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17Ah yes, the kangaroo. Perhaps one of the silliest-looking animals around: It hops around on two huge feet, it has a thick tail and, of course, it has a pouch. Because of their almost cartoonish nature, kangaroos are certainly ubiquitous in fiction. Sort of another animalistic RuleOfCool, if you will. Maybe it's just that exotic feel that UsefulNotes/{{Australia}} gives — after all, this is the country that's also home to the PuzzlingPlatypus. If the work is set in Australia, this is commonly a way to say "Hey! We're in Australia, ''mate''!"
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19If it's a male, expect him to be named "Joey", have a comically exaggerated Aussie accent, and possibly [[MisterSeahorse have a pouch]] (even though, in reality, [[AnimalGenderBender only the females]] [[ArtisticLicenseBiology have pouches]]). It may also be depicted {{boxing|Kangaroo}}, [[KangarooPouchRide carrying someone in its pouch]], maybe sporting an Australian Army slouch hat with one brim pinned up, or just plain jumping really high.
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21Occasionally, a wallaby may be used instead. Think of them as fun-size kangaroos.
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23Be warned: kangaroos have very sharp claws on their huge feet and will use them on you if you get too close. Although it is rare, they are capable of killing a human being (just like [[EverythingTryingToKillYou pretty much everything else in]] [[http://www.cracked.com/funny-163-australia/ Australia]]).
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25Subtrope to NationalAnimalStereotypes. Compare BoxingKangaroo.
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33* The Aussie brand of shampoo has a purple kangaroo for a mascot. Some of their ads include a purple animatronic kangaroo puppet.
34* In the late Seventies, the Australian government ran an advertising campaign aimed at encouraging Australians to be nicer to tourists. It listed a series of [[LandDownUnder foreign misconceptions]] about Australia, including the idea that kangaroos catch trams.
35* Since 1986, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Made_logo Australian Made logo]], used as part of a campaign to get Australians to buy locally-made products, has consisted of a line drawing of a gold kangaroo in a green triangle.
36%% * Dish Network's Hopper device has a red kangaroo for a logo.
37%% ** And within the commercials, kangaroos are present in the most unlikely places!
38%% * Dunkaroos cookies.
39* As part of Website/{{Google}}'s LogoJoke, there are also kangaroos in [[http://www.google.com/doodles/australia-day-2006 the logo for 2006's Australia day.]]
40* In 1990s UK advertising for Kellogg's Coco Pops, one of Coco's friends was Kylie Kangaroo, who had an Australian accent and was obviously [[NamedAfterSomebodyFamous named after]] Australian pop star Music/KylieMinogue.
41%% * The mascot for Malt-O-Meal's off-brand line of cereal is a blue kangaroo in sunglasses, with a joey in her (?) pouch. Their names are Cool Blue and L'il Oaty.
42%% * Speedy Cash loans has a mascot named Speedy Roo.
43* Yellow Tail, an Australian brand of wine, has a type of Wallaby on its bottle. However, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-fVgM9P2c8 a Super Bowl ad contains a kangaroo.]]
44* From 2023, Tourism Australia has had an anthropomorphic kangaroo mascot (shown in one ad to be a soft toy come to life) named Ruby the Roo. Ruby has also appeared in ads for Qantas UK to Australia flights.
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48* ''Anime/AdventuresOfTheLittleKoala'' features an AnthropomorphicAnimal cast and is set in Australia, and although the main protagonist is a koala (another mammal closely identified with Australia), the closest the series has to regular antagonists are three kangaroos, Walter, Horsey, and Colt.
49* When the ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'' crew travel to UsefulNotes/{{Sydney}}, everyone there is either a kangaroo or a koala.
50* Australia from ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' has a pet kangaroo in one of his sketches, and she has her baby in her pouch.
51* Averted in ''Anime/LucyMayOfTheSouthernRainbow''. It's about an English family that immigrated to Australia in the 1800s, but instead of kangaroos, koalas and dingos are used to highlight Australia's wacky wildlife. Lucy even domesticates a dingo and names it Little.
52* Averted in ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'' where the Australian tankery school is commanded by a koala. An actual koala! Vice-commander Wallaby translates for the koala's orders, as she's a schoolgirl and not a wallaby.
53* ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'' is a story about an international martial arts tourney where each country's fighter controls a HumongousMecha with a motion capture interface. Australia's entry is, of course, a BoxingKangaroo.
