Hundreds of cartoon facts and why you should care chapter 24: Cartoon fathers

The Cartoon father is a very-often-made-fun-of archetype in animated cartoon history. However, many, many characters throughout cartoon history have existed for better or worse reasons, with humor villainy, or heroic fighting. Many of the cartoon fathers are only fathers because they later settle down and have children, but that does not make them lose their edges. Anyway, here is a list of cartoon fathers from across cartoon animated history:

1. Homer Simpson

2. Mr. Incredible

3. Poopdeck Pappy from Popeye

4. Shrek from Shrek 3

5. Harold from Shrek 2

6. Zues from Disney's Hercules

7. Mufasa from The Lion King

8. Simba from The Lion King 2

9. Dilbert's Dad

10. Peter Griffin

11. King Randor from He-Man

12. Man-at-arms from He-Man

13. Prince Adam's grandfather

14. Little Lulu's dad

15. King Richard from Disney's Robin Hood

16. Dr. Brown from Back to the Future

17. Typhon from an episode of Disney's Hercules

18. Tramp from Lady and The Tramp 2 Scamp's Adventure

19. Grampa Simpson

20. Mr. Burns

21. Professor Frink

22. Dr. Hibbert

23. Milhouse's father

24. Krusty the Clown

25. Krusty's dad

26. Sideshow Bob

27. Clawdus from Thundercats

28. Popeye from Popeye and Son

29. The Pink Panther from Sons of the Pink Panther

30. Fred Flintstone

31. Barney Rubble

32. Bluto from Popeye and Son

33. Droopy

34. Spike from Tom and Jerry Kids

35. Doggy Daddy

36. Magilla Gorilla's dad

37. Taz's dad from Tazmania

38. Mr. Robinson from Meet the Robinsons

39. Tommy's dad from Rugrats

40. Angelica's dad from Rugrats

41. Phil and Lil's dad from Rugrats

42. Chucky's dad from Rugrats

43. Timmy Turner's dad from Fairly Oddparents

44. Jimmy Neutron's dad from Jimmy Neutron

45. Paw from The Hillbilly Bears

46. George Jetson

47. Monterey Jack's dad from Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers

48. Archie's dad

49. Bruce Wayne

50. Count Duckula's ancestors

51. Yugi's grandpa from Yugioh

52. Scar from the Lion King

53. Andy Panda's father

54. Marlin from Finding Nemo

55. Comissioner Gorden from Batman

56. J.Jonah Jameson

57. Anakin Skywalker

58. Ben's Grampa Max

59. Aladdin's dad

60. Drake Mallard from Darkwing Duck

There are many more cartoon fathers across cartoon animated history, filling out different roles in addition to simply child bearing and child rearing. Whether simply comical or heroic in some way or being the antagonist of a cartoon show or movie, cartoon fathers fill a role that can't be filled by any other cartoon archetype, including cartoon mothers. If you look hard enough, you can find a cartoon father in just about any of your favorite cartoon series. For the most part, they may not be as likable as parents as cartoon mothers, but they are undeniably popular. Here is the list of 20 cartoon facts for this chapter:

1. Marlin from Finding Nemo is a clownfish who lives in a sea anenome the stings from the anenome are similar to a jellyfish sting he recieves later.

2. Andy Panda's dad, similar to Andy himself began as a clothes-free anthropomorphic panda bear, and as a giant panda was larger than Andy ever became.

3. In an episode where Andy Panda's dad tried to fix his roof, it was revealed that Andy's dad's name was Andrew.

4. Yugi's grandfather once entered a tournament with a mask under the name Apnarg. He never got past the first round, losing to Joey Wheeler.

5. Paw from the Hillbilly Bears essentially spends all the time he isn't doing chores just sitting in his rocking chair, sleeping.

6. Count Duckula is essentially reborn every hundred years, all of his previous forms are referred to by Igor as his fathers.

7. Bruce Wayne is essentially Dick Grayson's foster father, although their relationship is closer to employee and boss.

8. When Mr. Robinson got married, he painted the back of his head and walked backward.

9. George Jetson gets paid to sit around all day and occasionally press a button. In one episode, he still came home and complained about it.

10. On more than one occasion, Fred Flintstone has had personality changes as a result of being hit on the head.

11. In one episode of Fairly Oddparents, Timmy identified Cosmo from a set of balloons in disguise by the fact that he wasn't thinking at all. (Complicated, I know, but it still works.)

12. According to Taz's father, the way he and Taz' mother met was just like the movie Casablanca.

13. Lion-O's father, Clawdus, didn't die in the explosion that destroyed Thundera. Instead, he was trapped in another dimension by a fiend known as The Shadow Master.

14. Comissioner Gordon is an essential part of the story of Batman, but he didn't appear in the first season of the newer show: The Batman.

15. In The Lion King 2 Simba's Pride, Simba was haunted by nightmares about his dad's death.

16. In Aladdin and the King of thieves, Aladdin's father was the leader of the forty thieves. The suggestion of Ali Baba was never brought up.

17. The Pink Panther once heard the voice of the devil, who prompted him to get greedier and eventually make war with the man next door.

18. Homer Simpson has been seen at one point or another in each and every one of The Simpsons' 400 plus episodes.

19. Barney Rubble once mentioned that he always had to be the one to apologize to Fred whenever they have a fight.

20. Though the subject of how Darkwing Duck earns money as Drake Mallard was briefly touched upon, it was never fully revealed.

That's all for now. Thank's for reading and be sure to check out my next chapter!