Rugrats/Characters

Also see the All Grown Up characters page.

Tommy Pickles
The main character and unofficial leader; he is best known for his incredible bravery and the screwdriver he always carries in his diaper.

Voiced by E.G. Daily.

Tropes Associated With Tommy:
 * The Ace
 * Badass Adorable
 * Big Brother Instinct: Towards Dil.
 * Bald of Awesome
 * Catch Phrase: "A baby's gotta do, what a baby's gotta do" and after the movie, "Hang on to your diapies, babies".
 * Characterization Marches On: In the earliest episodes, Tommy was a regular baby with no distinguishable personality--an infant version of The Everyman or The Standardized Leader. Later Tommy begins to develop a stronger personality, becoming a brave Determinator who loves adventure. It can be pretty strange to see Tommy being relatively quiet and cautious in his solo adventures. E.G Daily herself even mentions that Tommy was more baby-like and tiny in the earlier episodes, but as time went by, he got alot more mature and wiser in the show's 10th anniversary special documentary.
 * Determinator: One of the youngest ones you'll find in fiction.
 * The Hero
 * Informed Judaism: Averted for a change; in addition to the token Hanukkah special, his family also celebrates Passover.
 * Also, Boris and Minka are all the proof you need.
 * Innocent Blue Eyes: As seen in the unaired pilot.
 * Only Child Syndrome: Until the first movie that is.
 * Plucky Boy
 * Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Manly Man to Chuckie's Sensitive Guy.
 * Vocal Evolution: In the first episodes, Tommy had a very raspy, quiet voice, and sounds downright feminine in the pilot.
 * Write Who You Know: Tommy was based on Arlene Klasky and Gábor Csupó's son, and was named after co-creator Paul Germain's son, Thomas.

Chuckie Finster
In addition to his uncontrollable red hair, big glasses and bucked teeth, Chuckie is easily distinguished from his friends by his dislike of adventure and irrational fear of particular objects, most notably the "guy on the oatmeal box" (the Quaker Oats logo).

First voiced by Christine Cavanaugh, then Nancy Cartwright

Tropes Associated With Chuckie:
 * Adorkable
 * Big No: His first word in Rugrats In Paris!
 * Blind Without'Em
 * Butt Monkey: To the extreme.
 * Catch Phrase: "I Don't Think That's Such a Good Idea..."
 * "We're doomed! Doomed, I tell ya!"
 * Cowardly Sidekick
 * Didn't Want an Adventure
 * Flanderization: Originally, Chuckie was the voice of reason among his friends, being the only one with any idea/worry of how dangerous many of the thing they were doing were. However, starting with the second season, Chuckie's sense of caution was exaggerated to the point where he is so cowardly that he's scared of the guy on the oatmeal box.
 * Genre Savvy
 * I Just Had To Say It: In "Stu Gets a Job", after accidentally giving Tommy an idea he said "When am I ever gonna learn to keep my big mouth shut?"
 * In another episode, he said "I did it again."
 * In another, his friends look at him after saying something, he sighs and says "I'll get the screwdriver."
 * The Lancer
 * Lovable Coward: Probably his defining characteristic.
 * Missing Mom: HUGE Tear Jerker.
 * Morality Chain: Episodes like "Rebel Without a Teddy Bear", "The Gold Rush" and "Chuckie's Wonderful Life" strongly hint that Chuckie is this to the other babies.
 * Nice Guy
 * Only Child Syndrome: Until the second movie, that is.
 * Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Sensitive Guy to Tommy's Manly Man.
 * Survival Mantra: "I'm a big brave dog, I'm a big brave dog..."

Phil and Lil DeVille
Half-Identical Twins who are alike in every possible way, and even dressed to match. They represent the stage of infancy where babies are forever curious and try to eat and drink anything they can reach. Best known for their love of filth.

Both voiced by Kath Soucie

Tropes Associated With Phil and Lil:
 * The Big Guy & The Chick
 * Extreme Omnivores: Worms, insects, boogers, toilet water-- anything is fair game.
 * Divergent Character Evolution: The twins started off as basically the same character split in two, but later in the series Phil became a borderline Deadpan Snarker and Audience Surrogate, being the character that basically said what the audience was thinking.
 * Full Name Ultimatum: When they argue, they usually address each other by their full first names (Phillip and Lillian).
 * Half-Identical Twins: The only physical difference between them is that Lil has free-hanging earlobes, something minor enough that most people, including their parents, don't notice.
 * Nightmare Fetishists: Very young versions.
 * The Pig Pen: Both of them.
 * Talking To Herself: They both have the same voice as their mother.
 * Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Phil wears pants, while Lil wears a dress and has a bow on her head.
 * Theme Twin Naming

Angelica Pickles
Spoiled and bossy, Angelica is Tommy's cousin and serves as the main antagonist of the series. She hates Tommy and the other "stupid babies" and lives to make them miserable whenever they're in the same place.

