April 20th, 2018

Hello dears.
We all watched cartoons as children, and completely different ones. I’m almost exclusively Soviet, plus CMEA countries, and very rarely foreign cool things, like “Around the World in 80 Days.” And I can say that growing up with Russian animation definitely benefited me. I still treat it with reverence, and I’m glad that modern Russian animation is also very up to par in some places.

But the Soviet one was different. Kind, nurturing, touching, sometimes bantering. Various. And I can remember a lot of really cool works. Which is what I do sometimes :-))
But today I would like to remember some of the heroes of hand-drawn (and puppet) cartoon shows. But those who, in theory, should have been negative, were so bright and interesting that I personally often worried about them much more than about the main character. Not everyone made it to my final list. They missed it a little Bluebeard, Barmaley from " Blue Puppy", Ares from the cartoon about the Cossacks, Rasp - "About Vasya Kurolesov", the negative heroes of the series" Baba Yaga against" ,Crocodile from "Aibolita", Signor Tomato, bad cowboy from" One cowboy, two cowboy" And Karbofos from "The Koloboks are conducting the investigation".

But there are many other interesting characters :-)
So, let's go :-))

15th place- Tobacco. It seems like a small character from an excellent animated film "Mowgli"(1973, director Roman Davydov).


I honestly admit that after watching “The Jungle Book” and being told off by Rudyard Kipling, I fell in love with our cartoon even more. there are a lot of cool characters there. Bagheera and Kaa alone are worth it :-)) But for some reason, as a child, I paid attention to this particular jackal (in every sense of the term), and the minion Shere Khan. And his phrase “we’ll go north” became a personal meme for me. And yes, Tabaki was voiced by Sergei Martinson himself. And so Tabaki became common noun. This is the name of a sycophant and a scoundrel.

14th place- Wolf from tape "Santa Claus and the Gray Wolf"(1978 Directed by Witold Bordzilovsky). It's a remake, but it's fun.

Gave us 2 memes: "four sons and a daughter, a kidney" And "alarm, alarm, the wolf carried away the rabbits":-) The cartoon still looks good. There are 2 negative characters, but I didn’t really like the crow, but the wolf in Papanov’s voice acting is cool :-)) By the way, he looks like the character of the same name from “Well, wait a minute!” Apparently a relative :-))

13th place- Monkey from m/f " Home for the Leopard". This is the highest aerobatics of an animated episode. A sort of Yarmolnik and Gottlieb Roninson rolled into one :-)))

12th place - John Silver from a super mega blockbuster "Treasure Island"(1988, directed by the brilliant David Cherkassky). A very cool film that I only fully appreciated years later.


Although at school some people called me “Doctor Livesey” :-))) In this cartoon, many people liked Pugh, Billy Bones or even Israel Hands, but my sympathies were on the side of old John, voiced by Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. A very cool cartoon, which I will definitely look into in more detail :-)

11th place - Old lady Shapoklyak(from a series of cartoons (3 pieces) about Cheburashka and Crocodile Gennady). As they say, veterans never grow old at heart :-)))

Broken woman 60+ objective reasons hiding her real name, dressed in an old-fashioned way, wearing a hat (which gave her her nickname) and a reticule in which she carries a special trained fighter - a rat named Lariska. Excellent ability to use a slingshot. She is agile, intelligent, dexterous and fast, she has a good imagination. And yes, he does nasty things out of boredom. After becoming friends with Gennady and Che, I even started helping them :-)

10th place - King Last from "Castle of Liars" (1983, director Gennady Sokolsky).

A funny cartoon based on the book by Lithuanian children's writer Vitaute Zilinskaite, and edited to the music of the group "Orange" and with the voice acting by Evgeniy Steblov. I really liked this as a child. Especially the King of Liars. Troll level 80 :-))

9th place - Veselchak U from "The Secret of the 3rd Planet"(1981. Directed by Roman Kachanov). An excellent animated adaptation of one of Kir Bulychev’s books, with a bunch of cool and very memorable characters.

