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5	The character sheet for the Creator/FleischerStudios cartoon, ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop''.
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9	[[folder:Betty Boop]]
10	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/betty_poop_9.jpg]]
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12	!!!Debut: ''WesternAnimation/DizzyDishes'' (1930)
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14	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Margie Hines (1930–1932, 1938–1939), Ann Rothschild (1931–1933), Harriet Lee (1931, Mae Questel (1931–1938, 1988), Kate Wright (1932, 1938), Bonnie Poe (1933–1934), Alice Hamada (1934–1937), Victoria D'orazi (1980), Didi Conn (1982), Desirée Goyette (1985–1988), Mary Healey (1988), Melissa Fahn (1989, 2002, 2004–2008), Creator/SandyFox (Since 1991, official voice for King Syndicate worldwide), Sue Raney (1993), Cheryl Chase (2000), Michelle Goguen (2001), Lani Minella (2002), Nicole Van Giesen (2003), Shannon Cullem (2004), Cindy Robinson (2009–present, official commercials), [=LeAnne Broas=] (2010), Creator/AlexBorstein (2014), Heather Halley (2014), Camilla Bard (2014), Sarah Stiles (2016)
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16	A flapper girl, looking for a good time and good at heart. Was gradually toned down post-1933, but is still remembered today as the peppy, cute youth of her early days.
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18	* AbusiveParents: The short "Minnie the Moocher" has her being yelled at by her overbearing parents, who are demanding she eat an extremely unpleasant meal that they have put on the table--it's so nasty that when the flower who was trying to coax her to just take a bite tries the spoonful, it ''dies''. This is probably why she prefers to live with her Grampy instead.
19	* {{Action Girl}}: In ''The Bum Bandit'' as the "Dangerous Nan [=McGrew=]", she was portrayed as a tough cowgirl.
20	* AmbiguouslyJewish: Hinted at in "Minnie the Moocher".
21	* AnthropomorphicShift: Originally appeared as a cartoon poodle, but gradually morphed into a cartoon human.
22	* {{Breakout Character}}: She was a secondary character in the old Bimbo cartoons, however she was so popular that she became the main character where's Bimbo would end up being {{demoted to extra}}.
23	* CharacterCatchphrase: "Boop-boop-a-doop!"
24	* DudeMagnet: Has it's [[FavorsForTheSexy ups]] and [[SoBeautifulItsACurse downs]].
25	* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Betty was originally a dog; however, later her species was changed to a human. She also originally had red hair according to her only colored classic cartoon (Cinderella) but all later appearances give her black hair.
26	* TheFlapper: She was born as a caricature of this.
27	* ForeheadOfDoom: Never commented on, but Betty Boop has a noticeably large forehead. Her design was the basis of the beginnings of the modern anime style.
28	* FriendToAllLivingThings: [[EverythingTalks And pretty much everything in her world is living.]]
29	* GirlyGirl: Betty embraces everything feminine in her era.
30	* GoodBadGirl: Betty's IconicOutfit — a {{Sexy Backless\|outfit}} and [[StockingFiller exposed garter on her left thigh]] — certainly isn't the sort of thing a good girl would wear in the era, and yet she's always sweet and kind.
31	* HartmanHips: ''And how.'' It's frequently emphasized with poses like the one in the image above.
32	* HeadTurningBeauty: She got this reaction in most of her cartoons before the Hays Code kicked in.
33	* IconicOutfit: As noted above: her {{Sexy Backless\|outfit}} and [[StockingFiller exposed garter on her left thigh]].
34	* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Betty Boop was described in a 1934 court case as: "combin[ing] in appearance the childish with the sophisticated — a large round baby face with big eyes and a nose like a button, framed in a somewhat careful coiffure, with a very small body of which perhaps the leading characteristic is the most self-confident little bust imaginable."
35	* InkSuitActor: Her appearance and mannerisms are based on singer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Kane Helen Kane]].
36	* InterspeciesRomance: With Bimbo the Dog, after she became human.
37	* LittleBlackDress: Betty's signature outfit is her black dress that she wore in the majority of her original cartoons. Now that she's no longer limited to black and white, she usually wears a [[LadyInRed red version of this dress]].
