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WordGirl has a wide array of characters including heroes, villains, and average supporting characters. Some characters apear to be of more entertainment value than others that may be more obviously for educational purposes, but all have different qualities that make them helpful to the progression, effectiveness, and entertainment of the show.

Main characters

WordGirl/Becky Botsford

The titular character is a superheroine whose superpowers include flying at the speed of sound, super hearing, super strength, and a comprehensive vocabulary. Her symbol is a red star against a yellow shield; when she strikes an enemy or shoots into the sky, she leaves a twinkling star at the end of her sonic streak, similar to the trail of a shooting star. As «mild-mannered» (though she’s actually quite plucky whether she’s WordGirl or not) fifth grader Becky Botsford from Fair City’s Woodview Elementary, she instantly changes into her WordGirl costume by touching her shirt where her emblem would be, and speaking her catchphrase, «Word up!» The backstory found her and Lexiconian Air Force Captain Huggy Face crashing on Earth after leaving the planet Lexicon in a spaceship for a test flight where she unknowingly crawled aboard the ship as a baby which she still uses as her base of operation away from her adopted parents, Tim and Sally Botsford, who found her on their doorstep reading a Sunday newspaper and doing the crossword puzzle therein, even though another flashback shows that the Botsfords found her in the woods.

Becky, who is age 10½, spends her time reading, going to school, decorating her dollhouse, collecting unicorns and trying to hide her secret identity. Her lone setbacks are that she is a horrible singer and dancer, and she struggles with art. No one is aware of WordGirl’s true identity with the exception of Captain Huggy Face (who gets mad when TJ says things about him), Bampy Botsford (Becky’s grandfather), and the Narrator who, of course, gets to see everything. Despite obvious similarities, only a few others have made the connection; in «Two Brains Forgets», the villain does find out and tells WordGirl/Becky’s family, but they all forget when they are hit with his amnesia ray, which was redirected toward a mirror by TJ thanks to his WordGirl boomerang and hits everyone but WordGirl. Scoops realizes that Becky doubles as WordGirl when she runs into him, forgetting that she is still wearing the WordGirl cape; Scoops observes that she’s also worn the costume frequently, having chosen WordGirl as her Halloween costume. However, his suspicions dissipate when Becky painstakingly misdefines a word in the episode «Vocab Bee». At one point, in «Becky’s Birthday», her parents begin to make the connection, but just when they are about to figure it out, Captain Huggy Face (a.k.a. Bob) distracts them by getting wrapped up in party decorations. In some short episodes, Tobey thinks Becky is WordGirl and tries to destroy her house with a robot, but Captain Huggy Face disguised as WordGirl shows up and Becky picks him up and destroys the robot. Also in the episode «Big’s Big Bounce» Becky knew the definition of the word «boost» and Mr. Big becomes suspicious for a while. However, Becky reveals her identity to her dad and TJ in «WordGirl Makes a Mistake», but her parents didn’t believe her. In «Bampy Battles Bots», Becky’s grandfather, Bampy Botsford, figures out Becky’s identity.

Even though she may be a superhero, Becky has a love for ponies and other animals, as any fifth-grade girl might. Her favorite book is «Princess Triana» (a parody of Harry Potter), while her favorite TV show is «The Pretty Princess and Sparkling Pony Power Hour». The series’ title character and her alter ego is voiced by Dannah Phirman; and then in the Website Version she is voiced by Candi Milo though producers originally wanted Reese Witherspoon for the role. Phirman was chosen for her knack to nail her scripts in one take.

WordGirl seems to be a direct parody of Superman: they both came to Earth as infants, they both share powers of superhuman strength and speed, flight, and super hearing, and they are both vulnerable to radioactive fragments from their homeworlds.

Captain Huggy Face/Bob

WordGirl’s sidekick, a monkey from Lexicon, who was also responsible for crashing their spacecraft as a pilot of the Lexicon Air Force. Huggy Face has no superpowers (hence the reason that sometimes he has to take the bus because he cannot fly) and loves to eat almost anything, even the dreaded Beans à la Botsford (although he hates the repulsive Chicken Liver Fricassee and beef bouillon the Butcher conjured once). People often insult him by either saying his name wrong or calling him the wrong animal, most often Granny May. An example is «Tobey or Consequences» in which Tobey’s babysitter calls him an «aardvark in tights» and has been called a dog or other animal. Huggy is a surprisingly competent sidekick and can do martial arts, especially kung fu. His symbol, on the chest of his costume, is a thunderbolt. As Bob, he is the Botsford family pet, played by James Adomian at script readings. He has been called a hedgehog, (flying) rabbit, koala, rat, aardvark, ferret, otter, llama, a hairy kid, and probably others.

The Narrator

The Narrator’s secret ambition is to do the lead-in on 60 Minutes. This unseen character can interact with any character, although he most often converses with WordGirl, and can also hear her thoughts, as seen in «Vocab Bee». On occasion, he will telegraph upcoming plot developments to viewers; for example, in «When Life Gives You Potatoes…», Dr. Two-Brains captures WordGirl as part of a plot to turn gold into potato salad, and then into cheese. Once captured, he asks: «Is this the end of WordGirl? Will Dr. Two-Brains turn her into potato salad?» Dr. Two-Brains replies, «Hey! Don’t give it away!» The Narrator has also been known to intervene in the story’s action, and his words and judgments during these circumstances generally lead the viewers to believe that he’s not-so-secretly on WordGirl’s side. For example, in «Tobey or Consequences», the child villain Tobey proposes a game show, «Crash or Pie?» to settle the question of whether his robots would be allowed to destroy the city. The Narrator acts as show host, and his final judgment of the game’s outcome shows his overall bias in WordGirl’s favor. In «Sandwich World», he claims only to be a voice (but in one show he asks «Why is everybody looking at me?») that belonging to the formerSaturday Night Live cast member Chris Parnell, who has a twin brother who works in Hollywood implying that he’s better than him as seen in the «Mecha-Mouse» episode, voiced by Mike Phirman (Dannah’s husband). He also has a brother named Glen who is a sportscaster. It is also shown that he can be affected by other characters, as shown in «Lunch Lady Chuck» where Chuck lifts a sandwich above the screen and the narrator can be heard chewing.

Tim Botsford

Becky’s adoptive and cheerful father encourages Becky and is very supportive of his family, although he’s quite indecisive and has been called weird. In one episode, he goes to the store and buys a large amount of Tiny Big merchandise. He makes «Beans a la Botsford,» which only Bob (Captain Huggy Face) will eat, In «The Two Brains Boogie», Mr. Botsford was shown to be master at boogieing and even had a video starring him on how to do so. Tim Botsford and his wife greatly enjoy money-saving, and have been shown to designate an entire evening to looking for coupons. It is also revealed that he has a favorite tie named «Murray», which was taken by Mr. Big, who really liked it and took the cravat for himself. (Thanks to WordGirl, he later gets the tie back.) Ryan Raddatz, who also serves as one of the show’s writers, plays Mr. Botsford.

Sally Botsford

Becky’s adoptive mother, a constant optimist. As Fair City’s district attorney, she seems to have a fear of robots, plus in «You Can’t Crush City Hall», crushers; in this case a giant sandwich press used by Chuck. Having put away almost every villain WordGirl has captured (although she doesn’t know that it’s her adopted daughter), Sally even caught two of them red handed — Granny May and Seymour Orlando Smooth — with WordGirl’s help. She’s brilliant in the courtroom, though when she sees an actual crime being committed, she tends to freeze and miss her daughter change into WordGirl. Her dream was to appear on a game show (which almost happened in «Answer All My Questions and Win Stuff» but happened in «Who Wants to Win a Shiny New Car?»), believing that Samuel L. Jackson was the 12th President of the United States when it is really Zachary Taylor. Like her husband, She has a great love of saving money and using coupons. Sally is voiced by Maria Bamford.

TJ Botsford

Tim and Sally’s 7-year-old biological child. Having an older adoptive sister annoys him, but he idolizes WordGirl and constantly babbles about her. This obsession with WordGirl is a bit unnerving to his sister, because he is also the president of WordGirl’s fan club and does not allow his sister (as Becky) to attend meetings. Voice acting veteran Tom Kenny provides TJ’s voice. In «WordGirl and Bobbleboy», TJ makes WordGirl bobbleheads and sells them in all of her battles in the episode.

Villains

The Butcher

A criminal with the ability to call almost any meat of meat product into existence. He has the strange habit of mixing up words (such as saying «sunbeam» instead of «supreme,» or «robbify» instead of «robbery») or even whole phrases («So, WordGirl, we meet again for the first time!»). This is a play on his name, as he tends to «butcher» the English language. The Butcher’s powers are nullified by tofu, but can also be rendered inoperative by low self-esteem and a lack of enthusiasm and excitement. In the episode «Meat with a Side of Cute», after tiring of being defeated by WordGirl, the Butcher chooses a very unlikely ally to help him out, a kitten named Li’l Mittens who was previously known as «Meathook». Because WordGirl has a love for cute animals, she was powerless against The Butcher and the kitten. After The Butcher was arrested, he left Lil’ Mittens to a little girl. Jack D. Ferraiolo, who was the series’ head writer for its first season and co-developed the program with creator Dorothea Gillim, gives his voice to the meat man.

The Baker and the Candlestick Maker

Two of The Butcher’s old friends from elementary school that were known as «The Troublemaking Trio» that reunited for a brief time and pranked National National Bank by stealing free balloons and a pen on a chain, and tricked the Grocery Store Manager with a flour-over-the-door gag in «The Butcher, The Baker and The Candlestick Maker». The trio comes from the nursery rhyme Rub-a-dub-dub. The Baker is voiced by Kevin McDonald, while James Adomian did the voice of The Candlestick Maker.

The baker appears in season 2 running a normal business. Eileen wanted his birthday cake in 221 but the baker said, «Hold on, is your name Earth? No, so it isn’t your cake.» In 223, he appears again when the Whammer is looking for a job. He fired the whammer because the cake he was helping make was supposed to say «Happy Birthday Kevin», (a pun on his actor’s name) not «Happy wham day Whammer.» The candlestick maker is yet to appear again.

Kid Potato

The father of The Butcher, voiced by acting veteran Ed Asner. Kid Potato has powers similar to his sons, but instead of different types of meat, his attacks use different types of potatoes. Kid Potato came to the city to try to convince his son to team up with him as a super villain team called «Meat and Potatoes».

Li’l Mittens

Li’l Mittens is a cat the Butcher found on the street. He adopted him as his partner in crime. At the end of the episode, a little girl offered to take care of Li’l Mittens while the Butcher went to jail. Voiced by Stephanie Sheh.

Dr. Two-Brains

Dr. Two-Brains is the result of a laboratory experiment fusing the brain of Professor Steven Boxleitner, a kind-hearted but distracted scientist who wrote the book Superheroes and You: A Practical Guide, with the brain of Squeaky, a vicious albino mouse. While testing a machine that would allow Dr. Boxleitener to read a rodent’s mind, Squeaky pressed a button marked «Holy Cow! Don’t Press This Button!!!», causing their brains to fuse, and the external mouse part, located on the left side of his head, glows with a greenish light and pulsates sometimes. He is now out to steal all the cheese in the city akin to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, sometimes having to buy crackers as we learned in «Becky’s Birthday» to eat with the purloined cheese. WordGirl was good friends with him before he became a super villain, and once encouraged him to fight the mouse brain’s control on him. Dr. Two-Brains seems to know all of the vocabulary words so far, and has even introduced and defined quite a few. In the episode «Mouse Army,» Dr. Two-Brains temporarily teamed up with WordGirl to stop an army of super-intelligent mice he had created. In the end he betrayed her, but whether this was part of his plan or if his mouse brain took control is never clearly determined. During the battle against Steve McClean, WordGirl and Two-Brains battled the villain independently. Because of the mouse brain, just like any rodent, he is afraid of cats, as first seen in «Crime Takes a Holiday», and also in «A Game of Cat and Mouse»; additionally, in «Where’s Huggy?», it is shown that he has a mouse orchestra and loves kids’ puzzle books, especially those with mazes in them. He is also revealed in the episode «Two Brains Quartet» to be a really good barbershop quartet singer. Even though Two-Brains is not friends with WordGirl, he still sees the girl as an acquaintance. In a couple of episodes, for example, offering her a comb in the episode «Becky’s Birthday» and also giving her a wink in «Dr. Three Brains». Whenever they get the chance, they seem to reminisce about their friendship as well like in the episode «Showdown at the Secret Spaceship Hideout», where they mention the book he wrote when he was Steven Boxleitner.

Dr. Two-Brains’ henchmen

Dr. Two-Brains is assisted by two generally unhelpful henchmen. They are not dangerous at all and seem not to want to commit crimes, but help Dr. Two-Brains just for the sake of helping him, and at times seemed to have formed a friendship with WordGirl (however, nearly all the villains seem to have a minor friendship with WordGirl, before turning back to the crime they were doing). They also seem to have a love for animals. The first, who is the unnamed lead henchman, has a great love for animals, such as bunny rabbits and cats. In one episode where he used Dr. Two-Brains’ growth ray on his pet bunny, Flopsy, he got sad and worried when Flopsy was too big to bring along with him on their next evil mission. He also needs help to understand Dr. Two-Brains when he uses words that the henchman doesn’t know, even for his best friend Charlie, who acts like the muscle of the gang. Even though he looks menacing at times, Charlie (whose name was revealed in «Two-Brains Highway«) has a big heart and a great love for animals just like his friend. Charlie never talks out loud in the show but has been seen whispering to his unnamed co-worker, and is also twice as big as his boss.

Glen Furlblam

When Dr. Two-Brains seeks out a replacement villain to take over for him in «Crime Takes a Holiday» for a vacation cruise he won from Dairy Villains Monthly, Glen Furlblam (voiced by Brian Posehn), his self-proclaimed number one fan, shows up. Because Dr. Two-Brains did not feel that Glen was a competent replacement for him due to Glen’s conceitedness and foolish ideas, he refuses to let him take over. Angered by not being able to impress his idol, Glen uses his vicious cats to steal Dr. Two-Brains’ lab coat and corner him. Glen takes over for a while as Two-Brains’ replacement, but with the help of WordGirl, he was arrested and jailed along with his pet cats. In «Doctor Three-Brains», Glen calls himself by the title of the episode, and uses a Blackout Ray invented by Doctor Two-Brains to escape from prison.

Mr. Big

Head chief, boss and CEO of self-titled Mr. Big Industries (born under the moniker of Shelly Smalls,) this businessman who uses mind-control to get what he usually wants (it’s part of his company’s mission statement) invented The Thing and the Mega-Thing — cubic objects that do absolutely nothing. Despite their uselessness, they fly off the shelves, thanks to a mind-control device that causes people to purchase them. His sidekick and constant companions are his squishy toy rabbit and his assistant, Leslie, to whom he confides his most dastardly plans. (But in the episode «WordGirl Makes a Mistake» he did not tell Leslie his evil plan because he was embarrassed by the fact that this particular plan is to get a casserole dish he wants from a neighbor who borrowed it from him.) Mr. Big tried to become mayor twice, but failed because of WordGirl. Other Big Industries products includes Mr. Big’s Big Book of Big Words (a dictionary), the Wordsucker (a microphone), the Hero Sucker (a giant vacuum cleaner) and a «walking talking WordGirl doll» that does the opposite of the real superheroine, like using the word «strategery» instead of «strategy» and enables them (via mind control) to buy useless spinoff products such as «glow-in-the-dark» suntan lotion. Mr. Big uses yoga while working and miniature golf as two forms of relaxation. It was also revealed in the episode «Big’s Big Bounce» that he has a dislike of kids — especially the city scout troop. He also complains in a couple of episodes that he «didn’t go to any fancy word college and only took business classes» as an excuse of not getting all the words right and once tried to use a mind control ray on the Moon because he wanted his casserole dish back that was borrowed by a neighbor (not realizing that it was returned). He also stated that he did magic tricks as a child. Veteran character actor Jeffrey Tambor plays Mr. Big.

Leslie

Leslie (voiced by Maria Bamford) is Mr. Big’s assistant who does most of (if not all) the work for Mr. Big. She is usually the one to file Mr. Big’s evil plans, carry out these plans by activating his mind-control rays, carry and unload heavy crates for Mr. Big, order his squishy beanie bunny plush dolls and batteries for his mind control devices, etc. She became gradually sarcastic because Mr. Big would not notice all she does for him. In «Mr. Big’s Dolls and Dollars», Leslie was revealed to be a black belt in karate, and in the episode «Giant Mini-Golf» it seems she knows everything what Mr. Big is going to do maybe because mind control is the only thing he uses. She also stated that she did gymnastics as a kid. She, like Becky and T.J., is a big fan of the «Pretty Princess-Magic Pony Power Hour.»

Tiny Big

Mr. Big’s teen idol persona, he was once a fad and sang about WordGirl being «lame», making money from overpriced items sold at stores by Mr. Big Enterprises. In the end, he was outed akin to Milli Vanilli as a lipsyncing phony by WordGirl.

Granny May

A senior supervillain who pretends to be a sweet, deaf, elderly grandmother in order to deceive those she burglarizes. Her main weapons are knitting needles that shoot purple indestructible yarn, petrified purse mints that burn the eyes, strong-smelling perfume which acts as a sort of stink gas, and her giant but timid grandson Eugene May; she can also produce a cutting-edge steel suit of armor with a jetpack to wear. The show uses anime-style animation during Granny’s attacks. Eugene stops working with Granny May and becomes friends with Violet. Granny may be the most clever of WordGirl’s enemies, once convincing the entire city that WordGirl was cruel, heartless, and not to be trusted. Cree Summer voices the evil little old lady. In «Great Granny May», her mother is introduced, who keeps an eye on her while under house arrest. This episode also reveals Granny May’s full name for the first time: Grandolyn Edna May.

Great Granny May

Granny May’s Mother, voiced by Rose Abdoo. Her main reason (other than keeping an eye on her daughter while under house arrest) is that she dotes on her and WordGirl.

Theodore «Tobey» McCallister III

A 10-year-old genius inventor who uses his gargantuan robots to destroy the city in hopes of getting WordGirl’s attention. Tobey owns a personal scrapbook of WordGirl decorated with hearts. He has an obsessive crush on her and usually demands that if he beats her, she should tell her secret identity or go out for ice cream with him. His mother is aware of her child’s intelligence, so he can’t launch any of his schemes unless she is away on business. Tobey doesn’t seem truly evil; rather, he comes across as reckless and mischievous. Often, his plans are foiled by his malfunctioning robots. Because Tobey is a brilliant schemer and a smart student, he is very unathletic, going as far as to have a robotic duplicate win a field day contest in «Field Day Fun with Robo-Tobey», only to be disqualified when the ruse was revealed. During a flashback in «Monkey-Robot Showdown», we learned that Tobey was in a checkers match that he lost to Violet. Besides his giant robots, Tobey built other inventions including the super robot, a tracking device for the remote and Mousezilla (which he built together with Dr. Two-Brains). Comic/actor Patton Oswalt voices Tobey.

Claire MacCallister

Tobey’s mother (voiced by Dannah Phirman) seems to be a genius like her son. She invented a homing device and a remote to stop her son’s robots. Tobey only unleashes his robots when his mother is away. When she figures out Tobey’s evil plots, she would pull him by the ear and ground him for a week. She has been copied into a robot for conferences, but this copy of Sally Botsford’s boss was vanquished by Amazing Rope Guy, WordGirl, Ms. Davis, and the real Claire MacCallister.

Checkmate 3000

The Checkmate 3000 is one of Tobey’s prime robots and is specially built to play checkers. It was seen in the episode «Monkey-Robot Showdown» and played Bob at checkers. When Tobey kept on persisting his chess-playing champion to win, Checkmate 3000 began to become so frustrated that in the end, he tried to destroy every checker-patterned objects. Checkmate 3000’s design looks like the Super Robot with regular robot colors and dresses in Scottish style.

SuperRobot

Tobey’s Super Robot is a giant, super huge golden robot that is bigger and stronger than all of Tobey’s other robots. It was proved physically indestructible to WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face. Tobey lost control of it when his robot artist, Artsy, painted a picture of the golden giant. The Super Robot was moved by this and surprisingly cried. It was last seen blasting off to space with the painting.

Artsy

Artsy is one of Tobey’s robots that is considerably artistic and creative. It seems to have somewhat of a personality, unlike Tobey’s other robots. When told to destroy buildings by Tobey, he just starts painting, much to Tobey’s angry dismay. «You went against my commands again!»

Chuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guy

A supervillain who definitely does not have a way with words or evil at all, hence his name. He lives in his mother’s basement, except for the time he created a new lair away from her residence in «Sandwich World», only to go back after feeling lonely. His main weapons are squirt bottles of condiments such as ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, honey mustard, pickle relish, honey butter, barbecue sauce, and olive oil. Determined to prove to the world how important his sandwich powers are, he often commits small robberies for no real reason other than to show how «evil» he is. Chuck has tried to come up with better names for himself, such as «Destructo the Destroyer,» «Amazo the Amazing Guy Who’s Evil but Not Really That Bad When You Get to Know Him,» «Chuck the Nice Pencil (and Rubberband) Selling Guy» or «Handsome Eddie.» Chuck also has a tendency to forget vocabulary words a few seconds after they’ve been spoken. In the episode «The Handsome Panther», he made a panther costume and renamed himself and Chuck’s Friend name Sammy Sub. Fred Stoller plays Chuck.

His Mother

Chuck’s mother, unseen but voiced by Dannah Phirman, often refers to her son as Charles, his full name, or Chuckie and would sometimes talk him into doing errands for her. Chuck kept a picture of himself and his mother in «Sandwich World» (although her face was blocked by an object). It’s possible she could be bread-headed like her two sons.

Brent the Handsome Successful Everybody-Loves-Him Sandwich Making Guy

Chuck’s more famous and successful brother, voiced by Tom Kenny, is the inventor of crustless bread and came to the city to accept The Golden Sandwich Award, which made Chuck jealous. Brent, however envies some opportunities Chuck have such as living in his mom’s basement and getting to play video games (Chuck’s high score is 9.).

Eileen/The Birthday Girl

This ten-year-old girl attempts to acquire the things she wants by using a falsely-polite manner, big eyes, and a lisping voice, along with the statement «Today is my birthday!» If those methods don’t work, she becomes selfish and at times cruel by simply yelling «Mine, MINE, MINE!», growing in height and turning a deeper shade of green with each yell , until the owner of the coveted item hands it over in fear. The only way to reverse Eileen’s transformation is to persuade her to give away something she values. (This was a trick discovered by Violet in the «Birthday Girl» episode; when as a giant Eileen holds WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face hostage, Violet declares Eileen one of her «bestest fwiend in the whole wide wode.» In gratitude, Eileen hands over her prized necklace [after Violet tells her that «bestest fwiends give each otho pwevwents»], and her greed-induced metamorphosis is reversed, rescuing WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face.) However, this event did not make Eileen turn away completely from her selfish ways. In the two-part episode «The Wrong Side of the Law», she tricks Police Commissioner Watson into thinking WordGirl stole Pretty Princess figurines from the Pretty Princess Magical Pony Store that were on loan from Ye Olde Fancy Schmantsy Jewelry Shoppe. Eileen, voiced by Pamela Adlon, also greatly annoys Becky because she uses «w» in words instead of «l» or «r» (e.g., «I wearned my wesson.» «Today’s my biwthday!» «What do bestest fwiends do?» etc.)

Lady Redundant Woman

A former copy-shop employee, also known as Beatrice Bixby who aspires to become the owner of the copy shop currently run by a kind man named Dave. A job-site accident merged her with a copier and transformed her into «Lady Redundant Woman,» a villain who is half woman, half copy-machine. By touching her nose, she can split off duplicates of herself, one of which named «Dupey», falls in love with The Butcher in «The Young and the Meatless», that is part of forming an army that she sends to do her bidding. The number that she can create is limited by the amount of ink she has, and if she happens to run out of ink, her copies fade away quickly by vanishing in a burst of copy paper. She also possesses the power to create evil copies of other people if she consumes a picture of that person, as she did when she created an evil copy of WordGirl. She normally repeats words over in many forms akin to a thesaurus. Amanda Plummer provided the villainess’ voice in her debut episode, and Grey DeLisle took over afterwards. In a recent episode^{[citation needed]}, she seems to be able to just look at a picture or painting and create a copy. However, a drawback to it is the fact that any pictures she copies comes to life.

Evil WordGirl Copy

The clone was created when Lady Redundant Woman consumed a picture of WordGirl and copied her. The malicious WordGirl has all of the real WordGirl’s powers and speaks redundantly like its creator. Lady Redundant Woman used her to steal all the thesauruses in the city, making the people hate her. However, WordGirl was able to dispose of her copy, had the thesauruses returned, and gained back their trust. The differences between the two WordGirls were their streaks of energy when they fly (WordGirl’s streak of energy was yellow while the clone’s was green), and their voices: while WordGirl spoke normally, the evil clone spoke only in a robot-like monotone.

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Dupey is one of Lady Redundant Woman’s duplicates who started to develop her own personality and fell in love with the Butcher. Despite her resemblance to her mistress, the Butcher could identify which is Dupey or Lady Redundant Woman. Eventually, they broke apart after Dupey revealed she’s a vegetarian. However, she’s shown to still have feelings for him.

Royal Dandy

The royal dandy was a painting that Lady Redundant Woman copied, but he came to life. He speaks with either an Irish or British accent. He can shoot blue paint out of his hands, and annoyed the city until Lady Redundant Woman defeated him after he used a copier as a trampoline after covering the top with blue paint. He is very greedy and he refers to Lady Redundant Woman as his mother. For some of the episode, he rides a gray horse from another painting, named «Horsey». However, his non-verbal steed ran away when his incumbent greed was discovered. The horse was not seen again, so it is unknown if the horse was ever returned to its painting. The foppish painting copy is voiced by Sergio Cilli.

The Whammer

This character was first seen as a sidekick for Chuck the Evil Sandwich-Making Guy. The Whammer «whams» his fists together, sending out sonic waves to crush anything or anyone in his path. He has a gruff, loud voice, and usually speaks interjecting the word «wham» or «whammer» (as in «That was so whammer»). When he was a sidekick, he acted more like a boss which annoyed Chuck. His other bosses included The Amazing Rope Guy and The Coach, but has since gone out on his own, and has a love for home baked apple pie with lots of butter and hot dogs, covered in either mustard or chocolate. John C. McGinley does The Whammer’s voice. His horned helmet is blown off his head in one episode, revealing that he has green hair styled in a mohawk. It is revealed in the episode «Crime In The Key of V» that he can increase the power of his sonic waves by tapping his forefingers in a song-like pattern(in which his fists generate a blue aura around them with each tap).

