Introduced in Open Season
Boog
Voiced by:
Martin Lawrence (first film)
Mike Epps (second film)
Matthew J. Munn (third film)
Donny Lucas (Scared Silly)
The main protagonist of the first film. A bear raised by Forest Ranger Beth, treated like a beloved pet, who performs in shows put on to teach people about wild animals. A performance gone wrong leads to him being set free, and after a movie of misadventures, he decides to remain in the woods.Martin Lawrence (first film)
Mike Epps (second film)
Matthew J. Munn (third film)
Donny Lucas (Scared Silly)
- Bears Are Bad News: Generally not the case, but if he gets ticked off, he gets ticked off. When he thinks that Elliot died to protect him from Shaw, he ties the hunter up with his gun.
- Beary Friendly: Being a domesticated bear and all, he's quite harmless as far as grizzlies go.
- Beary Funny: He rides a unicycle for crackers, to start with.
- Berserk Button: Being told he weighs 1,200 pounds instead of 900.
- Beware the Nice Ones: A very friendly and harmless grizzly bear, but whatever you do, do not hurt any of his friends. Shaw learned this the hard way.
- Big Eater: He's usually the first member of the group to get hungry, but could go with just some fishy crackers through most of the first film.
- Big Guy, Little Guy: With Elliot.
- Butt-Monkey: Throughout the first film. Mainly because since he was a City Mouse he had a hard time adapting to the forest life and got beaten around by the other woodland creatures.
- City Mouse: He was a domesticated bear raised by Beth and has a hard time adapting to the forest until the end where he decides to stay with Elliot and the other animals.
- Cool Pet: Formerly Beth's pet.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: With Elliot in the first film.
- Gentle Giant: A 900-pound grizzly bear who wouldn't hurt a fly.
- Grumpy Bear: When he first met Elliot.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Elliot.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Fishy crackers.
Elliot
Voiced by:
Ashton Kutcher (first film)
Joel McHale (second film)
Matthew W. Taylor (third film)
Will Townsend (Scared Silly)
A one-antlered mule deer that, after a series of accidents and misadventures, eventually becomes Boog's best friend.Ashton Kutcher (first film)
Joel McHale (second film)
Matthew W. Taylor (third film)
Will Townsend (Scared Silly)
- Adorkable: Very awkward and silly, usually when around Giselle.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: He starts following Boog after the latter unties him from Shaw's truck and calls him "Buddy".
- Big Guy, Little Guy: The little guy to Boog's big guy.
- Butt-Monkey: He loses his antlers, is constantly bullied around by Ian and suffers a lot more bad luck throughout the sequels.
- The Chew Toy: His incidents are usually played up for laughs, second to the rabbits.
- The Determinator: Goes astronomic lengths to "take the Boo out of Boog" in Scared Silly. Unfortunately, he can't convince anybody of his hare-brained schemes (except the Only Sane Doe).
- The Ditz: A very dim-witted mule deer.
- Funny Animal: Doesn't wear any clothes, but walks upright on his hind legs most of the time.
- Genius Ditz: Has shades of this every once in a while.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Boog.
- Moose Are Idiots: More specifically, a deer, but he's not at all the sharpest tool in the shed.
- Small, Annoying Creature: He's a lot smaller than the others in his herd, and is self-absorbed and has quite the knack for getting on others' nerves.
- Took a Level in Dumbass: He was never the sharpest knife in the drawer, but Scared Silly made him more dumb than in the previous films.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Woo-Hoo chocolate bars.
- Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: The former, but not ugly at all.
Beth
Voiced by:
Debra Messing
A forest ranger that lovingly raised Boog.Debra Messing
- Arch-Enemy: Shaw; the two frequently argue with each other regarding their philosophies on animal hunting, and have apparently opposed each other for a long time.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Completely vanished from the series after the first movie, barring a flashback appearance in Scared Silly.
- Friend to All Living Things: Not much is shown on-screen, but she's very good with animals, having raised Boog as a cub and regularly puts on nature shows for the town's children.
- Nice Girl: She's an utter sweetheart when it comes to Boog and children.
