Timmy Turner

Timmy Turner is a central character on the animated television series The Fairly OddParents. He is a 10-year-old grade-schooler who secretly has a connection with Cosmo and Wanda, his "fairy godparents".

Somewhat impulsive, he often tends to make his wishes without thinking about the possible consequences of his actions, or how to explain his outrageous wished-for stuff to his friends and family. A common dialogue between Timmy and his dad takes the form:

Dad: "Where did you get that _____?"

Timmy: "Uh.....Internet?"

He is certainly smarter than adults and, due to the nature of the adults around him (all of them either cruel, stupid or insane), he has never really trusted them. In the TV movie Channel Chasers, the adult Timmy is incredibly ironic; he leaves his kids with a sadistic babysitter, as his parents did, and he isn't actually that smart, from our impression. The message that could be inferred from this is that children have a kind of understanding that they gradually lose as they get older.

Timmy is well-meaning when he wishes for things from his fairy godparents, but they almost always affect terribly. Butch Hartman, creator of The Fairly OddParents named the boy after his little brother.

Profile

Species: Human.

Known Aliases: "An Average Kid That No One Understands"; Turbo Timmy; Cleft the Boy Chin Wonder; The Heart of Gold; Tommy; Empty Bus Seat; Internet; Birthday Boy; Timantha (gender switch); Galactimus; Sir Points-Out-The-Obvious-A-Lot; The Pink-Hatted Computer Virus; The Masked Stranger; Double T; Timothy; New Small-Headed Jimmy (see The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius) ; Timeena; Mike [*]; Nega-Timmy; The Masked Magician, Gah.

Known Relatives: Mom & Dad Turner; Aunt Gertrude; Tootie (possible future wife); Tommy (future son); Tammy (future daughter); Vicky the Babysitter (possible future sister-in-law).

Known Pets: Two goldfish, who are in reality; Cosmo and Wanda.

Citizenship: Dimmsdale, California.

Known Confidants: Cosmo & Wanda; Chester McBadbat; A.J.; Elmer the Boil Kid; Sonjay; Chip Skylark; The Crimson Chin; Jimmy Neutron; Cindy Vortex; Carl Wheezer; Sheen Estevez; Libby Folfax, Kuki Sanban, Abagail Lincoln, Fanny Fulbright, Maggie Pesky, Ami & Yumi, Brandy Harrington, XJ9 (Jenny), Gaz (Dib's sister).

Known Rivals: Vicky the Babysitter; Denzel Q. Crocker; Francis; the NegaChin; Dr. Bender & Wendell; Happy Peppy Betty & Gary; Tad & Chad; Remy Buxaplenty; Mama Cosma; Juandissimo Magnifico; Gary the Imaginary Friend (former confidant); the Anti-Fairies; the Pixies; the Shadow.

Paraphernalia: Silly pink hat.

1st Film Appearance: Regular on "The Fairly OddParents!" since the "Oh Yeah! Cartoons" short of the same name (Dec. 4, 1998).

1st Comic Appearance: "The Fairly OddParents: The Big Surprise!" ("Nickelodeon Magazine Presents Maximum Rocket Power" - spring 2002; later reprinted in "Nickelodeon Magazine Presents the Best of Nicktoons" - winter 2003)

Voice Actor: Mary Kay Bergman ("Oh Yeah! Cartoons"); Tara Strong ("The Fairly OddParents!"); Alec Baldwin (adult Timmy in "Channel Chasers").

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Biographical Details: Growing up in Dimmsdale, Timmy Turner has been a child fed up with life and wanting the chance to escape. His unnamed parents (who thought he was going to be a girl) were videotaping every move of his childhood. They lied a lot, too. One day, when he was eight years old, his parents told him that they were going to leave for parts unknown. Taking the fib too seriously, an upset Timmy called up Vicky the Babysitter, not realizing the terror he had just put himself in until it was too late. But Timmy's life changed a year later (the "Oh Yeah! Cartoons" short titled "The Fairly OddParents!"), when Vicky was babysitting him while Mom & Dad went to see, according to his Magic 9 Ball, "Titanic - Director's Cut". In a fit of depression, Timmy threw it at his bedroom wall. Then out of the toy came his assigned fairy godparents - Cosmo & Wanda! At first, Timmy wasn't so sure if he'd enjoy having them around, but he eventually grew to love the fairies like they were his best friends. He defined his relationship with them quite well in the "Oh Yeah!" episode "The Zappys". Most of Timmy's misadventures are the unexpected results of the wishes that he makes. However, Timmy must also keep them concealed from everyone, especially Denzel Crocker, his suspicious schoolteacher. Having a very abnormal love life, his main crush is on Trixie Tang, who, obviously liking the popular twins Tad & Chad a lot more, shows obvious signs of hatred towards him. Timmy's tried as hard as he can to get in Trixie's good book, including making selfish wishes to be popular (in Trixie's first appearance, "A Wish Too Far!"), becoming a girl to find out what she wanted for her birthday (in "The Boy Who Would Be Queen"), made it so the only life forms on earth were him and Trixie ("Just the Two of Us") and even trying to serenade her on Valentine's Day ("Love Struck!"). But meanwhile, Timmy also has to worry about two other girls, both of whom have huge crushes on him - Veronica, Trixie's best friend (unknown to him until Information Stupor Highway and never referenced again), and Tootie, Vicky's little sister. He also had an affair with Cindy Vortex during an adventure where he accidentally switched places with Jimmy Neutron (The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour). Timmy's favorite comic book superhero is The Crimson Chin, whom he also happens to be the sidekick for. In the episode "Chin Up!", Timmy accidentally revealed to the Chin that he was just a comic book character, and the Chin lost his confidence. Timmy helped him regain it, as Cleft the Boy Chin Wonder. He also defeated the Chin's evil twin, the NegaChin, under the Cleft alias. Timmy has also donned the Cleft alter-ego in Crimson Chin bumpers played on Nickelodeon and Nicktoons TV, and also in the half-hour special "The Big Superhero Wish". Other characters important to Timmy include: his human friends Chester McBadbat, A.J. Ibrahim, Elmer, and Sonjay, plus singing sensation Chip Skylark, whom he has helped several times; enemies such as Francis, Dr. Bender & Wendell, Happy Peppy Betty, Gary (his imaginary friend gone wrong,) Remy Buxaplenty; and mystical creatures like Jorgen Von Strangle, Mama Cosma (Cosmo's mother), and Juandissimo Magnifico (Wanda's former beau, and Remy's fairy godparent).

Little Known Secrets: Timmy is named after Butch Hartman's younger brother. He was originally going to be named after Butch's older brother, Mike, but a fight between them prevented that. Timmy's choice of clothing was originally supposed to be blue, but Butch's blue marker ran dry while designing the character, so he used pink instead. He was also originally intended to have red hair, because Butch hated brown, but since Vicky was also a redhead, he reluctantly went with brown so that the enemies' hair didn't match.

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