How could you not love Gromozeka? Well, or the first Soviet emo captain Zeleny? Well, the Govorun bird, which you know is different....:-)))
There were 2 villains: Glot from the planet Katruk, who disguised himself as Professor Verkhovtsev, and the charming half-pig (in every sense of the term) Veselchak U, voiced by Grigory Shpigel. Very cool :-)

8th place - Little mice from the series about "Leopold the Cat" (there are 11 cartoons and they are different). But the essence is the same - 2 hooligan mice, who seem to be like Mitya and Motya, get a harmless cat with an old Austrian name.

There is a clear allusion to the stupid rednecks who attack the old intelligentsia, but due to their lack of education and stupidity, or vice versa, due to an excess of desire, the mice always fail, and Leo the cat in the end always forgives them with a sacramental phrase "Guys, let's live together!" The first picture where I saw the “Goldberg machine” with my own eyes. Now I'm a big fan of them :-)

7th place - Robbers from the duology "Bremen Town Musicians" and "In the footsteps of the Bremen Town Musicians." One of the most stylish, cheerful and amusing domestic cartoons, which is not surprising.

Vasily Livanov was a great joker and rebel :-) In general, if he’s not a character, he’s just super. Even the robbers, who have as many as 2 musical numbers. They were copied from the trinity “Coward-Dooby-Skilled” (Vitsin - Nikulin-Morgunov), popular in those years, and their leader Atamansha was copied from the ballerina from the Operetta Theater Tamara Vishneva, the wife of director Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin. Overall, great!

6th place - Big Eeh from "Wow, a talking fish!"(1983, directed by Robert Sahakyants). All Sahakyants' cartoons are something. Once you see them, you definitely won’t forget them. And this is perhaps the most severe. How can you confuse a sucker at the market and not confuse the Rams :-))

The evil wizard “Good Big Eeh” with his second-by-second transformations drove me into a stupor :-)) as well as the Adidas suit. In general, “Do good and throw it into the water” :-)))

5th place - Brilliant detective from "In the footsteps of the Bremen Town Musicians."


Gorgeous, simply gorgeous character with a memorable musical number and lovely appearance. With a nose like a dog and an eye like an eagle :-)))

4th place - Mistress Belladonna from the series " about the pig Funtik"Funtik himself, of course, is a rare pig who could have made good money in the early 90s, but his conscience awoke.

With the help of cute friends Uncle Pocus with the monkey Bambino and the hippopotamuses Chocolate. But all the salt and charm of this series of cartoons, of course, is in Mrs. Belladonna, a cunning and calculating millionaire who is used to siphoning money from children and their parents just on such Fountiks. Despite his bad character and unsightly properties, he is a gorgeous character voiced by Olga Arosieva

3rd place- Boyarin Polkan from an animated film "flying ship" (1979, directed by Harry Bardin). One of my favorite childhood cartoons.


I sang the part of Vodyanoy all the time :-)) In fact, a stylish, cool, powerful cartoon, with excellent characters and simply beautiful musical numbers. I still watch it with great pleasure. Boyarin Polkan (the name is not simple, but significant, if you look at our fairy tales and stories) in a gorlat hat with a strange mustache and beard, a kind of forerunner of Russian oligarchs. It was the first one who thought through their lifestyle in the dialogue: “Will you build a “Flying Ship”? I’ll buy it...” :-))) Wonderful, simply wonderful. Especially in the composition about happiness :-)

2nd place - Gangsters from "The Adventures of Captain Vrungel". Another brilliant film from David Cherkassky. Simply very cool! And the main villains are so colorful and charismatic that they win you over from the first second! Va bene! :-))


Julico Banditto and De La Voro Gangsterito is 2 orders of magnitude more interesting than in the book. And they are remembered forever, because they constantly drink Cinzano, always well-fed and drunk :-)) Voiced by Semyon Farada and Alexander Burmistrov.

1st place - Wolf from "Well, wait a minute!" I think no comments?


How can you not like a former sailor, now a dude, who can do a lot with his hands and owns a Java motorcycle, made in Czechoslovakia. Handsome, and nothing more :-))

What are your favorite negative characters? :-)

And yes, as I said, sometimes I remember cartoons in more detail. If you're interested, here it is.

