Characters / Sing – Moon Theatre

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In General

• Anti-Hero Team: It's most noticeable with Buster (who's easily the most reckless and impulsive one of the bunch), but every member of the Moon Theater troupe has shown a willingness to break the law if they have to to accomplish their goals, while still being genuinely kindhearted and well-meaning characters.
  • In the first film, Meena and Miss Crawly help Buster to commit several crimes, when he ropes them into his schemes to save his theater, and during the climax, the whole gang is determined to push ahead with their big show in the ruins of Moon Theater, in spite of the potential legal consequences Judith threatens them with for trespassing.
  • In the second film, the theater animals once again agree to help Buster with his zany schemes in Redshore City, which leads to a lot of trespassing and some less than truthful business deals. After Jimmy Crystal tries to have them all killed, they decide to retaliate against him by hijacking his hotel and putting on an illegal show in the premises, and they have absolutely zero problems teaming up with Johnny's gangster family to do it.
• Fire-Forged Friends: Their journeys as well as the tribulations they experience as a group in the first movie bring them together as a stitched-up family union.
• The Hecate Sisters: The three female entertainers along the older assistant qualify:
  • Rosita is The Mother (plump, cheerful, affectionate).
  • Meena is one half of The Maiden (innocent, shy, naïve).
  • Finally, Ash and Ms. Crawly are amalgamations of traits involving The Maiden and The Crone; Ash has the characteristics of the other half of The Maiden (adventurous, energetic, finding herself) mixed with The Crone's attitude (snarky, pragmatic, closer to earth) while Ms. Crawly has the appearance of The Crone (old, wise in her elements) and the personality of The Maiden (optimistic, idealistic, ditzy).
• Intergenerational Friendship: To elaborate, the Moon Troupe are tight as family and they're made of four adults, a senior and three youngsters.
• Interspecies Friendship: The Moon Theater troupe is comprised of a koala, an iguana, a porcupine, an elephant, a gorilla and two pigs, who are all very close to each other. By the end of the second film, they've also started to befriend a lion, a lynx and a wolf.
• Mass "Oh, Crap!":
  • In the first film, the entire cast is filled with dread when they realize Buster's squid tank display is about to explode, while they're standing only a few feet away from it.
  • In the second film, the Moon Theater troupe start to panic amongst themselves when Jimmy Crystal's enforcers have them cornered inside their hotel room, and there's seemingly no way for them to escape.
• Mixed Animal Species Team: The Moon Theater crew is comprised of a koala, two pigs, a porcupine, an elephant, and a gorilla, along with an iguana who acts as their helpful coach and stagehand.
• Naïve Newcomer: In Sing 2, the Moon Theater troupe decide to go to Redshore City in pursuit of some new career opportunities, and naturally, they soon discover that things are done very differently there than in their hometown. Not only is everything in Redshore City much bigger than what they're used to, but the challenges they have to face are also much tougher and more daunting to overcome.
• Nice Mean And In Between: Gunter (nice), Mike (mean), and Johnny (in-between).
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Analyzed in Sing 2. While the Moon Theater has regained much of its previous glamour and prestige with the new cast putting on shows that gain sizeable acclaim, scouts from bigger cities like Suki Lane make the point they are at the zenith of their reach: well enough to make it in their hometowns but never to compete in the big leagues. Buster and co. seek to defy this and barely manage to carve a spot due to a serendipitous idea from Gunther and lying to the owner, which eventually puts each performer's limits to the test. Subverted by the end as despite insurmountable setbacks, they're able to put on their show (illegally) to much acclaim from the public with further offers to perform at different venues.
• No Full Name Given: Like most characters in the Sing film series, many members of the Moon Theater troupe are only known by their first names, like Ash, Meena, Johnny, Rosita and Gunter. Miss Crawly is also only known by her last name.
• Power Trio: In both films, Buster recruits a different trio to help manage the latest Moon Theatre production (as well as play damage control to the "Fawlty Towers" Plot he inadvertantly set off). In both films two characters switch in and out with production depending on their Character Development:
  • In the first film, the Moon Theatre managers, Buster and Ms Crawly are the ones running the talent show and enlisting the performers, with Eddie later replacing Meena as stagehand after she takes up performing.
  • In the second film, Eddie is absent, and the now established troupe are trying to make their first breakout show, with Buster enlisting Gunter to help make the show, with Ash and Ms. Crawly switching in and out as the third in command during the search for Clay Calloway.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Gunter is a jolly and enthusiastic pig who expresses his emotions all the time. Mike is a rude and mean-spirited mouse who enjoys making remarks and betting. Johnny is in the middle: a soulful and mild-mannered gorilla who loves to sing, but is also a member of his dad's criminal gang.
• True Companions: To start, it's just Buster, his best friend Eddie and his assistant Ms. Crawly, both whom were present when Buster first opened the theatre. Eddie is a down-to-earth realist yet always gives Buster support when he needs it. Ms. Crawly may slip up at times (mostly thanks to her glass eye) but Buster never holds any of it against her and thinks of her fondly. Even after the theatre floods she never stops working for him, with Eddie joining them as a stagehand. This extends to the contestants as well whose personal issues are lessened by the crew's support culminating in the majority putting on a show together even after the prize is revealed to be fake. By the time the second film rolls around, all excluding Mike (and Eddie, who is absent for some reason) have formed the brand new Moon Theater Troupe, achieving enough local success to call the attention of big leagues like Redshore City.

Managers

Buster Moon

Voiced by: Matthew McConaughey^{Foreign VAs}Dicky Cheung (Cantonese); Mads Knarreborg (Danish); Daniel Picard (Canadian French), Patrick Bruel [Sing], Damien Ferrette [Sing 2] (EU French); Daniel Hartwich [Sing], Bastian Pastewka [Sing 2] (German); Francesco Prando (Italian); Teruyoshi Uchimura (Japanese); Dong Chengpeng (PRC Mandarin); Li Shiyang (TW Mandarin); Marcelo Garcia (Brazilian Portuguese); Vasco Palmeirim (EU Portuguese); Daniil Eldarov (Russian); Sergio Zamora (EU Spanish); Benny Ibarra (LA Spanish)

A koala and the main protagonist of the series. He's the owner of the Moon Theatre, which has been going through some tough times.

