Rugrats includes a large array of characters: family, friends, extended relatives, townspeople, and fictional characters. This is a list of characters from the original 1990s Nickelodeon animated television series, its various films, its All Grown Up! spin-off, and the 2021 reboot.
Main characters
Tommy
Thomas Malcolm "Tommy" Pickles (voiced by E. G. Daily, Tami Holbrook in the unaired pilot) is the older son of Stu and Didi Pickles and serves as the series' main protagonist. Tommy, a 1-year-old, is portrayed as remembering the day of his birth in the episode "Stu-Maker's Elves". He lives with his parents and younger brother named Dil. Numerous episodes are set in the Pickles family home, focusing on Tommy and his family. In the series premiere episode, "Tommy's First Birthday", he is a 1-year-old and seems to remain that age throughout the entirety of the show. Tommy is the youngest of the babies until the birth of his brother in The Rugrats Movie. As an infant, Tommy is often seen crawling and walking somewhat unsteadily and pigeon-toed. He uses his diaper as a pocket, storing his screwdriver and other things he finds. Tommy is a very brave child with a very strong sense of justice, always eager for adventure and unafraid to stand up for what is right. His best friends are Chuckie and his dog, Spike. In the episode "Mother's Day," it is indicated that Tommy was born full term, but he was spending the first week or two of his life in an incubator, which explains his bravery and lack of taking life for granted.
Chuckie Charles Crandall Norbert "Chuckie" Finster Jr. (voiced by Christine Cavanaugh in 1991–2001 and Nancy Cartwright in 2002–present) is the son of Charles "Chas" Finster, a widower and bureaucrat, and his late spouse, Melinda Finster, and is Tommy's best friend. Unlike Tommy, Chuckie is very clumsy and timid, he rarely expresses any desire to go on one of the babies' adventures, instead listing all the reasons they should not go on one. Whenever Tommy and Dil's cousin Angelica tries to bully them, Chuckie unquestionably accepts her bad treatment against them and gives in to any possible demands. Chuckie is two years old, making him the oldest of the babies, therefore he is the first of them to be potty trained. Like Tommy, according to the episode "Stu-Maker's Elves", it is implied that he also remembers the day of his birth. In Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, Chuckie adds a Japanese stepmother, Kira Watanabe — who later adopts him — and a younger Japanese-French-American stepsister, Kimi. In said film, he also says his first word, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" to the grown-ups when he eventually stops his father from marrying Coco LaBouche. His character design was loosely based on Mark Mothersbaugh, the lead composer for the series.
Angelica
Angelica Charlotte Pickles (voiced by Cheryl Chase) is the 3-year-old daughter of Drew and Charlotte Pickles, Stu and Didi's niece, and Tommy and Dil's older cousin. Angelica serves as the series' main antagonist, regularly bullying and threatening the babies physically, verbally, manually, financially, or sometimes psychologically and lying to them for her amusement. In her own home, Angelica is an only child who lives with her workaholic mother and hard-working father, who shower her with toys and admiration. Without any parental guidance or boundaries, Angelica has largely been left to determine for herself what is right and wrong, with her idea of "right" normally being what she wants. She is very materialistic, devious, and self-centered. Though she is usually very rude and impolite towards the babies, Angelica occasionally stands up for them against others and expresses a genuine desire to be friends with them. The season 3 penultimate episode "Moving Away" explains how she and the babies first met each other, although this episode is presumably non-canon due to contradictions from others.
Phil and Lil Phillip Richard William "Phil" DeVille and Lillian Marie Jill "Lil" DeVille (both voiced by Kath Soucie) are the children of Howard and Betty DeVille. They live next door to Tommy and are fraternal twins, with Lil being older than Phil by just two minutes. They share many similarities, including the same hairstyle and great love for dirt and eating bugs and earthworms. They argue with one another frequently, and usually call each other by their full names, Phillip and Lillian. Looking so much alike, they are often mistaken for one another by adults, with the main facial difference between the two being that Phil's earlobes are attached while Lil's are not. They are both the same age as Tommy.
Susie Susanna Yvonne "Susie" Carmichael (voiced by Cree Summer) is the youngest African-American child of Randy and Dr. Lucy Carmichael, and Tommy's neighbor. Her family buys a home on Tommy's street in "Meet the Carmichaels," and their mothers become close friends. Susie bonds very well with the babies despite the age difference, considering them her good friends. While she doesn't often get along with Angelica, she makes a conscious effort to be nice to her, serving as the voice of reason for Angelica's bullying and lies and generally being much kinder to the babies. Like her mother, Susie excels in various aspects of her life and has a very kind and warm attitude. Her only real character flaw is her competitiveness. While she was the same age as Angelica in the original series, she is 1–2 years old in the reboot, the same age as Chuckie, meaning that in the 2020s version, she was born in 2019.
Dil Dylan Prescott "Dil" Pickles (voiced by Tara Strong) is the younger son of Stu and Didi Pickles, and Tommy's younger brother. He was born in the 1998 film The Rugrats Movie and is the youngest of the babies. Dil rarely partakes in their adventures and is often seen drooling, crying a lot, or babbling like a normal baby. Because of his young age, most of the time Dil cannot understand the babies and the babies cannot understand him either. However, he does mature in the sequel series All Grown Up!.
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