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The Tramp is the deuteragonist from Walt Disney's 15th animated 1955 classic, Lady and the Tramp. He is the love interest and later husband of Lady the cocker spaniel. He first meets Lady while he was a friendly stray dog who dreams to live in the family and home. He and Lady fell in love together. Later on, he was about to be caught by a dog catcher but he escaped and injured his leg. By the end of the film. He becomes one of Jim Dear's dogs and has four puppies with Lady: a son named Scamp and three daughters Annette, Danielle, and Colette.

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 read a 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.

Design[]

Tramp is a medium-sized mutt, scruffy looking dog. He is mostly medium 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 wears a red collar with a diamond shaped license

Personality[]

In the first film, Tramp is a very laid-back character and he's more like a kid. He enjoys his rapscallion lifestyle without a family and home. It's implied that he's flirtatious, given his history of having had a multitude of girlfriends. He's known for his street smarts, able to both avoid dog catchers 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.

In the sequel, after he and Lady have married and now have a litter of puppies, Tramp's grown accustomed to being a house pet, but still retains his street smarts. He is also portrayed as being a loving yet firm father to his son, Scamp, and his three daughters, Annette, Collette and Danielle.

Appearances[]

Lady and the Tramp[]

Tramp is introduced as a wise-cracking, stray mutt who admires the life of a rogue loner. Often seen alone, the Tramp 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 England, where he regularly rests and feast at various restaurants, he overhears Jock and Trusty attempting to explain what a baby is to Lady. Tramp gives his opinion on the matter, which is somewhat negative. Annoyed with Tramp, Jock and Trusty order him out of the yard.

Later on, Tramp rescues Lady, whom he calls "Pidge" from a pack of alley dogs. Lady reveals that she has been muzzled, and so Tramp attempts to help her take it off. He takes her to the local zoo, when he is able to manipulate a beaver into removing the device, by claiming it will help the beaver haul logs. That night, Tramp takes Lady out for a night on the town. he reveals that he goes to different houses each 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. Tramp takes Lady home, but on the way back, she is picked up by the dogcatcher.

After he finds Lady, who has been released from the pound, he attempts to apologize. However, an angered Lady confronts him on rumors she heard at the pound regarding Tramp's multiple past girlfriends. She orders him to leave, and Tramp was very sad about her rejection, and left dejected. However, he soon hears Lady barking furiously as if she was in trouble and rushes back. Lady reveals that a rat has gotten into the baby's room, and so Tramp rushes to stop it. He is able to successfully kill the rat but is found by Aunt Sarah. She calls the dogcatcher to take him to the pound. However, Tramp is released due to the combined efforts of Jock and Trusty, who had overheard the humans talking after they discovered the rat that Tramp had killed.

The next Christmas, it's revealed that Tramp has been made a member of the family by Jim Dear and Darling. He and Lady have become the parents of four puppies: three girls that look identical Lady and a son that looks identical to him. Tramp was happy to be a house dog instead of a stray, now that he's with Lady.

Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure[]

The second film shows that Tramp's relationship with his son, Scamp has become somewhat strained due to Scamp's desire to be a "wild dog." One day, Scamp makes a mess in the living room and is chained outside. Even though, Tramp makes an accident to him since he can't stop acting wild on the street. Tramp comes to talk to Scamp, but they soon get into an argument and Tramp leaves.

Later on, Scamp runs away from home and Tramp blames himself for his son leaving home because he was too harsh with him. He realizes that he needs to understand Scamp better. After Scamp joins a dog pack known as the "Junkyard Dogs," Scamp learns of his father's infamous reputation. Unknown to Scamp, the pack's leader, Buster, was once Tramp's protégé, and now seeks revenge on Tramp. Buster later learns that Scamp is his son.

When Scamp is asked by Buster to steal a chicken from his family's picnic, Tramp soon arrives and talk softly to him. He asks Scamp to come home, but Scamp confronts him who he was as a stray and chooses the junkyard life. Tramp feels sad and brokenhearted that Scamp does not want to be a house dog. However, later that night, a young stray (Angel) arrives and tells him and Lady that Scamp is in trouble. He and Angel race to the dog pound and Tramp saves Scamp from getting killed by a vicious bull mastiff named Reggie. Later, Scamp apologizes to his father for running away from home, and Tramp in return apologizes to Scamp for being too hard on him. He was thinking that he and Scamp can go to the river to howl, promising to lighten up. Afterward, the dogs reconcile and head home after Scamp retrieves his collar from Buster back at the junkyard. In the end, the family adopts Angel as a member of the family and Tramp was happy that Scamp became a house dog instead of being a stray after all.

