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Main Gang
Main Gang
Clockwise from top left: Monica, Maggy, Smudge, Jimmy Five.
- Animal Motifs: Rabbits for Monica, pigs for Smudge and cats for Maggy. Jimmy Five has a Vegetable Motif instead (onions).
- Color-Coded Characters:
- Monica - Red
- Jimmy - Green
- Maggy - Yellow
- Four-Temperament Ensemble: Monica is choleric with her short temper, Cascão/Smudge is melancholic for his unnatural fear of water, Magali/Maggy is phlegmatic with her friendly and kind nature, and Cebolinha/Jimmy Five is sanguine for his intelligence and craftiness.
- Gender-Equal Ensemble: Two girls (Monica and Maggy) and two boys (Jimmy Five and Smudge).
- Limited Wardrobe: All of their normal clothes have stayed the same, even after several decades.
- Prefers Going Barefoot: Jimmy Five is the only one who wears shoes. The other children's dislike for footwear is brought up on occasion, with Monica complaining that she is so used to walking barefoot that she actually feels discomfort when trying a sandal.
Monica
- Voiced by: Maria Amélia Costa Manso (Brazilian Portuguese, 1974-1983), Marli Bortoletto (Brazilian Portuguese, 1983-present), Agatha Paulita (Brazilian Portuguese, Turma da Mônica Jovem), Taís Feijó (Brazilian Portuguese, Vamos Brincar com a Turma da Mônica) Joana Castro (European Portuguese, 2015-2016), Mildred Barrera (Latin American Spanish, 2013-present), Andrea Soto (Latin American Spanish, Turma da Mônica Jovem) , Monica Ward (Italian, 2004-2011), Gabriela Jansen Picolli (English, 2019-present), Misumi Arimura (Japanese, 2021-present)Portrayed by: Ângela Codeço, Eliane Rosângela (costumed actors, A Rádio do Chico Bento), Giulia Benite (Turma da Mônica: Laços, Turma da Mônica: Lições)
- Action Girl: One that has fought even a tiger and a Godzilla Expy. In both cases she won easily.
- Anatomy Anomaly: Unlike Jimmy Five, she doesn't have toes.
- Ascended Extra: She started as a minor character in a Jimmy Five strip and became the protagonist.
- Badass Adorable: Monica herself, who is just a cute seven year old yet can destroy the biggest threats possible without barely breaking a sweat.
- Berserk Button: Anyone who insults or pull childish pranks on her will be inevitably punched out.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Usually, Jimmy Five and Smudge are on the losing end.
- The Ditz: Some stories show her as not very smart, and easy to be duped.
- Does Not Know Her Own Strength: Zig-zagged. She's usually aware of her power, but there have been gags that demand her be oblivious of something that is the result of one of her feats of strength.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: If she understands something as an insult to her height/weight/teeth (even if by mistake), everyone around will get beaten up.
- Hated by All: According to Denise, all the boys on the street and even Santa Claus hate her! But then, this is Denise talking...
- Homing Projectile: Apparently, no matter how good their attempts are, Jimmy Five and Smudge almost always fail to escape this kid's bunny.
- Improbable Weapon User: She beats people up with her plush bunny. Earlier stories justified this by revealing she secretly stored a brick inside the toy, though this was later retconned into her just being inexplicably strong.
- Informed Attribute: Jimmy Five calls her "fatty" sometimes, despite the fact that she is drawn no chubbier than her friends.
- Perpetual Frowner: In the old strips, she was always in a constant state of anger. A short arc involved the other characters trying to get her to brighten up and look more feminine.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She's only six and has Super-Strength.
- Super-Strength: She can wrestle tigers, lift fridges and houses, and literally move mountains. Even Superman notes this when he meets her teenage self:Superman: [after shaking hands with Monica] Are you sure you're not Kryptonian? Because your strength...
- Strong as They Need to Be: Some stories downplay Monica's strength to prevent her from instantly disarming the conflict. She's been shown having difficulty in lifting a plank, for example.
- Took a Level in Kindness: She was much meaner and grumpier in her early appearances. By the '90s, she became considerably nicer, though still has occasional relapses in brattiness.
