- “He's a Tramp, but they love him.”
- ―Peg
Tramp is the titular male protagonist of Walt Disney Animation Studios's 1955 animated feature film Lady and the Tramp. He is a stray mutt whose playboy, devil-may-care lifestyle is challenged by a pampered Cocker Spaniel named Lady, with whom the Tramp would fall in love. The two eventually got married and became the parents of four puppies, Scamp, Annette, Collette, and Danielle.
Background[]
Development[]
In early versions of the script, Tramp was called Homer and although he was first conceived as Lady's suitor, competing with an early incantation of Boris for her affections, he ended up as her ex-dog pound mate in the final 1943 storyboard pitch. A few years after that version was scrapped, Walt Disney read a short story called "Happy Dan the Cynical Dog" in Cosmopolitan Magazine and decided that such a character as him was just was needed to enhance the film. Although Walt wanted his new character to be called Tramp, the animators feared that audiences would take offense in such a name, due to the word's sexual connotations ("the lady is a tramp".) So, they first called him Rags, then Bozo, before Walt insisted that Tramp would be fine.
Personality[]
In the first film, Tramp is very laid-back and childlike, he enjoys his rapscallion lifestyle without a family and home, it's implied that he's flirtatious, given his history of having a multitude of girlfriends, he's known for his street smarts, able to both avoid dogcatchers and deal with junkyard dogs. He initially seems cynical about humans, saying how the arrival of a baby is likely to lead to the family dog being pushed aside, though he eventually matures and overcomes his cynicism about humans over the course of the film once he starts dating Lady and is eventually adopted by Jim Dear and Darling.
In the sequel, after Tramp and Lady have married and now have a litter of four puppies, he has grown accustomed to being a house pet, but still retains his street smarts. He is also portrayed as being a firm but loving father to his son, Scamp, and daughters, Annette, Collette and Danielle.
Physical appearance[]
Tramp is a medium-sized, scruffy-looking dog. He is mostly grayish-brown with a light tan muzzle and stomach. He has a cream-colored stripe that comes down from his muzzle to his chest (which he passes down to his son, Scamp, and daughter, Danielle). After he is taken in by Jim Dear and Darling, he began wearing a red collar with a diamond-shaped license.
Appearances[]
Lady and the Tramp[]
Tramp starts his day in the first film.
Tramp is introduced as a wise-cracking, stray mutt who admires the life of a rogue loner. Often seen alone, he doesn't appear to have family or friends outside of the local mutts he runs into from time to time, such as Peg and Bull, or Tony and Joe, two Italian restaurant owners. Nevertheless, he lives his life with a carefree aura and rascally-fun nature. While out and about in New Haven, where he regularly rests and feasts at various restaurants, he overhears Jock and Trusty attempting to explain what a baby is to Lady. He gives his opinion on the matter, which is somewhat negative. Annoyed with him, Jock and Trusty order him out of the yard.
Later on, Tramp rescues Lady, whom he calls "Pidge" from a pack of alley dogs. She reveals that she has been muzzled, and so he attempts to help her take it off. He takes her to the zoo when he is able to manipulate a beaver into removing it, by claiming it will help him haul logs. That night, Tramp takes Lady out for a night on the town. He reveals that he goes to different houses for scraps and that he has a different name at every one of them. That night, he takes Lady to a small Italian restaurant, where they are served spaghetti and meatballs by the owner, Tony. He decides to take her home, but she is picked up by the dogcatcher.
After he finds Lady, who has been released from the pound, he attempts to apologize to her, but she angrily confronts him on rumors she heard at the pound regarding his multiple past girlfriends. She forced him to leave, and he's very sad, no thanks to her rejection, and left dejected. As he sadly left, Lady peeks out from her doghouse for him, looking guilty for being too hard on him. However, he soon hears her barking furiously as if she's in trouble and rushes back. She alerts to him that a rat has entered the baby's room, and so he rushes to stop it. During the fight, he accidentally knocks over the crib, waking the baby and making him cry, but is able to kill the rat, only to be found by Aunt Sarah, who decides to call the dogcatcher and have him take Tramp to the pound. However, he is released due to the combined efforts of Jock and Trusty, who had overheard the humans talking after they discovered the rat that he killed and realized they were wrong about him from beginning to end.
