Favorite Black Cartoon Characters?

[Brainatra]

In honor of Black History Month, thought throwing this topic out again might be entertaining: who's your favorite Black cartoon characters?

For me (among others):
- Virgil Hawkins (Static Shock)
- The cast of "Boondocks"
- Cyborg (Teen Titans)

[Sharklady]

Storm (X-Men)
John Stewart (Justice League)
Wade (Kim Possible)

[Speedy Boris]

Mace Windu.

[Daffy Dork]

Bosko :bosko:

And while I don't like the character of So White much, I *love* the cartoon, "Coal Black and de sebben dwarfs".

EDIT: Forgot about Mammy 2 Shoes. :twoshoes: Her beating Tom = Instant Comedy

[Sr.Infierno]

John Stewart Green Lantern
Hermes
Cyborg
Fillmore

[mammy2shoesfan]

Storm
GL
Jazz
Blaster
Roadblock
Foxxy Love
Mammy2shoes
Valerie
Dee Dee

[Skeeter]

Virgil Hawkins (Static Shock)
Mary "Another Cameo, Another Paycheck" Melody (TTA)
Monique (Kim Possible)

-Kim

[John Pannozzi]

Carl Carlson (the Simpsons)

Clevland Brown (Family Guy)

Carole (Heavy Traffic)

The sexy black girl from the Rolling Stones "Harlem Shuffle" music video

Token (South Park)

Hermes Conrad (Futurama)

[Dr. Collect]

Foxxy Love (Drawn Together)
Erwin (Bill & Mandy)
Monie (Hey Monie!)
Ralph Jefferson (Jefferson Brothers)

[Dr. Collect]

Oh yeah, & Chef's parents on South Park

[Sr.Infierno]

Oh yeah, & Chef's parents on South Park

Oh yeah, they were hilarious. I love that episode

"I ain't giving you no tree-fitty you god**** loch ness monster!"

[DarthGonzo]

Erwin (Bill & Mandy)

LOL i was waitin for someone to say Erwin.

What about AJ from Fairly Oddparents?

[tb4000]

Probably Fillmore because he reminds me so much of myself. I half expected everyone to sarcastically list all the "stereotypical" characters of yesteryear, but I see we only got a few of those. :yawn:

[Umino]

Cyborg 008 (Cyborg 009)
Irwin (Billy and Mandy)

[Ekkostar]

Huey Freeman (The Boondocks)

Hermes Conrad (Futurama)

Michael and Jodie (Daria)

[JDWeil]

What?! No Bosko?

[CartoonOverlord]

1: Cyborg (Teen Titans)
2: Cleveland (Family Guy)
3: Granddad Freeman (The Boondocks)
4: John Stewart/Green Lantern (Justice League Unlimited)
5: Chef (South Park)

[Sharklady]

> What?! No Bosko? <

Have a look at Daffy Dork's post.

BTW: When I was a kid I always thought Bosko was a monkey.
Uh oh...

[Sr.Infierno]

> What?! No Bosko? <

Have a look at Daffy Dork's post.

BTW: When I was a kid I always thought Bosko was a monkey.
Uh oh...

He's not a monkey?!

[tb4000]

He's not a monkey?!

Apparantly not. Makes you wonder what Termite Terrace was thinking about, don't it?

[Daffy Dork]

Apparantly not. Makes you wonder what Termite Terrace was thinking about, don't it?

Well you could simply say it was racism, or you could take it from the idea that they designed him to look like a monkey because of the african aspect.

(Oh, And for a short period of time, I thought Bosko was in the same species as the Warner Bros.)

[Luna]

Hermes Conrad and his wife(I forget how her name is spelled) (Futurama)
Chef (and his parents) (South Park)
Token (South Park)
Grandad (The Boondocks)
Cleveland Brown (Family Guy)
Carl Carlson (The Simpsons)
Dr. Julius Hibbert (The Simpsons)

[Brainatra]

Apparantly not. Makes you wonder what Termite Terrace was thinking about, don't it?

