Peso | |
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Name: | Peso Penguin |
Residence: | Octopod |
Occupation(s): | Medic |
Gender: | Male |
Color: | Black and White |
Species: | Penguin |
Siblings: | Pogo (older brother) Pinto (younger brother) |
Parents: | Unnamed mother |
Friends: | Captain Barnacles Kwazii Shellington Dashi Professor Inkling Tunip and the Vegimals Koshi Bianca Orson Ursa |
Enemies: | Hugo (formerly) |
Nationality: | British (UK Dub) Latin American (US Dub) |
Favorite Gup: | Gup-E |
First episode appearance: | The Whale Shark |
Final episode appearance: | The Spider Crab Surprise |
Character played by: | Paul Panting (UK) Wayne Grayson (US) |
Peso is the medical officer for the Octonauts. He has become braver over time as shown in the Octonauts Movie: The Underwater Caves of Sac Actun. He is a small, kind-hearted penguin from a really large family that branches off into different species. He likes having a big family as they all look out for each other. Peso loves to help any injured creature, from blob fish to sharks to yellow bellied sea snakes. He is very shy and gets scared easily by Kwazii's spooky stories, but he can be brave when there is someone who needs his help. He has a little brother named Pinto who thinks he is a real hero and is smaller than him. Pinto has even been to visit him a few times at the Octopod. He is the second-smallest (and the only bird) main character in the Octonauts crew.
Peso is often the first to show fear when a mission involves any kind of danger, but he has shown that he is very capable of pulling through even the most stressful situations. He tends to always say "I help any creature who is hurt or sick no matter what." Unlike most of the crew, he can go underwater without a helmet- he can hold his breath for a long time like any penguin. However, he still wears a helmet and air tank underwater.
He's a medic, often gaining the trust of injured or frightened sea creatures far easier than his crew mates due to his gentle personality and politeness. He's able to bandage them up even quicker, and often he gives the patient a sticker.
Like Captain Barnacles, Peso also has a love for a specific kind of instrument, the xylophone. In Octonauts and The Beluga Whales, he plays the tune of the same song the beluga whales sing in Professor Inkling's recording. Sounding British in the UK version, the US version of the show gave him a Hispanic accent. Wayne Grayson's voicing of Peso is also considerably deeper than Paul Panting's.
Peso can also steer the Octopod, and although we only see him in one episode driving it, (The Octonauts and the cone-snail) he seems to be able to drive it decently after learning how.
In The Great Chrismas Rescue, Peso shows that he loves wrapping presents, and is rather good at it, thanks to his bandage-wrapping skill.
In The Yellow-Bellied Sea Snakes, Peso gets hurt for the first time. After he gets caught in a storm, he finds himself stranded on a beach. When he tries to get up, he finds out he has been injured with one of his flippers when the storm tossed him and the snakes (including Simone) onto the beach. It takes Captain Barnacles and Kwazii's teamwork to bandage him up.
In The Great Penguin Race, Peso is seen without a helmet as he competes against Hugo in the Iron Clam race. They were both trapped under a pile of ice slabs and were freed before they could run out of air.
In The Seahorse Tale, Peso helped Sonny the seahorse give birth to his babies and he and Janis are really happy about Peso's help, very similar to a human giving birth, but differently, because Sonny is a male seahorse.
In the Octonauts and the Great Barrier Reef, Peso gets two poisonous spikes in his flipper. Fortunately, Clovis removed them.
Physical Traits[]
Like the other Octonauts, Peso has a large head in proportion to his body. The white feathers on his face are separated from the black ones in an oval shape, with a widow's peak-like dip at the top. His lower part of stomach is white. He has a oval-shaped yellow coloured beak instead of the muzzle or nose. He has round black eyes with a small white dot in the center of each that represents both his pupils and the light reflection. Peso has luminous amber webbed feet and short triangular penguin tail visible at his coccyx.
His species is completely fictitious.
His outfit was black-and-white and that looks exactly like his torso, a deep blue-trimmed bluish white medic hat bearing the Octonauts symbol, and a cobalt blue collar. Unlike the other Octonauts, Peso doesn't wear boots, excluding Tunip and Inkling.
Other Outfits[]
- Deep-Sea Suit
- Suction Cup Suit
- Inside-Out Suit
- Heat-Proof Diving Suit (The Water Bears)
- Snowsuit (despite being a cold-adapted animal)
- Tweak's fanning machine used as wings (The Flying Foxes)
Octo-Alert[]
When Captain Barnacles sounds the "Octo-Alert" he is usually found in the Sick Bay. In the Octonauts Intro after Barnacles sounds the Octo-Alert, he is usually running in the hallway with Barnacles and Kwazii towards the Launch Bay.
Quotes[]
- "Is there a backup?" (The Octonauts and the Caves of Sac Actun)
- "Flappity flippers!"
- "I'm Peso. I'm a medic. I help anyone who is hurt or sick."
- "I help any creature who is sick or hurt, no matter what."
- "I am here to help you feel better!"
- "Good as new!"
- "You need a bandage."
- "Ha, Cha, Hoy, Yah!" (When bandaging, unbandaging or untangling tentacles.)
- "Just doing my job."
- "Right-o."
- "Alright."