38	* MoralityChain: To Koko and Bimbo, both were significantly nicer after her debut.
39	* MsFanservice: She is regarded as one of the first and most famous sex symbols on the animated screen. Her popularity was drawn largely from adult audiences, and the cartoons, while seemingly surreal, contained many sexual and psychological elements.
40	* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Even though she's usually a singer, Betty is often shown working at different jobs in her cartoons.
41	* ProgressivelyPrettier: She went through such a process during her ArtEvolution. She started out as an anthropomorphic dog, and somehow ended up a cute flapper girl.
42	* PuppyDogEyes: A TropeCodifier alongside WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}, considering theirs were the bases for Creator/OsamuTezuka's, and by extension {{anime}} as a genre's, large eye style.
43	* RavenHairIvorySkin: Although it seems she was ''intended'' to be a SignificantGreenEyedRedhead, she's most often drawn with, and better known for having black hair.
44	* SexyBacklessOutfit: Often wears these types of dresses.
45	* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: If ''Poor Cinderella'', the only colored installment of her original shorts, is to be believed, Betty was intended to be a redhead. And it's highly likely to be the case since she was strongly based on silent film actress Creator/ClaraBow. Unfortunately later colorizations and merchandising changed it to RavenHairIvorySkin.
46	* SoBeautifulItsACurse: In shorts such as ''"Chess-Nuts"'', ''"{{WesternAnimation/Boop-Oop-a-Doop}}"'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/TheOldManOfTheMountain "The Old Man of the Mountain"]]'' has the bad guys lusting for her and ends up with Betty needing to be saved.
47	* StockingFiller: Almost never seen without a garter on her left thigh (outside the post Hays cartoons). Some cartoons show her wearing stockings on her legs that aren't normally visible.
48	* TheTease: It follows with GoodBadGirl: Betty certainly ''dresses'' the part and has a flirtatious attitude to match, but she never goes too far.
49	* TokenHuman: She's often the only human in some of the shorts.
50	* VagueAge: She's either a teenager or young adult, depending on the short.
51	* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Betty combines this with HammerSpace, frequently pulling things out of the neckline of her LittleBlackDress.
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54	[[folder:Bimbo]]
55	[[quoteright:201:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/imagesCAC4TNSV_911.jpg]]
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57	!!!Debut: ''Hot Dog'' (1930)
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59	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Billy Murray (1930–1931), Claude Reese (1931–1933), Music/CabCalloway (1933; singing voice), Bradley Barker (1933), Dave Swanson (1980), Lionel Wilson (1985), Michael Bell (''The Betty Boop Movie Mystery''), David Babich (2014)
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61	The initial star of the Max Fleischer ''WesternAnimation/{{Talkartoons}}'' series of sound cartoons, Bimbo is a anthropomorphic cartoon dog, bred of the stock rubber hose art style of the time and the Fleischer's answer to WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse. Betty was initially created to be his girlfriend, but ended up becoming so popular that Talkartoons became her own series, with Bimbo getting into many escapades with her, [[InterspeciesRomance some of which were romantic.]] However, once the Hays Office grew its claws in 1934, Bimbo was immediately abandoned due to the Codes rules against bestiality.
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63	* AllMenArePerverts: Er, dogs anyway.
64	* ArtEvolution: In his early appearances, the animators simply could not make up their minds as to how Bimbo should be drawn, resulting in him constantly changing design between shorts, until they settled into a final sweater outfit design.
65	* BigGuyLittleGuy: With Koko. Only marginally smarter than him, though.
66	* TheBusCameBack: Despite being abandoned in the mid-1930s, he still appears in merchandise with Betty, albeit with the romantic implications occasionally being downplayed or abandoned in favor of [[JustFriends making him a friend of Betty.]] His name is rarely mentioned in merchandising though, due to how dated and unfortunate it can sound.
67	* CharacterCatchphrase: "Okay, colonel!"
68	* ChivalrousPervert: After he and Betty became an OfficialCouple.
69	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: As mentioned above, he was abandoned post-1933 due to the Hays Office objecting to Betty having InterspeciesRomance with him.
70	* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Had white fur instead of black in many of his early cartoons.
