Mr. Men Show Redesign - Miss Trouble

Hey everyone. Sorry if I was absent for a month, had a lot of things to do for February, but I'll explain about one of these days. Moving on, I'll be discussing about the next redesign I worked on, this time it's Little Miss Trouble.

Little Miss Trouble is a little miss who likes causing trouble, mainly telling lies. She's falls under the prankster category of characters, like Miss Naughty. In first debut story, Miss Trouble tells lies about to some of the other Mr. Men that Mr. Small called him names behind their backs (now this is where it's different, as the episode adaptation and book changed things. In the original book, she tells Mr. Uppity and Mr. Clever about it, and they beat him up. In the episode, she tells them as well as Mr. Worry about it, but instead of punching him, they met Mr. Small at a candy shop and wanted to talk to him. Because he was scared, he accidentally stepped backwards on the countertop and injured himself). Anyway, Mr. Small meets up with Dr. Makeyouwell and tells him what the problem is. The doctor finds out about it and tells Mr. Small that he should tell Mr. Bump and Mr. Tickle that Miss Trouble called them names. Now what I don't get is how the Doctor knows it's Miss Trouble. I can get it if he's a wizard like in other stories, but he's not. Regardless, Mr. Bump and Mr. Tickle get mad at the Little Miss and decided to "tickle bump" her. Okay, so it's not alright to have Small get punched, but it's okay for Trouble having the implication that she's getting violated? Then again, it's the opposite effect this series has a problem with like what the 2008 show is suffering. After that mission, the doctor decides to see what's going on with Miss Trouble. The episode added a part where the doctor tells Miss Trouble that she got a taste of her own medicine, and they just brush it off and laughed.

I always remember this character a lot because her story was one of the first ones I watched when getting into the series back in late 2007, though hers was the only Little Miss story on YouTube at the moment until a user uploaded the other 12 episodes.

I originally did her design back in 2010 when I was still new onto redesigning characters. Her design was just a recolor of Miss Giggles design with minor tweaks to make her look like her book counterpart. However, after getting back into the series, I started to dislike the original design I did.

You see, the problem with the Mr. Men franchise is that there's a lot of characters, and aside the fact some of them share similar traits, the other issue is that some of them look similar to each other and would often clash with another. The trouble with Miss Trouble (no pun intended) is that she looks too similar to Miss Sunshine (round yellow Little Misses with freckles and pigtails) Now you can argue that they have some differences, like the hair color, but even in the distance they look too similar. And try to ask someone who doesn't know the franchise and they might get confused that they look similar.

This is kinda the reason why in Thomas and Friends, some characters like the Scottish Twins never got repainted into their blue colors, as they would've clashed with the likes of Edward, who is already blue and a small tender engine. This was even the problem Wilbert Awdry had with the illustrators when Henry was painted blue and readers confused him with Gordon, not helping that he acted like him as well.

I decided to revamp Miss Trouble when I got back into the series, but I didn't know how I was going to redo her. Then my friend Chickie456 from DevaintArt did some Mr. Men families where she did some backstories on the characters from the Mr. Men Show and came up with some parents/foster parents and possibly connected them with some if the book characters (though she's not planning on the book characters at the moment). One of them she was on Miss Naughty (which was the reason I started to like her after disliking her because of someone else before saying she was her least favorite), and on that headcanon, she tells that Miss Naughty is the older sister to Mr. Mischief and Miss Trouble, and that they're twins. When she mentioned that Trouble is the older one by a few minutes, I thought of another series that sprung in mind....

Jason and Michelle Conrad from "3-2-1 Penguins!". I thought basing her looks would suit Miss Trouble as Michelle (at least in the original video) was kinda cheeky and her hair looks different, but still looks like the Pippi Longsticking look Miss Trouble had from the original design. Plus, it would be a nice tribute towards Phil Lollar (who voiced Mr. Strong and Mr. Lazy and the US dub of the Mr. Men Show) as he was one of the creators of the Penguins. And yes, that is him despite what the credits say, as it was a typo someone made.

Because I was smart enough to take screengrabs on some of the episodes for the Big Idea Wikia I created. Though it was still tricky as the Mr. Men characters are just shapes. But luckily was able to draw it out. I did kept some concept of Miss Trouble around the same size as Miss Giggles, though she's somewhat a hybrid design of both Giggles and Mr. Rude, as she is ovalish, but the top is triangular like Mr. Rude.

The only other tweaks I did with her is that I made her skin color more darker, similar to the thumbnail the official Mr. Men YT page did when they uploaded the Miss Trouble adaption, her nose is slightly wider with the color being more bright. I also made the hair more of a mix between Miss Giggles and Daredevil's color, so she has it similar to Madeline. I also wanted to give her unique eyebrows compare to the other characters, so I went with the triangular ones that Thomas has.

 This ended being the final version of Miss Trouble I did! I'm quite proud how this design turned out! So the big question is, how can I make her different from Miss Naughty, due to how some characters from the show absorbed traits from other characters? Well, just go like how she was in her book, someone who would tell lies and make her like a mixture of Michelle Conrad and Amy March. Basically, think of a younger sister-esque personality.

I hope you had a good time reading this post. I'll do more on the other characters I redesigned in the future.