Cartoon cats: cartoon cat characters

10 favorite cartoon cats August 8, 2012, 00:00 | Katya Kozhevnikova

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Today the world celebrates a wonderful holiday - World Cat Day . On this occasion, I propose to congratulate your own pets or feed the homeless, and at the same time remember our most beloved animated cat characters. After all, cats are incredibly charming creatures, it’s no wonder that they make such cute cartoon characters. And they all have their own unique characters. Don't believe me? Let's see!

Kitten named Woof

Perhaps the most famous kitten from Soviet cartoons is a kitten with the unusual name Woof. He looks at the world with his big blue eyes, makes friends with the puppy and generally behaves strangely and not like a cat. This cartoon is called one of the most touching Soviet cartoons. Therefore, Woof confidently wins the “Cutest Kitten” category.

Cat Matroskin

The sensible and reasonable cat Matroskin from the cartoon Troy from Prostokvashino was a real helper to his owner: he did housework, looked after his sick Uncle Fyodor, and kept a cow. Do you remember his catchphrase: “I can also bake pies”? I think no one would refuse such a pet. So he is the only possible winner in the “Most Economic Cat” category.

Leopold the cat

The phrase “Leopold, come out!” Come out, you vile coward!” we remember from childhood. Leopold is an intellectual and a pacifist, he tries not to harm anyone. At the same time, he is constantly tormented by a couple of impudent mouse hooligans who consider Leopold's kindness a sign of cowardice. But, as it should be in a children's cartoon, good (even peaceful) always defeats evil (even militant). For his patience, endurance and willpower, Leopold is awarded the title “The Friendliest Cat”.

Scarecrow-Meow

The name of this cartoon has become a household word. This is what parents call their children when they are not seriously angry with them, but want to jokingly scold them. A little kitten wants to sing his song to people, but everyone scolds him and drives him away. But at the end of the cartoon, the kitten will find a new friend, sing his song, and things will immediately improve for all the people around him. For this we will give him the title “The Happiest Kitten”. In the sense that brings happiness.

Kitten from Lizyukov Street

Kitten Vasily lives in Voronezh on Lizyukova Street and constantly runs away from the puppy. Vasily does not like this life, and he dreams of turning into a big and terrible beast. The witch crow turns the kitten into a hippopotamus and sends it to Africa. But it turns out that being a hippopotamus is also not easy, especially if you try to climb trees out of habit. Missing home, the hippopotamus kitten nails signs with the name of his native street to the palm trees. Therefore, when his elephant friend found herself in Voronezh, she was surprised: “Where do these African names come from?” Well, I don’t know , maybe in real Africa they haven’t heard about Lizyukov Street, but the kitten definitely made it famous throughout Russia. Therefore, it is not surprising that a monument to Vasily appeared on it several years ago - the first monument to an animated character in Russia. That’s why we’ll call him “The Most Memorable Kitten.”

Fat Red Cat (Return of the Prodigal Parrot)

The barrel-shaped red cat from the cartoon Return of the Prodigal Parrot is, although not the main character, but a very memorable character. Such a cartoon Oblomov: he lives with rich owners, he has everything and needs nothing. “Tahiti-Tahiti! We were not in any Tahiti! They feed us well here too!” So he earned the title of "The Laziest Cat".

Garfield

Garfield, a cheeky and narcissistic red cat, was born on the pages of a comic book, then got his own animated series, and a few years ago he grew into a film. He is incredibly selfish and lazy, but shows rare ingenuity to get food. Despite the cat's bad character, the owner loves him, and Garfield himself is capable of showing good feelings. He is somewhat similar to a fat red cat, but he is much more arrogant. Well, that’s what we’ll call him: “The most impudent cat.”

Aristocratic cats

A family of aristocratic cats: the cat Duchess and her trio of kittens find themselves in a difficult situation: their owner's butler is trying to get rid of the animals in order to receive an inheritance instead, and takes them out of town. The pets were not ready for life on the street, but the family met the street cat Thomas O'Malley, who helps them return to Paris. Aristocrats is a musical cartoon, so its characters fully deserve the title of “The Most Musical Cats.”

Mitten

The disheveled stray black cat named Mitten from the Disney cartoon Bolt is an independent and cunning creature. She once had a home and owners, but they moved and left the cat on the street. Mittens became a cynical pessimist with a sarcastic sense of humor. How else? You can't abandon animals! The cartoon, of course, will end well, but because of its difficult fate, I want to call Mitten “The Unluckiest Cartoon Cat.”

Puss in Boots

The first place among the most beloved and charming cartoon kittens deservedly goes to Puss in Boots from the cartoon series about Shrek . His favorite technique in a fight is to look at his opponent with big, big eyes. And when the enemies are moved and throw down their weapons to pet the charming creature, the cat rushes into battle. Puss in Boots appeared in the second Shrek cartoon as a specialist in killing ogres, but unexpectedly became a friend of the green ogre. The audience loved him so much that they even made their own film about him. I think that for his soulful look, he fully deserves the title of “The most charming cat” from the cartoon.

