- "Of all the stupid things in the stupid world of stupid people acting stupid, you boys are the stupidliest!"
– Numbuh 86
Fanny Fulbright, a.k.a. Numbuh 86, is the Head of Decommissioning and current Global Tactical Officer of the Kids Next Door Organization. She is of Irish ethnicity. She hates boys, believing that they are universally inferior, and frequently allows her feelings to influence her actions and decisions against rational logic. Numbuh 86 was introduced in Operation: F.U.G.I.T.I.V.E. and since then has been a major recurring and supporting character throughout the run of Codename: Kids Next Door.
Appearance
Fanny is almost always seen wearing a makeshift Samurai-style helmet which conceals her red, wavy, and frizzy hair, a green sweater with orange and yellow shaped circles on it with (which are part of her uniform as a KND operative and are taken off when she is inactive), an orange skirt and brown boots. In Operation: F.O.R.G.E.T. she is shown to have green eyes. She carries a yellow holster which contains her 2x4 Technology device, called a M.U.S.K.E.T..
In Operation: S.L.U.M.B.E.R. and Operation: D.A.D.D.Y. she is seen with a yellow Rainbow Monkey night gown and a pair of purple Rainbow Monkey slippers. As a child in Operation: M.A.U.R.I.C.E., she wore a nurse's hat, carried a first aid kit on her hip, and had red cross stickers on her shoulders instead of orange circles. Her hair was worn in ponytails with green hair bands.
In Operation: H.O.L.I.D.A.Y. she was wearing a green tankini top and white with green lace flip-flops. She also had on a yellow and orange beach sarong in a checkerboard pattern without her Samurai-style helmet on.
Personality
Numbuh 86 speaks with a thick Irish accent and has a loud voice, especially when she yells which she does often especially for someone so rude. She is rude, ill-tempered, bossy, stubborn, hypocritical and mean, but is strongly loyal to the Kids Next Door. As mentioned above, she has a strong distaste in boys, most notably shown during her first appearance in Operation: F.U.G.I.T.I.V.E., where she essentially takes Numbuh 1, Numbuh 2, and Numbuh 4 out of a mission simply for being boys and instead readily listens to Numbuh 5 and Numbuh 3.
She does seem to have a soft side, however. In Operation: M.A.U.R.I.C.E., she cries (along with everyone else) when the beloved male operative Maurice is decommissioned. In Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-F.I.V.E., she ends up falling for Numbuh 19th Century, who is inadvertently sexist, and is found kissing him when they are rescued from their cell. In Operation: E.N.D., she tells Numbuh 4 that she always thought he was cute as she was about to decommission him. In Operation: S.L.U.M.B.E.R., it's revealed that Numbuh 86 is secretly a fanatic of Rainbow Monkeys and that she has a bedroom full of them. She does not want any boys to discover this and threatens "Numbuh Four Thirtyteen Seven" not to tell anyone, saying "If you tell any of the stupid boys I'll kill ya." Indicating that even though she's annoyed with them she cares what they think of her.
Biography
Numbuh 86's father is none other than the evil Mr. Boss, who claims that his own children are an exception to his hatred of kids. She has two younger brothers, Shaunie Fulbright and Numbuh 85 (Paddy Fulbright). In Operation: E.N.D., it is stated that Numbuh 86 was in the same kindergarten class as Numbuh 1 and possibly some of his teammates (As Numbuh 1 and Numbuh 2 have been best friends since kindergarten, it's highly likely that Numbuh 86 has known Numbuh 2 since then too).
In Operation: M.A.U.R.I.C.E., it is revealed that she was in the Health Unit of the Kids Next Door before becoming Head of Decommissioning. During this time period, she does not appear to hate boys. She is seen in this part with Numbuh 274 (Chad Dickson), Numbuh 362 (Rachel McKenzie), Numbuh 65.3 (Herbert), Numbuh 12, and beside her most of the time was Numbuh 60 (Patton Drilovsky).
As Head of Decommissioning, Numbuh 86 personally leads the Decommissioning Squad, whose job is to hunt down all KND operatives who have turned thirteen and decommission them. The decommissioning squad's signature vehicle is the D.O.H.-D.O.H.. Before becoming Head of Decommissioning, Numbuh 86 was a medic for the KND, as shown in "Operation: M.A.U.R.I.C.E.".
During Operation: S.L.U.M.B.E.R., it is revealed her true name is Fanny and she is revealed to have no friends until Numbuh 12 volunteers to be her friend. Despite this awkward moment she ends up having fun at her party until it is revealed to be a trap as Chad appears. Fortunately, Numbuh 4 defeats him and they head for the moon base. Once there they discovered that Cree Lincoln and her allies have invaded for the code module. Despite holding the teenagers back they are ultimately betrayed by Numbuh 12 and the teens escaped with the device. Fanny is sad at being betrayed by her one for real friend until Numbuh 3 offers to replace the traitor.
In Operation: Z.E.R.O., she was promoted to Global Tactical Officer by Numbuh 362, who was going to give the position to Numbuh 1 but decided not to after his recent reckless actions. She was assigned to protect Numbuh Two from the senior citizombies, yet ironically she was the one that infected him.
Ultimately, Numbuh One decided to let her keep the position since he wanted to be with his friends.
