Percy

Percy

* Current
* Debut

Background information

**First episode**
"Stepney's Problem"

Character information

**Full name**
Percy the Small Engine

**Other names**
* Green Caterpillar with Red Stripes (*by Thomas*)
* Dirty Percy (*by Gordon, Thomas and the trucks*)
* Little Percy (*by the Narrator*)

**Age**
Unknown (*Engine*)

**Home**
Island of Sodor

**Friends**
* Edward
* Henry
* Duck
* Sidney
* Philip
* Thomas
* Toby
* Harold
* Gordon
* James
* Emily
* Nia
* Rebecca

**Quote**
"If I choose you, will you work hard?""Oh Sir! Yes, Sir!""That's a good engine; I'll call you Percy."

**Percy** is a little green saddle tank engine who works on the North Western Railway and is the railway's number 6 engine.
Percy was first brought to Sodor to help run the railway during Gordon, Henry and James' strike and later became station pilot at Knapford. Following the renovation of Knapford Harbour, Percy was moved permanently to Thomas' Branch Line, where he now works as a goods engine. His favourite job is pulling the Mail Train and he is Thomas' best friend.

Personality
Percy is a rather cheeky, but kind engine. He normally behaves well, yet he also gets himself in trouble by jumping into situations without adequately thinking them through first. He loves teasing other engines, especially bigger ones such as Gordon and James, but is always brought down to earth in due course by anyone who gives him the moral to learn, especially the Fat Controller. He can also be somewhat timid.
Percy can also be questionable and naive to certain difficult words: he would say "depotstation" whereas anyone else would say "deputation", "dingy-fried" instead of "dignified", "dimmer-station" instead of "demonstration", "inspectacles" instead of "inspector", "tenkiakihos" instead of "technology" etc.
Percy is incredibly accident-prone and has many accidents, sometimes due to his own silliness or his tricks backfiring. He holds the dubious record of the most accidents in one series - five, all of which happened in the second series; crashing through some buffers, falling into the sea, being pushed onto a brake van, colliding with a cart of lime and being hit by a falling crate of treacle. His silliest accident to date, however, was in the sixth series, when he slipped on oily rails, crashed through the chocolate factory and emerged covered in chocolate. Despite this, he always tries to do his best, learns from his mistakes and get his jobs done, a loyalty which the Fat Controller has praised him for on many occasions.
Although their friendship has been turbulent at times, Thomas is Percy's best friend. He is also good friends with Toby. While he has a small rivalry with Harold stemming from their race, they are always willing to help each other when in trouble.
Percy can also be seen as an easy target for teasing by the big engines, more particularly Gordon and James, especially whenever he has an accident or when he is afraid of something. He also has held a grudge against Gordon and James about their fooling him into misinterpreting a signal but silenced this with some help from Duck. This shows that, when nonsense goes too far, Percy will not stand for it and seek help to settle the matter for good, even if he faces a reprimanding from the Fat Controller for it.
During the CGI series, Percy became slightly wiser and a little less cheeky. This could be because he learnt his lesson for being cheeky or because he did not want to get in trouble again. Also, Percy and Thomas' friendship has expanded and they hardly ever argued. Despite his increased maturity, Percy still falls victim to occasional bouts of naivety and misunderstandings.

Technical Details
Basis
Percy is an 0-4-0 saddle tank engine, said to be of Avonside origin.
Percy's 2015 trading card states that Percy is based on the Avonside SS Class Trojan 0-4-0ST saddle tank engine of the Great Western Railway. Additionally, the Meet the Contenders segment, also states that Percy's basis origin is GWR. It is likely that this is simply a case of misidentification, as this was for a long time believed to have been Percy's "true basis" by many sources.
Another tank engine resembling Percy's shape is seen in the My Thomas Story Library book, The Fat Controller.