The Coach

A motivational coach (voiced by Ned Bellamy) who helps sidekicks become their own boss. In «Sidekicked to the Curb», when The Whammer signed up for The Coach’s program, The Coach realized he could trick The Whammer into stealing anything he wants. When The Coach was arrested and jailed along with The Whammer, he decided that this was perfect opportunity to start a villain school, where he instructed three novice villains — Timmy Timbo, who wears a cap and a cape with a dull slacker tone of voice and has a butter allergy whose power was napping a lot; Big Left Hand Guy, whose power was a giant left hand that was used to hail one of only three cabs in town, and Ms. Question (more can be found about her below.) Together, with the help of The Whammer, they stole Michaelangelo’s Whistle. He also has a graduate named InvisiBill, a man who has the power to turn invisible on command by snapping his fingers.

Invisi-Bill

Only seen so far in «Who is Ms. Question?» and «The Invisi-Bill Hand», Invisi-Bill (voiced by H. Jon Benjamin) is a graduate from the Coach’s school that can turn invisible when he wants. The Coach stated that his name suited him perfectly, being a play on the word «invisible», and the fact that his first name is Bill.

Big Left Hand Guy

Big Left Hand Guy, voiced by Mike O’Connell, is a graduate of the Coach’s school. He has a big left hand, which he uses to hail all three of Fair City’s taxicabs. It seems either he doesn’t really like crime or he’s scared he might get caught he will say TAXI.

Ms. Question

Debuting in the episode «Villain School», she wears a red sweater with a yellow question mark and a green mask and tights similar to the Riddler. Her nose is shaped like an upside-down question mark. In the episode «Who is Ms. Question?», she flunked out of The Coach’s School of Villains and Arch Enemies due to the fact she had no super powers until a question-mark shaped cloud zapped her with a bolt of lighting, which gave her the power to float on a question mark like Silver Surfer and give victims selective amnesia by activating her question mark on the sweater and shooting question marks at them, leaving a circle of question marks floating around their heads. Also, the question marks could force the person to tell his secrets.

In one episode, she tries to steal the ‘Question Mark of Socrates’, a pin worn by the philosopher in Ancient Greece. In addition to that, she gives all her commentary in the form of questions; however, her mother wished that she went to pastry school instead. In the episode, «Seeds of Doubt» she is able to create the title product by changing poppy seeds on a bagel. When eaten, these seeds make the eater ask constant questions and be very unsure of themselves. In the same episode, she also seems to be very offended whenever someone says, «No questions asked.» Her lair is also seen in this episode, it is filled with question mark covered items. A few of these include a question mark shaped lounge chair, antenna TV (with the antenna bent in the shape of a question mark) and a question mark covered lamp. The room itself has sideways doors and upside-down staircases, presumably to make visitors ask questions about it. In the episode «The People vs. Ms.Question,» she is taken to court by WordGirl, after stealing an ice cream cone from Bob a.k.a. Captain Huggy Face, stealing a woman’s purse and stealing a car off Fast Eddie’s Used Car Dealership

However, once Ms. Question is on trial, she befuddles District Attorney Botsford with her questions, and the jury lets her go. Having failed to win the trial, Ms. Botsford quits her job, and stays at home for a while. While Ms. Question goes back on her crime spree, the Mayor complains that Ms. Botsford is the only one to bring Ms. Question to justice. Having said that, when WordGirl confronts Ms. Question at the bank and pretends to be trapped, Ms. Botsford uses a rope pole to redirect Ms. Question’s question marks back at her, thus defeating her. The inquisitive villain is voiced by Grey DeLisle.

The Masked Meat Marauder

A pompous meat villain (voiced by Elliott Gould) who’s a rival of The Butcher whose meat powers are a little fancier and insulted him by calling his uniform «pajamas». After three encounters with The Butcher and WordGirl, he was sent to a city known as Meatropolis, where there are twenty-three butcher shops, hamburger parades every Sunday, and no superheroes or superhero monkeys.

The Amazing Rope Guy

A minor evil villain (voiced by Larry Murphy) who dresses in a tight dark blue mask, tight rubber dark blue outfit, tight yellow gloves, and tight dark blue boots. He first appears in the beginning of the episode «Mr. Big’s Big Plan» and has a goatee and a slightly squeaky voice. The Amazing Rope Guy doesn’t do real crimes like all the other villains, but seems to like doing minor crimes that involve him using his rope, such as trying to pull down a statue with rope or trying to tie a shoe clerk up so he could rob the shoe store. In spite of his name, he isn’t that good with his rope, as in his first appearance when he is about to «take down» WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face by trying to «lasso» them up, he is unsuccessful, to which WordGirl replies that he’s «not so amazing.» He loves knots and is also shown to be an unsuccessful children’s performer. He once became successful in his crimes by poorly impersonating other more successful villains, but gave it up after he grew sick of the villains he impersonated getting the recognition instead of him.

Energy Monster

The energy monster was accidentally created at an energy plant when a ball of electricity expanded and took shape after employees threw soda and sandwiches at it during an experiment and resulting overload of energy. This Energy Monster expands in size when it absorbs electricity. It usually appears when WordGirl intends to do something else like celebrate her birthday or go to a movie. When the Energy Monster runs out of energy or is defeated, he either shrinks into a tiny creature, is pushed into water, or gets burnt out. He appears in the various episodes, «Becky’s Birthday», «The Pretty Princess Primere,» «Field Day Fun with Robo-Tobey,» and «Becky and the Bard», the latter of which shows that he like things that sparkle. In «The Birthday Girl’s Monstrous Gift», Eileen the Birthday Girl trades the dramatic man a snack bar with the Energy Monster in a glass jar and treats it like a pet.

Seymour Orlando Smooth

A narcissistic game show host and con artist (voiced by Daran Norris) who debuted in the episode «Answer All My Questions and Win Stuff!» by trying to steal the contestant’s money unbeknownst to them by making their answer sheets reveal by way of invisible ink that he would withdraw all the money from their bank accounts. Later, he ran another game show called «Wishful Thinking,» and another called «Who Wants to Win a Shiny New Car?» where he had his brothers involved by rigging the game with very tough questions only they could answer beforehand. His superpowers are a bright smile that blinds his opposition and game-show-host strength hair gel that he tosses by his head to trap victims. Another weapon is his «Wheel of Wonderful Stuff», which he used to trap WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face. The wheel is made of a titanium alloy which is completely soundproof, although while Huggy cuts it up with one of Seymour’s diamond rings, he tells them beforehand that the wheel can make them incredibly dizzy. He is also in possession of chains made of fool’s gold] which he uses to trap WordGirl and Huggy in the episode «Wishful Thinking.»

Steve McClean

Appearing in «The Ballad of Steve McClean», he attempts to replace Dr. Two-Brains as the number-one villain with his signature ploy of cleaning up his crime scenes and his pop star-like costume. The character is a play on the name of the actor Steve McQueen. His sole drawback though is his nebbish voice, voiced by Tom Kenny.

Raul Demiglasse

This TV chef, who hosts «If You Can’t Stand The Heat, Get Out Of The Kitchen» (whose last line is his catchphrase) is challenged by The Butcher to a cooking showdown in «The Stew, The Proud» just as Becky is about to have her perfect record on returning books to the library ruined. However, WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face expose him as a fraud for using Tex Connelly’s Beef Stew in a Can as he claimed that his beef stew was an original recipe, and forcing their opponents to cry as he threw raw onions in their face. James Adomian voices the crazed cooker.

Guy Rich

This character tries to upstage Mr. Big, the resident big business villain in «Mr. Big’s Mini-Golf». However, WordGirl surprisingly exposes him as a mere Texan con-man who switches places with his brother as the rich guy and the caddy in another city. William Mapother lends his voice to this character.

Nocan the Contrarian

This villain from the Kingdom of Contraria, whose booming voice is given by Daran Norris, always speaks in opposites; for example, if someone says «strong,» he will respond by saying «weak,» followed by a barbaric yell.. He was sent to explore Fair City, wears uncivilized clothing and armor and carries a sword that can knock trees down when he cleaves it into the ground. The name of this character puns off Conan the Barbarian.

Victoria Best

She is a new transfer student to Woodview Elementary who seems to be extraterrestrial. As this child prodigy’s name implies, her parents taught her to be the best at what she does. After winning every school trophy, except for the best reader’s trophy, she plots to steal the last trophy that Becky won because she believes she deserves to win them all. She even often shouts «I’m THE BEST!», along with, «V.B., in!» (an clear parody of Ryan Seacrest’s sign-off from American Idol.) She seems incredibly spoiled, wearing the family uniform of a sweater vest with a trophy ensignia, and is the only child on the show with earrings, shaped like blue ribbons. It seems that she is not really evil, but is encouraged by her parents is evil to do evil, like steal trophies from other people with their names on it. She also has a friend poodle who can play chess, and a cousin who can play chess against the dog poodle and play the piano at the same time.

Her parents show a red glow in their eyes whenever Victoria fails to win a trophy. They then tell her, «Eyes on the prize.» She then proceeds to steal the trophy that she did not earn. She’s very pretty and it is shown that boys are smitten with her at first sight. Even Scoops was enamoured with her in the first episode, though by the second one, he had seen enough of her true colors. It is also shown that she can speak Spanish, is a gymnast, collects bugs, plays the recorder, and does many other things. On the note of recorder-playing, she can play so well that she can hypnotize others. Her voice is provided by Kristen Schaal.

Mr. and Mrs. Best

They are the parents of Victor and Victoria. One of their quotes are «Keep your eyes on the prize» with a red stare.

It makes Victoria have a red stare too.

Captain Tangent

This misguided and odd pirate (voiced by John Henson of Wipeout fame with a magnetic hook and parrot sidekick was fired from his job at Blackbeard’s Buffet all-you-can-eat restaurant because of his continued use of speaking in tangents instead of serving customers their meals.

He is consistently looking for «doubloons», which are old gold coins. He gained his powers when he found the treasure of no-beard, and got a curse giving him his magnetic hook and his bird the ability to talk. He seems to have a lot of knowledge about almost anything from wood to the invention of ballet slipper.

Miss Power

Miss Power and her sidekick Mr. Giggle Cheeks came from another planet like WordGirl, and pretends to be her friend and a new superhero, but in reality tricks WordGirl and all the other citizens into bullying each other and takes over the city, jailing anyone that opposes her. She proves to be more powerful than WordGirl, and tries to take over the world. When she jails Mrs. Botsford, WordGirl and all the villains team up and defeat Miss Power. This was a four-part episode that lasted 1 hour.

The Learnerer

Voiced by Weird Al Yankovic, this new villain annoys WordGirl with his constant misuse of suffixes (ex; his name is «learnerer instead of «learner»). He has the ability to see things once and then learn them immediately, and can program his yellow suit to get past those obstacles. The Learnerer first appeared as a cameo in The Rise of Miss Power, where he was one of the villains tied up by Miss Power. He later officially appeared in his self-titled episode, The Learnerer, where he attempts to steal the Diamond Brain of Santa Tortuga from Ms. Edith van Hoosinghaus. As is shown in the episode, he is very agile and stealthy, and his eyes can move all the way around his head. When WordGirl arrived to recover the diamond, she was powerless against The Learnerer because he had been studying her every move. Unfortunately, he had failed to learn the moves of Captain Huggy Face, stating that he was «not worth worryinging about.» The Learnerer was defeated by Huggy when the sidekick monkey kicked him off of a slide and into a paddy wagon.

Other characters

Todd «Scoops» Ming

The reporter for Woodview Elementary School’s newspaper The Daily Rag, voiced by Ryan Raddatz. His dream of working for The Big City Timescame true to cover a story of Granny May in «Bonkers for Bingo» when he was hired by the paper’s editor, Woodward Bernstein (punning off the last names of legendary Washington Post Watergate investigative reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein); he still has a long way to go, though. Even Becky, who has a secret crush on him, agrees that his articles can be rather dull. The oblivious Scoops has a high opinion of himself and does not hesitate to take credit for anything he might possibly have had to do with, such as the time he told the story in «Becky and The Bard» in the role of The Wall when the cast was absent from the theatre at Woodford Elementary. He is desperate to know WordGirl’s secret identity and is constantly on the scene. His known family members are his parents and his grandfather, who are the rivals of The Botsfords. In one episode, he learns WordGirl’s secret identity and intends on publishing the news, but his plan backfires when Becky misdefines a word wrong to make him believe she can’t be WordGirl for such a big vocabulary mistake. Scoops is friends with Becky’s best friend Violet and despite his constant obsession with his newspaper business, seems to be able to sit back and relax with her, and in the episode «Cherish Is the Word», he asked her to be his valentine.

Violet Heaslip

Becky’s best friend from school. Violet (voiced by Maria Bamford) conducts herself in a quiet, shy manner and has a flair for art, having met Becky in an art appreciation class after Becky flunked art class three times in a row. Violet lives in the country apparently not too far from the suburbs in a hippie-styled house with her mother. There is no apparent father in her life. Violet is friends with Becky’s crush, Scoops Todd Ming, and in the episode «Cherish Is the Word» the two proved to have feelings for each other when Scoops asked her to be his valentine. Despite Violet’s ever-sweet demeanor, she can become enraged and protective when her friends are disadvantaged or harmed. She loves pegasis, and she can make up poems off the top of her head, even if there is a meteor hurling towards her. At times she seems to have a rather tenuous grasp of reality, even more so than Becky’s parents, as she dreams about winning the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. In one episode, she believes that she temporarily gained superpowers and becomes «The Framer», who uses a picture frame to capture villains. She also has a love for animals and is a vegetarian. She also has a cat name Fluffy.

«May I Have a Word» characters

Host

Beau Handsome

The host of the game show «May I Have a Word?» His first name means «good-looking» or «beautiful» in French, and is voiced by Ryan Raddatz.

Contestants

Tommy

He likes to act superior to nearly everyone on the show and seems to have a crush on WordGirl, which would make him a fanboy. Orlando Brown is the voice behind the character.

Phil

He usually has a worried and unsure look on his face. He also has a little cousin and has an intense fear of public speaking. Voiced by Tom Kenny.

Emily

She is seen always smiling and is a constant annoyance to Tommy since she talks nearly non-stop about WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face. She always refers Beau «Mr. Handsome.» Kelly Miyahara portrays the character.

Minor characters

Bill the Grocery Store Manager

A terrible communicator voiced by Mike O’Connell who is always trying to find people willing to work at the store. He has been known to try to hire villains when they come to rob him. His name was revealed in «Chuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guy» on his name tag and he will often fire workers for very slight reasons.

Reginald

A pompous and rude man (who is voiced by H. Jon Benjamin) and is the owner and operator of Ye Olde Fancy Schmancy Jewelry Shoppe. In the episode «Thorn in the Sidekick» Reginald is shown to be allergic to barbecue sauce. He doesn’t seem to take superheroes (or even children) seriously. He is also shown to think very highly of himself, going so far as to make himself a hero who can lift a 200-pound weight while writing a concerto, fly, and do karate, even though he doesn’t.The Narrator sometimes teases him over his mustache.

Professor James Doohickey

A technology/gadget professional that introduces the audience to both the villains’ and heroes’ helpful gadgets. He has a slight English accent.

Prof. Robert Tubing

This disabled scientist, who debuted in «A Game of Cat and Mouse», moved into Professor Steven Boxleitner’s old lab, after Prof. Boxleitner turned into Dr. Two-Brains. His greatest invention is an all natural solar powered cyborg wheelchair, and has a monkey assistant named Bosco. He is voiced by Frank Welker.

Exposition Guy

A man who always goes to the wrong place — usually wherever WordGirl happens to be — thinking it is the police station. He always screams help… then saying the news with it. («HELLLP!!! Someone is robbing the grocery store!») .He has mistaken many places for the police station, screaming all the while and not recognizing his own wife («Oh, I thought you looked familiar…»). He would report any kind of trouble even though some are not crimes.(«Help! The Botsfords are losing to the Mings!») This is considered as a running gag throughout the series, so much so that WordGirl herself in «The Masked Meat Marauder» stated to millionaire Edith van Hoosinghaus that «Sometimes we need help getting to the next scene.» Chris Parnell plays the somewhat confused citizen.

Police Commissioner Watson

Fair City’s Police Commissioner (voiced by John Kricfalusi) made his debut in the episode «Swap Meat» and exposed WordGirl as not having any knowledge of art, but was corrected the next night by taking The Butcher under arrest for fraudulant forgeries made from chopped liver. Police Commissioner Watson has a new do and He later jailed WordGirl in «The Wrong Side of the Law» for stealing a figurine after being framed by Eileen, the Birthday Girl. He usually jumps to conclusions when examining a crime scene, and is named for the assistant of Sherlock Holmes. He made another appearance in «Meat My Dad» in Kid Potato’s dream.

The Mayor

The Mayor of Fair City who made his first appearance in the episode «Book Ends». He often gives speeches of things (reading them off of index cards akin to Ronald Reagan), sometimes reading the wrong card (i.e. accidentally reading speech for the grand opening of a public swimming pool instead of the new library). He lost his job as mayor to Mr. Big in the episode «Banned on the Run», but became mayor again after Becky tricked Mr. Big into confessing his trap. He has an assistant who sometimes corrects his mistakes and gives him information; she never speaks aloud, but whispers in his ear to tell him things. The Mayor is voiced by Ron Lynch and in the episode «The InvisiBill Hand» revealed that he has given 199 keys to the city to WordGirl.

Warden Chalmers

The prison warden (voiced by Tom Kenny). His first appearance was in «Two Brain Highway», who often overuses expressions (e.g. eats his hat after saying he’ll eat his hat if Dr. Two Brains isn’t locked up in his cell), and often believes that he is right, only to fail, and also runs the Fair City Scout Camp outside the city.

Edith von Hoosinghaus

A rich lady who owns a diamond crusted barbecue and the rarest collection of cheeses. Voiced by Dannah Phirman.

Mr. Callihan

Chuck’s boss in «Chuck the Nice Pencil Selling Guy», he was held hostage because of his dislike of sandwiches (except for grilled cheese). However, when Chuck misplaced a button that released a slime-like substance on the inside of the vat that held him, he was nice enough to goop himself while being held hostage. Peter Graves provided his voice.

Reuben Grinder

The owner of the Edible Edibles sandwich shop (voiced by Nick Kroll), who was being robbed by Chuck in «Chuck Makes A Buck». Mr. Grinder employs Chuck thanks to WordGirl as the store’s spokesperson/mascot due to his sandwich face, and he becomes popular. However, in a falling out at his store on sandwich making for the annual Fancy People’s Annual Awards Dinner, Chuck quits and turns the floor at the ballroom into the bottom half of a sandwich in an attempt to crush them, But WordGirl foils this and Chuck gets sent to jail. His name comes from two forms of sandwiches: the Reuben and the Grinder, a toasted hero sandwich. He and Brent later went into business together selling peanut butter bread and jelly bread.

Mrs. Ripley

This hyperactive gym teacher works at Woodview Elementary made her debut in «Field Day Fun with Robo-Tobey», she also is the scout troop leader for Troop 865 and is voiced by Grey DeLisle.

Ms. Libiri

She runs Fair City’s bookstore. Her name is the Latin word for «book». She is voiced by Robin Reed.

Ms. Dewey

Fair City’s chief librarian, who is named for the Dewey Decimal System used in libraries and is voiced by Judy Greer.

Milt

Milt is an assistant librarian who wants to see Becky end her streak of perfect returns of books, and is voiced by Andy Dick.

Mr. Dudley

Becky’s fifth-grade teacher (voiced by Jim Gaffigan) who first appeared leading the field trip in «Who Wants Candy?» Mr. Dudley likes candy, but doesn’t like anybody to know that. For example, he says, «We’re going to meet Zachary Zany, the candy mastermind who invented most of my — I mean — your favorite candy.» He also helped direct the school’s play, «Romeo and Juliet.»

Zachary Zany

The inventor of «Choclo-sandals» who led a tour of his chocolate factory in «Who Wants Candy?» voiced by Matt Besser. His attitude is poor, and serves as a parody of Willy Wonka. He says it’s not his real name though, something that marketing came up with.

Hunter Throbheart

A transfer student from England at Becky’s school, voiced by James Adomian, who acted as Romeo in «Becky and the Bard». Like his name, most girls who lay eyes on him immediately become infatuated with him. Although he did extremely well in rehearsal, he has stage fright and did not act in the real production, where many people watched him.

Ms. Champlain

First seen in «Tobey’s Masterpiece», she teaches art and adult education seen in from Class Act, and voiced by Jen Cohn.

Bank Teller

A bank teller with a New York accent, she is often being robbed by villains. She is voiced by Jen Cohn in most of her episodes.

Ms. Davis

A teacher at the Woodview Elementary School, she represents Becky’s class at parent-teacher conferences, helps run the debate club, and in the episode «Cleanup on Aisle Eleven», decided after both Becky and Todd wanted a unicorn or an armadillo as the debate club’s mascot on a magic turtle instead. Amy Sedaris voices the teacher.

Bampy Botsford

Becky and TJ’s grandfather, and Tim’s father, first appearing in the episode «Bampy Battles Bots.» He likes vegetable stews and is one of the very few people to know Becky’s secret identity, telling Becky after a fight with one of Tobey’s robots, «Nice flyin’ up there, kiddo.» Flashbacks show him defeating an independently-produced 50-foot-tall robot with a screwdriver and whiskers. Although his family does not believe it at first, they know it after he defeated Tobey’s second look-alike robot. He is voiced by Tim Conway.

The character sheet for the «unsmall» cast of the PBS cartoon, WordGirl.

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The Heroes

    WordGirl / Becky Botsford 

    Captain Huggyface / Bob 

    The Narrator 

The Villains

    All 

    Doctor Two-Brains / Professor Steven Boxleitner 

    Doctor Two-Brains’s Henchmen 

    Theodore «Tobey» McCallister III 

    WordBot 

    Chuck the Evil Sandwich-Making Guy 

    Brent the Handsome Successful Everybody-Loves-Him Sandwich Making Guy 

    Granny May 

    The Butcher 

    Kid Potato 

    Lady Redundant Woman / Beatrice Bixby 

    Dupey 

    Royal Dandy 

    Evil Malicious WordGirl 

    The Coach 

    Ms. Question 

    Invisi-Bill 

    Big Left Hand Guy 

    The Learnerer 

    Seymour Orlando Smooth 

    Mr. Big / Shelly Smalls 

    Leslie 

    Victoria Best 

    The Whammer 

    Nocan the Contrarian 

    Birthday Girl / Eileen 

    Captain Tangent 

    Amazing Rope Guy 

    Rhyme and Reason 

    Miss Power 

Citizens

    Tim Botsford 

    Sally Botsford 

    TJ Botsford 

    Violet Heaslip 

    Todd «Scoops» Ming 

    Chuck’s Mother 

    Exposition Guy 

    Warden Chalmers 

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Ниже приводится список персонажей WordGirl из сериала PBS Kids .

Главные герои

WordGirl / Бекки Ботсфорд

Озвучивает: Данна Фейнгласс

Главный персонаж — супергероиня, чьи суперсилы включают полет со скоростью звука, суперслышание, суперсилу и обширный словарный запас. Ее символ — красная звезда на желтом щите ; когда она поражает врага или стреляет в небо, она оставляет мерцающую звезду в конце своей звуковой полосы, похожую на след падающей звезды . Как «кроткая» (хотя на самом деле она довольно смелая, вне зависимости от того, является она Wordgirl или нет) пятиклассница Бекки Ботсфорд из начальной школы Woodview в Fair City, она мгновенно переодевается в свой костюм WordGirl, прикоснувшись к своей рубашке там, где будет ее эмблема, и произнеся свою крылатую фразу. , «Слово вверх!» Предыстория обнаружила, что она и пилот ВВС Lexiconian капитан Хагги Фейс потерпели крушение на Земле после того, как покинули планету Lexicon на космическом корабле для испытательного полета, где она бессознательно поползла на борт корабля в младенчестве, который она все еще использует в качестве своей базы для операций вдали от ее приемного ребенка. родители, Тим и Салли Ботсфорд, которые застали ее на пороге за чтением воскресной газеты и разгадыванием кроссворда в ней, хотя другое воспоминание показывает, что Ботсфорды нашли ее в лесу.

WordGirl достаточно сильна, чтобы поймать метеор, может летать на сверхскоростной скорости и обладает улучшенным слухом, что обычно помогает ей слышать преступление со всего города. В двух случаях показано, что она также обладает звуковым криком. В эпизоде ​​«Vocab Bee» показано, что у нее также улучшен запах (она способна точно уловить 500 фунтов перца чили, которые готовил Мясник). Героиня одета в красно-бордово-желтый наряд со звездной эмблемой спереди и накидку. Ее самая примечательная способность — с большим мастерством определять слова — хотя в эпизоде ​​«Девушка-WordGirl делает ошибку» она обнаруживает, что на самом деле не способно иметь обширный словарный запас, и может использовать подтекстовые подсказки, чтобы понять, что это за слово означает. В эпизоде ​​«Мир без WordGirl» показано, что, если бы героиня не существовала, Чак, злой парень, готовящий сэндвичи, правил бы Fair City. В эпизоде ​​«Нашествие любителей кроликов» Бекки называет три причины, по которым она предпочитает хранить свою тайну при себе:

• Она не рассказывает своей семье из опасения, что они никогда не посмотрят на нее так же (хотя в одном эпизоде ​​она рассказывает отцу и брату, но никто ей не верит).
• Ее враги использовали бы это в своих интересах (как показано в одном эпизоде, когда Доктор Два-Брейнс кратко узнает об этом).
• Если бы публика знала, у Бекки никогда не было бы тихого дня.

Бекки, которой 10,5 лет, проводит время за чтением, посещением школы, украшением кукольного домика, коллекционированием единорогов и попытками скрыть свою тайную личность. Ее единственные неудачи в том, что она не умеет танцевать, она борется с искусством и плохо поет.

Никто не знает об истинной личности WordGirl, за исключением

• Капитан Huggy Face (который злится, когда TJ что-то о нем говорит)
• Бэмпи Ботсфорд (дед Бекки)
• Рассказчик, который, конечно, видит все.
• Сенсация Минг, который узнает во «Нашествие любителей кроликов».

