Tilly Green is the deuteragonist of Big City Greens, who is portrayed by Marieve Herington.
Background[]
As Cricket's older sister, she is the first born and only daughter of Bill and Nancy Green who moved to the Big City alongside her family to live with her gramma.
Personality[]
Tilly is a very unusual girl. She tends to have a very quiet demeanor, but hidden underneath is a creative, imaginative and sometimes surreal child. Tilly is very kind to those around her and much like her younger brother Cricket is willing to help those in need. While she seems to be unintelligent at times, she actually houses a very wise and open mind.
Tilly is shown to be somewhat controlling at times. In "Mama Bird", she insisted on being a trio of baby birds' mama despite Bill telling her not to interact with them and their fascination with Cricket rather than her. She also attempted to scare Cricket from doing dangerous stunts in "Cricketsitter" only to accidentally dislocate his arm and fretted about being punished by Bill. In response, she shows a very determined side to set things right.
Physical appearance[]
Tilly is a very small 12-year-old girl and only slightly taller than Cricket. While she displays a yellow complexion like her family, she is noticeably more pale than the rest of them. She has short black hair and freckles underneath her eyes. Tilly also has buck teeth similar to Cricket and full cheeks. She dresses in a light violet dress with a white collar and wears white socks and olive-colored shoes. Since the episode "Tilly Style", Tilly has begun wearing earrings. However, she covers them with her hair because she is "wearing them for [herself]".
Trivia[]
- Tilly is named after the band Tilly and the Wall. The band features a tap dancer instead of a drummer and Chris Houghton chose it because she "marches to the beat of her own drum".[1]
- Early concept art depicted Tilly with large jowls. They were most likely removed so as to make the character more pleasant to look at.
- Tilly apparently has a habit of personifying objects which seem to reveal a darker side to her.
- Tilly seems to have the ability to befriend any creature regardless of species, except for the Patagonian Python from "Cheap Snake" after she began to hear sinister and apocalyptic noises coming from it. In "Tilly Tour", she befriended an unusual creature called a "Cratigeon" which is a combination of a cat, rat, pigeon and "who knows what else."
- Tilly apparently sleeps during the day, which Cricket warns her against.
- According to Chris Houghton, Tilly has named every single animal that the Green Family owns and have met. However, she is apparently the only one who actually remembers their names.
- Tilly is convinced that she is actually a squirrel, something that she has only confided in with Cricket and Andromeda.
- Despite living on a farm, Tilly appears to be somewhat inept at farming as shown in "Level Up".
- Tilly is apparently an otaku as in "Cheap Show" she has a fascination with Japanese pop culture.
- Tilly is very fluent in American Sign Language and is shown to be capable of teaching basic ASL in a matter of seconds.
- The only episode Tilly did not appear in to date is "Date Night", whereas she does not technically appear in "Time Crisis" as her imagined future counterpart appears in her place.
- In the early episodes, Tilly's voice was high pitched and baby-like, but throughout the middle ten of Season 1, her voice got slightly lower in steps. Starting with "Big Deal", her voice is deeper and sounds more adolescent.
- In "The Move", Tilly reveals that she had garnered so many splinters from building a tree fort that she is 7% made of wood.
- In that same episode, Cricket reveals that Tilly was born in the woods.
Gallery[]
Videos[]
Tilly Chats[]
References[]
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! |