Voiced by Cheryl Chase

Tropes Associated With Angelica:
 * Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
 * Blondes Are Evil
 * Blue Eyes: In Preschool Daze.
 * Birthday Hater: Due to the fear of the implications of growing up, Angelica behaves this way during her third birthday. In the end she regrets it when she realizes that, when growing up, she can eat candy with bigger teeth than the babies'.
 * Bratty Half-Pint
 * The Bully: To the babies, big time.
 * Butt Monkey: If you can believe this, Angelica, despite being the antagonist, gets her comeuppance alot(eg: sitting in time out and pizza falling on her hair, causing her to cry as she hates the stress of having her hair washed), but sometimes, she can be the show's buttmonkey, even when she isn't the antagonist!
 * Companion Cube: Her Cynthia doll.
 * Crying Wolf
 * Character Development / Villain Decay: In the first season, Angelica was a total Jerkass that acted nice in front of the adults, but had strong hate for the babies and she somewhat mocked people behind their back (Graham Canyon is a great example of this, as when Drew tells Angelica to have a good time, after Angelica's polite response, she sticks her tongue out at Drew). In later seasons (namely two, but mostly, after the movie), she grows to like them and becomes a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, whereas she is still mischievous, but there's a nicer tone to it! (A great example of this is "Grandpa Moves Out", where instead of tricking Tommy and the gang into doing something bad, she was nothing, but friendly to Tommy and one of the first episodes to show her nicer side)
 * Depending on the Writer: Is she a Jerkass Woobie (and maybe a Tsundere as well) or a flat out vile little brat whom dangerously borders on being a Villain Protagonist? It depends on how pleasant the writers are feeling about her at the time it still happens in All Grown Up but to a much smaller extent.
 * Devil in Plain Sight
 * Even Angelica Has Standards: Unless she’s the one dashing it out, no one is to torment her cousins, Thomas (Tommy) and Dylan (Dil), and their friends and get away with it.
 * Enfant Terrible
 * Fluffy the Terrible: Not just her Right-Hand-Cat...
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Heel Face Revolving Door: She more or less treats the other babies like crap and has no qualms with freaking them out with random urban legends or stories, mostly to get something she wants. However, she ends up being a team player if something worse threatens them.
 * Hypocritical Heartwarming: "Nobody messes with my dumb babies 'cept me!"
 * Ironic Name: The name “Angelica” contains “angel”… she’s no angel, though she has her moments where she is.
 * It's All About Me
 * Jerkass: In season one only! But can still occasionally be this in later seasons.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Season two onwards. A great list of examples are: "Grandpa Moves Out", where Angelica wanted Tommy to tag along (even if it meant causing trouble), "New Kid in Town", where she was incredibly annoyed at how Josh (the new kid) treated them, so much that she pushed him over and he started to cry, and "Rugrats in Paris", when she was disgusted at how Coco treated the babies. Basically, she's not a jerk (the only season where she was a jerk was season one, really), rather, even though she calls the babies "dumb", she doesn't really mean it, and more than often wants to hang around with them (even Tommy).
 * Granted she still has lots of Kick the Dog moments in later seasons and even if she's not as consistantly "evil" in depiction as she was early on she's still an obnoxious and selfish bully just with redeeming moments. Depending on the Writer comes a lot into play.
 * Large Ham: She often likes to see herself as quite the little performer lets just say.
 * Laser-Guided Karma: Her title in this show could very much be "karma's personal punching bag"; in the event she does something that could be considered even vaguely unpleasant, karma is sure to be there to take her down a peg or two.
 * No Matter How Much I Beg: When she tries to give up cookies
 * Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Quite a lot of examples can be found on the Rugrats Nightmare Fuel page.
 * Only Child Syndrome: Unlike Tommy and Chuckie, she was this for the entire series.
 * Spoiled Brat: Not much of one, but is only one when it comes to punishment. Although her parents do tend to punish her, they just really don't wanna break her heart.
 * Token Evil Teammate
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly Girl to Susie's Tomboy.
 * Trademark Favorite Food: "Cookie" was Angelica's first word.
 * Tsundere: Some of her "nicer" stories do occasionally give her these kind of vibes as well.

Susie Carmicheal
Susie moved across the street from Tommy early on in the series. A multi-talented, brave, and humble little girl, she served as the opposite of Angelica and often acted as The Rival to her. If Angelica was The Big Bad, Susie would be The Big Good.

Voiced by Cree Summer

Tropes Associated With Susie:
 * Affirmative Action Girl: Originally added to the cast when they noticed that not only were their mains mostly male (with one of the only two girls being, well, Angelica), they were also a sea of white. Luckily, Susie manages to avoid being a token through her Cool Big Sis persona.
 * Black Best Friend
 * Characterization Marches On: In her intitial appearances she interacted mainly with Tommy, and was kind of a drama queen and a crybaby, sharing Tommy's niavete and ineptness to the world around her. Not long after that, Susie and Angelica met and she became mostly defined by being the Anti-Angelica; mellow, intelligent and mature (at least for her young age).
 * Child Prodigy: At age three, she is already multilingual.
 * Cool Big Sis: Ironically, Susie herself is the youngest of four children.
 * Foil
 * Good Counterpart: To Angelica.
 * Out of Focus: Became less prominent as the series progressed, playing minor roles in the first two movies and making less appearances after the arrival of Dil.
 * Sassy Black Woman
 * Sixth Ranger: At first, but by the time Kimi was introduced, she became more or less The Mentor.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to Angelica's Girly Girl.
 * X Must Not Win: While mostly a Good Counterpart to Angelica, Susie has been shown to be very rivalistic to her at times. Comes to an extreme in "Tricycle Thief" where she jumps to the immediate conclusion she stole her trike.

