Zuma

Zuma

Created By Chasefan24 and Developed By Mrkooldude22

Biographical information

Date of birth
February 28th

Physical description

Species
Chocolate Labrador Retriever

Gender
Male

Height
35 cm

Weight
2,3 kg

Eye color
Amber and black

Description
**Zuma** is a chocolate labrador retriever pup.
Earlier in the series, he had a slight speech impediment where he couldn't pronounce his R's correctly but now it has faded away.
He has brown fur all over, a fluffy tail, floppy ears, amber eyes, and a big brown nose.
He loves the water, surfing, and he talks like a surfer and always uses the word "dude" in almost every sentence (he even calls Skye dude).
He is also another main pup in the Paw Patrol and his main duties are anything usually related to water which is why he is the least chosen pup of the original six because not all missions involve water.

Likes* Scuba diving with Ryder during missions
* Walruses
* Seals
* Sleeping
* Getting wet
* Water
* Playing Pup Pup Boogie with Chase
* Treats
* Coconuts
* Seaweed
* Kitesurfing
* Water slides
* Whales
* Being competitive against his friends.
* Hurricane Harrigan

Dislikes* Ghosts
* Ryder in danger
* Rocky getting wet
* Rocky missing
* Crocodiles

Zuma's Catchphrases* "Let's dive in!"
* "Ready, set, get wet!"
* "Time to do the wave!" ("Mighty Pups")
* "My mighty wave will get the save!" ("Mighty Pups, Super Paws: When Super Kitties Attack")
* "Ready set, let's jet!" ("Jet to the Rescue")

Friendships With Other Pups
Zuma gets along with all of the pups quite well and there are some times where he is closer with some pups at times.

**Rocky**
In the earlier seasons, Zuma and Rocky spent a lot of time together and several Paw Patrol fans thought of them as best friends with great moments in episodes like "Pups Save the Easter Egg Hunt", "Pups Save a Friend", and "Pups Save a Windsurfing Pig".
Even though they have strong differences with water, Zuma really bonded with Rocky for a while and always makes sure he doesn't get wet. Zuma has shown to be very concerned and worried when Rocky gets wet, is about to get wet, or if he is missing.
Zuma was very grateful for Rocky repairing his windsurfboard. Zuma also taught Rocky how to air swim.
Their green and orange colors match very well and some would think they were brothers if they didn't know Zuma and Rocky.
When season 6 started, their bonding started fading and they almost never said a word to each other or interacted, even when they are teamed up together in a mission in recent episodes, sometimes it's like they don't know they are even next to each other.
Even though Zuma knows that Rocky does not like water and would never purposely get him wet (unlike Marshall), there was one exception where Zuma wringed all of the water off of his fur and it all landed on Rocky and Rocky didn't like it.

**Skye**
Zuma bonds with Skye a lot.
They have a lot in common, played together, stayed up all night together waiting for the Mer-Pups to show up so they can spend time with them, raced to the elevator, teamed up to play volleyball against the other pups, and so on.
They were even teamed up and charged up together as mighty pups to defeat Harold, Copycat, and Ladybird and also save Puplantis from being destroyed.
Zuma and Skye were also the very first pups called for a mission in the series.
The best moments of all time between Skye and Zuma was in "Pups Save a Mer-Pup" because they spent the entire episode talking about the Mer-Pups and wanting to meet them and when they finally did, they became Mer-Pups themselves and they enjoyed it more than the other pups did.

**Chase**
Zuma is really great friends with Chase and the most moments between them was as usual, earlier in the series of Paw Patrol.
They make a great team when they are in the water or heading to the lighthouse.
They are very competitive towards each other as they have had drag races, had a Pup Pup Boogie competition, playing tug-of-war, and playing pup spar.
The best moment of Zuma and Chase was in "Pups In a Fog" where Chase rode in Zuma's hovercraft to get to the lighthouse and the way it looked caused a ton of photo ops from fans and even caused Paw Patrol's facebook post a picture of Chase and Zuma in the hovercraft together showing that they are friends that have eachother's backs.

**Marshall**
Zuma is also great friends with Marshall. There are not really much memories between the two because Zuma and Marshall don't interact that much in the series. They have been on a few missions together.
Zuma was really impressed one time when he saw Marshall crash into the elevator like a pin ball and a random scoreboard was above the elevator showing Marshall scored a ton of points and Zuma called Marshall a pinball wizard.
Zuma and Marshall also remember a story very well that Ryder read to them and when Ryder was in trouble because he couldn't stop the bookmobile Zuma and Marshall used a quote from the book called *Heidi Hopper* and told him, "If you can't stop, hop!"

