Jennifer "Pepper" Ann Pearson is the protagonist of the animated series Pepper Ann. She is a geeky, hyperactive and unpredictable 12-year-old 7th grade girl who attends Hazelnut Middle School with her best friends Milo Kamalani and Nicky Little.

== Appearance == Pepper Ann is a tall and slender Caucasian girl with long puffy auburn hair that she has tied into a ponytail and wears flat oval shaped glasses with blue lenses. Her signature outfit consists of a purple t-shirt that is slightly lifted in the front and a dark yellow skirt with a strange green and orange circle pattern on it. She has light blue leggings, yellow socks and black and white sneakers.

== Personality == Pepper Ann is rather eccentric and imaginative for a girl her age. However, being 12 years old, she can still sometimes overthink or overanalyze a situation. When this happens, she will consult her conscience (whom she dubs "Alter Ego") for internal advice. Pepper Ann is also sometimes cynical, rude, sarcastic and will drop a passive-aggressive quip or two when she perceives something as strange or foreign to her. Her main objective is to establish some kind of reputation or image based on what she believes to be acceptable. This, along with her inability to listen to reason, frequent ditziness or see things from others' perspectives, usually result in her schemes backfiring in unintentional, but usually hilarious ways. Occasionally, she is shown to be sneaky, manipulative, greedy, and willing to take advantage of others in order to get what she wants, but she will always learn her lesson and realize that she is wrong. Regardless, Pepper Ann is ultimately a good person who cares about her friends and family. While she sometimes has trouble accepting certain things, she is quick to adapt and is quick to be motivated whenever something piques her interest.

== Trivia ==

• Pepper Ann originated as a comic strip in YM Magazine and was meant to be a cartoon extension of series creator Sue Rose. Her appearance was also described as being similar to Rose's soda mascot character Fido Dido.
• Throughout the series, it is heavily implied that Pepper Ann is from a Jewish background. In "Dances with Ignorance", her family is traced back to English, Belgian, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Navajo Indian.
• Pepper Ann has a habit of shouting "Enough!" when things get too far out of hand. She apparently inherited this from her mother as she has been shown to do the same thing.
• Pepper Ann possibly suffers from Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). This is especially evident in the episode "Peer Counselor P.A." where she has difficulty paying attention to people and is occasionally shown to have certain character tics.
• Despite not being the best student in Hazelnut Middle School, Pepper Ann apparently knows Morse code, as seen in "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Milo".
• Pepper Ann's favorite color is purple (in spite of Barney).
• Pepper Ann's favorite subject in school used to be Gym, before the trampoline incident. Her least favorite subject is either English or Math.
• Pepper Ann's favorite pizza from the Greezy N' Cheezy is the Inside Out crust pizza.
• Pepper Ann's favorite Flaming Snot album is "Snotty Road".
• Pepper Ann's favorite games include Crunch Pod, Contortie, Cowz, and Revenge of Cowz.
• Pepper Ann is self-conscious about her hair.
• Pepper Ann has a "Not Favorite People list"; Alice Kane, Amber, Mr. Carter, Principal Hickey, and Brenda are directly mentioned, but the list is implied to be longer.