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{{quote|'''Voiced by:''' Dave Foley}}

[[File:flik01_8007.jpg|frame]] [[The Hero]] of the film, and a socially awkward [[Gadgeteer Genius]] of an ant who sets out to find warrior bugs to protect his colony after one of his inventions accidentally destroys the food they were supposed to give to their grasshopper tormentors.

* [[Adaptational Badass]]: He's not much of a fighter, and his [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] is {{spoiler|standing up to Hopper and delivering a [[Rousing Speech]]/[[Reason You Suck Speech]] after being brutally beaten for his defiance. In the video game adaptation, however, he ''is'' a fighter, and dishes out a can of whoopass on Hopper and his gang.

* [[Adorkable]]: He's a genius inventor, a total klutz, and an endearing [[Nice Guy]] who is very hard to hate.

* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: He's already something of a pariah since many of the ants are annoyed with him tinkering with his inventions instead of helping with the Offering. ''Accidentally destroying it'' with one of his inventions right before the grasshoppers arrive definitely doesn't help his case.

* [[Bamboo Technology]]: His inventions are all made from twigs and grass.

* [[Batman Gambit]]: At the end of the film, {{spoiler|he defeats Hopper by luring him to the nest belonging to the bird that inspired the "fake bird" plan to begin with, and tricks him into thinking that the very real bird that shows up is just another one of his tricks. When Hopper realizes that he's been had, [[You Are Already Dead|it's too late for him to escape.]]}}

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: He's a very nice guy, but that doesn't stop him from {{spoiler|being the one to kill Hopper. [[Cruel and Unusual Death|And it's ''not'' a quick death, either.]]}}

* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: Towards Dot, who he protects from Hopper's wrath even before his character development kicks into gear.

* [[Bring Help Back]]: After being responsible for Hopper cracking down on the ant colony, he leaves on a quest to recruit warrior bugs that will fight off the grasshoppers and make them leave the ants alone for good.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Things ''very'' rarely go well for him, and he often makes a fool of himself by screwing things up. [[Iron Butt Monkey|However, he's still determined to do the right thing, no matter how bleak things may look.]]

* [[Character Development]]: Goes from being the misfit of the colony to the hero of the film. He also becomes a ''lot'' braver, and goes from being too cowardly to fess up to Hopper about accidentally destroying the grasshoppers' offering (and thus leaving Atta to take the blame for it) to {{spoiler|immediately stepping up and admitting that he created the fake bird used to scare him off after it falls apart, and sparing Atta the vicious beatdown that shortly follows.}}

* [[Country Mouse]]: Is ''very'' out of place when he visits the bug city, and constantly annoys the rougher, meaner locals with his clumsy behavior.

* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: He's this to Princess Atta for most of the movie, but she eventually warms up to him.

* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: With Dot, a little girl, mainly because she's the only ant in the colony who admires and looks up to Flik.

* [[The Klutz]]: To lethal extremes. While he's clumsy in general, it's his rogue invention accidentally dumping the offering into the river that puts the colony in danger of being wiped out by the grasshoppers.

* [[The Millstone]]: Is this for most of the film until he [[Took a Level in Badass|takes a level in badass.]]

* [[Nice Guy]]: You'd be hard-pressed to find a friendlier ant than him.

* [[Oh Crap]]: He tends to freak out when things go wrong, especially when he accidentally destroys the Offering and realizes that the "warrior bugs" he hired aren't actually warriors.

* [[Somewhere an Entomologist Is Crying]]: He's a male worker ant (and one of many seen in the film) despite all worker ants being female in real life.

{{quote|'''Voiced by:''' Julia Louis-Dreyfus}}

[[File:atta01_7774.jpg|frame]] The ant colony's princess, and the current queen's heir apparent. A bit of a [[Nervous Wreck]] thanks to the pressure that comes from being the future queen, as well as having to keep Hopper and his gang placated.

* [[Character Development]]: Starts the film a neurotic, panicky mess, and ends it as a confident leader worthy of her mother's crown. This is best seen in her interactions with Hopper: like Flik, she's terrified of him at first and desperately tries to convince him that she isn't to blame for the lack of an Offering. But by the end, {{spoiler|she's willing to take the fall and accept the blame when Flik's fake bird plan fails, and helps him kill Hopper after the ants finally fight back against their grasshopper tormenters.}}

* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: She is rather dismissive towards Flik and his ideas on improving the harvest in the beginning of the film. But she warms up to him over the course of the film.

* [[Deuteragonist]]: She shares the spotlight with Flik, and the movie gives equal focus to their personal struggles and character development.

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: There's no telling what happened to her and Dot's dad, since he never appears in the movie.

* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: Naturally, the [[Love Interest]] of a heroic ant protagonist would be the princess of his colony. She and her sister Dot are also the first Pixar-created Disney princesses.

* [[Hartman Hips]]: Has very curvy hips, but that's to be expected from an anthropomorphic ant.

* [[Love Interest]]: To Flik, who's got a huge and painfully obvious crush on her. {{spoiler|Judging by the kiss she gives him and the way she holds his hand at the end, she comes to reciprocate his feelings.}}

* [[Nervous Wreck]]: She's a ''very'' neurotic worrywart. But it's hard to blame her seeing as how her colony has been bullied into submission by a gang of grasshoppers led by an insane, hot-tempered sociopath who would kill each and every one of them the second they stopped being useful to him.

* [[Non-Mammal Mammaries]]: Downplayed in the sense that she doesn't outright have a pair of breasts, but she has a curved chest meant to look like a bosom.

* [[Not So Different]]: This is what brings her and Flik together. Despite being so hard on him, she realizes that they both feel a ton of pressure from the rest of the colony, and fear that everyone's constantly watching and waiting for them to screw up.

{{quote|'''Voiced by:''' [[Hayden Panettiere]]}}

[[File:dot01_9547.jpg|frame]] Princess Atta's adorable younger sister. She's Flik's only friend among his fellow ants, and is determined to learn how to fly despite her mother and older sister's warnings.

* [[Arch Enemy]]: Thumper, the grasshopper's pet psychopathic attack dog is this to her. He's introduced by Hopper threatening to feed her to him, and he goes on to antagonize her for the rest of the movie.

* [[The Cutie]]: She is ''adorable.''

* [[Die or Fly]]: After spending most of the film trying and failing to fly, she pulls it off after falling off a cliff to her death while being chased by Thumper.

* [[Kid Appeal Character]]: A very headstrong, plucky little kid who children in the audience can likely relate to.

* [[Plucky Girl]]: She's brave for a kid her age, and ends up learning to fly from sheer force of will.

* [[Youthful Freckles]]: She's only kid among the main characters, and is also the only ant with any freckles.