The famous meerkat and warthog duo that gained popularity from the Disney full length animated movie “Lion King”. After appearing in the move and its two sequels, the two joyful animal friends even got their own cartoon TV series. Timon and Pumbaa are most famous for the song they sing, describing their outlook on life: “Hakuna Matata”, or in other words: “no worries”.
gained popularity from the Disney full length animated movie “Lion King”. After appearing in the move and its two sequels, the two joyful animal friends even got their own cartoon TV series. Timon and Pumbaa are most famous for the song they sing, describing their outlook on life: “Hakuna Matata”, or in other words: “no worries”.
Ariel is the famous Walt Disney red haired mermaid. Her character is based on Hans Christian Andersen’s title character of “The Little Mermaid” story. Similar to other female Disney characters, Ariel is also a princess, but of an underwater kingdom. She longs for a life of a human and falls in love with Prince Eric, who she saves from a shipwreck.
Donald Duck is a Disney character “born” in 1934. He has appeared in 178 theatrical films, beating even Mickey Mouse, who has starred in 137. Donald is easily recognized by the blue sailor suit and red bow tie he always wears as well as by his almost unintelligible manner of speaking.
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One of the very famous cartoon characters of all time is Donald Duck. Walt Disney Productions created this character in 1934 as a white duck. This anthropomorphic cartoon character is designed in, a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet and would usually have a sailor shirt and cap worn. This is not forgetting the black or sometimes red bow tie that completes the outfit.
This character is very popular for being mischievous, temperamental, and for his semi-intelligible speech. Donald Duck and his friend Mickey Mouse make probably the most famous cartoon characters created by Disney and this claim was substantiated with the inclusion of Donald in the TV Guide’s list of the 50 greatest cartoon characters ever, published in 2002. Besides making this list as an affirmation of his popularity, Donald has also made more film appearances than any other character from the Disney world.
As mentioned earlier, Donald Duck made his first appearance in 1934 in The Wise Little Hen and his second appearance came in Orphan’s Benefit, where his temperamental side was actually introduced, foil to Mickey Mouse.
He went on to make strong appearances in more than a hundred theatrical films in less than twenty years after his first appearance. Many of these films got recognition at the Academy Awards. The 1930s got a comic trio of Mickey, Goofy and Donald with Don Donald being his own film series in 1937. This introduced Daisy Duck, who was his love interest and his nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie. Chips Ahoy was his film in 1956 where Donald made his appearances primarily in educational films before he eventually returned to his famous theatrical animation in 1983 with Mickey’s Christmas Carol. Fantasia 2000, released in 1999 was another great success that featured Donald. The direct-to-video Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers released in 2004 and the television series Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and the video game Quackshot are some of the great works Donald has appeared in.
Donald Duck is not only one of the very famous cartoon characters; he has also made huge appearances in comics with Al Taliferro, Carl Barks, and Don Rosa being some of the very famous people that have drawn Donald. Carl Barks is particularly credited for creating Scrooge McDuck, Donald’s rich uncle, and some other characters.
The Nordic countries in Europe really like the Donald Duck character, having many of his comic publications. And in fact, the term “Donaldism” was actually coined in Norway, being Disney comics’ fandom.
Spider-man’s real identity is Peter Parker, a normal looking newspaper journalist. However, once bitten by a radioactive spider, Peter acquires super strength, as well as the ability to walk on walls and ceilings. He decides to use his new powers for protecting the society he lives in from the evil villains and that is why Peter Parker turns into the superhero known as Spider-man.
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Very few animated characters are as popular as the Spider-man. Still one of the most popular animated television series and comic book stories character, the Peter Parker character has been largely attributed for its wide acceptance and huge popularity.
From being an average kid to an orphan who lived with his uncle and aunt to his transformation to the superhero Spider-Man character, Peter Parker’s Spider-Man series continues to gain popularity and acceptability. This could be due to some sympathy resulting from the fact that Peter was an orphan or due to his heroic exploits of fighting crime.
