Word Girl/Characters

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

Voiced by Tom Kenny

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

Voiced by Patton Oswalt

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

Voiced by Cree Summer

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

Voiced by Edward Asner

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

Voiced by Amanda Plummer (first appearance), Grey DeLisle

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

Voiced by Grey DeLisle

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

Voiced by Grey DeLisle

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

Voiced by Tom Kenny

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

Voiced by "Weird Al" Yankovic

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

Voiced by Tom Kenny

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