# When you were little, Who was your Childhood Cartoon Hero? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 29, 2004, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-little-who-was-your-childhood-cartoon-hero/242653 "2004-04-29T11:16:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2004, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-little-who-was-your-childhood-cartoon-hero/242653/61 "2004-05-01T01:58:24Z")
Aside from Gadget…Dr. Egon Spengler, from _The Real Ghostbusters_. I always liked the “brainy” guy (or girl) in the series’ I watched. ---
**Author:** ![JDeMobray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@JDeMobray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JDeMobray)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2004, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-little-who-was-your-childhood-cartoon-hero/242653/62 "2004-05-01T02:16:21Z")
> [@Stonebow](#): > > **Optimus Prime.** Then again, he’s still my hero. Me too. I also cried in the theater at Transformers: The Movie. ---
**Author:** ![YWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/6f9a4e/32.png) [@YWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YWalker)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2004, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-little-who-was-your-childhood-cartoon-hero/242653/63 "2004-05-01T02:23:17Z")
I wanted to hang out with Jonny Quest, because he got to do such cool things. And since that meant I would get to hang out with the really hot Race Bannon, so much the better. ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2004, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-little-who-was-your-childhood-cartoon-hero/242653/64 "2004-05-01T07:25:36Z")
I too thought I was going to be the first **Danger Mouse** disciple, but I guess DM resonated with more than just me. Of course, Penfold was the greatest sidekick EVER…one of the real reasons I loved the show. Jman ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2004, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-little-who-was-your-childhood-cartoon-hero/242653/65 "2004-05-01T15:25:52Z")
When I was about 3 I liked Aquaman. I also liked the Loony Tunes characters, especially Taz (even after I learned that Tasmanian devils didn’t spin like tornadoes he was still one of my favorites.) When I was 6 I liked watching The Perilous Perils of Penelope Pitstop, a show where a group of gnomes (?) tried to protect the airheaded Penelope from the creepy Hooded Claw, who for some reason wanted to kill her. I think I liked the Hooded Claw better than Penelope, who had little discernable personality. I also liked Tom & Jerry. I always rooted for Tom. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2004, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-little-who-was-your-childhood-cartoon-hero/242653/66 "2004-05-01T23:52:01Z")
> [@KRC](#): > > When I was about 3 I liked Aquaman. I also liked the Loony Tunes characters, especially Taz (even after I learned that Tasmanian devils didn’t spin like tornadoes he was still one of my favorites.) > > When I was 6 I liked watching The Perilous Perils of Penelope Pitstop, a show where a group of gnomes (?) tried to protect the airheaded Penelope from the creepy Hooded Claw, who for some reason wanted to kill her. I think I liked the Hooded Claw better than Penelope, who had little discernable personality. > > I also liked Tom & Jerry. I always rooted for Tom. Gnot Gnomes. Gmerely Gmidget Ggansters. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MaddyStrut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@MaddyStrut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaddyStrut)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-little-who-was-your-childhood-cartoon-hero/242653/67 "2004-05-02T01:33:08Z")
Another Wonder Woman fan here. I froze my but off 3 years in a row going trick-or-treating in the Michigan autumn in the Wonder Woman costume my mom made me. Boy, was I upset when the TV show came on and I realized that, unbeknownst to me, she had a _cape_. I could have stayed much warmer! ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-little-who-was-your-childhood-cartoon-hero/242653/68 "2004-05-02T14:14:18Z")
My brothers and I worshipped **Bullwinkle.** ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-little-who-was-your-childhood-cartoon-hero/242653/69 "2004-05-03T15:44:06Z")
What, no other ThunderCats fans?? I _was_ [Cheetara](http://www.80schildren.com/television/thundercats.htm) (scroll down, on right) every day at recess for the whole of my kindergarten year, just 'cause I was so fast! Poor Shawna always got stuck being WileyKit, the only other femal ThunderCat. Jason, of course, was Lion-O. I, too, wanted to be Jem - my star-shaped earrings were purple and glittery. I guess that’s why they didn’t work! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-little-who-was-your-childhood-cartoon-hero/242653/70 "2004-05-03T18:09:53Z")
Mine were **Speed Racer** and **Kimba the White Lion**. (I think if Speed had been a white lion, he’d have looked like Kimba). I got the anime bug at an early age. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-little-who-was-your-childhood-cartoon-hero/242653/71 "2004-05-03T22:19:14Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > What, am I the first to mention Voltron? I spent a good part of my childhood trying to figure out how to make a Blazing Sword. But it’s hard to _be_ Voltron, and it’s hard to find 14 close neighborhood kids to join you in your quest to make up the Voltron ship…it just doesn’t work very well. When I was littler Wonder Woman (and occasionally isis). I had the swimsuit, (and of course, the underoos) & raided the aluminum foil for the bracelets and the crown - and I had a magic lasso, but I’m not sure what I used for that. Plus, you got to spin really fast when turning from Diana to Wonderwoman. What’s not fun? When I was slightly less little, The Baroness. She was just plain cool. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-little-who-was-your-childhood-cartoon-hero/242653.md?page=3)