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    The original Farthing Wood Animals 
Animals who originally lived in Farthing Wood, but sought refugee in White Deer Park.

Fox

The leader of the Farthing Wood animals.
  • Adorable Fluffy Tail: He is a fox after all.
  • Action Dad: Fox constantly risks his life to rescue the other animals of farthing wood. He becomes the father to Bold, Friendly, Charmer, and Dreamer in Series 2. He takes down Scarface after the latter has killed Dreamer, only barely sparing his life.
  • All-Loving Hero: In season 1, where he expresses concern over Owl and Adder, while brushing off all complaints towards Weasel's singing. For context, Owl and Adder just spent the previous scene talking about what an improvement his death would be, while Weasel had been... singing.
  • Aloof Leader, Affable Subordinate: Has this dynamic with Badger, his second-in-command. Compared to Badger, Fox is more pragmatic, sarcastic, stern, and blunt. Badger on the other hand is more openly friendly and fatherly.
  • Asskicking Leads to Leadership: In Series 1, he lures hunters away from Vixen and he defeats a dog by bluffing him. In Series 2, he defeats the deer hunters twice by luring them to the pond with thin ice and on the second time, he lures them to get the Warden's attention to apprehend them. Fox also fights Scarface to save the rest of the animals.
  • Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Fox has this dynamic with Bold in Series 2. A lot of his interactions with Bold involves him constantly reprimanding the latter for his selfish and impulsive behaviour. After Bold leaves White Deer Park, Fox expresses anger and disdain towards the subject. As revealed in one of the official audio tapes however, Badger's death causes Fox to rethink his prior interactions with Bold. After witnessing Bold dying, Fox apologizes to him for being hard on him and calls him the bravest fox he's ever met......then is seen silently weeping alongside with Vixen after Bold says his last words.
  • Big Good: He counts as this in Series 1. By Series 2, the Great White Stag overshadows him in this trope.
  • Berserk Button: Fox doesn't put up with any kind of betrayal, coerced or not. Fox showed nothing but anger and zero sympathy towards Weasel in Series 2 when she revealed that she almost gave in after Scarface tried to coerce her to betray the other farthing wood animals. His callousness towards Weasel was also shown during one of the official audio tapes.....with Weasel expressing her emotional distress over her situation with Scarface. Fox also branded his daughter Charmer as a traitor for falling in love with Ranger, one of Scarface's sons. In one of the official audio tapes, Fox revealed that he angrily viewed Badger as a traitor for leaving to stay in the Warden's cottage again.....something that was not entirely made clear in Series 2.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Threatens to bite everyone's heads off when they stubbornly refuse to move out of harm's way in Series 1.
  • Brutal Honesty: Oh...does he ever. In the first episode of Series 1, he made it clear to the other animals that all of them were going to die from dehydration if they stayed in Farthing Wood. During Series 2, he flat out called Weasel annoying and told her to wind down instead of winding everybody up because everybody was exasperated with her antics. He has also bluntly told Vixen that Bold deserved all the hardship he got after the latter expressed concern over Bold's whereabouts after he left White Deer Park. In one of the official audio tapes, Fox callously admitted that Mr. Pheasant's grief towards the death of Mrs. Pheasant was no different than how certain individuals would only care about their loved ones when it was too late.
  • The Chains of Commanding: In one of the official audio tapes, Fox admits that he didn't originally want to be the leader of the farthing wood animals since he felt like the position was thrusted upon him. During Series 2, Fox keeps having to step in the role of leader despite looking forward to not having to continue those responsibilities. By the end of Series 3, Fox steps down as leader in favor of Plucky due to his old age.
  • Cunning Like a Fox: He's a fox who's able to effortlessly trick and manipulate his foes.
  • Deadpan Snarker: In the animated series, whilst it's partially a fault with his voice actor's inexperience, he is notably sarcastic and prone to sounding at least mildly exasperated with the animals around him.
  • Devoted to You: To Vixen.
  • Doting Grandparent: To Plucky
  • Fantastic Foxes: Clever, wise, and cunning? Yes...just ask Jack.
  • Genius Bruiser: He is highly intelligent and cunning. He is also the strongest fighter amongst all the animals.
  • Heartfelt Apology: In the middle of Series 2, Fox sincerely apologizes to Badger for their previous fallout.....right before Badger dies in front of him. By the end of Series 2, Fox apologizes to a dying Bold for being hard on time to the point of having drove him away.
  • The Hero: In Series 1. Series 2 demonstrates some of his more negative qualities, but he still qualifies there. Series 3 on the other hand...
  • The Hero Dies: The series ends with him wandering off to peacefully die of old age.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: A more downplayed example. Fox can come off as brooding and sarcastic. He also has quite a callous streak to his personality at times, as shown in regards to Weasel's situation with Scarface as well as his own son, Bold. However, Fox deeply cares about the wellbeing of the other animals...best shown when he risked his life in an attempt to save Bold, expressed sympathy for Badger's denial of Mole's death, holding guilt over the deaths of the hedgehogs, and showed concern over Owl and Adder's whereabouts.....while the both of them had just spent the previous scene discussing about how much of an improvement Fox's death would be.
  • The Leader: He acts as one towards the Farthing Wood animals.
  • Nepotism: Fox chose Plucky over Ranger as the new leader of the farthing wood animals due to Plucky being related to him through blood.
  • Outliving One's Offspring: Two of his four cubs die by the end of Series 2.
  • Politically Incorrect Hero: Fox was initially against Charmer and Ranger's relationship. When ask for his reasoning, he stated that Charmer is a red fox while Ranger is a blue fox. He eventually subverts this trope by the end of Series 2 as he finally gave his blessing and stated that Charmer and Ranger's union could bring peace between both of their kind.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: Fox plays this trope straight in Series 1. In Series 2, he still qualifies...albeit as a downplayed example. In Series 3 though.....
  • Resigned to the Call: In the cartoon, he is looking forward to not being leader any more in season 2, but finds himself stepping into that role to look after the others. He ultimately steps down in favor of Bold's son at the end of the third season.
  • Shipper on Deck: Initially averted throughout most of Series 2 in regards to Charmer and Ranger's relationship. However, he plays this trope straight by the end of Series 2.
  • Single-Target Sexuality: Has only ever shown to have eyes for Vixen.
  • Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Fox is quite pragmatic, sarcastic, and can come off as emotionally distant at times. He's not always the most openly friendly of all the animals but he sure is the most compassionate. While he may not always show it, Fox can be extremely caring to those whom he's close to.
  • Spotlight-Stealing Squad: The stories became more and more focused on Fox and his family as time went on.
  • Story-Breaker Power: His intellect, large body and unwillingness to leave anyone behind would have almost certainly prevented the deaths of the fieldmice, had he not been separated from the group. After this his intellect is very downplayed in favour of him focusing on his mate, presumably to allow moronic decisions to be made by others.
    • In Series 2, he's the only one capable of ending the threat the Blue Foxes pose, so he's sidelined by poachers and literally starving until the end of the season.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: He becomes more jaded in Series 2 after the hell he's going through. In Series 3, he is a year or so older and acts like a Grumpy Old Man throughout most of the series.