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• Acknowledged Absolution: After the talent show contestants discover the true amount of prize money he has to offer them, they're understandably angry and outraged that he lied to them for weeks. However, they also forgive him for his deception pretty easily. After watching his theater be completely destroyed and the koala break down in tears before their eyes, they're mostly just concerned about his well-being when they go to visit him the following day.
• Aesop Amnesia: In the first film, repeatedly lying to people and making promises he can't keep winds up causing Buster nothing but trouble, and almost gets him killed at one point. However, that doesn't stop him from lying to Jimmy Crystal in the second film, so the lupine businessman will fund one of the theater troupe's shows, and he bites off quite a bit more than he can chew when he later discovers what kind of person Mr. Crystal is.
• Anti-Hero: Type II. Buster is upstanding, loyal, friendly and committed to flourish anyone's talent through his musical theater. He's also careless with money, flaky about promises and narrow-minded enough in his goal to justify sketchy behavior. Nevertheless, his worst actions are often fueled by desperation and blind idealism rather than genuine malice.
• Benevolent Boss: Buster might be a borderline Control Freak who goes through questionable actions to save his theater, but he is undeniably very supportive of the contestants, actively giving them encouragements, compliments and suggestions. This goes to the point where most of them don't resent him for lying about the prize money after The Reveal. Also, when he finds out about the flyer typo that increased the prize money, he has to reassure the blubbering Ms. Crawly that he is not going to fire her over it. In the second movie, it's further shown that Meena, Ash, Johnny, Rosita and Gunter all put a lot of their trust into Buster, because he's always treated them well, even if they worry sometimes about the koala letting his ambition get in the way of his better judgment.
• Break the Cutie: When Moon Theater collapses into rubble as a result of his recent mistakes, Buster is absolutely crushed by his loss. He subsequently falls into a deep depression and gives up on all of his ambitions, drowning in his own guilt, shame and self-loathing, until Eddie and Meena manage to pull him out of it.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: His opening narration of how he found his passion for the theatre and possession of it ends with him turning his swivel chair to face the audience and introduce himself.
• Butt-Monkey: A lot of comedic misfortune befalls Buster in both movies, especially the second film where he keeps getting completely drenched with water as a Running Gag (and even gets shocked by an electric fence at one point).
• Character Catchphrase: He has two, both of which reflect his optimistic nature: "Dream big dreams" and "When you've reached rock bottom, there's only way to left to go and that's up!"
• Control Freak: He shows shades of this when organizing the competition, such as making two soloists who don't know each other team up, making Johnny play an instrument he hasn't used in years, and making a tomboy-rocker wear a shiny dress and do a pop princess act. It did ultimately turn out for the best though, as the contestants were forced to expand their boundaries because of him. Unlike many cases of this trope, Buster is also quite willing to meet halfway when others offer good ideas, like letting Ash redesign said shiny dress to better suit her as well as perform her own song, and even promoting Gunter to co-creator for their production in the second film after his pitch gets them approved by Jimmy Crystal.
• Defiant to the End: For much of Sing 2, Buster is completely terrified of Jimmy Crystal's wrath, especially after the mad wolf tries to kill him in cold blood. However, he eventually decides to stand up to him when the koala commandeers his theater for the night so he can put on his show. When Jimmy kidnaps him so he can try to kill him a second time, Buster stands his ground and refuses to let the murderous businessman intimidate him, by insisting that he's already won, no matter what Crystal does to him now. However, Jimmy simply doesn't care about anything Buster has to say to him, and proceeds to toss him off the side of a catwalk to what would have been his doom, if it wasn't for Rosita's intervention.
• Determinator: While he has his moments of fear and self-doubt, Buster becomes a textbook example of this trope over the course of the duology. In true showman fashion, once he has his heart set on reaching a certain goal, he won't let anything stand in his way of achieving it, and he encourages his friends to adopt the same attitude as well. Depending on the circumstances, this mindset can be both a strength and a major character flaw.
• Disney Death: In Sing 2, Buster and Ash take it upon themselves to recruit Clay after Miss Crawly fails. When Calloway refuses to open the electric gates, they attempt to climb them despite the former’s warnings, resulting in them being electrocuted. Fortunately, both wake up from their stupor inside the old musician’s house.
• Distressed Dude: Buster's nearly killed then and there in Crystal's balcony when a misunderstanding leaves the latter convinced he fired his daughter, Porsha, from the production. Saved for mere seconds by a talkshow appointment, he spends the latter half of the sequel barely out of Crystal's goons' clutches. If not for Rosita's intervention the second time around, he'd be dead.
• Early Personality Signs: He began his torrid affair with musical theater when he observed Nana Noodleman's performance with his father at age 6.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Over the course of two movies, Buster loses his dad when he passes away, he has to live without a home for an unknown amount of time because of how much his business is struggling, he watches his beloved theater and his father's legacy be destroyed before his very eyes (which briefly sends him spiraling into a horrible depression), and he nearly gets murdered by Jimmy Crystal twice. But by the end of the second movie, he finally gets to live out his dreams of making it big in the world of show business, alongside his talented cast who have become his True Companions.
• Establishing Character Moment: Buster is introduced in the first film waxing eloquent about his love of Moon Theatre, which he emphasizes he has loved since his childhood. He's then interrupted by a crowd of stagehands demanding to be paid and a representative from the bank is on the phone, showing that he's behind on his bills but also avoids talking to the bank. He then slips past them through a hole in the wall that's hidden behind a painting showing that the theatre isn't quite up to code.
• Executive Meddling:
  • An In-Universe example as Buster heavily involves himself in everyone's performances, though unlike most examples this turns out to be a good thing as him pairing up Gunther and Rosita as a duo act and having Johnny learn how to play the piano greatly benefited all of their performances. However he is also shown to listen to his contestants, even if it takes a while, since after accidentally hearing Ash, who he initially pushed to sing a pop song, performing her own song he decides that her way is better and lets her perform it. Also he pushes for a rather uncharacteristic pop dress, though gives Ash plenty of room to personalise it into something that suits her.
  • This trope is also shown directly on the creative side of things in the second film, though once again as a more positive example. He lets Gunter act as creative designer for "Out Of This World", though pushes him to narrow down his ideas since an overexcited Gunter changes his mind every five seconds and they need a consistent project in short time. By the end of their brainstorm, they have a vibrant but well structured concept design that they are both happy with.
  • He also falls victim to this by Jimmy Crystal, who makes him include his daughter Porsha as the lead role for "Out Of This World". When it becomes clear that Porsha doesn't have the acting chops for it, he tries a similar compromise, putting Rosita back in the lead but giving Porsha a role tailor made to better showcase her abilities as a singer and performer. Unfortunately, Buster finds out the hard way that Jimmy doesn't do compromises.
• Expressive Ears: The state of his ears tends to correlate with his mood: they droop down whenever he's feeling depressed, and they perk right back up again whenever he's feeling excited or determined about something.
• Face Death with Dignity: The first time Jimmy Crystal tries to kill him, Buster is quite rightly terrified, because he's completely powerless to try to save himself. The second time Jimmy tries to end his life however, Buster tries to face his oncoming demise with as much bravery as he can muster and fires back against his insults, because he refuses to let Crystal's bullying tactics hold power over him anymore. Rosita thankfully saves him, just in the nick of time, but Buster's actions during this encounter make it clear that he was willing to stick to his newfound convictions to the bitter end.
• Fatal Flaw: Buster has a bad habit of making people promises that he can't keep, under the assumption that he can discreetly fix the problem and still deliver the goods down the line. It happens in both movies, and in both cases the eventual fallout of his decision to be dishonest is far worse than anything he could have predicted.
• Foil: To Jimmy Crystal in the second film. Buster comes from a very modest background and has always struggled to find success until recently, while Jimmy has been an obscenely wealthy and influential celebrity for years. For all of his faults, Buster generally tries his best to help all of his performers reach their full potential because they share the same passion, while Jimmy is a very cold and detached manager who only cares about cultivating talent so long as it can benefit himself in some way. Buster cares deeply about every member of his theater troupe and has formed strong bonds with all of them, while Jimmy terrorizes and abuses his employees. Buster is willing to compromise ideas and techniques from his team that he finds beneficial, while Jimmy is My Way or the Highway to its most volatile. Buster's friends will always have his back when he needs them, because he's earned their trust and respect, while Jimmy's jerkass behavior eventually results in Porsha and Suki turning against him when they both get fed up with him.
• Follow in My Footsteps: Inverted, as Buster explains to Eddie, his father specifically wanted Buster not to do this, as he spent every day washing cars for a living so Buster could become the owner of the Moon Theater and thus have a better life than he did.
• Furry Reminder: Buster is an anthropomorphic koala who usually displays more human traits than animal ones. However, there are several points in Sing 2 where he behaves like a real-world koala. While the theater animals are sneaking into Crystal Entertainment, Buster clings onto Johnny's arm to stay hidden out of sight, especially when they all come dangerously close to blowing their cover. Later, when Jimmy Crystal throws him off the side of his balcony to die, Buster manages to stay alive for a few seconds longer (until Jerry can intervene) by grabbing onto Jimmy's arm and holding on for dear life.
• Heal the Cutie: After the crushing loss of Moon Theater, Eddie manages to lift Buster out of some of his depression when he decides to wash cars with him in his Darkest Hour; Meena unknowingly helps him get his fighting spirit back when he realizes how talented she is; his heart is warmed by the sight of the talent show contestants living out their dreams during their show; and his trademark optimism is finally restored in full when Nana Noodleman arranges for his theater to be rebuilt from the ground up.
• Heroic BSoD: He goes through one in every movie.
  • When the Moon Theater is destroyed by flooding, Buster completely gives up. His previously boundless optimism is shattered, leaving him a hopeless, sobbing wreck in the ruins of his theatre. He starts living with Eddie in the pool house, and takes a job washing cars, which is exactly the fate Buster's father had wanted to avoid for Buster.
  • In Sing 2, his breakdown comes at the end of the prologue. After chasing Suki to gather more information about the upcoming auditions at the Crystal theatre, she fails to be reassured of the troupe's talent and leads him into a canal. He spends the rest of the day in a funk, sulking in his office until Nana has to make him come to his senses.
• He's Back!: While Eddie's support helps to lift him out of some of his depression, his Heroic BSoD is finally broken when he hears Meena singing in the ruins of the Moon Theatre, which inspires him to partly rebuild it and hold the comeback performance.
• Huge Girl, Tiny Guy: Calatonia's residents being larger than him isn't news for a small koala, but for specifics:
  • Most of his entourage, with the exception of Ash, towers over him, especially Meena.
  • He has this with Suki in the second movie due to them interacting together the most. While he's a dapper, jumping Tiny Guy, she's an elegant, controlled Huge Girl.
• Humanlike Animal Aging: Buster fell in love with the world of show business when he was six years old, and he claims his father worked hard for thirty years to buy his son Moon Theater, which means that Buster is at least older than thirty-six by the time of the first film. By comparison, real-world koalas only have a lifespan of twelve to eighteen years.
• Iconic Outfit: Buster has several wardrobe changes throughout the franchise, but his signature look is a white shirt, blue jacket, blue pants, and a red bow tie to complete the ensemble.
• Informed Flaw:
  • According to everyone, including Buster himself, the shows put on at his theatre are never any good. Yet, when he's working on the singing competition he proves to have an eye for talent, works with the contestants the exact way a good manager should, and his In-Universe Executive Meddling proves to benefit their acts. His comeback show manages to impress Nana Noodleman, and this was when he was working in a mostly destroyed theatre with amateur (but undeniably talented) singers.
  • This is demonstrated slightly in the second movie however, since while he is a competent director, it is largely through his current band of allies and talent that he barely succeeds. His shows aren't deemed remarkable enough to make a breakout hit, only getting his foot through the door because the rest of the troupe pitch in contributions (especially Gunter), as well as them making sure his less ethical tactics don't come back to bite him.
• Innocently Insensitive: He has a lot of this going on before his Heroic BSoD. His optimism leads to him brushing off not just valid concerns, but complaints and people just trying to talk with him. Most obvious in his interactions with Ash.
• Insecure Protagonist, Arrogant Antagonist: He has this kind of dynamic with Jimmy Crystal in the second film. Underneath a cheery smile and a positive attitude, Buster carries around his fair share of fear and self-doubt. Until the Moon Theater troupe was formed, he was never able to find success in his field of work and was considered to be a laughingstock by his peers. And even after the Moon crew have become local stars, they still have trouble getting people outside of Calatonia to take them seriously, so Buster is eager for them to have a chance to prove themselves in the second film. By contrast, Jimmy Crystal is a rich and famous celebrity, who frequently looks down on others and never doubts himself. Jimmy is used to getting his way all the time, and eventually he's revealed to be so arrogant and prideful that he's willing to straight-up murder people as retribution for his image being threatened.
• Interclass Friendship:
  • Buster is very much a Working-Class Hero version of the self-made man while Eddie is opulent and demotivated to work. Despite their contrasting personalities and social class, they're pretty much Heterosexual Life-Partners – Eddie offers Buster a place to crash in his pad and both partner up washing cars to gather money to rebuild the theater.
  • After the events of the first film, Buster has earned the respect of Eddie's grandmother, Nana Noodleman, a wealthy former theater star who loves the world of show business just as much as he does. After she provides the money to have Buster's theater rebuilt and goes into business with him, the two officially become friends.
• Intergenerational Friendship: Buster has a lot of these throughout the series. By Sing 2, his usual friend group consists of fellow adults that are in the same age range as him like Rosita, Gunter and Eddie; teenagers / young adults like Meena, Johnny and Ash; and senior citizens like Miss Crawly and Nana Noodleman. By the end of the second film, he also seems to be befriending Porsha Crystal and Clay Calloway, now that they've decided to join his show.
• Jack of All Trades: Downplayed (as his skills, barring car washing, are all show-related), but he knows every trade of the show business, being an adequate singer, a good dancer and choreographer, an excellent stagehand, a competent teacher of all the above, and despite his Informed Flaw of being a bad manager, he turns to be a more-than-adequate one in the end.
• Karmic Jackpot: In the second film, he ultimately pushes for Rosita to get the starring role in "Out Of This World" that she was elated about, despite heavy pressure against it either by the Crystal family or Rosita's phobia of heights. During the big night, when a vengeful Jimmy Crystal throws Buster off the backstage catwalk, Rosita overcomes her phobia to save him and pulls off the rest of the act masterfully.
• Laid-Back Koala: Inverted. He is a very ambitious koala who never gives up on his dreams to be successful in the show business. The only time he gives up is when the theater collapses in the first movie. However, he gains the courage to keep working hard after his friends come to cheer him up.
• Last-Name Basis: Eddie is the only one in the movie who calls Buster by his first name. Everybody else calls him "Moon" or "Mr. Moon". Justified because most of the characters that he interacts with are either working for him (Mrs. Crawley, the contestants) or are doing official business with him (Judith, Nana Noodleman).
• The Leader: Buster is the leader of the Moon Theater troupe who usually dreams up the ideas for all of their shows (the "Out Of This World" show being a notable exception), and concocts a number of zany schemes to help both the group and his theater get ahead. By the second film, Buster has earned the respect of all of his employees, and has developed a fatherly bond with the younger members of the Moon crew (specifically Meena and Ash).
• A Lighter Shade of Grey: Accommodating chap as he is to everyone who reciprocates, Buster is introduced early on as having few moral qualms over actions like stealing electricity, lying, trespassing and piling debts as long as it leads to immeasurable remunerations for both the theater and everybody within it. Most of his decisions skirt the edge of amorality at best, let alone common sense, putting even his players at risk which in more cynical scenarios would peg him as a deluded Villain Protagonist. What keeps Buster sympathetic is how in spite of all he deeply cares for his people, often resorts to diplomacy when it comes to deals gone wrong, never truly means any harm and is often pitted against people who lack but the worst attributes (e.g. The Bears and Jimmy Crystal).
• Like a Daughter to Me: Over the course of the series, Buster develops a supportive and fatherly bond with the younger members of his theater troupe. He encourages them to try new things and strive to reach their full potential as performers (in spite of their fears or their troubles that might be holding them back), he's always happy to see them succeed whenever they do manage to shine onstage, and by the second film, he even has framed pictures of them resting inside of his office in Moon Theater. After the way they bonded in the first movie, Buster is shown to be especially close to Ash and Meena.
• Loveable Rogue: He steals electricity and water, but is still portrayed as a likable figure. The second film further cements how Buster is willing to cut a few corners or break a few laws for the sake of his craft (like trespassing in Crystal Entertainment, lying to Mr. Crystal to get his show off the ground, and eventually commandeering Jimmy's theater so he can bring everyone's hard work to fruition). But he still remains a likable and sympathetic character, especially since, by comparison, Jimmy Crystal is shown to be an irredeemably terrible person.
• Missing Mom: As much as Buster talks about his dad, he never mentions his mother, and she's not seen in any flashbacks.
• My God, What Have I Done?: When his theater collapses right in front of him, Buster is completely horrified, but also wracked with guilt. His late father worked hard for thirty years to buy his son his dream business, and when it looks like all that effort has gone to waste because of Buster's decision to lie about the prize money and that stunt he played with the squid tank, the koala is devastated.
  Buster: Oh dad, I'm so sorry.
• No True Scotsman: Due to his "try-hard" attitude mixed with past unreliable outcomes, seasoned professionals brush him off as an upstart dilettante. In both films, Buster's riskier plans only develop once he's failed to be acknowledged for his theater's body of work.
  • His plan of a singing competition in the first film is manufactured as a last-ditch attempt for a comeback (as well as financial solvency to overwhelming debts faced by the theater) but for all his desperation, Buster never really thinks of other plans, including filing for bankruptcy, even as circumstances start piling up to ensure the final result will be anything but a disastrous fallout; this because above obstacles, he genuinely expects the variety show to be a testament of how much potential the Moon Theater has to give (and by extension, show him as a worthy director in spite of past flops).
  • In the second film, Buster's management of expectations causes him to almost throw in the towel not once, but twice out of pragmatism: first after Suki diminishes the "Alice" play and the troupe as middling successes and second after Crystal and his goons pursue him. What always gives him the fire-and-brimstone to continue is, as Nana would put it, the "guts [and] stamina" to show up their poor expectations of a lowly bunch led by a "talentless, little twerp" with a "cute little show".
• Oh, Crap!:
  • When Eddie and the contestants finally reveal that Miss Crawly made a typing error and promised everyone competing in his show a prize of $100,000 (that Buster has absolutely no chance of delivering on), the koala briefly starts to panic about just how bad this is, before he quickly manages to compose himself and buy himself some more time to process the problem.
  • When he receives a threatening note from Mr. Crystal in his hotel room, warning him not to screw up or else, Buster looks quietly mortified, as the full enormity of what he's just done sinks in for the first time and he realizes he's going to be in a world of trouble if he can't deliver on his promise to get Clay Calloway soon.
• Perpetual Poverty: In the first film, Buster's financial situation is closing on the red: the Moon theater is close to being repossessed by the bank due to numerous bombs draining nearly the entire income; there's plenty of unfinished reparations and former employees are already lining up to mob up their ex-boss due to overdue payment (when not consisting of bouncing checks), which he has barely been able to avoid by ducking them whenever they come to his office. Most of the resources destined for the venue come from Buster Cutting Corners by stealing since he just can't pay the fees. After a string of successes following the singing competition, the second movie shows him in much better footing; for once, he can afford props, detailed backgrounds and several extras for the Alice play without much panhandling. He's also shown to now have his own place and a full bed to sleep in as opposed to his desk drawer.
• The Pollyanna: Until the Darkest Hour at least. Deconstructed in that it's played heavily as him being in denial instead of just looking for the bright side.
• Revenge: During his time working for Jimmy Crystal, the wolf businessman bullies Buster, abuses him, and finally tries to straight-up murder him and his friends several times. In retaliation, Buster hijacks his theater, traps him below the stage during his show, silently gloats over his success to him while he's restrained, leaves him to be publicly humiliated in front of thousands of people, and finally does not lift a finger to stop Jimmy from being arrested at the film's end.
• Rousing Speech: As the leader of the Moon Theater troupe, Buster often takes it upon himself to improve the group's morale when they're feeling glum by giving them an impassioned speech, encouraging them to stick to their guns and overcome the odds that are stocked against them (though they have certainly returned the favor as well on occasion). The most notable examples of this occur just before the climax of the first and second movies, when he's giving his cast a pre-show pep talk, and when he's encouraging them to try to take a stand against Jimmy Crystal.
• Rule of Three: Buster Moon gets completely drenched three times over the course of Sing 2. First, when his bike careens out of control and plunges into a canal. Then when Clay Calloway gets the drop on him with a hose and blows him into a pond. And finally, when he and his friends are all forced to jump out of a hotel window into a pool, to avoid getting attacked by Jimmy Crystal's security team.
• Sarcasm-Blind: Ash's snark flies right over his head. Ironically, he understands Eddie's sarcasm perfectly.
• Self-Made Man: A realistic take on the old trope. Buster's acquisition, handling and maintenance of the theater even through turbulent times is definitely to his own merit but it wouldn't have been possible without his dad pitching in for him to buy it in the first place, something he acknowledges. His most delusional moments in the first film come from the fear his mishandling of the theater means he cannot attain success on his own.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Keeping with his usual upbeat showman persona, Buster wears a classy blue suit, a pair of matching blue pants, and a spiffy red bow tie to complete the ensemble, and he rarely ever changes into more casual clothes.
• Stronger Than They Look: In the second film, Buster manages to shove Ash, Meena, Johnny, Rosita, Gunter and Miss Crawly into a broom closet by himself, all at once - and most of them are much heavier animals than Buster.
• Technician vs. Performer: He is a professional and well structured director, though a lot of his ideas for performances are deemed conservative and outright cheesy. Both films show passionate performers such as Ash and Gunter compromise their wilder ideas with Buster's, leading to more creative but still well structured dances.
• Tired of Running: After Jimmy Crystal tries to kill him in cold blood, Buster and his crew are all set to skip town and never come back, because they're in way over their heads - though Clay Calloway warns them that running and hiding from their problems isn't the answer. When Buster sees Jimmy cruelly humiliate his group on live television (deriding them all as a bunch of talentless, amateur losers), he decides that he's tired of living in fear of him. He won't run from the mad wolf anymore and he decides to strike back against him: by putting on their show behind Crystal's back in his own hotel.
• Took a Level in Kindness: In the first film, Buster was more condescending and blunt to his clients, annoying them by reading his notes about them out loud, both negative and positive, and rather rudely disqualifying a few contestants, sometimes for petty performance issues. In the second film, while still prone to sketchy or overambitious tactics, Buster is generally a lot more nurturing and caring towards upcoming performers, and will even retool numbers to better accommodate their limitations, making him more of a Good Counterpart to Jimmy Crystal.
• Unknown Rival: He's aware and rightfully terrified that Jimmy Crystal is intent on killing him once the whole lie about Clay Calloway is found out. But compared to Crystal's burning hatred of him, Buster is only concerned with stalling him as his mind remains occupied by mounting Out Of This World in his theater behind his back.
• Vicariously Ambitious: What truly powers Buster, in conjunction with his theater, is nurturing bonafide hidden talents within the people around him through passion, guidance and hefty doses of improvisation. In fact, he's at his happiest when all the hard work has paid off and they have reached their full potential. Such is a dreamer.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • When the truth comes out that Buster never had a hundred thousand dollars worth of prize money to offer for his singing competition, everyone present rounds on him and calls him out fiercely for both wasting their time and lying to them for weeks.
  • In the second film, Ash grows upset with Buster when he lies to Jimmy Crystal about knowing Clay Calloway so he can close a business deal with him, and once Jimmy leaves, she's quick to scold the koala for it. Unlike him, she's well aware that the lion rock star is a social recluse who won't be easy to find or win over, and she already got some firsthand experience with what can happen when Buster is dishonest with people back during the first movie.

