Sylvia Sundew is a supporting character in Amphibia. She is the mother of Felicia, the grandmother of Ivy, and the romantic interest and later girlfriend of Hop Pop Plantar.
Appearance
Body
She is an old frog with pink fingernails and lime green skin, with orange cheeks and pink lipstick.
Clothing
She wears a pink dress with a small pink flower pinned on her chest. Sylvia also wears large, oval rimmed blue glasses and has her white hair tied back into a ponytail.
In "Family Fishing Trip", she wears a blue scarf, yellow button shirt, and white flare pants.
Personality
Sylvia is known to like strange things. She is always happy to help others and gets along with everyone. She is also forgiving to those who wrong her as seen when Sprig lied to her due to understanding his jealousy towards her over having to share Hop Pop's attention.
Background
Prior to the events of the series, she left Wartwood, but returned in "Hop Pop and Lock". At first Hop Pop doesn't want to tell Sylvia he has feelings for her, but he decides to show her through his dancing. She is eventually shown to return his feelings, much to Hop Pop's surprise.
In "Family Fishing Trip", Sylvia joins the Plantar family in their annual fishing trip as she had been invited by Hop Pop. Once on the trip, Sylvia and Hop Pop spend time together by steering the boat and doing some fishing, much to Sprig's frustration and jealousy, as he usually spends the annual trip fishing with his grandfather.
As a result, Sprig tries to get Sylvia to leave the trip by putting hot peppers in her sandwich, a centipede in her hair, and making her slip on the ship's deck, but every attempt fails in Sylvia's favor. While playing with Hop Pop on the deck, Sylvia notices Sprig sitting alone, looking sad as he sings a song. Feeling bad for Sprig, Sylvia suggests to Hop Pop that he spend his time with his grandson before she goes over to talk to Sprig. Once she approaches Sprig, she sees how tense the frog boy is and takes him away to speak to him alone.
Sylvia asks Sprig if something was bothering him, but he denies it. This makes Sylvia thank Sprig for letting her come on the trip and reveal how she has been having a good time lately. When the boat passes by an island covered in blue flowers, Sylvia admires the blossoms and was surprised to hear from Sprig that they were Hop Pop's favorite flowers. Hearing Sprig's suggestion to get some of the flowers and give them to Hop Pop as a gift, Sylvia decides to take Sprig's suggestion and jumps off the boat to swim towards the island.
When Sprig sees Hop Pop ready to go fishing with him, Sprig realizes he had been selfish in trying to get rid of Sylvia. Just as Sprig asks Hop Pop to turn the boat to recover Sylvia, they hear her scream and Sprig, using Anne's glider, discovers the island Sylvia swam to is actually a giant hermit crab. Sprig rescues Sylvia and Hop Pop puts the boat in reverse, but the crab follows them, intending to eat Sylvia and Sprig. Just before the crab can eat them, Sylvia kicks the crab's teeth and sends it back into the sea where it swims away as Sylvia swears at the crustacean, something which impresses Anne and Hop Pop.
Once Sylvia lands back on the boat, she reunites with Hop Pop and presents him a bouquet of the blue flowers she picked off the crab. However, Hop Pop reveals his favorite flowers are actually daffodils, making Sylvia realize Sprig had deceived her. At this, Sprig confesses he was jealous of Hop Pop spending time with Sylvia and apologizes to her, reassuring that Hop Pop is lucky to have her. Sylvia forgives Sprig, understanding how difficult it is to share Hop Pop. Just as she, Anne, and the Plantars decide to get back to fishing, Polly flies off on Anne's glider and Anne suggests they eat some crab, making everyone on the boat silent at Anne's suggestion.
Sightings
| Season 1 | ||||||||||||
| Amphibia Main Theme: | Absent | |||||||||||
| Amphibia Credits Theme: | Absent | |||||||||||
| 1. "Anne or Beast?": | Absent | 20. "Prison Break": | Absent | |||||||||
| 2. "Best Fronds": | Absent | 21. "Grubhog Day": | Absent | |||||||||
| 3. "Cane Crazy": | Absent | 22. "Hop Pop and Lock": | Debut | |||||||||
| 4. "Flood, Sweat & Tears": | Absent | 23. "Civil Wart": | Absent | |||||||||
| 5. "Hop Luck": | Absent | 24. "Hop-Popular": | Absent | |||||||||
| 6. "Stakeout": | Absent | 25. "Croak & Punishment": | Absent | |||||||||
| 7. "The Domino Effect": | Absent | 26. "Trip to the Archives": | Absent | |||||||||
| 8. "Taking Charge": | Absent | 27. "Snow Day": | Absent | |||||||||
| 9. "Anne Theft Auto": | Absent | 28. "Cracking Mrs. Croaker": | Absent | |||||||||
| 10. "Breakout Star": | Absent | 29. "A Night at the Inn": | Absent | |||||||||
| 11. "Sprig Vs Hop Pop": | Absent | 30. "Wally and Anne": | Absent | |||||||||
| 12. "Girl Time": | Absent | 31. "Family Fishing Trip": | Appears | |||||||||
| 13. "Dating Season": | Absent | 32. "Bizarre Bazaar": | Absent | |||||||||
| 14. "Anne Vs. Wild": | Absent | 33. "Cursed!": | Absent | |||||||||
| 15. "Contagi-Anne": | Absent | 34. "Fiddle Me This": | Absent | |||||||||
| 16. "Family Shrub": | Absent | 35. "The Big Bugball Game": | Absent | |||||||||
| 17. "Lily Pad Thai": | Absent | 36. "Combat Camp": | Absent | |||||||||
| 18. "Plantar's Last Stand": | Absent | 37. "Children of the Spore": | Absent | |||||||||
| 19. "Toad Tax": | Absent | 38. "Anne of the Year": | Absent | |||||||||
| 39. "Reunion": | Absent | |||||||||||
Behind the scenes
Name
Sylvia's name is a reference to Cruziohyla sylviae, also known as Sylvia's tree frog, a large colorful species of tree frog from Central America.
Voice
Sylvia is voiced by Mona Marshall.
Debut
Sylvia debuted in the episode "Hop Pop and Lock".
Foreign voice actors
| Language version | Actors | Notes |
|---|---|---|
 Spanish (Latin America)
|
Matilde Ávila | |
 Spanish (Castilian)
|
Cristina Aldrey | |
 Italian
|
Daniela Amato | |
 Polish
|
Monika Węgiel | |
 Swedish
|
My Holmsten | |
 Thai
|
Lakkana Naksiri (ลักขณา นาคศิริ) |
Gallery
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Trivia
- Sylvia, alongside Hop Pop, are the last characters from Amphibia to appear in the series.