Badger

Second in command, he typically takes charge when Fox is absent. Old but much loved by the other animals.
  • Aloof Leader, Affable Subordinate: Has this dynamic with Fox, his leader. Compared to Fox, Badger is more openly friendly and fatherly. Fox on the other hand is more pragmatic, sarcastic, stern, and blunt.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Badger is usually the nicest animal of the Farthing Wood group, but if you try to hurt or kidnap his friends, the results would get ugly.
    • In the Path of the Storm has Badger, following the altercation with Trey, suggest tricking Trey into drinking from the poisoned stream. Fox and Vixen are shocked by the suggestion, not least because it's coming from the kindly old Badger of all animals.
    • The Siege of White Deer Park shows his more cunning streak, as he pretends to be angry with Tawny Owl so nobody will guess his plan to rescue Husky.
  • Cool Old Guy: He's a kindly old badger who will fight to defend his friends if he has to.
  • Death by Adaptation: He dies of old age in the series but lives in the books.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Oddly enough he qualifies in the series, at least where Weasel and the Rabbits are concerned.
  • Honorary Uncle: Is this to many animals, including the fox cubs.
  • Life Will Kill You: He is the only animal to pass away from old age onscreen.
  • Number Two: Although never stated, he is acknowledged to be Fox's deputy, and had led the party numerous times when Fox is unavailable or missing.
  • Politically Incorrect Hero: He calls Weasel "stupid female!" after she provokes the wrath of wasps by attacking their hive with a stick as part of a random whim to try imitating human soldiers.
  • Scatterbrained Senior: Played for Drama. In Series 2, He mistakes Mossy for Mole, even though Vixen tries to explain to him that Mole has passed away, but he doesn't pay attention to her and Fox says that Badger can't assimilate it. Vixen convinces Mossy to continue pretending that he is his father since that makes Badger very happy, but when Badger is dying, he rambles and believes that he is in his old sett in Farthing Wood before he dies.
    • In In the Path of the Storm, Badger ends up losing his wits when the storm destroys his sett. In his delirious state, he wanders out of White Deer Park, believing that his old home in Farthing Wood is still intact and that he must return to it. It takes Owl telling him all about Farthinghurst to bring him back round.
  • Team Dad: He acts as the responsible father figure of the group.

Toad

The guide on the journey to White Deer Park. He made the journey in reverse prior to the start of the novel/cartoon when trying to get back to his pond in Farthing Wood after being kidnapped by a human child and kept in a jam-jar.
  • Big Eater: Although not as much as Mole, he still loves worms and grubs, and is always eager to gorge himself.
  • Interspecies Friendship: With the other Farthing Wood animals, but also later with Spike the rat.
  • The Navigator: He acts as the group's guide, being the only one of them who's ever been to White Deer Park. However, a problem he faces midway through the journey is when the homing instincts that led him from the park back to Farthing Wood kick back in, causing him to start leading them astray before Owl figures out what's going on.
  • The Pollyanna: Is usually the most cheerful, upbeat and optimistic of the Farthing Wood Animals.
  • Spared by the Adaptation: Is killed by the rats in the books, but survives to the end in the series.
  • Talk Like a Pirate: Downplayed, but Toad tends to use a lot of nautical jargon to pepper his speech, most commonly by referring to his friends as "matey".

Mole

Badger's best friend, who rides on Badger's back on the journey.
  • Big Eater: Which often gets him into trouble.
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: Mole died off-screen from the cold weather.
  • Heroic Self-Deprecation: Mole provides access to areas that the group would not normally be able to access and saves the group on several occasions later on (including when they were trapped by an angry shotgun wielding farmer). If he'd been left behind like Adder initially suggested, most (if not all) of the party would be dead. However, despite his value, he's regularly depressed and on the verge of an existential crises.
  • The Load: Beside being a literal load on Badger's back, he spends several episodes in Series 1 getting lost due to his greediness for worms, is almost captured by humans, and gets into enough trouble that Badger or some other animal has to rescue him. Often averted due to his usefulness to the group (see Heroic Self Depreciation).
  • Tunnel King: Is definitely the best tunneller of the group. This comes in handy when the animals need to escape from being trapped in a barn.

Weasel

A singular weasel, the only one left in Farthing Wood by the time the animals choose to flee.
  • Adaptational Comic Relief: The biggest example in the show. The Weasel of the books was pretty straight-faced and serious, but the cartoon version is a lot goofier and played for laughs most of the time.
  • Adaptation Personality Change: Goes from loyal and fearless in the books to obnoxious and a scaredy-cat in the show.
  • Adaptation Species Change: The Norwegian dub refers to her as a stoat ("røyskatt"), not a weasel ("snømus").
  • Cute, but Cacophonic: She's cute enough to look at, but the cartoon gives her a loud, screeching voice and a piercing laugh that she tends to launch into at the drop of a hat. Plus, her singing is awful... one of the things that actually makes her start to slowly warm up to Measley's courtship is the reveal that he actually likes her singing.
  • Dirty Coward: Subverted. Weasel would not rather get into dangerous situations and she does tend to fly into a panic when she does, but when push comes to shove, she surprisingly turns out to be very reliable.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: Whilst not as outright hated as Adder is, Weasel in the cartoon is widely considered to be the most annoying member of the group due to her constant mischief, her constant shrieking cackle, and her endless mockery.
  • Gender Flip: Male in the books, female in the show.
  • Hidden Depths: Despite how annoying and silly she can be in the cartoon, she does have her good sides. She saves Badger's life when he becomes entangled in water weed and nearly drowns on the journey, and refuses to spy on the Farthing Wood animals for Scarface even though he mauls her twice for her refusal and threatens to kill her. She even tries to save Vixen and her new cubs from being attacked by Scarface whilst Fox is away.
  • Kick the Dog: When something horrific happens, she'll be there to laugh about it.
    [After Badger has been narrowly recovered from drowning to death]
    Badger: Where's er- where's Fox?
    Rabbit: ...Who knows?
    Weasel: Drowned, I should think. [laughs gleefully]
  • The Hyena: She's constantly cackling at anything she thinks is funny, even when everyone around her thinks it's not, and her laugh is high-pitched and ear-piercing.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: Subverted in Series 3, as her abuse is alarmingly not out of character for her. The real issue is that she's around someone she can abuse, and two impressionable kids, rather than the group of animals that would never put up with her antics.

Adder

A single serpent who is part of the flight from Farthing Wood. Though abrasive and disliked, Adder becomes vital to the survival of the fleeing animals on more than one occasion.
  • Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: Her more vengeful and malicious streak means she (or he, in the book) steps up to finish off Scarface even though Fox decided to spare his life.
  • Brutal Honesty: Is the least tactful of the group when it comes to anything.
  • The Cynic: His debate Toad in the original novel seems to paint Adder as this - he considers naturalists and other environmentally-minded humans in the minority, and fully believes that, sooner or later, nature reserves like White Deer Park won't be exempt from human expansion.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: While she starts out as callous and rude, over time, Adder becomes more openly caring towards others.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: Due to her being the most malicious and sinister of the group, the rest of the Farthing Wood-beasts can't really stand her. Fox and Badger are the only ones who try to be civil to her, and whenever the possibility of abandoning her on the journey comes up, every beast except for them is eager to do so.
  • Gender Flip: Male in the books, female in the show.
  • Humans Are Bastards: If the debate with Toad in the original novel is any indication, Adder doesn't regard humans with any fondness. Given that humans demolished Farthing Wood to make way for a housing development, and that the animals had just passed through a field soaked in pesticide, his disdain isn't unfounded.
  • In Love with Your Carnage: Expresses admiration for Fox's harsher leadership in "The Deathly Calm" when he threatens to bite Weasel's head off if she didn't do as he told her.
  • I Just Want to Be Normal: Adder wants to be like any other snake, but according to Badger, "she can't, not anymore. This journey has changed all of us. Even her."
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Adder is vicious, callous and unsympathetic, yet her later actions show that deep down she really is good-hearted. Over time her negative qualities subside a bit and she becomes more outwardly sentimental.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After Sinuous is killed by Bully's rats, Adder devotes herself to slaughtering as many rats as she can find.
  • Snakes Are Sinister: The only named reptilian member of the Farthing Wood group, and also the least moral one. This is zigzagged, though, as she remains on their side to the end of the series, and eventually goes through a fair bit of character growth.
  • Sociopathic Hero: Despite being on the heroes' side, she's violent and has no qualms with killing.
  • Somewhere, a Herpetologist Is Crying:
    • Adder has a zigzag pattern on her back, but it consistes two stripes combining it. Real life adders have only one zigzag stripe on their backs.
    • Her eyes are bright yellow and she can blink. Snakes overall can't blink and adders have dark red/orange eyes.
  • Sssssnaketalk: Naturally, being a cartoon snake from the 90s, she exaggerates the "s" sounds of her words to simulate hissing.
  • Token Evil Teammate: Of all the animals, she's the one most likely to at least threaten to eat the other animals even if she sticks to the Oath, and actively seems to enjoy terrorizing them. She encourages Owl's political ambitions in the early stages of the journey in the cartoon, and is generally shown as the most malicious, even compared to Weasel's bad excuse for humor.
  • Villainous Rescue: On the journey to White Deer Park, she keeps the farmer's dog at bay long enough for the rodents to gnaw a hole in the barn's floor so that Mole and Badger can dig a tunnel to help the group escape when a farmer has them trapped. She subsequently saves Vixen by biting a fox hunter's horse on the leg, causing it to rear on a steep slope and fall over, hurting its rider and causing the other hunters to break off the chase so they can get their injured friend to hospital.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: Even though she does come to regard the other Farthing Wood survivors as friends after the journey, she still enjoys mocking, taunting and scaring them. For example, she seems to deliberately target one of the park's frogs, despite knowing that Toad considers them his friends, because she's been denied the meal for some time.

