The characters of Pound Puppies (2010)
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The Pound Puppies
Lucky
Lucky
Voiced by Eric McCormack
"Go dogs, go!"
- Catchphrase: "Go dogs, go!"
- Determinator: No matter what, he will never give up on getting a puppy adopted.
- Disappeared Dad: His father Slick would often disappear for several days. One day he never came back at all.
- Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: As Lucky's father Slick explained in "I Never Barked For My Father", Lucky had to stop thinking about it as a puppy and think about it from his father's perspective, or for you as the viewer, as Slick's role as a pet. Slick was actually the dog of the neighbors of Lucky's mother's humans, not of his mother's humans as Lucky thought. When the neighbors moved across town, they naturally took Slick with them.
- Expy: He serves as this continuity's equivalent of Cooler, being the laid-back leader of the Pound Puppies.
- The Hero: He is the main character of the series and is the one in charge.
- Ironic Name: His name is Lucky, but he doesn't believe in luck.
- Nice Guy: One of the nicest characters on the show. He gets along with just about everyone.
- The Leader: Of the Pound Puppies.
- Oblivious to Love: In "Olaf In Love". Though both he and Cookie nervously denied their feelings when Kiki, the featured puppy, made mention of them being "more than friends", Cookie pointedly brought up of Lucky's blindness to her feelings (and his own?), in relation to Olaf dating city librarian Gertrude Washburn.
- When You Coming Home, Dad?: When Lucky was a puppy, his father would be gone for hours or even days at a time, until one day he left for good. As noted above, this is because his dad belonged to another family.
Cookie
Cookie
Voiced by Yvette Nicole Brown
- Berserk Button: Do not touch her belly.
- Catchphrase: "Get off my belly!"
- Deadpan Snarker: She won't hesitate to make sarcastic remarks when she gets the chance.
- Expy: She is similar to Nose Marie from the 1980's cartoon, particularly due to being a brown-furred dog with a pink bow who has a crush on Lucky, himself an expy of Cooler.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's blunt, stern and brash, but still pretty nice.
- The Lancer
- Mama Bear: With Cupcake.
- Sassy Black Woman: Downplayed. While she lives with a multiracial family with a black father, none of them speak in the manner that she does.
- Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Cookie is a bit more complicated. At first, she didn't have anything, other than her eyelashes. (Her collar is black.) After seeing Dolly flirt her way into getting the male dogs to fawn over her in the episode "The General", she becomes jealous. By the end, Dolly gives Cookie the pink bow that she's seen with from that point on.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Tomboy to Strudel's Girly Girl.
Niblet
Niblet
Voiced by John DiMaggio
- Big Eater: He likes to bring up food.
- Big Friendly Dog: The biggest Pound Puppy with the biggest heart.
- The Big Guy: He's the biggest and does a lot of the physical labor.
- The Cutie: He is very endearing and likable.
- Determinator: He stopped at nothing to be with Giblet. Not even a raging river could stop him.
- The Ditz: He can be pretty stupid, although he does have his moments of brilliance.
- Expy: His enthusiasm and endearing cheerfulness brings to mind Bright Eyes from the 80's cartoon.
- Extreme Omnivore: He likes eating rocks.
- Gentle Giant: He's a Big Friendly Dog who always wants to do his part.
- Genius Ditz: He can imitate people's voices well. He can walk on two feet as well.
- Hidden Depths: Niblet can walk and dance quite well on his hind legs because he used to perform in the circus as a dancing dog.
- Kindhearted Simpleton: He's slow on the uptake but undeniably one of the sweetest Pound Puppies.
- Nice Guy: Niblet is gentle, caring, and helpful.
- Ping Pong Naïveté
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The gullible, shy Sensitive Guy to Squirt's Manly Man.
- Too Dumb to Live: It's mentioned in one episode that he likes to chew rocks.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Squirt.
Squirt
Squirt
Voiced by Michael Rapaport
- Berserk Button: Don't call him "Pizza Breath".
- Brutal Honesty: See Nice Job Breaking It, Hero.
- Deadpan Snarker: Especially towards Niblet's stupidity.
- The Face
- Hidden Depths: Squirt (aka Wings) was once a championship Frisb— um, that is, Zoomit champion dog, thanks to his ears.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's obnoxious, but isn't so bad once you get to know him.
- Joisey: If the voice weren't enough, Squirt mentions he's from Hoboken in "I Never Barked For My Father".
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He's sometimes the reason that pups run away because he uses Brutal Honesty behind their backs, and this is taken up to eleven when he was the one who gave Rebound her idea to find Agatha in the episode when she went on a vacation. Squirt told her that we once had a friend whose owner left and never came back.
- The Napoleon: A chihuahua with a bit of a temper.
- The Sneaky Guy: Comes with being a street-smart scrounger.
- Street Smart
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Niblet.
Strudel
Strudel
Voiced by Alanna Ubach
- Expy: She is similar to Howler from the 1980's cartoon because she serves as the team's technological expert.