54** Another ''G Gundam'' spinoff manga shows a different Australian Gundam from an earlier tournament, the Southern Cross Gundam. While it's based on an Aborigine warrior with a giant boomerang with a fanny pack containing a smaller Gundam sticking out of it presumably to mimic a kangaroo pouch for some bizarre reason.
55* In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory'', the main characters are initially stationed at a base in Australia. Naturally, they wear shoulder patches displaying a kangaroo.
56* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': Hayato Maeda uses an Australian-themed deck, with his main AnimalMotif being koalas, supplemented with kangaroos as the secondary animals of his deck. His Ace Monster, Master of Oz, is a Fusion between Big Koala and Des Kangaroo, and therefore has the characteristics of both animals. Funnily enough, Jim "Crocodile" Cook, the actual Australian, goes for a completely different animal instead, the [[CaptainObvious crocodile]]; but he doesn't center his deck around that animal either.
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60* Episode 11 of ''Animation/PleasantGoatFunClass: Travel Around the World'' has the gang go to Australia to find Slowy. Besides the other goats they see looking for him, there are also several kangaroos that appear throughout the episode.
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64* ''ComicBook/ComicCavalcade'': When Cotton Top Katie's uncle from Australia sends her a gift it turns out to be an adult, and strangely intelligent, kangaroo.
65* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': The Kangaroo, a LegacyCharacter villain who first appeared in the seventies. The original trained himself to jump like a kangaroo, the second had kangaroo-themed PowerArmor. Both were Australian.
66* ''ComicBook/TankGirl'': In the series, set in the Australian outback, the title character's boyfriend is a male kangaroo named Booga.
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70* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' shows a kangaroo on a street amongst some humans, and one of the humans is dead and has a boomerang in his head, and the kangaroo is thinking, "That was meant for me!" Boomerangs were originally Australian hunting weapons.
71* One of the recurring characters in the comic ''ComicStrip/{{Pluggers}}'' is a flyer named Sheila Roo. It's not clear if she ''is'' Australian (the [[http://web.archive.org/web/19980116084446/http://pluggers.com:80/cast.html old cast list]] says she is, but it says a lot of things), but her name is a reference to UsefulNotes/AustralianSlang.
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75%% * ...and in ''WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest''.
76* A kind-hearted mother kangaroo was (naturally) a main character in ''WesternAnimation/DotAndTheKangaroo''. Kangaroos also appeared in a few other films in the series, which was focused on Australian wildlife.
77* ''WesternAnimation/KangarooJackGDayUSA'', the animated sequel to ''Film/KangarooJack'', where poachers kidnap kangaroo Jackie Legs from the Australian Outback. His friends leap into action and their attempts to save him route them back to the U.S. into the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas.
78* Not surprisingly, you can find a 'roo in ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder''.
79* In ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'', Jack Frost pokes fun at Bunnymund's Australian accent by calling him the Easter Kangaroo. Of course, this is also ironic since rabbits -- of which Bunny is a gigantic ''alien'' version -- are an invasive and highly destructive species in modern Australia.
80* In ''WesternAnimation/TweetysHighFlyingAdventure'' has kangaroos being used to represent Australia. Of course Sylvester gets [[BoxingKangaroo beaten by a kangaroo]].
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84* In ''Film/AlexanderAndTheTerribleHorribleNoGoodVeryBadDay'', a kangaroo (along with a crocodile) is one of the animals Ben has hired for Alexander's Australian-themed birthday party. However, the kangaroo escapes and Ben has to chase it along a suburban street, getting punched in the face by the roo in the process.
85* ''Film/CrocodileDundee'' has a scene where some hooligans are shooting kangaroos for fun. So Mick hides behind one of the dead ones and convinces them that it's shooting back.
86-->'''Mick:''' Good on ya, [[Series/SkippyTheBushKangaroo Skippy]]!
87* A direct-to-DVD movie called ''Film/{{Joey|1997}}'' features a boy trying to help the baby kangaroo find its mom in Sydney.
88* ''Film/KangarooJack'' is all about the attempts to capture a kangaroo that's carrying $50,000 in mob money. (ItMakesSenseInContext.)
89* A 1952 Hollywood film called ''[[Film/Kangaroo1952 Kangaroo (The Australian Story)]]'' augments its banal bushranger story with plenty of wildlife footage, including (you guessed it) kangaroos. It's claimed that an early draft of the script showed roving herds of kangaroos murdering people... until Australian crew members informed the director how ridiculous that was.
90* The above ''Crocodile Dundee'' scene might be a ShoutOut or TakeThat to ''Film/WakeInFright'', with its notorious (unstaged) kangaroo hunting sequence.
