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- "Sit up straight, and hold up your microphone. Now sing!"
- ―Annie
Annie is the quadrontagonist of Little Einsteins.
She is Leo's 3 year-old (later 4 year-old) younger sister. She loves singing, playing with animals and hugs from her big brother Leo. She is voiced by Natalia Wojcik in the original US dub and Elle McHugh (season 1)/Kirsty Hickey (season 2) in the UK dub.
She serves as one of the two main protagonists (alongside Leo) of the 2005 direct-to-video musical science fantasy adventure feature-length film Our Big HUGE Adventure and the main protagonist of the episode Annie's Solo Mission.
About
Annie is the singer of the team.
Appearance
Annie is a young girl (the youngest member of the team) with fair skin, blonde hair put into pigtails with pink butterfly-shaped bows, and large open blue round eyes. She wears a blue sleeveless denim dress (pink in Season 2), a green short-sleeved undershirt/blouse (light blue in Season 2) and pinkish-red/magenta and white Converse-like shoes (blue shoes and white socks in Season 2). Her dress is usually accompanied by a front solo pocket and stitches down the side.
Personality
This cheerful little girl is a wonderful singer, even coming up with song lyrics off the top of her head. Annie's pride and joy is a portable microphone, which she always carries with her. She's also the only person, besides Leo, to have ever piloted Rocket as well.
Friends
Annie's friends are Leo (her big brother), Quincy, June, and Rocket.
Annie also has other friends, but they aren't human: the Little Caterpillar (now Butterfly), Little Mouse, The Pigs, Little Red Train, Little Nerpa, Hansel and Gretel (they look like humans, but they're German Folk Art), the Golden Goose, Little Red Monster, the Blue and Red Hermit Crabs, the Great Schubert, Green Helicopter and Purple Plane.
Relationship with Other Characters
Leo
- Leo is Annie's brother, Leo takes care of her. When she is sad in "The Christmas Wish" he is hugging her.
June
- June is Annie's best friend. She likes to chat to her. She can sing along with June's dance.
Rocket
- Rocket is Annie's best vehicle friend. She can pilot him to rescue her friends in "Annie's Solo Mission".
Quincy
- Quincy is Annie's friend. He plays music that Annie can sing along to.
Background
At the youngest of the quadrant, Annie is the singer behind the group. Annie is defined as always adventurous. She is also described as being the bravest, despite being the youngest. Annie resides with her brother Leo who is the leader of the team. Both Annie and Leo do everything beside each other. Annie has an affection for balloons, singing, and horses. She (like the rest of the team) seems to have arachnophobia. During “Our HUGE Adventure”, Annie and the team faced their arachnophobia to save a bundle of butterflies and then easily fled the scene.
Annie loves her friends and will do anything for them. During the events of "Annie's Solo Mission", Leo, Quincy, and June were blowing large bubbles and got caught inside one. Using Leo's flying lessons, Annie flew Rocket around the world by herself to save them.
Annie also seems to be small-minded at points, pointing out the obvious in situations. She also dislikes being smaller than normal as seen in "The Incredible Shrinking Adventure". She formerly did not know the definition of "mission" (as seen in "How We Became the Little Einsteins: The True Story"), but learned it thanks to her best friend June.
Annie was originally aimed to be country-like during the early stages of the series wearing cowgirl boots, lighter complexion (still having fair skin with her brother Leo having much darker skin) and having freckles. Her looks differed from her sibling Leo, who has a little bit darker skin and green eyes, she gets tanner due to many outdoor activities during adventures with the Little Einsteins. Sometime during production, Leo and Annie both had major redesigns, making them closer to having a family relationship.
Annie seems fond of Leo and appreciates his company. Annie also may have Thalassophobia, which is the fear of being in the ocean (as seen in "Quincy and the Magic Instruments"), as she constantly shouts when talking to Quincy waving her hands at the same time. Annie also is a very bubbly-like girl, constantly giggling at points. Leo, Quincy, June, and Rocket congratulate and cheer for Annie when she sings. Annie is good at improvising, and she can make and sing songs right off the spot. This is commonly used when the team is off to save or help a creature or even when the team is feeling down.
During season 1, Annie sang with the singing posture of placing her hand on her chest and with one hand in the air. In season 2, she gained access to a microphone which allowed her to sing louder. Although she didn't get a microphone until season 2, Annie gets down when her microphone is missing and loses hope when doing so.
Throughout the series, Annie overtook new hobbies and interests such as her obsession with horses. She has befriended multiple singing animals, normally animals or creatures that are down. Annie uses her voice to cheer up the creature and get them in a go-get-'em mood. Take the blue footed booby bird from "The Blue-Footed Booby Bird Ballet" for example.
Quotes
- "♪Hi, hi, hi!♪♪"
- "Sit up straight, and hold up your microphone. Now sing!"
- "Look, look, look!"
Objects
For Details, See: Annie's Objects
Attires
For details, See: Annie's Attires
Trivia
- At the start of the series, Annie is still 3 years old, but then, she turns 4 in The Birthday Balloons.
- She is the only character who has piloted Rocket by herself (as seen in Annie's Solo Mission and Orchestra Ocean Treasure Hunt).
- She loves animals, but she is afraid of spiders, just like the rest of the team (as seen in Our
BigHUGE Adventure), except for the one in "The Treasure Behind the Little Red Door" and the one in "Rocket the Bug". It is also shown in Our Big HUGE Adventure that she is afraid of bats. - She loves dolphins, shown in Pirate's Treasure, but her favorite animal of all is a horse, as seen in "The Great Schubert's Guessing Game".
- She is named after the famous jazz singer and actress Annie Ross.
- She owns a silver microphone with orange music notes that she won at a song contest.
- Annie is the only character to undergo a permanent outfit change; in this case, the colors of her outfit change in Season 2 to appear more feminine and also to avoid being compared to Quincy's clothes.
- In Season 1, her run cycle animation depicts her running while leaning slightly forward. However in Season 2 this was changed to make her run while having a straight posture to create uniformity with the rest of the characters.
- The color of her jean dress changes from blue to pink in Season 2, while the color of her shoes change from pink to blue.
- When she wishes to urgently point something out to the team, her usual catchphrase is "Look, look, look!"
- She might have arachnophobia (fear of spiders).
- When she is really happy, her smile gets bigger.
- She loves animals just as much as she loves singing.
- In both pitch pilots, she wore a blue short-sleeved undershirt and blue overall dress, but in the second sketch of her, she wore a pinkish/purplish jean shirt + jean combo, yellow undershirt, and golden boots.
- In most UK Dub episodes of season 1, her “Hold on tight, ‘cause here we go!” line is removed.
- Annie's favorite colors are blue and pink.
In other languages
Language | Name | Romanized |
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Japanese | アニー | Anī |
Korean | 앤니 | Aeni |
Russian | Энни | Enni |
Polish | Ania | Ania |