Top 10 Best Animated Characters Who Debuted in the 40s

Best animated characters who debuted in the 40s. Characters from animated movies can also be included.
The Top Ten
1 Tom - Tom & Jerry Thomas "Tom" Cat is a fictional character and one of the title characters in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's series of Tom and Jerry theatrical cartoon short films.
2 Woody Woodpecker - The Woody Woodpecker Show Woody Woodpecker is an anthropomorphic animated woodpecker, inspired by the acorn woodpecker and also resembling the pileated woodpecker, who appeared in theatrical short films produced by the Walter Lantz animation studio and distributed by Universal Pictures.

First appearing in the short "Knock Knock" and later appeared in his own short cartoon "Woody Woodpecker" Mel Blanc originally voiced Woody in both shorts.

3 Droopy - Droopy
4 Mighty Mouse - Mighty Mouse Mighty Mouse is an American animated anthropomorphic, superhero mouse character created by the Terrytoons studio for 20th Century Fox.

A parody of Superman first appearing in the animated short "The Mouse of Tomorrow" under the name Super Mouse before being changed to Mighty Mouse after creator Paul Terry found out that another character also named Super Mouse was being published by Marvel Comics.

5 Jerry - Tom & Jerry Gerald "Jerry" Mouse is a fictional character and one of the title characters in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's series of Tom and Jerry theatrical cartoon short films. He is a mouse that gets chased by Tom, but tries to trick Tom so he won't catch him.
6 Superman - Superman Superman is a comic character. And probably the first powerful superhero in the fictional world. The character was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, high school students living in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1933. It was published by DC comics. The first animated superhero movie was superman. The origin story of Superman relates that he was born Kal-El on the planet Krypton, before being rocketed to Earth as an infant by his scientist father Jor-El, moments before Krypton's destruction. Discovered and adopted by a Kansas farm couple, the child is raised as Clark Kent and imbued with a strong moral compass. Very early on he started to display various superhuman abilities, which, ...read more.

As the first cartoon adaptation of the Man of Steel by the Fleischer Studios the same studio behind Popeye the Sailor.

7 Chernabog - Fantasia Chernabog is a Disney villain from the 1940s film Fantasia, and in his segment, "A Night on Bald Mountain".

Hands down the most terrifying and dark Disney villain ever created.

8 Baby Huey - Noveltoons
9 Little Audrey - The Harveytoons Show
10 Private Snafu - Snafu
The Contenders
11 Foghorn Leghorn - Looney Tunes
12 Tweety Bird - Looney Tunes Tweety is an animated fictional yellow canary in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated cartoons. The name "Tweety" is a play on words, as it originally meant "sweetie", along with "tweet" being a typical English chick for the sounds of birds.
13 Spike the Bulldog - Looney Tunes
14 Sylvester - Looney Tunes Sylvester J. Pussycat Sr., usually called Sylvester, is a fictional character, a three-time Academy Award-winning anthropomorphic, 40, 50, or 60-Inch tall Tuxedo cat in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons.
15 Road Runner - Looney Toons
16 Nibbles Mouse - Tom and Jerry
17 Butch Cat - Tom and Jerry
18 Cecil Turtle - Looney Tunes
19 Wile E Coyote - Looney Tunes
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