Dil Pickles
Tommy's little brother, who was born in The Movie. Unlike the others, he can't talk, so he's a baby even to the other babies. As a newborn, most of his time is spent sitting around and drooling.

"Voiced by Tara Strong"

Tropes Associated With Dil:
 * Ambiguous Disorder: One interpretation of his character, since other characters around his age are able to talk without a problem.
 * Annoying Younger Sibling: Tommy felt this way about him in the first movie, but now cares for him.
 * Cousin Oliver
 * Embarrassing Nickname: He calls Angelica "Yucky".
 * The Nicknamer: Partially because he's so young and has no teeth, Dil has a nickname for almost all the babies he interacts with.
 * Punny Name
 * Tagalong Kid

Kimi Finster
First appearing in the second movie, Kimi is an adventurous girl whose mother married Chuckie's father, making her his step-sister.

"Voiced by Dionne Quan"

Tropes Associated With Kimi:
 * The Ace
 * Broken Pedestal: Kimi feels this way about Angelica when she's at her worst.
 * Cheerful Child
 * Companion Cube: Superthing.
 * Distaff Counterpart: Was conceived as being a female Tommy.
 * Genki Girl
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Hair Color Dissonance: Black hair or purple?
 * Nice Shoes: Who knew they made cowboy boots for babies?
 * No Accounting for Taste: Non-romantic example; unlike the others, Kimi actually likes Angelica.
 * Sixth Ranger

Chaz Finster
Chuckie's equally cowardly father. "Voice by Michael Bell"

Tropes Associated With Chaz:


 * Bumbling Dad
 * Butt Monkey: Like father, like son.
 * Happily Married: To Kira.
 * Nerd Glasses
 * Talking to Himself: With Drew Pickles

Kira Finster
She is the mother of Kimi and step-mother of Chuckie. The (2nd) wife of Chaz. "Voice by Julia Kato"

Tropes Associated With Kira:


 * Happily Married: To Chaz.
 * Hot Mom

Stu Pickles
The father of Tommy and Dil, and husband of Didi. He's also the brother of Drew and uncle of Angelica.

"Voiced by Jack Riley."


 * Bumbling Dad: Not quite as extreme as other examples.
 * Bungling Inventor or Weekend Inventor
 * Deadpan Snarker: At times.
 * Generation Xerox: Stu and Chaz were best friends since childhood as well, much like their own sons.
 * Laser-Guided Amnesia: In the episode "Regarding Stuie" he hits his head and reverts to a baby-like state. Another hit on the head brings him back to normal again.
 * Sibling Yin-Yang: With Drew.
 * Straight Man and Wise Guy: Wise Guy to Drew's Straight Man.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Purple rather.

Didi Pickles
Mother of Tommy and Dil, wife of Stu, and Angelica's aunt. A part time school teacher, who constantly consults a famous pediatrician for advice on how to raise the children.

"Voiced by Melanie Chartoff"


 * Anime Hair
 * Author Avatar: Klasky based Didi off herself.
 * Blind Without'Em
 * Fiery Redhead
 * Informed Judaism: Averted. She is revealed to be of Jewish descent, and the family is shown to celebrate Jewish holidays.

Drew Pickles
Father of Angelica, uncle of Tommy and Dil, and married to Charlotte. The opposite of his brother in almost every way, they do have their spats, but do care about each other.

"Voiced by Michael Bell."


 * Doting Parent
 * Sibling Yin-Yang: To Stu.
 * Stoic Spectacles: Subverted.
 * Straight Man and Wise Guy: Straight Man to Stu's Wise Guy.
 * The Workaholic: Implied.

Charlotte Pickles
Mother of Angelica, aunt of Tommy and Dil, and married to Drew. She's the CEO of her own company and is frequently seen talking on a cell phone to an invisible assistant named Jonathan.

"Voiced by Tress MacNeille"


 * Convenient Miscarriage: Very possibly had one in "Angelica's Worst Nightmare."
 * Hot Chick in a Badass Suit
 * Hot Mom
 * Married to the Job
 * Missing Mom: Not entirely - she does try to be a good mom and does love her family, but is often sidetracked by her work. She can put her foot down with Angelica when the occasion's called for.
 * The Workaholic: Even when she's not working, she's blabbering on to her assistant Jonathan over a cell phone. She might be the first example of someone using a cell phone in such a manner so extensively in children's media.

Grandpa Lou Pickles
Father of Stu and Drew, and grandpa of Tommy, Dil and Angelica.

"Voiced by David Doyle, and Joe Alaskey after David Doyle's death"


 * Cool Old Guy
 * December-December Romance: With a nurse named Lulu. They even get married later!
 * Senior Sleep Cycle