Eddie Noodleman

Voiced by: John C. Reilly^{Foreign VAs}Mads Hjulmand (Danish), François Trudel (Canadian French), Mark Lesser (EU French), Ollie Schulz (German), Massimiliano Alto (Italian), Mamoru Miyano (Japanese), Alexandre Moreno (Brazilian Portuguese), Welket Bunguê (EU Portuguese), Sergey Smirnov (Russian), Miguel Angel Garzon (EU Spanish), José Arenas (LA Spanish)

A sheep and Buster's rich partner who doubts the future of the theater.

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• Borrowed Catchphrase: When Eddie decides to stay with Buster and help him wash a whole day's worth of cars, he lifts his spirits by repeating his own mantra back at him.
  Eddie: Well, you know the good thing about hitting rock bottom? There's only one way left to go and that's up!
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Despite his Nana appearing, he isn't even mentioned or seen in Sing 2. The only remaining hint of his existence are some photos in Nana's house.
• Commonality Connection: In "Eddie's Life Coach", he gets along quite well with Gary Wishmann, once he discovers they're both a pair of unmotivated slackers who haven't accomplished as much as their parents would like them to.
• The Consigliere: He doesn't officially work at the theatre until late into the first movie when he becomes a stagehand. He is repeatedly trying to play voice of reason to Buster however, has been funding him several times, and cares for him and raises his spirits when the theatre falls apart.
• A Day in the Limelight: Eddie is the star of his own short film, "Eddie's Life Coach", where his mother tries to get him to shape up by adopting a new exercise routine.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Well, not desperately, but he admits he hasn't found his. His rich parents got him a life coach. He finally gets one first by helping Buster wash cars, and then by becoming the new stagehand for the Moon Theater.
• Facepalm: He does this whenever Buster does or says something reckless, which is often.
• Foil: To Buster. Unlike the optimistic and motivated to the point of ignoring reality koala, Eddie is a bit more cynical, but Closer to Earth and has no real aspiration to do anything.
• A Friend in Need: After he loses his theater, Buster basically hits rock bottom and starts to drown in his own guilt, depression and self-loathing. By the time Eddie discovers he's taken up his father's old job of washing cars - a grueling and humiliating task for a koala - he's nearly broken. So Eddie decides to stay with him in his darkest hour and wash a whole day's worth of cars with him, so he can support his friend and raise his spirits.
• Idle Rich: Downplayed, but present. Eddie's parents and his grandmother are obscenely rich, and he lives off them. He seems as disappointed as they are that he doesn't have any life goals or serious ambitions. His life coach's daily goals for him are things like "take out the trash" and "visit Nana." Eventually he joins Buster in washing cars and later becomes the new stagehand.
• Instant Expert: He becomes the stagehand for the comeback show, and does well for his first time at it.
• The Lancer: He is Buster's best friend, but he knows that his friend spends more time in the clouds than in reality.
• Nice Guy: His family is absolutely loaded and he's willing to pitch in and help fund his friend Buster. But the only reason Eddie doesn't pay Buster anymore is because his parents cut him off and refuse to pay Buster another dime after they've already paid him many times after his shows are nothing but flops and failures.
• Sequel Non-Entity: He doesn't get even a mention in Sing 2.
• The Slacker: Subverted. At first, he is introduced as a rich, lazy slacker who doesn't do much with his life, and his parents and Nana hound him for it. But as the film's events go on, he finds more purpose in life and starts pitching in to help Buster out more, by trying to get his Nana to help Buster out, and then helping him wash cars, and then becoming his new stagehand.
• Uncle Penny Bags: Eddie, despite coming from a very wealthy family, does not rub his affluence on peoples' faces, and is such good friends with Buster, that the only reason why Eddie did not loan him the money to save his theater was because his family told him to not fund another potential theatrical flop. Later, when the theater is destroyed, and the property is seized by the bank, Eddie doesn't mind Buster crashing at his place and helps him wash cars and becomes the technician when the show is back on.

Ms. Crawly

Voiced by: Garth Jennings^{Foreign VAs}Torben Zeller (Danish); François Godin (Canadian French); Gary Francq [Sing], Pierre Coffin [Sing 2] (EU French); Katharina Thalbech (German); Riccardo Scarafoni (Italian); Mayumi Tanaka (Japanese); Wirley Contaifer (Brazilian Portuguese); Peter Michael (EU Portuguese); Xia Zhishi (TW Mandarin); Ivan Kalinin (Russian); Paco Leon [Sing], Joan Pera [Sing 2] (EU Spanish); Óscar Flores (LA Spanish)

The devoted elderly iguana assistant to Buster.

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• Butt-Monkey: Like her boss, Miss Crawly has to endure a lot of slapstick and comedic misfortune in both movies, as well as her own short film, "Love At First Sight". In a behind-the-scenes featurette for the first movie, Garth Jennings even acknowledges that Miss Crawly tends to suffer from Amusing Injuries a lot for the audience's entertainment.
• The Cameo: She makes a brief appearance in the "For Gunter's Eyes Only" short, having fun in the same casino Johnny and Gunter are visiting.
• Character Catchphrase: "Has anyone seen my glass eye?" She has a tendency of losing track of it fairly often. She also tends to say "Oopsy-daisy", whenever something goes horribly wrong.
• The Chew Toy: She's on the receiving end of a lot of physical comedy throughout the movie and the "Love At First Sight" short (where one of her dates tosses her onto a chandelier). This continues in the second film, where she gets attacked with paintballs by Clay Calloway and crashes her rental car trying to get away from him.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: She has a very eccentric and absent-minded personality, she tends to approach a problem quite differently from everyone around her, and she has a number of surprising interests that manage to catch even her friends off-guard from time to time.
• Comically Cross-Eyed: Because of her Glass Eye, her eyes are always unfocused, in line with her eccentric personality. It also has a habit of popping out at inconvenient moments.
• Commonality Connection: In "Love At First Sight", she really starts to hit it off with Herman when he mentions he likes "moonbathing" (i.e. sunbathing at night), one of her favorite pastimes that she invented.
• Cool Old Lady: She is old but she's very kind and has just as much fun as the rest of the group, and even keeps up with all of their antics. The second film also reveals that she enjoys jamming out to heavy metal music when she's alone.
• A Day in the Limelight: Miss Crawly is the star of her own short film, "Love At First Sight", where she tries online dating for the first time.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: She becomes one midway through Sing 2, when Buster leaves her in charge of his production while he goes to talk to Clay Calloway. She quickly turns into a strict taskmaster who rides around on a scissors lift and barks orders at the cast and crew through a megaphone, holding them all to high standards.
• Drives Like Crazy: As shown in Sing 2. It doesn't help she's listening to "Chop Suey."
• Dude Magnet: Ms. Crawly's spotlight mini-movie has her signing up for an online dating service... in less than a minute, she already has a large amount of men replying to her on her profile, who all want to take her out on a date.
• Eyepatch of Power: In the second film. After she's chased away from Clay Calloway's mansion and loses her glass eye during the chaos, she decides to start covering the empty socket with an eyepatch. This works quite well with her Drill Sergeant Nasty routine.
• Eye Scream: Even if it is a fake glass eye, it still leads to some Squicky moments when it pops out or gets lost. Such as in the sequel when she returns from Calloway's estate with an apple where her glass eye used to be.
• Faint in Shock: In the second movie, she has a close encounter with Clay Calloway where the lion rocker attacks her with a paintball gun on a motorcycle - which then leads her to wreck her rental car trying to get away from him. She seems to be legitimately traumatized by the experience afterwards, and when she comes face-to-face with Clay again unexpectedly, she immediately freezes up in shock and passes out, to his amusement.
• Glass Eye: At first it seems she is just cross-eyed, up until it pops out.
• Hidden Depths:
  • If Johnny's performances are any indication, she must be an excellent piano player and teacher.
  • In the second film, it's revealed that Miss Crawly is a fan of heavy metal music, since she jams out to "Chop Suey" by System of a Down while she's on her way to Clay Calloway's house.
• Inelegant Blubbering: When she discovers the mistake she made on the posters, changing the advertised amount of prize money from $1,000 to $100,000, and she thinks Mr. Moon will fire her. She cries. Loudly.
• Intergenerational Friendship:
  • Miss Crawly is shown to be very close to her boss, Buster Moon, who is several decades younger than her. In both films, she's unflappably loyal to him (because Buster has always treated her well), and before the Moon Theater troupe was formed, she was his only other trusted friend besides Eddie.
  • After Miss Crawly takes Johnny, a teenage gorilla, under her wing as her student and teaches him how to master the art of piano-playing, the two become good friends as well. Miss Crawly will offer him emotional support whenever he needs it, while Johnny tries to support her romantic ambitions and steps in to help her at times during dangerous situations.
• A Lizard Named "Liz": Ms. Crawly is a lizard, an animal that moves around by crawling.
• Made of Iron: Miss Crawly is an elderly iguana who looks frail at first glance, but she manages to endure a large number of Amusing Injuries without being seriously hurt by them. The most extreme example of this is when she wrecks her rental car trying to get away from Clay Calloway. Apparently, the collision was so bad that it completely totaled the car, while the only damage Miss Crawly herself received from it was psychological damage.
• My God, What Have I Done?: She breaks down in tears after her mistake in writing the contest flyers is revealed.
• Number Two: More often Ms. Crawly acts the role of a personal assistant to Buster, though the performers, especially Johnny, still treat her with some level of reverence and ask for her help, and when Buster must take role elsewhere, he usually leaves Ms. Crawly in charge.
• Older Sidekick: To Buster. According to the information he provided about his childhood, Buster is either in his late thirties or early forties, while Miss Crawly is a senior citizen who is several decades older than him.
• The Reliable One: Whatever Mr. Moon asks of her, she'll do it without haste and without any complaints most of the time, working all sorts of odd-jobs around the theater. In the first film, she's an assistant, a stagehand, and a piano tutor, all at the same time. In the second film, she's the one who tracks down Clay Calloway's home address, and the one who keeps the production of Buster's show running smoothly while he steps out to talk to Clay. Later, when Buster rehires Rosita as the lead for "Out Of This World" and asks Ms Crawly to find someone to play her previous role, she goes straight into enemy territory to rehire Porsha Crystal, without Jimmy even knowing.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: When Miss Crawly decides to try her hand at online dating in "Love At First Sight", she's looking for a man who's not only attractive, but also caring and attentive. Unfortunately for her, all of the guys she meets turn out to be pretty self-absorbed to varying extents. Thankfully, her luck turns around when she meets Herman, a nice man who she has a good amount of chemistry with.
• Token Minority: Try Token Reptile. She is among the few characters in the film, and the only one with a speaking part, who is not a mammal.
• Undying Loyalty: As eccentric as she is, she is very loyal to Buster, to the point where she broke down crying when she thought he was going to fire her over the flyer mistake. She even continues to work for him as he has to take a job washing cars after the theater is flooded. In the second movie, she continues to display this same level of loyalty towards Mr. Moon, by handling a number of ambitious tasks that are outside the norm for her, and eventually participating in a dangerous plan to hijack Jimmy Crystal's hotel so the troupe can push ahead with their Redshore City show.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Because her glass eye bounces onto the "0" key twice at a crucial moment, Ms. Crawly accidentally changes the advertised amount of prize money to $100,000 instead of the original $1,000, which kickstarts many of the film's conflicts. She also starts the chain reaction that disables Pete from the show. Ironically, Miss Crawly's mistake actually turns out to be very beneficial in the long run. All of the members of the Moon Theater troupe grow a lot as people, and their lives improve vastly, in ways that they probably never would have if Miss Crawly hadn't made that typing error with the flyers that helped to draw them into Buster's singing competition.

Contestants/Moon Theater Troupe^note For Mike's folder, see here

Rosita

Voiced by: Reese Witherspoon^{Foreign VAs}Gigi Leung (Cantonese); Annette Heick (Danish); Aline Pinsonnault (Canadian French); Jenifer Bartoli (EU French); Alexandra Maria Lara (German); Federica De Bortoli (Italian); Maaya Sakamoto (Japanese); Ji Guanlin (PRC Mandarin); Chen Xiaoyue (TW Mandarin); Mariana Ximenes [Sing], Jeane Marie [Sing 2] (Brazilian Portuguese); Aurea (EU Portuguese); Irina Kireeva (Russian); Danai Querol (EU Spanish); Hanna Nicole Perez Mosa (LA Spanish, credited as "Hannah Nicole")

^{Rosita in Sing 2}

A stay-at-home mother pig of twenty-five piglets. She has dreams of being a star, but her hectic home life makes accomplishing this dream rather difficult.

