Who is the greatest cartoon character ever?

Bugs.

2nd vote for Bugs. Just the right amount of smart-assery.

Totally Bugs.

Bam Bam

That is fucked up R5.

Come on. THE greatest cartoon character is Bugs Bunny!

Not that there haven't been other great ones! Foghorn Leghorn. Boris and Natasha. Wile E. Coyote. Elmer Fudd.

Mickey Mouse is the undisputed greatest. No one else even comes close.

Bugs is my favorite, though.

yeah, gotta go with the consensus OP, how can you think of anyone other than Bugs? Are you Daffy Duck?

Spongebob Squarepants!

This bitch was a DLer.

Bender

Maybe not the greatest, but as a gayling I had a huge crush on him.

Stephen J. Fry

Pepe LePew

Bullwinkle J. Moose

Another DLer

Droopy Dawg. 'Of course, you realise this means war.'

Daffy Duck

Andy Capp

Another fun one who posts here.

Homer Simpson on Andy Capp:

Betty Boop.

Yes, r23, the *original* Snow White!

Of recent - this one:

Bugs is the best, of course. But honorable mention goes to Porky Pig.

Maybe distinctions should be made among TV, print, and movies!

Print, I'd vote for Snoopy! (For a while it was Lil Abner.)

Movies? Hmmmm. Mickey Mouse ("Fantasia")? Linus ("A Charlie Brown Christmas")? Snow White? Cinderella?

Helen Lovejoy is up there for me

Daffy Duck is up there for me. He's the cartoon embodiment of every pointless DL fight.

I own this thread

Tom And Jerry are in the top ten

My favorite is Donald Duck!

Sylvester with his spitty "S"es (Sufferin' Succotash!) and P-p-porky P-p-pig with his stutter. I guess I love speech impediments.

Bugs. Donald Duck second.

Mickey always seemed so creepy to me

Daffy Duck

R33: Notice how all the Warner Brothers/Loony Tunes cartoon characters had speech defects? That has baffled me since childhood.

No, R7, it is understood that this thread refers to cartoon characters, not comic strips and others. Play along nicely.

Perhaps OP will create subsequent threads for comic book characters, live-action characters e.g. Gumby, Diver Dan, etc., and original film characters.

Actually I love Chip and Dale, those imps.

If the Simpsons ended after the tenth season (like it should have) it is easily Homer Simpson, not Bart.

Roger from American Dad

Yabba Dabba Do!

Daria and Jane

Bugs Bunny, and Rocky and Bullwinkle

I hate Bugs Bunny. He is an asshole.

Slime Princess!

I adore Bugs Bunny, and R3 is my all-time favorite cartoon:

"My, I bet you monsters lead INTERESTING lives. I said to my girlfriend just the other day - Gee, I'll bet monsters are interesting, I said. The places you must go and the places you must see, MY STARS! And I'll bet you meet a lot of INTERESTING people, too. I'm always interested in meeting INTERESTING people. Now let's dip our patties in the water!"

Another vote for Bugs Bunny. There are so many great ones, but Bugs is truly immortal.

Roger, from "American Dad!"

I can't believe Snoopy's only gotten one mention! He was more than just an aloof canine observer. He was also a reporter and noted aviator among many other identities he'd assume.

Den.

Bugs as beautician...

[quote]Slime Princess!

I’ll see your Slime Princess and raise you a Lumpy Space Princess.

Homer Simpson, and the second name isn’t even close.

I bet most people have never even seen a bugs bunny cartoon. Everyone knows Homer.

Shore Leave

R53

As if. Lumpy Space Princess thinks she's 'Miss Thang', but she is NOT all that.

She can't even shoot slime.

I loved Fat Albert and the gang among others

What about that sex pot Jonny Quest?

Bugs and Elmer introduced me to Opera --

Pepe ..

Betty, again scooping Disney. She chose to go with red hair in the role.

For DataLounge, the answer is obvious: MARY WORTH!

Yzma from The Emperor's New Groove.

Maybe he's not the greatest ever (I already gave that to Bugs) but I love Beast Boy from Teen Titans Go! Voiced by Greg Cipes.

Bugs would be a DLer. So would this guy.

You guys know that Bugs has his own "forever" stamp (per the link).

He'd be my favorite if it weren't for Sylvester (who Speedy Gonzales foiled when the "Gringo Poosy Cat" arrived from across the border to guard the barn from the mice).

Sorry -- here's the link for R66.

Jonas Morecock from “House of Morecock”.

As one ages, one wants their favorite cartoon characters to age with them, that’s why I choose Middle Aged Mutant Ninja Turtles. Sleep apnea machines, they just get me!

Huckleberry Hound is my fave.

Mickey Mouse is racist and should be canceled.

Opus & Bill the Cat

Everyone knows it's Butters.

