Due to how different this reboot is from the original Rugrats, it has its own separate characters page.
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Kids
Tommy Pickles
- Voiced by: E.G. Daily
- Baby Of The Bunch: Being the absolute youngest of the Main Five, Tommy is the one who has more difficulties than the other babies, being the slowest walker, the most unsteady, and the one that gets confused the easiest.
- Big Brother Instinct: Just like in the original series, Tommy cares a lot about Dil, his younger brother. In "The Heist", when he finds out that his parents are donating Dil's mobile to an auction at Angelica's preschool, he wants to get it back before it gets sold, knowing that it helps Dil fall asleep at night. When he explains this to his friends, Kimi, who was previously against the idea of taking the mobile back, supports Tommy's decision for this reason.
- Companion Cube: In this series, he has a teddy bear named "Teddy".
- Took a Level in Dumbass: While it is normal in both series for the babies to get confused Tommy now makes more mistakes than his friends. In "The Kid" Tommy is convinced a baby goat is his new sister; his friends all know its a goat but can't bring themselves to tell him, allowing him to spend the entire episode blissfully believing the animal is a part of his family. Even when he realizes the goat isn't his sister he still believes she is someone else's baby sister.
- Took a Level in Kindness: While Tommy in the original was still a nice baby he could at times be rather mean to Chuckie, insulting him and bullying him to get what he wants. Here Tommy is always very quick to support his friend and assure him that everything is okay.
Chuckie Finster
- Voiced by: Nancy Cartwright
- Companion Cube: In this series, he has a Reptar doll with a space helmet. A flashback in "Reptar's Mama" reveals it to be a Tragic Keepsake from Melinda, his late mother.
- Cowardly Lion: Chuckie is afraid of nearly everything, but with the help of his friends, he usually faces his fears when it matters.
- Missing Mom: As in the original series, his mother, Melinda, is deceased. Unlike in the original series, which did everything short of saying the actual word to indicate it (including showing her gravestone at the cemetery), Chas outright says that Melinda has passed away. Near the end of "Reptar's Mama", Chuckie admits to his friends that he misses Melinda, which is why he doesn't want Reptilda to leave Reptar.
Phil and Lil DeVille
- Voiced by: Kath Soucie
- Big Eater: Phil is especially food-motivated, and almost always has a snack hidden somewhere in his clothes.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: In contrast to Phil's snarkier personality, Lil is more dreamy and laid-back.
- Deadpan Snarker: Phil is the snarkiest of the babies, often having a deadpan comment to make on whatever adventure is happening to them.
- The Dividual: While there are some differences in the twins' personality, for the most part, they are the same character.
- Half-Identical Twins: Just like back in the original series, Phil and Lil look identical except for the fact that Phil's a boy and Lil's a girl.
- Race Lift: Since Betty was confirmed to be part Latina, Phil and Lil are by extension part Latine as well.
Susie Carmichael
- Voiced by: Cree Summer
- Adaptational Early Appearance: In the 1991 series, Susie was introduced in "Meet the Carmichaels", the first half of the eighteenth episode of the series' second season. In this series, she's an established member of the main cast since the first episode.
- Age Lift: An inversion—unlike the original series, Susie's now the same age as Chuckie instead of the same age as Angelica, which means that the adults can't understand her (just like with Tommy, Chuckie and the twins). But aside from that, Susie's still pretty much the same as she was back in the original series (i.e., The Smart Guy Cool Big Sis who's not scared of Angelica and isn't afraid to stand up to her).
- Always Someone Better: In "Susie the Artist", Angelica sees Susie as this to her when it comes to drawing pictures, especially since Susie is a year younger than her in this continuity.
- Ascended Extra: Compared to the original, Susie's a much more prominent character in the reboot, such as being included in the intro (although she was included in the intro starting after Rugrats in Paris, after Kimi was added to the show).
- Broken Ace: The babies look up to her, seeing her as being unafraid of anything. "Captain Susie" reveals that she has a fear of giant worms, and she worries what her friends will think of her when she tells them.
- Companion Cube: In this series, she has a narwhal plushie named "Naia".
- Cool Big Sis: Just like back in the original series, Susie acts like this Tommy and the other kids.
- Full-Name Basis: Whenever Angelica names her, she always uses her full name.
- Ms. Imagination: While all of the babies are imaginative, she has a distinctive lean towards the fanciful, loving things like sci-fi and fantasy, and will often have the most dramatic and magical persona in their make-believe games.
- Related Differently in the Adaptation: Buster and Edwin are her cousins here when they were her older brothers in the original series.
Angelica Pickles
- Voiced by: Cheryl Chase
- Babysitter's Nightmare: Much like her 1991 series counterpart, it's difficult to find a babysitter who will look after her a second time. In "Nanny Pip", Phil and Lil bring up her past nannies, one of whom hid in the clothes hamper all afternoon, and another who climbed on the roof and didn't come down. Chuckie even says that no nanny in the world that can handle Angelica. Charlotte also brings up to Didi that one of her nannies quit due to a (nonexistent) pigtail allergy, so she gets the titular robot nanny to look after Angelica. Nanny Pip manages to get Angelica under her control through a digital unicorn game, where she earns stars to customize her unicorn through good behavior and loses parts of her unicorn for bad behavior. Unfortunately, the new nice Angelica creeps the babies out, so they try to shut Nanny Pip down to get the old Angelica back.