The next Christmas, it's revealed that Tramp has been made a member of the family by Jim Dear and Darling as a reward for his heroism. He and Lady have become the parents of four puppies; three girls that look identical to her and a son that looks identical to him. He's happy to be a house dog instead of a stray, now that he's with her. Jock and Trusty, who came to visit the family for Christmas, expressed admiration for his new collar like they did with Lady from the beginning.
Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure[]
Tramp in the sequel
The second film shows that Tramp's relationship with his son, Scamp, has become somewhat strained due to his desire to be a "wild dog". One day, he makes a mess in the living room and is chained up outside. Even though, Tramp makes an accident to him since he can't stop acting wild on the street. Tramp comes to talk to him, but they soon get into an argument and Tramp leaves.
Later on, Scamp runs away from home and Tramp blames himself for him leaving home because he was too harsh with him. He realizes that he needs to understand him better. After he joins a dog pack known as the "junkyard dogs", he learns of Tramp's famous reputation as a former street dog. Unknown to him, the pack's leader, Buster, was once Tramp's protégé, and now seeks revenge on him. Buster later learns that Scamp is his son.
When Scamp is asked by Buster to steal a chicken from his owners' Fourth of July picnic, Tramp soon arrives and talk softly to him. He asks him to come home, but he confronts him who he was as a stray and chooses the junkyard life. Tramp feels sad and brokenhearted that he does not want to be a house dog. However, later that night, one of the junkyard dogs, Angel, arrives and tells him and Lady that Scamp is in trouble and is in the pound. He and Angel race to the pound and Tramp saves him from getting killed by a vicious bull mastiff named Reggie, who Scamp encountered earlier before he got caught by the dogcatcher for as he claimed he attacked his vehicle. Later, he apologizes to Tramp for running away from home, and he in return apologizes to Scamp for being too hard on him. He was thinking that they can go to the river to howl, promising to lighten up and claiming his old man still has a few howls left in him, right before Jock and Trusty found them. Afterward, they reconcile and head home after Scamp retrieves his collar from Buster back at the junkyard and had him trapped in a pile of junk as a score for what he did to him. Tramp also mocks Buster by saying 'That's my boy!' the same phrase Buster used to taunt him. In the end, the family adopts Angel and Tramp is happy that Scamp became a house dog instead of being a stray after all.
House of Mouse[]
Tramp and Lady in House of Mouse
Tramp makes several appearances as a guest in the television series House of Mouse, usually sitting with Lady. Most of their scenes mimic the spaghetti scene from the film.
In "Dining Goofy" Tramp and Lady were used as examples for Ludwig Von Drake's new dining options.
In "Humphrey in the House", Tramp and Lady's spaghetti dinner was stolen by Humphrey the Bear.
Tramp was referenced in the episode "The Mouse Who Came to Dinner", during the celebrity roast; as the joke went, Lady was looking for him, to which Goofy exclaims, "Hey, Lady, I found the Tramp!" as a jab at Mortimer Mouse.
Other appearances[]
In One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Tramp and Lady make a cameo appearances out in the streets of London during the Twilight Bark scene, as does Jock and Peg.
Tramp and Lady make a cameo appearance at the end of "This is Your Life, Donald Duck".
Tramp and Lady in Bonkers
Lady and Tramp make a cameo appearance in the Bonkers episode "CasaBonkers". They are briefly seen eating spaghetti together at the Rubber Room.
In the first Kingdom Hearts, Traverse Town has three districts. In the third one, one can spot a fountain of Lady and Tramp.
Tramp and Lady make a cameo appearance in the forms of silhouettes at the end of The Lion King 1½ where they join other Disney characters to rewatch the film with Timon and Pumbaa. Timon and Pumbaa also re-did him and Lady's famous spaghetti kiss scene during "Hakuna Matata".
Tramp and Lady make a cameo appearance along with in the Mickey Mouse episode "Third Wheel".
A screencap of Tramp appears along with the Sorcerer Hat within Oh My Disney in Ralph Breaks the Internet.
In the series finale of At Home With Olaf, a short clip of Lady and the Tramp featuring Tramp and Lady appears during a montage of heartwarming moments from Disney films playing in Olaf's song "I Am with You".
In Once Upon a Studio, Tramp and Lady appear watching Sebastian compose the Golden Harp's music during "When You Wish Upon a Star" before they join other Disney characters in a group photo to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Walt Disney Animation Studios.
In Wish, Tramp and Lady were among the Disney animated characters that appeared during the credits.
