# If you had to be a cartoon character, who would it be? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 5, 2000, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832 "2000-10-05T19:28:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/41 "2000-10-06T00:35:15Z")
I’d have to go with Buttercup from the PowerPuff Girls… when the show first came out, one of my friends decided I look like her (when my hair was shorter it did this odd flip thing)… though I have fingers, and I’m not quite as tough and mean. So now everyone buys me Buttercup stuff. [Buttercup voice]What-EVER![/Buttercup voice] ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/42 "2000-10-06T00:48:25Z")
Says Myrr > [@](#): > > 1. He’s a genieus, albeit a frustrated one. Ahem. That’s Wile E. Coyote – **Super** genius! As for me, I’d be Speed Racer. The Mach 5, doin’ Trixie… Oh, and **Exprix** would be _so_ envious of my scarf. ---
**Author:** ![orion007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@orion007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orion007)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/43 "2000-10-06T00:53:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aglarond \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Vestal Blue \* > > \*\*I’d be Hobbes. He gets to take part in all the adventures, but never gets in trouble! \*\* > > I have to second this one. Calvin and Hobbes is still my favorite comic. God, I miss them. \*\* Yay I have to third (or whatever) this one. Hobbes is the coolest. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/44 "2000-10-06T02:54:19Z")
Sk8: I dunno 'bout you, but I have enough hallucinations as it is. (“Green fire hydrants are waving at me,” Shinji in the Eva parody fansub) 🙂 Following in Sk8’s footsteps, I’d go with Ranma Saotome. Cute girls, free food available at all hours from aformentioned cute girls, and kick ass martial arts abilities. What more can you ask for? American choice, Bruce Wayne. Beautiful women, great car, megabucks, _and_ you can say “I’m Batman” without people looking at you funny. ---
**Author:** ![don\_Jaime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@don\_Jaime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_Jaime)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/45 "2000-10-06T03:15:53Z")
Dibs Wakko! [Liverpudlian accent] Ummmm…where’s the potty? I really have to go! [/Liverpudlian accent] ---
**Author:** ![jjjfishe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jjjfishe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjjfishe)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/46 "2000-10-06T03:17:59Z")
I’d be baby Huey. He’s so darn cute ---
**Author:** ![hypergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/47 "2000-10-06T03:20:21Z")
I’d be Garfield. He gets to sleep all day and eat whatever he wants and he is still adorable. He has really cool claws. He get’s to torture the man who feeds him. And he has a kickass sense of humor for a cat. Oh yeah, and anyone he doesn’t like he can just kick off a table or mail to machu pichu. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/48 "2000-10-06T03:26:47Z")
I’d be Rose from “Rose is Rose” - especially when she turns into the biker chick! ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/49 "2000-10-06T03:31:36Z")
I’d be the female main character from THE MAXX. She was sexy and feminine and knew it. Plus she had this “amazon goddess” look going on in the other world [whatever it was called]. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/50 "2000-10-06T03:39:38Z")
Well since Zyada took ‘biker-chick Rose’ [great minds think alike]… Heart from “Heart of the City” Oh, to be young and multi-talented and exuberant and in Philadelphia. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/51 "2000-10-06T03:45:17Z")
Vestal Blue, thanks for the Calvin and Hobbes website. I already have put it on my favorites list. Just wanted you to know. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/52 "2000-10-06T03:50:12Z")
Yep, mostly, the now in repose Hobbes… Thanks much with a looooonggg SMOOCH, Vestal Blue, for that link! Ayond from that, I’d wanna be the Flaming Carrot, or Reid Fleming, “World’s Toughest Milkman”. ---
**Author:** ![Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/53 "2000-10-06T03:50:18Z")
KKBattousai, Ranma may have gotten the girls, but didn’t he get a lot of the guys too? Changing gender would be just a little odd don’t ya think? As for me, I’d be Mulan. She’s a great female role model, she’s got great animal friends and that guy is kinda hot too. Kitty ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/54 "2000-10-06T04:52:27Z")
I think I’d be Dr. Scratchnsniff from the Animaniacs. That way I’d get Hello Nurse. And those puppy children. What are they anyway? ---
**Author:** ![headshok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@headshok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/headshok)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/55 "2000-10-06T05:01:23Z")
Snoopy. ---
**Author:** ![Cumber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5ac83/32.png) [@Cumber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumber)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/56 "2000-10-06T05:58:07Z")
I was thinking of saying Shinji Ikari, but since that’s been taken I’ll say Pete the Puppy from Earthworm Jim. Any cartoon character that quotes Dune is cool. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/57 "2000-10-06T06:01:39Z")
I want to be K, from The Men in Black cartoon series. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/58 "2000-10-06T06:41:21Z")
Since we’ve already got a Calvin and a Hobbes, I’ll be Susie Derkins. 🙂 She’s a good balance of cute and smart. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/59 "2000-10-06T06:44:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ssskuggiii \* > I’d be the female main character from THE MAXX. She was sexy and feminine and knew it. Plus she had this “amazon goddess” look going on in the other world [whatever it was called]. \*\* Wasn’t it called the Outback or something like that? I miss that show. Anyone know if the comic ended (assuming it did) the same way? > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Fairy Princess Kitty_ > KKBattousai, Ranma may have gotten the girls, but didn’t he get a lot of the guys too? Changing gender would be just a little odd don’t ya think? > \*\* More free food! 🙂 As for the gender thing, it has uses. Assuming nobody knew - do I get the option of keeping it secret? - I could find out what the girls thought of me, and that would be frickin’ awesome! Then again, if I was Ranma, there’d be no shortage of girls, would there? ::looks up at SN:: And I’d be fairly terrified of you! ::runs, trailing cloud of dust:: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832/60 "2000-10-06T06:45:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AudreyK \* > \*\*Since we’ve already got a Calvin and a Hobbes, I’ll be Susie Derkins. 🙂 She’s a good balance of cute and smart. \*\* Wasn’t she also an insufferable wiseass? Yeah, thought so. ::runs:: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-be-a-cartoon-character-who-would-it-be/35832.md?page=4)