History Characters / WinnieThePoohMainCast

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: In the original novels, it's extract of malt, which is one of the few things he likes. ''The Book of Pooh'' gives him a love of peanut butter sandwiches.

%%* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: He is the sensitive guy to Tigger's manly man.

* StockAnimalDiet: Subverted. While Rabbit does grow carrots in his garden, he's rarely, if ever seen eating them, and has a variety of vegetables planted as well.

** Downplayed by comparison in the Disney version. While he does begin school at the end of ''The Many Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh'', there's less focus on how things are different when he leaves, and even if some subsequent productions (primarily ''Pooh's Most Grand Adventure'') do touch upon the animals having to deal with seeing less of him, it's less melancholy than in the books.

* MinorLivingAlone: He seems to live by himself in the woods.

* DependingOnTheWriter: It varies from installment to installment whether Pooh is a total wide-eyed innocent or has enough wit to be a DeadpanSnarker now and then (see below), and his level of practical intelligence varies too. Creator/SterlingHolloway's Pooh in [[WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh the original cartoons]] makes some dryly witty remarks that would have seemed out of character for [[Creator/JimCummings1952 Jim Cummings]]' more purely innocent Pooh in the later ''[[WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh New Adventures]]'' series, although Cummings' Pooh gained some snarking ability by the time of [[WesternAnimation/WinniethePooh2011 the 2011 film.]] Meanwhile, Creator/HalSmith's Pooh of ''Series/WelcomeToPoohCorner'' has some AdaptationalIntelligence that makes him a better role model for that EdutainmentShow's preschool target audience.

* CanonForeigner: A Disney-created character who was not in the original books.

* AdaptationNameChange: His name is actually spelled with hyphens in the original books, as "Winnie-the-Pooh"; Creator/{{Disney}} avoids the hyphens and spaces the words.

* DependingOnTheWriter: It varies from installment to installment whether Pooh is a total wide-eyed innocent or has enough wit to be a DeadpanSnarker now and then (see below), and his level of practical intelligence varies too. Creator/SterlingHolloway's Pooh in [[WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh the original cartoons]] makes some dryly witty remarks that would have seemed out of character for [[Creator/JimCummings1952 Jim Cummings]]' more purely innocent Pooh in the later ''[[WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh New Adventures]]'' series, although Cummings' Pooh gained some snarking ability by the time of [[WesternAnimation/WinniethePooh2011 the 2011 film.]] Meanwhile, Creator/HalSmith's Pooh of ''Series/WelcomeToPoohCorner'' has some AdaptationalIntelligence that makes him a better role model for that EdutainmentShow's preschool target audience.

* {{An Odd Place to Sleep}}: Sometimes he sleeps in a drawer.

* AdaptedOut: He's not featured in the Disney Junior short series "Playdate with Winnie the Pooh" due to the adult characters especially his mother being children.

%%* NiceGuy: Sort of.

* TokenMinority: The only non-mammal of the main cast.

* SanitySlippage: He has experienced this at various times in the Disney franchise, often having to do with Tigger. His speech gets, every once in a while, to a baffled version of {{Angrish}}. His thinking he has seven years bad luck because of a broken mirror in "Luck Amuck" from ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' is just one of many, many examples. Given that is other tropes include ButtMonkey, TheChewToy, TheFinickyOne, and WellIntentionedExtremist, this doesn't come as much of a surprise.

* HatesBaths: In one story in the book he replaces Roo and Kanga gives him a bath. The first thing he does when he drops the act is rolling in the dirt. The Disney version zig-zags this, for example in "Fish Out of Water" he is seen taking a bath, while in "Piglet's Big Movie" (which actually adapted a chapter from the original book) he prefers to be boiled alive rather than bathed.

* TalkingtoPlants: In "Eeyi Eeyi Eeyore", he talks to the plant he is taking care of and even sings songs to it.

* TalkingtoPlants: Sometimes he talks to his vegetables in the garden and even gives them names.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: In the books, acorns, also called "haycorns" by Pooh.

* YourSizeMayVary: In most Disney adaptations, he is about the same height as Pooh or only slightly taller than him, however in DisneyToon Studios works and especially "My Friends Tigger & Pooh", he is taller than Pooh by a head.

* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Before the 2011 Disney movie, Christopher Robin had SkintoneSclerae.

* HatesBaths: Was forcibly bathed twice in the first TV series and hated it both times. The first time, the bath resulted in [[spoiler: his stripes being washed off]], and he was seen coughing and sputtering throughout, but on the second occasion, he finally admitted that they weren't so bad, while adding that he'd wait until "maybe next year" for another one.

* HatesBaths: In one story in the book he replaces Roo and Kanga gives him a bath. The first thing he does when he drops the act is rolling in the dirt.

* HiccupHijinks: In one cartoon episode, he gets the hiccups and it takes ''all day'' to make them go. The suggested cures are water, standing upside down with someone on top of him, and scaring the hiccups away.