Несмотря на очевидное сходство, лишь несколько других установили связь

• Два-Мозг узнает в «Доктор Два-Мозговых забывает» и рассказывает семье WordGirl / Бекки, но все они забывают, когда их поражает его луч амнезии , который был перенаправлен Ти Джеем в зеркало благодаря его бумерангу WordGirl и поражал всех но WordGirl и капитан Huggy Face.
• Скупс понимает, что Бекки удваивается как WordGirl, когда она сталкивается с ним, забывая, что она все еще носит плащ WordGirl; Скупс отмечает, что она также часто носила этот костюм, выбрав WordGirl в качестве своего костюма на Хэллоуин. Однако его подозрения рассеиваются, когда Бекки кропотливо неправильно определяет слово в серии «Vocab Bee». Это будет отменено в «Вторжении похитителей кроликов».
• Ее родители начинают устанавливать связь в «Дне рождения Бекки», но как раз когда они собираются это понять, капитан Хагги Фейс (он же Боб) отвлекает их, укутывая праздничными украшениями.
• В некоторых коротких эпизодах Тоби думает, что Бекки — это WordGirl, и пытается разрушить ее дом с помощью робота, но появляется капитан Huggy Face, замаскированный под WordGirl, и Бекки поднимает его и уничтожает робота. Также в «Ей-богу, ты разбил моих роботов» Тоби понимает личность Бекки по ее туфлям. Однако она перехитрила его, используя куклу WordGirl.
• В эпизоде ​​«Big’s Big Bounce» Бекки знала определение слова «повышение», и мистер Биг на какое-то время стал подозрительным.
• Бекки раскрывает свою личность отцу и TJ в «WordGirl делает ошибку», но они не поверили ей.
• Почтальон Бекки заметил ее сверхскорость при открытии двери, сверхсилу в подъеме тяжелого пакета с ее массивным кукольным домиком, а также заглянул в окно и увидел, как она летит. Похоже, он намеренно игнорирует это, хотя это явное доказательство того, что она WordGirl.

Несмотря на то, что она может быть супергероем, Бекки любит пони и других животных, как и любая девочка пятого класса. Ее любимая книга — «Принцесса Триана» (пародия на Гарри Поттера ), а любимое телешоу — «Прекрасная принцесса и искрящийся пони». Главный герой сериала и ее альтер-эго озвучивает Данна Фирман ; хотя продюсеры изначально хотели, чтобы на эту роль была Риз Уизерспун . Фирман была выбрана за ее умение создавать сценарии за один раз.

WordGirl кажется прямой пародией на Супермена : они оба пришли на Землю в младенчестве, оба обладают сверхчеловеческой силой и скоростью, полетом и суперслышанием, и оба они уязвимы для радиоактивных осколков из своих родных миров .

Капитан Хагги Фейс / Боб

Озвучивает: Джеймс Адомян

Подруга WordGirl — обезьяна из Lexicon, которая несет ответственность за крушение их космического корабля. На планете Лексикон он когда-то был пилотом ВВС Лексикон. У Huggy Face нет суперспособностей (отсюда и причина того, что иногда ему приходится садиться в автобус, потому что он не умеет летать) и любит есть почти все, даже ужасную фасоль а-ля Ботсфорд (хотя он ненавидит отталкивающую куриную печень Fricassee и говяжий бульон Мясник. колдовал один раз). Люди часто оскорбляют его, неправильно называя его имя или называя не тем животным, чаще всего Бабуля Мэй. Примером может служить «Тоби или последствия», в котором няня Тоби называет его «трубкозубом в трико», а также собакой или другим животным. Хагги — удивительно компетентный помощник и может заниматься боевыми искусствами, особенно кунг-фу. Его символ на груди его костюма — молния . В роли Боба он является домашним питомцем семьи Ботсфордов, которого играет Джеймс Адомиан во время чтения сценария. Его называли ежом, (летающим) кроликом, коалой, вомбатом, крысой, медведем, трубкозубом, хорьком, выдрой, ламой, волосатым козленком и, вероятно, другими.

Рассказчик

Озвучивает: Крис Парнелл

Секретная цель Рассказчика — сделать вводную часть « 60 минут» . Этот невидимый персонаж может взаимодействовать с любым персонажем, хотя чаще всего он разговаривает с WordGirl, а также может слышать ее мысли, как показано в эпизоде ​​«Vocab Bee». Иногда он телеграфирует зрителям о предстоящих событиях сюжета; например, в эпизоде ​​под названием «Когда жизнь дает вам картошку…» Доктор Двумозговый снимает WordGirl как часть сюжета по превращению золота в картофельный салат , а затем в сыр . Попав в плен, он спрашивает: «Это конец WordGirl? Сможет ли доктор Двумозговой превратить ее в картофельный салат? Доктор Двумозговой отвечает: «Эй! Не отдавай! » Рассказчик также, как известно, вмешивается в действие повествования, и его слова и суждения в этих обстоятельствах обычно приводят зрителей к мысли, что он не так уж и тайно на стороне WordGirl. Например, в эпизоде ​​«Тоби или последствия» злодей-ребенок Тоби предлагает игровое шоу «Авария или пирог?» чтобы решить вопрос, позволят ли его роботам разрушить город. Рассказчик выступает в роли ведущего шоу, и его окончательное суждение об исходе игры показывает его общую предвзятость в пользу WordGirl. В «Sandwich World» он утверждает, что является только голосом (но в одном шоу он спрашивает: «Почему все смотрят на меня?»), Принадлежащим бывшему актеру Saturday Night Live Крису Парнеллу , у которого есть брат-близнец, который работает в Голливуде, подразумевая, что он лучше, чем он, как это видно в эпизоде ​​«Меха-Маус», озвученном Майком Фирманом (мужем Данны). У него также есть брат по имени Глен, спортивный комментатор. Также показано, что на него могут влиять другие персонажи, как показано в «Обеденной леди Чак», где Чак поднимает бутерброд над экраном, и можно услышать, как рассказчик жует.

Детская математика / Рекс

Новый супергерой, пришедший с планеты Гексагон. Он учится на настоящего супергероя.

Семья Ботсфорд

Тим Ботсфорд

Приемный и веселый отец Бекки поощряет Бекки поддерживать ее семью, хотя он довольно нерешителен и его называют странным. В одном из эпизодов он идет в магазин и покупает большое количество товаров Tiny Big. Он готовит «Бобы а-ля Ботсфорд», которые может есть только Боб (Капитан Хагги Фейс). В «Буги-вуги с двумя мозгами» мистер Ботсфорд показал себя мастером буги-вуги и даже снял видео о том, как это делать. Тим Ботсфорд и его жена очень любят экономить деньги, и было показано, что они посвящают целый вечер поиску купонов. Также выясняется, что у него есть любимый галстук по имени «Мюррей», который взял мистер Биг, которому он очень понравился, и он взял галстук себе. (Благодаря WordGirl он позже получает обратно галстук.) Райан Раддац, который также является одним из сценаристов шоу, озвучивает мистера Ботсфорда.

Салли Ботсфорд

Приемная мать Бекки, постоянный оптимист. Как окружной прокурор Фэйр-Сити , она, кажется, боится роботов, а в «Вы не можете раздавить мэрию» — сокрушителей; в данном случае — гигантский пресс для сэндвичей, который использовал Чак. Убрав почти всех злодеев, которых поймала WordGirl (хотя она не знает, что это ее приемная дочь), Салли даже поймала двоих из них с поличным — Бабушку Мэй и Сеймур Орландо Гладкий — с помощью WordGirl. Она великолепна в зале суда, хотя, когда видит совершенное преступление, она обычно замирает и пропускает превращение дочери в WordGirl. Ее мечтой было появиться на игровом шоу (что почти произошло в «Ответь на все мои вопросы и выиграй вещи», но произошло в «Кто хочет выиграть блестящую новую машину?»), Полагая, что Сэмюэл Л. Джексон был 12-м президентом Соединенные Штаты, когда это действительно Закари Тейлор . Как и ее муж, она очень любит экономить деньги и пользоваться купонами. Салли озвучивает Мария Бэмфорд .

Т.Дж. Ботсфорд

7-летний биологический ребенок Тима и Салли. Его раздражает наличие старшей сестры, но он боготворит WordGirl и постоянно болтает о ней. Эта одержимость WordGirl немного нервирует его сестру, потому что он также является президентом фан-клуба WordGirl и не позволяет своей сестре (как Бекки) посещать встречи. Голос Ти Джея озвучивает ветеран озвучивания Том Кенни . TJ в эпизоде ​​«WordGirl и Bobble Boy» делает фигурки WordGirl и продает их во всех своих сражениях в эпизоде.

Бэмпи Ботсфорд

Дед Бекки и Ти Джея и отец Тима, впервые появившиеся в эпизоде ​​«Bampy Battles Bots». Он любит рагу из овощей и является одним из немногих, кто знает тайную личность Бекки. Он сказал Бекки после битвы с одним из роботов Тоби: «Хорошо, лети туда, детка». В воспоминаниях показано, как он побеждает самостоятельно созданного 50-футового робота с помощью отвертки и усов. Хотя его семья сначала не верит в это, они знают это после того, как он победил второго робота-двойника Тоби. Его озвучивает Тим Конвей .

Второстепенные персонажи

Тодд «Совки» Мин

Озвучивает Райан Раддац

Репортер газеты The Daily Rag начальной школы Вудвью . Его мечта поработать в The Big City Times сбылась, чтобы осветить историю бабушки Мэй в «Бонкерсах для бинго», когда он был нанят редактором газеты Вудвордом Бернстайном (он ударил по фамилиям легендарных журналистов-расследователей Washington Post Уотергейт Боба Вудворда. и Карл Бернштейн ); Однако ему еще предстоит пройти долгий путь. Даже Бекки, которая втайне влюблена в него, соглашается, что его статьи могут быть довольно скучными. Невнимательный Скупс высокого мнения о себе и без колебаний берет на себя ответственность за все, к чему он, возможно, имел отношение, например, когда он рассказал историю в «Бекки и Бард» в роли Стены, когда актерский состав отсутствовал в театре начальной школы Вудвью. Он отчаянно пытается узнать секретную личность WordGirl и постоянно находится на месте происшествия. Его известные члены семьи — его родители и его дед, которые являются соперниками Ботсфордов. В одном эпизоде ​​он узнает секретную личность WordGirl и намеревается опубликовать новости, но его план имеет неприятные последствия, когда Бекки намеренно неверно определяет слово, чтобы заставить его поверить, что она не может быть WordGirl из-за такой большой словарной ошибки. В «Вторжении любителей кроликов» он понимает, что Бекки — Wordgirl, когда они — единственные два человека в городе, которые не контролировались мистером Бигом и доктором Двумозговым, заставляя ее улететь с ним из опасности. . Он предпочитает не публиковать статью, разоблачающую этот факт, потому что понимает, что сохранение личности Wordgirl в секрете важнее. Скупс дружит с лучшей подругой Бекки Вайолет и, несмотря на его постоянную одержимость своим газетным бизнесом, кажется, может расслабиться и расслабиться с ней, а в эпизоде ​​«Cherish Is the Word» он попросил ее стать его валентинкой.

Violet Heaslip

Озвучивает Мария Бэмфорд

Лучшая подруга Бекки по школе. Вайолет ведет себя тихо, застенчиво и обладает чутьем к искусству, поскольку она познакомилась с Бекки на уроках искусства после того, как Бекки провалила уроки рисования три раза подряд. Вайолет живет в деревне, очевидно, недалеко от пригорода, в доме в стиле хиппи со своей матерью. В ее жизни нет очевидного отца. Вайолет дружит с влюбленным Бекки, Скупсом Тоддом Мингом, и в эпизоде ​​«Берегите слово», эти двое, как оказалось, испытывали чувства друг к другу, когда Скупс попросил ее стать его валентинкой. Несмотря на всегда милую манеру поведения Вайолет, она может прийти в ярость и защититься, когда ее друзья находятся в невыгодном положении или причинены вред. Она любит пегасов , и она может сочинять стихи прямо на макушке, даже если в ее сторону летит метеор. Порой кажется, что у нее довольно слабое представление о реальности, даже больше, чем у родителей Бекки, поскольку она мечтает выиграть Пулитцеровскую премию в поэзии. В одном из эпизодов она считает, что временно обрела суперсилу и становится «Создателем», который использует рамку для изображения злодеев. Она также любит животных и является вегетарианкой . Еще у нее есть кошка по имени Присцилла.

Билл менеджер продуктового магазина

Ужасный коммуникатор, озвученный Майком О’Коннеллом, который всегда пытается найти людей, желающих работать в магазине. Известно, что он пытался нанять злодеев, когда они приходили грабить его. Его имя было раскрыто в «Чаке, злобном парне, готовящем сэндвичи» на его именной табличке, и он часто увольняет рабочих по очень незначительным причинам. В эпизоде ​​«Капер или пластик» он позже раскрывает свою секретную личность, известную как Бэггер в маске , когда кладет яйца на мешок и говорит: « Яйца всегда идут сверху ».

Реджинальд

Напыщенный и грубый англичанин (которого озвучивает Х. Джон Бенджамин), владелец и оператор Ye Olde Fancy Schmancy Jewelry Shoppe. В эпизоде ​​«Thorn in the Sidekick» у Реджинальда показана аллергия на соус для барбекю. Похоже, он не воспринимает супергероев (или даже детей) всерьез. Также показано, что он очень высокого мнения о себе, зашедший настолько далеко, что стал героем, который может поднять 200-фунтовый вес при написании концерта , летать и заниматься карате.

Экспозиция Гай

Мужчина, который всегда идет не в то место — обычно туда, где оказывается WordGirl — думая, что это полицейский участок . Он принял многие места за полицейский участок, все время кричал и не узнавал свою жену («О, я думал, ты выглядишь знакомым …»). Он сообщит о любых проблемах, даже если некоторые из них не являются преступлениями. Это рассматривается как идущий кляп на протяжении всей серии, так что WordGirl себя в «Маске Мясной Marauder» заявил миллионера Эдит ван Hoosinghaus , что «Иногда нам нужна помощь в следующей сцене.» Крис Парнелл озвучивает несколько сбитого с толку гражданина.

Злодеи

Текущие злодеи

Мясник

Преступник, способный вызвать практически любое мясо или мясной продукт. У него странная привычка смешивать слова (например, говорить «солнечный луч» вместо «высший» или «грабеж» вместо «грабеж») или даже целые фразы («Итак, WordGirl, мы снова едим мясо в первый раз! »). Это игра с его именем, поскольку он имеет тенденцию «рубить» английский язык. Сила Мясника сводится на нет тофу , но также может быть выведена из строя из-за низкой самооценки, отсутствия энтузиазма и азарта. В эпизоде ​​«Мясо с милой стороной», устав от поражения от WordGirl, Мясник выбирает очень маловероятного союзника, чтобы помочь ему, котенка по имени Лил Миттенс, который ранее был известен как «Мясник». Поскольку WordGirl любит милых животных, она была бессильна против Мясника и котенка. После ареста Мясника он оставил Lil ‘Mittens маленькой девочке. Он также дал определение слову в одном из эпизодов «Мясо, папа». Джек Д. Феррайоло, который был главным сценаристом сериала в его первом сезоне и разработал программу совместно с создателем Дортеей Гиллиам, передает свой голос мяснику.

Пекарь и производитель подсвечников

Двое старых друзей Мясника из начальной школы, известные как «Проблемное трио», воссоединились на короткое время и разыграли Национальный национальный банк, украв бесплатные воздушные шары и ручку на цепочке, и обманули менеджера продуктового магазина с помощью муки. кляп над дверью в «Мяснике, пекаре и создателе подсвечников». Трио происходит от детских стишков Rub-a-dub-dub . Бейкер озвучивает Кевин Макдональд , а Джеймс Адомян озвучивает The Candlestick Maker.

Бейкер появляется во втором сезоне и ведет нормальный бизнес. Эйлин хотела, чтобы его именинный торт в «Девочке из Дня Земли», но Бейкер сказал: «Постой, тебя зовут Земля? Нет, значит, это не твой торт». В «Wham Up!» Он снова появляется, когда Whammer ищет работу. Он выстрелил из Whammer, потому что на торте, который он помогал готовить, должно было быть написано «С Днем Рождения, Кевин» (игра слов на имени его актера), а не «С Днем Рождения, Whammer». Создатель свечей еще не появился.

Кид Картофель

Отец Мясника, которого озвучивает действующий ветеран Эд Аснер . Кид Картофель обладает способностями, аналогичными его сыновьям, но вместо разных видов мяса в его атаках используются разные виды картофеля. Кид Картофель приехал в город, чтобы попытаться убедить своего сына объединиться с ним в команду суперзлодеев под названием «Мясо и картофель».

Маленькие варежки

Маленькая Рукавица — кошка, которую Мясник нашел на улице. Он принял его как своего соучастника в преступлении. В конце эпизода маленькая девочка предложила позаботиться о Маленькой Рукавице, пока Мясник отправится в тюрьму. Озвучивает Екатерина Зутман.

Доктор Два Мозга

Доктор Два-Мозг — результат лабораторного эксперимента по объединению мозга профессора Стивена Бокслейтнера, доброго, но рассеянного ученого, написавшего книгу « Супергерои и вы: практическое руководство» , с мозгом Пискля, злобной мыши- альбиноса . Во время тестирования машины, которая позволяла доктору Бокслейтенеру читать мысли грызуна, Сквики нажал кнопку с надписью «Святая корова ! Не нажимайте эту кнопку !!!», заставив их мозг слиться, и внешняя часть мыши, расположенная на левой стороне головы светится зеленоватым светом и иногда пульсирует. Теперь он пытается украсть весь сыр в городе, подобно доктору Джекилу и мистеру Хайду , иногда ему приходится покупать крекеры, как мы узнали из «Дня рождения Бекки», чтобы есть с украденным сыром. WordGirl была с ним хорошими друзьями, прежде чем он стал суперзлодеем, и однажды призвала его бороться с контролем над ним мышиного мозга. Доктор Двумозговой, кажется, знает все словарные слова до сих пор и даже ввел и определил довольно много. В эпизоде ​​«Мышиная армия» доктор Два-Мозга временно объединился с WordGirl, чтобы остановить армию сверхразумных мышей, которые он создал. В конце концов, он предал ее, но было ли это частью его плана или его мышиный мозг взял под контроль, так и не ясно. Во время битвы со Стивом МакКлином, WordGirl и Two-Brains сражались со злодеем независимо. Из-за мышиного мозга, как и любой грызун, он боится кошек , как впервые увидел в эпизоде ​​«Преступление берет отпуск», а также в «Игре в кошки-мышки»; Кроме того, в «Где Хагги?» мы узнали, что у него есть оркестр мышей и он любит детские книжки-головоломки, особенно те, в которых есть лабиринты . Он также показан в эпизоде ​​»Two Brains ‘Quartet» как действительно хороший певец квартета для парикмахерских . Несмотря на то, что Two-Brains не дружит с WordGirl, он все же сохраняет некоторую привязанность к девушке в нескольких эпизодах. Например, предлагая ей расческу в эпизоде ​​«День рождения Бекки», а также подмигивая ей в «Докторе Три Мозга». Всякий раз, когда у них появляется такая возможность, они, кажется, также вспоминают о своей дружбе, как в эпизоде ​​«Разборки в сверхсекретном убежище космического корабля», где они упоминают книгу, которую он написал, когда был Стивеном Бокслейтнером. Кажется, он готов на все, чтобы достичь своих целей, включая объединение с соперничающими злодеями Тоби и мистером Бигом. Он, возможно, самый умный из злодеев, и из-за личных отношений, которые у него были с WordGirl, это, возможно, делает его заклятым врагом WordGirl, чем, по его словам, он гордился. Том Кенни озвучивает Доктора Двухмозгового.

Приспешники Доктора Двухмозгового

Доктору Двумозговому помогают двое бесполезных приспешников. Они совершенно не опасны и, кажется, не хотят совершать преступления, но помогают доктору Двухмозговому только ради того, чтобы помочь ему, и временами казалось, что они подружились с WordGirl (однако, почти все злодеи, похоже, иметь небольшую дружбу с WordGirl, прежде чем вернуться к преступлению, которое они совершали). Кажется, они тоже любят животных. Первый, неназванный главный прихвостень, очень любит животных, таких как кролики и кошки. В одном эпизоде, где он использовал луч роста Доктора Двухмозгового на своем домашнем кролике Флопси, он расстроился и забеспокоился, когда Флопси был слишком большим, чтобы взять его с собой в их следующую злую миссию. Ему также нужна помощь, чтобы понять Доктора Двухмозгового, когда он использует слова, которые его приспешник не знает, даже для своего лучшего друга Чарли , который действует как мускул банды. Хотя иногда он выглядит угрожающе, Чарли (чье имя было раскрыто в «Двухмозговом шоссе»), как и его друг, имеет большое сердце и большую любовь к животным. Чарли всегда молчал в сериале, но был замечен шепотом своему неназванному коллеге, а также вдвое крупнее своего босса. Безымянный подручный определил «досуг» в одном эпизоде.

Глен Фурлблам

Когда доктор Два-Брейнз ищет замену злодею, который заменит его в «Преступлении требует отпуска» для круиза, который он выиграл у Dairy Villains Monthly, Глена Ферлблама (озвучивает Брайан Позен ), его самопровозглашенного поклонника номер один. , появляется. Поскольку доктор Двумозговой не чувствовал, что Глен был для него компетентной заменой из-за тщеславия и глупых идей Глена, он отказывается позволить ему занять свое место. Возмущенный тем, что он не может произвести впечатление на своего кумира, Глен использует своих злых кошек, чтобы украсть лабораторный халат доктора Двухмозгового и загнать его в угол. Глен на какое-то время заменит Двухмозгового, но с помощью WordGirl он был арестован и заключен в тюрьму вместе со своими домашними кошками. В «Докторе Трёхмозговом» Глен называет себя по названию эпизода и использует Блэкаут-Рэй, изобретенный Доктором Двумозговым, чтобы сбежать из тюрьмы.

Мистер Большой

Главный руководитель, босс и генеральный директор одноименного мистера Биг Индастриз (родившегося под прозвищем Шелли Смоллс), этот бизнесмен, который использует контроль разума, чтобы получить то, что обычно хочет (это часть заявления о миссии его компании), изобрел Вещь и Мега-Вещи — кубические объекты, которые абсолютно ничего не делают. Несмотря на свою бесполезность, они разлетаются с полок благодаря устройству управления сознанием, которое заставляет людей покупать их. Его приятель и постоянные спутники — мягкий игрушечный кролик и его помощница Лесли, которой он доверяет свои самые подлые планы. (Но в эпизоде ​​«WordGirl делает ошибку» он не рассказал Лесли о своем коварном плане, потому что был смущен тем фактом, что этот конкретный план заключается в том, чтобы получить запеканку, которую он хочет, от соседа, который позаимствовал ее у него.) Биг дважды пытался стать мэром, но потерпел неудачу из-за WordGirl. Другие продукты Big Industries включают в себя Большую книгу больших слов мистера Бига ( словарь ), Wordsucker ( микрофон ), Hero Sucker (гигантский вакуум ) и куклу «Walk n ‘Talk WordGirl», которая делает противоположность настоящей супергероиня, например, использует слово « стратегия » вместо «стратегия» и позволяет им (через контроль разума) покупать бесполезные побочные продукты, такие как лосьон для загара «светящийся в темноте». Мистер Биг использует йогу во время работы и мини-гольф как две формы отдыха. В эпизоде ​​«Big’s Big Bounce» также выяснилось, что он не любит детей — особенно городских скаутов. Он также жалуется в нескольких эпизодах, что он «не ходил ни в какой колледж модного слова и посещал только бизнес-классы» в качестве оправдания того, что не понял все слова правильно, и однажды попытался использовать луч контроля разума на Луне, потому что он хотел вернуть свою запеканку, которую одолжил сосед (не понимая, что ее вернули). В эпизоде ​​»Tiny Big» раскрывается, что когда-то он был солистом группы под названием «Rockaroni». Он также заявил, что в детстве занимался фокусами. Мистера Биг озвучивает опытный характерный актер Джеффри Тэмбор .

Лесли

Лесли (озвучивает Мария Бэмфорд) — помощник мистера Биг, который выполняет большую часть (если не всю) работу для мистера Биг. Обычно она излагает злые планы мистера Бига, осуществляет эти планы, активируя его лучи контроля над разумом, переносит и разгружает тяжелые ящики для мистера Биг, заказывает его мягкие плюшевые куклы-шапочки и батарейки для его устройств управления разумом. и т.д. Она постепенно стала саркастичной, потому что мистер Большой не замечал всего, что она для него делает. В «Куклах и долларах мистера Биг» выяснилось, что Лесли имеет черный пояс по карате, а в эпизоде ​​«Гигантский мини-гольф», похоже, она знает все, что собирается делать мистер Биг, возможно потому, что контроль над разумом единственное, что он использует. Она также заявила, что в детстве занималась гимнастикой. Она, как Бекки и Ти Джей, является большой поклонницей «Часа силы милой принцессы и волшебного пони».

Крошечный Большой

Кумир подростков мистера Бига, он когда-то был увлечением и пел, что WordGirl «хромает», зарабатывая деньги на товарах по завышенным ценам, продаваемых в магазинах мистером Big Enterprises. В конце концов, WordGirl выставила его наподобие Милли Ванилли как фальшивого фальшивого фальшивки.

Бабушка мэй

Старшая суперзлодейка, которая притворяется милой, глухой, пожилой бабушкой, чтобы обмануть тех, кого грабит. Ее главное оружие — вязальные спицы , стреляющие фиолетовой неразрушимой пряжей , окаменевшие мятные леденцы, которые обжигают глаза, пахнущие духи, которые действуют как своего рода вонючий газ, и ее гигантский, но робкий внук Юджин Мэй; она также может изготовить ультрасовременный стальной доспех с реактивным ранцем для ношения. В сериале используется анимация в стиле аниме во время атак бабушки. Юджин перестает работать с бабушкой Мэй и сближается с Вайолет. Бабушка, возможно, самая умная из врагов WordGirl, однажды убедившая весь город, что WordGirl жестока, бессердечна и ей нельзя доверять. Кри Саммер озвучивает злую маленькую старушку. В «Великой бабушке Мэй» мы знакомимся с ее мамой, которая следит за ней, пока она находится под домашним арестом. В этом эпизоде ​​также впервые раскрывается полное имя бабушки Мэй: Грандолин Эдна Мэй.

Юджин Мэй

Негабаритный 10-летний робкий мальчик и внук бабушки Мэй. Он был злодеем только в коротких эпизодах бабушки Мэй, когда помогал бабушке Мэй украсть деньги и украшения.

