List of fictional cats in animation
This list of fictional cats and other felines is subsidiary to the list of fictional cats. It is restricted solely to notable feline characters from notable animated television shows and film. For characters that appear in several separate television series, only the earliest series will be recorded here.
Character | Origin | Notes |
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Autocat | Motormouse and Autocat | |
Babbit and Catstello | Merrie Melodies[1] | Babbit and Catstello are Looney Tunes based on the comedic duo Abbott and Costello. Although the short, fat character calls the other one "Babbit", the tall, skinny one never addresses his partner by name; the name "Catstello" was invented later. In two other shorts they are portrayed as mice instead of cats. |
Banjo | Banjo the Woodpile Cat | An overly curious and rebellious kitten who, after getting into trouble for falling from a house to see if he could land on his feet, runs away from his woodpile home in his owners' farm. |
Beans | Merrie Melodies | Early colleague of Porky Pig and sometimes Ham and Ex's uncle.[2] |
Beerus | Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods | Purple cat based loosely on Egyptian mythology. He is the god of destruction. |
Berlioz | The Aristocats | A kitten who is Duchess' son and brother of Marie and Toulouse. |
Beverely | Where's Huddles? | Spoiled cat of Claude Pertwee. |
Bonkers D. Bobcat | Bonkers | A bobcat policeman. |
Billy the Cat | Billy the Cat | A boy named Billy is transformed into a cat by a magician who decides to teach the boy a lesson. |
Boo | Funky Phantom | Ghost cat sidekick of Funky Phantom who teased Elmo the dog. |
Branya | The Comic Artist and Assistants | An adorable little orange kitty who embodies the manga's mascot. He wears a black tuxedo and a pink bra over his ears. He communicates with cute little poster signs and is very cuddly. |
Butch | Tom and Jerry | A black and white alley cat, who made his first appearance in the Tom and Jerry series in the 1943 short, Baby Puss (in which he serves as the secondary villain/main archenemy) alongside Topsy and the already-established Meathead. |
Cali | PAW Patrol | Katie's cat; friend of the PAW Patrol |
Carla | Fairy Tail | Carla (シャルル Sharuru) is an Exceed, the daughter of Queen Shagotte, and a close companion to Wendy Marvell. She and Wendy belonged to Cait Shelter before joining Fairy Tail. Carla is a small, white Exceed with pink ears and brown eyes, which are smaller than Happy's eyes. She also has two whiskers on each side of her face. Carla wears a pink bow near the end of her tail. Unlike the carefree Happy, Carla is very strict and serious most of the time, rarely showing emotions. |
Cat | CatDog | Somewhat uptight and believes strongly in being polite and neat. He is a stickler for cleanliness and, like most cats, is aquaphobic. He is also obsessed with jet skis. Cat is 26 years old. Despite his sophisticated personality, Cat also has a dark side. Whenever he snaps, Cat becomes a ruthless, psychopathic maniac who even the Greasers are scared of once they see what he is capable of doing. He is attached to his twin brother, Dog. |
Cat | Peg + Cat | A blue cat whose best friend is Peg. He loves circles and accompanies Peg on her adventures. Cat often inspires Peg to realize a solution to a problem without being aware of it himself. |
Catbus | My Neighbor Totoro | It is a large creature, depicted as a grinning male[1] cat with a hollow body that serves as a bus, complete with windows and seats coated with fur, and a large bushy tail. The character's popularity has led to its use in a spin-off film, toys for children, an art car, and being featured in the Ghibli Museum, among other products and influences. |
The Catillac Cats | Heathcliff | A group of cats who live in a junkyard and headed by Riff-Raff and supported by Cleo cat (Riff-Raff girlfriend), Hector a streetwise Hispanic cat, Wordsworth W. Wordsworth a hip-hop groovy cat who speaks in rhyme, Mungo a big black Persian cat and Spike the junkyard dog. |
