Tramp

Tramp is the titular male protagonist of Walt Disney Animation Studios's 1955 animated film, Lady and the Tramp, and the tritagonist of the 2001 sequel, Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure. He is a stray mutt who falls in love with a Cocker Spaniel named Lady and they embark on many adventures together.

## Tramp

### Aliases

Butch (by both Tony and Joe), Fritzi, Mike, Handsome (by Peg) The one that got away

### Relatives

Lady (mate)Scamp (son)Annette, Collette and Danielle (daughters)

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

Garry Garneau (in Once Upon a Time)Monte (2019 film)

### Appears in

Lady and the TrampLady and the Tramp II: Scamp's AdventureOne Hundred and One Dalmatians (cameo)The Lion King 1½ (silhouette cameo)Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of MouseRalph Breaks the Internet (cameo)Lady and the Tramp (2019)Bonkers (cameo)House of MouseA Poem Is...Mickey Mouse (cameo)Once Upon a Time (in human form)At Home With Olaf (cameo)Kingdom Hearts (cameo)Hidden Worlds (temporary scene)Disney Emoji BlitzDisney Tsum TsumDisney Magic Kingdoms

### Debut

Lady and the Tramp

*Tramp is introduced as a wise-cracking, stray mutt who admires the life of a rogue loner. Often seen alone, he doesn't appear to have family or friends outside of the local mutts he runs into from time to time, such as Peg and Bull, or Tony and Joe, two Italian restaurant owners. Nevertheless, he lives his life with a carefree aura and rascally-fun nature. While out and about in New Haven, where he regularly rests and feasts at various restaurants, he overhears Jock and Trusty attempting to explain what a baby is to Lady. He gives his opinion on the matter, which is somewhat negative. Annoyed with him, Jock and Trusty order him out of the yard.*

*Later on, Tramp rescues Lady, whom he calls "Pidge" from a pack of alley dogs. She reveals that she has been muzzled, and so he attempts to help her take it off. He takes her to the zoo when he is able to manipulate a beaver into removing it, by claiming it*

*will help him haul logs. That night, Tramp takes Lady out for a night on the town. He reveals that he goes to different houses for scraps and that he has a different name at every one of them. That night, he takes Lady to a small Italian restaurant, where they are served spaghetti and meatballs by the owner, Tony. He takes her home, but on the way there, she is picked up by the dogcatcher.*

*After he finds Lady, who has been released from the pound, he attempts to apologize to her, but she angrily confronts him on rumors she heard at the pound regarding his multiple past girlfriends. She forced him to leave, and he's very sad, no thanks to her rejection, and left dejected. However, he soon hears her barking furiously as if she's in trouble and rushes back. She reveals that a rat has gotten into the baby's room, and so he rushes to stop it. During the fight, he accidentally knocks over the crib, making the baby cry. He is able to kill the rat but is found by Aunt Sarah who decides to call the dogcatcher and have him take Tramp to the pound. However, he is released due to the combined efforts of Jock and Trusty, who had overheard the humans talking after they discovered the rat that he killed.*

*The next Christmas, it's revealed that Tramp has been made a member of the family by Jim Dear and Darling as a reward for his heroism. He and Lady have become the parents of four puppies; three girls that look identical to her and a son that looks identical to him. He's happy to be a house dog instead of a stray, now that he's with her.*

### Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure

The second film shows that Tramp's relationship with his son, Scamp, has become somewhat strained due to his desire to be a "wild dog". One day, he makes a mess in the living room and is chained up outside. Even though, Tramp makes an accident to him since he can't stop acting wild on the street. Tramp comes to talk to him, but they soon get into an argument and Tramp leaves.

Later on, Scamp runs away from home and Tramp blames himself for him leaving home because he was too harsh with him. He realizes that he needs to understand him better. After he joins a dog pack known as the "Junkyard Dogs", he learns of Tramp's infamous reputation. Unknown to him, the pack's leader, Buster, was once Tramp's protégé, and now seeks revenge on him. Buster later learns that Scamp is his son.

When Scamp is asked by Buster to steal a chicken from his owners' Fourth of July picnic, Tramp soon arrives and talk softly to him. He asks him to come home, but he confronts him who he was as a stray and chooses the junkyard life. Tramp feels sad and brokenhearted that he does not want to be a house dog. However, later that night, one of the Junkyard Dogs, Angel, arrives and tells him and Lady that Scamp is in trouble. He and Angel race to the pound and Tramp saves him from getting killed by a vicious bull mastiff named Reggie, who he encountered earlier before he got caught by the dogcatcher for as he claimed he attacked his vehicle. Later, he apologizes to Tramp for running away from home, and he in return apologizes to Scamp for being too hard on him. He was thinking that they can go to the river to howl, promising to lighten up and claiming his old man still has a few howls left in him, right before Jock and Trusty found them. Afterward, they reconcile and head home after Scamp retrieves his collar from Buster back at the junkyard and had him trapped in a pile of junk as a score for what he did to Scamp. In the end, the family adopts Angel and Tramp is happy that Scamp became a house dog instead of being a stray after all.

## Personality

In the first film, Tramp is very laid-back and he's more like a kid, he enjoys his rapscallion lifestyle without a family and home, it's implied that he's flirtatious, given his history of having a multitude of girlfriends, he's known for his street smarts, able to both avoid dogcatchers and deal with junkyard dogs. He initially seems cynical about humans, saying how the arrival of a baby is likely to lead to the family dog being pushed aside.

In the sequel, after Tramp and Lady have married and now have a litter of four puppies, he has grown accustomed to being a house pet, but still retains his street smarts. He is also portrayed as being a loving yet firm father to his son, Scamp, and daughters, Annette, Collette and Danielle.

## Appearance

Tramp is a medium-sized, scruffy-looking dog. He is mostly medium brown with a light tan muzzle and stomach. He has a cream-colored stripe that comes down from his muzzle to his chest (which he passes down to his son, Scamp, and daughter, Danielle) after he is taken in by Jim Dear and Darling, he wears a red collar with a diamond-shaped license.

## Trivia

* He is street smart like Thomas O'Malley in The Aristocats. The contrast is Thomas married Duchess and became the stepfather of her three kittens while Tramp married Lady and had puppies of his own.
* Tramp's growls and snarls heard during his fight with the rat would later be reused in Old Yeller when the title character had rabies.
* When Tramp tells Lady about the downsides of having a baby in the family, he says he's "the voice of experience". When he does so, it implies that he may have been disowned by his original owners because of a baby. This was explicitly shown in the 2019 remake.
* Tramp's breed is possibly Schnauzer.
* His name means a person who travels from place to place on foot in search of work, or as a vagrant or beggar.
* It would also fit into his lifestyle on how he admired the life of a rogue loner and enjoyed his freedom before settling down to become a house pet.
* Tramp and Lady both have eyes that are resembling that of Bambi's.
* In Italy, Tramp's name has been established as Biagio il Randagio (literally Biagio the stray dog), which is also what Tony and Joe call him in this translation.