Owl

The night-time scout. Wise and intelligent, although not as much as she thinks she is.
  • Army Scout: Scouts ahead for the animals during the night.
  • Gender Flip: Male in the books, female in the show.
  • Heroic BSoD: She suffers from this in Series 2. When poachers shoot a blue fox, she thinks they shot Fox and it's all her fault, and that makes her pretty depressed. She is comforted and informed by Kestrel that Fox was not killed.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She can be a bit of a know-it-all and pompous at times. But in Series 2, Kestrel, Whistler and Speedy prank Owl by not telling her that Fox called off the food raids. She feels quite hurt and loses trust in others, but when she believes that Fox was killed by poachers, she becomes quite depressed. Despite how pompous she can be at times, she genuinely cares about others.
  • The Owl-Knowing One: She's presented as a wise and scholarly figure precisely because she's an owl.
  • The Smart Girl: She is a wise owl, although her wisdom is somewhat questionable at times.
  • Temporary Deafness: Due to sitting by the church bell as it strikes.
  • Took a Level in Kindness:
    • Downplayed in the first season; she initially is shown to resent not having been selected as the leader, and after the pheasants get killed, she's even shown conspiring with Adder about taking Badger's place as Fox's appointed replacement. She gets over this over the season and becomes more of a loyal second-in-command to whoever is leader at the time. This is something of an exaggeration of a similar but much shorter power-struggle that took place in the original novel.
    • In Series 3, during the Owl story arc. She learns to stop being so mean, self-righteous and pompous during her journey in search of a mate after she was insulted by Weasel for not having a mate, due to the absence of a "warm heart" and a "loving disposition".

Kestrel

A quick flyer with excellent eyesight, who acts as the daylight scout for the party.
  • Accidental Murder: Accidentally kills and eats Mrs Fieldmouse when they get to White Deer Park, not realising who she is (until the aggrieved husband tells her).
  • Army Scout: Scouts ahead for the animals during the day.
  • Catchphrase: "Kee, kee!"
  • Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Mysteriously disappears after Series 2 and not mentioned besides a brief flashback (likely in keeping with the books).
  • Gender Flip: Male in the books, female in the show. Interestingly remains the colours of a male kestrel (likely due to the gender flip decision happening after animation).
  • She's a Man in Japan: In the Spanish dub, she is referred to as a male, something that looks good on her since in the show has the colours of a male kestrel.

The Rabbits

Mr. and Mrs. Rabbit, and their two baby rabbits. In the original novels, there are far more of them.
  • Catchphrase: Mrs Rabbit's is "don't panic" - it's even her last words if you listen closely.
  • Death of a Child: One of the baby rabbits is shot dead when it unwisely strays out into the open during a pheasant shoot. The other makes it to White Deer Park.
  • Hypochondria: Mr. Rabbit. If can be something wrong with him, he'll claim to have it. He even claims to be having sympathetic labor pains when she gives birth to their second litter in the cartoon.
  • Large Ham: Mr. Rabbit in particular.
  • The Millstone: When attempting to cross a river, Mr. Rabbit's succumbing to a panic attack causes his whole family to do the same — then, when Fox swims back to rescue him, they all try to clamber onto his back, nearly sinking him and causing him to get struck by some driftwood and swept downstream.
  • The Pollyanna: Despite Mrs. Rabbit being a little panicky, she maintains a positive attitude.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Nobody lets the rabbits live down their panic attack at the river for the rest of the first season, and when they reach Whistler's quarry, even Mrs. Rabbit gives her husband a chewing out for what he did.

Mr. and Mrs. Hare

Although just two hares make the journey in the series, they are accompanied by two leverets (baby hares) in the book.
  • Adorable Fluffy Tail: As expected of hares
  • All of the Other Reindeer: Subverted. Unlike the squirrels, they have no problems integrating into the native hare population, which causes them to largely disappear in the second season due to having moved on to land outside of the "Farthing Territory".
  • Deadpan Snarker: Mr. Hare.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Mr. Hare can be a bit of a jerk but does care a great deal for the other animals, even those he is usually annoyed with, such as Mr. Rabbit.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: Despite being abrasive, Mr. Hare is quite pragmatic and several of his criticisms (e.g. it being a bad idea for the fieldmice to separate from the group in shrike territory) are valid.
  • Loophole Abuse: As they don't live on Farthing Wood territory in Series 2, Scarface targets them to antagonise Fox.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Mrs. Hare is the one who gets fed up of Pheasant's moping and tells him to either go and take his watch (in the book) or go and look for Adder like he offered to do (in the cartoon). When he's killed by the farmer, she feels very guilty.
  • Oop North: Mrs. Hare has this type of accent, but her husband does not.
  • Out of Focus: They get on very well with the White Deer Park hares and live on their land, resulting in seeing very little of them in Series 2.
  • Super-Speed: As hares, they're naturally the swiftest of the Farthing Wood animals to make the journey.
  • Trashtalk: Mr. Hare doesn't show any sympathy for Pheasant, and continues to berate him even after the latter died on his failed mission to retrieve Adder.

Mr and Mrs Squirrel

A pair of grey squirrels, representing the sizable squirrel population of Farthing Wood in the novel.
  • Adorable Fluffy Tail: Not surprising
  • All of the Other Reindeer: They try to make friends with the local red squirrels after getting to White Deer Park, but the smaller, more numerous reds reject them and violently drive them away. Ironically, in reality, grey squirrels tend to push around red squirrels and outcompete them, due to their superior size, strength and ability to eat foods the red squirrels can't handle.
  • Comical Overreaction: In the second season, after they discover that the nuts that Weasel traded to them for sleeping in their tree were actually taken from one of their own stores, they push her out of the tree, call her a thief, and later bombard her with pinecones.
  • Now That's Using Your Teeth!: They help the animals escape from being trapped in a barn in the early stages of the journey by gnawing through the wooden floor to expose the dirt beneath, with the help of the smaller rodents.

Mr. and Mrs. Hedgehog

A cluster of hedgehogs in the novel, replaced by just a mated pair in the cartoon.
  • Death by Adaptation: Both of them are killed on the motorway. In the books, there were many more hedgehogs, and only two were killed on the motorway with the rest surviving.
  • Fear Is the Appropriate Response: Mr. Hedgehog, on the motorway.
  • Madness Mantra: In the cartoon, when they're almost across the motorway, Mr. Hedgehog suddenly freezes up and starts staring off into space whilst chanting, "Don't curl up!" He eventually loses the battle against his fear and curls into a ball, as does his wife, resulting in a lorry crushing them under its wheel.
  • Together in Death: Mrs. Hedgehog has a chance to escape the oncoming lorry, but she refuses to leave her husband.

