The show has spawned a variety of characters including students from their high school and university, fellow WOOHP agents, and a cast of villains, many of whom have returned in later episodes.
[1] The production company, Marathon Media, intended on building on the series brand by forming a three-piece girl band, utilizing German talk show Arabella to create it.
According to managing director Dirk Fabarius, "The plan is to eventually create an entire album and establish and promote Totally Spies as a real band.
Clover (voiced by Fily Keita in the original French version,[5] Andrea Taylor and by Ali Ryan in the following seasons for the English dub) has medium length blonde hair, light blue eyes, and medium-toned skin; she dons a red catsuit on missions.
Of the three girls, she is the most expressive with the Beverly Hills teenage fashionista attitude,[6][8] with a strong valspeak dialect,[9] being the first to court the newest available good-looking boy,[f] concerning herself with the latest clothes, diets, and trends, and often competing against Mandy in all sorts of popularity contests.
Her Télétoon profile describes her as athletic, agile, strong, and especially impulsive, reacting spontaneously and jumping into action; and ready to teach the bad guys a lesson even if she has no chance of winning.
She is the most naive and absent-minded of the three, sometimes interpreting figures of speech literally,[k][l] often thinking it was actually going dark just because something is blocking her sight,[m][n] or picking up and eating foodstuff at crime scenes that is potentially harmful.
[h][12] Her driving ability becomes a running gag in some episodes,[m][q][f] despite the fact that she keeps getting to take the wheel and proves to be capable of improvising dangerous car stunts.
[16] Jerry is a middle-aged British gentleman who briefs the girls on their missions and provides their various gadgets, most of which are in the form of women's accessories such as boots, hairpins, lipsticks, eyelash curlers, hair dryers, and are very mission-specific as if he knew everything beforehand.
Mandy (voiced by Céline Mauge in the original French version,[11] Jennifer Hale and by Sarah Naughton in the following seasons for the English dub) is the girls' primary antagonist for their non-spy adventures starting at Beverly Hills High.
is voiced by Arnold Jackson is a classmate who regularly shows up in the side stories at Beverly Hills High; he is portrayed as a nerd with glasses who has helped out the girls on the condition that they go on a date with him.
In the series opener, he successfully campaigns for Clover to win a popularity contest, and gets to date her for a day, and in "A Spy Is Born" double-episode, he asks Sam out as a secret admirer with the initials "A.J.
She quickly befriends Clover when she says that she is the captain of her high school's cheerleading squad, and Sam when she says she loves playing chess; however, her introduction to WOOHP and her immediate competence and leadership as an agent makes Alex jealous.
She has blonde hair, green eyes, a tan complexion, and speaks in a strong Southern accent, acting very much like a second Mandy, to annoy the girls for the season.
[bm] Oinky got startled by Alex because of the word "bath", and when she threw him into the fountain, he panickedly splashed Chomper with water, finally revealing his disguise as the robot dog.
Oinky remembered the bath Alex tried to give him earlier, and he then dove into the water fountains and Chomper went after him and finally malfunctioned due to a short circuit.
She first appears in the season 3 episode "Forward to the Past" where, in 1975, she wears hippie clothing and had worked on the school news magazine at Beverly Hills High.
[ah] He drives Mandy around in a golf cart, and does errands such as buying her drinks and magazines, carrying her shopping bags, and shading and fanning her in the heat.
[ag] He appears in several episodes including "The Show Must Go On... Or Else" where he is transformed to become an actor in a western,[bs] In "Zero To Hero", he asks out Alex, who considers him just a friend.
When the date goes terribly wrong because of his clumsiness and bad luck, he later discovers the girls are spies and uses a serum to bulk up in order to be a superhero, concocting dangerous situations where he can save her.
[bu] In season 4, Terence rounds up some of the villains to form an organization called League Aiming to Menace and Overthrow Spies (LAMOS), of which their members include Tim Scam, Helga Von Guggen, Myrna Beesbottom, and Boogie Gus.
[bz] Margeret "Candy Sweet" Nussbaum (voiced by Amanda Anka[ca][av]) is introduced as a coach in the episode "The Black Widows" where her cheerleading squad makes a strong impression in the national competitions.
In the season 1 episode, "Wild Style", she masterminds the abduction of cruise ship passengers along with her assistant Troad where she makes a serum that transforms people into animal-like creatures in order to harvest their fur coats.
Jazz Hands (voiced by Ben Joseph) is a mime artist who wears an old-fashioned black tuxedo, cape, wine-colored tight pants and top hat.
His weapon of choice is an accordion outfitted with a cannon that shoots lasers that transform people into voiceless mimes and turns their clothes black and white.
[ci] In season 5, he has a three-episode story arc where he is released from WOOHP prison and devises a mime-based theme park where he converts visitors into a mime army.
In revenge, he concocted a scheme where he kidnaps the biggest Hollywood stars and takes them to his private island, filled with various killer robots and death traps.
[cj] Following his defeat at the island, he is arrested but escapes the WOOHP plane taking him into custody, kidnapping Alex and forcing the girls to participate in his new action film.
[cm] In the season 4 opener episode "The Dream Teens", she joins LAMOS and develops plasma androids who act as the spies' boyfriends with the purpose of draining the girls' energy.
In the series' first episode "A Thing for Musicians", he uses hypnotic music in the form of glowing microdisc CDs during Mathis's performances to control the crowd and to incite them into attacking the world's governments.