Grumpy Old Troll

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Grumpy Old Troll
Physical description
Species	Troll
Gender	Male
Biographical information
Nicknames	Mr. Troll, Señor Troll, Grumpy
Home	Troll Bridge
Family	Petunia (wife) Twin Troll (brother) Grandma Troll (grandmother) A pair of 8 poodles 7 unnamed pets Baby Troll (theoretical child)
Friends	Dora, Boots, Benny, Isa, Tico, Red Rooster, Unicornio, Big Red Chicken, Perrito, Swiper (occasionally)
Enemies	Swiper
Interests	Making riddles, coming up with challenges, purple petunia flowers, fireworks, flying horses, silly faces, silly dances, parties
Dislikes	People who solved his riddles (previously), purple petunia flowers getting swiped by Swiper
Color	Yellow
Behind the scenes
Voiced by	Chris Gifford (US) Rob Rackstraw (UK) Danny Burstein (¡Dora!)
First appearance	Beaches (closing credits and character find) Surprise! (officially)
Last appearance	Return to the Rainforest

The Grumpy Old Troll (sometimes known as Mr. Troll) (Theoretical name: Furioso O. Troll) is the former secondary antagonist, and currently the anti-hero of Dora the Explorer, a troll who only speaks in English and lives under the Troll Bridge that Dora and Boots sometimes come across. Whenever they try to cross his bridge, he will jump out and sing a song telling them that they need to answer a riddle (or other challenge) or else they will not be allowed across. But never cause trouble together.

Home

• Troll Bridge

Grumpy Phrases

• Hey!
• No one goes over my bridge, (No one, No one, No one, No one!)/You [can't/won't] go over my bridge unless you [solve my riddle/do this/(other challenge)].

Description

He is formerly almost always grumpy, He acts as a father figure to other characters. enjoys making up riddles for visitors who try to cross his bridge. However, he is shown to be happy at times and does have a few hobbies.

Looks

The Grumpy Old Troll is mostly yellow. He has a long orange beard and an orange mustache. He has white eyes with black pupils. He does not wear any clothing at all, although he had a barrel around his waist in The Fix-it Machine.

Appearances

Season 1

• Beaches (character find only)
• Surprise! (official first appearance)
• Bouncing Ball
• Bugga Bugga (character find only)
• Little Star
• Backpack!
• Call Me Mr. Riddles

Season 2

• The Happy Old Troll (first appearance away from his bridge)
• To the Monkey Bars
• León, the Circus Lion (character find only)

Season 3

• Louder!
• The Super Silly Fiesta
• The Fix-it Machine
• Baseball Boots

Season 4

• Boots to the Rescue (character find only)
• We're a Team!
• The Mixed-Up Seasons (character find only)
• The Shy Rainbow
• Dora’s Dance to the Rescue (away from his bridge; cameo)
• Dora's World Adventure (away from his bridge)

Season 5

• Bark, Bark to Play Park (away from his bridge; cameo)
• Isa's Unicorn Flowers
• Benny's Treasure
• Dora Helps the Birthday Wizzle (away from his bridge; cameo)
• Boots' Banana Wish
• Dora's Christmas Carol Adventure
• Dora's Big Birthday Adventure (away from his bridge)

Season 6

• Dora's Hair-Raising Adventure
• The Grumpy Old Troll Gets Married (away from his bridge)
• Halloween Parade
• ¡Vacaciones! (away from his bridge; cameo)
• Dora in Troll Land

Season 7

• Benny the Castaway (away from his bridge)
• Perrito's Big Surprise
• School Science Fair (away from his bridge; cameo)
• Dora & Diego's Amazing Animal Circus Adventure
• Dora's Fantastic Gymnastics Adventure (away from his bridge; cameo)
• Baby Bongo's Big Music Show
• Dora's Thanksgiving Day Parade (away from his bridge)
• Little Map
• Dora Rocks! (away from his bridge)

