Jimmy Five (
Cebolinha –
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in
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, and not the diminutive for
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as people commonly think) is one of
Monica's GangMonica's Gang is a popular Brazilian comic book series. The series was created by Mauricio de Sousa, who signs his work as "Mauricio". Plots are centered on the adventures of a group of six-year-old friends in the fictional neighborhood of "Bairro do Limoeiro" in São Paulo...
main characters. He was created in 1960, and currently has his own printed comic strips, called Cebolinha, which were first released in 1973.. His English name is Jimmy Five due to his hair composed of only five strands. He is a funny and wise character, who is always plotting to steal either Samson or the title of "owner of the street" from Monica with his "infallible plans" (which were initially created by Specs), which always end in failure, mostly because
SmudgeSmudge is one of the main characters of Monica's Gang...
accidentally reveals to Monica that she’s in a trap.
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Jimmy Five (
Cebolinha –
ChivesChives are the smallest species of the onion family Alliaceae, native to Europe, Asia and North America. Some believe the name must be pluralized as 'chives', but actually 'chive' is the original English form of the word, borrowed from French...
in
PortuguesePortuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and northern Portugal. It is derived from the Latin spoken by the romanized Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago...
, and not the diminutive for
onionOnion is a term used for many plants in the genus Allium. They are known by the common name "onion" but, used without qualifiers, it usually refers to Allium cepa. Allium cepa is also known as the "garden onion" or "bulb" onion...
as people commonly think) is one of
Monica's GangMonica's Gang is a popular Brazilian comic book series. The series was created by Mauricio de Sousa, who signs his work as "Mauricio". Plots are centered on the adventures of a group of six-year-old friends in the fictional neighborhood of "Bairro do Limoeiro" in São Paulo...
main characters. He was created in 1960, and currently has his own printed comic strips, called Cebolinha, which were first released in 1973.. His English name is Jimmy Five due to his hair composed of only five strands. He is a funny and wise character, who is always plotting to steal either Samson or the title of "owner of the street" from Monica with his "infallible plans" (which were initially created by Specs), which always end in failure, mostly because
SmudgeSmudge is one of the main characters of Monica's Gang...
accidentally reveals to Monica that she’s in a trap. On some stories he gathers the other boys of the gang just to pick on Monica. In some earlier stories, he devised background plans to find out the secret of her strength, but he always ended up beaten solely by her. Even with these frictions, Jimmy and Monica are still good friends to each other. In the futuristic special edition stories, they are often portrayed as married or dating each other. Another characteristic of Jimmy is that he is incapable of pronouncing the sound of the
r letter, replacing it with the letter
l, in the Portuguese comics, or with the letter
w, in the English version. Jimmy Five's best friend is Smudge. Mauricio says he based the character on a child he knew while growing up in
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. His family name is “Cebola” (
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in Portuguese) , and he has a little baby sister called Mary Angela (in Portuguese, Maria Cebolinha, after her brother's name).
It was once revealed that Jimmy isn't the first one in his family to have his famous speech impediment and that it caused all his relatives (minus his father) to believe he'll never be able to pronounce 'r'. However, this is disproven in the alternate universe which has the Gang as teenagers in manga-like stories, where he is said to take up phonoaudiology sessions to correct his speech impediment; however, he reverts to mispronounciation when under stress or close to girls (especially Monica).
Related characters
- Mrs. Onion (Dona Cebola) – Jimmy’s mother. An avid housekeeper, her cleaning, washing, cooking and tidying abilities all make the house a pleasant place to live. She is always worried about her weight.
- Mr. Onion (Seu Cebola)- Jimmy’s father. He is nothing but an adult Jimmy, except for the fact that he’s able to pronounce the r letter. He’s very affectionate to his family and hard working with his job at a local business company.
- Mary Angela (Maria Cebolinha) – Jimmy’s little sister. Her baby mind makes her a very curious, active and bright person, which leads Jimmy to near-insanity, as he is the one to look for her when his parents are not home. Mary is based on Mauricio de Sousa
Mauricio de Sousa is a Brazilian cartoonist who has created over 200 characters for his popular series of children's comic books....
’s oldest daughter, Mariângela.
- Fluff (Floquinho) – Jimmy’s dog. Due to his long hair, no one can tell his head from his tail, and vice-versa. This long hair caught many reader’s eyes, who pointed his breed
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as being Lhasa ApsoThe Lhasa Apso is a non-sporting dog breed originating in Tibet. It was bred as an interior sentinel in the Buddhist monasteries, who alerted the monks to any intruders who entered...
. Apart from telling his head from his tail, another main cause of confusion in his strips is his long hair, famous for hiding plenty of objects (at one point hiding a missing airplane and its pilot, a missing cruise ship, a hot-dog vendor, and the mailman all at once).
- Nutty Ned (Louco) – Nutty is a former psychiatric hospital
A psychiatric hospital, sometimes known as an asylum, is a hospital specializing in the treatment of serious mental illness, usually for relatively long-term inpatients....
inhabitant, and no matter how hard the doctors try to get him, he always manages to escape(atough the fact that, in some histories, he as living in one nonsensical house). He often appears at Jimmy Five’s strips, and he loves to give Jimmy a hard time. In Portuguese, Nutty Ned always calls him “Cenourinha” (Little Carrot, in confusion with his Portuguese name “Cebolinha”). His strips are meant to be nonsensical and surreal, where Nutt Ned breaks the laws of physicsReality warping is a superpower in superhero fiction. It is the ability to reshape matter and energy, create or alter life and matter, turn a person's thoughts or desires into reality, simulate any and all other powers and abilities, bend time and space, and possibly even rewrite the laws of...
. His crazy actions are based on funny word plays, confusions caused by Jimmy’s incapability to pronounce the r letter, or anything else.
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