Disney’s cartoons have always been very interesting to watch. Whether its classics
like DuckTales or more recent releases, like, well…Ducktales. Other recent cartoons they’ve
produced have been amazing, from Gravity Falls to The Owl House to even newer things like The
Ghost and Molly McGee. But, the newest show from Disney and Marvel really stands out:
Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur. This show focuses on Lunella Laffayettea new
superhero trying to help protect the Lower East Side of New York.
Like any superhero story… There is plenty of morality to dissect, so let’s get into it.
Hello, I’m ____ with WickedBinge and this is Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur Characters: Good to Evil.
Also, obligatory spoiler warning, as this show is still currently running and we only
have eleven episodes to work with As usual let’s get started with the
most noble character and work our way down to the most evil. These characters are The Good.
The gilded girl herself grabs our gold medal of good, none other than Lunella Laffayete/Moon Girl
Lunella is a young woman who lives on the Lower East Side of New York,
where she takes up the role of the suburb’s only superhero. She
takes her role very seriously and is the smartest person in the entire universe,
where she creates a set of gadgets to work against crime. Lunella forms her crime-fighting
persona specifically to help save the L.E.S., all because it was in danger thanks to Aftershock.
Lunella spends nearly every episode trying to help the people around her and save the L.E.S.,
even in episodes like “Moon Girl’s Day Off” she knows how important it is to be a hero and
this causes her to feel very bad about taking a break. Lunella knows what it means to be a hero,
and while this tends to lead her into pushing herself too far, she tries
her best to balance her life as a hero and as a girl. This is heavily shown in “Goodnight,
Moon Girl” where she has to try and act like a normal middle school girl when she is invited
over to a sleepover and has to deal with mind switching shenanigans. Lunella is a superhero who
does everything she does for wholly good reasons, which proves why she earns the Gold Medal of Good.
Sneaking up and snatching our silver medal of good are Adria & James Laffayete Jr. Adria and
James are Lunella’s parents and the owners of the Roll with It Roller Rink on the Lower East
Side of New York. They prove to be caring and nurturing to Lunella, even though in episodes
like “Check Yourself” they do game night without her because they don’t enjoy how her
competitiveness comes out to play. And they do lie to her on multiple occasions. Adria, however,
is who really pulls the two of them so far up, as it’s revealed in “Like Mother, Like Moon Girl”
that Adria is a woman who fights to better not only her family’s well being but for the well
being of the entire L.E.S.. The two care very deeply about their daughter and their community.
Bagging our bronze medal of good is none other than Casey. Casey is Lunella’s best friend and
Moon Girl’s manager, a girl who knows just what she wants and how to get it. She spends
her time on screen doing a majority of unique and interesting things to make sure Moon Girl
becomes famous. However, this leads to her hyperfocusing on things that don’t matter or
not seeing how dangerous a situation really is. In “Run the Rink” she focuses much more
on the fact that Lunella seemingly has a rogue’s gallery rather than how dangerous it was for the
villains to show up at the rink. Casey uses her abilities to help Lunella at every opportunity
although she does at times push a little too far. She will do anything to help Lunella this
gets to the point that in “Moon Girl’s Day Off” she takes over as Moon Girl and fights Abyss,
despite knowing that she’s not particularly all that great at the combat aspect of superhero
work. Casey cares deeply about her friends, her family and of course her brand as she
will do anything for any of those people so she needs to land here on our list.
Ranking next on our list is the titular Devil Dinosaur. Devil Dinosaur is Lunella’s partner in
crime-fighting. He comes from an alternate time and/or place that Lunella accidentally summoned
in the first episode “Moon Girl Landing”. After a series of events he starts to help
Lunella throughout her many adventures. Sure, there are episodes like “Good Night,
Moon Girl” where he seems to cause issues just because he can. He ends up wanting to switch
brains with Lunella at the end for no known reason. In “Teacher’s Pet” he gets very jealous
of Angel and causes him to run away and nearly get harmed, although he seems deeply apologetic
for this as he tries his hardest to rescue the small hamster. In “Moon Girl’s Day Off”,
he tries his hardest to stop Casey from fighting, worried not only about her safety
but to stop her from finding out about Lunella. Devil is a pretty good boy for the most part,
but it doesn’t help that he sometimes does stuff just to mess with people.