Великая бабушка может

Мать бабушки Мэй, озвучивает Роуз Абду . Ее основная причина (кроме присмотра за дочерью, пока она находится под домашним арестом) состоит в том, что она без ума от нее и WordGirl.

Теодор «Тоби» Маккалистер III

Десятилетний злодей Тоби Маккалистер представлен в сериале как гений робототехники с ложным британским акцентом и известен созданием собственных армий роботов, которых он часто выпускает на свободу в городе, угрожая уничтожить его в тайных попытках привлечь внимание WordGirl. Он безумно влюблен в нее, держа ее куклу на своей кровати и альбом для вырезок, украшенный сердечками; и обычно требует, чтобы, если он ее побьет, она рассказала ему свою тайную личность или пошла с ним за мороженым . Одна из его главных целей — доказать / обнаружить, что она отвечает ему взаимностью, или, по крайней мере, заставить ее признать, что он ей нравится; то, на что иногда намекают. Его мать знает об интеллекте своего ребенка и обычно оправдывает его за его выходки или лишает его «привилегий робота»; задерживая его в конце большинства эпизодов, схватив его за ухо, на что Тоби обычно опускает свой акцент. Тоби более безрассудный и озорной, чем злой, поскольку его скрытые мотивы вращаются вокруг его увлечения WordGirl и потребности во власти, чтобы компенсировать предполагаемое скрытое отсутствие самоуверенности, несмотря на его дерзкий, излишний вид. Несмотря на сообразительность и сообразительность Тоби, его оценки низкие из-за отсутствия интереса к учебе. Он не обладает никакими спортивными способностями, и в различных эпизодах показано, что он плохой игрок в вышибалу. Пытаясь доказать, что он хорош во всем, Тоби доходит до того, что использует своего робота-дубликата для участия в соревновании «Полевой день с Робо-Тоби», только чтобы быть дисквалифицированным, когда уловка была раскрыта. Во время ретроспективного кадра в «Битве роботов с обезьянами» было показано, что Тоби участвовал в матче по шашкам с Вайолет, который закончился поражением, в результате чего Тоби отказался участвовать в соревнованиях по шашкам и вместо этого стал роботом, который сделал это за него, что еще один пример, намекающий на его неуверенность в себе. Помимо своих гигантских роботов, Тоби создал и другие различные изобретения, в том числе Мышонзиллу, совместный проект между ним и доктором Два мозга. Комикс / актер Паттон Освальт озвучивает Тоби. Примечание: Тоби на самом деле не сокращение от Теодора. Тед, Тедди и Тео — сокращение от Теодора. Тоби — это сокращение от Тобиас.

Клэр Маккалистер

Мать Тоби (озвучивает Данна Фирман) работает в офисе окружного прокурора с матерью Бекки и оказывается гением, как и ее сын; у нее есть самонаводящееся устройство и пульт, чтобы остановить его роботов, хотя чаще всего она не знает о его планах до тех пор, пока им не помешают. По большей части ее единственное появление — ближе к концу эпизодов, чтобы заземлить его или лишить его привилегий робота, обычно хватая его за ухо. Однако в эпизодических эпизодах Тоби и его мать вместе появляются в сценах для таких событий, как празднование праздников, и показано, что у их отношений есть хорошая сторона. Никаких ссылок на отца Тоби нет, и неизвестно, играет ли он роль в жизни своего сына или нет. На протяжении всего шоу она всегда хмурится и никогда не улыбается.

Мат 3000

Checkmate 3000 — один из лучших роботов Тоби, созданный специально для игры в шашки. Это было замечено в эпизоде ​​«Поединок обезьяны-робота», где Боб играл в шашки. Когда Тоби продолжал настаивать на своем чемпионе по игре в шахматы, чтобы выиграть, Checkmate 3000 стал настолько расстраиваться, что в конце концов попытался уничтожить все объекты с клетчатым рисунком. Дизайн Checkmate 3000 выглядит как Супер Робот с обычными цветами робота и одеждой в шотландском стиле.

Суперробот

Супер Робот Тоби — это гигантский супер-огромный золотой робот, который больше и сильнее всех других роботов Тоби. Было доказано, что WordGirl и Captain Huggy Face физически неуязвимы. Тоби потерял контроль над ним, когда его художник-робот Арти нарисовал изображение золотого гиганта. Суперробот был тронут этим и неожиданно заплакал. В последний раз его видели взрывающимся в космос вместе с картиной.

Художественный

Artsy — это один из роботов Тоби, который очень артистичен и креативен. В отличие от других роботов Тоби, у него есть какая-то личность. Когда Тоби сказал разрушить здания, он просто начал рисовать, к большому разочарованию Тоби («Ты снова пошел против моих команд!»).

Чак, злой парень, готовящий сэндвичи

Суперзлодей, который определенно не умеет ни слова, ни зло, отсюда и его имя. Он живет в подвале своей матери, за исключением того случая, когда он создал новое логово вдали от ее дома в «Мире сэндвичей», только чтобы вернуться после того, как почувствовал себя одиноким. Его главное оружие — бутылки с приправой, такими как кетчуп , горчица , майонез , медовая горчица, маринованный соус, медовое масло, соус барбекю и оливковое масло . Будучи преисполнен решимости доказать миру, насколько важны его способности сэндвича, он часто совершает небольшие грабежи без реальной причины, кроме как показать, насколько он «злой». Чак пытался придумать себе имена получше, такие как «Destructo the Destroyer», «Amazo — удивительный парень, который злой, но не так уж плох, когда вы его узнаете», «Chuck the Nice Pencil (and Rubberband) Selling» Парень »или« Красивый Эдди ». Чак также имеет тенденцию забывать словарные слова через несколько секунд после того, как они были произнесены. В эпизоде ​​«Красивая пантера» он сшил костюм пантеры и переименовал себя и друга Чака в имя Сэмми Суб. Также выясняется, что если бы WordGirl никогда не существовало, Чак продолжал бы совершенствоваться в своих преступлениях, пока он в конечном итоге не захватил бы город и не заставил бы других злодеев работать на него, заставляя граждан есть только бутерброды. Фред Столлер озвучивает Чака.

Его мать

Мать Чака, невидимая, но озвученная Данной Фирман, часто называет своего сына Чарльзом, его полное имя, или Чаки, и иногда уговаривала его выполнять поручения за нее. Чак сохранил фотографию себя и своей матери в «Мире сэндвичей» (хотя ее лицо было заблокировано каким-то предметом). Не исключено, что она могла быть упитанной, как двое ее сыновей.

Брент, красивый, успешный парень, делающий сэндвичи, все любят его

Более известный и успешный брат Чака, которого озвучил Том Кенни, является изобретателем хлеба без корочки и приехал в город, чтобы принять премию «Золотой бутерброд», что вызвало у Чака зависть. Брент, однако, завидует некоторым возможностям, которые имел Чак, например, жить в подвале своей мамы и играть в видеоигры (высокий балл Чака — 9).

Именинница (Эйлин)

Эта десятилетняя девочка пытается получить желаемое, используя ложно-вежливую манеру, большие глаза и шепелявый голос вместе с заявлением «Сегодня у меня день рождения!» Если эти методы не работают, она становится эгоистичной и временами жестокой, просто крича «МОЙ, МОЙ, МОЙ !», Становясь все выше и приобретая более глубокий оттенок зеленого с каждым криком (возможная ссылка на выражение «Зеленый с Зависть »или « Невероятный Халк » ), пока владелец желанного предмета в страхе не отдаст его. Единственный способ повернуть вспять трансформацию Эйлин — убедить ее отдать то, что она ценит. (Этот трюк обнаружила Вайолет в эпизоде ​​«Именинница»; когда гигантская Эйлин держит WordGirl и капитана Хагги Фейс в заложниках, Вайолет объявляет Эйлин одной из своих «лучших подружек во всем мире». В знак благодарности Эйлин руки над своим драгоценным ожерельем [после того, как Вайолет говорит ей, что «лучшие злодеи дают каждому из них»], и ее метаморфоза, вызванная жадностью, обращена вспять, спасая WordGirl и капитана Huggy Face.) Однако это событие не заставило Эйлин полностью отвернуться от нее. эгоистичные способы. В двухсерийном эпизоде ​​«Неправильная сторона закона» она обманывает комиссара полиции Ватсона, заставляя его думать, что WordGirl украла фигурки Симпатичной принцессы из Магазина волшебных пони Pretty Princess, которые были взяты взаймы у Ye Olde Fancy Schmantsy Jewelry Shoppe. Эйлин, озвученная Памелой Адлон , также сильно раздражает Бекки, потому что она немного шепелявит, когда говорит, что заставляет ее звучать как ребенок (она также очень незрелая) и использует «w» в словах вместо «l» или «r». (например, «Я надела своего вессона», «Сегодня у меня два дня!», «Что делают лучшие злодеи?» и т. д.)

Леди Избыточная Женщина

Бывшая сотрудница копировального магазина, также известная как Беатрис Биксби, которая стремится стать владельцем копировального магазина, которым в настоящее время управляет добрый человек по имени Дэйв. Несчастный случай на рабочем месте соединил ее с копировальным аппаратом и превратил ее в «Леди Избыточную Женщину». Прикоснувшись к своему носу, она может дублировать себя, одна из которых, названная «Дупи», влюбляется в Мясника в «Молодых и молодых» Без мяса «, что является частью формирования армии, которую она посылает выполнять свои приказы. Число, которое она может создать, ограничено количеством чернил, которые у нее есть, и если чернила закончатся, ее копии быстро исчезнут на исчезает из-за кучи копировальной бумаги или в случае поражения от WordGirl. Она также обладает способностью создавать злые копии других людей, если потребляет изображение этого человека, как это было при создании злой копии WordGirl. Обычно она повторяет слова во многих формах, похожих на тезаурус . Аманда Пламмер озвучила злодейку в ее дебютном эпизоде, а Грей ДеЛисл впоследствии взял на себя ответственность. В недавнем эпизоде ​​она, кажется, может просто взглянуть на картинку или картину и создать копию . Однако недостатком является то, что любые картинки он копии оживает.

Дэйв

Дэйв (озвучивает Ларри Мерфи ) — менеджер Копировального магазина. Несмотря на неприязнь Леди Избыточная Женщина (Беатрис) к нему, он добр к ней, как и ко всем. Беатрис хочет стать менеджером копировального магазина и на всю жизнь избавиться от Дэйва. Дэйв появлялся в фильмах «Леди Избыточная женщина», «Я думаю, что теперь я клон», «Бух!» И «Леди Избыточная женщина получает блюз».

Злой вредоносный WordGirl копия

Клон был создан, когда Леди Избыточная Женщина потребила изображение WordGirl и скопировала ее. Злонамеренная WordGirl обладает всеми возможностями настоящего WordGirl и повторяет слова своего создателя. Леди Избыточная Женщина использовала ее, чтобы украсть все тезаурусы в городе, заставив людей ненавидеть ее. Однако WordGirl смогла избавиться от своей копии, вернула тезаурусы и снова завоевала их доверие. Различия между двумя WordGirls заключались в их энергетических полосках, когда они летают (полоса энергии WordGirl была желтой, а у клона — зеленой), и в их голосах: в то время как WordGirl говорила нормально, злой клон говорил только монотонно, как у робота.

Dupey

Дюпи — один из дубликатов Леди Избыточной Женщины, которая начала развивать свою личность и влюбилась в Мясника. Несмотря на ее сходство с любовницей, Мясник мог определить, кто из них Дупи или Леди Редандант. В конце концов, они расстались после того, как Дюпи признался, что она вегетарианка. Тем не менее, она все еще испытывает к нему чувства.

Королевский денди

Королевский денди был картиной, которую скопировала Леди Избыточная женщина, но он ожил. Он говорит с ирландским или британским акцентом. Он может стрелять синей краской из рук и раздражать город, пока Леди Избыточная Женщина не победила его после того, как он использовал копировальный аппарат в качестве батута, покрыв верхнюю часть синей краской. Он очень жадный и называет Леди Избыточную Женщину своей матерью. В некоторых эпизодах он едет на сером коне с другой картины, названной «Лошадь». Однако его невербальный конь убежал, когда была обнаружена его жадность. Лошадь больше не видели, поэтому неизвестно, была ли лошадь когда-либо возвращена к своей картине. Пижамную копию картины озвучивает Серхио Чилли.

Whammer

Этот персонаж был впервые замечен как помощник Чака, злого парня, готовящего сэндвичи. Whammer «стучит» кулаками вместе, посылая звуковые волны, чтобы сокрушить что-нибудь или кого-нибудь на своем пути. У него грубый, громкий голос, и обычно он говорит, вставляя слово «бах» или «бахаммер» (как в «Это было так вхаммер»). Когда он был закадычным другом, он больше походил на босса, чем раздражал Чака. Среди других его боссов были The Amazing Rope Guy и The Coach, но с тех пор он ушел сам и любит домашний яблочный пирог с большим количеством масла и хот-доги, покрытые горчицей или шоколадом. Джон К. МакГинли делает голос Whammer. Его рогатый шлем снесен с его головы в одном эпизоде, показывая, что у него зеленые волосы, уложенные в ирокез. В эпизоде ​​«Преступление в ключе V» раскрывается, что он может увеличить мощность своих звуковых волн, постукивая указательными пальцами по песенному образцу (в котором его кулаки генерируют вокруг себя синюю ауру при каждом касании).

Тренер

Мотивационный тренер (озвучивает Нед Беллами), который помогает своим друзьям стать их собственным боссом. В «Sidekicked to the Curb», когда Whammer подписался на программу The Coach, Тренер понял, что может обманом заставить Whammer украсть все, что он хочет. Когда Тренер был арестован и заключен в тюрьму вместе с Whammer, он решил, что это прекрасная возможность начать школу злодеев, где он проинструктировал трех негодяев-новичков — Тимми Тимбо, который носит кепку и накидку с тусклым тоном бездельника и страдает аллергией на масло, которая сильно дремала; Большой Леворукий Парень, чьей силой была гигантская левая рука, которую использовали для вызова одного из трех такси в городе, и Мисс Вопрос (подробнее о ней можно узнать ниже). Вместе с помощью The Whammer они украли Свисток Микеланджело. У него также есть выпускник по имени InvisiBill, человек, который может становиться невидимым по команде, щелкая пальцами.

Invisi-Bill

Пока только в фильмах «Кто такая мисс Вопрос?», «Инвизи-Билл Хэнд» и «Обычные старые озорники», Инвизи-Билл (озвучивает Х. Джона Бенджамина ) — выпускник школы тренеров, который может становиться невидимым, когда он хочет. Тренер заявил, что его имя идеально ему подходит, поскольку это игра слова «невидимый» и тот факт, что его имя — Билл.

Большой левый парень

Большой левый парень, которого озвучивает Майк О’Коннелл , окончил тренерскую школу. У него большая левая рука, которой он останавливает все три такси Фэйр-сити. Похоже, либо он не очень любит криминал, либо боится, что его могут схватить, он скажет ТАКСИ.

Мисс Вопрос

Дебютировав в эпизоде ​​«Школа злодеев», она носит красный свитер с желтым вопросительным знаком, зеленую маску и колготки, похожие на Риддлера . Ее нос имеет форму перевернутого вопросительного знака. В эпизоде ​​«Кто такая мисс Вопрос?» Она вылетела из школы злодеев и заклятых врагов Тренера из-за того, что у нее не было суперсил, пока облако в форме вопросительного знака не поразило ее молнией, что дало она способна плавать на вопросительном знаке, как Серебряный Серфер, и вызывать у жертв избирательную амнезию , активируя свой вопросительный знак на свитере и стреляя в них вопросительными знаками, оставляя круг вопросов, плавающих вокруг их голов. Также вопросительные знаки могли заставить человека раскрыть свои секреты.

В одном из эпизодов она пытается украсть «Вопросительный знак Сократа », булавку, которую носил философ в Древней Греции . Кроме того, она дает все свои комментарии в форме вопросов; однако ее мать хотела, чтобы она вместо этого пошла в кондитерскую. В эпизоде ​​«Семена сомнения» она может создать заглавный продукт, заменив мак на бублике. Когда их едят, эти семена заставляют едока задавать постоянные вопросы и быть очень неуверенными в себе. В том же эпизоде ​​она, кажется, очень обижается, когда кто-то говорит: «Никаких вопросов». Ее логово также видно в этом эпизоде; он заполнен элементами, покрытыми вопросительным знаком. Некоторые из них включают кресло в форме вопросительного знака, антенный телевизор (с антенной, изогнутой в форме вопросительного знака) и лампу с вопросительным знаком. В самой комнате есть боковые двери и перевернутые лестницы, предположительно для того, чтобы посетители задавали вопросы о ней. В эпизоде ​​«Люди против Мисс Вопрос» она предстает перед судом WordGirl после кражи рожка мороженого у Боба, также известного как Капитан Хагги Фейс, кражи женского кошелька и угона автомобиля у автосалона Быстрого Эдди.

Однако, как только г-жа Вопрос предстает перед судом, она сбивает с толку окружного прокурора Ботсфорда своими вопросами, и присяжные отпускают ее. Не сумев выиграть судебный процесс, г-жа Ботсфорд бросает работу и некоторое время остается дома. В то время как г-жа Вопрос возвращается к своим преступлениям, мэр жалуется, что г-жа Ботсфорд — единственная, кто предал миссис Вопрос правосудию. Сказав это, когда WordGirl противостоит мисс Вопрос в банке и притворяется, что попала в ловушку, мисс Ботсфорд использует верёвочный столб, чтобы перенаправить вопросительные знаки миссис Вопрос обратно на нее, таким образом побеждая ее. Пытливого злодея озвучивает Грей Делисл.

Мясной мародер в маске

Напыщенный мясной злодей (озвученный Эллиоттом Гулдом ), соперник Мясника, чьи мясные способности немного причудливее, оскорбил его, назвав его униформу «пижамой». После трех встреч с Мясником и WordGirl его отправили в город, известный как Митрополис, где есть двадцать три мясных лавки, каждое воскресенье проходят парады гамбургеров и нет супергероев или супергероев обезьян.

Удивительный веревочный парень

Незначительный злой злодей (озвучивает Ларри Мерфи ), который облачается в обтягивающую темно-синюю маску, обтягивающий темно-синий костюм, узкие желтые перчатки и узкие темно-синие ботинки. Впервые он появляется в начале серии «Mr. Большой план Big », у него козлиная бородка и слегка скрипучий голос. Удивительный Веревочный Парень не совершает настоящих преступлений, как все другие злодеи, но, похоже, любит совершать мелкие преступления, в которых он использует свою веревку, например, пытается сбить статую веревкой или пытаться связать продавца обуви, чтобы он мог ограбить обувной магазин. Несмотря на свое имя, он не так хорош со своей веревкой, как в свое первое появление, когда он собирался «сразить» WordGirl и Captain Huggy Face, пытаясь «заарканить» их, ему это не удалось, что WordGirl отвечает, что он «не так уж и хорош». Он любит узелки, а также проявляет себя как неудачный детский исполнитель. Однажды он добился успеха в своих преступлениях, плохо выдавая себя за других более успешных злодеев, но отказался от этого после того, как ему надоели злодеи, которых он выдавал за себя, получив признание вместо него.

Энергетический монстр (Мария)

Энергетический монстр, или Мария, как она предпочитает называться, был случайно создан на электростанции, когда электрический шар расширился и приобрел форму после того, как во время эксперимента сотрудники бросили в него газировку и бутерброды, что привело к перегрузке энергии. Этот энергетический монстр увеличивается в размерах, когда поглощает электричество. Обычно он появляется, когда WordGirl намеревается сделать что-то еще, например, отпраздновать свой день рождения или пойти в кино. Когда у Энергетического Монстра заканчивается энергия или он побежден, он либо сжимается до крошечного существа, либо оказывается в воде, либо сгорает. Она появляется в эпизодах «День рождения Бекки», «Премьера красивой принцессы» и «Бекки и бард», последний из которых показывает, что ей нравятся сверкающие вещи. В «Чудовищном подарке именинницы» Эйлин Именинница продает драматическому мужчине закусочную на Энергетического монстра в стеклянной банке и обращается с ним как с домашним животным. В «Ужине или последствиях» доктор Два Брэйна изобрел специальный шлем, который соединяет его с лучом сыра, но на самом деле он использует способность говорить, а затем показывает, что Энергетический монстр — это «девочка», и она предпочитает называть ее Марией. Энергетический монстр — это отсылка к монстру трения из «Разрывающих друзей» .

Сеймур Орландо Гладкий

Самовлюбленный игра шоу и мошенник (озвучивает Daran Norris ) , который дебютировал в эпизоде «Ответ на все вопросы и выиграть вещи!» пытаясь украсть деньги участника без их ведома, заставляя их листы ответов с помощью невидимых чернил показать, что он снимет все деньги с их банковских счетов. Позже он провел еще одно игровое шоу под названием «Принятие желаемого за действительное» и еще одно под названием «Кто хочет выиграть блестящую новую машину?». где он привлек своих братьев, подтасовывая игру, задавая очень сложные вопросы, на которые они могли ответить заранее. Его суперсилы — яркая улыбка, ослепляющая его противников, и силовой гель для волос ведущего игрового шоу, который он бросает за голову, чтобы заманить в ловушку жертв. Другое оружие — его «Колесо чудесных вещей», которое он использовал, чтобы поймать WordGirl и Captain Huggy Face. Колесо сделано из титанового сплава, который полностью звуконепроницаем, хотя, пока Хагги разрезал его одним из бриллиантовых колец Сеймура, он заранее сказал им, что колесо может вызвать у них головокружение. У него также есть цепи из дурацкого золота , которые он использует, чтобы поймать WordGirl и Huggy в эпизоде ​​«Wishful Thinking».

Стив МакКлин

Появившись в «Балладе о Стиве МакКлине», он пытается заменить Доктора Двухмозгового в качестве злодея номер один своим фирменным приемом очистки мест преступлений и своим костюмом, похожим на поп-звезду. Персонаж представляет собой пьесу, посвященную имени актера Стива МакКуина . Однако его единственный недостаток — его небрежный голос, озвученный Томом Кенни.

Рауль Демигласс

Этот телевизионный шеф-повар, ведущий «Если ты не можешь выдержать жару, убирайся из кухни» (последняя строчка — его крылатая фраза), Мясник бросает вызов кулинарному поединку в «Рагу, гордый», как и Бекки вот-вот станет ее идеальный рекорд по возвращению испорченных книг в библиотеку. Тем не менее, WordGirl и капитан Huggy Face разоблачают его как мошенника за то, что он использовал тушеную говядину Текс Коннелли в банке, поскольку он утверждал, что его тушеная говядина была оригинальным рецептом, и заставляя своих противников плакать, когда он бросал им в лицо сырой лук. Джеймс Адомиан озвучивает сумасшедшую плиту.

Гай Рич

Этот персонаж пытается отодвинуть на задний план мистера Биг, местного злодея из крупного бизнеса в «Мини-гольф мистера Биг». Однако WordGirl на удивление разоблачает его как простого техасского афериста, который меняет местами со своим братом в качестве богатого парня и кэдди в другом городе. Уильям Мапотер озвучивает этого персонажа.

Нокан Противоположный

Этот злодей из Королевства Контрария, чей громкий голос дает Даран Норрис, всегда говорит противоположно; например, если кто-то скажет «сильный», он ответит «слабый», а затем раздастся варварский визг. Его послали исследовать Фэйр-Сити, он носит нецивилизованную одежду и доспехи, а также носит меч, который может сбивать деревья, когда он врубает его в землю. Имя этого персонажа — игра слов от Конана-варвара .

Виктория Бест

Виктория учится в классе Бекки в начальной школе Вудвью. Как следует из имени этого вундеркинда , родители научили ее быть лучшей в своем деле. После выигрыша всех школьных трофеев, кроме трофея лучшего читателя (который выиграла Бекки), она замышляет украсть его, потому что считает, что заслуживает их всех. Она даже часто кричит «Я САМЫЙ ЛУЧШИЙ!» Вместе с «Лучшим, вон!» когда она уйдет. Она кажется невероятно избалованной, одетая в семейную форму в виде жилета-свитера с трофейными знаками, и является единственным ребенком на шоу с серьгами в форме синих лент. Кажется, что она на самом деле не злая, но ее родители поощряют ее творить зло, например, красть трофеи у других людей с их именами. У нее также есть домашний пудель, который может играть в шахматы, и младший брат, который может играть в шахматы и на пианино одновременно. В эпизоде ​​«Не связывайся с лучшими» Виктория теоретизирует, что WordGirl — успешный супергерой, потому что злодеи, с которыми она сталкивается, не являются серьезными препятствиями. Затем она крадет все их ключевое оружие, чтобы создать арсенал, который действительно успешно захватывает WordGirl и Huggy. Однако ее победа прерывается, когда злодеи, у которых она украла, идут за ней, заставляя ее освободить WordGirl для помощи. В конечном счете, однако, она отмечает, что технически она все еще победила WordGirl: если бы злодеи не появились, ее план сработал бы (что сделало ее WordGirl самым жизнеспособным противником).

Показано, что глаза Виктории светятся красным, а от них стреляют красные лучи света и могут подбирать предметы. Она очень красивая, и видно, что мальчики влюблены в нее с первого взгляда. Даже Скупс был очарован ею в ее первом эпизоде, хотя во втором эпизоде ​​он уже насмотрелся на ее истинное лицо. Также показано, что она говорит по-испански, занимается гимнастикой, собирает жучки, играет на магнитофоне и занимается многими другими вещами. Что касается игры на магнитофоне, она может играть так хорошо, что может гипнотизировать других. Ее голос озвучивает Кристен Шаал .

Родители Виктории

Родители Виктории Бест (озвучены Ларри Мерфи (отец) и Кристен Шаал (мать)) очень строги с Викторией. Они часто говорят ей, что она, должно быть, лучшая, и очень разочаровываются, когда узнают, что Виктория в чем-то не лучшая. Они часто оказывают на нее такое сильное давление, что Вики чувствует себя обязанной оправдать их ожидания, что может объяснить поведение Виктории. У них были говорящие роли в фильмах «Виктория Бест» и «Преступление в тональности V».

В «Не связывайся с лучшими» было показано, что они даже ожидают, что их дочь будет лучше WordGirl. Они легко похожи на семью Ботсфордов и Эмили.

Капитан Тангенс

Этот заблудший и странный пират (озвученный Джоном Хенсоном из Wipeout ) с магнитным крючком и приятелем-попугаем был уволен с работы в ресторане «шведский стол» Blackbeard’s Buffet all-you-can-eat из-за того, что он продолжал говорить в тангенты вместо обслуживания клиентов. их еда.