91* Citizens of the titular town in ''Film/WelcomeToWoopWoop'' make pet food out of kangaroos, which isn't cool. But then a giant kangaroo god makes an appearance near the end, which is.
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95* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' had ''The Unexpected'', which landed Cassie in Australia. Cue the kangaroo morph.
96* {{Averted}} in ''Literature/HortonHearsAWho:'' Sour Kangaroo is the villain (backed up by "the small kangaroo in her pouch"), but the setting is the fictional Jungle of Nool and there's nothing particularly Australian about them except their species. [[EarlyBirdCameo A similar kangaroo]] heckles Horton in the earlier book ''Literature/HortonHatchesTheEgg'' (though the ''Merrie Melodies'' adaptation gives it a (curiously masculine sounding) Australian voice).
97* In "The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo" from Creator/RudyardKipling's ''Literature/JustSoStories'', Kangaroo pleads with the gods to [[IJustWantToBeSpecial make him different from other animals]], so Nqong sics Yellow-Dog Dingo on him until he starts hopping all over Australia.
98* ''Literature/TheNewDinosaursAnAlternativeEvolution'' takes an absurd twist to this trope: being a work of SpeculativeBiology exploring an alternate timeline where the dinosaurs never became extinct and continued to evolve, it has spec-Australia be populated by the Gwanna, an ''Iguanodon descendant that hops like a kangaroo''. Along with the Tubb, an arboreal herbivore dinosaur that is [[FantasticFaunaCounterpart nearly exactly just a koala]], it is heavily criticized for having koala-saurs and kanga-saurs evolving in, of all places, Australia, as if the very topography of Australia inevitably forces the evolution of kangaroo-like animals because Australia is Just Like That.
99* In ''Son of Literature/{{Spellsinger}}'', Buncan and his companions find a land which is a FantasyCounterpartCulture of Australia, complete with UsefulNotes/AustralianSlang, boomerangs, and didgeridoos (although the spellsinging version is a didgeredon't). The inhabitants are a wide range of Australian wildlife, but the majority of them are kangaroos, including their leader.
100* [[PunnyName Kanga and Roo]] from ''Literature/WinnieThePooh''. Kanga is the mother and Roo is her son. However, their Australian connection is never referenced except for some audiobook narrations. The Disney adaptations usually avert this as well, as Kanga and Roo consistently have American accents, though some cartoons show they have a map of Australia on the wall of their house as a background gag.
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104* GameShows: Virtually every game show that has offered a trip to Australia as a prize has, on its graphic, has included a picture of a kangaroo somewhere in the artwork. On the game show ''Series/PressYourLuck'', it was ''the'' only graphic (along with the word "Australia" beneath it). On shows where filmed/video footage is used to illustrate the trip (during the announcer's voiceover), stock footage of kangaroos will invariably be used.
105%% * ''Radio/GoodnessGraciousMe'' averts this with "Skipinder the Punjabi Kangaroo", which was a GagDub of ''[[Series/SkippyTheBushKangaroo Skippy]]''.
106* One episode of ''Series/ModernFamily'' has the family vacationing in Australia. Naturally, [[BumblingDad Phil]] gets a kangaroo punch to the face.
107%% * ''Series/SkippyTheBushKangaroo'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCHY6n907OE Skippy is built entirely on this trope.]]
108* Kangaroos are featured prominently in the 2016 wildlife docuseries ''Wild Australia With Ray Mears.'' Ray watches some Eastern grey kangaroos in the bush, spots a rare tree-kangaroo in a Queensland forest, then visits a red kangaroo sanctuary in the desert. The sanctuary staff sometimes carry orphaned joeys around in pillowcases because this reminds them of their mother's pouch and therefore calms them. The sanctuary's founder lets Ray hold one of the joeys for a little while.
109* The opening credits of ''Series/{{Whiplash}}'' feature multiple shots of mobs of kangaroos, presumably to inform the American and British audiences that the show is set in Australia. They often appear in individual episodes as well.
110%% * Whazzat Kangaroo from ''Series/ZoobileeZoo''. She's a cool kangaroo in her own right, and boy, can she sing!
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114* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGCiYDWGZv4&feature=related "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport"]] is a song by Creator/RolfHarris which references various Australian animals, with the most prominent being the kangaroo.
115* Music/SteelyDan's song "Black Friday" has the narrator escaping to Australia, where he has "Nothing to do but feed all the Kangaroos".