Mr. and Mrs. Fieldmouse

A great swarm of fieldmice in the novel, condensed to just a single mated pair in the cartoon. In the novel, the mice are decimated by their first winter in White Deer Park, and all of them save for two males are killed by Scarface before the rival fox leader's death.

Mr. and Mrs/Mother Vole

The assorted voles of the novel are condensed to two voles in the cartoon; a male and his mother. Mrs. Vole is known for being comedically hard of hearing. In the novel, the voles are largely wiped out by their first winter in White Deer Park, with the few survivors being slaughtered by Scarface.
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: Mr. Vole died off-screen from the cold weather towards the end of season 2.
  • Ironic Echo: Mr. Vole insisted that the smaller animals should stick together through out Series 1, yet during the first Series 2 episode, he says that all the Farthing Wood animals should stick together, showing how close the entire party became. Mr. Fieldmouse lampshades the change in attitude.
  • Momma's Boy: Whilst every other paired member of the cast are mates, the voles are a duo of mother and son.
  • The Napoleon: Mr. Vole has elements of this, being quick to agitate when he feels he is disrepected, usually agitating to get the other rodents on his side for the added support.
  • Ungrateful Bastard: After all Fox did to get them to White Deer Park, he's extremely quick to believe that Fox ate his mother when she disappears. It's only when Weasel reveals she was a witness to Scarface doing the deed that he apologizes. In fairness, he does have Mr. Fieldmouse both egging him on and providing an example of the oath being broken before, albeit accidentally.

Mr. and Mrs. Shrew

A mated pair of shrews who pad out the ranks of the small rodents fleeing from Farthing Wood.
  • Canon Foreigner: There were no shrews in the books.
  • Spear Carrier: The shrews don't really ever do anything except stand around with the mice and voles and have a few short conversations with them during the first season.

The Newts/Lizards

A swarm of lizards in the books, and a family of three newts in the show. They went with the animals for the first stage of the journey before deciding to stay in the Army land, as it had everything they needed.
  • Logical Weakness: In the cartoon, the newts suffer greatly from having to be removed from water for prolonged periods, being more water dependant than the relatively land-adapted toad. This causes them to decide to stay in the marshes of the Army training land that is the party's first stop, noting that they probably wouldn't survive the journey if they tried to make it.
  • Never Found the Body: After the fire sweeps through the Army land, the fates of the newts/lizards are never revealed, either to the wondering animals or to the audience. The animals do presume them to be dead, which is very reasonable for the lizards, but much less so for the newts, who would have been able to shelter from the flames at the bottom of the marsh's water.

Mr and Mrs Pheasant

A single pair of mated pheasants, a lazy and vainglorious male and his long-suffering wife.
  • Dies Differently in Adaptation: Mr Pheasant dies alongside his wife in the books. He is shot by the farmer an episode later in the show when he returns to the farm to rescue Adder.
  • It's All About Me: Mr Pheasant is very vain and thinks about nothing about himself, with his long-suffering wife constantly doting on him and bearing the brunt of his verbal abuse.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Mr Pheasant's feelings in general when his wife is shot and roasted for dinner by the farmer, after she took up the sentry duty he lazily neglected.
  • Stay in the Kitchen: Mr Pheasant's attitude to his wife. He expects her to do everything for him.
  • Together in Death: Played straight in the books. Not so much in the animated series.
  • Wham Shot: While the fate of the lizards/newts remains ambiguous, the very unambiguous death of the pheasants is the first direct indication of Anyone Can Die.

    The White Deer Park Animals 
Animals native to White Deer Park when the Farthing Wood animals first arrive.

Great White Stag

Leader of the rare White Deer herd that gives White Deer Park its name, and the first to greet the Farthing Wood Animals on their arrival.

Scarface

The patriarch of the local foxes of White Deer Park, who becomes a rival to the Farthing Wood Fox.
  • Abusive Parents: In the cartoon, he's shown to be a cruel and bullying father — not entirely devoid of affection, but quick to find fault in his progeny and generally regarding them with little love. His only concern when two of his older children are shot raiding a neighboring farm is that Fox and Vixen manage to steal the chickens they were trying to escape with, and he openly denounces his newest litter with Lady Blue as being "soft" and "weak".
  • Adaptational Villainy: Whilst he's a villain in the novel, the cartoon makes him much nastier as a person, adding domestic abuse and racism to his list of faults.
  • Adaptation Dye-Job: Is a normal red fox in the books, becomes a "blue fox" in the series — whilst there is a species of fox called the blue fox that is native to Alaska, it's generally accepted that the animated series' version of the White Deer Foxes are actually silver foxes; a melanistic mutation of the red fox that commonly takes on the bluish-grey appearance seen in the show.
  • Big Bad: Of the novel Fox's Fued, which was drastically expanded to make him the primary antagonist of all of the cartoon's second season.
  • Domestic Abuse: In the cartoon, Scarface is extremely cruel to his mate, Lady Blue, blaming his own problems on her and verbally bullying her, even reducing her to sobbing tears in several scenes.
  • Driven by Envy: One of the primary reasons for his feud with Fox, especially in the novel, is that he's jealous of how famous that Fox has become for his exploits in leading the flight from Farthing Wood.
  • Dub Name Change: "Scarface" doesn't translate very well to Swedish, so the dub changes his name to "Enöga", which means "One-Eye".
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: In the novel, he seems to have been a well-regarded patriarch, with his mate mourning that she will not choose a new mate afterwards and his children mourning his death. Averted in the cartoon, where he is cruel and abusive to his mate and children alike.
  • Eye Scream: Has a long jagged scar on the left side of his face, rendering that eye blind.
  • Fantastic Racism: In the cartoon, he scorns and looks down on Fox and Vixen for being common red foxes, where he is a more exotic breed. He does, however, mock his mate Lady Blue by claiming that from what he's seen of them, Vixen's cubs are better than hers.
  • Handicapped Badass: He has a blind left eye, but despite that, he is still a strong and ferocious predator.
  • Hero Killer: Is responsible for at least four deaths in the show, having killed Dreamer, Mrs. Vole, Mrs. Rabbit nd Mrs. Hare, as well as possibly Mr. Vole, and is responsible for many, many kills of Farthing Wood animals in the book, all but wiping out the rodents.
  • Karmic Death: Scarface is killed by Adder, who had unfinished business with him, after he was spared by Fox in the final battle.
  • Knight of Cerebus: He is this for Series 2, he is the series' first serious villain with no humorous qualities, and causes shocking deaths in the White Deer Park. Scarface's appearance in Series 2 makes the story darker, more serious and more dramatic than it was before.
  • Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: His first threat towards Vixen:
    "I'm warning you. One...More...Step..."
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: In the novel, after Fox beats him in a fight, he goes on the warpath through the Farthing Woodlanders' collective territory, slaughtering rabbits, squirrels and voles and even killing Mrs. Hare — and he would have killed Mr. Hare too, if he'd caught him. Downplayed in the cartoon, where instead he "only" kills Mrs. Rabbit and Mrs. Hare.
  • Would Hit a Girl: Or rather, would kill them. Doubles with Would Hurt a Child because he also kills Dreamer.

Lady Blue

Scarface's mate. She tries to act like a regal, powerful lady due to her mate's high status amongst the park's resident predators, but the truth is that she's an abused and downtrodden creature whom Scarface bullies brutally. Her counterpart in the novel is a minor character whose mate treats her far better.
  • Adaptation Dye-Job: Is a normal red fox in the books, becomes a "blue fox" in the series — whilst there is a species of fox called the blue fox that is native to Alaska, it's generally accepted that the animated series' version of the White Deer Foxes are actually silver foxes; a melanistic mutation of the red fox that commonly takes on the bluish-grey appearance seen in the show.
  • Ascended Extra: In the books, she has no name, and is not involved with Scarface's vendetta against the Farthing Wood animals. In the series, she gleefully joins in.
  • Domestic Abuse: Scarface bullies her quite cruelly in the cartoon.
  • Fantastic Racism: Constantly jeers about Fox, Vixen and their cubs being common red foxes, boasting that her unique coloration marks her as a superior specimen.
  • I Am the Noun: Tells Vixen that "MY mate is the law around here."

