Granny was in the closet; she was tied up from an unrelated incident), and by the end of the movie he's unambiguously heroic.
- Intrepid Reporter: He runs a news column, was tracking down the Goody Bandit for a scoop, and is noted to have worked on a previous case by Flippers.
- I Was Beaten by a Girl: Flippers lampshades it.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite being a wolf, he's generally a nice guy once you get to know him.
- Noble Wolf: He's a heroic wolf who's looking to catch the Goody Bandit.
- Non-Action Guy: Wolf's talents lie in non-violent investigations. Whenever he has to fight, whether it's against Red, Boingo or the Three Little Pigs, he inevitably gets his butt handed to him.
- Repetitive Name: His name is Wolf W. Wolf.
- Super-Persistent Predator: Towards Red.
- Sympathetic P.O.V.: His alibi reveals that he in fact thought that Red was the Goody Bandit while investigating the recipe robberies.
- Took a Level in Dumbass: In the sequel, he goes from a Consummate Professional who took his job seriously to a Cowboy Cop who constantly jeopardizes his missions through sheer incompetence, such as trying to order pizza during a stakeout and using a single Paper-Thin Disguise that only consists of a hat and beard.
- You Need a Breath Mint: In the first movie, when Red encounters Wolf and immediately sees through his Paper-Thin Disguise, she keeps points out "how big he's getting," which irritates Wolf to the point where he leans close to her and demands to know what she's carrying. Instead, she insults his breath.Wolf: "Are we just gonna sit around here and talk about how big I'm getting?! You came here for a reason. So tell old granny what you got in the basket!"Red: "Oh, Granny! What bad breath you have!"
Twitchy
- Voiced by: Cory Edwards
- Dub Name Change: His name in the Canadian French dub is "Va Vite", which means "Go Fast".
- Evil-Detecting Dog: More like Evil-Detecting Squirrel. Between the protagonists, Twitchy is the only one who seems to think there's more to Boingo then meets the eye judging by the suspicious look he was giving Boingo when he spoke to him and wolf.
- Keet: He's extremely excitable. It gets even worse when he tries coffee for the first time.
- The Millstone: He's very bumbling and often makes things worse for Wolf by accident, such as getting Wolf's tail caught in his camera (causing Wolf to accidentally scare Red away) and lighting up the dynamite in their minecart, inadvertently causing Wolf to blow up the minecart tracks.
- Motor Mouth: Talks so ridiculously quickly that the police need to use a tape recorder to understand him. Averted in the sequel, in which he speaks at a normal speed, but still at a chipmunked pitch.
- Super-Speed: When hopped up on coffee, he moves so fast that he easily catches up with the police when they're heading away from the mountain.
- The Unintelligible: Speaks so fast it's hard to understand him. The police have to use a tape recorder and slow it down to hear what he's saying. Again, averted in the sequel, in which he speaks at a normal speed.
Nicky Flippers
- Voiced by: David Ogden Stiers
- Expy: Nick Charles, from The Thin Man movies.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Although interestingly enough, his nickname is the same as his last name.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Unlike the police, who immediately try to arrest the four main suspects on the spot, Flippers cares about making sure the case is covered properly and questions each of them to get the full story.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: For some reason, Flippers went from a suave, patient, and friendly Reasonable Authority Figure in the first movie to being considerably more ill-tempered in the second movie.
Japeth
- Voiced by: Benjy Gaither
Japeth is a blind mountain goat. He has a Dixie accent. He lives in an old Pecos Mining Company mine shack high up in the mountains. He claims he was cursed 37 years ago by a mountain witch with a spell that renders him only capable of singing.
Provides examples of:
- Animal Species Accent: Whenever he talks (or in his case sings), he bleats like a real goat.
- Brick Joke: After "Be Prepared", Japeth isn't seen again. But then at the end, when Red, the Wolf, Granny and Twitchy are at the outdoor bar:The Wolf: So, how 'bout that new delivery system?
Red Puckett: Well, it beats riding a bike, that's for sure.
