Big Ethel
| Ethel Muggs | |
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| Archie character | |
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| First appearance | Archie's Pal Jughead #84 (May 1962) |
| Portrayed by |
Cindy Ambuehl (Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again) Shannon Purser (Riverdale) |
| Voiced by | Jane Webb ( Archie's Funhouse Archie's T.V. Funnies )Michele Phillips (Archie's Weird Mysteries) |
| Hometown | Riverdale |
| School | Riverdale High School |
| Information | |
| Spouse(s) | Jughead Jones (#609-present) (husband) |
| Significant other(s) | Jughead Jones |
| Relatives | Aunt Cora |
Ethel Muggs is a fictional character by Archie Comics. She is a student of Riverdale High School, known to her schoolmates by the nickname Big Ethel, though this nickname has virtually fallen out of use since the 1990s. Her original design was the creation of cartoonist Samm Schwartz. She has been voiced by Jane Webb and Jazzmin Lausanne.
Ethel Muggs (originally Ethel Dinklehof) was portrayed in the early era as a tall, unattractive, homely, somewhat boy-crazy individual that had a huge infatuation with Jughead Jones. This was explained in her first appearance in Archie's Pal, Jughead #84 as the result of Dilton's "Electronic Mate Selector" selecting Jughead as "the perfect mate for you". She usually resorted to devious means to get Jughead in her clutches, and would typically end up running after him. Ethel has also pursued Jughead by appealing to his appetite; the Betty and Veronica comic title often featured real recipes that Ethel used to make her way to Jughead's heart through his stomach. Earlier issues featuring Big Ethel show her bearing a strong resemblance to Jughead, also, with her prominent nose, dark hair, and angular build. In the late 1980s, Ethel was occasionally drawn with braces on her buck teeth.
Although Ethel is usually portrayed as gangly and plain, with no figure, one story involving a makeover by Betty and Veronica in an attempt to attract Jughead's attention revealed her to be quite curvy and pretty (albeit still with buck teeth). Despite her new look, Jughead was as uninterested as ever.
In the later era, she has been portrayed as an average, somewhat likeable individual, whose infatuation for Jughead has lessened quite a bit. She now has other interests that keep her mind from Jughead, including Archie Andrews and Dilton Doiley, to keep her company. This actually tends to make Jughead a bit jealous. She and Dilton share mutual sympathy due to their few successes with romantic relationships, which is one of the reason that they occasionally date. She has even been on one memorable date with Archie in one story. That date showed another side of Ethel, where she was funny, smart and attractive. The same story also introduces Hank, a friend of Ethel's who works at a local club Archie and Ethel visit on their date.
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