Character | Gallery |
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Drixenol Koldreliff | |
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Gender | Male |
Species | Pill (Amoxicillin) |
Occupation | Police Officer (film) Private Eye Detective (spin-off series) |
Character Info. | |
Aliases | Drix, Drips (By Ozzy), Special Agent Drixobenzometaphedramine, Drixy (By Maria.), Drixy-boy (By Auntie Histamine), The Big Pill (General Malaise), Bubble Butt/Beanhead (Ozzy), Pilly (Kai) |
Family | Unnamed brothers, Unnamed sisters, Auntie Histamine |
Pets | Dander |
Friends | Osmosis Jones, Leah Estrogen, Chief of the FPD, Maria Amino, Dander (Pet), Chief Gluteus (Sometimes), Paul Spryman (Sometimes), The Mole, Auntie Histamine (Aunt) |
Enemies | Thrax, germs and viruses |
Production Info. | |
Voiced by | David Hyde Pierce (film) Jeff Bennett (series) |
First Appearance | Home with Hector |
Last Appearance | Journey to the Center of the Tooth |
Movies | Osmosis Jones |
Drixenol Koldreliff, or Drix for short, is the deuteragonist of the film – he's a a red and yellow, boxy, and robotic cold pill who is Ozzy's best friend in the show Ozzy and Drix.
Appearance[]
Drix is a red and yellow cold pill with a robotic body. His chest is red with a yellow plus sign in the center surrounded in a yellow circle which opens up, revealing all kinds of medical bullets used for his cannon. He has yellow arms and while his hands are red, Drix's left hand is converted into a cannon, which he uses to put out inflammation, dry snout, shoot medical bullets or grenades that he keeps in his chest, etc. His face is the shape of a pill where the upper part of his face his red and the lower part where his mouth is located is yellow. Drix has white eyes with black pupils and a small mouth. In addition, Drix does not have any legs where he instead moves through effervescent propulsion ejected from his feet, similar to how rockets are ejected.
Personality[]
Drix is intelligent and dedicated to his work. Straight-laced and by-the-book, he is in opposition with the crude humor and unorthodox methods of Ozzy, but respects Ozzy as a partner due to his dedication to fighting diseases. He often seems curious of his surroundings and seems to enjoy recognition, flexing enthusiastically in photos. He can be seen as a show-off and even pretentious due to his professional and often complicated speech and attitude, though he means well and is overall a pleasant and heroic person.
Background[]
Osmosis Jones (film)[]
Drix serves a role of Ozzy's sidekick in the film. Drix arrives in Frank at the request of the Mayor's assistant to help cover up the cold symptoms that would hurt his reelection campaign. After his arrival, he initially followed his time-released schedule, visiting the throat and then the nose.
He and Ozzy initially have tension between the two of them, but after seeing that Jones may have a point in suspecting a virus is the cause of these symptoms, he opens up his heart to him. When the Mayor suggests finding another officer for him to work with, he hesitantly objects, saying he'll stay with Jones. The two have a sincere conversation in the car afterwards about Ozzy's bad reputation after ejecting a harmful bacteria from Frank in an unfortunate situation. Drix says he was right to help Frank and the two start to like each other a little more.
After gathering info from Chill at the Liver, he and Ozzy go up to the zit club to confront Thrax. Drix, having a more lighthearted moment, has to fit in by dancing, to which he seems embarassed. He says he has "no left feet," but Ozzy encourages him and he ends up enjoying himself a little while stalling for time.
Getting back to business, he busts in on Thrax and the germs just before they hurt Jones. After Drix struggles to open the capsule, Ozzy unleashes one of Drix's medical bullets in the club, popping the pimple and wiping out everyone except themselves and Thrax.
While Ozzy is fired, Drix is ordered out of the body by the mayor for what happened at the Zit in an attempt to cover the seriousness of Thrax's infection. What the mayor says to him seems to take down his self esteem temporarily, so much that he was willing to accept his fate without Ozzy's encouragement. Just before Drix leaves Frank by way of the Bladder, though, he teams back up with Ozzy. After discovering that Thrax is alive, the two have a confrontation against him in the Uvula.
Thrax escapes, causing Drix to launch Ozzy after him in a desperate attempt to save Frank. As the fight went down, Frank's organs began to fail as he reached fatal temperatures. Just in time, Ozzy returns with the missing DNA bead. As they're being awarded by the City for saving Frank, Ozzy welcomes his new partner to stay in Frank and continue to help out. Drix gladly accepts.
Ozzy & Drix[]
A few years after the movie Osmosis Jones, he and Drix are transferred by a mosquito bite to Hector Cruz. After saving Hector from the nasty Scarlet Fever virus that came with them, the two decided to stay and help Hector from becoming a disgusting degenerate like Frank. His arm cannon also appears to be more useful, containing various gadgets, including:
- A phone (various episodes)
- a claw-like appendage (used once in Triumph of the supplements and again in a Cold Day In Hector)
- an egg beater (used in Ozzy Jr.)
- a film projector (used in an out of body experience part 1)
- a milkshake maker (used in an out of body experience part 2)
- A jackhammer-like device (used in Journey to the Center of the Tooth.)
- a pen (used in Tricky Ricardo.)
- a screwdriver-like device (used in Street Up)
- a Gatling gun-like weapon that fires pill-like ammo (used in A Cold Day in Hector)
- a flamethrower-like device (used in A Cold Day in Hector)
- a water cannon-like device (used in Aunti Histamine)
Gallery[]
Screenshots and other images can be found at Drix/Gallery.
Trivia[]
- Drix’s last name is a pun on “cold relief”
- Drix, Auntie Histamine, Penicillin G and Drixine are the only medications to be featured in the Ozzy & Drix tv show.
- Ozzy taught Drix how to dance.
- Mayor Phlemming called him a Placebo, which is known to be ineffective pills.
- Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Lloyd, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, James Marsden, Alec Baldwin, Greg Kinnear, Doug Jones, Keanu Reeves, Steve Martin, Jeff Goldbum and John Goodman were all considered to voice Drix.
- Drix's medical flavor is cherry which according to some characters, smells nasty. It is possible that the cherry scent that is used to reveal Drix's presence is an artificial flavor as some medications have different flavors in order to be more palatable.
- Drix is claustrophobic, as seen in Journey to the Center of the Tooth
- The guy who voiced him in the movie, David Hyde Pierce, did play roles in only 2 other animated films. Those being Slim from A Bug's Life, and Bird from the 2000 movie adaptation of Tangerine Bear.