Originally, he was meant to be the usual "Sambo" stereotype of Black people in popular entertainment at the time (see: various old theatrical cartoons), but since ripping off Mickey Mouse was popular at the time among virtually every studio, he got drawn in a manner that made him look not completely like a mouse or the Sambo stereotype, but apparently indistinct. (Liked Plucky Duck's comments on Bosko and Honey: "What are they exactly, some kind of bugs?")

-B.
Who found Bosko's cartoons as bland as Buddy's, stereotyping or not...

[Sage Shinigami]

Ugh. I don't care much for BH Month.

Uhm....

The cast of Boondocks (minus Uncle Ruckus...idiot that he is)
Cleveland from Family Guy
Storm from X-Men: TAS
Hermes from Futurama
Valerie from Josie and the Pussycats
John Henry Irons from Superman: TAS, JLU

For the record, I don't like John Stewart or Virgil Hawkins. ....In fact, I hate most black superheroes. Obvious tokens that they are. Stewart's not a token though--I just find him a poor GL who would get owned by his much more imaginative comic version. (Stupid simple constructs.) Virgil just went downhill as they made him more stupid and his sidekick more of a genius. When the series started, he was incredibly intelligent. By the end, he couldn't keep up with Gears when he didn't even have his powers.


(Before anyone says anything about racism, I'm black. I just don't like token characters.)

[tb4000]

^Oh, you can still be black and racist towards your own. ;)

Not that I think that you are, just making a statement. I agree that some are tokens, as many shows satirize that fact with some of their own characters.

[Daffy Dork]

Who found Bosko's cartoons as bland as Buddy's, stereotyping or not...

Buddy's cartoons were much blander than Bosko's because at least Bosko was mischievous. :bosko:

[Dark Fact]

Bear Walken from Gungrave springs to mind. Quite possibly the only anime character who can slice speeding bullets with a katana! :p

[MegaJ]

Oh, for the days when I didn't realize Bosko was a black caricature.

[Echidna]

Black charicature? I didn't even realise Bosko was a person. I always assumed he was some generic animal or warner-thing.

My list - Chef, Hermes Conrad, Cyborg, and Erwin.

[zano88]

huey from boondocks
claudia grant from robotech
the fat albert gang
panthro from thundercats
jazz from transformers
as kids when i was growing up , we always identified these last two as black because of their voice actors.....(scatman caruthers, and whoever played grandpa huxtable on the cosby show)
i also think there is alot of tokenism out there and the comics john stewart is the superior version. (like 90% of DCAU)

[John Pannozzi]

Here's another one: Mee-Mee from Dexter's Lab.

[90'sCartoonMan]

Obvioulsy Storm, Cyborg, and Green Lantern are all great in my book.

Am I the only one whose favorite black Simpsons character is Lou? He and Wiggum are hilarious! I once heard Hank Azaria say that Lou's voice is his impersonation of Sylvester Stallone. Oh, and Drederick Tatum is also amusing.

Elisa Maza is half-black, thought I'd throw that out there.

[dtemplar]

John Stewart (Justice League)
Black Vulcan (Superfriends)
Cyborg (Teen Titans/ SPT: GG)
Valerie (Josie & the Pussycats)
Dee Dee (Captain Caveman)
Joe Robertson (Spider-Man)
Cleveland (Family Guy)
Storm (X-Men)
Spawn
The Falcon (Avengers)
The Harlem Globetrotters
Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids

[JesseCuster]

This is really a sore spot for me as I have long been bothered by the low numbers of quality black characters and ever more bothered by the number of stereotypes that have been forced into my TV and movie screens. But, her goes:

1. Riley Freeman (the Boondocks)
2. Huey Freeman (the Boondocks)

There is a real black person between the two of them

3. Frylock (ATHF)

[Han Ji-Eun]

FILLMORE! Fillmore, the show, was clever and interesting, and Fillmore, the character, was incredibly cool. Also, Fillmore wasn't a character defined by being black, like many other black cartoon characters, and he wasn't the goofy sidekick either. He was a strong lead, and it wasn't like watching Green Lantern, where you're thinking "I guess the Justice League needed a black character to keep them PC". Fillmore could have just as easily been Asian or white.

