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Petunia Rhubarb

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Petunia Rhubarb is one of the main characters from VeggieTales. She is very sweet and loves to remind others that true beauty isn't based on what someone look like on the outside, but who someone is on the inside that matters most.

Bio

Petunia first appeared in 2005 in the VeggieTales episode Duke and the Great Pie War where she played her breakout role as Princess Petunia. Since then, she has gone on to become a main player in the VeggieTales cast.

She is the president of the VeggieTales Fan Club, as mentioned in The VeggieTales Show. She is also the executive producer of the VeggieTales podcast, Very Veggie Silly Stories.

Personality

Petunia is very kind,maternal, and wise. She often acts as a voice of reason for the VeggieTales gang and is a good leader.

Physical appearance

Petunia is a spring green (not pink) rhubarb with vibrant red-orange waist length hair held in a French braid with two yellow hair bands. She has small, egg-shaped eyes with baby pink eyelids and long, thin eyelashes. She also has a small green nose and reddish-pink bow curved lips. Her regular outfit is a casual white v-neck top with a saffron yellow side-split maxi skirt and a brown wide leather belt with a gold belt buckle. Her accessories include double pearl dangle earrings and a yellow headband, although on some occasions, her earrings are either white or yellow and her headband is sometimes light pink.

For VeggieTales in the House and in the City, Petunia was redesigned like the rest of the VeggieTales cast. Here, she gained teal irises and red eyebrows. Her hair was let down and taken out of a braid, now sporting a prominent part and bangs. Her lips were thinner and her eyeshadow changed to teal. Her regular outfit consisted of a fucshia collared blouse and maxi skirt, with the skirt having a white flowery pattern on it. Petunia also wore a gold necklace with a gold flower charm and a mustard waistband and stopped wearing earrings.

For The VeggieTales Show, she returned back to her original design, and her headband and earrings are light pink again.

Filmography

See Petunia's filmography

Voice Actresses

English

International

Fun Facts

Trivia

  • Petunia's named is inspired by a line from Larry-Boy and the Rumor Weed. At one point, Alfred says "Sweet, sweet, petunia" when referring to a flower in his flowerbed.
  • During development, Petunia was originally conceived as a cucumber. However, it was changed because the Big Idea team felt she looked too similar to Larry.
  • According to Tim Hodge, even though Larry and Petunia are affectionate towards each other and often paired up as a couple shows, they are just friends outside of those stories.
  • In VeggieTales in the House, Petunia is allergic to rabbit fur.
    • In a later episode of the series, it's also revealed Petunia is able to mimic other Veggie characters very well, and she can also copy physical traits as well.
  • She is the only main VeggieTales character who was not established in the early episodes of the 1990's. And she also even introduced when the series ended up animated by different studio, DKP Studios.
  • She was originally going to appear as a waitress at Doyle's Ice Cream Parlor in the episode Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler.
  • In The VeggieTales Show, she is the president of the VeggieTales fan club.
  • She is the only main character besides Bob and Larry to appear in every episode of Very Veggie Silly Stories.
  • According to Accepting That God Made You Uniquely You, Petunia had very big teeth that grew faster than her head when she was young. She even remarks that her teeth were abnormally large for the size of her head.
  • Petunia originally wasn't going to be the female lead, Esther was supposed to be in her place, but because her hair was too difficult to animate, she was instead replaced by Petunia and was never used again ever since her debut.

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VeggieTales Main Cast
Bob • Larry
Junior Asparagus • Archibald Asparagus • Pa Grape • Laura Carrot • Jimmy and Jerry Gourd • Mr. Nezzer • Mr. Lunt • The French Peas • Madame Blueberry • Petunia Rhubarb • Qwerty
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