Anteater James

Anteater James is the brother of Anteater Rachel and one of the protagonists of Anteater Adventures. He and his sister are two of the best fighters in Stufftania and are dedicated to defending their nation, and in doing so, he frequently comes into conflict with the Bear and the Enemy Alliance, as well as occasionally the Wolves and the Tromians. He is a descendant of The Great Anteater.

Appearance and Personality
Anteater James is a young Anteater in prime fighting condition. Like all male anteaters, he has two white stripes and one black stripe. He is slightly larger than his sister and, like her, he is very physically strong.

He and his sister both enjoy activities such as sledding and flying airplanes. Anteater James also greatly enjoys going on adventures, particularly if he gets some battle experience. His love of Hand to hand combat leads him to idolize The Great Anteater, who is thought to be one of the greatest fighters of all time.



Early Life
In his quest to eradicate the line of the Great Anteater, The Great Bear spent decades hunting down Anteater James's descendants. His last surviving parent brought Anteater James and his sister to Stufftania when they were very young. However, this parent couldn't escape the Great Bear, who framed this anteater as a weapon smuggler to ensure extermination at the hands of a Topian strike team. The two orphaned anteaters grew up under the care of Triceratops and (unbeknownst to them) the protection of Mast.



When the Anteaters were old enough, they enrolled in Beanie Town Academy, where he met his first girlfriend Anteater Ivy. Anteater James and his sister also met fellow students Bruno, Scruffy, and Luke, who all became their best friends. Together, they were the star players of their school's Smashball team. They also met The Bear, who identified them as the last surviving descendants of the Great Anteater and plotted to destroy them.

The Bear kidnapped Anteater James's girlfriend, Anteater Ivy, and made the Anteaters miss their championship smashball game in order to rescue her. Although they managed to save her and get the Bear expelled. However, to fill the Anteaters' missing slot on the team, Bruno had to let his cousin Phil play, and in doing so, the unexperienced player was critically injured. Bruno ended his friendship with the Anteaters, since he blamed them for putting Phil in a vegetative state.

After graduation, Anteater Ivy discovers a major energy drain on Beanie Town's power supply. She and Anteater James trace it back to a Sapphira Enterprises installation, and attempt to shut it down. A mysterious figure attacks them and kills Anteater Ivy. Anteater James escaped, but is devastated after losing his girlfriend.

The Anteaters resolve to become fighting specialists and defend their nation. They attend Mast's Training Camp, where they sharpen their combat skills and achieve top physical condition. While there, they meet Chipmunk Thomas and Squirrel Ted, two former students of Mast's who have returned to cause trouble and trash the camp. Although the Anteaters initially seem outmatched, they manage to defeat the troublemakers and save the camp. Impressed that they were able to beat his former students, Mast realizes the Anteaters' incredible potential. The Bear also attacks the camp shortly before graduation, having trained himself as well, but he is no match for the Anteaters.

Enemy Alliance Conflicts
Knowing that he will never be able to destroy the Anteaters on his own, the Bear enlists The Dog Trio, Chipmunk Thomas, and Squirrel Ted to form The Enemy Alliance, an organization set on fighting the Anteaters and their nation of Stufftania. After an failed initial attack on the Anteaters, the Bear hires an army of 1,000 Wolves to defeat the Anteaters. Anteater James and his sister are nearly overwhelmed, but reinforcements from Stufftania arrive and manage to fight back the attacking force.

Despite this failure and being out of money, the Enemy Alliance stays together and continues to plot against the Anteaters. The Bear's next attempt involved booby trapping the Anteaters' path on their sledding trip, but the Anteaters avoid the trap and escape The Icy Mountains with the help of their friend Giganto.

Occasionally, the Anteaters and the Bear, or other members of the Enemy Alliance, are forced to work together to overcome a greater threat. On a trip to The Lava Rock Landscape, the Anteaters inadvertently discover a strange metal called Wolfium. When they stumble upon Lance Wolf, the High Commander of the Wolves, he believes they know too much and imprisons them. The Anteaters escape with the help of the Bear, who needs their help to outrun and outfight Lance Wolf's behemoth machine, The Wolfium Wolf 2000. Anteater Rachel learns that ice can annihilate Wolfium upon contact, and destroys the Wolfium Wolf with a snowball. The Anteaters and the Enemy Alliance join forces again when the Bear's mechanical sea creatures go rogue. The two forces agree to hunt the robots down and terminate them. At Chipmunk Thomas's urging, the Bear betrays the Anteaters, but with the help of Sledge, they destroy the last robot and defeat the Enemy Alliance. At one point, as a result of Chipmunk Thomas's machine, the Anteaters go to a Parallel Universe where they have superhuman abilities and they are friends with the Bear. Together, they have to stop Chipmunk Thomas to return to their original world. Another time, the Anteaters are stranded on The Cursed Cove with Chipmunk Thomas and Squirrel Ted. At first they fight, but when The Cursed Cove Dragon attacks, they have to work together to beat the monster while they hold off for rescue.



The Anteaters befriend a winged horse named Pegasus, who aids them on several of their adventures. They soon discover that not only can he fly, but also that he can travel through time, and they have him use this ability to help them stop the Bear when he builds an army of robot soldiers. They also meet a monkey named Chopstix and a deer named Whisper, who need their help rescuing Sacroleaf Forest from a Wolf invasion. Later on, the Bear steals a spaceship and tries to eliminate the Anteaters, Pegasus, Sledge, and Chopstix by sending them into space, but the Anteaters regain control of the rocket and return to the planet. They crash west of The Rocky Pass and undergo a long journey home, during which they meet Bob Wolf, Lance Wolf's clever second-in-command.

