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The Mighty Ones

US television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ107694952 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Mighty Ones is an American animated fantasy comedy television series produced by DreamWorks Animation Television and created by Sunil Hall and Lynne Naylor, which premiered on November 9, 2020, on Peacock and Hulu, and ran until December 9, 2022.

It is the first TV series produced by DreamWorks Animation Television since their rename to be completely original material and not based on any pre-existing property, as most of their television series are based on DreamWorks movies, books, or other franchises.

Premise

The Mighty Ones follows the eponymous quartet, consisting of a twig, a pebble, a leaf, and a strawberry. These unruly friends reside in the backyard as they try to live life to the biggest.

In the first two seasons, the backyard belonged to an all-girl rock band. In the first three episodes of the third season, the band were evicted and a young hipster couple with a baby moved in. This was negated by time travel and it went back to the original status quo.

Cast

Josh Brener as Twig

Jessica McKenna as Rocksy & Tim

Jimmy Tatro as Bucky "Leaf"

Alex Cazares as Verry Berry

Janina Gavankar as Kensington

Grey Griffin as Samosa & Percy the Pear

Fryda Wolff as Bats

Fred Tatasciore as Mr. Ladybug/Mr. Ladybüg, Rabbit, Jeff Berry, Prophetic Berry, Berry Patch, Matilda, Boppo, & Wheezy

Eric Bauza as Ben the Stinkbug, Uncle Berry, The Beast, Additional voices

Stephen Root as Bernard

Kari Wahlgren as Shelly & Vera

Tru Valentino as David "Dave" & Carder

Steve Little as Dr.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “The Mighty Ones” is uS television series. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mighty, Ones and television, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Mighty, Ones and television is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

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Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q107694952. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Mighty Ones” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.