Who Are Your Favorite Animated Characters And Why?

[TrekNut87]

Bloo (Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends)- I love this little guy! He represents the wacky, goofy kid in me.

Kon (Bleach)- Again, he represents the goofball in me and he cracks me up every time I see him.

Heffer the Cow (Rocko's Modern Life)- This was one of my favorite shows as a kid. I liked all the characters, but Heffer was awesome and made me laugh hysterically.

Cheese (Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends)- Cheese I guess represents the weirdo in me He has some of the funniest, most random lines in the show and that's why I find him so funny.

Fred Fredberger (The Grim Adventures of Billy And Mandy)- I really can't explain why I like this guy. Like Cheese, he's very random and says some of the craziest things that manage to crack me up each time.

 

[General Kang]

I will go with this short list, off the top of my head -

GOLLUM - best job ever of integrating a believable animated character (CGI) onscreen with live actors... sure, it was obvious he wasn't EXACTLY as real, but it was surprising how close they got

GROMIT - claymation/Aardmanmation is so underrated in its comedic possibilities

FOGHORN LEGHORN - quotes like - "Ya gotta keep your eye on the ball, son.... eye... ball.... EYEBALL! It's a joke, son, don't ya get it?" Brilliant...

HADES - From the Disney movie Hercules - James Woods was on FIRE, so to speak... the whole bit where his hair flares up more the madder he gets... genius

Oh, and as honorable mention, all those make-your-own pinup girls on the sidebar are very distracting...

 

[Kegek]

GOLLUM - best job ever of integrating a believable animated character (CGI) onscreen with live actors... sure, it was obvious he wasn't EXACTLY as real, but it was surprising how close they got

True. And it was the first case of using rotoscoping (or whatever the term is for integrating an actor's facial performance into the CGI one) that genuinely impressed me. I think Gollum was the all-round best integrated character... since Yoda, really.

HADES - From the Disney movie Hercules - James Woods was on FIRE, so to speak... the whole bit where his hair flares up more the madder he gets... genius

Yeah, he was a fun villain. Disney's had quite a stable of fun villains over the years. Like Jaffar, Scar, Ursula, the Horned King...

Well, I liked the Horned King...

 

[M'Sharak]

Baloo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ogQ0uge06o&feature=related and King (Cousin) Louie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9cWkUhZ8n4 from The Jungle Book cause I absolutely love the two songs and scenes from my favorite Disney movie.

While there's not a King Louie in the original story, and while I do very much like the Disney movie even 40 years later, Baloo most definitely comes from Rudyard Kipling's collection of stories of 70 years earlier, so he doesn't quite fit the topic.

 

[Defcon]

Baloo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ogQ0uge06o&feature=related and King (Cousin) Louie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9cWkUhZ8n4 from The Jungle Book cause I absolutely love the two songs and scenes from my favorite Disney movie.

While there's not a King Louie in the original story, and while I do very much like the Disney movie even 40 years later, Baloo most definitely comes from Rudyard Kipling's collection of stories of 70 years earlier, so he doesn't quite fit the topic.

Actually it's O.K. acoording to NCC-1701's OP:

BTW, I included only original animated characters who don't originate in another medium (like Peter Parker for example). But you're not forced to do the same.

 

[Kegek]

Actually it's O.K. acoording to NCC-1701's OP:

BTW, I included only original animated characters who don't originate in another medium (like Peter Parker for example). But you're not forced to do the same.

And about a dozen characters already mentioned originate in books, fables, mythology, comic books, videogames, toy lines, and so on.

 

[M'Sharak]

Baloo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ogQ0uge06o&feature=related and King (Cousin) Louie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9cWkUhZ8n4 from The Jungle Book cause I absolutely love the two songs and scenes from my favorite Disney movie.

While there's not a King Louie in the original story, and while I do very much like the Disney movie even 40 years later, Baloo most definitely comes from Rudyard Kipling's collection of stories of 70 years earlier, so he doesn't quite fit the topic.

Actually it's O.K. acoording to NCC-1701's OP:

BTW, I included only original animated characters who don't originate in another medium (like Peter Parker for example). But you're not forced to do the same.

Okay, I somehow manged to misread that earlier and withdraw my nitpicky comment.

 

[auntiehill]

Bloo (Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends)- I love this little guy! He represents the wacky, goofy kid in me.

Cheese (Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends)- Cheese I guess represents the weirdo in me He has some of the funniest, most random lines in the show and that's why I find him so funny.

Glad to see I'm not the only one here with taste.

 

[Michael]

Thanks for the suggestions, zakkrusz.

Those sound very interesting:

2. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: (Science Fiction, Crime Drama) In a unique future world where the lines of man and machine are no longer as clearly defined, a covert branch of the Japanese government called Section 9 deals with cybercrimes, terrorists, and other crimes related to cyborgs and androids. The team consists of cyborgs all with their own strengths and skills. Runs 52 episodes and has been fully released. This series has been aired on Cartoon Network and might still be or come back sometime since it got good ratings.

