This is a list of all the characters in Pingu, including the original series and Pingu In The City.
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Pingu's Family
Pingu
Nug nug!
The title character, a young penguin who lives in a village community in the South Pole.- Affection-Hating Kid: Completely inverted - Pingu is very affectionate, especially to Robby, Pinga, and his mother.
- Anger Born of Worry: When Pinga goes missing when he’s out with her, he searches for her all day and ends up thinking she’s dead when he finds her scarf by a pit. When he returns home and finds her safe he starts smacking her while crying.
- Big Brother Instinct: He's very protective of Pinga.
- Bratty Half-Pint: Downplayed, but he's still pretty bratty when he doesn't get his way.
- Character Catchphrase: "Nug nug!" (more popularly rendered as "Noot noot!")
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite being the bratty, short-tempered Jerkass he is, he gets a surprising amount of moments of kindness.
- A Lizard Named "Liz": His name comes from "Pinguin" which means "penguin" in German.
Pinga
- Annoying Younger Sibling
- Prone to Tears: Pinga is a very sensitive child as she would occasionally break into tears whenever she doesn't get her way, loses her stuffed bunny, or when Pingu teases her or scares her.
- Tagalong Kid
Mama
Pingu and Pinga's mother.
Papa
Pingu and Pinga's father, who works as a postal worker.
Grandpa
Other Characters (Original Series)
Robby
- Fire-Forged Friends: He and Pingu didn't get along when they first met, since Robby kept stealing Pingu's fishing bait. But after Robby injures his flipper under a slab of ice while trying to get back into the water, Pingu feels bad and comforts him. After Robby returned the favor by giving Pingu a ginormous fish, the two have been friends ever since.
- Sweet Seal: While he can be as mischievous as Pingu, he's a good friend and loves to play.
- Vegetarian Carnivore: Although he enjoys eating fish like the penguins, he's also shown to like eating seaweed, as demonstrated when he steals Pingu's fishing bait and eats it.
Pingo
One of Pingu's other friends, who has a daredevil streak.
Pingi
A female penguin who is Pingu's love interest in the original series.
Pingg
Another friend of Pingu's who often hangs out with Pingo.
- Those Two Guys: He's often seen hanging with Pingo.
The Walrus
- Adaptational Villainy: Originally, he was an oblivious, Non-Malicious Monster who wants to mess with Pingu and then, he ate his mattress for kicks and giggles. However...
- In the book adaptation, the walrus was hungry and wanted to outright eat him.
- In the English Korean dub, he is revealed to be the villain of the book that Pingu's mother was reading to Pingu. In the dream, he makes disturbing comments about Pingu's appearance and smell and wants to eat Pingu by cooking him.
- Artistic License – Biology: While he features human-like teeth, the walrus lacks tusks. However, there are real-life cases where some walruses can live without tusks
. - Extreme Omnivore: While likely intentional to mess with Pingu, he deliberately eats the latter's mattress and has made clear his intention of eating Pingu in both the English Korean dub and the book adaptation of the episode.
- Giggling Villain: In the original dub of the episode, he has no dialogue other than his creepy chuckling. He does have a couple of lines of dialogue in the redubbed version, but the chuckling still makes up most of what comes out of his mouth.
- Informed Species: He looks more like a Mix-and-Match Critter between a leopard seal, a sea lion, and a walrus than an actual walrus.
- Monstrous Seal/Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Unsurprisingly, that scary walrus actually got the episode
banned. - One-Shot Character: He only appeared in Pingu's Dream and was never seen again.
- Troll: In the original episode, where he played with Pingu while viewing him as a toy.
- Would Hurt a Child: Him treating Pingu like a stress ball/stretchy toy couldn't have been too comfortable for the latter. In the English Korean dub and the book adaptation, he fully intends to eat the scared penguin.
Other Characters (Pingu In The City)
The Inventor
An elderly Rockhopper penguin who is the city's resident Mad Scientist.
Other Characters (The Pingu Show)
The Narrator
An off-screen voice who is friends with Pingu and the others and likes to interact with them. He is only heard in the in-between segments of The Pingu Show and not the episodes itself (aside from the very beginning of the episodes shown).
- The Voice: This character is not seen at all and you can only hear his voice.
