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Molly Elizabeth Cunningham[1] is the 6 year old daughter of Rebecca Cunningham. She was voiced by Janna Michael.


Physical appearance[]

Molly is an adorable and pretty 6-year-old, yellow-furred, anthropomorphic female pink-nosed bear cub. She has blue ribbons tied into bows around her ears (giving her the look of pigtails), a pink short-sleeved polo shirt, frilly white diaper-like panties & lavender shortalls.

Personality[]

In addition to her cuteness, Molly is an adventurous little tomboy who even at six years old, is not afraid to speak her mind just like her mother; sometimes she pretends she is "Danger Woman" (the action/adventure heroine of a popular kids radio program) while seeking adventure along with Kit and Baloo.

Relationships[]

Rebecca[]

Since Rebecca is her mother, they are very close.

Though, there are times when this falters: In the episode "Mommy for a Day", when Rebecca was so engulfed in work, she began to neglect Molly. Just like any child starved for attention, she didn't take it well.

At times, Molly was shown to be much sharper than her own mom: an example being made in the episode, "Molly Coddled", when Rebecca started dating a conniving suitor named Covington. Molly was hostile toward him, being very distrustful of the stranger, but Rebecca dismissed it, thinking that her daughter was just either being jealous, mischievous, or stubborn. Molly was actually quite very aware there was more to Covington than met the eye...

Baloo[]

They seem to have a father-daughter relationship, given that Molly's real father is gone. Whenever she tags along on his runs, Baloo tends to freak out for her safety, but she proves her worth to him in the end. At least once, did Baloo get angry at Molly: this was in the episode, "Flight of the Snow Duck", when Baloo was so fed up with Molly, who was hopefully depending on a fictional-character to come to their rescue in a Thembrian-jail, that he yelled at her to let it go. He then regretted it when she became upset and crying, (and even the fun-loving and good-natured Wildcat was disgusted at Baloo), but they reconciled in the end.

Kit[]

They seem to have a brother-sister relationship, given that Molly appears to be an only child while Kit's biological relatives are a complete mystery. Like a surrogate big brother, Kit does care about Molly greatly, like in the episode "It Came from Beneath the Sea Duck": when the Giant Squid threw her into the air, Kit dove out of the Sea Duck to save her. Just like Baloo, Kit tends to freak out whenever Molly stows away aboard the plane during a cargo-run. While close, Molly does tend to annoy Kit with her spunk and sassiness, which was seen in the same episode, but to date, there hasn't been any indication of them getting into a fight or even be mad at each other. In the comic, "Long Flight From Home", Molly calls Kit her big brother at the end of the comic.

Wildcat[]

The two are like best friends, most notably in "Flight of the Snow Duck": After they both had stowed away with Baloo to Thembria, Wildcat was showing Molly what snow was like, and both decided to later play in it, but the latter got them thrown into prison by the nation's restrictive laws. When Baloo angrily yelled at Molly about there being no such thing as the Snow Duck, Molly began to cry; Wildcat, despite being a free spirit and a silly guy at times, was actually appalled, and even berated Baloo, showing how much he cares about her.

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Trivia[]

  • Her middle name, "Elizabeth", is revealed in "Mommy for a Day" & she is the only character to have any middle name revealed.
  • Rebecca nicknames her "Pumpkin".
  • Molly has a thing for her favorite ice cream brand, "Frosty Pep".
  • No mention was ever made of Molly's father, as series creator Jymn Magon reportedly said that Rebecca is either a widow or divorced, although at a 1998 U.S. fan convention Q&A online chat he did state in roundabout tones that she is actually divorced as originally written in the first TaleSpin press release.
    • However this would clash with the comic The Long Flight Home which, although more centered toward Kit's past, states that her father died.
  • It is never shown if she goes to school or not.
  • She likes to cross the street by herself.
  • An adult version of Molly, with attire reminiscent of that worn by stuntman Evil Knievel, appears in the DuckTales reboot along with an adult Kit in the episode "The Lost Cargo of Kit Cloudkicker!", voiced by actress Eliza Coupe (see here for details).[2]

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