Babbles

**Babbles** is a recurring antagonist of *Sammy & Co*. He is a young rockfish who is a student in Lulu's class at the shell school in the reef village located in the Southern Seas, and the rival to Ricky, Ella, Pipo, and Annabel. He is also a member of a gang of scorpfish bullies.

## Appearance

Babbles is a fish with a dark orange color. His mouth, belly, spines, and fin tips are all cream-colored. His eyes are green with his irises slightly darker than them. He also has very sharp teeth.

## Personality

Babbles is a chatty rockfish with a mean attitude and demeanor. As a member of a gang of bullies, he enjoys breaking rules in all the possible ways and intimidating his classmates. However, Babbles isn't the most intelligent of the gang and he is more of a follower to both Glitz and Crudd. And true to his name, Babbles is a very talkative gang member and his constant chattiness would often get himself in trouble without meaning to. For example, while the Rockfish, Ricky and his friends, and Alpha are all hiding from a very hungry Albert in "Yum", Babbles accidentally reveals to everyone that Big Boss is the one who "stole the whole stock reserve with [the gang's] help, and he gave [them] some food in return" which angers both Crudd and Glitz for giving themselves away.

On rare occasions, Babbles can be remorseful towards his actions whenever he's under his gang's influence, which is seen when he becomes guilty of letting Ella and her friends swim out of the reef after Glitz tricked them into thinking Ricky is out there when they're searching for him in "Double Birthday", so Babbles secretly reveals to the party guests about the four kids' absence when they're waiting for them for too long. After Glitz manipulated him into secretly help her cheat in "The Pearl Hunt", Babbles noticeably becomes ashamed of his actions because he and his partner Ricky almost become friends after they work together to steal Lulu's pearl so they could cheat to win the scavenger hunt and Glitz's manipulation leads to the friendship between Babbles and Ricky to be split apart. He also becomes remorse after he tricked Ricky into heading to Leonard's aquarium to trap him inside as a mean to get rid of him so he could spend time alone with his crush Ella, which leads to the three of them be put in danger as a result of his jealousy.

## Relationships

### Glitz

Babbles somewhat gets along with his ringleader Glitz and they have a boss-subordinate relationship. Though Babbles would always follow Glitz's every commands, from time to time he would sometimes work against her because of his feelings towards Ella, like in "Double Birthday" when he tells the reef inhabitants that Ella and her friends are looking for each other outside the reef after Glitz tricked them. Babbles also sometimes makes fun of Glitz, such as in "The Legend of Coraline and White Crab, the Knight", when she is worried about Crudd putting himself in danger at a crab den that Babbles teases her about it to get even with her for constantly teasing him about his crush on Ella.

After Babbles and Ricky both manage to work together to steal Lulu's pearl in order to cheat during a scavenger hunt in "The Pearl Hunt" and they almost become friends for real, he was manipulated by Glitz to backstabbed Ricky so he could help her win and it results in ruining the friendship between the two partners. This implies that while Babbles can be somewhat nicer to his enemies from time-to-time whenever Glitz and Crudd are not around, he is forced to follow all Glitz's commands and be a bully because of her influence despite he knows very well every actions the gang did would get everyone around him in trouble.

### Crudd

Babbles is friends with Crudd and they somewhat get along with each other, though Babbles can get annoyed by Crudd's constant teasing about his unrequited crush on Ella.

### Big Boss

Babbles has huge admiration for Big Boss and he is willing to help him with his many schemes to take over the reef village so that the gang can be view as the most fearful member of the reef.

But although Babbles looks up to Big Boss, there's a rare occasion where he and the rest of the gang are against him. When the kids are all stuck in a lobster trap inside the shipwreck and Big Boss mistakenly guide two barracudas to them in "Big Boss the Hero", Glitz found out from a barracuda that Big Boss has promised the two predators that he'll guide them to the reef village to eat everyone in there, unaware that Big Boss only said it so he could protect himself, Marco, Philippe, and Jax from being eaten by them. This causes her to turn against Big Boss and tell on the villagers about his plan to guide the barracudas to the reef and have lied to the villagers about trying to "save" the kids.