What cartoon cats do you like?

Katya Kozhevnikova , iledebeaute.ru

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Kitten named Woof

This naive blue-eyed kitten with an extravagant name, running towards “all sorts of troubles,” together with his bosom friend the puppy Sharik, was invented by the Russian writer Grigory Oster and occupies a huge place in the heart of everyone who grew up in Soviet and post-Soviet times.

By the way, the cartoon Woof is a purebred kitten, his image was partially copied from a Thai cat (an old-type Siamese).

Hello Kitty

The Hello Kitty brand was created by Japanese designer Shintaro Tsuji in 1974 and soon gained incredible popularity. The white muzzle with a red bow decorates not only souvenirs, but also items of clothing, household and electronic appliances, etc. The first cartoon for children featuring the cat Kitty was released in 1974, and the series The Adventures of Hello Kitty & Friends has been published since 2008 and to this day.

Friend

Film: "Friend"

Feature: wean people off drinking

The friend is a Newfoundland dog who speaks in the voice of Vasily Livanov. He has an amazing gift for weaning people off drinking. Alcoholic Kolyun (Sergei Shakurov) found a friend while wandering around the poultry market, begging money from buyers. Unexpectedly, he met a stranger who was ready to pay him 40 rubles on the condition that Kolyun would take his dog. Thus began the friendship of a huge black dog and a heavy drunkard.

The film was shot at the height of Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign. It was supposed to be a propaganda campaign about the dangers of vodka and beer, but director Leonid Kvinikhidze turned out to be a phantasmagoric parable about the relationship between a man and a dog, about self-sacrifice, friendship and betrayal. The friend was played by a Newfoundland named Yutgay, who, as members of the film crew said, could not stand drunk people, so the whole crew remained sober for several months.

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Lassie

Film: Lassie Comes Home

Feature: beautiful and smart

Lassie was and remains perhaps the most popular dog in the film industry. 26 films and 6 TV series were made about her. In February 1960, her name appeared on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, although without paw prints. Lassie was invented by English writer Eric Knight in the late 1930s. In 1943, his novel Lassie Comes Home was made into a film of the same name. The plot centered on a boy, Joe, who adored his beautiful and loyal collie dog, Lassie, but his parents were forced to sell her due to financial difficulties. This is how Lassie ended up with a wealthy Duke from Scotland. The dog could not come to terms with the loss of its owner and set off on a long and dangerous journey to Joe. By the way, the Duke's granddaughter, played by ten-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, helped Lassie escape back to Yorkshire. This was her second role in her career.

Despite the fact that the name Lassie translates as “girl,” the heroine was played by a dog named Pal, originally from California. The dog's owner was Hollywood trainer Rudd Weatherwax, to whom eight-month-old Pal was given by a colleague to wean him from barking. The Dog starred in seven Lassie films (not all of which he played the lead role). After Weatherwax's conflict with MGM, Pal's film career ended. Together with his owner, he gave short performances in American department stores. Pal died in 1958 at the age of 18. Pal's appearance became the standard for selecting dogs for the role of Lassie, and his descendants played in other films and TV series about the beautiful collie.

Matroskin

The sensible and economical Cat Matroskin from “Prostokvashino” is a materialist to the core, was invented by the Soviet writer Eduard Uspensky and appears in his fairy tale “Uncle Fyodor, the Dog and the Cat.” Matroskin gained enormous popularity after the release of the animated series “Prostokvashino”, where he was voiced by actor Oleg Tabakov.

Immortal quotes from the cat Matroskin like “Whiskers, paws, tail, here are my documents!” and “It’s not right, Uncle Fyodor, you’re eating a sandwich, you hold it with the sausage up, but you should put the sausage on your tongue, it will turn out tastier” have long migrated to the category of folklore.

Captain, Screamer, Biter, Stinky, Caresser, Dunduk

Movie: "Mr. Popper's Penguins"

Feature: Charlie Chaplin movie lovers

Based on the classic 1930s children's book by American writers Richard and Florence Atwater, the film tells the story of Tom Popper, a successful businessman who inherits six sub-Antarctic penguins from his explorer father. After an unusual parcel, the children are more willing to come to visit their father, and the hero’s work fades into the background - keeping penguins turns out to be not so easy. The penguins turn Popper's house into an ice castle, arrange an uninvited visit to a social reception at the Guggenheim Museum, and make noise and destroy everything in their path. The only thing that can calm them down is watching films with Chaplin.

During pre-production, director Mark Waters decided that he would not create the penguins entirely using CGI, but would try to film as many scenes as possible with real animals. Filming took place at a film studio in New York, and involved eight live penguins, which were filmed by visual effects specialists on 18 cameras.

“Some actors are reluctant to take on films where they have to play with animals or children, but I really love that sincerity in real animals. Besides, it’s very difficult to be unhappy when you’re surrounded by penguins on the playground. They are 10 times cuter than puppies,” said Jim Carrey, who played Tom Popper. The penguins (though not in full force) even attended the film's premiere in Hollywood.