Chance (T-Bone) | SWAT Kats | The larger member of the SWAT Kats and pilot of the Turbokat jet. T-Bone is one of the best pilots in the SWAT Kat universe, as seen in "Cry Turmoil." He loves aerial warfare history, as seen in "The Ghost Pilot," and Scaredy Kat cartoons. |
Chaos | Aladdin (TV series) | A winged blue cat who desires that life be unpredictable, full of surprise and change. Chaos is an extremely powerful entity of whom both Mirage and Genie are terrified of. He is a fun-loving prankster and uses his power for antics and light-hearted harassment rather than intentional, malicious evil. |
Cheshire Cat | Alice in Wonderland | A pink and purple striped cat with a wide smile and close-set, piercing yellow eyes. Mischievous, and takes pleasure in misdirecting Alice. He is capable of invisibility, and frequently enters and exits the scene with all parts faded away except for his grin or eyes. |
Chi | Chi's Sweet Home | An adorable gray and white kitten with black stripes wanders away from her family and is found by a young boy, Youhei, and his mother. They take the kitten home and Chi then has a splendid time living with her new family, learning about different things and meeting new people and animals. |
Chloe | The Secret Life of Pets | |
Chococat | Sanrio | Chococat is drawn as a black cat with huge black eyes, four whiskers, and like his counterpart Hello Kitty, no mouth. His name comes from his chocolate-colored nose.[3][4] |
Claude Cat | Looney Tunes | (a pun on the homophone "clawed cat") had his origins in several other cat characters used by Chuck Jones from 1940 to 1945. These cats were mostly similar in appearance and temperament, with black fur and anxious personalities. |
Cleopawtra and Nepurrtiti | The Loud House | Two cats owned by the McBride family. |
Cliff | The Loud House | The loud family's pet cat. |
Courageous Cat | Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse | The protector of Empire City. When fighting bad guys, Courageous Cat would use all-purpose Cat Gun or a vast variety of different deus ex machina "trick guns" he pulls out of his cape. |
The Copycat | PAW Patrol | Enemy of the PAW Patrol; known for copying others' superpowers |
Custard | Roobarb | A chubby pink cat who likes to play pranks on his next-door-neighbour, the dog Roobarb. |
Danny | Cats Don't Dance | A cheerful, naive cat who wants to become a famous Hollywood star. |
Darwin | April and the Extraordinary World | The cynical companion to April who consumes a formula granting him invincibility and eternal life. |
Duchess | The Aristocats | Madame Adelaide's cat and mother of three kittens (Berlioz, Marie, and Toulouse). She falls in love with Thomas and is forced to choose her life at home or a life with Thomas. |
Diana (Jewelpet) | Jewelpet | A Black Munchkin cat with white paws who uses Dark Magic. She wears a lace-trimmed pink waistcoat, a pink bow, and a silver heart-shaped necklace. |
Diana (Sailor Moon) | Sailor Moon | Child of Luna and Artemis and guardian to Chibiusa. |
Dinah | Alice in wonderland | Alice's cat Dinah is brown and white and wears a pink bow |
Doc | Hickory, Dickory, and Doc | A Doc think black and white cat tuxedo voiced by Paul Frees Hickory and Dickory together. |
Dodsworth | Looney Tunes | An obese, lethargic black-and-white cat with a large red nose (voiced by Edward Selzer and based on W.C. Fields) who tries to get a small white kitten to do his mousing for him. |
Doraemon | Doraemon | A blue, robot cat from the future to help his owner's great-great grandfather, Nobi Nobita who often have problems. |
Dydo | The Mighty Hercules | The evil wizard Daedalus's pet cat, which is grey and ill-tempered. |
Eek | Eek! The Cat | A purple cat whose motto is "it never hurts to help", though his situations dictate otherwise. |
Evil | Earthworm Jim | The ruler over Planet Heck, intent on claiming Jim's super suit or destroying the universe. He is frequently assisted, but more often annoyed, by his aide Henchrat. |
Fantomcat | Fantomcat | The Duke of Fantom. A masked swashbuckling hero who joins the Detective Team after his release and is nicknamed Fantomcat. |
Fat Cat | Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers | Rescue Rangers' enemy. |
Felicia | The Great Mouse Detective | Feline "Enforcer" for Professor Ratigan. |
