Gabriella Carlita Espinosa is a supporting character of Big City Greens, who is portrayed by Jenna Ortega.
Background[]
She is the love interest, later girlfriend, and friend of Cricket Green who shares some of his mischievous traits.
Personality[]
Gabriella Espinosa is a very down to earth girl, but displays some spunk to her. Like most children, she wants to have fun, but does not put up with ridiculous things that put her off. She is relatively friendly, especially to Cricket who she gladly "goes out" with. While she does not consider herself romantic, she likes Cricket enough to at least consider being close to him. She has revealed that she can be a troublemaker just like him, having gotten onto the intercom at the Community Center just to say "dookie".
Physical appearance[]
Gabriella is a girl roughly Cricket's age who has pink skin and purple hair done up in a long ponytail held by a dark yellow knot. She is slightly taller than Cricket, but maintains the same body shape. She typically wears a greyish-green shirt and dark grey pants along with tall socks and red sneakers.
In "Valentine's Dance", she wore a light blue dress and matching bow on top of her head with black shoes.
Trivia[]
- Gabriella's name and voice actress indicate that she is Latina.
- Coincidentally, her voice actor is Hispanic in real life.
- Her color palette is similar to Kiki's, except it is a little pinker.
- Her hating of exaggerated romance and liking tomboyish activities, especially pranking in particular, is similar to Jessica Lovejoy from The Simpsons and Ronnie Anne Santiago from The Loud House and its spinoff The Casagrandes.
- Gabriella apparently knows Remy Remington, presumably from school.
- Her wardrobe is similar to Roxanne's.
- Unlike most animated shows, whose relationships evolve over the course of the series, Gabriella and Cricket's relationship was made official by the middle of its second season.
- She seems to share several traits with Cricket:
- She seems to be a troublemaking prankster and shares a similar incident where both blabbed a comical offensive word over the intercom.
- Like him, her choice of wardrobe is predominantly blue.
- Her shoes don't match her clothes, similar to Cricket's situation where he almost never wears shoes.
- She doesn't seem to like to do work, like how Cricket doesn't like doing chores.
- When going out with him, she refrains from doing all overly romantic stuff with him at first, like how Cricket discovered love for the first time and tried to understand what it was.
- Gabriella apparently likes to play the phone game Homescapes.
- Starting with the season three finale episode "Long Goodbye", Gabriella's voice actress changed from Jenna Ortega to Nikki Castillo. While no explanation was given, it is possible that the change was due to Ortega's sudden rise in popularity following her appearance in the Scream films and the Netflix series Wednesday.
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External links[]
| Big City Greens |
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| Seasons |
| 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 |
| Characters |
| Cricket Green • Tilly Green • Bill Green • Alice Green • Nancy Green • Remy Remington • Gloria Sato • Vasquez • Chip Whistler • Officer Keys • Kiki Kitashima • Andromeda • Gabriella Espinosa • Community Sue • Gwendolyn Zapp |
| Others |
| List of episodes (Shorts) • Big City Greens: The Movie • Random Rings • Theme Song Takeover • Chibi Tiny Tales • Chibiverse • Big City Greens: Don't Think, Just Sing! |