Leafing through illustrated books with fairy tales, watching their favorite Russian or foreign animated films, children get acquainted with different characters. Over time, some of them become the most beloved.

Famous fairy tale characters

Fairy tales are a powerful tool for teaching children. As is known, children perceive best information that is presented to them in game form. Through fairy tales, they quickly and easily understand common truths in a form designed for children's understanding.

WITH early childhood When mothers read their first fairy tales to their children, they become acquainted with fairy-tale characters. Young children know such fairy tale heroes as the Three Little Pigs, the Little Gray Goat, the Tsokatuha Fly, Barmaley, the Cockroach and Moidodyr. They are also all familiar with The ugly duckling, Doctor Aibolit, Kolobok, Pockmarked Chicken, Zhikharka, Pinocchio, Baba Yaga, Masha and the Bear.

As children grow up, they become acquainted with fairy tale characters intended for their age, and their priorities regarding their loved ones change accordingly. fairy tale characters. Among the favorites appear Gerda and Kai, Thumbelina, Ruslan and Lyudmila, Balda, Prince Gvidon, the Little Humpbacked Horse, Little Red Riding Hood, Mowgli and Carlson. You can't help but like Ellie, the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow.

Heroes of the most popular Russian cartoons

There are many children and adults among fans of Russian cartoons. Let's name the ten most famous Russian cartoon characters. In first place is the sneaky and evil Dyudyuka Barbidokskaya. Dyudyuka with a big bow and an umbrella in his hands is trying to quarrel with his friends. She is the heroine of such cartoons as “A Gift for an Elephant” and “On the Road with the Clouds.”

As you know, this robber, invented by Korney Chukovsky, lived in Africa and was an enemy of Doctor Aibolit. An honorable third place is occupied by such a cartoon character as the polar bear Umka. Cheburashka is in fourth position, and Leopold the Cat is in fifth. A bear named Winnie the Pooh is also one of the most popular Russian cartoon characters. He took sixth position in the ranking.

A man in the prime of his life entered the top ten and took seventh place, namely, everyone’s favorite Carlson. The eighth place was shared by the following domestic cartoon characters: Thumbelina, Captain Vrungel, Dwarf Nose and the silly Dunno. The wooden boy is in ninth place in the ranking. The last place in the top ten most popular heroes is occupied by the onion boy - the brave Cipollino.

The most favorite foreign cartoon characters

Almost every child watches cartoons, and his favorite characters are not only representatives of the domestic film industry, but also cartoon characters from foreign animated films. Powerful advertising contributes to the growing popularity of foreign cartoon characters.

By the way, Disney princesses have become very expensive to produce. Tangled is included in the ranking of the most expensive cartoons. There is a .

Among the foreign animated films, there are many that have become favorites for children. They have kind and beautiful heroes. Among my favorites are the characters from the cartoon “Cars.” For the most part they are interesting to boys. But girls are interested in a character like Kitty. Despite the fact that he appeared on screens back in 1974, his popularity continues unabated today. The spectacular and beautiful Winx fairies are also more interesting to girls, many of whom strive to be like them. Princesses from Disney cartoons have remained popular for many years - Snow White, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel.

One cannot help but recall such cartoon characters as SpongeBob and Scooby Doo, Shaun the Sheep and Bernard, Ninja Turtles and Kuzco, Bart Simpson and Mickey Mouse. All of them are known and loved by children. The green hero of the foreign cartoon Shrek has already for a long time remains a leader in popularity among representatives of the younger generation. Ratatouille, Hulk and Rango are no less interesting and beloved characters from feature-length cartoons.

