- "Estre petite ne m'a pas arrestée d'estre courageuse! (Being small didn't stop me from being brave!!)"
- ―Madeline tells her backstory to Madame LaCroque's prisoners in Madeline: Lost in Paris when she is told it would be impossible for her to escape as she announces her escape plans.
Madeline, also known by her full name Madeline Fogg, is the main protagonist and title character of the Madeline series.
Biography
Background
Paris
Throughout most of her childhood, Madeline has attended the boarding school in Paris, France under the care of Miss Clavel. She made a major impression on the other girls through her imagination and bravery.
At some point Madeline had appendicitis and required surgery. She spent the next few weeks recuperating in the hospital, visited often by her friends and showcasing her scar from the surgery.
Dog Named Genevieve: She once fell off a bridge into the river Seine and was rescued by a stray dog named Genevieve whom she adopted. Madeline grew quite attached to Genevieve before Lord Cucuface and the head of trustees of the school, forced Genevieve leave. Madeline was quite upset and searched everywhere for her. Genevieve found her way back home eventually, to everyone's surprise gave birth to a litter of puppies.
Madeline's Christmas: One Christmas everyone in the boarding school fell sick, leaving Madeline to care for everyone alone in depression. She befriended a local citizen person who was thought to be angel. She looked after the students and their teacher's health and cleaned up the whole house while Madeline exhausted fell asleep. She encourages Madeline not to lose hope: A Guardianship is always close by. Christmas Eve: she left the school to spend time with her family however Boarder Dorm Parent's at the same time showed up in surprise, Took-Over in place of the Guardian until the whole school got better.
Madeline and the Magic Rug: Madeline had a dream and met a flying Rug named Em See. She needed Madeline's help to search for a magic Lamp before Daylight Comes. The Magic Rug flew over the Seine Town, and River with Two bad Hats: Pepito and his cousin. Location to search all over the city and back before the night is over. Only a best friend could free the Genie: Jeanette from the lamp, even when Madeline did so much for them already.
Bad Hat: Later the Spanish Ambassador and his family moved into the neighboring house. Madeline initially disliked their son Pepito due to his constant, mean-spirited pranks and his cruelty towards animals. However, he changed his ways after one of his pranks backfired and soon became close friends with Madeline.
Madeline and the Gypsies: The two shared an adventure across outside Paris-France, Terrible Storm: Stuck on a Ferris-Wheel: they traveled with a caravan of Gypsy Entertainers. Ms. Clavel and the Children travel by train eventually returning them home, safe and sound.
Madeline was played by Hatty Jones in the 1998 film.
Character
Appearance
Madeline's casual outfit during Madeline in Cannes
Madeline is the shortest in her class, standing several inches beneath the others. She has black eyes and fair skin, with short, red hair framing her face and cut above her shoulders. She strongly resembles her mother, Ceira Fogg who had natural red hair and in Season 3 her hair now resembles her father Mr. Fogg, who had auburn hair.
In the climax of Madeline: Lost in Paris, the left side of her shoulder-length red hair was ragged due to Madame LaCroque cutting the few strand pieces of her hair with her giant shears. Like the others, she wears a short sleeved blue dress with white collar and a matching packet in the center, white panties underneath, black dress shoes and white socks and a yellow hair ribbon, or a yellow dress with white gloves, collar and socks, worn with a yellow hat that has a black ribbon on it to match her shoes. The yellow dress they wore are dress coats which it covers their primary blue dresses. Initially in the specials, her primary dress is navy before changing to blue while her dress coat is dark blue before changing to yellow . In winter like the other girls, she wears a blue gray winter coat with a white fur collar and both its folded sleeves and the edge of the coat and a matching blue gray winter boots. She also wears a white winter furred hat and a light teal scarf on her neck. In Madeline and the North Pole, it was recolored, her winter coat is pale blue and her hat, scarf, gloves and boots are blue gray.