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• Absurdly Youthful Mother: It's somewhat hard to tell, given the setting, but she has Youthful Freckles and given her outfit at the end is considered attractive. She certainly doesn't look like someone with twenty-five kids.
• Big Beautiful Woman: Despite her detractors' (Mike, and later Jimmy) comments on her weight, Rosita's weight rarely interferes with any activity nor hinders her in any way: she's agile once she learns to dance to the beat, her plumpness matches her tender nature and her curvaceous figure is portrayed as attractive, especially in the right attire (e.g. a leotard).
• Big Damn Heroes: In the climax of Sing 2, she overcomes her fear of heights and manages to save Buster's life at the last minute, when Jimmy Crystal tries to kill him.
• Brainy Pig: While it doesn't come up very often, Rosita is apparently very intelligent. In the first film, she's able to rig up an elaborate pulley system throughout her entire home overnight, that will do all of her household chores for her everyday while she's away at Moon Theater.
• Butt-Monkey:
  • The universe seems to have it in for her. She's never found the outlet for her dreams of singing and although her husband and children love her, her husband is too ground down by his job to show her any affection, while her children are so numerous that she is almost unable to control them.
  • In the second film, her dream of performing in Redshore City quickly turns into a nightmare as she becomes the butt of Jimmy Crystal's jokes and is demoted to a minor role as a green alien due to her fear of heights interfering with the play's storyline. She spends most of her screen time in the second half of the movie looking very miserable.
• Cat Girl: In Sing 2, she's introduced playing the Cheshire Cat in the Moon Theater's production of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with apropos attire.
• Character Development:
  • In the first film, Rosita wants to live out her dreams of being a singer, but she lacks confidence in herself, and she nearly throws in the towel when she's seemingly unable to learn how to dance. However, with some encouragement from her friends, Rosita perseveres through her learning block, and shines onstage with Gunter during the cast's big concert.
  • In the second film, she's given the lead role in Buster's newest show, but is held back from fulfilling it by a fear of heights that she struggles to deal with. Ultimately, she manages to overcome this challenge as well and aces her part in the show, after she saves Buster from an attempt on his life by a vengeful, murderous Jimmy Crystal.
• Chekhov's Skill: Her engineering know-how that led to the machine to do her chores also helps rebuild the theater enough to perform in.
• Clock King: Her machine can work because of her impeccable attention to timing.
• Costume Evolution: She gets a new outfit in the second movie along with the other main theatre performers, now wearing a light blue blouse with little flower designs on the upper half, and her jeans are now white.
• Crisis Makes Perfect: Even after receiving her leading role in Out of This World, Rosita freezes when faced against the height acrobatic of jumping off the spaceship platform, showing her unwilling to do it despite the need for it to continue the spectacle. It's only when she spots Buster falling at a distance, after Crystal drops him from the catwalk, that she pulls a saving dive on impulse, swinging and catching Buster. Afterwards, she continues singing and performing, the adrenaline of the act overriding her fear.
• Demoted to Extra: In-Universe. Sing 2 reintroduces Rosita as having risen to co-lead in most of the Moon Theater's productions after the Time Skip of the first movie's ending, starring as the Cheshire Cat alongside Meena's Alice and Johnny's Mad Hatter in the opening's "Alice in Wonderland" mise-en-scène. With "Out Of This World" entering pre-production, Rosita is chosen as the sole lead, a first for her which sets her ablaze for her big break. Unfortunately, one of the requirements for the role is performing height stunts, which Rosita discovers much to her detriment she's afraid of. Due to Crystal's prodding (and Porsha's wishy-washy suggestion), she's recasted as the Joy Green Alien, which she accepts initially with faux happiness despite the misery it causes her. After another cast reshuffle, Rosita gets her role back and even manages to conquer her fear to perform (although under less than desirable circumstances).
• Doting Parent: They may be troublesome, but Rosita is shown to adore her children, frequently calling them by pet names like dears. In turn, they love her back.
• Explosive Breeder: She has twenty-five piglets, all around the same age. Truth in Television, since real pigs do reproduce very quickly and can give birth to a lot of piglets at once.
• Face Your Fears: Rosita discovers to her own unpleasant surprise that she's afraid of heights, which at first interferes with the astronaut role she needs to perform in the show. She finally overcomes her fear of heights to catch Buster when Jimmy Crystal tries to kill him by throwing him off a catwalk.
• Family Versus Career: The crux of her predicament in the first film. Rosita doesn't regret her decisions in life but still yearns to make her performing dreams a reality, the talent show a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Upon being chosen and paired with Gunther, she attempts to juggle both responsibilities to set time apart for prolonged rehearsals behind her family's back by constructing machinery that fulfill any chore which importunate Norman and the piglets when it malfunctions. As she eventually comes clean to them about her side activities, Rosita commits to performing for its sake after the theater is destroyed as it's the biggest personal goal she's had in a while. Come the second film, Rosita has joined full-time as part of the theater cast and trades with Norman babysitting the piglets whenever there's a show to put on.
• Good Parents: A devoted mother to all twenty-five of her piglets, Lord knows how she manages to do it though.
• Happily Married: They have their up-and-downs, mostly due to their exhausting schedules and Rosita's dissatisfaction with her life in the first film. In spite of this, she and Norman are shown to love each other very much.
• Hartman Hips: She has quite a pear-shaped figure.
• Hidden Depths: From a first glance, you wouldn't have guessed she's an engineering genius.
• Housewife: In the first film, she's initially a stay-at-home mom who yearns to live out her old dreams of being a singer. By the time the second film rolls around, she officially has her own career, working for Mr. Moon at the theater, with her husband watching the kids for a day whenever it's time to put a show on.
• Ink-Suit Actor: She doesn't necessarily resemble her voice actor, but she does carry her mannerisms.
• Just Friends: Buster pairs her up with Gunter for the contest because he believes that their strengths in their audition performances would play off each other in a duo act. It sticks, and the two are often a duo from that point on, but as Rosita is already married, it isn't a romantic partnership.
• Ms. Fanservice: She never shies away on-stage from busting some moves that emphasize her hips and legs. The leotards she wears definitely helps.
• Never a Self-Made Woman: At the beginning, Rosita's singing has gone unnoticed due to her primary role as a caregiver as nothing other than a pastime. Despite the familiar economy being stable due to Norman's job, she clearly regrets having never put any of her talent to good use; even after the theater is destroyed, she still participates to show her talent. The second film finds her in much more stable footing as she eventually gets the main role in "Out Of This World", with support from her family and friends, which she aces it with all further productions billing her as the major player in promotional material.
• Nice Girl: She's soft-spoken, she's always polite, and she acts very motherly towards the younger contestants, mainly Johnny and Ash.
• Oh, Crap!: In Sing 2, she’s thrilled when she gets the lead role in the Moon Theater troupe's new show. During the first day of rehearsals, she's completely confident and excited to pull off her big stunt on wires (especially with her family supporting her down below), until she sees just how high up she actually is. A look of pure horror crosses over Rosita's face, her world falls out from under her, and her confidence abandons her at the worst time.
• Parents as People: Rosita loves her family with all her heart, but she feels consumed with taking care of them and wanting to re-ignite her dream of being a star. This is why she joins the singing competition in the first place.
• Primal Fear: In Sing 2, she discovers she has a fear of heights, which is inconvenient for her starring role in Out Of This World since it requires acrobatics.
• Properly Paranoid: In "Gunter Babysits", she agrees to let Gunter watch her kids for the night, so she and Norman can have some time to themselves; however, she's very clearly anxious about the idea. While she likes Gunter and respects him a lot, she's not sure he can handle the pressure and responsibility that comes from wrangling all twenty-five of her children, and her concerns are completely justified, since the kids very nearly overwhelm Gunter while she and Norman are away.
• Rube Goldberg Device: She builds one to perform her housewife duties, while she's busy rehearsing at Moon Theater with the rest of the talent show contestants.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Rosita's wardrobe is usually pretty modest and practical for a hard-working, suburban housewife. However, when she does decide to dress up in a more flashy or flamboyant costume for her work at Moon Theater, she always manages to wear it well (as seen during her performances of "Shake It Off" and "Let's Go Crazy").
• Showgirl Skirt: In the climax of the first film, Rosita's performance costume is a black sequined leotard, with a ruffled showgirl skirt billowing out from the back where her tail would be.
• Spanner in the Works: In the climax of the second film, Jimmy Crystal kidnaps Buster Moon and drags him up to the highest catwalk in his theater, so he can throw him off the side and kill him. His plan would have worked, if Rosita hadn't been in the middle of her act at the time. She realizes what's happening as Buster is falling and just barely manages to catch him in time, saving his life and thwarting Jimmy's plans when the mad wolf was so close to getting what he wanted. Considering how Jimmy treated her earlier in the movie, the fact that Rosita would be the one to ruin everything for him has a strong element of karma to it too.
• Stepford Smiler: She adopts this facade in the second film when Porsha ousts her from the lead role in Out of This World. She assures Moon and her fellow crew mates that she's totally fine with the change, only to be seen crying alone in her bathroom later. Even when her husband knocks on the door and asks her if she's okay, she keeps up the reassurance between sobs.
• Stunned Silence: At the end of "Gunter Babysits", she's impressed by how much of a good job Gunter has done of watching her kids for the night, since everything in her home is seemingly just the way she left it before. At least until one of the piglets drops down from a ceiling fan and lands on top of Gunter. Rosita and Norman are so surprised by this turn of events that they’re rendered speechless.
• Team Mom: She acts very motherly towards the younger contestants. For example, she comforts Ash after finding out about her break-up and tells her to help herself to any of the candy in her purse, she along with Gunter and Johnny help save Meena from drowning when she gets stuck from the ticket booth window during the flooding, and she easily picks up that, despite having a good performance, Johnny was unhappy about something. It helps that she's already a mother to twenty-five piglets. This trope carries on in the second movie, where after Johnny returns from a horrible first day of rehearsals with Klaus, she comforts him by telling him to hang in there and during the scene where Crystal's thugs are banging on Buster's hotel room door, she gently holds Ash's hand who was reaching out to her in pure fear.
• Technician vs. Performer: She's a good singer but she has no charisma, which prompts Buster to pair her with the ultra-flashy Gunter in the hopes the duo can balance each other out. She also tries to learn the steps through counting instead of relying on instinct.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Mike. She is less than pleased with him making fun of her, but when he starts singing, she can be seen happily smiling.
• Wrench Wench: Downplayed, but her knack for construction and engineering is well past the minor household repairs level.

Ash

Voiced by: Scarlett Johansson^{Foreign VAs}Jarita Wan (Cantonese); Emma Sehested Høeg (Danish); Laurence Dauphinais (Canadian French); Élodie Martelet (EU French); Stefanie Kloß (German); Chiara Gioncardi (Italian); Masami Nagasawa (Japanese); Momo Wu (PRC Mandarin); Yu Chen (TW Mandarin); Wanessa Camargo (Brazilian Portuguese); Marisa Liz [Sing], Mafalda Luís de Castro [Sing 2] (EU Portuguese); Tatiana Shitova (Russian); Andrea Compton (EU Spanish); Ashley Grace Pérez Mosa (LA Spanish, credited as "Ashley Grace")

^{Ash in Sing 2}

A porcupine punk rocker. In the first film, Ash tries out with her boyfriend, Lance, but only she gets picked. She later breaks up with him after catching him cheating on her with another musician porcupine girl, largely due to her getting picked while he didn’t, which she overcomes through writing her own song. In the second film she, alongside Buster, set out to find reclusive rock star, Clay Calloway, who Ash is also a huge fan of, to get him to perform in Buster's new show after he lies about knowing him.