(P.S. I like Justice League! I was just making a point...)

Also, coming in second place, is DuBois from The Boondocks. What a little whiny baby. Gosh I love him.

[Lychii]

Valerie Grey (Danny Phantom)
BumbleBee (Teen Titans)
Cyborg (Teen Titans)
The crew of Jungle wa Itsumo hale Nochi Guu

Aaaand, even though she's bi-racial, Jasmine DuBois. She's too cute to pass up. <3

[HannaBarberaFan]

Oh, for the days when I didn't realize Bosko was a black caricature.

You think HE was offensive? Ever feast yer peepers on BUZZY The CROW??:o

By the way, for the record, MY fave Black characters:

VALERIE SMITH - "JOSIE & The PUSSYCATS"

DEE-DEE SKYES - "CAPTAIN CAVEMAN & The TEEN ANGELS"

[Jay]

Static Shock(Virgil Hawkins)
Jon Stewart(Green Latern)
Cyborg(Teen Titans)
The Whole BoonDocks Cast
FryLock

[Tintin]

Mammy Two-Shoes (Tom & Jerry)
Carl (The Simpsons)
Token, Starvin' Marvin (South Park)

[Aquadementia]

Peter Griffen

[Bad Asp]

My favorites are Mary Melody from Tiny Toons, Foxxy Love from Drawn Together... heck, just about any black female Cree Summer voices! I also like the characters who are voiced by Phil Lamarr and Kevin Michael Richardson.

Also, Peter Griffin? I was surprised... until I realized that there was an episode of Family Guy where Peter had black ancestry. So he might count.

[JesseCuster]

Forgot to add:

Tucker Foley (Danny Phantom)

[JesseCuster]

Max Gibson (Batman Beyond)

[mammy2shoesfan]

My god can't believe I forgot Cyborg (Superfriends version) and Pathro.

[Warrior Kitana]

Just to name a few...

Storm (X-Men)
Valerie Gray (Danny Phantom)
Cyborg (Teen Titans)
Huey Freeman (The Boondocks)
Cleveland (Family Guy)
Eliza Maza (Gargoyles)
Frozone (The Incredibles)
Dubois (The Boondocks)
Monique (Kim Possible)
Taranee Cook (WITCH)
Foxxy Love (Drawn Together)

[Jeff Harris]

Eliza Maza (Gargoyles)
Cornelius Fillmore (Filmore)
John Stewart (Justice League/Unlimited)
Vixen (JLU)
Virgil Hawkins and his family (Static Shock)
Oscar Proud (The Proud Family - probably one of the few reasons I managed to watch the show after the "Napster" episode)
The Freemans (The Boondocks)
Cleveland Brown (Family Guy)
Cyborg (Teen Titans)
"Mammy Two-Shoes" (Tom and Jerry - though I'm not fond of the official nickname of the character, I enjoy the character herself, strong, independent woman living in her own home, enjoying life, and clearly the boss of the house)
Maxine Gibson (Batman Beyond - yeah, I'm one of the few that likes this character)
Monie (Hey Monie)
Cyborg 008 (Cyborg 009 - though I didn't like the "Sambo" look the earlier incarnations had, I do enjoy this character)

Is Melissa on "Home Movies" supposed to be Black? If so, she's on my list too.

[nakak]

TOM AND JERRY's Mammy Two-Shoes
FAMILY GUY's Cleveland Brown
SOUTH PARK's Token Williams/Black (his last name changes from episode to episode)

I think Melissa from "Home Movies" is bi-racial, although I don't know what her mother is like. I think she goes in my list too.

[tb4000]

Dr. Julius Hibbert.