In Madeline's Holiday with Mr. Grump, Madeline wears her blue gray winter coat and boots beneath her pale yellow long sleeved night gown where she drags Mr. Grump inside their house to save him from getting frozen while in Madeline and the North Pole, her pale blue winter coat is open to reveal her lavender long sleeved night gown when she decided to aid the head elf, Quinn in making christmas gifts along with the other girls until her friends suffered from flu.
Madeline wears a variety of children outfits along with the other girls in every episodes.
When practicing soccer with the girls, Madeline wears a white sleeveless loose shirt and a long blue skirt and black soccer shoes and light blue socks. She also wears a blue ribbon. Later she wears a yellow short sleeve jersey shirt with a tiger face imprinted at the center and a black collar and wears a black long skirt and black soccer shoes and yellow socks. In Madeline and the Show-off during the song Nobody's Better Than Me and Madeline and the New Girl, both her collar, skirt and her soccer shoes from her jersey outfit is green.
When practicing ballet and like the other girls, Madeline wears a gray ballet suit with long sleeves and gray ballet shoes and medium blue socks. She also wears a medium blue ribbon to match up with her socks. This suit is later concealed with her yellow dress like the other girls when they get out and they are not seen wearing their yellow hats. And during both rehearsals and their actual performance, she wears a white ballerina dress with a light gray pantyhose underneath and gray/silver ballet slippers as a contrast to the other girls who's ballet slippers are brownish gray. She also wears a white ribbon to match up her ballerina dress. Madeline initially wears a red pointed tutu shoes when she tries to prove to the ballet master, Gaston Duvelmoir of her ballet dancing performance before she made a screw-up on stage by losing her balance and to the point of nearly destroying the entire props for the stage. The famed prima ballerina, Tatiana Darlova gave her the gray/silver ballet slippers after she cheers her up, reminding herself in her childhood where she had a similar screw-up as her. In Madeline on Stage, her long sleeved ballet suit was recolored blue gray, her ballet shoes are black, her socks are white, and her hair ribbon is changed to dark blue.
In Madeline and the Lost Crown through Madeline and the Spider Lady, she wears a detective gear within her yellow dress while wearing a shades of brown detective hat and a brown cloak. She also carries a magnifying glass. Her detective gear is later used as her Halloween costume.
In Madeline and the Wild West while having a show with Gallop and participating at the Rodeo show in the United States, Madeline wears a cowboy outfit and is different than the other girls who wore the same khaki cowboy vest in a yellow button-up shirt with an orange neckerchief, blue jeans, black short boots and a large dark brown cowboy hat on their heads. Madeline wears a tan colored cowboy vest with a light green long sleeved button shirt with a dark pink neckerchief, orange colored jeans with a matching spurs and brown cowboy boots. She also wears a light brown cowboy hat with brown linings and has a brown protector on her head which was concealed on her cowboy hat. Her protector on her head was no longer seen beneath her cowboy hat when she captures Lasso Louie from kidnapping her horse and her participation at the Rodeo contest which she had won first prize.
In Madeline and the Wedding during the wedding at the Notre Dame, Madeline wears a short sleeved light periwinkle formal dress with a sky blue frilly collar and sky blue frills at the sleeves, the formal dress was adorned with a periwinkle belt and two periwinkle buttons at the center, the entire dress skirt is sky blue with periwinkle linings at the edge in a curly design and medium blue shoes and white socks. She also wears a cream colored fashionable hat with periwinkle linings adorned with a single yellow flower at the left side.
Starting from Madeline in Cannes, Madeline wears a swimsuit like the other girls when they swim or having fun at the beach and they are not seen wearing the hair ribbons on their heads, she wears a red swim top, blue swim shorts with white linings each sides and a matching white belt with a gold buckle. In the film, Madeline in Tahiti, Madeline's swim top and shorts were recolored to teal to make it resemble a one-piece splice leg suit as other girls are now wearing different swimsuits.
At the same episode where Madeline showed her boredom by playing board games and old movies after she suffered a sunburn and making a film contests for the movie stars in the festival she had made, she wears a pale yellow long sleeveless dress with yellow frills at the edge and yellow dress shoes and white socks. She was not seen wearing her yellow ribbon. She also wears her pale yellow hat with red linings and the red ribbon on top. This is her casual outfit.