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Denise accurately describes Monica as a brute, though the latter still likes to play house and dolls. And then there's her affection with her plush bunny, Samson.
- World's Strongest Woman: Zigzagged. Though Monica's Super-Strength is infamous, her position as the strongest character in her world has been challenged by Sofia, a recurring antagonist that debuted in 2007. Whether one is tougher than the other is a common discussion in-universe.
Jimmy Five/Cebolinha
- Voiced by: Ivete Jayme (Brazilian Portuguese, 1974-1983), Angélica Santos (Brazilian Portuguese 1983-present), Alex Minei (Brazilian Portuguese, Turma da Mônica Jovem), Ana Paula Schneider (Brazilian Portuguese, Vamos Brincar com a Turma da Mônica) Joana Castro (European Portuguese, 2015-2016), Diana Pérez (Latin American Spanish, 2013-2020), América Torres (Latin American Spanish, 2021-2022), Diego Becerril (Latin American Spanish 2022-present), Ricardo Bautista (Latin American Spanish, Turma da Mônica Jovem) Paola Del Bosco (Italian, 2004-2011), Ulises Otero (English, Centauro Group dub), Julia Sales (English, BKS dub), Haruna Miyazawa (Japanese, 2021-present)Portrayed by: Luis Pedrosa (costumed actor, A Rádio do Chico Bento) Kevin Vechiatto (Turma da Mônica: Laços, Turma da Mônica: Lições)
- Bullying a Dragon: He knows Monica will beat him up, but he still likes to insult her and make plans to defeat her.
- Catchphrase: "Pindalolas!"
- Charlie Brown Baldness: Has only five strands of hair, and they're a constant source of grief for him, along with the Elmuh Fudd Syndwome. Worse yet, some stories have people plucking at least one of his strands away.
- Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Before his hairstyle was simplified to his iconic five strands of hair, his hair looked very wild and unkempt, consisting of several long strands.
- Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Instead of R, he speaks L (in Portuguese and Spanish) or W (in English). There is an issue where he makes some wishes and saves a wish to have a full head of hair for last, with one of the wishes he makes defying this trope. While it was initially stated that this speech impediment would never go away, Monica Teen and Geração 12 retcon this by stating that he has taken speech therapy classes to help remedy this.
- Embarrassing Nickname:
- Smudge calls him "Careca" (baldy). He insists he's not bald since he has five strands of hair.
- In Monica Teen, his childhood nickname of "Cebolinha" (or "Jimmy Five") becomes this, and he prefers to be called "Cebola" (or "J-Five") instead. Justified, as he outgrew that name as he got older.
- Everyone Has Standards: As much fun as he has tying knots in the ears of Monica's plush bunny, he draws the line at outright destroying it.
- Generation Xerox: Aside for looking like his father, many stories show either his father or grandfather also liked to pick on a girl who beat up them with her doll. In both cases, they married the girl (currently the mother or grandmother respectively).
- Improbable Hairstyle: There are only five strands of hair on his head, something that almost never happens in real life unless someone has a disorder that inhibits hair growth. (in the live action adaptation he instead has spiky hair)
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He can be an irrepressible brat at times (especially to Monica), but he does genuinely care for his friends.
- Meaningful Name:
- In English, his name refers to the single five strands of hair he has.
- In Portuguese, his name literally means "Little Onion" (Actually, it refers to chives, but that plant is a relative of the onions.), and his hair resembles an onion.
- No Name Given: Played for laughs in the original script. Smudge points out that Jimmy's surname is Cebola, therefore "Cebolinha" is just a nickname. Jimmy is flabbergasted and realizes that his real first name has indeed never been revealed.
- Odd Name Out: His real name is Cebolácio, while Monica and Maggy have more common names, and Smudge's real name is stated to be Cássio.
- Prehensile Hair: Those five strands are sharp enough to pop balloons and, ever since Emerson de Abreu entered the book, they have the tendency to leap from his head whenever he's surprised.
- Zany Scheme: His modus operandi is that he is always coming up with plans to replace Monica and become the new Ruler of the Street. One story features the plot of him getting his revenge on Monica by disguising Smudge as a doll and have him tie knots into her plush bunny's ears.
