Top 10 Cartoon Characters with the Darkest/ Tragic Backstories
Some cartoon characters have really dark or tragic back stories. And I'll be counting them down. However for this list I'm excluding anime characters.
His mother died when he was born and he also had to live with a step mother, had no biological brother or sister and generally never got to saw his biological mother that much before she died.
Leopold "Butters" Stotch is a fictional character in the animated television series South Park. He is voiced by series co-creator Matt Stone and loosely based on co-producer Eric Stough. His parents are abusive and he was born on September 11th do I need to say more?
Helga Pataki is a character from the 90s Nickelodeon cartoon Hey Arnold created by Craig Bartlett. She's known for being bossy and being a bully to most kids she encounters. However she's secretly loves Arnold despite the fact she acts bitter around him to keep her secret. She will often pull out a locket and say a monologue of her love for him in a place where no one will hear her or sometimes in public. When this happens she usually hears breathing and punches Brainy a lot. Her parents neglected her in favor of Olga as a young kid, and it's revealed her bullying is a defense mechanism.
Helga on the Couch... enough said.
Raven is a fictional superheroine appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character first appeared in a special insert in DC Comics Presents #26, and was created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez.
The Ice King is a character in the American animated television series Adventure Time. A supposedly evil wizard capable of creating and manipulating ice and snow, he is the self-proclaimed king of the Ice Kingdom, a land of ice he claimed as his own and lives in in company of many penguins. Ice King's backstory is very tragic and sad, but that's what makes it so deep and amazing. Marceline should also be included in this list. I feel like her story is sadder than most of these characters.
"I Remember You", do I need to say more?
The episode "Good Wilt Hunting" says it all really.
Rosalina, known as Rosetta in Japan, is a major character in the Mario Franchise created by Nintendo. She first appeared in the 2007 Mario Game, Super Mario Galaxy for the Nintendo Wii and later returned for the game's sequel in 2010. Since then, she has been featured in many main-series Mario Games and many spinoffs. She has appeared as a playable character in Super Mario 3D World for the Nintendo Wii U in 2013 and is a playable character in the Mario Kart series and Mario Party series. She also has come into Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/3DS as a part of the large character roster. Literally one of the saddest nintendo characters backstories...
Timothy "Timmy" Tiberius Turner is a ten-year old boy who is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the American animated series The Fairly OddParents created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon. Mainly the earlier seasons before Poof, or Sparky came long or even Chloe... he was and still is neglected by his parents, bullied, and even rejected by the one he loves and I think I don't need to go in more depth.
Courage is a fictional character and the titular main protagonist of the Cartoon Network animated series, Courage the Cowardly Dog.
In the original Teen Titans, excluding GO! Cyborg was once a normal human, but after a horrific accident nearly killed him. He had to be saved with cybernetics.
Pacifica Northwest is a character in the cartoon Gravity Falls made by Alex Hirsch. She's known for being rich and hating Mabel. At first she seems like a spoiled know it all brat, but as the series progressed you see why she acted the way she did.
Heffer Wolfe is a fictional character on the cartoon Rocko's Modern Life and the comic book series of the same name. Left abandoned to die, starving. Then his wolf family found him, with the initial plans to eat him. Fortunately, they grew to love him. Also, his biological father turned out to be heartless.
Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of the animated series Phineas and Ferb. Why is he low?! His parents never showed up at his birth, he was forced to be a lawn gnome, they disowned him to the point where he had to live with ocelots, they even preferred his little brother! That guy has the worst parents in cartoon history
Odie is a fictional dog who appears in the comic strip Garfield by Jim Davis. He has also appeared in the animated television series Garfield and Friends and The Garfield Show. His original owner abandoned him and left him without a trace enough said.
Charizard, known in Japan as Lizardon, is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise. Created by Ken Sugimori, Charizard first appeared in the video games Pokémon Red and Blue and subsequent sequels. They have later appeared in various merchandise, spinoff titles and animated and printed adaptations of the franchise. Shin-ichiro Miki, the actor who voices James in the original Japanese version of the Pokémon anime, voices Charizard in both the Japanese and English-language versions of the anime. An orange, draconic Pokémon, Charizard is the evolved form of Charmeleon and the final evolution of Charmander. It has two other forms, Mega Charizards X and Y, which are its ...read more. Ash's Charizard, specifically. Abandoned by his old trainer, who knew full well that if a Charmander's tail burns out, it will die, but didn't care.
Spoilers for season 1 of DuckTales (2017):
Lena is Magica De Spell's shadow given physical form in order to basically be her own personal slave. To make matter worse, Lena has her own mind and emotions and was born a teenager. Enough said...
Denzel Quincy Crocker is a fictional character from the American animated series The Fairly OddParents created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon. He is the mentally unstable school teacher of Timmy and is one of the main antagonists in the series.
Mimikyu is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise. It is a Ghost and Fairy type whose ability, disguise, allows it to take one hit without taking damage Mimiku was once a Pikachu until he was stripped of his/her cuteness.Has no friends aside from Team Rocket.Meowith was scared and paralyzed by the sight of him
He was created in an attempt to make an unstable robot, but it went horribly right.