Он постоянно ищет «дублоны» — старые золотые монеты. Он получил свои силы, когда он нашел сокровище Безбородого, и получил проклятие, дающее ему магнитный крюк и способность разговаривать птице. Он, кажется, много знает почти обо всем, от дерева до изобретения балетных туфель, но неизвестно, было ли это правдой.

Мисс Пауэр

Мисс Пауэр и ее напарник полковник Хихикает Чикс прибыли с другой планеты, такой как WordGirl, и притворяются ее другом и новым супергероем, но на самом деле заставляют WordGirl и всех других граждан запугивать друг друга и захватывают город, сажая в тюрьму любого, кто выступает против ее. Она оказывается сильнее WordGirl и пытается захватить мир. Когда она сажает в тюрьму миссис Ботсфорд, WordGirl и все злодеи объединяются и побеждают мисс Пауэр. Это была серия из четырех частей, которая длилась 1 час. Ее голос озвучивает Джейн Линч .

Ученик

Учащегося озвучивает «Странный Эл» Янкович. Этот новый злодей раздражает WordGirl своим постоянным неправильным использованием суффиксов (например, его зовут «Learnerer» вместо «Learner»). У него есть способность видеть вещи один раз, а затем сразу их изучать, и он может запрограммировать свой желтый костюм, чтобы преодолевать эти препятствия. Ученик впервые появился в эпизодической роли в « Восстании мисс Пауэр » в сцене, когда мисс Пауэр тянет и пытается убить Доктора Два Мозга, где он был одним из злодеев, связанных с Инвизи-Биллом и Стивом МакКлином мисс Сила. Позже он официально появился в своем одноименном эпизоде ​​«Ученик», где пытается украсть Алмазный мозг Санта-Тортуги у г-жи Эдит ван Хусингхаус. Как показано в эпизоде, он очень проворный и незаметный, и его глаза могут двигаться по всей его голове. Когда WordGirl прибыла, чтобы забрать алмаз, она была бессильна против Ученика, потому что он изучал каждое ее движение. К сожалению, ему не удалось выучить движения Капитана Хагги Фэйса, заявив, что о нем «не стоит беспокоиться». Обучающийся был побежден Хагги, когда обезьяна-приятель сбросила его с горки в автозак.

Хэл Хардборгейн

Грубый поставщик гаджетов и владелец магазина снабжения своего злодея. У него механическая рука с когтем и электронная повязка на глазу. Он также самый большой поклонник WordGirl.

Имя Хэла и его механический глаз могут быть отсылкой к компьютерной системе HAL 9000 из серии «Космическая одиссея» Артура Кларка.

Бывшие злодеи

Бэггер в маске

Бывший суперзлодей, который совершил преступления с помощью своего секретного оружия, известного как бластер для сумок, и украл большую часть вещей из ювелирного магазина и музея. Его тайно опознал менеджер продуктового магазина .

Персонажи «Могу я сказать пару слов»

Хост

Красавчик

Ведущий игрового шоу «Могу я поговорить?» Его имя означает «красивый» или «красивый» по-французски, и его озвучивает Райан Раддац.

Конкурсанты

Томми

Ему нравится действовать лучше, чем почти все участники шоу, и, кажется, он влюблен в WordGirl, что сделало бы его фанатом . Орландо Браун — голос, стоящий за персонажем.

Фил

Обычно у него тревожное и неуверенное выражение лица. У него также есть маленький двоюродный брат и он очень боится публичных выступлений. Озвучивает Том Кенни.

Эмили

Видно, что она всегда улыбается и постоянно раздражает Томми, поскольку она почти безостановочно рассказывает о WordGirl и Captain Huggy Face. Она всегда называет Бо «мистер красавчик». Иногда она появляется в реальных историях WordGirl , но с волосами, собранными в хвост. Келли Мияхара изображает персонажа.

Второстепенные персонажи

Профессор Джеймс Духики

Профессиональный специалист по технологиям и гаджетам, который знакомит аудиторию с полезными гаджетами как злодеев, так и героев. У него легкий английский акцент.

Проф. Роберт Тюбинг

Этот ученый-инвалид, дебютировавший в «Играх в кошки-мышки», переехал в старую лабораторию профессора Стивена Бокслейтнера после того, как профессор Бокслейтнер превратился в доктора Двухмозгового. Его величайшее изобретение — полностью естественная инвалидная коляска-киборг, работающая на солнечной энергии , и помощник-обезьяна по имени Боско. Его озвучивает Фрэнк Велкер .

Комиссар полиции Уотсон

Комиссар полиции Фэйр-сити (озвученный Джоном Кричфалуси (1-й сезон) и Уэйном Найтом (2-й сезон)) дебютировал в эпизоде ​​«Обмен мясом» и разоблачил WordGirl как не имеющую никаких знаний в области искусства, но на следующую ночь был исправлен, взяв Мясник арестован за мошенничество с подделкой рубленой печени. У комиссара полиции Уотсона новое дело, и он позже заключил WordGirl в тюрьму в «Изнанке закона» за кражу статуэтки после того, как ее подставила Эйлин, именинница. Обычно он спешит с выводами, осматривая место преступления, и назван в честь помощника Шерлока Холмса . Он снова появился в фильме «Мясо, папа» во сне Кид Картофель.

Мэр

Мэр Fair City, впервые появившийся в эпизоде ​​«Book Ends». Он часто произносит речи (читая их с каталожных карточек, как Рональд Рейган ), иногда читает не ту карточку (то есть случайно читает речь для торжественного открытия общественного плавательного бассейна вместо новой библиотеки). Он потерял свою должность мэра из-за мистера Биг в эпизоде ​​«Запрещено в бегах», но снова стал мэром после того, как Бекки обманом заставила мистера Биг признаться в своей ловушке. У него есть помощник, который иногда исправляет его ошибки и дает ему информацию; она никогда не говорит вслух, но шепчет ему на ухо, чтобы рассказать ему что-то. Настоящее имя мэра еще не разглашается, но его озвучил Рон Линч, а в эпизоде ​​«Рука InvisiBill» выяснилось, что он передал WordGirl 199 ключей от города.

Смотритель Чалмерс

Тюремный надзиратель (озвучивает Том Кенни). Его первое появление было в «Шоссе двух мозгов», который часто злоупотребляет выражениями (например, ест свою шляпу после того, как сказал, что съест свою шляпу, если доктор Два мозга не заперт в камере), и часто считает, что он прав. , только чтобы потерпеть неудачу, а также управляет лагерем скаутов Fair City за пределами города.

Эдит ван Хусингхаус

Богатая дама, владеющая барбекю с бриллиантовой коркой и редчайшей коллекцией сыров. Озвучивает Данна Фирман.

Г-н Каллихан

Босс Чака в «Чак, хороший продавец карандашей» был взят в заложники из-за его неприязни к бутербродам (за исключением жареного сыра, о котором он не знал, что это сэндвич). Однако, когда Чак потерял кнопку, высвобождающую слизеподобную субстанцию ​​на внутреннюю часть чана, в котором он находился, он был достаточно хорош, чтобы облизать себя, будучи заложником. Голосовал покойный Питер Грейвс .

Рубен Шлифовщик

Владелец магазина сэндвичей Edible Edibles (озвучивает Ник Кролл ), которого ограбил Чак в «Чак делает доллар». Мистер Гриндер нанял Чака благодаря WordGirl в качестве представителя / талисмана магазина из-за его сэндвич-лица, и он стал популярным. Однако, поссорившись в своем магазине из-за приготовления сэндвичей для ежегодного ужина Fancy People’s Annual Awards, Чак уходит и превращает пол в бальном зале в нижнюю половину сэндвича, в котором Реджинальд утверждает, что «верхняя корка [сэндвича ] собирается сокрушить верхушку [модных людей] «. Его имя происходит от двух видов бутербродов: « Рубен» и « Гриндер» , поджаренного сэндвича с героем. Позже он и Брент вместе начали продавать хлеб с арахисовым маслом и желейный хлеб.

Миссис Рипли

Эта гиперактивная учительница физкультуры, работающая в школе Woodview Elementary, дебютировала в «Веселом полевом дне с Робо-Тоби»; она также является лидером отряда разведчиков для Отряда 865 и озвучена Грэем Делислом.

Г-жа Либри

Она управляет книжным магазином Fair City, ее озвучивает Робин Рид. Ее имя на латыни означает «книга».

Мисс Дьюи

Главный библиотекарь Fair City, названный в честь десятичной системы Дьюи, используемой в библиотеках, озвучивает Джуди Грир .

Milt

Милт — помощник библиотекаря, который хочет, чтобы Бекки закончила серию идеальных возвратов книг, его озвучил Энди Дик .

Г-н Дадли

Учитель пятого класса Бекки во втором сезоне (озвучивает Джим Гаффиган ), который впервые появился во главе производственной практики в фильме «Кто хочет конфеты?» Мистер Дадли любит конфеты, но не хочет, чтобы об этом знали. Например, он говорит: «Мы собираемся встретиться с Закари Зани, вдохновителем конфет, который изобрел большую часть моих — я имею в виду — ваших любимых конфет». Он также помогал ставить школьный спектакль «Ромео и Джульетта».

Захари Зани

Изобретатель «Choco-sandals», который провел экскурсию по своей шоколадной фабрике в «Who Wants Candy?», Озвученный Мэттом Бессером . Его отношение плохое и служит пародией на Вилли Вонка . Он говорит, что это не его настоящее имя, что придумали маркетологи.

Охотник Throbheart

Учащийся из Англии в школе Бекки, озвученный Джеймсом Адомианом , сыгравший Ромео в «Бекки и Бард». Как и его имя, большинство девушек, которые видят его, сразу же влюбляются в него. Хотя он очень хорошо выступил на репетиции, он боится сцены и не играл в реальной постановке, где за ним наблюдали многие люди.

Джонсон

Друг TJ.

Чазз

Чазз — второстепенный персонаж в Wordgirl. Он появляется только в «All that Chazz». Его озвучивает Брендон Смолл.

Г-жа Шамплен

Впервые увиденная в «Шедевре Тоби», она преподает искусство и образование для взрослых, как видно из Закона о классах и озвучивает Джен Кон.

Банковский кассир

Кассирша с нью-йоркским акцентом, ее часто грабят злодеи. В большинстве эпизодов ее озвучивает Джен Кон, но в «Бабушке-мэре» ее озвучивает Мария Бэмфорд, и у нее нет нью-йоркского акцента.

Г-жа Дэвис

Учительница начальной школы Вудвью, она — Бекки, Скупс, Вайолет, Тоби и учительница пятого / шестого классов Виктории в третьем сезоне, помогает вести дискуссионный клуб, а в эпизоде ​​«Уборка на одиннадцатом проходе» решила после Бекки и Тодда. вместо этого хотел единорога или броненосца в качестве талисмана дискуссионного клуба на волшебной черепахе. Эми Седарис озвучивает учителя.

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• Список эпизодов WordGirl

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The Heroes

Word Girl / Becky Botsford

Voiced by Dannah Phirman

The main protagonist of the show. She is from the planet Lexicon, but crashed to Earth as a baby, where she was adopted by the Botsfords. As the 10 year-old superhero Word Girl, she defends Fair City with her superpowers and exceptional vocabulary.

• Achilles’ Heel: She is hopeless at art, poetry, music, singing, and dancing.
  • And Lexonite.
• Alien Among Us
• All Girls Like Ponies: She is a major fan of «The Pretty Princess and Magic Pony Power Hour».
• Catch Phrase: Whenever she transforms into WordGirl, she cries out, «Word up!»
• Chest Insignia: A star inside a pentagon.
• Clark Kenting: She doesn’t wear a mask or change her voice, yet no one connects Becky Botsford and WordGirl together.
• Cuteness Proximity: To kittens, unicorns, and other stereotypical cute things.
• The Heroine
• Human Aliens
• Insufferable Genius: When it comes to vocabulary.
• Kryptonite Factor: Lexonite, a mineral from her home planet and a parody of kryptonite. It takes away her powers, drains her energy, and makes her misuse and mispronounce words.
• Only Sane Girl: Is often annoyed at how the townspeople are frequently Too Dumb to Live.
• Strong as They Need to Be: Sometimes, she can lift and punch out giant robots. Other times, she can be restrained by ordinary people or objects.
• Superpower Lottery
  • Flight
  • Nigh Invulnerability
  • Super Breath: Miss Power teaches her how to do this.
    • An Ice Person/Breath Weapon
  • Super Senses
  • Super Speed
  • Super Strength

Captain Huggyface / Bob

An intelligent chimpanzee who was flying the ship that sent baby WordGirl to Earth. He was adopted into the Botsford family as their pet. He is WordGirl’s sidekick.

• Ace Pilot
• Alien Among Us
• Apes in Space
• Big Eater
• Everything’s Better with Monkeys
• The Good Captain

The Narrator

Voiced by Chris Parnell

The Narrator of the story is able to freely interact with the characters. He is biased toward the heroes so he often assists them by giving advice (for example: telling WordGirl which way the bad guy went).

• Deadpan Snarker
• Interactive Narrator
• The Omniscient: He can see everything at once and even read minds, but the level of his omniscience varies according to the plot.

The Villains

Doctor Two-Brains / Professor Steven Boxleitner

He used to be a benevolent scientist who assisted WordGirl, but a Freak Lab Accident merged his brain with that of a mouse’s, turning him evil.

• Absent-Minded Professor
• Arch Nemesis
• Bow Ties Are Cool
• Child-Hater: Some what.
• Complexity Addiction
• Idiosyncrazy: Cheese and mice.
• Mad Scientist
• Why Did It Have To Be Cats?
• Trademark Favorite Food: Cheese, of course
• Wild Hair

Theodore «Tobey» McCallister III

A genius 10 year-old boy who terrorizes the city with giant robots. He also has an obsessive crush on WordGirl.

• Adorkable
• Blond Guys Are Evil
• Bow Ties Are Cool
• British Accent
• Gadgeteer Genius
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk
• Loves My Alter Ego: He treats Becky as just another citizen, or as something of a rival.
• Nerd Glasses
  • Megane: He has many fangirls
• Stalker with a Crush

Granny May

A villain who poses as a sweet, deaf old lady but who in actuality is a master thief who specializes in fooling others and convincing everyone to turn against WordGirl.

• Cool Old Lady
• Idiosyncrazy: Averted, especially when compared to a lot of the other villains. She just tries to steal things.
• Minion with an F In Evil: She once attempted to enlist the help of her hulking grandson Eugene, although this was foiled by Violet when she catered to his timid nature.
• Manipulative Bastard
• Obfuscating Disability
• Powered Armor

The Butcher

Voiced by Jack D. Ferraiolo

A large man who dresses like a butcher and has power over meat, which includes conjuring it up and telekinetically controlling it.

• Affably Evil: He’s actually pretty nice.
• The Butcher
• Calling Your Attacks
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: His meat constructs are often strong enough to restrain WordGirl. She usually relies on Captain Huggyface to eat through them.
• Idiosyncrazy: Meat.
• Large Ham
• Love At First Sight: With Dupey. Interestingly, he hates her template, Lady Redundant Woman and vice versa.
• Malaproper: Often butchers the English language when he talks.
• No Name Given
• Perma-Stubble
• Weaksauce Weakness: Tofu.

Kid Potato

The Butcher’s father, who has power over potatoes.

• Amazingly Embarrassing Parent: When he teamed up with his son.
• Calling Your Attacks
• Card-Carrying Villain: Similar to Dr. Evil, he insists on doing stereotypical villain actions.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Similar to his son, his potato constructs are strong enough to restrain WordGirl.
• Idiosyncrazy: Potatoes.
• No Name Given

Lady Redundant Woman / Beatrice Bixby

Beatrice Bixby works in a copy shop, and is bitterly jealous of the star employee, Dave. She obsessively cleans and maintains a copy machine, doting on it like it’s her child. After curiously pressing a mysterious Big Red Button on the machine, she becomes Lady Redundant Woman and wreaks havoc.

• Achilles’ Heel: She needs to touch her nose to use her powers. Also, she can’t use her powers if her ink supply runs low or if her ink cartridges are removed.
• All Girls Like Ponies: She can be seen watching «The Pretty Princess and Magic Pony Power Hour».
• Art Initiates Life: By eating or looking at an image, she can bring it to life.
• Berserk Button: Dave receiving praise. Messing with her beloved copy machine. If someone claims copies are no good compared to originals.
• Dark Action Girl: She was able to beat the crap out of Captain Huggyface while her powers were disabled.
• Department of Redundancy Department: She constantly repeats herself in different ways. For example: «You are beaten, defeated, vanquished!» or «Hi, hello, aloha.»
• Easily Forgiven: Whenever she’s released from jail, Dave gives her her job back.
• Green-Eyed Monster: For Dave.
• Idiosyncrazy: Copying, redundancy.
• The Insomniac: Implied, as she is the only character with lines and dark circles under her eyes.
• Me’s a Crowd: Her copies turn into paper when hit and she can make them disappear if she feels like it.

Dupey

One of Lady Redundant Woman’s copies, who gained free will and started dating The Butcher, abandoning her mistress. The Butcher gave her her name, and he can easily tell her apart from the original. Sadly, she dumped him and fled the city on a bus. However, she kept a photo of him and seemed to pine for him.

• Cloning Blues
• Love At First Sight: With The Butcher. Interestingly, the original hates him and vice versa.
• Put on a Bus
• The Quiet One
• Screw This, I’m Outta Here

Royal Dandy

Voiced by Sergio Cilli

A prince or nobleman from a painting whom Lady Redundant Woman brought to life. He is very greedy and obnoxious, but he calls Lady Redundant Woman «mom» and claims he is her son. He went on a rampage of mischief and destruction throughout Fair City. He made the mistake of breaking the copy machine. Lady Redundant Woman angrily destroyed him.

• Art Attacker: He can spray blue paint from his hands.
• Cool Horse: Brought to life from another painting
• Greed
• Jerkass
• Killed Off for Real: Or unless his «mom» changes her mind and recreates him.
• Spoiled Brat

Ms. Question

A woman obsessed with questions. She always speaks in the form of a question and she does her best to confuse people to force them to ask questions, usually by spreading chaos. Her lair is very strange, keeping with the theme.

• Berserk Button: The phrase «No questions asked».
• Chewbacca Defense: Relied on this when she was put on trial.
• Easy Amnesia: Can fire a beam that gives whoever it hits temporary amnesia.
• Idiosyncrazy: Questions, confusion.
• Sky Surfing: She rides on a giant question mark.

Chuck the Evil Sandwich-Making Guy

Voiced by Fred Stoller

A man with a sandwich-looking head and an obsession with sandwiches. He lives in his mother’s basement and plays video games, but he commits crimes either because he’s angry or in an attempt to be cool.

• Affably Evil
• Basement Dweller: He tried to move out once, but got homesick.
• Berserk Button: If someone mocks sandwiches.
• Expy: Of D-list Batman villain Condiment King.
• Fail O’Suckyname: Some other names he considered were “Destructo the Destroyer”, “Amazo the Amazing Guy Who’s Evil but Not Really That Bad When You Get to Know Him”, and «The Handsome Panther».
• Green-Eyed Monster: Toward his brother, Brent.
• Harmless Villain: He gets his occasional Not-So-Harmless Villain moment. Like when he made a giant machine that would fold and press the city like a sandwich.
• Idiosyncrazy: Sandwiches.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: Without a WordGirl to stop him, he would be ruling the city.

Brent the Handsome Successful Everybody-Loves-Him Sandwich Making Guy

Chuck’s older brother, who is a popular and successful business man. He also has a sandwich-shaped head. Though he is a legit worker and has no malicious tendencies, he briefly agreed to be Chuck’s sidekick.

• Always Someone Better: For Chuck, though Brent admits that Chuck is better at video games.
• Chick Magnet: Women swoon whenever he passes by.
• Minion with an F In Evil

Seymour Orlando Smooth

Voiced by Darran Norris

A man who pretends to be a game show host to scam contestants out of their cash and valuables.

• Chain Pain: Wields chains made of fool’s gold.
• Con Artist
• Improbable Weapon User: He can flick hair gel, which hardens like cement.
• Smarmy Host
• Smug Snake
• Twinkle Smile: It’s so bright it can blind people.

Mr. Big / Shelly Smalls

Voiced by Jeffery Tambor

A smug businessman who relies on mind control devices to gain the advantage on the competition.

• Asperger’s Syndrome: Never been confirmed, but he has the symptoms, including the slightly-monotone voice, playing with the squishy bunny thing, and having interests such as his business (mind control) and the already-mentioned squishy bunnies. Leslie also has some signs, such as the monotone voice.
• Berserk Button: If someone claims to be richer or bigger than him.
• Child-Hater
• Con Artist: Some of his schemes included using mind control to force people to buy his bogus products.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive
• Cuteness Proximity: For squishy things.
• Domino Mask
• In Love with Your Carnage: He gets really excited when he learns that Leslie Took a Level In Badass and nearly took over the city while he was away.
• Malaproper: He explains that he only ever took business classes.
• Manipulative Bastard / Smug Snake: Straddles the line.
• Mass Hypnosis
• Mind Control
• Mister Big: In Villainous Name Only.
• Outlaw Couple / Ship Tease: With Leslie.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money
• Sharp-Dressed Man

Leslie

Voiced by Maria Bamford

Mr. Big’s personal assistant, who does most of the heavy lifting in his schemes.

• All Girls Like Ponies: She is a fan of «The Pretty Princess and Magic Pony Power Hour».
• The Baroness
• Beleaguered Assistant: Sometimes expresses that her greatest wish is for Mr. Big to notice her.
• Berserk Button: Getting the name or details of «The Pretty Princess and Magic Pony Power Hour» wrong.
• Characterization Marches On: She wasn’t as much of a snarker or speaks monotone in «Mr. Big».
• Dark Action Girl: She knows karate and was a gymnast, and can fight evenly with Captain Huggyface.
• Deadpan Snarker
• Domino Mask: Starts wearing one in «Leslie Makes It Big».
• The Dragon
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness
• Emotionless Girl: She even laughs in monotone. The emotion she is most likely to ever express is annoyance.
• Genre Savvy
• Hypercompetent Sidekick
• Meganekko
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: In «Leslie Makes It Big», everyone assumes she can’t possibly be a threat without Mr. Big to guide her. She proves them all wrong.
• Only Sane Girl
• Outlaw Couple / Ship Tease: With Mr. Big.
• Plucky Office Girl
• Punch Clock Villain
• Sexy Secretary
• Took a Level In Badass: Becomes even more dangerous in «Leslie Makes It Big».

Victoria Best

Voiced by Kristen Schaal (speaking), Dev (singing)

A child prodigy whose parents expect her to be the best at everything she does.

• Alpha Bitch
• Blondes Are Evil
• Catch Phrase: «I’m THE BEST!»
  • Along with «VB, in!», a clear Shout-Out to Ryan Seacrest’s sign-off in American Idol.
  • «Eyes on the prize.»
• Casual Kink: She sure does like trophies…
• Extracurricular Enthusiast: Inverted — she’s forced into this by her parents, who expect her to excel and beat the pants off everyone else.
• Evil Counterpart: The members of her family are oddly similar to Becky’s; along with her parents she has a younger brother and an intelligent pet. And when you think about it, Becky’s and Victoria’s personalities have quite a few comparisons: they are both very competitive, excel in whatever they do, and are particularly arrogant. The only difference is the side they fight on…
• Evil Genius
• Eye Beams: They pull whatever they hit into her hands: great for stealing or collecting.
• Freudian Excuse: If you had parents like hers…
• Girlish Pigtails
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: Along with her parents.
• Magic Music
• Mind Control: Via playing her recorder.
• The Nicknamer: Heh, Beckface…
• Second Place Is for Losers
• Sore Loser

The Whammer

Voiced by John C. McGinley

A muscle bound man with the power to make powerful sonic booms by bringing his fists together. He inserts «wham» or «whammer» at least once into each sentence. Example: «Wow, that was so whammer!»

• Boisterous Bruiser
• Dumb Muscle
• The Fool
• Gale Force Sound: Powerful enough to shatter rock and send WordGirl flying. It can also cancel out Victoria Best’s Magic Music.
• Horny Vikings: He doesn’t claim to be a viking, but he wears the helmet.
• Large Ham
• No Sense of Personal Space: Often annoys fellow villains this way.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: He may be an idiot, but there’s no denying that he’s one of the most powerful characters in the series. In «Crime In The Key Of V», he reduces the city to rubble.
• Super Strength
• Verbal Tic: «Wham» and «Whammer».
• You Gotta Have Green Hair

Nocan the Contrarian

Voiced by Darran Norris

A barbarian warrior who speaks and acts in opposites, kind of like Bizarro from Superman.

• BFS
• Cool Boat: Sails a Viking longship.
• Deflector Shields: Can generate them with his sword.
• Good Is Bad and Bad Is Good
• Irony: He gets confused by Opposite Day.
• Large Ham
• Parody: Of Conan the Barbarian.
• Reverse Psychology
• Super Strength
• Sword Plant: He’s so strong that doing this triggers earthquakes.
• Walking Shirtless Scene

Birthday Girl / Eileen

Voiced by Pamela Aldon

A greedy little girl who thinks every day is her birthday. She demands that anyone she meets give her things. If she is refused, she will throw a tantrum and grow into a hulking behemoth.

• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever
• Catch Phrase: «MINE! MINE! MINE!»
• Elmuh Fudd Syndwome
• Expy: Of The Incredible Hulk.
• Fluffy Tamer: Eventually becomes the Energy Monster’s master.
• Greed
• Hulking Out: Her transformation reverses if she does something generous.
• Morality Pet: Violet.
• Sizeshifter
• Spoiled Brat
• Super Strength

Captain Tangent

Voiced by John Henson

An annoying waiter who is prone to telling boring stories and then going off on even more boring tangents. He becomes a pirate themed criminal after discovering his power.

• Eyepatch of Power
• The Good Captain: Averted, as he’s a villain.
• Hook Hand
• Motor Mouth
• Pirate
  • Pirate Parrot: His assistant, Oscar.
• Selective Magnetism: Which works on any metal, even gold.

Amazing Rope Guy

Voiced by Larry Murphy

A villain who’s not so much of a villain and more of a fumbling, comic relief character.

• Butt Monkey
• Funny Background Event
• Giftedly Bad: He was once hired as an entertainer at Becky’s school, doing rope tricks. The kids were not impressed.
• Idiosyncrazy: Rope.
• Mundane Made Awesome: The only thing he’s good at is impersonations and tying knots.
• Non-Indicative Name: He’s… really not that amazing.