Measly

A scruffy male weasel who instantly becomes smitten with the Farthing Wood Weasel when he sees her. She isn't interested at first, but after a lot of persistence, she eventually accepts his courtship and mates with him, giving birth to a litter of two.
  • Ascended Extra: Has a main role in the series; is mentioned once in passing in the books (and not named).
  • Cute, but Cacophonic: He actually likes Weasel's awful singing, and can be just as loud and grating as her when he sings.
  • Everyone Has Standards: In the second season, after Weasel refuses to obey Scarface and thus puts herself at risk of his wrath, Measly spends the rest of winter avoiding her to preserve his own life. In the third season, after various misadventures, he finally loses his temper, chews Weasel out, and orders their little family back to the safety of White Deer Park.
  • Henpecked Husband: Weasel is very much the dominant one in their relationship, ordering him around and mocking him all the time.
  • Love at First Sight: In the cartoon, our introduction to Measley is literally him swooning at the sight of Weasel and then trying to glomp and kiss her — she ducks and he instead catches Owl instead.
  • Love Martyr: Puts up with a great deal from Weasel, up to the point where he left the Park on her insistence.
  • Masochism Tango: There are times in the cartoon it's implied that Weasel's bullying attitude is one of the things that attracts him to her.

Speedy

A female heron native to White Deer Park who becomes Whistler's mate.
  • Ascended Extra: She is unnamed in the books, and plays a very minor part; in the series she is named and is a recurring character.
  • The Bus Came Back: She disappears for most of Series 3, only returning at the end in the last few episodes, when the Animals of Farthing Wood prepare for the battle against the rats. Even Whistler is shocked, and glad, that Speedy is back.
  • Motor Mouth: In the series, she is characterized by her rapid-fire speech patterns and love of talking, which are actually where her name comes from.
  • Put on a Bus: She disappears in the first episode of Series 3, when she says goodbye to Owl, as Owl leaves White Deer Park to find a mate and Speedy sadly says goodbye to her friend.
  • Shrinking Violet: In the books, she is very shy and coy when introduced to the others. Her cartoon counterpart is a bold and brazen chatterbox who barely lets Whistler get a word in edgewise most of the time.

Trey

The new leader of the deer herd after the White Stag's death. Arrogant and prideful, Trey seeks to become 'Lord of the Reserve' and enforce a tyrannical rule over the park.
  • Adaptational Jerkass: Both book and cartoon versions of Trey are arrogant creatures who wish to dominate the reserve and will use the threat of violence to enforce their rule. The book version is prideful, haughty and vain, while the cartoon version is a thuggish bully who despises weasels and flies into violent rages when given any excuse to do so.
  • Break the Haughty: How Trey's story arc comes to an end; he is injured horribly when a tree falls on top of him, either while trying to drive the other stags from the park (in the book) or while he was out on one of his patrols (in the cartoon). Though he is rescued, he is clearly ashamed that he had help from creatures he had judged to be inferior. In the cartoon, his injuries in turn eventually cost him his leadership role as they leave him unable to properly defend the deer herd or the park.
  • Bullying a Dragon: Trey immediately makes the mistake of talking down to the Animals of Farthing Wood, considering them no better than any other "lesser" animal. This includes Fox, who by this time has already seen off poachers, defeated the dreaded Scarface and helped the park survive the Great Cat's thralldom. It isn't long before the Farthing Wood community bands together and undermines his rule in spectacular fashion.
  • Don't You Dare Pity Me!: When trapped under the tree, he refuses the help of Fox and the other stags, clinging to whatever stubborn pride he has left.
  • Fantastic Racism: Trey considers the white deer superior to all other animals, and orders the Farthing Wood community to stay in their quarter of the park so his herd has access to the best grazing and water sources. The cartoon version of Trey takes this further by harbouring an especially deep hatred of weasels in particular.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: The cartoon version of Trey will fly off the handle if anyone ticks him off or openly defies him.
  • It's All About Me: For all his talk of the white deer's special status, Trey ultimately proves that his desire to be 'Lord of the Reserve' is more about having complete control over even his own herd and wanting no competition for anything.
  • Jerkass: Trey believes that everything in White Deer Park belongs only to the herd and bans every other species of animal from certain locations so his herd has access to the best grazing and sources of water. He is none too kind to the other stags in his herd either, planning on driving them out so he can have the hinds to himself.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: Discussed and ultimately defied. Badger muses that Trey referring to the Farthing Wood animals as "bad luck" isn't far off, considering everything that happened shortly after their arrival - a horrible winter, poachers, the war with Scarface and the Great Cat. Fox disputes this by saying that everything that happened could have happened anywhere else and Trey is just spitefully blaming them for a set of unfortunate coincidences.
  • Psychopathic Manchild: In the novel, Trey quickly reveals himself to be highly selfish and immature despite his bearing - anyone who doesn't go along with his strict rules is threatened with violence, and he flies into a frothing rage when Fox and the others openly defy him near the climax. The "psychopathic" part gets turned up for the cartoon, where Trey becomes a violent bully with a Hair-Trigger Temper prone to rampages.
  • Smug Snake: The book version of Trey knows he’s the strongest of the deer herd and that he has no rivals. Thus, he wastes no time in talking down to even the Farthing Wood animals and throwing his weight around even before the rut. And when he does defeat all comers and become the leader of the herd, he becomes even more insufferable and intolerant.
  • Spared by the Adaptation: In the book, it’s left ambiguous if Trey survived his injuries, but his absence from the following book implies that he didn't. In the series, he survives, but loses the leadership of the white deer herd to Laird.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: By the end of Season 3, Trey has been greatly humbled by his near-death experience and, with the park's expansion, sees no reason to bully others. He's still not fond of weasels, though.
  • The Marvelous Deer: Thoroughly subverted. Trey *thinks* he's this, even calling himself a 'royal stag', but quickly gives himself away as an arrogant, boastful and pride-filled Jerkass despite his grandiose way of speaking. The series has Trey make no attempt to pretend otherwise, with his violent temper and rough mannerisms betraying him almost immediately.
  • Tyrant Takes the Helm: Trey quickly proves he has none of the patience or friendliness of the Great White Stag by driving all of the animals but the deer away from the pond, proclaiming only his herd are allowed to drink from it.
  • Underestimating Badassery: Because he views all other animals as lesser, Trey doesn't remotely consider the Farthing Wood animals as a threat to his rule, which is how they're able to get the better of him.
  • Villainous Breakdown: In the novel, Trey undergoes ones of these when the Farthing Wood animals stage a mass protest by drinking from the pond alongside the deer herd. Since they’re mingled with the hinds, whom Trey won't attack, he can’t do anything to stop them. The self-proclaimed ‘Lord of the Reserve’ is reduced to prancing about and bellowing in outraged fury at being so openly defied.

Paddock

Toad's mate.
  • Love at First Sight: She is quite taken with Toad upon seeing him as they are both trapped in separate jam jars, which is also enough to knock him out of his moment of insanity. Upon being liberated from her jam jar, she says "This must be my lucky day."
  • Put on a Bus: Paddock is mentioned to have left in the final episode of Series 2, due to mating season being over. However, she and Toad have already arranged to meet again at the start of the next season.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: As one of the animals present at Weasel and Measly's trial in Series 2, Paddock is the only one to voice that Owl, Kestrel and Toad are being unfairly harsh on the two and voices the possibility (and she is quite correct too) that the weasels made an honest mistake in mixing up an important message to Adder rather than the act of treason it's being made out to be.