Shaw
- Arbitrary Skepticism: He believes animals will overthrow mankind but doesn't believe bigfoot is real. And he doesn't believe in the werewolf until he believes he encountered one in Scared Silly.
- Ax-Crazy: He loves attacking defenceless animals without provocation: he intentionally swerves off-road to hit Elliot with his car, tries to kill Boog when he realises the latter's in his house and he's all-too-happy to attempt to kill the duo when he believes an animal uprising is happening.
- Big Bad: Of the first movie and Scared Silly.
- The Bus Came Back: After being absent in the sequels, Shaw returns in Scared Silly, where he is still the Big Bad.
- Companion Cube: With his gun. He names it Lorraine.
- Evil Poacher: The Big Bad of the movie and hunts a lot.
- I Call Her "Vera": He named his hunting rifle Lorraine.
- Implacable Man: Give him credit, he can be pretty damn driven when he feels like it. A major action setpiece of the first film is him giving chase when Boog and Elliot try to escape him by diving into the river by driving his damn truck into the river himself and using it as a makeshift speedboat.
- Jerkass: Cruel, sociopathic, and selfish.
- Large Ham: Courtesy of Gary Sinise and later Trevor Devall.
- Smug Snake: Extremely prideful about his hunting abilities.
- Tar and Feathers: The animals inflict this fate upon him at the end of the first movie.
Sheriff Gordy
Voiced by:
Gordon Tootoosis (1st film), Lorne Cardinal (Scared Silly)
The sheriff of the town of Timberline.Gordon Tootoosis (1st film), Lorne Cardinal (Scared Silly)
McSquizzy
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He's small, but strong.
- Violent Glaswegian: Has both the faux-Scottish name and the temperament to qualify.
- What the Hell Is That Accent?: It's presumably meant to be Scottish, on account of it being Billy Connolly as the original VA, but then it sounds like it's taken a drunken tour of India.
Bob & Bobbie
Mr. Weenie's owners who are attempting to track down Bigfoot.- Running Gag: Whenever Bob tries to speak, Bobbie cuts him off.
- The Voiceless: Bob has never spoken a word in the films. This is mostly due to his wife cutting him off. The only time Bob has ever made a sound is at the end of the second film during the Sudden Musical Ending.
Mr. Weenie
Voiced by:
Cody Cameron (first three films)
Will Townsend (Scared Silly)
A wiener dog originally belonging to Bob & Bobbie, though he hates that life and ends up siding with the forest animals..Cody Cameron (first three films)
Will Townsend (Scared Silly)
- Bilingual Bonus: Sprinkles his sentences with German here and there.
- Funny Foreigner: Has a German accent and a funny nature.
Buddy
Voiced by:
Matthew W. Taylor (first three films)
Lee Tockar (Scared Silly)
A small porcupine that thinks Elliot is his buddy after the deer helps remove him from Boog's posterior (after the bear accidentally fell on him).- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: He's a blue porcupine.
- Hair Color Dissonance: Supposing his blue coloration is supposed to be a stand-in for grey or black.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: Adorable in every way.
- Pokémon Speak: Guess the one word he likes to say. Subverted as he can say other stuff too and not just "Buddy".
The Rabbits
- Butt-Monkey: Thrown around everywhere and suffer a lo of Amusing Injuries.
- The Chew Toy: Their bad luck is often played up for laughs the most.
- Living Doorstop: They're used as cannon fodder.
Giselle
- Male Gaze: Her heart shaped butt is often shown throughout the film.
- Parenting the Husband: In the third film, when she leaves to visit her mother, she tells the kids to watch over their father. Given how much of a clumsy klutz Elliot is and how many bad situations he gets himself into, it's pretty justified.
- Women Are Wiser: Compared to both Ian and Elliot. Especially Elliot.