- Clashing Cousins: Just like back in the original series, she and Tommy have this dynamic—Angelica frequently bullies Tommy and his friends, and since Susie's now the same age as Chuckie (which means that the adults can't understand her), this allows for more antagonism from Angelica than back in the original series.
- Companion Cube: As in the original 1991 series, she has her Cynthia doll.
- Even Evil Has Standards: As much as Angelica enjoys bullying the babies, even she draws the line at sabotaging someone's birthday cake by replacing the bunnies with lizards, which is what her cousin Simon does in "Tot Springs Showdown", saying if that's what it takes to be bad, then maybe she doesn't want to be bad. She even teams up with the babies to stop Simon from sabotaging Charlotte's cake and ruining Charlotte's birthday as a result.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In "Nanny Pip", the titular robot nanny manages to get Angelica under her control through a digital unicorn game, where she earns stars to customize her unicorn through good behavior and loses parts of her unicorn for bad behavior. The babies realize that Angelica isn't acting like her normal self when she gives them cookies instead of taking them from them.
- Villainous Princess: She takes on this role in "Tommy the Giant", wherein she steals a peddler's friendly dragon (played by Chuckie's Reptar doll) and tries to train him to be her bodyguard.
Kimi Watanabe
- Voiced by: Charlet Chung
- Adaptational Backstory Change: In the 1991 series, the babies first met her at the EuroReptarland theme park in Paris, France. In this series, she and Kira moved to Tommy's neighborhood from Paris, and the babies first meet her at Angelica's preschool.
- Age Lift: Reimagined to be three years old in the series, essentially reversing ages with Susie.
- Girlish Pigtails: Retains her three pigtails from the original series.
- Nice Girl
- Companion Cube: In "The Heist", she has a stuffed ferret named Freddy. When Freddy gets put up for auction, she begs for Angelica to help her get him back.
- Unrelated in the Adaptation: Currently, she and Chuckie aren't stepsiblings since Kira (Kimi's mom) and Chas (Chuckie's dad) aren't in a relationship (although they do have a bit of Ship Tease at the end of "Lucky Smudge").
Dil Pickles
- Voiced by: Tara Strong
- Adaptational Dumbass: In the original series Dil could say a few words and showed the ability to understand the other babies. Here Dil can barely sit up, has no vocabulary, and understands nothing Tommy or his friends say. The second batch of episodes in season 2 has begun to undo this, with Dil now able to get around in a mobile baby jumper and beginning to understand the others.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: While he shows up after Kimi is introduced, he does appear much earlier in this series' second season. In contrast, he's born in The Rugrats Movie, which takes place between the 1991 series' fifth and sixth seasons.
- Adaptational Nice Guy:
- Unlike his 1991 series counterpart, this Dil is far nicer to Tommy, as their first interaction has him just staring at Tommy during his introduction and there are no signs of sibling rivalry like in the movie or the 1991 series.
- Where in the original many plots dealt with Dil hitting his brother or trying to steal things from him, now Dil wants only one thing: to spend time with Tommy.
- Rather than "Mine" being his first baby word now it is "brother" (or "bubba" as he says it)
- The Load: Even more so than his original self. Dil in this continuity can only sit/lay about, can't even talk, and has almost no ability to move. Stories involving him mostly have the babies dragging him around. Surviving Dil plays this straight and subverts this, as the babies at first see him as the Load only to realize he isn't.
- Took a Level in Kindness: In the original series Dil started out rather greedy and violent, constantly stealing things and hitting Tommy. In the reboot Dil makes mistakes but never actively tries to hurt Tommy and, in fact, as seen in "Rattled", Tommy is Dil's most favorite thing in the entire world. Where the original series had Dil's first word in baby talk be "Mine!" here it is "Brother!" in reference to Tommy.
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Adults
Stu Pickles
- Voiced by: Tommy Dewey
Tommy and Dil's father and Angelica's uncle.
- First Gray Hair: In "The Big Diff", he freaks out when he discovers his first gray hair at the age of 33.
- Manchild: Much like his original series counterpart, he has the personality of a little kid. He is addicted to video games and in "New Puppy", he gets attached to a foster puppy whom the babies dub "Foster". the way a little kid would. At the end of the episode, he gets more upset over Foster living with the Carmichaels than the babies are.
Didi Pickles
- Voiced by: Ashley Spillers
Tommy and Dil's mother and Angelica's aunt.
- Adaptational Job Change: In the original series, Didi was a part-time high school teacher in the first few seasons and became a child psychologist in the last few. In this series, she's a blogger and an online businesswoman.
Lou Pickles
- Voiced by: Michael McKean
Angelica, Tommy, and Dil's grandfather and Drew and Stu's father.
