Characters / Mother Goose and Grimm

Grimmy

Voiced by: Charlie Brill

The main character, Grimmy is an oddly colored Bull Terrier who belongs to Mother Goose, though she often refers to him a kid or a child.

• Adaptational Nice Guy: In the animated series he's far less of a Jerkass and is usually portrayed as well-meaning or even heroic, even if he tends to make a mess of things.
• Anthropomorphic Shift: Grimmy was much less humanoid when the strip began, and now talks in speech bubbles, as opposed to thought bubbles, like in Garfield.
• Cheshire Cat Grin: Done very often and very stupidly.
• Cone of Shame: He had to wear it briefly.
• Deadpan Snarker: He's prone to casual sarcastic aside comments, whether they're appropriate for the situation or not.
• Dumb Blonde: He's got yellow fur, and he's... not the brightest bulb.
• Funny Animal
• Gag Nose
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's often a jerk because he thinks it's funny. It shows through his Cheshire Cat Grin above.
• Large Ham: Grimmy is loud and expressive and is by far the character who Chews The Scenery the most, to an impressive degree for a comic character.
• Talking Animal: At first he only talked through speech bubbles, but as the series advanced, he was promoted to this.

Mother Goose

Voiced by: Mitzi McCall

Grimmy, Attila, and Ralph's keeper, who refers to them all as her children. Strangely enough, she's a goose herself, who keeps dogs and cats as pets, which still has many confused.

• Almighty Mom: Her pets certainly view her this way,
• Furry Confusion: She's an anthropomorphic goose who has two pet dogs and one pet cat.
• Like a Son to Me: Grimmy, Attila, and Ralph, who all call her "Mom" and treat her like their mother. Grimmy and Attila even give her flowers on Mother's Day.
• Non-Mammal Mammaries: Averted; she doesn't have any visible breasts.
• Species Surname: Often referred to as Mz. Goose.

Attila

Voiced by: Greg Burson

A purple cat who lives with Grimmy and Mother Goose.

• Anthropomorphic Shift: Along with Grimmy, he underwent this as well.
• Cats Are Mean: Downplayed. Attila is far less mean than Grimmy, and can almost come across as the dog's punching bag on occasion... but he has moments where he can be every bit as callous.
• Fat and Skinny: With Sumo the Cat. In the early days of the comic, Atilla himself was quite fat, but Art Evolution kicked in and he slimmed down to the point where he's now the skinniest character in the comic.
• Funny Animal
• Lovable Coward: Downplayed in the comic strip, where he can be timid and anxious as a contrast to the more upbeat Grimmy, but it isn't a major part of his personality. Very much played up in the animated series, where he's undergone some Character Exaggeration and is a nervous wreck.
• Out of Focus: He's still very much part of the main cast, but his role was drastically reduced after the introduction of Ralph.
• Real Men Are Pink
• Talking Animal: See Grimmy's above.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: He and Grimmy have this dynamic. Sometimes they get along and hang out like best buds, sometimes they fight like nobody's business.

Ralph

A Boston Terrier introduced to the strip in recent years. He lives with Mother Goose, Attila, and Grimmy.

• Character Blog: He has his own Twitter account. It hasn't been updated since 2015 (the in-universe reason may be that he simply forgot that he had it), but the official website still links to it.
• Cloudcuckoolander: He manages to confuse "tai chi" and "chai tea," which makes for some... interesting tea ceremonies.
• Dogs Are Dumb: He's the first dog to really demonstrate this, as Grimmy is dumb, but when compared to Ralph...
• Funny Animal
• Murder by Cremation: In one strip, Ralph cremates a possum who was supposedly dead, but his wife comes around asking where he is. Ralph tries to inform her that he had died, but she tells him that he was just playing possum.
• Too Dumb to Live
• Talking Animal: Introduced after the promotion Grimmy and Attila had to speech bubbles, so he's been talking the whole time.
• The Watson: Less inquisitive than many examples, but his role in many strips is just to be there as someone for Grimmy to talk to. Either he doesn't say or do anything, or he asks a question that allows Grimmy to deliver the strip's punchline.

Ham

Voiced by: Eddie Deezen

Mother Goose's neighbor before mysteriously diappearing.

• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
• Furry Confusion: Along with Mother Goose.
• A Pig Named "Porkchop": He is named after ham, a.k.a the meat that comes from a pig.

Sumo the Cat

A cat who hangs out with Attila. Seemed to have disappeared until a 2011 story arc.

• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: For a long time, but he came back.
• Fat and Skinny: With Attila.

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