Typically the character known as Dora became extremely popular through an animated television serial in which Dora the Explorer is one who move around accomplishing some task that she has set out to do. The program became so popular that now there are ever so many online games that are churned out with Dora as the hiw did dora die main character. In both the television and the online games Dora is a seven year old girl who takes it upon herself to do various tasks that are more often than not full of trials and travails that Dora invariably overcomes. In fact her various missions are made into different games that kids fall over each other to play.

In most of the Dora games Dora is faithfully followed by her most dependable cousin Deigo who is believed to rescue all sorts of animals. Other characters that appear in the games are Swiper who is the bad character or the villain of the game, Dora's three cheerleaders the Fiesta Trio comprised of a grasshopper, a frog and a snail and Boots, a lively and ever so friendly monkey.