List of Rugrats characters


Rugrats includes a large array of characters: family, friends, extended relatives, townspeople, and fictional characters. This is a list of characters from the original 1990s Nickelodeon animated television series, its various films, its All Grown Up! spin-off, and the 2021 reboot.

Main characters

Tommy

Thomas Malcolm "Tommy" Pickles is the older son of Stu and Didi Pickles and serves as the series' main protagonist. Tommy, a 1-year-old, is portrayed as remembering the day of his birth in the episode "Stu-Maker's Elves". He lives with his parents and younger brother. Numerous episodes are set in the Pickles family home, focusing on Tommy and his family. In the series premiere episode, "Tommy's First Birthday", he is a 1-year-old and seems to remain that age throughout the entirety of the show. Tommy is the youngest of the babies until the birth of his brother in The Rugrats Movie. As an infant, Tommy is often seen crawling and walking somewhat unsteadily and pigeon-toed. He uses his diaper as a pocket, storing his screwdriver and other things he finds. Tommy is a brave child with a strong sense of justice, always eager for adventure and unafraid to stand up for what is right. His best friends are Chuckie and his dog, Spike. In the episode "Mother's Day," it is indicated that Tommy was born full term, but he was spending the first week or two of his life in an incubator, which explains his bravery and lack of taking life for granted.

Chuckie

Charles Crandall Norbert "Chuckie" Finster Jr. is the son of Charles "Chas" Finster, a widower and bureaucrat, and his late spouse, Melinda Finster, and is Tommy's best friend. Unlike Tommy, Chuckie is clumsy and timid, he rarely expresses any desire to go on one of the babies' adventures, instead listing all the reasons they should not go on one. Whenever Tommy and Dil's cousin Angelica try to bully them, Chuckie unquestionably accepts her treatment and gives in to any possible demands. Chuckie is two years old, making him the eldest of the babies, therefore he is the first of them to be potty trained. Like Tommy, according to the episode "Stu-Maker's Elves", it is implied that he also remembers the day of his birth. In Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, Chuckie adds a Japanese stepmother, Kira Watanabe — who later adopts him — and an older Japanese French American stepsister, Kimi. In said film, he also says his first word, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" to the grown-ups when he eventually stops his father marrying Coco LaBouche. His character design was loosely based on Mark Mothersbaugh, the lead composer for the series.

Angelica

Angelica Charlotte Pickles is the 3-year-old daughter of Drew and Charlotte Pickles, Stu and Didi's niece, and Tommy and Dil's cousin. Angelica serves as the series' antagonist, regularly threatening the babies physically, verbally, manually, financially, or sometimes psychologically and lying to them for her amusement. In her own home, Angelica is an only child who lives with her workaholic mother and hard-working father, who shower her with toys and admiration. Without any parental guidance or boundaries, Angelica has largely been left to determine for herself what is right and wrong, with her idea of "right" normally being what she wants. She is materialistic, devious, and self-centered. Though she torments the babies, Angelica stands up for them against others and expresses a genuine desire to be friends with them. The season 3 penultimate episode "Moving Away" explains how she and the babies first met each other, although this episode is presumably non-canon due to contradictions from others.

Phil and Lil

Phillip Richard William "Phil" DeVille and Lillian Marie Jill "Lil" DeVille are the children of Howard and Betty DeVille. They live next door to Tommy and are fraternal twins, with Lil older than Phil by two minutes. They share many similarities, including the same hairstyle and love for dirt and eating bugs and earthworms. They argue with one another frequently, and usually call each other by their full names, Phillip and Lillian. Looking so much alike, they are often mistaken for one another by adults, with the main facial difference between the two being that Phil's earlobes are attached while Lil's are not. They are both the same age as Tommy.

Susie

Susanna Yvonne "Susie" Carmichael is the younger African-American daughter of Randy and Dr. Lucy Carmichael, and Tommy's neighbor. Her family buys a home on Tommy's street in "Meet the Carmichaels," and their mothers become close friends. Susie bonds well with the babies despite the age difference, considering them her friends. While she doesn't often get along with Angelica, she makes a conscious effort to be nice to her, serving as the voice of reason for Angelica's lies and generally being kinder to the babies. Like her mother, Susie excels in various aspects of her life and has a kind and warm attitude. Her only real character flaw is her competitiveness. While she was the same age as Angelica in the original series, she is 1-2 years old in the reboot, the same age as Chuckie, meaning that in the 2020s version, she was born in 2019.

Dil

Dylan Prescott "Dil" Pickles is the youngest son of Stu and Didi Pickles, and Tommy's younger brother. He was born in the 1998 film The Rugrats Movie and is the youngest of the babies. Dil rarely partakes in their adventures and is often seen drooling, crying a lot, or babbling like a normal baby. Because of his young age, most of the time Dil cannot understand the babies and the babies cannot understand him. However, he does mature in the sequel series All Grown Up!.

Kimi

Kimi Watanabe-Finster is the daughter of her biological father and mother, Hiro Watanabe and Kira Watanabe-Finster and is Chuckie's younger Japanese stepsister. Her mother marries Chuckie's father Chas in Rugrats in Paris: The Movie and he later adopts her, assuming the role of her father. Kimi's boldness enables her to interact easily with the other babies, especially Tommy. She is protective of her older brother, while at the same time encouraging him to stand up for himself. She was born in October 5, 1988. She is Japanese-American. While she was one and a half years old in the original series, she is 3 and a half years old in the reboot, making her around the same age as Angelica, and acts as the voice of reason instead of Susie.