* MessyPig: Shows signs of this: when Kanga gives him a bath, he doesn't feel comfortable until he can roll in the dirt again. In a subversion, he's also a bit of a NeatFreak. The Disney version eliminates this altogether, though he retains his dislike for baths.

* NeatFreak: Mostly in the Disney cartoons, instead of being a MessyPig like in the books. In his first scene, [[EstablishingCharacterMoment he's trying to sweep fallen leaves from his property and is bothered by the wind blowing in more]]. Curiously though, he still HatesBaths as much as his novel counterpart.

* FunnyAnimal: Zigzagged. The ''New Adventures'' TV series gave him a miner's helmet, making him alternate between this trope and a less anthropomorphic animal. The same show has one camping episode where states that he implies that he has stuffing.

* PintsizedPowerhouse: One episode had him get squished by a tree he was chopping, only for him to lift and carry it off while it was still upright seconds later.

-->'''Voiced by:''' Ralph Wright (1966-1983); Ron Feinberg (1981); Ron Gans (1983-1986); Creator/PeterCullen (1988-2010, 2017-present); Creator/BradGarrett (''VideoGame/DisneysAnimatedStorybook'', ''Film/ChristopherRobin'', ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet''); Creator/GreggBerger (video game appearances, ''Mini Adventures'' dubs); Bud Luckey (2011-2017); Creator/ThurlRavenscroft (Disneyland Records) Taro Ishida (Original Japanese voice until 2013), Isamu Ishizuka (current Japanese voice)

* VocalEvolution: Peter Cullen's Eeyore voice has gone through several over the years. When he first started in ''The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh'' the voice was a bit higher-pitched and less breathy. In the late 90's, it became breathier, and in his most recent appearances as Eeyore, it deepened and became near-identical to original Eeyore Ralph Wright.

* CanonImmigrant: Or CanonForeigner, depending on how you look at it. The Milne autobiography ''The Enchanted Places'' reveals Gopher was in fact based on an unused character for the novels that got omitted due to ExecutiveMeddling.

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Bruce Reitherman (1966); Jon Walmsley (1968); Timothy Turner (1974); Kim Christianson (1981 - 1983); Tim Hoskins (''New Adventures''); Edan Gross (''Christmas Too''); Brady Bluhm (1997–1999); Tom Attenborough (''The Tigger Movie''); Paul Tiesler (''The Book of Pooh''); William Green (''A Very Merry Pooh Year''); Tom Wheatley (''WesternAnimation/PigletsBigMovie''); Struan Erlenborn (''My Friends Tigger & Pooh''); Jack Boutler (''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011''); Oliver Bell (''WesternAnimation/DocMcStuffins''); Creator/EwanMcGregor (''Film/ChristopherRobin'', [adult]); Orton O'Brien (''Christopher Robin'', [child]), Yoshiya Shirao (Japanese 1977-1983), Yu Hayashi (Japanese, 1988), Kazuhiro Shindo (Japanese, 2000), Sota Murakami (Japanese, 2003), Takuto Wantanbe (Japanese, 2011)

** The same applies to when he's geueninely depressed, to the point ''[[TheEeyore Eeyore]]'' once lampshaded it in "Chez Piglet".

* HypocriticalHumor: As often as he relentlessly leaches honey off of Rabbit and others, he is often rather reluctant to share his own. ''Return to Hundred Acre Wood'' has a SwappedRoles situation where a HeroicBSOD-ridden Rabbit crashes at Pooh's house, while Pooh is polite about it, he is quietly mournful after Rabbit snacks on most of his honey.

* DependingOnTheWriter: It varies from installment to installment whether Pooh is a total wide-eyed innocent or has enough wit to be a DeadpanSnarker now and then (see below), and his level of practical intelligence varies too. Creator/SterlingHolloway's Pooh in [[WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh the original cartoons]] makes some dryly witty remarks that would have seemed out of character for Creator/JimCummings' more purely innocent Pooh in the later ''[[WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh New Adventures]]'' series, although Cummings' Pooh gained some snarking ability by the time of [[WesternAnimation/WinniethePooh2011 the 2011 film.]] Meanwhile, Creator/HalSmith's Pooh of ''Series/WelcomeToPoohCorner'' has some AdaptationalIntelligence that makes him a better role model for that EdutainmentShow's preschool target audience.

* CharacterFocus: The original novels were already to some degree an EnsembleCast work, though the Disney franchise takes it a step even further, with characters getting whole stories and character studies to themselves. Certain eras also tend to favour particular characters. The 1980/90s ''New Adventures'' series and specials for example gave more appearances to Gopher and Owl, with Kanga and Roo making only sporadic appearances, while the 2000s Disneytoon Studios cartoons by contrast slowly fazed out the former two, while Kanga and Roo got pushed more as major characters, almost becoming the main perspective characters over Pooh himself by the end of the run.