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Rufus
Full Name:
Rufus
Alias(es):
Tunnel Lord
Gender:
Male
Age:
2 (season 1) - 4 (season 4) est.
Build:
Rodent-like, slightly rotund
Hair:
None, except whiskers
Eyes:
Black
Skin:
Pink
Nationality:
American
Hometown:
Middleton
Professional Info
Profession(s):
Hero
Affiliation(s):
Team Possible
Relationships
Relative(s):
No Known Relatives
Friend(s):
Ron Stoppable Kim Possible Wade Load
Love Interest(s):
Debutaunt
Pet(s):
No Known Pets
Nemesis:
Commodore Puddles
Behind the Scenes
First Appearance:
"Tick-Tick-Tick"
Voiced by:
Nancy Cartwright
Rufus (voiced by Nancy Cartwright) is a naked mole-rat, the pet friend, and soul brother of Ron Stoppable. Rufuslives almost full-time in Ron's pocket, and accompanies him everywhere. He is exceptionally intelligent for an animal, but average by human standards, and is capable of limited speech.
Even though it seems as a one-sided love, at the end credits of the episode "Trading Faces" Rufus and Debutaunt are seen dining at a fancy resturant. But Rufus seems a little uneasy about it.
Rufus has a few links to otherwise unconnected Disney characters. He shares the same name as Penny's tabby cat in The Rescuers, and Timon, the meerkat in The Lion King, was originally to be of the same species as him. In a Lilo & Stitch crossover episode, Rufus was mistaken by Jumba Jookiba for experiment 607 (A.K.A. Launch).
In "A Sitch in Time," despite being with the time-lost Kim and Ron, Rufus had a sizable number of progeny, strongly implying that he has already procreated, or a lesser thought-of idea being that he was cloned, explaining the future Rufus's worship of him. They refer to him as Rufus Prime. Although, given the eusocial nature of mole rat society, it may not be so surprising after all.
In the movie, Rufus is asked by the others what the meaning of life is. Rufus responds "cheese" which prompts one Rufus to tell the other, "You owe me a buck".
According to the show's creators, Rufus's name is a pun on the name of the naked mole rat's natural enemy, the Rufous beaked snake.
Rufus has Mystical Monkey Powers of his own which he got because presumably he was in Ron's pants pocket when Ron got his, and was imbued with his own at that time. If he has some level of control over them it may explain why he can hold his own in a fight and bite through things that a naked mole rat would normally be unable to bite through. However in A Sitch in Time: Past he does so even before he gets the powers.
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