History Main / CartoonWhale

Some prehistoric whales do ''vaguely'' resemble this trope, at least in terms of having a blocky sperm whale-like head with big teeth on both jaws.

* ''VideoGame/FreddiFish'': Fluke the Whale in ''Freddi Fish and the Case of The Hogfish Rustlers of Briny Gulch'' is a blue whale with a square head.

* Website/{{Twitter}}’s no-longer-used “Fail Whale” — a cartoon illustration attached, for no particular reason, to service-failure messages — [[https://business.time.com/2013/11/06/how-twitter-slayed-the-fail-whale/ was a stock cartoon whale, albeit a bit more rounded than many cartoon whales.]]

* The sperm whales in ''Film/SharkTale'' are depicted with high bulbous foreheads and teeth in both the upper and lower jaws. The orcas suffer an even worse case of ArtisticLicense but then that's to be expected in an animated film with fin-walking wrasse fish and mobster sharks.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'': Downplayed with Bubbles the Whale. She's a light blue whale with baleen features and a wide grin, but she is shaped more like a teardrop than a square.

This is a common way to depict a MonsterWhale or SpaceWhale. For other stock cartoon depictions that combine real things, see CartoonCheese and StockBeehive.

* The baby whale of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Helter Shelter" was a simple circular shape with whale tail and two big eyes.

In cartoons, however, whales are usually drawn as [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife blue/gray]] square-headed toothy creatures with wide mouths, halfway between a sperm whale and a baleen whale. And, of course, they will have a very noticeable blowhole, more often that not shooting a veritable water fountain from their back. Sperm whales in RealLife have the square heads you often see on cartoon whales, but their eyes aren't so close to their mouth like the baleen whale, their blowhole is located on the left side of their snouts instead of the top of the head, and they have narrow jaws with small lower jaws and lack upper teeth.

In cartoons, however, whales are usually drawn as [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife blue/gray]] square-headed toothy creatures with wide mouths, halfway between a sperm whale and a baleen whale. And, of course, they will have a very noticeable blowhole, more often that not shooting a veritable water fountain from their back. Sperm whales in RealLife have the square heads you often see on cartoon whales, but their eyes aren't so close to their mouth like the baleen whale, their blowholes are located on the left side of their snouts instead of the top of the head, and they have narrow jaws with small lower jaws and lack upper teeth.

In cartoons, however, whales are usually drawn as [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife blue/gray]] square-headed toothy creatures with wide mouths, halfway between a sperm whale and a baleen whale. And, of course, they will have a very noticeable blowhole, more often that not shooting a veritable water fountain from their back. Sperm whales in RealLife have the square heads you often see on cartoon whales, but their eyes aren't so close to their mouth like the baleen whale, and they have narrow jaws with small lower jaws and lack upper teeth.

* The mascot of the clothing brand Vineyard Vines is a pink cartoon whale, with a square head and giant smile.

In cartoons, however, whales are usually drawn as [[TypicalCartoonAnimalColors blue/gray]] square-headed toothy creatures with wide mouths, halfway between a sperm whale and a baleen whale. And, of course, they will have a very noticeable blowhole, more often that not shooting a veritable water fountain from their back. Sperm whales in RealLife have the square heads you often see on cartoon whales, but their eyes aren't so close to their mouth like the baleen whale, and they have narrow jaws with small lower jaws and lack upper teeth.

This is a common way to depict a MonsterWhale or SpaceWhale. For other stock cartoon depictions that combine real things, see CartoonCheese and StockBeehive. Subtrope of StockCartoonAnimalDepictions.

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In cartoons, however, whales are usually drawn as [[TypicalCartoonAnimalColors blue/gray]] square-headed toothy creatures with wide mouths, halfway between a sperm whale and a baleen whale. Sperm whales in RealLife have the square heads you often see on cartoon whales, but their eyes aren't so close to their mouth like the baleen whale, and they have narrow jaws with small lower jaws and lack upper teeth. And, of course, they will have a very noticeable blowhole, more often that not shooting a veritable water fountain from their back.

This is a common way to depict a MonsterWhale or SpaceWhale. For stock cartoon depictions of other things see StockBeehive, StockFemurBone, StockMoneyBag, and WhiteBunny. Subtrope of Sandbox/StockCartoonAnimalPortrayal.

In cartoons, however, whales are usually drawn as [[TypicalCartoonAnimalColors blue/gray]] square-headed toothy creatures with wide mouths, halfway between a sperm whale and a baleen whale. Sperm whales in RealLife have the square heads you often see on cartoon whales, but their eyes aren't so close to their mouth like the baleen whale, and they have narrow jaws with small lower jaws and lack upper teeth.

* ''ComicStrip/LittleLulu'': In a comic story, Lulu goes to the beach with Alvin. The mischievous little boy flies with a parassol to the sea, landing on a small, black island, making a very worried Lulu swims towards the place. They decide to stay for a while, because there are adults still angry with Alvin's pranks, but Lulu finds out she can't fix the parasol on the island, which seems made of rubber. The "island" emerges in pain, revealing itself as a huge, black sperm whale (much alike Monstro), that swims desperately to the beach and gets stuck. Lulu and Alvin fall on the sand; she picks his hand and they run among the crowd that gathers to see the poor stuck animal.

You wouldn't know it from cartoons, but there are various subspecies of whales and not all of them have square heads.

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* A [[https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/game-for-kids-gm1200036501-343576764 Dot-to-Dot Kids' Game]] has a whale that, when the dots are connected, has a blocky shape.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MobyDickAndMightyMightor'' was a Saturday morning cartoon series from 1967 produced by Creator/HannaBarbera. Moby Dick is drawn as a huge, high-forehead white whale that befriends the scuba-diving boys Tom and Tub, and rescues them from the dangers of the deep OnceAnEpisode.

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