Whiff

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> *Hello, Emily! My name's Whiff, because I'm a bit smelly. You're going to help me collect rubbish/garbage!*
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―Whiff introduces himself to Emily

**Whiff** is a grubby green tank engine who wears glasses. His main task is to collect rubbish and scrap, which explains his dirty appearance and smell.

## History

### Thomas & Friends

When Whiff first came to the railway, Emily was asked to help him out. Emily was under the impression that he would be more intriguing and that the task would be more exciting, but was disappointed when she learned that Whiff worked with rubbish. Although the two were mocked by other engines wherever they went, Whiff maintained a cheery expression and seemed either not to notice or care. Emily tried to shun being seen with him, but Whiff found her almost everywhere she went. When Emily finally escaped from Whiff, she saw Spencer blocked by a long line of trucks full of rubbish. When none of the other engines helped, she saw Whiff who she apologised to and together they cleared Spencer's line.

Whiff was present at the celebration of Sodor Day at the newly reopened Great Waterton station.

One day, Whiff was meant to take away a truck of old cans from a siding to his rubbish dump. Toby - who was looking for something special to present to the Fat Controller - mistook the distant truck at first for something valuable. Later, Whiff brought the Fat Controller to Toby, who had run out of water and discovered a sign belonging to the old Sodor Tramways.

Later, with help from Percy, he unblocked the tunnel to Misty Island and saved Thomas, Bash, Dash and Ferdinand.

Whiff now runs his dump with help from Scruff. One day, Scruff's "scruncher" was broken and Whiff stayed with him at the Sodor Steamworks until he was mended. This left the rubbish dump without anyone to run it, so Gordon was put in charge for the day.

Whiff requires help from time to time with his rubbish trains. Once, Thomas was supposed to help Whiff with his train, but only succeeded in crashing into the trucks at Wellsworth as Thomas was trying to stay clean for the Duchess of Boxford. In the end, Whiff took the Duchess whilst Thomas cleared up the mess and took the rubbish train. Later on, Whiff tried to be as grand as Spencer by hauling heavy loads. He helped Emily and Edward by taking some of their loads, but only neglected his own job of clearing the railway of the rubbish trucks. After delivering the respective loads, Whiff carried out his work and proved once again to be really useful.

One Christmas, Whiff and Scruff helped Thomas get covered in rubbish so he could play a trick on Diesel and later attended the Earl of Sodor's Christmas lunch.

When Bradford arrived on Sodor, Whiff used him as his brake van to take dirty trucks filled with waste. However, Bradford refused to move as the trucks needed to be cleaned, causing Whiff to be late.

### Lukeillie's Series

Whiff was built around 1869 and at some point, he received glasses, making him the first engine in history to use glasses (and the first vehicle overall). He also managed to learn about Misty Island at some point in his life.

One day, Whiff woke up and found out his glasses were missing. He and Scruff looked for them but couldn't find them. The Fat Controller decided to give Whiff new glasses. At first, Whiff didn't like them and felt weird wearing them but soon found out they were gaining a lot of attention from the other engines. Whiff started to feel like a new engine and even planned on quiting his job at the dump in order for his glasses to stay clean, much to Scruff's surprise. Whiff was on his way to Brendam Docks, hoping he could work there, but crashed into some trucks on the way, which broke his glasses and Whiff became upset. Scruff found him and decided he should come back to the dump with him, which Whiff agreed to. When they got there, they saw Whiff's original glasses in the ground and wondered how they got there and hlw they missed seeing them.

## Personality

Whiff is cheerful and optimistic. He enjoys his job of collecting rubbish/garbage. He either does not seem to care what the other engines think about him or is oblivious to their opinions. Despite that, he is friendly and always does his job well at the Waste Dump. He is somewhat naïve, as he did not realise why the other engines tried to avoid him so much. However, in *Misty Island Rescue*, he is shown to know a bit about Sudrian history, since he knew about the tunnel connecting Misty Island to Sodor.

According to Whiff's television series designer, Whiff can also be described as "nerdy".

## Livery

Whiff is painted in a dark green livery with black and yellow lining and green wheels. He has red numberplates on his bunker. He wears large spectacles on his smokebox.

## Appearances

* Season 2 - Billy and Charlie and New Glasses for Whiff

## Trivia

* Whiff is the first and only engine to wear an eyewear in the television series. However, if *Railway Series* characters were counted, Whiff would be the second character, the first being the The Ballast Cleaner. He and the Ballast Cleaner are also the first two characters with eyewear, and Darcy being the third.
* Whiff's physical model had two holes in his footplate to accommodate a lamp and two holes in his front bufferbeam to accommodate a brakepipe. Despite this, Whiff never had a lamp or brakepipe between the eleventh and twelfth series.
* Whiff is the only character introduced in the eleventh series to have appeared in full CGI. Not counting Billy, whose only planned appearance was replaced with Charlie's.
* Whiff has the same number as his basis, Aerolite.
* In the German dub of the show, Whiff is called "Mief", which is an informal word and has the same meaning as "bad smell".
* According to Whiff's designer, Whiff can be described as "nerdy". Despite this, he does not usually act this way, although he does wear glasses, a stereotypical nerd feature.

## Quotes

> Hello, I'm Whiff. My job is to collect the rubbish/garbage on the Island of Sodor. It's a smelly job, but someone has to do it. - Whiff
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