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Robyn Starling is the deuteragonist of Tom and Jerry: The Movie. Her mother died (from an unknown cause of death) when she was only a baby, and her father was in Tibet, while she is staying at the house of her abusive step-aunt Pristine Figg, her lawyer Lickboot, and their dog Ferdinand. She was voiced by Anndi McAfee.

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Tom and Jerry: The Movie[]

Prior to the movie, Robyn Starling was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Starling. However her mother died when she was just a baby and her father was on a trip and believed to be dead, where she was under the care of her Aunt Figg who treated her badly and even give her room to Ferdinand. Then, Aunt Figg took her locket and threw it out of the window, where she escape the house and ran away. She made her first appearance when Tom and Jerry notice her running away and after encountering them in the bridge, she offer them food. Later after explain her life story she was discovered by a police officer and was taken home, where Aunt Figg pretended to be in joy for her safe return in front of the cop, Robyn Starling then introduce Tom and Jerry as friends and asked her if she can keep them, which she agreed due to the cop being around. Aunt Figg then immediately sends Robyn to bed without any dinner for running away and sends Tom and Jerry to the kitchen for something to eat. After Tom accidentally wreck the kitchen due to Ferdinand giving him dog food which he dislikes and throws it back to the latter's face, Aunt Figg warned Tom and Jerry they will be sent to Dr. Applecheeks if they break something again.

Sometime later, Robyn Starling realizes that Tom and Jerry are gone, unaware they are been sent to Dr. Applecheeks by Aunt Figg due to them almost revealing to her that her father still alive. Later night, Robyn was in her room singing "I Miss You" and looking at one of her drawings including her cabin Robyn's Nest. After singing she hears knocking at the window it was Tom and Jerry having escaped Dr. Applecheeks and the Straycatchers with help from Puggsy and Frankie DaFlea who they meet back at the alley earlier before dealing a group of mean alley cats and meeting her. Jerry then informs her that there's amazing news she would hear and let him and Tom inside. Robyn happily realizes that her father is still alive and prepares to escape, putting her raincoat and backpack on and find him. Unfortunately Tom and Jerry gets another argument to climb down, which causes to fall to the ground hard and accidentally waking Aunt Figg up and realizes that Robyn has escaped again and calls Lickboot to inform him what just happened.

Robyn, Tom and Jerry returns back to the bridge and notice something nearby with Tom shrugging off that it's an old crate. Jerry corrects him and it turn out to be a raft. Then Aunt Figg and Lickboot arrive and tried to call her to come back home. Robyn, Tom and Jerry hop on the raft and sail away, Ferdinand notices them and tries to warn Aunt Figg that Robyn is in the raft, but Aunt Figg kicks him away telling him to shut up. After escaping Aunt Figg and Lickboot, Robyn, Tom and Jerry are sleeping while on the way to Robyn's Nest, a ship suddenly appears out of nowhere and Tom screams loudly in fear alerting Jerry and Robyn and they jump into the water as the raft crash against it. Robyn was separated from Tom and Jerry losing her backpack and raincoat in the process.

The next day an unconscious Robyn Starling was floating on what's left of the raft and drift to shore where she was discovered by Captain Kiddie and Squawk and bring her to their carnival to nurse her back to health, while Tom and Jerry arrives shortly on another part of the raft after this and finding her locket. Robyn soon wakes up and meets Captain Kiddie asking her if she was okay and she was only dizzy and asking where she was and Captain Kiddie introduces himself and his carnival, then gives him some cookies and milk before singing "I've Done it all". Squawk soon discovers Robyn's face in the milk carton and offer a million Dollar reward on her. Captain Kiddie then needs to go outside to take care something. As soon they are outside Captain Kiddie realizes that the girl on the milk carton he's holding is actually Robyn and throws the milk carton right into Tom and Jerry who are nearby looking for her, then Captain Kiddie calls Aunt Figg informing her that Robyn is his carnival. Sometime later Captain Kiddie shows Robyn his carnival and lets her ride one of his ferris wheel and traps her there until Aunt Figg arrives to pick her up, Robyn begs him to let her go and Aunt Figg also hates her so much but was ignored and goes to sleep. while trapped on the ferris wheel she notices Tom and Jerry who are about to free her, waking Captain Kiddie and Squawk who was about to confront them as Aunt FIgg, Lickboot and Ferdinand arrive ready to pick her up. Then the Straycatchers also arrived having overheard the one million dollar reward on Robyn. Tom and Jerry frees Robyn and traps the Straycatchers on the ferris wheel and they escaped on a steam boat with Aunt Figg, Lickboot, Ferdinand, Captain Kiddie, Squawk and Dr. Applecheeks (who arrives late due getting thrown out by The Straycatcher for refusing to share the reward for not getting rid of Tom and Jerry) chasing them. After Dr. Applecheeks, Captain Kiddie and Squawk are defeated and prevented chasing them due to Ferdinand accidentally destroyed a wooden bridge, Robyn then realizes where are they going and heads for Robyn's Nest.

