Dr. Zoidberg: Futurama’s Sympathetic Outcast
Dr. Zoidberg is the guy who shows up to the party, arms wide open, and gets told to wait outside. For years…
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Amy Wong-Kroker: From Intern to Icon
When we first meet Amy Wong-Kroker, she looks like a punchline waiting to happen. She is the clumsy, spoiled intern in a…
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Calculon: Futurama’s Greatest Hollywood Satire
He can deliver a single line with more passion than a dying sun. Calculon is the star of All My Circuits and…
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Turanga Leela: The Burden of Competence
It is easy to reduce Turanga Leela to one eye and a roundhouse kick. That misses the point entirely. Her real superpower…
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Detective Cartoon Characters: 12 Best, Ranked
There is something deeply satisfying about a good mystery. It is even better when the one cracking the case is a talking…
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Klaus Heisler American Dad: The Perpetual Underdog
Klaus Heisler is a man trapped in a goldfish bowl, but his spirit is trapped in the forever-online cycle of modern culture.…
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Roger Smith American Dad: The Show’s Dungeon Master
Roger Smith is quite possibly the greatest sitcom character ever written. Why? Because while every other character is locked into their personality,…
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Snooper and Blabber: Hanna-Barbera’s Detective Duo
In the late 1950s, movie detectives were all grit and cigarettes. Hanna-Barbera looked at that whole hard-boiled world and made a cat…
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Evil Cartoon Characters: 20 of the Most Iconic Villains
Every great cartoon needs a great villain. The hero is only as good as the monster trying to stop them. So here…
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Birdman and the Galaxy Trio: A Saturday Morning Classic
Before gritty reboots and sprawling cinematic universes, Saturday morning television was a much simpler, weirder place. In 1967, Hanna-Barbera gave us Birdman…
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Anime Like Berserk: 15 Dark Picks, Ranked
Here is the thing about loving Berserk. Once Guts and his brutal, tragic world get under your skin, most other anime feel…
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14 Best Tiger Cartoon Characters (With Audit)
I have an unfair bias when it comes to tiger cartoon characters, and I am not going to pretend otherwise. The moment…
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12 Iconic Arrogant Cartoon Characters (Ranked)
Nobody should be this fun to watch lose. Yet the most insufferable egos in animation are often the characters we quote the…
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12 Cartoon Heroes With Heartbreaking Origins (Ranked)
Cartoons promise a safe place. Bright colours, big jokes, a hero who wins by the end of the episode. Then you look…
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17 Chaotic Cartoon Characters, Ranked by Mayhem
Every great cartoon needs an agent of chaos. This is the character who kicks over the anthill and ignores the rules of…
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23 Iconic Anime Characters That Can Fly (Ranked)
Ever wish you could just leave the ground behind? Anime grants that wish constantly, and it does it in wildly different ways.…
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12 Iconic Flying Cartoon Characters (Ranked)
Flight has always been the ultimate power fantasy in animation. But looking back at the greatest flyers in cartoon history, it is…
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Craig of the Creek: The Masterclass in World-Building
In modern animation, world-building usually implies spaceships or magic kingdoms. But Craig of the Creek achieved something much harder: it turned a…
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