Phil Betterman is a major character in The Croods: A New Age. He is the husband of Hope Betterman and the father of Dawn Betterman. Phil is Grug Crood's best friend and brother-in-arms.
He doesn’t get along very well with the Croods family at first both he and Hope seeing themselves as better than cave people. He is Grug Crood's rival but by the end of he film the two are brother-in-arms. However in the animated series both characters regress to being rivals once again.
Personality[]
Phil is the patriarch of the Bettermans. He is very intelligent, fatherly and creative as he likes inventing new ideas to help the family and improve the lands. Like Grug, Phil is extremely overprotective, foolish and worrisome of his family and takes great lengths in keeping them safe from danger. But unlike the former, Phil can be very cowardly, spineless, laid-back and mild-mannered as he would run and hide from problems rather than face them. Phil and Grug had a rocky start at first because of their different views on how to raise their families and what's best for everyone, but after Grug and Ugga ate all the bananas, they were getting kidnapped by the Spiny Mandrilla's army of Punch Monkeys and realizing how much pressure they were putting on both of their families, the two of them learned are not so different and they reconcile and form a very strong friendship with each other. Phil not only considers Grug as his best friend, but also as his brother-in-arms and member of the family.
Appearance[]
Phil is a tall, long-shaped tan-skinned man with brown eyes. He wore a beige-turquoise vest, turquoise pendant, beige-green pants, and green flip-flops.
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Trivia[]
- Phil doesn’t like pets or animals in general.
- It was stated by Dawn that he never once hugged Sash.
- A flashback revealed that when Dawn was born he wanted to name her Phil Jr.
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