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Daggett Beaver

Daggett (also known as ‘Dag’) is a character from the Nickelodeon television series ‘Angry Beavers’ by Mitch Schauer. He is depicted as being a male character and the brother of the animated shows’ other main character- Norbert. As the show is made to relate mainly to a younger audience Daggett has the characteristics of a 12 year old immature boy and as a result finds girls to be ‘gross’ and is constantly playing pranks on his brother and at times the rest of the shows’ characters.Daggett stands in a way that makes him seem casual and idiotic, his back arches in a slouch and his arms flop downwards resignedly, his way of walking reflects the posture, the voice (spoken by Richard Horvitz) constantly rises to an exasperated, loud and over excited tone making him seem unstable- he is constantly looking for a source of entertainment, avoiding injury or trying to out-do his brother.

Being in a childrens show money is not a huge theme, although if the chance to become rich or something of high value comes along Daggett will do his utmost to get it, mostly just in spite towards his brother. Dagget generally only wears clothes as an effort to define his occupation, when he goes to bed he wears pyjamas, as a biker he wears a leather jacket, pop star - afro wig etc. but most of the time he is just wearing his fur. Daggett is generally avoiding affection and touch, much to his groovy hipster brothers’ chagrin he avoids his ‘Biiiig Hug!’ whenever he can. Daggett lives in a dam, yet unlike a normal beavers’ dam this one is a large two storey bachelor pad with easy access to the lake where it resides, there is plenty of room to run around and plenty of furniture to knock over, perfect for Daggett.

His facial emotions are quite often over done, due to the style of the cartoon and Daggetts’ ever exaggerating personality, his eyebrow floats above his head when he has a neutral emotion but pushes downwards onto his eyes when he’s angry, changing their shape, his body is often contorted into different shapes to display these different emotions, stretching into an erratic pointy shape in fear or flopping down like melting ice cream in sadness.