Felix | Felix the Cat | A cute, funny black and white cat created in the silent film era. In later decades he has a "Magic Bag of Tricks". |
Figaro | Pinocchio | Best known as the pet cat of Geppetto and Pinocchio too. Figaro has also starred independently in a number of Disney shorts, as the pet of Minnie Mouse, which was a common theme for Disney characters to be juxtaposed from movies to cartoon shorts. In a "Golden Key" Cartoon Digest of Walt Disney comics, Faigaro had his own page in regard to "Figaro Feline Friends" {various members of the cat family} |
Floyd | The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue | An alley cat who, along with Muriel who originally worked with Evil Martin who try to eat the mice of NIMH. |
Fluffy | Rugrats | Angelica's pet cat. |
Fraidy | Fraidy Cat | A scrawny yellow cat who is prone misfortune as he is living his last life and always accidentally summons one of his former lives (or a storm cloud in the case of nine) when he says a number between one till nine or anything that sounds remotely like those numbers. |
Francis | Felidae | Feline protagonist of the film Felidae. |
Fritz | Fritz the Cat | The main character of the Fritz the Cat films and comics. He is a college-aged anthropomorphic cat, presumably living in the 1960s. |
Furrball | Tiny Toon Adventures | A greyish-blue ragged looking cat, with a bandage around his tail. Has many similarities to Sylvester and Penelope Pussycat and is prone to getting in unfortunate encounters. Serves once as Fifi La Fume's love interest and sometimes as Elmyra Duff's pet. |
Garnet | Jewelpet | A pink Persian Cat who symbolizes love, and usually has a mature, feminine personality. She wears a red ribbon on her head and a pink jewel necklace. One of the three main characters of the series. |
Gordon | Catscratch | A Scottish speaking cat who is the brother of Mr. Blik and Waffle. |
Gumball Watterson | The Amazing World of Gumball | A blue preteen anthropomorphic cat who is the series' protagonist. |
Happy | Fairy Tail, Edens Zero | A small blue cat with a white underbelly and a down-to-earth, loyal, usually mischievous personality. In the Fairy Tail series, Happy is a magical creature with the ability to grow wings and fly with his magic, and wears a green sack where he keeps food and items. In Edens Zero, he is actually an alien cat who was resurrected as a cyborg after getting run over by a drunk driver, and can morph his body into a pair of rayguns used by his best friend, Rebecca. |
Heathcliff | Heathcliff | He is an orange tabby cat who also appeared in another TV Series four years later. |
Henry's Cat | Henry's Cat | A laid-back ponderous yellow cat who likes eating, but whose actual name isn't known. |
Jade Catkin | Littlest Pet Shop: A World of Our Own | Jade Catkin is Roxie's roommate who is a gothic bombay cat.[5] She is also Roxie's best friend and she loves to sleep. |
Jake (Razor) | SWAT Kats | The smaller member of the SWAT Kats, who is a mechanical genius. He designed the various gadgets and advanced weaponry used in the Turbokat, and he serves as the radar interceptor and weapons control officer, or RIO, in the Turbokat. |
Jenny | Bucky O'Hare | The attractive pilot of the Righteous Indignation, who belongs to an order of artificers (witches). |
Jess | Postman Pat | Black and white cat of the title song in the BBC children's series. |
Jibanyan | Yo-kai Watch | The Cat Bakeneko ghost |
Mr. Jinks | Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks | A ginger house cat with a blue collar on his neck. He frequently bullies the two mice Pixie and Dixie, but occasionally is a good friend to them and serves as their saviour in various episodes. His common catchphrase is "I hate meeces to pieces". |
Josehpine | Nyan Koi! | |
Julius | Alice Comedies | A tuxedo cat who serves as a sidekick to Alice. He was the first recurring cartoon character created by Walt Disney. |
Katerina Kittycat | Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood | Katerina lives with her mother, Henrietta Pussycat in the treehouse and loves dancing. She is O the Owl's next-door neighbor. |
Kat | Kid vs. Kat | A space alien that looks like a Sphinx cat. |
