List of Rugrats characters

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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, and the 2020s reboot.

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Main

Adults

Other recurring

Babies and children

Adults

Pets

Television

Real people

Films

The Rugrats Movie

  • Scar Snout is a huge wolf-like creature with fiery red eyes, long V-shaped snout full of teeth and sharp claws who is the main antagonist of The Rugrats Movie. It is also a sapient predator with Tyrannosaurus traits and the worst predator in the territory. Not much is known about Scar Snout's origins, though it was a sadistic, heartless and wrathful wolf who is responsible for killing anyone who trespasses into its territory, making it the most terrifying and feared creature in the forest for years. It stalks the babies throughout the movie. In the climax of the film, it tries to eat the babies after it scares the monkeys away until Spike, the Pickles' dog fights Scar Snout on the bridge. As a result, both of them fall down the bridge where the babies are standing, but only Spike survives the fall, and Scar Snout dies in the river, ending its reign of terror. Scar Snout is the only character in a Rugrats movie to be killed.
  • The Circus Monkeys are the central antagonists of The Rugrats Movie. They are a monkey band that escaped during a circus' local train accident. Throughout the movie, they attempt to take Dil away and kill him. In the climax of the film, they attempt to kidnap Tommy and Dil until they were scared off by a much bigger Scar Snout the wolf during the climax while cornering the babies on the bridge. In the end, they are redeemed and reunited with their owners as the babies are reunited with their parents. During the reunion, they attacked Rex Pester.
  • The Banana Brothers (voiced by Abe Benrubi and Phil Proctor) are ringmasters of the Banana Brothers Monkey Circus and owners of the monkeys.
  • Ranger Frank (voiced by David Spade) and Ranger Margaret (voiced by Whoopi Goldberg) are forest rangers who help the parents find the babies, and the first new characters to see the Reptar Wagon. Ranger Frank is cowardly and excitable, while Ranger Margaret is more calm and rational.
  • Rex Pester (voiced by Tim Curry) is a news reporter who is the secondary antagonist of The Rugrats Movie. He pesters the adults' efforts to find the babies as well as Spike. He mispronounced the babies' names as well as mistaking the Reptar Wagon for a horse. At the end of the movie, when the babies and the monkeys are reunited with their parents and owners, he gets attacked by the monkeys.

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie

  • Coco LaBouche (voiced by Susan Sarandon) is the main antagonist of the film. She runs the amusement park EuroReptar, a Japanese theme park in Paris. Her boss Mr. Yamaguchi is offering her the job of president of the company, but only if she learns to love children, to which she lies and says that she is engaged. This sets the climax for the film. The real reason she brought the Pickles and gang to France is so that Stu could fix Robo Reptar. She plans to marry Chas for promotion, but when discovered, the wedding is called off, and Mr. Yamaguchi fires her, causing humiliation. Angelica steps on her wedding dress, causing it to rip to have her underwear shown in front of everyone, including some people with cameras. She is also Chuckie's archenemy.
  • Jean-Claude (voiced by John Lithgow) is Coco's right-hand assistant. He is loyal to his boss and helps her with the kidnapping of the babies. He usually has the job of telling Kira what to do, and he is more sensible than Coco. Jean-Claude also pilots Robosnail and seems to have fears of dogs as Spike chases him away from the Notre Dame Cathedral.
  • Mr. Yamaguchi (voiced by Mako) is the president of Yamaguchi Industries (the main sponsor of the Reptar franchise) and Coco's boss. He made a cameo appearance in The Rugrats Movie , where his face is in a newspaper article holding a toy design contest, which inspired Stu to make the Reptar Wagon. In Rugrats in Paris , Mr. Yamaguchi appeared in person and planned to step down as president and find a successor who cares for children (the main audience for the Reptar franchise). Initially, Mr. Yamaguchi is fooled by Coco into believing she loves children and is engaged to Chuckie's father, Chas. This prompts him to pass over the promotion to Coco after the wedding. However, Yamaguchi is unaware that Coco despises children, including Chuckie, and only plans to marry Chas for promotion. In the end, Angelica and the babies interrupt the wedding, exposing Coco's plot and prompting an angry Yamaguchi to immediately fire her.

Rugrats Go Wild

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