R40 I didn’t even think of The Simpsons! I guess I think of them as real humans.

Bugs was fine in the beginning, (much like Daffy was, when he was actually "daft"). But Bugs got too full of himself. Like on the Easter special, he was all like "Oh Granny you want ME to play the Easter Bunny?" Like who the fuck else in the show is a rabbit?

The only special needs character was Mr. Magoo, being retarded or autistic or whatever the hell his problem was

From Comic Strips: Peanuts

From Manga: Sailor Moon

Blind, R77.

Bugs was the original DL'er. Remember Bugs in drag?

Buggs Bunny Elmer Fudd Opera Oh Brunhilda, you're so lovely. Yes I know it I can't help it

You bitches are slipping. Snagglepuss was a REAL DLer.

[quote]The only special needs character was Mr. Magoo, being retarded or autistic or whatever the hell his problem was

He just needed a better lens prescription, jeez!

Mr. Magoo was legally blind. Have a heart.

Bugs and Scooby are my top 2.

Eric Cartman. Easily.

How many times was Bugs in drag? Seems like a lot.

R81, he definitely is!

Happy Holidays!

Like LuPone, I only read my part, so ain't a repeat to me.

Snagglepuss

Dear god, you people are lame 😒 assholes!

Fuck you, Stewie. You think you can travel in a fucking time machine and that a dog could even be bothered with you.

And you pronounce Cool Whip stupid!

Steamboat Itchy!

R90 Cool Ha-Wip

Clitoris

I would've thought it would be Race Bannon for many DL'ers - or has Pence ruined him for everyone?

Everyone from the Flintstones!

When I was 7 years old, I thought Mighty Mouse and Pearl Pureheart were the best.

Count Duckula of course with his Nanny a close second

Well, I daresay the oversight is glaring. There's a strong case to be made for the man dearest to my heart, Seto, yet here I am at the base of the thread having found nary a mention of his name!

Of course, should his ego grow any larger he shall endanger himself, and we can't allow such a tragedy to befall the world. Therefore, I humbly nominate myself in his stead as the greatest, in the desperate hope of protecting the vulnerability still somewhere deep in the core of my sweet misunderstood Kaiba-boy.

His boy Elroy...

If you like em smart, Peabody and Sherman

Gay icons, Pinky and the Brian, now returning after a long hiatus.

Seniora Peggy Hill is my favorite.

But, like many have said, probably Bugs Bunny. Micky is too one dimensional.

It's a tie between Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner

And c'mon this is DL: Cruella DeVil

Just A. Bill

I think we have a winner.

Jem.

She's excitement, adventure, glamor and outrageous

Just want to give a shout-out to Mrs. Patsy Ramsey...

The Oriental Bakery Man

The spider in this cartoon.

it would have to be Batman who appeared in his own show in the 60s, 70s (also teamed up with Scooby Doo during this decade), 90s & this new century = Justice League, Justice League Unlimited. Justice League Action, Batman Brave & The Bold & Beware The Batman. He also appeared in the 70s/80s Super Friends show for a record breaking 9 seasons in between his solo shows.

No Disney, Looney Tune, Archie or Marvel character even comes close. Bugs & the Looney Tunes would have their reruns repackage (Bugs & Daffy, Bugs & Road Runner, Bugs & Tweety,etc.) but they weren't always new episodes.

Even after his live actions 60s show, the public seems to keep watching his new adventures.

.

Probably Stewie from Family Guy.

Scooby Doo seemed a little scary for kids.

R112 Then it's good that I'm family friendly...

R107 and on that note....

Bugs seemed to be constantly in drag.

I always though of Bug Bunny as all transvestite rather than drag queen, gay or trans.

I'd have to go with Kake.

Well, after all, Velma 𝑖𝑠 the center of the cartoon universe. Right?

Nothing and no one from The Family Guy will ever be the greatest. One of the dumbest, definitely most overrated cartoon ever made

^^ Triggered by liberal humor.

Goofy is a rapist and should be canceled,

Yogi and Boo-Boo were a couple right, I mean they were a bear and cub afterall.

R120 More like the lack of humor

^^ Bitter.

Please. Daffy Duck owns this thread.

Did any of our lesbian sisters like the evil but sexy Evil Lyn from He Man and the Masters of the Universe?

Micky Way.

Cow and chicken !

[quote]Nothing and no one from The Family Guy will ever be the greatest. One of the dumbest, definitely most overrated cartoon ever made

Just because Warner Bros cartoon characters were a thing in the 70s doesn't make them the greatest cartoon characters. Stewie would tear Bugs Bunny to fucking shreds.

Family Guy is for stupid idiots.

Baba Boney

Speedy Gonzales

Baba Looey

EL KABONG!!

[quote]Family Guy is for stupid idiots

As opposed to a show featuring a coyote chasing an ostrich-adjacent birdy running around on a highway?