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• Ambiguously Absent Parent: Unlike Johnny and Meena, despite being called a teenager Ash's parents are never seen or mentioned once in either movie (since she's already living independently by the time we're first introduced to her), leaving it a mystery what sort of relationship she has with them or if they're even still around at all.
• Artistic License – Biology: Porcupine quills detach easily, but they can't actually 'shoot' their quills. Ash does in the first film whenever she gets emotional.
• Ascended Fangirl: Ash is a huge fan of Clay Calloway, she even calls herself practically his "biggest fan". She, alongside Buster, convinces him to come out of seclusion, and she gets to perform alongside him in the finale performance in "Out of This World".
• Because You Were Nice to Me: She's initially derisive towards Buster and openly views the whole competition as a superficial farce which she only entered to fund her career, though after he and the group show way more support for her talent than Lance, and show sympathy during her breakup with the latter, she grows attached to them and more willing to compromise ideals. It is clear by the second film she has become very loyal to the Moon Theater group, even going out of her way for Buster on several occasions.
• Berserk Button: Post-breakup, Ash doesn't take kindly to people undermining her value. This gives her the final push to hit the road with the gang in the second film as jerkish Rick still refuses to pay her fairly on the grounds of his being the only club in town.
• Breakup Breakout: In-Universe. Despite their first scene establishing both her and Lance as an inadequate duo for any bar to employ, it's gradually revealed this is due to their mismatched energy with Ash offering a standout performance (if Buster's choice has any bearings), this being the reason why she's chosen as a contestant. Once Ash gathers confidence in her material, courtesy of the troupe, a change in genre and breaking up with her abusive boyfriend, the second film shows her as a solo act playing for crowd-filled, sold out concerts, having achieved bigger success than Lance even if she still has to deal with unequal payment and blacklisting, arrogant patrons.
• Character Development:
  • After she realizes what a terrible influence her Jerkass boyfriend Lance was on her in the first film, Ash refuses to let anyone put her down or disrespect her again in the second movie. When Rick refuses to pay her the money that he owes her, she gives him a good telling off and doesn't waste any time walking away from his venue for good. She's also warmed up to Buster and the rest of her friends considerably, and has developed a strong sense of loyalty to the Moon Theater troupe.
  • During the Moon Theater troupe's adventure in Redshore City, she's thrilled to have a chance to work with her idol, Clay Calloway, only to find the aging rock star has been lonely and depressed for years after the death of his wife. Over the course of Sing 2, she gets to know Clay as a person instead of a celebrity, and as a result, she's able to help him come to terms with his grief and have a positive impact on his life.
• Character Tic: In the first film, she shoots quills when she gets excited or depressed. The fist time is when she breaks down crying during rehearsals the day after she found Lance cheating on her, and the second is during the guitar solo during her performance of "Set It All Free".
• Color Motif: Red. Her main guitar is red, her outfit during her final performance contains a red leather jacket and red striped leggings, and her new outfit in the second film is mostly red. Her original outfit contained a red plaid skirt but was almost identical to her jerky boyfriend Lance. Red represents excitement and intensity, something that Lance always tried to put her down for when they performed together, and her incorporating more of it into her wardrobe after their breakup could represent her moving on from their toxic relationship and coming into her own as a rock star. The bolder color also makes her stand out more, and it's shown post breakup Ash refuses to be in someone's shadow or be told what her worth is.
• Commuting on a Bus: Subverted. Sing 2 reintroduces Ash performing as a rock star for hire, explaining why she isn't performing at the Moon Theatre with the rest of the cast during the opening scene. However, she immediately rejoins the Moon Troupe when Buster gathers them all to go to Redshore City, and she remains one of the main characters for the rest of the film.
• The Consigliere: In the second movie, she becomes this for Buster due to Eddie's absence and her fangirl knowledge of Clay Calloway. She is also most liable to point out the holes in Buster's attempts to appease Jimmy Crystal, such as lying about knowing Clay and letting Jimmy's daughter Porsha play the lead despite her ineptness as an actor. Eventually Buster entrusts Ash to coerce Clay into joining the production, which she succeeds in doing.
• Costume Evolution: In the second film, along with the rest of the main theatre performers, she gets a new outfit, which in her case mainly consists of red - she now wears a red and white shirt over a long sleeved black shirt and black jeans under a plaid skirt (similar to her original outfit), red combat boots, and retained her red leather jacket from her "Set It All Free" performance. This, like for the other characters, was likely done to indicate a passage of time from the first film, although it could also further represent her moving on from Lance as her outfit in the first film was essentially a more feminine version of his outfit.
• Deadpan Snarker: The big one among the cast. She's especially snarky with Buster.
  Buster: [while showing her a hot pink leotard with a tutu she could wear for her performance, which Ash audibly recoils to] Isn't this a great color for you?
  Ash: I can't tell. It's melting my eyes.
• Dreadful Musician: Subverted. Ash and her boyfriend Lance initially seem like a pair of tone deaf musicians who have no talent or rhythm. However, it later becomes apparent that they simply have no chemistry with each other as a duet, and that Ash is stifling her own potential in an attempt to please Lance. After bonding with her new friends, Ash begins to explore her true talents, and after she cuts all ties with Lance, she finds much greater success as a solo act.
• Fangirl: Downplayed with Clay Calloway. Ash claims early on to be his "biggest fan", and seems much more knowledgeable about Calloway's history and songs than Buster or the rest of the cast. However, she never acts overly-obsessive about it, and when eventually meeting Calloway himself, Ash is empathetic enough to connect with him on a personal level rather than merely idolising him as a celebrity.
• Glam Rock: Her outfit during the final performance. She uses scissors to give the skirt of the Pop-Star Princess dress a knee-length jagged hem, removes the bow, puts on sparkly-blue eye shadow, then adds a red leather jacket, red-and-black striped leggings, and lace-up boots to incorporate her own punk-rock style. Her outfit for "Out Of This World" in the second movie applies too, which is a sequined lilac outfit accompanied by purple eyeshadow and lipstick, and stars attacked to the quills next to her ears.
• The Glomp: When Buster visits her at one of her shows in Sing 2, the first thing she does is run towards him and give him a big hug, signifying how much closer the pair have become since they met in the last film.
• Heroic BSoD: After catching her boyfriend cheating on her, she temporarily becomes unable to rehearse properly and breaks down in tears in the middle of practicing her song.
• Honorary True Companion: By the beginning of the second film, Ash is nominally a member of the theater troupe yet rarely takes part in their plays other than as a composer, since her main focus is on rock venue gigs as a solo act. However, she holds true to any promise of returning the moment the others need her aid and is still quite close to them.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Since Ash is a porcupine and her idol and potential co-star Clay Calloway is a lion, he constantly towers over her in the second movie, and the size difference between them is especially noticeable when they sing "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" together.
• Insistent Appellation: Despite being a young contestant, she's the only one who refers to Buster as "Moon" without the Mr. honorific, which initially is used to express disdain toward his competition which she sees as "superficial" and a necessary evil to achieve her and Lance's dreams; eventually, it switches to prove both Ash and Buster standing as mutual professional equals rather than employer and subordinate. This is spotlighted more in the second film after Ash has gotten her big break through agreeing to Buster's proposals on her own terms. Ash also clearly has come to like Buster by this point, even switching to calling him by first name a couple instances she's particularly concerned about him.
• Intergenerational Friendship: In the second film, she gets to meet one of her idols, Clay Calloway - an aging rock star who retired from the world of show business after his wife died. Clay turns out to be very different from what she was expecting, but she slowly gets to know him better as a person instead of a celebrity. It's Ash who helps Clay start to move on from his grief that's been holding him back for fifteen years, and by the end of the film, the two musicians have become very good friends.
• Love Martyr: She's initially this for her jerky boyfriend Lance, but she stops when she catches him cheating on her.
• Meaningful Name: Her character arc in the first movie is about getting over being used for her musical talents and then dumped by her cheating ex—getting burned, in other words. And this is referenced in multiple lines in the first verse of "Set It All Free":
  I've followed my heart into the fire
  Got burned, got broken down by desire
  I've tried, I've tried but the smoke in my eyes
  Left me blurry, blurry and blind
• Pimped-Out Dress: Ash takes a pair of scissors to the hemline of the "pop princess" dress Buster tries to make her wear, winding up with an especially badass glittering accessory to her red leather jacket in her final performance.
• Real Women Don't Wear Dresses: Subverted with Ash. She wears a plaid skirt for most of the movie but doesn't appreciate Buster's assumption that she'll enjoy being in a frilly sparkly dress because she's a teenage girl. Her final performance has her in a Pimped-Out Dress with a leather jacket on top.
• The Rock Star: An up-and-coming punk rocker.
• Rock is Authentic, Pop is Shallow: Buster tries to make Ash do a "pop princess" act for the show, giving her the peppy "Call Me, Maybe" to sing, chosen from a list of other pop sings she and Lance deem equally as "cheesy". Ash ends up writing her own song instead, the personal, hard rocking "Set It All Free", and brings down the house.
• Sell-Out: Her boyfriend accuses her of selling out when she gets picked and he doesn't before hypocritically encouraging her to do the sugary, girly pop routine Buster wants her to do for the sake of the prize money. However, Ash eventually figures out how to give Buster the performance he wants in a way that doesn't compromise her integrity, and she still sings in the comeback performance despite the absence of prize money.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: For most of the first film, Ash dresses like a gender-flipped clone of her boyfriend, which symbolizes how she's currently living in his shadow and is repressing her own individuality for his sake. After she breaks up with Lance and casts off the negative influence he had on her, she adopts her own style when she performs "Set It All Free" that's much bolder and more confident. In the second film, it's revealed that Ash decided to keep her new color scheme going forward, which signifies that her Character Development from the last movie has stuck and she's growing into her own as a rock star.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: For Eddie in the second movie. While it's downplayed by her musical career still getting a lot of spotlight, Eddie's absence in the film and her fangirl knowledge of Clay Calloway lead her to pretty much take his role against Buster, stuck trying to play confidant and damage control to the newest "Fawlty Towers" Plot the latter started. Amusingly her snarky Valley Girl mannerisms even make her an ideal match for Eddie's banter at points.
• Sweet Tooth: In both films, she doesn't pass up the opportunity to indulge in sugary treats. It's justified as she does it sparingly to recover energy and/or after a rough day.
  • In the first one, Ash's spirits are down after her break-up with Lance which causes her to weep halfway through her performance; since it happens mid-rehearsal, Rosita briefly gives her a pep talk and offers any sweets in her purse in the hopes any saccharine will brighten Ash's mood. She elects some chewing gum and is later seen blowing bubbles.
  • In the second film, Buster finds her slurping a pineapple soda between sets at Rick's club.
• Take This Job and Shove It: When Buster goes to get Ash for the gang's trip to Redshore City, she's just finished a solo show, but when she gets her paycheck she discovers she's only being paid half what the other acts get because Rick thinks that's what she's worth. What follows shows that she's not gonna take another putdown à la Lance, and quits on the spot, following Buster out.
  Ash: Okay, see, I have this rule about not letting guys like you tell me what I'm worth. So, you know, unless I get paid like everyone else, I'm outta here!
• Tomboy: A minor conflict in the first film is that Buster tries to make her do a "pop princess" act, including wearing a glittery frilly princess dress, and she strongly disagrees. She eventually combines it (not without a few alterations) with her punk rock for a Glam Rock look.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: After she breaks up with Lance, Ash no longer has to deal with his cutting comments and his selfish, negative attitude holding her back, so she reclaims her own sense of self-worth. As a result, she's much happier, more confident in her own talents, and more easygoing in the second film.
• Trying Not to Cry: The day after kicking her philandering beau out, an already miserable Ash rehearses singing "Call Me Maybe" on stage. The song triggers her remembrance of last night and midway through her already muted interpretation, she breaks down sobbing.
• Vague Age: She is labeled as a teenager and is referred to as one multiple times throughout the film, but seems to live without parents, who are never even mentioned, isn’t attending school, and is looking for work with her boyfriend until they broke up, during which she kicks them out of their apartment meaning her name must be on the lease, so she is probably around eighteen or nineteen. In the second movie, she's no longer referred to as a teen, suggesting that she may be over twenty.
• Victory by Endurance: Part of the reason why Ash is able to break through Clay's barricaded exterior, besides reminding him of the joy his music provided to others by playing his songs, is by staying in his secluded chalet and, in his own words, being "even more annoying than [Buster is]".
• Woman Scorned: After catching Lance with another girl (in her own apartment no less), she kicks them both out and knocks Lance down with his suitcase.
• You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: Ash only refers to Buster by his first name twice: to check if he's okay after they're both knocked out by the electrified gates in Clay Calloway's chalet, and when she finds him locked inside of his own suitcase in his hotel room, hiding from Jimmy Crystal's minions who want him dead.

Meena

Voiced by: Tori Kelly^{Foreign VAs}Melodee Mak (Cantonese), Sofie Topp-Duus (Danish), Alexa-Jeanne Dubé (Canadian French), Chloé Renaud (EU French), Maximiliane Hacke (German), Domitilla D'Amico (Italian), MISIA (Japanese), Olivia Tong (PRC Mandarin), Xue Qing (TW Mandarin), Sandy (Brazilian Portuguese), Deolinda Kinzimba (EU Portuguese), Eliza Martirosova (Russian), Anahí de la Fuente (EU Spanish), Eugenia Suarez (LA Spanish)

^{Meena in Sing 2}

A shy elephant with a glorious voice and a nasty case of stage fright.