The Anteaters' travels take them to a distant island called Topia, which is revealed to be the original home of the Bear, as well as Mast. The Bear rallies the Topian forces to defeat the Anteaters, but the Anteaters evade them with Mast's help. The learn that their friend Pegasus is the leader of Topia, and that Topia is at war with their old enemy, Tromia. The Anteaters agree to fight on the side of Topia, but the Bear sees this as an opportunity to eliminate them. However, Pegasus thwarts the Bear, and strips him of his rank as a Topian officer. The Bear defects to Tromia, letting them know Topia's weaknesses and urging them to launch a massive attack. Tromian forces overwhelm Topia, but the Anteaters capture The Tromian King and force the Tromians to retreat. While the Tromians are preoccupied with Topia, the Wolves take the opportunity to invade and seize control of Tromia.

Several years after the loss of Anteater Ivy, Anteater James tracks down Sapphira Enterprises and sets out to exact revenge and destroy the facility. A vulture named Knives tries to stop him, but Anteater James throws him into a factory turbine, tearing his body to shreds. He identifies Anteater Ivy's murderer as the CEO, Sapphira, and beats her in battle. He is about to kill her, when Anteater Rachel arrives and convinces him not to.

The Anteaters fight in The Wolf-Stufftanian War, which the Bear orchestrates in the hopes of wearing down both nations. This forces the Anteaters to fight a reluctant Ben Wolf, who sees the War as pointless and misguided. When the Bear defeats Lance Wolf and declares himself the new High Commander of the Wolves, Ben Wolf convinces Bob Wolf to turn on the Bear. After Anteater James defeats the Bear, the other members of the Enemy Alliance also change sides and help the Anteaters bring a quick end to the war. Afterwards, the Enemy Alliance is disbanded and the Wolves become allies of Stufftania.

Post-Enemy Alliance
Unbeknownst to everyone, the Bear and Lance Wolf survive and grudgingly decide to work together to regain their power. They hire Sapphira, who designs a synthetic anteater for them, which they use to spy on the Anteaters. Anteater James dislikes the newcomer and grows suspicious of this new anteater. However, this robot soon loses interest in the Anteaters and leaves the Bear's services. Because the Bear and Lance Wolf refused to pay her double for keeping their meeting discreet, Sapphira reveals to Triceratops that they are still alive.

Sapphira gives Knives cybernetic implants, which keep him alive despite his injuries. Knives remembers that Anteater James was the one who injured him, so he tracks down the anteater with the intention to kill him. Anteater James manages to survive the attack and fight Knives off.

The Bridacco Incident
When the flying Keardan City heads to Stufftania for peace negotiations, the Anteaters are sent to stop Bruno from causing an international incident. Along their way, Anteater James is separated from his sister and is stuck with the arrogant Inspector Preston, who believes that Bruno murdered a group of townspeople. The actual murderer, Nightmare, kills Preston and his men, but Anteater James manages to defend himself. Nightmare convinces Anteater James that Keardan City isn't what it appears, and that its people have evil motives.

Anteater James and Nightmare return to Keardan City, where they find Bruno and learn that the city is actually a weapon and that Stufftania is in danger. They set out to destroy the city's turbines, but when the city doesn't fall, they learn that the city is actually an ancient demon named Daraken who plans to conquer the world, using the city as a guise. They meet up with Anteater Rachel and Ben Wolf, head to the core of the demon, and destroy it, but Nightmare is killed in the process. The Anteaters escape back to Stufftania.

The Imperial War
The Bear and Lance Wolf take refuge with the Bear's old ally, the Tromian Max. The Anteaters, along with Chipmunk Thomas, Squirrel Ted, and the Dog Quartet, head to Tromia to capture them. Chipmunk Thomas leads a diversion team while the Anteaters head for the Bear and Lance Wolf, but Max learns their plans from his informer. Max helps his guests escape, and they meet up with Soy. It is revealed that they all work for The Empire, under the command of Mystic.

After Stufftania captures Soy and Max, the Anteaters head west to destroy the Empire's chronon accelerator. They attempt to spy on the Imperial Army, but Anteater Rachel reveals them to Mystic, hoping she will remember her old friends. Mystic, however, subdues them with her mental powers and captures them. The Anteaters are taken to a prison camp, where they remain until Chipmunk Thomas and Squirrel Ted rescue them. The Anteaters, along with a freed army of horses, arrive to fight the Empire at The Battle of Free Nations' Stand, and turn the tide of the battle. Reunited with their fellow Stufftanians, the Anteaters join the army as they head west to keep the pressure on the Empire.

Skills and Abilities
Like his brother, Anteater James is a master of Hand to hand combat. He learned most of her technique from Mast, who had trained under The Great Anteater.

He is a skilled smashball player, and while never made it to the professional leagues, she still enjoys a match on occasion.

Anteater James has some knowledge of math and physics, which he demonstrates when he corrects the course of the out-of-control rocket.

Anteater Rachel
Anteater James has always been very close with his younger sister Anteater Rachel. They travel together on nearly all of their adventures, and fight their enemies alongside one another. Anteater Rachel occasionally finds her brother's love of battle experience ridiculous and makes sarcastic remarks, but he is still always happy to have her support.

Anteater Ivy
Anteater Ivy was Anteater James's first girlfriend, whom he dated throughout his stay at the Academy. He had to save her from the Bear after he kidnapped her during the big game. Anteater Ivy blamed herself for the loss of his Smashball career, but Anteater James doesn't hold it against her. The death of Anteater Ivy devastates Anteater James, and it becomes one of the biggest reasons he aspires to become a great warrior and defeat the forces of evil.

The Dog Quartet
The Dogs where three of the Anteater's best friends at the Academy. After the incident with Phil, they become enemies for many years. After the fall of the Enemy Alliance, Anteater James is happy to become good friends with the dogs again.