71	* ExposedAnimalBellybutton: One of the earliest examples in animation.
72	* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Usually just wears a sweater, gloves and shoes. His early Talkartoons appearances often had him wearing just shoes and a hat.
73	* InterspeciesRomance: With Betty, after she became human.
74	* MeaningfulName: During the 1930s, anyways--back then, "Bimbo" was slang for "loser".
75	* SatelliteCharacter: After Betty became a series regular, Bimbo was rarely seen without her company.
76	* ThoseTwoGuys: With Koko in some cartoons.
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79	[[folder:Koko The Clown]]
80	[[quoteright:160:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/koko_the_clown_3494.bmp]]
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82	!!!Debut: ''The Tantalizing Fly'' (1919)
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84	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Gus Wickie (1933), Music/CabCalloway (singing voice), Larry Storch (1960-1961)
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86	The original star of the Max Fleischer cartoon studio from the ''WesternAnimation/OutOfTheInkwell'' series, [[UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfAnimation Silent Age cartoon veteran]] Koko the Clown made occasional appearances in the shorts as a compatriot of Betty and Bimbo.
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88	* BigGuyLittleGuy: With Bimbo.
89	* BlackBeadEyes: Koko is usually drawn this way and avoids the PieEyed design of most other characters.
90	* CartoonCreature: Koko may be a clown, but he's certainly not human--he's more of an ink creature.
91	* TheCameo: Briefly appeared in his small form in the short "Minnie the Moocher". Fittingly, Betty pulls out him of an inkwell when she reaches for a pen, a nod to his original series.
92	* CanonImmigrant: He was brought over directly from Fleischer's silent-era series ''Out of the Inkwell'' as a side character for this series.
93	* ChivalrousPervert: Treats Betty with respect and readily defends her from sexual assault and other dangers. But he's also [[AllMenArePerverts thirsty as hell]] and makes it pretty well known on a few different occasions.
94	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Like Bimbo, he disappeared post Hayes Code.
95	* HiddenDepths: To spite being a SilentProtagonist he actually has a really good singing voice as shown in "Snow White".
96	* NonIronicClown: His later appearances in the ''Betty Boop'' shorts tone down his rude behaviors, eventually making him into just a harmless, bumbling NiceGuy. He was more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold in the ''WesternAnimation/OutOfTheInkwell'' shorts.
97	* ShipTease: With Betty, his attraction to her was usually portrayed as one-sided but there were exceptions.
98	* ThoseTwoGuys: When he teams up with Bimbo, such as in "Snow White".
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101	[[folder:Pudgy]]
102	[[quoteright:120:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pudgy_89.bmp]]
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104	!!!Debut: ''Betty Boop's Little Pet'' (1934)
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106	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Mae Questel, Jack Mercer, Tom Smothers (1980)
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108	After Betty was cleaned up by the Hays Office, animator Myron Waldman decided to give Betty a new friend, a moon-faced puppy named Pudgy, to replace Bimbo (a character whom Waldman despised). In a sense, Pudgy is Fleischer's answer to Creator/WaltDisney's [[WesternAnimation/PlutoThePup Pluto]], but arguably much cuter.
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110	* CharacterFocus: Some episodes would be entirely centered around him.
111	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: He was completely absent in ''[[{{WesternAnimation/TheRomanceOfBettyBoop}} The Romance of Betty Boop]]'' and ''Betty Boop's Hollywood Mystery''. The former had him replaced with a parrot named Polly and the latter had the cast of characters before the Hayes Code came in (such as [[TheBusCameBack Bimbo and Koko would return]]).
112	* {{Comedic Spanking}}: Betty would often spank him when he does something bad. He also gets spanked by a flag while reeling it down in "Training Pigeons".
113	* {{Ironic Name}}: He's not really chubby for a dog named Pudgy.
114	* KindheartedCatLover: Befriends a small kitten in one episode.
115	* PreciousPuppies: He's pretty adorable and this was part of the reason why he replaced Bimbo post Haye's Code.
116	* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Just look at the pup.
117	* TheSpeechless: He doesn't talk and mostly communicates in barking.
118	* SuddenlyVoiced: PlayedForLaughs in "Not Now" when after being scratched by a cat, he comments, "He pulled a knife on me!"