Smudge/Cascão
- Voiced by: Isaura Gomes (Brazilian Portuguese, 1974-1983), Paulo Cavalcante (Brazilian Portuguese 1983-present), Ítalo Luiz (Brazilian Portuguese, Turma da Mônica Jovem), Nany Assis (Brazilian Portuguese, Vamos Brincar com a Turma da Mônica), Tiago Retrê (European Portuguese, 2015-2016), Patricia Acevedo (Latin American Spanish, 2013-2020), Laura Torres (Latin American Spanish, 2021-present), Armando Guerrero (Latin American Spanish, Turma da Mônica Jovem), Monica Ward (Italian, 2004-2011), Roly Gutierrez (English, 2019-present), Tatsuya Tomizawa (Japanese, 2021-present)Portrayed by: Lauro Lemos (costumed actor, A Rádio do Chico Bento) Gabriel Moreira (Turma da Mônica: Laços, Turma da Mônica: Lições)
- Absurd Phobia: Smudge hates water. Not just the rain, but also the thought of him swimming or taking a bath is enough to horrify him.
- Ambiguously Human: In a 1999 comic, it's heavily implied that Smudge was kidnapped and replaced by a shapeshifting alien from planet Tomb. Though said storyline is mentioned on occasion, there is no official confirmation on whether the Smudge seen in modern comics is the real one or the invader impersonating him. The teen spin-off makes the situation even more ambiguous, since it confirms that the Tombanians forget their malevolent nature and absorb other people's memories and personality if they remain in their form for too long.
- Anatomy Anomaly: While like many of the others he lack toes, a later story offered a Retcon subversion that he is actually wearing socks that are the same colour as his skin.
- Ascended Extra: He was a supporting character, but proved popular enough to get his own book.
- Everyone Has Standards: Smudge may be a filthy, stinky little kid, but even he has limits for how much dirt he can take, which is why he often finds himself opposite Captain Fray, who is basically the only person in the comic that's filthier than him.
- Informed Poverty: Some stories suggest that Smudge is a tad poorer than his friends, despite his house not being different from the others' (it did show in the early '70s, though). Justified in that we usually see it from his point of view and that this trope shows up almost always in the context of him wanting new toys (instead of the ones he fabricates himself), which is understandable; children will usually feel that others get more gifts than they do. It's also been pointed out that his father does in fact receive a smaller outcome than the other parents of the comic, but not so little that will have an influence in the family's household.
- Open Mouth, Insert Foot: Smudge seems to have a knack to say the wrong things at the wrong time. This is usually what crashes Jimmy's "infallible plans", but he has given himself away many other times.
- The Pig-Pen: He has allegedly never touched water. Except when he has, like in the infamous cover of his book where he washes his hands. They attempted to handwave it with that actualy being Sunny as his "stunt double", but an illustration of Smudge washing his hands as part of a coronavirus awareness campaign makes it fall flat.
- Super-Speed: Depends on the stakes. He can't outrun Monica's airborne bunny, but he certainly can outrun the rain before it hits the ground.
- Weaponized Stench: A Running Gag involves the gang being cornered by a villain, prompting Smudge to cowardly raise his arms as a sign of surrender, only for the evil-doer to faint due to the horrible stench of the boy's armpits.
Maggy/Magali
- Voiced by: Silvia Marinho (Brazilian Portuguese, 1974-1983), Elza Gonçalves (Brazilian Portuguese, 1983-present), Bianca Alencar (Brazilian Portuguese, Turma da Mônica Jovem), Ana Paula Schneider (Brazilian Portuguese, Vamos Brincar com a Turma da Mônica) Patrícia Andrade (European Portuguese, 2015-2016) Adriana Núñez (Latin American Spanish, 2013-2020), Nycolle González (Latin American Spanish, 2021-present), Nycolle González (Latin American Spanish, Turma da Mônica Jovem), Marina Giordana (Italian, 2004-2011), Lissa Grossman (English, 2019-present), Natsuki Aikawa (Japanese, 2021-present)Portrayed by: Silvana Cardoso, Bia Domênico (costumed actors, A Rádio do Chico Bento) Laura Rauseo (Turma da Mônica: Laços, Turma da Mônica: Lições)
- The Archmage: In the teen spinoff manga, when her Power Limiter is off Maggy becomes an unbeliavably powerful witch. However, she also gains all the Genetic Memory of an ancient line of witches, which in the Bad Future makes her insane.
