member of Gorillaz, she has been displayed as being one of the more emotionally mature members of the group, to the point of referring to herself as the "big sister" of the band, as she often protects the other band members when they are in danger and comforts them when they are distressed. This aspect of Noodle is displayed in the Song Machine episode "Aries", where Noodle abruptly stops her ride and expresses a concern for 2-D (who is riding with Murdoc) to Russel via a text message in the middle of a race between the band members. In the cover art for "Aries", Noodle attempts to pull Russel off of Murdoc after he beats him up for injuring 2-D. Physical appearance Noodle is a short and thin Japanese woman with short hair and almond-shaped eyes. Her skin generally has a warm olive tone and she tends to wear a small amount of makeup, which usually consists of painted fingernails and eye shadow. Noodle's hair is short and its colour is generally either dark purple or black, but she has occasionally dyed her hair, such as in the music video for "Tranz". In the Gorillaz era of the band, Noodle was designed with exaggerated stereotypical Asian features such as her skin tone, overbite, and exaggerated epicanthic folds, although this element of Noodle has been mostly eliminated since Demon Days. In Demon Days art, Noodle's eyes were frequently covered by her hair, and Plastic Beach artwork portrays Noodle wearing a butterfly mask that covers her face. When Noodle's eyes in this era were sometimes designed without epicanthic folds, they were pitch black and appeared to be hollow. Her hair began to be designed with a dark purple color in Demon Days than the black color that it previously was in Gorillaz, and in Plastic Beach, Noodle started to be shown in makeup more frequently. Fashion Noodle and the rest of Gorillaz are regularly illustrated as wearing different wardrobe and the clothing she is depicted in changes often, which is rare in cartoons. In Gorillaz artwork, Noodle's clothing almost exclusively consisted of classic kimono jackets on top of kimono shirts with matching wide leg shorts, slip-on shoes and a radio helmet. In artwork for Demon Days, Noodle's clothing became more varied, and she most commonly wore two toned striped sweatshirts with jeans and boots, sometimes shown wearing crop tops or a kimono