# Serious business: Please list easily recognizable black female cartoon characters **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 25, 2011, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-business-please-list-easily-recognizable-black-female-cartoon-characters/597536 "2011-09-25T06:11:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-business-please-list-easily-recognizable-black-female-cartoon-characters/597536/41 "2011-09-26T14:00:14Z")
Yep, Lana Kane is the only answer here. Seriously. And super easy to pull off, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-business-please-list-easily-recognizable-black-female-cartoon-characters/597536/42 "2011-09-26T14:13:09Z")
> [@The\_Hamster\_King](#): > > **Foxxy Love** from _Drawn Together_ is a little more contemporary than Valerie. That was my first thought as well, but I’m not sure how well recognized it was. It was a pretty short lived cartoon and being that it was, well, above and beyond even the standards of South Park on the offensiveness scale a lot of people didn’t watch it. [Foxxy Love](http://www.comicbookreligion.com/img/f/o/Foxxy_Love.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-business-please-list-easily-recognizable-black-female-cartoon-characters/597536/43 "2011-09-26T14:24:28Z")
Another vote for Storm. I had no idea how badass she was as a character until I actually started reading the comics. Since you are unequivocally bad-ass too I think it’s a match made in heaven. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-business-please-list-easily-recognizable-black-female-cartoon-characters/597536/44 "2011-09-26T14:39:00Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > Another vote for Storm. I had no idea how badass she was as a character until I actually started reading the comics. Since you are unequivocally bad-ass too I think it’s a match made in heaven. Ha, flattery! I’ll take it. The thing that makes me hesitant to go the Storm route is the white hair requirement. And I will not do any costume that requires a bare midriff. Only because it’ll be cold, you see, and not because my mid-section is in dire need of repair. Also, the mom from Jump Start might be recognizable, but really, it’ll just look like I’m dressed up as a nurse unless I explain it. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-business-please-list-easily-recognizable-black-female-cartoon-characters/597536/45 "2011-09-26T14:55:36Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Ha, flattery! I’ll take it. The thing that makes me hesitant to go the Storm route is the white hair requirement. > > And I will not do any costume that requires a bare midriff. Only because it’ll be cold, you see, and not because my mid-section is in dire need of repair. Also, the mom from Jump Start might be recognizable, but really, it’ll just look like I’m dressed up as a nurse unless I explain it. Wigs are purchasable, and [many of the variants of her outfit through the years have not exposed her belly.](http://www.google.com/search?q=storm+xmen&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=BBY&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=PZGATuT8LOnOiALR3Zm7Aw&ved=0CCQQsAQ&biw=1150&bih=611) Actually, if you have the right sort of wardrobe to begin with, a white wig and contact lenses would be your only expenditures. (Contact lenses are for extra geek points - you can either have them in blue, or in solid-white-eye.) ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-business-please-list-easily-recognizable-black-female-cartoon-characters/597536/46 "2011-09-26T15:03:24Z")
Oh, I’ve purchased Halloween wigs before (this is the holiest day on the MOL calendar), I just think I’d look like an ass with white hair. I dunno, maybe the right one wouldn’t be so bad. And the bare midriff comment referred to the Foxxy Love and Vixen suggestions. Did I mention there’s a massive Halloween costume shop maybe three blocks from where I live? Oh hell yes. Game on. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-business-please-list-easily-recognizable-black-female-cartoon-characters/597536/47 "2011-09-26T23:24:02Z")
Are you opposed to gender-bending? Barrett was a black character from Final Fantasy 7 with a machine gun for an arm. Would be a good costume for a bigger person (not sure of your size IRL), because he was pretty large. Foxxy Love was the first one that came to mind, but you’ve already said you don’t want to go that route. It’d be a pretty cold outfit for Halloween. What about Uhura from Star Trek? She isn’t a cartoon character, but that’d be a pretty easy costume. It might kinda fit the theme… ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-business-please-list-easily-recognizable-black-female-cartoon-characters/597536/48 "2011-09-26T23:26:29Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > [Foxxy Love](http://www.comicbookreligion.com/img/f/o/Foxxy_Love.jpg) “You don’t have permission to access /img/f/o/Foxxy\_Love.jpg on this server.” _sigh_ Yeah, that’s what she said. ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-business-please-list-easily-recognizable-black-female-cartoon-characters/597536/49 "2011-09-26T23:35:12Z")
