Arnold Shortman

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Do-Gooder

Movie
TV

Full Name

Arnold Phillip Shortman

Alias

Shortman

Football Head
Football headed Kid
Arnoldo
Loser (by Helga)
Sucker (by Helga)

Origin

Hey Arnold!

Occupation

Student
Helga's arch-rival yet love interest (formerly)
Helga's boyfriend

Powers/Skills

Skilled in Helping others, answering math problems, gadget expert

Skilled in Sports Intelligence Skilled in Hand-to-hand combatant Skilled in Throwing Bubble Gum and Objects Cunning

Hobby

Helping others Playing baseball
Standing up Helga to treat her as his "love"
Flirting with Helga

Goals

Make every adventures.
Have a family of his own.
Stand up Helga to treat her as his "love" by getting her overcome of hate him.
Save his neighborhood from Scheck (Hey Arnold!: The Movie; succeeded).
Find his parents and reunite with Helga (Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie; succeeded).

Family

Miles Shortman (Father), Stella Shortman (Mother), Phil and Gertie "Pookie" Shortman (Grandparents), Mipsy (Great Aunt), Phil's dad (Great Grandfather), Phil's Grandpa (Great great grand father), Arnold (Grandfather, Deceased), Arnie (Cousin), Helga G. Pataki (current girlfriend), Three Unnamed (Future children), Bob Pataki (Future Father-In-Law), Miriam Pataki (Future Mother-In-Law), and Olga Pataki (Future Sister-In-Law)

Friends/Allies

Gerald Martin Johanssen (best friend), Harold Berman, Sid, Stinky Peterson, Rhonda Wellington Lloyd, Eugene Horowitz, Helga G. Pataki (occasionally; love interest and friendly rival), Phoebe Heyerdahl, Nadine, Ruth P. McDougal, Lila Sawyer, Chocolate Boy, Curly (sometimes), Iggy, Sheena, Torvald, Eduardo, Lorenzo, Joey Stevenson, Lasombra (formerly; mistakenly)

Enemies

Helga G. Pataki (most of the time; arch-rival), Curly, Scheck, Wolfgang and his friends, Lasombra

Type of Hero

Kid

“	I think your heart... is more pure than you know.	„
	~ To Helga

Arnold Shortman is the titular main protagonist of the Nickelodeon animated television series Hey Arnold! and Nickolodeon's 2002 animated film of the same name. His head is shaped like an American football, thus earning him the nickname "Football Head", also Gerald's best friend and Helga's arch-rival yet love interest, later his girlfriend.

Throughout the series' run, he was voiced by at least five different voice actors:

J.D. Daniels (who did his voice in the pilot)
Toran Caudell (who was also the voice of the bully Wolfgang)
Phillip Van Dyke
Spencer Klein (who did his voice in the movie), and
Alex D. Linz who did April Fool's Day and The Journal.
Mason Vale Cotton (who did his voice in the second movie)

Appearance

Personality

He is Kind, caring, brave, calm, peaceful, self-less, smart, and wise.

Arnold is completely unaware of Helga's feeling for him for most of the series, other than the occasional hint from Helga and other classmates.

Hey Arnold!: The Movie

Arnold gave Helga the opportunity to take back her confession, attributing it to "the heat of the moment".

Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie

Arnold and his best friend Gerald plan to make a humanitarian video during the summer, after their fifth grade year, to win a trip to San Lorenzo, where Arnold's parents were last seen. They try to record themselves making a home out of junk for one of their friends, eccentric Monkeyman, but that backfires; Arnold leaves, heartbroken.

Arnold returns Helga's feelings with a kiss of his own, after thanking Helga for her help in finding his parents and using her locket to help activate the device that releases the cure to the sleeping sickness which his parents had contracted before they could release the cure. It's also implied at the end of the movie that he and Helga become a couple, as Arnold holds hands with Helga (although Helga pretends to be hostile to Arnold in public).

Trivia

According from Hey Arnold's creator, Craig Barlett himself; Arnold and Helga do get married and have children.
While his surname is never revealed in the show, it was confirmed to be Shortman by Craig Bartlett in an interview with BuzzFeed (and talked about in The Jungle Movie), it was also hinted in the show by his Grandfather.