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• Ambiguously Brown: It's not obvious at first because she’s an elephant. Meena, however, is an Indian name, plus elephants are important symbols in Hindu culture, thus rendering her some form of this trope.
• The Baby of the Bunch: Meena is the youngest member of the theater troupe. Her precociousness is highlighted even more in the second movie, when she reveals she's never had a boyfriend, which is a problem when her number is a romantic duet.
• Beautiful Singing Voice: While all of the main characters are good singers, Meena's singing voice is the one that gets the most praise. Her grandfather even says that if he had a voice like Meena's, he'd be a superstar by now.
• Birds of a Feather: In the second film, she develops her first real crush on Alfonso, a guy who's similarly shy, awkward and kind-hearted, and her feelings for him are fully reciprocated.
• Character Development: Her character arc focuses on her learning how to overcome her stage fright so she can pursue her passion and participate in the big show. By the second film, Meena has made a tremendous amount of progress when it comes to conquering her fears of singing in public, and she now loves to put on regular shows with her friends in Moon Theater. Her storyline in the second film involves her having to deal with the difficult task of working alongside another performer who she has no chemistry with, while also gaining the courage to ask out her first real crush.
• Claustrophobia: In the second movie. When the group are trying to sneak their way over to Jimmy Crystal, Buster has them hide in a small closet. Meena nervously tells Buster that she doesn't do well in small spaces.
• Costume Evolution: Her hoodie in the second film is pink, and her sneakers are now light blue.
• Damsel in Distress: When Moon Theater floods, all of the animals inside of it are put in grave danger, but Meena in particular has a terrifying close shave with death. Due to her large size, she gets trapped inside of the entrance to the building and is unable to move to safety as the waters start to rise. She nearly drowns to death on dry land, but she's thankfully saved from that fate by the combined efforts of Rosita, Gunter and Johnny to free her.
• Demoted to Extra: Downplayed. In the first film, Meena has the most screentime and focus of the cast aside from Buster himself, primarily because she shares more scenes with the latter due to working as his stagehand. Though the second film gives Meena a minor romantic subplot with Alfonso, the other main characters have more substantial arcs that are given significantly more focus and development than hers, with Gunter and Ash also taking over as Buster's backstage assistance.
• Disappeared Dad: Meena lives with her mom and maternal grandparents. Her father is never seen or mentioned.
• Endearingly Dorky: Meena is a very shy and awkward girl, but she's also very sweet and she wears her heart on her sleeve when she does open up to people. In the second movie, Alfonso finds these traits to be quite endearing, since he becomes just as smitten with her as she is with him.
• Expressive Ears: Her ears are almost always pressed inward covering her face, showing her introversion. During her final performance, her ears gradually move away from her face as she becomes more confident. In the second film, Meena rarely ever hides her face behind her ears anymore (except for when she's being pushed really far outside of her comfort zone), which signifies how she's come into her own as a performer and how she feels a lot more comfortable in her own skin now.
• Face Your Fears: Since Meena is probably the most anxious member of the Moon Theater troupe, a large part of her character growth in both movies involves her conquering her fears: whether it's moving past her stage fright so she can pursue her true passion, or working up the courage to make a move with a boy she really likes (while also trying to make a duet work with a difficult, egotistical co-star).
• Fatal Flaw: Meena has a very shy and timid personality that she often struggles to overcome. Sometimes this means that her fear and her self-doubt comes dangerously close to holding her back from pursuing her dreams, and sometimes this means that her friends can easily talk her into doing things that she's not really comfortable with.
• Gentle Giant: As an elephant, Meena is one of the biggest and strongest members of the Moon Theater troupe, alongside Johnny. However, she's also very kindhearted and mild-mannered, and she wouldn't hurt a fly. If anything, she struggles with being more assertive so that other animals won't push her around.
• Girlish Pigtails: Two little tufts of hair that are braided like pigtails. Meena's general demeanor also indicates that she is the least mature contestant.
• Glass-Shattering Sound: Meena is really, really good at holding a high note as she throws herself into a song, to the point where she manages to bring down some of the remains of Moon Theater with only her voice when she reaches the high point of "Don't You Worry About A Thing".
• Help, I'm Stuck!: When Moon Theater floods, Meena gets stuck inside the building's ticket booth and is unable to free herself, which leads to her nearly drowning to death as the room fills up with water around her.
• Huge Girl, Tiny Guy: Meena is a teenage elephant, while her boss and mentor figure, Buster Moon, is a koala. Naturally, Meena always towers over Buster whenever they share a scene together, to the point where he has difficulty holding up one of her hooves while he's leading her onstage.
• Imagine Spot:
  • She appears to be in the middle of one when she starts singing "Hallelujah" in the wreckage of the ruined theater, though it's not clear if she's imagining her longed-for performance or just moved by the song playing in her headphones.
  • This is ultimately how she's able to get through her big, nerve-wracking duet with Darius in the climax of Sing 2, by imagining he's Alfonso: the guy she has a crush on and would actually like to spend time with.
• Love at First Sight: In the second movie, she falls for the ice cream vendor Alfonso after barely a minute, when he shows some kindness to her after an awkward rehearsal with Darius.
• Nice Girl: She's introduced singing "Happy Birthday" to her grandpa, she bakes muffins and cakes for both family and acquaintances, she's friendly to the other contestants, and even after Buster accuses her of being as big a fool as he is during Buster's Heroic BSoD, she runs off in sadness—but still leaves the cake for him.
• Official Couple: With Alfonso. In the second film, she becomes smitten with an ice cream vendor while she's rehearsing with her friends in Redshore City, and she keeps trying to work up the nerve to approach him and tell him how she feels about him. She finally manages to ask him out after her performance in the "Out Of This World" show, and by the end of the film, the two elephants have officially started dating.
• Performance Anxiety: She loves to sing and has an excellent voice, but the minute she walks onstage she becomes a clumsy sweaty mess. The main focus of her story arc is her learning to overcome her stage fright, and after she pushes through her rendition of "Don't You Worry About A Thing", she finally manages to conquer her psychological block. By the time the second film rolls around, she enjoys getting to regularly put on shows with her friends at Moon Theater, and she clearly has a lot of fun owning the stage during their performance of "Let's Go Crazy".
• She Cleans Up Nicely: While Meena was never bad looking, the purple dress she wears during the final performance is a sharp contrast to the baggy hoodie and jeans she wore throughout the movie. In the second film, she once again wears a purple dress, this time one that's sparkly and comes with a hooded cape, before changing it to a blue version (which turns into a long, flowing white dress during her performance) for her role in the "Out Of This World" show that accentuates her natural beauty more than her usual wardrobe does.
• Shrinking Violet: She's a very shy and self-conscious young woman, who struggles a lot with her anxieties. She's easily pushed into doing things she's not comfortable with and is bad at asserting herself, which can lead to her being disrespected by guys like Mike or Darius, or being roped into Buster's zany (and shady) schemes.
• Skewed Priorities: Played for Laughs in the second film. Before her segment in the "Out Of This World" show, Meena is worried about singing in front of her crush, Alfonso, and potentially embarrassing herself again - while she and her friends have much more pressing matters to worry about at the moment, like Jimmy Crystal and his minions showing up to kill them all.
• Vague Age: Meena is called a teenager in the script and other materials, lives with her maternal relatives and acts like a younger teenager (thirteen to sixteen), but she is not seen attending school, which is in session as Rosita's children are shown leaving in the morning for the bus, and a picture held up by someone at a party suggests she has graduated from high school. Furthermore, Meena's singing ability surpasses what is normally expected from an adolescent.
• Wake-Up Call: When she screws up her first audition, her grandfather puts his foot down on her Performance Anxiety and tells her straight up to demand a second chance and do it with full confidence. It was what Meena needed to hear to overcome her problems and it worked a lot better than her mother's reassurances.
• Youthful Freckles: They're hard to see from afar, but she has them, which is fitting, since her age range is somewhere in the teens.

Johnny

Voiced by: Taron Egerton^{Foreign VAs}Chen Jiao (Cantonese); Andreas Jessen (Danish); Louis-Philippe Berthiaume (Canadian French); Sacha Perez [Sing], Camille Combal [Sing 2] (EU French); Patrick Baehr (German); Alessandro Campaiola (Italian); Takuya Ōhashi (Japanese); Li Nan (PRC Mandarin); Fiuk (Brazilian Portuguese); Mickael Carreira [Sing], André Raimundo [Sing 2] (EU Portuguese); Stanislav Tikunov (Russian); Adrián Viador (EU Spanish); Roger González (LA Spanish)

^{Johnny in Sing 2}

A British gorilla who's greatly passionate about singing, despite his criminal father's disapproval.

