Alfredo Linguini Gusteau

Alfredo Linguini Gusteau (commonly referred to as **Linguini**) is the deuteragonist of *Ratatouille*.

He is the bumbling, yet kindly son and heir of Auguste Gusteau.

While working as a garbage boy at his father’s restaurant, Linguini is mistaken for a world-class chef.

The real talent, however, was that of a rat named Remy, whom Linguini rescued and befriended, and who actually controlled him by tugging on his hair.

## Appearance

He is tall and lanky with freckles and frizzy brown hair.

## Personality

Linguini, at the beginning of the film, is a very unsure and clumsy individual.

He mentions that he has never had anyone expect anything from him before and has lost many jobs prior to his job (which seems to be partly attributed to his clumsiness).

However, he is a very kindhearted person, as shown when he wouldn't drown Remy after looking into his eyes.

However, he did hold some distrust of Remy, as shown when he woke up the next morning and saw Remy's bed empty and his eggs stolen, saying, "I knew I shouldn't have trusted a ra...." before he saw Remy cooking, and quickly took it back.

Later, his trust with Remy deepens after they realize Remy can control Linguini's body using his hair and the two spent the night perfecting the body manipulation.

His kindness was also shown when he genuinely thanked Colette for her help, rather than complain about her training as being hard.

After he learns about his heritage as Gusteau's son and inherits the restaurant, he starts to neglect Remy and forget that he is the reason for his success (although the situation wasn't desirable and no one would have actually believed him at the time), instead of giving the credit to Colette and himself and even gets rid of Remy after learning he was stealing food from the fridge to give to his rat colony.

However, he later came to understand that he needed Remy after realizing that without Remy and his abilities to cook he would not have had the amount of success he had.

He even tells the rest of the staff the truth about Remy as he becomes tired of lying and taking the credit from Remy, which prompts them to leave in disgust and disappointment.

Linguini is also somewhat naive and trusts others too easily.

He trusted Remy to help him with cooking (after Skinner threatened to fire him if he couldn't remake the soup that Remy made), of which Remy initially took advantage in order to be set free.

However, Remy quickly returned to him after seeing how sad Linguini was over his deception.

He also seemed to be unaware of the animosity and suspicion Skinner had towards him, managing to avoid his dirty tactics either by pure luck or with the intervention of Remy.

He also trusted Remy to blindfold him while Remy practiced manipulating his body to cook, despite causing him injury multiple times and defended Remy when the kitchen staff was about to kill him.

He cares greatly for Remy, whom he treats as his equal and best friend, and his girlfriend Colette, with whom he has been in love with since he first saw her and with whom he develops a close romantic relationship.

Overall, Linguini is a kindhearted, yet klutzy person who tries his best to help others and moves people with his kindness and honesty.

## Skills & Abilities

Linguini is shown to fail as a cook since he ruined the soup that Remy had to fix at the beginning of the film and has been shown to have numerous take out boxes in his fridge.

However, he has shown skills at skating, which helped him become a waiter when Remy and Colette were cooking the night Anton Ego was going to critique their restaurant, and later as the waiter for his and Remy's restaurant La Ratatouille.

## Family

* Unnamed Grandmother
* Auguste Gusteau † (Father)
* Renata Linguini † (Mother)