Best Popple Pals

The **Best Popple Pals** is a group of Popple friends in Popplopolis that consists of Bubbles, Izzy, Lulu, Sunny, and Yikes. They all serve as the main protagonists of *Popples*.

## Members

* Sunny: A tomboyish Popple who's both the athlete and the de-facto leader of the group.
* Bubbles: A sweet bubbly Popple with a love for fashion and music. She is also addicted to her Popple-phone
* Izzy: An energetic Popple with a love for adventure and dreams of becoming a famous explorer, though he sometimes can be a bit gullible.
* Lulu: An intelligent Popple who's the inventor of the group and create numerous inventions to help her friends.
* Yikes: A fun-loving Popple with a heart of gold despite his lack of intelligence.

## Allies

* Babapop — A retired adventurer who serves as a bit of a grandfather figure and mentor to the Best Popple Pals. They would often come to his popped shop for his help and advice when they have a problem.
* Coach Loudly — The coach and teacher at Popplementary School. Aside from being taught to play poppleball, the Best Popple Pals are willing to help him if he has a problem, as seen in "Pop Marks the Spot" when they help search for Coach Loudly's buried treasure that contains a signed poppleball from his youth.
* Margaret Shush — The teacher at Popplementary School.
* Help-R — A robot that's created by Lulu to help the citizens of Popplopolis. However, Help-R tends to malfunction and he would often cause trouble in the city instead, which lead to the Best Popple Pals often try to stop him, as seen in "Help-R Hinder" and "Stop the Robo-Pop". Eventually as seen in "Pop-Party Crasher", Help-R manages to become completely stable and he becomes the Pals' robotic assistant.
* Popfoot — A large creature who lives in Mount Popplopolis. At first, the Best Popple Pals are afraid of him because of a legend claiming that Popfoot is going to eat them during the Harvest Summer Festival. But after the events of "The Legend of Popfoot" when they realized how friendly Popfoot is, they all become friends with them.
* Mrs. Snooply — A gardener who's Best Popple Pals' formerly grumpy neighbor. Mrs. Snooply used to despise them for their noisy antics and for often intruding into her garden without her permission, which lead to her almost moving out of Popple Place in "Fame & Misfortune". But after the events of that episode, she finally tolerates them and she appreciates how they would often come to help her with her problems.
* Fuzzy — A monarch caterpillar who's Yikes' pet. While he unintentionally caused Yikes to become unfocused during the Pals' *Pop to the Top* rehearse which lead to them to refused to have him participate, Fuzzy helps Yikes know how many legs he has that was the final question of the quiz show.
* Gus — A young Popplementary School student who's also a poppleball player. While he's often seen playing on Sunny's team at the games, Gus is on the Best Popple Pals' side in "At the Pop of Her Game".
* Coach Loudly's junior gym class — A group of young Popplementary School students whose teacher is Coach Loudly. The students are all very friendly to the Best Popple Pals and they would often help them with their plans, as seen in "Popposites Attract".
* Squeaky Pop — A famous pop singer whose Bubbles is a big fan of. When Squeaky arrived in Popplopolis for her concert in "Fallen Pop Idol", she hired Bubbles as her assistant and her friends as her roadies. But because of her diva attitude, she treated each of them poorly and fired them after they called her out for her behavior. She later apologizes to them for being a snob and she offered them a chance to be her band whenever she need one on her many tours.
* Balthazar — A garden gnome who's owned by Mrs. Snooply. He, along with his fellow gnomes, originally viewed the Best Popple Pals as his enemies due to he's function to protect Mrs. Snooply's garden from any intruders and his owner used to despise the Pals' noisy antics. But after Mrs. Snooply finally tolerate the Pals after the events of "Fame & Misfortune", Balthazar and the rest of the gnomes didn't show any more hostile to them. In "Messy Pop Friends", he immediately befriends Izzy when they both found out they have friends who didn't understand their interest in hoarding and they decided to run away to collect treasures together.
* Stan and Ollie — Two elderly Popples who worked as the Ani Mall top security guards. While they only just met them in "Ani Mall Insecurity", the Best Popple Pals are willing to help Stan and Ollie keep their jobs at the mall after Mayor Maynot caught them sleeping during their day shift due to being overworked. Lulu created the Manni-Pals so they could take over their night shift while Stan and Ollie would both work at the day shift.
* Coco Poppel — A fashion designer who's also a friend of Bubbles'. In "FrankenPopple", she visited Popplopolis to have a fashion show and she asked the Best Popple Pals if they can be her models.

## Enemies

* Popple Peeps — A group of four Popples who're the Best Popple Pals' classmates and rivals. The Popple Peeps are often the rival team for the Pals during a competition, such as a poppleball game or the *Pop to the Top* quiz show.
	+ Mike Mine — A greedy young Popple who's the de facto leader of the Popple Peeps. Out of the Popple Peeps, Mike despises the Best Popple Pals the most. Throughout the series, he is seen manipulating Sunny and Bubbles to turn them against each other in "Student Buddy President", trying to steal Lulu's inventions in various episodes, and framing Yikes to the point of nearly destroying the Pals' friendship with him in "The Popple Who Knew Too Much",
	+ Gruffman — A grumpy but unintelligent Popple who's Mike Mine's partner-in-crime. Despite Bubbles befriends him after the events of "It Takes Two to Tangle" since she's the only one who's aware of his insecurity, Gruffman would often get forced to be on Mike's side against the Best Popple Pals, despite he's occasionally seen being kind to them.
	+ Penny and Polly Popplar — A pair of semi-identical twins who both used to have huge crushes on Izzy. While the twins are occasionally shown to be friendly to the Best Popple Pals, Penny and Polly both portrayed as antagonists to them in "Seeing Double". The twins are jealous of Sunny and her friends for being very nice and perfect that when an incident caused Polly's fur to look almost exactly like Sunny's, they decided to take advantage of it by having Polly pretends to be Sunny to ruin her reputation in Popplopolis.
* Popsie — A BFF app that Bubbles used to owned. In "The BFF App", she was very jealous of her owner's friends and wants to get rid of them so that Popsie could have Bubbles all for herself.