The most popular cartoon character today

Every country has a cartoon that ranks first in popularity. For example, among Korean cartoon characters, Pororo is the most popular. Even crying children This blue little penguin makes me laugh. It is gradually becoming popular in many countries around the world. Shrek is the most famous cartoon character today

Among the variety of cartoons made, children different countries loved films about Shrek and his many friends. It is he who is recognized as the world's most beloved cartoon character. Several episodes featuring Shrek have already been released, and his little fans are eagerly awaiting the emergence of new exciting stories about this green hero.
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Veiled eyes, pornographic forms and clothes that no honest girl in the real world would wear on the street: these painted chicks know how to please men. We're talking about cartoon heroines - from ingenues to femme fatales. Uncle Fyodor's short-sighted mother, the fighting Gadget, the ridiculous Marge Simpson and the fire-haired Jessica Rabbit: the editors of BigPicchi have compiled their own rating of the sexiest heroines of famous animated films.

18. Mother of Uncle Fyodor, the main character of the cartoons “Winter in”, “Holidays in Prostokvashino” and “. Mom's name is Rimma, she sings at the Blue Light, skis, wears square glasses, fitted suits and a dutik - in the forest. Her breasts, as Internet users correctly noted, change their size in the frame - from five, when mom goes to a resort in the summer, to zero - when she comes to Prostokvashino in winter.

17. Luann Platter - the heroine of the animated series “King of the Hill.” This saga about a family of Methodist Texans aired on American TV from 1997 to 2010. The heroine's name is derived from the name of one of the dishes in the Luby's cafeteria - Lu Ann Platter, or “Lu Ann's plate.”

16. Betty Boop is the main character of American short black and white cartoons of the 30s. Betty was based on singer and vaudeville actress Helen Kane. Betty is the first cartoon character main feature which was overt sexuality. However, in 1934, the so-called Hayes Code came into force in the States - a set of rules about what cannot be shown in films, as a result of which Betty's skirts became longer and her neckline disappeared completely. Betty's image faded - and with it, the audience's interest faded.

15. Princess from the legendary cartoon (actually a rock opera) “The Town Musicians of Bremen.” The capricious and headstrong Princess with a model appearance won not only the heart of the Troubadour, but also his entire gang. The cartoon was released in 1969 - the same year the legendary Woodstock rock festival took place in the West, from which the sexual revolution began. Long-haired hippies appeared on our screens under the guise of a Troubadour and a Princess: he in bell-bottoms, she in a mini.

14. Francine Smith from American Dad. Typical American housewife. Her parents left her because they didn't want her because small child fly second class. Maybe that’s why the girl started her first romance at the age of 14 with an algebra teacher. Francine has a rich biography and has her own “sex garden” - each rose bush corresponds to one of her former lovers.

13. Lois Griffin from Family Guy, also an American housewife and, as they write on these Internets, a pretty little Jew. Lois loves children, her husband and household chores, which does not stop her from being sexy.

12. Vasilisa Mikulishna from the Soviet cartoon of the same name. The wife of a Chernigov boyar. As the play progresses, she cuts off her braids, changes into a Tatar dress and sets off to save her husband. In general, as is our custom, into a burning hut and a galloping horse.

11. Turanga Leela from the cult cartoon “Futurama”. In Sanskrit the name means "song of love." Leela has purple hair and a single eye, but she is an excellent kicker - somewhat similar to Mel C from the Spice Girls. Lila dreams of a prince, but she is not very lucky in love.

10. Ariel from the cartoon "The Little Mermaid". The same data as the rest of the Disney princesses. Features: Red hair, bikini and fishtail. Ariel is sixteen, and her story bears little resemblance to the one told in the tragic fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Ariel's prototype, as Wikipedia writes, was actress Alyssa Milano, who was also only sixteen at the time of the film's creation.

9. The languid and high-cheeked daughter of an Indian chief is Pocahontas from the Disney cartoon of the same name. In the story, Pocahontas falls in love with a pale man. Interestingly, the story of the cartoon Indian woman is based on real events. The real Pocahontas received the name Rebecca at baptism (the Englishman John Rolfe did not want to marry a pagan), and she and her husband left for England, where she died at the age of twenty-two, presumably from smallpox. End of story.

8. Another girl from a Soviet cartoon is a mermaid from “In the Blue Sea, in White Foam,” a musical fantasy based on Armenian fairy tales. I remember the gorgeous singing and big mouth- back when it was not fashionable! Well, with a fish instead of a head, yes.