Katnip | Herman and Katnip | Herman's enemy. |
Katz | Courage the Cowardly Dog | He is a red thin cat with yellow eyes. He is an antagonist as owner of sinister shops all having his name in him. He is quite good at sports and luring unsuspecting people to the traps he sets up, just for his own amusement. |
Kirara | InuYasha | Sango's faithful demon-cat companion who usually appears to be a small kitten-sized feline with two tails, but can become large enough to carry several passengers whenever the need arises. |
The Kitten | Simon's Cat | The Cat's flatmate who appears to be more intelligent than his older feline friend despite its young age. |
Kitten Catastrophe Crew | PAW Patrol | Evil feline doppelgangers of the PAW Patrol |
Kitty | Danger Rangers | |
Kitty Katswell | T.U.F.F. Puppy | A female cat who is one of T.U.F.F.'s best agents. She is also Dudley's partner and best friend. Skilled in various fighting styles and use of firearms, short tempered, and easily startled, Kitty is a force to be reckoned with. |
Krazy Kat | Krazy Kat | Surreal cartoon by George Herriman |
Leopold | Leopold the Cat | Leopold the Cat (Russian: Кот Леопольд, Kot Leopold) is a Soviet/Russian animation series about the pacifistic, and intelligent cat, Leopold. Leopold always wears a bow tie even when swimming. He is always confronted by two mischievous mice, Grey and White (Mitya and Motya). |
Kuro | Cyborg Kuro-chan | A Black and white robotic cat tuxedo. |
Kuro | Love Hina | A Black Cat cure |
Kuroneko-sama | Trigun | A black cat (also what his name literally means) who appears in every single episode of Trigun. |
Kwazii | Octonauts | A humanized orange cat with a mysterious pirate past. He has a habit for getting into trouble on his many adventures. |
Kyo Sohma | Fruits Basket | Kyo Sohma (草摩 夾 Sōma Kyo?) is a character in the manga and anime series Fruits Basket by Natsuki Takaya. He transforms into an orange cat whenever he is hugged by a person of the opposite gender or when his body comes under a great deal of stress. This animal is not in the Chinese zodiac, but legend says would have been if it had not been tricked by the Rat into missing the induction feast. |
Lucifer | Cinderella | The pet cat of Lady Tremaine, who seeks to catch and devour Cinderella's mice friends, Jaq and Gus. |
Luna | Sailor Moon | A dark purple cat who is a devoted servant to Princess Serenity and advisor to her mother, Queen Serenity. |
Maomolin | Ranma 1/2 | Is a giant bakeneko whom Shampoo accidentally brought to Nerima inside a giant bell. |
Master Korin | Dragon Ball | A master of Akido, and guardian of the path to Heaven. |
Marie | The Aristocats | A kitten who is Duchess' daughter and sister of Berlioz and Toulouse. |
Mehitabel | Shinbone Alley | A singing alley cat who dreams of being a star and befriends Archy. |
Mewsette | Gay Purr-ee | A beautiful white Turkish Angora. Jaune Tom's girlfriend. While she is idealistic and naive, she is kind and demure, and believes strongly in herself. |
Meow | Space Dandy | A dimwitted cat-like Betelgeusian (ベテルギウス星人 Beterugiusu-seijin?) who is brought aboard the Aloha Oe after Dandy and QT mistake him for a new species of alien. His real name is Me#$%* (pronounced Merowmreowreow) |
Mirage | Aladdin | A cat-like enchantress (with similarities to both Egyptian goddesses Bast and Sekhmet) holding powers over illusions, dreams and shadows, her magic powers are enough to create a mirage of Agrabah, its people and Aladdin's friends. |
Mittens | Bolt | A black cat with white fore-paws, muzzle, belly, and tail-tip. She has three scarred cuts into her left ear. She is the, at first, unwitting companion of the CG animated film's main character, Bolt, and his hyperactive and somewhat insane "sidekick", Rhino. |
Mochi | Big Hero 6 | Hiro Hamada's cat. |
Muriel | The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue | An alley cat who originally worked with Evil Martin along with Floyd who try to eat the mice of NIMH. |
Mr. Blik | Catscratch | A black bombay cat who is selfish, vain and surly who insults his brothers with a short temper and cares about money. |
