Angelica Pickles

Angelica Charlotte Pickles is a character voiced by Cheryl Chase in the Nickelodeon shows Rugrats and All Grown Up! and is among one of the series' original characters. She is a spoiled brat and the cousin of Tommy and Dil Pickles, and serves as the main antagonist/tritagonist of the series.^[2] In 2002 TV Guide declared Angelica Pickles ranked 7th in their list of "Top 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time".

In Rugrats

In the Rugrats series, Angelica has dishwater blonde hair tied up in pigtails with purple bows. She wore a purple dress with flared cuffs and blue tights with green polka-dots. Angelica can best be described as the spoiled, vain, sarcastic and selfish antagonist cousin of Tommy and Dil Pickles. She is known for her frequently manipulating the babies for her own gain and calls them "dumb babies", although she really is a rugrat herself in the series. However, unlike the babies, she is able to talk with the adults, which she often uses to her advantage. When the character Susie was introduced, she was soon favored among the babies, causing Angelica to start a rivalry with her. Susie always tried to convince the babies that almost everything that came out of Angelica's mouth was a lie, but Angelica fought back and convinced her targets otherwise. Angelica's registered trademark is her favorite doll, Cynthia, a spoof of Barbie. She has Cynthia movies and fills her house with Cynthia merchandise. Angelica's Cynthia doll in particular appears to have lost most of her hair (hinting that Angelica played "makeover" with her like many young girls do with their dolls, and cut off her hair). Losing Cynthia horrifies her at times as shown in Tricycle Thief. Angelica, as shown in the movies and various episodes does care for the babies when they are picked on, exclaiming "Nobody picks on my dumb babies 'cept me!". This makes her more of an anti-heroine.

In All Grown Up!

In the spin-off series All Grown Up! 13 year old Angelica's personality has clearly made some minor edits to itself as a part of Angelica's maturity; she now wears her hair down, she goes after boys more often (in the Rugrats, though, she was shown to have crushes on a few toddler boys), and has grown out of the habit of carrying her doll Cynthia around (although in one episode of All Grown Up! Angelica desperately tried to get Cynthia back because her mother gave Cynthia away). Still, a few parts of Angelica's former personality remained; she is still very bossy, spoiled, and mean, but now to a lesser degree due in part to the fact that she has lost her leverage in that the former babies can now talk with the adults. Angelica commonly wears a purple shirt with light purple sleeves, a blue skirt with green polka dots and purple clogs. Angelica is still envious of Susie, mainly because of Susie's excellent singing abilities. But now, unlike in the Rugrats series, they stick together and are friends.

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