The Mystery Cartoon Character Game, ongoing.

Nope, not Thumbelina.



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Coraline!

The family move from Michigan to Oregon.
The only other child in the 'Pink Palace' is Wybie Lovat, who Coraline finds creepy.
A mouse reveals the corridor that leads to the parallel world of the button-eyed Others.

Correct peterhale! The turn is now yours.

Now, this character's perhaps a rather obscure one...

1) My (short) series of shorts pre-dates (and could have inspired) a much more famous pairing.

2) My adversary's mugging is reminiscent of a more famous feline.

3) I share my name with a cartoon Vietnam veteran.

Still can't think of any that match the clues. Sorry.

The only cartoon characters I know that went to Vietnam are B.D. and Zonker from Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury series, possibly one or two secondary soldiers from the G.I. Joe series, and Bogutsky and Packy from Cat Snit One. Not ringing any bells in my empty head, though.

There was also Martin O'Carolan, Ba Nee's father, from "Jem." But there are no characters who share that name.

Could it be a bird character called Flippy?
1. There was a cartoon series from Colombia featuring a yellow bird called Flippy and a cat called Flop. Apparently three of the shorts were made in 1946--there were only four of them with the last one in 1947. In 1947, a certain yellow bird and cat made their debut pairing together in the Looney Tunes short "Tweety Pie."
2. Since this is a series of a cat and bird pairing, I can only conclude that Flop must be similar to Sylvester.
3. Yes, I looked up cartoon Vietnam characters on a whim. Usually these sorts of searches don't do much for me, but suddenly, my eyes fell upon a Happy Tree Friends character named Flippy. I don't watch Happy Tree Friends, but I do know that the character wears Army clothing--and sure enough, he was a war veteran from Vietnam. Certain I had found my match, I then searched for another character named Flippy--and found I did indeed have the character.

I've never even heard of this little guy before--so he must be pretty obscure.

Well caught, Glowworm - it is indeed Flippy the canary.

















1) Flippy first appeared in the Color Rhapsody Dog, Cat and Canary (1945), two years before Friz Freleng paired Tweety and Sylvester in Tweety Pie.

2) The series seems to be inspired by the early Tom & Jerry cartoons, and the cat, although black and white, shares a lot of Tom's facial expressions.


















3) Yes indeed - Google 'Flippy' and the Happy Tree Friends character dominates the search results!

The characters were taken up by DC Comics, who changed Flippy's name to the more fitting 'Flippity', and coined 'Flop' for the cat. In the films Flop is quite scrawny (as is appropriate for a hungry predator!) but in the comics he grew progressively stouter.





























Back to you, Glow...

Thanks, I had a feeling these guys had wound up as comic book characters--they were actually more successful that way--47 issues if I'm not mistaken.
Anyhow--here we go.

1. I'm one of those characters that has a cute lookalike nephew often visiting me.
2. In my first short, I am trying to set my nephew straight on a well known story that gave me a bad rep.
3. My final short gave me the distiction of being in the very last short (classic wise) starring a certain rabbit.

Had to check the Bugs Bunny filmography. It's B. B. Wolf.

Yes, it's B.B. Wolf also known as Uncle Big Bad to his nephew.

1. Every short B.B. is in, his cute, unnamed nephew comes over to visit.
2. In "The Turntale Wolf" B.B. tells his upset nephew his side of the story of the Three Little Pigs--which of course he made up.
3. "False Hare" was the very last Bugs Bunny short (classic wise, of course) which featured B.B. and his nephew trying to trap him through a phony "rabbit club"

Thanks, Glowworm. Now here's a simple one:

1. I'm the female equivalent of a 75-year old superhero.

2. I'm also the daughter of one of the most important men in town.

3. Unfortunately, an adversary rendered me paralyzed and wheelchair-bound, so I had to find another lady to replace me.

Yeah, easily know this one--but going to sit this one out.

Ok. last three clues:

4. I owe my existence to a killer moth.

5. When not fighting crime, I can be found in a place where silence is required.

6. I was first animated a year after my live action debut.

I really don't know anything about superheros, but I'll guess Barbara Gordon.

Yes, Saltyboot, Batgirl, AKA Barbara Gordon it is.

1. Self-explanatory.

2. She's Commissioner Gordon's daughter.

3. In the comic story, "The Killing Joke," she was shot and paralyzed by the Joker. Confined to a wheelchair, she was replaced by two new Batgirls and became Oracle, but was eventually "reinstated."

4. She first donned her Batgirl costume when she mistakenly believed Killer Moth had murdered Bruce Wayne(he didn't, thankfully).

5. Her regular job is that of librarian at the Gotham City Public Library.

6. She was first animated for Filmation's "Batman/Superman Hour" in 1968. A year earlier, she'd debuted on the live action "Batman" show, mere months after her first comic book appearance.

So it's all yours, Saltyboot. Great job.

I know more about superheroes than I used to thanks to my boyfriend--he's been getting me into reading some comic books.

However, Barbara Gordon is a character I was always somewhat familiar with.

Thanks emeraldisle, now here is my character.

I'm a lonely little girl.
I decided to pick out a pin-pal by random from a phone book.
Our friendship lasted for decades.

I have no idea on this one. Someone else has seen it, I'm sure.