Miss Power

Voiced by Jane Lynch

A new villain introduced in the four-part special «The Rise of Miss Power». She came to Earth, pretending to be a superhero and taking WordGirl under her wing, while preparing to take over.

• Beware the Superman
• Black and White Insanity
• The Bully
• Catch Phrase: When she flies, she cries out, «Power up, up, and away!»
• The Corrupter/Evil Mentor: While training WordGirl, she brought out the worst in her, and soon everyone else, turning them into bullies like her.
• Evil Counterpart: She’s WordGirl if she was cruel and arrogant, and decided her powers give her the right to take control instead of merely protect others.
• Human Aliens
• I Shall Taunt You
  • Break Them by Talking
  • «The Reason You Suck» Speech
• Knight of Cerebus: Completely outclasses WordGirl in power, is much smarter and more serious than the other villains, and nearly took over the world.
• Light Is Not Good
• Manipulative Bastard
• Peek-a-Bangs: Of the deception/concealment type.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers
• Superpower Lottery
  • Emotion Eater: She draws strength from negative emotions like feeling upset or uncertain. If everyone is happy and confident, she loses her powers.
  • Eye Beams
  • Flight
  • Nigh Invulnerability
  • Super Breath
    • An Ice Person/Breath Weapon
  • Super Senses
  • Super Speed
  • Super Strength
• The Sociopath
• Two-Faced
• Villainous Breakdown: Once WordGirl finally gets the better of her, she Rage Quits, fleeing Earth while ranting that if she leaves of her own volition, then it doesn’t count as losing.
• Vile Villain Saccharine Show
• We Can Rule Together
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity

The Learnerer

A man who can learn anything and devise counter-measures after observing it once. He has a habit of using suffixes twice. For example: «Learnerer» and «adaptinging».

• Adaptive Ability: His super suit adapts according to his analysis of his opponents.
• Awesomeness By Analysis
• Barrier Warrior
• In a Single Bound
• Insistent Terminology: Believes his way of speaking to be the correct way, and gets annoyed at people who speak normally.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: By observing WordGirl’s moves, he can easily dodge her despite her Super Speed.
• Smug Snake

Energy Monster

A creature made of electricity that is driven to absorb electricity and rampage through the city.

• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever
• Energy Absorption
• Energy Being
• Killer Rabbit: Its default form is very tiny and cute.
• Sizeshifter: It grows larger the more energy it has.
• Shock and Awe
• Weaksauce Weakness: Getting it wet shorts it out.

WordBot

Voiced by Dannah Phirman

A robot created by Tobey in WordGirl’s image and programed to be devoted to him. She has all of WordGirl’s abilities, but is slightly more powerful.

• Creepy Monotone
• Robot Girl
• Superpower Lottery
  • Flight
  • Nigh Invulnerability
  • Super Speed
  • Super Strength
• Weaksauce Weakness: She runs on a vulnerable battery pack.
• Yandere: As WordGirl explains to Tobey, «devotion» can quickly become «jealousy».

Citizens

Tim Botsford

Voiced by Ryan Raddatz

Becky’s adoptive father. He’s a stay-at-home dad with bizarre mannerisms, and is completely oblivious to his various blunders.

• Amazingly Embarrassing Parent
• Bumbling Dad
• Cloudcuckoolander
• The Ditz
• Fun Personified
• Too Dumb to Live

Sally Botsford

Voiced by Maria Bamford

Becky’s adoptive mother. She’s a district attorney who prosecutes criminals.

• Amazingly Embarrassing Parent
• Hello, Attorney!
• Let’s Get Dangerous: She’s defeated a few villains on her own.

TJ Botsford

Becky’s adoptive brother. He can’t stand Becky, but is ironically WordGirl’s biggest fan.

• Annoying Younger Sibling
• Fan Boy
• Loves My Alter Ego: As he’s oblivious to the fact Becky and WordGirl are one in the same, he has a crush on WordGirl while constantly annoying Becky.
  • In one episode where the Botsfords find out Becky is WordGirl, he is mortified and throws away his WordGirl merchandise. He can’t get over the fact that someone he looks up to and admires is someone he hates (or vice versa). He even refuses to help her when the entire family is captured by Dr. Two-Brains. In the end, their memories of Becky as WordGirl is erased and he doesn’t know why his WordGirl stuff is on the floor.
• Too Dumb to Live

Violet Heaslip

Voiced by Maria Bamford

Becky’s best friend. She’s a talented artist and poet and has a tedious grasp on reality.

• Cloudcuckoolander
• Morality Pet: Birthday Girl considers Violet her best friend, and Violet can calm her down.
• Ship Tease: With Scoops.
• Shrinking Violet

Todd «Scoops» Ming

Voiced by Ryan Raddatz

A boy who runs the school newspaper, and the object of Becky’s affections.

• Bad Bad Acting: He can’t act to save his life, even Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud, leading to him being cast as a prop in the school play.
• Going for the Big Scoop
• Oblivious to Love: Is completely blind to Becky.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Collects unicorn toys.
• School Newspaper Newshound
• Ship Tease: With Violet.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Fancies himself an awesome writer, but even Becky admits that his articles are dull.

Exposition Guy

Voiced by Chris Parnell

A man with no real purpose besides moving the plot along by running up screaming for help, alerting WordGirl to a crime or disaster. He constantly mistakes random places for the police station.

• Break the Cutie: He’s so annoying that Miss Power snaps and yells at him for being so stupid, causing him to cry.
• Catch Phrase: «Help!» «This isn’t the police station?»
• The Ditz: Is so scatterbrained that he didn’t even recognize his own wife.
• Everyone Calls Him «Barkeep»
• Megane
• No Sense of Direction
• Plot Device: Is actually called this by WordGirl and the Narrator.
• Too Dumb to Live

The following is a list of characters in the PBS Kids’ series WordGirl.^[1][2]

Main characters

WordGirl/Becky Botsford

The titular character is a superheroine whose superpowers include flying at the speed of sound,super hearing, super strength, and a comprehensive vocabulary. Her symbol is a red star against a yellow shield; when she strikes an enemy or shoots into the sky, she leaves a twinkling star at the end of her sonic streak, similar to the trail of a shooting star. As «mild-mannered» (though she’s actually quite plucky whether she’s Wordgirl or not) fifth grader Becky Botsford from Fair City’s Wood view Elementary School, she instantly changes into her WordGirl costume by touching her shirt where her emblem would be, and speaking her catchphrase, “Word up!” The backstory found her and Lexiconian Air Force Captain Huggy Face crashing on Earth after leaving the planet Lexicon in a spaceship for a test flight where she unknowingly crawled aboard the ship as a baby which she still uses as her base of operation away from her adopted parents, Tim and Sally Botsford, who found her on their doorstep reading a Sunday newspaper and doing the crossword puzzle therein, even though another flashback shows that the Botsfords found her in the woods.

Becky, who is age 10½, spends her time reading, going to school, decorating her dollhouse, collecting unicorns and trying to hide her secret identity. Her lone setbacks are that she is a horrible singer and dancer, and she struggles with art. No one is aware of WordGirl’s true identity with the exception of Captain Huggy Face (who gets mad when TJ says things about him) and, of course, the Narrator who, of course, gets to see everything. Despite obvious similarities, only a few others have made the connection; in «Dr. Two-Brains Forgets», the villain does find out and tells WordGirl/Becky’s family, but they all forget when they are hit with his amnesia ray, which was redirected toward a mirror by TJ thanks to his WordGirl boomerang and hits everyone but WordGirl. Scoops realizes that Becky doubles as WordGirl when she runs into him, forgetting that she is still wearing the WordGirl cape; Scoops observes that she’s also worn the costume frequently, having chosen WordGirl as her Halloween costume. However, his suspicions dissipate when Becky painstakingly misdefines a word in the episode «Vocab Bee». At one point,in «Becky’s Birthday», her parents begin to make the connection, but just when they are about to figure it out, Captain Huggy Face (a.k.a. Bob) distracts them by getting wrapped up in party decorations. In some short episodes, Tobey thinks Becky is WordGirl and tries to destroy her house with a robot, but Captain Huggy Face disguised as WordGirl shows up and Becky picks him up and destroys the robot. Also in the episode «Big’s Big Bounce» Becky knew the definition of the word «boost» and Mr. Big becomes suspicious for a while. However, Becky reveals her identity to her dad and TJ in «WordGirl Makes a Mistake», but her parents didn’t believe her. In a recent episode, Becky’s grandfather, Bampy Botsford, figures out Becky’s identity.

Even though she may be a superhero, Becky has a love for ponies and other animals, as any fifth-grade girl might. Her favorite book is “Princess Triana” (a parody of Harry Potter), while her favorite TV show is «The Pretty Princess and Sparkling Pony Power Hour». The series’ title character and her alter ego is voiced by Dannah Phirman; though producers originally wanted Reese Witherspoon for the role. Phirman was chosen for her knack to nail her scripts in one take.^[3]

Wordgirl seems to be a direct parody of Superman: they both came to Earth as infants, they both share powers of superhuman strength and speed, flight, and super hearing, and they are both vulnerable to radioactive fragments from their homeworlds.

Captain Huggy Face/Bob

WordGirl’s sidekick, a monkey from Lexicon, who was also responsible for crashing their spacecraft as a pilot of the Lexicon Air Force. Huggy Face has no superpowers (hence the reason that sometimes he has to take the bus because he cannot fly) and loves to eat almost anything, even the dreaded Beans à la Botsford (although he hates the repulsive Chicken Liver Fricassee and beef bouillon the Butcher conjured once). People often insult him by either saying his name wrong or calling him the wrong animal, most often Granny May. An example is «Tobey or Consequences» in which Tobey’s babysitter calls him an «aardvark in tights» and has been called a dog or other animal. Huggy is a surprisingly competent sidekick and can do martial arts, especially kung fu. His symbol, on the chest of his costume, is a thunderbolt. As Bob, he is the Botsford family pet, played by James Adomian at script readings. He has been called a hedgehog, (flying) rabbit, koala, rat, aardvark, ferret, otter, llama, a hairy kid, and probably others.

The Narrator

The Narrator’s secret ambition is to do the lead-in on 60 Minutes. This unseen character can interact with any character, although he most often converses with WordGirl, and can also hear her thoughts, as seen in the “Vocab Bee” episode. On occasion, he will telegraph upcoming plot developments to viewers; for example, in the episode titled “When Life Gives You Potatoes…”, Dr. Two-Brains captures WordGirl as part of a plot to turn gold into potato salad, and then into cheese. Once captured, he asks: “Is this the end of WordGirl? Will Dr. Two-Brains turn her into potato salad?” Dr. Two-Brains replies, “Hey! Don’t give it away!” The Narrator has also been known to intervene in the story’s action, and his words and judgments during these circumstances generally lead the viewers to believe that he’s not-so-secretly on WordGirl’s side. For example, in the episode “Tobey or Consequences,” the child villain Tobey proposes a game show, “Crash or Pie?” to settle the question of whether his robots would be allowed to destroy the city. The Narrator acts as show host, and his final judgment of the game’s outcome shows his overall bias in WordGirl’s favor. In «Sandwich World», he claims only to be a voice (but in one show he asks «Why is everybody looking at me?») that belonging to the former Saturday Night Live cast member Chris Parnell, who has a twin brother who works in Hollywood implying that he’s better than him as seen in the “Mecha-Mouse” episode, voiced by Mike Phirman (Dannah’s husband). He also has a brother named Glen who is a sportscaster. It is also shown that he can be affected by other characters, as shown in «Lunch Lady Chuck» where Chuck lifts a sandwich above the screen and the narrator can be heard chewing.

Tim Botsford

Becky’s adoptive and cheerful father encourages Becky and is very supportive of his family, although he’s quite indecisive and has been called an idiot. In one episode, he goes to the store and buys a large amount of Tiny Big merchandise. He makes “Beans a la Botsford,” which only Bob (Captain Huggy Face) will eat, In «The Two Brains Boogie», Mr. Botsford was shown to be master at boogieing and even had a video starring him on how to do so. Tim Botsford and his wife greatly enjoy money-saving, and have been shown to designate an entire evening to looking for coupons. It is also revealed that he has a favorite tie named «Murray», which was taken by Mr. Big, who really liked it and took the cravat for himself. (Thanks to Wordgirl, he later gets the tie back.) Ryan Raddatz, who also serves as one of the show’s writers, plays Mr. Botsford.

Sally Botsford

Becky’s adoptive mother, a constant optimist. As Fair City’s district attorney, she seems to have a fear of robots, plus in «You Can’t Crush City Hall», crushers; in this case a giant sandwich press used by Chuck. Having put away almost every villain WordGirl has captured (although she doesn’t know that it’s her adopted daughter), Sally even caught two of them red handed — Granny May and Seymour Orlando Smooth — with WordGirl’s help. She’s brilliant in the courtroom, though when she sees an actual crime being committed, she tends to freeze and miss her daughter change into Wordgirl. Her dream was to appear on a game show (which almost happened in «Answer All My Questions and Win Stuff» but happened in «Who Wants to Win a Shiny New Car?»), believing that Samuel L. Jackson was the 12th President of the United States when it is really Zachary Taylor. Like her husband, She has a great love of saving money and using coupons. Sally is voiced by Maria Bamford.

TJ Botsford

Tim and Sally’s 7-year-old biological child. Having an older sister annoys him, but he idolizes WordGirl and constantly babbles about her. This obsession with WordGirl is a bit unnerving to his sister, because he is also the president of WordGirl’s fan club and does not allow his sister (as Becky) to attend meetings. Voice acting veteran Tom Kenny provides TJ’s voice.

Villains

Current villains

The Butcher

A criminal with the ability to call almost any meat of meat product into existence. He has the strange habit of mixing up words (such as saying “sunbeam” instead of “supreme,” or “robbify” instead of “robbery”) or even whole phrases (“So, WordGirl, we meet again for the first time!”). This is a play on his name, as he tends to «butcher» the English language. The Butcher’s powers are nullified by tofu, but can also be rendered inoperative by low self-esteem and a lack of enthusiasm and excitement. In the episode «Meat With a Side of Cute», after tiring of being defeated by WordGirl, the Butcher chooses a very unlikely ally to help him out, a kitten named Li’l Mittens who was previously known as «Meathook». Because WordGirl has a love for cute animals, she was powerless against The Butcher and the kitten. After The Butcher was arrested, he left Lil’ Mittens to a little girl. Jack D. Ferraiolo, who was the series’ head writer for its first season and co-developed the program with creator Dorthea Gilliam, gives his voice to the meat man.

The Baker and the Candlestick Maker

Two of The Butcher’s old friends from elementary school that were known as «The Troublemaking Trio» that reunited for a brief time and pranked National National Bank by stealing free balloons and a pen on a chain, and tricked the Grocery Store Manager with a flour-over-the-door gag in «The Butcher, The Baker and The Candlestick Maker». The trio comes from the nursery rhyme Rub-a-dub-dub. The Baker is voiced by Kevin McDonald, while James Adomian did the voice of The Candlestick Maker.

The baker appears in season 2 running a normal business. Eileen wanted his birthday cake in 221 but the baker said, «Hold on, is your name Earth? No, so it isn’t your cake.» In 223, he appears again when the Whammer is looking for a job. He fired the whammer because the cake he was helping make was supposed to say «Happy Birthday Kevin»,(a pun on his actor’s name) not «Happy wham day Whammer.» The candlestick maker is yet to appear again.

Kid Potato

The father of The Butcher, voiced by acting veteran Ed Asner. Kid Potato has powers similar to his sons, but instead of different types of meat, his attacks use different types of potatoes. Kid Potato came to the city to try to convince his son to team up with him as a super villain team called «Meat and Potatoes».

Li’l Mittens

Li’l Mittens is a cat the Butcher found on the street. He adopted him as his partner in crime. At the end of the episode, a little girl offered to take care of Li’l Mittens while the Butcher went to jail. Voiced by Stephanie Sheh

Dr. Two-Brains

Dr. Two-Brains is the result of a laboratory experiment fusing the brain of Professor Steven Boxleitner a kind-hearted but distracted scientist who wrote the book Superheroes and You: A Practical Guide, with the brain of Squeaky, a vicious albino mouse. While testing a machine that would allow Dr. Boxleitener to read a rodent’s mind, Squeaky pressed a button marked «Holy Cow! Don’t Press This Button!!!», causing their brains to fuse, and the external mouse part, located on the left side of his head, glows with a greenish light and pulsates sometimes. He is now out to steal all the cheese in the city akin to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, sometimes having to buy crackers as we learned in «Becky’s Birthday» to eat with the purloined cheese. WordGirl was good friends with him before he became a super villain, and once encouraged him to fight the mouse brain’s control on him. Dr. Two-Brains seems to know all of the vocabulary words so far, and has even introduced and defined quite a few. In the episode “Mouse Army,” Dr. Two-Brains temporarily teamed up with WordGirl to stop an army of super-intelligent mice he had created. In the end he betrayed her, but whether this was part of his plan or if his mouse brain took control is never clearly determined. During the battle against Steve McClean, WordGirl and Two-Brains battled the villain independently. Because of the mouse brain, just like any rodent, he is afraid of cats, as first seen the episode “Crime Takes a Holiday”, and also in «A Game of Cat and Mouse»; additionally, in «Where’s Huggy?», we learned that he has a mouse orchestra and loves kids’ puzzle books, especially those with mazes in them. He is also revealed in the episode «Two Brains Quartet» to be a really good barbershop quartet singer. Even though Two-Brains is not friends with WordGirl, he still keeps some sort of affection for the girl in a couple of episodes. For example, offering her a comb in the episode «Becky’s Birthday» and also giving her a wink in «Dr. Three Brains». Whenever they get the chance, they seem to reminisce about their friendship as well like in the episode «Showdown at the Super Secret Spaceship Hideout», where they mention the book he wrote when he was Steven Boxleitner.

Dr. Two-Brains’ henchmen

Dr. Two-Brains is assisted by two generally unhelpful henchmen. They are not dangerous at all and seem not to want to commit crimes, but help Dr. Two-Brains just for the sake of helping him, and at times seemed to have formed a friendship with WordGirl (however, nearly all the villains seem to have a minor friendship with WordGirl, before turning back to the crime they were doing). They also seem to have a love for animals. The first, who is the unnamed lead henchman, has a great love for animals, such as bunny rabbits and cats. In one episode where he used Dr. Two-Brains’ growth ray on his pet bunny, Flopsy, he got sad and worried when Flopsy was too big to bring along with him on their next evil mission. He also needs help to understand Dr. Two-Brains when he uses words that the henchman doesn’t know, even for his best friend Charlie, who acts like the muscle of the gang. Even though he looks menacing at times, Charlie (whose name was revealed in «Two-Brains Highway») has a big heart and a great love for animals just like his friend. Charlie never talks out loud in the show but has been seen whispering to his unnamed co-worker, and is also twice as big as his boss.

Glen Furlblam

When Dr. Two-Brains seeks out a replacement villain to take over for him in «Crime Takes a Holiday» for a vacation cruise he won from Dairy Villains Monthly, Glen Furlblam (voiced by Brian Posehn), his self-proclaimed number one fan, shows up. Because Dr. Two-Brains did not feel that Glen was a competent replacement for him due to Glen’s conceitedness and foolish ideas, he refuses to let him take over. Angered by not being able to impress his idol, Glen uses his vicious cats to steal Dr. Two-Brains’ lab coat and corner him. Glen takes over for a while as Two-Brains’ replacement, but with the help of WordGirl, he was arrested and jailed along with his pet cats. In «Doctor Three-Brains», Glen calls himself by the title of the episode, and uses a Blackout Ray invented by Doctor Two-Brains to escape from prison.

Mr. Big

Head chief, boss and CEO of self-titled Mr. Big Industries (born under the monicker of Shelly Smalls,) this businessman who uses mind-control to get what he usually wants (it’s part of his company’s mission statement) invented The Thing and the Mega-Thing — cubic objects that do absolutely nothing. Despite their uselessness, they fly off the shelves, thanks to a mind-control device that causes people to purchase them. His sidekick and constant companions are his squishy toy rabbit and his assistant, Leslie, to whom he confides his most dastardly plans. (But in the episode «Wordgirl Makes a Mistake» he did not tell Leslie his evil plan because he was embarrassed by the fact that this particular plan is to get a casserole dish he wants from a neighbor who borrowed it from him.) Mr. Big tried to become mayor twice, but failed because of WordGirl. Other Big Industries products includes Mr. Big’s Big Book of Big Words (a dictionary), the Wordsucker (a microphone), the Hero Sucker (a giant vacuum) and a «walking talking WordGirl doll» that does the opposite of the real superheroine, like using the word «strategery» instead of «strategy» and enables them (via mind control) to buy useless spinoff products such as «glow-in-the-dark» suntan lotion. Mr. Big uses yoga while working and miniature golf as two forms of relaxation. It was also revealed in the episode «Big’s Big Bounce» that he has a dislike of kids — especially the city scout troop. He also complains in a couple of episodes that he «didn’t go to any fancy word college and only took business classes» as an excuse of not getting all the words right and once tried to use a mind control ray on the Moon because he wanted his casserole dish back that was borrowed by a neighbor (not realizing that it was returned). He also stated that he did magic tricks as a child. Veteran character actor Jeffrey Tambor plays Mr. Big.

Leslie

Leslie (voiced by Maria Bamford) is Mr. Big’s assistant who does most of (if not all) the work for Mr. Big. She is usually the one to file Mr. Big’s evil plans, carry out these plans by activating his mind-control rays, carry and unload heavy crates for Mr. Big, order his squishy beanie bunny plush dolls and batteries for his mind control devices, etc. She became gradually sarcastic because Mr. Big would not notice all she does for him. In «Mr. Big’s Dolls and Dollars», Leslie was revealed to be a black belt in karate, and in the episode «Giant Mini-Golf» it seems she knows everything what Mr. Big is going to do maybe because mind control is the only thing he uses. She also stated that she did gymnastics as a kid. She, like Becky and T.J., is a big fan of the «Pretty Princess-Magic Pony Power Hour.»

Tiny Big

Mr. Big’s teen idol persona, he was once a fad and sang about WordGirl being «lame», making money from overpriced items sold at stores by Mr. Big Enterprises. In the end, he was outed akin to Milli Vanilli as a lipsynching phony by WordGirl.

Granny May

A senior supervillain who pretends to be a sweet, deaf, elderly grandmother in order to deceive those she burglarizes. Her main weapons are knitting needles that shoot purple indestructible yarn, petrified purse mints that burn the eyes, strong-smelling perfume which acts as a sort of stink gas, and her giant but timid grandson Eugene; she can also produce a cutting-edge steel suit of armor with a jetpack to wear. The show uses anime-style animation during Granny’s attacks. Eugene stops working with Granny May and becomes friends with Violet. Granny may be the most clever of WordGirl’s enemies, once convincing the entire city that WordGirl was cruel, heartless, and not to be trusted. Cree Summer voices the evil little old lady. In «Great Granny May», we are introduced to her mom, who keeps an eye on her while under house arrest. This episode also reveals Granny May’s full name for the first time: Grandolyn Edna May.

Great Granny May

Granny May’s Mother, voiced by Rose Abdoo. Her main reason (other than keeping an eye on her daughter while under house arrest) is that she dotes on her and WordGirl.

Theodore “Tobey” MacCallister III

A 10-year-old genius inventor who uses his gargantuan robots to destroy the city in hopes of getting WordGirl’s attention. Tobey owns a personal scrapbook of WordGirl decorated with hearts. He has an obsessive crush on her and usually demands that if he beats her, she should tell her secret identity or go out for ice cream with him. His mother is aware of her child’s intelligence, so he can’t launch any of his schemes unless she is away on business. Tobey doesn’t seem truly evil; rather, he comes across as reckless and mischievous. Often, his plans are foiled by his malfunctioning robots. Because Tobey is a brilliant schemer and a smart student, he is very non-athletic, going as far as to have a robotic duplicate win a field day contest in «Field Day Fun with Robo-Tobey», only to be disqualified when the ruse was revealed. During a flashback in «Monkey-Robot Showdown», we learned that Tobey was in a checkers match that he lost to Violet. Besides his giant robots, Tobey built other inventions including the super robot, a tracking device for the remote and Mousezilla (which he built together with Dr. Two-Brains). Comic/actor Patton Oswalt voices Tobey.

Claire MacCallister

Tobey’s mother (voiced by Dannah Phirman) seems to be a genius like her son. She invented a homing device and a remote to stop her son’s robots. Tobey only unleashes his robots when his mother is away. When she figures out Tobey’s evil plots, she would pull him by the ear and ground him for a week. She has been copied into a robot for conferences, but this copy of Sally Botsford’s boss was vanquished by Amazing Rope Guy, WordGirl, Ms. Davis, and the real Claire MacCallister.

Checkmate 3000

The Checkmate 3000 is one of Tobey’s prime robots and is specially built to play checkers. It was seen in the episode «Monkey-Robot Showdown» and played Bob at checkers. When Tobey kept on persisting his chess-playing champion to win, Checkmate 3000 began to become so frustrated that in the end, he tried to destroy every checker-patterned objects. Checkmate 3000’s design looks like the Super Robot with regular robot colors and dresses in Scottish style.

SuperRobot

Tobey’s Super Robot is a giant, super huge golden robot that is bigger and stronger than all of Tobey’s other robots. It was proved physically indestructible to WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face. Tobey lost control of it when his robot artist, Artsy, painted a picture of the golden giant. The Super Robot was moved by this and surprisingly cried. It was last seen blasting off to space with the painting.

Artsy

Artsy is one of Tobey’s robots that is considerably artistic and creative. It seems to have somewhat of a personality, unlike Tobey’s other robots. When told to destroy buildings by Tobey, he just starts painting, much to Tobey’s angry dismay. «You went against my commands again!»

Chuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guy

A supervillain who definitely does not have a way with words or evil at all, hence his name. He lives in his mother’s basement, except for the time he created a new lair away from her residence in «Sandwich World», only to go back after feeling lonely. His main weapons are squirt bottles of condiments such as ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, honey mustard, pickle relish, honey butter, barbecue sauce, and olive oil. Determined to prove to the world how important his sandwich powers are, he often commits small robberies for no real reason other than to show how “evil” he is. Chuck has tried to come up with better names for himself, such as “Destructo the Destroyer,” “Amazo the Amazing Guy Who’s Evil but Not Really That Bad When You Get to Know Him,” «Chuck the Nice Pencil (and Rubberband) Selling Guy» or “Handsome Eddie.” Chuck also has a tendency to forget vocabulary words a few seconds after they’ve been spoken. In the episode «The Handsome Panther», he made a panther costume and renamed himself and Chuck’s Friend name Sammy Sub. Fred Stoller plays Chuck.