- Anatomy Anomaly: Much like Monica, she is drawn without toes.
- Ascended Extra: Started as a minor character in Monica's books, but gained a comic book and characters for it. In fact, she was the last of the main four to get her own book.
- Big Eater: When she is around, everyone eating food runs away... but she still gets to eat it anyway.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Usually a nice girl, but when food is involved, her unpleasant side comes up.
- The Ditz: Her obsession over food often degrades to a one-track mind state.
- Does Not Like Spam: According to herself, the only food she does not like is chives. This is actually a joke with Jimmy Five's original name Cebolinha, which means "little onion" but is also the word for "chives".
- The Friends Who Never Hang: Downplayed example with the boys. They do interact in the adventures where the four main characters share the spotlight, and she has had stories with them (though usually with either Jimmy or Smudge, less so with both of them at once), but the number of those is quite overshadowed by the number of stories Monica shares with them.
- Incorruptible Pure Pureness: She is often regarded as the sweetest, kindest person there is. Although the manga version Took a Level in Jerkass, becoming a Stalker with a Crush towards Rubens and being dismissive of the boys.
- Meat-O-Vision: Maggy hallucinates that objects and people are food when she begins starving.
- Meal Ticket: Subverted with her and Toddy, but it had so many hints of this that one story had to address it in order to show that she really wasn't dating him only because he was the bakery owner's son and constantly gave her free bread and sweets (which would make him almost a literal meal ticket, funnily enough). The story in case even ends with Maggy willingly choosing Toddy over a big basket of bread, which for her is a huge deal.
- Never Gets Fat: No matter how much food she eats, she seems to always be thin.
- Took a Level in Dumbass: Strangely enough, she is portrayed as a total dumbass when she's not eating in some of early 2000s stories written by Flavio Teixeira.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Watermelon, but she still loves all foods.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Maggy and her Non-Human Sidekick Vanilla, also have a bit of this going on. While she adores the cat and spoils him rotten, and Vanilla does care for her a lot more than he lets out (in fact, he's shown several times that he's secretly afraid that she'll grow tired of him eventually), most of their stories together are about them going at each other like sitcom arch-nemesis, and when not being lovable they are decidedly snarky towards each other, like Garfield and Jon.
Kids from Lemon Tree Street
Franklin/Franjinha
- Voiced by: Orlando Viggiani (Brazilian Portuguese, 1974-1986), Sibele Toledo (Brazilian Portuguese, 1986-present), Cayo Albuquerque (Brazilian Portuguese, Turma da Mônica Jovem), Tiago Retrê (European Portuguese, 2015-2016), Bruno Coronel (Latin American Spanish, 2013-present), Pablo Moreno (Latin American Spanish, Turma da Mônica Jovem), Leonardo Graziano (Italian, 2004-2011), Kevin Rodriguez (English, Centauro Group dub), Sebastian Reggio (English, BKS dub), Kyoko Yamaguchi (Japanese, 2021-present)
A blonde-haired boy who loves to study and perform scientific experiments, and is also Mauricio's first character along with his dog Blu.
- Characterization Marches On: He had a really dark phase in the comic's run where he'd resort to some truly unsavoury methods to win Marina's heart. That includes a plan where he makes everyone else disappear so she'd think they're the only people left on earth and thus notice him and a potion to make her fall in love with him.
- Child Prodigy: He is very smart and is always doing varied experiments in his laboratory.
- Dogged Nice Guy: At some point, he was this to Marina, with varying results.
- Gadgeteer Genius: He is always crafting new inventions, from the impressive to the useless, and with plenty of time machines in-between.
- Love Makes You Dumb: Or, in a variation, extremely incompetent. Franklin finds out in one comic this is the reason most of his inventions didn't work as planned; his crush on Marina made it hard for him to concentrate.
- Love Makes You Evil: When it's not the above, it's this. Some stories had him be so desperate to win Marina over that he'd resort to very underhanded tactics you'd think came from Jimmy Five.