In the climax of Madeline and the New Girl, Madeline wears a traditional Indian outfit given to her by Lakshmi Sivaraman; a yellow orange short sleeved Indian shirt with orange frills at the edge and a matching orange shawl, she has a gold button on the front stomach within her shirt, yellow orange Indian trousers with gold linings and orange flats. This outfit is different than the other girls who wore either dark blue or lilac pink in color.
In Madeline's Manners during the dinner night with the Spanish Ambassador and Pepe Pelota, Madeline wears a formal dress like the other girls who tried to sew its buttons, fitting the dress and flattens with flat iron. She wears a long sleeved sky blue formal dress with a white high-neck frilly collar and its embroidery similar to laces, white gloves, and dark capri blue flats. Her hair ribbon is also dark capri blue to match her flats.
In the film, My Fair Madeline where she was transferred to a British boarding school in London, England after being mistaken for causing more trouble and trying to stop the thieves from stealing the crown, she wears a white short sleeve and a light blue dress with a white collar and two buttons, and black shoes and white socks. Her hair is now adorned with a large light blue bow at the back of her head.
In bed time like the other girls, Madeline wears a pale yellow long sleeved nightgown with a white frill packet and a single button at the center or a light teal long sleeved shirt with a white collar in two buttons and a matching light teal pajamas. She also wears a light teal ribbon. In Season 2 during Madeline and the Magic Carpet, both her shirt and pajamas are pale blue and the sleeves of her shirt now have white frills at the edges. She retains her yellow ribbon instead of the ribbon of a matching color. This outfit is also used in one of the specials where the doctors removed her appendix by surgery during her confinement at the hospital. In Season 3, the color of her nightgown is changed to lavender and her ribbon is light violet. In the specials, her pale yellow evening gown also has a matching pale yellow pajamas underneath and white slippers which it were removed in the animated series.
Personality
Despite her small size, Madeline is the bravest and most warm-hearted among her classmates. This has been shown through several instances, such as standing before a tiger and simply saying "Pooh, Pooh!", or proudly showing her appendix scar to the others while recuperating at a hospital. In spite of her small stature and apparent innocence, Madeline has a penchant for mischief, often making Miss Clavel nervous of her and the other students' well-being, though this has considerably been toned down in the animated series, being portrayed as more proper and obedient. While initially indifferent if not outright hostile towards Pepito at first, the two did develop an amicable relationship afterwards. Madeline is well-liked by the other girls, due to her ability to take charge and sunny disposition. In Madeline and the Show-off through Madeline and the Giants, Madeline also shows her insecurities over her short height which was seen where Yvette remarks her that she was so short to be modelled or her height being checked to reveal that she grew half inches and became an outcast when she was the only person who is small and tiny while Nona, Danielle, Chloe and Nicole are tall and gigantic and these remarks make her cry in distress as Miss Clavel frequently consoles her.
Upon her family and her relatives, Madeline is very close to her parents as seen in one of the specials which is Madeline's Christmas. She happily meets her country cousin, André during Madeline and the Soccer Star and also shows her angrier side when she defends her cousin after Chloe and the other girls are making fun at him, leading her to start a pillow fight with them until they apologizes to her. Her angrier expression also shown when her cheeks became bright red.
Alignment
Being a rambunctious girl, Madeline is Chaotic Good.
Abilities
Madeline is very fit and athletic for a girl of her age, capable of performing handstands, cartwheels and backflips with ease. She has also shown to have excellent balance. Madeline is the most talented ice skater in her class (this talent was downplayed in Madeline and the Ice Skates).
Trivia
- In a 2014 interview, John Bemelmans-Marciano revealed that Madeline was originally going to be American, upon discovering several manuscripts and sketches for the then-unpublished book.
- Although depicted as having black eyes in most media, she is described as having blue eyes in The Golden Basket.
