Dim is a member of the Circus Troupe as an animal performer and main character in A Bug's Life movie.
A Bug's Life[]
Dim is a rhinoceros beetle with an animal-like nature and is first shown in a "lion taming" act with his mother figure, Rosie. He sobs in pain after Rosie accidentally lashes one of his feet, driving parts of the audience away. He is also shown to be ticklish when some ant kids unintentionally tickle his thorax with their antennae while exploring beneath him. He is the largest insect of the circus troupe, and also the transport to Heimlich, Rosie, Tuck and Roll. Despite his great size and brute strength, he is gentle and childlike, tending to back away in fear and enjoying the company of Flik and the Blueberries.
When the circus bugs perform their magic act in front of Hopper, Dim provides refuge for the Queen when she is secretly let out of the "Chinese Cabinet of Metamorphosis". Dim also helps Dot scare the grasshopper Thumper away by roaring fiercely at him. When the ants load Hopper into the circus cannon, Dim jumps onto the cannon, ready to blast Hopper away, but rain begins to fall before he can do so.
At the end of the film, some of the Blueberries try to hide under Dim's wings, but Rosie spots them and he lets them go with a disappointed sigh. As the circus troupe leave the island, Dim carries the wagon, leaving Heimlich to be carried by Manny and Francis instead.
Trivia[]
- Dim was Brad Garrett's first Pixar character.
- Out of all the circus bugs, Dim seems to have the least number of lines throughout the film.
- Toys of Dim and his friends can be seen at Al's Toy Barn in Toy Story 2.
- When Dim hides the Queen under his wings, Manny mistakenly calls him a dung beetle, when he is really a rhinoceros beetle.
- When Dim roars to help Dot scare Thumper away, his roar sounds just like the T-Rex in Jurassic Park, a similar way to how Rex roared in Toy Story 3 and during the Strange things song in the original Toy Story.
- Dim also provided the same roars from the T-Rexes in The Lost World: Jurassic Park.
- This character design, minus his middle legs, may have been reused for Trixie in Toy Story 3.
- Dim's horn structure wasn't meant to be reflective of a specific kind of horned beetle. However, in 2006, entomologist Brett C. Ratcliffe discovered a species of rhinoceros beetle that closely resembled Dim which was named Megaceras briansaltini and dubbed the "Nature imitates art" coincidence as The Dim Effect.
- His favourite colour is blue, just like Dot