Sinuous

Adder's mate.
  • Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the books, Sinuous is ambushed by multiple rats and fights to the gory end, managing to take Brat down in the process and costing Bully his second-in-command. In the show, he is strangled to death in his sleep by a single (though enormous) rat.
  • Gender Flip: Female in the books, male in the show.
  • Love Interest: He becomes this for Adder in season 3. The two snakes become very close and inseparable.
  • Morality Pet: He is this to Adder, she cares a lot about Sinuous, he is one of the things that Adder becomes more open and more sentimental with her friends. Sinuous's death affects Adder greatly and she promises to kill all the rats to avenge the death of her mate.
  • Non-Mammalian Hair: Sinuous takes the cake with this one, emulating a Clark Gable style with his nasal markings.
  • Sssssnaketalk: Like Adder, in the cartoon, he elongates any "s" sounds he makes, exaggerating his hisses in the traditional manner of a cartoon snake.

Hollow/Holly

Owl's mate, an owl that the Farthing Wood Owl meets out beyond the boundaries of White Deer Park.

    Descendants 
The offspring of the Farthing Wood and White Deer Park animals.

Bold

Fox and Vixen's son. Leaves the Park to escape his father's shadow... only to find that the world beyond White Deer Park is far crueller than he could have anticipated.
  • Adaptational Jerkass: In the novels, Bold leaves the park after the events of Fox's Feud because he's an adolescent who wants to explore the world beyond the Park, with no particular enmity between his father and himself despite wanting to break out of his shadow. In the cartoon, however, he leaves in a rage after Fox punishes him for wandering into Scarface's territory and nearly getting Fox and Bold's brother Friendly killed by Scarface's clan, and displays no real guilt or remorse for it.
  • Adorable Fluffy Tail: As expected of foxes
  • Break the Cutie: Bold's story is just one long on-going tragedy: he leaves White Deer Park in disgrace after being punished by his father for a mistake (in the cartoon), get blinded in one eye when he tries to be a noble fox like his father and help Shadow the badger, has one of his back legs crippled after he gets Shot in the Ass, and finally hooks up with a vixen who admits she only was interested in him because of who his father was and then forces him to lead him back to White Deer Park by using their unborn children as emotional blackmail. Is it any wonder that he contemplates suicide at several points in the book, or that he ultimately is implied to have chosen death over coming home and living with the shame of his failures?
  • Coattail-Riding Relative: Averted. Bold wants to be his own animal and does not like being associated with the Farthing Wood Fox.
  • Driven to Suicide: In the novels, it's noted at several points that Bold is considering suicide. His death on the outskirts of White Deer Park is even framed as a voluntary choice on his part, because he can't bear to admit he was a failure who couldn't make it outside.
  • The Dying Walk: Upon reaching the fringes of White Deer Park, he sends Whisper away on a fake errand, then musters the last of his strength to find a hiding spot where he intends to die before she can find him.
  • Eye Scream: Suffers a serious injury to one eye when he tries to get Shadow out of a trap, permanently impeding his vision.
  • Face Death with Dignity: He dies satisfied knowing that he got his mate and unborn kits to White Deer Park, where they will be safe, and also made his father proud.
  • Irony:
    • In the cartoon, Bold's father and brother come to save him from Scarface's clan, but Bold manages to escape through his own cunning before they arrive.
    • Despite leaving White Deer Park to try and get away from his father's shadow, he is still very much shaped as a person by the ideals of the Farthing Wood Animals and their unique little pan-species clique. As such, he is quick to trade with and befriend different animals, a philosophy that Whisper, despite wanting to live in White Deer Park, finds bizarre.
  • Interspecies Friendship: With Crow, Shadow and Rollo, with Crow being the one he's most tied to.
  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Is blinded in one eye when he chooses to live up to the ideals of interspecies cooperation he learned from his parents and save Shadow from a snare.
  • The Runaway: He runs away from White Deer Park to make a name for himself.
  • Trauma Conga Line: Keeps suffering from injuries as he tries to make his own way in the world outside the park, eventually reducing him to eating from rubbish bins as his injuries hinder his efforts to hunt.
  • Younger Than They Look: He left his family behind at an early age and due to his injuries, he took on the appearance of an emaciated fox, then when he met Whisper, she thought he was an "old fox" and Bold tells her that him is not a old fox and that he's just a cub, but she says he doesn't look like it.

Friendly

Fox and Vixen's other son, named for his friendly nature and eagerness to make friends as a cub.
  • Adaptation Personality Change: Whilst in the books he keeps Charmer's secret about Ranger, in the series he takes on the role of Bold (who has left the Park by this point) and is hostile to them.
  • Adaptational Jerkass: In the books he lived up to his name and was the only one who was open to Charmer's relationship with Ranger. In the series he is anything but what his name suggests and is more hostile in situations.
  • Adorable Fluffy Tail: As expected of foxes
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In the TV series. He's quite aggressive and not like what his name suggests, but he's still a loyal and caring family member and friend.
  • Never Speak Ill Ofthe Dead: In the novel, he chides the others for celebrating Scarface's death too eagerly, reminding them that as much of a threat as he was to their little community, he was still a beloved mate and father to his own clan.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Appears in one episode of Series 3 and is then never seen again.

Charmer

Fox and Vixen's daughter. A friendly and sweet-natured vixen who ultimately falls for Scarface's son, Ranger.

Dreamer

Fox and Vixen's other daughter. A daydreamer who is forever wandering off on her own and oblivious to the world around her.
  • Adorable Fluffy Tail: Not surprising since she's a fox
  • Death of a Child: She is killed by Scarface.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: Only one line, and dies very shortly after her introduction, but it is her death that really kicks off the feud between Fox and Scarface in full. Her death also begins a chain of events that leads to Bold leaving the park in the cartoon version.

Ranger

Scarface's son, and Charmer's mate.
  • Adaptation Dye-Job: Is a normal red fox in the books, becomes a "blue fox" in the series — whilst there is a species of fox called the blue fox that is native to Alaska, it's generally accepted that the animated series' version of the White Deer Foxes are actually silver foxes; a melanistic mutation of the red fox that commonly takes on the bluish-grey appearance seen in the show.
  • Dude, Where's My Respect?: In the final episode of the cartoon, he asks why Fox is officially passing on leadership of the Farthing Wood beasts to Plucky when he is older and has served Fox loyally since becoming Charmer's mate. He is, however, mollified when Fox tells Ranger that for all his fine qualities, Plucky's status as Fox's grandson gives him a mythic status that the blue fox simply lacks.
  • Token Heroic Orc: He's the only blue fox who is never hostile to Fox and Vixen's family, and ultimately "marries into it", for lack of a better term.

Mossy

Mole's son, who looks (and sounds) just like him.
  • Identical Son: He's Mole's son, but his appearance and voice are all but identical to his father's. Played for drama, in that he starts pretending to be his father to comfort the increasingly senile Badger.
  • Spared by the Adaptation: Is killed by the rats in the books, but survives to the end in the series.
  • Thoroughly Mistaken Identity: After Mole dies, Badger takes the news quite hard. He starts calling Mossy "Mole", and to spare his feelings, the other animals convince Mossy to play along.

Plucky

Fox and Vixen's grandson (great-grandson in the books), son of Bold and Whisper. Best friends with Dash.

Dash

A hare, descended from the Farthing Wood hares. Best friends with Plucky the fox.

    Outsiders 
Animals who originate outside of both Farthing Wood and White Deer Park.

