Cartoons & animation
From 1930s theatrical shorts to the shows on now.
Aang
Television Animation
Avatar: The Last Airbender is an American series built with genuine respect for the East Asian and Inuit…
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Ariel
Disney Animation
The Little Mermaid ended a twenty-year decline and is generally treated as the start of the Disney Renaissance.
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Bart Simpson
Television Animation
Bart was the show's initial breakout and, for roughly the first three seasons, its centre of gravity.
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Bender
Television Animation
Bender is an industrial robot built to bend girders, who develops a personality consisting almost entirely of vices.
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Bugs Bunny
Looney Tunes
Bugs Bunny is the American trickster archetype in its most refined commercial form.
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Buzz Lightyear
Pixar
Buzz Lightyear is a toy who does not know he is a toy, and the first film's best sequence is the one where he finds out.
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Charlie Brown
Peanuts
Charlie Brown is a study in persistent failure that never becomes cruelty.
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Chase
PAW Patrol
Chase is a German Shepherd police pup and, by most measures.
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Daffy Duck
Looney Tunes
Daffy is the most substantially rewritten character in the Warner roster.
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Donald Duck
Disney Animation
Donald exists because Mickey became too popular to be funny.
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Elsa
Disney Animation
Elsa was written as the villain, and the song changed the film.
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Eric Cartman
Television Animation
Cartman is the rare comic lead written with no redeeming qualities at all, and the show is disciplined about it.
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He-Man
Masters of the Universe
He-Man exists because Mattel turned down the Star Wars toy licence and needed something to compete with…
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Homer Simpson
Television Animation
Homer began as a fairly conventional exasperated sitcom father in the 1987 Tracey Ullman shorts and drifted.
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Jack Skellington
Disney Animation
The Nightmare Before Christmas came from a poem Tim Burton wrote while working as an animator at Disney…
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Kermit the Frog
The Muppets
Kermit was built in 1955 from Jim Henson's mother's discarded coat and two halves of a ping-pong ball.
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Leonardo
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Leonardo is the responsible one, which in this franchise means he is the character the others resent.
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Marshall
PAW Patrol
Marshall is the Dalmatian firefighter and the show's comic relief.
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Michelangelo
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Michelangelo is the youngest brother and the one the 1987 cartoon leaned on hardest.
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Mickey Mouse
Disney Animation
Mickey Mouse was created out of a contractual disaster.
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Minnie Mouse
Disney Animation
Minnie appeared in the same 1928 short as Mickey and has been beside him ever since.
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Miss Piggy
The Muppets
Miss Piggy started as a background chorus pig with no lines and became the show's most forceful presence.
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No-Face
Studio Ghibli
No-Face is a spirit with no identity of his own who takes on the characteristics of whatever he consumes.
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Optimus Prime
Transformers
Optimus Prime is a toy that was given a soul by a work-for-hire comics writer.
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Peter Griffin
Television Animation
Family Guy exists because of a student film.
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Rainbow Dash
My Little Pony
Rainbow Dash is the brash, competitive one, and she matters because of what Lauren Faust was trying to…
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Rick Sanchez
Television Animation
Rick and Morty began as a crude animated parody of Back to the Future and became the most influential…
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Scooby-Doo
Looney Tunes
Scooby-Doo was built to survive censorship.
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Simba
Disney Animation
The Lion King was the studio's B-project.
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Skeletor
Masters of the Universe
Skeletor is a blue-skinned sorcerer with a bare skull for a face who spends every episode failing.
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Snoopy
Peanuts
Snoopy began as an ordinary dog on four legs with no inner life and became.
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SpongeBob SquarePants
Television Animation
SpongeBob was created by a marine biologist.
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Stitch
Disney Animation
Stitch is a genetically engineered weapon designed to destroy everything he touches.
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Totoro
Studio Ghibli
Totoro is a forest spirit in a film with almost no plot, and that is the achievement.
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Tweety
Looney Tunes
Tweety is a much less innocent character than the merchandise suggests, and that gap is the joke.
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Winnie-the-Pooh
Disney Animation
Winnie-the-Pooh began as a set of stories A. A. Milne told about his son Christopher Robin's actual toys.
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Woody
Pixar
Woody is the more interesting half of the pair, because he is the one with something to lose.
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