"I WILL use a collection agency."

I swear that cracked me up when Homer told him he owes him $50,000.

[Bones Justice]

Walter "Doc" Hartford (Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers)
Virgil "Static" Hawkins (Static Shock)
Huey Freeman (The Boondocks)
Ethan "Clayface" Bennet (The Batman)
Razor Kidd (Mutant League)
Black "That's Supervolt!" Vulcan (Harvey Birdman)
Coroner Rick (Stroker and Hoop)

[mammy2shoesfan]

"Mammy Two-Shoes" (Tom and Jerry - though I'm not fond of the official nickname of the character, I enjoy the character herself, strong, independent woman living in her own home, enjoying life, and clearly the boss of the house)
.

Thats exactly what I've been saying for years.

Man I forgot Vixen too I'm falling off lol.

[tb4000]

I always thought Mammy was simply the maid of a never seen white family. Go figure.

[mammy2shoesfan]

Never seen them or mentioned so they must not be there. In Saturday Evening Puss she even states my house so thats enough for me.

[Kazuya Prower]

I wonder why they never showed her (Mammy Two-Shoes) face?

[Mittenz]

Chef "South Park"
Foxxy Love "Drawn Together"
Fat Albert

[mammy2shoesfan]

I wonder why they never showed her (Mammy Two-Shoes) face?

They did once.

[ElBarto]

Action hank!
http://www.angelfire.com/al/savoytruffle/images/tutu2.jpg
Carl
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:4FAMDDBycRGuPM:www.die-simpsons.de/pic-db/pic-upload/norm/pics/atomkraftwerk/carl5.gif
Hermes
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:_qTt9Juliy0A2M:collectorama.murderhorn.com/pictures/voices/hermesslug.
And...
cleavland
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:l9AtSzNKhnUMpM:lauratyne.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/mugpics/cleveland1.jpg

[nakak]

I wonder why they never showed her (Mammy Two-Shoes) face?
Well, her chin was shown once; also in the comic book version of "Tom and Jerry", her face is very visible.

[Akelexre]

Well you could simply say it was racism, or you could take it from the idea that they designed him to look like a monkey because of the african aspect.



Doesn't seem like much a difference to me....:mad:

[rmarti3926]

Possibly Winston Zedmore from The Real Ghostbusters.

But, seriously, Numbuh 5 from KND no question about it.

Um, is Alex from Totally Spies considered an African-American?

[Brainatra]

Doesn't seem like much a difference to me....:mad:

Me neither...

-B.
Who doesn't *think* he looks like a monkey ;-)

[Sharklady]

> Um, is Alex from Totally Spies considered an African-American? <

I believe she's Hispanic.

[Cheetatron]

Its weird isnt it? How often someone asks is blank character supposed to be black? Often were not quite sure espicially in anime. Captain Tousan and Yoroichi are pretty good examples of this and wikipedia gives some insight. Im still not quite sure about bear walken and Sherri.

[MonkeyFunk]

Didn't most cartoon characters look kind of like monkeys back in the days of Bosko?

[Aquadementia]

I don't know what Bosko is.

Personally, I like characters that don't particularly look like anything I can recognize.

I don't think Mickey Mouse looks all that much like a mouse, or that Ren & Stimpy look like a mosquito or cat, respectively.

Is my avatar a black guy?
Honestly, when I made it I didn't think about it one way or another.
I don't think I thought about that until this morning.

[MonkeyFunk]

Hold on a sec, if Bosko and Honey are humans, then isn't Honey kind of... topless?

[tb4000]

Hold on a sec, if Bosko and Honey are humans, then isn't Honey kind of... topless?

Those filthy animators.

[maczero]

Filmore
Cyborg

In regards to Mammy2shoes (didn't even know she had a name), I've always been offended by the character. Even if she isn't the maid, she's still a blatant stereotype.

[Dr. Collect]

Did anyone mention Harold from "O'Grady" yet?