Full Name: Gaetan “Mole” Moliere
Mole is just weird. He reminds me a lot of a guy who was on the MATHCOUNTS team with me. Given the lack of their trademark cute animal sidekick, otherwise, they had to make one of the characters as appealing to the kiddies as possible. This task fell on the shoulders of Monsieur Moliere. And how better than to make him immature, monomaniacal, unintelligible, and, excuse the expression, “dummern’ dirt.” I know I would have loved him.
Full Name: Wilhelmina Bertha Packard
Whoa! Is that a cigarette in a Disney movie?!
Full Name: Audrey Rocio Ramirez
Her character design reminds me of Miriam, but her attitude sure doesn’t.
Full Name: Vincenzo Santorini
Could this guy be any more awesome? Brittany (who had seen the movie before me) proclaimed as he first appeared: “He’s the best character EVER.” (Course, she says that about basically everyone…) You can bet that the others in the theater HATED us before the movie was over. Never, ever let three MiSTies go to the theater together.
Full Name: Dr. Joshua Sweet
The first animated African-American in a full-length Disney feature, Sweet is another character that I can only describe as awesome.
And now I’m out of things to say, I’m tired, and I need to write an absolute ton of other pages.
Thanks to The Disney Animation Archive for the pictures.
Age: 39
Occupation: soil/excavation expert, geologist
Voice: Corey Burton
In fact, come to think of it, I do love him. I mean, I must. I’m writing a thing about him, right? It really is a shame that Sweet wouldn’t let us all in on his back story, though.
Age: 61
Occupation: Communications technician
Voice: Florence Stanley
Mrs. Packard is just too cool. The official website says of her that she was a “Former personal assistant to Alexander Graham Bell. Has a dry, witty, embittered personality.” This is Daria in her twilight years. Well, different sleeping habits, I’ll wager, but Daria nonetheless.
Any character who says “We’re all gonna die,” so flatly is fine by me.
Age: 18
Occupation: Mechanic
Voice: Jacqueline Obradors
She and Mrs. P share the honor of being Robin’s Second Favorite Character from Atlantis. She displays some of the dry, crackly humor that is characteristic of the rest of the movie, but not so much as some of her colleagues. And though she at first seems to be quite tough, she is really no more so than anyone else.
Age: 38
Occupation: ex-con, demolitions expert
Voice: Don Novello
He’s such a pyro. I mean, is there anything more purely awesome than a guy who chews on a match the way some chew on a toothpick? He takes his love of anything that goes “BOOM!” way past Negaduck proportions, but is totally laid back at the same time. And I adore his accent.
I’m going to go with the overwhelming majority here and say that this guy takes the cake as the most obsessworthy character of the year.
Age: 42
Occupation: medic
Voice: Phil Morris
He’s huge, was trained in Western and Native American medicine, and is just a really nice guy all around. Plus, he’s more than a bit overzealous and that really does go a long way with me.