7. Marge Simpson from the TV series "". The wife of the unlucky Homer Simpson has a high blue hairstyle and a pistachio-colored dress without straps. Marge is another housewife on our list: she's a great cook, goes to church, and fears nothing more than never becoming a grandmother. But in one of the episodes Marge admits that she has intimate place There is a tattoo with my husband's name. This is cute.

6. Another hairy-eyed Disney beauty, Jasmine from the Aladdin cartoon, has all the right traits - seductive thin waist, high breasts, voluminous hair. The Sultan's daughter finds happiness with a Baghdad thief.

5. Fairy Tinker Bell from the Disney cartoon about Peter Pan - a boy who did not want to grow up (Tinker Bell herself has all the signs of puberty). The prototype of Tinker Bell was the “girl from magazine covers”, actress Margaret Kerry. Tinkerbell is very jealous of Peter for Wendy, and “Peter Pan” is the only full-length Disney cartoon where there is a motive of female jealousy.

4. April O'Neil - cartoon character about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, best friend turtles. She is very seductive, although she always wears the same yellow jumpsuit. Unlike many on the list, it really resembles a real girl - girl next door.

3. Gadget from the animated series “Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers.” Gadget is an anthropomorphic mouse-inventor, but by no means gray mouse. Chipmunks Chip and Dale are crazy about Gadget, but they can’t court her in a decent way - neither of them intends to give in. Interestingly, in the original the name of the mouse sounds like Gadget Hackwrench - “Gadget Spanner for hacking,” but when the cartoon was translated into Russian, the word “gadget” did not yet exist in our language.

2. Bunny girl Lola Bunny from the Warner Bros. cartoon universe, Bugs Bunny's friend. Lola is a real doll, but she can’t stand it when she is reminded of this, and says: “Don’t call me a doll!” (in Russian translation the phrase sounds like “don’t call me baby!”). Bugs often breaks the ban to specifically piss Lola off. Lola is a pizza delivery girl, would you like to accept Saturday pizza and beer from this girl's hands?

1. Femme fatale Jessica Rabbit is a character in the Roger Rabbit universe, where cartoon characters and people coexist with each other. Most famous film with the participation of Jessica - “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” (in Russia the film is not recommended for persons under 18 years of age). The animators based the gorgeous Jessica on Hollywood actresses Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth, Lauren Bacall and Veronica Lake. There is also an opinion that Jessica Rabbit is Lewis Carroll's grown-up Alice. Jessica's dress - with an open back and a slit up to her butt - was "borrowed" from a 50s model nicknamed Spina, and actress Kathleen Turner voiced Roger Rabbit's wife. Jessica Rabbit is outrageous, full of sex and achieves success using her sex appeal, but at the same time she is simply a loyal, brave, kind and overall extremely nice girl.

Along with full-length films, the animation genre always comes close. From year to year, a huge number of cartoons are created, which not only children enjoy watching. To say more - for every adult, animation, rooted in childhood, is nothing more than a step in growing up. The number of cartoon characters drawn and loved over the decades is truly impressive. In this article we will highlight the most famous of them.

Domestic heroes are the best

More than one generation has grown up with them; our parents and grandparents remember them. All of them are painfully familiar characters to every Russian. cartoon characters Soviet films rightfully take first place. Agree, there are unlikely to be those who shrug their shoulders at the mention of “Well, just wait!” For all twenty issues since 1969, the wolf desperately tries to catch the hare, who, in turn, always deftly escapes. The animated series, popular in the Soviet Union, reflects the concept of friendship in each episode, and often the wolf and the hare walk arm in arm.

“Three from Prostokvashino” tells about a smart boy, Uncle Fyodor, who leaves his parents to live in the village. There he lives with local dog Sharik and the farm cat Matroskin. The characters include a curious man who dreams of getting a bicycle for a missing boy.

An adaptation of Astrid Lindgren’s work, “The Kid and Carlson” became the first Soviet cartoon to use the electrography technique. Viewers met a bored boy and his new friend Carlson, who lives on the roof, as well as the “housekeeper” Freken Bock.

