Madeline Pluto

**Madeline Pluto** is a former kid from Baby Einstein. She appeared in Baby Shakespeare and Baby Van Gogh, with footage of her reused in World of Words and World of Colors. She has come out as non-binary since the series and chosen the name Alex, then changed it to Finch.

## Biography

Madeline is Aspen's best female friend, and former classmate, who moved to Great Lakes City to live with her extended family, the Clarks. During her time in Denver, and before they became best friends, she frequently bullied and humiliated Aspen in front of her peers. Now a student on the honor roll at Cesar Chavez Academy, Madeline was known as the toughest girl in Morningside Elementary School.

### Early Life

As a baby, Madeline would soil her diapers and fart a lot.

In "Pranks for the Memories with the Clarks", it is mentioned that she used to prank Cameron so frequently that he now cannot grow hair on the right side of his face.

In "Face the Music with the Clarks", it is shown that Madeline flubbed her first-grade play by tripping over a piece of scenery and had stage fright for years afterward.

"Roll Model with the Clarks" reveals that when she was about Brad's age, Madeline used to mimic Cameron's every move. It drove Cameron so crazy that he would sometimes shut himself in the bathroom.

## Personality

Madeline's first appearances initially depicted her as a very surly, tough and mean-spirited girl who sometimes came off as unkind and somewhat cruel, though later appearances - mostly following the Season 4 premiere - depict her as a nice, friendly and compassionate person who is kind to everyone and has a knack for planning, just like Aspen, her first best friend, whom she deeply cares for; in the city, Madeline has made another best friend in Essence Nickies, and she doesn't want to disappoint her two best friends, wanting the best for them. In addition to Madeline and Essence, her closest friends, she has also befriended a group of city kids by the events of "City Slickers", along with Brandon following "The Two of Clubs". After Madeline moved to Great Lakes City, she and Aspen would occasionally hold video chats (sometimes vlogs) to catch up with each other's lives and hang out in general, and either friend would occasionally come over to their house to visit (which occasionally happens on Aspen's side from "City Slickers"), or to sleep over (which happened on Madeline's side when Julie roped her family into thinking all of Great Lakes City was cursed).

Madeline is a compassionate and forgiving person, as shown by her accepting Aspen's apology after she insulted her and apologizing herself for the sloppy joe in "Save the Date" and Aspen trying to ditch her when she was trying to look for her to ask her to the arcade in "Dance, Dance Resolution" (though she thought she was trying to ask her to the Sadie Hawkins dance). In regards to earlier episodes, her gratefulness and kindness is also shown in "April Fools Rules" where she pranks Sierra in return for Aspen protecting her from Sierra's pranks. In addition, as seen in "Shell Shock", Madeline appears to be less chaotic than she is credited for, as she is shown doing gratuitous tasks for her family and taking great care of an egg.

Madeline is a hardcore tomboy who seems to dislike girly things (she called her former elementary school's Sadie Hawkins dance "lame"), and enjoys more boyish hobbies, such as skateboarding, pranks, and video games. Her goal implies she enjoys cooking too. In regards to her tomboyish demeanor, she is shown to dislike cheesy romance, and kissing in public, evident upon barfing at the nicknames Cameron and Alice give each other along with their kissing and saying that her Abuela and Abuelo's anniversary trip is "the mushiest, but sweetest thing [she's] ever heard." Although she is still a tomboy and known for disliking girlish activities, she would still dance to Yoon Kwan for Essence or do anything else that she would not do otherwise.

However, Madeline is also sensitive, insecure and fragile, and she doesn't like to be misjudged. She teared up when Aspen called her out as a "rude, gross and totally annoying" person in "Save the Date" and initially expressed her feelings to Aspen through tough love, one of many instances by pranking her, thus humiliating her in front of the school (in addition, Aspen's sisters deduced correctly that she had a crush on her, but was too shy and prideful to properly show them, so she used pranks and the aforementioned tough love to gain her attention). They became best friends following the events of "Save the Date", and both their rocky relationship and this tough love, while mostly shown in earlier episodes, would seemingly disappear by the time of "The Horror-Scope", their relationship stabilizing by then.

## Appearance

Madeline is a dark-skinned girl with short black hair. She usually wears a green tank top.

In Season 1, her tank top was initially dark green.

In Season 2, her tank top is now a lighter green with her skin and jacket becoming darker.

Starting with Season 3, she now has bags under her eyes, likely from the stress of dealing with a big family like Aspen.

In her prototype design, her skin was light, her hair was red, her sweatshirt was yellow, she wore black sandals, and she didn't wear any socks.