Rounding out the good section of our list is Mimi & Pops. Mimi & Pops are the grandparents
of Lunella Lafayette and recurring characters throughout the series. They honestly don’t
do too much throughout the series, especially Pops, as Mimi has more interesting things going
on in multiple episodes. Pops is the best roller at the roller rink and is constantly rolling
about because of that. Mimi on the other hand is a chef of great proportions and uses most of her
screen time to espose great wisdom. In “The Bully of the Burough” she tells Lunella not
to be too worried about what the internet says and she picks up on Lunella’s lying in “Moon
Girl’s Day Off”. Mimi tries her best to give the best advice she can give and it’s heavily
implied that she knows of Lunella’s identity. Mimi and Pops are good people, but they’re
also not the type of people to be on the front lines nine times out of ten, hence the ranking.
With the best of the best out of the way, we now have to talk about our more
morally neutral characters. This is The Gray Area.
Starting off the middle section and our gray area is Eduardo. Eduardo is another student at the
school that Lunella goes to and a recurring character that appears throughout the show.
Eduardo initially seems to be a bully of some kind, but that idea is pretty quickly squashed
in later episodes. In “The Beyonder” he appears as Lunella’s science fair partner and tries
to convince her that he’s not stupid and worth teaming up with. Eduardo tries to be a good kid,
but often falls into some pretty obvious trappings of a young boy. It’s also implied in “Skip that
Ad-olescence” that Lunella and Eduardo go to prom together and he seems to be quite happy
with this. Eduardo is not a bad guy but he’s kind of dumb and not the best person either.
Up next on our list is the non-binary binary machine LOS-307. LOS-307 is an
A.I. brought to the school in the episode “Check Yourself”. When they appear they seem
initially quite bored with most people since they were so much smarter than everyone else. However,
upon meeting Lunella, the two of them hit it off as rivals in intelligence and at first LOS
seems quite good. However, after Lunella causes a meltdown, LOS get’s murderous,
kidnaps Casey and nearly kills Lunella all as part of a “game”. However,
by the end of the episode they seem quite alright and have gotten much better, and since it wasn’t
exactly their fault for their murderous intentions, we can’t rank them much lower.
From one supervillain to another, up next we have Mane. Mane is the main villain from the
episode “Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow”, as she is Lunella’s hair brought to life by an experimental
hair product that Lunella made. Mane uses her time alive specifically to mess up everything
that Lunella is working on, whether that be robots or destroying the wigs that Casey keeps around.
Mane even brings other things to life just to use as her minions like Devil Dryersaur. Mane ends
up fighting against Lunella due to how she was treated and after some kind words and apologies
are exchanged, the two make up and Mane becomes Lunella’s hair once more. Mane isn’t all that bad,
becoming a villain due to abuse she suffered, and she definitely atones for it. However, unlike
LOS she does become a villain out of her own sentient choices rather than due to a malfunction.
Ranking next on our list is reluctant supervillain Abyss. Abyss is the main antagonist of “Moon
Girl’s Day Off”, she’s a fourth generation supervillain that fights with Moon Girl and
then Casey Calderon later on. She was essentially groomed into becoming a villain due to her mother,
grandmother and great-grandmother were all supervillains before her. However, it becomes very
clear that she absolutely hates being a villain and even calls her mother to let her know that she
won’t be a villain anymore. Sure, she does spend a lot of time trying to kill Lunella but it’s mostly
to prove to her mother and eventually she even gives up villainy. Abyss isn’t that bad when all
is said and done as she doesn’t stay a villain by the end of the episode, so she happily ranks here.
Rounding out the gray area of our list is Angelo/Syphonater. Angelo was an activist
who suddenly became very jealous of Moon Girl and what she’d done, which led to an alien symbiote by
the name of Syphonater to attach to him and turn him into a literal troll. This troll started to
harass Moon Girl repeatedly, only to draw her out and bring the two into an all out fight.