- Gadgeteer Genius: The mechanic of the group.
- Herr Doktor: Aside from her accent, she's also a dachshund, a breed of dog that originated in Germany.
- Hidden Depths: Strudel is quite knowledgeable about dog shows because she used to be a show dog herself (though she's quick to add she's never actually won).
- Intellectual Animal: She's a dog who's a tech expert.
- The Professor: She is the team's scientific genius.
- The Smart Girl: She is an inventor with superior intellect.
- Shorter Means Smarter: Though she isn't as small as Squirt, she's notably shorter than the other dogs.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Girly Girl to Cookie's Tomboy, though it's downplayed.
The Super Secret Pup Club
A group of Pound Puppies in-training. While they formed in season 2, although Rebound has made regular appearances since the third episode, and Cupcake debuted in "Mutternal Instincts". When Patches was introduced, the club was formed and they have rarely been seen without each other. In General
- Cheerful Child: Most of the time they're optimistic go-getters.
- Cast Herd
- Deuteragonists: Since the team's start in Season 2, the puppies have been frequently appearing in the episodes. Oftentimes, one (particularly Rebound) or all of them have some impact on the plot.
- Kid Appeal Characters
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: They're puppies.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Cupcake and Rebound respectively as the latter shows more feminine quirks than the former. It's downplayed though.
- Two Girls and a Guy: Rebound and Cupcake are the girls, Patches is the guy.
Rebound
Rebound
Voiced by Brooke Goldner
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Her older brother Niblet is annoyed by her excitable personality.
- Genki Girl: This is even the reason why people kept bringing her back to the shelter; because they couldn't handle her hyperactivity.
- Motor Mouth: Due to being a Genki Girl, she hardly ever stops talking.
Patches
Patches
Voiced by Jessica DiCicco
- The Leader: Of the Super Secret Pup Club.
- The One Guy: The only boy in the Super Secret Pup Club.
Cupcake
Cupcake
Voiced by Cree Summer
- Genki Girl: Not as much as Rebound, but it shows. She is usually excitable.
- Happily Adopted: By (both) Cookie and her family.
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak
Humans
Leonard McLeish
Leonard McLeish
Voiced by René Auberjonois
- Butt-Monkey: Whenever tries something at pound it doesn't go well for him.
- Child Hater: He states in "Little Monster" that children give him the creeps.
- Deadpan Snarker: A sarcastic demeanor sums up how he acts to everyone who isn't his mother
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He is pretty mean, but he has his moments, even towards Olaf.
- Hates the Job, Loves the Limelight: He only likes his job for the publicity.
- Expy:He is of Mr. Bigelow from the original 1985 Pound Puppies special
- Last-Name Basis: He's called "McLeish" by the dogs.
- Lazy Bum: He tends to laze around due to not caring at all about his job as dogcatcher.
- Manchild: He's an adult who's whiny and immature.
- Punny Name: Mc-Leish.
- Small Parent, Huge Child: McLeish is an average-sized adult man, and he dwarfs his elderly mother Agatha.
- The Unfavorite: Everyone seems to get warmth from Mrs. McLeish — Rebound, her suitors, and so on — but him.
Olaf
Olaf
Voiced by M. Emmet Walsh, Carnie Wilson (singing in "Toyoshiko! Bark Friend Machine")
- Beleaguered Assistant: He's the employee of McLeish who doesn't get much respect.
- Nice Guy: Very nice in contrast to his boss.
- Singing Voice Dissonance: His singing voice is quite high and elegant which contrasts with his awkward, slightly low speaking voice.
Agatha McLeish
Agatha McLeish
Voiced by Betty White
Rebound's owner and Leonard's mother, and ex-dog hater.- I Have No Son!: Briefly when she learned her son is a dog catcher. But soon changed her mind after adopting Rebound.
- Miniature Senior Citizen: She's rather short in stature.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She's not afraid of dogs, she just really hates them. Until she met Rebound who changed her mind about dogs when the pup's hyperactivity made her feel young again.
Milton Feltwaddle
Milton Feltwaddle
Voiced by Jim Parsons
- Dressed to Oppress: In "McLeish Unleashed," he dons a militaristic uniform with riding crop to accompany his autocratic management style.
- Jerkass
- Knight Templar: Thinks that he's doing what's correct regardless of compatibility.
- Knight of Cerebus: From his second appearance in "McLeish Unleashed" onward. Through the second season, he's the most antagonistic character to appear in the show.
Dot
Dot
Voiced by Grey DeLisle
An upbeat and sometimes overbearing young girl. She becomes Lucky's owner in "Lucky Gets Adopted."
- And Call Him "George": Acted this way towards Lucky in her first appearance. It was toned down a little in later episodes.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: She can be pretty odd. She calls her pets odd names and dresses them up in silly clothes.
- Genki Girl: She's highly rambunctious.