His Mother

Chuck’s mother, unseen but voiced by Dannah Phirman, often refers to her son as Charles, his full name, or Chuckie and would sometimes talk him into doing errands for her. Chuck kept a picture of himself and his mother in «Sandwich World» (although her face was blocked by an object). It’s possible she could be bread-headed like her two sons.

Brent the Handsome Successful Everybody-Loves-Him Sandwich Guy

Chuck’s more famous and successful brother, voiced by Tom Kenny, is the inventor of crustless bread and came to the city to accept The Golden Sandwich Award, which made Chuck jealous. Brent, however envies some opportunities Chuck have such as living in his mom’s basement and get to play video games (Chuck’s high score is 9.).

The Birthday Girl (Eileen)

This ten-year-old girl attempts to acquire the things she wants by using a falsely-polite manner, big eyes, and a lisping voice, along with the statement «Today is my birthday!» If those methods don’t work, she becomes selfish and at times cruel by simply yelling “Mine, MINE, MINE!”, growing in height and turning a deeper shade of green with each yell (possible reference either to the expression «Green with Envy» or The Incredible Hulk), until the owner of the coveted item hands it over in fear. The only way to reverse Eileen’s transformation is to persuade her to give away something she values. (This was a trick discovered by Violet in the «Birthday Girl» episode; when as a giant Eileen holds WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face hostage, Violet declares Eileen one of her «bestest fwiend in the whole wide wode.» In gratitude, Eileen hands over her prized necklace [after Violet tells her that «bestest fwiends give each otho pwevwents»], and her greed-induced metamorphosis is reversed, rescuing WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face.) However, this event did not make Eileen turn away completely from her selfish ways. In the two-part episode «The Wrong Side of the Law», she tricks Police Commissioner Watson into thinking WordGirl stole Pretty Princess figurines from the Pretty Princess Magical Pony Store that were on loan from Ye Olde Fancy Schmantsy Jewelry Shoppe. Eileen, voiced by Pamela Adlon, also greatly annoys Becky because she uses “w” in words instead of «l» or «r» (e.g., «I wearned my wesson.» «Today’s my biwthday!» «What do bestest fwiends do?» etc.)

Lady Redundant Woman

A former copy-shop employee, also known as Beatrice Bixby who aspires to become the owner of the copy shop currently run by a kind man named Dave. A job-site accident merged her with a copier and transformed her into “Lady Redundant Woman,” a villain who is half woman, half copy-machine. By touching her nose, she can split off duplicates of herself, one of which named «Dupey», falls in love with The Butcher in «The Young and the Meatless», that is part of forming an army that she sends to do her bidding. The number that she can create is limited by the amount of ink she has, and if she happens to run out of ink, her copies fade away quickly by vanishing in a burst of copy paper. She also possesses the power to create evil copies of other people if she consumes a picture of that person, as she did when she created an evil copy of WordGirl. She normally repeats words over in many forms akin to a thesaurus. Amanda Plummer provided the villianess’ voice in her debut episode, and Grey DeLisle took over afterwards. In a recent episode, she seems to be able to just look at a picture or painting and create a copy. However, a drawback to it is the fact that any pictures she copies comes to life.

Evil WordGirl Copy

The clone was created when Lady Redundant Woman consumed a picture of Wordgirl and copied her. The malicious Wordgirl has all of the real Wordgirl’s powers and speaks redundantly like its creator. Lady Redundant Woman used her to steal all the thesauruses in the city, making the people hate her. However, Wordgirl was able to dispose of her copy, had the thesauruses returned, and gained back their trust. The differences between the two WordGirls were their streaks of energy when they fly (Wordgirl’s streak of energy was yellow while the clone’s was green), and their voices: while WordGirl spoke normally, the evil clone spoke only in a robot-like monotone.

Dupey

Dupey is one of Lady Redundant Woman’s duplicates who started to develop her own personality and fell in love with the Butcher. Despite her resemblance to her mistress, the Butcher could identify which is Dupey or Lady Redundant Woman. Eventually, they broke apart after Dupey revealed she’s a vegetarian. However, she’s shown to still have feelings for him.

Royal Dandy

The royal dandy was a painting that Lady Redundant Woman copied, but he came to life. He speaks with either an Irish or British accent. He can shoot blue paint out of his hands, and annoyed the city until Lady Redundant Woman defeated him after he used a copier as a trampoline after covering the top with blue paint. He is very greedy and he refers to Lady Redundant Woman as his mother. For some of the episode, he rides a gray horse from another painting, named «Horsey». However, his non-verbal steed ran away when his incumbent greed was discovered. The horse was not seen again, so it is unknown if the horse was ever returned to its painting. The foppish painting copy is voiced by Sergio Cilli.

The Whammer

This character was first seen as a sidekick for Chuck the Evil Sandwich-Making Guy. The Whammer “whams” his fists together, sending out sonic waves to crush anything or anyone in his path. He has a gruff, loud voice, and usually speaks interjecting the word «wham» or «whammer» (as in «That was so whammer»). When he was a sidekick, he acted more like a boss which annoyed Chuck. His other bosses included The Amazing Rope Guy and The Coach, but has since gone out on his own, and has a love for home baked apple pie with lots of butter and hot dogs, covered in either mustard or chocolate. John C. McGinley does The Whammer’s voice. His horned helmet is blown off his head in one episode, revealing that he has green hair styled in a mohawk.

The Coach

A motivational coach (voiced by Ned Bellamy) who helps sidekicks become their own boss. In «Sidekicked to the Curb», when The Whammer signed up for The Coach’s program, The Coach realized he could trick The Whammer into stealing anything he wants. When The Coach was arrested and jailed along with The Whammer, he decided that this was perfect opportunity to start a villain school, where he instructed three novice villains — Timmy Timbo, who wears a cap and a cape with a dull slacker tone of voice and has a butter allergy whose power was napping a lot; Big Left Hand Guy, whose power was a giant left hand that was used to hail one of only three cabs in town, and Ms. Question (more can be found about her below.) Together, with the help of The Whammer, they stole Michaelangelo’s Whistle. He also has a graduate named InvisiBill, a man who has the power to turn invisible on command by snapping his fingers.

Invisi-Bill (William)

Only seen so far in «Who is Ms. Question?» and «The Invisi-Bill Hand», Invisi-Bill (voiced by H. Jon Benjamin) is a graduate from the Coach’s school that can turn invisible when he wants. The Coach stated that his name suited him perfectly, being a play on the word «invisible», and the fact that his first name is William.

Big Left Hand Guy

Big Left Hand Guy, voiced by Mike O’Connell, is a graduate of the Coach’s school. He has a big left hand, which he uses to hail all three of Fair City’s taxicabs. It seems either he doesn’t really like crime or he’s scared he might get caught he will say TAXI.

Ms. Question

Debuting in the episode «Villain School», she wears a red sweater with a yellow question mark and a green mask and tights similar to the Riddler. Her nose is shaped like an upside-down question mark. In the episode «Who is Ms. Question?», she flunked out of The Coach’s School of Villains and Arch Enemies due to the fact she had no super powers until a question-mark shaped cloud zapped her with a bolt of lighting, which gave her the power to float on a question mark like Silver Surfer and give victims selective amnesia by activating her question mark on the sweater and shooting question marks at them, leaving a circle of question marks floating around their heads. Also, the question marks could force the person to tell his secrets.

In one episode, she tries to steal the ‘Question Mark of Socrates’, a pin worn by the philosopher in Ancient Greece. In addition to that, she gives all her commentary in the form of questions; however, her mother wished that she went to pastry school instead. In the episode, «Seeds of Doubt» she is able to create the title product by changing poppy seeds on a bagel. When eaten, these seeds make the eater ask constant questions and be very unsure of themselves. In the same episode, she also seems to be very offended whenever someone says, «No questions asked.» Her lair is also seen in this episode, it is filled with question mark covered items. A few of these include a question mark shaped lounge chair, antenna TV (with the antenna bent in the shape of a question mark) and a question mark covered lamp. The room itself has sideways doors and upside-down staircases, presumably to make visitors ask questions about it. In the episode «The People vs. Ms.Question,» she is taken to court by WordGirl, after stealing an ice cream cone from Bob a.k.a Captain Huggy Face, stealing a woman’s purse and stealing a car off Fast Eddie’s used car dealership

However, once Ms. Question is on trial, she befuddles District Attorney Botsford with her questions, and the jury lets her go. Having failed to win the trial, Ms. Botsford quits her job, and stays at home for a while. While Ms. Question goes back on her crime spree, the Mayor complains that Ms. Botsford is the only one to bring Ms. Question to justice. Having said that, when WordGirl confronts Ms. Question at the bank and pretends to be trapped, Ms. Botsford uses a rope pole to redirect Ms. Question’s question marks back at her, thus defeating her. The inquisitive villain is voiced by Grey DeLisle.

The Masked Meat Marauder

A pompous meat villain (voiced by Elliott Gould) who’s a rival of The Butcher whose meat powers are a little fancier and insulted him by calling his uniform «pajamas». After three encounters with The Butcher and WordGirl, he was sent to a city known as Meatropolis, where there are twenty-three butcher shops, hamburger parades every Sunday, and no superheroes or superhero monkeys.

The Amazing Rope Guy

A minor evil villain (voiced by Larry Murphy) who dresses in a tight dark blue mask, tight rubber dark blue outfit, tight yellow gloves, and tight dark blue boots. He first appears in the beginning of the episode “Mr. Big’s Big Plan” and has a goatee and a slightly squeaky voice. The Amazing Rope Guy doesn’t do real crimes like all the other villains, but seems to like doing minor crimes that involve him using his rope, such as trying to pull down a statue with rope or trying to tie a shoe clerk up so he could rob the shoe store. In spite of his name, he isn’t that good with his rope, as in his first appearance when he is about to «take down» WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face by trying to «lasso» them up, he is unsuccessful, to which WordGirl replies that he’s «not so amazing.» He loves knots and is also shown to be an unsuccessful children’s performer.

Energy Monster

The energy monster was accidentally created at an energy plant when a ball of electricity expanded and took shape after employees threw soda and sandwiches at it during an experiment and resulting overload of energy. This Energy Monster expands in size when it absorbs electricity. It usually appears when Wordgirl intends to do something else like celebrate her birthday or go to a movie. When the Energy Monster runs out of energy or is defeated, he either shrinks into a tiny creature, is pushed into water, or gets burnt out. He appears in the various episodes, «Becky’s Birthday», «The Pretty Princess Primere,» «Field Day Fun with Robo-Tobey,» and «Becky and the Bard», the latter of which shows that he like things that sparkle. The energy monster is a reference to the friction monster from the Ripping Friends (TV Series)

Seymour Orlando Smooth

A narcissistic game show host and con artist (voiced by Daran Norris) who debuted in the episode «Answer All My Questions and Win Stuff!» by trying to steal the contestant’s money unbeknownst to them by making their answer sheets reveal by way of invisible ink that he would withdraw all the money from their bank accounts. Later, he ran another game show called «Wishful Thinking,» and another called «Who Wants to Win a Shiny New Car?» where he had his brothers involved by rigging the game with very tough questions only they could answer beforehand. His superpowers are a bright smile that blinds his opposition and game-show-host strength hair gel that he tosses by his head to trap victims. Another weapon is his «Wheel of Wonderful Stuff», which he used to trap WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face. The wheel is made of a titanium alloy which is completely soundproof, although while Huggy cuts it up with one of Seymour’s diamond rings, he tells them beforehand that the wheel can make them incredibly dizzy. He is also in possession of chains made of fool’s gold, which he uses to trap WordGirl and Huggy in the episode «Wishful Thinking.»

Steve McClean

Appearing in «The Ballad of Steve McClean», he attempts to replace Dr. Two-Brains as the number-one villain with his signature ploy of cleaning up his crime scenes and his pop star-like costume. The character is a play on the name of the actor Steve McQueen. His sole drawback though is his nebbish voice, voiced by Tom Kenny.

Raul Demiglasse

This TV chef, who hosts «If You Can’t Stand The Heat, Get Out Of The Kitchen» (whose last line is his catchphrase) is challenged by The Butcher to a cooking showdown in «The Stew, The Proud» just as Becky is about to have her perfect record on returning books to the library ruined. However, WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face expose him as a fraud for using Tex Connelly’s Beef Stew in a Can as he claimed that his beef stew was an original recipe, and forcing their opponents to cry as he threw raw onions in their face. James Adomian voices the crazed cooker.

Guy Rich

This character tries to upstage Mr. Big, the resident big business villain in «Mr. Big’s Mini-Golf». However, WordGirl surprisingly exposes him as a mere Texan con-man who switches places with his brother as the rich guy and the caddy in another city. William Mapother lends his voice to this character.

Nocan the Contrarian

This villain from the Kingdom of Contraria, whose booming voice is given by Daran Norris, always speaks in opposites; for example, if someone says «strong,» he will respond by saying «weak,» followed by a barbaric yell.. He was sent to explore Fair City, wears uncivilized clothing and armor and carries a sword that can knock trees down when he cleaves it into the ground. The name of this character puns off Conan the Barbarian.

Victoria Best

She is a new transfer student to Woodview Elementary who seems to be extraterrestrial. As this child prodigy’s name implies, her parents taught her to be the best at what she does. After winning every school trophy, except for the best reader’s trophy, she plots to steal the last trophy that Becky won because she believes she deserves to win them all. She even often shouts «I’m THE BEST!», along with, «V.B., in!» (an clear parody of Ryan Seacrest’s sign-off from American Idol.) She seems incredibly spoiled, wearing the family uniform of a sweater vest with a trophy ensignia, and is the only child on the show with earrings, shaped like blue ribbons. It seems that she is not really evil, but is encouraged by her parents to do evil, like steal trophies from other people with their names on it. She also has a friend poodle who can play chess, and a cousin who can play chess against the dog poodle and play the piano at the same time.

Her parents show a red glow in their eyes whenever Victoria fails to win a trophy. They then tell her, «Eyes on the prize.» She then proceeds to steal the trophy that she did not earn. She’s very pretty and it is shown that boys are smitten with her at first sight. Even Scoops was enamoured with her in the first episode, though by the second one, he had seen enough of her true colors. It is also shown that she can speak Spanish, is a gymnast, collects bugs, plays the recorder, and does many other things. On the note of recorder-playing, she can play so well that she can hypnotize others. Her voice is provided by Kristen Schaal and/or Dev.

Captain Tangent

This misguided and odd pirate (voiced by John Henson of Wipeout fame) with a magnetic hook and parrot sidekick was fired from his job at Blackbeard’s Buffet all-you-can-eat restaurant because of his continued use of speaking in tangents instead of serving customers their meals.

He is consistently looking for «doubloons», which are old gold coins. He gained his powers when he found the treasure of no-beard, and got a curse giving him his magnetic hook and his bird the ability to talk. He seems to have a lot of knowledge about almost anything from wood to the invention of ballet slipper.

Future Villain

The Learnerer

A new enemy to debut in Season Three, this new character annoys WordGirl with his constant use of suffixes.

Other characters

Todd «Scoops» Ming

The reporter for Woodview Elementary School’s newspaper The Daily Rag, voiced by Ryan Raddatz. His dream of working for The Big City Times came true to cover a story of Granny May in «Bonkers for Bingo» when he was hired by the paper’s editor, Woodward Bernstein (punning off the last names of legendary Washington Post Watergate investigative reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein); he still has a long way to go, though. Even Becky, who has a secret crush on him, agrees that his articles can be rather dull. The oblivious Scoops has a high opinion of himself and does not hesitate to take credit for anything he might possibly have had to do with, such as the time he told the story in «Becky and The Bard» in the role of The Wall when the cast was absent from the theatre at Woodford Elemetary. He is desperate to know WordGirl’s secret identity and is constantly on the scene. His known family members are his parents and his grandfather, who are the rivals of The Botsfords. In one episode, he learns WordGirl’s secret identity and intends on publishing the news, but his plan backfires when Becky misdefines a word wrong to make him believe she can’t be WordGirl for such a big vocabulary mistake. Scoops is friends with Becky’s best friend Violet and despite his constant obsession with his newspaper business, seems to be able to sit back and relax with her, and in the episode «Cherish Is the Word», he asked her to be his valentine.

Violet Heaslip

Becky’s best friend from school. Violet (voiced by Maria Bamford) conducts herself in a quiet, shy manner and has a flair for art, having met Becky in an art appreciation class after Becky flunked art class three times in a row. Violet lives in the country apparently not too far from the suburbs in a hippie-styled house with her mother. There is no apparent father in her life. Violet is friends with Becky’s crush, Scoops Todd Ming, and in the episode «Cherish Is the Word» the two proved to have feelings for each other when Scoops asked her to be his valentine. Despite Violet’s ever-sweet demeanor, she can become enraged and protective when her friends are disadvantaged or harmed. She loves pegasis, and she can make up poems off the top of her head, even if there is a meteor hurling towards her. At times she seems to have a rather tenuous grasp of reality, even more so than Becky’s parents, as she dreams about winning the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. In one episode, she believes that she temporarily gained superpowers and becomes «The Framer», who uses a picture frame to capture villains. She also has a love for animals and is a vegetarian. She also has a cat name Fluffy.

“May I Have a Word” characters

Host

Beau Handsome

The host of the game show «May I Have a Word?» His first name means “good-looking” or “beautiful” in French, and is voiced by Ryan Raddatz.

Contestants

Tommy

He likes to act superior to nearly everyone on the show and seems to have a crush on WordGirl, which would make him a fanboy. Orlando Brown is the voice behind the character.

Phil

He usually has a worried and unsure look on his face. He also has a little cousin and has an intense fear of public speaking. Voiced by Tom Kenny.

Emily

She is seen always smiling and is a constant annoyance to Tommy since she talks nearly non-stop about WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face. She always refers Beau «Mr. Handsome.» Emily also like surfing and went to the Beach with her family on July 6, 2010 in Florida. She is also a critcal review on WordGirl at the Movies. When she review the film that she saw, she gave it thumbs up/thumbs down. Kelly Miyahara portrays the character.

Eli

Eli is Emily’s brother who is also a critical review on the show. He played an electric guitar and pick up his sister at Woodview Elementary. When he review the film that he saw, he gave it thumbs up/thumbs down. Eli was voiced by the pop singer Bruno Mars.

Minor characters

Bill the Grocery Store Manager

A terrible communicator voiced by Mike O′Connell who is always trying to find people willing to work at the store. He has been known to try to hire villains when they come to rob him. His name was revealed in «Chuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guy» on his name tag and he say to The Buther Two-Brains and Ms.Question say your Hired and he say Making up words on the Job your Fired.

Reginald

A pompous and rude man (who is voiced by H. Jon Benjamin) and is the owner and operator of Ye Olde Fancy Schmancy Jewelry Shoppe. In the episode «Thorn in the Sidekick» Reginald is shown to be allergic to barbecue sauce. He doesn’t seem to take superheroes (or even children) seriously. He is also shown to think very highly of himself, going so far as to make himself a hero who can lift a 200-pound weight while writing a concerto, fly, and do karate.

Professor James Doohickey

A technology/gadget professional that introduces the audience to both the villains’ and heroes’ helpful gadgets. He has a slight English accent.

Prof. Robert Tubing

This disabled scientist, who debuted in «A Game of Cat and Mouse», moved into Professor Steven Boxleitner’s old lab, after Prof. Boxleitner turned into Dr. Two-Brains. His greatest invention is an all natural solar powered cyborg wheelchair, and has a monkey assistant named Bosco. He is voiced by Frank Welker.

Exposition Guy

A man who always goes to the wrong place — usually wherever WordGirl happens to be — thinking it is the police station. He has mistaken many places for the police station, screaming all the while and not recognizing his own wife (“Oh, I thought you looked familiar…”).] He would report any kind of trouble even though some are not crimes. This is considered as a running gag throughout the series, so much so that WordGirl herself in «The Masked Meat Marauder» stated to millionaire Edith van Hoosinghaus that «Sometimes we need help getting to the next scene.» Chris Parnell plays the somewhat confused citizen.

Police Commissioner Watson

Fair City’s Police Commissioner (voiced by John Kricfalusi) made his debut in the episode «Swap Meat» and exposed WordGirl as not having any knowledge of art, but was corrected the next night by taking The Butcher under arrest for fraudulant forgeries made from chopped liver. Police Commissioner Watson has a new do and He later jailed WordGirl in «The Wrong Side of the Law» for stealing a figurine after being framed by Eileen, the Birthday Girl. He usually jumps to conclusions when examining a crime scene, and is named for the assistant of Sherlock Holmes. He made another appearance in «Meat my Dad» in Kid Potato’s dream.

The Mayor

The mayor of Fair City who made his first appearance in the episode «Book Ends». He often gives speeches of things (reading them off of index cards akin to Ronald Reagan), sometimes reading the wrong card (i.e. accidentally reading speech for the grand opening of a public swimming pool instead of the new library). He lost his job as mayor to Mr. Big in the episode «Banned on the Run», but became mayor again after Becky tricked Mr. Big into confessing his trap. He has an assistant who sometimes corrects his mistakes and gives him information; she never speaks aloud, but whispers in his ear to tell him things. The Mayor’s real name has not yet been revealed, but is voiced by Ron Lynch and in the episode «The InvisiBill Hand» revealed that he has given 199 keys to the city to WordGirl.

Warden Chalmers

The prison warden (voiced by Tom Kenny). His first appearance was in «Two Brain Highway», who often overuses expressions (e.g. eats his hat after saying he’ll eat his hat if Dr. Two Brains isn’t locked up in his cell), and often believes that he is right, only to fail, and also runs the Fair City Scout Camp outside the city.

Edith van Hoosinghaus

A rich lady who owns a diamond crusted barbecue and the rarest collection of cheeses. Voiced by Dannah Phirman.

Mr. Callihan

Chuck’s boss in «Chuck the Nice Pencil Selling Guy», he was held hostage because of his dislike of sandwiches (except for grilled cheese). However, when Chuck misplaced a button that released a slime-like substance on the inside of the vat that held him, he was nice enough to goop himself while being held hostage. Peter Graves provided his voice.

Reuben Grinder

The owner of the Edible Edibles sandwich shop (voiced by Nick Kroll), who was being robbed by Chuck in «Chuck Makes A Buck». Mr. Grinder employs Chuck thanks to WordGirl as the store’s spokesperson/mascot due to his sandwich face, and he becomes popular. However, in a falling out at his store on sandwich making for the annual Fancy People’s Annual Awards Dinner, Chuck quits and turns the floor at the ballroom into the bottom half of a sandwich in which Reginald states that «the upper crust [of the sandwich] is going to crush the upper crust [the fancy people]». His name comes from two forms of sandwiches: the Reuben and the Grinder, a toasted hero sandwich. He and Brent later went into business together selling Peanut butter bread and Jelly bread.

Mrs. Ripley

This hyperactive gym teacher works at Woodview Elementary made her debut in «Field Day Fun with Robo-Tobey», she also is the scout troop leader for Troop 865 and is voiced by Grey DeLisle.

Ms. Libiri

She runs Fair City’s bookstore, and is voiced by Robin Reed. Her name is the Latin word for «book».

Ms. Dewey

Fair City’s chief librarian, who is named for the Dewey Decimal System used in libraries and is voiced by Judy Greer.

Milt

Milt is an assistant librarian who wants to see Becky end her streak of perfect returns of books, and is voiced by Andy Dick.

Mr. Dudley

Becky’s fifth-grade teacher (voiced by Jim Gaffigan) who first appeared leading the field trip in «Who Wants Candy?» Mr. Dudley likes candy, but doesn’t like anybody to know that. For example, he says, «We’re going to meet Zachary Zany, the candy mastermind who invented most of my — I mean — your favorite candy.» He also helped direct the school’s play, «Romeo and Juliet.»

Zachary Zany

The inventor of «Choclo-sandals» who led a tour of his chocolate factory in «Who Wants Candy?» voiced by Matt Besser. His attitude is poor, and serves as a parody on Willy Wonka.He says its not his real name though, something that marketing came up with.

Hunter Throbheart

A transfer student from England at Becky’s school, voiced by James Adomian, who acted as Romeo in «Becky and the Bard.» Like his name, most girls who lay eyes on him immediately become infatuated with him. Although he did extremely well in rehearsal, he has stage fright and did not act in the real production, where many people watched him.

Ms. Champlain

First seen in «Tobey’s Masterpiece», she teaches art and adult education seen in from Class Act, and voiced by Jen Cohn.

Bank Teller

A bank teller with a New York accent, she is often being robbed by villains. She is voiced by Jen Cohn in most of her episodes, but in «The People Vs Ms. Question», she is voiced by Stephanie Sheh (review needed immediately)

Ms. Davis

A teacher at the Woodview Elementary School, she represents Becky’s class at parent-teacher conferences, helps run the debate club, and in the episode «Cleanup on Aisle Eleven», decided after both Becky and Todd wanted a unicorn or an armadillo as the debate club’s mascot on a magic turtle instead. Amy Sedaris voices the teacher.

Bampy Botsford

Becky and TJ’s grandfather, and Tim’s father, first appearing in the episode «Bampy Battles Bots.» He likes vegetable stews and is one of the very few people to know Becky’s secret identity, telling Becky after a fight with one of Tobey’s robots, «Nice flyin’ up there, kiddo.» Flashbacks show him defeating an independently-produced 50-foot-tall robot with a screwdriver and whiskers. Although his family does not believe it at first, they know it after he defeated Tobey’s second look-alike robot. He is voiced by Tim Conway.

