- "¡Madeline! ¡Te puedo mostrar una lámpara mágica! (Madeline! I can show you a magic lamp!)"
- ―Pepito offers to show Madeline a magic lamp he and his parents have in their house.
Pepito is a supporting character in the Madeline series, and Madeline's next-door neighbor. He is Spanish and has three cousins. He wears a distinctive hat called the “bad hat”. Although he was originally very mean, he has become close with Madeline and they are now good friends. Pepito has often been helpful as well, such as helping to defeat the kidnappers in Madeline: Lost in Paris. However, Pepito often gets into problems as well, such as being trapped with Madeline at the carnival, being depressed during dinner to the point where he becomes sickly thin, and being upset with his cousins.
Appearance[]
The son of the Spanish Ambassador, he is 7 years old in his debut until in Madeline in London where he is roughly the same age as the girls (8) due to having his 8th birthday on London.
He has black hair in a style of a neat shoulder-length which is similar to Madeline's and had full fringes, fair skin, and brown eyes. In the specials and through Madeline: Lost in Paris, He often wears his primary red long sleeved buttoned shirt with two white buttons, a white collar and folded sleeves, matching red shorts and black shoes and white socks. He also wears a black hat adorned with two red balls that faces between left and right which Madeline calls it a 'bad hat'. Despite discarding it in the specials due to his changed behavior, he sometimes wearing it in the animated series run and also wears different headwear. In Season 3 onwards, his collar from his button shirt, the two buttons and the folded sleeves changed to gold. His skin is now light tan as opposed to fair in the previous seasons. He also wears two winter outfits which were similar to his primary attire. In Madeline and the Forty Thieves, he wears a red winter coat with two red button linings along a white furred collar and folded sleeves and a pair of black winter gloves, red winter pants and black winter boots. He now wears a red winter cap on his head. And in Madeline's Winter Vacation, he wears a red winter jacket with a pale purple scarf and a matching purple winter gloves. He retains his red shorts from his primary attire and dark gray winter boots. He also wears a gray winter hat adorned with two red balls like from his primary black hat.
He wears different children outfits throughout the series.
In Madeline and the Soccer Star, he initially wears a white tank top, blue baggy shorts and black soccer shoes and light blue socks. During the game, Pepito wears inverted colors of the girls' jersey uniform and its identical to Danielle's goalkeeper uniform; a black long sleeved jersey shirt with a tiger face imprinted in the center and a yellow collar and folded sleeves, yellow baggy shorts and black soccer shoes and a matching black socks.
His sleepwear was revealed in Madeline and the Costume Party which is a pink long sleeved v-neck shirt, a matching pajamas and white socks. In Madeline and the Magic Carpet, the color of his sleepwear is light blue to match up the complimentary colors of Madeline's pale blue sleepwear and wears medium blue socks with light blue toe caps. In Season 3, he retains the colors of his sleepwear and he now wears orange slippers and regaining his white socks. In the specials, he wears a light blue evening gown with a white ragged collar for males.
His bullfighter outfit are always in different colors. In the special during his debut, it was light blue while in Madeline and the Costume Party, it was pink and purple and in Madeline and the Wild West, it was red and black.
In Madeline and the Wild West, Pepito wears a cowboy outfit; a black cowboy vest with a red long sleeved button-up shirt with a medium blue neckerchief, medium blue jeans with a brown belt around his waist and black cowboy boots with spurs. He also wears a dark brown cowboy hat with tan linings.
In Madeline and the Wedding where he works as a ring bearer in the wedding, he wears a gray formal jacket with a light gray collar and folded sleeves, a red formal vest and a white long sleeved button-up shirt underneath and a red bow tie on the collar, dark gray formal slacks with a brownish gray obi and black dress loafers. He later wears this outfit in Madeline's Manners with his slacks are black and gained a dark gray formal hat on his head.
In the film, Madeline in Tahiti, this reveals his swimsuit where he spends with Madeline and the other girls and being taught in surfing with Taro at the beach; a white tank top with a single red lining and a small gold triangle design in backwards at the center of his tank top and red swim shorts.