In Operation: I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S., she competed in the scavenger hunt, where she played against Shogun Roguefort in "toss a ping-pong ball in a fish bowl."Roguefort won, but gave the fish to Fanny after she told him the cake was angel food cake and not cheese cake.
In the game, Cartoon Network Punch Time Explosion, she was the first character seen in the background of the Treehouse level.
Family
- Father: Mr. Boss
- Mother: Mrs. Fulbright
- Brothers: Numbuh 85 and Shaunie Fulbright
Relationships
Family
Mr. Boss
Mr. Boss is Numbuh 86's father and she loves him very much. She didn't tell her father she was in the Kids Next Door until Operation: D.A.D.D.Y. because she was afraid he'd be ashamed of her, but he gives her permission to continue being in the Kids Next Door, as she was before. It is obvious that he cares for her very much.
Shaunie
Shaunie is one of Numbuh 86's two brothers, he is the youngest of the two. She shows an obvious distaste in him and Paddy, always talking about how they 'goof off' constantly. Shaunie is not part of the KND.
Numbuh 85
Numbuh 85, Paddy, is Numbuh 86's other brother. He is older than Shaunie, but younger than Fanny.
Friends
Numbuh 3
When Numbuh 86 first appeared in Operation: F.U.G.I.T.I.V.E., she worked alongside Numbuh 3 and Numbuh 5 when they tried to capture Numbuh 206, and is seen having a mutual respect towards each operative until the end when Numbuh 86 was being unfair to the boys of Sector V. Kuki was invited to Numbuh 86's sleepover in Operation: S.L.U.M.B.E.R., which developed the relationship between the two girls. In the episode, Numbuh 12 betrayed the KND, who was considered a friend by Numbuh 86. Afterward, Numbuh 3 tries to cheer her up and agreed to be her friend when no one else would. They have been good friends since then, and are also shown to share the same interests, such as Rainbow Monkeys.
Co-Workers
Numbuh 362
Fanny also shows fear in the midst of failing Rachel, as shown when she accidentally took her in as a prisoner, believing that it was Numbuh 206 in the hopes of impressing her commanding officers in the same above episode. Nevertheless, they seem close as Rachel would call Numbuh 86 by her real name, instead of her number.
In Operation: Z.E.R.O., Rachel had considered Fanny as runner-up to Numbuh 1 for promotion to Global Tactical Officer, which was then given to Numbuh 86 when Numbuh 362 decided that he was too reckless for the role. Fanny took the promotion with an outstanding victory gloat, which reveals that even Rachel resonates the same feelings as the others with Fanny's attitude. Wwhen Numbuh 362 decided to fight off a Citi-zombie Numbuh 60, Fanny was openly worried about her Supreme Leader.
Love Interests
Numbuh 19th Century
Numbuh 4
Trivia
- Her Irish ethnicity is shown mainly by the colour of her clothes, which are similar to the colours of the Flag of Ireland, where the colour of her shirt is green and her skirt is orange. In Operation: G.R.A.D.U.A.T.E.S. she was turned into an Irish Setter (which have hair that is commonly reddish/brown).
- Despite the fact that Numbuh 86 is Irish, her accent sounds more Scottish than Irish.
- Her codename is an obvious reference to the phrase "eighty sixed," meaning fired, cancelled or otherwise gotten rid of, referring to her occupation.
- The two small orange stickers on Fanny's shoulders were added to her outfit when she became the Head of Decommissioning.
- In a comic published by DC comics, Operation: F.O.R.G.E.T., Numbuh 86 was accidentally and temporarily decommissioned for a short period of time while testing the decommissioning chamber, which would be used the following day on her most trusted lieutenant, who had turned 13. During this time, she became obsessed with boys and began chasing down and uncontrollably kissing every boy she saw until she was hit in the head by Numbuh 4 and regained her memory. This implies her hatred of boys was caused by an experience while in the KND.
- In Operation: F.U.G.I.T.I.V.E., it was stated that she hates toenails and thinks they are disgusting.
- In Operation: D.A.D.D.Y., Numbuh 1 says that she has more Rainbow Monkeys than Kuki does.
- Fanny does NOT liked to be called "toots", as seen in Operation: P.I.N.K.E.Y.E., when Hoagie said, "Sure you do, toots." after she asked for paper towels for the girls bathroom. In her rage, she beat up Hoagie for calling her that nickname while ignoring his apology.
- It's implied that she is in charge of decommissioning due to the fact that she is already unpopular among other KND agents.
- It's mentioned in Operation: E.N.D. that Numbuhs 1 and 86 have been going to school together since at least kindergarten.
- Fanny was born in Ireland and moved to the United States while she was young.[1]
- She was once covered in fur after a third grader's science project went wrong according to the 2x4 Technology Handbook
- In Operation: F.E.R.A.L. it is implied she knows what happened to Nigel’s hair.
- The first sketch of Numbuh 86 looked remarkably like an ex-girlfriend of Tom Warburton, so he changed her to be more Irish with red hair.[2]
- After changing her design, Mr. Warburton was accused of modeling Numbuh 86 after Cartoon Network executive, Linda Simensky.[3]
- Numbuh 86 is one of Mr. Warburton's favorite characters.[2]
- It is revealed in Operation: S.L.U.M.B.E.R. that she has no friends, most likely due to her mean attitude. As of the end of the episode, Kuki Sanban is her only friend.
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