Once Upon a Time[]

Tramp, portrayed by Garry Garneau, makes a cameo 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. Tramp 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 Tramp.

Lady and the Tramp (Live Action)[]

He soon ends up in Jim Dear's family's home. There, he meets an upset Lady who thinks he is Trusty where Elliott overhear their argument to which he tells Jim Dear that he is looking for the stray dog he is attempting to capture. After their argument ended, Lady ask for advice from Tramp who tells her that a baby in Jim Dear's family will replace her to which she hears Jacqueline telling her to stay away from Tramp to which he continue his conversation with her. Trusty and Jacqueline arrived tell her that they will take care of the problem by warding him off to which Lady calls him a street dog. Offended, so he leaves without provoking anyone.

After Lady is given a muzzle to keep herself from being a nuisance to Jim Dear's family, she encounter Isaac, a street dog trying to keep her away to which Tramp intervene with him. In order to rescue her, Tramp whisper to Isaac that she is infect by rabies to which she pretend to be so to scare him off. Having rescue her, she offer Tramp to remove the muzzle to which they go to the zoo to do so. Arriving there, she suggest him to remove it by using a beaver statue to pull it off. Having pull the muzzle off her mouth, Lady ask Tramp to take her home to which she has trouble finding her way to which he warn her that the city is very dangerous because of vehicles that can accidentally run over dogs. Thinking about Jim Dear and Darling missing her, she and Tramp planned to escape from Elliott to which they use a steamboat to escape from him. Having escape from Elliott, Lady and Tramp explore a park at night. She tell him that she is sure she has a home to which she can return. He shows empathy for her. He propose her to eat something. For this purpose, they goes to his favorite restaurant, "Tony's" where he bark at a chef named Joe to serve food for them where Joe gets his boss, Tony, to do so. Having a romantic dinner, Tony and Joe perform a song "Bella Notte" to serenade them. Afterward, they walk around the park in a quiet night and fall in love (a scene by the fountain where she hug him). Tramp tells Lady that he want to show her something. They race down the hillside laughing where he show the city view from the hill. She's enchant with him. He howl and wants her to do the same; after the initial failure, she succeed. She tell him that she feel bad about having left her family. He explain to her that he knows how much it hurts to be abandon. She guesses that he had a home, and he say, "Yeah, I did.". During the flashback, it is known that he once did so - his owner took him for a car ride and abandon him. He wait in that spot all day and all night for his owner to come back, but he never did. After the flashback, he explain to Lady that if he was still with his owner, he would have never met her. However, their romantic moment is suddenly disrupted when Elliott prepare to capture him once again as they end up in the train yard to which while losing the railroad foreman and Elliott, he notice that she is being brought to the dog pound, separating her from him once again. When Lady find herself in the dog pound, she talk with Peg who knows about the dog who rescue her from there once to which the one who encounter her and Bull is known as "Tramp".

Lady is taken from the pound by Jim Dear and Darling and although everything is going well, she is beginning to miss Tramp. Lady also feel longing as Tramp falls into depression. Just then, he suddenly find out that Peg and Bull have found homes. Talking with them, he grieve about Lady wanting to see her again to which he decide to apologize to her. Some time later, he arrives in her garden and apologises for leaving her aside as she is happy to have them reunite again. He tell her to go on new adventures to which she tells him that she is part of Jim Dear's family and should stay with them. Tramp react sadly, saying that Lady deserve it. She states that he deserve love. She then regrets that they can't be together to which he walks away, heartbroken.

However, Lady sees a rat in her owners' house and warn Tramp to take care of it to which he plan to do so. He go to Lulu's room to take care of it to protect her. As Elliott notice this only to find out that he killed it, he is capture to be brought back to the pound once again. Lady, Trusty, and Jacqueline arrive to help rescue him to which Lady cause the horses on the dogcatcher's wagon to panic just as it collapses and she walks over to Tramp's motionless body.

Jim Dear and Darling look at Tramp who was badly injure during to his fight with the rat. They talk to Elliott that he helped save Lulu from it to which he and Lady are finally reunite just as he is accept to be in Jim Dear's family. Later during Christmas Day, he and the other dogs become part of Jim Dear's family.

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