Sunil Nevla

Sunil Nevla is a protagonist and a member of The New Action Squad.

## **BIOGRAPHY**

Sunil Nevla is a mongoose with a talent for magic. Usually, his magical tricks come in handy and can really wow the crowd, but he sometimes messes up, and apparently explosions are semi-common of his tricks. He is best friends with Vinnie Terrio.

Outside of The Littlest Pet Shop, he is also a member of The New Action Squad. Throughout the series he seems to be on good terms with most of the members, however has shown a disliking for Trafalgar. As the series progressed, that disliking faded away and they came to terms with friendship.

## **APPEARANCE**

Sunil is tall, blue, with a small segment of lighter blue hair, muzzle, and tummy / chest. He also has light blue on the bottoms of his paws. His eyes are bright golden colored and he has a tiny pink-red nose. He has dark blue stripes on his back. The inside coloring of his ears are very dark blue.

## **PERSONALITY**

Sunil is a very crafty mongoose who loves magic. He is often shown to practice it, or may use it when it would come in handy. However, he is also very cowardly and even admits this as his most common of all faults. The others care deeply about him and he knows this, but it sometimes is not enough to make him face his fears or worries. He also dislikes the thought of love, but this is stopped temporarily when he is put under a love spell (by Sugar Sprinkles) and falls in love with Pepper. However, at the end of the episode, Sugar Sprinkles reverses the spell (due to the boys in disco suits, in which she says, "Okay, that's just wrong."), and he drops Pepper (who he was holding) in disgust.

He panics very easily, but when cobras come up (real or imaginary), he strangely turns very strong and competent and is able to do the job right. Blythe and Russell use his natural hatred of cobras to give him the confidence to help rescue the remaining pets (Zoe, Penny Ling, Pepper, Vinnie, and Minka) from their imprisonment within the Largest Ever Pet Shop.

Despite his timidity, Sunil reveals to have a pretentious side, such as when he boasts about Jasper getting his voice correct when it was an inaccurate deep voice in Commercial Success and tries to prove himself to be an excellent painter in Two Pets for Two Pests.

## **TRIVIA**

* Despite being an Indian-oriented character, Sunil's species is depicted as a banded mongoose, which is actually an African subspecies. Oddly, toys and plushies of him lack the stripes on his back. The reason is unknown.
* His hatred of cobras is most likely due to the fact that snakes and mongoose are natural enemies that often fight each other.
* Sunil regularly uses less contractions in his vocabulary, giving him a distinctive manner of speaking.
* Sunil has been able to hypnotize people as shown in Gailbreak!.
* His name means "deep or very dark blue" in Hindi while Nevla means Mongoose. So Sunil Nevla means Dark Blue Mongoose.
* His parents have appeared in Frenemies, it was also mentioned that they had wanted him to study medicine.
* Despite Sunil routinely having success with magic, his abilities and knowledge of magic are often ridiculed by the other pets.
* It is shown in Eight Arms to Hold You that he lives in an apartment in the third floor of the same building as Littlest Pet Shop. According to Julie McNally Cahill, with the Indian Nevla family
* In Sue Syndrome, Sunil requests a vegetarian hotdog. This makes sense, as Indians are forbidden to eat pork or beef.
* In Super Sunil, Sunil revealed that he has an entomophobia. This contradicts Heart of Parkness, where he requesting the raccoon tribe for another bugs / insects to eat. Though he probably only has a fear of living bugs / insects, and has no problems eating dead ones.