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• Accidental Murder: Subverted. During his getaway driver training, he looks up just in time to see he's speeding towards his dad. Johnny slams on the brakes but when the dust clears he can't see his dad and thinks he ran him over. Marcus suddenly appears and gives Johnny a Jump Scare, completely oblivious to Johnny's fears and pleased that his son is driving faster.
• Ambiguously Gay: He's gentle and soft-spoken despite his rough upbringing, in addition to the usual gay parallels the "Gender-Normative Parent" Plot invokes. Plus, the two songs he performs are both by openly gay artists. The second film also has him become good friends with both Nooshy, a female lynx, and Ryan, a male tiger.
• Amusing Injuries: In the second film, he allows most of his friends to climb on top of him so they can sneak into Crystal Entertainment together, and he struggles not to drop any of them. They eventually manage to pull it off, but not before Johnny gets whacked upside the head by a door, which is played completely for laughs.
• The Baby of the Bunch: Zigzagged. He is the youngest member of his father's gang despite being a young adult; within the troupe, however, Meena is the youngest while he's around Ash's age range.
• Badass Driver: Though only once he stops thinking about it. And when he's not caught in traffic.
• Bad Liar: When his dad and his gang are thrown in jail, Johnny tries to explain his absence from the heist site by saying he went to get gas. His father sees through it immediately.
• Bear Hug:
  • He receives a heartwarming one from his father, when he breaks out of prison to apologize for his harsh words earlier and to tell him how proud he is of him. Johnny is taken by surprise for a moment before he returns the hug, showing that he forgives his father.
  • In the second film, Johnny decides to call Marcus, Stan and Barry for help when the Moon Theater troupe is being hunted down by a vengeful Jimmy Crystal and his enforcers. When his father arrives in Redshore City, Johnny is thrilled to see him again (especially after the stressful and perilous day he just had) and the first thing he does is greet him with a big hug.
  • Mr. Crystal later abducts Buster in the middle of the "Out Of This World" show, and the other animals are powerless to stop him from hurting the koala. When Rosita swoops in at the last second and manages to save Buster from being killed, Johnny immediately scoops up Miss Crawly in his arms and hugs her tight, beaming brightly out of joy and relief.
• Because You Were Nice to Me:
  • When he's desperate to bail his father out of jail, Johnny is all set to steal what he thinks is a $100,000 worth of prize money from Buster, until he notices one of the notes the koala made about his audition, excitedly calling him a "natural born singer". This reminder that Buster and Miss Crawly have always treated him kindly and encouraged him to try to reach his true potential (that no one else has ever seen before) causes him to have a change of heart and decide that he can't betray them. Instead, he decides to return to his original goal of honing his talent as a singer, so he can hopefully win the prize money and help his father that way.
  • In general, it's implied that part of the reason why Johnny has grown increasingly loyal towards (and later protective of) the other animals in the theater troupe is because of the kindness they've shown him ever since they met in the first film. Johnny's friends have supported him a lot as he's grown into his own man, they kept him company while the rest of his clan was in jail, and they accepted him into their group, even after he told them everything about his past. So Johnny has come to love all of them like they're family, and he's repaid their kindness several times over by supporting their ambitions and giving them a helping hand during dangerous situations.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Johnny is one of the most friendly and mild-mannered characters in the series but he does have his limits, and during his performance of "A Sky Full Of Stars", he's pushed well and truly past those limits when Klaus attacks him in the middle of his act and tries to publicly humiliate him out of jealousy. To gain the upperhand over his opponent, Johnny unleashes his inner gorilla for once and channels all of the raw power and agility he possesses into his dance moves. He completely overpowers Klaus and disarms him ruthlessly (to the point where Klaus starts to become intimidated by him), before he finishes their match with a Death Glare that makes it clear he was still holding back the whole time he was curbstomping him.
• Big Damn Heroes: He saves Meena from drowning when she gets stuck in the ticket booth during the flood, by shoving himself off a pillar with enough force to dislodge her. By extension, he also saved everyone else by doing this because as soon as Meena was rescued, the water was able to escape and unflood the theatre, allowing everyone to get out in one piece.
• The Big Guy: A Class 2 example, as a Gentle Giant. He's actually the second largest member of the Moon Theater troupe after Meena, but he's often the one who uses his natural strength and speed as a gorilla to help his friends when they're in trouble: like saving Meena from drowning when the theater floods, keeping the rest of the gang hidden out of sight while they're sneaking into Crystal Entertainment, scooping up Rosita and Miss Crawly in his arms when they're being chased down by Mr. Crystal's security team, or chasing Gunter through a casino to stop him from hurting himself while he's in a hypnotic trance.
• Big "YES!": When Buster changes his mind at the last second and decides to include Johnny in his line-up for the singing competition, the gorilla excitedly exclaims "Yes!" to himself. He has the same reaction in the second film, when Buster tells him he's giving him a really cool part in the "Out Of This World" show, and he's even more exuberant about it this time around.
• Character Development: In the first film, he learns to stick to his guns and follow his dreams of being a singer, regardless of whether or not his father will ever approve of that decision. As a result, he becomes a more independent young man, changes his destiny and gains his father's respect. In the second film, he learns he shouldn't let his fears and his self-doubt about whether or not he's good enough to make it in the big leagues hold him back from striving for greatness. He also learns to stand up for himself more when he's dealing with people like Klaus, who only want to tear him down out of envy.
• Character Tics: He tends to raise his fist into the air whenever he's feeling excited about something - like when Buster sends his freshly picked finalists home for the night, with promises of big things to come; when Buster gives the theater animals a rousing pre-show pep talk before they're due to go onstage in the ruins of Moon Theater; when he's cheering Meena on after her performance of "Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing"; when Johnny is trying to get a crowd pumped-up during his performance of "Let's Go Crazy"; and when he's cheering on Clay Calloway's decision to stick with the Moon Theater troupe for another one of their shows in Redshore City.
• Costume Evolution: He wears a new long-sleeved teal shirt in the second film, while keeping the rest of his previous attire.
• Death Glare: In the climax of Sing 2, Klaus tries to sabotage his act and publicly humiliate him out of jealousy, but he manages to turn the tides back in his favor with some encouragement from Nooshy. While he restrains himself from actually hurting the proboscis monkey (other than giving him a sharp thwack on the nose), Johnny shoots him a heated scowl at the end of their duel to establish dominance between them, looking angrier than we've ever seen him.
• Don't Think, Feel: When Johnny has to learn how to dance in the second film, he already has a lot of doubts about whether or not he's capable of doing it. Having to deal with Klaus's utter contempt for him and his precise perfectionism for weeks only amplifies his anxiety, to the point where he's incapable of making any further progress. When Nooshy takes him under her wing, she encourages him to stop overthinking it and simply learn to move with the flow of the music, trusting his own instincts to carry him through the choreography. Sure enough, Johnny has much better luck with her approach to the problem, and it later helps him to improvise when he has to go off-script during his climatic dance battle with Klaus.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Over the course of two movies, Johnny is led down a life of crime by his gangster family when he would much rather pursue his dreams of being a singer; his father turns his back on him for several days when Johnny's absence during a heist leads to the whole gang being imprisoned; he's separated from his entire clan for an untold amount of time while they're behind bars; his abusive dance instructor tries his very best to completely destroy his self-esteem (including trying to publicly humiliate him at one point); and he and his friends are put in grave danger multiple times by a collapsing theater and Jimmy Crystal's enforcers. Thankfully, by the end of Sing 2, his life has become much happier. He's found his own voice and forged his own path as a budding singer. He's made a lot of great friends in the theater troupe who have helped him grow and thrive. He and his father have mended their relationship, and his bond with his clan has grown a lot stronger and healthier. He's put in the hard work to learn all the basics of being a performer and reaped the rewards by getting to live out his dreams. And his self-confidence has grown as well, thanks to Nooshy.
• Forgiveness: Even after all the trouble Marcus, Stan and Barry caused him by leading him down a life of crime, the ending of the first film and the second film makes it clear that Johnny has forgiven them for it, and he still loves them. Whenever the topic of their community service is brought up, Johnny seems to be quite happy that they've been given a second chance to turn their lives around the way he's done, and that they're willing to put in the effort to change.
• The Friends Who Never Hang: Johnny and Mike never talk to each other or interact at all in the first movie, so it's unknown what they think about each other.
• Gentle Giant: One of the taller contestants, and also easily one of the nicest characters. Buster even calls him a "big soulful guy".
• Gentle Gorilla: He's a gorilla who's very nice and soft-spoken, in contrast to his Killer Gorilla father.
• Greaser Delinquents: Johnny usually dresses like a leather-jacketed 1950's greaser, and he is indeed a teenage delinquent when we're first introduced to him, since he's been raised by gangsters to follow in their footsteps. However, even after he decides to walk away from a life of crime and pursue an honest career as a singer and pianist, he still decides to keep his signature look going forward, as seen in Sing 2 and the franchise's various comedy shorts. And he's shown on multiple occasions that he's still willing to help his friends with some of their less-than-legal ideas.
• Heel–Face Turn: Johnny is the first member of his clan who decides to leave his old life as a thief behind him, so he can pursue his true calling as a singer and pianist, and by doing so he unknowingly inspires the rest of his family to change their ways as well afterwards, out of love for him.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: Johnny seems to love wearing an old-school leather jacket that symbolizes both his gangster background and his rebellious spirit, once he starts to forge his own path. He wears it all year long and he rarely ever takes it off, except for when he's either doing something strenuous or getting dressed up for a role. His costume for the "Out Of This World" show also incorporates another leather jacket into it, with the implication that Buster and Gunter knew he would like the design.
• Heroic Second Wind: During his dance battle with Klaus, Johnny is overpowered by his far more experienced instructor and seems to be down for the count for a few moments, until Nooshy and the rest of his fellow dancers encourage him to get back on his feet. With his fighting spirit now renewed, Johnny challenges Klaus to a rematch and swiftly turns the tides back in his favor by going off-script, dancing circles around him with some improvised moves, until he claims his victory.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: The traffic jam that stopped Johnny from getting back to his father's heist in time was caused by Johnny himself when he was driving recklessly to make it to the dress rehearsal.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: With Nooshy. He's a tall, muscular primate, while she's a short, lean feline.
• Iconic Outfit: While Johnny has had several wardrobe changes throughout the franchise, his signature leather jacket (that he usually wears over a green shirt and a pair of blue jeans) is never far away from him.
• Insecure Protagonist, Arrogant Antagonist: He has this kind of dynamic with Klaus in the second film. Johnny is a mild-mannered young man who, despite being a talented singer, carries around a lot of self-doubt about whether he'll ever be able to live up to Redshore City’s high standards, or master the art of dancing. Klaus, by contrast, is a very haughty and pompous older man, who's held a high reputation in his field of work for years and firmly believes that his approach to dancing is the only one that's worthwhile. He makes no attempt to hide his disdain for Johnny as the weakest link in his class, puts him down at every opportunity for his failures, and grows very resentful of him later, when he manages to improve as a dancer without using his methods. This conflict is eventually resolved when Johnny manages to get the better of him onstage: Johnny proves to himself that he does have what it takes to be a real performer, while Klaus is thoroughly humbled by the experience and left to rethink some of his deeply held beliefs.
• Intergenerational Friendship: He has a few of these with several other members of the Moon Theater troupe, but the one he has with Miss Crawly is especially noteworthy. After she teaches him how to master the art of piano-playing in the first film, Johnny grows quite fond of the elderly iguana. In "Love At First Sight", he tries to help her resume her love life by setting her up with an online dating profile. In Sing 2, he makes sure she doesn't get left behind when the group is being chased by Jimmy Crystal's security team, and he gives her a big, overjoyed hug later when Rosita manages to save Buster Moon's life.
• Irony:
  • His promotional poster pegs him as 'The Rebel' and he's part of the gang his father runs, but he opposes the criminal way of life and ends up being a rebel by having innocent, perfectly legal aspirations and following them.
  • A major source of conflict for Johnny in the first film is the pressure put on him from the other members of his gangster family to follow in their footsteps, even if it conflicts with his own ambitions. Ultimately however, it's Johnny's decision to go straight and find his own path, so he can pursue his dreams of being a singer, that winds up inspiring his entire clan to give up a life of robbing and pillaging as well, once they decide their relationship with him is more important than anything else.
  • Over the course of two movies, Johnny goes from helping his gangster family to commit illegal activities, to helping his theater family to commit illegal activities (albeit on a smaller scale). This eventually culminates in the climax of Sing 2, when Johnny decides to have both groups join forces to deal with Jimmy Crystal, as they hijack his hotel.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: He's the feminine boy to Nooshy's masculine girl. While Johnny's a gentle soul that can play the piano, Nooshy's a free-spirited tomboyish street dancer that isn't afraid to mince words with Klaus.
• Missing Mom: Johnny's mother is never seen or mentioned.
• Mistaken for Flirting: When Johnny first decides to approach Nooshy with his idea of becoming her student, he broaches the subject by asking her if she'd like to go and get coffee. She understandably assumes he's hitting on her and accuses him of being forward, since they've known each other for less than thirty seconds, much to his embarrassment.
• Morality Pet: After the events of the first film, Johnny seems to have become one for the other members of his clan, since the love they feel for Johnny and their desire to remain a part of his life is the primary reason why Marcus, Stan and Barry decide to give up being robbers and make an effort to reform.
• Nice Guy:
  • Johnny's just a really sweet kid who's not interested in his family's criminal antics. He's also friendly to the other contestants, and he's the one who saves Meena from drowning when she got stuck in the theater booth while the theater was flooding. He's not even resentful towards his father for rejecting him and is overjoyed when he breaks out of jail to apologize to him.
  • In "Love At First Sight", he sets up a dating profile for Miss Crawly after assuring her that it's never too late for romance. In "For Gunter's Eyes Only", he completely exhausts himself trying to stop a hypnotized Gunter from getting hurt or getting himself into a whole lot of trouble. In Sing 2, he frequently tries to protect his friends from being harmed, compliments some dude's hat with Nooshy just to make him feel good about himself, and seems to let go of his resentment towards Klaus pretty quickly, once the proboscis monkey finally ends his feud with him.
• Not Afraid of You Anymore: After taking several dance lessons with Klaus Klickenklober in Sing 2, Johnny grows to fear and resent his harsh and overly strict dance instructor. All of that changes in the climax however, when Klaus runs onstage during Johnny's big performance to humiliate him and destroy his self-confidence. After receiving plenty of support from his friends in the audience, Johnny stands up to him and proceeds to beat him at his own game. He proves himself as a capable performer in his own right, and gains the man's respect at the same time.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Johnny is a pretty chill dude who rarely ever gets angry, but Klaus manages to bring out a different side of him in the second movie. After being yelled at and struck by Klaus's staff over and over again for hours during their dance sessions, Johnny seems to have a panic attack and decides to vent his anger at Klaus. He snaps his own skateboard in half in a fit of rage and immediately regrets it.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • In his introductory scene, Johnny starts to panic when he realizes the gorilla gang are about to emerge from the bank they just stole from, while some policemen that he previously failed to notice are patrolling outside.
  • During his getaway driving practice, Johnny receives an unexpected scare when he gets distracted at the wheel and nearly runs over Marcus.
  • When he's driving back to the heist, gets caught in traffic, and it sinks in that he won't be able to get back in time.
  Johnny: Aaaaahh, I'm dead.
  • When he storms out of Klaus' studio because of his inability to dance and the pressure Klaus puts him through, he angrily kicks a trash can and goes so far as to throw his own skateboard at a fire hydrant, breaking it in half before he realizes what he's done. Luckily, he's able to get it repaired the next day.
  • After displaying his drastically improved dancing skills in front of the class, Johnny sees the embarrassed Klaus glaring at him and becomes visibly worried as he realizes that he's just made an enemy of the instructor.
  • While the theater animals are pushing forward with their "Out Of This World" show, Porsha warns them that her father will be furious when he finds out they're undermining him even further. When Buster reassuringly claims that at least they're safe for now, Porsha insists that none of them are safe now: Crystal and his goons will be coming for them very soon. Johnny looks mortified when she says that, and decides that things have officially gotten bad enough that he should probably call his family for help.
  • During the big show in the climax of the second film, Johnny is very alarmed when he realizes Klaus has taken Ryan's place onstage so he can sabotage his act.
  • Johnny spends most of the "For Gunter's Eyes Only" short in a state of panic, desperately trying to run damage control, as a hypnotized Gunter goes on a rampage, puts two people in the hospital, and eventually tries to electrocute someone with a defibrillator.
• The One Guy: He's the only man out of the young players and the most prominent one other than Buster.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: When he breaks in to steal the prize money to bail out his father, he wears one of the bunny masks his father's gang uses. A mask that's as thick as a paper plate and barely covers the top half of his face. He does this as he's wearing his everyday clothes and no gloves. Basically if anyone caught him, there would be no questioning who he was.
• Punch-Clock Villain: As much as he dislikes being a criminal, he still helps his father's gang with their heists: either by acting as a lookout or a getaway driver.
• Reformed, but Not Tamed: By the second film, Johnny has officially retired from being a thief, and he's perfectly content with that decision. With that much having been said, he's still willing to help his friends commit other types of illegal activities when he's participating in Buster's zany schemes (that range from trespassing in private property, to hijacking Jimmy Crystal's hotel so they can strike back against the vengeful, murderous wolf).
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The Sensitive Guy to Marcus' Manly Man. Johnny is a very friendly, kindhearted and occasionally timid young primate, in contrast to his boisterous and hot-blooded gang leader father.
• Skepticism Failure: In "For Gunter's Eyes Only", he doesn't believe the incredible feats on display during a hypnotist's show are actually real and is quite certain they're staged, in stark contrast to Gunter, who's completely immersed in the experience. Johnny's skepticism is quickly proven wrong however, when Gunter himself gets hypnotized and goes on a destructive rampage that Johnny has to try to stop.
• Sucks at Dancing: Johnny is a very talented singer, but in Sing 2, it becomes clear that he's not a very good dancer. He spends a lot of that film trying to master the latter skill, so he can have a full package as a performer. He makes little to no progress with Klaus's harsh, strict teachings, but has much better luck with Nooshy's looser style, since it allows him to improvise and express himself more.
• Token Good Teammate: In the first film, he's easily the most empathetic member of his father's gang, and the one who's the most resistant to the life of a criminal. In the latter half of the movie, he officially decides he would rather be a singer than a thief, and his decision to turn his life around winds up having a positive impact on the rest of his clan as well in the long run, when they decide to follow his example.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: In the second film, Johnny still has his insecurities about whether or not he has what it takes to make it in the big leagues, and having to deal with Klaus' strict, abusive teachings puts an obvious strain on his mental health. But overall, he's much more cheerful and perky in this film than he was in the original movie, and he has a lot of fun venturing outside of his hometown with his friends. His life is in a much happier and healthier place now across the board (he's made a lot of great friends, he's got a nice stable career doing what he loves, he has plenty of freedom and independence, and his relationship with his father and his clan is stronger than ever), so his mind is a lot less troubled.
• Top-Heavy Guy: As a gorilla, his torso is twice as long as his legs.
• Vague Age: Johnny is called a teenager in the script, lives with his father but is designed to look and sound like a young adult, and doesn't attend school. Furthermore, when his father goes to prison, there is no mention of child services or social workers.
• Vocal Dissonance: Johnny's beautiful tenor singing voice voice is far, far far from dissonant in the conventional sense but it is at odds with his appearance.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: He really wants his father's approval, but he's not precisely excited about joining his father's gang. At the end of the first film, Johnny finally gets his wish when (much to his surprise) his father breaks out of prison after seeing his performance on TV, so he can reconcile with him and apologize for shunning him earlier. He expresses pride in him for both his incredible amount of skill and his willpower, and Johnny is moved by his acceptance. Since then, Marcus has continued to support his dreams and ambitions, and by the time the second film rolls around, Johnny has officially become the pride of his clan, with Marcus, Stan and Barry all loving his work.
• What You Are in the Dark: After his father and his gang are sent to prison, Johnny decides to steal Buster's prize money so he can bail them out. But he has a change of heart when he sees how much Buster believes in the raw talent and potential he has as a singer, and decides he can't betray him. Instead, he chooses to focus on learning how to play the piano properly under Miss Crawly's tutelage. He still intends to use the prize money to help his father down the line, but he wants to earn it his own way.
• White Sheep: In line with being the Token Good Teammate.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Johnny has this reaction multiple times in the second film, wherever he's feeling exasperated. First, when Klaus Kickenklober insists that he try to dance on his "tippy toes", and then when Buster suggests that the whole gang should try to put on their show behind Jimmy Crystal's back in his own hotel.

Gunter

Voiced by: Nick Kroll^{Foreign VAs}Samuel Yau (Cantonese); Klaus Bondam (Danish); François Sasseville (Canadian French); Laurent Gerra (EU French); Christian Gaul (German); Fabrizio Vidale (Italian); Tsukasa Saito (Japanese); Hao Xianghai (PRC Mandarin, credited as "Slayerboom"); Jiang Tiecheng (TW Mandarin); Marcelo Serrado [Sing], Daniel Müller [Sing 2] (Brazilian Portuguese); António Machado (EU Portuguese); Konstantin Karasik (Russian); Borja Fernádez Sedano (EU Spanish); Rubén Cerda (LA Spanish)

^{Gunter in Sing 2}

A German pig who loves the spotlight and is a good dancer, in spite of his questionable singing talent.