### Ricky

Like the rest of the Rockfish, Babbles dislikes Ricky, though it's mainly because he is jealous of Ricky's crush on Ella and he assumes Ella only likes her best friend Ricky instead of him. Whenever the Rockfish aren't teasing Ricky and his friends, Babbles and Ricky would both fight over Ella to see who she could spend time with her, such as in "Sweet Scorpfish" when Babbles's jealousy of Ricky gets the better of him that he tricks the young turtle into getting inside Leonard's aquarium to trap him in there as a way to get rid of Ricky so Babbles could be alone with Ella.

Despite their rivalry, Babbles and Ricky are able to cooperate with each other when they were forced by Lulu to work together as a pair to search for a pearl for assignment. The two even agreed to cheat by stealing Lulu's pearl and they manage to get along while doing so, although because of Glitz's influence, they become enemies again when Babbles betrays his partner to help Glitz wins at the end of the episode.

### Ella

Babbles has a huge crush on Ella despite she's an enemy to the Rockfish and he wants to do whatever he can to tell her how he feels without Glitz and/or Crudd around to tease him. He can also become worried about Ella whenever she is in danger outside the reef. Babbles can get easily jealous of anyone fawning over her and goes out of his way to getting rid of Ella's admirers so he could get her all to himself. He also seems to be unaware that his feelings towards Ella aren't mutual because she despises how he constantly bullying her classmates and being on Big Boss's side. But despite all that, Babbles is determined to impress Ella in every possible way, which includes attempting to become the reef's new comedian in "The Clown Fish Syndrome" so he could flirt with her with his jokes.

### Pipo and Annabel

Like as he is with the rest of his class, Babbles is disrespectful and rude towards both Pipo and Annabel since the two are friends with Ricky and Ella. Through his interaction with the two are mainly neutral, he does not shy away from teasing them at any chance he gets.

### Lulu

Like the rest of the gang, Babbles enjoys disturbing Lulu during his lessons, and aside from skipping classes multiple times with Glitz and Crudd, Babbles greatly despise going to school. When the reef got divided because of a feud between Ray and Sammy in "A Divided Reef" and the villagers are forced to pick a side, Babbles and the rest of the gang all picked Ray's side because they assume that by being at his side, they could do whatever they want without following the rules which include not going to school. Babbles even happily expresses his relief by blowing a raspberry at Lulu which was right before Ray informs the Rockfish that they still have to go to school despite being on his side.

## Trivia

* In the original French version, he is called Bavass.
* In the Dutch version, his name is spelled as Babbels.
* In the Polish version, he is called Zgrywus.
* Babbles is the only member of the Rockfish who doesn't have a "Perfect Universe" counterpart appear in "A Perfect Ocean".
* Babbles is the only member of the Rockfish who hasn't been kissed yet.

## References

1. ↑ File:International Credits 008.png

Albert • Alpha • Arthur • Billy • César • Jimbo • Lulu • Margaret • Ray • Rita • Rose • Sammy • Shelly

Lulu's class
Aroun • Mika • Mya • Oscar • The Rockfish (**Babbles** • Crudd • Glitz)

Characters from outside the reef
Barracudas • Big Boss • Jax • John's flock (George • John • Paul • Ringo) • Leonard • Marco • Philippe

Albert (hammerhead shark) • André • André's lobster colony • Bernard • Big Boss's girlfriend • Boris • Boris' pilot fish • Brice and Bronco • Coralia • Eddy • Edgar • Leopold • Lucille • Manuel and Consuelo • Maurice • Nautilus • Niko's mother • Roby's parents • Rosie • Rudy Reef • Seaweed Ball Guardian • Sea snake • Visto • Yoko

Children
Coralia's children • Eliot • Ella's cousins • Ella's siblings • Jumpette • Leopold's children • Marius • Niko • Ricky's siblings • Roby

Characters from the past
Ben • Fluffy • Jacko, Ollie, and Sandra • Robbie • Sammy's siblings • Shelly's siblings • Slim • Vera

Humans
Snow • Snow's hippie community

"Perfect Universe" characters
Lola • Perfect Universe's Annabel • Perfect Universe's Crudd • Perfect Universe's Glitz • Perfect Universe's Pipo • Perfect Universe's Ricky • Perfect Universe's Sammy

Mentioned characters
Alpha's mother • Clara • Coco • Eliot's mother • Ella's mother • John I • Lulu's grandmother • Lulu's great-aunt • Pipo's mother • Ricky's cousins