Spike

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

Family members

  • Stuart Louis "Stu" Pickles is Tommy and Dil's easygoing father and younger brother of Drew. He is an absent-minded toy inventor who only wants to be a good provider for his family, although he would often act like the titular babies. He is married to Didi Pickles and has been Chas' best friend since childhood. It is implied in the All Grown Up! special that Stu's birthday is on or around October 23, as his birthday falls on the cusp of Libra and Scorpio. In each Rugrats film, either Stu's actions or inventions help set the story in motion. By the story's end, he somehow manages to save the day.
  • Didila "Didi" Pickles is Tommy and Dil's mother. She is a part-time teacher and married to Stu. Didi is also a Jewish-American with two Russian-Jewish parents, and she may have been born in Russia. In the reboot series, Didi became a professional blogger and an artist. Arlene Klasky said that she based the character on herself. Out of all the adults, she takes the child psychologist Dr. Werner Lipschitz the most seriously.
  • Grandpa Louis Kalhern "Lou" Pickles is Tommy, Dil, and Angelica's paternal grandfather and Stu and Drew's father. Called "Pop" by Stu, Drew, Didi, and Charlotte. Grandpa Lou lived with Stu's family for the majority of the series and often babysat the children until he occasionally dozed off. Originally named Stu Pickles, Sr. in the unaired pilot "Tommy Pickles and The Great White Thing". Lou would often bring up stories of his youth and even bring up historical moments involving his late brother Sparky. In World War II while training for the army, he crippled his right leg on his mattress and was discharged from the army, only to be drafted into the Navy. In the reboot series, Grandpa Lou is depicted as a hippie where he is shown with a ponytail, wearing tie-dye shirts, and often doing yoga. It is possible that in his youth he was a Vietnam veteran. Grandpa Lou's stories tended to be exaggerated and he also had an obsession with the number 15.
  • Andrew Louis "Drew" Pickles is Angelica's busy working father and Stu's older brother, married to Charlotte. Like his sibling, he is something of a man-child. A well-paid investment banker, Drew does not always get along with his brother, and the two often bicker over petty problems. His catchphrase is "Princess" or "Noted". Drew is not afraid to put his foot down whenever Angelica gets into trouble and he is usually the one to punish her like not giving her dessert for a week, amongst other disciplinary actions.
  • Charlotte Pickles is Angelica's workaholic mother, the CEO of her own company known as MegaCorp, and married to Drew. She tries to be a good mother but is usually sidetracked by business interests. She is often shown talking on her mobile phone to "Jonathan", who was shown several times during early episodes of the series. Charlotte also calls Angelica by "Princess". She is also seen to punish Angelica if she catches her causing trouble in episodes when Drew is not present. In the reboot series, she is a councilperson and their house is significantly larger than the one in the original.
  • Elizabeth "Betty" DeVille is Phil and Lil's mother, a former wrestler, and Didi's best friend. Very athletic and feminist. Married to Howard, she helps operate the Java Lava Coffee House with Chas Finster. In the reboot series, Betty is portrayed as a lesbian single mother. Betty also owns a coffee house in the reboot series, but now as sole proprietor of the renamed Betty's Beans. Morales stated "Anyone who watched the original show may have had an inkling Betty was a member of the Alphabet Mafia".
  • Howard "Howie" DeVille is Phil and Lil's mild-mannered stay at home father who is unemployed. Howie is often overpowered by, and cringing towards, his wife Betty. Though Howard has not appeared in the reboot series yet, he did make a picture frame cameo in "Tooth or Share".
  • Charles Norbert "Chas" Finster Sr. is Chuckie's father, from whom he inherited his adenoidal whine. He is hinted to be a chess enthusiast in several episodes. He is a bureaucrat and married Kira in the second Rugrats movie where he became Kimi's stepfather. Chas runs the Java Lava Coffee House with his wife, and Betty in later episodes. Stu has been Chas' best friend since childhood. Chas played a minor role in the first Rugrats film and has supporting roles in the second and third. He is a musician in the reboot series. He is just as sensitive, if not more so, than Chuckie.
  • Kira Watanabe-Finster is Kimi's Japanese mother and Chuckie's stepmother who started out as an employee at EuroReptarLand. Kira married Chas in Rugrats in Paris: The Movie. On All Grown Up!, she operates the Java Lava Coffee House with her husband and Betty. She somewhat plays the straight woman to the rest of the adults' wackiness, but she enjoys showcasing and trying new things, as opposed to everyone else. In the reboot series, Kira and Kimmie moved from France. While not married to Chas yet, she did become friends with him. Kira works as a librarian.
  • Dr. Lucille "Lucy" Carmichael is Susie's mother and Randy's wife. She is a Harvard-educated "wonder mom", and has a job as a doctor, having delivered Dil, and removed Susie's tonsils. The latter would have been unethical in real life since Susie is related to Lucille.
  • Randall "Randy" Carmichael is married to Lucy Carmichael and is Susie's father. In the original series, Randy is a screenwriter for the famous cartoon The Dummi Bears Show, which, like the show's creator Paul Gatsby, he is not particularly proud of. In the reboot, however, he is a high school science teacher and is much more free-spirited than his OG counterpart, who enjoys playing video games with Stu, Drew, and Chas.
  • Louise "Lulu" Jonston-Pickles is a nurse at the local hospital, with whom Lou fell in love. She eventually marries Lou in Rugrats in Paris, thus becoming Drew and Stu's stepmother and Angelica, Tommy and Dil's step-grandmother.