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• Acrofatic: As a pig, Gunter is naturally one of the more plump figures in the series, but he's still frequently shown to be a spry and energetic character who has some pretty smooth dance moves under his belt. This is especially true in the "For Gunter's Eyes Only" short, where a hypnotized Gunter proceeds to run wild through a casino and cause all sorts of chaos and mayhem from the crazy stunts he pulls off.
• Ambiguously Gay: He's very flamboyant, wears a sparkly red leotard, and sings Lady Gaga. He also has no romantic interest in his female performing partner Rosita, but then again, she is already married, so it would be weird if he had an interest in her, gay or not.
• Amusing Injuries: In Sing 2, Gunter and Porsha practice their act together for the "Out Of This World" show, soaring across the stage on wires. However, Porsha fails to catch Gunter when the time comes, so he goes flying into one of the stage's prop planets with a comical thud.
• Ascended Extra: In-Universe. Due to being the idea man behind the troupe's "Out Of This World" production, Gunter is promoted to Buster's creative consultant throughout Sing 2 and works alongside him to direct most of the play.
• Badly Battered Babysitter: In "Gunter Babysits", he agrees to watch Rosita and Norman's kids for the night, so they can have some time to themselves, and things start to go south very quickly. The overly excited kids start to overwhelm him, trash the apartment, and even tie him up at one point. He manages to tidy up the apartment and put most of the kids back into bed before Rosita and Norman return, but he's left completely exhausted by the end of his ordeal.
• Bait-and-Switch: In "Gunter Babysits", the piglets manage to overwhelm Gunter while they're going on a rampage, damaging their parents' house. He turns his attention towards his phone, and for a minute it looks like Gunter is going to call Rosita for back-up, before he actually uses it to start playing music, as part of his clever plan to tire the kids out.
• Big Fun: He's a bit self-centered, but he's a jovial, kind-hearted pig who just wants to have some fun, and he wants everyone else to share that experience with him as well. While he's cooking up the "Out Of This World" show with Buster in the second film, it's pretty clear that he wants all of his friends / castmates to have just as much fun acting in it as he did working on it.
• Brainy Pig: For all his comical eccentricities, Gunter is a talented performer and later turns out to be a creative mastermind, being the idea man behind the group's first breakout performance, "Out Of This World".
• Catchphrase: "PIGGY POWER!!"
• Chekhov's Skill: Gunter's sweet dancing skills have come in handy for him, both onstage and offstage. In "Gunter Babysits", Norman and Rosita's children get hyped up on way too much sugar, and start to go on an out-of-control rampage while they’re supposed to be under his care. When time is running short, Gunter challenges them to a dance-off. He tricks them into wearing themselves out and burning out all of their energy, since he knows they won't be able to keep up with him.
• Comically Missing the Point: During the dress rehearsals for the singing competition, Rosita trips and falls flat on her face in the middle of her act. Buster asks her if she's okay, only for Gunter to chime in with "Oh yes, I'm fine, thank you. How are you?"
• Crazy-Prepared: During the blackout, he reveals that he brought glowsticks so everybody can continue to practice in the dark while Buster fixed the problem.
• A Day in the Limelight: He's given a starring role in two short films, "Gunter Babysits" and "For Gunter's Eyes Only": the former of which involves him trying to wrangle Norman and Rosita's kids when he's put in charge of watching them, and the latter of which has him become hypnotized into believing he's a secret agent.
• Determinator: When Gunter is hypnotized into thinking he's a secret agent on the hunt for a doomsday device, he singles out some random bear with a suitcase as his target and hunts him down relentlessly through a casino. He refuses to let any obstacle stop him or slow him down for long, to the point where he jumps out of the window of a building and tackles the poor bear while he's sitting on a moving Ferris wheel.
• Don't Think, Feel: His philosophy on performing, especially when Rosita tries using flash cards to learn dance steps.
• Flat Character: In the first film, he acts as Rosita's Eccentric Mentor, but apart from that, the audience doesn't learn much about him and he doesn't really have his own story arc. In the second film, his personality is fleshed out a lot more as he shows off his resourcefulness and his creative side, and he's given a lot more to do as he works closely with Buster to create the Moon Theater troupe's newest production.
• Funny Foreigner: He's a very quirky and comedic character who has a thick German accent^note plus his name is German in origin (usually spelled Gunther in German-speaking countries).
• Genius Ditz: By default, he's a hyper-enthuiastic Funny Foreigner and the Plucky Comic Relief. He's also a fluent dance expert and by the second movie, is Buster's idea man for the troupe's first breakout show.
• Hidden Depths: He's the one who comes up with the idea to make a musical Space Opera. While the idea isn't fully completed (and he keeps adding new stuff on, to Buster's chagrin), it shows quite a bit of creativity.
• Just Friends: Gunter is Rosita's dance partner, but as Rosita is already married, it isn't a romantic partnership and he's happy when Rosita's husband Norman kisses her after the performance.
• Hypno Fool: In "For Gunter's Eyes Only", he volunteers to be mesmerized at a hypnotist's show and is led to believe he's a secret agent, trying to save the world from a doomsday weapon. This decision almost immediately backfires when he injures the hypnotist and proceeds to chase down an innocent bear who he thinks is an enemy agent. Johnny has to spend the remainder of that short stopping Gunter from either hurting himself or getting himself arrested.
• Keet: A rare adult example. Gunter is a very fun-loving, energetic person who's always brimming with a childlike sense of wonder and enthusiasm. When he gets the opportunity to bring his space musical idea to life in the second film, he's constantly gushing about it and has a hard time sticking to one train of thought at a time. Gunter also tends to talk without a filter whenever he's overly excited, which proves to be an annoying problem for Buster, who's trying to keep up a façade for as long as he possibly can.
• Large Ham: Both figuratively and literally. Gunter is a very flamboyant and eccentric performer who usually has a blast immersing himself into a role, and chews a whole lot of scenery whenever he's onstage. This aspect of his personality is dialed up several notches in the "For Gunter's Eyes Only" short, where he gets hypnotized into thinking he's an unhinged James Bond parody character. He spends as much time showing off his skills and making hammy one-liners as he does hunting down his quarry.
• Mr. Imagination: He was the one who came up with the play "Out Of This World", creating a sci-fi musical with help from Mr. Moon.
• Nice Guy: Gunter can be very eccentric and overly excitable at times, but he's also one of the nicest characters in the series who will give his friends a helping hand whenever they need it. He gives Rosita plenty of emotional support in the first film, when she's struggling to learn how to dance. He has no problem agreeing to watch her kids in the "Gunter Babysits" short, so she and Norman can have a fun night out. And he tries to give all of his friends roles that he thinks they'll love in the second film, when he's concocting the "Out Of This World" show with Buster.
• Plucky Comic Relief: Out of all the members of the Moon Theater troupe, he tends to be the most silly and eccentric. His subplots are usually pretty zany and lighthearted, and he's the star of two short films where wacky hijinks proceed to ensue around him.
• Shipper on Deck: Gunter is happy when Norman gives Rosita The Big Damn Kiss.
• Smarter Than You Look: In Sing 2, when Buster praises him for his ingenuity, he mentions that his mom used to say that he is not as dumb as his father.
• Stunned Silence: During their rehearsals in the second film, Gunter is so stunned by how bad Porsha's acting is, that he's left uncharacteristically quiet for a change.
• Technician vs. Performer:
  • His performance is pure flash and pizazz, but the singing itself is... questionable. He gets paired as a duo with Rosita by Buster, hoping the duet will balance out each other's flaws.
  • He is also this in the creative side of things with Buster in the second movie. He is able to think thousands of more radical and compelling ideas on the spot than the more conservative and professional Buster, who is left managing Gunter's hyper enthusiasm and narrowing it down into one consistent production.

Patronage

Nana Noodleman

Voiced by: Jennifer Saunders, Jennifer Hudson (young)^{Foreign VAs}Bodil Jørgensen (Danish); Michèle Lituac (Canadian French); Pauline Larrieu (EU French); Iris Berben (German); Rita Savagnoe [Sing], Stefanella Marrama [Sing 2] (Italian); Mao Daichi (Japanese); Long Sian-Huei (TW Mandarin); Márcia Coutinho (Brazilian Portuguese); Catarina Furtado [Sing], Ermelinda Duarte [Sing 2] (EU Portuguese); Lyubov Germanova (Russian); Concha Velasco (EU Spanish); Marcela Páez (LA Spanish)

The starlet whose performance in ''Epiphany'' inspired Buster's dreams of owning and running the theater. She's now retired and out of the public's eye, but is still visited by her grandson Eddie (On request from his life coach).

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• Alliterative Name: Nana Noodleman.
• At the Opera Tonight: In Sing 2, Nana demonstrates she hasn't lost the grandeur etiquette of theater presence: superlative garments and the classical opera binoculars. She even uses them for mundane sightseeing such as spying the talent recruiter leaving the show.
• Bait-and-Switch: When she is first introduced in the present day, it's as Eddie's grandmother, so he naturally calls her "Nana"...but it turns out this isn't a term of endearment (since she isn't close to anyone, let alone him) but her actual name.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Nana is first shown singing at the Theatre in the first film's prologue, with this performance inspiring a younger Buster's lifelong passion for music and theatre. Buster assumes in the present that Nana has long since passed, but she's reintroduced at the film's midpoint when he asks her to fund the competition.
• Cool Old Lady: She's a renowned theatrical singer who is elderly and retired but after you get past her cold first impression and put on theatrical shows as grand as the days of old is when she becomes generous and sweet towards those who put a lot of work and heart into their craft.
• Death Glare: She's overly fond of giving them, at least at first, to the point that one glance at a family portrait causes Buster to recoil in terror. This is usually Played for Laughs as a Running Gag, but one instance that's played completely seriously is the stony scowl she shoots Buster after Moon Theater floods. Considering his squid tank stunt nearly killed her, nearly killed her grandson, and destroyed the theater she loved by accident, she makes no attempt to hide how furious she is with him.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: She's first introduced as a cold, straitlaced retired celebrity who has no room for nonsense and wants nothing to do with Buster or Eddie. But after Buster proves himself and impresses her, she softens up and believes in him by sponsoring his theater. And even in the second film she is thoroughly supportive to Buster when he doubts himself.
• Demoted to Extra: In the second movie, Nana only has two major scenes at the beginning, and doesn’t reappear until the end of the film to attend the Moon Troupe's performance at the Majestic.
• Glory Days: She still looks back fondly on her days in the theatre world, reminiscing on the experience at length to Buster. It's implied that part of the reason she's so sour is because she can no longer be a part of that world.
• Gruesome Grandparent: Downplayed and Justified. Nana isn't abusive toward her family but Eddie dreads visiting since she looks down on him for his lack of ambition and unlike his parents, she never minces her disappointment. Considering that Eddie was The Slacker at first, she wasn't entirely wrong.
• Hates Being Touched: When Buster asks to hug her, she declines. After she buys the theater, she reluctantly lets Buster and her grandson do so.
• His Name Really Is "Barkeep": "Her Name Really Is Nana" in this case. Nana is an affectionate term for one's grandma, but it turns out Nana is really her name.
• Intergenerational Friendship: At the end of the first film, Nana finally warms up to Buster, and by the time the second film rolls around, the two have officially become friends. They get along quite well because of their shared love for musical theater, though Nana is still willing to give the younger koala some tough love when she thinks he needs it, to pull him out of a funk.
• It Amused Me: This is why Nana eventually agrees to come to the dress rehearsal; she thinks Buster is lying about the theater still being a place of wonder and magic, but at least watching a dress rehearsal is better than spending another evening playing checkers with her penguin butler. This same desire to be entertained also prompts Nana to return for the "comeback performance", and this latter performance finally convinces her to bail Buster out.
• I Was Quite the Looker: For an anthromorphic sheep, she actually looked beautiful when she was younger.
• Jerkass Has a Point: As haughty and cold as she can be, she is not without reason. Particularly when saying that she won't lend Buster the money simply based on his productions in the past, all of which have failed. She's also completely right about Buster being a liar, since it was his hiding the truth about the $100,000 prize money that prompted him to approach her in the first place.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's standoffish and impersonal, but admits that she still thinks fondly of the theater during her glory days. Part of the reason she dislikes Buster is that she feels that his management is the cause of the theater's fall from grace. After the comeback show, she buys the theater and pays for its reconstruction so she can give it back to Buster.
• Living Legend: She's still famous, as even Mike is impressed to hear she's coming for the dress rehearsal. Ironically, everyone thought she was dead.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: She appears to be heavily based off Gloria Swanson, a famous silent-film star that transitioned to talkies, then Broadway.
• "No More Holding Back" Speech: A variation; instead of her revving herself into full potential, she gives one to Buster as a means to stop moping over a snobbish headhunter's opinion of him and embrace his strengths to evidence why she's pegged him wrong.
  "Never mind what this person you don’t even know said. Do you think you’re good enough? [...] Then you must fight for what you believe in. Guts, stamina, faith. These are the things you need now, and without them...Well, maybe that scout was right. Maybe you’re not good enough."
• Phrase Catcher: Many people are dumbfounded that she is still alive.
• "Psycho" Strings: These notes are sung opera-style when Buster first properly meets her and she's staring him down menacingly.
• Reclusive Artist: In-Universe. In the first movie, Nana retreated from public appearances after retiring, despite an enduring reputation in theatre circles. A recurring quip is people believing her to be dead. Subverted in the second movie, as she's become more social if only to attend the renovated Moon Theatre's plays.
• Rich Bitch: She acts coldly, but not without reason. After being an incredibly talented stage actress for years, she became incredibly wealthy and turns away people coming simply to beg for money. Not even her own family is spared her scorn, judging by her treatment of her grandson.
• Silver Vixen: She has visible age signs compared to her prime but otherwise she still maintains her good looks.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Despite her reduced screen time, Nana's actions often leave a huge mark in the narrative of both films.
  • In the first, her performance in "Epiphany" influences Buster to get into showbiz, eventually buying the theater. At the end, attending the performance among the wreckage convinces her to donate the money needed for its reconstruction.
  • During Buster's slump after being rejected by talent scout Suki, Nana instead dismisses his doubts and gives him a pep talk. This convinces him to get everyone to audition at Redshore.
• The Team Benefactor: She becomes Buster's last hope to pay off the theater's debts based on the singing competition's performance, a role she initially refuses. When the show is a success, she becomes the theater's champion by paying for its reconstruction and financial woes out of her pocket. Sing 2 reveals her conditions for the arrangement: a permanent spot at the main balcony so she can better observe her investment, the perfect excuse to indulge in the troupe's exquisite showtunes.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: Now that she's no longer as much of a social recluse as she was before, and she's fully regained her love for the world of musical theater because of Buster and his crew, Nana's outlook on life seems to be considerably happier and more optimistic in the second film.
• Took a Level in Kindness: She is very sweet and supportive by the second movie, where she encourages Buster and even personally tracks him down to make sure he's okay while he's feeling glum. She remains snarky and blunt, but in a more playful Tough Love manner, and pauses to check on Buster before leaving to make sure he got the right message from it.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With her butler Hobbs. However she busts his chops, they're clearly good friends.

Hobbs

Nana's penguin butler. Loyal, accommodating and courteous, he's normally the fulcrum between her mistress and the outside world, as well as possibly the only person Nana actually likes.

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• Artistic Age: Similar to Nana, he doesn't look old despite his employer implying Hobbs is around her same age.
• Animal Stereotypes: A penguin serving as a butler, complete with redundant smoking.
• The Cameo: He makes a brief appearance in "Eddie's Life Coach", where he stoically presents Eddie with the new workout routine that his mother insists he undertake.
• Consummate Professional: Hobbs never betrays emotion during any interaction, remaining at Mrs. Noodleman's service and attending her guests with gracious etiquette.
• Named in the Sequel: He was originally nameless in the first film. Sing 2 establishes his name as "Hobbs".
• Nice Guy: He's too formal but always courteous nonetheless.
• Not So Stoic: He reacts surprised when Nana refers to him as an "old fart".
• Only Friend: While she eventually comes to affable terms with Buster and Eddie, Hobbs remains the one soul Nana personally relates to.
• Undying Loyalty: To the entire Noodleman family. He attends Nana mainly; following Eddie's mother's orders to deliver him some headphones isn't above his duties as shown in the short "Eddie's Life Coach".
• Vitriolic Best Buds: He takes Nana's ribs in stride, as they're shown to have a genuine friendship.

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