Peter Parker’s amazing transformation from an ordinary kid to a superhero came from a spider bite. The bite gave him some “spidey powers” that could be linked to the features of the spider but with a bit more strength.
Spider-man made a break into the TV screens in 1967 when the animated television series was aired on September 9 of that year and continued till the 14th of June, 1970. This was just the start of many amazing stuff to come from the comic book series created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
The success of the animated series over several decades gave rise to the release of Spider-Man the movie. Released in 2002, the movie broke records making over $114 million in just one weekend. The movie went on to make over $400 million in the US alone. The sequel of the movie sold a bit less than the initial release with just some dollars above $373 million. The success of the Spider-Man movie cannot however be compared to other superhero movies with the Spidey moving ranking high among other such characters.
Peter Parker in the form of Spider-Man risked his life to keep the community safe from evildoers especially when he had to fight super-powered beings like Dr. Octopus, Mysterio, and the Green Goblin even though he was continuously labeled by the editor of New York Daily Bulge, J. Jonah Jameson as a criminal with his name making the front page headlines describing him as evil.
From the comic character to appearing in several animated television series and his eventual success at the box office from being a character in several motion pictures, Spider-Man continues to be a success. The success ad wide acceptance of the web-man superhero cannot be explained. He is not the strongest of superheroes neither is he the smartest or “baddest” of them.
Captain America is actually Steve Rogers who, after a medical experiment during World War II was turned from a weakling into a superhero. Captain America wears a costume resembling the USA flag. His only weapon is an impenetrable shield that could also be used as a boomerang. Captain America also has a sidekick, Bucky.
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Captain America remains one of the very common marvel comic heroes especially with his shield that makes him stand out from most other superheroes.
The fictional and very famous American hero is a creation of cartoonists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. His first appearance to the world was in Captain America Comics #1 back in the early forties, March 1941 to be precise, from Timely Comics. Captain America gained lots of popularity during the Second World War especially as Timely Comics, a predecessor of Marvel Comics made designed him as a patriotic hero that the Axis powers of the Second World War. Captain America’s popularity deemed as the war ended and until it was revived by Marvel Comics in 1964, it only remained underground.
Captain America appears in a costume with an American flag motif with his indestructible shield completing his outfit. Steve Rogers is the Captain America character that was enhanced by an experimental serum to the peak of human perfection in order to assist the government of America in the Second World War.
After making his first appearance outside the comic books in 1944 becoming the first marvel comics character to feature outside the comics, the character has gone on to appear in several motion pictures works.
The superhero character, Captain America has made its transition through time from the early days of the Golden Age in the 1940’s to the Silver Age and even era after that. Despite the transition the character had some constant features that remained with it.
One of such features is his shield. Having no superhuman powers, Captain America defeats his enemies with the use of his shield which he throws at his opponents. The super-soldier serum and vita-ray treatment is another feature that remained with the character all through his transition. This is of course the essence of Captain America and his transformation thanks to the serum helps to increase his strength, agility, speed, endurance, reflexes, and healing among others to a degree beyond the ordinary beings potential. He becomes a superhuman that almost never tires out thanks to the formula.
In his over 70 years of adventure and existence, Captain America has gone on to fight and defeat people that had ideas contrary to the American values. Values such as Nazism, anarchism, technocratic fascism, and terrorism made people like Doctor Faustus, Baron Zemo, Crossbones, and Flag Smasher great enemies of Captain.
The leader of the Avengers team can simply be described as the patriotic defender of the American values.
The Incredible Hulk is one of the many X-Men, the superheroes created by Marvel Comics but is definitely the strongest one of them all. He is actually scientist Bruce Banner who, during an experiment, gets exposed to Gamma radiation and turns into the green, huge and super strong Hulk whenever he is angry.
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One of the most popular marvel comic characters and probably the strongest character that has ever graced our television screens is the Incredible Hulk. The huge green powerful character was a very famous American television series in the late eighties based on the comic book character developed by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee. The initial work featured stars like Bill Bixby, Dr. David Banner, and Lou Ferringo playing the Hulk character.