This is DL and not ONE vote for Boris and Natasha????????

R110, I didn't think about the superheroes. Kinda think they need their own category, separate from 'cartoon character" or "comic strip".

R134 That’s still better than a show (family guy) where 95 percent of an episode is tired flashbacks and dumb unfunny parodies.

R109 - Along with that Spider, I nominate the ESCAPED MAD COMPOSER:

TOP CAT, that was a very cool cartoon!

I don’t know greatest, but Hong Kong Phooey scores high for most racist.

[quote] Pinky and the Brian,

The fuck is Brian?

Now we're scraping the bottom of the barrel.

[quote]Gay icons, Pinky and the Brian

R101 Pinky left The Brain for Brian? The dog on Family Guy?

Betty Boop.

[quote]I'd have to go with Kake.

R117 He's gorgeous! In what cartoon world does he reside?

ape

[quote] Pinky left The Brain for Brian? The dog on Family Guy?

See! This is why I come here. We have the absolute latest celebrity gossip here.

R108 Great song and great vocals! Thanks for sharing.

Moose and Bullwinkle!

Brian /Brain sorry I have dyslexia and spell check won’t point out that it’s wrong.

I had the 45 rpm theme song record, r139.

Pinky and the Brain was our names for an ex and I.

[quote]Brian /Brain sorry I have dyslexia

R150 Gary Larson had a Far Side cartoon with a group of people marching with signs: DYSLEXICS UNTIE

We’re just funnin ya, r150.

Johnny Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet

They might as well call them Pinky and the Brian since a former [italic]Family Guy[/italic] writer is the new show runner for the [italic]Animaniacs [/italic] reboot.

R156, I refer you to r147 and thank you!!

Lolz

Well if Brian and Pinky are squaring off, I would be interested in seeing Stewie and the Brain go head to head.

At this point, that would cost as much as trying to make a Marvel vs. DC movie. And it would likely pay the same lawyers.

Did people that list The Family Guy as a funny cartoon, ever saw a single episode of The Simpsons in the 90s?

Ned Flanders. Now and always.

[quote] Did people that list The Family Guy as a funny cartoon, ever saw a single episode of The Simpsons in the 90s?

Oh, dear!

Yes. And [italic]The Simpsons[/italic] has been turning to shit ever since. The older episodes were great, don’t get me wrong, but they ran it so far into the ground that they now have more bad episodes than good ones.

It still remains comfort viewing, r163.

The Dot and the Line

I don’t get any comfort seeing a show that used to be the best thing on television lower its standards as much as it did.

This thread makes me want to eat a bowl of cereal in front of the TV.

The only old cartoon I still find funny is Tom & Jerry, until they talk. For those mentioned Mickey mouse, outside a few old cartoon like Fantasia, he is barely on any cartoon, and is not funny, his purpose is to be on merchandise.

He’s funny in the bedroom.

R163 The Simpsons at their lowest are still millions times smarter and funnier than The Family Guy at its "funniest"

Some of you honestly think the entire universe is arranged around you, so that if a cartoon was "old-time" when you were born then no one saw it and it meant nothing to anyone older than you.

Unbelievable.

Well, this article is interesting timing and basically does answer the question that it Bugs Bunny in that it taps into and expands upon the trickster rabbit traditions seen in Africa, Japan and Native America and other cultures that have thousand of years of history.

Haha

R136 A cartoon character is still a cartoon character...

I've always been fond of the Virginia Woolf episode, r173.

Underdog is a super hero.

I guess Mighty Mouse doesn't count then either...

Atom Ant?

Mightor?

Space Ghost

No, R170, actually they aren't. The last 20 years of [italic]The Simpsons[/italic] were so painful to watch that I honestly rather would rather watch [italic]Family Guy[/italic] but also would rather watch [italic]Futurama[/italic] and [italic]King of the Hill[/italic] than either of those.

That's a good one, R175! The "Stan Does Crack" episode is a classic, and of course it's Roger who breaks the news to Stan.

We had *faces* then!

R175 - The Simpsons already covered that 25+ years ago:

Sterling Archer is definitely the most fuckable cartoon character.

I'd have to say "Race" Bannon, r185.

[quote]Brian /Brain sorry I have dyslexia and spell check won’t point out that it’s wrong.

Now how do you assholes feel who have to point out spelling errors?

Did anyone else mention these two?

[quote] Now how do you assholes feel who have to point out spelling errors?

Just great! Thanks for asking.

Oh, welcome to Datalounge.

[quote] Did anyone else mention these two?

Don’t do anything silly, like read the fucking thread or anything.

It's admittedly hard to read a multi-hundred entry thread, but you can scroll to the end and then use Control+F (or Command +F on a mac) to see if someone's mentioned your character...