How about Scary Spice? I don’t know if the Spice Girls were ever a cartoon but they might as well be. A Union Jack and a fake British accent… it almost creates itself. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-business-please-list-easily-recognizable-black-female-cartoon-characters/597536/50 "2011-09-26T23:41:12Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > “You don’t have permission to access /img/f/o/Foxxy\_Love.jpg on this server.” > > _sigh_ Yeah, that’s what she said. How about [this](http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/41774_5520078_1837_n.jpg)? I didn’t want to link to a google image search of Foxxy Love because it’s all kinds of NSFW. There’s A LOT, and by A LOT, I mean an incredible amount of fanfic Drawn Together porn. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-business-please-list-easily-recognizable-black-female-cartoon-characters/597536/51 "2011-09-26T23:43:19Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > How about [this](http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/41774_5520078_1837_n.jpg)? > I didn’t want to link to a google image search of Foxxy Love because it’s all kinds of NSFW. There’s A LOT, and by A LOT, I mean an incredible amount of fanfic Drawn Together porn. The first link works if you C&P it, the server just blocks links. I’d just meant that post as a joke. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-business-please-list-easily-recognizable-black-female-cartoon-characters/597536/52 "2011-09-26T23:56:54Z")
> [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](#): > > Wigs are purchasable, and many of the variants of her outfit through the years have not exposed her belly. But if you want to make a big impression at the party, go as Storm in her original costume. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-business-please-list-easily-recognizable-black-female-cartoon-characters/597536/53 "2011-09-27T00:13:16Z")
General trick: When someone links to an image and you get that error message, you can almost always just click in the URL bar and hit enter, and the pic will show up. The server is looking at the last page you visited, and seeing if it’s somewhere from their site. The error message is from their site, so it works. ---
**Author:** ![LaurenIpsum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@LaurenIpsum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LaurenIpsum)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-business-please-list-easily-recognizable-black-female-cartoon-characters/597536/54 "2011-09-27T00:58:28Z")
Maybe Cleveland’s wife from the Family Guy? (Or maybe she’s only in the spin-off show. Not sure, I only ever see the show when my husband has it on in the living room.) Or if you don’t mind gender-bending, a lot of the characters from Fat Albert would be pretty recognizable with the right clothing. ---
**Author:** ![gatorslap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gatorslap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gatorslap)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-business-please-list-easily-recognizable-black-female-cartoon-characters/597536/55 "2011-09-27T01:25:41Z")
Mary Melody from Tiny Toons. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-business-please-list-easily-recognizable-black-female-cartoon-characters/597536/56 "2011-09-27T08:02:49Z")
[Susie Carmichael](http://i.imgur.com/wFM5Z.gif) from Rugrats [Orange Blossom](http://i.imgur.com/bARIz.jpg) from Strawberry Shortcake Oh, just thought of a good one. There’s an episode of _Daria_ where the black girl, Jodi, is homecoming queen and her boyfriend is king. They’re the only black kids at Lawndale High, and they get elected homecoming queen/king every year. [Relevant picture](http://dariawiki.org/wiki/images/thumb/1/15/JodieMack_float.jpg/250px-JodieMack_float.jpg). Jodi’s regular outfit isn’t really distinctive enough to look like a costume (just a pink shirt and white skirt, maybe carrying a schoolbook). But “homecoming queen Jodi” would definitely stick out. Bring a cynical, condescending attitude with the costume and you’ll be all set. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-business-please-list-easily-recognizable-black-female-cartoon-characters/597536/57 "2011-09-27T08:09:00Z")
More ideas here: [http://blackcartoons.tripod.com/](http://blackcartoons.tripod.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-business-please-list-easily-recognizable-black-female-cartoon-characters/597536/58 "2011-09-27T12:32:05Z")
We’re getting pics, right? ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-business-please-list-easily-recognizable-black-female-cartoon-characters/597536/59 "2011-09-27T13:23:33Z")
Okay, people, not that I don’t love you and everything, but “easily recognizable” isn’t “well there was this one character in that one thing I was watching.” Looking for something I can wear to a costume party, that even if someone doesn’t recognize right away, they will right after I say who I am. Also, a lot of the suggestions are of popular characters who, unfortunately, wear very commonplace outfits that wouldn’t look like much. Were I to dress as, say, Cleveland Brown’s wife, I’d wear a white top and blue pants. I do that frequently enough now. “Who are you dress up as, yourself?” A distinctive outfit would be key. > [@rachelellogram](#): > > [Orange Blossom](http://i.imgur.com/bARIz.jpg) from Strawberry Shortcake This is absolutely adorable. If I could find a costume like this, I’d wear it, complete with beads in my hair. Too bad I wear black, plastic eyeglasses. With the orange sweater and high socks, I hope if I go with this one, nobody will think I’m dressed as Velma from Scooby Doo. > [@](#): > > Bring a cynical, condescending attitude with the costume and you’ll be all set. I’m not sure I can pull this off. Edit: There will be a Halloween photo thread. I know this because I intend to create it if no one else does. I’ll post pics depending on how kind the camera decides to be to me. ---
**Author:** ![Bakhesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-business-please-list-easily-recognizable-black-female-cartoon-characters/597536/60 "2011-09-27T15:25:19Z")
My first thought was Astrea from Space Sentinels, although I think I am the only person who remembers this cartoon… [![](http://www.thechestnut.com/sentinels/001013.jpg) ](http://www.thechestnut.com/sentinels/001013.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-business-please-list-easily-recognizable-black-female-cartoon-characters/597536.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-business-please-list-easily-recognizable-black-female-cartoon-characters/597536.md?page=4)