- Madeline's hair is described as being "copper red" in The Golden Basket. While this is true in the specials and early in the tv series, in later seasons her hair darkens towards auburn. This may be explained as natural color changes with aging.
- She is the inheritor of her great-grandfather's fortune. This includes the King Ranch in Texas, an active gold mine, an oil field capable of producing one million barrels per day, and a share in the Neiman Marcus department store in Dallas.
- Originally, Madeline was not portrayed as an orphan as her parents, Ceira and Mr. Fogg made their one and only appearance in Madeline's Christmas. Madeline's portrayal as an orphan in the 1998 film and Lost in Paris may have led to this misconception. It should also be noted that many fans consider the 1998 live-action movie to be a standalone film–thus making it non-canon with the animated series. Also, Madeline was the only known orphan in the school.
- She and Yvette seem to have an on-and-off rivalry. This was seen particularly in the episode "Madeline and the Showoff" during the third season of The New Adventures of Madeline.
- Madeline's last two voice actresses, Andrea Libman and Chantal Strand, voiced two girl characters in the TV series Dragon Tales (as Emmy and Cassie, respectively). Both actresses also voiced characters in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
- In Madeline's Birthday at the Zoo, seven candles are seen on her birthday cake. In Madeline and the Ice Skates, ten candles are seen. Interestingly Birthday at the Zoo is depicted in warm weather while Ice Skates is depicted in the wintertime.
- Madeline has two favorite colors: yellow (as stated in Madeline's Birthday at the Zoo) and blue (as stated in Madeline and the Show-off).
- She plays the piano in Madeline's Rescue (during the song "Have You Seen Our Dog?").
- She can also play the violin in Madeline and the Old Violin and Madeline and the Ice Skates.
- In Madeline and the Soccer Star, she has a cousin named André who tend to Miss Clavel's garden and later joining to his cousin's soccer team.
- In both specials and the first half of Season 1, Madeline's age was 7. She became 8 in Madeline's Birthday at the Zoo and through Madeline and the Marionettes, she became 9 years old during Madeline and the Ice Skates and onwards.
Gallery
Click here to visit Madeline Fogg's gallery
Relationships
Miss Clavel
Miss Clavel was Madeline's teacher and as a mother figure to Madeline and the other girls. She was the only person to give Madeline some comfort if she was sad and upset. A primary example shows that she consoles Madeline when she was crying over her insecurities over her short height as well as suffering nightmares like the other girls. She is also shown to be concern and worry when Madeline acted mischievously throughout the specials and the animated series.
In the film, Madeline: Lost in Paris, she was very happy to see Madeline after she and the girls subdue Madame LaCroque while being aided with Pepito and her friends and she compliments her bravery. The only film that Miss Clavel and Madeline had growing distant briefly was in My Fair Madeline due to her strict behavior and always scolded Madeline for causing more trouble, being mistaken and she didn't believe her story, leading Madeline to be transferred to the London Boarding School, not realizing that Madeline was never causing any more trouble as she was trying to subdue the two thieves who attempted to steal the crown for their own personal gain. She later became concerned and upset when Madeline was imprisoned by the royal police ordered by the king after they mistook her that she was also involved in stealing the royal crown until they released her due to Emma apologizing to the king for taking the credit over subduing the two thieves and Madeline is the real heroine for subduing them both.
Pepito
Madeline was pleased to see Pepito changed his ways during the special
Madeline was initially hostile towards Pepito during his debut on one of the specials because of his bad and naughty behavior until he changed his ways after his dirty pranks went backfired. Through Season 1 onwards, Madeline and the other girls became close friends with Pepito.
Pepito blushes after Madeline kisses him in the cheek when he gives her a yellow parasol as a birthday gift
In Madeline's Birthday at the Zoo, Madeline kisses Pepito in the cheek after he gave her a yellow parasol as a birthday gift. This also shows Pepito had a crush on Madeline and throughout the episodes, she and Pepito are often shown to team up with each other or he backs up for Madeline while she was away with the Sheriff to find and rescue her horse Gallop who was captured by Lasso Louie as seen in Madeline and the Wild West.
