Alvin and the Chipmunks (animation)/Characters

The Chipmunks

Alvin Seville

Attention Whore
Berserk Button: Although he doesn't go 'berserk' per se, he doesn't like his cap being touched.
Big Brother Instinct: For all of his faults, he looks out for his little brother Theodore.
Blue Eyes
- Brown Eyes in the live-action movies.
Deadpan Snarker: He has his moments.
Elementary School Hustler
Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Choleric.
The Hero
Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Large Ham
Likes Older Women: At least one episode has him competing with Dave for the affection of his teacher. At the end of the episode he decides that older women are too much trouble, only for him to gain a crush on his new babysitter. In the second live-action movie he flirts with highschool girls.
Loveable Rogue: His defining trait.
The McCoy
Mood Whiplash
Nice Cap
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Simon's blue.
Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Manly Man to Theodore's Sensitive Guy.
Sibling Yin-Yang: With Simon
Slap Slap Kiss: With Brittany.
Small Name, Big Ego

Simon Seville

Theodore Seville

Adorably Precocious Child: Well... Adorably Precocious Chipmunk.
Big Cute Boy
Big Eater
The Big Guy
Book Dumb: Has been shown to struggle at school more than the others.
The Ditz
Food as Bribe: This is usually how Alvin ropes him into his schemes.
Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Sanguine.
Green Eyes
The Heart
Keet: He has some shades of this.
The Kirk
Lovable Coward
The Messiah: When a bully is stealing his food, he makes sure to cater his lunch for the bully's tastes.
Morality Pet: For Alvin in the 2009 movie.
- Arguably for Alvin in general.
Nice Guy
Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Sensitive Guy to Alvin's Manly Man.
Shrinking Violet: He has trouble standing up for himself. The episode Dave's Wonderful Life shows that he used to be shy and would have become a hermit without Dave's influence.
Straw Vegetarian: Averted in the direct-to-VHS movies at least. He's feminine and naive, but lacks most of the other factors.
- Chipmunks don't eat meat. That's why Dave seems shocked when he asks for steak.
  - Although Theodore has order hamburgers before, as well as has been seeing eating lunch meat.
Wide-Eyed Idealist

David "Dave" Seville

Berserk Button: "ALVIN!!!!!"
Butt Monkey
Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Phlegmatic.
Friend to All Living Things: The reason why Vinnie essentially left the boys at his doorstep.
Hot Dad: His redesign in the direct-to-VHS movies counts though.
Team Dad

Vinnie

Daddy Had a Good Reason For Abandoning You - Parents as People: Was a single mother, left her three baby chipmunks on Dave's doorstep because she genuinely couldn't support the four in a particularly snowy and cold winter.
Granola Girl: A mild example.
Missing Mom

Brittany Miller

Attention Whore
Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The Beauty.
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The Redhead.
- It's difficult to determine, as her hair seems to change color, depending on the animation, coloring, etc; while her hair does appear red on some occasions, it mostly appears light brown, and in even rare occasions (merchandising) blonde.
Blue Eyes
The Chick
The Fashionista
Fiery Redhead
The Heroine: Of the Chipettes.
- The Lancer: To Alvin, sorta.
Lovable Alpha Bitch: Although she's self-centered and sometimes puts her image before her sisters' (especially Jeanette) feelings. However, she really does care about them and usually does the right thing in the end.
Pink Means Feminine
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Jeanette's blue.
Slap Slap Kiss: With Alvin.
The Three Faces of Eve: The Seductress.
Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly Girl to Eleanor's Tomboy.
Tsundere

Jeanette Miller

Adorkable
Beautiful All Along: When She Cleans Up Nicely, even Brittany is jealous.
Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The Brains.
Blind Without'Em
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The Brunette.
Butt Monkey
Brainy Brunette
Cute Clumsy Girl
Hair Decorations: She wears a long purple ribbon in her hair.
Green Eyes
- Blue Eyes in the live-action movies.
Meganekko
The Messiah: She feels sorry for bullies, thinking they must have horrible home lives.
Proper Lady: Not only is she never once seen to get angry about anything, and is the most calm of the girls, but in the episode when the six kids had to work out which of them was at fault for a broken statue in their school, she wasn't even a suspect.
The Quiet One: In the live-action movies.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Brittany's red.
Shrinking Violet
The Smart Girl
The Three Faces of Eve: Alternates between Mother and Child.
Why Did It Have To Be Heights?: In the live-action movie.

Eleanor Miller

Acrofatic
Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The Brawn.
Big Cute Girl
Big Eater
The Big Girl: Of the Chipettes.
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The Blonde.
Brown Eyes
- Green Eyes in the live-action movies.
Girlish Pigtails
Hair of Gold
The Heart
The Ingenue
The Lancer: To Brittany.
Supreme Chef
Team Mom: Somewhat, as she's the one who tries to keep the brash Brittany in line, and was the one who looked after the baby penguin in The Chipmunk Adventure the most.
The Three Faces of Eve: Alternates between Child and Mother.
Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to Brittany's Girly Girl.

Miss Beatrice Miller

Olivia

Mrs. Grudge