Live-action appearance[]
Once Upon a Time[]
Tramp, portrayed by Garry Garneau, makes a cameo appearance in human form, in the Season 4 episode "The Apprentice" as a customer of the Italian restaurant where Emma Swan and Captain Hook share a romantic dinner. He shares the famous spaghetti kiss with Lady, herself in human form. Knowing that other animals like Jiminy Cricket and Gus are transformed into humans by the Evil Queen's curse, it was plausibly effective also for him.
Video games[]
Disney Heroes: Battle Mode[]
Lady & Tramp in Disney Heroes: Battle Mode
Lady & Tramp are playable duo in Disney Heroes: Battle Mode. Lady & Tramp are Front-line Control role heroes. They were first characters added from their franchise, and they are 3rd playable dogs unit in the game, next after Bolt and Dante. Lady & Tramp's skills are: "Romantic Dinner", "Puppy Treat", "Nip", "Lady's Collar", and "Tramp's Collar". These skills allow Lady & Tramp to (in the order):
- Lady & Tramp enjoy some of Tony’s spaghetti together, and for the next few seconds, all Damage dealt by them and their allies is converted into True Damage. During this time, everyone affected also gains some Attack Speed, Skill Power, and Basic Damage.
- Lady performs a majestic trick, Healing herself and all allies for some HP and granting everyone a few stacks of a new buff called Endurance!
- Tramp nips the closest enemy, dealing some Normal Damage, Stunning them for a few seconds, and applying a new debuff called Vulnerable that lasts for several seconds.
- If an enemy is KO’d while under the Vulnerable effect, Tramp will instantly cast Nip. With each use, Lady & Tramp’s Nip increases their damage by an additional amount of Normal Damage.
- Lady & Tramp gain a few Endurance stacks whenever a Vulnerable enemy is KO’d. Lady & Tramp, along with all allies who have at least one Endurance stack, now deal some bonus True Damage with each Basic Attack. When Lady & Tramp lose their last Endurance stack, they will instantly cast Nip. Nip now Heals Lady & Tramp for a small amount of HP and removes all buffs from the enemy hit. That enemy also gets Limited, Cursed, and Drained for several seconds. Nip can also no longer be Dodged, and all of its associated debuffs cannot be blocked by Hardy stacks.
Lady & Tramp have friendship campaigns with Abu and Dante.
Disney Parks[]
Tramp and Lady's cameo in World of Color
Disneyland Resort[]
In World of Color, Tramp was seen enjoying spaghetti with Lady during the "So Close" scene at Disney California Adventure.
Walt Disney World[]
Tramp can be seen in Disney's Hollywood Studios' version of Fantasmic! during the floating bubble montage.
At the Magic Kingdom, Tramp and other characters from the film are prominently featured at Tony's Town Square Restaurant. Also, Tramp and Lady briefly appear in Once Upon a Time, during Mrs. Potts narration.
In the spring, the Epcot Flower and Garden Festival features Lady and the Tramp topiaries.
A section of the Disney's Pop Century Resort is dedicated to Tramp and Lady in the form of statues.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- He is street smart like Thomas O'Malley in The Aristocats. The contrast is Thomas married Duchess and became the stepfather of her three kittens while Tramp married Lady and had puppies of his own.
- His fur color changes inconsistently depending on the lighting of the surroundings he appears in; while usually having grayish-brown fur, he appears to have dark gray fur in some scenes which have dark or dull lighting, or vice-versa where he has creamy-tan fur in scenes which have bright lighting.
- In some printed media of the film, as well as in the Mickey Mouse episode "Third Wheel", his fur is miscolored dark grey.
- Tramp's growls and snarls heard during his fight with the rat would later be reused in Old Yeller when the title character had rabies.
- During the rat fight, Tramp's eyes were red in place of his normal brown ones as red usually symbolizes anger.
- Tramp is the first Disney hero to actually kill a villain, mainly the Rat.
- When Tramp tells Lady about the downsides of having a baby in the family, he says he's "the voice of experience". When he does so, it implies that he may have been disowned by his original owners because of a baby. This was explicitly shown in the 2019 remake.
- Tramp's breed is possibly Schnauzer.
- His name means a person who travels from place to place on foot in search of work, or as a vagrant or beggar.
- It would also fit into his lifestyle on how he admired the life of a rogue loner and enjoyed his freedom before settling down to become a house pet.
- Tramp and Lady both have eyes that are resembling that of Bambi's.
- In Italy, Tramp's name has been established as Biagio il Randagio (literally Biagio the stray dog), which is also what Tony and Joe call him in this translation.
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