116* In an early 2000s interview with MTV Europe, Craig Nicholls of Music/TheVines was asked why so many Aussie bands, including his own, leave their homeland for elsewhere. In response, he deadpanned, "There's too many kangaroos in Australia!"
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120* Outback Jack, who used a northern Australian bushman (he actually was from Australia) used the theme, "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport."
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124* In ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' there is an animal named the Coventry Kangaroo. According to information on it, the Australian colonists to Coventry took Red Kangaroos with them and genetically modified them to be larger. So large one can use them as mounts for Cavalry troopers.
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128* Toys/{{Squishmallows}}: Keely the Kangaroo's favorite place to visit is stated to be the Sydney Opera House.
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132* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' has two kangaroos named Walt and Mathilda after the famous Australian song "Waltzing Matilda". However, koalas are more associated with Australian stereotypes.
133* Although the ''VideoGame/{{Bomberman}}'' series features the kangaroo-esque [[InconsistentSpelling roois/ruis/Looeys/Louies]], there's nothing really Australian about them. The FanGame ''VideoGame/PowerBomberman'', however, features [[OriginalCharacter a brand new one]] called Buckarooi, who wears a slouch hat and whose main ability is throwing a boomerang, both common LandDownUnder stereotypes.
134* Debuting in ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} VI'', the Australian's symbol is a kangaroo.
135* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'' ''Yuri's Revenge'' has the fourth Allied mission in Sydney. While other maps feature [[BlandNameProduct Burger Kong]] fast-food restaurants with a giant ape standing on the roof, on this map they are replaced with giant kangaroos.
136%% No reference to Australia? * The psychotic LaughingMad blue kangaroo in a straitjacket, Ripper Roo, from the ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' games.
137* One of the playable characters in ''VideoGame/FurFighters'' is a kangaroo. He's a bit dim but a very hard worker. His theme tune is a mix of whatever level you're on and Waltzing Matilda.
138%% No reference to Australia? * One of the playable characters in [[VideoGame/ClayFighter C-2: Judgment Clay]] is the World Clay [[BoxingKangaroo Boxing]] Association champion, Kangoo (as well as her EvilTwin, Thunder). The joey in her pouch pops out and helps with special moves.
139%% * Creator/{{Atari}}'s ''VideoGame/{[Kangaroo}}'', a platform game similar to VideoGame/DonkeyKong.
140%% No reference to Australia? * The [[http://images.wikia.com/earthbound/images/8/80/Parental_Kangashark_Battle.PNG Parental Kangashark]] from ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'' is, [[{{Portmanteau}} as you might have guessed]], a cross between a kangaroo and [[ThreateningShark a shark]]. In battle, its joey will sometimes cheer it on and help recover some of its health. [[CutenessProximity Aww.]]
141* Three guesses on which animal species can be seen fleeing from ''VideoGame/{{Octogeddon}}'''s titular monster octopus during his rampage on Sydney. Also, this world's boss is Kongaroo, a jumbo-sized robotic kangaroo, which wields a Battle Boomerang to make things even more stereotypical.
142* The red kangaroo is all over the decorations and marketing in ''VideoGame/PlanetZoo''[='=]s Australia Pack to an even greater extent than the other Australian animals. Ironically, they're not actually particularly popular with guests in-game.
143* Kangaskhan is a ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' based on a BoxingKangaroo, but aside from the pouch with a baby, she looks more like a dinosaur. In ''VideoGame/PokemonGo'', they can only be caught by players in Australia.
144* ''VideoGame/RisingStorm2Vietnam'': the Australian Army is represented with a kangaroo logo, in contrast to the US Forces' eagle emblem and the ARVN's tiger symbol.
145* Some mooks in the Australia level of ''VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves'' are green FunnyAnimal kangaroos.
146* ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon'' features playable character Sheila the Kangaroo. Her level is called an 'Alp' and looks it, the other inhabitants are all obviously meant to evoke {{Oktoberfest}}, and yet Sheila has an inexplicable Aussie accent.[[note]]The Alps border Germany and ''Austria'', a country commonly mistaken for Australia. Of course they'd put a kangaroo character there for pun's sake.[[/note]] Her {{leitmotif}} also features a didgeridoo.
147%% No reference to Australia? * One of the mid-bosses in ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage 3'' is Roo, a kangaroo wearing boxing gloves. He can also be one of the playable characters if you [[DualBoss defeat his owner first]].
148* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': The nucleus of the metal element Australium, named after the country in which it was discovered, resembles two kangaroos [[BoxingKangaroo boxing]]. Ingots of Australium are also stamped with the image of a man boxing a kangaroo, which is the method by which Australia chooses its king.
149%% No reference to Australia? * ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' has Roger, and later his nameless wife, with his son Roger Jr. in her pouch.
150* Kangaroos are enemies in ''VideoGame/TyTheTasmanianTiger'', which features a lot of Australian marsupials. There's also harmless wallabies.
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154%% * Sheila in ''Webcomic/AtArmsLength'', a four-armed punk kangaroo at that.
155%% * The two main characters in ''Webcomic/BoomerExpress'', plus plenty of supporting characters as well.
156* An EnforcedTrope for [[https://www.housepetscomic.com/comic/2008/10/20/kangaroos-loose-in-the-top-paddock/ Bruce and Roosevelt]] in ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}''. As zoo animals, they're ''expected'' to represent (the US idea of) Australia, and they ''hate'' it.
157-->'''Roosevelt:''' Every single word feels like throwing up.\
158'''Bruce:''' "Shrimp on the barbie?" We're ''herbivores''.
159%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * ''Webcomic/MacropodMadness''.
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163* Australian video game streamer [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwyqAtZfXgsdMDnatgCTHrQ BazzaGazza]] uses a cartoon kangaroo as his Website/YouTube profile pic.
164* Inverted in the SpeculativeBiology project ''Blog/HamstersParadise'' where during the Therocene Era, the hopping [[FantasticFaunaCounterpart kangaroo and wallaby analogues]] known as the boingos and the oingos are found on all of the continents ''except'' the small isolated continent of Borealia, referred to as the "land up over" in the text and whose primary herbivores instead are the deer-like ungulopes.
165* In ''Literature/LookToTheWest'', a large chunk of OTL's Australia was colonised by France, becoming Pérousie. Pérousian expats celebrate their FoundingDay, La fête de Pérousie, by wearing ''kangourou'' masks.
166* The biggest Creator/RoosterTeeth fan group outside the US is the Australian [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/roosterteeth/images/e/ea/Roo-teeth.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/400?cb=20150331082510 Roo Teeth]] (whose founder is [[PromotedFanboy now herself part of RT]]), whose logo replaces the cock in RT's emblem with a BoxingKangaroo.
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170%% * Austin in ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans''; one of the few examples that doesn't have an Aussie accent.
171* ''WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill'' has Splodge and his family, as well as Nurse Angelina.
172* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': One of the animals Webby meets in "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E40BackOutInTheOutback Back Out in the Outback]]" is a kangaroo.
173%% * ''WesternAnimation/TheHarlemGlobetrotters'': in "The Great Geese Goof-Up," two robbers use a magician's kangaroo to commit their crimes. The Trotters mistake the kangaroo as being Geese Ausbie who was taken to the hospital to treat his strained wrist and they mistook a movie soundtrack as having the magician turning Geese into a kangaroo.
174* Now-disgraced artist and children's entertainer (Australian born) Rolf Harris, when doing a series for British TV explaining how animation works and using classic cartoons as examples, devised an AuthorAvatar animated character called the Rolferoo -- a sort of kangaroo-centaur that was a caricatured Harris from the waist up.
175%% * Dinny Kangaroo, voiced by Creator/CarlReiner, was a character on ''WesternAnimation/LinusTheLionhearted''.
176* ''WesternAnimation/OvideAndTheGang'' featured a female kangaroo character named Matilda, as in "Waltzing...".
177* Joey is a recurring kangaroo character on ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar''. He is of the "thick Aussie accent" and "pouched male" variety, and rather aggressive.
178* A kangaroo can be seen adopting a frog in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E16BartVsAustralia Bart vs Australia]]", where Bart is forced to go to Australia to [[LiteralAssKicking have his butt kicked]] for prank-calling them. When pursued, Bart and Homer attempt to get away in kangaroos' pouches, only to find that, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome unlike in cartoons]], they're filled with disgusting slime.
179* ''WesternAnimation/SkippyAdventuresInBushtown'', an AnimatedAdaptation of the aforementioned ''Skippy the Bush Kangaroo''. It takes place in a WorldOfFunnyAnimals, and the two main heroes (Skippy and his girlfriend Matilda) are FunnyAnimal versions of kangaroos.
180* The ''WesternAnimation/TalesOfTheWizardOfOz'' episode "[[PunnyName Boomer Rang]]" features the titular BoxingKangaroo, who speaks with a heavy Australian accent.