Madeline and Pepito had reconciled as best friends during the wedding at the Notre Dame
In Madeline and the Wedding, both had seen exchanging their favorite toys on a tree and helping together building their clubhouse. Pablito abruptly teases Pepito to think Madeline is his girlfriend, thinking that boys should never play with girls, much to his anger and he was mainly responsible for nearly breaking their friendship by making a hate note on Madeline to think Pepito hates her only to be clarified by Pepito himself that he never writes her like that and allegedly it was Pablito who wrote the hate note. Pepito is also asking Madeline to help him fix their clubhouse since Pablito had ruined the entire construction and Madeline gladly accepts and she tells Genevieve to go home and the two happily walking away. They reconciled together as best friends when he takes on a job as a ring bearer during the wedding on the Notre Dame and they enjoyed it together as friends when they threw confetti at each other. In Madeline's Manners, it was Madeline who told both Pepito and Pablito about good manners before they participate in the Spanish Ambassador's dinner night.
In Madeline at Versailles, it was Madeline herself who chases after Pepito since she knew that he was the real culprit for making chocolate markings to the decorated harpischord and for disobeying the rules and his undisciplined actions also caused the head guard of the palace to permanently banned all children from visiting in the Palace of Versailles after accusing Nicole for the chocolate crime that she had never commited. During the chase, Madeline tries to stop Pepito from running away while berating him that all children will never visited this palace again. Once Pepito was cornered by Madeline at the dead end of the palace and seeing his reflection of himself in the clear mirrors, he finally confesses her for not following the rules and its sign due to his disobedience and for his chocolate crime that leads the children to get banned permanently. He apologizes to Madeline and asking her to accompany him to the head guard which she accepts. Since Pepito pay the guard and confesses his chocolate crime and allowing the children to visit the palace, he was punished by cleaning up the palace mirrors.
In Madeline and the Eiffel Tower, both are also seen their mischievous ways when they are on the top of the Eiffel Tower to drop an egg on a pillow but instead hitting a person in a process. Upon learning that they are trapped on the top of the tower and they stayed through the rest of the evening, they both cried over their hunger and being trap forever and soon were fetched by Miss Clavel afterwards and scolds them when they decided to stay longer to watch the fireworks display.
In the films except My Fair Madeline, Pepito is the one along with Madeline's friends to subdue the main villains and in Madeline in Tahiti, Madeline and Pepito are teaming up for the last time to stop the Scarfaced Man from his evil plot of making a volcanic eruption after he rescued her and they reconciled again as best friends.
Sugar Dimples
Madeline and Sugar had a friendly hug after the director gives her role as a stunt double
Madeline was horribly mistreated by Sugar Dimples during her debut in Madeline in Hollywood due to her mean and bratty behavior and she was somewhat envy after seeing Madeline has eleven friends on her side. Madeline being dressed as a clown by her friends to cheer her up after an accident during the taping, she sees Sugar is crying remorsefully because of her bratiness and being lonely so she tries to have fun with her by clowning around and tells her that she can be with one if she wants to make friends with other kids in her age. Sugar later catches up to Madeline who finally apologizes for mistreating her and wanted to make friends with her which Madeline accepts and joins up with her and her friends to play until the director gives Madeline a role as a stunt double for Sugar's action movie.
In Madeline and the Haunted Castle, Madeline's friendship with Sugar was shown to be on-off because she was homesick and misses her mother very much and also shown her negativity when she was not affected on Madeline and the girls including Pepito's scare tactics which she abruptly exposes Chloe as one of the disguised ghosts which angers Madeline while calling her a brat instead of her actual name. They later reconciled after Sugar realized the true meaning of friendship after reuniting with her mother whom she and Miss Clavel had mistook them as witches due to their wind blown appearances.