Mr. Mumbles | Dan Vs. | A black cat who Dan "adopted" during his mission to destroy the animal shelter. Despite the fact that Dan learns that Mr. Mumbles is a female, he still keeps the "Mr." in her name. Due to her cuteness, she is the only character who Dan doesn't get mad at. |
Mr. Whiskers | Frankenweenie | A angora cat are girls into vampire evil cat |
Nelson | Martha Speaks | Sneaky cat who tries to frame Martha the talking dog for cake stealing, but ends up going to the Vet! |
Nermal | Garfield | The self-proclaimed "world's cutest kitten". |
Nyan Cat | Animated pixellated cat with the body of a Pop-Tart, flying through space, and leaving a rainbow trail behind it. | |
Nyamsus | Nyan Koi! | |
Nicole Watterson | The Amazing World of Gumball | A blue cat and the mother of Gumball Watterson, and one of the main characters. |
Oggy | Oggy and the Cockroaches | A blue chubby cat who's often being harassed by a trio of cockroaches. |
Oliver | Oliver & Company | An orange tabby in a Disney film inspired by Oliver Twist. |
Opalescence (or Opal) | My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic | Rarity's ill-tempered Persian cat. |
Dr. Paula Hutchison | Rocko's Modern Life | |
Pagan Griffin | Extreme Ghostbusters | Kylie Griffin's cat. |
Pantherlily | Fairy Tail | Pantherlily (パンサー・リリー Pansā Rirī) is an Exceed that used to work for the kingdom of Edolas as the Magic Militia's First Division Commander of the Royal Army.[3] He is currently a member of the Fairy Tail Guild and is Gajeel Redfox's cat companion. His head is that of a black panther's, but has a white muzzle and a scar running down across his left eye. Like his fellow commanders (except Hughes), he wore a personal set of battle armor with a long cape draped around his body, as well as a helmet. |
Peg-leg Pete | Disney | Pete is a Disney cat, and main enemy of Mickey Mouse, and has been in comics and cartoons since the Alice cartoons. He's the oldest character in the Disney community. |
Penelope Pussycat | Looney Tunes | A mute and shy black and white cat. Often chased by Pepé Le Pew, being mistaken for a skunk because a white stripe of paint gets across her back. |
Poyo Satou | Poyopoyo | A spherical orange cat adopted by the main family in the show. He is adored by most other characters in the show. |
Princess Carolyn | BoJack Horseman | A main character in the series. A pink Persian cat who is a talent agent. |
Proud Heart Cat | Care Bears | One of the Care Bear Cousins. She has turquoise fur (originally pale orange) with a white tail tip, and her tummy symbol is a pink star with a red heart inside. |
Punkin' Puss | Punkin' Puss & Mushmouse | A hillbilly cat. |
Puss in Boots | Shrek 2 | A supporting character in the Shrek film series, as well as the protagonist of the 2011 spin-off prequel Puss in Boots (2011). He is voiced in the English, Spanish, and Italian versions by Antonio Banderas. He is based loosely on Charles Perrault's fairy tale character of the same name, and he is the main "other fairy tale character" in the three sequels. |
Pussyfoot | Looney Tunes | A small kitten who stands by the bulldog Marc Anthony's side. |
The Rabbi's Cat | The Rabbi's Cat | A cat which obtains the ability to speak after swallowing a parrot, and its owner who is a rabbi in 1920s Algeria. |
Rita | Animaniacs | A little grey and white kitten with green eyes. In her part, she sings a song when the going gets tough. She acts as the brains to ensure her and her best friend Runt's survival. |
Rubbish | Rubbish, King of the Jumble | An overfed cat with a rectangle head, who lives in the junk-filled attic of an old house. |
Ruff | The Ruff & Reddy Show | Reddy's best friend. |
Rufus | The Rescuers | An elderly cat who resides at Morningside Orphanage and comforts Penny when she is sad. |
Salem Saberhagen | Sabrina, the Animated Series | Talking black cat from the comic book, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and the television series of the same name in 1996, as well as the Sabrina, the Animated Series and its 2003 spinoff. |
Sawyer | Cats Don't Dance | A beautiful, but disenchanted secretary for Farley Winks and Danny's girlfriend. |
Scratchy | The Simpsons | Appears in a The Itchy & Scratchy Show, a show-within-a-show. |