References

External links

• Character list at the WordGirl website

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

WordGirl
Title card
Also known as	The Amazing Colossal Adventures of WordGirl
Created by	Dorothea Gillim
Developed by	Dorothea Gillim Jack D. Ferraiolo
Directed by	David SanAngelo Steve Young
Voices of	Dannah Phirman Feinglass Tom Kenny Maria Bamford Cree Summer Patton Oswalt Fred Stoller H. Jon Benjamin Larry Murphy James Adomian Grey DeLisle Jeffrey Tambor John C. McGinley
Narrated by	Chris Parnell Rodger Parsons (interstitials)
Theme music composer	Steve D’Angelo Terry Tompkins
Opening theme	«Word Up, It’s WordGirl!»
Ending theme	«Word Up, It’s WordGirl!» (instrumental)
Composer	Eggplant Productions Inc.
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	8
No. of episodes	130 (250 segments) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Dorothea Gillim (2007–09/Seasons 1–2) Deborah Forte (2009–15/Seasons 2–8)
Producers	Will Shepard (2007–09/season 1) Danielle Gillis (2009–15/seasons 2–8)
Running time	30 minutes
Production companies	Soup2Nuts Scholastic Entertainment
Release
Original network	PBS Kids Go! (2007–13) PBS Kids (2013–15) (PBS)
Picture format	NTSC (season 1) HDTV 1080i (seasons 2–8)
Original release	Shorts: November 10, 2006 – early 2007 Full series: September 3, 2007 – August 7, 2015
Related
Maya & Miguel Time Warp Trio

WordGirl (stylized as W✪RD GIRL) is an American preschool children’s Flash animated superhero television series produced by the Soup2Nuts animation unit of Scholastic Entertainment for PBS Kids.^[1] The series began as a series of shorts entitled The Amazing Colossal Adventures of WordGirl that premiered on PBS Kids Go! on November 10, 2006, usually shown at the end of Maya & Miguel; the segment was then spun off into a new thirty-minute episodic series that premiered on September 3, 2007 on most PBS member stations. The series of shorts consisted of thirty episodes, with 130 episodes in the full half-hour series.

WordGirl creator Dorothea Gillim felt that most children’s animation «underestimated [children’s] sense of humor» and hoped to create a more intellectual show for young audiences.^[2]

By June 2014, many PBS stations had stopped airing WordGirl, opting to air more popular series throughout the summer.^[3][4] However, new episodes continued to air on select stations, with streaming options on the PBS Kids website and video app. The series ended^[5] with the two-part episode «Rhyme and Reason», which was released on August 7, 2015.^[6][7]

The show was created for children ages 4–9.^[8] By 2022, the show had gained a cult following through social media.^[2]

Background[edit]

WordGirl began in 2006 as a series of shorts airing immediately after Maya & Miguel, becoming an independent show in September 2007.^[8]

The show’s creator, Dorothea Gillim, believes that children’s shows often underestimate children’s intelligence:

Part of my mission is to make kids’ television smart and funny. I feel as though we’ve lost some ground there, in an effort to make it more accessible. WordGirl’s focus is on great stories, characters, and animation. If all those elements are working, then you can hook a child who may come looking for laughs but leave a little smarter.^[9][10]

Gillim says she created the show, in part, with the idea that parents would watch the show with their children to support their learning.^[8]

Each eleven-minute segment in each episode (except for the first three episodes) begins with verbal instructions to listen for two words that will be used throughout the plot of that episode. The words (examples include “diversion,” “cumbersome,” and “idolize”) are chosen according to academic guidelines. The reasoning is that children can understand words like “cumbersome” when told that it means “big and heavy and awkward.”^[9]

PBS NewsHour anchor Jim Lehrer agreed to do a mock interview with WordGirl. Jack D. Ferraiolo, who developed the series with Gillim and served as the series’ head writer in Season One, received an Emmy for his work on WordGirl.^[11]

Rather than hiring writers experienced with children’s television, the show’s original writers’ previous credits included The Onion and Family Guy. Narrator Chris Parnell had previously worked on Saturday Night Live.^[8]

Synopsis[edit]

The series follows WordGirl, a girl with superpowers whose secret identity is Becky Botsford, a student. WordGirl was born on the fictional planet Lexicon (also a term referring to the vocabulary of a language or to a dictionary) but was sent away after sneaking onto a spaceship and sleeping there. Captain Huggy Face, a chimpanzee who was a pilot in the Lexicon Air Force, piloted the ship, but lost control when WordGirl awoke, and crash-landed on Earth (more specifically in Fair City), a planet that affords WordGirl her superpowers, including flight and super strength. WordGirl utilizes these powers to save her adoptive home, using her downed spacecraft as a secret base of operations.^{[citation needed]}

WordGirl was adopted and provided an alter ego by Tim and Sally Botsford, who gave her the name Becky. While in her alter ego, she has a younger brother, TJ, obsessed with WordGirl, but still unknowingly a typical sibling rival to Becky. The Botsford family keeps Captain Huggy Face as a pet, naming him Bob. Becky attends Woodview Elementary School, where she is close friends with Violet Heaslip and the school newspaper reporter Todd “Scoops” Ming.^{[citation needed]}

WordGirl tries to balance her superhero activities with her «normal» life. She battles against an assortment of villains that include but are not limited to The Butcher, Chuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guy, Dr. Two-Brains, Granny May, Mr. Big, Tobey McCalister III, Amazing Rope Guy and Whammer. The villains are all prone to malapropisms. At the same time, she must worry about maintaining her second life as Becky, keeping people from discovering the truth and living normal family situations.^{[citation needed]}

Format[edit]

Often, short animated segments are shown in between and at the end of episodes. «What’s Your Favorite Word?», ostensibly hosted by Todd «Scoops» Ming, is a short jingle and a series of vox populi interviews asking random children what their favorite words are and why. A short game show segment called «May I Have a Word?» (stylized as MAYIHAVEAWORD in the text bubble on Beau Handsome’s wall) airs following each eleven-minute segment. This segment features the game show host, Beau Handsome, asking three contestants the definition of a particular word. The segment was created by Kelly Miyahara, Barry Sonnenfeld, and Ryan Raddatz.

Yet another segment features the interstitials announcer (Rodger Parsons) asking Captain Huggy Face for a visual demonstration of a certain word (such as «strenuous» or «flummoxed»). When Captain Huggy Face correctly demonstrates the meaning of the word, a definition is given, followed by a victory dance by the chimpanzee sidekick.

During the four-part episode, «The Rise of Miss Power», a four-segment «Pretty Princess Power Hour» sketch is shown between acts, filling in for the average two-segment «May I Have a Word?» sketch, presumably to fill the double-length (52 minutes) time slot.

Companion website[edit]

The companion site to WordGirl lives on PBS Kids, and was built by interactive firm Big Bad Tomato. It contains vocabulary-building games, a section where children can submit their favorite word, a video page with clips from the show (only available in the US due to legal reasons), a «Heroes and Villains» section with character biographies and activities, and a PBS Parents section with episode guides, lessons, a site map, and more activities to play at home. As of April 2022, the website is still active.^[12]

Voice cast[edit]

Cast
Dannah Phirman	Becky Botsford / WordGirl, Claire McCallister, Chuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guy’s Mother, Edith Von Hoosinghaus, Pretty Princess (season 1-8), Female Police Officers
Chris Parnell	The Narrator, Unnamed Dr. Two-Brains Henchman, Exposition Guy, Sergeant Henderson, Museum Guard
Tom Kenny	Steven Boxleitner / Dr. Two-Brains, TJ Botsford, Warden Chalmers, Brent the Handsome Successful Everyone-Love-Him Sandwich Making Guy, Steve McClean, Razzmatazzm, Beau Handsome (in «Tell Her What She’s Won»)
Cree Summer	Grandolyn May / Granny May
Patton Oswalt	Tobey McCalister III, Robots
Fred Stoller	Chuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guy
Jack D. Ferraiolo	The Butcher, The General
Pamela Adlon	Eileen / The Birthday Girl
Maria Bamford	Violet, Sally Botsford, Leslie, Johnson (season 1-8), Mrs. Best, Energy Monster (in «Dinner or Consequences»), Pretty Princess (season 9)
Candi Milo	Becky Botsford / WordGirl (Website Version) (replacing Dannah Phirman), Ms. Champlain (Season 9)
Ryan Raddatz	Tim Botsford, Scoops, Oscar, Handy Man Todd, Scott Wild, Gold Store Clerk (in «Chuck!»)
James Adomian	Captain Huggy Face / Bob, Timmy Tim-Bo, Harry Kempel, Chip Von Dumor, Hal Hardbargain, The Candlestick Maker, David Driscoll, Raul Demiglasse, Hunter Throbheart
Grey DeLisle	Beatrice Bixby / Lady Redundant Woman (2nd Time), Ms. Question, Mrs. Ripley, Johnson (season 9)
Daran Norris	Seymour Orlando Smooth, Nocan the Contrarian
Kristen Schaal	Victoria Best
Jeffrey Tambor	Shelly Smalls / Mr. Big, Mr. Birg
John C. McGinley	Whammer
H. Jon Benjamin	Reginald the Jewelry Store Clerk, InvisiBill, Museum Curator
Mike O’Connell	Bill the Grocery Store Manager, Big Left Hand Guy, El Mysterioso, Ed the Used Car Salesman (season 1)
Larry Murphy	Amazing Rope Guy, Mr. Best, Stu Brisket, Dave, Anthony, Officer Jim, Zookeeper, Principal (in «A Few Words from Wordgirl»), Ed the Used Car Salesman (season 2-8)
Stephen Root	Professor Robert Tubing
Ron Lynch	Mayor of Fair City
Amy Sedaris	Miss Davis, Rhyme
John Henson	Captain Tangent
Ed Asner	Kid Potato
Ned Bellamy	The Coach
Jack McBrayer	Kid Math
Amanda Plummer	Beatrice Bixby / Lady Redundant Woman (1st Time)
Jim Gaffigan	Mr. Dudley
Brian Posehn	Glen Furlblam / Dr. Three-Brains
«Weird Al» Yankovic	Learnerer

Comics[edit]

A series of WordGirl comics were also released by Boom! Studios new KaBOOM! line. The names of the volumes and the stories within them are:

• Coalition of Malice^[13]
  1. Coalition of Malice —
  2. Super Fans —
• Incredible Shrinking Allowance^[14]
  1. The Incredible Shrinking Allowance —
  2. Fondue, Fondon’t —
• Word Up!^[15]
  1. The Ham Van Makes the Man —
  2. Think Big —
• Fashion Disaster^[16]
  1. Fashion Disaster —
  2. Fort Wham-Ground —

Series overview[edit]

Season	Episodes	Originally aired
First aired	Last aired
	Shorts	30	November 10, 2006	October 10, 2007
	1	26 each	September 3, 2007	January 2, 2009
	2	November 4, 2008	July 20, 2010
	3	13 each	September 7, 2010	July 8, 2011
	4	September 5, 2011	June 11, 2012
	5	September 10, 2012	June 14, 2013
	6	August 5, 2013	June 6, 2014
	7	August 4, 2014	February 20, 2015
	8	June 10, 2015	August 7, 2015

Awards[edit]

The show has received seven Daytime Emmy nominations, winning four for «Outstanding Writing in Animation» in 2008, 2012–2013 and Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program in 2015.^[2]

2008:

• 2008 Television Critics Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in Youth Programming, awarded July 19^[17]
• 2008 Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Writing in Animation

2009:

• Learning Magazine 2009 Teacher’s Choice Award for Families
• 2009 iParenting Media Award
• Featured at the KIDS FIRST! Film Festival 2009
• NY Festivals’ 2009 TV Programming and Promotions award

2012:

• 2012 Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Writing in Animation

2013:

• 2013 Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Writing in Animation

2015:

• 2015: Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program

Reception and legacy[edit]

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The series was positively received. Emily Ashby of Common Sense Media described the series as having a «brainy heroine [who] uses vocab to outwit bad guys.» She also called it an «entertaining animated series» with some cartoon violence and said that it is an «excellent…choice for young grade-schoolers.»^[18]

In 2022, Collider attested that the «non-white, little girl superhero» protagonist of WordGirl began a superhero trend. The article attests that the generation who grew up watching WordGirl later demanded new and diverse Marvel heroes, such as Captain Marvel.^[2]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official website
• WordGirl at Super3
• WordGirl at IMDb

WordGirl
Genre	Educational Action Comedy
Developer	Dorothea Gillim
Production company	Soup2Nuts Scholastic
Country	United States
Original run	September 3, 2007 — August 7, 2015
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WordGirl is an educational American animated TV series that originally started out as animated shorts that played after the PBS show Maya & Miguel but eventually branched out into its own full-length show, which ran from September 2007 until August 2015.

The show’s premise follows the titular character, WordGirl, an alien super-hero that was raised by an average family on Earth under the name Becky Botsford, completely oblivious to her origin. Gifted with flight, super-speed, and an expansive vocabulary, she uses her powers to fight crime along with her pet monkey, Captain Huggy Face, and teach people, friend and foe alike, the meaning of different words.

Shorts

Re-Re-Enter, the Butcher

WordGirl stops the Butcher’s meat attacks by having Captain Huggy Face eat all the meat flung at them until the Butcher tires out.

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Pretty Princess Premiere (S02E09a)

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Elieen the Birthday Girl gets noticeably bloated from eating too much candy during the climax.

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WordGirl explains that her hiccups were caused by a pie-eating contest she had with Captain Huggy Face.

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In the alternate reality where Chuck rules the city, Reginald the jewelry store owner instead owns a sandwich shop and is noticeably fatter.

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WordGirl
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Also known as	The Amazing Colossal Adventures of WordGirl
Created by	Dorothea Gillim
Developed by	Dorothea Gillim Jack D. Ferraiolo
Directed by	David SanAngelo Steve Young
Voices of	Dannah Feinglass Tom Kenny Maria Bamford Cree Summer Ryan Raddatz Patton Oswalt Fred Stoller Larry Murphy Jack D. Ferraiolo James Adomian Grey DeLisle Jeffrey Tambor John C. McGinley
Narrated by	Chris Parnell Rodger Parsons (Interstitials)
Theme music composer	Steven D’Angelo Terry Tompkins
Opening theme	Word Up, It’s WordGirl!
Ending theme	Word Up, It’s WordGirl! (Instrumental)
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	8
No. of episodes	130 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Dorothea Gillim (2007-09/Seasons 1-2) Deborah Forte (2008-15/Seasons 2-8)
Producer(s)	Will Shepard (2007-08/Season 1) Danielle Gillis (2008-15/Seasons 2-8)
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Soup2Nuts (2006-2015) Scholastic
Distributor	PBS
Release
Original network	PBS Kids Go! (2007–13) PBS Kids (2013–15)
Picture format	4:3 Fullscreen (SDTV) (Season 1) 16:9 Widescreen (HDTV) (Season 2-8) 16:9 Pillarboxed (Season 1) 4:3 Letterboxed (Season 2-8) 16:9 Windowboxed (Season 2-8)
Original release	Shorts: November 10, 2006 — Early 2007 Full series: September 3, 2007 — August 7, 2015
Chronology
Related shows	Maya & Miguel
External links
Website
Production website

WordGirl is an American children’s animated television series produced by the Soup2Nuts animation unit of Scholastic Entertainment for PBS Kids. The show began as a series of shorts entitled The Amazing Colossal Adventures of WordGirl that premiered on PBS Kids Go! on November 10, 2006, usually shown at the end of Maya & Miguel; the segment was then spun off into a new thirty-minute episodic series that premiered on September 3, 2007 on most PBS member stations. All four full-episode seasons each have twenty-six episodes, while the preceding series of shorts had thirty.

By late 2014, most PBS stations from coast to coast had stopped airing WordGirl on TV.^{[citation needed]} New episodes appear only on the PBS Kids website or PBS Kids video app on the computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone. The series ended^[1] with the two-part episode «Rhyme and Reason», which was released online on August 7, 2015.^[2]

The show was created for children ages 4 to 9.^[3]

Awards

The show has received six Daytime Emmy nominations, winning four for «Outstanding Writing in Animation» in 2008, 2012-2013 and Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program in 2015.

2008:

• 2008 Television Critics Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in Youth Programming, awarded July 19^[4]
• 2008 Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Writing in Animation

2009:

• Learning Magazine 2009 Teacher’s Choice Award for Families
• 2009 iParenting Media Award
• Featured at the KIDS FIRST! Film Festival 2009
• NY Festivals’ 2009 TV Programming and Promotions award

2012:

• 2012 Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Writing in Animation

2013:

• 2013 Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Writing in Animation

2015:

• 2015: Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program

Background

WordGirl began in 2006 as a series of shorts airing within Maya & Miguel, becoming an independent show in September 2007.^[3]

The show’s creator, Dorothea Gillim, believes that children’s shows often underestimate children’s intelligence:

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Part of my mission is to make kids’ television smart and funny. I feel as though we’ve lost some ground there, in an effort to make it more accessible. WordGirl’s focus is on great stories, characters, and animation. If all those elements are working, then you can hook a child who may come looking for laughs but leave a little smarter.^[5][6]

Gilliam says she created the show, in part, with the idea that parents would watch the show with their children to support their learning.^[3]

Each eleven-minute segment in each episode (except for the first three episodes) begins with verbal instructions to listen for two words that will be used throughout the plot of that episode. The words (examples include “diversion,” “cumbersome,” and “idolize”) are chosen according to academic guidelines. The reasoning is that children can understand words like “cumbersome” when told that it means “big and heavy and awkward.”^[5]

PBS NewsHour anchor Jim Lehrer agreed to do a mock interview with WordGirl. Jack D. Ferraiolo, who developed the series with Gillim and served as the series’ head writer in Season One, received an Emmy for his work on WordGirl.^[7]

Rather than hiring writers experienced with children’s television, the show’s original writers’ previous credits included The Onion and Family Guy. Narrator Chris Parnell had previously worked on Saturday Night Live.^[3]

Synopsis

The series stars WordGirl, a girl with superpowers whose secret identity is Becky Botsford, student. WordGirl was born on the fictional planet Lexicon (also a term referring to the vocabulary of a language or to a dictionary) but was sent away after sneaking onto a spaceship and sleeping there. Captain Huggy Face, a monkey who was a pilot in the Lexicon Air Force, piloted the ship, but lost control when WordGirl awoke, and crash-landed on Earth (more specifically in Fair City), a planet that affords WordGirl her superpowers, including flight and super strength. WordGirl utilizes these powers to save her adoptive home, using her downed spacecraft as a secret base of operations. WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face fight crime together.

WordGirl was adopted and provided an alter ego by Tim and Sally Botsford, who gave her the name Becky. While in her alter ego, she has a younger brother, TJ, obsessed with WordGirl, but still unknowingly a typical sibling rival to Becky. The Botsford family keeps Captain Huggy Face as a pet, naming him Bob. Becky attends Woodview Elementary School, where she is close friends with Violet Heaslip and the school newspaper reporter Todd “Scoops” Ming.

WordGirl tries to balance her superhero activities with her «normal» life. Doing battle with a rather odd grouping of villains, such as the Butcher, who can call into existence most any type of meat; elderly con-artist Granny May, with her knitting needles and projectile yarn; WordGirl’s former friend Professor Steven Boxleitner, who became the cheese-obsessed Dr. Two Brains thanks to an albino mouse and a failed science experiment, fusing his brain with the animal; Chuck the Evil Sandwich-Making Guy, who has a sandwich for a head and whose weapons include condiments for sandwiches; colossal robot builder Tobey McCalister; self-cloning Lady Redundant Woman; The Birthday Girl, a spoiled-rotten parody of The Incredible Hulk; and The Whammer, who speaks by interjecting the word «wham» in the most inopportune sentences. At the same time, she must worry about maintaining her second life as Becky, keeping people from discovering the truth and living normal family situations.

Format

Often, short animated segments are shown in between and at the end of episodes. «What’s Your Favorite Word?», ostensibly hosted by Todd «Scoops» Ming, is a series of vox populi interviews asking random children what their favorite words are and why. A short game show segment called «May I Have a Word?» airs following each eleven-minute segment. This segment features the game show host, Beau Handsome, asking three contestants the definition of a particular word. The segment was created by Kelly Miyahara, Barry Sonnenfeld, and Ryan Raddatz. Yet another segment features the interstitials announcer (Rodger Parsons) asking Captain Huggy Face for a visual demonstration of a certain word (such as «pensive» or «flummoxed»). When Captain Huggy Face correctly demonstrates the meaning of the word, a definition is given, followed by a victory dance by the chimp sidekick.

During the four-part episode, «The Rise of Miss Power», a four-segment «Pretty Princess Power Hour» sketch is shown between acts, filling in for the average two-segment «May I Have a Word?» sketch, presumably to fill the double-length (52 minutes) time slot.

Companion website

The companion site to WordGirl lives on PBS Kids, and was built by interactive firm Big Bad Tomato. It contains vocabulary-building games, a section where children can submit their favorite word, a video page with clips from the show (only available in the US due to legal reasons), a «Heroes and Villains» section with character biographies and activities, and a PBS Parents section with episode guides, lessons, a site map, and more activities to play at home.

Characters and voice cast (2007 – present)

Cast
Dannah Phirman	Becky Botsford/WordGirl, Claire McCalister, Edith von Hoosinghaus, Chuck’s mom, Iris, Lily, WordGirl Doll, Audience Member #1, Pretty Princess, the Energy Monster (script readings)
Chris Parnell	The Narrator, Exposition Guy, Jim the Police Officer, Cab Driver, Audience Member 1, Parent Gallery Member #1 additional voices
Tom Kenny	Dr. Two-Brains, TJ Botsford, Two-Brains’ Henchman #1, Warden Chalmers, Brent the Handsome Successful Everybody-Loves-Him Sandwich-Making Guy, Phil, Truck Driver, News Reporter, Shoe Salesman, The Male Bank Teller (first voice), Steven Boxleitner, Steve McClean, additional voices
Cree Summer	Granny May, Bingo Announcer, additional voices
Patton Oswalt	Theodore «Tobey» McCalister III, robots, additional voices
Fred Stoller	Chuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guy
Jack D. Ferraiolo	The Butcher, The General
Pamela Adlon	Eileen, a.k.a. The Birthday Girl, additional voices
Maria Bamford	Violet Heaslip, Sally Botsford, Leslie the Assistant, The Female Bank Teller (Granny Mayor), The Energy Monster (Dinner or Consequences), additional voices
Ryan Raddatz	Tim Botsford, Todd «Scoops» Ming, Beau Handsome, additional voices
Tim Conway	Bampy Botsford
Mike O’Connell	Bill the Grocery Store Manager, Big Left Hand Guy, additional voices
Elliott Gould	The Masked Meat Marauder
Ned Bellamy	The Coach, Fish Selling Guy
Brian Posehn	Glen Furlblam
James Adomian	Captain Huggy Face/Bob (script readings), Robber, The Candlestick Maker, Security Guard, Curator, Raul Demiglasse, Hunter Throbheart, Robber #1
H. Jon Benjamin	Reginald, InvisiBill, Jewelry Store Clerk (first voice), additional voices
Ron Lynch	The Mayor, Mustached Guy (Mr. Big Words), additional voices
Jeffrey Tambor	Mr. Big, Mr. Birg, Old Woman, Old Man
Brian Doyle Murray	Police Commissioner (Swap Meat)
Larry Murphy	The Amazing Rope Guy, TV Reporter, Dave, Principal, Mr. Best, Used Car Salesman (second voice), Mailman, The Male Bank Teller (second voice), additional voices
John C. McGinley	The Whammer
Amanda Plummer	Beatrice Bixby/Lady Redundant Woman (Lady Redunant Woman; Episode), Susan Bohannon (Who Wants To Win A Shiney New Car?)
Grey DeLisle	Beatrice Bixby/Lady Redundant Woman (After Lady Redunant Woman; Episode), Dupey, Ms. Question, Mrs. Ripley, Host, additional voices
Rose Abdoo	Great Granny May
Darran Norris	Seymour Orlando Smooth, Nocan the Contrarian, David Driscoll
Mike Phirman	The Narrator’s Brother
Peter Graves	Mr. Callihan
James Mathis	Tiny Big
Ed Asner	Kid Potato, The Butcher’s father
Jen Cohn	Bank Teller (first voice), Rich Old Lady, Ms. Champlain
Stephanie Sheh	additional voices
Robin Reed	Ms. Libri, the bookstore owner
Judy Greer	Ms. Dewey, the librarian
Andy Dick	Milt (Ms. Dewey’s assistant)
Jim Gaffigan	Mr. Dudley
Matt Besser	Zachry Zany, Male News Anchorman, Lead Deriver, additional voices
Rodger Parsons	Interstitials Announcer (uncredited)
Danielle Schneider	Female News Anchorwoman, Crowd Member, News Caster, additional voices
William Mapother	Guy Rich
Kristen Schaal	Victoria Best, Mrs. Best, additional voices
John Henson	Captain Tangent
Amy Sedaris	Ms. Davis, additional voices
Orlando Brown	Tommy
Kelly Miyahara	Emily
Kevin McDonald	Vocab Bee, Jeremy, Police Chief, Judge, The Baker, Magic Pony
Wayne Knight	Police Commissioner Watson (The Wrong Side of The Law)
Stephen Root	Prof. Robert Tubing
Jill Talley	Babysitter (Tobey and Becky’s Babysitter)
Elisabeth Abbot	Dress Shop Owner
Chris Williams	Judge
Sergio Cilli	Royal Dandy, Lolipop Man
Jane Lynch	Miss Power
«Weird Al» Yankovic	The Learnerer
Jack McBrayer	Kid Math/Rex

Comics

A series of WordGirl comics were also released by Boom! Studios new KaBOOM! line. The names of the volumes and the stories within them are:

• Coalition of Malice is volume ?^[8]
  1. Coalition of Malice
  2. Super Fans
• Incredible Shrinking Allowance^[9]
  1. The Incredible Shrinking Allowance
  2. Fondue, Fondon’t
• Word Up^[10]
  1. The Ham Van Makes the Man
  2. Think Big
• Fashion Disaster is volume 4^[11]
  1. Fashion Disaster
  2. Fort Wham-Ground

Broadcast

Word Girl airs in the US on PBS Kids. In Canada the show airs on TVOKids in Ontario and Knowledge Kids in British Columbia. It is shown on ABC Kids in Australia.

The show is also seen on some educational networks in Latin America on Discovery Kids. The series ran on the Spanish network Discovery Familia. The program is also syndicated internationally in places such as Italy and Israel. The Spanish version is called «Chica Supersabia» (Super-wise girl) and it is translated and dubbed in Caracas, Venezuela, and the Brazilian version is called «Garota Supersábia». There is a Catalan version called «La Súper Mots» and a Portuguese version called «Super Sabina».

Series overview

Season	Episodes	Originally aired
First aired	Last aired
	Shorts	30	November 10, 2006	c. 2007
	1	26	September 3, 2007	January 2, 2009
	2	November 4, 2008	July 20, 2010
	3	13	September 7, 2010	July 8, 2011
	4	September 5, 2011	June 11, 2012
	5	September 10, 2012	June 14, 2013
	6	August 5, 2013	September 26, 2014
	7	August 4, 2014	October 8, 2015
	8	June 10, 2015	August 7, 2015

References

External links

• Official website
• WordGirl at Super3
• WordGirl on IMDb
• WordGirl at TV.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 22: attempt to index field ‘wikibase’ (a nil value).
• Official Twitter
• Official Facebook
• Official App