Main characters
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Yoyo
Voiced by: Hubertus von Lerchenfeld (German), Nigel Greaves (English), Petri Hanttu (Finnish), Frans van Deursen (Dutch)
Adventure loving blue coyote. Claims to be the best adventurer since ever.
- Cartoon Creature: Despite being referred to as a coyote, he barely resembles one. In the first two seasons he was earless, and even then in the third season he has round ears instead of pointy ones.
- Happy Harlequin Hat: Though his hat is pure red and combined with a poncho-like garment.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: As cocky and sarcastic and as hot-blooded as he is, he's a very caring and kind-hearted character.
- Kid-Appeal Character: He is the childish and the funloving one.
- Meaningful Name: Named after yoyo toy, which fits in his bouncy nature.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red, as fiery natured Yoyo is to more calm Doc Croc.
- Vague Age: Yoyo is clearly younger than Doc Croc, but it is hard to determine is he adolescent or a young adult. It also doesn't help that he has a very childish voice in the German dub. Although, considering the fact that he is allowed to drink wine multiple times throughout the series, it should be safe to assume that he is at the very least an adult.
Doc Croc
Voiced by: Jörg Stuttmann (German), Nigel Pegram (English), Veikko Honkanen (Finnish), Luc Vandeput (Dutch)
Smart striped lizard; scholar, philosepher, virtuoso, botanist, etc. More shy than his best friend Yoyo.
- Affectionate Nickname: Is called Crocky by Yoyo.
- Cartoon Creature: He is a lizard sure, but it is hard to say which species he is. He calls himself a "bookworm."
- Characterization Marches On: In the third season, he doesn't bother to list all his professions and instead he just says "virtuoso and et cetera, et cetera.".
- Dub Name Change: The Finnish dub combines his name, Croc, and nickname, Crocky, into a one name; Kroko.
- Forced Transformation: In Hansel and Gretel episode, Evil Witch turns Doc Croc into a bear and the latter is horrifyed.
- Hammerspace: His yellow bag. It can hold up very large objects.
- Insistent Terminology: Averted; while he does introduce himself as "Doctor Croc" he doesn't insist being called by that title.
- Ironic Name: His name Croc is just a shortened from the word "crocodile", which as animals are fearsome and large. Meanwhile Doc Croc is pretty small and a friendly lizard.
- A Lizard Named "Liz": Averted; his name is shortened from a "crocodile" and while he is a reptitle he is not related to crocodiles.
- Lovable Lizard: One reason might be because he was originally a plush toy.
- Lovable Nerd: He is dignified and pedant at times, but he is a real sweetheart at the same time.
- Nice Guy: He is very gentle and sensitive guy overall.
- Not That Kind of Doctor: Despite the title, he is not actually a medical doctor.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The calm Blue to Yoyo's fiery Red.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: He has tiny glasses and is smart.
- Speech Impediment: Doc Croc has a natural stutter when he talks.
- Throw Down the Bomblet: He is quite often shown using sticks of dynamite and bombs to solve some of his problems in the first two seasons.
Birds
Voiced by: Unknown (German), Unknown (English)
A trio of singing birds. They show up in some episodes of Seasons 1 and 2.
- The Cameo: While they don't show up as major characters anymore, they do make some background appearances in a few episodes of Season 3.
- Cartoon Creature: Although they are clearly birds, it is hard to pinpoint what exact species they are.
- Mr. Exposition: These three are essentially used to explain to the main characters or the audience what is happening in the story.
- Musical Exposition: More often than not, they will be singing a song about what is happening.
Magic Book/Simsala Grimm
Voiced by: Markus Backman (Finnish), Jeroen Keers (Dutch)
Magical book that in start of every episode brings Yoyo and Doc Croc into life and takes them into fairy tale land of Simsala.
- Portal Book: It's main purpose in the series.
- Running Gag: The Book always throws Yoyo and Doc Croc into tough spots and in the intro, it always catches them at the last moment.
- You Don't Look Like You: In the third season Magic Book no longer has a face on it's cover and instead has a ruby decoration.
