List of Rugrats characters


Rugrats includes a large array of characters: family, friends, extended relatives, townspeople, and fictional characters. This is a list of characters from the Nickelodeon animated television series.

Main characters

Tommy

Thomas Malcolm Pickles is the child of Stuart "Stu" Pickles, an inventor, and Diane "Didi" Pickles, a schoolteacher, and serves as the series' protagonist. Many episodes take place in the Pickles family home and are centered around him and his family. In the series' pilot, "Tommy's First Birthday", he is a year old and presumably, he remains that age throughout the entirety of the show's run, despite hitting developmental milestones; he is the youngest of the babies until the birth of his brother, Dylan, in The Rugrats Movie. Tommy is white, bald, and toothless and is most commonly seen wearing a light blue t-shirt and diaper with no shoes, unlike the other babies, who are typically fully dressed. As he is an infant, Tommy is often seen crawling but he is able to walk, albeit somewhat unsteadily and pigeon toed, and uses his diaper as a pocket, keeping his screwdriver in there among other things. Tommy is a brave child, with a strong sense of justice, always eager for an adventure and unafraid to stand up for what is right. His best friends are Chuckie and his dog Spike.

Chuckie

Charles Crandall Norbert Finster, Jr. ; Nancy Cartwright ), more commonly referred to as Chuckie, is the child of Charles “Chas” Finster, a bureaucrat, and his late spouse, Melinda Finster, and is Tommy’s best friend. Unlike Tommy, Chuckie is clumsy and timid; he rarely expresses any desire to go on one of the babies’ adventures, instead listing all the reasons they shouldn’t go on one, and, whenever Angelica tries to bully them, he unquestionably accepts her treatment and gives into her demands, if she has any. Chuckie is two years old, making him the eldest of the babies, and so, he is the first of them to be toilet trained. He is white with curly red hair, purple-framed glasses, buckteeth, and freckles and wears a red and blue shirt with picture of Saturn on it, lime green and yellow shorts, yellow socks, and red sneakers with untied laces. In , Chuckie gains a step-mother, Kira Watanabe, who later adopts him, and a step-sister, Kimi.

Phil and Lil

Phillip Richard Bill DeVille and Lillian Marie Jill DeVille are the children of Howard DeVille, a stay-at-home dad, and Elizabeth "Betty" DeVille, a former wrestler. They live next door to Tommy and are fraternal twins, with Lil older than Phil by two minutes. Lil and Phil share many similarities, including a love of dirt, eating bugs, and playing with earthworms, and argue with one another frequently, calling each other by their full name whenever they do so. The two are white with brown hair and wear matching teal outfits with yellow ducks, though Phil's outfit has trousers while Lil's is a dress, and teal sneakers. Looking so much alike, they are often mistaken for one another by adults; the only notable facial difference between the two being that Phil's earlobes are attached while Lil's are not.

Angelica

Angelica Charlotte Pickles is the child of Andrew "Drew" Pickles and Charlotte Pickles, both business executives, and Tommy's cousin. Angelica serves as the series' antagonist, regularly threatening the babies physically or verbally and lying to them for her own amusement, with her actions sometimes crossing the line into cruelty. In her own home, Angelica reigns supreme as an only child, with her workaholic parents showering her with toys and admiration for simply existing, likely to make up for the fact that they are largely absent from her day-to-day life, and unsurprisingly, she is materialistic, devious, and self-centered. 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. Though she torments the babies, Angelica, on several occasions, stands up for them against others and expresses a genuine desire to be friends with them. Angelica is white with blonde hair, which is styled with purple bows into pigtails, and wears a purple dress with a red long-sleeved shirt, blue tights, red socks, and purple sneakers. Because of her age, Angelica is able to communicate with both babies and adults.

Susie

Susanna Yvonne Carmichael is the child of Randall "Randy" Carmichael, a screenwriter, and Dr. Lucille "Lucy" Carmichael, a physician, and Tommy's neighbor. Her family purchases a home on Tommy's street in "Meet The Carmichaels" and their mothers become close friends. Susie gets along well with the babies, despite the age difference, and considers them to be her friends; like them, she doesn't often get along with Angelica, though she makes a conscious effort to be nice to her. Like her mother, Susie excels in many aspects of her life and has a kind and warm demeanor, her only real character flaw being her competitiveness. She is black with black afro-textured hair, which is styled into three braids and decorated with red hair ties and clips, and wears a yellow and purple dress with white lace socks and red slippers.

Kimi

Kimiko Watanabe-Finster is the child of Hiro Watanabe and Kira Watanabe-Finster and Chuckie's step-sister. Her mother marries Chuckie's father Chas in and he later adopts her, assuming the role of her father for all intents and purposes. Kimi is bold and fun-loving, meaning she gets along well with the other babies, especially Tommy, and protective of her older brother while, at the same time, encouraging him to stand up for himself. She is Japanese and has black hair, which is styled into three ponytails held together by red hair ties, with bangs and wears a yellow dress with a purple cat face on it, a pink t-shirt, and purple cowgirl boots.

Dil

Dylan Prescott Pickles is the child of Stuart "Stu" Pickles, an inventor, and Diane "Didi" Pickles, a schoolteacher, and Tommy's younger brother. He is a newborn for much of the series, meaning he rarely partakes in adventures alongside the other babies, and is often seen drooling, crying, or babbling. Because of his young age, Dil cannot understand the babies and the babies can't understand him.

Spike

Spike : The Pickles' family dog. Though he appears in almost every episode of the series, he is not usually featured as a main part of episodes. Tommy claims him to be his best "animal" friend. The character is considered a main character in the series, appearing in almost three quarters of all of the episodes, though he usually does not come along when the Rugrats venture to new locations. It is mentioned that his breed is the fictional "Siberian Tiger Hound." As shown in The Rugrats Movie and Rugrats Go Wild, Spike is very protective of the babies, as he sees them as his own.

Adult characters

Babies and kids