Ian
Voiced by:
Patrick Warburton (first film)
Matthew W. Taylor (second and third films)
Brian Drummond (Scared Silly)
The leader of the deer herd that Elliot's from. Originally banished Elliot, but they eventually have to work together.Patrick Warburton (first film)
Matthew W. Taylor (second and third films)
Brian Drummond (Scared Silly)
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: He certainly learns this about himself when Shaw and his buddies are coming to kill every animal in the forest, and Boog and Elliot are the only ones who can help them.
- The Bully: His whole attitude towards Elliot in the first film, verbally and physically abusing him for his amusement over Elliot's perceived weakness.
- The Ditz: Macho and tough as he may be, he's also goofy and spacey.
- Dumb Muscle: Strong, proud, and not too bright.
- Heel–Face Turn: He's a minor antagonist in the first film with a history of bullying Elliot (for being weak in his eyes, and because they both like Giselle). Eventually, he's forced to beg Boog and Elliot for help to save his life and his herd's lives from being hunted, when the animals all team up to confront Shaw during the climax. Afterwards, he's shown to be on better terms with Boog, Elliot and Giselle.
- Jerkass: As leader of his herd, he's frequently singled out Elliot for mockery and public humiliation, kicked him around, and finally kicked him out of the herd to fend for himself. He gets better after his Heel–Face Turn.
- Jerk Jock: He picks on Elliot, and tries to hit on Giselle.
- Moose Are Idiots: He's a deer, but still an idiot. Still comes across as smarter than the other male deer shown (especially Elliot).
- Screams Like a Little Girl: To be fair, it's a very justified reaction to an incoming flood.
- Reformed Bully: Ian is thoroughly humbled after he's forced to beg Boog and Elliot for help saving his life from Shaw, and he begrudgingly renounces his bullying ways for good after the end of the first film.
- Smug Snake: He's a very cocky stag with a healthy opinion of how strong and tough he is.
- Took a Level in Kindness: A downplayed example. Ian goes from being a violent, aggressive bully to a rude but otherwise harmless stag later in the series who becomes friends with the two protagonists.
Introduced in Open Season 2
Fifi
Voiced by: Crispin Glover
A bichon frise who has a hatred of wild animals.- The Atoner: In the third film, he seems to have given up his old ways that may or may not have driven him insane in the first sequel. This is apparently because he was fixed.
- Fantastic Racism: He holds a deep prejudice towards wild animals in the second film, until he gets fixed in the third film.
- Gender-Blender Name:His name would make you think he was a girl.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: It doesn't take a lot to anger him. However, this does not pop up as often in the third movie.
- Heel–Face Brainwashing: Apparently, became nicer only because he was neutered.
- Heel–Face Turn: Since he was neutered in the third movie.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Still a good friend to Weenie despite his anger issues.
- Sanity Slippage: In the second film, where he slowly begins losing his fur and his eyes begin to get more and more twitchy.
Roberto
Voiced by: Steve Schirripa
- Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: As Fifi goes through his Sanity Slippage.
- Early-Bird Cameo: He was mentioned in the first movie.
- Toilet Humor: He's pretty... open about his bathroom habits.
Roger
Voiced by: Sean Mullin
- The Ditz: Possibly the dumbest character in the movies.
- Fat and Skinny: Skinny to Stanley's fat.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Pretty much sealed in this dialog:Roger: Weenie, it's been ages!Stanley: Oh, here's my chance.Mr. Weenie: Roger! Hey, let's go find your buddy Stanley.Stanley: No no no no, he's your friend now!
- Simpleton Voice: He has one of the most hilariously stupid voices in all of Western Animation, and it fits his character perfectly.
Stanley
Voiced by: Fred Stoller
- Category Traitor: Played with, when it comes to Roger.Fifi: (seeing Roger throws up a poster he ate) I hate cats.
Stanley: (sighs) So do I.
- Fat and Skinny: With Roger. He's the fat.
Introduced in Open Season 3
Alistair
Voiced by: Dana Snyder
- Adorkable: Nerdy, and socially awkward.
- Camp Straight: Flamboyant and loves a female llama.
Ursa
Voiced by: Melissa Sturm
A female bear that Boog meets and who serves as his love interest.- A Dog Named "Dog":Well, "Ursa" is a word meaning "bear".
