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Rufus is one of the two tritagonists (alongside Wade Load) of Kim Possible.
He lives 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.
He is voiced by Nancy Cartwright who also voiced Pistol Pete, Chuckie Finster, Todd Daring, and Bart Simpson.
Appearance[]
Rufus is generally portrayed as pink, small and light, and very agile, which proves useful time and again.
Personality[]
He shares several things in common with his owner: his love of Bueno Nachofood (and subsequently, the Naco), his ability to eat with practically no regard for the food he is eating, sharing Ron's disgust for others, and an overall laid-back, casual attitude. However, unlike Ron, he has been known to abandon this attitude at crucial times, often using quicker thinking than his owner.
Biography[]
Rufus was bought by Ron at Smarty Mart, during Ron's quest for a pet which would not aggravate his father's allergies to animal fur. When he was first bought, Rufus's appearance more resembled that of an actual naked mole rat, being wrinkled, eyes barely open and considerably smaller.
Rufus tends to display frustration with Ron when he uses him in an embarrassing way, or fails to give Rufus (or others) due credit. However, he has generally stuck by Ron in virtually every situation, and though he does not have the same fear, has the same overall dislike for monkeys. Rufus also possesses mystical monkey powers as he was in Ron's pocket when he got his, but never using them beyond displaying a greater degree of mastery of Yamanouchi ninja training than Ron, as well as once controlling the Lotus Blade. In the episode "Oh No! Yono!", he was the first one to be turned into a statue by Yono the Destroyer, but was subsequently turned back.
Rufus appear in the Lilo and Stitch/Kim Possible crossover episode "Rufus" where he, Kim, and Ron are in called in to help Lilo rescue Stitch from Draken and Shego. However, during the episode, Rufus is mistaken for experiment 607 aka Launch by Jumba. In the end, Stitch was able to tell Jumba that Rufus was just a naked mole rat not one of Stitch's "cousins".
Trivia[]
- Aside from Ron understanding him, it is unclear if Rufus is actually able to speak words, or if the vocalizations are a production trick known as "perception filter" for the sake of the audience, which is usually underscored in other franchises where animals speak clearly between themselves, but then briefly shown from the perspective of humans as only making animal sounds.
- In the crossover episode, Rufus couldn't have been one of Jumba's experiments as Ron has had him since he was twelve and the experiments didn't land on Hawaii a year later.
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