Percy's basis
Livery
Percy is painted in NWR green with red lining around saddle tank and yellow lining around his windows. His number (6) is painted on his bunker in yellow with a red outline. He has a white running board with red bufferbeams and valences. His coal rails are painted black and he has a gold dome.

Appearances
Television Series* **Season 1** - Stepney's Problem, A Scottish Tale, Toby and the New Engine, Duties of the Diesels (cameo), Wilbert to the Rescue, Wilbert and Tiger Moth (cameo), Frank and the Trucks and Gordon Plays a Trick
* **Season 2** - Daisy and the Visitor (cameo), James' Tender Trouble, A Flying Surprise (does not speak), Twin Trouble (cameo), Old Slow Coach (mentioned), The Flying Scotsman Returns and Save Sir Topham Hatt!
* **Season 3** - TBA
* **Season 4** - Rosie's Wild Ride
* **Season 5** - TBA
* **Season 6** - TBA
* **Season 7** - TBA
* **Season 8** - TBA
* **Season 9** - Tender Bender
* **Season 10** - Bee Yourself, James, Mike Goes on Strike, Coal Crisis (cameo) and Groundhog Gordon
* **Season 11** - Big City Rumor, Duncan in the Dumps (cameo), Just Duck's Luck, Spencer Goes Too Far and Holly Jolly Molly
* **Season 12** - Greetings, Montague!, Percy Gets a Promotion, Henry's Handcar Havoc (mentioned) and Bulgy Takes the High Road
* **Season 13** - It's Good To Be Belle (cameo), Victor's Loco Motives, The Duke of Hazard (cameo), Who Stole The Coal?, Ivo Hugh's Day at the Zoo (cameo), Hector and Logan's Hot Pursuit and How Gator Stole Christmas (cameo)
* **Season 14** - Double-Decker-Wrecker (cameo), Hiro and the Heat Wave, Furious George and S.C. Ruffey's Sweet Tooth (cameo)
* **Season 15** - For Whom The Belle Tolls and The Island of Misfit Engines
* **Season 16** - Henry's Hill, Marion Had a Little Lamb (cameo), Painting the Rosie's Red, Paxman Pulls Through (cameo), Throw Topham from the Train, Ace in the Hole (cameo) and Finding Lorry
* **Season 17** - Unidentified Flying Scotsman (cameo), Bold Slow Coach (cameo), Big Trouble on the Little Western (cameo), Oliver Confusion, Diesel Gets the Bronze (cameo), James and the Giant Screech (cameo), Toby, Or Not Toby and Thomas' Crown Affair (mentioned)

Specials* Oliver's Eleven
* Saving Pirate Ryan

Trivia* Percy is the only engine who is known to have been named by the Fat Controller.
* Percy is the first engine in the series to have only four wheels.
* In some international dubs, Percy's name was changed:
	+ In the French dub of the first seven series, Percy is called "Pierre".
	+ In the Greek dub of the first seven series, Percy is called "Jerry". From the thirteenth series onwards, he has been referred to with his original name.
* Percy has been shown to be quite popular among several people who worked on the series:
	+ According to Abi Grant on her website, Percy is her favourite character.
	+ Britt Allcroft also stated he was her favourite character (due to him being green and cheeky).
	+ Percy is also Mark Moraghan's favourite character, alongside Cranky.
	+ Mike O'Donnell also has Percy down as a favourite for being a "cheeky little chap".
* Percy is the first character other than Thomas to be the protagonist in a special, with that special being Day of the Diesels. He would later do this again in Tale of the Brave.
* In Thomas and the Rumours, Percy is stated to have a branch line, though it may have been mistaken for Thomas' Branch Line.
* Percy has the same whistle sound as Edward, albeit in an octave higher in pitch.
* Despite being titled the *small* engine, Percy is much wider than Thomas in the model series of the original show. However, Thomas is longer and slightly taller. In the CGI series, Percy is depicted more clearly as shorter than Thomas in height, but he ultimately remains wider and is only just shorter in length than Thomas by a buffer's length.