- Meaningful Name: While his original name only refers to the fringes\bangs of his hair, his English one alludes to a scientific genius, Benjamin Franklin.
- Unrequited Love: Marina was Love at First Sight for him. She's yet to reciprocate. And his attempts to win her heart usually only lead to humiliation.
Sunny/Xaveco
Sunny
A blonde-haired boy who often hangs around with the team. A Running Gag is portraying him as remarkably unremarkable, to the point that on occasions he went missing, nobody seemed to miss him at all. Despite this, he's often shown to have a share of decent qualities and be a pretty nice kid.
- Ascended Extra: He was just one of the boys. And then he became the go-to supporting character.
- Breakout Character: To the point he got an entire family (a Cool Big Sis, divorced parents, a wacky grandma and even a hyperactive dog) to star in his own stories without the protagonists.
- Butt-Monkey: Most times he's mentioned involve everyone mentioning how unremarkable and secondary he is compared to everyone else, or being the victim of the results of his Bumbling Dad 's ideas for quality time.
- The Generic Guy: He's often noted as the most generic, forgettable member of the entire cast. Ironically, this also makes him very versatile, as his lack of a defined personality gives the writers much more freedom when utilizing him in the stories.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: He's blond, and while there are times he participates in Jimmy Five's schemes against Monica, he's a Nice Guy most of the time who gets along with everyone else in the neighborhood.
- I Just Want to Be Special: His biggest goal is to be the main character.
- Meaningful Name: His original name used to be Chaveco (a derivation from the word "chave", meaning "key"), which is a reference to his key-shaped hair. This was eventually changed to Xaveco (literally "old boat", but used figuratively to describe any useless object), an allusion to his status as an unimportant secondary character.
- My Sister Is Off-Limits: He often gets furious when his friends keep showing their Precocious Crush on his older sister Crystal, to the point of becoming unusually aggressive towards them.
- No-Respect Guy: One of his defining traits became how crabby and resentful he gets at the other kids treating him as a Forgettable Character. And also the writers for not giving him his due - tellingly, in the parody of The Avengers Sunny is the Hulk, and what angers him is being called a secondary character (and cockroaches).
Denise
Denise
- Voiced by: Bianca Alencar; Michelle Giudice (Turma da Mônica Jovem), Cristina Basílio (European Portuguese 2015-2016)
An unashamed gossip girl, Denise has no qualms about saying the first thing that comes to her mind and can't take a secret. She's also extremely overconfident and could clash with Jimmy Five as the most cunning kid in Lemon Street.
- Brainy Brunette: She's a brown-haired, clever and socially expert girl.
- Brutal Honesty: She rarely cares about what others think of her opinions; except of course when it can affect her social status.
- Breakout Character: Much like Sunny, she started off as a minor character and quickly became very popular thanks to her snarky, charismatic personality and tendency to make any story she's in more fun.
- Cannot Keep a Secret: Her signature trait is that she can't resist spreading any potential gossip once she learns about it, to the point that everyone in the team makes a point of never sharing a secret in her presence.
- Depending on the Artist: Denise used to be a name given to any generic girl who participated in a story, so her appearance varied quite a bit-- sometimes her hair was lighter or darker, sometimes she had it in a ponytail or loose.
In the end, the version that stuck was made official by the writer Emerson Abreu, as brown-haired, wearing her hair in pigtails and a purple dress. - Gratuitous English: In the non-English dubs of both the animated series and Teen spinoff, she has a habit of peppering English in her sentences to make her sound cooler.
- Immune to Mind Control: She's the only kid to show immunity to Penha's "stare of contempt", which is shown to damage one's self-esteem and convince people to do what she wants, because she's this self-confidant.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: At her worst, Denise is snobbish, uncaring and often causes conflict with her gossip but she's shown to care for her friends, and always chooses to help them when things get out of hand.
- The Nicknamer: If one of Denise's girl friends has a name that she deems as "too common", she will give them a new one. Sofia, Bia and Rosie Lee are addressed to as Maitê, Rayssa and Juliana, respectively.
- Odd Friendship: With Rosie Lee. When Denise visited Vila Abobrinha, she was at first turned off by her jealousy (she thought Denise had a crush on Chuck) and her countryside manners contrasting Denise's modern tastes, bu eventually grew fond of her for her strong attitude and they became Vitriolic Best Buds.