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The main character of the series is the purple cat Ike, as well as his girlfriend Annabelle - a pink cat that is five times larger than Ike, an angry dog with a shark face Sharky, who hates Ike, a good-natured elk Elmo, his little brother Timmy and four colored bears (Trickster Bears ), heroes of the TV show, as well as the owners of Ike: JB, Wendy Elizabeth and their mother. Various funny incidents happen to the characters of the animated series, from which they look for a way out together.

In parallel with the stories about the cat Ike, in most episodes, starting from the second season, there is an episode about the fight between the Thunderlizard dinosaurs and the first people on the planet, and in some episodes of the fourth season there is an episode about Klutter - a strange a creature made of rags.

Hedwig

Film: "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"

Feature: loyal companion and experienced postman

On his 11th birthday, Harry received a snow-white polar owl from Hagrid, which the young wizard named Hedwig. She, like all owls in the Harry Potter universe, was responsible for delivering letters and parcels, which did not require any additional training. Hedwig always knew where the recipient was, for example, she flew to the Leaky Cauldron, where Harry fled, literally 5 minutes after his arrival. The snowy owl was a faithful, albeit silent friend of the wizard for six years. Rowling interpreted her death as the end of Harry's childhood.

It was easier for young Daniel Radcliffe to deal with smaller birds, so the role of Buckle was played by male polar owls, which are smaller in size than females. Bookley's most famous performer is a male named Gizmo. He performed one of the most difficult stunts during filming - delivering the Nimbus 2000 broom to Potter. Despite the fact that the broom was plastic and weighed less than the usual prey of snowy owls, it took trainers almost six months to train Gizmo.

Jack

Film: "The Artist"

Feature: Looks great on camera

In Michel Hazanavicius's 2012 Oscar winner The Artist, the title character, fading silent film star George Valentine, is accompanied everywhere by a dog named Jack. The dog goes with its owner to filming, on promenades, sits on the table while he has dinner, and, as befits a faithful dog, wakes up Valentine by jumping on the pillow.

The dog was played by a Jack Russell terrier named Uggie from Florida. For his role, he received a special prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Collar - the dog's Oscar. Uggie also became the first dog to be allowed to leave his paw prints on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. During the ceremony, the owner of the four-legged actor Omar von Müller made a speech in which he urged everyone who wants to have a pet to look for it in shelters for homeless animals. It was from there that Uggi came to its owner. After this speech, Uggie became the face of the PETA charity campaign.

In addition to “The Artist,” Uggie starred in “Water for Elephants!” with Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson. Uggie died in August 2020 at the age of 13. Von Müller decided to euthanize the pet so that he would not suffer from an incurable tumor. In the fall of the same year, the memoirs of the star dog “Uggs” were published. My life,” written allegedly on his behalf.

Salem

TV series: “Sabrina the Teenage Witch”

Feature: a man trapped in the body of a cat

Sabrina Spellman is a young witch, and the charismatic and power-hungry black cat Salem is her familiar. In fact, Salem is a former sorcerer who is sentenced to imprisonment in the guise of a cat by the witch council for trying to take over the world. Salem itself is over 500 years old and even has an adult daughter.

The series features an animatronic cat model, voiced by writer and actor Nick Bakay. The dialogue-free scenes featured four trained American Shorthair cats: Elvis, Lucy, Salem and Witch. Salem turned out to be more popular among viewers than Sabrina herself and other characters in the series. From 1998 to 2000, Salem won Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite Animal Star. And even 17 years after the end of the series, he is quoted on social networks and screenshots of him are analyzed into memes.

Cheshire Cat

Cheshire cat from the Soviet cartoon of 1981, Kievnauchfilm
The eternally philosophizing, constantly grinning cat from Lewis Carroll's fairy tale "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" has not only an amazing smile, but also an extraordinary character. The Cheshire cat is one of the most popular and mysterious trickster characters.

Babe

Film: "Babe: Baby Four Legs"

Feature: The Pig Who Could

The clever pig Babe, separated from his family, ends up on the Hoggett farm, where he is taken under the protection of the shepherd dog Fly. Piglet doesn't want to accept the fact that everyone on the farm considers him a useless animal, so he selflessly tries to learn how to herd sheep. The farmer notices his abilities and allows Babe to make his dream come true, and after a successful exam, he signs the piglet up for a herding dog competition.

About 500 animals took part in the filming, and the role of Babe himself was played by 46 pigs (piglets grow very quickly). Director Chris Noonan and producer George Miller decided to shoot an animatronic pig puppet for several scenes, and used CGI for the scenes where the animals talk. In 1996, the film won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects, beating out its only rival, Apollo 13.

After filming, actor James Cromwell, who played farmer Arthur Hoggett, became a vegan. Participating in the film opened his eyes to how intelligent and social animals pigs are, who can love, be happy and sad just like dogs and cats. And “Babe” suddenly found itself on the list of ideal films that director James Gunn compiled for the #FivePerfectMovies flash mob.