### Former enemies

* Manni-Pals — A group of robotic mannequins that Lulu invented to help Stan and Ollie. In "Ani Mall Insecurity", the robots got malfunctioned during their first night shift and they almost destroyed them, along with Mayor Maynot.
* Melina — A Venus poptrap that's owned by Mrs. Snooply. In "Little Pop of Horrors", she was given to Mrs. Snooply to help her eat all the pop-flies that're swarming in her garden. However, Melina grew into a giant carnivorous plant after Mrs. Snooply poured too much fertilizer on her, which lead to her terrorizing the Ani Mall and eat almost everypopple who's in her path.

## Trivia

* In the original 1986 series, there were nine main characters and were consist of: Party, PC (Pretty Cool), Pancake, Prize, Puffball, Puzzle, Pretty Bit, Putter, and Potato Chip. In the 2015 series, none of the Best Popple Pals members' name start with the letter "P" and there're only five.
	+ In one concept art, Bubbles' name was originally going to be Perky. However, there isn't any confirmation yet if the rest of the Best Popple Pals members' name were all originally going to start with "P".
* This is not the first time Saban wants to have five main characters for their *Popples* series. In 2012, they originally going to have five all-female main characters for their toyline.
* The Best Popple Pals were created in around 2014.
* Izzy is the only masculine member of the group to be voiced by a female voice actress in the English dub.
* Sunny is the only member of the group to had more than one voice actresses in the English dub (Erin Fitzgerald and Wendee Lee).
* "Sunny Loses Her Pop" is the only episode where the group is called "Purple Poppies", though it's only a sport team name.
* Despite the Best Popple Pals are all children, they're able to live by themselves and go to school at a daily basis.
* Various Popples have show recognition and appreciation towards the Best Popple Pals for being selfless, kind, and their willingness to help them in the city:
	+ With the exception of Mike Mine, every single students in Popplementary School voted for Bubbles for class president in "Student Buddy President" because of her selflessness.
	+ When the Best Popple Pals all became famous on Popview Tube, the Popplopolis citizens arrived at their treehouse to party with them and they appreciated their crazy antics. Some of the citizens are also a fan of one of the Pals.
	+ Despite being unable to return all the overdue games to the multimedia library on time before it closed, the librarian gave Sunny a copy of *Apopplyptic 2* as a reward for being kind and considerate to two mall patrons while on her way to the library.
	+ Even though they lost, Margaret Shush is very appreciate how they all participated in the *Pop to the Top* quiz show so they can win a Teacher of the Year award for her in "Teacher of the Year".
	+ For temporarily taking over the mayor position for a day while he lost his memory, Mayor Maynot rewards Bubbles a key to the city.
	+ In "Pop Marks the Spot", Coach Loudly felt they all deserve a reward for finding his treasure for him, but they all refused since Sunny said that seeing him happy "is the best reward [they] can ask for".
	+ When Izzy and Mike are both stuck on a balloon bench above the city, many Popplopolis citizens came together to help the Best Popple Pals get them down in "Pop Up".
* Izzy and Lulu are the only members to also be members of another group in Popplopolis. Izzy is also a member of the Local Big Time Brave Explorer Society while Lulu is also a member of the Popplopolis Inventor's Society.

## References

1. ↑ In "Sunny Loses Her Pop" only
2. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/NewOnNetflixUSA/posts/popplesthe-adorable-best-popple-pals-love-helping-their-friends-and-neighbors-bu/444867705705776/
3. ↑ http://bigjiminy.blogspot.com/2015/04/popples.html

Miss Shush's class (Gruffman • Gus • Mike Mine • Penny Popplar • Polly Popplar) • Coach Loudly's junior gym class

Adults
Babapop • Coach Loudly • Margaret Shush • Milton Maynot • Mrs. Snooply • Popfoot

Groups
Popple Peeps • Purple Poppies

Miscellaneous
Balthazar • Help-R

Coco Poppel • Juliet • Local Big Time Brave Explorer Society • Multimedia Librarian • Pete Le Pop • Popeo • Popplopolis Inventor's Society • Popple mothers • Popple Postman • Squeaky Pop • Squeaky Pop's band • Stan and Ollie

Mentioned characters
Biff • Christopher Columpop • Doctor Popson • Ivy • Katy Poppy • Popple Fur Dresser • Popple Pete • Popple Queen • Popplileo • Popple Queen's royal explorer • Popple Queen's royal explorer's assistant • Sir Edmund Poplary • Snoop Popp • Super-Pop • Sherlock Pop • The Ghost of Popple Park

Minor antagonists
Glumbies • Manni-Pals • Melina • Popsie • Sunny's Lookalike • Izzy's shoulder angel and devil

Miscellaneous
Fuzzy • Popple babies • Izzy's shoulder angel and devil