**Rubble**
Zuma and Rubble are good friends and there is also not much between them to talk about either.
Zuma and Rubble are the youngest pups in the paw patrol.
They have played tug-of-war together too.
Zuma was the first to notice in "Pups Save a Super Pup" that Rubble was missing and went with Ryder to save Rubble.
Zuma also operated Rubble's rig which didn't go so well in which Zuma used Rubble's catchphrase by saying "Zuma, uh....on the double".
After Rubble watched Zuma have a miserable time operating the rig, Rubble took over for Zuma which made him very relieved.
Zuma also saved Rubble when he was stuck in a small puddle with his bulldozer and Rubble was very happy and relieved about it.

**Everest**
Zuma and Everest get along well but there's almost no memories between them at all in the series.
They did slide together along with Skye on an ice slide and then they all fell into the snow.
Zuma also saved Everest along with Jake when they were being sucked into a whirlpool and he also saved a cake that had Everest and Jake on it from melting.

**Tracker**
Zuma and Tracker are good friends but they have not interacted with each other until the season 7 episode, "Pups Save a Bah Humdinger" where Zuma was really surprised at how much Tracker was into Santa Claus and then later on when Zuma laughed because Tracker heard jingle bells and thought it was Santa, only for Zuma to tell him that it was just him ringing his own bells.

**Rex**
Zuma and Rex bonded very well in the dino rescue episodes and have teamed up a few times with Ryder.
In a Paw Patrol short, "Dino Rescue: Pups Save the Baby Raptors", Ryder left Zuma and Rex alone to work together to gather all the baby raptors running around wild and they really enjoyed it.
When the raptors locked Rex and Zuma out of the dino tower, they tried to figure out how to get in. Rex's suggestion to Zuma was a hug.
Zuma was confused at first because he thought Rex was going to randomly give him a hug but then he understood when Rex used his dino claw to wrap it around Zuma's waist and bring him up to the top of the dino tower. Zuma thanked Rex for the lift and the "hug".
Later in that short, Zuma fell off the dino tower and Rex caught him with his dino claw.
At the end, Rex told Ryder he really enjoyed the rescue with the pups but he was specifically referring to Zuma in which they gave each other a paw bump.

Feeling Left Out
Zuma is the least picked pup in the original six and is not needed as much.
The only time Zuma would ever be needed is if it's a water rescue or if Ryder just needs him for a rescue on land with his hovercraft.
Lots of fans complain that Zuma barely appears in the recent seasons and barely appears in missions or if he is in a mission, it's so brief and short.
This was really noticeable in "Pups Save Apollo" because everyone except Zuma was needed for a mission to defeat a king spider.
"Pups Save the Hippos" was the #1 episode where Zuma felt left out because Zuma spent most of the episode asking if anyone needed help.
Zuma asked Chase if he needed help with getting ready for the circus show like setting up cones and Chase said it was all done.
Then when the pups were at the lookout with Ryder, once again everyone but Zuma was chosen by Ryder repair the circus and after Zuma realized it this time that he was the only one not picked so he asked Ryder if there was anything he could do and Ryder told him that he wouldn't need any of Zuma's tools for that job and Zuma looked disappointed but okay with it.
So during that time, Zuma was looking around adventure bay finding any kind of trouble he could tell Ryder about and eventually he found Alex on a runaway hippo and finally Ryder needed him to save Alex and the Hippos in which Zuma was excited about.
At the end of the episode, Zuma was honored for saving the Hippos and had the honor to lead Daisy and her babies in their conga at the circus and then the rest of the pups joined him.
But after that episode, Zuma still to this point in the series is not needed as much as the other pups.

Famous Zuma Glitch
In **"Pups Take the Cake" Season 1** along with other glitches that happened in that episode, the very memorable ones were some scenes with Zuma that caught a lot of viewers eyes, made them confused and thought there was more than one Zuma.
It started when Mr. Porter called Ryder and the scene showed Ryder with Zuma and Skye running at the playground.
Then when Ryder was about to call the pups to the lookout, Zuma was seen far in the distance running down a track with a very distant howl that you can barely hear.
Then the very next shot after Ryder called the pups to the lookout, Zuma was all of a sudden laying on the grass at who knows where, but it wasn't at the playground.
Then the very next scene showed the pups running to the lookout and Zuma disappeared and then reappeared again while running while his shadow was still there the moment he disappeared.
That has since been fixed so now Zuma is being shown the entire time running when the episode is on TV.
Here are pictures that show the Zuma glitches in order.

Relations With Other Pups