## Fan fiction

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## Names in other languages

 Spanish (Latin America)
 French
 Dutch
 German
 Italian
 Portuguese (Brazil)
 Russian
 Korean
 Mandarin (Taiwan)

## Voice Actors

* Tallulah Pitt Brown (UK)
* Kari Wahlgren (US)
* Jessica Marina (Brazil)
* Clarisse Dupuis (France and French Speaking Canada)
* Claudia Mazza (Italy)
* Alejandro Orozco (Latin America)
* Kirsten Fennis (The Netherlands)

## Trivia

* Much like her older brother, Cameron, who is dating Alice, Madeline had a crush on Aspen, but was too shy to show or admit it so she picked on her specifically because of her feelings towards her.
	+ Despite both liking each other in early episodes, they only dated once, and even that time was only to get Cameron and Alice back together. This was also stated in a promo for one of the episodes.
		- Aspen mentioned on Baby Einstein's Instagram that although she likes Madeline as a friend, she's not her girlfriend.
		- Episodes following "The Loudest Mission: Relative Chaos" (most notably "The Horror-Scope") imply that Aspen and Madeline just wanted to be best friends, though members of their respective families often still view the two as a couple.
		- However, this was contradicted to an extent in two graphic novels, *We're All Familia* and *Love Out Loud*, where the romantic implications between the two were increased, reminiscent of their earliest appearances together, as Madeline blushed throughout both novels, and Aspen blushed throughout *Love Out Loud* only. However, neither of the books outright state if they're indeed a couple in the comic continuity.
* Madeline's ideal superpower is to be weightless to get sick air.
* Both Pluto siblings have first names that start with an R, as well as second names starting with an A.
* Her phone number is `555–0121`, excluding the area code.
	+ This is a fictitious phone number used by many TV shows and movies. This would prevent real people from being called, as people would attempt trying to call the phone number itself.
* Madeline is the only character to appear in the episode "April Fools Rules" to not get pranked.
* She has a large family like Aspen, but they are an extended family rather than an immediate family.
* Madeline has a slight redesign in Season 2, with her clothes having a darker shade, as well as her skin tone being slightly darker.
* As of "The Loudest Mission: Relative Chaos", she breaks the fourth wall like Aspen does.
* Ironically, in "Finders Weepers", it is revealed that she does not like waffles, yet she made waffles for breakfast in "Shell Shock".
* Madeline is the third character to change voice actors/actresses due to their voice actor hitting puberty, with the first two being Aspen and Gabriel.
* Despite being considered a major character for the series, she only made four onscreen appearances total in the main show before moving to Great Lakes City.
* She made only 9 appearances in Season 4 before the spin-off premiered.
* According to Brad, she has a diary.
* She is a good student, having made the honor roll in school.
* She inherited her planning skills from her mother.
* She got her smarts from her maternal grandfather.
* She knows a few words in Spanish, but cannot speak it fluently.
* Madeline was born under a fire sign, making her an Aries, a Leo, or a Sagittarius. This makes her the second *Baby Einstein* character to have their zodiac sign revealed, after Bill was revealed to be a Libra.
	+ This establishes that she was born either from March 21 to April 19 (Aries), July 23 to August 22 (Leo) or November 23 to December 21 (Sagittarius).
* She is skilled at pottery, but bad at engineering, knitting, and preparing calamari.
* She appears to be the only one in her family not to hate cats, since she watches cat videos, but the rest of her family admit to hating cats.
* She had a dream where she was marrying Artemis.
* Madeline is 4 feet tall.
* As mentioned in "Croaked", she, Cameron, and Julie used to have a goldfish, but it died. Julie and Madeline discovered its death before Cameron, replaced it, and Cameron was fooled. Seeing as the Plutos don't appear to have a goldfish now, but the trick apparently still works on Cameron, it's unknown what the status of the second goldfish is.
* While she can't tolerate foods as spicy as Aspen and Macrae can, she can tolerate spicier foods than Cameron.
* Like Cameron and Gabriel, she is afraid of crawling through air vents.
* She apparently finds pigs boring, and she has enjoyed Ferris wheels from a very young age. She also has good throwing aim.
* "Fool's Gold"/"Flight Plan" is the first episode of *Baby Einstein* where Madeline is absent from both segments.
* She once mistook a man on the subway for a thief, when he was actually taking his grandmother's purse to the repair shop.
* She hasn't met Katie due to her moving to Great Lakes City. Also Katie hadn't moved to Denver yet when she lived there.
* Unlike Aspen, Madeline is not depicted on the title card of every episode of *Baby Einstein*, and she also does not appear in every episode of any season of said series.