Backpack

Backpack (or Mochila in Spanish) is a friend and special helper to Dora who helps her on all of Dora's adventures. Just like Dora, Backpack can speak both Spanish and English. Backpack is a real go-getter with a can-do spirit. As Backpack says in her signature song, "Anything that you might need, I've got inside for you." From binoculars to sticky tape, Backpack's loaded up with everything Dora might need for her quest, though it is up to the viewer to pick out the item(s) that will solve the problem at hand. Just like Map and Mapa, she opens her own segment (the helping segment, known as the backpack segment). He also lives in her side pocket.
== Appearance ==
Backpack is mostly purple. She has white eyes with black pupils and yellow eyebrows. The inside of her mouth is burgundy.
In Dora and Friends: Into the City!, Backpack's design became different at times when she got mended by Kate after being saved by Dora and others on the tallest mountain. Her color is now light purple with her bottom being pink with the flower patterns. Her face has also been redesigned with slightly smaller eyes that are now round-shaped and have visible eyelashes.
In the live-action film Dora and the Lost City of Gold, Backpack's design was completely different which gave her really unnecessary details such as the zipper for her mouth and front pocket. She also lost her ability to speak in reality, along with Map, except in Dora's imagination in the beginning and the hallucination scene.
== Personality ==
Dora receives Backpack as a present from her parents in the Season 1 episode "Backpack!". Backpack provides whatever Dora needs to complete her quests.
She is believed to be a magic satchel, which has been known to produce large items, including a ladder or multiple ladders, two complete space suits, a giant fishing pole, and other items that simply could not fit inside a backpack in real life.
Backpack seems to have a lot of extra space within her fabric to be held in such a small area. She was given to Dora as a present by her mother and father. To make the Backpack open up, Dora asks the viewers at home to say "Backpack". The Backpack then sings a little introduction and asks the viewers at home to choose what Dora needs from among the Backpack's contents. Afterwards, Backpack uses her flap to suck the remaining contents that don't work back in her, saying, "Yum-yum-yum-yum-yum, ¡delicioso!"
== Trivia ==
* Backpack's native language might be Spanish. She knows English, but may not have pronounced English so well.
* Backpack suffered a broken strap in the episode "Sticky Tape", but Dora taped the strap back together with the use of the sticky tape. Due to cartoon logic, the yellow tape on the strap disappeared in the episode after it ("Bouncing Ball"), making Backpack's strap completely purple and all fixed.
* In the early episodes (Seasons 1 through 6), the items stop rotating around Backpack after finishing her song. But in the CGI segments (Seasons 7 and 8), the items continuously rotate around her for the duration of the segment.
* Backpack takes all the items out at the same time in Season 1 and all episodes where she shortens her song. Starting in Season 2, if she sings the full song, she dispenses one item at a time (with a few exceptions, such as Dora's Dance to the Rescue, Dora's World Adventure!, and Dora Saves the Mermaids).
* Backpack has appeared in almost every episode of the first four seasons. Starting with season 5, her face doesn't appear as often.
* In the episode "The Backpack Parade", they find out the reason Backpack was sneezing was because she kept sniffing confetti.
** This proves Backpack was allergic to confetti.
* Usually whenever Dora is asking the viewer to check Backpack, she turns around to show Backpack to the camera. The only episodes where Dora does not turn around to show Backpack when asking to check her are Beaches and Daisy, La Quinceañera.
* Backpack is oddly missing her right side pocket throughout the entirety of Season 4, in addition to always having the star pocket in its place.
* When Backpack is asked for help on HD episodes, she becomes a computer-generated imagery character just like Map.
* Backpack was swiped by Swiper three times in Backpack, The Missing Piece, and Return to the Rainforest (excluding Dora's Rainforest Reunion: Return to Rainbow Rock, where Swiper saved her from the snapping turtle).
** Backpack was the second character to be swiped by Swiper after Little Star.
* Backpack returns in the episode "Return to the Rainforest" from Dora and Friends: Into the City!. She becomes a little different after her bottom side got torn apart on the cliff, but Kate is able to mend her.
** While mending her, Isa's flower, Bud becomes sewn into Backpack. However, Bud doesn't mind, as Bud wants to go on adventures with Dora, and Isa says it's okay. Following that episode, she joins the cast of Dora and Friends: Into the City! along with Bud, and once again accompanies Dora on her adventures.
** When asked for help, Bud goes inside Backpack to help find what Dora needs. While mending her, Kate made some alterations to Backpack's design, which Bud became involved with, as well.
* Backpack can carry books in "Backpack!". The episode also reveals how Dora first got her.
* In "Backpack!", Dora and Boots checked her six times, which is the most times she was called upon (in one whole episode) in the entire series.
* In Go, Diego, Go!, Backpack was used in 4 episodes: Chito and Rita the Spectacled Bears, Diego's Wolf Pup Rescue, Diego and Dora Help Baby Monarch Get to the Festival, and The Great Polar Bear Rescue. Her face was also seen in Diego's Great Dinosaur Rescue, but she wasn't used in that episode.
* Sasha Toro (Backpack's original voice actress) made a comeback for the 2019 movie.
* Boots' Cuddly Dinosaur and Swiper the Explorer show a time where Backpack asked the viewers to say "Backpack!"
* "The Lost City" is the first episode where Dora doesn’t check her backpack at all because she doesn‘t need anything from inside Backpack.
* Beginning with "Dora's World Adventure!", her right pocket (which included the star pocket) was removed.
* As seen in "Meet Diego!" and "To the South Pole", if the correct item is a rope, the rope may sometimes get stuck.
* In "The Big Piñata", Backpack had a spinner where the viewers had the find the two spaces with the same shape, which both had some popcorn behind them. All the other shapes had nothing, so that was the only segment that doesn't end with a "¡Yum-yum-yum-yum-yum, delicioso!
* In "Boots' Special Day", Backpack's background was darkened, and instead of items circling around Backpack, she had three doors each with a fruit/vegetable (all beginning with B) crown behind them. The light would be towards each crown. The music is also modified to include some piano for Jazz Style.
* "Dora Saves the Prince" (second segment only) and "Journey to the Purple Planet" have the items already around Backpack, rather than getting them out during the song.
* If there is more than one segment, the items sometimes change, as seen in "Three Little Piggies", "Dora Saves the Prince", and "Roberto the Robot" (in this one, there were no helmets during the first segment, but there were during the second).
* She is one of the characters who can be woken up by saying "Wake up, (character's name)!". The others are Map, Sloth, Grandpa Panda, Baby Bear, and Boots.
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