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121	[[folder:Grampy]]
122	[[quoteright:120:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/imagesCAR2GI4M_6202.jpg]]
123	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Jack Mercer (debately, 1935-1937)
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125	!!!Debut: ''Betty Boop and Grampy'' (1935)
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127	Betty's grandpa, who happens to be a genius inventor.
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129	%%* AbsentMindedProfessor
130	* AscendedExtra: Was a recurring character of the later Betty Boop shorts, but was apparently liked enough to headline a ''WesternAnimation/ColorClassics'' short "Christmas Comes But Once A Year".
131	* BigDamnHeroes: By virtue of CarFu in "Be Human".
132	* CharacterCatchphrase: "Ahahahaah! ''I've'' got it!"
133	* CoolOldGuy: Just ask the orphans in the aforementioned "Christmas Comes But Once A Year".
134	%%* GadgeteerGenius
135	* MacGyvering: A prominent example comes from the 1936 Color Classics short "Christmas Comes But Once a Year", wherein Grampy MacGuyvers together several Christmas toys for a group of downtrodden orphans, using nothing more than common household items.
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137	* PuttingOnMyThinkingCap: Grampy put on a literal thinking cap with a blinking IdeaBulb when he needed to do some deep thinking.
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140	[[folder:Sally Swing]]
141	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rosemariemazettasallyswing.png]]
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143	!!!Debut: ''Sally Swing'' (1938)
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145	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Rose Marie (1938)
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147	Betty's gal pal. As Betty was based on the 1920s flapper-girl style, Sally was based on the then-current bobbysoxer trend.
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149	* AlliterativeName: '''S'''ally '''S'''wing.
150	* AscendedExtra: Sally was announced in 1938 as an ongoing character intended for her own series of theatrical cartoons. While she only ended up making one appearance at the time, she did gain an unexpected degree of popularity among the fandom, resulting in her getting bumped up into being one of the main characters in the Dynamite Entertainment comic book series.
151	* BreakoutCharacter: Even though she appeared in only one short in the Fleischer era, the concept of Betty having a BFF seems to have stuck with the fans. The first batch of comics upgraded her to a recurring character and the 2016 Dynamite Entertainment version practically made her the co-lead alongside Betty.
152	* DreadfulMusician: She's a terrible singer in the Dynamite Entertainment comics. Ironically in her only animated appearance, she was an amazing singer ''and dancer''.
153	* {{Expy}}: A similar character named Sally ''Sweet'' appeared in ''ComicBook/ChampionComics'', a year after Sally Swing's animated appearance.
154	* FanservicePack: Compared to her original short's rather homely appearance, Dynamite Comics' Sally easily matches Betty in terms of her sex appeal.
155	* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She's one of the nicest characters, maybe even nicer than Betty, with her fair hair to match.
156	* InnocentBlueEyes
157	* MeaningfulName: She loves swing music.
158	* MsFanservice: More so in her Dynamite Entertainment comic book appearance.
159	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: She resembles Creator/BettyGrable.
160	* RagsToRiches: In her only animated appearance, she's gone from wash-woman to swing dance conductor.
161	* SheCleansUpNicely: She started out as dowdy and in raggedy clothes at the start of her sole cartoon.
162	* TrueBlueFemininity: She wears blue in the Dynamite Entertainment comics.
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165	[[folder:Buzzy Boop]]
166	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/buzzy_boop.jpg]]
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168	!!!Debut: ''Buzzy Boop'' (1938)
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170	!!!'''Voiced by:''' Bonnie Poe (1938)
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172	Betty's fearless and tomboyish young cousin. She only appeared in two shorts.
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174	* AlliterativeName: Like her cousin Betty, '''B'''uzzy '''B'''oop.
175	* GenkiGirl: She is full of energy.
176	* GirlishPigtails
177	* NiceGirl: Just like her cousin. The first thing we see her doing is stick a man's toupee on his head with gum to keep it from slipping off and water withered flowers on a woman's hat.
178	* OneOfTheBoys: The first thing she does after settling down at Betty's is wanting to hang out with the neighborhood boys.
179	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Definitely the tomboy to Betty's girly girl.
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Context Characters / BettyBoop