3. Planetes: (Science Fiction, Drama, Comedy, Romance) In the not so distant future space travel between our little part of the solar system has increased. This has the added effect of of making Earth's orbit filled with random space junk from launches which pose a very real danger to incomming and outgoing flights. The debris section dubbed "half section" consists of a team of Space EVA workers that collect, recycle, or destroy the debris. It's probabally the best and most believable hard sci-fi show that I've seen. It actually pays attention to things like physics. 26 episode series available for a very decent price.

I think I'll definitely check out Ghost in the Shell.

 

[judge alba]

liked raven from the teen titans even if she was rather wierd, the teen titans are slughtly differant from thier comic types. used to read the comics all the time then got bored just after cyborg was shot out of a rocket or somthing anyway teen titans seems a more 'daft' version of the comics' i like daft. like scooby doo too of course though a coward he still protects his friends.
liked tetsueo? from akira kinda felt sorry for the guy in a way

 

[Ptrope]

Man, there are so many!

Wallace and Gromit (they come as a team, of course)
Buzz Lightyear - clueless but so confident!
Lightning McQueen - some moments of really excellent and subtle animation
Helen Parr (Mrs. Incredible; digital MILF )
Holly Wood (Cool World); just plain hot
Peace (Wizards); enigmatic and I just like the style
Avatar (Wizards); as close as I've seen to an animated Cheech Wizard
M'ress (ST:TAS); pretty kitty!
Angel (Rock & Rule); sexy for an evolved rat
Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer's Apprentice (Fantasia); one of the best performances of MM ever
Iron Giant (Iron Giant, of course ); Vin Diesel in his biggest role, literally
Shrek - Mike Meyer's best role
The Grinch (Chuck Jones' version from the classic cartoon); SO much better than the live-action, and a very fitting animation of the book
Major Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost in the Shell); sexy, sleek, ethereal
Princess Selenia (Arthur and the Invisibles); really nice butt for 3D ; Madonna's best performance (maybe because we didn't have to see her)

 

[Super Grover]

Dale Gribble from King of the Hill. His committment to his paranoia alternately amuses and impresses me. He's great!

"Guns don't kill people, the government does."

 

[zakkrusz]

Thanks for the suggestions, zakkrusz.

Those sound very interesting:
I think I'll definitely check out Ghost in the Shell.

No problem, hope you like them. If you've got questions about them or need any more suggestions feel free to PM me. I'm one of the larger anime fanatics here so I'll probabally be able to help you out.

 

[Red Ranger]

People,

Well, so many come to mind. But I'd have to say the first three I think of are:

Bugs Bunny: The original animated slapstick comedian, and wise-ass Noo Yawkah! I love it when he says New York stuff, like when he recounts that he "used ta woik the shuttle between Grand Central and Times Square!" a train I took for many years!

The Tick: He's so earnest and goofy at the same time. A wonderful spoof of comic book superheroes. Love it when he says, "Evlidoers, stop your badness!"

Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible: There's just something endearing about a super-powered guy forced to live a mundane life that just made The Incredibles work for me, and then the cathartic release when he gets back into the superhero game.

Red Ranger

 

[Velocity]

Invader Zim's Zim and Gir.

 

[Ben Sisko3]

Professor Hubert Farnsworth, Philip J. Fry, Bender Bending Rodriguez, Robot Santa, Robot Devil, David Xanatos, Eric Cartman, Kyle Broflovski and Tweek.

 

[TGTheodore]

Virtually any of the classic Warner Brothers characters, hands down. The best education in timing, wordplay, morality and classical music anyone could ever get, all rolled into one cartoon.

I also like a lot of the Jay Ward family (Rocky, Bullwinkle, Mr. Peabody and Sherman, Fractured Fairy Tales, Dudley Doo-Right, Tom Slick, the original George of the Jungle) for many of the same reasons.

And you have to toss some Hanna-Barbera characters in there, too.

--Ted

 

[captcalhoun]

Taz
Shrek
Scrat
Donkey
Wallace and Gromitt
Genie in Aladdin (the Robin Williams one)
McQueen
Mike Wazowski

 

[Hermiod]

My choices are:

Daffy Duck and Wile E. Coyote - I always rooted for both of the above. Their various nemeses were always so smug and needed to be brought down to Earth.

Lisa Simpson - she's my favourite Simpsons character. She's not over the top like Bart and Homer have become.

Dick Dastardly - because he never stopped that pigeon.

Morbo from Futurama - Futurama's funniest side character, IMHO.

Charlie the Unicorn - Yes this counts!

Aside from that, most of the cartoons I've watched have been based on other properties so, in a separate list I'd go for Spider-Man, Starscream, Grimlock and Skeletor.

 

[Ben Sisko3]

I forgot about Morbo, Captain Murphy, The Iron Giant and Darkwing Duck.