Ever since making its first appearance on the screens of television viewers worldwide, the character has continued to grow in popularity over its fifty years of existence. The huge green comic character was incredibly strong and came as a result of Dr. Bruce Banner being bombarded with Gamma radiation, turning him into a big green creature – the Hulk, when he becomes angry.
The Incredible Hulk was one of the founding members of the popular Avengers team that also had the membership of other well-known marvel characters like Iron Man, Ant-Man, Thor, and The Wasp. However he was only featured in the first two series of the Avengers franchise as his characteristic anger turned him into an enemy in third issue with the Avengers team having to subdue him rather than having him as an ally.
There were a number of changes for the television made by the man behind the screens Kenneth Johnson with the most notable one being the name as Dr. Banner’s first name was changed from Bruce to David. This however did nothing to affect the popularity and acceptability of the Incredible Hulk.
Other changes included a twist to the original story and it was created to be more believable and came with a little less sensation. The Hulk was given some ability to speak in the comic as opposed to what was obtainable in the television series. The character also had more strength in the comic as compared to the television show where he was incredibly strong.
The Incredible Hulk has been recently resurgent in the world of comics with popular storylines featuring the Hulk’s character. World War Hulk and the mystery of the Red Hulk are some of the most popular ones that have also been found to be very interesting to comic lovers.
Just like most of the superhero characters of the Marvel comic world, the Incredible Hulk has some characters that have stayed with the storyline all through. They include General Thunderbolt Ross, who is, in fact, his nemesis with Betty, Thunderbolt’s daughter being Banner’ love interest throughout the history of the Incredible Hulk character.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are a group of four man-like turtles, who, after being exposed to radioactivity, grow to human size. The turtles live in the sewers of New York city, where they are taught the art of ninjutsu by their sensei, the rat Splinter. The turtles were named by Splinter after four great painters: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael. Apart from battling criminals, their other favorite hobby is eating pizza.
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These cartoon characters made their first appearance ever in a comic book. This was however only going to kick start their amazing popularity and acceptance in the world of cartoons. The characters gradually grew in fame and it did not take long before they started appearing on TV screens all over the world. This was not before efforts from different quarters were made to ensure the characters came out just as the viewers would have loved.
The cartoon series of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, otherwise known as TMNT ran for about 10 seasons before it was brought to an end in 1996. It was however unlike the comic series as it was light-hearted. The film version of the characters and their exploits was released in 1990 and it was a successful project that had two sequels and a 3D animation in continuity of the sequel.
These “shelled” cartoon characters have continued to make wave with different production outfit buying into the franchise to get a piece of the pie. Below is a brief introduction of the very popular Ninja Turtles and some other characters that continued to feature in every of their exploits.
Leonardo: it only makes sense that he comes first on the lost, being the leader of the group, thanks to his courage. His blue mask and katana stands him out of the group. He is usually responsible for his brothers, though Raphael would occasionally pick up quarrels with this claim. Michelangelo: also called Mike, the character that got his name from the famous painter from Italy, Michelangelo appears wearing an orange mask and goes with his pair of nunchucks. Considered as being the most childish of the group, he is free-spirited and adventurous.
Rapheal: he is otherwise known as Raph. He wears a dark red mask and never leaves his pair of sai. Strong and aggressive, Raph is regarded the bad boy of the group. He also has a humorous side and would do anything to protect his brothers. Donatello: he is the brainy of the team. A scientist, engineer, inventor, and genius with technology, he is always with his bo staff and has a purple mask on. He prefers to use his intellect and knowledge to solve issues as opposed to using violence.
Other characters that completed the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles exploit and made them what they are include Splinter who is the Japanese sensei of the crew and happens to be their adoptive father. Others include Casey Jones, Karai, and April O’Neil.
bamse is a Swedish cartoon character “born” in 1966. He is a kind and helpful bear, always ready and willing to assist those in need. Whenever he eats from a special type of honey, prepared by his granny, he becomes the world’s strongest bear. However, this honey gives three days of constant stomach ache to anyone else who eats it.
