Steve

Steve is Flint Lockwood's pet, best friend and most trusted colleague. He is a vervetCloudy with a Chance of Meatballs script monkey equipped with Flint's Monkey Thought Translator, allowing him to comment on situations and help Flint brainstorm ideas. He also likes gummy bears. He is voiced by Neil Patrick Harris. He serves as one of the main protagonists.
== Appearance ==
Steve is a vervet monkey with brow and white fur and yellow eyes with brown irises. His long limbs give him expressive poses, but "he never portrays emotions, just instincts."Senior animation supervisor Pete Nash The more intelligent a character, the more complex the eye movement - but Steve's eyes stay centered, as he often turns his head to look around.
==Personality==
Steve is a wild animal, impulsively relying on instinct. He is spontaneous and erratic, and his thoughts, revealed through the Monkey Thought Translator, are as erratic as his behavior. He is obsessed with moustaches and tries to grab them whenever he sees one.Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs His favorite food is gummy bears, but he viciously tears them apart before eating them. Steve often pursues sensory-seeking behaviors, often seeking out stimulation such as being zapped by a Happy Clappy Monkey toy.Happy Clappy Monkey 
Flint interprets Steve's commentary as more intellectual than it actually is, providing him a sounding board to brainstorm ideas aloud to, which gives the audience the benefit of being able to see Flint's thought process as he explains his inventions to his lab partner. 
==History==
=== Early Life ===
Not much is known about how Flint and Steve first met besides that they met on a Tuesday when Flint shared gummi bears with Steve.Millionaire Monkey 
Steve was first seen in Tim's Bait and Tackle shop during a test of Flint's Monkey Thought Translator invention. Steve, who exclaimed his hunger, began to rampage through the shop and tear off Tim Lockwood's mustache.
=== Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs ===
Steve served as Flint's stalwart companion and lab assistant, serving as a sounding board for Flint's ideas. He acted primarily as moral support while Flint completed his inventions. He was an accepted part of the Lockwood household; Tim adjusted to Steve's mustache-grabbing habits and allowed Flint to keep his companion in the lab. 
After the catastrophe at Sardine Circle when Flint's FLDSMDFR went haywire, Steve joined Flint as the two hid from the townspeople at the docks. Sam Sparks, after accidentally kicking Flint in the face, was awed by the Monkey Thought Translator, her passion helping to break the ice between the two scientists.
Flint took Sam and her cameraman Manny to Flint's lab to order breakfast, and Steve eagerly suggested gummy bears. After almost a month of regular food weather, Steve joined Flint and Sam during the Ice Cream Snow Day, eagerly joining in by throwing "chocolate snowballs". 
Steve helped Flint practice asking Sam out on a date, wearing a wig so Flint could role-play a dinner date. Flint left Steve in charge of the lab to watch the Dange-o-meter while he went on his date with Sam, returning only after realizing the dangers of massive hot dogs that had rained that evening.
Steve was present at the Chewandswallow Grand Opening, notifying Flint of the danger as a Spaghetti Twister appeared. Flint briefly fell into despair before his father returned his lab coat and inspired him to fix his mistakes. With Flint exclaiming they had "diem to carpe", Steve helped Flint create the Flying Car II. 
Steve had taken a can of Spray-on Shoes from the trash, and Flint had to stop him from spraying it into his mouth, inadvertently arming himself with the tool he would need for the FLDSMDFR's destruction.
Steve's crowning moment was when the Flying Car II was attacked by sentient Gummy Bears. Steve went on a rampage, tearing into the living food as they tore apart the wings of the car. 
===Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2===
Steve offers his contribution to Sparkswood by marking the page with a "brown crayon." He accompanies Flint to San Franjose and continues to work as his lab partner at Live Corp. He spits out the coffee, exclaiming it's "hot," which another employee interprets as a catcall. Flint trains Steve to trigger the Celebrationator when Flint says the word "Celebrate," which goes awry when Steve sets off the invention in the middle of the vesting ceremony and humiliates Flint in front of his hero, Chester V.
While Flint wallowed in self-pity from the humiliation, Steve tries to put out the "endless candle" atop Tim and Sam's vest-shaped cakes, freaking out whenever the flame would re-light and eats the candle, setting his tail on fire. Screeching in panic, he struggles to extinguish the flame and manages to blow it out. Steve accompanies Flint to Chester V's office, then later joined Flint when he explains the situation to Sam. He tags along with the rest of the gang when they recruit the rest of their old friends. 
At the docks, Flint misinterprets Steve being "hungry" for a banana with being "hungry for adventure" and volunteers him to test the Grocery Deliverator as a means of transport to the island. The invention spits Steve back out on the docks, electrocuted and manic from the experience. Upon arriving at the island, Steve joins the rest of the team in pointing out the absurd food puns. He even comes face to face with a Shrimpanzee, and the two of them have a brief quarrel over the Monkey Thought Translator before Steve steals it back and pushes the foodimal into the river.
Steve continues to narrate the experience, not doing much besides accompanying Flint and the gang, until Sam confronts Flint about ignoring his friends' advice. Steve joins Manny instead of Flint, to which Flint mutters "et tu, Steve?"
After being captured by Thinkquanauts, Brent tries to brainstorm a plan with Steve. Earl points out that Steve is just a monkey, to which Barb agrees. "No one should ever put any trust in a monkey." Sam points out that Chester calls Barb a monkey, and Barb realizes that Chester had not been respecting Barb or treating her as a friend.
When Chester ties up Sam and the gang with yellow police tape, Sam and Flint use Steve's training to their advantage, telling him to "celebrate." Steve breaks free and triggers the Celebrationator, which reveals the real Chester V among his holograms, allowing Flint to rescue his friends.
After the FLDSMDFR is restored, Barb asks Steve out to lunch, which Steve responds to with "dinner," since he was attempting to build a sandwich with a banana and two slices of bread.
==Video Game==
Steve can be played as an optional second character in the video game. He controls exactly the same as Flint, with the only difference being the camera remains centered on Flint, and Steve teleports to Flint's location if he is off-screen for too long. On the PC version of the game, he can be controlled using the number pad. 
==Trivia==
*He was originally named Bonkers (though this is unrelated to the monkey of the same name from the Kirby franchise).The Art and Making of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
*Flint's method of working through ideas and problems aloud to Steve is a technique known in the computer science field as "rubber ducking".https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugg
==Gallery==
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