Sebastian | Josie and the Pussycats | Snickering sidekick of Alexandria Cabot in the comic book and classic TV Cartoon series {although not shown in movie}. Sebastian and ALexandria are contemporary comic relief bumbling bad guys similar to Dick Dastardly and Muttley. {In fact Don Messick voiced both Sebastian Cat and Muttley!} |
Sergeant Tibbs | One Hundred and One Dalmatians | The cat who helps save the Dalmatian puppies from Cruella de Vil and her lackeys. |
Shii-chan | Kamichama Karin | |
Si and Am | Lady and the Tramp | Unpleasant Siamese cats, best remembered for their song, The Siamese Cat Song / What's Going on Down There. |
Simon's Cat | Simon's Cat | A cat who goes to extreme lengths to get his master to feed him. |
Snooper | Snooper and Blabber | A cat detective. |
Snagglepuss | The Quick Draw McGraw Show | A pink anthropomorphic mountain lion sporting an upturned collar, shirt cuffs and a string tie with a great desire to be a stage actor. |
Snowball II | The Simpsons | Originally Snowball V, there have been many housecats in the show. |
Spot | Hong Kong Phooey | Comic relief Sidekick to Henry the Janitor aka "Hong Kong Phooey"; Spot ended up doing most of the work and gets none of the credit. |
Stimpy | Ren and Stimpy | A red and white, rotund cat with a blue nose, purple eyelids, no tail, hands with gloves that have fingernails, human-style buttocks, flat feet, and a brain the size of a peanut. He is portrayed as intelligent enough in some cases and sometimes as nonsensically stupid. |
Stinky | Doug | Roger's pet cat who was later revealed to be a girl at the start of the third season. |
Streaky the Supercat | DC Comic books | Cat who accidentally received superpowers; pet of Supergirl; ancestor of Whizzy the Supercat; later appears as comic relief sidekick in Krypto the Superdog. |
Street cats | The Casagrandes | A vicious gang of Bombay cats that terrorize residents of Great Lakes City. |
Sylvester the Cat | Looney Tunes | Black and white cat who commonly carries out predatory schemes on Tweety and Speedy Gonzales. |
Tama | Nyan Koi! | |
Thomas O' Malley | The Aristocats | A cat who befriends Duchess (whom falls in love with) and becoming a stepfather of Berlioz, Marie and Toulouse to help them get back to Paris. |
Tiger | An American Tail | A cowardly, long-haired, orange, bushy-tailed tabby cat who befriends Fievel Mousekewitz. He is also a vegetarian (with the exception of the occasional fish). Voiced by Dom DeLuise. |
Tom Cat | Tom and Jerry | An anthropomorphic grey/blue cat who has a love-hate relationship with Jerry Mouse. |
Top Cat | Top Cat | The yellow furred, laid back and clever main character. He wears a purple hat and vest. He often rips off and/or tricks his gang and Officer Dibble. He does respect the effort the gang does for him, but he often takes credit for it. |
Torakichi | Ohayō! Spank | Spank's friend/enemy. |
Toulouse | The Aristocats | A kitten who is Duchess' son and brother of Berlioz and Marie. |
Waffle | Catscratch | A silly chill cat who is the brother of Mr. Book and Gordon. |
Yzma (transformed) | The Emperor's New Groove | When Yzma accidentally steps on the potion, she transforms into a small, white kitten.[6] |
Hello Kitty
In 2014 Sanrio announced that Hello Kitty is not a cat. She's a cartoon character. She is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not a cat. She's never depicted on all fours. She walks and sits like a two-legged creature. She does have a pet cat of her own, however, and it's called Charmmy Kitty. She is a cat.[7]
See also
- List of fictional cats
References
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- Rovin, p. 22.
- "Sanrio - Chococat". Archived from the original on October 13, 2008.
- "SANRIOTOWN – YOUR SANRIO COMMUNITY AND EMAIL SERVICE WITH SPECIAL WALLPAPERS, ECARDS, GAMES AND VIDEO FEATURING HELLO KITTY". www.sanriotown.com.
- "Littlest Pet Shop A World Of Our Own". Hasbro Studios. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
- "Video". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
- "Hello Kitty is not a cat, plus more reveals before her L.A. tour". Los Angeles Times. August 26, 2014.
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