- Valley Girl: She often speaks with modern slang and Gratuitous English to sound cooler. Monica admits to just pretending she understands everything Denise says.
Jeremiah/Jeremias
Jeremiah
An older kid from Lemon Street and one of Mauricio's earliest characters before Monica and the main quartet was created.- Baldness Angst: Implied. In stories where he loses his hat, he claims to feel naked without it, and it's implied to be because he has almost no hair.
- The Generic Guy: In at least one story he lampashades how he lacks prominent character traits, to the point that even Sunny has more of an identity than him. He even tries to make up for that by becoming a superhero once.
- Never Bareheaded: He's almost never seen without his beret.
- Signature Headgear: One of his signature traits is his red beret, which he's never seen without, and actually feels bared when he's not wearing it.
- Token Minority: The only black recurring character in the neighborhood, before Milena was introduced.
Marina
Marina
- Voiced by: Marina Takeda e Sousa (first voice), Letícia Bortoletto (current voice)
- Absurd Phobia: She's really afraid of dogs, of all things.
- Ambiguous Situation: She started as actually being Mauricio's daughter who managed to enter the comics. Now she's just a character of the comic who happens to be the daughter of a fictional version of Mauricio and wife Alice, although on occasion it is said she is literally the Marina from the real world.
- Art Initiates Life: Her magic pencil not only creates portals to the comics, but also create living drawings or even redraw characters and scenery elements. In one episode, Monica wants to have different hair and convinces her to redraw her hair, with not-so-stellar elements.
- Author Powers: Her magic pencil makes her a Reality Warper capable of redrawing the comic world.
- Daddy's Girl: She's the apple of her father's eyes, and he encourages her artist skills and even allows her to participate in stories through her magical pencil, which can also give life to her drawings. Her father in the comics also happens to be Mauricio de Sousa, the creator of Monica's Gang. This is because Marina was based off of one of Mauricio's kids in real life, but 9 more characters were too and only her dad is the actual Mauricio.
- Head-Turning Beauty: Right in her debut, Franklin falls in love with her. And many comics have other characters complimenting her looks.
- Interdimensional Travel Device: Her magical pencil, given by her father can not only make portals to the comics universe, but also to other fictional universes, as shown in a couple stories where somebody steals her pencil and gets lost throughout a series of different franchises. Most prominently, Glu's misuse of the pencil in Turma da Mônica e Garfield: O Lápis Mágico is what initiates the crossover, as he accidentally draws a portal to Garfield's universe.
- Nice Girl: Marina is a sweet, kind-hearted girl.
- Only Sane Woman: In stories focused on the girls, she's usually the more level-headed and voice of reason.
- Serious Business: Art in general. She doesn't take it kindly when people dismiss artistic proccess or even when they make different steps that feel like they don't take it seriously, like when Nick Nope asked to paint with her material and started using a reverse proccess, rubbing the painting against the brush.
Bucky/Titi
An older kid about the same age as Franklin and Jeremiah. He's bucktoothed like Monica, though he also likes to tease her for other things. He has a girlfriend, Isabel, but likes to flirt with any other pretty girl he stumbles upon, much to her dismay.
- Casanova Wannabe:He's usually successfull with his advances on the girls, but some of his attepts often backfire as karma for cheating on his girlfriend.
- Hypocrite: He often flirts with other girls and even cheats on them when he's still with Isabel, but the moment he thinks she's interested in somebody else, he feels in the right to call her out
- Hypocritical Humor: There are times he joins the other boys insulting Monica, and when he calls her toothy, she promptly lampshades the hypocrisy.
- KidAnova: He's about ten and very successfull with the girls.
- Kiddie Kid: He's about ten and sometimes seekes to distance himself from the younger kids and act more mature, but other times is seen hanging around with Smudge and Jimmy Five, and is member of the Boys' Club, which seven-year-old Jimmy Five is president.
- Meaningful Name: His English name, Bucky, refers to his buckteeth. Oddly enough, his friends rarely make fun of him because of that.
- Oedipus Complex: In an issue, his girlfriend says he's got this complex. He freaks out, thinking it's a disease. Though, at the end of the issue, his Oedipus Complex is confirmed.
