Charlie (Smiling Friends)

**Charles Russell Charlie Dompler** is one of the two main protagonists of *Smiling Friends* alongside Pim. He is a yellow critter that helps out at Smiling Friends Inc.

He is also a meetable character at the Warner Bros Golden WaterTower alongside Pim Pimling, Both are depicted as walk-arounds

## Appearance

### Body

Charlie is a big yellow Critter with a large nose and big lips. His eyes are small, black, and beady, and he has six (6) single hairs on the back of his neck. He has a fairly podgy build and light body hair on his chest and belly. Charlie seems to have an average stature. When he is shocked, surprised, or in pain, his eyes widen to reveal his white sclerae.

### Clothing

Charlie regularly wears a brown cap, an orange hoodie with a grey undershirt, dark grey pants, and a white pair of nondescript shoes. Charlie is also shown to wear white boxer shorts. In colder temperatures, Charlie wears dark red gloves and a brown beanie. In "Enchanted Forest", Charlie dons a full suit of plate armour.

## Personality

Charlie is a nonchalant and laid-back critter with a fairly rational and calm outlook on life, if not slightly pessimistic. He tends to speak in a monotone voice, only raising his voice in moments of fear, panic, surprise, or pain. Charlie often acts as the straight man and encourages other characters to calm down in an indifferent manner. Despite this, Charlie considers himself an 'alpha male', and sometimes escalates situations by trying to take control, such as when he tries wrestling a gun off an aggravated DJ Spit in "Frowning Friends" twice. Charlie often bickers with Pim about mundane topics and semantics, even escalating to an argument which causes Charlie's death in "Charlie Dies and Doesn't Come Back", but the two always eventually reconcile their differences.

Compared to Pim, Charlie is much more pragmatic, often trying to help people in ways that might help in the long term, such as trying to repair Mr. Frog's image when the disgraced host said he wasn't sorry for swallowing the TMZ reporter, or when he tried to help Shrimp become more attractive and move on rather than try to win Shrimpina back, as he figured out that there was probably a reason as to why the two broke up. However, this pragmatism is often in the form of outright laziness, as he often tries to get a job done as quickly as possible despite the consequences, such as suggesting he and Pim let Desmond kill himself rather than help fix him. Charlie also seems to care about his image more than Pim, or at the very least dislikes cancel culture, stating that he doesn't dress up for Halloween in case his costume is deemed offensive in ten years' time. Despite his sloth and selfishness, Charlie does have some basic morals, as he opposes homicide of any kind and goes out of his way to solve Simon S. Salty's murder.

Unlike Pim, who seems to be trying to seek out a relationship, Charlie is dating a human, although the two seem to bicker about asinine things. Charlie may be bisexual, as he reciprocated Mip's attempt to seduce him in "Enchanted Forest". In "Who Violently Murdered Simon S. Salty?", Mustard also attempts to seduce Charlie - this could imply that Charlie is considered an attractive critter.

Charlie enjoys fast food - particularly Salty's. In "Charlie Dies and Doesn't Come Back", Charlie is seen playing Rust on his gaming laptop in the Smiling Friends office, much to the chagrin of Pim.

## Background

Charlie's family seems to be cursed with bad luck, and violent accidents often occur to his family. In "Mr. Frog", Charlie mentions that he took a bottle of sleeping pills from his uncle which were prescribed to him after he rammed his car into a crowd of people. In "Shrimp's Odyssey", Charlie tells Pim that his grandma passed away after eating a peanut. In "Charlie Dies and Doesn't Come Back", Charlie's grandma tells Charlie that she permanently resides in Hell because she said 'damn' in 1958 when she saw her husband get shot in the head by a burglar. Charlie himself dies earlier in the same episode after a Christmas tree he was chopping down fell on him and killed him instantly. However, he was eventually revived and removed from Hell by God.