Personality[]
While initially cruel to animals and sadistic towards Madeline and her classmates, he had a change of heart and vowed never to hurt a single animal on an empty stomach after being mauled by a pack of dogs during a failed attempt at provoking them on one of the annoying girls. Pepito was 7 years old in his debut until he became 8 years old in Madeline in London.
He is confirmed to be 8 years old, since it is revealed in "Madeline and the Mummy" that his uncle Pablo mentioned that King Tutankhamen came into power at 9 years old. Pepito then replies "That means I am almost old enough to be king!".
It’s implied that Pepito has a crush on Madeline, as evidenced in "Madeline's Birthday at the Zoo" when Madeline kissed his left cheek when he gave her the yellow parasol. This also happens in the film, Madeline in Tahiti where Pepito was jealous to see Madeline was hanging out with Taro until it was subsided when he and Madeline decided to stop the Scarfaced Man from his evil plot of making a volcanic eruption using the machine.
Upon his family and like Madeline, he is very close to both his parents and his relatives. He can also be close to his cousins, Paquito, Pablito and Panchito with the exception of their troublemaking antics which was shown on their debuts where Panchito pokes on Madeline's back even in Season 2 where he got tripped by him during Madeline and the Mummy and Pablito abruptly teases him in Madeline and the Wedding.
Pepito was Neutral Evil in his debut, but later episodes see him change his alignment to Neutral Good.
Film rendition[]
In the live-action film, Pepito appears to be somewhat older than the girls and in place of a "hat" he drives a Vespa.[1] Unlike in the books and the TV series, where he reforms after one of his mischievous pranks goes wrong, he appears to reform sometime during/after the scene where the girls pull various pranks. Also has a "tutor" in the film, who turned out to be his kidnapper.
Trivia[]
- Pepito seems to be the most prone to grammatical error in his native language. Two examples involved him using "Vengan" (the third person plural command for Venir) rather than "Venid" (the (positive) second person plural command for Venir) in his requests for the Convent Girls to follow his lead. Their occurrences were Madeline and the Mean, Nasty, Horrible Hats and Madeline and the Mummy. A third instance of a grammatical error was in Madeline and the Haunted Castle, where he and the girls were cornered by Witches and Pepito ordered the girls to run.
- Chloe is the only other person who committed a grammatical error, replacing Ester ("to be" in terms of location, temporary/ephemeral conditions, actions, emotions, and positions, or just "to stand") with Estre ("to be" in terms of more permanent traits such as the time (date included), origins, and character (personality, jobs, and appearances included)): "Ou est Marie?" instead of "Ou esta Marie?". This happened in Madeline's Christmas when Madame Marie vanishes from the Convent and the girls search for her whereabouts before Miss Clavel asserts that Madame Marie has gone home to bed.
- His uncle Pablo does not count, for his lack of familiarity with the girls can justify his use of Ustedes ("Miren") instead of Vosotros ("Mirad").
- Chloe is the only other person who committed a grammatical error, replacing Ester ("to be" in terms of location, temporary/ephemeral conditions, actions, emotions, and positions, or just "to stand") with Estre ("to be" in terms of more permanent traits such as the time (date included), origins, and character (personality, jobs, and appearances included)): "Ou est Marie?" instead of "Ou esta Marie?". This happened in Madeline's Christmas when Madame Marie vanishes from the Convent and the girls search for her whereabouts before Miss Clavel asserts that Madame Marie has gone home to bed.
- Pepito's fourth voice actor, Michael Heyward who voiced him in the film, Madeline: Lost in Paris had a slight deeper pitch upon reprising his role in Season 3 of the TV series due to him getting aged to his pre-teen years in real-life.
- Pepito is 7 years old in his debut until he became 8 in Madeline in London through both Seasons 1 and 2 in the animated TV series. He was 9 years old starting from Season 3 and onwards.
Gallery[]
Click here to visit Pepito's gallery
Notes and references[]
- ↑ The "Vespa" in the film actually refers to a Terrot VMS scooter.