Roxanne

Roxanne is an anthropomorphic female dog and the tritagonist of Disney's animated film A Goofy Movie (1995), where she served as the love interest to Max Goof.

## Background

Roxanne is a student from Max's high school. She is very beautiful, popular, kind, and friendly, as well as forgiving as shown in the end. Roxanne is best friends with Stacey, the student body president. The film reveals that Max has had a crush on her for quite some time prior to the film's events, though he believes she hasn't noticed him because of him being fabulously unpopular.

## Roxanne

### Aliases

Dolores (from the demo version of On the Open Road)Roxy (by Max)

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

Kellie Martin (A Goofy Movie)Grey DeLisle (House of Mouse)

### Appears in

A Goofy MovieHouse of MouseDuckTales (2017) (extra cameo)

### Debut

A Goofy Movie

In reality, Roxanne is shown to have a shared crush on Max as well, but is rather shy about it. After Max had fallen from the school's bleachers, Roxanne ran over to him, helped him up, and started giggling nervously when he began to stutter nervously at her. When he ran off in embarrassment of his goofy "Ah-hyuck!" laugh, Roxanne was left feeling confused and disappointed that he ran away from her. Later, during Max's performance at the school assembly, Roxanne is revealed to be both ecstatic and flattered by the special attention Max gives to her. When his identity is revealed before the entire school by an annoyed Principal Mazur, she gives a satisfied smile, happy that the unknown performer singer directly to her was the very same boy that she already liked. While in the principal's office, she stares and smiles at him longingly, but is nervous when Stacey motivates her to talk to him.

When Max finally gets to the courage to ask her out, she awkwardly ans somewhat nervously accepts his offer, and is completely

dejected when he later has to cancel their date. Though, she moves past it when Max convinces her—through a lie—that his reasons for canceling their date are impressive enough. When he later tells the truth and his reasons for lying (that he wanted her to like him), she admits that she had already liked him, and forgives his lie since it was in the right place. She accepts another date from him and is pleasantly surprised by an impromptu kiss that he gives her.

Roxanne lives with her father, who loves her intimately and is very protective of her. In return, she loves her father dearly, but occasionally needs to reign him in when he gets too overprotective.

## Appearance

Roxanne is an anthropomorphic, female, teenage humanoid dog with tan-colored skin and a brown nose, a beauty mark, long wavy red hair, thick red eyebrows, and a slim and curvy model.

She wears a short-sleeved teal T-shirt, navy blue jean shorts with a black belt with a round silver buckle, lavender earrings, and white flats.

In Max's dream-turned-nightmare at the beginning of the film, she is seen wearing a long white dress with a small, gold and bronze choker with a heart-shaped charm and a flower on the right side of her hair.

## Trivia

* Since Roxanne appears at the end of the Mouse Works 'funny face' book Goofy Gets Goofy (which was published on October 1, 1994), that book would technically be her very first appearance since its release predates that of A Goofy Movie (April 7, 1995).
* Though, her color scheme in that book differs from her finalized appearance in the movie: Her hair is strawberry-blonde instead of reddish-orange, her shirt is purple instead of teal green, her pants are pink instead of dark blue, and her belt is silver instead of black.
* According to character designer Carole Holliday in The Making of A Goofy Movie, when developing the character of Roxanne, director Kevin Lima wanted "a character who was 13 years old, and spunky and the most popular girl in the school." In the finalized version of the film, however, she is downplayed and these traits aren't quite as apparent:
* In the movie, she behaves less "spunky" and shyer and a little awkward (if adorably so), expressing nervousness and hesitance at times when wanting to talk to Max. However, she does display a bit more spunk in her two Goof Troop comic strip appearances from Disney Adventures, in which she first fends off a python in "My Hero" and later stands up to the imposing Mr. Kong in "Gorilla in Our Midst".
* Her popularity, meanwhile, is merely implied through her friendship with the very popular student body president Stacey, her being asked out by Chad (a popular older student), and through Max's own sense of social inferiority towards her, believing her to be one who is out of his league and never notices him (unbeknownst to him, this is untrue).
* As for her age, it is unlikely for her to be 13 during the movie's time since it is set at the end of a high school year, and the youngest age a high schooler (specifically, a ninth-grader) can be at the end of a school year in the U.S. is 14 (unless she was gifted enough to have skipped a grade, which the movie gives no evidence to support or deny).
* Also according to Holliday, Roxanne's official production biography for A Goofy Movie states that her favorite song is "Roxanne" by English rock band The Police, which Holliday notes is ironic considering how innocent a character Roxanne is.[1]
* According to the demo version of the song On the Open Road, Roxanne was originally named Dolores.
* The most likely reason for why Roxanne (and Stacey) was absent from the events of An Extremely Goofy Movie was because, like how other members of the Goof Troop TV series who were absent from A Goofy Movie (e.g. - Peg, Pistol, Waffles, and Chainsaw) simply didn't factor enough into that movie's father-son story to warrant an appearance for them. She likewise, simply didn't factor into any of the three main plots of An Extremely Goofy Movie: Goofy's and Max's "father & son at college" story, Max's College X-Games story, and Goofy's "return to college for a degree" story.
* In A Goofy Movie, Roxanne has four fingers like normal, but in House of Mouse, she has five.
* When Roxanne gets excited or nervous, she plays with her hair.
* Although Roxanne's father looks like a bulldog, she doesn't resemble him in any way, therefore she might resemble her mother.
* In the above-described Le Journal de Mickey comic, Roxanne sports a different color scheme than the one seen in A Goofy Movie, the two Goof Troop comics from Disney Adventures, and House of Mouse. Her hair is colored bright yellow blonde instead of reddish-orange; her nose is colored pinkish tan instead of brown; her shirt is lime green instead of teal green; her shorts are bright red instead of dark blue; her earrings are likewise bright red instead of either lilac (A Goofy Movie and "My Hero"), dark red ("Gorilla in Our Midst"), or white (House of Mouse); her belt buckle is bright yellow instead of gray/silver; and her shoes are black instead of white.
* Also according to that French comic, Roxanne's birthday is in February, on a day that comes closely before Valentine's Day.