Roger Radcliffe

Roger Radcliffe is one of Auradon's Heroes. He is the husband of Anita Radcliffe, the owner of Pongo and Perdita and their dalmation puppies, and the eventual adoptive father of Carlos De Vil and Vicki De Vil.

## Before Auradon

### 101 Dalmatians

At the beginning of the film, Roger is seen working on a song. Pongo, having grown bored with their bachelor lives, conspires to set his pet up with a girl. After seeing Anita and Perdita, Pongo decides they would be perfect, as they were both beautiful. Pongo sets the clock ahead so that Roger believes that it is time for their walk. Roger is then forcefully dragged along as Pongo attempts to get Roger and Anita to meet. Eventually, Roger and Anita end up in the pond of the park, entangled by the leashes of their dogs. Roger attempts to apologize to the upset Anita, and blaming Pongo for making her wet, but the two end up laughing. A time skip shows that Roger and Anita fall in love and marry, and the two settle in a small house near the park with Pongo, Perdita, and Nanny.

“*Cruella De Vil! Cruella De Vil! If she doesn't scare you! No evil thing will!*”
―Roger sassing Cruella in song
Sometime later, Roger is writing a new song but has only managed to get the melody written. He gains inspiration for lyrics after hearing the name of Cruella De Vil, Anita's former classmate. While Anita visits with her "friend," Roger writes a mocking song, relating the name to many frightening images. Three weeks later, Perdita is preparing to give birth to puppies. Roger is shown to be just as nervous as Pongo during the process, such that he jumps when Pongo licks his hand. He is initially overjoyed at the prospect of 15 puppies but saddens after hearing that one died. However, Roger is able to revive the puppy by rubbing it. When Cruella returns, intent on buying all the puppies, she mocks Roger’s song, which annoys him. Roger stands up firm to her, informing Cruella that they will never sell the puppies for any price. Cruella is angered to the point that she storms off, threatening to get even. However, both Anita and Nanny call him a hero.

One night, Roger and Anita take Pongo and Perdita out for a walk in the park. While they are gone, the puppies are stolen by Jasper and Horace Badun, hired hands working for Cruella. Roger is shown to be saddened by the theft. He is among those that believe Cruella is guilty of being involved in the theft, but neither he nor the police are able to connect her to the crime. When asked by Anita about what they will do now, he just stays silent, and they give up all hope of finding the puppies.

That same night, while on their usual walk in Primrose Hill, Roger becomes annoyed at Pongo's constant barking and forcefully drags him home, unaware that Pongo was actually passing the message of the puppies' theft through the Twilight Barking Chain. It is possible that Roger punishes Pongo inside the house for disturbing the neighborhood, but Pongo’s message is already spread across London as the Great Dane, named Danny who receive the message at Hampstead, along with Scottie.

Roger is seen near the end of the film, around Christmas time, wondering why Pongo and Perdita had run away (unknown to him, they had gone to rescue the puppies). After hearing his Cruella song on the radio, he turns it off. It is revealed by Anita that the song had become Roger's first big hit, and had brought in more money than they could dream of. When a group of "Labradors" come bursting into the home, Roger is confused, but he quickly realizes that they are actually Pongo, Perdita, and the puppies. Roger soon realizes that there are more than 15 puppies, and as Anita and Nanny find puppies, he adds up the totals to reveal that there are 101 Dalmatians altogether. Together with Anita, he decides to use the royalties from his songwriting to buy a country home big enough to keep all the puppies.

### *101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure*

Roger reappears in the sequel, still as a songwriter, alongside still being mentioned in Pongo's narration as his pet, and is also ready to move out of their London flat to a new farm. He is first shown packing up for their move to their new country home when seeing the spots from a large number of puppies inspires him to write a new song *Seeing Spots*, though Anita comments if he is packing or playing, with them dancing together as he sings.

The next day, moving day he is shown packing up the puppies and the dogs into the trunk of the moving van, with them thinking that they have all the puppies (though unknown to them, Patch was left behind, his barks not herd through the window). Upon arriving to their new home, Cherry Tree Farm, Roger is shown bringing in his piano into the farmhouse, asking to Anita and Nanny that where will the music go, though the piano then falls from the floor into the basement, startling them.

Later on, he is shown in his music room alongside Pongo and he puppies when in the laundry, a newspaper is shown, showing that they left Patch in London, with him, Anita, Pongo and Perdita going to find him, leaving Nanny behind to care for the puppies. He is then seen at the end of the film, reuniting with the puppies (as they had been stolen by Jasper and Horace), finding them in London, exciting him. He is then seen during the credits on the Music Times newspaper, stating that he had hit gold, winning an award for his song, *Seeing Spots*.