Milena
Milena
Milena Sustenido is an Afro-Brazilian girl who lives with her older sister Sam, her younger brother Bertie, her father Renato, and her mother Silvia in Lemon Street. She is an Animal Lover.- Animal Lover: She loves animals, despite not having any pets. Her mother is a veterinarian, and Milena pointing this out is a Running Gag.
- Cloudcuckoolander: In Emerson Abreu's stories, Milena's love for animals is exaggerated to the point of turning her into an oddball. One story has her ignore Maggy's warnings and try to pet a rabid capybara, leading the animal to viciously attack her before chasing her off into the distance.
- Meaningful Name: Her surname Sustenido is Portuguese for the musical "sharp", and she's particularly fond of piano.
- Nice Girl: Milena doesn't have many traits besides being a kind, helpful and generally friendly girl.
- Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Following her first appearance, Milena got lots of stories with her as the protagonist, and promotional material tends to depict her as a main character along with Monica, Jimmy Five, Smudge and Maggy.
- Theme Naming: In the original text, the names of Milena and her family members are references to five notes of solfège: Renato, Milena, Fabio, Sol and Silvia.
- Twofer Token Minority: She's female and Afro-Brazilian.
Nick Nope/Do Contra
Nick Nope
Nick Nope is Nimbus' brother, whose signature trait is that he likes to do everything the opposite way everyone else does, and especially different. He's based on one of Maurício de Sousa's sons like his brother.- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Not only does he insist on doing the opposite what others do, he makes a point of making his preferences as different and peculiar as possible.
- Commander Contrarian: His signature trait is that he goes out of his way to do the opposite what veryone else is doing.
- Establishing Character Moment: The first thing he does in his debut story is to offer yogurt with ketchup.
- It's Popular, Now It Sucks!: In-universe, anytime something he likes becomes popular with everyone else, he'll quickly abandon it in favor of something more obscure.
- Mistaken for Aliens: One story had Smudge, impressed by a TV show about how anyone could be an alien in a disguise think Nick Nope was this, though it was helped by a few contrived coincidence that made Nick Nope even weirder than usual during the time Smudge was spying on himnote .
Nimbus
Nimbus
Nick Nope's brother, he's a skilled stage magician and likes to make demonstrations to the kids, sometimes with mixed results.He was partially inspired on Mauricio de Sousa's son Mauro.- Absurd Phobia: Not to the same extent as Smudge, but he's really afraid of thunder!
- Chick Magnet: He was defined as this, before his characterization changed to being stage magic.
- Ironic Name: He's named after a rainy cloud, and he's afraid of thunderstorms.
- Nice Guy: Nimbus is one of the nicest kids in the neighborhood, and one of the only boys who never makes plans or throws insults against Monica.
- Stage Magician: He likes to throw magical shows for the other kids, and is even able to make illusion tricks despite having no magical powers.
Carmen/Cindy Frou-Frou - Carminha Frufru
Cindy Frou Frou
A blonde, snobbish kid who's proud of being the prettiest girl in the Lemon Street. She's occasionally antagonistic towards the girls, but usually gets along with them and has a rocky friendship with Denise.
- Alpha Bitch: She's beautiful, rich and quite snobbish.
- Dub Name Change: Her original name is Carmem, but she's usually called "Carminha" (Little Carmen); while the first dub kept her name Carmen, the Centauro dub renamed her Cindy.
- Dude Magnet: All the boys drool over her. One of the main sources of conflict with the other girls is that their respective boyfriends will stop giving them attention once they notice her presence.
- Lovable Alpha Bitch: At her best, she can be snobbish but usually gets along with the other girls.
- Proud Beauty: She's proud to be the prettiest girl in the neighborhood (though her status is occasionally defied by newcomer girls, much to her jealousy).
Adults from Lemon Tree Street
The Gang's parents
Monica, Jimmy Five, Smudge and Maggy's respective parents.
- Adaptational Badass: In the comics, they have regular backgrounds and abilities. The debut saga in the Manga reveals that the boys' fathers and the girls' mothers were once a quartet of heroes who fought for the Emperor of Japan against an evil witch, and reincarnated throughout the centuries in case said witch ever returned. Though by the end of the saga they have their memories erased when their children choose to take their place and resort to their regular selves, with their warrior skills either forgotten or blocked.
