Rosie (Thomas and Friends)

Rosie is a lively little tank engine who works as both a shunting engine and a mixed-traffic engine. She is a major/supporting protagonist in Thomas & Friends. 
In the CGI series, she was portrayed by Teresa Gallagher in the UK and Jules de Jongh in the US, and later Nicola Stapleton for both dubs. 
== Biography ==
Rosie began idolizing and having a crush on Thomas to the point of hero-worship and imitation. Though this is said to be the most sincere form of flattery, it only served to irritate Thomas whilst he was trying to deliver a special birthday post train to Alice at High Farm. He even started to try and avoid her, but after Thomas had an accident in the course of delivering this train, Rosie helped him and then they became the best of friends. 
Rosie was later called to help Thomas shunt trucks until Hector frightened her away. 
Rosie was charged with acting as a back-engine to Emily with the funfair special. Wanting to take the train herself and thinking she was doing Emily a favour, Rosie ended up causing confusion and delay on a grand scale, but eventually she set things right. 
Rosie rescued Thomas when his fire went out after playing a game of "Splish, Splash, Splosh".  She later let Diesel take her train of flowers which was headed for market. 
One day Rosie had a cracked wheel, so Thomas and Butch brought her a new one. 
On Sodor Surprise Day, Thomas bumped some coal trucks to surprise Gordon, but ended up surprising her instead. She was later cleaned up with Whiff at the washdown and joined Gordon and Thomas at Callan Castle to see Harold decked out in bright lights to make Gordon laugh.
Sometime after she was repainted into her red livery, James challenged her to a race. When Rosie realized that there was something wrong with James' brakes, she warned him to go to the Steamworks to have them checked before they got worse. James did not follow her advice and as a result, when he sped down Gordon's Hill, his brakes would not work and he went on a runaway until he crashed into the wall at the end of Tidmouth Sheds. 
Soon after, James went to Vicarstown Goods Yard, looking for Henry's train to take to the Mainland. Rosie told him that she knew they were important and that was why Thomas came to take them earlier. 
During Valentine's Day, Diesel bumped her just as Cranky was loading her flatbed with a crate of roses, which ended up crashing on the tracks. Bill and Ben later saw Thomas telling off Diesel, causing the twins to think they were attracted to each other, much to their embarrassment. A bit of teasing and a meet-up with Thomas at the washdown caused her to avoid him for fear of humiliation and she was not exactly pleased to know that she was heading to the same place he was. After a brief conversation with Edward, she rushed off so fast that she took the shunter's pole with her before it was moved out of the way. Thomas and Rosie ended up front to front at Vicarstown, where they made up for recent events and found that their specials were for Lady Hatt's Valentine's Day surprise.
Rosie later heard from Paxton that there was due to be a railway show for little engines at Ulfstead Castle and passed on the news to Thomas to attend. Though she was not physically seen at the show, she did abandon her duties at Vicarstown to attend, leaving Henry to shunt his own train and causing him to be late. 
Rosie warmly greeted Sonny when he first arrived on the Island of Sodor, however his cold demeanour left her feeling upset. 
== Personality ==
Rosie is a friendly, clever, feisty and energetic tomboy with a good sense of humour. She is very free-spirited, very quick, and loves having fun. She loves to idolize Thomas very much. She and Thomas like to have fun, by enjoying to get out splashed by muddy puddles and getting surprised and getting covered in dirty coal dust. She and Thomas also like to help each other when they are working. She also enjoys racing just as much as she loves to be really useful, and is very eager to prove her worth, as evidenced by her wanting to help Thomas deliver Alice's birthday presents, or even attempting to pull a special train on her own, showing that she is not afraid to do hard work.
With the passage of time, Rosie became more focused and mature, serving as a voice of reason to James' arrogance. She also stands no nonsense for teasing or rudeness, and although she still has her tomboyish personality, she still has her good sense of humour, and still enjoys racing.
Rosie still manages a healthy relationship with Thomas, despite some incidents that unintentionally go wrong. In Thomas Sets Sail, when the sail of the boat can’t go under the bridge, Rosie gets worried. In Thomas and the Runaway Car, when Thomas unintentionally pushed Sir Topham Hatt's Car down Gordon's Hill, Rosie just left the washdown when the car passed by and covered her with mud which made her annoyed. In Rosie is Red, Thomas pretends not to remember sticking up for Rosie because he does not want to be teased. This ends up embarrassing Rosie and is one of the only times where she is embarrassed by Thomas.
== Trivia ==
* Rosie is the fourth female steam engine introduced in the television series after Lady, Emily and Molly.
* Despite her engine basis being an American class, Rosie never spoke with an American accent in the UK dub, not even in the model era or even in seasons 21-24. However, the only instances of Rosie gaining an American accent are the US dubs for Seasons 10-16. Michael Brandon and Jules de Jongh were the only people that had given Rosie an American accent during that time. Ever since Nicola Stapleton was casted as Rosie in 2017, she never gave Rosie an American accent either, replacing Jules de Jongh as the voice for Rosie altogether in the US dub.
* In Red for Rosie, one illustration incorrectly depicts her with a tender.
* A magazine fact file states that she works on Thomas' Branch Line, although she has never been seen doing so in the television series.
* Rosie, along with Rocky, are the only characters introduced in the tenth series to be in CGI.
* Since her debut, Rosie has appeared in every series and special except The Adventure Begins, which was set before she arrived on the railway and the twentieth series, possibly due to her model being reworked for Journey Beyond Sodor and the twenty-first series.
* Rosie's favourite colour is purple.
* In Journey Beyond Sodor, Rosie was given the number 37, this is a reference to her being the thirty-seventh standard gauge engine to be introduced in the television series.
* Due to an abundance of fan mail asking for more of Rosie, the production team decided to completely rebuild her from scratch. The process took four months, most likely between January and April 2016.
* According to Sodor Island Fansite (SiF), Rosie was intended to have at least one other episode in the twenty-first series. This episode, along with seven others, were cancelled to make way for production of the twenty-second series.
* According to another tweet from SiF, other new liveries considered for Rosie included blue and green. However, these were eventually rejected in favour of the red livery.
* The My First Thomas & Friends' Railway Pals variant of Rosie was the first piece of merchandise to introduce her in her new red livery.
* Since her change in livery, most merchandise ranges depict Rosie's wheels and buffer beams as being cherry red, although in the show, they still retain their original light red livery.
* Rosie's whistle is Thomas', but twelve steps higher pitched.
* Unlike many other characters, Rosie was not outright stated as being a new engine in her debut episode, implying that she has known Thomas since he either came to Sodor or got his very own branch line.
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