R191 Why is it so important? You wasted more time schooling the poster than you would have just answering the question.

R191 thanks. I didn't know. R188 here. But it's kind of tragic how some people get so angry about a stupid thread on a gossip site. ROFLMAO!

It’s considered rude. Don’t you see that?

“I don’t have the time or desire to read what every other contributor wrote. I mean, that’s not even the point of a message board, right? Anyway, I’ll just ignore the other posts and put my thoughts in. I really want people to read [bold]my[/bold] thoughts, though.”

R193, why would you even come to a message board and not read the messages?

Pink panther?

DON'T FUCK WITH ME FELLAS !!

One of the original DL members.

DINO!

Another original DL member.

Nigel Thornberry

He-Man!!

Turanga Leela

[quote] The Simpsons at their lowest are still millions times smarter and funnier than The Family Guy at its "funniest"

X1,000,000

What's going on here?

Ickis from Real Monsters.

R204 flunked math in high school.

Untalkative Bunny

Alice The Goon

I'm with Bugs, or sometimes Daffy, or maybe Sylvester. But then there's Stimpy! I just can't make up my child-mind.

Jon K. is a homophobic pedo POS. Nothing he created belongs here.

My God, how does anybody listen to that shit at r207? Is that sposeta be some kinda...criticism? It's just some really smartass jerk kid spouting off about every tv show known to man and his voice...AAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHH!

He's right and you know he's right. [italic]The Simpsons[/italic] should have ended 20 years ago.

R98 honestly, Seto Fucking Kaiba should be top of this list.

This man is so brilliant and so petty that he invented an entire technological VR system just to win a tournament. The man is so outrageously intelligent and hypercapable that as a teen he purposely ran an entire military-industrial conglomerate into the ground then won it back in a game of strategy so he could rebuild it as a billion-dollar philanthropic-tech org. The man is so badass that he told Fate and a literal God to go fuck Itself, because his willpower and drive is too powerful to control (and he’s right). The man is so immensely forward-thinking and so intense that he built a time-space hyperdrive—the first of its kind in his universe—just so he could travel back to Ancient Egypt and defend his title of ‘King Of Games’..

I am not making any of that up. He’s a modern day Nietzschean antihero.

Bugs Bunny.

While I know Charlie Brown is technically a cartoon, does he count even though he never was a TV series. More of a comic character who had some specials. I loved Scooby, Bugs, Bart and Stewey.

[quote] While I know Charlie Brown is technically a cartoon, does he count even though he never was a TV series.

Yes he was. [italic]The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show[/italic] ran on CBS from 1983 to 1986, and there is now an Apple TV series called [italic]The Snoopy Show[/italic].

Fraggle Rock

Hugo the Hippo

"Simpson, Homer Simpson, he's the greatest guy in history."

R218 doesn’t know the difference between a cartoon and a puppet.

[quote] Is that sposeta be some kinda...criticism?

Say what, now?

[quote][R218] doesn’t know the difference between a cartoon and a puppet.

There was a [italic]Fraggle Rock[/italic] cartoon from 1987 to 1988 on NBC after the original live-action HBO series ended. It only ran a year. It might have done better on CBS paired with [italic]Muppet Babies[/italic].

I love Stitch (of Lilo and Stitch) and Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon.

Then I respectfully stand corrected and offer apologies to r218.

If he’s a fan of that cartoon, he was every right to vote for them. Or him. Or it. Idk.

We could have been as big as that duck or rabbit. Warner Bros never gave us the proper push!

Clutch Cargo, a cartoon figure with human lips. I would at least make out with him.

R226 “Duck and rabbit,” who the hell are you Boris and Natasha?

Is it too late to make a suggestion?

Diana Ross.

Droopy Dog!

[quote]When I was 7 years old, I thought Mighty Mouse and Pearl Pureheart were the best.

THAT whore??!

Gentlemen, REALLY — 232 posts?!

All trans characters on every show ever. They're the only ones who should be allowed on TV at all.

And all Disney movies should be banned unless trans ally Julie Andrews is in them.

Panthro if you're nasty.

He looks like a harry testicle, I mean come on...

"Stewie would tear Bugs Bunny to fucking shreds."

Like hell he would. Bugs would make short work of the prissy little bastard.

Hogatha and Big Mouth from The Smurfs.

It's ironic that the WB cartoons banned/censored for racism still have better animation than a [italic]Family Guy[/italic] episode calling it so.

"As opposed to a show featuring a coyote chasing an ostrich-adjacent birdy running around on a highway?"

Yes. It's Shakespeare in comparison with Family Guy.

Daffy Duck. Bugs a close second.

Helga G. Pataki.

Name a more accurately written young female animated character. You can’t.

Bugs

(But Race Bannon will always have a place in my heart)

Br'er Rabbit could outsmart all y'all.

Madonna, especially Alien Madonna!