Vixen

Fox's mate, who joins the animals on their journey after Fox meets her.
  • Adorable Fluffy Tail: As seen in other foxes as well
  • Action Girl: Throughout the series, Vixen proves to be just as tough, crafty and deadly as her mate in battle. Particularly in the books, the honour of killing Bully goes to her.
  • All-Loving Hero: Takes this role from Fox when she arrives.
  • The Consigliere: Fox often turns to her for advice on decision-making.
  • I Just Want to Have Friends: Before meeting Fox, Vixen regrets not having friends and she mentions to Fox, that she has had few friendships, but Fox encourages her and tells her that once she joins the Farthing Wood group then she will no longer feel alone.
  • Mama Fox: She is always looking out for Fox and the other animals, but when Lady Blue threatens her cubs, she really turns fierce protecting them.
  • Outliving One's Offspring: Two of her four cubs die by the end of Series 2.
  • Shipper on Deck: She is the only member of her family who approves and supports Charmer's relationship with Ranger right from the very beginning.
  • Sixth Ranger: The first significant addition to the Farthing Wood animals as they travelled to the park, as opposed to the smaller animals leaving during the journey.
  • Team Mom: She acts as the motherly figure of the group.

Whistler

A heron who joins the animals on their journey after meeting them at a disused quarry. His name comes from the whistling noise he makes when flying, a side-effect of an old bullet wound.
  • Captain Crash: Especially in Series 3. He seems to keep landing on Adder.
  • Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Whistler gets his name because the wind whistles through a hole in his wing left after a hunter mistook him for a pheasant and shot him.
  • I Just Want to Have Friends: One reason he joins the party - there isn't anyone for him to talk to in the quarry.
  • Nice Guy: He is always polite and friendly.
  • Only a Flesh Wound: The bullet wound in his wing. It has no effect on him other than causing the trademark whistling sound he makes as he flies, and because he hunts fish, that has no effect on his livelihood.
  • Plucky Comic Relief: In some episodes it is shown that he has trouble landing and he ends up landing on Adder or some other character and Whistler's awkward landing is Played for Laughs. In one episode, Fox recommends to Whistler that if he and Speedy have chicks, it is better that she teach them to fly.
  • Sixth Ranger: Joins the animals on their journey when they stop at the quarry he lives in.

Whisper

Bold's mate, a vixen he meets scavenging in the city.
  • Adorable Fluffy Tail: She IS a fox after all
  • Gold Digger: Downplayed, but she doesn't really express any interest in Bold until she learns he's the son of the famous Fox of Farthing Wood, and she admits after she's pregnant that she mated with him in hopes that he would lead her to White Deer Park, which she regards as a place of safety and shelter compared to the dangers of the city.
  • Innocently Insensitive: Tells Bold she wants them to move to White Deer Park before the kits arrive, unaware of Bold's estranged relationship with his father and wish to never return.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: Whilst her relationship with Bold may seem a tad mercenary, she isn't wrong when she points out that White Deer Park is a safer environment for them and their kits. Food may not be as plentiful in winter as it is in the city, but at least they don't have to worry about being shot, run over, or mauled by dogs.

Crow/Robber

A crow who befriends Bold outside White Deer Park.
  • Big Eater: He has a huge appetite and likes to eat, with the exception of Rollo's dog food biscuits as they are very hard and almost broke his beak.
  • Clever Crows: He is a very friendly crow and friend to Bold and cares for him. When Bold first meets Crow, the crow warns the young fox of the dangers of encountering the humans outside of White Deer Park, but Bold ignores Crow's warnings and ends up suffering numerous injuries. Crow suggests to Bold try go to the town, where he can rummage and find food.
  • I'm a Humanitarian: He is seen eating the corpse of a dead pigeon. In Real Life, corvids are naturally scavengers and can therefore eat the remains of dead animals, even dead birds.
  • Interspecies Friendship: With Bold.
  • No Name Given: Whilst he has a name in the books ("Robber", given to him by Bold), he is just known as "Crow" in the series.

Rollo

A huge and powerful but very friendly and tenderhearted dog that Bold meets whilst scavenging in the city. With a neglectful owner, the all-but-abandoned dog quickly makes friends with Bold and subsequently Whisper. In the cartoon, he eventually becomes a close friend to Weasel and her family during the third season, with her son and daughter in particular forming a tight bond with him.
  • Apologetic Attacker: As friendly as he can be, poor Rollo doesn't know his own strength at times, which often leads to moments that either annoys or injures his friends. He will remorsefully and tearfully apologise for every time.
  • Big Friendly Dog: His most defining trait. While he initially appears aggressive in his introduction in Series 2, it turns out that all he ever wants is to have friends to play and spend time with, no matter what species they are.
  • Cowardly Lion: Rollo gets scared often when threatened by danger or chastised by his master or his friends, but try to harm one of his friends and you will regret it. Just ask the two greyhounds who attempted to attack a defenceless Bold in Series 2, or the feral cats menacing the weasels in Series 3.
  • Does Not Know His Own Strength: Rollo is a massive breed of dog (mastiff in the books, St. Bernard in the cartoon) and does not know how to control his strength, and when he is attacked by Crow (who did not know that Rollo is friendly), Rollo hits him very hard with his paw. Rollo is worried that he has killed Crow, but luckily Crow survives.

Shadow

A badger who befriends Bold outside White Deer Park. She eventually moves to the Park in Series 3 and befriends Hurkel.
  • Ascended Extra: She never once makes an appearance after Bold leaves her territory in the books. She becomes a major character in the show's third series.
  • Nice Girl: She is a kind badger with a soft nature.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute: For her Series 3 appearances, she mainly replaces the character Frond from the books.

Hurkel

A kindly badger.

Bully

Leader of the rats who try to take over White Deer Park.
  • Big Bad: Of Series 3, and of Battle for the Park in the book series.
  • Hero Killer: In the books only. He murders Toad and actively takes part in killing Sinuous.
  • Redemption Rejection: In the last episode of Series 3. Hurkel peacefully offers Bully the chance to surrender so he can leave White Deer Park, but Bully refuses and bites Hurkel's snout.
  • Spared by the Adaptation: He is killed by Vixen in the books in revenge for him killing Toad (who is also Spared by the Adaptation in the series) but remains alive in the series and simply leaves White Deer Park after his tail is bitten off by Weasel's daughter Cleo.
  • Surrounded by Idiots: In the cartoon, Bully is forever complaining about and lampshading the stupidity of the rats around him.

Brat

Bully's faithful second-in-command.
  • The Dragon: To Bully.
  • Spared by the Adaptation: In the books, he is killed by Sinuous. He survives the events of the show and retreats from White Deer Park alongside Bully.

Spike

One of Bully's henchmen, who befriends Toad and switches sides.
  • Defends Against Their Own Kind: While one rat can't do much against the others, he does assist Weasel in teaching Cleo and Fido how to hunt rats by serving as their pretend prey.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Officially joins the Farthing animals after he genuinely befriends Toad, to the extent that he chooses to stay in the Park after the other rats have left as all his friends are there.
  • Interspecies Friendship: With Toad.

