Best characters from 80s cartoons

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I suppose the most recognisable one would be (internationally at least) Cobra Commander:

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But i only mildly liked some of the GIJoe episodes, since that series was plagued by the ever-ludicrous 'Cobra soldiers fire without ever hitting any human', regardless of how many were firing. ;)

Inhumanoids, a short-lived American 80s cartoon, was exceptional in my view in respect to the sheer bleakness of the environments it presented, along with some rather bizarre monsters. Most of the action was going on below the earth in a massive system of caverns and a lost world, where the Inhumanoids were in locked battle both with the humans and other types of beings like stone-archers or some sort of dual-entity which was a keeper of the balance in the underworld :)

The Inhumanoids in total were 5 (the series only lasted for a season), and of those only 3 were present in all episodes. D-Compose was likely the most interesting of those:

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Although he wasn't the most brutal. That title belongs to a newly born/resurrected Inhumanoid which had no arms and only one eye, and actually the first thing it did when born was to eat his brothers who were still smaller inside their eggs.

Lastly, from the cartoons, there was the archenemy in SilverHawks, named Monstar:

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Of course, if we include Anime, there is this...:

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But Nausicaa had a pleiad of excellent characters and beings anyway...

You can mention your own favorite characters/beings from 80s animation :thumbsup:
 
Not much character, but these two cuties will forever be etched into my mind:
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He-Man and She-Ra.

The problem with GI Joe cartoons is that he is NOT a multiple person squad. He is one man. I simply refuse to accept the stupid 80s re-imaging.
 
How is this even in question?

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Are we counting pure 80s cartoons or things that started in the 80s than continued? Outside of some of the hilarious He-Man and GI Joe (Thanks mostly because of Robot Chicken) characters not many cartoons of the 80s have aged well at all IMO. The quality of animated series really picked up in the 90s and beyond.
 
ALF - he got his own cartoon but I only remember the live-action show. I do remember he was part of the Cartoon All Stars "keep kids off drugs" video (viewable on YouTube)
 
80s cartoons typically had bad animation (unless they were japanese, but most of the japanese ones of that era also had not that good animation), however the opening sequences usually were more polished:


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And i personally liked the eternal 'good vs evil' theme almost all of them had.
 
My cartoons of the 1980s (and early 1990s) are He-Man, Defenders of the Earth, Ulysses 31, the Mysterious Cities of Gold, Thundercats and Brave Starr. Honourable mention goes to the D&D cartoon and to Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds.
 
The intro itself goes on for too long and constitutes a terrible earworm, but the series was good. :)
 
Oooh! I forgot about them! That's kind of embarrassing, especially when that Stinko character BvBPL showed should have kicked a memory for cat cartoons. LIONO HO!

Wouldn't you have been at least a teenager when they first came out? :)
 
Yeah, so? You got a problem with that? I'll sic Snarf on you if you're not careful...
 
I really wish I could link the Thundercats voice acting outtakes. But I can't, so I'll leave it at that. :p
 
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It's a shame there was never an Inspector Gadget movie.

You may ask "What about the Matthew Broderick one?"

THAT NEVER HAPPENED OKAY IT'S NOT INSPECTOR GADGET IF YOU SEE DR. CLAW'S FACE


Link to video.
 
Penny was pretty cool, unfortunately I don't think there's a comparable intelligent young female character in the mainstream nowadays.
 
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