- "Dorian? Is that you?" (The Immortal Jellyfish)
- "OOOH, Claws of DANGER!!" (The Mantis Shrimp)
- "This place gives me the creeps." (The Octopod Mystery)
- "AAH! Snake! Snake on the Octopod!" (The Sea Snakes)
- "I...I can't believe I just did that!" (The Sea Snakes)
- "Hammer claw, go!!!" (The Octonauts and the Ring of Fire)
- "Humu-nuku-kuku-pupu-what-a?" (The Humuhumunukunukuapwa'a)
Other friends[]
- Walrus Chief (Season 1)
- Aggregate Anemones
- Beluga Whales
- Hank the Humuhumunukunukuapua'a
- Blue Crab (The Enemy Anemones)
- Simon the Sperm Whale
- Bob the Blobfish and his brothers
- The Oarfish
- Vampire Squid
- Boo the Spookfish
- Slippy the Snot Sea Cucumber
- Leon the Elephant Seal
- Jelly the Comb Jelly
- Twinkle the Sea Star
- Sonny and Janis the Seahorses
- Lemmy the Lemon Shark
- Hugo
- Puffy the Porcupine Puffer
- The Electric Eel (The Amazon Adventure)
- Flip and Flap the Infant Adelie Penguin Twins
- Sea Krait and her children
- The Long-Armed Squid
- Simone the Yellow-bellied sea snake
- Frank the Water Bear
- Dorian the Immortal Jellyfish
- Bianca Polar Bear
- Orson and Ursa the Polar Bear Cubs
- Old Howie the and the Tree Lobsters
- Joe the Humpback Whale
- Mama Convict Fish
- Gilbert the Convict fish and his Siblings
- Leo the Lion's Mane jellyfish
- The Dwarf Lanternshark
- Coba the little Octopus
- Corey
- Clovis and Laverne
- Chinstrap Penguins
- Tina the Bluefin Tuna
- Mabel's calf
- Sasha the Siberian Salamander
- Sheila and Bruce the Flying Foxes
- Puffin Colony
- Vim the Wisent
- Priscilla the Porcupine
- Lula Mae and Little Tex
- Junior and his parents
- Marco the Spade-Toothed Whale and his Mother
Known Family[]
- Pinto - Little Brother
- Mom - Mother
- Rocko - Evolutionary Cousin
- Ooju - Evolutionary Cousin
- Adelie Penguins - Evolutionary Cousins
- Emperor Penguins - Evolutionary Cousins
- Chinstrap Penguins - Evolutionary Cousins
- Pogo - Big Brother (picture)
- Aunt Papita (picture)
- Grandma Perdita (picture)
- Uncle Pepe (picture)
- Piñata - Sister (picture)
- Petina - Cousin (picture)
Relationships[]
Trivia[]
- Peso shares his name with a form of currency used in many Spanish-speaking territories and the Spanish word for weight. The US version gives him a Spanish accent to match- his name in Spanish is ‘Pepe’.
- Peso is one of two out of the eight Octonauts to pilot all five main Gups. Tweak is the other one.
- Out of all the Octonauts, he seems to look up to Captain Barnacles as a role model, and always tries to make him proud.
- Peso’s hobbies in the books include: Practicing Piano, roasting marshmallows, bandaging everything and practicing, playing table tennis (and beating Shellington at it), playing on the playground’s merry-go-round, snorkelling, and listening to stories from Professor Inkling. Most are exclusive to the books.
- In the show, Peso is sometimes seen brushing his beak. In the books, he is once shown holding a toothbrush and he says he's the only penguin with shiny white teeth.
- Similar to Shellington, Peso has the best lung capacity of the Octonauts that breathe air, despite this he sometimes wears a helmet in situations where he doesn't need one.
- When they're in bed, he and Shellington are the only ones who wear night caps. Shellington's is green and Peso's is blue with a little yellow star.
- Instruments Peso has played include the Piano, the Tambourine, and the Xylophone, with the former two being exclusive to appearances in the books.
- As shown in The Mantis Shrimp, the only one of Kwazii's Stories that Peso is not scared of is the one about the Claws of Danger.
- Peso is the only other Octonaut who can pilot the ship in steering wheel mode, shown in The Cone Snail.
- In The Caves of Sac Actun, Peso is called "The Bravest Octonaut I had Ever Met" by Captain Barnacles for showing true courage as they traveled through the caves and encouraged Barnacles into overcoming his long-time claustrophobia.
- In The Great Barrier Reef Special, Peso got stung by a poisonous creature for the first time, trying to save Corey from a Crown of thorns starfish.
- He has a tendency to say, “please”, or “if you don’t mind.” When asking any of the crew to do something. (Hermit Crabs)
- None of the Octonauts ages' have been specified, but it is implied Peso is 18+ as it has been revealed that he went to medical school in the episode, The Hermit Crab.
- Peso’s favourite kelp cake is Peppermint.
- Peso couldn’t handle the Australian heat in The Flying Foxes.
- It is unknown what kind of Penguin Peso is, however as seen in the Caves of Sac actun. He appears to be hopping on the rocks, implying that he may be a rockhopper penguin. However he may be a Galapagos Penguin, or a Gentoo Penguin.
- In the earlier episodes of the series, Peso's beak generally maintains the same proportions whenever he speaks or emotes, the only major changes being whenever it opens. In later episodes, particularly following the switch from Brown Bag Films to Mainframe Studios, Peso's beak will widen whenever he expresses more intense emotions, particularly when he is nervous or screams.
- Another subtle change to Peso’s model beginning with Above & Beyond is his height, as he’s now shown with slightly more defined legs when in a stance or standing more upright.
- Peso appears to not have as much upper body strength as the other Octonauts as he struggles to hold things others hold with ease, such as the Sonic Slicer, or Captain Barnacles' book on driving the Octopod (which knocked him over).
- Peso has a tendency to accidentally step on Shellington's foot, which is a running gag in the show.
Gallery[]
If you want to see more pictures of Peso, see Peso Penguin/gallery.
Main Characters | ||||||||
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Barnacles | Kwazii | Peso | Shellington | Dashi | Tweak | Inkling | Tunip |