181* Another wallaby character: Mr. Thickley from ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'', who is notably one of a very small number of characters in the series who actually has an Australian accent, despite it supposedly being set in Tasmania.
182%% * Kiko the Kangaroo was a protagonist from the Creator/{{Terrytoons}} studio back in the 30s. Joe Barbera was an animator on the series.
183* Naturally, being a show about animals, kangaroos appear in a few episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys'', being more anatomically correct, but the Aussie accent is still there.
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187* There's a widespread meme about there being no kangaroos in ''Austria'', due to the similar names of Austria and Australia. Austria even has a popular souvenir T-shirt, saying ''"No Kangaroos In Austria"''.
188** Ironically, [[https://mashable.com/article/kangaroo-on-the-loose-austria/#IzFA6RTpVgqw one escaped from a zoo in Austria]] and was seen bounding its way along the meadows of the similarly-named but far-away nation. Needless to say, the incident quickly went memetic.
189* Australian airline Qantas uses a kangaroo in its logo, and is often referred to as the "flying kangaroo." Their London to Sydney flight is known as "the Kangaroo Route", both for the obvious reason and because the refueling stops required until recently meant the plane travelled in a series of "hops".
190%% * The mascot for the University of Akron in Akron, UsefulNotes/{{Ohio}}, is a kangaroo named Zippy of AmbiguousGender. However, the school nickname is Zips.
191%% * The University of Missouri-UsefulNotes/KansasCity also uses a kangaroo mascot for its sports teams. The teams started out as the Kansas City Kangaroos, became the UMKC Kangaroos when the school joined the University of Missouri system in 1963, and then rebranded as the Kansas City Roos in 2019 (although the university name didn't change).
192%% * The mascot for the Brockton Rox minor league baseball team in Brockton, Massachusetts, is [[http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/wile_e2005/16186524/371299/371299_600.jpg K-O the Kangaroo]].
193* Several of Australia's national sports teams have kangaroo-themed names:
194** Kangaroos (UsefulNotes/RugbyLeague)
195** Wallabies (UsefulNotes/RugbyUnion)
196** Boomers (men's basketball -- a male kangaroo is called a "boomer")
197** Socceroos (soccer)
198** Hockeyroos (women's hockey)
199* The North UsefulNotes/{{Melbourne}} Kangaroos in the [[UsefulNotes/AustralianRulesFootball Australian Football League]]. Sherrin, the official ballmaker for the AFL, uses a [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cc/Sherrin_logo.png kangaroo silhouette]] as part of its logo.
200* A kangaroo is used in the center of the roundel on [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Roundel_of_Australia.svg the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) ensign,]] and is used as the Army's roundel as well.
201* During UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar, the [[NumberTwo XO]] of a Royal Australian Navy destroyer, sick of being mistaken for British ([[UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships with his British-designed ship flying the British naval ensign]] -- the RAN wouldn't get a unique flag for another decade[[note]]It wasn't until UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar that it became important for the RAN to have a unique naval ensign, because that was the first time Australia fought in a war that Britain was not also fighting. Thus flying the British naval ensign became politically inappropriate.[[/note]]), got the biggest sheet of brass he could find, cut a kangaroo silhouette out of it, and stuck it to the top of the ship as a weathervane. Nowadays, all major RAN warships have a red kangaroo icon fitted somewhere visible on the ship. Usually on the side of a funnel, but other locations are used if a ship's funnels aren't particularly prominent.[[note]]Such as the ''Adelaide''-class frigates of the 1980s through 2010s, which had unusually short funnels and exceptionally large superstructure for their size, resulting in the kangaroo being painted on the side of the superstructure just aft of the bridge)[[/note]]
202* The kangaroo is Australia's national faunal emblem and appears (with the emu) on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Coat_of_Arms national coat of arms]] These animals were chosen because neither species can travel backwards! This is meant to symbolize the ideal for Australians to always think and move forward.
203* Perhaps not surprisingly, the most iconic of Australia's extinct Pleistocene megafauna is the 2-meter tall kangaroo ''Procoptodon goliah''.
204* Averted with the mascots for the Sydney 2000 UsefulNotes/OlympicGames -- a kookaburra, an echidna, and a platypus. The organizers felt that kangaroos and koalas were {{Cliche}}.
205* The Navajo word for Australia, Bichʼáh Yiisdiisí Bikéyah, translates as "Land of the Kangaroos".[[note]]The word for kangaroo means "big kangaroo rat".[[/note]]
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