- Secret-Keeper: Becomes the only human to know that dogs can talk.
Other Animals
Allies
Mr. Nut Nut
Mr. Nut Nut
Voiced by Alanna Ubach
Strudel's assistant.- Butt-Monkey: He gets a lot of slapstick.
- Intelligible Unintelligible: Strudel can understand him.
- Oblivious Adoption: He was adopted by a dog family as a baby. This was why his younger self acted more like a puppy than a squirrel.
- The Unintelligible: To anyone who isn't Strudel, anyway
Sparky
Sparky
Voiced by Yvette Nicole Brown
Mr. Nut Nut's partner with a singed tail.- Butt-Monkey: He gets bodily harm a lot.
- The Unintelligible: Only speaks in squirrel sounds.
Cuddlesworth P. Wigglebottom
Cuddlesworth P. Wigglebottom
Voiced by Ted Biaselli
A rich dog who looks a lot like Squirt. He is weary of his rich lifestyle and trades places with Squirt to be a Pound Puppy. They're both back to their normal lives at the end.- The Bus Came Back: He reappears in the episode "The Ruff Ruff Bunch".
- Camp Straight: He's hammy and flamboyant but has a crush on Madame Pickypuss.
- Identical Stranger: To Squirt in "Prince and the Pupper".
- Interspecies Romance: With Madame Pickypuss (a cat).
- Large Ham: He enjoys chewing the scenery.
Madame Pickypuss
Madame Pickypuss
Voiced by Tress MacNeille
A cat and Cuddlesworth's best friend.- Interspecies Romance: With Cuddlesworth (a dog).
- Large Ham
Cinnamon
Cinnamon
A newborn puppy featured in the season 2 finale, "Pound Preemies".- Dub Name Change: His name is Velvet Belly in the Canadian version.
Slick
Slick
Voiced by: Gary Cole
Lucky's long-lost father.
- Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: He didn't have much of a choice. He belonged to the neighbors, not the owners of Lucky's mother. He made attempts to get back to her and the pups.
- Disappeared Dad: To Lucky.
- Dislikes the New Guy: Lucky is annoyed that his father has gained popularity from the other dogs at the pound in one day yet was a deadbeat to his own son.
- Elopement: Before moving away, he asked Lucky's mother if she wanted to take the pups and leave their owners, but she turned it down, believing that a dog's place was with their people.
- Good Parents: Lucky believed the contrary up until Slick reveals that he wanted to be a part of his life, but couldn't due to circumstances outside of his control. To make up for it, he's been trying to be a good father to Chip, though Chip is unaware of his parentage.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy:
- He lets Lucky's mother and Chip go, because they want to stay with their owners while he doesn't agree with the lifestyle anymore.
- He never tells Chip that he's actually his father so that he doesn't resent him like Lucky does.
- Lovable Rogue
- Luke, I Am Your Father: It turns out that he's also Chip's father, though he asks Lucky to refrain from telling Chip this as he doesn't want Chip to resent him like Lucky did.
- The Mentor: To Chip. It turns out there's a good reason why he chose to take this up.
- One-Shot Character: He only appears in "I Never Barked For My Father", only visiting town before leaving again.
- Papa Wolf
- Second Love: He moved on from Lucky's mother and fell in love with Chip's mother.
- Shout-Out: He looks similar to the Tramp, not to mention that they're both ladies' men, apparently.
- Silver Fox: Or, well, grey-haired old dog.
Ralph
Ralph
Voiced by Fred Stoller
- Brilliant, but Lazy: Manages to expose the Kennel Kitten's operation that interfered the Pound Puppies' operation.
- Deadpan Snarker: Oh, so you noticed? That's nice.
- The Eeyore: In his first appearance he has a negative outlook on life, slightly less so after that
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Tends to be pretty blunt and distant, yet is a decent dog deep down.
- Morality Pet: And a literal pet at that. He fulfills this role to McLeish, who dotes on him.
- Perpetual Frowner: He rarely smiles.
- Trademark Favorite Food: He enjoys chewing on shoes.
Others
The Kennel Kittens
The Kennel Kittens
- Anti-Hero/Anti-Villain: They have a noble goal of getting kittens to their perfect people, but are pretty keen on sabotaging the Pound Puppies' operations to accomplish said goal.
- Distaff Counterpart: Much like the Kitty Catastrophe Crew, they're cat versions of the Pound Puppies.
- The Rival: To the Pound Puppies.
- Significant Double Casting: They all have the same voice actors as their Pound Puppies counterparts, with their voices artificially pitched-up.
Ace
Ace
Voiced by Eric McCormack
The cat who leads the Kennel Kittens.- The Ace: It's even in his name!
- Freudian Excuse: The reason why he dislikes dogs is because he used to be best friends with a puppy when he was a kitten. When the same puppy left to be with his perfect person, Ace was left lonely and heartbroken.
- The Leader: Of the Kennel Kittens.
- The Rival: To Lucky.