[Cuts to Japeth riding a mine cart filled with food]
Japeth: [to the "Be Prepared" melody] Oh I've got horns to hold the muffins, and I've got horns to hold the pies...
- Casual Danger Dialogue: Or lyrics, for that matter. During Red's mine cart ride, when the avalanche hits, Japeth goes "Ohhhhh an avalanche is coming and I do not feel prepared / It's running like a mountain lion, I must say that I'm scared / But if not for the witch's spell you'd hear just how I scream / But since I'm only singing I'll just yodel 'til we're creamed!"
- Crazy-Prepared: "Be Prepared" should be considered a medley of this, as he showcases to Red all of his horn sets that he has made himself to prepare himself for anything. After the mine cart he and Red are in goes airborne, he escapes with a pair of horns fitted with helicopter rotors. Red is rather shocked to see this.
- Cursed with Awesome: Japeth says he can't speak, only sing. Possibly the
best song in the whole film. Circumvented by Rule of Funny when Red shows up at Japeth's shack and finds him rocking on the front porch:Red Puckett: I'm looking for Granny Puckett's house?
Japeth the Goat: [singing] Graaaaaaaanneeee Puckeeeet...
Red Puckett: Could you stop singing for one moment?
Japeth the Goat: [singing] No I can't, I wish I could, but a mountain witch done put a spell on me, 37 years agoooooooo, and now I gotta sing every thing I saaaaaaaaayyyyyy...
Red Puckett: Everything?
Japeth the Goat: [speaking] That's right.
Red Puckett: You just talked! Just now!
Japeth the Goat: Oh, did I? [singing] Did I? Dididididodadidididoooo...
[Red gives an annoyed Aside Glance to the camera] - Heli-Critter: The helicopter horns he uses to escape from the mine cart, Played for Laughs. Red escapes the mine cart in a more improvised method - she turns her hooded cloak into a parachute.
- Implausible Deniability: Japeth can only sing everything he says:Red Puckett: [unimpressed] Everything?Japeth: [speaking] That's right.Red Puckett: You just talked! Just now!
- Mine Cart Madness: Japeth's system of mine carts. Later harnessed for speedy pastry delivery (though it's not explained if it caught on quickly, given that the section of track accidentally destroyed by Twitchy would need to be rebuilt).
- Noodle Incident: Whatever he was cursed by a mountain witch 37 years ago for (assuming he is actually being truthful about that).
- Rule of Funny: Japeth's horns, which include a set with garden tools and a set that gives him a Mohawk Indian appearance.
- Running Gag: Getting injured in the second film.
- Shout-Out: The sign over Japeth's shack (visible when Red is walking up the hill to the front porch) reads "Pecos Mining Co.", a clear reference to the mythical American cowboy Pecos Bill. The "Outpost 23" sign is not related.
- Swiss-Army Appendage: For Japeth, horns, of all possibilities, as much as Red gets annoyed with his inability to stop singing about them. He is prepared, with sets that have: bottle openers, keychains, built-in TV remotes (though if he gets good reception up in the mountains is anyone's guess), jar openers, wigs, a set that functions as a coat rack for his other sets, garden tools, clothesline, the ability to cook s'mores and weiners, even a set that lets him FLY.
- Uncertain Doom: The second film ends with his head about to get run over by a car.
- Worth It: In the second film, when he realizes he's probably going to die, he smashes his banjo and starts singing "Vesti la giubba".
Boingo
- Voiced by: Andy Dick
- Always Someone Better: He's far more skilled in fighting than Red.
- Ax-Crazy: By the last act of the film, he seems to have lost quite a bit of sanity, if his mood swinging Evil Laugh is anything to go by.
- Big Bad: Of the first film.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Pretends to be a good associate to Red until his true colors are shown.
- Bunnies for Cuteness: Subverted, mainly due to being the mastermind behind the movie's plot.
- Card-Carrying Villain: Refers to his lair and plans as evil and does not object to the evil part of being called an evil genius, showing more concern if he truly counts as a genius.
- Demoted to Extra: Only appears in one scene in the sequel.
- Dub Name Change: His name in the Canadian French dub is "Pirouette".