Syphonater not only fed on, but drew power from people being affected by his trolling skills and
was easily defeated once this was figured out. However, once he had grown strong enough he tried
to murder dozens by bringing down a major bridge. This was done for two reasons, the first was just
to cause chaos and make Moon Girl look bad and the second reason was so he could become famous.
Syphonater is a monster who cares for nothing but fame and power, however, because Angelo is not in
control he can’t rank any lower because he’s an inherently good person who fell into bad hands.
With both of those categories situated, we now have to talk
about none other than the worst characters on our list, these are the Bad to Evil.
Starting off our bad section is The Beyonder probably the biggest villain on our list. The
Beyonder is the overarching antagonist of the series and the main villain of the episode of
the same name. The Beyonder is a spacefarer with the abilities of omniscence and omnipotence,
where he can see and know everything that happens across the universe while
also shifting the universe as he sees fit. The Beyonder arrives on Earth to study it,
using Lunella as a place to touch base so that he can obtain information on humans. He
threatens to erase all of Earth and humanity if she can’t prove their worth. However,
by the end of the episode it turns out that he actually changed his mind and now decides
to mess with Lunella as he sees fit, mostly filling in to give the audience back story on
the villains or other characters from the episode. The Beyonder would rank lower,
but as he has no intention to be a true villain to Lunella, he doesn’t land anywhere else.
Up next on our list is Rat King. Rat King is a mutated rat who leads an army of rats from
the New York City sewers. He is the main antagonist of the episode “Teacher’s Pet”
where he spends the episode hunting down and getting revenge on Moon Girl
and Devil Dinosaur thanks to her foiling his earlier plan. Rat King’s big plan is
really just to steal pizza and live happily in the sewers which is pretty much nothing,
so we don’t really find him all that evil. However, he does actively try to kill Moon
Girl and tricks Angel into thinking he was part of his army only to then essentially hate crime the
hamster. Rat King is a good for nothing annoyance who’s big plan is little more than petty theft.
Grabbing the bronze medal of bad is Marcy & Marty Muzzler. Marcy and Marty are a pair of villains
from the episode “Like Mother, Like Moon Girl”. The two of them were tech geniuses who created
something called the Muzzler, which allowed people to completley dissipate sound from coming
to them. They end up trying to expand the LES by gentrifying it, becoming authoritarians that try
to make everything gray, silent and colorless. They then try to actively kill and harm Moon Girl
when she doesn’t fall in line like they wanted her to. The two of them don’t seem to care very much
about those around them, only doing what they want to do and ruin everything in their path.
Snatching up our silver medal of evil is Allison Dillon/Aftershock. Allison Dillon,
better known as the science teacher Ms. Dillon and supervillain Aftershock is the very first
villain that Moon Girl faces in the episode “Moon Girl Landing”. Aftershock starts draining
power from the LES causing mass blackouts throughout the city and she only does it
to recharge herself like one would do to sleep. Aftershock uses her powers specifically to harm
the community around her and she makes it clear she doesn’t care about the community. Aftershock
nearly kills Moon Girl on multiple occasions and then threatens Lunella in her civilian disguise.
Aftershock only takes the second spot at the bottom because she seems to be doing
it just to keep herself alive, which stops her from taking our bottom spot.
Speaking of, grabbing the gilded golden medal of evil is gravity guzzler Gravitas. Gravitas is the
main villain of the episode “Run the Rink”, where he works as a gravity based villain
on the Lower East Side of New York. He is shown robbing banks by literally floating safes out of
the bank and then riding away. He is taken out on accident by Lunella and Devil Dinosaur and he vows
revenge because of this. He then goes and tries not only to get revenge but nearly kills Lunella
and dozens of other innocent civilians. Gravitas threatens to float the entire rink high into the
sky and then seemingly slam it back to Earth, using inertia to slay an entire rink’s worth of
people. Gravitas takes our bottom spot because he is the least sympathetic villain, a man doing what
he does only to harm others and that’s all. But let us know in the comment section if
you agree with our ranking. And tell us what we should cover next. Remember to hit that
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