In Madeline and the Tea Party, it was Madeline who consoles Sugar for her failures because of the tea party set up she had made didn't appreciated by Lord Cucuface which led to a disaster. Sugar decided to make simpler tea party like Madeline and the others do which she succeeded and Lord Cucuface appreciates the tea party before she and her crew set up the filming for her film.
11 Little Girls
Anne
Chloe
Chloe consoles Madeline after Sugar Dimples mistreated her horribly following an accident during the taping
Chloe is one of Madeline's friends among the eleven girls. In the specials and the animated series, she, Nicole and Danielle are very close friends with Madeline and she is the first person to say goodbye to Madeline who was now carried away by Dr. Cohn to be sent to a hospital for removing her appendix by surgery and tells her not worry while sobbing on her departure. In Madeline in Hollywood, Chloe was Madeline's older sister figure and the one who cheers her up and consoles her after Sugar Dimples mistreated her horribly due to her bratty behavior following a simple accident in the taping. She also tells Madeline not to trust Sugar for being a brat until she was redeemed to see them and apologizes to Madeline for mistreatment that she gave her. In Madeline and the Soccer Star, Chloe along with Nicole and Danielle are making fun over Madeline's country cousin, André which angers Madeline who leads a pillow fight until they apologizes to her. Chloe is also disgusted to see one of her black shoes had grown into a garlic. In Madeline and the Old Violin, despite being a hard worker musician when she played the violin, she was still pariticipated on a pillow fight until they formed a pyramid where she was on top. But fell into the ground and broke her right arm when they disengage the pyramid form. In Madeline's Holiday With Mr. Grump, Chloe was the one to speak with Madeline when they are navigating the roads in Paris after leaving the old house due to Mr. Grump's mean and strict behavior until it was subsided when Madeline rescued him from getting frozen in the snow blizzard.
In the film Madeline: Lost in Paris, Chloe is the prominent sub leader and second in-command among the eleven girls and she leads the girls during Madeline's absence alongside Pepito in finding Madeline's whereabouts. Chloe was also the one who discovered Madeline who was cut a few strands of her red hair by Madame LaCroque using her giant shears which causes her to alarm her friends and Pepito and she let him assist Madeline to trick Madame LaCroque. She and the girls including Pepito had participated the rescue mission by infiltrated the lace shop with Fifi's assistance who managed to get the key and they join the fray in capturing Madame LaCroque to rescue Madeline.
Danielle
Ellie
Janine
Lulu
Monique
Nicole
Nicole smiles to see Madeline wearing the gray/silver ballet slippers given to her by Tatiana Darlova
Nicole is one of Madeline's friends among the eleven girls. In the specials and the animated series, Nicole, Chloe and Danielle are very close friends with Madeline and she was the last person who finally say goodbye to Madeline who was now carried away by Dr. Cohn to be sent to a hospital for removing her appendix by surgery. In Madeline and the Soccer Star, Nicole along with Chloe and Danielle are making fun over Madeline's country cousin, André which angers Madeline who leads a pillow fight until they apologizes to her. In Madeline and the Mummy, she goes with Madeline and Pepito to find his cousins and realizing their trip in Egypt was not cursed and was enjoying the thrill of the adventures. This is where she learns from Madeline to say "Poo poo." if Paquito, Pablito and Panchito are trying to tease and scaring her.
In the film, Madeline: Lost in Paris, Nicole is revealed to have a marble collection which she used to exchange for Madeline's one of the original golden loose bead necklace from her late mother to the male youngsters and she does this for Madeline's sake. She and the other girls including Pepito are participating their own personal mission to rescue Madeline and to subdue Madame LaCroque with Fifi and the other girls. After Madeline donated the reward money for the new school. Nicole was given a new marble collection by Pepito and she thanked him for it.
Nona
Sylvie
Yvette
Yvette is one of Madeline's friends among the eleven girls. In Madeline and the Show-off, Yvette had an on-off rivalry with Madeline and she and the others are opposing her for being a show-off and being mean. In the special, Yvette (she was not yet named until Season 3) is also knowlegable about the appendix on Madeline's tummy when she corrected Nicole, Chloe and Danielle.
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