Season 8

• Dora and Perrito to the Rescue!
• Verde's Birthday Party (away from his bridge)
• Dora's Rainforest Talent Show
• Dora & Diego in the Time of Dinosaurs (flashback only)

Dora and Friends: Into the City

• Return to the Rainforest
  

Trivia

• The Grumpy Old Troll is based on the troll from the Norwegian folk tale Three Billy Goats Gruff. The difference is that the troll in this book eats anyone who crosses his bridge, while Grumpy Old Troll has riddles (or challenges) in order to cross his bridge.
  • Oddly enough, the Goats themselves appeared on Dora's Fairytale Adventure.
• He is similar to Oscar The Grouch from Sesame Street, both are grumpy and live under uninhabited areas (the Grumpy Old Troll lives under a bridge, while Oscar The Grouch lives in a trash can).
  • However, the Grumpy Old Troll became less grumpy (as he got happy when seeing fireworks, flying horses, and purple petunias at Play Park in The Happy Old Troll, and became impressed when Dora and her friends solved riddles starting with To the Monkey Bars), while Oscar still is grumpy.
  • Both have their own lands (Troll Land, and Grouchland).
• The Grumpy Old Troll also has lots of similarities to the Lorax, as both are small humanoid creatures that inhabit a forested area and both support facial hair. The only difference is that their color schemes are inverted, with the Lorax having orange fur and a yellow mustache and the Grumpy Old Troll having yellow fur and an orange beard.
• The Grumpy Old Troll tends to be grumpy most of the time. In Season 1, whenever he sees Dora and Boots solve his riddles, he gets angry and lets out steam, or he would furiously stomp his feet, and as they cross, vows to stump them next time. On later episodes (Season 2 onwards, starting with "To the Monkey Bars"), he gets more impressed after Dora and Boots solve his riddles, since while he still wants them to solve one, he's now used to what normally happens.
• Most of the time, anyone who tries to cross his bridge has to solve a riddle. Sometimes, he gives an instruction or a task to do.
• In the episode with her name, Backpack referred to the Grumpy Old Troll as "Señor Troll".
• The Happy Old Troll is the first time the Grumpy Old Troll is seen away from his bridge, excluding any of his character find segments.
• The Grumpy Old Troll can be seen at his bridge during the intro from seasons 3-6 if one looks closely.
• When Dora and Swiper traveled through time in "Dora's Christmas Carol Adventure", Grumpy Old Troll had no mustache and no beard when he was younger.
  • Also, when he sings his song, he says a variation of his name (Grumpy Little Troll) despite being the past, and he would most likely be in his 40’s.
• Boots in his Pilot design had the same fur as the Grumpy Old Troll.
  • The marmoset of the new Fiesta Trio in the 2024 reboot also has the same fur as him.
• The Grumpy Old Troll and his wife Petunia appear in the Dora and Friends episode, "Return to the Rainforest".
• The Grumpy Old Troll never makes an appearance in Go, Diego, Go!, nor was he even mentioned.
• He is formerly one of the main villains of the show.
  • Because of this, he is replaced by El Mago.
• The Grumpy Old Troll did lots of character finds.
• In Dora's World Adventure!, there is a similar troll in Russia who looks identical to him, except he is purple, wears a brown Russian hat, and often says "no" in Russian.
• His personality is similar to Pimply Paul of Horrid Henry who is quite grumpy and hated everyone and everything equally.
• In the video game based on Dora Saves the Snow Princess, there's a similar troll named the Grumpy Cold Troll (theoretical name: Thomas Troll), except he is blue and white.
• In Latin Spanish dub of Seasons 1-6, he is voiced by Luis Miguel Pérez; who is also voicing the Latin Spanish dub of Sheldon J. Plankton in SpongeBob SquarePants.

Gallery

"Maybe it's a present for me."

"Oh no, you don't, fox!"

"He's going to try to swipe

Petunia's purple bouquet!"

Swiper, no swiping!

Swiper, no swiping!

Swiper, NO SWIPING!

"Hey, Swiper!"

"See you

at my

wedding party!"