Cróquete Spaniel (season 3-present)

Cróquete Spaniel is one of the characters of the Brazilian film and cartoon series As Aventuras de Gui & Estopa of 2008.

She is a female English Cocker Spaniel and the main female character on the show originally created in 2000 as a love interest for Gui, at a time when Gui was known as Iguinho and was originally created as a mascot for the children's website Iguinho (a website belonging to iG, a Brazilian Internet service provider). Like Gui/Iguinho and Estopa, she was originally a normal dog, but over the years she has evolved to have more anthropomorphic characteristics. Originally, she didn't have many appearances and personality and at first, she was just a love interest for the main character, but with the launch of the TV series in 2008, she was reduced only to a friend for Gui. She had an acceptable behavior in the first two seasons, but it started to get worse from the third season onwards, staying at the same level as the other characters.

Why She Sucks Now
Note: This only applies to her character since season 3 of As Aventuras de Gui & Estopa, since her original version was more likeable.


 * 1) Cróquete notably had a flanderization from the third season of the show, ceasing to be a cute and friendly girl to be an aggressive, rude, mean-spirited and selfish girl who disrespects her friends.
 * 2) Her design becomes less lovely from the third season onwards by becoming uglier and exaggerated with huge eyes and a very thin body, in addition to her fluffly ears (which originally resembled a hair) become thinner and with less fur ceasing to look like a hair and removing her original cute look. Just compare her classic design of the website: https://caninablog.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/turma-gui-e-estopa1.gif, and the current design.
 * 3) Her name is laughable, being basically a pun with her dog breed cocker spaniel.
 * 4) Like the other characters in the show, her voice is terrible and unbearable, curiously being voiced by the show's creator Mariana Caltabiano, who also voiced Gui.
 * 5) She began to show hatred and dislike for her cousin Róquete, to the point that in the episode A Cabeça da Cróquete, it is revealed that Róquete is among the things that Cróquete most dislikes in her mind.
 * 6) * This also contradicts the debut episode of Róquete in the first season where Cróquete demonstrates liking her cousin.
 * 7) As shown in the episode O Blog da Róquete, she practices wasting food by wanting to punish Róquete by throwing milkshakes at her head (which is also a very stupid punishment).
 * 8) Cróquete also becomes obsessed with Justin Bibelô, a parody of Justin Bieber, and gets to be immature to the point of attacking anyone who disagrees with her opinion of liking him.
 * 9) In the episode Gatada Rosa, she is at her worst, not only playing the antagonist by attacking people for stupid reasons (something that Monica from Turma da Monica would never do), but she is also not even punished for the actions she did in the episode.
 * 10) * In this episode, she attacks Pitibalinha, who is a just a little kid, revealing that she is also a CHILD ABUSER!
 * 11) As shown in the episode Queridinha, she can be an envious girl who only cares about getting attention from the boys at school and rivals her competitors.
 * 12) She is also a big jerk with Gui, Piti and Estopa in the episodes Amor e Músculos and Tchú Tchá, being responsible for encouraging them to do something that she claims to like so that in the end she reveals that she doesn't like it and prefers the opposite of what her friends did for her.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Her design in the first two seasons is cute and decent being identical to her classic design.
 * 2) She is more enjoyable and lovely in the pre-season 3 episodes.
 * 3) Starting in season 4, she returned to having a crush for Gui like in the classic episodes.

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