“Leopold the Cat” was released in 1975. The popular cat, perhaps the kindest of all pets shown on screen, fights the mischief of two mice in each episode, urging young viewers to live together.

In addition, classics of Russian animation include “Dunno” who went to the moon, “Doctor Aibolit”, “Cheburashka” and his faithful friend “Funtik” running to the wizard and many others.

A new era of Russian animation

Leaving Soviet examples in the past, the capabilities of current technology have become indispensable in modern times. With new works, new characters are also presented to the public - cartoon characters no less colorful and memorable. Among them the most striking:

• the good boy Jacob, whom the evil witch turned into “Dwarf Nose”;
• three heroes who received an independent cartoon: Alyosha Popovich, Dobrynya Nikitich and Ilya Muromets (“Knight’s Move” in 2015 brought the heroes together);
• “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” is a story filled with loyalty and courage, love and magical transformations;
• “Star Dogs: Belka and Strelka” - space adventures of faithful friends with the little rat Venya;
• Luntik - unusual creature with an incredibly kind character, who fell from the sky.

Cartoon characters: Disney

Disney cartoon characters occupy a special place, and the animation studio itself has huge story. Over the course of a long, painstaking effort spanning decades, Disney has released a number of both classic and live-action projects. Famous cartoon characters:

• Aladdin, living in the eastern town of Agrabah, together with his beloved Jasmine, the Genie and the parrot Iago, he confronts various heroes of the forces of evil;
• funny ducklings Billy, Willie and Dilly, as well as their elderly uncle Scrooge McDuck, who became a minor character, are familiar from “DuckTales”;
• Princess of the Atlantic, the little mermaid Ariel, who loves to explore human things found at the bottom of the ocean, and keep her company true friend Flounder and the prim crab Sebastian;
• Black Cloak, abbreviated as PE, is a peace activist in the city of Saint-Canard; master of martial arts, lover of getting into trouble; his chief assistant- mechanic Zigzag McCrack.

This list does not include all famous characters. Cartoon characters who became prominent representatives Disney direction, supplemented by the funny “Gummi Bears”, “Chip and Dale”, always rushing to the rescue, “Winnie the Pooh” and his team of friends, “Miracles on Curves” about the courageous seaplane pilot Baloo, and many others.

Foreign heroes of our time

Hollywood production of animated films can be safely put on the conveyor belt. Over the past two decades, the largest studios in the land of dreams, like Disney and Pixar, have presented the viewer with a huge list of new characters - kind, brave, funny. “Cars” in 2006 captivated the world audience not only with its interesting plot, but also with its colorful graphics. The “Planes” created based on them were slightly less successful. The green troll “Shrek” has become one of the most successful projects, each of its four parts invariably became a masterpiece.

Authors and animators try to saturate a number of characters - often they become a variety of animals, for example, birds, snails, ants, mice and other smaller brothers (“Rio”, “Turbo”, “Thunderstorm of Ants”, “Flushed Away”, “Lesnaya” bro”, “ Ice age”, “Horton”, “Madagascar”, “Ratatouille”), epic creatures (“How to Train Your Dragon”), monsters (“Monster Family”, “Monsters on Vacation”), children’s toys (“Toy Story”), all kinds of villains and superheroes (“Megamind”, “Wreck-It Ralph”, “Bolt”), as well as ordinary people(“The Incredibles”) and other fictional creatures: “The Smurfs”, “Epic”, “Rango”, “The Lorax”.

Cartoon characters: girls for girls

Any animated film is intended for a wide range of viewers. But despite this, cartoons for girls occupy a separate category. As a rule, the main heroines are beautiful princesses who are necessarily saved by the prince. These include “Cinderella” and “Rapunzel”. Charming Barbie will captivate you with her many adventures, just like the Fairies in “Lost Treasure,” and the sorceresses of the Winx Club will teach you how to remain determined warriors.

To the future only with the past

It remains to express the hope that the beloved characters will not be lost in the audience’s memory. And new cartoon characters became even brighter and more interesting, whose names will take their place in animation history.