- Alliterative Name: Smudge's dad is named Antenor Araújo, and Maggy's mom named Lídia de Lima.
- Butt-Monkey: A lot of stories have them keep up with their children's quirks and mischiefs. Monica's Super-Strength occasionally causes damage, Maggy's parents have their finances harmed by her insatiable appetite, and Smudge's parents always try and fail to give him a bath and have to deal with his stentch.
- Childhood Friend: Some stories depict Jimmy and Smudge's fathers as friends since childhood.
- Chubby Mama, Skinny Papa: Mrs. Five is overweight, while her husband is lean. The story "Mãe de Dieta" ("Mom on a Diet") shows that this is because her metabolism is drastically different from the rest of the family: When she goes on a diet and forces Jimmy and Mr. Five to support her, the two become thin to the point of being clinically ill. When she relents and cooks normal meals for them, they get healthy while she puts on all the weight she had previously lost.
- Happily Married: The main four's parents are depicted as having stable and healthy relationships. While they may get into fights every so often, the stories always conclude with them reconciling.
- Last-Name Basis: In contrast with the other parents, Monica's dad, Mr Sousa, is only known by his surname (even his wife refers to him as Sousa).
Sunny's family
Sunny's father
- Bumbling Dad: And how! He's extremely clumsy and pretty much all of his stories involve him suffering Amusing Injuries, and his schemes for quality time with Sunny always backfire.
- Butt-Monkey: An even bigger one than his son, in that he tends to suffer more physical injuries and usually llacks common sense to avoid trouble.
- Unnamed Parent: Played with. Some stories do cite his name as "Mr. Xavier", but in other he's exclusively refered to as "Sunny's father", as if people didn't remember his name.
Sunny's mother
- Amicable Exes: She and her ex-husband are shown to be in good terms.
- Out of Focus: Compared to her ex-husband, daughter and ex-mother-in-law, she's the member of Sunny's family who gets the least focus.
Crystal/Xabéu
- Badly Battered Babysitter: She often gets the short end of the stick when babysitting children at the Lemon Street, especially the time she was in charge of Junior.
- Cool Big Sis: To Sunny, and by extension his friends.
- The Dog Bites Back: In one story where she babysits Junior for the second time.
Cremilda and Clotilde
Two twins with a obsession for cleanliness.
- Always Identical Twins: They both look and act exactly identical and wear the same outfits.
- Coordinated Clothes: They both usually wear blue plaid dresses.
- Friendly Enemy: During their first years, they had this in a one-sided way with Smudge, with them trying to give him a bath and him being entirely oblivious to their attempts and thinking they are friends.
- Harmless Villain: Much like Dr. Olimpo, what makes them antagonists is them continuously trying to give Smudge a bath.
- Mundanger: They are more or less that among Smudge's antagonists - whereas Captain Frey is a supervillain and Dr. Olimpo is a mad scientist, they are just regular housewife types.
- Neat Freak: The defining trait of their characters - In their first story, even before they meet Smudge, they keep obsessively cleaning their floors and tables, and by the end, when Smudge hugs them, that prompts them to spend hours on end bathing.
Dr. McClean/Dr. Olimpo
An antagonist in Smudge's stories, whose obsession with cleanliness led him to make it his mission to give Smudge a bath and end his dirtness once and for all.
- Arch-Nemesis: To Smudge, only seconding Captain Fray.
- Bald of Evil: He doesn't have a strand of hair in his head and is an antagonist of Smudge's.
- Failure Is the Only Option: Thanks to status quo, it's clear that he'll never succeed in cleaning Smudge up.
- Harmless Villain: His only goal is to clean up a dirty boy, which he never succeeds, and otherwise he never seems to go out od his way to harm anyone else.
- Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Although the goal of his life targets a little boy, he only intends to give him a bath and never tries to harm him or any of his friends. In one story where he and other of Smudges's enemies plot to get rid of the boy by sending him to another planet, he especifically picked a world with Smudge lookalikes so that he wouldn't suffer there.