- Adaptational Personality Change: Due to the shifted timeline, Lou goes from being a Grumpy Old Man military veteran to a calm New-Age Retro Hippie.[[note]]Lou was apparently born in 1915 in the original series, and since the reboot is supposed to be set thirty years later than the original, Lou would've been born in 1945. Since the average hippie was fifteen to twenty-five years old, Lou would've been old enough to actually be a part of the hippie movement.
- New-Age Retro Hippie: Lou takes on this persona in the series, right down to wearing tie-die and practicing yoga.
Drew Pickles
- Voiced by: Timothy Simmons
Angelica's father and Tommy and Dil's uncle.
- Adaptational Personality Change: In the original series, Drew was a Big Brother Bully to Stu. In this series, he's nicer to his younger brother. He's also much more submissive to Charlotte than he was in the original series.
Charlotte Pickles
- Voiced by: Anna Chlumsky
Angelica's mother and Tommy and Dil's aunt.
- Adaptational Job Change: While Charlotte is still a business exacutive like her husband was in the original series, she's also now a politician, as she serves as a member of the city council.
- Adaptational Personality Change: In the original series, Charlotte was a workaholic Jerk with a Heart of Gold. In this series, she's a stuck-up Rich Bitch who openly insults the other parents.
Chas Finster
- Voiced by: Tony Hale
Chuckie's father.
- Adaptational Backstory Change: In the original series, he and Kira first met each other at the EuroReptarland theme park in Paris, France. In this series, Kira and Kimi move to Tommy's neighborhood from Paris, and Chas first meets Kira at Angelica and Kimi's preschool carnival in "Lucky Smudge"
- Adaptational Job Change: In the original series, Chas was largely a bureaucrat, but owned and operated the Java Lava coffee house in the last few seasons. In this series, he appears to be a music teacher, as he mentions giving piccilo lessons in "I, Baby" and gives piano lessons in "Lucky Smudge".
Betty DeVille
- Voiced by: Natalie Morales
Phil and Lil's mother.
- Adaptational Job Change: While it's unknown what Betty did for a living in the original series, aside from occasionally helping out at the Java Lava coffee house owned by Chas and Kira in the last few seasons, she's now the owner and operator of Betty's Beans, a popular coffee house.
- Adaptational Sexuality: In the original series, Betty was in a heterosexual marriate to Howard. In this series, she is now single and is established as being a lesbian, as she mentions having an ex-girlfriend in the first episode.
- Queer Establishing Moment: Betty is portrayed as a Butch Lesbian in this continuity, and this is ultimately established in the first episode when she mentions having an ex-girlfriend.
- Race Lift: Betty is confirmed to be at least partly Latina, likely to match the ethnicity of her new voice actress, thus making Phil and Lil partly Latino.
- Twofer Token Minority: Betty is of Latina descent and is also a lesbian.
Randy Carmichael
- Voiced by: Omar Miller
Susie's father and Buster and Edwin's uncle.
- Adaptational Job Change: In the original series, Randy was the head writer for The Dummi Bears In this series, he's a high school science teacher.
- Adaptational Personality Change: Randy goes from being the Only Sane Man of the fathers to Stu's fellow Manchild.
- Age Lift: Although his age was never officially revealed in the original series, he was old enough to have fathered Alisa, his sixteen-year-old daughter. In this continuity, he does not have any children other than Susie and appears to be younger than his 1991 series counterpart.
- Ascended Extra: He is a much more prominent character in this series than he was in the original series, appearing right away in the first episode. While it's unknown how long he's known the other adults, he has known Stu and Chas since at least middle school.
- Related Differently in the Adaptation: In the original series, Buster and Edwin were Randy's sons. In this continuity, they are depicted as his nephews.
Lucy Carmichael
- Voiced by: Nicole Byer
Susie's mother and Buster and Edwin's aunt.
- Age Lift: Although her age was never officially revealed in the series itself, she was old enough to have mothered Alisa, her sixteen-year-old daughter. In this continuity, she does not have any children other than Susie and appears to be younger than her 1991 series counterpart.
- Ascended Extra: She is a much more prominent character in this series than she was in the original series, appearing right away in the first episode.
- Related Differently in the Adaptation: In the original series, Buster and Edwin were her sons. In this continuity, they are depicted as her nephews.
Kira Watanabe
- Voiced by: Hiromi Dames
Kimi's mother.
- Adaptational Backstory Change: In the original series, she and Chas first met each other at the EuroReptarland theme park in Paris, France. In this series, she and Kimi moved to Tommy's neighborhood from Paris, and she and Chas first meet each other at Angelica and Kimi's school carnival in "Lucky Smudge".
Judith
- Voiced by: Wendie Malick
Charlotte's mother and Angelica's grandmother.
- British Stuffiness: Though it is unclear whether she is British or just lives in England.
- Canon Foreigner: She is not a pre-existing character from the original series and was created for this series.
- May–December Romance: Her current husband is her daughter's husband Drew's age (and strongly resembles Drew).
- Mum Looks Like a Sister: Even forces Charlotte to tell everyone including Angelica that she is Charlotte's sister and not her mother.
- Rich Bitch: Even moreso than her daughter.
- Serial Spouse: Has been married so many times that even Charlotte lost count.