- Evil Plan: Stealing all the competition's recipe was only phase one of his plan to start a goody company, Boingosnax. Phase two is to add a secret ingredient called Boingonium to make his snacks super addictive. Phase three is to demolish the forest to make room for his estate.
- Greed: His main motivation for his evil plan was to stomp out all the competition.
- Hair-Raising Hare: You see this cute bunny? Well, don't be fooled. He is the villain of the movie.
- Manipulative Bastard: Big time.
- Mood-Swinger: At one point, he goes from screaming to laughing to crying in under seven seconds.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He's a small bunny, but is easily able to overpower Action Girl Red.
- Recurring Extra: Having a minor role in every single character's story is the biggest sign that he had something to do with them.
- The Sociopath: He doesn't care if anyone gets hurt if he tries to put up his "Boingo Snax" or his very ambitious franchise expansion plans if "phase three" is anything to go by.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Carrot crumpets.
- Villain Song: "Top of the Woods".
- Walking Spoiler: At first, he seems to be a chatty friend of Red's, but then he shows up in strange other contexts as the other characters tell their version of the day's events. It's difficult to discuss him in detail without revealing the main mystery in the film.
- Who's Laughing Now?: Various lines from him and his Villain Song imply that being disrespected and picked on is what drove him to be evil.
- Would Hit a Girl: Delivers a brutal Curb-Stomp Battle to Red.
- Would Hurt a Child: He put Red in a cable car with lit dynamite and intended to feed children goodies laced with a highly addictive substance called Boingonium.
Hansel and Gretel
- Voiced by: Bill Hader & Amy Poehler respectively
Two children who serve as the main antagonists of Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil. They join forces with the witch Verushka Van Vine, in order to steal a secret truffle recipe.
Provides examples of:
- Affably Evil: Despite their constant boasting about how evil they are, they are surprisingly understanding towards their henchmen, even offering them cookies. They are also very loyal to each other, with no sibling rivalry whatsoever.
- Anything but That!: "Not broccoli!"
- Balloon Belly: After their defeat, they become as helpless as beach balls after eating all of the truffles.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Used repeatedly in order to correct their plans when they go awry.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: Both are the main antagonists of the second film, and a surprisingly stable one at that.
- Card-Carrying Villain: They love nothing more than demonstrating and bragging about their 'evilness'.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To Boingo. While they and Boingo basically had the same evil plan, to sell goodies, they went about it in different ways. Boingo just wanted to destroy homes and businesses to expand his goodie empire while Hansel and Gretel planned to sell off the magic truffles to other villains and had world-domination plans.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Subverted; the extent of their tragic backstory is that their parents never spent money on snacks for them.
- Does Not Like Spam: They hate broccoli.
- Fat Bastard: They are both unusually pudgy considering they claimed to have never had any sweets growing up. They are certainly this by the end.
- Gambit Roulette: There was no guarantee that Red would taste the truffle mixture or that she would be able to identify the missing ingredient.
- Laughably Evil: See 'Evil Is Hammy'.
- Obviously Evil: Complete with hair shaped like horns and even a flaming background at one point.
- Xanatos Speed Chess: (Plan A) Use themselves as extortion material in order to acquire the super-truffle recipe from Abigail. (Flaw) Abigail escapes. (Plan B) Lure her into a trap and extract the recipe by force. (Flaw) Red locates the hideout and 'requests' backup. (Plan C) Tap Red's phone to locate the HEA agency's headquarters and storm them with the small army of pigs they hired before the film even started. (Flaw) Wolf and Twitchy survive, rescue Red and raid the villainous lair with a troupe of Kung-fu yodellers; while Abigail still refuses to cooperate. (Plan D) Use their 'kidnapped toddler' façade one last time, to capture Wolf and Twitchy and trick Red into completing the recipe for them; enabling them to double-cross Verushka. (Flaw) The heroes fight them and steal the super-truffles back from them. (Plan E) Manipulate Red into attacking them on her own and taking the truffles back from her by force...if it wasn't for Wolf's Batman Gambit, they would have won.
