| Ethel Muggs | |
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| Archie Comics character | |
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| First appearance | Archie's Pal Jughead #84 (May 1962) |
| Created by | Samm Schwartz |
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| Portrayed by | Cindy Ambuehl (Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again) Shannon Purser (Riverdale) Aditi Saigal ("The Archies") |
| In-universe information | |
| Hometown | Riverdale |
| School | Riverdale High School |
Ethel Muggs is a fictional character frequently featured in Archie Comics. She is a student of Riverdale High School, sometimes known to her schoolmates by the nickname Big Ethel, though this nickname has largely fallen out of use since the 1980s.
She was first drawn by cartoonist Samm Schwartz, probably modeled after a prototype designed by Bill Vigoda for a 1948 Archie Comics story.[1] She has been voiced by Jane Webb, Jazzmin Lausanne, and Michele Phillips. Cindy Ambuehl played Ethel in the television film Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again, and Shannon Purser portrays the character in a recurring capacity on The CW's Riverdale. In Zoya Akhtar's 2024 Teen Rom-Com movie adaptation of The Archies, which goes by the same name, she is played by actress Aditi Saigal.