Sometime later while still sailing on the steam boat, they finally reach Robyn's Nest and stops the boat on the dock, Robyn then explains Tom and Jerry about the place, she and her father come there every summer, where they fish, sail and swim. Robyn climbs out of the steam boat and heads straight to the door, where she was ambushed by Aunt Figg lying to her that her father is "dead" (he was actually on his way to Robyn's Nest on a helicopter and already been notified of his daughter's whereabouts and Aunt Figg's crimes by the Starling Enterprise an US military base) and Lickboot locks the door to prevent to escape back to the steam boat, Tom and Jerry interfering and accidentally locking out Ferdinand in the process. Robyn then stands up to them that they will never take her back, which Lickboot responds that they will and ready to bring her back to their house. During the confrontation after kicking Lickboot in the leg, he accidentally knocks an oil lamp setting the cabin on fire and Robyn's takes shelter on the 2nd floor of the cabin, Tom and Jerry notice this, finding a rope and climbs on the roof. Aunt Figg then scolds Lickboot for accidentally setting the cabin on fire and Lickboot warns Robyn that she needs to evacuate due to her cabin burning down, but she refused then a piece of burning ceiling fall between them and Aunt Figg tells Lickboot they need to evacuate before they are all fried and they must leave her and save themselves. But they accidentally trip on Ferdinand's skateboard where they accidentally fly straight right into the steam boat and it sails them away to an unknown fate, just as Robyn's father arrives on his helicopter and seen the three sailing away. Tom and Jerry brings Robyn on the roof where Robyn's father came to their rescue, he successfully rescues her daughter, but was unable to save Tom and Jerry, The cabin collapses into the water, leaving only half of the stairway and it's dock remain intact. after landing the helicopter on the dock, they find Tom and Jerry alive unharmed, Robyn's father then apologizes to her that he will never leave her again and has Aunt Figg, Lickboot and Ferdinand arrested for their heinous crimes against his daughter, Tom, Jerry and the destruction of Robyn's Nest. Robyn and her father bring Tom and Jerry to their home, but as soon she leaves, they returned to their old ways and ignoring what Puggsy and Frankie told them earlier.

Appearance[]

Robyn Starling is an attractive, beautiful and cute nine-year-old girl. She has golden blonde hair with a red hairband, fair skin, pink lips and beautiful blue eyes. She wears a red shirt with white sleeves, white socks, blue and white shoes and light blue pants.

Trivia[]

  • Robyn Starling greatly shares similarities with Jeannie Nelson from Screen Gems' I Dream of Jeannie (1965–1970), Samantha Stephens from Screen Gems' Bewitched (1964–1972), Penny from Disney's The Rescuers (1977), Anne-Marie from Don Bluth's All Dogs Go To Heaven (1989), Ariel from Disney’s The Little Mermaid (1989), Jennifer Parker from Universal/Amblin's Back to the Future (1991–1992), Chihiro Ogino from Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away, Mirabelle Haywood from The New Kids on the Block, Cera from Universal/Amblin's The Land Before Time and Patti Mayonnaise from both Nickelodeon's Doug (1991–1994) and Cartoon Network’s Doug (1996–1999).
  • Robyn Starling is the only human Tom and Jerry talked to in the film.

Reception[]

Despite the fact that Robyn's existence in Tom and Jerry's first movie appears to be nice to the formerly mute duo for that film, the character herself is widely panned by a wide part of the fandom - mainly due to the film having her upstaging Tom and Jerry, thus making Robyn one of the most unpopular Tom and Jerry characters. As a result, the Tom and Jerry filmography, including the classic shorts from 1940-1967, still places Tom and Jerry as the popular characters instead of Robyn Starling in merchandise, thus explicitly dismissing her from the series.

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