Khalil (mistakenly called "Carlyle" by Jonah) is a recurring character from VeggieTales. He made his debut appearance as the deuteragonist in Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie. became friends with Jonah (Archibald Asparagus). He often has the saying, "It runs very deep in my family." He was quite sad when Jonah had to walk the plank and was eaten by a whale. Khalil was also eaten, and they both were saved by angels in the belly of a whale. They both were about to be executed in front of King Twistomer (Apollo Gourd), but Jonah said that it isn't nice to slap people with fish and to be unkind to everybody. Soon Jonah wanted revenge when they were set free, but Khalil said that even though people are mean, God wants us to love everybody, and he left Jonah. Khalil is a half caterpillar and half worm who speaks in an Indian accent. He has black hair,black eyes, and a black mustache. His body is a blue-pale color. In his debut, he wore a red turban and a darker red vest with white diamond patterns. He has also been seen wearing a red tow truck driver outfit that consists of a red cap with a white oval that has a red tow truck graphic in the center and a matching jacket with the same logo on the right side, as well as a silver triangular zipper and a brown collar. As of The VeggieTales Show, he currently wears a black bow tie. Khalil is based after the worm who ate the plant God gave to Jonah when he watches over Nineveh. Phil's original concept of Khalil was to be just a worm like in the original story, but disliked it after seeing concept art as he looked too much like a snake. So they changed it to a caterpillar, though they kept the worm concept as he's a hybrid.