Charlie

"*I'm a rollin' bone and the road is long!*"

- Charlie to Bark at the singing competition.

**Charlie** is a goldendoodle, the husband of Emily Rose and the deuterargonist of Pup Star and a major character of Pup Star: Better 2Gether. He also is the creator of Rolling Bone and Rock Em Dead.

## Pre Pup Star

Charlie started out on the streets, but when he met Bark, the two started a duet group. Charlie created the lyrics and sung the songs with Bark as a background singer. Later down the line, Bark decided to steal Charlie's songs, and hired Roland, a dog catcher, to put Charlie in the pound.

## Appearance

Charlie has goldish thick curly and in some places straight fur with strong legs and dark brown eyes and a brown nose. He also wears a jeans shirt, a red bandana and a metal chain with an electric guitar on the tip.

In Pup Star 2, Charlie is dressed differently. He still has a jeans shirt, but he no longer wears a bandana or a chain with an electric guitar on the tip.

## Pup Star

We first see Charlie in the pound, where he emerges from the underground where he was digging a tunnel for his escape. He tells Tune to turn "This garbage off". He then became angry because Roland turned off the television. He said Roland would "regret it". When Roland starts making fun of him and provoking him with dog biscuits, Charlie only growls at him.

We then see him emerge from under the ground again, where he was again digging a passage to escape.

To the Pound arrives Tiny, Charlie tells her to stop crying because surely her owners will put up the reward and Roland will give, her back to them.

Roland angered Charlie again, because he told him it was his "last supper". The dog threw himself against the bars, causing Roland to fall to the ground and spill the food he was about to give Charlie on himself. As Roland leaves, Charlie returns to the underground, still digging a tunnel for his nighttime escape.

In the next scene, it's nighttime. Charlie hears the train, so he enters the tunnel and escapes to the surface, where he digs a hole under the fence to get out of the pound.

However, he is unexpectedly joined by Tiny. Charlie gets his bandana stuck and is unable to escape. Fortunately, she rescues him and together they escape by train to New Orleans.

This is where Charlie meets his friend Big Ears. He tells Charlie that his mate Emily Rose is sick, the vet says she doesn't have much time. Clearly saddened by this fact, Charlie asks his friend where Emily is. The blind dog replies that she is in Nashville.

By car they go to a farm, from where they fly to Nashville by balloon.

While in Nashville, Charlie meets Emily Rose, much to his delight. The pair have a brief conversation with each other, after which Emily leaves for her show.

After Emily's performance, we see Charlie in her bus. Here the couple has an extended conversation with each other. Charlie apologizes to Emily when Emily says it's not the illness that hurts so much, but the broken heart.

Charlie assures her that he will get even with Bark, but Emily is not thrilled about it.

## Personality

In the beginning of the movie, Charlie is shown to be pessimistic and a loner. When Charlie and Tiny escape from the pound, Charlie is shown to have a sympathetic side when he saves Tiny from being captured by Roland, the dog catcher. Due to his musical career, it can be assumed that Charlie likes to take his own life by the reins.

## Relationships

### **Tiny**

Their relationship starts off a bit rocky as Charlie doesn't seem to care about Tiny. As the movie continues though, Charlie and Tiny develop a friendship.

### **Emily Rose**

She was one of Charlie's friends and they fell in love. He met her after saving her from getting hit by a train. They were happy together until Charlie was put in a shelter and Emily believed that Charlie left her. When the couple met a year after Charlie was gone, it turned out that Emily had never lost faith that her beloved would come back one day (she kept his clothes).

### **Bark**

Bark used to be Charlie’s friend and singing partner, but then Bark started stealing his songs for Pup Star. At the end of Pup Star 1, Charlie exposed Bark and Bark was disqualified