The Beast

An escaped leopard that comes to use White Deer Park as its new territory during the novel The Siege of White Deer Park.
  • Adapted Out: Makes no appearance in the cartoon, possibly because the story was too scary even by the show's standards.
  • Animalistic Abomination: Despite being an ordinary leopard, it's treated as this by the animal characters in-universe, none of whom have ever seen a leopard or have any idea what it is; the closest they can come to describing it is that it resembles a cat but much larger and more terrifying.
  • Badass Boast: When talking to Tawny Owl, the Beast brags that he and his kind are beyond even the much-feared grasp of humanity.
    The Beast: "Humans! What do they know of my kind; our ancient lineage? They know nothing of our existence. We have roamed the land for longer than they. Never have they captured us, nor even seen enough to know what we are. We are survivors of the Old Animal Lore. How can they hope to comprehend? They think they are Masters. We know no Masters."
  • The Dreaded: The Beast is a source of absolute terror for all the animals of White Deer Park, even before its identity is confirmed.
  • Hero Killer: Kills Husky, one of Bold and Whisper's sons, and nearly kills Leveret, the young hare who journeyed from Farthing Wood with his parents.
  • I Lied: When Tawny Owl tracks it to a rest and manages to speak to it, the Beast promises that if any of the animals manage to catch sight of it again, then it will leave the park and never come back. When they do manage to track the Beast down, however, it instead becomes enraged and it becomes quite clear that it has no intent of honoring its promise.
  • Invincible Villain: The Beast is, frankly, unstoppable. It's too big, fast and stealthy for any of them to fight it or drive it away — even the deer can't attempt to scare it off with a massed charge, because their antlers have been shed for the winter. When Adder makes plans to ambush and poison it, as he did Scarface, the Beast pounces on him and scares him so badly that Adder gives up the notion. When the animals of the park try to come together as a single pack to fight the creature, it simply stares them down and terrifies them so much that they all lose their nerve. It's too cunning and stealthy for the warden to track it, trap it or shoot it. In the end, the park is only released from the terror when the Beast hears the mating cry of a female and abandons the park to pursue her.
  • Outside-Context Problem: Being based on the urban legend/cryptid that big cats are on the loose in the wild areas of Britain, the Beast completely baffles the residents of the park, who have no idea what it is or how to fight back against it. It's the biggest predator any of them have ever seen, to the point it can even prey on the park's deer, but it moves with incredible speed and silence. Only those of them who have encountered the warden's pet cat can find something to compare it to, but even then, it pales in comparison.
  • Panthera Awesome: The Beast is implied to be a leopard; when Tawny Owl sees it clearly for the first time in the book, it is described as having "glossy golden brown fur with darker blotches, long legs, a small compact head with rounded ears, and a long thick banded tail with a blunt end". This ties it further to the urban legend of leopards and panthers that have escaped from private collections, zoos or circuses have managed to breed in the wilderness of Britain.

    Prequel Animals 
Animals exclusive to the prequel novel Farthing Wood: The Adventure Begins.

The Farthing Wood Otters

A small colony of European otters who inhabit the pond of Farthing Wood. Their presence kept the land as protected property, but their deaths during the events of the prequel led to the wood's destruction five years later. Whilst there are many otters, only a small number are named:
Long-Whiskers: A female otter who becomes the very last surviving otter of Farthing Wood. She is one of the seven otters who survive the massacre and flee the wood, only to see their numbers dwindling. She mates with Lame Otter and becomes pregnant by him, but is left alone after he is killed when trying to protect her from a nursing badger sow when humans inadvertently spook the pair into her set. When Stout Fox finds her on the outskirts of Farthing Wood, she panics and tries to escape him, only to be struck by a car and fatally injured. She tells him about the parasite cure in the watercress of the pond, then dies, her unborn litter dying with her.
Sleek Otter: An older female otter who is the mother of three cubs when winter comes to Farthing Wood. Unwisely, she follows Smooth Otter's lead in stealing from and taunting the predators of the wood, resulting in the deaths of her cubs and the massacre of her colony. She takes the leadership over the last seven, but ultimately sees the group reduced to just herself, Long-Whiskers and Lame Otter. When the latter pair announce their intent to return to Farthing Wood, she refuses to go with them, only to end up being crushed under a reversing car whilst trying to escape some human children.
Lame Otter: One of only two male otters to survive to flee Farthing Wood, he is left permanently lamed from the attack. He mates with Long-Whiskers and decides that it is best for them to return to their former home to rear their cubs. Sadly, when trying to evade some humans, they are chased into a sow badger's set and he is fatally mauled attempting to protect his mate from the protective badger.
Smooth Otter: A male otter and the cause of the war between the otters and the land-predators of Farthing Wood, being the one who most delights in stealing from and taunting them. He is ultimately the first to die, torn apart by Lean Fox and Lean Vixen after attempting to fight the former.
Slow Otter: One of the only two male otters to survive the massacre and escape from Farthing Wood. He resents the coddling that Lame Otter receives from the five females, and in his jealousy gets a pair of unnamed otter sisters killed — knocking one into a trout farm's tank to drown and then causing the other to be mauled by a dog when she comes looking for her sister. When the other surviving otters abandon him, he attempts to pursue them, only to electrocute himself on a train track, where a train subsequently dismembers his body.
  • Death by Irony: Long-Whiskers gets struck by a car trying to run away from Smooth Fox, whom she believes is out to kill her. In fact, he was trying to find her to beg her to come back to the wood, in hopes she could save his pregnant mate by sharing the secret of the otters' parasite cure.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: When the surviving otters abandon the trout farm, they leave Slow Otter behind explicitly because none of them like him, and they aren't even aware at his point that he was the one who got the unnamed otter sisters killed the previous evening.
  • Laser-Guided Karma:
    • Smooth Otter provokes the Farthing Wood predators into violently turning on the otters and is the first to die at their jaws.
    • Slow Otter murders two otter sisters out of petty jealousy, and ends up dying soon afterwards when he stumbles into an electrified train rail.
  • Someone to Remember Him By: Invoked. Lame Otter and Long-Whiskers deliberately decide to mate and then go back to Farthing Wood after they realize that they are the last two otters of their colony alive and presume that Lame Otter will die soon from his injured leg.
  • Suicidal Overconfidence: One of the last things Smooth Otter ever does is try to steal a dead pheasant right out of Lean Vixen's mouth. He later attacks Lean Fox and tries to kill him, only to be torn apart when Lean Vixen comes to her mate's rescue.

Lean Fox & Lean Vixen

A mated pair of foxes whose territory is most heavily hit by the otters during their winter hunting, causing them to take the lead in killing the otters and driving the survivors from the wood. Their triumph is short-lived as they end up dying in a rainstorm soon after.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: Whilst hunting rabbits in a field that has been heavily churned by earth movers during a heavy rainstorm, both foxes are caught in deep mud and drown.
  • Deadlier Than The Male: Lean Vixen is the leader of the efforts to go after the otters, being the one who comes up with the plan to drive the parasite-ridden voles into the otter's territory and then to openly slaughter them with the aid of the wood's foxes and mustelids.

Stout Fox & Stout Vixen

A mated pair of foxes who do very well for themselves over winter. They are vaguely implied to be the parents of the Fox who will lead the Farthing Wood survivors to White Deer Park five years later.
  • Cassandra Truth: Stout Vixen is the only one of the four protagonist foxes in The Adventure Begins to speak against the plans to kill the otters, and is promptly ignored even by her mate.
  • Tragic Stillbirth: Stout Vixen unwittingly eats parasite-ridden voles whilst pregnant, sending her mate Stout Fox on a desperate search for a cure, which only the otters know. Even then, she still ends up birthing a mostly stillborn litter, with just one fox kit surviving.

Sly Stoat

A male stoat and one of the protagonists of Farthing Wood: The Adventure Begins, it was his plan to use parasite-ridden voles to punish the otters for their thefts of food from himself and the other land-dwelling predators, a plan that backfired when it ultimately led to his own mate, Wily Stoat, dying.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: Poisons the otters with parasite-infected voles and partakes in the fight that drives the last seven otters from Farthing Wood, then loses his own mate to the same parasite-riddled voles.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Is full of guilt when the diseased voles take their toll on the other predators of Farthing Wood, and likewise blames himself for not going to help Stout Fox persuade the last surviving otters to return to the wood, resulting in their deaths.

Sage Hedgehog

A hedgehog with oracular dreams who forsees the destruction of Farthing Wood if its otters are killed, but who is unable to prevent this from coming to pass, though he also gives hope by having a vision of White Deer Park, and a fox who shall lead them to safety.
  • Cassandra Truth: Despite his attempts to warn the other animals of the wood what is coming, none believe him until after Lean Fox and Lean Vixen die, as he foretold.
  • Seers: Has dreams that reveal the future to him, though only in vague detail.

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